The Three Steps To Receive A Good Eternity

[Music] and is says that there are three levels of divine service explains that if you want to actually have a good eternity these are the three steps you have to take the three levels of divine service start with the following the first one the Gateway and the beginning the beginning of your what is it developing a sensitivity to your own flaws developing a sensitivity meaning check yourself over and over again and become and notice that oh ah I didn't pray on time ah I just violated Shabbat ah I just wasted seed ah I just looked at this girl I wasn't supposed to ah I start noticing when you're sinning and or start rebuking yourself you don't need uh me walking after you all dayy do this this you don't need that you know when you did wrong you know when you did right it's simple you know right and wrong hm gave you a you know right and wrong if you're doing wrong and there's bad things that are happening in your life you have to connect the dots that's what that's what distinguishes you from an animal animal Works off of instinct so when the animal goes and chases down another food he's not thinking oh you know if I eat the zebra it's is it's uh his kids are going to cry his wife is going to be be alone you know he's he's the one that was really bringing most of the money in the house he's not the lion is not thinking like this when the cow is hungry he's not thinking ah you know what I should share the grass I should share some of this grass with my friend he's not thinking like he's thinking I'm going to eat whatever I have in front of me so when the butcher says hey come come over here come come come over here come and he Slaughters it the cow is not thinking oh maybe it's because I ate the grass maybe it's because I didn't share he doesn't think like that why because he's an animal he's a cow he doesn't think oh maybe I did something bad and that's why they're slaughtering me which means that we cannot be cows if you did something bad you must have the intuition the ability the inclination and the no power to connect the dots nothing bad happens without AEM signing off on it page a five nothing bad in the world happens without hasem saying has to happen which means that if you got into an accident of any kind if you have a bad feeling of any kind it's because something happened hasem is talking to you in that way doesn't mean he hates you it's the opposite actually means he loves you he's giving you an opportunity to fix it if he hated you he let you continue doing Sin Sin sins without even feeling any remorse so the first step of CH is developing the sensitivity to your own flaws and the need to repent the need to do chuva for these sins how do you do this is says he says this is engendered by studying kaz's dictums and our Sages teachings a person must repeat them over and over and over and over again until he's finally moved and senses a lacking in his soul meaning a musar book is not like a Harry Potter book it's not like a non-fiction book it's not like a bio a m book is something you have to repeat over and over again meditate on think about try to figure out how it applies to you it could take you a year to finish a 200 Page book assuming that you're a normal reader and you could finish that in a month or two months the point being is that it should take it could take you 10 times longer to read a m book if you really read it or you're going to read the same book 5 10 20 times I have some students tell me he's like I can't believe it I watch this shoe that you made when you made it and then I watched it again a week later and I got something completely different out of it and then I watch the sh again just to see there's no way this time I guy I watched the sh twice already sh twice let's watch sh three times it goes see third time something completely different I said yes that's the beauty of the Tor that's the beauty of the Torah especially when it comes to M so is telling you that when you learning M you have to read it over and over again until it moves you meaning that sometimes you could read something and it doesn't change anything you learn about violating Shabbat and doesn't do anything for you you learn about being uh you know instead of being greedy being generous doesn't move you you learn about the problems of having a ego a big ego doesn't move you and so on and so forth read it until it does that's the first step second step second level he says is Conquering the evil inclination once you realize there's a problem you have to start overcoming it once you realize that you're not allowed to have a huge ego once you realize that you're not allowed to get angry on a regular basis or ever really once you realize that all of these bad character traits are strictly forbidden in the tah you have to overcome it that's what again what distinguishes us from being an animal they work off with Instinct we don't if you have a Mida you can change it thinking no no I was born angry I'll die angry it's like saying I was born without any money so I might as well just die I'm not going to go to work you still go to work no no nothing stops you from going to work nothing stops you from dream dreaming of being rich s when it comes to fixing yourself there's something stopping you before you start it's an excuse so you have to start Conquering the yet of course some are going to be harder than others some are going to be easier than others but the point is you have to battle it out and start doing it do something about it sometimes you beat it today and tomorrow you fail get up try again beat it again two three four days and now he failed again try up get up do it again how many times forever and there's no such thing as a person that doesn't make SS everybody makes SS the point is doing chv now you're only going to get to that second level if you already have the first one which means that you're sensitive to actually making sins after that the third level the is says is rectification of the evil inclination so that he will rejoice and Delight in his Divine service pretty much destroying the where at that point you realize get out of my house not that you beat it and oh you just held on and you didn't make this sin now you're actually celebrating the fact that you're doing what Hashem wants and not what the is doing so this is all a process it only starts with something that's simple that everybody here can do realize you're making a sin acknowledge there's a problem acknowledge that we're sick after that we we can start working on a cure [Music]