Don't underestimate little things you do for G-d - Klausenberger Rebbe & Reb Nissan Rabbi C Dalfin

we're on page 68 in chapter 27 Peter called Zion and Tanya and we're learning that a little control a little self-control that we do here on Earth when we have urges impulses extrenuous thoughts and we push them aside although they'll come back again and again and again Hashem gets such pleasure from seeing us able to control ourselves even just one time and surely a second and third time that Hashem it triggers a a response that's Way Beyond the action the behavior and altered quoted this posic it's on page 68 about seven lines down towards the end of the page comes towards the end of the lineup that when a Russia when a wicked when someone Wicked or something wicked is one does sugar for it and converts and transforms the the the bad the love to to good that means my the raw becomes the rub becomes day which is means light and good Hashem says that's something being done for me and the end of that that section adds kind of fleetingly like a a few words that we don't pay attention to but they're very important when we subjugate the Citra here we create and cause the preciousness the dearness of God to be revealed on high is going to say that this is true not just for not just for for controlling inappropriate thoughts but also for permissible matter so here my share with John Peak we're going over not something that is forbidden or like an inappropriate thought no it's kosher food it's not Russian horror but you have this great to speak about it look inside now I want to let's look learn the words of the out the river unless you have it after the the period and not only is control important and significant when it comes to inappropriate thoughts even permissible matter completely cold Masha Odom the more a person Slaughters his Yates are his inclination even if it was just if it's just for a temporary moment yes I just want to say sister had been learning this chapter I've been feeling how many times I try to slaughter the answer it comes back even stronger Okay the reason is because it's it it's kind of new to you once you get into the mode of pushing aside and doing that it'll become more natural and you won't have that feeling so don't give up stick with the program okay that's the tendency by the way addresses your question later in a different chapter that the yatesahara sees that a person is trying hard to control there's themselves so he comes back with he comes back with a vengeance it's only a matter of time that it'll calm down because he sees you're talking to a world buddy I'm serious and think about it people who harass you people who have tiredness against you let's say you're the guy by and all that stuff if you just nicely smile and say I hear you he comes back the second day he well and it says my shot you didn't give me an Alia you low life what is with you hmm you're right let me think about it you do it two three four times you'll see that he will realize I'm wasting my time and maybe I'm wrong maybe he won't conclude that way but it'll stop Muji the same as the Yates of her when the yearns the heart of the Seas that we are steadfast in our resolution to reject him and his thoughts and everything else he goes to try to find another customer and he leaves us alone healing what you want to say I've seen I've seen that happen with moshes [Laughter] no but but you see what what I'm sharing with Maisha is that he should apply that to what he said before we've been learning this the eight Sahara comes harder and harder back to me the answer is five from one we're saying Yiddish yeah I don't want to say it in English because it's not that nice but go somewhere you know sorry chap you're talking to the wrong person and once and twice and three to four times he's gonna just keep with the program trust me tried it it worked okay let's continue so he says he'll now we're talking here about Italian not about forbidden matter permissible food for example says the longer you you check you Slaughter your yatesahara even if it's just a temporary for a temporary moment um and you do so with the intent of subjugating the negative side he gives us now concrete examples we're middle of the page about 10 12 lines downhill keep going a person has a real desire to eat he's hungry less than an hour and in that time for Asic potato places show he learns title during that time it's not that he plays cards which serves the internet we're talking about he's hungry he wants to eat and he has the strong desire and it's kosher food and he says you know what I'm gonna break that inclination that I must eat now and what am I gonna do instead something holy again learning Tata putting on film with you visiting someone no it's you're substituting your your strong Heifetz your strong desire to eat and you push it aside look further because Mara Dr never quotes the gemara short of you is the fourth hour of the day Michael colodim everyone eats so she sees the sixth hour of the day why if everyone's eating at 10 in the morning reading at 12 says when they would starve themselves they would hunger themselves stage shows excuse me two hours for this purpose to especially say to the yatesahara you want to eat now too bad I'm delayed you can't say hello that if they wouldn't if they wouldn't delay their eating for two hours they wouldn't learn later in the day they learned anyway the late the rest of the day they will tell me that was the job thank you so if they're learning anyway the rest of the day what's the big deal if they ate two hours earlier when everyone else ate the answer is because they didn't want to give it to the Yates Sarah you want to eat that can now no this is a very important theme in Chabad philosophy in Boston philosophy but in the the rebel really this whole idea not to give in to the way of the world the world says that different people it's my brainians you know they wore a hat that matched and socks the colors of the socks match the hat and they're gonna poke fun at it you know you know like you want to wear a nice pair of socks fine you want to wear a nice Sapphire why must it match why because the world says if it doesn't match you're not a mensch that you have to break now that you should wear ugly socks or ugly hat and not be dressed nicely no but why does it have to match that's a that's like a Yates Sahara that's a clipper so this is the same concept why must you eat when everyone else eats tell me why because everyone goes now the rebel would sometimes the earlier you speak about he must have his glass of orange juice in the morning if he doesn't have his glass of orange juice he's Iceman she can't function during the day if you don't have your glass of oranges it's this this idea that you know the goshmias as kosher as it is it comes a way of life it comes a way of life I must have it this way who says you say is that God saying it no let's continue now he says a person closes his mouth from speaking things that his heart desires to speak about worldly matters he's giving an example now from so my says the eating now he's talking about Deborah you're not we're not talking here about Maisha forbidden speech right you know there are times when I got I have to share this with my wife I have to share this with my friend if it's coming from that perspective where you have to and you kind of don't let it control you you don't have to you want to but it's coach it's it's not Russian Hera I know it's not Russian horror but if you feel you must in other words instead of that time you could be learning and diving and doing Mitzvahs and all that and you feel no no I'm pushing all that aside because I must speak now I'm not talking about it I'm not talking about you know you feel you have to speak now to enhance show and buyers I'm not talking about that's a mitzvah talking about just this idea that we're we're guided and controlled by something out that's outside of kadusha says you have to uh subjugate the feeling that I have to speak now let's continue now he says is this is excuse me because this is going to fall in the category category of of his scaffia yes yes it's going to say in a minute yes absolutely this is escafia in here thoughts not bad thoughts you know whatever it is I must think about it now why must you think about it now your middle of learning your middle of Avenue push it off to later but it's not a bad thought it's not a you know a disgusting thought hey not now later says I look at the words now you have to look I feel a bit even if you just do a little bit disgusting you see Moshe says the word escoffier openly highlighted underline it this coffee even if you just do my art a little of a scaffia lasata you you do that here on Earth cause histology God's preciousness to be revealed and look what he says do a little here and you cause a lot over there baby hello he has the words Harvey so you have to contrast the word ma'at we do live a little and that causes God to do a lot even if you juice just do a one-time rejection of all these three things and you think to yourself just like mice you just said earlier he was being honest why is it important to do that if Tomorrow Comes again just answers moisha's question he says you do a little and God says that's worth so much by me and it's so much greater than what you did and don't play God let him do his job so therefore each little amount you do in escafia is a gigantic issue for Hashem and in your favor so that it continues um and from this Holiness that you cause in heaven by Hashem it stands drawn down to Adam lamata to mandalo with sayoi see you arrive for us to help you in a tremendous and most powerful way lavagasi is built to serve God so people ask and Russian is coming what can I do to get God's assistance and not and God's assistance in a way that's you know that's heavy that's big powerful the answer is just do a little even just a little Hashem doesn't one of us to do everything at one time because we won't be able to do it you know the Gomorrah says to Foster marupa later faster I would think you know doing all at once you grab the lot lighter faster you didn't get it don't go don't go for broke and I think he will in your work of therapy you know with the addictions you probably use this as part of you know do one thing at a time don't don't think about what will be tomorrow the overall greater picture you know am I Really Gonna Make A Change no don't that that is a that is in in a negative to you because that's that's a fatalistic thinking you know you're not God and here we say here Dr Debbie says clearly that when Hashem sees that a yeet is exerting effort or be all all be albeit in a in a small minute way Hashem blesses him and gives him tremendous kayak where something greater than his ability comes to him and helps him to become healthier and better that's that's what it says right here Antonia message a teaching of the result to support his thought man sanctifies himself a little below Milo he is horrified Sanctified from above in the most great way in addition to fulfilling the positive commandment his Kardashian you shall sanctify yourself this is known as the avoda of escafia that you asked about Maisha when a person sanctifies himself even in matters that are permissible you you Jews should make yourself holy Khloe Madison says although really you aren't separate from situation come on like you said earlier we know who we are talk before we go on to page foreign right because still potent and Powerful like the day it was born within us because nevertheless the person conquers his inclination when Mikado shot somebody and he holifies himself he sanctifies himself so when Hashem sees that we do the avodha of his Kardashian you shall sanctify Yourself by practicing your scoffia then the next part of the positive says you shall be holy in other words in the first in the first stage it's like a play a pretend I'm gonna try I'm gonna do but that's not really who I am Hashem I know you just work at it and if I see that you work at it guess what the result every end result will be you will truly become holy look what he says further but he's in quotation the end will be that you will truly be holy and kind of separate from the city because Hashem will bless you and give you and help you in an abundant way from above and Hashem will actually help you chase away Malibu from your heart a little at a time to eat so hard so Dr Debbie here gives us a a a very very important recipe for accomplishing removal of issues that haunt us as Maisha said those things the answer right now terebus says that Hashem and the tailor hakadosha says and you it's an instruction to us we shall make ourselves holy sanctifying ourselves and we will become holy so he explains that by us practicing even though it's a little at a time a little control here a little control there although as what you said earlier it comes back the next day the next hour don't pay attention because every time you do that you score big points and again it's not a battle I want to make it it's not about I'm looking to score points you know oh I know God has a big piece of Leviathan waiting for me when the Shia comes because I practice a scoffia that's a very foolish and childish way of looking at it we're talking about practically the more you control your behavior and the more you hold yourself back you you you you give Hashem the opportunity to bless you with real power to overcome you know he will correct me but you know I think one of the things that in the A8 in the 12-step program is you know surrender to God at the you know the ultimate with the higher power they don't maybe say God higher power when a person said that's talking about surrender here we're talking about escoffier is not he will surrendering in a sense of you know I'm nothing that's not a scoffia escoffier means I'm a something and I have an urge but I'm going to control myself so I'm very much of something but this something is going to display control so it's a very I think it's a very different orientation than Ultimate Surrender okay whatever I'm not that's not my field so but I want to just [Music] 12-step program the first step is came to believe that a power greater than us could restore us to sanity which uh which one of the things I hear in that is yeah I have to I have to come to this belief and I have to have a belief in the power greater than me okay fine and another very essential principle from the 12-step programs is the the idea that you referred to earlier of one day at a time that recovery is one day at a time thank you that uh and I think you said very well how how when we start thinking of ourselves when we take on too much we often set ourselves up to fail yes yes and and you know these things apply to us really to us I mean here we are you know we're we're in the ballpark right but it applies to us because we can you can become very despondents much I don't know if you realize what you said before I think you do realize but it's so real it's so real for the biggest town and for the person who was from all his life and went to the best yeshivas the Yates O'Hara doesn't discern between you know the balchuva the ffb and this and that the social that's not true it's not true it's a anyone tells you that they're living in a in a fantasy and they're misguided okay and and you've seen it in the community and you've seen it and you will see it unfortunately you know in various ways and I'm not even talking about those that we mentioned the other day who are sick but even people who are not sick are plagued yes just plagued that yes oneself the yes wants pleasure here understands that what I see in the Tanya is down to that but doesn't squash the pleasure he's working with the pleasure to make it holy pleasure do I have do I have to give examples I mean Mississippi what that you speak right right right right right right right so you know I'll give you an example right we talk about Guyver yes Eagle the commodity says of of gaiva it's right it's wrong what does that mean explains explain the Muslims foreign if you're a doormat that doesn't mean you're a I'm sorry a dormant does not equal being you know on the right page it means you've turned yourself into a doormat with a low self-esteem and you let everyone step on your head at the same time to be sure I know the best and I know the answer and it's my way the highway that's that's yes there needs to be a balance so so so the balotanya you know understands the psychology of of humanity of of of regular yeast that's why he's talking to abandoning the regular fellow the regular husband wife man woman child boy girl makes no difference and in a way even a boy is applicable to anyone to any human and what he says today what we learned today is don't underestimate the little things that you do Every Act of escafia as Hill said every every time even if tomorrow you fail in that area you don't do it again but you did it yesterday that's a tremendous thing you know yes Yoni you want to say something I remember we learned this maybe two three years ago about this uh Indiana yeah what I remember when we learned when you taught us about putting the plate and pushing it to the Sun yes [Music] is that a very good example yes yes yes in other words the supper your wife gives you supper or you're sitting in a restaurant and you're going to eat and you push it away for one two three more minutes even though you want it because and you want to eat it now you're hungry now that's it naturally if you're able to choose a drinking water instead of delicious soda that's a another high level of escoffier everyone has to you know that's that's already the details in everyone's life but yes that that what you said by the way I mean I don't know you came into the lake but we learned that in Tanya today in the name of gazelle that's that they they they kind of starve themselves the wording the gomorras mariven from the word hungry they they made themselves more hungry for two hours everyone ate at the tenth hour a day let's say 10 o'clock and they didn't equal 12. and they learned instead even though they learned the rest of the day and they would have been learning anyway but they they said oh you want right now no and and and you know see when when you take this and you think of it like a lot some people have a big issue with this I'm talking about fruit people and don't like why if God if Hashem made something kosher and mutter we have enough speakers that we're not allowed to do why put upon yourself more restrictions I'm sure you've heard that or even asked yourself that right so the answer is if you look at it black and white you know that way it's a good question and and a lot of people are not going to do that but if you understand that there's a relationship issue here in other words my pushing the side here you need the food the plate as you said is to show who's the boss God or I that's that's what's going on here so it's not about you know I want to pain myself I want to make more humorous see that that type of thinking you're right I don't want people get disgusted enough I'm sick and tired of more cumbers one day it's the water has bugs the next day the marshmallows have bugs the third day it's watermelon the fourth dates Tomatoes like come on you know and who's benefiting the conscious agencies and then you start you say oh it's all a bunch of baloney right but if you understand that it's about a relationship and indeed if a child is raised you want to look into it for yourself and you want to and you want to see what does Hashem say about it and and you want to ask yourself am I am I Godly or am I just a person a human being you know tomorrow is the day yes was founded in 1897 so I made a clip now you'll see I'll send it out but I was asking myself this morning as I was diving what is special about the lebavati Yeshiva you know I studied in the Chabad Yeshiva all my life from first grade till I get married well Hashem right and ask yourself I still ask myself what if I went to a literacy Yeshiva whatever I went to another what if I went to his father Yeshiva why must I what what what can I share with the world what is the benefit of sending your child or grandchildren to all about Yeshiva and what hit me this morning is that it's about the relationship with God and all yeshivas they learn and they dive in and they do has it it's true has one thing that others don't they don't emphasize okay which is their relationship with God [Music] it's not about you know I don't want to say but you know I'm in the community here what do I hear money money and money you know and and and and listen we need money we need big money tuitions institutions I'm I'm not but at the same time what I want to see from a child and a student is they should talk about God Hashem elikus how do I make the world more Godly how do I make my family in other words you know what what they called in the 60s the spirituality you know seeking something higher and and more than just you know pleasure and more than just you know uh you know the way of the world and that's why those The Counter Culture Revolution we're not happy with the way it was in the 40s and 50s and and you know and everyone had to have a wall to wall carpet and had to have a Hollywood kitchen the rabbit would make fun of these things and you know and have to have a television to watch Lucy Ball and the fans you know and all that stuff you know no no no no no no no maybe I'll watch those things but what what I'm really interested in is Hashem the the Divine and that we got in the laboratory Shiva through the system of the learning especially davening where there's a big emphasis on davening avoida satrilla that you got in the Chabad Yeshiva and that's why you sent your children talk about Yeshiva yes they might know more Gamora in a literacy Yeshiva I will agree I will say that's possible but they won't have more Divinity if they're on track not that the learning Gamora is not Divine it's cavali kids the question is you know the the selfish yesh in Chabad is is is a is is is is is is is is is decimated in a way where God's felt and that that's that's a unique thing so then when you go to make money and you go to do your therapy and you go to work and you go to help and all that it's not about yourself and you don't say oh him I'm gonna help her I'm not gonna help or he's my cousin and she's my this I mean I can tell you who were in charge of yeshivas and their own brethren they looked at the same or less than others and they and and I know from family they were asked why he says you come from such a family they don't they who we need to educate and share and Inspire now imagine you're the owner of Yeshiva you put your Blood Sweat and Tears into it you're the boss and you and you and you're basically siding with others over your own family no and you know the answer is the answer is Hashem and one last story in a conclude the claisenberg who was at Sadiq and if you watch some of the videos it's it's beyond words what this Drew did after he lost his wife and 11 children in the Holocaust it's it's there aren't words to describe here's some super selfish and the camps he talks about it nevertheless when they were in the DP camp in in Franklin and the parking over there in the German cities and areas there was a laboratory group of see them and their marriage didn't have what to eat literally it was it was starvation had access to to funds any raised funds and and he had a Yeshiva called shadesha Plato so the hasidim came to the leader of the Chabad community of Nissan nemanov who founded who was they became the mashpia in Brunswick it's a very it was a big Ovid very Daven Towers couple of soils scaffia I mean so they came to him and he said would you be willing to go to the kleisenberg and ask him to give you some money for the Yeshiva so we should have what to eat he said sure he went crazy Margaret ever said to him I want to help you and I will help you with everything I just have one request do you mind adding to the name of your Yeshiva Tom great meme also the name Shea recipe which was his his organization well I'm sorry not sure it's a Plato I think shepherchain because he was a grandson great grandson of sons right that's the name of many of the closenberg institutions I think in Netanya and you know that Nissan right said I can't do that I would like to do it but I was instructed by the previous River to be in charge of time in Samarkand and it's his Yeshiva called time I do not have the right hair name to it and he didn't get the money and take the money I heard this from the Nissan nemanos nephew this is not a made-up story this is a real story and trust me the babbages were very angry at him and he didn't care he says I have a mandate to lead time Creek otherwise here are the keys do whatever you want but since the Frida kareva didn't tell me to give him back the keys and he instructed me I have a mandate now this is an extreme story and you know I'm not but uh I want you to think about the nakuda is who do we answer to starvation and food or God you know for me to say it it's easy I'm not starving but when you're starving and you're facing you don't have what to eat it's real but nevertheless think about it and there is a virtue to an individual who's so steadfast in his mandate and and where did he get this Shiva treatment and that will Express itself it's like a soldier in the Israeli Army who knows he has parents and he knows he has family and he knows as community and what does he say he doesn't make me say it because it's so difficult to hear I'm defending the country even if I die even if they kill me I'm gonna go defend this country that is the same concept as of missing them enough not taking money to to add a name to the name that's the way I see it maybe you guys see it differently but I see that you know kind of on one hand extremism radicalism but it's coming from kadusha and for reminiscent it was the previous rabbit his rep is Sadiq who gave him a mandate in the same way if a young man or a girl goes into the army and is doing it for Hashem to defend the country it's holy I'm not talking about you know whether you're a zionistic whatever of cooker talking about just the idea if it is you know where you come to the conclusion I want to defend the yiddisha people that's a very very genuine feeling and that comes you know time embedded that embeds that in their students in various ways so we should all think about it tomorrow is the day Shabbos it's like the shallow and of course Monday it's high yellow and uh we will be in touch with Davis's help we'll hear pursue this tablets to everyone if I'm at a computer and I can teach fine I have to go out of town so it might be Tuesday okay let me see what happens I'll know I'll send you a message on Monday Shalom bye