InIn this shiur Rabbi Goldberg learns a piece from the Menachem Tzion (Rav Menachem Tzion Zaks) that shows how precisely that describes us.We were given two eyes: one to see our own faults, one to see the virtues of others. We use them backwards. We look at ourselves in funny mirrors that erase every blemish and at everyone else through a telescope. We obsess over our own physical comfort and sit in judgment of other people's souls. And when it comes to parnassah, which Hashem decided on Rosh Hashanah, we grip the wheel like our lives depend on it, while yiras shamayim, the one thing that is actually up to us, gets fourteen seconds a day.Also in this shiur:• Emails: a "you're where you're meant to be" moment at a car collision, and a Beit Shemesh bus stop hashgacha pratis story• The homework: go through your 5786 calendar and say thank you before you ask for the year ahead• Why "rationalize" means telling rational lies• The Kiyor was made of mirrors: look at yourself honestly before you approach the mizbeach• "Hashleich al Hashem" — throw your burden, don't hand it• The three keys Hashem kept for Himself• The one thing God says He can't do

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