Shnayim Yomi - Bereshit - Chamishi - #5 - Rabbi Joey Haber - The Danger of Losing Focus

You ever feel like you're all over the place? You're being pulled in 12 different directions at the same time? Maybe you're on a phone call and you're trying to respond to an email while you're still dealing with people are waiting to meet with you while there's other things that you have to you're supposed to be home at the same time. It feels like these this lives we lead. Well, this very short aliyah is for you cuz in this aliyah we see so many of the people that invented what would be the future of the world. Lamech had two wives and he had childrens and one of the children was Avi Oel Mcn the father of sort of nomads that go from place to place and taking care of cattle. The other one had a his brother's name was Yuval he was the father of music and all the musical instruments. Korv and then Chila had a child whose name was Tuval Kayen. What was he was? He was the father of all the instruments that were used to plow and plant in a field. But I want to focus in on this yaval avi was the father of nomads. What does that mean? And Ash says he was the first person to sort of follow the cattle from place to place. And then Ash says a midrash and he says you know what else it was? He's the father of the building houses for idol worship. What are those two things are? How do they go together? Think what he's saying is like this is that what gets us off our game. What gets us, God forbid, even idol worship is when we're all over the place. The man who created nomads is the man who created idol worship. You know later on the bas says in many par from now when her god was sent out of out of abinu's house she was lost and rashi says she worshiped who how do you know she wor just says she was lost the answer is when you're lost that's the idea of being lost means you're not having the right belief in hashem being all over the place means you're not settled in the mindset of what hashem wants for us so when you feel that mentality where you feel like you're going from here to here. Literally, you feel like a mental nomad. When you feel that happening, settle yourself. Focus yourself. Because when you're everywhere, you're not in the game of Hashem. You're not in the faith of Hashem. You're not in the focus that Hashem gave us. You're not in the arms and the trust of Hashem. So maybe we don't have physical nomads that much today, but we have mental ones. When you get in that state, snap out of it and put yourself in Hashem's arms and put yourself in his trust. And then you don't feel like you're everywhere. You're right exactly where you need to be.