Breaking out of the Bottle

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Lazer Brody’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[singing] My lord, [music] it's from you my lord. It's [music] all [singing] good, my lord. Oh [music] Lord, [singing] >> with Hashem's loving grace, welcome to Amuna hour number 227. And tonight we're going to break out of the bottle. Many of us are trapped in the bottle. All of us are trapped in a bottle. And these are the formative years. People stuck us with all types of labels. They say you're this, you're that, you're lazy, you're dumb. And people that didn't know what they were talking about. Sometimes they were children and teachers. And just because a person is a teacher or or a parent, a parent or a teacher, that doesn't necessarily mean that they know what they're talking about. So we subconsciously thought, oh, this is authority and this is what authority says. So the label must be true. And that's the acute problem that we grow up. This is what American idioms call a hangup. Hang up because it's something that says something that's a label that's stuck on us that we're we're hung with it. We can't we don't know how to tear it tear the label away. So we all know the classic story of the five-tonon elephant. big African elephant. Today he weighs 5,000 kilos, which is uh like 11,000 pounds. And he when he was a little baby, he was 300 lb. And somebody tied a

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2. 5:44lives. Take by the same token that what does Hashem do? Hashem models Hashem creates for…
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4. 17:34easy. It's easy to get along with hashem forgive me. And hem is so forgiving. We…
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6. 29:29but certainly not a compared to many any other things where I have to be or…
7. 35:36with a no vested interest, a person that doesn't want to take your money, a person…
8. 41:13guide makes a person any less. No, it's all the better, all the more luding because…
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