The Measure of a Person - Rabbi Doniel Staum

in paris israel shortly before the torah details about kabbalah satoru tells us about the judges that yisro suggested to moshe that they find and on those words explains that the greatness of a person is in their middles as in the middles the character the sterling character traits of the judges that they would find for claudius he says beautiful words he says yitzhak the humility the greatness of a person is measured in their middles and that's why we refer to character traits exactly as that as needles the measure and measurements because a person is measured based on their character traits and then abhinav writes such beautiful words the main wisdom the chief wisdom is only yoshi hamidos the straight path and with perfect with good character traits kishem [Music] just like the most important part of a tree is the fruits the most important part of wisdom putting it into play as it were is the medostovos that a person has and i think this is a tremendous hazard in this in the beautiful comparison i've been vaccinated to a tree a producing fruit and a person who has neither sobos look at the trees during the winter and they're barren and then comes the anthem of tuberculos interesting holiday where we celebrate so to speak and we're celebrating the spring we're celebrating the fact that inside the tree the sap is rising we're celebrating the spring which is weeks away and many snow storms and many cold days away but we're celebrating it because their movement already within the tree even though it's not discernible to the eye sometimes we work on our middles and become very discouraged because it's a process it doesn't happen overnight the great prayer lord grant me patience and granted to me now it doesn't work that way if a person wants to change their needles wants to improve their meetings it's a process and it's a very long process and there's setbacks and a person can't become discouraged just like the tree produces the fruit but sometimes you look at the tree and there's nothing going on but inside this what's going on don't become discouraged when you're working on your middles it's a process and as long as a person stays the course as long as a person doesn't give up a person based our ship slowly will get there to master their middles and that's when you need those means producing the most beautiful fruits our mycenter [Music]