Finding Your Path Mesilas Yesharim Part 75

What’s said in this shiur

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

Okay. Good evening everybody. We're on chapter 23, reaching towards the end of the path of Mesillas Yesharim. Chapter 20 perek yish chof gimmel, b'darkei kinyan ha'anavah ha'anavah v'harḥakah mi mafsidaiha. The way to acquire humility. It always points out points out that humility comes way at the end of this book. A person has to go truly up very high up the ladder before truly up very high up the ladder before he can even contemplate the idea of of real humility. But last week we spoke about humility in more general terms, excuse me. And now we talk about actually how do you acquire humility? He's going to be speaking about a principle that um we've discussed in the past. Which is and it's something that took behavioral psychology a couple of few maybe a psychology a couple of few maybe a thousand years to figure it out. And Chazal understood this and it's based in the principle which actually the Sefer Sefer haChinuch says acharei hape'ulois nimshachim halevavos. After the actions is drawn the heart. A person is influenced. If you think about it, the the the thoughts of a person and the feelings of a person are much less accessible to him than his are much less accessible to him than his actions. A person has has much more control over what he does than what he feels or what he thinks. It's possible to control your feelings. It's possible to control your thoughts. But it's much easier to control your actions. So if you think about it, interesting how the Torah the vast majority of the mitzvos of the Torah are actions. Put on tefillin, wave a lulav, don't turn the light on on Shabbos. Vast majority of Torah mitzvahs are

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