Ten Minutes of Meaning (Part 217): Be a Masmid in Yirah

good morning B should be a good morning for Clos our hostages should be brought home our soldiers should return to their families we should Mark a sweeping victory for CLA Isel we continue our 10 minutes of meeting please help yourself to coffee and donuts and we continue to look for a series sponsor for this sh we are on the 25th per we're finishing up the 25th par today and that is the peric on D how to acquire the me the character trait of all we translate the word yeara not as fear it shouldn't be a debilitating gripping fear although there's nothing wrong with a little healthy dose of fear to realize that our actions have consequences that we are accountable for them we should recognize that we answer to a higher authority but also y from a sense of awe there's someone and something so much bigger than ourselves where a little Cog and a big wheel there's so much more going on and to have the mindfulness and the Consciousness to live with that all the time and the of how do we acquire how can we live and go through our lives not seeking happiness but Holiness not looking to indulge the next pleasure but to realize there's a bigger picture and what is our purpose what is our mission in it requires what we saw last time what the ra calls to be a m but not a m in the classic sense of the way we think of the word Masid the word Masid means to be diligent to be consistent to be constant and we think of the mid in the form and Arena of talor certainly that is a an aspect of being a mid but to be a m also means to be a mid in not that you have when you're in SCH or when you're learning but when you're at work or in the marketplace or the mall then you don't have you don't have a knowledge and an of but to be a Masid to be constantly thinking and focusing and mindful so if mindfulness is the answer if consciousness conscientiousness thinking about the bigger picture Theon place in his world is how we live the most purposeful Mission Driven Life then what is the opposite what is the antithesis what is the obstacle or impediment n the opposite in the antithesis is the opposite of being a m if we allow ourselves to be distracted if we are fragmented if we are divided then a person can't live with a sense of awe you can go through your day and you're so focused on scrolling or keeping up or watching or following or debating or arguing or buying or enjoying we're so distracted by all the other things you wake up at the end of the day and you know you Tak I forgot this Hashem I forgot I was going to live this day different than all the others I forgot I'm here for a purpose and a mission I forgot I'm capable of discipline and sovereignty over myself the obstacle the impediment to a life of Y to the most purposeful life we could have is is disruption Interruption is distraction and never never in history have we lived in a time in which that challenge was greater than right now the gift of technology which gives a lot of freedom and opportunity and gift is also a tremendous challenge a challenge of living a life of of absent presence a life of multitasking so we're not really focused a life of the opposite of essentialism but being divided across so many platforms and focuses simultaneously it's the it is the greatest the greatest distraction and it doesn't matter whether it's maybe a person says I'm overwhelmed by obligation I'm anxious I'm worried and it's all reasonable or Barat maybe willfully they are watching or they are distracted or they are indulging it doesn't matter it doesn't matter the cause or the reason the result is the same and the result is that if we're not focused and fixated if we're not very much connected to the bigger picture to hashem's presence to what's our role to what does he want me to do to what will give him to what am I meant to be doing in this moment that we easily could find ourselves making the wrong choices having judgment which is clouded sabotaging our own success wasting and squandering time doing irreparable damage the answer is to be a Masid to constantly feel his presence to constantly know that we are answerable and accountable to him to constantly feel his encouragement his support and his love to know he's always by our side and looking over our shoulder the moment we allow a which is exactly the pernicious methodology of the Yahara the whole way of the Yahara is to say to get us distracted the moment we have the moment the moment we are distracted unfocused yet Sahara's got us that's true if we indulge in eating the wrong things late at night that we promis we wouldn't eat at the wrong time the wrong quantity the wrong food that's true if we're going to say the things we promis we wouldn't say look at the things we promis we wouldn't look at how does theara work by distracting Us by tiring Us by making us anxious and then when we are unfocused and we forget what matters when we lose our compass and our way then the has Us in its Clause is is the Kryptonite of a person who's trying to live the most meaningful purposeful life and this is why commands The King The King has to have a safer Torah Toph Torah why so that the king can constantly turn to it look at it be lift by it so he will learn so what do you mean the king is a graduate of Yeshiva the king undoubtedly was one of the to rise to the level to be appointed to be elected a king of Israel he must be outstanding in the Yeshiva outstanding in sheer so certainly he's learned Torah certainly he's acquired why would the P say so that the king will learn to live with awe with fear with awareness of Hashem it must be year is not Neil Med as year is not ever fully acquired you can never put a check mark you never say I'm done you're never finished you never get a degree it's never complete it's buil the king walks around with the Torah because we know that power corrupts absolute power corrupts absolutely and the king who tastes that power needs to constantly review constantly recalibrate constantly return to the moral Clarity that only Torah can provide it's not something natural it's not something you Inuit it it's not something that's acquired through osmosis or by accident the King has to study now you'd say you study lus and and is for the people who can't learn when I was in Yesa having good mid and growing in that was for the people who couldn't learn well if you were smart you learned well L you in the top and the guy with the and the Sha the guy walking around preaching mid he didn't have such a good cup that guy everyone knew you couldn't you don't learn well so you had good mid if you could learn well you didn't is telling us the opposite is you have to learn it you have to dissect it you have to analyze it there should be and the King don't just pick it up doesn't happen by accident it's not that if you learn then you're also gonna have tremendous you have to dive into you have to learn it it's not something because of the because our body the Goof that houses our soul is reinforcing constantly the opposite of Y don't listen to your moral compass don't listen to the Nish the gof craves the gof Longs for the gof has a drive in Temptation they so how do you learn you need person has to be a you have to be a not only in learning you have to be in the says when you're going to sleep when you're waking up when you're on the road when you're home you're constantly learning thinking about talking about engaging others on the topic of do you see AEM do you hear AEM do you feel AEM do you hear a talking to you do you talk to him do you see him in your world it's a it's a that hem has found every did you hear that rustle of the trees that was Hashem did you hear that story that seemingly was a coincidence or random that was Hashem do you know that this incredible detail in physics or chemistry that's Hashem you have to this unbelievable vort from the par it's all everywhere you look and everywhere you see you see that bird you see that puddle that traffic the delayed flight it's all Hashem and if you're a in seeing hem everywhere if you're a m I don't think anyone made it into a song yet still plenty maybe the first words teach your way so I can walk in your truth unite my heart so I can live with an awe and an awareness constantly of your presence in my life that is the D says the way to acquire is to be a mid and to equally be focused on eliminating the impediment what's the biggest impediment distraction don't give in to distraction don't allow ourselves to be unfocused to be distracted because that is the biggest impediment to living this most meaningful life of year and with that we complete the 25th paric we are in the home stretch next week we begin the 26th paric Bay mid we're up to the next Mida in the formula of the mid of kadha of Holiness we don't live for happiness we live for Holiness 15 minutes 8:45 living with amuna should be a good day for am Isel