From Fear to Greatness: Rabbi Dr. Abraham J Twerski's Wisdom on how to Embrace the Almighty with Confidence

0:01 When the great Tzadik Chacham Balchesad and psychiatrist tells the world an interview on Torah anytime, that the following topic is what plagues most individuals and can be traced back to the root of most mental illnesses, barring any of the real serious problems. But when Rabbi Dr Abraham J Tawarski tells us that the following issue is why normally people do not maximize and vox ice into what they really can become, and then that item is a very prevalent topic in Parshashlach, you can't help but try to take a lesson from it and talk about it and listen to this.

0:51 When Parshashlach, when the Maraglum returned back with a damning report upon the land of Israel, they said the people there were huge. For some, raiinu was Anaphilim. We saw giants b'nai Anuk, children of giants b'nai Anaphilim. These people were massive V'naihi b'aynaynu, kachagovim v'chaynaynu b'aynaynu, and we were like grasshoppers in our eyes. And so we were in their eyes. We were tiny, puny grasshoppers. It is the madrash, it is also a quip from the Katsgareba. This was the root of the spies' hate, because they immediately thought of themselves We, in our eyes, were small, little grasshoppers.

1:36 We can't do this, we're puny, we can't do this. And then so we were in their eyes Again. They started to then care about what other people thought, because it seems like it was felt in some self-esteem, in the most important thing, what destroys a person's ruchnius is a low self-image and low self-esteem. When you look at yourself that I am a grasshopper in my eyes, i can't fight against giants Having a good self-image and self-confidence to say they're giants. We have Ashem. Do you know what I'm capable of? Do you know that I am a lion? With that mentality you cannot lose. And how many times have we spoke that?

2:18 when you really break it down, when they're reading the Chassan Torah on the Chastira to call up one person for a big, you know some real honor, every person in the show is thinking you know, technically I do learn a little bit and I also give you know. Maybe somebody bought it for me, somebody likes me. So you do understand that you do do very good things. But sometimes we have this false sense of humility. I'm not fitting to give a sheer. I'm really a nothing. Because as soon as you understand what you are capable of, what your potential is and what you can voxize into being your Kochos, you're now haith. You feel a certain obligation to do it, as long as we keep ourselves. With a low self-image, you feel exonerated from a lot of the harder and greater responsibilities.

2:59 If you think of yourself like a grasshopper, you will then be afraid of other people and what they think about you and you will be serving other people. But when you choose to serve the Almighty and think of yourself as a lion and you say I don't care, you're a giant, i have Kochos and the Almighty is on my side, with a strong self-image, with a strong sense of self-esteem, that is how we will be zoge for successful service of the Almighty.