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Don’t Let It Get to Your Head - R. Meir Simcha Sperling - TorahAnytime.com

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And he says like this, a lot of times when a person is given a task to do or he's told that he's going to be speaking by a tremendous event or he's going to be the person making the sem in front of a million people or he's the one who Hashem chose you to be that or whatever it is, it's easy for a person or I I should say it's a very good strategy for the Sahara to make the person feel like he's better than any other Jew. I'm better than the people around me. I mean, look, after all, I was the one who was chosen. So, despite being assigned his own special mitzvah over here, right? Listen to that. Hashem is telling and and I'm saying everybody knows the whole world learns the this is the the source of everything. And Hashem is telling Misha, speak to Aaron. This is Aaron's job. Aaron is going to get to do this. It's very easy for a person to have that shoot to your head and view yourself as a better person. I am the one that God chose. I am the one who chose and I'm fulfilling this mitzvah and it's going to be and and who what's your name? Oh, I don't know you. You're not you're not anywhere near my league. I'm the one who sits in the front. I'm the one who stands in the front. I'm the one who does this, who does that. It's very easy to do that. But he didn't do this. Says Rashi doesn't mean he didn't deviate. Meaning of of course he did what Hashem wanted. It means he never changed his view of himself. It never changed. He never treated anybody differently because of that. Because I have more money so I should treat everybody different. I should I should say I'm better than everybody. Because I'm smarter, because I'm taller, because I'm stronger, because I'm this. Because I'm that. What? It's all from Hashem anyways. Like who's trusting all of us. He's the one who gives us everything. We don't have anything. The fact that our brain I'm saying you make your brain work. You don't make your brain work. There's trillions and trillions of things going on in your brain. We have no idea what that is. Who does that? Even the ideas that we think of, it's our ideas. How do you think? Who allows you to think? Who allows you to move your hand? Meaning it's all and we have to remember that. The idea is that when a person becomes big, he shouldn't change. He shouldn't change. Meaning to say that he shouldn't view other people different. He shouldn't put other people down. He shouldn't make it. Meaning when you when a person walks into the room and you walk in and you meet people and you see people, people could read the vibe. There are some people you walk into a room and you're like, I'm just too intimidated by him. He's he's too high. Like no one could touch him. No one could get near him. He's so much better. Why? Cuz he bought that building or he did this or he did that or he's the one who made the CM and no one could like and it doesn't make you feel comfortable or welcomed or loved. He makes you know that he's better than you. You're not part of our chill. You can't come over here. You're not invited. You know when they close the curtains in first class, right? Yeah. One day when you make more money you'll you'll be to come in here. You know what I'm saying? But there's a beautiful a beautiful and a very powerful lesson for all of us to think about all of us. All of us a lot of times we do things that are gushmak and that feel good and that can make us feel like we're a certain uh we spoke a few weeks ago about not taking people down not criticizing or looking to destroy. So that's mad the other person. This is misad you. Now I'm talking about the actual person. To me we have to constantly remember that we're like everybody else. We're all We're all one nation. We're not better than anybody. We have to do the best that we can, but I'm going to do a mitzah like every other mitzah that we do. So even who got the most of job like he's the one who handpicked, he didn't change. And that's a beautiful and powerful lesson. We should all be to to live like that. Doesn't matter how much better we are or we're prettier, we were better at sports. The guy's he's amazing at sports. Like he makes everybody else feel terrible. like no, use it the opposite. Use it the opposite. If you have something good, make people feel welcomed. So, that's a very uh very important uh idea. Another idea that Mr.