Los Angeles Shabbos of Chizuk - Who Do You want To Be? {Beis Yaakov of LA}

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com good morning everyone so now holding in heidel and we're also at the beginning of the school year and both of these two factors have something in common and they're the beginning of course is the month that we prepare for the entire year and it's probably the first week of school here and before you do something even before you start doing it you always have to prepare for what you're doing in a certain respect preparation is even more important than doing a mitzvah itself i'll give you an example we say that the first day of success is re-shine which means the first opportunity we have to do in aveira after rosh hashanah and asarasu made shuva anyam kippur and preparing for sukis is the first day of sukkos sukis is called re-shine awayness which the matter says it's the first time in the year you have a chance to do an avira so the taz the taz asks what do you mean it's the first chance why can't you do navair in the days between yom kippur and sukis because you're preparing to build the sukkah and you're preparing to take the dalai meena so certainly you shouldn't be able to do naver on sukis when you're actually sitting in the sukkah and shaking the dalai meenam if preparing to do a mitzvah is going to stop you from doing javier then actually doing the mitzvah should certainly stop you from doing aveda preparing to do a mitzvah is more encompassing is more immersive is going to occupy your neshama more than actually doing them in a certain respect preparation is always more important than the mitzvah itself so this is the time of the year we have to prepare ourselves for the rest of the year and for the for the rest of our school year how do we prepare ourselves yaakov avinu spent 22 years in the house of his father-in-law lavan and when he went there he went all by himself he wasn't married yet he didn't have any children and on his way back 22 years later he has four wives rakha leia bella his 11 children and asa finds out about it and asap's coming with four hundred men to annihilate yaakov and the pastor says at the end of practice by say and i tell you to right now i cannot see a thing my mamas can't see anything took me yesterday i spoke in san diego so they took me somewhere vaiman hashem ruach gedoyla and a wind came and took my glasses and they're now in the bottom of the pacific ocean so i think i'm speaking to a girls school but i i mamish have no idea i can't see i have notes it's not going to help me so hashem should give seattle but the the last possible parasite two camps says rashi what are the two camps two camps of malachi ashari's what are the two kinds of malachitas from khutsu-aretz that was escorting yaakovinu from the house of love unto eretz israel and another camp of malachim from eretz israel that was coming to greet yaakov avina so yaakov sees two camps in malcolm you see there are different kinds of malacca there are all kinds of they're all kinds of for example you know the reason why we say psuke to zimmer in the morning the mission of brewer brings that's really it's from uh say for mate moisha and the shahree oira that when you daven you're sending something up to shamayim and in the airspace they're malachi ashares and then if they don't like that fila they're going to shoot the tv down they're going to shoot a missile at the tila so you got to cut down those malachim so the misha brewer brings you say pasuke de zimra versus sukim of pruning of cutting them down different kinds of malachim some are you have good malach in fact you know friday night mr giseral even though some safer did not say shalom aleichem but today everyone sings so there's a big question you started how you doing mala come come and try my house and then imagine if you imagine like here i'm a guest i'm from new york so imagine you bring me into what is the best of los angeles yeah oh my god and after two minutes okay please leave now that would not be uh hospitality especially at bersin's my cousin my my uh wife's first cousin's wife's father so we're very closely related right so it wouldn't be nice at least give me a couple minutes here over here so here the malachim come into our house they say sean we say show malaysia and they say please get lost as soon as you can what's going on over here welcome now you know take a hike says there are different kinds of weekday and then so shalom aleichem to the shabbos are coming out to greet yaakov that's rashi comes around and then ramban has one simple cash on rashi yaakov is going to artsy sorrow yaakov located now in the next parasha he forgot the pakham katanam so he crosses the river anyone who remember the name of the river mavar yeah maria is before amon which is before maya which is for adam which is nowhere near eretz israel so how can rashi say that yaakov as he's about to go to earth israel the verses are coming out to greet him yagamiro is nowhere near that's ramban's question comes the maharel and gorarium says a very important principle the morale says then the eyes of akadesh baruch in the eyes of the torah hashem never judges a person by where they are hashem always judges a person where they're headed where are they going and yaakov avinu changed his direction and he was headed toward eretz israel and once you're headed somewhere bain hashem you're there you're not where you are you are where you're going and therefore yahovino was going to terrorist israel it's like he's an artistra and that's a very important lee mode that's very important for us to know because when it comes to learning torah when it comes to avoidance hashem it's not about how much i know today it's not about what my tefilo is today it's not about what my your shamai my mothers are today it's what's my direction who do i want to be where do i want to go you know a person says yeah i'm top of the class i already know the the teacher could teach i know it the best in the class so i could really take it easy a little bit because i'm far ahead of anybody else anyway so if you're headed down then in the eyes of hashem you're ready where you're headed but even if you're the weakest in the class but if you have a wrought sign you want to improve your connection to torah you want to improve your middles you want to elevate your mind even if you're not holding there yet if that's where you want to go if that's the direction you're taking then you're there ivan doesn't judge a person where they are but where they're headed so in slovakia they would say as follows right bursting mentioned that he's uh has a connection through it i learned for many years in yeshiva i learned by raven whose father david was the talmud of the altar of sabbath many many of the yeshivas today are considered offshoots of slobodka birchheim berlin be it nary israel even lakewood the out of sabbath you know would you say the tsukayam would write swarim and the altar specialty was he was able to create ghidorah israel so author of sabbath had a very interesting and very powerful observation what time in los angeles is 708 something like that something like that seven away you know if you go outside look outside it's bright outside it's day outside it's just as bright as practically 1a at 1pm and yet in certain regards is considered lila okay the mission bureau is recommends that somebody dive in minha before shikiya because according to many postgame once sunset comes it's already lila it's lila it's night why is it night it's it's blazing hot outside the sun is shining bright and then there's something called alois hashacha sasha go outside in duan what does it look like it's pitch black you can't see someone in front of your nose there could be somebody two omeles in front of you you don't know if it's white or if it's blue you can't see a thing and in halacha it's yoim and if you said halal but the evidence and if you dive in certain feelings for the evidence and if you took a look an asset with the evidence i don't understand it's does not view something based on the way it looks now but based on where it's headed and if in the morning even though it's black outside it's dark outside but it's going to become light it's considered yawn and if later in the afternoon even though it's night outside it's dark outside i'm sorry it's light outside but it's becoming dark and the sun is setting it's considered night so we're in the month of ll now we're in the beginning of the year it doesn't matter what you got on your test it doesn't matter where you're ranked the question is where are you headed what do you want to be what's your goal what's your ambition what's your desire that's how hakadosh baruch who views us that's what the ubuntu wants from us in the beginning of something we have to establish where are we headed what's our direction and mcgillis esther esther tells mordechai okay here's the plan we're gonna fast for three days gama and even ourselves some camera fast for three days and we're going to be miss palo and hopefully our filo should be niska bell and the pulsar says crosstalk sigmar asks what did he cross amarshmuel or kuma damaya he crossed the stream so maracai was in abira which is the capital part of shushan and he went into the bigger city regular shushan and in order to do so he took a step over a stream who cares who cares why isn't the gila reporting to us that mordecai took a step over the it's irrelevant what matters to the purim story that muraka has stepped over the stream this is the kash of rubs the man is listen to what he says it says if shall not comment yeah we care it's very important because if there was no stream there murder would not have had to step over it but now that there's a stream there hashem wants to show that every little tiny small minuscule effort that mordechai made to save cloud israel is remembered is important is eternalized is never forgotten that's a very important limit that every small thing we do it makes a very big difference in the eyes of hashem every mahshava taiva every deborah type every hanhagat nothing is lost nothing is forgotten there's no there's no such thing hashem is only worried about big things important things every little thing counts now i want to share with you an idea i think the first part of it is pretty well known but how it applies to us i think will be very powerful we know there's a mitzvah of levia so if you have a guest give the guest food you give the guest a drink and you escort the guest out of the house preferably not after like the first two minutes you let them stay a little bit yeah how much you have to score to guest minimum for amis baramis in fact in last week's passion pasha shaiftim we have the subject of the eglar roofa so if there's a dead body found in between two cities so we're going to measure to the closest city and whichever city is close to city we're going to hold the sanhedrin the elders of that city responsible for the dead body and they're going to have to declare that it's not their fault why because look we did whatever we needed to do what was it that they needed to do they're going to say yo la sadam we escorted this body we scored this individual out of the city so we're not responsible for any harm that happened to him you see there's a halacha then when someone comes to the city there's a k n need to escort them out of the city how much also dala rama's and if they do escort him dala ramos that would protect him and if something happens to him it's not their fault but if they didn't escort that the the person it's their fault that something happened to the person so the martial by the way the martial was one of the most important commentaries on the gemara khazoines writes in the first letter that it's it's painful that today and those who when gemara enticed this they jumped to let's say more contemporary russia yeshiva without learning the marsha marshall lived from i believe 1555 to 1613. a very interesting story his name was shmuel edels and edos wasn't really his last name adoles was his mother-in-law's name edol because she was a very wealthy woman and she supported the marshal for two years so you see look at the kayak of aisha said kanya look at her righteousness that she is eternalized in the shas because she supported torah and now claudius so as the marsha because of the marsha's mother-in-law the marsha asks how does walking somebody four cubits protect them imagine you know in new york you have a neighborhood harlem you know about harlem you shouldn't it's not a good place to walk by yourself especially at night if you walk there by yourself at night you ain't coming out i'm sure there are some mccoymas around here also so imagine a guy he said okay bye sanhedrin i'm going where are you going i'm walking through i'm going to walk through east jerusalem i'm going to walk through shechem no don't worry you'll walk me down the ramos and if you walk me down at all i won't be harmed on the whole trip what is what king somebody dalarama is going to do fine you walk them to you know a few a few feet very nice but then they have to travel through enemy terrorist territory how is this accompanying somebody four amus going to protect somebody listen very carefully says marsha if you walk someone dalai damois what are you showing you're showing you want to protect the person so why don't you why don't you walk him the whole way you can't you have a life you have a job you can't spend three hours walking him home but at least by walking him down anonymous you're showing what i want to protect the person ah the reboundish says you want to protect the person you have a right sign to protect the person you reav fulfills the desire of those who fear him so because you showed that you want to protect the person the ebola is going to fulfill that and protect the person wow think about it did the person do anything he only did a very very small thing he walked daladamus but when you do a small act and you do a small nicer and you show the reboundish on what you want it says you want to do that then i'm going to take you the rest of the way i'm going to accomplish the whole thing that has a very powerful and compelling impact in what happens in the world so you know there's a big question during assassination there's an indian that we take on certain crime rice that we don't can necessarily continue to observe the rest of the year so during uh the week we're not necessarily making on pasakum you know in new york they have arnold's bread so it has a it has a haksha some people are making pastas you throw the whole year but it's not it's a humra it's a humbra many people are not macbeth the whole year but during asar summit you're making pasistra the question is what does that do what does that accomplish imagine saying hashem okay i'm gonna be good now for seven days and after that i have no plans on continuing it so what kind of what kind of uh chuva is that what does that accomplish does that have any meaning and there are a lot of things we do during assassination that we only take it on for us and it's not we're not even we're not trying to fool it we're saying straight up we have no plans on continuing it for the rest of the year what's the purpose of that what's the point of that and i think the good a good analogy would be the dalit amos of somebody accompanying their guest they're saying i can't walk you all the way there i can't accompany all you all the way but what i could do is i could do a small act to show you what my roth sign is and when ribanusham sees somebody doing something small coming one minute earlier to the tv being careful about la shanhara one extra meal a week it's not a matter of that meal or that minute it's a maestro that you do to show the ribenson what your ratsoin is you know when i was at bucker i grew up in flatbush flatbush is in a planet called new york you know where new york is it's it's part of the same galaxy as los angeles and i lived on avenue m east 31st street and we mentioned put a very good idea in my head i used to walk as a baker to ocean parkway about 45 minutes to here harava victor miller that was a very big surplus i had to to hear him for three years and there are many amazing things that i heard from red miller and miller used to talk about what slabatko was like in the 1930s red miller used to talk about his rabbeim and slavadka rum grozinski of isaac shar and rav miller used to talk about the power of doing one small thing to demonstrate what your wrestling is to to show what your wrestling is that when you do even one small act then your son says okay you're ready ahead taller than somebody else and that makes a very big difference in in terms of how a person is viewed so wrought sight has a very big effect in fact one time the out of sabbath and the rav miller would always say this was once looking out the window and he would always give people brachas he would always say have a good day have a good morning you should be matsuyak and one time one of the tamidim so the out of sabaka was looking out the window and he was saying yanku have a good day have a good morning you should be mad and the baka looked out the window and yanko wasn't there and he was a little hesitant she was a little shy and he said rabba who are you talking to i'm talking to myself why are you talking to yourself what i should only tell you uncle that i have a rut so in that you should be mad sleek when he could hear me why shouldn't i have wrote sign all the time that my friend should be masliach rothstein is very important what you want is very important so we're learning today is that even before you start your classes and you start the sheeran and you start learning there are things that you need to do before anything number one you have to know what direction you're headed in where am i headed what do i want to be what's my goal i want to be a bass israel i want to be given asylum i want to be someone who could continue on the messiah of claudia israel that's the first thing you have to have in mind and then after that engender the rat sign the desire to learn the desire to grow in rochester the desire to have your shamayam and even if you do one small thing you say okay this year i'm gonna try to write down something that inspired me every day maybe even if i'm not writing everything down i'm gonna write down one extra thing or i'm going to say it over on shabbos why just to show the ribansham that this is what i really want that will completely transform us that will completely elevate us and the ezra hashem my humble bracha to all of the talmidas is that you should have tremendous hatslacha in all of your endeavors you should have a year of gazint and hatswaja and you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com