R' Yitzchok Fingerer on "Achieving Greatness In Your Life"

ladies and gentlemen welcome to the community center where tonight kazak is once again honored and privileged to host RAB finger before we begin tonight's event uh just a few quick and important announcements uh regarding upcoming uh events and programs first of all every night for the men we have a learning program 8:30 to 10: p.m. uh classes in Hebrew English and Russian uh the many different topics we really encourage you to come that's uh 8:30 to 10 p.m. 8:15 is my also at 10 o'clock is my please come spread the word Wednesday nights we're we have RAB laan who gives a special class on the par and we have a few other AB that do gamar you know mus and various other topics if whatever reason you can't come at night uh or if you could come at night and you could come in the mornings we have a morning learning program that we're involved with it's called the AA morning Cola it's in rabbi obam sh and Q Garden Hills the program there it starts at 9:30 a.m. till about 11:30 a.m. um there's 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will really benefit from that so uh that's kak radio.com the new kazak magazine came out you'll see a few copies over there at the entrance please feel free to grab one um and whoever wants to sponsor future events and lectures please come and see me with that being said is my honor to call upon my very good friend the author of search Judaism and a few other far and books the founder and director and uh and and operation manager the person behind Brooklyn Jewish experience right and it's my honor to call upon RAB finger who will be speaking about achieving greatness in your life random love [Applause] me want to thank Rob for creating such a dynamic and vibrant organization of kazak I'm your biggest fan and I wish you B only continued success you should go from strength to strength and your tremendous tremendous AES on behalf of the also want to thank another organization that does phenomenal work Tor anytime to any time is just a wonderful organization again I'm their biggest fan do such wonderful work and I believe that they're reaching now 5 million hours of Tera learning a year which is probably unparalleled and um it's something that's uh a inspiring uh and I was told to announce that there's a new option in the app called follow me where if your favorite speaker gives a new presentation or sh or lecture or class you could click on that and then you get an update notice when they're speaking the next time okay that was my little introduction are you tired of being average run-of-the-mill mediocre resting on your laurels and stagnating don't you want to be great of course you want to be great so how do you achieve greatness how do you rise to the top and Ascend to the Apex and climb to the summit of majesty of greatness and what is greatness and how do we achieve it how do we reach it so I want to share with you was a woman who she was in her 70s not that old she was Crossing Main Street and very tragically very unfortunately in the prime of her life she was an active grandmother wonderful lady she was struck by a vehicle and she was sent immediately to the hospital but she was pronounced dead and she ascends to the heavens and she says to God she says I don't understand it's too premature it's too early I have so much more to accomplish I don't want to die and God said you know what give you you're right I'll give you another 20 years she says really was that easy says yeah go back she goes back and she says I have a new lease on life this is wonderful so she never liked her nose she gets a nose job she never liked her face she gets a facial she starts getting Botox and she gets a face lift and she gets lios suction and she looks great and then she's Crossing Main Street again the next week and bang she's hit again by another car and she goes up there she's dead and she says God I don't understand you told me I get another 20 years he said it's you I didn't recognize you how do we change let's talk about change so I think in order to understand how we could achieve greatness and how we could really climb the latter to success in life and change and become who we want to be we have to look atos his ethics of the fathers MOS was really comprised of five five chapters the sixth chapter that we're going to learn this shabas this week is really just an addendum it's not the actual peros it was added later on more ancillary to the actual peros because actual pus was only comprised of five chapters the six was brus that was added in anticipation of shabos which was King and Torah how to acquire Torah scholarship Torah learning but really there's in essence five chapters of is a repository of wisdom that's Tor shabal that comes from Sinai the adages the maxims the phraseology the the superal Supreme wisdom of our sages on how to conduct how to live a good healthy wholesome happy fulfilling life so let me ask you a question don't you think that inos in the very end would be encapsulated the greatest wisdom because of course in life you have the penultimate and then you have the ultimate the culmination when it comes to fruition and the very end of aice you would think would be the message and whoever is delivering the message is the messenger the great communicator the greatest of the greats And yet when we look at the end of a the end of parake who is delivering the message none other than Ben bbog and Ben he HEI it sounds like a joke hey hey what does this mean turn over the Torah Plum the depths of Torah because everything is contained in the Torah as says there's nothing that's not encoded or encrypted in the Torah that's Ben B's message and he continues Ben HEI says le sagra as Babe Ruth famously plagiarized from and ofos no pain no gain according to the effort is the reward according to the pain is Agra is the payback is the payment is a reward that's been BB hey he delivering the ultimate message and this is how AOS is concluded it's a letdown maybe it's not a letdown who has been bugbug and who has been hay they must have been so renowned they must have been so prestigious there must have been such great schol and so Pious such sadim if they are the ones to deliver the final message but who are they is Ben the in the or perhaps they are similar to benaz Ben zaa who are mentioned repeatedly in the talmud in the gamar with the appalation Ben a b their true names are disguised and concealed and the point out that the real names were shim shimai shim but they were called benaz and Z because they were young some say that they died young and they weren't they weren't ordained and that's why they were known by their father's names and some suggest the same with Ben bag Ben HEI but the rajam May brings down Bash a fascinating approach to who the identities of Ben bagbag and Ben are and he says that Ben bagbag and may one approach and one opinion is that they were GM they were converts and they were fleeing Roman persecution because of their conversion and therefore these names were sort of sudonym or Nome de plumes so that they wouldn't be found by the Romans that that were persecuting them but he says they were converts and there's an opinion that says and this is absolutely intriguing that the reason why they were given the name Beni is because they were the spiritual descendants of Abraham and Sarah the first converts in the world the first subscribers to monotheism that actually spread monotheism in the world and SAR and Abraham they had names before s and Abraham the original names were Sarai and AR Sarai became s she got a hate to her name and abam became Abraham he gets a hate his name similarly whoever Ben B and he were their nature as converts is alluded to in the fact that they became hay because just like Sarai becomes Sarah and ab becomes Abraham and Hayes are added to their names whoever Ben HEI was he becomes hey hey as a throwback to Sarah and Abraham the two Hayes and Ben bag would have also been called Ben HEI but in order to distinguish and differentiate in order to understand that there were two identities and two individuals and two personalities therefore he couldn't have also been Ben HEI for the he Abraham and the hey of Sarah and therefore he was known as Ben bagbag because b bbog b is baz gimmel and a baz is a two and a gimmel is a three that's five so B is really hey and the next B is also hey it's five and five hey and hey for the hay of s and the hay of abam and the says if I'm not mistaken that these two individuals these two great these two great were the were the fathers of G which is a little complicated to make such a statement because while it may be true that there was more of a prevalence and predominance of converts in the world then than Bal Chua than people that grew up Jewish but secular and changed around their lives because most of the people are probably observing it at that time but to say that they were father of converts is challenging because if you look at peric of peros we at list the zugos in the very beginning the special peers of tanim the ninth if I'm not mistaken entry is of sh aalon andalon says the banura means aalon is aric foran for small for children because he was the a Talon he was the father of Orphan children he was also the aan hedin the azdin but the banura says that they were converts to Judaism and they were descendant of SV SV was nefarious notorious Wicked Russia who tried to destroy the Jewish people the melik ashar the king of Assyria who eventually was succeeded and vanquished by Babylonia but he predated Babylonia in his attempted subjugation of the Jewish people and he laid SI toes in the time of Isaiah and as it recorded m b the Jewish people were Panic stricken after all the great Army s was a World Conqueror he was a very dangerous man a megalomaniac and his intention was utter destruction and genocide the Jewish people were beside themselves in worry the master Universe gives a prophecy and he says don't worry he says they will be destroyed as they lay Siege to your hom town to the holy city of Jesh the Kava and this is what happens in the middle of the night the greatest army in the world you're talking about Stellar generals 185,000 troops or generals According to some opinions were smoked with a plague of AA aak and suddenly drop dead and die and the Jewish people of course barem a miracle occurs for them interesting thing is is that when SAR Retreats and F F back to his capital city of nve he goes to his Idol to his AAR to beseech and implore that with his and to ask that he be recouped his losses and the humiliation and shame that he encountered and he made a promise a solemn oath and vow and he said those whatever is most precious to me I will give to you if I am victorious and his two sons heard this adik and szer two sons of and obviously they had very healthy sense of self-esteem you know it was good that these children had healthy sense of s they hear the father saying whatever is most precious to me I will deliver to you they said he must be talking about us who does he love more than us it's good for children to feel like that well but in this situation they went ahead and they figured they'll have to kill their father before he kills them and sacrifices them to the altar as was very prevalent human sacrifice and that's how s met his Bitter End let me ask you a question the fact is is that this miracle a great great miracle is attested and corroborated by Herodotus and Josephus and many secular historians and even today the past 10 years archaeological research has demonstrated very conclusively and definitively that hezekiah's tunnel tunnel and everything that was recorded MIM is accurate but why would sh of Italian the Great the great holy ones the righteous ones the pious devout ones why would they descend from s why should s have such a and I would think that you know what an unprecedented Miracle occurred on the account of s 185,000 troops would you hear such a thing just die instantaneously unattributed you could do a post morm they wouldn't find there was no reason for obviously it was a miracle and the fact is is a of course it was correlated with the fact that there was a prophecy delivered that they would die such a miracle no stone goes unturn M every person is rewarded even if he does it unintentionally he's rewarded for the positive outcome of the trua that results because of people are inspired that's why the gor says elsewhere the B sham even ham the evil H his children either this or Li where they learned or they actually even were disseminators they teachers of Torah in because ham again there was such a colossal Monumental chuba amongst the Jewish people never before occurred because of Hon's actions therefore he had to be rewarded but let's go back were they the first G were they not the first G I don't know but what's the lesson to be learned here why in the world would God allow that MOS should conclude with the authors Ben B he who were G were converts to Judaism what is a lesson here and I think it's such a beautiful lesson to teach us how to ascend to greatness because God is saying if you want to understand what life is all about it's not to be from from from birth called ffb but from by choice FBC I'm not even referring to the emic situation of people observing yish Kai Judaism to wrote and habit I'm talking about the issue where we don't think about why we're doing things and we don't make a conscious decision to why I'm observing yish kind and Judaism am I from by choice am I from from birth from by birth fbb or FBC comes along the torad Ben HEI and parake begins with the fact that there were 20 Generations where God was infuriated IAP with his people his handiwork with humanity and he says what a dismal failure all you people are from Adam to no decadence immorality travesty catastrophe no to Abraham oblique dismal reality corruption debou y everything wrong comes along and it says rectifies and redeems everybody he's the greatest he's the best Rashi says why because because was the first one to make a conscious effort to change Humanity to change the world to help convert people to prosze people to make people understand you don't have to rest on your laurels you don't have to stagnate you don't have to be average you don't have to run in the- Mill you don't have to be mediocre you could be great you could be amazing you could be at the top of the world and when did AB start this abam started this according to the rim when he was 52 years old listen to this AB M was born in 1948 not the secular year the 1948 of creation 194 + 52 is the year 2000 garim says do you remember y 2K everybody each and every one of us in this room I know you want to pretend to be young but nobody's that young here in this room everybody's over 14 years old you all remember Y2K who was panicking Y2K who went ahead and built a Subterranean tunnel in their house and went ahead and went to keyfood and went to Target and bought out the store and bought batteries all right now everybody's embarrassed to admit it okay I'll raise my hand I did it okay right the world was going to end at Y2K well the original Y2K of the world was a year 2000 according to thear the gar there from 0 to 2000 were the years of tou Oblivion were the years of desolation of emptiness of void it was vacuous the world empty of spirituality but from the years 2000 to 4,000 were the years of Torah scholarship Torah learning and the year that abrau started sharing the message of monotheism and Judaism with the world was precisely the year 2000 1948 plus 52 and he's 52 years old and had a to start in the world not with panovich not with brisk not with Lakewood not with Mir torus started with converts torus started with Bali Chua with people that changed around their lives because that's what God wants to see he doesn't want to see people Immaculate Conception born out of Holiness he doesn't want to see fake arai he wants to see the genuine sincere conviction of people that strugg of the Ben he who worked hard sorry says that converts have they feel persecuted sometimes they feel Afflicted and thear wants to know why they suffer GED said that righteous converts and theor gives four opinions the first T is R said says that the reason why converts suffer is because of what they did in their past lives when they were Gentiles they didn't observe perhaps the seven laws and therefore they have to suffer now that's that's why they suffer as Jewish people as converts RI though gives a different opinion RI says that's not the reason why they suffer because they cannot be punished based on previous lives after all the gar says the Christian Movement the southern Baptists have something called a born again right you go to the Bible Belt everybody's born again the Jewish people were the first one that comes with that concept where if you undergo conversion you are born again says to I'm sorry wrong doesn't make sense he says so why did g suffer in this world he says because they not Prof in the mitzvos they're newbies at it they're freshman at it they have to start learning the ropes and they make mistakes and that's why they suffer asks the AR l the great ringer a fascinating question he says Kan doesn't agree with this the fact that a convert is re is a renewal is a newborn entity how could he argue after all it's says that there are three individual ual in this world call uping they have clean slates TBL Rosa everything that they've done in their lives is cleaned away they're reborn a new who are these three people a convert a a groom and a somebody that gets a good Stella all right a six figure salary no B to bother him we can learn all day it doesn't exist right such he's also it's interesting these three people get a free pass sh me right you know as a matter of fact it's interesting because there's a Ron that says something very interesting he says if a guy converts to Judaism living in a Israel so since he's a newborn baby he's a newborn child he has to follow the rulings of Moran of the M because he has no progenitors he has no ancestors he has no lineage and therefore since he was born in Earth Israel he has to subscribe to the there's a actually interesting Y in where he says that we normally have that says that if somebody's elderly you have to rise for that person I know certain people when they go on the bus in order to get discounts they pretend you know to be I'm a senior citizen right and then there are senior citizens that refuse use to take the discount cuz they don't want to be considered to be old so they fight now I have to full have to pay full fair you know I'm not old well you have to stand up for an elderly person how old is that person most P say the person is 70 years and older according to the Y if somebody converts and the person can be 89 years old or 90 years old they convert when they're 90 years old you do not have to stand up for that person because the person is a newborn child it's funny it makes it sound like the person can't go to a geriatric doctor you got to send the person 89y old to a pediatrician and give them teing you know and diapers you know it sounds funny we don't posing like that as a matter of fact it's a that says that the is is that a person is allowed to be punished by a Earthly court for doing an infraction for doing a transgression or violating a Prohibition of the Torah so he's punished by Earthly court at 13 years old but let's say nobody saw the guy was he thought he was lucky because there were no Witnesses but shamayim sees everything sh though the Heavenly tribunal the Heavenly Court does not punish until a person is 20 years old says when it comes to somebody who's a convert or or who gets a nice position until 20 years pass they're off the hook because shamay doesn't judge until they're 20 years old they're considered to be newborns don't tell this to any newly married couples especially the guys they think that the first 20 years are allowed to get away with anything they want don't share this information you didn't hear from me okay then I'll have a lot of knock more than I could handle okay so the or ask a question he says what is Kan do with this Kan again was of the opinion that the reason why gum suffer in this world is because they're punished for what they did Asus in their Gentile stage but they're newborns says they are Gil gulum they're like reincarnated souls and yes they're reborn but they still have to Pense they still have to pay back and compensate for what they did in their previous incarnation in their previous lives re and the other hand holds that there's not a GLE over here it's actually a creation exilio it's a creation of a new entity from scratch no past and then there's a third opinion very very very kada to discuss the third opinion abahan and abahan says the reason why G suffer in this world is because a g acts out of OCD obsessive compulsive disorder sometimes it's not only gar it's us from people as well born into Judaism that sometimes the reason why we do a Mitzvah is because Neurosis is because we're afraid oh I don't want to go to geham Are You Afraid Of Hell Christian hell and the Jewish hell very very different I don't want to go to geham I don't want anything to happen to me my milh what happened you're not doing it out of love you're not doing because you rever the abish you're not doing it because the B because God in heaven is somebody that's Majestic somebody Grand amazing you're doing it because you have fear out of europeo that's not good not good and therefore the G suffers because of that according to AB because he got to do things out of love because he all Struck from God from the almighty and then comes along the fourth and last opinion that's aim and says you know why they suffer in this world and this is so beautiful this is so poignant and Salient you know why they suffer they suffer because they didn't convert sooner they procrastinated it was a protracted experience and as soon as they had that burst of inspiration where they said this is the objective definitive conclusive Ironclad this is it they should have immediately converted but they waited a week a month two months a year you know we can relate to that everybody in this room can everybody listening everybody viewing this can you get inspiration you listen to a Shure you listen to a darta you read a book that's inspirational and you say wow I'm going to change I'm going to be better I'm going to be different but not not not now uh tomorrow uh next week next year I go to a life coach I go to a psychologist they give me a good idea oh well I go to a parent for advice I go to a sibling for advice and they give me good advice I go here I go there no no and you lose the momentum instead of being galvanized instead of catapulting yourself forward and says that's why the G punished and that's why everybody's punished because when a mitvah comes to your hand don't let it ferment don't let it atrophy seize the moment we have to have ality and zest and Zeal and a Gusto to perform Mitzvah don't let it e so much to learn the says something fascinating he says that g those that change your lives around have the highest most Sublime superal and of luin and PRI sadic says that the gim have a very intimate Inseparable connection to T in particular because torab the written law the five books of the Torah it's basically handed to us in a silver platter but t sh evolved in a certain sense because it was a transmission from seni itself from God but from teacher to student from parent to child but in order to understand it in order to be a receptical to behold it and to Fathom it it takes AOS it takes work it's arduous to sweat through it and only somebody who's changes around the life can have such an intimate person connection to T and that's why Dar says that is RAB mayor and RAB AKA who are really the Patriarchs the fathers of T because they were both either GM or from GM and the gr says that the G is on such a high level that while a Jew an ordinary Jew in order to enunciate hashem's name we have to first precede hashem's name with two tavos with two words in order to say the word hasem we have to say but what does he say right away he only uses one t to preced the word says because he's on such a holy level and you think about Raba for a moment according to ran and say for sh which is a book on esy where the speaks about fascinating by he seems to allude to the fact that R was holy his entire life however there's a dispute about this there's a debate because of RIT and the and the med and many other sheas hold there the first 40 Years of his life was anit Gore was an ignoramus and was a bore and he violated the words of the and the words of the sages and he trespassed and yet look how he changed around his life becoming the great R the says that he exceeded mosh the father of all prophets he eclipsed mosu the holy Misha the says that he met a very bitter end after 120 years he lived 120 years 80 years of his life was spent learning Torah after 40 years of being not religious the says though that if somebody's Tor somebody's learning Torah they impervious they are immune and they're rendered innocuous to harm and even if the persecutors and the anti-semites attempt to harm them it doesn't happen so how could it be that rabika when he was learning Torah was subject to the torture the persecution lacerated awful awful barbaric torture where he screams out and says that the reason for this was was Payback because AKA reab AA was a gilo Reincarnation of yob patriarch Jacob yobu and Y Vu even though the birth firstborn ancestral first born Rights was really his because he was the T because he was the first one conceived from the mother Rifka and really he should have received the but he did it in an illicit way he did it in a way that was unethical and it caused creation of hashem's name and the go the Romans for years and years alleged and insinuated that Jews are criminals Merchant defense and n as Shakespeare he says in order to rectify that aov had to come back in the body his soul had to come back in the body of reaba and suffer from says a different idea he says that because Yakov married two sisters Ro again that wasn't his initial plan it wasn't his it was a it was the postf facto scenario because he was betrayed and beged by his very unethical father-in-law named laon but he did marry two sisters which ended up being a violation of a Torah precept not to marry two sisters ran says that it was okay at the time because even though the Patriarchs did observe the Torah they did not do so outside of the land of ER and they did not observe certain mitzvah but still it was a violation and therefore he had to suffer and he came back as EO butal says and AR is a more definitive and authoritative Source on this because he specialized in the area of gulum and he says that if you look at the word the letters AKA is the same oio as Yakov and he explains that Yakov did a heinous thing Yakov perpetrated a terrible sin because we know that y was scorned and despised and hated by his brothers rightfully so his brothers thought that he was trying to usurp the role of King from Yehuda and the role of firstborn rights from ruin and that he was a troublemaker and instigator in trying to instigate a coup and therefore they hated him they wanted to do away with him because they thought that he was causing enmity and strife and hatred but Yakov vinu knew that Yosef wasn't liked by his brothers and what does he do he sends yoseph the vulnerable susceptible yoseph the lad into the lion's den he says Joseph yoseph I don't know where your brothers are they're lost perhaps I hope they're okay who are you wor they're okay there 10 of them yph go find them what are you doing sayar always punished for that eventually when they reunited after 22 years they Embrace each other father and son and Yakov and they say Sha but it wasn't sufficient and therefore Yakov has to come back as Sol us reincarnated to's body and he says sha while being tortured by the Romans there are many many different opinions there's another sheet that holds that the reason why the rans were able to get him even though he was learning Torah was because of the 40 years that he violated precepts of kazal but whatever it is according to many opinions Raa the greatest of the great of the greatest of the holiest of the holies was not born holy was not born infallible had struggles and had to persevere despite the challenges despite the turbulence and despite all the distractions and diversions and outside influence es and he rose to become the greatest of the greats rebar and hinis who one of the greatest most famous tanim the sixth if I'm not mistaken most mentioned Tana in the gar the author of pzer interesting if I'm not mistaken the says that if you look in pbar it starts and it's a tradition brought down by the him that an author should always encrypt and code their name in the first few words of the saer the I'm not mistaken alzar Hines to show that he was the author of PR alzar Hines was the miss attests about him that he was the greatest T of Z and that he was a he retained all of Torah Torah he was the epitome the personification of Holiness but who was he really you know who he was H he was a young man whose father probably accused him of being autistic Aspergers learning disabled and his father relegated him to doing menial tasks his father was a real estate magnate owned properties and Fields and put him to work and denied him an education terrible terrible thing cuz he he didn't understand his child rear Ben hin is he didn't understand his child hin is and it's such a lesson in life to parents you must there's nothing more important in this world that getting to know your child or children spending infinite amount of time getting to know their personalities or character traits how to guide them how to coach them how to discipline them but had to love them in the way that they need and horin is made a terrible blunder and elzar's soul was craving at auka yearning for Holiness and he escaped and he ran to ur is and he joined the academy Thea of Y and zagi and he ascended to such greatness that he was a of the class his father in the meantime was terribly terribly terribly upset his father couldn't get over the loss of his son and he decided that he was writing elezar out of the will and he wanted to do it in the most authoritative way possible and he decided to travel to the greatest Rabbi in the entire Generation Y Zaki to make sure that it became law that his son elezar is expelled and evicted from his ancestry from the will and denied his inheritance and he gets there and Rak orchestrates that who should be teaching the academy in that day when all the scholars from the city were gathered together a whole assemblage of the greatest greats and who is teaching elezar and the father is sitting in his mouth as a gape he can't believe it he's stunned and shocked and he gets up there and he says I was just and this is recorded Inn he says I was just going to write him out of the world instead I want to write all my other children out of the will and leave everything to him says you're not howow to do that hin is wasn't born to Holiness wasn't born in fallible wasn't born great but achieved greatness through a lot of hard work and through real izing his dream and not giving up his own teacher according to manyas who also lived 120 years the first 40 Years of his life was not religious H thear tells us that the time of H thein the great rabis with the and they had a question related to the Caron PES the Pascal Lam they didn't know what to do and there's great controversy great debate and all of a sudden this Babylonian hillo comes to town and he paskin for them and they make him the Nasi which shows theous humility of the B had they willing to give up their position something we can all learn from amazing who is hillo where did he come from nobody knows but the greatest lesson I think could be gleaned from none other than mosenu himself what was mosh who was he so there are many Ron that say when he was born to he was good he was amazing the house radiated it exuded and epest with Holiness and light because he was born circumcised gal he was born perfect but there are others that say not so simple as a matter of fact there's a famous Ro where he brings down a very controversial opinion and story I'm going to recite it even though I think it's probably been disproved although there are those that still want to entertain it that there was a king from an Alien Nation a contemporary of moshu heard about the great Wonders that mosu facilitated on behalf of Hashem to liberate and emancipate the Jewish people from Egypt and he was so a struck he says I have to know more about this man so he had specialists in his cabinet that knew physiognomy that knew how to decipher the true personality of the person based on the lines and the forehead and the creases in the face and he employed them to go find mosenu in the desert he employed special Artisans and artist to go find moshu and to make an exact portrait of moshu so that his other people could decipher based on physiognomy and tell the truth about moshu so the artists go they come back and now he gives it to this team to decipher and they look at it and they study it very intently and they say this man is a fraud he's a charlatan he's really a crook this man he didn't know they they weren't told who they're interpreting it's part of the double blind study they said he's just a hobo that spends his time under a bridge a vagrant and the King was infuriated he says you're the experts obviously you don't know anything you've been playing with me the whole time you don't know anything and he wanted to execute he wanted to kill them and they said no we're sure we are super proficient this we're super expert this is our expertise this is our Forte we know what we're talking about so then he goes to the people that painted moshu the artist and he says you lied to me you betrayed me you deceived me how dare you you w to some you know hick town and you know got me some redneck he didn't go to moso they said no we promise you it's now snake there's two contradictory verses here two different opinions how do you reconcile and he realizes that he doesn't want to kill innocent people he doesn't want to shed innocent blood he has to go to the desert himself and The Story Goes this is just a legend probably a fairy tale but he goes to the desert and he asks eventually for an audience with mosenu and he sits him down and he says listen I'm torn I'm embarrassed to tell you what they said about you and mosh says stop in your tracks he says they're both right it's all true my inner character traits he says are not good all the above are true but he said I had to work on myself and work on myself and work on myself and that's how I became Who I Am the says that every Jew could become a moshu amazing amazing if we put our hearts and Minds to something to grow to change our bad M we could do it says the r even though the says from his waist down it says he was just a regular ordinary human being from his waist up it says he Wasim and Mos goes to see it says goes you're going to see the God because MOS was like God say and say others showed him it wasn't that he was a god from birth that's the Christians that's not Judaism it's May Abasi from his hard labor from his sweat and toil from leum SAR Agra from recognizing that according to the effort is a reward no pain no gain that's how he achieved becoming the greatest of the great and that's why the gor is so interesting says where does mosu appear in the Torah what kind of questions this asks all the mosh is ubiquitous he's everywhere in the Torah every place every time he's just so replete the Torah so repet references explicit and even Illusions to MOS what do you mean where is Mos in the Torah if you want to speak about somebody who wants to mention the Tor in the five books you want to ask says can understand but Moshe says something so profound and so Earth Shing and so beautiful you know what he says he says the gamor was asking how do we know mosha how do we know that he was just human just like us how do we know that and the gamar answers ausk from the end of barus in the time of the Mable where the P says and the P continues what does that mean according to the SPM I don't want any human being to judge and think that I put my RI my spirit into a human being and made them into a God bisham who B because they are also flesh and blood and the gamar says this is an illusion to mos in the Torah the verse here and the specific words B because he is flesh and blood and the posture continues that's why the maximum lifespan of a human being the mortality of a human being the greatest longevity is 120 years and the say this is an exact reference to mosu who lived precisely 120 years and not longer to show that mosu himself was also human the OAS and the rad sorno say that the 120 years here mentioned in the PK is not referring to moso rather it's referring to the fact that God gave the darul the generation of deluge because they were so immoral and they were sinning God said I'm going to give you a chance I'm going to give you 120 years to redeem yourselves to do penitence to do chuba but the ran says that this is proof very clear proof that God doesn't hide anything and that Human been being is culpable and human being is responsible for his actions and no human being is God and the M Bar says that even though M spent 40 days and 40 nights he was still human he's still regular Mara asks why teach us this Lon within the framework of the dul what's a connection to mosu and he says because the way that God showed his Providence in the world and that God intervenes in human Affairs and worldly Affairs is when God separated the Earth was UN inundated with water and God made dry land Basha that there could be habitable Earth BN the people sinned God said I am retreating so to speak I'm going to conceal myself and the waters came back to envelop the world but moshu was the one when he did the splitting of the sea as a vehicle of Hashem again there was dry land and that's the connection because mosu even as a human being reached Such Great Heights that he was able to restore theh of God in the World rosha Feinstein somebody from our world Our Generation pastory in 1986 was so holy the robin sh the Reby of all the diaspora everybody that knew him says he was the Paragon the Paradigm of humility of greatness you know that there's a story that there was an almana Widow who wanted to know every arom Kipper whether she is allowed to take her heart medicine and she got a little compulsive that because I mean after all if it's one year it's permitted why should the next year and not be permitted of course it's permitted the next year as a matter of fact the person is more aged now but every single year she would call rosha Feinstein on his phone and arum ker is a very busy time for a RV I could attest to it to myself it's a very busy time as a r AR Kipper preparing the Dres the daving shilas MOA Rob of of clro imagine how many and the woman called him and he took the coal and went through all the medicines with her one year she didn't call him and she was staying by her daughter and the daughter gets a funk on every she's all harried and she's all busy and hello you know you're like who's this bothering me on the phone now right who's this pest it's mosha Feinstein what it's like you know get a call from the White House mha fining traced down the woman to find out why she didn't call if she's okay was mha Fon born like that there's a famous story that he had a vill Shas very very expensive book of the talud he was sitting there studying it was a very long time ago they had inkwells and there was a kid maybe was down syndrome something was you know developmentally disabled and he was playing around near rosha and accident he went ahead or maybe intentionally he went ahead and took the ink well and Spilled it and the gamor was ruined and what of my should do instinctively impulsively he reached out to embrace the child to hug the child he didn't have to think about it you know most of us react first go you know take a deep breath breathe in breathe out I'm not going to lose it I'm going to stay calm instinctively impulsively was he born like that I heard from an intimate from a family member of mosha is like that he said about himself that he was prone to getting angry at a temper but he worked on himself the was renowned for for not speaking said about himself that he's the most sociable creature he loved gossiping he loved talking but he worked on himself that's what life is about this is what the human being is about says the going and it's magnumopus Evo you want to know what the whole Torah is about you want to know what religion is about you want to know what CL is about you want to know what the Torah is about what yish gu is about it's about one thing mid is to engage in self-perfection and becoming a better person but Holiness once you work on achieving it what is Holiness there was a very holy man who spoke about the generations from other and we said there was a big problem a severe critical problem because decadence and immorality emptiness but Seven Generations removed from other men seven is of course a special number seven you may sh May Shabbat seven continent seven musical notes seven denote something very very special seven generations from and seven generations from was mosu says the Torah was so holy and so exceptional so unique that took him from this terrestrial world and he's no longer cuz he was so holy but there's a problem here because according to yish Holiness is not about hibernating it's not about being in the Himalayas it's not about retreating Holiness is about engaging with the world and trying to help others says a you know what it means a it means there was nothing left of him he had no teachings in the world left he had no because he didn't try to impact the world and that was what made arino exceptional unique cuz aru could have maybe become even greater and Holier but he realized that true Holiness is measured not by engaging himself the self but in reaching out to others and assisting others in helping change them and bringing them to Holiness as a matter of fact interestingly enough as says the says that was a Shoemaker zor says he was a Shoemaker he says why was he a Shoemaker because he was so holy that he recognized the fact of when Cain when C killed heel the Earth was contaminated was impure because it was soaked with blood and nobody was allowed to step on it Barefoot because then they subject their souls of their feet to the tum of to the contamination that's why would make shoes says that the Z says that every every Stitch that stitched in the shoe he was he United God's name say how could he do that you imagine you go to a pharmacist or you go to a car mechanic and he's breaking he's fixing your car and while he's fixing your car he's saying right you say the guy's you know off his rocker you don't want him do that you want to make sure that you know your engine is okay if he's distracted if he's in Celestial Heights he's not going to do a good job say it's not ethical for him to be a Shoemaker and to do this he says no that's not what he was doing what he was doing is that every tier every Stitch he wanted to make sure was the best the most fit so that the recipients of the customer should feel that he got the best quality the best product in the world and that's what it means but despite all that his Holiness was compromised because he wasn't NE because he didn't make Souls the Zohar tells a story about a fellow who sinned in his thoughts and a person that sins in his thoughts has to bring a carbon Ola but there's a sliding scale a poor person brings birds and a rich man brings animals this guy was a cheapo he was very very frugal and uh stingy and maybe cheap and instead of bringing the animal he brought Birds and the Cory looks at him and he's coming in with a Lord and Taylor you know suit and pro the shoes and they say hey hey get out of here and he felt so dejected and so despondent he goes home and they look why are you so depressed he says because they threw me out they they said well what' you bring said I brought Birds said you're not going to bring Birds you have to bring an animal he says really it's just for having a thought I have to bring an animal he says how much more so if I actually did the sin what would I have to bring and he said I'm changing my life around he was a big businessman a wealthy guy the whole entire night from then on he spent learning Torah and he became known says asud the other Yehuda because he changed his life around we could do it too we could change but it change is in small steps you don't have to change overnight you don't have to make Quantum leaps but to take baby steps and recognize I have a character trait that I could work on one hour today two hours tomorrow 3 hours the next day and slowly but surely you can become a re ke but it's never too late you become a mayor you become AAS hin is you become you become a h you could become because he's also Flesh and Blood don't judge and don't think I put my spirit in the human being I didn't every human being was created with flesh and blood but they achieved as R says do with their hard work because as the Mna ends SRA I have to tell you in my role as the r of bjx of Brooklyn jwi experience I see every single day every single day people I am so spoil I am Mish orru people that change around their lives it's not easy not easy when I come into the room they want to show me respect I said no no no the other way around you're the ones that deserve the respect you're the ones that did such Monumental pivotal changes in your lives where a guy was fed for breakfast every day by his mother baking and eggs imagine what his cholesterol triglycerides like right and he gave up everything to take on a life of teror and it wasn't easy for him because he recognized the truth or somebody who grew up from and had a very bad experience no fault of his own and went away from yish kite but says I'm willing to give it another shot and even though he could have a lot of cheap Pleasures in the world he makes up that he's going to go for real fulfillment that's amazing so we're about to encounter the of really literally means an appointment lar says the that God said how is TUS supposed to learn but may ins sconed en wrapped in May May means Joy it means an appointment with God it means happiness because that's what 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