As Great as Rabbi Akiva | Rabbi Jonathan Rietti

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Claims the Ben Yehoyada, the famous Ben Ish Chai, in the Gemara in Sota דף ח, that the greatest Gevura of a human being is the כבישה, the conquering of ראייה, of what he looks at. He actually claims that the Gematria of ראיה is 216, which is the exact same Gematria as גבורה, because the עיקר מלחמה, the main war that a person is sent into this world to fight is what am I looking at? There's one person in history, I'm not going to mention his name. He’s sometimes called Yeshu, Yoshke, and R’ Yehoshua ben Prachya was his Rebbe. They were in an inn, and Yeshu looked at the innkeeper's wife in a certain way, that he started praising her eyes. And R’ Yehoshua ben Prachya, his Rebbe, said, Is this what's going on inside your mind? And he gave him the push, he rejected him. Now, Yoshke came back a few times, R’ Yehoshua ben Prachya was planning to accept him,

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1. 0:05Claims the Ben Yehoyada, the famous Ben Ish Chai, in the Gemara in Sota דף ח,…
2. 0:35There's one person in history, I'm not going to mention his name. He’s sometimes called Yeshu,…
3. 1:05but whatever happened, Yoshke went away. And from that moment of not controlling his eyes, an…
4. 1:37for a person in this world? According to the difficulty of the Nisayon, that is the…
5. 2:07and he's responsible for saving the תורה שבעל פה. Rabbi Akiva was the father of גם…
6. 2:37where we've never seen promiscuity and decadence so abundant as this one. In the zchus of…

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