Your Blessings Are Up to You! Rabbi Joey Haber

[Music] I'm going to give you an interesting perspective and how to view your world and your life the says that how does it make sense when hasem gives a to the whole how could everyone be equal and everyone equally deserve it when hashm says it's going to rain everyone deserves the rain some people have better intentions some people have worse see he says what it means is is whenever Hashem is giving a general it's not a reward rather he says I'm going to read to you the words it's a setup to serve and in this way everyone could be equal since everyone equally wants to serve gives you the opportunity each person according to his level what theab is saying is that there's nothing that's reward word or punishment it's a setup that depends on what you do with it and you could either turn the life that you're living into incredible reward an incredible blessing or you could turn the life you're living into something that's incredibly painful it's up to you so when you look around at the world and you see other people that you don't have and you say to yourself oh my life is so frustrating you did that your life isn't actually frustrating you decided that it should feel like a curse and you could be the same life that you're living with the same people and the same wife and the same children and you could see it as an incredible blessing I said this a few months ago in a year and the next day I got a text message I'd like to share with you the text message said that kab s you brought down in the beginning of the parha I just looked it up and learned it it's a game Cher five exclamation points off the charts thank you so much and then he says his name and he says he's the head of a a prominent Yeshiva in a fir Community I sent it back wow thank you very much for sharing that and then he sends this back he says I am sitting right now in chemo getting a chemotherapy infusion and this puts everything in a different perspective yes even where I am right now getting poisoned put into me it's my choice to make it a or a k it's all sometimes you could make your life miserable by looking at other people's lives and automatically you see someone else's life or how someone else looks and automatically it makes you feel like your life is miserable or you could look Inward and see how your life is incredible it's really totally up to you and that's why the says I'm putting before you both your life is up to you to determine whether it's bad or whether it's incredibly good