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How can ANGER be used for GOOD?

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Rabbi Efrem Goldberg

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How can anger be used for good? The truth is it can't. Anger is destructive, self-sabotaging. Even science shows that when a person gets angry, the [music] animal parts of their brain light up. We stop and we forfeit being human. We're not thinking and therefore we end up sabotaging our own success. Anger, rage is negative, [music] but outrage can be positive. to be outraged by injustice, [music] to have outrage for unfair treatment of the Jewish people of the state of Israel, to be outraged to stand up for those who are less fortunate or underprivileged is to channel that feeling but in a way that has a positive outcome. If we [music] can take what is an anger and instead express it as outrage in a way that we [music] take action to stand up, to help, to defend, to bring about a positive outcome [music] for those who deserve