Helping The Low Life - Jewish HaShkafa (97)

A low-life is a term for a person who is considered morally unacceptable by their community. Though The Sages Agree To The General meaning of this word, the implication and details are quite different, and tonight we'll learn from the Chazon Ish about how to help low lives and certainly how to avoid being one.

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0:00:00 Introduction
0:11:13 Learning & applying both Mussar & the Law are required (Chazon Ish)
0:12:49 Proper Torah prescription from your Rabbi
0:13:35 The Low Life Defined
0:18:12 Helping the Low Life
0:20:39 The Low Life Defined (cont.)
0:22:25 Educators' obligation: study individuals to find roots of their personalities (Chazon Ish)
0:23:02 Student receptivity even more critical for education
0:23:58 Low Life behavior—Feebleness of light (Kiddushim 40a)
0:25:45 Example: Petty cash under low-life (Testing the system)
0:31:06 Accustomed to low-life behavior vs. Moses' missed opportunity: hitting the rock
0:34:26 Not a kosher Person: The Lowlife
0:35:52 The Lowlife Department: The Judgement of Low-lives
0:40:22 Helping the Low Life (cont.)
0:42:17 The Low Life's "Justification" (Laws & Chukim: Mussar)
0:43:03 Helping the Low Life (cont.)
0:43:51 Teshuvah & Lowlife tendencies
0:46:31 Avoiding lowlife behavior increases righteousness
0:46:52 The Signed Letter: "the lowly in truth" vs. "the lowlife" (Superficial righteousness)
0:51:31 The New Baal Teshuvah (Superficial righteousness)
0:57:16 Bezalel's Middot (Berachot 55)
1:07:54 Who is considered an Am Haaretz? (Berachot 47b)
1:10:58 The Bookworm Rabbi: Am Haaretz—Lowlife trait of arrogance
1:13:01 Someone who eats in public
1:15:03 Eating near dead body preferable to public eating
1:17:58 A three-ply chord is not easily severed: Scripture, Mishnah, Mussar (Kidd. 40b to Koh. 4 v.12)
1:18:55 Non-member of society
1:20:02 Learning Torah vs. performing Mitzvot (R. Tarfon; R. Akiva)
1:21:11 What if missing one ingredient?
1:23:28 More unqualified witnesses (Shulchan Aruch C.M. 35:8-10)
1:35:12 Destinations
1:39:54 Exposed faker: David Ben Gurion
1:43:14 3 types of people: Fly in wine
1:48:15 Conclusion
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Helping The Low Life - Jewish HaShkafa (97)