Kriat Shma Al Hamita and how to fix the sins of Karet - Part 3 - Rabbi Alon Anava

So, the kuna bridge is one of the hardest ones and you need one needs to really concentrate on especially on that one. And the thing is that a lot of people tell me, "Listen, no, every day I fail. So, I would one day I hold, two days I don't, one I one time I fail." Okay, fine. You're human, but in the meantime, why why feed from the other end? There's no you know you don't don't miss out something from here cuz here it didn't work out. I think I told you once that I had this guy who used to So, he came to one of my lectures. He got very inspired. Started coming to all the shirim. Then he started coming to pray with us every morning. Every morning. And I would means this guy came every morning pray shacharit with us, put the tzitzit on the tefillin everything. One day he didn't come. Call him up. What's going on? Were you sick today? Tells me, "No, I'm done with this. That's it." I go, "What do you mean you're done with it?" He says, "I'm a I feel like a hypocrite. I can't do this anymore." I told him, "Why?" He's like, "You know where I was yesterday?" Told him, "I don't care where you were." He's like, "I'll tell you where I was. I went to party." I don't know. Okay, fine. No. He goes, "You know what I did yesterday?" Told him, "I don't care what you did yesterday." He goes, "I'll tell you what I did yesterday." And he starts telling me what he did yesterday. He's like, "I can't, you know, I last night I did all the sins in the book. Now I'm going to show up to the shul and put tefillin on? I feel like like a hypocrite." So, I told him, "You must suffer from some rare disease of stupidity." Ma kesher? What's the connection even? The fact that last night you did a sin doesn't allow you to miss the prayer today. You're not exempt. You didn't get a discount now. On the contrary. Last night you did a sin and now you're not waking up in the morning, so you're mevatel so many mevatel is not to do so many positive mitzvot? What? Stop it. When you come in the morning to pray in the shul, let's count. You put tefillin on, it's two mitzvot to say. Positive mitzvot from the Torah, tefillin of the head and tefillin of the hand. You have Shema Yisrael, another mitzvah from the Torah. You put tzitzit on, another mitzvah from the Torah. So, four mitzvot derabbanan from the Torah. You pray, another mitzvah. While you pray, you'll put some charity, another mitzvah. You'll learn a few lines, you say a few pray chapters of Tehillim, another mitzvah. Look at how many mitzvot you're missing. So, what if you sinned last night? So, wake up in the morning, go to the mikvah, do teshuvah, b'ezrat Hashem Hashem will forgive you. Why would you miss here so many things that you have to do because yesterday you failed? So, what's that? So, what? So, what? So, do teshuvah. And I told him, "You know, let's say hypothetically right now, let's say hypothetically, today is the day you go up. That's it. An air conditioning falls from the sky, buries you in the ground. You're going to go up now with with a bag full of sins. Don't you want to go up there with a barrel full of mitzvot? They said you kind of balance it out. One has nothing to do with the other. And especially, you know, I was once also a baal teshuvah. What do you think I didn't battle with this? I I became religious when I was 28 years old. I friend for 28 years I lived like a Lenny Kravitz man. The whole thing, girlfriends, smell friends, the whole thing. It's not that I came from Mars and I don't know what it did what it what what it means. I also had time. Yeah, it's not easy to get rid of this habit. But at least in the back of my mind I was like, "Okay, now I'm not perfect, but at least I I fail here, I'm going to right away. I'll go to the mikvah. I'll say Shema Yisrael. I balance it out. Yeah, I fix it right away. It's like a credit card debt. You don't pay the bill once a month, in a year you'll have a $20,000 debt. You pay it every month, the minimum, yeah, you pay it up. So, I'm not telling you it's okay, it's fine, do whatever you want, just say Shema Yisrael before you die. That's not the advice. But the advice is it's, you know, if you must sin, fine. You know that's part of the sinning, that's part of the process. Sometimes Hashem wants to see how you're going to deal with the sin. Sometimes Hashem gives the permission to the yetzer hara to push you. Cuz he wants to see how you get up. He doesn't want to see how you fall. He knows you're going to fall. He gave permission to the yetzer hara to put to push you. He gave the the pass. But now Hashem says, "Now you're on the floor, let's see how you get up." Let's see if you're going to fall into despair and stay on the ground and wake up in the morning at 12:00 with your blanket over your head and I'm not waking up today. Or if you get up in the morning and says, "Okay, fine. I did a problem I did a I messed up yesterday. Okay, I woke up in the morning, let me do teshuvah." Every erev Shabbat we read in Lech Dodi, look at the fourth fourth verse in Lech Dodi. It says, "Itna'ari me'afar kumi." The translation is sh- get up from the dust and shake up all of the dust from you. Itna'ari me'afar kumi. First Hashem pushes you to the klipot, to the dirt, to the dust. Now get up. Get up. Don't stay on the ground like a loser. Get up. That's what Hashem sometimes wants. He wants to see how you're getting up. If you're going to get up and brush the dirt off and says, "Okay, and the continue of the verse says, "V'ilbishi bigdei tiferet amech. Wear the garments of the glory of our nation." Why? If you get up, you won the the battle. You know, it's funny. It's actually ridiculous, but almost any man in the world enjoys seeing two men in a ring beating each other up. Any man. I don't know many men that don't like it. Put two guys in a ring, start let them they start hitting each other, everybody's like, "Wow!" You know? Why? What are you sadistic? Do you enjoy seeing two guys hitting each other? No, it's action. Let's see, you know, this guy does this move, the other guy moves, you know, have the movies, it's just fighting. The fighting is the best part of the movie. Why? It's some type of a thrill seeing the action. And if it's you know, fancy moves, it's even more thrills. So, Hashem wants sometimes he puts an opponent in front of you. He wants to see how you wants to see your moves. He doesn't want to see you like a like a worst falling on the floor. He wants to see you like a fighter getting up. Itna'ari! You got to shake that off. Like a round one. So, what if you got knocked down? Sometimes some guys, you know, in the ring they get a punch, they're on the floor, right away they they they get they'll give up. No, get up like a fighter. You know, I'm not joking. Hashem wants to see a fight. Not that I'm saying that Hashem likes the the the the the I'm not comparing it chas v'shalom, but sometimes Hashem wants to see he wants to you to prove yourself. He wants him you for you to prove it. Yeah, fight the yetzer hara. What's the big problem? You know, the Zohar says, you know, you know why you were created? Very simple. Kadmei kafya sitra achra. You have to subdue the sitra achra, the evil inclination. You have to subdue it. He's your fighter. That's it. You were created to fight your yetzer hara all day long. Now most people they they get they get, you know, in despair. Ah, again the yetzer hara, again the yetzer hara, another day. No, you were created to fight him. If you're fighting him, that's you're doing the ultimate kavana, the ultimate meaning why Hashem created the world. You were created to fight your yetzer hara. You are this fighter. MFF, FFF, how is called? MMA? MMC? Also all these acronyms. UFC? Whatever. Hashem wants you to be a fighter. The Zohar is talking about it in many places. It's kafya sitra achra. And if you do that, if you win, then the result is it's shocher l'no'ar. You're transforming the darkness into light. Umariru l'mitiko. And the bitterness into sweetness. That's you That's why you were created. To overpower your yetzer hara. So, you walk down the street, a hundred beautiful women pass you. You look at 99 of them. One time you put your eyes down, you didn't look, that's it. One time you won. Now, 4th of July in shamayim, they're opening champagne bottles. He didn't look! He didn't look! All right. 99 he failed. So, they're like, they're putting the bets in shamayim. They put bets. He's not looking today. He's looking. He's not looking. He's looking. I'm not joking. I'm saying it in a funny way. One time you overpowered your your your your ta'avah, your yetzer, your your desire, you won. The crowd HE DIDN'T DO IT! YOU KNOW, THE nachat ruach the the the the happiness the the How do you say nachat in English? The the joy the Hashem is like, "Wow! I put the yetzer hara in front of him. He didn't He He punched it out. Did you see the flip he gave him? He gave a fancy move and knocked him out." Yeah. That's how it works. And then the result, you take something dark and you transform it into light. That's it. You bring light into this world. This is how powerful you are. There's a story in the Zohar that it says that the king wanted to see how strong his son is before he becomes king. So, he hired a prostitute to go and seduce him to see if the son will be strong or the son will be Allah. So, the prostitute said, "You know, even though I got a commandment now from the king, I don't want to make the prince fail. I don't want this responsibility." So, she went and hired another one and told her, "You got to go to this guy and seduce him. It's the son's king. It's a test here." So, the second one said, "I don't want to be the one I don't want to be one taking responsibility here." So, she hired another one. And hired another one and hired another one. And before you know it, it was like the 30th in the line, but the one on the bottom line, the 30th one that was got hired doesn't know it's the son of the king, doesn't know it was a mission from the king. She's just out to get the guy. This is our generation. In the beginning, it was the first prostitute. Forgive me how I'm talking, but that's in the Zohar says that word Zana. Prostitute, somebody who does for money. So, then many generations ago, it was the first one. In our generation, it was already the hundreds prostitute. She doesn't even know it's coming from Hashem. This clip of the Sitra Achra just totally totally doesn't know that it's coming from Hashem. That's why it the Sitra Achra in our generation is so powerful. The darkness choshech kful u'muchpal It's a double on a double darkness in this generation. Because this prostitute is like generations already. She doesn't know that she's working for Hashem. The clip of the Sitra Achra generation, they don't even know that that they're owned by God. They're their own entity. Mamash metzius bifnei atzma'i. It's a It's their own entity. Doesn't even know that there's a a master to the universe. That's how powerful it is. So, when you overpower it, you know what it is when you overpower it one time? 10 times? It's You can't imagine. You can't imagine the the joy that's happening in Shamayim. So, we were created to fight this ta'avah, this desire. It can be for men, can for from for women, it can be for money, can be for food, it can be for money, it can be for any little thing. And we were all day long we're fighting our ta'avot. And you know what's the the the advice for that? If you sanctify yourself with the small things and you're practicing on subduing the yetzer hara on the small things, that's when you have the power to battle the big things. What do you mean by the small things? I'll give an example. It's It's not a mitzvah to eat. During the week, you eat in order to have power to sustain yourself so you can pray, you can learn Torah, you can serve Hashem. It's only a mitzvah to eat on Shabbat. On Shabbat, it's a mitzvah. Every bite is a mitzvah. On Shabbat, it's a hidur mitzvah, beautifying the mitzvah when you buy special food, best food, better wine. This is all mitzvah. During the week, it's not a mitzvah. You have to eat the minimum of the minimum. Now, if a person has a habit all day every day eating steaks, shawarma, this, kabobim, hamburgers, why is he eating that? Ta'avah. It's It's a desire. It's It's an inclination to eat a lot of meat. You stop yourself from that, you segregate yourself, you you you making yourself holy. What's holy? Holy in Hebrew is kadosh. Kadosh is not necessarily kadosh like something holy. Kadosh is muvdal, separated. So, if I separate myself from world worldly pleasures, then I'm subduing my You know, I'm walking in the street. I feel like buying now this ice cream. What do you need the ice cream right now? Buy ice cream on Shabbat. You know? Spoil yourself on Shabbat. In my house, only Shabbat we have chocolate and cake and ice cream. It's My kids don't eat this junk in the week. Shabbat. Only Shabbat. Why? Cuz when you're practicing, you know, your your avodat Hashem is like a muscle. You practice your muscle more more more, the muscle becomes more you know, re- used to it. You know the word in English in Hebrew is called I don't know the In Hebrew it's called sibolet. You know, you you work it. You go into shape. Take now some guy didn't work out for 10 years. Tell him now go to the gym. He's After a day, he's like, "Oh." But when you work out all the time, you build this ability. So, same thing with avodat Hashem. So, when you practice constantly to this refraining of not taking, then you when it comes to the real things, it's easy for you. You're already trained. This comes from the midat ha'gvurah. Gvurah is is severity. Gvurah means that you're pushing away something from you. So, you have to know how to balance yourself. So, if you're constantly working on the emotion of the action of refraining, "I don't need this right now. I don't I can live without this right now. I'll minimize my pleasures during the week. Shabbat, everything you do that brings you pleasure is a mitzvah. During the week, it's not a mitzvah. You just do it cuz you have to do it. I'm just giving you one example out of many. So, the more you you you practice during the week, you don't enjoy things that you're permitted. This is a kodesh she atzmo b'chol b'mutar lach. Sanctify yourself with the things that you're permitted. So, if you're doing if you if you're practicing it, when it comes to the time to deal with the big thing, you're ready in shape. You're working on the small things on the refined things, by default, the harder things will be much easier. So, it's it's It's easier said than done. But the thing is, if you have the right tools and the right guidance, then you you know how to make yourself this warrior. The How do you say MFA AAA? MMA. MMA. You want to be a world champion. You want to be the the one the one who wins. Cuz that's what you were created for. And every time you fail, then you know, in in Shamayim, you know, they they they lose the bets. They lose the bets on you. Then they don't want to bet on you anymore. So, the thing is that, you know, the only way you can acquire the knowledge how to, you know, deal with this world, you have to go and learn. You have to go and learn a lot of Torah. Have to not just reading the parashat shavua. That's That's It's nice, but you have to mamash learn how to deal with this world. And the only thing that will really teach you how to deal with this world, especially in our generation, also only Hasidus. You have to have tools. Learning parashat shavua is very nice. You have to learn it. What is the difference Hasidus? The thing is like this. Many many years ago came the Zohar. The Zohar is what's called the razin de Torah, the secrets of the Torah. But for many years, it was concealed for many many reasons. Then about 500 years ago came the Ari Zal and he started taking all this Kabbalah and started teaching it. But even then, it was very very hidden. It wasn't wasn't accessible to anybody. There's reason for that. But then came the Baal Shem Tov and he brought down the razin de razin, the secrets of the secrets. There's a story that the Baal Shem Tov on Yom Kippur went up to the chamber. Went up to Shamayim different chambers in Shamayim. And he went to the chamber of Mashiach. And he saw Mashiach and he told him, "Where are you going to When are you coming?" So, he Mashiach told him, "Whenever your well springs will spread out. Shefa tzumimcha chutzah." You have to teach the world this Hasidus. Hasidus is taking the secrets of the secrets. This is how it's called razin de razin. The secrets of the secrets. Now, if now you open a book of Kabbalah, I guarantee to you you're not going to know You're not going to understand one word there. Not you, anyone. Open now any book of Kabbalah, you're not going to understand nothing. Why? Cuz I don't know enough to begin It's not you I'm saying. When I'm saying you, I'm saying anyone. Me, too. Think I understand something when I open a book of Kabbalah? Talking about all these things. Hasidus comes and takes Kabbalistic terms and Kabbalistic principles and concepts and it dissects it. Opens it up. And it It chews it for you. It dissects it for you. It comes and tells you, "Here. No. Here you have the secrets of the secrets." What What is a book of Ari Zal called? Tanya. Yeah, Tanya's Hasidus. Sha'arei Teshuvah. No, that's Musar. Uh Likutei Moharan is Hasidus. Tanya is the the the the the basics of the basics of Hasidus, but there's so many. There's bookshelves full of Hasidus books. Thousands. The thing is that it says about the Zohar now why now everybody starts learning Zohar. 50 years ago, ask any Sephardi person, ask their their father or their grandfather, the Zohar, that was like the book that you weren't allowed to touch. The grandfather would pull it out on Shabbat. Concentrate on the words. Don't get close. Don't get close. Ask your parents. No, don't get close. Now I read small words. It doesn't know that I understand anything. It doesn't matter. Why? It says in the Zohar, Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai says, "With this book, you're going to go out of the galus with the secrets you know that the entire Torah the Kabbalah the the teachings of Kabbalah, that's how we were going to serve Hashem and Messiah is going to come. It's a way of life Kabbalah. Kabbalah it wasn't invented a couple hundred years ago. Adam Harishon wrote the first book of Kabbalah. He got all the secrets. He actually didn't write it. He got it and then he passed it on to Sheth and Noah and then Abraham Avinu who came and wrote it. This is Sefer Yetzirah. The first Kabbalah book. They had Kabbalah books before that. Just nobody taught nobody learned it. You know all the Shvatim. You know, we learned it a few a few weeks ago that Yosef came and told Yaakov about all the things that the Shvatim would do. It's a question what Yosef Hatzadik, that's his title, Yosef Hatzadik. You know, all our sages they have a title. Not the sages they they they are forefathers Abraham Avinu. Moshe Rabbenu. Moshe was our rabbi. He taught us the Torah. You know what was the title of Yosef? Yosef Hatzadik. He was a tzadik. The tzadik went and said lashon hara about his brothers? No. It says that Yosef used to go back to Yaakov and report. But he did it for No, they no. But the sod here is that the Shvatim they knew Kabbalah. They knew Kabbalah Maasit. Practical Kabbalah. So they were doing things according to Kabbalah. Yosef Hatzadik saw it. He knew what they're doing. He's not stupid. He used to come to Yaakov and says, "They're doing Kabbalah Maasit, practical Kabbalah. People are looking at them and it looks like they're doing witchcraft and idol worship and all sorts of things. You got to tell them to stop." So Yosef didn't say lashon hara. He just worried what's called mar'it ayin. You know, sometimes you're not allowed to do things. You're permitted according to halakha to do it. But if somebody would look at you and think you're doing something wrong, this is called mar'it ayin. Somebody looks at you. I'll give you some an example. According to the din in Shulchan Aruch, you're not allowed to start for example a washing machine 5 minutes before Shabbat. Okay? Why? You're allowed to. Because you did you started the melacha before Shabbat. The fact that the washing machine is going through Shabbat Yeah, I did it before Shabbat. But only because mar'it ayin, if my neighbor will pass down the hall and hear the washing machine doing a noise in Shabbat, they'll be like, "What? He's doing laundry on Shabbat?" Just because of that you're not allowed to do that. This is called mar'it ayin. Somebody would look at it you're doing something even if you're permitted, but he will interpret it the wrong way. So just because of that you're not allowed to do that. So in the particular case with the Shvatim with the tribes they were they were doing they were doing nothing wrong. You know, they they were eating ever min ha'ai, they were eating the a piece of a live animal, but they were doing what's called Kabbalah Maasit. What the real mekubalim they they take the Kabbalah and they do all sorts of magic. Not magic, but they they they know the secrets of the universe. They know how to manipulate the code of the world. It's called Kabbalah Maasit. You're not allowed to do that. So Yosef Hatzadik was worried that people would look and say to and say, "Hey, what are they Look what they're doing." The sons of Yaakov, that's what they're doing. So Yosef understood what they're doing. So Kabbalah we already had already had 4,000 years ago. Even says Moshe Rabbenu all the plagues that he did, he used to say all sorts of sukkim from Kabbalah. That's why he was able to do it. You know, Moshe Rabbenu talked lashon kodesh to Pharaoh. Now we learned it now last week. Moshe Rabbenu would talk to Pharaoh in lashon kodesh and Aaron was translating so Moshe and Pharaoh would understand. But it says Moshe Rabbenu would say all sorts of combinations in Kabbalah Maasit and brought the plagues. So they had Kabbalah even then. It was just concealed and hidden. There's reasons for that. The generation was not ready for that. But Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai says in the Zohar, "With this book we're going to go out of the galus." So came and she we had to wait 1,500 years for the Ari Zal to come and then all his disciples started teaching writing books. The Ari Zal didn't write books. It was the Kitvei Ari Zal, the scripts. But came Rabbi Chaim Vitalis his processor his talmid started writing books and then came more talmidim and write more books. But even up until today nobody really learns very few people learn books of Kabbalah. It's our mind doesn't really understand this. All this terminology all these books it's talking about things. What are we what are we What are we going to do with it? Came the Baal Shem Tov started teaching Chassidus. You ask what's the books of Chassidus? It's the even the Baal Shem Tov. That's Keter Shem Tov. Really it's amazing amazing gems. Came his processor the Maggid of Mezritch. Maggid Devarav le Yaakov. It's a book unbelievable gems. Unbelievable gems. A book this thick. This book Keter Shem Tov? Keter Shem Tov is from the Baal Shem Tov. There's all sorts of books from the Baal Shem Tov, but his processor the Maggid of Mezritch, he has a book Maggid Devarav le Yaakov. It's this book like this thick. Unbelievable Chassidus. Came the Alter Rebbe, the Baal HaTanya. Chassidus from here to the the moon. There's so many books of Chassidus that fixes the mochin. Chassidus is general for everybody. You have to learn everything else. You have to learn nigleh, you have to learn gemara, Shulchan Aruch, Mishnayot. You have to learn everything. But the secrets of of the secrets, razin derazin, Chassidus in our generation gives you the tools. Tools how to deal with the world. How to deal with what's going on. I'm going through a lot of emotions. A lot of things are going inside me. How am I dealing with it? How am I dealing with the fact that I'm constantly failing? I don't want to fail. I don't want to lechallel the brit. I don't want to do this. I don't want to lie. I don't want to Why am I failing all the time? Most people they fall to despair. They mamash fall to despair. They fall into yeush. They they they don't know how to get up. They don't have tools. So comes Toras Chassidus gives you tools. Tools how to deal with this world. Isn't anytime somebody davening is unlocking the codes or also? Davening is a completely different thing. Davening first of all three times a day you call home. Hi Abba. Hi Dad. I'm good. Can you send me some money? I don't have money in my account. Can you help me? Can you take me? Can you give me? Can you provide to me? You call your you call your father. It's a time that you call. Simple time. You do you private time you and your and your father. More than that, you know what really tefillah means? What it does? You have back pains? Where do you go? Chiropractor. He adjusts your back. Ah. You go out like a That's davening. You go to a spiritual chiropractor. That's it. Adjust you. You know what holds your entire body? Your back. If your back is out, you can't move. Tefillah is what it corresponds to the vertebrae. It holds your body. It's the only time you connect to Hashem in a way that he can actually give you what you need. I talked about it the other time. We talked about it that you on Rosh Hashanah you get a bracha. Hashem writes a check on Rosh Hashanah. Mi yichyeh u'mi yamut, mi ani, mi asher. Who's going to live, who's going to die, who's going to be poor, who's going to be rich. Everything is written on Rosh Hashanah. And then you have three times a day to start transforming this blessing into this world. Hashem can give you a $10 million check on Rosh Hashanah. If you don't materialize the blessing, it stays there. Doesn't go to waste. You don't do that, you go up to shamayim, they'll give you the checks. But you need to materialize it in this world. How you materialize it? With 18 blessings. Refa'enu Hashem venerafe, barchenu Avinu kulanu ke'echad. You you materialize it with your mouth on a shell maparim s'fateinu. Our mouths are going to be like the bulls on the altar. Once they used to do the the the Ad Bais Hamikdash. You didn't have to pray. Now we don't have Ad Bais Hamikdash. We don't have the sacrifice. We do it with our mouth. Three times a day you bring down this bracha to the world. If not it stays up there. You can't get anything without praying. Praying you're opening a channel that Hashem can give you your sustenance, parnassah, your health. Everything. Your peace of mind. We're asking Hashem. We're praying. Praying is a very powerful thing. Maybe not next time we'll do a shiur about all about praying. If a person doesn't pray three times a day he's going to have a problem. It's almost like calling your boss and telling him, "I don't feel like coming to work this week. Can I still get paid?" He's going to tell you no. I'm writing it off your vacation. Now there's a contradiction between different sages if it's a mitzvah from the Torah if it's not a mitzvah from the Torah. Rambam says it's it's a d'oraita. Avodah shebalev. Avodah shebalev it's tefillah. Work of the the heart. Avodah is tefillah. Mitzvah d'oraita. It's a mitzvah from the Torah. You have to pray. Ahavtem es Hashem bechol levavchem. Pray. A man that doesn't pray three times a day, he's lacking everything that he needs to get. He's not doing a connection. You know, in Hebrew, the word praying is tfilah. Comes from the word tafil. Tafil is something that is uh How would you translate tafil? Secondary? Tafil is something that is a null to something that is more important than of it. Kind of. I don't know how to really translate tafil. But it's the not the main thing. It's the least main thing. You become one with Hashem. You become a null to Hashem. You become tafil to Hashem. You're able to get the bracha. That's why you say in the end of the Shmona Esrei When nafshi kafarta kol tehei, I'm nothing. I'm shh. I'm nothing. Tfilah is a very powerful thing. If you If you look in the beginning of that tfilah, right from the beginning, you say Elokei Avraham, Elokei Yitzchak, Elokei Yaakov. Every one that you say, you say Elokei Avraham, you're trigging I don't know if that's a word to say. Trigging. The power of chesed of Avraham. You're bringing You're trigging it in you. Trig trigging? Trigging. Elokei Avraham, you're trigging the power that the middah of chesed in you. You're opening it. You're revealing it. Elokei Yitzchak, you're bringing in you. You're You're enlivening the power of gevurah. So, you'll have the power to be able to stop your yetzer hara. Tfilah is not a That's not to make your life annoying. Nothing Hashem gave us is to make our life annoying. Every word that comes out of your mouth during the tfilah has power. If you just look at the text, there's a book. It's called Pirush haMilot, the explanation of the words. Learn that, you'll see what it means. What's tfilah? It's not easy. I know it's not easy. It's annoying. Three times a day, go to the shul, same text. It's boring every time. Standing, sitting, standing, sitting. You know? There's a reason why a lot of people say, "Why can't you give me every day a different text? Let's make it interesting." There's a There's a a reason why it's constantly repeating the same thing. Tfilah is a very very powerful thing. You can't sustain in this world without tfilah, without praying. Our forefathers, you see Avraham, Yitzchak, Yaakov, each one Each one, I don't know, how do you say, instigated? He made He created one of the tfilot. How would What word would you use? Excuse me? Instigated. Avraham Avinu instigated the Shacharit. Yitzchak, Mincha. Yaakov, Arvit. He They They prepared it for us. They were able to do it without talking. What we learn from tfilah is we learn it from the from the dream of Yaakov that he had the the ladder. Sulam mutzav artza umagia shamayma, the ladder stands on this ground, but it takes you all the way up to the heavens. This is tfilah. You're building a ladder that connects the supreme world and the lower worlds. The physical world to the spiritual world. You create this ladder. So, it's a It's a fundamental part of our our our day. Have to do the tfilah. So, the thing is a lot of people spec- prefer I women think that they're that they're exempt from tfilah. Women are not exempt. They have to pray at least once a day. You know, in the Ashkenazim, they have to pray twice a day. But a man has to pray three times a day. You have to pray four times a day. Kriat Shema al haMitah, there's no exemption. There's no discount. The only a prayer that is It's not a chovah is benching, same Birkat Hamazon. But it says clearly in in in in Shulchan Aruch, you pray, you learn, and then you eat. But to Shacharit, you have to eat it. You You know, it's it's a mitzvah. You don't have to, but you But a person that says Birkat Hamazon every day, that does it as part of his day, it's a huge mitzvah. I'm not talking right now of the mystical part behind it. Like we talked about it last week that the this power of emunah, the faith. A lot of people, they have a very the power of faith and trust in Hashem is very not so strong. Why? Cuz the emunah, the power of faith is built in your soul from the day you were born. It's built in. You just have to dig in deep to reveal it and pull it out to the surface. And one of the ways of doing it is Birkat Hamazon, saying benching. What Avraham Avinu did with his guests, he made them bench. Has the power to pull out from the depth your power of emunah. So, praying is one of many It's just your way to connect to a God, to Hashem. Praying is very very important. Be'ezrat Hashem, maybe one time we'll do a shiur about praying and its powers, and why we do it, and why you don't want to miss it. But I think for now, or is this is it? That's the time? One? We have time. You Maybe you have time. Be'ezrat Hashem, you're going to say Kriat Shema al haMitah tonight. Amen. Machar baboker, you're praying You're praying Shacharit. Then Mincha, then Arvit. And learn Torah. You got to learn Torah. As much as you can. Any questions? No questions mean you didn't listen. Mhm? You mean standing on the bed? Sitting on the bed? Better not to. Al When it says Al haMitah, doesn't mean Al on, rather samuch, right before you go to bed. Yes. That you have to say. Once you say Shema Malchut, you can't walk, you can't eat, you can't talk, you can't nothing. The thing is that different nosachim have the order different. In many Sefardi nosach, the Mapil is in the beginning. So, if you're saying it right before you go to bed, so sit on the bed, say the entire thing, and then go to bed. But if you want to do some more things before, then don't say it with Shema Malchut. Then before you go to bed, you say it, and you go to bed. Don't don't talk after that. Better not to talk. It's a hefsek. You know how times when you wash your hands for bread, and everybody sits at the table? Mhm. You can't have a hefsek between the the action and the bracha and the actual action. When you say a Mapil, that's it. There's a hefsek if if you talk. If you If you say a Mapil, and you're about to go to sleep, and then you can't fall asleep? No, bathroom is fine. Listen. Uh you don't have to. If it's you If you're only doing number one, don't say Asher Yatzar. Just go to bed. So, cuz you anyway you say it first thing when you wake up in the morning in Birkat haShachar. Same thing in the middle of the night when you wake up, you don't say that. But the thing is that this Yeah. Even if you didn't do anything. The thing is that most The thing is that most people wake up, they go to the bathroom. No. No. No. No. The thing is that if you're saying Birkat haShachar in the shul when you pray Shacharit, and you're First of all, you can't say anything in Torah before you say Birkat haShachar. You can't say anything. That's why in Birkat haShachar, there's Birkat haTorah. You can't wake up in the morning and say Asher Yatzar, and then go to the shul and say Birkat haShachar. You can't. If you want to If you're davening nets, or you go from the shul right right from your home right straight to the shul, so okay. So, say Birkat haShachar. But if you wake up in the morning, and you know it's going to take you another hour before you come to the synagogue, you have to say Birkat haShachar at home. You can't You can't say anything divrei Torah without saying Birkat haShachar. So, If No. The best order is you wake up in the morning, you open your eyes, you say Modeh Ani. First of all. You don't get off the bed. You don't start walking around. You get up, you say Modeh Ani lifanecha melech chai vekayam. Most important. Then you put a bucket with water next to your bed. So, first thing you wake up in the morning, right away you do washing of the hands. In halacha, it says that you can't walk arba amot. But it doesn't necessarily mean I sometimes see people, they wake up in the morning, they go, you know, like They make these huge steps. I had one night time, this guy, he slept over. I see him in the morning going like this. You know? And I was like, "What are you doing?" He's like, "Arba amot. Four steps." I told him, "No. It's the time that will take you four amot. One, two, three, four." That's how fast you have to do the netilat yadayim. You don't just walk four steps. It's how long will take you to four take four steps. That's how fast you have to do the netilat yadayim that you can that the ruach tum'ah starts going crazy. The spirit of impurity. If I remember correctly, I read somewhere that if it's a little bit far away from you, you could take four steps, stop, take another four steps. That's if if there's a lot of ifs, but you don't want to get to that if. Let me tell you the reason why you don't first thing in the morning. When you go to bed, we just said, you put guards around your body. Right? Now, you I think my mom says that sleeping is 1/60 of a death. So, there is a lot of impurity on the body. It's called tumah, a spirit of impurity cuz the body is like kind of dead. Then you come back in the morning, the soul comes back into the roof. Now, the soul in the shamah doesn't go into entire roof. The shamah only comes till the risks until your uh ankles. The nefesh goes into the fingers into the feet. So, the all the spirit of impurity moves away from the shamah from the body cuz the shamah come in, but it doesn't move from your hands cuz the shamah is not here. The shamah comes all the way to your risks. So, right away you do netilat yadaim. Why? Cuz you wake up in the morning, you have spirit of impurity on the hands. All you need to go like this. That's it. It's on your eye. You go a little bit like that, like this, like this. You you're full of tumah. It's not It's It's not funny. People wake up in the morning, straight away they go like that. That's it. A spirit of impurity is on their eyes, a shield on their eyes. So, they don't see things clear. Their eyes get drawn to impurity. It's little things that if you really sanctify yourself, you make a dish of that smell. You bring this holy spirit on you. So, you want to wash your hands right away when you wake up in the morning cuz there's a very strong impurity. The tumah, the power of impurity that's on your hands in the morning is extremely powerful. You say netilat yadaim also? No, no. You just wash it. It's not clean water. It was was standing there the whole night. It's just to to at least give you the the the the time to go to the to wash your hands. Let's say I have the bowl I have the bowl of water there. I wash my hands right away when I wake up and I go to the bathroom, wash them again and say netilat yadaim. Yeah, but no. But, you don't wash it in the toilet. You can't wash the water in You can't do the netilat yadaim in the toilet. The best thing you go to the kitchen or something. You wash First of all, you wash your hands. Leave the bowl next to the bed now. Go to the kitchen. Some houses they have the the wash outside, but you go Make sure you don't wash it on on plates in the in the sink. You wash your hands. Then you go, you throw the water in the toilet. Don't say any yet. You can't say any when your mouth is dirty. So, you brush your teeth. Then you wash your face, you clean yourself up a little bit, you get dressed. Then you go to the kitchen and then you do all the So, all this is like 5 minutes after you woke up, but you can't say any cuz before you wash your face, you you have to You have to wash your mouth too. You brush your teeth, you get ready, then you say the shahar. Now, again, I know people that from they get dressed, they go straight to the shul. They don't do anything. They want to say in the shul, fine. But, till you say you you can't talk anything in Torah. Bring me the for a second. I want to show you something. And that's all the in. If you look at the shahar. It says for how long? Yeah. See? This is in the bathroom with the toilet Uh better not to. If you don't have any other option, then close the bowl. But, it's it's not really the same. Better not to do it in the bathroom. Look, if you stuck you dry your hands and you come out the bathroom and say the the bracha? No, the actual netilah. Not good to do it in the bathroom. For anything, what about shaharit? Cuz you do number two over there, you want to It's not good to do netilat yadaim in the toilet. Look now here in the bathroom. I went now to the bathroom, the sink is outside. That's not good to do netilat yadaim in the bathroom. Bathroom is a very dirty place. You don't want to do a mitzvah in the bathroom. Now, look, if you stuck, you're in the airport. I now fly every day. I don't have a tap outside. So, so I go to the furthest away sink. But, in your house, you go you spend the extra 30 seconds to walk outside. Don't not good to do it in the toilet. Close the the top is like if you don't really don't have an option. Look in the shahar. This is a Sephardi uh siddur. First you say shahar, but right away it says You cannot say any Torah before you say baruch You If you don't say that, you can't say anything. So, you can't say cuz Technically, you can't do anything. You can't say nothing. You can't hear anything. You have to say You have to do This is at least right away. And you have another one here. The thing is that if you go through all of it, you you understand what it means. The reason why you say this one, you have to say something right away first thing in the morning. So, you say you got and all this. But, if you didn't say the Torah right in the morning, you can't say nothing without saying this one. This triggers This allows you to start saying So, you can't wake up in the morning say uh shahar. And then an hour later go to shul and say the Torah. So, once I finish all uh everything I do in the morning, shower, brush my teeth, everything, then I would say the whole thing. Say shahar also, right? If you didn't say that before, you can't say it twice. So, I'm not supposed to say it Exactly. So, then you say the shahar. Look, the ultimate way is to get up in the morning, get dressed, wash brush your teeth, go straight to the mikveh, from the mikveh to the shul, and whether it's after the mikveh or or in the shul say the shahar. But, the normal people, they don't do it right away. I wake up in the morning, I do exactly what I told you. Washing next to the bed, going to the kitchen, washing my hands, going to the bathroom, brush my teeth, wash my face, get dressed, go to the kitchen again and say all the shahar right away. Then I go to the mikveh, go and pray. But, till I get to the to the shul, what if it takes me now 2 hours to get to the shul? Not everybody prays nets. Most people don't pray in the nets. So, the how you start your day is very very important. You start your day on the whole day will be You want to start the day good. And the thing is that the power of impurity that you have on your body at night is a very powerful tumah. It's very very powerful. So, right away you want to wash your hands. Right away. Then right away you want to say Why? To say something right away, bring some into your body. So, that's exactly what I said before in your body is like a corpse on the bed at night. You wake up in the morning, you want right away to bring on the body. And for sure till you wash your hands with clean hands, don't touch anything. Don't touch any parts of your body. It's on your on your hands. And the the people Most people wake up right away, they you know, they go like that. It's It's scratching here, scratching there. You have tumah. You have impurity on your hands. So, when I first became religious and they told me that they that we that they put the bucket next to the bed, I thought crazy. Bucket next to the bed? I heard once from my rabbi that when you put the you know the buckets next to the bed, you know, when you say I just said before we say we put the angels around the bed, the bucket next to the bed is the biggest angel. It's angel standing like this next to the bed like the biggest goon from all of them. Doesn't let anybody come. Just the fact that you have this bucket next to the bed. The fact that you prepared in the morning the power right away to to clean the tumah. Cuz I asked him, should I put these buckets to my kids? So, I do it to my kids for for educating. That my little kids they they're auto pilot already. They put the This is the We have a ceremony when they go to bed. They brush their teeth like every normal kid. They put pajamas, all this. Then they take the bucket to the room. They have their names on it. They have their drawings on it. They say and they say everything. My 3-year-old says shahar. A A lot of people say it's a kid, he doesn't need to do anything. Yeah, you're right, he doesn't. But, if I train him when he's 3 years old to say shahar, when he's going to be older, it's going to be a normal It's going to be part of his day. He's not going to be able to go to sleep without saying shahar. It's going to be in his system. Besides, our kid is holy. Why shouldn't he say shahar? He's a holy shamah. Why shouldn't he bring into the world? You want to again It's not really a mitzvah for him, but in in in the mystical part of it, yeah, a kid has a lot of power. There's a question in if a kid needs to if a a kid says a bracha, if you say amen. Yeah? No, there's a question in A kid now says a bracha, do you say amen? A lot of poskim say no. You don't say amen. It's a kid. It's dumb. But, if I'm not mistaken, I don't remember if it was this the the the current Lubavitcher Rebbe or the previous one. I don't remember which one of these is. No, you have to cross your salmon. His bracha is more powerful than yours. So, No, because our kids his mouth doesn't have lashon hara. His mouth never sins. He he he doesn't have any sins. His bracha is more You we don't see Hashem. We don't even understand We don't understand We do it like robots. Kids are so naive, they're so temimim, they see Hashem. They They They relate with Hashem. Their bracha is more sincere. It's a more sincere bracha. Yeah. So, my little kids, they come with a bucket next to the the bed. So, I first was doing it for chinuch, for teaching them. Yeah. No, don't don't worry about what your parents think. Just don't put it under the bed. That's not good under the bed at night. But with my kids when then when I asked my rabbi, he told me don't only do it for the education. Do it because spiritually you're placing a guard next to the bed. Doesn't touch the kid. The thing is that when you are very particular with all these little things, you bring so much kedusha on you, then you start reducing all the dirt from you. So, it's much easier for you to guard your eyes and not to look at the wrong place. It's much easier for you to relax. Okay, I'm not going to lie now. I'll be more honest. Cuz the water that was sitting next to the bed the entire night, they're also getting some type of a mekabel tumah. Water gets tumah. Yeah, with the bracha. Yeah. And don't be cheap with the water. Pour a lot of water. No, a lot of people they you know, they do it like as if we're under siege. No, pour a lot of water. Wash all the tumah. And the thing is you want to twist your hand a little bit so it will touch your entire hand. I fill up the whole quart. The thing is that a kabbalist explains that why we do it three times. First of all, when you do it three times, you do it on the right hand, the tumah jumps on your left hand. You do it on your left hand, it jumps on the right hand. It jumps, but it after three times it gets canceled. But kabbalah teaches us that if you take 80 ml or cc or whatever you call it, it's enough power to push away the tumah. That's why if you look at the cups that you buy in the the it's exactly the amount of water that makes to cover the hands. But some people are very cheap. They you know, they pour it like you know, like as if we're in like a year of famine. No, pour a lot of water. But the thing is like this, you know, now the other day I'm now traveling here. I'm not in my home. So, I slept somewhere and there were we we shared a room, me and another guy. And we only had one bucket. So, we put it in the middle of the room and we said, "Whoever wakes up first brings to the other." So, the guy woke up before me and he brought me water right away. So, I don't need to go to the bathroom again. It's fresh water. He just went to bring it to me. Yeah. Water they get tumah. It's not good. Like for example, in the olden days they used to they used to There's still a din in Shulchan Aruch to do it. I do it. But fruit fruit fruit gets tumah. Fruit especially. So, this is dinim in Shulchan Aruch in regards to maaser and and and and hekdesh and all this that if it's such water in it it can get tumah. One time they used to never eat wet fruit. There is a din in Shulchan Aruch. I always dry my fruit not to eat it with water cuz mekabel tumah. Water can get tumah. The only way how water washes off tumah is if you wash it. Like you can put your hand under a sink under a tap. Has to be koach gavra, hand that pours the the water. The thing is that I was taught right from the beginning that if you're very particular in all the small things that bring purity on you, then you elevate yourself to a higher level of service of God than than by default you are more holy, more kadosh. And then it's much easier for you to to do all the little things. So, you know, try to try to do it once. That's I practice it. Not to indulge food during the week. Not to eat treats during the week. Not to enjoy things during the the week. It sounds like a little bit fanatic. What I'm not going to eat now and I'm not going to enjoy. Yeah, eat. You don't have to enjoy steaks all day long. I see sometimes people all day long. You know, if you do it kaf here with the very small things, it's easier to do on the big things. So, I constantly do it kaf here on my little thing. I want a third cup of co- cup of coffee. I will literally fight my tava to get now my third cup of coffee. And one might say, "I know coffee. Just take the cup already. It's coffee." No, it's practicing the motion of I have this desire for a cup of coffee. It's not a sin. But I'm practicing the the the the the motion of of not taking it. And I really want it. Yeah, I really want this cup of the third cup of coffee now. No, hold it. I take a cup from one of the kiosks. You know what I do in the airports? I'm now a professional cuz the last 3 weeks you know I'm here on tour. Every almost every day I fly somewhere. So, I go to one of the stores. I get a ask for a cup. You got to be careful. Some stores if you take a cup, you might be failing in gezel. It's not your cup. You have to come and tell, "Can I take a cup?" I not not too long ago went to one of the stores. I said, "Can I take a cup?" He's like, "Buy something." Like, "Okay, how much is a cup? A quarter? I'll give you a quarter." He's like, "No, you have to buy something." So, I bought a bottle of water. You don't want to be failing on gezel of stealing because you didn't get permission. But I take a cup. I go to the bathroom. Now in the airports they have these fountains to drink water. It's outside. So, I stand. I fill up the fountain and I So, I I did the mitzvah. And you know what? This is where Hashem is looking at you and seeing, "Oh, look how much he's going the extra mile to do the mitzvah the right way." You know? So, yeah, it's not the most convenient. And people looking at me like I'm like But anyways, I look like weird. So, I don't care. I'll do another weird thing. So, I pour the from the fountain a whole cup. I wash another one, another one. I don't care. I I go with food with me. So, you know, before I go on the plane, I don't want to do it on the plane cuz in the plane I can't do netilat yadayim to eat my bread. Cuz the only tap is in the toilet. Here now you have a problem in the plane if you're already stuck. Then what I do is you know, first of all, what I do, but again, this is being fanatic. So, I don't drink before I go on the plane so I don't have to go to the bathroom on the plane. So, I'm not going to have a problem with doing netilat yadayim and then I can learn continue learning on the plane. Now if I have a long flight, 12-hour flight to Israel, then you can't be 100% perfect. You can be a little bit of chutzpah and go to the stewardess and tell them I can't wash my hands in the toilet. Can I wash it in the sink here? But look, sometimes the en breira. Sometimes You know what? I some You know what? I don't think I have it on my phone. Somebody emailed me a picture of this chassid who's sleeping on the plane like this. And he had the tray down and he had the bowl of the netilat yadayim on the plate. So, you know what? He he if you if you have the place, yeah, take the bowl. Do the hands and then dump it in the toilet. I have this picture. Somebody emailed it to me. You know, I couldn't stop laughing. I might even have it. Let me have a look at my phone. But you know, there's Hashem always wants to see You know, I'll give you another example. You know, there's a din in Shulchan Aruch that if you if you like let's say, of course, this is in the time of Shulchan Aruch when they used to have a uh how do you call it? How do you call it that they used to like when somebody would travel from city to city, then the whole group of people would leave. I'm talking about 2,000 years ago when they used to go on camels. It's called shayara. Everybody leaves at one shot. Uh No, no, no. There's a word for that. I I I remember reading it. But in the olden days if I would be in town A and I had to go to town B and the entire uh trail they're all going. And if I will not go with They would They would do that because there were robbers on the roads. And if I would ride by myself on my donkey, I would get robbed like that if not killed. So, they used to go in in a shayara like a trail like Yeah, like a whole pack. Why? They would It would be much harder for a robber to rob 100 people or to They would kind of guard it. And there's also, you know, they help each other. They support They go in a trail. So, there's a din in Shulchan Aruch that if I'm not going to make it, if I can't daven quick enough and I'm going to miss the shayara, then I'm allowed to daven shmone esrei on the camel on the donkey or on the on the wagon sitting. So, technically one might say, "I'm on the plane now. Um it's time to to pray. Sometimes, you know what happens sometimes? You go transatlantic, within 3 minutes, it's time for for Mincha, for Maariv. You know, you just crossed One time I flew to Australia, there's a place that you cross, you know, you're going in light, you're going through the light It's in a second it's dark. So, you know, when you're going from North America to Israel, it's very tricky with the time how you daven. So, you know, you can be in the air and and you it's time I happened to me where now in my travels, I was I I I knew that if I'm waiting for the plane to land, I'm going to miss the time of of shkiah. I have to pray Mincha. Technically, technically, according to the din, I can sit and say Shmoneh Esrei sitting down, cuz I'm I'm an oones. I have I don't have to do it. And if I stand up, it's a small plane. You know what happens if I stand up? I'm like that. I can't What do I do? Do I block the aisle now? For minutes? What do you do? Sit. No, I said to myself, according to the din, you can sit down, but if you go out of your way to find the place where you stand for those 3 minutes, you not only that you did the mitzvah of praying, you went so much out of your way, how much more so is the power of your mitzvah? You know? though, if you're standing, you might bother somebody before So, that's for sure. So, you have to be very smart. So, I went to the stewardess. I told him, I I have to pray. Can I stand here in your spot for three It takes me 3 minutes to pray. And you mind if I stand here for 3 minutes? You know, you served already the food. You know, in the back of the plane, they have the place where the stewardesses, they're all sitting there. You know? So, imagine how much more power you have to the mitzvah when you really will go out of your way. You don't care about now what people are going to think of you. You know how many times I daven in the in the in the in the airport, and everybody's like like, what is this guy doing? So, you daven and you do kiddush Hashem. The Arabs, they put a rug in the middle of the world. Yeah, Arabs in the middle of nowhere, they pray they pray. Yeah. Yeah. They they do it on purpose. This is shiflooni anash. Look at me, I'm I I don't care about what you think. Why should I do that? Why shouldn't I pray? So, the thing is that you have to use a lot of your common sense when it comes to serving Hashem, but you also have to sometimes lead a mitzvah. You have to go out of your way to get something done. And our natural inclination, our our nature, is so Like you said, you I I'll wash it in the toilet. I'll close the top. It's not the right way. If you don't have other option, fine, close the top. You know, it be even be better, maybe put a towel over it. But uh if you don't have an option, but if you do have the option, why why should I not go out of my way? That's a lot of times where Hashem is looking at you. Are you going to go the extra step to do it the right way? Are you going to Let me just do it. Whatever. Just let me just do it. So, you know, Hashem, you know, it is a parsha in the Torah it says Eikev. It's parshat Eikev. Eikev is a heel. Eikev asher tishme'u el mitzvotai asher anochi metzaveh etchem. So, Rashi says Eikev hamitzvot she'adam dash ba'akevav. The mitzvot that a man like pushes it with his feet, like, eh, eh. The mitzvot of I call them the eh mitzvah. Eh. So, that's what's important. Rashi says not davka these are the important ones. Chazal says in maseches in the Mishnah maseches Avot, "Yehei aziz kemitzvah kalah kemitzvah chamurah." Be very particular with the with the mitzvah kalah, a very simple mitzvah, kemitzvah chamurah, one that is severe. Ken chayav adam l'varech al harah k'shem she'hu mevarech al hatov. You don't know what is it the reward or the power or the severity of the simple one and the extreme one. We don't know. Some people say, "Ah, this is nonsense. This is a little thing. Ah, Hashem doesn't really care. He cares about Shabbat, tefillin, you know, but this, eh." So, Hashem sometimes is looking how you're treating the little things. Especially the things that one might say, "Ah, it's not so important. It's But especially the things that are dear to Hashem. One thing that drives me insane, you know, there's a din in Shulchan Aruch, you're not allowed to drag the tzitzit on the floor. It says bizayon lamitzvah, a disgrace to the mitzvah. Some shuls you go to, people sweep the floor with their tzitzit. It's black. What about when you fold it? When you're folding it, the tzitzit sometimes So, so don't make it fall on the floor. Right. There's a difference if 1 second it fell and you picked it up, that's But some people, they just literally sweep the floor with their tzitzit. You sit down, I fold my tzitzit, I hold it, I cover myself, I don't let my tzitzit fall down. So, it's a it's a mitzvah. It's a holy garment. Why you sweeping the floor with it? Then you see sometimes people with their tefillin, you're not allowed to let tefillin to touch the floor, the the string, the retzuah. Straps. Straps. Sometimes you see people like It's like flying everywhere. What are you doing? It's tefillin. It's holy. The Ben Ish Chai says that when you throw the strap on the floor, it's like you slap Hashem in his face. That's how bad it is. And you see people like Sometimes I see people coming to the synagogue with a bag that, you know, they throw it on the table. What are you doing? It's tefillin. Hashem looks at these things, how you're treating his gems. How you're treating things. So, you know, Hashem tests you with all sorts of things. He wants to see how you're treating the the little things that has to do with kedusha. There's a din in Shulchan Aruch, you can't put the siddur or the book like this on its face. You can put book over a book over a book whatever order you want. You can't put a Chumash and a siddur over the Chumash. Chumash is more in the hierarchy, it's much more important or more uh I don't know how to say pri- How do you say? Priority. Priority, let's say. You can't put a siddur over a Chumash. Can't put a book of Tanach of Nach like Nevi'im u'Ketuvim over the Chumash. There's order. And some people are like, yeah, so it's all like one big mess. We're totally sidetracking, but the bottom line is that Hashem is very particular with with the with the little things that you do, and he's looking at the little things, and the little things are also important. A lot of people, they don't do the little things cuz they're like, "Okay, I'm not so particular with the big things." So, why shouldn't they do the little the little things? The thing is that we are a holy nation, and everything that you do that brings on you more kedusha, more holiness, then you elevate yourself. And the more you bring on yourself tumah, impurity, then you lower yourself. That's why when you work on the little things, you by default make yourself more holy, more you're more receptive to kedusha, and you become a more of a vessel for kedusha. Kabbalah explains that how you behave, how you conduct yourself, excuse me, you become the you become the chariot, merkavah. The same way that the jockey goes on the horse and it rides on the horse, and if the jockey goes like this, then the horse will go like that. Or the guy who drives the wagon, so you want to be the chariot for something holy to ride on you. That's the merkavah, that the chariot, the jockey that rides on you is holy. If you make yourself the chariot, the vessel that's for impurity to ride on you by your behavior and your thoughts and your acts, then that's what's going to ride on you. But you want, you know, to be a merkavah likdusha. That's what the the fathers, the forefathers, they were called the chariot, merkavah. They were totally annulled to Hashem. So, they bring kedusha to ride on them. So, you want to constantly concentrate that you're making yourself a chariot to kedusha. Chavrei, have a good night. Zei a kol tuv. Wish you great success. B'ezrat Hashem, you take out from this door a lot of good little things to incorporate in your life. Try to take the time in the day to learn a lot of Torah. Don't don't let the yetzer hara come to you with excuses. Learn a lot of Torah. That's really the the the the secret of fighting everything. Somebody who learns Torah a lot, he he he brings on himself a lot of kedusha. No excuses. There's always you can always find time to learn more Torah. B'ezrat Hashem, there's no time. Mashiach is coming any day. Chas v'shalom, should not be more than a week or two. Yeah? You don't want to be caught with your pants down. Literally. And and metaphorically. It's not going to be fun when, you know, Besides that every one of us, every little act that we do, brings the geulah, the redemption, faster. We we have a very big piece in the geulah. We Our actions count. Our our thoughts, our talk, our everything. You want to be part of the process. You know, when Mashiach comes, each and every one of us will have a meeting with the king. You know what it means to go into the king? To the room? King is going to tell you, "What's your name? Yossi. Where are you from? Where did you go park? What do you do for a living? Nothing. Then he's going to tell you with the million-dollar question, "What did you do to make me come faster?" What are you going to tell him? If you're not going to have what to tell him, you're going to be in It's going to be a problem. What are you going to tell him? "Let me see. I was on Facebook 2 hours a day. Then you want to tell him, 'Oh, I woke up in the morning, even though it was cold, I went to pray, and I learned, and I did a lot of acts of kindness, and then I went to mincha, even though it was annoying, and then I bent even more it was long, and I didn't even want to eat the zlot, but I bent.' So, at least you're going to you're going to get a lot of recognition. If we would know what we're missing by the fact that we're in exile, we will all day long run after mitzvot. So, bezrat Hashem, should have the koach to run after mitzvot all day long and with our power bring Mashiach. Should happen very speedy in our times. Should all be zocheh to see the geulah emitis bashleimah right now. And you can come with me to Eretz Yisrael.