Parshas Ki Savo: The Fundamental Objective of Creation

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of the sh one of the first fruits that is is praised with one of the seven species and he brings it up he brings the first fruit up to this is a very important Mitzvah okay but there are many important mitzvas we have 613 Mitzvah we have to do all of them a Jew cannot neglect even one Mitzvah you know imagine if you had a railroad track the said and you pulled out one board you pull out one board you're not going to get to your desired goal so we have to keep all the Mitzvah but to say that one Mitzvah is more important than the other that's a very difficult statement to make and yet if you look at the beginning of Paras the very first everybody knows the first in the beginning God created heaven and earth and we're familiar with rashi's comment on that P that the word bous is somewhat of a mysterious word it shouldn't say bous it should say barish in the beginning in the beginning bous implies in the beginning of and it doesn't say in the beginning of what and therefore Rashi brings down the well-known statement of kous bous because of the beginning God created the world because of the beginning God created the world what's the beginning either racious either God created the world because of the Tyra which is called racious dark the Torah is the very first conception of God's mind so either God created the world because of the Tyra be racious because of the Tyra God created the world or is is called racist is CL is is called God's firstborn so God either created the world because of the Tyra or God created the world because of claa that would make sense the Torah it's a very important thing Claus that's a very important thing and yet we find an astounding statement in the med the med tells [Applause] us you know why God created the world that in the Merit of the mitz ofum is called racious where is bikum called racious it says in this week's par so we see that Kur is called racious so the kazal are telling me you know why God created the world you know what for what function for what purpose because of the because of the MIT God created the world what because of the MIT God created the world mean none of us even ever brought Bim what is so important about the MIT Bim I can understand he created the world for am for the Jewish people can understand he created the world because of the Tyra but because of not even not situs not Suka not not chabis not even chabus be what's so special about asks the in this week what is so important about the MIT that because of say God created the world let's talk a little bit about the procedure of how a farmer would bring B take a look in the third per of mishna the Mish says how would somebody take off well a person would go down into his field he would see a fig that ripened a fig right a fan es shab a cluster of grapes that ripened how do you say a cluster of grapes in yish Ain yeah or REM shab a pomegranate that ripened how do you say pomegranate in yish a mgram right he sees a fig that ripens he sees a cluster of grape that ripen a pomegranate that ripened he would he would tie it with a a string and he would declare these are BM okay the next mishna said so how would people bring up BM says the mishna every individual who had BM to bring up would gather together in one central location there was one person appointed to be in charge of all the bringing of they would get together like you know they would tailgate almost right they would gather together and they would sleep all night in the streets they wouldn't even bring the BM inside because they didn't want the BM to become tummy and they would wake up early in the morning to the following announcement kumu V then they would start traveling if you live close to the bikash you brought fresh fruits if you live far away you would bring raisins grapes that dried figs that dried you would put it on the ax now you wouldn't just use any ax you would take a special axe you would overlay the horns of the axe in gold right Sam that's a new uh a new marketing technique right you would you would have to take a special axe overlay it in Gold the horns of the axe in gold and then you would put a special uh Olive wreath around the head of the ax they would play the flute they would play the flute as they were going and the Yi tells us as they're traveling to they would be singing right you know that song whatever niggan they use lot of nice s and then finally says when they were standing in the gates of they would sing right you know that one they would get to and the officers of the town would come out to greet them the gab the officials the important people would come out and greet those who had come to bring the BM and says the mishna an amazing statement Mish gim they would ask about their welfare they would say how you doing what's doing V Master how's everything says the mishna the the officials who came out to greet those who brought would say our brothers people of such and such and such place B Come in Peace by the way if anybody wants to get a hold of the they could email Subara 1836 atgmailcom s u b a r a 1836 gmail.com you can get the mar of a number of different shum every week in any event the mishna says that whoever was bringing the B would be greeted by the workers greeted by the workers you know what that's called that's called stealing that's called robbery that's called theft if you're working for your boss then you're not the mayor of the city sh how you doing how's everything you're not greet people you're on the bossest time if you see someone you haven't seen in a long time what should you say to them nothing you should continue working you're not how to do that stealing if let's say you see the godar walking by what do you say nothing let's say you see you know the governor of New York walking by you don't you not how to say anything it's not your time let's say you see somebody coming he's wearing Fillin Talis and he's learning um sh Yi and Z at the same time what do you say nothing doesn't matter what he's doing and yet the mishna says but if the person's bringing you stop working and you say if the guy's taking the little vaness rig you ignore him if the guy's wearing to fill in you ignore him if the guy's doing any Mitzvah you ignore him but if the guy's bringing bin with an axe with golden horns a that's different everything is different when it comes to ask the why is it when it comes to every mitvah we ignore them and when it comes to theah we stop what we're doing and we say and then the Mish continues they would continue to play the flute until they got to the har when they get to the har even if you're a king even if you're like King a grias you would take the the basket off of the ax you would put it on your shoulders and you would start to sing the what is all of this pump and ceremony why are we making such a big deal about the B you have you have a mgram you have a pomegranate that you know ripen so just take it to your shalim what do you have to sleep in the streets and play the flute with the axe and the golden horns and the wreath around its head and the singing and the dancing just do your Mitzvah I don't need to know about it and you have to disturb the people are working what is the big deal about the mitah question of the so question number one the is so important that because of God created the whole world and number two the wants to know why are the workers allowed to interrupt the regular work to greet those who bring the and number three what is the whole ceremony what's the whole ritual another question look at number six as part of the Declaration of those who bring the B they say the following and now behold I have brought as Rous the first the fruit of the ground did anyone here ever hear the expression yeah that's the BR you make when you eat a potato that's the BR you make when you eat a cucumber that's the BR you when you eat spinach or cauliflower or asparagus PR the problem though is you don't bring asparagus for BM you don't bring cauliflower for BM you don't bring anything that your mother would force you to eat for B you know what you bring for BM not preh Heights you bring a Milgram you bring a pomegranate you bring fan right you bring a fig you bring a date how do you say a date in yish okay that's a good one what a Tuttle something like that and then and you bring your troin your cluster of grapes you bring preh you don't bring no one ever came to the B mikdash with a potato and said what is this I came to bring only the so why does thek say he's getting confused between broli and a cluster of grapes he should say this is the question of quoted by the in the why does he say PR another question rash is coming upon us we have two days of rash on the first day of rashash we Lan from the sear on the second day of rashash we Lan from the sear if I would ask you right now what would be the most important thing to Lan about on rash what should be the episode in the that we would like to invoke more than anything else in the entire Tyra that is the greatest single act that anybody ever did especially why do we blow rash to remind God of a so if you would ask me what Torah reading should you read on the first day of Rashana I would say the story of and we don't do that what do we Lear on the first day of rashash s that God remembered SAR SAR conceived she had y That's one beautiful that's beautiful why would we want to Lan down on rashash because Sor conceived on remembered s rashash wonderful but why forget about that's the whole purpose of rash that's the whole purpose of the we say in that's the purpose of daving we want to remind God about so why on the first day of rash do we read about Hashem giving s beautiful story it's wonderful it's a it's beautiful but why lay B the first day of rashash why forget about the greatest that has first day we should read second day we should read how hasem remembered s if we were to set forth right now what are the main objectives that a Jew should pursue in life in other words what are the main achievements that are expected of a Jew and I don't just mean specific Mitzvah I'm talking General attitudes General achievements what would we say well let's start what is the most important Mitzvah and comment upon a Jew learning T can I get that's clear what's number two what is number two not specific Mitzvah General Endeavors general areas of service of hasem well the second important Endeavor is kind Deeds kind acts visiting the sick right like the tells us that children came into the b m and they expounded on the meaning of the ALF B Al B stands for what Al learn Tyra stands for do kindness these are the two main objectives of the Jew fact says that before you go to sleep at night you should ask yourself the following two questions did I learn anything today did I do any okay what else what other important Endeavors are there in Judaism what other areas are there that we could say that Hashem created us for these things we could say God created us to learn TI God created us to do what else I'm not to about specific mitz not not not specific General categories well the Torah says and now Jewish people what does God ask of you fear of God that's an an important Endeavor an important area of achievement fear of God love of God clinging to Hashem I'm about to tell you about an entire Endeavor of AEM that is considered one of the most fundamental areas of serving Hashem and unfortunately we don't give it too much thought and says this is called you look at number nine this is from the sh cha inim the great he tells us after telling us about all other great achievements like learning like doing says the great achievement of remembering the kindness that hasem does to us and contemplating it sh like the P says remember how Hashem LED you through the midbar or like d says the in other words if a person went through life and he learned Tyra and he did MIT and he did and he had fear of God and he loved Hashem and he attached himself to Hashem and he didn't spend time thinking about the fact that he could walk or that he could see or that he could hear or that he has food or that he has clothing he's going to come up to sh andem is going to say you missed out you didn't do everything yeah but what do you mean I I when I had the tallest lul love I spent $500 on my lulov and my ES cost $3,000 and on sukus I had the nicest Suk in the city and my fill in were and when I benched I benched with kavana took me four and a half hours to say and not only that on chabas I spent the whole week shopping for chabas and I never violated one iser of my whole life I say wonderful but did you ever think about the fact that you had clothing that you could see that your kidneys are functioning that your lungs are functioning that you have air well what's that where does it say doesn't say that in the tah Hashem says what do you mean Wednesday night Wednesday night you heard about it there is a special area of service of hemra and thinking about all of the does for you okay says you take a look at number 10 now he says obviously this is something that we all recognize intuitively everybody understands that if Hashem gives us air so we have to acknowledge it we have to thank him but says what we don't understand is how fundamental this is you look at the and you see the entire book of is predicated on the fact that we are supposed to serve Hashem because of all of the that he does for us says if you want to know why Hashem created the world what does he want out of us what what's he looking for more than anything else say the obligation the purpose the function of life is for a person a Jew a human being to recognize all of the that showers upon a person that's the purpose of creation you take a look at the words of the AL look at number 12 in the second paragraph on the fourth line says the whole world that God created for man is only for a person to recognize everything that hm does for a person and to praise Him Bel don't be an ingrate don't be an ingrate we're not saying even to say thank you recognize it think about it you could go through the whole day you could have inak you could have you could have you could put on Talis and fill you could learn for seven hours you were not y you were not you did not fulfill your obligation as a Jew what do you mean what else do I have to do what you have to do is you have to stop and spend time thinking about everything hashm did for you you're walking down the street your legs are moving your arms are moving you could see you could hear you could smell your fingers are moving you don't have arthritis every for a person to wake up in the morning and not be in terrible pain and not have a throbbing headache you know how many billions of Miracles have to occur every moment you know how many gallons of air you inhale every moment you're inhaling three gallons of air every moment where did that air come from Hashem gave it to you he hand delivered three gallons of air you didn't even have to go to the store you didn't have to pay for it did you ever stop and think one time in your life that Hashem is giving me every moment three gallons of air so people say I have to wake up and dve in shakas with a minion every morning no you don't only if wake up in the morning if you don't wake up in the morning you don't have to dve inak what I have to dve in every day no it's not true only if your heart is beating if your heart stops you don't have to D I have to say every day no only if you want to eat if you don't eat you don't have to say I have to put Onin no only if you have an arm if you don't have an arm you're exempt from I have to keep all 63 mits only if you're alive if you're dead if you're horizontal under the ground and their worms consuming your flesh you're Potter you're Potter no problem once you go into the grave you're exempt you're off the hook your vacation but in case your heart is beating and your lungs are functioning then all you have to do is acknowledge it and serve Hashem that's it says the purpose of existence is to recognize what does for you to stop to think about it to acknowledge it and to say Thank you so when you put on your Fillin in the morning you're thanking you have an arm I have an arm if I didn't have an arm I wouldn't be able to put on the F when you get up in the morning and you go to SCH is it hard to go no you're just thanking Hashem that your knees are functioning that your liver is functioning that your kidneys are functioning that your digestive system is functioning that your lungs are functioning that you could see that you could hear that you could speak that you have teeth if you don't have teeth maybe you're putter from kishma but if you woke up in the morning and your teeth are still in your mouth then you have to thank Hashem says the purpose of mitz the you know why God created the world so that we should wake up in the morning and say we are your Creations you give us everything we have that's the purpose of life that's the purpose of MIT you want to know bous barim why God created the world it's because of the Mitzvah what's the Mitzvah you have a farmer he plowed his field he fertilized his field he planted it's the harvest season he takes his Milgram he takes his pomegranate and he thinks to himself wow all my hard work paid off it's a good thing I really put in the effort now I have my pomegranates my figs my dates B says what do you mean all your hard work paid off this is what I'm giving to you you don't recognize it you don't acknowledge that I'm giving this to you so Hashem says you know what all you have to do is take your first fruit offer it to me bring it to me bring it to me and that shows that you recognize that I gave it to you and if you do that that's the reason I created the world so that when I give you something you say you know what rebish them you gave that to me that's all that's the purpose of creation and if a guy is putting on fillan and you're working you ignore him and if a guy is doing any Mitzvah you ignore him but if someone is bringing B and he's saying to hasem hasem you gave me something thank you there is no greater achievement in this world than the Mitzvah the simple Mitzvah of saying to Hashem Hashem I acknowledge and recognize that this fruit you gave to me that's the purpose of life to recognize that Hashem gives us showers us every single moment with endless so it's a good thing we know about this so this way from now on well besides waking up in the morning and going to shakas and putting Onin and putting on your Talis and learning every day when you're walking in the street you could stop and you could think I have shoes I have a house to go home to I have glasses so hashem's going to look down what what got into this guy what happened I'm looking down and there are a million people and he's the only person walking on this planet thinking about all the things I give to him so you've just ra yourself one notch above everybody else Hashem looks down from sh he's looking to see is anybody thinking about what I do for them that's the greatness of the and that is the purpose and the function of the great Endeavor of like says I don't think most people necessarily would have put it in the same category of learning Tyra right we we would acknowledge a Jew who doesn't trust in hem you know is that a a Jew who doesn't learn T is that a a Jew who doesn't do is that a but a Jew who's not constantly thinking about all the things Hashem does for him is equally lacking and therefore on the first day of rashishana we're looking for the biggest mitzah we could possibly do so we think ah the biggest Mitzvah let's say how how abin at the age of 137 took his only son who he waited for for 99 years and was ready to sh him and say no we have a bigger Mitzvah that you could do what's that what bigger Mitzvah is there than to remind what did oh you know what the bigger Mitzvah is to remember the that hasem did to sah that Hashem took this barren woman and he gave her a child what's the big of that the big is the biggest mitvah that you could do is remembering so that the first day of rash when our lives are on the line when our lives are hanging in the ballast and we're trying to think come up with the greatest possible you know what it is let's think now of all the wonderful things hhm did oh I remember a really amazing thing Hashem did Hashem gave our great matriarch Sarah a child child that's the greatest mitzah we could do so as we prepare ourselves for the and we're thinking about all kinds of mitas that we could do give learn many many Mitzvah don't forget about this Mitzvah this is a very powerful a very powerful Mitzvah if after today share tomorrow while you're walking down the street you say Hashem thank you that I can move my fingers so I could open up the doorknob or that I could hold on to my toothbrush you think you did a small thing oh a it's not a small thing that may have been the most important thing you did the whole day talk about the mid this attribute of recognizing the good that's done for you there is a very interesting a convert a woman converted to Judaism and she wants to know is she allowed to visit her mother who's not Jewish it's very interesting someone who converts to Judaism there are certain restrictions you can't just go visit as often as you want we're worried they may pull you back not only that you're not supposed to bring your children to them very infrequently maybe they'll feed them maybe they'll influence them even a mother your own mother there's certain restrictions is but the question was that the mother was on her deathbed and the mother asked to be able to see her daughter and her daughter's children before she goes and even though these people lived in the same city they rarely saw each other the mother and daughter rarely saw each other but now the question they're asking is should we listen to our mother's request and visit with our children before she passes away SOA says well first of all even though technically speaking there's no mitzah of because you're not related the mother isn't Jewish the child converted but even though there's no Mitzvah you're not allowed to disgrace your mother you're not allowed to hit your mother you're not allow to curse your mother even though technically you're not related not visiting at a time like this when she's asking on her deathbed is akin to disgrace it's Ain to hitting it's akin to cursing therefore OSHA says you need to do it but says OSHA be besides that it would be prohibited for you not to visit her where what in the says that you're to visit say it's in the that's one of the it's one of the seven no laws where seven no laws one of them is don't kill don't steal don't commit adultery don't curse says the iser of don't be an ingrate don't be an great that's not one of the seven laws says that any mitvah which is logical and is is based on human reason goo commanded gu also have to do even though technically it's not one of the seven but if it's based on human logic in otherwise you know if a guy is indecent if a guy walks around immodestly so say well what am I doing wrong it's not one of those you're a human being you don't have any modesty a guy will be punished for being a modest where does it say it says doesn't have to say it any logical Mitzvah whether it's a Mida whether it's a character trait go are obligated just like Jews and being an ingrate is the most basic no no of humanity don't forget about the beneficence that somebody did to you don't forget about all the great kindliness that somebody did for you says for you not to go visit your mother now would be an iser not just for a Jew for a GU a GU has an obligation not to be an ingrate in fact if you look in the introduction to of rim rim writes in number 15 any Mitzvah which is dependent on logic and the understanding of the heart everyone is obligated any logical Mitzvah in other words are obligated to keep all the dictates of logic even if it's not explicit from the time that God created ad marish all logical injunctions were incumbent upon him tell you very interesting sh very interesting CH a parlor meeting right you know what a parlor meeting is you uh you have an organization and they want to raise money so they call up the richest guy right and they or or a very nice Hospital person and they ask him you know we want to make this um uh campaign in your home invite all of your friends where we make an appeal for organization are you allowed to make a parlor meeting for a Jewish cause in the house of a GU why would you want to make in the house of a guy this way you call up some you know Hollywood actor you say you know we have a really good Jewish organization we want to make an appeal in your house you'll invite all of your rich friends all your other actors and this way we'll raise a lot of money so you allow to make a parlor meeting for a Jewish cause in the house of a guy say I must find you know how to do it you know why it is user to make a party in a gu's house you cannot make a mish even to eat kosher food hear thisin can't make a party in the house of a even to eat kosher food okay what about if you want to make a banquet to honor a guy right you make a big dinner and you're going to honor a guy why do you want to honor the guy cuz you want his friends to give money to your organization CES you can say it's a but it's not nice it's really not nice we want to give the Jewish people the right to have this to contribute to this cause why would you want to take away the Mitzvah from from us but then was asked but could you honor a guy not because you want money because you want to recognize what he did for you so of course you can that's a very worthwhile thing even to honor to honor a guy because he want money you know how to do that you shouldn't do that but you want to honor a guy because you want to be M you want to recognize what that guy did for you it's permitted it's permitted tell us that there are three instances in where it uses the expression on that very day Hashem tells go into the T on that very day why in that very day because the people in the generation were saying if your God tells you to go into the T we're going to take our clubs and our baseball blats the clubs with the spikes on it and we're going to bash you and you're not going to go into the TAA so says you go in in broad daylight we'll see if they could do anything the second time it says is when the Jews left MIM the MIM said you think you're going to leave MIM if you leave MIM we're going to stop you so says you tell them you're leaving you're leaving in broad daylight let's see if they could stop you and the third time is by the death of tells go up because if CL is understands that you're about to die CL are going to say if we recognize you're about to die we will not allow you to go why will not allow to go they're going to say the man who took us out of Egypt he gave us the he gave us the Quil we're not going to let him go soem says to you go in broad daylight let's see if they could stop you obvious question I understand the people in the times of n if they see him going into the T they could take take him by the lapel and him and grab him and stop him from going into the T fine I understand if the MIT see us leaving MIM they're going to handcuff us and bring us to jail they're going to stop us but what are CLA Isel going to do to stop mha from dying when the angel of death comes there ain't nothing you could do well what are they going to do they're going to say stop we're not letting M go what you can't do anything comes you can't stop the angel of death what Kao going to do they're going to take out their bats and Bam them the Mal what K going to say we're not going to let go says what do you see from here that feelings of gratitude could be so powerful that if you are grateful to an individual those feelings of gratitude have such a power of such a kayak you could stop that person from dying if you are able to engender true feelings of gratitude to someone God looks down he says I can't take them away these people are pulling him back they're pulling the guy back they have such gratitude to him they're BR they're keeping him down here in this world in fact says wheni saw the child of the is surface die what did say said God the woman that I stayed in her home you're taking away her child in other words how isi bringing the child back to life saying Hashem I'm so indebted to this woman you can't take the child it's amazing an amazing concept that the power of hak is so forceful that you could so to speak tie hashem's hands forth pull his hands on his back and I can't take this person out of the world people have gratitude to them says back to our potato back to the Tomato right we had a question why does a person who bring the say why does he say and we ask you're not bringing asparagus for it should say PR so the says there different answers in the someone well because you bring the B when the fruits are not ripe and what do you make on a fruit that's not ripe you don't make a on a fruit that's not ripe you make when you eat an apple that's not ripe you make and then the tries another answer well you bring wheat as what do you make on Raw wheat you don't make you make says I don't like that answer let me tell you why the says because bringing bringing B is an atonement for the sin ofish adish sinned and what did God say to the Earth is cursed because of you so therefore to rectify that the person who brings says what exactly does mean why because Adam caused the to be cursed so this guy who brings says PR what do we what does this guy have to do with adish very interesting question God says to Adam Adam do whatever you want you don't have to put on filling you don't have to put on Talis you don't have to keep shabas just don't eat the fruit so what does Adam do he eats the fruit what does Hashem say sorry Adam you're gonna have to die why did Adam have to die what happened to chuva didn't Adam arish do chuva what happened to chuva Hashem accepted his chuva so why did other marish to die so some suggest yes Adam Harish did Chua for eating the fruit but he did another a that he didn't do Chua for when ad when Hashem came to Adam he said Adam why' you do it Adam pulled the oldest trick in the book you know what Adam said she told me to she told me to I really didn't want to it's her fault right the oldest trick in the book says Rashi when Adam said the woman you gave me told me to eat from the fruit adish was an INR you're blaming it on God God's the one who gave you now you're blaming it on him what kind of ingrate are you so we have this on our sheet over here when for eating the fruit but not for being an ingrate so the guy comes and he brings his Bim and he says the following look at number 18 he has to tell the all of the says rash why so the guy has to declare it so he shouldn't be an ingrate now we understand the words of for the not for eating the fruit for being an ingrate said for that he never did and therefore the says says you know we think that oh we do so many Mitzvah we do 63 Mitzvah must be he's going to give us tremendous reward no just the opposite you know why Jewish people have more mitz CU God gave us more he took us out of he didn't take the eskimos out of MIM he took the Jewish people out of M so because he took us out of we have extra responsibility Hashem protected Us in the in the desert for 40 years he gave us the man he gave us the Tyra that is why we have more M says why do get 24 gifts right why do they get 24 gifts so he oh I know why they get truma and they get different gifts that we give them they get the um Bim and they get thear you know why cuz since they're working all day in the bikash so we have to reward them right that's what we think that since work a lot so we have to reward them says you have it completely backward gave theim gifts once theim were given gifts now they have extra responsibility of they Hashem to you you have to recognize it you have to acknowledge it you have to pay back through service the MIT are not well you know I'm doing a Mitzvah so I hope Hashem rewards me no the Mitzvah you're doing are because Hashem already gave you something and you and not only that Hashem is so kind he gives you so we would think if we do a Mitzvah Hashem is not going to have to reward us no Hashem says I'll reward you anyway even though I rewarded you in the first place says a very important concept rashash is coming Hashem is looking over the lease is the lease going to be renewed or is the leas not going to be renewed based on what is Hashem determining if the lease is going to be renewed says ifem sees that we acknowledge everything that he's given us says then hasm says wonderful you recognize I gave you tough sh and gimmel so then I'll give you T Shai and and T and will be even better than T and gimmel says if you didn't recognize what I did for you in tuai and gimel so then I can't do it again in T and doll I'm going to have to make the lease not as good cuz maybe then you'll recognize where it's coming from says if you want to ensure that hashem's to you will continue all you need to do is recognize it thank Him and acknowledge it by serving him and that says says look at number 21 in the with this analogy with this line of thought if God singles someone out with benefit something that he doesn't do for others you need to recognize it by serving him even more in other words has selected you for special benefit then you need to acknowledge it by serving him more than other people included with your regular service of hem to thank him for what he did for you says that will ensure that it continues do you want to make sure you know people they start we're starting to prepare for Rashana and we're daving we hope T sh should be a wonderful year for all of us and our families Miller used to say every year before you ask for T sh the first obligation is make sure you thank hasem for T sh giml if you want to have a good T Shai andad stop and thank Hashem Hashem I ate 360 breakfasts year I ate 360 lunches this year I've been walking every single day I my eyes have been working my body has been working thank you and then hasm said oh you recognize the lease let's let's continue it let's extend it one last thought so how does a person bring himself and acquire this great attribute of of recognizing the good that hasem does to him so Miller writes in the Sha personate a big meal and after the meal he had five courses from Carlos and Gabby and he went he put on his stro he put on his beha he put on his G before that he went to the Mikvah five times and he said and heed and he benched with Al with a minion and the vening took him seven and a half hours every name of Hashem he was tal on the mikah for and Cesar Miller he missed benching why cuz he didn't tell his wife thank you for the meal oh what do you mean I went to the Mika 93 times I put on myal I put on my Bea I wash my says if you can recognize the favor that a human being does for you then you certainly cannot recognize the favor that the re you may have said the words but there's no gratitude over there R Miller says the mid of has to be engendered by recognizing what people do for you and from there you could raise yourself to recognize what theam does for you how do we know this you have saved parro's life he put Egypt back on its feet he had everything worked out and what did par do who's I don't remember him he didn't do anything for me the next step is who's but on the opposite of SC when you recognize the favors that people do for you that will allow you that will bring you to the higher level of recognizing whatam does for you which is not just a nice thing not just a good thing not just a worthy thing says this is one of the purposes of Life Learning tyem to which [Applause] say elim because of the great mitah which teaches us how to recognize what God does for us that is the purpose of creation thank you everyone for coming thank you for listening and special thanks to Mr yes Bas for picking up the dinner this evening thank you very much you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com