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Elul Teshuvah Guide - Day #15 - 'See the good in everything' - Rabbi Alon Anava
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fifteen day over noon very interestingly
again Schottky TiVo always falls on a
loan we're always going to read parashat
get a vote in a rule and the main theme
of this parasha is the curse and the
blessing and we're going to be reading
here a bunch of curses and when you read
the curses you find it very hard to find
the blessing in them and of course many
of the commentary says no the curses
they just look like curses but really
they're blessing now when you actually
read the actual curses you say I don't
see any blessing here and the Shamir
ahem what it says in the curve in the
curses here but nevertheless or say just
say that you can see the blessing in the
cursing now comes a question how do you
see a blessing in a curse that as an
explanation can be found in the middle
she specifically can be found in Midrash
and parashat who cut well it says me
tend to home itamae who can give
something pure that comes out of
something impure now the answer is a
hard world only one can do that and
that's of course is the collage beholder
collage beaucoup is able to take
something pure out of something that is
completely impure why cause if of
created both of them collage the who
created the pure and the impure
psychological can take a pure out of an
impure and the Midrash gives two
examples one of them is of Avraham Haim
came out from Terra tariff is a Idol
worshipper it was a mean wicked a
horrible person and vomiting who came
out of the devil so you see how after ho
something pure can come out from
something impure also the Midrash says
Olam haba the world to come the world to
come is only purity there's nothing
impure there but how do you get to Allah
mama you have to come to this world this
world is the corridor
to the world to come so you have to come
to a world of impurity in order to go
pure into the world to come so seemingly
many things around us is impure or a
curse in my life now I get to give you a
live example from Friday and you can
barely move my back is killing me
one might say what a curse kadosh Babu
is punishing you I heard all the
versions already in the last week sham
is punishing you Hashem is cleaning you
before or Shoshanna a shame is this your
shame is that like as if everybody's a
spokesman of a shame but nevertheless
one can easily say this is like a curse
but if it's coming from the collage
Rahul cannot be a curse can only be a
blessing so seemingly one something can
look like a curse something can look
like in viewer but nevertheless anything
that looks like a curse or impure hasn't
its secret power in its hidden and this
hidden power is the baha there's not
such a thing that something evil comes
from shaman and I already neshama and
that's what our sages say that evil
cannot come or bad cannot come from the
heavens so really the curse so to say
that I see in my life is hidden inside
of it a big Baha
big blessing so curse can be many thing
up to marry a person can say I don't
have livelihoods that don't have power
on Assad that's a curse or hospice a
Roma can get married I don't have kids
or or health issues many things are
happening in our life and we see it as a
curse from the Kailash before but really
the curse so to say the how we see it is
just something that is covering the baha
the blessing how because anything that
comes from the world above is holy and
everything that comes from the world
above is what's called lofty and
spiritually higher and in order for it
to come down to the world that it has to
ascend from its high place and there is
a
that whatever comes from a mammal amalia
with Matamata whatever comes from the
highest place when it comes down to this
world it will reach the lowest of all so
when you see something low in this world
it's only because its essence its
originating from something very high for
example take this brick wall behind me
imagine now someone will somehow pull
push the wall down
so the bricks that are all the way on
the top will fall the furthest away and
the bricks down here will fall very
close same same idea whatever comes from
a highest place when it falls it falls
to the lowest of all now when it comes
to this world since it's coming from
such a hole low place a high place then
when it comes low it seems like a very
strong light you know when something
when the light is too strong it blinds
you if you've turned the lights on in a
nice intensity a good intensity then it
lights up the room turn it up too much
it's already blinding you you can't look
at it that's the idea that it comes down
from such a high place that it looks
like it's something actually very bad or
the opposite of a blessing how because
the same rules mama la mulana film a la
mota whatever comes from the highest
place will fall to the lowest place and
in order for something very lofty to
come down into this low low world then
it has to have a little bit from the
lowest world in order to relate with it
so I will see something in a very
negative way but really there's a hidden
blessing in it I just have to figure
that out now same thing when I look at
something like a curse it's the same way
same idea that the blessing is coming
from such a high price that when it
comes down it looks like a curse now the
only thing is that it cannot be dressed
in human comprehension then I see it as
something that very negative so again no
need to give too many examples but many
things in our life they look like a
curse
look like something bad we can't
understand it in our physical mind but
nevertheless behind it is hidden
something very very special the thing we
need to understand from this is that we
have a commandment from the Torah that
we have to serve a symbol simcha we have
to serve a symbol simcha and why do
things don't go well into our direction
a commercial Avada the shamisen
habitable above the only reason why
negative things happen in your life is
because you didn't serve Hashem who is
happiness will be simpler we have a
commandment on the Torah that we have to
even do it assemble simcha since I don't
serve a shamisen hah that's if a shame
wants to ha special ohm I don't learn I
want to use the word curse or punish but
if Kadosh but once to teach me a lesson
or something or punish me or something
bad comes it's only because they're in
server ship with sin class this is what
the Torah says a commercial Robert Emmet
a Shem may seem habitable above since
you didn't serve a ship with a clear
good heart and Simkin happiness that's
why it happened to you which means that
I have to serve a shamba simcha and beat
the horn with a lot of trust and a and
security and since I don't do that
there phone come a cursing into my life
now we have to understand that when
Hashem wants to bless us even he gives
us this Baha this Sheva when it comes
down to the world it has to go through
all the worlds then right away the
prosecution will come and say whoa whoa
where is this going - like customs
you know before custom the server a
shipment comes into the country the
customs come and stop it where what is
this where is it going - what's the
value of it if it has value we're gonna
tax you on that so the same idea when
I'm back on a blessing comes to the
world then the mccottry game the
prosecutors they stop and say what is
this who's getting it why is that person
getting it I didn't see him in the
minion today and then seem do such good
things and then lately why is he getting
such a maja so they can Oscar who covers
the Baha like you want to smuggle
something into our country you cover it
you don't want the customs to see Kalash
bajo wants to smuggle a behind to the
world so he covers it with
something that looks like a curse it
looks evil or looks bad so the
prosecution says okay whatever you can
you can pass it now when a person
decides to serve a shiv Basim cloud and
to have a lot of trust to a shape that
he sees the behind what happens if a
person chooses says I will take
everything with a smile
everything that happens I will say Boko
share it's coming from the kailash mahal
then you're able to see in everything in
your life how is there a blessing in
there not only that you see the
potential of the situation so you look
at something bad that's happening into
your life right away you can see the
good in it and and not only that the
potential from it and I don't want to
start a psychoanalyzing any little thing
but just to give a very quick example so
Thursday night my back started hurting
Friday night I couldn't move
Shabbat I barely moved I was supposed to
go to Jerusalem to a lecture on Sunday
and a big lecture on Sunday and only
that a few other things and to top it
all I mean we were planning my wife and
me to go to the lecture together and the
night before the person was organizing
the lecture says if the rabbi would like
to stand in wash line we can organize a
room for him and his wife in the world
of my wife and me were like that that
would be a nice way to finish the the
stain you wash a lime nevertheless so we
said okay let's see how she feels in the
morning and let's see how I feel in the
morning she started going into the labor
already in the on Shabbat so she was
like okay you go now imagine if I
wouldn't have my back pains I would go
now what's gonna happen my wife goes
into labor and I'm three hours away from
here so the calash people says you're
not going anywhere
I'll keep you here now we don't have to
go anywhere yeah okay so you'll have a
little bit of stretching in your back
okay has to be must be something much
greater than that I can tell you now
they just commemorated the tragedy in
America their 9/11 how many stories you
hear about a person that lost the train
lost the Garter late to the to the plane
there whatever something happened and
they were saying
times something horrible happens in your
life you don't see the baha here kadosh
book is now stopping you is grounding
you is there preventing you from doing
something and you are being saved from
something huge that you will never even
figure out how and what a sham is doing
in the background so the trick here is
to serve a sham by simcha something
happens then you ride away you take it
as as they say with a grain of salt
everything is good and when you serve a
shamba simcha and you're trusting that a
Shem is doing everything that he does
it's good for you then you're able to
see the good in your life so what we
want to take from that that in
everything bad in this world is hidden
something huge in it you just have to
figure out how to reveal it I'll give
you one example out of many the best
thing that can happen to us as as a
nation or even as a mankind is the
coming of Messiah this is gonna be the
biggest blessing this world that this
planet has has ever seen now where did
Machir come from if you will go back all
the way back
where did my chef come from he came from
forbidden relations when lot had
relations with his daughter it came from
the destruction of stone so lot had to
ran away from them then act of
immorality was done but that's where
mushiya was where it originates from so
one can look at such a disaster and say
look what a bad thing happened yeah but
from that is birth maybe many
generations later but it's birth the
coming of Messiah so everything that is
bad or evil there's a lot and a lot of
good hidden in it and usually something
the better the worse it is the greater
their word is hidden in there is
something huge so yeah what we want to
take from that that's a big part of our
job because most people complain all day
long how are you
how Spanish ah what's going on with you
you know this is not working out that's
not working out I went on a date with
this girl I liked her she doesn't want
to marry me whatever it is everybody's
complaining another
everybody but many people clutching
instead of that a big part of our job is
to say but wash-n-go Hashem this didn't
work out but I have that that didn't
work out or shim saved me from something
ten years ago and we had a business and
we're used to run a business
every time I wouldn't get a certain
customer now we'll get so happy ever
tell me why is so happy I said because
the shrimp saved me a big headache with
this customer if I would somehow force
to get this deal I will get a headache
from them either a lawsuit or loss of
money or bad reputation whatever it is
if Hashem made that this I'm not getting
this deal but Shem saved me from a big
headache so you know the Baal Shem Tov
says something very interesting he says
if you serve a Simba simcha constantly
by simcha and everything that happens
you have beat a horn and Trust in a sham
even and if you see the good in
everything even if you don't deserve
something a sham will transform it that
you do that you get it
that's what about Shem Tov says
everything will transform into good so
what do we want to take from that we
want to take from that a big part of our
raw data shame and a huge part of our
Chuba to serve a shrimp is inclined to
be grateful and to be happy you know
when a ship wants to punish somebody you
know what he does he doesn't necessarily
put him through agony of torture rather
Shem takes from you than me gotta be the
Horn where she wants to punish something
somebody that's really doing it takes
away you'll beat the horn then you don't
have any trust in a shame then
everything becomes bad and then you see
everything bad and then you have no hope
and then the biggest present that we can
see is see the good in everything now
the more you apply the joy and the
happiness in your elbow not a shame and
something bad happens you smile
something doesn't work a world and your
way you joy you rejoice Nana Shem
already transformed even what you don't
supposed to get you all ready yet but
nevertheless that's how you're able to
see the behind everything so what do we
want to take from that is that
constantly you have to be busy maja and
you have to see everything simcha means
to be in happiness and to see the good
in everything when you start applying
that then you see the
everything will start transforming into
good you see the good in everything
because if something seems to you bad
and you are focusing on the bad then
that's what's going to happen and when
you're focusing on the potential what
can be from that then a shim will reveal
to you how good it was a big part of our
Java is very simple order a commandment
if you do it the shim be sing hava tune
above server sham with simcha with a
good pure heart and you'll see that a
shim is gonna reveal all the good in
your life that everything that happens
to in your life is actually good that's
where you see the colosseo who is taking
care of you he has your back and
needless to say exactly what the baal
shem tov says that even if you don't
deserve something a sham will transform
it to be something positive and hoarding
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