Iggeres HaMussar of R' Yisroel Salantar #2 - The Overwhelming Seduction of the Imagination

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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.

perspective of man of rabbis where he begins the letter describing man is free in his imagination limitless in his imagination but but bound by his intellect his imagination runs free his binding and his chain and his discipline in is in his intellect but that has another meaning as well and that is while the pull of the imagination is powerful and infinite the dru the binding of the seikel is quite limited and therefore it is important to elevate the feelings and the knowledge of the sechel to be on par with the emotion in other words man is free in his imagination but is restricted in his uh intellect now just to describe how rabbi so solanter viewed man and therefore the importance of learning mussar rabbi solante would say without knowing oneself in other words a person could be 70 years old you can know your wife you can know your children you can know your rabbi you can know your accountant you could know your gardener and you don't know yourself in other words um la havdel alfalfa abdullah george bernard shaw said when it comes to self-deception every man is a genius you hear this you have a guy who's a shoyta gum or a pessi a shoyta a fool stupid dumb excuse the expressions but regarding one thing he's a going olum and that is self-deception tricking himself making himself think he's much better than he is and that is the importance of the avodah of moser rabbis there are many people who are muhurdur and madak on those things which are not as important and they forsake that which is important that's why rabbi sral in preparation for yom kippur he would go around banging the nails of the benches into the chairs so that people's suits don't get torn because robison would say davening on yom kippur

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2. 1:34importance of learning mussar rabbi solante would say without knowing oneself in other words a person…
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