Rebbe Letters: “It's the Little Things” & “A Beard Can Only Bring Blessings” (26-27)

All right, shalom. Good evening. Welcome to a double dose Thursday night shishi shabus leishna. Two letters double header. And to those who are joining us live, I apologize for the slightly late start. Most people watch this in the archive version, not live. But to those joining us live, uh I apologize for the start. It's 10:03 right now. But Barashem, I'm just coming from a Simka in Crown Heights, which I left early. And the Balsima knows that I left early. In fact, he asked me, he says, "You're going to be on time for your live stream, right?" And so, I just want to wish a maztov to the Gazinski and Zans families. on Hindi and M's they should have a minion and all the brahas mentioned by the in the letter the letter that was read at the ka all of those brahas should be fulfilled in their marriage somebody suggested me suggested to me by the way as a a lot of people have ideas how we should continue after y'all nissen so somebody said why don't you take all the letters that we read the the rabbis letters that we traditionally read at SIMAS and go through those. So, I thought about that. That's that's one of our possible ideas. Just floating it out there. You heard it here first. Um, I want to mention a few shoutouts. Just trying to uh pull that up. I literally just got out of the car with uh my wife and four of our kids. And uh my six-year-old had dropped a pen between the crack in the seats and was desperately trying to get the pen out for the past 20 minutes. So that's I hope they found the pen. We pulled up in the driveway. I said, "Tat's got to go on live and I hope you find your pen." Okay. Anyways, that's the reality that you know that's that's my life. Okay. Uh yeah. So we want to mention the teachers of Kabad in Philadelphia got together uh for a special group to discuss the egress the letters that we've been learning and uh we want to just uh mention that group also. Oh, I mentioned last night that reservations for the in-person event on Yoda Alf Nissen Monday night, April 11th, uh that spots were filling up very very fast. Spots have filled up completely. There there are no more spots. In fact, it's a little bit over booked like I learned from the airlines. So, I think it's I think 103 people already got in their RSVPs. So, see what we can do. But really, it's a it's a room for 100 people. Um, and that's it. So, if you did not RSVP, uh, you can obviously you can join us at the aisle. You can come to the aisle. The aisle is open 247 to anyone. But the actual venue one block away from the aisle that only that the capacity there is 100 people. That only suits 100. And you can watch the live stream which will be on 30letters30days.com. Okay. Was there anything else I was supposed to mention? Was there anything else? I'm just trying to remember. Uh, no. I don't know. I don't think so. So, let's get to our letters. Double shear. Okay. Move this aside. It doesn't need to be right here. Okay. Um, just trying to find the right page. 26. Yeah, letter 26. Shame Havaya. That's right. Okay. Here we go. Brooklyn shalom. So this letter is from the 28th day of the month of Shvat. We're still in the month of Shvat. Uh 57:15 Brooklyn. Greetings and blessings in answer in reply to your letter of the 24th of So the letter the Reb is writing is the 28th responding to a letter that was dated on the 24th. It's pretty quick. Um, I'm sure you know the story, says the Reb. And in parenthesis, the Reb says, I didn't hear it from my father-in-law. Therefore, I don't know its source. Nevertheless, the point of the story makes sense and it's a good story. Basically, the Reb is saying this is very interesting itself. Um, the Eb is saying if I didn't hear it from my father-in-law, you know, I can't vouch for it, but it's a good story. And, uh, you know, sometimes we tell stories that are called apocryphal stories or, uh, sometimes you call it a parable. you know, we don't I don't know if it really happened, but so the Dub is saying, I don't know. I didn't hear this from my father-in-law, but it's a good story, and it doesn't matter if it happened because the point is what I'm trying to bring out. What's the story? The story is, and by the way, from this, you can infer the level of veracity to which the Reb attributed anything that he heard from his father-in-law. That that's a a share for another time. But everything that I heard from his father-in-law was ironclad. And if he didn't hear it from his father-in-law, it was like just no matter what the source, it was already in another category, not the the top category. At any rate, so here's a nice story, and it doesn't matter if it happened. The point is that I'm trying to uh say something here with this story, okay? There was aides, a younger man, a young married man who was of theidic persuasion. He prolonged his preparations for prayer. You knowum have a a custom of preparing for prayer. We don't just run and dav right away. We take time to meditate and to learn someus and we go to the mikvah and we even make sure that our body is quiet and settled with a cup of coffee and even misinus that's a whole uh that's a whole para for another time the history and the reb's involvement in establishing misinus to eat a little something before prayer at any rate there's a lot of preparation that goes on before we just fly right into davin So there was this younger man who took a long time to prepare for davening but he prepared so long the time for schma had passed which even if you prepare long for prayer you're supposed to say first before so that was not a good thing he did and the time for passed and uh you know I'm not going to get into the whole discussion about well what do you do after sement but really you could dive into That's a that's a discussion for another time. At any rate, he he prepared so long that all of these times had passed and then what happened and then he daved really fast. You understand the irony? Like if he had spent hours preparing for doining and you saw him doing later in the day, but his davining was a real domining. Maybe he spent hours to get ready for domining, but then his dominating also took hours, right? So then it makes sense. It matches. But here, here's what he did. He spent all this time preparing for Daviding. And then when he actually went to go ding, he ripped off a fast doning. Like you had to prepare so long for that. That's what you're prepared for. [Music] is a choice. It makes sense somebody who spends a lot of time preparing if in the end when he davins he's going to dive in for a long time even though it raises other questions but it makes sense because you see he's preparing but to take all that time preparing and then to rip off a fast dinging like that What does it take all that preparation for? And why get yourself into these doubtful predicaments, these questions of the time having passed, the time for Schma, the time for for like why do you have to get yourself into that kind of question when the doveting that you did in the end was a doveting that you could have done without all the preparation. In other words, you had to prepare all that time for that kind of dvening. That kind of davening you could have produced without any preparation. You understand? Okay. So that's the story. Why is it ever telling this story? Um I have a question for you. based on the assumption and I don't know if this assumption is true but based on the assumption that the letters that we've read so far are representative of the letters in Igris Kaidesh and based on the assumption that the letters in Igris Kurdish are representative of the Reb's correspondences on on the whole what have you noticed being the thing that Reba asks for most often? Did you notice a pattern? Uh pick up on anything? You notice the Reba asks people to write, to report, to check in? You think that's what this is about? Yeah, I do too. Yeah. So, watch what the Reb says. So I I I apologize in advance, but the same applies, meaning the point of this story applies to the letter that you wrote. The the lag time between one letter and the next is a really long time. CAT if you had to write a letter that would have required a lot of concentration of the mind and a lot of attention of the heart and the letter itself would have been detailed. So I would have understood that it took you so long to produce such a letter. But such a long preparation, such a long lag time and then to produce a short letter. Seemingly this is an irreconcilable contradiction. Doesn't add up. took you all that time. I would have thought I'm going to get such a letter that took such concentration and devotion and it's going to be so full of detail. I was waiting so long I I surely you were going to send me a real bomb of a letter but I get this puny little letter. I mean the devil doesn't use that word but you know that's the implication like this is the letter. This is what you know you you go to the restaurant and you order the food and they keep you waiting and waiting and waiting waiting and then the end serve you something mediocre and the portions are small and this I waited so long for Reb's muscle was about dinging my mush's about getting food at a restaurant. Okay, that's anyways. So, may it be Hashem's will that you'll very soon write with the proper detail. All right. So, basically, the dev is saying, I still didn't get the letter from you that I was expecting, but you could still write it and I'm waiting for it. Okay, now there are some ellipses dot dot dot and I don't know how much is missing here. Um, but it seems that the second part of the letter is related to the first part of the letter in as much as the Reba is reminding this person to be more productive I guess is the way I would say it. um to be more industrious and not to put things off. So the ever said that about the writing. Now the Reb is going to say a similar thing about this person's work which it seems is education that they're in the field of education. Let's see what the Reb says here. in general. I don't know how I can find any other words. I mean that that's painful to read. Like I know what it means to the frustration of trying to express something and not being able to express it. I don't know. I guess different people are are different. I mean I know different people. The Gumar says in Brahas that no two people have the same mind. But I I know at least for me personally the inability to express myself not knowing how to find any other words that's that's it's it's deeply painful. So the to me when the says this I I just it's um it's painful to read. The is saying I don't I I don't know how to find any other words to explain to every one of them. And and I think that I was speaking to the the group with which this person the letter writer is involved. There's a Mishna that says I was only created to serve my maker. My existence is not for me. I'm not here for me. I'm here for him. I'm here to be a servant and to be of service to my maker. So the deb is saying, I don't know how to explain it. I I can't find any other words that will make all of you and and it sounds like it's the group of educators with which this person's involved to understand something. I'm trying to get you to understand something. The Mishna says, "I was only created to serve my maker." Okay, fine. And but what does that mean? Here's what the Reb is saying. That when the Mishna says, "I was only created to serve my maker," it doesn't mean only things that are mind-blowing. Serving your creator doesn't have to be spectacular. It doesn't have to be big things. It doesn't have to be front page news. Serving your creator could be little daytoday things, quote unquote, regular things. And so often it is. That's the service of Hashem. Regular day-to-day consistency. And I don't know how to explain to them this idea that serving Hashem doesn't just mean the big things. Reb continues here etc. It doesn't have to be a high priest in his eight vestments. In other words, serving Hashem can be mundane day-to-day pedestrian quote unquote boring things that nobody talks about. No one's going to write you up in the paper. You're not going to put out a press release about it. Why can't I get you guys to understand that? And the Reb is expressing frustration. It seems seems clear to me. What is the real meaning of I was only created to serve my maker? It's to each individual, every one of us in our daytoday regular lives and specifically in areas that the world calls I mean literally gray stuff but bland bal everyday boring. Oh, that's not serving Hashem. I want to do something cool. I need you to understand that serving Hashem can and must be in the little things. The Reb doesn't bring this here, but there's a medish that's brought in the to the [Music] says there's a medish that he actually says I don't know the source for. But there was a three-way mahus of tanoyim about what is the I think it's called the puk hakel the most all embracing verse in all of scripture in other words if you could pick one verse in scripture which sort of embraces or encompasses everything which one would it be and so one tana says I think it was Bena says, "Oh, right. The the oneness of God." That's a that's a pretty uh big idea, right? And then Banana says um that it's also sounds pretty uh compelling, right? Didn't uh didn't say that that's the cloud sounds pretty compelling. And then uh Ben Py says, that you take the one sheep in the morning and you take the one sheep in the afternoon. He's talking about the timid that every day when the bam mdish would set up shop the first sacrifice of the day was the one morning sheep and the last sacrifice of the day was the afternoon sheep. He says that's the that's the overarching verse that's the anthem for the entire and of explains you know these are biggies but you know what that's kind of the problem they're so big that um people rever these ideas to the point of abstraction to the point where it's a nice idea But like does it have application in my life? No. The best thing is if you want to have everything just focus on the on the regular stuff on the regular stuff, the everyday stuff. And then you also have but consistency consistency consistency with the small everyday stuff. Okay. Anyways, the Reb doesn't bring that here but it just it uh reminded me of that idea. So, uh, let's continue regarding the teachers union. See, that's who I believe that I was referring to or at the very least that I was referring to other educators. It sounds like this person's a teacher and that I was speaking to them about um the other teachers, their colleagues with with whom they're teaching. So basically the Debb is saying I'm trying to get through to you guys that you don't have to always come out with big ideas and and that's why I'm saying it's connected to the first part of the letter where the Debb was saying like you're waiting and waiting and waiting to write to me. To me it was it seemed connected like you're waiting and waiting and waiting to write to me like just write regular stuff. Just write regular stuff. You don't it doesn't don't wait so long, right? Don't push it off. And here that Eb is saying um a similar thing like you guys are waiting to serve Hashem because you're waiting for something big with which to serve Hashem. Just serve Hashem with regular little stuff. And now watch what the Reba says especially especially when it comes to education which seems to be the field with which this person's involved. Okay. So regarding the teachers union says the rebba here [Music] that if you take care of these seemingly insignificant details and you do it properly, what's going to happen? That's the way to raise a praiseworthy upstanding generation. a generation that's going to bring Messiah and that will be able to point to them and say, "Look at the produce. Look at the fruits which we produced." You think that you only change lives with big things? No, you change lives with little things. I think that's such a an an important and powerful uh idea for parents and educators to remember that when it comes to children, you know, uh sad, but you see this very often with parents who are regretting the past and they want to make up for lost time. Maybe they weren't present. Unfortunately, you see this a lot with fathers and they uh they have guilt about that. Maybe even now their children are grown and they want to make up for it. And they often I mean I've encountered this many times. They try to make up for it with these frankly absurdly extravagant displays when really what's called for what was always called for was just being involved in little stuff, day-to-day stuff, you know, family dinner and stuff like that. And uh even now you want to start making up for it. Okay. You know, uh maybe fitting with the whole mush of timid, but that yesterday's sacrificial offering can't be brought today. All you can do is start from today. Start with the regular stuff today. Start with being there for the small things. And the same thing with educators, with teachers. you know, the influence that a teacher has on a child. It's not necessarily anything that's earthshattering. It's more about the consistency about creating a predictable, reliable, safe place in the classroom where the child can feel secure. and uh you know years later you don't necessarily even remember anything big that this teacher did or said but you remember that you grew a lot you had a lot of progress when you were under this teacher's tutelage and uh I think it's important for us to remember that it's the little things that sometimes the doesn't say this explicitly but it seems I'll take the liberty to say this it seems the is saying that uh you know sometimes the ego again the deb doesn't say that explicitly but to me it it it seems implied like why can't they get you guys to be excited about the little things why are you only excited about the big things when it comes to it's daft the little things that make a huge impression on the kids there's a this story they tell that um in 1967 during the six- day war during the build up to the six- day war. A lot of Americans flew to Isisro to be part of the war effort because they felt that the pint and uh they went to Isisro and miraculously the Jews won the war in six days and the whole thing was was over and the the danger passed and all of these Jews who flew into to be there during the war effort they started flying back to America and going back home. So gold mayier was the foreign secretary at that time. She wasn't yet prime minister. She was the the foreign minister. So she was the one who was dealing with the the foreigners, the Americans and others who were coming in. So she said to them, "I don't understand. In time of war, you were willing to come here and to die with us. In time of peace, you're not willing to stay here and live with us. But uh you know, isn't that human nature that a big dramatic display is a lot more attractive than tedious everyday showing up. It's counterintuitive because you would think the everyday stuff is easier and the big stuff is harder, but really psychologically most of us we gravitate toward the big stuff because it's exciting and you know it it appeals to the to the ego and to the sense of look at me, I've accomplished something. And the day-to-day stuff is very often glamorous and thankless and boring and it's a grind. But that's the stuff that makes a difference. And especially this is what the deb is saying with children. This is what changes the children's lives. Okay. So, oh, we got a few more lines here. Uh, I await good news and all of the above and I bless you for your success to continue in actual practice and I just love that. I love that where the I mean this was a semi harsh letter. Uh the said why don't you write you prepared all that time to produce such a meager little letter and then the deb was saying and why are you guys turning your nose up at kin opportunities that you don't find exciting enough right so th those are two harsh things I mean I would I would take it harshly if I got this letter but in but even at the end of such a letter I love the positivity that said you should continue your success The ebba doesn't say hey you failures hey you failures start succeeding says hey successful people continue your success just succeed a little bit more a lot more I love it I absolutely love it okay that's the end of the first letter tonight we'll take a little intermission as we do Thursday nights and we'll uh continue with letter number two this is my coffee break but there's no coffee in there 10 o'clock It's 10:30. It's just water. Give me a minute. Okay. How's everybody doing? Still with me? Yeah. Let me check the Zoom. See how people are doing on Zoom. Oh, there's a lot going on in the chat. Wow. I can't read all this stuff. Paula posts in the Zoom. We just got home. Yeah. Yeah. Because you also coming to the five towns. Okay. Um you must have left the same time we did. Okay. A lot of people are posting that there's not a good connection. I'm not sure what that's about. I don't know what to tell you. Yeah. Okay. You missed a lot. People are saying on the Zoom that they missed a lot, but some people are saying the connection is fine. You know what? It's raining here in New York. Are the people who are saying that are missing a lot in places where it's raining? because sometimes that affects your connection. People are saying they missed a lot. Are you in a place where it's raining? Okay. So, I think it's the rain. Anywh who, all right, let's uh let's start the next letter. Okay. Welcome back, [Laughter] Oh my goodness. Welcome back from our intermission. Now, let's learn our second letter of tonight. Letter number 27. Wow. Letter 27. Can you believe that? You know what that means? After this letter, we just have three letters. We have the Matzah Shabas letter. We have the Sunday night letter. And we have the final letter, the 30th letter that we are going to learn together at the oil on Alf. Oh, by the way, if you're having problem on Zoom, just go to YouTube. Maybe somebody post the YouTube link in the Zoom chat. Yeah, somebody post the YouTube link in the Zoom chat, please. And I think you'll have better uh better connection there. Okay. Alfinvrooklyn Shalom the first day of Ador otherwise known as Radesh. Greetings and blessings in answer to your letter from the second day of the week of Paras Truma. Alis, it is shocking. It's wondrous, baffling, perplexing what you wrote or the language that you wrote, the expression, the words that you wrote. I don't know if the Reb is quoting here or paraphrasing, but the Reb is saying it was really perplexing what you wrote. They decided who's they? You know they they decided not to take you for the job. And the main reason why they decided not to take you for the job is because you have a beard. Crazy stuff you're writing. Absolutely crazy. Now without reading ahead my friends, this is our 27th letter of the Reb. You tell me why is it a Pella? The Reb says it's a Pella. It is baffling that you could write that they didn't take you for the job because you have a beard. You tell me, my dear friends, why is it baffling to the Reb? And why why why should it be baffling to us? And if we're going to learn anything from this letter, I think it should be that what baffles the Reba should baffle us. Why is it baffling to write? They didn't take me for the job. And the main reason is cuz I have a beard. You tell me. Let's not read ahead yet. You guess. Why not? Why is that not possible? Why is it absurd to even suggest such a thing? You're correct. You're correct. How can doing something good, how can doing a mitzvah cause you bad? How can you lose out from doing a mitzvah? You see, in the dev's worldview, it's not well, sorry, sometimes you just got to do the right thing and suffer for it. It's not how it works. And we've had this before. We've had this before. The physical and the spiritual go hand in hand. The same Hashem who gave us the Tyra and its commandments made the world. So, how could this world be in conflict with the will of the same Hashem who made the world. It's not possible. And to the contrary, the key to success in this world is following Hashem's will. So some some might say, "Sorry, what can I what can I tell you? You're a Yid. It's difficult to be Jewish. Sorry. Never promised you a rose garden. It's a tough life. But that's not how the Debba says. The Debba says, you know, you may be having hardships in life, but you know, life is sometimes hard. It's not because you're keeping mitzvah. How could mitzvah make your life harder? Mitzvah don't make your life harder. Mitzvah make your life better. And especially a beard, which was the person's complaint here and that I was going to explain, especially a beard. Want to take a look? Let's take a look. But you're going to see what the Reba says here is in line with what you would expect the Ebot to say if you're learning these letters properly and you're learning how to think. And I want you to check in with yourself and see if you're starting to recognize patterns. And I know there may be those realid who would tell me that that that's not really how you're supposed to learn the EBA's letters and that's letters are are so holy that we can't understand them. I I understand that argument. But I think that Ebbe took time to write these letters and to publish these letters and to push and push and push that these letters should be published because um we're supposed to learn from them. And it means we're supposed to learn how to think. Yes, we're supposed to learn how to think. And if it's working, then I think it is totally reasonable to think that I should be able to get three lines into a letter of the Reb and guess how it's going to unfold. Now, the Reb is going to surprise me because the Reb will always say things that I I would never have thought of. But the basic approach, yes, I think it's a credit to the Reb as a teacher that regular people like us can learn how to predict the direction that a that a letter of the Reb is going to go 100%. I think it's the greatest nas that a teacher can have. And I hope that that's been happening for you during these past 26 evenings. And now that we're on the 27th evening, I hope that we're uh we're finding that our way of thinking has has changed and evolved and become more aligned with the Debb's thinking, which is ultimately the greatest there can be is through learning the Reba's teachings and allowing those teachings to shape our thinking. Let's see what the Reba says. Move on. It is understood. And again, when the Reb says it's understood, especially if the says it's self understood or goes without saying or it's superfluous dimension, that means it should be it should be superfluous dimension. It should be obvious to you. And if it's not yet obvious to you, our Reb is giving us an opportunity right now to pause, to stop, to open up our heads, and to let something sink sink in and to take it now really really to heart as an axiom upon which we should base our our view of reality. That's what's happening over here. So, it's understood. It's impossible that that's what happened. You said they didn't take you for the job. And the main reason they didn't take you for the job is cuz you have a beard. That doesn't happen. There's no such thing. That doesn't happen in God's world. That that equation does not add up. It's an impossibility. You understand? It's not just that's not what happened here. No, that's not what happens ever. That cannot happen. Let's continue. Hashem is the sham. What is we just say? We we say it so often it loses all meaning. But stop a second. Let's say it in English. Master of the world. Master of the world. Master of the world. The Reb saysam isn't just like a name that Hashem has that we just say without thinking. It has a meaning. It has a meaning of the world literally. And the United States of America is included in the world over which Hashem is the master. And by the way, I'm 100% comfortable saying that EB knows that that's funny. That's that's funny that Hashem is the master of the world literally which includes even the United States of America because the United States of America is also part of the world and Hashem is a master of the world that knows that's funny. Okay? And from this by the way learn what real humor is. Real humor doesn't have to be gutbusting hilarity. Real humor is that's a real joke. That's a funny joke. That's a Jewish joke. Hashem is the master of the world, which you know, I think that includes also America. America is also part of the world. Hashem must be the master of the United STATES OF AMERICA, TOO. WOW. WHO' HAVE THOUGHT, RIGHT? That's funny. Wow. And since Hashem revealed his opinion in his Tyra, his holy Ta, a Tyra which is, and I think there's a double meaning here. Tisam means a tra that is eternal, but it also means the TA of the world. It's not just a it's the in a living meaning a that you live with that you live with. Not just a tra you learn it and then you go out and you die because you have a terrible life. that's going to kill you. God forbid. No, it's a of this is a that's going to help your life. It's going to enhance your life. the the beard. Hashem reveals in his holy this knowledge that the beard is the 13 strands which represent the 13 attributes of mercy. We had this in a previous letter by the way that the beard represents Hashem's quote unquote beard. Obviously, Hashem has no body or corporeal image, but in Kabala, metaphorically, what we refer to is as the the 13 strands of the beard, which really represents flows or emanations of divine compassion of rahim from on high. So that's what it represents in the paradigm, in the archetype, in the nimil in Hashem. And then that's mirrored that's reflected anthropomorphically in the in the human image but the person who's created in God's image. So when you have your 13 in order and intact. So that allows the which is the mim the 13 um attributes of mercy to flow into your life. So those are channels of blessing. The beard represent channels. The beard represents channels of blessing of all types. He says everything. All types of blessing. Not just a job but everything. The beard is going to help with everything. Yeah. Even that which is beyond nature. These are big brahas. This is the same man that uh that gave in a previous letter that if you want to find out more about the beard representing the 13 attributes of mercy, you should look in the on the words which is published also in the appendix the additional material of the toll. It is impossible that increasing blessing in your life because the beard is doing that. The beard is increasing blessing in your life. That that should cause a an obstacle to receiving your livelihood. See, it doesn't compute. How can you tell me the beard which is opening up channels for blessings? All types of blessings including blessings for livelihood that that would be the cause to not get livelihood. It doesn't even make sense. It's a it's a steam obey. It's a terminological inongruity. It just it cannot be. Okay. Okay. Fine. I accept it on faith. But I still don't know what to do with this because and and and what if Okay. The guy doesn't say this, but let's say let's say they say to him, "By the way, we don't like your beard. We're not hiring you because of the beard." Now, the guy didn't say that, but let's say just for the sake of argument that that's what's h that's what happened. Okay, I don't think that that never happened. I think that happened where somebody was told, "We can't hire you because of your beard." Would the deb still stick to his guns and say, "It's impossible. It's not it's not shy in God's world that somebody didn't get a livelihood because he has a beard." What if the what if the non-Jews told you, "We don't like your beard." Okay, so let me tell you something. Let's say they're anti-semites. [Music] Anti-semitism exists, but anti-semitism cannot prevent a Jew from accomplishing whatever he he needs to accomplish in this world. And someone not liking a beard, even if it's not for anti-semitic reasons. He just doesn't like it for whatever reason. That also cannot stop a Jew from accomplishing what he needs to accomplish in this world. Okay. But how do you explain the fact that I didn't get the job? Okay. Well, let's talk about that. Let's talk about that. Ella, but rather we do not know why. We cannot probe the depth figuratively speaking why this job was not appropriate for you or for your family. In other words, you didn't not get the job because you have a beard. The beard is your asset. That's bringing blessings, including the blessings for livelihood into your life. You didn't get the job because the job wasn't a blessing. You didn't get the job because the job wasn't a blessing. Oh, well that stinks for his kids because in order that he shouldn't have to have a job that wouldn't be a blessing for him now his kids have to have a father who can't put bread on the table. No. No. But look what the Reba said that that job wasn't right for you or your family. That job wasn't right for you or your family. We don't know why the says what what do you want? We we we should know Hashem's plan. We we can't we can't understand the vast eternal plan. We we don't know infinity. But from the perspective of Hashem who knows all, who has infinite knowledge, it was obvious that job was not good for you and it wasn't good for your family. So, nobody lost out here. Nobody lost anything. The job wasn't good for you and it wasn't good for your kids. Neither of them. Meaning not for you and not for your kids. Nobody lost out. And the Reb doesn't spell this out here. But even if they had told you, I'm confident to say even if they had told you, we're not taking you because of your beard. That's not why you didn't get the job. The beard can only help make your life better. You didn't get the JOB BECAUSE HASHEM WAS PROTECTING YOU FROM HAVING A JOB THAT WASN'T GOOD FOR YOU OR your children. You know, there's a saying, man's rejection is Hashem's protection. Yeah, it hurts sometimes to be told no, to be refused, to be turned away. And maybe even the person who's rejecting us has ill will towards us. That may be true. Like I said, the anti-semites may really hate us. But that's not why anything bad happens to you. They don't have that power. They have that power. Or Hashem has all power. So yeah, people might not like us and people might reject us. People might turn us away. Those are brahas. Those are blessings. Hashem's protecting us from stuff that's not good for us. And that's exactly the case here. That's what happened. Let's continue. In truth, it doesn't matter why it happened. What you want to know? Oh, because the job where you're gonna work a week from now, the factory was going to explode and everyone's gonna blow up. Like, that's what you need. You need some corny story. You need to know. It doesn't matter why. I don't need to know why. I don't need to know why this was good for me. I just need to know that it is good for me. And if I believe in Hashem and the Hashem is of which the United States of America is part, then I know that this was good for me. Why was it good for me? I don't know. I don't know. Maybe the reason it's good for me to not have this job is something that is protecting me from that's 10 years down the line that I can't even fathom. I can't even predict it because I I I don't even know yet I'm going to be in a situation 10 years from now. Or maybe it's my children or my grandchildren. Who knows? You think we know? We don't know. You have to be infinite to know such things. But the says there's no navina. There's no practical difference why this was good for you. It was good for you. Since Hashem is supervising with individualized supervision, he orchestrated things that you shouldn't come to live in that place. In other words, this job was going to require moving somewhere. And Hashem protected this man and his family from having to go to that place that wasn't good for them. And it wasn't because of his beard. He was saved because of if anything, he was saved because of his beard. And again, the Reb uses the plural. This wasn't good for them at all. At all. I want to repeat that because I want to make sure this is very clear. It's not that, oh, Nebak, you know, Tati was saved from a job that would have been bad for him. He would have hated it. But it would have been good for the kids. Tati would have made a lot of money. They would have been happy. No, no, no. It was it wasn't going to be good for anyone involved. And Hashem, And what's the proof that it wasn't good for anyone involved? That nobody ended up moving to that place. Hashem is so perfect. so unfathomably perfect beyond our puny ability to compute. Hashem works it out that whatever happens is actually the best thing for all parties involved simultaneously if you could wrap your mind around that. I certainly can't. I have faith. I believe in that intellectually I can't grasp it. It's just too much to grasp. But it's an amazing thought that all parties involved. It's not like, oh, one guy got saved, but the other guy had to get messed over on account of the guy who's getting saved because what what can I do? I can't save everybody. But you think Hashem's up there doing triage, looking down and saying, "Oh, I could save those people. I can't say." Hashem's right here orchestrating everything, every detail, every tiny little detail. And he's getting it right 100% of the time. Now, sometimes the way he gets it right is painful to us. I'm not going to pretend that sometimes it's not painful. And getting rejected from an employment opportunity is pretty low on the list by the way of of painful things that happen in this world, especially in this gulus. But even when those crazy things happen and those painful things happen, Hashem's getting it perfectly right. And it's not because a person did this or a person did that. alum. Hashem should give you the merit and the success of being able to see. Such a beautiful braha visible revealed good without concealments or coverings which fuel the the seductive arguments of the other side. In other words, the Reb is acknowledging here, I know that when you get rejected from a job, it's very hard to not allow that to become fodder for the negative internal voice to come and start to rattle you and to throw doubt at you. Oh, your beard really so helpful. Ah, you're so smart. You think the beard really helped you? Look what it did to you. Look, you don't have a job. Right? So, the says, I know that that stuff is fuel. That stuff is fodder for the other side. And that's why I'm benching you now that from now on the good should be revealed. Not that you should start having a good life. You already have a good life. And getting rejected from that job was part of that good life. Hashem just did a beautiful thing for you. That was such a blessing. I think they call it in English blessings in disguise. Right? As trit as it sounds. Sounds trit, but that's the reality. But the Reba gives a blessing here at the end. And from now on, your blessings shouldn't be in disguise because I know how hard it is. Well, the blessings that are in disguise, they give too much they give too much of a platform to the negative voice inside to start messing with us. So, the other says it's been good. not getting the job was good. But you know the next thing that happens to you should be something where it's recognizably good. You should look at it be like oh I see now it even matches my intellect even matches my puny mortal limited intellect and I see that this is this is good for me with blessings for livelihood and success in your endeavors. And uh that is our second letter of Le Shishi. Have a wonderful restful Shabas. Shabas Hagodu and the Shabas before Yodaf Nissen. Shabas is the day that blesses the entire coming week. It's a big week. Big week coming up. Chabas.