Duties of the Mind by HaRav Avigdor Miller - Learning Things that No-One Can Honour You For

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Well, shalom everybody. Welcome back and thank you so much for joining me on this video. Today we're going to continue to look at Rabbi Victor Miller's new translation commentary of duties of the mind based off the well it's a commentary uh on the workot which is translated as duties of the heart uh written uh thousand or so years ago uh sometime in the 1100s by rabbi baka ib pakura and it is a work that deals exclusively with the concept of mus and exclusively with the concept of mus and that is the refinement of a person's uh uh ethical behavior. And this introductory volume is quite thin as I've pointed out in quite a few other videos. Uh there is the cover of it there. And you can pick this up uh across the web at most Judeica outlets. For those of you in Australia, I would encourage you to support your local Jewish businesses. And in my particular area, uh, standout business is Gold's World of Judeica in business is Gold's World of Judeica in Bondi in Sydney. And, uh, there is also a a larger Gold's World of Judea located at in Melbourne. Uh, and so I encourage you to get in contact with those businesses and begin to purchase your copies of Rabbi Victor Miller's uh, new translation commentary of Duties of the Mind. uh these works will help you uh and they'll get into some personal areas in your life for you to have a look at and

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1. 0:01Well, shalom everybody. Welcome back and thank you so much for joining me on this video.…
2. 5:37mitzvah properly as it is told about them. But as for the rest of the people,…
3. 11:46mentioning a uh something that they they should surely be commended for. And that was being…
4. 17:59to drain pleasure and joy from it rather than do what their purpose is in actually…
5. 24:13away. I had no idea who this was. Some some lady sent me a text message…
6. 30:24I'm saying? And so the the whole idea that you have to engage on these things…
7. 36:32plenty of things in the Torah. You can be reading to unwind. Um but don't get…
8. 42:45shows where, you know, a certain daughter or son wants to live his hamish community and,…
9. 48:55Um, thinking this over, we become convinced that Hashem is guarding his people. And so we…
10. 55:09Uh therefore when we say the shahabakina I'm just going to reread a section because I…

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