Engraving The Truth into Your Heart

foreign not only learning about arrogance not only learning about anger not only learning about all types of issues but actually take that teaching and start picturing something happening in their mind that would typically make them have that negative reaction and already start picturing themselves overcoming that obstacle yeah if she says that and he does this which typically makes me really really angry what am I gonna do in order to get angry oh and I'm gonna think this I'm gonna do this and he has to start already she has to start already living that experience without it actually happening meaning you're training yourself mentally not just by reading it one time by sometimes actually repeating it to yourself over and over visualizing the actual uh event itself and that's actually one of the things that rabies re reignited into the world with the musar movement where in a circle called or Israel says that learning Musa the the basis and the foundation of it is to transform the person's essence and his talmid the beats heart Blazer elaborated on rabi Israel's Point what does it mean that this musar teachings is supposed to transform the person to transform his Essence what does it actually mean he says that introduced something to the world that's called Musa beat palut which is learning musar with enthused fervor and this is what he wrote the Beats like Blazer the most beneficial is Musa when it's studied with enthused fervor and our Master changed the face of musar study and clothed it in another form we're in the past even those who at times learn musar out loud they did so in a manner in a tone that's similar to learning Marine poskin you're supposed to Learn out Loud you learn you know what's this what's that you're you're supposed to Learn out Loud whatever you're learning is supposed to learn it out loud that way it actually helps a uh uh fulfill the mitsubai even better first and foremost you're using multiple senses you're going to be able to remember it because of that more you're you're not just using your eyes you're using your eyes you're using your speech you're using your ears in essence you're using multiple senses that's going to help you remember that Torah and remembering a Torah in itself in itself is of critical nature so much so that when they asked Shalom uh how is it that the love remembers the entire Torah have such a great memory said to them I'll have a good memory at all so how does the Rob remember the entire Torah he says very simple that a person that forgets is life is on the line meaning it's like Heavenly death penalty so I'm so afraid I'm so afraid of forgetting to God that I remember the whole thing that's a person that's you know obviously compared to us this is like an angel among men but the point is is that this is a person that had you got your mind to the extent of that you got your mind that fear of Heaven that he had was so deep internally that it changed his physical nature it changes physical nature and of course this is not by simply reading a book 500 times this is by taking what Torah you're learning and doing whatever you can in order to apply it to your life because of course page six that uh the the issue of uh the matter of of memory is all seat is all a Divine gift it's something that Hashem decides to give or not to give to a person but when a person shows how much they love to love by taking whatever they learn and doing whatever they can to apply to their life internalizing it looking at where they fit in where they don't fit in what they need to fix what they don't need to fix how they can apply each and every single word of Torah that they learn into their life into the life of their loved ones into their their world that they live in that person shows that they hold his words dearly and for such a person surely I could know who is going to want that person to keep that because they're trying to make themselves into a pure olive oil into a uh pure Sadiq by their actions and therefore who will help them as they uh as it says someone that comes to become purified because those ball gives them a healthy hand so it comes Blazer and says that in the past people would learn and uh but still it wouldn't work for them why they were learning it out loud which is good but in the same tone as they would learn it was or it was done quietly by just examining the words alone which is how most people read they'll take whatever book they'll take it only saying or they'll take a uh whatever other book that they find as a musar book they'll talk they'll take yes but they'll take a book and they'll read it with their eyes examine the words oh wow this one's good what the rabbi is saying is good well okay next page next page and then you know swallow up words you have a uh some young people are you know able to swallow books a book you know book how many pages that one all right so 350 Pages oh I haven't done this month okay you have any other recommendations rabbi when you finish the book already yeah yeah I finished it was only a few hundred pages okay okay here's another one okay a couple of weeks later okay you have anything else rabbi uh yeah here's another book and you see this person is swallowing up books so you figure this person and this rate is going to become but yet a year year and a half later the person is still struggling with things that even uh a new student doesn't struggle with anymore why they're reading as an intellectual endeavor they're not applying they're not applying to their life they're reading it's it's mentally stimulating it's nice to hear oh this is great it's entertaining but nothing is being applied they're more concerned about completing the book or it's like people that a attend a lecture and the whole time they're waiting wait when is the rabbi gonna finish it's already going for an hour and a half it's really gonna go the whole two hours and when they hear one of the people say no no sometimes it goes more than two hours wow really a person like this Why'd You Come Why'd You Come the whole point of coming to a lecture that is gonna teach you musal is for what for you to change for you to change in essence by attending you're acknowledging at least that's where you're supposed to be acknowledging that you are work in progress you're coming to change you're coming to learn something that's going to help you become better so if you already have been doing the wrong thing for 20 30 years why do you think that it's okay for you to be in a hurry to get the solution doesn't make any sense but that's what happens many times people are like oh already two hours or even better yet they'll come to a lecture listen for two hours or they'll watch the lecture online listen for two hours nothing will happen why do you remember anything about the lecture yeah yeah he said uh it's bad to do this and all types of other things what's this what do you say bad what what anything apply to you yeah I guess some things apply to me well give me an example of something that applied to you I don't remember exactly right now but what do you mean but you just watched it five minutes ago what do you mean you don't remember what applied to you what are you gonna do about this lecture you're gonna do something in your life yeah I'm gonna try to be a good person wait so you needed this lecture to tell you to be a good person no I already knew that so what was the point of the lecture I like it why what is it doing for you person doesn't have an answer why because they're coming into the lecture without any actual strategy of I'm gonna try to take this information from this book from this lecture and try to pick it apart to be able to apply to my life take something apply to my life a million times I've told people to watch my lectures write down what I say how many listen very few very few why people are spiritually lazy they figure listen I'm listening I'll remember you won't remember how about this even the speaker doesn't remember everything that he says sometimes people tell me the river Rabbi you said such and such I said I don't remember no no you said it you know six months ago thanks for reminding me oil tell me listen I heard this that I'm like wow whoever said that's really smart really good what's he doing she goes no you're the one that said it like oh okay I said it what do you think I remember everything I say if I don't remember everything that I say how are you gonna remember everything that I said but that's the thing people they don't want to push that extra mile they don't want to go that extra mile why because they don't see it as extremely necessary they don't see it as extremely valuable to the same capacity it's supposed to be thereby they could literally be watching lectures for a year two years five years 20 years and still stay the same thing of course who has Mercy on us and he sends us many people that also change that do improve that do become better but not everybody hence the reason why we have to use some secret weapons which we'll get to in a moment to help people push themselves even when they're not intending on pushing themselves [Music] other people need to learn too