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I once saw such an amazing insight I'd
like to share with you. Or Gedaliah of
Gedaliah Shaw writes the following. We
find in Parshat Bereishit the creation
of the most important creature, which is
the man himself.
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>> The possuk says "Vayeitzer Elohim
Hashem Elokim et ha'adam." And God
Almighty created the man. The word
"Vayeitzer" has two yuds. [music]
But strangely enough, when it comes to
animals, it says "Vayeitzer" same word
with one yud.
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>> Why is that? Our sages tell us because
a human being has [music] both this
world and the next. An animal only lives
in this world.
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>> So,
the Rav Gedaliah Shaw adds, "What is
What does that mean practically for us?
That person could only live mainly
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for one world. Are you living for this
world
or you live for the next world?
Well, let's see. Let's take a look at
your life.
Are you mostly involved with physical
things for the sake of them? Cuz you
enjoy having luxury cars, big houses,
newest [music] styles,
um
luxurious clothing, and uh going to
restaurants all the time? Is that what
your life is mostly like? Then you are
living like an animal with the yud of
this world. [music] But if you are
primarily living for the next world,
again, there's nothing wrong with
enjoying
um beautiful things and luxurious and
and fancy things as long as you are
mostly living for the next world. What
does that mean? What is your primary
focus?
To get the more out of this world, to
get more pleasure, kaif, this kind of
things? Or you understand that this
world is not really
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>> uh the most important thing. I'm headed
to the next world. I want to do more
mitzvot, I want to learn Torah.
I have to attend shiurim, things like
that.
Then it's okay to have this world as
well. A person really could have both.
But
he He to have a focus on one.
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>> What is the most important thing for
you? Is it this world or the next?
If you subconsciously understand the
next world is more important, but you
kind of living for this [music] world,
that means you're not balanced. It means
you're not really doing what your heart
and your soul tells you. So, how do you
get there? How do you live mostly for
the next world?
It's by learning Torah.
All of what we do comes from our
knowledge, how we understand life, what
we stand to be right and wrong.
Sometimes we think that something is
right, but it's really wrong. Sometimes
we do something we think is is wrong,
it's really
right. So, it depends on how much you
know, how much you understand. For that,
we need to connect ourselves to the
Torah.
