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0:00 All right, good morning. 0:02 Good morning. Let us begin getting in a few minutes of this beautiful Torah. 0:08 We're continuing and we're contin um we are continuing on page 11. 0:18 We have rice sauce. 0:19 Remember again in this first chapter we're really focusing on the general framework of chuva. 0:25 The different components of chuva, different parts of chuva, how chuva is set up. 0:29 So we focused on the first one which is what Rook called innate or internal physical chuva. 0:39 Now again we're moving on to the second part which we've cooked called chais which is innate spiritual cha right we've cooked a second more more what he calls inner form of chuva is this chuva again means innate or natural navis 1:02 means soulful lness spiritual so innate spiritual chuva what does this mean so if cooked rice is Very beautiful muscle clios. 1:13 This is what people call literally muscle clios of the kidneys. 1:16 So mus clios almost means like you feel it in your kishkas. 1:20 It's a cha that you feel internally internally spiritually. 1:26 This is so beautiful say the default of a person is to go on the right path. 1:35 This is incredibly important in life. 1:38 We often think that we have to try to figure out what the right path is. 1:43 It's not true. Innately and inherently we know what the right path is. 1:47 How do we know that? 1:48 Because we have a like says the nish is it is literally a piece of shalom. 1:58 So because of that there's this piece of God that's inside of me. 2:02 Therefore I it it knows exactly what to do. 2:07 What's the problem in life? 2:08 And we saw this by the way in the as well. 2:10 We saw this in what did the say the biggest problem is we get in the way of the nishama. 2:17 We get in the way of the soul. 2:19 We throw up all types of roadblocks and impediments and obstacles to prevent the nishama from doing its thing. 2:27 But the real avold in life is just allow the nama to remain in the driver's seat. 2:31 And if you do that, you'll get exactly where you need to go. 2:35 So that's what is saying the the the literal like the nature of man is to do the right thing. 2:45 Now is adding in something additional which is therefore because the nama is a piece of and because the nama knows exactly what to do in life and because we often get in the way of that. 2:59 Therefore, when we do the wrong thing in life, when I do something wrong, when I fall entrapped and ens snared by sin, as long as I have not totally obliterated my soul, now remember that statement, that statement is a very 3:20 strong one. You can't obliterate your soul. 3:22 What is saying is as long as I'm not totally fundamentally and holy and completely detached from my soul which unfortunately could happen. 3:31 So as long as there's some level of connection between me and my this desire to want to do the right thing literally again when I so therefore as long as there's a piece of that's still intact when I do the 3:52 wrong thing or we'll say what does that says it causes me an internal spiritual pain I I don't want to live on the wrong side of the law. 4:03 And by the way, interestingly enough, not because of punishment, right? 4:07 Not because of fear of something punitive, but I want in life, I want to know that I'm living in conssonance with that will. 4:16 I I want that for myself. 4:19 Again, not out of fear of anything, but simply because innately innately spiritually, I want to do the right thing in this world. 4:29 I want to be the right kind of person and therefore when I'm not it literally causes me pain. 4:38 It causes me inner pain, inner spiritual pain. 4:42 Now as a result of that whom is now going back to what we learned yesterday, remember in general whenever a person is in a state of pain, what does a person do? 4:51 What does a person do? 4:52 I'm in a state of discomfort. 4:54 What do I do? 4:55 Alleviate the discomfort. Right? 4:57 Remember again this was by chuva goofness according to cook. 5:02 So sin causes illness, sin causes physical pain. 5:05 Therefore chuva is the process through which I remedy that physical pain. 5:10 Now cook is saying the same thing on the spiritual level. 5:13 when I go ahead and I sin and I do the wrong thing that is going to cause me a sense of internal, existential, spiritual pain again because innately and inherently I want to do the right thing. 5:28 I want to do the right thing. 5:30 So therefore, when I'm now on the wrong side of the law, there's there's an internal pain that's there. 5:34 Therefore, what am I going to want to do? 5:36 What's chba? Cha is the remedying of that internal spiritual pain. 5:44 and I'm going to work on this to remedy this until I feel that my sin has been erased. 5:51 So therefore that's definitionally our second construct of chuva what calls chuva nafis inherent or innate spiritual chuva I sin I again step one inherently innately I want to do the right thing when I don't do the right thing that causes 6:13 me a sense of spiritual pain I don't want to live with spiritual pain so what do I do I try to remedy it that act of remedying Spiritual pain is called chuva. 6:24 It's chuva. Incredible. And I say, as I mentioned before, there are so many beautiful things that come out of that. 6:29 Number one, innately I know the right thing to do. 6:32 It's a big thing cuz we often think in life that like we're all lost. 6:35 We're not so lost. 6:36 We're not so lost. 6:37 I know what I have to do. 6:39 Number two, I want I want that goodness. 6:42 Number three, stop getting in the way of the nishama. 6:45 Number four, ultimately again when I lose my way, the good news is that I'm going to somehow someway find my way back. 6:53 Incredible. So therefore, again, now Cook ends off and he says, you looking for he says he says it's important to understand that this form of is very is very complicated. 7:10 Now, it's funny because it doesn't sound that complicated, but yet Cook says it's complicated. 7:14 We'll we'll we'll get into this why this is he says it's dependent on many different conditions internal conditions external conditions and there are many ways to go astray many ways to go astray. 7:32 He says you have to be careful but it's important to understand that this is one of the fundamentals upon which all of chuva is predicated. 7:47 All right. So stop over here for today. 7:48 Now again I want to point out interestingly enough does not talk about any of those challenges right? 7:54 He'll talk about those challenges later on. 7:56 So that's not even mentioned right that's not even brought up but does sensitize us to the fact that there are many complications many difficulties in merit so important but yet so complicated so again we'll stop over here for today tomorrow 8:11 we'll continue in the different cha constructs
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