#58 - Perek Daled E - 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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Okay, we're rocking friends. Get to the next level. Akhla Phusim. Right? We spoke so much about the Shlami Das. How did okay, you're not holding by the Slaymidas? And like we said, there's uh there's a middle road, a low road to get to the Shlami Das, but but what other maqshabas can we do to awaken our Vodas Hashem to light us up? So the Phusum Ela, you're not gonna believe this. According to their Havchanulfi, their level of cons perception, Havchana means like perception, Shabakina, understanding, perception. How do they do it? I'm not on that level. I'm not a 24-7, 27-7-4-12-90 person. A new expression. I'm not a 24-7-4-1290. What now? This is incredible. And this is gonna be jarring to people. I'm warning you. And before it gets jarring, I just want to remind everybody how beautiful is MCO Sharp came down a level and speaking, and we've emphasized so many times that's what we have to do with ourselves, with others. What is the message? How do you speak to this student, Talmud, friend, spouse, myself? What is gonna get me moving? The main thing is to get moving, and we're gonna see right now it's moving. Is believe it or not, Lafiya covet. You have to use the covet inside of you. What covet? Not covetatorah, not covet amiti, covet meduma, right? You have to use the cawk of covid that's in you. I don't like when people do better than me, right? He's not dressing this up, guys. Right? Everybody understands in Om Haba, it's gonna be according to how hard you put in. Right? The mushal I've given, I believe I've given here, as at the Super Bowl, right? Bargashem, Koysoyisham Khalik Lom Haba, we all get in. But where you're sitting, you can sit on the front row, you can talk to the players, you can get the autographs. You can be, and what they call when I was younger, the nosebleed seats, right? Where there are all types of strange smells. Upper levels, but sometimes unsavory characters next to you. So it's great to be at the Super Bowl, definitely. Uh it's great to be at Wimbledon. But there's something else sitting in the special box seats where you can see everything that's going on and taste the game. I had a taxi driver once, he said, Anime Riach Barcelona. He was speaking to his friend on the phone. They were going to Barcelona, which is a big uh soccer uh football, the international usage of the word. Anime Riach Barcelona, I'm smelling it, right? So you smell it. So everybody knows that in Olam Haba, they're different seats. According to the way you act here. It's only going to be mid Roman there. Who's going to be elevated there? Elamish Rava Masim, the one who has a lot of good actions. If you didn't do too much, you got in. But you're in the, you're in the you're upstairs. Okay? Now we understand that reality. That's okay, just to understand what the alien Zills Rom is saying, you have to get that reality. If you like to, if you like to maybe do a theater mushroom, maybe do another mushroom, maybe you want to be from, do a the do do seats of the shear. We got a Ladoris coming to speak in your community, right? And there's then there's like the VIP, the people get the, you know, get in with Tim beforehand, get the signed book, and get the hors d'oeuvres, and get a personal shamalachem. The people sit in the back, and maybe, maybe, maybe you'll you'll get make eye contact on your way up. Maybe, right? It was all great to be the sheer. So you could do you could do the theater mushroom, you could do the supermodel mushroom, you could do Wimbledon if you're a tennis fan, you could do the shear if you want to be firmer. God bless everybody. Good. But it but there's chilukim, that's the point. Olum Haba is not a binary question, and I emphasize what he's not emphasizing here is that call your isham chalikalumba. Don't be nabikaris, you'll make it. Be makwadan, you can make rim, according to the Ramam, you'll make it. If you have bad midas, we make it, right? So Virus might be a longer circuitous journey, but you made it. Call Yisrael Yesh Lam Chelik La Ulam Haba. We all make it. Right? But where do you sit? Uh that's already another question. Wherever you are, you are where you are. Your luggage, that's another question, right? We're in. But where is your seat? That goes the firemais. And therefore, Imken Efo. Now remember, so what do we do? The chasri adas have to be out coveted. So how do you avoid your actions? You're gonna not put your Twilin on well? You're gonna come late to Davni all the time? You're gonna leave Davni early all the time. You're not gonna answer Ishmairab with Kavana, you're not gonna pay attention to Psuki de Zimmer, you're gonna take out your phone, God forbid. Please, can we stop doing this? Phones are not for Davni. Phones are not for Davni. Did I say that clearly? Phones are not for Davani. Turn them off, leave them in the car, leave them in your jacket, throw them away. It's not for Davni. Don't don't speak to people with Dominicans, don't speak to Abershaw with phones. It's this machla is getting worse and worse. Khazar says shots is part of the picture. I always pay attention to Khazar Shots. No, but don't pay, take out your phone. Don't announce that everybody you're not paying attention. This my Rebbe Roblox one said one time that uh someone wrote, uh was taking talking about different parts of shots, which are obviously Kabbalistic, mystical, and and tried to explain them in like a very sickly way in a very uh like scientific way. So my Rebbe's reaction was you don't have to know Kabbalah, but you don't have to announce to the whole world here in Amma Arts in Kabbalah, right? What you're why do we we don't have to announce that we're not interested in the Davani? Leave the phones at home. Okay, that was just a little rant, friendly rant, right? But let's leave them at home. Seriously, it's not by the way, it's a healthier mind, healthy mind. Every opportunity you have, leave your phone away. It's it's so healthy. The Guy M have to teach us this, the brain has to teach us this, right? The brain can teach us this. It's not healthy that a person has this extension to them. You need to use it, you need to use it. I'm speaking to you on it. Where's mine? Oh, there it is, right? Okay, I'm speaking to you. You're listening probably on it, but fine. So when you use it, use it, but don't turn it off early, turn it off, put it on. The other day I came home, I just turned on my phone, turned it off. It's awful. It came on, it came on eight hours later, beautiful. Okay. So now, so remember what's the formula? We all care about covid in Olum Habah, they're different levels. How? How can you do less mitzvah? Afterwards, afterwards, yet, it'll be like tsar, it'll be it'll be difficult to you, it'll be painful to you. It'll be acutely painful. When you can't fix it. Yeah? You're gonna be able to fix it. So you're gonna get to Uma Bah, and it's gonna be hurtful to you. Not listen careful, and and we'll we'll make this a shorter session, we've got some long sessions. Before we spoke about this, it's fascinating. You see the Ramakal is godless. Like I always say, the Ramakhal is just such an organizer and he knew. Kolakha nihba mechupato shokavero is not kinnah, and it's not covet, it's high level. It was a personal thing, right? That listen carefully. The other person was in the Shlemiyad Das, when the Shlemiyad Das is gonna get to Oma Amas, and he's gonna see people on a higher level who could have been, he could have been on their level. Kolaka nichba mechupatsu shokavero. That's not kinna, that's not covet, that's perception, right? That person shows me what I could have reached. I didn't realize I could reach that level. He reached, I could have reached it. It has nothing to do, it's he it has nothing to do between me and him. I have no feelings towards him. His level is assigned for me what I could have reached, just like a book could tell, right? Theoretically, it's like a book. The book could have told me, or the bonus could have told me, by the way, you could have reached a higher level. But here, his reality, right? The fact that in the next world we see each other and I see him at a higher level shows me, is a teacher for me, where I could have reached. Let's teach ourselves in this world, not the next world, but that's the point. Nothing to do with covet, not but nothing between us. Here, it's low-level covet. It's interesting, and that feeling exists in the next world, Mr. Sharm holds. I am gonna look at my friends, right? And they're gonna be on a higher level to me, and it's gonna eat at me. Why is he getting a better seat than me? Covet, honor. I want honor, I want to be above him. That's what he says. Now, I told you it's gonna be hard to handle this because people aren't into that. I don't, I don't, you know, I heard Seporah Hella, one of the great female educators, Tara educators in the world, and she said that, you know, we don't like the word covet, but like recognition. Oh, recognition I want. I don't want covet. I want recognition. And we all know it's deep in this. And Silashar is telling his friends, you have to use that koch. If you're Slameidas, God bless you. If you're not that's you, if you're not a Shlame Das, what do you got to do? You want, we all want covet, we all want to be perceived, we all want that. So work with that. This is such a good example of what it means to work with a bad myth. Work with the bad mita you have. You're desirous of covet about stupid things, right? Oh, why does my friend have a pit in the backyard and I don't? Why is he driving a nicer car than me? Why does he get a better aliyah than me? Why is his yeshiva bigger than mine? Why is his book selling more than me? Why? Where's the covet? Where's the honor? How come he was mentioned? I wasn't mentioned. Why did the Rav talk about the people put into the dinner committee mention him and didn't mention me? That's covet. That's covet, right? It's okay. I feel it. We all feel it. It's a covet. Call it by it, call it by its name. Kavod, right? Kabod. Nu kovot, kabot. That's what it is. Kabod, kabh, kabod. That's what it is. Okay, but now you have that inside of you. Use it. Use it. Perceive that that feeling which you feel now about silliness, you're gonna have it forever about things which really matter. That's how the Pahusim get themselves moving. Okay, we'll continue with that next time, but it's it's it's it's interesting, right? And maybe it's something good about us, maybe it's something bad about us, maybe it's both. I think I naturally relate to, although I certainly don't consider myself Schleimi'das, I definitely relate to the Schleemiadas thing more than this. Because it's like a covet, I'm supposed to work with covet. It's like the ends justify the means. One of my Talmudin point out nicely, it's like playing with fire that you should go into this whole mal. Sharma is telling you, yeah, go into the mahal. That's if the shoe fits, if the shoe fits, wear it, right? So if the shoe fits wear it, and because the point is at the end of the day, why are we using this covet? Let's just I'm using this perception to get me going, right? Right now, I'm not Daviding well. Right now I'm coming late to Daviding. Right now, I'm not saying ashayotsu with the kabbana, right? I'm not being as friendly to people as I should be, right? I'm not being as nice as my wife as it should be. So understand where that's gonna lead you to. If you're not saying, if you're not saying, if we're not saying ashayotsu the way we should, and every person has to take these ideas step by step, like we've spoken about, so it's gonna lead to someone. It's gonna lead to the fact your friend is gonna show up and he's gonna have a better seat than you. And you thought you were the you thought you were the hotshot, and you like when people give you attention and shul, right? And you're not gonna get the attention in the next world because he said ashayotsu are better than you. You better avoid that situation.