Rabbi Mintz Live - 1/1/13 - "Faith - Leave All For God or Get Involved?" partII

if you remember two weeks ago we were in the middle of a very interesting episode in the life of yaakov avinu and rachel and leia last week we had the wonderful shower broke us here we hope to have more of them some of the young people about to get married soon and we'll make sure everybody's from them too and we'll have i'll dance together and be very happy for their simcard we up to the part where rouvain the son of leia brought home the judoyan the mandrake plants which are helpful to help a woman conceive and he brought it to his mother leia and rocco asked leia for them and leia got upset with her as we mentioned i don't want to go into the whole thing just to bring us up today to refresh your memories and she said you took my husband away from me now you take him to do dying away from me and therefore russell said therefore tonight was my night to be yaakov avinu but you may take over this night and give me the dodoing give me these mandrakes maybe they'll help me become pregnant remembers leia already had four children and bill had two children zilbathus and broco had no children at all at all yet she was looking to find some way that she should become pregnant and to have the child so she figured maybe the two dorm might do the trick to do him have that that power to help along and because she gave up that night to be with the great sadducee she did not lay with him that night she gave it over to leia she was punished not to be able to be buried with him to lay with him after they leave the world and it seems like such a punishment came up one night to be with him so we want to understand what exactly exactly we can't know exactly great people we know exactly what's going on with them with their ideas and their thoughts and their aspirations and their and their depth but on our simple level of our understanding the torah wants us to delve into the torah according to our understanding of the torah to get out what we can you never get to the depths of such great people what was the problem here what was the terrible thing that she did we have to go back to the beginning of time and work ourselves up to her time to our time as we know there's such a thing a number one art glossary sheet faith in god faith means not talking about belief belief means god exists he's a creator faith in god means that we look up to him to realize what's happening is through him that we ourselves cannot survive by ourselves we cannot ourselves be healthy be rich or make our sustenance our panaso our livelihood it's all him that's faith in god we're not ourselves we can't do anything he makes our heart beat he gives us knowledge to understand how to do things that's called faith in him not his existence as a muna but his relationship to us and why he runs the world it's called faith in hashem of course there's another step in that too that we'll come to and here we're talking about rachel and leia discussing things how to go about to get things happening to them they want to become pregnant leia wants more children but she did that she had more children raquel wants children how did they bring hashem to the garden to their life how is he playing a role in getting them to get what they want of course they realize that it's only between god they can have children naturally but to what extent should they get involved with doing things for that to happen to them or maybe they should rely on god altogether god you take care of it i don't have to go mandarins potions and medicines you take care of it to what extent you say that god should be on our life in what extent do we have to do our own for god to help us so we're going back now to the beginning of time where god created adam and eve other merchava he put them in grenadine and the garden of eden where they didn't have to do anything to live or to eat everything was in front of them they didn't have to work the ground they have to plow the plant to reap to harvest everything with the silver platter they were in granada in the garden of eden other machava of course we got a very distorted idea of them you can see the pictures they're rather than like some cavemen over there was going to have to close on them look like wild people they were god's creations the holy of the holiest such holy people god created they're not born from father the mother they're born from god himself god created them imagine what the holy creatures they were the ideas of the world greater than moses they had ideas of an understanding of the world and of god even that's how great they were and there were this garden of eden then and everything was ready for them they'd have to do anything everything they wanted to eat it was there whatever you wanted it was all they had to do was connect with god no distractions nothing else they had such a wonderful relationship it was so much full of of of pleasure of of a feeling of of the greatest pleasure possible to connect to god without any distractions but they still had the evil trying to make them sin it's a hurrah and he was successful because we discussed it very very back in the beginning in the first schmoozin that we talked about exactly what that's all about but we can't go to that right now today but to bring out the point they sinned and they were chased out of the garden of eden god said no more the life was very good till now but now that you sinned you must leave and he gave them the klola the curse number two bizarre you will have to sweat in order to eat food no more on the silver platter you're going to have to from now on plow the ground plant the seeds water it cut it prepare it you will have to eat only through the sweat of your face in other words you're gonna have to work hard from now on it's not gonna come easy why did god make it such a way for a person to get what we need we have to work hard in order to get money to live to buy clothing to eat shelter that was all not necessary before it was chased out of garden of eden the shelter was there clothing was there they needed clothing ethan and they had what to eat what was the purpose of making men have to work for what we need animals most don't have to work animals are very easy they don't have to work hard they just go and graze whatever grass is around or they eat up the smaller animals or animals have a very easy life considering uh what we the way we see that they live very easy for them they don't have problem with clothing shelter they very easily go into a cave or under a tree for animals a very easy life almost like a grenadine before they were chased out of the garden of eden but man has to toil and work in order to live there are three reasons for that we said number three three reasons why man has to work and labor and toil for our sustenance for our livelihood and these are quoted from the great most of the two reasons for travis alvarez the great save for duties of the heart which we quoted many times one of the most classical books that were ever written for judaism about twelve hundred years ago by the mikhail adayan one of the books studied in all study halls of jewish people the yeshivas and one of the great classics that were written i hope you all have a chance to study that book someday it's a very fascinating book duties of the heart covers all of us one reason is because god wants us to have a challenge as we are working and toiling to produce what we need to live with the job to make money what's a farmer who's working on the field milking his cows whatever person finds himself profession professional who has to a doctor who has to get up early in the morning he has to do all kinds of things to keep himself going keep himself alive everybody has their thing everything is connected to some type of mitzvah we have to work and be employees employers they all have misses connected to them a person works with somebody else he has to be honest can't waste time wasting time is wasting money he's getting paid for his first service for being what he's doing for doing what he's being paid for that some people take off this coffee break that coffee break you start talking in the middle and they don't do their work that's not terrible kind of of of of an employee employee has to be honest he has to do what he's supposed to even does his boss is not watching him and what's the other was not watching let's go on top of schmooze let's talk you know let's go after her for the walk or do this get on the telephone whatever it is that is not what a jewish employee has to do that's called stealing stealing time stealing money how do we get along with our fellow people at work nice to them we do kindness to them there's all kinds of laws employer the same way how does he treat his employees does he really pay them the way he should does he treat the way he should everything that we do a farmer who's working in the on the field all kinds of laws and that have to be careful about they can't plant collide you can't plant two types of plants together you can't work with two type of animals together they have to be separate you ask them shabbos you can't work on shabbos every every type of profession or work that we'll think of is connected to some midst of the total a lot of it's a lot of things to do you have a doctor the doctor has a lot of loss to do it very carefully life of people in his hands how do you treat life what how to what extent do you have to go to put yourself out to watch over people's lives to see make sure that they get the best treatment it's a very a very responsible type of job to be a doctor because you're treating people and their life and death is in the doctor's hands it's not a simple thing some people say oh doctor he's great he went through medical school and makes a lot of money and so yeah that's not uh but a doctor who's really dedicated he really knows what his responsibilities are it's something that's very very difficult sometimes to uh to come by you can meet up in the middle of the night and you think of something well maybe you have to we can go on and on and on but that's one of the reasons why god made man have to toil and work for his living because he has to face the challenges of whatever his employment is whatever he's doing for his livelihood there are a lot of laws connected to it it's number one number two he says to keep people out of trouble that people wouldn't have to work for their livelihood they have so much time on their hands what would they do they might get involved with things they shouldn't like we see a lot of people today the unemployed young people especially they get into trouble they have time on their hands if they're busy doing things you see adults like that many adults who are unemployed so they start doing things that are not correct especially don't have any money not employed or something that's we know as a fact that uh the crime rises at the time of when unemployment is high there's people even older people that you wouldn't expect them to do any crimes to rob banks and so on to be uh petty uh thieves but people have the pressure and they need the money they don't need the money so much everybody depends on their circumstances but to have a lot of time on our hands we could use it for a good thing and some use it for bad things so therefore it's the rabbits tell us by idleness brings a person to do things that he shouldn't do you have to busy with ourselves so that's another reason third reason is because we want to connect to god we need a livelihood we have to pray to him that's number three we send them the first one is we have to in order to number four to in order to perform those commandments that are connected to our employment number five that we should not be too much time on our hands we should be busy not to sin thirdly you should pray and depend on god we have to come on to him we know that ourselves what can we do by ourselves without god helping us so we can't get any place seeds won't grow in the ground if god doesn't make them grow and we won't have any muscle power if god doesn't give us muscle power we won't have a way to think if god doesn't give us the capacity to think all these things are become apparent and much stronger when we know that it's not coming by itself we have to do something something it's not coming by itself not not the government eden anymore it came by itself so we have to come on to god help us we cannot be somewhere and ain't somehow nice number seven we cannot depend on miracles not anymore in the garden of eden adam and eve admirable dependent hashem will take care of them we can't depend on that we have to do something generally speaking but there's a great danger when we do these things and we get what we need we in the danger of thinking that it's we're our own intelligence our own strength like we've warned in the torah and devarim god says you're going to the land of israel the jews were in the desert at that time and god says that we're going to the land of israel and i'll give you abundance of blessings you'll have what to eat and what to wear and everything will be fine but i'm afraid don't fall into the trap saying that my power and my brains and my giving over to my to my employment and spending hours that's what did it i i i was able to this and i'm so smart and then how to invest and how to uh out of a farmer knows how to plant and then which year and which seeds and which land and everybody knows things if things are going good people have tendency to pat themselves on the back and say i know how to do this i know how to do that i think i once told you the story a while ago but the doctor of one of my children who did a very very serious operation he was a very great doctor a pediatrician a surgeon and orthopedic surgeon and i told him doctor you know what the satwik river says about you you're such a great doctor that when you operate there's a special angel that's standing right next to you so i'd be very complicated right especially angel he got so angry you know who that angel is he says that's me i'm the angel imagine that he was so angry an angel you're taking away from me taking away from that i'm so smart such a great doctor world famous doctor and he's like an angel i'm the one i'm the angel but i i'm shocked to hear the person that's such a uh he's a great doctor it wasn't too humble but that's what people have tendency to feel i'm successful i'm the purpose the source of the success that people have that tendency to think that they're the ones and we have to understand that left out some of the things here that when we do actions to bring out and to get our livelihood it's an act we're not doing it we're just acting you know charades can play charades and then charades you can make actions as if you're doing things so it's got people to guess what's behind it but it's not really the real thing you're just making actions as if you're doing it but we do things it's god that's giving to us he says you have to do things remember i'll give it to you but don't depend on the miracle you have to do things in order for me to give you but i'm giving it to you our actions are just like play it's with the playing and playing actions we go to our employment and we do this and we do that we get paid it's just god would send us whatever we need as long as we do some actions we can't since we're out of the garden of eden today we have to do things but it's not that we're doing it not our brains that's doing it he's giving us the brains he's giving us the power to give us the muscles it's coming from him we have to rely on him to realize that what getting is coming from him tells us i'm saver a person who puts his faith in others then god says then rely on him don't rely on me you put your life your faith in somebody's to help yourself a different person oh i'm so friendly with him he'll make sure to take care of me he'll take care of me i'll take care of myself i him me somebody else god says they don't need me so then let's see how they can do without me and that's no good because we can't do anything without him that is the normal thing but most people are obligated to do there are some outstanding people who very close to hashem who can live in the garden of eden there were those great people who had such faith in hashem they were so strong in their faith so holy and pure that they were able to be taken care of by hashem by god they didn't have to do anything very little they're so great many of you heard people go to his like go to miron where he's buried shimbun yokai lived in the cave he ran away from the romans he lived in the cave of the sun for many years and god made daytree growth there made water come in didn't have to do anything he sat and just studied torah whole name connected to god had the great pleasure like being the garden of eden he was so great that he was god took care of him such people like that we have a story of the gomorrah of uh i'm not mistaken outstanding talmud person who studies works much in the thomas of the study of the talmud that his wife was ready to light candles right before shabbos and she found out that in the flask in the bottle instead of oiled it was vinegar it was right before shabbos so he said the one who said number 10 the one who said oil should burn he could say that vinegar should burn what's the difference to god so i put the vinegar in like the vinegar we can't do that because we'll have that because it happened to us wow what a miracle look at that that's why it doesn't happen to us because the god doesn't do miracles just like that for him was no miracle so what's the difference to god oil burns radically get burned all the same thing they're so close to god god takes care of him you don't have oil yeah vinegar whatever you need take care of that's how great people rely on hashem they don't have any feeling that they had the power on their own they realize that every second that we're alive god's giving us light every beat of our heart god's making it beat every breath that we take god's given his power to take in the breath on their own with nothing only through god or last kagamu alaihimai like your nursing baby king david says i am to god like a nursing baby with his mother this is about his mother baby can't do anything he has to rely on his word for everything can't do anything by himself not eating not sleeping not taking care of him everything king david big mighty wonderful king david said i'm like a nursing baby with his mother i can't i'm nothing by myself that's how much he felt relying on god to that extent that god takes care of a person like that doesn't have to do too much and that brings us to what we're talking about came to rocco welcome she was so great that she have to come on to the doctor to medicine broccoli or mater and broccoli she was so great that was not be fitting for her to say give me this medicine this mandrake this potion and sacrifice the chance to be with this great sadiq to lay with him for that night that would be the way to get children rely on hashem rely on being with the sadducees the great person rather than take the root of medication of the potion that you want to take you're too great for that for us we're not in that that in that level of greatness we have to go to the doctors we have to take medicine because we're not that level of greatness but when we do go to the doctor we do take medication we have to realize it's not the doctor people say what a great doctor look what he did for me he didn't do anything for you god did it for you he said you can't rely on the miracle you have to go to the i'm not gonna do miracles for you you have to go to the doctor and make the charades as if the doctor's helping you take the medication but that's great medicine i took it and took care of my pain took care of this took care of that that is not what we're supposed to think you're supposed to think thank god he gave me that medication a lot of people take him out take him aspirin some people will die from masculine some people react to allergic to medicine medications but there's a special prayer we're supposed to say before a person takes medication you are something that made the will of your god that this medicine should help me that's what's supposed to say every time we talk about occasionally it's my special prayer that's that's what that's what we're supposed to do take them back we're not supposed to rely on the medicaid not rely on the doctor not rely on anybody not rely on ourselves we have to act we have to do things charades it's like we're putting on a plate because we've been doing actions but that's not what's causing the result the result is god's making the results that's what ruckle that was her mistake according to her greatness she's so great the guy said you welcome you're going for that for them that's what you want he's giving up the great sadiq for that night because last week was said to be with the tadic for that night like bingham kipper the greatness of it seems like a mundane physical action being together but those great people they had such lofty ideas when they got together in an intimate way it was greatness it was kedush it was holiness it was purity to be with the great sadiq imagine yaakov being together with such an unbelievable connection between them it was so spiritual and that's what the third said oh that's why he said rachel you did the wrong thing how could you go and do it give up that's you are too great for that and therefore she was punished that she would not be able to slay with him have to have to leave the world this is something we have to a great lesson for us in a day-to-day life we started off with grenadine that was a place that nobody had to do anything but it evolved to a situation we're chased out people have to do but there are those great people who can get away with not doing actions very little god takes care of them they're so close to that to him but our lives were not that great but what we are obligated to do is not to think that we are making things happen we're just playing a game of charades god's making it happen as long as we do our part to ken cannot rely on miracles we're not great enough to round we can't say let the vinegar burn we have to do our part in order for god to give us what we want to take so that's where we're talking about tonight and now i think we're ready for some questions maybe from over here or from forever i don't even understand a question or any comments thank you rabbi so um obviously we know that rahul sinned and and she you know she got a punishment so did rochelle know that she was punished i mean because obviously the punishment was after her death really so did she know that she was being punished for this while she was alive well i imagine that she realized it when leia conceived right afterwards and uh with two more children you said last week obviously she saw that it was not the right thing to do to let leia have that night if she would have had that night she would have conceived so she would possibly so i imagine that was the biggest proof to her that what she did was the wrong thing so should we consider the punishment of not being buried with uh yaakov to be sort of a bigger punishment than if she got something while she was alive is there sort of something in the torah that's called me the negan meda measure for a measure because god punishes a person the type of thing that they send in they get the type of punishment she didn't want to lay with him then then she did not lay with him afterwards that's that goes meeting from me can i get me there so that's why it was put off to that time thank you by number three we said we have there is three uh reasons that we are working for panasonic right which are followed up in the next next few yeah so what's happened before we got punished why didn't think about those reasons oh very good because they weren't necessary because if you think about it certainly wasn't the problem they needed had too much time with this to sin they were not ready to sin and because of not timing their hands they were connecting to god the whole time and the mitzvahs that the person is challenged to do they they connected to god mitzvah's art for a person to connect to hashem that's what mrs are made for though we should every step of our life we should have a mitzvah to do if you think of hashem we eat we have to make sure to do the right thing you have to eat kosher food so kosher we're connecting to hashem because we can't just eat whatever you want why can't i eat that because hashem said no god said not to eat it we're connecting with them at that time make a rock on the food looks like that's going to be the next night we have to fast in this day all of them think about food we're connecting all the misses that we're doing are connecting to him again they're connected without these myths because some say the mitzvah is a question but they were connecting to hashem without having to do all these challenges that were saved so what they were missing when they i went out of the granada so that's why they had to have the work you know what they had but when again they had all these things were were going on didn't happen i didn't need this oh yeah roof lama should have a speedy recovery version rabbi my question is kind of classical question freedom of choice that person has versus god's will how can we distinguish between the two whether it's whether i have freedom of choice to do what i want to do at the end of the day this is god's will yeah it's sort of a classical question in the jewish literature maybe maybe you could expand very important matter to explain that the question is we're talking about if everything's god's will and it's not we that are making our livelihood it's not we that are have muscles to work and brains to think uh different ways of our life god gives it to us so where does the free choice come in with a person that speaks or it says bakira so so where does stop but where does god's power start and how do we put the two things together the answer is that we must believe that's one of the fundamentals of judaism that we have free choice to do good to do bad without that there couldn't be a punishment reward the person is forced to do what he's doing you can't punish him for that he can't be willing for that the only person has free will then you can say well you had free will you did the right thing they get they get rewarded the wrong thing you get punished the answer is that definitely there is free choice for a person but that has parameters to it we don't care the free choice of whatever you whatever we want want us to go and shoot somebody say why anybody want to show i can shoot them no that's not free will some people maybe yes not everybody on the way running to shoot somebody will trip on the floor and fall she'll make put a banana peel in his way you know falling down a person wants to uh uh do certain things maybe for good things sometimes might do a good thing and god doesn't want to for some reason she won't be able to do it so this within certain limitations of free choice and uh what we get in what we do are two different things what we get from god is giving it to us that's not our free choice god's giving and handing it out to us makes this happen makes that happen he's making it happen to us it might be according to our actions he might give us naturally what's happening to us is going to the way we act punishment and reward but what we're talking about when we go and we do things god's given us the power to do those things even bahira we choose to do the right thing but god's giving us the power to do the right thing we want to give it to the documentary of charity god gave us the power to make to earn the money to give to charity god gives the power in the hand to hand the charity to somebody so he's giving us the the life and the uh energy for us to do what we're doing we can choose to do it but he's giving us the power to do it so it's not any contradiction we have the bahira to do what we want to do within certain parameters and even what we do do god's giving us that good thing so we're going to make a livelihood that's also we have bakira we go and the person wants some people like to loaf around they want to get welfare and get government programs not do anything and they want to just sit and do nothing the whole day so that's a person's choice doesn't want to be productive a person wants to know i don't want to be a free law of free loaf and get things for nothing i want to produce i want to be active that's the person's hero but how are we able to do what we want to do how are we able to get a job a brain job for a physical job god's giving us the power to think give his power to to live and to act and to walk into whatever we're doing so we have the here a free choice but we have to rely on god to give us the power to go through with the features that we have it would give us the power to do it we wouldn't be able to have the free choice israel schwartz from delhi new york says how much effort do we put into accomplishing today as compared to how much effort into working towards the future is there a ratio given by the terror for how much we should build for now as opposed to looking towards the future or should we not look for the future at all or what is the terrorist perspective on that i don't know exactly what the future for retirement it means or exactly what uh what i don't know exactly what the question is um i don't know what it means for its future our spiritual future or it seems like it means uh physically saving for a rainy day like it's cold or planning for an expense that you're anticipating down the road a retirement or a huston or whatever well naturally we have to think about the present more than the future a person doesn't know how long he's going to live i mean they can't live for the future how much can live for the future right now we have to put our main energies and our main focus on the present and produce what most of what we can't for the press but i don't want to wear myself out and be so productive because i want to save my stunt for the future well who knows what the future is going to bring first person might not live for the future it might be sick for the future i mean right now you have the opportunity right now you have the energy so use it don't put it away for the future because you don't want to overdo it make yourself sick naturally but people want to live in the future and not for the president i think to make a big mistake we right now we're living in the present we got to do whatever we can for the president the future is we'll come to that we'll take each thing as it comes in their life but to say that uh i'll lay low now because i want to think about the future i think that's big mistake i think he's facing more on the opposite not laying low but working and putting the money that you're earning now towards the future as opposed to doing other things with your time and energy that you could be doing now in other words well again if putting a lot of money for the future a person might be able to do something work his time in a better way a person that has a job of nine to five and he makes a living so uh then after that was it after five you can get a second job and make more money put away in the bank or he could study torah for for an hour two hours so he could go to schulte to the senate guy to pray he said well i would put more time and more a person that has to put in the amount of time that shouldn't come to not relying on miracles so but uh if a person has a normal job he's making money to discuss the livelihood that he needs so the person should be happy with what he has many people just want more money more money and they neglect their their future of the real future of the world to come and they put so much time and energy into this world and uh they're wasting a lot of time so uh i'm not saying it should not put something in for the future but but to put his whole the way some people do that everything every minute they have they want make more money and what puts them safe they have to save for the future for their spiritual future and not neglect the spiritual future and put so much time into the physical future rabbi so um obviously you know we said in point number two that we now have to sweat you know we have to earn our you know right to eat food and so on so what is is there a chance now to sort of change that around to get back in hashem's graces and where things become easy for us now what does it take for everybody to keep shabbas for everybody to you know is there a way in does that have anything to do with alam haba or is that something that's possible here well to keep the laws of the torah that we're able to do i mean we're not talking talking about not uh living earning a livelihood that's something for great great people only that we can't do that we're not in that level yet of greatness that we sit down the whole week and say don't worry they'll take care of us and we just stay in the and do spiritual things but to keep the basics from what the torah says that we certainly can do obligated to do we can't say many people come to shop and say well that's my most busiest day of shabbos if i don't think with shabbos what's going to happen says what are you telling god you're telling god you created the whole world all that money all the diamonds and all the gold and all the silver and everything in the world but you can't give me a few bucks if i'm gonna work in the chapters but god says don't worry your job is don't worry no no i can't feel good i can't make a livestream so that's that's silly because we have to realize that god takes care of everybody and first most of the shabbos is not going to lose by it so it might be challenging it might go through it but uh it's easy sometimes hard but it's it's it's doable those type of things the basics are doable and asking people to do things that are not normal but that's considered normal keeping laws in the torah and not working shabbat says not doing uh getting involved in certain occupations that might not be according to torah law and so on that we're obligated to do that's called normal if we do normal things god will take care of us basically but to say to the to the extent to get back in the garden of eden that we should just sit down and do nothing that only the greatest of the great were able to do right so connected to hashem so they they were able to bring themselves back into such a uh such a situation but we can't go to that extent for instance and he uh had a grocery store his wife ran the grocery grocery store and he opened up for a day or two made enough money for that week closed down enough teeth to live great people even close to our time they're great people who don't look to make a lot of money enough to live to live a happy life but nothing nothing uh outstanding luxuries they're not looking for it but they want to put their time into spiritual things to realize the person's life is short we don't know how long we're going to live so they want some people to understand called the golden years people go to florida the golden years they want to stop around get everything good and go to florida enjoy and go to it's up for the golden years i say retire and now he wanted to serve hashem the last years of my life i want to serve hashem that they uh retire it and and use the golden years is where they get the gold the real goal for the future for the future that's what your outlook is confront what what you think that the the future of a person is after a person dies what's going to be so it depends uh it depends what your outlook is when when rachel gave leia the signs so that jacob would think he married the right woman right explain that to me why that's that was okay it was a deception but when she tried when she wanted the mandrakes that was not good well the mandrake says between man and god that's with man and man giving over to leia what is the deception for triacom you mean that yeah yeah yeah so they both you know deceived him that was considered a great great deed that rachel did yeah right why was that a great deed you're asking well the uh it's a very very strong question it's it's asked by the great commentaries this question that what right did you have to do that you know answer to that is that we know that the matriarchs sarah rivka rochelle were prophetess their own prophetess prophetesses i guess the prophetess preferences she knew that eventually leia is going to be his wife and she just hurried up the process faster but it was not something that oh you've got stuck with leia what it's supposed to be it was supposed to be and she just made it happen sooner than later and even the oca from the beginning was upset with leia for doing that he said we want something for him because i played it why she did that to him but didn't that and that's what i said we studied saw that she was not disliked by yaakov therefore he gave her children one after the other and he's ready to to divorce him he told you he was so upset but after he had reuven and shimon his great children there were such big sardicas righteous people said how can i divorce the lord he gave me this great joke he changed his mind so rachel knew that he has to marry leia sooner or later and hashem knew that also and he did things in order for yaakov to calm down eventually to be happy that he they did that later so it was a great thing that she did but it wasn't deception it was only a matter of time so that's not considered anything really wrong but and then if she's a prophetess she couldn't foresee that she would eventually have children well prophets cannot see everything and sometimes you could see something but they could change she's supposed to have children but maybe she's not acting like she should maybe she's doing something wrong we studied in the beginning before we mentioned that after leia had the children rocco was very upset she said must be she's greater than i am she's all these children i can't have any children so she's very upset with herself it must be that she's not so great she must be doing something wrong must be sinning why does she have she she took advantage to heart and took it personally but she is not what she should be so that even though that's not and that's not the case really but um we know that god wants sadikam to pray so we mentioned many times sorrow didn't have children ripken and every children all the way to except for leia because god wants them to pray to him and once they pray for themselves they pray for the whole world like once the god misabo and god desires looks forward for the prayers of the righteous people because when they pray of themselves they pray for everybody masara were told to have a child when she was 90 years old there was a great joy in the world because many people couldn't have children had children at that day people that were sick and got better and that day god gave into the world this great uh infusion of of of of help of happiness so through sora she her greatness her greatness she brought down to herself and to everybody she brought this joy into the world many people were helped in that day sorry from their problem so god wants it sadiq him to pray to him so there's a lot of different different things involved but keep it coming it's good if she had to rely on what we would think miracle right is not allowed to do anything but prey for her children to have children and yet we're not supposed to rely just on ripples on the greatness of the person that was my point that it depends most people 99 percent of the people after garnet after they were chased out of the garden of eden we have to do actions in order for us to get what we need we can't rely on miracles the greatest of the great they could rely on there but i mentioned before god took care of him and ultimate people like that the people in the midburg in the desert god took care of the millions of people they had the men that come in every day and one came to the sherman they had food to eat water came out of the rock he took care of them without them doing anything the clothes grew with them they were pressed every day and cleaned every day by the clouds i'm told they went through at 40 years of living a miracle life when they came to land of israel then they had to start working the land it was the only of those 40 years but are those great they were considered the dardaya the the generation of knowledge they were a special outstanding generation in the in in the desert at that time but uh great people still they exceptions to the rule they are expected to align god altogether and not to be distracted by mundane physical actions and rock will have to be one of those great people like that because of her greatness that was a problem she she she diverted from the greatness a little bit but what the mandarins were then and that said no you should have done that especially if he had the opportunity to be that night with the outcome but he gave it up that's the main thing over here to give that up for that you can't do that i i just had the question on on on this miracle um uh number seven didn't we have a miracle when the sea parted and when on hanukkah the miracle of the oil so does that mean we're not going to have any more miracles or we're finished or shouldn't believe in it this ain't something we cannot rely on miracles we don't feel like god will make wrinkles and we'll make miracles for us but we can't rely on to sit back and say okay do me a miracle we can't rely on that god made split the red sea for the jewish people he did a great thing for us miracle conduct a great thing but we can't rely on that we can't say we don't have to make oil for the menorah because god will give us a miracle that we don't need no oil we have to make the oil to make sure it happened at that time there's no oil around so god made a miracle but we can't rely on that if we're just desperate it's not we can't do anything brett sees in front of us what he's supposed to do it's a god made a miracle but we can't rely on that we wouldn't say okay god i don't do anything make me miracle everything will be fine we can't tell god to make miracles we're not asking miracles no god did miracles he will do great miracles for us when the shia comes and the jewish people go back to the land of israel and we will have our land back and the holy temple back we're going to see a lot of miracles the greatest vehicles bigger than bigots of egypt will be bigger bigger wrinkles than them but right now we're building a time of nice this term called hidden miracles that we have all the time but open miracles that we're waiting for that's going to happen definitely we'll do miracles like a baby relying on this mother they're not worried about it they're not worried it's not that oh what's going to happen i need a miracle what's going to happen they're not worried about it if oil can burn medication god will take care they're not that word in the least it's easy to want to come to that to that level it's not easy to come to that level but once you're in that level then it's easy for them but it's not easy to come to that level once you're there then it's it's like it's something are difficult to reach but once you reach it so then you're you're okay so that's what that's right it's hard to come to such a level but once you're there you're there you got a question sent in from a um jason guterman he wants to know we speak a lot about how yaakov loved rachel more than leia why why did he love rahul more than leia obviously we're not talking about regular people what was it that he saw in rachel more than in leia he saw her greatness and spirituality that she was very great and a little bit more than leia was at that time and she was his main basut because he was so great in in his spirituality and she was so great the spirituality they fit together that was his main vasude's main mate that god set forth even though he married other three other wives too but she was the main one because they she was considered the outstanding one more than the other but she had she was she's greater than the other ones maybe uh they have any other questions so maybe i'll just hi uh i just had a quick question yes um we learned that we learned that uh rahul not being buried with yaakov was punishment for a ruckle but is it possible that that could have been a punishment for yaakov as well because i would imagine that it would have been it would have given yaakov a pleasure to have been buried with rahul who he loved so much uh and here rocco uh here yaakov was not able to uh be buried alongside rocco so i would think uh in a way that would kind of be a punishment for uh for him too even inadvertently i mean surely if yaakov loved russell so much it would have been yaakov's wish his request to have been buried alongside her and knowing that that would not happen um that i would imagine that would have caused him pain that's a great question i never thought of it before it's a very very good idea you brought up that's a punishment for for for yaakov he's also suffering from them from that i would say was brought up last week and maybe by mentioned about the other reason there was another reason why raquel was not buried next to him because she was there when the jews were sent into exile and they were really coming down on the very hardly harshly they were being killed and tortured by their captives captors and she came out to pray for them they went right by where she was buried she came to pray for them we just read in last week's parachute that yaakov told yosef yaakov was mitsuram the last years of his lives and mizrahim was in egypt yaakov the last 17 years of his life was in israel he died in israel but before he died he told the other save make sure to take me to land of israel to bury me there don't bury me him it's right i want to be buried in israel so he listened to his wishes and he took them to the land of israel at that time you said to yourself but you might have a big question on me i'm telling you to take me to bury me there how come your mother who was rocco i didn't do that to her she died on the way i buried her embrace him and i did not take her to the marathon to recover to baby over there so it seems it might be strange in your eyes here you said you might be a little upset with me that i'm telling you take me to bury me in the chevron whereas you took a rivka berry take me i was to be buried there also but i did not do that to your mother when she died i buried her on the way and my slacherman didn't take the day so and i'm asking you to take me over there aaron says he told him because i buried him for a purpose for a reason for her to come up to pray for children when they will be the jewish people and they be sent them to goddess so it seems that the academy took comfort in the fact that even though that he was not there next to her but he knew that was for a great purpose for their children his children her children all the jewish people that she was going to be there for them when they need her so he took comfort in that and even though he didn't have the great pleasure of being very next to her but the fact that he knew that she's going to do that great deed for the jewish people that compensated for what he was missing well maybe we could just say so especially off now how often after year but i just want to bring out a very important idea that i heard from my rebbe great rabbi the dean of students and the nation of baltimore congress that he told us over this we're talking we're talking about that it won't be complete unless i say over what he said to really understand faith in hashem faith in god when we have faith in him he does for us he comes up with something we don't have faith in him we have faith in our own power faith in somebody else so he says so go to them don't bother me if you come to me i'll take care of you faith in them so he gave an example of a man who was very pressed because he had a child who was very sick he was an emotional example emotion and he's very sick and he didn't have the money to take care of the child they did big money doctors the great doctors wanted a lot of money and he couldn't take care of him so he went to one of his friends one of his boyhood friends became very rich he came to him and said listen uncle i have a big problem i have a child i need a hundred thousand dollars to pay the doctors i have nobody else to rely on if you don't give it to me i don't what you're gonna do there's nobody else you can go to don't question that i know so uncle how does a person feel like that he comes to me a good friend he's coming i'll rely on me nobody else to go to we all have that in ourselves and sometimes i need you because none of us can help me so we feel obligated to help the person to come to me not nobody else so we have an obligation to help the person let's say you come and says listen listen i need a hundred thousand dollars if you don't give it to me i got 10 other people we got all the friends and go to to to to like the shipment you know so yeah i'll go okay listen you don't need me really but i'll give it to you i have somebody else to go to so you go to them whether you need me for it the same way we come to god we have trust in god come to god we i need you we need somebody sick you have to you have to we need money you have to get the money need whatever it is we're coming to you have to help me if you don't help me nobody who's going to help me so you know everything that we have in ourselves we feel obligated comes from god if we feel that way that means god feels that way he'll be out so to speak come to say god you have to help me nobody else can help me so god feels i have to do something for the person they come to you and say listen god please help me but listen i got my own brains i know how to make money i got my friends so guys okay you don't give me so much so go to your friends so that's how faith in god works if we have truth faith in him he reacts and he gives us what we need unless there's some reason why he can't there might be certain other reasons why but having true faith in god come to god we we pray to him we say daily prayers give us reform give us hell give us sustenance give us livelihood so if you really say we really mean it come to you god you have to give it to us so then we'll get we simply forgot to come back and do what we need if at all possible for us to be worthy of it but if you come to god in this lip service and god we pray to you but like this doctor said i'm the mother i'm not it's me it's my brain just wait don't realize god gives him his brains god gives him everything in his hands and whatever he operates first it feels like that i don't need you god because some of us said we recorded before god says you know you're relying on other people so go to the other people you know they're going to me i don't have to i don't feel obligated anymore because they don't you're not relying on me so this is a very big lesson in faith in god we're talking hashem that we have to live with we have to work on ourselves to realize and to know and not be distracted and think i can listen i can do that he can do that it all comes from god without god dealing with every second life the person would just live a second or heartbeating a breath of breath that we take if we don't realize that then we'll miss the boat because it's a person who'd be very foolish to think that we have our own power our own brains that god's given to us every second that's what we're studying over here god comes from everything question how much do we have to do that depends on the individual the greatest of the great don't do anything greatest people to certain things people lower level have to do more but there's a limit how much worse to do except before a person wants more money and more and more of this world work that we don't have to do that as long as we do things we're not depending on miracles we do what's necessary to to live without a miracle we're doing what we have to do to do more than we have to do that we should leave up to god and use our time for more important things so thank you for listening everybody tonight any other questions and comments and oh we have another yes no we got a whole night tonight everybody's here nobody left look at that how did well it said it says that the water they the the animals drank the water it says when the plastics are they drink the water and uh the uh the water seems to be you have to have the nutrients it seems that they they drank the one melted and went into the water we were told that the the nations of the world the animals drank that water to the monument they came every day it melted and every day the discipline went into the water the animals ain't take them drank that water and then when they were slaughtered and they ate it wow delicious they had a little bit of taste of the month so they had an idea a little bit the jews have the money in the midwest so it seems that the water that they drink was uh nutritious enough to keep them uh to keep them alive it says the opposing advice people drink and they're animals it says in the process that they drink the water from the iraq so it's very nutritious water coming from the rock shams water directly very very good idea they say they're mandrakes there are mandrakes here yeah that's called a mandrake it looks like it's true it looks like a person there's two the roots are by like two legs coming down and it has a body and they're mad like so that picture they're pictures of it if you look in the encyclopedia or in the in the uh what's uh by the captain's uh uh living target living torah by rabbi do you have one here that they found him victoria from robert kaplan are you captain so he has a picture of the mandrakes over there i looked it up or encyclopedia or online i'm sure you can find it uh mandarin so you'll see all about it i'll tell you about this so that was believed i don't think so believe it today and that term says it seems to have some kind of power to uh to help for childbirth that's the whole question what is exactly something outcomes all kinds of versions of this yes any other comments or questions so mr shem will get your next next week again and nice to see you