Shnayim Yomi - Bereshit - D'var Torah

[Music] so you made it to Friday it was an honor to spend a week together I have to thank you for participating in this and I hope as just like you made it through the first week hasem will give you the encouragement to make it through all of the weeks of the year and every single I want to share with you a thought that maybe will help you in that struggle when Hashem curses men everyone knows the you're gonna eat by the sweat of your brow that's famous but the PUK before most people don't quote thorns and thistles are going to grow for you what's a thisle what's a d what is hasem saying you going eat from the ground what does it mean that you're going to have thistles in your life so I want to tell you incredible idea from the he says like this he says there are two words in the Torah that are almost exactly the same that have completely opposite meanings these two words have almost the exact same letters there's just a slight difference in the in the letters of one to the other and those the letter that's slightly different happens to be enlarged the first word isem says I am one the word the is enlarged and that word really captures everything that a Jew is about Hashem is one I trust him I believe in him I love him I count on him I worship him I serve him and that it lifts me up it gives me strength it gives me courage everything that's beautiful in the world is captured in the word now there's another word in the Torah that's exactly the same but it's so different you shall not have to you a God that's different is the same thing as instead of a and are slightly different and the in is enlarged what does that word mean captures everything that's wrong with life I'm distracted I'm pulled aside I believe in other things I worship other people I'm jealous of what they have I'm looking at other things I'm distracted all of those things those things bring me down they get me angry get me frustrated so here's two words is everything that's great about this world and is everything that's terrible about it you know what most of us do we jump back and forth from you might have one hour in the morning you feel phenomenal yah hasem is with you literally the next hour you feel like you fell off the cliff two hours later you back up you feel safe and secure again you walk into the house and everything seems great and then all of a sudden you find out that more money was spent than you anticipated and boom you're in a Zone and you're frustrated again we're basically jumping back and forth from hashem's curse to man was D what's a d d the confusion that all of us experience in life yes there's hard work but I don't know if hard work is nearly as bad as the D the fact that we're confused and we go back and forth we're up and we're down but like I don't even know who am I am I a person who's optimistic and happy and feels phenomenal or am I a person who's down and frustrated and wants to give up that's how Hashem created the world and in fact the word CS means a thorn what's a thorn how you spell c k vadi 196 Dar is R and doid R is 200 doid is four the difference between 200 and 20 and4 is 196 CZ is the difference between the dollar and the C is that jump cem says you're going to jump back and forth in fact when Hashem told m to go down cu the Jewish people were serving the eel you know what hasem told him red how you spell red the Jewish people are confused they can't figure out who their leader is they can't figure out who to worship that's how so what do we do in life I'm going to share with you a little story this is from a Cherokee a Cherokee is an Indian an Indian chief he was once sitting with his grandson and his grandson sent to him Grandpa can you teach me about life and his grandfather says yeah I'll teach you about life I want to tell about life works the way life works is there are two wolves inside of you one is called The Wolf of faith in that wolf of Faith there's everything that's great Focus happiness energy optimism and then there's another wolf called The Wolf of fear and inside of that wolf is everything that's negative frustration anger nervousness indecisiveness all of those things he says and those wolves are battling inside of you every single day see he says Grandpa which wolf is going to win and listen to his answer because it's powerful he says it depends which wolf you feed if you feed the fear it'll grow and grow until it consumes you if you feed the faith it'll grow and grow until that becomes you and that really is the antidote to the D you want to know what the response is to that confusion of is feed the faith in fact there's one month in the year that's known for its happiness what's the name of that month Adar how do you spell Adar there's a and the confusion but then there's an Al if you start with I am Hashem your God then that separates the confusion and turns it into happiness I wish everyone who's part of this program that you should have a year of starting the day or ending the day every day with that Aliah and using it the right way allow that alyah to inspire you allow that Aliyah to send a message to you allow that Aliah to ground you in t every single day and hopefully that will be your of every single day of the year and if you do that the confusion will be gone the frustration of the day will be gone and instead you'll Infuse yourself with because you'll be the person who feeds the faith shabbat shalom [Music]