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Simcha #14 - Never Giving Up - Don't Brag w your Talents - You aren't G-d's gift to Humanity
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so we're learning the mimer if there's
hashem simcha
since velvet wasn't here yesterday and
avi wasn't here i'd like to re repeat
just in the kuda
and it's a very important dakota because
a point
we're on page 125 but
we're going to get to the text please
god
later first i want to share just the
general idea
the mimer
here
has been about simcha and tainook
attaining joy happiness
and attaining pleasure for hakodesh
borohu
in many different ways that was the
discussion at length
towards the end of the last chapter that
ever said something
new
he introduced the concept of another
another meaning humility
an enough
and there ever said
that
the vessel the kali
for having
simcha
is another
so this is now the question what is the
role of another what is the role of
humility
in simcha
and to this he quotes a possible
and the modest ones
increase their connection with god
through simcha
and at the beginning of this chapter on
the first
chapter the first part of the chapter
he asked the question
wait a second
when you're in a mode of another when
you're in a mode of humility and modesty
you're
to yourself you're insular your inside
and when you are in a mode of um
you're
outward
you're you're expanding right
so
how did the two go together
how can you
be
in a mode of expansion
and simultaneously
be in a mode of
in yiddish we say [ __ ] fetch kite
you won't find such a word in english
never ever i'm probably in russian
either not
far fetched kite
we say it is a fetchterman chavron
he is what does fetch mean
he is a me a person that's
yani how would you say [ __ ] fetched in
in english
uh
so i guess someone that's uh
uptight uptight
like you know it like he's in himself
in hebrew the word is kibbutz
what does kibbutz mean abby
shriveled up shriveled
contracted contracted yeah but
for fetch i i don't like that as a
translation for questions but it's like
complaining
a fetch
but
yeah but
that that's not that's not that's that's
not a literal meaning of the word
clutch means to squeeze
cretch firefight means he's squeezed up
he's like him into himself you know
so
when you're in that mode
how could
and another
a modest person is like crack fetched
he's quiet he's humble
and at the very same time
by asufu hashem by november
puts together
another and seemingly it's two
separate expressions of soul
psychologically
and otherwise
and that ever said started explaining to
us so far
that that's true if your version and
understanding of another is
self-deprecation
in hebrew
lessening of self
shiflus atsume lowering of self
in english we call that self deprecation
putting yourself down
so then that says if that's your
understanding of another
you're 100 right you cannot be in that
mode and be simple they don't go
together but
since that's not the real on this
meaning of another
but rather what is the real meaning of
another
it is
head there herrgish
atmo
awareness of self
is removed is not there
herges awareness of self
awareness of self not in the sense of
not having a healthy self-esteem
who am i
that i should feel special
because
i was blessed with a
a talent
a gift of mind a heart
hands or feet
and the rabbit
gave the example going on to page 125
of
someone who won't a jew will not brag
and say
you know why i'm special because i
believe in god
you know why i'm special
because i have mercedes nephesh potato
and mitzvahs
what
that's a given
otherwise in a way you're not a jew
you wouldn't be created as a jew
and i share with you
a personal story from
from the altar rabbit
the rebel repeated the following story
in 1983 purim during the fabregan and
you can
uh see it
online you can actually see it and hear
the fabregan
purim 1983
i think it's called listen to me is the
caption of the of
that
selection on gem
the rebber said
once the altar ebba looked through out
his window and he saw hasidim
throngs of hasidim were coming
throughs of sedum were coming to the
altar ebba's house
because they wanted to hear torah from
him
and he turned to his rabbits and sterner
and he said what do they want from me in
other words
who am i that
they want to hear tyler from
so she saw that she has to save the day
here so she turned to the outlet but she
said they're not coming to you
they're coming to hear what you
know
and heard from your teachers
and after the alternative said this
after she said this to the alter ebba he
then said to her if that's the case why
they're coming
i will say
and say
that's the end of the story
then that ever brought her back home
to explain the idea
and intimated about it that he's
speaking about himself
who am i to sit purim
at a fabrengan holding up people for
hours including giving them admonishment
he said that
and the answer and what's the answer i'm
sharing with you what i heard from my
teachers and my father-in-law etc
and if that's the case it's not about me
and the same is true for everything
right
the terrorist says since available as a
doctor will share we'll use that as an
example
from here we know that hashem has given
permission
and ability for a doctor to heal
that is the classification of a doctor
according to tata
nothing more and nothing less of course
the smile helps
and knowing what you're doing helps
right
and the label always said when it comes
to a medical issue go to a doctor who's
an expert in the field and a friend
right
if you have a heart a heart issue you
don't go to an eye doctor you go to a
heart doctor
but what is the fundamental
fundamental
fundamental issue
of any and all doctors
hold on why why don't i see it
oh my gosh do i have issues hold on
hello hello okay
what's the what's the fundamental issue
of any and all doctors
it is the power of healing
who gave you the power
rape
the abrasive gave the power
so that ebb is saying like this in this
mimer for a doctor to think that he is
the healer
that he did something special by healing
is
ridiculous
god gifted you with disability
and you chose to use it in the right way
through your free will
therefore
it flows through you you're a funnel
and that ever gave the examples of faith
in god
faith in god you're bragging with your
faith or more so with your messieurs
nephesh
and i started to talk about this in the
last year yesterday just want to add a
little bit to it because i saw this by
my own father-in-law who came from
kharkov ukraine it was a russian cousin
of a barbecue
and i saw it by his great by his uncle
my great uncle rabbi mental footafast
and i saw these eden who
every one of these jews gave their life
and were ready to die for you this guy
am i and guess what
they didn't think they were doing
anything special
they didn't know
anything else
meaning to say
this was
being the eid
you know
i don't know about you guys but for me
it's very foreign
because we weren't raised this way
that's why
you know the american hasidim in the
eyes of the old russian khasid which
mostly already all gone
although we have velvet and many very
wonderful hasidim
russian hasidim
but you know they were called
chocolatiness
you know chuck kellockiness means
chocolate nights
they know how to eat a good piece of
chocolate and they think they're big
hussy them
my wife who grew up in melbourne and
with a father like that and and other
kassidin she would tell me that they
would
you know saying that they would laugh
it's not loud like
come on come on
you you're a little hot you're a little
cold
like what this is this
another story
there was a hosted named
yahushua dubrovsky
he lived in in crown heights
he was a russian cluster the
contemporary my father-in-law was
and he came from hasidic stock from a
barbecue system and he was very talented
he was a gifted writer a yiddish he was
like one maybe the best you this writer
one of the best you know i'm on the
highest level
and he was a hustler the true husset
so
i know i have someone here in borough
park who's um very bright he he he was
raised in in jerusalem he was natural
carter
a whole story but the bottom line is
it's very bright so he he
got hold and he loves
history and he loves knowing about
hasidim about rabonim and you know about
people who
who we we
we look up to
so he went to rabbi dubrovsky
and he said could you tell me about this
cousin and that concert and discuss it
who you met in russia and you know in
samarkand and tashkent and then before
you know you saw
so after a while dubrovsky turns to him
he says listen my friend
if you want to see you if you want to
see the real khasid
you need to go to the cemetery in
samarkanth
that's where you will see the real
question
and he's talking about
himself
and his generation compared to
his parents generation which didn't make
it out of russia
and they passed away and they're buried
in samarkand he says over there you'll
see some real acid
us that are alive we're not the real
mccoy
they're the real mccoy
it was such a like
whamsy of an answer right into bullseye
right into the oregon
like
you know you think i'm a husset you
think i'm a special yi i'm a nothing
compared to to these eden now on one end
if you walk around with this thinking
you can get very depressed
and you won't be able to do what you
need to do
at the same time
to walk around the feeling i'm doing
something special
it's foolish you're not doing anyone a
favor
on the contrary if you don't
use your talents
that hashem gave you
you're you're you're you're admiring my
mouth you're rebelling against the king
this abraham
is the sense of bitter asme
the
the the
obliteration of self-awareness
that's what we mean
so therefore
for these people and thereby says here
yerusha he may have oceanu
it's an inheritance from our ancestors
what does that mean
so i told you yesterday when you inherit
whether it be funds or something else do
you go around saying hey
i'm a great guy i got an inheritance and
we all know
that sometimes family members get an
inheritance and you look at them and
they say
oh my gosh
they're such decrepit people and they
got the inheritance
like
why didn't i get it
and what's the answer you need what's
the answer
ask god ask your parent
you know why they decide to leave the
money over to this and this son or
daughter or or you know
but the fact is that the the miss
garrett
the whole um
the whole uh environment
of inheritance has nothing to do with
you with
us so that ebb says here
that just as faith in god and having
self-sacrifice for god for a jew
is an
inherited quality from avraham avinu
so to
another humility
although we
refine ourselves to work and having
humility guess what
the point is
that when we have the humility true
humility is feeling as though
it's inherent you got an inheritance so
what are you bragging about now let's
look at this inside page 125.
um i want to repeat i want to go back
and repeat because it's up they weren't
here right let's go back to
um
124 actually
um
the the the the the paragraph that
begins with um on 124 the third line the
second word i'll just read it a little
quickly
you know the idea is that nothing has
shifted
another is not
deprecation of the soul feeling low
the animated table the batsman
because one doesn't find good within
himself
or if he really is in a good place
and that's why he feels low
and and humble says that but that's not
enough that's not what we're talking
about kim rather what is anova
whom it said i had there herger
schatzman
the shift was the modesty of the anova
that we're talking about
is
the
removal of self-awareness
my limits has gone because
the fact that a person
doesn't
look at himself as a as some doing
something special and everything that he
does that's even that's that's even good
the email is
going to be the selfish even though he's
doing good in the learning of training
doing misses and having self sacrifice
there he doesn't walk away saying hey
i'm a great guy
they ain't said they know you're the
immigration lawyer and it doesn't mean
that he doesn't know that what he's
doing is special quinoa daya should take
a yoshi hold over he definitely knows
that what he's doing is good and proper
nicole malcolm nevertheless
in a massive trevor liaximoy