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The question is, what's better to give
or to get?
In life, you have that option on a
constant basis. I would like to suggest
that to give is better than getting. And
we know this from the Hebrew word of
giving. What's the Hebrew word for
giving? It's the word natan.
Natan is a palindrome, [music]
which means it's spelled the same way
backwards and forwards in Hebrew and
English actually. Nun tav nun.
Nun tav nun. n a t a n n a t a n. What
is this coming to teach us? That in
essence, when you give,
you get. We see this in the Torah. If
they not knew and they gave, it's also a
palindrome. It's spelled backwards and
forwards. Cuz when you give, you get.
The more you give, the more you get. And
we see this with other words that are
palindromes that are spelled backwards
and forwards. The word for words in
Hebrew is milim. Mem yud lamed yud mem.
Mem yud lamed yud mem. Backwards and
forwards. You know why? Cuz the words
that you use towards other people are
the words people are going to be using
towards you. And that means [music] What
that means is that if you are positive,
you say good things, people are going to
say good things about you. God forbid
the person is negative and he berates
and he puts people down, those exact
actions will happen [music] back to you
as well.
We see also with parents. The Hebrew
word for a father is abba.
And for mother is ima. Both are spelled
backwards and forwards as well. Aleph
bet aleph aleph mem mem aleph. Backwards
and forwards. Also in English as well,
interestingly enough. d a d is dad. d a
d backwards is dad.
>> [music]
>> Mom is m o m. Mom backwards is m o m.
Maybe what we can learn from this is
that the way we treat our parents
[music] is the way our children are
going to treat us. That's why dad and
mom are spelled backwards and forwards
as well. Abba and ima. Abba and ima.
This is the lesson that we should all
take to heart. Because what happens to
us, the way we act, is the way it's
going to come back to us. Uh
What is this coming to teach us? Middah
k'neged middah. Measure for measure. The
way we act down here is the way it's
going to be up there as well. It says da
you should know male male what's above
you mean is from you the way you act is
the way it's going to be up there as
well. So as much as possible we're
mirror image things that we do will be
affected back to us as well. I shall see
God is your shadow the way we act is the
way God will be back to us as well. I
need you to do what I need we have to be
the first ones to love our beloved and
then beloved will love us as well.
>> [music]
>> So we have to make the actions first
and when you do so as it is
only here but so that good only humans
