Parashat Bo Humble Yourself

mosenu comes to and he says to him so Hashem the god of the Jews said until when will you refuse to be humbled before me here we see obviously that uh par is not just an arrogant person but par is simply refuses to change even though he sees the wrath of God pouring upon him now as much as we could talk about the different details what I wanted to discuss is really to look at your own life look at the life of other people that are not exactly going well and if you look close enough it's usually almost everyone that you know the only people that typically have fulfilling lives are the ones that are glued to Hashem glued to his Torah and are constantly making the Torah a permanent part of their life where it's not just something that are delving into like womanizers like the says in the name of a person that delves into the Torah occasionally you know one day here one day there he's like a womanizer today has a date with that one tomorrow he has a date with that one he doesn't want to settle down that's a person that delves into Torah in a in such a fashion where it's just whenever he has a chance or he has nothing else to do so you have obviously many people out there among our nation that are in such a status where they're either delving into the Torah occasionally or not at all and living secular lives even if they have a keeper bigger than mine some many of them are living Liv secular lives and people have the wrong ideology and when you look closer into their lives you see how much they're suffering not necessarily because the people that learn to non-stop don't have suffering I mean it's simply a person that sees my hand broken in two bones sees that this is not exactly a a pleasing experience but nonetheless when a person is cleaving to hasem when he's glued to Hashem there's no the suffering becomes a choice yes this hurts but to suffer from it is something that is part of your mentality if you don't know why it happened if you don't know who did it when you have an answer for everything that happens in your life when you have a source for all the blessings and what doesn't look like a blessing you know where the source is and that source is always your father in Heaven that loves you dearly and only wants the best from you even when you break a couple of bones in a strange way you bless hem and thank him because you know that this too is good for you and thank you very much for causing me pain non-stop for the last couple of weeks why because you know it's good for you now a person that's glued to hem can easily understand and say of course this is what we do all the time what do you mean a person that's not glued to hasem it says are you insane what do you mean how could you be happy about breaking bones how could you be happy about being in how can you be happy about not being you know the richest man in the world how can you not be happy about anything that's missing and that's the problem when a person is not glued to AEM they simply put themselves in a state of suffering by choice and that's why when I told you if you look closely at most people most people are suffering how much they're suffering depends on how much they lack belief in hasem and generally speaking when you start seeing people you see that they're degrees of suffering never stays the same where it starts one way there's a broken bone there's a flat tire there's a lost job there's uh a uh lost money there's all types of Horrors that happen in the world and you see that little by little the suffering increases and gets worse and worse and worse Course once in a while it seems like it takes a break but then it catches up as if the break never existed and unless the person changes their behavior that suffering just simply continues to flourish in their life and literally be like a black cloud among their life their marriage exists but only out of convenience their their their Parenthood exists only because they already had them their job is there but only because they need to make a living whatever they have it's simply just there and many times people live such a life where every day is just you know an opportunity to consume as much time in order to pass the day and survive it just to see the same or worse tomorrow and you see many times the lives of many people are horrible and actually the says that most of a person's life is is not going to be the joy and happiness you know you're going to have places of Joy the joy of having a child or getting married uh you know benefiting in some way or another profiting in somewhere or another sure those things exist but without Torah there is simply no happiness and all of the things that a person gets Joy from are generally temporary therefore most most of their life is simply suffering and when a person does not know the source of all good when a person does not know how to appreciate good what ends up happening is that they literally live a life of suffering and they don't really understand why but they hope for better times that generally never come unless they change themselves sounds like a lot of people in a way where mosu tells him how long is it going to be how long will you refuse to be humbled before God meaning that how long are you going to elect to get more and more suffering because the choice is yours if you humble yourself before God you make God your priority number one in life priority above your wife your husband your children your job your everything until then you're simply going to suffer not only because of the different wakeup calls that Hashem sends you but also because you're not going to know how to be happy and Par is given that same sentence he obviously doesn't wake up but do you see the same types of things happening in your life in your friends life in your parents life your kids' lives where you see that there are things is happening and they're just not changing they're wait waiting for the times to change you know like the false ideology of you know time heal all heals all wounds it's not really true it doesn't heal all wounds perhaps it makes you forget perhaps it's a becomes a distant memory but it doesn't necessarily heal when a person sees that they're losing money they're losing a or a marriage Shalom or they're losing a different uh good blessings that they had this is AEM speaking to them and telling them I want you to do chuba but a person is not naturally going to Humble themselves and say no no I lost the job not because of hem I lost a job because I woke up late I lost the job not because of uh I'm not religious enough I lost the job because I didn't call my C customers back I the marriage didn't work out not because we weren't close to hasem and observing to it wasn't it's not that it's that the marriage didn't work out because we just were two different people as if any couple are the same every couple is two different people but you're going to rationalize that your marriage didn't work why because you're two different people and the same exact logic warped logic is apply to everything andu is telling us stop being like how long is it going to be before you humble yourself and realize that all of your troubles are coming from a single Source it's coming from hasem trying to wake you up and letting you know I want you to get closer to me how much closer much closer much closer what do I do after get much closer get even closer and after that even more and more and more to the point where you're literally glued to Hashem that you think about Hashem even when you do business you think about Hashem even when you're with your kids you think about hasem at all times you're constantly learning as to you're constantly looking for MIT you're constantly looking for opportunities to do things that are connected to Hashem and if you don't see a connection you create a connection why because you can't see anything that doesn't have AEM in it now par did not want to see AEM why because to see AEM means that he has to admit that his whole life was one big falsehood and this is the same trouble that many people have whether they're coming from different religions and they realize that their falsity and Islam and Buddhism and every reform uh and all types of other sects and Cults even when they call themselves Judaism but in reality they're nothing like Judaism with it's Messianic or reform or conservative or open Orthodoxy close Orthodoxy all this nonsense that people have obviously there's one truth not multiple truths and Hashem is constantly giving us signs I want you to come to the truth and the biggest difficulty that many people have is humbling themselves to admit I was wrong we are meant to be a light unto the nation s not to follow their misguided practices remember every Jew has to remember that he's a Jew and she's a Jew we don't celebrate non-jewish holidays even if they seem harmless it's a zul disrespect to the Torah and could lead to CH Hashem desecration of God's name stick to our holy tah and our own holidays that's the path of a true Jew