Rabbi Guy Matalon - Mesilat Yesharim Insights

What’s said in this shiur

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

i thought that we would get a little deeper into a certain topic that music sharing talks about kind of like the way we did last time and i brought another book by rabbi to show you an idea that comes at me but it's covered more in depth in uh hashem so are there any objections to doing that no good okay that what is the purpose of human existence to find the pleasure in god to seek pleasure and ultimate pleasure is through connecting to god and how does one connect hashem through mitzvahs the mitzvahs are ways to perfect ourselves the more perfected or completed we reach the higher levels we reach then we have a greater ability to connect to hashem and our connection to hashem is the way that we feel pleasure so now we are going to look at this idea in the writings of ramkha in their hashem says ultimate goal in creation you ready for this this is a life changer you picked the best day to come because if you get this that's it you don't need anything else you can go to the army what no it's for him he just he just came today so if he gets this idea that's it he can he doesn't need any more you you have a bar mitzvah today so you have to start you've got a lot of work to do ultimate purpose of creation is for hashem to give of his goodness to all other existent beings god's nature is to give that's what god is it is an entity that gives and what does it give it doesn't slap people it gives to his goodness and then he says

Jump to a moment

1. 0:12i thought that we would get a little deeper into a certain topic that music sharing…
2. 3:26makes sense to you or not and she's absolute perfection is only in relation to hashem…
3. 7:16good amen you know hashem is listening so he just said 20 he's like you know…
4. 10:21and in order for that for the purpose of the universe to take place we have…
5. 14:09not doing trying oh you're still trying well hold on there's a difference some people actually…
6. 17:20or success success but people have different um they have like different levels of what they…
7. 21:04or didn't you that is did you reach a level of perfection that you didn't have…
8. 24:12there's no bracha for it there's no bracha for sadaka either why because it's not the…
9. 27:55you don't like that you need the password that's that's the idea that's what hashem is…
10. 31:17okay what like what's your definition of obtaining 100 knowledge is that which is unchanging what…

Every second of this shiur plays inside Lehallel — a filtered YouTube library where each video was reviewed against one written standard before it could appear. No ads, no comments, no autoplay into anything unapproved.