LIVING TORAH 31, THE WAY RABBEINU WANTED

 THE END GOALS.

1. Meriting kisufin tovim (good desires and yearnings), which will rectify all that goes wrong in our lives (this idea is based on "Likutei Halochos", "Hodaya 5").

2. Achieving the level of  "sustenance in the aspect of lechem hapanim" (holy bread in the Bais HaMikdash) where a person no longer perceives that they have to leave the realm of kedushah in order to have what to live on.


THE REQUISITE PRACTICES.

1. Giving tzedakah: 

a) to poor people for their Shabbos needs;

b) before traveling.

2. Celebrating and observing Shabbos:

a) by preparing special food and clothing;

b) by being joyous;

c) be being careful to observe all the relevant halochos;

d) by talking differently than on the weekdays;

e) by bringing the holiness of Shabbos into the six days of the week.

3. Developing emunah:

a) that Hashem created the world and continues to govern it with Hashgacha Pratis;

b) that when we give tzedakah to a poor person, we're in fact receiving and not giving;    

c) that although we don't work on Shabbos and have to do many things to prepare for it, it is Shabbos    that provides blessing for the weekdays when we do work.

4. Studying halacha,

so as to have good working knowledge of all the practical laws and to be able to make right decisions when one should be machmir and when not.

5. Striving to become both a tzaddik and a lamdan:

a) developing Yiras Shamayim;

b) remembering that "not the study is the main thing but the practice" and so striving to acquire good middos and do many good deeds;

c) working on tikkun habris, that is,  relating properly to the opposite gender and striving to only have    pure thoughts.

6. Kisufin (good desires):

a) thinking regularly about the good things we'd like to accomplish and the good qualities we'd like to attain;

b) verbalizing these yearnings every day in our hisbodedus.

  

                                                                                                          



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