Breaking Free from Immoral Impulses: Lessons from Slabodka

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Why do people sin, and what drives us to commit immoral acts? Discover the concept of "ruach shots" - a temporary state of foolishness that can lead individuals astray. By understanding this fleeting impulse, we can become more intelligent, wiser, and more elevated individuals, transcending the pull of ruach shots and embracing a life of holiness.

In this enlightening episode, we discuss the teachings of Slabodka and the importance of rising above temporary foolishness to resist temptation. We also share insights from the Rambam on how studying Torah and becoming wise can help us ward off immoral thoughts and actions. Join us on this journey to elevate ourselves and learn how to let these tempting winds of stupidity pass like clouds in the sky, ultimately leading to a higher, more spiritual existence.

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If one cannot answer the following question, then I imagine that he has some thinking to do.

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Why does one sin?

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What is the impetus and causation for a hate?

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If we all are present and understand the idea consciously that there's a Creator, we have a soul, this world is all the Almighty's and we want to sing kumbaya in the future, paradise, olamabou, with the righteous in our families, and we want to live a life that is elevated with Torah and mitzvah.

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So how is it possible, practically and consciously, to give it all up for some bacon for some app for some, insert your own sin and God forbid indulgence?

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How is it possible, practically, chazal?

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tell us, chazal, in trying to decipher the puzzle of the wayward wife, this sota, who has given up everything that she has her relationship with her family, her kids, her shalom bay is everything that she stands for and she's thrown it away because of this nasty habit of hanging out with some other person's spouse.

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How could she do it?

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Why?

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What is the driving force for sin, chazal?

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tell us that a person never sins Listen to the wisdom Unless nechnaas bay, ruach shtos.

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he's infected, he's overcome with a ruach shtos the winds of stupidness, temporary idioticness, short-term drunkenness.

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It's this driving force, this powerful feeling of I need to sin and do this and indulge, and immediately it already kind of gives us an in.

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if we can let the feeling pass, it sounds like it's temporary.

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Let the feeling go like passing clouds in the sky.

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We might be on to something, although it's harder to do than just to talk about.

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But in Slabodka and we are a Slabodka podcast they would educate that this maymer chazal is really everything.

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When a person lives in a ruach shtos, he's empty-headed and he jumps from one indulgence to the next.

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if he stays in his own madrega Just going after the next thing, then he will never free himself, to elevate himself to a spot of not sinning.

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Ruach shtos is what we must run away from and the Ram Bomb tells us if you really want to free yourself from the terrible sins of our raias promise in 2023.

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when you walk across the street, you are still struck with more immorality than even someone who lived a thousand years ago couldn't even see if he tried.

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So how is it possible to stag and actually grow?

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It says the Ram Bomb that these thoughts and these feelings only blossom in our mind of an empty-headed person, someone who lives in a ruach shtos.

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but when you study the Tyra and when you become wise and when you elevate yourself, when you become an adumha gudal and you outstigh it, all of this doesn't even cross your mind.

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It's emptiness, it's ruach shtos.

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and then they do pass like clouds in the sky.

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I imagine that it's important that we always study about these areas of our raias.

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You watch the Vaya Moya videos and you read the books and you constantly strengthen yourself, but really it feels to me like if you don't ever take the leap and get out of it and elevate yourself to become a next level person, then God forbid, a person could fall back to it.

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Let the ruach shtos pass by elevate yourself, buy into Torah, become smart, become wise, become elevated, become a kadosh, and when that happens, the ruach shtos is just totally impractical and passes right through the person's mind.

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The ruach shtos is the first thing that comes to mind.

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It's the first thing that comes to mind.

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Thank you.

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