Why Does Tzedaka Make Such a Big Difference: Chizuk for Iron Sword by Rabbi Yitzchak Feigenbaum

okay Salam Alum everybody once again thank you very much thank you to the OU um specifically besides the fact that the sh of course as for a of all the and all the the hostages Etc very specifically today sponsor that's sponsored by Esther B and loving memory of her father should and also a Don was made Raymond Jackson children and grandchildren and loving memory of a very special wife mother and grandmother K on her fifth oh fourth day of right for these she really be in the shama for for for everybody and again exclus for all the people uh who certainly need ex exclusive in this time so now even though I'm waiting for somebody to give me a hard time on the title right even though technically we're we're doing a whole ser the about FEA right because every looking for school and I said well that's looking for school is just stop it me how did that work I said what I want to talk today about is about specifically we've spent time talking why would make a difference you're not nagging a you are proclaiming the fact that you understand that he is really control by doing that that changes your spiritual level you're a new person and worthy of a different day then maybe today you will win the lottery when rest of your day you did it and we discuss how that works for other people also Chua Chua why specifically s we make a be everybody you do a Mitzvah you do a Mitzvah you're you're a new person right you want the SCH for Uncle Charlie to get better so in his Merit you do a mitvah I don't know you a lot of mitvah you can do you I said you you know for for hour you don't talk L har for for Uncle Charlie or for the for whatever that that you know your kids should find a job or whatever it might be so you change it's all all seems to get singled out know lot of good mites out there so seems be especially powerful and and and the question is why why is there anything more to stalk than just the mitvah mvah like sh earlier you keep Shas better extra 100% exclusive all misss are exclusive right suck seems to be it's more than just is a good thing what checkbook Judaism we're not paying off guy you can't just run around and do whatever you want and write a check and it's fine the deal is crooked it's dishonest but hey just gave a big donation so God loves it God may love you God loves everybody but you'll geta for your s but you're burning him for two months before that because you're a dishonest crook I that's that's not shot in sadu so what shot in sadu in Toronto for all those who are still in Toronto you know there's a talk every every city has these talk radio things you know traffic and weather together on the 10 you know so toron 10 cfrb talk radio CA and weather together on the head and in between traffic and weather together they interview people and do all sorts of stuff so you be every driving around and you turn ITB talk radio traffic and weather together and there was a show that was on it was called and I remember he always started it the same way this is Brian Castello taking care of your money yeah well uh the end of it is if ran Castell ended up going to jail for taking care of your money but that that's not the point right Costello taking care of your money has a huge hasic slaw in it just fall HS money's very unique it it's my money I made my money I made money I the first dollar bill that I made paid that behind the cash register my my my money money intuitively to everybody represents right I made the money because that's my money now I have my money my money I'm going to whatever that's what money represents money is being the symbol of the concept that I've been control I'm smart I make good deals I make money if I have money I can then do stuff and I can build stuff and I can change stuff and people need me Joe would be starving who would have been for my bu money Yesa X wouldn't be paying salaries what would they been for buy money right that sick guy would have had the operation but if would went for buy money because and I I have money because I I me smart my money that's our intuitive default position money represents the entire element concept of more than anything else in the world and how do you combat that how do you TR because Brook it's not true you give it away me me you know what Brian Costello should have said when he was open you know introducing his program he should have said this is Brian Castello helping you take care of the money that the good Lord temporarily deposited with you for 120 years so you could do a lot of mmith with it had he said that might not have had up in jail you know what I mean but but death death cu who gives you money it's not your money it's no different that it's your money than it's your GLI tongue speaking ability or your charismatic personality or your wonderful organizational skills that seduca program wouldn't have happened without me because I'm a super ABD organizer I'm the multitasker par salons and I got the connections and I've been in business for 10 years and I got the cater and I got the life I got think I got the graphic artist and and I would have flopped without me that's up corses that that's up cores mighta well get up and you know bow down to Bow happy coures right happy coures Booker want see she have money I mean aist they don't make any fundraisers make any fundraisers but if you would disappear off the planet of the Earth the she would found somebody else or somehow we Joe is eating supper because of me because I gave money to wants Joe to have make sure Joe has you you chose to do the MIT good for you drop that don't give money they don't need your money because make sure they get money from somebody else because B was money deposited a lot of people not gonna let Joe starve Joe ain't gonna starve and Joe we got a wanted that Joe they have a lot of money but they give the money coach decided Joe doesn't get money Joe's a guy that receives to but he received Ducker Russ should was decided how much the Ducker he'll receive because that's what he needs and somehow he's going to get it you want to give it get a m don't want to give it drop that don't give it that difference to Jo BR he'll figure it out how Joe find a wallet on the street I have a lot of come B make sure Joe gets his money doesn't need you you know that because B doesn't need you to take care of Joe he gives you an opportunity he gave you resources you want to use it help Jones how you get a m you don't want don't go to get it's just free will but you're not really making a difference really excellent point and that is the next point we're talking about the giver we're not talking about the receiver you're down and up you're a rushy Shiva and you're not meeting paychecks and someone walks in and says you know I had a good deal today here's 20,000 bucks it pay well it's a story for a y Gold Video it is in the buck you know what I mean and you tell the guy that's very nice I didn't need your money by the way you can you drop that because I would have gotten it anyways but you know but you know I'm sure you'll get scar for it but like don't get carried away you know I I I would thank you very much but I'm afraid it'll go to your head I don't want to be moal you in and feeling hoty so I'm gonna say thanks very much I'm busy go away right now that that that right right that's I was had a fell who knocked on the door right he needs money I need that you get stuck and you get big bras said you know what I don't have a lot of money either why don't we switch I'll tell you what you give me a donation I'll give you a braa how about that okay if BR do such a big deal well switch if somebody giving you money I'll do something better you give me money I'll give you a Braha okay you like walk away all right you you your the person didn't make a free willed choice to give the a duck would you have gotten the money otherwise yes 100% people are not answering your phone calls the guy guy big donor is losing money um he's I don't know he just in a bad mood right he's whatever what am I gonna do what am I gonna do I relied on Mr so and so and so bar Mr so and so is not around so and so lost money so and so went off the Dera be payroll you'll be payroll from from somebody else right so chooses to make a donation chooses to help you out chooses to donate their talents you have to but the idea of giving sedu shows that everything her burko gave me is is is is to be used for his service it's not mine that's the Crux of you of the source of everything and and in the end you you control it and Sedaka doesn't mean money I mean Su does Mone Su only money let's do that better for the recording can we do doly note that folks sadaka doesn't mean only I get trouble like you over right Saka doesn't mean only money sadaka means giving of your time of your talents you you you have a sympathetic ear you're a good listener that's it's a gift it's a god-given gift it's a charismatic there are people who are either god-given person good listeners there people who just simply are not that's just people's personality some might have a gift of Gap and some don't right some are listeners you happen to be a listener donate those talents find people to listen to pick a call it call up the elderly people of no one to talk to that's a gift right that that's Seda you have organizational skills that's artistic talents that's Seda you have money that's for certainly Seda whatever you got the idea is by giving it away just like fima you deserve a new judgment you're a different person today why are you a different person your spiritual has been raised because you announced clearly and publicly that only Hashem heals I gotta go to the doctor AF hasem if without Hashem it ain't gonna happen by giving of what Aku gave you you are publicly proclaiming this is not mine buru runs the show he gives everybody different gifts right and therefore I'm going to use the give that he gave me for what he thinks are important things it's not mine by doing that once again you become closer to Kur Sparkle you're connecting with him he's the source oh you recognize the fact that I'm the source of everything good that that will continue giving and therefore will keep you healthy or you're doing it in the S of of uncle Charlie fine so then he'll get that you're doing a specifically SP for k x right or K in general or hostages or whatever that the of raising your spiritual level by proclaiming the fact that brok is the one who not only controls what happens but he controls the gifts you're given that's what changes dramatically your spiritual level That's The Power of it it's not checkbook Judaism but that's the idea of specifically s this put put 100% begin absolutely correct and if you normally I don't know I you put on Phil day now because of the war you're putting on fil Day added Mitzvah the and an added Mitzvah every added mitvah SCH 100% there tons of Misses like that but very specifically s ducka very specifically giving of your personal resources whether it be financial resources or any other resource that God has given you that specifically to a felo sua that makes a dramatic difference because it changes your overall spiritual balance by showing B he's in charge and once he's in charge he says good now that you recognize I'm in charge then I'm in charge and we really would rather have a bero in charge of how the war is going then bestest General and the bestest intelligent intelligence everywhere we need General press right don't get that wrong but who's Ally in charge we'd rather have be the one who's making the final military decisions of where to go when then as best as a you know Israeli IG Services as we got on the plan and we do that I show kbgo we accept that idea develop now we do back to why did I say back to here's what we're up to one of the uh some sort of there's many least appreciated we're up to of everything and I want to thank you because we said these are 15 specific thank you that you are po you open the eyes of the blood so absolutely on simple level if you have the gift of sight and at whatever you are don't take it for you know don't take it you know for granted and say thank you that's CLA but on a deeper Lev the mafor say as I say my S right and now of all time it becomes such a dramatic you could we're spiritually blind right we you know I see but I don't know what I'm seeing I'm looking but I don't understand what I'm looking at with the How would how is it describ it's Darkness it's Darkness Before Dawn everybody's been saying that well it must be always been darker Before Dawn you know mo went to power and said okay Power we're out of here he made the work wor and what say get out of here even M what it said before Darkness what you'll see now you don't see because what you see doesn't make sense you don't see you I went to prow and they made things worse so I I don't see death Darkness please open my eyes by saying open my eyes remove my blindness in the spiritual world you're proclaiming I believe there's I believe this is all light and good and or I believe that but I I want to see it can I see it that's what we mean by poke of HEB oh a just popped into my head I heard this from my son Liv Rock he said we say we say everything saate us with your goodness the gorah says someone who can't see is he eats but he he he he's not satisfied there's a big in of food looking pretty it's a whole it's a whole thing but it is true yeah you eat something you can see it it looks like it's more satisfying than you can't say anything you just shove it in your mouth he said we should be able to see hashem's goodness we believe we're getting good but hasm we can't be satisfied with your good because we don't see it if you don't see something you don't appreciate it right so I'm eating food I can't see it taste depends a lot on site and other senses we believe that there's a lot of good out there it's our blindness it's it's not bad it's just covered with Blackness open up our eyes and one last because the fif par so for the teens that are we worry about the label in the style but you should be happy you have clothes to wear in the first place an extra added for it because that's the teen C an adults here right and this week's para yakob you know he has a whole dream with the ladder and he makes a deal with a right if you'll give me and I'll come home safely then I'm gonna get Meer so give me bread to eat bread to eat give me B clothing to wear like what else you do with clothing I obviously wear it don't forget that left and left hole they get little B meaning give me clothing that I realize the purpose of the clothing is just so I should have something to wear the clothing doesn't create who I am we can so many times use clothing to create an image because underneath it we're really empty right you know anybody any anybody can any kind of uniform right you can you can buy anybody can buy a black suit in a black hat anybody can buy a little n yam guy in a solders uniform doesn't make you a soldier right you can buy a la frock doesn't make you a rushes Shiva right you can buy a white coat it don't make you a doctor right we we use clothing to make up for the fact that we're really not comfortable with who and what we really are so we create an image rather than clothing being a reflection of what we believe it to a certain exent therefore yako said give me beged l b give me clothing and I should realize it it's just something to wear to cover my body it's not something that makes me into a somebody Mal Shem is the one who clothes the naked he provides the clothes that we have but we have to remember what all their clothes is if it just makes us non naked it doesn't make us a somebody that we do by our Free Will choices everybody should have a wonderful day and a wonderful week everybody needs yeshu everybody that needs should everybody should uh you know certainly rack up take all theive of so many people are doing so much to using their [Music] talents fortunately right as as a different son told me what he call me a shabus wish me a good shabas he saw a v somewhere I hate to share it but it it it's struck me to the core this this week was the famous part shabas was coob as right that's the big know as we we have ch as right he said someone said unfortunately when is co kako when do we dive in and raise our voices when you die you day ASA when ASA is attacking all of a sudden they were doing when everything is calm and fine we just sort of like forget to thing for the good unfortunately we we've learned that the dramatic change and and but me Israel unfortunately it may take that to happen when it's your diamond day as but look at the beautiful coo and the T because your should listen and all those CL should make a difference in the lives of everybody it's a beautiful wonderful day and week call to R