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Rabbi Moshe Haber Path of the Just: The Architecture of Awe: Internalizing the Presence of God 5.12.26 · Rabbi Moshe Haber - Daily Mussar/Weekly Perasha

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  Idea of something called we know what your eye is fear of
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  happiness and I'll find out this idea called the author of mood
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  how many that means that a person is keeping himself away
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  from sin. But what I said, he won't do
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  anything wrong simply because he does not want to take down and
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  to harm God's respect. He's so conscious of Hashem's
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  respect, he's so conscious of of the glory of Hashem.
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  And because of that he doesn't want to do anything wrong.
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  I don't want to cross Hashem. How can I, regular person,
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  person who's a lowly person, do something against Hashem's will?
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  Venezota Y da E nakoka kalala sigota?
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  This is a fear that's not easily attainable.
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  It's not so simple as fear, but it's a real fear.
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  It means a person has to get to the level and their minds, they
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  want to work on themselves to be that.
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  I don't want to do anything wrong just because it's wrong.
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  You know, you're having your life.
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  Certain things you don't do because you don't approve of
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  them, and no one's going to tell you otherwise.
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  No one's going to come with you if you do it.
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  No one's going to say a word if you do the wrong thing, but you
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  just know it's wrong. Now we want to have a wiring,
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  and I don't mind as if I won't do something.
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  That's a sense and that God doesn't like.
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  That's this exact same mindset. I know it's wrong.
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  So we have a culture that whatever the culture applies and
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  gives it these rules, it's great.
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  Culture says it's immoral to do X.
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  I'm not going to do it. She's not right for me.
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  I don't think it's proper. Who's going to stop me now?
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  Who's going to stop? Who's going to say a thing
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  Nothing. It's going to hurt my
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  reputation. Maybe not, but it's just wrong.
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  Now you are based on this idea, a new wiring to that same
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  outcome and the new wiring is God exists.
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  If God exists, I don't want to do that because it's you know,
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  it's I Hashem is watching Hashem knows is he going to punish me?
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  Maybe not. It's not really.
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  It's just I I'm a person. I'm a Jew, I'm his person, I'm
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  his child, and I don't want to be someone who disrespects God's
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  name, who harms the glory of Hashem.
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  I do not want to be in that role simply because I feel like it's
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  wrong. It's not easy to attain because
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  it's not easy for a person to have a new wiring of morals.
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  It will not be developed. Ella.
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  The only way a person and create Wayne can create this compass of
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  knowing right from wrong, can create this idea that I don't
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  want to do the wrong thing simply because Hashem said so,
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  not because he'll punish me just because I want to be aware of
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  being a person that's right in the eyes of God.
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  It's only possible for a person to develop these morals and let
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  me talk idea to knowledge vascular and thinking laid born
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  in al Roman motto ET Barack. Only through the person thinking
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  about God's glory, thou perchitotal shal al Adam.
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  Only the person will realize Hashem is so great and in
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  comparison I'm so small and because of that, how can I do
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  something that he doesn't approve of?
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  He's so glorious, so great, He's so powerful.
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  I don't want to do the wrong thing, and I create in my mind a
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  new sense of morals and a new sense of a of a compass, which
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  is Hashem's morals, God's way, and I want to make sure that
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  everything that I do in my life checks through His boxes and
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  follows that lead, even if no one's going to say otherwise.
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  Call ella de varin Mittal Dota sequel.
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  You can attain this level through your mind.
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  I may Vinu Masquiel only if it understands and thinks about
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  Hashem's world. This is a level of fear or a
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  level of awe that's very high up there.
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  This is based on the idea. This is the constant.
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  Someone says, like someone said yes, say Daleph name Yata Oman.
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  You stand up to pray, you say to yourself, stand in front of God.
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  That's only if you think, only if you're aware.
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  A person, when they're standing up to prey, can either be in
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  their own bubble. I'm alone.
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  I'm talking to Hashan, yes, but it's in the distance and I'm
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  alone. Or they can be.
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  I'm standing in front of God. It's me and Hashan.
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  He's right here. I'm talking to him one-on-one,
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  and it's an extremely powerful meeting.
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  The difference between those two mindsets are dependent on how
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  much I put a sham into my mind. It's not dependent on what's on
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  in front of I could be standing in front of God when I'm in the
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  airport somewhere, or I could be standing alone, me and I'll
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  sham, but Hashem is in a distance and I can be by the
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  court. Now it's all dependent not on
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  the location, rather on the placement in your mind.
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  And that is built on an understanding of who Hashem is,
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  how much He is in the world, how much you're noticing God in all
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  your life and all the areas. And because that you obtained a
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  certain degree of recognition of Hashem being in front of you at
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  all times. And the more you get to that
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  level, the more you want to copy him, the more you want to
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  impress him, the more you want to do the right thing by him,
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  the more you want to find follow his morals, his book, his way of
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  life. And this is a level is the key.
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  It's a level that is not controlled by social impression.
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  People have to say it's not controlled by your reputation,
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  it's not controlled by the fear of negative outcome.
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  None of that. None of those things play a
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  role. The only thing the pair's role
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  is God exists. I don't want him to be happy.
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  God exists. I want to do the right thing by
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  him. That's it.
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  No other guidance and no other areas going to keep me at Bay.
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  Typically in most of the areas that we've dealt with, it was an
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  outcome that I was focused on. Humility, character development,
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  reward, olama BA, you name it. And this topic in this level,
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  the idea of acting in a way that I am in awe of Hashem, so I do
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  the right things. The end goal is the right thing.
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  The end goal is not reward. It's not outcome, it's not
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  wealth, it's not reputation, it's not being socially
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  impressive 0 without having good children, which is a great
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  thing. None of those.
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  It's simply for the sake of doing the right thing.
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  That's why it's considered a high level.
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  And it's very hard to attain. The only way you can attain this
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  is by years and much time thinking about a shallow's
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  existence and getting used to the idea that God exists and
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  realizing that there's a set of morals that are his and not mine
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  that depended on his way of thinking, not my way of
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  thinking. And the more I absorb I shall
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  existence, the more I internalize it, the more I
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  notice it, the more this isn't real.
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  Bahia vosho. It's only through this that a
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  person will be embarrassed and a person will be fearful when they
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  stand up to pray. O la avoir de cola voda, This is
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  the level of awe, Hamid zu Bahat as the most praiseworthy level.
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  There's a level that the greats would praise for Mashima shame
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  with a verbal mayor they send the Moshebena would say lira,
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  tashema nirhbad, vah nira Azad, hashima Azad, in a classic Basu,
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  the taizah and now Jewish people.
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  What did Hashem ask of you, Kim? The only thing God wants of you
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  is lira. They fear him.
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  We don't think he says the only thing.
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  I shouldn't want to be the first.
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  What did I should have been asking like it's a small thing.
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  Isn't that why should have been? No.
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  Why doesn't shouldn't? Need us the fear now.
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  So the the goal of this idea is that God wants us to be on a
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  level that we're a good people for the sake of being a good
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  person. The ultimate level and
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  completion of a person should they move to the person as if it
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  is good for good sake, not for other outcomes, not to make
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  $1,000,000, not to have good children, not to have good
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  parents and love. It's not really so that's the
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  point. It's not so David's saying we
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  know there are two levels of serving our chef.
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  It's Ava hira Ava. Serving Hashem of love is in a
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  certain sense higher than fear. True, in this degree, fear is
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  greater than everything else because this fear is a sense of
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  Hashem's existence that a person attains this level, that the
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  highest point of saying I know God is here, I know he is there,
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  I know he's everywhere. I watch what I say, I'm going to
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  make sure what I say and when I do follows his lead.
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  These are all different ideas of Hashem's existence.
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  Hashem existence and the reason God wants it is because if man
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  recognizes God's existence and man is at his pink and pinnacle
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  of His purpose on this earth, that's the goal.
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  Go ahead. Could it be both?
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  Could a person love God to the point where he fears the
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  disappointed? A person who loved Hashem and
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  through that recognize Hashem more, and then he feels
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  disappointed me. Of course, they have to go in
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  the name. We have two different degrees
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  called Yira and Ava, and every you is supposed to have both,
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  has to have one. You'll choose Elaine.
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  You have to have one or the other.
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  And that's how, because the more I recognize Hashem exists, the
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  more I think about what He's done for me.
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  But I think what He's done for me.
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  I want to get back. At the same time, my recognition
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  of his existence makes me want to do the right thing, simply
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  because he exists and He has a way that I want to follow.
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  So normally it's very odd to have both levels with a regular
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  person, but if I'm trying to do this regarding God, it's
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  possible to have both levels again and this is not.
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  You need gratitude, I guess at the at the at the foundation of
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  this. Keep it on that.
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  It makes it. It seems a lot easier to have
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  both of these. Yeah.
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  What happens is the more you recognize there's some
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  existence, either regarding your family, your outcome, your
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  success, or some other way, then you appreciate what he's done
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  for you. That appreciation only brings on
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  more recognition. You start with one thank you, at
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  least to another thing. That's another thank you, more
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  recognition. That recognition is, in a
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  certain sense, putting yourself into a cloud.
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  Of wow. Hashem is literally everywhere.
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  It's like if you go to a brand new person who has no idea his
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  knowledge, Anytime you see that drink you had this morning,
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  that's condom. You see that breakfast you had,
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  it's from God. You see that?
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  You mean you got a parking spot from us?
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  You see that health you have when you went to sleep at night
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  and you had a good day? That's God.
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  He's had to open up to Him and open up and open up all of
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  Usham's existence. He's endlessly indebted and he's
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  also endlessly aware the same thing.
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  He's fully indebted and fully aware and he guys finds new
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  places that you didn't even know about that he realizes I sham
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  and that it becomes more aware and more aware.
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  And with that he follows today's chapter, yesterday's chapter,
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  which is one that he does what God wants because just that's
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  it. God wants it.
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  Who's God God's my whole world. How is he your world because I
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  realized so much how much he exists.
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  This is a world onto itself which does not include any goal
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  of an outcome. It's not about what I'm going to
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  get in return. It's not about what I'm afraid
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  of happening to me. Ka Shalom.
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  It's simply a clarity of mind. That's why.
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  Where does this idea rest the most?
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  It rests in your head. It's not found in the books.
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  It's not found by doing endless studying.
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  It's not found by your endless speeches.
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  This is a concept that's in your head.
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  If you walk the streets and you are aware of the blessing that
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  you have and the world that you live in and the existence of God
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  in that world, and you're going to have more and more awe and
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  fear, and not in a scary way, fear.
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  It's not fear of sin. It's a fear of sin.
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  Not because I don't want to sin and because I don't want to do
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  what's wrong in the eyes of God. That's it.
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  I'm so impressed by his existence.
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  I want to be a part of it. I want to like cling to it.
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  I want to copy it. That's the idea.
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  And if you have this core, although it's the end of the
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  book, if you have this core, you really in a sense have will have
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  everything else. The more you recognize God's
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  existence just for his sake. Everything else was funny.
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  Yesterday I was sitting down I saw someone day I was in the
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  issue. I learned that someone had their
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  son with them little kid maybe look like he's three years old
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  western and babies saying the kid abroad to get the so the guy
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  brings his son over to a big rabbi.
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  There rabbi can bless the kid and he's like a few a few
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  different things. There I was as you left out the
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  the biggest thing yak shamayim. You should have asked me that
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  the kid should become yak shamayim, and he says why?
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  It's because if he's yak shamayim, he'll get everything
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  else you want. And if he's not, that's what I'm
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  paraphrasing as I'm hating. If he's not, it might not.
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  The number one center of a person's existence is this
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  awareness of God's power and existence.
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  And you want it to be something that's at the forefront of your
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  mind and your family's mind. It shapes everything we've done.
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  It shapes your character, it shapes, it shapes your outcome,
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  it shapes who you are. But it also gets you to thinking
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  constantly about Hasha. The more you're aware of his
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  existence, the more you want to cross him.
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  The more you're aware of his existence, the more you want to
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  copy him, the more you notice him everywhere.
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  It's almost like overwhelming. Once a person notices Hashem,
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  they start to see. It's like, wow, just look at the
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  World News today. Just taking the World News for
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  example, it's not wow. It's unbelievable.
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  Anyone who's following, anyone who's watching, it's like, whoa,
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  you can't believe this exists. You can't believe in the modern
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  day with so many people trying to control everything that
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  they're allowing almost almost, so to speak, allowing God to
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  have played such a big role. Hashem is playing a bigger,
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  obvious role than he ever has in modern day.
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  He's doing so today and it's shocking, it's overwhelming.
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  But for all of us, it should create a sense of awe and
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  therefore a sense of I want to follow his way because I cannot
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  believe just how much he exists in the overall world in the
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  modern day. And you will stop with this.