Nov. 9, 2023

Embracing Life's Challenges: Redefining Trials as Catalysts for Spiritual Growth and Personal Greatness

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Season 5

Ready for a spiritual workout? This episode is your training ground. We're stepping into life's challenges and redefining them not as obstacles but as catalysts for self-discovery and growth. Let's take a leaf out of Avraham's book. His life, laden with trials, became a blueprint for spiritual strength. By the end, you will approach your battles not as a timid chihuahua but as a ferocious pitbull, ready to embrace and conquer.

Weaving in the complexities of mastering Mitzvahs, navigating the dating scene, and grappling with the Aramaic language, we reveal how these seemingly daunting tasks can be a stepping stone to personal greatness. We talk about life's trials - professionally, personally, and spiritually - and how to learn from Avraham's example. We advocate for a mindset that welcomes challenges as opportunities for growth. It's a journey where we stop running from challenges and start chasing greatness. So, gear up for a paradigm shift; it's time to tackle every test head-on and emerge more vital than ever.

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I wish somebody would have been honest with me and told me the life's a dog fight and it's not going to go according to plan.

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That pretty much after you become a buyer mitzvah.

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The mitzvahs are a lot, yeah, you got to learn all of them and try to keep all of them.

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Then you got to learn how to learn.

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So you got to go away or go to high school or go to Israel and try to learn Aramaic and then also figure out all the back and forth of the game.

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Mara.

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Let's sprinkle in a stint in Shadduchem that it sounds like for all of us.

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It can be a time that you really have to learn a lot about yourself.

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Learn about faith and trust in Hashem.

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Figure out if you are soft in those areas or not.

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Then sprinkle in Some obligations in Parnassah and making a livelihood.

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Top it all off with making sure that your Shalom bios and your Meados are impeccable and in order, make sure that the kids are healthy and go on time to school and become functioning Humans in society.

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Start juggling all of those life experiences and responsibilities and there you go.

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You got the chalant and dog fight that they call life Things.

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We all can relate to this experience.

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But, my friends, we've been robbed of a vital perspective On the challenges that we face.

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We all hate when things get in the way.

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I just wish that I could do this, but oh, this is in the way.

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I wish I just didn't have this in the saw you.

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But no Know what the Magistra says in discussing the story of Avromavino, voracious rabba and nun, hey, right at the beginning.

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But Avromavino, how did it become so great?

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What was the Kaya Hagida?

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Well, it is exactly like this Nisayon, a her Nisayon.

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Through challenge after challenge, big you do learn a her Gidulan.

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And the challenges are they in it of themselves, the strength, the seeds, the water that make you grow and bring out your kaihis.

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For without this, jonas, we are doomed.

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The dog fight of life.

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Sometimes we just come at it as a chihuahua as opposed to being a vicious, ferocious Pitbull like Avromavino.

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Every Nisayon that we go through, we come out of it a little bit, at times weaker, and before I can't handle anymore.

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But Avromavino and his perfect example, our Mido said, seems he only got stronger and stronger.

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Now I need to negotiate for a burial plot with this low life named Efron.

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Okay, this is an ass Nisayon, I recognize it.

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He's not afraid of it, he's not shying away, but he's leaning into it and building himself and getting stronger and picking up steam and progressing until the ultimate Nisayon, something that says give up your entire legacy and kill your son.

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And when a shem says no, he still wants to give a little bit of a scar because he really wants to fulfill it.

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He's ready for the Nisayon, he's battle tested and he's a Pitbull in the best way.

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Avromavino, he knew the value of a challenge.

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We wake up and we say, oh, why do I have it?

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But Avrom woke up and said Baruch Hashem, I have a headache.

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Baruch Hashem, I stub my toe.

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And Baruch Hashem that I have no idea what the Gamora saying or how I'm gonna make money today.

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And that's an assayon and that's how we grow.

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Ramban says the whole point is that we're just supposed to bring out what Hashem knows will happen and what exactly is our potential into realization.

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Mikoyachela Pail, and when you stand up and in the Siam and you straighten the vertebrae and you lean that head forward with Excitement and lead into it with determination and you win the dark fun and you are triumphant and you stag.

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So without Nisionos, we are doomed.

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If you want greatness, you want to stag?

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Then you just keep taking on the Nisionos with strength.

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You say is that all you got, yeh Tzahara?

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You keep stopping me from reaching my greatness.

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Another Nision I am ready and I'm a Pitbull like Avromavino.

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And when you win, hashem testifies about you.

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I tell you Adati Kiara, like him.

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Now I know that you're one of the Pippos, that you're one of the dogs.

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Now I know that you believe in me.