Ten Minutes of Meaning (Part 188): Humble People Live For Others - Mesillas Yesharim

good morning welcome back to 10 minutes of meeting please help yourself to coffee and donuts a big gratitude to our Anonymous sponsorship we are on perhapes of the message how to live with humility and modesty to not allow the barakas the talents the gifts to be able to go to our head to recognize they are all only on loan from Hashem as quickly as we receive them they could disappear and they're never part of our permanent collection we last left off and was reminding us if you're wealthy and prosperous be happy with what you have and take what you have to help others if you happen to be well if you happen to be Mighty or strong you're in a position of power Lazar you should help out those who are less privileged those who are more impoverished could also this is similar to all of those who are assigned duties or obligations within a home within a company within a job nobody shows off nobody flexes because they do what they're supposed to do that's your job that's what you get paid for that's why you're contracted that's what you're rewarded and compensated for that's why you're here similarly with us however we use our talents and skills whatever we do to improve repair and redeem this world one should never show off or be prideful because that's why we're here and that's why we have it so a very interesting question in this commentary on Messina the uh have done Segal wonders why all of a sudden in the in the park in the chapter of anivas of uh modesty why all of a sudden Israel inserting these charge of hasid take the gifts that you have wealth wisdom power and use them to assist to help to uplift others write another parrot write another chapter the Mandate in the mission to do hasid this park after all is about anivis is about humility and modesty what do the two have to do with one another and he says so insightfully so brilliantly that the truth is when a person lives with anivos person is modest and humble a person who feels the gifts and talents they have are alone will in turn use them to help others the Arrogant person feels they're all mine I earn them I achieve them I accomplish them I can I cultivated them they're mine I have pride their mind they're for me they're to advance me and my interest my needs my joy they're not for anyone else so humility and loving kindness go hand in hand the person who lives with humility who says you know I don't deserve any of this I'm no more special I'm no different I'm no more deserving or entitled so I don't deserve any of this I must take what I have and use and help other people around me anivos and go hand in hand and the opposite guy for the bulgar the person's arrogant and proud when a person feels that it's all them they don't want to share it gets in the way and that's why it all goes together quoting a posse not because you're more numerous than all the nations that Hashem love us Hashem says you know why I love you you know why I feel affection towards you know I am proud of you because even when I bestow greatness upon you even though the Jewish people disproportionate we all know number of Nobel Prize winners disproportionate representation on the NASDAQ and the stock exchanges disproportionate number of medical breakthrough disproportionate spirituality and spiritual difference in molding and shaping this world the Jewish people have accomplishment and achievement well out of proportion to the number of who we are and yet but we turn to Hashem and we don't say we could rest on our Laurels or we're entitled to deserving of the world should bow down to us look how smart look how accomplished look how much we've contributed we say we have to do more what's next how can we more impair and reprove the world what can we do more to help the people around us what next organization what next institution what next campaign what next project how can we do more to improve the world he gave greatness to avram literally he promised he gave him greatness they gave him Fame and Fortune and what did avram say now I'm all that now I can live and lean back and uh and prosper said no I know Earnest I mean nothing in the dust of the earth that's something you do all the motion of our own motion Aaron marched into the palace we're reading now demanded of power the emperor of the world let my people go they on ultimately triumphed and persevered because of his miracles they walked out and were proven right and how do they respond not wow he's the emperor he's the strongest most powerful person on the planet and we showed him that makes us the most powerful not what they said what did they say who are we what are we we were simply recruiting for this job we have a mission we have a tough kid in this world we're doing what as agents in Hashem Hashem give greatness says I'm just a worm I'm not even a man I'm a worm I'm a lowly worm I'm future worm food because he was a king a mighty warrior career the world's greatest poet riches did he swell with pride he said I'm a worm that's why anivos is very very difficult it's challenging the ram Khan didn't start off with it it's not the first or the third or the 10th or the 15th chapter of Base we're all the way at the end of the book of Base chapter 22 when we've learned to live with alacrity and Zeal and mindfulness and watchfulness we've learned to live with tahara we've learned to purge our bad habits we've gone through hasidus we've gone through these other medus then we get to anivostanava it's not simple counterfeit fake fraudulent anivas humble brag I'm so I'm so humbled to have been honored and I want the world to know and I'm posting the picture of who I met and where I was featured and what happened that's easy counterfeit humility is easy but genuine humility as said both in our thoughts and in our actions to genuinely and authentically reflect on our lives and say I'm not deserving it's not about me I'm here only as the graciousness Hashem I serve at his pleasure why did I wake up this morning what am I meant to do not what are my rights and entitlements what are my duties and obligations what are my responsibilities Anonymous a humility and a modesty I've been positioned and I've been granted these gifts to make a difference for the people in this world the people around me most of all for Hashem is Barack to fill This World In His Image that's hard that's why it comes towards the end of the safer and yet we have tremendous precedent we have an incredible Missouri we have examples of all of our greatest leaders who despite their greatness their accomplishment their achievement they said all these emerges from a truthful heart that will not be swayed by the virtues that one has Thrones an individual knows well that dude to other shortcomings that are inseparable will not Elevate them from a state of lowliness in whatever area we Excel so you're sitting here right now maybe you're good looking and handsome and athletic and you have physical prowess maybe you have artistic ability and creativity and Entrepreneurship maybe you've broken through a business and you're prosperous and you're high earning and high achieving maybe you're incredibly brilliant you have an impeccable IQ a tremendous memory whatever gift that we have created to help us avoid ever becoming a bulgiver prideful is we also have shortcomings we have failures we don't flaunt them we don't show off about them the world may not know about them but when the door to our home is closed when it's just ourselves and our device our technology our own thoughts who are we and what do we bring are we so great are we so great in our punctuality are we so great in our davening our kavana are we so great in the way we make bracos are we so great and intuitive to jump and leap to do has it for others are we so great in smear sabris are we so great there's so many areas we could measure ourselves where we are not yet great that even if in areas we've achieved and broken through for greatness we should never swell with pride Others May look at us and believe the hype but we should look in the mirror and remember we confront our shortcomings we fight the battles of where it's not easy and we don't break through and we should therefore use that harness and channel that to remember that we still have a long way to go that we still have a long way to go and therefore to never swell with pride and when we're humble when we realize wow thank you I'm so fortunate to either have a brilliant mind or a giving heart to have broken through in business or whatever area we've achieved thank thank you that doesn't entitle me to anything all it does is obligate me to take it and to use it to better the world and that's why Anubis go together continue 845 living with a Muna we'll pick up a mirror system next week stay happy stay healthy and stay hungry