Big Joy From Easy Mitzvah | Torat HaChassidut (12)

now when you don't know how to be happy then how could you ever attain happiness so tonight ofin gives us some insights of our commandment to be happy not just a suggestion not just a [Music] recommendation can you guys hear that [Music] St [Music] sounds good right that's our new chuba music [Music] channel sounds good [Music] rules good [Music] etal to the last the stars of it's all a reflection of love [Music] has the waves of and F to see his plan in all that you are in all that you can it's [Music] Journey mind soul come on team does an amazing [Music] job breath in the so high in the of the and birds that F know to see all that you [Music] are we are back here to start a new week continue our series of the based on the by tonight's is going to be for the and all of and all the righteous no that continue to learn with us to support the organization to donate their time their resources and help us do all these amazing things like this project that I just showed you which is our new 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caring about all of the politics that uh unfortunately are poisoning this world and the series that we have at hand the reason why I started it with a song was not really just to to promote it to you guys to show it to you guys but really because that's actually what the sh is about we've all heard about the uh you know the happiness that uh certain Express whether it's the uh the breast liers that are dancing and and enjoying themselves or it's the kabik that are happy gol lucky or it's the other types ofid that are you know enjoying their Simas are unlike any other if you've ever gone to a wedding by one of these simply you realize that every other wedding you've gone to simply was not enough in comparison to the weddings of theim uh just the pictures themselves make you jealous that you didn't have uh you know a a childhood of so there's a lot of happiness in the world of there's a lot of happiness in Judaism at large if you know how to be a Jew if you know how to to enjoy being a Jew now unfortunately when there is lack of knowledge when there's lack of Torah when there is lack of what ends up happening is that a person simply does not know how to be happy he thinks that or she thinks that she will only attain happiness if she acts like a Goya he'll only attain happiness if he'll act like theim if he'll go to sports if he'll go to uh you know uh race people if all go gambling he go and do all these types of things that the Nations do but the reality is if you ask those people that have spent all of their time and resources in the world of gambling and the world of chasing women and the world of chasing money and the world of chasing anything but the T you'll see all of those people without any exception are as miserable as can possibly be so how is it that they're they got to their dream they got to their billions they got to their winning track record they got to their winning team but in real life behind the scenes and sometimes in the front of the scenes they're addicted to drugs they're addicted to food they're addicted to all types of things in order to silence their misery you got what you want you got the money you got the girl you got this you got that but you're still measurable what's wrong with you that's because as we've said many times over the last decade happiness is not something material happiness is a spiritual status it's either you are happy or you're not happy it's either you wake up happy or you don't wake up happy it's either you live happy or you don't live happy now when you don't know how to be happy then how could you ever attain happiness so tonight lein gives us some insights of our commandment to be happy not just a suggestion not just a recommendation but actually a commandment in fact if anyone looks at the scariest in the T where you have 98 curses for those that violate the word of God says these punishments these curses come upon you because you did not serve me with happiness so we see from here that happiness is a big deal says as follows as after he has taught us some big things that require big changes I mean it's a uh to to control control your speech to uh speak to certain people to to contain your thoughts to have clean mind these are all big things require big changes and we can't help but see ourselves sometimes a little short on some of these things where oh it's a little hard to always have uh the right mindset or the right speech or the right this some of them seem big to us and the reality is that to attain the is talking about is not something that was expected of anyone to attain overnight but needless to say it's something that everyone can get to if they truly want to but in tonight's sh we're going to learn to elevate ourselves further in the world of in the world of serving a not by taking on huge things but in fact Small Things what seems to be small they're perceived as small but after we learn about them we're going to quickly learn that these mitv are as far from small as can be in fact we're going to realize how great these mitv are and even more so how impactful the changes that they can make immediately in your life people are constantly looking for schul for different things that could change their life can give them Health can give them this can give them that at least once or twice a week somebody asks me about whether they should go to some that wants to charge them 5 10 20 $50,000 and maybe going to change their life and and he told them that they have a sister by the name of uh this and and then he knew it and I never told them scams like this are as old as time if you want to attain happiness the only way is through the Torah no one can give it to you not AAL not a real one or a fake one and certainly material is not going to give you happiness because as soon as you acquire material you realize that the chase of getting it was actually far more enjoyable of than actually having it and that's one of the things that a lot of the Rich and successful don't tell most people and that's why they're still chasing more even after they've attained everything they could ever imagine so tonight we're going to learn small which are really big that if you apply what we talk about you'll actually elevate your life in such a way that you could actually be on the straight path to happiness you could be on a straight path of joy and you can actually get yourself to a point where your your servitude of is transformed immediately the hard part is being consistent meaning remembering what you learn today every day and applying it says immediately upon waking up you should accustom yourself to say translation I give thanks to you living and eternal King for mercifully restoring my soul within me your faithfulness is great you should also say joyfully even in your own language blessed is the superal god who has given me this Mitzvah ofit which surrounds me and the Mitzvah of washing the hands in the morning to remove the impure spirit and heart impure kipa the force from within my two from from my two hands your heart should be full of joy when you say this you should also make a commitment to minimize your speech as mentioned in the earlier section up to here is what we're going to learn today what is telling us here I mean technically these are things that every Jew even if he's relatively new to doing chuva know this already you wake up in the morning say after you take care of your business in the morning you go to the bathroom you wash your hands you do all the things get dressed put a se you do these are things that we know already is not telling us things that we know already even when we think we know he tells us immediately upon waking up you should accustom yourself to say what does it mean immediately upon waking up that means that the second that a person wakes up already the first second that he's there the first second that he is awake he not only has to recognize his creator but already be in a state of gratitude and joy that he has come back to life many times people wake up like I used to wake up before learning tah before doing chuva before knowing how great my Creator is and how joyful it is to serve him and the wake wake up angry why they wake up they look at the clock or today they look at their phone and immediately they're upset ah I'm late ah I can't believe it ah this immediately first reaction ah man a and sometimes a few expletives come out a few foul words come out meaning their first feeling instead of it being Joy instead of it being gratitude that they're in this world again that they're in this world for another day they have another day to live another gift they're upset about some meaningless issue that is here today gone tomorrow now of course yes everyone wants to wake up on time and everyone wants to go to wherever they need to go to on time but when you're so focused on the tasks you forget the purpose you forget the purpose now is not just something that we just say because we're supposed to say it the first time that the saying when you first wake up in the morning the first time that it's mentioned in the is actually in the um seph called that's where it's by this is in the 1500s after that it was the rest of the agreed the the across the board you'll see is what you do first thing in the morning but the first thing before we even learn the meaning of we need to know how to say it properly because especially when you get accustomed to it you say in a wrong way where you say you say it all as one runon sentence but that's not the way that it's supposed to be said the m paskin in the first s eth section that is supposed to be its own sentence in fact so The Safaris among Among Us don't think this is an ashkanazi way of doing things this is also in the the in the first s the fifth Al also says the same exact thing where you say I thank you I thank you hasem this and the correct way to recite it and this is a verse by the way from Lamentations 3: 23 where it's renewed every day and the first way that this is the the the proper way of saying this is pausing after we say and then the words are a new separate sentence so the proper way would be again why because this second sentence is a completely separate sentence because it has an extraordinary meaning which is that his trustworthiness is abundant now what does it mean that his trust is abundant first we know that we thank him that he brought us back he brought our n back and we thank him for it why this extra words this extra sentence really to emphasize the trust we have in Hashem and then the trustworthiness of Hashem this is best explained in a story about rash rash Shalom was once at a house during a shivas somebody passed away and the family told r yashiv that the one that passed away he died a peaceful death he died in his sleep and immediately says no he did not that's incorrect don't say that it's not allowed to say that not only saying how he died how would you know but he's even telling him that they're making a mistake not let to say such a thing so no no no for the he did he you know he went to sleep and he didn't wake up the next morning so he died in his sleep he says no he did not it's incorrect don't say that why is that says because every day we say what King David said what the said declared in Psalm 31:6 that I deposit my soul in your hand God now what that means is that because we have faith in Hashem not only that he'll provide for us that he'll give us but even when we go to sleep we have faith that hem follows his own tah so when we go to sleep we know that our leaves the body and goes up to sh and as the tell us it tells hem and signs off on all of the things that it did not that Hashem needs you to tell him but rather you your goes up to sh signs off on every deed that you did whether good or bad and that's why tell us that when a person leaves this world he has shown or she has shown everything they've done during their life with their signature next to it this is why the N doesn't want to come back sometimes because a person made so many sins the N is embarrassed to go back to this body why should I go back to this body that's betraying you Hashem hasm says no you have to go why do I have to go because they have faith in me they have faith in me that I fulfill the toah that I'm trustworthy what do you mean you fulfill the tah you're God yes I am God and it's my Torah and I fulfill it which part of this is fulfilling the tah there is an that the discusses where when it comes to business matters if somebody let let's say deposits money in a bank or with somebody and he also borrows money from that person the bank or the the lender is not allowed to take the deposit instead of uh the the the debt even if the person is defaulting on the debt or owes a money or whatever it is that deposit was not given as a collateral or as a pledge against the loan unless it was in the agreement but if the two were two separate transactions he deposited money with with the person but he also borrowed money with the person the the lender cannot just decide to go dip into the deposit and take whatever he wants why because that's a separate transaction so if he comes back if the borrower comes back and says listen I I want to take my deposit out the lender has to give him his deposit it he cannot take his uh unless again like I said unless it was put as collateral but in normal circumstances where it's not put as collateral where there are two separate transactions the lender has to give back the person the money that he put in deposit the same concept is here where even though a goes up to sh reporting to a about all of the debts that it has to him all of the debts it accumulated as a result of making sins where now they have to do tiim now they have to Dov now they have to do more they missed out on certain they missed out on certain opportunities to learn T still gives it back the that was deposited with him when that person went to sleep why because those are two separate transactions says raash and that's why says I deposit my soul in your head I deposit my soul in your hand and I trust that you're going to give it back to me so therefore says we cannot say that the person died in their sleep because that would mean that Hashem did not return his deposit and that's not possible he always returns the deposit you're never going to hear of any such thing where like people make mistakes where one person has several uh customers that borrowed money from him and he returned he gave a certain property of one person to the wrong person you know 10 people gave him their stuff to hold them and then people he's like here here's your suitcase here's your uh bag here's your toy here's your money wa I I didn't give you a suitcase I gave you money no no sir it's a suitcase no what are you talking about I gave you money I didn't give you a suitcase and the guy saying a suitcase well listen I give you a suitcase but I rather have the this money that happens with people it doesn't happen with Hashem Hashem gives back what he took Hashem gives back whatever was deposited with him and that means says that when a person goes to sleep and deposits their with fulfills the Tor by giving back that to the body comes back the person wakes up even if it's for a moment and then he takes it and the person dies it's it's never during a sleep because that would violate the Torah so here we see a significant meaning to why we say what we say first thing in the morning not only our faithfulness in hasem the Eternal the greatness of God and how he has Faith to give us another opportunity in us but even more so how a fulfills his own and is already teaching us something for the rest of the day just just like a who gave you back what you put in deposit with him you must do the same thing in your business practice people give you something and you promise them something in return keep your word don't be one of these losers one of these Liars that simply promises but never delivers yeah sure we can do that sure I'll do that sir I'll build this sir I'll build that and they never do it this is unfortunately the majority of the world people promise a whole lot but deliver almost nothing and this the says is the way of wicked people say a lot and do little righteous people say little and do a lot learn from where he says little but does a lot you gave him the and deposit even though you have a huge debt even bigger than you had the day before he still gives it back to you he still gives it back to you that alone should make any person that recognizes who their creator is and how great how gracious he is and how honest he is and how righteous he is automatically it should make you happy doesn't matter you woke up with pain you woke up with obligations you woke up with a headache you woke up with uh you know all types of issues automatically that in itself should change the day if a person could simply realize this and engrave this into their mind now when a person has accustomed themselves to the ways of the world which is wake up with the to-do list on their mind to-do list go to the office to-do list call the client to-do list call the prospect to-do list you know talk to my boss talk to my wife talk to this to that's how they wake up then naturally they're going to wake up upset why because they're simply k a donkey has no expectations whatsoever other than more work so naturally they're going to be unhappy about life even if they have stuff even if they have stuff even those people say listen I wake up really early in the morning I get my emails done and I get my things done and everyone's impressed and watches these videos about how these successful people have this structured life it's fantastic to have a structured life but that doesn't mean you're going to have happiness structure and happiness are two completely separate things but in order for a person to understand the value of waking up every single day just imagine if you've ever seen or at least heard of a horrible story where a child is lost lost you went to the park you're uh at home and all of a sudden you look around and one of your kids is missing and if it's not your kid somebody else's kid missing gun what happens to the mother what happens to the father immediately they lose their mind oh no where'd they go where they go and they start screaming and all of a sudden this common collected person that was showing you know exuding happiness all of a sudden is as miserable as death itself they're losing their mind they're they're they lose their patience they lose everything all control of every part of their body why their kid's gone where is the gun what happened to him and the imagination starts working maybe somebody took him maybe somebody this maybe something happened maybe this maybe that and the longer it goes the worst it is my dear Mother God bless her she has some amazing stories about our childhood and uh one of my favorite things to do when I was a kid uh was listening to her stories about when she was a kid this is usually a thing that kids like they like to hear about when their parents were kids anyway one day she tells me the story about what happened when she was a little kid she was maybe four years old she decided one day as a little four-year-old girl that uh she's going to go to the market now you know today's world is very different than what it was years ago and what happened is is that her sisters used to come pick her up from school every day and uh uh that day the her sisters her oldest sisters ran late so she decided oh you know what let me just go home by myself she decided as a four-year-old she knows how to get home and she started walking she's walking and walking and she's obviously going in the wrong direction before you know it she finds herself in the shook in the market and she sees all these wonderful things and everyone's smiling at her hey how are you where's your ABA where's your where's your Ima and she's smiling at them all happy and great and you know one of them you know sees such a cute little kid she gives her a little apple she goes oh great she puts her in her little bag another one gives her a clementine she puts her in her little bag everyone keeps giving her little candy little fruits she's the happiest girl in the world she has no clue what's happening back home where our sisters came they didn't find her they came back home they told her mother and father that she's gone and the whole house the whole neighborhood is a mess everyone goes in there people start looking they call the police they call everybody obviously there is the worst things in the world happening in their minds but also because there is somebody that is known in the area that uh is a dangerous person the house is a mess everyone's crying and this little cute little girl is walking around the happiest she's ever been just taking little out gifted little apple wow she's thinking I'll do this every day wow EMA's going to be so happy I did chopping for her and she got the little vegetables and little fruits and little candy and she's as happy and can be and then one of the people that knows her father says uh my daughter where's your where's your father she goes you know my he's home he's not with you no no no I'm doing shopping and she continues to walk and he realizes that something's not right something's not right he knows Sab GI he knows Sab GI Shalom my sadik grandfather he's not going to let his little four-year-old girl just walk around in the market and he says come come I'll take you to him and she finishes doing her little shopping and all the gifts that people keep giving her everyone says goodbye and she goes with this uh with this man he brings it to the house and she sees as soon as she gets gets into the house literally the entire neighborhood is inside her house and as soon as she walks in everyone is excited and she's like wow so happy to be home look everybody's said what a what a welcome I got I'm going to do this every day and her mom kisses her to no end and everybody's excited that she's there and she has no idea why is everybody crying so much and she IMA look I did chopping for you and she's as happy as can be now of course this is don't try this at home for the little kids because obviously horrible things do happen and actually in in that uh in that uh neighborhood there was something bad that happened at some point where a uh actually R FR grew up uh in this where one of the kids got kidnapped disappeared and got kidnapped but the point of the story is is is that when a parent loses a loved one loses one of their kids even if it's for 5 minutes immediately it's everything stops nothing matters your Investments your job your friends your your your uh your you know appearance nothing matters why because you just lost something Priceless and you have no idea if you're ever going to get it back again is trying to tell us this is how we are supposed to be every single day when our n comes to our body we're supposed to be ecstatic about the fact that we have another day in this world we have another opportunity we have more to do the could have easily left and not come back but AEM the righteous hasem is trustworthy to put it back to deposit it back the least we can do is be as happy about that as my grandparents Al Shalom were when they found my mother I remember a similar story happened with my brother when he was little we decided at 2:00 in the morning to just simply leave the house when we found them when we realized what was happening obviously this was a shock and a half but again times were different back then times are different now but the level of excitement that a person has the level of happiness that a person has when they find their loved one is unexplainable it's unmeasurable this same level of excitement this same level of joy is really what we're supposed to feel every single day in fact it's supposed to be even more because it's your Nish nobody loves anybody else more than they love themselves even if they say it a million times soin is trying to tell us here is waking up happy has to do with whether you value your life or not whether you appreciate life or not when a person lacks appreciation for life then certainly they're going to lack appreciation for the value of mitv when you don't understand how valuable your life is and how much you want life then certainly you're not going to know how much you want to do the mitv and how much you supposed to value mitv and that's why the G the famous story about him was that on his deathbed he was crying hysterically over the fact that he's no longer going to be able to fulfill the mitvah of something that all you needed is just $20 for to get a he's not going to be able to do that in all now of course the people around him didn't really understand because he wor SE his whole life he never had it off so why are you crying now he says you don't understand the value of the like I do and that's why you think that just no longer doing it because I'm going to be in because I'm going to be in heaven is not a big deal it's only because you lack knowledge of how much value the mitvah really is now before we go to the next section of what is telling us about theah I wanted to dig a little bit deeper into the mitvah of saying saying thank you to Hashem in the morning now the sages teach us that each Jew is supposed to say that the whole world was created for them that means even the the lion that's chasing a zebra right now somewhere in Africa that was also created for you some rhinoceros that is eating that's created for you some deer that was being hunted that's for you also some guy that's working on a tractor in a different state different country that's all everything is for you now this is not because of arrogance but rather because of this is the way Hashem created the world if you fulfill the Torah if you follow the Torah that means that you are giving the world the right to exist and since everything is for you you also have to know that everything is for you to learn from it's not just for you for the sake that it could actually directly affect your life where one of these animals can turn into perfume or into clothing or into food no no there's even lessons to be learned from them now what can we possibly learn from these wild animals says be bold as a leopard light as an eagle Swift as a deer and Powerful as a lion in performing the will of your father in Heaven here one of the greatest sages that ever lived UD tells us that to perform the will of Hashem we have to learn from these animals specifically the leopard the eagle the deer and the Lion now last they checked the leopard doesn't go to sh hopefully last I checked Eagles not Kosher last I checked it's not a Mitzvah to be a fast runner like a deer nor is it recommended for you to exert your powerfulness on somebody's face like a lion so why is it that takes these animals and uses them as something to learn from nothing else other than the ultimate servitude of a and the sages explain is written here in the in the first s says be bold as a leopard this is a very important trait where many times a person is inclined to perform a Mitzvah but he refrains from doing so he doesn't do it not sure if he wants to do it he wants to really do it but he's not going to do it he's like listen Rabbi I really want to put on a keeper but I don't know I really want to put a but I don't know I really don't want to go to this forbidden place with my family like a mixed wedding uh the mixed dancing wedding or mixed Beach I don't want to do that but I don't know what do you mean you don't know why what don't you know he's afraid of what others may say he's afraid that other people are going to make fun of him for doing this mitvah and therefore the sage the Tad says adopt this trait of boldness and pay no attention to the taunt of others pay no attention to what people are going to say about you where they're making fun of you for being religious making fun of you of looking religious they're making fun of you for being modest they're making fun of you for saying or going to synagogue instead of going to the movies pay no attention to them be bold with your vot a LEP doesn't care who's in his way when he's going to get food he doesn't care that the enemy is bigger you have to not care about the opinion of other people when their opinion is against theem as David said in Psalm 119 ver 46 I speak about your statutes in the presence of kings and I feel no shame this is referring to when David was pursued by Sha who wanted to kill him and David was forced to flee from the land of Israel and he found asylum in the courts of the neighboring Kings and even in that situation he continued his daily routine of learning Torah even though the other kings were making fun of him if you want to serve a don't let anyone get in your way if you know that something is forbidden but people are inviting you to it people are forcing you people are trying to force you simply stand up for the Torah don't do what they do do what Hashem says to do and you'll see that in the end they all come to you for blessing Bings in the beginning they'll call you crazy they'll call you fanatic they'll make fun of you fast forward a few years if you stay strong all of them are going to come one by one asking you for blessings asking you for guidance one by one you have to be bold when it comes to the MIT of hem that's the first thing a person has to have in his mind when they're starting the day I'm not going to let anyone get in my way of learning toah of being religious of expressing my religiosity I'm proud to be a Jew proud to look like a Jew I'm proud to act like a Jew I'm proud to be a Jew second mentions the eagle why the eagle the eagle is referring to our eyes where our eyes can Co the Eagle's eyes are known to be the best eyes where the eagle literally can see extremely far away as if it's close distance our eyes also can cover great distances instantly just like when an eagle flies and he can see something that's miles away as if it's right next to him our eyes also have an extraordinary ability especially when it comes to seeing things that are inappropriate and we have to train ourselves to refrain from looking at those things that we're not allowed to see seeing things is the first step to every single sin once you see something your heart desires it and then the rest of the body will want to do the sin so when a person knows that the ego was created in order to teach me that as great as my vision is I also have to use it carefully because if I don't use it carefully then my body will end up committing every sin that's in a toah next the toat tells us about the deer how you have to be Swift like a deer and this is referring to how a person uses their body especially their legs a deer doesn't think twice before it runs away from something that seems like a threat a deer is Swift a deer goes doesn't start doing too much analysis when it comes to a mitvah a person has to run to every Mitzvah without delay don't overthink it you have an opportunity to help somebody do chuva go you have an opportunity to do some go you have to go pray go you have to go learn to go be like a deer just be swift go keep going keep yourself going from mitvah to mitvah don't miss the opportunity because of any type of laziness or or or or all types of things that are simply going to be distracting go from mitvah to mitvah and you'll see that you'll succeed in your life and when it comes to the lion the trait of being powerful as a lion is referring to a person's heart where if a person knows that he has this ability to be bold like a leopard to Have Eyes Like an Eagle to be Swift like a deer he has to have a strong heart like a lion to force himself to force yourself to use all of those things only for the sake of serving Hashem and not to go against Hashem you have to control yourself you have to have a strong heart to have self-control even though somebody just did something to you and you really want to yell at them you really want to curse them you really want to hit them don't why it's not the will of hasem even though you you are right and they are wrong there's no need for you to embarrass them a person has to know that the power that a gave you is because is trusting you with that power to be used properly in the he explains that a person has to stay away from all fights has to stay away from AET where let's say for example you're in a synagogue and you see that their custom is different than yours or perhaps they're even making a uh mistake here and there you don't need to start screaming foul and cause the whole place to have a commotion you could have some patience speak to the rabbi privately when nobody else is there so there's no issues of embarrassing there's no issues of misunderstandings and perhaps the next time it'll be right if you're assuming that you are right if you see that somebody is violating the Torah let's say you see them driving on Shabbat throwing a rock at them is not going to make them keep Shabbat tell them hey you're going to go to Gom is also not going to make them keep Shabbat when we say people will go to G people will get punished in a lecture in a shi like this it's very different than if you say this to somebody one-on-one and and a person has to know the time and the place of when to say these specific things there's a time and a place for it and if you don't know that time and place then it's better that you don't speak and you simply just send them one of the lectures because they'll hear it from that in a very different format because to just simply fight with everybody to be angry with everybody to argue with everybody that is not going to bring any happy happiness that's not going to bring any success that's not going to bring them closer to hhm and it's certainly not bringing you closer to Hashem so you have to stay away from fights but there's certainly a butt what's the butt says the says the this is only when it's referring to people that are decent people this is referring to and these people are not intentionally trying to ridicule the Tor and he explains that the warning not to brew a conflict with other people over MIT applies only when the issue is one's personal fulfillment of a Mitzvah While others are ridiculing it in such a case one should pay no attention to those tormentors and he must not make any Resorts that might result in a violent argument but when somebody faces a group of people who wish to influence other Jews to disobey God's will like telling people that they should believe that God needs them or telling people that God is a human being or telling people anything that's heretical to the Torah in such a case says the one must struggle against them with all of his might in an attempt to foil their wicked plans and regarding such a situation King David declared in Psalm 139: 21 I act with hate towards those who hate you oh God I fight those who rise up against you I detest them with utmost hatred so here we see that there is a different time in a different place where the vast majority of the time find a way to give the truth give the M give the right guidance and avoid fights at all cost and there are times where there is nothing else to do but to fight not because hasm need you to fight but because you need to fight for the sake of a kadosh who's honor that you are obligated to honor and prayed to in the same Psalm 139: 35 saying train me to go in the path of your mitv referring to his legs and saying turn my heart to your statutes meaning to apply all of this emotional strength into the mitv keep my eyes from seeing falsity he was using these terms since a person has the potential of controlling his heart even after seeing a sinful or desirous thing and David was saying turn my heart meaning assist me to keep my heart turned in the right direction because a person can't avoid seeing evil things because they might show up unexpectedly but that doesn't mean that you should accept them and therefore prayed to saying prevent such things from turning up in his view meaning that even if I end up seeing someone or something that's not modest don't let my heart fall and pray to it and go to it help me get out of this situation so here we see that these animals were created for your sake for you to learn from them of how to serve AEM as the Tora says that the donkey knew its owner the donkey knew its owner means that if the dke knew its owner needless to say we need to know who our owner is and all starts with how we start our day but if we do what Hashem said out of Simply getting used to it we're used to saying we're used to putting on we're used to saying then the ultimate purpose is not going to be achieved that way because it's not just about saying giving thanks to Hashem that R is trying to teach us here he's telling us give thanks to hem joyfully even if you must do it in your own language why in your own language because it's critical for you to know what you're saying so if you when you say when you say the prayer you don't understand anything that you're saying and Therefore your heart is not going to be impacted then say it in your language whatever your language is Arabic Hebrew uh uh Spanish Portuguese Chinese doesn't make a difference whatever your language is that's going to impact your heart the most to appreciate what you just got you just got your life back say it in those words with joy because if you appreciate life you'll appreciate the mitv and if you appreciate the mitv you're already on your path to happiness the Aral gave one of his greatest secrets that seems to be not such a great secret until a person tries to do it and he says to his talim the reason why he merited getting to such a high level of kadus to the point where extraordinarily deep secrets of the Torah were revealed to him Eli came to him taught him tor this gift that he got he attributed to the fact that he had great joy when he performed the mitv he did every mitvah whether it was what seems to be small like washing your hands saying putting on a or saying a blessing of or before you drink or eat something or great like Shabbat or the holidays or what again seems to be big seems to be small but as the M says we don't calculate the of what's big and what's small they're all big they're all the Commandments of hem and the AR says the fact that he had such great joy fulfilling each mitvah that's what opened up the Gates of Heaven and literally flooded him with Kusa unlike any other of in theph in says as follows if a person believed that his prayers and his Torah study were actually causing an outflow of blessings to the entire world he here and the upper worlds he would serve god with joy and fear and out of deep gratitude he would be careful with every action and make sure that he said every word of the prayer correctly for human being is a lad on the earth with its head in heaven and every gesture and word each goal and effort makes a mark above certainly he would make sure to be careful to do everything for the sake of Heaven now persons yet is going to tell them listen this is all great but who am I I'm not this I'm not I'm not ROV ysf pooi I'm just started keeping Shabbat a few years ago I'm just a regular FR kid that uh you know I've been religious my whole life cuz my parents are religious I go to Yesa I'm a I learned some I try to do my best but I'm not one of these that could change the upper worlds that's the telling you that says a person that says am I so important to rectify the upper or lower worlds or that all of my actions actually have an effect on the above but this type of attitude is the yet that's trying to not only to discourage you from having the proper cavana in your prayer and you're learning tah and your servitude of hem but in fact it's trying to make you feel like you're not a big deal and therefore it's not a big deal to make SS therefore it's not a big deal to act like an animal therefore it's not a big deal to be aan therefore it's not a big deal to be stingy therefore it's not a big deal to be a low life why cuzz if you can't really do something big you're not mosu you're not the AR you're not anybody special so therefore whatever sins you make is also not a big deal that's the strategy of the Satan and the truth is that every person can actually cling to aad through his Good Deeds just like the Torah says in the book of Deuteronomy chapter 28:9 you shall go in his ways by being compassionate below a person awakens the attribute of compassion above in all of the worlds this is why over the years said that when you do a like for example if you donate a something to a betet or Yesa and you put your name on it not because of Pride but rather to have your name Remembered in the heavens this is a good thing to do now if you do it for Pride to show off that you donated this seph t or you donated this building or you donated this lamp then you're going to get punished for that that's what the says that people that donate out of Pride to show off they'll not only get not going to get a Mitzvah they're going to get punished for it but if you donate for the right reason it's good to put your name on it why because when a person does a mitvah and in essence and their name is on it that awakens the mercy above on that n that awakens the mercy on that above not that AEM needs you to remind him of anything but rather because the way that he structured this world is that if you exert effort to awaken comp compassion in the lower world then hasem has the upper World affected by that where you awaken compassion in the upper world and there are certain specific angels that Hashem has that are assigned to look for whoever actually exerted effort to do the MIT which adds to the emphasis of how much the tries to fool you to make you believe like your MIT are not a big deal they're very much a big deal for yourself not for the sake of god god is perfect with or without us but for yourself it's a big deal now if a person starts thinking right off the bat of starting their day that Hashem is the righteous judge Hashem is the truthful God Hashem is merciful Hashem is honest Hashem is good Hashem is who I can rely on right off the bat you start off the day just by the fact that you got your n back if that does not make you happy to start of the day I don't know what will the only time somebody wakes up unhappy is when they don't realize anything that we just said for the last hour because they have other things on their mind and they forgot the great gift that they just got it's like somebody gets a phone call unexpectedly from some uh you know some uh place that's giving him a reward he won some uh some Lottery now he's so frustrated with the day he's upset that he even has to pick up the phone yeah what do you want Oh sir is this uh Steve yeah yeah yeah what do you want oh we're calling you from uh the uh the lottery oh no no I don't want you I'm not interested I'm not interested okay listen Steve want to tell you you w I'm not interested I don't want it whatever you're offering I don't want Steve listen to us you won you won I don't want to subscribe I don't want it to put me on your do not call list Steve you're not understanding you won what do you want you won what did I win you won $500 million now the second Steve realizes what just happened here as much aggravation as he had that all disappears in an instant and he can help himself by feel some level of Joy now if you had only $500 million only and you had a choice either the $500 million or your life meaning you keep $500 million but you're going to die a second later so the $500 million is gifted to whever you leave in you will or no $500 million but you'll have life no normal human being would ever choose the $500 million everyone will choose their life we get that every day even if you have pain and you have Agony and you have difficulty and you have problems or whatever it is when a person understands the value of Life they realize that there's a another opportunity another chance to fix to build to do good to to do a million things that you can do every day and the true appreciation of that certainly would make any person happy even more so when they're a Jew because not only are you getting another chance to live but you have another chance to serve hasem at the highest possible level a level that only a Jew can do now is telling us to fulfill this first part of your day with joy and use whatever tool you can to help yourself if that means say it in your own mother language if that means saying it in a certain tone if that me whatever do it as soon as you wake up right away before anything else comes to distract you and right after that he says say blessed is the superal god who has giv me this mitvah of this is not the blessing of the tiit this is simply thanking AEM for making me a Jew that can wear TI thank you Hashem for this I have a I can wear a thank you hem for the Mitzvah of washing my hands now when a person doesn't realize the value of these things then certainly this will seem odd to them why should I thank AEM for why should I thank AEM for now in page 43b rimon says whoever shows alacrity meaning they're very careful and they're always wearing tiit will Merit to see the face of the this mitzvah of wearing this four cornered garment with the tiit strings at the end this simple mitvah doesn't get any more simple than this all you got to do is put it on it's only for Jews it's only for males but the guy that wears this will Merit to see the face of the in fact in the S 24 number six follow suit by saying of how someone that a someone that's careful to make sure that he always wears will ultimately be rewarded by seeing the face of the he also says translation great is the punishment on one who nullifies who doesn't fulfill the and on him it is written the prophet job 38:13 this is a horrible statement that hopefully will be imprinted on every one of you Jews that is not wearing a tiit now says that had over 1.2 million prophets but only 55 of them are mentioned in the tanak because those 55 everything that they said is relevant to every single generation to every single person forever meaning that whatever job said here is relevant to you is relevant to me is relevant to every person and he says grasp the edges of the earth and shake the wicked from it telling us theah on the reward side it's great a person will Merit seeing the face of the at the time of the mashia when mashia comes every Jew that has a tiit for every tiit that he wears will have 2,800 100 non-jews that are righteous be his servants his helpers his students now the reward for it is enormous which we'll get into in a second but on the opposite end the punishment is even worse why a person that does not wear it seat because say listen I'm not wearing a four corner garment so I don't have to oh so you don't think that you should wear a TI because why oh it's hot for me okay so we're the ones that are with cotton and they're like a tank top like a shirt like a t-shirt no but uh I don't want people to uh see that uh these strings I don't want them to know that I'm so religious okay so tuck it in i h the excuses are ridiculous of why people don't wear t but when they know that when you don't wear seit the punishment is horrible and says the punishment is so bad there's a there's a verse written about those people that when AEM grabs the four corners of this world and shakes it of all the wicked people those that do not wear SE will be among them meaning even if you kept Shabbat even if you kept kosher even if you learned Torah but you didn't wear you're among the that is going to disassociate with as he shakes the land of all the wicked that's actually what the says although the is not an obligation unless you wear a four corner garment you should know that anytime there's judgment on the world the first people that get punished when there are those that don't wear why because you didn't value the when you were able to do them that means that you thought that you have enough mitv when the time comes that you need them and therefore hasem shows you that you didn't have what you think you have in fact punishes those people first now what does it mean to see the face of the a person does not realize the greatness of the mitvah of because it seems simply looks like a garment what's the big deal it's just the Garment whether you have the wo SE seat or the cotton SE seat just make sure that you wear T seit so long as it's not one of those uh tiot or it's not really a TI but they call it a TI where it's coming from mesh the mesh garment it's very popular here in Florida a lot of young guys wear these mesh garments and they have the strings on it that is not considered a because the mesh garment is not considered a garment according to and therefore you could wear 50 of those things it's still not consider as if you're fulfilling the Mitzvah now when a person hears oh they'll get rewarded for something they usually think in material terms they think they I'll become a millionaire I'll uh become a billionaire I'll find a uh wife I'll have kids they think of material terms things that are uh limited things that are temporary but when tells you through that you'll see the face of the it's impossible for a person to truly comprehend so we need to use more teachings of the sages in order to truly comprehend what that means the Mish in chapter 4 the 17th mishna this is according to there's other that have it as a different number of mishna but it's the same thing same words it says the a moment a moment Ina in heaven is greater than all of the joy of this world what does it mean a moment means it's not like you were there you go to heaven you know for a week for a month for a year and you have a good time no no no a moment means just like one second you're there is greater than all of the joy of this world what is the joy of this world if you take all of the good that every single person in this world ever had in their life let's say the average lifetime is 100 years just for argument sake a third of their life they're sleeping third of their life they're in the bathroom eating and so on vast majority of their life that's left they're working doing all types of tasks that are not so much fun let's just say out of their hundred years if they're lucky five years are fun five years are joyful even if you want to be exaggerating 10 years out of a 100 years are Joy let's just say you take those 10 years of Joy the best Joy whether it's the joy of anything material whether it's money it's cars it's planes it's uh Fame Fortune women men whatever Joy food whatever Joy a person could possibly have you take all of that joy that that person had and every person had in a generation and you put it all into one little pill and then you took the joy of all of the people that ever existed from the time of creation all the way until now he took all of the joy no no suffering no Agony no difficulty no bounce checks no uh missing money no nobody's uh stealing from them nobody's lying to nothing only the joy they've all had in their lives and you put all of that into that same pill and then you took all of the joy of all the animals animals the animals obviously don't have the same type of things like but they're they're enjoying their food they caught their uh the animal they caught their prey now they're eating they were hungry they haven't eaten in 3 days they they won the race they beat the Challenger whatever it is whatever all of the animal billions and billions of animals billions and billions and countless trillions of fish and flies and and and bees and birds all of them that ever existed literally a number that is too big to count take all of the joy that they ever had all the pleasure they ever had of all of the people of all of the animals of all of the creatures and you put that all into that one pill now if somebody told you you could take that pill and feel all of that Joy what would be the price for that pill priceless priceless the mishna is telling us that that pill may be Priceless in this world but if you compare that to the first moment that a person will have when they enter Heaven that pill is worthless in comparison to the first moment that a person has in heaven and that's just entering Heaven that's not even all the joy the experience and needless to say that is nothing in compar to the joy and pleasure they experience of seeing the face of the meaning all of that Joy all of that pleasure for all of the generations for all of the creatures for all of everything is nothing in comparison to a moment of heaven and that moment in heaven is nothing in comparison to seeing the face of the and a Jew can get that for simply wearing a SE seat that's it that's all that's all that's this whether it's hot or it's cold or it's whatever wearing a throughout your life get you that only a fool or heretic would not wear Toth when they understand the words that just came out of my mouth a fool because they don't know a heretic because they don't believe but when a person understands the value of aah needless to say the value of the rest of the MIT of learning T of putting on to fill in of doing everything else literally that is enough of a reason to have the ultimate joy as a Jew to thank Hashem every second that you're a Jew to want to convert to Judaism if you're not a Jew already even if it's difficult and expensive and this and that this alone is a reason to literally dance as much as you can possibly dance when you understand the words that just came out of my mouth that's how much joy a person should have if they truly understood the value of a or any Mitzvah they have there's a guy that didn't grow up exactly religious but decided some time ago to wearit Israeli guy no keeper no religiosity but he decided he's going to wear TI got inspired I think it was right after the whole October uh 7th disaster that happened and a lot of people got inspired to wearit that's the in Israel especially the being visibly Jewish being proud of being visibly Jewish even if they don't necessarily follow the rest of the tah at least they some of them started that way and many of them became more religious as a result but this guy's story was unique why was he unique because this secular guy put on the ti without making any further commitments without really truly understanding the value of AIT until one day he was working and he worked uh with uh construction with all types of machinery and one day one of the stone cutting machines had a malfunction and the disc that goes I don't know how many thousands of rotations per second to cut the stones slipped out of the machine Ma and flung right towards him and went through his chest cutting through his clothes easily cutting through his skin easily cutting through his Flesh easily and stopping only a few millimeters away from his heart of course there was blood lost his Consciousness went to the emergency room but after all said were're done the guy's alive alive and well his heart was not touched they said we don't know how you're alive here but the disc stopped literally couple of millimeters away from your heart touched your heart you're dead on the spot so of course this curious Jew said What stopped it I mean I didn't stop it it didn't go through it went through the bones it went through the flesh it went What stopped it like we don't know what stopped it it stopped but something must have stopped it we don't know give me the disc I want to see the disc they bring him the disc and he sees that the disc was wrapped around with the tiit strands this tiit that he chose to wear Without Really knowing the value of it Without Really knowing the reward for it this is what stopped the disc from killing him and from that moment on when he realized the massive miracle that happened to him as a result of him choosing to wear this tiit he made his new mission in the world to go around the country and give TI to whoever wants to wear it and he goes and he meets certain celebrities and different people even uh recently he uh got a couple of uh hostages uh that were hostages in uh by these hostages were freed and he got a couple of them to wear why because he shows him a scar he shows him reality he shows him Miracle he shows him he's still alive says if this is not en encouraging anybody there's something wrong with you just wearing this garment look what it look what it did for me imagine what it's going to do for me in and now literally he's become much more religious he's getting other people to become more religious out of something that you get rewarded to do now when a person understands the value of it becomes easy to wear it in the on page 43 he writes as follows may we Merit washing our hands each morning until we can raise our hands to our hearts to Our Father in Heaven as it says in Lamentations 3:41 and may I fulfill the verse I Lift Your H lift your hands in the Holy place and bless God that is May I purify the 28 sections of my hands and raise them up to the level of my Consciousness so that I know that God is that God Alone runs this world and that there is no binding laws of nature may I subdue and uproot the force of amalik in this world which is the source of all heresy and by washing and raising our hands may we overcome all the atheism for this is the main way to defeat the sitra see here the telling us that washing our hands is not just something that was invented in recent years but rather this is something that goes all the way back to the beginning in fact it's not only part of the beginning of the day it's part of Celebration it's part of serving a and as a lot that goes into when a person understands the purpose or at least some of the things that the sages have taught us about it's not only something that's going to encourage you from do to do it but it could also educate you to the point where it'll actually make you happy doing it just like we learned about the mod in the morning saying thank you or like we learned about the the reason why anybody doesn't do a Mitzvah is either because of ignorance or because of heresy simply they don't believe and usually they don't believe as a result of ignorance or as a result of addiction to all types of sins now when a person understands the value of life that they want to live and they understand the value of mitvah to a certain extent it's much easier for them to understand the value of because is telling us you have to thank that he gave you the opportunity to live to wear a and also the mitvah of washing your hands in the morning but it seems like okay thank you for bringing me back to this world I understand that's in the Torah I understand but washing my hands how is that put on the same pedestal asit and being alive here gives us a hint it's like breadcrumbs to the direction of where to find it he says to us the Mitzvah of washing your hands in the morning to remove the kipa the impure Spirit and the hard impure force from my two hands if you understood it your heart should be full of joy when you say this okay so now we have to look at where does it say it the inab in page 108b says as follows it's a section that talks about medicine cures but also certain things that are dangerous if a person is ignorant well first for health purposes say in the name ofu a drop of cold water in the eyes in the morning and washing your hands and feet with warm water in the evening is better than all the clear of the world meaning all the difficulties that are uh that are there that a person you know feels throughout the uh throughout the day can be resolved by simply washing your uh hands and feet at night with warm water because when a person works all day they're on their feet all day day their feet become warm it weakens their body so if you soften your skin you wash your feet wash your hands it'll help with all of that now after that one of the T wants to take the opportunity to teach us about and he says follows a hand that is put to the eye should be cut off a hand that is put to the nose should be cut off a hand that is put to the mouth should be cut off a hand that is put to the ear should be cut off a hand to be to a Lancet puncture should be cut off and a hand hand that is put to the member should be cut off a hand that is to the anus should be cut off and a hand to the barrel should be cut off now this seems like a puzzle but let's explain kazal is trying to teach us a very deep secret in the creation of the world not everything that you see is what you think it is and even more so not everything that's actually there is what you see there are many things that are there that you don't see and I don't mean just germs and small bugs and things like that I'm talking about different Creations different creatures and kazal is trying to teach us that if you ignore this it can cost you a lot so much so that if you wake up in the morning and you touch your eyes before washing your hands in the right way like one one one one one one three times on each hand with a blessing but you touch your eyes before you did that are you you touch your nose or you touch your mouth or you touch your ear or your member or anything else the amount of damage that you're causing yourself is much worse than had your hand been cut off at all now one person thinks of a hand getting cut off they think wow that's a horrible thing the damage that you're causing yourself as a Jew that does not fulfill the Mitzvah of washing their hands before before they start off their day is much greater than losing your hand so much so that you would have wished what if you actually knew you would wish that your hand was cut off instead of touching your eye why because there are certain creatures that gain control of certain body parts at different times of the day and there is a evil spirit called but mik yes the daughter of the king and this evil spirit rests on the hands in the morning when a person's leaves their body to go up to sh as the as the body rests this evil spirit gains access and control over the hints and is only removed from those hands once the person wakes up and does if the person does not do that has access to cause whatever damage she wants and whatever he or she touches so if he or she wakes up and instead of washing their hands right away they touch their eyes like this you know they go like this they touch their eyes automatically that evil spirit gets permission to damage the person's eyes some more some less some immediate some over long term but certainly it's enough damage that could even make a person see things if a person touches their nose that Spirit gets access to damage the nose in different ways one of the things that theim say that it could cause something called ppus which is foul smell to either come out of their body or their mouth in so many words simply skipping washing your hands can make you smelly even if you've taken a shower have you ever met those people where they take two three four showers a day but they still smell bad this could very well be the reason if a person touches their uh mouth again same thing as a uh could cause this ppus to go in pipus is also another uh another evil spirit that gets access if a person touches their ear the evil spirit can cause them to lose part of their hearing now again this is not an immediate thing obviously many people wake up in the in the morning and they touch whatever they want to touch and nothing happens or at least that's what it seems like but then you fast forward some time and you see that this person starts dying slowly and miserably losing different uh abilities that their body took for granted a person that touches a cut that they have in their body let's say they had a surgery or they fell they cut themselves and their first reaction is to touch this thing that hurts before they wash their hands it's a bad idea person that touches their breit can cause them to waste seed can cause them to lose the ability to do certain thing with the male member as I was learning with my kids earlier in the the introduction talks about different levels of tum and Purity and impurity and is something that you'll see constantly in the uh in the you'll see it already as early as but it's across the entire that there was certain types of spiritual sickness that was shown physically called A zav and A zav this came from T this came from impurity it was one of the highest level of impurity that was shown in a person physically where they had different disgusting fluids come out of their breit whether male or female without their control they literally had to walk around with a sack was the most hideous disgusting thing in the world and this was a spiritual sickness shown physically now although the these types of things are not common today I have met people that came to me for help for the issues of breed and so on that had similar conditions quite frankly it seemed almost identical but I'm not one of the sages that's going to Pas in based on people's words but based on what they were describing literally they were describing aav and the good news is that after they did what I recommended which is complete chuva on certain things Hashem cured those that followed the ones that didn't follow but literally Miracles happened in people's lives as a result of following what the to say and a person that wakes up before they do they touch their male member they touch their bleed they touch their behind literally the damage that they could be causing themselves is worse than losing their hand and the says everything I just said it's just I'm trying to explain to you guys in simple language but the says this a hand causes blindness if he touches his eye a hand causes deafness if he touches his ear a hand generates police if he touches his mouth or nose meaning this is not I'm making it up and I'm concluding it the itself continues and says these words and one of the reasons ratan says is because the hand has this free agent this free spirit on it which means that it's a spirit that gets access to the hands and is allowed to do whatever it wants so long as it's there and you did not do you not wash your hands in the way of the tradition of the Jews which is three times on each hand in the morning with a blessing this is all relevant only to Jews this is not relevant to non-jews same thing as same thing as mod you want to say thank you to Hashem that you woke up in the morning as a non-jew by all means you can but wearing it or doing it is not relevant to non juice but the point being is thatal are giving us an extreme extraordinarily deep cabalistic secret within the many people always look for looking into the talud or looking into the Z or into cabalistic books to find cabalistic secrets cabalistic secrets are also in you just need to know where to find them and how to find them point being is is that R ofin is telling us you should say thank you to Hashem with the greatest joy that you have another opportunity to live live today you should say thank you to Hashem the greatest joy that you're a Jew that's able to fulfill such a simple mitvah like a that will reward you with seeing the that the reward is literally incomprehensible and the punishment is dear if you don't do it you should thank hem with complete joy that you're able to remove this horrific evil spirit from your hand with such ease by simply washing your hands something that every normal human being should do anyway but when you do it as a Jew with the blessing it removes something that can damage a person in much worse ways than you can possibly imagine and you can remove that danger just like that how following what T says following what the say follow what wants us to do you can remove all of this danger you can remove all of this danger with such ease you can get such great rewards with such ease if that's not a cause for a mean extraordinary Joy what is what that Bitcoin is 100,000 that uh your next stock pick worked out that you bought a new car that you have a new house what what's greater than this what could possibly be greater than this you could literally G get a greater reward than all of the money and all of the joy and all of the effort for joy that ever existed for simply wearing a garment if that's not enough for you to start dancing I don't know what is by the way this is also a reason why one of the first songs that we published on the chuva music channel was the mitvah of because it's such an amazing mitvah that literally it's enough of a reason to want for a person to want to be Jewish happy Jewish grateful Jewish and literally the best Jew it's enough of a Mitzvah to make a person for you truly understand the value of a You' be the happiest person in the world and that's why the in chapter 1 section 7 writes protect me with these holy fringes of the tiit and save me from all the forms of immorality help me sanctify myself at all times by drawing your Holiness upon me in this way save me from the prompting of the serpent here thean is using the opportunity to pray to hasem by utilizing the mitvah as a justification for this mitvah for this prayer to come true I'm wearing yourit please make this tiit the Garment of protection the body armor that you intended for it to be to protect me from her immorality even if it comes my way even if some woman forgot to wear clothes and she's on the same path on the street as I am make this tiit work that I don't look at her but even if somebody comes and sends me messages trying to turn me on to them abandon My Wife and Kids and go to her make me not even think once about it needless to say twice make thisit my spiritual body armor to protect me from all immorality that no matter who comes my way and whatever filth they want to come with make this that source of strength that I need to fight immorality and then he continues and he says help me draw the light of the true wisdom of the sikim upon myself through putting their teachings and guidance into practice bring me to the truth and never let a word of falsehood cross my lips here the is telling us when you're learning tah when you're praying to hem when you're speaking to somebody the worst possible thing that could come out of your mouth is a lie is one of the things that a person can utilize to remind them of what the truth is and never let a word of lie come out of your mouth when a person understands the greatness of MIT it makes them happy makes them want to learn more T it makes them want to fulfill the Mitzvah of K fulfill the mitvah of of honoring their parents fulfill the Mitzvah of wearing fulfill the Mitzvah of eating Kosh fulfill the Mitzvah of keeping Shabbat fulfill all of the mitv and they do with happiness the only time a person doesn't do with happiness is when they simply are unaware of what's on the line and instead of learning about what the truth is they chase a happy happiness that doesn't exist because they're chasing happiness in material they're chasing happiness in physical Pleasures they're chasing happiness in in stones in diamonds in a uh in vacations in all types of uh cars and all types of Fame and Fortune you'll never going to find happiness in those places because happiness as we said earlier today and countless times over the years happiness is not something material and cannot be attained by material happiness is a spiritual status it's either you're happy or you're not when a person has knowledge of the Tor knowledge of the MIT and they're combining all of that knowledge with their actions that in itself is going to make them happy because their Nish will be fulfilled with what it needs and thereby feel happiness this is why the yet always tries to get a person to do a sin not for the sake of the sin itself but rather because of the results of the sin because what ends up happening is once a person Falls for a certain sin let's call it immorality or whatever it is they disrespect their parents or they eat something non kosher now immediately once they do that now they have not only less mitv or mitvah they didn't fulfill but they have a sin and the now wants to keep that person in that mentality where there's no point of doing a Mitzvah because you already sinned there's no point of praying to Hashem now because you're a sinner there's no point of giving takaka you're a sinner there's no point of saying I'm sorry you're a sinner this is like the Christian mentality where they tell you that you're not good enough to repent you can't repent you need some dead Idol to uh to pray for you because you're a sinner so you can't help yourself this is the Satan himself this is the Satan himself that tells you you cannot help yourself this is idolatry itself that you can't help yourself because to says the exact opposite to says you sinned get up do chuva that chuva is a mitvah in itself from one of the 63 MIT and in fact if you're going to do chuva you rep repent you'll actually be higher than what you were before you didn't before you made a mistake but the Satan wants you to think that you're not good enough or that you can't or that it's too late too late to try again too late to fix because Satan wants to keep you there because the longer you're there without chuva the longer you'll go without doing mitv and the longer you go without doing mitv the more miserable you'll become the more depressed you'll come and this is why you'll see that the Jewish people that are following the Torah they spent all of their effort learning more and more Torah in order to do more and more MIT and when somebody's interested in learning and somebody's interested in doing they'll do whatever they can to help that person because if somebody has been awakened to to to want the same thing by all means but they're never going to go you're never going to find a rabbi go to a lecture by some priest and tell them you are all worshiping an idol you're all no you're never going to see that but you will see the idol worshippers in every single one of my lectures making comments that they believe that Yos is God or that the the New Testament is real and all types of other nonsense they say why because they see how excited we are about our tah they see how passionate we are about our tah they see how committed we are about the tah that we're willing to die for it and we have died for it for the last 2,000 years from their evil hands as well as from the Arab hands that the Muslim hands that killed us simply because of our beliefs and we're never going to give up Judaism and they don't have that so what do they do they Trust TR to justify their beliefs to silence their empty empty hole in their in their life by telling us listen if you you have to believe it too you have to believe that Yos is God also you have to believe that he's the Messiah you have to believe all of this idolatry because that's the truth if that was the truth you wouldn't be coming here to preach you wouldn't be coming here to tell us that you'd be busy doing it yourself the reason why you're attending a lecture by a rabbi is because it's the only form of Truth you've heard in your life if there was Truth where you came from you'd be attending that attending their lectures that's why you're never going to see a Jewish scholar attending the uh lectures of the priests and the pastors why could it's complete nonsense 99% of of what they talk about is materialism and the other percent is other forms of Lies here on the other hand we show you what the Torah actually told us things that you can learn from things that you could apply to your life things that actually show you immediate results in some cases but certainly things that connect you to the truth and we don't have to show it to you in such a way where it's convincing you it's simply telling you what's written it's simply telling you what happens it's simply giving you the opportunity to choose and those that choose the Torah always win and nothing ever could change their Direction after that because they know what the truth is and no one can ever change that those that experience depression those that experience emptiness in their life there's only one reason and that's because their life lacks the truth of the Torah their life lacks the real connection to Hashem their life lacks everything and so long as they continue to follow some form of falsehood whether it be believing in some man God Like Jesus or or they believe in some heretic named Muhammad or they believe in some materialistic world that only purpose is to get more money or some other form of material materialism so long as they do that not only will they continue to be miserable but they're always going to try to attract us why because we're their constant reminder that the truth does exist that happiness does exist and it's not with them it just requires a little effort you do have to help yourself you do have to repent you do have to change your behavior and improve it you do have to do what God Said and not what you feel like doing that's the opposite of what they teach because they teach you don't have to do anything just believe some guy died for you you don't have to do anything just uh say uh hdah just say uh blessed this God that's it yeah what about the fact that you killed five people today as a terrorist no no everything's okay they're uh cuffers they're they're they're Heretics who gave you the right to go kill people who gave you the right to do all those things when you have the truth and you actually follow it you have certainty you have happiness you have purpose and you already have such great reward in this life you don't even think about the reward in the next World why it's already good it's already good thank you for giving us another day that we could do all these mitv thank you for being the faithful God thank you for being so generous that you gave us a Mitzvah that's so simple of wearing it SE that I'm already feeling the reward for it and the protection of it in this world I don't have to wait for the next world to see the benefit I already see it here I see protection here I see wisdom here I see knowledge here I see good here thank you for giving me the opportunity that just a simple garment can give me that thank you for allowing me to simply just wash my hands and eliminate these evil spirits that cause so much damage to those that don't follow the tah simply by washing the way the sages told us the way they did it at the bet mikdash I eliminate this risk doesn't cost anything and it can limit such great risk imagine what how much money people spend on trying to find a cure for their hearing a cure for their uh for for their problems with their legs a cure cure for their problems with you know bring bring children to the World Imagine how much money people spend on all this stuff and guess what washing your hands simple Mitzvah like that already gives you the ultimate protection if we only appreciated that Mitzvah like we're supposed to if we only said with real thinking about Hashem being the only one and there's nothing else imagine the great connection to hm we can reach just by simply doing that and all that comes with it all the good that comes with it is simply telling us all of the greatest tools of are the greatest tools of the Torah too it's nothing new he's just emphasizing certain points that perhaps you missed that it's not just about doing the mitz of saying or doing the Mitzvah of putting a on or doing the Mitzvah of washing your hands but do it with understanding to the point where you are literally happy you are joyful of doing every single one of them and even if you fall and even if you make a mistake and even if you get angry and even if you do something wrong the door is still open where you can do chuva and get back back in don't stay out because the longer you stay out without mitv the greater the depression the greater the misery the greater the difficulty to come back come back today do chuva today and don't waste any time and this is why he finalizes this particular section that once you've taken all of this into account how to properly wake up how to thank AEM for the mitv even before you do a blessing for them how to do the mitv that seems small But realize their great impact now I remind you of what we learned already before that seem too big for you to do such as controlling your speech and not wasting your words perhaps now perhaps now you see that you can even do that too and BM we do with success and BM we cause others to do the same thank you very much for learning with me May hasem bless each and every single one of you that is following the Torah teachings that we have here in this series and all the other lectures that we do I'll give you great success in all of the good that you do and give you the Merit to to partner with us to donate and to be able to help us continue doing all the amazing things that the organization is doing all the amazing things that the rabbis are doing because as great as all of the mitv are it's even greater to enable somebody else to do it and if you have found yourself as someone that has been watching the lectures but not really donating but not really contributing back then you should know that you have to pray to hasem to give you the Merit to actually do that Mitzvah too because apparently whatever it is that you're doing is keeping you in a place where you don't have the Merit to help other people do chuva you don't have the Merit to be part of this amazing things that you yourself are benefiting from you need Merit to contribute to to kiru and not everybody has it and if you don't certainly you should pray for that too no less than you pray for anything else that's important in your life in fact even more so anyone that wants to contribute to help or even distribute some of the material can go to be.org or if you want to order one of these boxes to distribute the cards in your community you could order at kir store.org and as a reminder for all of you that still haven't downloaded the and subscribed to the app to get your answers for all questions relating to the to in life ai.org is the website you can go and download the app and And subscribe and ask away enjoy share and be happy we'll 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