How Important Is Your Job Title? (9 Minutes)

[Music] so another thing that we notice about this mishna is that it starts with the word ran so far in the first almost two complete chapters of this almost every single time with a couple of exceptions each time we heard a name it was just the first name m we heard just the first name but here we get a description raban the explains that what are these names why is he get a description cuz in this world if you have a title the more if you called yon you're if you called Moshe you're Moshe you called ra guys automatically sadik automatically sadik got a beer too possibly it's a one that no one knows about yet you have a title of a rabbi professional you have a title of a doctor genius title of a attorney you know they put the 18 titles on their business card that no one understands each one is $300 an hour so it depends how many titles you add the money get a title everybody wants a title I remember in my business in my business days took me out of it that was probably the best Mercy he's ever done for me at least the one that I know about and uh I remember all my employees would constantly negotiate with me of what they're allowed to put in their business card a title for themselves financial advisor registered representative vice president senior vice president director all these titles senior consultant senior wealth management it's allot anyone that sees a business card of someone in the financial services business he sees the business card he sees the title you could just cross it off and put to Y nonsense it means absolutely nothing everyone takes the same license and some of them don't even have a license some people work with a license because they work through a a self-regulatory system called finra used to be called an nasd and some don't work through them they work through the SEC and through the SEC you don't have to have a license in so many words meaning everyone's doing the same exact thing they call it a different name the guy that's a insurance salesman all of a sudden he's a wealth manager he has 15 bucks in the bank but he calls himself a wealth manager the guy that's giving you stock advice calls himself a consultant or a director he just got the job last week he's 18 years old he's already a consultant spell consultant he doesn't know yet he has use a spell check all but I would have These Guys these young guys come to me and negotiate I want financial advisor I want vice president I want you don't even know how to spell vice president I'm like what do you care about these titles he goes yeah you probably don't care cuz your card says president CEO that's why you don't care I said yeah but I built the business that got me to be president CEO with no title so it's not really true what you're saying cuz yeah but you're already president you're already CEO so that's why you're getting more business the reality is quite different quite different the world gives too much value to these titles and the reality is that if you so focused on your title you're usually not focused on what the title is supposed to mean if you're so focused about having a CEO under your name you're probably not a good CEO cuz a real CEO doesn't care about a business card somebody else makes of him he's too busy making money he's too busy building the company if you're so busy being a consultant you don't have time to make a business card and thinking about how the business card is going to look and what's it going to say you're busy being a consultant and helping people if you're so busy trying to figure out whether people should call you ra or Rabbi or the ra or the and all these different things that people call themselves the reality is sometimes quite different a humbling story about Rabbi Moshe Feinstein is that one day a father yells a uh after his kid Moshe Moshe you a little kid running around he's trying to stop him Moshe Moshe don't go in the street Moshe and Moshe find thing turns around yes yes what could I do no I'm sorry no I would never call but Moshe finds him says but Moshe that's his name to him he didn't understand why would wouldn't Moshe be his name because the fact that he was meant nothing to him cuz he knew this mishna says all this to that I know there no credit that I deserve why because that's what I was created to do you don't get an extra cookie for having two arms you have two arms there's no extra credit for it you don't get an extra cookie for coming to work on time you're supposed to come on time that's what you're pay to do but for some reason we are constantly looking for extra credit for the basic things we're supposed to do oh I went to Manan every day this week good fine what what would you like for us to do clap for you do a standing ovation yeah what do you want to you came to M oh I donated money to the what are you looking for here or you want the name because you donate on the on the light you know sometimes people donate to the besset why not because they care about the besset because they want a plaster a uh poster on the wall he donated $312 for this light bulb 20 years the light bulb is there it's already old needs a new one already but they still remember that the guy donated $320 for the light bulb he donated for the sign for everyone to know not because he cares for people to have a light so when we have a confused mind of what we're supposed to do we look for credit when we know what we're supposed to do we focus on actually doing something about it and that's one of the most important things that a person needs to know in life if you're so focused on getting Credit in it you're never going to have a real reason to get credit for and if you are getting so much credit for whatever Good Deeds you're doing in this world you're going to be the most miserable person in the world when you get to Sham because they're going to tell you oh my friend you got so much credit you got the building with your name on it you got the Kila that always shook your hand you got the community that always praised your name like it was mosenu of the generation so all of the credit that you were supposed to get you spent 99% of it in that world this is the one% you have left once you see the 1% that you have left and how amazing it is you're only going to cry about the fact that you didn't have the whole 100% you're only going to cry about the fact that someone even knew you actually did aah because if someone knows the true value of a mitzvah they want to do everything they can to hide it you give a donation anonymously the don't you don't tell anyone you donated and even if you want to get to the highest level of donation you want to find a way that the one that received your money doesn't know you gave that's the highest level of donation you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com