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Daily Chidush: Small Steps Vs. Big Steps (9 minutes)

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Rabbi Yaron Reuven

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hello how are you hope you're having a great day today wanted to give our daily lot of amazing things happening here in Jerusalem good news we're uh doing a sh with RAB mrai tomorrow night and really looking forward to it uh it's going to be in um somewhere somewhere in the I forget um and N so um uh but the key that I've heard today at least uh that that people are constantly asking about it in regards to Chua in regards to getting close to Hashem in regards TOA is how does it work what do you do how do you get to a point of of fulfilling your purpose how do you get to a point where you live a life with complete amuna complete faith in Hashem complete trust in him and a not only an understanding but better yet a m a feeling that he's with you all at all times so we said this in one of our shim in in Miami uh I think it's Shi number 71 a lot of people liked it because they really talked to put this whole thing I'm going to say in 10 minutes in perspective over a couple of hours uh with a lot more details but when it comes down to chuva when it comes down to doing things a lot of people believe that listen if you take it one step at a time step by step small steps small steps eventually you're going to get to the prize maybe in life it works that way in some things but when it comes to chuva it only works half the way meaning that imagine you you want to boil water and you want to boil the water because you want to make yourself tea or you want to you need boiling water nothing less and obviously there's nothing more but you wait you wait you wait you wait and then maybe one you know one minute before the water actually gets to Boiling you take it off the pot and then you put it back on the pot and then one minute before it gets to Boiling you take it off and you let let it cool and then you do it again so in so many words you realize that it's never going to get to Boiling why because it's always small steps it's always small steps but they're never big enough to get you to where you want to be when Hashem is sending us a test when Hashem is sending us a message whether it's the message is to wake us up out of this blindness out of this foolishness out of this lie that we live and and and Fabrication that we've created in our mind and let the take over to make us believe that everything everything we're doing is perfect and we have nothing to worry about when Hashem send us a message to wake us up he's going to send it in several ways sometimes he's going to create different problems that didn't exist before whether it's shalom issues children issues all types of things if our ways continue the problems become bigger he sends US money problems if we don't listen then he starts taking away a lot of money they call money Ze in the because it moves from place to place Ze means move and why because it moves from place to place AEM decides who to give his money to based on their actions it's not your money it's his money all of it everything is his so he decides who to give it to and sometimes he decides to take it away from from somebody he lended to whether it be me you or anyone else that deserves that test in order to wake them up and see if they look up at sham and realize that it's all coming from him in the first place also keep in mind that when someone loses a lot of money it's generally the best news that they ever got because the money money is also called in the which means Bloods kazal teaches us why is it called Bloods because AEM actually has a decree the the the the one that's actually coming to Hashem and showing you know showing off all of the sins we made tells theem Hey listen you know you built the world of justice and based on the sins that this fellow made he deserves a death penalty Hashem obviously doesn't want to kill us but at the same token he has to be the God of Justice so he says okay instead of killing them then I'll take away their money because money is Bloods money is in rep replacement of blood why because people spend their entire life and in essence all of their blood to get money so sometimes when we lose a lot of money which obviously we take as bad news naturally we do it's actually the best news we ever got because if you had a million dollar or $100 million if you're not here it's not worth anything for you you can't take it to Ala if we still don't listen then obviously becomes more difficult and health issues become a major problem and Hashem is not just going to take us out of this world you know and and and make us believe that uh you know that this is it okay you failed your test and that's it he's going to keep trying us and trying us and trying us why because he's trying to build us when we realize that this is all a test this is all part of the purpose then we can move on to the next step then we realize that all of these difficulties are happening for a reason Hashem is trying to wake us up and he's telling telling us my son my daughter it you did the step by step you got the water hot but it be it's not boiling I need it to boil I need you to take a big step no not a small step a big step to show hasem that we're genuine to show Hashem that our chuva is legitimate to show Hashem that we actually believe in him once in a while we have to take a big step get the water to be boiling once it boils we get our tea we drink the enjoyable tea and we take small steps small steps and small steps and small steps and small steps and once in a while it's time to take a big step now it's your choice of whether you're going to take the big step on your own or you're going to wait for Hashem to tell you that you need to obviously the suggestion is for you to not wait for Hashem to tell you because Hashem is not like me sending you text messages in middle of the night hasem send you messages in a different way and my suggestion is you probably don't want to hear those messages you probably want to just do it on your own point being here is that yes small steps work but only if they're combined with big steps once in a while to show that we're serious this is the secret of chuva this is the secret to life and this is secret secret to success ESS in anything you can't just take small steps forever bunting in baseball may get you on first base but you're not going to win the World Series with just bunting you're not even going to win the game with just bunting sending you know hitting with the sports if you have a guy running in a uh you know one yard uh you know each time yes it's nice to see the guy beat up a bunch of people on his way down but it's still not going to get you the first down doing small deals every day and you know making a 100 bucks yes it's nice it's an extra $100 you didn't have but it's not going to pay the overhead of a large a large growing company same concept works with AEM yes the small steps help out but the their only purpose is to prepare you for the big step because the big step is what Hashem is waiting for we all take this very seriously and realize that in the end of days that we find ourselves in we always have to think about if the showed up today have I taken a big enough step to see him and not be embarrassed think about this you'll know the right decision