Ep 08:HOW CAN ONE RELY ON STRIVING FOR MORE WITHOUT KNOWING IF IT IS FOR HIS BENEFIT?

[Music] welcome to episode 8 of our Basi series and we're now in unit8 of the book the BET says how can we rely on our hislut on our efforts if we don't even know what's good for us we don't know what's good for us the pelites brings a story of the that the B describes that they asked the pious man what was the greatest day in your life and he says that before we answer that question I'm going to put that we're not going to answer that question but he gives an important introduction he says if I were to answer you physically what the greatest day in my life was was the greatest day in my life when I won the lottery Maybe not maybe I lost all my friends was the greatest day in my life the day I got married Maybe not maybe it end ended in a bitter divorce what's the greatest Day of My Life by a Vida Miller used to say if you ask John F Kennedy what's the greatest day of your life oh I became president of the United States he put a bullet through his head he asked Charles Lindberg what was the greatest day in your life anybody knows history Charles Lindberg was the first one to fly across the Atlantic in one flight wonderful but he became a celebrity and his child was kidnapped and killed that wasn't great so there's so many things that we're excited about and it's the worst thing that happened to us you read stories about the kid that just got his new scooter and scooted out the driveway Shalom and who knows what happened there's all kind of stories of people that are excited by whatever they're excited by and it ends up in disaster so we're working and trying and putting our efforts into something we don't know if it's good for us people like I remember you know somebody that was uh was certain they were mentioned and the other side was being difficult they didn't want to say yes and I happen to know something about the other side I knew some private information and I was thinking to myself they don't realize how lucky they are hashem's saving them from something we're doing all kind of we don't know what's good for us we live in a world where we're totally blind to good and bad what's a good investment what's a bad investment what's a good house what's a bad house what's a good school since you want to go to you wish your kid gets into a certain class and who knows who he's sitting next to and who knows what influence that's friend is going to be on him there we we can't fathom what good and bad is and therefore the BET says how could you get so excited the konish writes the same thing in a letter he says I'm usually not so excited about his because it's usually unclear what is the right thing to do what exactly is the right thing to do so when we do we have to say I'm doing my I'm following the rules I'm paying the tax but I'm not going to get excited about my I I don't even know what is good for me that's the ultimate he's like a baby that's being weaned from his mother that doesn't know what's good for him what's not good for him whatever my mother serves me so especially my how can I count on it when I don't know where it's bringing me have a wonderful day