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How to FEEL good about doing the RIGHT thing
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When feeling tension between what's 'right' and what's just 'pleasurable' what do you do? Can you actually feel good about doing what's right? Should you just suffer for trying to be good? Is it ever morally acceptable to cave into temptation at the expense of sacred values? -- You can listen to the full discussion on SoulCasts.org or your favorite podcasting app; Spotify https://open.spotify.com/episode/4VBDPaCpaUMNY0yAoAyeXP?si=WLEst8R6T7Gf7E39pUDKew Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/soulcasts-siddur-lesson-66-amida-part-5-redemption/id1591541446?i=1000610116694
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think about what our life was like as a
Jew
pre-exiled during the time of the first
base of miktash
open Miracles all around you come to the
base of English you experience God
the entire or most of the entire Jewish
population lives together peacefully in
Israel spirituality is is just right
there
it's just the normal part of life
amazed were exiled and
were ill we're spiritually ill you know
what happens to a spiritually ill person
you know what happens to somebody who's
sick you wanna you wanna eat you can't
handle it your stomach is pulling you in
other directions
you can't appreciate
the pleasure that that Diet Coke or
whatever it may be
is able to give you we're able to offer
you you can't
because you're being pulled in other
directions
during Exile we're sick
because we have
Torah we have Mitzvahs and they're
beautiful we don't by Nature seem to
appreciate their value
we seem to often regurgitate them
we're pulled in other directions our
animal soul is pulling us away if it's
nobody's fault it's not our fault it's
the way God gave us an animal Soul
that's part of Exile the animal Souls
very strong
very strong we can't appreciate the
pleasure of amitsa we have faith that a
Mitzvah is of value of sacred value
but can we sense the pleasure can we
sense the pleasure of thorough study
we can eventually we work on it with the
work on getting healthy we have to work
on getting but it's not our it's not our
nature naturally
we feel ill
and we say God help us heal us let me be
able to eat this food let it nurture me
let me do this Mitzvah let me study this
toy let me feel nurtured by it let me
glean the spiritual
um connection through it
that spiritual pleasure that I get that
I get through it
so here's the story
this guy goes to get a dollar from the
rabbit this is a Jewish guy
who abandoned his faith
converted to Catholicism
he's picking on the wrong Rabbi he
totally gave up on his faith
and he's coming to the rabbit to
proselytize the episode right through
him
tells the rabbit that my parents are
Jewish and born Jewish was raised Jewish
I am no longer Jewish and now I believe
in now I that's who I believe in whoever
looks at him and says
nope
you're a Jew
you're born a Jew once a Jew you're
always a Jew
and you're just confused like a person
who's ill
he says I don't feel ill
I feel great
this is my path in life
if ever since then you're really ill
you're so ill that you don't know you're
ill the rabbit was very blunt with him
and the more you engage with this the
sicker you're getting you need to stop
it you need to reconnect with your faith
because that's who you are and you can't
really run away from it you need to
realign yourself
the guy would not take it
the rabbit would not give in either the
episode right through him is that you're
having a shama and that's it it does
nothing to discuss there's no debate
fast forward decades later
person discovered he was ill
this person discovered that he needed to
get better this person realigned himself
with his faith and I was fully connected
with this Yiddish kite what's on to
villain on a regular basis and connects
with this Judaism and is a band that his
his idolatrous ways there's times in my
life where I'm regurgitating
the very connection I meant to have
sometimes I feel like this connection is
getting in the way of my prosperity
I gotta keep co-shirts getting in the
way of my relationships Shabbos getting
in the way of my financial success
I Gotta Give charity impossible not in
the budget
not to speak Russian Hara not to gossip
I'm gonna be a social weirdo I can't do
this
I can't handle it
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no no God heal me because this is
healthy food
tastes good it's pleasurable
but if my stomach's regurgitating it
doesn't mean the food is bad it means my
stomach is off God heal me spiritually
heal me so I can reconnect
in the Messianic era on Messier comes
we're going to be fully healed
the world will befold in the knowledge
of God we're gonna fully connect and
feel feel the beauty of the connection
how it's good for us
right now we believe it's good for us
we're gonna know what's good for us
okay
that's my story and I'm sticking to it