Hashem compliments Himself - R' Shaul Rosen

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[music] >> There was a great baldachin, a powerful speaker, who was invited to speak [music] before a very large crowd. The room was full, people came from all over, and when he began [music] to speak, he spoke with fire. He spoke with passion. He poured his heart into every word. You could feel this wasn't just a speech. It was something he [music] had prepared, something he had lived with, something that came from deep inside. And then [music] he finished. The crowd got up. People started putting on their got up. People started putting on their coats. Some walked out. Some began talking [music] to each other, but nobody came over. Nobody said, "Yasher koach." Nobody said, "That was [music] beautiful." So the great baldachin quietly turned around, walked over to a mirror, looked at himself and said, "Yasher koach, that was amazing drasha." At first, when you hear that, it sounds strange. [music] Was that gaava? Was he looking for kavod? Did he need compliments? No. He understood something very deep about the human being. A very deep about the human being. A person needs [music] acknowledgement. When a person gives, when a person works, when a person accomplishes, when a person puts their heart into something, there's a natural need [music] for that good to be recognized. Not because that person is arrogant. Not because that person needs honor. But because Hakadosh Baruch Hu placed into the world the need for goodness to be seen, to be named, [music] to be acknowledged. In the Maral says he learned from his Rebbe Hakadosh Baruch Hu creates the world,

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1. 0:05[music] >> There was a great baldachin, a powerful speaker, who was invited to speak [music]…
2. 0:35got up. People started putting on their coats. Some walked out. Some began talking [music] to…
3. 1:05very deep about the human being. A person needs [music] acknowledgement. When a person gives, when…
4. 1:36Hakadosh Baruch Hu creates the world, and after [music] the acts of creation, the Torah says,…
5. 2:06acknowledged. It must be verbalized, and if nobody else says it, sometimes a person has to…
6. 2:36disappointments, [music] and tears. They come to a simcha with all the strength, and someone [music]…
7. 3:06together, this idea," [music] they hear, "You haven't done enough." Most people are caring. Most people…
8. 3:37person's day, can restore a person's dignity, can give a person the strength to walk back…

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