#38 - Perek Beis F - Mesilas Yesharim Explained

In two short sessions a week Rabbi Dovid Schoonmaker will elucidate and bring to life the eternal words of the Mesilas Yesharim. Rabbi Dovid Schoonmaker is the Rosh Yeshivah of Shapell's / Yeshivas Darche Noam in Yerushalaim.

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When do you know that AI really made it? So it's already doing such incredible things, and unfortunately causing people to lose their jobs, etc. But I think we know that AI really made it when it creates a counter-reality, which you can't tell anymore. Everybody remembers as people are playing around with it and they are sending pictures, and then can you tell, can you not tell? And you could you could still and often you can still tell, right? But sometimes you can't tell. And we're all wondering sometimes, is that real or is it AI? And I don't know what uh law enforcements are going to be doing, and because you really have to know. I mean, someone can make up anything today. So AI has already hit a very, very high level. And I think but the once once we once it creates a counter-reality, then it's really quote unquote made it. So I want to share now a aspect to the great Chachma of the Eight Sahara, Gemini Yashikaiach. And we've been saying that is he's an Ishmael Khamu Mulumabar mimus. He is so bright, he is so smart, and his Ra and his armso, etc. We're gonna see other ideas coming up, but one thing we see clearly here is the is the great wisdom of the Aet Sahara. And I wanted to share, just like we said that that AI made it because it created counter-reality, that's really it. And what I can't even tell, that's really what the Aet Sahara does. Let's think about it. There's a real perspective on the world. Oh Mhaba, Taran mitzvis, Abisrol, goodness, seeing more to life, seeing meaning, looking at this world as uh as a place to accomplish something, not to get stuck in looking at my relationships as things that are contributing to an overall good, connection to the boreolum, the true beauty of the world, the true beauty which doesn't distract me, take me to a place I don't want to be. And then there's the counter-reality wealth, laatsmo. Just get a lot of money. Why? Just get it. You want money. Beauty for itself. Shakarin Velboyopi. Beauty for itself. Taivas. Desires. When we're involved in them, they're so real at Shasmais, and they seem so much like it's what happened. I have to go to that restaurant. I mean, I have to try this new Mexican food. Mexican kosher? My guys were telling me today you can get cheeseburgers in all the restaurants now, kosher cheeseburgers. You have to get that. I have to try that. I wonder my whole life. What is a cheeseburger tanda? Now you have plant-based cheeseburgers. I don't know if it's a problem or a sign. I'm not getting into the kosh of it. They told me some good Hakshera was given action, but I'm getting into that. And I really, I just was not aware. I'm buying the times a little bit. I apologize, right? But Taiva, that's you know, one of the anafim of the A Tzahar, one of the branches of the Atsah. It's so real. And Chasmax, it's so real. I have to do this thing. It's gonna fulfill me, it's gonna make me happy, it's gonna give me life. And then you have to realize after it's so fake.

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This third bowl of challenge is all I need. And then afterwards, I just feel full. And I'm thinking about the after effects, and I'm gonna be dizzy Mozy Shabbos. The absolute necessary additions for the bar mitzvah. I mean, what's gonna be if we don't have the violin at the bar mitzvah? It's just it's just, you know, a little haime. It's gonna be so sad. No, the bar mitzvah is really a tricky, trickier one because sometimes, of course, there are necessities for bar mitzvah, and I'm not putting them down, and uh etc. But Bigadol, what we see here is the Aetzahard did an enormously good job in creating counter-reality. And I think that's really, if you think about it, that's that's just like that's what I think the the um the mushle, the the picture we gave at the beginning of AI, is that's a real sign of accomplishment. When I create a counter-reality, which you can't tell anymore, by the way, this is not me, it's AI. But when you create a counter-reality that that people can't tell the difference between real and fake anymore, you've really done something. So the Itsahari did that, but he didn't do it in 2026 and 2005. He's been doing that for 3,000 years, 4,000 years, 5,000, 57, right? Top shapov years. He's been doing for Topsh and Pey Vov years, Tushan Peihei years. Creating a counter-reality to real reality that people get stuck in. And you think how deeply certain people get stuck. Someone who lives his life in video games, someone who lives his life in entertainment, someone lives their life without without without real friendships, without without deep relationships, with always being in a safe position, always with their armor on, whatever. It's a counter-reality. There's a real reality out there, but then there's this ability to live in counter-reality. And and um I thought that really says it right because AI is something that's so much on our minds, but if we realize that the Yayzar has been doing it for such a long time. So, what can we say? Yeshaka Yitzara, you're you're awesome. Yeah. Okay, now that was just a little time back to things we've we've dealt with already in the parak. Now I want to continue. Right? So at the end of the day, when we take all these things into account, and we know that Zaherus is that a person that's been Nizer Ramaisov, Minyanov. Again, we spend a lot of time dealing with the Atsar, and we're gonna deal with them again. But just remember that what it what Zahe says, being careful about your actions. Is it good? Is it bad what I'm doing? Not to leave myself sacanos of vodun, etc. screams, cries out, Simulav khamal darkem. Place your heart on your ways, think about what you're doing, analyze, go into it. How are you davening? How you learning, how you chased, how you speaking to your wife, how you speaking to your husband, how you speaking to your children, how you dealing with your grandchildren, all aspects of our lives. Is this the job you want? Is this the job that you're most putting ahead the correct things that you have to bring to the world within the boundaries you have? Wow. Don't give, don't give. I know for me this is a big muster now, because a lot of times for me when I do a khashmah, it's like the last thing. If all the situations are perfect, and I've gone taking care of my family responsibilities, my ishii responsibilities, my learning responsibilities, my writing responsibilities, and I'm not too tired, and I had three coffees, and now I feel good, now you can do a khashbah napish. That's not the vision that Shlomo Melak said to make her. I'll teach it Shana Alinacha. Don't give sleep to your eyes, with rest to your eyelids. Run like a deer quickly. O kidsvi. See poor miyad yakush. And this is really nice because we're talking all the time about the negative. What's the good, what's the ups, ups, upside? Someone who's sam or chosen. Someone who's samur chosen in this world, Zahvarobushosal Shell Kharishbarhu. No less than that. You'll see Yeshua Zashem, you'll see the issue of Qurishborhu. Okay, now Monsila Sharman is final uh basic idea, final paragraph of the parak. Let's see, Pashdu. It's it's self-evident. Shafilin Pikach, pikach, adamalatsmo, aim kochod li notzel ilule karishborhuzro. Wow. Wow. A little sobering. So a person takes the whole message of the parak and says, you know what? I'm gonna be someone a daily Keshman Nefish, maybe a weekly Keshmanish, maybe a monthly Kashmir Nefish, right? But you know, and generally I should add a general mindset of mindfulness about my actions, right? Not just the taking, we'll learn more about that in this in the next park, but not just taking time out, the the valuation, but being aware, right? I think it starts that's so obviously obvious that someone is walking around the world with his eyes opened to himself and learning from himself and seeing himself and reflecting on his actions, etc. Right? Now, even a person does that. He's mefakek on himself, he's watching himself. He can be saved. It's incredible, this is a line that people know, I think, because it's more conducive, but it's shocking when you read about it. Oh, so it means it is in my koch to save myself. No, no, no, no. Still not. Ain't bakhli not say he still needs Yadish Maya, and a serious Yadish Maya, not just a little help. Hashem help me, you need you need that. You won't be saved. You can't really win without Hashem. Why? Why not? Here he comes. Kya Yitzhihara Takif Ma'od. Yetzhar is Takif. He's very, very strong. Right? Litkov means to attack. He's attacking and strong. Right. Come on, because of Thofa Rush Latzadik, the Russia, the Yitzhara in this context. Looks at the Tsai Ba Keshlav wants to destroy him. But Asham Yozvan Biyodo. Incredible. It's really an incredible end now. Now we say, so we learned, joined, we we we we add this to our knowledge about the Yitzhara now. Let's let's put it down. Not only is he so smart, and not only is he added all the time, etc. And then you need that shkaf, chman, kheshkaf, but he's also takif. You know, you have times you have it's a takif the word we use in Hebrew, is a takif about a person who's a very big takif, like it's a very strong deist, powerful person. So yeah, people who are very smart and not powerful. You have people who are very powerful and not so smart. But then you have this person who's like very smart and very powerful and added all the time. Very, very hard to beat him. He's takif. So another thing for all those, you know, one thing that I emphasize so much in this parak, even at the beginning of um this session, is the idea of getting in touch with the fact that it's our is an enemy and it's this koach, this Achilles heel that can destroy us. And here you see another aspect of because it's very takaf and he wants to show us. Now, but but here's the idea: if a person does his job, then he gets the Adish Maya. Achimadum fakekaatma is a Kudashboko, oh so we need so many itzara. You can be saved. A person can be saved. A person can get to the state where he doesn't do a veris, and he's need so many itzahara, the itzhar is on the sad, under control, in check, etc. You put in your effort, kadhok, put in your effort, you're good. Ah valimenu fakekhu alatsma, but a person doesn't put in the effort, vaday kadishbook alov. You have to put in your effakim, who ain't. If you don't have a mercy on yourself, so to speak. If you're not worried about yourself, you're not concerned with yourself. Why should Kodash Bork will be concerned with you? Someone who doesn't have day, it's Usr. Incredible chazal. Come on, Brahus. Well say you can't avoid this one, right? You learn daffyomi for five weeks, you get into it almost after four weeks, five weeks, okay. Come shin bode, it's a lamagimal. I'm an elephant brachus. It's the 32nd daf. So after a month of dafyomi plus little, you're gonna get to this one. Mishhain Bodeya Asal Rachimov. Whoa, you're not supposed to have da rach madas on him. Ushamra mashamru, imain and me leave if I'm not for me, me leaning, but not just me, my friends. Karishmok is not gonna be for me. Yemayna Lee mealy, I can't turn to Kharashmok and ask for his his help. So this is incredible that someone who it seems to be, and I saw this in the notes of someone named Rabshmul Zvir, that that um brought down for someone named Ramosh Surya brought a shir from Ramosh Zweer. It seems like that someone doesn't do Keshman and begether someone who doesn't have Das. And it makes sense what we said, because that's what he said in the whole parak. We have Das, and we have to follow ourselves and watch ourselves and so on. Now, Rabosa, I don't know what I should call them. Schoolmaker cool is first. I want to tell everybody an example of what I think uh besides. Ms. Sharma is saying Aimbodea, you're not doing Kashmir Navish. I want to I want to share another idea about Aimbodea when I felt it one time. Uh I read a book once called uh Into Thin Air, something like that, is about an Everest expedition, a pretty famous book by somebody named John Krakower. And um the there was a terrible storm on Mount Everest, and uh many people died. And this journalist who is on a journalistic um trip to write about just going up and down Mount Everest was part of this, and as opposed to having an article, he wrote a whole book about it. And he wrote about how sad it was. You know, this one died. This I remember it was a certain Chinese woman that passed away. This one, and I remember thinking to myself, you know, these people are putting themselves in such a terribly dangerous situation, terribly dangerous. And I learned a lot of things about mountain climbing in that book and other books of his. So, you know, I haven't gone since then because it's it's it's really dangerous. I mean, I think he he said that one out of seven or one out of eight people who summited died. That's incredible. That's incredible. It means if you're playing to win, there's a 12% chance you're not gonna come off the mountain. You know, I mean, literally, there are people who are sitting dead in Mount Everest. You can see them sometimes on your way up. They're just there, dead, frozen. So that, and I think so. Am I really supposed to feel so bad for him once he gets stuck? That's something that uh in Bodhai, you know, someone jumps out of a plane with these one of these suits on, you know, trying to run into some um styrofoam uh three miles away, and then he he misses any that that could be a waste of the feeling. But it's very interesting. This chazal needs more work because we would have an attitude have Rahmanas on everywhere. But Khazal say, Bo dea so rachamal at a certain point where it's you know, I guess it's something maybe it's like a misuse of your of your feeling, right? Rachmanas is a powerful, important tool that's in our arsenal of of me those. So if you just have it too wide and where it's not appropriate, so then it's not good. Okay, Yeshladan. But I want to say now what I think maybe it's like a schuminker heter. It sounds here like this. The person says, like, look, I'm taking this seriously. I want to do Hashman and Abish, I want to be aware of myself. I can't honestly say I'm doing it as well as I could, not just you know, on the nth level. You know, we all know. So, where does that put us with the Abishtir? Like, you can't expect any Siadhish Maya. That's kind of what he says. If you're not doing it, so so certainly I can't, he knows one billion trillion times better than me. But I think there is room to turn to Kudish Bork and say, Kudishwork, give me Syadish Maya. And I think that's a holy tvilah Hashem. I'm trying to do Hashmanabish, and I'm putting some effort in, you know, and I'm taking it seriously. I can say I'm doing it as well as possible. Have Rachwana Sami. They wish to help me. And and and save me from the itzahara anyway, or even so, right? I think that that's from other things I've I've I've learned. I think that's a worthwhile tfila. I don't think there's a kirushbroku is shame. That's tfila on kiyata, but it's it's that can vary. It says someone kazal, the the tfila of the ani is this most powerful, the poor men right now. There's poor men, someone doesn't have any money. There's poor man is that's qirishbokh. I'm poor in das. I'm poor and I'm poor in time management. I'm poor because I'm just working so hard to keep everything together. And of course, I can I say that I couldn't put more Keshman into my schedule. Of course I could, but still a Kharishmoh have Rachmanasami. Please save me. For sure that's a that's a for sure that's a that's a khashavitzvilah. So of course, we should always follow. The message isn't to make make a khashram, that's not what I'm trying to get to. Let's do like the Mesilishram, let's do as much Kashmir nafish as possible, let's be as Zayre as we can on our mysim. Think about our Mufakya, Draq, let's remember how bad the HzR is, right? But if, you know, plan B, if we're not doing it as much as we should, I don't think it's good for us to just feel like, okay, no Siadhishmaya, we're lost. Come take me, right? I'm yours. No, there's another approach of uh a plan B, uh, a low, low, lower low approach, a low road. This is the high road. Sioshum is a high road. Low road is away, give me tremendous yadishmaya, help me, etc. And I think that that for sure is a tephila which is very rutsuli and very beloved to the Borishom, and hopefully it will be answered. And we should all uh be Zokha to have bizahir and to have siyadishmaya and have the necessary siyadishmaya.