QUESTION:
How can a person can reach gadlus (greatness) today?
ANSWER:
A: It could be that everyone here wanted to hear of a different way of how to reach gadlus. The answer to it is that every person needs to clarify on his own how to get there. If a person wants to get there through the general path, mesirus nefesh, then the answer to this question (of how to reach greatness) is very general. If he wants to get there through the second path, it is also very general. If he wants to get there in a very specific way, he needs to go from one recognition to another and to recognize his own soul. This is a long path, but eventually it ends up being short. That is the way to define it.
Q: What should a person begin to focus on “recognizing”? His qualities, or his shortcomings?
A: It is for this that we gave the series on “Self-Recognition”, which is for most people, who need to focus on their qualities and not on their shortcomings. If most people would begin based on dealing with their shortcomings, they would just become unhappy from this. So they need to begin by discovering their qualities, to name their qualities in order of strongest, second-to-strongest, etc. In the series of “Self-Recognition” we explained how to do this in detail and also why it’s needed. In that series, we explain how to learn about our abilities, but in order to get into the details we need to learn the “4 Elements” series where we get into all the subtle details. Learning how to recognize one’s soul is the first, basic step in order to know where to begin one’s personal avodah suitable to his personal soul.
Q: What should a person begin to focus on “recognizing”? His qualities, or his shortcomings?
A: It is for this that we gave the series on “Self-Recognition”, which is for most people, who need to focus on their qualities and not on their shortcomings. If most people would begin based on dealing with their shortcomings, they would just become unhappy from this. So they need to begin by discovering their qualities, to name their qualities in order of strongest, second-to-strongest, etc. In the series of “Self-Recognition” we explained how to do this in detail and also why it’s needed. In that series, we explain how to learn about our abilities, but in order to get into the details we need to learn the “4 Elements” series where we get into all the subtle details. Learning how to recognize one’s soul is the first, basic step in order to know where to begin one’s personal avodah suitable to his personal soul.
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