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Failure is not in the outcome, but in the mindset: Rabbi Yoel Pinto’s message

In one of his recent lessons, Rabbi Yoel Pinto, son and successor of Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto, addressed the root from which the feeling of dissatisfaction that many experience throughout their lives stems—whether in marriage, livelihood, or achieving personal goals. According to him, the problem is not in what a person has or does not have, but in his self-belief.

“When you see that your life is not working out, that you are not succeeding in reaching what others have reached, don’t be quick to think that you lack talents, that you ended up in a worse place,” said Rabbi Pinto. “It is simply because you do not value yourself. You do not believe you deserve good, that you are worthy of abundance—and therefore, everything that comes to you, you see as lacking.”

He added examples from practical life: a person who meets a good match but is not content with it, because he doesn’t believe he deserves something good. A person who reaches stable income, but sees it as failure, only because he doesn’t believe it counts as success.

“Your internal perception affects everything you see on the outside,” he explained. “If you continue to see yourself as unsuccessful—even if you reach the greatest achievements—they will always seem to you as worthless.”

According to him, “What you need to do is change the way you look at yourself. Believe that you deserve good things, believe that Hashem wants your good. Believe that everything that comes your way is supposed to be good—because you are good too.”

 

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