Mussar Mondays: Mesilat Yesharim 102 (Kedusha/Holiness 1) with Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe

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

study i think this is the 105th class that we've been doing together which is over two years what the goal of the of the entire humanity is to be as close as possible to the almighty what we're trying to attain is the ultimate level of pleasure which is the connection the cleaving to hashem and for there to be no barriers and what we've discussed all along these 25 previous chapters were the different previous chapters were the different tools and methods that are necessary to create that bond and that closeness with hashem so that we don't have any barriers between us and god the highest level attainable to mankind as we'll see soon in the introduction on page 503 is the uh the level of holiness it's not an easy level for us to attain what we need to do i'm sorry okay what we need to do in order to attain this level is to this level is to really recognize all of the steps that we spoke about till now and actualize them and then what we you know we're going to need to define what is holiness what is holiness people use the word holiness i'm just going to share a story i'm sure i've shared this story before i think we did at the end of last week's class we shared a story of an individual who was traveling around the world backpacking

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1. 0:32study i think this is the 105th class that we've been doing together which is over…
2. 5:10more capable than in other places in other places we have distractions in other places we…
3. 9:49pinnacles bin yaya continues it doesn't stop there it says and holiness brings one to divine…
4. 15:04that is its initial phase is one of divine service through one's own work but its…
5. 19:43to neglect your efforts your job is to put your effort forward the results are not…
6. 24:52and then when we raise our hand hashem says ah i see someone there drowning they…
7. 29:31called shabbos kodesh we use the same word of kadusa of holiness the holy shabbos we…
8. 34:20safeguard knowledge and people seek teaching from his mouth why for he is an angel of…
9. 39:30to place himself in this state of complete attachment from the physical and complete attachment to…
10. 44:14we have so many of our our great uh sages in in torah luminaries who were…

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