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Toldos - Turning Bad into Good
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Why was Esav held accountable for his evil behavior if it seems to have stemmed from his nature? What is the idea of turning bad middos (character traits) into good ones? What is the challenge of living among people who are good? How does one overcome this? How does one direct all of his character traits in the proper direction - toward the service of Hashem? Find out in this week's Parsha Podcast.
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you're listening to the weekly partial
podcast with Ari Gold wag recorded with
a chums never-ending assistance in Rome
on p-channel she's real 5780 2019 this
week's Varsha
specialist told us and we have in our
partial of birth of Yaakov and a set of
these two opposite forces Yakko of the
each Tom Yoshi valhallen this simple man
the perfect person but Sadiq sits and
studies the Torah ace of the wild man
goes out into the field does every
forbidden act but let's look at the
beginning because whenever we look at
the beginning understand the foundation
of everything but he says I want to make
here where the verse tells us embrasures
cafe hub pace that the the two babies
inside of Rifkin side Rebecca's womb so
they were fighting inside because of
Rashi Rashi tells us probably seen with
our shoe Russian Rita that they were
running around what there was movement
because she saw a very soft biscuit IRA
she'll shame that everyone she would
pass by the achieve of chemin Ava
Yakov rut some afar hey says so
Yakov would try to get out you move
around and read a tremendous amount of
movement or veresov peso Hawaii Sora
when they were passed by a place of
idolatry a sum of artists let's say so
ASA would try to get out okay so we see
at the very beginning stages of their
existence it was already some connection
from Yaakov to what's right to goodness
and between a sieve and what's wrong
Amma raha Maharaj soil tomorrow I'll ask
the final question this is reclaim
Friedlander bringing down the in time of
the Paris Air Show yeah a submit Farkas
let says if we won't understand what's
going on here according to that's
explanation that ASA was trying to get
out at that point although you need
Sahara automation eyelid we find this a
heart is not inside of a person until
they're born Shania Marla verses
Lupita's Lapita hottest Ravens at the
opening meaning at the beginning of a
person's life that's where the sins
begin to crouch
look how fierce Rashi mean I mean I am
Anna Freud his elevation of Attila to my
father uh she says verse 23 which is the
next posture that they went off in
different directions from when they came
out
one went to goodness or one went to evil
labor item abettin by the implication is
that it's not true in regards to inside
of the mother's womb so what is the idea
here idea schlafen re it's likely rifka
how you are Karim we need to understand
that both Isaac and Jacob they were
unable to have children actually spa
Lucian a.m. till they both prayed it was
a tremendous amount of Fela Kali Denise
you've ollied been Russia through this
amazing miracle a child's going to be
born his wicked County I shall have an
amazing fire Romulus i we also need to
understand if ASA was evil from his
conception from his birth and came out I
know love then what is the expectation
of him what is the problem
Allah a case of the Li Yaakov Oh Elvis
yeah Cuevas I saw Sonny see the PASOK
says that college boy who says that I
loved Yaakov even though y'all company
super brothers I love Yaakov and I hated
a soft what is that show me a days it's
not his fault he was born that way
Yahoo no the time of a seven mining me
find that Yaakov was born more perfect
and ASA was born red he was born with
all these Tigers with all these desires
seemingly uncontrollable vo tear tear us
a kid sinus he Muhammad dice of Horus
give you should are shoe even his outer
manifestation even his outer appearance
it shows us that there was something
negative about him from his very birth
from the very beginning and my knee
POSIX says he was reddish already alibi
kaneki the shape of diamond
he looked red because he's someone who
is going to be a murderer in Cannes Russ
if it's a nice Abita Espinosa ha ha
so comes out that is outer aspect was a
was a manifestation of his inner aspect
which was evil contains a tiny eshelov
how can you have any kind of Tainan him
what did he do I'm saying it's not his
fault that's what it seems so now he
tells us he lays down for us if one of
the most foundational things that we
could hear well the most foundational
principles in reality without this
there's no reason that would be on this
earth he says like this color Kissimmee
T'Challa Adam Haim Calum look he'll
commit of Kiev a decision every single
thing that a person has
every meter every character trait every
character flaw every positive thing a
person has every negative thing
everything that has to do with a
person's personality they're smart
they're not so smart they're spaced out
they're spaced in whatever it is all the
talents that person has everything that
a person has is a CLE is a vessel is a
utensil something to be used in his
service of God so London watch Aquila HD
Voice Isis Viva toy by me this type of
shame Nuala autumn gala but it's a sham
so we think that this means that a
person isn't put into a certain
predicament into a certain life
situation and those things are what
causing to be greater causing to be not
so great then and it's all about his
service of a sham if you see us my free
eyes kiss fever oh I mean this rise and
we think that if a person has a bad
surroundings as bad character traits so
that's something which is negative Shima
Freeman la última but it's essentially
like that they they distract them and
prevent them from properly serving God
in kami this type of rice says what I'm
feeling it's not true it's a mistake
there's no such thing as a meter oh
there's no such thing as a bad trait
there's no such thing as having
something intrinsically bad the me dice
the character traits of a person are not
intrinsically bad rather Coulomb hey
Natalia's vena rice all of them whether
they seem on the surface to be good or
bad a miser sumo-sized love it's a sham
can be used to aid a person in their
service so show me the Coulomb got me
for this Lee is my free as well but it's
a shame those same exact character
traits can actually cause a person to be
missing something in the service of God
Holly be life in such English McCallum
it depends on the way that a person uses
it with me guys
and in his me die so the way that a
person uses a character traits depends
on the person Commissioner guemarah
Lamar says Goren Chavez enough goofing
on love hi Mandy Bhima Adam yeah giver
OSHA Donna a person who is a reddish
person or maybe it means a person who is
born under a certain zodiac sign so that
person is going to be somebody who's
involved in spilling blood Amara Vashi
um now Uganda
Amala depends a person can use it in
many different ways the spilling of
blood commuters in a negative way it
could be a murderer but it costs to be
used in a positive way it could become a
mile some of those circumcisions so it
depends on the person and a sub was
somebody who used his Kunis a nephesh
who used his character traits in a
negative way he had tremendous power he
was he had the potential to be a great
person he said he came out and even in a
certain sense he was already complete
you could have used that that greatness
that completeness to become a greater
person Jakub Aveeno he was more simple
he was not as outgoing perhaps we could
say Yakov Aveeno then they were both
born into a certain circumstance Yakov
took advantage of his circumstance took
advantage of growing up in the house of
of Yitzhak and rifki an amazing an
amazing set of parents Asaph did not
learn from them properly even though
many times he did certain things that
would seem to be it would seem to imply
that he was great but it was only
superficial okay let's see what he says
evasive volume malice meanest akrura if
ASA Buddhists have taken his meter his
character trait of strength much damage
balloon a sorry Sheila that's Anika
Ducie he could have taken all the things
that he ended up becoming no a murderer
and and being involved in a way the Zara
idolatry etc his meatus could have been
used in a positive way if he would have
taken them and use them in on the side
of kedusha or ubud our gergovia yasser
he actually would have been on a higher
level now sure hollyrock Caiaphas tied
him even higher perhaps than Yaakov Inu
Yakko was naturally a good guy he was
goody glee so this week he was if a sub
would have taken his negative were the
things that were he used in a negative
way but used them positively so he would
have become even greater much larger at
Seneca douche if you would have used
them for the side of holiness we caucus
of Agra listen to what the garage says
possession room Shobha our hats also a
bish time relay also let me find that
there were two great people one of whom
both of them were kings one of whom did
a certain sin as a result of that he
lost his kingship
the other one did two sins and he didn't
lose his kingship King Saul Shah lamella
I made a mistake
he didn't kill King agog as a result of
that Shmuel told him Samuel the Prophet
told him he's losing his his kingship mm
LF - to great sins and nevertheless he
did not lose his kingship let's see
shoukata hit it hard with my said agog a
very rough Moon Usagi issue behind Shah
used his meat of compassion his
attribute of compassion to have
compassion on a person who is an evil
person a GOG the king of the of them
awake him allowed him to live also a
maluca as a result he lost his kingship
Lumas ice david cotta
bestia varus as opposed to King David he
did two sins my said real my said a SATA
there was a story that he did he caused
Rhea to be killed the wife the husband
of a Chava
so that it would go retro actively that
that she was not married to worry at the
time and my said I thought that there
was some kind of SATA not sure exactly
what it's talking about
well I know cook on me Manohar maloja
despite these two great sins he did not
lose his kingship no Indian who explains
the grow the idea is Kiba David never
who had mining oui madame
King David was somebody who was a red he
was a red person meaning he had inside
of him in nature which would lean him
towards doing things that are wrong okay
see buddy Akash malli
he had a very tough nature Tammy she
loves arias his nature was to be cruel
Licata by shmuel base Shahrukh lost upon
it very interestingly when samuel the
prophet saw him made a mistake he
thought all this can't be the one who's
gonna be the king he rusty voiceover
shoot if I could have a Civ he thought
that he had a similar nature to Asaph
who heavy army nice about call but King
David was somebody was able to overcome
his yetzer Hara his evil inclination in
all matters but I shall wash and I'm
like every McCormack I'm like also like
much I'm gonna call him out on my dice
of a cool light even on these two
circumstances he did not manage to
overcome his nature he made a mistake in
these two circumstances
but since throughout his life he was
always being Marv around me they saw he
was always overcoming is it sahadevan
clinician so in these two places that
didn't diss sins that he did didn't
cause him to lose his maluca to lose his
kingship love it here bill Xavier army
dice of that was no clunky negative up
ever has something died Civ but
overcoming his ysera
we're coming is in the natural state his
natural way of being so he worked hard
at that he fought re palming harami
thyself
there's napalm lights they have to times
yes he didn't succeed what kind of Shema
holy for this reason ashen was forgiving
while Shane Kane show but which it was
not the case with King saw Shyama been
Shana shawl is Natan his natural state
was to be or to be a good person to
never sinned conventionally Tom Tom Kate
he he was like a 1 year old who had
never tasted a sin wherever me does say
uh toy on the raw but what did he do in
that one circumstance the reason he
wasn't easily forgiven he wasn't
forgiven at all was because he went to
the other way he he went he didn't do
his natural way of being good and he
went to the side of evil you use his
positive trait his Romanus his
compassion you sit in a negative way to
have compassion on the wrong person he
was he was Moroccan mala answer he was
compassionate to the cruel heavier
militarily Robert over at HUD la gente
Oh God also I mean as a result of this
so he lost his maluca with just one sin
show Holly Heather had ever highlight
ever show documents like we said he had
this nature of being compassionate
called Kunis America been shown a
psychotic law we explained it's okay now
so he says like the see though a
subsystem crime field in there if a sub
how your shiny dice of arrested toy but
if he would have overcome his negative
attributes and used them in a positive
way are you either magic Australia car
you would have been greater than Yaakov
just as we see that David was greater
than show already said shemitah Kunis
time is Vicki home time Yaakov Suresh M
with a natural tendency towards goodness
okay and all I say it's against Morocco
explains true crime feliner this was why
Yitzhak loved a sub even more than
Yaakov he saw the potential
he rots Allah says let's call up shorty
Allah is mentoring oh so he wanted to
give him the opportunity to overcome his
level to come to a very high level
womanly other come a girl who Kurdish
forces he didn't realize however how
much of a mooshka see was how negative
it was it wasn't so later after the
story after yahoo came in stole the
blessings and then Asaph came in and
he's he saw Gahanna was opened
underneath him that's when he realized
that this wasn't the right guy but he
thought that he was he thought that he
had the potential which was true to use
his negative inclination in a positive
way meatus that usually are used for
negativity in a positive way says no
crime free that the furthermore a few
sarah means oh research resources shall
a sub gambali they be to Boccaccio at
IVA an amazing thing the the the
wickedness of Asaph came out that it
came it came to to expression it was
expressed in such a way that even though
he lived in a positive situation an
amazing surroundings cha Chi ba the
positive situation that he was years
talkin and riff cognac of his brother
all these people said he come around him
niala lucky seola Hollis is America's
MasterChef did not help him to raise him
up in his service of God us our caution
that case with CEO Tom Curtis Tigers
time Amina stylist in a certain way it's
it's harder it's harder to be a good guy
living among some good people why but
it's Tiger Rag a Machado mother there's
there's a great danger someone is a good
person everyone around him is doing good
here in a great situation you can become
accustomed to doing it without even
thinking about it
I'll live Niceville Ollie says add some
oregano kudu ship enemies in order for
reason to raise themselves up to higher
and higher levels of inner holiness but
it's a sham Zoe hi so much ago social
yaki this was actually the the level of
Yacouba V know that even though he was
on a very high level shall I shall hear
like Caleb is Cielo but it's a share
like higher gamma Shimano mondo Yaakov's
advantage would Yaakov accomplish was
that even though he was naturally you
know he had a natural tendency toward
doing good it could have become just
habitual but he didn't allowed to become
a ritual something that he did he was
always been my Kaddish
was always doing something brand-new he
was making a new he was doing it in a
way which was proper I'm the muscle
itself however in comparison a
sufficient of Kiev it is a sham hastily
laka make a case of our own national
average M
his purpose was to take his negative
attributes and to direct them into the
service of a sham loci mr. shioma
gallows so and not to live in his own a
away its laser-like okok
conscientious you attempt to say it for
him it was actually easier for his
surroundings to help him in that regard
the cause lies initial issue say with a
voice off so nevertheless even though he
had more potential to be helped in in
his way to become a greater person he
didn't it didn't work it didn't have it
didn't work out that way he didn't do
that
ok a bomb is Viva raw Ashley day Robin
shall honey good Mullis not will it not
take me see what Sara interesting he
also tells us that if a person is a good
person and they're in a bad situation
right thing about Avril Lavigne who is
you surrounded by people who weren't so
good
rifka I mean she was surrounded by
regime sometimes when a person is
surrounded by evil it also has the
opposite effect that when a person tries
to be good you know he knows he needs to
fight against the whole situation that
he's surrounded by so sometimes it can
be to his advantage
long invincible spirit igudala he has a
connoisseur mooglies the problem is when
a person is good and they're inside of a
situation where everyone random is good
so it can become easy to just become
habituated to it like we said commercial
casa de baño and i brings from the
revenue Janish i feel your shaman colony
is a tell her atom together maluma do
that even when it comes to fearing
heaven it's something i can become done
without thought can we should cause of a
possible here awesome I see mitzvos
initial model is a plastic that says
that the Jewish people had gone to a
state where they were serving a sham
even their fear of Hashem was such that
it was just habitual ok so now let's see
here we're coming to the wrap up I kind
of sheesh saudan Attila raw meat
sacrifice of choice of a shining when a
person has a new Thierry has the
tendency to
evil because of his different car this
is different talents abilities beyond in
a Moscow it's possible to sweeten them
okay this is the take home this is a how
we need to think about this idea a sub
had these crisis is tremendous powerful
person used it for negativity use it for
bad use it for evil every single person
has a mixture of different countries
different powers different abilities
different natural states different
meters different character traits so
there's a way to sweeten them it's a gum
Tov kita but i session this is the
purpose of a person in a service of god
this is art this is what we here for
Derek let me talk IRA how do we sweeten
them how do we sweeten the evil inside
of us I'll universities are about Russ
Keeter traveling tomorrow conditioned on
da flama Ralph says that there's an idea
that a sham created dates around the
evil incarnation within a person the
negative attributes of a person sham
also created an antidote a way of fixing
the problem and that's the Taira the
tire is the table the terror is the
antidote a table nematic sa yetzer Hara
it is the antidote to sweets in the it's
a hollow - because it's an absolute I've
heard I Rex is how to use our spiritual
abilities and our physical abilities in
the proper way
I'll you they lean without area by
learning the Torah without I'm a book
and working hard at it zero there -
laughing Humpty can say it's a hot rod
this is the only way to sweeten eat
Sahara interesting Lee there's a
Gomorrah Tim I believe it's in mr.
Shabbos that says that if not for the
fact that the tire I'd be given to the
Jewish people
we were so tough we were such an we are
such a tough person nation that we would
have destroyed the entire world that's
that's our nature to be tough the tire
is what calms us down what directs our
conscience so that we we do the right
thing
okay okay automation ijk on a low when
that sells coca-cola Mateus who nice of
Alec time him a person uses these
utensils a person uses the tire arm and
he directs all of his coaches all of his
abilities he sweetens his negative
attributes gun and llama say llama
amazing thing even if a person doesn't
completely succeed ain't enough fear
came in to mild we had to move fall that
I'm gonna see this fad but who knows
so then a person like like da da da Mela
there were times when he didn't succeed
right so sometimes we won't succeed
doesn't always work out for us
but we try our best use the Taira we
direct it with the tire this path we try
our best if we found if we fail
sometimes it happens a bird should cause
it Rakesh kill all of the agiel a
mechanical noise level rise but
obviously this is speaking specifically
a person has made every effort to
overcome or to redirect he a Sahara has
evil inclination and then there just to
wrap up here is I gonna be stress out
disposal and result he brings from your
Vsauce Elantra the one who originated
the Muslim movement if I remember Cazale
he explains that which has all same
condition of llama in probably Bahama
noble is a mascara base image we find
our sages tell us that if the a Sahara
he starts up with you what do you do you
drag him into the basement you drag him
into the place of learning
look all highly Wilhelmy the relish la
space time inshallah the Franza every
single negative attribute of a person
walking through this message there's
something to fix it there's some way to
fix that negative attribute the Shani
says Kuno Sarah to change that negative
character trait before at Z how could
the type in this specific area and to
change it to good to use it for good
leaving a monster who I love you Lana
Zerbe salsa Lanter the me de the the I'm
sorry the learning of Mooser learning
the concepts that are contained in the
message from mrs. Sharma clevis a la vez
my Jamaican sir Adam as you studied
together so these have a person to turn
around to good who based her metrics
live quiet - Tim - Molly this is what
takes out the hardening of the heart the
things that block a person from their
spirituality from doing what's right
regardless you Dalit high Safari the
last final point he brings us also from
every source Ilan Terry says in the 14th
letter ok eyes half-closed me relative
Billy moosari trying to change from evil
to good without
studying Mooser he can my back office
area
li-ion it's like trying to see something
without an I wish me Eisen trying to
hear something without ears Derek llama
love Shania Cunha arise while he the
aluminum sir
how do we change our negative attributes
it's like working on ourselves it's by
learning muster but learning those books
that speak about the character traits
and how we're supposed to redirect them
and focus them when we see something
inside when we hear a shear when we read
a safer it's extremely powerful and it
helps us it's not just and sometimes we
talk about things and we think about
things we realize you're doing something
wrong but when we read about it it's
just a different thing it has a
different impact on us it reaffirms our
commitment to being greater people in
their cars ELISA besides for muster says
we'll be so cilantro says which I'm
feelin there's not another way to change
our negative attributes bottom line I
want to bless you and I ask you to bless
me I should help us to recognize the
places where we need to improve to
recognize the negative attributes of
ourselves to realize that those very
negative attributes can be used somehow
in our service of a Shem we just need to
figure out how some should help us to
indeed figure that out to learn the
rights form to hear the right shoe and
so without we can become greater people
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