Rabbi Guy Matalon - Mesilat Yesharim - Chapter 1

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

so let's get started this is the second shear but we're going to do the first year of msilaji sharim misilaji sharim for those of you who don't know is a book here it is it's a book right written by rabbi moshe who lived about 300 years ago he died fairly young and he actually died in eretz israel he lived in in the city of ako and there was a plague and he died his wife and his son so there's a big tragedy what language was it originally he wrote it originally in the hebrew although he was born in padua italy he also lived in amsterdam so we are beginning learning which is in itself one of the important texts that we have uh in the modern period in judaism and we have why is it important because most of us spend a lot of time learning torah we learn mitzvahs we learn the commandments we learn gemara we learn the parsha right that we learn torah we learn other jewish texts but the question is what is it all for what is it all for says the ramkhal very early in the book and we covered this yesterday but i'm doing it for the sake of the studio audience she says the says here's here's what he writes he says that the purpose of this world that a human being was not created for any other reason but to seek pleasure in the connection with god that is the ultimate goal of our creation and that is the greatest pleasure of all other pleasures that you can experience so we went around the room and everybody

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1. 0:12so let's get started this is the second shear but we're going to do the first…
2. 3:21promise when you die 70 virgins i don't know a bigger headache than 70 virgins could…
3. 7:00my wife doesn't eat meat and she says let's go have some ice cream like i…
4. 10:40stuff just to buy and they seek pleasure in buying things right when you go to…
5. 13:54nice apartment a nice cadillac pink cadillac right trophy wife all those things mean nothing he…
6. 17:29so he says you have to understand that the world doesn't love this world that the…
7. 21:16you can eat whatever the torah allows you to do but because our mind does work…
8. 24:28say so figure 60 days two months out of the year my car sits in the…
9. 28:13thing with the world that is there is this is serious business there are lives at…
10. 31:53we still do the bad we choose the bad he says that's worse and it is…

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