Success for Jewish Men with Aryeh Gurewitz

You want it.

You really want it.

But are you fully committed to it?

Yom Kippur always makes me think of this distinction.

Get clear on the difference between the two - and how crucial it is in every area of your life - in this episode.

Kabbalas Ol Malchus Shamayim is a cornerstone of the Rebbe's teachings.

Get it right, and we'll be on track for a lot of spiritual success, which will flow into success in every area.

Get it wrong, and ... well, unfortunately there are quite a few very religious Jews - and formerly religious Jews - who have suffered from that.

In this episode, I suggest an approach to Kabbalas Ol that will make it much more pleasant, and one that we can actually implement simply and successfully.

What makes it different? The fact that it is aligned with another core teaching of the Rebbe - that every Jew already, intrinsically wants to fulfill all the mitzvos.

In this shiur that I gave a while back, we learn inside a short piece of a deeply transformative sicha (Parshas Vaeschanan/Shabbos Nachamu 5751).

In it, the Rebbe lays out a new, super-powerful path in Avodas Hashem that has the power to bring us to remarkable shleimus in Torah, Avodah, and Gemilus Chasadim - or, in other words, in every aspect of our lives.

What is this technique?

To "gaze at" the Third Beis HaMikdash and the final Geulah. In other words, not to simply think about them casually, but to visualize them and deeply connect mentally and emotionally to that vision.

Not a technique you'll find in the self-help books!

Listen to the shiur for all the details about this amazing teaching of the Rebbe and my take on how to apply it!

Emotions are not formed by situations.

They're formed by how we interpret situations.

If we want to be happy people, we will want to learn the skill of interpreting even our most painful situations in a positive way.

We see this way of thinking in the Rebbe's teachings about the Three Weeks - from the 17th of Tammuz being called "Tov Tammuz" to the idea that the Third Beis HaMikdash is the culmination of a process, not merely a replacement for what was lost.

Being a victim of circumstance is NEVER an effective way to live. The opposite - taking ownership - is ALWAYS an infinitely better way.

This simple distinction can be an absolute game-changer in many areas of our lives.

In honor of the Frierdieker Rebbe's Chassidim and their absolute refusal to be "victims" of the communist regime, let's take a look at how this distinction can be applied to the challenges we face in chinuch today.

This quick shiur summarizes the Rebbe's famous maamar one "ois" at a time, before focusing on making very clear the practical takeaways from the very tricky ending of the maamar.

Recorded 7 Adar, 5778.

Please forgive the audio quality. We think the content quality will make up for it!

Summary sheet given out at the time of the shiur:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DwGVDzjLtriDiDd3qHSVZ5jahZDYVQYJ/view?usp=sharing

Any time someone does a job, there are various levels of performance at which they might do it. They could do a lousy job, a decent job, a very good job, a great job, or ... the absolute most amazing job that anyone could have imagined!

Well, our lives are a job given to us by Hashem, and it's our job to choose what level of job performance we'll commit to.

Recently, I've been realizing that making a deep commitment to settling for nothing less than the ULTIMATE version of our shlichus in this world can give us a lot of clarity in every aspect of our lives.