A shiur on Pharaoh and the Yetzer Hara, exploring how to break free from negative influences.
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thank you to the kazakh organization for inviting me to give this year and thank you everybody for joining this shivamshir i'd like to dedicate this year for rabbi avram torski he's been instrumental in helping guard your eyes in so many ways so i wanted to uh speak to you guys tonight about there's many parallels between uthiaz mitzrayim and our struggle with the tahara we're in middle of shaiva him now you know so why is shaivim a time for chuva and tikka nabris why specifically now these weeks so these are the weeks when we read about ethereus mitraim and it says in the safari that what we read down on this world is man in the worlds above so it's a time that's very misugal to leave mitzrayim during these weeks so you may ask we're not in mitzrayim what do you mean to leave mitzrayim so that's what i wanted to talk about a little um you know the plastic says every single jew is going to have to come to their ultimate tikkun by hook or by crook everybody's going to get there in the end some people will get there the easy way through the path of the torah which hashem uh gave us the torah to to make it easy for us you know choose life but if not sometimes we have to get hit on the head till uh we you know find our way to where we need to get to as as the muscle famous muscle with the gps
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- 0:00thank you to the kazakh organization for inviting me to give this year and thank you…
- 2:07breaking our nature is not an easy thing to do and um often we need to…
- 4:38our hearts to leave mitra him and to serve hashem so then hashem sends kinim and…
- 6:40why would hashem harden our hearts why would he do that to us now the answer…
- 9:19is welcome you also will give us you're going to give us also carbonis in other…
- 12:01the time we're going now after hashem into the midbar the yatar reawakens and he says…
- 14:06you see the 10 mark has convinced us that we have no choice in our own…
- 16:45and that only hashem can help us is very important but there's still a missing component…
- 18:52but surrender means that i know i can't but i do it anyway because hashem can…
- 21:27to paoroi or a servant of akuresh baruch there's no two ways about it that's the…
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