Purim 5777 Kumzitz Farbrengen With Rabbi YY Jacobson

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[Music] under in the davening we say three times usually the ding doesn't have but the high holidays You have three. You remember in some there's a third fourth of many texts many many texts is three but in some of them there's a fourth of so that writes that the fourth why they put in a fourth says that comes from the migillah that Esther told. So that's why most threw it away. Doesn't fit it. So why did some put it in? They said even though there's supposed to be three, we're going to put in a fourth one. even though it's not kados, it's not according to the letter of the law, but I'm going to come to the king not according to the letter of the law. And Esther said, I told her to go to the king. Esther said, "You can't go in without permission. It's a nef. You're putting your life in danger. You come in without permission. You go out with a head shorter said you have to go in." So Esther said, "I'll come in not according to the das, not according to the law." So they could put in a fourth. What does this mean? This means that one of the main messages of purim is the courage to be able to say, "I'm going to come into the king even though I was un I was not invited and it's uncalled for. Since I know that the king is there, what do I care if it's so it's what do I care if the king is there? I want to go in. What does this mean practically in people's lives? One of the greatest obstacles in people's lives is everybody says I can't go in. I have too many problems to go in. Other people can go in. Other generations can go in. Other soul but I know myself. I'm I'm very self-aware. And because I'm self-aware, I can't go in. I'm doomed. I have too many problems, too many struggles, too many issues, too much baggage, too of a dark past, too many. I'm not going to use the word addictions. I use it too often. I'm almost addicted to the word. Huh? Don't say toxicity. Not toxicity. No addictions. Says pudd. But this is one of the great obstacles people say. Everyone says me [Music] I haven't been invited to the king not in 30 days in 30 years. I haven't been invited once. Other people other souls other generations my father my za my eld but not me. And as a result of this people deprive themselves from who they really are. So put him Esther says you have to say if you know the melik is there you go in ah you weren't invited you weren't welcome that's the meaning of you have to drink till you don't know the difference between cursed is and blessed is so what does it mean so some people think it's a superficial v you should get so drunk you don't know the difference but the truth is a very profound idea there's two types of lives There are people who all day they tell themselves cursed is hmon. They're talking to themselves. They have to curse hmon and themselves their whole life they're busy cursing themselves. Why? Because they feel that hmon lives in them. If hmon lives in them, they have to curse themselves. And then there are other people that they all their life is blessed is because they feel that lives in them. You reach a situation. You don't know the difference between the life who's busy cursing hmon because he or she feels that they're full of negativity and they're full of hmon and the life that is filled with positivity. Why? Because a whole year you say I don't belong. I don't belong. I don't I'm not I'm not welcome by the king's chamber. I'm not capable of a wholesome life. I'm not capable of a happy life. I'm not People say I'm not capable of a good marriage. I'm not capable of intimacy with God. I'm not capable of an exciting Yiddishite. I'm not capable of realism. I'm never capable of having peace of mind. I am an essential loser. I'm an essential problem case. They say there was one such there was a teacher who asked the children what they want to be when they get older. So yeah, this one wanted to be a policeman and this one a fireman and this one a lawyer and this one a doctor etc. All the good things. And one of the children said they want to be possible. The teacher said, "What do you what do you want to be possible? My mother tells me every night, I'm impossible." So when I grow up, I want to be able to be possible. I want to be possible. Yeah. So some of us live with this idea, I'm impossible. I am impossible for me. uh uh uh uh peace in my life, serenity in my life, wholesomeness in my life, success in my life, sim joy in my marriage, in my my children, with my children, my relationships, my relationship with myself, with Hashem, with other people. It's always going to remain defective and blemished. allowed to and they they of course have the history because of their education and what they went through and all their diagnosis of all the great therapists in America and beyond who told them you will never enter into the king. The therapist may be right. Could be. But you say, even though all the diagnosis and all the papers and all the PhDs and all the doctorates and all the conclusions and all the counselors you went to told you that you stay out, you stick with you have hmon in you. That's your job. And find peace with that. You say you almost can't know. You don't know the difference between this life and that life. Why? Because everyone is empowered to understand the truth. And the truth is that since the king is there, so you could go in. The greatest obstacle of entering into the king is that you believe that you're connected to Das. You follow structures that have been imposed on you. If you realize that you're connected to the king what this one says that one says but for this you have to have for this the attitude has to be joy. Now people today don't believe in being happy. If you see somebody in truly is depressed you feel good. If you see somebody is happy you want to know what are you taking? What do you want? When we see people happy we want to know what's going on. something happened this what medication who was he seeing if he's about to have a breakdown if people are miserable it fits into the structure if people are happy so beautiful from the said Esther made a party for she went into the chamber she went into his to the inner courtyard he stretched out the scepter and even though it was like and he said what do you want. So she tells him, "I want a party." Why didn't she tell him right away what she wanted? She should have told him, "I want that you should rescue me and my people." So the answer is she understood especially with her husband. She understood telling him my people in a party he's drunk. How it's a different m. Okay, we understand that. When all fundraisers know, you don't just do this. You invite them to a party, to a party, to a restaurant. You give them to drink and that's where you make your pitch, right? I mean, everybody, anybody here is on the receiving end, they're on the giving end knows this rule. The question is, she made a party and he came to the party. She he asks her, "What do you want at the party?" She says, "Come to a second party." Why? Why the second party? Why the second party? Okay, so this is a good question. Everybody asks this. We once gave a long she about this. what Esther's uh Esther's brilliance in this but for the he said after the first party it says that homeman came home he was thrilled he was happy Esther saw how happy she is and she knew that even a if he's you can't defeat him even hmon if he's happy you won't be able to defeat him so she knew it's not the time he's too happy when a person is happy, you can't defeat them. Tanya, he says that in martial arts, victory is not reserved for the person who's stronger. Victory is reserved for the person who's in a better mood. I'm in a better mood. The first night, Han was too happy. When somebody is happy, you can't destroy them. When somebody is depressed and sad, you can defeat them. They say of was once walking at the bank of a river, at the bank of a sea and he saw a Jew drowning, a person drowning. There was nobody there and he couldn't swim. He didn't know how to swim. So he couldn't jump in to save him. And the man was begging for help, but he couldn't do anything. There was nobody there. So he gave a scream. He said, "When you get down, send my love to the Levasan." So the Jew burst out laughing and he mustered a little extra energy and he got himself out. So in life is very tumultuous. A lot of waves. Tumultuous. Ask your doctor. It's what he's thinking about when he thinks about your heart tonight. You don't know. You don't know the half of it. Messed up patch stick. Take this that and the other. They call me in a month. You know when you're in an ocean and the waves are raging. May yayim that's tumultuous. So one needs one needs one needs humor. So the shila is if Hmon was so happy how did Esther know it's going to change? And the answer is she knew that when Hmon is happy it can't last for too long. When a human is happy, it can't last for too long because the happiness by definition is coming from distractions. It's not coming from truth. So she knew you wait a little while and the happiness will subside. The next night was already a depressed man. Last night what happened? 24 hours you on top of the world. Because when happiness doesn't come from within, when happiness comes from distractions, one hour you're on top of the world and the next hour you're on the dumps. It happens to anybody. This happens to any one hour you're on top of the world, the next hour everything is worthless. One hour you want to stay in your marriage, the next hour you don't know why you ever marry this person. One hour you're the most successful human being who ever lived, the next hour you're the greatest loser who ever lived. That's because the joy came from distractions. If it would have come from understanding who you really are, there would be balance. So when she saw how many is on top of the road, she knew give him a night. Give him a night say the the drug is going to wear off. Drugs wear off. Right? Somebody once told in parliament Churchill a woman told Churchill in the British Parliament you're a drunk which was true. He said that's true but you're stupid. The difference is tomorrow I sober up. You don't change tomorrow. Of course he said it as a shik. Lady. Yeah. Lady Aster. So when you sim is always necessary not from distraction from understanding that the mel always wants to see you even if the official document says you're not allowed. [Music] [Applause] Heat. Heat. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. Yeah. Hey yeah. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat [Music] [Applause] up [Applause] here. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] amashdesh. You remember. So when you hear the migilla, you're listening to the migill, you don't have time or mental space to look into rashi because if you look into rashi, you'll miss the words and you won't be able to fulfill the migill, the mitzvah of the migillah. But the migill have to learn with Rashi with the So Rashi says it says in the migill to go the askill in the first pock you just learned it Friday Right. Right. Even you have to leave the and go hear the Yeah. Yeah. askill you stop learning to go hear the hearing the migill is not learning. It's also part of the suddenly the migill became what's so thehat is that means sometimes a person is learning but if he's learning superficially not with his full capacity it's called you think it's a literature of art I heard this from the lab I know you think it's a literature of that if you're learning but you're not learning with your full capacity as they say you're noting with every fiber of your being is hast why you're learning is but it's not just theft of the has to be full of taid your whole brain your whole mind your whole capacity you have to be able to excavate the full depth of tra you can't just say we'll go for the superficial stuff. So the migill itself you have layers and layers and layers and but it begins with says so everybody is bothered by the question of the redundancy. What's it should have said and the QA would also do it fine. Big deal. You take out the what's wrong? So Rashi says it was in the days of who he is. He remained the same wicked king from the beginning till the end. It was in the days of you should know who are he's the same guy. Don't think the man ever changed. He remained the same tyrant, the same dictator, the same the same alcoholic, the same the same spineless, the same. He remained Atka no you learn everybody who knows something about Rashi knows Rashi looks for thehat this is the closest he can get to you look at that Venez gives a beautiful says if you know anything about Persian history you know that was a common name for Persian kings just like in Egypt every king was called the pharaoh there's no one pharaoh everyone is called the pharaoh in Persia was the pharaoh so doesn't tell you anything. It was in the days of Thank you. There were many. We have to identify which one is it. The one who reigned from India to Ethiopia over 127 provinces. This is the commentary of the Nebenezu Abraz. Apparently this is much more uh this is this is nice. says which one is this one comes and is he extricates the from the and he finds it is all it is didn't make it up but Rashi always says unless he has no choice what compelled Rashi here to extricate the post and give a so I'm going to tell you a vart once heard from the lab he said like this rashi had to say this I'll peep shot had tell you why Rashi looked through the whole and he knew that a real student reached through the whole says in there's an expression no the beginning and the end are always connected we Misa the end and the beginning are connected. You go to the last p of in the migill it's a strange p talks about and in middle of you imagine a person gives a hpid on somebody you want to bring out the nice the beautiful things he's a worldrenowned personality all he does is he seeks good for his people even his own family's on speaking terms with them now that's no small thing we know a lot of people who are but when it comes to oh my father don't begin to talk to me about my I'll tell you about my father the big hero the big hero for the whole world right ask his wife about him ask his wife about him you know what I mean for the gun join Albert Einstein was a big hero ask Mrs. Einstein what her opinion about Albert Einstein was. It wasn't so fluffy. Uh I could bring many more examples of contemporary people and other names, but let's uh let's not go there. Let's not go there. But trust me, usually world heroes in the domestic in the domestic arena, they're usually villains. They could be say every one of his children was on speaking terms with him. No small thing. Every one of his grandchildren, however you interpret the suddenly, he was beloved by most of his brothers. Imagine you're giving a hespin on somebody. Yeah. You say, "This man was unbelievable. about unbelievable and most people like them. You're right away opening up a can of worms and the migillah has to say and has to say it in the last. So this remains the enduring taste. The final taste of the migill is most Jews like them. Okay. 80%. We're pro. There was once a rabbi had a heart attack. So he was in the hospital. Don't start crying. It's fine. It happens. So somebody comes into the president of the board comes into the ICU, goes to the rabbi and he says, "I have good news for you." Also some bad news. He says, "Last night the board of directors voted if they want you to have a recovery." He says, he says it was 11 to seven that you should have a recovery. Okay, the majority of the board thinks come on. So Rashi is the great commentator. He was perturbed by this. Why? So Rashi quotes the Gammorilla of the Zion. You forgot. Okay, I'm telling Zion. I think some of the left. Why? Why? Because left of and he went into politics. You can't be a prime minister and sit in Bush all day. It doesn't work. You become a second to the king. you have to be entrenched in politics. So Mik was a good man, but some of his said not it's not it's not what we expected. You're a fine man. You're a good Jew, but you're you belong to Madrid. You belong you belong doing it. Your world is not it's not it's not where you belong tells you he quotes he left and he went into politics. Now this is not a mcgillis and rashi has to explain why did some people not approve of. So now rashi came to the next question. So why t why tak did leave the world of and go into the world of politics? Mel is somebody who loves politics. Somebody who wants his photo on the front page of the newspapers on the websites. He understands in the world of politics he'll make it. Somebody who craves attention and validation and approval. Somebody whose deepest desires to be world famous, you're not going to do it in the base med. You'll give another kabura in the gather of ribbis or mtaha. Fine. You want to make it, you got to go into the world of politics in the big world. I got it. But Morai understood the value of things. Mordeai understood what they say that today people there are people who know the price of everything and the value of nothing. But MKai knew the value. So why did he leave the world of and go into politics? And you can't escape this question because the migilla says so rashi the great pton the great commentator is looking did the migilla give somewhere an explanation why indeed did mai say I'm leaving the world of and going into politics. So rashi searches and searches and searches and he can't find it and then he realized he found it in the first p Who what's aashdesh remained the same Russa from the beginning of the story to the end of the story because understood that was never transformed he realized that after the miracle of purim he can't afford to run away from the palace and go back into the sunhead and go back into the base medish because if aashdesh would have indeed have a metamorphosis so mukai could say the coast is clear times are good but it's the same now like then so now it happens to be he likes the Jews tomorrow there could be a new I mean a new parsa new asposa a new hon and he might change the mood if he doesn't remain guard on guard in the palace you don't know so because He has to leave. This explains why he left. This explains so Rashi doesn't go to explain it because he's looking for a far-fetched explanation. The McGill requires the explanation. The text of the migill necessitates warrants invites this explanation. He's looking for an explanation. Why did Marduk indeed abandon the sacred world of and go into the filthy, brute, egocentric and certainly promiscuous and less than noble world of of politics that Pikov already says be careful when it comes to governments and and authority and politics be careful. So Rashi found it in the first now. Now you have to understand so why what what what did the minority think? The minority felt that he still had to leave. Okay. So this is a good this is this has to do with this is we once did a whole on this but I want to now get to the lesson. What's the lesson for this on our lives? The lesson of this is sometimes you look at a and at the surface he's your best friend. He's all smiles. He gave you the house of Hmon. Write whatever you want. You run the show. I love Jews. In fact, some of my best friends are Jews. In fact, my wife is a Jew. My viceroy, my prime minister is a Jew. My son-in-law is a Jew. My al is a Jew. My daughter married a Jew. My daughter Everybody is this uh no puns intended but uh everybody around me is Jewish. All I I love is Jews. I'm not comparing anything but uh we have a seasoned seasoned experts in politics. But you have and it all looks good tells you you should know. You have to understand how politics works. Now is flying high. Esther is flying high. Is flying with them. In a year from now the whole mood and washing the whole mood can change. You have to know. Don't become obsessed with I externally he's your best friend. External reality is not internal reality. And you have to be able to understand that even though superficially he made 180°ree turn, he really made no degree turn. This man is a spineless um egocentric um insecure person who basically follows follows. We're talking about nobody can have tinuses management problem. Yeah, he has anger management. The Gmorra says he was uh topsyturvy every day. says he killed borderines. Borderline diagnosis of borderline borderline. But uh but says he killed his wife for his friend and then he killed his friend for his wife. He killed his wife for Hmon and then he killed Hmon because of his wife. Okay. But here you have a concept that what you see on the outside is not always on the inside the same. Sometimes on the inside it's the opposite. So the Reb said a beautiful vi says if this is true in the negative it's also true in the positive. You look at yourself sometimes and you see yourself people see themselves in very very lowly ways. People are hyper hyper sensitive to their flaws and deficiencies and problems and challenges. I'm not going to use the word toxicity. I'm not going to use the word addictions and I'm not going to use the word depression and all other good words, insecurities, whatever words you want to use. But we see ourselves in negative terms because that's what it looks like and that's how we judge ourselves. You have to understand that just like we say in when it comes to a Jew, it's the you have to realize that from your beginning till your end, you're sacred. You're wholesome. You're part of infinity. Your your soul is a part of Hashem. I externally you fell through. I externally you have different challenges you have to work through. I externally you have to deal with this and these circumstances. Okay? But don't redefine your very essence based on it. A Jew has to remember who is he. You have to be able to look at yourself and see the internal wholesome story that exists in your soul. This doesn't mean that you didn't go through stages also went through stages. Sometimes greatest anti-semmites love Jews. It happens. It happens. You have to check their fill in the muzas to see why. But sometimes it happens. Anti-semites love Jews. And sometimes Jews love anti-semites. Sometimes it happens that Jews love themselves. It's not usual. It's not usual. Usual we hate ourselves. Somebody once said a Jew makes a fist. He finally makes a fist and the next step is no or another type of person makes a fist and you go check out your nose by the doctor tomorrow. Drew makes a fist, he starts confessing his sins. So we often denigrate. We denigrate oursel. We loathe ourselves and there's a time for that. You have to know your flaws just like you have to know your mileas. You have to know your but just like you have to know your flaws. You have to know your mileas. You have to know your virtues. You can't turn your story into a negative story. Your story has to be a positive story. I for a few years, for a few moments, for a few days, for a few hours, you're going through a ri as they say in the yeshiva. How do you type in in English? The don't know what it is. It's a weak. Okay, it's a good description. Fine. Don't don't a slump. Yeah, you can't you can't define yourself based on that. So when it comes put a Jew has to remember the says whoever stretches out his hand you give him. What's the meaning? It's not only a poor person asking for that too. It also means in life the greatest problem that people have is they don't stretch out their hands. They're scared of rejection. They're scared to stretch out their hands to themselves. They're scared to stretch out their hands to Hashem. They're scared to stretch out their hands to another Jew. They're scared to stretch out their hands to the scar to their own loved ones. So, don't be afraid. Don't be afraid. Don't uh shortcircuit yourself. Don't look at yourself and say just because I'm having a difficult time now in my life, so therefore everything is doomed, everything is negative, everything is bad. No. Who? Look at he's the greatest lover of Jews. Rash says vanish. Don't give him shishi yet. It's fine. It's fine. Tomorrow could change. Okay. You're having a difficult time. You're having a difficult challenge. Your story is a positive story. You're a piece of God. You're a piece of infinity. You're a piece of beauty. You're a piece. You have infinite potential. That's your story. That's your story. That's your story. That's your children's story. That's how you have to look at yourself. That's how you have to look at people. And therefore, don't be afraid to say I am capable of much more. Ah, you say you don't deserve. I'm not real. I'm fake. I'm put him. There's no distinction. But you have to stretch out your hand. You have to be able to fight for your soul. You have to be able to say, "I deserve better. I'm going to make better. I'm going to create better." When you But stretch out your hands. Stretch out your heart. Stretch out your soul. Don't be afraid. Cuz if you don't ask, the answer is always no. Yeah. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. 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[Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat [Music] up [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat up here. [Music] Heat up here. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat up here. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat up here. Heat. [Music] [Applause] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Applause] [Music] Heat up [Music] here. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Yeah. Heat. [Applause] I've dedicated [Music] So the Gmorrah says when the Jews received the it says they stood under the mountain not near the mountain but under the mountain. So the Gmorra says, "Hashem turned the mountain." He put plays the mountain over the Jewish people like an overturned vat. Kigis, you take a barrel and you overturn it and he puts it on top of the Jews and he says, "If you accept it, it is good. And if not, this shall be your burial place. Which however you understand what this means. I mean, you have to understand what it means. So says from here you learn that the whole ta was accepted through coercion. So therefore the Jews had a very good excuse when they didn't keep. They had a good excuse. We never agreed. We were forced into the relationship. Somebody forces you extortion. Somebody compel somebody forces you, coerces you to sell their house. You say it was all coerced. It doesn't have legal validity. Doesn't have legal potency. But then the Gmorra continues says the time of then they accepted the willingly. That's why it says Kimu they affirmed what they once accepted. They once accepted by coercion and put they affirmed it. Kimu they were they finally said you know what we're in. We agree. So from Puim now already there's no excuse. Was coerced. I'm not interested. Purim it was chosen. was chosen by will, by enthusiasm, by valition, by that's what the Gammorra says in chapas. A lot of explanation is needed to understand both what happened at the mountain and what happened Purim and what's the difference and why did it happen then this way and then this way and what does it even mean the mountain over their heads. But that's not all for tonight. for this you need a little bit y but today I want to discuss one of yad in this whole story and that's the difference between the two so sent me a few days ago a copy sent me by email a copy from a piece in called IM pinhas Ira pinhas was the of kuritzer kit karitzer was one of the greatest the students of the BMP he came from the city kuritz he's known as kit and a lot of his t is in the form I pin pas kuritz was a very great man a great Jew and he was known especially for his keen sensitivity to emis the attribute of truth to a to to an extreme they say that once he asked the mazucha mag why he became the successor of the bos not not not he not karza was old he was considered uh from the senior of the bos so they say that magaz told them he said so and balok are sometimes connected matis mas are also connected pinas always remains alone why why this discrim rimination against Pinas. He says [Music] was a fighter. He didn't get along with anybody. He was a good man, but he was so truthful that he ultimately remained alone. Truthful people remain alone. The truth hurts. Truth hurts. Yeah. He says you basically, he was telling him something very deep. You're too truthful for people to listen to you. Huh? He he fought for so this is pin so is an emiss of art not always everybody could relate to it but it's an emiss of art so he says this in para I know some people are going to think I made up the tra that's why I'm telling you the reference and the footnote Isaac dea so you could after you say it overa. So you could tell they could look it up and it's a serious he says as follows. Why is it that the Mishkan the Gmorra said the Mishna says and other places that the Mishkan the sanctuary that Mosha built was never destroyed. When they came into the holy land they used it for many years for hundreds of years and then they built a Bikes. It was concealed. It was hidden but it was not not no part of it was destroyed. Not the beams, not the sackets, not the curtains, not the tapestries, not the veils, not the hooks, not the pegs. I don't know how well you learn parasuma. But nothing was destroyed. Everything was hidden. Every you skip it, right? Yeah. So, it all got hidden. Everything got hidden. Hidden. It's It's under the terrain somewhere. The subterranean Mishkan the Bam Mikdesh was destroyed was destroyed. The Bam Mikdesh this the the home that the first B second B was destroyed. Asks he says both were homes of Hashem. Both were homes where the dwelt where the divine presence manifested itself. The Mishkan remained intact. The Bish was destroyed. Why? It should have been the other way. The Mishkan was a temporary home. It's called an oil temporary home. It was mobile. The Bik was a permanent home. The it wasn't mobile. This became the permanent place of the divine presence. In fact, once the Bik was built, there's no other place. This becomes the eternal timeless place. And nonetheless, the Mishka, the temporary home, wasn't touched. The Ba Mikdesh was destroyed. Interesting question. You know what he answers? Listen what he answers. [Music] His answer is as follows. The Mishkin had a prerequisite be how it was built. Hashem tells [Music] whoever wants to give could give. Whoever doesn't want to give don't. Again, whoever feels whoever has a heart that moves them to bring bring. The whole Mishka was built from voluntary contributions. He says it survived. How was the B mikdash built? Taxes. Mahamelik imposed harsh and severe taxes. What if you said I'm not in the mood? Tough luck. Taxes of money and taxes of people. There were 80 thou I think 80,000 people working. They used to take shifts month after month after month dozens of thou and it was forced. That's why when Schllay passed away tells the story they came to and they said it take it easy your father was pretty tough on us. So he took the wrong advice and he said I'll even be worse than my father. So they revolted. That's how the split began. Anything that you achieve through forcing somebody will not survive. It will survive short term but not long term. Anything that you achieve through forcing people you think you made it, it happened. It happened short term. It's going to get destroyed. Yeah. He says anything that you accomplish through inspiring people to do with passion with enthusiasm this could last forever could last forever. That's the difference between the Mishk and the BT. So was [Music] and therefore essentially it lacked that power of eternity. What happened on was the eternity of happened on pudd because it wasn't kafa because it was enthusiastically embraced. What's the havana? What's the understanding of this? Sometimes it seems the other way around. When you force somebody, you get immediate results. Which is why we force people to do things because we want immediate results. We want it should look good. But not everything that looks good, Rabbi say, is good. And not everything that doesn't look good is not good. Sometimes things look perfect and they're rotten. And sometimes things don't look so good, but they're very, very good. If you would look at a seed after it takes root into the ground, you know what it looks like? It looks pretty bad. It looks rotten. Looks like a rotten apple, but it's good. It's good. It's rotten. It's good. Sometimes you look at something, it looks perfect. If that seed looks perfect, no growth is happening. It's going to die. Like it was absorbed, that's how it's going to spit out. We force things because we like things to look good and fast. That's why we love microwave ovens. They're not the healthiest things. Microwave ovens. You lost the health uh addicts. But uh also doesn't stay hot. We want it hot and we want it fast. How long did it take your grandmother to bake a potato? An hour and 25 minutes. And miss. And if you wanted it crispy, an hour and 45 minutes. You came into the house starving. And she said, "Kama, soon the cartel. So soon the potato will be ready." An hour and 45 minutes. You had to wait. Today, if the potato takes longer than 3 minutes and 20 seconds, you sue the company. You give back the microwave because we like things hot. The main thing is fast. Yeah. Somebody said in New York there's a serenity prayer. It goes like this. God give me patience and give it to me now. When you force things, it looks good. You forced your child to come to schul. You forced your child to go to school. You forced your child to listen to the migilla. You forced your child to stay seated near you throughout. It looks perfect. You forced your child to sit at the Shabas table. Anybody had this? Don't all laugh at once. You forced your child to sit at the Shabasa's table for two and a half hours. Yanki gish. You don't move. You don't budge. I see the women are laughing. You force him. You force. You force. It looks good. It's a perfect family. It's a perfect classroom. Everything is wonderful. says but inside everybody is dying nothing is alive everybody's forced but nobody is alive everything is dead and it's going to come out one day not today it'll take some time but on it never lived because you never engage a person's soul you never engage a person's heart on the contrary when you understand that the real purpose of yideshkite is to inspire to infuse to invigorate me. You want the fire to ascend from its own on its own. Yes, this is not a this is not a a revolt against discipline. Don't confuse this with the liberal spinelessness, but it's understanding what the objective is, what the mission statement is. Sometimes you win the battle and you lose the war. Sometimes you lose the battle, but you win the war. It's much more important to win the war than to win the battle. Cuz you win the battle today, but you lose the war forever. Especially when it comes to children, especially when it comes to education, especially when it comes to thinking about long term. The pesk miktish was a nice home but it didn't last half of a fella because it was forced. The mishk was not such a mishk was mobile but it lasts forever cuz it was li there was a heart there. There was a fire there. There was enthusiasm there and that counts more than anything else to be able to allow people to find it within themselves to be able to say it's about you. It's not about me. It's not about me winning. It's about you finding it. It's about you discovering your own soul, your own depth, your own truth. So I want to bless all of you and bless all of us. that we should be able to stop forcing ourselves. We should be able to stop forcing ourselves [Music] to go graduate from [Music] and when something is really yours then you also don't force others. You see, when I'm forced to do something, I force others to do the same thing because that's the language that I'm familiar with. When something is owned by me, then I want other people to own it. If I want other people to own it, I can't tell them. I could guide them. I could show them, but ultimately I can't tell them. I have to let them I have to let them find their own way. [Music] I [Music] yeah [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Heat. [Applause] Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. [Applause] [Music] Yeah. [Music] [Applause] Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Oh, [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] heat. [Music] [Applause] Yeah. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. [Music] Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] I yeah. [Music] Heat. [Applause] Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. [Applause] [Music] You're Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat up here. [Applause] [Music] Heat. [Applause] [Music] Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I'm tired Hallelujah. [Music] There's a V from the BMP. [Music] on the first on the opening pedic on the opening chapter of McGillis Esther which at first glance it seems like that the whole story in the opening chapter of McGillicester is not really so relevant to the story of Purim. It's only a preliminary because it basically tells the story that had a party for 180 days and then another party for seven days and on the seventh day of the last party as the king was drunk. So he asked that they bring the queen Vashi to see to show off and she refused to come and therefore she was dethroned. She was removed. So then in chapter two remembers what happened to Vashi and he's upset and he's depressed. So his servants say, "Let's find a new queen." And years later they find Esther. So essentially the first chapter is not really integral to the story. Could have just said that Vashi was killed. How was she killed? Who cares? And if she wasn't killed, she just died. But nonetheless, this is the first opening story of the migilla. And as the Gmorra says in the you have to read the whole from beginning to end. In other words, you have to start from there's different opinions where you have to start the but you have to start. So one of the explanations is the bash has a to on this and it's brought in a safer called it's a vulf of is a vul of it was a of the of so he has a section the millis. So he brings their from the balv he was also by the balsham I think also before the market he brings from the extraordinary he says it briefly but it's why did vashi not want to come why did vashi not want to come so gamar says that vashi didn't like what she looked like for different reasons she didn't want to You read the migilla doesn't say why says aashdesh wanted vashi to come to show everybody her her yoy her beauty but to love she didn't want to come so brings from a very deep he says as follows wanted vashi as the gmorrah says in migill to come without to come without clothes. That's how she would show off her real beauty. There should be nothing covering it. But that's why she refused to come cuz he wanted she should come without any garments. What's the meaning of this? So the bash says as follows. You have to tune in because this is a deep t of it's a deep vart. He says vashi represents clipper. Vashi represents unholiness says that vashi is from the word means two duality in the world of vashi there's always two realities there's a split there's duality because it's to represent clipping clip is a split there's no oneness there's hashem and there's me there's always two from word huh Since vashi represents the force of what we call clipper. What does clipper mean? Clipper means a shell. Clipper means a husk like a banana pill. It's called a clipper to an orange pill. It's called a clipper. It's a shell. A husk. So the definition of clip is always that there's always a shell. There's always a garment. There's always a lush. He quotes the he says the life of clip always comes through always comes through garments. The moment there's no garments clipper can't live. That's what he says. Therefore, when Vashi was summoned to come to the king without garments, she can't live. So very briefly he says it. What's the meaning of this? What does he say? What does he say? He says it's a it's a deep idea. So let's try to explain the idea. What does the bump say? He was saying anybody who learns a little knows the word clip. The word clip is a very common word. Some of you grew up with the word clipper. It's like a mosquito in your ear. Clipper clipper clipper clipper clipper clipper showers. So the word gets you anxious. I understand. But the truth is that it's a very deep word. Why do we call it clipper shell husk? It's really a very sophisticated word. It's not a simple word. Thehat anything that exists only if there's a cover up is called clipper. Clipper doesn't mean it has a shell. Clipper means it is a shell. What do we mean it's a shell? Its very existence is based on the fact that there's a cover up. If there was no cover up, it wouldn't exist. In other words, for it to thrive, for it to live, for it to have oxygen, it has to cover up truth. If truth is not covered up, it loses its oxygen. It fades into oblivion. Just like you have some communities that way, some businesses that way, some organizations that way. If truth was exposed, they wouldn't exist. The reason they could continue to exist is because there's there shells, there's coverups. And if anybody tries to remove the coverups, they get thrown out right away. Huh? Okay. In other words, it's not that they have a shell. Their very existence is a shell. The moment there's no shell, they seize to have oxygen. They can't exist anymore. Why? Because what gives them power is that there is a lie. If truth is revealed, there's nothing left to it. Now, if you are, if you belong to such an organization or such a movement, it's pretty bad. Because it means you don't really exist. Your existence depends on how long the lie will continue. But lies can't continue forever. They can continue for a long time, trust me. But they can't continue forever. You can fool all the people. Some of the time. Some of the people all the time. You can't fool all the people all the time. You do the pisgum. Yeah. Even a Bernie Maidolf creates a Ponzi scheme. Great great people invest and they investing in a stock that doesn't exist. They're getting profits. It doesn't. It's called Clipper. The whole the whole portfolio that you have is a shell. Doesn't exist. The reason you're investing money is because reality is hidden. If reality would be revealed, you wouldn't invest money. But one day, truth comes out cuz reality has to emerge because the nature of reality is that it's real. So anything that its power of existence come from the fact that there's a cover up is called clipper. Anything that its existence is not dependent on a cover up is called kaduca. So whenever you see in books and the word kadusha the word clipper always know there's always means one thing if it exists because there's a cover up it's clip if it exists even without any cover up in other words you remove all the coverups in the world it's still intact it's kadush essentially most tyus in the world or many tyus I should say many cravings in the world we call them clippus why are they clippus because their power comes from the fact that they cover up. For example, take a delicious piece of food that's poisonous for you. What's its power? Its power is it looks good. It tastes good. Once you dissect it, once you break it up, then it's not very good. But nonetheless, it's very tempting. What makes it tempting? What makes it tempting is it covers up the fact that it's poisonous. If it would have a sign on it, I'm not as delicious as I look. I'm really horrible. It would defeat the purpose. That's why major in the in investment in in marketing, major money is put into presentation because that's the whole power of Clipper presentation packaging. It should look good. It doesn't help because it tastes good. It tastes good. You have to ask the smokers. They'll tell you. It's probably right now a few people that went out. It there's something there if right. That's how that's how we live in life. Imagine you had a ty for something. You had a craving for something that's not very healthy or not very moral, not very constructive. And you turn to the ty to the craving to the addiction and you say, "You know what? I like your idea. Give me three days. I'll Google you. I'll analyze you. I'll talk to friends. I'll talk to consultants. And then I'll get back to you. What is every ty going to tell you? No way. Now. You want happiness, it's now. You want serenity, it's now. You want relief, it's now. Now. Now. Right now. Not mashiach now. Ty now is a good thing. Ty now. Ty now. If you tell the ty I'm going to come back. Give me a day. Give me 4 hours. Let me Google you. Let me dissect you. No. Now. And that's where it gets you. Why does it need you to do it now? Very simple. Because if you're going to analyze it and dissect it, you're going to remove the layers. You're going to uncover the truth. You'll see what it is. It's heav nothing to it. It's futile. It's vile. It'll destroy your life. So its entire power is cover up. So coverups always live on now. What if it's something that's kadusha something that's an concept of a mitzvah holy? You turn to and you say, "You know what? Give me three days." He'll tell you three days. You could take three days if you want. You could take 3 months if you want. You could take three years. You can analyze me and dissect me. I'll still be here. My relevance will be as appealing in 20 years as it is today. Why? Because my relevance, my power is not based on a cover up. It's based on truth. Nothing has to So everything could be exposed. You could wait 20 years. I'm real. If I'm real, I'll be as relevant tomorrow as I am today. I'll be as relevant in 10 years as I am today. Uhhuh. Yeah. Yeah. No. Therefore, therefore, why delay it? But it's not going to lose its relevance. It's not going to become uh you're going to see its its lies. And the reason is very simple. Take a a a company that is not legit. It's not legitimate. And somebody comes into the company and says, "Show me your books." You say, "Come back tomorrow. Come back next year. Come back in 20 years. Go to my friend. Yeah, I'll p buy you a ticket to Japan one way." Why don't you show him the books? The answer is because if he starts digging, if he starts looking what's under the surface, he'll see there's nothing going on here. It's one big sheer. It's a big lie. But if what if somebody is legit? You want to look at my books, look, you want to look deeper, look deeper, look deeper. They say that people who lie need good memories. People who always say the truth, they don't need good memories. They're not going to contradict themselves. Truth doesn't contradict itself. laws you have to remember what you told your wife where you were last night shouldn't contradict where you were the night before shouldn't contradict where you were shabas shouldn't contradict where you were last week Shabas so you always have to you have to you know move the chess pieces truth doesn't it's fine it it it's it speaks for itself so this is always the principle what is the definition of kipa anything that in order to live it has to cover up there has to be a shell. Something has to truth has to be eclipsed. What's kadusha? All the coverups are removed and it still exists. This means how do you know if you're doing something from the side of clip or the side of kadusha? How do you know if you're saying something from the side of clip or the side of how do you know if you're thinking something from this side or this side? How do you know? You have to look at one thing. If the power of this thought, the power of these words, the power of these thoughts exist only because there's a cover up, that means it's clip. It's clip. If even if there was no cover up, they would still exist. That means it's holiness. What's the greatest cover up in the world? The greatest cover up in the world is that God is not here right now with me in this moment, in this experience. That's the greatest cover up. The greatest cover up is that I'm not holy. The greatest cover up is that I'm dirty. I'm filthy. I'm detached. I'm lowly. I'm I'm scummy. I'm horrible. I'm I'm I'm the worst thing. That's the greatest lie. Any thought, any word, any action that's based on the idea that Hashem is not right here with me at this moment, that's always clipper. Any thought, word or action that is not based on that does not covering up. It's real. That's why you'll see there's an old that everything we do in life has two phases. There's always an ah and an oi. The question is the order. When you're doing an aved and when you're doing a sin, it always begins with ah. This is going to be good. It's going to be a pleasure. In 2 hours from now, it's going to be oi. I feel stupid. I feel empty. I feel like an idiot. With a mitzvah, it's the other way. It's always going to begin with oi. I'm not in the w mood of waking up today to come learn. Not in the mood. I'm not in the mood. Oi. Oi. Oi. You slept yourself out of bed. It's an oi. But later it's going to be ah. That's also true. That's also true. There's always an oi or an the question is the order. In the world of clip, the ah precedes the oi. In the beginning, it's an ah it's beautiful. But when the when you see the truth, it's oi. The other way around, in the beginning, it may be oi because you don't see the truth. The moment you'll see the truth, it's fine. You right away it's right away. Ah. So this is always the principle in life. any movement, any rebba, any yeshiva, any shul, any community, any business, any website, any organization that in order for it to live and be a malus, it comes from coverups by definition, it doesn't really exist. It's why because the whole power is basically a lie. And therefore at some point it may take 5 years. It may take 70 years. It took communism 70 years. But after 70 years it blew up in its own face. How did it blow up? Nobody had to do anything. So many lies it just it gets so rotten it can't exist anymore. How long can you perpetuate lie after lie after lie? Just builds up to the point that it vomits itself out. It disintegrates. It loses its own identity. You can't build and build on lie and another lie and another lie. It just doesn't work. On the contrary, real things, the more you expose them, actually the more you see, wow, it's real. It's the other way. The longer time you give it, the more it becomes strong, the more it becomes powerful. That's the difference between real leaders and fake leaders. Fake leaders at some point they're very powerful but as time goes on it's like pathetic there's nobody home there's nobody home real leaders it's the other way during sometimes during their times and people have all these types of comments to say as time goes on and layers are removed you're like whoa this is something real this is something substantial this is godly and the reason is because kaduca is connected to Hashem. Hashem is MS. Hashem, it's it's eternal. It's truth. Anything that's divine has real reality. It doesn't have to cover up. So you could look at it today, tomorrow, it's going to be there. anything that its whole power comes from covering up the divine. So by definition it has temporary oxygen because the moment the truth will be revealed that it dissipates. So that means its whole comes from the fact that it hides the moment the hiding stops the moment you remove the layers you see it doesn't exist. So kadusha has real kayak real kum it endures forever evil could be very powerful it can destroy a world but it can't be forever because its entire oxygen comes from a cover up and the moment that cover up is going to emerge people will say okay there's nothing here mish nothing here ah zsham come back to vashi vashi has clothes. She has clothes. Everybody has clothes. I don't only mean physical clothes. I mean psychological clothes is it says in it's brought in brings says the end and the beginning belongs to him. Vades summons Vashi. He says, "Come. I want to see you." Vashi says, "No problem. I'll dress up." He says, "No, no, no, no, no. I want to see you." Says, "Okay, give me a few hours and I'll show you a vashi. No, I want to see Vashi without any cloaks." There's one problem for Vashi to exist. She needs she needs cloaks. Not to be nicer, not to be more impressive, to exist. If there's no cloaks, if there's no coverups, there's no vashi. The whole vashi is only because there are dark garments. But the says, "I want you without anything." Spiritually speaking, I want you beer. I want you without any without any coverups. So what happens? Vashi ceases to exist. It's not a punishment. It's a it's a natural result. The whole of the moment you challenge it and you say, "Come without garments. What do you want should exist? It never existed. Its whole power of existence was that itclipsed truth. The moment you come back to truth, you see it nothing doesn't have anything. There's nothing there. So ceases to exist. This is that's the essence of purim. And that's the first chapter of the migill. What does this mean in people's lives? In people's lives, it means you have to we have to ask ourselves this question. How much of my life is based on coverups? And how much of my life is based on truth? How much of my life if all truth was revealed? Basically, there wouldn't be anything to it. And how much of my life would stand in full existence even when all when all garments are removed? If most of your day, most of the things you say, most of the things you do are based on coverups, you have to revisit your life. A person has to ask themselves, how many things do I say a day that basically if there was no cover up, it would be obvious that this is a joke, this is a lie, this is a mockery, which is basically what a lie means. A lie means it's not true. Just covering up the truth. But this is what you have to ask in your relationships with yourself, with Hashem, with people around you, with your spouse, with your children. How much of it is based on a cover up and how much of it is based on rear beer, open naked truth? Vashi only comes in lavushim. From vashi you will never have anything honest. You know why? Cuz by definition honesty and vashi are mutually exclusive. There's an expression the emperor there's a story that there was a emperor who uh decided to weave for himself the most fine garment in the world. It should be so fine that nobody sees it. So he weaves for himself this garment and nobody sees it cuz it's so Adidal. It's so fine. And the emperor is walking through the streets and everybody's like, "Wow, wow. Wow. Look at this garment. Look at this garment." And then it took a little child to stand up and scream. The emperor has no clothes. He's naked. He has no clothes. They decided it's so fine. You can't see it. There's no clothes. He It took a child to say the truth. This emperor is naked. But here we're saying the opposite. The emperor has a lot of clothes. Beautiful clothes. But it takes a true person to say the clothes have no emperor. The clothes have no emperor. There's nothing inside. There's mish nothing inside. The clothes have no emperor. So the isoid of purim chapter one of purim is you have to be able to understand that one day the king is gonna ask you to come and he's going to ask you to come without lavushim. What's what what do you have any is there anything left? Is there any part of you that exists outside of lavusha or everything is dressed up everything is cloaked. We sometimes live in environments that everything is cloaked. There's nothing without garments. The moment you come to a person and say, "Show me something without garments," we change the subject. We don't like it. We love garments. We like [Music] Now are a fine thing but only if they have somebody under them. If there's an emperor under the clothes it's very nice but if all there is are clothes and there's no emperor there's nothing there so there's no vashi left there's no vashi. So you have to ask yourself this question. How much of my life is based on coverups? And how much of my life is based on real reality? And if you remove all coverups, it still exists. I'm going to ask you about your relationships. How many relationships do you have with people that if all coverups were removed, you'd still had the relationship? And how many relationships only exist because there's coverups? Easy to define what's cover. That's good. That's You're right. That you have to come to learn in the morning. That you have to come to learn. You're right. It's not simple. It's not simple. But it's an important question. How many relationships are exist? Now coverups themselves have many levels. You know, the onion has many many layers. Sometimes you're sensitive to one layer. You're not sensitive to one layer. Remember the pinmus of one level deeper level is the is a clipper and then the pinmus of the next level deeper level is also a clip always evolves etc. But the point is that this is a question I have to ask myself in my relationships. How much of it is all it's just it's a husk. If you would look in the eyes and say tell me who you are. We don't have these conversations. Sorry. Now imagine you have a whole culture that's based on this. People choke to death. That's why there are people choking today. Huh? Yeah. Everything. It's oi oi. O o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o oi. No no no, you can't look anybody in the eyes and say speak truth to me. So imagine people choke. People choke to death. They're like give me oxygen. So that's why people love to criticize this generation. The truth is this generation is very sensitive to this. The reason the youth is having so many challenges with Judaism is because they're feeling that everything is a cover up. So they're choking on it. Like could anybody speak to me normal? Can anybody look me in my eyes and speak about truth? But when you live in a culture that everything is covered up, everything there's nothing truth. So then everything is a cover up. There's no MS left. So that's the of the purim is that when that happens, Vashi ceases to exist. So therefore I want to bless all of you and bless all of us that basically when calls you to come without any clothes you should still be able to exist. There should be something that's deeper than the clothes. There should still be an existence even if everything is removed. All the garments are removed. He says, "You, I want you. Let me see you." So if the whole you is one big garment, there's no you left. But when he says, "I want to see you," there should be a you deeper than the garments. [Music] Hey [Music] yeah. Hey [Music] yeah. Hey Heat. Heat. [Music] Hey yeah. [Applause] Hey yeah. [Applause] Heat. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. I'm [Applause] heat Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat [Music] [Applause] up [Applause] here. [Applause] [Music] Heat up here. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat [Music] up [Music] here. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Applause] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Applause] [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat up [Music] [Applause] here. [Music] Heat up here. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Oh, [Music] [Applause] [Music] heat, heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat [Music] up [Music] here. Heat. Heat. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I need [Music] him. Hi. Ready [Music] to learn how to take off cleas was not a good thing. Now we know how to take it off. How to cash in the bank? [Music] Take it home. We need to take it home. Rabbi, we have a who was planning to be he's a he's a stolen. He wanted to be put in by his reb and he was already on the airplane today. Wow. He was on the airplane 2 hours on the airplane and then the airplane broke. So they sent everybody over the airplane. So he ended up in put him in in America and in America itself in Miy from America itself he ended up in my gush of a and my was the aid is a that's where they run away here from Brooklyn for the aid. So from uh and he ended up here in this house at this [Music] so he was already on the plane and he ended up here. It was a business class ticket. Wasn't an economy class ticket. [Music] [Applause] [Laughter] Sh. See, we take care of you. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] Matina. [Applause] [Music] So there's a [Music] Jews love saying the good old days used to be great on the other side of the Atlantic when I was a kid when my Zeta was alive back in the day. Back in the day between you and me, it was miserable. That's the truth. It was miserable. It was so miserable that it was beyond. I asked somebody of us banksters if you know how miserable your youth was. He says, "Cuz it's not here." So cuz it's not here, you could say it's beautiful. You know what I mean? Today is here. So you don't know. You can't say it's beautiful. So the Pik says don't say why is it that the good old days were better cuz this question why were the old days better than these days is not coming from wisdom it's not coming from it says one one place it says [Music] from [Music] the as said another said I'll tell you a story there were two Eden two mmalai twoas two kapson and povertystricken Jews who didn't have a penny to their name and they went to a man a wealthy man to help them out and he felt bad for them. So he gave them each 50,000 rubble alone. He said, "Take care. You have a loan. You have seed money. Make something out of it. You have 5 years to pay me back interest free. What a gift." So one person takes 50,000 rubble. He slowly invests. He buys this. He buys this. He sells this. Makes a dollar a buck here. Buck here. Rubble here. Rubble here. Slowly he's making a couple of ruple. He uses the money to fix his house, buy some food for his children, buy some new clothes, get them new shoes, fix the leaks in the roof, create some normal living conditions. But slowly he builds up his own merchandise, his own business, his own portfolio as they say. And within a year he's making revenue, but he still has a lot of debt. There's still a lot to pay up. There's still a lot of basic expenses. But with all the money that he makes, every week he puts away a little bit to be able to pay back. And so after a year, two years, 3 years, he already builds up a nice business for himself. He's making a nice salary, making a beautiful salary. and he puts away enough money and after 4 years he comes to the wealthy man and he says here's your 50,000 rub thank you the man says you know I'm so impressed with you keep the money keep the money make yourself even bigger the other man also got 50,000 rupe 50,000 rupe first thing he bought himself shishi mafina Ferrari Honory by the dinner, a new house, new suits for the whole family, a new mit. He bought everything. Huh? Everything business class [Music] everything he bought. Problem was wasn't his money. After a year, the money was gone. Comes back to the Gir. He says, "I'm sorry. I lost all the money and I said of your I want every penny back. I want every rubble back." Baron Khalina said, "Two people are both broke." Who's not broke? Everybody's broke. [Music] Everybody's broke, broke, broke, broken. He listens to the shim. He learns to go to every day. Everybody's broke. Everybody's empty. But once in a while, Hashem calls you in and he gives you 50,000 rubble. You feel a surge of inspiration. [Music] Could be Arishana could be stad could be here could be somewhere else but you feel you get 50,000 rubble you get it says is you get a surge of inspiration of wisdom of enlightenment of light comes into you and you're flying you're flying there two types of people the ban says One Jew knows it's not his money. It was given to you could be taken away from. So what does he do? He right away invests. He right away invests in businesses that will remain his. He right away takes it and he puts it into something concrete. He makes it real. He makes it his own. It's not easy to internalize it, work with it, make it part of his schedule, make it part of his life. And he builds himself up spiritually. He builds himself up. He becomes a powerhouse. Comes back to Hashem and he says, "Take your money. You know what? Keep it." And then there's another Jew. He feels inspiration. Flies. I'm flies. He smokes up with it. [Music] You have to turn it into a into something real. But he has the inspiration. What do you need? Anything else? You fly. You're feeling good. You dance, you jump, you sing, you do a kumitz. You do some harmony. Good. Problem is then you crash. Boom. Spaceship comes flying down. You're left with nothing. Come back to Hashem. You say I got nothing. [Music] Don't say believe in me. Says when aid approaches God the first time. So, Hashem throws some money on him to make him feel that it's Gishmak. It's like you know the olden restaurants you would go in, they let you taste everything. You know what I mean? Say taste, taste, taste. Why? They want to lure you into their trap. Once you taste and you like it, you'll take a whole plate and then you won't leave. So [Music] said this to a Jew who came to him. He said 20 30 years ago he became a Baltrua. When he became a Baltua he was inspired. Now 20 years later he's dead. Happens to a lot of people. He was a Baltua. He was completely inspired. He says now he's dead. She says, "Don't say [Music] the old days were better." So this is what he said. It wasn't your own that gave you the inspiration. You borrowed it. You borrowed it. It wasn't yours. It wasn't yours. You borrowed it. It was borrowed. It was lent to you to give back. It was lent to you to be able to use it as a springboard for your own work. So now you want to know why that inspiration is gone. It's not gone. It was never there. It was never yours. It was given to you. Some people use it and invest it and some people just squander it and then they say what happened? Nothing happened. It was never there. It was lent to you. It was a you give back. That's what he told the seat. So you want that the old inspiration you should still have. It was never yours. [Music] What's the of it in life? Every person is given moments that you have clarity but that's very few moments it goes away the clarity goes away trust me it goes away said we say [Music] every day place these words on your heart so the asked it should have said [Music] on your heart in your heart with your heart on your heart in your heart. So the said usually you can't take things into your heart. The heart is not open. All you could do is put it on top of your heart. But pile it up. But one day your heart is going to open. If there's something on top of the heart, so when the heart opens, everything will go right in. There's nothing on top of the heart, the heart will open. It'll be very alive, but there's nothing there. So nothing will come in love. You have to create the you have to translate it into reality into tangible reality. People have they have arousals inspirations. It's borrowed. So therefore in every person's life there's moments that people feel something. They experience a certain clarity, a certain perspective. They see what's right and what's wrong. But the problem is that as a day passes, two days pass, the clarity is gone. You don't see it anymore. So what do you have to do? Don't get upset. Don't feel, "Oh used to be here. Why am I such a bad person?" No, it was never here. It was borrowed. You borrowed it. It was borrowed money. It was a credit card. It was never yours. It was credit. Now it has to become yours. For it to become yours, that's a whole different process. It was given simply as a loan to help you make it yours. This is called person has to be able to discover themselves in a relationship. They have to figure out who they are. They have to burn on their own. They can't burn on somebody else's fire. You have to burn on your own fire. Today especially, you can't burn on other people's fires. You can't burn on old fires. [Music] You have to create fire within yourself. You can't create fire from other places. You need to create fire in yourself. You have to be able to find the fuel, the oil, the coals in yourself. And don't think it doesn't exist. It for sure exists. Sometimes you have to search for it but it always exists. Maybe it's a p but it's there maybe concealed but it's there. So maybe that's why to go would have been he would have had the inspiration from above. Huh? Yeah. Yeah. [Music] That what? Which? Ah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. [Music] Huh. [Music] Your heart [Music] is Yeah. [Music] So good. names me. She [Music] I shore. [Music] My heart leaves me [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Yeah. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Enough. She know [Applause] [Music] How we [Applause] [Music] Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I you [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] We come with [Music] child. [Music] You Yeah. [Music] Heat. [Music] Now she come. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] had a he was a very lively person very poor man extremely poor he had a neighbor who didn't like him didn't like him didn't like but this man really irked him and shabas really bothered him. This man was wealthy, successful, but he was miserable. He was a depressed person. So, Friday night was miserable. You know, miserable people, shabas, they're they're the most miserable because that's how it is. Miserable people, shabas brings out their worst. Especially when they see other people trying to relax, they go crazy. So they make sure to make their table miserable. Everything is another exercise in misery. And his neighbor was they would sing and dance. It was a may. But the worst was sukus. Sukus. They were both in each other's in the alley and they both there was sukus near each other. Him. The meal finished in 20 minutes. They had all the good all all the food in the world, all delicacies in the world. But the ambiance was full of misery. And by there was barely any food, but there was so much positive energy. Soul food. Yeah. And every year he would eat himself up alive, this other Jew, this neighbor from the joy. One year he decided that's it. He's not going to deal with this person's misery. So what did he do? This man, this didn't have money. How would he build a suka? He would borrow wood from the people in the city and he would put to this wealthy man who owned most of the city. He told all the people before sukas if anybody lends any wood to this he gets fired immediately. No people need parosa. So when this Jew came to borrow the planks of wood, everybody said, "We're sorry. Your shak and you know your friend who loves you said that nobody's allowed to lend you wood." Then if he finds anybody lent you wood, that person is fired. What are we supposed to do? No. What does he do? The night before sukus. He doesn't have a suk. Everybody rejects him. So he's thinking what to do. How does he build a sukus? Then he realized in the cemetery there were people who died and they couldn't afford a tombstone. So the kadesha had planks of wood. So somebody couldn't afford a tombstone. They would take a plank of wood and put it in and write po nitman. It said at po nitman and they would put their name in wood. She said you know what for eight days I'll take the wood from the cemetery. I'll build the suk and then I'll put it back. Hopefully they brushed us a shouldn't be too many lava in the middle of so he took the wood he built himself he had a lot of wood he built himself a suki he never built such a beautiful suk you know first night of sukas comes and the wealthy Jew he thinks to himself finally at last he's going to have a leic a joyous sukas because he won't be bothered by the joy of the you know the words The worst misery is when you're miserable and somebody else is happy. If everybody else is miserable, you don't feel so miserable. Anyway, he comes into finally he's gets rid of this nuisance and suddenly he hears and he takes a look. He sees a like and he never saw such a suka. It's a jumbo a 747. So the first night that he held himself in but the second night he couldn't contain himself. He runs in. He starts hollering. Who lent you wood for the suka? Who gave you suka? I'm going to fire him. You tell me right now. He's hollering. First of all, am I suka? Nobody screams. First thing is sit down and relax. He sits down. Second thing is gives him a drink. You tell me right now. How'd you get this suk? He says for relax. Another says now tell me how you built. He said I'll tell you what happens. I'll tell you what happened last night, the night before sukus. Two nights ago, I didn't have a suka. He told everybody they can't give me a suka. So, what do I do? It's middle of the night, the night of sukus, the night before sukas. I don't know what to do. So, I take a walk. I'm walking down the street. It's 1:00 in the morning. And who do I meet? I meet the malikov. I meet the angel of death. say shalom. I asked the angel of death, "What are you doing here tonight?" He says, "I have one carbon tonight. I have one person I have to take tonight to the next world." I tell the angel of death, "Who?" He says, "Your neighbor. Your neighbor, the wealthy guy. He's not a young man anymore. He lived his life. It's time to go. It's time for him to die." I look at the angel of death and I say there's no point. Says why not? I say the man has been dead for 50 years. Man is not alive. He's a dead man walking. No life, no joy, no vitality, no energy, no enthusiasm. He's a dead, miserable, depressed, dejected, melancholy man walking ashed. You're killing a dead man. Looks at the he says, "I know you're an honest man. I trust you." He says, "Yeah, go hang out. You have a night off." Angel says, "Galdic, how do I pay you back?" "How do I pay you back?" He says, "I'll tell you. I need a suka." The angel of death says, "I'll take I'll make a deal. You go to the cemetery, take all the wood for eight days. I won't kill anybody. A whole suk is I won't kill anybody. Nobody's going to catch you. You take the wood, nobody will come to the cemetery. Eight days, nobody's dead till after some he'll put back your suk. I thank the angel of death and I went to the cemetery. That's how I built my suk. And he shows the man. And he says look point all over the suk it says poet he see it's a true story man wasn't stupid he broke down crying looked at him and he said I have one question how is it that I have everything and yet I have nothing and you have nothing and yet you have everything. How does it work? Explain this to me. I have everything. I have nothing. You got nothing. You have everything. Explain to me how it works. So he says for this you need a you don't have a you need a you need a have a you don't have a So the story is that he became one of the biggest of the Huh? 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