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Finding Your Path Mesilas Yesharim PT 45

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Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair

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Okay, good evening everybody. We're continuing with Masilis Shar and the path of the just finding your path. Uh last week we ended up with a contradiction between two ideas in Kazal. One is this idea of precious of separation. Point of fact is last week's para kados kazal dash and kazal learn out from that to you that you should separate yourself distance yourself even those things which are mut which are permissible. you should come back within your boundary and make those things for yourself personally. Um, osa forbidden. And so that's one idea, the common idea of pushim. And there's another idea that um it says that a person it says in Cohelis in his Ecclesiastes Solomon says don't be too big at sadic. Um another we saw is actually it's not sufficient that the Torah already made things for you that you want to come now. You want to go and start making other things on yourself. Those things that the Torah didn't prohibit. So what we're going to do tonight to start off with is to try and resolve this contradiction between these two ideas in our in Kazal in our our rabbis the spiritual masters who taught us on the one hand that we should restrict ourselves even in those things which are muta on the other hand the that a person should not be overly um how do you say strict and there's another kazal which I can't see here which in the world to come the Keshu will have a Tina will have a claim against anybody against somebody who had the opportunity to take

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  1. 0:00Okay, good evening everybody. We're continuing with Masilis Shar and the path of the just finding
  2. 3:11one which is foolish. Um the idea first of all is that a person has to
  3. 6:58Rebbitson Raful Harari or Harari Raful I forget which way around it is and she was
  4. 10:14Most almost everything within the dietary restrictions of a Jew is is mut. But when a
  5. 13:59question is obvious and is asked why is it that somebody who sees a soda should
  6. 17:48say there is a small organ in a man which when it is satiated when you
  7. 20:55the kavarium and I need to dav and uh in the middle of man this was
  8. 24:43even on a very very very limited level of inspiration because when it does when the
  9. 27:57objectively and say you know you go to your rebi and you say rebi you know
  10. 31:46that uh the rove nullifies the the mute the minority in that particular case is not

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