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When we're trying to do,
Hashem wants to build us. He wants us to
have
like the He wants us to have like He
wants us to have like
He wants us to to be the best we could
possibly be. But you cannot be the best
you could possibly be without overcoming
obstacles. You can't. So what does he
do? He brings obstacles.
Every time you pass,
you go to the next level. Guess what?
The next obstacle will be bigger than
the last one. You pass this one, you got
a bigger obstacle. Pass the next one.
And so on and so forth.
But people complain.
I don't understand. Ever since I did
cha, all of a sudden I'm losing money.
All of a sudden I'm losing this. All of
a sudden I'm losing that. Why doesn't
Hashem love me? What is it like?
How do we explain this?
Again shalom explained it in a fantastic
analogy.
He says there was one time
a woman
this woman
she had a few things going for her but
she was unmarried
and she wanted a book.
One day to her surprise
Mr. Prince Charming
shows up at the door and says, "Yes, I
heard about you."
And uh I like everything about you and I
want to get married.
Good-looking, rich, famous, everything's
good for him.
I do.
I She doesn't even know his name yet. I
do. No, hold on a second. Hold on a
second. I only have one condition.
I need you to arrive at the wedding with
no debt.
No obligations. I just want you.
She say, "Yeah, but I have stuff to do."
He goes, "Okay, fine. No problem. I'll
give you
two months.
Two months to get rid of all the stuff
that you have, close all the doors, all
the things that you have to do, and then
two months from now, I want you to show
up at the wedding." Okay, deal.
Now she has to close off all her debt.
She starts doing a financial statement.
She sees, okay, I have all of this
outstanding debt. I owe this money. I
have this amount of money. So, she has
to start calling people, says, "Oh,
listen. Uh, I owe you $5. Here you go.
Close the account. I owe you $10. Here
you go. I owe you $50. Here you go. I
owe you $100. Here you go. Oh, I owe you
$5,000. I don't have 5,000. I can settle
for uh 500. That's the most I can give
you. No. What are you crazy? You owe me
5,000. No. Hey, listen. That's all I can
do. Next guy, listen. I owe you 50,000.
Can't pay you anything. Can't pay you.
Sorry. Just can't do it. I got to close
this business. We're closing down. Out
of business sale. So, she's trying to
negotiate and the people are saying,
"No, yes, no. Yes." One month passes,
two month pass, 3 months pass, four
months pass, 6 months pass. Now the
prince is waiting.
Says, "What's going on?" So one of his
people says, "Uh, listen, your highness,
um, this, uh, loving bride of yours, uh,
she's still trying to close the doors
because you told her the condition is
that there's no debt, no problems, and
she's still trying to close all the
doors." And uh, it's simply not
happening.
Cuz why isn't happening? Cuz she's
trying to negotiate with everybody. Give
me the phone.
calls one of his sergeants, goes,
"Listen, get me all of the people she
owes money to to come to the castle
right now." He brings everybody to the
castle, goes, "Listen, guys. Why are you
all fighting with her? Listen what you
do. All of you gathered together.
Instead of negotiating individually, all
of you gathered together. Class action
will also take everything she has."
Says, "Your highness, you're a genius."
Genius. Now, we're going to have some
power all together. Save money on legal
costs, save headache. Fine. That's what
they do. All of a sudden, she's trying
to negotiate. All of a sudden, she
doesn't get any phone calls. Everything
becomes quiet. She starts to get a
little worried until one day somebody
shows up at the door, gives a 150 page
document. Sign here. Here you go. You've
been served.
And she sees class action lawsuit,
foreclosure, disclosure, that closure.
Our whole world collapses.
She doesn't know what to do. She has no
idea what's going on. What's happening?
Who could I call? Well, she she calls
the prince. She says, "I don't know what
I'm going to do. I'm in a lot of
trouble. I'm going to need at least
another 6 to 8 months, maybe a year
before I go to this wedding. Why?" He
says, "Because I have a I have a class
action lawsuit just arrived at my door."
He goes, "Oh, great." Goes, "What great?
What do you mean great?" He goes, "Oh,
it was my idea." just what do you mean
it was your idea? She says I told them
to file a class action lawsuit against
you. She says you want to marry me but
at the same time you're advising my
enemies to smash down my door and file
class action lawsuit against me. He says
Why'd you do that? Cuz you were taking
so long. I want to marry you already.
Let's finish with it. Give him
everything and let's get married clean.
That's a balad
is telling you, listen, I've been
waiting for your to connect for 3,300
years since Mount Sai. Every generation
you mess up and you have to come back
again. You mess up, you come back again.
Finally, you're doing chuva.
I've been waiting all this time. But you
say, "No, I'm not ready to do 100% chuba
because my friends will make fun of me.
My job will uh fire me. My this will
that, my this will that." Okay, you know
what? No problem. Your job, they'll fire
you. The wife, she'll divorce you. The
money, you don't have it anymore. I'll
clean you up all the problems. Why? I
can't wait to see you, my darling. I
can't wait to see you. You see if you
have
that means you knew the problems are
coming from the prince.
So it's not a problem
it's the solution. But if you don't have
bet
you're struggling suffering every moment
of your life because you think that the
prince hates you. You think the world
hates you. You think you're unlucky. You
think that everything is upside down.
Maybe I shouldn't. Maybe this. Maybe
that. You have constant questioning your
life.
Say thank you for
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