Giving Nachat To HaShem: Torat HaChassidut (5)

everybody going to continue our series of uh the by tonight is gonna be for the leav Sahar Naomi Batar and all of am is and all the righteous nor that continue to help us and support the organization to continue doing the amazing things that we're doing uh also uh to give you guys a little bit of reminder to uh get uh the last orders for this week uh for anyone that wants to get books or USBS to be distributed in their Community you can go to the kiru store there's going to be a bunch of boxes coming out uh uh tomorrow tomorrow and the next day uh so uh any orders that come out that get sent uh tonight by uh midnight uh should be able to be processed this week KY store.org and also anyone that wants to uh donate you can donate at BH torah.org BH torah.org to help us do all the amazing things that we're doing uh lastly it's a thing something that I've been telling you guys about for the last few weeks uh about an upcoming campaign I just simply do do not have the time uh to set up a new campaign for it but I'm hoping I'll get to it at some point either way we have to uh we're running out of time so anyone that wants to be involved we have to uh raise uh an extraordinary amount of money uh to uh it's in the hundreds of thousands of dollars for an event that we're having in just the next two and a half weeks uh inia this is a uh not just to uh uh publicize and uh expand the tah and help the people but also uh to bring protection to the northern part of Israel this is something we've already committed to uh and working on for the last couple of months uh setting up the place getting the people in so many words we're going to have a thousand people in one room 800 men and then on the other side is going to be 200 women uh in this uh venue inia tiberias where the 800 of are going to be learning the entire Shas entire sh Yi the um entire mishna and uh I believe several other things also uh just don't remember the whole list all in one day it's going to be 800 of them this is the biggest event we've ever had uh and therefore requires not only a lot of money but also a lot of time uh and uh the uh 200 women are going to be reading the seph the entire seph each one will take upon oursel the entire seph uh and each one of them is going to be financially rewarded for being involved in this huge day of T the reason why we're doing it and the reason why it's specifically in telia is to bring protection to this part of the world this part of Israel where of course right now everything is uh you know is is tense there's attacks there's all types of things but uh there's been threats that there will be an attack on the northern part of Israel by the and now today there was a uh announcement by turkey that they also want to invade and everyone is uh putting their eyes on the uh northern part of Israel so in order to bring protection uh to uh not only to Israel not only to the Jewish people but specifically to that part of Israel uh we're going to increase to this is the Ultimate Weapon that we have uh and therefore we're going to uh gather all of these amazing people uh to uh in increase the amount of tah on a single day to bring protection to uh toia to bring protection to Israel uh specifically at this time uh so anyone that wants to donate for that campaign uh please donate generously you could uh now already do it by donating to BH Torah uh.org I'm hoping that I'll have time to actually uh set up a campaign specifically for it and of course we'll uh uh allocate whatever you send now uh you know there either way it's a uh it's a big event it's a big uh deal uh it's never happened before there's since we did our big 3,000 last year we see that several other organizations have uh taken the initiative to do the same thing where they're learning the entire sh in one year and we're glad to see it uh but this is something that we need to do even more than what we've done in the past uh where we've completed the Shas B in one day now we're looking to get a lot more people and a lot more Torah in one day so anyone that wants to uh be involved be a partner with us donate at BH tor.org so with that being said we have thean the uh the small note byin which is obviously making big changes in our lives from just simply the uh perspective that we have uh you know about our life our role in the world and really the Katan is going deeper and deeper into our role in the world into what we're supposed to have as an ideology not just as someone that would want to be aid but even someone that wants to be a kosher Jew someone that wants to be a simple Jew with the right ideology uh has to fight for it these these days and one of the reasons for it is based on what the said a few hundred years ago where he said that at the time of MIT at the time of Egypt decided to take am Israel out of Egypt right then and there without waiting an extra moment even though the original decree was 400 years he took am Israel out of Egypt after 210 years now of course there's a lot of different teachings in regards to this particular topic but one of them that uh uh the brings is the fact that that am Isel has uh made enough mistakes while being in Egypt due to the bad influence that's there all the idolatry all the immorality all the garbage that was there even though immorality did not affect am is the idolatry did because the out of the 10 levels of Tuma that were brought down to the world thear says nine of them were brought down to Egypt so much so that even if an angel would come down to Egypt they would be affected and am is already uh degenerated to the 49th level of tum meaning that the next sin that they would make could literally bring them to the 50th level the worst possible level of impurity and there would be no return from it the world would be destroyed and the reason why there would be no return from it is simply because that's an unrecoverable level now of course once decided to take us out of Egypt over the next uh uh five uh over the next 49 days or 50 days until we got the Torah AEM gave us the man elevated us uh in extraordinary ways to the point where is got to the highest level of Kusha the the 49th level of kadus now the says that at the during the days of you know right before mhia comes is is going to get to the 50th level of Tuma but we'll be able to get out of it why the 50th level of Tuma what's because this is the last part this is the Last Exile this is the last opportunity of the Satan to attack us with all of his all of his tools in the worst possible way to such an extent that we will fall into the 50th level of Tuma but because we have the Torah now which we did not have at the time of Egypt we only had the oral T we didn't have the written t as well we now have the tools to get ourselves out of the 50th level of Tuma now what is the 50th level of Tuma the 50th level is the uh of Tuma is heresy heresy the says will hurt is Will torment is will confuse am is drastically because of all of these foreign thoughts all of these uh teachers that are going to mislead all types of things that are going to confuse people that are otherwise kosher people otherwise looking for the right things to think the right things to do but these heretical teachings literally take a person from being kosher into being a heretic meaning they have no share of the world to come and this is where we find ourselves after all of these years the last decade of fighting against all types of heretic and helping do CH for all types of things one of the things that we learn is that this is part of the final battle now of course a person that looks deeper into if they're finding the right uh the truth in there if they're finding the right teachers in there certainly this could help them in a lot of different ways but if they find the wrong teachers like the ones we've mentioned in the past that say all types of foolish heretical things like God needs you and God has an arm and uh he's going to say I'm sorry to you and uh you didn't ask to be born so therefore uh you know he uh you don't uh get judge for sins and all types of other heresy initially when we mentioned it when we we taught it when we protested against it it was just a fight for the sake of the honor of hem and helping people understand the truth but when you learn much more to and you realize that this is not going away easily certainly there are many people that are changing certainly there are many people that are learning but you see that there are certain people that are stuck in there like worse than idolatry worse than immorality and the only thing that makes sense is because this is the last part of the battle is here to help us clear up our ideology and what's a better place than understanding the words that are said in the Sido that could certainly create confusion if a person doesn't know it now anyone that has prayed the from the Jewish Sid has seen the uh the words giving to giving pleas you know uh pleasing Hashem or giving pleasantness to Hashem this is what it literally means you know if you translate it literally to English giving to AEM means giving pleasantness to hasem and you see it every day that you pray uh you see it countless times and in the days of the 50th level of Tuma these words could easily lead a person to confusion about their so-called giving to the Creator that is perfect and doesn't need anything so how is it that I can give the Creator if he doesn't need anything so what does it mean what does it mean to actually give what if you're the biggest sadik who is the biggest sadik what can a person really do for AEM these are some of the things that delves into to give us a clarification of what it all means and how a person could write their mind and steer it away from any type of foolishness that's out there that unfortunately is a uh is everywhere in the fourth section of this the says as follows I'll read it in Hebrew first and then English this is simply for the Cav of the Tora it's not necessarily because everyone understands the Hebrew but it's just for the of the we always like to read at least part of it in the original language of the [Music] translation in everything that you do in this world be it Torah study prayer or the performance of the command ments you should accustom yourself to saying the following behold I performed this action for the sake of the Union of the Holy One and his to give pleasure to the Creator blessed is he if you accustom yourself to say this from the depths of your heart you will eventually begin to feel a great Illumination in the words so here we see that the section that uh we read every day even before the prayer was something that added where there's a special prayer that uh added to the prayer before you start as I told you the story where the Kaa was waiting outside of his house for a blessing for for for his guidance and all of a sudden they they see three extremely tall men very honorable running into his house and of course everyone was in shock who are these huge people and what's going on after some time everybody decided okay as soon as they come out everybody get a look at them maybe you could recognized maybe it's a rabbi from here maybe it's this maybe it's that but as everybody is prepared the door opens and quickly the three extraordinarily you know tall men walk out in a hurry no one gets a look at them no one has any idea who they are but everyone knows that something extraordinary that happened after this opens up the door to his community and he sees the confused faces on the PE on the people and he says you're probably all wondering who are the three Honorable Men that came here and I'll tell you because I saw how the generation is going lower and lower and fewer and fewer people are able to have the right kavana the right intentions during their prayer I decided to use all of the teachings that I've learned to reformat the sidu the prayer book and shorten it to specific places in order to enable everyone to have an easier time to have the right intentions but as soon as I was working on it these three men came in and they were three of the representatives from Heaven of the the men of the great assembly the men of the great assembly from the time of the bet mikdash some were prophets these were the Sedin these were people that Hades prophecy the Sid was written by them even though the prayer of Shak was instituted BYU was by uh BYU and was by says still the uh the rest of the words from Psalms and from other places were instituted by and they didn't just put whatever made sense whatever sounded good but rather based on their knowledge pure knowledge due to prophecy Ines of which specific words open up specific gates in Heaven at specific times and therefore they came to me that although my intentions are good they are not the will of hem but to show me cavod for all the things that I do and everything they said that you can write a special prayer before the prayer and Institute that and this is one of the many contributions to the prayer of all of now here he's telling us to accustom ourselves to say that we are performing this action for the sake of the Union of the Holy One and his to give pleasure to the Creator and in the prayer of r one of the segments says as follows we would pray this to hasem and this is a translation of it our father in Heaven compassionate God help us unite our hearts thoughts words and all of our deeds and emotions those that we are aware of and those that we are not so that they are all directed to you truly and sincerely free of all improper thoughts purify our hearts and sanctify us sprinkle upon us pure water and purify us with your love and your mercy plant the constant love and fear of you in our hearts at all all times and in all places when we walk and when we sit when we lie down and when we rise may your Holy Spirit burn constantly within us for we constantly rely upon you and your greatness your love and fear your written and oral toah the revealed and the hidden and on your Commandments all for the sake of uniting your great and awesome name and thereby instituted a prayer that we say each morning right before you start which goes as follows for the sake of the Union of the Holy One and is don't misunderstand us to think that hem has Parts this is just simply how Hashem unveils himself just like you could uh you know you know show yourself through a face-to-face meeting you can show yourself through a phone call you can show yourself through a WhatsApp message message or a text message or an email Milli of but point is that hem unveils himself to us in different ways but it's all the same one God one piece there's no three there's no two there's no nothing there's just simply one which the ramb writes inim the Oneness of God is not in comparison to anything else to two to three there's just simply one God and the true understanding of It is incomprehensible to the human mind but says here that in for the sake of the Union of the Holy One in fear and in love in love and in fear anyone that's prayed is familiar with these words just read them in Hebrew perhaps to unify the name UD and K and and the K I say k instead of the he in perfect union in the name of all isra behold I accept upon myself his Divinity may be blessed and the fear and love of him for I am a servant of God and I will fulfill the Commandment to love your fellow as yourself for I do love every single Jew like my own soul I am ready to fulfill the Commandment to study t as well as the Commandments of and I'm ready to fulfill the commandment ofma and the morning prayer and all the Commandments that are connected to and included in them and similarly all the mitv I do this in order to please my Creator and not to receive any reward and my intentions are according to the understanding of Rish Shimon I accept upon the torah's 613 Commandments and all the Commandments of the rabbis and all of their details oh gracious God in your great compassion save me from my evil inclination and allow me to serve you in truth so May It Be Your Will amen May the pleasantness of the Lord Our God be upon us and the work of our hands established for us and the work of our hands establish it so here we see a prayer that many Jews say even before they start putting accepting upon us the obligation to pray accepting upon us the obligation to fulfill all of the mitv also reminding ourselves of how much we have to love each other and if a person starts off the prayer but still has hatred in his heart for his fellow Jew then obviously he starts the prayer on a you know with the left leg he's starting his prayer with a lie the same thing when a person says the Amid and he completes the amida but he still has arrogance in his heart because he thinks he's better than other people then really the whole prayer was a lie because at the end of theid talks about how you consider yourself to be dust and Ashes so what kind of dust and Ashes is arrogance so the more a person digs into the words of the sages whether it beIN or the other sages the more they will be able to understand whether we have truth in our in our mouths and our hearts or we have lies now the sages teach us that who created the world for his glory just like the says and as the prophet Isaiah says in chapter 43:7 everything that is called by my name I have created for my glory I have formed it and I have made it so we see that all of the mitv were're doing it to glorify God to sanctify ourselves and be worthy of glorifying God we we need his help to purify our dirty minds whether it's dirty for you know whether it's immorality or it's idolatry or its lies or whatever it is but again and again we repeat this whole notion of giving pleasure to God now how does it all add up the prophet Isaiah in chapter 29 will give us the first step of our understanding in this chapter the prophet is not saying the prophecy that's going to make us feel so good and nice about what we're doing because he's not only talking to the generation back then then he's talking to us and he says as follows chapter 29: 13 and 14 translation the Lord said meaning that the prophet is speaking in the name of God in as much as this people has drawn close with its mouth and with its lips it has honored me yet it has distanced its heart from me their fear of me is like wrote learning of human commands so here the Prophet is telling us in the first part that hashem's rebuke is not because we're not religious the opposite says yeah they pray they keep Shabbat they pray they say the blessings before they eat sure but they're not doing it with the right kavana they're not doing it with the right intention they're not doing it with a full heart and therefore says the prophet in the name of God behold I will continue to perform more wonders against these people wonder upon wonder the wisdom of its wise men will be lost and the understanding of its sages will become concealed this is an atomic bomb that was just told to us as the bom Mal says is telling us that we're doing the we're fulfilling them but it's only because we've become accustomed to them you grew up religious with religious parents and you learned from your parents to say a blessing before you eat so you do a blessing before you eat you learned from your parents to start off the day by praying so you pray you learn from your parents to eat kosher so you eat kosher but it's not because you're thinking deeper into the words of what you're saying of who you're talking to that you're actually in fact indebted to your creator that you're actually in fact something that is a miracle in itself that Hashem even allows you to exist in order to serve him and yet you're doing it just because you've become accustomed to it it became like a reflex and for that says the decrees to punish us with wonders upon wonders against us to such an extent so that anyone who sees what happens to us will be astonished and say wow you hear what happened to them one day they had the best defense system in the world the next day a bunch of degenerates with flip-flops broke through a billion dollar fence and killed thousands of people and took hundreds of hostages wow you heard what happened to them one day they have the most successful you know military next thing you know they're getting attacked to such an extent they can't even defend themselves they just uh got a rocket went through the whole system killed 12 kids well you hear what happened to them they went to visit their allies in a different country in America and the Allies although some showed up the main one being the president of the US did not even show up and the vice president that's running for reelection actually mocked the whole thing and all of these things are happening where one day it looks one way and the next day it's another another one day you look feel strong successful rich and the next day it's all like a negative Miracle an evil miracle happened for what says it's because even the from the religious community that are being done are not necessarily all being done in order to bring but rather because we've become accustomed to it this as a side note could be viewed in a certain way this is obviously mid mid this is measure for measure when we were not at Wonder at our with our you know we're not at Wonder with our own heart by the fact that we have the opportunity to serve a with the that we can actually serve AEM serve the creator of the world serve the King of Kings we actually have the opportunity to be among the chosen people to serve a and we're not even a wonder about it we're like yeah yeah you know I'm Jewish yeah sure sometimes unfortunately some people are even embarrassed of their Judaism like they're Jewish at home but when they go to business they pretend they're not instead of wearing a keeper they wear a baseball hat they changed their name they have a business name not because their name is difficult to say so they figured that instead of spending the first five minutes of every conversation explaining to people what the name is and why it says that no they just don't want the name to sound Jewish why because they're afraid of anti-Semitism they're afraid people won't do business with them they're afraid of this they're afraid of that instead of being at awe at the fact that a chose us to give us an opportunity to serve him instead of being at awe that a is there with us in the betet with us when we pray alone with us when we keep Shabbat with us when we say a blessing on a piece of food with us when we relieve ourselves in the bathroom and allowing it all to work without having extraordinary pain with us when we were with our wives and kids with us when we are rebuking our our our uh fellow workers employees fellow Jews children whatever it is with us at all times and we can use all of that to serve a and we're not at all that is upon us at all times and thereby we fulfill the mitvah but not necessarily because we're at all just because you know in the morning you got to pray you got to put on the filling in the afternoon you got to pray and at night you have to pray again and you know you eat you have to do a blessing and it's just another thing therefore there's the mid mid the measure for measure rebuke from Heaven that the prophet unveils here saying you are not at awe at your role in the world and therefore the awe will come from the eyes that see what happens to you I mean this is as scary as can be this is HP this is what not only happened this is what's happening as the says that had over 1.2 million prophets in our history over 1.2 million prophets in our history but only 55 of them as the says are actually mentioned and quoted in the tanak 48 men seven women why 55 and not the entire million not just because that would mean that the written Tor would literally be from here until the uh the Sun as far as the size of it but also because the Prophecies of the 1.2 million were relevant to their gener generation and therefore it's not relevant for you to read it today 3,000 years later which means that every single word every single sentence every single paragraph and needless to say every single prophecy that is in every one of these sentences every one of these chapters is relevant to you and I until the end of times every word in the tanak is relevant to our generation every word in the tanak is relevant to our lives nationally and individually and when a person is not at wonder that we are entitled we are privileged I should say we are privileged to be Servants of but we're carrying ourselves as if we're entitled to something and we treat our prayer as if yeah you know just another thing says if you're not at wonders I'll bring the Wonder in a different way I'll bring the Wonder in a different way why as the says in page 220 281 is investigating each and every heart not just what you did but how did you do it comments on what happened when was giving gifts for the mishkan and he says if you look at how the contributions the donations that were made by is how they're written and listed in the Tor you should be asking a question it's a little strange says in the beginning it list the gifts of the women that they brought the the N you know the the nose rings the the Rings after that it mentions the uh was uh was was donated the uh silver copper was BR brought by some of the people and then then only at the end the Torah mentions the donation of the n the people that were the leaders that they brought the Diamonds the stuff that's worth a fortune I mean you would think that the the biggest contributions usually would be listed first look at these generous people wow you know usually when you have some type of honorary commemoration for somebody that's a you know for donations let's say they build a new Yeshiva or new synagogue or or whatever campaign is happen and they mentioned the names who are they who did they mention they mentioned the top guy first the top family that donate Oh look The ruven Family donated a million dollars yay and everybody says good job okay and then you know the other families they donate 950 and 900 and 500 and so on and so forth and then eventually if there's enough time they'll mention little Steve that donated $100 fine no problem but generally top is first here's the opposite the greatest honor is given to the women that technically gave the least valuable least valuable goods and the least honor is given to the Presidents to the rich to the leaders that brought a fortune why says the comes to teach us something that does not get you know surprised or you know a uh it's not is not a in in in in awe of the value of what a person donates rather the way they donate why because because the merciful one he's investigating the heart checks and evaluates and weighs each of the actions based on the heart that gave them and therefore when he saw that the leaders brought the precious diamonds very valuable but yet he rejects it in a certain way values it the least why because they brought it last they brought it with laziness with lethargy and this is the ultimate witness as if you would have a thousand witnesses that they did not give these precious valuables with a full heart yet the women that brought their less valuable things had a lot of difficulty internally to get rid of their uh their jewelry women love jewelry despite all of this they as soon as they heard that there's a mitvah that mosu is telling him that you can contribute for the sake of Tora for the sake of the unification for the sake of the honor of to bring immediately they hurried to bring this to be the first ones to bring it to mhu and gave the jewelry right away to build the mishan the way that the women carried themselves and how they hurried is the ultimate witness that they gave their donations with all of the heart with complete love and with Sim to honor and that's why their donations were written as the first one in all of the donations because the way that a person serves a testifies of how much they what they think about Hashem how important Hashem is to them and even though theim the leaders had a much more valuable uh donation it gets listed last because he looks and investigates the heart not the amount of course if a person has a lot and he's the first donor but only donates $100 then obviously this is also a testimony that they're not really giving with a real with a full heart so don't think it's just because you're the first donor but you're not giving appropriately that's not that's that's still okay it's not about who's first and who's last it's what's in your heart when you gave because wants our heart not just empty words not just empty actions not just empty blessings and empty prayers which all of us un are guilty of at one point or another now since we're already going to the I want to share with you something beautiful that will give us even more clarification as we try to understand what it means what does it mean to being now of course if a person sees themselves just starting out doing cha they're relatively new they don't really know that much so they think okay listen you know perhaps I'm not even in the equation of bringing to but the guys theik they're giv who are theik who are theik perhaps it's you yeah but I don't know that much well let's see what who are these sadik comments in Bak from a couple of weeks ago in chapter 24 verse number six where it's the prophecy of bam that's talking about am is where it talks about how goodly are your tents or yov your Dwelling Places oh Israel like Creeks stretching out like Garden by a river like tents pitched by hasem like Cedars by Waters he gives this whole parable about and the tells us what's the meaning here he says page 105 and also 21st chapter expounded on this verse in many ways and his further explanation that the is going to tell us he says the Torah here is speaking about the four groups ofik four groups of righteous people that exist among hashem's people who are these four one group consists of people like Shi who not only learned tah devotedly and teach it to those who came to him but also go around all of is to teach all the Jewish people Torah and each and every year as stated by the sages of blessed memory in M Shabbat page 56a so someone that does kiru someone that helps people do chva top of the list as we've said many times over the years but there's a second group of sikim what are the second group of sikim the second group of were entirely dedicated to Torah and learning Torah to learn and also to teach it to issues rulings of law this is the group that is installed in thek gazit the chamber of of the unstone on the Temple Mount which engages in Torah and issues rulings of law this group is essentially the same category as the first except that one who seeks the word of hem would have to come to them where went beyond them in that he would go around is to teach people the first one top sadik is one that makes sure that people have toah whether they're located here where he lives or they located in China so he makees sure that he's going to they have TOA or they have tah in uh Uruguay or they have tah in Colombia or they have tah in California or they have tah in New York wherever it is he makees sure that there's to there today it's much easier to get the to into many places because of Technology but there still has to be an enormous amount of investment of effort and money to get there the second group also teaches tah but they're focused on whatever is around them they have they have a they'll teach somebody wants to come to that's the second level ofik they learn T day and night and they teach their whoever is whoever comes to them fine what's the third group ofik the third group ofik says studies the Tor for its own sake to analyze and understand its pleasant words the previous group groups surpasses this one because it both learns and teaches tah but still one that learns toah just for the sake of understanding the depth the beauty the Holiness of each word in the Torah still part of the many of the were not discovered until their later years whether it be the Steinman or or many of the that we see today and we see you see their pictures in their later years many times because the world didn't know that there's such great sikim until later on because they were studying they were doing everything in the cave alone away from everyone and only after hasem wanted them to unveil themselves to the world that they actually unveil themselves and became someone at the Seminary Torah all over the world but needless to say one that toils and toils and learns toah certainly in the category of tadim and then there's the fourth group the fourth group does not learn a lot of tah but rather it supports the Learners and goes out to work and earn a livelihood to find food of mankind in order to support the tah and Bam uses four metaphors to describe these four levels of tadim regarding the group like group like Shmi he says like Creeks stretching out meaning they act like a flowing Creek which extends its Waters from place to place so that others are able to drink from it so to are the people from this group who trouble themselves to give drink to those who thirst for Living Waters of tah regarding the second group bam says they're like a garden by a river the garden by the river which is planted in a particular place and produces fruit and anyone who wishes to benefit from it may come to benefit but some of the fruits are carried away from the garden to nourish those that are distant so some even the one that teaches in their Yeshiva in their K doesn't mean that their Torah is not going to be disseminated in other places it will some people will take the fruit what they learn Torah they learn and go somewhere else teach somewhere else uh influence somewhere else it's just not in the same level as the one that that their priori is pretty much taking on the whole world similarly this second group is installed inaz and anyone who wishes to benefit from their Torah will come to benefit and their fruits travel to far away places for students come there and gain wisdom from them and then go and give drink to those who thirst for Tora as it says in the uh seph the book of Isaiah chapter 2:3 from Zion will the Torah come forth and the word of hem from the third group that belah mentions is those that learn Tora for themselves and lack the capacity to confer and transmit it to another bam says these are like the tents pitched by AEM this is like yobu who was a wholesome man abiding by the tents and the tents to learn to offer himself and the last one is the fourth group regarding the fourth group says bam they're like Cedars of by water Cedars which are tall Barren trees meaning that they are wealthy they have money even if they're not wealthy but they contribute to toah as much as they can they're like a cedar tree they're tall in a sense that they have strength and might in this world but they bear no fruits in t since they don't study Tor and says I've written in several places that only the fruit of the Torah is is truly called a fruit and therefore the sages explain thead in page 202b where where mosenu when he went to war Hashem says do not destroy the trees for you will eat from it this is hinting to the fact that a person that has Torah is producing fruit and the metaphor that bam is saying here is that the Cedars are by the water for even though these people that dare not Torah Scholars they're not teaching the world they're an average person but their spiritual strength is derived from the Waters of the Torah because they're investing into the Torah and since they support the people who study Torah which is compared to water they will benefit from the waters themselves in the world to come since a person who supports those who study tah shares reward with them as is well known and written in many places the intent of the whole statement is to convey that all of the Jewish people stand at the root of Holiness which is the Torah and even those who are engaged in matters of this world working business and so on are attached to the Torah by the virtue of supporting those who study it up to here is the and of course I've mentioned to you guys that in the uh SE uh commentary on the by Shalom he brings that said in the name of the that a person that does meaning invest into the Tora to the point where they're doing a deal of they pay the expenses of a Torah scholar according to the law some say they're supposed to give literally 50% of their money 50% of their income to the Torah scholar 50% of themselves others say doesn't necessarily need to be 50% it just needs to be all of the expenses of the Torah scholar and whatever is left over is for the uh the worker so even if it's more than what the Torah scholar is getting either way says someone that does this whatever the scholar learned the investor will know that t in sh so he learned the entire you're going to know the entire he learned the entire you're going to know the entire such is the benefit of those who invest into the T but needless to say we saw here that the ones that at the top of the spiritual letter are those that learn Torah teach Torah to the public those that do K in so many words in the category of they saying this is they're the highest now he's not the only one It also says in the prophets as the SE from nearly a thousand years ago mentions in the fourth chapter perhaps the most famous chapter not just in this book but probably the most famous chapter in in in books of musar in the world he talks about different sikim and he says the highest who is he talking about those that do kiru and he says as follows the Prophet Daniel says in Chap 12:3 and those who turn the many to righteous shall shine like the stars forever and ever meaning those that help other people do chv leave their wickedness and start keeping to they're like the stars they're above and beyond even the rest of the or says for those who rebuke there will be delight and a good blessing will come upon them this is Proverbs 24:2 when an upright individual has acquired the Merit of promoting righteousness in others together with the Merit of his own righteousness and the Merit of his faith and patient submission he will be considered by the Creator worthy of receiving the reward of the world to come see here the is in essence giving us a picture of the ultimate sadik ultimate sadik he is learning he is teaching he is disseminating he is doing good things amazing what's the point of all this because we've learned all this before this is the point as good as this person is as much of a sadik as he is we're not talking about the one that's just investing into the tah or the one that's learning to just for himself we're talking about top of the top so obviously if this applies to the top of the top needless to say it applies to everybody else right says as follows and listen to these holy words words of the Living God listen to these words and you'll understand everything and the point of everything I just said and your role in the world and where we stand this is what the is saying even if a human it's the same page by the way this is the same page of which is in English called trust in God fourth chapter this what he says even if a human being Good Deeds were as numerous as the Sands of the sea they still would not be equal to even one of the favors bestowed upon him by the Creator may be exalted in this world all the more so if he committed a sin if the Creator were to hold a man strictly to account and demanding gratitude for these favors all his Good Deeds would be neutralized and erased by the smallest of the Creator's favors towards him any reward bestowed upon him by the Creator is not deserved on the account of his deeds but is the result of God's grace towards him punishment however in this world and the next is justly deserved a debt that man must pay only that God's grace overcomes it in both worlds as it is is written in the uh uh Grace oh God is yours which is in Mish or also it says but he The Compassion it would Grant atonement for sin and would not destroy so here saying as great as a person is even if he's a top upper of upper echelons ofik he does he does he does this and he he's great he's amazing he prays with 100% kab if you compare the greatest of his good the greatest of her good it is neutralized and erased in comparison to any of the kindness that gives you gives you the ability to see can you ever repay him gives you the ability to hear can you ever repay him gives you the ability to wake up every day can you ever repay him he gives you food the saate you and you don't choke in the process of eating this food can you ever rep pain for not choking he makes your meat produce rocks which you call teeth that allow you to chew food can you ever repay him for the teeth can you ever repay him for your wife for your husband can you ever repay him for your children can you ever repay him for giving you a job that gives you enough money so you can survive needless to say if you prosper can you ever repay him can you ever repay a for making that ailment that you had that you thought was going to end your life and now you're still alive and walking can you ever repay him can you ever repay him for removing a headache that you felt was going to make your head explode and you thought that this is it my life is over this headache is never going to go away cuz that's the feeling everyone that's in pain feels when you are in pain you feel like this is the way it's going to be forever the toothache will never go away wow how I'm going to get used to this toothache how I'm going to live the rest of my life with this toothache somebody has an infection has something in their eye has something in their leg they feel like wow this is like a new life how I'm going to live the rest of my life with I can't live like this they start losing hope in life because they think that they're going to have to live the rest of their life with this pain with this toothache with the headache with the financial problems this is the reason why people kill themselves because they think that whatever miserable situation that they're in this is the way it's going to be forever and those that are clever enough to trust in hasem and continue and never kill themselves never do any harm to themselves but continue moving forward continue continue praying to hasem see that that horrible situation passed we overcame we're going to overcome overcome these problems and they see wow the headache is gone the infection is gone the toothache is gone the financial problems are gone a woman that was Barren now has kids a man that was single and he was already in his 40s found a wife can you ever repay a for what he gave you any one of those can you ever repay him can you ever repay for any one thing no and this is what the is saying to you saying to us this is really for all of mankind can you ever repair k no even if you're the most righteous of righteous of righteous you're do K and you spread toah in 15 different languages in Mandarin in in uh in uh Korean in uh Spanish in uh Russian in French German English Hebrew and whatever other topic you possibly can or language you can you're doing everything you possibly can for's children to learn the truth of the Tor and you're doing and you're sacrificing your life you're sacrificing your time you're sacrificing your health you're sacrificing your money you're sacrificing your wellbeing can all of that righteousness compared to even one good thing that did for you no and this is the reason says why does not elaborate on reward and Punishment in the world to come in the Tora because the practice of goodness is two kinds one of these is concealed only a who observes it he sees what's he's the only one that knows that now you're happy he's the only one that knows that now you're depressed and he's the one that gives you all of the opportunities to make things better the kindness that he gives you is behind the scenes it's not some big bank account that all of a sudden appeared it's not a treasure that everybody could realize no it's the feeling in your heart a feeling you wake up in the morning and you feel like you're loved by your loved ones and not just a one-way Street a feeling that you have of confidence in whatever it is that you're dedicated to a feeling of of connection to gives you that this is a reward that only he knows about and of course you're the one that feels the other kind is observable it's physical movement that's not concealed from people bigger house cars kids wife husband and so on in so many words when a person evaluates all of the kindness that aadh gives them even if you don't look at the material that everybody sees the bank account that you have or the house that you have or the kids that you have or the family you have or the company you have or whatever it is that you have that everybody sees even if you don't address that you just simply address the stuff that no one sees that only a knows about can you ever repay him for the feeling you have when you are happy genuinely happy the feeling you have that you have a purpose in the world can you ever repay him for feeling love and receiving it can you ever repay him this is a lesson of all lessons that is trying to teach us that we are performing all of the mitv for the sake of the Union of the Holy One and is to give pleasure to the Creator blessed is he and the says require kavana there are some that say that you still fulfill the obligation even if you don't have kavana but needless to say in order for us to give this pleasure to the Creator we have to have our hearts in tuned with our purpose our hearts in tuned with the Creator that we're doing this to bring Pleasant pleasure to him but what is this pleasure to him after we've learned that even if we were the most righteous people on planet Earth We're still indebted to him we can still never pay him enough so what does it mean that we give him pleasure Rashad writes in the place where we talk about the the incense offering he says that when brings the incense offering it's it's a pleasing smell to hem but of course we know hem doesn't smell eat see the physical attributes so what does it mean says rash hem created the world in order to instill good he is the ultimate good and he wants to give us good meaning that his will is in order to justify the good that he gives us so when we do his will such as bring the or say a blessing or givea or learn Torah or all of the mitv that we do we are in essence bringing pleasure to hasem not that he Satisfied by it where he gets some type of physical pleasure like you get from eating a steak or eating ice cream no where he sees that his children are doing what he put them in the world to do and therefore he can now fulfill his Ultimate Will and purpose of this world which is to justify giving us the good that he wants to give us now you would ask why can't he just give it to us anyway well he did before we came to this world but we didn't we since we were created in His image if you will not image physical image where we have the ability to decipher right and wrong anyone that gets everything for free eventually feels bad about it if you're a normal person you start disliking or even becoming tortured by the good that you get without a purpose so if you give your children a present every day for no reason they woke up here's a present they ate present they didn't eat present they did something good present they they did something bad present guess what in no time those kids are not going to Value the presents but if you give them a present because they just completed a SE they just learned they did a on one of the books that you bought them that learned t or they cleaned their room or they helped their parents or they improved Their Manners or they apologized or whatever it is they did something good guess what whether that present is big or not very valuable or not to them it certainly holds a lot more value why because they earned it the same thing is with everybody else adults if a person earns something they value it much more that created us with his name within us created us with a nature where we're not looking for free gifts we want to earn them we want to earn our place we want to earn our purpose and since he is good he created us with a good nature and the good nature cannot be good if it's only receiving good wants to instill good that's what good is if you're a person that's just a taker you only want to take free stuff free teaching free books free money free this free free free free free and you don't contribute guess what you are a miserable person without even knowing you I can tell you for sure you're a miserable person why because good is only created through giving not by taking not by taking especially if you take a lot you start hating the giv so now rash says when aadh created the world he is the ultimate good and he wanted to instill good he wanted to give us good but in order for us to enjoy the good we had to earn it and therefore he put us in this world in order for us to earn it by over overcoming the obstacles the obstacles that look enticing because it's temporary good temporary good of immorality temporary good of stealing temporary you know not good as temporary benefit the benefit of stealing so you have it now instead of working for it the benefit of immorality so you have her now instead of earning it but the temporary benefit eventually he detested it's never appreciated in fact it never creates happiness but if a person truly does the will of hem they do good and they earn good and when aadh sees that his children are doing his will which is to their benefit the words that it say it gives pleasantness to Hashem simply means that he sees that his children are doing his will and thereby he could reward them which is his will also and they will enjoy the reward that he gives them because they earned it this is most applicable when it comes to relationship where anytime there is love you have everything if you don't have love you have nothing now is asking us to give us his heart to give us our heart give him our heart when we serve him when we pray when we eat when we study when we give when we contribute whatever it is that we're doing is teaching us that we must take upon ourselves to have the right cavana meaning have our hearts invested in our actions and not just do things in a way where it's like robotic in a way where it's just like a reflex you just pray because it's the time to pray you just study because you have nothing else to do or that's what everybody else is doing in the Yesa if we bring our hearts and put our hearts into it we'll have every benefit from it when we don't put our hearts into it unfortunately turns into a curse and that's why the teaches the can be or some it could either be the drug of life or the drug of death if somebody invest everything that they have into learning Torah in order to fulfill it the Torah is the drug of life it literally brings life into a person they're happy naturally they don't need any outside factors to stimulate their happiness whether it be money or or or or or anything else any type of physicality they're happy naturally they're optimistic naturally they have a purpose naturally they don't need anyone to influence them why because to does everything for them they have a deep connection with why because they're learning to fulfill but if a person studies Tah but not to fulfill it rather to argue with against it rather to contradict it rather to forsake it rather to just simply for the sake of knowledge but not necessarily for the sake of application then the Torah becomes some of it the drug of death meaning that they actually become worse of a person as a result of it because what aad is telling us he wants our heart and really you could apply this to all types of relationships not just the relationship that you have between you and a even the relationship that a student has with their Rabbi or a man has with his wife a wife has with a husband or you have with your kids if a person understands the significance of of this they'll easily understand what the sages taught in the and in many one man went into the market crying out saying when we were in love we could both stand on the tip of a knife together in comfort and happiness but now that there's no love even a field the size of what's comparison today a football field and a half is too small for both of us to be in together meaning that when there's love and that love is not based on him giving her something her giving him something it's not based on any material that it doesn't matter if there's material if there's true love between a couple where he loves her for who she is and he's going to do everything possible to help her life help her happiness help in any way make her happy in any way that he has if he has money he uses money and he's not cheap if he has intellect he uses intellect and he's not distant if he has good words to say he's generous with his words he's there to better her life without ever doing it for the sake of her giving it back to him and how do we know she loves him because she does the same thing she is looking to make his life better in any way that's within her means if she has resources she gives him the resources if she has the uh the ability to bring uh to cook food she'll cook food for him if she has the ability to fix something she fixes something if she has the ability to teach something she teaches something if she has the ability to share her you know uh be an emotional support intellectual support she's there whatever is within her ability whatever is within within her resources she's willing to give it all to him with no limitations without ever expecting him to return anything back to her but if it's like unfortunately a lot of The Superficial relationships that are temporary then people make their relationships based on something he is with her so long as she looks a certain way he is with her so long as she acts a certain way in his a uh Society he wants her to obey his command like she's some servant of course a good woman follows her husband but some people take this too far to the point where they literally think that their wives are slaves where he could do whatever he wants including adultery but she can't say anything about it unfortunately this disastrous type of mentality is very common today and unfortunately some women and I'm telling you from real stories people that have come to me they didn't realize the mistake that they were making when they were marrying a man for money because she said listen I didn't come from a rich house I was okay but he has very very successful and he was nice to me at the time and I wanted to have a nice house and a certain place and uh so okay but what about everything else the relationship the purpose no you know that wasn't necessarily a priority well guess what they got married she had three four five kids and now all of a sudden Mr Wonderful he's not as attracted to her as he was when she was a 20-year-old thin before pregnancy woman so now he decides that he's going to find somebody else and has so much that he doesn't even hide it he doesn't even hide it when she tells him what's this oh yeah yeah that's that's my girlfriend what what what's the problem what do you mean we're married five kids he goes well if you don't like it do something about it you want to leave leave you and the five kids this human waste used her abused her and there's nothing that she feels she can do about it and if this was one story I wouldn't even tell you unfortunately these are numerous stories and they keep coming in women that married for money end up regretting the day they were born end up regretting the day they were born why because at some point they realized that they married for money he married for looks when her looks changed his money didn't change so he thinks he deserves looks somewhere else physical somewhere else and what about the kids that I gave him yeah thank you you got the kids too yeah but what about I cooked I cleaned I helped I this yeah good you benefited from it too but still I want the 20-year-old I still wanted this and this demented disgusting mentality is coming today and the moment anyone doesn't like it what Divorce Court divorce court and if you think this is just the rich people people problem you're wrong rich people poor people people marry for looks people marry for money people marry for position people marry for status people marry for all types of superficial reasons and the sages already told told us in the a love that's dependent on something is a love that will not exist it won't last a love that does not depend on anything that love will last the love that has for us is not dependent on anything the love that Amel has to their creator must not depend on anything so much so that the Tau his great that even if somebody learns T and does but for the sake of going to heaven it's not really it's not t for the sake of bringing honor to hem it's toah for a reward he said you should aim to serve AEM with complete complete heart what's a complete heart you're not even thinking about reward you're allowed to think about reward but the reward should not motivate you you should serve hasem because you're indebted to him you should serve hem because it's good to do good and you want to emulate the ultimate good which is HEM and therefore when there is a relationship where that relationship depends on something it's only a matter of time before that relationship deteriorates and eventually ends who wants a wife that's only there when he has money would you want to be married to a woman that so long as you had a lot of money and you were able to give her a card that she could buy whatever she wants and that's the way she's going to be there for you but the minute that you don't have that your credit card gets declined that the bank is telling you please give us the plastic back maybe we'll be able to get a couple of pennies from it because getting payments from you is not going to happen there's no money to buy anything you barely have enough money to pay the rent pay the mortgage pay the food and all of a sudden your wife doesn't treat you the same way like I didn't you cook anything uh yeah but I ate it already why don't you cook for me oh well you cook for yourself what there's no other food no there's food but I figured uh you know since you're not bringing any money why should I cook for you what what what do you mean but you're eating at least make for me no no no why you make more money I'll cook for you does anybody want to marry a woman like this raise your hand if you want to marry a woman like this that only cook cooks for you only cleans for you only says hello to you if you give her a spending account if you give her whatever physical possession she wants in the minute you don't want that's it she doesn't want to talk to you you want to marry somebody like this even the Satan doesn't want to marry somebody like this who wants to marry somebody like this but unfortunately that's what we have in the world today we have in the world today people that literally set themselves up for this he sells them self to her based on listen I have money you want money so therefore we should be together he's not thinking that maybe one day he's gonna since life is a circle as the wife OFA said to him that you could be rich today but since the circle you could be poor one day he's not thinking about the day he's going to be poor he thinks he's since he's Rich today he's going to be rich forever and he has no problem selling himself and pitching himself as if listen you should be with me cuz I have money and she says fine you know what I do want money so I'll marry you as long as you give me whatever I want but the moment money stops the well is dry the river becomes a dirt road no more credit cards no more new dresses no more new shoes he even has to sell her jewelry just so they could have some some food to eat all of a sudden she starts looking at her options who else is available does anybody want to marry a woman like this now everyone's going to say no but how many of you are in a situation like that or know somebody that's in a situation like that I know everyone is raising their hand right now even without seeing your hands everyone knows somebody why because Society has trained people to to build these types of relationships superficial types of relationships where you have to bring something in order to get something it's more like a business transaction on Wall Street than it is a marriage like our forefathers the same goes in the opposite where the husband is only willing to share what he has to offer whether it be his money or his time as long as she looks like she did when he first married her the second she gains a few extra pounds the second she has some type of skin condition she doesn't know the solution for the second she is not in the most pristine mood as if she was just born into the world with happiness she's a little depressed she's a little Moody all of a sudden he doesn't want to come home tonight honey where are you um I'm with my friends what do you mean with your friends it's already 12:00 at night yeah I don't think I'm going to come home today why why not is that something good yeah everything's good just I'm not coming home today when are you coming home I don't know he doesn't come home for a week why because she doesn't look like the same because she's this because she's that he doesn't want to be the support for her would you ever want to marry a guy like this that he's only there for you when you're happy when you look your best when everything is perfect it's like as if she's he's only married to you when you went to the mik but if you're n he's out of the mouth he's out of the house he doesn't want to be there half the month he's with his friends he goes on vacation with his friends every month you want to marry a guy like this which woman wants to marry G like this well guess what if your main selling point in life in your relationships was your good looks you are setting yourself up to be that miserable woman that one day has a husband who's disgusted by her not just doesn't want to be disgusted by her why cuz he's thinking look when I got married I had a million I had 2 million I had five million and she looked like arm candy now I got 50 million she she looks more like a keg why do I deserve this why is she doing this to me why this why that why does he say this because he got into this relationship because you pitched yourself you brought yourself you represented yourself as a blessing to the world in physicality the minute that blessing turned into normaly he doesn't want it anymore he thinks that you're hurting him do you want to be in a relationship like that well if you keep walking around imod for the world to see what your bodies looks like when they're not supposed to know that's what you're going to have why because it's a love that's not real it's a love that is based on something the same goes for relationships that people have with with their rabbis if the person is only willing to teach people that donate a lot of money then guess what they're willing to teach no one they're just willing to sell information like a data company they're only willing to distribute information to people that are willing to pay for it so that's not a rabbi that loves people that's a rabbi that's willing to give information two people that happen to have bank accounts that are operational and happen to have a lot of numbers in there but the same goes otherwise if you're only willing to listen to what the Rabbi says so long as it agrees with your predisposition with what you already feel is right or you're only willing to listen to the rabbi as long as he doesn't need any money from you for his organization because you don't want it to cost anything you're not willing to contribute back then guess what you are being that person that you don't want to be that that you that you don't want someone to be like that to you you just want to be a taker where if you're a person that's only willing to listen to things that you already agree with then that means you're not looking to learn you're looking for Yes Men and a relationship that is a such is not a relationship with real love it's a relationship that is temporary and unfortunately one of the things that you learn the more you do this the more you teach people the more you reach out the more people reach out to you is the more you see who's real and who's fake they can call you mashia one day and then they'll call you the Satan's son the next day how could such a thing happen very simple you are mashiah so long as you didn't rebuke them for the wrong they were doing the minute you reuk Reed them the minute you told them that the M that you teach applies to them all of a sudden you are the enemy all of a sudden you're not good or worse yet if you were available at certain times but you're not available at other times all of a sudden no you're not good I'm going to have to find somebody that's more available wait so you want me to be what like a like like your Shadow I have to be available at will like that's it like just like when you log on to your your email and it turns on you want me to Simply stop the tens of thousands of people also and just attend to you and the minute you don't answer the minute you do anything you're no good anymore these types of experiences they're a necessary part of the painful path to good because in order for person that truly appreciate good they have to see both sides they have to see this is the good one this is the bad one now one of the Beautiful Stories that I heard from my r that shows the love of a between a rabbi and a talmid is a study is a story about one of the great Giants in the past generation he was KES Kim he was someone that had extraordinary memory abilities and suffering and he had a Yesa with 4,000 students and other places with thousands of others literally the budget was tens of millions of dollars tens of millions of dollars that he had to raise to continuously to fund all of this just to be able to remember all of the names you would think I mean literally you need a computer but it's not really just remembering 4,000 names because every year there's more coming in anyway in the SE called tells a story about where American parents came to the for advice he told him they have a 17-year-old kid that uh unfortunately he's a not only a troublemaker because if you're a troublemaker but at least you're really really smart you're a genius you know eventually you could get the trouble out and just keep the genius but he was not only a troublemaker but he was also a little bit clueless let's just say that and they said listen we both work we don't have time to Babys seit this kid what can we do with him he got kicked out of every Yeshiva goes to thisa they don't want him that yes they don't want him like he's not doesn't want to do anything he just causes trouble says to them bring him to me bring him to me I'll take care of him the parents they don't really know what their son who's clueless is going to do at the top Yesa in the world but if the rabbi wants wants the babysit him for a little while longer fine great we'll take it the kid goes there 17-year-old kid goes the rabbi designates a for him to learn with of course the kid is struggling just to sit there even but you know he goes through the motions for a little while after a few months the rabbi announces that he's going to he's inviting whoever wants to come no one's obligated to come but whoever wants to come to the rabbi's house he's going to have a of M and whoever wants to come comes of course bunch of people come and this kid comes the 17-year-old attends and the rabbi is talking about how to attain the love of Torah and he's talking about the love of Torah passionately and anyone that saw saw a video of the rabbi or saw had the Merit to see him in real life knows that to see the rabbi you know move and so on it's very very troubling he had Parkinson's suffered tremendously but you'd never see his face without a smile always smiling from ear to ear but suffering endlessly and he's teaching them that in order to have love of the toah to acquire the love of toah requires not a minute less of learning 12 hours per day 12 hours per day if you want to acquire the love of toah and he says and I'm willing to give anyone here that is willing to take learning 12 hours per day every day for the next week a thousand shekels this stories about 30 40 years ago thousand shekels still meant something back then so now even though this 17-year-old Troublemaker whose Kess wasn't exactly a but he knew business he knew a thousand shekels sounds good he said I'm going to try it why not so the next day he's with hisab the first hour goes by smooth second hour a little more difficult but he goes there sticks with it third hour he's starting to lose his mind a little bit three hours straight learning to smoke is starting to come out of the ears already he's having a tough time but he thousand shekels thousand shekel a lot of money it's a lot of money I only to do it just just for six days six days that's it it's all I got to do it's not even a full week not seven days six days that's it six days 12 hours a day got a th000 shels push on fourth hour fifth Tower changes maybe somebody else maybe he could talk to him instead of just listening and uh he does whatever he can long story short he survives the day 12 hours at the end of the day he can't believe he did it I don't know how I'm going to have the energy to do it again tomorrow but we'll try the next day same thing starts off the day an hour two hours 3 hours 4 hours struggling literally just doing everything he possibly can to stick with it always thinking about thousand shekels thousand shekels by the end of the second day he is his brain is fried practically he's like oh I did it but there's no way I'm gonna have the energy to do this tomorrow studying for 12 hours for anyone who hasn't done it don't think for a second don't think for a second that it's anywhere near easy studying t for 12 hours certainly will will be the most difficult thing you've done in your life needless to say if you do it on a regular basis this is not just listening to music for 12 hours it's using your brain full capacity full Focus not just eating uh buas and drinking coffee all day this is serious studying 12 hours very difficult third day he can't believe himself he got the energy to start again but by the end of the third day even though he succeeded he's broken he's said I can't I can't there's no way there's no way in the world that I can do this for another day but then he thinks to himself what how I just I just I did half I did half and he starts praying to Hashem please hasm help me help me do it for the other half I did half you help me with the other half and he goes through the fourth day he has the energy he brings it out of him and he survives the fourth day he survives the fifth day he survives the sixth day he completes six days of learning to 12 hours per day now after this he goes to the rabbi's house and he comes to the rabbi Rabbi is sitting a beautiful smile on his face despite the agony and pain that he has Non-Stop and he says to the rabbi the I don't know if you believe me but after you said the studying the 12 hours I took upon myself to do it and I did it I really did study for 12 hours a day for the last week at that moment got up he was a very tall man but it was very difficult for him to move and he got up slowly and started walking towards this kid and he's slowly and slowly getting closer and closer to him and eventually he gets to him the kid doesn't know what to expect and the rabbi hugs him and gives him a warm kiss on the CH and then takes a th000 shekels and gives it to him the kid's so excited that when he leaves the house he can't believe that the rabbi the sadik The KES kashim just gave him a kiss on the cheek such love from the rabbi he never felt such love in his life he didn't even care about the Thousand shekels and this inspired the this kid to continue learning now although he wasn't able to study the 12 hours every day but he did dedicate more and more time to learning to and he stayed in the Yeshiva for the next two years after two years it was time to go back to America and he wanted to continue learning and of course it's customary that when you leave one Yesa to go to another you get a letter of recommendation and it's many of the have practically like a template yes this is one of our students he's a good guy and you know accept him thank you very much and so on but when the kid went to again remember this is a that at all times there are 4,000 students and there are new ones coming in an enormous amount of people the kid is not even sure if the rabbi's going to remember who he is it's not like he's learning with them oneon-one every day or anything thousands of kids huge huge facility enormous amount of K but he goes to the rabbi's house and he says for the if you could please uh write me a letter of recommendation I'm going to go to theine Lakewood by over days there was shine I need a letter if the rabbi would mind please give me one so they accept me the rabbi not only writes the letter but he remembers who this kid is he remembers that this kid learned 12 hours a day for a week he remembers everything and he writes the kid a special letter Toler and he says in all of my days I have never seen such elevation of spirit uality as I saw with this young man the kid gets the letter of all letters to bring to the ISA of Lakewood and continue his learning now you would ask yourself with most people that work in a company that has 30 40 50 people surely they don't know everybody's name you may know your coworker your direct colleagues but but most likely you don't know what the janitor's name is you don't know what the cleany people's names are you don't know what the door man's name is needless to say if you work in a big company with 4,000 employees most people don't even know who works there needless to say their names here we see not only knowing the names but knowing everything that happened with it every single boy do you know why he knew because when there is love you remember you remember and this is one of the things that if a person understands their role in the world they're not going to just do what the Torah say to do just because they were programmed to do it they're not even going to Aspire to do it just for the sake of getting a reward for it or eliminating the punishment but rather because they want to have love for and it's very easy for a person to find the reasons of why they should love AEM if they simply count the endless blessings that they have and miracles they have every single day a person that does not have happiness is a person that does not know their creator because if you knew their your creator if you knew all the kindness that your creator is giving you you'd be happy just simply for that even if you are suffering with certain parts of your life you'll find a lot of happiness with others you'll see a connection and that's why says that it doesn't matter what you're doing whether it's Torah study Prayer performance of any of the MIT regardless of what you're doing you have to accustom yourself to say that you're doing this for the sake of the Union of the Creator to give pleasure to the creator meaning you're doing it in order to show that you recognize he's your creator you acknowledge that he's the one and only God that you acknowledge the fact that his will will is to your benefit and when you fulfill his will he could even give you more good than you can possibly imagine on your own and that's why and many of the not only encouraged the to sign where a Torah scholar would study and a person that works in the business world would contribute the donations and give money to The Scholar even though there were some people that were worried because there are some that say well if I'm studying Torah and he's working yes I benefit from the money that he gives me so I could pay my bills but the amount of reward that he's going to get for my Torah learning is much greater than the money that he's giving me and and I'm afraid that according to some I lose 50% I lose 50% of my mitv because he's the one that's donating says I'm not going to deal with the aspect of it even though by the way writes that someone that learns and uh has the does not lose any of the of the reward he still keeps 100% of the reward and another 100% goes to the person that invested in him but either way even if you were to lose even if you were to lose 50% of the reward for learning to you should still be happy to do it and anyone that do does not want to sign Sayan not because they already have money or because they don't need more but only because they don't want to lose their reward he says anyone that does not sign a Ison is selfish why selfish because you're studying toah purely for the reward and you want to keep 100% of the reward while although that seems logical you're ignoring the fact that due to your selfishness of wanting to keep the 100% of the reward another Jew is not going to be able to fulfill a Mitzvah that brings to so you don't really care about bringing n to to hasm you just care about your reward what kind of scholar are you and when it tell heard this they understood there's much more of a purpose than you knowing more Torah you knowing more knowledge it's also to bring to sanctify the name of a to be able to say I filled my purpose who created the world for his glory for his name to be everywhere for all of us to serve him for all of us to be able to justify the good that he gives us and wants to give us and by me getting another Jew to learn toah to support toah to follow mitv to fulfill them that means that has more Jews in the world doing his will that means it's going to be even more to and not like the Heretics that think that oh if you're giving to hasem that means he needs you dust will be put into the mouth of people that think such a thing and say such things doesn't need anything he is perfect in every shape of the way beyond our comprehension that is for our purpose it's for our sake he wants to give us good he doesn't need to give us good he's already perfect but because his will is to bring more good to the world benefit more people than when we do his will we justify getting that benefit we'll be able to enjoy that benefit there is no need on his part in any part of him but the only reason why people say such things is because what ends up happening is that they want to glorify themselves rather than God so they start off with well these MIT I don't really want to do them so if God needs them that means that I could help him now once a person starts thinking that way they turn the Creator the master into the servant into the recipient which also means that they could also justify to stop giving to the recipient if the recipient really being the master doesn't give them what they want you see this whole thing this whole psychology of heresy it's not based on just the ego of thinking that God needs you it's also making people think that if you serve God that means he owes you so you can serve him so long as he gives you good because he needs the mitv according to the Heretics which means that if he's not giving you the good if instead of giving you what you think is good he gives you October 7th then you could be like and Manis and the rest of the her itics that have all types of convoluted claims against God well if he's not doing good for us then he's going to he owes us or he he should say sorry and all types of stupid things it's hard for me to repeat the stuff so what ends up happening abai when a person failed at the first part of the lesson which is to first and foremost understand that before you even talk about bringing to hasem you first have to know where you stand and even if you are at the top of the ladder of as the said as the said as the rest of the the the everywhere you go there is levels top level you're the highest of high you're the that does K that goes from place to place that brings more people to Hashem even then the greatest good you've ever done does not amount to even the smallest reward that a gave you as the said which we read to you even if you have merits like grains of sand it still does not compare to the smallest amount of good that gives you whether it's Vision hearing air food and so on and so forth so when a person understands the foundation of where they started they start in is that automatically you're brought into this world you're already in debt that you can never pay back which automatically means that if you are in debt you can never ever give a uh a surplus to your debt holder meaning that so long as you carry the debt there's no such thing as giving the uh the debt owner extra because you first have to pay your debt it's like if somebody for example owes the bank $100 million they owe $100 million and the bank is willing to take payments how much you paying $1,000 a month okay fine the bank is a great bank it's only taking $1,000 a month even though you own $100 million now one month you have a really good month and you decide I'm going to pay the bank $10,000 you know what $100,000 you go to the bank oh pumped up make a big payment six fig check yeah where's the vice president of the of this branch he's in an appointment now I need to talk to him okay one second sir just wait your turn no no no it needs to be now I'm making a big payment right now okay they get the vice president oh yeah hi hi Mr Ren how are you yeah listen I know you're expecting only $1,000 towards my payment but look I want to help you out so here I had a good month is $100,000 okay thank you sir what that's it thank you I should get uh party over here for giv 100,000 You Should Be Dancing over here you should be celebrating me and the vice president the rest of the employees are looking at you like you're crazy and then you stop yourself and you realize why aren't they all impressed and then the Vice President says to you listen Sirah I don't want to embarrass you but even though we appreciate that instead of $1,000 a month you just made a payment of $100,000 uh when you compare that to the loan outstanding that you have of a $100 million it's inconsequential it's inconsequential so therefore when a person understands the foundation which is that we are forever indebted to a and the debt continues to grow every single second and therefore when you're bringing it is never In Your Wildest Dream ever to his benefit as there is no such thing you could ever do to benefit him but rather his will is to give you even another 100 $ million and by you doing his will by you giving that $100,000 he can now justify in his endless kindness that he has to give you another $100 million even though you can never pay back even the first 10000 million he's still going to give you another 100 million now you understand this is what is telling us that when we serve a we have to start thinking about how much we are indebted to him and how much kindness he gives us even though we are indebted to him the least we can do is serve him with our hearts not because it's ever going to pay back the loan but simply because it's the least we can do and if that's too much for us let's at least try that the next time we make a blessing you actually think about the blessing the next time you pray actually think about the prayer think about hasem and not your stock portfolio or your schedule at work or what you have to buy at the grocery store think about the actual prayer and if you can't think about the actual prayer the whole time you're praying at least think about the prayer when you're saying the when you're saying think about dying on Kem think about at least Hashem try and if you try there's no doubt in my mind you'll be able to succeed because at the end of the day is the one that's pushing you anyway you just have to push you just have to go in the right direction that he's pushing you thank you very much for learning with me May bless each and every one of you that's learned learning in order for the sake of doing anyone that wants to help and become partners with us in the not just the ongoing K and teachings that we're doing to become a partner to be one of these like even without being shm by being the fourth level that gains from the first level you could donate at BH tor.org you can support the current campaign that we have that for the big event coming up uh just the next few weeks inia to bring protection to is especially in that section of the world you could help us in general either way there's a lot that we can do especially if you guys help us and become partners with us thanks again for learning with us may bless everyone we'll learn more later this week call [Music] it [Music] let's go [Music] W you're trying to save the the price that's on the line is much 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