Ahavas Hatorah - Rabbi Yakov Zev Smith

a of but but there's more to this you know used to say mention people make a mistake they think you know there are some people that are born with but me you know I don't have it it's not my fault you know what do you want from me nobody is born with and I guess he means to say like every other is a product of there's no free rides in but I want to add so how is a person you know we we look at someone we always have someone in our minds he's a must he just he just never never satisfied he wants more and more and he goes on hours I wish I could have somewhat of that is there a vitamin is there an exercise I'll tell you there no vitamin but there is an exercise because human nature is that or like when someone gives for something that develops in fact the of the word a have is have do you ever wonder why parents love children so much more than children love parents the child's always receiving from the parents he should Lov parents more but other because the parents are giving and giving and giving there so much have that creates an a The Secret of is giving for to when it's not so when it's not so easy he gives a muscle he gives a muscle of how guaranteed and proven it is and I call this of all the examples of chosen Marshall where rash could turn into a Masid because hav brings a and could bring even from a into into an and how about someone that isn't but wants a little more but that's the way the made the world there's a famous of the says that even CL there are three you give all the money in the world it's not going to get you anywhere you have to be become a you have to have to become a but what's the based on this there is no one that's denied of this shite called but they has to be call a person worries sometimes and maybe it's an innocent mistake you know I would love to have but look at me I come to I sit down it doesn't go he doesn't realize that's not a that's an opportunity that's an opportunity to turn hav into a know the once said a and I quote it it typical brisker of but I think there's so much practicality a person you know is so why don't people learn more and more par say it's understandable they sit down it goes a few minutes and they can't go on so what do they do close the gar come back tomorrow but nothing's going to change if you don't make work on making a Kenyon of a if you don't give if there's no have there's no AA so every time it's difficult the is giving you an opportunity the exercise for and what does he do I'll come back tomorrow it I'm it that's it you close theor you don't make an extra after to go make another s because okay so I'll go as I'll go with the flow the is giving you a kinon says that should be enough of a that a person is able to to extend himself the standing by your learning anding my learning and your learning is the same you know you might want wonder why I say this says it what does the have from this world all Theus and all the A and then when you see a extending himself to learn that's what he says the Russ is in terrible Agony because of when someone learns T that's in a small scale [Applause] imagine you have a very devoted son and he wants to give his parents a special so he has an idea it's and his parents went to he's going to die in the early he's going to run home and wash all the dishes you know for parents it's a a big treat come home everything is done and he's washing and every dish every every every bit of effort he feels like a million dollars he's giving his parents but all sudden he hear the door open and his parents come in and they're they're shocked they're frozen in their tracks and they're watching him I'm counter his feeling not only he's doing something for his parents but they're watching and they're quelling that's is watching us and maybe that's the the first yes little [Applause] old is giving that's in a certain sense comparable that's part of the I once saw a transcript of the famous story of the sent and some of his sons to extricate a and's son wrote exactly what happened he was there together with his father see who the label's name was and he wrote exactly the story it's you see you know you see the one part I want to tell you about when finally started talking with the deok he asked this again of he writes about he want to know if the listen I think if I would ask you what was the greatness of I mean there's so much but but it's not only stes we we don't compare to but to never changes and if we would live with that reality it's everything the difficulty is a small price to pay the but it's all the same it's just a small price to pay for because that's all we have to do we have to try our hardest it's interesting in Sim which obviously we not expect to be but to be ourselves you know P once told us he heard from of henin of henin was once called to one of the Rab in in Europe and the want to speak to R Han so he's waiting in the waiting room another young man was sitting there soin asked him say don't get the first 50 years of his life lived as an okay heard of him goes what do you do see have I have a store he had a store like I have a store his wife had these words L made said I don't know who this this young man is but good after he went into the r he found out that this younger man God happens to be 16 hours a day but their pal wasn't spoil as H was that's exactly for 16 hours a day for a working person well it depends how much he has to work how much he has and how busy he is and children and parents and and all the variables and all the the various factors but everybody's Miss because no one's denied you know but this beginning has to be to see the hasem you know everybody knows the story of H he climbed on the roof you know H was able to do that look [Applause] at when someone sees then nothing is too hard could go on and on but the of is all about understanding that it's never too hard if we appreciate and then I understood that's imagine a parent ask the child take out the garbage oh I can't you can't why not so the boy feels guilty okay I'll do it but the parent feels violated how do you say I can't what you can't that's does not mean he can't do it if he can't do it he can't do it but he says I can't do it it's hard I'm working I'm busy but whatever whatever the endless but then he goes to learn because and that makes the cry how how are you going to survive in goas if you don't know your greatest strength is there is no there's an that reil after the greatest when because it's never if you really want to make it but I think there's more to this I want to speak to not looking for excuses and he had a very big difficulty I told him I'm going to tell you about Abal you know everybody to hear about but you know as good as I do about and that's called the of you know history he was for 80 years that is the biggest think about the life of from day one he was born without parents his father died when his mother was expecting him his mother died in child birth and was able to say fortunate someone has no parents so from day one he was born a real y okay BL he married married and had a family he buried all his 10 children his lifetime CU I'll talk about losing one child there is a special word for that he went through 10as of his own children he didn't they nothing what to eat but it's worse than that you learned the mag was once walking with his and every so often oh you see that that estate that used to be mine but I sold because I wanted to learn oh that wine press that's mine I sold it oh that Olive press that was mine and as the walk suddenly it becomes quiet and looks is crying why you crying he says what do you mean I thought the Reb was an un okay but I see the Reb was AA and it gave it all up for says I gave it all up for I got to that was given by couldn't understand how do you see I gave it all up how does a person live without Parents Without children without P but if he was know he was he was a was you know what the secret is I'll tell you the the end of that m it's those four words that's the strongest on planet Earth and that's be and then a person could be a like a not having children and not having parents and not having P but he has when he came to America he would go from to sh every shabas in a different Sho and they make an appeal so typically the r would vum he would talk a little bit about and would speak one CH the got up and he was very very emotional very very passionate that is Like Oxygen on oygen and we can't live without toy it was going on and on about you can't live without toy without oxygen was listening then he said then he asked speak got up and said oygen you don't know English how do you know oxygen that's not true maybe there two living and oxygen you see was able to live without children and parents and money because he had lean Alain but you know what's what was able to stop this Unstoppable not losing children not losing parents not losing his money you all know the GID when rashish his beloved was he couldn't go on they got the best no no I know I know the but I need the I need the I need the I need the Ming and the Ming and the pl you give me that agrees to me he was you see you could a person could live without children and parents and money but it can't live without life itself and maybe if you want we can even find the words he told us the secret the m finished he finished life was one big when he finished when he went through his life it was one sck what's the secret how do I make it when someone understands the of then nothing is too hard and this is the m it's interesting ran WR actually two but in the short one he writes he seems to be very feel guilty so he writes you're right who believe that's based on look the way a burning fire that burns up all to and all excuses that's so Illuminating and has such a such a such that's the burns up and allish excuses once was probably the must of how do you learn constantly so without skipping I don't learn I learn see that's the want to maybe that'ss so sound like he's saying if you learn you don't have but it's not true because and we know throughout the but maybe the is means from and it's an opportunity of that brings more was very much the man that D in his home his minion at home who was unknown to most so someone say why is it getting so much cover the youer man he said these wordsi and one day he's going to the biggest because he learns but I want to add another another postcript and they tried all type of medicine and treatment it didn't work and even the morphine he became just immune to it it didn't help him so he went to a doctor he says I have too much sour says I can't give you Mor not working okay so I have something better than he said you know tell me what you have I'm giving a in P about that's going to help me so do says know I can't believe that what do that supposed to mean Why'd You Come and the doctor went to panovich and he heard that the strongest painkiller on this universe is he saw and he heard but I want to say something else I think this for parents one of the greatest that he was a ra rash probably 70 plus years he wrote thousands of chis and and Sh but most of all he was he he he was mimid hundreds probably thousands of hundreds of R where his T but I think his most important his most important cha was the P that was called RNA cuz we we are convinced what was rna's life like the typical mold of Godless you know he was 7 years old he finished 12 years old 18 and lived happily ever after you know that's what we think about Godless is all about just you know just change the name it's all the same let me tell you what R said himself it's printed in his Dres he said he didn't have a good head and so much so when he when he applied toin he was refused one of the there believed in him and intervened give him a chance so he was given three months trial period but he said it was torture because no one want to learn with him imagine no after three months he was given a because it's not not place for us another reig got intervened and saved his life and you think about it you know this is a a cup a failure with giants with ar of I found this secret one of his before you you have to be for the it's it's really after everything said it it defies explanation someone that that had such difficulties and don't forget he came from a very simple home he came from Vienna that wasn't so much in favor of of Li day and night but he was living he he really believed goes to him as well and I saw one beautiful maybe you want to call it it was the day after his anle got married and was sleeping dur understandably because they stayed for the late and they they didn't sleep much they were tired so he said these words I quote say believe me he says I'm also tired because I was also by the they live with this with this reality the was the cuz he was the must of have or did he give himself a to he was a in to because he was a in have to the mold of Godless is not when you're seven and 12 the mold of godness like way he says it is and then you have a that says isn't that when says he's going to be another victim of what of what says if only he would see every difficulty as an opportunity to turn even aash into into to make it becomes a it's an opportunity not a not a struggle think about there's more time to learn there's more gak learning but it's a Kenyan like everything else the more we give the more excise there is the more there is there an interesting dialogue in the one of met and whatever he heard from him he heard he quoted in so have such a love for who like knows not just the the of it but but but the transformative effect of it it makes a person a different person makes him it makes him a different sense of values right by the you have to work in it see people make mistakes we're not into tiis we very into Thais but we want an not not not a fake imitation we want we want the AR theas why it's not it's inappropriate to give a wait a second how do you see anything about okay that's but where does t have to do anything the Terr is in's eyes there's one word that's synonimous with toyra and that's T and then a person could could see all the narish and he SP it I want real I want and that's really what is a world of but when someone has the when someone has right and nothing stops him but one more point I want to tell you know someone once approached me and he said I have to tell you the story okay I think you'll enjoy it so tell me the following story he got a phone call from someone married to s a business acquaintance of his and the fellow was begging him listen there was a very big deal that was about to be consumated to be to be closed and it fell apart right now this this deal has a tremendous tremendous potential for big money but it's not going to make it for another 24 hours if you come there TR and you get involved you can make that deal and I'm guarantee you you're going to it's going worth your while but you have to get in there get there so within 24 hours so he's a businessman okay so he quickly calls up his travel agent you know is it is it feasible goes yet there's a flight get on the plane so he says he jumped into a car service and he was diving the whole way shouldn't be stuck in traffic if he missed the flight it's all over he gets to the airport in no time hereis he's waiting online to check in so the clerk says okay sir next okay uh where's your passport and he hops you know he doesn't usually do this he got to bring his passport so he starts stammering and stuttering I have to go sir where's your passport he goes you don't understand this I have to get the Israel sir where's your passport she goes do I look like a terrorist to you so the person says sir without your passport you're not going anywhere so he realized so he turned around then he went home and I heard that story said that's a gamor in four places in that's the that we have to live with and maybe that's the writes that every person has a mission in life to complete his now of course it's extremely subjective because everybody is different some people have more time less time more Health less Health but every person has a to finish his and writes if he doesn't finish his has to come back to this world as a Gil which the wor and then he says that's in four places do you see our is our passport to velt I got a passport we're not going anywhere that's interesting one of the places Mar how they live with this his time came to leave this world so he begged the give me 30 days I want to one more time it's like VI say he would go to a stay a few minutes and go home so once why you always rushing why why you coming and going why you so busy he say I'm studying for a big fair and go Z you have a fa in your your stage of Life yeah yeah yeah makes a point of quoting this med and he says people from they don't realize that there's a you know and three times a day we're reminded of that we say it's very subjective you know there's a there's a there's a beautiful concept people say I have my which is wonderful you know your you really know but it's misleading cuz every is every is and that's was he once was traveling and he was very and he had to see the of rash one of the but you going with Buy the next kch we're going to see the next in we're going to see we're going to go maybe he has the gar there was a small chance you know people didn't have sh in those days especially a simple inkeeper so they stopped and he went and he said do me a favor would you have this he goes you know I only have one I don't know what it is let me check and sure enough it was felt like a he looked up and he kept on going so he came back to around he told the that you know I want to sh the Rashi the words of Rashi I asked this and he had it like he want to show the whole world Su his learning can't look it up everybody's busy and don't forget that's life you know it's interesting the wrote a very of the if you look at the MIT he go say [Applause] little and once added this is not a mus this is this is the there's a world of but then there's a world of because goes onz also and if is the biggest so is saying is a person has to push himself because otherwise he's busy with the the and'll be another victim of I'm the only eight is but the burn like concludes if you do that and the emesis to our Eternal credit we see today the extraordinary explosion of that devote hours a day to learn it's they finally put this L I want to live and you see you have working people that are sh not just finishing sh but knowing sh you know our D is singing a new into the old words not the depressing of both great and confidence how many people spend hours a day learning busy people have big money involved but you know I make a living but now I have to live an that's they say something one of his children he told him listen I'm going to tell you right away I can't come to I'm said fine whatever you say it's good end of the conversation someone heard what happened went over to what do you think meant he you think he owes money and the night he goes he drives a taxi to make some money what do you think he meant I don't know but I don't care let me tell what he meant he has a every day has to finish he has his he called whatever you called it and if he goes so it's one day that's what he meant not that he owes money but you know what's very important for us to hear we're all not but but the is to realize that a then stops nothing could stop that a because the same that said is the one that said in the because I want tell you about another B and I I can't even begin to explain it but you know what what the you probably think well the r sat probably a whole day and night Learning Without A worry in the world he wrote I have in front of me a copy of a cha it's printed reprinted now in parador used to be in the so it's some some some one of his wanted to translate one of the Ram's work that he wrote in Arabic into which is a tremendous service for the r for cl but he need to sit down with the rambam and just you know go through certain Horrors that he had so Ram writes and I quote come but don't come because it's not going to help I will not be able to give you a moment of my time and he describes his daily he says you have to realize that I work for the King the Arabic King the sultan I live in M he's in Cairo and I have to treat his whole family and all the people in his Palace on a good day he writes I finish 2 hours into the afternoon and I start to go home there's two to me and and the and the and the King when I finally get home after working a whole morning and part of the afternoon and I'm I'm I'm starving I'm almost fasting 24 hours and I find and I they're all waiting for me to treat them cuz he was a doctor don't forget I get off my my my horse I have to wash my hand and I beg them let me eat I haven't eaten almost 24 hours that's what he writes come out of a and I just sit there after I eat a little bit and I treat people until he says it's 2 hours into the night a b horor what he meant over here but I'm laying but shabas he writes I'm more busy than the whole week look it up in the par when did he become the ra I don't know but that's there was someone that the last thing he writes is on him that's the most difficult but this is appella he never had a moment to breathe but he was living another shining example of how bringing a in a most incredible way you know Rashi in par of is quoted says actually the is so it seems like it's saying that you just start and then it'll be easy sailing smooth sailing but it's not true and as says one of the things it's not true you learn a few days and the rest of your life is just everything is just downhill what does rash mean I once thought maybe that's you know today in our world of of of of business person Works he gets a salary he works overtime so he gets extra double overtime oh that's already double overtime for something very difficult now even though it's so difficult but makes it worthwhile imagine if you would get not double over time a 100 times over time that would be an offer you can't refuse and that's through B's world the misquotes the but you look the when it's not so and a person pushes himself it's not double over it's a 100 times more valuable but I think the biggest more than the is the that brings the but the problem is we don't identify it properly we see a difficulty oh it's not for me I'll wait till tomorrow when someone figures out what life is all about that a difficult situation is an opportunity besides a 100 times overtime but to turn hav into AA it's not a it's a Kenyon it's not a kite it's it's an opportunity that's what Rashi means if you thought and you that's the K of be for you it'll be sweet for you because you're getting the Greatest Prize the greatest you're getting the does not mean it's going to be easy the rest of your life it's going to be so worthwhile and if there is a s if there is a medicine for the efes it's to real this the greatness of every every V let me just with printed it was Sunday after the and the world went came very dark was and right after ran back to P because his was totally empty a half a minute later obviously also came came in and sat down to learn and felt he deserves says let me tell you something theay from the door me I'm a but today now I am bigger than you're wondering why why why am I big in the because is no longer able to learn and I am that's living that's living that's living to see through all the narish and see what makes a person the greatness that he is and it could become because I could learn it's appropriate to be in our and the only way to do it is the that brings the hopefully will be to see the we want to sit now learn for hours and hours the next year is in a few minutes please make Place make place for the Eden to thank Smith for the wonderful she like also [Music] thank 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