QUESTION:
What can a person do if he or she feels a low self-worth about himself (or herself)…. to the point that a person doesn’t feel like getting out of bed in the morning and going to daven in a minyan, and certainly whenever he has to do anything different from what everyone is else is doing?
ANSWER:
The person should make for himself a list of all of his qualities. One should also try as much as possible not to be “into” others’ lives and other’s successes, and instead be focused on one’s own personal development of their own inner world. Sometimes, lack of self-worth comes from being overly involved with thinking about how others are successful. In order for one to get past this issue, one needs to develop their own rich and expansive “inner world” within oneself, and this is actually a degree of kedushah (holiness) because it resembles the concept of the those tzaddikim who would not look out of their own daled amos (their direct space) [because they each had a personal, inner world within themselves to always be focused on].
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