Mussar Mondays: Mesilat Yesharim 103 (Kedusha/Holiness 2) with Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe

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

all right good evening everybody welcome back to muslim mondays we are on page 508 in the 26th chapter of this magnificent work of ramhal and we started last week it was the last speakers two weeks ago we started speaking about holiness and we said holiness is the ability to be isolated from a world of distractions isolated from a world of distractions isolated from a world of uh of um of i don't want to say only distractions but anything that interferes with our relationship between us and the almighty is really a an opposition to holiness holiness means pure it means without any interruption between us and god okay so he so um we're on top of page 508 ram khal now turns to describe the qualities of the kadosh in greater depth wakarush is someone who is holy someone who's holy that's the ideal position that we're looking to find ourselves in to be a holy person what does that mean to be a holy person for the person who has become sanctified with the holiness of the creator meaning that he is on a level where he that he is on a level where he can interact with the almighty without interruption where he connects to the holiness of god and is able to to um be without any barriers between him and the almighty affilo massa vagas he says not only are his spiritual activities holy but even his physical activities such as eating turn into actual matters of holiness

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1. 0:01all right good evening everybody welcome back to muslim mondays we are on page 508 in…
2. 3:37ordinary mundane act of eating can become a completely spiritual and holy endeavor because it's not…
3. 7:17taharaf purity are completely free of any ulterior motive they have done they are done only…
4. 10:56meaning even though physically he's in this world but he's really living in an alternative experience…
5. 14:40someone who sanctifies god's name is is someone who is it's identifiable that when such a…
6. 18:46because he was holy everything that he possessed was holy he elevated everything around them around…
7. 22:28person is elevated since the shrina rests upon him in chapter one ramkhal discusses the concept…
8. 26:03israeli guy picks him up the rabbi up for the rabbi and his family and in…
9. 29:49that the holy scholars who are holy in their way and in all of their in…
10. 33:34recording in progress i'm sorry recording stopped all right i apologize so what we see here…

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