Who You Really Are | Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair

foreign [Music] just like every other day and then suddenly you feel a strong spiritual connection with Hashem you suddenly feel the desire to govern longer to focus on your essay with lots of kavana but a moment later you think to yourself come on that's not me I always have a quick schmonton essay who am I to act all holy and devout and you lose that moment of inspiration and you go about your habitual way of doing things well how about this scene it's an ordinary day you're faced with an inappropriate piece of media it's just the kind of thing you look at all the time after all who are you but then you feel something different you have a moment when you think to yourself I really shouldn't be looking at this and then just as quickly another moment later in a fraction of a second you push that feeding down and tell yourself who do you think you are you've looked at this kind of thing countless numbers of times before and then probably you're going to go on looking for the rest of your life you look at the end tomorrow who Do You Think You Are just like that you extinguish that moment of inspiration to do something better one of the greatest internal challenges we all face the challenge that prevents many of us from growing as people is the feeling of being a hypocrite the feeling that that's not really who I am who am I to learn or Daven at an intense level today I'm not that kind of person or am I not to go on a vacation to that kind of impure location where I know I'll see all kinds of things I shouldn't people who see me there many times and I don't think I'm any better than them why shouldn't I look am I better than the people that do my friends this is a trap this is the thinking of the yet Sahara I want to tell you something we're all Hypocrites in fact the only way to grow is to be different than the person you were yesterday the very definition of being better is in direct comparison to the lower level you were on yesterday anyone who grew at all in their lives had to be so to speak a hypocrite the next time you have a moment of inspiration a moment of motivation grab it grab it with both hands the next time you feel the strength to stand strong in the face of an assoyan sees it seize that strength it'll be worth it even if you don't see a significant permanent change in your behavior that moment defines Who You Are that moment in itself was a major step in your growth as a person maybe it was only for a split second but that Split Second changed you for the rest of your life you're a different person now you touched greatness