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When Humility Stems From Inner Shame It Won’t Help You Grow
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Heichaltzu #9 | Putting Yourself Down Is Not Holy For Source Sheets: https://rb.gy/umz6ok This class was presented on Thursday, Parshas Va'eschanan, 14 Av, 5782, August 11, 2022, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY. To sponsor or dedicate an upcoming class click here: https://www.theyeshiva.net/donate To watch more classes & to read Rabbi YY's articles visit: https://www.theyeshiva.net Follow Rabbi YY Jacobson: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/RabbiYYJacobson Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheYeshiva Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yyjacobson Twitter: https://twitter.com/YYJacobson Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yyjacobson/ Telegram: https://t.me/RabbiYY
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you could see the kitser the
abbreviation of chapter 12. you have a
kitzer after every chapter which is very
helpful
she says avoid the basement
that comes with a deep sense of
of positivity of joy
when a person
discovers when a person contemplates
the
true nature of reality the infinity of
hashem
either focusing on a lacuse itself or
masada the creation seeing it through
the creation
it brings up two things
one is on one hand it's completely
beyond the iron is beyond the yash
on the other hand the mahava the creator
is always present in that which is
created there could never be
any
any distance any separateness
there's another element in
a different stream
which focuses more on humility
humbleness
it's the sense of uh pain
for a person's distance
in sy few days the focus was on
the positivity he says there's another
stream in life
and the truth is this is in every aspect
of life a person
and they work together they're not
they're not separate
sometimes the more simcha the more
shiftless the more shiftless the more
similar if it's done in the right way as
i'll explain
every person has those things
that hurt us
they paint us
and that causes meredith it's a sense of
pain
i'm looking for healing i'm looking for
for healing for for closeness
those are the element of
all that which is very powerful and good
so first he discussed the positive now
he discusses the other element
person's pain for distance
means a master of hajj ben
meaning a person who's self-aware
just like in a business you have to be
able to make hajj bonus of checks and
balances at least some people
you have to have awareness right the
worst thing is to be in denial
in life also this mother the husband is
a master of hajj ben
master of kashmir means
i can evaluate things bihal
a person's
thoughts and words and actions
if they're not aligned
with hashem the afghan labor
sometimes there are things in life
technically it's not forbidden but it's
not good for you
yeah
if i'm a gluttonous person i eat i'm
eating kosher food another piece of cake
another piece of cake another piece of
cake but i'm not aligned i'm not
connected that's what he says it could
be devoted
sometimes a person
is in denial because for everything
there's a loophole there's nothing that
uh
shalhonath prohibits
but he says it can also be that it could
be it could come from brokenness
anybody and sometimes in the positive
sense doing good
also
could be not the body it's missing okay
the body means not like it should be can
you do what's known the homicide
every mitzvah has an individual kavon an
individual meditation of what it's
trying to accomplish
the mitzvoth villain which is on the on
the left arm
or if you're lefty on the right arm
parallel to the heart
the bicep on the muscle parallel to the
heart the twilling on the head so it
says
like he says in the footnote
when you put on trill and it's la
shabbat it's to dedicate the heart
together with the brain together with
the mind towards oneness
that the heart and the mind should be
united and harmonious and dedicated to
oneness to the source of oneness which
is hashem
so that's a particular focus of twilight
to be able to harmonize we have a mind
we have a heart
the mind represents
awareness
the heart represents
passion and feelings and emotions and
sensations
to be able to respect them both
and to integrate them both
you can't cut off the mind from the
heart or the heart from the mind it's
not how life works
it always has to be an integration of
the mind the heart the body the soul so
twilight represents that dedication that
harmony and that dedication
so it's not just you put on boxes
there's an experience
dalid minim shiba luluf take the bits of
lulav
himself it's taking four different kinds
and bringing them together
estrich roshitevas alta virginia
esterig is an acronym
it's brought in swadham
moshovsky
he brings in the footnotes the result
the pony office
brought to many spot him that esrig is a
acronym from tehillim it says to hillary
don't bring me to the leg of arrogance
that's esteric
she says it's a particular idea
the asterisk is a beautiful fruit it's a
citrus
it has a tom it has
a taste it has a smell the only problem
is it can become a little arrogant
the willow is not arrogant
you know he always got bad marks but the
aesthetic is a perfect bucket
an aesthetic you can get better
the only thing he has to ask is ultive
any legal guy but don't turn me into a
uh
into uh you know
hoary
they said the boshemtiv
on his uh right before he passed away
with shruas tough kofkaf 1760.
so the last words he said was altavere
enid
you understand there's different levels
but that was his last request altavere
that's esseric
besides that there's a general
meditation which is generic for all
mitzvos
a cavanaugh protestant cavanaugh
kawanapradas is the details of this
mitzvah its unique message there's a
kavanaugh claw is that all the mitzvahs
are one
i do the mitzvah accepting of myself the
oil the yoke of malchus of the kingdom
of heaven
and that's why the bracha of every
mitzvah
is the same and yet it's different right
it starts off
that's every
no difference what
and it says
and tanya says
means he sanctified us
also means like kedushin he betrothed us
every mitzvah
is a part of kidushin it's an
opportunity of connection
then there is the specific
villain
that's already the specific mitzvah with
its unique message and both are true
in every relationship you have that
right
if somebody close to you asks you to do
something
so on one level there's the kavanaugh
protest this individual thing that's
important for you
but then there's also the kavanaugh
colonists in the sense that if you're
asking it it's not a difference what
you're asking
it's the fact that this is the
relationship sometimes you ask that
sometimes you ask this it's the same
thing in that sense it's the same thing
if the mitzvah doesn't have
this
a person does it with coldness
coldness means apathy indifference get
it over with obedience
there's an expression in you
which means you do things by rote
maluma does you just like it's uh
you know it's part of you get up in the
morning you brush your teeth
so you also put on filling it's just
part of the
part of the routine a person does it by
wrote robotically it's called mitzvahs
a mitzvah that i do
but there's no presence of mind i'm not
really present there
yeah that that can be part of that
it's just you know robotically it's part
of the schedule there's no uh
there's no presence of mind or heart
so there's is
there's something hurtful about that
there's something missing
especially when somebody goes one step
deeper
and becomes aware of the raymond most
the exaltedness of ain't safe infiniti
when one appreciates
the truth of ain't safe
so then even real avoider
could be inadequate
it can even be considered a sin
martial
if i serve him not commander it with his
true greatness
it's actually it's a shiftless it's it's
the meaning
of
that void in front of a simple person
to the work
that's necessary for a great leader
from serving in front of the melech as
though a simple person
so relative to this relationship
it could be very disrespectful it's like
merida it's like almost betrayal you're
actually
belittling the person's glory the
person's honor
it's just this different translation the
word shiftless comes with shuffle which
means low
so you can put it in different contexts
yeah yeah
yeah
here mash pulkvoyde means like you you
humble the honor you belittle the honor
you demeanor yeah yeah
in other words different relationships
require a different type of
attentiveness and sensitivity
right
if somebody is talking to you in the
middle of the conversation they take out
their phone
to check their text
okay
mela
is it
is it a respectful thing to do not
really
i'm not talking about if it's urgent
but let's say you're under your chuppah
right
and you take out the ring you had my
kardashians lee and your phone buzz and
say whoa whoa whoa what i have to take
out the phone
but
everybody's eyes are going to pop out
yeah the schwinger is not going to let
this sculpture continue hopefully
why what happened or i just took out the
phone the answer is
yeah
you have to know where you are and
before whom you are yeah
your child sits down with you and they
want to discuss something very personal
intimate and they open up their heart
they say well one one second i just got
a text i just got a clip i have to watch
the clip
it could be a dagger in the heart why
i'm sitting here
and in another context is perfectly fine
you have to know what type of
relationship it is
so sometimes
he says avoid there could be a cat it
could be a sin
because it's completely
not in tuned
with the relationship that's necessary
at this moment
so this is a very very fine idea
because it reaches when you really
appreciate what ain't safe is when you
really appreciate godless hashem
see he says even avoid our mitis a real
avoid that could be kaloy it could be
like a hat
why
because there could be an element of
betrayal even when i'm i'm serving you
because i'm serving you in a way that's
completely not
connected
and attuned to what this relationship
necessitates so it's a very able thing
because for somebody else it's beautiful
he says but you you know more than that
right if you go and even to uh
you have a meeting with the president of
a country
again you're sitting and uh you're doing
other things
it's going to be very inappropriate
it'll be like a minute why are you
sitting you're respectful you're nice
because you have to always know
if name is
certain things you'll tell a stranger it
doesn't mean much
right but if you say the same thing to
somebody very close to you
it could be a demonstration that you're
completely not present you're you're
completely out for lunch
no even if it's not intended it's just
like a
you know sin by omission
right meridian means is a sense of
betrayal it's not about judging or or
intent like maliciousness
but sometimes
it's it's just not uh
there's no way of describing the
infinity of it there's no way
so even the void of great sadiq
even though from their perspective it's
powerful but it doesn't really match up
with with whom whom they're connecting
with with whom they're serving
all of our
that's why everybody confesses
you have a shaman began even at
something like moisture why
why is he confessing
because of me
because even
true avoider
relative
to the true godless the greatness of and
the iranian was exaltedness of ain't
even true avoider could be considered
deficient inadequate
so i say i'm sorry
now it's not necessarily it's not about
guilt
but it's realizing
that it's
inadequate i'm bringing myself into the
relationship but relative to what
to what is the truth
it's it's not it's not adequate it's
deficient that's what comes with the
word
it doesn't mean that you're a sinner
you're a bad person
that means missing the target missing
the point
missing something misaligned which is
what sin really is
deficient
bowed down he kneeled and he bowed down
what did he see
falls on his face why what is it
when you see ms i can't stay standing
as long as i don't see emma's
you imagine you know i have the minus
and not only am i doing well i'm
unbelievable but when you see ms there's
an element of humility
because
i blush
in in the real real sense of emma's now
you have to be ready for this
again if you're hearing this with uh
your tools of trauma it's not good
you understand
there's so much trauma today
that when we hear these things we can't
even hear what he's saying because it's
like
in other words if it's coming from
self-hate you can't hear this i'm just
saying this because
i feel the energy here in the room
if
you have to you have to appreciate
yourself to understand this
you understand if not this becomes
another uh
another another
reason to blame yourself you're not
typhoon is the whole indian this is the
the sense of of midas
you can really appreciate
the sense of image i can only really
appreciate the sense of embassy if i'm
fully present if i'm fully here
if i'm hiding from myself i can't even
see it
that's what means it's not it's not a
blame
it's a sense of humbleness you
understand it's not blame it's not it's
a sense of humbleness
huh
it's a sense of shiftless it's not a
blame
it's talking about moisha
right but it's he still says i'm sorry
because there's a sense of inadequacy
ah staying safe
like it says in tanya dalton says
that even at saddam gum or who has ava's
hashem
it's always yesh meshev
there's a sense of of ego i love
so he says that's also not real vegas
so it's a murder dica madre it's a
mitzvah but lagabe the ain't so if it's
still deficient
so first in the beginning of the chapter
he said there's the humility that comes
from a person realizing that something
is missing
when i make a quest either in the
negative or in the positive he says even
with avoider when you see mr emmas
marshall lost himself
because based on real truth
what type of avoider is going to be
worthwhile
so what he asks is that that vader
should be with your truth with your
authenticity
means i have to bring
my best into life
not the best my best
that's what the men are saying
to be have an avoider completely
commander it with the ultimate ms
yeah maybe these moments like that but
what is asking is your ms
or mikalmakim that's
once in a while when you think about it
it creates a pain it creates a void
in a very good way
it's taka i'm bringing in my ms of the
fart
right so it's not sin in the sense
you're a bad person no you're very good
person you're amazing person
but
the distance from the ultimate ms
hurts me it pains me
you see see this is not about feeling
good
it's about truth
real truth makes you feel good
you understand it's not a ba ah
oh nega
sometimes i'm just in pain i want to
feel good so i just want to hear things
that are good
right
so then this if is not for you it's not
for you
but a healthy person doesn't want to it
doesn't have to feel good sometimes it's
good to feel pain not good
it's truth it's truth
if i'm completely broken i can't
i can't you just have to make me feel
good you know if you fall and you hurt
yourself you just have gluten which is
nice it's a beautiful thing
but we have to ask ourselves that itself
right can i also be challenged can i be
challenged could somebody tell me the
truth that transcends me
if our state was
in other words
is very positive real muslim like this
it's very positive it picks you up lifts
you up
somebody once said
to his child
is playing basketball i don't mind
i'm not afraid that you're gonna aim
high and miss
i'm afraid that you're going to aim low
and never miss
you understand
first taste
i'm not afraid if you aim high and you
miss you'll miss good
i'm afraid that you'll never miss
because you'll never aim high you bring
down the hoop
so every ball goes in you never miss
so when you open yourself up to the
grander of life
to the grandeur of yourself to the
grandeur of your soul to the grandeur of
hashem
so he says i could be doing my best i'm
bringing in my emma's but there's
farther pain
moisture
when he saw the emma surveillance he
lost himself as he found what he pulled
and for the ms you melt
you have to see ms
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especially if a person realizes that
even my truth is missing
not only the truth but my truth
the kosher messiah
and especially if my avoid is filled
with makshavasaras means alien thoughts
and agendas
especially when i discover things in my
words and my actions that are completely
not aligned with hashem
which distances me
from my real connection with hashem the
calls i miss
this creates deep pain
my name is and it creates it can create
tears when a person feels pain there are
tears the distance this is also part of
available there's two streams
in every person's life if a person is
dealing with stuff on one hand there's
identifying the joy
the potential the beauty the closeness
the amazing
reality etc
but side by side with that also comes an
awareness
of that which is broken inside of me
and the two work together
because if there's only awareness of
brokenness and not of simcha
then
i'm in a rut i get more broke but
there's only there's only awareness of
positivity and not anything else there's
no growth i remain stagnant
she says there's two elements one is
the
awareness of closeness and one is the
awareness of
of distance of of of the challenge of
difficulty
just like psychologically and
emotionally if something is not working
if something is offline in your brain
something is offline in your body
something is offline in your heart you
have to be able to feel that pain you
have to be able to cry for that pain
that awareness that that awareness
is extremely beneficial it's extremely
healing because it doesn't
turn the deficiency into uh into uh
positivity doesn't
make me live in delusions
and uh and cover it up and create
substitutes and compensations and run
away from it and repress it which
essentially makes it stay there but
rather i could face it i could face
everything
yeah yeah
yeah
avoid
in both of these avoiders in both
whether simcha or shiflus
they could be
gases and yeshs they could be serious
arrogance which means i'm completely
disconnected this is important what he's
going to say
you would think
that when you're feeling bad about
yourself there's no arrogance right
it's cavaldic i'm completely humble he's
going to say no
everything we're speaking about midian
sinha
that i create a substitute reality
instead of the truth which is all about
my ego which is about my pain which is
about my
my my real nothingness that has to
become an egotistical somethingness
he says realize that all types of
avoider could feed off it
sometimes simpson sometimes humility
even the humility
can be
at its core
very very
disconnected from the true source it's
not always that humility
and pain represents how humble you my
i am
and the same is through the opposite the
simcha as well that's what he's going to
say
absolutely
when a person serves with some it's a
govaldika thing but we have to always be
aware that there could be yeshua's
remember what's the ashes versus bittel
yahshuas is the sense
of separateness from hashem
which turns me into a something
not aligned with the true source of
everything which is infinite
so
is always there's a self-consciousness
that's how it is
right i'm feeling good i'm feeling even
i love i'm feeling happy i'm feeling
content so it's beautiful but there's an
element of self-consciousness and the
self-consciousness can prevail over the
relationship
okamaki na aviva ras
so in this beautiful love you have mixed
in self-love and self-consciousness
just like in a relationship when you
want to be close to somebody it's
beautiful right but there's also a
pitfall the pitfall is i want to be
close to you
so now the question is how much of it is
about me and how much is it about you
sometimes you see people are in love but
when the other person needs to separate
no no no no
but i need the space i don't care if you
need this space i want to be close to
you so i choke you
there's no boundaries there's no respect
why but i'm crazy about you i'm crazy
about you as long as i'm here i'm crazy
about you the moment you need your own
space no no how much do you love me
it's also true sometimes your child you
know you love your child but the
question is can you respect the person
can you respect their boundaries can i
respect you as an independent person
sometimes it's very hard so the love
becomes as much about me as much as it's
about you
so now like we once lived in a miami
right if the person i love asks me to go
and do a mission do something for them i
can't go i have to be with you
so because i want to be with you
therefore i'm not going to do what you
want because i want to be with you
sometimes the separation is much deeper
love because that's what you want
so he says the same is true in away this
hashem
sometimes my need to be close to hashem
is i want to be close
i want to be close it's for my
perfection
and there could be an element of
separateness here maybe my mission right
now is to do something else
maybe my mission now is a different
avoider
that feels much more distant but maybe
that's the mission
no
because i want to be i want i want the
good feeling so it's a beautiful thing
but he says you just have to be aware
he says
that they could be mixed in a lot of
self-consciousness
asmr means the consciousness of self
yeah
there is an attack it is an integral
part
ava is always yashmish but you just have
to be aware of that because sometimes
that part can prevail
yeah
narcissism on one end of the spectrum
bitter on the other end of the spectrum
and he explains in the parentheses
that when somebody has a relationship
with somebody the focus has to be them
not me
with hashem also it's not like
if it's all about my void the focus is
about me and it's going to stay that way
it has to really be a focus about the
other
yes i'm enjoying it i'm appreciating it
but when the focus is on the other
then you don't lose sight of that
you see it in human relationships i have
a void you fill that void you fill it
but it's my void in other words you're
serving me
and it comes out it comes out in
different ways
you know what i mean anybody knows what
i'm talking about
ah absolutely
so he said in parentheses also with
hashemids that way after the parentheses
but that's the nakuda that the ava
needs to begin with the
appreciating that which you love after
the parenthesis like seven lines um
but here's what i want to say even the
void of shift lose
pain
i'm feeling pain i'm feeling humble
which looks valdic bittle
you're feeling humble right cavaldik
i'm distant
there's no it's all bitter he says oh
yeah that can also be ashes why
on the contrary you're challenging
yourself
i'm feeling distant i'm i'm bothered i'm
hurt
if
even the humility is full of
self-consciousness
um
the humility is not realistic
where i really can lose myself
and he says in yiddish sometimes you got
to say it in yiddish
falling
vicar
i never really escape
that need for validation it's another
way
of feeling good about myself
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you know they're feeling
like masochism
i don't really get out of the way
you see it very often
sometimes people's humbleness
comes with a lot of judgment
self-judgment this is what we always
talk about
the tools that we use to experience
something defines the experience
there's real shiftless
and there's other type of shiftless
there's a shift loss he says
where
at the core of that shiflus
is a real real deep
sense of inadequacy
and therefore
the shiftless comes with tremendous
self-judgment
how bad i am how sick i am i never get
away from that so i'm not even humble
i'm just busy knocking myself
again i'm not in a relationship
i'm just busy feeling good by feeling
horrible because that's the only way how
i feel good
because that's my mom it doesn't really
feel good but under the circumstances
this is how i operate
right but
these words itself you have to hear
without self-judgment do you understand
what i'm saying right now
if you're now thinking that that's me
that's me
that's what exactly what he's talking
about that's me that's me
you see it's very very it's very
dangerous this it's very lethal
means that i'm actually
i'm actually in awe
like i i actually i could lose myself in
a very beautiful way i can actually feel
the pain of the moment
rather
judging how bad i am
how bad i am and
and and how
and how horrible i am
it's hard to talk about it you have to
like experience it it's it's not
you know you could talk about it and
give directions but it's not about uh
it's not mathematics here it's just a
very very
deep experience of what bitter looks
like
if my bittle is experienced
through
tools that are broken
the bittle is going to be very very
broken it's going to be very unhealthy
it's going to bring to unhealthy things
it's probably going to turn me into a
bigger shemata and to an addict
i become desperate i become a desperate
person
so you have to be very careful
pain is not about
i'm bad
if the pain is i'm bad i'm sick i'm
gross i'm so ugly
that's feeding into
yeshus
what's that is feeling in the ash it's
feeding into my separateness from hashem
it's just reaffirming how bad i am
sounds beautiful right i'm making
and i'm so honest and i'm not
egotistical
he says
it's a different type of ego
it's the ego that i'm nothing that's
that's all that's that's a big ego
you know how nothing i am you know how
bad i am you know how sick i am
i'm so sick
all
all there to be able to justify
that you're not godly that you're not
one
that's also yeshua's a different type of
yahshuas
this is the ashes that i'm the king of
the world and there's the ashes that i'm
the most despicable thing in the world
so ich kanskatieshas
one yeshua says i'm the king and another
yeshua says i'm the rat of the world
i'm the scum of the earth i am the
epitome of the scum
sounds great right wow bitter
i'm the king of nothing very good
i'm the king of demons i'm the king of
trauma i'm the king of everything
now if you're hearing this again with
judgment while you're hearing it so you
know what i'm talking about okay i'm
just telling you
remember
what if it's true
then he has to do triva
yeah that's what chuvas
for
sure pain i need the brokenness causes
pain that's what that's what he said
this concept of pain this real clock i
can cry that that's that that's
important it's recognizing
recognizing what's broken inside of me
and grieving for it and mourning for it
if a person has been abused
if a child was molested
and certain parts of their brain were
compromised and certain parts of their
identity did not develop and certain
connections they can't make
because of it
somebody just told me recently that
some very inappropriate things happened
to them when they were a child by
somebody in the family
this person said they still cannot be
they still can't be with people
because for them a person coming into
the room
is reminiscent of that person coming
into the room
so this person always wants to be alone
that's and with a locked door that's
where i'm safe
so you could come into the room they
never even saw you this person but it's
not when this person's brain was formed
coming into the room meant what murder
so now if somebody opens the door and
comes into the room the body responds
that's a painful reality that's a very
painful reality
how that affects relationships
how that affects connection
that pain is real
and if i cry for that pain
that crying has a healing element to it
awareness
knowing what i have to fix what i have
to work on what's broken inside of me
right
but what if the same thing happens
but the way i'm processing it is
i'm the scum of the earth i'm the
sickest person every person walks into
the room
i'm afraid you start judging yourself
that's the continuation of the abuse
that's not the healing
you understand
and then i'm not even feeling the pain
i'm feeling the abuse
the pain
is reinforcing the separateness look how
sick i am look how this i am at this i
am
so he says he says that's not shiftless
real shitless is falin's fallen sick is
a beautiful thing valencia says i lose
myself you know you say you lose
yourself in the moment you lose yourself
in the moment
to lose yourself in the moment you have
to be healthy
a real victim can't lose them so i can't
afford to lose myself
because if i lose myself what happens
you'll kill me
i have to always be alert
my my ego is so wounded my sense of self
is so wounded i have to be alert every
second
so even when i'm humble it's it's a
coping mechanism to just navigate my
pain
real syphilis is a different type of
that's what he's saying the shifu's
can't be with yashas
which means can be with self-judgment
coming from a place of separateness the
shift was on the contrary when you
recognize that you're infinite
you feel pain for the parts of you that
feel so broken
that's not that's that's that's a shift
loss
that's rooted in in actus in bitter
this is very important stuff my friends
ms
very important stuff
sometimes you feel like you're so
horrible
right
and you might delude yourself ah this is
good avoid this hashem
no guyver until somebody puts you down
they crush you to pieces i'm a
beautiful bittle
cesing is completely rooted in
in distortion of yashas it's completely
rooted in separateness it's not bringing
me closer
the bittle you don't want the ashes over
there
that under the bittle right under it is
the sense of
of of of self that i have to substitute
for
put it a little bit in different words
if introspection
and knocking myself is a coping
mechanism
so basically it's again running away
from my pain by coping with this
sometimes
you cope with pain by destroying
yourself
another example for this is
sometimes
i don't know if you know this but the
brain
if something happens to a person this
this is quite a phenomena
it's it's it's quite intense
if you don't know about it
hashem if you know about it you know
about it
sometimes a person goes through an
experience
and it's so painful
that the brain
shuts it out it goes into the
subconscious and the conscious brain has
no memory of it
but it happened and the results are
there
so the brain creates a different story
that happened
in order to justify why you cope this in
this way
like there's certain children that go
through things the brain doesn't
acknowledge it because it's too painful
so instead you blame yourself
for this and this and that's completely
not true not not not the story that's
happening
so this self-degradation when the person
is demeaning themselves it looks like
bitter
but it's really a coping mechanism
coming directly from a distorted reality
rooted in your sense of brokenness and
separateness
so that type of self denigration first
of all it's not authentic
and it it's that's it's a bittle that's
not rooted in ancient it's a bitter
that's rooted in my distortion
in my horrible self-image you understand
what i'm saying
so you have to be very aware of this now
if you're having it don't judge it
because by judging it you're just
getting worse into it
that's why i keep on saying if you're
hearing what i'm saying and you're busy
judging yourself you're not hearing what
i'm saying i'm sorry
it means we're we're stuck there and
it's normal
i'm gonna say it again
you have to meditate on this
if you're hearing what i'm saying
and the way you're feeling it is wow
look how
look how uh
look how distorted i am
right
you're not hearing it which is again
normal don't judge it but you have to
realize that it's a different type of
bittle there's a bittle from yeshus and
there's a bittle from actus
the bit of an actress is actually
experiencing the pain for what it is
without it covering up something
remember yesterday's is always a
cover-up bittel means there's no
cover-up yes this is clipper
bittle is no clipper clipping means a
cover-up my pain is covering up
something
it's covering up the abuse that happened
that i don't want to deal with instead
i'm going to say that i'm the most evil
person who ever lived so of course i
behave this way
that's a cover-up
real bittle real shiftless comes without
any cover-ups
you could see the whole reality and then
you could just feel the pain
the raw pain with empathy
and i and i lose myself in the process
in a very good way there's a sense of
real humility
pain causes real humility it's like
there's no you you just feel pain you
feel vulnerable
vulnerability is the word real
vulnerability raw vulnerability
you ever felt raw vulnerability
everything is taken away all the shells
are removed all the cover-ups are
stripped and you're left alone with
truth it's just vulnerable and you can
just start crying
and it's just vulnerable there's no
justifying it's not blame it's just pure
vulnerability
and and and that's actually a moment of
oneness because it's true it's true
you're just facing what is true midas
ra vino fell apart
and i can't explain it better than this
[Laughter]
yeah exactly
yeah
it's very tricky
because
again it could be the same words you
know i'm so bad i'm so bad i'm so bad
i did so many have vedas everything my
mitzvahs are garnished uh everything wow
you're so butt you're so bitter dick
but you have to look what happens 20
minutes later do i go into a depression
right and i go on to certain websites
afterwards or i go onto my phone or i
get drunk or i
don't stop eating
then it's a simmond
that it wasn't bringing me closer to my
emma's
it was my abuse
continuing through the bittle
you have to be careful you have to be
very careful
yeah yeah yeah yeah
when you're in a state of bitter it
brings you closer to ms it brings you
closer to ain't south it brings you
closer to answer if you're a healthier
person
i may be in a lot of pain but the pain
is going to bring me to a place of
awareness and therefore healing
i may have a real pain
and if it's real pain it's real pain
it's acute you can feel it in your body
but it's based on truth it's based on
how good you are the pain is coming
because something that's so infinite
feels so broken you know that's painful
that's painful
yeah
there's a beautiful vote from the market
of ms rich
he says it says in mishnah's brachus
there's a mission a pedigree
you don't get up to darwin only with
kaiva drish covered rashi
humility
subservience
in other words i don't get up to davin
you know with with mockery with cynicism
with the
what's up
is seriousness sincerity
so you know you're going into hash i
mean
sincerity maturity bitter
shiftless
that's what it says
so here the margaret how he touches it
he says kravit rosh is literally a heavy
head
covered is heavy right and roish's head
so a heavy head means basically the head
is a little you know it's heavy it's a
little down it's a it's a sense of
she says
means
you have to dive in for the kaiwa droish
for the heaviness of the head
of the head of reality the head of
existence the racial declaration which
is hashem
and he explains as follows
he says every limb of a person is really
an average of the shrine it's really a
limb of the shrine the mission says in
sanhedrin that you learned son had
dinner when they gave the death penalty
to
even russia a person gets the death
penalty for serious stuff
so the mission is
what does the shrine say
when they're punishing the person kalani
mireishi kalanim israeli
i feel that i feel like my arm is is is
falling off my head is falling off
why because a person is like a limbs of
the shrine
so the market says
when you're davening
don't dive in free as it's your pain
realize that it's it's the shrines pain
it's hashem's pain
he says that's how you should darwin
it's clever
it's it's it's god's pain
now what does this mean
so it's just a spin on words okay not my
his pain fine
it's very deep
that means
it's pain with bitter in other words
it's it's it's the pain
i'm really divine so the divine is
broken
do something broken
in the system of hashem
it's his pain as much as my pain because
i'm a manifestation of him
so then on one hand the pain is deeper
it's more d it's more deep it's more
it's more deep
on the other hand
the pain
is in context of goodness it's not
you're a stupid broken meshugana of
course you're in pain
it's that the ain't safe is in pain oh
that's that's not not well
that deserves healing
because that means
that the pain is not your default state
it means that brokenness
is not the way you were made it means
that it's it's a dybbuk it's something
that was attached to me the filth is not
me the filth was attached to me the
filth happened to me but it's not me
it's not my essence my essence is
infinity my essences ain't safe
so i see it in the context of that
so on the contrary i want to go back to
my true essence
that's number one and number two
it's with less judgment it's with less
self-judgment
it's opposite
not only do you create the situation the
whole world is in pain
what is it
how does it help you know
it's even worse you can destroy the
person knowing that
not only
no i think it's on the contrary it's
it's not about blame it's about
it's really it's god's journey through
me
the pain i went through is his journey
through me
not rejoice
not rejoice but find dignity in it
it's the infinite consciousness having a
finite experience
and part of that finite experience is
sometimes a journey through difficult
stuff
and being aware of that aligning with
that
i don't see my pain
as a manifestation of my evil
i see my pain as a manifestation
of something that my godliness is going
through
if i did something
it's okay so now i have to have remorse
and do true
very often it's not even that i did
something
other people did something
if it's something in me
okay
and that itself even if i did something
wrong you'll usually identify that that
itself is coming from something broken
inside of me
it's very hard to find somebody who does
something wrong
completely maliciously
with absolute choice
especially in today's generation after
all the bitter of thousands of years
generally
the mistakes that people make
is coming from their own brokenness
which doesn't make it beautiful
it just means that i have to be able to
identify that
because if you can identify that
you can grow from it instead of a blame
game it becomes a game towards recovery
it's it's not about judgment
now if somebody did something very bad
to you a perpetrator maybe not be ready
for this just to tell people forgive
forgive forgive is nice you have to be
ready for forgiveness
you could say yeah but he was
traumatized he did it because somebody
did it to him okay
but you have to be in a position of
strength where you can forgive if you
forgive too early it's part of the abuse
you understand what i'm saying
if you forgive too early when you're not
ready
it's uh it could be part of the the
horrible abuse
like i don't even have a right to feel
pain i have to forgive you can only
forgive after you grieve
yeah forgiveness is beautiful but only
after you grieve
because if you forgive before you grieve
you didn't grieve oh forgive in other
words it's nothing nothing happened zai
michael especially when they tell you if
you're not michael then you're the one
right sometimes you tell someone if
you're not michael you're the one
so not only this poor kid had to go
through all of this but now he's worse
than the perpetrator that itself is an
act of abuse you have to be very
sensitive with these inanimate
if i
it says
right you have to be michael but the
thing is
always says it never says you have to be
michael
it says
right
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we're incar oh it's not a mitzvah to be
michael because you can't make it a
mitzvah if it's a mitzvah it's not
forgiveness
it's not forgiveness
says
you try to find it in yourself it
encourages you because by definition
michila has to be voluntary
if forgiveness is forced upon me
it's not forgiveness
and it could be more abusive
if i'm forced to forgive you god says
you have to forgive i'm not forgiving
you
forgiveness means i forgive you i have
to choose it
that's why the halacha says encourages
people right
it doesn't tell you you have to because
forgiveness is a personal journey now
when i re i'm telling you
that you have to be strong enough and
then you could forgive
only when you really forgive yourself
can you forgive the other that's the key
people skip that part they don't forgive
themselves if you don't forgive yourself
you can't forgive the other in other
words as long as i'm blaming myself
and right and i forgive you it's gonna
be horrible
because i forgave you on whose expense
my own
you i forgave but i remain the killer
that's not forgiveness
first you have to forgive yourself
meaning
he's the perpetrator not you
forgive yourself
now one day you'll be able to forgive
and don't do it prematurely
because there's going to be a
miscarriage
is that typhus
everybody here's what i'm saying
i just want to go mama a few minutes i
want to finish this paragraph
after the
you see here's with the paradox
sometimes the husband
doesn't really touch me at my core
you know
sometimes
it's not really sincere it's a coping
mechanism
so it's not actually coming from the
depth of my own soul from the depth of
my own oneness
it's another coping mechanism
or sometimes
it's just
yeah a way of dealing it's another way
of avoiding other stuff
so it's not really coming from the
deepest place
the raw pain that comes from the core of
my soul he says causes me actually
to completely go out of a place of
yeshua's and separateness
and therefore there's no yeshua's over
there it touches me
and that's very raw very very raw
so it has to actually touch me it's
really i'm in touch with the pain itself
not with
covering it up by blaming more and
feeling more horrible about myself
that's what it means but me is not shy
i'm actually in touch with the true
reality sometimes it's very hard to go
there there's too many blockages
there's also another point
sometimes
people feel good about feeling bad
sometimes it feels good to feel bad
you know what i mean like sometimes he
says
you feel like ah now i'm a real
overdasher i feel horrible
it's a distorted way of thinking but
it's a way of thinking
like the more crushed i am
the more holy i am
he says
he's too fridan he's happy from the fact
that he's uh garnished
vagabeg
it's almost like if i'm if i'm caved in
i'm crushed it's almost like a good
feeling it feels spiritual
anybody has this feeling
that's what he's saying it's basically
coming from the fact that at my core
there's a sense of separateness
huh
you have it
so you relate to this
this throws in a worm it it it affects
it it creates an infection in all of it
yeshua's benefits
the pain does not create yeshua's in my
soul to actually refine me
it becomes an objective in and of itself
i almost worship the sense that i feel
horrible that that becomes like the
tactless
because it's almost a good feeling some
people just have that feeling like you
feel closer to god
if you're
if if ah
from yeah from misery the misery feeds
feeds
and people feed this too
yeah
so he says actually it doesn't elevate
me it doesn't inspire me it doesn't
bring me to a place of healing because
i'm stuck in the sense of separateness
beetle always has to be coming from the
ain't sorry from the fact that i'm one
the zoi
and this is the reason it has to be
hasib
you see a person he's serving
says this is a reason why relationships
become so hard he's serving hashem but
because the avoider sometimes is lacking
the bit what's that the bittle i'm stuck
in a place of real separateness
so therefore a new york elizabeth
and therefore i become intolerant during
in relationships
sometimes you make me anxious you make
me nervous i can't connect i can't
tolerate you
especially if the other person has his
mailing
love he's similar to me um
so sometimes he diminishes my ashes
because you're also annoyed
i have to put you down
so suddenly my bittle becomes
not so bottleneck
for me i'm bottled but when it comes to
you i can't deal with you what happened
to my bitter
bottle
the answer is there's a poison over
there
it's a sword and a shield
it makes me feel very righteous very
self-righteous
but when i sense your this i'm like oh
get me get me out of this i become very
judgmental why are you so judgmental
what happened to your bittle why am i
busy condemning why can't i tolerate you
this is araya that my bittle is broken
which again i can't judge because if i
start judging it i'm going to get more
broken i have to feel the pain of that
and open myself up
to who i am to who i really am
you know self-judgment is a very very
scary thing it can be very holy and it's
really unholy
right you judge yourself you gevaldic a
person you're so critical of yourself do
me a favor
don't be so critical of yourself because
the next step is you're critical of
everybody
you're you're critical you want to be
critical it's it looks good on yourself
it's not going to look good at other
people so he says that i always have to
know what is at the core of it
i can't connect to another person the
sony i say i start hating him um
and suddenly this bottlenecker person
feels the need to point out to everybody
how the other person is a nobody
hashem he has agendas he's corrupt he's
egotistical he's looking for himself for
his own benefit
so nobody should compare him to me
is god love he shouldn't be greater than
me again
even if he's not relevant to me in other
words nobody's comparing him to me he's
not being greater than me but something
in my
separateness doesn't let me appreciate
and respect
you as a person your virtues your mailer
internally i loathe you yavazzo i see
internally i can embarrass you
i can't really communicate peacefully
especially if you see sometimes in
somebody else really a beautiful quality
hey nasa yesterday
sometimes in his awareness in his mind
you see something special or you see a
special heroes he's careful with
something or precious he's separate from
something or you see something pure
so you should celebrate it what happens
is
i get even more angry
shayna yokel says lindsay i can't deal
with it
what is what happened to my bitter when
i say bottle i see something you know
sometimes you see a sensitivity in a
person an adult so instead of
celebrating it and like wow
suddenly it makes me even more nervous
and more anxious what is that
obaze
jealousy is as bad is as heavy as the
oil as the grave as the abyss
right it says
love can be as strong as death and
jealousy can be as heavy as the grave
real jealousy you know you you bury
yourself it eats you up it puts you in a
in the abyss
kosher salsa
always has a component of jealousy
the guy didn't do anything to me
he didn't take my money
he didn't steal anything
he's doing his own thing
there's something positive emulate learn
learn from a person
nobody's stopping you
till now he was talking about jealousy
from character or behavior there's also
physical jealousy
you see somebody successful
of usher somebody is affluent
and suddenly it's eating me up he didn't
steal my money he didn't take away my
business right he's not taking away my
customers
but his very success eats me up
god gave him a blessing of wealth was
esther why can't i deal with it somehow
i look at this person and i'm i'm
miserable
what happened
this is a line from the radak rabino
david
he says in the footnotes he has a line
hatred that comes
from and with jealousy
it's not easy to be fixed because if you
did something to me okay
but this killer you didn't actually do
anything
but there's something in your existence
that's making me feel horrible what is
it
what is it sometimes you know you see
very successful people you just don't
like them
you know what i mean
they may be very nice
what what don't you like
i right away attribute narcissism
selfish he's a sick person
what is it he has nothing to do with him
it had it has to do with my my own inner
sense of inadequacy
and you become the projector you become
the projector
i'm not worked out within myself so
somehow you trigger what i don't like
about myself i feel unsuccessful i feel
bad i'm in a place
of my own yeshua's my own separateness
i don't feel my own connection with if
you feel connected
so there's another successful person so
learn from him enjoy him talk to him
yeah okay
but he's talking he's talking about me
the person who's not worked out himself
but therefore he projects yeah
yeah yeah and even now when i avoided
hashem i was during davening i was so
humble and i felt so inadequate and i
gave myself so much muscle
so now what happened with the other
person he says what happened with the
other person is that my bittle has
within it an element
that's really not worked out
in terms that it's feeding my
separateness and therefore the other
person does trigger me very badly
so the person therefore
he says this is this is what he says he
says there's two streams and away this
hashem they're simphanders shiphouse and
in both
one has to be very very careful of the
clip of media
i have to be very careful that it
shouldn't be
off and coming from my ashes but it's
coming from my bittle
and what does that mean in a person's
life practically
it means
if i'm experiencing gashes
that's normal that's part of life's
experience
you can't knock it and kill it because
that's also coming from the ashes that's
the point i have to be aware of it and
when i'm aware of it
in a real humble way i can open myself
up
to the awareness
of who i really am
and i could see both things
and then i could be aware of my
reactions my sensations and what's
happening to me
and that self-awareness is what allows
the person to be aligned
to be aligned with their true beauty
and to be connected and aware of that
which is
disconnected that which is broken
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