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Orchos Tzadikim 2

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Rabbi Avi Wiesenfeld

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Continue with Orchos Tzaddikim when Shavuos Aleichem Second paragraph says like this. Um just again as a recap for those of you that just joined us. Orchos Tzaddikim is an incredible safer that works on middos. It works on our character traits, very very important as we know clearly. The Vilna Gaon says that the ikar tachlis of a human being was sent down to this world was in order to mesaken his middos, to make a better person, to change his character. Okay? To improve himself. That's why we're To improve himself. That's why we're here, right? Orchos Tzaddikim goes through every one of the main character traits that we many times suffer with. For example, jealousy, um anger, silence, love. This one it talks about yiras Hashem. Yiras Shamayim. Yesterday we spoke about the idea how important it is for a person to have yiras Shamayim and it goes hand in hand with Torah and it connects him and improves that connection with the Ribono shel Olam, which after all is very, very much what which after all is very, very much what we are looking to do. Okay? So that's just a little bit of a introduction of where we are. Let's pick it up from the second paragraph, okay? Um now that we've seen that Torah with yiras Shamayim, everything, everything hangs on yiras Shamayim. We said yesterday that if a person learns Torah but he doesn't have yiras Shamayim, yedi, doesn't help. All the Torah in the world is going to disintegrate, dissolve, and disappear. The yiras Shamayim solidifies. The yiras Shamayim concretes

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  2. 1:32solidifies. The yiras Shamayim concretes it, Ephraim. Yeah? Put it on the table. Yeah, yeah, very…
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  4. 4:37then all your aveiros turn into mitzvahs. Skogas, whatever. Whereas if you do teshuvah me-yirah, it…
  5. 6:10She'eino Yorei M'nei Odom, a guy has no fear of heaven. Ach, however, k'she'hu Oseh Eis…
  6. 8:14that he's scared to the Rebono shel Olam on bringing him to judgement, that's not the…
  7. 9:51that when you serve Hashem, why should you serve Hashem? The Rabbeinu Yonah learns in this…
  8. 11:21not doing it for himself. Who's he doing it for? Because he loves Hashem. Because Hashem…
  9. 12:52and I'll give you a lollipop and he does it you do that. He's doing it…
  10. 14:24Tell him about a wife, a job a house I'm not thinking about these things. The…

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