Rabbi Mendel Kessin discusses the yetzer hatov in this Derech Hashem lecture.
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okay so last week we talked about the uh basically aids horror then from the ronald hall what you see is that the eights are fundamentally the eta fundamentally is um is the the bodily urges and i like i mentioned you know trying to destroy the sahara and as a result many many things which are obviously critical like reproduction stopped so you see clearly that the manifestation of the sahara clearly is the urges the physical urges that a person has and uh therefore and then therefore now we understand what what what the khazal mean when it says that you should serve god with two you how can you serve him with the aids of horror you're upset so the concept of certain punishment so if we know that it is the urges of the physical urges so therefore you're supposed to direct those physical urges in the proper channels which is the in the proper channels which is the direction of interest and so on you know uh rather than uh promotion of self ego aggrandizement or you know self-fulfillment for purely uh one's own uh desires and so on so therefore we understand what the eights are is the question however is what's he had to the question you know uh we find the eight sahara referred to uh we find the eight sahara referred to as a malach you know so we could you could actually say that the the origin of physical urchin urges is in that sense but you don't find that yet was referred to as a malwa not only that but what's interesting is that it says that the eight sahara comes in before a child is born was the eighth tony for enters when he is 12 years old for a man excuse me for a woman 12 years old for a
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- 0:20okay so last week we talked about the uh basically aids horror then from the ronald…
- 6:29would be but the problem with that is that you know they also have they also…
- 12:50no no that must be something far more basic that's the question what's the thing between…
- 19:25wants to do two things what is reality and to live in reality to accommodate to…
- 25:38so therefore that only happens when you're 13 that's when maturity hits but that is maturity…
- 31:50key that fits exactly into some aspect of the cell membrane and all of a sudden…
- 38:02i would say the answer is meaning meaning is the greatest of what it's the only…
- 44:11well they will create their own reality that's the problem you know sometimes directed it's still…
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- 56:34the proof that we will be in the shaman is obviously and therefore the body will…
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