Perhaps the issues we spoke about here are not matters we speak about every day. But this is what our tzaddidim have taught us. All the talmidei Ba’al Shem Tov... there’s rarely a word in all their holy sefarim that don’t touch upon this topic in one way or another... how much they abhorred ga’avah. There can be Torah, there can be mitzvos... but if it is with an attitude of ga’avah, it is worthless. And if a person seeks to look at himself in a truer light, the Ribbono shel Olam will help him.
Coming to purify himself, ליטהר בא, means to adjust our outlook on the situation. Beg Hashem. חנני ותורתך ממני הסר שקר דרך, remove from me the way of falsehood and bequeath to me your Torah, as we have brought from the Rebbe Reb Elimelech that a person must daven long and hard to have the sheker removed from him. And the Ribbono shel Olam will surely not abandon us. He is looking for people who want to be this way.
One who comports himself with humility... respects others and is grateful to others, and he has the attitude that nothing is coming to him. He views his parents through a lens of never having deserved anything, and his attitude to Hashem is likewise that he has only caused pain to the Shechinah and never deserved the boundless good that he has received. HaKadosh Baruch Hu listens to a person like this. נשבר לב תבזה. לא אלוקים ונדכה
Another day lived like this... and another day lived like this... and we begin to see the world differently. A new world is opened before a person, and a new shefah is discharged to him from Above. And then he comes to understand what a great gift we were given by the Ribbono shel Olam because we have a Tehillim, and we were given the tzaddikim who explained these special verses in Tehillim regarding humility and brokenness—all so we should know the proper way to see ourselves and our role in the world.
