Parashat Yitro - Can one really control their thoughts? - Rabbi Alon Anava

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[Music] one of the most special parachute in the Torah, the para that is called the Torah. And that's the para when we get the Torah and that's pretty much the highlight of the entire Torah. when the entire Torah is called on it. That's when we came to house and got the Torah. So you would think that this would be one of the most powerful paras which is is we get the ten commandments and amazingly there's so much more to talk about about each commandment but I chose to talk about today the last commandment which the last commandment ismod and is a very very severe commandment and what is so is basically not to desire something that doesn't belong to you and most of the they say is not not to have jealousy jealousy is a very severe sin And but the Torah goes in length and it says what not to what should I not have jealousy? What should I not desire something that doesn't belong to me? So it tells me the house of your friend, the wife of your friend, his animal, his servant, but basically it's telling me not to want or desire something that doesn't belong to me. and bazadm will talk about it more today but there's a big question in it I mean a lot of the desiring so to say is done in my thought and most of it is done in my thought so how can the Torah tell me to control my thoughts that's a pretty it's a pretty tough request tell me not to steal not to kill not to eat something that is not kosher I mean that's with my body I can somehow control my body. But you're asking me know to to control

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