Shovavim Series - Parshas Beshalach: Light the Fire | Rabbi Nachum Binder

[Music] entering the fourth week of shim the week of Pas bash we also come across another in our calendar the day of better known as tubish I want to take a moment to understand something about tuat which I think is very fundamental in our a during these days of sh the tells us that on the 15th day of the Y didn't stop cutting the trees for wood for the M because since on that day the power of the sun begins to diminish the trees are a little more moist and the wood will rat and the wants to know when did they start cutting this wood the tells us they stopped but when did they start the Mas says I think that they started because on tuat is the day when the sun begins to burn brighter and I once heard from and he asked how does one understand this Mar one doesn't have to be a scientist to know that which is the middle of August and the months which follow it are a lot hotter and the sun burns a lot stronger than middle of January how can the mar tell us that in a certain way the sun is stronger and then we start cutting the wood and we're not scared it's going to rot then in the summer months even though the sun began to diminish but it's so hot outside there's so much heat what's so unique about and he said a beautiful he said when you want to see how hot something is you don't look at how big the flame is if you want to see if the heat is real you look if the heat is starting but it's in a growing mode it's heading up or or even if it might be a very large thing but when it begins to die down it begins to burn out it doesn't have that power anymore and he said that that's a lesson for each and every one of us if one wants to know how connected he is to the how H is in his relationship to the learn from it might be cold outside it might be freezing but if it's beginning to C if it's starting out something we're on aah we're on a path fire it's a lot hotter than when it begins to burn out and I really think that that lesson is alluded to in this week's para experien yamu the CL on a high but we have an enemy am who's this am we know from is the is the is the the force of evil in the Bria and amik can't stand it when we're on fire and what does amik do tries to cool us off a little bit what does amik think that we're going to stop daving that we're going to stop learning that we're going to stop trying he knows he can't do that but he wants the cool down the fire he wants to make US Post he can't stand seeing us as tubish type of people that were on our way up and the T tells us that am came and as kazal teach us am never left that M that has with cl is that to cool down the excitement take it easy that m is Everlasting and will be here until Mia comes what do we have to do to ensure our victory over amalik what do we have to do for our personal victory over the over our personal RAB we have to light the fire what do I mean light the fire RAB maybe this fourth week of sh Midway through sh P doad maybe we can try a little bit to work on a and a Bren in the things that we're already doing we're daving three times a day we're saying we're all learning sometime throughout the day we're keeping shabas we're having shabas sudas how about we make make it more exciting how about we light that fire within ourselves even just a little bit to put more of a and a br and a g into our yish into our and mitv and if we do that we're fighting head on with our mik who's trying to cool us down and if we do that and especially at this time of year of that fire which we ignite this week can be the fire which will finally eradicate on a personal level and on a claw level and maybe that fire will be the fire that will ultimately lead to the ultimate victory over amalik when [Music] ye