The First Step To Attaining Ruach HaKodesh

[Music] thank you of course the Satan is going to tell you that you can't do it it's too much for you too much for you now page 20b talks about a track that a person can follow in order to elevate themselves to the point of becoming someone that has also known as the path of the just he uh uses the same path with a few uh uh a few different things where the order of of the steps are slightly different in a few places but the path in itself is the same but what's what's the main thing the main thing that they have in common whether it's foreign whether it's a man or a woman a servant or a mistress a uh a uh old or young Jew or nanju everyone is able to get to a point of having based on their actions so how what kind of actions do you need to do that says what it is what it says this is the steps you need to do so now we're not going to worry about all two dozen steps let's worry about step number one what's step number one is it common is the same thing step number one is the same thing what is it learn to love learn to learn to rhyme follow it learn to go and follow it one of the Tommy demons foreign types of goods and you had to have a license for every different type of good this strange government that was trying to torture people with all types of strange regulations so he had some Goods that according to the law of the land was not allowed but people needed them and there was no other way to get them to be allowed so he sold them anyway but as you would have it one of the government employees came into town and it was looking to catch somebody hot-handed selling things they're not allowed to sell as soon as saw this saw that this person is coming down the uh down the road he got out of the store and went to the bit midrash to go learn to so when they ask them for the love the you left the store unattended and his government employee didn't even pass by your store didn't touch it how did you know that you're going to learn Torah is going to help how did you know that you're going to learn today to be protected against this danger that you had to catch you selling something you're not allowed at the best case scenario getting fined all of your possessions at the worst case scenario that may kill you how did you know they're going to learn Torah under such conditions because either way if they go into your store even if you're not there they arrest you they do whatever they want so how did you know they're going to learn that's the solution responded it's very simple it says in Psalm 119 verse number 95 you have to go learn to love you have to go learn to lie in order to escape any trouble says that's when he became my Rabbi when I heard the story that's when he became my Remy why because not only did he use the Torah as something to escape to under all conditions no matter what that's where we go that's where we that's when we pray that's what we learn that's what we do every day all day but not only did he learn to on a regular basis not only did he use tala he escaped to it but he was good enough to the Torah that he had a Pursuit he had a verse to back his decisions he wasn't just running to bet me glass because he has nowhere else to go and he just likes to he actually learned it to us so much so that he knew this is what the Torah says you have trouble go learn Torah you have a headache go learn Torah you are looking for a wife go learn to write you're looking for for a job go learn Torah you're having uh money issues go learn to everything go learn Torah not in this particular case not only learned but he had a verse for every single problem you can have in life you know what it says about this verse for different things that's when he became already when someone is so good to the Torah knows that the teachings are not only Divine but they are applicable to our life no matter who what when and how your life is that's what I want to I made my Rabbi nice to say that same was any less but nonetheless said I connected to him at that point now the key here we learned is that when you use the Torah you're always going to succeed but sometimes people think they're using the Torah because they heard something or they learned something but they don't necessarily know how to apply it and what ends up happening is many times they decide for themselves that this is the way you apply it and they end up causing more damage than good one of the examples is brought in a safe field that I mentioned several times over the years called always say oh Israel was written by one of the Tommy Deen of rabi saimi Salata and he writes in there some of his own commentaries that he learned from Israeli from abhishai misalant and also many of the letters from himself and in there he says it's a story one time during the heavy day of Yom Kippur during the day of judgment during the day of all of us pleading with Hashem he said he saw one of the Kayla members that uh hide the fear of Hashem from the day on his face so much so that when he passed by rabies he didn't even notice it he didn't say hi nothing face was like full of fear and he didn't even recognize who's next in he didn't say hello nothing so please a good thing no it's not it's not Sadiq listens says he system why do I have to suffer because he is scared of God why do I have to suffer because he's scared of God why is it my fault that he's scared of God at first you think to yourself wait a minute how how are you suffering how are you suffering why you really need people to say hello but I'll be salant is trying to teach is tamid is that although the Torah said you have to have fear of Heaven It also says that when you see someone have a nice face smile say hello your fear of Heaven does not need to be on the exterior your fear of Heaven needs to be on the interior so when you pass by somebody especially someone from your Kila your community needless to say you pass by your own rabbi or the rabbi of the community and you don't even acknowledge that they're even there that means that what you're doing although on the exterior looks like a good thing you have fear of Heaven why you're doing it from your own mind rather from the way that the sages said your fear of Heaven needs to be expressed in a different way why because at the same thought it said that have fear of Heaven also says that you have to have a nice face when you see people can't walk around like it's like you just went through War every day and reality is that what he was doing was not because of the Torah it was rather because it was something that agreed with his own mentality and when it's something that just agrees with your mentality is not going to succeed over the long run it won't succeed when it comes from the Torah it will succeed that's where the guarantee comes in [Music] foreign [Music]