Are You Truly Compassionate? The Gate of Mercy Explained | Orchos Tzadikkim

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The opening of this shiur, in Rav Dov Ber Cohen’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Okay. So, we are continuing on our journey and we've [clears throat] we're going through oradikim. It's a famous classic book of mus [snorts] character development, personal growth. And it's interesting to see that in the mitzvah in the Torah, there's no real mitzvah to work on your character traits, which is a bit interesting. Although there are things like don't bear a grudge and don't take revenge and love Hashem and love your fellows yourself and give charity. So there are kind of ideas around that. But >> 9 10:00 [clears throat] there isn't a mitzvah to like improve your character traits. And the sages say because that's obvious if you're not if you don't have good character traits then you don't Torah you're not even anywhere near Torah. So we say which really means being a mch comes before even being holy. There's no such thing as being holy if you know some people like to use that as an excuse saying no being a mch is more important than Torah so I don't need to learn Torah. I just need to be a mch. And it's a mistake. It but it means that in order to learn Torah in a healthy way, you have to be a healthy human being. So a lot of what I do and my teaching, I hope you've realized, is to help you become really healthy human beings. Because if you're

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1. 0:00Okay. So, we are continuing on our journey and we've [clears throat] we're going through oradikim.…
2. 2:37have a bed, probably warm, and if it wasn't, you could get a new blanket or…
3. 5:42[clears throat] say every day the 13 that God has these 13 meters, these 13 measures,…
4. 8:50for people. I just I just want to be kind. Whereas rakim is passive. It's aroused…
5. 11:26from my whole ego and my world perspective and everything and just truly see someone else.…
6. 14:27I'd know what you need? I didn't have the parents that you had. And and the…
7. 17:29got to understand as a father you have to have compassion on your children. immense love.…
8. 20:03from the moment you get in and you're just in shock and denial. You don't know…
9. 23:06other people. And I thought of an example the other day on Friday, last Friday, I…
10. 26:14"I'm so sorry." And he goes, "I'm really happy." >> No, I'm saying I mean like…

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