S.S.S.S. Parshas Lech Lecha

turn the camera okay welcome we're glad you made it we waited for you so now we're ready to ready to begin this para we're introduced and we begin to uh y yes we kill the music for a couple minutes thank you so live we place here but little difficult to concentrate it's good music right in the middle right on screen in the middle all right you know since the YouTube clips got a little longer we could uh do everything on camera okay we're introduced and we begin to discuss the life of aru one of the things that are very popular and that we know very much about Abu is that Abu the thatu went through Ru had 10 and pass all of them let me read you a mishna in per in per mishna says was tested with and he with all of them we see how much love had for that he would had 10 thrown at him and he passed the test all 10 times he was 10 for 10 and like we've said previously as a matter of fact we talked about it last week a little bit when we were discussing Noah we said that again and we we'll say this over and over the Torah is not a story book so when the Torah tells us the story of Y say yes the fire radio want to kill the fire radio thank you when uh when we discussed we said last week that was not just a story that happened with the T was a lesson for us to learn for all generations and last week we discussed the different lessons that we can learn from so the fact thatu went through the 10 of course it's to tell us how much loved but we know that it must be coming to teach us something very important and we've mentioned we mentioned many months ago we mentioned the famous saer which says that just like Ru was given 10 tests it's telling us it's telling each and every individual that each person some say that every person goes through in his lifetime you may not know what they are you may not want discover what they are you may never discover what they are but every person throughout his lifetime is going to go through 10 10 different tests and our challenge is to pass the tests even even when we don't know that it's a test but our challenge is at each time to think that this might be one of our 10 tests and to make the best of it and to go through it and it's an interesting thing when we say thatu when the mishna says what shows us how great aru is what shows us how great he is is the fact that he passed the 10 tests why don't we say let me ask you a question why don't we say that Abu lived before cabal and We Know It says that was the so why don't we say that the greatness of was thatu was M the why do we say that because he with the that was the great part of Abu why what was the what was that whole thing so what do we see we see from here that every yid has to know that what shows you what the real what a person is really made of we see a from here it shows you what a person is really made of how you withstand an when everything's great when everything's going fantastic in your life so you could be wonderful you can always you could be a great you could be a great guy you could be a great person but what shows you what a person is really made of and that's when everything is not so wonderful when it's possible that you're being tested by an and how you react to that that will Define you for life and that's what defined theu not the fact that he kept the whole T but the fact that when he had 10 tests he was able to with withstand all of them let me tell you another mishna there's another mishna in that same par M says like this call me and again it discusses everybody's familiar with this anyone who has these three things and we're going to tell you what they are you have these three things you're considered a ofu what are they ey in person has a good eye no it doesn't mean a good good eye that he can hit a curve wall a good eye means that you have a good eye you always look at you look at the good of people you're able to see the good in people is a humble spirit and a person has a Meek the translation is a Meek Soul another person in many ways he's an un of he sees the good of people you have these three things you're taled student anybody could be a student of however three other things and none of us want to be in that class that's that that nobody wants to no one wants to be part of that class those are of so let me ask you a question another question wouldn't it have been more appropriate to just say that who's a talate ofu who is a student ofu somebody who passes it was such a great thing thatu Didu passed these ten so what it would be appropriate to say who someone that passes the tenis or maybe say something else who's a someone who excels know you excel in that you're someone who excels in he should be that should be a why does we going by why does the Mish say you excel at three you a tal of tal is not a p thing right a tal is somebody who M you're a tal you're a real student means you've learned what you had to from him so why these things so it must be that what the mission is telling us is that the reason was able to be in what made capable of withstanding the what made Excel what made Excel that's what the a person a that you work on something that you acquire and you work on certain Midas everything that you do good in your life everything that comes out of you comes from your Midas something that you worked on so that's what the Miss is telling us yes he passed the tenis yes he was yes he was about but where does it all come from how do you become a that comes from that comes from being an that comes from having an that comes from caring about other people so the question is also so on the word of the mishna the mishna says you're a talid what does a talid mean a talid means somebody who learned from somebody else so why don't you say that you know like we said they didn't have a and it says thatu sat and learned the whole day kept so what does it mean that taught if he had it means he was a means he was teaching what teach say it must be says it must be that was teaching he taught these he taught his he taught these three that that are mentioned in the Mish and from that people were able to to to grow and to become that's what AB that was his T if that was he's teaching youas that if you learn those three Meers like you said in the mishna then you're a tal and let's take another word from that mishna it says call me someone that has in his hand you don't find this anywhere else or you very very seldom you find the L as if he has it in hand what does it mean means not that you do something sometimes means if we had to pick an English expression h means like it packed it away you have it you packed it away you have it in your hand and that's the you have to have a connection had this connection he had these and it wasn't I do it sometimes I don't do sometimes when you and you work on Aid it has to be you have it in your hand it's yours and you have it always not when something goes a little wrong you snap it some the old you don't have an eye that you have it in your hand so how do we come how do you come to this how do you come to these Midas the Mish says anyone who comes to these Midas how do you come to this sh gives us a couple of different ideas how to come to to to these meas so first of all there's something called which speaks about many times is called a person who's himself he doesn't feel that he himself is anything whether youself you yourself to other people but you yourself feel that you're not that no great shakes you're not anything but yourself you yourself something he says someone who's himself that is the kind of that brings him to all three of Cu how does a person has an if a person's not M himself if a person always thinks of himself a lot then it's very difficult for you to always see the good side of other people because if you're always thinking that you're better or that you should be better or you could be better you don't have an eye in and the same thing goes for the other the they all come from from and really and this might be the first that some people here are hearing I know but if you hear every week you'll hear a lot of it but the botom it's a that many they talk about of this person you see it's something that's in many in many also of you see these are different ideas of of a person when you yourself you're able to accomplish a lot more when when you're not busy and worried about yourself a whole time you're able to work on your Midas and from those Midas grows very very very great things and if you take a look it's interesting that the the that went through look at the you know we think of a that a person's presented with a challenge that the we think of all the was a certain specific type of look at the other the other didn't do anything to be in that it says there was a hunger in the land whatever do he found himself there there was a hunger it's not like he had to do anything not like like or look at another one they took away no choice he he was there he was put in the Nan so what do we see we see that that what what was saying is that whatever whatever you put me in is good and that's what it is and doesn't have to mean that you have to be proactive and run to the other side of the world and and take your son and bring him to hararia that's one Tye of but most of the had were just saying this whatever you do whatever you're doing you put me in it took away my wife you put me in a land there's a hunger I don't have food it's good it's good this is what you want for me you put me in this it must be that it's good and that's what it and that's the lesson that we all have to learn in other words when you're being yourself being yourself doesn't mean some say that it does mean to say maybe if you if you have anir if you have these kind of outlooks you know being yourself means that you put yourself down a piece of dirt and everything doesn't always mean that being yourself means that don't think that you know everything that you're put into a mat so these it could be that these that that we mentioned at the beginning of this year that a person has tenness joess in his life it doesn't have to be in the where you have to run to here here and get on a plane and do this and be and do this kind of and this kind of thing and the are just you're in a in your life and it doesn't look like everything's going so great and and you can't understand why you're here why you put in this yourself you know what's good for me you know what's right for me and and that a person will encounter if you think about it if you look back in your life and you look back back at the years you'll know along the way you were encountered with such situations and hopefully you face them by the way that we want to face them by saying that was good and that's the three that's the of and if somebody has those then of course you can work on the other things of and all the other and all and all the and all the other things that came out of RA you could do that and then one quick point that adds one interesting thing that we could know is that one thing that brings out all these is someone who someone who's happy so if a person is it'll come natural to him to understand that whatever happens to him in his life he's gonna be happy he's an we said person could acquire not just could acire everything by just having this of being and understanding that everything is for the good and I'm happy with what I have and we should all this is something that when we when we learn through we see we go through it we don't just go through it like a zombie like a robot we're able to go through the para now and take out something that can that can that we can work on and will last with us and to work on these of