Mesilas Yesharim, Perek 12 Part 1/2

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

How does a person acquire nekiyus? The Mesilas Yesharim answers briefly: constant learning of the words of Chazal, in both halacha and mussar. Halacha shows the subtle branches of an issur, and mussar, along with stories of tzaddikim, builds sensitivities a person never had. Whatever takes away zehirus also takes away nekiyus, and above all not knowing.

Key points

• The Mesilas Yesharim says nekiyus comes from constantly learning Chazal's words in halacha and mussar.
• The Chofetz Chaim built both a halacha sefer and a mussar sefer around one short mitzvah.
• Learning halacha all the time keeps its subtle, less common details from being forgotten.
• The Mesilas Yesharim adds that mussar brings a person to see things the sefer never says.
• The Gemara concludes that learning is greater, since learning brings a person to doing.

In this shiur

1. 0:00The way to acquire nekiyus
2. 2:04The Chofetz Chaim's two seforim
3. 4:49Not knowing the details of halacha
4. 7:56Mussar for the middos
5. 11:43Stories of tzaddikim and sensitivities
6. 20:05What takes away nekiyus
7. 22:29Gemara on learning or doing
8. 23:45A story about eating with seriousness

Topics

• Nekiyus
• Mesilas Yesharim
• Limud HaMussar
• Zehirus