How To Win Judgement Day| Chizuk In Los Angeles

Thank you very much for inviting us. We're going to learn together some interesting things. Try to get some for the tonight. She was for the Anybody else? So, I thought a few things of what to uh what to talk about. I mean, we're in Shal and uh it depends how a person takes it, whether that person takes it seriously or doesn't take it seriously. Of course, anybody that comes to at 8:00 at night usually takes things seriously. But uh sometimes you get a call from somebody says, "Listen, Rabbi, I need a tikun. I'm going to a lot of kapat. What happened? Listen, I started off the day by forgetting my wallet at home." Okay, that's not such a bad thing. Go. No, no, you don't understand, Rabbi. Then I called my wife to see how she's doing. She didn't answer. So, I sent her a text. Honey, what's going on? because I'm shopping. So, Rabbi, I need your help. I need your help. So, it depends depends how a person treats his his if he treats it better than he treats his wallet. Sometimes he realizes that is a time to uh to do to get some even if a person is keeping everything. Now, the question is how does a person win the dean? How does a person actually get himself to a point where they know that uh this year is going to be better? Unfortunately, last year everyone as Shalom used to say, everyone came to uh to pray. Everyone was sure as soon as Shah was completed that they were okay. And again himself said, "If I knew the year before he passed away, if I knew that last year this would be my dean, I would have prayed a lot harder." So sometimes people, you know, they they go to they pray, they give some, and they're assured that everything is going to work out. But the reality is that gave us some insight of how to make sure that we make it worth it for to give us more time. The first question that a person has to answer is what did we do over the last year to make it worth it for Hashem to even give us this year? The past year already lived. What do we do to uh to make it worth it for Hashem? Now, if a person is going to typically answer, well, I went to and I prayed. You prayed for yourself. I learned to if you learned Tawra, you learn Tawa for yourself. Uh, okay. I uh I was nice to people. Usually, that's because you have a certain interest. Most of the things that a person does on a day-to-day basis are for themsel. And when a person wants to win the dean, they have to give Hashem a reason of why it's worth it for Hashem. to give him another year but not only another year. Just like in all of us asked for every under the sun you know if a uh we ask for and if it was going with the uh ABCs this the the would be three times bigger because everyone wants everything. So we want to give us everything but the tell us that we have to make it worth it for him to give us everything. So shalom in he adds a lot of different things to our prayer and many siduim uh added also where in the beginning of the init says that uh I accept upon myself that uh to love every Jew in so many words and I love every Jew as much as myself and as much as all of my possessions. Technically, that's really what we accept upon ourselves after means that you love every Jew as much as you love yourself. Unless he cut you off in the traffic, unless he didn't pay you on time. Unless we have all the excuses in the world of why we didn't love him. But in reality, we're supposed to love him. Now, what does it really mean to love another Jew? It's not like the mitzvah of you have a titular according to the you're only obligated to wear it if your begged if your garment has four corners. If it has four corners, you're obligated to wear tit. If it doesn't have four corners, you're not obligated to wear tit. Now the also says that if there's a deen if there's a in the world that wants to uh it's a time of of decree then the first person that he looks at is a person who doesn't wear tit why because technically is a free mitzvah every second you wear tit you get a mitzvah so why did you wear and get maybe you thought you have too many mitzvot so it's important for a person to wear tit but tit again like many other mitzvot is only obligated under certain conditions. Shabbat is only obligated on Shabbat. You can't keep Shabbat on Sunday. Can't keep Shabbat on Tuesday. Can't keep Shabbat on Wednesday. Pes is only during Pes. Many of the are only at a specific time. But is an obligation every single second that you're alive because it's in your heart. That means that every time you have a encounter with another Jew, every time you're even thinking about another Jew, you have to bring yourself to that point. Now, of course, the average person can say all of uh what I said to himself 500 times, but to get to that level is very hard. Why? Because we deal with different people. Sometimes they're annoying, sometimes they're difficult, sometimes they steal, sometimes they lie. It's very difficult for a person to fulfill that 100%. But if that person is their son or their daughter, then everything becomes easier. So the say that when a Mashiach comes every Jew is going to have to give some type of explanation of what did you do to bring me closer. Now we know in we say that the go the Miach is going to come to bring salvation to bring the to all of the people that used to be meaning the people that did chuva. If you did chuva that's who the go is coming from which the explained that this is the reason why the more we make people do chuva the closer we'll bring in mashiach. So now a person is going to ask the mashiah is going to ask them what did you do to bring me closer and he can't say I prayed he can't say I learned to he can't say all the things that he does for himself he has to say okay what did I do something that brings mashia closer is to get other people to do cha this also happens to be one of the things that the say that can help a person a win the deen why because when you actually bring one of's children back home this is like a king that has only one son and he's been looking for him and he's can't find him and he's willing to pay any price for somebody that finds his kid. Now the problem that we have usually with helping other people do chuva or with supporting people that doing chuva or anything like that is usually because of our own personal interest. What happens is is that we look at everybody else as a separate person. We don't usually look at it with the of why because let's say for example if you saw someone fell in a hole, you come to the hole, say, "Listen, I'll help you out. I'll throw you a rope." "No, no, no, not a rope. I don't want I don't want a rope." "Okay, fine. I'll bring a ladder. I'll bring you a ladder." You put the ladder down. He says, "No, you know what? Listen, I don't want a ladder. Something else. Why something else? You want to get out of the hole?" "No, I don't know. He didn't really convince me. He didn't really convince me that I should get out of the hole. So, a normal person says, "Listen, I didn't convince you. Convince you. You're wasting my time. I'm leaving. Stay in the hole." That's the typical logical attitude that we have. When is it change? If the if the person in the hole is your son, if the person in the hole is your son and he tells you, "Listen, you didn't convince me to get out of the hole." Oh, I don't really want to get out of the hole. What do you do? You go down into the hole. You pull them by the ears. You're getting out of the hole whether you like it or not. There's there's there's all types of dangers here. You can't stay here. It's dangerous. What's the difference between the two people? This one is your son and the other one is just another person. But says is really you're supposed to treat both of them the same way. So when you tell a guy, listen, maybe you should come to my house for Shabbat instead of driving to Shabbat and stay by me. Maybe we should go to the kosher restaurant instead of you going to instead of saying listen I'm not interested in not caring that he says I'm not interested we have to think about what if he was our son what if he was our daughter and he just doesn't realize that being in the hole is dangerous he doesn't realize that sending his kids to public school is dangerous now the we know they didn't just teach us these things they live this I have Moshe Feinstein, a love of shalom in a called Moshe in page 232 is a story of a woman named Sonia that was in Russia and her husband left the Torah and joined Trosky. Trosky who was also a Jew but unfortunately also left the Torah and he went this Trosky went to fight against Stalin and this woman Sonia's husband joined him. So Trosky had a whole army of people that are going to find to find Stalin and fight him and he's been gone for months. She has no idea what happened to him. She hears news comes out that Stalin found Trosky and all of his soldiers. He killed all of the soldiers and then he sent even though Totsky uh ran away. Stalin made sure to go find him in a different country and killed him over there. So now there is a possibility that her husband is among the people that died. But according to Alaka, you can't just say, "Listen, I heard he died." You have to have witnesses. So what happens to this woman? She's a she can't get married. So she waits, she waits, she waits. Eventually, she finds a way to leave uh Russia. She comes to the United States. When she gets to the United States, she tries to find out about her husband. Nobody knows anything. She goes to Adl. And Adl says, "Listen, I can't help you because I have no idea what happened to your husband, but the only one that could possibly help you is Mosha Feinstein. He's in New York. Let's I'll send him a letter." So he sends him a letter and within a short period of time Feinstein responds to the letter and he says to Adler, "Do all of the investigation needed to find out any information you can find out about a husband and let me know and I'm behind you." So Adler has the permission of Mosha Feinstein to do the investigation. He does the investigation. Months pass, nothing happened. The woman gets very, very impatient. She's desperate. She wants to get married. She wants to start her life again. She can't do anything. She says, "Send him another letter." He sends another letter to Moshe Feinstein. Moshe Feinstein says, responds to the letter and says, "I invite you to come to New York to the woman and uh I'll try to do my best to help you." She responds to him, "I'm sorry, but I can't afford to come to New York because I'm poor." Expecting that hopefully the Rob will say, "Listen, I'm sorry. Uh, we'll figure out something else." But within a short period of time, Bush Finstein sends her a letter and in the letter is, "We bought you a ticket to uh the next to the flight. Go to the airport with this ticket and they'll let you fly completely paid." He doesn't know this woman. He never met her, never heard of her. But he bought her a ticket and a flight ticket in those days was a lot more expensive than today. So this woman comes to New York. She cries to Mosha Feinstein. Ramos Einstein during this time does every investigation under the sun to figure out what happened to this woman's husband. He eventually finds people that knew him. He eventually finds people that saw him get killed and he writes her you are free to start your new life. Now, as wonderful as the story is, this was the norm of Is this is the norm of people that are willing to be nephesh for Islam Feinstein is that there was a um a couple there was a boy named Nata in his yeshiva and Natan was a goon was very very smart and uh his uh father was uh a businessman not so necessarily interested in the Torah so he came to the yes is yeshiva to speak to he tell him listen I wanted to speak to you about my son so says to him well he's wonderful he's a genius he's great he's going to do amazing things he goes yeah yeah I know my son's a genius and that's why I came to If you're happy with him, he's you're a good boy, right? Your son, he goes, "No, no, listen. He's such a genius. I think he's wasting his time being in yeshiva. He should be a scientist. He should be a doctor. He should be a lawyer. He should be a businessman. What is he doing in the Torah? What is he going to learn? He's going to learn uh and arguments all day. What is he going to do with all of that?" As soon as he finishes the sentence, he sees of Mosha Feinstein's face in shock and he starts crying and for the first time ever that anyone heard Mosha Feinstein yelling, "How can you do that? Don't do that." And he's mash losing it to the point where the person thinks that this the rubb is old. He's going to get a heart attack. He got so scared he ran out of the room. When he came out, the Tommy said, "What'd you do to Ruff?" We never heard him raise his voice ever. He says, "I don't know. I don't know. I I don't know what to do." What did you do? I told him, "I want to take my son out of the out of the yeshiva." That's it. That's all I said. Maybe I should go say uh say, "I'm sorry." No, no, no, no. You did enough. Let's go, go. He goes, "No, I can't. I have to wait for the RV." So, he's thinking thinking the uh the peak peek in. They see that the RV has calmed down. He's back to learning. that would calm him down. [snorts] Eventually, he gets up and he leaves the room and the and the guy Natan's father walks up to the he says, "I'm so sorry. I never understood how important the Torah is until I saw how the reacted so I'm sorry, I knew you're going to realize that you're making a mistake." He says, "Now that I know how important it is, I'm also going to bring my other son here." This was the way of this was the way of anybody that wanted to help is not necessarily because they have a benefit, not necessarily because it gives them notoriety, not necessarily because there's a uh anything else other than the fact that they realize the value of the Torah. Now the in Shabbat has a interesting story. There's a whole sug there's a whole uh question about whether you're allowed to kill uh lice. In those days there was a very common problem with having lice and whether you're allowed to kill lice on Shabbat. So the go back and forth, but the point is in there there's a story of who comes to his daughters and he tells his daughters, I want you I have lice. I have a problem with lice and I want you to kill the lice for me. Now of course it's a interesting thing. Why can't he do it himself? Number one. Number two, he even says to them, I want you to kill the lights for me and I want to hear you kill them. one by one. What kind of benefit do you have out of hearing tick tick tick like what what's the Okay, so they crossed the lice. But then the in a different in page 45a says that one of the was looking to uh free prisoners from the goim and among those prisoners were the daughters of nahman. So when he peaked in to see are they prisoners, are they being treated good? Are they treated bad? He realized that daughters, they like being with the green. They didn't want to come back. And he actually found out that when everyone in town thought that Nakman's daughters were actually because when they would put their hands in the soup, they wouldn't use spoons. do put their entire their hands their bare hands into the soup and and stir the soup and it wouldn't burn them. So everyone thought there such sadikot that even fire can burn them. But here you realize no no it's not because of that. It's because they were using witchcraft. Using witchcraft in those days it was much more common. So now when you connect the two stories, you realize that the reason why told his daughters, I want you to kill the lice that's in my head and I want to hear it is because anyone that knows a little bit about witchcraft, if you remember the the uh the um necromancers, the weren't able to replicate the Makim. They weren't able to they were able to replicate dum you know it's uh they were able to replicate all of the frogs they were able to replicate a lot of things but when it came to the uh to the kim to the lice says this is something that uh we can't use with with witchcraft we can't replicate it and explain that the reason why is because there are certain things that are very very small that the uh you can't control with witchcraft. So now what was really doing there when he was telling his daughters I want you to kill the lice and I want to hear it is because he was giving them malah. He says you went to the goim and you were dealing with witchcraft instead of dealing with kadusha. So I want to show you that even with all your witchcraft you're still limited. You're still limited. You're still not going to be able to do everything. He was given the mus. Now this leads us to the question of why does anybody go to witchcraft when your father is of why does anyone look for there's a lot of people that are looking for miracle makers. You know they go to all types of uh babot and he tells him listen you can buy this little bottle and uh pay me $1,000 and I'll solve all your problems. And usually the bottle is just a bottle of water that doesn't have anything but the guy at least made $1,000. Or you go to the cartel. Listen, you put this little red band on your hand and uh you're at Sadik now. All of a sudden, just a little red band, you're at Sadik. Maybe not at Sadik, but at least you helped him with some, you know, but why do people look for all this stuff? Why do people look for witchcraft? Why do people look for for all these things? And the answer is is that people look for shortcuts. People look for shortcuts. So when you tell him listen maybe you should make some time to help is maybe you should make some time to learn to maybe you should make some time to do maybe you should make some time to do something like listen this is hard for me I don't have time maybe I'll do something else you know that's like the most anytime somebody wants to say you a religious no is bleed they don't want to say no they say bleed bleed is like pretty much no chance it's just but it's a religious no chance it's a religious no chance it's like a it's like no with to keep on. So what ends up happening is that when people are looking for shortcuts and everything, you start telling them, listen, this is the month of time to do chuva. What does it mean do chuva? Start reviewing everything you did wrong over the last year and start fixing it. How do I know what I did wrong? First place you can start is what does people what do people complain about you? Do they complain? Does your wife complain about you being stingy? Do your kids complain about you not spending time with them? Do your customers complain that you're stealing from them? Does the law complain that you uh you owe this? And you start start looking at the complaint list. Usually you'll find something there. Even better list is looking at the you have you have all the which one are you missing? Every one of us that starts doing some will find something. But if a person says listen I have a big account. I got to fix everything. You can't fix everything in a short period of time. So one of the greatest ways that a person can expedite the whole process is by helping somebody else. Helping somebody else do chuva. Why? Because when you help somebody else keep Shabbat, when you help somebody else keep kosher, all of these different things, all of this that they're getting now when they're doing chv also come to your account. Not just the stuff that you convinced them to do, but also the stuff that had nothing to do with it. You convinced him to keep Shabbat, but now he's going to start keeping kosher also. You convince him to keep kosher, but now he's also going to start protecting his eyes. And guess what? Some of those things that he's going to do are also going to help you because they go to your account also. Now, if a person doesn't say, "Listen, but I don't have time. I work all day. I start my day at 7:00 in the morning. I finish my day at 11:00 at night. I don't have time." Yeah, you're right. Nobody has time unless they realize that they have to make time. So, if I were to tell you there's a uh there's a bottle that you could buy for $1,000, you can solve all your problems. Most people say, "Okay, yeah, how how many can I buy? How many? Why?" That's the shortcut. That's the shortcut. The shortcut, everyone wants the shortcut as especially if it's at a discount. But in reality, there's no shortcuts. There are things that we can do to improve our chances. There are things that we can do to uh to make our situation a little bit better, but there's no real shortcut in life. The older you get, the more you realize that all the shortcuts are just a dream. It's simply a dream. Now, one of the amazing things that we see about is how they dealt with their problems. Shimonagasi shalom. He was the and also the kav of the benai. So he was an extraordinary sadik that suffered a huge in a very short short period of time. Two of his sons died. Now both of them were everyone knew these two they're going to be. Both of them died in a short period of time. He couldn't handle it and he simply would not stop crying. The Tom came to give him some something. They saw nothing helps. He won't leave. He won't get out of the floor. He won't get off the floor. He won't do anything. He won't talk. Nothing. Just crying nonstop. They went to the were afraid that if we leave him as he is he's going to lose his mind just like what happened in the to when his the died he lost his mind and when a person does not know doesn't control themsel and they allow themselves to completely get uh into the sorrow into the depression they could easily lose their mind. So they came to the benai and they told him we need your help. So the benai came and he sawi on the floor crying hysterical non-stop. He stands in front of him. He tries to speak to him. He sees he doesn't answer. And the benish like the RV said in the shield yesterday's voice was a voice that's like a mam you it's like the the Hashem's voice came out of his throat. He had a crowd of thousands and thousands of people without a microphone and everyone heard him. So much so that after he passed away and his son gave the same shield the Shabbat shield there were 10,000 people there and he started talking and people said we can't hear anything. So he would literally scream at the top of his lungs and said we can't hear anything. He says I'm sorry I'm not my father. I don't have the voice that's going to reach 10,000 people with his voice. So the same benai is standing over his talmid raagasi and he raises his voice at him. He says are you a kufel and what says and what said immediately froze. No, no, no. Shalom. Shalom. Well, don't you know that theim told us that in the last generation, everyone's going to be a gil. Everyone's going to be a reincarnation and is here for a specific amount of time in order to complete a specific tikun. And therefore, if took your sons away, that means they completed that tikun. That's And if you don't believe it, Immediately stood up. He said to the you comforted me. Now of course knew this. He knew this beforehand. But when a person is too deep into their own sorrow, d too deep into their own problems, it's very very hard to think clearly. Later that night, Aagasi went to sleep and he had a dream. And in the dream, he got the message that not only was the Benish, right, but his two sons were the Gulim of Nadu sons that had to wait over 3,000 years to complete their tikun. And you are the one that merited having them complete their tikun. Soassi in order to celebrate this he wrote a and he called it because that's who sons. So now what do we learn from this? We learned that regardless of whatever problems or whatever issues a person has in their life, they have to find a way to make time to make it worth it for Hashem to give us another year. If we really understood that the as the says in that decides on both for the Jews and the non-Jews who lives and who doesn't, who's healthy and who's sick, who makes millions and who loses millions, who has a uh uh joy and who has suffering when if we really get ourselves to a point where we understand that everything is really on the line, we stop looking for shortcuts. We start looking at what can we do to fix things? What can we do to make our situation better? Because looking for shortcuts, usually anytime that you look for a shortcut, instead of finding the shortcut, you end up finding. So the main thing that a person needs to look at at this time is what am I doing that I know I can do better? What am I doing that I know I can do better? Because if what I'm doing, I know it's not allowed according to the Torah, then any joy that I get out of it is being taken away from the joy that I'm supposed to get through because a person decides how much joy they're going to have, how much profit they're going to have, how much good they're going to have. Which means that if I chose to get my joy in a way that's forbidden according to the Torah, that's exactly what decreed. He decreed that I'm going to have this joy. It's just that I chose to have it in a forbidden way. So the same concept goes in business. Just a few days ago, they published a podcast that I was on where I spoke about this horrible business that's unfortunately a disease in our generation, but it's not the first time it's in it. It's called merchant cash advance. And this business unfortunately ruined a lot a lot of people's lives. Now what a lot of people don't realize is that this there's obviously other businesses that are corrupt and and problematic and so on. But what a lot of people don't realize is that on decided how much each and every one of those people is going to make. So that means that if he made 10020 $300,000 a month in a corrupt business, he thinks that that's the only way he was going to make that money. Well, he doesn't realize that a kadosh decreed he's going to make that money, which means that he could have sold Q-tips to hotel chains and still made the same amount of money. He could have sold Pokemon cards and still made the same amount of money. He could have been a plumber working for small apartment buildings and still made the same amount of money. But he chose to do it in the corrupt business. So what ends up happening who gave him what he promised, he promised them millions. He gave him the millions. The problem is that the millions that he made were full of were full of full of sin full of problems and instead of enjoying it he ends up bringing upon himself and that's why the say al meaning if you have ine if you don't have you'll do gazel and if you do gazel in the and you'll be you'll be poor. That's what the uh dilute is. So decides already on how much we're going to get. what we have to do and what we have to try to do our best is to start looking at what can we do better than what we did in the last year because there unfortunately every one of us knows that we can fix something and that's really the goal of alul is a time that every person is supposed to spend the entire month trying to figure out what could I do better not just talk about it not just say listen I wish I did this I wish I did that but actually make a plan just like you make a business plan make a business plan if you want an investor you have to make a business plan. If you come to the investor and tell him, "Listen, I want you to invest a million dollars into my business." First thing he's going to ask you, "Okay, so keep show me the business plan." Oh, no. I don't It's all in here. It's all in my head. You tell that way is the door. It's in my head also that you he's not going to invest anything in you. Why? You have to put it in writing. Show that you're serious. Same concept with Shouba. Same concept with Abu Datm. Same concept with trying to improve ourselves in comparison to where we were in the past. You take a little piece of paper, you write down one, two, three, four, five, 10 things of what you can do. Cut them in half. Then look at the top five. After you cut, you look at the five, cut those in half also. Then look at the top two. Do your best on one of them. Because if you pick all 10, you're not going to do anything. You pick five, you're going to be too confused where to go. You pick two, it's like Maybe I'll get something good and the other one really bad. It's better just pick one and become an expert over the next month. Become an expert. If you, let's say, for example, if it's prayer is your problem, become an expert in prayer. If staka is your problem, you're stingy, then start giving staka. But it's too hard. Why? If if the guy is stingy yesterday, how is he going to become generous today? The Rambam says if a person has a problem when he knows that he's stingy, give a little bit of money every day. Don't give. It's too hard for you to give $1,000. Give a dollar every day. Now, a dollar is not going to help anybody. I promise you. When you give the homeless guy a dollar, it doesn't help him at all. When you give one of the that comes, you give him a dollar. It doesn't I promise you it doesn't help him. It helps you. It helps him. He can't buy anything with a dollar. Can't buy you can't buy groceries with a dollar. You can't buy uh you can't even buy a pack of gum today with another dollar. But it helps you. Why does it help you? It starts making you like giving. So the Ram says if a person has a problem of being stingy, you should give a little bit every day. Why? Because if you give every single day, you're going to start liking to give. You start developing a desire to give. One mitzvah leads to another mitzvah. How does a person know? Well, how do I know if I'm stingy? Usually, you know, because your wife complains, you know. So a person that has that knows okay I have 10 different things let me pick one after you do the breakdown pick one of those over the next month whatever we have left less than a month try to become an expert in that one now the say this is one of the most undervalued lessons that we have today Because people don't realize what it really means. When say dova, they make the evil decree go away. First thing we need to understand is what it means and two when to use it because it's not a one-sizefits-all. It's not something that you can use every day because you can't do it every day. So first thing is what is chuva means? Chuva means everything I just said until now, which is changing our actions, picking a better direction than what we're already on. Never say I'm enough. The moment we say I'm enough, say, "Oh, you're enough." Of course, you finish your tikun. Never say I'm doing enough. No one's doing enough. If you're still alive, that means you haven't completed your tikun. All of us are not doing enough. It's not a it's not a uh it's not a uh being upset at yourself or judging yourself. It's just a reality. Raagasi's sons, they did enough. How do we know who took them? Did enough took them? Anytime takes somebody they it's it's if they're a righteous person, it's because they did enough. They completed their took them. If a person wasn't righteous took them is in order to help that person because they weren't reaching their in the way they were going. So is going to give them a different way to do it. But the point is that we we have to look at chuva is not to think that we're doing enough but to figure out a way what one what's one thing I could do better now not down the road oh when I retire I'm going to start I'm going to learn the entire shas oh once I'm 65 I'm going to do this once I'm 97 I'm going to do that once I'm ina I'm going to learn with mushenu not not long-term planning what can I do today that's chuva chuva is changing certain things that I already know I need to fix second thing is what's anytime that we pray usually it's we pray for to give us stuff give me give me a big client give me you know easier wife make sure the kids are sleeping as soon as I get home you know all types of everybody has really the what it's supposed to do is to make us closer to Hashem So when we pray, we have to pray to because we're not close enough. So the we can understand these are things that we could do, we should do, and that's something that's good to do. But why does why does fit in there? Why does the bring in there also? What does have to do with it? Why? Just because the guy is a millionaire and he gives $1,000, he gives a million dollars. Therefore, he's he's righteous. No, Kazal teaches us that he brings the to the Makkah before the Makkah happens. He brings the the the cure for the ailment before the ailment happens. Now, he loves all of us. The problem is he also knows everything about us. So, he knows that we're going to make mistakes. He knows that somebody that has a for business is going to answer his phone on Shabbat. He knows already. Why? That's the big client. Well, I'm not going to answer the phone on I know it's Shabbat. I'm sorry, Hashem. Hey, Mr. Jones. How are you? I'm always there for you. Why? Because you know it's your big client. It's a million dollar deal, $10 million deal, whatever is big to you. So, who knows this already? He knows the future. The past, the present, the future for all the same. So what does do because he loves us? Because he knows we're going to make mistakes also. And in essence, we're going to cheat on him once in a while. What does he do? He gives us a solution. What's the solution? Says, listen, you violate Shabbat. You don't realize that Shabbat is a very, very big problem. So in order to fix it, there's two ways. One is a horrible way, painful way. Another way is uh for me to take something that's the equivalent of life. What's the equivalent of life? What's called dam in the in the dam is blood and dam is life is is money says listen since I know you're already going to do it. What I'll do is I'll give you the solution. I'll give you a deal. Mr. Jones is going to buy from you. You're going to make a million dollars and then what? He's going to sue you for2 million. But you're going to settle for a million. So in essence, you didn't win anything. Why? Because you made the mistake advance of the throne. But because I didn't want to punish you the other way. I took the million dollars instead. So the person that's disconnected from Hashem will say, "Oh, why did this happen to me? Why is he doing this to me? I I gave I even sat in a shield to for this strange guy for talking for two hours at 8:00 at night. How come?" No. No. You don't realize who took it to help you just like tooki's uh uh kids to help them. And we can't come to Bahu with all types of complaints because we don't realize that he has a full plan. Now explain that they're the ones that remove the decree. Why? Because the combination of all of them means that you're acknowledging that is running the show. So you do chuva because you realize he's watching everything you say. He's watching everything you do. You pray to Mah because you know that all the money that you make and all the contracts and all the different things that you do and the health and the whatever it is that you find good in life or whatever else you find is difficult in life. You know it's coming from him. And it's taka is because you realize that the only reason why gives you is in order for you to use that to make your situation better for whatever you missed out on the way you forgot whatever you whatever time you picked up the phone on Shabbat, whatever mistake you made was giving you all of those different tools for what? in order for you to to get to to completely clean. So you have a judgment that's favorable. Now the more a person trust in the easier he makes his life. Why? Someone that has only kindness will will will surround him. So what does that mean in simple day-to-day life? The more a person knows that everything is coming from a kadosh, the easier he makes his life. Because the whole point of any time why a kadosh gives a person a difficulty, whatever type of difficulty it is, it's only for a kadosh to get your attention. Get your attention to see okay are you okay I gave you this flat tire. Do you realize that I give you the flat tire? Or you think it's just because you ran over a nail? Oh, I forgot the wallet at home and the wife sent me a text message saying, "I'm shopping." Do you realize I gave you that tun or or or you think it's just because you forgot your wallet? Anytime a sends us any of these types of things, it's a message. So the the sooner a person says that I have confidence in Hashem, the sooner says, okay, since you realize it's for me, that automatically sweetens the dean. Why there's no point to play the game anymore. You realize where it's coming from. If you realize where it's coming from, you're going to start praying. If you realize where it's coming from, you're going to start doing chva. If you realize where it's coming from, you're going to start making changes in order to make sure that, okay, Hashem is sending me a text message. I'm going to answer. I'm not going to ignore. I'm not going to press delete. Now, if a person went through a difficult year like unfortunately some people have over the last year, you have to know that gave you that difficulty not because there's any benefit to him out of it. He gave you that difficulty in order to give you an opportunity to make this year a much better year. Shalom. He says that getting closer to is good for him. Now really if we look at the life of he didn't have such an easy life. When he was a little boy, everyone thought he was. Everyone thought that his ima cheated on his Abba and they thought, including his Abba, they thought that. Then later on in his life, aside from inventing all types of lies about him, he finally becomes king. His rabbi tries to kill him. The head of the tries to kill him. His father-in-law Shaul tries to kill him. His son tries to kill him. So much so that he overhears the conversation of his own people. He's the king. He overhears conversation. When is David going to die already so we can build the beta mikdash? They want him to die also. But what does he say? I'm as closer to I'm happy. How could you be happy? Everybody wants you to die. What the is telling us is that no matter what difficulty you had over the last year and I'm sure all of us are showing up to Shah sweating, tired, this year is going to be the better one. Everyone is coming to with a few scars gives us a solution. He says, "The main thing that we all did wrong over the last year is we didn't realize that a is running the show." Yeah, we could all fix different things. We could fix our midot. We could fix our We could fix our Shabbat. We could fix our We could fix a lot of different things and we have to. But in order to not just change this, but to change the rest of our life, we have to start realizing that Hashem runs the show. Why? Because when you realize that a kadu is the one that's running the show, then even if your father-in-law tries to kill you and your son tries to kill you and the people pray against you and all these follow you, you know Hashem's running the show. You know that is running the show. You know that is doing all of this in order to elevate you, in order to improve you, in order to do something good for you that's beyond your understanding. So if you haven't understood it until now, start working on it now. Why get to a point at some point where you see, you know what, yeah, but the guy just cut you off. Yeah, but the guy didn't pay on time. Yeah, but this happened. Yeah. Yeah, but Hashem runs the show. Hashem runs the show. If Hashem runs the show, I know what he he knows what he's doing. I don't have to do it. If if he decided this is going to happen, then this is what's going to happen. So the main ultimate and final message that I would say to everybody is this year is going to be a year full of blessings for everyone. >> A year full of chuva for everyone. >> A year full of happiness for everyone. And a year that everyone takes their nama into their own hands and starts realizing it doesn't work by itself. we have to do something about it. So if it's my own ish that I have to save, if it's my own is that I have to uh improve or it's my neighbor or it's some other Jew that I never even met in my life, I got to do something about it. I got to make sure that I realize and my friend realizes and my brother realizes and the guy that's also a Jew that I never met in my life but I saw him in Chul. They realize that is running the show. And the more I do that, the more I give a reason to give me all the things that I pray for, all the happiness, all the all the all the profit, all the good things that we want. I'm giving Hashem a good reason to give it all to me. >> If anybody has any questions, I'm more than happy to answer. If anybody wants to uh go, there's also books outside for free. Anybody wants to take copies, there's a bunch of uh books. We have other types of books, but we figured we don't want to overwhelm everybody with with even more books. Sometimes people like to ask me questions when I ask if anybody has any questions. Sometimes people wait for me to turn off the camera and then they ask 4,000 questions. So, pretend I turned off the camera and you can start asking the questions if you want. But if if nobody has any questions, we'll uh we'll finish for night. We have another uh sh uh that's uh they asked me to do a sh about money uh which is how to make millions with ba we're going to do that uh in a couple of days in uh in Cino and uh this is a very interesting subject because we see that there's a lot of people that have uh they have a lot of money they make a million dollars but they don't have >> I think that's tomorrow >> it's tomorrow is you oh okay so it's tomorrow so thank you very So you see sometimes I need their reminders also. So yeah, so that sh is going to be pretty much a sh that's for everybody that works, everybody that's ambitious, everybody that wants to make millions of dollars, but they don't want to be like the guy that was in a newspaper that uh made millions of dollars and lost all of them or made millions of dollars and then had paid it all to the IRS. So there's a way to do it with getting and tomorrow we'll talk about it. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you very much. >> This is not an award. 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