Mesilas Yesharim, Perek 10

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

Why keep learning the Mesilas Yesharim past levels not yet reached? Some ideas can already be applied now, and knowing the goal of avodas Hashem matters from the start. Then comes the middah of nekiyus, where the naki stays clean even of the aveiros that taiva talks a person into calling a heter. Through hergel, a zahir who only forces down his desires slowly reaches that clarity, and the work is less hard than it looks.

Key points

• The Mesilas Yesharim asks to learn it over and over, not to master each level first.
• The Mesilas Yesharim's naki stays clean even of aveiros that taiva rationalizes into a heter.
• A zahir conquers his taiva without changing it, like the Tanya's level of iskafya.
• The yetzer hara bribes us, the way a bribe keeps a judge from judging clearly.
• The Mesilas Yesharim says nekiyus takes effort but is not as hard as it looks.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Why people stop learning the sefer
2. 4:41Defining the middah of nekiyus
3. 6:03Rationalizing a heter out of taiva
4. 10:24The zahir and the naki
5. 14:02Hergel and becoming more ruchni
6. 18:04The yetzer hara as a bribe
7. 20:44Coming before Hashem with nekiyus
8. 23:21End of the perek on effort

Topics

• Mesilas Yesharim
• Nekiyus
• Zehirus
• Yetzer Hara