SICHAH 51 – What Is Important in this World?

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Sichos HaRan 38 – Speaker: Rabbi Zvi Aryeh Rosenfeld zal. (Lesson rw17aclip-1. Recorded in 1976.)

• 00:00 SICHAH 50b. In our generation, we’re not at a high enough spiritual level to rely only prayer to recover from illness. We use doctors but maintain faith in HaShem. “HaShem is so powerful that He can heal a person even if a doctor’s treating him” – Rabbi Eliyah Chaim Rosen zal.
• 03:09 Story of Rabbi Yosei and the herbalist (Menachos). The origin of extraterrestrials.
• 12:21 Why do aliens not invade the earth?
• 14:53 Story of a rabbi’s visit to the Fourth Dimension.
• 16:31 Rabbi Yosei returns to Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai zal. Spiritual powers in vegetation – lowly “moss” is used for purification from contact with a dead body.
• 18:40 In our generation, Rav Avrohom (Kokhav-Lev) Sternhartz zal avoided doctors and lived to be 94.
• 19:05 “We cannot say that everyone should always avoid doctors… so if they are consulted, at least a person should maintain strong faith that it is only HaShem Who cures.”
• 20:09 SICHAH 51. Material gain in this world is worthless.
• 28:06 Stay young.
• 29:26 A person shouldn’t be wasteful of his abilities.
• 31:20 Don’t let this material world fool you.
• 34:21 HaShem holds non-Jews responsible for their deeds, especially if they harm Jews.
• 37:29 Milchamas HaYetzer – maintaining purity on the battlefield of the heart.