Refusing to Change is the Greatest Change - Rabbi Avi Schneider

the Torah describes regarding the Mitzvah of chuva that it's something that's very attainable and easy to do says the Torah driver mode again this is discussion among the commentaries where this refers to truva or whether to learning Toran but assuming taking the position which they're Unbound and this Foreigner both do this refers to truva it sounds like it's a breeze to do chuva it's carved mode it's very accessible the tour even goes on to describe me it's not heaven it's not the evil yam it's not a cross from the ocean it's right there it's very easy to attain and yet if you look around the world people who are uh we certainly have people in a gap year the Yeshiva Seminary who certainly you know change a lot and and work on things but if you think about people towards the you know the the later stage of life but leaders in that stage mid-20s 30 40 50 having families and they're stuck in a little bit of a rut how often do we find people so jumping opportunity to do chuva Rockhampton Levitz asked this question and he brings down the following idea this idea has attached to both positives as well as negatives he quotes from the story was the grandson of Jacob avino the son of Dan and The Story Goes that when Khushi was when they were burying Yakov you know they went to Triumph to bring him all the way back to Mars not available [Music] so it goes it says go get it go fetch the deed and tell me uh show it to me so naftali was the Jewish version of flash runs back to the Triumph in the meantime everyone's waiting done was actually hard of hearing he didn't know what's going on but he sees his his uh his grandfather lying waiting to be buried and some guy his uncle his great uncle blocking the way and uh and when he asked when he inquired what's happening here they said we're waiting to go and get the the deed from who she says until then my grandfather's gonna be lying by the side would it be Zone to the maze he took a stick in the whacked azo's head and the story told it's told that it rolled off and landed either in the mara or bayako's legs bottom line is asking the safer sequels monster how come the other brothers we're not responsive didn't react with the same passion of fervor that who should been done reacting to regardless explains that the other brothers were already used to at the conversation was going on and they were talking they figured oh the next thing point that we raised maybe then Ace of let us bury our grandfather or our father and because they were kind of trying different things and they were getting watching failure after failure but they they did they kind of think the next thing around the corner is gonna is gonna fix it the next thing is gonna is gonna help didn't know what's going on around at all and therefore all he sees is what's happening here why are we stuck here I can't take this and he reacted to it right away that's exactly the problem with chuvo why we're not doing Shiva so much we do something small and we're like ah it wasn't a big deal I'll work on it next time and then the thing happens again and it happens again and we we don't react because we're used to it it's a small little thing and we adjust in Hebrew it's called we adapt to what's around us and as time goes on WE adapt more and more and when we finally finish adapting we don't even realize what's wrong anymore just as an example let's say in Yeshiva imagine you have a situation when uh your air conditioning is doesn't go below 20 and you you wanted 18 you're very frustrated by that you complain all the time however imagine you have a case now unfortunately many years ago in the Holocaust people were taken from their homes they lived in in the ghetto in concentration camps with nothing no blankets really any food at all and they didn't complain I imagine as The First beginning changes were happening they probably were very frustrated by that and complaining it's time when they got used to it we live in a world when we do things wrong we see things around that are wrong and at the first glance maybe we're surprised by it but we get used to it if you would take a snapshot of Our Lives you know 10 years from now we might be shocked and horrified what we see but if we start looking at each event and say that's not okay with me anymore I have to work on that I'm not comfortable with that failure if we have that add to that perspective Mr Shem we shouldn't allow the adaptations of life to bring us down but rather only to give us more stamina more excitement to get closer to it because and onwards