Orchot Tzadikim - Intro 2 | Rabbi Ariel Mizrahi

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

>> Very good. That's exactly what we're up to. Page 10. He's in the middle of the introduction of here. In the middle of the intro. There's books all around. Please join us. And he says, "You have to know and understand. Anyone whose nature inclines to an evil trait or he became uh habituated in a negative he became uh habituated in a negative trait and he won't try to do something about it. He's going to constantly get stronger in his negative trait, in his addiction, whatever it is. What will eventually happen is this person will start to despise good traits. And you see it all the time. You see a person when they develop a habit see a person when they develop a habit for the wrong things, for the bad traits, gradually the takes over the man and eventually he's going to start despising even good traits. So you see a guy who's cruel and what will happen is he'll see a guy doing and he'll find a way to knock the he'll find a way to knock you for doing you're the bad guy. This was really the mid of Sedum. People of Sedom said that uh if you allow of Sedom said that uh if you allow someone in your house, you're the problem for allowing someone in your house. And you say, "What do you mean? How could that be a bad thing? It's a beautiful thing." But they justified it. They rationalized closing their doors on people. And and is, by the way, it's a very strong argument that you can make. They said, "If you're helping, you're crippling the guy. You're making him, you're teaching him

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2. 6:47That's called an addiction. and to the point that he'll look at you and say, "You're…
3. 13:06some guys they don't recognize their faults. You know what it's like? And he loves giving…
4. 19:20>> Yeah. Wasn't this brought up in the other book? >> Could be. We're going to…
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6. 31:50and you're working on yourself. You know you don't want to do this. You know you…
7. 37:33I know. I know. I know. What's Yeah. What? What do you have to read? Intuition.…
8. 43:49effect nothing wrong but imagine that's why I did it there's also a difference as a…
9. 50:00>> So you see how a bad person could take love which is a great mida…
10. 56:15Think about anger. Anger comes from arrogance. Think about jealousy. Think about the fights that we're…

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