Shavuot: Our Source of Energy - Rabbi Yisroel Perelson

[Music] is a very very powerful time we know that every holiday has its potential and its strengthen its energies that come down to this world and these energies we feed off these energies so for example Pez circuses Montclair lieutenant it's a time of freedom and we feed off that freedom a person that's locked into a situation this is the time where you could pray to God and muster all those energies and get out of that rut to get out of that Baxton situation and every holiday has its own uniqueness Sukkot may be perhaps the protection ibaka - Burcu Shabbat is Matan Toa Shabbat is the power of the Torah coming down the power of us accepting the Torah each holiday has its own uniqueness and it's interesting that each holiday also has something that symbolizes that holiday for example pissed off you have matzah roshani at the chauffeur circusy of the Sukkot the rule of the arid right every holiday has something comes to to Shabbat there's nothing there what are we commemorating right there's no there's no symbol so to say I heard once from some of the idea of Shabbat it's because you're actually celebrating with no distractions those you're making yourself a vessel that is ready to accept the Torah and that in itself is tremendous work then in itself takes 49 days to shape yourself into a type of person that's able to accept this enormous gift diarrhea kata says that we know a person sometimes is liable to covet Colette is spiritual extinction where person is no longer connecting good stuff front you could still walk around in this world but at the source of his neshama it's cut off it's cut off from God the source is cut off from God and what's the remedy to that so it says if a person learns all night support night eka remedy that now it's very interesting that energy that a person expands where he's not allowing himself to sleep on any ordinary night says diarrhoea cottage he would wipe away one chorus one cars becomes Shibu is night a person has the power to wipe away all of the covet that he has if he's learning diligently all night it's just a tremendously powerful time and a person has to know that this is not a time I want to squander this is a time that I have to make sure to learn every single moment as much as I can our potential in life in general is either to reach to the stars or god forbid the other way around and you see this you see this with our society very clearly and that's one of the reasons that comes comes Shabbat and we read McGillis ruse we read the scroll of route what was the story of Bruce story Bruce was that there was a individual by name avi Melek and Naomi and Alamelu who is married to Naomi and they were very very wealthy they were very wealthy at one point they decide hey I can't stay here in Israel because I'm losing a lot of money not only I'm losing a lot of money poor people are constantly them down my door it's it's getting it's getting way way too difficult so they decide to move tomorrow and they reside over there and their children Macklin and Killian marry R Us and ARPA were the daughters of the king the daughters of the king of Eglin King one and God is obviously not too happy with this you know he lives there he leaves her a tea straw to go to Maya many Jews needed him at that point you know this is where God wanted him you know that God didn't want him sitting and learning and tranquility you wanted people knocking down his doors all the time you know every time he opened up a book to sit and learn somebody would knock down this door but that's many times that's that's what God wants for this person this is his job you know to be wealthy is a tremendous responsibility maybe still so empty you used to say I'm happy I'm not wealthy why because if when I come after 120 God is gonna ask me this this this lady this poor I want to suffered why don't you take care of her this poor widow suffered want to take care of her Oh God didn't give me money didn't give me money so fine I'm uh that's not my job but a guy that was given money what is he gonna answer right it's a it's a tough job to top obligation we're just studying the how local sadaqa this morning and one of the halacha says that a person one of the what the article Chozen speaks about is that a person has to understand that when God gives him money he gives him a lot of money more than he needs it's not for him not for himself really it's for other people of course the person wants to put some away sake it out for retirement yeah absolutely but yet the person always has to have in mind that it's that it's for its for me to help others as well and if a person chase is stuck on he always wants to give succor God will prepare for him the right people to give it to all right a lot of times people ask how do I know why do I know that this guy's legitimate all right he says he's got ten children let me hear him what's the name of all ten children right yeah as real as legitimate well if you run after stalker God will give you only the legitimate ones God will give you the legitimate ones so therefore it's up to us to get the legitimate ones but in any event in any event this this happy Mela no le le Melek I'm sorry this le Mela couldn't I couldn't tolerate couldn't tolerate that people would constantly coming over to him so he went out of rarity strong because it's beaucoup after a while punished him and killed him and he died and the same thing happens to his two children not gonna kill you who were married to ris'n arpa and when that happens Naomi realizes I've got nothing here I have nothing here I might as well go back to Israel and she begins to go back and her two daughter-in-laws follow her to daughter and those want to come with her and they begin the journey and the Yomi tried to dissuade them and dissuades them once and dissuade them twice and the third time she succeeds in dissuading ARPA and ARPA gives her a kiss and she turns back and Russ continues and from that moment on literally two girls with the same potential grew up in the same house all of a sudden make totally different decisions one decides to become a Jew they both wanted to they were both very close to Judaism they both valued it they were married to great people they loved Judaism they both wanted to continue that lifestyle but one after being pushed away decides to go one way and the other clings to Russ one literally steps off the stage of history in terms of the other skite and one stays one stays and what ends up happening what happens to both of them so the Gemara and SATA tells us that not only did ARPA just go back to her house but she met a battalion of a hundred soldiers and committed a bad act with them committed a bad act with them so meaning to say she was at the crossroads of tremendous godless tremendous Heights and in an instant she loses everything she loses everything loose on the other hand holds on a little bit more and when she is ready to go with Naomi she begins her Trek to arity straw she later is with boas and when she's with Baz she becomes the mother of mushiya she becomes the mother of Dada Mela two separate paths one becomes one chooses and becomes the mother of a spiritual giant and one becomes the mother of a physical giant the physical giant becomes Gallia's the spiritual giant is da ba da Mela who later we have mushiya from but you see sometimes how everything depends on one second on one second decision I remember being at alibi Oh and I see the family I see one side of the family very very religious and the other side there's nothing you know we see that a lot and it's so interesting to see how from one family it just split up then one guy got up to speak one guy got up to speak and he's describes how his family came from Europe and they were deciding the whole family was deciding either they're gonna go live in Virginia or they're gonna go live in Borough Park understand exactly the you know the the two sides of this decision I assume Virginia is much much different and listen to what happened so they were deciding do two families they applied to two homes they didn't have I didn't have anything didn't have a penny to their name they applied to two homes and one home in Borough Park accepted one family and the other home felt though be too risky so one family ended up in Virginia and one family ended up in Borough Park he says it was such a decision it was it was it was literally on a hair what was going to be our entire future and because of this decision my mother fought a little bit more with the landlord all the sudden generations later you see the kids ueshiba kids it was amazing his shivah kids you you couldn't tell but what was it it was literally a second a second makes all the difference in the world that second decision with a kid goes to Sheba whether where you decide to live what there are so many decisions in life that are based on that little second where a person decides this entire life in this entire potential is entire career and the rest of his life is going to be different the second is very powerful big de Miller used to say if you want to know how valuable one second is how valuable is a second second does nothing right there's nothing there since we understand an hour an hour you could do something to accomplish something right but a second can you can you do anything in a second he says go ask the guy who is on his way to a ten million dollar business deal and missed the flight by a second he'll give you a whole lecture on what a second is all about he could give you a lecture for days what is a second worth right and therefore not antara and Russ we always learn Russell Martin taro to teach us the power of even a short amount of time short amount of time when they get eylem one time he made a cm made us see him and he said this iam usually winner yeah made us see him he would make Alec I am he would go back to learning this time he wanted to make a little bit of a party invited its own family so I think it was I'm safer Sam safer it's family asked him what's the difference between this time and all the other times why this time warranted a whole party so he said this is the time where I finish shots in five minutes five minutes says what do you mean Shasta's the whole track date right all of the Talmud he says you know I grabbed two minutes here when I was waiting on line in the grocery I still opened my book and I grabbed another two minutes there and another five minutes another three minutes another four minutes and now it's 15 years but I finished shots in five minutes because each one of those five minutes I didn't waste this warrants a special party because those five minutes nobody pays attention to nobody ever pays attention to five minutes five minutes is nothing right we look at everywhere we're busy our Facebook five minutes is nothing but this therefore this warranted a special party everything else every other time I finished chance is one thing but when I finished shots in the five minutes that that was that was something unique so here we look at ruse and we'll look at Naomi and Ruth and Naomi they represent literally two opposites were on the same road RC night at Mount Sinai how could the spoke who tells us remember you now I'm going to give you a set of laws I'm going to give you a set of laws these set of laws are there to bring you to eternal life to eternal happiness there's nothing in life that's going to give us greater happiness than keeping the Torah we could have many things many items but our neshama are still gonna feel a void I had a person can have many many things right it's like somebody once told me he goes to me you know people are so so poor all they have is money it's a it's an interesting concept what does that mean because I don't know but if a person doesn't have Tory doesn't have the fulfillment yes you'll have many items but with the neshamah seeks he'll never have if you think about it why is a person travel it travels here it goes to Hawaii goes yes sometimes it's healthy to let the mind go but a person's neshama is always in search mode searching for something there's something there that doesn't let the human being rest always wants more and more what is that you have to pinpoint what that is what is that that's a person's natural neshama yearning for something higher we live in a generation where we don't know actually the world doesn't know what's better what's worse what's good what's bad it's literally like a scuba diver when a person goes into an ocean if you lose your bearings you may think that down is up and up and down and you may be going lower and lower in deeper and deeper into the ocean and many times what they tell the scuba divers is to start blowing out bubbles so you realize which way up because otherwise you lose completely where you are in the world and where you are in the ocean and in a sense that's exactly what happens in the real world - in the real world you have people searching for what is right and what is wrong and the New York Times has their own set of ideas of what right what's right and what's wrong they'll tell you you know these people that came out of the closet or they're finally admitting who they are and they're proud of who they are we've reached the new a new era humanity is getting better but in reality it's a person searching for more they're searching what to cling on to whether my god I'm gonna clean on to communism or socialism or capitalism or any of liberalism or I gotta cling on to something because otherwise my life is not worth anything there's something that I'm missing so a person is in constant constant search he never stops therefore our expert who says I'm going to cut all of this hardship that you have that a soul has Avraham Avinu went through that hardship avril lavigne you at the search he searched which way is right which way is up and which way is down he searched he had to ask a million questions Rama Bean who came and asked I does this world doesn't make sense to me it doesn't make sense that my mother my mother could eat carrots all day and produce a human being with eyes and with here and with intelligence and with understanding and with teeth how do you take carrots and produce all that she started asking all these questions and it came to the conclusion that there must be a governing hand must be a reminder shal i l'm in the world there must be a god in the world and which means to say up to that point people lived a wasted existence they would live a hundred years but not know what their purpose in life is they wouldn't know what their purpose in life is comes the Taira and cuts all that research for us and tells us black and white how to live how to live what's right and what's wrong and this is the idea of Matt and Tara as there be a service to say 'i love high yo mo comma y de cobre suka if not for this great day comma Y I see how many Jo's so to say would be in there in the marketplace what made me different what made me different this Kabbalah cetera as soon as we got the Torah I was able to then be a different person I was able to be a rep JC that's what made all the difference in my life we come to Kabbalah cetera and we Lane Rus and we lane the idea what happened with our pas and the idea cuz its bark was driving home to us when you make decisions realize that that one second can have a ramifications for years and years down the line and a person could either gain or lose a tremendous amount a person thinks to himself do I send my kid to the sushi bar that is Shiva this is Shiva's a little bit more religious that he/she was a little bit less a person makes a decision do I send my kid to public school is Shiva at that point it's a life-and-death decision for eternity for eternity right the children's children's children you're lucky if somebody comes back but it's all gone and it's all on one little decision I remember a lady here coming over to me and she had a lot of problems with her child sy Esther she had one Charlie Esther you know I got closer I used to why didn't you have more children so she tells me you know I never told anybody this but when we got married we didn't have money and I got pregnant and I boarded a child say you know I made that decision but I can't live with myself up to today up to today it chases me that one decision ruined my life it's a one second decision no guidance the dollars and cents don't add up today they're wealthy today she's rich she kicks herself gonna add 10 kids supported 20 kids today but at that moment in time she was poor at that moment in time she made a quick decision which quested her entire life immature quality and inner peace she lives with a day in and day out we have to remember that all our decisions either will yield us will yield us to be a mother of a physical giant or a mother of a spiritual giant we have to remember that our goal in life always is to be that mother of a spiritual giant or that father of a spiritual giant and every decision we make we have to think down the line what is it gonna mean what is it gonna mean for our children was it gonna be for our spouse wasn't gonna mean for our community what is it gonna mean and then we will have a much more focused decision Cibola cetera comes to tell us remember those seconds remember that individual that missed the plane by a second he'll tell you what it's all about one second how can make such a big difference in a person's life we should be so good at this Kabbalah cetera when we stay up all night we should remember the custom of work I have any chorus it's all your rais'd we have to make that decision it's a one night decision we have to make that decision that that night we're up and we're learning because at the end of the day that could make all the difference in the world for the Eternity that we're going to have so with that Shems help let's get here we'll get here on time we'll study hard and busy other symbols will be Zeta to have the right effect and the proper learning for the night of Shabbos I mean [Music] [Applause]