MUST WATCH - The sin that changed the world - YOU can fix it!! - Rabbi Alon Anava

[Music] [Applause] [Music] so we want to do chuva that's what we're here for happens to be that it's also the month of elul it's a very auspicious time to do chuva but besides that we are focusing now on many different ways of doing chuva chuva is not such a simple thing it can be simplified but to actually apply that not so simple mainly because there's no clear guide step by step what to do a lot of people say just tell me what to do i will follow every step so chewa is not so simple now in order for me to do chuva the right way or anything i have to go to the source of it anything you want to do the right way you have to go to the source all of our sins they're all rooted in one sin and that's called the sin of the first man on this planet so billions of sins of billions of people they're all rooted in one sin now do you know what's that sin and you don't have to answer even though i bet you that most people don't know what's that sin because some people will tell me well he ate from the tree of knowledge really well there's many sins that adam did not trying to hurt anybody's intelligence or to make fun of anybody but most people you tell them what was the scene of what american they'll tell you he ate from the tree of knowledge which is true he did but he also did a few other sins but there's really another sin that we're overseeing and that's really what we need to focus on today and of course that will help us really focus on our chuva really what was the scene of adam marichon so we're going to put aside for a second the fact that he ate from the tree of knowledge because that is not really the sin that he did it is don't uh take that out of its context but there's something else that the sin you know what it is that woman that you gave to me excuse me so again i will say it again the sin is not only that he ate from the tree of knowledge is one little sentence that adam richon answered to the master of the universe that woman that you gave me you gave me excuse me that woman he says he she i mean he in hebrew is she i know it's a little bit confusing he she and all that but he that woman that you gave me true you know what that means this means zero appreciation and gratefulness this is called oh you know what the torah says you went completely against the core of the entire torah that the kardashian who is blaming the the damage on is blaming hashem first of all he he removed any responsibility i sinned no that woman that you gave me she caused me to sin you're ungrateful these are the beeps for the not nice words that comes after them you you're now blaming her that she made you sin and then you have the husband to take the kalos but who you gave her didn't you mr adala magicians asked the master of the universe how come everybody has a wife and i don't i mean you know the story that said who brought in front of him all creatures of the world and he told ramon you name them so he saw he had a very high level of prophecy in kodesh he saw the hayyout the life force of every animal and creature that was brought down in front of him he saw the godly letters and he was able to say this is a that's a lion and you know what came with the lion a olivia and then same thing with the ox this is a show came a para a cow and one specie after the other adam richon said wait a minute how come they all have a wife i don't have a wife so hashem says oh you want a wife are you sure are you a hundred percent sure yeah well i want one too okay no problem and put him under anesthesia perform the procedure what what do you know now you have a life so the root of all sins is the deficiency of the lack of hakarata tov of any type of appreciation and gratefulness that the kanosh bahu did with you so what is the shoresh what is the root of all the rectification be grateful appreciative it's called there's no real good translation to akarata because i can say be be appreciative or be grateful is a completely different word than being grateful or appreciative and i'll tell you why in hebrew everything has a total different meaning in english it doesn't sound the same what does it mean what does it mean that a person should recognize from where the good came from not to just say thank you or to be appreciative i want you to recognize i wanted you i want you to acknowledge from where the good came from do you understand the big difference of saying thank you and being grateful or appreciative then to realizing wait a minute where did the goodness come from that's a big big difference and the emphasism has to be on the word hakara hakara means recognize realize see now the tovah is a understand or be aware of where it came from is the good so the tova the good of course you feel the good i give you now a good meal you feel it good in your stomach you're full of course you and you feel the goodness i helped you out with money i helped you out with advice i whatever i did whatever good i did to you or the master of the universe for this case of course you feel the good the question is do you recognize where the good came from because you know i can give you now money to buy something but you don't know the money came from me somebody just came and gave you an envelope and you're like wow what a miracle money for rent came from now you feel the good you got a miracle just but you don't know where the money came from right this is called matan basetel the right way of doing charity is you don't sign on the envelope where the money came from so again just to define it the good you recognize where did the good come from ah that's the question of all questions now for that there's a verse ishayao isaiah in the first chapter chapter one aleph verse gimel says uh powerful verse an ox knows his owner and a donkey his master's crib i told you not once and not twice that i'm not happy with that translations out there because that completely didn't do justice with the verse now let me try to explain it forget about the translation yada shokunehu the ox knows his owner this ox knows where the food comes from believe it or not even he's an ox he might not tell the owner thank you but he knows that the food came from the owner but a donkey or what we say in hebrew hamo he knows that the good is in his mouth the straw that he eat or whatever he eats he's happy he got his food you think he knows who gave him the the the food come on he doesn't know that the owner gave him food he chews now and he's happy he has food in his mouth that's why it's called hamo but a shawl and ox show by the way not only that it's a kosher animal on the chariot oh one of the faces on the chariot on one of the legs is an ox that in itself has to tell you there's something great in an ox there's no face of a donkey on the chariot there's a face of a man a face of a line a face of an ox and a face of an eagle so ox there's something very mystical about it if you remember also er er yosef azadik is called an ox nevertheless the idea behind an ox is the concept of vision there are three levels how a person can relate with the world shmi listening this is one way how you perceive things this is a very very high level the one who was able to hear the torah and give it over was not for nothing his name is shima on because his level of perception is hearing is shemia but the level of vision that's a very very high level that you're able to see the source of the blessing and the abundance very few people are able to see that very few people are able to have the vision in the torah it's called that you see something then you're able to understand it where do we see a good example for that because our sages say who's a wise person that sees that has a vision of what's going to birth out of a situation now do you really see it with your eye no but you have you have a state of awareness that is called vision so on the hammer it says that he doesn't know who's the owner but the ox knows that this ox sees what does he see makoroshifa the source of the abundance now lik to go against the good that's a saying in other words bowing down to something that is not the source of the abundance you get that i will say it again liqueformatova to go against heresy to go against what did good to me is to bow down to something that is not the source of the abundance so to make it simple hashem gives me a blessing and i bow down to something completely different hashem gives me life hashem gives me money a wife sustenance health whatever and i instead of bowing down to the source of goodness i bow down to something completely different this is why our sages he went he went against the main part which is what's the main part of why he meant against him because who gave you the tawa akanashima who gave you all this abundance and you have the chutzpah to turn around and to give praises to something that is not what gave you the allah i mean this is mamash going against the master of the universe and this is the source of all sins going against what gives you your sustenance now a person that is not developed and don't take it the wrong way don't get insulted from my words i just quote books i don't come up with my own theories or my own analogy it says in the holy books a person that is not developed you know what he does he puts himself in the center now take a moment and process it if you put yourself in the center then i'm sorry to tell you you're not developed and spiritually of course and not that shalom you're behaving like a child maybe you are i'll say it again a person that is not developed puts himself in the center of attention let's say the other way around if you put yourself in the center of attention if you put yourself in the center you are not developed you're missing something here a person who is developed first of all a person is developed you know what he is he's a jose bechuva he does a person who doesn't do chuva is very not developed spiritually emotionally anything how how can he not figure out what's coming on so already you can tap yourself on your shoulder that you are already three steps ahead of most people in society that you got it that there's something about what you what your eyes see so you will consider the joseph you figured out one way or another that there's a creator to the universe that runs the show and now you're saying okay how do i come back how do i come back to i mean i know i went off the path doesn't matter deliberately not deliberately knowing me not knowing i was born a jew i wasn't born a jew i was born with secular it's irrelevant the fact that you got it you are one out of millions first of all i told you that not once or not twice you won the lottery because the kalosh bro allows you to get it and now really what it means means that you are developed what will represent this type of being developed is that you put hashem in the middle if you put hashem in the middle you are considered in the eyes of our sages a developed individual because you're not narrow-minded that you put yourself in the center you put hashem in the cell there in the center now you start running around hashem very very simple equation now how do i bring it down into action because i i think i try to simplify it and to make it very short what is the root of all sins not that abdominal gave a bite into a fruit and we're not going to go into the argument what he ate it's uh many people think that hadamard ate an apple this is an invention of hallmark and american d need an apple so there are three opinions in the talmud but to most the opinion that is agreeable or not or all that he drank wine that he is a java took and squeezed er grapes and he drank wine that was the tree of knowledge the the the the fruit that he ate from the tree of knowledge another opinion says it's figs another opinion says it was a wheat and then once why was it called the tree because once the guitar was in a much higher level and it was called by our sages and a tree and heads but nevertheless the sin is not at the eighth and one can come and say well i know the tsar says that he did three sins idol worship because he listened to the serpent and not to god forbid in relations because he threw he got rid of java and he mated with anything that moved and of course bloodshed because he brought death to the world these are the three major scenes that adam region did in up until today we are trying to fix it that is also correct but the ultimate sin that he did is that he went against the kadosh bahu and not only that he was not grateful thankful to the master of the universe he completely distorted where it came from so that to make it simple that is the source of all sins how do you say fuitoba in english completely ungrateful completely i don't even know how to i mean there's no definition really in hebrew for it but i took it to the next level that not only that you're ungrateful you are so limited you're so arrogant your ego is so out of control you don't even know who gave you the good that you're not able to see where the good comes from so i'm sorry to tell you the torah calls you a donkey that you just see what the good is in your mouth or what you you don't even see wait a minute where's the good coming from so just to to to stop for a second and to take that as a side note everything that happens to you analyze it where is this good coming from is this good coming from from my boss no is the good coming from my neighbor you no the good is coming from the master of the universe and you know what that means that also the bad that comes to you is good from the master of the universe and rajmina no such thing that bad or evil comes down from the hands of hashem which means that even the bad things that you are experiencing is good that's the anesthesia that's the procedure that's the process of healing you curing you so now let's go back to what we need to focus on because we want to do serious chuva we're not here to play games if you're here to play games you're not going to do every chiva if you're here serious to do because any day now mashiach is coming and also you know nobody guarantees to you how long you're going to live and each and every one of us can die tonight may you all live a long life and married to see the coming of mashiach with your own physical eyes but there's no guarantee here so my chuva has to be imminent and serious so how do you do serious chuba go to the root go to the root of the problem don't play with games around what's the root of the problem what does the torah come and tell you don't be an undeveloped individual and put yourself in the center what does it mean put yourself in the center i want to have pleasure from the food that i eat from the clothes that i wear from the bed that i sleep on for the woman that i i'm married to or in many cases the many women i want to be with i'm i'm don't focus on yourself put the kadash in the center the second that you put the kalosho in the suddenly everything changes because he's the focus and attention and not you now how do you practically apply that in your life don't look who to point the finger at and the story because we always look who to point the finger that's what adam alicia says haisha the woman do you give me a woman she calls me to sin how dare you blame her you willingly took it what she twisted your arm she put a gun to your head kind of a nonsense is that and you know what we do the exact same thing he started he said this about me and that and now i have to revenge what kind of nonsense is that and we always try to point the finger it's called le etzba mashima i didn't do it he did it come on that's very childish you want to do serious chuva fix yourself don't try to fix the world people think that i need to fix now the entire world he talks too much he looks to the wrong direction why are you lied to them in yeah oh really i'm late to the minion how many times you were late or how many times you didn't even show up and even if i'm late so what why look look at yourself i lay i'm late to the minion you speak all the time with the feeling on your head oh you want to compare who's worse don't look at me now look how bad i am look how bad you are don't fix the world fix yourself don't look at the finger you know why people point fingers so the highlights not the highlight the the limelight is not going to be them if i'm now blaming everybody is i don't want to be now on the top list of the major sinners here so it's very very simple the equation i'm not saying it's simple to do i'm just telling you this is the this is the equation how to do really go to the root figure out where the tova where the good is coming from and on point at other people so we have two things here first of all needless to say be grateful and be thankful to the kaloshvu for everything that he does to you and if you want to be smart thank hashem 50 times an hour at least once an hour thank you that is allowing you to breathe i'm not joking with you i think i'm joking make yourself a habit that every hour on the on the dog what's called sha'a gula four five six take 13 seconds to say thank you for letting me breathe and that i can see hear walk and and and and think thank the kadashi and everything that happens to you but don't say hashem say it like you mean it that's a given be thankful and grateful for everything that you have including the bad the next thing don't put yourself in the center you're the last one that needs to be in the center the only one that goes in the center is the master of the universe that's why i told you in the class before don't only and nullify your desire to receive and the and empower what you give how am i making the master of the universe happy what can i do right now to cause happiness to the master of the universe don't think of yourself you are not part of the equator here you are here to serve the master of the universe and the story and then last but not least don't use this motion don't look for guilty people she started he said i didn't do it he'd fix yourself don't fix the world and don't look for people to be guilty put the finger right at you and say i i'm the wrong one you know it will not hurt you to tell your wife in an argument i'm sorry honey i don't know it came about me i don't know why i said that i'm sorry i take it back and i'm just saying between your wife could be with any individual even if you're five thousand percent right it's irrelevant there's nothing wrong with turning the blame to you and to say wait a minute maybe i am wrong you know who did that moshe rabino comes and points a finger at him tells him you're a liar you are a fake you are a fraud and many other things instead of punching him in his face instead of giving an order to kill him fell on his face and started crying the addictions of a kabbalah explains vaipo al-banav that he looked inside panav from utah he looked inside vayev and he cried you know i cried because he's right i am still not a hundred percent said moshe rabino you know the term ba'alchuva is only called on moshe rabbenu he is the real balchuva we are hoslimachuva in some cases the only one that is called about is moshe rabino a great individual like moshe rabeno that looks inside himself and says worm i wrong if that individual is pointing a finger at me maybe he's right maybe not but if there's a chance that he's right let me fix myself it's not my responsibility to fix the world it's not my responsibility to affect the world i mean don't take my words out of context there is the concept of tikkun olam fixing the world that is your part but you can change the world change yourself and that's really how you really hit the home run when it comes to doing chuva is that you focus inwards how do i get better how do i work on my patients on my feelings on my anger on me being judgmental being me being impatient me pointing a finger out that's how you really start doing chuva that's how you hit home run when it comes to chuva is you go to the root of the problem and you reverse it completely from the root then then you start walking on the path of our great teacher of all times masha rabeno who can be called the balchuva that's when you really start walking on the path of chuwa by understanding that you are the problem not anybody else [Music] you