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Why “Working Harder” Doesn’t Always Pay More - Rabbi Avi Slansky

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Baram we wrap up another incredible week of learning five minutes of in a day with the incredible incredible bas over here and we begin the sixth chapter. Now, this chapter is going to segue in from the world of theoretical and we're going to introduce perhaps the most difficult ingredient in the equation which is because until you actually have to get up and work when we're sitting and we're discussing lofty incredible ideas, don't let people bother you. Don't be afraid of other people. Realize that God is that puppeteer pulling the strings. It all sounds so nice and fluffy. Don't pounce on the rock that's thrown at you. Don't be that foolish dog, but rather go back and see where it all comes from in our minds, in our It sounds so beautiful. But then comes the practical world. Then comes the world of Ishtados comes the world of working of making money of parnasa of the difficult lives sometimes that we live with big bills and all of a sudden it gets very murky gets very unclear how much should I work what should I be doing what's my attitude and with that question we begin the sixth chapter that the basis teaches us and we'll read a few of his words. Similarly, a complete segue from that which we were talking about is when it comes to our misin when it comes to our sustenance comes to our bank accounts. When it comes to making money, the exact same item applies. does not help at all. Does not help one little bit to get more than that which Hashem decreed one should have. And he proves this from the man. And he continues and he says that the was not help at all. Not the slightest bit to get a little bit more. And the footnotes over here of David Satan does such a magnificent job in playing out this detail. And I'm going to begin with footnote number 20. And let's play out the following scene. We're sitting in a midbar taken care of by God literally living from him. Every morning we go out, there's mud on the ground. We collect from our for our families and we go back. And I can imagine there were people that probably woke up one day and looked outside and said, "Hey, why do I have to go out every day and collect the money? Let me just take extra." Or maybe there was a time that one felt it's just extra sitting here so let me gather a little bit more. And he explains on the bottom over here incredibly there was so much mud on the ground the medish when you turn over to page 16 in the footnotes explains the medish the yalut that there was a tremendous amount of mun much more than was necessary. And imagine you go out and you collect out one portion, five portions, 10 portions. You come home, you unload your mun, you load up your cabinets, and guess what? There's the exact amount for one portion per family member. Strange magic. WHAT JUST HAPPENED? And imagine the next day, you, your wife, your two kids, you get four portions. You go out, you take eight, you take 12, you come back with bag fulls of mun, you unload it into the cabinet. Lo and behold, the exact same four portions are there. Cesar of David Satan. These are the words of the Bi. The man is there to teach us ley for eternity that Hashem provides us perfectly precisely that which we need. We could sit there and say, "BUT IF I WORK EXTRA, IF I TRY TO DO THIS, IF I TRY TO DO THAT, I'M GOING TO PUSH, I'm going to squeeze, I'll make more." Says Hashem, "What you're doing is a waste of time. It's completely feudal." Of course, we don't live in the open miracle world like the midbar in which it was so obvious that you walk home and you open your cabinet and it's the same four portions. But let us start to realize Hashem is ger decrees how much we will make irregardless. So of course we have to do the we have to work and it's difficult and it's hard. We have to realize and remind ourselves that whatever is going to be in our bank account at the end of the day is going to be exactly not a dollar more or a penny less than God decreed we should Have