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A Frog or an Elephant?
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The matzah says, "I want you to get back
to the core. I want you to get back to
the source before putting in other
ingredients." You know, to inflate it.
What often happens is when I don't
understand the beauty of my essence, I
have to inflate myself. And that's what
means psychologically. Most of our
coping mechanisms happens when people
don't understand the power of their
essence of who they really are. And
therefore, I need to create a
personality that's going to be accepted
in the universe. And I want you to think
about this because we don't do this
consciously but maybe at three or four
or five if I didn't feel that I could
really be loved. So I replaced the need
for love for the need for validation.
Love I may not get validation. I may
become the best kid in school. I may be
the greatest people's pleaser in all of
my become the greatest student in
yeshiva. I may be the most obedient
child at home because I know how to keep
my father in check, how to keep my
mother in check. And children are
brilliant. So I create this whole
personality to keep me safe. And now
when I'm 30, 40 years old, I don't even
know who I am. I think I need to please
people in order to be able to be
accepted, to be loved in the world. I
never know. I don't know my matzah. I
became this beautiful. You ever see
these sour kalas how gushmak and
beautiful they are, right? I love them.
But you have to make believe there's a
lot of things that started really blew
them up. You know, I once said one of
the most brilliant. He said, "Do you
know that frogs, I don't know if you
ever studied frogs, but frogs know how
to inflate themselves? You know that
like frogs are small but they can
suddenly the frog becomes a okay you
know that elephants don't have that
ability and Rabendo said why not he said
I'll tell you why because a frog is a
very very little tiny creature and when
the frog sees a predator so part of its
mechanism
is I'm a big frog don't start up with me
right an elephant for some reason
doesn't have to do that doesn't have to
do that you get the picture right if I
felt very young age that I was a frog so
I learned how to become become this and
I do it very cleverly and now I'm 52
years old and I'm still walking around
like this frog you know whenever there's
people the social anxiety whatever it is
matzah it's
like the elephant doesn't have to do
that the elephant is like I'm an
elephant I like being an elephant nobody
starts up with an elephant it's like
really going back to the core and the
essence without other ingredients and
then there's an incredible beauty in
each person you're you're literally a
divine flow of consciousness. The most
important thing we have to do is
nothing. We have to let go of blockages.
You don't have to create yourself. I
have to let go of everything that has
been added to me and just go back to
that essential essential essence and
source. The yeshiva.net Net.