Don't Be Stubborn | Rebbe Nachman's Yahrzeit

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Ki yassur

la'adam la'amod atzmo al shum davar.

A person shouldn't stand himself on anything.

What does that mean? Man is not allowed to be mit'akesh.

Mit'akesh means stubborn.

Man should not be stubborn in his davening that God should do exactly what he asks for.

You have to go inside, sweetie? No? Okay.

Usually you would think, what do you mean? Yeah, you should definitely be stubborn when it comes to davening.

You should stand before Hashem and say, I'm stubborn, I'm not moving here until you say yes, and that's how you'd probably get your tefillah answered, right? Rebbe Nachman says, that's not how we do it.

You can't be stubborn when it comes to davening.

To say, God, you better do exactly the way I ask.

Rebbe says, that's like taking something out of gzeila.

There's geneva and gzeila.

A certain form of theft.

It's like you're becoming a thief when you're stubborn from Hashem.

Hashem might give it to you.

It comes out of being stubborn.

But the way you receive it is like a ganav.

It's like a gazlan.

A person just has to stand before Hashem and beg Hashem.

But there's a big difference, it seems over here, between being stubborn, being in action, and being someone that's begging Hashem.

Very, very big difference between the two.

which maybe he'll explain in a second over here.

If God gives you, he gives you.