Parashat Shemot - It's all about the truth! - Rabbi Alon Anava

I started [Music] yesterday to learn my mouth from the normally Miller which we mentioned gave us one of the most important lessons in our of Odessa shame is to know when to stop to think and then to react but Moshe Rabbeinu said a sewer I will move back for a second of course we're referring to the time when he was there when he saw the burning bush a sewer now let me move back the air in and I will see meaning let me not be so impulsive let me stop make an observation think digest and then react we talked about that when Moshe Rabbeinu did that when he saw the burning bush we started the memories today by talking about how one has to be very particular about not letting the Yetzirah fool you that you have mastered your chuhwa because then it's Allah knows how to sometimes give you a time off to give you a break so you you will think that he left you alone and and then he you off your guard and that's when he attacks you we started in them Allah by asking how come there was double two different ways of saying the same thing the beginning it says a snake oil the bush is burning a nano Cal it does not get consumed by the fire and right after that it says Madurai after that he says module when a harness name why is the smell or being consider a eaten of two words of it Ave saying it the same idea but a different way of saying it now we're just going to continue what we didn't finish yesterday we're in the 12 mama in the normally Melek from the parish mode depending on the version you have my version is Paige cough cough cough a 125 if you have a more birthday older a different version it might be a different page but nevertheless if you count what mama you mean this is the mama that starts with all your mama gira allowed Vito her snake we are towards the end in the line that ends with Assuan Ave ray and the lines that we're starting is daddy Colette amendment argument Liga we have mentioned how Moshe Rabbeinu came day after day there was seven days of negotiating between Moshe Rabbeinu and Hashem Moshe Levin who refused to get the job he did not want to be going down to me time he was very happy with his retirement it was 80 years old he had a wife or kids he had a business because I leave me alone money bothering me right now and of course during the time of the good negotiating between a sham and Moshe Rabbeinu mashallah menno still could not understand how the burning bush is being burnt but nothing but it doesn't get too consumed left off by saying that motion Hibino and one we left off sorry by saying that one should be careful from the etc till the last day of his life and and Moses said Asuna I will move away barely let me see what what I can get from that now we continue by saying that Nicolette I mean women legally madruga let Sadiq which referring to us is constantly going from one level to another level cache area tweet buzzer for the toy box mode may motivate I mean when would you go up in your levels from one level to another only when you're going to be very consistent in your banana shrimp and not only that I mean first you have to have consistency can do one day yes one day no one day like this wonder like that you have to be consistent in your without the shrimp in normally that you have to keep be consistent you have to let me do that meat is to be very diligent that service a diligent diligent but it make put your mind to it and and then not to let distractions come and take you away persistence but more than that most important and there you have to apply to things there are the most important or you are without the shame in order to climb from one level to the other one of them is Bay mate and the other one is bitumen we mentioned yesterday that bm8 can be explained as really they met but the more accurate way is to explain it is very met with truth we read it in different in different places also in the know sahaja Holly we say bayonet with a mean but it sounds like the word in Hebrew bayonets really no comes and tells you you want to grow up in your spiritual level can only be babe it's only when you have when you apply truth and Metta mean I mean no Tamim is no time time is with at it and I'm Tammy was a tough and a mem is innocent but we explained a few days ago that Tamim comes from the word Tom like Yaakov a V noia each time you shave volume what is the explanation of Tom a person that doesn't look to to cheat this is a person that is called Tom honest unfortunately we all have that little way a little kid inside that says to you it's okay you can cheat here yes nobody will notice and there you know the ones who walk into the supermarkets and the older the candies there or the dried fruit or whatever there yeah let me just taste I want to make sure that it is the peanuts taste like peanuts you know we always have this little kid that says no it's okay you can cheat here and she there and that can come in many different places in many different ways of course each time is a person that not only that doesn't have an agenda to treat he doesn't want to cheat his agenda is to be honest and when there's a way of maybe the class special omit will be interpreted like cheating oh ha special omit will be cheating right now I know no no no I don't want to have anything involved in it we mentioned a couple times of severe the the the sin that is called gazelle gazelle is a you know very fine line because it's stealing you have to sneak at night through the window or when nobody's watching Gaza lets you do it at broad daylight and it doesn't seem like it's such a such a big deal that is happening so each time a person that is excuse me come in it's a person that doesn't want to have anything to do with a time out with cheating you need to character traits here omit truth and innocence and a person that's not looking to cheat a size availablee data yes secret if a person really is persistent in his abode at the gym more than that is only a way is truth so about truth and more than that each town no agenda for cheating that's how the person comes to a level that the settle has vision settle is the intellect usually the Sahara intellect will be thinking we learned in the morning there are different who'da was the the meeting Reuven is seeing the vision coming from the word a yeah Shimon is the is the hearing coming from the word schmear so we know usually they intellect is about thinking we want to reach to a level that my intellect sees the same way that I see clear in broad daylight or when there's a lot of light or in a good clear day I have good vision I have good vision you know what I can do I can analogy analysis what I see very well if there's no good vision I can't really tell you what I'm seeing like you go to eye exam you close one eye you know the ones who cheat and you know I used to cheat like this why one of my eyes is not so good so I still you know go like this and yeah well my right eye is very good my left eyes are well over the years they deteriorated but you go to I exam they if you if you don't have good vision the the letter is blurry or if you're driving in a car and the windshield is very dirty or strong Wayne you can see in front of you our settle our intellect is it knows how to think that's at least we're hoping that in some people doesn't know how to think some people it's like a grogger in there you move the head you hear so there's nothing much there no hospital nothing has to be another no you want to have not an autopilot you want to be sharp and focus on everything we want to bring the your brain your intellect to a level of seeing and not a thinking when you see something it's very very clear so you want to bring yourself into the level of seeing no Ernie bit its developer it's there you it's not developed you have to reach to that level of course it has to be developed but you want to reach to our level how do you think for example the profits are able to sell prophesy they have what's called the radius elite they're able to see the vision and intellect concept so it comes as a vision that's why I have a profit is a very high level this is kind of like in a dream in a dream this is what's called a legacy fleet now close your eyes and you can vision something this is an imagination but 100 percent thinking is not such a good thing I mean thinking is there I mean depends what your thoughts are but don't forget that 90 percent of your thoughts are not really your thoughts these are called foreign thoughts massive Azara that is not coming from you you need to know how to push it you have to know right away where to put the partition what is your thought and what is the foreign thought I'm already taking it already to a different level and I want my my intellect to be in a level of vision that's why we mentioned yesterday that most people there their vision so to see the but not vision with their eyes rather the way of looking and percept for the perception of the world is not clear so they're very confused they don't know if to live here or live here or work here or work there or should I learn this rather or not most people are confused and we mentioned this today that what's your what most people do now start asking advice and go to this guy who go to that guy they go to this guy and we mentioned that many people when they was seek advice who they want to go to our rabbi like as if the rabbi has all the answers but something the rabbi has an answers the you would you would hope that the rabbi that you go to is a very refined individual that is working on himself then then his vision sees things sharp they see things as they are and he can tell you don't do this don't do that based on the fact that he's in a higher level and he sees things more clear the point is that I want to reach my to the level that my intellect has a very clear vision this is called the EEOC fleet that my intellect is able to so to say see something have an observation and see it the right way why did I sit before the motion of innocence asou or now let me move back and what is he saying where a and I will see much is not seeing with his eyes it's taking in a situation backing off and saying let me analyze the situation and I will see you know sometimes you go to a person and you ask for something he will tell you let me check and I'll see if I can do it let me know I'll see if I can do it what are you going to look if I can do it no you're going to analyze the situation and the options and you will see this is a seeing in your intellect if you can do it or not this is this really this vision that the circle date and it gets this is explained in the book that is called hava Tolliver votes coming well but Kamata liverworts this is a book that is a must to be to learn and to be read written by a bonobo Calle I offered that maybe we should start adding another class to start going through this book there's two books today and a few books that I think we are I don't think it's a must for us to start learning and one of them is haha deliver votes another one is the missile at you show him anyway there's a few other books and there's a definite a few other books that say I think we should put her in our time to learn from one of them is our XI comma but anyways in Hohhot Oliver wrote he is mentioning he's now quoting from karate never what am I saying she saw Mario's nine verbally and I'm person sometimes has here something but not really Sears and see something but not with his eyes Micajah Hooper mother guys oh wow the person is already in this level commercial Sabharwal attaboy Eduardo maybe enough Schumann might bother the toy box for his help so when a person reaches to such a level that his ears are listening but it's not with the actual ear it's listening in a very deep way this is what we said when we were learning in the morning about the oven is the concept of my ear vision and Shimon is the concept of schmear of listening this is a whole different listening you know you can sit and listen to somebody and not really constant what what the person is saying for example every day I spend about 2 or 3 hours on the phone talking with people Oh Hashem we have a very large following online and many people call and ask for advice they wanna ask a question about 2-3 hours every day sometimes it's more then I take phone calls the short phone calls 10 minutes 15 minutes but sometimes I can do something as I'm listening because if somebody just say you know yapping that papapapa nothing nothing that they requires much of an attention and I can do something as as I'm listening most of the time I have to be so attentive because there's a lot of phone calls every day it's not the tire can schmooze on the call so we tell the people you have 10 minutes 15 minutes get your question quick and so don't start telling me the whole you know family tree and where you were born and every name of every bet you had sometimes people like sharing a lot of information which is an irrelevant sometimes I have to be so attentive to listen because if I'm going to miss one word I don't know what to say I don't agree I don't understand what's going on there and then I will have to say I'm sorry I didn't pay attention can you say it again have 10 15 minutes times 242 listen very attentively what the person is saying so I can give a good answer my wife sometimes stands next to visions I don't even know how you live all day long all you hear is people's problems and you have to miss him sometimes you go to a psychiatrist yeah I was like this you know he's I don't know playing on his phone or whatever I don't even know what they're doing there so if I would charge like I said characters we're probably I would feed you a good food here so what you're counting the dollars they're counting the barrels but nevertheless there's a level of listening and a level that you really here that's always what I tell my kids I tell my kids why didn't you do this you didn't say so oh I did I said so I didn't hear well you didn't hear you didn't listen you're heard but you just didn't listen so there are different levels in vision and any hearing like the whole bottle of Avadh says sometimes you can see but not with your eyes Lord Sadiq he doesn't see with your eyes his eyes he sees in a completely different level same thing he would listen in a completely different level it seems sometimes when a person does that that it's diminishing his level of his service of a shame but it just seems like that that's when mashallah man who says a Suhana valet let me move back move back is there not necessarily to back up so how do you say back up back off back up retreat this is not necessarily the most that the ship moshe rabbeinu was backing backing up backing off he says let me diminish right now my level so I can be more of a worthy in a vessel to receive what I have to what I have to see here excuse me maash yeah Moshe knew how to diminish himself how to enough I himself to become San Juan to become humble to be able to receive if I will be applying arrogance or ego or any type of motion I feel myself as an existence or better than the person that is in front of me then I'm not going to be able to receive from them anything not to help them and not just for them to help me if I will go to somebody in the feeling that I'm better than that person for surely that person will not gonna be able to help me and my arrogance will be my stumbling block that's where most people fail because they don't allow another person to help them when do you allow somebody to help you when you are completely paralyzed ha special um a person is sick completely sick then that's where he goes to the doctor doctor help me or when you're sitting behind bars and you need the Lord to come and help you suddenly you become a nice bug I please you know you you remember the word please so but the point is that in order for me to be helped or more that to help it's only if I can minimize myself in order to become a vessel to receive what the other side has to say which in essence it seems seemingly seems like I'm diminishing my level of my Vedanta Shem I'm not I'm just making myself more humble in order to see things more clear or listen hear things more clearer or tell Amma what is he trying to tell us at Sadiq Malki harlot smoke inhalation to make the Tadek so to say I mean we're of course the normal America is talking about us simple people is raising the the way of asking like in in a wave of wonder what does it mean this world wonder um Matt may let's move away ajanta may Maharaj Abbate ladarius it late but don't wave of a snake that's why Moshe Elemeno looked at the fire and he didn't understand why the fire is not burning basically he moved himself away and he brought himself to the level of what this wandering I'm seeing something when I cut out how come it's not burning I wonder I wonder I wonder mahashiv Attila Darius elite motion banner says since I came or you can we can apply to us since I came to a level that I see something in my with my intellect how come the snare is burning and it's not being consumed what's the meaning for that as we mentioned about Jamaat's about smoking so hmm it but without a bow a snare is a bush the burning bush is called snake so which is a very rare word we don't really find it anywhere else that know specifically the word snake nevertheless when the person is able to minimize himself the whole idea what is basically trying to say is that I have to find their weaknesses and my faults and the weaknesses and faults in my service to God and when I know how to do that yesh board I need zurafa and the answer is always going to be saying to you O Muhammad or even above the table we tally the etc is gonna come and give you all these doubts and all these questions basically in other words what we're saying when a person wants to grow spiritually and wants to reach to the level that his intellect his mocking the second is in the level of Raya when you see things it's much more different when you see something and when you understand something that's why now when we learned it's all about giving good analysis analogies and good metaphors that's why unfortunately I have to use a lot of movies because in the movie it's vision it's almost like me going now to a certain country and I coming back and I tell you your mask such a beautiful place really when did you see there the sky there is just gorgeous ok so I know the sky is gorgeous my lady I don't know how gorgeous it is the easiest way to explain it is the person goes to a vacation and he comes back and tells his friend there oh I was in some deserted island you can't even imagine there was a fruit there out of this world can you describe me the fruit I don't know what was the color of the fruit I don't know I don't know how to explain it it was red green yellow blue I don't have such a bad color here I don't know how to explain it okay so how did it taste sour bitter sweet there's no such a taste here so the person that is experiencing it he saw it with his own eyes he see tasted it he has the knowledge now give over the knowledge it's not the same level it's a completely different level so I want to reach to a point that what I'm learning what I'm seeing and what I know is in a way a level of vision that I actually see it you know there's a story that the ballot Anya we were learning from his one of his books in the morning he went to learn by the Megiddo message and the normal American email it from Vizag Romney on score the same eeschema we mentioned that many times about shem tov a student the Maggie Maggie dramas rich and he had a yeshiva and who ever wanted to learn considered went to him and people came from different walks of life from many different places from different countries and they left so to say their path what they were on and they came to run from him there was a big thing at the time everybody the baal shem tov became known that everybody wanted to learn but what is it what is this considered so we find these big names in the world of considered and we we hear about them in stories and and then in the words of torah and and we don't necessarily relate to the fact that they were all in the same issue up so the head of the shiva was the Megiddo message and he and a whole group of students now we're learning from the normal human an element from legions he came from a city collision schism and all the students were named that from where they came from and I really her brother Lucia Lucia Fellini Polly he also was in the Shiva levitra Trimble dicho of aside from Eugene each one came from a different city and each one of course needless to say what a pillory was later on the later ages came I the younger of all the students the Val Italia and he was known as the wish fish snails almond from Lodi they didn't have the Tanya yet he was young Tanya came many years later mizushima I was a warm place in GaN Eden just imagine all these pillars that each one learned from the student of the Baal Shem Tov and then later on went in it and spread the word so when the ballot Anya went back to his hometown after many years they asked him what did you learn in in the message so he said I learned to believe that there's a guy I learnt it as a god every day learn that you didn't know there's a bad before that so the individual that was sitting with him told him everybody knows there's a god and to prove to him he calls the servant the maid servant and he tells her do you believe in God he was like yes tell him you see even the the maid here believes in God the Bala Tonya told him yes she believes in him I know he exists so he reached a level that was already in such a level I don't just believe I can believe in anything I can believe in fairy tales I can believe in the tooth fairy also if I want but there's a big difference when believing and I know I see it well you see something it's a coal different level that's the level that we want to elevate myself that I see things in my inner vision now the way to do it first of all we said you have to be very persistent in your data gem then you have to be Ahmet it's all about of it is they everything has to be truth here and of course has to be we also said Tom no cheating here no cheating anything no cheating me no cheating are people not cheating anything but more than that I have to apply with the motion of Moshe Rabbeinu a sewer now they array as sewers I have to minimize myself I can minimize myself by looking at other people and saying you know what I'm great in this but he's greater than me in that and he's greater than me in that and he's greater than mean and you know the conclusion is that everybody's greater than me I have a good character trait that maybe a good singer a good musician a good cook a good father I don't know a good student but everybody in the world are they have something that is better than me madam i humble myself and I don't see myself that I'm above somebody else but another approach of minimizing myself this is what Moshe Rubino was applying is finding the faults in me if I know to find my fault in me and say you're not amazing or whatever it is I am a hothead I'm very get upset like that well I'm impatient oh I am judgmental if you know how to spot in you your faults that's minimizing yourself that you know to say okay I know what I'm good at I'm good at a B and C but I also know my faults and when I know my faults then I'm able to elevate myself enough without the shame because I know what to work on and of course you need to have me data Nova here you're not gonna find your faults if you're not humble so then you said I don't know that's not a fault this is it's much better than many others but that shouldn't be the attitude that it's much better than many others you know they say it's a lot Robina how much you hate a lot of people they get comfort by the fact that everybody has the same problem so I have a young student that we talk on a regular basis and they say coming from a observant world but he's there unfortunately battling with many men battle and there's their yard claim is liran Xena she was a very observant man and yeah I mean at least Amanda Peet's are you so it's observed man you know what he's observing this is we can't laugh at anybody because you know you you left the etc comes and punch you in your face so so we have to only left with ourselves whenever the nevertheless he would comforts him he keeps selling me everybody does that I said well Simone if everybody does that that means you you do it and what is air everybody fills in something where they gives you an excuse shouldn't be an excuse for you so what so that's a lot of times people they they minimize a deficiency or disadvantage by saying everybody is doing the same thing so what if everybody's doing the same thing not to not around or somebody came and told me can I lie on my taxes if I lie here on the taxes I'll get more money back so he thought he asked for a hotel to lie in taxes I saw I'm sorry I'm like I I don't agree don't lie on his taxes he came with all the explanations the government is corrupt this that Oh tell them listen come here me flying is lying cheating is cheating okay who you cheat I'm really still from stealing is stealing in line is lying doesn't matter what you say you want to come now and be sophisticated he's a crook is this is corrupt why would you even if it's true even if you won will say you know you can cheat a cheater but who cares why would you want to bring on yourself this energy this this idea of life who you rang - at the end of the day who are you cheating it in and of the day you're cheating yourself even if you it's cheating from a murderer you're killing you you said you stealing from a thief who cares if he's asleep why you make you want it why do you want to make yourself a thief what do you think J let's say forget right now is the punishment not a punishment Allah says why would you want to be involved in something negative like cheating why it brings on you that energy of course so the point is that I I was trying to and then what suppose his answer but everybody cheats in taxes so who cares what everybody does if everybody's gonna jump off a roof you're gonna jump off the roof yeah that's what my father is to say the point is sometimes we blame the my faults on the fact that everybody does it that it's fine for me to do it the point is that we have to take from oh Moshe is our teacher that's why we call my obey no motion of innocence let me see how I can elevate myself in Nevada the shame and how can i elevate myself in Nevada the shame I have to be humble I have to first of all be talking only truth that's why mache is called Amit the sons of God when they fell into the pit and got saved they scream Oh shame it better automate some motion sense first of all image no right then you have to become you have to know I have no agenda to cheat anything that's not even to cheat from a from a from a dog cheating is cheating more than that minimize yourself and doesn't mean you have to make yourself a smarty is it you have to look in yourself and says okay what are my faults what are my faults or know what to work on and if I don't do that that I'm myself basically I need to look at myself and say I'm lazy I may whatever Americans I'm am whatever it is when I know how to look at my faults that's how not to minimize myself that's when I elevate myself to a much higher level that needless to say that my vision becomes vision my intellect my McQueen my second is a level of vision not in level of thinking needless to say when the Xsara that's how we can go through the it Sara comes to you with all sorts of questions and doubts then you know where exactly to put the etc to answer him that's why specifically it comes in a way that Moshe Rabbeinu was saying it in a wonder how come the bushes burning and it doesn't get consumed the idea of the of the of the question but nevertheless when a person knows how to apply everything that we just says what does it says it baba who vehicle is a hula doll an insolence of him amend his a-level his memories essence will be blessed elevate higher and higher needless to say for let's submit to him and what we want to take from that something practically is when we we apply that then forget about right now my personal level that I refined myself and I get myself to a higher level but when I apply that I become an example people look at each other and they're trying to find excuses for their faults so if I will now have a fault and I will recognize it in another few people in the room I'm oh I'm not the only one it's okay but the point is that that's needless to say the wrong attitude I have to look around and say okay I know what my fault is let me show the world around how I deal with my fault so I can become an example that others can see oh you know what he also had that look how he changed and when you change don't think that people don't notice your changes people see your change people are able to look at your face people look at your expressions you only see the world that way you don't see how the world sees this way people notice change in the way you walk and the way you talk and the way you pray and their way you everything I have an agenda to be an example and if I can change myself but for to affect somebody else then I reached a much much higher there's a few levels in learning Torah learning for the sake of learning learning for the sake of knowing and learning for the sake of teaching the highest level is too little more the last social element to teach to learn to do and to teach that's a level and I don't have to be emotional benefit that and I don't have to be the chief rabbi of the world I need to be a good individual and saying let me learn to apply so I can show and teach and inspire this is exactly what the agenda of Moshe Rabbeinu that's why it's called Arbor know he got the Tyrol obey no and no that's a leak or navi you can give many titles to Moshe he was a king too we could have called the Moshe Melnik or Moshe javi Oh Masha whatever we call the Moshe Rabbeinu or Benno means our teacher you take everything that Moshe applied as great as it was anything that's what I have to be I have to be a little motion Jimeno I don't I don't have to be such a high level I need to show example to the people around me and needless to say when it comes to my small circle to my kids to my neighbors is called the enable dogma hiya give example give an example hey you gonna affect other people it's a much much higher level than you focusing just on yourself and of course a lot of people will come in are you here let me first worker myself then I want to inspire the people no you have to do milk until ago and affect other people that will elevate you by default don't wait for you to refine yourself that might take much longer just give an example even though it might you might get an argument you by being fake by being fake let me show to the world how something can be done and other people can pick up on that and by default that will elevate me where I need to be elevated it's not a shame should always have the ability to apply everything that we learned I should have the the clarity in our mind to see things the right rate to be able to become an example and needless to say to be refined to a level that we can cause a lot enough to the calash bajo [Music] you [Music]