Self Control From The Torah
Learn from the Jewish leaders and Torah stories how to act with self control and build willpower for our day to day life!
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Q: Which mitzvah makes a person practice delayed gratification?
Basar V’Chalev-by having to wait in between dairy and meat meals, we practice the skill of delaying our gratification to a certain food.
Who was the first person in the Torah to lack self control with food?
Chava-Chava and then Adam ate the one thing that HaShem forbade them to. They took an apple from the Eitz Hadas.
“You shouldn’t eat until you’re completely full; you should keep your stomach partially empty.” According to the Rambam, what percentage should a person keep his stomach empty?
A person should keep his stomach 1/3 empty.
“A Tzaddik eats exactly what he needs. He doesn’t overeat and doesn’t starve.” There were 2 people who were complimented with this pasuk: a jewish king and a woman in tenach. Who were they?
“צדיק אוכל לשבע נפשו”
Jewish King: Chizkiyahu
Jewish Woman: Rus
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Having Willpower and not being impulsive is the key to achieving a spiritual life. We see this concept in the Gemara in Masechet Ketuvot. Rabbein Hakadosh, the author of the of the Mishnayot, was very wealthy. Before he died, he raised his hand and said that with all that that he had, he never indulged with pleasure of earing.
Tosfot connects this medrash to the story. The medrash says, until a person prays that he should remember and understand the Torah in depth, he should pray that he’d have self control of not indulging food. From here we see that the condition to excel in the Torah is to have self control.
