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Ethics of the Fathers: Chapter 1 - Rabbi Yitzchak Botton
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okay good afternoon everyone today we're
going to be doing a perky evoke the it's
on page 544 second mission of the first
parekh okay I'll read and translate
first and we'll start to explain what's
some of different ideas involved begins
shimon hatzadik hiya me she is an Elekid
hola shimon hatzadik was among the
survivors of the great as the men of the
great assembly now the men of the great
assembly were a collection of a hundred
and twenty of the greatest sages and
prophets many that all of them at raha
kodesh that this was still a time when
the baseline mikdash was around the time
when we were losing the basin meters but
still many of the rabbi's of the great
assembly were alive during the time of
the resume cash it's true when there was
prophecy and then we of course
unfortunately lost the best medicine
prophecy but were hakodesh was still
prevalent then these are tremendous
scholars that were able to perceive and
be in line with with devar the Divine
Will in a way that we can only hear
about in the stories in the camera and
the different image Russian any event so
he shimon hatzadik was one of the last
of these rabbis and he taught us three
things over here he was what we credit
to him teaching so he says who I oh man
he used to say I'll flush out the volume
aha moment the world stands on three
things a lot ova on torah valla a buddha
on service valued Hasidim and on kind
deeds okay so this is what is telling us
now we have to appreciate what's what's
essentially being being taught to us
over here starting with a simple
explanation the commentators basically
explained like this the world was
created for a purpose you know just like
we can understand you know when you're
you know usually any you know a regular
type of person when you decide you want
to do something so you decide you
understand then you begin to try to do
it if you're living it if you're at home
and you get up first let's just get out
of his car get I get out of his house go
to his car start driving around and then
say well wait or now that I'm driving
around what do I want to do where I want
to go persons at home relaxed
sitting resting and he says to himself I
want to go somewhere he already in his
mind says where he wants to go what he
wants to do and then he gets up and he
goes to the car and then he goes where
he wants to go so a person has to have a
directioner idea before he does anything
so with that analogy we're going to
understand and appreciate Hashem had a
direction and had something in mind when
he created the world he didn't just
create decide to start creating like
you're as an artist you might maybe you
might want to start painting and see
where it leads you you know I'm sure God
could have also done that however the
logical way to begin painting in most
cases and certainly the way God began to
create the world was as it's brought in
in sifrin Kabbalah that it came up in
God's thought or in God's wrath sun god
this is our I decided he wanted to
create a world and he created it and he
credited following a pattern and a
system that was in accordance with what
came up in his mind and what he wanted
to do so we're being shown here
opportunity to understand and appeared
in a very deep sense what are the three
fundamental principles that we can link
up with why God made the world and
that's what we're being told here it's
at Torah service and if we look Assad
them in some way represent in essence
you know what the world stands on
meaning they are the foundation of the
world and become the principles through
which God decided why I wanted to make a
world for these things to exist in the
world and we're going to open explain
each one and appreciate how each one
presents that to us now the first one is
Torah and that's that's not hard to
understand many many different teachings
from the sages tell us that what is
Torah Torah is an expression of divine
wisdom and divine will the the wisdom of
Torah is the wisdom of Hashem and the
the midst vote the mitzvot that we
actually fulfilled and do our when when
when a person is doing the mitzvot the
rabbi's explain that we are fulfilling
the will of Hashem and so together
between the learning of Torah and the
practice of Torah is we say that we are
doing the will of Hashem and we are
learning the wisdom of Russian now this
is very tricky because before Hashem
created the world and
and expressed himself through Torah
Hashem was so to speak untouchable there
was not there is no way for a human
being even an angel even the highest
celestial beings to have any type of
real connection to God because God is
infinite and eternal and exists before
any creation and of course will continue
to exist after there any of creation
existence we says God didn't change
before creation he doesn't change after
creation there's no change in a shame
and also according to the ultimate truth
as explained and again the writings of
this of the Kabbalah there is no real
way to reach the infinite in a sense so
how do we reach God how can we have a
connection to God because God when he
decided to create he decided to express
himself through tower and it's only
through the Torah that preceded the
world and which in fact according to the
Midrash God utilized the Torah to create
the world so with that in mind the world
is really just an expression of Torah a
result of Taurus so his man man in this
end the world as a result of the ideas
behind creation which is really
expressed through Torah so with that in
mind we can appreciate once Torah exists
then there's an opportunity for a man to
connect with Hashem is a beautiful
analogy that's given to appreciate this
idea in it maybe help us to get a bit
more of a handle on it in the from the
famous Hasidic Rebbe the they call it
the alter rebbe in english he's author
of the tanya and the founder of the
Habad Hasidic movement he brings a
beautiful Marshall to help us appreciate
and understand that through Torah we can
connect to Hashem and it's like this it
gives the analogy of a king when a king
is wearing his is the garba the athlete
of a king is wearing his royalty and you
come and you give that you embrace the
king or you hold on to the king's army
even though you're holding on to not the
king it's the Kings flesh it out really
hold him onto the body directly you're
holding on to a garment but the King is
inside that gun and especially when he's
wearing his his big de mal who the garb
of manhood he's expressing himself in
relating to the people as a king you
know we know that you know there's
always we talk now in modern times
person has many faces many ways that he
will
he's a father he's a he's hopefully you
know you know let's make a joke with was
leave it out he's a father he's a doctor
he's with it he relates to each person
in it with a different face it so with a
different outfit so to speak so to
Hashem I shall relate to his world
through the way that he dresses up in
that sense so when he decides to become
the king of the world and becomes the
ruler of the world so then he relates to
us through that channel and that's how
we have a connection to him and that's
again even though it's not his essence
because in his essence is beyond the
world but through Torah since it is
invested in that Torah and it's him who
wants to connect was through Torah so
tutorial we have a connection to a sham
and only through tor can we connect to a
sham the alter rebbe explains even
deeper and it comes out even very very
nice you one might think that in this
world were much farther away from God
than in the world's above you know it's
very understood today that God created
spiritual realms and then of course this
physical realm they're angels many
different level of angels so one might
think the angels are much closer to God
than we are we're far away and when we
talk about revelation it's true because
the gods presence is more revealed in
the upper world and in that sense the
angels are aware of God's presence
however it's taught that in this world
which is a world of concealment since we
don't feel in see Hashem but we connect
to our chemin a more significant way
than even the angels in the world above
and he explains it this way all in the
same chapter chapter I believe four and
five in the tanya he explains like this
that since the essence of Hashem is
invested in the Torah then when you
connect with tour where you're
connecting to Hashem and even though you
don't feel it will see it the connection
is a true connection and it's an intense
connection whereas in the world above
the connection is felt so you could you
perceive the presence of Hashem but
ultimately all that you're proceeding is
a reflection of God's divine light and
it's not the essence of Hashem so
ultimately the angels which are so close
to our men are and recognizes greatness
are only experiencing a
diffuse reflection of divinity where we
in this world through torah and mitzvot
experience more of the essence of what
what what divinity is about and again
we're speaking in general terms this
requires a lot more analysis to fully
appreciate what we're talking about but
anyway that's a little bit about about
the Torah the next thing that's talked
about over here is service service is a
very general term service can be
translated as the service and the base
some English since the destruction of
the base amicus up stitute the term
service to mean prayer because prayer is
also called service the organizer pray
that we have chakras and mincha and Myra
that prayer was instituted in place of
the base image so there's a correlation
a direct correlation between prayer and
the base on Macduff so originally the
definition of service is referenced to
the service in the base some occasion
what was so special about the service in
the base samack dash and why would the
service in the basement represent the
purpose of creation we have to explain
specifically in this case because the
basic village did not exist for a long
time so 2,000 years there was no basis i
Mick dodge or whatever the exact date is
now not a problem we're going to explain
how it still is the purpose of creation
can be fulfilled through having a base
on occasion but first we're going to
bring a very well-known Midrash teaching
of the sages that's found in the second
Megillah in McGill everyone knows the
megillah from pooram the megillah the
poor Megillah so there's a shy attract
hate that discusses all the different
concepts of the holiday of poor women
and of course like every second there's
different ideas that are brought in so
over there it talks about the idea that
the one of the greatest days of joy for
for her Sherman for the Jewish people
were when the mishkan was built we went
so and it explains based on other
teachings for the sages when I shouldn't
originally created the world where was
her shams presents found here this world
the essence and the main dhikr the main
the main world was this world again the
ballot Anya explain
very logically if the higher worlds were
were better so to speak and fulfilled
the Divine Will in a more complete way
than the lower world and why would God
continue to make the lower world if the
better world already existed you know if
you're looking for something so let's
imagine and it's this you're looking
through a chest and you're looking for
the most precious diamond door the most
precious gem that you could find and
you're going through them until you find
the one you really want once you find
the one you really want you stop looking
so same thing if God was fully satisfied
with the world's above he would have
stopped so he says the very fact that
God continued to make world's until this
one shows us that which is the main
world which is the most perfect world
which is the world that that after he
created he decided it's enough no I
don't need animal world this one not
actually the name of Hashem Shaddai that
he stopped stopped to create he stopped
to heir to his creations so something
about this world completes the will of
Hashem the desire by Shaam to create so
it says that must be that this world is
more important or the speaker and the
world's above now what the real
importance of this world was and the
real purpose of creating this world was
for God to dwell together with us in
this world and the first day of creation
were taught from the from the sages that
the the main presence of Hashem was here
in the world until unfortunately Adam
well we'll just call it the first sin
until the first sin occurred and then we
find that God's presence removed itself
to the world above and subsequent sins
of the next generation which was also
wicked until you know for the next six
generation so seven generations of
wicked people in a row you know kind of
cause the Divine Presence to go up world
to world until it was up in the highest
of the heavens we talk about seven
heavens so the presence of Hashem went
to the seventh heaven then we're taught
about seven righteous people starting
with Avraham who caused God's presence
to come back level by level starting
with avraham yitzhak in Yaakov
completing with moshe rabbeinu moshe
rabbeinu was the seventh of these great
leaders and it says that all of the
seventh are precious and he was met he
merited to be the chosen person
Jews out of Egypt bring them to Mount
Sinai received the Torah and of course
the ultimate result of f 2 getting the
Torah was to build the Mishkan and
through Moshe Albanian when I miss
earlham that generation we brought the
Divine Presence back into the world
again with the building of the Michigan
and that's why the rabbi say that that
day the day that we built the mishkan
and the de presence of Hashem returned
to the Michigan so to speak he returned
God returned back to his home again this
world that was the one of the greatest
joyous most joyous days in the history
of creation and the rabbi's say that it
says the word via he via he by yo mush
meanie and it was on the eighth day and
it also says via he young were shown it
says this is the first day of creation
all of the beginning days of creation
it's also says by you he so the rabaa is
explained the connection between the two
via he is that just that the day this
eighth day of building the mishkan is
was a day just as happy as the first
days of creation and the lesson is that
just like the presence of Hashem was
found in the in the world in the
beginning of creation before the first
sin so to now through the hard work of
these generations of this special
neshama the souls of Israel which
started from a vramen completed the job
with with Moshe we brought back the
Divine Presence into the world and it
became a happy day like like the day of
creation and that's what we're taught so
that Mishkin represents also in the
credit with creation and we end the
rabbi's explained even how all the
details of the mishkan correspond also
to creation so it's very significant
that the building of the Michigan what
the building of the Mishkan represents
is the return of Hashem to the world and
the consistent consistent connection at
we the Jewish people have through the
service in the Michigan to Hashem and so
that's very significant and that is
ultimately why Hashem created the world
you know they say that they cannot be a
king without of people and in this
context without us Hashem who's it going
to be king over we accepted his manhood
we accepted a shame as our King and God
is our King and we're his people and as
a matter of fact God United his name
with us el ok Israel the God of Israel
so through our accepting God's kingship
and
making the michigan and bringing him
back into the world we completed so to
speak to a certain degree the purpose of
creation of course we have to continue
to fully complete the job so that's why
the service in the basin Mick dodge
represents also the purpose of creation
now we'll move on to the third idea the
third idea is that give me Luca Sodom
Milkha Sodom is also very very important
on the surface we might say that gimme
Luca southern represents the
relationships between a man to his
fellow man because we have to do
kindness and help each other but the
truth is that if we go back to a famous
Gomorrah famous statement from hillel
the elder when when someone came to
convert to hillel so what did he say
Hillel said to him so we'll say the
story from the beginning he went first
to Shammai and said I want to convert
but on the condition that you teach me
the entire Torah while I stand on one
foot obviously the expression you know
when how long can a person still on one
foot not so long what he was really
saying was give me the bottom line
what's it all about what's your religion
about what store all about give it to me
in a nutshell let me hear it and i'll
decide if i want to accept it or not
that was his statement to shaman shaman
i was very strict so shall my response
was that's not the attitude to approach
hashem with and he sent him off picked
up a won't go to the details now he sent
him off he comes to hillel who was known
to be very you know more softer approach
really they both represent you know the
wisdom of Hashem and they both were
Jewish leaders one really correspondent
to Guevara which is more strict in one
to test it which is less true more kind
so here little corresponds to has said
said to him ok he saw that he didn't
have the ideal attitude but he said you
know what its potential will work with
the situation like no kind will be well
given so he said I'll tell you the
purpose of the entire Torah you want to
ultra on one foot it's what is hateful
on to you do not do on to someone else
the rest of the entire Torah is just an
expression at that point go and learn
and he brought him in you convert and
they became jewish and what what did he
essentially tell him what is hateful on
to you don't do to someone else is the
foundation of the really the mitzvot a
vassal AHA come over love your fellow as
you love yourself a vs rell he's walked
about love and you caring for your
fellow
person you know why he told her to him
in the negative instead of the positive
there's a lot of discussions about it
I'll just present one idea thought of on
this point and then we'll go on you know
with discussions of a sudden you know
it's all about what a person's used to
there's a beautiful story that I heard
explained when Abraham had to find a
wife for yitzchak he sent his servant
Eliezer to find him a wife so Eleazar
had had a hard job there's a septum
stuff like this I gotta go now and find
a woman because he was being sent not to
you know I've roms family but so I was
original family back in the other part
of the world I have to go over there and
find a woman that's that I'm gonna bring
to be the wife of Isaac via truck and
he's gonna have to be comfortable living
in after arms hope and Abraham was let's
let's be honest he was a fanatic when it
came to hasit his house had four
openings you even as stores and half for
openings his house had four openings he
was busier than busier than apple on
Apple Street you know like forget it you
know you're talking about every
direction the person will be passing by
he wanted to make sure it was open so
that nobody would walk by and think that
they weren't welcome and that one person
would think oh maybe no one's there now
maybe it's lit opened on every direction
that in constant traffic constant people
and that was the way of avrum to just
give the headset and do has said so
eleazar's got to find a wife that's
going to come to the scene and see how
much I've roms whole life is devoted to
giving giving giving helping and not
gets not say this guy's crazy this is
too much and want to run away so Eleazar
had to look for a woman who was super
super kind now with that in mind will
understand where why Hillel rephrase the
statement to this person wanted to
convert the Jewish religion brings a
mitzvah the haft electric omocha you
have to love your fellow as you love
yourself that statement is very intense
we're not one person where two people my
money is my money and yours is yours you
know my life comes before you I mean a
person is not supposed to put someone
else's life before his but the language
of that Mitzvah implies i'm supposed to
look at us as the same treat you like I
treat myself that's very extreme so when
speaking to someone coming from another
country another way of life another
ideology where people are much more
selfish for example Saddam the ideology
of Saddam was listen you take care of
yourself I took care of myself as a
matter of fact if anyone would help
anyone that would have been a crime and
stone was a crime to help someone I
jokingly said in the past with my wife
you know and I like to create these like
imaginary scenes you know movie scenes
so imagine you come home you know the
husband is not working he comes home
from a long day's work and his wife is
very serious you know what it was like
lamp one of the like the dull like lamps
and she's sitting by the lamp is the
very very morbid mood very serious mood
like something's wrong thousand walks in
and says what happened what's wrong dear
you're not gonna believe what happened
today you know Michael Michael gave his
candy when his friend in school where
did we go wrong how could this happen
you know what else he said he said it
would what a world it would be if we
could just you know share and he's like
that's it we have to fix him if seven
psychiatrist can observe allocation and
fix him because in stone who was giving
and and and sharing was the root of of
the demise of the world they felt like
express it was like a cancer but in
truth Avraham who was an animal said was
the cure Avram understood that the cure
to the world the way to fix the world is
to just give and to add goodness whereas
in Saddam the cure to self survival was
don't give and it went so far and their
ideology that if someone was were to
give there would be punished a young
girl was compassion on one of the
travelers that was poor and had no food
and was going to die and she snuck him
bread every day so the people who the
town realized this person can ask to be
alive if someone's not feeding him so
they hid to see how he's still alive and
they caught the girl giving him bread
and they took her and they covered it
with honey and let it be easy to alive
and that was her punishment and you know
people hear this and they cringe how
could you be so cruel how could you take
a little girl a letter but if you think
about it the punishment was how they was
to teach what their ideology because
what was their ideology if you give to
one beggar then two more will come five
more will come ten more will come giving
was a cancer
so they showed everyone she gave a piece
of bread to one person what would that
lead to that would lead to our demise
will be eaten alive that way from all of
the poor and people in the world so they
took her and and they showed what they
believed by her punishment so the party
was very very precise they felt that
giving was like attracting more and more
people that will just eventually suck
everything we have to offer and that is
of course wrong because although a
person has to have a limit in what he
gives charity is up to twenty percent
but giving nothing is going to destroy
the world because selfishness although
on the surface seems like it's not so
harmful if I say what's mine is mine
with yours is yours so you know besides
it's sounding a bit childish doesn't
sound like we should go to jail but that
foundation of what's mine is mine and
yours as yours leads to wisdom led to
and stone was so corrupt that has tried
to destroy it and the attitude of stone
leads to destruction of the world so
what is the attitude that's going to
lead to the building of the world and
the bringing out the true purpose of why
hash importers in this world giving acid
and so we see here the middle Adam is
ultimately a foundation of the world God
created the world in order to give to us
and our job is to emulate God and also
to give to others the tour says in he
explains on the puzzle that when God
said is not good for man to be alone
right so what's not so good I much less
of a headache rack anyway we all know
what's but joking aside is that it's not
good for man to be alone because when
man as lonely cannot give cannot emulate
his creator and to be like I shan't we
were created image or a sham you need to
have someone else there to give to just
like a sham created for the sake of
giving we have to be in this world
realizing that ultimately giving is the
true purpose to be like Hashem is to
give and actually that that we learn
from the word love in Torah the word
love is ahava and which is really the
word have and have means to give so true
love and a good relationship is built on
giving not not taking and that through
giving you come closer to a person and
you unite with the person and the world
also through giving one to the other we
will come closer and unite in a way of
peace and harmony and that
that's what eventually this job of avrum
what he started is going to lead to the
ultimate redemption through has said the
world was built and the world will be
built the pastor says olam hath said ye
banette the world was built on cassat
but what he bana is also future tense
how do we really build this world we
build the world through Hesed and that's
why it is ultimately the foundation of
the world discussing any so that's one
way we can appreciate these three ideas
of Torah service and kes it now we're
going to go on a different track that's
just to introduce us to the you know the
main main themes of these of this idea
we're going to go a little bit deeper we
mentioned in the beginning of this
discussion that there's a very big
advantage that we have over the angels
we live in a world where we can come so
close to our sham through doing what he
wants to doing mitzvoth that that unity
between us and our Shem is unparalleled
in all of creation even the angels
cannot get as close and ultimately you
know that's why they're jealous of us to
us in a sense now but in the upper world
there's a beautiful advantage over the
lower world and that God's presence is
felt it's revealed so the question
arises if why did God make a world where
he where we can't see him we don't feel
him where we where it looks like it's
our world and he's not here and we can
do what we want and all the sudden
wicked people do whatever they want why
didn't God make this world where he's
here he should also be here you have an
answer okay absolutely the answer is
that if God's presence would be felt we
wouldn't have free choice because the
angels on every choice that is the
answer but with that answer in mind
we're going to now appreciate these same
three ideas in a little bit of a deeper
different sense it's like this the word
olum the word that in Hebrew for world
is rooted in the word headland hey LEM
and Hester I mean concealment and and to
be hidden so we read the read the
mission like this I'll Schlow shot
diwali him howl um Ahmed the world in
our context now the concealment fact
that God is
hidden stands on three things meaning
Omad weaning that God hid himself in
this lower world in order to facilitate
that these three things should exist the
way they exist that's the way we're
going to be the mission out and it works
very smoothly I'll read it again in
Hebrew translated so we can appreciate
what we're saying I'll slow chef de vol
how olam all met on three things does
the concealment of Hashem presents stand
meaning that since God concealed his
presence these three things exist the
way they do what are they Torah avodah
and Wilkinson Torah service and kind
deeds so let's start with the we'll
start with the service thought in the
middle and we'll work the other two ways
so in this context without the base a
big dash service is prayer let's talk a
little bit about prayer who are we
praying to when we pray okay not our
question God and I'll ask any of you how
do you know has got answered you lately
he sends you a fax in order to pray to
Hashem one has to have emunah what has
to believe that his prayers are being
heard and answered now if God did not
conceal that the mechanism through which
God takes care of us then we would never
have a challenge in prayer prayer would
not be about in muna you know when you
need a driver's license where do you go
to the license bureau that's what they
do they give you licenses but if if you
have to find that as this hidden license
bureau how would you find it so again if
God was revealed and did not hide his
presence whatsoever then we would see
exactly that everything that God says is
what happens and we would know that
everything that we're getting is that
all of our prayers are being heard by a
sham we wouldn't have to pray because we
would already see the gods hashgacha
God's providence and there would be no
need to pray because you know if someone
was chasing you if God's presence was
was revealed we would see that it's god
that's causing the guy to chase you so
we're going to pray to and it's a little
bit of a deeper cancer but once God
hides his presence and we don't see him
and we don't understand
why everything's happening it
facilitates the opportunity to pray so
we turn to our Shem with emunah and pray
and if God was revealed then we wouldn't
ever have the opportunity to I shared
with Munna to pray there's more to talk
about but never come back to this one
Torah is similar in that sense the aur
hai acha da says that if the beauty and
glory of torah was revealed to the world
that the entire world will drop what
it's doing and run together and talk
you'd have nobody would want to go to be
a movie star nobody would want to be a
bodybuilder nobody would want to be a
garbageman time actually nobody wants to
be a garbageman nobody would want to do
anything except come to the best
medicine on Torah so what I rush em do a
sham concealed the glory in beauty of
Torah and now who comes people that that
have a faith and a trust and a sacrifice
people have to turn away from all of the
temptations of the world has to offer
all of the hustle and bustle and busy
and everything and stop and come to the
base measures it's only a point zero
zero zero one percent if anything of
people that that see and make the
commute to come to Torah and the other
ninety-nine point nine percent of the
world don't move because they're busy
with what they're doing and that and and
all that at that opportunity to present
this challenge in coming to appreciate
and learn Torah is only because God
hides his presence and and of course the
beauty and glory of torches a relation
of Hashem wisdom and will if everybody
so clearly that the tour was ultimate
wisdom in the world so it's divine
wisdom and it's divine rule and through
it you connect to our chemin and in a
unbelievable way that who would want
anything else you would want a popcorn
and a candy bar you have a shed or or
nonsense so again since I chamois hides
the beauty of Torah and hides the
reality that it is an expression of his
Divine Will and wisdom now people are
not interested in total but if it was
revealed everybody would run to it so
the concealment in Torah facilitates
that what those that look beyond the
superficial and choose Torah have a
tremendous tremendous source of
tremendous reward in a tremendous
accomplishment and will be rewarded in
the future for that that's so the
the level of concealment to facilitate
Torah the way we have it now to give us
the reward through choosing Torah and
like we said in the first case the
reward of praying as well now the third
one over here is guido so sudden now
this one's also interesting ultimately
God really could have given each person
whatever he wanted directly like we have
a story in the Gomorrah her bikini Ben
dosa was hungry starving they were poor
he prayed to God and what happened a
hand from heaven came down gave him a
gold leg worth you know millions of
dollars so that that's really the way it
is for everybody just like in the desert
when the man fell so really the way that
juicer out in the desert is really the
reality right now really God sent us old
man he sustains all of us each one
according to what he decides that person
needs and there's nothing to worry about
ever what we don't see that we see rich
we see poor we see struggle and we need
help and people helped by God taking the
back seat so to speak stepping back and
letting us have to deal with each other
if charity Democrat said you know one of
the biggest charities to give someone a
job all of the interaction between
people working with whose money it says
that all the money's gods we're just
like messengers were like
representatives for a sham so when I
give somebody money it's really gotta
give me honey but he gives it through me
so God but but in that sense God takes
the backseat and it looks like we're
doing it now by God taking a backseat
and giving us the freedom of choice to
choose what to do with the money that we
have which is really we're supposed to
do what he wants with it he gives us
again a special reward in choosing to do
Hesed and helping each other but in
reality if God showed himself and showed
us that that money in your bank account
is not yours if Michaels so then we
would just have to give it to him or he
would have given it straight to Michael
and we wouldn't even involve so by
putting other people's money so to speak
in our pocket and not letting us know
what's going on exactly we gives us the
opportunity to actually do the mitzvah
of mythical Sodom and Sedaka and all of
the other good things that we do is an
interesting story a Hasidic story that
really supports this like they're very
nicely very fitting will end perhaps
with with that story it was a hostage
already that was you know people used to
office to go to for broca's and for help
so one father that was very poor yet
marry off his daughter comes to the
it says you know I have this is the my
last order to marry off profession but I
hung out of money i have no money to
marry off he says okay go to mr. so and
so will call him you know mr. yong-chol
and tell him I sent you to him that he
should take care of the wedding so he
sends him to yong-chol maybe we'll call
him David evidence it's a nicer name or
maybe it's not nicer but what's an
aptitude of it Yankel whoever and he
comes and says listen the rebbe sent me
let me I'm here my final daughter to
marry I have no money to marry her and
I'm old now and I can't work I need my
niece races how much is it gonna cost
the wedding so he says the wedding is
gonna cost you know 5,000 rubles sounds
right five thousand rubles so do you
guys like are you kidding me that's a
lot of money he is 250 rubles and you
know other people will help you so the
ice is but the rep you said weather is
200 rubles have a nice day very generous
I wouldn't complain either did this man
complained but lo and behold what stuff
to happen to the ankles fortune after
this behavior starts to lose a little
bit of his money little by little by the
time a year is up he's not so much the
rich uncle anymore he actually also
needs help with panos and he goes to the
Rebbe and he says Rebbe I don't know
what happened I was so wealthy and all
of a sudden she started to turn red and
I don't have money what am I now I did
help so excessive yong-chol whose money
you think you had all this time in your
pocket that's it imma imma Rebbe I don't
need that much money what am I going to
do with millions of dollars so but in
heaven they decided I'm supposed to have
millions of dollars so I said Who am I
gonna leave my millions of dollars worth
I don't like the bank I don't like this
I said I'm gonna leave it with the ankle
right but if I'm not but if you're not
gonna do what I want you to do with my
money so then I'm doesn't work with my
words related by you so you decided you
want to do what you want with my money I
said tog put my money or somewhere else
so I said so now I decided take all my
money back and now it's by someone else
and of course this is a story but point
is this the money we have is how shams
money and we're supposed to really wear
to do what he wants us to do with his
money and that is the mitzvot of Sedaka
and we discuss Adam and every everything
we had and all that is only possible
because we don't see behind the scenes
what's really happening and again that
is so with this we can appreciate the
three different concealments that exist
in just in relation to leaders for Sodom
service which is prayer in this context
and Torah that we conclude thank you
very much
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