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person needs to know that not everybody
and in fact nobody is going to be
exactly like you everyone has different
weaknesses and different strengths so
when a person sees that someone else is
struggling with something it doesn't
necessarily by default make them the
worst person on Earth
and even though you yourself don't know
why they got so angry or you don't know
why they go crazy over food or you don't
know why they do such and such because
you don't have that same
inclination it doesn't by default make
you better because you weren't tested in
the same thing had you been tested in
the same thing in your your weakness you
would fall too the sages teach us not to
judge another person unless you're in
their shoes needless to say who am I to
go judge somebody else when I have so
many of my own weaknesses so yes I don't
have his weaknesses and I don't have her
weaknesses but I have my own weaknesses
and what ends up happening is many times
a person focuses on what on his strength
and their weaknesses and that's what
makes a person corrupt it's literally
corrupting your own time in this world
and put putting yourself on a path of
Simply living
AE that everyone else is in the wrong
and you're in the
right and it makes a person very
detestable and this is one of the things
that a person uh has to run away from
why just have to really
start evaluating where you stand when a
person is not honest with themselves and
they simply think that every everyone is
in essence has the same thoughts as them
the same weaknesses as them they develop
a perspective that is wrong by
default like their perspective is wrong
by default why because their perspective
is
assuming things that are not
common but when a person
assumes that the world is exactly as
they see it they're going to default
wrong more times than not a person
thinks that just because they have a
certain truth therefore that truth
stands for everyone that truth is the
same for everyone and it's simply not
the case the only truth that's Eternal
the only truth that's unchangeable is
the Torah itself that if a person learns
and toils over the Torah they'll see
that in order for a person to truly get
to the bottom line truth it's not the
Torah that you're learning but rather
the character development
thisai is the treasures that you find in
the Torah are endless but the same token
one of the beautiful things about our
Torah it doesn't just talk about fairy
tales of success stories it talks about
the flaws in everyone from the greatest
to the worst and one of the beautiful
things that this allows a person to do
is not feel alone when you have a flaw
yourself whether that flaw is one thing
or another because
surely other people in the world that
got to much higher level of Holiness
than you did also had that flaw and in
reality the only difference between you
and them is that simple decision of
whether to let this flaw continue by
giving up and deciding I'm not going to
fix it I was born angry I was born
stingy I was I'm so stingy even
compliments I don't give I'm so arrogant
that even uh to give a uh clap somebody
honor when he's the only one on stage I
don't do I'm so arrogant and so this
that I'm just going to stay that way
that is itself spiritual suicide the
righteous person on the other hand what
does he doing do he says yes I have a
floor here I have a floor there I have a
floor a lot of places my decision is I'm
going to fix it I'm not going to let
myself continue this way the next time I
see that I'm angry next time I see I'm
expressing arrogance next time I see I'm
careless next time I see I'm insensitive
next time I see that I'm I'm selfish in
one way or another I catch myself I'm
going to fix myself I'm going to do what
right can't to corrected yes the
correction
hurts sometimes it's self effacement
sometimes it's lowering yourself to
levels you never even thought you would
be sometimes this sometimes that but
guess what that pain of Chu is much
better than the pain of suffering in
sham when a person admits guilt it hurts
it burns but only temporarily
after you
finish it feels good why I did it I did
it I achieve something I overcame the
test there's a
extraordinary self
fulfillment pleasure there that is
impossible to get in anywhere else so
yes there is pain to
do but that pain is preceding the
pleasure that will eventually come
you have any questions no okay so let's
say thank
for one two three
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