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To Hold Back - R. Yehoshua Zitron - TorahAnytime.com

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that when someone lives their life to better themselves, when someone lives their life the knowing that their focus is to improve, when someone lives their life that their focus to change, the focus to become better, their life is different. They have the ability to hold themselves back. You know where real change happens? Real change doesn't happen when you hear this class. Real change doesn't happen where you be like, "Okay, next time I'm not going to get angry." You know where real change happens? Real change happens that when you're put into a test, when you're put into a situation when you're about to like just like you want to let that out that you want to just like give it all and then you hold yourself back. And then you control yourself and that's who you how you change your reality. >> [snorts] >> And that's the reason that we were placed in this earth. And that's why the the water is our plan my and water is from the beginning. Water is an essence that is so important in Judaism. We start the day with washing our hands. You end your life with going into the tahara into a mikvah. What's all based on water. It's all based on water. Chemical the the ability to be able to live on this planet this beautiful amazing planet is because of water. Why is water so important? That answer is is because created water so important but that is what represents change. Mayim, the mem, the 40, that's what represents change. And that's why you're placed in this earth. So when you go when you look and you look and you have to wake up in the morning and you're washing your hands. You're going and you're about to do whatever it is that you're doing, it's all about that change. And that's why when before we you go and you bench and you go and you thank God for the food that you have, you're washing myim acharonim. You want to know why? Because the reason that you're placed in this earth is to change and you're taking the physical, you're taking something that is so physical, the water the the the desire of food and you're raising it to a spiritual sense. And that's you have to realize you're changing the chemical composition. You're changing the spiritual priority, the spiritual level of these FOOD OF EVERYTHING. AND you're changing reality. And that's why you're placed in this earth. So when you look at the halachas, oh you have to walk up in the morning and wash your hands. Before you go and before you eat, you have to wash your hands. This is what you're placed in this earth. God is sending you sign after sign. And you could either be like Yosef who goes and pinpoints on the signs and be like, "You know what? Yeah, let me double down. Let me change. Let me improve myself. Let me get better." Or you could be a Paroh. And a Paroh is that even if you tell them, "LISTEN, I'M RIGHT 6 BY 6. I'M TELLING YOU CHANGE. I'm telling you stop. Let the Jews go. I'm telling you bring the animals IN." THE MAKAH BARAD BUT BUT YOU KNOW WHAT PAROH SAYS? "NO, I'M NOT GOING TO DO IT." AND YOU ASK HOW COULD someone be so stubborn? How could someone be so arrogant? And the answer is if you don't have the qualities of water, if you don't have that qualities of change, if you don't have the quality of water always seeks the lowest level. You want to change, you have to have that humility. That's why I could and this is my own thing because you know, my own shop. I could just broke who started off Paroh with water and ended him with water. Be like your level of what you need to focus on is change. And you want to know how do you change? You got to get rid of the arrogance. You got to get rid OF THAT ME PAROH CONSIDERED HIMSELF a god. THAT'S WHY I COULD JUST broke who says, "No, look at water. You want to improve your life, look at the beauty of water. Look at how I created the world. Before everything, this is all that water. What the world that was there was no reality was the universe of God was unchanging. Was a static universe. God created a fluid state. And that's the water. And that's what it represents. It represents change. It represents the better yourself. So when you go and when you think about it and and by the way that you look at Rabbi Akiva, the water dripping on the rock. The water was dripping on the rock. The where where did the change come from? And he was an ignorant person at the age of 40 and then he changed his life. He says, "Wait a minute. Look at the water. Look at it was able to change the rock." But how was able to change? It's the water that's able to change. It's the water. It's the mayim. It's the 40 that's able to go and bring you to be able to change.