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WHY do you want to change? #personalgrowth #jewishwisdom #selfgrowth

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Rabbi Efrem Goldberg

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A lot of the talk that I hear sometimes is about if you want to aspire for life of kedusha and and there's the focus on that but that also leads to the guilt cuz it means if I'm failing at that now I've separated myself I'm creating a void of kedusha. When you're dealing with firm clients, how much of it is like aspirational versus like no we're just treating the there's like [music] a root cause that we're not even up to kedusha yet. >> First of all, I don't think the guilt is necessarily a bad thing. We just need to know what to do with the guilt. I don't think there's anything wrong with kedusha being [music] involved from the get-go not because oh you need to be kadosh but because it's aspirational for you. The thing that motivates the change is coming back [music] to reality. Addiction at its core is a distorted experience of reality. So >> [music] >> we need to figure out why do you want to change? This is the step that I think many of us miss.