Ten Minutes of Meaning (Part 212): A Fear that Elevates - Mesillas Yesharim

may it be a good morning a good day for CLA we should hear Yeshua vas everyone's invited to have a coffee a donut make a in honor of our precious soldiers in memory of those who have given their lives we continue around chapter 24 the great Ral has been helping us chart our course towards a better and better version of ourselves how to live with mindfulness and watchfulness and Consciousness and caution how to live with aity and Zeal how to rid ourselves and Purge those qualities those temptations that Yahara that derails us that sabotages our success he's been marching us through the meidos of this formula to living our best lives and we're on per of we're up to the peric that deals with had to live not only with the Gish to be a not only the joy and the fun and the energy of being a Jew but also the year a healthy dose of fear a healthy dose of year not a with as we saw but not not to say everything is but to live with a to be feel a sense of wow the awesomeness the greatness the awesomeness of Theon Shalom how incredible how awesome he is and last time we spoke about the idea that the notion of consequences and accountability Hashem doesn't only give us suggestions but he has expectations and consequences if we don't meet them and all of those expectations are for our own good the whole system of Torah the platform of living a life is to live our best lives it's for us not for him yet if we don't do it there are consequences and he wants us to believe to understand to have faith not only in him but to have faith in the institution of the idea that we are accountable continues we find that the great Transcendent angels what does that mean there's no the angels in heaven the word is used in tanak it's used by kazal it never meant a a political Association a perspective on life means to tremble the origin of the word we're all where we're all meant to be we're all supposed to tremble and feel a sense of a the awesomeness the greatness of the almighty this is his world we serve at his pleasure we are his guests we are meant to be here on a mission for him there's consequences for what we do so not only are all human beings whatever their hash of Life wherever they send their children however they observe or don't observe we're all like the Angels like the and shudder constantly before the awesomeness of Hashem he's amazing he's all powerful he is eternal when one stops and pauses and considers if you understand how many galaxies there are trillions of stars there are and all the worlds and all the galaxies and all the trillions of stars are all Hashem he created he controls and he's in charge of absolutely everything he's awesome and we should feel awe and of the Angels the Angels who are perfect and infallible the Angels who are simply extensions of Hashem himself and they are they tremble and they fear him so all the more so we shoulds the wonders from where does the Heavenly River of fire originate from the sweat of the Holy creatures of the Angels who serve the angels are shvitzing the Angels who have nothing to fear they don't make mistakes mes they're not fallible the Angels who are perfect but they're shvitzing when they think about how great Hashem is so we who are finite mere mortals fallible we who are human beings who barely understand or comprehend anything we human beings who make mistakes and we'll have to pay for them we shouldn't fear the Angels tremble in fear because maybe in some way they will detract even in a small way from the honor of the sanctity that's do hasem so we who might we who could disappoint we who could misstep we shouldn't feel we shouldn't tremble Dona the great Mas in his commentary points out you know if if you admire someone for being incredibly strong strong and powerful let's say there's someone in the community I won't give a name I don't want to embarrass anyone you know they've got an arsenal of weapons in their home they train they're armed they're Fearless they walk around bravely they're always the one that you'll hide behind they're they're the if you see them scared of someone you're scared kman as long as they say yeah we got this I'll protect you I'm good I'm armed to the hilt I'll come we're good you feel good but if you were to see somebody who you feared who you were confident was strong and you see a in their armor a crack you see they're scared Alan Burger tells you he's worried then you should then you should worry so the malim the malim who are so powerful and perfect and they're simply trembling and shuttering in front of Hashem so all the more so when we contemplate and consider that we should be filled whenever hm reveals himself anywhere there's a trem and a shudder and a quiver there's an a spiritual earthquake when Hashem reveals himself just having contact with his awesomeness says the Earth shuted even the heaven dripped before says if only you would have rent the heavens asunder and descended the mountains flowed before you think about the world see a sunrise see a sunset think about the galaxies think about weapons and Arsenal think about horrific heinous evil barbarians who could perpetrate such an atrocity such a crime and the fear that people live with we talk about in the Amun this morning in just a few minutes the mimr of the P during the Persian Gulf War we'll learn that whole mimer that not only do we face the enemy but the other enemy we face is the fear of the enemy there's the the enemy and then there's the terror the anxiety the anxiousness the fear that grips the whole nation and there's two enemies and two fronts that we fight on and one we all have to battle wherever you are in the world to live with this fear and this anxiousness and this worry and this emotional instability so if you consider what mere mortals enemies barbarians can do the person doesn't recoil and think wow Hashem this is your world and you are all powerful and what you can do and therefore if I disappoint you if I fail you if I don't meet your expectations of me if I don't fulfill my purpose and my mission of why I'm here wow the consequences did you see that Sunrise wow isn't Hashem amazing come grab your guitar let's have a faan let's have a kumit let's sing it to be that's he's amazing and wow so when I mess up when I'm selfish self-centered when I give into my T myar when I don't meet his expectations I live a self-centered life instead of a selfless Mission Driven Life and I disappoint him wow the consequences I'm going to face I should tremble I should shudder I should fear you ever you ever speak to somebody who has to appear before a judge who's waiting for a verdict you ever talk to someone who's waiting for the lab reports of a biopsy they're shuttering and fear tremble they're paralyzed person shouldn't live a whole life in paralysis we have to live but if we think about that will motivate that will drive that will Elevate us he ques many another from I says even over this will my heart tremble and dislodge the Tremor of his voice making itself heard the true fear should always be found on the face of a person it should never live him there's one fear I don't remember if we said this salek was approached by a psychologist a psychiatrist in Boston in his community who said what's says I spend my whole career trying to rid people of their fears and then you get together on the high holidays and you say give us fear make us afraid make us afraid give us fear people pay a lot of money to a lot of therapists to belong to a lot of groups to take a lot of medicine to get rid of fear so the r said you don't understand there's one fear that eliminates all other fears and that is the fear of Hashem if you can live with a healthy awe and fear and relationship with Hashem not a fear that debilitates and paralyzes but a fear that elevates and enriches if we can replace if we can live with a healthy fear of Hashem it eliminates all the fears fear of heights and fear of flying and fear of speaking and fear of public crowds and fear of Kamas and fear of anti-semites if you can replace it and channel it with a fear of Hashem it's the one fear that eliminates all other fears that's the fear should be on our face with a smile it's not a fear that makes you sad and faisa and worried it's a fear that makes you smile because you know that he's the one I worry about but he's also my father and he's on my side so it's a fear that also can put a smile on my face and overcomes all other fears continue with living with amuna in 15 minutes may it be a wonderful Wednesday for claw Isel