Rambam Mishneh Torah: Hilchos De'os Chapter 3 - Don't Run Away from the World

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

a life of moderation a life in which you're centered and balanced the path which he called the derek hashem when somebody is indeed morally or spiritually ill they sometimes have to go to another extreme to straighten themselves out the rambam also at the end of chapter 2 discussed how a life filled with jealousy addiction seeking glory and self-aggrandizement makes one miserable now the rambam continues chapter three and chapter three is going to be about the other side of is going to be about the other side of things avoiding asceticism and the tendency to run away from the world the rambam is going to discuss how a jew ought to live in the world and engage with everything that is part of our material life a person might say since we have just learned and it's really a mission in purchase of us that jealousy envy and addiction an excessive appetite and craving and the seeking of glory really are a destructive path and they extricate a person from the world they turn your life into a miserable experience so a person might say okay efrish man i will segregate myself i will separate i will segregate myself i will separate my myself from them intensely and i will i'll i will move i will gravitate to the other extreme ah to the point person will not eat meat anymore will not drink wine like will not marry a woman will not live in a comfortable nice home will not wear fine clothing ella instead the person will wear a sock

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1. 0:31a life of moderation a life in which you're centered and balanced the path which he…
2. 3:36with truth with god says derambam i want you to know gam zhu derek rahi from…
3. 7:08and new restrictions on you this is not the path and now we have to emphasize…
4. 10:44a person needs to focus and direct his heart and all of his activities laid this…
5. 14:23why am i eating what's the ultimate purpose of the eating purpose of the eating is…
6. 18:02gimmel number three halakha three hamane smell for if somebody lives according to the doctor's advice…
7. 21:36to the point that his body should be wholesome in order to be able to serve…
8. 25:09and over there these two sources are quoted in the appropriate order first they used the…
9. 28:43hashem i could connect i connect and i see hashem within every single experience i connected…
10. 32:18we believe that the only one who can give us an honest opinion about any man…

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