Why peace comes before blessing | Rabbi Khaimov Michael #torah

There was a couple, we'll call them Khaviv and Orura. They came before the rabbi, and they said, "Rabbi, I don't think we're going to make it." And the rabbi said, "What do you mean?" They said, "We don't want to stay together." Why not? Because we're having financial issue, financial problems. The rabbi said, "Oh, I'm sorry to hear. Maybe somebody lost a job." They said, "No, nobody lost a job. We're both working, working overtime, but for whatever reason, we're not able to to have any success. That means our money at the end of the month, it just disappears on us, and we're having financial trouble." So the rabbi after speaking to them he picked up but he said tell me about your marital harmony your peace in your home. So they said actually that's a sensitive topic because for about a year now we've been getting into frequent quarrel frequent problems in the house and uh it's not so peaceful and the rabbi said I want to teach you something. The says if you want to have blessing in your home you want to have parasa in your home that's all dependent on one secret and that's called shalom peace. David writes in shalom. We have to seek shalom and we have to chase after shalom. It's not enough just to want shalom. We have to chase because he gets in our way. It's an opposite force that comes against us. And the only way we can overcome that is by working very hard by chasing after peace. You know at the end of our blessing we say shalom. The question is why does shalom come at the end of the blessing? So our rabbis give a beautiful parable. They say that if you have a medicine, sometimes you have sweet liquid and on the bottom you have a powder. If you drink the medicine without shaking, you're not going to get the desired effect. So what has to happen is you need to shake the medicine to get the powder to go all over and thereby you're able to get that desired effect from the medicine. So too at the end of our we make the shalom. That's the powder at the bottom that mixes with the entire amid and brings blessing and is able to keep our blessing. So the lesson for today is that we must maintain that shalom and we should all experience shalom and bara. Amen.