Rabbi S. Karlinsky: “You Need to Be Plugged In”
Listen to Rabbi Karlinsky’s shmuze from Tuesday, November 8, 2016. In this shmuze on Parshat Vayishlach, Rabbi Karlinsky explores how to truly connect with Hashem and with other people. [sc_embed_player_template1 fileurl=”http://www.torahmedia.com/streamlinkdirect.php/47305/high/1109_152_H_Connecting_-_You_Need_to_Be_Plugged_In.mp3″] Download external=”0″]
Rabbi S. Karlinsky: “Avodat Hashem – Doing it HIS Way”
Listen to Rabbi Karlinsky’s shiur from Tuesday, June 21, 2016. [sc_embed_player_template1 fileurl=”http://www.torahmedia.com/streamlinkdirect.php/47106/high/1109_143_H_Avodas_Hashem_-_Doing_it_HIS_Way.mp3″] Download external=”0″]
R’ Y. Shurin: “Conformity or Individuality?”
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R’ Karlinsky & R’ Shurin: “Mission Impossible”
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Rabbi Shaya Karlinsky: “Inspiration & Growth – Making It Happen”
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Rabbi Fyvel Shuster: “Tools For Memory”
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Rabbi Yitzchak Hirshfeld “The Pain and the Gain”
Longing for Hashem
Many of the character traits (especially humility) are presented in the sources in quite an extreme form. Often it is difficult to connect with such an intense level of self-negation, giving, self-control, and the like. It is easy to be overcome by the gap between where we are and where the ideal is. There is […]
Changing Character
Sefirat Haomer and Building Character How can we become better people? The period of Sefirat Haomer (and the beginning of Elul until Yom Kippur) has traditionally been a time for focusing on improving character. Much of the ethical literature speaks of what kind of people we should become, or what we should do, but focuses […]
Diagnosing the Problem
Methods for Changing Character Despite all the effort we put into self-improvement, we sometimes find ourselves stuck with the same character problems. Rav Kalonymous Kalman of Piasetzna zt”l in his Bnei Machshava Tova (“Direction and Principles” #8, p. 51) suggests that the reason for our failure to change might be not properly diagnosing our problem. […]
