Category: Path of the Just
Acquiring Cleanliness is perpetual study of both the halachic and ethical pronouncements of our Sages of blessed memory. This is taken from chapter twelve. For once the truth of man’s responsibility for Cleanliness and...
The desire for honor is even greater than the desire for wealth, for it is possible for a person to overcome his inclination for wealth and the other pleasures and still be pressed by...
“If one utters slanderous remarks it is as if he denies the First Cause,” and (Psalms 101:5), “One who slanders his friend in secret, him will I destroy. ” Hate and revenge, too, are...
In detail of cleanliness lesson five, we shall now discuss the common sins which grow out of the relationships between men and their association in groups. Among these are: verbal oppression, shaming, giving misleading...
In this class details of cleanliness lesson four we discuss issues concerning the “fornication of the mouth and the ear,” that is, speaking obscenities or listening to them, our Sages “screamed like cranes” (Yerushalmi...
The Holy One Blessed be He desires only honesty, as it is said (Psalms 31:24), “God protects the honest ones,” and (Isaiah 26:2), “Open ye doors so that there may enter a righteous nation,...
This is lesson two, from chapter eleven, of the path of the just by the RAMCHAL. We discuss ethical business practice. Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, also known as the RaMCHaL after his initials, is best...
In this first lecture from chapter eleven the details of cleanliness will discuss purity and overcoming sin. THE which comprise Cleanliness are very numerous, being all of the which comprise the 365 negative commandments....
Path of the Just Chapter Ten THE IDEA behind the trait of Cleanliness is that a person be completely clean of bad traits and of sins, not only those which are recognized as such,...
Path of the Just Chapter Nine In this weeks lecture from the Path of the just we will discover that THE which detract from Zeal are those which promote laziness. The greatest of these is...
THERE ARE TWO ELEMENTS OF ZEAL, one relating to the period before, and the other to the period after the beginning of the deed. The concern of the former is that a man not...
AFTER WATCHFULNESS comes the trait of zeal, Watchfulness pertaining to the negative commandments and Zeal to the positive, in accordance with the idea of “Depart from evil and do good(Psalms 34:15).” “Zeal,” as the name...