Nachdaily: 5 Minute Perek Of Tanach Covering The Entire Navi. Sefer Yehoshua, Shoftim, Shmuel, Melachim, Yeshaya, Yirmiya, Ye

Mishlei Perek 3 Hello everyone. Welcome to NachDaily, covering the entire Tanach one perek at time. Today we’re discussing Mishlei, perek gimmel. While most of Mishlei is about working on our character traits, this perek opens with the idea of” tikkun divrey hasechel, fixing our minds and purifying our thoughts.” This is really the essence of wisdom. When we let go of our personal agendas, fully recognizing the true Source of the power of the mind, we rid ourselves of contaminated thoughts and allow a higher level of thinking which comes straight from Hashem. This is the essence of what prophecy was. A prophet’s thoughts were directly linked to Hashem. This heightened their levels of consciousness and awareness of the Divine. They would rise higher and higher until God actually spoke through them, leaving an impression in their minds via the power of thought. Shlomo again speaks as if to a child, warning it not to forget Hashem’s Torah. The Torah must be the guiding light in one’s life “Ki orech y