Rabbi Reuven Kigel - Elul

okay hello everyone I'm standing here the beautiful Emmett at aph educate and Empower World Center in Beautiful Queens New York So today we're talking about Rosh Hashanah now Rosh Hashanah is probably you know arguably one of the most important days of the year we have two days actually that we have so much determined on that day that we need to get ready and that's what we've been doing in this whole month and it's never too late to get ready you know even the night before I don't want to procrastinate but if you have to even then just get ready get mentally ready now let's determined that Rosh Hashanah besides everything is how much money we make for the year okay and whatever you're supposed to make for the year is actually determine Rosh Hashanah now there's a caveat there if you will in uh in one of our good mornings called day or a pizza where they discuss all young and children all holidays it says the following thing Eerie what it says it says that all your paranasa all your uh wages are determined on Rosh Hashanah besides what you spend on Chavez and Shabbat what you spend on yongtov uh the holidays what you spent on tamla Torah and learning Torah if you send your kids Toshiba or whatever and the commentators also say also what you spend on Roche Cottage so we have to figure out first of all what polish means and second of all how all this works so basically if you can believe it any of you that know anything about accounting there's something called a flexible spending account okay so the more you spend the more you just put in that account the less you spend the less that put get gets put into that account now can you imagine Hashem is saying hey hello I'm giving you guys a flexible spending account anything you spend on Shabbos anything you spend on YouTube anything you spent on tour education and Rose quarters which really means for the men out there anything you spend on your wives those things flexible spending account you get the hundred dollar stake for Shabbat so then you get an extra hundred dollars you get the 20 take on Shabbat you get an extra twenty dollars whatever you spend Hashem is going to take care of it now does that mean you should go like wild and buy up you know these stores I don't know maybe if you have the guts why not I try not to take advantage of hashem's uh you know kindness but Hashem certainly has all the money in the world so that is uh something that we really should think about anything you spend on child is books anything of that nature and for the men out there on your wives the ladies if you're listening so the men anything you spent on it just say look close for that or my wife like a wise man once told me I'm going to tell you the story in a moment uh then it's not taken away from anything you make for the year you actually have a flexible spending account now you want to hear something really cool you can't make this stuff up if you the month of tishray which is the month of Rosh Hashanah falls into so that there's four letters of that month uh tough Shin raised renewed that spells tissue now let's look at the acronyms of that the ratio tables so tough time Latoya shin Shabbos so there's a hint in the month itself that everything besides those things by taken out of are not are taken out of what you made for the year but those four things the more you spend the more you get so carte blanche this is amazing what's better than a flexible spinning cap from a chef now I want to tell you guys a story now I heard the story first hand so it's not like I heard from someone from someone I read in a book no I heard the story first hand okay a young man married guy wants to you know buy the house and him and his wife looked at different things they said you know what let's get a two-family home that way we can rent the top of the house and we don't have to worry about so much the mortgage it'll be easier whatever okay great so then the couple homes in a house they have a couple little kids somewhere on the way so let me find a nice home and it could be converted into two family pretty easily and said oh this is it this is good it's a little bit too big for us and like just you know as a one family but your family is going to be great now no sooner is the contract signed then the wife says hey I was thinking you know I don't really want people living on top of us and you know we're you know hopefully we're gonna have even more kids so let's just keep it as a one family now the husband you know husbands are the husband is like I almost saved by the phone bill over here the husband says hey but we we can't really afford this home it's a little bit too big for us let's let's you know let's keep it as a true family no one family no two family no one family true family we can't afford it now husband and wife mother really arguing but they're certainly not agreeing after two weeks of like this you know in passe the husband tells me they decided they had an idea what are we gonna do we're gonna go to our Rabbi right now they went to a very wise Rabbi because the rabbi must have known this gamara so the rabbi told them hey guess what Mr Husband anything you spend on your life Hashem of your back to you you don't have to worry about it and the husband said really and Bradley said yes but just say la Fortis which means for the honor of my wife that's why I'm getting all this stuff so husband's like okay the Rabbi says let's go they made into one family home obviously to spend renovation whatever but full of a fool now Ten Years Later sometimes these stories take a long time to develop Ten Years Later the whatever bank had their secondary mortgage send them a letter out of the blue they said hey we have some good news for you we forgave you for your home equity line of credit just like the gamar says just like this Rabbi said everything that he spent on the house the footage for his wife's honor not taken out just forgiven out of the blue Monash Miracle story I heard it firsthand have a great Rosh Hashanah May a chance see us all in the Book of Life may we see mashiach this year and may we remember that anything we spent on Torah on Shabbos meaning on your wife and on young 12th is not taken out from your expenditures