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[Music] how do you know if your chuva is proper and sufficient it's a good question says to us in seph that the mitvah ofah meaning that this mitvah ofv of changing our ways stopping the sins and doing the right thing he says it in the meaning this is not a suggestion this is a just like eating kosher is just like keeping Shabbat just like all of the other says to us that you have to do now the says when should I do cha they ask when should I do CH says do CH before you die do before you die so so the said okay but how we're going to know when we're going to die he says exactly since you don't know when you're going to die I have a cousin that died two weeks ago a week ago he was uh 51 no one thought he was going to die a year ago no one thought he was going to die a day before he died but he died have mercy on him I also have another cousin that died a year and a half ago he was 23 no one thought he was going to die especially his parents that have $100 million they didn't think he was going to die no one thought he was going to die but he died meaning that no one is guaranteed tomorrow no one is guaranteed to live for 12 years like we would like anybody here ever hear of a guy named Warren Buffett you guys heard Warren Buffett you know Warren Buffett is like a thousand years old but he says he's 90 Warren Buffett still goes to work every day trying to make billions and billions of dollars more and the Investments that he makes usually are 10 years 20 year Investments meaning if he makes an investment Tomorrow When The Market opens he's not making an investment tomorrow to sell it next week he's making an investment tomorrow to sell it maybe 20 years from now he's assuming even though he's 90 he's going to live in 20 years he's assuming who know he's going to live next week so Torah tells us you're not guaranteed tomorrow you're not guaranteed 20 years from now you're guaranteed right the second next second after you're not guaranteed meaning if you're alive the second you're obligated to do chat this second if a person takes that into account in every moment of their life they're contemplating in one way or another how can I do better how can I do whatever it is that I'm doing how can I do it better so let's say for example eating eating eating seems like a simple thing to do but sometimes you eat and you forget to say thank you to Hashem forget you ate you didn't forget to eat eating nobody ever forgets but to say thank you to hm we forgot we forgot to say thank you before we ate so we didn't say the blessing we forgot to say thank you after we ate we forgot to say or somebody says listen is there a short version of three hours to eat they have three minutes to say they don't have why we're not so good at the blessing part so if a person thinks how could I get better at eating one way is to start saying thank you every single time you eat before you take a bite and after you finish eating second way is to make sure that when you say thank you to hem whether it's before you eat or after you finish you're thanking Hashem and not saying things because you've repeated it so many times in your head that you know by heart so while you're doing it you're playing with your phone meaning talk to Hashem and not your phone have some kavana have some intention when you're praying next thing is also if somebody still not eating kosher he's eating still he's eating non kosher meat he goes to McDonald's he goes to non kosher restaurants she goes to nonos restaurants you should know that the balat the that started kabad B writes in chapter 45 of the Tanya that a person that eats non koser food if they do not do chuva and they die before they do chuva then their Gom is going to be the cold Gom not for all of their sins just for that sin alone there's two types of Gom there's the cold one and there's the uh hot one if you will he says for for eating non kosher food it's the cold one meaning when somebody thinks about such a thing who wants to go to G I want to go to G I want to go to I don't want to go to G who wants to go to such a place so you should listen to the says eat koser food so if you're going to do chuva every single day and you're going to contemplate how can I do better at every single thing that I'm doing I just prayed next time can I do it better can I do can I pray better next time you just learned you just learned a nice hour two hours three hours Can I Do Better Learning you know I learned today for two hours but in reality it was too minutes sometimes somebody opens the book they're with their friends yal guys let's learn the book is in front of them but Hashem is not why Hashem left because they're chitchatting about baseball about basketball the SE is in front of them it's open but they're not talking T they're talking nonsense so how can you make that better simple next time the book is open only talk about the book talk about what it says in the T don't talk about what he did last night and what she did last night and where are you going for the weekend and what did is your family vacation and what did you eat for lunch and what do you want for lunch who cares about that stuff to is open in front of you so even the learning the learning that people do sometimes is a waste of time because they do not take chuva into account if you take chuva into every single step of your life you are for sure going to be a fantastic B something that is dancing over he's like look at my son look at my daughter how everything she donees because she thinks about me but not she thinks about me just to say thank you she thinks about me of how could I do even better how could I do even a better job for AEM how could I do even better job if anybody could be so kind take one chair and give it to the nice lady over there that' be so kind thank you schol so the point is is that if you simply pay attention just pay attention to your life pay attention to what you're doing in life you will find that every single thing that you do can be done better everything even working you know how many people steal at work you know how many people steal at work without even knowing that they're stealing I'm not talking about the people that taking cash out of the uh that's obviously you don't need to be a gene you don't need a sh to offer that I'm talking about people steal why they they go to work the guy's paying them to work right anybody here ever go to work but the guy says you don't have to work nobody right anybody here is going to start a business tell people listen I'm GNA pay you not to work no right so sometimes people go to work and they expect to get money what happens they're supposed to work 9 to5 they're supposed to work 9 to5 but they figure you know what the boss is not paying attention the manager just went on lunch the colleague over here he's not he doesn't really care what I do so what I do they start playing with their start going on Facebook start going on Facebook oh wow look what he ate for lunch maybe I'll have that too oh look look what she did this weekend maybe I'm G to do that also they start playing on Facebook for an hour and a half then after they finish they get bored of Facebook they go on Twitter start oh Donald Trump just said he's gonna bomb itan wow Donnie good job Donnie now he's gonna go for somebody else he's playing with he's playing with Twitter after he's B with Twitter for 15 20 minutes he's like what could I do else you know what that guy at the besset told me that if I could do something if I can actually make the call for him he's going to pay me 20 bucks you know what I'm going to make that call for him it's only 5 10 minutes my boss is on lunch so he makes the call for his friend to do such and such for his friend at Theo oh and he calls his friend listen I did it for you you give me 20 bucks today yeah what' you do you just use your boss's time that he's paying you to go work for somebody else that's 100% stealing 100% stealing you have to understand if you work for somebody a certain a lot of time you work for them now sometimes certain companies don't necessarily care about every detail that you do so for example they're going to tell you listen as long as you do your job I don't really care how you do it as long as you do your job so if you want to do your job while you're listening to headphones listen to headphones I don't really care so if you want to listen your headphones to sh no problem he doesn't care he doesn't care that you listen to sh as long as you get your job done but if as a result of you listening to even a that's aah you end up not working then guess what that is not even aah anymore that's stealing meaning first if you're working first priority is the job first priority is the job if the boss allows you to do other things while you do it no problem but if the boss is not paying you to do the other things and it's disturbing the job then guess what it's stealing it's called gin so if somebody pays attention to how they work simply how they work 90% of people will change their job why because the conditions that they have now versus the conditions that uh the GU paying them for are two different things two different things that's why we have to pay attention to our actions and if you pay attention to your actions for sure you're going to be a fantastic human being a fantastic with eternity of geden of heaven and that's what we all want we're very excited to offer you the newm app 3.0 it's a newer faster app full of Torah lots of Kusa by the shim that we do myself Rim raim uh where you'll have also newer features where you're able to use the app uh while you're using other applications on your phone you'll be able to share the uh the lectures directly from the app you'll be able to donate online and support our CU and our Torah work that we're doing and the most exciting feature is that you'll be able to actually ask questions directly on the app and get 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