<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><i> </i>R' Micha wrote:<div><i>Therefore one must cleanse one's heart every day before study and<br> after it of impure attitudes and middos with a fear of sin and good deeds.</i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div>Wouldn't that be achieved by the brocho rishona and the brocho achrona?</div><div><i><br></i></div><div><br></div><div>R' Micha also wrote:</div><div><i>As I see it, a role of the keruvim on the aron is to protect those who<br>lack the middos from using the Torah to water their weeds.</i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div>Frankly, IMHO, if the Torah and Aron cannot protect those who lack</div><div>the middos, then I think it's somewhat naive to think that the keruvim</div><div>will do any better.</div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#003399"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="body" style=""><i>I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.</i></span><i> </i></span></font></div><div>(And the Father is symbolically the Almighty -- not <i>keruvim</i>).</div><div><br></div><div>Sigmund Freud (Parentheses: mine).</div><div>Kol tuv.</div><div>ri</div></body></html>