My Present Tafkid | Rabbi Meir Simcha Sperling

You know, there's a famous question that I’m sure we all ask ourselves, here and there, and that is, what's my Tafkid in life? What am I really supposed to do? What does Hashem want for me right now? This morning, when I was putting on Tefillin by Shacharis, as I was putting on my Tefillin shel Yad, I was thinking to myself something amazing. I was like, wow - right now there is nothing in the world that I am supposed to be doing other than making the Bracha of my Tefillin. That means when I make this Bracha, I know that that’s what I’m supposed to be doing. That's my Tafkid for right now. If I would ask Hashem, ‘Hashem, what am I supposed to be doing now?’ He'd be like, ‘Focus.’ ‘And make the Bracha on your Tefillin.’ When you are bentching, there is nothing else in the world that you are supposed to be doing other than bentching. Nothing else exists. What you have to do after - okay, so we'll think about what you have to do after - after. But right now, there's nothing else in the world that's going on except for your bentching, except for your putting on Tefillin. You're learning a Daf Gemara, There's nothing in the world going on, besides that Daf. And that means that your Tafkid in life right now is to learn that Daf, and do the best that you can on that Daf. And that's what Hashem wants from you. And then I was thinking, if we could broaden this idea a little bit, every time you are struggling with a Nisayon of Shmiras Ha’einayim. You’re walking down the street and you see something that you're not supposed to see or there's a struggle, And the Yetzer Hara is trying to grab you, trying to take you down, right now, you know that there's one job in the world for you to do. If you would ask Hashem, ‘Hashem, what's my Tafkid in life?’ Hashem would probably say, ‘Right now, your Tafkid in life is just to look down. ‘Just control yourself this time.’ And then everything else in the world falls away, except for this idea that's going on right now. Because this is my Tafkid. This is my purpose. Rabosai, if we could think about this with all the Mitzvos we do and all the Aveiros that we're supposed to stay away from, and each one is broken down into its own thing, and we say, ‘Wow, right now I am literally fulfilling my Tafkid in life,’ ‘for right now.’ That means every time you see something that you're not supposed to see, or you're about to see something that you're not supposed to see, or you're about to go somewhere that you're not supposed to go, you say, ‘Wait a second!’ ‘This is my entire Tafkid in life, for right now.’ This is exactly what Hashem wants from me, I know with such a clarity that this is the only thing Hashem wants me right now, to look down or to focus on this Gemara or to do that or to say this or to go there. Rabosai, this is a fascinating idea, because now I have the answer to my question. What's my Tafkid in life? I don't know. But for right now, this is your Tafkid in life. So, Rabosai, we could all do it. We could all do it. We focus on this idea, and we could all become amazing Gedolim, Rabosai. Let's control ourselves and let's make Hakadosh Baruch Hu proud with every move we do.