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Halakhah su Giobbe 6:32

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This is the instruction to one who repents with all his heart with all his soul and with all his might in order to cleave to his Creator.1Rokeah, ed. Zalkwo, Chapter XX, p. 9b. For each and every transgression which presents itself, he should consider, what if, God forbid, they were to force baptism upon him, he would rather let himself be killed for the Unity of the Name. If this (baptism), which is so difficult (to) withstand he does withstand in His Name, then all other transgressions would be easily put aside. And as soon as one comes to purify himself he is helped from Heaven.2Shabbath 104a. If a man experiences unchaste thoughts about a certain woman during his prayer or other impure fancies, let him dig his thumbs into the earth and let him “hang his body upon them”3Shebuoth 18a. and not lean against a wall and this will dispel the impure fancies. If he is sitting and is unable to rise because of people let him dig his thumbs vigorously into the earth. If a man is in the bathhouse or in a polluted place and thoughts of love possess his heart, or a woman passes before him, let him meditate on matters of Torah4Shulhan Arukh, “Orah Hayim,” 85:1. because Torah is good to purify the heart of its evil inclination.5Kiddushin 30b. Even though it is permissible to meditate on Torah everywhere except in the bathhouse and privy, nevertheless to withdraw a man from transgression it is permitted.6Shabbath 40b. And let a man avoid coming to nocturnal pollution by not drinking more wine then is suited, because it afflicts his heart and turns him aside from God, as it is written, “Harlotry, wine and new wine take away the heart” (Hos. 4:11). And if a transgression presents itself to him, let him pray with all his heart to his Creator that He rescue him. And if the individual were to be visited with tribulations he would presently fast, cry and pray to his Creator, all the more so should a man pray to his Creator that He rescue him from transgression.7Kiddushin 71b. And let a man not acquire for himself a prosecutor on the Day of Judgement. All transgressions committed in this world, each and everyone, envelop him and lead him to Judgement Day, as it is written, “The paths of their way do wind” (Job 6:18).
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