Reeh - Alacrity and Laziness

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with Ari Gold wag recorded with oceans never-ending assistance in Rome a pajama she's real 57 79 2019 this week's far as partial a and at the very beginning of our parsha the terror tells us where a a 1919 if Nehemiah I'm Braco coma behold I'm placement for you today a blessing and a curse if we choose good if we choose to go in a way that God prescribes for us so then we experience the blessings and they've have him forbid which was to step away from the Torah to step away from God so then we experienced khloe's we experience these curses I like to share with you a most beautiful beautiful peaceful mermaid of a high in the introduction to our shop and he quotes from Mitchell a he quotes from King Solomon in Proverbs who says some amazing things about our free will been a free choice and he speaks about specifically the idea of the hot sell the lazy person as opposed to the person who's ready and willing to accomplish to do things spiritually and for his par NASA for his livelihood he quotes the puck it's initially chapter 20 verse form a clarified cell Leo Koresh when a lazy person is in the wintertime so he will not go and do her Isha he will not plow his field mashaallah cuts your vine and it will come to the time of the the cuts here which is when they would cut the cut down all of the crops and gather the crops so there won't be anything there why because he was lazy in the time when was the time to plow if a person doesn't put an effort at the beginning so in the end they will not receive anything so here I read to you and I quote to you from Robina Mahesh I'm a medical of a Shaolin Dourif dorosch miss a permission levar I'll call her meet us at Thomas so King Solomon he was trying to teach us a general principle when it comes to all of the good Meadows the good character traits that a person is to have this radical other men Amita some ago noise in order that a person distance themselves from the negative character traits which by the way the gras says in mich lay that the entire purpose the entire reason that a person is on this earth is in order to overcome his bad mythos in order to overcome his negative character traits so King Solomon of course was on the same bandwagon or I should say the girl was on the same bandwagon as his King Solomon and he told us that we need to distance ourselves from negative character traits he's Caravela Camus days and bring ourselves close to the good character traceable Alamitos has rhesus hats law now what is the general principle or what is a the big adult what is the general idea of the negative me the negative character trade versus a positive character trait at Sloss the concept of laziness and not being willing to be to do things not being interested in forward movement which by the way is not really a Jewish trait but it's something that we need to look out for as opposed to this rhesus resources haste willingness to take on projects willingness to accomplish and both in spirituality and in gosh meanness as well in the physical realm the fusion me this I absolutely sure shouldn't snuck in here baby see you look Amish Eilis laziness is something which causes a tremendous amount of problems in the world you shuttle a very short super cool figure out so panache I since I read about high now a person can be lazy when it comes to his house there's gonna be lazy when it comes to his physical body and first thing can be lazy when it comes to his soul a little bit tired over myth say so my spent item and personally be lazy when it comes to fulfilling the commandments to fulfilling the Taira learning Torah and fulfilling good deeds doing good deeds he shuts up a base a system and Mahad is a person who is lazy in his home he mishit start attacking ticker of a visa even sac nano me a Duke all the talking abouts but some Weta's unless a person has a problem there's a leak in the roof so he takes care of it right away so you can you can fix it it doesn't cost that much because the problem hasn't gotten so big yet the at Silver Dollar yes Rachel bye so she started seeking money Archie your chiavari shurima the person waits and waits and waits and he's lazy doesn't take care of things right away he's not a Zuri's so then what can happen is that the prom can get worse and worse and worse until the result will be that it will take a tremendous amount in order to fix the problem it will cost him a lot of money he'll end up being poor azam azam about so teii me ma I'm incorrect there through laziness the roof caves in that's King Solomon in Proverbs actually I'm sorry sin coelus it's in Ecclesiastes he tells us this deep truth and it's not just true about one's home yes I still give it a goof boy it comes to a person's body in Ystad a lot I mean on a GU favorite circle inside myself if a person is involved in his livelihood taking care what needs to be taken care of right so the years of mihalko be a strictly happy 90 interestingly he says first let's have the right attitude not just in regards to taking on being willing to do the things that are necessary in order to earn one's livelihood but also in terms of having the right outlook when it comes to how much the person has person needs to be mustafa kemal or me stopping baby no any to be happy with you don't have to have a lot of things but leave Aakash am i sir she's not trying to get all the luxuries and all the extra things that often a person would like to have as you Coliseum so such a person will be able to attain them he means the otso behan but if he's lazy if he incorporates symptoms up or allows himself the quote luxury of Utz loose or laziness oh yeah even cloudy doesn't think about them he is my colonies interestingly if he depends on a miracle Yama's perhaps so such a person will die of starvation now this is not to say that's not possible for a person to have be talking with Lisa which we've spoken about many times be talking with Irish novelist there is such a thing and there is such a thing as being semicolon ace but that's where you see them that's for individuals who are on a very high level perhaps they're focusing all their efforts on their Torah learning on their spiritual progress their teaching whatever it is such people have a unique ability to be some economists depend on a Shems grace but the regular person which is who is - who me speaking so we can't be sign makan the next we can't depend per se on a miracle okay so there has to be an aspect of his resist of willingness of haste well Zi Marshall Malik lava Shalom King Salman said miss Ave not sure also right a person who who is lazy and he has desires so he's not gonna get what his soul desired he's not gonna get what he wants yay shots of a knife show a there's also somebody who is lazy when it comes to his spiritual attainments Kalama shots of attacking me they sell what is the spiritual attainment interestingly I've been a Baha'i defines it as somebody who's working on his character if you shine nefesh with me they say Hawk you demon had done an amazing thing he says just a beautiful muscle a beautiful understanding of what it means to work on what's character he says that it's comparable to working the earth Kashima shadow metoya methyl a way of it just like you find that there are some pieces of earth that the ground is good it's easy to work in HIV Akasha there sometimes a harder you have hard earth it's harder to work of became you know I meet circle I Nicoli laughs Sid she's throught some nice fish a geezer alfie Boe person shouldn't leave it even if it's harder to work that earth it's his piece of land right it's the land that he was given Dom gave him so he's got to work it to the best of his ability el océano book if he chronically he has to work his hardest as much as he can Salmonella Michele I'm Thomas Ravenel after I was about Marcus somebody who is lazy in his work so he's considered a brother to the destroyer came in a fuk ice so - it is when it comes to the souls eh nefesh toilet to Kabul are mostly romantic office some people have the ability to if if they want to work on themselves and someone tells them they need to work on this particular character trader they've done a certain thing wrong they receive it they're open to it they're not they're not as we call the snowflake generation that can't receive any and they took off like that can't receive any moisture can't receive any direction in life la Tamil they don't work why're tremendous amount of effort eh nova scotia lenita lima ha ha sa ho there are some people with much harder than more resistant to change the more resistant to hearing that they've done something wrong and those people it's much harder for them to follow after their intellect them were drawn by their desires and by their physical the the the lower part of themselves Gustavo mo but sequin me this not shy Omaha IV with must say if such a person nevertheless works on themselves and continues just like a person who has a hard piece of land they work on themselves they work on that piece of land in Suffolk she I'm she kinda mad mad allow me to say Thomas he says a tremendous foundation an idea of working on meters working on character traits how does a person do it if they have a lot of resistance to it very slowly a little bit at a time Shiva says it he says you know take on something if you want to take on something new let's say where we're coming into coming into ll now so we're getting ready for Rosh Hashanah we want to show Hashem that we want to change we want to be greater we want to be better right so we want to take on something new you want to become stronger in our commitment talk of the sparkle to God we want to in our commitment to learning Torah or whatever it is take on something but have it make it half make it smaller as a person wants to say Ashiatsu everyday was tough on you every all over the breakfast our she got sir maybe say just just five times or three times I should say with qivana or maybe it's saying whatever it might be saying the first Brock love of Sean Esterly come on whatever it is make it smaller make it smaller take it on a little bit at a time right we're all naturally especially today we live in a generation which is naturally resistant to change and to being open to hear about any faults we might have but despite that we have an obligation to do so it's a change to listen to try to hear okay so when it comes to the English Taliban but a mile between me the snap shake I'm al Habib ed must say if a person tries Matt Matt like we said sure slowlyslowly small mound Alameda sativus leaning and reaching for good me those for good character traits Oslo Mahalo Mahalo and that this King Solomon says I'll suddenly shuttle Avari about kerim autumn huzzah relief that he passed by the field of a person who is lazy and a vineyard of a person who was missing hearts who shelah Teva Lozada so he's giving us an example of this idea he's heating up some muscle an analogy to a field let me show me Tallis a corner because the field is the result of a person's physicality it's it's the physical aspect of a person's reality Malayan Egon okeroa benefit I've al d'arco if a person allows the desires that he has to take charge to take him over and to go on its way you know mash is who Fibonacci so the result will be that he will destroy his soul you'll destroy his body right so if a person follows after the natural desires without reigning them in it's just like I was thinking you know it's just like an animal in captivity last week I went with my family to the zoo and we see all these animals and they're amazing in a beautiful and animals in captivity live much longer than animals in the wild and the reason is because people are taking care of them in the same way if we rein in if we bring our physical selves so to speak into captivity which is giving the proper direction the proper boundaries that are healthy and normal for a human being as the Torah prescribes for us so then by doing that so we have a much greater chance of having a having great longevity both physically and spiritually they all together I'm fond of Nehru so this is the idea that the stone fences were destroyed that King Salman refers to the fact that he passed by this field the person wasn't taking care of himself not physically not spiritually and such a person if you allows the boundaries to be destroyed so then the results speak for themselves yay shot cemetary over mid-sized oh my some time now we can also speak about the idea of Atlas the idea of laziness when it comes to fulfilling the commandments doing good deeds name of them inside to become a satire of an entire a permissive license item all these things what I want to share with you here what I see from the Rabanne about hi is that in every small area of our lives whether it's our physical selves whether it's our health whether it's our spiritual cells than working on the meters whether it's the commandments learning Torah all of these areas there's a choice that's in front of us ranae and I Kinnison left nakum I am Bronco there's blessings and there's curses if a person chooses the right way if a person chooses and the way he's setting it up chooses between laziness and activity willingness haste misery Zeus so when it comes to midst of some ice inside of him if a person is lazy when it comes to studying Torah of an inert or a permissive my some time about enemas that and he doesn't work and try to fulfill good deeds in this world but Maggie's cannot Shah Baba what's gonna be in the world to come Mizell shall rubicon and this is what the verse says over here McLaren Auto logic Rishabha Kostyra ayan the person who is lazy so what happens is so they spend their time in this world which is called the if he's gonna explain why I'm chef as a continues I don't know if we'll read at all but this world is called the f it's called the winter because it's a time of spiritual darkness it's a time when it's hard to work the earth but it's the time to plow if you plow now in the winter you'll be able to plant stuff and then you'll be able to reap the benefits later on but if a person doesn't do that so what happens that's this verse in initially in the winter the the lazy person does not plow you're sure that customer I know when it comes to the time to reap he's going to say hey where's the results and the results of course are natural natural repercussions of the things that he's done before or eyes not done before okay your name Archaea it's Elena mishit al-al'ama sheets turquoise his mansion royalist alibi the person who's lazy person who isn't focused the person who doesn't have the goals the spiritual goals so what happens he doesn't work in the time when it's the appropriate time the himself colossal of a Sadashiva Vita Dhamma each time King Solomon compares the person who is lazy to somebody who is working the field-show whoo-yah of battle bahar if he sits in his lazy in the winter shoes monetarily Akash which is the time of ploughing he Nick doesn't plow him sha-la-la-la shoes man I'm jealous a lavona ba ba shoe occur him Sheila the kites she wanna show us a Shemesh interestingly beautifully he says that this world is the time which is referred to or is analogous to the winter right all right that's the time when it's it's the time to plow the world to come when we reap the benefits of all that we've done in this world right the the times mushiya to give us amazing ba ba which father said all these things what happens it's when we receive the benefits we reap the benefits we recognize all that we've accomplished through our efforts working on me this working on our character traits learning Torah doing good deeds all these things change us bring the light of Hashem into our lives such that it will shine in an amazing way in the world to come okay but it's only possible it's only possible to get there to that summer that's what he refers to as a summer because that's when the sun is shining strong right that's the time that we're speaking about okay so that's the basic idea that's a general principle and I'd like to read to you I'm not gonna read the whole piece but it will reach you just from the very end of it he says like this Mohini and it comes out Amy this has rhesus you called em lipnitskaya I'm Isaiah through the character trait of Cerises of haste of of willingness to accomplish which is by the way as we said before a Jewish mita we're very interested in accomplishing we're very interested in effecting the world in a positive way through that neither of Jesus so then person will be able to acquire the world to come Mima at Schley u-haul I've seen them but if a person is lazy they can lose out in Missouri this new car look nice guy llama ba mi add slop see them and if that's the case I'm sorry with visa so a person can know what am I doing here wrong let me read this again be Hina in me this has visas you call them lick next I love my Z me my Astley a Coliseum okay the first thing he says is that you can acquire this world as rhesus its natural you know you want to get something done you give it to a busy person right when a person has to meet ups resist are willing to accomplish so then they can accomplish in this world right that's the first thing this thing is what we said when it comes to their own but when it comes to acquiring what to come if a person is lately lazy they lose out in me this has visas the camera mitzvahs if a person is Zahra sees he's full of haste he's ready to accomplish you can fulfill the commandments yeah give him a high in Vittorio what is the result a person gets life the person gets good and a person gets blessing a mots la la la vamos sur avec la what's the result of laziness the the negative character traits of a person the result is he experienced his death he produces evil experiences curses Cherie was just a surly about cold toilet be arrested serving an amazing thing foundational idea which of course we know to be true instinctively but our our society to a certain extent rejects every person has the ability to choose between good and bad as this verse tells us Hashem gives us the choice between life and death between blessings and curses we all have a choice to choose between Jesus the meter of series the character trait of willingness to accomplish and the character trait of Atlas of laziness Libby Hall had varam he musubi other losses Deborah every person has the ability it's in each person's hand to choose between good and evil Tommy Lee Bravo toi avec la la jara Zosia Omar and therefore the blessings will come for good and the curses will come for evil that's what the verse means ray and Afghanistan with Nikolay game Bronk Lala behold unpleasant for you today lessons in the curses I want to bless you and ask you to bless me back a shrimp should help us to incorporate into ourselves this idea the idea of xeresa the idea of working on our character traits incorporating that willingness that excitement which the vena bhai promises us the entire promises us if we have excitement in our in our gosh - in our livelyhood areas we have the excitement in the areas of rawness of spirituality of working on our character had that excitement in the areas of learning Torah and fulfilling the mrs. Arshad the commandments of God and of course of course Hashem will give us unending blessings the so much for listening wonderful Shabbos this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www.gfi.com/webmonitor [Music]