Mesilas Yesharim Explained with Rabbi Dovid Schoonmaker
Sep 7, 2026 · 13 min · 10 segments
In two short sessions a week Rabbi Dovid Schoonmaker will elucidate and bring to life the eternal words of the Mesilas Yesharim. Rabbi Dovid Schoonmaker is the Rosh Yeshivah of Shapell's / Yeshivas…
Dovid SchoonmakerHostNow why a racial slur is worse than antisemitism or curse words or a lot of other things is that's not our point here, but I'm showing us in the world, it came clear to me, where we see it, because when we read them, we're like, no, come on, Lashon Hara shouldn't cause that, that's not, no, it should, and you see in the world that there are things that it's like one and done, or someone says, someone's meeting a young lady on the first day, and it's all going well, and he says something which is, you know, inappropriate of a certain source, he's gone, right, so And I think we all know in our minds to be very careful of such things, this type of inappropriate word.
And then sometimes you find people lose filters and then they get in big trouble, right? You know, you don't do X, you don't do Y.
So the idea of immediate punishment, we do find in our world, in special forces and things like that, from what I've read.
Now why a racial slur is worse than antisemitism or curse words or a lot of other things is that's not our point here, but I'm showing us in the world, it came clear to me, where we see it, because when we read them, we're like, no, come on, Lashon Hara shouldn't cause that, that's not, no, it should, and you see in the world that there are things that it's like one and done, or someone says, someone's meeting a young lady on the first day, and it's all going well, and he says something which is, you know, inappropriate of a certain source, he's gone, right, so And I think we all know in our minds to be very careful of such things, this type of inappropriate word.
And then sometimes you find people lose filters and then they get in big trouble, right? You know, you don't do X, you don't do Y.
So the idea of immediate punishment, we do find in our world, in special forces and things like that, from what I've read.
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