Shovavim Series – Episode 6: Our Goal in Life | Rabbi Nachum Binder

[bell] [music] Parasim the last week of tough shin pav. What can we take out of this week that can last us and carry us throughout the year in being mazak ourselves in aid hashem? At the beginning of the para, the terra tells us about an ev. And the terra describes the evi that after six years of being an eved, he says he wants to stay being an eved. And the tells us brings him to and his ear. They put something through his ear to the door and with that he was able to stay by his master until [snorts] and Rashi brings some kazal. Why is it that it happened to the ear? Why do we put that nail, that peg through his ear and not any other part of his body? A ear that heard on that should be my and this chose a different master. That ear deserves anish and the al and kellm and the safer. He writes that he never really fully understood this. He said in his younger years it was very hard for him to comprehend. [snorts] What does it mean? The ear that heard and now he wants a different what trying to teach us. And the writes that he was to understand the kazal and can be understood two ways. There's the superficial way. There's the facts, the dos and don't do of what the tells us. And then there's the pmius, the surah. There's what the really wants from us. What is the bottom line? What the wants from aid? The Tyra wants a yid to be an to the [snorts] an to the means to say we are mishid. We have nothing else on our minds. There's nothing else that's guiding us that's leading us. Our only goal, our only focus is a hashem being an EV to the ribb. When someone goes and buys himself a different EV, when someone goes and says, what that person is saying is I don't understand the pmius of Yiddeshite. I am ready to have other sheim. I am ready to have other things and other people dictate my life. I am ready to diminish in my to Hashem and become an tob. His ears alum only hears the superficialness thera wants from us. He's not comprehending the and then the alterum writes it's not only talking is discussing and describing [snorts] someone who leads his life with a pursuit of materialism. him with a pursuit of self satisfaction, self-gratification. Someone whose drive in life is tyum whether tyusim or tyus hamarim. That person is not the real eid to Hashem. He does not have the abdus solely being dedicated to a hashem and nothing else. There are other forces that are dictating him and pulling him. That person doesn't either comprehend the where do we see this specifically by the Indian of an the is that an is all mitzvah an is not potter on any mitzvah. However, when it comes to certain mitzvah, the Raon Kazal tell us that an is because he's mishid to his master. The Rabon said he's potter from certain mitzvah alum. What do mitzvah raon represent? We know from kazal that mitzvah representim and fences boundaries around the zone that's an to the someone that's solely to the looks forim he looks to add restrictions to make sure that he won't be over But someone who's just looking to do what he has to just looking to fulfill the letter of the law. This type of person doesn't comprehend the importance of and that's why an eed is potter from us. These words of the altar I saw brought down that it's really a mafurishes in parases and par says the exact same thing. >> [snorts] >> He says, "Do you know why has because the essence of Yiddish is [snorts] the essence of Yiddish is the realization I have to this my only reason for existence. There's nothing else about me that means anything besides Hashem. Everything in life revolves around my and who says doesn't understand that was but we might think that this is so hard really do I have to forget about everything? Do I have to live a life of restriction? Do I have to live a life of not letting myself be who I am and being an evashem? I want to share with you something. At the end of this week's para, the Tyra describes what happened by and the Tyra says at the end of the parim and tell us that it means that when reached that level of there was a tremendous inner satisfaction. ction, inner gratification that replaced the need of that's how happy they were. And say that's a lesson for all of us. The doesn't want us to give up. The wants us to replace because there is no there is no greater selfsatisfaction than one who comes to a level of aus when one refocuses re channels realizes I'm here with the tas I'm here with a purpose and I'm living with meaning and I'm living with a goal to achieve what I was put here to achieve and that's all my life is about that person is not giving up that person is acquiring such sim such satisfaction true satisfaction and this is what I think we can take out of shavim tin didn't pay off. If we realize We realize we're here with a tlas. We're here with a purpose. And everything and anything in life is with that goal to achieve that tlas. Our whole lives will be different. If we can come out of sh of him with some type of cababala of even things that maybe at the beginning we don't want to do but we have to cuz that's why we're here and that's the told us to do. We can slowly develop into being true to the and achieving that sim of >> [bell and music]