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The RDL Podcast with Rabbi Daniel Lapin

Ep 209 | Smash the Obstacle to Your Self-Improvement

The RDL Podcast with Rabbi Daniel Lapin

Blaze Podcast Network

Religion, Philosophy, Judaism, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.8842 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

We’re all attracted to self-improvement. In some way, right? We want to improve our bank accounts; we want to improve our health by losing weight; we want to improve our conversational ability, our memories, our knowledge, our appearance, and much more. We love self-improvement. But we don’t always know that inner improvement is the gateway to all other improvement. It is a bit like wanting to bring in a gardener, a landscaper, and a tree specialist to improve our yard but keeping the gate locked so none of the workers can enter. Opening the portal to self-improvement is what Mussar is all about and my guest on this show, Ruchi Korval is a specialist in the ancient Jewish practice of Mussar. This is her book  https://rabbidaniellapin.com/product/soul-construction/ Happy Warriors will like her take on Barbie the movie. Can you improve the world by improving yourself? Must you forgive yourself before forgiving others? Happy Warriors are not tennis balls floating down the gutter of life.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Blaze Radio Network.

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And now, the Rabbi Daniel Appen Show.

0:05.0

The more the world changes, the more we find comfort in the things that never change.

0:10.0

Never change.

0:11.0

This is Rabbi Daniel Appen on demand, on the Blaze Radio Network.

0:17.0

Greetings everybody and welcome to all the happy warriors to this episode of the Rabbi Daniel Lapin

0:23.6

show, where we have the opportunity to speak to the author of this book.

0:29.6

It's called Soul Construction, Shape Your Character using eight steps from the timeless Jewish practice of Musar.

0:41.2

And it's become enormously popular.

0:44.6

It's available on our website at rabbi-Danielappan.com.

0:48.4

And we are hearing and continue to hear from people whose lives it has impacted and made serious

0:57.2

changes too.

0:58.1

So I thought it was time to have the author back on, Mrs. Ruhi Koval.

1:04.1

And we've been trying to put this together for a little while, but thank you so much

1:08.7

for making it happen.

1:10.3

My pleasure. It's an honor to be here again.

1:14.1

Gosh, well, perhaps the first place to start might be the enormous preoccupation there is,

1:26.9

not just in the United States, but around the world,

1:30.3

with self-development and self-improvement.

1:34.1

Now, there are certain obvious areas.

1:36.7

For instance, the most recent edition of the Friday Wall Street Journal had, as it always does, a section they called

1:47.5

Mansion. And in this, they usually highlight a trend in homes or unusual homes for sale

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