Shavuos on Fire - 2 - Desert People - Hillel Eisenberg

[Music] the 49 days that come before shuis are all days that we're supposed to somehow prepare ourselves for shuis the question is how what exactly are we supposed to focus on so there's a mish in bid Z it says the following bizarre statement it says anybody that doesn't make themselves like a midbar a desert is unable to properly accept or reaccept toyra and Mitzvah so what exactly does that mean what is making yourself a Mido entail so here's an idea I recently had a baby girl and like a good father whenever she's crying I pick her up and I rock her back and forth and one of these times that I'm sitting there rocking her back and forth picking her up and down it struck me isn't it odd that to soothe a baby you rock them back and forth and you pick them up and you shake them and you walk with them all around and can you imagine doing that to an adult you hear an adult that can't sleep and you say I got this and you start picking them up and you rock them back and forth and move them and roll them and go outside and take a walk with them like Not only would you not put them to sleep they would punch you in the face so why is a baby find it soothing the answer is that a baby literally 3 days prior was in its mother's stomach and its mother was forever walking and climbing upstairs and moving to and fro so that's what it's used to and therefore that's what soothes it the Jewish people were born in a desert we didn't get the Tyra in a tropical island we didn't get the T in a rolling flower here field in some Meadow some gorgeous luscious place we became a people in a desert and therefore we know a thing or two about turbulent times a desert a desert which was a little bit rough we got attacked by a a mik there was malleus there was complaining we thought that we didn't have food we thought that we didn't have water it wasn't picture perfect at all because that's precisely the point we Thrive when it's difficult because we were born in a midbar we became a nation under difficult circumstances and that's how we Thrive that's how we were in our mother's stomach so to speak in the stomach of Hashem we were in incubated we were incubated by Hashem in a midbar precisely because the tah is there to to inject Holiness when life is hard when life is difficult when it's not easy we don't simply have shabis or Tyra and Mitzvah when life is Picture Perfect when everything is fine and dandy when we have the exact amount of caffeine in our body when we had the picture perfect upbringing with the perfect friends with the perfect family Dynamic no that's a mistake we were born in a midbar we know how to thrive and inject and and andz in every and all circumstances now here's an idea every single one of the Yum T are in the middle of a month they are either or t p is on T Su is on T is on is on and test you want to know why that is because the middle of the month is when the moon is the fullest and the Moon is a reflection of how much Rus there is how much spiritual energy there is in the atmosphere and therefore when the moon is the fullest that's demonstrative of how much spiritual energy there is in the atmosphere and we want to cash in on the time when there's the most spiritual energy so therefore we have our y on The Middle on tesv the smack middle of the month on the moon is the fullest the question is why is shuis the out shuis is UN it's not the nor month why is that that the answer is that is precisely the point because the Tyra is not meant for that once a month time where the Moon is the fullest where the most spiritual energy is in existence no no no it's when it's down it's when there's not so much spiritual energy when you're working when you're in the airport you're at a train station you don't want to be doing this but you learn anyway but you say to Hill him when you have a headache you go to nights Sader when you have three million other things you'd rather be doing because that's the whole point of the Tyra it injects us it it carries us on its wings and Rises us up above the rest of humanity precisely when we are in Exile when we are in turbulent times is when some of the greatest Jewish moments occurred and some of the greatest Jewish Personalities in history have led the way precisely when it was difficult because we were incubated in a desert we came to be in a desert and that is the proper Outlook of how to accept the tah a new every shis learn how to inject tah in your every day not waiting for Lis not waiting for the L Sader or Nila or specifically on chabis when you have that fleeting moment of inspiration no no no figure out how to inject Ras Andra into your every day into a random Tuesday in July to a random Wednesday in October to random times throughout the week bring into you when you're not in inspired by external factors and conventions and big videos and movie production no no no Rus is for the everyday you ever wonder there were two sets of L given there was the first set and there was the second set you ever wonder why do we celebrate the first set ofas which were basically unsuccessful I mean we got the Tyra and then 45 seconds later they was smashed on the floor to a million pieces why would we celebrate and pick the date of the giving of the of the first set of L which was concurrent with the greatest and most tragic event in all of Jewish history Theo a sin that we are still suffering today why don't we choose the second set of L the second giving of the T which was Picture Perfect all fine and dandy the answer is that's precisely the point the tah is not Picture Perfect it's not meant for the elite it's not meant for the only top 1% it's meant for everyone yeah true we were at the time of the giving of the T true but we are not like other religions that sweep our issues under a rug we are not like under other religions that censor and make sure everything's picture perfect no the t is here to pick us up and dust us off and inject our every moment with Holiness and Kusha the Tyra knew our struggles and our issues and our anxieties and our self-doubts it knew all of it and it injected us with a perfectly tailor made dose of kadosa perfect for us perfect in our lives with our struggles and our self-doubts with our upbringing in the school that we went to that's the whole point of the Tyra we were born in a midbar the very first in all of is not the second not the third the first one wake up every morning and Roar we don't wake up and Whisper yish we don't wake up and speak yish we don't wake up and even scream yish we roar yish and for thousands of years year in and year out month in and month out week in and week out day in and day out Yen woke up and roared yish we roared through pams and lials and concentration camps and zeyon B we roar yish kite because we were born in a midbar we know a thing or two about survival and we know the important about injecting G theate no matter what and no matter when that is how we prepare for shs [Music]