What Can We Learn From The Manna Bread?

[Music] he ever read the the talks about Mana anybody here is awake Mana bread you guys know the bread that came from from Heaven read it you with me I'm the only one I I learned this already so it's for you okay so the Mana the Mana was a food from Heaven literally that decided to give to for 40 years food Came From Heaven based on your righteousness that's where the food landed if you were righteous it landed right at your doorstep if you Wicked you'd had to it was over the hill you had to go walk for it which was embarrassing because everybody would know oh you're rash why you don't have Mana do you I don't see any man on your doorstep I don't see any newspapers on your door I see newspaper on your doorstep but not M on your doorstep maybe if you remove the newspaper you'll have Mana instead stop reading all the garbage of the newspapers and uh read some T maybe you'll have some Mana instead so it's embarrassing too but what's so special about this Mana aside from the fact that physically speaking am didn't have to go to the bathroom for years no one had to go to the bathroom why every time you eat you and I eat we eat part of the food turns into blood the rest that doesn't turn into blood guess what leave your body that's waste now the Mana was pure Holiness to such an extent that the entire Mana turned into blood no one had to go to the Bon for 40 years you didn't have you don't have to find any toilets anywhere in the desert no toilets why there's no need 40 years is had brand new clothes on but they only had they never had a second replacement 40 years gave them that one sim what they wore remained brand new they didn't have to go shopping they didn't have to go to Macy's see all the immodest women there they didn't have to go to the mall they didn't have to go anywhere why their clothes were renewed every day renewed says that in 40 years you didn't have to replace your smot what's smot is the is the is the gowns or dresses but for men not just for women now 40 years we didn't have to go to the bathroom 40 years we have to change our clothes now this Mana you would think well if I eat the same thing for 40 years maybe I get bored but the beauty of this Mana is says that this man in Numbers chapter 11 verse number seven the Mana was like coriander seed and its color was like the color of the bedak the people would stroll and gather it and grind it in the mill pound it in into in a mortar and cook it in a pot and make it into cakes and The Taste was like the Taste of dough needed with oil when the D descended upon the camp at night the Mana would descend upon it so on one hand the sages say that this Mana tasted like anything you want you thought about ice cream it tastes like ice cream you thought about steak it tasted like steak you thought about ice cream with steak on top of it that's what it tasted whatever you thought in your mind you don't have to say it you have to write a letter to hhm Dear hasem tomorrow please uh send me Mana and a taste of eggs with cheese and a little bit of turkey BAC and kosher from from the rabbi over here no there's no order what you thought is what it tasted like live meaning first bite you thought about ice cream it tastes like ice cream second bite you want steak it tastes like steak third bite you want some eggs it tastes like eggs fourth bite you want eggs and cheese too tastes like whatever you wanted that's how it tasted like so then there's a question if it tasted like whatever you want naturally why does the PUK say that they gathered it they grinded it they cooked it they fried it for what why you grinding it why you cooking if it already tastes like anything you want what do you want it taste like chicken cutlets think chicken cutlets snitel from Leana tastes delicious not so much delicious what do you want you you want chicken cage I have chicken cage you want buas like we have over here you can talk about it from Mount saai it tastes like buas whatever you wanted that's what it tastes what are you cooking what are you frying for what who could give me an answer no they're not but it tastes like anything you want how tastes better than what who made it tell me why why would they feel better put an effort so wait so if I told you okay I could give you a million dollars for doing nothing I give you a million dollars for working really hard you rather go work hard so why you different than them no different okay next it's a good question it's good answer but we have to test ourselves no somebody else an answer I know somebody in the back has like a secret answer I think you guys learned cabala in the back over there no who has an answer huh physical physical pleasure physical pleasure you like cooking no what they like cooking what they different than you no in the back in the back not going to forget how to cook they don't want to forget how to cook why do I need to know how to cook if the if the food is cooking for me so instead of cooking every day cook once a month they say it Cooks every day behind you yes you deserve a million dollars for that answer I'll give you payments my dear friend just gave us an answer from the zad the zad says something extraordinary you gave us an answer worth a million dollarars says is they had a gift from they got a gift from sh said I'm going to give you food whatever you like you want candy it taste like candy you want Bas takes like Bas you want candy with Bas in it no problem whatever you want you have but it says that the am the who's the am the is the part of the people that did not have did not have so they just simply didn't believe didn't didn't believe that it could taste like anything no come on it's going to taste like ice cream also no it tastes like ice cream I have to put some ice in it no come on it's going to taste like schnitzel no come on for anything to tastes like schnitzel it requires oil no come it's going to taste like barbecue without putting it on the fire on the grill how is it going to taste like barbecue they rationalized that K's blessing and they cooked it and they fried it and they did this and they did that says these people were fools why were they fools they took their blessing that gave them and they ruined it they ruined it because after all of their toil after all of their cooking after all of their effort what did they end up getting they got something that was less than the original they got cakes which was the least level of taste and deliciousness of the man this level of deliciousness this level of greatness of this man the highest level was how it came if you believe that a could do anything if you believe that could do anything you can think about anything that's what the man tasted like the texture The Taste the whatever you wanted that's what it would be but if you didn't believe and you cooked and you fried and you did this you ruined the blessings so what do you get yes it's still a food from Heaven yes it's still delicious but it's the least level it's like a cake you buy from the gas station after you're really hungry after a fast that's what it is it's still good it's a banana flavor but it's not man from Heaven it's not the same you ruin the blessing because of your lack of so the what is this like this is like the fools that we see around us that work too much thinking that needs their help that needs their help people forget that yes you're supposed to have effort yes but the only reason why you have to have is effort is because of the curse of from the sweat of your brow you'll bring bread you'll have bread meaning that you'll have to sweat for your bread meaning that to work hard manual labor is a curse it's not a blessing it's not a blessing to go work 18 hours a day on Wall Street or in some bank or in UPS or wherever it's not a blessing it's a curse yeah but Rabbi I need to make a living so who says you need to work 18 hours so how do we know how much isot is too much isot how do I know how much effort is too much effort there's a line what's that line the norm normal amount of effort normal job is 9 to5 that's Norm eight hours that's as much as you're supposed to allow the curse to in to infiltrate into your life a minute more a minute more is now you are becom a on curses instead of becoming M because becoming more stringent on blessings you're becoming more stringent on curses bringing more curses on yourself yeah but what about if I need more money and the 9 to five is not enough who says that the money has to come from your job somebody came to the my store is not making enough money now if you saw the store his pictures next to his store it's like m a little hole in the wall but he knew how to make enough to survive he didn't live a lavished life he didn't even allow his his wife thean to put towels on the floor why it has to stay dust has to stay sand why says if you put towels on the floor maybe you're not going to want guests to come to the house because they're going to ruin your floor so just leave it as dust leave it as it is but said somebody came to him one time asking him I have a store it's not enough it's not bringing enough P to my family so I'm thinking of opening a second store so starts laughing says no no really seriously I need more money it's serious go no no I was laughing because you reminded me of a story from my childhood he was why what happened in your childhood CU When I was a kid we had this sh this this drunk in neighborhood that Not only was a drunk but he was the type of drunk that like to give people advice you know some people are drunk they're quiet they're in the corner but some people they're drunk but they like to talk to everybody you know they want to hug you they want to kiss you they want to you know they want those types of people was one of those people in our neighborhood he's not only a drunk but he likes to give people advice with his drunkenness and every time his advice was funnier than the next so one time there's a guy that was uh selling uh wine for a barrel so he goes up to the wine guy he says you're not doing good the guy poor guy is all day waiting for somebody to buy wine for him he knows he's not doing great but he's making a living whatever he can cu no the drunk guy tells him no he don't know how to do business go okay why don't I know how to do business he says you're not selling enough I think you should add another faucet to it another thing out of it that way you could have double prophets so the guy tells him the guy selling the wine goes listen I may no I may not be a genius or entrepreneur or anything or some uh uh finance major but I know that uh it doesn't matter how many holes I have in the barrel it's still the same Source it doesn't matter how many holes it's still going to be the same amount of profit because it's the same source so the drunk guy says no no no you don't know what you're talking about Let Me Explain again you have one hole now in the barrel on the right if you make one on the left double the profit see I just I should get a half I should get that half he goes no no you don't they go back and forth back and forth and little little is watching he's laughing this crazy this he's trying to explain this guy business the other guy's trying to get him out of the place he's bothering him and the guy's convinced this is business advice at the end the drunk says them see that's why you're poor that's why you're poor you don't know what you're doing and he leaves so the says to the guy that came to him and he says you remind me of that story you think that a is going to give you more money if you open a second store the reality is the source is still the same no matter what you do you open one store two stores five stores or 10 stores Thea was already written in sh the was already written says already decided how much how much money you going to make on The Source stays the same no matter how many storefronts you have so what makes you think it's going to change so of course everybody is going to say wait a minute what about effort what about everybody likes to do remember that is is part of the curse it's not part of the blessing your is has to be up to the extent of Norm not above the norm don't be stringent on yourself in regards to the curse be stringent on yourself as far as the blessing make sure you spend time and effort on the blessing part if I told you why don't you become more stringent on only eat you say no that's too much okay why don't you be more stringent on uh on make sure that you don't even hand the baby to your wife when she's n oh no that's too much okay why don't you be more stringent on you li and you're learning make sure that when you learn you're not talking talking two hours straight learning without talking no that's too much okay so all the Kusa all the good things you don't want to be stringent on but the curse you want to be stringent on this is like that even though they just heard a who speak at Mount saai many of them not have the required amount of inem that when push came to shove when the man came they simply could not accept the blessing for what it is they had to ruin it they had to interfere with it so even when a wanted to give them a blessing even when a wanted to give them good they were so used to being a part of everything doing is in everything working hard on everything toiling on everything trying with everything having their hand in everything that when Hashem simply gave them a hand out they couldn't accept it [Music]