Freedom of Discipline - The Secret of Tefilin & Behalotcha -J. Gimpel: The Land of Israel Fellowship

how do I become successful I want it quick and I want it easy in so many words that's really what he said and I was like I'm sorry brother the only path is not the quick and easy the only path is the wrong and hard that is the only path there is no quick and easy path there is no quick and easy path to success the only path to success in life and that's on every level of Life financially emotionally physically in relationships it's long and it's hard and unhappiness in life is the gap that you have between the expectations and your reality so when you expect life to be quick and easy and then you bump up into reality that's long and hard that's going to create an unhappiness in your life because unhappiness exists in the gap between expectations and reality so come down with your expectations to the reality of living and the reality of living is that life is a long hard path and that's the path that Ami sir L are on right now and on that path do you know what happens it's like you want to give up I want to go back to Egypt I'll start making my own insane delusions I just want the onions I miss the onions and the Cucumbers it's like it can't be more silly it's like what do you really want that life when you were just watching Netflix bumming around drinking a beer after work and just kind of no it's like wake up bring the soul up raise the candle up don't go back to falling asleep it's like wake up and light up and then sometimes that highest part in you that's what that candle is the highest part inside us even it sometimes wants to give up and it's like saying you know what I've just I've had enough I'm done and the rest of you all the other spirits that dwell within you are like I don't want that guy to be the leader anymore I want sugar I want the easy way I and then at some point it's like we won't go back we want to go back and the balatanya the admirazaken the Elder Master the founder of the in his Manifesto called the vitanya which is one of the first writings of Kabbalah that were brought to the masses at the beginning of the book in his introduction he says and here I introduce you to the long road which is the short Road I could try to show you the short road but believe me if you try to go down the short road it's going to be much longer I'm going to show you the long road but that long road is the short Road and as I was thinking about that you know I go now to minion every single day it's something that I haven't done since moving to the farm four years ago but in order to ensure that Ari has 10 men with him so he can say the prayer for his father at the end of prayers I go there every single morning can I just interject Jeremy what's your permission um it's true and I appreciate that but there were a number of days that I wrote to you and I said Jeremy we have a minion you are not needed and you came anyways so while I know you want to have your cake you needed too and capitalize on it by saying you're doing it for me so I'll feel forever indebted to you the truth is you're doing it for Hashem because you come even when you know that there's a minute go on well what has happened is because I just blocked off that time in my day there's no shortcuts I'm I'm there anyway and I've sort of like come to appreciate that process and so I'm kind of I'm just committed to coming now whether there is where there is any for God for Ari I'll leave that up for grabs I'm going and as I was there you know when we put on our filling um there are verses from the prophets that we say and there are specific verses from the book of Hosea in chapter 19. specifically verse 23 and it's one of the most beautiful verses in the Bible it's really talking God to Israel saying I want you to know I'm going to marry you Israel and I'm going to marry you forever no matter what and here's what it says I will betroth you to me forever and I will betroth you to me in righteousness and Justice in loving kindness and mercy I will betroth you to me in emu now and you shall know Hashem and so you say that verse specifically when you rap that's filling Around Your Finger and I couldn't help but feel like I'm just wrapping this wedding ring around my finger and I'm like yeah I am married and what is that marriage that marriage is that commitment every single day sometimes I feel it sometimes I don't sometimes I don't want to say anything at all but showing up and then wrapping that to filling and saying no no I am committed to this no matter what every day you say that verse sometimes I like it sometimes I don't sometimes I just want to go back to Egypt and I just want to go back to bed sometimes I don't want to do anything but that daily discipline and that Daily Commitment no matter what my feelings are doing that is my freedom from Egypt and it's like the discipline to continue on the journey to our Promised Land is What forges our bond with Hashem that discipline to be endlessly compassionate and endlessly patient with our spouse with our children that's what forges the Divine relationship that we have with our loved ones without discipline you're just a slave you're a slave to your emotions you're a slave to your impulses you're a slave to your body it's the discipline of never giving up and committing yourself to the Torah that is the only freedom and that's the holy bond between us and the Divine that's why we were brought out of slavery from pharaoh and then we went directly to Sinai to receive a whole new rules and regulations like we went for one slavery to another why not just let us wander around the desert we are freed from slavery wandering the desert but that's not free wandering around the desert isn't Freedom that's just another form of slavery like a leaf blowing in the wind a leaf is not free choosing to align your life with the ultimate good in you and around you that's the freedom that our soul wants that's our soul totally Unshackled from all of the clepote in all of the layers