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but let me tell you a perfect example of
something negative that
happens something negative that happened
to me and I could take it to the
negative part and with all uh that will
follow or how it was easily taken to
something
positive so a few days ago I went H to
dip in the mik
and it was Shabbat and I like dipping if
I can as close as possible to shabbat
not an hour before once I used to get
ready for Shabbat two hours before and
that has its Mala its virtue but it also
I read in some books that dipping
moments before Shabbat comes has a great
H advantage
so I went to the mik and as I'm dipping
in the mik The Cleaner starts cleaning
I'm the last
one and I have my little slippers that I
walk in and I they were on the side and
he starts washing the floor and he
starts spilling the the soap on my
slippers and the uh not detergent the
cleaning soap whatever it is why are you
doing that so I got I'm in the Mig and I
see that and I get upset why are you
doing that either move the slippers or I
don't know tell me I'll move and they're
all wet and full of soap
and and I got like I got for a few
seconds upset I was about to tell him
move them why' you do that I decided to
completely ignore it and to continue
with the dipping in the
mik and uh and I was really trying not
to get upset not to lose my patience and
it some sometimes it's sometimes
something this
little throws you off and I got upset
now and in my mind now I got my my the
the slippers wet it's like
flip-flops then when I went out I took
them and and they were all wet full of
soap so I had to wash the rinse them and
wash them down and then when I turned
them the other way I saw that the Bon
was so
dirty so but but with dirty that got
stuck into the cracks and so I washed
the slippers real good and and I were
like oh now I have good clean
slippers thank you cleaner for pointing
out that I needed to clean the
slippers and I looked at the situation
and I was like I was literally in the
center of with option of getting upset
either getting upset and not doing
nothing but just being upset and I'm
sure you can relate with that that
something gets you upset you don't say
anything about it you keep it in your
heart and then you get more upset and
you don't want to say anything cuz you
don't want to you know create a problem
or a scene and you get even more upset
and the whole day it's in your mind and
it's in your heart till you let it go
somehow either you tell it to somebody
either you let go or either you flip on
the person that you got upset so I could
have stayed upset and it would bother me
for an hour or two the slippers the soap
the
mik or I could have G even gotten more
upset and tell the cleaner why' you do
that he could have answered back an
argument will start I don't know where
how it will go that's why our sages
say who is a wise person who can see
what's going to be born of the situation
that you see I see where it's heading
and you stop there but instead of going
to that direction I saw something
negative that affected me and I decided
how can I take the something negative
and transform it into something
positive is accepting I accepted that
that was a message from Hashem in a very
nice subtle way your shoes are dirty
clean them I wouldn't think of that and
I was like look how sometimes AEM dis
PES you out of situation that initially
is annoying
you remove that feeling away see the
potential that can come out from the
negative situation Bingo that's it I got
my shoes clean that's it I didn't get
upset at the
cleaner a win-win situation how did he
say
before that's revealing the or in s that
is the that's the or and sof that
instead of being B
and reduced in my spiritual level from
something so minor then it's negative
then that thing is negative yeah cuz it
brought me to a pit that I either used
foul language I said something wrong
whatever but the taking the positive out
of the negative situation is saying okay
what can I derive positive out of now
and in this situation the example with
the dirty slippers I'll clean it so I
got clean
shoes so almost any
situation you can look for the positive
part in the negative and uh bring the
positive out unfortunately this is not
going to work in any situation because
when you Shalom experience something
that is
beyond uh I don't want to give too many
examples but Shalom you use your own
imagination that some very bad SC a
person is lose a a loved one or like the
horrors that we saw in the last few
months that I might find hard to find
something positive when a person loses a
child Shalom people are losing soldiers
are dying every day there is something
positive but every situation has to be
looked very very detailed I will say
something bold by that in any situation
you can pull out something negative but
I will choose to say it in parenthesis
because many people will come and say
how can you get something negative
something positive out of that that I
lost my child I this happened that
happened I don't want to say too many
things but nevertheless a smart person
Rises when the stress comes or a
destruction or some bad event if you are
smart with the right tools that's where
you rise from that's what I spoke about
in the class before as our nation we
know how to run
From the Ashes whether it was the
Holocaust whether it was whatever our
nation has a gift that we know how to
rise from ashes from the
bottom if you apply that in your life
any negative situation in your life you
know how to make it a jumping board to
something positive not so easy cuz in
many of the situations it's very hard to
see and I'm now tagging all the horrors
and the atrocities we saw in the last
three months very hard to see from that
where Something Good Can Sprout but I
can tell you that I can already see in
some of the people that I know you see
the positiv positive Sprouts something
positive is coming so having the
attitude that something can be negative
from sham that's already wrong hasem
doesn't send anything negative we
perceive it as something negative and a
thinking that something negative in my
environment can affect me
no it can if you give it the option but
I can live in the worst environment and
not be affected because of how I lead my
life or I can lead my life in the
highest way and be affected by by the
surroundings depends on the
individual it really depends how I
accept energy from around me but if you
know how to block it anything negative
around you should not affect you if it
affects you the problem is with you not
you I'm not I'm looking at you I'm not
pointing at you but H to summarize this
point is that almost in any average
negative things that happen in your life
stop and do do your your pinpoint
focusing to find what can I take out of
this pile of junk and make something
positive out of it
and you know an example for that is
there's a story in the talud about a
certain Sage that he he used to sell
wine that was his
business and one time he had I think it
was a thousand barrels that got
spoiled that's you talking here parasa
for two three
years so he was a sage first of all what
did he do Chua let me see let me what's
called look through my actions maybe I
did something maybe I did something
wrong that caused this problem and he
found that he didn't pay his workers on
time okay he missed one of the workers
he didn't pay him on time which is uh uh
not permitted by by the Torah he fixed
the
wrongdoing and uh
and then happened a
miracle all of his wine that went bad
became
vinegar and he said okay I lost all my
money and so forth but once he corrected
the wrong doing that he did he found out
that on another side another town in the
country they didn't have any vinegar at
all there was a s shortage and he was
the the only supplier for the entire
region for vinegar and needless to say
made a lot of money
so in any situation that appears to be
extremely negative cuz he already was
counting his losses for two three years
of of
earning first of all he it helped him
reflect and do Chua and figure out what
he did wrong but more than that the
negative that seemed very negative
suddenly became a potential and I don't
remember the story exactly I think he
made like three times the amount that he
was supposed to make because that he was
the only one who had the vinegar so
Hashem can make something sweet out of
anything bitter it all depends in the
individual I give you clay you do
whatever you want with it you can make
something gorgeous and you can make a
stone and kill somebody with it you
choose what you make with the material
that God gives you God gives you
something negative for you to turn it
into something positive
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