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Does Torah Obligate Inspecting Our Heart? | TORAH FOUNDATION (10)

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Rabbi Yaron Reuven

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We're back here on a Sunday night continuing our series of this is Kanuka. It's the last day of Kanuka, [snorts] the last evening of Kanuka where uh this is a uh special night where you could ask for miracles and provide all the miracles that are good for us and for all of tonight's going to be for the for that has toiled over and we've uh we've published more stuff is going to come out uh in the next uh month or two that's more for the general public. But of course, this is Torah and this is Torah. So, we've uh taken a big break on this uh series an hour back, but uh just to give everyone a reminder where the taught us how the duties of the heart based on logical reason are an obligation, not just a suggestion to inspect our heart when we're doing what we're doing. We're doing mitzvot when we're giving taka where we're doing the mitzvot of we're doing the mitzvot of or the mitzvot of sukkot. All of those mitzvot all of the things that we do require us to investigate and inspect our heart in order to have much meaning. But the question is does the Torah actually obligate us to to inspect our heart? And after clarifying that logical reason shows us an obligation to inspect our heart, the is going to bring us on what the Torah has to say about it and whether it's a suggestion from the sages or an obligation from Hashem. And through that, we're going to explore the Torah hearts of some of our sages and get an inclination of their greatness as

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  1. 0:06We're back here on a Sunday night continuing our series of this is Kanuka. It's the
  2. 6:33in verse number five and six is in a position where he could kill Shaul which
  3. 12:28He's now bringing us the verses or at least some of them. He says, "When I
  4. 18:18because they won some match or they won uh some trophy or they won some award
  5. 24:47transcended from generation to generation with each person that was close to Hashem in their own
  6. 30:38So there are different types of rebuke. A person has to have the logic to know
  7. 36:28imagine. When somebody asked why is it that Hashem put our heart on the left side
  8. 42:56you want to cleave to Hashem and see the wonderful insights that he can open your
  9. 48:51and online and but you'd see that literally in a matter of an hour three 400
  10. 55:00When a person starts to look at things from a Torah perspective, they'll understand why our

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