Shnayim Yomi - Devarim - D'var Torah- Rabbi Yaniv Meirov

Once again a very special thank you to Yomi for this opportunity to share with you some words of inspiration. So parhatim touches upon the meagim the spies and it's no coincidence. The word for coincidence is in Hebrew is mikra mik if you change the letters around you have the word everything's from hashem everything's from god there's no such thing as coincidence Judaism. So right is right before we know that were mourning the destruction of the bet of the holy temples and the the spies actually happened the whole situation where they cried for no reason. Hashem said I'm going to give you a reason for to cry for for dua for generations happened on so it's nothing happens to be but that's the situation we find ourselves in but if there's one message one lesson that we could learn from the whole situation we touched upon this a few days ago is the co the power of the mind they looked at themselves as grasshoppers they looked small they thought of themselves small and that's the way others perceive them. That's the way they looked at themselves as well. It reminds me of a beautiful story yet a powerful lesson uh told over by the renowned Rabbi from and he says over that there was an individual that was very very quiet and very reserved, very to himself to the point that he would go to work, no one would say hi to him or by him. He would just go in, do whatever he had to do and leave. Even in sh in betid he would go he would pray no high no by no shuzi no talking no connection nothing to anyone he would go and pray deep even in his own home his wife and his kids they barely realized when he was home and when he was not home he was very reserved very to himself and he thought about it to himself and he said you know enough is enough nobody respects me no one acknowledges me no one realizes me I don't appreciate it I don't like it anymore and he decides that he's going to make a change. So, what did he decide to do? He's going to go to the hat store. And in the hat store, he says he's going to buy the most expensive hat. And he walks in there and he says, "I want to buy the most expensive hat you have." And the owner of the hat shop is like, "You?" He's like, "Yes, me. I want to buy the most expensive. You could afford it?" "Yeah. What's the cost?" He says, "This hat over here is over $1,000." $1,000? Here you go. and he buys this beautiful fur hat and he takes his old hat and he puts it in the bag and he just starts walking the street and all of a sudden people are like, "Hey, how are you? What's going on?" Like, "I'm doing great. How are you? Everything's good." And he starts talking to people. He walks into the people say, "Good morning, good afternoon. How you doing?" Walk to work. Hey, it's been a while. Everything okay? Everything's good. Everything's fine. and he walks into the house and he sits down on the dining room table and uh he's eating his dinner and he's pointing towards his hat to his wife and she's looking up. She's like, "What are you pointing towards?" And he's like, "Uh-uh." And she's looking up. She's like, "I don't see any leaks in the reef. What are you referring to?" Like, "You don't see my new hat." And she's like, "What are you talking about? It's not your new hat." and he takes off the hat and he realizes that he put the new hat in the bag and he was wearing his old hat at the old time. The whole time he's wearing the old hat. What was the difference? The difference was the perception, the mind. He thought to himself, "Oh, important." Oh, he thought to himself ah but at the end of the day what it comes down to is the and same thing with regards to we all know that the tells us that every single generation that the mdash the holy temple is not rebuilt it's as if it was destroyed that means it's not a destruction that we're crying over thousands of years ago but every single year that's not rebuilt it's our fault and we all know that the reason was destroyed was because of because of baseless hatred because of not not liking one another for no reason. So what do we have to do? We have to have how does one get to that point? It's very simple like we've been discussing up until now. It's a mindset. We're going to have a mindset from now on Jewish person like myself. It's a mindset. You have to tell yourself. I do this all the time. I see people, I know them, I don't know them, but you know what I think to myself? I love you. I love everyone. And you know what? That's a very big difference. At first, it might feel like it's just words. But at the end of the day, those words come concrete. They become strong. It's going to have a very big effect on you. And if a person works on his mind to love every single Jew, every single person, you're going to have to another brick towards the mdash. And we're going to not have Shabb as a fast day. We're going to have the mdash rebuilt who speed days. Thank you very much for listening. Thank you very much for joining. Thank you very much once again to have an amazing Shabbat and we should have only good news.