King Solomon's Wisdom at the Mall - Rabbi Gavriel Friedman

[Music] so there i was south africa about an hour and a half outside of cape town little town called worcester and i come to realize my shoes are falling apart so i turned to the guy driving i said you know any stories around here he says look around no one's really wearing any shoes but you know what i think i know a place we go out there and we find this mall and as i'm going from store to store i can't find anything until i finally come to the sporting goods store i'm looking around and now you know you're in a store you look at other things also i'm looking around i see on the wall all these inspirational quotes you can do it keep pushing don't give up i see this big sign in front of me that says fall seven times get up eight and underneath it in big black letters it says anonymous and i think to myself anonymous that's not anonymous i know who said that i called the guy who's working there i said hey come here you know that sign he goes yeah i said i know who wrote that he goes man i got paid 20 grand an hour i don't care who wrote it friends king solomon comes along and he tells us in his best seller michele proverbs chapter 24 verse 16 and i quote kiseva yipol sadiq become the righteous person falls seven times but he gets up again some of us are mistaken and we think what's the difference between someone who's successful and someone who's not we know the winner we know the successful person he never falls he's always doing great she's always successful she always makes it but little do we realize how mistaken we are the difference between a winner and a loser between success and non-success is not that one falls and one doesn't they both fall the difference is that the winner the successful person gets back up now you ask yourself why seven what does that mean that seven times the righteous person falls what's seven seven are the days of the week is not a one time thing you say to yourself well okay i get it you could fall and get back up but i keep falling how could i ever succeed do i have any chance i might as well give up says the verse keep plugging baby keep plugging because it's constant it's every day it's going to happen and not only that our sages tell us we go down in order to go up not only is that falling not bad it may even be the impetus to unbelievable growth thank you for listening to the guard your eyes daily physic broadcast pass them on to your friends and help spread kedusha in the world