Rabbi Reuven Kigel - Tu’Bshevat

okay hello everyone so it's Tu bashat and uh what's the holiday all about so many different things I just want to hone in first of all On's beautiful fruit red orange yellow green blue and purple nuts coconuts apples and of course you can forget everyone's favorite fruit chocolate n pels or something like that now and what food makes us happy one you know when Hashem created all this fruit and all coming from trees when students ever ask hey can you prove to me that there's no Evolution so I just tell them yeah look at the fruit trees like why would a blueberry need to evolve lemons orange limes pomegranates pomegranates growing on a tree would evolve not in a gazillion years not in a trillion gazillion years different types of nuts cherries so perfect so delicious so that's one thing when we think of fruit we think of that Hashem is real Hashem created the world Hashem exists for Hashem but there's another thing this really goes back to the original Commandment that Hashem gave to Adam Anda he said from each tree of the garden you can eat every tree you can think of even the tree of life just one tree don't eat from tree of knowledge so okay we're not going to blame anyone or whatever but at the end of the day they ate from the one tree they weren't supposed to eat from and not only that then Adam harishon blamed everything on his wife guys that are listening please never do that and Hashem Rashi tells us said that he was a ker that he denied the good not only did he Deni the good of his wife that Hashem gave him that he was so happy about just because you know something went de graciously wrong but you think about it all the trees that Hashem created he could have eaten from any single one of them but no he said no I want that thing I can't have and I'm not judging him I don't know what I've done in that case I just know in our case the tiken the fixing of denying the good is which is recognizing the good and doing something about it so this tuat and every tuat really when you eat the fruit eat it slowly eat it succinctly taste it smell it the wine it has a smell actually don't just chug it I'm talking to myself each food has such an amazing taste especially if you don't eat much sugar and that's the point the point is to be grateful forem for everything he's given us and this week's para when they talk about the man coming from sham the whatever the special Mana from heaven so that tasted like anything you wanted and at first we were so excited we were so grateful we like wow that was so amazing but then you know 10 20 30 years later like this again where's the Steak you know and we just have to get that out of our nature we have to be thankful for everything we have and we have to realize that Hashem created a beautiful world for us have a great shabas and awesome tbat week