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Podcast: The Great Sources with Rabbi Shnayor Burton
Episode: S6, E12 Shemona Perakim; Should a Person be Moderately Humble or Extremely Lowly?
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Highlights
0:30 The 2 divergent Torahs and 2 divergent purposes of mitzvahs: one for the masses, the other for the elite individuals
9:30 Maimonides explicitly contradicts himself regarding whether a person should be moderately humble or practice extreme self-abasement
22:00 Maimoinides' own personal change of character as a result of experience and years
27:00 How life changes a person, and why a different kind of behavior...