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    Humility, Holiness and Fearing Hashem

    Fear of Sin - Punishment and Loftiness

    Ideally, a person should distance himself from sin due to God's loftiness. How can man, God's own handiwork, even consider acting in opposition to the will of his Creator? Such fear, fear of God's loftiness, befits wise and enlightened individuals.

    Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed | 5762
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    Humility, Holiness and Fearing Hashem

    Fear of Sin - Punishment and Loftiness

    Ideally, a person should distance himself from sin due to God's loftiness. How can man, God's own handiwork, even consider acting in opposition to the will of his Creator? Such fear, fear of God's loftiness, befits wise and enlightened individuals.

    Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed | Tuesday, 14 Elul 5767
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    Humility, Holiness and Fearing Hashem

    51. Sanctity

    Sanctity is the highest rung on the ladder of desired character traits: Torah leads to caution, caution to alacrity, alacrity to cleanliness, cleanliness to abstinence, abstinence to purity, purity to piety, piety to humility, to fear of sin, to sanctity.

    Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed | Monday, 8 Menachem Av 5767
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    Humility, Holiness and Fearing Hashem

    49. The Components of Humility

    A person should hate possessing authority but not avoid positions of authority. One should accept such positions with a desire to serve the public, not to control the public. Hence the sages tell us to “love labor and hate authority.”

    Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed | Sivan 5762
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    Anava - Humility

    48. Acquiring Humility

    Acquiring humility is one of the peaks in the development of a person's personality, for it covers all aspects of an individual's behavior. If one truly wishes to acquire humility, he must train himself to speak humbly, walk humbly, and sit humbly.

    Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed
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    Anava - Humility

    47. The Distinction of Humility

    The more talent and capacity a humble person possesses, the more humble he becomes. For example, Moses, the greatest of the great, was also the humblest of the humble: "And the man Moses was more humble than any other person on the face of the earth".

    Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed
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    Humility, Holiness and Fearing Hashem

    46. Humble and Happy

    It is important to realize that a humble person is not miserable and unhappy. Neither is a conceited person happy and blissful. To the contrary, it is humility that brings happiness and bliss, while pride leads a person to misery and discontent.

    Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed
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    Humility, Holiness and Fearing Hashem

    45. Conceit and Divine Service

    God said to Israel: I treasure you, for even as I bestow greatness upon you, you humble yourselves before me. Abraham said, "I am but earth and dust." Moses and Aaron said "What are we worth?" And King David said "I am not a man - I am but a worm."

    Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed
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