Alei Shur: How are You Using Your Intellect? - Rabbi Guy Matalon

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[Music] we talked about coma we talked about Vina and that those are the three aspects of the human intellect the human mind B now we talked about is the ability that we have to learn something from something else that we learn one thing and we can derive new information thing and we can derive new information from what we previously know let's beam up and beam I should lead us this is where we left off it should lead us to developing our moral character to be closer to Hashem closer to God so far so good now the intellect there's a Madras in Tehillim in Psalms that says oh it says Tehillim in Psalms that says oh it says the David must kill da Villa Mella must kill is using his intellectual abilities I shine a super sir that is to say Misha who mystical Amala whoever looks up upward look above mocked evil of what does it say about him or him limb Alamos skill since that the way of life is looking upward with the way of life is looking upward with using the intellect and it goes through here different examples of individuals in Jewish history that looked up towards the heavens in this magic and what does hazael here intend to teachers so the rabbi's intend to say that the settled intellect is the ability that we have to look upward obviously we're not talking

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1. 0:00[Music] we talked about coma we talked about Vina and that those are the three aspects…
2. 1:35the way of life is looking upward with using the intellect and it goes through here…
3. 3:12included two things one is the recognition of what is real and what is false right…
4. 5:14Hashem founded the earth with wisdom what's wisdom hokhmah he established the heavens with understanding what's…
5. 6:46two separate things that are not necessarily connected here with me okay so let's try to…
6. 8:51but you know without even thinking about it that is what no that's an act that…
7. 10:25Muncie that a statement cannot be true and false at the same time but it is…
8. 12:00a great ability that we have to connect the intellect with our moral virtues to connect…
9. 14:03knowledge that we have should help us build our moral character that we become better and…
10. 15:38know they are in de Bourgh we have a greater sense of being alive than animals…

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