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0:12 "How beautiful is this tree! How beautiful is this field!" - he is liable for his life. What does it mean, "how beautiful is this tree" - he is liable for his life? The idea is that a person suddenly sees a beautiful tree. He gazes at this tree. He looks and gazes at the tree, and he says: How great is Hashem, blessed be He, Who created this species of tree, this kind, and its colors, and its fruits, and all its features, and every form, and all the contemplation.
0:40 He goes so very, very far in contemplating the individual Providence, that Hashem, blessed be He, watches over all, he wants to depart out of love of Hashem in the creation; he is liable for his life, because he can die. He can die, because he is liable for his life, from the awe that falls upon him, when he sees such a beautiful tree, he looks and says: How is it that Hashem, blessed be He, watches over every thing and detail in His creation - he can pass away from the cleaving to Hashem, blessed be He, how He watches over each and every thing in His creation.
1:15 To know closeness to Hashem, one must understand the greatness of the Creator. King David said: "For I know that Hashem is great, and our Master is above all powers." The break in cleaving to Hashem, when a person takes his mind off Hashem, that is already distancing. To come close to Hashem in very truth takes striving after striving, at every time and moment. When a person does not take his mind off Hashem even for a brief moment, all the time thinking about Hashem and cleaving to Him, and not taking his mind off Him even for one moment, then it is no longer a mind that is in the world; this mind is not a physical mind, because he does not think about this world, he does not think about the matters of this world.
1:57 The moment there is no thought of worldly matters, then the mind and the body too do not become part of it, and then one can receive more of His light, may He be blessed, from the right understanding, from straight thinking, and then the judgments are already sweetened, and to think what He truly wants from me, what His will, may He be blessed, is for me, what Hashem, blessed be He, wants from me, and to see that the person's will, his own will, does not contradict His will, may He be blessed.
2:26 It can be that a person wants and wants, and all his desire and will is something that is not His will, may He be blessed, because everything he wants, and everything he thinks is needed, and everything he wants with his own will, what he thinks has to be, and he insists on it and prays for it. But who said that this is His will, may He be blessed? Who said that it is for his good? To pray also that Hashem will guide me: what do You, may You be blessed, want from me?
2:53 And he should think of Hashem, and long for Hashem, and ask of Hashem. First of all, in every situation a person finds himself in, in every place, first of all he should aim: is this His will? What does Hashem want? Or a person wants to finish the whole Shas. Why do you want to finish the whole Shas? Is it in order to say, "I finished the whole Shas"? Or do you want to learn all the inner depth that is in the Shas, in order to know Hashem more and to come closer to Him?
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3:23 There are two different aims here. Is my learning truly for His honor, may He be blessed? Do I want it in order to reveal more of His honor, may He be blessed? One must truly set the thought apart, that it be clean, and think about the mercy of Hashem, blessed be He. Not to think with the attribute of judgment, because often, when a person is in a time of trouble, he immediately calculates with judgments.
3:54 He starts to think hard thoughts, or he thinks this situation is hard and the work will be heavier, and he does not know how he can get out of it, so he starts to think of troubles, and thoughts and very hard imaginings. This one must not think about. Immediately think of the mercy of Hashem - there are many times that a person is already saved. I will give you an example. When, let us say, a person comes who is broken and crying, and says he has no salvation in the matter of a match - until he finds, what will be? - and he is broken and in great pain.
4:27 Let us say in another two days he will find the match. Two more days. Two days to wait, until he has his livelihood, or his match, or lasting offspring, and he will have the salvation he needs - he has only a day or two left to wait, not much. But at that moment he is already saved, but he, from his own side, is still broken, and he thinks judgments, and still thinks in the same pain and the same contemplation, but he does not know that the salvation has already come.
5:09 That is to say, when he has the salvation, he has lost all this time that he was in pain, and all this time went to waste. The pain, the sadness, the grief - one must not think in this, Heaven forbid. That is why I say: think good - first of all, think good, think a good thought about the greatness and the mercy of Hashem.
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