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Iggeres HaGra #4 - The Root of Desire

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Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

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covered of knowing hashem haskell via daya oysi this is halal and the hazmat the times are could be a traitor of ahukumai's nyayam it is like a scales rav goldberg in his perish on the gara sagara it's called igroys hamosur he has in one volume the gara sagrara and the and i believe something else he says he quotes the gemara and saita daf hey that on the possibilities that the crushed one the the the one who is humble is with god god says when you humble yourself then i raise you up to me okay then this world is like drinking salty water it seems to him seminary that it satiates your thirst but with some yoy ser but you become even thirster thirstier anor the damace no one dies the khatsi tavas with half of his desires so here the gra is comparing the um desires and the titus of this world to salt water we know there's an expression water water everywhere but not an ounce to drink that's what they used to say the seafarers used to say when they're out on the sea there's water everywhere but nothing to drink because salt water won't uh won't satiate you won't um satisfy your thirst if anything it makes you thirstier so the gross says that the typhus of this world are like salt water you partake of them and then you just want more and on this note ramiko and this is a very powerful ramban a very frightening ramban and i would like to read it to you with the explanation of our shiva of hanukkah

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  1. 1:00covered of knowing hashem haskell via daya oysi this is halal and the hazmat the times…
  2. 2:00but with some yoy ser but you become even thirster thirstier anor the damace no one…
  3. 3:11to add to appendage the satiated one with the thirsty one which the ramban says that…
  4. 4:16you're going to be very desirous of that item that you ate isha or the the…
  5. 5:49it might not even be legal but the ramban says it and that it's a really…
  6. 6:52there was a commentary of rabbi huda khasi that was found on hamesh and it was…
  7. 7:52that it is possible for a person to desire things which were not originally part of…
  8. 9:26development this is the this is the argument of the ramban okay so now the growth…
  9. 10:26ultimately revert back to dust rima maggots tailor worms all pleasures of this world in the…
  10. 11:29is attached to a person and it's not coincidental now some have the gersa uh the…

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