The story brought down by the Tiferes Yisroel at the end of Maseches Kiddushin, where it says that the best of the doctors belong in the gehinom. A king commissioned a painter to paint a picture of Moshe Rabbenu. When his servants, who know how to interpret a picture, saw it, they said that this is a picture of a wicked person with bad character. Each blamed the other. They blamed the painter and the painter blamed them. The King decided to see Moshe Rabbenu by himself. When he met him, he looked exactly as his painting, so the king asked him, how come you look like a wicked person? He said its true that is how I look like but my job is to overcome my tendencies. Similarly the doctor has a tendency to think that he is the one who can heal someone, but he must fight it and realize that Hashem gives him the ability to heal. The Tzetil Katan says that our job in this world is to overcome our nature. Yosef was able to overcome his nature so the yam split overcoming its nature. If someone enunciates the words in krias shema correctly, they cool of the gehinom for him because he is fighting his nature, so they change the nature of the gehinom for him.
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