Ten Minutes of Meaning (Part 186): Don't Flex - Mesillas Yesharim

good morning welcome back to 10 minutes of meeting please help yourself to coffee and donuts as always a big thank you to our Anonymous sponsors we remain very very great philosophy reminder this mote shab is 8 30 here Rabbi pay sakur on the great Magid it will inspire us all 8 30 malava malka here this emote say Shabbos also Sunday at 4 P.M we're celebrating our brand new newly renovated men's and Mick and women's Mick Vose we're in the 22nd chapter Michelle has been helping inspire us chart our course to a better version of ourselves through mindfulness and alacrity and Zeal purging our negative qualities and pursuing and making resolutions to achieve our most positive ones really finally transforming ourselves into better versions of ourselves and here in Paris been describing the media of another the quality of humility humility is not thinking less of ourselves it's thinking of ourselves less it's not denying what we're good at our talents and skills and strengths it's recognizing they are on loan from Hashem they're never part of our permanent collection we should never grow arrogant because we have them has given us several examples wisdom smart you're born with a great IQ you have an incredible impeccable memory you're going to swell with pride you're going to be arrogant that's not anything you did or you achieved that's nothing you should be prideful for that's a gift you were given you are graciously given that by Hashem person is intelligent by Nature who naturally knows more than others because bone and if you look and you think yira you'll see Shane makum Lage nasus what are you going to grow arrogant you know sometimes you see people they um right sometimes people grow arrogant they're driving a nice car they're wearing nice clothing you're arrogant because you have you bought you bought it with money you didn't design it you didn't weave it you didn't make it you didn't manufacture it you're gonna grow arrogant because of that person is more than others if you were given a great IQ if you were given a great memory if you were given great analytic ability or wisdom you're going to be arrogant what did you do to achieve that that's your job those are the tools that you were given that's who you are if a bird flies is the bird going to walk around and say look at me I have lift I fly yeah that's your job you have wings that's how you're supposed to get around that's what you do you fly you fly fisherman and when the ox is able to pull or drag something heavy is the ox gonna like Flex like you just scored a touchdown or sacked the quarterback that's a job there's a fundamental difference between baseball and football I don't like it that it started to seep into baseball I'm a traditionalist I'm a purist baseball you don't celebrate you hit a home run put your head down you run around the bases yeah that's your job that's why you get paid like a billion dollars a game an inning because your job is to take all those steroids and hit the ball out of the park that's your job that's your job in football a guy who's done nothing the entire season sacks the quarterback once he dances the kazatsuka like he just solved the cancer he's just a world peace that's your job just calm cool and collect Look Away you look down that's your job just run around the bases you made a diving catch you get up you throw the ball back to the infield and you you take your position that's your job so the oh the the bird is supposed to fly and the ox is supposed to be strong in the oxygen every time it's going to flex every time it pulls uh it pulls the the plow that's its job so you're brilliant you have a brilliant IQ you have a brilliant memory you got a full head of hair don't make the rest of us feel bad but you gotta full at it you're gonna walk around and flex all day look at my look at my Mane look at my full head what did you do to achieve that full letter hair either you spend money on plugs you shouldn't be showing off or you were born and gifted a full head of hair what did you do to achieve that you did nothing special someone else had the full head of hair you would have done nothing special they'd have it too someone else's brilliant had an incredible memory or intellect they would be just as smart as you you've done nothing special in Kane Ain't countlessness you're gonna Flex you're gonna swell with pride you're gonna show off you're gonna feel Superior to others what did you do you know the fact that you were born with a superior IQ or intellect that you have a great memory that doesn't in fact that shouldn't give you Pride what gives you is responsibility what it gives you is a sense of obligation and Duty what are you going to use it for what are you going to achieve how are you going to better the world how are you going to share it how are you going to improve others if you learned a lot of Torah what are you gonna Flex you learn the Torah you're going to be filled with pride yeah that's your job you were given a brain you're given the zits flesh to sit and learn you were given the memory to remember you were given the asmada to review that's your job so you're going to swell with pride you're going to show off you're going to feel Superior because you learned some say repunctuate learn the Mishra differently a toxic Tova this Tova that's good that you've learned a lot of Torah don't keep Allah share it with others it doesn't mean don't be prideful because you learned a lot of Torah that's your job it means if you learned a lot of Torah the purpose of your learning Torah is to teach to share to demonstrate to model the character that's why you were created learn so you could do learn so you could live learn so that you could share emotions if you've been gifted and granted wealth you're going to be Pride I have to tell you I see deal with a lot of people as a rabbi as a RAV and you see two people they have the same IQ they have the same background they have the same educational opportunities much of them overlaps much as similar they've made the same effort they take the same initiative one breaks out everything it turns touches to Gold Hashem has tremendous success the other despite having the same intelligence and the same education and taking the same initiative and having the same work ethic and the same initiative and same effort comes up short is struggling struggling to break out why what's the difference between them for whatever reason our coach Barclay decided a difference I don't know why some of Muslims some have less muscle decides who gets what so the one who has shouldn't look at the one who didn't break out and feel proud gonna feel Superior gonna feel arrogant gonna feel better you won the lottery you were lucky yes you made effort yes you took initiative you should be proud of the effort and the initiative it's the famous run the Joshua Saran he says how could we say person shouldn't say it wasn't my strength it wasn't my intellect it wasn't my initiative that brought this Result One this is Iran but you didn't sit home on the couch you weren't lazy and did nothing if you're an Austria it's because you worked hard maybe you worked hard in school maybe you worked hard at your job maybe you had ambition and drive why couldn't you be proud so the Ron says not the paslak it doesn't say you're not allowed to recognize your effort it says well you have to realize you realize that potential you made the effort and did the work but who gave you the talent and skill who gave you the energy and wisdom who gave you the ability to take the initiative so what we do with the kawach that we can be proud of but we should recognize that our talents our skills our gifts that are always on loan they're never part of our permanent collection they could disappear at any moment whatever gift we've been given that we're trying to utilize they could disappear at any moment they're never ours we never own them they are alone they're never part of our apartment collection so if you're an usher be grateful be happy so many others have the same background the same education the same intellectic the same initiative you are lucky you became an usher you're going to be proud prideful don't be proud don't feel better be grateful be happy with what you have and now use it to improve and to help others Allah if you're strong if you're mighty if you're in a position of strength use that to help the weaker use that to help the vulnerable use that to help others the housekeeper is going to like show off and flex with the broom and the map look at me I'm in charge of the house and I quit that's a job everybody's been given a job that's your job financial advisor should Flex I got the password the account I determine the Investments look at it's not your money that's your job so similarly with us whatever we are the steward of whatever we are the advisor for whatever we've been gifted and granted to try to use for the betterment of the world that's on loan from Hashem there's no reason to ever be filled with pride it's no reason to ever feel Superior or arrogant to another so another humility is not to deny what we have it's not to deny who we are it's not to deny the talents and skills we've been given it's to feel a sense of Duty and obligation a sense of responsibility with them never to feel arrogant from them have a fantastic day we continue with living with them when at 8 45. tonight we're going behind the bema with the great Abe Rottenberg sorry I just realized we went