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על שלשה דברים העןלם עומד explains the Yalkut Hagershuni when it comes to three things people get up and leave, not having patience, a shiur, a long davenen and an appeal.
ברוך שבחר בהם ובמשהצם people are willing to listen to Torah and not marry into them as they are concerned with their parnasa,
Rabbi Yehuda’s view is מין בשאינו מינו בטל בששים אבל מין במינו אפילו באלף לא בטל if someone does things from desire, when one is sixty, will give it up but when doing it from minus, lack of belief even when one is a thousand, will not give it up.
The Chasam Sofer says Nedarim 81,1 on why the charban came שלא ברכו בתורה תחלה, when praising, they did not praise one first with one’s Torah knowledge but with one’s secular knowledge
שלך אי אתה רואה your own faults you do not see אבל אתה רואה של אחרים but see the sins of others ושל גבוה and specially the sins of the holy.
אין אדם רואה את נגעי עצמו a person does not see one’s own faults
כל הפוסל במומו פוסל one who faults, faults with one’s own faults