Do you dig wells?

[Music] my mother sent me this quote on whatsapp and said like this I didn't agree with it and now I love it you won't always be motivated but you'll forever be distracted by birds you won't always be motivated so you have to learn to be disciplined and I just I read it I was like what do you mean what the ideal is to always be motivated but the quote is definitely right our forefather Abraham's life as a mortal human has come to an end and his legacy is perpetuated by his son Isaac yet hook abraham spent his life traveling around greeting and meeting people teaching them about god and conveying the message of god's underlying unity in all of creation whereas his son yes luck seems to stay put and when he moves its to dig wells that sounds just about as random as the backdrop here that's yeah that's what we learn about him in this week's parsha from the Tara's description of his luck really doesn't seem like he's doing much at all to perpetuate his father's legacy but of course this was not so and he thought was very effectively carrying out carrying on his father's legacy the Tara unlike the late Parker showed he's not the slightest bit random and yet our forefathers digging Wells teaches us an extremely valuable lesson as we've mentioned in he delayed partial show of I think two weeks ago Avraham represented and epitomized loving-kindness that was his mode of divine service while his son you talked represented restraint and these modes really mean a lot more than these two English words loving-kindness and restraint while his father Avraham representing loving-kindness worked in that mode and was extremely successful going out and inspiring the mass Isaac whose mode was one of restraint or can also be translated as discipline knew that the reason for our roms success was also its greatest threat you talk representing the attribute of discipline understood that inspiration can only go so far and only lasts so long I thought that was a cow for a second lawnmower not a cow what's the difference between placing water in a hole in the ground and digging a well well a basic difference is that when you put water and a hole in the ground it's probably gonna dry out pretty soon but when you find a well you've uncovered a source of water Abraham was an inspiration on tour bringing the life-giving waters of godliness to anywhere and everywhere and he was wildly successful but motivation and inspiration it's good it's great but it can dry up well I've run went out and gave motivation and inspiration get stuck stayed in this place and people came to him our forefather Yitzhak teaches us that we must know how to dig a well don't think a hole and end up in China but dig within yourself and pull out the inspiration that's there and the truth is sometimes there won't be inspiration there even a well can dry up dig another well you see it's like didn't teach us this lesson by only digging one well yes look dug a bunch of oils and in fact on some of them people thought over them with him and he encountered many difficulties digging these wells so like what now I'm trying to be inspired I'm not inspired so I'm disciplined enough to try to get inspired and just having issues this is how God makes our life and I feel like if we love life we'll enjoy the struggle we will enjoy the struggle of life the evil impulse the good impulse the yaakov the Asaph then not being inspired to being disciplined enough to get inspired being inspired to be disciplined enough to get inspired and if you're not inspired enough to be disciplined enough to get inspired then be disciplined enough to get inspired to be disciplined enough to with our increased love for our fellow Jew our increased terror study and those two things automatically increase our joy with our increased joy we will dance [Music] they declined