Shnayim Yomi - Devarim - Chamishi - #5 - Rabbi Joey Haber - Hashem Determines the Path

Do you ever find in your life that some things you're doing really just work way better than you expected and other things just don't and you're not even sure the difference why? I think in aliatamishi it's a longer aliyah aliat kamishi capt in paradim captures this idea because now moshen is going to recap the Jewish people going through different countries and when it comes to the country of muav the Jewish people are not allowed to fight when it comes to where is camped and lives the Jewish people are not supposed to fight ammon also Jewish people are not supposed to fight and all of this is listed here but then You're going to go to war with them. You're going to go to war with them. And you say, "One second, why these? We don't these we don't obviously Hashem doesn't want us to fight these and does want us to fight these. But why? What's the difference? What's the difference in terms of me whether I could succeed or not?" The answer is sometimes Hashem says, "This is amun and mo for you countries that I don't want you to be in the battle with and I don't want you to succeed." And then other things you're involved in are like and that Hashem says this I'm going to help you conquer. And sometimes you have to realize this isn't you. It's not something wrong with you. There are certain points in your life where you say once I have an account with a custom and this account is going so easily and doesn't even make sense why I didn't put a lot of effort and the other account I'm putting a ton of effort and I'm not getting anywhere and I don't know the difference. The difference is him. Just like Hashem told the Jewish people, this country you can't fight. This country you cannot fight. This country you cannot fight. This one you could and this one you could. Here you're going to succeed in battle. Here I don't want you to fight at all. Because Hashem decides where we succeed, where we don't. Where we win and where we lose. Don't get too excited about a victory. Don't get too down on a defeat because ultimately it's all in his hands. And everyone we know has in their life a tremendous amount of failure and a tremendous amount of success because it's not me, it's him. Good luck and have a great day.