Finding Your Path -- Mesilas Yesharim PT 50

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Okay, good evening everybody. Um, first you want the good news or the bad news? Okay, so last week apparently six six minutes into the recording of the tape there's like this other conversation going on. So I was asked if I could uh repeat last week. It's not going to be a repeat. Obviously I say you know it's not like how do you say a script that I'm working to here. So we will maybe carry car go over certain things that were said before but this week we're going to be discussing we're going to be carrying on the uh chapter 16 the mitzvah of the mida excuse me of tahara of purity tahara interesting this week's para is paras which is all about the mitzvah the paradum by which somebody can purify themselves from the spiritual impurity the myasma that comes from contact with a dead body. Now, I don't know if I mentioned this before, but if I did, you'll forgive me. It's always worth repeating these ideas because they're deep ideas. What is the idea of Tahara? Before we go any further, what is the idea of purity, impurity? We're clearly not speaking about physical decomposition because a mace a Jew who dies his body is the aviatum literally the gr the granddaddy of all impurities. When the soul leaves the body it leaves a vacuum there which is the most the most tom thing that can possibly be. So let's first of all

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1. 0:00Okay, good evening everybody. Um, first you want the good news or the bad news? Okay,…
2. 2:35so the so let's try and understand these ideas first of all let's go back and…
3. 5:24actually limited his physical um actions and of course we're in the mid Past the idea…
4. 8:33kurban the kohanim receives certain parts of the kurban and teaches how kanim when the coim…
5. 11:17and I understand it better than you do. There's a gyver, there's a a conceit, there's…
6. 14:36the the most pure existence that can possibly be but he so to speak he allows…
7. 17:19only thing that can go on the the the the misbeh so surely Anything which is…
8. 20:05level of loving Hashem in this way, just like a person if he loves somebody, if…
9. 23:21Ready? Yes. Person able to get to this point without having to become to do the…
10. 26:01person does a mitzvah with with tremendous kavana and all the purity in his heart that…

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