ELUL IS HERE

[Music] great to be here uh you know a uh the will also be for um [Music] also and all of so today we'll go over a few things say first of all it's amazing to be in a of my own father uh um if you would have uh told me 10 years ago even five years ago this would be life I thought I would think that you're making a practical joke because a person lives his life thinking that he's has everything under control and he knows what he's doing and he's got everything planned and he's got his Ira in a certain way so his retirement should look a certain way and he's got his kids going to a certain school so his kids should grow up a certain way and his wife is looks this way so he thinks that the marriage is going to last this much and the wife and the husband looks this way so the marriage would last this much but hem runs the world many of us do blessings every day but elul elul is here to remind us what are we actually saying when we're saying you said every day the average Jew will mention God and many people that have learned a little bit about Tora will do a blessing before they eat something after they go to the bathroom after they go to the bathroom before they drink something before they go to sleep there's many blessings made it a very important m for each person to be critical of his of his mitvah to such an extent that he makees sure to make 100 blessings per day make 100 blessings per day I know that used to be uh very mped on making 100 blessings per day now some people say 100 blessings a day some people say 10 blessings a day some people say one blessing a day but the question is still the same when you say blessed you hem king of the world what do you mean what are you saying most people have an easy time saying in a blessing but a very hard time in their real life as the ra and my father were finishing the they were talking about and we're not fora and we not for Hashem to run your world and you not necessarily having to help him so much it talks about is the problem is that sometimes people have so much is they don't want to let Hashem help them they work so hard every day and every night that even if Hashem wanted to help them he didn't he wouldn't have time why because they're working already 20 4 hours a day so as the r was saying is that sometimes you have to just let things go you can't push things you can't force them but then you're going to say yes but I need to make pan I need to work the kids need to go to school Yesa is going up every year kosher food is going up every year everything we need goes up every year we need to make money now you'll see that in thear the it says what does it mean bring peace to the world what does it mean that they bring peace to the world they uh they they run the UN un/ naazi organization today where the anti-Semitism uh campaign that they have on a daily basis every opportunity they get they bash Israel what works for the UN Shalom what does it mean that brings Shalom so if you look at the page 59a it says that a regular house a normal house is not going to have any fighting as long as there's food on the table if there's food there's not going to be fighting it's going to be fighting from time to time but it's not going to be something on a regular basis why if there's food there's peace meaning there's if there's there's peace now the going back to the on page 178 says the whole world gets a sustenance gets food because of Raba so when I read thear I thought is such so holy that he has a lot of merits that because of him the whole world gets sustenance getsa good okay but the problem is that has been uh left the world 2,000 years ago what about now we don't have everybody's eating the is trying to teach us that explains that Bish means for means Bish means for but also it means that became the meaning the vessel was so holy in all the Tora that he learned that he became the vessel that hasem says Ah for you I'll let the world exist for you I'll let the world exist why because anyone that sees what you do understands the significance of it will repeat it and I can continue doing it forever was already almost 2,000 years ago but the world is still existing today why because people like my father and all over the world are learning Tor and hasem says Ah for them they're the of the generation for them they became the vessel for them I'm going to bring P to the world so what about everybody else that goes to work and goes to Wall Street like I did for almost 20 years and thinks they had such a great mind a great idea and great everything what about you that you wake up at 5:00 in the morning and you're going to fix a house and fix a refrigerator and fix AC and everything else are you really making the panasa no that's what thear says you're not making the panasa who's making the P why because hasem said to the Prophet Jeremiah if not for my Covenant meaning for learning Torah being learned day and night the rules of the world will cease to exist meaning the thing we call gravity or oxygen the entire table of contents everything and anything that you see the atom that makes up all of creation that spins all of these things that you see and you depend on will cease to exist if there isn't somebody in the world learning Torah when thear says that Hashem made gave sustenance to the world because of RAB he's telling you today that you're supposed to learn it because you're supposed to be now is one of those months where a lot of people call it the the month of chuva the month of chuva this is the time that every person is supposed to do CH get some some people say okay maybe it's is a good time to get a new new car because usually there's sales during the summer some people want to get new clothes back to school sales different people use elul for different reasons now in the days of about 150 years ago when is would say people would fall down and pass out why would somebody pass out just because you say the word El I said El did anybody here pass out I think he just woke up he didn't wake up nobody's passing out nobody's passing out how come 150 years ago you said El people fell and passed out 100 150 years ago we're not talking about M we're talking about great-grandfather that's it the generation before the Holocaust generation before the Holocaust you said they would fall down and pass out how come and us over here we're like oh yeah it's nice maybe I get a new car this year you know what is a I think there a good sale at Macy's get my kids some new shirts I just saw a commercial that is a new car you a new lease buy one get one free no one's passing out iul why if you ask a child how big is a star show them any star in the world little kid I'll tell you it's this big the size of a coin but anyone that did a little research studied a little science in their life knows that the star most likely is not only not this big it's bigger than Earth some stars are a thousand times bigger than Earth sometimes they're even a million times bigger than Earth but from here they all look the same they look like this big so how come the kid the little boy the genius little kid thinks that the star is this big because he's far away from it the difference between us and the generation of is not that the Torah is changed Torah is the same Torah that we've had for 3,300 years plus nothing has changed even a m that happened an event that happened about 60 years ago where a child was born miraculously knew the entire Torah by heart at 3 years old they were trying to teach him he turn he finished the entire by heart he didn't have to teach him the rest of they okay he finished the entire he knew the whole thing by heart okay he knew the whole thing by heart the he knew the whole thing by heart he knew the whole thing by heart they went all the way to the to the he knew the whole thing by heart same Torah that we had 3,00 3,300 years ago this little boy 3 years old knew everything nothing changed the Torah didn't change what changed us we changed 150 years ago we still had a little bit of an understanding of what does it mean to sin what does it mean to be away from Hashem today we have no concept of that today we think that if we take something than it doesn't belong to us it's not really such a big deal if we violate Shabbat hasem has a lot of other people keeping Shabbat what's the big deal he doesn't need me to he'll be fine without my Shabbat if we eat something that is maybe it has a little worm on it maybe it's only six cents not not not one six cents to eat a worm but it's a salad it's on you know it's from Subway it's cheap it's convenient we don't understand the concept of sin there's a p that the Prophet Jeremiah also tells us in chapter 2 verse 25 Jeremiah tells us something that every Yi is supposed to know especially now during KES Jeremiah if anyone who doesn't know or forgot is one of the main prophets of am is Jeremiah was alive during the time of the bet mikdash but he's also the one that saw it get destroyed so a few weeks ago when we mourned and cried over T we learned the book of The Book of Lamentations Jeremiah wrote it means how do we get to this point that's what means I actually my whole life thought was a name some guy's name it's a kind of a strange name but I didn't know but actually means how do we get here and there's three times in the Tora that the word is is mentioned by mosenu the prophet Isaiah and the Prophet Jeremiah now in the third chapter of Jeremiah says I know suffering that's how he starts I know suffering meaning I'm an expert how ises he an expert he said I saw thean of the bet mikdash I saw the entire bet mikdash destroyed I saw a river full of blood of people of river turning from a city to City they killed so many people had no mercy on us I saw it he says I Saw The KES kesim get desecrated the was there one minute it's gone the next I saw Miracles with my own eyes disappear the type of things that he writes in the book of is very sad and very scary it's sad because it happened it's scary because it happened more than once now this same Jeremiah was one of the greatest prophets that ever lived anyone that reads his book will know that every verse every time he says something you could write a whole book about it how many things he saw in his life how many things he witnessed how many conversations he have withm it's unbelievable somebody talks to hasem you should listen to him he knows a few things so the says how many prophets did have says at least double the amount of how many left meaning 1.2 million 600,000 men between 20 and 60 left at least double that were prophets throughout all of is 1.2 million at least so the asks wait a minute if there was 1.2 million prophets how come we only have a tanak that has 55 we're missing a few 1.2 million minus 55 is a few there's a few left not that many a few how come we own what there the 1.2 million prophets that Tora is no good so answers it's perfectly fine it's just that the 1.2 million their prophecy what they were talking about was only relevant to their generation and whatever is mentioned in the tan is relevant to every single generation yes even us 3,300 years later so if anybody ever tells you yeah but the Torah is old it's not really relevant to our generation this is one of the bestar one of the best proof Pro to show them it's the exact opposite if we had the Prophecies of all of the prophets we have had then yes you're right some of the prophecies are not relevant to us but any PUK that we have in our Torah today is relevant to us today so how does the Prophet Jeremiah relevant to us today the Prophet Jeremiah tells us the following in chapter 2 verse 25 verse 35 I'm sorry verse 35 he says so the prophet tells the is he says that you say no I'm pure his anger will subside for me behold I am entering into judgment with you because of your saying I have not sinned so the prophet tells am the fact that you made sins is a problem it's not good you violated Shabbat you ate not Kosher you didn't keep nid really good your Co your business is a halfway kosher all those things are no good no one in the t is going to tell you it's okay no way but he says that's not the problem Jeremiah says that's not the problem Hashem says that's not the problem what's the problem he says the problem is when you said no no I didn't sin I didn't do anything that's the problem the problem is when you say I didn't sin he says I enter into judgment with you not because of the sin but because you denied it because you got so used to the sin that you thought it's a blessing you thought it's a and unfortunately we live in a days of mas today that on one end we know the end is near which is good on another end we know it's terrible because even says I don't want to see why it's going to be a lot of problems before mashia comes this is one of them you see sometimes people going against T thinking they're doing Mitzvah you see a person going against hem he says no I didn't do anything what did I do what did I do what's the big deal denying everything that they've done now give you an example is a time for each one of us to ask ourselves when we say king of the world what do we mean what are we saying a person can go into a store and steal a piece of chocolate either he stole it because he thought it's funny he stole it because he didn't have any money he stole it because he just wants to take advantage of the shop owner bottom line it's a dollar what's the big deal the dollar how much how much how much disaster can possibly happen from stealing one dollar because if I start telling you listen every single person has to learn you have if you have to learn y there's three books going to take you a little while to learn it if I tell you have to finish it's going to take you a little while to learn it if I tell you you have to keep something you have to know every single law right left it's going to take you a little while to learn it it's going to take you a little while to learn it so everyone says listen I'm a good person I used to say the same thing I'm a good person I'm an honest guy I don't steal I give Stak when I can I'm nice to my wife I'm nice to my husband my kids go to Yesa even though we don't keep we don't this but we're decent people so what if I took a dollar KitKat bar from the store and I forgot to pay so what what's the big deal $1 what's the big deal and shamim they look at everything as a big deal because they look at the entire picture if a guy started putting rocks into a hole he doesn't know where the rocks are going he puts a hole every day puts another rock and another rock and another rock another rock nothing changes after a while it gets kind of bored so the boss says no no keep going keep going goes why so the boss takes off the veil and he says him look all those rocks and he shows him half a castle wow I did all this yes you did all this you did all this the little rocks one at a time for the last several years look you build a half a castle wow I didn't know okay so I'll continue now why because now he's a different perspective now he sees a it's worth it I see what I'm doing sometimes we don't think we don't think about what we're doing we think we take $1 from a person what's the big deal we took $1 it's $1 I'm not talking about you stole your Ponzi scheme you stole $50 billion you stole $50 million I'm not talking about that I'm not talking about you over charge the guy by $5,000 and he's so rich he's not going to notice it I'm not talking about I'm talking about $1 talking about thead the depth of judgment is on $1 if it's a depth the depth of judgment is critical on $1 then needless to say it's on a lot of it if somebody took $1 this could be the picture he took $1 the wife and the owner of the store saw it but the owner was like a nak it was like a little weak humble naive little guy didn't couldn't defend himself so he didn't say anything why he's afraid of you he's afraid you going to take a dollar ah it's a dollar only what could I do if I tell the guy maybe he yell at me embarrass me he doesn't say anything he skin he skin doesn't say anything his wife hula his wife is a little uh superhero for the bad guys though she doesn't like it she doesn't like it but she's not going to say anything either not to the customer who she say something to the husband she starts yelling at the husband you loser you weakling you this you let people take advantage of you what a loser you are what a degenerate you are they you can't even manage your own store $1 you can't even protect the kids are going to starve because of you with this this what you teach them M the guy doesn't know what to do wants to bury himself in the in the ground now the kids his kids saw it the kids saw the mom abused the husband so what happened the kids loses respect for the father why he says if IMA thinks he's a loser then I agree with her he's a loser so now the father loses respect of his kids he starts getting depressed he starts drinking he doesn't want to live life anymore the wife sees oh before you were a loser now you're a verified loser I'm leaving you she leaves him now the kid sees all IMA and ABA not together anymore they joined the statistic of 94% divorce rate in America I don't have a ima I don't have an ABA I have nothing and who the fault the thief the guy that stole the kid becomes bitter starts hating life starts failing at school gets out of Yeshiva doesn't want to keep shab anymore doesn't keep me wants to be a wants to murder all the thieves in the world the mom has nothing to do she says listen I have to move on with my life she gets remarried she finds another guy this guy doesn't actually like her son especially since her son is a troublemaker so he mistreats him now the old husband that became an alcoholic sees that his ex-wife got married he can't take it he gets a heart attack and he dies the kid can't take he doesn't know what to do and he wants to fight the the the the the new husband the new husband gets him arrested the kid goes to jail and the story can continue to roll and Roll and Roll and Roll and these are real stories now in B of sh the guy that stole the $1 chocolate he's going to go up to shim he says what do I do I do nothing what do $1 hold on get you a dollar I'll get you a dollar I get you a dollar what's the big deal why' you give me a dollar you know what you did do you know what you did with the $ Dollar that you stole the chocolate bar that you stole he's going to show you the entire picture he's going to show the person the entire picture of he led to a divorce and he let the kid disrespecting the parent and he let the remarriage and leaving the de and he let the whole thing why he stole $1 is a time for us to be reminded that if hasem said it it's a big deal if a could have said anything he wanted no one was limiting him no one told him listen hasem you're limited to 34,000 words not one more no one told him listen you're limited he could have said whatever he wanted meaning that if he said it in the Tor he meant it he wasn't joking if he said you have to keep Shabbat he meant it if he said that a person that doesn't keep Shabbat cannot be counted as part of because he's considered he's considered an idol worshipper he meant that he wasn't joking he didn't say no no you know what the other people not you you you're cute you're cute you're you're I love you you're you're funny you're nice to everybody I'll let this one go for you he never said that when Hashem said that you have to keep kosher both in your business and in your mouth he said all the time all of the things that he said he meant and the depth of judgment if it's so severe for the $1 what about the bigger things now someone can call up to Sham and say listen I didn't learn Tor so I didn't know and they're going to come back to that person and say oh you TOR why not oh you know I was busy with work I was busy with work so I ask you why do you believe in Hashem yeah I believed in hasem so how come how come you didn't how didn't you learn Torah no I was busy at work okay so did you believe in Hashem yes I believed in hem so how come you didn't learn Torah because I was busy at work so the question goes back to wait a minute if you believe in hasem didn't you hear that he's the one that gives sustenance to the whole world he gives panasa to the whole world didn't you didn't you hear one that he's the one that he's the one that opens his hands and feeds every one didn't you hear that before oh yeah I heard it so how come you had to help him a person doesn't learn to every day doesn't make time to learn T cannot have a share of the world to come and the reason why is because there's no way for him to fulfill the MIT to even know what to do not to know right and not to know left without learning to every day when someone is learning every day learning Al every day learning every day he's not doing the rabbi a favor he's doing himself a favor it's the only chance he hases the month of is the time where hasem says the whole year you've been playing around now there's Judgment Day now I have to evaluate whether I want to continue this deal we have you say you want page 16 and also in B page 16 one is a the other one is B says that provides he decides how much P you going to get whether you're going to make $100,000 a year or $10,000 a year or $10 million a year he decides on how does he decide based on how you act he says what is he doing with the money oh he spends money on going to uh to bars and clubs okay so let's give him less money so he makes less sins let's give him less money so he makes less s it's better for him oh he is giving oh let's give him more money so he get more this is how p is determined but sometimes you're going to see a person that goes against theem every day on purpose he drives on Shabbat eats T he goes out with non-jewish people he does everything against hem any way that he could go against hem he goes but yet he gets more and more money every day and everyone ask the same exact question how is it there is there's a righteous person that has a tough time suffering and as a wicked person that has a lot of money how how could it be all you have to do is go to the and tells you exactly why he says sometimes a person is considered my lover why because he keeps T if he keeps to I love him and I know he loves because he's proving it to say you love hem in words means nothing say I love you Hashem means nothing someone that tells his wife I love her I love you when he has his girlfriend on the side it means nothing means nothing he says I love you honey what do you think of her she's cute it doesn't mean anything when a guy says listen uh boss I love this company when in reality stealing from them every day doesn't mean anything words mean nothing actions mean something Hashem says those that keep my mitv are my lovers and for them I'll pay them for a thousand Generations but my haters meaning the ones that don't keep my I pay my haters cast to their face to destroy them sometimes you're going to see a person that looks like he's very very rich somebody like Robin Williams that had $100 million before he committed suicide or Anthony berdan that also had about 50 or100 million before he committed suicide all of the other celebrities that right before they commit suicide usually they reach their Peak just like Haman Haman is not just the story it actually happened and it continues to happen every year Haman happens all the time hasem builds somebody to a very very high level he gives them a whole lot to the point where they vomit it they don't want it anymore if you like steak but I feed you steak breakfast lunch and dinner eventually you don't like it anymore a person that all they want Isa they want money money money money money hasm says okay I'll give you money when is when when are we going to talk when are you going to learn my Tor when are you going to learn what it says when are you going to learn that when you going to learn when you going to learn what gar even means when you going to learn something that's for toilet for useful when oh after you make more money okay I'll give you more money and then more money and then more money and eventually hasem says oh so now you just want money okay so you don't have me at all and what can happen is that hasem can punish the person to such an extent that he can give them so money that the money itself destroys them this is why you see literally on a monthly bases celebrities the people that have all the money that everybody else wants and the so-called life that everybody else wants kill themselves they have everything that everybody else wants except life because life is not something you can buy with money so is a time that each and every single one of us has to reflect what's the point of my life what did I contribute to the world what did I do okay so you made money good for you after you die no one cares what else did you do what what else can you take from this world other than money there was a story that we're making a movie out of a short film on that puts things into perspective one of the right before the Holocaust began or even during the time of Holocaust and was actually murdered during the Holocaust wasman Shalom wman was one of the of the was someone that you didn't need to ask him anything before you that to know that he was holy he was so holy and he respected his R so much that one time they heard the of one of the other T says yeah the the rav said the same last year he says no you're wrong last year he used eight more words last year was eight more words meaning he his mind he was counting the words and and my looking at every s what's the difference between this year and last year toah was the only thing that he had and the only thing that he wanted at the time of the Holocaust when the war broke out he found out that his students were still back in in Germany and he went back he was visiting America and he went back to America to join his students even though everyone was telling them that if you go back there it's very likely you're not going to survive his famous statement was I'll die with my students now before all of this happened was trying to raise money in America and a few told him listen instead of going door too you just came from L you came from Lithuania it's far it's a far trip you do wasting your time going door too asking for $100 why just solve the problem one shot how says go to this one guy go to this one guy and ask him for the money he says okay well so why don't you go to him says no no h he hates us he hates religion he hates Judaism and uh he hates to give he says so why should I go to him he says because he knows you he went to he was in class with you many years ago and his name was pinhas go visit him he made a lot of money in the textile business and clothes said fine for for my children for the even if I get embarrassed it's worth it once went he called he made an appointment he went to see him at first pinhas now named Peter once you have money usually you change your name sometimes your old name becomes obsolete like milk so Pinas said uh let me show you my stuff let me show you my factory he showed him the factory show him this section we make five million this section we make 10 million this section we make 100 million this section we make this all the he shows them his glory every King likes to show his glory so he says what about you Alan what what about you AB what did you do with your life and abas says me no you know I studied under this Rabbi and this Rabbi and this Rabbi and eventually I went to the and I studied under him and after that I open my Isa and I have all these students and they're becoming and little by little and little by little sees his old friend P starting to hate himself because Pinas realizes that with all the money in the world that he has he cannot buy even one% of the Tora of one of the he cannot buy one% of the happiness that the of what have so then he ends the conversation he says okay so why did you come here says to him just to see you he says okay great you saw me fine so what else do you need says nothing just want to see you say hello goes okay fine hello hello maybe you don't feel comfortable fine you can tell me between us why you here because no no no reason just want to say hello aasman at this point had no interest in getting money from him he saw that everything that everybody said is true they said he has a lot of money he said it's true actually he has more money than they said they said he has 5 million he probably has 100 million but I don't want it anymore I don't want the money from him why I'm too busy feeling bad for him I'm too busy feeling bad for him because all he has he so rich in money that it made him poor in everything else some people are so poor all they have is money he says yes but you came me all the way from Lita it took you a long time why are you here he said well you know what I have a button over here the button on my jacket is falling if you don't mind maybe I heard that you're in closed maybe you can fix my button and he looks at him what do you mean fix you came all the way from for the but goz the button see I'm a rabbi people see me and if they see that the button falls off it's is the biggest sin in Judaism I don't want I don't want to go to G I want to go to G can you fix my button can you help me out a little bit the guy didn't know what to do with himself he sent one of his people fix the Rab's button please and then he goes back again to the same show and he says listen for the he didn't come here for the button please tell me why you here why you here you didn't come here for the button he goes no I'm here I have to go now thank you very much bye and he leaves Peter SL pinhas cannot sleep at night he turns over and he turns over and he just can't sleep he starts diing the phone looking for a westlan all over the city asking who and what and waking up people all the throughout the whole night trying to figure out who knows where he's at he finally finds him and he gets him on the phone at 2 o'clock in the morning and he says why did you come here I can't sleep you're killing me you have to tell me why you came here he says I came here for a button he goes there's no way there's no way you came here for a button there's no way you came from L here you have to talk please come to my office he says you're my old friend I'm leaving soon so I'll come to you he comes to his office it's almost 3:00 in the morning and he says I know you're not a fool I'm not a fool either we went to the same school together many years ago there's no way that you traveled on a boat all the way from Lita two weeks on a boat to get here you stay in Bronx then you came to me in my office of manhatt just to what to get a button for 5 cents there's no way a wasan looks at him he says oh it bothers you it bothers you that I traveled on a boat for two weeks to come all the way to America to fix a button but it doesn't bother you that your came from the that's 3,500 light years away to go from one level of the to the next one is another 3,000 years and to go to the next one is another thousand years and all the way until you got here the says all each level is thousands of light years separation and until your got to this world it doesn't bother you so what did you do here you here to fix buttons so what do I do I came here to help you the only thing you do is fix buttons so I said okay fix my button because that's what you do Pinas wanted to bury himself like I did when I heard the story and the reason why is because sometimes we could spend 50 60 70 years being a button a meaningless button that did nothing in this world that came to this world like the wind and left the world like the wind contributed nothing a person needs to use the month of alul to evaluate what have you contributed to humanity if you made money and you build a house it means nothing why someone will destroy the house one day and build a bigger one if you build a company no one will care someone will eventually buy it break up into pieces keep what he likes throw out what he doesn't even if if you liked it and move on and your memor disappears all of these millionaires that put their names on buildings because they want people to know who they are you know the first thing people do after they die erase the name and look for a new donor material is not something that can help you beyond your life here a person needs to know that at some point he's going to go up to Sham and they're going to ask him what have you done were you a button or did you actually bring something here now the only thing that's meaningful in sh is that's what Hashem said he's the one that wrote the instructions the buttons he says leave it for the people that are still living here that's why he said to the prophets he told them instructions time and time again don't be a button don't be a nothing and if you think that you're supposed to be here to make money to spend all of your time building things that won't last much beyond your life there are countless proofs there are countless stories that all of you know and all of you heard and all of you can hear about of people that spend their life building a fortune only to realize that they can't even enjoy it a person builds a restaurant Empire only to learn later on in life that he can't eat because he has diabetes a person spending all of his time making beautiful things only to realize that he can't see them because he went blind a person trying to develop every single sense that he has in his body to enjoy every sense of his body only to realize one day that he can't feel his body anymore meaning that when you're spending your whole life chasing material you're bound to be disappointed we wrote in the Alona KES the news newsletter that we have that the vast majority of people in the world have no idea what happiness means everybody says that they're looking to be happy they're sometimes happy sometimes they're not happy but for the vast majority of people have no idea what happiness really means and the reason why is because they try to define happiness by something that's momentary they want a game so they're happy they want some money so they're happy they got married so they're happy they had a kid so they're happy the problem is is that all of these happiness moments are like an adrenaline rush when I was a kid I used to play football and sometimes during the game you'd get injured but you don't feel it until after the game and the reason why is because you have adrenaline going through your system that you don't feel the pain until after until you calm down people are so confused about happiness that they think that happiness is supposed to be something that's momentary just like an adrenaline rush it's not happiness is supposed to be something that's always that you're supposed to wake up happy go to sleep happy afternoon happy disaster happy good things happy always happy that's what it's supposed to be that's how life is supposed to be that's when hem gave you the Torah in Mount Si he says these are the instructions for what to be happy so how come everybody's miserable why are there so many people religious and non-religious miserable why the reason why is because we're trying to become Happy by the wrong instructions we're trying to be happy by following our own instructions by buying a new system by buying a new car by buying a new house by increasing the material consumption that we have and we end up realizing I have everything I want and nothing that I want at the same time and people like Robin Williams and all of these other celebrities eventually realize they now can't even buy more stuff why they bought everything already there's nothing else to buy so they lose hope and they kill themselves happiness is one of the first things that a person needs to think about how am I going to get to happiness maybe I'm not going to be M for people to think about becoming a sadik it's hard for them maybe I'm not going to become the best businessman in the world to become a billionaire is not always possible in most people's minds but everyone has a common denominator everyone wants to be happy no one wakes up in the world and says I can't wait to be miserable today no one says that everybody says I can't wait to be happy now happiness is a spiritual feeling it's not something that you can achieve with physicality you cannot achieve it with material the only thing that can give you even a small chance or any chance whatsoever of being happy show up at the shim learn the purpose of life start evaluating what are you doing here why are you here what's the purpose above work and marriage and kids and this and eating and drinking and the restaurant and the game and all the St that we do every day after you finish all that after that what's the point let's say you went to the game let's say you went to the show let's say you ate the steak and another steak you finished all of that then what that's happy happiness is is an understanding that you have to have a purpose in life you can't have a purpose in life without AEM all of these people that claim to be atheist they claim they don't believe in anything they love to attack religious people why because they need a purpose in their life without hem there's no purpose in life so they create a new purpose what to attack the people that have a purpose is a time for us to reflect when you arrive at in less than a month from now Hashem is going to want to decide why should I give you another year why should I give you more money why should I give you a wife why should I give you kids why should I give you a husband why should I give you health why should I give you anything why you're not even happy with what I gave you why should I give you more why should I give you anything so at least spend the next few weeks learning about Hashem and trying to figure out what's the point what's the point of why I'm here and is what I'm doing going to help me become happy any questions amen [Applause] amen amen yes fore for [Music] n [Music] n [Music] [Applause] [Music]