Simple Emunah Through Life's Tests

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

What keeps a person steady as his Yiddishkeit grows more sophisticated? In Rebbe Nachman's story of the Chacham and the Tam, the sophisticate chases worldly wisdom until he denies the king, who stands for Hashem. The simpleton keeps his emunah and bitachon and stays happy. We learn that sophistication is good, but simple emunah needs to lie beneath it, and that daily nisyonos are easier to face when we remember that Hashem sends them.

Key points

• A test is much easier to pass when a person knows he is being tested.
• A small nightly goal of mussar guards against the yetzer hara's surprise attacks.
• Torah is the instruction manual for life, like the rules guide of a video game.

In this shiur

1. 0:00The sophisticate and the simpleton
2. 4:49Simple emunah beneath sophistication
3. 5:30Knowing when you are tested
4. 7:12War games and the yetzer hara
5. 8:46Small goals in learning mussar
6. 10:30The Vilna Gaon's own masechta
7. 12:27Life as a video game
8. 17:59Hashem wants our hearts in tefillah

Topics

• Emunah
• Bitachon
• Nisyonos
• Mussar