Name: Going To Parties & Big Events - Jewish HaShkafa (88)
Uploaded: 2025-09-21T03:00:00+00:00
Duration: 1 h 56 min 28 s
Description: With so many corporate and family events in the past month, many tears are flowing down the faces of those who took it just a step to far. Are these just exceptions, or was it all expected. What did t

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With so many corporate and family events in the past month, many tears are flowing down the faces of those who took it just a step to far. Are these just exceptions, or was it all expected. What did the Jewish Sages say about this, and do I really have to become a hermit in order to go to Heaven?
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0:00:00 Introduction
0:05:08 Parties & Big Events
0:07:33 Jewish HaShkafa (outlook/worldview) provides correct mindset
0:09:22 Why doesn't everyone seek Torah wisdom? (Requires merit; 7 wisdoms of the Torah)
0:10:57 Transformed by taking Torah seriously (Ex. FFB, anti-Torah)
0:13:59 Acquiring Torah requires sacrifice
0:16:05 Mussar and Halachah must be learned together—to arrive at right conclusion
0:18:14 Forbidden to Test oneself (Chazon Ish)
0:23:37 Physical vs Spiritual criticism—how people typically react
0:31:44 People avoid spiritual criticism unless seeking Truth, due to their evil inclination
0:33:56 Validating whether you have the Truth or not
0:36:14 Forbidden to Test oneself (Chazon Ish) (continued)
0:37:15 One should welcome the rebuke
0:38:29 The Greater the Person, the Greater his Evil Inclination (Succah 52a) (Fleeing from rebuker after the boost)
0:42:31 A person needs to know where they stand (spiritually, ethically)
0:43:27 Parties & Big Events (continued)
0:44:27 Idolatry is worse than immorality (Chazon Ish on Avodah Zarah 17b)
0:51:09 Parties & Big Events (continued)
0:54:21 Bitul Torah (Avodah Zarah 18b on Tehillim 1:1)
0:56:00 Praiseworthy is the man who walked not etc.—in the counsel of the wicked...and sat not at a session of jesters (Avodah Zarah 18b on Tehillim 1:1)
1:08:11 The House and the Nail (parable)
1:16:44 The Prohibited Remedy (Sanhedrin 75a)
1:24:10 The voice of a woman is considered her nakedness (Mishnah Berurah 75:18 (forbidden to hear))
1:28:35 Office Parties require a Mechitza (Shulchan Aruch OC 528:4)
1:28:53 Forbidden for men and women to play games together (Shulchan Aruch, Even HaEzer 22 18; Avodat Hakodesh, Moreh Ba'Etzba; Rashi on Yoma 19b)
1:29:38 Forbidden for a man to hear a woman deliver a speech (Shevet HaLevi: 3 14, 5 198)
1:31:16 Forbidden for a man to hear singing of a woman (Shut Chatam Sofer; Shevet HaLevi 190; Shulchan Aruch, Even HaEzer 21:7)
1:32:40 A main cause of adultery (mixed games or entertainment)
1:33:00 If a man can't leave and can't block out a woman singing, he should close his ears and think of something else
1:33:29 How a saleswoman should speak to men (and voice recordings)
1:34:10 The outcome—big sins that started off from smaller sins
1:35:30 Satan exploits smaller sins to influence a person to make bigger sins
1:46:53 Watching movies or television is idolatry (Steipler Gaon)
1:50:26 Conclusion
1:52:17 Rav Shach's difficulty
1:55:48 BeEzrat HaShem Inc. End of the Year 2022 (5782-5783)