Ten Minutes of Meaning (Part 194): I'm the Most Humble - Mesillas Yesharim

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

mindset and humility and modesty in our behavior. We spoken about the dibur how to speak humbly, not assert ourselves overconfidently. The halacha so our posture how to walk in such a way that if someone were to simply observe us if we saw a snapshot of our posture and the way that we walk, we would appear humble. The shivta where we sit how we sit among whom we sit that we do not demand to sit on the dais or the top seating or the front row. And then we move to the Shani which is feel a cell bonus. We started last time. The second part of living with humility is the ability to absorb insults to not be so arrogant and egotistical that we need to lash out. We need to respond. We need to give a zinger back. We need to escalate a fight with others. Someone insulted us. Someone disrespected us. Someone was discourteous to us. Not nice. It's not kind. Should motivate us and inspire us not to do that or pay it forward to others but to nevertheless be able to absorb that blow as the Gamara says in Shabbos and now love and they don't over show possible in the Shiva. I shared the school of the time. You're near a person who bears an insult. Somebody who is able to absorb something harsh being said or written or a poster hung about them and you see them remain silent. You receive them accept it. Get a bracha from such an individual. They are in a position to be able to give you a bracha. People make it up and what shall Baba be Buddha. And they say the Gamara in the Dharma Baba tells the story about Baba Buddha. Who the Israel there was a Babylonian who came to live in Israel and he got

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1. 0:32mindset and humility and modesty in our behavior. We spoken about the dibur how to speak…
2. 1:06part of living with humility is the ability to absorb insults to not be so arrogant…
3. 2:11married there. One day he asked his wife cook for me please. I'm sure he said…
4. 3:14in anger he said to her go and break them on the Baba. The top of…
5. 4:15Baba Ben Buddha. Oh, that's what your husband told you? I guess it's okay. He gave…
6. 5:16this on the so. And the Gamara tells us with all his humility didn't find himself…
7. 5:50I realized I always thought I was humble but meanwhile look at the way I lash…
8. 6:55It's not going taking on extra most. Be humble. Be humble in the way your posture…
9. 7:59part of our permanent collection. They are given to us endowed to us with a sense…
10. 9:01hate the rabbinate the difference you can make. Hate the authority that comes with it. Hate…

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