Clean your spiritual garments - Rabbi Alon Anava

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Class, we'll talk a little bit about how I clean my chametz in me. So, we mentioned about Paro. I have to be I have to put a metal detector in the entrance and say, you know, like in the courts in the court you can't go in with a phone. They have like this box, like a caviette. How do you say caviette? Like a beehive. So, you have to put your phone, you get a number. So, we have to assign somebody. Mazel Hashem. It's all good. See, that's the main Paro in my life is this little box that is called an iPhone. It rings every 4 seconds, 4 to 12 seconds, and it disturbs me and distracts me. That's the one of the Paro in my life. I think 20 years ago people were a little bit less agitated with not something beeping or vibrating on their body. But, the reality is that we all have a Paro. We mentioned that last week. We have a Paro as the letters of hafrah, disturbance, and we constantly have things that disturb us. So, we buy a lot of shmatters and a lot of chemicals and we scrub every corner of our house to make sure that there's no chametz in the house. Besides the fact that 90% of what we clean is dirt, it's not even chametz. But, we constantly are stuck with some things that we don't know where they're coming from, such as bad behavior, bad thoughts, things that going on in my system, in my in my mind, and in my body. And the question that comes and arouses like say, listen, I already did shiva and I refine myself and I work on myself and I'm about shiva already for 10 10 15 20 years. Why is these old things coming up?

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10. 48:39Hashem created me with my fault. With this fault, I have to refine it. I can't…

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