Parshat Beshalach: Earning a Living - Rebbetzin K. Sarah Cohen

[Music] what about ladies what an insult one of the subjects that we encounter in this week's parish are Parishad mashaallah is the man that fell every day from Xiamen while the Jews traveled in the desert for forty years the Jews went out to collect it because this was their means of food it provided physical and spiritual nourishment now it tasted like anything that a person wanted it to taste like and it was delivered to your doorstep if you were a Siddiq but the most important aspect of the man was that it was our source of palasa our source of livelihood and there are many lessons that we could learn from the man regarding pernessa we know that parnisha is a matter that weighs and a person's mind all the time we always wonder how are we gonna make a living who is the partner sir going to come from it's undoubtedly one of the most stressful dilemmas in life so first and foremost haha me want us to know that making a living is a curse it's a kilala the Torah tells us that after Adam Ali Sean 8 from the netted at a kebab ah who cursed him that he would have to work the land in order to feed himself and his family what does it say there in the Torah bazzetta Perito ha left him with the sweat of your brow you will eat bread that means that before Adams hurt making a living was very easy as a matter of fact Amir - says that Adam sat back while the malla ham roasted meat for him and gave him wine we could maybe call Adam a Moroccan I don't know he ate meat and what they made wine fish they pressed wine Adam was living in Ghana didn't like a king he was free most of the day to involve himself in spiritual matters and spiritual pursuits but as a result of the hit hadass bahu decreed that man would have to work for a living the Gemara says cashaaron asset or shell Adam Cakery a TM tzuf making a living is as difficult as the splitting of the sea now splitting of the sea is also in this week's Perisher interestingly but what does it mean that work is as difficult as the splitting of the sea splitting of the sea wasn't so difficult fresh em a miracle is easy so why is the Gemara making a comparison between making a living and the splitting of the sea so ha humming teach us that when the Jews left Egypt and they arrived at the yam soup they were sandwiched in between the sea on one side and the desert that was filled with snakes and scorpions on the other side and the Jews were in a dilemma because behind them were the Egyptians also where was the issue are going to come from that was the question they were afraid how are they gonna get out of this dangerous situation so some people said well let's go back to Egypt because there's no way out of this mess let's just surrender and wave the white flag and some said no no nothing doing let's fight the Egyptians and others said why don't we just settle in the desert and let her cut those about who protect us from the snakes and the scorpions but one thing is certain ladies no one expected the sea to split into twelve pegs that each of the Shiva team could pass through that definitely was not in the thoughts that popped into the mind of the people nobody there dreamt that the yushua would come because of the splitting of the sea think about it but sure enough when they least expected it the sea split and the Jewish people passed through by a Basha Batak I am and ultimately the Egyptians drowned in those very waters ladies the same is true concerning our panel Nessa we proceed to our jobs every day and we make an effort to bring home the panacea but at the end of the day we don't know exactly where the baraja is going to come from we could put in all of our efforts into the production of one thing and suddenly the become starts from somewhere else from left field the cloud from a place we didn't even think about from some side venture that we didn't put too much effort into therefore the salvation in making a living sometimes comes from places that we did not expect or even realize that the source of the baraja was even an option it's like karate I'm tzuf when we least expected the baraja boom it suddenly appeared that's par massa there's a story told concerning our vehicle a demon Berdichev ala v'shalom he once saw a man running and he says oh we're you running - and the man says what do you mean where I'm running to make my paleness ah that's where I'm going so the British of Arriba's said well how do you know your livelihood is in front of you maybe it's behind you and what the RUF was trying to say was that we don't know where the paleness is all Hashem asks us to do is to make our Histadrut Hashem wants us to be industrious and to try but if that it's up to us to have faith in a Kadosh bahu that he's the one who's gonna bring the part Nessa we have to remember that and we have to know it remember that the Creator who created us has an obligation to sustain his creations in the same way that a father has an obligation to sustain his child does a child ever worry does a baby feel stress or anxiety over not knowing where his next battle is going to come from of course not a baby lies in his crib with complete confidence and faith that his parents are going to feed him and it does happen that the parents come through and they feed the baby the child understands that he's not capable of feeding himself therefore it's the responsibility of the parents to provide for the baby and the same is true concerning pernessa or like a dog about who asks of us is to make each tad load to make an effort but at the end of the day it's he who brings down the Baha spinosa it's not our a conscientious attitude that brings the pernessa that's what we learn from the man how do we learn it from the matter house so the Torah dosha tells us that the Jewish people had to collect the man every day and no matter how much they collected at the end of the day it always came out to the portion that they were supposed to receive that means that even if a person collected this heaping pile of money by the time he brought it home miraculously the man turned out to be the same measure for each person in the family not more and not less the opposite was also true if a person accidentally collected less somehow by the time he got home the behalf the man multiplied and that guy ended up with an amount that he was supposed to have rough jimson Rafael Herschel of Shalom says if that's the case that the man was automatically balanced and the Baha Devon was such that you couldn't take more and you couldn't take less so why was it necessary to have to go out at all why make ich Ted lute a person could have simply gone out just take a few small pieces of money put it in your basket go home and just wait for the miracle to happen and a sham will make the calculations for you and bring you the appropriate measurement that you needed just take a handful of mine go back to your house and wait for God to make the miracle and he'll give it to you why don't they do that if Shimshon Rafael Hirsch explains that it couldn't happen that way because this was a Shems way of telling us that he wants us to be hard-working people Hashem wants you to make an effort he doesn't want you to just sit at home and rely on anything Hashem says we have to make the proper heated lute otherwise the baraja is not going to calm down so when it came to the man we had to go through the motions we had to fill up the basket a little more a little less didn't matter we had to try and come out with the right measurements but at the end of the day after we made all that he stood lute Hashem even that out accordingly so I want to talk about success or told my partner so let's talk about success everybody in the world wants success most people the goal in life is to become successful whether it's social success at intellectual success financial success and like everything else in the world success can only come from Biola that's llaha comes from a Shem the question is how do I arrive at the proper balance of having a moon and a that he'll grant me hats lahar the success together with making my wish to gloat hear the question understand the question how do i balance those two out meaning why do I have to make an effort at all if at the end of the day a Shem is providing my partner sir and he's sustaining me what's the purpose of me going out to work emunah versus he should add lute ends then why can't I simply stay at home put my feet up relax and have complete Emunah and a Shem and wait for the money to appear in my mailbox by the way sometimes a taka happens but no it really does but anyway and it does happen to me at times where I do work during the day and night sometimes they get this stirring feeling I don't want to go to work today today I want to write a shield my mind it happens to me and I say I'm not going and then I said but if I don't go who is the pom that's not gonna come from I know he's gonna come from from the bahá Shem that because I had an eye on him that I wanted to write a shoe he's gonna send me something that's what happened when those ladies came on that moti shabad and bought like $350 worth of key swoosh went on Friday I didn't go to work and I wrote a shield I say I'm not going to work today I'm writing a shield and all of a sudden on Malaysia bad wow I mean I couldn't believe it I mean they left and I was dancing I didn't want to dance in front of them I don't want him to think that I'm happy they're leaving but can a sham just perform a miracle for me for you why does the Shem want us to work why does it cannot about who want us to exert ourselves when it comes to making a living so there are a few reasons first of all how could those bow who is testing us he's testing us in the world of business and that he wants to see how loyal we're going to remain you see every step that we take during our business ventures no matter what industry were in whether were salespeople professionals farmers bakers secretaries no matter we were making our living at every moment there are questions in haha of what's muta and what's a so there are a lot concerning purchases and concerning selling if you are a store owner everything is regulated and restricted by a particular halle ha and a mitzvah therefore a Shem wants us to go out into the work arena because it's there that we're going to be able to prove our loyalty to him he wants us to show him how faithful we are to him so the business world is a great opportunity for a Jew to show his commitment to the Mitzvahed how so well is the person going to steal or is it gonna compromise is he gonna lie and cheat is he gonna overcharge with customers is it gonna be nice when he interacts with them ik it's gonna do a high set every once in a while the world of business is a fertile ground for a person to keep a multitude of Mitzvahed on a daily basis for example are you going to davon in the morning like a mensch or do you think it's more important to run their office and then pray so because Parana sac causes you to make such a concerted effort it puts you on a playing field where you're challenged with many opportunities to serve the boy or lamb that's why by the way plants don't have to make an effort to live if you're gonna go to your backyard you'll notice that your plant is just standing there like a tree a tree stands there with no real heated load and it lives just fine it receives a little water from the sham I'm a little sunlight almost every day and it grows with no effort it hangs out all day long that's what it does so seemingly a tree has a great life even an animal doesn't work from 9:00 to 5:00 I was to have to find their food but how long does that take they find their food they eat it and then they have the rest of the day off animals roam around the jungle feeling free they're on vacation every single day for the majority of the day and some of us might think that's not fair a monkey has a better than me he's swinging from branch to branch from tree to tree with a banana in his hand a quart of he knows he's eating he doesn't have to worry where's who's gonna come from sham provides me the bananas why don't I cut those about who give the animals and the plants an easy pass while we you are human beings and we're the primary creation we have to work so hard the answer is because animals don't have Mitzvahed they don't have a vote either an animal doesn't have a share in our alumni back monkeys don't dive in chocolate if they do it's a special monkey one lady is really only the Israelis could do this whoo and lady and one of the shoe him I said monkeys don't dive in shahe right she says my monkey does my monkey was Davin Shahani she meant a husband me Skinner Milazzo only the Israelis that should watch my shot on bike classes you shouldn't call your husband a monkey anyway so Hashem doesn't have to pose them the challenge of making a living because there's nothing for them to prove they're monkeys but a human being who was granted Mitzvahed he's given their task of going out to work in order to be able to make choices during those work hours the human being is constantly trying to prove himself to the ribbon Oceano l'm so adorable who creates a situation where we're going to be Chad challenged how honest are we going to be how generous are we going to be so the first reason we have to work is because a kadosh about who is testing us and we learned that idea of a sham testing us from the man now how do we see it because the pursuit says Durga D'ass Bao who gives us the man lemma and anna-san no that's an interesting LeSean means in order to test us high-level bitola t.m.l.o are we going to go in a shams ways or not well that's very interesting but what's the test over here the man fell from the heaven Bilal and it tasted like whatever food you wanted it to taste like as a matter of fact ha ha Meem tell us that the man digested itself in our system so there was no waste could you imagine could you imagine not having to relieve yourself for 40 years so what's the test what's the test day with the man well she adores elevation Allah explains that the test was the man itself because there were a lot that came with receiving the man for example we weren't allowed to leave over any month for the next day and we weren't allowed to go out on Shabbat to collect the money so they were hella hot they were laws concerning the man and that was the test the man itself are we gonna follow the laws of the livelihood called man or not now the reason why we're required to go out and earn pernessa is in order to pass the test of whether will earn the Panasonic honestly or not are we going to earn our living at the expense of hakadosh baruj Mitzvahed or are we going to put them its lot first therefore we have to know especially those who are out there in the work arena that you're being tested and that's precisely why you're there in the workplace to begin with that's reason number one the second reason we go to work and why a Kadosh Baruch created the kind except of heated loot as the poster just sitting at home all day long and relying on him is because of the following imagine what the world would look like if everybody in the world had all this free time on their hands imagine waking up in the morning with nowhere to go every single day there's a paycheck in the mailbox that arrives in the morning and the only errand you have is to go to the bank and cash the cheque that is the only errand every single day just the cash the paycheck which if you do wonderful you could use it but you can even earn it you didn't earn it rightfully but that's all you have to do and now after you cash the cheque you have 12 hours to yourself where you could do whatever you want 12 hours and those that's for those who go to sleep early if you go to sleep like a 12-1 in the morning you've got 16 hours of free time imagine if the entire world was just hanging out what type of bedlam would this create in the world what type of mischief what type of trouble imagine the crimes that would be wrought in the world as a result of this because when people have a lot of time on their hands and a little bit of money in their pockets it could have a solemn lead to bad behavior as a result of the boredom that they feel they're those about who wants us to go to work to earn our livelihood even though you could provide us with palace' without us putting too much effort into it but Hashem does a hustle with us and he says you know what to keep you out of trouble in order to keep you busy and make it a little bit difficult for you what make it difficult what are you gonna do you're gonna wake up at 6:00 in the morning and you're gonna get dressed then you're gonna dive in you're gonna walk to the train or you're gonna walk to your car and drive to work you're gonna have to work a full day and work is gonna be a little stressful then you're gonna get back on the train or back into your car at the end of the day during rush hour you'll travel back to your house and when you get home it'll be late and you'll be so exhausted you'll hardly be able to move so you're gonna retire on the couch poop I'm out and your friends will call you and she's gonna say hey you feel like going out and doing some other lot and you're gonna say oh I wish I could go with you to make some other oh I really do wish but I'm just too tired believe me I want to go out there with you but I'm pooped I've been up since 6:00 a.m. I don't have enough strength even eat my dinner not to mention the fact that I have to wake up early again tomorrow so no can do I can't go with you to make that vote get the drift in other words if you had all the time in the world I've a lot become quite easy to transgress they does about who gives us the ability to go to work in order to keep us loyal to him and to ourselves he exhausts us and he keeps us working so that they yet said I won't have the ability to control us ultimately that's what the Mishna says by the way the effect Talmud Torah in derech Eretz did it's a good combination between learning and working before a man goes to work it goes to show he learns a little he divans goes to work comes home hopefully you made a good supper for him and now that was a cheese sandwich he learns a little more and then he goes to sleep that setup is perf the Mishna says that this combination is the most productive Talmud Torah endeavor Eric that those two are the best why wasn't the what the Mishna says shaky action ahem misha kaha alone because between the learning and the working a man doesn't have time to sin either you're at work or you're at a shield there's no time for Stuart but if you had time off you'd start to get into trouble this phone Oliver Shalom explains that that was the test of the man because the man fell down from the shaman so the Jews in the desert that had a lot of time on their hands we didn't have to work for eight hours a day in order to bring our pal NASA so the test of the man was the question of what was the Jew going to do with all this spare time now what he's gonna play tennis in the mid bow is it gonna sit and play cards in this tent is it gonna play backgammon outside is he gonna drive a lot the Jews were now faced with this dilemma they're not going to the bathroom right because they didn't have to relieve themselves so there goes that the clothing grew with them so there was no washing or anything like that either they don't have to go out to make a living because the living is coming to them what should we do all day long they could get into trouble there was no working long hours but with the man it was like winning the lottery after eating breakfast the question was Oh what am I gonna do now the rest of the day after I just ate am I gonna waste my time or am I gonna do something productive and if we look at the beginning of the parasha we see a similar idea when the Jews were coming out of Egypt they were to meet savate that they were commanded to do one Mitzvah was to take back their money from the Egyptians the second Mitzvah was to take the bones of yourself it's adequate them out of Egypt both mitzvoth were important the question is which of these two meets what did the Jews choose most people think they want a collectible if they didn't know what was going on in the polish ah if they didn't learn it most people would say the Jewish people by the time they had to leave me time they were in a very exalted level they went to collect the bones of Moshe of course humming tell us absolutely not they chose the money they went for the money they went into the homes of the Egyptian neighbors took all their possessions back and they were happy that it was considered a mitzvah every penny they put in their pockets was a mitzvah I said of taking their money so who took the bones of yourself that's a dick Michela been with at SU the pisaq says veikok Moshe its Mattias f Imam and now bunny mask why did MA chère choose this Mitzvah why did he take it upon himself to retrieve the bones of yourself ladies Michele been with thought to himself in the following yeah it's um it's about to take the money but we can't take the money with us after we leave this world [Applause] money is a temporary item no matter how wealthy you are you cannot be buried with it and even if you were buried with it it wouldn't serve you any purpose in the keval in the grave as a matter of fact this is a story about a man who wanted to be buried with all his wealth he had millions of dollars and he said to rabbi rabbi at my burial I am putting you in charge I want you to unlock all my vaults and put all my money in my coffin the rabbi said my pleasure no problem I'll do that feel so the tell me deem of this rabbi couldn't believe they want the rabbit said rabbit what are you doing it's a crazy thing that you're doing you're not allowed to do that throughout Biden and ceases that one the man finally died they all went to the cemetery and now they're digging the grave the rabbi has all the millions of dollars and cash with him and just as they're about to close the grave the rabbi says wait the man requested that all his money should be buried with him what does the rabbi do he takes out his checkbook right through the check for a million dollars throws the check in the Kebbell and takes the cash of course this is a joke but you see over here that you can't take money with you at 120 years the only thing you could take with you is the meat slot at the end of the day Michelle ban who knew that if you had a choice between two meats vote you choose the Mitzvah that's gonna have benefits for eternity the money is just gonna benefit you maybe four hundred twenty years max and that's in that generation and this generation if you live to be fifty we see already what's happening in the tragedies it's an S but the mitzvah of taking yourselves bones out of Egypt such a mitzvah is deposited in the bank of a chemin sham I'm that's a real game and all the money that the Jews took from the Egyptians where's that money today where is it hasta la vista you know what that means it's gone they're not using it but Michelle Ben who is still benefiting in sham I'm from that Mitzvah that he took when he left Egypt that's the priority when it comes to mitts about the Hafetz Hayyim I love a shalom gives us a Michelle he says there was a poor man who needed to make a living for himself and he heard that in a far-off Island there's a lot of money to be made on that island so he goes to the dock gets on the boat and he's informed by the captain that the boat only sails there and back once a year so he's gonna have to spend the whole year on the island but the man needs partner so he agrees he says goodbye to his family for a year now we get the tribes on the island and he cannot believe what he sees there are diamonds in the middle of the street big diamonds little diamonds mediocre diamonds and every everywhere and nobody's grabbing them so he goes nuts and he starts to load his pockets and ever with diamonds and the people are looking at him they're thinking what is this this guy doing this Meshuga so he says are these real are these diamonds real sure enough they were real and he can't believe he wants to know why isn't anybody taking these diamonds and he finds out that on that island diamonds are not worth very much you can have all the diamonds in your pocket but on that island they don't measure wealth with diamonds so the man is very sad and he proceeds to start emptying out his pockets from all the diamonds and so he asks them he says so how is wealth measured here on this island am I gonna make partner sire so they tell look wealth on this island is from animal fat and they show him a guy in the island who has a warehouse of animal fat and if he wants he could try to get a job by him so for a year he's making deals and he's buying any selling and trading and he becomes the greatest animal fat provider I'm the entire island the man was controlling the fat market single-handedly he had such honor suc prestige and he managed to acquire a warehouse of animal fat be a leader the boat pulls in duck and it's time to go home and the men is now trying to figure out how he's gonna transport all of this wealth well there's animal facts got to take it back home and he's so excited he can't wait for his wife to see I'm gonna be proud of his accomplishments sure enough he figures out a way to transport the animal fan on the boat and after sailing for quite a number of months they pull into the dock of his hometown his wife and children are standing at the dock boja bubbly you should all greet your husband's that way when they come back then again what said the story a lady said if you would go away for a year I would regret him that way about my life so that he comes back every day span you ate at the point bah-bah-bah liebe cement oh what's that smell it smells better veggies and he says wait till you see wait till you see comes off the boat opens up all the boxes what do they say they say boxes and boxes of animal fat and they look at him like he's crazy suddenly dawns on him that where he comes from meaning here fat is fat there's no value and his wife tells him what depeche you had an opportunity to collect diamonds and you blew it if you would have just brought just the handful of diamonds we could have been rich for generations and said you brought back animal fat is that the fish the man was obviously very distraught he went home feeling it very very sad and it was so tired from his journey that he fell asleep so his wife started to go through the package he wanted to do laundry she's still wanting to do laundry for him I would I don't know what I would do I would push put him back on the next boat back to the island you know I'm saying anyway he was so I thought I'm just kidding by the way he was so tired from her fell asleep meanwhile she's going through his pockets gotta do laundry and lo and behold she finds five diamonds that happened to be in I guess he had a little hole when they stayed there and his pocket from the first day then he arrived on the island all this time he forgot it was bahar in his pocket and from those five diamonds they were able to live like like royalty but the point is that ha ha Meem say this guy missed his calling the Hoffa theme said we come into this world and we get sidetracked our animal fat says the Hoff it's Times quote money I'm not saying you're not allowed to make money and any rabbi that's gonna tell you that money is no good just tell him the following just say okay rabbi then give me all your money I don't want you ever Vera if you think money is so bad I'll take your salary don't worry let's see what he tells you anyway of course you have to make a living and you have to make money in order to live so we go to a lemma bar and we're gonna show them our bank accounts and our vaults when we stand in front of a kadosh Baku with stacks of hundreds trying to show it off you know what I could does about who's gonna tell us and about that are you kidding me he's not gonna say that I'm saying that but good imagine he's gonna tell you this is what you what will you do your life you were collecting dollar bills where did this get you there were diamonds in the street there were MIT SWAT to be collected you could have put on seat seat and receive the reward for every second that you wore it you could have been more to Noir you could have been more careful careful commish Baja with casual Talmud Torah schmira Talaash on all these meats what are priceless and they're very easy to acquire you could have picked up diamonds each one is worth an eternity and you're coming to me with $100 bill you're coming and you're showing me your credit card your American Express don't leave home without it you're coming to me with plastic there were diamonds in the streets as the half a time and well shut up Ben who knew this so he didn't get sidetracked he took the bones of yourself with him with him to eternity so of course there's a priority where you have to choose the appropriate meets a lot that's the lesson not to lose your focus when it concerns your pal Nessa so let's review so far we mentioned two reasons that occur does about who wants you to work first it's a test to see how faithful you're gonna be in the work arena night like the animals that they don't have this miss a on they don't have reward secondly it's to exhaust you so that you don't have time to sin and the third reason why we go to work according to Ruth Dessler I love a Shalom is because Hashem doesn't make open miracles if we wouldn't make any effort in the work arena and simply receive our nourishment that would be a nest gallery that would be an open miracle imagine a man sitting down and all of a sudden a piece of gold falls down his chimney without him doing a thing you look at this and you think Ness God all huh yeah sure but ladies this guy did nothing he sat at home and poof he became a millionaire it would be an open miracle and a kadosh baruj not do open miracles even when akka does about who split the yams oof it's written that the night before it was very very windy there was an easterly wind that blew the entire night so when the sea finally split what did Paul say he says ah it's a natural phenomenon the wind split the sea it's just the wind even if you want to say it's the wind the wind can't split the water into twelve marble highways the wind can't keep the Sharks in the walls of the 12 pads right the wind cannot cause trees apple trees and fruit trees to grow out of order right but the point is that a sham conceals the miracles and it doesn't always want you to necessarily see it bugaloo it doesn't perform open miracles that often so by going to work you are technically covering up the miracle so now the million-dollar question before we leave is how much after a useful stab when it concerns going out to make a living I mean the Hoffa time used to open his store a half hour a day he used to make a couple of sales half hour and after that he closed the store go home and learn the rest of the day so is that it is the magic number a half hour a day is it an hour a day that we're supposed to apply ourselves to work five hours eight hours ten hours is it nights and weekends how much effort let me tell you the answer the answer is that the goal is to come to such a strong level of emunah that you don't have to put too much effort into it like the half its time that's the goal again because work is a curse it's like a parking ticket nobody ever pays more than they have to - the New York City finance department right you don't get a $25.00 actually a $35 parking ticket now you don't say oh the city really needs money let me send them my massive right you don't do that you don't send the Department of Finance a $50 bill and say to them I owe you 35 but keep the change you me skin EMU most of us have a buffalo a hard time paying the $35 right work is the same in the sense that nobody wants to do more than they have to nobody wants to pay more taxes than they have to the real answer to the question of how much effort a person should make in the work arena and again this is a question that most people grapple with Emunah versus eastern loot how much time do I have to put into a work week which is considered enough he should add loot together with what I consider to be a muna what's how do i balance that out there's no real answer it's an individualized thing it's not like you could tell a person the magic number is six hours 42 minutes and six seconds the more bit tahan a person has in a sham the less effort he's going to need to make that's basically the rule of thumb so based on what we're learning let me tell you about a Jewish king called his kiyah I love a shallow during his ski I'm Alex rain what did he do he sent the doors of the bet HaMikdash to the king of aram as a bribe so that he shouldn't attack the Jewish people and the bribe worked there was no war but the Navi of that generation had a claim against his care his claim was the following skia you didn't need to do that you should have had more ammonia Shem give away the doors of the bet HaMikdash to a and ha ha Meem ask what do you mean you should have had more omona he's the king he's responsible for the protection and welfare of the Jewish people isn't he supposed to strategize isn't he supposed to try every move in order to protect the Jewish people should the King just sit back while the enemy is coming with their swords and do nothing that would be reckless if you know something dangerous is supposed to happen do you rely on B tahan whiskey I'm Ella Felton in order to ensure the safety of the Jewish people he had to send such a bribe to the king of Aram the doors were the only thing that we're gonna satisfy this guy what's wrong with that he's protecting the people we see from here by the way that the Torah lets us exert a certain amount of effort even though we have the munna that's the way sham wanted it so that's how a sham wanted it why is their claim against her skia and the answer is ha ha Meem give us because he was riskier America he wasn't a regular guy he was the man that was responsible for the Torah learning of his generation that wasn't like no other generation before besides a generation of the mid the bow during his time every child was fluent in the laws of Torah and Tahara every child was an expert in the most complicated laws in the Torah and that's because his Carmela put great emphasis on Torah education that's by the way the same kiss kiyah then when he was being attacked by son Herod and his army of a hundred and eighty thousand soldiers what did he do at such a moon on B tehani told his army to go to sleep and that everything's gonna be okay and then he died and Hashem for help and he says a Shan please I told him to go to sleep I just want them to sleep and to wake up in the morning and the army should be dead he told the soldiers go to sleep and they met the next morning all hundred eighty thousand soldiers of San haniv were dead they died in their sleep soshim says Chris Kia you exhibited such a Munna during the war with Sun Kirov you had such betta horn that you told your soldiers to go to sleep knowing that there were a hundred and eighty thousand soldiers waiting to attack you so a man with such baton for him that much effort that you exhibited now with the king of elam that's not necessary you didn't have to bribe the king of arm it's not necessary for you such a man that could go to sleep and have beat the Honda Nichelle's gonna take him a hundred and eighty thousand enemies you don't need to send the doors we see from here that par NASA and me seem are connected it depends on who you are and how much real and Munna you have in a sham it's relative when Benes role arrived at the yam soup they didn't know what to do that we said they were sandwiched in between the Egyptians and the sea they didn't know how they were gonna die I'm gonna die by the by being trampled upon by the Egyptian chariots are we gonna die by drowning in the ocean cuz there's nowhere to go so they were frightened were they allowed to be scared of course they're allowed to be scared it's only normal you got nine hundred chariots coming after you you've got to see in front of you the desert on your right all the other enemies on your left but what is more shut up and we'll tell the people he says I'll - ow don't be scared now here's the clincher ladies when we say were they allowed to be scared well depends when Moshe Ben who says I'll tear out don't be scared that means that after Moshe Ben who said don't be scared everything's gonna be okay if a Jew was scared after that it was considered another not before yes but were they gonna do now they should sing and dance they thought there was no way out of this dilemma imagine you sitting on a plane and the wings just fell off bloop suddenly a Liana V appears before you and he says to you don't be scared and you see it's very easy for you to say don't be scared because your ally our Navi what you expect me not to be afraid in such a situation and the mishima explain it this way if a sham guarantees you that you're going to be okay you're not allowed to be afraid Michelle Bernal was telling the Jewish people the Navi of the generation was telling the Jewish people listen I just spoke to God and there's nothing to worry about we're gonna get out of this dilemma ladies there's a commandment from a Shem not to be scared even if you're his breath away from danger if you have a guarantee from the weibo notion olam you're going to be all right not scared if the earth tells you don't be scared you're not scared if the Navi tells you don't be scared you're not supposed to be scared if mushiya comes and he tells you don't be scared out till you're not a lot of be scared but the problem is that in our generation we don't have guarantees from a Shem like we used to so that's where your big Dehon has to kick it so I want to end with this thought the students of a B Shimon bar Yohai 11 shalom asked him why did i Shem have to give the man every single day why he couldn't just give it once a year just give it to them one lump sum like the lottery so I'll be Shimon bar Yohai answered with a Michele he said there was a king who had two sons one son he gave a yearly allowance to but he barely saw that son once a year the son would come and pick up his check the other son came once a week to the palace to receive his allowance that son became close to his father and the father was close to his son the king did this on purpose in order that the second son should need him so if Hashem would have given the Mun once a year what would have happened we would visit a chef once a year just to collect our annual check sir sham said no no no no no no take some for today but you're not gonna know what's gonna be with you tomorrow in this way we're gonna have to come back to Shem and ask him for food every day and that's gonna create a relationship and it's gonna form a bond between us and the Shem so in truth the curse that a Shem gave of having to go to work is actually a better ha it's about ha because now every single day you have to dive into a sham to provide you with PAGASA and it provides you a little bit every single day but you don't know what's gonna happen on a week from now and two weeks from now and a month from now so what do you have to do if you Domini Hashem and then a Shem holds it back a little bit or gives you a little nice a on and sometimes it gives it to you in increments why does he do that in order to make you closer to him so you could reach out to him and talk to him now you understand the curse of the Nahash and Gunnar then Hashem tells and a hush because you seduce kava into eating from the tree the affero a D'Amato hail Kali ma ha ha ha you're gonna eat the dust of the earth all the days of your life well what is this curse exactly ladies the snake never starve wherever he goes this dirt there's no shortage of afar when human beings have to search high and low for a dollar the snake has his partner sat in front of him no matter where he is and Hamim explained that that was the biggest curse because Hashem was telling the Nahash I don't wanna know from you I don't want to hear from you here's all your food take all the dirt and one lump sum for generations to come until Messiah comes he take take all the dirt just go away don't bother me don't ask me anything I don't have anything to do with you what a big curse this was ladies because the snake lost his ability to communicate with God talk to him but with a done Hashem cursed him by telling him that he's gonna have to go out and make a living and it's gonna be difficult for him on purpose because Hashem wants Adan to Diamond to him Hashem wants us to ask him for things he wants us to talk to him and as a result of talking to him he's gonna be closer to us and then he's gonna be able to give us better heart so the curse of the Nahash that was really a curse but the curse of Adam was really a blessing and that's the lesson of pernessa we have to remember that the diamonds are the priority the animal fat that's just secondary so work is the place where we can show our loyalty touch them and as we climb up the ladder of B Tejon we're gonna be able to devote less time to work and more time to hanuta and when akka does the who will send the Messiah visitation will be able to go back to the times of GaN Eden where there was no work at all we'll be able to spend more time pursuing spiritual matters like Adam Ali Shawn did and our physical means are gonna be provided for without worries the gamma Haas says that our work is going to be done by the hands of other people we won't need to work anymore they're gonna work for us other people don't work first we're gonna live in a perfect world the way it was meant to be back in Canada but in the meantime Hashem said bless us we should have our nests at over me Sheva Parana Saburo Eva the lovebirds in zoom B hey tell the lobby so been a hot Vella bats are a man can relapse on [Music] [Applause]