Disoriented in Life? Get Back to Biblical Fundamentals - Jeremy Gimpel:The Land of Israel Fellowship

first there's light and dark and then what happens then there's like matter that's create water and land and then out of the water in land growth happens it's like growth from absolute matter that's the most basic reality of creation the world was created to flourish that's what it means when god created the world in love he created it for it to grow for human beings we were created to grow and to flourish just like flowers just like the trees all of us are a part of that and our natural purpose is to grow and that's why maybe for me in the last i would say at least a year of my life my primary prayer is hashem please help me grow help me grow up right that's the service here that's the spiritual work of this time because we're going to grow whether we like it or not so i said i should just i want to grow because i know that's what you want of me because the growth is going to happen it's going to happen whether we like it or not i've never seen a 70 year old teenager a 70 year old has a lot of life wisdom he's been through a lot he's seen a lot he knows a lot he's grown a lot and now there's some people that have chosen to grow and some people the growth just happens to them and so i say hashem i want to grow because i know that that's my purpose and i want please help me grow now don't bring it on too strong i want to just like be a be a merciful coach here i just i really want to be better and i want to grow but help me grow up right because i don't want to grow crooked because i know that if i grow crooked eventually something's going to have to straighten me out and i don't want to be straightened out i want you to straighten me out that is the spiritual work of this time and what do we do right after purim we start cleaning up our house that's the embodied knowledge that's happening there it's like start cleaning up shop dramatize it act it out teach it to your children this time until passover the mission is get your house in order clean it up but i mean clean get behind the furniture pull out the fridge clean out the corners behind the fridge that you don't clean out during the year that's what you need to do now it's like this is the time more than any other time to really get on your hands and knees and deal with what you need to fix and you know for me it's a great example in the megillah you know we see this the story of haman he's been invited by the king he's a top of the world he's got his decree to destroy his enemy in place he has the ring on his finger for all intents and purposes he's the most powerful person in the kingdom he comes out of the palace and sees mordechai and mordechai enrages it on esther chapter 5 verse 9. can we put that up on the screen he sees mordechai and he's just so happy says then haman went forth that day joyful and with a glad heart but when haman saw mordechai in the king's gate that he would not stand up or even move for him he was full of indignation against mordechai it's like he had every reason in the world to be so happy and haman just went there's that one thing gosh that mordecai kind of just couldn't let go of that and that he came home instead of talking to his wife about how amazing things are and how powerful he is and now he's going to kill all the jews and mordechai is going to get it he's just complaining and complaining about mordechai and then his wife says why don't you build in that tree and it's almost like this chain reaction that unfolds from haman's life that he couldn't just let the one annoying thing in his life let that go and really focus all the blessings of your life and then as he focuses on the one thing that's his real challenge right now from that everything horrible unfolded in his life and so what is spring cleaning well it's a universal phenomenon spring clean that's like that's like a saying in the world but it's really a torah command it's like clean up the debris that is blocking the reception of your spiritual antenna take off the mask like a solar collector that needs to receive the light to work to get the heat going you got to wipe off the dust so it can like receive the light so the same too it's like when we have that like one thing because there's always going to be a snake in the garden there's always going to be that one thing in life that is our challenge but if you let that be that's what you got to find and clean it out and that's what's so beautiful is that you know happiness in the western world is like when you achieve a goal when you get that degree when you get the promotion when you get that raise that's like the happiness that you've been working for you got accepted to that law firm but what's wrong with that approach is that until you get that raise or until you get into that law firm you're frustrated you're anxious until the goal is met you're not really happy and then once the goal is accomplished the happiness evaporates pretty quickly because the goal is accomplished now and now what are you looking for and there's a different type of joy that the tour is teaching us about it's a joy doing what you are fashioned to do and spring is on the horizon now and we're all called to clean up shock we're all called to grow and how do we grow it's like clean off the debris that's on the antenna by putting our house in order and as we clean our exteriors of our house really we're just cleaning the chambers of our heart we pull back the mask and we see like no it's not just the outside game but there's an inside game here and we're not looking at the person in the tv set no we realize that we're trying to go in a little bit deeper trying to go to the source of that reception so when the debris is interrupting our reception it's time to clean up shop and so as we clean we grow and then the joy and freedom are coming this passover