Lech Lecha : Never Despair! How To Overcome Despondency

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on safer voracious if anybody would like to be a patron of the safer please uh contact us thank you so much okay so Passions me look in the chat area where you'll find a direct link for ordering the safer yeah thank you very much thank you okay so um good morning everyone this is a subject that always gives me physic personally and I hope this will uh give us encouragement and inspiration uh the gemaran sukkah tells us a story foreign there was an old woman who came before of nachman amral lay raise Calusa amrali she said to him so an old woman comes before of nachman and she had a complaint she says rage galusa the excellark was a very powerful figure out all the rabbis of the House of the axelarch the sukha kazula Havasu they're all sitting in us in a stolen sukha what's the problem so they're sitting in a stone sukkah she cried out and nobody paid attention to her voice so what's the problem that it's a stolen sucker so she said it's my sukkah the problem is they stole it from me I want my Suka back giving my sugar back but I don't have any recourse to take back my sukkah from the rich galusa and all the rabbis of the race galusa they're too powerful for me I'm a poor woman why can somebody help me did not pay attention to her umrally she said to him I can't believe you ravnakman why are you ignoring me you're just dismissing me don't you know who I am it's a woman that her father had talas my father had 318 slaves she's crying before you're not paying attention to her don't you know who I am my father had 318 slaves and how did with nothing respond to um said to them she's a kletch ER you don't have to give back the sukkah she only gets the value of the wood so the question here is what in the world is this seeming nonsense that this woman is spewing that do you know who I am my father had 318 slaves what relevance is it how many slaves her father had what she's reading off her father's bank account if she wants to uh letter of nachman know how rich and Powerful her father was so she should just say you know my father's very wealthy my father is very powerful my father is a uh you know he's a mafioso but what is this nonsense my father had 318 slaves you know what relevance is the number of slaves that ravnakman that This Woman's father had and what is the significance of 318 so we go now to a Gamora and Sanhedrin the Martin says when God will judge his people God will see that all hand has been gone away and there is no recourse and everything is forsaken so this this possuk is a description of when mashiach will come and the gamara brings an opinion you know and Michelle will come when people give Hope from Redemption the office Israel when there seems to be no help when there seems to be no assistance when the uh powers that be are not sympathetic to the Jewish cause when we have no uh outside assistance that's when Michelle will come when everybody has given up hope mashiach will only come when everyone has given up hope now why is that we know we express our belief in the coming of mashiach we have a a principle of faith and yet will only come when everyone gives up hope no there's an interesting account in there was a lot of Messianic fervor especially we had access to McCormick's hakadoshim that we had we hadn't had in 2000 years made a very bold statement he said he he is assured mashiach is not coming so they asked obiakov you know robyakov maybe you're not a supporter of Zionism but how do you know mashiach for sure is not coming maybe we don't know for sure mashiach is coming but how do you know for sure he's not coming so rebiakov pointed to this gemara this gemara says Michelle will come when everybody gives up hope but when everybody thinks he is coming that's the Telltale sign that he's not coming so if there's Messianic fervor then you know for sure that's not the uh the opportune time but the question is why is this why is this the case why will mashiach only come when everybody gives up hope when it seems when all hope seems lost foreign so let's come back to the 318 slaves maybe many of you have already picked up on some of the clues because in this week's Parish Empire we do encounter someone who had 318 attendants when in the war between the Four Kings and the five Kings so the Four Kings defeated the five Kings and they captured light is on [Laughter] avram heard that his brother was captured and he armed his uh attendance those who were born in his house 318 men and they pursued him until then who exactly are these 318 attendants so right off the bat what this woman was clearly saying Rabbi is do you know who I am my father had 318 slaves what she was saying is I'm not an ordinary person I am a descendant of Abraham who had 318 slaves this was her way of saying don't mess with me I have 318 servants but the question is why is she referring to avraham as the one who had 318 servants would anybody say about avraham oh you know who avraham is there are many accolades we could shower upon avraham we could say he's we could say he's the greatest but I don't think in any Source where it talks about the greatness of avraham the description given is that he has 318 slaves of what relevance is it that he has 318 slaves so Rashi says that in fact avraham did not have 318 slaves in fact he didn't have any slaves at all he only had one slave and that slave is elieza the posic says it was only Eliezer the whominian gamachu shumai the numerical value elieza is 318. so that's all it means to say that avram heard that his brother was captured and he armed his men those who were born in his house not 318 but rather he armed Eliezer so according to this why was the woman saying do you know who I am my father had 318 slaves in fact avraham did not have 318 slaves in fact asks that how could Ghazal darshan that avraham only had elieza and not 318 well intimidated if the possuk meant to say that avraham armed Eliezer then it should sayorak s elieza if it clearly the public is not saying that it's uh that he armed Elia is there clearly the plastic is saying that he armed 318 slaves because if it was referring to Eleazar it could have said it straight and saved a lot of real estate I mean the word Eliezer is a lot shorter than she might notice why would the pasok hide the identity of Eliezer so there's a very beautiful here he says foreign there is no question avraham must have had 318 slaves otherwise the Posse would not have said it so the pasok is saying that Abraham avinu armored and readied 318 slaves and what happened was after avraham readied them prepared them and armored them he gave them the muscle that is described in the Torah about how the general has to uh you know rile up his soldiers well according to the Torah before a Jewish soldiers go to battle the general has to weed out any people who might have certain faults so first he says is there anybody who got married and didn't consummate it so ten percent of the soldiers go home anyone who bought a new house and didn't live in it another 10 Gohan and then the public says that the general says to his soldiers is there anyone here who's scared of battle so simply it means is anyone who doesn't who's not courageous but the gemara says it means is there anybody who has committed a sin and if you commit a sin you're no longer worthy to defend the Jewish people because you're endangering yourself you don't have the requisite now what Avera are we discussing over here that if somebody commits it they're not eligible to be in the uh Israeli Army in the Jewish Army so it's like it's between the Bible and the xiaomi the babli says if somebody speaks between Phil and sheliada and philan that is a serious crime if you have that crime in your repertoire your life is in danger and if anybody speaks out between phones says the babli they should go home they cannot fight in a war on behalf of Israel however the usami says no that's not what it's referring to it's referring to somebody who speaks during davening says the you shami does it refer to someone who speaks no obviously not that person is like a murderer he can't do anything he cannot serve in the Army for sure what about somebody who talks by kaddish no absolutely not that person is like a murderer what about somebody who speaks during no no we're not talking about it outright flagrant violators of halacha you know what we're talking about we're talking about who's someone who speaks and literally the most lenient part of the Avenue what's the most lenient part talking between the end of your stabach and the beginning of well what do you mean that's actually the one interval that you're allowed to speak for Advair mitzvah for instance let's say you have nine people in the show and you want to make a phone call to get a tenth during the zimra you cannot during you cannot during you cannot the only time you could say a word is between that's why in some shoes they say then because that's the only time you could be map sick during the davening so if somebody spoke out then not for adver Mitzvah it is such a serious crime that they're no longer eligible to serve on behalf of the Jewish people so you understand that the halachik criteria for serving in the Jewish Army is uh slightly different than the criteria of the Israeli government today but that's an interesting subject in and of itself so I said that's the opinion of the Babbling but the opinion of the US xiaomi is if you speak between yoitza and um foreign people run away anyone here said a joke during davening so the other 80 percent of the people ran away they're only left with one guy who is uh has a clean slate and that is elieza so the truth is uh avraham started out with 318 uh soldiers but then he it whittled down to three to only elieza but what exactly is this woman getting at that do you know who you're speaking with how Dr nobody takes up my cause and helps me get back my stolen sukkah but what do you mean I come from elieza my actually I come excuse me from avraham you know who avraham is he is a man who had 318 slaves meaning he had one slave Eliezer that's random what is why is she invoking the fact that avraham avino had a slave elieza what does that have to do with anything now by the way just a side note the gemara says that she said um they're sitting in a stolen sukkah is a sukkah which is stolen a kosher sukkah so the gamaradarshins that it has to belong to you stolen Suka you cannot be right to the midst of it is asks why do I need to draw but we know it's a mitzvaha and if it's darshan you can't be right to the midst of Suka anyway because it's a mitziano want to answer that is only absolutely and I need the dress to teach me that you're not even your samidarisa there's a famous who wants to say that even if you say mitza I believe that way only says that you don't fulfill the midst of sitting in the sukkah but the sukkah itself would be kosher and that maybe someone else could sit in it and says of the Mitzvah is also disqualified as well but be it as the May back to the ranch why is this woman invoking the fact that avrah mavino had 318 slaves we encounter another interesting thing ravino is running after the Four Kings to try to rescue light God divided the night of him and his servants Vaya came and he smote them but you're the fame and he pursued them until the public literally means that the rebanishum divided the night that God divided the night why does it say that God divided the night what is the significance that God divided what does it mean that he divided the night that avram divided the night it should say he split up his people against the Kings during the night not fight that almost sounds like divided the night sarashi says foreign he continued to run after them but Rashi brings um he divided the the Knight was divided during the first half of the night a miracle happened during the second half of the night nishmar it was preserved and it was saved Israel she's saying a very interesting nakuda over here that that night that avrah mavina Rano ran uh chased after the Four Kings to rescue light that night was divided into two in the first half of the night avraham saved light the second half of the night was saved for a different miracle and that is to redeem the Jewish people from Egypt I always wondered what you know God was going uh bargain hunting over here Devon sham was looking for a good deal and he said you know if I'm going to bring Miracles I might as well do two for one so I'll have avraham save Lloyd in the first half and I'll take the juice Adam and Sam the second half this way you know I'll save uh it's half price instead of instead of taking the Jews out of Egypt on a totally separate night well buy one get one free I'll take the Jews out of Egypt on a night anyway that's designated for miracles why did God have to do this what's what's the purpose of it why did he need to do this why why couldn't I should make a miracle for Kalisa to take the matter and try him any other night there is a challenge in life and a hurdle in life that is perhaps the greatest weapon of the isahara and the most powerful Arsenal that the itzara has and it is this tool that is the most effective way that the Atara has to prevent us from accomplishing an avoida sashem it is the most effective tool that Sahara has in dampening our resolve to serve Hashem to learn Tyra to act properly and this is a method that is described in parasha shifting where the past success when you go out to war against your enemy and you see suic do not be afraid foreign who took you out of Egypt so the simple shot here is you can go to war against your enemy you're going to see that they're very well equipped and very well armed and you're going to become overwhelmed because they're they're sta they're uh infantry and their Cavalry is much greater than uh what you have don't be afraid because you've been outnumbered before God took you out of Egypt and saved you from powering his cohorts however the archaima cutter says that the war that is being described in the Parish of them not only refers to a physical battle but refers to the war against the Sahara very often the it'sahara comes to a person and he says you okay you heard uh some words of inspiration you want to become a Thomas you want to learn more you you wasted 70 percent of your life already you already wasted your youth you already had many many years you could have accomplished you're gonna start now yeah no that's for maybe younger people who uh they still have a shot they could still make something of themselves you're gonna dive in with cabana you already spent half your life saying word afterwards with no cover at all you're gonna serve Hashem and do miss us properly after what you did last year or after what you did when you were younger or after what you looked at yesterday or after what you were watching how could you accomplish anything in rochnius and then the eight Sahara paints a very Bleak picture he plants a very terrible picture he shows you all the disgusting angels that you created through your many many sins monsters despicable spiritual entities that you created every time you wasted time every time you said Fila improperly every time you hurt someone's feelings every time you looked at something indecent the guitar is showing you disgusting monsters of of angels of Destruction and the yitzahara says when you go out to war Allah against your enemy your enemies he ate Sahara the guitar is going to show you horses Cavalry a whole infantry a whole Army of terrible angels that you created amrav a green multitude and you know who created it says you created it you brought it upon yourself you're a Despicable Russia says you're dirty you're sullied God is not interested in you you don't have any hope in us that is the central argument of the itzahara you're not going to be great in spirituality because you're so dirtied and you have such a retinue of Despicable angels that you've created and amassed in your lifetime you don't have a shot but you know what the public says don't be afraid of the eight Sahara God is with you foreign he took you out of Egypt when you were in Egypt you would think you were Grace at Sadiq you think you were a big ovida like him you are on the 49th level of Tama you were naked and bear of any midsos at all you are mem tesharitama you were steeped in avoidazara and yet God in a very short amount of time raised you up elevated you elevated you elevated you until you're at the Pinnacle of the world where you were walking through the split yams of pointing at the rebound or something and 49 days later you stood at Sinai and God elevated you to mamlakas and in a short time you went from being a mem tesharituma to the point where you would actually live forever like other Marisa if not there is a four-letter word now I don't like to say a four-letter words I'm a rabbi you know it's not not it's not proper but uh there's a very dirty word and this is the most dangerous word in all of Judaism and that four-letter word is yesh hopelessness there's a safer by rabbiakov of Greenwald who is a student of the stipler and the Manchester roshishiva he was nifter somewhat recently I believe he lived in Muncie and he wrote uh two volumes and it's a book about probably the most relevant issue for Jewish people today from people today and that is we live in a generation where the emotional constitution of people is weaker than it ever was where people's nerves as they say nervous system and mental state is so fragile and so tenuous where literally um so many people suffer from challenges emotional challenges anxiety anxieties despondencies OCD disorders personality disorders it's because the emotional makeup of man today is more fragile and tenuous and um really fragile than it ever was and of all of the various emotional distresses that people suffer despondency and hopelessness is the chief among them there is no feeling in the human Persona which is more debilitating and more crushing and more painful and more challenging and a greater hurdle and squelches a person's ability drive and literally sucks the life out of a person excuse the expression but there is nothing that sucks the life out of a person more than yes once the person feels hopelessness whether hopelessness in health in family situation in physical situation emotional situation uh Yosh hopelessness with relationships with a spouse with children with parents with Brothers with sisters a person literally is de-energized and they cannot function and there is no more depressing and demoralizing uh feeling that uh then then yes and I'll tell you the truth um I've given this year before and I don't know it could be this is the most frequent share I give and I think it's because it's one of the most important that we need to hear and remind ourselves all the time um spiritually many people are miyush many people think okay I'm addicted to certain averos and I can never pull out especially young people like the audience we have for this year over here um especially very young people teenagers young adults especially with technology today where they become addicted to certain tivos and certain indecent uh Pursuits and they think God hates them they'll never be able to stop what they're doing they'll never pull out they'll never free themselves and once a person is then the person says why should I bother davening why should I bother going to minion why should I bother learning why should I bother anything my life is hopeless and this is literally the main arsenal of the yet Sahara because more than the eight Sahara wants to make a sin he wants to kill us this is a very important principle right so what petzenberg gives that don't think the it's a heart just wants to make a person sin he literally wants to kill a person he wants to make a person depressed sad despondent and by doing so he will he will debilitate a person and therefore the most debilitating phenomenon and human feeling is there a significant fact that the commodity one second don't spoil the I didn't I I just you know I look at gomatries okay so the gemara tells us that there was a very difficult situation and that was a situation of so one day gets a knock on the door and the knock on the door is by none other than he says I have bad news and it has worse news the bad news is you're a dead man the worst news is uh his soyuz says with bad news like that I'm not interested in the worst news I didn't ask you whether you're interested or not the bad news is you're dead the worstness is you lost your share in the world to come says I'm a pretty good guy what did I do wrong you know um revolutionized Torah study in Claudia Israel he from Don until beersheva there was not a child who was not Bucky and tumavatara and the way he did it was he put a sword at the entrance of every base I met her he said whoever doesn't learn Tyra will be will be severed will be pierced By The Sword by the way to all you Rob on them out there this is a very effective way to get people to learn you know but um all kidding aside the native asks in his half dama learning tire is very important but how could he literally threaten people with their lives basically he said come to sheer I'm going to chop your head off you know learning towards very important but it's not yaharak the Al yavar and then it's it basically says needed to lead Claudius on battle and Claudia thrall's wars were dependent on the level of Torah studying cloudy strong and therefore part of Milgram was and he was enabled the same way the king could force people to go to war he could literally force people to learn Torah said should be protected okay bottom line is says what did I do wrong yeshai said you're a good guy you're a great guy you make people learn but you don't want to get married had a very good reason I didn't want to make I didn't want to get married because I saw Baruch I'm going to have uh Wicked children so famously ishaiah said what are you meddling in the Affairs of God you do what you have to do and God will do what he wants to do says okay you big talker if I should get married I'll marry your daughter so you know between my eyes closed and yours because good things will happen so you Shia gives him his daughter and huskyo gets married but you Shia says look you're still a dead man the zigzera there's nothing we could do over here you're a dead man he says get lost he says cease your prophecy and leave I have a tradition for my grandfather even when there is a sharp sword that is placed on somebody's neck never refrain from Mercy it doesn't matter how desperate the situation is it doesn't matter if the navi says you're a dead man it doesn't matter if there's a sword against your neck I have a tradition for my grandfather that even when the sword is on the neck never refrain from Mercy so the gemara says turned to the wall and he prayed and sure enough he was able to lengthen his life mean that have a tradition for my grandfather even when the sword is against my neck don't refrain from Mercy who was his grandfather presumably he means many times in David's life he was cornered he was in a desperate situation and the almighty saved him so his skill learned from David that no matter how desperate the situation seems never refrain from hoping and yearning for God's mercy like the public says however we want to present today the approach of represent of Lublin I believed he lives from 1823 to 1900 and if there's any peace that captures the essence of the message if there's any peace which is most representative of the teachings of I believe it's this we know that the name eliazar was not only the name of the servant of avraham but was also the name of the son of Maisha bino and why was he called Eliezer the posix says there as we the god of my father was at my health and he saved me from Paris sword the meaning of elieza is to be saved even in a time of desperate situation writes a Jew can never give up hope from any matter whether it's a physical illness or situation because I'll say even when the sword is on the neck don't refrain from God's mercy whether in a spiritual situation even if someone is immersed in a certain sin even if it's a sin the Zaire says there are certain sins you can't do chuva for there for example desire says you cannot do chuva for even that sin there's still hope you could do chuva for the egg lay Tau writes in his hakdam if somebody learns torabi eon you could do chuva even if someone sees that he's habitual in a certain sin even Sony sees these lawyer in a certain area so a relationship is not going their way whether it's marriage whether it's whether it's a Jew can never ever give up hope the definition of a yid is there's no such thing as yish where do we see this we see this in this week's passion God created something called the Jewish people you ever hear of those people the Jewish people Claudia Israel where do we come from Abraham what is the likelihood that the Jewish people could come from avraham avina amravina was pretty old by the way and he had no children he's already 99 years old I bet you don't know anyone who's 99 who had children not only that avraham was impotent he was he wasn't just old he did not have the physical ability how about Sarah imano was not in akara yeah she was an akara the person she was worse than on a car like she was an islandist she had no uterus when avraham and Sarah came to boine Islam in a time they told them sorry there's nothing we could do for you there's no procedure there's no there's no nothing you're not capable of having a child question why would God bring claudiusra from avraham and Sarah God doesn't make miracles for nothing he should have had avraham was 23 and a half he just came out of the freezer Sarah yemenu just came back from BJJ she's uh 18 and a half and they had children and this way there there doesn't have to be any Miracles over here because God doesn't like to change nature why would God bring about Khali Israel in this super miraculous way and the answer is God created the fabric of claudiusra that we exist above and beyond yush that just when you think all hope is lost there is hope God wanted to be boina this Uma after Yosh legamri where there is no one in the whole world who would believe that there could be a Jewish people to to create that the foundation of the Jewish people is we are built above and beyond use likewise the future salvation of the Jewish people the government says will not come until we are completely give up hope from Redemption that's why the navi says that's consoling the Jewish people that there will be a Binion one day there will be a rebuilding of Israeli one day deposit says why what the what does avraham and Sarah have to do with Binion if you think that the state of the Jewish people is hopeless if you think mashiach can never come there can never be Redemption God says just when you think all hope is lost look to avraham and Sarah their matsubs seem to be much more hopeless and if God was able to bring all of Claudius from avraham and Sarah God could redeem us as well Uma he understood that the fabric and the the makeup of the Jewish people is above and beyond Yosh avram saw it from his own life and therefore when light is captured was there ever a more desperate situation than when light was captured light was captured by the Four Kings the Four Kings beat the five Kings abramovino is going to somehow rescue light from the Four Kings it's impossible it's desperate it's not within the realm of possibility and yet avraham says let's go let's get him that you know even the king of sudim from the five Kings he told avraham fine you take uh you take the money you take the rakush he was from it realized that this was an impossible situation and it's a desperate situation and it would have been a regular person you know what they would have done you know what word they would have said a very dirty word a four-letter word they would have said yes they would have given up hope 317. however mavino realized that if you have the replenish some on your side that if God is with you that if you're Mammon they're like [Applause] 318 now the way reptilica says it is Eliezer is 318 and Yosh is 318 imha Kyle but I once heard from Shore maybe a little bit differently Yoshi's gamachua 317 Eliezer is 3 18 because Eliezer could be Mighty from Yosh how does a person rise above despondency how does a person rise above hopelessness helplessness how does a person rise above what seems to be a debilitating impossible situation physical spiritual emotional relationship marriage how do you rise above it there's one way yesh is 3 17 Elias there is 318 if a person feels with every fabric of their being what was a more desperate situation than the hat in the Palace of paroi where para swings that sword at the neck of my shrabenu but what happened his neck turned to stone and God saved him from The Sword of paroi avram realized that if it's like Avi be ezri then Yosh is not a factor then you could rise above yeast you could Elevate yourself above Yosh says an incredible shot in the gamaran sukkah the woman comes to the race galusa and she says so what she says what how are they kind of my soccer okay it's a stolen sukkah yeah but now it's in their Risha so there's shinoy rashes and you gave up hope from ever getting it back so Yosh and shinoy is a Kenyan so since you gave up hope from that sukkah you're never ever ever going to get it back they own it why do I have to give it back to you and the woman turns to rev nachman and she said seriously you think I gave up hope do you know who I am do you know who my father was my father was avraham you know whatever avram had 318 slaves meaning avraham believed that Muna shlema in the power of elieza and the power that if God is with you you could rise above any situation even against the Four Kings and avraham did not give up hope even in a hopeless situation says the woman I'm from Abraham if you come from Abraham there's no such thing as heush I was never give me back my sukkah I'm from avraham 3 18. I could rise above yeosh Eliezer years just 317 eliezer's 3 18. in a way this is the most fundamental tenet of Judaism I remember my grandfather was interviewed after the war and the interviewer said Rabbi you witnessed witnessed the massacre of European jewry you saw the murder of your brothers and sisters you saw the skulls the corpses the blood flowing was there any ever a Time that you lost faith in your God was there ever a time you gave up hope from the Prophecies of your Torah and my grandfather responded did I ever give up hope sure I gave up hope I lost faith in mankind the German people who the night before they were in their Opera Houses or listening to Symphony and the next day they shed all human conscience conscience so I lost faith to mankind the American people Roosevelt bombed around Auschwitz he could have bombed the death camps he put his head in the sand he made believe he didn't know what was happening so I lost faith in mankind but I never ever lost faith in my God I never ever lost faith in the promises of the Torah a Jew never loses faith I'll tell you I remember about five years ago now what am I saying somewhere between eight and ten years ago I got an email from uh an older single girl um and it was parsha's and we were saying over about naftali the word naftali that Leia gave naphtali is no she contorted into Fila she prayed and she prayed and she prayed and she prayed and she prayed until finally God gave her a child and the Lima from here is when it comes to spirituality or anything in life never give up hope you should pray you should pray you should pray you should pray and the the this older single girl wanted to know well what if you're in a situation where it's you know it's sort of uh it's not really possible anymore so to pray is just painful and uh to keep on praying is just putting yourself in a situation where uh you're bound to you're put you're setting yourself up for disappointment okay that was the Shyla and when I answered what I answered and um a few months ago I think maybe a month ago my wife showed me in one of the Jewish magazines that this person wrote an article about their new baby I said ribena the almakula I remember the the message that I got about eight nine years ago but there is no situation in life which is uh Beyond hope this is the fundamental tenet of Judaism we know that if there's any if there's a reason for a mitzvah which is more thematic to more missiles than the Torah than any other it's uh the concept that mitsos there's so many missiles that we do Shabbos we make kiddish fill in mezuzah every door we walk out of every morning we tie it onto our arms we sit in the sukkah we make Kiddush we observe the Shabbos so many of the missiles we say creation so many of the thesis how many times I need to remember every single doorway I have to tie leather straps until I limit the circulation of the blood flow in my arms I'm not going to forget why is it so important to remember you'd see us when it's time you see us from it's time you see us with Ryan and the answer is because the fundamental tenet and Judaism is a Jew cannot be miyaish not physically not spiritually not emotionally of anything in life never be me ayish you always have to hope that Hashem is going to bail you out was there ever a greater yesh was there ever a more desperate situation than the Jewish people in Egypt were on the 49th level of Tuma we were naked and bear of mitzvahsham yanked us out he schlepped us out so the reason the objective of always remembering is so that we never give up hope and we're oh it's always on the Forefront of our mind that the ivansham could bail us out on out of any situation I like to say that is perhaps the reason why these two miracles were so to speak uh two sides of the same coin the rescue of light from sedim and um the rescue of light from the five Kings and yet these were sort of the quintessential desperate situation the quintessential moments of yush and history of Claus Israel and in both scenarios the Rebellion demonstrated that if you believe firmly klake Ave is with us he could yank us out of every single situation Marvel is there any more Vivid description of this concept than the life of Eliezer himself now listen to this story Avro Vino turns to elieza he said Elias I need a sugar for my kid Eliezer uh was thinking you know what's wrong with my daughter I have a daughter I'm your faithful servant what's wrong with my daughter so Avro Vino basically said you're a daughter this is my kid is Baruch your kid is auror and we don't mix the blessed and the cursed we don't mix I always believe in you have to be transparent so when somebody calls you saying don't tell them no no my son is not available right now he's in the freezer he just said yes 10 seconds ago to somebody else oh you should have called me 20 seconds ago no if you're not interested in the you should say my family is blessed your family is cursed and we don't mingle right is that is that a very encouraging thought imagine if somebody would hear from the shahren uh you know you're expecting to hear some kind of lame excuse why they're not interested imagine if the shotgun said that the boy's father said that his family is a blessed family and you are despicable you are disgusting people you are miserable cursed people and therefore he doesn't think it's a good what would you say you say I don't think this is a good right but that's what avraham told Eliezer now everybody knows there's a phenomenon today you have a guy he's uh he's 35 years old he's 40 years old he's 45 years old and you watch him during show and the guy is sitting there and he's reading a book about uh Harry Potter in the basement you say uh you know this is davening time he says yeah but I can't dive and why because when I was in second grade my breathy said that I'm not a balcony shrine so for the rest of his life this kid has a chip on his shoulder and the kid you know blames the second grade rubby you never saw such a thing well it's uh unfortunately people blame their robayum or their parents or their life circumstance they can't do anything so imagine if you were Elias there and you heard from avrah mavino you're you're rebe your Mentor your guide in life your guide in life said to you point blank my time my entire atonement you're an aura you're disgusting you're cursing you're despicable how would you come to share the next day most people would have thrown in the towel most people would have given up hope I don't think most people would have been able to overcome that and yet in the end of um elieza came from Canaan validation but because he served his his righteous Master Faithfully yatsa McCloud he extricated himself when avraham said Hashem I mean imagine how exactly did Eliezer do that if a person is horror because they come from Canaan that's like imagine somebody he's a mansar so he could be a good guy but he's illegitimate so that's what eliasa was oh yes it was an avid he was horror and yet Eliezer continued to plug away and he continued to be persistent and he continued to be a faithful talmud of avraham and he was domestic guitars and he actually extricated himself from burrow from orani became Baruchel teaches us that do you know who the gilgal of elieza was calling benufuna was there ever a more desperate spiritual status than Eleazar who is rebby his mentor called him auror and he changed his reality and he became Baruch now in to become bark he became Khalif benifuna mavra boysai Friedman suggests that when tells yashaya I have a tradition for my grandfather dovid that even when the sword is at the neck this doesn't just refer to the life of David and the hardships of David but we know where was David what is his point of origin he originated in light and the daughters of light David came from from mayav in fact when the possuk says foreign take your two daughters that are found what are these two daughters that are found um you they were found in Sudan khazal say that they were where were they found they were found in sudoim in fact the Posse says unto him I found my servant dovid where did where was David found David was in sudden we know David was a descendant of light in that case if David was able to trace himself all the way back to light then dovid was in a very desperate situation a number of times first David Amela was captured by the five Kings that's impossible that's desperate that's hopeless the five King the excuse me the Four Kings beat the five Kings how would light ever be rescued by the Four Kings in fact desire color says that when light was captured wants to know why did avraham attach himself to light only because he saw Baruch that David was going to emerge from light so David was so to speak lost in Saddam he was in a very desperate situation he was lost in sudoim and he was lost by being captured by the Four Kings but David recognized from his life from his experiences in sudim being captured by the Four Kings that there is nothing in this world that is beyond the help of the Republic and the Republicans bailed him out from the Four Kings and the Republican bailed him out from Sudan and therefore David amalek was the one who said gam kelech begin if I walk in the shadow of death I fear no evil when you're with me ezri then I'm able to rise above he or she is 317. eliezer's 3 18. foreign be gracious to me Hashem because I'm confounded God save me from this very hopeless situation Hashem return God release my soul the Russia tables of Shiva Hashem 3 18. that was a reference to the beginning of the esri there's a safe the Sadiq falls seven times and he quotes the history of one of the great firedic Giants for benzion a great going best friends everything he learned 40 to 60 times but when he was younger he was a shovav he was you know a menace in fact he was thrown out of Yeshiva parat Yosef his parents had a beg beg beg for him to come back so he says over the following uh in um emotional phenomenon he says very often in life you say to somebody about her why are you not learning so he says I gave up it's a cop-out it's a cop-out it's an excuse really they're lazy but in it's very hard not to be lazy it's much easier just to throw in the towel once you throw in the towel then it's Taco hopeless it's much easier instead of listening to the sheer and working on the sheer and listening to the robayum and working on what the Mayhem teach it's much easier to say okay throw in the towel give up hope so the truth is it's not that they're not successful and therefore they threw in the towel it's they threw in the towel as an excuse because it's very hard for them to try to be successful so instead of instead of a person not being successful and therefore they give up hope more often than not they give up hope and that's the reason why they're not successful and then the safer quotes a teaching or events that I heard from my grandfather many times this really comes from the ravnakman of breslov sh is comes from a lack of Das a lack of intelligence a lack of understanding you that's where she emanates from it's without understands without knowledge out without perception very often a person says oh I have no hay check to learn and therefore they don't want to learn you know what it's like somebody who has no appetite and because they have no appetite they became very weak so what do they have to do very hard for them to eat because they don't have an appetite they're only going to get an appetite if they get strength back and what do they have to do they have to force themselves to eat a little bit until they develop their strength and then the appetite will come it's the same thing with learning person doesn't have a hay check for learning president's application for learning because uh they don't have the spiritual energy needed to develop that so what does a person have to do they have to learn without face Shack very often how often in life are we in a situation where we say I can't dive in today I can't learn today it's already hopeless for me I'm already Beyond uh maybe my children will accomplish something maybe my grandchildren maybe I'll come back in another Go-Go but after everything I've done in my life ah I'm not going to accomplish anything says the beneshkai we have to understand that every single day of our life God gives us a different nashama and past performance has no bearing on future outcome says the benef therefore a person is never allowed to feel distant from despised by from my college brojo whatever it was yesterday was yesterday today is a new day a new opportunity it doesn't matter what we didn't do yesterday every day is a new possibility a new opportunity so the the attitude of a yid isri the attitude of ayed is the attitude of the year is do you know who my father is my father at 318 slaves what's the attitude of Ishmael of Hagar Hagar the water depleted from the thermos and she throws the child 3 18 when a gentile is in a desperate situation they go under 318. she threw away the child she was miyaish under 318 is 317 but a Jew is never Messi aish we always rise above yes we always feel and believe and have it integrated within our hearts and Minds that esri that is the middle of and if we understand and recognize that it's part of our DNA part of the fabric of Claus Israel is that Revolution created cloudy soil out of a desperate situation avraham could not have a child Sora cannot have a child and yet we're all here today because God built us on the fabric that there's no such thing as Yosh we have elieza we have alike Avi the esri and therefore the woman comes to ravnakman and she says how can you not give me back my sukkah I was never my ayish I come from avram avinu and that is how the ghoula will happen when you think all hope is lost just when you think you know there's a global pandemic and there's trouble everywhere and ain't no I'm saying but 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