Looking for a Segulah? Daven! Part 1 Chizuk for Iron Sword by Rabbi Yitzchak Feigenbaum

all right as as always first and foremost of course all the learning we do should beus for all the people that need extra and the people that are injured Rich everything should just you know get back to the way amelle always really wants to be in n and and all over the world and a huge thank you to the OU for hosting this and all the multiple things that I think a lot of people don't even know they do you know everyone there there you know WhatsApp groups and and then there's things going around instead they're schoolis and Su him and people are looking for things and K him and 40 times a day people some guy wrote me maybe we should get everybody to fast Monday and Thursday and people are looking for school list you know um R Risman was uh rash andas he used to say that you know it's a shame M who did not um did not give the to diber as scholas then everybody would have done it we want schooler right see but but we forget what's the matter with daving like daving is is a good thing and and and that's what I would like to focus on doing is not as as simple as it as as it sound um you know they tell the story of this guy this R he's flying from like Brooklyn to Los Angeles he's going to aasa and he's sitting there sitting in playing he's you know he's thing him doing thing and some guy sitting next to him right and he says oh uh you a rabbi he goes yeah yes I'm a rabbi so well I'm I'm a professor of astrophysics so the r said that that's that's very nice and he looks back and you know so he says he said that's Hebrew you're reading right he goes yeah and that's Hebrew the Bible Hebrew know he says well you know Rabbi I don't know a lot about about Judaism but from what I understand you can like just sum the whole thing up as like love your neighbor as you love yourself right and R looks at him and says you know what I don't know a lot about astrophysics but I think you can sum it all up with tle Twinkle Little Star we tend to take complicated things and just like boil it down here's what I'd like to do for the next few weeks well really only for this week because by then and then he'll be giving sh instead of me but in the odd chance that that doesn't happen right and you're stuck with me right what what I would like to do is I would like to this for the next few weeks I'd like to discuss elements of FILA because it's really complicated how does it work why should it work why should it make a difference has knows what we want anyways right how does it help for people who aren't dting and believe in the stuff anyways so how does it help them right how does the whole field of business work and every day every class of mem I want to take a little bit of D and instead of going to the things that like we don't know because we rarely say them and going to dilim which everybody's talking about I want to do we all say 15ak I talk about what can you say about Baka watch we're gonna do that that's what I want to do instead of dramatically adding to the dting that we do for which everybody probably had everyone's doing their extra thing how about taking the daving that we always do and just say it a little more intelligently and and knowing what we're do it that's the plan of attack so for the next few classes we're going to take one small issue about Fila and try and explain it then we'll do one or two of the bakar then we'll go to the next topic every week next topic and the next we bakar that's the plan let's let's see how we do so let's start like this and we got to start with the most crucial part right of T which is why should it make a difference I'm judged if I deserve X I'll get X if i deser i b i want to win $20 million in the lottery if I'm supposed to win $20 million in the lottery I'm gonna win $20 million in the lottery if I'm not supposed to win 20 million bucks then I'm not gonna win win it nagging hak baru about it what ises nagging him help what it's like he doesn't know oh I really want to in the loty oh thanks for point oh you you want to be cured from your cancer I didn't know that why you just pick up that what who knows what's going on what if you think I don't want to be jur I gotta ask him right doesn't know that and gave you the cancer and he knows how long cancer is Gonna Last SCH and whenever it's supposed to be it's supposed to be and begging and nagging why why would that make a difference you get what you get what you deserve for getet Sonic ver Roba right but you know basic system forgetting why it doesn't look like we get what we deserve but we we believe we get what you deser if I deserve it I deserve it if I don't I don't right if I supposed to find job I'll find a job and I'll find a job wants me to find a job right I'm not before he wants me to find a job and it's bugging him saying can you please find me a job because need find me a job if I was I know you need a job I'm stupid I'm done okay right you'll get it we you're supposed to get it that's our question chats like this based on rev dler we've mentioned this before what do we do when we that yes it's true we're judged every day every day we're judged I if we're judged every day what do we need Rush shut for very famous Russ question maybe we'll talk about it next Rush right that's why such a f it's the classic Russ question what are we doing we're judge every day like what's going on in russan we're judge every day looks and you judge every day we have better days we have worse days okay what's gonna be with this guy today what's gonna be with f Mom where's he holding what does he deserve got more mitzvos I got less mitzvos I want to win $20 million SP looks at me and says F mom you don't deserve $20 million and I completely understand that right what what am i g so what am I accomplish by do well what do I accomplish by do yeah I do more MIT those I get it I gave many sh to my balance sheet is Chang F about your balance sheet is not is not good enough to win $20 million yet I gave Maraka I did I visited people in hospital oh is changing oh go you know pile on the MIT and you're a different guy so looks at me today says hey that's a very different fight about look at the whole balance wow well maybe but but why just why just ask it but what does that because what do we do when we dve in when we dve when we dve in we are acknowledging the fact that it's a k bur who runs the show I've said this before our unfortunately favorite Brook and how do you translate that if heal will be healed well y obviously if hasem heals us we'll be healed the translation of that sentence in should be said with the following inflection it's a statement if Hashem heals us then we get healed Hashem don't heal us we don't get healed we have to stopless we're not to we why Miracles we all know that we've been through this a thousand times got to buy bulletproof rest you got to put your bulletproof rest on 100% you got to go to the doctor if you have a savi's account you should try and make one no you should not smoke 20 cigarettes a day but the proclamation that refer only if hasem heals us will we be healed Hashem blesses us with part we'll have part if he don't nothing will help nothing will help nothing will help proclaiming that announcing that brings you closer to Hashem that makes you closer to Hashem you're you're putting yourself in his hands that changes your balance sheet so when I ask a buru please you know you could give me $20 million and if you're don't give me $20 million it will never ever ever ever happen but if you do it will happen right I I I did a job following the want add I'm sending in resumes I but it's only up to you I'm just doing what I got to do it's totally up to you you announced that you proclaimed that you you've changed the balance in your Kos TM balance in your good deeds bad Deeds balance you're a different person and you can wake up the next morning on a CO B will look you and says well the fom yesterday they didn't deserve $20 million but the F today with those extra fos look at his kadua look at his the look how much he's put himself in my hand look how close has become to me that's a f b that deserves $20 million now that had not but we we keep on trying that's how it changes it that's how the difference it makes and that's why yes most people translate you're blessed very difficult translation what do you mean is blessed what does that mean go with Shon for her many the deeper mfor of course say com for bre Source spring underground spring you Hashem are the source of everything every time you make a you are the source of everything and you are and you're you're right you're the right and you are the and you're the one that does that I gotta study I gotta review I want to understand things but you as are the source of wisdom and and I will be as smart or dumb as y b want me to be right I will be as rich as poor as you want me to be and that changes the balance and you're on a new spiritual level thetic but how does that help for people that are not ding they're not changing their spiritual level their balance sheet stays the same they Ure nothing they're at least not toing so I'm daving so I'm closer to hasf uncle Charlie who's in a coma ain't doing nothing so how did that help for him they is Rule you get somebody else to do a m you get hard for that you have a neighbor who don't waste their time Thursday evenings doesn't do anything but Thursday nights and not in your community you know they package packages for to sh and putting packages together for K why don't you come along come on last come on long you s it home you're doing nothing come you'll help and be a okay I'm gonna come along she gets the she do she she packes packages for she put together stuff for whatever she did she helped out it's on community she she gets you get because you got somebody else intoing without you she never would have done it and if for you get the scar of getting somebody else to do a m you convince someone to buy $10 raffle ticket which they normally wouldn't have done they just gave 10 bucks at Saka which they really never would have done had you not bothered them they get M of sucker you get the MST of getting somebody else into sucker how does it help Uncle Charlie would you said the exra peric till him if Uncle Charlie wouldn't be in a coma no Uncle Charlie would doing fine I would said this ex peric till him so Uncle Charlie got you to do an extra peric till him how did he do that by being in a coma the B but he got you to do it thanks to him that he said the extra par kill him you wouldn't be so nice to your mother-in-law there won't be a war going on and out the soldiers were in danger would you but you took it by yourself you're going to call your mother-in-law every other day a really deep breath and have a really nice conversation and that's what the KY should be saying they got you to do that how I'm putting themselves in the Harm's Way and running around with rocket launchers but but they got you do if they wouldn't be doing that if everything be Andy Dandy super quiet how would I would you be your mother-in-law as bad Asam all year around how who got you to do it sometimes inspirational speech sometimes you feel guilty and sometimes because it's s for those guys over there it's for Uncle Charlie It's s for those prisoners for for the for the hostages without them you wouldn't be doing this would you no they got you to do it that's how suen help for others I we've all been around long enough to know that but sometimes I do so much and I've added so much and I just come get no no no what with the no what how come a seems to say no what do you do when he says no do do you keep banging away how you supposed to feel when it's you're just getting a no it's not helping whatever it is Uncle Charlie whatever it did is no not getting the job no how do we deal with that that will be next let's move on as we said a little but start for the very because it's a very good place to start the very first of 15 thank yous that's how we start our D I mean we have mod Don y get ourselves straight and then before we start asking for anything we say thank you and what's the first one yeah now from my sin thank you my life staks but we're not discussing that that's for teenagers right and I but you got stuff you get Sanu far that's that's not our topic let's take the first you you're the source of everything you rule the entire world and you know what you did that I'm thanking you for beina you gave my brains you gave my thinking ability beina the the ability to differentiate and understand right is knowledge is stuff that you know 1 plus one is two that's wisdom right two plus two is four Bina is to figure things out two plus two is four let's see if I can figure out know what would three plus three be I can figure that out from what I know to analyze to differentiate life between day and night which as all theim say really of course means how much intelligence you need to differentiate between day and night like the day and night between right and wrong between good and bad sometimes between right and wrong of good and bad is talk a mish day and night black why right but many times it's not the power of the first BR is is we start ourselves off by saying thank you that you gave us the ability to differentiate between what is right and wrong even when I need be I need to analyze and critically figure it out because it's not just a piece of overt cigarettes give you cancer that's you know that's easy and non cigarettes don't give you cancer that's an easy call but sometimes it's not so easy and it's not so uh un clear to De be and why we thanking ASB for that well see because you know if we wouldn't have the ability to differentiate between right and wrong we wouldn't make any mistakes wouldn't that be great we would never do anything wrong because we wouldn't be responsible teenagers say that all the time I'd be better off no you wouldn't you're right if you make if you know that between right and wrong you can make the wrong choice but you can make the right choice I'd rather not have choices tell me what to do and I'll do it no no no the greatest gift that gave us is the ability to make choices which includes the ability to mess yourself up royally and do some really dumb choices and call day night and night day which is problematic it's just part of the process but thank K bar that we have the ability to make choices that we have the ability to analyze and we're judged if we made the best choice that we could now as everybody knows SEI also translates as rooster I don't know what AR scroll does great for in the T tum of of the V of the BM says like this why do we speak a rooster the rooster differ between night and day the rooster grows night and day SC right it's we think I said that the rooster has that ability no we're thinking that we have the ability right so so why use a why use a word which could also translate as rooster to give you a another another concept the uniqueness of the rooster is it starts to grow before the light of the Dawn before it sees the dawn it know it can set that the darkness is ending and Dawn is going to start and it starts growing before the light really appears night Darkness represents a lack of clarity a sense of hopelessness the morning light oh everything's not so bad the roster teaches us even in the darkest times of night we can see that light which isn't here yet if we use our ability to understand that Hashem that Hashem gave us we have the ability to live through dark times we can live through night and we can understand like the root does that the night is never ending and there's a dawn coming very soon that ability gives us the power to make it through our nights personal nights communal nights omel nights as we are experiencing now so there's two elements to the BR one I have the ability to understand I can I can make choices and even though that means I might mess them up I appreciate the fact that I have free will I can mess it up but I can be a superstar and a great person it's my responsibility and I'm happy I have free will to do it and I have the ability to understand second is and it's like a rooster also it's really night and day we have the ability to understand the difference between night and day and know that in the darkest of nights there is a day coming and we have the ability to live through any kind of night that a baru throws our way M shenta we should all see the night ending we should feel the night ending and as dark than every guest you say that BR in the morning no matter what's going on in your personal life like the rooster we have the ability if we put our minds to it in the darkest times of Our Lives we can analyze and know there is light on the way and take a deep breath and push through we should all see the light and next class we will continue with Fila and move on to the next few bras have a wonderful day 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