Proof Positive - We are who we think we are - Rabbi Benzion Klatzko

hello my friends this is Ben shank latsko speaking to you from my quarantined home in New York I wanted to share with you a quick idea this past week we started Pirkei avos and we sell Schlow shut varma all Amal made the world our world our individual world stands on three things Torah avodah and gorillas Kassadin how much of our lives are involved in Torah learning how much of our lives are involved in a vote oh it's just Fela I mean how much of our lives are involved in Camilla's Kassadin and until now until the virus we ant our schedule we knew when we went this year and one we went to work and when we went to minion our which test said we were involved with but now things have changed dramatically and drastically lasat love Oh Kadosh Baruch who is gonna ask us after we pass on Hashem will say tell me who are you what was your life about what was important to you and we're gonna want to say because it'll be obvious to us at that point in time how important smears on mitzvahs how important Torah learning is so will tell us and we're been a Torah we're beneath or we love Torah we love connecting to our Shem and Shem will say back do you really but he didn't do that much Torah learning I was a sham what could we tell you we had the OLAP Inasa we have difficulty we have to raise children we have to pay our mortgage we have to pay our rent we have to pay insurance we have to pay for gas we have to pay for food all of this took our time and I cut Asheboro who says that's exactly how we were supposed to be autumn Lama you Lud that's the curse that's the punishment of other Mauritian but let me ask you during the times they did not go to work what did you do during the times when you weren't in rush or the Joslin did not rush you how is your davon and when you have time to make those phone calls to help people out were you there for them or are you doing your own thing you see Cova 19 is an experiment and it has the chance to be a greatest advocate after we pass on never before and maybe never since are we gonna have as a clown this opportunity to be at home so we can open a safer and have our children see us studying Torah where we could have the time to learn Torah with them and not feel rushed and not rush them so that they can get to bed so that they can wake up so they can catch the 6:30 or 7:00 o'clock bus in the morning there's no early bus and there's no bus for you to catch either so now we could binocs us open a safer and learn with housemother many of us have this dream and the dream is after we're old and gray and we've made the money that we need to when you've married off to our kids the edges are shem we're gonna move to your shall I am or move too late to it or move somewhere and then open up a safer I've become kind of light we're gonna have days and days and days to learn many hours now we can't now it's impossible but one day when everything is done and I money put away and there's no yoke of pernessa trying to make a living I'll have that time well we don't know what the future is gonna be we don't know if we're gonna move to your shall I am or move to where the children or grandchildren are but we do know this right now during Cova nineteen we are at home this is the opportunity this will be the mail it's yo sure if we could spend our days learning more to happening slower perhaps being on the phone for our friends when they need us this can create an advocate angel for us that laughter may have the s term after on June 20 years when we turn to Hashem and as Shem says why didn't you learn more and we say we roll up on us so we had pronounced oh we have to make this angels gonna come swooping in and say not only that but when he did at the time when she did have the time look at how slow their Davenant was look at how much more they learned with themselves and with their kids this becomes a proof to the rest of our lives what kind of people would really are what our value system really is so if we want to see the silver lining the opportunity in this terrible mock Allah that so many people are suffering from the server lining could be and should be that we have the chance to prove - em who we really are when the olap renessa doesn't allow itself to get in the way of our real desire which is curve SLO kimly Tov being close - I'm it's so good I got shot they may aside shem shifted the vase our shaman really you know what I want this is what I want I never had the opportunity but now I do I'm gonna take full advantage of it the SRM Cova 19 will be history it'll be something in the past hopefully much sooner rather than later but while it's still here let's take full advantage of the opportunity to spend time with our families to give our spouses attention to help a little more in the house to learn a little more with the kids to open up smarm that we should be and we could be opening open up an art school Gemara open up a mission of Brugha open up what you need to and show our sham what your all about and this will be McGowan this will reveal who you really are in your essence for the rest of your life I wish you all lots of bracha be well