#66 - Perek Daled M - 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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Let's go through and get through this um idea Midisiddin, and we have a very important Hashkafic um idea coming up soon. Misil Sharma is a saver both of Musr and Ashkafa. That's one of the reasons you have to learn the whole thing. Just like there is this is a lot of musr, you call it what we're learning now, but it's also ashkafa, right? As we tried to explain it, then ashkafah, the shlamas ashkafa, the sun they call Midisaddin, etc. Well, parhayabum, Amrabiokan, Kathavimati Lahikra, Amru, excuse me, they said, Rabbiokan, Kathavimate, when he would get to La High Kra, Habibakai, he would cry. I'm always moved by how much Tanaim and Amraim would cry. I remember when I saw my great Rashiv Sikh Shelevsky, which was an amazing Ishtas, a person of Sekel. Even he's called like a real Litvak, uh, even introverted in a certain way person, his emotions worn out all the time, but I remember I saw him at a hes one time crying like a baby. It was very, very moving to me. So imagine seeing Rabbiochanan, the sage, great sage of Yushalayim, of the of Erithral. I don't know if he's in Yushalaim, but he was up north, but of Erithral. Karabdi Elicham Mishmah the Pasik says in Malachi, and I drove close to you for Mishmah for judgment. Baiti aid maher, and I was a quick um, a quick aid, a quick um witness. Machavim memafim le shekar, and I saw all the bad things you were doing. Witchcraft, manafim, and adultery, shekher, but oskar socher, you're not paying workers, you see what she means. So it means the Quddishbook was saying, like, I see the negative things you're doing, and I'm gonna take you to task. And Ruby Yohnun cry, Evit Shishokinl love, Kalod Khamura, Takanyeshlo, means what's he putting in the same paragraph? Adultery and not paying your work in the same day? That's what moved him. The fact that Kudashboh was an abe in my hair, okay, Ruby Jochunan got that. But but look at the severity. When he would read the Pusik and we review the Pusik, witchcraft, very severe. Witchcraft is one of the most severe things, by the way. It says in Era Hashem. Banafim, adultery, okay, even part of the world still remembers that that's uh part of the world thinks that's a Mitsugaola, but thank God the same people still realize that that's from the worst worst of errors. But not paying your worker on time, that's tough stuff. Evit Ishoklan of Kalaska Murzta Kanieslo, is there anything to do? The same feeling we have when we read these things Rabyokanan had. It's too much, right? Bavadai ain't now explained to Vavadi, she ain't come on a summer shiahaonishanky echod. What move Rabyokan? Listen carefully. It wasn't the Rabyokanan thought, and for sure that's not what the plusing means, you got the same ownersh for adultery and for paying your workers late. No, that doesn't make any sense. But it means that everything's considered. Just like we understand, right? Someone who commits adultery, there's going to be a reckoning for that. Okay, there's gonna be a reckoning for that, but there's also gonna be reckoning for not paying workers on time. That was what moved him. You might have said, okay, look, don't worry about it. Can't believe it's ought to be that you know. Kenishborough, I got more severe problems. Leave this one alone. Don't worry like that. Lo Yalim Hadain Ainomihem, Kla Kash, Loyal Makhuris. He's gonna see all of them. That's what moved. That's what moved Rabbi Okunan. But moved Rabbi Okhan was let a Khadishbor not worry about those kar. Look at the problems of the generation, right? We can imagine today, X, we got X, Y, Z. He said, but oh, there's also this. No, just worry about that, right? And on a Khinuhi level, educational level, the way educators think, I think, it's the only way I think is okay, leave that alone. Just make it get to the get to the big goal. That's that's how I am as an educator, as a parent. Let's just make sure we're getting to the big goal. Forget stuff along the way, just leave it. But the Khaj Bokal is not like that. That's what caused Rabbiopana to cry. Right? He's gonna see all of them. Khajushbok is gonna see them and um judge them and punish them. All the actions of a Kudashbor, call masay. No, excuse me, all actions, judges, all of them. I'll call Nelam and Tobi Mra. All hidden things, if it's good or if it's bad. Right, just like don't worry, Kudashborough does not forget every good thing you do. And that's let's just take a second on that. He's not emphasizing that, but let's emphasize ourselves that every good thing you do. There's not a single person in the world, I don't think, who doesn't sometimes feel people don't recognize the good things I do. That's something we all do have, right? Aries, we try hard in. Did my daughter appreciate? Did my teenage son appreciate? Does the baby appreciate? Does any of our kids appreciate? Do we appreciate what we did, what our parents did for us? Right? Do you appreciate the the shurish of kibutavaim? Sebrachan says the fact they brought you to the world. That's it. That's a starting point. After that, everything else is cherries on top. Your parents brought you to the world, right? So you brought your children to the world. No one sees it, no one recognized it all the times you're nice. And your boss made sure to tell you when you were late, but he didn't give you the extra car for all the times you came on time and the times you came early. And the extra effort you put in. Tanashwakam is not none of them. It's an unbelievable network that someone thinks about it. Not a single good action you've ever done has gone unnoticed. Not a single one. Not a single one. Not a single Mahshava Tovi you've ever had has gone unnoticed. Not a single one. Not a single Dibur Tov you've had. You tried to and not you try to be carried somebody you weren't successful. For sure it didn't go unnoticed. I'm trying to be somebody who's being the car of the Jewish people. I'm trying to make a Kiddish Hashem. I'm trying that my family should do the right thing. I'm trying, I'm I'm cooking for my family, I'm making parnasa, not a single day goes by. You don't get rewarded for it. So that's nice. Okay? Kikashir. That that's that was like the default that the Ms. Hshan was talking about, which we just emphasized and blew up. But then Kikashari. Ain't a Khishbok me in the ekm list kor call masatov. The smallest, as he said, it doesn't cut, it doesn't miss a small, small thing. It's all there, it's all not forgotten, it's all appreciated, it's all remembered, it's all referred to. Kane Lang, it's the cane. We have to get to the cane. But he also sees all the small actions of a negative late. This is I'm coming now, and Sil Sharp says to go against those who are making a terrible mistake. Think the small things of Kudashborhu don't sweat sweat don't sweat the small stuff. Maybe it's good for us not to sweat the small stuff, but a Khajboku does sweat the small stuff because it's not small, right? It's also not eru. Just forgets about stuff. This is more babakama. Hard to avoid it, right? Tap Yomi learns it, Yeshivas learn it, can't avoid it. Kolomer Khadhboko Vatrin, who? Ya Vatrum Aoi. Kudashboko will give up on his innerts, the person's innards, right? Yetzar says, Don't worry, sin. Kudashboko doesn't care. Altishmal, don't listen to him. The morning Khagiki says because he's lying. Yetzar doesn't know. The Zedavar Pashimavur. This is clear. The rock. Tamim. Complete is his work. He called Racha Mishbud. All of his ways are Mishpat. All of his ways are righteous, are straight, are calculated and exact. Elamunavain Ovel, a God of trust. Main Ovel, there's no nothing not right with him. Tsarik Vyashu, very moving pasik. That's Surat Tangpolo. That's a good posik to memorize. That's Surat Tangpalo, Kikol Rahha Mishpat, Elmuna Vein Ovel, Tsarik Vyashu, is Khazik that pasik, right? That is Poruka, especially when we see, you know, we see anti-Semites rising and and and and uh and all the radical Islam rising, don't worry. I always think to myself, think what Germany was like in the 35, 36, 37, all their Gaiva, their Hab Hab, their boots on the ground, marching through Paris, and Yamak Shamo, etc., showing them and look, how long did it take for the Minnesota hit them? It was so short. Oh, the thousand-year Reich. That was 13 years, 14 years, 15 years, 16 years it was until it was it was totally decimated, destroyed, nothing. So eventually the time will come when all the Sony's thrill will also be in the ground, just like Berlin was in 1945. I mean, Kenny Ritzot. So but but but uh good. So so it's a good policy to remember. Judgment does happen. We've seen it again and again in history. That gives a hizo. Those who came against the Jewish people, we see everybody knows the story by now, right? Look at this the historical, it's not historically, it's not a good thing to be an anti-Semite. You know, it's a bad bet. It's a bad, it's a bad investment. These guys are making a bad investment. They're foolish and they have a lot of sin and a lot of sun inside of them, unfortunately. And now it's very complex because I hope you know everybody has to dab it because the the old anti-Semites together with the radical Islam is a very, very dangerous combination. The radical Islam, like uh Islamites are getting all over. You know, we see this, the red, uh what do they call it, the red green connection, the green rainbow connection, I don't remember what they call it, but right uh you see two very dangerous uh things today. The standard anti-Semites with with with the radical Islam and the radical Islam with the progressives. Uh crazy stuff. Okay, but Kudash Boko runs the world and we will see the eventually the retribution. Okay, Kikem and Shakeshborhu wrote of Mishbah, God wants Mishpat. He ne kahu avor al a mishpath ha lame at aim in a sput com O Menechova. He won't be Mala Mayan from the split of Menechova. Al Kane, a Mishpat who wrote it, if judgment is what he wants, Tsar Shit and Lakolis, Kidrochov. He must give. Uh God wants Mishpat. Right? And now's not the time to say, but this is a big sod. Maybe I'll go into it a little bit. Let's finish the paragraph. Alcane, a Mishpat who wrote that, he wants Sark Shit and Lakhalis, Kidrochov, but Taku Zadik Ba Rab. If you want, you want Mishpat, it has to be exact. Right? There are things in life which are exact. And there's no way to get out of it. Okay, that's the reality. Now, why does a Kudashbok want Mishpat for us? Kudashbok wants Mishpat for us. Rubonisham set up a system. He could it's always good to remind ourselves of this, and let's let's end the section with that. That that's who could have and would have, we certainly won't say should have, but he could have and would have taken the Nishamas and put them straight if they got aided. This basic half everybody knows. And but what I think we don't remember sometimes is the reason to do that, except that was his ikharatsun, was Lahaitiv. He wants to do good. But what happens? Four different Kashmonas because he doesn't want man just to be makabul because of Named Kasufa. One idea that the bread of embarrassment, right, when you don't work for something, you don't earn it, you don't feel it as much. So Kurdish Borghu didn't want these the shamas, our nishambas would forever be f sitting with a feeling of, I don't really deserve this. That's one way it said. Another way it said is that he wants us to have a shlamis of independence, to be as close as uh he as we can be. And he, so to speak, has earned whatever he has. That's not the wrong way to say it, but right in Khaju is uh is rooi and shalim in himself. And uh the shlamus is one who earns things. That's that's a shlamas, right? That you earn things is sh is to be shalim. Not just the feeling, but the mylah, right? When you when we see someone who, when we see someone who doesn't deserve anything, so you see a person who's not, besides he's feeling he's missing it, right? Let's say, right? He he doesn't feel it, he doesn't he doesn't recognize that he just got uh the company because he's the boss's son, and he feels great about himself. But you know he's lacking a mylah of someone who earned something, as well as his father, everybody respected, everybody looked at, right? So those are two ways to say the idea. It's the it's the feeling and it's the etzum ma'ala. So Kadesh Bok says, I have to take these in the shammas and give them a chance, give them, give them uh a trial and make them earn it. That's what the whole world is about. That's it. Otherwise, we would have gone straight to Ulama Ba. That's why part of the reason it's important to think about. We always think about Ulama Ba it's like, oh, it's out there, it's past there. It's our etzum self. It's where we should have gone straight. We're just stuck in this body, and therefore we viscerally appreciate everything. We understand this world so much better than that world, but that's where we should have started. We're only here for the test. Everybody knows this. We have to think about it. But now that's what it means to cut us what we want is in my understanding. That's what it means to cutish what we want's mishbutt. So now I created a system, but now the system's a system. And once the system is the system, uh that's a system. I want to say one more word about roads of Mishbud. I um played basketball in high school, okay? And um every maybe people, you know, some didn't do it, but everybody wanted to do it, and many of us, including me, would do it. Afterwards, you check to see if they marked how many points you scored. Today is everything's probably you know, the high school level, it's probably automatic, and maybe AI just figures it out or something. Back then you had someone who like put a you know a check for a score and then one for a foul shot, and etc. And believe me, you wanted Mishbutt, right? I'm just giving you Dugma. We want accuracy, right? If you work overtime, most of us don't want um, most of us don't want extra hours, but the hours that we work, I want it, you're right. If I work five hours extra, you want five hours, not six, not four, five. That's a that's a healthy feeling. So I think sometimes just to ease the tension and ease the fear, but yet to live with these ideas, right? That's where we're learning, as I started this section, you know, it's in a certain way it's very, very overwhelming when we learn the idea of din and how could a quddish broko do it, and how could Kudishbroko where's the Kudash Boko's love? I think to counter that in ourselves and to uh make it palatable to us and understandable to us and be able to work with it, is something to say we also want that. You want judgment. Do you like do you like that everybody wins? Do you like that there are no losers? Do you like that there's that's not how competition works, it's not how the world works, is not how capitalism works. So many ideas which are near and dear to us and that we relate to deeply are built around that. If I work hard, I want I want to see achievement. If my children work hard, I want to see achievement. If they don't work hard, they don't they shouldn't achieve it. That's that we I don't want my kid to be more considered than another kid if you don't work hard. Is that what you want? That's the world you want. There's no fairness to it. We like words like fairness, exactness, you know, coming on time, getting exact change. I want exact change. I don't want a cycle more, I don't want a shackle less. I never a workman works for me. You can give him a tip, a tip is something else, a tip is a Tosephis, right? But how do you feel when someone works for you? You work two and a half hours and he's getting $100 an hour, so you should get $250. You want to add $20? That that's that's a you know it I'll show you a perfect example. You come and you go out with your family for to a restaurant and you see the bill is uh they forgot to charge you $50 shekels or $20. Every honest person amongst us is gonna say you charge the I'm sorry, that's not the price. Please take the extra money, right? And so too, if you see they overcharged you, right? If it's not a big deal, uh not saying a shekel, but you can say I'm sorry, like I looked at the bill quickly, and you know, this might be my colleagues, sometimes my husbands and wives, some sometimes husbands and this one's ones who say, you know, I think you overcharged me. This is 50 shekels. I didn't order that thing. Remember the shake we didn't order in the end. Please, I don't want to pay me. Oh, sorry, right? Both sides. That means you want Mishbah. You want strainess, you want things to or the word, the that's a that's a deep thing inside of us. Okay, by the way, just get everybody ready for the next section. We're gonna deal with a very we we've been dealing with Musir and Ashkup. And now we're gonna deal with a deeply Hashkufic point next, which is well, so so where where's Midas Aracham? A question we were all wondering where's Midas Aracham that that's right to Shell we'll deal with next time.