Sefiras HaOmer Series - Days of Opportunity | Rabbi Nachum Binder

[Music] these awesome days days that we try to make every day count if we look in the in the after we see that is especially about the of we're here to Prof the mid of ourselves as individuals as a to perfect our mid and I want to just take a few moments to discuss the of which really when we look at this it's called breaking Aid what are Midas and what does it mean to break a mid a person tends to think of himself sometimes that if he has tendenc IES towards bad Midas there's something wrong with him he may feel like he has Tendencies toward G he gets angry very often he looks at himself as a maybe a bad person a Ka he has Midas sometimes of depression a person could have Midas of not caring not being responsible and there are so many Midas involved so many intricate Midas involved in a person in the makeup of a person and sometimes we beat ourselves up by the fact that we're not comfortable with our Midas and the truth is every individual was created with certain Tendencies and there is nothing no fault of our own there are people that are created with Tendencies towards GAA towards cast towards towards atas and there are people that have the other Tendencies GA is not their issue but their issue is they're very cheap they're very stingy there are people that have are very not stingy they're very bra but they have problems with GAA they have problems with KAS that's not a fault of anybody of what is Midas are the inion of mid as we see in this form is of and as we know salant famously said that it's easier to finish the entire sh than to break one mid what is theion ofid and how can it be done is really the work of self-control it means to say I have a tendency it's hard for me but I'm going to do it anyway or I won't do it anyway if someone has a tendency of laziness it's hard for him to get out of bed it's hard for him to be by daving on time it's hard for him to be by it's hard for him to go to a that person's job is break it do something to break that this of when we look deeper into this forum it's called in when he discusses the ofid this he specifically discusses the inion that purifying ones is through developing control over our Tendencies having a tendency to something doesn't reflect on anything wrong with a person it just gives the person the knowledge of what his job is all about in the days of spherus the AR tells us a fascinating thing he says the way that we act during these wonderful days of SP is the way that we're going to be the whole year what is the reason for this and many many years ago I heard for and he brought I think from the rashash the famous Mak the rashash and he explained that the days of when CL leaves and is preparing for m these are the days of our development this is when we're being developed as people and just like if someone wants to train a child for certain things the easiest time to train them is as they're developing and the way they're going to be trained when they're developing that's how they're going to come out so too each and every year we have an opportunity to develop ourselves again we can develop our Midas again true we have that tendency true it's hard but this is the time where every little move that we do to break Aid every little move that we do to show self-control to do what we don't want to do or not to do what we do want to do that is developing us and allowing us to become better people that's the inion of the mid the days of are not days of work they're unique days of opportunity it's a once a year time that we're able to remake ourselves and the way to do that is by showing and by expressing self- control constantly in all areas someone who has a natural inclination of curiosity and whenever there's a car driving down the street they tend to look at the car and if that car has Sirens BL in that's even more exciting they're going to look and look and look that's a natural thing but if somebody can control himself even though I want to look at it I'm not going to look at it what he's doing is at this time of year he's developing himself to be a person that doesn't have so much curiosity and he's able not to look where he wants to look and the same is true with every medida someone has a hard time getting out of bed in the morning if we use these days of days of purifying our redeveloping ourselves we will be to come to bigger people will be able to become people that are more T that have better mid and that's the opportunity of the days of we should use these days out properly to redevelop ourselves and to become what we're truly able to become