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You're listening to Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe of Torch in Houston, Texas. This is the Jewish Inspiration Podcast.
Welcome back to day number 193 in the middle of page
997 in the treasure for life edition of the Orcha Siddiquim, Ways of the Righteous, in the Gate of Fear of Heaven.
U'kemo sh'olehim mevin tovara, ken ha-odam, just like God understands good and bad, we can discern good and bad.
U'kemo sh'olehim oseh binyon, ha-olem u'mozdos, ha-oretz, v'nitia, sa-rekia, u'mikvei yamim,
ken gam ha-odomos, u'livnois, v'l-yased, v'l-ekoros, v'l-ihikavos, v'l-hazria, v'l-hatzmiach, v'l-lintoa, v'l-asos, koldover.
Just like God can do anything, a human being in his own world can do unbelievable things and anything.
But it's going to come with hard work. You're going to have to work really, really hard.
There's no shortcuts. You have to do the will of Hashem, you have to learn His Torah, you have to understand the ways of Hashem,
and Hashem has to will it also.
Just like we cannot see God, so too we can't see the neshama, we can't see the soul.
You can't see the soul not when it is alive and not when it's dead.
Even when the soul leaves a person's body or enters a person's body at birth or at death, you can't see it. It's invisible.
Just like Hashem knows the future,
He says, just like God can see the future, we can all see the future. You know how?
Cleanse yourself, serve Hashem, and you'll get prophecy.
What were the prophets? They were able to see things that normal human beings weren't, but they had to be very pure.
They had to be pristine servants of Hashem.
Things that we have to see visions in His prophecy that you can't see with your eyes, that you can't imagine with your mind.
But it's way beyond.
Just like there's no creation that knows the secrets of God,
Just like nobody can see the secrets of Hashem, nobody can see the secrets in your heart.
King David tells us in chapter 94 verse 11 in Psalms that God knows the thoughts of man.
He says, and in most things man is similar on a small scale to God.
In accordance with the limited strength and brief life that God has allotted man, Hashem has invested him with an evil inclination and a good for his evil.
In order.
He says, in order. Why did Hashem give us the power of good, the power of evil?
In order to probe and test him, in discriminating between understanding and discerning between good and evil, and to cause him to adorn himself, build, sow, destroy, uproot what is planted, kill, afflict, accumulate wealth, wage war, rule, plunder, and grow exceedingly wrathful.
And if man did not give in to his evil inclination, if a person did not have one,
If a person did not fear death, the fear of death would keep him from procreation, building, desiring acquisition, planting, and sowing.
For he would say in his heart, since death has been decreed, why should I labor for others? Why should I bring future life into this world? Hashem makes us forget those things.
We may be voracious.
I'll tell you this amazing thing.
The first verse in the Torah.
In the beginning Hashem created the heaven and the earth.
So we see, when we look at the verses in the Torah, whenever it says Elohim, the term Elohim is the rule of judgment.
Hashem begins creation with Elohim.
What does Rashi say?
That in the beginning, God wanted to create the world with Midassadin.
Here it goes.
Why does it say voracious?
Why does it say Elohim?
Hashem wanted to create the world with judgment.
He saw that the world won't be able to survive with judgment.
Do you know what judgment means?
Judgment means there's no repentance.
You do something wrong, you steal, your hand is off.
You look at something you're not supposed to look at, there's no backseas, eyes are popped out.
That world wouldn't survive.
So therefore,
Therefore Hashem created the world with Midassarachamim and they joined together with Midassadin.
So there's a balance between the two.
The day that Hashem, Elohim, created the heaven and the earth.
That means there's a balance between the two.
We see even though Hashem wanted the world to be a world of judgment,
Hashem saw that we can't survive that.
Only those who are on a very high level can be at a level of Elohim, of judgment.
But that's not for the simpletons like myself.
It's very difficult for a person to be held accountable on every level and every measure.
And therefore Hashem has mercy on us.
The whole world would be destroyed.
Hashem gave us this world so that we have the ability to do things and to grow and to build.
How are we going to do that if we're not afforded a mistake, which requires mercy.
He says,
If a person is able to use his Yetzer Tov over his Yetzer Hara,
then such a person will have unbelievable blessing.
And there's a praise here that's given.
Fortunate is he and fortunate is she who bore him.
Meaning the mother who brought such a baby to this world,
who became so righteous that was able to overcome good over bad,
righteous over wicked,
is someone who's very, very praiseworthy and one who will be rewarded accordingly.
This concludes day number 193.
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