It's All From Hashem - Rabbi Resnik

Raa I'm not going to share his last name cuz I never got permission from him very special yid he told me that many years ago he went up north just to get a little bit of a breather went with his wife they ended up meeting some guy who owns a Vineyard a boutique Winery the wine is extremely expensive at least $100 a bottle enjoyed his time he didn't say if he got a free bottle or not but he enjoyed his time and he got to walk through the vineyard and it was nice and relaxing and he went back to you shalam a few years later he decided let me try this again let me get a a nice breather clear my head in the nice Northern Air so he goes up to the same Vineyard and was shita the entire thing was desolate it looked like it was in Ruins fences falling apart grapes weren't juicy they weren't didn't look very tasty Thorns brambles ftles growing all over the place weeds everything was it was just it looked like a disaster and just to bring out the contrast even Starker next next the neighboring Vineyard was was owned by a famous a famous Winery and they it was very developed for whatever reason either they weren't keeping shm or maybe they had certain and so they were keeping and so everything was very developed so he asked the he asked the I don't know if it was the ventner of the owner of the winery he said how is it possible your wine is so expensive it's so sought after all across the world each bottle's minimum $100 and you and you leave your Vineyard like this especially in contrast to the other to the next to the neighboring neighboring guy how do you do do it so it was this this fellow's turn to look in confusion at this y raisha from my neighborhood who was saying the story over he says I don't understand you you're saying that I have such great grapes and I have such great wine and you don't understand how I'm able to do what I'm doing over here during the shita year this is you think I do anything I planted the vines they grow by themselves I don't even water them Hashem Waters them the rain comes down and even though okay yeah I invest in an expensive drip irrigation system so provides them with a little bit of extra water but who's to say that the grapes are going to grow no matter what I do I can't force the grapes to grow so when they grow that's all from Hashem that's not me and even when they grow are they going to grow juicy are they going to be tasty are they going to be sweet or is it going to be a bad crop is it going to get wormy this is all something that I'm not able to prevent says the owner of the winery take it a step further I do my best you're right I invest 100% I do my best I try to harvest it late Harvest early Harvest fall winter night whatever it is all the different things you see on the wine bottle that you're not really so sure what it means but it looks fancy and it's expensive so you buy it that's what I do says the guy but I don't know if the Wine's going to turn out good it might spoil in the vet it might not be people might not find it tasty and so they and so it's with hashem's help that they find My Wine delicious and tasty and they're even willing to Shell out at least $100 for a bottle so he tells us Raa I I didn't do anything it's all from Hashem so when hasem says keep I keep sh to the best of my ability now that that's beautiful Simplicity and that's not what I'm here to say it's the main point that the farmer was saying is that it's all from Hashem as much effort as we put in we always have to realize that everything is coming from Hashem and all of our and all of our greatness is coming from Hashem