Humble But Stubborn

Humble Heroes Thabk you Rabbi Freeman for this excellent comment.

May We ALL Have A Sweet And Blessed New Year. Reply

Spirit in the heart The strength and love G-D places in our hearts shouldn't be entrusted to anyone.It's special,and one should never surrender this feeling.It may be shared,but it is uniquely ours. If only people cherished this feeling rather than discarding it,the world would be a kinder,peaceful,and more prosperous place. Reply

G-d Wisdom When G-d created us he put us here in this planet not to fear the dark but to be in the light with One G-d. In other words, Moses was very humble not egotistical or self-centered. In other words, G-d wisdom is in the mind, while emotions are in the heart. Reply

humble heroes. Thank you, as always Freeman, always a good and blessed comment from you. Reply

Part 2. Stubborn and courage in thisdDD are two words that get used positively. In my previous post i used the word arrogance. I also alluded to context. Now i want to extrapolate to semantics. One way or another i am aiming to give arrogance a positive spin, if for no other reason than it has always been treated so negatively. I would not want to be called arrogant. That said, when you present debate it's hard to accept that ego and arrogance get parked at the door. I remember the first time i saw yeshiva partners raising the roof on debate. I thought that it was 100 % arrogant and ego based. Guess what ? It is. I know arrogance when i see it. I guess i should say that i saw arrogance in action, but that does not mean that the students were highly arrogant internally. Just a bit.

Normally stubbornness gets a bad rap. But in this DD it gets a very good trait. Throughout Yom Kippur we read about the negative quality of ' stiffnecked '. Character traits can sure get muddy sometimes. Matters of context, semantics and balance. Reply

Throwing it out there ... A couple days ago i read a rabbi's item about arrogance and how we had to have some. It made me think. All along i have learned that arrogance is bad and humbleness to the nth degree is good, just like your DD here. I wish i could remember his exact thesis, probably based on last week's parsha, how Pinchas was arrogant and took matters into his own hands, and got rewarded with priesthood. i wrote to the rabbi about humbleness of Abraham, Moses and Moses Maimonides and how they were 100 % humble, no room for arrogance. Like i mentioned, the arrogance trait is always entrenched in the Animal Soul, ego etc. My message to the rabbi pointed out that it must be about context. For right now, let's drop the context factor. I am now of the mind that arrogance is essential in some measure. It prevents you from getting walked over, and standing up for your rights. Arrogance is what drives the chevrusa studies. Strut your stuff but end amicably.

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