#27: Iggeres HaRamban (10 Minutes of Meaning) - Humility and Aspiration

good morning and and BTO to everyone may we hear good news our hostages come home and our soldiers return from the war with a sweeping Victory 10 minutes of meeting is generously sponsored by his father and of her mother BL r as always please feed your body nourish your soul fuel your body and nourish your soul with our coffee and our slushies and our pastries and enjoy yourself we're learning 's letter written ostensibly to his son but the ran knowingly or unknowingly really was writing the letter to each and to every one of us how to be our better selves how to be better versions of ourselves how to condition ourselves never get angry never lose our cool never raise our Voice live a life of awe live a life of awareness of Hashem in our life to be able to live a life of reaching up reaching out and reaching in our MOS repairing correcting to be able to build deepen our relationships rather than ruin and rather than sabotage it's the combination of not being angry and arrogant and instead carrying ourselves with a humility as we've learned the raan says let me tell you you may not yet become humble but act humble dress for the job you want not the one that you have act humble you'll become humble don't wait to be humble to act humble and do so if you're only humble part of the time you're never humble to be humble to that mindset that posture that attitude that approach that thinking which is where we left off means keep your head down we even I think in literature I think our imagery somebody who has their nose high in the air who looks up while they walk is arrogant is arrogant they think that they're controlling the whole world they're the master of the world the world serves them instead of their serving Hashem and serving the world we're supposed to look down if you walk in Hy fashion even for six feet you push away Hemm says there's not enough room in this world for both of us the whole world is filled with his covero his honor his glory not yours not yours so we don't walk around instead R our head down and I shared with you you can look it up online I did that the design of the inner ear we are most balanced and an equilibrium not when we hold our head straight but in fact when the head is tilted down is when the human being anatomically is most in b the anatomy of course corresponds with the Torah truth that person should be looking down then continues the we're supposed to the posture a Jew should have is that our eyes look down but our heart is looking up our eyes are down and our heart is up when we walk now again that doesn't mean be rude don't avoid people don't avoid eye contact don't be rude don't fail to give a Shalom say good chabas don't say hello to people when you walked by you were so humble and busy being humble that you were looking down the notion of looking down means literally to be looking down again you're not head held high nose in the air arrogant but it also means that our approach and our attitude we think of humility we look at the we think about the soil the dirt the Earth that we are shaped from and that we will return to and that should generate a sense of humility but while simultaneously with humility we look to the ground to the Earth and we realize that's where we are going one day we are future warm food simultaneously our heart should aim should Aspire should reach should yearn to go up to go up his commentary the famous he says on the we say it in our daving says when it comes to issues you have to look up so you say look at the person who's a bigger who has better who's more righteous who gives more when it comes to spiritual look up but when it comes to material things when it comes to needing physical material things then look down when it comes to those when it comes to the spiritual look up look up at those who have more and try to measure up to them and when it comes to the physical look down and realize how much you have and be grateful for it that our eyes our posture Aid's posture throughout the day is looking down our heart is yearning up our heart is yearning up if you've ever seen the birth of an animal that's a peculiar segue if you've ever seen the birth of an animal you know animals are born and they walk immediately they walk immediately if you ever went to RAB burman's Father's Farm and saw him delivering calves you see the calves pop out and then they just start walking and yet a baby is born and it takes a baby a long time they're immobile for a long time until they begin to crawl and first they pull themselves like their Commandos then they crawl on their knees and hands and then eventually they stand up and walk and they fall down and eventually they walk why do human beings take a long time to learn to walk and animals walk right away so already point out because an animal is you see what you see is what you get it is it's a finished product it's ready to walk but the same path towards walking is walking in life that the Jew is striving is yearning is reaching is stretching we start out we can't even crawl then we crawl and then we walk we are constantly growing we're constantly adding we're most of we're doing more we're growing an animal walks on all four it's looking towards the ground a human being walks on two we're stretching we're striving we're standing up we're yearning going towards the heavens on the one hand with humility we look down we know where we come from we know where we're going to and we have the humility that that should bring but simultaneously I want more I want Holiness I want eternity I want immortality I want Torah I want to be on a mission I want to contribute this is also the hey what is the posture for daving on the one hand we have a tradition of shuckling some people Shuckle they move around they gesture they gesticulate they move around all their limbs with all of our bones and all of our limbs we're into the daving we're into the daving early they would start this corner of the room and they'd end in the other corner of the room they're bouncing off the walls it's one of the criticisms the grow and others the concerns but but says says how do you say your right hand over your left hand over your heart your head tilted down that's it that's the posture of you know what that looks like when you stand before a king if you stand before a powerful leader a king your hands over your heart and your head is you don't look at the king you know with your with your back tall and your head high in the air and looking him in the eye and looking down at him or looking at him as an equal the way to express the humility when talking to someone so powerful your hand over your heart and that's why the raah says there's no movement there's no shuckling there's no nanom going on with yourself it's your hand right hand over the left hand over over the heart with the head looking down and that's thein that is the posture of when they D continues the ra ran says when you're speaking to somebody don't look them directly into the eye now that might be cultural today if you were to avoid eye contact with someone they would consider you rude if they were of the other gender they might especially consider you rude if they don't understand or appreciate what you're trying to do but thean sentiment remains which is be humble appear humbly appear humbly before everyone everyone else should be considered greater than you in your eyes and we should use our creativity and Imagination to figure out a way that they're greater than us so that when we interact with them we do so with humility we do so with difference so if they're smarter then certainly you should respect that they're wealthier they have more resources they could do more with it you should if they're if they're poor you're wealthier or wiser you're so wise when you mess up you have no excuse you know better if they're not as smart they didn't have as good teachers they weren't as well educated so therefore they're more forgiven so therefore you're going to look at them with htin and arrogance you should look at them with admiration and inspiration that in fact they are more worthy than you so in every interaction in every engagement in every conversation we should go in with a sense of there's something to learn from this person there's a way that they're greater than I am there's a way that they're better than I am maybe I have more money in the bank maybe I did better on the SATs than they did but maybe they're more righteous maybe they're more pure maybe they're more innocent maybe they're some more self-regulated maybe they're more generous with everyone there's something to learn and a reason to be humble and your life says thean will change if you go through your day your head down instead of up with feeling humble instead of arrogant with always speaking calmly instead of ever indulging anger your marriage your parenting your friendships your business every part of your life will be enhanced for the better we should he today have a great day