Without Fixing Your Midos, Torah Will Not Stay With You - Pirkei Avos 3:9

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progress. >> Okay, friends. Perke Avos with the commentary of Rabbeinu Yonah, Gimel Tes. I want to just finish up one final point. Rabbeinu Yonah in one of the most famous pieces of Rabbeinu Yonah on Avos is explaining the Mishna. Kol she' chachmaso meruba kol she ma'asav merubin me chachmaso, anyone who has more actions than wisdom your wisdom will be sustained. Chachmaso miskayemes. V'chol she chachmaso meruba mi ma'asav anyone whose wisdom is greater than his deeds ein chachmaso miskayemes. His wisdom will not be sustained. And the million-dollar question, the big question is how is it possible to have more deeds than chachma? Remember this? You can't do what you don't know. Nobody does more than they know. Most people know more than they do. But nobody does more than they know. You can't observe something that you don't know about. So Rabbeinu Yonah famously explained, how is it possible to have more actions than wisdom? He quotes the Turei Zahav Nassan who explains na'aseh v'nishma. What does na'aseh v'nishma mean? That if you accept upon yourself that you are going to observe whatever you learn and whatever the chachamim teach then as soon as you make that commitment, you're already awarded and rewarded as if you fulfilled it. And that when Klal Yisrael were makdim na'aseh t'nishma b'sha she kidmu Yisrael na'aseh l'nishma Hakadosh Baruch Hu already rewarded them as if they fulfilled it. That's what it means kol she ma'asav merubin mi chachmaso. Anyone who accepts upon themselves they will observe whatever they learn, you already have more massim

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1. 0:00progress. >> Okay, friends. Perke Avos with the commentary of Rabbeinu Yonah, Gimel Tes. I want…
2. 0:30be sustained. Chachmaso miskayemes. V'chol she chachmaso meruba mi ma'asav anyone whose wisdom is greater than…
3. 1:31commitment, you're already awarded and rewarded as if you fulfilled it. And that when Klal Yisrael…
4. 2:02even before you learn it. So, we would all expect that conversely when the mission of…
5. 3:04Says Rabbeinu Yonah You know what it means? Anyone who has more wisdom than actions, don't…
6. 3:36First you need to rectify your midos. And then your wisdom will be sustained. Rabbeinu Yonah…
7. 4:40you don't do that, your learning won't be sustained. I don't need the Mishnah to then…
8. 5:11two ingredients. You need an attitude that I am going to accept upon myself to observe…
9. 6:12And meaning number two is Na'aseh, I'm going to rectify my middos. V'Nishma, then I'm going…
10. 6:44derech eretz, ein Torah. Rabbeinu Yonah says this explicitly. Tzorech t'chilah l'sakein atzmo b'middos, u'v'zeh tishkon…

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