Iggeres HaRamban #9 - Addressing Rav Yechezkel Sarna's Observation

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

fact that this entire letter is centered around humility um apparently the ramban understood and recognized this letter was written to his son so he obviously understands and recognizes that his son had already acquired all the midos that preceded anava because in the totem pole of rapin has been anova sort of comes toward the end so firstly we have rizos zahiros nikios priscios and that means ramban felt that his son was already on the madriga of humility to bring to yura to bring to kedusha now not everybody is already holding on the madrega that they could start off with humility and be ready just for the final madregos in other words most people they need to start in the beginning they need to start with the heroes zrezos nikios but apparently the ramban understood and recognized that his son was already holding on the madriga that he could already begin with the media of humility so as you know the ramban says um the letter starts off to the introductory remark is to listen to the muslim of your father and the torah of your mother and the ramban exhorts us to train ourselves to speak our words swaftly and by doing so you'll be saved from anger and then the ramban says when you're saved from anger it will arise in your heart the meda of humility now rebecca sarna has an interesting observation on this and perhaps we could humbly offer a alternative way of reading it and that is where because kosano reads it that somebody who gets angry it's not even

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1. 0:31fact that this entire letter is centered around humility um apparently the ramban understood and recognized…
2. 1:01rizos zahiros nikios priscios and that means ramban felt that his son was already on the…
3. 2:02swaftly and by doing so you'll be saved from anger and then the ramban says when…
4. 3:03yourself from anger it doesn't even enter your heart we read those words slightly differently we…
5. 3:34part of the genetic makeup of the neshama it's just it's deep down it's coated it's…
6. 4:36that without humility it doesn't even dawn on your mind the meda of era he reads…
7. 5:40because you will always think may i invasa where did you come from that your origins…
8. 6:10it's interesting the ramban implies that through humility you will come to fear because you will…
9. 7:13their arrogance would not allow them to think about where they're headed their arrogance would not…
10. 8:15you will fear your creator the tishma and you will be careful not to sin so…

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