R' Moshe Rubin's Wednesday night mussar va'ad.
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Lays out Foundation of Chinuch: Awakening the inner self; creating a lens to find the common denominator in all avodah. Approaching Torah and Mitzvos through a process of self realization rather than isolated activities.
3 Dec 2025
298-From Crushing the Yetzer to Transforming It. Musser and the Simcha of Avodah
In this final VAD on simcha in Alishur. we explore Rav Yisroel Salanter’s three madregos in avodah. awakening emotion. conquering the yetzer. and finally transforming it.
Instead of seeing Musser as fire and brimstone that leads to atzvus. the shiur reframes it as avodah that uncovers the root kochos of a person and redirects them toward kedusha. until the yetzer itself begins to thirst for avodas Hashem.
We also clarify the difference between kvishas hayetzer and tikkun hayetzer. why simcha is both the starting point and the tachlis of avodah. and what it really means to be oseik baTorah in the middle of a full life.
30 Nov 2025
297-Simcha as Shlemus: The Fire of Torah and the Root of Joy
This shiur explores the depth of simcha not as emotion alone, but as a state of shlemus, where opposites join and a person becomes exactly who and where they are meant to be.
We trace how this plays out in Torah itself: the harmony of Torah–Nevi’im–Kesuvim forming a single binyan, the meaning of the eish from Sinai, and why Chazal say the words of Torah themselves are b’simcha.
At the center is a surprising and powerful idea from Chazal: the same inner force that becomes the yetzer hara can, when sweetened become the very energy of joy in learning. Through this, simcha emerges as a lived experience of hisachdus, where a person becomes truly connected to Torah and to HaShem.
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