Rabbi Yechiel Spero: Goodness Gracious

great pleasure to be able to share with you some divrei this evening and i want to begin by thanking of course the wonderful organization of kazakh and torah anytime that has really stepped up in a tremendous way over this period of corona especially disseminating torah to the masses at a remarkable remarkable rate additionally i'd like to thank the wonderful organization chickens for shabbos sounds plain enough huh but there's nothing plain about this organization they provide not only chickens but funding for people who are so lonely for people who are so broken for people who are desperately in need and sometimes live under the most suffocating of conditions and of course they also help such a wonderful group of people in cloud israel the milan the people that teach our children torah who unfortunately are not paid enough so that they can live a respectable lifestyle on their own and they need to come to chickens for shabbos which gives them above all else besides the food and besides the money they provide dignity and when you can provide people with dignity their money is the root system along them it gives them the extra oomph they need to be able to get over the hump when things are difficult and things are tough so i begin by thanking those wonderful organizations and they should continue to be matsuyak in being the kadashem in the manner in which they do i'd like to talk to you this evening about something that i think we all need a little more a little more strength especially as we are now over the hump of sukis there was a lot of anxiety going in perhaps not as much as pesach time but anxiety nonetheless and especially with governor cuomo and mayor de blasio and the government officials making it that much more difficult for us to be celeb to celebrate a time of joy and happiness and nevertheless claudius roll as we always do we're able to manage to not only survive but to thrive and to persevere in these very very challenging times and even though it does doesn't seem like zman when you're not allowed to dance with more than 10 people but it's unbelievable the simcha and the joy that a jew can find from within and to be able to spread it not only to the others around him but to the entire world and illuminate the world so now as we enter the months of darkness we enter the months of on kislev until we get to adar when we will have again there's still the unknown of corona the world is at a political boiling pot everything is bubbling over we don't know what tomorrow will bring the rallies or the uh violence and sometimes unsettling rallies that cause us to worry and the cries for social justice which unfortunately have not yet reached a level where the jewish people are also included in those cries unfortunately anti-semitism is rising so so much is going on how do we smile through it how do we remain positive through it how do we not only survive but thrive through it it's not considered it's a time of great difficulty it's time of darkness so what do we do so here's the following idea and i believe that if we are able to properly incorporate this mindset into our being will be able to emerge so much stronger there's an old hasida line if you think good if you think positive then things will be positive it's like a magical potion think good and things will become good well how does that work is there a special uh button a snap of the fingers that goes off in tremendo that somehow allows us to be able to become better because we think better how does it work and i believe we can find the truth and the secret to everything inside the first time that the word good appears in the torah hashem saw that the world was good he saw the light the r the light that illuminated the world it was good you know rip sudden says that the first time a letter appears in the torah that gives us a secret to understand what is the root of that letter well the word toy is comprised the first letter is comprised of a test and then a valve and a base but the letter tess is represented by the word toys so let's examine the letter tests and can others explain that if you i could draw it on a board you would see that there's a test here i don't know if i make sense when i do that but there you go and there's a little top to the test but over here this little hangover this little pointer almost from the letter test is almost urging us to point inside look a little deeper than the surface don't just make judgments about the way things are don't make snap judgments be able to look more than just surface level look deep into something follow that arm of the test which points inward and tells us look deeper and you will find it imagine a person walking on a sandy beach and you're walking with one of those metal detectors that's what people do and sometimes they're looking for coins or jewelry or precious stones and as they're walking along the beach it buzzes when they come over metal or coins or jewels and you look down and you see what do you mean there's just sand there move away the sand the origins of the royalty of the jewish people and indeed the arrival of the eventual mashiach comes from stone stein was the most decadent of all societies it was terribly immoral that's where you're gonna find goodness and holiness look at the tests dig deep and you will find it just like in stein from the daughters of light eventually comes david arrival amongst all the immorality and decadence so too we can find the light inside the tests inside the toy fairy like it's in the test the test you know the saddest day of the jewish calendar year is tish above tessa's gematria nine says rip subject inside that test inside that saddest day of the year is the birth of mashiach the time will come when tish above is no longer a sad day it will be a happy day and so the letter test teaches us the number nine teaches us dig deep look inside inside your situation look inside yourself and if you're able to do that you will discover jewels you'll discover light and joy and happiness it will be remarkable the ninth peric of safer to healing begins lam natseya discuss all different types of possibilities who or what labane is some people say that is which is a musical instrument la bain comes from the word la having to understand that the music will help us understand and bring out the joy there's others who say that la bain was a villain mentioned nowhere else in all of tanakh and when labain died composed a beautiful song there's others that hold that labane is the letters of naval naval carmeli one of the archenemies of and when he died dublin composed the song but there is another shot that rip shim shin pinka says and he says something remarkable had a child who was very very sick and he died on the death of his child he composed the song singing that's what you're singing about the answer is it's the ninth chapter of tehran cesar nine is the number of months tisha yar leida the number of months it takes for a child to be born nine months of pregnancy why did hashem choose nine months to be the number because nine is one less than ten we view ten to be perfect ten is the number of kedusha ten is the number required for a minion ten of us ten are that the ten utterances in which the world was created ten is a very very holy number ten brings down the shina what's nine ninths in perfect no says hashem nine will be the birth of a child because life itself is never perfect and even though life is imperfect we sing about the imperfections in life we sing even when things don't work out we sing even if we can't see the light we sing even if we only see sand beneath us because underneath it all is jewels underneath it all as pearls underneath it all is the greatest light of all so the nine the tisha teaches us because tisha is the letters to shua which means salvation the salvation comes even in the most imperfect of times and the most imperfect of situations we ask the question good if you think it will be good it will be good what's just like that snap of the fingers and the answer is if you think deeper about your life if you think deeper into the situation then even though on the surface it might be filled with anxiety and worry and perhaps sadness and tragedy nevertheless at the bottom you will find if you think about it as tracked if you think about the goodness you will find goodness don't take it away from yourself don't be short-sighted don't be someone who only sees the surface look beneath the surface and you will find the true goodness of light look inside the tests but i wanted to tell you an example or two an example to very very practically apply this teaching to daily living and it's a beautiful idea even when a person comes home and you walk into your house and you hear that there's noise and there's fighting coming from the house the kids are giving you a very hard time or maybe just the opposite you listen into your house and you don't have children you're waiting for the yeshua where you're a single individual and it's lonely and you'd love to hear some noise but the rewind shalom tells us think about it do you have a breath of life just today just today i went to leviah of a talmud a 19 year old boy boy so full of life and he left the house this morning and i don't know how he left ran out the house he ran out of the house he went to do some jobs some work and he was in a car accident and tonight his parents come back from a lavaya and the house is very quiet all that noise that he must have caused from the house how many times did they tell him stop it already be quiet tracked think real good think deeply would you rather a quiet house are those that have quiet houses do you at least have your health they have happiness you have friends you have do you have the privilege of being a jew that the reborn shalom is there for us we can call out to him think about it you know recently many many bachram were quarantined some even for success but perhaps most difficult so many people were quarantined for young kipper in kippur was vastly different than it's been in years past well what do we make of that i'm stuck at home what could possibly be good about that maybe locked in my room for him kipper listen to the following story there was one sayyid who decided that he wants to go to the helicobal shemptiv he wants to go to ubisoft because that is where he wants to spend the great and holy day of yemakipulu and so off he goes meshburge the town where the balshem lived is not all that far away from his house and he begins traveling horse and buggy he sets out to go to mesh bush he's on the way and then he gets a little bit confused he thought he was supposed to take the fork in the road and go right instead he took the fork and went left he was very very mixed up and he turns around and then he tries going the other way and it makes another room and as the sun is setting he realizes ivy he's not going to make it to mezhbush he's not going to go to be with the balchem not only that he's not gonna be anywhere he's gonna be stuck in a field all by himself a shrek terrible in a field for you what could be worse uh he gets out of the wagon the sun is setting he sits on the floor he can't even move outside his two thousand amis because of the trump shabbos and there he is stuck and he starts stopping and calling liddre with such tears it's such a tease because imaginable you're just so close you just got lost and he's stabbing and he's crying and he cries the whole night he falls asleep in the field he's thinking himself oh what a terrible place to be for him kipper empty and all alone what is he gonna do uh next morning he wakes up and again a day filled with sadness and crying and finally matsuyam kippur he finishes the most miserable young keeper of his life and he heads off the match which he makes it to the balchem in a short while and he gets there and he says to the motion so embarrassed i'm so broke and he's crying the mother shepherd says what's wrong he says i wanted to be with you rabbit i wanted to be with you on this the holiest of days and you know where i ended up i ended up in a phobe in a field the middle of nowhere just a few miles from here all alone locked out of everything that's why i'm crying and he looks at them and the balcheontiv is smiling from ear to ear and he looks at him and he says oh yeah hey look at sonic why are you smiling he says well why are you crying he says i'm crying because i was left out why would you be smiling and about to says then you don't understand the rabbina shalom needed someone because so many even are locked out so many jews find themselves on the outskirts so many jews find themselves either they choose not to go to the basement or circumstances don't allow them to go to shulanium kippur so they're all on the outside and the replenisher needed someone a general a general someone who would be able to carry all of those prayers all of the prayers of the broken people who find themselves on the outskirts and he needed someone to lift and raise those prayers so he chose you is that a reason to cry oh listen to the words of the welsh sometimes we find ourselves locked out we find ourselves having a miserable time but imagine for a moment if the rabbinichon said listen i need you to do me a favor so many jews find themselves on the down and out so many people find themselves that they can't they can't find the goodness inside of the tests and if only you would be able to help others find the goodness to help others track goods to be positive about their situations about life no matter how difficult it is if only you could set the example for others i'll be so grateful there's no question about it hashem has given us a little bit of a tricky situation here a big challenge something that's caused many people frustration worry anxiety financial loss illness and perhaps death how do we move forward how do we remain positive revenue tells you not just it's not a simple just think good it'll be good think long and hard think positive think about your situation how many good things you have going for you and if none of that works think about how the rabbination has given you a challenge to be positive can you do it of course you can and in that merit that we all work hard to be positive to dig deep to search for the light to find the pearls in the sand to be able to discover the greatest light of all in that merit barracuda will end the tsarist once and for all he will give us the strength and the resolve to be able to move forward to be able to accomplish great things not to get rattled by the noise but to be the tremendous the chosen people that he knows each and every one of us can be my birthday to you all is that the rabbinicial islam should give you the strength to do all of that and more to be able to track good and emits hashem as that zain good it will all be good call to bracha 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