Mesilas Yesharim, Perek 11 Part 9/11

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

What are the levels of kaas, and what does it mean to be naki from it? Mesilas Yesharim moves from the person angry at everything, who loses his da'as and is like one serving avodah zarah, down to the one who is hard to anger and easy to appease. Higher still is Hillel, whom nothing could anger. Emunah that everything comes from Hashem and is for the good is the key, as Yosef HaTzaddik showed his brothers.

Key points

• Mesilas Yesharim likens one who angers at everything and loses his da'as to avodah zarah.
• Perhaps kaas resembles avodah zarah because it forgets that everything comes from Hashem.
• Hillel, whom the Gemara in Shabbos shows could not be angered, stands above the easily appeased.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Mesilas Yesharim's levels of kaas
2. 0:49The worst level of kaas
3. 4:27Writing out anger and waiting
4. 5:57A small kaas held inside
5. 7:29Kaas, avodah zarah and emunah
6. 10:05Hard to anger, easy to appease
7. 12:22Hillel who could not be angered
8. 16:33Rebuke without kaas

Topics

• Kaas
• Emunah
• Nekiyus
• Mesilas Yesharim