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Rabbi Moshe Haber Path of the Just- Disguises of Arrogance 5.29.25 · Rabbi Moshe Haber - Daily Mussar/Weekly Perasha

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  Yesterday we had a guy who's a guy who believes and carries
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  himself like that, which means he carries up and his words very
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  heavy. He walks slow, he talks slow.
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  He chooses the certain people to talk to and many people not to
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  talk to. He says he's like carried down
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  by lead. That's how heavy the guy is.
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  He gets up out of his chair slowly.
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  He sits down slowly and that's all signs of arrogance, even
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  though you mean, I noticed that he believes he's something
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  special needs to be treated that way.
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  Next person is a person who's very intimidating.
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  People think intimidating is cool.
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  People think intimidating is a display of power and they give
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  you all the rules of how to be. Don't answer everybody.
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  Don't be so easy to everyone. All these things, all that is
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  Bhagava. If someone is difficult,
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  someone's annoying, someone's ought to get a hold of someone's
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  in in that sense because he's, you know, being like, like, you
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  know, out there, someone's can be nasty.
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  You never know what you're going to get when you talk to him.
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  That type, that's a display typically of a degree of
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  arrogance. It's a sense that I need to
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  shake the world so they know who I am.
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  I need to be scary. I can't just be so nice to
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  everybody. I need to have a little bit of a
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  sharp tongue or a sharp line or a line and no one knows how
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  unpredictable they talk to me. Sounds like I'm in a good day
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  and a bad day. All these things are different
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  ways of me planting myself down is a strong, powerful person and
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  making people treat me that way. Again, arrogance, OK.
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  And it's the third guy. The third guy.
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  And it's unbelievable, by the way, how true these examples are
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  and how real they are, how prevalent they are.
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  And people don't realize. You think that you're carrying
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  yourself sharp because you know when people talk to you and they
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  call you, they don't know what they're going to get out of you.
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  You're really just displaying another way of saying I believe
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  it was something special #3 on the list is Yezhke Arke at 236.
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  She arshov beliebo Shikwaruko Kakado, who believes in his
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  heart that he's so special on mohabbat and so honorable.
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  Aichi E Charlie Kavod. She is parisha meno, the Eno
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  Sariko Claude. Now listen to this guy.
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  This guy's a trickster. He believes and he's so special
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  and so deserving of honor. No matter what happens, he's
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  always honored. And there's this ular all the
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  Deval Aziz, masim ke Masai enough in order to show how he
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  feels that he's always a man of honor and he doesn't need people
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  to help him. He does humble things because he
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  believes and he's so special. I got that one time.
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  He does double reverse. He does humble things because he
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  says to himself, I don't need people to respect me.
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  I'm a poor person. Now, a lot of people say that's
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  a very nice trait. It's a sign of confidence, true,
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  but none of you doing that of arrogance.
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  So see the words inside. He's already so great and
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  distinguished and it's impossible for honor to be
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  separated from him. And he has no, absolutely no
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  need for it. And he doesn't need anyone to
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  show it. And therefore he'll perform acts
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  like those of humble people and he'll go to extremes in that
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  area to show I don't care. I'm I'm a nobody, I'll sit in
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  the back, nothing matters to me. Lee Bournemouth Nasir became the
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  ball and more and inside he's full of arrogance saying to
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  himself and he called Kakaram the call Kakarnik, but she quite
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  a need so he look, I would I don't know anymore.
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  The only all I need to do is you know, to forgo and tell people.
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  It doesn't matter to me because I have so much of it already.
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  If this sounds like something you can't understand now, you
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  don't know real arrogance. This is real.
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  It's legit. It's out there.
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  It's part of the world where people are so much thinking
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  about themselves and this mindset and they say to
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  themselves, I think I need so and so to, to invite me.
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  You think I need that person to stand up for me?
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  You think I need them to recognize me.
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  I'm unbelievable already. Now, a lot of times this is a
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  MIDA that flows right into self conference.
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  It's hard to see this is what it is.
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  But sometimes this is actually a person who believes he's so
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  special is above Cavalt. I'll see you next time.
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  Are you ever heard of such a person, Nike?
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  No. No.
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  OK. It's reality.
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  People will sit down. You go with this in the back and
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  they say I don't care about Cavalt.
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  Sometimes you're right, but sometimes you do.
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  The show really can't. Oh, that's another thing.
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  That's the whole thing is they really can't, that's for sure.
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  But you must say and the fourth and final guy over here, I think
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  the 4th Chirotseh Liotta Nircham Harbet is another one.
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  This is a person who measures yesterday tribe who wants to be
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  well liked and wants to be known.
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  And he has every good character trait.
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  His should be his arrogance cause for him to be considered
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  by everyone so and so. He's a good guy.
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  Another guy, he's a good guy. He's so humble.
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  He starts hearing people say this about him.
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  He starts liking the idea of being well known as a good guy.
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  This came to people's heads in a second.
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  So what does he do? He double s down on the good guy
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  way. All right, you like it, You
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  enjoy. Think of, I'll give you an
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  example. Think of kids when they're told
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  that they're goody goodies or not goody goodies.
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  And so you're such a nice kid. And what happens if you ever
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  notice they start to act more that way And like the trait,
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  isn't that a good thing? It is.
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  But now I know a lot of good kids and I know myself when I
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  was a goody goody. And as a kid, the more you hear
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  it and you had that, you're a good kid.
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  You start to live up to your example, to your own
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  description, and now you want to be that way.
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  But now you're overdoing it. You know that with kids, they
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  overdo it. Or now you're making sure that
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  the teacher loves you. Even though this I know it's
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  because I have my some, some of my kids are very wild and some
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  of them are very passive. And the ones that are always
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  goody goodies. The other ones can't stand.
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  Why can't they can't stand when that one's highlighted?
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  It's goody goody because I feel like they're doing it on purpose
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  and they trying to get the the the credit from the parents.
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  Right. You can imagine how with the
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  chosen adults are the exact same way.
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  They just don't show it as much. That is they enjoy being
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  considered. Miss the nice guy.
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  They like it, so they do things that play into him.
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  It's a nice guy in the process. In this example, they're trying
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  to be Mr. Humble. Isn't that the opposite?
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  Is the one before which is the opposite.
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  The first guy said I don't exactly.
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  The first guy said I don't need any credit.
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  I'm good regardless. And that is my that's because
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  I'm so good. That's arrogance and of itself.
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  This person is more than that. I need to be treated and
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  considered so and so and so humble him.
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  I'll never get upset. That guy, he never cares about
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  what people say about him. And in his mind, he's working in
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  this image and working in this image and developing it.
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  And the level of arrogance is to the top.
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  And again, you may not know people this way in your mind,
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  but I'll tell you, you may not realize it, but you know a lot
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  of people this way, people who try to live up or try to build
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  an image of Mr. Nice Guy and really what they're trying to do
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  and they're trying to create a perfect image of themselves.
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  All right, as a degree of arrogance that cannot be
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  limited. This is this is the truth.
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  All right. These are the words.
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  It's not enough for people to praise him for the regular gifts
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  that he has. And let's, let's say what he
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  wants to be considered a person and they're going to pile on
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  more good comments. And they say he's the most
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  humble of all people. And this person is actually
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  arrogant in his humility. Reality, he's arrogant in his
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  humility, like the kid who is not nice in his niceness.
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  He's not really such a good kid. He just loves being called Mr.
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  Good Kid. But you know what happens if
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  there's a competition between him and another kid between
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  who's better, he'll fight tooth and nail to be considered Mr.
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  Nice Kid, right? Well, how do you explain that
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  he's a nice kid? No, he's not.
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  He's a kid who likes to be top. Right now, being nice is being
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  top. If being mean were top, he'd do
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  that too. The same thing is true with this
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  person was an arrogant, humble person.
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  He likes being popular, he likes being well liked, and he knows
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  it's a good move to be seen. Humble people like humble
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  people. But he's sketching his system.
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  Messiah Shame says this doesn't last.
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  It doesn't work out that way. Eventually something comes up
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  where this Mr. Humble cannot stomach his issue and he ends up
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  showing his true colors. Someone gets a mad, someone gets
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  more attention for their humility than he does.
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  And then it comes out. But again, these are the
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  possibilities we're up against. We're up against typical
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  arrogance of cowering ourselves heavy.
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  We're up against arrogance of scaring other people.
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  We're up against someone saying I don't care about anything,
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  kind of arrogance, and someone who says I need to be known as a
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  humble guy, kind of arrogance. These are the medot that are
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  there. They can show up on us at any
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  time and our task is to identify this and to say to myself,
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  humility means I really are not that special.
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  I don't deserve more than anybody else.
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  That's really annoying. Not that I do, but no one knows
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  about it. In my own home, I tell everyone
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  how great I am. All right?
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  Well, not that I'm really the best person in the world, but
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  just I want to carry myself with public humility.
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  Flat out. Clearly, I am not more special
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  than anybody else. Because you've got to the world.
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  Do I have confidence? Sure.
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  To the roof I do. But it doesn't mean I deserve
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  anything more than anyone else. That's emotive.
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  Stop with this.