Elul Teshuvah Guide - Day #15 - 'See the good in everything' - Rabbi Alon Anava

[Music] 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 [Music]