Are We Bolstering Unhealthy Egos?

rabbi waiwa you begin by teaching us we're expressions of hashem and you feed the ego we don't know how to differentiate between our ego and god very thankfully somebody says the jewish people have had great sadiq who knew how to nullify their personal egos and agendas and these teachings had real meaning but unfortunately the majority of us have egos so therefore we apply all of these lessons to our egos we're incapable of differentiating between our egos and making it impersonal and realize what we share with hashem i think that it would be better if you change your class your course should be to help us work on nullifying our egos by becoming aware of our wretchedness and our nothingness as creatures every big and every precious idea can be misconstrued and a person could walk away and say yes my ego is god and everything i want is god so now i'm going to come into my house and tell my wife what to do and tell her god is telling you to do this and then you're going to speak to your children and when they say hey who's calling oh god is calling and god told you to do this and if not you know what happens right i don't think most people go away with bigger egos on the contrary i find that when people really discover that they are channels of hashem it gives them a much deeper sense of how powerful they are how deep they are how good they are and how much in control they can be and that they're not victims to their own mediocrity that's the point we become angry we lose it we detach from life we run away because we don't realize who we are because i'm stuck in my trauma i'm stuck in my childhood story how do i get unstuck i could come and tell you you're nothing you're a garnish you know you could drop dead like this and you know what it's true it's important to be humble and to be aware and to understand our vulnerabilities and our frailties but i feel what people need to hear is something much deeper you're not stuck when you realize that you're a channel of hashem you can actually be humble i could say i'm sorry i could say i made a mistake from my experience in teaching i find this to be psychologically emotionally and spiritually much more helpful for people to serve god and to learn terror and do mitzvahs and bring light into their life and into the world with more passion [Music] the yeshiva.net