“The speech of his mouth is evil and deceit; he fails to reason, to improve.” – Psalms, 36:4
“The ego does not always tell a person to stop learning Torah. Sometimes it encourages the student to restrict his studies to abstract Talmudic subjects and to avoid those books that would inspire change [in personality.]” – Rabbi DovBer of Mezritch commentary on above verse.
The Meiri comments on that verse: “So entrenched is he in his heretical ways that he does not even want to learn the ways of the Torah, which would cause him to better his ways.
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“The ego does not always stop a person from learning Torah; sometimes it keeps him learning abstract Talmudic parts that do not ask him to change his personality.”
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the source of all wisdom, order, and intelligence cannot be blind in the same way a rock is blind, there are beliefs about the source that are logical and emotionally healthy – https://nextself.ai/spirituality/beliefs-are-not-only-an-idea/
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