Daily Kabbalah Lesson with Ari Goldwag back issues

The raw act of the mitzvah itself is the main part of the fulfillment. The thoughts one attaches to it are only secondary.

Another trick is that the evil inclination has a person believe that the focus should only be on purity of heart, and tricks him to miss the proper time of the mitzvah or prayer.

One of the tricks of the evil inclination is that he passes himself off as the good inclination.

The more one has worked on his level of purity and holiness, the greater is his need to be careful not to be ensnared in the trap of the evil inclination of putting others down.

Embarrassing Torah scholars is a horrible sin, and it incurs great spiritual destruction. Even if the person is learning Torah with the wrong intents, by putting him down, great spiritual destruction can occur, Heaven forbid.