Eureka, now I know you heard eureka from me before, but that’s no reason not to pay attention, for can there be an end to eureka?!
By zevi770 · November 20, 2012
The truth is, from all my eurekas, this is I think by far the most important!
The Alter Rebbe writes, that when you give something to a humble person he becomes more humble, and when you give something to an arrogant person he becomes more arrogant!
The Baal Shem Tov uses the following analogy to prove how we have unaware arrogance – a person is driving on a plain with his driver and he falls asleep, and then the driver goes up onto a mountain which is flat on the top and he is driving and the person wakes up – now the person who just see flatness doesn’t even know that he feels very significant!
Similarly, we all (hopefully) have an ego!
The problem is, that our ego makes believe, that when we get things it wasn’t a gift – think only how much your parents gave you day in day out, and do you feel grateful? – no! – you feel entitled.