Who is Your Tzadik? | Torat HaChassidut (19)

so the M tells us first thing you want to look for is not someone that is looking for leniencies he's not saying look for someone that's the most strict there are some people that all they say is everything's not allowed a could also say everything's not allowed we're not looking for someone to say everything is not allowed we're looking for someone that stays true to the Torah and is not looking to Veer right or left and doesn't think he's smarter than what he really is further if his heart burns with the Flames of spiritual unification and his thoughts are reflected in his actions you should choose him meaning it's not enough that he's knowledgeable it's not enough that if you ask him a question he can give you an answer but you have to also see how he lives his life what's he all about back here on our Sunday night the based on the teachings of where teaches us the foundation ofid uh very much relevant not only toid but also to the rest of Cl is anyone that wants to fix their midot perfect their midot fix their life perfect their life there's countless people that are coming every day uh to me and I'm sure to you know countless other rabbis always looking for answers to their problems and anyone that has uh listened to this entire series uh knows that the series has certainly helped quite a few of those problems get answered and usually the ones that ask the uh questions are either the ones that are the most attentive or the least attentive nothing really in between either they're asking spefic specific questions about the lectures that they heard and they want clarification so they're the most attentive and that's a very good sign or they're the least attentive meaning they don't watch any of the lectures but they want the answers anyway and the reality is that what I try to explain to people uh all the time is that the shim are going to give you the bulk of the advice you need for your life the bulk of the answers you need for your life and without them you're simply going to be like a blind man and walking during the night so BM isue is going to be another uh clarification and uh another uh U extraordinary addition to our uh servitude of hem and to get some answers to our lives tonight's sh is going to be for the for aav S Leana and all of am and all the righteous nodes that continue to support and help our organization with all the wonderful things that we're doing bashem whether it's the BH kids channel the chuva Music Channel all of the English and Hebrew lectures that we have bashem and of course all the and helping all the poor people in and at our at the there's quite a bit to do anyone that wants to donate can go to be.org and donate over there you could become one of the uh L donors uh and uh be a have that blessing in your life on a monthly basis rather than on a random basis uh because you'll see a lot more blessing that way than anything else uh so with that being said we have uh the Katan and uh in last week's sh uh one of the great things that told us is in essence what's still being used today uh in D which is really having some type of Mentor now he didn't emphasize all the details of the sadik uh which is above and beyond what uh your typical Mentor or friend is going to do but we see from you know the rest of how is how he was himself how uh the himself was he was theik but he had himself aik which was uh the mes and the M mes had his sadik which was uh the bmov and really throughout all of am Isel uh everyone has always had that key figure in their life call it the sadik rabbi whatever you want to call it uh everyone has always had somebody uh very uh extraordinary in their life not just to tell people that they know this person or that they've spoken to him or they have a picture with him but rather someone that they can go to for guidance about everything now one of the things that uh you see in the world today is that uh there's very few people really understand the value of a rabbi the value of having a sadik uh which certainly could be even uh uh very different than just your typical Rabbi uh and uh many times those very same people have a lot of unanswered questions in their life a lot of unanswered questions a lot of issues in their life that they don't really know what to do with uh they usually uh come for questions after it's already too late after they're already so confused they don't know which way to go uh and one of the things that we saw in last week's par inat is that despite Ro's extraordinary past and how successful he was in the world of idolatry he did not stop himself from submitting and humbling himself to go to his son-in-law mosenu uh and say this is my Rabbi this is my Rabbi he's the one that uh named his son G because he always treated this world as if it is a temporary world uh he's the one that named his son elazar because he always looked for Hashem to help he never took the power uh or the credit to himself uh and that's the one that I want that's the one I'm willing to leave everything for and really this is a baffling when you really think about it because technically this is not the first time that mosenu is uh speaking to him I mean mosenu Not only was married to his daughter but mosenu lived in his house uh you know for nearly 20 years where after the midash tells us that after mosenu left Egypt he went to and became the king of kush for 40 years after he left Kush he went to midan uh initially he was uh uh after saving Tora and uh and uh uh her sisters he introduced himself to itro uh because itro said who could this person be that save my uh my children I have to show them gratitude and uh of course uh that was actually the strong midah that had which was the show of gratitude being a appreciative of anything that he got uh but at the same token he was a man looking for the truth so as soon as he heard that mosenu uh which was dressed like a Egyptian uh was dressed like that because he ran away from Egypt after killing an Egyptian he threw him in jail he threw him in jail for 10 years threw away the keys and of course uh Tora saved Moser renu's Life by giving him food and drink every day but after 10 years he released him from the uh from the prison and saw the uh extraordinary nature and Holiness of mosenu when he took out the staff that was uh buried in the ground in the field of for many you know many centuries uh and saw that mosenu is not a normal person and therefore he let him uh marry his daughter TP uh and that was for 10 years meaning that he was his son-in-law out of prison living in his house for 10 years and for 10 years mosenu did not abandon Hashem quite the opposite he uh got closer and closer to Hashem on a daily basis and he knew all about it he knew that mosenu was following hem a different God than the God that he had he had many different gods during this time and no matter what Moshe Renu told him he didn't listen to Moshe meaning that this whole experience that happened at Mount Sai where it says heard uh he heard about what Hashem did to the Egyptians he heard what Hashem did for uh for am Isel to destroy the Egyptians to destroy Amal all of these different things this was not the first time that heard about Hashem he's heard about it before he's heard about it before but after hearing those things that was more than enough and he knew exactly what address to go to meaning who to go to to find out all of the POS possible details that he can get in serving this one and only God now one of the things that teach us is that the punishment that hasem put upon the Egyptians and amalik was exactly what got rattled to the point where he abandoned all of his idolatry instantly and uh went to mount saai went to the middle of the desert abandoned all of his money all of his uh Fame and Fortune and everything that he had and simply went to the desert went looking for mosu went looking for access to the one and only god of Israel and that is the fact that he saw how precise the judgment is from heaven now why was he to so special technically the whole world knew about this the whole world knew that hasem punished the Egyptians and destroyed them with the plague one after another the whole world knew that Hashem split the ocean the whole world knew all of this the difference is with is that the tells us was there in the very very beginning before is became slaves as the says that had a decision to make because he was scared of the fact that am is was growing so rapidly every time a woman gives birth she has six kids and they were literally outgrowing the Egyptians and he had the exact opposite of what he had he had the UNG gratitude he had the was an ungrateful person which unfortunately that little bit of par is still founded many people today and uh he did not want to be grateful to the Jewish people who were called the Israelites at the time uh nothing to do with the crazy people that call themselves Israelites today uh that we the Power Ranger costumes and Mortal Kombat we're talking about the real uh you know B the descendants of Yu was also called is and uh one of the things that uh did not want to do you didn't want to say thank you to anyone that's also what made him an atheist that's also what made him an idol worshipper that's also what made him turn himself into a God and therefore in order to remove any connection to anything that he feels he has to say thank you to he had to come up with some type of strategy to destroy the Jewish people and he came to a decision I have to do it but how what's the best way to do it he had three main advisors one of them was bam second was y job and the third one was bam told them you should kill all of them kill them enslave them kill them slowly because you can't kill them right away they'll they'll revolt tournament to Slaves a whole strategy which is in essence what ended up doing job did not say anything and that's actually why the says that's why hasem gave him the problems that he had that big test that he had unlike any other man for a period of a year he didn't speak up when the time was to speak up and said why are you doing this why are you doing this to the Jewish people people they did good to you they built they built the pyramids unlike what fools think today that the Egyptians built the pyramids it wasn't Egyptians it was Jews that lived in Egypt they built the pyramids they built say they built a all of the wealth that you have you guys were nothing before them they did all that for you don't you remember the previous King right before you was YF you guys called him a oh it's all types of Egyptian names don't you know that's that's a Jew and he was voting for this bam was Voting the other way job could have broken up to TI and went with but he didn't hence he got punished and Bam won and after bilam won the vote and he became powerful no different than how ham became powerful after he won the vote under knew that he had to flee he had to run away slavery of the Jews began now fast forward 116 years from this time iton now hears that hasem destroyed the Egyptians the very same Egyptians the very same parau that was drowning the Jews drowning the kids now is drowned the very same that didn't let the Jews bathe was now drink or or you know was now having frogs was having blood was having all types of things that were precisely the measure for measure punishment that they did to them after hearing all of these details it heard enough he said now I know that there is no other God God is the greatest among all and I also know who is the greatest messenger that I need to go to and that's Moshe yeah but Moshe is just your son-in-law he was your prisoner he was uh nobody in your house no no no Moshe was always a somebody I just didn't recognize him Moshe was always great I just did not recognize him it's my flaw it's my fault and now I have to humble myself and beg for him to take me in as a student this is the one thing that made it so great that designed it in such a way that the par where we receive the Tora is named after him is when we get Tora The Ten Commandments the written Tora the oral Tora there are two places in the T we talk about the Ten Commandments specifically of receiving them which is as far as the details of The Commandments obviously there's other parts even this week's also talks about the details of The Commandments but the point being is is that humbled himself and said I need Moshe Moshe doesn't need me this realization LED too's greatness and this realization could lead to every single person's greatness but greatness begins with humility so ofin has told us that we have to have a spiritual Mentor a trusted friend to improve our thoughts to help us and in in fact the next segment he starts off with segment 14 starts off by telling us to review everything that we've read so far hence what we're doing what we're doing right now he says be extremely careful to review theat at least once a day translate each word into your own language make it an inviable practice to study chapter 16 of before marital relations as well as the practices of the if time permits you shall read chapter 17 of as well consider this an in inviable rule so here we're not going to go through the whole instruction set of what he gave us today but we'll go into just a little bit the sadik telling us that this is not a one time read it's not a one time I heard it I'm done the end it's not even a once a year type of instruction set we read the Torah read the entire every Jew has to read the technically three times a year you have the the twice you read the commentary the uh the parasha and once you read the commentary technically you're reading the Paras three times every week here he's saying very similar to what the ramban said to his son about read this instruction said every day is that because he's questioning his memory abilities that he won't remember what he read yesterday or the day before or the day before no but rather because when something is part of the Tah every time you read it there's divine inspiration to direct you to a specific place within those instructions that you did not see the day before even if you read it a 100 times the 100 and first time is going to be a world of difference between the 100 one and 100 and the first 100 that's the difference also between the meaningless Harry Potter books and and all types of other secular books out there and the Torah the Tor is going to give you guidance that no matter how many times you read it how many times you learn it there always going to be something new same thing I always tell my students where or different people that come for advice I tell them to take on a series if they want to work on their they could work on they say the series that we did if they want a real serious Foundation go to watch the series they want to have better asfa you could go to the Jewish ashfa series and so on and so forth each Series has its own significant teachings in there and sometimes the people that are asking me a question are people that I know for a fact they watch those lectures before and I still tell them to go watch the same thing why because I know that this time when they watch it they're watching it with completely different lenses completely different lenses the first time they watched it they watched it with the spiritual tools they had at the time if they continued growing continued learning since then the tools they have today are very different than the tools they had a year two three four years ago when they first heard it this is also the reason why when people stop watching lectures stop learning TOA they start going down rapidly ly it's as if you have a tire and there's a hole in a tire little by little the air comes out and little by little everything that they've gained starts becoming Lost In The Wind Torah is either something that goes higher or goes lower there's no neutral so now the sadik is telling us that this instruction say said this is something we must read every day something we have to apply every day in fact his talim who wrote commentary on this commentary on different parts of the tah clarify his thoughts if you were to repeat this teaching of the previous section we had about having a mentor having a a guide or the previous ones that talk about a sadik where do we see that in the Torah and in the commentary on which is in uh Deuteronomy chap 17: 15 18- 19 the verse says you shall appoint a king over you whom the Lord your God shall choose and he shall write for himself two copies of this Torah on a scroll and he shall read it all the days of his life so that he may learn to fear the lord his God and keep all the words of his of this Torah and these statutes so says the on this P even even if a person has learned the entire Torah and all the holy books of our sages he still cannot fully do chuva or remove all of the barriers between him and aad if he does not attach himself to the sikim and the holy people of his generation here the m is first tells us that based on everything that he knows even if he read all the books even if you read all the books watched all the lectures but you don't attach yourself to theim of your generation you have a very serious problem and he specifies your generation why your generation many people have a rabbi or a sadik that passed away oh yeah no I'm you know rabi nakan or the laich or some the sadik that's out there great but who's your living sadik who's your living Rabbi who's your living Mentor OH you know I asked my Rabbi here and there some questions problem is if you don't have that sadik in your life you're going to be missing a key part of the ingredient for chuva why because the sadik is the one that's supposed to direct you which way to go what you have to fix whether you're going in the right direction or not so the M first tells us a Shaker which is even if somebody read all of the books all of the Holy books which is impossible but let's say they did without connecting themselves to the sikim and the holy people of his generation he's missing a key part of the ingredient further he says and this is what he learned from ofin I heard from thead that a person should choose one sadik and make him his teacher if the question remains how does one choose a sadik so is not saying listen every day have somebody else he says you have to pick one you have to pick one that's going to be your Sunshine that's going to be the one that's going to clarify everything for you okay fine I'm willing I'm able but there's so many different options how do I pick if you see a sadik who follows the holy Torah and everything that he does without relying on any leniencies in scriptural or rinic laws if his heart burns with the Flames of spiritual unifications and his thoughts are reflected in his actions you should choose him as your teacher so already in this segment thees really brings the sunshine on how to pick somebody to lead us first and foremost it has to be somebody that's truly a sadik not just looks like one dresses like one people say he's one you have to have some type of familiarity with his teachings with his behavior as says if your if he acts like an angel you can learn from him if he doesn't you can't meaning not like an angel like he's perfect nobody's perfect and there's no perfect person that doesn't make sense but rather if you see that everything that he does is in order to serve better and better every day and he's not looking for any type of oh how could I make things more convenient for the community to violate the law of the Torah you know there certain people that ask questions and really you see that there's the criminal inside them is is is leading the role how they asked you questions on a consistent basis of how they could violate the can I uh take this if I know it was stolen can I make money off of this if I know that it's illegal but no one I I don't think anyone's going to catch me can I uh take advantage of this person can I take advantage of that person can I just do this inappropriate act but only for now like they literally they don't even realize that the criminal inside them the is the one that's driving the wheel trying to rationalize evil now of course people are unaware sometimes they ask questions and you realize that they how unaware they are but when somebody does it on a regular basis and you know that they are aware and yet they continue to look for different leniencies different permissions you realize there's something missing in this person's life what's missing not just which is obvious but rather they're missing a sadik they're missing somebody to tell them no don't go there now they may have somebody that tells them no don't go there but they don't listen to him which means it's missing it's like somebody has tens of millions of dollars in a bank but he lives like he's a homeless person why because he's too stingy to uh buy himself food he's too stingy to buy himself a nice house he's too stingy to buy himself a nice car or whatever it is that he needs he's scared that he's going to run out he's like the uh the snake the snake has all the sand in the world all the sand in the world that he can eat but he still eats animals even though the animals taste like sand to him why he doesn't want to doesn't want to run out of sand the S just say so he eats the the the animals even though they taste like sand to him that's what the curse that hashm put on the on the snake everything is going to taste like sand so eat sand you have all the sand in the world no no no no I want to eat the animals why I don't want to run out of sand some people are like that some people are like that a person that has all the money in the world but does not spend it does not use it my might as well not have it a person that has a sadik in their life has in their life but doesn't use them doesn't listen to them might as well it's the same thing as if they don't have it same thing as if they're living in some Island by themselves and they don't have anybody next to them and usually the reason for that is ego usually they have the exact opposite nature of as we said the two main things that make to as great as he was one was gratitude he had to show gratitude gratitude to M gratitude to to go serve him but also gratitude to is even though he was not some follower of am Isel he wasn't some Jewish supporter but still he knew that am Isel is the one that built Egypt how can you go against them his gratitude was coupled with his humility and many times people have the exact opposite of that because of they don't have humility they don't want to Humble themselves they refuse to show gratefulness refuse to show real gratefulness sometimes they'll show fake gratefulness but real gratefulness impossible for them why because real gratefulness requires humility so now the which is one of the of of the is clarifying his own teacher teachings he's saying you're not going to have as your Rabbi he's gone he's already in enjoying the with all the other you need somebody that's living but this very same son that came to the world this very same bright son called r that came to the world left us left us teachings and he told us you can have your own in your life you can have your own bright sunshine in your life how you have to first look for someone that's not looking to bring all types of leniencies because that's what's going to make him more popular he's not looking for scriptural leniencies rinic leniencies and you see that sometimes in kot where you see the rabbi is trying to customize the toai in order to fit his community Unfortunately today with videos you also see that sometimes in videos rabbis make videos about topics they know nothing about and they go against the greatest sages in the world that spoke about this topic and they contradict them who can say they can even speak in this same sentence as R but they go no no we don't agree with r he was uh too stringent on these wigs we we uh we going the opposite way now even if you want to say you want to disagree with RF you actually have the audacity to say that publicly like it actually come out of your mouth in your head maybe foolish but maybe you could do it in your head but people go out there and they think oh let's disagree with the great sages why why do they do that why all of a sudden they care about the topic of wigs or they care about the topic of uh all types of uh strange uh things that are said out there because they're trying to get views they're trying to become more popular they're trying to find all types of leniencies to caser the pig even though we all know there's no way to eat a kosher Pig there is no Kosher Pig so the M tells us first thing you want to look for for is not someone that is looking for leniencies he's not saying look for someone that's the most strict there are some people that all they says everything's not allowed a could also say everything's not allowed we're not looking for someone to say everything's not allowed we're looking for someone that stays true to the Torah and is not looking to Veer right or left and doesn't think he's smarter than what he really is first further if his heart burns with the Flames of spiritual unification and his thoughts are reflected in his actions you should choose him meaning it's not enough that he's knowledgeable it's not enough that if you ask him a question he can give you an answer but you have to also see how he lives his life what's he all about is he constantly looking to get closer and closer to is he learning more Tor is he dedicating more of his life to the Torah more of his life to help what is doing with all of this and that's why the one common denominator you will find about every single tadik every single they're always always dedicated to learning T and helping those are the two priorities in their life and in essence in their mind it's all one and the same it's one and the same and further says the what does this have to do with the verse that we just read about making yourself a king you shall appoint yourself a king says this is the meaning this is the meaning of you shall appoint a king over you for the page 62a says that the rabbis are considered like kings and a segment that says whom the Lord your God shall choose in other words is saying whom should you choose as your Rabbi and teacher and when it says he shall write for himself two copies of this Torah according to Rashi the king carried one of these Torah scrolls with him throughout the day while the other he stored in the treasury meaning that the fire of the Torah burns with love and fear inside the sadik's heart that's his treasure and in his thoughts are manifest in his actions throughout the day so here we see the fruits of rin's Labor how is T clarified the words of his Rabbi and how we can learn from that now as I said is telling us this is something that we have to constantly review translate to our own language whether your first language is English or Russian or Hebrew or or Indonesian whatever it is doesn't make a difference you have to make sure you understand why because the oral Torah which encompasses the the talmud the the all of the the everything aside from the five five books of Moses is considered oral tah and the priority with the oral tah in studying is to understand what what it says and that's why it's foolish sometimes people that you know insist on reading the oral tah in a language they don't understand now if you're a young kid you want to learn the language you want to learn Aramaic you want to learn German you want to learn French because you want to read ancient Rashi script fine no problem Rashi spoke French in fact he uh uh he uncovered uh for people today uh I think it was something over like 3,000 ancient French words the people lost in French but he you could read in his commentary so you want to learn fine you want to read rashi's words in French by all means you want you want to learn in Arabic by all means but as long as you understand it don't read it if you don't understand anything or you understand three words and don't understand 90 because the key of the oral is to understand what you're reading the same thing with having a rabbi the key of having a rabbi is for you to go and ask the rabbi questions and have the patience to wait for the answers and when the answer comes that's it that's the final there's no debate I don't agree let me ask another Rabbi this is one of the things that creates a lot of frustration in people's lives when they get different answers from different rabbis they don't realize they did it to themselves who said you should go to multiple rabbis you ask one Rabbi if that's your Rabbi that's it finished oh but I don't have a rabbi so make a rabbi so one of the things the has helped us is to try to clear up our minds clear up our minds from all of the things that clouded whether it be the troubles that a person deals with the heretical thoughts the uh you know all the different things that go through a person's mind and one of the things that the ti also said is that you have to make sure that when you're praying you don't have those thoughts how could a person control their thoughts when they're praying thoughts come by themselves so one of the ways is to imagine the Shem the the name of hem and that will clear up your mind if that's too difficult for some people the says you should pray with every ounce of your strength putting all of your energy into your words this is the aspect of what it says in t all my bones will say oh God who is like you this is uh Psalm 35:10 and you should concentrate fully on the on the words that you're saying and force out all foreign thoughts from your mind because every type of confusing thought and all the doubts and questions a person has during the day enter his mind during prayer and therefore you must make a tremendous effort to overcome all of these confusing thoughts now this is critical for a person because sometimes they don't have a sadik they don't have a they don't have a direction and they have to pray for it or they have one but they don't realize it so if you have good prayer use that prayer not just to fulfill your obligation of praying a few times a day but also to pray to to give you someone that's going to give you guidance and in order to have a prayer like that you have to remove all of the all the nonsense you have in your mind anothera another uh idea of how to clear your mind when you pray and uh in 84 says when irrelevant and distracting thoughts enter your mind during prayer you should simply ignore them concentrate on your prayers and think carefully about the words that you're saying don't look back to see if the thoughts you have have left you for they will go away by themselves even if the same thought comes again and again simply remain firm and refuse to pay any attention to it just concentrate your mind on the words of the prayer that you're saying at at the time in the end the irrelevant thoughts will simply go away this is also one of the great values of having a Sido When you pray because you look at the words you could look you could stare at them you could stare at the name of hem that could help you clear your mind and when you find it hard to concentrate properly on your prayers because of irre relevant thoughts and distractions remind yourself that you would certainly be ready to die on K for even the Sinners of is have sacrificed themselves for this this sense of self-sacrifice will enable you to bind your thoughts to the words of the prayer and pray with total concentration even if you are completely unable to pray you should push yourself at least to pray simply like a child in school say a few words in total Simplicity and listen well to what you're saying so here has a couple of ideas in regards to prayer now why do we need to pray for theik says that there's a uh two mashi will come one is mashia Ben David we all wait for one one is mashia Ben yusf what's the uh what's theat m is going to come fight the initial Wars but the says that he may die why may he die because of our sins he may not have the uh strength to overcome everything some say that the mhid will resurrect them or bring him back to life some say he may not even have to die at all point being is that when a person has the Torah they can have endless ideas in their mind and all of those ideas can help them pray even better when a person is empty of toah all they going to have is in their mind they can have nonsense in their mind and therefore their prayers are going to be full of work business immorality whatever it is that's out there but when a person prays for the sadik prays to have a sadik they have to think of it as I need this why because this is my mhu this is what I need somebody to guide me in the right direction now one of the things that the tatan brought was to look at the he said look at the before unification with the uh with your spouse section uh um 16 also 17 if you have time we're not going to obviously going to go through the whole thing but I found something that in it's very applicable that gives us an ideaa of what makes a sadik better than us this is in section 16 of the in so he says when a person is about to be with uh his wife he has to think that this part of his body is like any other part of his body no different than his arm his leg whether they're hidden they're uh they're open it was created like every other thing because we know that hm created them no different than everything else because in and were created they were naked and they weren't embarrassed and our sages said May the memory be blessed that the heel of's foot was shinier than the sun it made the sun look like it was dim imagine how much more so his uh his face was so in essence firstly is telling us that part of the body that people are spending their whole life thinking about running after and so on it was created like everything else so how come people think of it so much how come people are constantly revolving their lives and their actions based on that who what what what caused to become embarrassed because of the that caused them to make the sin and uh that's what uh that's what they cause damage too that particular part of the body but before that before the sin of that part of the body was no different than an arm and a leg meaning there was no significance to it he says it would just like somebody fulfills a uh putting on on an arm on the left arm on the right arm nobody thinks of anything of it he says the same thing was when and were were making relations but because the caused them to sin everything changed and just like the regular arm leg everything else doesn't have a that part of the body didn't have a who cause that has to be covered now this was the section where there was a sin SN with the breit and that's what happened he says and the whole purpose of the in this world anyone that wants to be a sadik anyone that is a sadik anyone that you think is a sadik the whole point of all of them which is the reason why I brought you all of this is for them to fix for them to bring why because all of us are part of the of and therefore theim have the responsibility to fix that original that original mistake and once a person does whatever they can to fix their mistake and can get others to fix their mistake not only can he become aik but he can make others hence the reason why you'll see one common denominator in theik of in of in the of of is is a constant focus of teachings about morality of teachings about staying away from immorality of a constant teachings of bringing Holiness to the home when it comes to the issues of unification between the husband and the wife why because that is the T that is theun so one of the key ingredients we see is that a person has to not only do chuva for his ego and his ungratefulness and everything else and be able to identify sadik but they also have to be fit and appropriate when they're determining who and what is righteousness according to the Torah now the in gives a few tidbits of how a person can fix another Corner another piece another aspect of themselves in order to make themselves fit in order to make themselves have an easier and smoother path first off we said we have to get rid of arrogance one of the problems with with with arrogance with people that learn is that a person that learns t or has learned to unless they have a sadik telling them who what when and how they don't even know that they're arrogant they don't even know they're arrogant don't even know there's anything wrong with what they did they think that they're perfectly fine I learned this already so says let not conceit lead you to think that you are no more intelligent now than you always were or that it's impossible that you would ever change previously held views to come to judge them as erroneous for such thoughts are parts of the evil inclinations attempt to deceive you to keep you from exploring and searching for the truth of things it will instill in you the delusion that you are supremely wise and that you lack nothing of what you need to know as says in his own eyes a lazy man is wiser than seven who answer with Sound Advice this is Proverbs Chapter 26:16 if you see a wise man if you see a man who is wise in his own eyes know that there is more hope for a fool than him 26:12 and he said further the wise man is eyes are that is he reflects back on his beginning on his past experience in both religious and secular Affairs and he examines them critically Discerning the good and and the and the evil in his past Deeds then he continues to hold fast to the good and repents for the evil the fool however neglects all of this like one who walks in a great distance in the dark of night without looking back and if he does turn around he sees nothing instead he focuses entirely on what lies before him for this reason it said but the fool walks in darkness so here about a thousand years ago tells us the one thing that's going to hold you back from getting to the next stage of chv getting to thead getting to getting to this segment of the is G is is arrogance it's arrogance another thing is Tava what's Tava lust many times people they're willing to learn whatever they want to learn whatever you want to teach them but they're only going to do it so long as it does not cost them any money as long as it's not going to ruin or change their uh status quo in their life they want to get both this world than the next or they want to get TOA for free says the one of the wise men has said as water and fire cannot abide together in one vessel so love for this world and love for the next World cannot dwell together in the heart of the believer the wise have already said this world and the next are like two rival wives mulfy one and you antagonize another so when a person is looking looking and is getting guidance from aad getting guidance from a and that guidance sounds like expensive sounds like it's requiring too many changes sounds like it's going to take too much time if you're not willing to do it that means you're already not willing to make the sacrifice that I needed the next segment says as follows schl says don't be too wise and did not say don't be too foolish because for us there's a limit to wisdom Beyond which we cannot go meaning there's no limit to foolishness but when it comes to wisdom we're permitted and even obligated to pursue any kind of wisdom that draws us to God's service leads us to fulfillment of his Commandments and demonstrates his wisdom and power as it says behold the fear of God that is wisdom that's in job 28:28 so another aspect of the sadik that theat has emphasized and thees uh clarified is that sadik is supposed to lead you in the ways of the tah not in ways that are opposite of the toah so if a person says that they're a sadik or people say he's a sadik but he's not getting people to do chuva he's not getting people to get closer to Hashem in a real way that means he just a Shepherd that's leading the Sheep off a cliff because because the ultimate goal in this world is to do everything possible to the point of making every sacrifice possible to pursue the wisdom of a t and to follow its Commandments if something is causing you to violate the Commandments even if the end goal is to violate the Commandments in order to fulfill them at least theoretically that's what they say go do some drugs so you can become closer to Hashem like one of these stupid things that people are saying today there's no such truth in that and and you're not allowed to make a sin in order to make a mitvah so one of the red flags that you'll see about certain people is that they may look like they may act like but they don't lead like the sadik the sadik's purpose is to get you to do chuva regardless of where you stand the next aspect that sadik helps people with is suffering why because the vast majority of this life is suffering people suffer no matter where they are how much they have which family they came from everybody has their own levels of suffering says what we have to get to is a point where we can make an accounting with ourselves on how we heed the King's Command and fear his punishment when he disobeys his orders and yet oblivious to God's command and does not fear the punishment when he violates the Commandments meaning a person has to think about wait a minute how come I'm scared of the police I'm scared of the government I'm scared of all of these things but I'm not scared of AEM how come I hear about all the punishments that happen to people that are sinners but I don't apply it to my life as if it's not going to happen to me why is that a uh important because many times people come and say listen such and such is happening to me I have this happened to me why is that now really before you ask why is that of course Rabbi is there to help you guide you but really before you ask the question you should ask yourself have you perfected yourself are you sinless are you perfect have you done something that could have caused it meaning that the question shouldn't really be why is AEM doing this to me but rather what do I have to do in order to change the decree Jews don't ask why we ask what if you have a brain of Tor you think you ask what you don't ask why why because there's plenty of reasons why plenty of reasons of whyem has given a person financial problems health problems relationship problems this problem that problem plenty of reasons why look at your actions if you identify what tah is and compare it to your life you see that there's plenty of reasons of why hasem could have punished you and don't even have to rely on a previous Carnation rely on this week rely on last week and how you behaved so one of the jobs of the sadik is to get people to think realistically about where they stand because that will allow us to fix things in a realistic way rather than thinking about oh wait maybe I'm suffering because of my previous Carnation okay if you're let's just say you're suffering because of your previous what can you do about it you don't even know what what you did in your previous coration but do you know what you did last week do you know what you did two weeks ago two months ago two years ago fix fix that fix that that's part of the job of theik and ultimately the goal for all of us is to build endurance to suffering why do a person have to have endurance for suffering because of something extraordinary that most people don't realize many times you hear people are suffering and you know somebody tells them listen this is at least a uh something that will pardon you from the sins that you've had in the past because you're suffering now the truth is it's not true at least not completely why says endurance in suffering is a good cheer endurance in suffer of suffering in good cheer is a virtue but suffering born grudgingly brings the bearer nor reward nor affects no pardon in so many words he says if you suffer but with a smile thank you hasm I have pain I have struggles I love you hm I know that everything that you're giving me even though it hurts it's good for me that's the greatest thing you can do for yourself why because that actually makes it but if you complain to hem why did he do this to me why why why why is he doing why is he doing to me you a very serious problem why that suffering is worthless now to show you that this is not the only opinions I brought you another source of course the main of was KES Kim also mentioned by the that if you could learn the words of the do so arizo has endless stories of his Holiness how he helped Jews how he help CL and unfortunately we didn't have the Merit to have him live a very long life but he was during the generation of rfo of of many of the great we had in the last 500 years he actually married R's he was um his daughter's daughter married RF car's son so they were in-laws and R Car himself even though he was a had a extraordinary understanding had a mid he still learned cabala from theza and uh there was one time a uh one of these Arab shaks that uh decided they want to torment the Jewish people they passed a decree that they have to pay a enormous amount of money in taxes or else he's going to kick them all out of the uh place that they're uh they're staying or the city that they're in and take everything they have like uh they did in Spain like they did in uh many other places andila said even if we took all of our money it wouldn't be enough to pay this R there's no such we don't have that kind of money and they went from Kaa to Kaa from Community to community asking for help for people to pray and eventually they got toza they didn't know of his greatness yet they heard about him they didn't know of his greatness and as soon as they told him says Fine come I'll help you he told a couple of his students bring a uh a couple of ropes thick ropes okay the students complied they knew that the rabbi's asking for something you don't need to ask why and how and explanations he took the visitors and his students he went into some place in the uh woods they uh made a uh dug a hole in there and he said take the ropes put them down the uh hole and hold the other end on both sides so they dropped a uh ropes and uh two people were holding on two he goes okay now start pulling so you start pulling and lo and behold they they can't see anything it's deep but something is on the other side of the Rope when they dropped it there was nothing on the rope and they keep pulling and pulling and as they keep pulling it's heavier and heavier and before you know it this is publicized story Witnesses and everything are pulling and pulling and eventually they see the entire bed huge bed of the Sheikh and him sleeping in it darel wakes him up yells at him why are you putting a decree on my people the Jewish people you know that they can't pay the guy realizes this is I don't know nightmare has no idea what's happening he's scared to death he says sign over here do you cancel the decree immediately the guy signs it gives him back the document the Aral gives it to one of the uh visitors from that Community they put him back in a hole and he's gone the Sheikh wakes up and he's back home you real oh nightmare I'm so tired feel like I went far away where did I go he thinks the whole thing is a nightmare few days pass the deadline for the decree deadline for the decree comes he sends to the uh for the Jewish people say says if you guys don't come up with the money today that's it you all have to leave the visitors are back now in town already they go to the king say your highness this decree has been cancelled what because yes your highness himself signed the document and he gives him the document that he signed some you know a week or two earlier as soon as the king sees this or the Sheikh sees this the entire memory of the experience comes back to them and he starts literally shaking from Fear cancels the decree and actually from that day on was very nice to the Jewish people and always told them listen if you go to the if you go to the please please have him blessed me have him blessed me if he can do that to me while I'm in bed in my castle oh what he could do to me please have him blessed me this is the Reon now I know some people going to a hard time believing these stories how who what when how in so many words the extraordinary is beyond comprehension but you don't need to believe those extraordinary stories in order to see the wisdom in their words and therefore I bring you what r v said in the name of his rabbi the the arrogance is the root to many many sins whether it's between a person andem the omnipresent or a person and his fellow because the the arrogance is what a person to hate a person to say about them to cause them damage and if it's between him if he has arrogance and he's questioning how could arrogance cause me to sin against hem in book of Deuteronomy chapter 8 verse number 14 it's hem specifically says because you had an arrogant heart you forgot Hashem your God and our sages said in anyone that has arrogance is considered an abomination in the eyes of hem as it says in Mish in Proverbs chapter 16 verse five everyone that is a uh arrogant is considered a Abomination disgusting in the eyes of Hashem and furthermore it says and it's it's it's fit to uproot him like you uproot a aera tree which is idolatrous tree the this a uh he's never going to resurrect with the dead and the mocks him and a person that's arrogant is considered as if he is an idol worshipper and a heretical in the foundation of the Torah and also he's considered as if he's committed all of the immorality crimes combined and as if he built an idolatrous altar and even when ends this world he's not going to end that person's Gom I'm sorry even when uh when Hashem um even if he does certain things like a he's still going to go to Gom confuse two things in so many words arrogance saying it's disgusting is an understatement an Abomination is a Biblical word that there's not enough of a def definition for it to so one of the things that causes a person not to have D to in their life not to have a sadik not to have a rabbi not to have any real Direction in their life is because of Gava because of arrogance furthermore says this is in sh one of the things that a person has when they lack T is a constant attack of sadness confusion lack of purpose sadness this is because the is telling the person that it's not fulfilled okay so you have more money it's not fulfilling you have more food it's not fulfilling you have uh more material it's not fulfilling so what happens when a baby is not fulfilled baby is not fulfilled starts crying same thing with the is not fulfilled starts crying so the person starts feeling all this confusion and and and random thoughts that lead to sadness and the sadness causes even more problems as says this person that gets sad CA him not to do not want to serve and not to want to do the it also ruins his Torah learning and also it's in in prayer also ruins any positive thought of serving hem and this is the beginning of what does in order to get a person off the even if that person is aik why because because he's suffering and instead of taking the suffering like we said with happiness with acceptance with understanding that it's for your benefit a person is sad about it that means he's not benefiting from those sufferings he's not benefiting from those sufferings and I'm toilet and there's no there's no there's no purpose for these sufferings so that causes even further sadness says further person is suffering and they have complaints about hem how can you possibly have complaints about hem you are going to go to dust and there's going to be worms and maggots eating you and you think that you can get closer to the understanding of a and his Holiness it specifically says that the uh uh even if uh uh you do good what can you possibly give AEM so this sadness that you're having because of your suffering is actually causing you more suffering and therefore when a person suffers if they don't have aik if they don't have a if they don't have the suffering could literally continue on and on and on without having an end so another reason why a person needs that direction is because everybody suffers how far and how much is determined by whether you know the direction back home or not whether you know how to use that suffering or not whether you have that or not and further says the the the sadness really comes from the impurity of the that put it inside the as it says in that she'll that is only going to eat with uh burden or or or in sadness and you're only GNA have children with sorrow and because of this sadness a person loses the loses the connection to and we know that a person even if he has could lose that KES because of sadness showing that even if someone is a sadik they also need a sadik to guide them back before they lose too far and last but not least we bring the bov the bmov is commentary says that anyone that had 40 days without he's bringing the page 16 16b says anyone that uh has had 40 days without suffering it's as if he got his reward in this world because it's supposed to have some type of some type of suffering at least uh suffering where he goes in his pocket he grabs the wrong coin so say what kind of suffering is this got the wrong coin that's suffering how could that be suffering how could they be suffering sadik says b says no no you have to understand if he believes in Divine Providence then he's going to know that he got the wrong coin because he did something wrong whether big or small because there's no such thing as suffering without sin and because he grabbed the wrong coin and he realizes that he did something wrong he will now do CH and hasem will forgive him that's why it's called but if he grabbed the wrong coin and he doesn't think much of it then it's not and therefore he's going to continue getting suffering further and further than just that coin because the suffering is only valuable if you understand how to accept it if it leads to chuva so we see from here that told us that in this world we are here to work we here to serve a but that does not mean that just because you want to serve a it's going to be easy for you there it's going to be a smooth ride in fact the closer you get to a certain goal a certain level the more difficulty is going to be in your way because the yet does not want you to get there and also because the reward is much bigger and that is another reason of why says everything that we learn until this point where you see you can work on yourself you can watch your eyes you can watch your thoughts you can watch your language you can watch watch watch fix fix fix don't think you could do it on your own don't think for a second you could do it on your own if you try to do it on your own you already failed before you started and it's critical for every single person to review this at least once a day he says in your own language you understand it why because if you missed one aspect of understanding this teachings you can miss the whole thing because if that one aspect is how much you need or how much you need a sadik or how much you need to fix your mind how much you need to fix your eyes how much you need to fix your character traits whatever it is you missed one aspect of it you miss the whole thing hence the reason why is something very very praiseworthy and very elevated above and beyond the norm but also above and beyond the reward for those that succeed in it may it be as 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