Ein Yaakov 006a – Shabbat 32 – Vidui – Never Give Up Hope (First Lesson in Series)

Ein Yaakov – Shabbat 32 – Vidui – Confession – Never Give Up Hope – Meilitz Yasher – A Mitzvah Is a Defending Angel – The Power of Speech – Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai zal – Carob Tree – Speaker: Rabbi Zvi Aryeh Rosenfeld zal. (Recorded on 1970-08-12.)

• 00:00 Never lose hope. Vidui – confession. Speech impacts the soul. Misdeeds are etched into the bones but can be released through sincere vidui.
• 03:29 Every mitzvah that a person does becomes a defending angel to protect him in this world and in the next.
• 08:04 The concept of Meilitz Yasher – a defending angel.
• 09:24 *The light of even one good deed can dispel infinite darkness.
• 10:27 *Rebbe Nachman advises: don’t be your own accusing angel. Search within yourself until you find a bit of good, and use it to pull yourself out of a pit of darkness.
• 13:26 The power of speech and the four basic levels of creation: Domem (inanimate), Tzemach (plants), Chai (animals), Medaber – man (literally “speaker”)
• 21:43 *A person who guards his speech strengthens his defense in the Heavenly Court.
• 22:01 An account of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai zal and his son, Rabbi Elazar zal, when they were hiding in a cave near Meron. Rabbi Chaim Vittal zal clarifies a question about Rabbi Pinchas ben Yair zal, the RaSHBi’s father-in-law.
• 28:09 Rabbeinu HaKadosh was the youngest student of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai zal.
• 29:35 Rabbi Pinchas ben Yair wept over the open sores of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai.
• 31:03 How Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai zal killed an evil person with a glance.
• 35:02 A question about the carob tree that sustained Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai zal and his son. If a tree grows from rocks, it is exempt from the mitzvah of Orlah.

Indexing and Notes by S.Y. Wurtzel.