Rabbi Gavriel Friedman - Preparation for Rosh HaShana

So without any further ado, I do want to mention something about and I my wife said I probably shouldn't say it but I personally think that this man is a serious man for the Jewish people because he could have done really well in Hollywood. Without any further ado, here's Thank you very much. Say, "I thought it would be Mashiach." You said, "Miss, I was like, oh, finally someone recognizes my greatness." Yin, the day of judgment. Day of judgment. The day of judgement. Ah, it's coming soon. So, first, just I forgot to introduce myself because some of you don't know who I am. My name again is Gabrielle Freriedman aka Ral Gab or whatever else which I can't really go into because I'm permitted to tell you what other names I'm called but I've been living here in the past 15 years. I married got a bunch of kids originally from a place called Woodmir New York. Oh wow nice I was there for one year. Oh wow. Parents nice. Which street in church? Oh wow. We were neighbors right there. A little older. I was I was there from I think 60 until 73. Anyway, so okay, I wasn't really anywhere for that. So sh time to get clarity is a pretty scary time for those who know what's going on and not scary at all for those who don't. But uh it's pretty pretty frightening meaning it's coming. This is it. Many people think of Yom Kipur or Yom Kipper or Yom Kipurim as the day of judgment. Although really that is a day of atonement, right? The day of judgment is rash. And the question is how could we even begin to possibly hope for good judgment, right? That's what we're we're aiming for, I would imagine. And how could one go and do such a thing? So there's a classic idea. I'm so sorry I can't do this. So this is a classic idea and and the idea is that famous story that when he came before Rash what did he do he wanted to take something upon himself that he's going to do in order to make sure he's going to have a good year very common thing very famous concept that is taught throughout the Jewish world about take things upon yourself take something to work on and by working on that small thing then either will open up for any other change or it'll be in of its own right that that small thing should be of merit to be able to bring us to the next level right and therefore we will succeed and what would you expect something to be taken upon oneself like Ravak and now does anyone not know I know it's a little bit embarrassing to say if you don't want to raise your hand just give me one of these like if you've never heard of Rav Shak before just give me one of those guys okay there you go okay so Rav Shak was I think 2003 I believe was the year he passed away and in terms The Jewish world uh was in Israel huge um reaches throughout all sectors whether it's subservant secular man whatever whatever it was throughout the whole thing we all think we're man but the point is that that that he was involved with a little picture of how many people came to his funeral should give you a little idea of of how well he was respected and known about 600,000 people came to his funeral. I was actually one of them. And if you look in the picture, the one with the black hat, that's uh that's not me, but I was behind him. Anyway, so the point is that we're talking about a very big rabbi. A big rabbi in terms of his stature, not only because a lot of times misunderstood when you talk about someone was a very big rabbi, the great sage, we usually focus on his learning. He learned a lot of Torah and he knew a lot of Torah, but it's also midos in terms of character, in terms of refinement, in terms of what kind of person they were. But yeah, yeah, he was a big a massive sage, a great great siege, and we're talking about learning lots of Torah, wrote many books, etc. Now, what would you expect the door, one of the greatest of the generation that he's going to take upon himself to get ready for rash? So, I could just tell you if you would ask me what I would think. I would think he's going to take upon himself, he's going to say that what I'm going to learn all of Talmud every day. like at night underwater, right? That's what I expect. Like what's he going to do hanging upside down in a helicopter? Like something crazy that's going to be monumental that's going to change. So what did he take upon himself? Very famous story. Anyone know what did he think about himself? Yeah. He prayed for a sour, right? And but let's be more specific. Correct. He decided what he's going to do is that from now until Pes cuz yo, I don't know. I can't do a whole year. But from now till Passover, every time I say a baton, when I say the grace after meals, when I bench, I'm going to do it while looking inside. As long as I'm home and I'm only until Pass cuz let's say I'm not home, I can't find one, right? And until past passive, who knows I can survive so long? You're serious, right? You're the god of the door. You're the leader of the generation. That's what you take upon yourself. The answer is yes. And the message is clear. The message that's taught throughout is that we're meant to be able to work on ourselves. But understand to go ahead and just change everything, not so easy, right? Uh even some would say not so possible. I'm not saying not possible, not so possible. However, quite difficult. So therefore, at least take something take something upon yourself and with that you'll walk away with a positive judgment. Now again, let's go back to me and my misunderstandings of life perhaps. You serious? Let's not even say it's Rash, okay? Let's say it's one of us. You really think that this is going to help you? You're getting in front of the judge of the world. Let's try to think about a person who's a a a murderer, a thief, a liar, a cheat. He gets caught tax evasion while killing someone and trying to hide a body in a place where you can't bring bodies. It's against the rule to bring bodies there, right? Like anywhere besides the cemetery. and he goes in and he's and he's doing all these bad things. He breaks the law. He gets taken to court. The guy gets in front of the court. He gets in front of the judge and he's like, "Your honor, I've been thinking a lot about what I've done and I've decided I will not jaywalk on Tuesdays between the blocks of 2nd Avenue and 14th Avenue until Suko." Then the judge going All right, clean slate. Rip it up. Next. Does this make sense to you? Because everybody now the truth is if you don't the American course, maybe it does make sense to you, but you understand that's messed up though. Does everybody get that? That's messed up. This guy would get off. It doesn't make any sense. You find that's exactly what's going on here. The rabbis they teach us take something small, focus on that small thing and don't worry about it. You're going to have a good judgment. That's I mean it's a little bit Where do we find such an idea? This it just sounds a little bit crazy at least to me and I want to share with you an idea which is so unbelievably powerful. I was talking about it yesterday with a couple of people and then this morning with my part and it's really amazing. It's an amazing idea. And to quote you salant salant is brought down meal quotes him that every also the author of Kel discuss that every person has a certain mila every person has a certain positive attribute positive um attribute that if what's word virtue virtue let's go with that one was that from God and every person has a All right. I have a person has a certain mind there's a certain virtue that if if one would focus on that if you would focus on that trait on that one thing that would lift you up now listen I'm quoting here it would lift you up to become a gour to be a complete and total righteous person in the same way we have a we have a lacking there's a certain point a non virtue that is found that each of us has that if we were to go ahead and let her run wild, it would bring us down and we would become a rush. We would become wicked like a complete wicked person. The goal is for one to focus on the to focus on the good to focus on the attribute that you have which is positive and then everything else will come up with it and to avoid and to overpower the nuda ra as it says it's called the point of evil. means that point. How do we know what that is? How can we figure it out? What it is? How does one know what is their point which is good, right? How does person figure out what's the positive one and what's the negative one? How do you figure it out? Anyone want to suggest? That's one answer. That was beautiful. Yes. Another one. Your greatest strength is your greatest weakness. Say it again. Your greatest strength is your greatest weakness. Your greatest strength can also be your greatest weakness. Interesting. Say it again. Opposite. Your greatest weakness can also be your greatest. Excellent. The greatest weakness is your greatest strength. How does one figure it out? So to quote a great sage, what was your name? Okay. Okay. H she would remain. She's anonymous. Okay. I want to quote an anonymous sage. But I'll give a name. I mean sako I mean sako comes along and says a fascinating idea and he cuts it based off a verse. There's a verse which we say every year we read this on Shabbat and if you're asking us Shabasha Shabasha is the shabas which found between andipur right or right in the middle or not really right in the middle but it depends sometimes but in between those two there's a shabas and that shabas is called shabash which means the shabas of returning literally returning loosely translated repentance that's the shabas between and what story do we read? We read the following verse. What is good found in Hosa 14:2 and I quote comes on and he says the following words return Israel to the Lord your God. Now who are the Hebrew speakers in the room? You have your speakers in the room. We got a couple different speakers here. Uh you speak. How do you say pollen in a flower? There's pollen. What? Not a secret obviously. Okay. Good. Get out. All right. So, but you said it's a beautiful answer. So, there you go. What's the mistake? Or I god forbid not the mistake. What would you have said? I'm going to translate for the Hebrew speakers. I want to be able to get it before I can translate. What seems wrong with this sentence? You failed. You failed to commit sin. Returning until Okay. Interesting. Okay. Let's say we're talking about that. Come on. Give me something else. Say again. Well, the idea means literally I'll translate the words literally means like the word for the means what? Failure. A stumbling block, right? Or a falling. A failure, right? We have stumbled. We have fallen. Return Israel to the Lord your God. Because you have fallen in your things. Your who said that your iniquity who know somebody just translated something your say it again. No iniquity is how they iniquity right cuz you have fallen in your iniquity. Okay. What does it mean? Cuz you have fallen in your one thing. One thing good sin. When I I I heard correctly it sounded I heard a couple people saying sins with an s at the end. For those who said sins, that's exactly my question. What it should say is because you have fallen in your sins plural, right? If you're Israeli, you don't do the so in your tin, right? You have fallen in your sins. We fall in our sins. So why does it say because you have fallen in your sin? Answer is says that every person has an there's a point of evil point so to speak that that thing that thing that thing is the thing that causes everything else to happen. Which means if one were to do a a serious evaluation, if they were doing what I have to start evaluating themselves and start to understand the negative things they do and this and this by the way is a very powerful tool which is crucial for change is that if a person wants to be able to change you see because we always have two things in life that occur. You find all the time that people want to change. People want to change. Everybody wants to change, right? Everybody wants to change and be better. But we find ourselves year after year not changing. find yourself year after year having exactly the same thing over and over. And to quote Charlie Arari, if anyone knows who that is, and even if you don't, I'm going to quote him. Uh we mentioned this on Tuesday a couple weeks ago or maybe a couple years ago that that this fellow Charlie uh he's a speaker a businessman who lives in New York and he said the following one era of Rashana right before Rashashana he made a whole list of the things he wanted to work on he wanted to change and he decided he's going to bring it with him to sh and he's going to go ahead he's going to work on it during rash and think about it and he wrote a whole list what am I lacking what have I got to do what whatever Yeah. And when he got to sh he realized he forgotten at home like ah okay he had time to run back about to start that beautiful song called and so what happens goes to anyway what happened. Okay. So so what happens is uh get ready for anyway. So he gets there's no time feel anyway. So what happens? He goes ahead and he's like shrek what can I do? He takes his moxer he opens it up and now falls a piece of paper and he takes he's like oh my list of hashem he didn't forget it after all. Then he looked at the top of the page it said 574. Those are familiar with 5775. It was the years before list, but it was identical to the list that he hadn't written just 10 minutes earlier. Does everybody see that? How many of us want to change? We want to be better. We want to grow. We want to be different. And we really need it, don't we? Don't we really mean it? And then the next year, we're exactly the same people. Not like we are exactly. What's the proof of the pudding? How many people here have met friends that you haven't seen in 10 years, 15 years, 20, 30, 40 years? And is it uncommon to find that they are exactly the same they were 5, 10, 50, 20 years that they are today? You ever met someone like that? You just kick right back into gear. Just kick off right where you left off. Why? Cuz neither of you have changed. And sometimes it's wonderful. Like, isn't it good to be just good? Isn't it good? Right? Okay. If you need good things, yes, it's good. But sometimes it's not good. Meaning sometimes let it be a little bit like you can't catch up immediately because you're a different person because you've changed because you're greater than you were. And then he said sure and he let him change and he did that. You know they say you can't teach an old dog new tricks, right? Thank God we're not dogs. Just cuz we're old or we go on and we got used to doing things doesn't we have to continue that way. What we were before, what we were yesterday or the day before or for 40 years or 50 years doesn't have to dictate what we'll be tomorrow. A person wants to change. Number one, you have to want it. Number two, there's got to be a little couple little work goes into it. Yeah. Also, you have to only change one thing at a time. Say again, please. When you have just when you have a list, it's overwhelming. You take a list one year and take one thing out of that list each year. Good, good, good. That's exactly you hear in the beginning, right? That's exactly the point of what we mentioned about the you missed the beginning. Oh, see. Oh, good. did exactly the point of shock taking one small thing one little thing focus on one little idea and that one little idea over years over years over years imagine we would take little things one thing at a time go over 10 years 10 10 things you change in your life that's amazing 20 years 20 things 30 years 30 things some of us are looking back shoot I lost a lot of time here right so that stinks but for everyone who's young there's hope all right we can change no matter what age we are no matter what we've been through what we've been involved with our personal has the ability of going away. Okay. So why is it that we're missing the point? So one of the ideas I want to share with you very fascinating powerful idea is that when it comes down to the idea of change very often we kind of miss the point and we just deal with the issue at hand. What I mean by that is is let's say a person wants to work on building mdash building the mikdash that is one thing then that's a very important idea. Now another thing though I want to share with you is let's say a person wants to work on let's say give me an example of something wants to work on character actions what lashar okay let's say a person wants to speak a lot of lashar so what should I mean work on not speaking right so what should they do so what happens very often is we say oh no I spoke that's bad I have to stop that I'll right and I go on with life But in every action we do there's two parts to the story or actually two parts. There's the action that we do and then there's the story line which is behind the action. Very often what we say is I spoke lash and har I spoke negatively about a certain person or a group or an individual. I have to stop doing that without taking the time to think about why did you speak lash? What caused you to speak lash? What was the purpose? What brought it about? And if we just try to say like, "Oh no, I was mean to someone. I won't be mean again." How could we find ourselves being mean the very next day if not the very next moment? How could we go and say, "I'm going to work on shabas." Or technically, "I'm not going to work on shabas." Right? I'm going to work on not working. And the next thing you know what happens? Answer is because we understand that we shouldn't do something. We say that's bad, but we don't get down to the core, the root of where it's coming from. In any event, in any event, the point is that we have our lists. How does a person go and change? Why does a person figure it out? What's his? So we get back to the point of the we make an evaluation of our soul. We start to write down the good, the bad, and the ugly, right? We start writing down. You don't have to make three counts. You can make two, the good, the bad. Okay? So we do is that we go we say what's the good things we've done in our lives? What are the negative things we've done in our lives? Now there's a lot more to go into this. I'm my goal is to speak about but it is to point out this one idea. If you go ahead and start making this this evaluation of your soul and you start to write down what are the negative things that I've done that I've been involved with and then you start to go into story line not just action but story line break it down break it break it down into the bottom where is it coming from I can almost assure you at least something is pointing out you will find it's coming from one thing's and from that nud spreads out everything else which is quite fascinating that if you could find that one thing you can change your entire existence now if you don't get that one thing that doesn't mean you haven't changed and you haven't worked on something but understand and that's what the vagon points out remember the album the gur very famously lives in 1720 797594 debatable and he comes on go writes that the reason why a person came down to this world is to be met to fix up a particular thing. What is say again? I'm sorry. The word no. What does that translate? Literally means literally means evil point. Evil point. Right. In other words, we got one. Evil is a harsh word. We have a negative virtue attribute. Right. Right. So, right. We have audience for my I was uh I was once giving a class and somebody came to the class and afterwards it was an Israeli fellow and after the class he said to me would you say that this girl said would you okay would you say that this girl is pettit I said what I said would you say she's petted she said, "Do you mean pity?" And he goes, "Exactly, it's mazalto, not mazalto." Right? He was so bothered. The class topic was happiness that day. But anyway, the point is we have a or more accurately, right? We have this evil, this negative attitude that a person would go and figure out we have this one thing. That's the reason we exist is to be able to fix that up. We have two aspects. The positive things we're supposed to be working towards. That's the and the negative things we're supposed to be fixing. That's the fix up. And then we have our destinations where we're heading to as some would put as put it our which means our destination where we're heading towards what we're supposed to be focusing on growth and we're supposed to be focusing on fixing. This is a person will look you come to see this and listen to the way that puts it. I'm going to quote to you that he brings down. If a person were to focus on one weakness that needs tik, if you're to focus on one weakness that needs to be fixed, one weakness that needs to be fixed and your nephesh and you accept upon yourself that you are going to uphold this thing with me that you're going to give over your soul. You're going to work for this world. You're going to be working on this idea. that a person is called a bala and a you're immediately called a person who's repented, returned and a righteous person. We all know the famous garb the garbar says listen to this you didn't even do anything yet you're just that you're going to work on a certain point and if you do that then what has happened you're called a and to quote I have written in English but it's it's transliterated says Everybody should look to do to repent on one topic. Even a little bit, just a little bit. Whether you do a lot or you do a little and if you do this, you become a chuva. Sabic is called righteous. You've changed the entire world to the to the side of merit. Now, now understand how powerful that means just to make a decision. It's just making the decision to do it without even doing anything. Just making the decision. We know the famous remember was a great rabbi, very big rabbi. He was once bathing in the river and Rluckishman Lakish who was was a bandit, right? He was he was the head of the gangs of the criminals. And he's walking along the road and he sees her bathing in the river. He's like, "Wow." He sees her sees him. Why I say sees her? Because he thought it was a her. He thought it was a her. So he was so aroused by this woman bathing in the river that he jumps over the river to come and converse with her. Let's say kids called that nowadays. So what does he do? goes ahead, jumps over, gets there to go to to whatever he's Anyway, when he gets there, when he gets there, he sees it's he's like, "Oh man, Supreme Court hadn't ruled yet." He's like, "Ah." He goes ahead, just lost the followers. Anyway, so what happens? Goes ahead and he's like, "Oh no." And he sees and says, "Wow, what power you have. If only you would use that power for Torah, how great you could be. And he said back, "Wow, how beautiful you are. If only you were a woman." I said, "Well, actually, is that what I meant?" No. Well, actually, I have a sister. I have a sister that's even more beautiful than I. And if you tell me that you will sit and study Torah, you can have my sister's hand in marriage. Now when we hear these gumaras, when we hear these stories of Judaism, we don't always think about what it means. In my head, I always have alapone for some reason. Imagine someone would say, you know, say like on Jeffrey Dmer, right? Okay, messed up people, right? Go ahead. Imagine we had these terrible people. I don't want to say that it was but was a bandit. He was a criminal. He was the head of a gang, right? He was it was abandoned criminal and the head of a gang and you know you know the imag going over walking over some guy in the street. He's like he's drunk and he's robbing someone. He goes, "Listen, I see you have potential. Come marry my sister." What's going on here? I think it's like a the whole story is crazy seemingly not for now. In any event anyways. So what we have is this very fascinating that he then says okay he agrees to this. He turns around to jump back over the river. When he turns around to jump back over the river he couldn't do it. Why couldn't he do it a second ago? He just jumped superhuman feet jumped over the river. He turned off the jump back after he agreed. He can't do it. Why couldn't he do it? Because he was wet. Very good. Very good. Very good. And that's the answer. Um, so why couldn't he do it? The reason he couldn't do it is teach us, the rabbis teach us Torah is Torah weakens a person literally in a physical sense. And there's more to that discussion. But if we look at it from that angle, it weakens a person. But he hadn't even learned Torah yet. Doesn't matter. He accepted it upon himself that he was going to do it. It was tantamount as if he had already done it. A person who goes ahead and is takes upon himself that he's going to do or try to do something whether it's a lot or it's a little. Just the very fact that you've decided to make a decision to do it is considered as if you already did it. Now don't start playing these games now. I'm going to do it. Great. Done. All right. Obviously, it means that you're sincere about that. If you're sincere about it, if you're questioning, just chill, right? Obviously, that means that a person is sincere, go do something. The zora points out that we know if you're going like the says that when you go to huge the entire world right to a to a positive side to more meritorious explains every little thing that you do everything a person does in their life affects the entire world. Everything a person does affects the entire world. We all know the famous mash the famous example parable was given over I never saw it inside until I did and then I did. And this is brought down again by by Raisel. He says that imagine for a moment you're sitting on a boat and as you're sitting on this boat, the guy next to you takes out a chainsaw. In the original, it's a drill. You got off the ending. He takes out a chainsaw and he starts cutting a hole beneath his seat and you're like, "Um, pardon me, sir. What are you doing?" The guy's like, "Mind your own business." Okay, just mind your own business. You do what you want in your seat. I'll do what I want my seat. It's just All right, back off. I don't even know that, my friend. I'd love to back off, but if you do that, we're all going down. When you go ahead and we do anything in this life, anything we do affects the entire world. Now, it could be very minute and generally it will be one minute after another after another. Well, you know, that's how you build things. All things are built with small minute things and when you keep putting them together they become pretty powerful and they actually affect the world in a very massive way. Okay. So now here's where things get amazing and you can start to see it in kazal itself. This idea when we go and we say that a person goes ahead you change one thing it's going to start to have a big impact. My original question of seriously the guy's gonna get off the hook when he gets in front of the judge because he says like I'm not gonna jaywalk. That's really where do we find kazal that can save such an idea that one little idea will actually have the impact of going and changing something. Anyone want to suggest say again? Can you say wait what exactly where we find that the sages tell us that is found somewhere in the Torah somewhere in the rabbitic writings somewhere that teaches us that one little thing actually has an impact of changing everything. Say again. Nice. Nice. A little bit of light uh gets rid of a lot of a lot of darkness. Another one is building mash. Building beta mdash. I'm seeing a pattern here. What time is it? What time is it? Beta mikdash. Beta mikdash time. Let's go. Right. If there's the bathroom mdash. Yeah. You save one life. You save the whole world. Nice. Good. Excellent. I don't know what I would call that little. Right. Saving a life I would call pretty big. What do you got? It's maybe not so much in reference to actions but things that good going back for the the little flasks right now happens to be very big things happen because of that right fascinating yeah 40 days okay good Good. Good. I'm going to accept it. The ramban is huge. Are you the rambatan? Yeah. Anybody else? What was I said? The ramban discusses a concept about a person going and taking uh changing something for 40 days and that will cause an impact on the person's uh that we'll continue on that way. Yeah. [Music] Open up a little bit. Oh, come on. I thought you were going to get it. That's a classic one that people say, but really the phrase is that I'm open up that even that wagon loads of dakis can fit through. Okay, we'll get back to that. I open up a little idea. It's all excellent and they're all correct. And I'm not even going to pull another answer on you. Move. I'm going to say another answer, but it's not an answer. Move, which means you're really you're all right. But I want to share with you another answer. Okay? And it goes like this. The Gmorra is Zarah. There's a Gomorrah which is found which says the following idea. I brought it with me. The Gomorrah says that there was a there was a rabbi by the name of Rabi bin and Rabi Kanun asked the following question to someone name. He said am I going to get heaven? Am I going to get heaven? So he said back to him. Do you have any stories to tell me? Tell me a story. So basically turns to he says to him, will I get the world to come? He says, well tell me a story. In other words, he's asking him, did you do anything positive? Anything good that you could share with me? So he said, "Yeah, most shall I have money that I had set aside for the holiday and in particular it means for the meal, the pur meal. It got mixed up with the pocket that I'm going to give the money for charity." For those who are familiar with the holiday of there are four positive four mitzvah of the day. What are they giving to the poor and we're giving over food. Now generally but okay let's say food. So one of them is matan right which means giving giving money to poor people and he had in one pocket he had money set aside to buy his brisket for his meal. If you're a vegetarian it was for his lettuce and the other pocket he had the money set aside to give to charity. And he said, "I made a mistake and I gave the money." And what I ended up doing is giving the money that I had set aside for the meal. I gave that to charity. Now, what would you guys do if you realized you had done that? You had $100 in this pocket, $100 in this pocket. This pocket like I'm going to buy meat. This one I'll give to charity. And then you realized you gave this one to charity. What would you do? The other one for me, right? What's the problem? Right? We know that money can be substituted for money, right? So what's your in particular but okay you send it say it wasn't he goes and he says okay what happened and even with that I gave that money also to check on my low he says back to him what a story in if that's really true what you just that let it be that your portion is my portion and I hope that your lot turns out to be my lot. And it turns out that essentially what he was saying you made it you made it to Ghana. You made it to you made it to heaven. Now what exactly happened over there? What what was what's so powerful about that? So the rabbis is brought down at the end of this makos this particular track that mak one of the one of the 36 books of the Babylonian and it comes and he says in perishay it's a commentary that has on the very last one found in this he says the following line a very famous line if anyone's ever gone to shul to the synagogue especially in America Go in between ma and mar in between the afternoon and evening prayers. It is very common for someone to get up and say a couple of words of Torah. And when they finish those words of Torah, then somebody gets up, says something, and then someone says, what do they say? Well, they actually say like this. Yeah. But basically, what are they saying? [Music] He says that God wanted to go ahead and give merit to the Jewish people. He wanted to give them an ability to have lots of merit here. Therefore, he gave them a lot of mitzvos. Now, tell me something. If God wants to do good for us, if God wants to help us out, what are we better off with? A lot of mitzvah or one mitzvah? You want your kid to succeed? So you say, "Kid, you got to earn that which so I want you to earn it." Got your three-year-old kids. You don't want to just like give things to them. You want them to learn to work a little. So you say to them, if you do this, then we'll give you the treat. What is this? Fill in the blank. Is it if you make your bed or if you climb a mountain with no oxygen and no food, the one in Nepal, you know it. It's moved over 1.2 in Everest. Then we'll go and we'll give you a treat. What makes more sense? Please get this right. the mountain. No. Right. Answer is obviously give one. God, you wanted to help us. God's like, I want to help you guys out. So, here's like thousands of men. No, it's only 613 Torah loss and then six billion. That's all you got to do and then everything will be great. Someone explain this to me. I thought you said Mr. M. I don't know what's going on here. I don't even know you anymore. Change. Yeah. What do you say? Comment. Who wants to f your child cleans his room and then what? So he gets the reward. Then what happens? He always he wants to leave this room for growth. So sets the bar high enough that we're always going to reach. Okay. Bar. Got it. Yeah. We always need to better ourselves and we always have to have things to strive for. So if If you take a wealthy family, you have a child, I want a car, they get the car, I want this, I get that. Instead, if you teach the child the value of money, you know, you have to get a job to get a car, you have to study hard to get the degree, to get a job and this and that. So the re what's great about having so many mitzvah is that we're always learning and we're always remembering if you just have we as Jews have the are given the mitzvah of forget which is why you know someone's eyes and you know after the morning you know it gets easier how easy it is to forget if you're told do this one mitzvah and everything no we have to keep remembering we have to keep reminding ourselves so give me one mist that I have to remember I'm going to forget anyway oh and one I have to remember that's the point I mean we're it's to And it's just okay grow continue more. Okay, good. I want to quote you the RAM. The Ram says not like this, but that's okay. You're all wonderful people. The says the following. One of the fundamental principles of our belief in the Torah is if someone keeps one of the mitzvah of the 613 commandments, properly and you don't add to that any sort of any other any other intent. You want to do it for the proper reasons from love. He gets the world to come against heaven. Since there's so many, it's impossible. It's not possible you don't get at least one. Listen to what it's telling us. If God would give us one mitzvah, what if you wouldn't connect to it? What if you wouldn't connect to that commandment? What if that was hard for you? What if it was easy? What if so God this I want you to marry. I want you. So it's not that God says like the parent says if you do this then I'll give it to you and this is 20,000 things. It's I'm going to give you a hundred options. Just at least do one, right? At least that's why parents did with me after they gave up like fine just do something. Do please something. You need to pin it on something that we're giving you that brand new car and then you whatever I don't talk about anyway. So what happens if God doesn't do something therefore say I want to give you merits and I'll give you one of it so maybe you'll fail. So let me give you tons of them. So at least you'll get one right. And if you get that one right, you made it. What comes from this idea? And he quotes page [Music] 18 and he says back to stories. Did you ever have an opportunity to do a mitzvah properly? Did you ever have an opportunity to do mitzvah properly? And you did it. And she Yeah. Yeah. I did properly as much as I could. And that's what it means. The whole reason why God gave us so many is we're able to get at least one right. So we go, we say, "Oh, come on. Is changing one thing really going to have an impact on anything? Shouldn't I change a ton of things?" Well, you see from here? That one thing is you got a golden ticket from that one thing. That's what gets you in. So it's not a question anymore. Oh wow, nice shock. What kind of game is this? Understand that one thing has such an impact, such an incredible impact of how much of an impact, such an amazing impact. And I want to tell you how quickly can you change yourself? How quickly can you change yourself? You know, look what happened to Aka. He goes ahead and in one decision changed everything. One decision changed everything points out if you take the name aka aka is an acronym not in the right order. The letter is spelled out. Yes, honolo sha aas. There are those that acquire the world in one moment. How quickly can we do it? With one thing and with one moment. Now the class's namesake. And I'll give an example of how this fits in. I heard a fascinating idea once a story about a fellow who was uh working with a a plastic surgeon. And the plastic surgeon was writing a book on plastic surgery, which would make sense. And he was writing about the proportions of the face. For those who have come to uh to my classes in the past, this will probably stick out for you this week. Spoke about this one example once. And he said that what's the perfect proportions of the face? If you want the face to be beautiful, to really be stunning. So if you take in terms of measurements the distance from one's nose the bridge of the nose to the lip should be the same should be the same measurement as one's eye if your eye and the measurement between the lip and the nose is the same size. I love this part cuz everyone will start going like this. If they are the same measurements, then the person will be uniform. Now, obviously, you can't have holes in their face, right? say like it's got to be other things. But measurement wise, if it's one millimeter off, everyone knows what a millimeter is. In Hebrew, it's millimeter. Millime. If it's one, it's it's Ringo. If it's one millimeter off and the person's average, 2 millime off, ugly. I'm quoting. I'm not completely quoting because they said something quite not appropriate with that word. But we're talking about ugly. The difference between ugly, average, beautiful, all steps of one millimeter. Do small things change things? H anyone ever walk down the uh down the street and you see that there's someone doing well debate now? I know. If someone is drawing a caricature, how do you pronounce it? Waiting for something going caricature. A caricature. Those are the pictures where they where they draw a picture of you, let's say your face, but they try to focus it on one thing and cling. I wouldn't know if you're lying. Just said I could have just cursed. Yeah. No, no, no, no, no. Cluster. Yeah. Okay. So, a character. Uh so they go they usually focus everyone knows what I mean. Let's say a person has let's say a particularly blue eyes they'll focus on that. Let's say a person has a big nose they'll focus on that. Let's say someone like me they would they just focused on the beauty just the whole thing was just was amazing. It was just okay. So now what they do is they usually focus on imagine someone's just drawing a picture. Sometimes they're drawing a picture and you're going to street fairs and something's dark. You sit down and they draw a picture and you're looking at the picture, you can't figure it out, but there's something off. And the fact that it's off is like it just doesn't look like you. You can see how it could look like you, but it just doesn't look like you. How off does something have to be in a character in order for it to not look like you? One line. You guys bought that sound. Let's all sing. Amen. Right. So, what happens is that one line, right? The lip is a little bit up. The eyes a little bit too spread apart. The nose is a little bit to the right. That one little line, the artist makes a mistake. With one line, it's a totally different person. My friends, what are we meant to do now? We're coming before you. fastly approach you very fast it's coming start thinking what can I be me upon myself what small thing can I be me upon myself to do a little part of that small thing just to even take upon myself that through that I'll be called the entire world of caps and then when we get upstairs or when God's looking at us and judging us and he's going to be like h the book of death and you be like god I'm sorry maybe you didn't recognize me. I think you got the wrong person. Oh ho ho ho. Right. You guys that one guy like oh you're right. I don't recognize you. Life that small little line that one little change that a person does then a person can become a person can acquire the world in one second. Okay. What I'm do right now just a quick recap. We did it at one point not true. I got to bust out already late for whatever I got to go to. All right. So here we go. So we said we're going to send this concert very soon. You were shocked. What do you do? Take a concert. He's going to go. He's going to bench from a bench. Oh god. He's at home. Come on. He's really going to chase him against a murder to steal and then text him and he goes, "Your honor, I'm not going to jaywalk. He's going to get up." Come on. What's going on there? Get what? A person goes and takes one thing. Every person says a person go on that thing, right? your greatest weakness, your greatest strength always others send a different way and a person how do I go figure what things are he a whole another world a person bring down got to watch out for the last destin figure it out because you have fall in your sin what you sin answers you were saying because it's so sane as soon as one thing has fallen down right coffee about cough right change no matter what age they are just because you live life until now goes ahead life action we got a story line look at the action look Charlie paper same paper last year what's out looking down so therefore this start to the point of what it is they get the point what's the point And he get start really going to do So he says to God that told me here and fix that what are you doing back off you do your thing otherwise thing what do you mean we're going to take this all down we're all going to die no question realize we're all connect one thing it affects the entire world how much we have to change one millimeter change the whole thing one line you have a whole another picture of people if you want your golf game to be good you better Make sure your swing is millimeter accurate. And if you're one millimeter off and what happen you end off swimming, right? You understand? And we want to make sure that we're going to walk away just take one thing. And when we get upstairs, God looks at us and be like, "God, I think you're thinking of somebody else." And then God willing, we'll all walk away with a beautiful judgment, a beautiful day where we can start this year ending with all the negative should end with the end of the year. It should be ending already. Then she go on and hopefully build a big mdash built and only God willing and walk with only wealth, success, prosperity and all the good things. Thank you so much. Take care and bye-bye. We want to thank coming tonight and sharing with us and I want to thank my wife and I want to thank everyone for coming and we don't speak before Rashan but please get on our email list. We do have lots of ideas and things you want to involve you with. So what