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How To Become Energetic: Life-Changing Wisdom from King Solomon - Rabbi Zamir Cohen in English (AI)

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Rabbi Zamir Cohen

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When a person adopts the guidance and teachings of King Solomon in the book of Proverbs, he receives good advice for both the material and spiritual aspects of his personality, as well as for the afterlife, for eternal life. The nature of man, at least for most people, is such that he tends toward laziness. He feels a sense of honor in thinking that something can be done tomorrow, even though he has free time today. But why do it today? He leaves it for tomorrow. do it today? He leaves it for tomorrow. He might delay it for a week, two weeks. It's a kind of honor. The results later follow accordingly. Because even when he does get to doing what he needs to do, as Rabbi Moshim Luzata writes, "The coarseness of the material world, the heaviness of the body which a person carries causes him, even when he does something, to do it lazily." King Solomon says, "He who works his land will be satisfied with bread, but the pursuit of emptiness is lacking in the pursuit of emptiness is lacking in heart." Let's first look at the parable and then the interpretation. Both of which are true. King Solomon says, "He who works his land will be satisfied with bread." A person who is not lazy has land. And he knows that the nature of land is that if you leave it unattended without effort and toil, it will grow thorns and weeds. And this person who is wise works his land, toils, makes an effort, invests, removes the stones, uproots the

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