Mesilas Yesharim, Perek 5 Part 2/3

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

Why does the Mesilas Yesharim call leitzanus so hard to escape? The Mesilas Yesharim compares someone drowning in leitzanus to a drunk who cannot think straight, and says one bit of leitzanus pushes away a great deal of mussar. We learn that simcha and a good joke are not the problem. Mocking what matters and treating all of life as a joke wears away yiras shamayim.

Key points

• The Mesilas Yesharim calls being too busy the easiest mafsid of zehirus to guard against.
• Leitzanus slowly breaks barriers, the Mesilas Yesharim says, until it can bring even gilui arayos.
• The Mesilas Yesharim compares leitzanus to an oiled shield that lets mussar slide right off.
• Simcha and a good joke are welcome, but mocking what matters and living as a joke destroys.
• We learn that a letz who laughs off gentle messages gets a harsher wake-up call.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Recap: too busy to think
2. 4:58Leitzanus, the second mafsid
3. 7:28Leitzanus leading to gilui arayos
4. 9:32Leitzanus and reaching younger people
5. 12:21The mashal of the oiled shield
6. 15:49Rashi's leitzanei hador
7. 18:27Simcha versus leitzanus
8. 22:15Suffering that comes to the letz

Topics

• Mesilas Yesharim
• Leitzanus
• Zehirus
• Yiras Shamayim