Finding Your Path - Mesilas Yesharim PT 33

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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.

evening everybody part 33 of finding your path our exploration of by we are in the middle of chapter yud Al per Al 11 which explores the Mida the character trait of Nik which means cleanliness as we said before when a person comes to Cle cleanse himself from sins he has to go through the first level so to speak of a through the first level so to speak of a I guess you call it a Rough and Ready Clean Out he does the best he can but then he has to go with a feather duster and a fine tooth comb and examine all of the things that he's doing and the goes into not all the areas that are possible for a person to come a drift from the rot of Hashem but many of these ideas many of these situations in which a person can full foul of what the says he has to do and the one we're going to deal with do and the one we're going to deal with tonight is giving advice as it says and we're starting where it says with regard to giving advice to people we learned which is a in the says in front of a blind man do not place a stumbling block the Mish understands this not just not just literally but also literally but also figuratively somebody who is blind in a certain thing you can trip somebody up in various ways not physically you can do things which will be an impediment for their success you can do things God forbid which may cause them all kinds of damage to their reputation to their health even for example somebody ask you is this particular girl uh Fit For A Cohen a

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1. 0:00evening everybody part 33 of finding your path our exploration of by we are in the…
2. 2:38again that's a way of putting a a stumbling block in somebody in front of somebody…
3. 5:43thing don't give him advice which is not suitable for him now this is very important…
4. 8:46theu ason we're not dealing with Shon I don't know how to translate over there like…
5. 11:56the road is something which is not necessarily literal the road that you want want him…
6. 15:07um and I'm trying to think that's I'm not quite sure of a situation where you…
7. 18:10study and um I'm not sure in such a situation if you know something which is…
8. 21:17them okay so that's we're now finished with the matter of um giving advice let's move…
9. 24:25you have to speak quote unquote to save somebody from exactly excuse me so tail bearing…
10. 27:40an even though these things seem to be like very light matters and very far away…

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