The Torah Secret to Inner Strength and Peace - Rabbi Zamir Cohen

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Zamir Cohen’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Good evening and blessings. Most people in the world dedicate the majority of their time to building things that belong mainly to the physical side of life. Career, home, comfort, pleasure. That's the nature of the world. A person lives in this world, feels the body more strongly, feels the material, the tangible reality he sees around him. And so naturally most of his time is invested in physical matters. There are only a few people who truly invest in their spiritual growth in shaping their character in good deeds in inner elevation and who see this as the essence of life. Of course life in this world requires making a living. You need a home. You need transportation. You need to exist. But the center of life should revolve around the spiritual construction of the human being. Rashi writes in the book of Ecclesiastes that the world is called olam because it comes from the word hm concealment. There is a verse that says he has also placed the world in their hearts. Normally the word olam is written with the letter vav but king Solomon wrote it without the vav. The bible is written without vowels. So it can also be read as heel concealment. He placed concealment in their hearts because the physical world conceals. It hides the spiritual dimension that exists within it. In truth, everything

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2. 5:44Right, left, behind, no one, nothing. Empty fields. He said, "What do you mean they see?…
3. 11:54sins themselves. But when a person knows the truth is here and he keeps walking over…
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5. 23:45kapour? He explained halaka teaches that a person should recite 100 blessings every day. Someone who…
6. 29:28them. Now they're drying out." So I came. They went together to the balcony. And indeed,…
7. 35:42there is a wall here? A person who is praying feels like a wall. You are…
8. 41:20I behave? You would try to please her. So why not now? Even after marriage, invest…
9. 47:25for him in the world to come. So whether in this world or the next the…
10. 53:10looks random but in God's system he took from one and gave to another. That is…

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