Enhancing Your Mitzvah - Rabbi Yaakov Altman

[Music] now occasionally it happens in your life that you have a certain experience you learn something you gain a piece of knowledge that radically changes your life okay when you walk into the experience you don't realize it's about to happen but this is going to be one of those experiences okay this is one of these easy things in life of Torah that is not so difficult it's not complicated and it's one of these life-changing happy positive easy powerful things to do you ready for this okay now I know what comes with different backgrounds different places so if I say anything that you understand or or it's not clear so please ask me because I want to get absolute clarity now it is the business of a person in this world to really be involved I'm assuming a lot of things now but if you have any question you can ask me it is really the business of a lie of a person who's living a life of Judaism to be involved in doing mitzvahs mitzvahs are the commands from God what does God want us to do these are the setups these are the ideal ways to live they're designed to maximize our achievement in this world the thing is when you do a mitzvah you can do it in a general way that's focused just on that Mitzvah which is fantastic or you can do in the mix the mix in many other flavors I want to explain to you what I mean it's an incredible thing a mitzvah is it is an act that is create a pocket of eternity of forever now what's called forever well when you're on the bus and taking a long time or you're driving someplace in this traffic and you say how this is taking forever so our use of the word forever is different than what forever actually is let's describe however daesil describes what forever is forever is imagine now we're on a mountain called hard-nose yeah karnov that's where we are the top of mountain imagine this mountain on a huge mountain imagine its mouth in the same size is made of sand mountain the size of hornoff made of sand that's big mouth and a lot of sand there imagine every 10,000 years a bird comes along takes one grain of sand and drops it into the ocean okay now ten thousand years is quite a long time let's explain to you what that means my grandmother she's arrested these she died about five years ago she died in almost 105 years old okay when she was when it was World War two she was just about 30 years old that's amazing a different planet right my grandma in the matter thought there's been plenty of time for that right so she's got the time capsule when she's a little kid there what cars people most people didn't have cars electricity was much less much less common that's only 110 years ago but what about what about a thousand years ago so thousand years ago when it gear it what a Europe look like no Spain no France no England no Germany no so you know nothing nothing right it was out of an empire few other things going on there it was a different universe if you go back ten thousand years I mean that's a different I mean everything's different ten thousands very long time so now every ten thousand years this little bird takes one little grain of sand and drops it into the ocean when the entire mountain is totally finished you haven't scratched the surface of forever you with me now when you do a mitzvah what you're doing is you're creating a reality to relive in the world to come let me explain to what I mean people think well if you believe in the world to come you live your life as a timeline you're born you live follow a period at the end you die right and then you continue living in the next world you join the next world now here but your line continues that's incorrect really what it is is that let's say your let's say your life is like a line across your hands right so you live it one time every moment creates a potential eternal reality in the next world so you re live the same life but every moment now is relived on an eternal level on a forever level so make sense no I mean in collection doesn't babysit leave dry factual you get the idea you know it's like a seat right imagine you you visit this vast forest that covers mountains and valleys incredible thing right does it make sense so when you go there all those but that whole valley and forest could have been started by one person who had a bunch of tree seeds like acorns whatever they are and walk through that travel and planted a bunch of seeds at first was really in a contained small container or maybe was a you know container like but it's definitely much smaller than the entire forest so what we're basically doing what we're doing in this world is we are gathering seeds in order to replant them in an eternal way in the next world does that make sense that's that the idea now the thing is forever is quite a long time so when you do a midst in this world you're planting the life that's going to live forever in the next world it's a much bigger picture than looking at just the picture of this world okay that's all discussion myself now since a mitzvah creates a reality that is forever if yes oh okay thank you for asking that question okay so the world that we live in right now is only is only a subtractive to dry run it's not the real reality no I don't mean that I mean that's spiritually speaking world we're in the physical world written right now is not the real reality it's a it's a preparation for the real reality all of all the world to come the world to come means a world that sets forever a god did not create the world in a way that he wants there to be an eternal period of time when we are tested and succeed fail succeeds that he wanted makes a limited amount of time when we can make it I mean it includes this world but forever really means the next world yeah the beginning of really enjoying and benefiting right Vidya exactly right right this is the next one you do benefit from all that food of your labor when you begin the next reality which is not as after death not now yes forever so to speak begins in that work okay I don't get lost in language they just need to say that that world is a world that never stops that's impossible for you and being to conceive of because we're all inside time anyway this is what we all want I don't be so theoretical only much more practical I'm just trying to give the emotional feeling of wow forever as much longer than I thought it was every 10,000 years one grain of sand of the mountain in the ocean and now the whole mountain is gone that's a long time but you didn't start forever you just started best very scratch nothing okay so it's forever is a big deal so what the purpose of this class is a bunch of things I want to give you I want to give you some juice I want to give you some energy I want to give you some some powerful intellectual and emotional ideas to give the Mitzvahs more power to realize what we're doing a lot of people lives in life and they realize like Oh life's important and it is certainly important and this world for sure is very important you have to live in a proper way in this world but we don't realize the power of what we're doing I'll give an example this is a book that I read many years ago someone tell me they made it into a movie it's called Enders game never heard of Ender's Game make a long story short there's a kid he's an orphan and they put him in a military school it's in the future and he is trained on a computer screen how to deal with all types of differences of battle tactics battle scenarios battle situations so he's the commander he has to call the shots and he keeps winning all these very difficult battles eventually battles become more and more and more difficult they're space battles against aliens make a long story short eventually he have to make some tough decisions that he saves and bleep the coin to be the game he saves humanity in the game in this simulation yeah turns out all of those simulations were not actually simulation they're actual battles and because the military generals realized that this guy is a military genius even though he's a kid they put him to the test and whatever he did on the screen is what they did in reality so he's actually issuing commands and he actually saved humanity against the bad guys the whole difficult thing the points like this he didn't realize the gravity the enormousness the importance of what he was doing when he realized afterwards they'd hit him like whoa who knew right it was a very scary moment right so now we're the same way in a beautiful way when you do things we don't realize the gravity of what we're doing now you're not supposed to feel heavy from thankful to feel excited and happy this is wonderful look what I can accomplish yeah when you do a kindness for somebody else that's an eternal act the person may remember it maybe they forget about it but be theirs you created a pocket of eternity that never ends that's an amazing thing if a person wastes their time they waste they had could have a moment of eternity they could have gotten in a positive way and they wasted it that's not the best thing on the planet now that's not the purpose was class what I want to say is the following that's an introduction if amidst will create an eternal reality if you can slightly increase the quality of your mitzvot of the act that you do that is you'll get a return on your money on your investment that's beyond anything in the universe you're slightly increasing eternity just by one millimeter I'm just using physical time so you get the idea you make something just a little bit better well it's a little bit better consistently forever a very big deal how can we make the mixes that we do a little bit better you're about to keep Shabbos you're about to make a blessing before you eat your whatever you're gonna give give charity to somebody that's admit that's a big deal so how can you do that in a way that's going to last we're going to be slightly qualitatively better so I want to give you a few ways to make it better okay now what I teach you now is on all levels I teach us an introduction here this is this is machine in the bay I teach it in base shackles in all kinds of places all kinds of places everybody needs to hear this we all need to hear this we all need to focus on this a little bit now here's a way to do it when you do any action whatsoever who you are at the time of the action radically affects the quality of the action make sense women know this better than men is the field right away yeah if I come in like okay you know how you guys doin' has everything that's one thing if a mother comes in and she asks asks her own children how are you doing it's the same exact words between motion behind it it's totally different and the action therefore is different she has a different relationship with her kids the father the brother the husband whoever it is like somebody a different relationship so when they do the same physical act is so much more behind it make sense the mother with a child totally different story question radically affects the quality of the action who you are the time of the action radically affects the quality of the action so if there's some way that we can slightly raise ourselves before we do a mitzvah some ways slightly raise ourselves we have just accomplished something that is unbelievable and on in marriage beyond measure immeasurable how do you make yourself slightly better before you do this one I want to give you an easy way there's many ways I'll give you one easy way you with me you see why by the way this is really valuable super valuable this is super valuable yeah psychologically it's true even in this world is an important thing yeah so listen to this you want to get it clear question if there's a way you can slightly better you are at the time of an action the better your action if you can raise the level of who you are the quality of the action that you do so now I want to give you a way to slightly boost who you are at the time of the action just a little bit very easy there's many ways to do is one way there's something called here who H over here H 1 means thoughts of Tuva thoughts of improvement thoughts of repentance the word repentance is a bad word children really means returned which means I'm returning to a higher level that I was on before my original ideal level it doesn't just mean I'm a bad person I mean I'm banging on my chest doesn't necessarily mean that means here who are you to be' means it means to thought of how i can make myself better for example if you have a grandmother or an uncle or an aunt that would love to hear from you and you call them up and they're like wow so happy you call why'd you call just because you care about them you love them you care about them you you make them happy because you called what you think it's like you know i really need to call my aunt more often yeah if you do that that's called here hooray two of you have thoughts of improvement this is a very small level but it's a real thing it's a level of slight improvement I really need to be nicer to my roommate I need to be a little more patient with my friend or giving a thought of doing something you know what I could give a little bit more to talk a little more charity than I normally give or I could be a little more on time whatever pick whatever you want doesn't make a difference whatever it is yeah that thought slightly raises who you are at the time yes the acknowledgement the thought the acknowledgement maybe sometimes it's a plan maybe it's already part of the area that you're working on already that could be as well but something simple and something small you're not necessarily accepting on yourself to change it just thinking you know what I need to make it that's already make yourself better now do that before you do a mitzvah not all day not every time once a day or once a week you've just one extra millimeter incoming that is forever that's a very big deal yes yes now you'll say wait a second but maybe I thought about a bunch of times and it's been two years and I still haven't improved it okay that's also a sort of here Rachel you know I got to be more serious about it that's also good we're talking very low small things that are easy to do not complicated or you might think to supplicate I've been thinking about it for six months already how can i implement it I'm going to try this that's good that's amazing that's wonderful good now different flavor different flavor not really our topic I'm assuming something right now I'm assuming a lot of things but let's assume that prayer is actually effective let's assume the prayers effective not if that needs to be discussed well it's just that prayer is effective especially when you pray for what God already wants it's an easy one so before you do a mention before you do a good thing you're about to help somebody so you know what God helped me to do this in a way that's better helping to maximize how I'm going to do this I mean you're gonna do it anyway you're anyway going to give $2 to something to give someone a little bit of someone asks you for money you give them a few shekels you come a few dollars whatever it is you know it anyway please God help me do it in a way that I deal maybe that means you're going to smile more it means you feel a sense of wanting to give and help this person it could be a lot of reasons why right now what you're really asking God to do with God please help me do what you want help me to fill your will what's he gonna say no I don't want you to do what I want no I won't let that I'll let we're just going to say yeah it's not a hard one it's a very easy request you have a worker you ask him please do X Y & Z from me and he says please show me how I can do this better so you really have with it no I'm not going to tell you or show of course you're going to do it it's easy one right so this is second way to make your Mitzvah better one way to actually improve yourself the second way is to ask for help okay again it's doing the prayers effective that's whole discussion by itself third thing totally different flavor there are ways we can double up the mitzvahs that we do you can so to speak I don't want to I don't to be so crass and talk about things in terms of reward and so black and white in terms reward but it needs a way to measure things sometimes right imagine that you have a certain job and you get paid $25 an hour and let's say your job as you work in the hospital I don't know I'm giving an example yeah sometimes all you work in a hospital oh I love people that work in hospitals and I'm a very wealthy man I have billions of dollars you just send me your pay slip and I'll double it wonderful yes you get you know so you get your pay slip from the whatever it is do a little receipt that you get paid $25 an hour for 700 and you send him an email and he like deposits money in your account wonderful sends we check whatever you want fantastic but he says I can only do it if you send me the email you don't send an email you don't send me the slip I can't do it you have to show me some kind of you take a picture and send it to me one at a time right so if you don't do it you don't sign up for it you don't get it sometimes you can do one action and get so-to-speak paid for more than one thing that's an example that doesn't come up too often when it comes to mitzvahs sometimes one action is several mitzvahs at once for example that's what exactly we tell you right now so this let's say for example is a mitzvah of on Friday nights in mid-city a kiddush to take it to say it's Shabbos over a cup of wine right so when you do that it could be you're making kiddush for yourself and also maybe you have a next-door neighbor who whatever reason it's hard for her to speak she doesn't have a family she's all by herself whatever or she's not feeling so well so you make it is for you and for her as well right so now you have the mitts of kiddush and they have the mid-to of loving your fellow person like yourself and kindness and a bunch of other things okay you can double it up the thing is you have to sign up how do you sign up most of these things the way you sign up is by turning your mind on and thinking I'm doing it for that Mitzvah as well you have to consciously think I'm doing for that excrements as well it's a little bit hard as someone says me well rabbi it hurts to think it's so it can't hurt to think sometimes yeah it's become certain circles in Western world has become a thing like oh I don't want black - like you know you know I don't be too smart it's become not cool to look smart and certain place well I don't really normally so it's not really a million it just looks not cool to be smart at times where you are yeah anyway now I want to give you one example this this is separate Mitzvah in declarer called V or half dollar a soccer ball in English that's the English transliteration it means and you shall log I'm going to say it I'm going to say it a nice easy translation your fellow person like yourself that is one of the 613 commandments straight across straight up right from the Torah you shall love your fellow person like yourself love all the people like yourself oh that's all disgusting exactly that it is initially refers to the Jewish people initially until we get our own acts together and then it really expands afterwards when we get our act together as a nation because the whole to everybody in the world but right now we have to kind of heal ourselves we're not in a as a nation the Jewish people not healthy so initially it means which means now it means it really doesn't further the Jewish people and then in the event then in the future we're going to come once to become healed as a nation then we can start being a light to the all the other nations yes good question actually is planning on skirting around that but but that's good the other good okay now this Mitzvah means when this when you benefit somebody else if you have this in mind you're doing this Mitzvah so for example your best friend loves chocolate ice cream and you get her some chocolate ice cream right you're doing the midst of the hassle the rest of them also love your fellow Jew like yourself yeah it's not that yeah if your best friend needs to hand with finances or carrying something or she needs a shoulder to cry on or she wants to share some great joke or whatever it is she's telling you some good news and as great as it is it would be even better if she's able to tell you and you can listen you're doing the midst of the hospital remotely should love your fellow person like yourself it's a wonderful thing to do it's amidst that's one of the 613 commitments now let's say that this amazing thing there is a well-known concept that when somebody dies you can learn Torah or do mitzvahs in the merit of that person so well-known concept you do evil english muslim which means they died and now neshama exists and they're in a real world in the spiritual world and you want to help their spirits their level rise in the spiritual world you can do such a thing so you say I'm doing it for them in their merit you can do the same thing of somebody sick I want them to have a complete recovery so I'm doing mitzvahs I'm giving charity I'm helping people whatever you're doing whatever limiters are in their merit so they can become better make sense well-known correct here we're saying now you don't have to wait for them to die every sink you can do is your best friend just because you love her just because you like her you can do if your brothers and sisters you know have to wait for it to be a specific moment you can say you know what I'm about to light Shabbos candles I'm about to make a blessing before I eat I'm about whatever you give them it give sadaqa and I'm going to do this in the merit of my best friend my sister my brother my uncle whatever you want yeah now do you lose if you do that no you lose nothing what you do is you get reward for what you've done and that other person also gets a reward for what you've done doesn't cost a nickel yeah you lose nothing at all now before you get to this Mitzvah the very fact is that's a wonderful thing to do for one of your best friends or your sister or somebody else it's great to do for friends it's great different enemies also yes there's not this thing people money you wanna report does it make a difference if you pray for all them up in one prayer using one perfect okay the question is if you pray for a group of five together these five or that one that one that one now and that one which is better generally speaking the more specific you are the better but you have time limitations and energy limitations you can't you know spend like you know he wants whatever best for us to grow so if we grow because we're more sweet it's better because the more specific we are the more real it is to us and the more effective it is in action like when you just see somebody like oh you know someone tells you there's a person over there and a sick Preet please pray for them that's one thing if you see them it has more of an effect than you pray better you become better because you pray but it because it's real there's no other the person oh that's a great thing but more real so the more specific you are the better it is but sometimes you're going to see that you have to be general you can't be specific for everyone in the universe it's going to talk about just one minute now watch this it's best for us that's correct that's what that's the business of this world God created the world to help individual people become the best they can come that the world that's the first now here's what's amazing so here's your best friend right and you love her and she's amazing you have a great time together or your husband or your kids whatever it is right and you decide you know what I want to give them a special secret gift so what do you do in the process of doing the mixes that you're doing throughout the day you say you know I'm doing today all the mixes I do should be in the merit of my sister or my brother or my friend whoever it is yeah now you don't tell her you keep it a secret yeah you know it's a under under there like espionage like you know it's Mitzvah espionage right yeah like you know you're secretly covert covertly giving her merit yeah when she gets up to the next world after a hundred twenty years she's going to find an unbelievable gift from you now that gift never goes away you buy it from the cop to get her some coffee and ice cream it's wonderful beautiful wonderful thing to do yeah what eventually goes away and she forgets about it but you'll never forget about this that's amazing thing to do by itself there's all my loving somebody that's a great gift yeah one who yes everyday yes you can do it every day everything to you yes yes that's we're having this conversation you know it's not only produces for non-jews also anybody anybody it's a great way to pay people back they might not realize it right away but that's okay long-term they're going to realize it and be forever indebted to you but forever you happy that you did this - it's a gift that never goes away so if you are about to do another your hostages yes you should say with your mouth I'm doing this in the merit of my sister for all their friends whatever in the home they will realize that thing yes it sure will we have mountains and valleys of happiness because of these few acts that you handed them for free and you lose nothing the system is rigged God wants us to care about each other he wants us to be busy doing good things to each other he wants that it's like I'm not going to penalize you for doing that I'm not going to take away your reward if you give it to somebody else also you'll get in children also this is one of these things that the negative forces of the universe the spiritual forces neighbors want us to forget pay no attention to the man behind the curtain and once you find the truth the eight RS s do not own all this strange rabbi in duvet what is he talking about yeah I'm not making this stuff up you can see in a minute now this is it's already a wonderful thing to do but if you add this factor via hassle or eskimofo you're benefiting somebody else anytime you benefit somebody else you're doing that knits for all the hospital come o help loving your fellow person like yourself yes yes the third way is do mixes in the merit of somebody else and you have two mitzvahs now first of all it's a beautiful good thing to do but in addition to that it's a separate mix for besides making kiddush besides saying SH MA besides giving charity besides visiting people that are sick or helping people that need help kindness and testing that's the one things you have an additional mister you've doubled you missus now because you're doing the mayor of somebody else it's another mister called the answer I'm over loving your fella person like yourself now this is amazing because it doesn't even have to be that you're doing a mitzvah the first time just means he's doing something good it sure helps them in this world because they're more meritorious in general it helps them in this world for Shortbus it's complicated how that is and what kind of there's a lot of factors involved there is such a thing but it's got to be very extreme sometimes you have a person who is let's say a very bad person and and someone else is very good that doing a lot of business to them it's possible there are cases like that where a very good person can do a lot of misses for a very bad person and pull that bad person out of a bad situation in the spiritual world but that's very extreme it certainly helps and it helps in a major way yeah now this is a totally different flavor if you speak to most people about this they have no they never thought of it then I thinking of such things okay now does it work for more than one person yes it does pick a list of people you can quickly rattle off in your head and say brother sister uncle best friends roommate or my three roommates or my two vestment whatever you want some quick and say before I do this Mitchell I'm doing it the mayor of this person each individual person you do the mixer for becomes a separate Mitzvah of loving a fellow person like yourself so you're about to say let's say someone says a blessing and you want to say I mean they say a blessing you say I made I mean is not one of the 613 ministers in the third row it's a mitzvah to do its Halawa it's definitely an obligation that's a mane it's a wonderful thing in cetera et cetera but it's not one of the big 613 however if you say I'm saying a main in the merit of my best friend it now becomes that Mitzvah plus the we have the rhythm oh it's amazing five people five separate misses now I'm making it very like like math it's not like that the big and the more misses it is that's right it's not like your love no not at all there's no such thing as continent of conservation of energy energy can't be you know created a destroyed right so the same idea matter same idea it does is no such thing the spiritual world it's exactly given the physical world is like candle lighting a candle lighting a candle lighting a candle the one candle light 50 million candles it doesn't take away from the candle it's just starting the process same thing God rigs the system in the positive way that you can actually give people your merit without losing Oh next step thank you very much to say for everyone implying it say for everyone in the world but doesn't work doesn't work this particular midterm we did not stop here this particular matter has a technical issue that it's infants loving the fellow person like yourself you have to think of them specifically to do this Mitzvah if I don't know the recipient of the Mitzvah I'm not thinking of them at this time it doesn't work it's a wonderful thing it helps them but it's not this Mitzvah it gives them merits but it's not this Mitzvah but you need to think about and those are people I love and then every time I joined the constant thing these been marital people that I love it can be you just have to you have to make but you still have to think about it yes for this myth is to give them merit you don't need to think about them but to do the midst of loving your fellow person like yourself yet better than mine I can't just be like you know you know I'm throwing you know chocolate chocolate chip cookies behind me and like they're benefiting people like that's not this Mitzvah it's your bet against the chocolate chip cookie it's delicious it's wonderful but it's not business now however so therefore go to a list of specific people you can't just say everybody in Ave everybody Newsline everybody in the world doesn't work but there's another Mitzvah that it does work for okay throwing a lot of you but as long as it does work now listen this myth different some entirely the halacha and you shall walk at the command bid Rostov in his way in God's ways it's command to walk in God's ways you shall walk in God's ways at the command it's one of the 613 Ventus that means just like God is kind you be kind just like he's merciful you'll be merciful just like he's forgiving you'll be forgiving it's a whole long list but that's the basic idea I'll lock the Boudreau who should walk in his ways now this Mitzvah does not require you to know the one who is receiving the good that you're giving you just have to benefit them it's not loving them like myself love by definition is I feel love for you I can't feel love for you if I don't know who you are I'm not thinking about you maybe I'm doing a benefit I'm benefiting you but I'm not loving you but this this does not like that this mess is get busy helping people that's it kindness so for example if there's a bathroom nearby here is a wedding hall I walked into that place there's no wedding always use the best comment I want to wash my hands I want to use soap all the little soap dispensers are empty there's a little liquid soap thing sitting on the counter it says please use Shanah Tovah have a good year somebody went in there and they put a roses no soaps so they put a whole big bottle of soap then it's great I use a little salt fantastic now I don't know who they are they don't know who I am but because I benefited from them they're doing this mint to Alva halacha the drop hug we should walk in God's ways they don't have to know me it's a technical thing that's much more general I benefited I use the soap so that person who put the soap there did the midst of walking in God's Way it's just like he's kind you could kind so that person was kind to me even though I don't know who they are I know I don't know who put it there I don't they don't have to know who I am no I benefited a clean hands yeah I did but not enough for the discussion right so therefore if you do certain things that benefit somebody else for example you know you're you come to class here early and it's super hot and it's like you know 105 degrees outside and then this room is super hot and you put the air conditioning on five or ten minutes before him it so comes the coming it's cool then you decision for every reason you don't come to class you may miss it who knows what but all the people send this class benefit from the air conditioner you can look yourself also at time it's long it's not only for you it's fine you can do it for yourself and for them it's fine no Prime at all I brought pizzas for the whole class wonderful I eat you eat oh five pathetic yeah no problem now what comes out from this and pardon me I get a little excited about this cuz this is amazing now again watch this the admits let's begin with the Jewish people because we have to heal ourselves become complete and whole and healthy so we can then move on to help the whole world it's always like that right you know saying like I want to get out there and help the world but like but if we properly eat properly nothing and I'm falling apart I have to first take care of myself I can move on you know even though leaving the midst of loving your fellow person like yourself I have to first love myself I've no love at all I can't give love you can only give as much love as you think you deserve which have to do with that much love that's not three now what's in it is this Mitzvah means I can say with my mouth before I do a mitzvah oh I want to do this Mitzvah in the merit of the entire Jewish people again I'm not saying Jewish one man - it's like it's a technical thing right now now so I want now I don't know how many Jews there are in the world I don't think anybody really knows what that is sixteen million Jews in the world I'm about to give sadaqa so I say I'm give sadaqa charity somebody I'm giving the sadaqa in the merit of every Jew on the planet now that's amazing by itself if you just stop there's like I know what it is but it's really good yeah but watch this accordin s mitzvah it could be that you've just done 16 million separate misses there are very few things you can do in life that includes 16 million people in your kindness this is one of them it's amazing by the way ladies you're doing the midst anyway you're anyway you give the charity why not sign up why not send that receipt to the to the you know to the wealthy guy wants to pay you for a double-double yeah so say I'm doing this to benefit these people I'm doing b'hala to the Drakh of them walking in God's ways I'm benefiting every to see the way to say this if you want to say it English you could say it's in the merit of the whole Jewish people there's a phrase in Hebrew the shame call Easter oh this is actually built into many prayers I'll translate in a minute in the name of every all of Israel that is code for I'm doing it the shame cholesterol I'm doing it in the in the merit of every person in the Jewish people okay I'm writing a very Eskenazi way here the same coal use royal you could say you throughout Alice you prefer I'm just playing speeding yeah here I did it the more sorry Israeli that way to it now imagine that God looked down in the world and he wants the he sees like what thinks he's a blank screen when someone doesn't mitzvot he sees a blip of light let's say just my little metaphor right so now this person doesn't Mitzvah is use a little bit seven times in all there's a little blip of light right now what do you think that if a person has a mitzvah in a small way it's a little blip if it's a big Mitzvah it's a big blip what do you think that light looks like when you do a mix that includes 16 million people on the planet oh yeah who knows what it looks like my little bit my little metaphor yeah it's amazing it's a different planet now if you're going through life doing mitzvahs for the entire Jewish people you're a powerful woman you're the one you're doing big stuff doesn't look like it you never see like you know the clouds part beams of sunlight like come on you and like you know you don't see you're chomping on super you don't know any of that stuff nothing actually happens that you see what big stuff is happening and we already have plenty examples of that where you don't see what's happening but you know things are happening right I always thought to myself is a terrible thought but you know it's giving example you know you know about the Panama Canal you know why the Panama canal's like a bunch of steps from a bunch of which is higher but apparently is like a little canal between the Pacific and me and the Atlantic Ocean apparently at that place one of them's higher than the other one I know how that works out but like they're separated by master how long the old canal is instead of having to go all the down past South America and come all the way up around I'm going to go from New York to California in a boat you have to go all the way down past South America so you save some time in Panama on this little canal it goes by this so the canals like little lt-col those things lock steps like little things where they let water in and they drain the water bring down drain the water bring down so we get to the level of the next ocean right I thought myself that would be hospital cost god forbid Costas all a terrible terrible thing if someone suddenly opens up all those things now the two oceans have to equal out the same and that would cause like a lot of land to be destroyed right initially when they did it'll be like nothing seems like nothing's really happening but there's a very long term effect that's happening right or seem like a tsunami that happened like the tsunami happened in Thailand 2003 or former was we like it happened just for a few seconds a massive earthquake in the middle of the ocean and then hours later tsunamis hit in coasts if you looked at the ocean when you see this wave going by you wouldn't even notice anything but underneath there was a wave of force carrying that's going to come out later on so in the positive sense this is a massive spiritual positive wonderful wave that's shaking reverberating throughout the whole spiritual universe it's a big deal I'm being very poetic now you get the idea right one thing that one person done it's crazy we don't realize how important role is how great we are but I was like how life is so much bigger than we think like and there's game same idea what happens is like if you do that so many times it's the same way that you go to the you go to your investment analyst and he said listen I want you to make me wealthy would tell me B - well I wanna have too much money you go doctor like I want to get better I don't be too healthy you never said I want me to tell pants I can be yeah I want to marry a guy who's like a wonderful guy I don't want to be too good he shouldn't be too wonderful I don't to be too happy I don't know this is you know it's a little bit poetic but is I did the same as quote from a guy named Rumi if ever heard of him he's a I think he's a Islamic philosopher he says you were born with wings why prefer to crawl through life harm sentro like we were walking out these big wings we don't realize what they are I think well I can't run as well at these things yeah if I take him off I'll be able to run much more quickly but high fly this it's a much bigger world than we think it is our powers are much more than we think they are especially with spiritual world physically we're limited even physically we do much more than we think we can but physically limited but like spiritual no limitation okay now I want to give you a little bit of a benefit from this besides the fact that it's spiritually a big deal let's say you go through life and like every other human being on the planet and sometimes you feel just a little bit discouraged does that ever happen to you yeah I just not going and I'm trying okay you know that's that's a feeling right you know so I was like maybe once every 50 years it happens you know saying or maybe a little more often right if you're living a life like this were you doing mitzvahs for other people the ocular eskimo huh and you're doing them for the whole Jewish people besides the gift in it also the mid says like whoa you're doing powerful things you have a core of success in achievement its success breeds success it's hard to feel like well my day was a waste today when you help 16 million people many many times you don't think so besides all the spiritual stuff psychologically speaking emotionally speaking like wow I had printed that today you know I did three or four mixes and it's closes the whole Jewish people in their holes well that's pretty good yeah and I set them up so they can give to the rest of the world that's a wonderful thing I'm saying it takes a little bit of thought though because the yay to hire the negative force in the world try to make you think the other way yeah but you know when you were late for work we're like you know you uh you've lost your pen the last the first class I thought that I left my cell phone there I would go back look an extra 10 or 15 minutes okay yeah we do lose your phone how old are we I'm all the way I know a lot of things I forgot my phone is normal okay happen the worse thing in the world it's ours yeah forget about all the good stuff you did focus on the negative ridiculous you with me any questions no now I suggest what you do is you practice and start say pick one person on today and you can say the beginning of the day today I'm doing the mitches that I just say all the good things of today should be in the merit of my system I bet trying to pick who you want don't in the beginning today yes it's a declaration you could say for the whole week it's just the more conscious you are about it the more effective it is like we said before so it's good to say throughout day this one too on this one too but just pick one or two don't get overwhelmed nice and easy yeah you start getting to the habit of doing this by the way don't waste your time doing a few parents because your parents automatically get married for the good things that you do so you have to mention them it's automatic like for example the you know if you're if you have a child that suddenly opens up a hospital to help people all the people in health is in your merit it's automatic that's what God sets it up because they brought them into the world and they helped them and even if even if they even if they died before the child was even born they brought them into the world they're the reasons of the Epley god set it up so you don't you don't the mentioned parents or grandparents goes all the way back to you know our movie no to Abraham you have to go back further that's it it's automatic don't waste time but uncles cousins brothers and sisters friends mention em you lose nothing okay and save the word for shame call us well doing this in the school to the Meredith alters people in it's over okay any questions yes to question so the thing that you said about your parents present in your letter pocket who so desire go Leslie Radley to help you become religious so every what you do yes yes yes yes some small amount doesn't me to get you know coming yeah yeah and you also if you help somebody else become more religious more observant or something like that or you help somebody else go anything you help you save their life American things are good and you don't lose what was right it's pretty crazy him and the truth is you hope to go so far your own kids you get married you have children they do good things you get the ready for that it's one of things you're not like this whole thing it can help do you want to do exactly it's encouraging isn't it super encouraging because I looks like well I'm just doing small-time stuff the Adaro makes me feel like everything small potatoes I'm not really what am I really doing how old am I what am I going to get it right what am I really in accomplished value maybe you're all too young to appreciate that you know the midlife crisis happens at a certain point it's like so this is my life basically like I expected so much more like this what I'm doing what you're doing stuff like this it's like whoa I am doing a lot of course you're doing much more than even realize what you're doing but this is a way of least making it somewhat tangible a little bit ok all the best ladies I just see everybody you