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0:00 It is not like telling a person: run away to Hashem, blessed be He. Run away to Hashem. And if they ask me - always, I think every Jew needs to have some moment in the day, a few moments when he secludes himself, lifts his eyes to the heavens and looks at the heavens, to ask himself if he is truly, truly, truly what is called - Rabbi Shimon says in the Zohar, Parshas Korach, page 178a: 'Masters of the reckoning' are those people who, every day before they go to sleep, make an accounting of the soul about everything they go through, about everything they did all day.
0:38 So I always say, a person must always think about everything - that he goes and secludes himself every day, to look to the heavens and to ask: am I true with Hashem? Did I pray properly before Hashem today? Did I fulfill the mitzvah for the honor of Hashem today? Is what I did truly, truly for His honor, blessed be He? that which always guides a person: the will - it is as you said, to try to feel prophecy, to try to feel that I too can now prophesy, and I need to seclude myself and feel this prophecy. But to truly understand this, it is impossible today, inside all the commotion and the crowds, to try to understand what Hashem wants from us.
1:18 I'll tell you, one can say: keep another Shabbos and another tefillin. but we know that however much we do, we still will not fulfill our obligation. We need to keep the whole Torah, it will not help. But what one can do, which is what will give a person the most fear of Heaven, is that a person should stand every day before Hashem, toward the heavens, gaze at the heavens, look at the heavens and examine, look to Hashem, Master of the World, and think how he truly is toward Heaven.
1:48 This is something, I think, that is very close to something by which he will be able to understand well what he needs to do in this world. Because without this it is impossible. We hear so many voices and so much noise in the world that we never manage to reach the right path. It is hard, hard to reach. The whole world is noise and storm, and to tell them to keep another mitzvah and another thing that they cannot grasp.
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