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P.310. The soul of a person who spends most of his time with "dvarim beteilim" ([non-Torah] empty [nonsensical] activities) requires a post-death purification in the kaf hakeleh (sling-shot [for the soul]). This is not even talking about forbidden things. Even when we manage to pull ourselves out of the everyday nonsense, e.g., jokes from the internet, to our neshamah's (soul's) chagrin, we often slip back into the same old silly habits. But how do we clean up forbidden speech? The two different types of gehinnom (purgatory) which correspond to the "do's" and "don'ts" of Torah. Busying oneself with the wisdom's of the nations of this world. The different types of "issur" (forbidden activity) we can fall into. This chapter is a very painful chapter - why did the Tanya write this in such an explicity manner? How quickly times have changed in the way even the ultra-orthodox view the study of secular studies. The source of dvarim beteilim.