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==Value 2: Not an end in itself== | ==Value 2: Not an end in itself== | ||
# Juggler and the | # The first chapter of "The Juggler and the King" explains the first parable of Rabba Bar Bar Chana to explain the notion that a person could sometimes become trapped in the illusion of materialism or the rat race. That's one of the challenges of the Yetzer Hara, pressuring us because of physical pleasure and honor. Rav Dessler also writes how some people become trapped into this ideology to the extent that they become the mascot for the yetzer hara, promoting the idea that the harder they work, the more successful they are. | ||
# Without the correct attitude, materialism is addictive<ref>A person doesn't die with half of his desires fulfilled, Sanhedrin 107</ref> and becomes a focus instead of a tool. | # Without the correct attitude, materialism is addictive<ref>A person doesn't die with half of his desires fulfilled, Sanhedrin 107</ref> and becomes a focus instead of a tool. | ||
===In order to serve him better=== | ===In order to serve him better=== | ||
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