Your hard effort does not go unpaid! Even if you don't see the reward right away - Rabbi Alon Anava

[Music] the soul that's in the level of M no effort that's how it's going to be when mashia is going to come we are going to just do the mitv it's going to be like a blink of an eye there's not going to be any effort here now you need to dig in your in in your own heart mind and soul what are this what of this mitv that you that you need a lot of effort to do so I'll give you an example one man wakes up at 5:00 in the morning pra shakar in NS and puts F on and it's the easiest thing for he loves it he cannot function without the first hour of the day another man on the other side of the world puts F on you know when now you see when the Sun goes down you have another 8 minutes to put F in on now he puts the F in why why for him it's not a effort and for him it is an effort and now you take the exact same two people the one that prays in the morning if somebody comes to him and asks for a dollar he won't get nothing out of him cheap like this but he prays at 6:00 in the morning the other guy puts F on a minute before Sundowns is the most kind charitable person anyone who will come up to him he will help him so he's strong with thein bad with the charitable acts he's weak with thein good with the charitable acts so we all have my challenge I know the mitv that I do with my eyes closed no problem I know them I don't even have to write them down I know them off by heart I memorize them I also have a list on the other side of all the mitv that require a lot of effort and they are ordered by how much effort is required I know I'm talking about myself I should know after 20 years I have an organized list by difficulty I know the most difficult mitzvah for me what it's the most difficult for me and how much effort needs to go there why that Mitzvah I don't know I don't ask any questions I know for a fact that that Mitzvah with no doubt I did not master in any other incarnations this is the lifetime that I need to do it that's why this mitvah comes with the most difficulties the most challenges the most and it's the hardest for me to do but that's the Mitzvah I need to put all my effort to now I like going to the source like when we learn I always tell you go don't go to the mid go to the top mid either or don't don't don't work on the midot in the middle it's not the right advice because one should should work on one Mida at a time but the per the the the smart advice is if I have an issue with anger and if I have an issue with patience and if I have an issue that I'm judgmental and I'm quick to anger and that's my department then why should I work on my anger I should go work on my G because the Gava is the attribute that will birth anger so why should I go work on the anger go work on your and you get the idea same thing here if there's a Mitzvah that is the most hard for me to do I already understood that if it's the most hard for me to do a I never achieved this Mitzvah in the eyes of God B I never did it C that's the key because if I put all my effort to that Mitzvah and I'm able to crack the barrier that's what's going to pour in me the energy the chefer called it every want to be effortless in all the rest of the stuff because if this is hard and I mastered it the easy or the hard will be much easier so you go you attack the mou but that needs effort why is that important for us to review this for you to understand that there is nothing wrong with you when your effort doesn't bring fruit it's because the effort is very very very hard and it has nothing to do with you per se I'll give you an easy example I have very fast metabolism okay my body I can eat from morning to night and you won't see fat fat on me thank God very grateful for my physique if I have to lose weight if I will gain weight will take me two three days to adjust my diet and that's it some people the metabolism doesn't work the same way they'll have one cookie that's it can't lose that that that weight now for me to lose weight is effortless for that person to lose weight has a lot of effort and that person does another person to lose weight has 10 times more than the person I'm talking about goes in levels so some and I'm giving you an example with losing weight I gave you now an example if I'm now full of anger I have an anger issue okay let's say I have an anger issue I get angry all the time and I'm impatient and I lose my temper like that and I'm judgmental it's all the same same junk and I go to psychiatrist and whoever to try to control my anger the anger comes because my ego was affected my G was stepped on one way or another so it bured anger so if I go to work on my Gava maybe for me the effort is challenging and it will take me hours and hours and days of effort to work on my my pride where another person doesn't have to but when I have to put a lot of effort to summarize what I'm saying it's not because you're not doing it right orm is not listening to your prayers orm doesn't like me and all sorts of comments that people tell me it's because in this specific Hill my accent is is bad in this specific Hill Hi l Hill right not heel the on the leg in this heel it's very steep that's it what every Hill you go up to it's the same intensity no I live here in the corner I see the people who come up the hill this is the biggest hill with the tongues out people sitting I there's benches next to my next to our house people sit there cuz the hill is like that you you you don't run up that hill so easy you need a lot of effort if you go to another Hill it's not the same effort it's the same thing here it's exactly the same thing here he's just clarifying the the the so to say the level of your conclusion you need to take from that is there are going to be mitv that are effortless for you good Mark them in v and continue doing them as much as you can because it's effortless but there will be a scale of mitv or a range of mitv with a different scale of intensity of how much effort you need to put there it's it's the the basic way of looking of how much effort I need to put in whatever Mitzvah and I'm specifically saying it's a commandment because not to get angry or not to lie or not to be jentle Falls all under this I'm not talking about or Shabbat per a mitvah something the Tor commands you to do command the Torah commands you not to be a pursuing Revenge how many times uh you pursue Revenge he did this to me I'll do that back to them he blocked me I'll do this now in your mind okay what's the big deal it's not a big not a big thing we're not allowed to revenge in the Torah it's a Prohibition so the will put situations in my life I have to figure out the how much effort needs to go to that specific Mitzvah or act call it however you want a the intensity of the effort will tell me where I'm holding B the intensity of my effort will actually bring me to a higher place that everything that came with an effort will be less effort simple you want to get to a point that serving AEM is not effortless because it's a routine that's what happens to a lot of people it's a machine you want to get to a point that your mitv are effortless because you put a lot of effort in things that are hard for you not because it's a routine and eventually you become a servant of God that it's like like a like a sadik perfect everything is perfect I look at myself how I do certain things and I H criticize myself where I do things not so perfect not to put me down rather than I have some type of an understanding this Mitzvah I didn't do perfect it needs to be polished an example and again I using my examples you have to take it to your domain when a man puts thin on theine on the hand cannot touch each other if you put it fast here and you have to look at my angle okay also women should look at it doesn't make any difference if you look from here the lines can be separate turn your H like that you'll see the lines are not the same why because you go fast the the the straps cannot touch themselves I believe it was remember there's a certain am that fasted I think 400 times cuz the the the strap of the filin was bent a little bit and touched the other one I don't remember the the the the sage it doesn't matter the point is that to some men they put it fing on if it's like this like that aimed here no big deal but you know the box of theine when your hand is loose has to aim your heart so if you don't put it right then it will aim here or aim here or the F in on the head we go here or we'll go there we talking about millimeters here and it might look neurotic to fix it but that's how it needs to be done so could be that a man puts F in for 10 20 years and he's not like a doing it perfectly right that's a problem in itself but when you start taking it to the next level you start refining little things and then the Mitzvah is done the right way which eventually will become effortless when mashia is going to come we're going to do all the mitv it's just going to be like no yet no effort it's going to be done you know like the easiest funnest thing for you to do and the reality is that a minority of people that they love doing all the mitzvot and they're immersed in their prayers and everything the majority of observant people are busy with life problems and challenges and the mitv are done you know you kind of squeeze it into your life that's the reality very few people I see them like meditating on every they're about to say and it's done with great joy and happiness and they're and half the ones who do it you see how fake it is they're just doing it fake to pretend they're so holy the bottom line to take from that is the further away you get from the original Nish everything will come with greater effort so next time you are faced with uh the requirement of putting efforts to the Mitzvah a few months ago when this war broke out then my wife took on herself a certain mitah to read a whole book of every Shabbat first three Shabbat went very easy not easy can take a person 3 four hours a lot of dedication but the first few shab it's it came much easier fourth Shabbat fifth Shabbat it's already harder suddenly you don't read the whole book in one shot you read a little bit Friday night a little bit Saturday morning a little bit Saturday afternoon suddenly you don't finish the whole book you only read 120 chapters which your tells you 120 chapters who reads 120 chapters of what you out of your mind look what you but really the decision was to read the whole book 150 why you why you cutting short why you giving a discount so notom criticizing my wife I'm shocked every Shabbat that she finishes I'm giving you an example how in the beginning went like that a month or two into it it's already like an old car that it's hard to to start so many times you get to this situation and the C this the scoffing I call it like the coughing like a car that barely starts and you know when it happens happens after don't to to compare now New Year's all the the the non-js what they say your New Year's resolution that's when it happens you have a decision a resolution you go well for two three weeks and then it starts fading away why because you started a a meeting effort it required effort so the first few times okay you were excited the other times you're not excited anymore you're doing it cuz you already took on yourself or you decided or you have to have to then it will come with great effort the point to take from that is to understand is that the effort is what creates the the the result no effort won't be any results the the actual effort that you put that's what's going to birth the result proof to that go to the best gym in your neighborhood sit on the bench with the most gorgeous outfit you found in Nike or Adidas but you just sit on the Ben and you don't do nothing you leave the gym after an hour something happened who what do you mean no you just paid $300 a month to the best gym in the neighborhood and you have flat screen TVs everywhere music and all the beautiful women and men there are why nothing happened because you didn't do anything but I came to the gym and I paid that effort is not enough that effort doesn't do anything you need to actually move and push and pull and sweat and have pain then you'll gain something that's it our limited mind tells you the effort that you did is enough you paid the subscription and you came to the gym and then you wonder why nothing works because you didn't do any effort of course they did effort no you didn't do the right effort the effort that you did is meaningless the effort that needs to be done in the gym to receive results is to move and to push and to sweat then you'll get results so the is master of coming and telling you you did the effort that's it you don't need to do anything so let me tell you effort comes with a lot of crch if it doesn't come with a crch there's no effort there crch means that it's hard the harder it is the more you'll get out the harder you'll push in your effort the more you'll receive as results very simple and he's now telling me that based on the root of my how far back I go and where my where is my lineage cuz he says even though these are one level under kind in heaven should be like yeah but it's second level it's not first level second level it will come an effort that's how it works so when life becomes a little bit harder just to understand that the effort is the fuel to the result that you're looking to [Music] get