Simchas Yom Tov on Sukkos - Rav Yitzchok Sorotzkin Shlit"a

In our onsukus we refer to sukus asu every yont has a certain yehood and we bring it out in our and when it comes to sukus what we bring out is that it's our now this seems to be very share to understand because sim is not only on sukus this is That's all the bomb in brings down is something that every and nevertheless the only that we refer to as sukus and this needs a clarification. Now superficially we could explain it that the level of simagasuk was far greater than the level of sim in every other yontiff. And this is really brought out in the Rambam. the writes even though in every there's a mitzvah of but nevertheless in sukus there was something unique and it took place only in the bda specifically and that's learned out of the smack. You're supposed to have what's in the mdish. So this is what's called the space. It took place in the migdash and it took place a whole night. It started in the afternoon and it stretched through the night and to a degree that they didn't even sleep came out the whole sukas. Nobody slept because everybody was in the bikdash involved in the sim of kagasuk. So the level of sim onus was far greater than the level of sim they say over that the vagoyen if you watched him and you observed him in sukus you saw that his level of sim was far greater than the level of sim in every other yontiff sukus is unique but it's more than just that it's a lot more. The Gomorrah says in if you never saw the present after it's like you never really truly experienced and saw sim. So the Gmorra is explaining to us that any other does not classify as in comparison to the you can't even call it sim. If you take it and try and measure it one against the other it doesn't measure up. It's and you never saw what really is. So if you want to know what is but we're going to explain it in a much deeper level but first we're going to pose a very strong question it doesn't make any sense and for us I would think it's exactly not we're in a comfortable house people have beautiful houses declar Gishmak with all things you could possibly dream of having and you have all kinds ofish gishmak furniture. You have yourself all kinds of wonderful things and then you tell somebody, you know what, leave your beautiful house and go and build yourself a little sukah made out of whatever you have. It's very very meager and small and and comparative to what you have in your house. It's a deusi kazah. One's a dear and one's a dear ari. Now you tell a that we want to have a lot of sim. You know what we're going to do for our sim? We're going to leave our comfortable houses and we're going to enter into a deusi and that's the way we're going to make our yontiff which is that sounds very strange. It's a time of there's winds blowing there. And this year we're experiencing such a level of gishomim that I can't recall when this happened ever so much. It's so severe to go around on this and you have to suffer to go into your suku. You go out to a suk. It could be cold, freezing. It could be hot, burning, and you don't have air conditioning. you don't have eating. You could have falling down. You could have it a way that bees are flying around and if you're that you don't have bees then you'll have flies there and you'll have gnats there and you'll have all kinds of different things in your that's no it's not. So what are you telling me is and we crown it by going out to a suk in a mat that's very difficult. Now I'm going to share with you a ya. There's a famous question that everybody has. It's really a sh the rishim, but it's really a sh in the med. It's not just a question of the rishim. Why we go out to the so in t? We should go out to Niss. We went out of Niss. Why are we sitting in the zanov? When do we get the cover? We got the anania when we left. So the why do we sit in the suk? Now there's a terret in the ya which is a ter says as follows. You know why you go out to the sukim? Cuz there was a yim on Roshana and nobody could really know what the outcome of the den was. Now we have to beious. The al says that we got a sack that we have to go in golas. Graci went in golas. went in Golas and the Shagayiah went in Golas and a lot of Reb went in Golas and Zisha everybody went who went Eden Grace Eden who went in Golas so golas is not something that people like to do and it it's suffering that's what golas is all about so it says we have to beious a strange thing maybe the sakin was that we were supposed to go in Golas. So what do we do? We go in Golas. We leave our house and we go to Golas into a and the Yet says when we go in to malu it's as if you went to Bville. You made you went in G. That's our real goal is going out to a isn't a goal is slipping out tables and slipping out furniture and slapping out beds and bringing them in and bringing them out and what you have to this falls down in that like that it's a tremendous goal. There's a concept like this in the tinus on a tinus there's a concept if you go to another base medish the Gmorrah says you're in golus that means you're leaving your confinement of your place where you're normally comfortable and you're acquainted with and live there so the Gmorrah says a strange thing you're supposed to think that maybe we got a golas from everything that you could have got a sac we have to think he wants to give us go send us in goas Hashem can do give us and gives us and here it's something no is not going to put us in goas he tells every single yet go out in in your and you're going to be mim and of golas now golas is not a sim it's not it's not a tremendous do and go and going into the suk it's classified as where in gol That's is that's happiness going to a place of goal is you know what it says in the medish in the medish it says everything we do on sukus is aim it lists all the mitzvah that we do on sukus and it calls them all and and called You see the crown of the beautiful we call it. How do you understand that? That's going to suka. So we're going to give you an explanation what sim means. It's a misconception by people what sim is all about and we don't even know what it is. There's a lot of misconceptions people have. But we're going to give you an understanding of what really true sim is all about. In the beginning of parasy writes sorry lived 127 years and it says it in the sor lived mayor shvaim 127 years. And after that the puk still continues and says the words it's extra does what what do you need to say if you already said in the she lived 127 years 127 what does the mean I'm going to tell you over something from the z the how he explained what the meaning of these three words are what means and he says There's many people that flutter in this world. They're not alive, but they flutter. You know the slab used to take people to the real life. We know it is the real life is in the that's what that's true life. Okay. So people don't see that what kind of life is that sitting in the basement. Yeah, that is exactly what life is all about. So he used to take from time to time and take them to the window and there was a market there in front of the in front of the yeshiva not far and he would show them how people are running back and forth and running back and forth and he would say you know what it's like you can have them all fluttering chickens. You know, there once was a sensation when this is goes back about 40 years or so that there they had they shed in the on the in the west coast and they shed the chickens and chickens have a tendency they're mafarus. There was amazing thing. They they they were mafarus maybe for a few hours. They were fluttering and fluttering and it made headlines in the papers that the chickens in a certain place where they did them they fluttered but they weren't really that's not that's not maybe but that's not really what we call life. He would say those people that are running around he would refer to them. You know sometimes the people in the Bakur can also walk around. So that's not called you understand has a different connotation in the concept of what the and the considers. You know is so su's life was a life that was full with life. Every moment of her life, every moment of her life was being she did everything possible that a person can do in the purpose of why he's created here. Sadikim are called alive even after they die. Oh, what do you mean they're if they're dead? How are they alive? But their life continues with what their legacy is continuing afterwards. That's life. And the wants to bring out every moment of her life was utilized for the utmost. Nothing went to waste. Many people take there's an there's an an American expression. It's just an American expression because they have no purpose in life. And they have a lesson. You got to kill time. How? Let's go and kill time. Kill time means killing life. That's what it's all about. Killing time means killing life because time is life. And time is supposed to be utilized to its utmost for the purpose of why you're living here. So that's the concept of life. Life means when you live according to the of why the created you and Tyra is the ultimate purpose of whatever the Torah directs you to do that's really true life. Rashi has a totally different shot than Rashi says you know wore she lives such a good life such a happy life it comes from a from medish but she was she lives in a way that she had such a if you want to picture how what's a good life it's now this seems so absurd to say that sorry's life was such a good life. If you want to say a life that was so full of Taurus, sorry man whose life was that type of a life. Imagine a lady that's married 90 years and she has no child. Can you imagine how much sire and sorus this lady is suffering? She can't have a child and she's going she's married 90 years. She's in a they throw her husband in the keeps in chles. She has to go and go from she takes and you start wondering for one place. You're a man without a country. You're a man without a place. Then you come into Hashem makes a hunger and you have to run out of you're trying to settle in. You start but you start settling in for a while and then all of a sudden Hashem chases you out and sends you into Mitraim. And then the Sori gets taken to base aime to base parro. Can you imagine how much that is for somebody like a gets her husband gets thrown into the kimch and there's so there's the come and he goes has to go to battle and put his life in danger. There's nasa sorry is the biggest males that we know. She was a husband. She had a husband of Roma that his meter was. He was the ultimate great bass that nobody came anywhere near to his and then she has to take and chase out of her house and you know how much s that is. It's against everything she preached. She said you have to take care of everybody and try and be care of them and bring them in and do what you could ever you could for them. And then she herself has to go and send out Hogore and Ishmo from the house. That's a good life. That's a life full of Sar and Sorus on and Kazar referred to that the ultimate life of Sora lives a life of how do we understand that? So I'm going to give you a concept of what good means. Okay, we know good is misunderstood to what's called good. But we're going to tell you a kinmo there's a maldis where nephesh to save parro the king tells them you have to kill everyan and they don't kill any kids. What do they do? Oh, they make sure to now they don't kill him. They see to give them everything possible and they give them any type of thing that they could possibly do. Then the says what? Then it says they multiplied to such a degree. Shisha they come in there 70 ne fores and they walk out with 600,000 in a small time and then it says in the next it says they made bim for the maldis brings some kaz they got a reward and the mafashi explains that is the is it doesn't seem like that from the because in the talks about it doesn't even mention then it says so it doesn't seem like that I heard later there used to say himself he also said it was of the that was not the was and he explained it as follows. When a person has a goal in life here we're not here to just to be here. We have a purpose of life. Every person has a merik in this life. What Hashem gives every person a specific tis what his in this world is all about. They had a to try and save. Can you imagine and you hear your all these shakinder and they took it upon themselves to a degree that they were ready to be moes for it. They ded they put their lives on stake. The king could come to them and shook them and say what's happening here? I made you I told you to kill the gor the people and what do you do? You go the opposite and you go and you keep and you keep them alive. Well, you defied me normally that's what would have happened. the helped that they were and made it when you're for you. The does if you go to you go above and beyond. So, Hashem will treat you in a way. So the gave them such a tremendous in their avoidance that they took upon themselves. There's nothing greater for a person when he has a and he was able to be mal in the highest form and the highest level that he succeeds in such a way beyond anything. This is the greatest toa you could possibly do for a person that he should feel a real sense of accomplishment in what he set out to do in his life. That is what we consider to is when you do the real perimate goal of what you want to gain and do in this world and your that's the greatest to in the same vein my father explained what it means that Sor's life was good. She had a goal in her life. She had such big fantastic goals and she had a goal of being may in the world to be do to the world to be me people to to to do all. She had so many different things that she had in her in her life and all of them succeeded and everything that she undertook was success in the highest level and every moment of her life was utilized to the utmost. No man in her life there was a downgrade. Every time she she didn't she always managed to be mak and whatever she undertook there's nothing greater than that. And there's nothing more to than getting an accomplishment in what you will set yourself up for what your purpose is and the helps you to be that is what we call to. And now's if you are ready to be accomplished something and even if you have difficulties in what you're trying to do but if it doesn't stop your purpose in life then you don't get me spoiled from it and you go on. It's a famous story with the people think had an easy life. It's a big mistake. He had many many big nishas and he the reason why he had it was because theor was out to stop him not to be mak whenever he undertook. So when he went went and wrote the Mishnab, the Sultan came and tried to stop him from doing what he was wanting to do. And the he did terrible terrible things what he did against the and the made a declaration. Sultan Sultan, you think you're going to stop me? I'm not going to get deterred. I tell you, I'm going to continue in no matter what you do. The same happened by Abramova. when he went to do that the Sultan tried every way to stop him from in so many different ways he did and nevertheless said I'm not getting deterred and I'm going on and I'm doing what I have to do and I'm going to make sure I do it sorry man who had many difficulties but she didn't get to spared she didn't get to broen she didn't get down and because if you continue to accomplish what you set up and you make up your mind that you're going to do it no matter what. That is considered the best life possible. So Taurus is only if they disturb you and they ruin your life and you make yourself that you can't continue to do what you want to do. But if you end up doing whatever you're going to do and the difficulties, it doesn't change your life. In fact, that is exactly what life is around. There's nobody who doesn't go through difficulties in his life. And the Shaw writes this. If you think a good life is an easy life without having any obstacles in your life, you've not understood it because there's no purpose in your life. Then if it's easy, there's no real purpose in life. Hashem didn't have to bring you here if it's easy for you. But Hashem brings you with nishness in the show brings this out. Every person has nishness in his life. Every person has difficulties. Every person has a peckle. You might not know what the peckle is by the other. But every yeid has a peekle. There's a famous story with were once each was complaining one to another and said, you know, I can't take all my chores. And the same the other guy said and the other guy said. So they decided they're going to take hang up the tourists on a clothesline and everybody could have a choice to go and run and pick up one of the pllock for themselves and they saw a strange thing. They put up all the peek on the on the clothes line and everybody ran to their egg in the peekle and everybody chose their own peckle which they had and they questioned them why did you do that? you didn't like your Taurus. He said, "No, I thought that maybe that guy doesn't have Taurus and that guy doesn't have Taurus." But now that I saw everybody has Taurus, so I decided why should I get new Taurus which I got used to it. I got already used to my Taurus already. I have a plan how to take care of myself under this situation. But the concept is the messim says every person has niness in this world because that's the way that's life. Life is overcoming obstacles and if you overcome your obstacles your life has much more meaning. It has a much it's a much if it's difficult if it's not so difficult. If you do it and it's hard for you then it's a valuable mitzvah and that is what it doesn't take away from your from your it doesn't adds to your because if you do something which is hard in obvious it says a mitzvah which is difficult is worth a hundred times as much as an easy mitzvah and the harder it is the more it's worth. So the concept is that having sorus doesn't take away from it. In fact, it could enhance your life and make it better. You know there's a beautiful letter to somebody who was suffering a lot in his life and he wrote away to the big goyan and so vine what should he do? He's getting so many problems and so many sores and so many and we'd be so l you told him you know something you're so lucky that you have all these is why is he so lucky he told him you know something when you do a mitzvah and it's easy you get a little reward but if you get a hard mitzvah it gets 100 times as much he told him if your life is like you're living if you live 70 years in this way it's like you lived 7,000 years. Can you imagine a person who has a hem for 7,000 years? So he gives him and he tells him, listen, Hashem chose you and he knows you have the Hashem custom tailor. He doesn't give a person Taurus. If it's a beyond, then he can't do it. But the has every person exactly what is tailored for him and the gives it to you and whatever you get is what the feels your road to do and if you can do it and you make it and it's hard you get a much bigger scar for it. So there's a concept that saggra you live in a way that it's not you have difficulties but if you still come and do your avoidance and you don't stop and throw in the towel that's when your life becomes richer that's when your life becomes more valuable because you're doing the ruts in Hashem under difficult swer situations you know in our dvening in the morning we say something which seems very strange We say, "Oh, how good our lot is." See, we're fortunate. And how pleasant is our There's no nation in the world that suffers as much as suffers. Every nation, they run around and they enjoy their life and they just party and they just do all kinds of things. And we say look how fortunate we are. This seems so strange. You can say it's to what kind of toy is it? We're persecuted. You know how many people died. You know how many people suffered and were persecuted and sorus and all these different things wherever they were. And that's called to Yes, that's called to I'm going to share with you. The says the gmorim theoreim says that are typic means literally they used to eat bread with bread when they ate bread they ate another form of bread with the bread. So you it sounds like your tip is eating bread with bread. So says there's a deep ner here with kaz mean did not have a tis in life. You know why you ask a guy why are you working so hard? What do you mean why am I working so hard? I have to put food on the table. If I don't work I'm not going to have food. And then you ask him so why are you eating? Oh what do you mean why am I eating? I'm eating tapy to be able to work. So he's working today to eat and he's eating today to work and that means he has really no purpose in why he's alive he's doing he's alive just keeping himself alive but that is that life is to eat and life is to work that's what you think that's of life that's a life is so so he has no purpose in life what are you doing why are you alive what is your plan today he gets up he doesn't know what he's doing. He has nothing really. He has a work. He's going to smitz and work. Why? To be able to put food on the table. Then he's going to eat. Why? To work. A Y has such a ties. Every Yid has such a tremendous tough and in this world every person the female what he's doing is for his for the world and they eat to eat. They eat to work to work to eat. There's no purpose. But aid is that Hashem gave us a in our life. We have a goal in our life. We're producing. We're doing good. Now, the world is dumbfounded. The world the world is not a world, but I'm going to say this. The world at large is dumbfounded. Why is there so much anti-semitism? It sounds strange. says they know us already for so many thousands of years. So usually when you know something and you're used to something it gets smaller and the Cena keeps on growing more and more. Why are they hating us? Everybody thinks they'll make solutions and they have all kinds of plans. They're going to do this and they're going to do that. There's no plan how to get rid of anti-semitism. anti-semitism is always going to be there and there's nothing we can do about it. You have to know what's the origin and what's the shish of why we have and the answer is very simple. The Gomorrah says in a memory of the gave us the ultimate to the three greatest that there is in the world. Who got him? Hashem gave it to us. He gave us a mat. What are the three matas and can you imagine what you got? Hashem gave us not he didn't give any other nation apart than anything us we got the three greatest toas you know there's a name called of a of a was given on hari it's not the name of the har the the name of the har was har and if that's the name so all of a sudden did he get a name of hari the gammorra says in shabas the reason why he and the name of Hareni Shabisham yord. This is the source of anti-semitism. You know what anti-semitism is? We got the greatest gift and they know it. And they know that we are the nation, the chosen nation that we got the why. Hashem created the world. Did Hashem create the world? You should sleep, you should eat, you should do sports. No. I have information for you. Created the world for this is and we have the if you have the look how fortunate you are. You're really doing what the world was standing for what its purpose is. And I go he knows that he's jealous of you. You know that he's jealous of you. You are living cuz I'm I'm doing the tis of the bria and no other can have that. So it's it cost and as long as the world's alive I tell you there's always going to be toyra in the world. You cannot eradicate tora because says if there's going to stop for one second the world's going to disintegrate. There's no mitas of a world without because that's the whole bria. So if you are alive that means there's toy around and that's the concept the hates you but listen to what the says all these mas were given with it's we we have to pay us something. It's not it's not it's not a sale but it's a mat but the mount we have a certain level of but it's minuscule in comparison to the present you know when it says how what's so it sounds very bleak the writ that is you should eat bread with salt drink a little plain water a little measured water and you should sleep on the floor because that's the way you have to live in order to learn properly if you do like that. So you think the answer is you're going to get but you're going to ready to give up the Moses differently not just you're going to get it's for you know something that's are you what kind of is that what do you have you don't have anything the answer is having is hat called happiness. You know there's somebody that's called Musk and this and I think he's the called the richest person around. Musk is the richest person. Yeah. You know what he says? I don't have happiness no matter what I do. The more I have you know and I don't have happiness. I can never it eludes me. And that's what happens with all the big vir. You know why? I'll tell you what the med says. The more you have the more you missing wants needs 800 thou 800 and the more you have the more you're missing because I'm going to tell you a story that happened with me. I was once collecting with the Rosstein by a real multi-millionaire. He was valued for $200 million. Now, he had himself an office across the uh like a block in Manhattan on the on the top floor in an office building and we come in there and he has offices under offices and workers and who knows what. And he was a little uncomfortable. I could tell he was uncomfortable that he should have to have all this this this this type of a a setup over here. He pulls me to the side and I understood he wanted to justify himself to some degree and he wanted to they didn't he felt a little uncomfortable. So he tells me I want to tell you something. You think I need billions? No, I don't need billions. I'm not those type of guys that are looking to get billions. I'll be stopping with what I have. I'm not mean. I don't want. And I'm laughing to myself. He doesn't need billions. I'll tell you what he needs. Let's say he has 200 million. He needs 400 million. He's not in the league yet of the billionaires. So, he's not missing it. When he'll get up to 400 million, then he wants 800 million. And then if he has 800 million, then he wants billions. You see, that's what it is. They'll never ever get satisfied. I'm going to tell you a contus translated. You know the puk saysim. We say it all the time in benching. We say it on chabasimto. You know what kirim means? Means the rich guys. Those guys that are the mighty rich guys. Is osher Russu. They're the poorest guys. here they're poor and they're hungry but those people that are so first I'm going to tell you one story I walked into a city and I meet a Russ here was coming out of the I don't know why he told it to me he told me you know something the biggest in this city is the most unfortunate person I tell you of everybody why he's never home for his family. He goes away a whole week. He comes back on air of Shabas with a private jet. He comes flying in right before Shabas. Immediately after Shabas, he goes away and he flies away from after Shabas. Is that a life? A life that he's constantly out out of town. He has a project somewhere and he has a town. He's out there. So then we happen to come in one time of time. We're coming another time into town over there. We're going into this gre again and they tell us the gre he's now going to eat lunch. So we say to him, um, do you mind if we stay in while you eat lunch? I was curious to see what kind of lunch the gre has. So the guy says, yeah, you're more than welcome to stay in for my lunch. You could be join me. They bring in lunch. I'll tell you what the lunch was. two shelled potatoes cooked plain without any without anything nothing on the potatoes with a bl a glass of hot milk and that was his lunch. I said that's the lunch of a clear way what's coming off over here. Yeah, they told me he's sh his stomach is shot. He has ulcers from all the pan and all this and all and all the suffering that he went through. And if you think this is a unique case, no it's not a unique case. in a different city. I was trying to get a hold of Vir and I couldn't get a hold of him because he told me he gets up and he leaves 3:00 in the morning and he comes back 8 at the night, 8 at night. So, you know what his day schedule is? From 3:00 in the morning to 8 at night. So, we asked him, can we come in maybe after you come home? Yeah. Okay, you can come in after I come home. We come in and I see that I ask him, what did you eat today? I didn't eat yet. I'm now going to eat. What is he eating? He's eating some porridge in a some He puts up a hot cereal and eats a little porridge and that's the whole meal that he eats in the day. So I say what happened over here? I have ulcers. I cannot eat. You see I can't eat. So you see what it is. So tell us they can't sleep. He's worried. And then you know they have bodyguards and they have to have people checking their cars and their houses and if you come to them when when when this and that they'll jump at you from all sides. They'll have all the is that life? No, it's not life. I'll tell you a muscle of how they explain the difference between Dors Hashem. There was a guy who went to travel to a different city. He comes into the house of a friend of his in a different city and oy tragedy happens. He opens up his suitcase. All his medicines are not in. He doesn't have any medicine with him and he doesn't know what to do there. Some of them were very integral medicines that he needed. And he turns to his friend and he says to him, you know something, I don't know what to do. All my medicines I forgot back home and I want to know, do you have some of my medicines? He says, listen, I'll tell you. you're free to go to my to my to my medicine chest and take a look there and whenever you see what you need, you can take it. He goes to his medicine chest and he sees and he sees he cannot did not have any medicine in the chest. And he he comes back and he says, "I don't understand. Are you so are are you so poor that you can't even afford medicines?" So he says to him, "Tip us what you are." I'm a healthy person. I don't need any medicines. You're ne a sick person and you need a lot of medicines and and you need this medicine that's missing. The biers say that's what it means to be rich. Rich people are sick. They're never at home. They can't stay where they are cuz they need a they need a thriller. They can't get a thriller. So what do they do? So they have to go where Yontiff. They have to go to a hotel somewhere and then they go they want to go again to the same hotel there. The kids say, "Well, Tati, we already had that. Let's find a new place." So, they have to go to another place. It got to a point that a lot of the people, I don't know what's the name, but around 10 years ago, people were going to Mitraim and to the hotels in Mitraim to Travis Pakim. You see what it looks like? That's exactly what it is. They need a thriller. So, what's the thriller? To go to Mitra because nobody ever thought of going to Mitraim, you know. So, that's something that excites them. They do all kinds of strange funny things. Why? And they're never happy. I'll tell you, they're never happy because they're always on the go. And they're always running from one place to another. Oh, where is he? Oh, the today he's in Mexico, tomorrow he's in there. The next time he's here and the next time he's there. You know, they once asked Bidder Miller, how come he never goes on vacation? You know what's coming off with him? He can't afford it. We'll pay for your trips. He says, I don't need a vacation. I'm alive. I'm so happy what I'm doing. I'm to freedom say are not sick. They're healthy. They're so happy. They're so content because they're living the purpose of life that no matter what they're not missing. They have less. You know, I used to tell you I'll tell you something. You know, there was an influx of Russians that came out and the the when the iron curtain fell down and there was a surplus of Russian workers. So we got some and that when in our home we got a Yisha lady and a husband once in a while would come to help her and I asked him I posed the question. Tell me where is it? Where do you are more happier? Are you happier in America or happier in Russia? Listen to the answer. I'm hap I was happier more in Russia. You know why? Cuz in Russia I had everything. I never was missing anything. Here in America, I'm always missing stuff and I'm not happy. I thought, wow, look how they brainwash them. When they're in Russia, they're thinking to themselves, they have everything and they have nothing. Everybody knows that you live in Russia, there's nothing to be gotten in the supermarkets. There's nothing. They have nothing on the shelves. They have nothing in there. And she's telling me, "Oh, I over there I had it." You know what the answer is? The answer is the less you have, the happier you are. See what happens is you spoil somebody if you only have $10. So then you're happy because the only thing you're missing is another 10. Okay? So you're not missing so much. You ever saw? I'll tell you something about awaren used to amaze me. They're so happy golucky. What do they have? They have a bottle of beer, a bottle of can of soda, and a pack of cigarettes. And that's by them such a sim. How could that be? They all they have is that the answer is if you get yourself used to have you happiness is not having a lot the says happiness means not missing you're not missing that's what happiness is so you thinker means having a lot says no it's not having a loter means you have your and your and you do and you can you live a life of what you want and you do it right and you don't get sick. So then you know what happens? You're always going to have happiness. You're going to always have sim. So a schwartzer, he never got himself used to high lifestyle. The guy in Russia never got there's a there's a poll going on. It was a poll years ago that the most unhappy country is America. America who has so many the richest people running around all the rich people with their children are so downhearted they're so broen the why because they're missing so much so Molly they have a lot but the more you have the more you need so they're always never going to be happy when you downscale you don't get used to anything So if you don't get used to much and you get used to little and then you're betray if you don't have any purpose in life then you can't have happiness. But if you're and you don't get yourself hooked on these all these luxuries of the world around you, you're the happy person. You're the you know something all the used to come into lab and I want to tell you you know what his message always to them was he would make sure that they give them like 80 90% of their money. you know that nobody had the to go over to the and tell them to give the 80 90% but not le would tell the guys listen you have benched you you have money but he gave them a message he said I want to ask you who is the happiest person in this world and when they they didn't know what to say I bar lab is the happiest person in this world if you ever were in Baron Labe's house you would see it's an old dilapidated house with furniture that's metal that doesn't have any furniture. It's there from 60 70 years that he got from the sus a a metal bed with a mattress of about half an inch thick if that thick and it didn't he didn't have anything. And if you would know what he ate, he didn't eat anything. I'll tell you, he he went to America and he did not eat anything that was made in America. He brought with him and you know what he brought with? He brought with him some potatoes which were spoiled rotten potatoes and I saw them and it's a known fact. He didn't he what he lived on and this is the happiest person. You know why? Cuz he has a life his purpose of life is is filled up for the ties of what Hashem made a person. So that's it. So you have that you're happy you have life if that's what life means. Life means living a life of purpose, a life of ties. If you don't, so then you see you think your body is your life. You got a big mistake. Your life is your heart. Your nish. That is what's called life. You're not. Your nish is never going to be happy from going to to going to a sports affair or going to hear a kazin. And if you think that's going to make you happy, you got it all mixed up. Happiness comes. Those people that live a life of and there's nothing you can. And when you learn a gamor and you get how nice or how it is, can you compare that to any little silly thing? No, you can't compare it. That's what sim is. That's what life is. I'm going to share you something. That how the sim of looked like in the B mikdash. It said everybody cameosim but nobody was allowed to dance. The only ones that were allowed to dance were theim. That's who were allowed to dance. Now the word is the most biggest misconception of what the word means. You know that no mash already writes it. That's the biggest misconception. And people don't know why the goyan foughtus. And the reason is you know what the goyan's title is? You made a big mistake. I only know oney. He was that he was the crown of aid. If you want to know what's aided, it was was but he had the true real conception of you know what the Gorus says about was aid that his was the he was the ultimate we're not going to give you a here about but I'm going to tell you something listen into what is who danced and who's saying in the some English and everybody came to observe them and watch them. Do you think the are the best dancers? I got news for you. They're not the best dancers and not the best singers. You could bring in and import singers and dancers and the sing and the dancers and the singers were whyim wore the dancers. You know what the answer is? Cuzim have such a sim in their avoidance. They love so much. when he talks about he says you know is a guy who has such a burning love from the and when you love Hashem it's so pleasurable to learn to they have when they dive in they have such a pleasure do you think they cut short cut corners and doing no you got wrong they don't come in and say okay I sometimes somebody will ask you is was that person in the bdish now here I tell them no he's not here because he always comes in 10 to 15 minutes late and every day it's the same story. Why does he come 10 minutes and 15 minutes late? Okay, one time you say it's annoying us because he can't sit through such a long davening and that's after you cut down the ding and make it short and he could then the same guy who comes late will leave early. Why will he leave early? Because he's so he doesn't appreciate dinging. He doesn't have the sim and ding. But you know did a very strange thing. They used to come an hour before davening stay an hour after davening three times a day. Their davening took and I'll explain you something a very strange. You know how long a mar took took long in Kellum? One hour. A mariff took an hour in Kellum. When was the last time we ded an hour? Huh? When was the last time you ded an hour? I'll tell you I never ded my an hour. an hour domining. You know today they have charts up on know most most okay you have to be here by this time and by this time you have to be here and there here there oh what's the ter because balabatim have to go to work make your dinging 10 minutes earlier who told you to come to davin at that time there's an for that come and davin 10 minutes earlier and then you won't have to slice in and make a whole chart there 717 and a half you have to be by here and this is that that's not dinging. Dining is an if you ever were in there's no clock in the because they don't dive in with a rush and they don't dive in with a clock. They dive in because it's a harsh you know somebody once asked the gel of how long is ding supposed to take. He says I'm observing you. One day I see you ding for 10 minutes. One day I see us for 15 minutes. One day it's for 20 minutes. One day it's for 6 minutes. Tell me what's the shar. What are you supposed to do? He says, you know, there's no such thing as a she is a today. I feel such a d this long another day. But you don't clock a ding and the same as a learning sed a sed has to be holy and you have such a time. So that is a you know you say it's everyone is going up because one level another level is and another level is the highest ultimate level of is what is their coming from? All doing thee doing learning dvening. That's the concept of what aid is. Aid is a deacon love like the voy you never stop learning. That is what it means to be aided. Aid means that you love to learn. You love to d and you do it with such a bread and such a gishmak. And that's what you're supposed to observe on sukus. You're supposed to see how you serve Hashem. Who's gonna picture you? Give you that picture. You know who's going to give it to you? Are going to give you the picture by seeing by watching them. You're supposed to get elevated to realize what there is. Now I'm going to share with you something that the Mile Yeshu says. He says it's difficult maybe to have a love for Hashem. It's difficult to be happy because you have Taurus and if you have Taurus maybe it's going to disturb and destroy your he says I'm going to tell you two things. The first thing I'm going to tell you is that whatever Hashem does for a person is for his good. Whether we understand it or we don't understand it says it doesn't make a difference. But the fact to know that to know that whatever you go through in your life, who is it coming from? Who's tailoring it to you? Hashem is giving it to you. Everything you have is Hashem. There's nobody who loves you more than the more than you love yourself. The loves every person. Every person loves himself a lot. But it doesn't compare to the love of Hashem to a person. And because Hashem loves you, you think he's going to do bad to you. He doesn't do anything bad. Everything that he does is only for your good. So when you suffer, you think it's bad. No, it's not bad. And the sham says it doesn't make a difference. You don't have to know why. Just know one thing and this is brought in the medish that in this world you can't know what the master plan is, why you got these theim but you one thing you know that if there's some purpose for it and that's good for you and that's what knows what's best for your and if you know that it's not going to diminish. He gives a marshall. Let's say there's a doctor, you know, there's a doctor who's a a surgeon and he makes a surgery on you and then he cuts out a part of your body. Are you going to be angry at the doctor and say, "Wait a minute. What'd you do to me? Why'd you cut me up? Why'd you do that to me?" No tip should no person, every person understands. If the do the doctor did it, he only did it because he wants to save your life. And if he's not going to do that operation, you're not going to be here. So the point is whatever the doctor does you you you if you're a normal sensible person you'll thank the doctor I want to thank you you know there was a story that there was a devel that once went through a surgery and he wanted to thank the doctor so he wanted to know what should he buy him a gift so he so he asked Rebellia what gift should I buy him he tells him don't buy him a gift. You know what you do? Write him a letter and write to him and express how much you're thankful for what he did to you cuz you appreciate it. You know it's hard for him to cut you and he doesn't like to cut you but he's doing it only for your good. And you write him the letter. The story goes he sent him a letter and that letter was framed and the doctor said he never got such a letter and he put it up in the in the halls of the hospital to show what a real doctor does for a person. How a person who's sensible recognize that this martial is in the in in the in the mash. He says, "Whatever Hashem does to you, you should know it's like a roy gives you something and it's all for your betterment and it's all for your good and therefore you should be thankful to Hashem." And the famous story, they showed it to him cuz he went once in a night and he and he lost this and he lost that and he lost this and every time he said and then the next morning he realized that he saved his life by everything that took place with him. But that's one thing. But then the says another. It's the concept. And he says, you know what? We're here in this world. We're here to be called created every person to bring out. How do you bring out covet shayim says when you serve hashem and you do the ruts in hashem when it's difficult it's a bigger covet hashem if it's harder for you to do it and nevertheless you overcome your hardships and you're ready to do it the harder it is the more bigger covetem you're getting so when you go and get a hard a hard one a hard life feel a happiness He said you should be that you have the opportunity to bring out a tremendous I'm going to tell you a story. See today's day and age everybody likes stories and I'm going to sh have a lot of stories to tell but I'm just not going to keep you with all these stories but I'm going to tell you a little nice story. You know about 35 years ago I'm standing in the in in the in the room next to the coins over there. That room was not there in 50 years ago. They uncovered it some about 40 years ago and somebody gives a scream out to me. You want to hear something from your great uncle? So I said okay if you have something interesting to tell me tell me. So he happened to be a talid. He was older than me and he was a talid of my great uncle Mayor Bl who was the roashiv of tells. He founded the shiv in America and he he tells me I want to tell you something. You know in today's day and age everybody gets born in a hospital. You don't get born in the house but not like that in Europe. In Europe all the babies were born in the house. A midwife came in the house and she gave birth to the child. Rebel Mayor was sitting in a study and he was learning in a study while they were the the later the birth was taking place when they were media him that the that what happened is that your your wife gave birth to a baby boy what did he do spontaneously I'll tell you what we do spontaneously start spontaneously we get so excited let's drinkim or he tells his wife let's celebrate let's call up the uncle let's call up the brother let's call up the parents let's do this and let's do that and that's wormy making the kiddish and who whatever it was. Listen to what he did. The minute he found out that he had a baby boy, he ran over to the baby boy and he shook it into his ear. I can't tell you if it was loud, if it wasn't loud, but he he he went in his ear. He's like this. If you're going to be mad shame, then I want you. If not, I don't want you. Here he tells the kid a message. The kid just got born and he tells him, "I want you to know you're here for one purpose. You know your purpose is to be to be. And if you are going to be he tells it to him the minute he's born he should know because that's so when I heard that I went to do some investigation to find out if it didn't see lay so well on me I found out that it didn't start by him it started by his father his father the alter of tells was th00 in Europe every time and he he sure get into the shell mayor block himself because he was his son so he get into him and every child that he had he get into him if you want if you're going to do the hashem if you're going to do mim then I want you if not I don't want you I want to tell you something I used to say this and then there was somebody in the audience who came over to me he says you don't speak like that how do you speak like that to say if not I don't want you. Okay. So I saw some people don't understand and about I saw some people don't understand I stopped. What did I stop? No I the first part I said the first part I continue to say that if you I want you if you'll be mad shame shim and I stopped. I'm speaking at another occasion and I'm saying this over this thing and I only say the first part. There happened to be somebody who was an old tow of mayor in the days before me. He comes over to me. What do you do? You cut out the main part of what he said. You know, he said if you want if if you're going to be mad Shayim then I want you. And if you don't want you, he had such tinus on me. Don't you say don't change what he said. And now this is really a medish what he said. I found it in a medish. You know what happened? Imagine a person goes a hundred years and doesn't have children. Does he choose what kind of child he wants? Listen to says, "What kind of child are you going to give me?" It sounds like a strange question. What kind of question is that? Be happy with whatever Hashem gives you. You know what? And he said, listen to what the med says, "Is he going to be a child that's going to be that's going to live life?" Then I want him. If not, don't give me the child. I don't want that child. You hear what he said? Aino said this. A mino said if the child is going to be mad and I'll tell you an interesting story. Do you know was cut off from his family because his whole family was was was in Europe. He was in America cuz he came to collect for the in 1939. They had no idea what happened to their families. He had a wife and he had a lot of children. maybe 10 11 she had a lot of children and he didn't know what happened with them in to shin vv he found out six years later he found out that what happened was the she did his wife and some of the children died he doesn't know if all died or not you know what he did I'll tell you what he did such a strange thing he ded to hashem I had a daughter and I'm dinging that she should die instead of living what he He ded that his daughter should die. So everybody said to me, you're ding they should die. He says, I'll explain you why. She's a young girl and a goyapter he's going to do all with her. He's going to be miser with her. She's going to become a goya and she's going to become herself off. And she went that's the kind of child you think I want. So he ded that she should be dead. Not she should be alive. No, she should be led. It's the so that's what it means living living means living our peace to doing this is the sukus you know when you have tells us the diff the more difficult you have to do an avoid and you do it that enhances the ultimate purpose of what the purpose of what it is that is what sukus is about and I believe I'm going to tell you a specul ation that I have. Why are we having such a difficult sukas? You hear? Why are we having such a difficult sukas? It's so hard to make. You have to figure out the precise moment when you can go into the suk and when you can make a bro. If you can't go sometimes you go in, you can't make a bra. And this has been difficult for many people. Some people go in they sleep a couple hours and they jump out run out of the suk. Some people don't go they have a hard hardship. What's happened there? I want to tell you the ofus is TO MAKE IT HARD FOR YOU AND THAT'S the purpose of sukim. Why? Because the sukus is to be show that is the ultimate of sukus because when you love hashem nothing is difficult for you and if it's difficult and you don't you'll overcome it. That's the concept you want to hear and Marabasa writes that is to be you know there's an interesting Mario listen to this Mariel the Mariel says we all start every the same place and the starts and he does that on sukus as well. No, the say it's not like that. The go brings in the you know where you start and they bring up and says you know where that that is going in the now Listen, there's a rashi and there's a mitudus. Rashi says, "Why are you going to beem?" Oh, because sukus is man. You have so much bounty. So you be you'll be married. The mitsuda says, listen to this. You see how they're bringing out the Yeah. You know why? void because the more you suffer and you're able to overcome it so Hashem you can bring out a tremendous cover that you can't bring out otherwise he gives us it's difficult to sit in all times now I want to tell you has been growing you know see I know from a lot before you and I'm not going to tell you I owe that but I'll tell you it's more than 70 years and that's putting it short And I'm trying to explain you as follows. Listen to this. In the years ago, you could see the were closed by day who dav who went and who learned. Nobody learned. And it went on and on and grew leaps and bounds. The level of today is unbelievable. How much tora is learned by everybody. How much how much can we ever imagine this? Nobody could have dreamt the level of Tyra in and especially in Lakewood on the east coast the mount of the mount of Tyra is unfathomable. You know something I believe Hashem gave is giving us an opportunity. Hashem gives a person he custom tailors every person according to Madre the higher you are the bigger ninness you get. That's some forion in everywhere in the that the bigger you are, Hashem gives you a bigger because you could bring out the if you're not on the level, he's not going to give it to you. You know why? Because he doesn't want you to fail and you're not up to there. Kalis have come to that point that Hashem could MAKE SUCH A HARD sus and Kalis is going to still come and show Leon. Oh, somebody asked me, "Did you go you I know you walk 10, 12 minutes, 15 minutes to the sh there. Did you go there this year?" I said, "What do you think?" Oh, now I have an opportunity. It's raining and I'm going. That is what Hashem wants. Hashem sees the growth of and he's giving to us in that which the essence of the yontiff is the mit. Oh, because it's difficult in all its circumstance, but this year it's much more difficult. And Hashem says, you know something, I'm giving you that test and you're in a regular, you're on Madre, so we should be happy. We showed that show. I want to tell you something. You know, you ever walk in the street? I walk sometimes in the street, then a car comes by and rolls down the window and they and they scream out to me things and I and I get so happy. You know why I get happy? I'll tell you why I get so happy. I get so happy because a lot of times I'm wondering, do I look different to the than him? And if I don't look different so then he won't scream at me. That means I'm still he still sees in me because we know the ureas areas. So I figure sometimes I'm wondering does the guy really feel that I'm different than him or not? When he screams there, I say, "Wow, hashem that he sees something. He sees an elevated person that has a tis in life. He's me." And this is it. Hashem gave us today an opportunity. Show yourself how much you love Hashem. Are you going to stop and not walk to your shore where you walk? Are you going to go to a minion in your house next door and this and that? You're going to curb and cut? No. Are you going to try and go out to the suka and see how could you make it? How could you don't make it? We'll see what you're doing. You hold yourself up. That is so says the of when you have and is when it's difficult. We are voxing and growing and that is our sim on this Y which the Yontiff is. We're growing like the and we should be to the ultimate cool ultimate. who saw lane no behavior.