Learning from the Past, Not Living in it - Rabbi Avi Schneider

i want to speak about partisan spatula it's impartial that has over 50 mitzvahs found in it in this part should we start off with a fascinating beginning of the mishpatim with many laws the famous story of the evidevery they have an ivory who's decided to stay longer is allotted six years i love my family i'm part of right now i love my split time in slavery this is a fascinating concept because in reality slavery is a punishment and a person who loves his time and punishment something seems wrong as a matter of fact the torah tells us we pierce his ear because the ear that hurt our sinai that you shouldn't be a slave you shouldn't steal has rejected that and embraced his moments of slavery jacob golinski tells over her story one time he was riding in a long cold train ride and during that train ride there was a person and used to have it sounds like bunk beds of three different uh people sleeping in the same same little area and there was a non-jewish guy who was uh was sleeping in one of the upper bunk beds and he was lamenting his lot i feel so thirsty i was famished i want to drink i want something to drink he was talking and talking on and on and on eventually reckless couldn't take it anymore so he says you know what he goes to the guy says let me take your bottle for you i'll give you some water and sure enough he goes through the water gives it to the person says hashem now they got this where yakunski says i can get some sleep let this person now he had his drink he's been complaining how thirsty he is so now he's gonna drink he's gonna have his drink and feel comfortable and the guy guzzled down in a in in a you know in a moment and uh jacqueline felt uh i can now get some peace and quiet maybe fall asleep for a few minutes a minute later here's the guy bumbling to himself again he listens closely and the guy was saying the following thing i was so thirsty i was so famished i just finished drinking just babbling on it wasn't even relevant to what was going on anymore it was a past tense discussion people like sometimes are not able to move on they make a mistake and they can't get past it golinski points out it's exactly where everything is the crime he's committed is whatever crime it was in the beginning but the worst crime than that is he couldn't move past it he wasn't able to get past whatever was that that affected him in the first place we all make mistakes in life and partially spotted describing different court cases that might arise based on someone's mistake they do make but at the end of the day we all make mistakes [Music] become the key is we get back up again they have an ivory who doesn't understand where he's heading as understanding has a higher position in life to attend that person doesn't want to get back up again because he just cuddled up next to a haystack and stayed in the ground and fallen down our opportunity to have in life when we see is to give us direction to help us figure out where to move on to next that's something we have to take with us in toronto we finished in this past week's part so i move out to say to understand that with torah gives us guidance this is beacons of light to head towards when we see all these laws so many mitzvoth it shouldn't be overwhelming they're they're giving us directions like one big ways how to get to the right place at the end and ultimately speaking we make a mistake you know to get up now i stole i sold myself as a slave it was an error i i've snapped out of it but six years later to embrace my my mistake i was so thirsty i was so famished i drank water living in the past not looking towards the future that is a terrible crime a terrible mistake we live in nowadays in this world we're full of people who are constantly looking on past events taking credit for past things and they live off that they retire and live off that but a jew he never is retiring you know [Music] he wanted to retire because it's not your place to retire in this world not yet as long as we're here we're always looking towards the future we learn from the past we don't embrace it we learn from it help us propel ourselves to a greater heights greater future the avid it reappears his ear because all he's doing is living in the past we should be zoha to learn from parsons bottom with all the midsoles out there how to push ourselves to greater heights to greater moments in life mr hashem we should be zohan to constantly be striving not to rely on our past to learn from our past and go to even greater places