Are You Really Your Rabbi's Student? - Jewish HaShkafa (80)

[Music] everybody we are kicking off another week with uh we're going to continue our series of the Jewish ashfa uh which translates to the Jewish ideology trying to get a better idea of how a Jew is supposed to think and uh since this is M it's also very good for uh righteous noahides or people that are trying to become righteous noahides uh to tune in as well simply because it gives you the uh understanding and clarification of what is expected of you uh as a human being uh needless to say as someone that's trying to uh earn their spot in ganeden uh and the Kish spared no uh no words he gave us very good clarification of what needs to be done word by word we've been dissecting it over the last uh two years or so andem today we're going to continue uh tonight's sh is a uh going to be for for Leana Sim Ben ran s aavid Ben imis and also for the Julie Mar Samuel B maras B Mar Alexander Mara Le B Marsha and all of is and all the righteous noid especially those of you that continue to 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know that this is one of the things that happened in the past or has happened several times when uh people uh expect to get something through their donation uh and they're sadly disappointed and it's again it's not it's nothing personal it's just simply that my job is to help am is and the rest of the world get closer to Hashem it's not necessarily to call people and uh tell them that I appreciate the donations although I try to from time to time send a text message or something like that but uh it's you're more likely to get a uh message or a call from me if you have a very serious problem in the middle of the night at 3 4:00 in the morning that I can help you with much more likely than me calling you and tell you that uh you know we need more of your money to to donate uh it's because one is more important to me than the other to help you is more important than you uh you helping us but helping us that's in essence helping yourself so with that being said we're going to go into the uh in essence a second installment of this uh who is your Rabbi or what is a rabbi uh segment that we started really last week because many times we have uh heard and have seen uh people declare somebody to their to be their Rabbi whether you see it on their shid resume or they post their shim online or they attend their synagogue and everybody you know sometimes you ask them uh you know who they are and what they are and different personal questions and the topic of who their Rabbi is comes up and everybody's uh generally very proud and uh very open about who their Rabbi is once in a while you find an unusual character that says that they don't want to tell people who their Rabbi is those are usually strange people that you should probably stay away from they need some you know maybe to be instituted but generally speaking most people are very quick to share who their Rabbi is now the question is not really who your Rabbi is that we already addressed last week all of the different uh uh the the laws that have to do with having a rabbi uh and really treating that Rabbi the right way and and and addressing that Rabbi the certain way according to what ala is according to the rambam uh but also understanding uh the uh the significance of having a rabbi but then we have another question that uh I have yet to see anyone discuss uh uh and I think this is something that's very important that uh is really even if let's say for example you declare Rabbi ABC your Rabbi are you really his student meaning that of course there are many people that say he's my Rabbi or they tell me I want want you to be my Rabbi and many times they get confused why I say listen you can make me whatever you want to make me it's I'm going to be whatever you make me now it's it's unfortunately people don't understand that they think that oh if I decide you're my Rabbi then you're my Rabbi no if you understand what it means to be a student then perhaps I can be a rabbi or somebody else can be a rabbi and I think most people just generally don't understand it perhaps this is why the is is going to help us address this issue uh and trying to understand what it really means to be the student of a rabbi cuz even if you declare somebody your Rabbi you can call my Rabbi all you want you could even have a little cute heart pendant on your neck and say Rabbi ABC is my Rabbi I love my Rabbi but in reality you will be as far as uh as you know as a person as possible and and not even be a student on the other hand you can be the best student of a rabbi even 30 40 50 years after the rabbi has left the world because to have a rabbi doesn't necessarily require you to see the rabbi every single day to have to be that student of the rabbi requires something different so the section in in chapter four of this uh extraordinary by the called in chapter four section three the Kish has been giving us a action plan a strategy of how to identify different weak character traits different strong character traits first and foremost letting us know that the most important character trait to acquire the best one to acquire is the will to change if you want to change yourself for the POS in a positive way that in itself makes you much more likely to succeed than anyone else out there that says it's good to change it's nice to to change know all the things about changing know all the good things about what the change entails and in fact knows all the changes that need to uh to to be made but doesn't actually have the will to change so the willpower to change and actually uh taking action that the K says that is the most valuable character trait that you could possibly have on the other hand the worst character trait that a person can have surprising to everyone is that it's not necessarily anger it's it's not stinginess it's not arrogance it's not uh just being a a nasty person no what is it it's simply accepting yourself as you are which is a very common thing in society today many people like to hear that they are perfect as they are and in fact they uh they celebrate it they celebrate whoever accepts everyone as they are a uh so you know so-called carebear Rabbi that uh you know he accepts every everyone as they are they think he's great because he accepts everyone as they are and he doesn't tell anyone to change not the general crowd not the individuals everyone is just unique and special and perfect as they are in the world of Torah this is considered a slick tongue speaker it's not it's not a very positive thing that's a person that if he tells everybody they're perfectly fine the Tor calls him a slick tongue speaker he's just telling people what they want to hear in order to get whatever his agenda is usually it's money or honor or both and it's not a very good thing Hashem frowns upon people like this and punishes them very severely because you're not supposed to be that kind of speaker you're not supposed to be the kind of speaker that's going to tell everybody everything that they want to hear and nothing about changing and improving themselves mosenu didn't do it ainu didn't do it all of the great people that are mentioned in the Tor rebuked people and told them that they need to change at different times for different things and of course a person needs somebody like that to help them improve because sometimes you may not even know what's wrong until somebody reminds you so when people celebrate that they are perfectly good as they are in essence what they're doing is that they're exe they're showing they're like the perfect example of a person that number one is not aware of how much uh benefit they'll have if they do change but they're also actually showing that they're more likely to have that bad character trait of Simply being content with wherever they are in their life she thinks she's modest enough even though according to she's not even modest at all he thinks he's religious enough even though he continues to drive on Shabbat or he continues to have a unethical business or he continues to look at everything that works even if it's not his wife and especially if it's not his wife he thinks he's religious enough she thinks she's religious enough and the reality is everyone knows that the truth is very different than their reality but they accept themselves as they are they want the world and their relationships to accept them as they are and that in itself is actually making them even worse than they were before they made that decision to accept themselves as they are now I know today it's celebrated that you should accept people no matter how strange and odd and deformed that they are any Moon that they have any deformity whether it be spiritual or otherwise you have to accept people the guy wants to have a be married to another guy the girl wants to be married to some cat the uh the children I'm not really sure if they're boys or girls because the kindergarten teacher told them they can choose whatever they want each week they they believe in Santa Claus and that we all know is a is obviously a false belief or at least most of us should know it's a false belief but they somehow are are mature enough to decide what gender they are so obviously Society is upside down we can never determine what's right or wrong based on society the only measure that's constant that's always true that's always good that's always the best of what good or bad is is the Torah it's the one that created good and the one that created bad is the only one that could decide what good or bad is if it's good it's in the tah if it's bad it's also in the tah andh is going to tell you which one you're doing you're doing good or you're doing bad if you're complying with the tor you're certainly doing good if you're going against the tah you're certainly doing bad no matter what Society is going to tell you and a person that is simply going to say listen I'm doing this because it makes me feel good I'm not doing the other bad things that you said I'm not killing anybody I'm not robbing anybody all I'm doing is just uh you know adultery all I'm doing is just promiscuity it's not so bad well you may not think it's not so bad but a who thinks it's bad enough to put you in the worst place in Gom in fact if you would have been a thief and a murderer together you would have actually been at a wor at a less worst place in Gom the thief and the murderer actually have a villa in Gom next to what you're going to have why because according to aadh adultery and promiscuity are the worst possible things that a a person can possibly do now you may not agree but you don't call the shots and what people don't realize is that at some point point or another they will have to pay the bill and it's not necessarily in gay it's in this world each person will get their time to decide what they're supposed to do with their life and it's best that a person decides before hasem pushes the button to force them to decide but needless to say a person that is aware is self-aware that they do need to grow they do want to grow they this is something that is important not just for themselves but for the world around them for their kids for their husband for their wife and so on this is something that they should desire and they should actually run away from people run away from people that tell them they're perfect as they are because these are simply messengers of the Satan so now the Kish has told us we need to acquire these big traits that are going to motivate us to do more furthermore he told us that there's a mish that is the uh different teachings from the of Zak who told us how to attain a purposeful life and each one of them gave a lesson a lesson where Zak told the students go out there and put together a m teachings a book write a book to teach people how to achieve their purpose in life how to have a purposeful life Al together now R said a person should have a good eye and Rua said he should be a good friend R said be a good neighbor and R said a good heart so said have a good heart said that ral's good heart that's what he connects to that's what he sees the most now he's not saying that the other s the other students that he has are wrong he's just saying that's the one that he connects to the most and we went over that you know uh in different ways last week in regards to how it pertains to what kind of Rabbi you have because we realize that there are from here we realize that there are different rabbis that are out there that are good different teachers that are out there that are good but they're not necessarily all good at the same thing one could be good at one thing and perhaps clueless about something else another one could can be a uh really uh uh good at one thing and uh not so good at another thing this doesn't make them good or bad for everybody it's simply if you go to that Rabbi for what he's good at that's where he's going to help you now of course one of the great things that uh uh is you see in the leaders of the generation in the greatest rabbis of the generation is that they tend to be experts in many things not just one thing they tend to be uh really good at many things not just one thing and in fact you see them they're they tend to be good in practically everything uh more than what you would imagine uh more than you can possibly fathom and uh the the way of the uh of the Satan to confuse people is to make people think oh since they're old and they're from of a different generation they're probably not aware of the Troubles of this generation little do you know that these great sages these great K know more about the current generation than anyone any so-called expert in the secular World whether it's relationships or it's money or it's whatever you want it to be they have an extraordinary amount of knowledge because anyone that has watched the sh that I made maybe about six months ago or so where I gave you guys details of how to write a Chua in a responsa and all of the different intricate details that are involved than actually writing a chuva in a responsa in a the questions and answers that give all the details and all the sources and so on and what's reviewed what's analyzed what research entails and so on anyone that actually understands that understands that anyone of the great sages any one of theim that has put together not just one or two but many works of responses these are people that are literally if you would compare them to the average human being you would just simply declare that one is a regular person and this other thing this is not a human being this is Supernatural because there it's not just that they uh their brain is so much more advanced it might as well be Supernatural in comparison because it's so far more advanced than anything else now of course very few people uh in the in the regular traditional world are aware of the great minds that are out there and have a true appreciation for the tah because according to most people the tah is basically what they know maybe give or take some maybe it's a few stories about Moses maybe some abah ainu maybe some King David and some uh some interesting and you know they don't really understand what it entails to be so the Kish has told us that these great sages were not saying that this is the only thing to do meaning only have a good eye only be a good neighbor only have have a good heart but rather this is their expertise this is where they're experts at and K said that to tell somebody to go and have a good heart to the average person it won't help him why because having a good heart entails everything else that was taught by the other talim meaning the good eye the good uh Good Neighbor the good friend and so on and uh you know the ability to see consequence have a good heart entails everything all under one package so to go and tell somebody to acquire a good heart doesn't teach him anything says the Kish here we're going to try to achieve he's saying how to first and foremost understand what your sickness is identify your sickness where are you weak because everyone of us can say listen I'm weak in certain thing I'm weak in let's say anger stinginess arrogance uh you know whatever it is that everybody has everyone knows their General topic and K has already told us that to just address anger at large is very difficult for most people it's much easier to take anger and break it down into pieces as in what makes you angry does your wife make you angry your husband makes you angry your kids make you angry and even then what about them makes you angry is it all the time or is it just when they're late for an appointment they don't cook they don't clean they don't say hello they don't show attention they don't appreciate what is it about them and you the more you break it up the more you could actually address the root of the problem and overcome your anger the same concept goes with stinginess are you stingy with everything are you stingy with just some things are you stingy on yourself are you stingy on other people if it's on other people is it everyone or is it just some people is it just your wife is it strangers is it religious people is it campaigns that you're not really familiar with who you're giving it to or is it the homeless guy that ask you for $5 even though you see that he's uh he has at least 5,000 on him what is it that actually makes you really uh upset what is it that's causing you to lose your mind so a person that takes what they already know is their spiritual sickness that a says it's not good to have and breaks it down into different pieces the more you break it down the more you're going to be able to overcome that negative trait so now as far as acquiring good traits there are certainly a need for all of us to acquire as many as possible but through the uh PCH through the acquiring of good traits we're also diagnosing the bad ones so here we see that the the Kish is Essence telling us that these spiritual diseases they vary according to the variations of human nature and the sages here provided us with varying Natures each Sage possessing personal and unique talents and many therapies uh uh that are available uh in the different ways of the sages in accordance to the wisdom that each one of them have now in essence what he's telling us is that even the sickness itself let's just call it anger for argument sake okay there's very few people that I know that don't get angry in fact there's only one uh everyone gets angry normally now the different people Express their anger differently some people are violent and dangerous some people just become extra quiet some people uh do something else whatever it is but everybody expresses their anger in different ways now he says just like this anger is a one of the many character traits you should also know that the people that have this anger are not all the same meaning that two people can have anger as a problem that they identify as their problem but don't think for a moment that just because they're both angry people they both have the same issue that's exactly that could be addressed and fixed the same way he is angry because people people don't give him enough respect he is angry because he thinks that the world owes him something she is angry because people take advantage of her they are angry because they think that uh you know whatever else everybody's angry in a different way he expresses his anger with violence he expresses his anger with uh you know vulgarity he expresses his anger by simply running away and never giving people a second chance they express their anger by doing something else the point is that each and every single one has anger but there are different trigger points there are different things that are actually making them angry they deal with anger differently altogether and one of the Beautiful Things is is that he says that just like there are many different types of faces out there many different types of people and many different types of sicknesses spiritual sicknesses we call these bad character traits spiritual sicknesses uh I.E the anger as the example the the sages the the people that learned T were all given extraordinary abilities already naturally but even that are growing tremendously to the Torah and they're able to help many people with these abilities and they may not be able to cure everyone that has an anger problem but their ability will allow them to help many people that have anger even though the anger itself is not the same and the person is not the same so the first thing that uh a person needs to uh realize is is the goal here is what the k says is that the the goal was to diagnose the disease correctly and provide a proper remedy for it this is the starting point According to which the uh uh the should lay out his M teachings that's in essence the first part that we're supposed to do now up to here we understand the teachers's perspective the question is what is the students perspective where does the student come in how does the student know that the student is really a student or he's just somebody or she's just somebody that's enjoying themselves that's taking advantage of some free teachings or perhaps is paying for it but doesn't necessarily take it to heart how does the student really uh determine that they're really a student rather than they just another passer by that attended or didn't attend so the Kaz continues and he says the following karia found himself to be the one destined to appeal to the people with a pledge to acquire a good heart that was the one thing that he taught this saying is the transmission of the entire school of thought to the people to mend the heart to enthuse the heart so that they should search for the light of Truth to love eternal life and set aside the Earthly temporary life to approach the single good trait which includes all good traits without needing to break it down into Parts Zak his Rabbi said to his disciples the words of R are preferable to me meaning I see the words of r b what does it mean he seeing what does a seeing mean seeing is the hearts delving into the depths of thought and understanding that part of the Tora that deals with morals and human nature for's part and this was the same as RAR student the direct approach to correct everything so here what is really being taught the teacher the RAB he is first step is telling his students in this mishna tell me what is your approach what is your strategy as a rabbi as a to go help the public fix their spiritual sicknesses each one of theim whether it's rabz r r Shimon uh R Lazar each one of them is saying their strategy what book they're going to put together what uh uh lesson plan musar teachings they're going to put together and what they're going to address and each one has a different strategy nowar at the end he says I'm going for the whole thing I'm going for an all-encompassing teaching that is going to teach everybody have a good heart because a good heart encompasses everything if have achieved this good heart that means you had to have achieved the good eye The Good The Neighbor the good friend know what the consequences are you have to achieve all that so I'm going my teaching is going to be an [Applause] all-encompassing type of something that's uh going to Encompass everything the other on the other hand are saying we are not going to do everything I'm going to focus on a certain thing that I'm really good at good eye teach people about generosity teach people about not wanting bad for others teach people about having a positive outlook that's what I'm going to focus on the other one says okay you can do that that's very interesting I may a 10e sha myself on the other hand what I'm going to focus on being a good neighbor and the expertise that why cuz I know how to be a good neighbor I don't know who's a good neighbor but I know how to be a good neighbor and he's going to teach that the other one says you know what you guys are very good but me I'm more interested about I'm really scared of what's going to happen if I don't do the right thing I want to teach other people to also be scared be scared of the consequences and not just be scared of Gom and kaf and all of the horrible things that happen after this world but scared of the consequences of going against the toah in this world you marry the wrong person you suffer an entire life you uh you do the wrong deal you suffer for a long time you do a lot of different things if don't put enough care into that message into that action you can suffer tremendously and you could really not have all of that suffering had you thought about it enough I want to teach people that says you know what guys everything you're doing is great I'm going to attend all of your because I need to gather as much information as possible to teach everything and the teacher then says Ah you're my student what does it mean you're my student I see what you're doing you're doing the same thing I'm doing now I know that as far as student teacher everybody's my student everybody's my tell but this one is someone that's closer to the heart he has the same visual as I do I the says when I was teaching everybody you know I didn't really look for one two or three no I wanted to just simply help the person fix everything and that's what you're after that's where I see myself meaning I see myself in you so here we see from the teacher is giving the uh the students a task the the students are taking the task to heart and saying what they are and then the teacher responds by giving them a assessment of each and every single one and then telling them you know what everyone is good but this one that's where I see myself that's where he's he's in essence doing the same thing that's where I see my heart so here we see that although everybody's a student everybody has spent time and effort and resources to learn from the rabbi but there's one that's above them all there's one that's above them all why because he is the one that has the the rabbi's heart he is the one that has literally uh cleaved themselves to the in such a fashion he wants to emulate the rabbi in every single way so much so that he wants to teach just like the rabbi so from here we see that just watching a Shu or just reading a book or just attending a lecture in itself it does not make you the student it makes you a student it makes you a fan it makes you uh whatever it is it makes you but to be a real student a of the rabbi we already see that you have to relate to the rabbi as far as how you operate your life what is what are you really giving into this relationship what are you getting out of it how is that going to apply to your life and we see here that the greater the student the more you'll see the rabbi in the students actions so here we see that the students each have their own thing now let's see if we can elaborate further what else can we see from these students now and why did RAB laar Ben uh the is is the I keep calling them different names it's not it's the some of the translations have it wrong but it's anyway there there's no there's no difference but just for you guys to know anyway the uh the goal here is to go teach the public that's the goal that's the goal thatan is giving each one of his students that's the uh action plan that the Kish is teaching us from what is to be a teacher what is to be a student what is to be someone that's active about solving their own personal issues what is uh what is the action plan of how to help other people solve their issues so here we're learning from this M from this whole teachings and one thing that we can see is that the gar says in a several places one of them I believe is that a person that has what's called shim is greater than a person that has learning what does it mean there are two types of people that are next to the rabbi one person learns from the rabbi whatever the rabbi teaches he teaches he attends he wrote a book he reads it whatever it is he reads he learns and then there's a guy that's different what is it he does whatever he possibly can to get close to the rabbi surely he learns all of his books he watches all of the lectures he attends everything and anything he possibly can reviews it that's his that's hisu but because he's his mosu he looks for different ways to serve the rabbi in different ways if the rabbi needs a ride somewhere if the rabbi needs to raise money if the rabbi needs to arrange a lecture if the ra whatever the rabbi needs he's always the first guy that that's there to help the rabbi and his what he gets out of it is not just the Mitzvah of helping a rabbi helping a but also he gets the the private lessons that nobody else gets that private lesson that private conversation that I'll have on the way to the lecture the private conver ation they'll have when they everybody else already left the private uh time that nobody else gets that is something that the says that is something extraordinary why because those private lessons will uh you know will uh make the part of a rabbi available to this person that's not available to the public it's not available to the rest of people and that in essence is even greater than the one that's learning from him just learning from him why because again you have those extra now many times you see some great out there and people think oh yeah it's because he has a great brain it's because he has a lot of effort and people generally don't give much value how these came to be because they think oh it's because they have a good brain their their father was a good uh Rabbi or smart and uh they tried hard they don't realize that many times one of the things that makes this particular unique is what made him what it was which is not just what he studied and how he studied no no it's something that's not in the books it's the rabbi that he glued himself to day and night whenever he could at Yesa after Yeshiva at the Shi after the sh at the after the wherever he could th that's those relationships and many times you see that the bigger the the more they had shim with different that that made them what they are much more than the books because there are plenty of people that learn the books but shim is not something that everybody wants to jump at because it's a lot of work it's a lot of work that you don't necessarily see the benefit until after the fact so there's a lot of blessing in it also but nonetheless this is something that it's requires a lot of effort so the um obviously from here we see that was the closest to ran in fact calls him he's the he is the Wellspring that continues to get stronger we'll explain what that means in a moment this is in a previous mishna so the first thing we see that if a person wants to be a good student and needless to say a good Rabbi he has to have a good eye he has to have a good eye why does the student and the rabbi both need to have this this good eye what is the uh what's the benefit here what's the why why do I need to have this I mean good to have it is one thing but need to have it is something different it's good to eat but you also need to eat it's good to eat healthy food but even if you don't have healthy food available to you you still need to eat nonetheless or else you're going to die so need is a completely different description so here we are saying that there's a very very important need to have a if somebody wants to be a good student and needless to say a good Rabbi why if a person is a wants to be a good student they have to have a good eye because they have to have a charitable uh uh look at life and not one of these you selfish uh outlooks at life where they see things as only for themselves they are entitled the rabbi owes them I sent them a question it's already been three days how come he didn't answer those types of outlooks those types of the world revolves around me type of mentalities that person will never become a good student if a person that views things only from their own perspective and not from the perspective of others and does not even know the definition of empathy little do they know that this in itself makes them a bad student now a a a rabbi on the other hand the rabbi that sees that his student is has a very selfish mentality a very uh uh um just you know bad eye if you will needs to help that student see that but addressing a student that has a bad eye is not so simple uh because many times a person does not see the obligation in themselves you tell them oh listen I'm busy that's why I can't answer and usually people understand the uh superficial value of it which is oh he's busy okay so now you're not busy because you answered me now so just answer me now or whatever the case is they see things just from their perspective nothing has changed they don't realize that oh me being busy means perhaps you could actually consider that maybe you could get the answer in a different way like you actually look it up instead of asking me every little thing or perhaps it means that it's I'm busy for this question because this question is something you should do on your own because it's such a simple question and you're just being lazy perhaps it means that there's so many things I need to do that I have to prioritize and whatever you ask me is simply not the top priority why because there are things that are much more important than what you're dealing with so don't feel like I'm ignoring you it's just that there are other people with much bigger issues the point is that when a person looks at things with a good eye they understand that there is more to life than just simply their perspective when they look at things from a bad eye everything is negative no they're never getting acknowledgement they're never getting recognition they're never getting attention they're never never never never they're like a little child that uh that is simply unbearable it's like a little little uh little Gremlin that you can't deal with because doesn't matter what you tell this kid he still wants what he wants and he doesn't even know that what he wants is bad for him unfortunately when it's a adult it's much more uh difficult to deal with so for a person to be this good Rabbi he has to himself have to have a good eye because he has to also be optimistic and look at things in a positive way to continue doing what he's doing but also to give people the encouragement that they should continue growing and continue moving and continue doing whatever they're doing uh in a positive way but if he has too much of a good eye meaning a delusional eye so much so that it doesn't matter what people do he views it as good this is obviously not a good eye this is a lying eye on the other hand the student has to be someone that is looking at things in a specific way and not just a individualistic way they have to look at things in a specific way meaning that based on what the uh situation is they have to look at it okay what else can I learn from this experience what else can I you know there's an experience there's a there's something that happened what else can I learn from it and the more the person is connected to their Rabbi the more they're going to ask themselves no what else can I see from this situation or what else can I learn from this situation or but it would actually be what would my Rabbi say about this situation how would he look at it what would he say many times when you meet you see them answering in the words of their Rabbi where something is at is at hand and say oh Rabbi such and such would say this about this how do they know because they have read and have learned his work so much they already know his response to these particular things not from guessing but actual realization that this is what he answered in such and such book or in such and such lecture and this is what he said in such and such article this is the answer to this literally the rabbi has become their their their mind and the more a person has become one with the teachings of his Rabbi the more they know what the rabbi would is going to deal with so showing a world of difference between a person that's let's say watching the occasional sh or reading the occasional book but this Rabbi is part of a all slew of Rabbi this season every season they have a different uh a different lineup of rabbis like you know sports teams have a different lineup of players they they change on the offseason this guy changes his rabbis on the offseason this uh this season he's with Rabbi AB andc uh next season 6 months later a year later two years later only a made it up to the starting lineup b c and e is no longer he replaced them with z e z F and W and so on and so forth a person like this is not only a person that does not have the ability to be a but it's actually exemplifies how they have a bad eye why does it exemplify they have a bad eye because if he was a good student he would realize that his Rabbi if he's a real Rabbi if he's learning every day not just sometimes if he's learning every single day that means that this Rabbi is growing every single day a little bit more than he was the day before and every one of his is growing a little bit more than the one before if he has the right mindset and the right eye on things he'll say wait a minute just like he's growing his students will be growing I want to be one of those students not just based on his current knowledge but based on the knowledge he'll have tomorrow and next week and a year later and 10 years later because you see that this person dedicates themselves to learning tah and you have already a positive mindset of how this person is going to grow how this Rabbi is going to grow and you want to grow with him not you want to grow on your own because you figure maybe you can pass him this is actually one of the things that you also see with alltimers that many times you ask these people how did they get started who is your Rabbi and many times you'll see oh yeah my Rabbi is radya oh wow you were at K you were at Yeshiva with r goes no I was a plumber wait you're a plumber and today you how did that happen well simple I went to a in the beginning I didn't understand much little by little I kept going kept going kept going kept going kept going he gave us tests once in a while he uh asked this question he got us involved the more we were dedicated the more he was dedicated to us I tried to attend every sh that he had even if he went across the country wherever he went I went and little by little I started gaining knowledge and after 10 20 30 40 years I know a few things who else did you listen to who else did you attend more times than not they'll tell you nobody else not because there was nobody else that was good or nobody else that was smart simple I found my home this is what I want and they didn't know they're going to grow with him and become they just knew this is good for me this is addressing my current spiritual sickness why do I need to go look elsewhere and without even realizing it they got the blessing from shamim to actually not only cure the current spiritual sickness they didn't they they have that they know about but the ones that they didn't even know they had to address and even more so in the process be became actual real Torah Scholars with kids that are Torah Scholars how they grew with the rabbi they stuck to the teachings and they realize with their their their their simple mind that this is good for me I'm going to continue this is good for me I'm going to continue this is good for me I'm continue and by default they grew with the rabbi the rabbi shim continued uh uh being new each time it was a new Shure their knowledge was more but also their became literally CLE cleave to or glue to to the rabbis and they became literally from sticking to the a a solid plan because they had a positive eye on the way things are that and you know that was not just looking at things from just their own perspective when a person tries to uh you know swallow the whole world at once they want to learn everything all in one day they want to learn from everyone in one day this is a person that end up amounting to nothing and this is very common among people that are like uh either uh whatever I don't want to describe it so people start becoming offended but it's very very common unfortunately especially in the internet age where it's as easy as a click of a button to pick yourself a new Rabbi and very very few people are actually becoming very few people are becoming wiser for it they may have a little bit more information they may have a little bit more things to say here and there but generally speaking you can tell who the rabbi is by the the words that are coming out of the students you know there are certain people that I know within 30 seconds I know who they learned from I know who they learned from if it's the RAB if it's rabbis that I'm familiar with I know who they learned from but I also know that they're not really the rabbi student they just watch the rabbi shim if they're the rabbi student they speak differently if they just watch the shim they also speak differently it's it's again it's something that is you get with experience but many times people fool themselves thinking that oh I'm such and such as uh a student in reality you may think you're a student but you're not because if you were your speech would be different your mind would be different your dedication would be different everything would be different now you may be a good fan you may be a supporter you may be a nice person I'm not saying anything bad about the person but to be a student requires a little bit more than that and we saw we see from people that are students of or any other they have real students over many years you see that they speak as if the rabbi is there I've met a few a few students of RA vido Miller you see how they speak as if ra vido Miller is here a few students of RA you see as they speak it's like is here all types of unique people that you meet they look like Common People regular people some are rabis some are regular average people but when they answer you about something that's Torah related or just life in general they speak as if the rabbi is here why they just simply decided this is it he's not my Rabbi I'm his student the being the student took priority more so than him being the rabbi took the priority of course the rabbi came along with it but the point being is is that they looked at things in a certain way so when a person wants to uh uh become that good student this good eye is not just related to the rabbi per se that he should be optimistic and teach you things in such a way where you'll you'll have the courage to keep going and not give up and uh to to uh to uh look at the world as much bigger than what you see it as and so on but the student himself also has to realize that they have to have a good eye they have to have a good eye where the way that they see the Rabbi the rabbi is this but he's going to grow just like I'm growing he's growing and there's really if if I see what he has now is good then surely what he's going to have in six months it's even going to be better in a year it's going to be better in two years it's going to be better meaning it behooves me to stick to this as much as I possibly can invest into this as much of myself as I possibly can in order to get the most amount that I can get out of it because if I look at it from the right perspective if if I'm dedicated to this one good source that means that I'm going to get a lot more out of it if I'm dedicated to it rather than if I'm going to let's say delve into different things every few months every you know this few months I'm going to be in Rabbi a few months later I'm going to learn from Rabbi b a few months later I'm learn from Rabbi C and yes you may get different ideas but you'll become the student of nobody you become your own Rabbi your own student your own nothing and in essence in reality nobody you'll never become a I'm not telling you this as an insult I'm telling you as guidance this is in essence what's being taught and many times you see that people simply spread themselves Way Too Thin now of course last week we discussed this and a few people were confused because said listen I listen to some of your shim I listen to some other Rabbi shim but you know they're also good they're also this what I shouldn't listen to anybody I'm not saying not to listen to anybody what I'm saying is this if you're you're talking about books books there's difference there's books and there's if you're learning books it depends what kind of books if it's the of course the is for everybody is for everybody everybody you know of course discuss discuss and so on they they they vary and depends who's your that you're following going to tell you which ones to follow but in generally speaking there's the basic body of the of the tah that's for everybody it's common for everybody when it comes to books if you're reading things that are outside of the main body of work you know that's that's that's accepted among everyone outside of the and and you're reading something new then it has a lot to do with who is your Rabbi because if you're reading let's say sh from 800 years ago or from almost a thousand years ago or the from almost 1600 years ago or the mishna from 2,000 years ago everybody accepted these everybody accepted these where does it become more difficult if it's a recent book A book that was you know let's say uh uh uh written and and published in during this generation now this is very important to know because if you're reading a book from this generation you have to also know that that book may have as much impact on you sometimes even more impact on you than a book from a thousand years ago why because you can perhaps connect with that Rabbi that is a uh that's still alive and learn more from him this is good or this is good and it could also be bad why good and it could also be bad if it's a real good Rabbi good then it's good because you can learn more from him and he's going to bring you more of a clarification of what happened a thousand 2,000 3,000 years ago if it's a bad Rabbi then unfortunately you're in a trap that you make have a very hard time getting out of some people have written books and these books are completely heretical for the person that knows what they're talking about they see this book and they know there's only one definition to this book which is heresy the average person reads the book and they see wow this is such a loving Rabbi so of course this is a very serious problem why because if you go attend this loving Rabbi that's a heretic that you don't know he's a heretic you attend his lecture you fall in love with his teachings even further and it becomes much much more difficult to get out of that trap even after somebody tells you why cuz you already committed to it you're you you've invested into it so that's the first thing no when it comes to books it's very important to focus on books that have been accepted by the and not just by you and not just by his publicist and not just by the Amazon store that's recommending it there is some serious asot serious rabbis behind it it's mentioning sources from many many years ago it's not just his own uh uh uh his own individualistic uh thoughts and his own insights that may or may not hold water so that's one in regards to books in regards to uh the uh uh listening to rabbis it all depends on who's your Rabbi if you have a rabbi then you should make sure that you literally consume any bit if you really want to be somebody's student you consume any bit of information that this Rabbi disseminates to the public or to anybody literally the more you want to cleave to your Rabbi the more you want to literally just be like a shadow you know just you're wherever he is you're like a shadow wherever he is wherever he says something you're there you're writing down notes you're uh you're recording you're doing whatever you can to get this information into your brain into your heart whatever you can you do it that's what do with their Rabbi they literally go even into the it says they went even into the bathroom or the bedroom of the rabbi just to learn whatever they could learn I don't recommend going into any bathrooms or any bedrooms but you get the point the point is that today people switch their rabbis like they switch uh you know their their uh their undergarments you know oh yeah today is mine next week somebody else and that's why they end up to being nothing they end up amounting to nothing they end up not respecting rabbis all together and they end up thinking that they know a whole lot more than what they do and little do they know they actually know less than what they think so the reality is the more a person is committed to a certain Rabbi the more they have to be dedicated to all of the work that this Rabbi publishes now if this is one of these rabbis it's a very serious but he doesn't disseminate work every single day let's say he publishes one book a year or one book every several years fine no problem you have to learn from that Rabbi as much as you can many rabbis disseminate much more than that they don't just do one book every year or one book every few years some they'll do more than a book a year or they'll just do a books and shim they'll give a sh or two or three a week you have to make sure that you study those things as much as you possibly can literally to the point where you can somebody asked you a question what did the rabbi say and you have something to say many times I've asked I've tested people you know they've come to my lectures or they listen to somebody else and I ask him what' you learn today I don't it was good stuff okay great it was good stuff I understand it was good stuff or else you know you'd be upset but what did you learn can you repeat anything that the rabbi said you just sat there for a half hour an hour two hours 3 hours whatever you sat there what did he say many times people can't repeat it why because they listened but they didn't study and that's how most people listen to lectures today online or in person they listen but they don't study they don't take down any notes they don't take any things into account they don't engrave anything they don't commit anything to memory they don't even try to they think that the way the rabbi learned so much is simply because he's so smart that everything he learns it just flows out of his mouth no it doesn't work that way that Rabbi is doing exactly the same thing you should be doing which is when he learns something he tries to do whatever he can to commit it to memory to commit it to his heart so he'll write it down sometimes he'll record it he'll repeat it a million times whatever it is in order to get hit to to commit to his life if you're just listening to even if you're listening to two or three or four or five a day there are some people I don't know how they do it what kind of schedules they have but literally they have five six shim 10 hours a day they listen to shim fine it's good no problem but do you know anything that the rabbi said like can you repeat it can you give me okay give me a synopsis of what was you listen for two hours what did the rabbi say in 5 minutes more times than not people cannot tell you what the rabbi said in 5 minutes why because it was entertaining it was like a radio show it was good but again if a person wants entertainment fine be real with yourself but if you're GNA say he's my Rabbi I'm his student you can't do that you can't do that we just the game the point is is not saying this is good this is bad the point is to to to really know where we stand it's very important for a person to know where they stand if you're going to say he's my Rabbi I'm his student you can't be that superficial listener that just you know listen superficially here and there and maybe you're going to remember some coin term that made you laugh or or or something that he said 50,000 times that uh that just committed to memory you know this is a one of the beautiful things that I've I've uh noticed with certain people is that I know this one listen to a bunch of by Rabbi mizi why he says anytime he starts a conversation about God he says you know Rabbi you need to know God not believe I know I've listened to a thousand lectures by RAB M I know to know God because he said it a million times in he made that term as literally as relevant as the sky is to the world but if that's all you know from everything he taught you're not his student because ra taught a whole lot more than to know God rather than just believe there's a whole lot of other things that he taught do you know the other stuff and the same thing with my students or anybody else anyone that calls anybody a student you need to know that if you're going to be a student you cannot just superficially listen to to people you cannot superficially just skim through books and just tell people yeah I have H what I have 500 books 800 books yeah yeah I went through all of them okay can you tell me what each book is about not every word but something what is this book about okay you send me back what do you have about that oh no it's good stuff thank you it's good stuff what does it have oh it's m thank you very much it's m I can see on the cover it says M what else does it have can you tell me anything if you can't tell the average person anything about anything then again you're you're you're wasting time you're killing yourself because you're doing the work but just short just short you could do a little more yes it requires a whole lot more effort but it's worth it because then you could actually start growing and not stay in that same place that you've been in already for five years or 10 years or more so to be that student requires a person to invest a whole whole lot more now to continue on that uh on that issue of as far as okay so you listen to this Rabbi and you want to invest more and more time to listen to study fine what time do you have for other rabbis can you still listen to other rabbis the end answer is yes but so long as anyone else that you're going to listen to is not going to take the time that you have to listen or learn from your Rabbi whether he be a local Rabbi from your sh or your Yeshiva or your K whoever it is if any of those other rabbis that you like to listen to are going to conflict with your commitment to what you have to learn then you can't listen to them why because again if you have if this Rabbi produces a new sh every single day there's no way you'll have time to listen to anybody else even if you study if you're all day there's just if you if you have a serious that teaches every single day it's simply not possible to have enough time for most people at least at work and have a you know A busy life to have enough time to go and listen to somebody else why because you have to analyze every Shu you have to study everything now if your Rabbi only has one sh a week and it depends what level your Rabbi is if he's a g if he's a this if whatever he has how complicated the shoe is then yes probably you will have time to listen to other people but again how much of your heart and your effort and your time do you want to dedicate to other things also depends on what they're also teachings if they're teaching things that are conflicting what your Rabbi is teaching you can't listen to them if they have a completely different strategy altogether than what your Rabbi is teaching many times you can't listen to them also why because it'll create confusion and the last thing you want is to have confusion confusion in Hebrew is uh creates a doubt doubt is saf saf has the same gatria same numerical value as amalik anytime a person has this saf this this confusion this doubt they literally have Amal inside them and many times people create this own their own Amal as a result of them simply not knowing how to be a student they want to listen to everybody all the time because it's all interesting and you're right they're all interesting and they're all smart and they're all great and they're all amazing but they all can't be your Rabbi so you have to first and foremost have to have a priority determine you know which one of the rabbis that you listen to or learn from whatever it is is the best for you dedicate all of the necessary energy on this particular Rabbi and grow with him as much as possible pretty much so long as he's in the world producing new Torah you're in the world learning new Torah if there is anything more left time meaning and and and then you obviously you can go and delve into other things so long as they don't conflict with your priority if you do anything else other than this many times you'll stay from but you won't become and this again this all depends on whether a person wants to become a whether they actually want to grow spiritually whether they want to grow in grow in grow in things or they just want to you know stay alive and you know not become some murderer of themselves or of other people so the first thing is is to have this good eye as a student and realize that just like you're expected to have optimism and your teacher your Rabbi is going to tell you to be optimistic and not to give up on yourself and not to uh give up on people and have a positive outlook on life you yourself also as a student have to have a good eye and realize that the world you're learning from is also uh growing it's also amazing it's also you have to give it the benefit of the doubt where if one sh was boring for you it doesn't mean that all the shim are boring if one book wasn't good it doesn't mean that all the books are are no good if you didn't understand it it doesn't mean that everybody else didn't understand or if you didn't like it it doesn't mean that you're right it could be that it was good you just didn't understand it enough to like it so the point is is to have that good eye yourself as a student the second thing is is to also be is the uh is is a good friend good friend obviously the rabbi that's going to be a good friend is a rabbi that's going to offer you constructive criticism if you're not a person that is able to accept constructive criticism you should also you should already put your n on retirement because anyone that does not want to accept constructive criticism which is the point of M the point of the point of Tor all together is to give you constant constructive criticism how to improve if you're not improving you're deteriorating if you cannot accept the reproofs the M the rebuke whatever you want to call it you're never going to grow so if the rabbi is being a good friend that means he's going to have to give you from time to time a rebuke or two different RAB RAB have different ways of doing it some rabbis will do it through a story some rabbis will do it through a personal meeting and some rabbis will tell you outright some rabbis will simply do it through show you different experiences everyone has based on their wisdom and experience has a different way to teach you if you have that good eye that good eye is going to look for different things you're going to learn from everything from that Rabbi if you have a selfish eye where everything in the world revolves around you then even if the rabbi speaks directly to you and you're watching when he says something that's directly to you you're going to look at who's behind you because he must be talking to them there's no way he's talking to you so you have to be that person that has a good eye in order to be able to accept that good friend that is your Rabbi not a good friend that's going to uh uh give you a high five and uh allow you to call him by your by his first name which we already uh saw that the rambam says that if you call your a rabbi by his first name then you're considered an according to now the the uh by brings in this particular Mish he brings a some different commentary and he says in regards to a good friend he brings the chapter number fouri goes instead of it goes by and he brings a story about R AKA teachings by r and says that comments in regards to loving your neighbor and being a good friend and so on and he says that akba says to love people uh the the love that people have for each other based purely on social conventions meaning platonic relationships friendships colleagues and so on that's not related to the Torah is absolutely worthless says R AA now your average teenager or person that's not glue to the Torah even if they're uh in their 30s and 40s just heard this froma shut off this you and moved on with their life they don't want to hear anymore from R AA why I have my best friend she's my best friend we grew up together he's my best friend we play basketball togethera dare tell me that my relationship with my best friend is meaningless yes and he's right he's right the older you are the more you'll realize how right he is because you'll see that all of those best friends disappear all of those relationships break not because of pessimism because of reality what's reality why are they meaningless says Raba the slightest insult can destroy this so-called love and disintegrate all of of the lofty ideologies upon which this love has been founded on the slightest threat to one's possessions or one's stature can turn the most civilized person into a ra a rabid dog who attacks everyone and everything in sight including his friend an opportunity to get ahead monetarily or in Social stature can turn people into wild Bandits all social norms crumble like dust and fly away on the slightest breeze so in essence in so many words is trying to tell us in the name OFA that these relationships that you have your best friend your best partner at work or colleague or whatever it is don't put so much into it why relationship is really meaningless that love you have for each other it's really doesn't mean much just like that can go away just like that why the second you have money that they want the relationship can dis indicate n say no no he doesn't even care about money okay fine the second you have honor that they want relationship is gone no no he doesn't even care about honor I'm the chief partner or any second partner fine the second he doesn't get the credit that he feels that he deserves meaning he doesn't get or she doesn't get the honor they believe they deserve relationship is God just like that 20 years in the garbage why that's the way life is the second you violate their space in any way shape or form the relationship gone why that's reality that's reality of a world full of meaningless relationships that are based on some type of mutual interest at the time and not about the Torah these relationships are constantly at threat whether it's B the threats going to come from possessions or or any type of a honor or opportunity they want your job or social stature they're running for president of the sh and you're running for the president of the sh they're running for congress and you're running for congress of the community of the country of whatever all of a sudden you see that the second you're violating each other's space or you're threatening each other's space or whatever it is that relationship literally goes into the garbage and it becomes almost a default that they actually become your enemy and the worst type and he says it's only love for one's fellow man that emanates from the holy Torah love that is firmly founded upon hashem's Commandments that's real reliable and trustworthy and dear pleasing and or inspiring it's only such love that stands firm like a mountain side immovable by any changes or circumstances or self-interest this says radya is what R AA is meaning when he says that loving your neighbor as yourself is a important rule of the Torah this is what he's trying to teach us is that if you're going to love your neighbor through the T through the rules of the Tora that relationship is going to be a solid relationship that won't change no matter what the circumstances are but if you love your neighbor your colleague or whatever it is your best friend from high school based on some mutual interest that not Torah related that relationship is meaningless that love is meaningless it's just a matter of time before it breaks and how many times have we heard the stories of people that literally stop talking to their brothers and sisters and parents and uh and their best friend from high school and their best friend from childhood because of XYZ happened XYZ happened sometimes he scratched the car sometimes he uh winked at somebody whatever he did people do strange things and relationships end very quickly you know how many relationships end because of inheritance they're the best Brothers the best sisters until their parents die and they want to kill each other why because he got the house and he got the money instead and he got the this and he got the that instead he got more and he got less she got less he got more they don't talk for 20 years why they both happened to have a parent that died yeah what happened uh they grew up together they loved each other yeah they loved each other until the money came between them literally one of the worst things that a parent can do to his kids is is give them a lot to wait for as far as money inheritance instead of giving it during his life because if you're going to leave it up to your kids to be civil because of through inheritance literally you're you're just destroying them because many times kids end up hating each other as a result of inheritance and other things that's not Torah related now again if you raised your kids with t with MIT and they have real relationships among them then these things won't matter as much but nonetheless even in religious households these types of things happen so point is is that the uh the the whole issue of being his good friend is not just from the rabis perspective but it's also from the students perspective the student has to look at things from a certain view that's not just to their own interest to their own benefit but also the overall benefit the overall benefit and if them getting criticized then them getting rebuked is part of the overall benefit then they should be happy they're getting it they should be happy for getting this rebuke on the other hand there's also being a good neighbor K says be a good neighbor now being a good neighbor as we said it's easier to be one than to find one but it's important for a person to know that as far as being a good neighbor it's even more significant than being a good friend why writes in his enough that a good friend is somebody that's there during the day a good neighbor is there during the day at night all the time that's a good neighbor it says that the schl says in Proverbs chap 27:1 better a neighbor who's nearby than a brother who's far away and from there we learn from the mid thatu had three neighbors he had is zun and Y isar the tribes of isar the Trib of Z and the tribes of Yoda those were the three neighbors if you look at the tah it talks about which camps in the desert were where where they was stationed mhu his closest neighbors were the tribe of is the tribe of Y and the tribe ofun and the mid says because they were so close to mosenu all of them merited to have the largest number of Torah Scholars why they were next to the rabbi more they spent more time they listened they did whatever they could they were glued to him at all times the other tribes also came to the lectures here and there everything was good but these three they were neighbors even when the lights were off they were still listened in maybe there's a sh maybe there's something maybe this and each one has verses in the Torah each one has vers in the Torah it says in the tah that in that yud are my Torah Scholars tter 60:9 is it says in Chronicles uh chapter Chronicles 1 12:32 and from the children of isar who know and understand the times of the seasons to know what is shall do their leaders number 200 meaning that 200 members of the tribe of isak were uh were heads of the and what about Z zun in the Book of Judges chter 5 verse 14 sayson writes books with their quills now and they had a lot of so up to now this is what says but then when you pay attention to it wait a minute hold on a second the mid says M had three neighbors and if you just said three neighbors without mentioning names then there's nothing to it but the mid said no Judah there's and there right comes from yud you have jumped into the water they were glued to fine we already know from the time of they already tell me the but were known as the Torah investors they invested money the deal how did they become just because they were neighbors with no it had to be more than that why because surely there was other tribes there but invested the money and one of the promises that the Torah has to people that invest into Tor invest into M invest into invest into publicizing T is the more you invest into T not just money your effort your time your resources the more you invest into the truth especially when it's a good source the more you're showing honor for the tah the more will reward you in this world to see those Investments end up becoming your own kids being why because the more you invest into something the more you show that you care about it if you care about it just for other people then you know OB that's not you're not going to invest everything into it but if you care about it because you want to have a part of it that means that you're also going to implement what you're learning what you're investing in into your own house so your kids are also going to want to learn this tah and guess what's going to happen because you're investing money into it and your kids are learning into it hem is going to give special special Divine assistance to your kids your grandkids and so on that they're going to show you the fruits of your labor that your kids will become those because was known as the Torah investor he's known as the one that invested into his brother but still he merited having just as many as his descendants as the other uh tribes that were neighbors to mhe how because you valued it not because you had a lot of money you valued it because you knew that this is where you should put your money into and this is one of the beautiful things you see when you continuously learn more and more different you start seeing there's different fruits different fruits that come out of this learning so being that good neighbor a person needs to know that as a student as a student they have to know that they need to do whatever they they can to be that good neighbor what does it mean to be that good neighbor like we said being being a good friend you're there during a day being a good neighbor is even more you're there a day at night so what does that mean few things first of all it means that sometimes the rabbi is going to have good times you have to be there when the times are good sometimes the rabbi is goingon to have tough times there's paper newspaper articles against them there is a lack of money there is uh whatever all types of issues you have to be there you have to be there not just during the good times everybody wants to be next to people in the good times if you want to be that student you have to be there during the good times and that's one during the bad times also during the difficult times during the darkness during a time where he's not popular during a time where he's unpopular even and that's one of the things that a person that wants to be that tal has to take into account is that I'm there to thick and thin popular not popular famous not famous the the shim are interesting not interesting there's a lot of people in the crowd there's nobody in the crowd I'm there why because I'm going to get whatever I can get out of this and I'm going to dedicate myself to this as if this is the only thing that exists in the world now of course most people simply don't see the world that way they see wherever is most popular is where they're going to go wherever is most happening that's where they're going to go wherever is most recommended that's where they're going to go and many times those places change with the weather and they end up being nobody being nobody and then you see the one guy that stuck with his Rabbi in the beginning everybody made fun of him because he couldn't even say one two three in a row but you see that one guy stuck with the rabbi for all those years while everybody else delved into a bunch of different things 20 years passed the rabbi became somebody and the student no one can even recognize him because he became such a scholar how did that happen he stay dedicated by the way the same thing goes with professions many times you see the people that are the most successful most successful over the long run are people that stuck to the same career and same company even for the longest amount of time I know today the the the uh you know money is made a little differently than it was in the past there's a lot of getrich quick schemes or getrich quick ideas out there uh that a lot of people have made a lot of money but I'm talking about you know real wealth that uh that's uh comes from an actual career uh typically it's because somebody dedicated all of their time into uh one uh One Main Place One Main Place and you see many times the major Executives at the huge corporations they started in the mail room they started in the lowest possible position and after 20 30 4 40 years they became the CEO everyone complains oh how could the CEO get $50 million a year yeah that CEO used to make $4,000 a year when you didn't even realize this company existed and he stuck with it over 40 years he deserves every penny that he gets but again the average person only sees the after effect so it's important for a person to know that to be that good neighbor as a student means that you have to be there through day and night popularity unpop popularity when he needs when he doesn't need and also you want if you're a good neighbor you want the uh you're not looking at things just from your own perspective you're looking at the betterment of the neighborhood sometimes people have a problem seeing that their Rabbi succeeds or the rabbi has a uh open has a big building or a big house or a fancy car whatever it is like wait a minute how come this Rabbi has so much maybe I'm not going to donate to this because it seems like he's doing okay I'm going to go donate to someone that's struggling you will find some homeless person or somebody that's really really in need doesn't have anything to eat and I'll go donate to them it's a mistake it's a very big mistake why if this is your Rabbi everything you possibly can needs to go there why that's where you're nurturing that's where your n is getting their number one nourishment for you to take the resources the blessings that hem gives you and give it somewhere else clearly you're not a good neighbor clearly you're not a good student because at the very least you're supposed to give as much of yourself as possible but many times people don't think this way they're like wait if the rabbi has already three isot he doesn't need my $500 he has millionaires so I'll give my $500 to some you know nobody that nobody knows and I'll give it to him yes it's a Mitzvah but if that's taken away from the rabbi where you're getting your main spiritual nourishment it's a mistake it's a very big mistake why because again as a good neighbor you're supposed to want for the betterment of the neighborhood so if that means that that the uh the neighborhood is growing you should want to be part of it if the uh if the uh organization is growing the building is growing the house is whatever is growing you should want for the betterment of the overall neighborhood not just wherever you uh decide needs the most this is a unfortunately it comes from a bad eye there was one time a guy it's a funny story but you learn a lot of M from it there one time a guy on uh Pim it's happy had a couple of drinks he tells his friend this year was my best pouring how come is your best pouring because this year I fulfilled theah of meaning giving to the poor better than ever like y tell me why what' you do it's like I found this guy he is so smart he knows so much Torah it's unbelievable like okay so how's that no no listen he knows a lot of T but you don't understand this guy is so poor there's holes in his pants his kids barely have anything to eat I don't even know if he has electricity in his house and I was able to help him so the guy says y help me out I want to also I I need to give money for for the poor he go no no no no no no I'm keeping him that way why because I want to have one for next year also meaning he's not going to share who this poor guy is that he helped cuz he wants to keep him poor why so he could fulfill the mitvah just as good next year obviously he's a but the point is that this is the mentality of sometimes people they see that the rabbi is growing the organization is growing the ISA is growing the whatever the K is growing whatever is growing oh okay so they don't need me anymore here I'm going to go elsewhere mistake if that's your rabbi if you're really a student you shouldn't even think of investing anywhere else think think even anywhere else why this is where your n is benefiting you owe your life to this place that's giving you the spiritual nourishment that's going to put you in ganeden possibly this is the place that that you're you're you're getting everything from for you to give the blessings gave you to somewhere else it's simply uh it's like cheating but again this is not necessarily A Torah obligation this is pure logic but that's one of the things that the bad eye leads to the bad eye is not looking at things from the general picture like a good neighbor the bad eye looks at things from an individual perspective oh when I started with this Rabbi all he had was $5,000 to his name today he has five million today he has five yes so that two three four $500 a month that I'm giving 5,000 a month I'm giving he already gets it from elsewhere let me go start something else do something else with somebody else it's a mistake it's a mistake now if you want to do it you ask your Rabbi your Rabbi says fine it's one thing but generally speaking it's not a good idea why because again you want to be that committed student and that student is not going to do any elsewhere this is the same thing that you sometimes see in companies one of the worst things in the world to see in a company is people doing the business with somebody else let's say you have I don't know let's say you sell chairs okay and you have people you have uh you start a company you and two other employees before you know it you have 30 employees everybody's making good money you sell all types of chairs and you see that your employees they all buy chairs but they buy chairs from somebody else it's the worst thing in the world to see why because you see that these people are not really committed they're just here for the check or whatever it is but there there there's something wrong here if the chairs are bad then obviously why are you still here you know or or at the very least recommend something that we should change but generally speaking the more a person is committed to the company that they're with the more they literally become an extension of the product they sit on the chairs they get the t-shirts they wear the shirts home they have the company car is their main car they become an extension of the company why because that's they become a uh you know it's their life even more so when somebody is is learning to off from a rabbi that person he doesn't go and check out other and other is's allowed to it's just not done why that's my home that's the place that's responsible for me going to heaven that's the place that's responsible for me to know anything that I have in my head that's the place that's responsible for my marriage for my this for my child from everything so a person that looks at things from that perspective solves a lot of the dilemmas that people typically have now again there are certainly Exceptions there are certainly things that are done where a person has can ask a rabbi can ask his Rabbi even what he can do how he can do but generally speaking this is one of the things that I've known overall that is is a common mistake the other thing is when a person looks at things is a when a person looks at the consequence consequence of things if he's a rabbi and he wants to be a good Rabbi he has to look at things from a certain perspective where he has to evaluate the consequence of what he's going to say before he says it evaluate the consequence of the of the of the student that he accepts before he starts to teach the student because sometimes there are certain students that you're not allowed to teach them because they're considered laon they considered an unfair student so the rabbi has to do whatever he can to escape the situation and not teach the student there are times where person knows that this student can do better elsewhere he has a certain brain a certain a a certain gift a certain this and the rabbi knows himself he doesn't have it to teach him he doesn't have what this student needs and he'll send him somewhere else he'll send him somewhere else and it's many it's very common to hear Rim that were that had students that would send them to different rabbis to learn specific subjects they still remain their Rabbi but they would send them different places to learn certain things especially people that were committed like lifelong students they would send them to different uh rabbis to learn certain things so the rabbi has to look at things from that perspective and see the outcome of everything and not just see his own self-interest oh if I send him to that Rabbi then he won't come back if I send him to that Yeshiva then he won't come back he'll give them he'll do this he'll do that no no no don't don't think of things that way you have to be the rabbi same thing with with a uh with donations rabbis that look at people purely as a dollar sign they end up being the worst Rabbi in the world why if you start looking at people based on how much money they donate and based on the fact that they donate or not donate and things like that it becomes very very problematic it goes into your brain it goes into your n quite frankly one of the things that I'm trying to eliminate all together is knowing who donates at all like I generally don't look at the donations Al together I look at it once a month how much is the total what do we get what bills we have to pay and that's it I go to the bank uh uh uh only when I need to go pick up mail once a week and you know the million emails that I get from donations I generally don't even look at it sometimes people tell me I donate I did donate quite Frank if I could somehow remove this from my life and not know who donated especially if they donated a lot of money it would be much better why simply I don't want to have it in my head oh this person he donated she donated they donated 10,000 20,000 30,000 this year but I haven't got a donation in a year in a month in a this and a that I don't want to think about stuff like that I don't want to think about Torah I I really feel bad for people that they do this all the time and all day literally they depend on everything and they calculate everything and they look at people based on their donations is a very very sick thing it's horrible and again it's not necessarily their fault why because they have bills to pay a building to build a Yesa to pay for food to eat and so on and so forth but it's a very very big test to try to uh uh communicate with people in a uh in a uh in the right way when you know how much is on the line you have to have a lot of so a has to look at things from a Torah perspective at all times and say wait if I tell him the truth I may lose the donation but he'll go to heaven so I can't look at things just from my perspective I have to look at things from his perspective his interest the same goes as a student the student has to look at things with the consequences in his mind if I invest this much if I do this much if I contribute that much if I uh whatever it is that you're doing you look at the consequences of everything you'll make better decis decisions as a student if I make a joke in the middle of a Shure it may be funny everyone's going to laugh but the seven hours that this that the rabbi invested into preparing this Sho and giving it to us is all going to go into garbage so yeah it's funny but it's not funny you know so if I don't show this you uh I'm going to be missing uh you know a lot it's going to take me x amount of days to catch up and so on and so forth so the more a person wants to be a student the more they start thinking like the here say is having not just a good eye not just be a good friend not just have the uh uh the good neighbor but also look at the consequences of everything that we do look at the consequences of everything that we do last but not least what RAR said at the end which is to uh have this a uh this all encompassing strategy of uh of having a good heart having a good heart this is really what uh all of us should aspire to have at some point but again I emphasize some point not on day one everyone wants to be the teacher for all about all everyone wants to be a g but you have to realize you can't be on day one just like you can't get to loving Hashem on day one everyone has to start with fear of punishment and then eventually if they Merit and work on it to have a eventually have fear of the almighty the allem and then perhaps if they become a huge sadik perhaps even understand what loving hm is and even get to a certain level of loving hem but to think you could just love hem means you don't know anything you don't even know what loving hasem is many times people write me on the internet oh why do you always teach about fear you should teach about loving Hashem if you say things like this it literally shows you've never studied more than a day of toah you don't even know what loving hasem means because love to another person and love to has Worlds Apart as we saw says in that loving other people for the most part is meaningless meaningless it's literally meaningless loving hasem it's the highest level of love that could be that requires all of those steps there's no way of skipping everything the same goes with somebody that just wants to teach everything they want to teach everything they want to write their own they want to say their own they want to write their own books and they just started learning 2 3 4 5 6 seven years ago it's a very serious problem why more times than not the mistakes you're going to make are going to cause more damage than the good you'll produce why because the ego is too big you want to eat the whole pie you don't even know what's in it and it's important for a person to understand that although says yeah I want an all-encompassing strategy of teaching my students the uh uh uh to have a good heart something came something happened in order for him to even think he can do that which is what what I said earlier the previous mishna the previous Mish says the description that ran Zak gives each of his student he tells everybody that each one of his students has a special thing about him butar he is unique even among the unique ones he is unique why he is somebody that if you put all of the sages on one scale and him on the other he'll he supersedes them all why because although all of them are talented all of them are dedicated all of them are smart all of them have unique abilities RAR is unique among the unique why he he is like the spring flowing stronger and stronger what does that mean spring that's flowing stronger and stronger first and foremost you should know that the mid says this is describing Supernatural because a spring the further it spreads after it starts it starts spreading all over the place the impact of the spring deteriorates why because it's bigger and bigger and bigger but the the uh the strength of it slows down because it's affecting a bigger area so to say that he is a flowing spring that gets stronger with time is in essence saying that this guy has speciala he is just getting bigger stronger and his impact is getting bigger stronger and it's no sign of him slowing down so already you see there's something different about him they're all special they're all unique they're all talented but this one there's something different about him there's something miraculous about him and what is it where does it all come from he says says he says this is described as the spring that keeps flowing stronger and stronger because unlike the average person who just listens superficially or the one that's not an average person someone wants to be a student someone wants to be a student he listens but applies only part of it or there's someone that's a good student and he listens and he applies as much as he Poss possibly can and he's a good student an excelling student he listens applies everything possible tries to help wherever he can he says no no there is he not only acts like the best of best students where he listens he engraves into an heart he applies it to his life but he's also mif he's like a river it's not not enough for him what's what's going on he needs more so yeah you said the sh is two hours fine I'm staying for another hour after okay so the learning is what eight hours okay I'm going to learn for another three four hours after the eight yeah but you already learned eight hours what do you need another three or four what do you mean what do I need I need to live he's not he's not content with what he gets he needs even more but not going elsewhere building on the same thing it's the same river it's not going elsewhere he wants to learn you know what he learned a sh he read the book okay let me go back to the old Shing let me read some of the sources let me read some of this let me do this he invests more and more to go and become literally greater and greater he becomes the ciracle he becomes like something that it has no end and he's not one of these people just sits there quietly and just you know yearns like you know whatever he can get whatever I can get that's what he gets again that's not a bad thing but you're never going to be that special person so it all depends on where a person wants to stand in their life do they want to be the special student do they want to be the average person do they want to be somewhere in the middle what do they want to be what do they want to be now many times a person is going to be something different at different times based on their own spiritual State now a person can be very smart very dedicated and still have a missing link that destroys everything in his uh most recent this is one of the wonderful works that he put together into the world is a gift and the reason why I say it's a gift all of his books are gifts is because this book is many of the shim that him and I did together that he taught me like a little baby all of the shim that we learned over the years many of them are in this book so like when I read this book again it's like I'm going back eight years ago nine years ago 10 years ago six years ago all of these stories all of these different things beautiful stuff so on page 45 he brings a very famous story from the and this is also about page 40 75 75a it's a very famous story that uh he was teaching and he said that at the time of mashiach there's going to be a lot of Supernatural things happen a lot of extraordinary things happen more significant than what happened in Egypt with the 10 plagues and so on but also the bet is going to come down and the bet mikdash is going to have Beauty unlike anything else and anyone that learned from the or also talks about the beauty of the mikash the last chapter of says anyone that uh didn't see the uh uh the uh bet mikash that uh Herod uh built never saw a beautiful building anyone who didn't see what it looks like never saw a beautiful building meaning all of the beautiful buildings in the world look ugly next to the BET mikdash and that's not even the most beautiful bet mikdash the most beautiful one was the first one but the point being is is that the beauty of the BET mikdash was unbelievable the third bet mikdash is going to look everything look ugly next to it so much so that the says the doors the doors there very famous stories about the doors of the BET mikdash perhaps we'll tell another time so we don't go off too much the doors of the BET mikdash are each going to be a diamond a huge diamond enormous Diamond a single Diamond not diamonds Diamond each one is going to be an enormous Diamond now one of the in the listening to this acted like some people that are probably listening to the Sho right now with all du respect doubt doubtful a diamond the size 40 feet high 10 feet wide nah no if you find a diamond the size of an egg you're the richest man in the world 40 feet no come on it's a you know Parable it's a parable it's a he's trying to teach you something that didn't really mean that now if it was just somebody today saying that it wouldn't be a surprise there are people that don't even believe that God knows the future there are people that don't believe that God's even here so it's not really a surprise if someone doesn't want to believe that the BET m is going to have such big doors and it's not really surpris if people do believe it because people believe that there is a uh the World is Flat and uh that there's a whole uh you know organization of people that have control of society more than God does New World Order and all types of other nonsense so people are gulli and people don't skeptical so the extremes don't really make belief or lack of belief very valuable in our generation of of ignorance but at the generation of it does have different weight because the students that sat in that yes they're all special people and one of these students didn't like it it didn't jive with him he had a tough time believing it he laugh about it a little bit no come on the rabi is exaggerating yeah probably to you know liven us up give us some uh mystical no way why he says today there's not even a if you find a rock a rock the size of an egg that's a diamond you're the richest man in the world 40 feet 10 fet as you would have it the says one day this student goes out to the Sea and uh storm takes down the boat the boat collapses everything goes under the water as he is under the water he sees the depths of the ocean and then he sees Angels working at the bottom of the ocean on huge massive diamonds and he's able to communicate unate with them I guess through telepathy he says what is this what are you doing and the angels tell him we're uh preparing the uh doors of the bet mikash these diamonds will be the doors of the bet mdash he was saved from the water came back to town and uh went back to the ISA during the next shu that R gave he said something extraordinary and the student says Reby you are theit you have the truth thank you why what where does this come from he says the rebi said that at the time of the bet mikdash the third bet mikdash hashem's going to bring these doors they're going to be diamonds what the rebi said is the truth cuz I saw it he tells him what happened I saw it and what the rabbi said is true now you would think this ra this student would get a standing ovation would get at the very least a sticker or something put his picture next to the rabbi Aban looks at this student and says what I was telling you was not for my own mind what I was telling you is a verse in the Torah verse in by the prophet yesah the prophet Isaiah chapter 54 verse 12 that says that will put these a uh special doors the bet mikdash but you didn't believe the verse that I said until you saw it he Gotan so upset that when raban looked at him saw upset is and turned the student into a bunch of Bones killed him on the spot he died on the spot in front of everybody now you would say wait a minute hold on a second this is a special student first of all if you're in a CL if you're in you're not a fool that's number one second all he's mentioned by name in the any one that's mentioned by name in thear is a very special person a person that can Resurrect The Dead with their prayers three he can see Angels people that I know can see demons because of all of their sins but Angels not so much he can see Angels Angels talk to him this is a holy person why are you upset with him to the point where you killed them practically with your Holiness say be in his says with all of your great things that you have you donated you wrote this you did that you did this you did that all I care about is where's your heart you don't believe it what the truth is you don't believe Hashem you're worth nothing yeah you're a nice guy and you donated this and you went to this and you supported this this and you attended this you don't believe what a wrote zero is your value I don't need you this is what it says a person sometimes will look at things only from their own perspective what have I contributed what have I done fine it's good you contributed it's good you did where's your heart now where is it now what are you doing now don't do things and hold the world hostage for the things you did what are you doing now what's your value now where's your heart now where was your heart when you did it did you did it as a business deal I owe you the rabbi owes you his life the Yesa owes you their life their existence or you did it because you saw this is for the sake of a said I want to bring more to in the world do you want to be my partner you said yes you did it for that good you did it for anything else you worth zero why you did it for the wrong reason you did it for the wrong reason you were never the student you would never the student says those people that invest in this Tora will never lose their time their effort their resources their energy their past their present their future their children their spouse their household everything but again if a person is doing it in such a way where it's like they're expecting and they they're entitled and there's a lot of strings it's like a legal agreement says I don't need this and the blessings don't come we will always do what wants because we believe simply what it says we believe what Torah says that's it says you fulfill my T you're going to get blessing you invest in my T you're going to get blessing you you invest into your you become a good student you become a good rabba you become a good teacher you become a good parent you do all of the things according to the Tora it's worth something you do it any other way it's worth nothing we do it simply just like by simply believing to what is written no questions asked there's no greater winner in the world than you once you start adding conditions and all types of small prints to the Tora or the relationships you have already you're ruining it before it started you may look like a good student you may look like a good Rabbi but in reality that knows what's in your heart knows exactly what to do with it this will encourage those people that are learning to pick up their learning if they truly want to make something out of that learning those people that are teaching to invest as much as they can to make that teaching the best it possibly can can be and teach the things that people need to hear not necessarily want to hear anyone that is investing their life into the T will get the right Partners to be with them through thick and thin each and every one of us learns how to be a person with a good eye a person that's a good friend a person that is a good neighbor and that evaluates the consequences and most importantly achieve the ultimate status of having that good heart good heart is a teacher good heart is a parent good heart is a student we achieve the words of the Torah and it's and have the fruits of our labor in front of our eyes whether it's our children the household students the neighbors the community the nation at large we'll learn all of this we'll apply it to our lives will make proud [Music] a [Music] shom everybody very happy to announce a major event coming up in this event is going to be unlike any other we've done as an organization last year we had a group of young guys that completed the entire sh B and the Mish in a single year this year we're going to have the entire foundation of the oral T completed in a single night uh our own year another of the organization and a single night we'll have the completion of the years and years of toil lots of effort it's coming to fruition and uh in a single night all of it will be completed to sanctify K's name this is going to be a night where many many will be joining us at this event there'll be hundreds and hundreds of people at the event in is including the of course our own very dearon myself will also be joining coming to is for the first time in many years to join this Monumental event this Monumental K in order to sanctify name to show him how much we love his T how dedicated we are to his T and to be able to give another way [Music] we're looking forward for uh this event we're also looking forward to seeing some of you that are going to be joining us there are going to be some sponsorship opportunities for anyone that wants to uh be able to be a part of it and of course there'll be a uh opportunity for any of you that want to join us uh in one way or the other uh last but not least there will also be a raffle that will be uh announcing very soon for anyone that wants to uh join the raffle and also be able to do kiru at the same time the winner of the raffle will win a flight ticket to ER Isel uh and be able to join us at the event so uh please look out for more news looking forward to seeing you at this event and [Music] a [Music] [Applause] [Music]