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Shira Smiles- Torah Tapestry Parshat Chayei Sarah
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um clearly the learning should be a for
all
the for the
uh to be
returned and uh for all of Amel to just
have shalom in the uh deepest way of
Schamus of wholeness of
connectedness and tonight is
is that wasn't part of the program
tonight is um it's
wow wow wow wow wow wow this is really
exciting yeah gra
gra it should be just for br that this
is a new home for the women on uh Monday
nights and
um and if you've never experienced
Smiles tonight is not a good time to
start
so I'm just going to begin with a um
disclaimer this year today is a little
bit out
there but it's good to be exposed to
different ideas and and and and every
week it's very different because I'm
very very
different um so without any further
introduction um this is what we do for
those of you who have never joined me
before never had the pleasure um we take
a look at one idea in the paraa usually
one Rashi one medish and plummet the
depth and and see that what meets the
eye is not what meets the eye and
there's so much more to learn and the
goal of the learn
is to grow is to change as
people am I going to have a musical
background what do they say if you can't
beat them join them but you do not want
me to sing so we're up a
creek um where was I oh and to see the
depth of Torah and and that we often
cheat ourselves that we don't expose
ourselves
enough to how beautiful Torah is and how
deep Torah is so my friends I've said
enough of an introduction I hope they
told you that I go four and a half hours
um maybe we'll go four tonight
and if you think I'm bad at 8 in the
morning typing up in six this morning
here we
go elas goes to find a wife for Rifka we
all know the story he goes to the
well Mission he goes to the well and
he's standing by the well and he says
Hashem if you please do me a favor and
bring me the uh this young woman who's
going to say drink and have your mates
the the camels drink and sure enough he
finishes speaking and guess what happens
she arrives amazing Hurrican he comes to
her house he comes to her house right
and um he then tells the family you'll
never believe it let me explain who I am
I'm alaz Evan Abraham and um he doesn't
mention his name he say I'm in Evan
Abraham elzar's name is never mentioned
in the whole the whole para and uh in
this whole section
and he retells the whole story okay now
let us zoom in in retelling the story
we're transporting ourselves back to
karat you're all with me we're all by
the well here it goes verse uh 42 it's
circled or you see part of the circle I
came today to the spring he's retelling
the story right I said to bastor perhaps
the woman will not follow me he replied
to me Hashem will be with you good so
he's retelling the story and he says I
came today to the spring and said Hashem
God my master Abraham if you would
graciously make successful the way in
which I go behold I'm standing by the
spring and let it be the young woman we
know the rest of the story
now let's
take let's take a look at I have in my
in my back of my car my in my back seat
in my car of Number the car is blocking
the entrance it's the only
one that's mine
let's learn together my friends let's
learn let's
learn I'm in Source number
three are we are we together okay great
and I came today rashy says the
following today can you hear me without
the
mic great oh gosh you're all my team
today I embarked and today I arrived
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the Earth contracted for him that his
journey was miraculously shorted what do
we call
this
beautiful I left today and I came today
if you take a look at the Shar Source
number five how do we learn this the
word is
extra what day did you come obviously
you came today no I left today and I
came today further he says that um
normally this journey is 17 days he did
it in 3 hours so don't think it was boom
but it was a short end journey and he
says one of the ways that you see this
at the end of five is that a r wrote a
contract giving all of his possessions
over to Yak ainu he signed it and guess
what the date on the contract was that
very day and further this firm say is he
brought fruit with him as a gift if any
of you have ever left bananas out it
doesn't become so appealing after a
while and this is not 17 days later it's
three hours later and they were in good
condition so he knew for sure he's
telling them that this was a miracle
that happened so Rashi tells us elzar is
hinting at to the people I want you to
know I got here in no time
whatsoever and then Rashi goes on and he
says
you see the conversation of the
Patriarchs is more pleasing in front of
Hashem than the Torah of the of the
children because in the Torah we
sometimes have laws that are hinted at
and here this entire section is repeated
twice now
stop this should raise another question
for
us we're in the middle of his
conversation where should have r Where
should Rashi have mentioned this at the
beginning when he says I am the servant
of Abram let me tell you the story why
is it found here in the middle of this
conversation not at the beginning of the
conversation good now let's go a little
bit further and then we'll ask all of
our questions elezar comes back with
Rifka M so tough and Source number two
she said to the slave who is that man
walking in the field toward us and the
slave said he is my master she then took
the veil and she covered herself and
this is the source of covering the bride
before the wedding it's not Ro it's Ru
covering herself not our discussion for
tonight the slave told y all the things
he had done so elzar then tells y I got
to tell you everything that happened and
Rashi tells us what happened Source
Number Four The Miracles that were done
for him sh
sooha once again what Miracle is
mentioned the contraction of the land
and that Rifka came to him so quickly
through his prayer now my friends we see
here Rashi twice in one para mentions
this miracle of
what contraction of the land and we have
to understand what that is all about
what is crasa it's all about but I want
to raise a number of questions so over
overall question what is KS about now
it's more specific question Source
six who only does a miracle with
somebody when it's necessary like take
mosenu for example how many miracles did
Hashem do for mosenu personally very few
how many for the Jewish people a lot so
our our fundamental question here in the
end of six
why the rush wait a few more days a
miracle is only done if it's what needed
is this miracle
needed you don't know yet that was the
right
answer right so this is our question we
only do a miracle if it's needed we
don't know if it's needed or
not second
question the miracle only happen going
and not on the way back why
not well you're answering questions I
want to First what ask it why not why
was it needed one way and not the other
good and then this is going to be our
key question for
today look at the language of the PUK in
Source number two the slave to yak all
the things he had done what bothers you
about this phrase one phrase here say
it okay you don't like the slave I get
it EV say it hand on who did it he did
nothing he did
nothing all the things he had
done
hello who did these
things Shola that's why Rashi who's
bothered by this what is rashy answer
what how does rashy respond to this
problem in Source number four what does
Rashi add what word
thank you in his what in his prayers
because rash's bothered by this of
course he didn't do this so rash she
asked in his prayer so then I asked he
prayed that the ground should be
contracted really where is that found I
have the prayer that he's ding that
what that Rifka should come have I lost
you before I've even
started goodbye
good luck so let me recap the questions
one what is the whole idea of
Contracting of the land two why did it
happen why was it necessary three why
was it necessarily going and not coming
back four what does it mean when elezar
said look at all the things that I have
done AER he didn't do this Hashem did it
and five why is it that Rashi brings
this idea that greater is the
conversation of the a AOS here and not
at the beginning when Eleazar gives his
speech five simple questions we're on
the same
page just the fact that there's so many
questions on such a small Rashi just
tells you that there's so much what here
I told you this year's a little bit more
complicated than usual give me a second
chance
I thought we were starting last week and
it was a perfect introductory sheare but
God decided otherwise welcome here we
go I want to look at this on three
levels and on each level to see how we
can bring it to
what our lives because if we don't learn
for our lives then we have the
limited what was the greatness of
elezar elezar recognized that Hashem was
the one in charge Ashera is clearly
Hashem on level number one forget Rashi
right now aera look at all the things
that Hashem did and the greatness as the
D points verse number eight is that
elezar thans Hashem for every single
thing that what that happens to him he
is praising Hashem he's bowing to hasem
this is greater is theik of the AOS
why is it mentioned here because this is
the whole essence of what we learned
from Eleazar I appreciate the Miracles
that Hashem does for me and that right
off the bat is lesson number one for us
why is Rashi highlighting this here
because our lives are about recognizing
Miracles that happen abraam ainu sending
him and retelling that part of the story
there's nothing to thank Hashem for
directly but when it comes
to that I came today that the land
contracted he's emphasizing this in
order to show gratitude and gratitude is
something we continuously need to
experience in our lives
now if we say that level number one is
that Hashem is doing this we can Now
understand Mish and Source number nine
he brings down this is R
kman the
thir L
down when said is clearly referring to
because everything that happens is
coming from
the and he quotes here an idea
fromant my friends if you walk away with
nothing else for tonight I want you to
walk away with this and put in your
pocket this is a great
line AEL cant once went over to a
student and said to him but what's up
what's going on in your life so the
student answered well this is my
business and this is my family and
started uh answering the question Rie s
sler stopped him listen to what he
said double underline a KNE
I didn't ask you what Hashem was doing
for you I asked what you are doing for
Hashem is that not
gorgeous money family all of this is
what coming from
God what are you doing where's your
Torah where's your mitos where's your
that's a different question
isn't that a great line can you imagine
someone saying to you you know going
over someone said you know what's going
on with you you know what are you up to
and they start telling you and you stop
them and you say no no no I ask what
you're doing not what God is doing for
you and the
what look at you as if you
what you know I'll tell you and I've
said this many times I learned this from
somebody in very of a person in Bon when
somebody asks me uh where are you from I
answer
from under the Throne of Glory that's
for all of us come from that's where all
of our nishas are I get the most
interesting reactions to
this I tell girls don't try it on a
date particularly the first one
unless unless right that's true
too
um I can just see a boy saying my soul
was there too we must have been joined
together and you're like whoa this is
the first date we really know each other
you know we'll leave that aside
um let's talk about it on level number
one let's move a little here let's talk
about Hashem who is orchestrating this
obviously he's orchestrating everything
but AER Hashem why we don't know why but
why what could be a reason why we had to
hurry this up so
the in Source number 10 offers the
following he says
thank
you had a very Holy Soul she's one of
theah she is in the clutches of the
greatest sorcerer around to be able to
take out such a Holy Soul is not so
simple and that's why the language uses
is as if it's a MRA let's try to make
things as non uh you
know as as as as happen stance as
possible we don't want to draw attention
to the negative forces and hence he says
this is why a rinu makes him swear not
because it doesn't trust him because he
knows he's going on an impossible
mission for lovon and buuel to let Rifka
out of their clutches it's not going to
be easy and the medas tells us that
right they try to uh poison him right
like this isn't just a simple story
let's get this bill out of here that's
why that's
why the and the end of
10 why did it have to happen so quickly
because we have to get her out ASAP ASAP
stands
for now rilski develops this in Source
number 11 and he says 11 12 13 He says
the following he says we find in the
arrow and 11 that the morning after they
agree okay she can go so elu says okay
we're ready and they say ready where
we're going now no no no where wait 10
months wait a year what's the rush why
so here rilski offers something very
fascinating he says when you take a look
at lovan who was the master of
deception you watch brilliant on the one
hand you see the way loveon speaks
eloquent right in Para say he says to
yakob oh you're my brother you're going
to work for me for free oh please that's
it's so not nice right he talks in such
a we use his speech at the end of 13 by
a wedding when we bless
the that's the we give Thea that comes
from love his spee well that's not
tonight's talk his speech is eloquent
his speech is beautiful but we know
behind his speech is what cunning
deception and trickery now for 14 let's
learn inside lon's two- faace refinement
was precisely the reason why Rifka
remained unaffected by his wickedness if
goes a young girlly the three or 14 and
children of that age are naturally
influenced by appearances this G her L
refine and highly respectable surface
and with a natural Trust of childhood
she took this to be a Brother's true
personality Lov and ran to greet a guest
he personally prepared lodging for a
pers stranger hourly of kindness refined
charismatic and a child doesn't go
beneath this look at the way Rifka
speaks she learned from L stay Adon
drink my master she has learned this
refinement of character from L what she
has not learned from him was what
deception the deception so when Lan says
I want her to wait a while why say it
she she says no but why does he want her
to wait ah I've got to finish training
her she she's now right to learn what's
behind what you say and that's why
elezar said what no no we have to get
out right or now so now we can
appreciate um when elzra realized double
underline in 15 the vital importance of
concluding the betral with the utmost
speed his miraculously short and JY
rning to karon and pressed upon him the
importance of concluding his business
there in similar haste Hashem short in
the way for him three hours instead of
17 days it was impressing upon elezar
get her out as fast as
possible and that's why he insists let's
go now but there was no rush to do what
to get back one she's out of Lov On's
house now you can what they can slow
down 18th though the journey to Karan
was miraculously short and the return
Journey was a regular duration El othera
needed the Miracle on the way there to
literally rescue Rifka from her previous
home at precisely the optimal moment in
her development on the way back however
there's no reason for such haste in fact
on his spiritual achievement in this
case entering the Holy House of avinu
must always come with effort here delays
and challenges must be faced and
overcome instead of avoided for this
reason elzar and Rifka were're not
granted on the return what are some
lessons we could learn for our lives
let's highlight a few one it's at the
end of 15 a very important lesson is a
person should never tolerate a negative
influence for even a single moment don't
stay in a place where you'll encounter
Temptations or tests of character it's
very easy easy for people to
say me it's not going to happen to me
I'm
what strong I'm
strong I was just talking with a girl
today in seminary and uh she was telling
me that she comes from ex environment
the girls that she's friends with are of
a little of a different nature why and
she says so from around these girls so
I'm starting to dress a little bit
differently than I usually dress and I'm
doing things I don't usually do I
said I don't get it she says don't you
get it if I'm not around the same
standard and there's a little bit of a
lesser standard so I've adapted to them
and I said to her why don't you have a
strength of character to stand up for
what you believe is correct and right oh
I never thought about that oh maybe you
should think about that GE Mrs Smiles
that was really insightful oh wow I'm
happy to hear
that
okay for sure for
sure second idea
Source says
V she runs and he runs toward her why is
he running I get why she's running why
is he running and this is the key in the
bracket in
19 as it
says when the miracle happened to him
and he realized that Hashem is answering
him one two three he realized it's an
eight rut Zone it's a time of favor and
when you have a time of favor what do
you you do you grab
it he runs and we know this in our lives
it's very interesting you you see this
in the next p piece by Yosef a sadik he
says go up quickly to my father and
bring him down here it was also an eight
Red Zone this was the first time all the
brothers were together unified on the
same page you have no greater eight rut
Zone than this grab the opportunity and
and take yaku ainu down and this is true
for our lives when we feel like the
heavens are open and we've all had
experiences like this one thing after
another just seems to fit into place and
things are just on a certain momentum at
that time don't say well things are
looking good I think I'll take a break
and just sit back and no Take that
momentum and what with it run with it
move forward that we have to be a tune
to the times we're living in and that's
in general sometimes you know in
retrospect we say ah I should have our
challenge is not to say I should have
but I'll do it right now I'm going to
grab the opportunity I will make mention
and this brings me to the next page if I
can find
it I don't know I can't turn pages
anymore is Source number 20
the is and the stier both said this is
fascinating I'm in the bracket and 20
when it comes toid we may not delay if
someone suggests an idea for a sh one
must look into it immediately because
now may be the auspicious time for this
sh to come through which is a very
fascinating idea here that someone
suggests the sh for somebody you know
for a child grandchild
yourselves instead of saying oh okay
I'll look into it tomorrow the next day
make a phone call right now because you
never know why was this given to you
when now and that's true not only of
shim in generally in life when something
an opportunity comes your
way it's not by accident it's not by
accident let me put this in English
sometimes we are so
busy that we just allow these
opportunities to
what and then I have a little secret to
tell you not only do the opportunities
pass Us by but something else passes Us
by and that is say it who said it
life life life passes Us by and then we
reach a certain age and we
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say some people say oi and some people
say
oi and if you're gonna say ove then
that's really what
ove so my friends idea number one was
pretty clear who is a Theon
shalam what's up with you it's what
you're doing not what Theon Shalom is
doing we ber Shalom needed to take Rifka
out ASAP because it was such a bad
spiritual environment she was in the
clutches of the greatest evil we have to
take her out right away and then we have
time to bring her back home grab
opportunities that come our way that was
a summation of level number one
level number two who are we talking
about we're talking about
elaser El Source number
two notes when Rashi says he emphasizes
boso because elzar ding for these things
they happened to
him when a person dve in it's as if they
are involved in doing this thing ah it's
Hashem right but the F the prayers is
what affects what happen you know where
you see this in the next s the P
says man was not around to work the
ground and Rashi tells us because there
was no man to D ah I would think working
the ground is hoing planting sewing I
don't know what they do to the ground I
don't get it no you know what really
working the ground is that
happening and that's really a metaphor
for our
lives we think in our lives that we're
doing we're
accomplishing the only barometer of
success and the only part of success we
really have is Thea we put in before we
do anything and that's really a yod a
fundamental principle for our lives
again we're trying to bring this down to
our lives before who embarking on any
type of project
Davin I'll tell you
personally that at the end of sh before
we take three steps back are you with me
right there at that moment right we say
a p with our name in it and when we dve
in for personal things that whatever we
need right we dve in for Amel
good personally I go through my entire
day the way I Envision it obviously
there are surprises we all have
surprises but I go through I'm talking
about my entire day making very quickly
yeah from breakfast to buying gas to I
go through the entire day and I ask
Hashem please help me through each part
of the day what does this do for me it
reminds me that whatever I'm about to do
today driving teaching it doesn't matter
what I'm do doing it's not me I need
what I need I need help from
above and it just am I making any sense
orients my
day and we're in Partnership but I can't
do it
alone elezar is the prime example of
somebody who doesn't take credit for
himself and that's why when we say great
is the Seer of the ab
of
um 21
rwad and the other speech is so
beautiful to usam why because he doesn't
focus on himself he focuses on he is the
servant of ainu and he speaks about this
but it's never explicitly spelled out he
didn't
boast he he had the humility and that's
what we say that this is what's so
beloved to
sh and throughout 25 through 27
throughout his speech he recognizes that
I am an Ever ABI it's not about me it's
about my relationship with abrau but
let's take this further when we say air
and Rashi says 28o
in hisa so let's try to examine this a
little bit deeper my
friends not Trev rice the
following if generally a person is told
okay I want you to go find a wife now we
all know that elzar had a personal stake
here he wanted what he wanted his
daughter to be uh married right so if I
were
alasa I would come to the well and stand
here like
this and if a girl would come great and
if no girl came then what you know what
I tried elezar doesn't do that he comes
to the well and the first thing he does
is what DAV what does this daving teach
us in the squiggly which is half a
squiggly in 28
he not following just you know protocol
do but
rather he wanted to be successful he's
staving for Success he's not trying to
get out of this that quality of elezar
the ability of trying to fulfill the
will of his master it's not about him
his name isn't mentioned in this case
evid is like the highest Accolade we
have this mosha is called an evid Hashem
it's not about him he has the quality of
V it's about I want this to work for my
master his Fila is a heartfelt fer that
Hashem responds to good okay my friends
now we put our seat belts on and we're
going to climb into the air because I
have not spoken really about this
contraction of the land all I've
mentioned is that hasem wanted him to
get there fast so he had it happened
fast my friends sit back it's a little
bit complicated okay it's a lot
complicated and we're going to do this
and I generally don't so if this is the
first time you've ever met me give me a
second
chance maybe even a
third but it's fasc not but but negates
what I just said and it is very
fascinating at the same time time listen
closely I get it elezar davins that this
should be a girl perfect where does
elzar Davin that the land should
what
contract we don't see it but that
doesn't mean it's not there so if it's
not there and Rashi says that the
miracle happened boso in his F so it
must be there and now we have to what we
have to find it are you ready let's go
we're entering into
cabalistic
Torah verse
32 same page bottom of the
page the the cousin tagid asked the
following question did the land come to
him or did he come to the
land do you hear the difference
what' you
say so I understand he it did you are
right because it says
C we're talking about the the land let's
understand yeah good I love it I love it
I love it I love it doing great do you
want to teach 7 o' next
week so I I want to share you with you
the
following the says that in
this and I came today to the
well I'm in the Double spig L
32 the Russ t the r are the first
letters of This spells out the
name the Holy Name Of God that contracts
the land
so begins with a V we don't use the word
letter he my husband said if I would say
it the way it is I would create terrible
challenges in the world spiritually so
I'm going to use the word K instead of
HE L
Al K right the K is really a hey that is
the name of God that contracts the land
now where is this coming from so I'll
tell you work with me when AEM created
the world the P says graci b
elim at Al
same letters except it's in a different
order our is V
Al and bra is Alf k v k now what is
going on
here so far so good I flipped the page
where did Eleazar learn this name of
well I'll tell you 33 when ainu speaks
to him he says and I made you swear by
Hashem I'm in the bracket in 33 third
line
down K same letters so you think we're
having conversations here and that's
what it means
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the secret names that the ofos are
speaking it's not found in the Torah of
the what of the children hence this is
where Rashi what inserts this idea
because we're not just talking about
coming to the well today we're talking
about the deepest name of God that
created the world and the world was
created through what ssum
contraction and allows us a person to
contract the ground now work with me
slly this name of Hashem and we have to
talk about why elezar switches it I get
it is the name of Hashem that's referred
to as the name of that of knowledge this
name takes
knowledge and connection
and that explains just parenthetically
34 for those who are familiar Yakov ainu
also has the ground contract remember he
goes to and then he saids I give out I
passed by the place of my forefather's D
then I didn't what D there and the
language that use in the arrow in 34
is he put his mind D to return he used
the the the the the the secret of that V
K Al
K let's do this outside because it's
complex there are two ways that Hashem
creates the world there's the way of tea
which is a natural order and then what
we call the malam the what the
miraculous above and beyond our
challenge in this world let's go to 36
is
our challenge is whatever you gain
pleasure in this world it's not about
you it's about serving Hashem what from
what P do we know this
behold in all of your ways that who no
God what is our job our job is in
37 is to take at has
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I take the heavens and I have it
connected with what the ground when I
have Heaven and Earth connected together
I've created a different dimension than
a person who is just living on Earth
separate from heaven and in fact the p
comir p Freedman little bit Bell Torah
says the following when a person is
involved in doing whatever they're doing
even if they have I'm doing it for
hashem's sake most of the time it's
really not so much for hashem's sake as
much as what for their own sake so then
the ground says I don't need to really
work with you because it's really about
what
you but when a person says it's not
about me at
all I am connecting heaven and Earth
together at that moment the ground says
I'm going to help you out the ground
contracts as a result of a person's
desire to do the will of God and Hashem
is helping them and enabling them to be
successful in a more expedite
fashion so what does it mean that elz
DAV by
saying I came today to the well he's
saying I use this focus of
completely dedicated to doing my job my
name isn't even mentioned it's not about
me it's all about doing the will of God
and his filer was answered and what
happened the ground came to him the
ground Kaa Lo
now I want to make mention
here and this is a great FYI you know
what FYI
is
39 the Russ vot of v v Al K the two H
spell is 10 the V is six 10 and six is
16 the ALF is what one 16 + 1 is 17 17's
numerical value of 12 this name of God
of Contracting the land is called the
name of Tove it's a name of goodness
this is one of the reasons why the bmov
hakadosh has his name he's the Bal the
master of Shem to of the name of to of v
k Al K and if you ever learned or read
the bmov stories one of the things you
know about the bmov is he's always is
what in one place and then the next
minute he's Minsk to pins to rinse to I
don't know what they are in poing there
and and he's all over the place and you
almost when you you know what I'm
talking about when you look at these
stories you're saying like what's going
on here it's a literal B
shto he is the master of this name a
isn't that fascinating that was worth
coming out tonight I don't know about
why want much else now practically for
us because I got to get moving here
because I still have a third level
practically for us there's a safer that
someone here actually gifted me with and
I think you should gift yourselves with
it's called ker hasem by RAB Daniel
garfo apparently s rler is coming out
for one specific to women
kti and that
is throughout our day we should connect
sh which means I'm reading 40 beware
aware of the countless opportunities
through mitzil and take advantage of
them by having cavana for each one even
while busy with work or errands a person
can have the mindset I'm doing the will
of God I'm making dinner it's a for my
family I'm pairing socks it's a for my
family it turns the socks into
what yeah it's a MIT opportunity
an example a man owns a bakery can
repair bread solely as means to earn
money or he can do by supplying bread a
doctor with his patients and a grosser
with his customers every profession by
adding CED to the actions already doing
people can marit hundreds of even
thousand the Mitzvah every day you put
on a seat belt I'm doing the Mitzvah of
guarding your soul you're you're driving
to work I'm doing the Mitzvah of going
to every part of your day it's is
connecting
SH now I I am not telling you that
you're going to
have it didn't work I still had the
traffic from to here at the same time
you will
find you will find help from above
because you're linking yourself with
Hashem it's not just about
me and that's our goal for our lives and
that's why um the Victor Miller says
that when we speak about R Li hasem
wants our heart liba is really our
thoughts that's what he wants he wants
that he wants me to think about what I'm
doing we call this in modern day
psychology mindfulness yeah buzz word of
today let me give one more example then
I want to move
on you get up and get somebody a glass
of water it could be a glass GL of water
you think in your head I want to do a
that
said that glass of water is yours for
eternity we can create eternity with our
day but not once a day not three times a
day but thousands of times a day I go to
sleep in order to be able to wake up
tomorrow to serve you
omg eight hours of sleep eight time uh
60 Minutes is 8 * 60 is 4 I don't know
are you following me I don't know the
math okay now my
friends I want to take this deeper are
you with me so I'm almost there so on
level number one at Shera Ison shalum he
had to get Ri out of there as soon as
possible our lesson grab opportunities
when they come good level number two
it's elzer elazer is one who d he
doesn't take his mission lightly he is a
model for us of somebody who's able to
step outside of self to do the will of
God elaz there is also somebody who has
taught us the the the great value of
this
name our lives are about taking Heaven
and Earth together and being able to
what combine them together that our
lives this is for us we can't maybe be
the bmob but we can have more of a
consciousness of putting Heaven and
Earth together and we have I can't tell
you between now and the time you go home
tonight you will see a zillion
opportunity hold the door open for
someone give someone a ride you have so
many opportunities you can't even
imagine of connecting Heaven and Earth
so now my friends here comes the
question I'm going to talk faster and
here goes elezar doesn't do it in order
of
sh he P first
put
before why does he move it around why
does he
put Earth before heaven and I want to
share with you an absolutely stupendous
alad in 42 the end of the first
paragraph in 42 tells us the
following the Heaven and the heavens the
upper heavens
it's the land and everything in the land
well hold on a second that does not make
sense if Hashem has the heavens so then
it should be first Hashem has the upper
Heavens the heavens or the and the
ground or ground heaven and upper heaven
but to say heaven upper Heaven ground
like
hello says the absolutely
fantastic when Hashem gave the
Torah at that moment the the ground
became higher than
what the upper
Heavens the upper Heavens you have the
shim the heavens the shim the upper
heavens and then what is even above
that the ground is even higher and
that's what it means that the of
Theos before the Torah was given elzar
was was able to tap into this reality
Focus first on the arat this is where
Hashem is found and that's the deeper
understanding of
K the ground jumped to him what does
that mean he understood the
Primacy of the ground in the
relationship with Hashem we are not here
as well I'd rather be in heaven and this
is second choice no the optimum place to
be is where down here now I'm almost
finished my
friends if there was one place on Earth
I get it the torah's down here we serve
Hashem great if there's one place down
here that one feels
the kadha of Hashem present in our lives
which place is that
very good ER
toell erit toell this Source 46 the
Practical world is part of our divine
service we live in aem's land and our
entire lives are his home we're always
connected to him even the physical
aspects of life I have an orange tree in
my backyard I just can't pick oranges
what do I have to do true my
Meer but we live with
Hashem that that's the beauty of er Isel
you mind you know what i' say even in
the stores you
know you go to America at this time of
year what do they have in the stores
well we just finished which color in
October orange and now we've entered
which colors red and green okay I'm not
being being very very vague here you go
to erisel soon the suod are coming out
and then you have the dried fruit are
coming out and then you have the Mish
and then the worst part is when they
have the cleaning material come out that
I know I'm like I'm
finished I forgot the H
yeah what a place to be in you feel the
what you feel the kadua and the and the
whole cycle we're living in a different
dimension here now here's the key says
the SS in
4748 when elezar came to Khan what is
came with
him he brought ER Isel with him when
when when L this is when L sees elezar
he says b he leaves from being someone
cursed to someone blessed because L
saw with
him doesn't mean that the land
contracted which it may have but it
means the land jumped with him that
Eleazar wasn't just coming himself he's
coming with the kadua of er Israel with
him and this 49 and we're 50 and we're
out of here and that
is who is aera so we have Hashem as
option one option number two is Eleazar
who is option number three
a
person who which person represented ER
Park
salance elazar says to Y this is all
that happened
aarea to your credit it was through
youra it was through you who is the
personification of AR Isel that all of
this happened that I had this of having
Rifka come so quickly that Eric joined
with me I know it's not about me I know
it's in what it's and that's why in
50 Al's journey to Aran by cling Earth
to fold up under him why then didn't he
returnship simly accelerated he had gone
become let's consider C to first meeting
his future wife he had just gone out to
pray in the field we to presume there
prayers the director to a finding a wife
it's known that Hashem desires to hear
the prayers of sadikin and had El return
R any sooner Hashem would not have had
the pleasure of
hearing his brought him fast to get her
his fos brought him arel with him but
now Hashem said okay now that you have
him I want to hear your what a little
bit more and that for us is is is I
think the final lesson for our lives
of we've spoken about the importance I
have no idea but whatever was probably
very
important I'm wiped we've spoken about
the importance of taking the at ratone
the time of favor and grabbing it we've
also spoken about the humility that we
need and the ability which is part of
the humility it's not about me
connecting Heaven and Earth and daving
that Hashem should help us and we also
have to realize that wants ouros and
that sometimes when we say well I've
daved and I've davened and I've daved
and nothing is happening so we don't
know what is happening we're so limited
in our vision but the one thing we do
know is Hashem appreciates ouros and one
should never say well
no Hashem said you know what I want
those 17 days of Tove I want those 17
days that feed us and sometimes Hashem
elongates our Journeys in life and
things don't happen as quickly as we
want all of
us so we have to recognize that when
we're in challenging situations which is
what we're in now our recourse has to be
recognizing Hashem wants ouros Hashem
wants us to connect with him and it's
not about us we have to have the
humility to recognize we have to do our
part we have to go out we have to fight
we have to do we have to DAV But
ultimately it's Hashem who's leading the
way