How To PURIFY Your SOUL

[Music] moving on go to VNA everyone quotes these in every lecture everyone qu every single Rabbi quotes these rabbis everybody quotes it just this part that don't quote so I'll do it for you the V go says studies of mus a few times each day is a must in his famous letter he wrote this letter to his family he says amongst the books in my library is seph which translations into the vernacular also he has seit and Other M books I also include my son-in-law in this exhortations it is important to learn and in particular with the m of as well as for our sages tell us that which means proper conduct like we learned today precedes the Torah or yesterday in essence he says without proper conduct there's no way that the Torah is going to go through your veins there's there's no way that your Torah is going to get to your heart how do you learn proper conduct learning what the consequences are the he writes in his book it's proper to set a fixed time with M study for the greater the man the greater the evil inclination rovis the author of he says I jure you today to set a fixed time every day for M study for in a multitude of our sins our hearts have become ston and only through m is the heart softened only through M now the one that shook me the most is these next actually two that shook me the most is these next two lived in the late 1700s and he writes in uh his famous work he says before engaging in Torah study before you start learning your Torah it's critical to get yourself in a ready fashion meaning mentally ready to study Torah how do you get it with a pure heart and fear of Heaven let him Ponder his creator for a moment by doing so you will be removed he will be moved and repent for his transgressions and be P become purified a person may may briefly stop his Torah studies for this purpose so that the fear of God that he accepted at the beginning of his study will not be extinguished from his heart in that interlude in that break let him contemplate a new fear of Heaven for all of these rabbis that said no no you shouldn't be scared of God you shouldn't be scared of God the Torah is teaching us quite the opposite than the sages even more so they say it's a prerequisite to learning T it's a prerequisite to Judaism says the beginning of wisdom is fear of God Alexander he says studying on a continual basis will help implant wondrous pleasures of heavenly fear within a person's heart and the fear of Hashem will thereby be increased so here he's telling us you actually having fear of God is a pleasure because it's reality it's a real connection a real connection with it's the greatest thing you could possibly have so he says it's clear that man has an obligation to investigate and comprehend that judgment and Punishment of the upper world and all of this is found in the works of fear and M meaning you have to every day think about what happens in sham when someone sins he says it's an obligation to think about that it's not something that's far away not allowed not for you I'm not ready no no he says you actually have to do it that's the way you purify your soul that's the way you built a good foundation with real Roots where if some K comes to you and asks you a question or throws some argument at you you don't just leave the religion because you don't have the answer like some people do they don't get an answer so they leave Judaism because of that or they see some guy with a beard going against the shems and say oh so the whole thing is fake the reality of it is the people that fall off it's because they never had a good foundation they had no roots the strongly adjured every person to study uh books of fear and M on a daily basis and he stressed that you are not allowed to skip it even for a single day the would start every single one of his with mus every single every single sh he ever did he would start it with musar specifically focus on and the one that really Shook Me Up was what abah denig said he lived also in the late 1700s he was a major P meaning he decreed laws he translated R applied it to our life he's a looked at certain and so on BYO uh gried is based on his rulings just to explain to you how much of a giant he was he was one of the three biggest in that generation or in several generations and the was based on his rulings he was one of the main poske that the rulings are based on and he writes in an Al book this is not a m book in a book about the laws of Judaism specifically talking about yum Kip he says it's Elementary meaning obvious that each and every person has an absolute obligation to study the works of heavenly fear daily whether a little or a lot this is imperative this imperative is greater than all of the other obligations to study Torah even if such daily study is going to take time away from other studying he's not allowed to skip M even if it gets to a point where he doesn't study he doesn't study he doesn't study other parts of the T but he studies you did good but if you're study everything else you're not studying M no good this book he says if there's no fear there's no Torah and last but not least r r wrote the in it's written by him the BET and he says in the book that he is was an angel an angel would come from sh and learn with him we can't even draw an angel he had an angel study with him you understand what we're dealing with here an angel angel from sham stopped what he was doing came to who only thought about Tor day and night he study with like we're studying right now he studyed withut every day so he writes in his journal everything that happens to him every day what the angel teach him what he say what he do T and he writes in a journal the angel rebuked me today he says why didn't you study M today the angel from sham came to them and rebuked r rebuked them why didn't you study enough today you understand so anytime you hear different places that tell you no no we don't do rebuke we don't do M we don't do that just tell them you don't do Torah either then because m is Torah cuz that's the part that build you the roots that's where you have the roots because the is going to come to you the is going to come to you at some point in your life you tell you why you're not driving on Shabbat show me in the Tora it says Don't drive on Shabbat show me where does it say car in the sh in theah where does it say you have to grow beard in theah where does it say you have to lay that are black in the T where does it say this where does it say that now if you're not tell me you're not going to know all the answers as a matter of fact there's a situation right now that was brought to my attention a guy started doing cha recently I don't know a year two years three years whatever he did and some came to him and says listen he started throwing some questions at him and the guy didn't know the answers he's like don't worry about I'm going to bring my Rabbi with you we're going to meet you you can to ask me questions he's going to know the rabbi's going to know so he goes to this guy's office with a rabbi but the guy is a professional K meaning he's a problem he's a serious problem so unless you're trained to know how to deal with these people unless you to train specific subjects not just not just a basic Mish not just basic you need to know serious serious stuff to know how to deal with a as a matter of fact rambam says You must learn enough to deal with a K to deal with a heretic why if the heretic comes you're responsible now this Rabbi and this young student they go to this guy's office which is M like going to the lines Den they underestimate ated him I know who the guy is unfortunately he used to be a k Rabbi who just decided that after a bunch of people embarrassed him his ego was hurt so he decided to go against the Torah now it's not because of the tah it's because of him and his ego but anyway so now what he tries to do is make other people leave the Torah and he gives them questions that only someone that's trained can answer so the guy sitting in his office he's asking them questions which are serious serious questions they don't have answers and the Rabbi says I didn't study this stuff so now the student who doesn't know that most guys look at rabbis as Moses young guys young girls they look at every Rabbi like they know everything you don't know what you know they don't know what T is they don't know is they don't know what to is they don't they don't know anything you just think the guy's a rabbi he knows everything they don't know this the Torah is an endless ocean not every Rabbi knows everything not every RAB was the same thing so now this Rabbi wasn't trained to deal with a fa he looks foolish it becomes a and they both leave empty-handed and now the kid is in trouble because now he's thinking maybe this maybe this now he's got saf in his eye in his head why does he have saf why does he have S in the first place why is he even in his position to even question anything it's not because of the Cel it's not because of the Cel no don't let that go into your mind for a moment that he has questions about Judaism because of the Ku it's not because of the K it's because of the rabbi why because the rabbi did not train him well if he trained him well he would train him with you have you don't go to the office of a the fact that the rabbi went with him to the office of the K means they both have problems not just a because when you have a good foundation of you know that one of the most important obligations in the Tor is not to put yourself in Jeopardy who do you think you are you going in front of the unless you're trained unless you're specifically trained in it who do you think you are putting yourself in danger putting Aman in danger putting yourself in danger who do you think you are go deal with a you know what it is who do you think think you are going to go talk to a missionary think that you could debate him everybody wants to debate now everybody wants to be a famous debat no let's debate they send me letters they send me comments I want to debate you debate me about what do you know one plus one good at least you know something the rest of you say is everybody wants to be a famous debater can't just put yourself in danger for no reason everybody wants to debate Christians now all of a sudden do am favor don't debate anyone debate the debate the Tor debate your don't debate anyone unless you're a serious serious profession you know the whole book by heart you know the entire Tor by heart you know the entire by heart you know the our Torah not theirs not their garbage or because then you have [Music]