#60 - Perek Daled G - 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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So we said the argument of the Petim last time that they say we'll be okay, we won't go so deeply into Ghana. We tried to bring it down in our language last time. So what's the answer? Omnum says Rabino, Sheila Has Nishala. I want to ask those PTM one argument thing. Could they so easily kok al-Nakhalah like La Kel? Could it would it be so easy for them, Lisbol, to um carry Bolam Haza Kholef in this world which is just passing by? They wrote Echemekabrehem Chubadem Moshalim, would they be so willing to let in in this world their friend getting credit and people passing them by? Khoshuking Echem Abdeim, or let's say it's one of their Avadim, one of their servants, ominanium, Hanibzim, or if it's one of the poor people that was walking around, right? The way most people fuse someone who's like collecting money, ah, etc. And then he says, like, whoa, whoa, that guy is getting honored to dinner, and I'm not? Wait, wait, wait. He's getting Shlisha, and I'm not getting Slishay? What's up here? They wouldn't be angered by that. They wouldn't have pain in that, they'd be suffering in that Volyad Dhamma Rotekba here when their blood would boil inside of them. Low Vaday. For sure they wouldn't be sobble that. Uh uh. They wouldn't they won't have that attitude. They don't have that attitude when it comes to this world. Open your eyes. You can see. Call amaladam linosa comesukal. People work so hard to get above. We've discussed this idea before. One of the things I've said before, and I love saying it, so I'll say it again. Uh maybe it's 25 years ago or 20 years ago or so. A quote someone said, maybe 15 years ago, but a long time ago, before there were tons and tons of billionaires. Seven fellow made 700, 800 million dollars, and he said, You see these young guys who made a billion and a half, and you wonder where he went wrong. What makes him think he went wrong? Because they're making more money than him. That's all. What keeps you going? You can't be sober that. Uh uh-uh. Kinei Ninuros call amaladum linosa combination. Everybody's pushing to be ahead. I have to need two Super Bowl rings, three Super Bowl rings, four Silver rings. If there's this many grand slams, this many Oscars. He never this much money. Kinei, Kinas Ishmireo. That's the Kinah. Kinas Ishmireo. Look, if my friend gets better than me, okay. I'm not gonna jump off a roof because I have to be sober. But I would never put myself in a position to make myself be so well more. Kiloyu Kulnoa. Right? I can't stop it. I'm not sure what the transition of Yitashesh means, but but that's the point. We don't, a person doesn't, the general people don't like to see other people getting more on of them more than they have to be so well. What I have to be so well, so but not more than that. Meatah, Imkane, Kasha, Aleyam, Lyoch Folem, Vinuzulasumalo, Sam and Dumas of Kosu. So when it comes to things which make no difference, whether you have $700 million or a billion dollars, whether you have $1 million or $2 million, you know, it's a Velcorve money, right? A little bit of money definitely helps, but a certain point we all know you don't, no one really needs it, no one knows how to spend it, etc. It doesn't make that much of a difference. Honor for sure, whether you got Shlishi or V or Noelie at all. What's the difference? What is it? It's a Meduma, it's Kosev, it's it's falseness, it's ephemeral. Shane has Shibla's Bamelithim. Lolly Nisel is Shavishekar, it's all it's all fake and it's all foolishness, etc. Eich Yukalis, but but okay, but you, X, the person he's speaking to, you can't handle to see that someone else, when it comes to issues which aren't so real or factual or substantive, can't handle it bothers you to see someone else get ahead of you. So now you're gonna get to the next world, and because you didn't put enough effort in, that guy is gonna be ahead of you. You were getting the honor at the dinner, but the cleaner of the dinner, who you wouldn't even look at, or the guy you gave your coat to and hardly smiled at him, or maybe not at all, or the the guy who checked your car, you didn't even give him, you didn't even turn in his area at all, etc., and felt khushiv above him, he's gonna be in a higher place than Almabba. Because he's doing his job, Luk Shem Shemayim, and he's trying to help people, and he has good cavanas, etc. And you're full of your own yourself. And he's gonna be ahead of you. That fellow, and you'll feel it. Where? And where is it gonna be? Not in a place where it doesn't make any difference. Vizebmaqamala mitisvayakaranitzki. That's in a place of true myeless where it really makes a difference. Vekharanitzki and the eternal levels. Shaupishakshav Aimakirnosov Adirko, even though today, yes, we don't recognize it. Al Kane Lo Yakushov, therefore, we don't emotionally relate to it as much, we don't feel it. But then you will feel it for your tsar and your bosh, you're gonna have to live forever seeing that person is in a better state than me, right? Vadesh loyalized, it's gonna be an eternal. I'm just translating his words so strong. It's gonna be an eternal, big suffering and pain. Wow. So let's think about it. The person, whoever they are, that category of people who are moved by recognition, covet, being in front, having the extra car, having the nicer house, having the better place in shul, all this stuff, they are moved in this world. That same person is making the argument that the next world he doesn't care who's ahead. Doesn't make any sense. So there, Mr. Sharp says, Harela Khashena, Sablonis is a sham dorsh and lazzimam, the sablonis, the the chilledness that they have, the tolerance that they have. And this now, imagine, ah, he'll be ahead of me, so what? I don't, I'll just have a small khilik in Alamabah. I don't want to be in Gehenim, I don't want it to be so hot, but as long as the weather's okay, I'm alright. You're just faking yourself. Shem Fatih Yitzra Muslim, it's the Yatzar. Right? Just recognize that argument is the Eitzara. When you say, I don't need such a big caliik in in when you say I don't need such a big caliik in Alm Haba, it's the Eitzar because you don't think about things in this world in that way. Lodavramiti Kla. Kral'i Makam Lupito Izalahem. And the only reason they have this, even a place for this foolishness, Luli Hairoim Amita Sinyaf, because they can't see the truth. Because they're not looking for the truth. Now he's getting deeper. Why? What's the sharsh of this mistake? Right? Right? You know, I'm gonna I'm gonna stop this argument there because I want to focus on that part on Luly Hai Run. And what I want to share now is So this is quite a sophisticated argument, right? Again, we're talking to the Phusim, not the Shlemiadas, and what do we say to the Shlemi, what do we say to this Phusim? Look, you don't want Ruven, Shimon, Levi, Yesakhir, Zulin to be ahead of you in this next world. You don't want it. And I'll prove it to you. And even if you say that you don't care so much and it's enough for you to have just a small caliph, in this world you don't act like that. So if in this world you don't act like that, all the more so you shouldn't act like that in the next world. Where because there it really makes a difference. Here, the fact he gets a better Aliyah than you, here the fact he gets recognized with a rabbi or for with a rub or whoever, by the grandfather, the father, etc., doesn't really make a difference. And over there it really makes a difference. Now, this argument, now the Silas Hasharm is writing because this can work. This is an argument. And but if and if it works for you, it's Gewaldig. I just want to share something about us today. Is that um is that um it's quite a it's quite an argument. As I mentioned, right, the person that this argument would work for, I consider to be a pretty big Balma Draga. Why? Because he's holding with Olam Habah, he has intellectual honesty, and he's honest about his middle. Because if one doesn't think that covet moves him, him, right, which most of us, I think the assumption that most of us have is that covet doesn't move us. I don't do things because of covet, I do the right things. It's not honor that moves me, recognition, credit. Those words don't really move me, right? If they do, it's maybe just because of good amount. I remember a good Habermite said to me one time, everything I do is for COVID. You know, God bless him, God bless his honesty. God bless him. I remember like, whoa, really? He said, Yeah, everything I do is for COVID. I was like, whoa. And he and it wasn't uh you know performance. He was speaking to a friend, and we were, I don't remember if we were a Harusumine also, but really impressive that he said that. But but most of us don't face that. That's what moves us. So what's interesting here in the Monsieur Sharm, which I want to point out, is that is that this is quite an argument. So you see who the Phuseidas are in him, right? The Phuseidas are these people who can get such an argument. Now, we have to think to ourselves where that argument will work. If it works for you, try it. That's great, right? Do that, Keshman says. We're learning the safer. Is a safer massi, it's a safer to get us. The name of this chapter is, I'll just read the exact name. We all know it, right? It's Bederaknius' ears, how to become Zahir. Right? That means that a person is supposed to take these ideas and make them into engines that move them and keep them Zahir. I'm gonna do a Heshman and Navashem myself and make sure I know, as we've been saying the whole time, what is the Rats and Hashem? Am I living up to the Rats and Hashem? How can I get there? What is the Rats and Hashem? Am I living accordingly? How can I fix it, etc.? That this is what's supposed to power us. These are the philosophies and ideas which are powering us and keeping us on track. Now you have to think whether that'll work for you. I think, interestingly, for most of us, the Shlemiadas for will be work better. Not because we're Schleimiadas. I think for me, the Schleemiad Daswara worked better, even though I don't I certainly don't consider myself a Schleimi'a Das, but for some reason I just think that argument would work better. The idea that I need Silikim Lutov, what's it all about? It's all about Rasan Hashem. It's all about it's all about this world is right connected with the Qurish Worku. So you have to think to yourself, like don't just say that, don't just say, well, I'm not a Shalem Adas, therefore I'll just I won't use the Shalemi Adas Svaras. Yeah, don't do that. Because you never know, Mr. Sharm isn't is not telling us an Isr, right? He's laying out the sugi in front of us, and this is how it should work. The Shlemi Adas in his time, this should work, the Phusim this should work, and the Phusim this should work. But as I always say from Revlip there, when we work, we work with what works. The taqlis over here is Shumais have told Loa Madrashikar Elamasa. What is gonna move you? So you have to think what's gonna move you. This type of argument can move you, and you get you get that around your head. And again, khasar shalom, I never ever ever want to be someone who's who's uh who's um extinguishing any fire or light that someone has. If that argument moves you, great. What we're trying to say is I'm just trying to open up to the fact that you might assume you're not a shalom das, so not use the shlame das argument. The shlame das argument might might work better for you. Why? You know, there's a lot of reasons that we are the way we are. The whole language of Gehenam and Ghanaian works less to us, etc. Skar works less to us. We're in a certain generation, certain door with with our Maylas, with our Kastronas, with our thank you, Hashem, etc. And you have to know in our mindset what works and what doesn't work. And in your personal mindset, and every person is so individual, it's it's incredible to me all the time how when you get into it deeper, how you realize how individual the world of Rukhnius really is. So you have to find the argument where it works for you. And um as we go through and see the other arguments, Basratashem, each person could wade through. And maybe there's another argument which we the taught was to be a Zaire. That's what we want to get to. And Basratashem will find the right ways to uh um to engender that inside of ourselves.