Staying Youthful - Rabbi Aryeh Leibowitz

the Torah describes moshe's Apprentice is referred to as an R the reason why this is incredible is because at this time Yoshua is 56 years old already he's a scholar he's a great leader and yet he's referred to as Anar and I think it teaches us that yahushua had a self-perceived youthfulness to him he was always the students he was always denar as knowledgeable as he was as great of a Taurus scholarly leader he might have been already at the age of 56. he still saw himself as an apprentice he was still learning from OSHA Robin in fact in safe for Yoshua when when Moshe Urbana is no longer alive Yoshua continues in the first paragraph of the Savory continues to be called the Mishary of Moshe because that was his essence he always saw himself as a work in process he was always a student he was always striving to grow to learn more to know more this self-perception of youthfulness being a student is valuable on a few different planes in life certainly true in terms of study the mission in perki elbows tells us that a true is one whose law made me call Adam no matter how knowledgeable you are you never see yourself as an expert who can't learn from every person you meet and here being a Gnar having a self-perceived youthfulness is an expression of humility it encourages you to seek out wisdom from anyone [Music] doesn't matter how much you are but you still see yourself as a talmud you're still you still see yourself as a beginner looking to grow looking to learn I'm forever a student this is also true in terms of how we relate to ourselves and and our own frustration with religious growth and personal growth you know so much of frustration in life is a result of expectations I should be better at this already the person is working on his anger and he loses his temper so he speeds himself up over it but a beginner a student he realizes that he's still at the beginning of his journey of self-mastery so he isn't phased by a momentary lapse of self-control he gets back to work and he continues to try to reach that goal of self-mastery it doesn't mean we shouldn't be ambitious it doesn't mean we shouldn't set high goals for ourselves or standards high standards but at the same time we can't take ourselves too seriously remember you're still young you're still a work in process cut yourself some slack after you err this is also certainly true in terms of our relationships with other people so many disagreements so much acrimony is a result of feeling disrespected how could he do this to me how can he speak that way about me I'm accomplished I'm successful but if you don't take yourself too seriously if you realize you're still a novice you still have so much growth ahead of you you're still a student you're still a Nar so it's much easier to let things roll off of your back it could be this is the message of the proven we would expect that the image that would greet the coin god though when he comes into the Kurdish Kardashian would be the faces old weathered sages Scholars but in fact the faces of The Proven were the faces of young children the crew of him seemed to be reminding even the greatest Scholars even the highest priests to stay curious stay humble to stay young foreign