Being A Real Chasid - Rabbi Yehuda Turetsky

hello i hope everybody's having a wonderful day um there is a very beautiful gemara um the kumar tells us that was once about to sin and prior to sinning right before he was going to commit a particular prohibited act he called out to his tommy them there's a fire in here there's a fire in here he was nervous he himself would not be able to avoid doing what he was doing and therefore he knew that he needed his tommy to come in to provide him support so they would see what was happening and he would never sit in front of them his students said to him isn't that embarrassing for you to be able to admit in front of us that you're struggling and he said better to be embarrassed in this world than to be embarrassed in the next requirement points out in it isn't only that himself went through the story but the gemara records it and and forever we associate them with a person who almost sinned i saw recently a beautiful observation to this gemara sometimes we associate being a khasit being pious as a person that doesn't struggle as a person that's always successful as a person that that carries themselves in a certain way and what we see in the story is that was comfortable admitting the fact that he was about to sin he was comfortable saying that really things were not always so easy for him and sometimes he needs the support the strength and the of others in a certain sense admitting sometimes that a person needs help a person needs support that that that a person is human and has ups and downs isn't astira a contradiction to him being it's part and parcel of what it means to really be righteous righteous people are not always perfect righteous people are those that understand that even if i'm trying really hard and sometimes i mess up and sometimes i'm about to sin and i stop that's also part of what it means to be a chasse a person is trying to work on the way they speak a person's trying to to speak always in appropriate ways not to speak lash and hara and sometimes we struggle sometimes it's hard sometimes it's somewhat challenging ramen reminds us that it's okay if it's a struggle and it's okay if it's hard and if it does and we fight through we're able to be successful then we've truly earned the right to be categorized and characterized as a khasit you