A Running Mesillas Yesharim
At the core of Rabbi Dovid Genish's library is a serious, numbered journey through Mesillas Yesharim, the Ramchal's classic map of spiritual growth. Classes like "Mesilat Yesharim 60: Truth and Lies" and "Mesillat Yesharim #62: Foul Language, the Erva of Speech" show a teacher who is not sampling the sefer but working through it in order, chapter by chapter, over many sessions.
That commitment is the point. A mussar sefer read straight through, in sequence, becomes an actual program of self-work rather than a set of nice ideas — and his running series gives a listener the structure to follow the Ramchal's ladder from one rung to the next.
The Foundations of Belief
He also teaches the bedrock of Jewish thought directly. A class on "13 Principles of Faith: The Unchangeable Torah" takes up one of the Rambam's ikkarim head-on, and "Olam HaBah: What, Where, When?" tackles the questions about the World to Come that most people carry and rarely get answered.
This is machshava in its foundational sense — not decoration on top of observance but the load-bearing beliefs underneath it. He is willing to state the fundamentals plainly and defend them, which gives the rest of his teaching a firm floor to stand on.
Ancient Wisdom, Modern Questions
What keeps his classes current is his ease with contemporary material. "Kids and Technology: What Are We Teaching Them?" meets a live parenting anxiety, and "The Marshmallow Test and the Key to Happiness" reads a famous psychology experiment through a Torah lens on self-control and contentment.
That is his signature move: take an idea from the modern conversation and hold it up against Jewish wisdom to see what each reveals about the other. It makes his more than one hundred recorded classes feel addressed to the life a listener is actually living.
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At a glance
Key takeaways
- Rabbi Dovid Genish teaches a running, numbered series through Mesillas Yesharim, in order.
- He teaches the foundations of belief directly — the 13 Principles of Faith and the World to Come.
- He engages modern material, from kids and technology to the Marshmallow Test and happiness.
- His signature move is holding a contemporary idea up against Torah wisdom to see what each reveals.
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