How should we relate to our past? In this shiur excerpt, Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto explains that while everyone accumulates reasons to be angry from past interactions, dwelling there harms us. He advises looking forward, not back. The past, both successes and failures, should be like ‘medals’ we keep for memory and learning – acknowledge them (“I succeeded here,” “I failed here”) but don’t live from them or get stuck in them. Rabbi Pinto teaches the importance of living life moving forward.
