5787- What Am I Doing Here?

What does it mean that What does it mean he was old? Does it simply mean that he was physically old, that he had lived many years on this land? Does it simply mean that he had gone ahead and lived to a ripe old age? What does it mean Why is the Torah pointing out to us? What is it letting us know about what it really means to have proper in the eyes of the Torah? And what does the Torah mean when it adds on these words He's a That means he's old. What does it mean He's coming with his days. Based on the The says what is a A person is a meaning a doesn't mean how long you've lived on this on the earth, but a The person that went ahead and was It doesn't either mean a person is very smart. It doesn't either mean that a person has has a lot of life experience and therefore because of his old age Says the It's not about the amount of years that you've lived. It's not about how old you are. It's not about the age that it says in your passport. Rather, what does it mean to be a What does it mean to be is like the says. is eyes in his head. What does that mean? His eyes are in his head. Says the You know what it means to be a You know what it means to be that your eyes are on the means your eyes are on your your root, your head, where you come from, the source of where you come from. This is the of what it means to be smart. Not how much you're financially smart, not how much you're book smart or street smart. Smart means A person is able to figure out where do I come from? Why am I in this world? was sent down from the down to this world for a mission, for a purpose, for something for me to go ahead and accomplish. is which means his eyes are in the eyes are Where do I come from and why was I sent down here? To recognize that there's a There was somebody that sent me here for a specific purpose. Says this is the word the idea of a getting the label of being smart means and again the beautiful words of the A person needs to figure out Where do I come from? Why was I sent into this world To recognize I was sent down here for a purpose, for a reason. And then through this a person's able to remember the days before he came down to this world, which doesn't mean that a person's able to go ahead and live an out-of-body experience, to remember what took place before the came down to the world in a physical way, but it means that I realize where I came from. I'm able to go go ahead and look at the before I was born. Where do I come from? Why was I sent down here? What is the purpose? What mission am I on that the sent my down here? I'm able to go ahead and look beyond, look before the before my coming into the world to recognize what was the purpose, what was I sent in. And that's how you're called old. You could be 20 or 30 years old, you could be 15 years old. It doesn't matter. Old means that you have the capability to be able to look before at the time before you came down to this world, at the moment before you were sent in to try to figure out what was the intent in sending me down. Why did he send my down from that place of to come all the way down here? If you're able to do that, that means you're old because you're able to look at You're able to look at days that were here before you came down to the world. You're able to go ahead and have a far-reaching vision, not just to see the day in front of you, but to be able to figure out why do I have the day in front of me? What is my goal? What is my mission? What talents has Hashem given me? What challenges has Hashem given me in order to allow me to accomplish the goal that my Neshama was sent down to this world. And that's what it means to Avraham Zaken. It's not about the age that he was, not about the age that he reached. It's about the fact that he was able to be that he was He looked at the shores. He looked at the root. He looked at the moment before he got sent down and tried to figure out why was I sent down. What is my goal? What is my role? What is my purpose in being sent down to this world? Beginning of the Parsha. This is what it means to really be Baba Yomi doesn't mean just mean that he reached an old age, that he had many days. Baba Yomi means that he came with his days. Based on our result that every single day, every single day since the beginning of creation until the end of time is a brand new day that has and contains within it its own individual mission for each and every person and each every creation on this world. Baba Yomi means that both Avraham and he says the same thing about Sarah Imenu, were capable of figuring out every day what is my mission? What is my job? What am I sent here for? And my mission today may not be the same mission that I was here for 6 months ago or I'm going to be on 6 months. But a Zaken means somebody who's able to go ahead and to recognize what my goal is, what my purpose is, to be able to see and to be able to recognize my Avodah in each and every moment that I'm here down in this world. And that's what it means. He's a Zaken and he's able to be The Sefas Emes in adds one based on last week's Parsha, last week's Parsha, which gives us an unbelievable insight into the way that a Yid is supposed to wake up in order to be a Zaken and a Baba Yomi. Not just to be a Zaken to figure out in general what my mission is, but to figure out today, to figure out for the moment in front of me, what does Hashem want for me? What is my mission? What is my goal? What should I What should I be doing? What mission has the has the one the sent me on right now to accomplish? How does a person be a Zaken Baba Yomi? a beautiful in the that we laid in the last week's Parsha. went ahead Avraham Imenu woke up and where did he go? He He to the place that he had stood, which Rashi says means the place that he had stood previously and daven. He went He went Means that he went to the place where his was standing before it came down to this world. But says this that doesn't just mean the place that it was standing before he ever came down to this world, but it also means the place where it was standing last night when my went back up. Every night our go ahead and go up to and they go ahead and they're given a new mission for the next day. If the sent me into this world today that means he has and he sent me on a unique mission that I'm supposed to be involved in today. Whether it's being patient, whether it's talking to somebody, helping somebody, learning, davening, trying to go ahead and ensure that my eyes and my mouth are going ahead and seeing and speaking and hearing the proper things, but sent me on a mission and he has a mission for me today. Says this Avraham Avinu woke up in the morning and where did he go? He went He tried to go and have to figure out what was the moment that I was standing before the last night, what it looked like when I stood before the covered and the said one more day Avraham Avinu, I'm sending you down to this world in order to go and have to serve the one more day. What was my mission? What was my goal? What by sending me down into this world? Avraham Avinu woke up in the morning and asked himself what is that What is that place? What is that mission that sending me on today that I can ensure that I'm able to be because means means And the only way to do that in a proper way, not just as a life's mission but as a daily mission, is to figure out how to be a to wake up in the morning to say I'm on a mission, I'm here to do something. Hashem sent me back into this world again today. It wasn't just random. I'm not living today because I lived yesterday. Every day the goes ahead and sends my back down. I can wake up in the morning and say I'm here on a mission and I want to recognize what that mission is. When I'm able to go ahead and to look at that place of the to be a real to look at the moment before was ever sent down to this world, to look at the moment last night, why was sent down to this world. And obviously it's impossible for any of us to ever figure out this is my mission, this is why I was sent down here. But at least to ask ourselves the question. Like the is somebody who's able to ask himself, where am I coming from and why was I sent here? Just the very fact that we can ask ourselves the question, what was probably the decision that to send me back down? What can I find? What moment in front of me can I find today that will help me uncover and discover that perhaps this is the moment why was sent down into this world today. When we can ask ourselves the question and have our eyes and ears open to try to find our mission, to try to find our moment in the day, to try to find our mission in our life, then we're able to be a real should help us to become old very quickly. Not old in a negative way, not old to become stale, but to become old by being capable of looking beyond just the moment in front of us. To be able to look back at last night when we stood before the and at the moment before to try to uncover and discover and figure out what is my mission, what are my strengths, what are my weaknesses, what are the challenges, what was what situation have have I gone ahead and been put in in order to allow me to figure out how can I serve the in the best way possible today. should help that by doing that, by asking ourselves, by being a real to ask ourselves my where am I coming from and why was I sent here? to use each and every moment, each and every day and to utilize our lifetimes in the proper way and to be able to come back to the to come back to the the one who sent us here. After 120 and say your mission. The came back to came back to Abraham Avinu and said I was your mission. says in other places our job is to go ahead and to be a as well and to come back to the and tell them we were your mission. We asked ourselves the question, we tried to search and find and uncover our mission here in this world. Have a great