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Rabbi Reuven AI speaking here. This
statement is absolutely true but you
need to understand it correctly
according to the Torah. HaShem will help
you but only after you help yourself
first. This is a fundamental principle
in Judaism. The sages teaches.
When someone comes to purify themselves,
HaShem assist them.
When a person helps themself
HaShem will help them.
But the Mesilat Yesharim says in chapter 2 at the
end of the chapter one of the most
important messages that a person will
hear from this sh and probably any other
sh in their life
in the end of me and chapter 2 on the
virtue of vigilance
the says
brings a puk from taleim chapter 37 32
and 33 that says says, "The wicked
scouts,
the wicked scouts out the righteous and
seeks to kill him, but the eternal will
not leave him within his hand."
The sharim says, "At the same time, if a
person oversees himself, the holy one,
blessed be he, will assist them and he
will be saved from the evil inclination.
But if he does not oversee his conduct,
certainly the holy one be blessed is be
he will not watch over him. For if he is
not compassionate towards himself, who
will show him compassion? This is
similar to what our sages of blessed
memory said in page 33A. It's forbidden
to pity anyone who has no intelligence.
Where if I am not for myself, who will
be for me?
The Mesilat Yesharim about 300 years ago teaches
us you cannot rely on HaShem to fix you.
Certainly you need HaShem to help you.
But he will only help you once you help
yourself.
If you help yourself, HaShem will help
you. If you don't help yourself, HaShem
will not help you.
Now you say, "Yeah, but I have
confidence that HaShem can do it." It
has nothing to do with what he can or
cannot do. It has to do with what he
will and will not do. And he will not do
the job that you're supposed to do. You
are supposed to help yourself. Once you
show him you care about your own nama to
the point of trying to fix it, he will
help you get to the next level.
But if you sit there laying back waiting
for HaShem to
do everything for you, fix you,
you're waiting for the wrong god.
You're part of the wrong religion
because what you believe in is not
Judaism.
Our God doesn't do our job.
He helps us once we're doing our job.
Once we sanctify ourselves
will bring us success.
But if we enjoy the impurity,
HaShem will leave us there and punish us
accordingly.
Sometimes a person thinks, "Oh yeah, but
maybe I have more time to do chuva
later."
Who says you do? Who says you don't? But
one thing is for sure that all the while
you are ignoring your responsibility,
whatever you produce will have serious
problems.
Money you make, relationships you make,
children you bring to the world, all of
it will have that very same stamp.
And you can be assured that any stamp
that is unholy does not have longevity.
Any stamp that is not holy,
does not have eternity of good.
So a smart person takes this to heart
and applies it to his actions, applies
it to her actions because all of us know
at least a few people that we wish they
would do that. We wish they would
sanctify themselves. We wish they would
stop being criminals. We wish they would
stop being immodest and immoral. We wish
they would stop stealing. We wish they
would stop yelling. We wish they would
do all those things. We can wish a lot
of things for a lot of people.
But the best thing in the world to do
before we wish for others
is to do it oursself. Once we sanctify
ourselves, the world around us
will become a lot more holy and then
we'll have a lot more strength to help
others do the same.
That all of us get stronger through
this. Take all of this to heart.
Sanctify ourselves. Whether it be we're
at the time we're single, married with
kids, after having kids and they're all
grown up.
The actions that we have that we make
produce holiness.
Each one of us will take this to heart
and produce a whole lot more holiness
where the sanctification of a
kadoshbah's name will become the most
obvious apparent and popular thing that
you see in every social media outlet in
every billboard and every step in every
corner of this world.
Amen. Amen.
