Cleanliness is Next to Godliness

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Moshe Chaim Katz’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

there's a reality that in the morning when you wake up there is spiritual impurity on your hands why because after a person goes to bed the higher parts of his soul go all the way all the way up to the highest places in Chennai and they get to do things when you go to bed you get to do very exciting things if you prepared for it the day before most people when they go up at night sadly they have uh sadly they have uh dreams or things that are not so positive because of a number of reasons either they had bad food combining they ate a bunch of spicy food for before bed a lot of candy and the people have all sorts of Nightmares on Halloween because they're out of this candy it's not a good idea and there's even though their soul could go up to high places it's getting stuck it's not able to really go up and therefore there's all sorts of problems and they have all sorts of images that they saw have all sorts of images that they saw that day so the dreams are a combination of things that they saw throughout the day so they never really go and experience all the great things that they could but people that are very very pure and they prepare themselves before bed by saying create malamita the Bedtime Shema there's a formula to catapult you in the shama the Catapult your awareness up to these higher realms and to do wondrous things up there to go and learn to go into different yeshivas to go and

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1. 0:00there's a reality that in the morning when you wake up there is spiritual impurity on…
2. 2:03anytime that you have a physical thing that is empty of spiritual potential the word that…
3. 4:37oh yeah like literally all the things that you shouldn't be doing until you wash your…
4. 7:11be careful this is something important people don't always know be careful of over soaping especially…
5. 9:46fingernails on the floor it's kabbalistically it could be a a dangerous thing for a pregnant…
6. 12:27physical things that means that it has it's rooted in spiritual parasites so to look into…
7. 15:02you know one of the classic ones is not washing your hands in the morning is…
8. 17:37god with a lowercase G it has to be this things that are beyond that I…
9. 20:11so okay good luck with that it should you should go well but eventually there's going…
10. 22:49waking up water waking them up situations but generally it's a good idea I but you…

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