#13: Iggeres HaRamban (10 Minutes of Meaning)

good morning welcome back to 10 minutes of meeting May we have BOS today 10 minutes of meeting serous respons by say father of her mother should have a speedy and complete we've been learning GIS ran the Ran's letter to his son the ramban's letter really to all of us the ran has been giving us the formula for serenity who doesn't want peace tranquility Serenity who doesn't want the relationships to be enhanced the relationships to be strong and the ran is giving us that formula how to spare ourselves from anger by conditioning ourselves to always speak peacefully and when a person is spared anger in their heart rather than rage and anger is filled with anava with humility if a person never raises their voice a person never loses their cool a person never gets angry then they live with modesty and humility and modesty and humility are the Stepping Stones the prerequisite to a life of y a life of awe a life of being able to recognize Hashem is Godly and once a person feels awe now they look around this world says to they say to themselves a person puts in their heart not occasionally not every now and then but always where do you come from where are you going that we are worm food in our lifetime and before whom we are going to have to give an accounting and we spoke last week the r is is really tapping into this Duality that we live with simultaneously we know Godless we're just a little bit below God we have greatness we royalty with the children of Hashem we have Godless Adam the greatness of man you understand the potential you understand the greatness you understand who we are and at the same time sh simultaneously we are utterly pathetic we are literally pathetic we're future worm food we are entirely dependent we are incapable without Hashem that Duality that awareness of that tension between the two is the secret to life and then ra says of course is quoting before whom we're going to have to give so what does it mean is that redundant there there's a difference between the two so the the Von has a famous Insight famous because I happen to know it and the girl says the following means an accountability we do something wrong there's one of the principles of our faith is there's accountability there's consequence we live in a generation of helicopter helicopter parenting of bulldozer parenting parents want to swoop in and bail out and protect and insulate children so that they never experience any accountability any consequences they didn't study they failed the test we'll get the teacher to give them a good grade anyway we're going to bail them out we'll call the boss we'll go to the interview will'll get them the job we'll bail them out and it's a mistake it's a terrible mistake because in life in life there are consequences and in the afterlife there are consequences one of the 13 principles of faith in fact the r doesn't explicitly count or what he calls rash free will we spoke about this past chabas the Rah doesn't count as one of the 13 principles of faith it is suggested that the Rah subsumes under the notion that there are consequences there's a reward and Punishment when a g when a potential convert a candidate is standing in the Mikvah and we ask a series of questions one of the questions we ask is do you believe in consequences you think life is just whatever you want freefor all whatever makes you happy or do you realize that there's a Creator there's a source of our existence there's a master of the universe he has expectations of us he loves us but there are also consequences the world and life is filled with consequences you put your finger in an outlet you're can electrocute yourself you run in the middle of the street you get run over by a car you don't study for a test you're going to fail life is filled with consequences so says the is consequences we do the right things we draw close to hashm we do the wrong things we find ourselves distanced from him we are accountable we're about to begines and that's what El really is all about inventory and stock on the choices that we're making on our lives recognizing and being inspired and motivated by the notion that there are consequences so what's if din is the judgment if is the Judgment the consequence and the accountability for what we've done then what's so the says brilliantly he says din is consequence for what you did wrong is the consequence of the accountability for what you could have done right in that same time person who stays up all night and they're watching the wrong thing they're not sh where they they're not guiding their eyes they're watching they they immerse themselves in a world of Tuma in a world of spiritual impurity and contamination they're watching the wrong thing or even if they're not violating the boundaries of explicit content but they're wasting their time wasting time on Nar so a person din there's a consequence for wasting time but there's on what could you have been doing instead learning checking in on someone spending time with family taking care of your health and wellness sleeping so you could learn better work better the next day D what you did wrong is what you could have done right it's a similar V why is it that the MS the person who speaks M sh why do they have to bring they bring two birds they did one thing wrong by speaking ill of another by gossip and slander so bring one bird why do they bring two birds the answer is they violated the power of speech by speaking negatively but how could they have more positively used that power of speech how could that power of speech been used to compliment to speak positively to help so the ramban tells his son that we should always be aware with every decision we make throughout the day with every choice with every action what will be the consequence of the choice I'm about to make and what's the how could I have used this time this energy these resources instead I just bought something I'm entitled to buy things but is that the best use of it I'm just allocating this time is this the best activity I'm giving my energy is this the best use of it we're going to appear before the King of Kings the judge of Judges the says if the heavens and the are unable to grasp and unable to truly comprehend Hashem all the more so man Humanity so mere mortal Suchi were so finite we're so frail how could we possibly understand hasem V in thek says Heaven and Earth I feel says hem so we'll end with this Heaven and Earth I fill says Hashem that's not the way we normally formulate when you want to say that you have a basket that's filled with fruit what do you say a basket filled with fruit you don't say ah it's fruit filling a basket it's fruit filling a basket you say it's a basket that's filled with fruit so it should have said the sh are filled with says I instead says I fill Heaven and Earth should have been Heaven and Earth are filled with hem a basket is filled with fruit not fruit filled the basket so says in his commentary as the Z says is existence there is no existence without him the basket exists the fruit exists so the basket is filled with fruit you don't say the fruit fills the basket but you can't say there's a world and then hasem the world is filled with hem you can make a king go around the world and see him everywhere and everything no it's not that there is a world and then Hashem fills it there's no world without Hashem we're living in The Matrix we're living in a world that's an illusion we're living in the imagination of hem this is just an image so therefore the says when a person realizes that I'm just in an illusion I'm in a world that is just a matrix that this is HEM then a person is going to live with a Consciousness and a mindfulness and an intention person who going to make better choices and right choices we'll be able to regulate our emotions our actions our Behavior we live our best selves one more insight says we know the P we sing there is no Rock like God God is the rock that we lean on but we've shared many times what is there's no artist like God go to the Swiss Alps in the Grand Canyon and Glacier National Park go tour the world and you'll see there is no artist like says means how do you test the quality of an artist the better the artist the less you believe it's a painting what do you say about the painting of the greatest artist you say it looks so real it looks so real I confused it with being real there's so talented they're so good I thought it was real but it's really only art means Hashem is so good we make the mistake of thinking this world is real says the bem he's the greatest artistu he's so talented you made a world that we believe that this illusion is reality we believe this artwork is real we think that we're real and the world is real and we're operating in it and they we're the ones making choices says we have to realize we're just in his imagination we're just figures in his painting we're just operating in his world there's not a world that's filled with Hashem there is no world independent of Hashem and writes toan to his son when we realize that we'll be much more Vigilant on we live better lives we live better selves it should be a day filled with SOS toos hope to see you later at the Yumer coton field