Iggeres HaGra #15 - The Purpose of Life: Tikkun Hamidos

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Daniel Glatstein’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

okay we're continuing in the safeway uh the garages said that habit rules that the main thing is to speak to children with divrei in soft words that will be accepted especially if you come to israel there you have to walk in the ways of hashem very much and you need to accustom your children because speaking and medics need great hair goal and habit will dominate and rule over one's behavior and the the beginning is the difficulty but once you get into the good habit uh then it sort of becomes routine the rasha knows himself that his path is bad but it's hard for him to separate now says the gra the following is the entirety of man the following is sums up what life is all about don't allow yourself just whatever you desire uh varesen liveline this is aposic in tehillim and perak lamid base egg is putting a reins resen is also arranged edgy is your jewelry or glory liv lime is to swallow altiu don't be like a horse and a mule ain't having that doesn't understand the messeg that its owner has to rebuke it and confine it domestic vires and these are two kinds of muscles the egyoi he has to muzzle it in its jewelry in its mouth live loyal to swam to to seal its mouth shut in other words the objective in life is to so to speak put a reins on your mouth don't allow yourself to speak at will like basically like an owner has to do to an animal that is what the secret has to do to the nephesha bahamas which is the person until the day of death one has to rebuke himself so to speak and control

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1. 0:30okay we're continuing in the safeway uh the garages said that habit rules that the main…
2. 1:32sums up what life is all about don't allow yourself just whatever you desire uh varesen…
3. 2:34to to seal its mouth shut in other words the objective in life is to so…
4. 3:37is to strengthen always besv by breaking one's medusa otherwise what purpose is life is about…
5. 4:38now it's interesting he brings a story over here after very difficult treatments and the doctors…
6. 5:40fasting or affliction he should withdraw from taiva not to fulfill all of his taiva not…
7. 6:41shah allah for islamid the ninth icker of chuva is shvira sativa agosmis breaking physical desire…
8. 7:41world whether it's hana and so forth that is the the fruit that will be the…
9. 8:43interesting he says kizer khala adam this is all this is the whole man sin crouches…
10. 9:48and what's very interesting is that if you look at the end of the igarasagara the…

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