When was the last time you sought after G-od? When you find him ALL problems disappear! Rabbi Anava

[Music] We are in a very very aus aspicious time throughout the Jewish calendar which is called the three weeks. And I'll explain very soon why I call it aspicious and not a negative time. Amen. We associate the three weeks with a very negative time because many negative things happen from Tamuz the 17th of Tamuz till the 9th of A but when bad things happen also good things happen because that's the way Hashem created the system King Solomon says everything that is create created has a polarity And it doesn't matter if it's in the spirit spiritual tense or in the physical tense. So everything has a polarity. So if there's bad has to be good. There's not just bad. So when something negative happens at the same time know that something good happens. There's no nothing bad comes from the heavens. Hashem doesn't do anything bad. Sometimes to us it looks bad. But that's the side of the coin that we perceive as bad and in many cases it is extremely bad but it doesn't mean the bad is not bad. What I'm trying to say is when there's bad there's good and it has to be in the same level. So it's if the bad is high the good is extremely high. For an example for you to understand the concept I'm trying to say with the polarity we just read now about a certain individual in the Torah called B who wanted to curse and annihilate the nation of Israel. Bilam is the polarity of Mosher Rabenu. Mosher Rabenu is the Jewish leader brought down the world to the world the Torah. The the polarity of Mosher Rabenu is Bam. that our sages say that if Bam would go on the right path then he would be greater than Mosher Rabenu. So this is in an example and a person to a person and it doesn't mean that each and every one of us has a polarity. Don't start looking for that twin that everybody's saying but you know what maybe maybe there is maybe that's but forget about it. Point said is that when we taking that concept that everything has a polarity then I understand very quickly that when this bad has to be good and the more the bad is strong then the good will be just as good. Therefore I'm going to tell you in the next 40 minutes why very simple to see that we are not in a bad time in a very good time and then of course what do you do with that? Do you use the good time for something positive or do you use it or you waste it? The reality unfortunately that most people waste auspicious times the proof that I'm talking about in very what less a month and a half not even isul most people come to first day of with wow sh a day later all the excitement goes down on the 27th of alul it's two days I didn't do nothing perfect example how most people don't take advantage on the a good time for them to uh utilize. So I want to go very quickly through the main things that happened in those three weeks that we can understand a very interesting concept that everything that we see in the situation of the destruction of the temple and the entire topic of the three weeks. I like to see that everything that's happened to our nation is something that happens to me inside and I'll go through the bad things that happen and related to what I mean and you'll see very quickly how to to understand them. So first of all we starting the three weeks from the tamuz the 17th of the muz and we go all the way till three weeks we have all sorts of customs that we add to our daily life but these are the three weeks that we're talking about. It starts on where five major bad things happen. The first one was that the tablet broke. Second one was that the Quran, the sacrifice that is called Tamid, that is offered twice a day to atone for our sins, that was cancelled because Jerusalem was under siege. No option to bring animals into the to the area. They had to buy it on the gray market, so to say. They used to says that they would lower down from the wall bags of gold and pull up sheep every day. That already stopped on no more. Since then, no more. Then another thing that happened is that aposto burnt sephora uh uh uh an idol was placed in the some say it was aposto that did it some say it was king who did it and wor the walls first were surrounded and then eventually broken. If I look at all these things in my personal life, the destruction in my own life, because if there's a world destruction, if there's a global effect of this exile, it means that I have it in a in a very small way in me, but it's called in a small way. I have the same model in me. So when I'm looking at the five bad things that happened in betamuz I can look at it within me the destruction within me and it's very simple it says that when the tablets were broken the covenant of marriage was broken too this separation between couples came down to the world and brought forth bad marriages problem with schlomite just imagine Until that when we had beta mikdash, nobody had issues. Marriage would be good. You would be just as in love with your spouse after 50 years how you were at the day of the wedding. The second that the tablets broke, the unity between husbands and wife came to a separation and since then there's some type of a issue with communication between husbands and wife and most people have not such an easy marriage. So what do I need to do in regards to fix that in my in myself is working on my marriage. If a person is single then their highest priority is to find their other half. I know many people unfortunately they would love to find the other half. They do whatever they can and still can't but that should be their highest priority. In two weeks it's tav. It's the 15th day of we're going to have a big event in New York for Tubal for all the singles with a lot of special surprises. I don't know if you can drive up to New York, but you'll see maybe the broadcast. But nevertheless, that should be the highest priority. And for the married ones, the way how I reverse and do a rectification on my part for the breaking of the tablets is that I do whatever I can in my ability to work on my marriage and not to put that as a second priority. And needless to say, to work on your marriage requires one major thing. It's called giving in. It's called consideration. I like calling it shut up. Learn how to shut up. That's it. I'm happily married for 22 years because I know how to shut my mouth. That's it. That's regarding the tablets. We'll talk about marriage another time. The second thing that the was taken away from us is the sacrifice of tamid. That's for me to get strengthened and add in whatever has to do with prayer. If I pray three times a day, then it has to be with a minan. If I don't do three times a day, then start doing the prayers. Women have to prayer. It's all about prayers. Whatever we take on oursel to add in prayer that starts reversing the damage that we had from lo losing the sacrifice of tamidote when the walls broke before they broke there was a siege hunger then how you do rectify for that then make sure you're feeding poor people as much as you can whether it's with money whether it's with actual food whatever you can whatever you your ability is my suggestion is that Anyways, you have to give 10% of what you earn and our sages recommend that the dapka has to go to poor people. I know many want to give it to other places. If you need to give it to other places, fine, but maybe do 5% for the poor people, 5% for the other needs, maybe that you want to give your masel, which and by the way, you have to check with your rabbi. Not everything you can pay with your 10% with your masel. I have to be very uh uh careful that you're not going to miss on that. And maybe you came tonight just to hear that you need to give my thought because I'm telling you already I had that lecture a few days ago in Queens. The lecture is going to go up online soon and the whole lecture was how do you activate so to say your mazala >> and not only for [Music] but for everything. Of course, everybody wanted to hear the money. How do how do I how do I change the money situation? So go look at that lecture. It's very powerful and I explain there all the little nuggets that you need to know. But the way to fix and rectify the walls is to feed poor people. And that's why I told you with your mas it's very important that you that people give the 10%. I know that a lot of people don't do it. I know that unfortunately most people don't do it. You're obligated in doing it. And it's not like a oh yeah but I give a lot of charity. Charity is charity. Masot is masot. Whatever you make from business or whatever money you make, even if you get taxes back or whatever gift, you have to give 10% from that. The right way is to open a little account and you put that money there and you know that money goes directly to whatever goes to masot. It's a da charity. Give whatever you can, whatever you want. So maybe you came tonight to hear about the masot because the way to fix the breaking of the walls is to feed poor people whatever to the best of your ability. And by the way, if you work in a soup, you don't have money and you work in a soup kitchen, that's kind of like feeding poor people. Same equivalent if you don't have money. Of course, uh last, not last, but the the disaster of Aposto burning the Torah. What's the tun to learn Torah? Everybody needs to learn Torah. And another thing that many people miss, we are obligated in setting times to learn Torah. Whoever has it, then increase. Whoever doesn't then start, then initiate. Even if it's 5 minutes a day and women have to learn, too. By the way, don't look at me like we Yeah, you need to learn all the laws of and modesty and and Shabbat. And you also need to learn. And there's nothing wrong with women learning. You're not obligated but you there you can learn in so everybody has to set time to learning even men I know a lot of men says yeah yeah yeah I hear your classes online that's very nice my classes that's not learning dua learning dua is opening a book whether it's a two people together or if you can by yourself or but you you learn from a book listening to a lecture is is wonderful that's if you're driving or you don't have any access to books or to to classes but each and everyone needs to strengthen in that department and the last when the idol was placed in the in the main sanctuary in the that's really the concept of it is the mocking of Hashem is the of putting something other than Hashem this represents in our life that little anti-Hashem that when it's not comfortable for me I don't want to do it and I find all the excuses why I don't want to do it and then what happens really I listen to my own opinion or to somebody else's opinion against Hashem. That's the concept of putting the idol in the you have to look in yourself when you're doing that. And we all have that unfortunately. Nobody here is pious. Nobody here is a sadic and we all have a many of the times it's but many of the times you're just lazy and you don't want to hear about it. So you somehow roll it over to something else and you take some exemption and that's that's really not listening to the advice of Hashem. That's really turning to the to the idol the just listen to Hashem just be much more obedient to Hashem when he tells us what to do. He knows what he's saying. It's not a recommendation. It's not like a oh by the way if you want. He knows what's good for us. Like I know what's good for my five-year-old. He doesn't know what's good for him. He'll go to the kitchen. He'll go straight to the chocolate. I know what's good for him. So same thing with us. We're children in the eyes of Hashem. We don't know what's good for us. So we have the Torah. That's it. That's what's good for us. So by doing all the above that I told you, each and every one of us wants to do it in their way, whatever you can handle. But that's how you fix this issue within you. And when you fix it within you, you're contributing to the major tikun of the entire world. At least you say, "I did my part." Very important. Then after you bet, we go into three weeks of very harsh days. Our sages say the reason why the days are considered dangerous is not because things happened in the past. rather because the Talmud says is a certain demon that controls has power these three weeks and his power is a very horrible power the name I'm sure you heard if you say the bedtime schma you heard the name his name starts with KV and ends with very evil demon and what does he do he waits for you to do something negative and then he uses you as a chariot as like a so to say like a puppet and he does it worse that's why these three weeks are are very dangerous. The zor says that one time was sitting and he saw uh two men and he saw one man holding a stick a staff from wood and he was about to hit his friend. Saw right next to him the demon standing the same staff but was from a iron and if that person will hit his friend the demon will hit the same time and the damage would be great. And he was screaming to him don't hit your friend. He's like, "Ah, it's just wood." He's like, "You don't see what I see. Just don't hit your friend." What I take from that is very, very simple. Unfortunately, we do sometimes things that are not so acceptable by the Torah towards other people. We all have our fair share. If you think that you don't, then you have to check yourself well because we all sometimes say the wrong word to somebody or we do something that we think we're right but really we hurt the other person and it can be in many different ways and each and every one of us needs to check themselves because if I now da in these three weeks start some argument or start some oral do something as evil slandering something then this demon can get dressed in what I'm saying and then the damage is much much worse and I don't understand why because our said because this demon has this power in these three weeks to use your negativity for his actions therefore says don't do anything dangerous because anything you put yourself in danger he can shalom continue loeno and that means what I take from that that if you have to shalom have some anger towards somebody else for whatever they did to you, don't do anything at least. Don't do anything. Learn how to forgive. Learn how to to to to come forward and bring peace. It's all about trying to bring peace. When Hashem brings in your life some disagreement, it's only for you to practice the the ability of how can I do peace here. And usually to do peace, you need to lower yourself a little bit. And I guarantee to you based on many many teachings in the Torah that the day you lower yourself, Hashem raises you. That's the action. You think sometimes in disagreements you need to strengthen up. No. Sometimes you first of all don't twist my words. In certain disagreements you need to put your to hold your ground. Don't say, "Oh, Raban said in all disagreements I need to move back." I'm talking about normal disagreements. Not right now something serious. And even in serious things, you need to consult a very wise rabbi to tell you, should we pursue this or not? And I had in many times in my life difficult situations that was required a form of defense and even still when I used to go to my rabbi, he would tell me don't don't engage in any type of doesn't matter if it's lawsuits, doesn't matter. Don't just don't find a way to make peace. And the way to make peace is that you give in. And in many cases, you give up. Not give up, but you give up something. That's it. That's how it works in life. And when you do that, by the way, by default, you're already lowering a little bit your ego. Read the letter of the of do yourself a favor. Read it at least once a week. For the first maybe five years of my chuva, I read it every day. The point that I was saying it already like that. the best advice you can get. Trust me, read it. You you'll you'll thank me later. But not once. Do it very consistent. And he says there very clearly. That was the words that were echoing in my mind my entire 5 years of changing my life doing. When you humble yourself, Hashem raises you. So the more you humble yourself, Hashem makes you better, bigger, stronger, more successful, more aware, more learned, and it continues. And that's why I told you before in in a way of a joke that I'm happily married because I know how to shut my mouth. It's not about shutting my mouth. It's about humbling myself and saying even if sometimes I'm I'm right, it's not about being right. It's being smart and doing the right thing. It's not about being right. It's not a competition. and especially not marriages and one of the biggest secrets to successful marriage is to know I call it to shut up but forward slash know how to lower lower yourself it's not always about you and not always you need to be the comfortable one not always you need to be the that the center is around them the more you are considerate to other people's needs you'll see that your needs will be taken care of automatically by God I'm going to say it again the more you are considerate to other people's needs. God will take care of your needs. And I'm saying that from experience because that's what I do. That's I I figured it out a long time ago. I deal all day long with people's problems. And a few times that I was questioned why. My answer was straight out when I'm busy dealing with other people's problems and I don't have time for my problems. my problems they taken care of by Hashem and I see it in front of my eyes how Hashem says oh you you're busy don't worry on me so try it try it you'll see you'll see huge change in your life if you're not taking notes this 45 minutes watch the rerun because uh every two minutes another golden nugget I'm just doing it quick because we're very pressured with time normally I take my time three hour lecture Now a lot of the viewers are going to be oh finally biggest complaints we get why are the lectures so long the answer is cuz there's a lot more to say add press pause come back refresh go and rest you can't do that you need to so uh the days are not good days not positive days therefore for our customs and our laws is to diminish things. Don't get new things. Don't go far. Don't do the things dangerous. I recommend that you learn yourself the laws. Apply it and follow it. It's three three weeks that like I'm telling you, it's a dangerous time. That's what the Talmud says. But let me reveal to you very soon how you can crack the code here and use this three weeks for something unbelievable. Now the whole three weeks ends in tab. We know many bad things happened on tishab mainly five big things. The first one was decreed on the nation of Israel that they're not coming into Israel after the sin with the spies. What we read two weeks ago that's the day it happened was decided you are not coming to Israel. which what I recommend from that and if you do listen to me for the last few years you do know that I'm very pro go to Israel then my strong recommendation to each and every one of you is when it comes to talking about Israel don't even think of talking not nice about Israel that's it that's all I have to say that's what you need to do with in regards to this to this uh h problem that we this disaster that happened on tishaba that the decree not to come into is because the spies spoke about Israel. Everybody participated. This is the only sin in history that was never forgiven. Even the golden calf was forgiven. This was not forgiven. Therefore, if you have something to say on Israel, only good things. If somebody tells you why aren't you moving, why this? What? No. I I wish I could go to Israel. Wish you should prayer and wish that you can go to Israel. That Hashem should open for you the opportunity to move to the holy to the holy land. But never talk bad about Israel. Second thing that happened unfortunately destruction of the first temple. Third sec. Third thing destruction of the second temple. And worse than that after the destruction of the first when the second came back the second was not the same like the first. It's not the same one. There was evil kings at that time. There was a lot of problems. No king. Wasn't the same beta mikdash. It was uh fourth disaster was that Betar was destroyed. Betar was like uh no offense to anyone but beta was like a lakewood. Okay. Or a moni. I don't I don't I don't know who to say that the other community will say but we're more so it was like a lakewood boro park. It was like the I'm talking in the terms of America. In Israel, I would say or >> Yeah. Uh but nevertheless, bet was the oasis of the Torah. And not only that, it was destroyed. All the were murdered. The entire Torah was destroyed. And no, with no weight to replace it. The disaster that happened then was almost irreversible. Can you know? And you can imagine how much Torah we lost in that event. And last is means was plowed. That's maybe in the literal sense the explanation for that that it was never the same. That's the commentary what it means. The energy never came back. The peaceful energy never came back. What you feel now in when you get excited that's not the that's not never came back to how it was before. And I know all of you who ever went to the Kotel and put your hand you felt that and I also too and that's because never moved from the Kotel but was like the biggest thing in the world. Everybody wanted to come to us and we lost it. And you can see why now the whole world is trying to get to us. And unfortunately many bad things happened on Tishab. The beginning of the Spanish Inquisition, World War I, gas chambers of Awitz, Imakim were turned on on Tishab and many, many other things. Unfortunately, our nation has suffered many times. We just read now on Shabbat. the first of three that we read in these three weeks. These are the three weeks that are called the three weeks of the three weeks of all the problems that we had in regards to the destruction. And we read three different talking about some the rebuke from the prophets. But right after that comes seven weeks of seven weeks of comforting. So very soon we're passing. It's like a big wave coming. Just put your head down. But let me tell you something very important. When beta mikdash was destroyed, many many things happened that we don't understand why we're supposed to miss beta mikdash. During the three weeks, we are commanded to to to mourn the beta mikdash destruction. You know that once not too long ago, people would fast the entire three weeks would fast every day, eat at night, and of course Shabbat you can't fast. No, don't compare us to the Arabs but like a Ramadan. >> No, look in it says to fast for three weeks and if you can't then one should sit on the floor in ashes every day for 15 minutes and mourn the destruction of the temple. I don't know many people who do it. Uh recommendation if you can do whatever you can but we are obligated to mourn the destruction of the temple. Now comes my question and I'm sure many have questioned the same thing. How can I mourn something and miss something that I don't know of? I never seen it. I've never been there. I don't know how good it is. Okay, in my mind I can imagine. But how can I mourn something I haven't been there? Well, not in this body at least. There a good chance in our incarnation I was there. But that's not in my uh front part of my brain. Any of you can imagine the excitement of beta mikdash. You ever saw it with your eyes? No, we don't. We don't have that. Your loved one goes on a long trip. You miss them. Your loved one dies. Heart is broken. You mourn for that. That why? Because you love the person. That person was close to you. You have memories. What memories do we have from beta mikdash? I don't have any memory from beta mikdash. Neither neither than you. So how can I mourn something that I never been there and I don't what I mean I know in theory that it's great but I haven't experienced it. You know when beta mikdash was destroyed so many things got cancelled. So I mean it says that first of all the Talmud says that every day that we don't have beta mikdash it's a it's a day of a day a cursed day. Not only that it says that the rain the water of the rain became like raisins something and you see this is not normal rain what we have here. I come from Israel now. I don't I'm not used to in the summer all these rains and you know the Talmud says that when we had beta mikdash rain came down twice a day once twice a week Wednesdays and and Saturdays at night and it came very soft down that's it was organized you could make your plans Wednesdays and Saturday night that's when rain came and then of course the Talmud goes into long list of what happened once the the temple was destroyed. It says that the poverty is stuck on our nation. Each and every one of us in one way is suffering from poverty where if it's not financial then it's spiritual poverty. I know most people are s suffering from spiritual poverty. No spirituality more than that we don't see the sky. Well, this is not the color of the sky. color of the sky is this beautiful. We didn't can't see the anymore. The white glass has was cancelled which for us if we read it you think it's some glazed glass. It's a very precious stone that we don't have access to. Everybody loves diamonds. It's probably something better and more expensive than diamonds. This white glass it's talking about. Tamasar the meat that we eat it's not the real taste of meat we're eating now everything is processed and disgusting and many other things person can be sick and sick and go to one doctor to the other doctor all the time people are with sicknesses all this is you know because we don't have a beta mikdash look how much we're suffering all because we don't have beta mikdash and you know how long the list goes continues no makel an iron curtain so to say between and so many other things concealment the gates of prayers are closed now it doesn't mean that you can't pray or doesn't hear but the doors are closed once you would pray instant atmas whom comes right away that's when we had beta mikdash now everything is with a difficulty so for everything you pray and you pray and you pray and you pray and it's not working. Something's not working. You just need so much. People with true belief, with true, we don't have them anymore. And that's us by the way. We think we believe in Hashem, but when some disaster comes to our life or some big challenge, suddenly the amuna is not so strong. And again, I'm not blaming you. I'm telling you what happens as a result of beta mikdash and I tell it all the time very easy to say of course I believe in God half the world will tell you I believe in God but then shalom and you're placed with a challenge I'm talking about a real challenge then you don't so much believe in the power of God you believe of in his existence but you don't so much feel that he's coming through and helping and you don't you see your prayers are not working and Very few people have real true amuna that everything is good, everything is from Hashem, things will work out. And the trick is I'm telling you for the last 22 years, I preach what I practice. I what I teach is I do it myself. And I can tell you that when you put Hashem number one and you have the utmost amuna that everything is from the hand of Hashem, you see how all the difficulties started moving. When I believe truly that Hashem is the one who placed the problem and he's the one that removes the problem, when I ignore the problem, then things work out. I actually have an extreme example for this. That's the only thing that comes up to my mind right now. I'm sure some of you saw a movie called Matrix. In the Matrix, there's a scene that Neo is looking at talking to the little boy with a spoon. And then he says, "How are you bending the spoon?" So he answers him, "There is no spoon. There's nothing to bend because there is no spoon." This is exactly what I'm telling you. There is no problems. You see problems. You see a problem and you trying to There is no problem. There is Hashem. When I have a difficulty and a challenge in my life, the red light blinks to me. You're not doing your avoat the right way. That's it. And then I step step on it and problems disappear. And don't I'm not telling you sit like this now and uh you have to do some effort. You have to do certain you need to do something but to know that I do what I need to do and then you see the magic and the spice for the magic is amuna is that I know the good the bad everything I don't have any ability to do nothing without him so I need him that's it many many many many bad things happen in the time of the destruction I would say now very easily that I blame all of our problems for the fact that we don't have betamed. That's enough for you to start realizing now we can have 1% of some sense what I need to mourn for and I'm giving you so to say an exemption because we cannot we cannot really mourn beta mikdash because you haven't been there and if you really feel pain inside of you you're in a very high spiritual level missing the beta mash I mean I go to the many many times I live in Israel and you'll see some of the satikim they're on the floor crying Maybe the I don't know but the 36 in the generation but I see sometimes people actually crying how we relate with that is when disasters happen around us and unfortunately it happens five times a day then many people's reaction is we need Mashiach right where's Mashiach now you're laughing but I'm I'm just saying die already enough we need First of all, we need beta mikdash. Add that. Okay. But before you say we need beta mikdash and mashia, say we need hashem. Focus has to be on the on the master, not on the servant. Hashem has to be number one. That's rule number one. He's number one, not anything else. I also looking for waiting for Mashiach to come. But the focus is the master of the universe. that our eyes should see your return to Jerusalem. You Hashem, I can't wait for Mashiach to come. But Hashem is way above the king. Don't forget that. It's a lot of people the the focus is on the on the man. Focus on the master of the universe. The man, whoever he will be, he will come and do what he needs to do. And Mashiach is not coming to help you. He's coming to do what he needs to do. The laws of kings. You'll learn what Mashiach needs to do. And it's not to solve your problems. Mashiach says, "I will solve the world problems. You need to solve your problems. And what is your problem? You only have one problem. To focus on Hashem. Focus on Hashem with all your heart. That's it. That's your problem. Focus on Hashem. I mean like do what Hashem tells us. Don't ask too many questions. Do it with excitement, with love. Do it that you know that you're serving the master not to get something and know that Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's very difficult times right now. Not only the three weeks difficult times in the entire world. You have to be completely blind. Not to say what's going on. You see the world is already slowly slowly slowly closing to exactly to all the prophecies that we've been waiting for. Whether it's happening in a month or in three years, nobody knows. But you see the world is it's all prepared. So we need to really get our act together. The problem is that most people don't have the ability to mourn the destruction of the temple. Therefore, how we mourn the destruction of the temple unfortunately is Hashem gives us all these problems. When I feel pain whether hass shalom the death of a loved one a a loved one suffering loss of money loss of business whatever it is I experience some type of pain I want my child to go this direction and he goes that direction and sometimes the children do what I deal with every day where the children go to in our generation 10 years ago it wasn't that bad what I'm dealing with today I don't even tell you that I don't think it's even appropriate to say half the things that people tell that causes you unbelievable sorrow and numerous things. So when you shalom need to feel some sorrow that should be for you the I miss beta mikdash that I I'm I'm experiencing this sorrow it's because the beta mikdash is destroyed not because of my sins not because of hashem is punishing me or whatever people tell you it's because I don't have beta mikdash so I don't have anything here we're like running on air now now that I know all that now let's see why the three weeks is actually good how I we started the lecture I'm sure you heard not once and not twice from a very interesting concept I'm sure if I'll be quiet now for three seconds you're all going to answer together what's happening inul for a whole month >> okay I was about to say something completely King is in the field. >> King is in the field. You heard that not once, not twice. We're all excited that the king is in the field. And in the event that you go to, oh, you get very excited. Oh, the king is in the field. Let's go see the king. And then 29 days passed and you didn't visit the king once. You didn't go to the field. You didn't do nothing. You started the first two days. You said the tim you send the you said whatever is the additions to whatever you go and go to everything but very quickly the excitement goes down you become busy yet distracts you three days before you didn't get nothing done so first of all is coming take advantage of that then comes a big question okay we know the concept the king is in the Have ever any of you tried to learn what does it mean that the king is in the field? Why is he not in the city or the village? If I was the king, I would go to the vineyard. He could go to the orchard. He could go wherever he wants. Why is he in the field? For me, a field is something desolated. You when was the last time you were in a field? Unless you are a farmer, you don't go to fields. So what what is the spiritual concept of this field? I'm not going to tell you that now because we're talking about the three weeks, but in a month and a half, I'm going to have a very big event in Florida. It will probably be broadcasted live and you can hear it and find out what's this field and what really needs to be done. But let's focus on now. We are in already the three weeks. Say the three weeks is equivalent from from same parallel days. Just that now the three weeks the king is not in the field. The king is not in his house. The king is traveling. Really the king is in exile cuz now it's saying that we're mourning. He's mourning. He's in exile right now. But where is the king? He's here on the road. Not on the field. I don't know. Maybe he's on the Jersey Turnpike. I was now there for like four and a half hours, I think. What a kind was whatever road you have here. It's unbelievable. One little accident, the whole thing is blocked. >> You know that that accident happened because of me because I'm on the way coming here. >> So, Hashem turns everything around. Has to be accidents where I go. So, I have to be stuck in traffic, disasters, tsunamis, earthquakes, things don't work out. I'm flying to the I'm leaving like eight hours before my flight and I'm still gonna cut it to the last one guarantee. That's how Hashem keeps me all like you know my son is traveling. He's like why does it always have to be like that? Says that's that's what I need to deal with. You think you you grab a mitzvah for free? No. Mitzvah cost a lot of money. If it doesn't cost you money and it's cost you your sweat. But the more you sweat for the mitzvah then the mitzvah is a fat one. a lot of meat on item. So the king right now is he's on the way. It says about these three weeks in the all the ones who pursued her reached to her at the time of the how do you say mitzim the straits the the when it's >> like very very narrow. >> Yeah. Yeah. The straits narrow I think it's called straight. No straight. That's why we call these three weeks because of the the megila. But what does it mean? All the ones who pursued her. Take the word because the verse is called. If you take the word and you split the word, you can read it as yud. So any person that is seeking Hashem, you will achieve it. Now, Hashem is with us in exile. He's not in the field. I'll explain to you in a little what it means. the field. The field, by the way, the quip synopsis is like Trump or wherever a president when they go before their president, they go from city to city and they shake everybody's hands and promise you the world and you take selfies with them and let's you now try to shake his hand or take a selfie with the president. So the campaign he's in the field that's the that's not that that's the explanation. But the king is very accessible. That's the concept. Now I'm telling you, he's not only accessible, he's with us, sitting in the same pit, same boat. Now you need to seek him. The ones who seek him will find him the most in Benitarim. You're starting to understand now to strengthen why we're in such a positive time. I gave this lecture in the beginning of Metamuz. If you haven't heard the live one, it was broadcast live. Watch it right away. But I have explained and on was converted by the sonin and that night she married Boaz and that night they con conceived of who's the father of Isai who's the father of David and really that's the beginning of the the dynasty of meashiach I told you this weeks is bad it will be just as good that's really why Balak wanted to destroy the nation of Israel what we read last week not because he was afraid of them because he understood and He knew that from his lineage will come Mashiah and he wanted to kill that nation that Mashia should not come to this world and save the world. That's why he went after us. And that night when we're mourning the destruction of everything that night the the the birth of Mashia started. So it's a good time. How that's how I see it. But why is it more even good? You don't understand what 3 weeks you have now when you turn to Hashem to any king in his chamber a lot of knocking on the doors going through many filterations and so forth now you you you don't even have to approach the king like in the field which I'll elaborate on that in a month he's with you that's why a lot of the times a lot of people experience bad things in the three weeks because now it's more intensified Hashem is trying to kind of put some salt salt on your wounds that you have some type of bitterness in your life that you should cry a little bit for the destruction of the temple. So at all is the approach how you take things. I hope that in this short lecture you were able to take a lot of good advice not only to apply in the three weeks which were it's already two weeks but to apply to your life this has to be applied every day in your life. Go to the rewind. This video will be on YouTube in tonight. Watch it again. So many little things that you know you listen, you don't me, you don't notice every little thing. But the point that you want to make yourself uh you want to give yourself a favor, do yourself a favor, you have to leave this room with something. You didn't come here to just sit and nod. Nodding is not not an option. There has to be decisions. I know everybody nods. I told you many times in all my lectures I say the same thing. I had once a dog like that on my dashboard and every time I stopped he was nodding nodding to me all the time. Don't nod. Our sages say do an action. Before you even leave the door you already saying okay where am I refining myself with the things that I can not now starting crossing rivers. I'm telling you where I can in the minimum in my life. And I'm telling you that the first and most important thing to understand I told you that in the middle of the lecture it's all about having Hashem number one and you cannot think that there's anything but him. how I see things. Hashem is number one and there's nothing number two. And the good, the bad, everything is when you see in your life that your physical needs come before your spiritual needs, know that you're in not in in the level you are need that you need to be. I'll say it again. When you see that your physical needs are more important than your spiritual needs, you're rushing more to work than to go and pray or you do something physical instead of saying you have more importance to something physical. Know that your level of amuna is not so good. You have to work on that. Hashem has to be always number one. And I'm telling you, I travel all the time. It's not that I miss planes and stuff because Hashem is number. Maybe he is. Maybe he's I don't know. I pray on highways, in terminals. Hashem is always number one. I always show the entire world. I love coming to America. You know why? Not for the shopping. Definitely not for the weather. Extreme weather wherever you go. I like coming here because you have an opportunity that I don't have in Israel. You can do kadushem all day long. >> Everybody's looking at you. Everybody else is Jewish. I enjoy doing kadushem in America. I don't have that in Israel. I mean you can do kadusha anywhere really but you have your nations. I wish you all that when you leave this door tonight at least 50% of what we were said now resonated and you are ready to apply it. I will give you both a guarantee and a blessing that you if you apply everything that I said you'll see that life is on a different track. less issues, less burdens, less challenges, problems get solved by themselves. Life is a little bit more less sorry less hectic. And then the test will be if you're utilizing that extra time of yours to Hashem or if you go like this. [Music]