Finding Your Path Mesilas Yesharim PT 61

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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. So, good evening and welcome to our continuing path, finding our path upwards and upwards closer to Hashem Sharim. We're talking about the idea of the elements of what's called piety going beyond the letter of the law. As we said in previous weeks, this really divides into three areas. what consists ofas how you carry out these actions ofas and what's the kavana behind them as we put what's the kavana behind them as we put it the the what the how and the why we're in the middle of the how how do you what's the manner in which you perform these acts of mitzvah and make them raise them up to that which is beyond the normal the required level to achieve this idea of saintliness ofus of piety And we spoke last week about the idea of Cain Cen and who Abel who was brought the best of the Abel who was brought the best of the flocks and Hashem accepted his offerings and and his brother Cayen brought fruits but they were the rejects. They were B-grade and Hashem rejected it. Now, you could still say, well, it's still an offering. But the sort of offering that you bring really shows very much about your attitude to the person or the who you're bringing it to. If you're bringing a present to a king, as we saw last week, or an important state governor, you bring the the best quality

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1. 0:01Okay. So, good evening and welcome to our continuing path, finding our path upwards and upwards…
2. 2:37somewhere or Selfridg ores some expensive shirt which was he was keeping it for Yamuf and…
3. 5:40talking about purim Now Bikurim that is a ceremony of bringing the first fruits up to…
4. 8:44paradigm that we can extrapolate to every mitzvah that we do where every every time you…
5. 12:02Therefore, when a person is standing in front of it's so important when you're dvening dvening…
6. 15:06over to him his regular day hat. He said, "What do you must be joking? I…
7. 17:53were some of them very wealthy people and they [clears throat] could have done these things…
8. 20:57thinking out what you know what how he's going to honor Shabas I remember of late…
9. 24:03would do because of you know something shabas is something and in general is something which…
10. 27:22the extent that we are hashem the feeling of hashem's the exaltation our feeling of era…

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