Latest / Rabbi Benjy's Shiur / Garden of Knowledge 19
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- 0:01Garden of knowledge here. Number 19, So we all know that
- 0:05there are lenient opinions in xalapa sometimes and stringent
- 0:08opinions and extra levels of piety that we can all take on
- 0:12for ourselves. That's really not a problem.
- 0:16As long as a person is stringent with himself, the problems are
- 0:19when people start expanding their own stringencies, mm,
- 0:24demanding the others, adopt them.
- 0:26Person must ask himself or others affected by my
- 0:29stringencies. And I might do engine seized
- 0:32robbing people of their joy in life.
- 0:37Are they necessary? Are you doing it for others?
- 0:40For status or social reasons, the 8th sorrow is more than
- 0:46willing to let a person. Be stringent in a In an area
- 0:50where you don't really need to be.
- 0:54With the ultimate aim of being a big loser, somewhere else.
- 0:58So a person stringency is ultimately make them so
- 1:01miserable that they have little energy and vigor and strength
- 1:05left for more. Significant parts of life, but
- 1:10that's relationships with people with Hashem, other aspects of
- 1:15Torah, observance. Then the stringency is not
- 1:19really a astringency, it's a ploy of the yetzer Hara to drag
- 1:24you to a dark place. People who have a choosing
- 1:30stricter. Opinions, are they enjoying
- 1:32their Judaism because of it? Or are they just piling on
- 1:35depression and under the guise of what I'm being strict?
- 1:38This is this must be what a shame wants from me.
- 1:42We are we not human and red be nuts on.
- 1:43Once visited the circle of a simple Jew, would be no, son.
- 1:47Looked at what he was saying and said to have been a command, I
- 1:51don't think this Sakura is kosher according to, to all the
- 1:55opinions. Said the rubber back to his
- 1:58student, the circuits halacha. Cleco sure.
- 2:00Keep your cornrows, your stringency to yourself until
- 2:04that in your own soccer, passing must be aware, but others aren't
- 2:09called upon to pay the price of homes of stringencies that you
- 2:13bit you take on for yourself, we have our own spiritual path.
- 2:18Furthermore, a person who does act with these changes, he's for
- 2:22sure. Shouldn't look down on other
- 2:23people. Because end astringency is
- 2:27fueling our arrogance rather than your Devotion to a Shem.
- 2:33Since stringencies correspond to severe judgment that dangerous
- 2:37and can topple a personal together.
- 2:39People who are overly stringent, don't get along with other
- 2:42people. They often display anger and
- 2:44lack of patience which in themselves arouse, judgments
- 2:50against that person. The guimard teachers out of
- 2:54Shame doesn't Harbor grudges. Mm, Petty, complaints against
- 2:59his people. Let It Go.
- 3:02Additionally, the terror was given to humans and not to
- 3:05Angels. Hashem.
- 3:06Wants us to live by the Torah laws, not to kill ourselves and
- 3:09die by them. Supposed to attain hermano, this
- 3:14connection to a shaman, enjoy life or have joy in life.
- 3:19You must learn from this greater than us.
- 3:20That when went to be lenient to went to be stringent swiped.
- 3:24So important to maintain contact with a competent spiritual
- 3:28guide, who can give us advice, what's good for one person in a
- 3:31certain circumstance, might not be the right mode of action for
- 3:34another in a different way. And that particular Point end,
- 3:40this part of the creation narrative. once a day for Hashem
- 3:46said, let there be luminaries in the sky to separate between day
- 3:50and night, and they'll server signs and for festivals and four
- 3:53days of the year, Please got tomorrow.
- 3:57We'll speak about the light. Have a very good day.