Sefirat HaOmer: Breakthrough Is One Step Beyond Comfort

Spirit Omar is known as the time of matmonot. Matmonot in Hebrew is defined as diamonds, jewels. Matmanot. You know why? Matmanot is me. 49. Meet monot. You can count 49. We count 49 days. Matmonot. And they're all jewels. Every day is another jewel. And the question is why? What is so special about this counting? What is the purpose of this counting? We're going day by day and counting. Make sure you don't miss a day. There's got to be a little bit of meaning to it. The in par is quite famous and he basically says that we're counting up to the days of we're counting to now it's interesting. We call it spirm. Now omare is actually animal fodder. It's actually wheat that comes from food that we feed to um to uh to animals which is barley. And eventually we get to sh after 49 days. And over there we have what we call the which is proper bread which is people food. So we're counting from the stage of being an animal to being to the stage of being a person from animal food until thing. What's the inion of doing such a thing? So the answer is and this is a really important message because this is what we have built from. Don't think when we discuss and leave we're leaving we're only leaving the physical bondage that was there. It wasn't only about physical bondage which eventually we got free. No way. We were down spiritually. We were down emotionally. We were down mentally. We were completely subdued by the mitim. We were raised and grown as if we are nothing. We are vermin. It's as if a person being raised in Nazi Europe from zero and up. And he completely completely did had no confidence in their potential. They had no self-confidence in self. Listen to an ebanzar. You wouldn't believe it. You know what he says? Mameish is psych a psychological thing written in the ebanzar. You know what he says? When we were by yamsu standing by the yam came all the mitim and we were scared out of our wits. He has such an obvious and simple question. It's it's not normal. Do you understand what we are? 3 million people. 600,000 men at least between 20 and 60. You know how many? Look at the you know how many were there? 600 chariots and mitz are coming. 600 can get 3 million. What is the question? Pounce on them. Maybe we'll lose a few people on the way. Kill them. What what were we scared about? We're hearing and screaming emotion all scared and fear and trepidation. What's going to be in this colossal scenario over here? Ah, what? 600 people come out to their horses and chariots. You can't overcome. You can't overcome them. But what's the answer? The answer is says the Evanzar. If he didn't say it, I don't know if I would have said it. He says they grew up in mitim that these are our masters. These are the people in charge of us. They were so humbled in front of them in a very negative way. They felt so fear just by the by just by the look of them. Intrepidation rolled down their back just by the scene of the horses with the mitim. It brought them association. It brought them back to the traumas of their of their yestery of the days that we grew up with. And I couldn't leave them. They couldn't leave there. and they feared and were not ready to battle. Incredible. And that's what happened by Yamsu. Slowly but surely, not only is taking us out of physical bondage, but also mental bondage. Don't be wrapped up in what they are. The I'm drinking water. They're drinking blood all over the place. And we're walking around free. And they're begging us. They have to pay us money in order to be freed. I can be free in the not them theamsu if they're drowning we're up all of this were means to get us out to realize no no no no they're not your masters they're not the ones in charge of you only have one in charge of you that is the only one there stop falling into society's whims don't be a slave to anything else around you even though you grew up in a certain mentality whether it's western whether it's comm communism whether it's any of the other ones doesn't make difference. You have one mentality and that's Jewish mentality. Your mentality is supposed to be like that. That is what we are building during this time period. During the time period of the day after day, we're going ahead and making small changes. A small change in self. It's a time to make a cabala to take yourself and this is the way to get out of that zone with small changes. Most of us have some type of self-conscious, self-esteem issue that I don't want to change from what is present. If I act today like I acted yesterday, then tomorrow will be like today. Leave me alone. I just want to stay the way I am right now. I'm not interested in making some type of move in order to make that change. And that's okay. But it's a toad. You'll never be able to grow. You'll never be able to make a change. The best way to improve, to change, is to go ahead and take small little things that I change to do things not according to schedule. Take things out of perspective. Even if it doesn't have to do with something or not, I walk usually on this street. Walk on the other side of the street. A person who always wakes up late says almost every day, "Tomorrow it's not going to happen. I know I come to David 10 minutes late. It's fine. Tomorrow it's not going to." In his head, he goes, "It happened. What if well tomorrow it's not going to happen all the time it happens day after day. A person looks at the wrong things and it happens again. No, it's never going to happen again and it happens again. He puts himself in a place he wasn't supposed to. The only way to make a change is not by going big. Don't jump a bungee jump. No, no. Take the small strides, the small steps towards making small changes. Take your watch and put it from your left hand to your right hand. I'm telling you, do certain things. Stop with a certain scenarios that you're used to and make yourself change even quasi even slightly says in order to keep himself always in control five times a day he always made sure he did something different from what he wanted to do he had a certain to do this I want to have three cookies I'm even two I'll have four even you know what you want to have three eat four that's a little bit of a cheat I understand but at least do something different and then you're then you are releasing yourself from that's build and it's not fast. No bungee jumping. One, two, three. You go from to and then Mal. You want to get to Malus, you want to be a king. You want to get to the top of the top. The only way to get there, the finale is by doing it in itsy-bitsy steps to be able to slowly get yourself to a place where you want to do. Nothing grows without resistance. Nothing changes. No muscle is built unless you go ahead and you pay a lot of money to go to a gym. I'm giving you a free run without going to the gym. Do things at a little bit, make a change, and then eventually you'll be able to do it. I wake up every day late 10 minutes to daviding. Make it eight. 8 minutes. I I could do I can handle eight. I'm be able to do that. If you take those itsybitsy steps, you'll be able to get the run. And this is the time to do it during spher to make that big change.