DO THE RIGHT THING | Orchos Tzaddikim

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

We're continuing our quest to turn you into men. >> Amen. >> Amen. That's what we're saying. And we're we want you to be a tadik. And a tadic is a man, a real man. Do you know the ultimate definition of a sadic? What's the ultimate definition of a sadic? What does the word sadik mean? >> Pardon? What does that mean though? What does it mean to be righteous dude? >> He's a righteous dude. >> To be what do you know what sodc means? >> Sodk. What does sodk mean? >> Refined in every way. >> I like that. It doesn't mean that. >> I do want you to be refined in every way, but that's not what it means. It means >> correct. >> Correct. >> Do you know what a tadic is? Sadik is someone who always does the right thing. What's the right thing? I'm going to do it. So I'm not pushed around by other motivations. What do I feel like doing? What do other people want me to do? Just what's the right thing to do? That's it. Not even pleasure. In some places they might teach you that the purpose of life is pleasure which would be a ridiculous thing because really if you're motivated by pleasure then you're not a sadic because a tadic isn't motivated by pleasure. Saddic is motivated by one thing and one thing only. Doing the right thing just going to always do the

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1. 0:00We're continuing our quest to turn you into men. >> Amen. >> Amen. That's what we're…
2. 2:09by pleasure. People are motivated by all sorts of things. But sadic is motivated by only…
3. 4:14and we still completely love each other don't judge each other and at one point he…
4. 7:30So just different. And at the end of the day before you go to bed and…
5. 9:32be used for good or used for bad. Love of women could be lust and forbidden…
6. 12:08always thinking to myself, what can I do for my wife? What does my wife need?…
7. 14:17satiated. So your people's whole lives are chasing feeding my body and my and my ego…
8. 16:26you say something not nice about someone, you chose death. You chose death. And don't say…
9. 19:07Never touch money. Never touch women. got away. It's impossible to do. Judaism says no. It's…
10. 21:14mountains. You got to do stuff. So you don't do stuff now. It's totally overindulge in…

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