#20: Iggeres HaRamban (10 Minutes of Meaning) - Embracing Humility and Purpose

good morning B welcome back to 10 minutes of meaning with tremendous gratitude to our generous series sponsor father of her mother thank you so so much the sh please help yourself cof pastry slushy sit and stay to learn to Davin take advantage here book orone synagogue we're leing g ran Ran's letter to his son really the Ran's letter to each and every one of us the ran has been helping us become a better and better version of ourselves conditioning ourselves to never get angry to work on ourselves to always avoid anger reflexively we can condition we can cultivate we can change ourselves speak peacefully and calmly instead of getting angry stay humble and modest look around the world and realize not everyone not everything needs to fall in line with you and your vision and your micromanaging and your power and your ego is in charge surrender submit go with the flow in Israel in Hebrew there's a word zor you know the word zor to describe somebody I love that word to be zor to go with the flow zor like flow just go with the flow just go with the flow so Ran's telling his son just go with the flow yes try to affect change be a leader transform the world influence positively but afterwards in the end of the day let go and let God submit and surrender be as go with the flow just go with the flow and when a person does that when a person lives that way when a person understands it's his world not ours we work for God he doesn't work for us when a person thinks then you'll be able to be filled with awe you live and look around at this world and you'll say wow what a world Hashem is amazing his world is amazing and you're living not in black and white you're living in Vivid color and it'll cause a person to guard themselves from making mistakes indiscretions calculations poor judgment because you live with the sense of oh there's a God it's his world I work for him let's make it better let's redeem it let's light it on fire so now I'm not going to be distracted you know laav an athlete who's training for the Olympics someone in college sports who wants to go pro so their friends are going out for drinks their friends say come meet us behind the the bleachers we got some good stuff that we bought on the street we're going to try it so that person is trying out for the Olympics the person wants to turn pro says are you out of your mind I am single-mindedly focused there's nothing I would put in my body that's going to compromise me from achieving my goals I have a mission I have a purpose when Farley was was Pro what number Farley 736 736 I don't know why not 7:35 but 736 that's a lot higher than I was so that I'll ever be so you'd never put anything in your body that's going to somehow detract or distract you from climbing the ranks and the latter and getting all the way to number one so when a person lives with a sense of mission and purpose when you know what you're trying to achieve then it protects us says the ra other people are vulner I have nothing to live for I don't know I have no purpose sure I'll try that yeah let's experiment with this yeah I'll go to that event that party that thing sure people make mistakes and they have poor judgment and they go off course because they don't know what they're living for there's no sense of mission or purpose but when a person knows these are my goals and I want to achieve them and I'm relentlessly pursuing them then even when they are offered or tempted they say not for me no thanks I would never go near that I'd never touch that I'd never show up there and that's what ran is telling his son when you think about all these things when you live in that world with this mindset when you realize we're here for a mission and a purpose when we work for him he doesn't work for us that alone will protect us not like we normally think it protects us because now we have fear I don't want to get punished I don't want lightning to strike I don't want God to take away something I want it's not out of fear it's out of purpose meaning when the college kid who wants to turn pro when the athlete is trying to climb higher and do better when the person trying to make the Olympics turns down the drugs of the alcohol doesn't go to the party goes to sleep early they don't consider those things a punishment that they're being denied or deprived that's the cost of achieving those goals we keep our eye on the ball keep our ey on the prize we know who we want to be and what we want to achieve and we're not tempted says and then when a person instead of with anger instead of giving into temptation or distraction a person lives with humility and modesty it's his world not hours we work for him he doesn't work for us we're humble in front of all people Adam a three-year-old a child people who are not as smart not as accomplished not as wealthy not as handsome not as athletic not as artistic and yet even in front of them Liv B we're humbled there's something to learn we're able to live with a healthy dose of modesty and shame and we have fear or awe from such people from hem and from his we don't want to make mistakes so then then we qualify for godliness for divine inspiration for divine wisdom where we last left off ran says to his son last week we spoke about b b why does he invoke the word b again began the letter and now he turns back to the word and now my son I'm not coming as an outside I'm not coming to criticize you or condemn you I'm not coming to catch you B you're my son I love you I love you I'm all about you I'm all about you know and see somebody who's arrogant in their heart over others such a person is rebelling against God and we last left off with the question somebody's arrogant what does that have to do with God if they're arrogant against man if in a room they think they're smarter richer better what does that have to do with God they could still Shuckle a long they could still be mock on the best Kus they can still be somebody who learns a lot during the day what does that have to do with their posture towards other people why is that but before we even get to that why did ran use two words no and see Y and these are two separate qualities Y is knowledge where is knowledge in the head there's all kinds of things we know don't eat that don't eat that late at night don't say that don't look at that don't do that all kinds of things we know up here but they never filter down to here the farthest distance between any two things on earth is the distance between our head and our heart you can't speak between your arm filling and your head filling your heart filling and your head filling No Interruption no pause there has to be highspeed connection between The Head and the Heart what we know has to filter down into what we do and who we are so Y is not enough it's not enough to know we've read the data we've seen the research we know don't eat that don't live like that don't deprive yourself of that sleep don't we know it's yida we know it up here but it's not enough to be yida it's got to be du no and also see so where does re I would have thought no and do why does the ran say no no if I were writing it nobody would read it but if I were writing it I would say no da and do not da and see where does the word re come in so I want to suggest that maybe it comes in based on what tell us tell us who's a so in one M says is somebody who's L someone who learns from many people is a elsewhere tell us somebody who sees what will be born from what they do most many people live in the Here and Now whatever will make me happy whatever brings me pleasure whatever for the right now but a wise person a smart person is RO they see the future not because they could pick the the Super Bowl winner or lottery numbers but they see the future means they know what will be noad what will be born from what they're conceiving in their actions and their choices today the alter of K in his an essay called what is the difference between a righteous person and a non- righteous person and he writes a the capacity for imagination imagination and then he goes on and elaborates he says the Russia has no imagination the Russia has no Vision the Russia has no picture about the future the Russia just says I want to eat this I want to drink this I want to look at this I want to go there I want to do this I want to press this button the Russia just right now there's no imagination there's no vision there's no picture there's nothing about the future the entire difference between the sadic and the Russia is that capacity and the alter connects this to Har that's why kazal emphasized we need to reinforce that capacity to imagine to see to picture to dream a called and he writes there simil it doesn't say is who thinks about the future or who talks about the future right the verb thatal use is not to think about to talk about they specifically say to picture to see the noad why he quotes the V will end with this the V Theon say says when you take a person from their house to their grave and they're engaging all their senses and you want to know what it's going to be like what is it going to be like in the afterlife when we meet our maker when we Face our creator what will it be like the vill go the gr said the following you're gonna sit on a couch maybe a will provide a bucket of popcorn and a big dye of coke Dy Peach spple you're gonna sit on the couch big theater huge screen G is gonna say we're going to press play we're going to watch your life together not just the public parts that everybody gets to see we're going to watch your whole life together when no one's there when no one's around the history even the Incognito history we're watching it all we're seeing it all we're reliving it all and then you don't mind I'm gonna just sit next to you on the couch while we watch this together what everyone saw what no one saw when you were together when you were alone what you think you erased what you tried to delete the cookies the cache the whole thing where watching it all we're going to review it all that's gim says the gr you don't need a devil and a pitchfork and a fiery furnace that's gaham the thought of Hashem sitting by our side and then Hashem says the girl says even more he says you know what let's get your parents in the theater let's get your grandp your Bobby and Z they're gonna sit in the theater too yeah we're gonna bring your wife we're gonna bring your kids we're all gonna sit pack theater endless seating we're gonna watch it together what do you think that's ganam that's ganam now the good news is we have editing power on the movie It's called chuva In Our Lifetime we can edit the movie out so maybe what will be left we say yeah bring everybody let's watch this together I'm proud of it but we got to edit before we get there that's the gro gr's understanding with the gr would teach about what is so says the that's you want to make good decisions today just when you're faced with should I watch that should I push that should I say that should I eat that should I go there be picture the theater picture the movie picture who sitting in the seats picture hasem sitting right next to you Ro Vision it's Vision so maybe that's why the ran says du no but it's not enough to know because we all know not enough to know know picture picture the consequence picture the outcome picture what will be born of what you're doing right now just picture it just picture it picture you could eat that today and tomorrow and the next day and maybe right now you'll be okay you're young you have a quick metabolism but picture what you're going to look like and what your lab report will say later on right now you think you could live on four or five hours of sleep but look at all the research that shows if you're sleeping that little you're basically guaranteeing yourself Dementia or Alzheimer's later in life so you want to live with so little sleep right now picture that future picture not recognizing your own family me and that's why thean says no but not enough to know picture we'll make the right decisions today if we're picturing and we have a vision for our future we'll pick up next time with that question still why is being again in this world in the next may we hear yes [Music]