Rabbi Yosef Palacci - The Journey to Success

What is the peak of success? Now I'm going to tell you. Ready for the answer? If you do this, you will be successful your entire life forever. Listen to what I'm telling you. One puk ready for that puk says from David vani elohim Davidid says you know what's good mind you Davided had everything he had everything whatever you could imagine times it by a million Davidid was the king he had when he was on his prime kingdom. He What didn't he have? HE HAD HE WAS A KING. He was A KING. HE HAD EVERYTHING. Think about it, Davidid. Everything. Fame, uh, wealth, anything you can imagine. He had, he had it all. What does he say? What's good? What does he say? What's good? You know what the answer he says is good? He says getting close to Hashem. You hear that? Think about it for a second. If I WERE TO TELL DAVID, IMAGINE YOU ON TOP OF THE WORLD. TELL ME WHAT'S GOOD. What's good? He says, David says, you know what's good? Getting close to God. GETTING CLOSE TO HASHEM. THAT'S GOOD. I'll tell you for me getting close to God is the best thing. That's what is teaching us. He had everything. And what did he say? What's really good? Having a relationship with Hashem. That's good. That's good. That is good. That's awesome. You know there was a very famous story how back in uh the war they took in this World War II they took a father from the family one of the families and it was just the mother and the son and it came purim and when it was purim the son tells his mom ma I want to give he says who are you giving me to there's no there's no Jews over I don't know. He said, "And what do we have?" You have to have two things. So, ma, I have a cookie. And what's about the second thing? What should I do? Says, "Take the cup. Cry. Cry to Hashem that you want your father back. Cry." Keeps on crying. Hashem, please. I want my father back. I want the cup. fills fills up enough. So he says, "Ma, look. I have a cup of water and I have a cookie." Now I have two things. I can give Look how close I got to Hashem. My tears I said, "Hashem, I prayed so hard. All of a sudden, they get a knock on the door. They came in. Who walks in? They brought back their father to their father." Wild thing. Why? When you're close to Hashem, you literally have everything. You have not a worry in the world. You know what? I have Hashem with me. You know, you know that. You know, you know, you know, you know what I'm talking about. But you really there's saying BH you know the BH BH say how you doing BH? What's BH? Great. Do you really believe it? Do you really really believe it? I have BH. You have to really feel. You have to really feel it inside. How much amuna do you have? Do you really have or not? You know, do you really have there's levels of by the way you should just know that there's and there's Do you really have God? Do you really really have it? Do you I want to read you a what it says in what does it say in you know what a human being is? A man is you know what a man is? It says a man is a a person, a husband, a father is a person that's a tree on water by water. And it says over here, he's a he's a father and he's a husband that will never worry no matter what situation he's in. He's saying is tough. He's never worried. What is he going to do? He's never worried. How is that? Like it says, what does that mean? Is really saying that what if you have that in your life? If you have that, you are the most successful. What do you mean? How could it be? Because you know you can't make a move. You need fully from Hashem in order for you to be successful. That's what you need. You want to know what success? What's my journey through success? Getting close to Hashem. That is the most successful thing that you could do. When you walk into your office in the morning, what are you supposed to do? You're supposed to kiss the Muz Hashem, how we make a lot of money today. Kiss him as I walk in. Whenever you come, you go out, you kiss the Muz back. Thank you, Hashem. I I'm I'm with you. This is what I worked hard. I did my part. This is what is great. That's it. You're coming to the to learn. Hashem, please let me understand the gam today. I know. Sometimes it's tough, sometimes difficult. Let me understand. You walk in, you walk out. You tried your best. You walk in. Thank you, Hashem. I had the best learning. Thank you very much. You're looking up for a parking spot. You talked to Hashem. Hashem, please help me find the parking spot. You found the parking spot. Thank you, Hashem. You didn't find the parking spot. Thank you, Hashem, too. The He says, he says, "How do you work on your walk into a shoe store?" Say, "Hashem, please help me find the right shoes." You think you're I'm going to walk into this shoe store. The best service they have. They don't know nothing. They don't know. They know zero. That's all I can He has exact shoe for you. You know how many times I I bought OH, I'M GOING TO BUY AN EXPENSIVE. YOU PUT THE SHOE ON, it's so hard on the feet. It worse than the regular one. The the $150 bottle. The guy buys it. What? Hashem knows exactly your comfort. A suit. You buy your suit. You think you have the best suit. Hashem has your suit exactly designated. You know how I know that? You say every single morning, what do you say? Hashem clothes you knew what you're going to buy. You know exactly what you have in store. That's your That's for you. That's for you. I'll tell you a story about my daughter. My daughter was in the store once. She was trying on on on a dress. Young young young girl. Eight-year-old kid. Eight-year-old kid. She ma. You like it? Yeah. Beautiful. Gorgeous dress. There was another eight-year-old kid in the store. There was my wife tell me the story. What does she do? My my the other her her her her age says, "Ma," tells her mother, "Ma, I like what she's wearing." My daughter, she goes, she says, "Here you go. Take the dress." Says, "No, I'll get another one." The lady said, the lady, the owner of the store says, "We don't have anymore." So, no problem. My little daughter gave this girl her dress. He says, "This is the dress I wanted to buy. You buy. No problem." What happens? After she sold and everything like that, the lady calls, "By the way, I made a mistake. We have one more dress. Same size. If it's yours, it's yours. That's it. Nobody could touch it." Who has your name on it? Nobody could touch it. Nobody could touch it. You know, you know, you know, you know, you know how great feeling that is? People in business, they're trying to buy a real estate deal. They're trying to buy a property, trying to buy a house. Say, "Oh my goodness, it's just for sale. I'm scared. I want to get it. I want to this. I want that." You try. If it's meant for you, you do your part. I'm not saying don't do your part. You do your part. You do your utmost. You try to get as much as you can. But whatever happens at the end of the day, if it was meant to you, it's going to come back to you guaranteed. Let me tell you a story about one of my relatives, about housing, real estate. I have a relative that's in in big real estate and what happened was he put on a bid. I'll tell you the exact price. It was a small house in Brooklyn, 11230 zip, right? We're talking about 10 years ago, right? What happens? He puts in a bid for a right price, whatever the the house was, and he tells the real this is he's telling me the story. Tells the realtor this is the right price for the house. So the realtor says looks at him says you will never get this house at that price. Like she had like a how do you say >> ego you'll never get the and my brother tells me in my mind you know what I was thinking you're not in charge. I GAVE YOU THE RIGHT PRICE. YOU'RE NOT IN CHARGE. THIS IS THE PRICE THAT it is the right price. I'm not lowballing you. I'm not putting it down. I'm not I'm not I'm not putting the the the the house down. This is the right price. You want an extra 50,000, take 20,000. That's it. You'll never get it for the price. In his mind, he says in his mind, he told me, he said, "I'm walking out there. It's not yours. It's not yours to decide. It's like you're just anyway walks out." P.S. The lady calls him back right after. He says, "I'm going to tell you why you're not going to get it." Said, "Why?" He said, "Because we already have $50,000 more than what you're offering." Said, "Okay, take it. I gave you my price. This is my price. Take it. I gave you more than what you I gave you more than really what the value is, and I'm not going more than that." Okay? That's why I said, "You never going to get it. I have more." My relative tells me in his mind, he's saying, "You're not in charge. You're not in charge." Okay? It's a true story. What happens? 8 months later, he gets a text message from the realtor. The realtor says, "Okay, you can have it." Why? Cuz what happened? Says the other buyer couldn't get a mortgage and therefore he couldn't close. And you're the next one in line and the owner is willing to take your price. Would you like to buy it? He got it. He bought the property and why his mind is if I'm with God. I'm not scared of nothing. What are you scared of? It's not him. It's like finished. But you know what? It's easy to talk. Yeah, great. It's all Hashem. It's not this. But do you really believe inside? You go to the doctor. The doctor says, "Oh, you know, uh, you take this medicine, you take that medicine. Now you take this medicine. Fine. Do you know the says you have to say a a prayer? You know what the prayer? This medicine is not going to heal me. It's you that's going to heal me. You know it's a and then you take it. And after you take it, you say, you know what that is? Imagine you have a headache. You have a Tylenol. And you take a Tylenol. You have a headache. Yeah. Not feeling well. I'm migraine. What happens? I'm feeling good. You take a Tylenol. Little bit later, you're feeling great. You say, "Wow, this title work extra strength. Tylenol, great. Unbelievable. You just killed it. You killed it. You know why? Cuz Hashem is trying to test you. I'm healing you. Are you going to blame it on the Tylenol? guy. The guy becomes successful in life. How do he become successful? He has cousins and he has uncles. They give him a product to sell this that he said. Okay. Of course, he has to his uncles and his cousins. But don't don't mess up the facts. The facts are gave you that success. You hear that? You have this lady set me up. Shid. Wow. Yeah, of course. Of course. Be grateful. Of course. Always always uh uh be thankful. That's for sure. Cuz Hashem chose them to be. But you have to know where it came from. Came from. You understand that? You understand that? And that and thatai that is the level that is the journey through success. You want to know what's the real journey through success? You want to know what's really really all about the real journey to be success is how close are you to Hashem that I can tell you if you're successful or not everything else great how close are you connected to Hashem Kasamski one time came to his class he says you know how close I am with Hashem you see my fingers my two fingers you see my two fingers I'm closer to Hashem than my two fingers are to my two fingers that's what he in class. You see, you see my two fingers, I'm closer to Hashem than my two fingers are together. I'm close to Hashem like that. Why? Cuz all day they're talking to Hashem all day. They're talking to Hashem all day. That's what it is. They're thanking Hashem all day. Thank you, Hashem, that I'm healthy. Thank you, Hashem, that I can see. Thank smell. Thank you taste. Don't take it for granted. By the way, you know, somebody in the sh took it for granted like he's smelling the bim, you know, for Saturday night when say Shabbat we have the bim when we have them all of a sudden after co he said you know you know a lot of people they lost their their sense of smell you know after the co >> you know what I'm talking about right they lost their sense of smell they can't smell I tell him smell he's going like this I said what's going on you too much I can't smell nothing I can't smell after co after co said did you thank Hashem all these years that he could smell Oh, no joke. You know how important it is to smell? You say, "Oh, big deal." So, you don't smell. You know how important it is to smell? Imagine drinking a a cup of milk, coffee. You could smell before. Why is your nose right above your mouth? Cuz if it's right, you could smell it. You have to drink it, right? Right. Smell you drink smell. Oh, can't drink it. Right? Yes or no? It's Yes. You have do that. You have a brain. We pray every day. What's thee that you give me? And you know person might take that for granted. What? What's that? What's a brain? You know I'm tell you something. I'm finish with this story. I have more to say but we're going to think the time is getting late. Right, Robbie? Right here. You want to hear something? I'll tell you something. Fantastic. We'll conclude with this. I was at someone's house. True story. Doing the I'm invited as a guest. I'm invite as a guest. There was a there was a boy, his son says, 100% healthy. What's going on? And now he's embarrassed cuz I'm looking at it. Looking like I wasn't looking, but I'm like looking waiting to die. Dude, let's go. Let's go. Finally, they had to lift him up. They put him in the diamond and they wash his hand. We had the meal, finish the meal, briata maz, we leave. He tells me, "Rabbi, I don't know what's for my son. Um, we'll be in touch. Uh, mo Shabbat Sunday. We'll be in touch." Sunday calls me up. He took him to the doctor. What happened? He knew he had to go to but he didn't walk. Why didn't he walk? Because in a person's brain there's neurons and the neuron, he knows that he has to walk, but the neuron has to connect with the other neuron in order to go walk. So now it didn't connect. He has to take medicine in order to connect the neurons to go to connect them in order to do what something like. Now you say to yourself, now you say what? Now you say to yourself, you have that, you have a brain. Get close to Hashem. Thank Hashem. Wow, I have a brain. You're married. You're married. Some people like, "Rabbi, don't go there. We're going to go there. You're married. Don't take it for granted. You're alive. You're healthy. Don't take that for granted either. Thank Hashem. Continue to thank Hashem." Because when you do that, what happens? You're getting closer to Hashem. And that is the success. The success is how do I view you? You know how I view you? How successful you are? How close are you to Hashem? That is success. You want to know success? How close are you to Hashem? The closer you are, the more successful you are. Thank you very much.