Elul Teshuvah Guide - Day #27 - 'Hashem is giving you SO much!' - Rabbi Alon Anava

[Music] in a few days is rosh hashanah and what happens on rosh hashanah is that we all pass in front of hashem everyone jews gentiles animals creatures angels everybody now how do our sages call that kivnemaron what is first of all what we need to understand from that the commentary says that you can't trick yourself out of it everybody goes in front of hashem you can't now wake up late or not show up or think you can some way get away with it nobody gets away with it that's what the term wins keep name alone nobody and i'm saying jews non-jews animals creatures everybody stands in front of hashem in judgment day but another way of explaining kivneron is the commentary explains that these are the sheep that go for masera now what does it mean if i have a lot of sheep and this year i had a thousand new sheep were born then i have to give ten percent from that i have to give a hundred sheep that's a lot a lot of sheep now it's called maser bhema a masel that is brought with an animal now now we don't have sheep but there are in the olden days people had shipped now what happens if you have 10 000 sheep were born you have to give a thousand sheep look at yakovino i told you that story many many times especially around the holiday of chanukah that yakov had six million sheep and he had to give six hundred thousand sheep as a masera now that's pretty hefty amount now what's interesting here is how do you give marcel a sheep i gave that story a few times with yakov i'm just going to tell you quickly how do you give them a sale with the sheep is that you put all the sheep in one fence fenced area and then you have like a little corner that only one ship at a time can go and you open the door and one sheep goes and then you start pushing all the sheep and you start counting one two three four five six seven eight nine then number ten passes and up you color the sheep with some paint and you know that sheep is the master the tenth that's how you give them assault with the sheep okay the point is that not that only one ship can go at a time not two at a time okay with that said i'm going to share with you quickly a story there's a certain rabbi a very great rabbi his name is eliezer gordon who died about a hundred plus years ago big big big rabbi had a lot of yeshivat i believe it towards the end of his life he lived in london but anyways uh he used to go fundraising even though it's not so appropriate for the rabbit to go fundraising but he had to go fundraise to sustain the egypt one time he came to a very rich person and he came and told him i'm gathering money for shiva the rich person told him how much money do you want me to give so rabbi gordon said you know a very large amounts whatever it was in the cars it's like me going out to somebody saying half a million dollars half a million dollars why so much so the rabbi told him because he rich he says because i'm rich i have to give so much money so he tells him let me let me tell you a story and he says he's he was asking the rich person when they give maser with the sheep why are they doing it one sheep at a time let's say i'm rich and i have ten thousand new sheep and i have to give a thousand sheep isn't it easier just to go and say one two three five seasons count a thousand and give them over why don't they do that why do they have to make the system that you put all the sheep in one gated area and then you make a little corridor and one by one has to go and only one at a time isn't it easier just to count a thousand and give them over so it says no when you're making this little corridor and you're passing the sheep one two three four five and then you get to nine and then tenth you mark and you say oh one is for shim you know what you're thinking nine i keep one i give to hashem not a big deal only one may give them nine i get to keep if you had to give a thousand in one shot how am i gonna get give a thousand one shot that's too much so they do them ourselves that you count ten nine you keep to yourself you're saying well listen i get to keep ninety percent one i only give to hashem so psychologically it's not so easy not so hard to give them a sale now when you counting nine one two three four five six seven eight nine you think wow look how much would an abundance hashem is giving me if you just give them one one shot you don't see the abundance but when you're counting one two three you're realizing the abundance the shaffer that hashem is giving to you now you understand wait a minute i'm only giving to hashem 10 it's not a lot it's not a lot so he told him when you giving when i'm coming and telling you give me x amount it sounds a lot to you but look at how much you already got look at the chef that you already got and this is something that we want to take to consideration is that sometimes we feel that we have to give hashem a lot wake up early in the morning three times a day to pray pray when i eat pray when i go to sleep give money learn torah do this don't do that one can say wait a minute i'm giving so much here it's too much but when you're looking at it from a completely different way especially on rosh hashanah how we're being judged one after the other it's for you to understand the abundance that hashem is giving you especially in rosh hashanah don't come and complain saying i didn't get this i didn't get married i didn't get paranasad i didn't do this i didn't do that you constantly have to have in the back of your mind the abundance that hashem is giving you and the way to have the abundance is to count everything that you have i have health my eyes can see i have teeth i can chew i have teeth my fingers work my legs work i can breathe i have both lungs that are breathing constantly focus on the abundance that hashem gives you when it comes to rosh hashanah you're being judged and you're in the back of your mind you're appreciative of the abundance that hashem is giving you you're going to be judged just the same way with the with appreciation with gratefulness don't look how much i have to give to hashem look how much hashem is giving me and when you focus on how much hashem is giving you and you see how much abundance you get to give a little bit to hashem it's not such a big deal you give whatever amount it is and if somebody comes and tells you give me a thousand dollars i need to pay for orphans i need to feed poor people i need to hold my sustain my yeshiva give me a thousand dollars give me two thousand dollars you say wait a minute two thousand dollars sounds a lot but how much hashem gave me she gave me 300 000 this year what what's 2 000 it's nothing it might come to you in one shot so you know what's the best thing to do when it comes to charity don't give it in one shot say okay i'm going to give now payments three hundred dollars every month and eventually will be three thirty six hundred dollars the whole year whatever it is what you constantly have to have in your mind is not how much you have to give to hashem is how much hashem is giving you and especially you want to adopt this attitude before rosh hashanah when you're coming and standing in front of hashem by saying don't say to hashem hashem i need to make money hashem i need to get married said thank you so much you gave me so much this year so much you gave me i'm so grateful i'm so humbled by what you gave me trust me that's going to make hashem want to give you 10 times more than what you really need so always remember how much hashem is giving you not how much you need to give [Music] share