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Slichos - some ppl willing to have hard yr to avoid cheshbon or really change. Thats keri! Hardened heart not be closer to H & have better life. But we can't be selfish. - Hashem wants to give us a good life! For Hashem's sake be receptacle for His kindness!
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Shoftim. No magic. The 2nd pasuk chaver ov yidoni doresh - all seem like kurvah. As they connect & somewhat control events with spiritual connection. But we have an AV & we don't twist his arm. & we accept his will - even if painful - with love.
Why is one who doesn't learn like a golden ring in the nise of a swine? - if he's not learning then he doesn't have the ring! Similarly - in what way is he like a beautiful woman who uses it to stray. What beauty does he have?!
What's the continuity ti the next part if the mishnah - charus & cheirus? And whats the continuity from the last mishnah?
The mishnah is not talking about bitul Torah. Rather it's discussing another concept - eisek haTorah. The person HAS Torah - the golden ring but is not consumed by it! It doesn't INVOLVE him! So he remains a pig - the representative of gashmius - & so invested in lowly pursuits that it forgeta about the torah it has & dives into the mud!
Only haOSEK in Torah which completely involves the person, he is temporarily not megusham but enwrapped in the spirituality of the Torah - then there is no elbon. He is not a pig involved in mud but an ish asher ruach bo.
With this concept the mishnah continues to explain the equation of charus = cheirus. When the physical form of the letter is non existent, so that all that is there is the absence of gashmi in a complete bind to the tzurah with no chomer, there exists complete cheirus from yetzer. Because the person is mis'aleh uplifted. He ia no longer on the battlefield with the yetzer. He can objectively hover above it all.
Our battles are so difficult because we are megusham. Only haOsek baTorah is out of the trenches.
The Klausenberg Rebbeh said fasting from shabbos to shabbos, singeing skin, galus & unwashed clothes for 6 months didn't stop the yetzer. Just a blatt gemara WITH TOSAFOS. - only THAT forces involvement & releases one from the confines of his guf's gashmius.
The gemara has a hava amina that a bal keri may not say sh'mah. Because its a disgrace to the Torah. But the maskana is Torah is fire & is not mekabel Tumah. Perhaps there was no discussion if a bal keri may be OSEK in Torah either bec a kal rosh cannot be osek or because then it is pashut that the involvement in Torah would purify him. But when he is just saying the words of Torah the hava amina was that Torah would be affected by him instead of the reverse.
Now certainly the yetzer will try to attract the hovering spirit to come back down to enjoy the spoils of the battlefield, but its entirely a different fight from above. Just don't be enticed to come down.
This entire mishnah is the continuation of "umigadalto umromamto al kol hamasim".
Shoftim - medrash talpiot Hashem doesn't punish for machshava bec only He can testify about our thoughts. & He is our Father & cant punish of father's eidus. Avodah zara thoughts are punished bec the sinner does not relate as Av.
On the other hand we find that in the month of av we suffer not due to a lack of relationship but rather exactly the opposite ka'asher yiyaser ish es b'no...
However in this month of ellul we relate on a different level. Although a father may give 'petch' out of love, no one would say that a husband may hit his wife to discipline her out of love!
In ellul WE should related as a beloved spouse & then even if we need criticism from Hashem it will be with soft-spoken encouragement & not loving 'petch'.