Alei Shur: Don't Shirk your Responsibilities - Rabbi Guy Matalon

[Music] so we began talking about Sofia shadow the book of the just of the straight and we saw the Gemara that says that Sofia I shall is the book of the sheet is called by Felicia because it describes the behavior of the just ones which are Yakko Yosef and so on and so forth we start with Adam Rishon we talked about it yesterday the Adama Lee Sean was born was created just created straight but he bent himself out of shape instead of maintaining focus and not thinning he made the mistake in sind right he needed to repair the world the world needed to be repaired through one act which was what not eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil if he would just not eat it the world would be repaired but he made a mistake he sinned so then what did I sham do what he did he says that the college bara who divided evil into small parts and put them in each person it used to be that the yes era was one entity right just one huge entity and that was what Adam had to fight against since Adam lost that piece that that entity was broken into little parts and one part goes into you one part listen to you what part goes into you it goes into you so on and so forth and to me I get one do not void of yet so the answer is in each and every single person and we have the duty to do it tikkun to repair this which means that it's gonna be different in different people you are battle it's not gonna be my battle your battle yes it is gonna be different than mine got it okay so if there's no more justice in a sense of being straight not being crooked in the world because Adam Rishon essentially made the mistake and sinned is nobody straight anymore are we all crooked are we all doomed that's the question so listen to what the random reins there are mum right village share with a lady believe and it's not only about chef at Haleiwa the Lavy tribe the Levites but each person oh that is created in the world that his spirit brings him and his knowledge brings him to stand before God and he has the desire to serve God and to know him and he shall walk straight the same way that God made him and he would get rid of all of the calculations that human beings tried to do when they sinned and hence he will become holy of holies so at the end of shemitah Ava and the laws of shmita another album says this so what does the Robin say here he's telling you that every person is born straight every book person is born just every person is born yes shallow to quote the rumble but only because we make all sorts of calculations I want to go back to New York I want a party for New Year's Eve I want to make money all these calculations caused him to bend the aspect that he is strength you are born like this but because you having are your mind all sorts of calculations and things that you think you want you blow it there is a way to maintain the natural position that we are created and the only way to do it is to dedicate ourselves Ronny hearing to the service of a ship I'm not making this this way right and it says in Sanhedrin it says the man was created alone in the world to teach you that if a person causes one nefesh of Israel to be lost he's considered as if he lost the entire world and whoever saves one nefesh of the Jewish people as if he saved a whole world so what does that mean it means that there's seven and a half billion people here and every single person is unique there's nobody like you there's nobody like you and if you cause yourself to be lost Ronnie it's on you I'm laying in a little thick okay fine max if you save your own nefesh if you save your own neshama it's as you as if you saved an entire world it's up to you you could choose stayin yeshiva or live la vida loca these are the wondrous aspects of God's action you can create seven a half billion people and each person is different each person is different there are no two people who are like sometimes they complement each other as you like I don't know fish and she hates me so you learn to eat what she likes that's the compliment and you complement her on her phone you should know the uniqueness that you have and the way that cars borrow who created you to be straight to be just was exactly the way that other Mauritian was created and if you were going to be just and straight the same way that God created you then you will be able to fulfill I'll be able to fulfill your role on earth okay now a demolition was not the one to repair this world he couldn't repair it the first person that tried to repair the world is who who knows what Yona he said you know I've I mean I've I'm Athena was the first person who started to repair this and he says when he was the Rambam talks about this in the beginning of inaudible dozen laws of idol-worshipping he says that once he was Nick Mallory tons it that's what he called and says when he was weaned he started wandering in his mind and as a young child he looked at this world and realized that there's got to be someone running and he started looking at the things that are around him and he saw that there's nothing in the society in which he lived that made any sense as those who run the universe and he eventually came to understand that God there is a God that he runs the world but he didn't really have an understanding of what is God you just knew that there's a creator there's some sort of a force that runs the world at the age of 40 around the age of 40 Avraham Avinu recognized or became to know his creator and once he figured that out knew God he started arguing with people living in the town that he was growing up he grew up in which is Lukas team and started to argue with them and explain to them that they are living a lie they should live a life of truth and he started smashing their idols and started speaking against that religion and so on and so forth so we see that really of Rama V whose relationship with Hashem has two stages what's the first stage so I want to be precise with you first he knew that there is God but when did he recognize his creator that was much later when he was around 45 according to ratchet okay so the Rambam is bringing as these two ideas two ideas that I Rama V who knew that there was God and he knew that when he was young and then when he was much later he knew he understood and recognized as creative what's the difference between the two what's the difference between knowing that there's God and recognizing his creator the difference is one is in your mind is the other one is in your heart in your mind it means that you know there is God is there god Ronnie yep do you know your Creator but those are two different things it's coming from two different parts of who we are Nimrod remember Nimrod in the book of veracious who was Nimrod first mighty man he rebelled against God right Rashi says he knew his master God but rebelled against him same thing it says on stone the people of stone that they were sinners to a Shem that is they knew their master they knew that there's God in the world but they rebelled against them it's not that they didn't know that there was a god they knew there was God but they rebelled against God so the knowledge that there is God obligates the human being so that he cannot live a life that he does whatever he wants that's what the Eliezer says the fact that you know there's a god you might not know how this God really works and what does he really want you to do but it means that once you recognize that there is God there is an entity a being that is responsible for this world you can't just do whatever you want what we see is that once a person knows there's God he can't really do whatever you want but the forces of his body are going to rebel against the knowledge in your mind that God exists did you hear that that your mind knows that God exists but your body's gonna repel against that piece of knowledge it's gonna try to tell you man and then why because the body wants to do whatever it wants to do for example watch the ball drop in Times Square or you know I don't know I have other examples but I can't share them right now but David knows you know what's going on over there what he's hanging out so what we see from here is that the recognition that there is a master to this world brings about a rebellion against him okay so first stage is knowing there's a creator second stage is the rebellion against them now we're dealing with a third stage the third stage says person who knows God knows his creator in his heart that is that his knowledge of Hashem penetrated his feelings and all of the faculties of the nefesh of the soul then he accepts it willingly and he does not want to rebel against a sham and then he develops a personal relationship with his creator that's what I've Ron did when he was it isn't 48 so whenever hazael or a few times as I'll talk about Makita below that as he recognizes or knows his creator they always say that we're talking about things of the heart there's a connection to the heart why is important why is it important to be connected to the heart because then it means you're acting you're adopting the behavior of the cottage bar whole in this world I comes bar who is a god of Kissin of loving-kindness and it means that you adopt those ways of behavior towards your fellow human being Avraham Avinu recognizes creator and what was the consequence he became a nice method it became a man of giving right the opened his tent invited people for to eat and drink he brought people closer to Hashem and that was what Avraham Avinu did and that was sort of the next stage of having a better understanding of the colours Borough Hall the next stage from Rama vena was not only to recognize what Hashem does and to try to get people to do what a sham does but that Hashem has a name and you can call a sham by his name and he will answer you that's the next level right because we see that I probably knew praise before our sham fake Rabi shemesh am right in la flaca that is we see that that Avraham Avinu prays to a sham and he has a relationship with the colors borrow [Laughter] what he is okay let's get started so I've Rama V new pray to Hashem and this prayer is the altar well I guess it's the final stage with regard to the tikkun that ever Iovino did for the world it's big huge so this is what the LA sure said Alice who says crocodilian Vevey Dushane gadelle Caramba only a holy man and the servant of Hashem at this high level as the Rambam could figure out the path of Avraham Avinu because it took him 40 years to connect the knowledge in his mind to his heart it took 40 years for this process to complete itself 40 years and what are we gonna say we are commanded by the cutters borrow who Ronnie this is posit via da da hai ohm right you shall know today that she voted of a friend you should bring it to your heart that Hashem is there looking that a shame is God you have to do it in one day Avraham Avinu had how many years forty years I heard of stories how did it work with Avraham Avinu that somebody came to him you know he was a little little Abe was walking on the street and somebody gave him a piece of candy so you held the candy and he said and this is your welcome thank you for making the candies I didn't make the candy I just gave it to you he says well so who made it so I could go things I don't know I got it at the start so the live Robin walks in the store and he goes to the guy and he says thank you for making the kid and the guys that I didn't make the candy I just buy it from the factory so he's an okay so he goes to the factory says thank you for you know making and creating the the the candies so then he says the factory owner says why don't I just put the ingredients together I'm not he says we got the sugar and you know so is where do you get the sugar from so I get it from the you know from the farmer he grows the sugar canes so he goes to the farces thank you phrase as well I just planted this growth so eventually you recognizes that really the person that's responds a being that's responsible for this candy is the everything that you have you can do the same and recognize there is a creator that he's behind it whether it's good thing or whether it's going to be good because sometimes things happen to us that are not so good that are difficult to deal with but Hashem is also behind them right so that's how I heard the story of little Avram learning about Hashem recognizing the creator because he wanted to thank the person for the candy now we are commanded to know today and bring it to our heart that Hashem is God how many for one died depends who you ask cording to mainland China is China okay let's keep going just a little bit more so how did Avram Avenue find the path from the intellect to the mind to the heart how did he understand that you need to actually bring it into your heart in order to get to the next level there are a lot of philosophers who recognizes a creator for example Aristotle recognized there is the first cause to the universe but he never went to the next there are many philosophers who recognizers a god but they never went to the next step to bring it into their heart and to live in that way so I did our Rama vino do this so he says that he understood that he found two things he found the truth and he found something that's called tzedek tzedek is justice so that he has to follow the path all the way to the end which is what we talked about in the in the beginning the heart the heart and this is a bit of a blessing to you that the in rock I'm right or crime of illusion as a book on called rock time he says whatever moral void virtues bizarre the Shem you can repair it for your child so your your child starts on a higher level than you [Music] so says they will reach it with a little bit of work you have to put a lot of work alright as I said the toddy has to work a lot in order to get it and once he gets it is descendants would have to work just a little bit in order to get it and that's the idea that we see that a lot of the Jewish people in the past in history gave up their life for the colors borrow that they died for kaduche am right and that is something that we received naturally from of rama v no because i've rama v no worked hard and reached that level we have that level in us so all of the nice Jana is the ten trials that he went through is to help it help us and whatever you work on is going to continue to help your descendants but you have to take what you know in your mind that God exists draw it into your heart and live according to those principles can't sit on the fence [Music] you [Applause]