Derech Hashem / The Way of God #28

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

Talk a little about this because uh it's really very important to know. Because it it really in many ways involves the ex-Sahara. What's the most fundamental psychological drive that a human being has? Actually, all that a human being has? Actually, all all organisms have. Actually, survival or as they call it self-preservation. To preserve self. Right? That's the most fundamental of all drives, needs to five. Every single organism, creature, anything that the primordial man has in it built how to survive. That's why when you look at the animal kingdom, you know, and I include man in the animal kingdom. and I include man in the animal kingdom. Uh anyway, um each one has the ability to survive. Each one has the will to or the mechanisms or how to survive are just astounding. The variations of mechanisms, you know, you look at a porcupine, right? It survives because it's got all these little quills sticking out of it, you know? Then you look at the skunks, they survive because, you know, they can give forth smells and all that. It's astounding the survival ability. And of course, it's all because of um uh what do you call it? Uh uh what do you call it? Uh self-preservation. But and that that explains why animals are very territorial. They're very territorial, which means that you know, they they claim a territory and if you can come into it, they will do battle with you. And the reason for that again is survival cuz as long as I have my territory, that's where I get my food from. You come and invade it, you you you know, you're as in you're muscling in on my territory and there you are. And so on. So, the the concept of

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1. 0:20Talk a little about this because uh it's really very important to know. Because it it…
2. 6:32that I am. We do that by what? By being accepted, being recognized, being honored. In…
3. 12:37to be reassert. We need to feel, right, that I'm somebody. And so on. We just…
4. 18:45little sauce. Okay? Where the Bal Shem says, "Don't eat food which isn't kosher." It's a…
5. 24:55hunger and and you know, production and so on and so forth, which we talked about…
6. 31:01idea. What was that? Too often there's too much dysfunction, and if smart kids told they're…
7. 37:07is also saying something very interesting. How do you develop that? So the first thing is…
8. 43:17See, the time or the ones is a hint so of how I can express a…
9. 49:23And we engage all the time in that mistake. But let's say even if it is…
10. 55:28I mean it's wrong, you know, you know, so so No, no. But I'm just saying…

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