The Partnership of Success: Torah knowledge and Mussar Study
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Drawing from Torah and Mussar, we illuminate the latter's role as the 'police force' of our lives. Rabbeinu Yonah's perspective on a Passuk in Mishlei guides our discussion, emphasizing the significance of Mussar as a private patrol. This episode invites you to reflect on how these moral laws govern our actions, both in the public eye and in solitude. Let's embark on this journey together and discover the profound impact of integrating Mussar into our daily routine.
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0:02 Success is twofold. It takes both Shoif Tim, judges, and Shoitrim, the police force, as Arashi explains to us at the beginning of our power show. It takes those that have the knowledge, that have sufficiently acquired the hatred of money and corruption and have studied the entire gamut of Hashem's Torah and can sit on the bench to govern the populace and to see to it that justice has been delivered to judge. And secondly, it takes then the police force, the Shoitir, those that patrol the outsides to see to it that the population continues to obediently follow that which the judges have put down as the law.
0:50 And really, in any sort of art, you will see that Success is twofold. For long before there is a chart-topping song from a Jewish artist, the successful singer had his song, perhaps produced by the brilliant composer. Success is twofold. And long before there can be a beautiful mansion on some sprawling yard that has been built, erected by a contractor, there were the plans laid down by the architect. Success is twofold, and in Torah, in our service of the Almighty, it is no different. Based on a Pusuk in Mishleirah, benu Yonah explains to us that it takes both Torah and Musur, and Shoif Tim, our Torah, the knowledge of Halacha, and then Shoitrim.
1:38 What is it? That is the police force? What is it that patrols our lives, and in public or in private? It is the study of Musur. The patrols even the most private areas of our lives. We are never left home alone if we have the study of Musur going on in our lives. It is Shoif, tim, the Shoitrim, titein, lecha. Give it to you. Enact this same practice and exercise in your life. For in the days of Elo, what better time than to pick up a Shirei truvah, a hobos halavavos, and to start making Musur a part of your day.
2:19 Make it a 15 minute segment out of your busy schedule and you may see that you have a bit more time than just 15 minutes. You can go to the rabbis to understand Halacha, to know what to do, but when you are in private, who will be there to police you? Who will be there to see to it that Hashem's moral law has been carried out sufficiently? It is the study of Musur. The prophets have been there to rebuke us and it is the same reason that they, the Savior to Vm, are a part of the Holy Tanakh, just like the five books of Moshe Rabin, because it takes Shaitim and Shaitrim to start learning some Musur today.