3 December 2016 · A sentence from the teachings of Rav Kook

„Pride damages the will, and since the will is damaged, there is no pl…”

„Pride damages the will, and since the will is damaged, there is no place for any good to rest.”From Middot HaRe'iyah, Pride, 7

Pride is the opposite of will. Will is an engine for action and deed. Pride is what prevents all action.

It damages the will to improve, to act, and to do, and prevents the proud person from improving.

The proud person perceives that he is the good one and the rest are less good, and consequently any improvement is needed specifically in his surroundings and not in himself.

A better world is a world in which each one of us searches for what he needs to improve, and not for what others need. Pride does not give us the possibility to do this...

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In memory of Polina Petrero

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