Disciples of Avraham vs Disciples of Bilaam

the Disciples of abam enjoy the fruits of their deeds in this world and inherit the world to come but the Disciples of they inherit G and they descend into The Well of Destruction as it says in a p in and you oh God shall lower them into the well of Destruction men of Bloodshed and deceit shall not live out half their days but as for me I will trust in you another question another question how is it thaton the donkey saw the angel but bam didn't see the angel why not why didn't the belam see the angel originally until after the fact the simple part of the answer is the same thing as we mentioned in the a person does not see the obligation in himself he sees everybody else's mistakes but for himself he only sees the good things you tell somebody listen you know really you have to work on your midot yeah but you know what kind of I do but you know what kind of this I do you know how much I gave you know I learned yesterday you know he mentions all the good things that he does I'm not asking you about I'm not saying you're not doing good things I'm not saying you're not doing good things I'm just saying you should work on such and such yeah but you know how I do this and you know how I do this you know how I do th I'm not saying you're not doing it I'm just telling you you should work on this one two three things this these few things no but you know how I do this this is a typical person why because the person does not want to address the negativity in himself because addressing the negativity hurts it bothers him that means that in reality he's not all that in reality she's not as much of a tadika as she thought she was yeah but you know how much I Reta every day yes you Rim but you tell everybody you R yes you invite guests but it's only because you want to show them how good of a cook you are yes you you you you do a few good things but you don't stop saying I'm not saying you don't do good you do good things just I'm just saying stop the bad too like people think that they can do bad because they do enough good to fix it and that is one of the first differences between the students of bam and the students of abam the Mish here in a tells us that there's three midot that the students of have and that is they have a good eye a humble Spirit an undemanding Soul whereas the of have an evil eye our arrogant Spirit a greedy Soul horrible horrible people this would have been enough had the mishna ended here but the mishna continues and it says for it says after we've learned the three midot that each one of them have that's the opposite still the Mish repeats it again and says yeah but what's the difference what's the difference between the two we just went over it one has a good eye the other one has evil eye one is humble the other one's arrogant isn't that why you asking again it gives more details it says how are the discip IES of Abu different from the Disciples of bam now we're not talking about abam we're talking about the disciples the Disciples of abam enjoy the fruits of their deeds in this world and inherit the world to come as it says in Proverbs to those who to those who love me to inherit an everlasting possession which means the world to come and I will fill their storehouses which means the reward in this world but the disciples of B they inherit G and they descend into The Well of Destruction as it says in a p inim and you oh God shall lower them into the well of Destruction men of Bloodshed and deceit shall not live out half their days but as for me I will trust in you so first and foremost we see something very unusual the mishna gives us details of the differences the clear differences between two where they literally have the opposite midot good eye evil eye humble arrogant undemanding Soul a person that's greedy but yeah it says what's the difference what's the difference what's the secret here the secret here the mishna is trying to teach us is that there are many discip IES of bam they look exactly like the Disciples of ab again there are many disciples of bam but if you look at them from the outside wow mhe why it's not the same one it's not not looks like him though he looks like him meaning that the mishna here is telling us looks can be deceiving bam was 100% convinced he was a sadik we saw it from theim he saw nothing wrong with his actions he saw nothing wrong with the fact that he's going to curse aem's firstborn child he saw nothing wrong with the fact that he was married to a donkey he saw nothing wrong with the fact that he was considered a rash in every way shape or form that he was the most materialistic person that ever lived he saw nothing wrong with it in fact he saw the opposite he said me I'm a sadik I'm a prophet I talk to God look at the power my mouth has I talk to God so Hashem says Ah you think because you talk to me that makes you sadik even your donkey is going to talk to me that doesn't make the donkey sadik the donkey is going to talk to me does it make it a sadik no Hashem showed us that just because somebody was gifted certain things doesn't mean anything Hashem can give those same things to anyone he gave the present of Prophecy to Bam to use it for good he used it for bad so he showed him don't think that the gift that I gave you automatically makes you good because I gave the same gift to your donkey even a donkey could talk to me sometimes a person thinks that just because he looks a certain way or his father's a rabbi or his uncle's a rabbi or his great great great great grandfather is the rambam or something like that by the way you should know anyone that's Jewish from birth is related to some big Rabbi why because we're all related originally to one of theim one of the 12 tribes could be y it could beamin y it could be what all of us are related to some someone huge so don't make it a big deal oh no my grandfather he wrote a book okay a lot of people my grandfather also wrote a book my great-grandfather also went to mount sa like does that make me anything no doesn't make a person will live or die with his own actions so bam unfortunately for him did not take this to heart and he thought that because Hashem gave him this gift he could do whatever he wants he could do whatever he wants to such an extent that he could go after every desire that he had because sometimes hasm gives people he gives them wisdom to think go I don't have to study as much as you I only have to study a half hour a day you have to study three four five six seven hours why cuz I remember every that photographic memory I only have to study a half hour and I remember more than you and as we talked about in previous sh sometimes hasem gives this this uh special gift to people of memory or of some type of they're just smart they have a higher IQ than other people but if those people don't use that special gift the right way Hashem will take it away they may continue having that great memory but if they don't develop good studying skills then what ends up happening is that all they do is spend their time showing off to people that they can remember a phone book there was one guy I remember in a lecture by R he told a story about him he met him one time there was a guy that was gifted this photographic memory that literally you can remember like things like uh like better than a computer and the guy remembered an entire phone book all the numbers all the addresses all the phone numbers of every single person an entire phone book now that's cool when you're 15 years old and you're in public school and you want to impress the girls or something but when you're 50 years old 60 years old you're already 50% of the way if not more on your way out of this world and you have nothing to show for it what are you gon to go up to sh say I remember the phone book by the waym can you get me to G why I I remember the phone book Hashem says I gave you a memory so you can remember the entire Torah you remember a phone book you I gave you a gift and not only you didn't use the gift you used it against me I gave you money and you went gambling with it I gave you money and you went and you bought drugs with it I gave you a wife and what' you do you cheated on her why it was enough for you one wife you want a second one too I gave you kids and you didn't take them to Yesa you took them to public school why oh Yesa is too expensive I gave you all these gifts and what' you do use it against me so Hashem gives all of us gifts for that we're supposed to say thank you but saying thank you in words is only 10% of the battle the other 90% is saying thank you in actions doing something about it [Music] amen