Gevurah of Malchut - Counting the Omer - "Stay focused" - Rabbi Alon Anava

tonight we're gonna be counting who worship them reports we're concluding the week of the spirit aroma week including the entire sphere a tall man with the week of manhood yesterday we counted message of manhood yesterday was the 43rd day and the whole week of manhood besides that it's concluding the entire sphere Latimer it's the conclusion conclusion of everything it's very very important that we conclude the right way because if you don't then the entire six weeks they don't have a conclusion so the way how I see it when something starts and you don't finish the right way it's almost like going tit and an NA 1010 I mean where's the 1010 so you wait three six weeks in spirit oh man and no conclusion then that's not good so everything that you start has to be concluded and if you don't then you leave something open in the universe so this week very important that you pay attention to the final week how it needs to be done now yesterday when we were counting a crested shoe bomber hole we were talking about the idea of that I have to be a giver but a real Giver not to give because I want my name on the wall or because I need to get something from the other person I have a motive or that I want to be the hero I have to really give because I want to give and you had to ask yourself you still have to ask yourself the question when you do something good to a person are you giving it with your whole heart are you giving it because there's some motive there because I need that person to help me and I need a letter from this person and I'll do something good and he'll help me and how they say you Bruce catch scratch my back I'll scratch your back and so forth giving has to be real that you're giving for the sake of giving so that's what we learned about Hester to be reported giving it has to be with all my heart now we're going to go Vashi tomorrow well there are many different ways to explain what Gua means but one way based on the teachings of Kabbalah to explain what Guevara is the power of focusing what's called quarterly goods that to be able to focus my my concentration or even my power most people they don't know how to focus real good they get distracted like that they sit start something they move here start this move here start that go back to here and and again how special are not saying this to hurt any person I'm just making an observation a lot of people they don't know how to focus their energy we spoke about that a couple times in spirit oh man how to focus your energy you started something finish it then move to the next thing you started this one finish it move to the next thing unless it needs to be on a low flame then go to do something else Guha will allow me to focus and again this is called core core equals the power of concentration of focusing now in general any task that I do I need to be focused on that the reason why a lot of people are not productive is like I said they start here distracted they go here that get distracted and then what happens is two-three hours passed and I started a lot of things but I didn't conclude anything people will know how to focus themselves then they become productive because this task should take me ten minutes in this - should take me two hours and I'm and I know what I need to do and you want to become productive your time is very valuable we spoke about that a few weeks ago how valuable my time is and I don't want my time to run throughout my hands most people comes or ten o'clock at night oh my god where did did they go most people come Thursday Thursday it was just Sunday whoever's there where's the week so I need to know how to focus myself why because I have a mission to do and sometimes I have a hundred missions to do today I have to do a B and C I like working with lists because when I have a list I know what I need to do I already make the list the night before the week before everything is organized I know today what doing from 10:00 to 11:00 from day eleven to twelve everything is organized I need to focus on my mission now who technically needs the highest level of focusing if you want to now kind of generalize in in in in theory of course of course also being practical but who would you think would be the person that needs to have the highest level of focus then I would say the king in our generation we don't have a king so we have a president Prime Minister you would think of talking about a real one not the fake ones you would think that the talk of the top he will need to have the highest level of concentration can you imagine how many tasks the king has how many tasks the general has the chief of staff the prime minister so where in the week of my foot so we're talking about a king not about a general the king has to have the highest level of being focused here a minute here a minute here a minute here a minute here a minute and he needs to know how to direct this the energy now why a king because the king a real king needs to concentrate on the needs of everybody in the nation try to once follow if if we would be possible the the day of a president and just imagine how it is so many advisers around him this meeting is two minutes this meeting is 30 seconds this meeting is a minute the person comes how about this and that yes sign that's it next how about this one is no right this is the way of how if you could just imagine how a king is operating now and again we're all talking now in theory how I can relate with it later in my life a king needs to focus on the needs of all the people in his nation their army the government the poor people the rich people the business the taxes everything so there are two general details that one the king the real king needs to focus on the needs of the nation of this world and also the needs of the world to come not only in this world it's important in this world but also the needs in the world to come now I spoke many many times that every time that we reach to the sphere of manhood last week was - I thought before that mascoutah of netizens offered every time I mentioned that we are a smoking each and every one of us is a king of my own domain so in my kingdom then I have a wife and have kids and I have workers and I have students or whatever I am a king in my little domain and I need to worry about everybody's needs so forget about now friends students workers it's just concentrate in my little house there's a wife she has needs there's kids they have needs it's a lot of them that's kids needs is this and this kid needs is that he needs shoes today he needs today help with his homework this kid has a test everybody has needs so me is the king of my own domain I have to worry about the needs of everybody preferably before my own needs each one needs to get their needs now this is where moring about the needs in this in this world but I also want to worry about their needs in the world to come don't say a lie don't cheat don't steal don't take come with me to bed to show to pray I need to worry about their needs in the world to come so this is when we're trying to create some type of a imaginary system in my mind we're looking at the king the real king then he has to focus on his nation now I'm the king how am i focusing on the needs of the people around me both in this world and in the world to come since we're in the week of Marcos the whole idea behind my food is leadership that I'm a leader that I'm a king that I'm I'm taking charge I'm taking control everybody has to be a leader at some point even though a lot of people says listen I don't want to do anything you run the shots you tell me what to do although but at the end of the day we spoke about it already that we all have the power in us this is called the power of manhood that I'm a leader - even if I'm leading to people it doesn't matter but I'm the leader I'm the one who's calling the shots and not only that that it's built in us we also have that desire most people I will call it now in an extreme way are lazy and they don't want to take charge some people they they can do anything but taking charge but nevertheless inside of us not only that I have the power to lead I also have the desire to lead and to lead the right way of course what does it mean to lead the right way it means to do blessed and kindness to do acts of charity acts of kindness and to do good to other people that's a good leader that I take charge and I help you and I hope you want to help you and so forth now if there's only tested so yesterday we were counting message' member would unbelievable kindness I just given given given give that's not good because too much has said then it gets spread around it doesn't get stay contained the Kabbalistic term to it is called hit push to toe spreading of the light so I don't want it to spread I wanted to stay in one place imagine now you go now to a wine store and they tell you we have a very special wine oh very expensive wine so you tell them okay I will want some listen we have it in a barrel and we don't have bottles for it so you will need to bring something to take the wine with you if you just tell them give me the wine and they open the faucet all the wine just spilled no no I don't want it to spread I need it in there contained in a bottle or in a cup so bring a cup bring a bar oh so when something spreads too much like a ballistic term - it's called it prosciutto that the light it just gets spread this is when it's too much that's it that's not good it doesn't it's not focused and then it's over the place so too much credit is not good what do I need I need to apply glue at the guevara will be focusing where's that has it going to imagine how a rich person has millions of dollars he hires a gabbai to tell the gabbai every person the ones they help you he comes to you he tells you the situation we gave a cheque imagine the gabbai will give to everybody a million dollars million dollars million dollars the money will run out he just needs a thousand he doesn't need a million and he needs two thousand and it's 500 you give every person according to what they need enough to just give because we have so I need to know how to go down to details and the details are where how war - this is the global market that I want to give but it has to be focused it has to be where am I giving the energy I give right now from again to give you an example from a private life not from a king's life then if I have kids this kid needs 10 minutes right now this kid needs an hour this kid has a big test I have to sit with him I'll sit with you tomorrow because do they have to do this I need to know where where it's going to can just sit with one kid for two hours and then neglect the other one that actually needs me today cause tomorrow is a big test I need to know how to focus my energy this called washa bomber port market is the desire to give as to be the leader to run the show and the grow wise how much I'm giving every person I can guarantee to you that many people you know not too long ago somebody emailed us and I always say it out loud because people sometimes get very offended the email mean I don't answer them first of all I don't check emails I get in an average day between 1,500 to 3,000 emails that's the amount of emails we get every day from all around the world coming funneling from social media from emails from what steps whatever that's the amount of messages that are coming every day I don't even check emails I don't check whatsapp messages so we have a crew of the few girls and they check all the emails and they filter them this email doesn't need to go to me they answer this and send it all around now of course a lot of people have a question they load up I don't even answer all these questions I don't have time to answer all these questions hundreds of emails coming every day just questions so other people can answer the questions don't me I don't need to answer every little question but nevertheless many people also say I'm coming inside I want to meet the rabbi okay you have ten minutes ten minutes what I'm gonna do ten minutes well there's another 500 people so the other day somebody emailed em I'm coming to the spot on this day can I see the rabbi yes I need three hours three hours you get ten minutes you're lucky what I mean ten minutes and what I'm gonna say in ten minutes well what do you think you're the only one in the world there are many others and the time is very limited if I would give now imagine I would sit down with a person three hours you know and I'm not too long ago when I was in one of my tours somebody emailed us and said I will give the rabbi ten thousand dollars I want to hang out with him I mean hang out with him what are you gonna hang out with him I'm gonna give the rabbi 10,000 I want to hang out with him for the whole day no you can't because then I come to a tour that everybody wants to have a five minute meeting a ten minute meeting 20 minute meeting I didn't hang out with him if two million dollars what is the matter it's not about the money so if I not only me any person gives no he also wants the time of my time if you give too much here without any limits then here suffers and the right way is to where can I give my time how can i spread my my day and I'm giving your examples for my own life because I can only give example for my own life you take it to your own life and you decide how do I focus my peasant because the nature of the king of manhood is hazardous to give to give a real king is a giver not talking of the Kings that talk about a real king that with a mere Leviosa family these are the real kings that I need to have some type of an image motion was a King David emilich was a king a real king now a dimeric was all about giving motion was all about giving King motion took a vacation I think Moshe had some time to rest all day long he was giving it was giving his time giving his knowledge giving his effort and so forth a real king is all about giving so market is the desire and the ability to give the grocery market is how am i focusing my kisses so yesterday i told you you must do crescent there's no there's no way out of it there's no such a thing that you can't live your life and at one day out of your life and not do something to another person I said in the last class of a credible quote that if I found myself comes the end of the day and I cannot point on something good that I did to another person then don't go to sleep how can you pass a whole day and not do some type of active kindness and my in my library it's minimum five a day you don't do five acts of kindness today don't go to sleep what do you think the shame is expecting you right now to laughter power massage it's not worry about your partner so don't worry about it Shem says you just now do acts of kindness and learn Torah I quoted last class that it says in the second the Talmud in tract it's and handling that we're about to go into a massive war and you have to be a total ignorant not to see that we're going into the war I don't know if you read even read the headlines here in Israel the Israelis attacked I here on bases in Syria tonight just tonight I don't know if you heard the Jets I was up too late I heard the Jets and you wake up in the morning you heard them too yeah so and in the morning you wake up in the morning you open the news and Israel attacked died Iranian bases in Damascus Damascus because yesterday Syria shot two missiles into Israel they fell in the Helmand you have to be completely ignorant not to see that we're walking in we're going into a war I'm not worried about anything now with them Alexis deformities California hello Akash a thousand before here ten thousand for here nothing will go to you so but nevertheless the Talmud gives us instructions how what saline and semi Google Magog what person wants to be Civic to survive this war called Gogu Magog yes Akhmatova should learn Torah Ovid me root has a demon acts of kindness that's it that's your ticket learn Torah two to five hours every day and I know it's I know that people raise the would through two hours where two hours you two hours on Facebook so be five minutes on Facebook and tourism to up so stop watching their cats breakdancing and all this junk that they have there so learnt about two to five hours that you find the time so watch a little bit less TV oh you know I don't want to say it because people get offended stop talking with Sean around let's turn that takes at least two hours a day so your mouth and you don't have one you have a lot of time to learn Torah cuz all day long did you hear what they said he said what are you talking about you know I heard about this one so if you cut them Hashanah I guarantee do you have a place another hour a day so learn Torah two to five hours five minutes a day is nothing and yeah so quick you lose custody me Duke we lose custody make some kindness doesn't mean area you have to open a soup kitchen but you can find Allah a lot of people to help them genuinely help them but because I want to thank you know because I want money not because I want gratification gratitude Oh recognition you do a real acts of kindness so again Varsha Burman hood is taking all this desire and the will for me to help another person but to focus it sometimes five minutes here is enough I don't need more than that I told you ready when I always go into the stores when I'm going to another two tours and we always book a lot of the meetings before other people say I won three hours three hours you get half an hour that's the max ten minutes to half an hour but I need an hour and I always say you don't need this is just smoothing the answer the question should be two minutes the answer is seven minutes that's it ten minutes and we're done don't need to make a whole cup of coffee here how are you okay you I'm doing great how are you so you know how to focus the energy the GWACs abama wood is to focus the pheasant is to take all the stresses but to focus it here five minutes here 10 minutes here an hour here two hours whatever it needs now I need to so to say live horn to test what is the need of that person sometimes the person doesn't need much they want that's a whole different thing I have six kids boku sham you know what it means just to spread my time on six kids besides everything else around me I think my kids also deserve my attention just to give five minutes to each one that's already half an hour laughter now I know for some people segment what's happening now let me have for now you know what happen now is that's why that's the amount of time I sleep so or they can get five minutes this one needs 20 minutes this one it's 20 minutes this one has a test I need to sit with me half an hour all my boys I learn with them so I'm just talking to my kids right now no are people around me but I need to know today this kid needs much more time he had a hard day in school somebody bought him I need to hang out with him this boy is doing good okay you need two minutes whatever it is I know it sounds very technical I'm just giving some examples because the talking theory is one thing but to see how it actually works that's a whole different thing so I need to constantly I don't know the right word in English in Hebrew selim horn if means to test to analyze how much time every person needs right now my wife needs a lot of attention whatever for whatever reason this person right now needs a lot of attention so what we need to focus on is how to focus my time especially the cursor that I give I have to give a lot of tenses if you looking at yourself and you can summarize every day that you did a lot of acts of kindness you're missing a big part in your data Jam now now we're focusing on takuna me no no no goguma go but nevertheless I need to find a lot of time a day that I do acts of kindness because that is my ticket out only acts of kindness I mean learnt over like we started the class when I told you a lot of people are failing because they don't know the hello hood have to learn Torah even if you do it in small increments 15 minutes in the morning 15 minutes in the afternoon 15 minutes in the evening 15 minutes at night boom you have an hour but nevertheless I also have to focus my facing bear in mind then a week exactly it sure would exactly a week from now is the holiday of Sherwood now we what are we celebrating that we got the Torah how was the tour given so I was given from the mouth so to say of the Guam appeared wah we got to get the Torah back Vern by chesed now even though the Torah is full of Crescent that Torah is full of kindness but nevertheless the Torah can only give kindness when it's focusing on grew up and if you see look at the Torah yeah there's a lot of kindness in the Torah lot of lesson but it cannot be given and it cannot be focused all the Torah is about focusing can only come from grew up so I need to know how to focus in my life my energy today we're talking about kindness from Crescent but anything and this is washable Mirkwood practically saying so we have some homework is you have to ask yourself constantly if you're able to focus your good desires how many times you wanted to do something and you didn't do it okay something good not only now opening the next startup the next new Facebook talking about that how many times you want to do something good you have a good desire we all have good desires good wheels I want to do this I want to do that I want to do this but then nothing happens and I'm not talking in our opening a big soup kitchen and turbid little things that you say that you want to do and you don't really do and even if it's just for yourself how many times I see people in a class sitting I just said learn how to hot I see the wheels turning you know that's a good idea I'm gonna start learning and you already you're pumping it up in your mind and you're all pumped up now I'm gonna start learning I'm gonna buy a book I'm gonna start learning ten minutes a day on the quote that's a brilliant idea and it's cooking in your mind for two three days and somehow evaporates from the front of your brain and you totally forget about it till you come to the next class I wanted to learn somehow the hood so you have to ask yourself how many times not only how many times am i able to focus my good desires to actually do them how many times you wanted to do something and you actually didn't do that there's a lot of good will there's a lot of good desire in my mind I want to do a lot of good things now the question is if it's actually done and don't think big thinking big then takes much more energy think small and the question you want to ask yourself am I able to get it done so if you want to do practically something we talked about learning out of pot take on yourself so you know that's a good idea I'm gonna run 5 on a hot everyday five - now open up the host of Carnival go to the Judaica store across the street buy a book of a la carte run 500 for today and and and keep do it now you will have a good desire now see if you can focus and actually do that and this is the gouache of amar woods it's about focusing on the good things that I need to do but actually doing them and needless to say that I'm the one who benefits from that the point to take from that is not to disregard the little details a lot of people are looking at the big picture they're not focusing on the little details if you don't focus on the little details you'll never focus on anything in there in there in the picture you need to have the ability to focus on little things that's how you're able to go to bigger things and the focusing that's the key to any success whether its relationship business spiritual growth whatever it is if you know how to focus and to see the little details that would be your key to the success not to look too broad because you know in Hebrew there's a term our sages say the first time it will be a lot of faster you try to grab too much you're not gonna grab nothing like a person going to the market and he starts putting oranges you can take like these ten oranges put another two blue they all fall down this is the fast and it will be a lot of faster try to grab too much at the same time you're not gonna grab anything so the idea is how do I focus on the little details and get it done once I'm done with the little details you'll see that by default I'm growing and growing and growing that's why we spoke about many times and many good successful businessmen entrepreneurs generals whatever it is why they know how to focus the time time is very very focused I spoke about that two weeks ago and we learned about the time my time is so calculated and on the minute you know I don't I don't sit and have a cup of coffee and hey let's meet for coffee I don't sit on a cup of coffee cup of coffees as I'm doing something I don't waste my time because I'm a big shot because my time is valuable and I want to make sure that my time is focused here five minutes it doesn't mean more than five minutes move on next next you know I know it sounds very mechanical like a machine but my day is extremely productive and not because I don't sleep because everything has its time everything has the the amount of time that needs to be done this is five minutes at four this is an hour at six and more than that it's focusing on the little details there's no how-to seen on the big picture is to stand in front of five hundred details and look at one video and says that's the detail right now that needs my attention next I'll do this next I'll do that next to do this this is the power of washable hood we all have it in us now you need to know how to bring it up to the surface the simple way of doing it is you take little tasks you focus on these little tasks and you do them and the tasks are not on going going through your shopping today that's not I'm talking about is tasks of acts of kindness where can I help here where can I help here once a week a volunteer here once a day I do this once a day I do that it has to be focused and if you're not focusing on community consul Iman acts of kindness you're missing the biggest part of your spiritual growth of getting closer to Hashem and making the world a much better place it's all about doing crescents and the rest like I told you it has to be done with no with no agenda with no way a motive behind it it has to be done for the sake of giving this is the short version of Google Sheba motherhood [Music]