Which Animal Are You?

we conclude the year on with reading the par of and then we begin with seet which obviously has to have some type of connection but we have to understand an interesting phenomenon mentioned in many which we haven't heard before and that is if you notice in all the thatu gives and also in in to the we're giving it to the we're talking about all B Israel here they're compared to animals that's what they're compared to what over and over again yeah okay at least he was compared to a g to something similar to a lion then was compared to an compared to some type of of do and the Dan is compared to a to a snake and is compared to a to some type of donkey B compared to a wolf Y in our par is compared to a b he's compared to some type of ox some type of bull God is compared to like a lion not a lion as opposed to a lion ter our is referred to refer to what is going on here this seems extremely condescending almost embarrassing to be able to call people to call people sh refer to them and referring to the rest of B Israel as animals that doesn't seem to be appropriate how did the bras get away with doing such a thing and it's repetitive also there must be some idea behind it and obviously it's compared with something we can learn from and listen to the words of the Z in the zor says an incredible thing on the when we speak about the fact that will be made in that which we're also familiar with he says over there he says over there in Aramaic he says to the whole entire creation let's make something now that is that will be a of the whole entire Bria let's take the whole entire creation it's including Animals by the way because Man was created last he was obviously created after animals and let's put it all together into one chabab one big chant and we'll pull out of it a person we'll pull out of it a person what we call and they put it all together and he says even who says I'm going to give you a piece of myself also unbelievable this is why man is referred to as what we call an A Small World a small world we are an encapsuled World in a smaller phenomenon I I was was told the other way around the world is a large Adam because of course we are the center of the Bria we are the center of everything in the world is an enlarged uh enlargement of agrement of what man is all about this is the reason why we called because of the zor which I read to you which basically says that the whole entire Bri got together to make what we call adisha now what does this mean this means that we have all the all the character traits that have to do with things that we're familiar with in the Bri we know that there are four elements in the world there's the of which has to do with fire and of course every man many many people inside of them have the fire inside of them a fiery passion or something of a g a certain type of that person have of course anger comes from the of and being very excited or you have the opposite direction of Aur which is dirt which has to do with a laziness that comes with a certain heaviness as we all know sometimes just hard to get out of bed it's hard to just go ahead and get yourself to do something even though it's important to do something my favorite scenario is the person who's lying down in bed and he left a light on and he's so tired to get up and he turns to one side turns it covers one eye covers the other eye trying to get out of they just can't get out of bed to turn the light off in order to be able to enjoy a sleep because that comes for the meat of offer that just keeps us attached of course there's the of which is the power of of speech and that has to do with or or or the other way around you use it for T and the appropriate things that your mouth is supposed to be used for and of course the element of M of water is the fourth of the elements and that has to do with the it flows it's always moving that's our dry our passions the power of loves come of love comes from there and it has of course the positive aspects and the negative aspects from it you can use your drives and passage for one for going ahead and doing things and taking initiative and doing the positive things or you can go ahead and use it of course to chase after the wrong things or looking in the wrong places where you're not supposed to be these are the four elements that are contained in us but here we have it and this is what we started off with also contained inside of is all the animals that means that all the aspects that you see within an animal you can find within a person some are more enunciated in others than and and some people and more we have every person has more attributes of a certain animal and less attributes of a different animal but that is the character traits it has to do with each and every one of us the of the courage of an of that person who knows how to go ahead and takes initiative and be a starter man he's able to go ahead and do things and take risks if he needs to do things or you have the AR the arut the deceitfulness or the cunningness of what we call the of the snake or if you will the fox that is able to do things that is behind the scenes and able to be very uh clandestin and secretive and be able to do things in the right way hopefully or sometimes in the wrong way he could be a a private eye as spy to be able to help things to be able to help hers Israel in their battle against these Arabs or you can go ahead and use it to be of course the other direction to treat to cheat and and be deceitful and treat and cheat people left and right the of you have the courage what we call the C the boldness of a of a of a leopard to be able to have bold and be able to do things if you know something's right you get out and do it like Tamar went and sat out on the par she knew this is the right thing to do and she went ahead and did it able to go out and be bold and to do it for the right place but sometimes a person takes boldness in the right wrong place such as the wife of potifar the wife of potifar knew that it was good to be with YF she knew that there was great kids that was about to come out of him but she went and took it too far person has to know the exact medium how much boldness and where to be in order to use that type of medium the the horse is known for his GAA his stamina he's a very as a stallion this is a beautiful thing a stallion is incredible is uh is his features is it's it's incredibly aristocratic the idea of aus they're still in an aristocratic place in the in the Kingdom and The Palace over there in England they're still busy with their horses over there changing the GS with horses okay you can keep it up but anyways that's the idea of a person who has a certain GAA certain he's very proud of himself or of course you can have the the is more of a person who is incumbent that lets people sit on him he's might be a little bit slower but he can go ahead and take it like was the man of the that's was that's why he compared to the because he took on the Yoke of on top of him he took on the Yoke of Torah it's a heavy yoke and it's something that can be as they say it can make a person weak because you're so busy with your learning so that's the power of what is given to us we all have different traits of animals that say we're Mish a wild zoo that's incredible that's within us and it's a fact but it's okay because everybody's able to use it for the good or for the bad it's your choice to be able to decide it's incredible the power of man he's able to use his genius his brains his intelligence his talent his capabilities to be able to build a plane an airplane or to be able to build a spaceship to be able to go out into sh sit on the moon it's incredible things or to go down under do the submarine or sub or even the submarines are able to get to the bottoms of the oceans to take these Sub sub atomical vessels that are able to get all the way to the depths of the ocean it's incredible or the skyscrapers which we're also familiar with or those same people can go ahead and use all their money and intelligence such as Iran likes to do for weapons of mass destruction to be able to destroy the world to do the best that we can to be as destructive as possible as aboms and everything as we're also familiar with man is everything within him he's a walking if I could call animal if you don't mind using that expression but he has the abilities of cap and capabilities to be able to use it for the best or the worst he can go from the top to the bottom this reminds me of an incredible story that rinka said very soon before he was Nar and he was Nar very he passed away not far but not a little bit before the um the Twin Towers in 2001 he he he was he died in the end of 2000 and he wrote in a certain article which I kept with me all the time because it had a lot of meaning to me is that he was walking in New York one time in down Manhattan and he looked up at the skyscrape and he said wow this is absolutely incredible who could have created this must have been a man of Genius something special some creature some creation to create such a such a ed such a beautiful skyscraper to be able to re reach such high and be so and so steady and to be able to handle every type of earthquake also this is an a work of genius and then he looked down and he put his neck down and he looked down at the people and with the type of people that were there that the ones who are doing this and it was hard to make the this is the person that can make such a skyscraper didn't make sense and he brought a story with the he said the as we all know during the time of theala during the time of the Enlightenment movement he had many grandchildren and one of her one of his granddaughters was uh she fell into the Trap of the Escala of the Enlightenment movement and she was a top university person and she came to her grandfather one time in his house and it was in the middle of World War I actually and she told him you know zi you know how long are you going to stay in this Primitive Place in these primitive ramifications with these books around you doing things in the olden time get it's time to get out and smell the coffee get out into the real world get into the real world and start seeing the advancements of what's Happening into the world went to took her to the window where I told you it was in the middle of world war and he showed her a b plane you remember those B planes with the two guys sitting in the top over there with the goggles and the mask on top of them and he's got the cover on top and he saw one person in the front driving the plane and there was a guy in the back lighting the Dynam sticks and dropping them in different places trying to blow up different things he says see those planes over there one day those planes are going to be able to make it to the moon knew what he was talking about one day those planes are going to make it to the moons see those Dynamite sticks see those bombs one day those bombs are going to be able to destroy the whole entire world they will have the capabilities of being an atomic bomb he didn't say the Tom bomb obviously they will have the capabilities of exploding and destroying the whole entire world he says that's what they make that's what they make mention but we make people we are busy dealing with people and not making things we're busy dealing with what we call Mid values character traits building a person making him what he can be that's what we're focused on we're not interested in destroying and creating external things our busyness is to try to make a mench and that is only done through the of T if if I understood correct correctly from the story there that girl did not make it through the Holocaust we see from here the ass that we are bringing man has in within him the capability to use his traits to become a mench to be able to use him and to go over and Beyond his capabilities incredible things that he can do but at the same time he has the capabilities to go the other direction to use it for weapons of mass destruction this is what it says and this you will understand so many k with us if we had time I'd love to go through them but one of the simple ones everybody knows we know says sounds like a nice mush no he's giving us a nice mush what you should do in order to be able to be obem like a lion and this it's not a mus he's saying you have it within your kishk you don't realize you have the power of a li within you you're able to be I how can you be to person do more I can't run like a like a deer what do you how how can that be the answer is says the IIT over there in aot he says what it means is because within and instilled inside of every person is a the capabilities of a with his because he's the he is the crown of all creation and therefore he's able to use that and able to use it to his best the Mal brings out the same point on the here we are in like we said says the he says researchers have found have found that there are many different the and all those are found within the person this is what the malim says and he brings down that he says that's why we have we learned from as we all know the the says that being you learn from a from a from a cat or GA from a like we mentioned before being bold and being having GA and it comes from and and the strength of a of a lion but all of these are learned out from different he brings from the that's the r in the guide to the perplexed in he actually writes this idea about the m is made of four different animals said why would in theover half four different animals he meant it's coming to express that different types of traits character traits and positions that a person can have that's why if you look at an animal that's why said to us and I told you over and over you look in over and over you'll see these ideas of bringing out animals you the lazy one look at the go look at the ant how quick he is and now there why should I look at an ant I'm not an ant these ants are crazy they're incredible they have incredible strengths no you understand you have a that it's within your it's within your capabilities to have the same thing because you were given everything within you we know the says that Adam received all the animals he was checking each animal to see which one he fits with which is such a he went on a with every type of animals I know some people would say the same thing but you know that doesn't make so much sense you have to wait for for to be able to what do you go with every with every animal doesn't make sense the answer is that he himself had within him the of each animal so he was trying to see which which character trait is most established within me that he can make such a connection with but he was able to give a name to each of these animals because he's the only one that understood to the MTH degree exactly what each one stood for from to cover up because we say they're very you understand Al is a bat and that's because it's a of Le that they cover themselves up if you ever seen a bat sleeping at night time of course we know well they're actually sleeping during the day night time they're out but they're covering themselves up with their wings and they completely M themselves in a in a very uh secure type of way anyways this is the that the Mal tells us and like I said it's all over the place the also writes the same idea he says that's what has to do with it says whoever reads that's a good ticket I love I could just read something it I do have to know what it means says the doesn't mean just to read it it means to learn the traits and build your traits from it sair is all about the songs of the whole entire creation it talks about the the skies and the Earth and it talks about the the rivers but also talks all different types of animals goes through every type of animal which song they sing why because we're supposed to learn from the traits of the animals what's really within ourselves it's really that we're there there of course it takes time to figure out what's contained within us we don't know what's going on inside of our bodies we don't know what's going on inside of our Nas what kind of traits we have so we need to be able to read saer to read perak kashir and if you do that in the proper way believe it or not that's the ass of the and others they say such a thing you know the you should be familiar with this we know by when they were um sh and Pua as we all know Miriam and Y were giving birth were having were were were helping the women give birth we all know that parro said what happened why aren't you taking they said these words you should know the women who are Jewish are not like the Egyptian women they're now could mean obviously it could mean that they are they just do it themselves says they act like he says they are like to a just like animals don't need any assistance when they are giving birth so do they just just do it on their own they don't need our help they're an here we have again the Annunciation that we are compared sort of speak to animals because each animal has a trait which is to an extreme to to a very expressive amount that he's able to go and do incredible things and we have it within us this gives us an incredible lesson to learn from all of this and with this we're coming to a close that we have to realize that each and every person has an incredible amount of traits between them you have to appreciate every person for what he is there's no better lesson that we have in as this idea to make us realize that yes every kid is different and you have to treat them and even though you might not relate to it you might just have a different animal within you than he has so it's not such a big deal don't worry about it we all have our different traits those kids who have ADHD which you understand and it's frustrating and they're jumping up and down all over the place etc etc but you don't realize how talented they are there people wrot books and books D just wrote a whole book on kids who are ADHD about showing the tremendous talents that they have within themselves the capabilities that they have people who have who have tremendous lusts and desires of course it's dangerous we all know that it can get you in the wrong places it can destroy your life unfortunately as we've seen by many people that it can put you in the wrong place but you don't realize those passions is what can get a person up in the morning that's a person can get up and go ahead and take initiative and do what needs to be done a person who's highly intelligent we always think oh he's in he's got the IQ but many times those highly intelligent people might be like an Einstein which are not exactly sociable type of people or they have tremendous heah haras or they just don't know how to connect and relate to other people they don't appreciate other people and they have their challenges in a different way so everybody has their as I say good you know we always say people have good and bad traits not that's that it's the good trait can actually be a bad bad also everything has one side and you have to appreciate every child for what he is and to ra him and to make sure not to be don't get rid of that bad trait the ever popular gr says RP dark never to get rid Darko you just have to figure out what that tradeit is and channel it to the right place there was a person who was giving one time a seminar in terms of encouraging people you know about he was giving to seminar of a bunch of teachers of how to be he was a he was a person who taught many teachers and he said you should know what we are our wagon drivers that's that's what we have to do and nobody understood what he was talking what you talking about drivers and he explained because you know what how how fast the carriage is going to go is as many horses as you have and as strong as you have if you have fancy strong stallions then you're in good shape if you have four six eight eight horsepower you're going fast you're going to be very you know very Regal you're it's very very impressive but it has nothing to do with you how good your horses are how strong they are what they are the only thing you could do is sit in the seat and control the horses we're just there to steer the horses in the right direction to make sure that they don't Veer to the right or to the left we have to be able to use our capabilities to know what they are and then to be able to view them in the right direction we spoke about this in the beginning of sukat the idea of figuring who I am but now we're speaking about the fact that we have to realize that each one of those traits is to know how to control them and to put it in the right place are you a are you a you know when someone else call someone else a don't take it personally just because you call someone else a donkey he just means to Express what type of trait he has that's all he's just trying to say oh you have the trait of being a probably calling you they're able to carry many many books on their back they're able to learn a lot to be able to do tremendous amount you understand is that is that your trait brings at the end of his from he says why do we find he brings a gared that someone else called someone else an animal's name that's not nice this is book we the someone else call someone else an animal's name so the answer is he didn't call him an animal you would never make fun of him and be so condens sending to call him an animal he's trying to say you have the trait of this animal that's all s if I call you you're you're like an ant I'm saying wow you're Zar you're quick you're a good guy that's not so bad to say such a thing call you a good to go no one gets insulted when you call yourself like a lion I call you like a lion you understand what that means you have the trait of a lion you're a gibor you have initiative you're the one who's a project start you're the one who's able to think of good things you have courage you have no fear you're willing to make investments in the right place that's the mean of a of a of a gior and you know what but even if I call you aore if I call you a who am I comparing you to ysep ysep was aore which is an ox a bull is the idea of perseverance not necessarily only strength that's already goes to the lion it's perseverance Yad was able to handle every situation and take it out of years and years in a jail 22 years till he was able his father and years and years of being able to situate to situate yourself in MIT and always being persecuted by his brothers he's a man who perseveres he takes a situation a tough situation and he's persistent and he continues and he knows how to be able to handle it these are the people who are able to carry out the projects the you know the lion is the one who thinks of the project the one who's able to carry it through and follow it through and be able to continue it that's that the M are the shore those are the power of the shore to be able to do it not necessarily the smartest but the ones who are consistent they keep going they keep going and they're the ones who are able to do it there's a great gutle here I would say his name but I'm not going to say his name just in case it's not allowed but he is tremendous amount of K is one of one of the big is's a very big name he's considered one of theim already here in AR Isel and he was a About Cha he grew up not religious and when he turned over there was a person who pointed out I know that he's going to be a big gll and he said you know why we were once at a hike together and he wasn't one of the fastest guys there were people were quicker than but one thing we knew is we always kept having kept taking breaks he never took a break he kept going and pushing and pushing he's the one who just kept going and going his perseverance was incredible the old turtle and the hair story that's what he was about he was a person that not necessarily was the smartest and he started with a back start he was a complete Bala and here he is I'm telling you he one of the Israel he's considered one of the names he's whatever and he has many very very known person and where does that come from from the power of it's going to come from there everybody has their own everybody has their capabilities and we have to know that every person has their own individuality and it's not a musle we're not here coming to tell you it's a that you can and to make you feel good it's really true it's there it's within us and that's what we have to encourage ourselves and encourage our children because remember every day you make this you always make a gave me everything I need I'm not missing anything every purpose that I have is given within me there's no reason to look over our shoulders at that other person that guy who got a raise in in his job or the guy who's the CEO and I really should be in his position because he's a Dodo brain and I'm much better than him each person has that position that he gave me called gave me the trait that I'm supposed to have they just like we know that a person who is a carpenter he'll never be able to do his job if you give him some electricians tester and you can't give an electrician a fountain pen which a Sofer tries to use because each person's got to have the tools that are for him and whatever tools gave you that's your job that's what you're supposed to do there is no such thing in the class as lower children and higher children it's a mistaken they're just different everybody has trust me the ones who intelligence are lower they have capabilities from here to tomorrow and you know that most of the millionaires are the ones that were not necessarily the ones that made it big in school we all know that they're usually the ones who are like we brought before the meat of the shore the consistent ones the ones that are able to do each person there's IQ there's there's there the IQ of a person the intelligence but don't forget about the emotional intelligence the EI of a person how much he's able to relate to people every single person has their capabilities and like I said through kazal over and over again we see this phenomenon and therefore we should take it as a lesson when we're learning and reading about the par and we're starting bra and we're starting a new cre of the Torah to make us realize the power of the individual the power of that we were created which means each and every one has their own capabilities whether it's about yourself and whether it's about your children and with that we should give our to our children just like yak and Moshe were busy giving to appreciate the individual capabilities of each one of the sh