🔥Daily Chassidus: Evil remains in one’s heart unless it is burned out through prayer

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Evil remains in one’s heart unless it is burned out through prayer

Every person contains mixed within their soul a certain measurement of good and evil. Even a person who does not actually transgress or express the evil contains it within his soul in a dormant manner. The evil remains in its full strength within the person’s heart even if it is not expressed until it is properly refined and removed. How does one refine and remove the evil in his heart? This can only be accomplished through arousing such a strong and passionate love within prayer that one burns away any and all remnant of evil from his heart. It is for this reason that the sages instituted the daily prayer specifically after the destruction of the temple, as during temple times evil did not exist within man’s heart to such a great extent and hence did not require as much of a fire of love within prayer in order to refine it. [Now this does not mean that evil did not exist in the times of the first Temple in which they transgressed idolatry, adultery and murder, but rather simply that the evil did not stick as much to the heart.]

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Rabbi Yaakov Goldstein is a 6th generation descendent of the famous Chief Rabbi of Izhmir, Rav Yehoshua Avraham Krispin, who authored a number of Sefarim, and was a colleague of Rav Chaim Falagi, and father in-law of the Pesach Hadvir. He currently lives with his wife Shayna, and twelve children K”H, in Tzfas, Israel. Rabbi Goldstein received Semicha from Rabbi Schneur Zalman Labkowski of the Tomchei Temimim headquarters in 2005 and served as a chaplain in the Lotar/Kalatz and K9 unit of the IDF from years 2005-2008. He is also a certified Shochet, and has performed Hashgacha work in slaughterhouses. Rabbi Goldstein is the director of Shulchanaruchharav.com, the world’s leading web-based Halacha database, and is the director of the Home Study Semicha Program, a self-study web-based Semicha program. He is a prolific author of over 50 Sefarim studied by a wide range of readers throughout the world, which is used regularly in Semicha programs around the globe. He is a world renowned Posek, answering questions to a web-based market, and serves as a local Posek, Rav, and Lecturer, in the Tzemach Tzedek community Shul in Tzefas, Israel. His many classes can be heard both from his website, Vimeo and YouTube channel. Students can join live to classes given in the Tzemach Tzedek Shul, through the “בית חבד צפת Chabad Tsfat” YouTube channel.