Do The Right Thing | Parshat Vayeshev |

What’s said in this shiur

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

Let's go. Why you say Yes of a Tzaddek? We're meeting Yes of a Tzaddek. Yes, Joseph the righteous one. Now, in the whole of the Torah they were all Tzaddekim. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Yes. All of them were Tzaddekim, but only one of them called we we call HaTzaddik. And that's Yes of a Tzaddek. We don't call him Abraham a Tzaddek, even though he was a Tzaddek. We don't call him We don't call him Aaron a Tzaddek, even though he was a Tzaddek. We only call Yes of a Tzaddek. And you know what you're meant to do before you die? What? Become a Tzaddek. No other goal. You should have a nice job, a nice family, a nice house, a nice body. You should have nice stuff. Go for it. But that's not what you're living for. You got to be a Tzaddek. That's it. Someone says to you, "What's the purpose of life?" You say, "Be a Tzaddek." People come up to me, "Rabbi, I don't know what my purpose is." Be a Tzaddek. What do you mean? Okay, then work out Okay, what job are you going to do? How are you going to impact the world around you? But it's very very very clear. Your soul was put on this earth for you to become a Tzaddek. A Tzaddek. And really beyond that to become a Hassid. Now, that doesn't mean black hat and payos. That's not what a Hassid means in the Gemara. A Hassid means going above and beyond. Just above and beyond. Just I'm I'm in the higher worlds now, and I'm just basically living through my soul.

Jump to a moment

1. 0:00Let's go. Why you say Yes of a Tzaddek? We're meeting Yes of a Tzaddek. Yes,…
2. 2:39your soul? What are the two things that get you cut you off from your soul?…
3. 5:53But then it says, one day and it was on this day, everyone else was out…
4. 8:59you'll do bad things cuz you're like, "I'm just nothing anyway, so I can do bad…
5. 11:39By the way, do you know who else has this spiritual DNA? You listen. You have…
6. 14:50But, atzmi, for yourself. By the way, you have to do this yourself. You have to…
7. 18:02He could have done that. 20 They sold him. They betrayed him because he said you're…
8. 20:41where I am, I'll be there." He wasn't wishing he wasn't there. He wasn't saying it's…
9. 23:50a weird like Just be a man. Just have self-control. Go Go Don't freak out about…
10. 27:01Compared to the pleasure of getting up and going for a run in the crisp morning…

Every second of this shiur plays inside Lehallel — a filtered YouTube library where each video was reviewed against one written standard before it could appear. No ads, no comments, no autoplay into anything unapproved.