Yiras Hashem Is the Only Chochma

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

Why does the Mesilas Yesharim say that yiras Hashem and ahavas Hashem have to be worked for? Shlomo HaMelech's pasuk asks us to search for yiras Hashem like money and buried treasure, because the shallow understanding is false. The pasuk of Ve'ata Yisrael holds five kinds of shleimus, and the sefer is built on the order of the beraisa of Pinchas ben Yair.

Key points

• One deeper answer: we learn that every Jew loves Hashem naturally, and the work is revealing it.
• The Baal Tanya explains the Gemara: every Jew has a part of Moshe Rabbeinu inside him.
• Yirah here is awe of Hashem's greatness, like the nervousness felt before a great tzaddik.
• Ahava means always seeking to give Hashem nachas, with kinah and simcha in mitzvos.
• Perhaps chassidus is called greatest of all because the other middos are its details.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Acquiring or revealing ahavas Hashem
2. 1:51Shlomo HaMelech on searching for yirah
3. 6:37Chassidim shotim and true shleimus
4. 8:22The pasuk of Ve'ata Yisrael
5. 11:40Five kinds of shleimus, starting with yirah
6. 15:39Ahava, shleimus halev and mitzvos
7. 20:55The beraisa of Pinchas ben Yair
8. 24:02Why the sefer was written

Topics

• Mesilas Yesharim
• Yiras Hashem
• Ahavas Hashem
• Shleimus