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Ein Yaakov – Lesson 006a – Shabbos – Page 32 – Vidui – Never Lose Hope – Meilitz Yashar – Earth, Air, Fire, Water and the Power of Speech – Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai zal

Ein Yaakov – Lesson 006a – Masekhes Shabbos – Page 32 – Vidui – Never Lose Hope – Meilitz Yashar – Earth, Air, Fire, Water and the Power of Speech – Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai zal – Speaker: Rabbi Zvi Aryeh Rosenfeld zal. (Recorded abt. 1970.)
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 life and the next.
08:40 – The concept of Meilitz Yashar – a defending angel.
*10:00 – The light of even one good deed can dispel infinite darkness.
14:17 – The power of speech and the four basic elements of creation: earth, air, fire, water.
*18:00 – When a person guards his speech, his defending angels are strengthened.
21:52 – An account of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai 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.
29:24 – Rabbi Pinchas ben Yair wept over the open sores of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai.
30:53 – How Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai killed two people with a glance.
35:12 – A question about the carob tree that sustained Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai and his son. If a tree grows from rocks, it is exempt from the mitzvah of Orlah.

This shiur is dedicated by Yossi Segal: “To success and clarity in living our purpose for my son, בן ציון בן יוסף his mother, רחל חיה בת דבורה and myself, יוסף בן חנה דבורה. May the light of the Torah always illuminate our paths.”