Serving G-d in Happiness... Even in GOOD Times! - Rabbi Yaaqob Menashe

[Music] good evening thank you for coming it's really a pleasure to have you all here today and of course I can't forget to wish you ho this dog Maura Royce always a very special time especially for women but it's always a very very special time our whole calendar revolves around Rosh Hodesh and of course the Jewish count is a little bit different to the non Jewish calendar in the sense that I'm sorry into indifference to others who have the lunar calendar because we do have a combination of both the lunar and the solar all right so the title of the lecture tonight is serving God in happiness even in good times no that's that can't be right that can't be right serving God in happiness even in good time somebody made a mistake here obviously in good times we're happy we're happy so everything's gonna be just fine we're gonna be happy when we serve God that's not an issue it must be in bad times it's not it's really in good times I'm sorry about the delay but I'm gonna have to rewrite this a little bit because I had a little bit differently this is gonna have to come out this is okay I could use that that's a story that's fine here okay I'm done fortunately I'm a fast writer let's try this again good evening thank you for coming rush ho there still more ah the title of the lecture tonight is serving God in happiness even in good times no that's not a typo even in good times and I'm gonna explain that to you we might think people might think that in good times it's easy to serve a Kadosh Baruch who in good times it's easy to be happy when we serve Him and it's only in bad times that it becomes difficult no we're going to see that in fact good times can be very very challenging when it comes to serving Hakadosh barukh fool and that's what we're going to try and look at with the help of heaven and your help and everybody's help today the truth of the matter is we always try to better ourselves we always try to become more spiritual we try to become more holy we try to reach higher levels the trouble is that when we reach higher levels sometimes we have a yearning to go back to the old ways so a person who manages to reach a good level in spirituality maybe he's even become a little bit famous in terms of religion and so on has a hankering and a yearning to go back to certain things that he used to do that he liked so much he's a story about I don't know if you saw it on the news the other day about two frogs that were having a discussion it wasn't really on the news I watched funny news channels you know you know you know how it works with frogs you know the old famous story about a frog who was just an ugly toad and along came a beautiful princess and what did she do she kissed the Frog and what happened you know you don't read these silly books that I read or that I read when I was a little child what happened he became a beautiful prince tall dark and handsome and then what happened well what happened then was she married him and they lived happily ever after so there are these two frogs just sitting on a lily pond and they're talking to each other once there's a ribbit ribbit ribbit I don't understand what that means but but they understood each other apparently I heard what they were saying was one frog said to the other he says you know I've done that Prince thing been there done that the other frog says so what you're doing back here in the lily pond he says to tell you the truth I missed eating flies you know it's not as silly as it sounds we tend to be like that we tend to miss eating flies when things when we develop we become bigger and better and stronger sometimes we we miss the Flies I mean not literally but you know what I'm saying we miss the Flies we miss the way certain things we used to do it's hard for us to keep progressing so as we progress we kind of lose interest we want to go back to where we used to be it says intervene by the way I rabbis tell us that the whole world was was created for dummy that may be on account of King David what does that mean for all his praises of God is to leave all the things this is why the world was created and the Jewish people of course are very very much into reading TV actually did a tour a minute the other day about the belly race the holy pail EOS was talking about how people read daily on the one hand and end up doing silly things not serving a Kadosh Baruch who properly says how do you how do you make the two we sit together that you're reading Tamim and it says I should Aisha say no I laugh the first one tells you about the happiest the man who didn't walk in the a Sabra shame in the advice of scoffers of the wicked he says and there they are they're hanging out at nights together with people who are not following the paths of the Torah and so on in any case King David wrote he says hey cinema spot Ashera hey said is loving-kindness mish part is sentence sentence in the sense of a punishment which we don't want he says I will sing la caja shame as Amira to you God I will sing at first when we look at this what it sounds like is it says you know when when we get good or when we get bad well praise God in other words just as we would assume that when we get good we will praise God so to in that way when we have bad we must praise a Kadosh mother who but actually if you look at it closely it's not really what it's saying it's saying even when there's good and even when there's bad we have to praise God when there's hey Sayed when God is doing wonderful things for us we have to praise Him it's not saying that's an obvious given that's one of the things that's telling us we have to do things are going well God is doing hey Cynthia praise him and the other thing it's saying is also when things are not going well you have to praise them and that we understand might be a little bit more difficult but that's what it's saying it's saying in both instances all right at the end of Yeshua Joshua Joshua of course is this incredible prophet he served Moshe Ben Annamma Shalom and Moshe urbane of course was not permitted for reasons best known to God but I can tell you that it was in our interest even though it was very very hard for moshe rabbeinu raya Mayhem nah the faithful shepherd it was very hard for him not to enter the Land of Israel but in the future will be good for the Jewish people that he didn't and again you know the faithful Shepherd is basically taking a bullet for the Jewish people is what it is but yoshua was the one who brought the Jewish people into the Land of Israel now yoshua is about to pass on to the world to come no doubt a very special place reserved for him in heaven but before he goes he summons and gathers all the Shiva team all the tribes and he calls them to share fame he brings he calls the elders the Zippy nimi calls the the the the judges and everybody and he says I want to talk to you the God says the following now if you don't mind I'm gonna read to you from the garden everybody's in the mood I know I know it's not pace up but you know these things are being videoed and do I know maybe overpay so somebody or just before Pesach somebody's gonna be looking at the video so it's good to look at the Hagana while we're at it okay it says about you ashore I said to the people call Marah Shaymin okay said Bible and aha so did the Lord your God say on the other side of the river Yahshua with him Elam he said be your ancestor your ancestors our forefathers dwelt on the other side of the river this is talking about Euphrates Tara Tara a B AB raha the father of Abraham being a and the father of nahor where I'll do eloheem ahim and they served other gods while cajeta be same and I took your your forefathers Abraham able and AHA Abraham from the other side of the river well if whoa behold i risking on and I took him right through the land of the whole land of Canaan what bears are oh and I made his seen multiple multiplied by ten northeast hawk and I gave him it Isaac why tell me socket Yakko but they saw and I gave him Jacob and Esau what then they saw it Hollis a iteration of though and I gave Esau Mount Seir as an inheritance where you are FUBU by now ya do miss Rama and Jakob Jakob Urbino and his and his sons and his children went to Egypt I'm gonna continue what else it says there listen to all the things that are Kadosh Malfoy's has done and you're sure I was repeating that he's done for the Jewish people this is unbelievably says and then I said Moshe Rabbeinu and also Aaron a coin and we know what happened in Egypt the Egyptians didn't want let us go when God says I'm gonna bring all the plagues all the MCOs on the Egyptians unbelievable what he did according to that which I did with them and then I brought you out and he took the Jewish people out we know the whole story and the muck got the horror that midnight and so on he says and I brought your father's out of Egypt and you came to the sea there we are at the I'm so fan what's gonna happen and the Egyptians are running after you with with chariots and horses and and and everybody's scared and what and what did God do and we cried to the Lord and he put darkness between you and the Egyptians and then what did he do he drowned them in the sea just as we had water in the dry line I mean all these things he's telling them reminding them that they are done remember this is a generation that was their their their parents etc not like us that's become a little more you know that we have to we have to read it over and over they knew this they knew this and he seasoned and and and then I brought you into the land of the the Amma writes hi Marie they're on the other side of the Jordan they for with you and I gave you their land and I did you destroyed them and then what happened by lack the infamous by lack the king the son of sapore king of Moab and he brought that nasty nasty Balaam to curse you he said I wouldn't let that happen and I made Balaam on the contrary I made Balaam bless you and I saved you from his hand also look at this stuff I've been doing for you it's just unbelievable one thing after another and then you cross the Jordan River you can't hear if ho you came to Jericho and then people from Jericho fought against you which is the famous story and the ammonium the perazim the cannot name the hateem the gilga shindy all these people that came and came coming it came after you and I I made you when I delivered them into your hand and then I send the cerrado horn it against you and which drove them out from before you and then the two kings of the Amorites but you and you drove them up but not with his sword not with a bow God was doing everything for us and he says not given you a language you didn't really basically nothing for you didn't labor for it cities you did not build that giving you your living in them you're eating vineyards and from vineyards and olive trees and you didn't even plant them I mean this is unbelievable unbelievable with a Kadosh Maher did he says now I'm giving you an instruction surely doesn't have to give this instruction what's he saying fear the Lord well what do you mean well obviously he's done all this stuff apparently it's not so obvious fear the Lord serve him sincerely and put away all the gods that your forefathers had and if you think that's a bad thing to do choose right now whether you're gonna serve those gods or Kadosh powerful fortunately the people said they would serve a for those who are a whole but what do we see from this you wouldn't believe for one second that would be a question but apparently it was more than a question after all that after those morrow who had done for the Jewish people and now they had this incredible land flowing with milk and honey and they didn't have to raise a finger for it and everything was beautiful they had beautiful homes there beautiful videos there beautiful olive trees it was obvious that this was the time that the Jewish people might start rebelling does it sound so far-fetched not at all that is exactly the time when things are going well that we are at the greatest risk of forgetting Hakadosh Baruch who if you forget them you can't serve them and have any happiness in fact you have trouble serving in period when things go badly it's easier to understand all things are not going so well I have to do I have I get nobody in the world let me turn to God let me pray let me be see Jim let me hopefully he will turn things around for me but when things are going very well and we start thinking it's my doing go he will say yeah ocid it's the strength of my hand I'm a smart guy that's why we're successful that's why I'm brilliant to have a great mind that's why I'm such a big hog farm I'm very clever in business that's why I'm so rich that's why I have a beautiful house beautiful vineyard etc it's all my doing that's the time we forget a Kadosh Baruch who what is the greatest Braja that we can think of its apricot Kewanee when they get up and they bless the people or rather god blesses the people through the carne and what do they say they say you barf ah ha ha shame wish merica beautiful blessing may God bless you what do you want to be blessed with God we want health we want wealth we want prosperity we want we want a good spouse we want a great marriage you want wonderful kids grandkids great grandkids we wonder beautiful spots for everybody we want beautiful houses and homes you want to travel the world we want to be respected we want to be honored we want this we want that we all want the other and not only that you Bob let god bless you but he should protect you - which miracle wow I'm getting protection also wait a minute you baka a shame God is gonna bless you with all these things that you want now we got a great fear that you're gonna go off the path or at the very least you're not gonna serve Him the way it's supposed to be serving him and certainly not in sim ha so what's the very nice thing wish me huh God better protect you keep you on track not just that he's blessing you and keep you know he's blessing you but he's guarding you that is what we're the Braja is saying may God bless you but guard you from going off the off the right path you bahahaha shame the blessing is great but wish Maha make sure that you don't turn and going and go the wrong way speaking of Egypt which we were let's just look at the history of the times when there was the biggest rejection of God of a Kadosh powerful part o Pharaohs we know very famous famously said well God that I'm gonna listen to what he says let's say Allah have you said to send away the Jewish people Lord your daddy it's a shame I don't know God don't know never did never well don't know what you're talking about well Hamid he said Russia yeah and also the Jewish people forget about it they ain't going nowhere I don't know if he spoke like that or not but that's what he said all right let's look at another generation dorababu the flood the generation of the flood do you know what they hadn't come in common with with Egypt they had everything everything everything was going well Egypt was the world power Egypt thanks to Youssef sidiq was so wealthy they didn't know what to do with themselves right the whole business of the the whole world having to come to them for food and and so on and so forth the dorababu were extremely bad but it was like a utopian paradise there they said they only had to plant their crops once every 40 years not bad once every 40 years said oh man I most disgusting place in the world we're told it was a paradise lot wanted to live there he saw he went whoa this is the place for me it was a paradise and what happened in all these places that's where we see the most despicable rejections of a Kadosh Baruch who but let's look specifically at ourselves we are the Jewish people right very famously the Torah says and parashat ha ha's Eno wash Mangesh Arun ye baat and yes aroun which is the Jewish people comes from the word Yasha is straight that's how the Jewish people are supposed to be and have to be straight Welshman they got fat why you bite and they kicked they rejected God in other words that's what the Torah tells us why shmoney xuanwei a lot so here we are we pray devotedly to a Kadosh Baruch ooh God things are not going well when things are not going well Oh God I need help i need help finding that side is very difficult to come by oh god somebody is having forbid not well Oh God I can't get married oh god my daughters are not getting married Oh God my children are not doing that well in school this that the other we pray to God God please we need we need we need then God answers your prayer bit by bit things go well the money starts coming in your daughters get married everything is going well you're getting a lot of carboard you're getting a lot of honor people run across the street to shake your hands your car is better than the guy next door and then what happens we start rejecting after those well we stop some people reject completely some don't reject at all but this is the danger and some it's still there but their dedication to serving God the desire to serve God to serve gotten happiness means you want to serve God that desire is not there it becomes a bit of a chore I have to go to synagogue it's gonna look bad if I don't show up you know in the morning they're gonna wonder James I better go it's not good for me you know I'm a butcher whatever you are I'm a butcher if I don't show up they're gonna start wondering about my kashrut I better better show up and be see but the feelings not there you're not happy to go Oh beautiful and I'm going I'm doing this was one serving God et cetera that is the thing that tends to go away we need to learn I would say from the great rabbis who despite their incredible importance knowledge wisdom never forget that what they are doing is serving Hakadosh Baruch who and that serving God was always paramount I'll tell you a story about well first of all about the first big hog farm is a ha model assuming a lavash elohim della so me was a huge rabbi in Baghdad at a time when he felt that Torah was getting lost and he decided to start a major yeshua to change the situation and he became very very big very very big it was a very big tummy tum he was in fact my great-grandfather's uncle he approached my great-great-great grandfather not how many he was very great but I don't know how many greats are in this who had already already built many Torah institutions including one in Baghdad called a boom Nessie but if they had also built in the vine in your shall I am they had built in in and so on he approached him that they would build these Sheba together and they built Midrash bait Zuffa Midrash bazooka is where all the big names of the ha ha Meem in recent times who hailed from Baghdad whether they were in Baghdad or they moved their sister and became very very big and there was a lot of them all hailed from it however hum Abdullah so makes biggest Talmud was huge this is someone who would like the eyes of all Israel worldwide and continues to do so today haha music I am referred to as the Bennish hi now story about him he was a young man at the age of 26 haha Mia Saif hyeme was given the position of his father's his father died of being the main rabbi in the entire city of Baghdad and at 26 all the elders including Abdullah Saleh came to him and said we want you to be our head so I don't know whether it was before this or after this it must have been after he used to give it a shot every Shabbat in the beit knesset in the afternoon for about three hours and you know when you read his works you understand he was first of all a huge scholar huge but he also had a sense of humor and he would intersperse his his debrief Torah with with hala hearth with stories with all kinds of things and people were riveted the story goes like this he walked into the Beit Knesset and it's packed with packed from one end to the other everybody wanted to hear the stories about how packed it became especially on the special shop I thought that only he was the only rapper in the entire city of Baghdad that was allowed to speak on certain specific important shopper thought but the synagogue would be packed from one end to the other he walked in and some of the people probably because he was just a young young rabbi at the time a young huh some of the people got up for him and then sat down and he walked up and he said Muhammad Allah so me was there watching all this finish I spoke and spoke and spoke that was it next Shabbat aha model assuming a hammer Dallas Oh me the main rabbi the one who has created this yeshiva that even the British I went to and learned from haha medulla this is the great Muhammad Allah that whatever people said went and he would have every reason to feel important and I'm the most important rabbi right now the next Shabbat he made sure he was there first first people start coming in hummus if I'm finally arrived it's the Bennish hi as soon as he stepped in Muhammad Allah stood up this elderly revered rabbi stands when his young term need walks in people see this is standing everybody got up walks in goes to the end gives us a shot for three hours when he gets the end Hamid Allah sits down and everybody else sits down he speaks for three hours whatever it is and I spoke before and then when he finished he went over to home Abdullah I don't know what words he used but what he said was please don't do that again you embarrassed me hum Abdullah so may for applied he said I apologized to you that I am elderly if I wasn't I would have carried you on my shoulders these are the people we have to learn from doesn't matter how great we are doesn't matter how much Cabos everybody gives us he was serving a Kadosh Baruch who he was spreading Torah he was giving honor to the one who was spreading Torah and he was happy to do it and that is the definition of serving a Kadosh Baruch who in happiness even when you're on top of the world when somebody comes along with spreading God's Word nothing makes them happier the true huh I mean the great huh I mean and that's how we have to be we don't necessarily have to be big ha ha Meem but in whatever area we're in when it comes to serving a Kadosh Baruch who we must realize that this is what our existence as Jews is all about this is what makes us different to the nations of the world and we must be happy to do it I want to tell you another story that's said about rocks Romans I'm an hour about how I shall don't they say that once he asked his tell me Dean he was of course a necessary shall I am he asked a very interesting question he said which prayer which stiff Allah do you have more Kawana in do you have more feeling more oomph when you pray do you you feel emotionally attached that you have the most intent you concentrate the best is it the Amidah shmona si or is it Birkat Hamazon now I think everybody would say the same thing it's a slam dunk when you pray the Amidah whether it's once a day twice a day or three times a day why do I say that some people have different men tonight game women Safari women do once a day Ashkenazi women I'm total rubbish Lezama Auerbach said once a day for women also but generally recognized women do it twice a day and men of course do it three times a day and some of them do it three times a day twice a day once a day whatever that's why I say once twice or three times doesn't matter you're standing there you're praying the Amidah and that's when you if you have something to answer with you let's see who can the competition let's you can finish first oh he finished before me today I got a little faster tomorrow let me see they they seem to me a no say Shalom and I just walked in let me see if I can finish before they do is start and finish this before they do and some people very good at this thing they're amazingly fast but when you do have something to pray to Allah - mother who for that's obviously where you're gonna be praying for it you're gonna be in wherever it is you're gonna be praying and praying and praying gonna be pouring your heart out oh god I really need this you know it's true we gotta praise God in the beginning and we got a thank God at the end we can rush through those portions but the middle portions where we're asking for what we need this is important and we can concentrate we can cry if it's really bad and we can really connect with that Kadosh mo book on Amazon okay we gotta we gotta do it but but you know you're pushing a little bit we just have to me way you know come on we just wanna get it over with it so long I mean why eat bread but you have to eat bread Friday night Shabbat morning you got any bread so rest a week maybe skip the bread because because I'm a zone so long I mean what's the point so the students the tummy team come as no surprise to you said the Amidah so what did slow us up in our bahaha shalom said say I know his exact words but I've got a paraphrase and what I imagine he said he said that's very interesting do you know why that's interesting because ricotta with Sebata ooo burrata you shall eat and be satisfied and when you eat and satisfied you shall bless that's the commandment of Buchan Amazon is a commandment the right side it's from the Torah those words are in the Torah well Africa what's about uber after you shall eat and be satisfied you gotta be satisfied I'm not getting into a LaHood right now and then you shall bless but the Amidah find the Amina for me in the in the Torah it's not there why because it's from the rabbi's yet when it comes to economize oh we're in a hurry well hurry let's just get through it as fast as we can as we can even the words but we don't see how fast we can go he says you know what it is he says what have you done before because I'm alone you've eaten you filled up your stomach you've had a few drinks you had bread meat wine potatoes rice beans I don't know whatever it is you like spicy sweet whatever oh don't forget you had dessert I'm sure it was good now who wants to be bothered with because I Mazzone wish - alone and you the Jewish people you became fat because you ate so much where you're at and you kicked since that's exactly what it is the tendency to reject God when you're feeling on top of the world is very very great I want to tell you I mentioned it in the past rabbi Nehru that I asked alone I've never seen anyone read book that Amazon like her just like my whole family would tell you it's just like it was it was mind-boggling watching her she just was just every word and then ironically when she became ill she wasn't allowed to eat bread anymore so Friday night or whenever when we're all eating bread you know Sephardic custom is that whoever leads the zoo moon reads the whole book atomizer or Amazon out loud she would not be saying it but she would follow every single word she would have it open in front of her and she would follow every single word and you know you're supposed to read it in happiness but at that point she would cry we have to get older ourselves maybe from the next time we said because Emma's own will realize that this is a little bit of wish mine you should ruin way about that we became a little fat and we kicked doesn't have to be literally fat but like the fat of the land we had all the best foods the best everything and now we reject it and maybe we'll put a little more into it the next time on the contrary eating and drinking should bring you closer to after those waterhole why when it's your toe let's Shabbat if you do it for the right reasons not just oh my favorite food let me eat let me eat but no you do it for the right reasons because you're supposed to sit there and be with your family and enjoy it and some after bahagia and you you rejoice in your holiday it's supposed to bring you closer to after those wonderful eating and drinking can be a beautiful experience but we have to know what we're doing if you overindulge if you have too much that's a problem it's isn't the barium and keith thibault this is to do with all the not-so-good things that happen that they were warned about in the parasha Taha'a why would those bad things happen Taha vishay law a by the title shaming okay hubby somehow to blame Bob because you did not serve the Lord your God happiness and gladness of heart why may Rob coal for the abundance of all things it's two things happening here one God is saying that these terrible things dystocia hold come because we don't serve God with happiness maybe you serve him but not with happiness and why are you not serving him with happiness may Rob cold which Rashi tells us while you still had all that is good that's the problem sometimes we can't serve up a dish Morrow who that's what the Torah is telling us with gladness because we have everything and then it says in impression a theme in the bottom it says okay how is sort of higher you'll be--you'll with haste with the hub your Bela when your your your flock your herds your a multiply and your silver and gold becomes great with holy shell the higher band everything that your head becomes much more we wrongly Bobby huh then your heart becomes lifted with Shaha tire shimon okay vamos a la misma son without him and you forget the Lord your God who brought you out of Egypt out of the house of bondage the house of slavery and the Rambam says shared um okay we shall say with Samia burial when a man eats and drinks and is happy in his holiday and is first of all law you must shift Bojana be soaked with helu throws he should not continue with the wine and the needle after and the the light headedness with your mind he was gonna say she called me she yourseif bazillion baby miss Watson huh no no the more you do the more the more the light headedness the more you drink increases the happiness there enjoy Singh after all that's what God wants God's wants happiness somehow rejoicing he says no you're not supposed to do that he says long mr. winnow a holy Lord he says when warned and we're not commanded for dissipation then this kind of wrong behavior L Alice some hashish but about death your cellar cold rather what we're commanded to somehow we're commanded to do is the commandment of serving God of serving God who created everything and everyone Shinae Amara's it says kaha tha about the shipment look at with some how-to about my rope coal as it says because you served not the Lord your God with happiness and gladness of heart because you had everything so he says ha Nomad etosha Abu Dhabi's some ha what we have to learn from this is that serving God in sim ha if Sharla both the same no me toques a hawk with lomito salud Rashmi lomito chef Ruth you cannot serve God when you're laughing and laughter in lightheadedness lightheadedness or in drunkenness so we have to be very careful when we have these meals that we have them in happiness but in dignity we don't get too drunk and say this is how we're happy it's our holiday and we're serving our Kadosh Baruch who know we have to do everything in moderation and so that after we finish we're able to bless suffer - bara who correctly some people want to buy the lottery by a lot of wind tons and tons and tons of money I'm gonna tell you something I don't buy lottery tickets why I used to when the prizes used to be 1 million 2 million 3 million I can deal with that I'll find some use for an extra million or 2 million or three million but now these the prizes are 200 million 300 million 400 million I don't buy lottery tickets I wouldn't want to win 300 million 400 million it would mess me up like it's messed up everybody who's wanted but would mess up my whole family my loving kids and they're loving spouses everyone will be fighting with each other most likely it happens to everybody else why would I be spared so I don't buy lottery tickets I want you to know there are haha meme there are rabbis pray not to be wealthy don't get me wrong pray to have what you need pray to have a little extra so you can enjoy things here and there fine we're not saying no of course you need part myself go see any food on the table you need a roof over your heads of course yes you need to go visit here they're a little bit whatever if you have to but slice okay fine fine I'm not talking about that but to be wealthy that you have so much money there are those who actually pray for me who actually pray that that will not happen because you have this problem while schmuck is your own way you might it's almost guaranteed after a certain point and I say it is guaranteed and there are exceptions to the rule but don't guarantee don't be sure that you'll be the exception so therefore we go with the rule and the rule is Welsh money is your own way of art there are those who've become very wealthy and have become incredibly dedicated to a fellowship our whole what happens two or three generations later however is still a problem usually so it's not a blessing you want you want to be comfortable but you want your generations to all remain in the path of the Torah and serve a fedora oho and if you look throughout history and I can see I can tell you things that are close to home where there was a lot of money and they were incredibly religious but bit by bit by bit there was no more Judaism left in future generations we're lucky we know there's a God so when we things go well for us we're comfortable we know we can turn to God not though the whole world doesn't have that there is a French philosopher a writer whose name was I welcome you I don't want to say in America maybe they say Albert Camus I practiced all day I said welcome you and he I don't understand the guy I really don't understand if he says he's totally irreligious on the other end he said he's not an atheist I'm not sure what that means I'm not getting not getting into that but I want I want to quote you what he said because I thought it was kind of cute he said I would rather live my head in French but you know I'd say I said in English he said I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't not sure how that works exactly but all right then live my life as if there isn't a God and die to find out there is I could just imagine if you're the guy for guys there's no God all of a sudden after he's gone who's this rabbi what what who what but you know so that I found that really really cute but what it makes me think is we know this is God we know this is a guy so once you know these are God it becomes less of a challenge as long as you allow yourself to think about kadosh matter who becomes less of a challenge for someone who doesn't believe in God just that maybe there is maybe yeah it must be really very difficult but anyway there it is the prophet in me Yahoo Jeremiah I like the name Jeremiah yummy Yahoo he says I'm aa shame God said I'll give a lil haha mihawk my thought a wise person a wise man should not get glory or praise himself because of his wisdom well Lois ha Leila Gabor boo boo ethe oh and a strong man should not they translated his glory in his might and the wise man we've already said that so let's go with I'll get Helen a shield they oh sure a wealthy man should not praise himself or be praised over his wealth in bizarre theater Layla methylene but the one who glories should glory in this weird ROC he must know me Annie Hashem or say hey said Medusa acaba Aris I am the lord who does hey said who does loving-kindness mishpat we said sentence which means justice and righteousness Siddhartha in the land keep it Elia fast in it oh my shame for this is what I delight in in other words a person person shouldn't say I'm rich I'm strong I'm a big haha whether it's in religion or in other ways and that is my glory I'm so great look at me because of my wisdom says no God says I don't want that he says you should you should be praised because you know me because you know who God is and then if you know who God is he gonna serve Him and you're gonna serve Him and Happiness I'm gonna tell you another story again about how calm who was on the top of his world and then every reason to be arrogant because of his position and I would like to talk about somebody that I do talk about a lot more the highly owl on our Shalom Muhammad Ali Oh at this time during the story was the Rishon LeZion and chief rabbi of Israel it was also very very very great tell me Tom and and well respected by by all or Abunimah in the Land of Israel of all backgrounds really something incredible he was the youngest darn ever to serve in the Land of Israel and so on but at this point and he's a very loving man very loving caring man who really enjoyed serving at Kadosh powerful and this at this point is to say he was the Rishon LeZion he was the chief rabbi and he was giving a Oren hold on his shoe ream would go on to very late number one it was extremely knowledgeable he could just he could just keep talking and it was fascinating and he also had a big sense of humor and he was very knowledgeable on the two come together and people just want to hear more and more and more and then when it was over people would all line up for a blessing if it was a woman she would be packed and they would all come and stand in line and bless them one by one if he's a man short for the man if it was mixed and they would come I guess the man the woman was separately and he bless everybody so on one occasion in holon he's giving this lecture he's given this shoe or he finishes at 11:30 at night now he's got to make his way back to Russia lion so it's late he gets ready to go he gets up and there are people who stop him blocking block his way they won't let him go I think he was in the car already because he says to them what's going on I have to go back they say no our rabbi says that you have to come we have to bring you because there's a very very great aramis is a very very great gardulla door here and we have to bring you to our big Midrash to speak to us so he says I've got to go back to alive it's late you know probably had to wake up in the morning do work even before shahuri even he probably played nurse and so on and so forth he says they put two motorcycles in front of his limousine so he couldn't go he says he's looking at these guys he says you could tell these were very very new Violetta Shuba so I can just picture I may have no idea if that's all those two motorcycles I could imagine that like Hells Angel type leather jackets and big Gipp on their head or something like that you know this is the image that comes to mind so he says I have no choice I had to go so he goes they they go they lead the way they take him to the Beit Midrash she says the rabbi standing outside I don't the rabbi realized who it wise that would speak he says when he saw him he came running up there with Mary mama he not forgive me forgive me sirs but you don't understand these people are a ballot issue why they knew they need they need his zouk they need they need to be inspired could come whether I'll just come and speak for a few minutes and then and and and bless them and everything else and I finally I always enjoy this already he says you know because this poor guy for somebody comes out he sees this huge limousine the black limousine of the chief Rama is there and everything so must have made a big rush of a big impression all right he goes it and he speaks he's not gonna speak for two minutes he spoke he spoke he spoke and when he's done the rabbi comes up to him and says capable that up the people are asking would you mind blessing each person individually of course okay the first guy comes up I could just picture probably leather jacket jeans you know you know change the something I've exaggerated probably not I could just see it he says he puts his hand on his head to bless him he said he felt them with thorns in his hand he says the guy's hair I guess it been gel do those spikes and it was hurting him a little bit so he blesses the sky he goes the second guy comes same thing spikes the third guy comes more spikes he says the fourth guy comes he's smart by now he doesn't put his hand on his head he puts it above this is the guy got offended he says for the other people you put your head on the head you're not putting on mind he's not white if I do it anymore I'm gonna have holes in my hand so anyway he blessed all of them and and he went on his way I don't know what time he got teary shall i he's a big Hoffa he's extremely well-known he was even before it was a Rishon LeZion he was the chief rabbi of israel he's got a busy schedule he would have every right to tell the people excuse me move your bicycles I have important business to take care of no and if he tells the story he sells it with laughter he enjoyed it it made him happy he was serving up for those mofos this is my fellow Schmoe who once it's his job spread the Torah he had another opportunity to do it I'm sure some people would not have been like that but he did and he did it with some huh with happiness now what's important is when you do something with some ha when you serve a Kadosh powerful with some huh especially if you're a religious person they know it to be a religious person it makes them it makes others learn from you they see that you're doing with happiness and it affects them if on the other hand when you do whatever you servus dr. Josh barro who is you do it in a way that people see you're not really into it or a little depressed they're gonna be demotivated so you have a big role to play in other words serving a Kadosh Baruch is not just for a kadosh about who but it's also the way you do it affects the other people we started with your schewe joshua before what I read to you at the same time when he would summoning everybody it says well has obtained me old be very strong the small Willa I sought to keep and to do what it called haka to be safer trot mache everything that is written in the Torah of Michelle Beano and Irish alone the booty storm ameno ya mean small without turning to the right or to the left this is your Schwaben noon telling the generation that has just seen all the greatest miracles warning them how much more so does it matter that we should do the same we live in a generation that there hasn't been the like of in my humble opinion ever I don't think there's been this level of comfort of wealth ever there have been very wealthy people and comfortable people in history but across the board like today did not exist go back two generations look at your families it was not like this this level of comfort and everything you want did not exist I was reading that the average age of the owner of a Rolls Royce today it used to be 55 average age you remember the first youngest guy probably I don't know it was 20 the oldest guy in 92 I don't know what it is but the average age 55 has come down to 45 they say there's so much wealth around young people today buying Rolls Royces this never happened in history the challenge is there for today for you and me a much greater than they've ever been and we have to remember that and we have to be particular to understand that every blessing we have we should thank God that that blessing has come from him and not from us and if we can do that then we will be able even when things are going well for us to do the right thing to do hasten to help others to pray with Kawana and to be happy to be serving God I'm not saying you know what I'd rather go back like that frog to eating flies because that is the danger that is what this whole concept of wish man you shall rule where your art is all about that when things go well you start rejecting a Kadosh Baruch ooo things for the most part people do have the suffering people do have their place but we have never seen this in history and you know you know that's the case so let's thank God that we are in times obviously that it's getting closer to the times of Messiah but we are being tested in ways that we don't understand we're being tested and let us do the right thing server for those morrow who in happiness and may God always bless us with good times that is our prayer but if we can serve Him and Happiness hopefully will soon bring us to come here Masha said okay no they come they're out there me know well hey Mira so many my man thank you all for coming [Music] you [Applause]