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Shlaimus V’Yissurim.5.6 - Source of Sin in a Person

2 Stories of the Pnei Menachem: Slighted Torah Scholar and a Frame of Mind for Our Professional Life

Shlaimus V’Yissurim.5.5 - Sickness, Like Sin, Has Many Facets

Shlaimus V’Yissurim.5.4 - Yissurim of Others Should Change Us!

Shlaimus V’Yissurim.5.3 - Using the Prism of Egypt to Show How Egypt Learned Through Yissurim

Shlaimus V’Yissurim.5.2 - Fixing the Middah Requires Completely Fixing the Middah

Shlaimus V’Yissurim.5.1 - Perfecting Middos Doesn’t Automatically Mean Perfected Theology

Pnei Menachem and Rav Moshe and Leading by Example

Shlaimus V’Yissurim.4.8 - Through Moshe’s Punishment, Klal Yisroel Was Straightened Out

Shlaimus V’Yissurim.4.7 - Our World View Stems from Our Middos

Shlaimus V’Yissurim.4.6 - Yissurim Pry Us Away From Over-identifying With the Physical

Shlaimus V’Yissurim.4.5 - Gaavah That Makes Us Small

Shlaimus V’Yissurim.4.4 - Our Material Selves Also Generate Our Gaavah

2 Stories of the Pnei Menachem - Good Eye and Anti-Bullying

Shlaimus V’Yissurim.4.3 - The Body’s Needs Have a Head Start Over the Neshama’s

Shlaimus V’Yissurim.4.2 - All Character Traits/Middos Interconnect

Shlaimus V’Yissurim.4.1 - Learning Torah Perfects Our Understanding and Our Actions

Shlaimus V’Yissurim.3.6 - The Sin’s Blight on the Soul

Shlaimus V’Yissurim.3.5 - The Damage Sin Has On the Person’s Knowledge

Addendum to the Story of the Pnei Menachem

The Pnei Menachem’s “Good Eye”

Shlaimus V’Yissurim.3.4 - The Cost of Yissurim Without Teshuva

Shlaimus V’Yissurim.3.3 - Crying Out is Tefilla Not Teshuva

Shlaimus V’Yissurim.3.2 - 2 Groups of People And How They Take Yissurim

Shlaimus V’Yissurim.3.1 - Wait!?! Maybe Yissurim Are Not That Effective After All! Page

Shlaimus V’Yissurim.2.10 - How The Galus We Are In Is Preparing Us

Story of the Pnei Menachem’s “Bad Speech”

Shlaimus V’Yissurim.2.9 - The Yissurim in Egypt Prepared the Jewish People For Prophecy

Shlaimus V’Yissurim.2.8 - With The Process of Hashgacha The Jews Reached Nevuah

Shlaimus V’Yissurim.2.7 - As Long As One Gets Yissurim, Hashem Is Still Prodding Them

Shlaimus V’Yissurim.2.6 - “Hashgacha” Brings Us to Shlaimus (Wholeness/Perfection) Through Yissurim

Shlaimus V’Yissurim.2.5 - The Proactive Choosing To Become Great

Shlaimus V’Yissurim.2.4 - If Egypt Didn’t Perfect Us, How Did We Gain From It?

Shlaimus V’Yissurim.2.3 - The Inheritance of Israel is a Unique Phenomenon

Shlaimus V’Yissurim.2.2 - How Are There Any Unconditional “Deals” With Hashem?!?

Shlaimus V’Yissurim.2.1 - Inheritance With No Strings Attached

Shlaimus V’Yissurim.1.5 - Yissurim’s Affects Even When Unwanted

Shlaimus V’Yissurim.1.4 - Yissurim “By Rote”

Shlaimus V’Yissurim.1.3 - Yissurim Help Us (Whether We Recognize Them or Not)

Shlaimus V’Yissurim.1.2 - Afflictions Without Teshuva Are Also Valuable

Shlaimus V’Yissurim.1.1 - Yissurim After Teshuva

Simcha B’Yissurim.1.11 - Need To Fully Feel Life To Appreciate Yissurim

Simcha B’Yissurim.1.10 - Someone That Gets Used To Yissurim

Simcha B’Yissurim.1.9 - Wait!?! If Yissurim Are So Good…We Should Say A “Happy” Brocha On It

Simcha B’Yissurim.1.8 - Not Being Apathetic to Yissurim

Simcha B’Yissurim.1.7 - Yissurim Challenge the Person to Become Bigger

Simcha B’Yissurim.1.6 - Hashem Brings Yissurim Because of His Love For Us

Simcha B’Yissurim.1.5 - Appreciating that the “Bad” Only Appears Bad

Simcha B’Yissurim.1.4 - We See the Now, Hashem Sees the Future

Simcha B’Yissurim.1.3 - Being Happy With Yissurim

Simcha B’Yissurim.1.2 - Feeling More Anguish Over Sin than Over Physical Suffering

Simcha B’Yissurim.1.1 - Inviting Yissurim!?!

Nevuah and Yissurim.3.5 - Viduy of Fast Days Versus Viduy of Yom Kippur

Nevuah and Yissurim.3.4 - Third Advantage that Yissurim Have Over Nevuah

Nevuah and Yissurim.3.3 - First 2 Advantages that Yissurim Have Over Nevuah

Nevuah and Yissurim.3.2 - Aveiros of the Avos Were Imperceptible Miscalculations

Nevuah and Yissurim.3.1 - It’s Not Easy to Purposely Go Against Hashem

Nevuah and Yissurim.2.6 - With the Yissurim a Person Becomes a Navi!!!

Nevuah and Yissurim.2.5 - The Rustling Leaves Were Yissurim!

Nevuah and Yissurim.2.4 - Galus Came Because of a Nuance of Sinas Chinam(!!)

Nevuah and Yissurim.2.3 - Any Slight Disruption In Our Life is Really Yissurim

Nevuah and Yissurim.2.2 - Hashem’s Middah of Chessed Birthed Our Accessibility to Neviim

Nevuah and Yissurim.1.5 - 2.1 - The Written Neviim Were Only After We Sinned

Nevuah and Yissurim.1.4 - Habit Prevents Us From Hearing the Navi

Nevuah and Yissurim.1.3 - Yissurim as Teaching Not as Punishment

Nevuah and Yissurim.1.2 - In Our Days, Yissurim Take the Place of Prophecy!

Nevuah and Yissurim.1.1 - What Was the Role of a Prophet? Page 27 in Toras Avrohom

Toras HaEmes.5.12 - To Destroy Evil Takes the Purest Heart

Toras HaEmes.5.11 - Our Grandparents Actions Can Impact Us

Toras HaEmes.5.10 - Balak’s Good Action Merited King Shlomo!

Toras HaEmes.5.9 - Kavana is a Must for Certain Mitzvos

Toras HaEmes.5.8 - We First Daven for Teshuva Before Destruction

Toras HaEmes.5.7 - Making Sure We Don’t Fall Into Hatred of Others

Toras HaEmes.5.6 - Example of “Offing” a Rodef

Toras HaEmes.5.5 - Yehu Was Handsomely Rewarded for Wiping Out Achav…and Severely Punished!

Toras HaEmes.5.4 - Mechanics of an Aveira Lishma

Toras HaEmes.5.3 - Bringing Down a Rasha is an Aveira Lishma

Toras HaEmes.5.2 - Even Though It’s a Mitzvah to Bring Down the Rasha, Not Everyone is Qualified

Toras HaEmes.5.1 - Not Everyone is Qualified to Hate Evil

Toras HaEmes.4.10 - 3 Times Per Day We Strengthen Our Attitude to Love Good and Despise Evil

Toras HaEmes.4.9 - We Sing Shira On the Destruction of Evil

Toras HaEmes.4.8 - Chessed Doesn’t Cancel Emes and Emes Doesn’t Cancel Chessed

Toras HaEmes.4.5 - Understanding Others is Imperative for Middas HaEmes

Toras HaEmes.4.4 - Even One Different Word Changes How Hashem Relates to Us

Toras HaEmes.4.7 - Hating the Sin, Loving the Sinner…Even if the Sinner is Us

Toras HaEmes.4.6 - Isn’t This Bizarre!?! Trying to Understand How a Rasha Thinks?

Toras HaEmes.4.3 - Judging Someone to be Great Can be a Very Serious Offense!

Toras HaEmes.4.2 - Hashem as Well as Sanhedrin Relate Differently to Different People

Toras HaEmes.4.1 - Introduction to Emes As It Relates to How We Conduct Ourselves With Others

Toras HaEmes.3.5 - We Are Like Angels!?!

Toras HaEmes.3.3 - R’ Yisroel Salanter’s 2 Step Approach to Emes

Preparing to Wipe Out Amalek.1.7 - Our Role in Mechiyas Amalek Today

Preparing to Wipe Out Amalek.1.6 - Getting to a Place Where We Hate that Amalek Didn’t Fear Hashem

Preparing to Wipe Out Amalek.1.5 - Who Is Fit to Wipe Out Amalek

Preparing to Wipe Out Amalek.1.4 - Saul’s Hesitation to Kill Out Amalek

Preparing to Wipe Out Amalek.1.3 - In Order to Execute Punishment the Executioner Must Be Flawless

Preparing to Wipe Out Amalek.1.2 - Hypocrisy is Dangerous Even If You’re Doing the Right Thing!

Preparing to Wipe Out Amalek.1.1 - If We Are Merciful How Can We Fulfill This Mitzvah?

Toras HaEmes.3.2 - Even Hunger Can Affect Our Sechel

Toras HaEmes.2.10 - A Guarantee of the Toras Avrohom!