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Rabbi Moshe Haber Path of the Just- Creating Awe: The Power of Fear of God 10.23.25 · Rabbi Moshe Haber - Daily Mussar/Weekly Perasha

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  I didn't live in an hour 360 theme of the year is is that
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  when it comes to Yachamayim, which is a term that people
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  throw out very loosely about other people.
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  He's a God fearing Jew, which is a nice term, but really to be
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  God fearing according to Messiah Shaheen, thank you.
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  That requires an understanding of the abstract because
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  Yachamayim is not something you can develop simply by just
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  living and going along my along my way on this world.
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  You're not going to find here Ghayati create fear of God on
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  his mindset. You have made those force with
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  that like spoke to him. You have the created tomorrow
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  too. Yeah, you have the great yeah
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  sham I am. How do you create 1003 ways One
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  to recognize power of Hashem, 2 to recognize diverse to creating
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  your mind, image and existence of Hashem to which is to
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  recognize how great God is. And thirdly, to recognize in
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  contrast, how small we are in his presence.
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  And that creates A and what happens is a gem changes
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  everything. The reason yeah gemim is so
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  important is because it changes everything.
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  It changes how you act to the person who's lower than you.
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  It changes how you act in private, changes how you think,
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  it changes how you behave across the board.
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  Your Jemima is the most powerful tool to make you a well-rounded
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  person because when you fear God's presence and you care
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  naturally, if you really fear him and he's there at all times.
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  The one thing about God is his everywhere and he's in every
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  single nook and cranny, every single situation, every
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  conversation. And once you adopt A God fearing
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  mentality, it becomes across the board and it comes into your
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  home and it comes into your private conversations and into
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  your own mind. And sometimes we have thoughts
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  that embarrass ourselves. You know, I'm too arrogant here
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  or I'm too demanding here. And then you add your mind to
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  the picture and you see yourself.
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  If I really fear a God, I cannot allow just throw it to bother
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  me. I can't allow such an approach
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  to be me because I fear God and I recognize his presence in my
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  presence and that diminishes my own mindset in the presence of
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  Hashem. This destruction.
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  All right and I'll pay 3360 explains and can build.
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  This is one of those things this mindset is something they can
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  build, which means you you're not your mind can become
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  stronger and stronger and stronger over time.
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  It can have be piled on layer after layer.
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  It's not something that you attain and you stop.
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  If do a de Shambi, it'll be Givu, but I don't leave.
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  They'll not out the so awesome the all those who surround them.
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  The closer you are to God, the more you have the the angels,
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  Leo Tom, you'll take it over me love because they're so close to
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  a shame with Barack. They don't have anybody.
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  They're they have a body on their own.
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  They're much closer to God than we are because we have this
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  separation of our body. Kalahem It's easier for an
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  Angel, Leo Kalahem They fear God more.
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  An Angel feels fears God more than you and I naturally do
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  because they have a closest. And why do they have that
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  closest 'cause they have no separation of the body, Alkin,
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  morale, alehenyote imash who They have more God, fear, fear
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  of God than we do. And this tells us that the more
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  we connect to Hashem and the more we recognize Hashem in our
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  life, the more we become like an Angel.
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  That's the reality. You know, over time, if you're
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  less less about yourself, you're more about the accounting that
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  Hashem, you develop more of an understanding and a recognition
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  of the presence of God so our ability can get stronger and
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  stronger over time. Boom, none.
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  I will bow down to you. I bow down to you with fear,
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  which means that is saying man has the power to attain very
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  high levels of awe and fear of Hashem.
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  I know it sounds like an abstract concept.
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  It sounds like a distant concept.
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  Our task and our job is to realize and we can attain that
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  same level. We can see Hashem and everything
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  that goes on. We can be cognizant of Hashem,
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  everything goes on and we can be fearful.
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  You know, Gemini is a beautiful tool to have it really, if you
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  think about it, it's what makes the great, the great extra
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  great. The people who are greatest
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  among us, they live their life with a fear of heaven that is
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  stronger than their fear of man. That's an unbelievable task.
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  They live their life by going by what God wants, not what people
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  want. Because of Yacht Shaman right
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  after 120, you look at certain people and he says, how'd that
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  guy attain such a level of character?
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  How'd that person, how is he so much head and shoulders above
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  other people's way of acting? What do you get?
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  What do you have fueling him to be that kind of person?
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  He carried himself a certain way, He acted a certain way.
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  He said always the right thing. What do you do?
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  And the answer is, he lived with Hashem and only Hashem.
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  He did not care about people. Not contrast this to make this
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  clear. Contrast this to a person who
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  fears other people. What happens when you're fearful
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  of other people? What happens in the one end?
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  But other people like good characters.
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  You make sure that well you want to stay away from people you're
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  scared of. So now OK, what if you fear of
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  other people so you avoid them? Fair.
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  But the truth is as of happening is you try to impress them.
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  When a person is in awe of other people and a person is fearful
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  of other people's opinion, he tries to impress them.
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  So now, so long as other people have the right frame of mind and
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  the right way of thinking, trying to impress them makes you
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  into a maybe a sketch, but a bit of a better person at the same
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  time, you're only a better person because you're trying to
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  impress them. And let's just say the people
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  whom you fear are people that are not the greatest people.
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  Let's say the people who you fear are those who live life not
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  the best word. They're arrogant, they're not
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  nice, they're haughty, all these things and you're trying to
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  impress them. What's automatically going to
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  happen to you and I are we allow ourselves to be fearful of man
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  instead of being fearful of God. If we allow ourselves to trying
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  to impress other people instead of impressing Hashem.
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  The reality ends up being that our culture and our way of
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  thinking as a being a very weak one.
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  And we can very possibly be 1A mindset that is not in line with
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  how we should be. Because if I'm fearful of man
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  and I'm thinking along the lines of what other people want me to
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  say and what other people are impressed by, I do things I wish
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  I wouldn't have done. I say things I wish I wouldn't
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  have said. I try to impress people.
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  Sure, you know, of other people makes me in this certain sense,
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  want to be a good guy. So other people like me.
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  That's true. But it also carries with it many
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  other areas that I'm not proud of because I'm fearful of other
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  people. So one of the keys of being at
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  Ajamayam, one of the keys of having fear of heaven is in
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  order to dull down your fear of other people.
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  If you are recognized and you're impressed by other people and
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  you're trying to impress them, you're at risk and not being the
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  guy you're so proud of. But if you have your action,
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  mind front and center where you just tell yourself, all I care
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  about is what God wants to hear. All I care about is when
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  impresses God. We get that into your system a
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  little bit in your business, in your conversations, in your home
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  and how you think your number one drive is.
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  What would God say how impressive it is my action to
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  all my actions toward Hashem. And that allows you and helps
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  you to quiet your fear of other people.
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  And it takes away from your mindset the need to impress
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  others. There's nothing more risky for
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  our existence and the need to impress other people.
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  You know why people spend way more than they have?
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  Because they want to impress other people.
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  You know what people say? Comments in public that are a
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  little bit risky, trying to be funny because they want to
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  oppress other people and they hurt other people.
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  The people all louder than they should because they want to
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  oppress others. People dress louder than they
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  should be because they want to oppress others.
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  A lot of things people do, even good people.
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  Because in their mind, they're trying to impress other people.
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  They say the wrong thing, they act the wrong way, they do the
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  wrong thing. You're not Adam Irat Shamayi, if
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  you make it front and center will quell and will quiet down
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  your you'd have other people and it'll allow you to live life
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  perfectly. The greatest drive to live life
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  the right way is Yachamaya. Like I said from the beginning,
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  Irat Shamaya gets into your private situations.
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  Irat Shamaya gets into situations you know when you're
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  dealing with people who are lower than you right?
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  That's why you have an employee. If you have an employee who's
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  less than he Girat Adam, fear of man is not going to exist over
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  there because you're not afraid of anybody.
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  And you therefore might unleash your angry side.
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  Yeah, Shamayim is front and center over there.
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  How do you act? The people who can't respond?
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  How do you treat people who won't react?
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  Don't get upset at you. How do you treat those who are,
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  you know, extra nice if they're just going to let it go?
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  That's where Yarachamaya comes in and Yarat Adam wouldn't
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  exist. And if it's so important for a
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  person to allow himself to adapt, I am worried about what
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  God would think. I am thinking about always what
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  Hashem thinks. When you think about that and
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  it's front and center, it drives you to become the best possible
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  person because it cleans up your thoughts, cleans up your words,
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  cleans up your actions and it becomes 24/7.
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  There's no area the ashram doesn't cover.
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  There are a lot of areas that fear of other people don't help
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  you grow, do not make you a better person.
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  Some what they do 'cause they make you be decent guys.
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  Others are impressed. But fear of other people also
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  weakens you in so many areas. Fear of God is 100%.
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  Does a narcissist have a fear of God or a narcissist has to much
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  much more have a job a man he has No Fear of man.
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  First of all, between you and I, a narcissist, I know the
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  original definition might not say he's fear of man.
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  A nonsist is so obsessed with what other people have to say.
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  Ultimately they become so narcissistic, but really they're
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  building off a feeding off what other people want of them and
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  and think of them. So that's really there are
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  fearful of men technically. Now do they have fear of God?
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  It's very difficult. That's why the gun tells us that
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  an arrogant person is direct Raglea Shahrina, an arrogant
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  person. He pretty much is pushing away
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  the Shahrina 'cause he's so busy with himself, he doesn't have
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  any time to think about God. That's how busy and arrogant
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  person is. And that's what humility is, the
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  number one tree you want to have.
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  And humility feels right into hiracha mayim.
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  And arrogance or if you want to compare it to narcissism, pushes
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  away hiracha mayim. And a person has to say the
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  number one thought I need to have is what does God think
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  about action? I only want to impress only one.
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  At the end of every stage in my life, I have to ask myself only
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  one question. Is God impressed or is he not?
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  I do not need to impress other people.
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  By the way, We impress people today and then are not impressed
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  tomorrow. How many people do you know by
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  now who have been deemed cool, who have been deemed impressive,
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  who have had their moment in the sun, and right now, 20 years
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  later, 30 years later, they're so shamed that their entire
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  previous existence is worthless right now?
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  Please no rule. They had a good time then, but
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  it did nothing for them now. That's people.
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  Those are people who live with the Errat Adam.
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  If you're trying to impress other people only they'll have
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  your moment, but then you'll have your other moment too.
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  If you try to impress God, it'll be for eternity.
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  That's the mindset. Errat, Yamayim is a molder, is a
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  controller as a developer, and it makes you your finest version
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  of yourself. That's reality, right?
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  Stop with this.