Finding Your Path - Mesilat Yesharim Part 28

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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.

good evening everybody we're continuing our search our path finding our own path to the path of the just using the path of the just by's book we're in the chapter chapter 11 chapter which is about Nik it's called cleanliness and basically the idea of Nik is that even when a person has so to speak done the first clean out of himself and Now does not transgress the torah's negative Commandments but there's a still a level where he may not be actually physically doing those things which are wrong but he's still attracted to them and part of Nik is to remove that underlying desire that's one part of nute and the other part of Nik is to be aware of all the pro protim the mintii of what make up the is the things that a person has to avoid and as he says in the previous chapter the way that you get to this higher level even though it's something which has to do with the desire of a person as opposed to his physical actions is this principle we've dealt with before which is that the heart is drawn after the actions when a person habituates himself to act in a certain way this eventually becomes part of who he is part of his emotional reality an example of that for example be the reverse of that was the Nazis the nature of a human being is to be kind people are generally kind but the

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1. 0:00good evening everybody we're continuing our search our path finding our own path to the path…
2. 3:47week look at the matter the subject of fraud how easy do a person when it…
3. 8:02actions a lot and check what he's doing under the wheat will emerge the thistle the…
4. 11:51excuse me Tris is a small amount than a dinon so the old grain is actually…
5. 16:19I don't know if it's it's a computer you can do or it's a whatever it…
6. 20:46the somebody who gives with interest and he takes with another kind of interest that is…
7. 24:39hand distance yourself from it and do not allow iniquity to dwell in your tent because…
8. 29:06consume to eat grapes if they're moist or if they're dry I gue they call currants…
9. 33:02be physical action anything which is physically close to um sexual relations or b r whether…
10. 37:24going to be ladies in the street and inevitably you're going to see but you can…

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