Hoshea: Chapter 6 - The Great Principle of Externalities Affecting the Heart

this store class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay we're gonna do a few sukum here in hoshaya we're going to begin paragraph pasta gimmel Grenada and we will know near difa we will pursue to know God like the Morning Star whose emergence is certain he will come like rain to us like the late rain yoira RS and satiate the land we explained last time that claudiusville says that we want to pursue Hashem like the rain and the gemara says that cloudy Soul made an improper request the gemara says in the beginning that claw Israel should have asked that we that Revenge should be like the Dew and Hashem said in fact I will be like the due to claisal as the Navy says later and we'll be honest explained that the difference between the rain and the Dew is the rain needs the precipitation down here in this world and uh therefore it is dependent it's dependent on precipitation downstairs as opposed to the Dew which comes automatically from the moisture that's in the atmosphere which is at all times and in other words the conversation taking place here is that we ask God when we do our small part down here please respond in kind and evolution says no I will unconditionally inspire you to chuva well let's focus on um the beginning of this and we will know near default and we will pursue Hashem to know Hashem the message interprets this pasok as enunciating a very interesting principle that is Ram Khal says that one of the middays of uh that the Tanner of pencil who's buried in in that in the ancient Cemetery where pencres Benoit says [Applause] Tyra brings to carefulness zahiros mavioli Des rizos the heroes brings to alacrity to energetic service of Hashem explains that when a person serves Hashem they should do so with their soul energetic on fire with a lot of enthusiasm to serve Hashem so the Messi then deals with the following issue you tell a person serve Hashem enthusiastically but he says but there's only one problem I'm not enthusiastic about it how could you tell me to serve Hashem to Davin with with energy and hislatos and with a fire and with a brain I don't feel any fire and I'm not enthusiastic about my service of Hashem says that's a that's a problem and that is that a person's emotions are not in their control a person does not have absolute control over their emotions a person cannot always just turn on the switch okay be happy be sad be enthusiastic be energetic be calm be angry emotions sometimes override you know you don't always have absolute control of one's feelings and emotions and therefore the message introduces the great principle and it's a psychological principle and Mr sharam calls it says the external actions and gender what's on the inside meaning you're not in control of what's on your inside but you are in control of what's on your outside and therefore you could use your externalities to control your what's taking place on the inside so for instance if you're not enthusiastic about learning let's say I don't like learning it's boring especially the way the rugby teaches and so what you do is you what is in your control is you could run so what you do is run to the sheer run the second you get out of the car run into the sheer like you know you'd be running to collect uh the winning lottery tickets and then the act of running will influence your inner feelings so what you're the Your Enthusiasm about learning is not necessary within your control but your outward externalities is in your control I mean sometimes you see somebody he's davening like this you say look you know PayPal you know relax what do you need no but maybe there's something to it because if you dive in in a way with which externally exudes a certain interest and excitement about what you're doing that will affect your what's on the internal that's called it's a concept speaks about then in general why are so many Mitzvahs take a Lula of an asterig God cares we shake the rule of it don't you asham created the whole world you know ribena the almakula he created every phenomenous world he cares if we take a pawn and we go like that the answer is no he cares what's inside the heart but a human being is not in full control of having the proper attitudes and Thoughts by doing the correct actions it influences one's um Thoughts by the way takes the principle even further this is the principle of themselves externalities affect the internal now the Sesame in the ending words of paraxine of the musselsa sharim this principle is enunciated by the Navy Hosea and paragraph We will know near defy we will run to no Hashem what do you mean we will run to no Hashem the answer is what the Navy's telling us is that if a person wants to develop the proper feelings toward knowledge of Hashem they should put on a show so to speak via phony you say this is artificial this is artificial Judaism and the answer is the only way to get to real Judaism is through artificial Judaism even if it's phony because eventually you'll become real now the you have to be very careful because you don't want to be too artificial and in the you know in Yeshiva they would say you have to be within the ballpark of the madrega that you're hoping to acquire to in other words a guy who you know his mamish or Russia marushi spends this whole day murdering people for him to start okay he's gonna run to the base time medrish in order to develop it might be too far of a leap through the artificial means but as long as you're within reasonable uh closeness to that madrega the way you acquire things is artificially now um has extends this principle in the following way and that is introduces a concept called thoughts are drawn after one speech meaning you could say why do we Davin so much whoa now here's a very interesting idea if you ask most people why do I down I don't because I need money so I need to ask God for money so he could give it to me meaning basically I'm going to show to get what I need the cloud has no connection to huaweed we do not dive in to get what we need why do we Davin says there are five main purposes of davening purpose number one the first purpose of davening is to give the nashama the opportunity to express its yearning for God number two we dab in to recognize the greatness of our creator number three we dive in to Humble ourselves before our creator number four we dive in to thank Hashem and number five we Davin it's an exercise in trust where we take all of our needs and we take what's called our pickle and we throw it on God meaning we say God we know that we could rely on you it's not to get what we need but it's an exercise in displaying our trust in Hashem it has nothing to do with well I have this need so how am I going to get it I you know this is how I get it from God so why do we have to dive in why can't we just sit and meditate like you know in the world meditation is very popular you go to airports now they have meditation rooms so why do we have to Daven think about it what are we doing with happening we're humbling ourselves before God we bow down to God displaying our insignificance before our creator why do I have to say words doesn't God know what's in my heart isn't it sort of a lack of a Muna to Davin as if to say God you don't know what I'm thinking so I'll say it because if I don't say it you're not going to know isn't it Optical Davin so why do we have to say it the answer is what we're trying to do is drill it into our minds we need to drill into our head God's greatness and our insignificance and our gratitude the only thing is in order to think something and to feel something the way to do it is by saying it your speech affects the way you think and feel it doesn't work the other way around does it in your speech based upon what you think think before you speak okay so there are two things so you don't say something stupid I mean the answer is there are many levels of thought of course you can't in order to formulate thought you need in order to formulate speech you need a thought but there's something called thoughts and then there's something called Daya what is Daya Daya is knowledge knowledge meaning where your thoughts become reality of your personality everybody believes in Hashem but that Sadiq feels Hashem Hashem is a living is a reality is part of his personality I'll give you an example everybody believes in Islam it's the person who feels that oil is a reality who will conduct himself properly in this world there's so many levels of feeling something to be true so the concept of FILA is that a person's thoughts are are drawn after their speech the more a person enunciates certain things for example if a Victor Miller would say that um you know there's a midst on the Tyra to love Hashem Okay so how do you do that how do you come to La rashem so he would say every day say I love you Hashem the only thing is people are gonna think you're absolutely insane so don't let anybody hear you so you would say go to a telephone booth go inside and make a long distance phone call you know pick it up someone said who are you talking to very important phone call and again on the phone you say I love you Hashem so Hashem is infinite kindness he created something called cell phones which obviously are off during this year right so but you don't need it to be on to to make use of it for the most important thing the most important use of a cell phone is to be able while you're walking down the street everyone's talking on the phone so you're walking up I love you Hashem and now you know what else you could do you could send the text you could send an email if you get an answer that's the really if you get an answer we need to talk okay so there's a mood altering drug or chemical that's known a Moon Mood okay it's good stuff you you develop a love for for the object that you're close to so should you take oxytocin when you're doctoring while you're vomiting you have to be that's beyond the scope of this lecture okay we would say instead of walking down the street you go to the place of people to do if you want to talk to Hashem like he's your father and you tell them that you love him if you go to a field and then you don't have to worry about it you don't have to worry about right people looking at you strangely that you're talking to your community all right so there are different approaches to be able to accomplish this feat but that's the concept of while we're on the subject I'll speak out an interesting contradiction in the ram Khal Ram Khal at the end of the safer when he talks about humility he says how does one acquire humility so he says well look back in park Zion about zurizos and he says the same way how do you acquire as a resource how do you acquire energy be energetic and that will affect your attitude the same thing with humility he says don't wear you know flashy clothing we are simple clothing and don't go sitting among all the great people sit with the common folk and act in a way acting he calls it regulus get into the habit of humble practices and that will engender humility because again the feelings are not always in our control but what isn't our control are the externalities so a person accustoms themselves to externally acting in a humble way that will influence them to actually feel humble the problem is that's what the message says in parekh I believe it's the parrot about how to acquire humility however in the in the paragraph he says in order to acquire humility it's necessary first to be an enough Shava humble in one's thoughts and only then to accustom themselves in you humble practices and the question is that's a contradiction because he says in Paris that that the order of operations is the exact opposite that first get into the custom of humble practices and that will lead you to humility and a pair claval if he says no first you have to be humble in thought and that then you could start uh practicing the practices of humility so the answer is that really humility is a very uh tricky topic because humility you can't immediately use the principle of let me explain why let's say you have a guy he's going to be he's trying to work on his humility and he's like well I'm going to be humble so where am I going to sit in the shawl I'm going to sit in the back and right field in the back right corner and I'm gonna wear schmatas and I'm gonna let everybody step on me so say great he's he's doing the humble actions and that will lead to Humble thoughts no why because he's the biggest hypocrite in the world because if he's not yet humble in his thoughts when he's sitting in the back in the shul and right field that nobody should notice him what's he thinking everyone look at me I'm the most humble man on the face of this Earth I am number one on of even my shravenu Hashem only wrote because I wasn't there yet if I would have been there he would have wrote you know your Uncle Ben Pliny is this the hypocritical I know of him that if they don't really feel their unworthiness yet they're going to be thinking to themselves I'm too great for cover there's no there's not enough Coven in this world they could probably they could possibly give me so I might as well sit in the back because they can't even give me enough covered the first humble what you think you're humble you're not humble so the message is saying like this when it comes to humility the first step is you have to realize your your unworthiness you have to have some level of humility and thought meaning realize Frailty of man so susham says yeah every person as great as they are their life is so frail even the smartest person is so apt to make a mistake and so sushant says even the greatest that toss is more likely than getting it right and once the person has a degree a modicum of humility in their thoughts then through so many of us through external actions they could magnify the seeds of humility that are ready in their thoughts however if they don't have any humility in their mind then the actions of humility won't be actions of humility there'll be actions of arrogance you see when it comes to the resource energy all you got to do is do the externalities and that will pull along the feelings but humility is more tricky because the feeling of humility first has to be there and then you could use externalities to to water that feeling okay let's continue but first let me tell you what the gemara says about this plastic of NADA uh the gemara says from this possibly learn don't take big steps basically don't run out of shawl you ever see people you know by the time he's already in his car now some people think that Elena you know no Elena he doesn't thought so says the gamara don't take big steps out of show ah says that's on the way out avalama but on the way in Mitzvah lemir had it's a Mitzvah to run you should pursue to know Hashem meaning you should pursue knowledge of Hashem run literally when you come to a shul you should literally walk fast or run um fine that's what we learned from this person writer foreign what can I do for you Ephraim what could I do for you Yehuda your kindness like the clouds of the morning and like to do that leaves early in uh the morning meaning the navi Hosea is telling us what can I do for you Ephraim what can I do for you your kindness is like the clouds of the morning and like the Dew that dissipates early says Rashi looking possible what could I do for you look at Rashi what can I do for you my name what can I do when the attribute of strict Justice is looming over you how can I bring out your judgment to light meaning what Rashi is saying is prevalent it will be very difficult for me to give you a good judgment why your kindness is like the clouds of the morning all of your goodness and your righteousness ain't no Clum is nothing why is it nothing look in the malbum says [Music] the main thing that God asks of you who asks mishbad is doing Justice and kindness the main thing is to do kindness with creation with people the gambacha said that includes those missiles that a person does between him and Hashem out of salenation said but your kindness are like the clouds in the morning when the sun shines the clouds rise via spazzer and they scatter a Moravia and they do not satiate the land foreign without clouds and the clouds of the morning will not create rain basically Hashem is saying that your kindness is unworthy is not worthwhile is not substantial by the way there's another gemara on this I think the gemara says says uh honey uh that when it rains in the morning it could still be a curse of Hashem says that if you do the wrong things if you serve I'm going to withhold the heavens I'm going to stop the heavens from producing rain says the gemara even if it rains in the morning before chakras it's still considered a curse God has still restrained the heavens why is Safra clouds in the morning have no substance to them what could I do for you your kindness are like the clouds in the morning okay we're gonna hold it over here and I'm gonna share with you something on the upcoming you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com