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Shalom.
Title of this year is called the seal of
humility. In reality, it's a
continuation a sequel to the last year
which we said original mindsets avoid of
the uh program and I hope and a profile
which we can try and build up when it
comes to lol. Let me give a little bit
of introduction from the last year and
then we'll come into this year. We
mentioned that anili
I am for my beloved and my beloved is
for me meaning my relationship with the
almighty is almost like a dual
carriageway adri they say in Hebrew as I
am so he is I'm not sure if that's a
covenant but it's certainly a promise
which says in as I am so he is if I show
towards him affection and warmth and
love so he'll show it back to me is back
to
Interesting. We mentioned last time that
this is really the entrance lobby
meaning
is a major spiritual architecture
building. It's in major building. It's
interesting that this is called the
entrance lobby. This is how you come
into
meaning you have to come in through your
mat finding in the eyes of the almighty.
Interesting. I suppose one would have
thought the fear and the trembling. Of
course there is that as well. But the
preparation which you must make is to
find connection
as we mention
is one of
because
meaning there's a certain aura there's a
certain feeling and atmosphere an
environment which we must pick up when
we come to Elm is to find favor in the
eyes of the almighty
we mentioned also you can't possibly do
that without thinking for yourself and
we bought a minou as the main profile
meaning at the age of three mate we
mentioned he thought for himself he was
an original thinker he thought things
out for himself and he read like it's
not the sun it's not the moon it's not
the fire and therefore through that
logic and through that deduction he came
to and I'm suggesting really that's
really
as so we must be as well especially when
it comes to find my way to find the my
my entrance of how do I possibly get
close to the almighty what is it it's my
by original thought but let me just
again explain and redefine we don't mean
by original thought something which was
never been thought of before we
mentioned from nepheshim if you want to
look it up at the back of the ro are the
comments which the heard from the vagon
at the at the end of the pime says as
follows that the definition of something
which is new in means something that
maybe became new to you. Something which
you didn't think of beforehand and now
you it becomes clearer to you. There's
more clarity. There's more understanding
behind it. There's more discernment.
That's what it means. Doesn't
necessarily some but for you it is. And
we brought an example from it. For
example, and a person is supposed to
learn 101 times. Each time you learn it
becomes better. That's called something
that maybe you knew before, but I want
to drive the point a little bit further.
That's the meaning of it to original
thought to think for yourself. What does
it mean?
In the last year we brought two examples
of it two really points case studies.
The first was the ability
to have a moon in the tur. confidence
and the trust which one has that of
course ll works that by going through
the process of finding being careful
with my dabing being more careful with
what I say more careful where I put my
eyes maybe a little bit more particular
when it comes to mitzvah amid
all these aspects that is what's called
having a having trust in it and we
mentioned we mentioned that one has to
have believe in it believe in it not not
just am but amun trust in it like a
person has a in in the aspects of we
mentioned you're careful about that if
you follow the code. So you hope that
the child will turn out a good child
keeping toy mitzvah. You hope that
happens like that. We bought also amun
what a person has in different things
which you have example in cash in
getting married as well. Amun is a
crucial aspect of it. The trust that you
have and the second point which we
brought out is the shinoi. Of course
there's a change meaning there's an
enormous change from maybe the way I was
we mentioned that and no wonder what my
mama looks like now. If you remember the
example we brought of the smoker's lung
and also the uh professor holding up the
cup of water. All this came from the sh
of last week. What I'd like to do this
week is take that same idea of yidus but
give you one particular theme which is
for this week meaning the seal of
humility and I think this is it. Let me
explain. In other words, if you are
mashed if you manage to think this out
for yourself in your own thought
processes not just what I'm saying but
you consider the point a little bit more
for yourself. Let me explain something
myself personally. I don't think I would
have reached any level of connection to
the almighty had I not really taken to
heart many of the psukim inim of because
he after all was the master mascill. He
understood things and he expressed
things a certain way and his words are
the words which we use when we come to
speak to and some of these words made a
tremendous imp when I thought about it a
great deal and went into it much more
suddenly become alive for you. The words
of for example
to kila
if you have my safer on my introduction
to the bridge called prayer which I um
was fortunate to write several years ago
I invented the minor of the altar from
Kelmul
it's normal it's normal in order to
recognize something which is very well
good a beautiful scenery a newborn baby
something which is well done something
which fits well
it's normal to recognize something a
kindness which is done to you and that I
think really hit me home hit home a
great deal made an impression on me.
These words if you live with them a
little bit if you walk through the
streets and you think about them they
develop and you become your own your own
thoughts they enter into your nam and
you think about them. No honor hashem
honor hashem hashem save me hashem that
I should be successful I remember I had
a dear friend who was a young autumle he
was n quite young
I remember he once asked me following
question what does it mean if you say
honor why do you have to say
if you have a then that's enough isn't
it of course you'll be successful and he
explained as follows it means like this
sometimes is a person can be put in a
certain situation of tremendous sh maybe
he has more money maybe he's given a
good zebug maybe has a home maybe has a
beautiful position maybe has a wonderful
shia that's that's called a moia but you
have to be successful in it no that's
the idea behind it all it's one thing to
be given an opportunity but to use the
opportunity in the best way that is no
you see if you think about these words
what does it mean my connection with
these sentences have made a tremendous
impression on me personally
how can Can I possibly thank for all
that he's granted to me? He's bestowed
on me. His benevolence and his kindness
and his welfare. Unbelievable.
What can I return? The answer is
I am your servant. No, that's the
answer. The answer is what can I give
back and give back myself to beem? And
these sentences, if you dwell on them a
little bit more, you realize the
greatness of David and they can build up
your whole you can develop a connection
becomes much easier. you recognize hashk
this is something personally which
almost like my autobiography I suppose
these are points which have made a
tremendous impression on me but there is
one particular paywick in which I think
really is the seal of humility which I
think really comes out which I'd like to
make it as the
something which you can think about
during the kesh alum and with this you
will find in the eyes of the mighty I
think this really is a case study which
is so relevant to the concepts of anili
int
said the word is something like pause
pure gold it was very this chapter
number 16 in was very precious
I have trusted in you beautiful words
next sentence says as follows lashem you
said to hashem rashi says it refers
towel
say to even the individual out I say to
my nephew say to Hashem Hashem that's
adm you are my master
and these are the crucial words three
words
my benefit and my welfare you're not
obligated to serve me you're not
obligated to give it to these beautiful
words
nothing has to be since when are you you
owe me anything you owe me anything at
all that I think is an incredible seal
of humility. No, one begins to recognize
since he's not he doesn't owe me
anything. It doesn't it doesn't have to
be anything. Doesn't have to be that I
have a home. Doesn't have to be that I'm
able to walk and talk. Doesn't have to
be that I digest my food. You hear the
point. I think that is the real seal of
humility. I think that is really a d of
finding and if you can turn man and say
that meaningfully to the almighty you're
not to me nothing has to be nothing has
to be at all.
There is a beautiful perish on by the
maharitsk
he was the shalim and there's a
beautiful parish on it by the maharits
he says as well he brings a from per 41
in
he brings this is what I said
everything is mine The meaning is as
follows. Whoever preceded me, whoever
came before me and I have to pay him
back. Meaning, is there anybody who can
turn around and say I was there before
Hashem created this idea? I am I
preceded it. It turns the mitzvah inside
out. Did anybody come before me and turn
around and say I preceded you? I got and
the he brings down there the ya. The
yalut says on this p as follows. You
turn around and say you know I praise
you so much with my with my mouth with
my mind but who gave you a who gave you
your mind? No where does it come from?
It's very nice and very fine that you
praise but where did it come from? Where
did your ability your brain and your sha
come from?
Who turns around and said I gave a
wonderful for my son but who gave you a
son my dear friend? You follow the point
I I the who gave you the beggar? You
hear the point? It's a beautiful point.
Who made a mark on his Who gave you the
roof? Muka, where do you get the suka?
Who gave you the room? Who gave you the
space? You hear the point? It precedes
me. Did anybody come before? Before I
go, you can't do that. There's no such
thing. Person turned back and said, I
spent all my life learning to it's a
wonderful thing. Who gave you the power
to sit and learn and understand it? Who
gave you the brain, the and the memory
to remember everything in Torah? No,
hear the point. I dabbed so carefully
all my life. Who gave you the ability to
concentrate? Who gave you the mouth? Who
gave the opportunities to dab an inion?
Who gave you that? I gave a tremendous
amount of stalker to to to for helping
people who gave you the money. You hear
the point? You never ever precede that
is says the
nothing has to be anything which I have
is only because you provided the
circumstances. You didn't precede a
turns the mitzvah around on its face.
You think you did the mitzvah and
therefore make me successful in business
because I gave stock we banish since I
dabed so carefully therefore but who
gave you the ability to dab who gave you
the ability to learn to you hear the
point that is really the seal of
humility it's not me it's him it doesn't
come from me it's all from him it's not
it's not me at all that is I think is
the shish of the vakus that's made a
tremendous impression on me I find when
something something has happened
something occurs which I'm very happy
about maybe mazov
It doesn't have to be like this. No.
Doesn't have to be that you get married.
Doesn't have to be that you have
children. Doesn't have to be that you
can walk around in the streets. No. That
I can walk straight. I can see. I can
hear.
[snorts]
Doesn't have to. Nothing has to be that
I think is the real case study which you
can come to an once you think about that
for yourself and your you consider it.
It doesn't have to be like this. Doesn't
have to be that I I'm well. I can walk.
I can see. I can talk. No.
You hear the point? I was thinking
I don't know if it's a direct chat of
the mitzvah of the Mishna but the Mishna
says Hill said in in Pikas
ani if I am not for myself then who am
I? I want to learn the Mishna a little
bit like this not so much if I don't
recognize myself but if I don't see what
I actually have then what am I? If I
don't see all the gifts which have been
given to me if I don't see all these
points that all the gifts which you give
me the nebance and the kindness and the
hashka and the divine everything which
has been done for me doesn't have to be
you know you're not to me if I don't do
that me as me then who am I who on earth
am I that's a real seal of humility I
think which comes out if one can do that
do it subjectively no start with your
eyesight start with your ability to move
your heart you know your lungs your
liver your kidneys you're you're able to
speak, you can hear. It doesn't have to
be like that. You know, enough people,
you and I have seen many many people
walking around the street, don't walk
straight, can't see properly, can't
hear, can't talk. Never. You hear the
point. It doesn't if I'm not for myself,
then who am I? Now, go on a little bit
more objectively. Doesn't have to be
that I had parents. Doesn't have to be
that I had a home, that I was given an
education, no that I had clothes to
wear, that I went to Simas, that I had a
vacation. We can go on and on and on.
No, it didn't have to be like this. And
that's what that's the greatness I think
the perception and the scholar the
discernment of meaning
he thought it out it doesn't have to be
I said to myself
you are my master you're not to be
anything once you get that point clear
you can stand in front of and say I
think that is a major major passageway
leading up to
that thought thank you able enable me to
dab with a minion. No, that I can I can
sing along with any emotional. You hear
the point behind it all.
Maybe as an example, maybe we can take
something like this. I remember my
father had a wonderful friend. He was
like a kava but also he was very close
with him. used to go to Yahala in Gates
said my parents and there was a RV there
who used to run it calledender Fosin
Foy was a principal I think of a school
in Stampford Hill in London my father
became very close with him I used to
take the children there as well when
they became bar mitzvah he later lived
in Satskin when we lived in Satskin
listen to this word listen to these
words it's payw ku lamatesses cult it's
not a cult pay listen to these words I I
won't translate everything, but if you
have a chance, open up to chapter 139
and then you see it clearly.
My paths are my where I go. You you you
worked it all out. You know everything
where I go
that I can talk. You know everything
about me
behind me, in front of me. You formed
like you put your hand on top of me.
It's a wonder to me.
I can't work it out. How come you're in
such control and you manage everything
and supervise everything?
Where can I possibly run to to run away
from you?
If I fly up to the heavens, I go up to
the moon. No matter, you're there. If I
go down to the belly of the ground,
you're still there. If I take a plane to
the other side of the world, you're
still there. You're there as well.
Maybe darkness. You can't see me. No,
there's no difference between you and
night and day. nothing at all. Nothing
makes it dark for you. the beautiful po
have a look at it say 139 in into that's
really the chish behind it all once you
come to that point of recognition then
you're ready to come in front of
it doesn't have to be and therefore I'm
the seal of humility is this to
recognize
that mikmani did it's very nice that I d
carefully but who gave me the ability to
d carefully know it's very nice that I
honor my parents who gave you the
parents my dear friend no very nice to
do said who gave you the ability to do
the kindness You hear the point that is
full full the seal of humility I'm
suggesting here that I think if you
if you think it out a little bit more
like had said meaning on your own go a
little bit more into depth in it like we
mentioned previously being a have to
have trust and also the this is another
case study which I think I wanted to
bring out think it out further that will
you all the way into the passage where
he comes back on that concept cept as
well
every single year when it comes to wash
always the week two weeks before we
always have the same para which is the
para for this week
paras has the in it the awful curses
which will happen on kalis if khalis
don't keep the
why did it all happen in reality we see
that there is one particular sentence
inside which explains the reason the raz
on detra why there should be such a why
should there be such a situation of
exile why the why the persecution of
Israel here's the reason this is given
in the middle of the
reason why it all happened why the
problems and the anti-semitism and the
persecution of because you did not ser
with happiness and a good heart
from all that you've been given you
didn't come in other words the the the
main Point is the the fulcrum of
everything is this you you maybe maybe
you did d I remember my
think of the music you did keep the
mitzvah you learned but not the
no you did give but you didn't give it
with a happy mind with you you did keep
shabas but it wasn't a sim when it
becomes then it really is you then you
realize appreciate the privilege of the
mitzvah the merit behind the mitzvah
it's all very well that you you you you
learn it's wonderful to learn but did
you do
Did you come to mitzvah with a
that really is the point it's the
approach that you have many people
people are very careful about people are
very careful about people are very
careful about different mitzvah it's
wonderful but how did you apply yourself
to it
with happiness and with a good heart
behind it
[clears throat] interesting the excuse
me just let me take a
writes
in the
there he brings down that the Arizal had
said you know the sim which we have on
sim says the Arizal the reason he quotes
the Arizal the reason why he was so
exceptional why he was so outstanding in
his brilliance in toya he said because
he always applied himself to simal
mitzvah the cause behind all his success
in learning was only because he he
applied himself with such happiness the
privilege of learning to the privilege
of getting involved in kala that is the
motivation I think also also said that
and also
uh the gone as well we see it every day
in which we say
that that's behind it all it's not
necessarily the actions which you do
it's the approach which you have
but let me bring down to you something
which really shook me which I I saw as
The comment of the mayor from
the
says as follows on this
because you didn't serve
coy says the oame
it was his yacht site last week 100th
yacht site of the osame the osame was a
giant I remember just uh reading the he
became the ravin dinsk so before the
osame he became the ravin dinsk there
was a great to Agon whose name I think
were Bru Lavim he was Nifa and then he
came to the Hespaden for the wav and
they had no idea who they would take
later who they would take
so the maggot from VNA came to to uh to
Dinsk and he said a hesford at the end
of his hesford they say he said the
following comment at the end of his
husband and now you're looking he said
for the next w the next wave of this
town should be the husband of the
shopkeeper in Bialistora
But mayor Simra's wife had a shop there
in Bialisto and her husband her father
had given her a shop to manage and she
looked after her husband and provided
all the needs and the he had learned in
a in bialisto for years and years for
hours and hours he sat there they say 18
hours a day he was an incredible people
didn't know about him people a few
people did know about him evidently when
Dinsk made inquiries about who the o
simra was they went to the basi they
asked the basalevi tell me what do you
think about the siminsk So the Banana
said something. It's not a question of
what I think about him. What does he
think about me?
I think what he thinks about me. He he's
a god. I'm not the god. You hear the
point. He knew who he was. And he became
the rov in the vince. He said as follows
on this pos.
The problem is which is so I think
apparent in this pervasive tsunami which
we have from the secular world. The
Kashmir, the technology, all that there
is, the immorality, the promiscuity,
everything there is. It's like a tidal
wave, a tsunami which is in front of us.
The question is as follows. Where did
your real delight come from? Does your
de delight come from the glitter and
excitement, enticement of something in
the secular world or does it come from
something in tora? You hear the point?
That really touches a raw nerve, doesn't
it? Where are you really happy? Are you
really happy when you go to a fancy
restaurant? Is your greatest delight
really if you go on a beautiful
vacation? Is your delight from something
in sport and something in music? Is that
really what gives you the greatest sim
in life or not? And therefore he said
because you became so involved and so
enticed by the secular world and the
culture which there is. That really is
where the simra comes from. I think it's
a very very tall order and people are
excited about a holiday. People are
excited if they buy a woman buys a new
shitle. People are excited if you buy a
new car. But is that all there is? I
think maybe we can take it in a measure
of priority. Is that the greatest
priority or not? Meaning there has to be
something that you reach the sim from
something innas not something in gashmas
and that's a major challenge. I'm not
saying a woman should be delighted with
her new kitchen or she has a new outfit.
Of course that's a you get happy at
that. Is that all there is in life
though? I'd like to moderate a little
bit the to say that my only simra comes
from there. I don't know if we're on the
dagger for that, but let's have to be a
little bit realistic. Let's look in the
mirror and think about yourself. Where
is my real simra comes from? Does it
come from something in the secular
world, the culture, the excitement, the
enticement of something materialistic or
technology? I have a new laptop or
something like that. Is that it? Or is
it that I dabed well today or I gave
money for stock or I helped somebody
with a sh which is a mitzvah. Did I
really have nas from helping a couple
bias? Did I really have nas by
entertaining an only? Is that my real
simra or not? It's a very very sharp
comment here which the but I think it's
so realistic especially in our times
where where is my happiness come from?
What is it really? What is it all about?
Where what what what makes me tick? What
really is my my nas which comes out in
life? I was thinking really isn't that
what we say every single morning in
davening? you know before you start in
the morning you say
this chapter is said um before you say
on the morning I remember I once heard
from
he explained what's this pay doing here
before I think he said in the name of
the you know in the morning when you
come to pray you must make sure that
your body is clean use a bathroom and
you it's called cleaning out the body
cleaning out the goof that the goof
should be
The problem is how do you clean out the
mind? the you go to the bathroom you
say.
But how do you make sure that your mind
is clear that you have
this peric is there for that? Meaning
everything that you go through in life
meaning all the different the circles up
at the graph one minute I was he was
angry with me then
the evening I was crying in the morning
I was happy.
HT misb you turned around my misery into
dancing patas saki and from my sackcloth
I came into sim it goes up and down all
the challenges and the questions which
one has in life no the different you
have what do you come out with at the
end the last sentence really says it all
in order that
my which is a nickname another name for
the that the shall sing and be silent
not be dumb
Such a beautiful line here. In all that
I go through, all the the business
dealings which I have, all the emails
which I have, all the the business uh
lives which I have. Yeah. But in order
that what is that I should always be
pumping and say
no I thank you. It doesn't have to be
like this. If that's where your sim
comes from is that is that what it's all
about or is it something else or is it
the the challenges or the vacation which
I have lean? in order that in order that
then the sham should always be singing
I'm suggesting I'm taking it further
that's the point which is behind it all
in reality if you take look a little bit
further the beginning of as well when
you bring and it says in front
you shall be happy with all that you
have you're coming up with the bikim in
front of the basement and you make this
beautiful comment and all that you gave
me everything which I had and then the
next para says also
by vu
you bring all
And then at the end of the par it says
there
then it says
I did all that you commanded me to do.
How can you possibly say that comment
can a person claim in front of make a
confession I did all that you wanted me
to do. What does it mean? What does it
mean? I did all that you wanted me to
do. Rashi comments on that. You know
what it means?
I was happy with what I had and I made
other people happy with what I had. That
is called all that you all see you
commanded me what to be happy with what
you gave me and make other people happy
and share my happiness with others.
Isn't that really what it's all about
that the whole par is based on this
everything is the comes on
and the is also and so also by the as
well
you want to know what you have to do
it's an incredible confession the answer
is be happy with what you have and make
other people happy with it that I think
is the real profile to come in front of
And if you show that concept that's the
reality you can turn around with this
seal of humility and say thank you you
didn't have to do anything for me nor
that you did do was all your no and
therefore and
I'm your servant and I recognize that
all these sentences of think about them
maybe put it on your pillow at night
[snorts] and and think about these
comments because these comments are
really how you build up your nama in
such a way and if you think about them
in depth and you you take them to heart
then suddenly they become real for you
and that becomes your philosophy on life
you know there's a sentence in the
beginning of mish I think it's gimlish
pos says as follows
kindness and truth which is which is
doing
never leave them in actions
tie them around your throat
write them on your heart
the MS meaning doing kindness and
learning but it should be in action
action
that you should talk in and also in your
heart as well. Next sentence says
if you do that you find in the eyes of
other people and that is that is what
means doesn't it really it really is
that means
how can I find favor if you tie around
your your throat always you're talking
all the words of kindness and words of
in your actions and also in your heart
if it means something to you
that's a tol
If that is in then you really are
and then the bris which I'm suggesting
maybe works it's do as you are. So he
comes back to you like that and I think
that is really the main entrance lobby
that you can get into be successful when
it comes to you don't go from the beach
straight onto melik you go through the
month of takes you in that's the
entrance lobby into this massive
spiritual building of that is how you
get in
maybe we can take this point a little
bit further maybe in practical terms as
well let me give you something which is
laisa which you can take out from here I
hope and apply it a little bit more I
saw in the writings of
in the safer which he wrote on
he says as follows
we know that one of the worst possible
offenses that a person can possibly do
is to blaspheme against the almighty
it's the worst possible thing he's
stoned and he's has co it's the worst
possible thing to stand in front of the
world and say and blasphem the almighty
that's the most terrible terrible thing
the worst punishment of all says
Now listen to this point. We know that
the quality of goodness is greater than
the quality of bad
it's better. It's stronger than that.
The explains how much is it greater than
that 500 times more. Now think like this
says rashman. If that's this is what
happens to a mad can you imagine
multiply by 500 times what it means when
you come to say a properly. Can you
imagine instead of blaspheming the
opposite you do exactly the opposite if
you now come along and say with meaning
can you imagine the rewards reward that
you get from it a which is said
carefully and therefore what I'd like to
do is suggest to you we've done it
before but maybe in this particular sh
maybe it's very relevant as well the
word according to most means
praise and thanks to the almighty the
rash in his chus in means as follows
that there's Another meaning as well
also means a something of more what
there already was also means who made
he did and he will do inside a is you
since you did this therefore I'm asking
you for more that's the quality of it
all you remember the episode of when
Alicia came to the wife of a and he
asked her what do you have in the house
and she had a tiny measure of oil if she
had something already then we increase
on it and that was the miracle which
happened with the oil. Remember that
doesn't fall on nothing. There has to be
something there meaning the will
multiply. That's what the means means
means also to more than what there is.
There's a beautiful episode which is
brought down in the Gay Z where Bishma
Ben Alisha the Coen God came in to the
Keshados in the holy of holies and he
saw a vision there of the almighty
whatever it means it's a very diffic
it's a beautiful songish
beautiful song I'm not going to sing it
to you but it's a beautiful beautiful
song
Bench me my son said
that your mercy should always overpower
your you are already merciful but let it
be more
meaning go further go further you are
already merciful you should be more and
that was you are already let it be more
than that and that's the meaning of the
word
the next word in a is says there ashbah
a little bit grammatically incorrect why
the begins with you at and ends with he
who made the fruit from the ground. He
he who brought the the bread from the
ground. He who bought the the from you
who to he who it's grammatically
incorrect says the rash. So you and you
or he and he. Why do you say you and
then he at the end of the
rash explains as follows
that we shouldn't turn out to be an
meaning as follows that you can hold an
apple in your hand. You know Hashem B
you who made the apple you're an apple
maker. You make a coffee. You make you
you shrink says what you're thinking
about in the he makes apples. He makes
tomatoes. He makes grapes. He he makes
cookies. But he's
he's more than that. You open it up more
from toist. No means active and means
passive. You move on. Not just the
active which I see in front of me, but
he's even more than that.
Not just the the coffee which I'm here,
the ice cream which I'm having now. It's
more than that. Open. And that's why the
ba changes from y who to he who at the
end of the ba. Then we must turn to the
writings of the VNO in his commentary on
the impan the vagon asks why is it we
have three names of the almighty hashem
why do we have three names right is one
one name enough and he explains as
follows
hashem is something we do not understand
we don't even say the word properly it's
written yud but I say the word adnas
adnas why why don't I say the word
properly to tell you that you really
don't understand is completely nista
meaning what the rashbah had said from
yu to he who the name hashem is the same
basis on that it's it's not I don't
understand I don't see
but I know that he's there I'm aware
that he's there and he's watching
everything that is the meaning why we
have the yud don't think you can see
everything of that's why that word is
there
is demonstrative is back right in front
of it it's practical it's something that
you see right in front of you Elohim he
created the world who created the sea
created the trees created the animals
created human being elohim means the
dynamic manager the supervisor and that
you see in front that you can recognize
you can recognize his creation the sun
the moon everything that there is in the
world that's the meaning of elohim now
but we don't say that we don't say toe
elohim we say elu meaning
elu this apple that I'm eating thean
gave it to me with with divine
supervision It's mine that this is what
I'm this is the whatever I'm enjoying
now I'm saying the it was but he's also
melam he supplies apples throughout the
whole world if you go to Spain if you go
to Australia you'll find apples there
he's a world supplier but that is not
given with eloc that is a world supplier
of it it's less meaning
direct individual precision in the
person who's enjoying the the whatever
it is
he's also the grand supervisor the grand
supplier throughout the whole world and
that's the definition of a ba I'm
suggesting take a slowly make a no say
it slowly
whatever it is say the word slowly don't
say
put the hay in don't drop the hay when
you say it but if you can do that then
you can turn around and say
carefully say make it a nice I remember
I once went to visit my rebi in the
mirror
and it was I think in in the middle of
the summer. It was a very hot day and he
gave me a drink and I sat at the table
sitting in front of an aam god. You know
made wonderful ba I made a very careful
ma. I was very careful to say a ba
correctly in front of him. As I had
finished and he drink the dr the drink
he turn around and said
they're beautiful. And I thought to
myself me you say to me a man with a
gray beard saying I say that to a
three-year-old. No. And he looked at me
and I looked at him and I thought to
myself how foolish I was. No. Why do you
have to say that to a three-year-old? A
man of 60 or 70. You also say a bi. Why
is it only a child says a bi? I thought
to myself how foolish I was. Of course a
boaf meaning that's the behind it all
the I'm suggesting comes on this concept
of that's the the passageway that's the
way you get in the think about it more
like
consider the point with your own
thoughts develop the point everything
that I have of the words of doesn't have
to be nothing had to be you know
shal did anybody you preceded you didn't
precede everything nothing nothing
everything came from him whatever I do
whether I bench whether I learn to
whatever it's he he was the source of it
all and maybe that's me that's me who am
I I am the one behind and I make a of
all that this week's para is all about
be careful be careful where my bill is
I'm not saying everything should be like
that of course you enjoy a vacation you
enjoy a new car but is that all there is
in life surely I must have nas that I I
dab properly I learned Torah properly or
I made Shabas properly whatever it is or
I I act with properly that must also
give you that must also be by end and I
was happy with what I have and that's
the vid which you say by the mus and I
made other people happy with it all
that's really everything though after
all when everything happens my soul
shall not be numbed I should be able to
sing
and if you're careful with the I'm
suggesting can you imagine the reward
that you get If someone who blasphemes
goodness me his punishment is awful to
is more than that. Be careful with say
it carefully when you bench or when you
say a say it with devotion. Say it with
cavana. Let that be the which you come
in with.
Thank you so much.