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Podcast: Jewish Inspiration Podcast · Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe
Episode: Way 9: Cultivating Purity in a Contaminated World
Description: In episode nine of the 48 Ways series during the Omer, Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe teaches B’Tahara — “with purity.” Purity means being unadulterated, genuine, and free of ulterior motives or negative influences — pure thoughts, pure actions, and a pure soul with no additives or hidden angles. We are born with a pure soul (“Elokai, neshama shenasata bi tehorah”), but we are heavily shaped by our environment.Rabbi Wolbe stresses that we must guard our environment carefully because negative influences inevitably affect us. He shares a childhood story of using foul language after playing in a public schoolyard and how his parent...