Mesilas Yesharim Explained with Rabbi Dovid Schoonmaker
Nov 2, 2026 · 14 min · 5 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 SchoonmakerHostKal is light, rosh is that lightheaded? There's a heavy person and a light-minded person.
Now, what is schok v'kalos rosh, margila person, to that? What is going on? So he explains.
Every man of faith is naturally, that's something which is very chamor, illicit activity is not something which he imagines himself engaged or herself engaged in.
We don't talk about such things publicly or at all, depending on how you speak about that.
And you have a natural, inherent fear from coming close to those things because you know the severity.
from the picture of, this is already part of how a person naturally is, because of the picture that's already been imprinted on his mind, how serious a sin it is, and how much punishment it brings in its wake.
Joking and merriment and scoffing brings it closer a little bit, a little bit at a time.
Kal is light, rosh is that lightheaded? There's a heavy person and a light-minded person.
Now, what is schok v'kalos rosh, margila person, to that? What is going on? So he explains.
Every man of faith is naturally, that's something which is very chamor, illicit activity is not something which he imagines himself engaged or herself engaged in.
We don't talk about such things publicly or at all, depending on how you speak about that.
And you have a natural, inherent fear from coming close to those things because you know the severity.
from the picture of, this is already part of how a person naturally is, because of the picture that's already been imprinted on his mind, how serious a sin it is, and how much punishment it brings in its wake.
Joking and merriment and scoffing brings it closer a little bit, a little bit at a time.
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