meta: {"file": "/data/tomer/Sefaria-Export/txt/Musar/Kad HaKemach/English/merged.txt"}
text: Kad HaKemach
  כד הקמח
  merged
  
  This file contains merged sections from the following text versions:
  -Sefaria Community Translation
  -
  
  Kad HaKemach
  
  Introduction
  
  
  
  Faith
  
  
  
  Love
  
  
  
  Guests
  
  
  
  Mourning
  
  
  
  Trust
  
  
  
  Blessing
  
  
  
  Synagogue
  
  
  
  Theft
  
  
  
  Arrogance
  
  
  
  Convert
  
  
  
  Redemption
  
  
  
  Laws
  
  
  
  Submission
  
  
  
  Providence
  
  
  
  Shaming
  
  
  
  Confession
  
  
  
  Straying of Heart and Eyes
  
  
  
  Flattery
  
  
  
  Desecration of God's Name
  
  
  
  Desire
  
  
  
  Groom
  
  
  
  Purity of the Heart
  
  
  
  Fear of God
  
  
  
  God's Unity
  
  
  
  Evil Inclination
  
  
  
  Honoring Parents
  
  
  
  Atonement
  
  
  
  Slander
  
  
  
  Lulav
  
  
  
  God's Existence
  
  
  
  Mezuzah
  
  
  
  Circumcision
  
  
  
  Rain
  
  
  
  Section 1
  
  
  
  
  
  When sufferings of chastisement come upon a person, he returns to the good. As the sages interpreted the Song of Songs, "Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, and pleasant" - even when You bring upon me sufferings of chastisement, it is pleasant. Why? Because You return me thus to the good. Human repentance is never complete without suffering. Repentance is improving one's actions and character. It is not fasting and wearing sackcloth and wallowing in the dust and immersing in water while remaining soiled on the inside with sins and evil thoughts. And so said the prophet (Isaiah 58): "Do you call that a fast, A day when the LORD is favorable?" "No, this is the fast I desire: To unlock fetters of wickedness, And untie the cords of the yoke." [...] The intent of the Torah is that one should first cleanse oneself on the inside, casting out from one's heart the impurities of sin, and then return what one has taken unfairly or by violence, and ask forgiveness from one's friend. After immersing one's heart inwardly and doing all kinds of purification and cleansing oneself from sin, one should purify oneself also outwardly by fasting and immersing the body, and so on...
  
  Consolation
  
  
  
  Chanukah Lights
  
  
  
  Joy
  
  
  
  Sukkah
  
  
  
  Wanton Hatred
  
  
  
  Willow
  
  
  
  Shemini Atzeret
  
  
  
  Humility
  
  
  
  Wealth
  
  
  
  Sustenance
  
  
  
  Passover
  
  
  
  Section 1
  
  
  
  
  
  ... And on this the Torah says (Exodus 13:7) "there will not be seen and there will not be found" - it will not be seen b'maaseh (in action) and will not be found b'machshava (in thought), rather one should anul it in his heart. The mitzvot have 3 categories: mitzvot of speech, of the heart and of action, as it is written (Deuteronomy 30:14) "in your mouth and in your heart to do it". Comes the Torah (instructing us) to anul it in the heart, corresponding to the mitzvot which are dependent on the heart. Comes the 'kabbalah' (instructing us) to eradicate it from the house or to burn it, corresponding to the mitzvot of action. And to say 'kol chamira', corresponding to mitzvot of speech. In this way the 3 categories of mitzvot are fulfilled through the prohibition of chametz, teaching you that the prohibition of chametz incorporates all the mitzvot... Just as the 'kabbalah' comes (instructing us) to eradicate chametz and (livdok) to check the house in nooks and in cracks, so too we are obligated to search and check the chambers of our inner being for bad (machshavas) intentions and bad (hirhurim) thoughts. Just as bedikat chametz (checking for chametz) is not valid by sunlight, nor by moonlight, nor by the light of a torch, but only by the light of a candle, so too the bedikah (checking) of the yetzer hara must be by the light of the neshama (soul) which is called 'ner' (candle), this is what is written (Proverbs 20:27) "the candle of Hashem is the soul of man, which searches the chambers of one's inner being.
  
  Purim
  
  
  
  Charity
  
  
  
  Fringes
  
  
  
  Holiness
  
  
  
  Jealousy
  
  
  
  Reshut (Permission)
  
  
  
  Rosh HaShanah
  
  
  
  Oath
  
  
  
  Shabbat
  
  
  
  Peace
  
  
  
  Shavuot
  
  
  
  Torah
  
  
  
  Prayer
  
  
  
  Repentance
  
  
  
  Fasting
  
  
  
  Tefillin
  
  