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Elevating the Mundane

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Rabbi Yaron Reuven

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[Music] says look I created a world in page 32b says created an extraordinary World beautiful world you have trees you have oceans you have rocks you have all types of animals everything has different colors all of that is for us it's not for him if it was just for him to create something could have made everything gray imagine everything is gray in the world everything had the same taste it would be such a boring world so made all these beautiful colors and beautiful tastes and beautiful visuals in the world for us and thear says he created one Z 64 340 000000000000 12 zeros number of stars in the world in the whole universe for what for you for you why he wants you to enjoy them look at the stars wow how many stars I don't know let's count today count till next year you're still never going to get to the end point is he created a lot of Beauty for you created a world with beautiful taste for you but he says there's only one rule to all of this everything that's material in the world you have to find the way to connect to me through this tool food is allowed there's forbidden food there's permissible food technically any taste that you want is allowed but there's certain food that's not allowed so one of the women the the wives of the of theim and the says wait I want to have it says in the Tor everything's available to us I want to have something that tastes like pork like bacon but I'm not allow to have bacon I'm to have pig so what am i g to do so it's missing our husband says no husband was says no nothing's missing so how can I get pork how can I get bacon says there's a fish called shibuta in Africa we're going to get that fish once we cook it it tastes exactly like bacon is also by the way today even there is a duck in Japan they grow in Japan specific type of duck you cook it it tastes exactly like bacon same concept goes for a lot of things let's say somebody says I want to I want to taste cheeseburger meaning the taste of meat and milk at the same time now you can't have it today you have soy but before we had soy how do we do it eat the part of the cow that carries the milk the meat of the cow that carries the milk tastes like milk and meat together all types of beautiful things says I create a lot of things and everything is permissible but there's a way for it to be permissible your wife is permissible but there's a certain time she's allowed the tools are permissible but there are certain times that they're allowed why because everything has to be pure if it's pure it can connect to me if it's not pure it connects to the Satan the one that's trying to get you away from me so when you take something that hasem gave you for example a plate how you going to connect a plate to hem you g throw it at him hey hasm catch what are you going to do what are you gonna do says take it to the mik take this plate dip it into water that came from Heaven not just any water don't just throw it into uh some bucket with water in it it has to be specific water that went into a specific Place undisturbed meaning it cannot go into a place and then some pipes and machines pushing into some pool that's not a mik a mik has to be where the water comes undisturbed into this pool with no influence no no uh no no one's pushing it to it so it has to be Heavenly water why because that is pure how do you purify the tool with this mik same thing with a woman a woman has a time of the month where she becomes impure this is specifically in order to improve the marriage now to show you an example of how significant it is to for a woman to be pure your grandparents what are you guys or your grandparents your grandparents were willing to sacrifice their life sacrific their life m not to violate n not to violate the mitvah of touching his own wife if she's n for example there's a story again says he won ASI that was uh born and raised in Russia religious Jew which was uncommon to begin with came to the of the uh and told him a story he says you know you guys have it good here good he goes where is poverty everywhere what you don't know what poverty is you don't know what poverty is he go no tell me he says in my country in Russia we were born over there it's colder than Canada in Canada when I went there literally 1 minute it was nice outside within literally 5 to seven minutes it became 15 to 20 degrees under zero when I went there to Montreal unbelievable I've never seen anything like it he says in Russia it's worse like one second you're okay next second if you don't go inside that's say you're finished unbelievable say in Russia it's worse the water freezes he says in Russia you weren't allowed to be religious you weren't allowed to build a mik so how could you be with your wife and with AEM at the same time he says I had to take my wife to the lake the frozen lake the frozen lake abai make a hole in the frozen lake at night make a hole in the frozen lake at night so my wife can dip into the frozen water that's 40° under zero what so I could touch her finger do you when you think about this me and you we're saying you know what no mik no Mar nothing just leave me alone why because we're uh weak we're weak we're weak say you're going to go to I'm just thinking about cold I get cold she's deep dipping in water 40 degrees under zero why so husband doesn't touch her while she's impure that's how important was for for your grandparents for my grandparents for there won't to go into the water was life risk there's a very good chance you're not coming out if it's not the water because it's frozen it's because it's the middle of the night it's a lake it doesn't play there's no like stairs the whole thing can break literally every month is was willing to sacrifice her life just so a husband a own husband can touch her now if a is not married she can't go to the mik which means that if a boy touches her if a man touches her automatically she's not only violating the rules between her and Hashem and he's violating the rules between him and Hashem but now she is looking at her own grandmother our own great grandmother and saying ah what a fool you are that you willing to risk your life for this Mitzvah you want to risk your life to jump into water that's 40 degrees under zero to be with your husband she's not even want to get married she's not even want to go to the mik so you see you understand this is a different generation this is a people that actually understood what it means to be close to Hashem so when a person wants to be close to Hashem he looks or she looks for every single opportunity to use materialism to use the material world in a way that's going to connect to so a woman says how could I connect to if my husband is the one that's learning all day and I'm home with the kids I'm home with the kids he's at Thea at least he's learning to how can I connect to hem if I'm home with the kids think about this if you knew that your kid is mashia you know for sure he's mashia would you take care of him a little bit better than if he didn't know possible why because he's mashiah if you were let's say kindergarten teacher kindergarten teachers it sounds like fun but it's not that much fun why because as soon as a diaper start getting filled with stuff and it's not your kid it's not so much fun to be a kindergarten teacher now if the kindergarten teacher knew this kid I'm about to change his little poopies I'm about to change poopy is not my kid it's somebody else's kid it's smelly stuff I'm about to change it but this poopies belongs to the mashia what she gonna do happy with you should do it all the time mashia poop all day for me why because what happens one day he grows up he BEC mashy mashia who change your poop you change imagine you change mashia poop I mean it's unbel believable it's funny but it's not it's funny but it's not why every single kid could be mashia every kid every kid could be mashia which means if a woman takes that into consideration she says wait a minute my kid can be mashia how could he be mashia if I don't send him to Yesa how could he be mashia if I let him watch all this garbage cartoons that show people killing each other how could I let him how could how could he be mashiah if I give him playing cards playing cards that have death on the playe card I saw two kids playing cards today somebody showed me two playe cards today one of them has two mummies killing each other says the the the fight of the dead people and the next playing card that kids have the trade among each other is a cemetery full of uh crosses Jewish kids are playing with these playing cards how old are the kids six seven years old how is this six seven year old going to be a holy msia if he's playing with crosses and dead people how so woman that says my kid can be mashiah my kid can be mashia no way no way I'm gonna let him watch TV no way I'm gonna let him play these garbage video games no way I'm G to let him do all these things that are going to ruin him why be mashia she connects to cleaning the house taking care of the kids in a way that's different from everybody else why she's preparing for mashia so this is a way for a woman to to elevate her role in the world Elevate her role in the world in something that she has to do one way or the other just take care of the kids somebody has to or else don't have them so the point is is that you could get to a very very high level regardless of what you do regardless of what you have you can even get to a high level with a pen use the pen to write Torah everything can be used to get close to AEM [Music]