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0:00 There are many ways one can check people, what the Holy One, blessed be He, loves and what He does not, but the simple things, that sometimes we do not pay attention to and do not look at, sometimes they are the main things, which are the foundations of the beginning of a person drawing close to the Holy One, blessed be He. Sometimes we do not notice, and we are not careful about it - these are very simple things that have importance and closeness to the Holy One, blessed be He.
0:25 So always be careful - there is nothing more important than this. Be careful about derech eretz, about speech, with politeness, calmly, with patience with every person, with patience, with derech eretz, with cleanliness, eating with cleanliness, to see that there are no leftovers of food on the hands, a person cleaned - he cleaned his fingernails. It is not for nothing that a person must be careful about these things before Erev Shabbos. Why are we careful about this? Also - may it not befall anyone of Israel - after the hundred and twenty years, the Ma'avar Yabok, Rabbi Aharon Moshe of Modena, writes that a person is prepared for Heaven, he is prepared with such cleanliness.
0:56 They clean him, and those who do the taharah do this for the person. A person must always be clean, before he reaches Heaven, and also before he reaches Shabbos, for every place. These are things that bring a person, first of all, to purity of the soul. The soul is pure, the soul is settled. There is cleanliness - the soul is settled. Always know this. This is a very, very important thing. When a person is not clean, and confused, and dirty, immediately kelipos settle in, and there are bad thoughts, and there are worries, and foreign thoughts, and confusions, and everything becomes a mess. So it is very, very important to be careful about these things.
1:32 These are the things 'which a man shall do and live by them.'
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