Rabbi Dovid Goldwasser Revealing Secrets of Life Through Pirkei Avos (Part 3)

throughout the entire world we are all united in the study of torah torah anytime is an unbelievable organization what they have done to spread torah throughout the entire world is something that in the recent weeks especially we've been able to see the miracles the sight crashed so many times because of the subscribers throughout the entire world that are thirsty for the shurim that are thirsty for the joshuas what an unreal thing it is that the torah taisha can dispel the darkness can dispel the sadness can bring simcha to each and everyone's life i would like to ask that the great people behind torah anytime shimon ko yakov reuben koyakov rabbi yosef they should have at slocum brock on everything they do and continue to take tour any time i would also like to thank that organization that is very close to my heart hazak what hazak has done to bring people closer to hashem to reach out to those that may not necessarily be noticed to worry about the children in public schools to bring them to yeshivas to bring the girls to basiaco what they have done to educate the communities to raise the level of torah mitzvos is something that is berumo shalom it stands at the height of the world and i want to thank rev yaniv mehroff because he himself does not stop night and day he constantly worries about spreading torah in this world and also to our dear friend rabravi above what he wanted to do to help tyra to help mitsus what he wouldn't do out of all of the things in his life he puts this first always the idea of khazak in bringing others close to hashem may they have hatslach in all that they do our shirt today is going to be centered around the very first mishna in the second parak of perky abuse be careful in a mitzvah color those little minor mitzvos those little mitsu said sometimes okay it's not as important as fasting on yom kippur okay it's not as important as eating only uh matzon pesach not eating anything that is comments they're as important those little ones as the major ones as the ones that we shake in front of as the ones that we are afraid not to fulfill in the correct way we do not know the reward for a mitzvah a person could think i'm doing a major mitzvah right now and the reward is so huge however there's a little minor mitzvah and for that little minor mitzva i don't know maybe it's expendable maybe i don't have to worry about it i do a lot of big mitzvahs so that little bit so i don't have to worry about no even that little mitzvah it is huge a person never knows when it's going to come in life and that little mitzvah will protect the person forever the time says that it is an atria a tree of life to those that grab onto it this song and those that support it those that give me ushar they're happy they go around with joy in life says something fantastic why does it say aytshkaim it is a tree of life and he says the following that sometimes a person's in a boat and they're going maybe rafting and all of a sudden they didn't realize it there is a steep decline and it starts going down and they realize that if they continue on the boat or the raft that they're all going to get unfortunately killed in the water so what does a person do they see an overhanging branch they reach up and they grab it it's easy they didn't take the whole torah they didn't take 613 mitzvahs what did they take one branch one mitzvah one mitzvah that was major or one mitzvah that was minor and because of that an individual can save their lives heim said in your life be careful about a mitzvah in your life take one mitzvah and make it your own own it worry about it be making it in the best way there were people that did this in life it comes to mind the great rabbits in lubling how much that she cared about every single person in this world the beaker hollim the fact that she constantly went to the hospitals day and night her phone was always on you could never not reach rabbits and lubling how she brought doctors to people that were ill how she was able to do the matches and get everybody where they needed to be that rabbitson dedicated herself to the mitzvah i said judge for yourself but she made it her own i was told by a wonderful man douglas javlon that one time she needed a doctor and the doctor was at the airport so she ran to the airport what did she care and then they said that the doctors on the plane only rabbits and lubeling could pass all the security with clarence get up on the plane and pull the doctor off of the plane that's the mitzvah that she was dedicated to or the great rav rosenberger rabbi joseph rosenberger came to this land and worried about a mitzvah that was neglected all but forgotten the mitzvah shotness lo silvas that a person could not wear wool and linen and what did he do he went and he saw that people they were buying suits they were buying outfits and they were full of sharpness because in europe a person would go to their tailor in europe the tailor would know this you can use this you can't use they were yiddish tailors but here in america people didn't realize that clothing has to be checked for shortness so he walked up and down the streets and he begged people please check please come to me and i'll be able to help you with it people started to look at him sugana oh crazy check your clothes you have to look inside your clothes what could be wrong with clothes we never checked our clothes back in europe there was no such a thing and he started to go to the schools and he went from school to school begging the young boys and the young girls the myths of shotness it's like the mitzvah abbas will who would think about eating some meat and taking a glass of milk nobody the same misser who would think about wearing wool and linen together well he continued and after a while they stopped calling him meshugana and he established the shotness laboratory he dedicated himself to that mitzvah he established the shotness laboratory in williamsburg i had a chance to see his work and from that centers all over the world australian south african london and you can't imagine a place that does not have a shot this check or a shuttle's laboratory it was baina's manim and i went down to the shutness laboratory because rev rosenberger secret sonic levroche had asked me if i would like to learn about shatness it's langiorn so i went every day of being in between the yeshiva when we were out for break i went there and i sat by him and i learned the mitzvot shotness i learned how to check if i tell you the mesira snfish that that man had for that one mitzvah i learned an unbelievable amount about shatne's but you know what i learned a lot more about i learned i learned endearment for a mitzvah i learned masira's self-sacrifice for one mitzvah a mitzvah that was neglected and then he wrote in his will his last will and testament is because he was i say because he was involved in the midst of shatness his whole life he asks anybody on his yard side if they could learn a mishna if they could learn a little bit of torah because he's afraid maybe he didn't learn enough maybe he didn't do enough in his life rabbi rosenberger that didn't stop for one moment doing mitzvos fulfilling the will of hashem and he's worried i think he had nothing to worry about may as the shama continue to go higher and higher in ganedan so that's what it means a person should know grab on to one mitzvah in particular you can save yourself you can save your life the helicopter was very strong about the mitzvah of shmir salashan shmir salashan is something that we can all do we can all be quiet we can all be careful we cannot harm another individual try to say something bad if you don't have something good to say i'll tell you what my mama would always say don't say it you're not getting a mitzvah so why are you saying it i gotta listen we all have to listen to that not only in saying but also in writing something not nice about another person i know esther varum is a deorisa we got to be careful all of us got to be careful do you know what the great sonic of melit said if another yid would never ever raise a hand raise a pen raise a voice against another jew no one from the amim no one from the nations would be able to hurt us the melits who said it that no one could hurt us if we didn't hurt each other if we didn't stand in judgment of the next person if we didn't feel the need to besmirch somebody if we didn't feel the need to speak negatively about the next individual and so the great belzer rabbis once said that there was a yid in the town a yid that was very careful mitzvah kala mitzvah nation mitzvah of washing before bread mitzvah nation what happened was his whole life he just did that mitzvah never did any other mitzvah they never saw him in shul they never saw him by kosher meat they never saw him put on filling they never saw him in any public reading of the megillah what happened with him came to be that he had a sandwich he was starving he was in between towns he said to himself i gotta eat the only place to wash there was a well but standing around the well were unsavory characters wrote scream cut throats thieves people that he would endanger his life he said you know what it's dangerous i'm not going to do it so one time i won't wash he picked up the bread he was ready to eat the sandwich and all of a sudden he said impossible i do one mitzvah my whole relationship with hashem with the one upstairs is based on that one minute saying now i'm not going to do it he went over and as he began to wash they robbed him and unfortunately killed him when he was prepared and they sent him for his leviah the chevra kadisha was astounded rabbit himself came to the leviah the belzer rabbit to come to levaya at that time he was elderly wasn't feeling well to go to a yid didn't do anything no mitzvahs no nothing and all of a sudden he's coming he's malava he's going straight to the base of him to the cemetery they came over and asked the belzorebe what what is it they ask him after the leviathan and he says i'm going to tell you the truth he was so strong on that one mitzvah that he held on to even with mesiras nephesh with self-sacrifice when he was nifter he went straight to ganeden eitskaimhi la makhazikimbo even that one branch is enough to hold a person to torah and to mitzvos interesting the madistan hummus says we have ramach ramachavarim everybody knows we have 248 limbs and that is connected the 248 positive mitzvos that we all have we know that every aver cries out each one of our limbs cry out do a mitzvah do the mitzvot villain do the mitzvah of shmeera sapan shmira say naim shmir do the mitzvahs all of them our feet somahti ba omrimli basa shem go to the yeshiva go to the basiaco all the parts of the body have various mitzvoths associated with them dunamis says the man and you'll live long there are also 365 mitzvahs loisa 365 mitzvahs that are negative precepts every day from sunrise until sunset there is a cry because there are 365 days in the year every day says i am geyser on you i decree on you that you don't do an aveira don't bring me in the whole world the cafe don't obligate me don't make me responsible for any decrees and therefore every day cries out to a person try to be good try to avoid all bad try to go only to the right places try to go and do the things that hashem wants you to the rambam classifies simcha sakhag as a mitzvokala as an easy mitzvah as a light mitzvah interesting and a mitsuhamura the mitsu abrasmila and i never knew that the mitsubishi mila was a mitzvah hamura until it happened to be that somebody called me from eastern europe and they told me they have a very big nissan the nissan is they didn't have a bris miller and they do all the mitsus nobody knows but it's difficult even the the thought about it is difficult and what could they do and i started to talk to the individual i had once met them when i was in poland and we talked back and forth finally after a number of conversations deep conversations the person said i am willing to do it would you be on the telephone with me until they actually will me in i said it would be my greatest source i saw how the rambam classifies mitsuhamura points out what is the mitzvah mitsvakala you remember the bine kairaj they certainly didn't come from that great of a father they all stood up out of covered respect for moshe ravenu they all stood up out of respect how unbelievable it is what happened from that little standing up out of respect sometimes we measure the person came in oh do i have to stand up for him i may be as great as him maybe i know how to learn better than they do he they stood up that's not just straightening out your back but standing up so that a person sees that you have reverence for a parent reverence for a rebbe reverence for a rogue reverence for asia's cover for robertson and because of that what happened because they stood up mismarae to him you can say joshua's you can expound every word of those to heal him who came out from them shmuel shmoel was shaco was equal to motion arun how unbelievable it is what happened in later generations great people came out from them why the reason is is because they had done a mitzvah from the smallest mitzvah a person never knows what is going to happen fascinating that we find the altar of nevada the great out of nevada said that if a person says i will only do the hamuras i'm only going to do the major mitzvahs i'm only going to do the major major mitzvahs in life and those availas that are just like smaller varus i won't worry about so what happens from that individual eventually they will not even worry about the mitsoshamuras average hamuras the major sins the major missiles they won't worry about it when we start picking and choosing what is good and what we feel is important and what we feel is not so important and this is something that i want to underscore for all of us throughout the entire world all people who are right now uh involved in our share be very careful the smallest little mitzvah we don't know what it's going to do i had the occasion at one time i happened to be i was walking down i used to live on east 9th street i was walking down east 9th street and i saw a person that i know an individual this individual is a person that helps to collect the little children collect a little money give out little prizes for stalker his head was down and i thought that he was deep in thought and when i passed him i said to you how are you he looked up at me and he didn't give me any kind of expression i said how's your alvaro sakadesh how's your holy work he looked at me in a funny way he went like that and continued i felt so bad do you ever know if you said the right thing you didn't we're in charge of the things that come out out of our mouth maybe i made him feel bad maybe i didn't say the right thing maybe i started his day off in the wrong way maybe i shouldn't have been so friendly later that evening i came back to my house and when i came in family told me there's someone on the telephone they told me his last name i said oh no i can't believe it he's calling me to tell me what i did wrong earlier that morning i hesitated picked up the telephone and he said rov i want to tell you you know today when you ask me how my avoidance of kodish is going do you know that i was on my way to hand in my resignation because this year i haven't been able to raise the money even the cover a portion of my salary i just felt like a failure i felt i couldn't do it anymore to them and i went in but when you said house you have others a kurdish i couldn't believe that you know what i do i couldn't believe that your moksha would i do for the children and collect the little stalkers i mean what is it but you said it in such a way that i got a renewed vigor i walked in that day and in one day i was able to raise money that not only could cover the salary for this month but it was more than i had raised the entire year i want to thank you mishna tells us heavy martin shalom you should say hello to everybody mitsukala mitsuhamura is it mine or a major you choose which one how you could be makazik somebody instead of telling a person a complaint if you go and you find something nice to say about them how it's mahasic them if the child came home and they didn't do so good that day and you say i know you're going to do better you didn't do so good today but believe me you're going to do so great when i have a child in the future i'm going to ask you and the little girl maybe you got into a little trouble in school maybe you weren't looking in exactly like you should have face and maybe the teacher said something but i want to tell you when you grow up you're going to be a great rabbitson you're going to give a lot of people inspiration i'm just waiting to see it if you do that or an adult everybody needs krizuka and you're a kazakh person an aimless shire your scar is huge it is great when a person will go to alum when they'll go to the next world after 120 years they're going to say thank you thank you for saving that man's life thank you for saving that woman's life the personal say i wasn't on hatsola i wasn't on the musaskim i i didn't work for shonrim or khaberim i didn't do any of that none of those organizations no but you gave somebody a good word and because you gave someone a good word they cared about themselves they made something out of themselves and they didn't have negative feelings that could lead to i don't want to say where so that is the idea that a person should be as careful in a mitzva kala as a mitsuhamura the kute maran says something interesting what does it mean because each mitzvah is going it causes something specific up in shamayim the littlest mitzvah or the biggest mitzvah you can never tell what it is it could be that you do something so small you don't know what it's going to have an effect in the upper worlds you may not be aware of it you could say uh what'd i do i just said hello to that person or i just helped that individual out or somebody insulted me and i didn't say anything back i wasn't mashup i heard my help and i didn't say a word but what did i do it's nothing what do you mean nothing it was something all the people what did i do i said a little tell him so what did i do capitol tell him i tried to help somebody by saying tell them for them well they think my talent helps yes a person can never tell whose feelings are answered whose prayers are answered an individual can never tell what is the result of their efforts what is the result of saying there is none other than hashem though a person that says it with a clear heart with a clear mind and they know that hashem rules over everything as rabb khan valor says that is a school on the floor it is a unbelievable charm for a person to be mavato bad things and to have good things happen can we imagine it chickens for shabbos chickens for shabbos what do they do chickens for shabbos they give food they give clothing they give the basic staples in life that people need so an individual say okay nice nice stucco but who do they give it to crucios agunos amonos those that may be missed in life those that we own just don't see all the time those that just fade into the woodwork those that might be embarrassed those that may not be in the public eye but do they suffer i don't even want to say it being missed out in life in the clean of children the little kindler that they should have what they need and know just because there's not a father in the home right now i am equal i am as good as all the other boys in class and girls in class i have the same food i have nice clothing i have somebody that cares about me and brings a package that they should have that self-esteem can you imagine is it a mitzvah kala or a mitsuhamura the rebbe the rebbe that struggles that works long hours that cares about the tamidim the mora that cares about the talmidas and calls them at night and worries about them worries about how they're doing at home just not in school whether they're doing the class work in the curriculum i don't know what but worried about them as a child is in the summer and how about their little children when they have the salary that they do and sometimes let's face it it's not the highest bracket in the world what should their children feel like but chickens for shabbos they make sure that they all have things with dara covered in an honorable and respectable way i ask you mitsukala or mitsuhamura all of these things that we learn we don't know the scale of merit of the smallest little mitzvah that we do i would just like to end to be messiahim bedovatov and that is that every year i try before yomto to gather together whatever i possibly can a little bit of money so that the people can make yamtov and that the people have a joyous yomtov and the joyous colomoid and so somebody called me up there's a woman and the woman is actually together with a young daughter i don't know how this ever happened but she's living in a shelter suffice it to say i once went to a shelter together with a very big askin rebreski i went to a shelter to view whether there were people there that possibly we could bring out in manhattan needless to say the conditions of the shelter i would not even want to talk about a woman and a daughter in the shelter i couldn't put it together i told the oscar please i'll be happy to give them whatever i possibly can and i went out that day to put together some assistance for them and i had it in the envelope and then at about 4 30 i get a knock on the door right here in this room where we're at now a mother together with her daughter young little daughter comes in the most humble people that i've ever met they both came in smiles but not looking straight ahead more looking down and they came over and i gave to them immediately what i had gathered together for them and i tried to give them words of khizuk the daughter begins to ask the mommy mommy can i show him now and the mommy keeps going like this but the daughter was so excited about something and she says could i please show him i want to show the rebbe i want to show the rebbe the mother felt so bad the daughter began to take out from a paper bag something that she wanted to show me it was drawings it was pictures that she had made on white paper beautiful drawings of the haggadah with the words written in underneath that are found on that page in the haggadah the woman explained that this little girl had gone together with her during the day one day to a judaica store and there were on the shelf beautiful her goddess the pesachagada written for children beautiful pictures she was fascinated she looked at those pictures and concentrated when she went home she realized there was no way on earth that she would ever be the proud owner of that haggadah it just wasn't going to happen so what did she do she was creative she is a little bit artistic she took out white paper and she began to draw the picture that she had seen earlier a few days later they went back to the store only to look only to window shop she took a look again in the haggadah she studied a picture and when she came home she did the same this repeated itself and she wanted to show me the haggadah that she had made herself that she would use on the night of pesach how proud she was even though she knew that her mother could not afford even the simplest of her goddess for her to use i saw the pain in her mother's eyes as she explained it over to me and i told the mama ashraeker how happy you are how happy you are to have such a child that dreams of yeti's mitzrayim that dreams of torah that dreams of the god of dreams of pesach and that is her desire and how beautiful she wrote the pictures how beautiful she wrote to psukim this is unbelievable she's going to grow up to be great in claudius royal be happy and be bisimra because it is the greatest happiness that any parent could ever have may we all experience tremendous nachas may we all have a life full of simchas simcha mitzvah