You’re the Gabai | Rabbi Fischel Schachter

[Music] so I do a lot of traveling and here I am I land someplace and it's a nice place and I'm in a particular school and I'm really tired and I want to go over for a coffee and I just take a coffee I just assume your coffee's for everyone and someone comes over to me and says excuse me are you a member here he looks at me he knows I'm not a member there I said no why he said coffee is only for members can you see the sign it says coffee for members only I said when I come from we read signs differently like once this fellow that went swimming and the policeman come says what should you people don't you see the sign no swimming aloud he said I read it no swimming aloud you know it all depends he don't like the joke so much and he said I'm very sorry but this is the short Rule and he tells me this is Mom and call you understand it says communal funds and the rule is that you cannot just come and have a coffee you're not a member I said okay I'm sorry I will not take another coffee or I will not forget this coffee forever trust me don't don't worry about it I mean I'm good I'm good I'm good and uh so I'm in another school the next day and that was a little curious and that was just like the little curiosity in me I said who's the uh Russia caller who's like the Gaba yes can I take a coffee sure I said I'm not a member he goes it's Mom and call it's communal funds it's made for everybody sure you can take it so I have a problem is communal funds a reason to take a coffee or not to take a coffee I guess it depends who the guy by is well guess what you are the Gabby of your own life the most frustrating thing in the world when we get up there after 120 years is we're going to learn something says that Seville and that is just like it says come is the noise of Allah all of the sustan it's all the money of a person right whatever we have whatever we own is predetermined from one Rosh Hashanah to the next you're not going to have us any more or a penny less okay if anyone that says it's based on your establish but I'm talking about within reasonable established reasonable trying you're not gonna have any more or less regardless of what you do same is true for every amount of pleasure and every amount of anxiety and challenge in our life there's a certain amount of this room there's a certain amount of pain there are going to be a certain amount of sleepless nights and Uphill battles it's gonna be a certain amount of pleasure the catch is if you look at something you ought not to look at and you're deriving pleasure your net result is not going to be you're going to have any more pleasure at the end of the year the pleasure will be deducted from someplace else and for that matter if it's difficult for you not to look and you're experiencing pain and it's autism with dual symptoms you're going to have that pain regardless but what's happening is you're using it right now so you don't have to suffer anywhere else now here's the real catch after 120 years we come up to Somalian and I meet my friend and my friends going straight to Canadian and I have an issue I got to take a round about route to grenade and I said but at the end of the day I didn't gain anything because on every pleasure I derive I'm looking I would have had anyway and whatever pressures I felt I would feel basically we both have the same amount of pleasure in life net dollars same amount of Fame you're getting rewarded from it and I have to go through an issue now but guess what we're not up to that point we're up to now when you're still looking at me and you can do something about it you won't gain you won't lose why not get paid for it