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people are interested in quick fixes
quick fixes for their life stroubles
whether it's quick fix for monetary
problems quick fix for relationship
problems quick fix for all these things
so we have a
par that's the weekly Torah portion that
talks about a lot of different things
one of them most famously known as the
golden calf so how we going to connect
it to we're going to connect it to B and
give you guys some quick fixes through
your life
if you simply listen carefully you're
going to get a lot of quick fixes quick
fixes that uh can transform your life uh
into uh literally a heaven heaven on
this uh on this Earth but those that
don't listen those that log off those
that uh you know make it like background
music you're not going to benefit out of
it so we have in the beginning of the
par beginning
of a uh one of the things that we
implemented in porm which is the now the
whole concept of giving this specific
amount of money uh we learned from there
that Hashem doesn't necessarily always
want the rich people to be the ones that
stand out when it comes to charity uh so
this specific no matter how rich or poor
person
is that it says the verse says in
Chapter 30 ver1 15 in Exodus the wealthy
will not increase and the destitute
shall not decrease from the half a
shekele meaning this is a specific
mitvah that hasem instituted that he
wants everybody to give the same exact
amount but even more than that we learn
that uh this the whole purpose behind
this Mitzvah was for the sake of uh
doing a census counting how many Jews
there are in the desert how many Jews
hashem's chosen people are there uh
which uh were actually being warned not
to count Jews uh and this is uh a
something specific that hasem himself
says it's against the evil eye now if
you would say that somebody would do
something specific if he's counting his
money a lot if he's uh doing all these
different things that uh telling people
about how successful he is she tells
about people how great our husband is
and all of a sudden they see an evil eye
from people and they see that their
their luck is turned okay I could
understand that you know evil eye is
very much a real thing and it affects
people that's why you shouldn't
necessarily talk so much about your life
to people even though that's the number
one topic of conversation aside from
talking about other people's lives
that's what people like to talk about
which as I always say talking about
other people's lives is the lowest form
of conversation reason why is because it
simply shows that you have no brain in
your head that you can't talk about
anything intellectual so people like to
talk about other people's lives what
celebrities do how much uh money they
make where they went and in essence
people try to live through other
people's lives vicariously to other
people's lives which in essence shows
that there's nothing in their brain but
at the same token people also like to
talk about their own life oh I went here
I went there this is really the whole
concept of social media is built off of
that people show what they eat where
they went how they act what they wear
and everyone that is old enough mature
enough knows that the whole thing is an
illusion nobody lives like that nobody
really acts like that nobody really
talks like that but it's all a show so
we've all in essence agreed
to live this showbo type of life in
order to be part of this social media
the Torah tells us otherwise the Torah
tells us that if you're going to do that
you're going to bring a bad bad fortune
upon yourself in fact even if you are
counting something that's good like
you're counting righteous people you're
counting good people it's still
something you should be very careful in
and therefore a person has to do it in a
specific manner so if someone goes to
synagogue and they want to count to make
sure that they have at least 10 people
that are uh Torah observant so they
could have a minan they don't count the
people they count uh the shoes they
count uh the shirts they count something
that is a not a person uh in order not
to bring bad luck and this is something
that even Hashem himself uh says that he
wants us to do why would Hashem need to
do this I mean he is God he's not
limited he's not subject to bad
fortune he's not doing it he's not
telling us to do it because he is
subject to bad fortune but rather
because we are since we're doing the
counting there is rules in the world
that Hashem instituted you know you have
the physical rules such as gravity and
all the physics that's out there but you
also have the spiritual rules and some
of these rules are things that a person
needs to know about the first and
foremost is don't count specific things
on a regular basis if you must count in
order to make sure to make a payment no
problem if you must count in order to
make sure that you're precise on some
typee of measurement no problem but what
people do often is that when they like
something when something is important to
them they count it over and over again
almost like an obsessive type of thing
and that in itself brings bad fortune on
a person so it's important for a person
to avoid
that
