Tips for Better Avodas HaShem

[Music] one everybody takes on big things don't take on anything big unless you take on something small first why make big commitments you don't fulfill it it becomes big failure something small not only it's small it says far not the small as far as significance but small as far as really the um effort that it requires at least at first one before you do every blessing before you do every blessing think about what you're about to bless very common the longer you are in the Torah World longer you're F the longer you're this the more you become accustomed to the blessings the more you start blurting out things that you're not even sure what it is did I just say or did I say did I just say the what did I say what did I just bless did I bless was that Apple was it this was it that you forget why cuz you got used to things before you do it try two seconds think about what you're going to say that's one it's relatively simple step [Music] further before you say the name of uh of AEM understand that he's the king of kings so you have to make sure that you treated that way best thing to do is to break up every blessing into three which forces you to have a small pause that's a permissible pause before you say the name of Hashem or whatever the rest of the blessing is break up each blessing into three and whatever the rest of the blessing is that way forces you to slow down a little bit now you're thinking how the hell do we go from cfaa fire Brimstone this guy's talking about blessings talking about tell you what I'm talking about says knows a lot more than I do the fundamental and most uh the most fundamental and important and critical step needed in order to acquire AES is to think about aem's name before you say it that's it especially so with the first and the last blessing on food we're not talking about oh this is nice good to do if a person he says to such an extent that he learned from his love that if a person thinks thinks about what is he even saying who is who am I praying who am I saying this blessing to every time before he says aem's name and a blessing of before he eats food and the ending blessing or or uh um the the other he thinks about what he's saying he thinks about hm's name that is the foundation to get toes meaning it seems small but it's huge because if a person can stop themselves to start thinking about Hashem on the things that are very easy to ignore it becomes easier to think about hasem in the bigger things but if a person ignores the smaller things becomes easy to ignore the bigger things over time why because you just gets used to ignoring because the Small Things is what you do the most often so first thing I would recommend is that that's something everybody could apply men women children adult what everybody everybody could apply it simple think about hasem before you say his name what are you saying what am I blessing am I going to eat a fruit I going to eat a vegetable is this is this drink what am I doing don't be like one of these people that say did I make a blessing on that don't ask other people to count your blessings happens a lot I see it a lot of times wait did I make a blessing on this I said I don't know I don't know really paying attention to your blessings why my my uh I'm going start quoting uh K one of my My Brother's Keeper your keeper but it happens we forget why do we forget because we've become accustomed to it we become ACC accustomed to it become very very used to it and this is something I'm more guilty on than any of you probably and that's one of the things person starts taking something simple like this he can build on that he can build on that he can build on that he can build on that he can build on that and start doing bigger bigger bigger things you start that way you'll start seeing that other things other gates open other things open why all of a sudden your learning becomes clear all of a sudden your prayers become clear a few people told me that they took the suggestion that I made about when they say hm's name during the amida and it changed their amid prayer dramatically of course amida takes a little a few more minutes longer but the the significance of their amida is much much better these are small little things that have huge huge ramifications in your life a lot of people want to jump right away do big things I want to learn did you finish the No No but I want to learn okay why are you asking me then you already decided why are you asking me if you're asking me don't learn go learn K first why no Basics where you came from who's abah ainu who's Moshe basic things it's not going to take you that long you want to jump you want to jump too far too high it's not healthy it happens a lot of times with converts with B they want to jump they want to go to the end like it's a video game they want to get to the cheat code to get to the end of the uh game already why are you playing then if you want a cheat code life is not a cheat code is not a cheat code person needs to know okay I do every day every day every day don't expect to be mashia don't expect to be anything special don't expect that the whole world is going to change just expect you to change every day a little bit more a little bit more a little bit more a little more you'll be surprised you may end up becoming special you may end up becoming something really really good for who for everybody that's around you and that's plenty that's plenty say it's critical for a person to think about the in such a fashion where they give themselves things that are achievable cuz that way I know okay you know what I was going to do this year from now on I'm going to learn eight hours a day last year he learned an hour a day now he wants to jump to eight hours a day great that you want to do it but if you would have asked me I wouldn't have told you to do it why as much as I would love for you to learn 100 hours a day not eight hours you want to have something that is something you can hold something you can be consistent with not be like one of these Fly by Night people that you go really really high and then crash this does not mean that you could just sin and go against the to just because you're new the point is is that everybody needs to know how to advance and these types of things makes a person more careful in their to the point where when I say things like kaf or Gom or anything like that you start getting a better understanding of what that sadik what he felt that he was shocked why because the more careful you are about hashem's name the more careful you are about the Small Things the more sensitive you become more sensitive you become about other things some people I say going to rip them apart do this this and like you realize these are like people right you're like you're look you're cheering on like it's a scary movie that's not a good sign that you're cheering on like it's a scary movie like you know at some point it's supposed to be like oh like I don't know you're like if have to understand you certain things you're supposed to get sensitive live on to certain times why you not sensitive to it because you're not sensitive to the small things you're not sensitive to the small things when you start becoming sensitive to the small things you start becoming sensitive to the big things when everything is like blah then everything is blah so that's the thing Small Things the blessings first blessing last blessing all these little things that is attention to small details that will make us more and more uh uh just simply better at serving hasem better at connecting to him better at being sensitive to all of the things that surround this whole thing and even better communicators to others why because if you see your cousin your friend your your uncle whoever it is violating Shabbat it's no longer going to be a question of Rabbi should I tell him something cuz you yourself are already going to be so sensitive to it you can't tolerate it you have to say something directly indirectly uh you know something give him a CD give him a USB get do something and that's the thing that we're we've been lacking for 2,000 years people that are sensitive to each other once we become sensitive to each other we start caring about his his everybody everybody starts caring about each other's servitude of hem things uh things change things can really really change and we succeed we succeeded [Music] h [Music]