H3 Business Summit Toronto: Why We Work - Our Achrayos as a Ben Torah in the Workplace

this Tower class is brought to you by torahanytime.com good morning friends this conference is a lot more important than you think so there's a man named moisha and he's a shepherd and he's shepherding his sheep and he encounters a bush and the bush is burning foreign this was some type of vision that moisture abena was experiencing and let me tell you something who experiences it's not your everyday nafua we're not talking like avraham avinu or yashaya hanavi who saw prophecy passed by Claudia era we're talking era which means that since this was the first prophecy they're not sure have any ever experienced this was from the moment God created the world the most intense elevated Divine experience anyone ever encountered this was greater than what avraham saw than what yaakovino saw so I have one simple question what did the man do to deserve this foreign and you know what you could look in the Hamish and the Hamish does not say anything did but let me tell you Libby oily we have one possuk that precedes God's communication with my shrabeno you know what the plastic says um idbar what does Rashi say the moisture took the Sheep beyond the desert to avoid taking a buck out of someone else's pocket that he had as the heroes and mishpat and lick look where he landed look where what it brought my shrabino it elevated him to a pedestal above and beyond any human being in the history of the world no one in the history of the entire world ever heard hakadash barahu say their name twice in succession and what did he do he was Zahir and Marvin throughout the year we look for opportunities to bring ourselves Aliyah to bring our families Aliyah to have a strengthening and rooking us but the thing is very often we don't really know what's going to bring me Aliyah myself that what it means to be at Sadiq is very far from our minds we have conjured up in our minds all kinds of images what its sadik looks like what a righteous person looks like and yet we learn from you know what brings Aliyah having an extra kumrah not in pesach and not in Minion not to take money from someone else's pocket real Aliyah comes when a person takes off time from their schedule from their family life from their workload to attend the H3 Toronto Summit 2023. [Applause] so we talk about sidcos and everyone has in their minds some kind of image what a sadik looks like what did robistro salanter do an air of Yom Kippur what the man do the great Sadiq to God al-hadar how did he spend his era of Yom Kippur so he was once visiting his son-in-law in the city of kranyok and there was a certain zakane who wanted to observe rabisraal what does Yom Kippur well friends after eating breakfast he goes not to the base hakanesses and not to the Mikvah and not to the base hamedrish he went into the kitchen and he went into the pantry and he took out a hammer and he put the hammer on her under his jacket and he proceeded to go to the local shul and he proceeded to bang in every loose nail in every chair so that the owner of the shul would not have on her shoulders the Avera of hezek and gazela on the oymakadish and then he went upstairs and he banged in all the nails in the woman's section and he spent the entire era of Yom Kippur banging in banging in every loose nail in the city of kranyok in the whole city that was the minakadish a rabies Purim you want Aliyah you want the khusim it starts with the heroes because who wanted to be piration so they went out into seclusion and they began learning how beautiful it is but Shas can stay there you're not gonna learn you're going to start with is abis Ruba de Ruba sardines mostly the rabbanan says you start with babakama basara so that if you have a worker you have to pay them on time these are kuloid who how careful we are of I know say I haven't missed the minion in 10 years that is not what brings the greatest Aliyah as important as minion is and of course we have to be Zahir in all of the above says you want Aliyah Aliyah has found nikishapayam Ali is found in your wallet that you don't have a penny in your account that somebody else claims is his so vencion mentioned that we share a common alma mater but I have to admit when I was about her in Yeshiva I used to sneak to hear I grew up in Flatbush on MN 31st I used to walk to rather Victor Miller shul I walked to a show for three years it was quite a long walk I heard from him the following question jacovino he's running away from asov he runs from beersheva harhabayas basale khoran he gets the Quran he says so he heads back he sees angels in his dream let's fast forward now 20 years he's done with love on that conniving crook you're zaida uncle lovan and now he's out of love on his house and the plastic says he sees the Angels again but this time he's not dreaming this time he's awake he sees the Angels the hakits and this is a totally different madrega than seeing an angel in a dream it's one thing by akaline but to see an angel in awake what did yaakovino do in those 20 years that he stagged and he grew and he elevated himself from seeing a malachin a dream to seeing them awake say he must have learned in Kyle nah he wasn't in Yeshiva at all he wasn't in Yeshiva for a minute during those 20 years he finished learning before the first Dream what did yaakovino do during those 20 years that he had such an Aliyah I heard from River Victor Miller you want to know what Yakov did you want to know why he had an Aliyah because he went to work that's why he had an Aliyah but when he went to work he didn't take paper clips from the boss and then he didn't make long-distance calls on the boss's bill and he didn't call in sick when he had a runny nose or when he had his kids kindergarten play he dealt honestly with the conniving crook and a day's work was a day's work that's why Jacob Aveeno had an Aliyah because he didn't steal other people's money he said Miller it wasn't his army loss it wasn't his Lee mode it was his avoida Ben Hermanos and I have to tell you this of honest working is the most underrated in our world and when I say our world I don't mean the secular world I mean if you would have a totem pole in people's mind of what are the ikarim that would be number last on the list when instead it should be first on the list you know in the entire of the rambam there's only one man called the Sadiq it's not easy to get the title sadik nowadays if you're alive and breathing and you have a Jewish mother you're at Sadiq but for the rambam if you want to be at Sadiq you gotta really deserve it there's only one individual called the Sadiq you ready for this says the rambam in the last hello the same way the boss is obligated not to withhold wages from the worker the worker has to make sure not to steal from the boss there's an obligation to work for the boss with every last ounce of energy you have says you know how you become a Sadiq in the mind of the rambam when you work honestly the ramam didn't say yakov's at Sadiq because he learned in the kailan and the Rama doesn't say yakov's it's Sadiq because of his Hasma done he didn't sleep at night Yakov it was at sadik because he didn't cut Corners at his office so I got it you want Aliyah baruchneous business integrity is awake but you know what they say nice guys finish last this is good for rochnius this ain't good for business so friends the rambam continues you know the other is hakadoshim were all very wealthy does anybody know who was the wealthiest of all the others you know avraham avinu it says the avraham avraham was very wealthy Yitzhak is very wealthy but avraham was very wealthy Yitzhak was very wealthy yaakov was very very wealthy why was hezeka says the rambam Jacob had Sadiq um I am vanaira of the material wealth of yaakovino came from an honest day's work you know it's amazing has a phenomenal Kasha in the igorithm he wants to know let's say you have a seabor that during they forget to blow the shifar is there Tash lumen that back in the day they used to blow shoifer and LOL chakras and menchha so nowadays we don't blow minha we only blow chakras but if you miss chakras you make it up minha it's Astra moisha you know come to think of it why bizman Hazel do we not blow shoifer by men how we only blow chakras why do we blow when chakras is over when davening is already over we should blow before chakras so that we have his Cyrus for artilla why blow the chauffeur when davening is over you're thinking when you're doing chuva your focus should be on your davening you think you're blowing the soy first so you should learn better we blow the chauffeur when davening is over before you go to work because the topless of is chuva and chuva is working honestly not davening better and learning better and that's what today is it's kiosk shoifer for the workplace and that's what needs it for more than any other aspect of Our Lives many years ago I was at a bris and the grandfather of the rahanimal got up to speak at the briss and I can't tell you that at every bris when the grandfather gets up to speak it registers or I'm listening or it's even on the radar but at this bris and I got permission to say over the story this was I believe it took place about 15 years ago and the grandfather Dr bergita he got up to speak and he was talking about his father and he said you know his father confided in him that after the war he came over I think he came to Montreal and his father confided in him that he had many friends and many of his friends were not that successful that they didn't have the nachas from the children they were hoping for and that he bar Hashem he had nachas from all of his Diaries and this Dr bhagira then said that his father confided in him that he believes that the reason he was because he worked honestly in the office now that's not something you hear every day you know your typical bris speech is going to be you know he was he never missed the minion he was you're not going to hear that somebody who didn't take money from the boss was but I looked around and I want to share something with you and I'm a little bit afraid to share it and it's a very sensitive comment if you didn't hear who the person who said it they would not be able to say it this is the comment of none other than he brings down from and again I say it as sensitively as possible we all know the greatest challenge of our generation is we all know there's a phenomenon on the Derek not on the Derek and who are we to say what when why but to ignore this comment and not to be familiar within I say it with all due sensitivity and we'll try to say it positively but rights you could look it up and always he brings from Ramana commandment of that the most important ingredient in raising children is the food you feed your child Hashem because I only use badats no no it says I'm not talking about the hakshar but that's not the icker I'm talking about the kashras of the money that you use to feed the kid that is what it depends on that's how you explain the unfortunate phenomenon again this is what they say and I say it with all due sensitivity and they brought this to ravaran Cutler and ravaran said so don't think you go to a conference and it's about my personal hanhaga in my office between me and my workers between me and my boss it's my Alia it's not your Aliyah it's your children's Alia it's your grandchildren's Aliyah the entire Destiny of a person's family is dependent more on the work a person does than what takes place perhaps in the Besame and there's another aspect of the workplace that time doesn't allow us to treat fully but we'll just touch upon it put their belief and this is also something that's a formidable challenge and this is something that also reverberates until the end of time you know say for voracious concludes with the comment about your safe and his family and it seems like to something in his family life that none of the others the posix says great grandchildren Pine the sons of Mahir the son of Menasha grew up on yosef's lap that's how gracious ends you ever notice that do you ever pay attention why in the world would voracious end that Yosef had great grandchildren and it hit me this year it's postured why the Torah ends that way because all we all know Yosef was faced with the greatest Temptation any man could ever be faced with he's all by himself he's in a foreign country he's a young handsome man and every day Asia's poitifera she's tempting him she's relentless she doesn't let up and gazelle say Joseph was about to break down and ultimately he summons up the fortitude and the Torah says one word and we all know the Trump on the word value [Laughter] what is mean chain a link literally it means three the Torah is telling us don't think that when you're faced with a challenged other nisht it's between me and God nobody will know it's my decision It's My Life and what I decide is between me and the Republic no it's not between you and the Rebellion every decision that you make reverberates to your children your grandchildren your great-grandchildren when Yosef stood up to that challenge you know what he was too shall show us says the Torah were not ending voracious until we let you know that Taka is the initialation now we're ready to end don't think you're not going to experience and enjoy his gabrasa in this world it will make a difference to your family it will make a difference to your Generations there's another important element to the workplace that I'm getting the feeling that perhaps the main kavana of the organizers of today's event was really to address this aspect often there's an attitude and I understand the attitude this man avoid Usman I have my work hours and I have my question hours I have my job and I have sudaka and never shall the twain meet I can't mix I don't mix religion and state we don't mix the two so I just came back from speaking on a Jewish Heritage Tour to Morocco we had a very nice group we had a minion and somebody brought along a small safer Tyra the safer tire was like the size of a mezuzzo tiny safer Tire and we all know that parishes is a Parsha sasuma which means not only does start on the next line they're not even four letters of space between the end of ayegash and the beginning of so the balcoire he has the impossible task of distinguishing when vayigash ends and when he begins and Rashi of course asksuma foreign says the epic words when yaakov died the shebot began and the eyes and the hearts of the Jewish people were sealed shut were so used to those words of Rashi why don't we stop and think what does Rashi mean the eyes and the hearts of the Jewish people were sealed shut why does Rashi say that he should just say we were battered we were demoralized we were beaten what does it mean the eyes and the hearts of the Jewish people were sealed shut and the Revenge some sent me a Matana because the next week it finally dawned on me the Torah tells us about Maisha do you remember what Rashi says foreign now we know why you need eyes now we know why you need a heart you need eyes to see that Sarah of somebody else you need a heart to empathize with someone else's plight you see the problem rabbis I was in mitzrayim we were so immersed we were so engrossed we were so caught up in our own pain we couldn't notice somebody else's suffering we didn't have the emotional we're with all to empathize with anybody else and Rabbi said that's a very big problem because if you can't see what someone else is going through and you can't feel what someone else is going through we're never gonna get out of mitzrayim because Revenge some is looking down from he's saying I would like to help you but if you don't see someone else's pain I don't see your pain Meda can I get Meda and if you can feel the suffering someone else is enduring then I cannot feel your suffering that's the way the world Works quid pro quo silly bunch of someone's looking down from shamayam if you're so caught up in your own personal job that you can't look across the table is he sufficiently comfortable are things going well for them I can't help you and the rebunction was looking down and he's looking for a man to break the cycle so comes along my Shion shall you Israel comes along that's what I was looking for because now that your eye is open and your heart is open now I see and I feel very acutely what cloudy so is going through look in the next episode Kim Espino Israel Kim says Rashi no son I'll lay him anov that was the big turnaround Israel foreign so on the one hand you have to go to work with him you have to guard the eye and on the other hand you have to go to work with your eyes wide open is my favorite making it in the workplace he hasn't had an increase in salary in seven years how's he supposed to marry off his kids maybe I could give him some extra business maybe I could help them find a better job when your eyes and heart are wide open you're not just helping that person you're opening up the eyes and heart of a venus and you bring Yeshua to all of claw Israel and just to conclude if you want to know a kind of windfall what kind of jackpot is in store for those who have this midah Listen to A balhaturim A monumental balaturam they're only two places in the entire Tanakh that begin with the following word safe the one but Yosef has two kids before the years of famine Joseph had two children the famine began began Yusuf says I can't engage with my wife now the world is suffering he commiserated he empathized with the greater public what's the other apostle that begins with the word only I safe holy I say if she tells us that in the end of the Torah the riban Islam tells Maisha I want you to go to Yosef and tell Yosef of all the you hit the jackpot you get the windfall zaktarashi ain't because you're safe you know I Yosef hit the jackpot you know why he got the windfall because the Leo is safe yulad schneve on him because he empathized because he sympathized Solomon he said oh and every time I hear this vert I quiver because the MS is so piercing says why was it the brother is coming from where foreign who dwells in the bush you know insham is never called the one who dwells in the bush except for in this pasok it could have said its coming Merit soin shakai merzai alloy Kim says because if you know why you hit the jackpot because when I introduced myself to my sharabino From The Snare and Rashi says why did Hashem introduce himself from the snare to teach Moshe that hashem's Hallmark characteristic is being imagara Hashem is letting Yosef know of all the you know why you're the most successful because you emulated my Mida of imayana so you get the windfall and you hit the jackpot and if you want to be blessed with success in your paranasa you have to go to the workplace believe to see what could I do to empathize to commiserate to assist my brother and then you'll be zoys Hashem dear friends of Us coming together this morning to heighten our awareness of the importance of to hide in our awareness of kadusha in the workplace to hide in our awareness of being noise you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com