How Can You Know You've Passed The Divine Test - Jewish HaShkafa (87)

While many prescribe everything from comedy, yoga, positive thoughts to violence in order to overcome bad traits, The Chazon Ish taught us the novel idea of using Halacha as the cure for it all. With that in mind, how would one know for sure that they have overcome the test and are no longer the same person they were before the test?

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0:00:00 Introduction
0:04:55 Temporary solutions that fail to cure bad middos (comedy, exercise, ignore)
0:09:45 Permanent solution: meticulous observance of halacha to cure bad middos (Chazon Ish)
0:11:24 Habit of patience is cure for anger and taking offense (Chazon Ish)
0:14:37 Habit of quickness is cure for laziness and indifference (Chazon Ish)
0:18:15 Habit of accepting ridicule cures honor-seeking (Chazon Ish)
0:21:26 Trying to overcome bad middos is as old as time (human logic: Plato)
0:23:22 Sages use Divine logic: How the Chazon Ish takes "revenge"
0:27:19 Chazon Ish heeds an elderly man's admonition
0:29:29 Everyone has something to work on
0:30:26 Halacha: the Divine map to operate life (am I allowed to...)
0:32:02 Torah is compared to water and fire
0:33:32 Careful observance of halacha—the only way to correct one's middos
0:39:05 How can one tell whether they passed the test?
0:41:12 Forbidden to test oneself (evil: even with eyes closed)
0:44:03 Forbidden to endanger oneself (spiritually or physically) (Shabbat 32a)
0:44:41 Forbidden to endanger oneself (from a business perspective)
0:46:42 Torah's value must be understood to maximize its use—requires toiling for extended period of time—no arrogance (Chazon Ish)
0:47:35 Learning Torah the wrong way can turn into a poison
0:49:04 Mussar deficiency causes Chukos Hagoyim to affect American Yeshivot
0:54:42 Talmud Yerushalmi - Megillah 1 Halacha 10
1:00:37 When the evil comes put your head down and keep moving forward (R. Gamliel, R. Akiva Yevamos 121a)
1:05:37 The mind of an average person (empty mind: consumed by world's problems)
1:10:36 Rav Shach: the common problem of people (Avos 3:5 (Accepting burden of Torah))
1:15:33 Immoral thoughts: A result of a mind absent of Torah (Rambam, Issurei Biah 22)
1:17:16 Those who think they're superior to the Torah vs Hashem's servants
1:19:44 Parshah Vayeishev: Yosef HaTzaddik's mind was always full of Torah
1:24:47 Arrogance takes a person out of this world (Avos)
1:26:06 Average person's mind vs Great Sages' mind
1:33:22 Rabbi Zeira checks himself: The fire of Gehinnom does not rule over Torah scholars; salamandra (Bava Metzia 85a; Chaggia 27a; Sanhedrin 63b)
1:40:56 Conclusion
1:45:34 Gehinnom The Movie The Final Trailer

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How Can You Know You've Passed The Divine Test - Jewish HaShkafa (87)