MUSSAR Being A Decent Human Being (6 minutes)

who obviously preceded the mishna was the smartest man the wisest man that ever lived and he said in Mish in Proverbs right in the beginning of Proverbs chapter one hear my child the discipline of your father and do not forsake the teachings of your mother so here is telling us that m is something that if you want to be close to Hashem you cannot run away from it if you want to be close to Hashem one of the most important jobs that you have in this world is to learn how to be a human being is to learn how to be a good de decent person but not a decent person again by your own definition you have to look at the instruction set now there several parts of the T there's the written T there's the oral T and there's obviously many parts of the oral t one of the critical Parts is the mishna which from there they uh the roots and the fruits of it is the gar in there you have exact instructions of what to do but but if we pretend like we already know everything if we make the Torah secondary if we make musar secondary well you know what we want to learn we want to learn interesting things that uh happened in the past we want to learn different all of that's wonderful but if you're not going to implement these things in your life then it's all useless to learn about who mhu is is very nice but to learn how to be like mhu is the point that's why sh put it in the Tor mosenu is the the most important trait that everyone knows mosenu for is that he was the humblest man that ever lived now if somebody is a loser doesn't have anything doesn't have any money doesn't have any wisdom doesn't have any anything to speak of there's no such thing as humility for a person like that he has nothing to be proud of he has nothing but if someone has everything and he's humble and he pretty much acts as if he has nothing acts as if what he has is not significant because he knows where it's coming from he knows it's really not his if he's a faker where he's like oh you know I uh I don't know anything I don't know anything oh by the way you see my book I wrote all these things in my book okay he's saying I don't know anything I don't think it's fake or he's not it's not real if uh if someone is like yeah know I don't know I don't know that much about business but you know I did sign a deal last week for $30 million that's a faker that's a faker m when it says that mhu was the humblest man that ever lived it's making that statement hasem is signing off on it because mosenu actually had all the reasons in the world to be the most arrogant person that ever lived the most proud person that ever lived because he actually had everything he was very very strong we read in last week's par that when he died at 120 years old even as eyes didn't uh you know didn't change he was still a strong like a 20-year-old person he was very tall very strong he beat OG Bashan OG the king of Bashan he was very rich he made a lot of money a fortune off of the uh little chips of the uh Ten Commandments that broke first the little small pieces that Hashem allowed him to become wealthy off of them on top of that he's the only man that ever spoke to Hashem face to face and he spoke to him on a regular basis whenever he wanted spoke to the source from the bushes not from the bush and also for 40 years throughout the whole desert when he was gone right throughout the whole desert all time that he was in a desert spoke to Hashem so Moshe has many things on his resume that no one ever did and no one ever will do but yetu when complains to him and about you know they wanted water says we're nothing what are you what are we that you're even complaining to us complain to the source complain to don't complain to us who are we why just because I I talk to him you think he's going to listen to me just because I have some money you think I can buy something just because I'm strong you think I can do I can break something or pick something up everything is from The Source everything is from Hashem as soon as a person realizes this then they could start developing a relationship with hem but as long as a person has a confused idea of the relationship they have between them and Hashem it creates a very big problem you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by tor anytime.com