Plan Ahead & Know The Strategy - R. Meir Simcha Sperling - TorahAnytime.com

two nations two nations who fought against each other for many many years one of them was Russia and the other one was Ukraine that wasn't in this that wasn't in this m but maybe it's a true thing over here also and one day the king of one of the nations maybe tak we should try this the king of one of the nations announced that anybody who's going to find a solution to this war that makes absolutely no sense that people are dying for no reason anybody who can find a solution and bring peace between these two nations is going to win a tremend Tremendous, tremendous prize. You can go into the king's treasure house for 1 hour and take anything that you want. Anything that you want. 1 hour. So this guy's coming and they're opening colleges and schools and they're trying to figure out if if if we could find a way to create peace between these two cities or these two countries. Anyways, after some time there was one guy very very smart. He comes to the king and he says, "I have a way to do this. I have a way to do this. if you just make war. No, I'm joking. He has a way to do this. He says, "If you do A, B, and C, if you do this and you say that and you marry her and all these different things, I think that will be a solution and you'll be able to take care of this war." That's what he tells him. The king is blown away by his advice and he follows every single thing that he said. And what happened? There was peace. The war stopped right away. Maz, they all went to the Valdik and the two nations were at peace forever. And it happens to be that this this wise person is the one who did it. So what happens? So the king said next week on uh on Sunday you can come into the treasure house and you can take whatever you want. You have 1 hour. Now as the day approached the king started getting very nervous about this like he's going to come in. He's going to come to my treasure house. I didn't really think about this. I was so you know focused on the war. I said whatever I wanted to say but now I didn't really mean it. He's going to come in. He might take my mother's. You know what I'm saying? he might take my this and my that and like all these different things that mean so much to me. What am I going to do? So he called his adviserss and he said, "Guys, listen. I need you to figure out a way. I I can't break my promise." I told this guy, "This is what we're going to do. I need you to find a way for me to distract him in a way that he's not going to take any of my things." So the advisers are talking it over. And one person, one adviser gets up and what does he say? He says, "I have an idea. I know this person, this very smart person who helped you with the war. I know him and I know that he loves this violinist loves and that orchestra that he plays in. I know for a fact I know this is his best song. Trust me, this is what you got to do. Okay, in your treasure house, you're going to set up a stage right when you walk in with some very comfortable seats, maybe a stickle cigar, whatnot, and you're going to have this violinist play there in like a gold thing. And they're going to play and they're going to play all his favorite songs. And hopefully when he comes in, he's going to come in to collect money and he's going to look to the side and be like, "No way." And you're going to keep that clock on 60 minutes quick, you know, and that's what you're going to do. And hopefully that's going to be a way to overcome this. Okay. So the king was very happy with this and he decided this is what we're going to do. He calls the band. They come, they set them up the most gorgeous stage, the lighting, all the different things to make it very attractive to confuse this person not to take the king's very hush of gold and silver. Anyways, the day comes. The man walks into the palace. Massive heavy doors are unlocked and they open it up and he looks inside and he sees gold and silver and diamonds. He sees a mana that says from mom, you know what I'm saying? And he walks in there and he's like, "Oh." And he has a big bag. He walks in and he's about to pick up like some big piece of something or other. And know suddenly he hears like he's like, "What? What is that? What is that?" right now. Everything stops right now. He turns to the side and he sees his favorite violinist and he sees an an orchestra 300piece orchestra and he's like, "No way." And he just stays there and watches them for 45 minutes. 45 minutes. He's like, "Oh my goodness, I'm here to collect money." And he goes and he he starts running. He's like, "I only have 15 minutes left. Let's go." And all of a sudden he hears him play that song. He's like He's like, "Ah, what should I do? What I do, what I do, which I do, which I do. Let me just hear the song. I have five minutes. Well, I need one piece. I'll sell it. He runs there and and unbelievable, gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous music. Anyways, all of a sudden, he hears, "Ding, ding, ding. Time's up." And he's like, "Wait, wait a second. What do you mean times? I didn't I didn't collect anything yet. I was so busy listening. I was so distracted that I lost everything." And he says, "Wait, I didn't get anything yet." And they said, "I'm very I'm very sorry." And all of his pleas and his begging and his crying was for nothing. The opportunity passed. He returned home very bitter, sad by the golden opportunity that he let slip away. Says, "This mushel, this mushel is exactly us. A person receives a wonderful, wonderful gift from every single one of us during our life, we are able to accumulate so many mitzvah, so much, just so many good things and so many things. But the The atahara comes at every opportunity and he says just check this thing just check that thing you want to make sure that nobody died check the statuses check all these different things that we just get so confused and we get so lost and we just I didn't have enough time to learn I want this today but I wasn't able to because I ended I have no time and and we're gone and like this all a sudden there's the hour's up and obviously it's not an hour it's a you know a bunch of years 120 years but it goes so quick say 5 years ago I felt like last year. It's it's already rash. We were just starting the summer. Time goes say time goes. So if you're not going to stop and make sure that you capture this, that you understand that this is what the does. I understand this. If you understand it, things will change. That's all you got to do. Just know the battlefield that you're on. If you understand this, then you'll understand why internet was created. You'll understand why there are so many things that you just have to scroll and scroll and scroll and scroll. you'll understand why there's so many podcasts and so many statuses because it's just all to get your mind away from things that bear fruit, from things that are good. So just be aware. This is to these words. And once you know, knowing is half the battle because once you know, then you can plan ahead. So you