The Crowd Will Cheer! | Rabbi Meir Simcha Sperling

Rabosai, I want to share with you an idea that I had this morning that I think is extremely powerful when all else fails. Perhaps. This morning I was getting a haircut and I'm sitting there, I'm laying back, the guy is doing his thing. I hear on the side - they had a big TV on the side that - My glasses were off, Rabosai, yeah? And I hear they're talking about a certain actress that comes out, she steps out in front of a crowd of - I can't tell you how much because I wasn't looking. And they were cheering and cheering and cheering. At least she couldn't get any words out. And I was imagining, like, how many people were there watching this actress come out and, you know, smile or whatnot. And as I'm getting the haircut over there, I was thinking sometimes we're walking down the street, you're driving, you're hiking on a mountain, Rabosai, and there's something that's tempting you and you're very tempted to look, you really want to look and all the different things that you were taught, and all the different clips that you saw and you heard and you're trying to - you just can't, you can't muster up that energy to do it. What could we think about? What's our last resort? Think of Olam Haba, think of eternity, think of this, remember your Rebbe’s face, remember that Vort, remember that Kneitch, and this and that. When all else fails, what do you think about? Imagine yourself standing in the middle of a stadium. MetLife Stadium, by the Siyum Hashas, 90,000 people. A huge auditorium, 100,000 people. A Broadway show, where these actresses come out and this and that, a million people. Some of these, you know, these concerts out there, a million people. Imagine a stadium with a million people. You're right in the middle of that stadium. The light is on you. Everyone is staring at you. But it's not people. It's angels. Imagine 1 million Mal’achim sitting around on a stadium and you're in the middle and they're all waiting for you. Will he? Won't he? Will he? Yeah, will - no, he won’t - will - and they're all cheering. And they're ready for you to overcome this Nisayon. And the second you look down, you state that ‘I'm not looking.’ ‘I am right now the star performer here. ‘There are 1 million Mal’achim looking. ‘I'm going to overcome this challenge.’ And this is true. You don't have to imagine. This is exactly what's happening. We see all over the place that Chazal say, if you only knew what Torah was. If you only knew what overcoming one Nisayon was, one hour in this world. If you only understood what you were doing, you’d do it a whole different way because you understood. So just imagine. Imagine yourself in the middle of a stadium with 1 million Mal’achim. Get this thing in your head good, so every time you walk around you have it. A million Mal’achim about to cheer you on, by just looking down, just keep down, just walk a little bit faster, just drive past that billboard and you'll be good to go. And then they're going to be cheering you, and the Schar, forget about it, we’re not even talking about the Schar, we're just talking about the Kavod, Rabosai, a Shtikel Kavod to help you overcome your challenges. Rabosai, let's have this picture in our minds, so when all else fails, we have some backup artillery. Rabosai, good luck out there.