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The Greatness Of Failure - Rabbi Mordechai Becher Shlita
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The Greatness Of Failure Rabbi Mordechai Becher Shlita Senior Lecturer,Gateways 5 Tammuz 5779
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but although I have fallen I got up but
rather key should be translated in its
usual most common meaning which is
because I have fallen I have got up in
other words it was the falling which
actually caused me to rise because
through the falling and as we all know
from from failures a person learns from
failure as a person become stronger from
failure as a person that is only if that
person is gets up afterwards and doesn't
just keep lying there and we know
posture King Uzziah harm a hulking
Bahasa rubble or God all the people that
sat in darkness saw a great light and
the Madras rubber houses not tells us
that actually is a reference to the idea
of Taurus about pet Taurus chevelle pair
is something which the the understanding
of the Torah is only something which you
can achieve if you first of all have a
misunderstanding if when you open it up
and you read something in the Torah in
the VM Subin Gomorrah Mishnah whatever
it is you're looking at if your so does
it make sense and you keep going you
probably have not understood it there's
one of the keys to knowing if you
understood a Gomorrah is if you
understand the caches that Rebecca Vega
asks on it yeah Rumi kubera ager a
little thing on the side a little weird
symbol and on the side you look at the
side of the Mars got ravika Vega and
he'll give you he doesn't actually say
what the problem is usually he just
gives you a mahram makan he gives you a
reference say if you did not understand
the Gemara at all when you look at
rebuke you behaviors reference you'll
say what's the relevance mister probably
right you look at that you say you have
no idea what he's talking about if you
understood the Gomorrah
well you'll look at ravika various
reference you say oh my gosh that's
problematic that's Akasha
it's either as ruby giver ager rates his
questions
Sarris and this requires study Sarris
ian god--all this requires a lot of
study and occasionally Varsham your ear
na may God enlighten my
eyes that means this is slightly
difficult right that means yeah but but
absolutely the test of whether you
understood it is that you don't that
there's a level of my understanding the
guy who's completely clueless won't
understand the question I have had
occasion where I have spoken to I mean I
do this pretty often I spoke to a
completely non from crowd and I used to
do this I would say we had to shove a
ton of something I'd say to the
organizer let's have a Q&A I set a
question answer session and very often
there are no questions they don't know
enough to have a question I mean you can
have people yes you've got to know
something to ask a good question and on
the contrary when you do have a good
question that is the key to a good
understanding that's why our the the the
longest-lasting
the most can the continuous and most
central educational event for a lot of
Jews throughout the world who are not so
connected to Torah is the Seder and the
Seder which is all about transmission of
experience transmission of information
transmission of Messiah is based on
question answer question answer because
actually a something which comes as an
answer to a question something which
comes after you stumbled in ignorance
and then you get the answer how am i
hulking mahashiv if you walked in
darkness then the light is or god--all
the light is that much greater on the
contrary the darkness beforehand
emphasizes the brightness of the light
that comes afterwards and as I believe
it was Bertrand Russell who once said
nothing is as boring as the answer to a
question that was never asked if I walk
into a room and I say I say the answer
is 42 everyone's looking at some of you
read the book but though it was Lumiere
say what is he talking about right on
the other hand if you've been struggling
with a question and you've been and you
know be working on it for a while and
then I give you the answer oh that's a
lot more interesting and actually the
answer is something which is going to
make greater inroads in
your consciousness your understanding in
your mind gugus the answer comes from
the midst of that darkness it is not by
coincidence Talmud Bavli the center
central text which didn't start as a
text but the central text of Torah
cibele pair came from a place which is
known as the place of confusion bol
Allah said that's where I am confused
the language of bodily bevelle comes
from that work that's what it means not
live loss Muslim that's where the
languages were confused it comes from a
place of darkness a place of confusion
but it was from that darkness and that
confusion that produced tremendous
effort and that effort in trying to
understand and rise beyond the confusion
and rise beyond the problems that
created or God all the great light the
great light of Torah and so that is the
obvious and first lesson of all failure
is that failure is the means to success
and the question is the great access to
the answer and it is from the darkness
that comes the light via Arab by Ibaka
evening first many darkness first then
Bakr and then thee and then the light
and as the Gemara tells us the greatest
darkness is always immediately before
the before the dawn before the morning
that's where you have that darkness and
of course when you have the light coming
at that time then it is much much more
much more effective and as the gomorrah
says in talking right the when we we
like we check for commies Laura hinari
we check at night right so could you
Thanks right as opposed to checking
during the day but you see when you have
a candle when you have a source of light
in the darkness it's it's that that much
more effective its Schrag a Patera a
candle during the day doesn't do that
much but the candle at night the stark
contrast that is it and that's where
that's where failure comes in keener
faulty Kunti because I fell I got up and
run faint vulajin just like I've got to
man
it's not directly related but it is it
is somewhat related reclaim to la Jinnah
in his parish Rua came on Pirkei avos
the Mishna says yay basic abase bad wow
haha meme let your house be a gathering
place the ha ha Meem
and it says heavy shows of the
dissociatives and it says the following
having miss a baked but afar ugly hem
now if you look at the standard
translation most translations of that
that's usually translated as having miss
a beak but our Fuhrer gland means plea
to the dust of their feet miss a beat
from the washing a but it says afar
so a buck and a ferrous like it's
unnecessary
so reclaim vulajin er translates it as
miss from the losses via a fake issue
more alloy Sasha a Yakov wrestles with
the angel by your abacus uma so it says
having miss a beak buffer ugly hem means
struggle with their words question there
was yes do it but after a Glen do it
with humility at the dust of their feet
but you should not not do it if you have
a question he says he said and he goes
on say Oh Sheila tell me look uh Birla's
differ a rabbi in yesh lach ushio saleh
him it is prohibited for the talmud to
accept the words of his teacher if he's
got Kush's if he's got questions on them
he is obligated to ask the questions
he's obligated to struggle the wilson if
we learn as he says how do we make our
homes into a base verb look upon him I
mean I don't think there's enough coming
to go around for every home right I mean
so how does it how do we do it he says
you have their story you have their
books in the house so if you're
surrounded by this far and you're
surrounded by the Colombian and what
does it say to do with those foreign
miss a bake struggle with him in other
words I'm supposed to actually yes yeah
I'm supposed to have a my eyes are
supposed to seek out a Kasia choiceless
the great ballet tasteless in France in
Germany in England the great ballet
choiceless the authors of the one of the
most amazing Peru saman the Gomorrah for
but what did the barley toasters do what
they did was they were they were
scanning their eyes that amazing
intellectual peripheral vision instead
of looking at the Gemara and saying okay
it says this this this their peripheral
vision saying whew what about the come
over there and what about that ones
careful it's a combination of careful
reading and dialectics careful reading
reading it carefully and then comparing
it contrasting it contradicting to other
sources the marshal roofs la meloria
when he describes what the Bally choice
was did he says I saw a sitar would kick
a door there's an introduction to Baba
kama they made the Gomorrah into a
sphere what does this sphere because
every point connects to every other
point and there's no sharp edges that's
what they did but they arrived at the
spherical shape of the Gemara meaning
connecting every point to every other
point smoothing out the art look but in
order to do that it had to start off
with what darkness I have to start off
with a contradiction have to start off
with a cutter had to start off with a
question I'm hoping bullosa row or
guzzle how much sailor has I stuck us
yeah death all right and actually as the
gomorrah says in gittin ain't as I'm a
med algebra Tyra alien cane if solve
ahem you can only really stand on the
correct and clear meaning of devrait
Tyra if you first of all had the
question of course the key to
understanding Russia in Hamas the key to
understanding many of the propulsion is
to not not all of the rumors a lot of
whom will ask the questions at the
beginning but Russia doesn't so one of
the keys to understanding Rashi and what
he's saying is understanding what
bothered him ahead of the time there's
actually an excellent book called what
bothered rushy what know what's
bothering Russia I forgot the title
something to that effect and and that's
what he does in that book and so that's
the mishaela that's the question and of
course from that will grow the
understanding clarity of the answer a
second point we have to know about
failure and this is something which is
mentioned in the by roof sukkah bounnam
of chisca so if super goody mob cisco
understand
this is quoted in the CSRA way less also
in the coal seam actually skal
simcha in pastures cook us this week's
person so si si piccata says the
following
I heard a shot in the name of simple
bounnam if she stopped sir Mira that are
sate of famous pasta can to heal him
turn away from evil and do good and so
this is how rob simcha William
understood it he says it's referring he
says to the bad that you have done it's
referring to the sins that we may have
done in the past it's referring to the
mistakes that we've made and the
failures we've had and he's saying the
following day avec une schlep them which
means I don't know it amazed me
something's beginning you this but this
one says here but it says the following
it says al yoy al Ahmar so Veselka
messiah sisse ad etat run don't let it
into your mind the bad that you have
done rock instead SI toys just do the
good without see us a toy when you
engage in doing the good news battle
ahora me mela the evil will be
automatically dissipated and destroyed
and this is also something which if you
do say hareem says could assure rim
talks about this at length in his in the
cooler when he talks about a young
cooper and he says he says after her
hair burro don't think about the about
evil he says what does that mean
a sister cabulance Ave Royce yes you may
have got bundles of our various I'll say
miss first connect dumb he says he says
the following you says you see what
happens and he says fascinating
psychological insight that you do shall
remakes here again this is a
continuation of simcha bounnam both as
we know from there as at Amin and and
also genealogical he says this he says
makam
Sharma sovereign in seis somehow Adam
nimza in Koloff saw the place where your
thoughts are dwelling that's where you
are
my thoughts are dwelling on my past
failures then the future rim says I'm
living in the sphere of failure and of
evil and of bad and he says better
colossal mokuba and he won't be able to
return in repentance and Zuber why keep
my fight he is gushing vinegar on the
tips of my life because his focus his
overthinking his dwelling on his past
failures will drag his mine down into
the depths of that impurity the ala lip
hole and as a result of his overthinking
and dwelling on his past and thinking
some two of the worst words in the
English language should have and could
have and he's always English I could
have a cetera et cetera what's gonna
happen he says you Paul latoque hats
loose kalila he will fall into
depression he says I feel alloy of a
double Hummer that even if he didn't
transfer something serious he says I
Valka say Yakov when he keeps thinking
about it he says he says who you share
my boots he will stay in the mud so sir
me reverse a table means get out of the
mud and do good don't just get out of
the mud in action but get out of the mud
but I'm not contemplating and dwelling
on the failures occasionally every time
you say slackliner I mean to come out
you can think about your failure but the
rest of the time no sir my route but
I'll say Todd what was the expression
gate avec which left him just go away
from the bad stuff and just head for the
good so the way we deal with failure the
way that you do she'll remember bazooka
bunion she's gonna say is not to dwell
on it not to analyze it not to do a
post-mortem autopsy on the failure but
rather to move into the future yet so
when it gets to slip us so we'll say
okay and so on and so forth okay that's
fine but when you live your life you
have to live
like moving moving forward it's how the
who - areum and the call simpler
understand it there's a third aspect to
failure the third aspect of failure is
that it's a necessary requirement for
the human being and for creation that
failure is built-in meaning there will
be failure why is that so
so as the RAM coal room okay lose a toe
in Derek Hashem verse 5 broken and many
others discuss this but he organizes it
and explains it with his usual
incredible clarity and logical logically
progressing steps in amazing ways and by
the way he was not someone who was
successful during his life - I mean
there was a lot he had a lot of problems
and here oh yeah so but he persevered
and the RAM call says the following it
says this now caught us both we have we
have we know both from from sook him and
from Kabbalah by Kabbalah meaning
tradition and took him a long hair said
keep on it Hashem created the world in
order to give passion being perfectly
good
darica table light if it is the way of
the perfectly good to give being that
icon aspire who is perfectly good and he
is the perfect good
therefore he wants to give the perfect
gift perfect goodness now perfect
goodness is only icons Bothwell how does
he give to the creature to the nefra how
does the boyer give to the Nebra perfect
goodness he can't like make other it's
not site right logically it's right he
can't you can't make us perfect that the
only perfection is a shame himself so
does he do so he creates people new
fryin creatures and he gives us the
greatest possible perfect good available
to the creature which is what a
relationship with a chorus powerful a
closeness talk on a spiral
and because since I caught us boy who is
the perfect good then the and and it's
not available for us to become him but
to become close to him to have a
relationship with him that is possible
that is possible however and this is a
crucial step the relationship with a
college boy who requires that we be
similar to our Shem similar to us as
similar as possible for a creature to be
and now similarity to our said means the
following I've got a boy who is
completely independent ain't odd mil
father he doesn't depend on anything as
the Rambam puts it if you could imagine
that there was no space time matter
universe that sets records both who
still exist I don't alarmist ramallah
Batarian called you'd seen Ibrahim rule
before any humans crowd lace master the
hip circle as I know ass Monica right
sorry lace knives reckons the guys down
and snorted crap the Hakurei and after
kicks lace I called look I owe you moth
Nora alright by himself he will rule in
other words Hashem is not affected by
the creation how Curtis boy who doesn't
need creation creation needs I said
that's why I thought it's one of the
names of our same as the reclaim vulajin
that explains beautifully that one of
the names of our centers have makan the
place as the meddra says who McCoy
Marcel alarm ain't her Olin McCoy mode
he is the place of the world the world
is on his place and reclaim the Lawson
explains what that means is very simply
by place we mean framework of existence
mat erectus masseuse the framework of
isms so every object every physical
object exists in a framework of reality
which is what we call today time space
space-time makan so everything needs a
makan except the chorus problem of
course bro who McCoy boys so om he is
the frame where he is that which gives
existence and possibility and sustenance
to the world the world does not give it
to him
he's independent so he was his self
determining self-contained independent
that means for us to have a relationship
with him requires that we be
self-determining self-contained
independent as possible meaning that we
have to be able to create ourselves not
to be created so of course can't
completely create yourself Yoshi million
we exist with creatures our sim creator
sees the Boyar with a new prop but to
the extent that is possible for an
emperor to create themselves have chorus
ball who gave us that ability
he placed us in a world of the hero of
free will he gave us the ability to
choose the opportunity to choose and an
environment in which we can choose and
but in in order that we should be
self-determining clearly I think we all
understand if that environment was an
environment that pushed us steadily in
ox really towards a sham everything you
know every time I do a mitzvah goldbrick
falls next to me every time doing a very
brick for so much put then obviously I
will become a good person
but I won't really be good I'll be a
robot
I will be a rat in a psychology lab so
you should not call them rats it's not
politically correct I will be a nonhuman
animal research participant a nonhuman
animal research participant so the
nonhuman animal research but it could
run around the maze and presses a lever
and gets food pellets presses another
lever and gets electroconvulsive therapy
and and and of course the rats going to
become conditioned to do what the
psychologist wants cause boffin did not
create a world like that I might press
the electroconvulsive therapy later and
get some pretty good food pellets
I might press the food pellet lever and
get some electro convulsive therapy a
person it is not always that the good
person will be the successful person
I may make the moral business decision
and lose the contract I may make an
immoral decision and make lots of money
I may be a brutal psychopathic homicidal
normal New York driver and I will get to
the place I need to get to in time I may
be a polite I just got back from a week
in Ottawa
during a yacht a color for the Jewish
community in Ottawa I Drive New York and
New Jersey every day Oh driving author I
felt like a shack like driving amongst
the is like you know jellyfish and stuff
like that I mean I'm the only person I'm
any other person moving fast and I was
like yeah the light turns green everyone
waits a bit oh yeah
is it clear and I'm the only horns you
heard would mine but a nod to a driver
comes to New York and they'll be at the
Lincoln Tunnel they'll be saying go
ahead a go ahead a okay you'll find
they're starving skeleton three months
later sitting in the car like this the
skeleton you know they're not gonna ever
get through the tunnels not gonna happen
good guys don't win and bad guys
sometimes win failure is there it's
interesting in our mission that we say
on Kanaka I know it's not seasonal but
you know whatever Alan listen I'm Tanika
write but in my youth Kanaka was always
in the summer because I grew up in
Australia and not December summer I
remember one of the first times I got my
own monoi I was so excited I prune in
the window and I the beginning at the
beginning of the day I get home from
school all the candles have melted in
the sunlight but Australian Sun yes
that's it okay like so so I'm kind of
girl I miss him we say Gabor Ian Bianca
Larson rubbing me and me are Tim makes
sense those are miracles the strong into
the hands of the weak the many into the
hands of the few all miracles but then
it says what does it say after that
zey Liam B are those cursor a surfer
okay you could say that's awesome irak
ulis because like a thug and a hooligan
into the hands of someone who's learning
Torah miraculous the guy's learning
Torah is not like a trained military guy
the fog is like that's all he does
English soccer fan that type of thing
right so so but then we're showing
because why is that evil into the hands
of the righteous why is that miraculous
it's not the same type of Rights on the
same type of miracle
the other ones are miracles where the
laws of nature are somewhat stretched
here usually the largest army is going
to win or the strongest is going to win
or the most vicious is going to win okay
but Rishabh you have to think in the
answer there what the one answer there
is that that yeah the idea that a
righteous person is going to win there's
not necessarily built into the system
the righteous person that sadek does win
against the Raja that's that's beget
they're nice
it's miraculous so failure is it and the
RAM coal says so that means because this
is to avoid us being being just robots
or Tomatoes we need to be similar to our
core as brother we needs to be
self-determining we need to create
ourselves creation of the self is only
possible when this challenge and
challenge is only a challenge if it's
something a little beyond what I can do
no it's on the border of failure and
success like in sports you don't know
you're training for you're training for
some sport trying to run a certain
distance at a certain speed etc so the
coach yeah I don't know I can't think of
I don't know the figures here because
I'm not exactly an athlete I just look
this way naturally so anyway so but but
the you know he's trying to you'd want
to jump five feet so you've never ever
jumped five feet you've only jumped for
the coach is not going to set it up at
five feet and say jump five feet he's
probably going to set it at four foot
one inches which is a little beyond your
capability you never done that before
but it's not so be
it's impossible but it is beyond what
you've done before and you'll probably
won't make it the first or second or
third time but but you'll make it maybe
the fourth or fifth time and then he'll
raise the bar a little more and that's
why some of them are far some say that
the word miss seein is relatedness I am
meaning test is right to the word mace
which means a miracle because if you
pass the test it's like you're doing
something which is not within your
capability it's like a little beyond the
fact that I'm able to do it
nature is that I'll fail but if I'm able
to do it and some are necessary that's
amazing so therefore mistakes have to be
possible failure has to be possible and
failure has to happen imagine if no one
failed no it made mistakes
no one did sins that would not be a
freewheel system in the free wheel
system which is an absolute requirement
for us to be similar to Russian
obviously our sin doesn't make mistakes
but he is self determining we have to be
the only way we can be independent
beings as we create ourselves and of
course the only creation of self is
that's possible is the moral spiritual
creation of self throughout the seasons
their actions the exercising of our free
will but exercising free will a free
will environment an environment that
enables that allows the free rules in
the environment which this failure and
so that's part of the system that's how
it has to be the issue pizza talks about
this a lot masha'Allah he has an extreme
view of failure being part of the Divine
Plan and he was not such a believer in
free will but he was I he did say that
this idea of failure is actually yes
built into the built into the system and
and he says actually the fact that we do
fail is what is what anchors us in this
world and gives us the ability to then
become like a cottage for the Absaroka
km in a couple of places talks about the
idea that there are moments of sleep
tarde MA and it's only during sleep he
says when you're when you can have an
operation it's only you know totally
it's only during sleep where you can
naturally remove something from someone
without that
the pain it's over he says the moments
of sleep that we have the today me that
we have he says are those moments we
forget what we're supposed to be doing
we forget out our purpose our goal and
we might fail during that time but he
says those moments are actually there so
that we can actually afterwards look
back and separate ourselves completely
from that the ability to separate
completely is that is is only when I've
actually unfortunately experienced that
in other words it's an analogy if you
know let's say someone never drink wine
in their life possible someone never
drank wine in their life they don't like
and you know they smelt it once its
Discoverer I didn't like the smell of it
maybe they had it when they were young
and they they right so I don't know
there's thirty they become a now seer
take about thirty days no wine
I mean I look at that in the safe it's
not so impressive okay granted they're
kind of any great products or no vinegar
swoons no mayonnaise no ketchup no salad
dressing oh yeah no mustard okay fine
okay so they do but I mean still it's
not so impressive the separation of the
person who never had wine in their life
who is now making the oath I'm another
never having wine not such a big deal I
think it's a lot easier probably for a
vegan to become cosa then for a some guy
who grew up in in the deep south you
know in in the barbecue culture etc you
come kosher yeah it's a little more of a
challenge I'm a little more impressed
some vegan from San Jose who becomes
cars a big deal guy doesn't think
anything anyway I feel pretty safe you
know having to go vegans because they're
usually too weak to attack me so anyway
but but but the fact of the matter is
that that it's not it's what rhetoric
says is the separation from evil the
separation from the wrath is actually
able to be done much better when there
was some there was a missile at some
point there was a failing at some point
there was a Aimie at some point
then when I wake up from that
that's by government then it is a much
greater and a much better and a cleaner
separation so to speak from the evil
that is accomplished by me another
important point to remember and this is
something which the Tanya discusses and
another of Brett's love Tanya empirical
amidala from lima base and it's
something which the Ramban mentions in
his vicar with pablo Christiani which is
that that we are not failures we have
failed and there's a huge difference
between being a failure and having
failed the difference is huge
in fact the Rambam implies that's one of
the main differences between the torah
and christianity he says to pablo
Christiani says you see the human being
as pathetic as a wimp as incapable of
saving himself mired in sin and corrupt
from birth needing to be saved
needing intermediaries can't do it
themselves groveling
the Rambam says we see the human being
as great and powerful and able to save
ourselves through sugar be different you
look at our phyllis so look at out
phyllis inapt Phyllis usually when we go
look us not that long off right but we
say we say that I did a sin Oh hate
jacket on all the fun fo the sin that I
did before you or we say I did this I
did this I did that the big difference
between saying that and saying I am a
fighter
there is one or two - Phyllis all right
we say I mean I think one of them is is
the cousin before Moosa right hi topa
Shani
but the rest of the killer doesn't
actually say that hey
and that's actually from later than
hazael in that phyllis of gazelle
we don't usually call ourselves sinners
we call ourselves someone who has done a
sin which is a huge huge difference
being a failure means my essence is I am
a failure doing something wrong means I
did something wrong but my essence is
not that that's not who I am that's they
say educationally the difference between
between rebuking a child and saying
you're a bad boy versus is such a good
boy how did you just such you something
so bad there's a big difference between
the two one creates the expect
expectation of bad stuff because he's a
bad boy and the other is the expectation
of good but this is essentially good but
he did something wrong with torski varam
torski in his in one of his books which
is which is a fair thing not to remember
exactly right so so one of his early
books he writes value when he was a kid
in milwaukee and he was at the time a
chess prodigy brilliant brilliant chess
guy and so during Rosh Hashanah I think
it was governing as we all know is very
long there's a guy in the soul who's a
bit of a chess player too he walks over
to little labor Ham to uh ski pulls a
little chess board out of his cane
prepared too short a little chess board
is what he says listen you want to go
out and have a game
no no little kid says during governing
he says it's gonna be going good the
cousin will take be another we can
finish the chess game before the cousin
finishes the next posture
I mean seriously so kids okay right they
go down they go out somewhere they have
a game of chess they come back the
cousin actually he's gone to pursue Kim
so it's a right that come back after the
game anyway
his father noticed his absence from
school for like an hour I think he was
maybe 12 something like that he was he
was old enough to understand Erica so
anyway he gets called into his father's
study after after yeontan and his father
looked simony
says you play chess during governing on
Rosh Hashanah kid says uh-huh
his father says all his father's say
he's sy and well Abraham Twersky heard
in that sy not you're a bad boy but what
he heard was disappointment
and then the father said he says but you
wipe the board with him right the kid
says yeah this is all good okay in other
words he lifted him up after he write he
said yeah you killed arriving desi okay
right exactly and he remembers that as a
great lesson roof and indeed rub the the
altar of Kelm roof inkle it's
interesting he used to he used to say I
never told the Talmud or my children
don't do that it's awesome
don't do that torn issue don't do it he
said I always told them it's beneath you
don't do is beneath your dignity to do
that fascination for you you're a better
than that posix says ASHRAE are dumb
no Suey pesha happy is the person who
now usually translated as who covers his
sin think of our discusses that you're
not supposed to tell about your sins a
circle but mattress robber says that
that ashtray ah Dom happy is the person
show who he is above his sins his sins a
virus is not about him so Finkel
explained what does that mean it means
happy as a person who feels that are
very sad beneath his dignity right not
that he has beneath them and that's the
idea saying that I'm a so we don't say
I'm a failure we could say that I failed
we can say that I have sinned
I'll hate rokkit are new but we don't
say hate it that's a big difference and
that the Tania says on the contrary he
says the more the person realizes that
they've done the wrong thing he says but
simultaneously they have to understand
that deep within them there is an it
sites there's a spark of the neshamah
which has been complete
untainted by our failure it has never
become Tommy it has never been sullied
by sin it has never been if nothing
hasn't been affected and he says on the
country the realization it's almost like
a duality he's got a contradictory
realization on the one hand I've done x
y&z I've done this other than this
etc said he feels terrible but he says
and he says but but doesn't there's a
part of me that all that is beneath me
that's not it's not appropriate for me
and to realisation that within him and
and when we look at someone else and
this is Italia which I've quoted before
apparently I'm a base where he says even
though there's a minister of sinister
asylum there's an inner of hatred for
the rush of the glory I'm sorry but
there's a simultaneous mitzvah of
Arbus rain of love he says how do you
have both he says yeah both by hatred of
the evils that the person does but
allowed for the knit sites Hakadosh
hammock is snuff so the holy spark that
sustains his soul that in every person
have to love that's back and room
nachman of breslov says he says not just
true for the other guys true for
yourself as well when you look in the
mirror you shouldn't look in the mirror
and say you failure look at her and say
I've got this amazing spark of holiness
I got this neshama I could die sure -
higher up unaffected by event how can i
how can i put it into goddess into exile
with all the things that I've done he
says on the contrary it's it's it's
utilizing this in order to achieve
achieve greatness and and he says that
that's precisely how the person has to
deal with with failure not to look at
himself as a failure but to look at
himself as having failed and done
something wrong but that doesn't define
me I undefined still by the potential
incredible almost infinite potential
that each one of us has to rise
absolutely beyond that and actually
we're if not when a bretzel says that
this at this is going back to the
foolish REM endure of cynical boredom
chisca this says dwelling on all the
failures and seeing myself as a failure
leads to depression and and Nachman says
there is no greater barrier between me
and our Vedas am
there was no greater barrier between us
and our Shem than depression Ausmus and
that's a very famous part where he says
that that that a person should try
everything they can to raise their
spirits to have the sin and by the way
this is in the field of positive
psychology told then shocker of Harvard
University his book happier phenomenal
phenomenal book in which there's been
tremendous research about this and and
one of the features of a happy person
talbin shocker shows is someone who does
not dwell on their failings does not
dwell on their past does not dwell on
ice sugar and I could have but rather
Sumaira
abandons their asset all the Tonya's
giving a little bit of a different twist
than reversing cocooning he's saying
that even when the person is in the
midst of the rat he has to understand
that this table absolutely within him
and rotor of nothin by the way says
that's what it means to be done the
cuffs who's done the cuffs which means
to find the area to look at the other
person and find one area where that
person is pure because there's no one
like at least I mean in normal Jews
there's no one I mean there's no one
who's completely failed in every single
area there's no area where the person
successful there's no midst that you've
done really well the Rambam says an
imperial mission is the end of Marcus
famous Mishnah right that the rat
circles both Lusaka says y'all please
don't say Kaddish ago just quite the
Mishnah right
rats are cousins Lucky's troll speaker
here Ln Torah mitzvahs right there's
actually two guys in the Ben Gurion
Airport in this in the shul in
ben-gurion so you know when you're in
the shawl there you're always like yeah
you always feel like you're in a hurry
even though you're not got hours to the
flight but the duty-free whatever anyway
so so there's two guys there you know
after doubling one guy says dr. Hylan
will say another Kurdish summer so it's
so his friend says do it and they say
Kaddish he says dr. missional say in
other cases now the Kaddish says the guy
they're getting very frustrated with all
that he shows him the mr. Perot says aim
the homeboys forked ation the guy says
yossel who are marked votura
to keep canister
I said it's about tourists a coaster
over anyway so but on that Mishnah which
says that here really interprets a snail
shell pop it some articulatory yadi that
the Rambam explains and it's just a
classic it's a classic explosion it's a
yeah he says this that here brilliant or
omits us a corresponding a certain
abundance of Torah amidst us that it's
basically impossible for a normal Jew to
go through life without doing one
Mitzvah perfectly website there's so
many misses there's so many
opportunities to do a mitzvah it is just
impossible here below him Tory he just
gave us an abundance so that he says in
the normal course of your life and not
even your whole life I'm sure in the
course of a month or maybe a year
there's not possible that we didn't do
one Mitzvah so that one mr. that's the
cuff schools that's where I am pure and
that's the makuta that's that point of
holiness etc and from that will extend
everything outside and the Ranaut Minh
says that's not only how you should look
at the other person's look at yourself
that way don't look in the mirror and
say I missed up everything no he says
it's important to look in the mirror and
find in yourself areas where you have
succeeded areas where you have not
failed areas where you are to where
you're actually pure and that everyone
has that everyone has that except I'll
give you some names after but in general
right everyone has that and that
particular aspect of it is the I think
fits in beautifully also with righto
since the Williamson shut-in surah marij
vas a top and the finished our rim he
says because the traditional rim says it
so well he says if you're dwelling on
the failure your dwelling ourselves
offended then your mind is in the Box in
the mud that's the word he uses you're
in the box
he says if your mind is in the mud
that's where the rest of your body will
go and will be taken as the rest of you
will be taken he says and you're sinking
to us was etc so the dealing with
failure is to of course as we said how
much sailors lost half their kina faulty
come T Sheva upon starting to come all
of those hundred percent true that's
number one the number one is to see
failure as a means to make progress to
see the darkness as a means to get to
the light the cutter as a means to the
turrets and
and so forth secondly to understand that
it's built into the system there will be
failures because we need to be self
creating I can only be self creating in
an authentic free will environment an
authentic free will environment requires
there be occasional failure and sin etc
etc but that is what's going to make me
great that's what's going to make me
close to our chorus powerful and finally
to understand that although I have
failed I'm not a failure or by I have
sinned I'm not a sinner although I've
done the wrong thing and as the Tanya
says to understand even though I've done
many wrong things but there's one thing
I've probably done which is perfect and
there's one area which I which in which
I am pure and is that which I have to
have rush Manas on and mercy on when I
abrupt - on that Hashem will have rough
- on me and we have rough one us on each
other and on that Naqada of good within
us therefore we'll have rough - on
cloudless roll we all know there's the
bone that will never be destroyed so
that's the idea also the RAM Kyle says
that the what's what's that boning value
Searle the Khoi so laser skin and
mucosal Marathi is this just like so on
the in every individual has one area
which is completely pure and can never
be destroyed
Claudius role has something which is
pure and is never destroyed and he says
and from those pure parts of the
individual and the Clow we come to the
time of the Guler slave owner of your
Manor
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