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0:00 welcome to today's moon a minute in last week's parasha the torah began the fascinating discussion regarding the laws of the jewish army going out to war and we spent a lot of time focusing last week on the exemptions from war 0:14 who doesn't have to go to battle but the truth is even before the coin begins to get into who gets to go home the coin gives an incredible introduction and the torah says this is in paracraft passage chapter 20 verse 0:28 3 in dvarin and the taurus alayhim the koen would say to the assembled army shema israel listen all of israel attempt you're coming close to do battle with your enemies which literally means do not let your heart become fearful or 0:50 do not let your heart become soft al tiru do not be afraid the zoo and do not panic the altar and do not tremble before your enemies an incredible message of khizuk but asks a very simple question he says how 1:09 can you tell people not to be afraid after all the rebels i want to quote to you says to be afraid during battle is something natural an incredible question how can you command remember when the cohen says al-tiru do not 1:34 be afraid the rebbe understands that to be a statement almost not just a declaration but a command do not be afraid how can you tell someone not to be afraid isn't it the most natural thing in the world to be 1:46 fearful in the face of an approaching enemy out here do not be afraid but says something absolutely amazing though what the cohen was trying to teach the soldiers on the battlefront was that sometimes you have to allow your intellect to 2:04 take control over your emotions meaning fear is an emotion but intellectually i know that akushbarahu was with me intellectually i know that the ribonucleolum has my back intellectually i know that i don't go out to battle alone i go out 2:22 with the ribono shalolum the master of the universe by my side says the rebel when the cohen says out here do not be afraid the coin was telling the soldiers you must master the art of allowing your intellect to reign 2:40 in your emotions an incredible you sowed and a very powerful idea emotion is such an incredibly important force in the jew right a person who has all intellect and no emotion is that some observations dry bones but being all emotion 2:59 and no intellect could allow a person to ultimately be a runaway train and that runaway train could have catastrophic repercussions because you know a lot of times in life we feel things we feel things and being in touch with our 3:14 feelings and being in touch with how we feel and why we feel that way is incredibly important but it's also important to know that just because i feel a certain way does that does not mean that those feelings are objective 3:30 reality and this is incredibly important see when i feel a certain way that feeling is real for me it's real for me and it's important for those around me to recognize that what i'm feeling is my subjective reality but it 3:44 may not be the objective reality look what the coin tells the soldier the coin says don't be afraid i but i'm afraid the soldiers i'm afraid cohen says you're right you're afraid that's your subjective reality i'm telling you what the 4:00 objective reality is the objective reality is by your side the objective reality is that you have nothing to fear because deribono shalom has your back and what's your job soldier your job is rein in your emotions and make those emotions 4:16 make those feelings subservient to your intellect this is not always true in life sometimes i have to allow my emotions to be the dominant force and my intellect becomes subservient to emotions and sometimes i have to make my emotions subservient 4:36 to my intellect there is this incredible dialectic i have to have both i have to have a strong emotional side and i have to have a strong intellectual side sometimes in life my feelings have to lead and sometimes in life 4:50 my intellect has to lead but i think again what the rabbit teaches us is this all-important lesson because sometimes we feel a certain way and we allow those feelings to create a reality around us and sometimes just because i feel 5:06 a certain way does not mean that the objective reality in fact mirrors those feelings sometimes i feel a certain way for a whole variety of reasons but the objective reality is not my feelings and a person has to be in 5:21 touch enough with themselves to know what am i feeling a certain way when do my feelings reflect the reality versus when do my feelings reflect my reality but we not may not be so reflective of the objective reality i think 5:38 that we would all agree this is one of the hardest things to gauge in life when do my feelings reflect objective reality versus when do my feelings reflect subjective reality when do i lead my life with emotions in the forefront 5:54 and intellect in the backdrop and when do i tell the emotions come back here shay fella come back emotions come back a little bit you're not going to lead this time because if i let my emotions lead over here it 6:05 may not have the best results emotions fall fall back and intellect you take the lead al tiru the coin says to us know in life when to allow your feelings to lead and when to pull back your feelings and allow 6:23 intellect to pave the course forward wishing everyone a wonderful day
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