Being Comfortable With Being Uncomfortable

me then, and remains with me now, but I also have the Torah of now. So, it's not like what I learned then, but now. No, what I learned then was a truth. That's that a three-year-old learns Torah, and you teach Torah to a three-year-old, and it makes an impression, and he absorbs things. But, I also want to learn it as a 10, as an 18-year-old, as a 28-year-old, as a 48-year-old. So, it's not like, oh, it was wrong. Well, it wasn't wrong at all what I learned then, not at all. My absorption of Torah, if it would be wrong, then we should just not teach little kids and wait till you're older. It's not like that. What we learn when we were little is very, very right, and very real. The pro- It's not a problem to have a two-year-old view of Torah. I think you should have a two-year-old. You should also have a 20-year-old view of Torah. The two-year-old thing we saw, and the six-year-old, and eight-year-old, it has to be that way. Hashem, we're learning Hashem's Torah, and it leaves an impression, and it moves us, it talks to us, and then we study it again, and we see different layers, different levels. But, it's very, very hard to like update, not to just see what we saw, to like be willing to see it new, to see it fresh, to see it with a fresh eyes is is a challenge. I want to I want to study I want to ask you guys really without an agenda. Something that like caught my attention a lot this year in Parshas Lech Lecha, as I'm studying the Parsha of Lech Lecha, and something caught my eye a lot. It's like hitting me, and it's such an interesting thing to say to a tzaddik. The Bardichever talks about it. But, I don't want to tell you his terets. I want to learn it. And I want you to learn it. And I am actually like I think it's actually strange. And if somebody has a pshat, I'm very interested. Avraham Avinu's first nisayon of his life. Now, it's not his story, it's our story. He's our father. Every year has nisyonos. And the challenges of Avraham are are our story of our own Zionists. We all were My self is similar by name. What happens to the tattas part of our story? And Avram Avinu's first design is a difficult design and I'm not asking I want I want to say what I am asking you who do what I'm not asking. In the first design he's told to leave everything he's familiar with. Now that's a design. I don't ask I'm not big enough to say what's the big design. It's a huge design. To leave everything you're familiar with is crazy. It's three words. I want to think about this over Shabbos. There's many aspects to where we come. It's interesting the three designs are to go your land, my land where you were born, my base of your father's household. There's many aspects to the culture of where you come from. There's their own hug as the things you're used to. The guys will see when you get married and you experience a different seder for the first time in your life. It's like very overwhelming. It's like completely wrong. They don't know how to do a seder like really not. You're used to a certain thing. It's like what? Just not how to do it. It's just not. And to adjust to a new world, to leave the world you're familiar in is a massive design. It's a deeply challenging thing. It's It's It's murder to leave what I'm used to. To try something new. To be uncomfortable. To sit in something different. By the way, you could physically challenge and still not be willing to sit in the new thing. I remember going to Israel and I'm not talking about being uncomfortable for a day or a month. Talking about for a year or years being uncomfortable. I'm used to this. I'm not used to it. I I come from something different, different culture, different everything different. So, the Nissan of Lecha is wild to be open to something new. Arts I share a wreck I'm yet going to show you something. Something that's out of your experience, something you won't be used to. It's going to be something new. So, to tell somebody to try something new is very hard. I have found the Rebbe's Torah. In the summer you would we learn the Rebbe's Torah. One of the biggest thing I learned from it from the Rebbe from Geisler shlita. I when I hear things I don't know what's happening there I tend to run away. My whole life I called that like Machshava Chassidus and I ran away. You know bad that is you only like learning things you're comfortable familiar. I'm starting to learn Svarim that I'm very you'll hear the Reb Levi Yitzchak I don't know what he's talking but I'm not running away from it. Why would I only want to learn things that make sense to me? I want to expand a little bit. You know what you were going to say about Reb Geisler's Torah? I'm waiting to hear. I'm waiting to hear what Reb Levi was going to say about Reb Geisler's Torah. That what I see in him, what I see in Reb Geisler is the willingness to go to places that are hard to understand and he doesn't shy away and and if you go to those places so guys I don't understand. Okay, cuz so be a little uncomfortable. That's all part of Lecha. Go to the land where you're unfamiliar with. >> [snorts] >> Now, it doesn't mean but I don't understand it. I'm not doing so what do you want to leap of faith? No, I'm talking about to visit. Go check it out. See, hear, study. Tap into things that are after people hear a shear often they hear a mussar shear people run to the front to figure out that they're not that it doesn't contradict. I'm I'm doing it right. I'm there already. Maybe you're not. Be willing not to be. Be willing to be in unfamiliar territory. Be willing for that. Reb Geisler starts one of the great things that I've learned from him. Top of the list. I It's I've learned so much. It would be hard for me to say the top thing. It would be up there. I have a few things that I've gotten from the Rebbe that have been impactful my life. This is one of them, Yaakov. He goes to places that are scary. I don't know what Like what's happening. I read this I read this Shema. I don't know what he means always. And I my tendency is to run away. I don't want to go to the land I'll yet be seen. I want to stay where I'm familiar, where I know, where it's clear to me. You'll see Jackie in your learning experience. You could expand. You could learn something new, and new concepts, new ideas. You could be open to new worlds, to new vistas. His Torah is full of that. It's like And but you have to Yeah Yeah, you have to not be afraid to be a little unfamiliar at times. >> Uh-huh. That's That's I see he has the courage to go to unfamiliar places. And by the way, you end up expanding a lot in going to unfamiliar places. So, Lech Lecha is a wild sign. To anybody who say, "I don't get the sign of Lech Lecha." There's no question. If you don't get the sign of Lech Lecha, I don't know if you're living. We all are afraid of that which we're uncertain about. By the way, by the way, I'm very afraid of dogs. I'm very afraid of dogs. My whole life I was bitten by one when I was a kid. Took a chunk out of my leg. I came home gushing blood. I got stitches. My mother brought me to the to the doctor. I got stitches. And I didn't do anything where I ran by a house, a neighbor, very nice people, older couple. They took in a stray dog as a chesed. They took in a stray dog, good people. I'm not even I'm not even saying it cynically. That chesed is a chesed. They took in a stray dog. Rachamim al kol ma'asav. Hashem is kind to take in a straight dog. I'm only saying it's salty cuz he bit me that dog. When the dog they took in a dog, I was running home. What? I don't think so. I I can't say I wouldn't have been. It's hard to It's always hard to remake your life. Would I have been frightened of dogs? I could be. A lot of Yidden are afraid of dogs. I want to express what scares me about dogs cuz I don't understand them. I don't understand them. They're so weird. They're like and the owner's like he's friendly. It doesn't feel friendly to me. I mean honestly. I mean honestly. I want to say this the Josh the guys in Yeshiva a lot of guys are not afraid of dogs. I don't want to say they could be more courageous than me. You Have you seen this? The guys in Yeshiva Rocky Freeman years ago years ago we were middle of a football game and a dog ran on the field and almost tackled the Deutsch. He ran I kid you not. We were You got attacked by a dog? It's frightening. Now Rocky Freeman walked up to a crazy dog and wasn't afraid. And you know Shmuel Yakov, he understands dogs. They're predictable to him. I have seen guys here they handle with a dog. Are you good with dogs? I've seen lonely guys here. They can handle with a They can handle with a dog. They're not afraid like they know what they and they they know how to get the dog to respond like he makes sense to them. If I would learn it like that Nachum, if we would You know what I mean Avi? If we would learn the dog like some of the guys know the dog, so it's not scary. They know how to They know and they know what he's doing. When he does that they do and he responds. I've watched it. It's not Now to me is out of control the dog. He's crazy. So I can't handle him. He's so meshuga. He's so meshuga. It's interesting the Gemara Bava Kama said don't have a bad dog in the house. Don't have a bad dog in the house. So I was wondering what a bad dog is. He says a good dog. Every owner says their dog is a good dog. He's a good dog. Well behaved. She's well behaved. Like So I don't know the bad dog in the house. good dog if it's tiny. It has to be like you know I don't understand them but can't hurt me so like fine with them but tiny little what? It's his dog it's not yours. It's a bad dog. >> [laughter] >> That's very true. It means his dog don't have in your house. It means his dog don't have in your house. It's a great a great great you had a dog. You had a dog that you had a dog that somebody else has. Every I never met the guy who says I have the bad dog in my house. It says not to have a bad dog in your house. You had a dog that nobody thinks it's their dog. It always means the other guy's dog. You can never have the other guy's dog in your house. Your dog is he's a good dog. The bottom line is Josh is that if it's predictable and I understand that it's safe. New people are scary to us cuz I don't know what you're going to do. Predictability like I got you. I know where you're coming from. I know where you're coming. A guy once told me You had a guy once told me he was very upset at at a relative of his. So I said he's not evil he's just sick. So the guy got very mad at me. What's the difference in evil and sick? He got mad at me. He's not sick he's evil. So I told the guy that sick is predictable. Somebody's crazy it's predictable what they're going to do. Evil's unpredictable they're trying to hurt you. Said evil's unpredictable. The relative of yours you know what they're going to do. It's predictable. Their behavior you know what sets them off. So they're they're sick they're not evil. Said evil's unpredictable. So I don't know if I'm right. But, I do know that we like what we're comfortable with. Every human being likes what they're comfortable with. A new person's heart, I know what you're going to do. What are you going to say? What are When I understand somebody, we have like there's a predictability. The So, let the Nissan of Lech Lecha is a Nissan that Avraham Avinu is given. It's the Nissan. It's the first Nissan of Avraham Avinu's life. I have no right to say this. But, gosh, this is the most fundamental Nissan of every human being's life. Of leave that which is familiar. Expand. Expand. Enter into areas that are unknown to you. I used to watch Rabbi Sonnenschein, my friend Rabbi Sonnenschein. He would learn new things. He wasn't afraid to study new things. People love Yet, our little kids, you're going to see this in your own little children. You know your little kids going to want you to read this You read books to your children. Dovid, you're going to have a beautiful family, B'ezras Hashem. And you're going to want to read your son You're going to read books to your son. You know he's going to ask for the same book every night. We can we I like reading a book. Can we read a new book already? He wants the same book. The kid wants the same book because it's safe by him. He knows the next page. He knows what's going to happen. A new book is very scary. Could be a bad ending. This book he knows. He momish knows that everything works out well. A new book is very scary. Slowly, gently, gently. Very gently. You'll see. You'll see on your kids, Avraham, it's maddening cuz you want to like get to the new book already. Like, there's a lot of good The children's book, the ones who like it more than the adult loves it more than the kid. But, not the same book. And they want the same book. Can we I'm like, that book again? You try to hide it. And every adult, you end up hiding the familiar book. And by force, we get to read a new one. But, little kids want the same book cuz they want what's familiar. Adults do the same things. We have the tendencies to do the same things. We're afraid of that which is new. That which is unfamiliar, that which is very scary to us. I want to learn what's familiar to me. I have in Gemara, it's very interesting when you know a message and you open the page and it's your friend. It's very good schmuck. Like I know the page. It's familiar to me. It's like safe. Okay, then within that safety maybe I'll like think of a new Hadash like a new area maybe a little. I'm just safe there. You open that new page and it's like Sugyas and areas you're like clueless about. It's very scary. And Lecha Lecha in the sign, the sign of the Avodah Shem, the sign of Avraham Avinu, the one who is the loyal list to Hashem is leave that which is familiar. Lecha Lecha Me'aretzcha Me'molad'techa Me'veit Avicha El Ha'aretz Asher Areka. I want you to expand to leave that which you know, that which you already experienced to be to be vulnerable in that way, to go where you don't know, which is unfamiliar to you. So the sign of Lecha Lecha, I'm not trying to like be poetic and any chat of Lecha Lecha, if somebody tells me and I be interested, so I don't relate to the sign of Lecha Lecha. Okay, I don't know what world they're living on. Anybody that I know I think so and I'm not like trying to shame anybody. But the sign of Lecha Lecha is amazingly familiar, Dovi, and it's the first sign of Avraham Avinu's life. Lecha Lecha Me'aretzcha Me'molad'techa El Ha'aretz Asher Areka, to a place that I'll show you yet. You're not going to know yet where it is. You'll see. If you knew already, then I don't know if it's B'chinat Lecha Lecha. El Ha'aretz Asher Areka, you'll yet see it. It will become familiar. It will become, but expand a little. So that's this sign of Lecha Lecha and I get it. What interests me a lot is in the introduction of this sign is let I was a lot of NASA. It's for your benefit. What's Hashem saying there? It's for your benefit. What interests me, this is challenging. It's hard to do this. What's Hashem introducing the diverse NASA? This is for your benefit. For your the by that from Levy Yitzchak Avraham Avinu was an ever Hashem. He was thinking about service of Hashem. He was Lashon if you will. But what's this introduction of the Nisayon that let I was a dash? What's Hashem saying let I was a lot of NASA? It's for your benefit. It's for your pleasure. I said it backwards, I believe. Rashi says let I was a lot of NASA for your pleasure and for your benefit. Now, by the way, it would be good day to analyze what are those two things and I'd like to ask you that. What's let I was a and what's let I was a? What are those two things? Your Hana and your benefit. Dovi, what's Hana and I was a? And what's the introduction? Avraham Avinu has a Nisayon. He has a challenge in the service of Hashem. Avraham Avinu is an ever Hashem and he's challenging his Hashem. I mean, he's challenged to leave that which is familiar, that he knows, to leave that where he's comfortable. A serious ever Hashem once told me, "Life starts where your comfort zone ends." That's what a serious ever Hashem once told me. And I I agree there's a big beginning of that. Go where you're uncomfortable. Life starts where your comfort zone ends. That's what an ever Hashem told me. Let that's my mission. Avraham Avinu's beginning is leave that which is known to you. Expand a little. Venture. Go out. Expand a little to the unknown. So, I totally hear the Nisayon. What's this introduction let I was a? Let I was a let I was a for your It's a Nisayon. [snorts] Now, the fact that it's not Tyvaska doesn't make it easier to the sign. It's not the tendency to do this. What is Hashem saying L'cha? Lech L'cha. What's this? And it's it's the first of the Nisyanus. It's interesting on the other Nisyanus Hashem does I didn't see Hashem say this. It's for your benefit. It was a Nisayon. Nisayon is a challenge to bring out Avraham Avinu's want to serve Hashem. What's this L'cha in the first Nisayon is good for you? Wait a second. So it's a less It was It was meant This is a Nisayon. It was meant to make it less of a Nisayon. It's a Nisayon. It's a challenge. It's hard to do this. Does it change by the way if you know it's your benefit? Now it's easy. It's still a Nisayon. Does it make it less of a Nisayon? It was challenging. >> Why does it not make it less of a Nisayon? Maybe it is. I'm So then Hashem was making it not a Nisayon. It's a Nisayon. It's one of the Nisyanus that Avraham was Where is this that you're telling him? Is Hashem just lessening the Nisayon? Let me make it a little easier, Avraham. I know I'm asking you something hard. So could Hashem have given the full Nisayon not L'cha? What's happening? What's this L'cha? This L'cha struck me as so funny. Avraham Avinu is being challenged and one of the challenges Lech. He has a series of challenges in his life. In those series of challenges, one of them is to leave that which is familiar. But Hashem says to him L'cha. I don't want I don't own it. I first want to say what hits me. I'm learning Chumash. It hits me that it's L'cha for you. Oh. Oh, so you're not really challenging me. They're challenges. These are real challenges. These are Nisyanus about Avraham Avinu's life, but it says L'cha. My suspicion, Yehuda. My suspicion, Dovi. And I I don't know. My suspicion, there's a rule There's a rule in Torah we say every morning, Joshua. In English, I want to express something called the mama tsinu. The derech of Hashem is to tell you something in one place and to know it's true always. Yaakov, I suspect on the challenges of our life challenges could be do something bad for yourself. >> [snorts] >> And if you do something bad, I'll reward you. I'm going to tell you some hard things, some damaging things to self, but if you're willing to give me something, I'll give you something. A deal. Josh, two people make a deal. A trade in sports. If you part with a certain player, so I'll give you a different player. Now, it hurts what you're parting. You're parting with a good player. When kids are young, they like make trade. Sports radio. Sports talk is the lowest form of wisdom probably in the world that exists. You lose like brain points. It's How's a little better? It's a little better. Sports the kind But people call up like trade proposals. So, you call up, you know, why don't why don't uh Astros send them like this minor league pitcher and they get Aaron Judge from the Yankees and give them a bag of baseballs? Cuz the Yankees don't want a bag of baseballs. They want Aaron Judge. Like people propose trades. A trade is you give up something and you get something. So, nisyanus would be easy to frame. If you give me something, I'll give you back, Avram. That Hashem deals and wheels and deals with a person. Do something for me, I'll do something back. If you trust him, you get benefits. I'm sorry, right. So, you you did something hard for you and I there'll to good there'll be benefits back. You give me something that's a nisaion. >> You only give up something if you know that you're going to get >> Get something better. So, that's how I could have said is that every nisaion is if you give up something precious to you, I'll give you See, you you you're making a trade with God. That's not a nisaion nassar. I don't think it makes a nisaion less. I don't think it's true cuz it's a nisaion of leaving everything you're familiar and the fact that it's good for you doesn't I don't think that's mocked in the nisaion. I don't think it makes it less cuz you see it's hard to give up even if we know it's good for us. I don't think the the lecha is making it less. I think the lecha is a truth of every challenge of a human being. At the onset of our father's nisaioness, there's a truth to all our nisaioness. The difficulties we encounter is not if you give God something so trade he'll he'll give you back something good. The very difficulty, the very challenge is expanding you. Lecha lecha. It's not lessening the nisaion. It's describing that nisaioness are things, difficulties that when the person does these difficulties, they expand. It's not a sugia of trade, give to Hashem and he'll give you something back, it'll be worth it. And I suspect that this lecha is is for all the nisaioness. I suspect, I can't prove this to you. It says "alech lecha" it says specifically on this nisaion. It makes me wonder that on the first nisaion he says "lecha" that it's an explanation of all the nisaioness. I wonder, I'm wondering with the guys, I'm not somebody will start arguing, no, maybe it's not true on this nisaion. The first one is an indicator for all of them. That's that's what I'm assuming. That Hashem said this Josh, I think it's an explanation of nisaioness. Nisaioness not if you're like if you do bad things to yourself, well, you gave one to me. So, you gave what Hashem wanted you to hurt yourself? The Nisayon themselves are difficulties, tremendous difficulty, and it's very, very hard to do this. But, understand that it's that that it's l'cha, that what I'm talking about is l'na'aseh l'tovasech. What these two things, l'na'aseh l'tovasech, what are these two things? Your hana'ah, your pleasure, and your benefit. >> [snorts] >> That I I'm thinking, I'm being mispaled. I'm not ready to share with the chevre. What I'm expressing that is interesting, l'na'aseh l'tovasech, for your pleasure and your better. For your pleasure and your better. Very interesting words, but I suspect in all Nisayonus that it's not like show for Hashem, and if you give one up for the team, then you can get something in return. The very Nisayon is to do that which is for your benefit. Now, it's a Nisayon. It's hard to do even what's good. Doesn't make it not a Nisayon. Oh, I gained from it. But, it's an important understanding of challenges that Hashem has It It's And it certainly could help us in all our Nisayonus. I do acknowledge it can help us in all our Nisayonus that I get bigger from this. This is an expansion of me. Hashem is doing this for me. There's There's a gain in this for me. There's a gain. There's an expansion from this. I think I think there's a truth to this in all the challenges of our life, there's expansion. And that's That awareness Hashem wants us to have at the very onset of the first Nisayon is l'cha. What I'm speaking about of all the Nisayonus is l'na'aseh l'tovasech. I'm talking about things that the challenge is not could you give it up? Could you The challenge is And it still remains a challenge. But, it's l'tovasech, l'na'aseh l'tovasech. It's for your own expansion. This is about your own expansion doing something hard for your expansion. That's interesting me that I shall describe this is for your benefit. >> [snorts] [snorts] >> I want to have to something we said from I want to have to with the guys we express something from that I want to express to the guys that the six says I shall promise I will bench those that bench you. If somebody wants good for you, they'll get goodness. It was I want to it was very very hard. Recently there was a lover of Jews and apparent lover of Jews who was killed. It was a difficult he loves he had them. I will bench those that bench you. I will bench they'll be successful. I will bench those that bench you I shall promises those that bench will have it good. I will bench those that bench you. Interesting. My mom, we were wheeled off the plane. So interesting how the whole world our Josh this is the best selling book in the world. The whole world knows the tires MS. The whole world knows it. My wife got off the plane my wife got off the plane from from we're flying that my wife my mother got off the plane from Eretz Yisrael and there was a person helping my mother has a torn meniscus. So she was being wheeled in a wheelchair and they were supposed to go up to a certain point. The lady said I'm taking you to the car. So we said mom said no no no no you did your job. She said no I want to take you to the car. She said I'll tell you the truth. She said I'm off now. I've done my job and I can go home. But I can see no greater people. You're the people God chose I learned in the Bible and you and I want to be good to the people Hashem loves Hashem appreciates. She mom is told I will I will I bench those that bench you. She wanted to take care of my mom. She said such a sincerity such a she read the Torah. The Torah says I will bench those that I will bench those that bench you. Now I want to express that parshat shabbat when you read the parshat it's going on Avraham Avinu. Understand what it says about Avraham is true about us all. Tosafot says that Kohanim get benched by Hashem. Are there any Kohanim here? Ah Michal. Tosafot says that you get benched. Machlokes Tanaim but you bench us. Kadosh Baruch Hashem who benches you Michal? So it's one Tanna says means Hashem saying I'll bless the Kohanim but one Tanna holds means I'll back up your blessing. I'll bless Klal Yisrael. Kohanim if you bless Klal Yisrael I'll bless Klal Yisrael. So who benches the Kohanim? Joshua you're a Kohen? Why? Nothing fake about Joshua. >> [applause] >> You're Yisrael Joshua? Good. Joshua Who benches the Kohanim? The Kohanim bench us who benches them? I'm just coming from Eretz Yisrael, it's so wonderful. The Birchas Kohanim is wonderful. It's nice. Every day you get blessings from the Kohanim, beautiful blessings from the Kohanim daily. You get the blessing. I think we in Chutz L'Aretz might appreciate it more. It's a blessing to live here. But we want to get back there. We want to get there and appreciate it daily. Maybe us Chutzniks could come there and be excited about it. And maybe people there get benched. Very exciting to get benched by the Kohanim. I always wonder. Sometimes I go out to wash, then I don't always I don't always find the Kohanim. They do it very fast. Here like it's a whole we have it so rarely, Yehuda. Us Levi'im go out proudly. We're singing here. We make like a whole party. Over there in Eretz Yisrael they run. The Kohain runs whenever he finishes Shmone Esrei, depending what minyan. It's not always easy to find the Kohain's hands to to to wash. L'maaseh, Birchas Kohanim, who benches the Kohanim? Aviad, so Tosfos says based on this pasuk, mamish this pasuk, "Avoracham m'vorachecha, I will bench those that bench you." Says Tosfos, anybody who benches a Yid gets benched. So Hashem promises, you bench a Yid, I'll bench you. It's a very good klal to know in your life. You bench a Yid, Hashem benches you. Hashem loves. He Einayim Kohanim Yisrael. Let me show you Yisrael. You like a Yid, Hashem likes you. You bench a Yid, Hashem benches you. Dovid ben Hashem, you'll have a family. One of the greatest joys in the world is when your kids all get along. It's like an otherworldly joy for a parent. Ask any parent. Ask what it looks like. Your family's like farbrenging together. They're like doing things t'zamen. It's it's it's a beautiful feeling when the family mishpacha together. Hashem says about Yidden, "Avarchem m'varchecha, I like my children." And I will bench those that bench. Those that bench my kids, those that connect to my kids, those that appreciate my kids. So, there's a delicious feeling. Avarchem m'varchecha, I will bench those that bench my kids. And Tosfos says that's the source that Kohanim will bench us, who benches them? Hashem. Why? Cuz they benched us. You benched us, Hashem benches. Reb Miller was of the practice. Reb Victor Miller would pass by Yidden and he'd give brachos. All of us give a lot of brachos. When I always say, we are bracha is a big thing. People say, "You know how many mazel tovs I get?" It's a big thing, mazel tov. Should have good mazel. What? Good morning. Good morning is a bracha. Gut morgen. Should be a good morning. It's a bracha, beautiful bracha. Good morning. Good shabbos is a bracha. Reb Miller would like have in mind the challah and should taste good. The mishpacha shouldn't fight. I have mishugas to challah and all over your shirt, like you end up looking funny in the afternoon. Should be a shidduch should go well. This the soda should go well. Good shabbos. Should go well, should be a beautiful shabbos of shalom, of peace, of the family enjoying each other. We give many brachos. Reb Miller would pass by yeshiva and he would start showering brachos on the yeshiva. Famously took his 45-minute walk daily. He'd pass by the Mir Yeshiva, give brachos to the avreichim, the chevre akollel, the rabbonim, the talmidim. He'd start blessing the yeshiva. Verbally. He would speak it out daily, every single day he would give brachos. He'd be mevarech. It's very powerful, the bracha of a Yid is very powerful. And Hashem says about a person who blesses Yidden, "Avarchem m'varchecha, those that I will bench those that bench you." People are in the practice of wishing good for Yidden. Being mevarech, should be a good to shabbos. It's funny, the bus is always in a few minutes. I increasingly think about guys' situations when they walk out of here. Each guy is a unique situation. How it feels like for an out of town who doesn't know who's going to this place, how it feels like for a guy going home, what's the home situation. Tell a guy good Shabbos, give him a bracha. It's good Shabbos. Mama should go home. Should be comfortable. Should be happy, should have friendship, he shouldn't be alone. Should have a good conversation with his mama. Maybe it's good good Shabbos. Mama should be a good Shabbos. A bracha, benching, say brachos, it's powerful. We have the power of bracha. And if Hashem is saying I will bench those that bench you, means there's a power in benching you. It means it means something. And Hashem kilo, Hashem says I have to pay you back, means the bracha means something. So you bench any Jew. I do find that remarkable. The pasuk's going on Avraham Avinu. Shem says if you bench Avraham, you'll get benched. Ta'anis says that of course that refers to anybody who benches a Jew. I find that so cool. I thought we were studying Avraham. Understand we're studying me and you. We're Avraham, we come from Avraham. Biracha d'Avraham, his son is the feet of his father. We come from our tata. We're talking about us. You just see a simple pasuk. The pasuk says this like this p'shat, it's not like Hasidus or because it's also great. Just p'shat. The pasuk says I will bench those that bench you. Avraham says Ta'anis, any single person who benches a Jew gets benched because Hashem promised whoever benches Avraham will get benched. Avraham is us. I have learned in yeshiva, Eli, the early years of yeshiva I was close to the guys, I didn't know the parents. Today I have, Eli, when I'm so into you that means I like you parents. You are you You've come from your parents. We come from our parents. From dad, from mom, that's where we come. We come from them. We come from them. If you like a guy, you like his parents. He comes from his parents. Here we are, it says about Avraham Avinu, "I will bench those that bench him is true under bond him." If you bench a ben Avraham, somebody who comes from Avraham, Hashem benches you. I'll bench those that bench you." Why does it switch the order, chevra? Says, "I will bench those that bench you, and those that curse you, I will curse." Why doesn't it say first, "I will curse those that curse you"? Why the switch in order, Jackie? Says, "I will bench those that bench you." So, what should it say? "I will curse those that curse you." It doesn't. And it says, "And those that curse you, I will curse." It switched the order. Yankee, you have the kasha? Lally, what should follow? If God said, "I If it says, "I will bench" as Hashem says, "I will bench somebody who benches a Yid." So, what should say? "I will curse somebody who curses Yid." It doesn't say that. That would be the same. That would parallel. Speaks what Hashem does. "I will bench those that bench you." So, what's the next word? "I will curse those that curse you." It doesn't say that. It says, "I will bench those that bench you, and those that curse you, I will curse." Switched the order. You want to hear what I think, Wally Yellie? You have the question, Yellie? If it says, "I will bench" God says, "I will bench anybody who benches Yellie." So, what should Hashem next say? "I will curse anybody who curses Yellie." It doesn't say that. So, "I will bench anybody who benches Yellie." Anybody who wants good for Yellie, I like. "I will bench anybody who benches you." "And anybody who curses you, I will curse." Switched the order. What I suspect, Avraham, is the bracha. When do you mean your bracha most? When do you bless people most? When you're doing well yourself. If I'm doing terribly, do I have the power to want good for you? I myself am doing bad. It's very hard to want good. So Hashem says those that I know are going to bench Klal Yisrael, I'm going to bench them before they bench you. I'm going to bench them first so they bench you even harder. The better they're doing, the better their bracha will be. So people I anticipate want bracha for Yidden, I'll bench them. This way they'll give you a geshmakeh bracha. So people who intend to bench Yidden, I'm going to bench them first. Who curses worse? A guy whose life is good or life is bad? If life is bad, a guy curses wah wah wah, cuz he's down. So Hashem says I'm not going to curse them before they curse you. Those that curse you nach them, I'll curse them. I don't want to curse them before, they're going to curse worse. So I'll bench the people I anticipate will bench you, I'll bench them first so they bench you geshmak. Once somebody already cursed you, then I'll curse them. What I want to express is that when Hashem sees we're benchers of Yidden, he gives us bracha. So I want to express something that's a truth in life. I want you to hear Savi yet. Somebody who wants good to Yidden, and somebody who's going to give good to Yidden, Hashem gives them crazy bracha. Hashem benches them before they bench you. They have massive Somebody has big wants to give to Yidden, Hashem benches them before. If somebody has such a want, if he knows that by putting it by this guy, it's going to spread to his people, so he puts a lot by the guy. If he knows I'm going to give all this to this many people, so he gives me a lot. Those that bench Yidden, I will bench before they bench Yidden, so they have the capacity to bench Yidden more at Ellie. So it's a good principle to know that when we're there and and we want to give to you, then Hashem gives us bracha before, so we have the capacity and the abilities to give to you. Hashem benches those that bench you. He gives tremendous gifts. You have Miller spoke about the capacities of Avraham Avinu. Avraham Avinu was like a crazy [snorts] warrior. A crazy capacity, a famous such capacity, a speaker, a warrior. He had massive abilities. Somebody who uses it for the better of others, so Hashem gives them Hashem gives them gifts. The Avraham Avinu those that I anticipate will be Avraham Avinu, I will bench them first. They have more means to bench you. They have a better eye in time, they have a more they're in a certain ruach to bench. It's a good principle to be aware of how Hashem operates. He who he sees is is going to give to his people, Hashem benches them before. I want to keep studying parshas Lech Lecha. I also We all are traveling today. So, does anybody know what time the buses are today? 5:45? >> [snorts] >> There's a Rashi I don't want to skip. There's a Rashi I want to say briefly. And then we'll There's a Rashi I want to say. And the Rashi I want to share with the have is something that it says about sorry menu that I think is wonderful. And it could be I'm thinking about traveling a lot. Traveling is grueling. Having just traveled, I'm on my way in a in a few minutes I have to go to pick up my wife from the airport. Traveling [snorts] is grueling. It's really tiring. And Sarai was traveling with Avram. And the possuk says they're traveling that they had gone to Eretz Yisrael. And then there was a famine in Eretz Yisrael that traveling to Mitzrayim. And it says Avram Avinu sees Hinei Yada'ati, now I know you fast mar'ot. I know about your good appearance. Avram Avinu becomes aware of Sarai's good appearance. Rashi's bothered by what do you mean now I know? Says Rashi the following observation. Rashi says Min Hagoyim It's Rashi's Davar Acher. Rashi says that normally shall you date Haderech Adam Misbaze. A person gets cheapened through travel. The Wolf Pack are the only team in the league. Every team in in the league play seven home games, seven road games. We play 14 road games. It's very hard. We don't get certain calls. We're not used to the gyms. It's very hard to play road games. We play 14 road games. Any guy who plays knows when you get there you're like you feel like you just came out of a washing machine. You're like spinning. The guys like leaving early. This way they could like find their feet. They could walk and they could feel the ground. That said, it was very hard to come off a trip. You just had a guy's elbow in your nose for like a few hours. You come right to the gym. You like need to like relax, settle down. Says Rashi it's normal from the Derech Haderech, from the from the difficulty of the trip a person's Misbaze. Besides but Sarai was different. Amdah Biyofya, she stayed beautiful. Avram Avinu said Hinei know you that he said you're you're an aberration. You're you're so different. Everybody else they have to travel looks disheveled. Looks beaten up. Looks all crumply. And you after a difficult journey you be off you stay nice. I want to ask what is that? What is that telling us about sorry menu? Other people travel what? >> Why does she stay nice? They would trip they're gone to Israel. Then there was a famine that someone went to Mitrayim. They're right by Mitrayim. He looks at her he said other people after all this travel would look like just a freak. It's always funny when planes land people like fix themselves up. Everybody on the plane like what happens on the plane stays on the plane. We all look like we're like miserable. You've just been I don't know you're just a wreck. You've been sitting on that plane for 15 hours. People in the airport are like getting new shirts, putting on deodorant. Like making up the face to the world. But it's normal a person is mispaza. Sorry menu as an oddity she stays nice on the plane. And I want to ask the guy sophisticated. Ellie I want to tell you something just a a troop shot. What is this? What are we learning about our mother our mama Sarah? Sorry menu which was studying me and you Jackie. She stays good looking even when she travels. What is that? Ellie what am I being taught? The Torah tells us something about our great people that our mother. What is that Aviad? People travel they look disheveled and sorry menu stays nice. One of my favorite rashes. And I want to express the word words are very important of ram. It says I will you take a direct mispaza. Now mispaza is a lotion like the Zion is disgraced. You made a disgrace. If you I I'm curious how Artscroll translates it, I'm very curious. Could be I've seen they've written disheveled. Could you pass the English hummus? You pass that? I'm curious how Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. God bless. It's perfect. Sapristi is good. They both sapphire. They both sap person. Close. Let's see what Rashi says. Rashi says in the in the way it is the way of the world normally happens through the strain of the road a person becomes unsightly. So they translate misbazza unsightly, but that's not the exact translation of misbazza. Misbazza's has an a bazayan. Doesn't say unsightly. Now Artscroll translates people look funny. They come disheveled from travel. The real world is is misbazzet. The word I would use is an indignity. It's so crazy that we have to travel. I think travel's nuts. An angel operates. An angel somewhere cuz they want to be there. They want to be there. So you are where you want to be. You want to be there. That's where you are. Angels don't live in our our physical world so nuts. I want to go to a Hashem in Baltimore. We should like to me it would make sense. I want to be in Baltimore. Okay. That's how it works by the world of angels. I want to be in Baltimore. Okay. Now you're in Baltimore. Okay. We have this in this human indignity. You got to go places and put up with that. It's an indignity. You got to get in there and and and go and travel and grind and there's so much I want to be there. I want to be there. Now you got to get there. And a person's misbazz of the Torah hadera, normally the journey makes a person so disheveled from all the frustration. You wear I see guys, I see people 50, they look like they're 98. The difficulties they encounter age them. The misbazz they've turned the indignity, they're frustrated, they're mad. Thanks a lot. Sorry maynu stayed be offi. She looked beautiful. She had a It's a I think to me it's pashas to namuna, it's faith. She believed whatever we go through, Hashem's working with me. That lacha. So there's namuna, they're not misbazz. Sorry maynu, the beauty that she had is so place of namuna. When everybody goes through all the difficult things and it ages them and hardens them, makes them be misbazz, the indignity of all the difficulties, Sorry maynu stayed be offi, she looks beautiful. Anybody who was lucky to see her Miller in his 90s, he looked like a youthful He looked like a young man. He had the energy, he even had the look of the youngster. It's a level of namuna, he trusted faith in Hashem. It's a level of namuna, that's the pashas of the sugia that Sorry maynu It's a physical thing, of course it expresses in a physical way, of course Of course it expresses in a physical way. But the mida What? What what Why is the beauty that Sorry possessed that she maintained her beauty? How is that be contrary to What? If if you have an indignity, so that Yeah, cuz that your person wears that on their face. All the difficults they went through, they look disheveled and they they don't Their whole face expresses a person who's been through crazy hardship. The misbazz and then it reflects on them. Sorry maynu has this namuna, who has a deep faith in Hashem, so then all the Torah hadera, she's not mispaza, she's she looks beautiful, she looks wonderful, she comes out to smile like this is what Hashem Hashem's working with me, Hashem's bringing me. That's what I think shada from. That's what I think to get the task is for a person to say this is this is where I need to be. There's a way of traveling like this. It's true on all challenges. There's a way of going through life like this. There's a way. I wanted to read this rashi Hashem on Sunday and I shouldn't say Sunday on Monday we're going to continue to learn parshas lech lecha. Have an outstanding shabbos everyone. >> [music] >> Guys remember to take stuff in your bag. It's taking me a while. Jimmy is down at the pool. Let me take him out. Yeah, it's a good question. You got to think about it. I'll go up there. She maintained her beauty. Why? Because it's annoying I have to go on a plane. But she maintained her beauty. It wasn't annoying for her. Okay, yes, yes. Yeah, say whatever the hell you want and then Jimmy adds to the bad luck he brings me. No, it shouldn't have said. She did it. She was impatient about it. I'm asking what what you want to Yes. She's shutting me down aggressively. Yeah. No. What happened? On? This guy I know it's a Monticello. Any Monticello? Yes, that's Monticello. Why she said Yes. I don't understand what he's trying to say to me. I fresh meat. What is baba? Doesn't mean agree. It's baba. It doesn't mean like ratchet. Baba means it's Wait, where were you in charge? Return. And she maintained her seat. What does he have to do with the nick? With with with with desire. Just say. Just say. Yeah, all right. Yeah, good. You see you're translating. You're translating. She doesn't know. Yes, you are. You're translating. Little Island talk. I don't know if I'm familiar with that language. How's it going? It's probably going to stick me in a room and keep that back. Good move. It's a good move. It's a good move. Same to you, pal. You in potion me? Really? I am towering over you. You understand that? No. You can doubt it, you'll probably You understand? Yeah, I'm 5'11. I'll be I'm 5'11. Well, maybe you're 6 ft. I'm 5'11. I wrote 5'10 on the resume. And then I went to the doctor. And then she figured I'm 5'11. On the resume? I'm not. I'm not 5'11. I said it was 5'10. I said 6 ft. Whatever. I said 6 ft with shoes. Whatever. Yes, you know what I mean? Cuz it was money, so like any guest room that I have will like I'm trying to get out of two beds. I have to go. I'll be You don't have to go watch the I just watched the game. Yeah, y'all. Yes, y'all. Yeah, you should ask. You should ask. I'll be out. I swear to god, Nelly. You wouldn't have been behind Yeah, y'all. Go to the weight room. Yeah, y'all. Go to the weight room. And if he doesn't know anything I'm going. 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