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You’re the Gabai | Rabbi Fischel Schachter
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The amount of pleasure that a person experiences in life is predetermined, however, you're the gabai deciding how you will get that pleasure. Want to get these videos on WhatsApp? Click here: https://chat.whatsapp.com/JQMXINfWghY0Zroy4zLOWL #vayimaen #shmiraseinayim #pleasure
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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