Dovid Lowy- "Meetings" Learning From Everything- Part 2

hi welcome back to another episode of meetings where we discuss torah topics to help us grow last week we began learning about the topic called islamdus which we translated as the ability to learn from everyone and everything we're basing it off of a book from written by rovobi called ali shore and ravobi begins by saying why is it that this is the topic that we're starting to learn about that we're trying to perfect ourselves in and he says you know human nature is such that when a person decides they're going to work on themselves they might naturally fall into a negative character trait known as guyva arrogance or a sense of feeling better than others after all you're working on yourself you're becoming better and that is not a good place to begin he wants to begin in a healthy place and he says the character trait of islamdus actually has the opposite effect i mean think about it we're constantly looking for ways to grow and improve ourselves it's constantly reminding us that we need to become bigger and better there's also something that i would like to illustrate and perhaps you've had this experience before you know you ever met somebody that you knew or you thought you knew and then you discover something about them that gives you this wow factor it's like wow i didn't realize that they were so generous i didn't realize that this person runs a marathon you know every week i didn't realize that this person you know dedicates his time or volunteers for this or that or the other thing and all of a sudden you view this person as a great person now nothing really changed other than you just saw something now in them that you didn't see before and that is exactly what the character trait of islam this is it's learning to look at people in a way that you start to see their attributes and say hey i too want to be like that and that is a very humbling experience so let's jump right into the first exercise where goby says this week try to learn three things from the people that are around you every single day you know it could be a way that they act a word that they said and say hey that was really nice i too want to emulate that and don't forget in the beginning it's going to be difficult remember we gave an example last week of a tailor who when he meets somebody for the first time it's second nature to him to recognize the type of clothes he's wearing and how they're stitched because for him he's a professional at this we're trying to become professionals at this character trait of islam this it's going to take time and in the beginning it's going to be difficult for us to see people's attributes or things that we can learn from but after a while it becomes second nature before you know it you'll start to realize that everybody around you are walking giants they're a book opened for so much wealth of information and so much to learn from so i wish you luck this week and trying to learn three things every day possible and you might only find that you learn three things at the whole end of the week which is fine because we're just starting please leave your comments below i'd love to hear feedback from you if you'd like to sponsor the next episode please email this email address below and thank you for joining me and i look forward to seeing you next time