Rabbi Mordechai Kraft - 1st Must Come Trust

okay welcome everybody to our Tuesday Lunch and Learn and again as we said a week we hope this would be a time that the community of Emmett students can gather together and we can learn together and spend 30 minutes over lunch and looking at topics which we feel are beneficial to our growth and give us insight into really how to achieve the greatness that Jim wants us to achieve in this week's class I'd like to talk about parshas karate and just a quick review the story of color in terms of the individual who was correct Couric as we know was a first cousin to Moshe the father's being brothers and if we were to rank importance in the Jewish nation perhaps we'd say Moshe than our own and then Cora so we're talking about an extraordinary individual and we're talking about somebody who had potential for enormous enormous greatness and yet a certain jealousy aroused in him by the fact that our own had been chosen for the Kohen Gadol and Cora feeling that he should have been in fact chosen the fact he was a first cousin to Moshe he accused Moshe for some type of nepotism choosing his own family and what he did with that is he fomented a rebellion and the rebellion he brought with him 250 of the leaders the Jewish people and basically a rebellion against motion Arnold and this may be the first rebellion so to speak in the Jewish nation and of course the end of the story is that a shaman really very clearly delineates that Moshe was chosen by Shem on what he says is the word of a sham and a test that emerges we know the Karaka in fact dies a very unnatural supernatural death whereby he swallowed up by the earth so what I'd like to deal with today is to try to understand what was his argument and really the core of what the problem was what was the seed by which he made his his fatal error you know we have a principle in general in Torah psychology which is really all psychology in psychology because God designed the system and so there by the table visa gives insight into who and what we are especially in terms of our psychological thinking that we understand that whenever there's an ideology which is a rebellious ideology oftentimes it's not the ideology which is driving it it's clearly something else and you know we say that perhaps we have an expression you know when people say it's it's it's not about the money it's about the principle so we know it's about the money it doesn't matter if it's it's a hundred dollars a thousand dollars fifty cents somehow that desire for money can thwart our thinking and cause us to to have ideas which might not be true but of course nobody wants to say it's about the money because that sounds crass it sounds low it sends self-serving so one will in fact invent ideology to justify to justify what they're doing and of course that's really the truth with with Korah and let's take a look a little bit at the story and see if we can understand first of all what what was he saying and then see we could trace back a little bit to understand what the core or what the source was for the mistake the tragic error that caused the fallacy honest thinking suppose we'll just look at the bouzouki the verses begin like this week ahora Ben get Sir Ben Caspian a Viva doesn't Bobby Rahm and Karan took with him yet so Ben casts sun LaVey the Dustin Bobby ramen to known troublemakers but they are leave Ben the Ilia of the own Ben pellis own Ben tell us a person were to speak about soon been a roofing off the tribe of roving vehicle if daymo Shobana jimenez well commission messiah in the CA a decree Modi'in chair shame these are people are described a tremendous praise who are the first of the 250 the cañada princes of the Jewish nation extraordinary human beings curry a lloyd people who actually could could inter calculate the months on shi Shan been a great stature picado amo Shiva are only gathered emotion are only yo moral and he said to them rather look them said rob the hem in other words you've taken too much of yourself emotionally this is cool that Adel Coulomb code ocean the entire Jewish nation Jewish nation Coulomb code ocean there are holy world holy well but so how much am ashamed Wells inside us all Madhu is not so coalition why have you therefore risen above taking yourself above the Kahala shem so to speak so what was the thrust of their argument that's the argument was Coulomb code ocean well holy tired Jewish nations to the heart see night the entire Jewish nation was witness to the most magnificent revelation of the almighty ever and why therefore and a sham we know as dwells amongst us all Midori is not so a Coliseum why have you brought yourselves above the Jewish nation so to speak why have you you Moshe are the Melek as a water our own as the Kohen Gadol why are you seeking to rise above the Jewish nation it doesn't seem doesn't seem right if we're all holy coulomb Kadosh I know first of all a famous statement from the subject acquaintance and he mentions that for a truth that we have a Verity is that in any good argument in any mock locus there's always gonna be an element of truth if there isn't an element of truth there really isn't room to have an argument what's the truth there is some truth in what in what Kirk is saying he is saying Coulomb Kadosh in you are holy that's a very true statement every member of the Jewish nation is of enormous kedusha enormous holiness and in a sense there should be a degree of equality as it were why therefore some chosen to be the king ben'll is the mellah you say that an hour and was gonna be the Cohen and his children with a signal kono what why do we have differentiations but we're really or holy so the truth of that statement is again number one that we all have holiness it's also a truth but the truth is really a truth that lives in the next world in the next world there will be full equality what does that mean full equality it means based on what God gave someone in terms of his skillset in terms of his talents in terms of his intellect in terms of his life settings Hashem will reward completely based on what you achieved given what I gave you so it really means like this you know for example to take an analogy if someone gave somebody a a oil rig and told them to dig in the Gulf of Saudi Arabia oil they'd be expected to find a lot of oil there they'd be expected to to fill up barrels upon bowels if not tens of thousands of barrels why because you put the most fertile area where oil is of abundance and they have the tools the equipment to do it there's an expectation of achievement whereas supposing a person was given a shovel and told to go onto Broadway in Manhattan for example and dig for oil and so the person comes up with a thimble full of oil that's an enormous achievement in this world it will have little value because we're gonna look in the free market what can you sell oil for that Fibble is gonna be almost worthless whereas the tens of thousands of barrels of oil are gonna be very economically lucrative but in the next world God would look at it like that and the next world is Shem would say wait a minute based on what I gave you what did you achieve if I invest in oil rig in you if I invested an enormous IQ if I Nestle in you an enormous a community that supports you I gave you an edge in the billy to have it in education a toe in education if it might be a home which was so supporting and loving and and nurturing and and you didn't utilize your skills you felt short you might have achieved a certain degree of greatness but you could have been so much greater so shall I say this I invest in or work in you and that's all you produce where is a person who maybe it's challenging this world whether it be intellectually challenged whether it be emotionally challenged the psychological challenge whether it be challenges of one's life circumstances once one's family home environment things that occurred that person's life that create enormous challenge and yet the person achieved even the children achieved a thimble full of achievement shall I say that's of enormous value to me and in fact it might even be greater than the person to whom I gave so much invested so much in and only produced a quarter of what that person was expected to produce that's the quality of the next world there's gonna be absolute reward based on everything related to who and what we are a life situation our life circumstances that's not this world though this world is a world differentiation it's a world where we have to recognize that are gonna be experts they're people who know more than we do it's a world of we're gonna have to work on the the meter the trait of humility to understand that not everything I can't achieve everything and I'm dependent other people it's where we have to work on acceptance that there's a divine plan that we should understand even when it's difficult for us I would like the position why does he get it but to understand that yet my life's work will have to be that that's not my role this is a world where there will be differentiation expertise and that's part of the divine plan of this world and maybe it's important part of that divine plan the inequality because inequality comes the need to work on the trade of humility to acceptance and maybe appreciation that what I can offer the world is something totally unique that doesn't mean that position so whatever reason a Shem creates the inequality in this world it's a function in this world and therefore there has to be goodness in and it's our job to find it so correct statement that were all cool on kadosh team and we're all holy is a true statement but it doesn't apply to this world it's interesting by the way that Quran does something somewhat unusual it says that the parsha just before the party of korra is the partial that deals with the chapter of tsatsis the Gilmar show emotionally more than departure sherlock juxtaposed to this week's partition of course we know juxtaposition of the Torah is very crucial one way Shem conveys meaning is by the way he orders his coma so to speak where he orders his mind which is far as just an expression of God's mind so juxtaposition why 1 partial follows another partial is uh very very indeed of importance and the partial just refer clock is the partial tsatsis we're just to go back a paragraph in the inveterate says the yama Shem emotionally war and Shem says demotion to belbin a you saw him ought to lay him speak to the B'nai Israel and say to them a Siouxland Cecil configured Endora some place it seat under for cotton garments for all generations Vaness north seat Caesar can opt to seal trellis and place on the deceit seat enough one of the threads has to be a thread which is to Kahless this beautiful blue behind the cumin seed cease and before you'd see to see sri simha so you should look at them as a cartoonist call me Joseph Shem and remember all the myths of such a mercy samosa and perform the melosa surah with a valve coming up coronet come and not to go after your heart and your eyes I share a Tim's only maha ram which could lead you astray and that's the paragraph that we recite as a third paragraph for Korea Japan and we have a mission to read it twice a day the Mitzvah exits it for men when one wears a full court garment is in fact such that we know that wherever we have for corn garments we have to take four strands and fold them over so we have a seven of them are going to be white and one is going to be blue a special type of blue it's a blue from a special type of clam that one can create this this two Kahless this extraordinarily beautiful blue it's a question today if we in fact know and can identify the source of that dye that's need to be made there are some sites are those who say today that we have identified it and there's a clam that lives in the Mediterranean Sea and that's why we will see today that that there are people who are wearing to save us one strand of the Citiz will be blue and it's not necessarily universally recognized as this is the law that should be followed but there are indeed those who are doing that and under the feeling that we have found that clam but it's okay there's a question in Halawa there are those who aren't sure and some of the good Dolan have not yet come out to say that we should be doing it and that's why many of us do not do it yet although others do to it but it's interesting what color do the parsha of citrus had just been taught preceding parenting this rebellion so it says in the meditation Rashi brings it around the pasta it said ma also the meadows relates something for the majesty of Coleman and it relates it follows it says man awesome he said what what a crock do I'm not the conus Messiah no Commission Rochas and head roads he got up before motion Aaron and he presented to them the 250 men of the Sanhedrin men were extraordinary talent AMA common men capable of being on the Sanhedrin capable of sake and in a judgment it says groove on the shaded revenge grain of Boston that we know came from the came from the tribe of of of roofing and what happened over here it says it follows that it says that he took them all and he dressed them all up in a garment of tequilas a garment of blue that's interesting what did he do he'll be Gentiles so she called the crevasse he placed a fully blue to Kahless Tallis and then the garment bovi under lifting motion and he brought them in front of motion envelope and they said to motion tyleshia coolish at the head of his participatory is it talus which is entirely blue obligated in that one strand of bluets it's us or is it exempt on Berlin however what she says you're obligated you still have to put it on he killed a sucker hilum began to laugh f shot Ellis shall mean F Codd could have clutched the hospital is it possible that when at Alice our garment is all white we know that one hood one thread of blue turns it into the kosher sits as a coach at Alice zoo she could to Kahless this is what this one which is entirely blue motif to a Satsuma it still needs a blue thread again what was it argument he said he dressed them all up and blue I said if one blue thread can exempt a kid could exempt a garment which is all white and a seven white strands if the garment is entirely blue does it still need that one little strand of blue what was he saying that was what was he doing what was was that all about so many explanations we see that when Moshe said yeah you are obligated at one strand began to laugh so I'm 11 so the mirror says sometimes you can you can take away a lot of fear of God by making a joke at the wrong time doing something which is called late song of the joke which knocks like you were mocking it and when you mock something and it cheapens it and now all the sudden things don't think seem so important anymore you know with the power of the joke is twofold joking build it and they can it can it can cause a person to it to alleviate this pressure or depression and it can be so energizing or a negative joke can be take away a person can make fun of something in market and it's very difficult to restore the gravity and seriousness one thing we learned from that but I'd like to point something I think a little bit different let's think a little about the colors for a moment to talk about colors we know that it's it's us in general for its existence strands the garment anytime we have a four corner garment we know that it requires seat seat so first of all this retrace and just go back for a moment why something four-cornered so it's interesting if we think about it the idea of corners are something very unique what's the idea of a corner the idea of a corner is that something comes to an end there's a boundary to it there's a limitation to it what's the idea of tzitzit since this is the vision where you think something has come to an end where you think oh there's nothing else I just see a corner no since it says you got to look beyond that something will extend from that there's more than what you can see and of course that's a major life lesson looking at the world I would look at the world you look at the world and we see boundaries and and borders understand no you gotta look beyond that there's more than the eye can perceive there's something which extends beyond it that's just one that what's one of the visions of why we put senses we one understand that this world has no limitation on it this world is not this world might appear to be finite but it's not there's an infinity to it there's the essence of God in it which makes it infinite you know it's interesting that that it's one of the reasons why we love to look at oceans no I people speak about it in my partner Robert Ruttenberg speaks about this often this idea that when one looks out at an ocean one gets very very moved why are we so moved because the oceans triggers something inside of us to say there's infinity there's there's something so beyond there's endlessness and the soul gets drawn to that because the soul know is there's infinity the soul knows there's ain't so there's nothing there's no end we live with the world we think well well there's there's there's fitted finitude it's something finite an end there's a corner no it goes beyond that that's the excitement in them the draw to the ocean look at it the soul gets get such pleasure in that awareness of I'm looking at a friend I'm looking at something we're just giving me the impression of infinity I can see beyond the run I can't take it I'm looking so far out it goes on and on and on that's what people pay more as they say for the the oceanfront view maybe they don't know why they're paying for it they're paying for because the souls attracted to infinity so that's one of the visions of a corner they were supposed to put fringes on it extension on it there's another vision of it and it's perhaps it's the idea that our purpose in life is that things have to sprout out from us I mean our job is that we have to be producing we have to giving out to the world Sissis says don't keep it all to yourself give it out go beyond yourself something extend outward but why the colors the blues and the white so we're commanded to put seven strands of white what's the vision of white white in Hebrew is the color of the fun so the fun actually if we break up the word LaVon white it spells the word lave which means the heart and we have the letter known at the end and so feet is the longest letter that just keeps extending extending extending goes below the line there's something about white which says take your heart and bring your heart as deep out as it can go now if we think about it for a moment when we look at white light white light really isn't white at all if we were to refract white the fracked white through a prison mode we find we'd see a rainbow we'd see red orange yellow blue green indigo and violet Roy B jiff as we remember from our science classes red orange yellow blue in blue indigo green and violet it's all contained in the white so what does white say white always speaks a language of there's something beyond and behind that you know is there but you just can't see it there's something beneath the surface which is hidden but you know it's there in Hebrew there's a word for that it's called a Munna trust trusting that which we can't see knowing that a Shem is behind the scene knowing that a Shem is directing our lines knowing that a Shem is guiding us but we can't perceive it we can't see it always and we have to let our heart take us to places where sometimes the mind doesn't always see doesn't always understand that's the idea that well not where does that live trust well it really lives in a part of ourselves which isn't always intellectual because intellectually we might get stuck I can't see I don't know I just see white light I don't know why this is happening to me right now I don't understand I don't know I don't get God's plane in this particular situation but white says no just as there are seven colors that contain the white and I'm confident that beneath the white if I were to refract it differently I would see it and Munna speaks the language of my heart will tell me that I know that a Shem is here and there's a plan it's a good plan even though I don't always understand what it is that's white for us and that's why the word for white in Hebrew is LaVon live means heart because we're doesn't want to live it not always do the intellect and lives in the heart that other side of us which can sense and feel and trust and the letter none so feet extends it takes it down as deep as I can go that's what LaVon says LaVon says take your heart and bring it as deep out as you can go and trust now it's interesting seven strands of the eight have to be white which really is an important idea and a very beautiful spiritual concept seven strands have to be emunah our foundation in life must be built on omona it must be built on trusting a chef because really our relationship with the Shem is going to be based on trying to love exactly where we don't understand and perhaps we can say by the way if you know when we love to general real love whether it be for Shem or whether it be for a spouse is really loving exactly with that which we don't understand about the other you know because of work to love what we understand one might argue that self love I'm loving what makes sense to me but when you love the other based on who the other is and purely who the other is I'm really loving you for who you are oftentimes that love will live exactly where we don't understand the other now how do we do that well we extrapolate we basically see so much goodness we see so much kindness we see so much understanding and then we don't understand something okay I'm going to love you for that because actually such good track record with me but really that might be where the love really lies because I'm loving you where I don't understand you where my mind can't perceive it where I don't always get it and that's real love and that's a love based on untrusting not to say based on the intellect using select branches get there having a looking at the track record you know I always think to myself like this you know if my father were to call me and wake me up in the middle of the night and say to me Mordecai it's 3:00 in the morning I need lemon meringue pie well I could have two responses one response might be dead you know I've I don't know if I don't know you like lemon meringue pie and it's 3:00 in the morning could have wait yeah but I might reevaluate and say wait a minute this is a person over the last many decades has only shown his love support devotion to me enormous track record of care and interest in Hawaiian someone I could rely on fully and I trust fully if he's asking it of me maybe my job isn't to question but to say that's what you need I'm willing to do it I trust it must be a reason that I don't understand because of your track record with me a chef calls upon us for the same devotion trust me and love me well you don't always understand me because that's really where love is going to live seven strands have to be white seven strands of Emunah there has to be a foundation of the recognition that I'm not always going to get it and that is a good thing because that's necessary for the love now but once you have those seven strands now take that glue take that blue and weave it around and wrap it right around it what is blue represents you know what's interesting again they keep a language I think is so instructed in these areas and the word for blue in Hebrew is called aho which is cuff cat vomit and again if you break up those three letters we know that every letter has a meaning it has both you could join letters to create words and every letter has its own meaning you could divide that into two and you have a cuff net which means car and la maid means study what's blue the color of LA made the car of intellectual investigation the power of using the mind to search and to understand that's what blue represents and that's why it says you're supposed to look at that blue on your sister Alice when we would have or if we do have it look at the blue the blue is supposed to enable want to use the mind to think what reminds me of the ocean and then one supposed to use the mind to get the sim of the ocean that's a reflection of the sky and I need to look up at the blue of the sky and then one looks up at the will of the sky one goes further and says wow what's beyond that there's the blue which is the the base of the kisi a color of the throne of Hashem or that beautiful meadow speaks the idea blue says look at the ocean think about it think about the sky contemplate the throne of a Shem blue says think it's the kulluk o'clock of the mate in fact just in terms of the way light works the reason why the ocean appears blue and the sky appears blue obviously we get close to the water we're so disappointed to realize that's not blue and we go on an airplane we're very disappointed to realize why it's not blow up here at all you know but apparently when we look at the sky from a distance or we look at the ocean with distance the word light converges when you see things from the distance life will converge in a way in which the color that we detect is blue in fact that's as far as the eye can see when the eye looks out the farthest color that we can see when light gathers and converges will bleed through we know there's more beyond that right because Roy Beach if Roy G bid red orange yellow green blue indigo and violet that I can't perceive that there isn't the gourd violet behind it but when we look towards the distance we'll use the eye in the mind to look out as far as we can go which is a metaphor for the idea of using our intellectual capacity to see and to understand as far as we'll be able to see light to converge will be blue so blue is always a metaphor for us and tour thought the idea of Korcula made using the mind to think so what assistance represent these beautiful blues and whites white is the seven foundation of trust once you understand that there's so much we don't understand that you can go as deep as you want it to lecture Li utilize your mind and understand and probe and ask and there's nothing wrong with asking and trying to to gain intellectual knowledge and to to what to have questions it's a search that's all part of what what what living a spiritual life is God gave us a mind he wants us to utilize it to understand this world those who've enjoyed the study of Tamla to understand that it's nothing but intense intellectual inquiry as this all Jewish study but it has to be based on that foundation of emunah they're gonna be areas where I'm not always going to understand get your seven foundations of white LaVon lave to the known the heart as deep as it can go that's a muna and then once you have that clear go as deep as you want to that blue as tight as you want take that one strand it will go for it so it's interesting that Cora comes reform ocean any kind of remote show with all of his followers and they're all dressed in blue he turns to Moshe sister motion if one blue thread can exempt the entire white garment and white strands certainly if the whole thing is blue it doesn't need a blue strand anymore so what was he saying so a very beautiful explanation and I saw this in a work of my Berkowitz that really is coming to motion with a more of a sophisticated challenge than we think mosha if blue represents intellect and white represents trust omona if you understand something if you have the blue if you get it intellectually if there's an intellectual reason for something do you still have to back it up by trusting something which doesn't necessarily make sense in other words if you could be all blue if you can gather and and perceive and have a logic which which dictates your thinking maybe that logic should over Congress your override trust I don't need to trust when I could get my intellect and used my mind to to understand what do we do trust for let's all be blue if you're all blue that should really be the goal and that was really trying to create the position behind his attack motion you just came to us with a mitzvah of senses which says you have to trust and once your trust then you have to use intellect but supposing you understand something even deeper your mind can understand it do you still have to have that foundation of trust use your mind and God create us what the mind doesn't look out and want us to utilize the mind to perceive you to understand and in essence that was really trying is utilizing to justify his attack we're all conditioned coulomb kenosha we all stood in our scene I were a holy if we're all holy Why should there be differentiation one person being than us see you Moshe one thing the Cohen godly you are on Why should there be such a thing we're all equal we get that intellectually let's be all blue in our thinking why do we have to trust the system doesn't make sense if we could all be blue if the intellect could take us intellect can take us to where we need to go and to that most Chauvin us us back work that way you still need the system you need still need one blue thread upon seven white the foundation has to be a morning the hosta foundation has to be trust in essence cork is using this color scheme sort of against most Chauvet know the color scheme in which God gave to teach us that yes seven foundations of white a Munna has to be there and then go intellectually Kirk is saying no if I understand intellectually what do you need to have a water for something that doesn't make sense maybe the mind should override that which doesn't make sense again what was driving that thought was really his desire that he should justify his position of aren't we all equal doesn't that make sense and if that before all equal Why should there be differentiation in division of labor in different classes as it were or that classes but perhaps Job Description in the Jewish nation again what's driving that of course we know is his jealousy and jealousy isn't something we want to admit we always want to justify it with a sophisticated powerful argument and in some level this is a sophisticated argument maybe a very sophisticated argument the argument is if we get it intellectually why should we fall back on trusting something which doesn't make sense let the intellect determine that the intellect aside let's go with the blue motion you must be wrong on what you said and maybe you even made it up to justify your own need for control and you want your own brother to get the job but Moshe that doesn't make sense if the blue is all there why do we have to trust that which we don't understand and most European comes back of course that says that's not the system no you still need that one thread of blue it still needs the seven strands of white there has to be that beautiful balance of an Munna together with intellect and that's really the full expression of a human being and the full expression of Jewish life is where we live a life of a Shem I trust you I'm gonna love you and I know how good you are you're such a good track record with me and with the world and with everyone and I'm not gonna fall off that even if I don't understand but once I had that clear I'm gonna try to work and utilize my mind to delve the depth of your thoughts and your ideas but if I don't always understand it I'm gonna love you for I don't understand I'm gonna exhibit maybe that's what real love lives as we spoke of it so one thing we see in Caracas attacked again he's utilizing cissus as to justify really his desire to say we're all equal and he's hiding behind a enormous ly sophisticated argument yet what's really driving the argument is something completely different and that because I'll tell us is his is jealousy and when there's jealousy we know that that that emotion that drive that need can thwart the intellect to view the world in the way we want to see it and not always the way the world really is I'd like to share just one more idea I'm the idea of a blue and white and this is a beautiful concept that I saw in the name of Menachem Mendel Schneerson but love what your Rebbe could just 2050 artsites was this past Chavez and a beautiful insight which he says about the blue and the white is that Caracas coming with a certain vision and the vision is supposing we can be all blue we could be completely covered with blue do we still need one blue thread how can that be one little blue thread can exempt a garment which is entirely blue Lourdes if the garment was all white I understand you need that blue thread but suppose you we can be completely blue do we still need that one blue thread to which motion responds yet we still need it so the battery off there's something which I thought was so fascinating and so insightful sometimes we look at the world in a way in which we want to make revolutionary changes we want to say how can we transform the world transform ourselves let's make the world all blue let's make ourselves all blue let's go out there and have a big vision of tikkun olam perhaps and just fix it all up and change it and revolutionize it and make it better and fomented rebellious and who needs the minutia who needs all this small little mitts vote just go I don't have to go after the big picture maybe that's seem to question that that we get as rabbis and maybe were challenged with by by others in our life why why all the details that we do some small things that were interested in just go for the big picture be all blue go out and make the world a better place work with the poor would work with with try to stop to stop famines help people go for it just be blue if your big old blue like that if you're going for this deep level vision of sort of fusing with the blue of heaven just go for that large vision why do you need small things in life like one thread of sit sister has to be blue - which Moshe says no you need that one thread because there's an enormous lesson in that the way real change comes about is when we do the small things in our life we tend to think that all we can just change the world it doesn't work that way we changed the world when we change ourselves and the way we change ourselves is when we work on the small areas in our lives we need that one blue thread and we put it on our suits and we wear it under our garment and it seems so small but it's actually an explosion it's a detonation it's a brick that's building a foundation of a human being that can be godly it's building a foundation of person who can impact the world in such a deep and special way that's the vision that the toy is trying to convey to us that you can't revolutionize can't foment revolution I should say you can't change the world by by going out with new isms with new ideas the way we change the world is to the small things in our life the small acts of kindness the one small threat and we understand that these things are of enormous value because that's the way we will change occurs in the human being in small incremental ways and therefore not to look at the small things our life and think they're small off small things our life are very valuable every mitzvahs or such of enormous importance but you lost here karcz dream go for the blow fuse of the blue of heaven just go for the revolutionary vision change the world I think I maybe felt that as it as a younger person in my life but I think what I've come to see is no it doesn't work this way you have to change yourself you have to change yourself one step along the way one Mitzvah at a time one small blue thread is of enormous value in this whole famous story of the of the cuff hi I'm Liesl American died in 1933 from Rawdon in Poland so one time he was on the train and and he was coming towards the town and the whole town was so excited the club's Cayenne was coming on the train and people were gathered at the train station to greet of it to meet him and he was a travelling companion another great one of the great for bunun was Europe and he said have you saw mayor there's a whole crowd there wants to greet you see you he says you know I tell you story so when I was a young man I had a vision I had ideas I had such beautiful concepts and ideas of holiness in kedusha and I felt I would just bring these ideas to the people I could bring the generation back to God back to toilets vote and the whole time says he's young man I went out and I tried to speak and the synagogue's are the shoals and the places where where they would listen said nobody came to hear what I had to say as I came back to Robin and I tried a different approach I sat in my new Shiva I said he sat in there's this notion where he learned and he started working and learning produced some of the most important books that we have today included mr. Burt and he said now 65 years later I'm riding on a train there's a whole crowd that wants to hear what I have to say so he turned to his traveling companion he said he said don't try to change the world change yourself and the world will change with you and I think that's such a foreign concept change yourself and the world will change with you we change ourselves one Mitzvah at a mitzvah at a time that's the idea of the blue thread one small thing at a time as desirable is to foment revolution and be all blue and fused with the blue of God it doesn't work that way the small things of our life the small interactions the small conversations the seemingly small interactions the seemingly small conversations of an enormous value in changing ourselves and change of the world around us so perhaps the take home but today's idea is that we have a rebellion we have Kura obviously jealousy was driving him through his jealousy he fomented a rebellion he developed a sophisticated idea in order to justify what he did he built it around the blues and the whites the idea if you understand this thing intellectually why do you have to trust it makes sense that well wholly why do we need job differentiation but the answer is of course we do he did it in the area of citrus which is very interesting since this is the Mitzvah that says lo Sosua with above cumbia crane it don't go after your eyes in your heart don't be distracted by your internal motivation so to speak that could thwart your intellect which is really what cork was all about and blues and whites Moshe responds and says doesn't work that way foundation has to be white once you have whites once you have trust go as deep as you want intellectually explore understand and of course the beautiful concept which we send the name of above it you ready sometimes we want to be all blue and we think about all blue one blue thread doesn't matter it doesn't work that way the way we've become over look the way we achieve greatness is in the small areas of our life one Mitzvah at a time I wish everybody a wonderful week and look forward to continuing our discussions and flowing together on Tuesday next week as well