Thursday Night Mishmar Parshas Vayeitzei with Rabbi Aaron Lankry at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim

there's a Boy by the name of meni that you know well I think he's your neighbor okay yeah yeah um when he was about 10 years old he asked me a very significant question we good established and he had a dream he had a dream there's a a ladder established in the ground and the top of the comes goes all the way into the heavens and behold there were Angels first going up and then secondly going down so meni that's alter son you figured that out right I figured it out yeah meny asks a brilliant question if you're an angel and you got Wings why do you need a letter Angels don't need lads who says they have Wing we have two we have in in in we have in Dan yeah it's it's it's in all the pictures that's Mish I didn't want to argue with the picture but if you wanted a source and Danielle said you know what was written on each one of the wings of the of the Angels no no noing no no is missing so now the angels have four wings because after theban Danel said where's the honor of your right and then he was then he understood that Hester Pim is also an expression of right but that's that's not our but meni tell meni that I'm still quoting him the Brilliance of of of learning something again and again and then bumping into a question that you say to yourself like uh why did I think of that that like I should have noticed that and that's what i' would like to share with everyone tonight one of the stories in in the parasha stories it's a g of of the Torah but there's such a hidden message and in this message you get a profound lesson and you're going to say to yourself why didn't I notice that in it so let's let's look some of let's look at the message yobu he went to the land of Ben and he finds a he finds he finds a well it seems to be you know back in the day if you wanted to find a bride hang that's that yeah it's not 7-Eleven it's not 7-Eleven it's a it's a a bar a bar that's close bar yeah you go to the bear what happens when you have a lot of people looking for a for a right and that means you have a very big bear what do you call a very big bear problems a lake like Lakewood right right A lot of people looking for won't do it so what do you get a lake all right moving right along now listen to these words you know what the of is it's a flock of sheep and these flock of sheep are hanging out by the bear because from that well all the flocks of sheep will drink and there's a big Stone on the mouth of the be and what happens and all the flocks of sheep come to get there and and the flocks of sheep will roll off the stone and then everybody would all the Sheep will be able to drink but they have to wait until all the flocks of sheep come mean the course of all the Sheep that's so far what it's saying because we're not talking about people not people we're talking about Ador him Ador him now yob is going to talk to to them who's them theor my brothers where you from okay now the Sheep are talking it seems to be the Sheep are talking you know like I it's cool to see a sheep talk youn fish in new Square there was a fish talk but you know what you know what the sheep say m that's good all right so what happens here's the we're going to add add lips some of the TRU here and he said to them at did you know love benar now s like you have to you have to kill the party do you know love on oh no there we go what he owes you also so and he says to them Shalom sh see you later you're related to him time to leave and is coming with the Sheep so now he gives them a little more m it's a big day not time to he's now talking to the sheep or he's talking to the guys talking to the guys well we're talking about flocks of sheep he's telling them be Shepherds they said they were Mexican you know until all the flocks will come no no no you knew in town you're already telling us to work whoa relax relax listen to the words of the he still talking to them right then what happens she's coming with her father sheep she's a Shepherd the subliminal message that's being portrayed here is that there are types of people that don't care and there are types of people that are Shepherds that care about their flock and Ro at the age of three like like really young she cares and she gets the title of being a Shepherd everybody else there's no Shepherd they're flocks they're flocks of sheep they're not an identity they don't exist even if they they're directed go do so I'd like to share with you the characteristic that's being expressed to us about Roi even at a young young tender age in the environment that she lives in L have you ever traveled like to France Europe certain places all the time well he's Jing no if you travel to certain parts of the world you'll discover the architecture in certain places are magnificent and if you go to Poland it's terrible terrible I not limited to their pride Prague is beautiful when you have people that are Craftsman and they're building a building that they know it's going to last for 500 years they put a lot of their K into the detail because they take pride in what they're doing and they make it magnificent then there are other parts of the world how cheap can you make it yeah it will stand for how long 10 minutes good good enough that's the one that hires the Mexican my yeah the the point is there are people in the world that take pride in what they do and therefore they what they do is magnificent and it's Eternal European yes yes yes yes we're still working on it we're getting there the stre we're getting a new tent we're getting another tent no 10 oh we don't have 10 oh we're not up to you yet come on we're way past hey are you kidding me all right in Book of World Records we're going to have there's a characteristic that is being portrayed always at the beginning of something there's an expression of the person who's ra at a tender age of three she's a girl that cares and she's meticulous and she takes care of sh when you talk about the they were all Shepherds they were they were not part of a where did get from she had a r father it's na she is three four five Rashi it's aashi before that how was and yob already figh go was inside people were born with still I I think I think sometimes characteristic sister it skipped it didn't go to La went to they say on the M of yov and asov when when they passed by a sh she felt knocking when she passed by a church they felt knocking so they fr the ask a question maybe it was only one sadic went to a church he was screaming shabus he was laughing they went to a show let me out but what's the reason making my what's the reason why y was no no no it's an option it's a good question what's the reason why was banging when he passed the show he was loing with a Mal you want to get out I want to go get me into the game he hurts he yeah of course you know they have a m you know the ter what's it I heard that that he saw he was with a so it's like what's the big deal to hear all the secrets of the know everything you go to the sh and you work hard for it you want to the you want the that's a nice terret very nice terets the terets I heard is that real sikim don't make sh that's not what they do they don't make they don't make tummel kki is not on the front line screaming shz the big the big so it couldn't have been a yov know that was doing it so it had to be there as want yeah yeah yeah yeah get away from we can flip that also as could have learned something it's if it goes one way we have to go the other way be open when we talk about our own personal business people want success our society today defines success by a dollar sign sucess success in the eyes of Ru was being meticulous and being caring success that big word success the real success is on what is your character evaluation in your job is that person a NE is that person honest does that person take pride in his work that he says no I'm not leaving the job until everything's perfect ah you didn't pay him for that extra time and that extra whatam call it they're telling you it's K this is the way of life the way of life is don't don't be a coer okay so it's a 2x3 and they need a 2x4 it's good enough it's good enough no it's not good enough the do do do what you need to do right I know it's terrible the Sheep need to take a bath every once in six months all right okay so the is calling that the the the people that were watching the sheep and the and the Sheep same category this is a this is the there's no it's separate same thing oh you can't see har Maria okay next next yeah yeah so there's there's a very significant lesson of internalizing a characteristic that that will escort you through life and this is what creates a Shem you always say to yourself oh it's a good name is better than good oil so like when was the last time I had good good oil like yeah it may be a little greasy what what's the mus explain to you says like this this right we're going to go a little deeper everything in the world is combined of these four components it's plastic the shape it's round poil it could be a paper weight it could be a door Jammer the tus of this is to be a cup the best use of this you could do a lot of things Tas the Tas of a person right everybody has different skills right and there are people that can do a lot of things Tas is finding out what is the preferred the best thing for you theal writes this on don't read engraved read Freedom this is you know if I would make that D they would hang me what are you changing the words of the Torah Al you know don't readus no read so you would say okay he's dyslexic he got he doesn't know how to read but how can you justify that word and changing it there's so many dresses of alre and read it like this what does it mean explains the mar let's go through the stages of right when you have a stone so the stone the is lime let's say the could be square round whatever it may be P you could do a lot of things with a with with a rock you can throw it on somebody and scream chabis all right you can shoot the little BB's or whatever you could you could do a lot of things with a rock you can kill go is what is the best possible use for any stone in the world Cemetery no to become the explains the mar don't read in grave because that's still not cuz the engraving of this of the L is just the physical aspect of how the said the words of but read the result of the learning of what's written is what will create you to be a free person and that's the bigger lesson so it's not downgrading or changing what the kazal says it's actually taking it to the next level of understanding which is brilliant back to the Shem is an expression of potential you can put a wick and you can make a light and that's great AEM means you already giving light Al Al what is the difference one is the fruition of the light and one is the process meaning to say sh is something that is in a process to give you Perfection a when you have a good name already that's that's the the PO is sh Shem is something that can help you get light and through light you'll be able to be inspired through insiration you're able to learn you're able to grow when you already have AEM that means you've already reached the of what sheman could possibly be for you so therefore it's not a contradiction and it's not altering but it's what actually doing saying this is the purpose of that just like engraving letters on the on the is but the purpose the ofus is to come to so therefore when you when you look at when you look at life when you look at potential versus actual there's many times a discrepancy but what you really need to figure out is how do I be a Roy neon how do I be a Roy son how am I going to be sensitive in thear with rebi that this shepel was not ran to him to hide from the I know I'm guilty of Chef think right and rebi said to him no this is your this is your topkid back to the yeah but maybe give it a little love first right there was there was a certain are saying it I'm not there was a certain sensitivity that was lacking right and therefore therefore in the world of tless you you want to be the person that reaches potential life is the opportunity or the process to reach your potential when you reach your potential you feel free you feel elated you feel successful you feel and everyone has a different everyone is a different type of sh so therefore it takes a lot of soul searching in yourself to say to yourself what am I going to do with me with my CM with my and po to reach my it's it's it's a process of figuring out that many times it's there's a lot of trial and error but when you do figure out what's your real Tas in life then you're liberated if a person's mission in life is to be a par a parness he's liberated if he's mission in life is to go around and give free smiles and hugs when he does it he he's Nish is ignited ches it could be it could yeah like like a 3 second hug instead of a one second hug and then when he gives that it could be a 5-second hug you know it's very fascinating you know when I was a kid when I I mean I I obviously I grew up a little bit you know what I'm saying not too much I try not to grow up but doesn't doesn't listen to me when I was a kid we went to camp and when we went to camp Camp really Camp yeah there was Campa gura it was in Campa gura and every week there was another God be that would come ketki rudan we saw all those pictures from oh yeah yeah yeah I I remember seeing all of these and we would be in learning groups little kids you know you just picking our nose saying yes to the rebi I want to play ball I want to play ball right another minute okay time for learning never ends Yeah clean up begins now and we just ran ran right when but you but you know what you know what these is would come and just watch us learning I mean I mean we faked it well he's here now fake it good and and and that was their that was their that was their that was their I rested my whole life and I see there's a continuity and it's so beautiful it's amazing the Next Generation yeah and and and to them there was nothing really more important and you know all the Ghul and Yeshua you can give standing your head spit Nickles and the D into 43 thousand times right that's the waits for that it's pure that's how we reive from really exactly exactly and and and the truth is ultimately you come to discover at at some point in life that the purity of a child you know when I was a young father right kids were a burden like I remember when I was a teenager I my father took me to visit some a friend of his and like I was the the teenager right and he had kids that were like 7 years old and the kid saw me and he starts running to me and I'm like horrified I'm in my shabas suit and he had boogers rolling down his face and I was and I'm like dodging running behind in the couch get him away from me oh my God oh my God and he just all he wanted was to hug me right because I'm like the older kid came to visit me and I'm running for my life it's my new suit it's my but you know what you you know what you can imagine that pict yeah yeah it happens to everybody oh no oh no you're going to ruin it for me my cuff Lings my new cuings he eventually gets you and he gives you that hug and he gives you that imprint on your new suit that you take with you for the rest of your life but at the end of the day all the kid wanted was a hug now as you get older you see these beautiful little children and it it chokes you up it's remarkable it's special you know at some point in life you start to wow kids are beautiful when you become a Zade then you don't have to deal with all the you know the and the nonsense you know you you can you can really like them you know you don't have to deal with the schools accepting you're not accepting that's not your headache you're but these sikim they reach a point of where they they've seen the whole world and you know what they really care about they care about the next yid and that's all that matters then they care about the Next Generation what's going to be who's going to do it how well is it going to be and that's ultimately all of our yeah we're growing we're going to pass the pass the torch we want to make sure that the M carries on it's a very interesting thing I think I'm going overtime and I'm sorry I was in I was in Florida I was a r in Florida and were two two that came R and there was some local politics in Florida and um of from the bigger moist of T and they were imposing upon these not to go to the other place politics that's for sure I don't have yeah don't don't don't go to them don't don't give them recognition and there was a lot of pressure from the balaba and then these two brothers or I was standing next to them saying like can you tell me what you want to do so I could arrange it so they said we have to think about it so one brother said to the other brother what would tati do tati is not alive tati was the previous rash and they looked at each other in an instant they said tati would for sure go to the other Yesa so so that's what we're doing that was the moment that I understood what is the meaning of m m is you stop and think what would your father do that's only after you like your father know there's a stage of life you hate your father but after you like him right or you know or even right if your father was a good inspiration in your life or there were lessons that you learned from him you say what would he do all right and in some cases you just do the opposite no but if it was somebody or let's say you had a rebi and you say to yourself what would my rebi do that's M when you start thinking M then you're really living a life of good job