KLM (Part 2) Baruch Hashem/Thank G-d: Two Words that Can Earn You Millions with Rabbi Wegbreit

[Music] all right welcome everybody from klm and also to those from the ebony channel who may be watching the recording um anyway good to have you all with us here uh we're gonna start in a minute just a couple of very brief announcements um yeah so we've been a lot going on on the klm side for hashem uh rabbi webbrat's been busy publishing a number of articles in the jewish press um if everybody's interested in in that klm material drop me a line we'll send those to you also in early november rabbi workbrat is going to be giving a shear to the south african to helium groups for the outside of dr setzer's mother-in-law so we'll visualize him get a link for that anybody who wants to join in on those um klm shurim um and yeah just to say obviously always sponsorship opportunities anybody wants to sponsor one of the sherim please do let me know all the donations help to push forward the work of klm um and yeah okay we're going to make a start just letting a couple of people in and if everybody could just keep [Music] keep on on mute and yeah cameras on off is okay just as long as it doesn't interfere with the bandwidth and uh yep rabbi wig right if you want to turn on your camera let's make a start thank you parrots okay um arab tove everybody well not for the people of the states um i wanna this year is gonna be about being adam lamocco you know we're gonna hopefully strengthen the bond between us and hashem however i want to start this year with bain adam lachavero i want us to do a mitzvah for a jew whose needs are help okay there's um the uh there's a father of someone who's very close to a lot of people in klm london and in south africa as well uh the moshall's father really needs a rafa and um i'm gonna mention his name right now and i'd like you to have an uh uh let's just put some mitzvahs into this uh so we can help the best we can okay and you if you want to take the name down we'll post the name for davening afterwards okay but the name is yochanan hillel bentova zelda als uh also let's add uh uh that rev uh uh mordechai uh um mordechai so here's the mitzvah i want us to do okay is we're just gonna say two words but these two words can be profound mitzvahs okay we're going to just say refuse shlama the so charcoal this or that sentence right by once you have in mind while you express this you're praying right you're praying to hashem so i have in mind the mitzvah of them hashem okay and have in mind the mitzvah and compassion two two misses of of emulating hashem and feel some pain for the person who needs a raphua and their family and the loved ones okay and uh and then um yeah i think that's good for now okay so we're gonna uh start with uh some mitzvahs of uh to help a jew in distress okay so i'll just i'll say it and everyone please say a long side and or just quietly um refuse [Music] okay that's a good way to start uh share is with compassion for jews in need so that's start number one now i say we're going to hashem and connecting to hashem alrighty uh let me open with this uh you know this is happening to me uh lately you know sometimes when the computer i don't know what causes it and it's not very relevant for right now but you you try to get into the computer and it says are you a robot or you know demonstrate that you are not a robot right so what do i do i i check i am not a robot that's okay and this is something that we're trying very hard at klm we don't want to be robots when it comes to hashem right so you are i am not a robot you are not a robot okay i have something else to add i am not a cow and guess what you are not a cow allow me to explain okay i better explain right why aren't we cows because we are programmed with the drive to succeed and a drive to connect a drive to succeed let's focus on that we are programmed like that a cow has no drive to succeed he eats his food and he calms down he you know he gets his parnessa and he's calm all right we get our pronuncia we eat and we're not calm and we're always seeking success okay we are programmed that way we are not cows okay so what's the ramification of this so we see most healthy people are seeking seeking seeking success right this is a rabbi i'm what i'm saying is really based on rabbi victor miller he stresses this point a lot there we're seekers and particularly seekers of a success however unfortunately most of the world is seeking success monetarily financial i mean god bless everybody you can have success and you can have money but they're seeking and seeking that which here's the famous saying you can't take it when you go right you can't take it with you when you go and they're seeking and seeking and seeking but they're not going to be able to take it when they go so klm member craig halland nailed it on the head he says with torah and mitzvahs and especially with kavanagh you can take it when you go you hear we should always be seeking success that we can take with us when we go adm right everybody should live to 120. but let's it's unbelievable and and most of what we do with torah and hessed in these things guess what these are things where you get the success and the fruits right now but you can take it with with you when you go all right so that's our focus right now okay and i have an uh tool for you okay last time we spoke about brochure the words two words hashem okay well what i always try to do we already did it every every share i try that we immediately start fulfilling mitzvahs right we're not waiting for later right again so have in mind the mitzvah of learning torah because that's what we're also doing and we're learning torah in order to live the torah okay have those in mind okay we're just accomplished now the thing is this like what we did last time is we said baruch hashem and we actually had kavanaugh a complete kabana for it and we even then did the joey nukem and michael storch song and we we deepened our kavanagh but that now the beautiful thing is those mixes that we did then and the missiles were doing in this second can never be taken away from us they're they're there forever they're they're eternalized but how about this well i but what we really want is after you watch the klm share that you can take it with you in your week and your month right the more you can live this it's unbelievable you'll have so much to take with you all right you have so many fruits of connection to hashem in this world so i have a tool to make sure that we take what we did last week with us when this year is over all right so let me share a screen and uh it's uh for the varicose vetera alumni new technology all right uh one day i'll explain that to the others let me just share a screen okay hmm all righty let's give me one second get ready for a new tool okay now i just did okay now just hit share screen okay are we paris yeah that's firing up okay and i'll put it on present as we said the two words baroque hashem are worth millions okay and i want to present you and this is a model that can we can use for many many of our misses that we're working on it's called path okay it's an acronym it's the path to millions okay so um here i'm gonna give you this is the general um the general tool i'm going to explain it briefly and then we're going to apply this path to baruch hashem all right to thanking hashem okay so p stands for priming yourself okay now that the thing is this is we move in a kind of current of consciousness and it's often hard to stop the patterns you know patterns can be helpful and patterns can turn us into robots we ought to say sorry i can't go for it i am a robot right so the first step in not being saying i am a robot is by priming yourself now by the way i didn't ask dr cesar but i i've heard the sports psychology you know they they hire extremely well-paid psychologists right by the way the best psychologist i don't want to put down any people who are noble and help people with their troubles but rather more points the best psychologists are in advertising and in sports okay but what did they what did they learn and what do they know is that you you have to prime yourself as you enter into the experience prepare prime right and one of the things they do they do visualization but what the what it's called is rehearsal they rehearse the experience before it takes place okay now we are gonna as we continue this year in uh klm we're gonna work on all sorts of strategies to prime ourselves but with broke hashem i have one uh i have a suggestion okay but you hear the first thing is you have to prepare you have to rehearse ahead of time we're talking in seconds this does not take a lot of time but you need a little seconds before that's why we step back in the shimona s-ray you have like these three steps forward where you're priming yourself to meet a kadash for who the king prime p for prime a once you've primed yourself now add the mitzvah kavana this is coming alive being less of a robot absolutely when you just say what mitzvah am i doing now and then you're doing it like washing your hands as hashems come out i'm doing the myths of washing my hands for eating right that is worlds of difference right so prime yourself add the mitzvah and then the feelings right the whole thing is we're we're moving in in parallel tracks here we because we got to get our mind in the right place and again there's no there's no way to calculate the difference if you take that one breath that one second to have in mind the mitzvah before you do it it's phenomenal but what about during the mitzvah right what does hashem want more than anything from us our heart rachmana liba boy the merciful one above wants our heart right so the next step is we insert the feelings that accompany the mitzvah we're doing and then last and definitely not least h happy hour i don't know if that works in london and south africa it probably does because american culture has reached the entire world happy hour you have to celebrate okay if you don't if you don't stop and celebrate you don't appreciate what you're doing and you're not encouraged to keep uh treading the path to millions okay and as i put here celebrate to integrate when you stop and say oh wow i can't believe that in a few seconds this happened it's a game changer okay so now let's we're going to apply this to baruch hashem okay path applied to broke hashem prime okay the first thing is priming right so we need to rehearse saying it with kavanagh okay we're going to do this in one second get ready i'm going to ask you how you are and we're going to say bro hashem again okay but the first thing is you rehearse it so how about this let's do this okay uh and i may remind you but right now imagine remember here let me run it through and then we'll practice that okay prime rehearse saying it with kavanagh a for add the cavana meaning have in mind the mitzvah to thank hashem t then the feeling we want to feel genuine gratitude when we say it right we don't want to just tick the box of having cavanaugh which is fantastic we want to feel it if the mess is thanking hashem we want to feel it and then happy hour i i just came up one sentence you there's so many in a few seconds i created so much bliss for myself there's many ways to celebrate we'll be celebrating please god all year and hopefully you'll be doing this during the week okay so in order to we're going to do this but first i want to remind us here about the mitzvah to thank hashem that we discussed last week it's good to know where this come from because we we mentioned not everyone realizes that thanking hashem is a torah commandment according to rabbenu yona and the safer taryag mitsus okay here we go all righty here's the pasek it's in devarim uh um eight two the zaharta is called okay you shall remember the entire path that hashem led you on these four past 40 years we said that is referring to the beautiful things hashem did for us in the mid bar right the mind falling from the sky our clothes not wearing out um you know divine protection everything beautiful right so when you think about that you know look at those camels over there if you if you think about that right now think about it right now that is you just fulfill the commandment uh a torah commandment but as robin ryona the sabrina explains it all the more so all the kindnesses that you're experiencing now there's the picture at the kotel right when you think i can't believe we're at the co we have the kotel i can't believe it right so that is another commandment so that just a reminder of the myth that i have in mind okay so let's go back and and and then we discuss genuine gratitude okay so let's now uh let's just do this we're going to say baruch hashem okay so prime yourself right now to have it says you're going to say bro hashem and maybe even right now think about what you're gonna uh focus on right to have that gratitude right all right so just just take a second to prepare okay and now add the kevana meaning have in mind we're about to say baruch hashem and you have in mind the mitsa of thanking hashem uh the torah commandment okay you did that great three the feeling right now since you have something you're hopefully focused on about to feel uh to appreciate his kindnesses so get ready when you say this you want to feel real gratitude okay genuine gratitude and then we'll celebrate okay all right so i'm going to count the three i'm going to ask you how how are things or how is everything okay one two three how is everything okay and now we want this experience to be memorable so it's now time for happy hour right say yourself those few seconds they felt good but they'll feel good forever and i just got closer to the one who made me and loves me to no ends okay there we go that's the uh that we just achieved that okay and i want to now bring up like the week okay so you have hashem but i want to bring up one more thing in our final minutes okay i wanted to discuss since we're in the midst of gratitude i want to discuss where the yetzahara ruins ruins are after brachas okay and what to do about it okay in order to in order to explain this i i i need to bring the famous rabbi who at his shabbos table you know you know the gabbai or the rabbi will often remind you you know and show don't forget it's rosh chodesh foreign so this rabbi he has a big shabbos table and they're about to bench right so he says he goes by the way everybody um i just want you to remember when you're benching don't forget to thank hashem yeah and and why is that funny because you can actually bench and forget to thank hashem you hear her it's scary but it's true okay and let me ask you this when's the last time you said a share yachts are and felt gratitude for having just used the bathroom right and guess what we're talking about what's so striking you could be saying the share yatsar or the benching and your focus on the words you're feeling the words and this and that but you just left out one thing thanking hashem you hear this so what a what a gate to heart we have to admire him he is so incredible i mean let's look at it from his perspective okay let's say you're religious and you you're trying to work on getting close to shen and you know you need to have cavanaugh slaves you need to be focused on the words and all those things and be in it right you just heard a class like this right so what are you doing right you're baroque and you're envisioning this thing right so what does israel say says look i'll get them so focused on reciting the blessing that they'll forget that this blessing was enacted as an as a means of expressing gratitude for what they just experienced brilliance you hear he just makes a disconnect you can have cavanagh in the bracha but not gratitude for hashem it's brilliant on his part and with deference we're gonna try to fight back okay shem we cannot succeed against the atahara please help us okay here's the suggestion okay um we're gonna oh does everybody i hope everybody saw the instructions do you have a glass of water or a cucumber or a chocolate bar or something something that you can make a bra very good something you can make a bra run on okay i hope you have okay or as i'm talking if you want to run get something okay but first let me tell you let's focus on the bathroom for a second forgive me okay but uh let me explain the strategy i'm gonna put forth okay and then we're gonna practice it on uh on some food or drink okay let's talk about the bathroom forgive me okay so i said you can say a sharia tsar with kavanagh and forget that you know my bodily system worked you know i got rid of things that would be harmful if they stayed in and it wasn't a painful experience and right so the thing is this so i was learning with another klm member uh daniel lyons and what i was thinking how we gonna tackle this is that when you get out of the restroom on your way to wash your hands have in mind that uh think about the the experi that the fact that that experience was healthy and pleasant or whatever right just have gratitude and then say the blessing right but he had such a good insight you see you see this person fights as yet sahara he says you know what's going to happen after you use the restroom you're going to be thinking i gotta recite your shirts are quickly and of course i got a lot to do right after that so to get in the zone after the experience and that's why the rabbi's stroke is true you hear okay it's time to bench you know you just move into this other zone right so he said and i thought it was a brilliant suggestion he had two two points okay how about forgive me but how about during the experience of the restroom you know just think about how lucky you are that everything is okay and that you're able to eliminate and you know what just but here's the thing don't three seconds maximum you hear all you need is one second of gratitude and that's something but maximum three seconds so all you need to do is right so so the thing is this i i've been working on this you know trying to practice what i uh preach so the thing is i'm working on this so what happens when you do that is then when you get out of the restroom you you're in the state you remember that you're supposed to appreciate and have gratitude for what you just happened and the beautiful thing about my assure yazar is i have now like um 12 different insights into why i should be grateful that um that everything worked out okay and i'm okay and i'm healthy it just keeps piling up because i have i put now an instruction feel gratitude before making the blessing during the experience okay now we're gonna do this with your drink or your whatever it is okay so uh everybody what i want you to do first is um i want you to make a blessing a pre-buffa do it with kavanaugh okay but the point is just make your blessing make a nice blessing and just take a sip or a nibble okay so do that first i'll just give you a minute to do that okay i assume that you've made your pre-blessing because we want to focus on the disconnect when you make the braid in a flushos okay so before i don't want you finishing or drinking right now okay if you did you did but while you drink or eat connect to the pleasure there's mitzes in that but i don't have time right now we're focusing okay on the after blessing right so what i want you to do now is drink it down or eat it so that you're obligated a blessing bracha krona have three seconds of connection and appreciation to the experience while you're having it okay so do that right now okay i hope you're now obligated in an after blessing okay good so ready now let's go down the path to millions okay p prime yourself right rehearse reciting right now rehearse reciting an affair with um you know appreciation of the experience just rehearse it in your mind right now okay add right now the mitzvah of i have in mind the mitzvah of making a bra okay on on what i consumed and the mitzvah of thanking hashem for his kindness okay so that's pa we primed ourselves we added the mitzvah kavana and now we go to t then the feelings okay so get ready to move yourself into a beautifully healthy state of gratitude to hashem those the feelings you want to say while you're reciting this blessing you can feel love too and have in mind in the midst of opposition okay so let's do it okay okay prime add the cabanas we did and then the feelings go okay here we go happy hour now grab a beer or a glass of wine no right now to say it could be a never ending thank god do you know what i just did it spiritual achievement is not measured quantitatively those few seconds or minutes that we just spent now you won't believe what it's gonna do okay that's an example of happy hour okay so i'm closing right now by saying the following i encourage you to use the path to millions tool okay all right because then you'll be able to take more life with you on may a stream when you go and you'll feel and have in mind one more minutes for the midst of choosing life you're hard to behind when you use this tool all right so use it be healthy odd mastering so thank you thank you i thought of a new expression because i always tell people i don't want you to treat the class like a tv show right you know you watch it it's entertaining and you and you don't it doesn't affect you so heard a good one um if anyone heard that uh there uh i think it was bertrand russell right so i don't know if he was a famous british mathematician uh forgive me brits for what i'm gonna describe but either um he i think either he wrote a book of ethics or he was speaking about let's say aristotle somebody wrote a book of ethics and they did not lead a uh uh ethical life okay they treat us on ethics but they didn't live it right so they confronted whoever it was i just know he said the quote they confronted him and they said you know you wrote a book of ethics and he said if i wrote a book of geometry would you expect me to be a triangle so you hear this so what i want to say is you want to be a triangle okay don't live like that right we want to be triangles all right we want we we want to live this okay so i encourage you please use it maybe you know just share it we'll we can just we can celebrate we'll have a happy hour okay but use it a lot this week try your best by the way one with two more things again i want to thank the listeners from yebene who are joining uh the kale the yibbene harnoff branch okay in the klm headquarters and i want to thank them and i also i just want to point out that the the i posted a pdf of this sheer and the slides were in reverse and i improved one of the slides so right now i'm going to post this new version if you print out the other whatever but i i recommend this version that i'm going to print okay thank you parents pleasure yeah please sure quickly about five years ago about five years ago i found myself in a doctor's office uh leaning over a chair and moaning and the doctor's receptionist said well you know can you please quiet down because uh other patients are here and and i couldn't i said i i couldn't and i was falling over the chair and the moaning was so intense from pain that um she took me in the back room and they did a quick uh cat scan and they found an intestinal blockage that was uh preventing my intestines from working correctly and uh i'm tempted to do the moan so that you can understand the pain that i felt you know it was something like [Music] and and and the person who did the cat scan when he told me the results his face was ashen and he he said you better talk to your doctor and they rushed me to the hospital and in order they didn't know what to do in the emergency room they put a tube through my nose and drained my abdomen through my nose and they did emergency uh laparoscopic surgery and luckily found out that the minute they made an incision the blockage was removed but what i'm saying is you know it's a miracle every moment that our intestines work correctly and i can tell you from personal experience when you when it does when they don't when you have a blockage you know i mean when it says ef right i could not stand before you even for an hour right if this if my system didn't work it's real and i i had that you know it was it was pain that was overwhelming debilitating and um extremely dangerous so you know the the the the healthy functioning of our system is not just necessary but it's a daily bracha and not to be in pain is something not to be taken for granted oh beautiful please parrots we should include this uh thanks for sharing that thank you so much that that's something you draw upon beautiful okay very good yes your clark everybody yes yes sorry bye-bye i just um wanted to share uh shalom everyone um since you've already slowed us down now before we say a shahakal or we're eating something um the the missing spark is the kevana of releasing the spark in whatever food we're eating and then you get yes yes beautiful beautiful much more to take with you that's fantastic very good very beautiful point excellent okay very good we have rhoda we have our ties 20 minutes so we better get off now thanks everybody okay okay thanks okay thank you thank you thank you thanks you're welcome bye [Music] is