Ten Minutes of Meaning (Part 78): The Powerful Draw to Promiscuity - Mesillas Yesharim

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

Yesharim, the great formula of the Ramchal, Rav Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, who charted a course a course forward for us about how to live the best version of ourselves, how to tap into our greatest potential, how to live our best lives, how to express the best within ourselves and that's frankly what the time we're living in so desperately needs. We remain in quarantine, we're still on top of one another, many are trying to balance work, home, homeschooling and so much more and it's testing. It's truly an incubator that's testing all the things we've worked on testing all the things we've worked on our whole lives. Will we lose our cool? Will we blow up and get angry? Will we be envious of others who seem to have it so much easier? Will we be arrogant and insist the home has to everyone has to fall in step and work exactly our way? Will we be humble? All the different areas of our life that hopefully throughout our lives we've been working on, this is a pressure cooker sort of testing all those qualities. Will we come through? Is this the best version? Are we achieving our most? Are we actually growing from this experience? actually growing from this experience? Growing ourselves, growing closer with others and growing closer with Hashem. So the entire Mesillas Yesharim based on the statement of R' Pinchas ben Yair is how to achieve human perfection. We began with zehirus, a life of mindfulness and vigilance and caution, how we can be pre-present and conscientious in every thought and speech and action, which sounds like it should be a basic human function. Think before you speak. Think before you do. It's hopefully what we were taught since we were young children. It should be

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1. 0:52Yesharim, the great formula of the Ramchal, Rav Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, who charted a course a…
2. 2:23we were young children. It should be obvious and basic. Only it's not. Look how many…
3. 3:57standards so high, to make my own ideals and my own drive and my own lifestyle…
4. 5:28There is a basic human drive. God simply created humanity to have this drive, to be…
5. 7:00That one shouldn't come close to revealing uh erva, to uncovering nakedness. It means that there's…
6. 8:31designed it." God says that to us. He says, "I know you're I know you better…
7. 10:03think that they can act above the law and without reproach with anyone anywhere and that…
8. 11:37of grapes, lie on the couch, and have someone feed them the grapes? They're only prohibited…
9. 13:07little bit after the stop sign. So therefore, American law, we place the stop sign before…
10. 14:37elevate the opposite. We know that once you're in that in that situation of temptation, we…

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