Paying The Debt - R. Uri Lati - TorahAnytime.com

he says that there was a person that went to his Rabbi and he said Rabbi please I need you to make a m for a very sick person my neighbor he's on his deathbed please Rabbi please bless him he says okay no problem what's his name he says Thomas Ben Christina so the Rabbi says Thomas Ben Christina is not a Jewish name he says Rabbi he's not Jewish so the Rabbi says so why do you want to M why do you want him to get better he says because Raba he owes me a lot of money and if he dies what will happen to the money so that's the Mas or that's the joke that they say about us when we stand in front of hasem and we stood in front of and we say we want we want we have a whole laundry list of what we want from Hashem and hash says what do you want it exactly for why do you want the money why do you want it for why do you want longevity why do you want a long life and the answer is always the we want it not for ourselves we want it because we have a lot of debt we have to we owe you a lot you have given us this year you have G given us children you have given us Life Food you've given us clothing shelter but we want to owe we owe you a lot we want to repay you which means our goal in life should always be to make Hashem proud to make Hashem happy now happiness could come in many different forms There's real happiness which we'll talk about tonight and there's artificial happiness that everybody runs after it's not a real happiness it's not tangible even it's a fleeting happiness it's artificial happiness it's fake it's counterfeit but our job is to differentiate it's a very fond line between the artificial happiness and real happiness now our job is to see what is real happiness and what is artificial happiness but in the end of the day it always should be we're doing it only for you Hashem we're doing it only because we want to come closer to you Hashem