Meor Einayim #6
– Start low and grow. – Yetzer tov not fully there until bar/bas mitzva. Spiritual endowment given at that point to have da’as, knowing what applies when, etc. – Someone who doesn’t know how to take the low and raise
Meor Einyanim #5
– Lo lishma a launchpad for hasgos. – Doesn’t outgrow the lower level, rather redirects it. – Impossible to start at the highest level – have to start low and grow.
Me’or Einayim #4
Shelo lishma is a misdirection of the relevant middah, but the middah can be redirected properly.
Me’or Einayim #3
– Chacham looks at the source / inner spiritual core, not the externalities. Focuses on the inherent religious spark. – Via shivisi Hashem l’negdi tamid, one sees what’s really there and recognizes the objective presence of the chiyus that comes
Me’or Einayim #2
Recognizing that the world exists through Torah, and to see it even in tumas Mitzrayim, is to be boreir u’ma’aleh.
Elul 5784 – Hilchos Teshuva 16: The Zman of Mitzvas Teshuva
Elul 5784 – Hilchos Teshuva 1: Teshuva for Non-Aveiros
Elul 5784 – Hilchos Teshuva 17: Yom Kippur’s Role in the Teshuva Process
Kinnos 5784: Introduction, 6, 21, 28, 34
NCSY Kollel
Elul 5784 – Hilchos Teshuva 2: A Life Not Worth Living