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Rabbi Moshe Haber Perashat Behar-Behukotai 1 + 1 = God 5.8.26 · Rabbi Moshe Haber - Daily Mussar/Weekly Perasha

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  Actually 2 Bradshaw this week once again Behar I'm Bilhar
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  Gortai and Barshad Behar opens up talking about a law of
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  Shimita talking about you avail talking about many interesting
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  laws about Shimita. Shimita is one of the hardest
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  laws to keep because it's a rule that if you own a field in
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  Israel, definitely during the time of the bed to Maktash, it
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  was Doraita for sure during a time when we give a lot for
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  sure. And that is that a person on the
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  field, he has to leave a dormant for the 7th year every seven
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  years, part of the cycle. And that really means that he's
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  destroying his field, leaving a dormant for seven and eight
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  years. It's very hard the 7th and 8th
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  year because the 8th year replenishes takes a while and
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  it's really and then for the time you do this seven times and
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  then they by year 49 now comes after after that year 50 and
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  that he'll do it again. I have other laws as well.
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  We have to do it again. So now you have multiple years
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  in a row, Joe to your point, you just said now let's point out a
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  few major points. If I shot Bahara teaches us
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  beyond just the basic laws that we just said number one right,
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  the better shell Moshe Baharasina, the more if I soon
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  as I shouldn't spoke to Michelle Beno by RSC knife.
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  The availability is so when you speak to the Jewish people, tell
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  them you should speak to them and tell them Quitavo, all the
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  audits. When you come to the land,
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  Hashem, you know that I will give you the Shabta al Shabala
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  Hashem, you will be required to give the the land a Shabbat, A
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  Shabbat for the sake of Hashem. What does it mean a Shabbat?
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  It means a time of rest, which means you're not going to work
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  the land. So couple of things.
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  First of all, the language quitavo al audits, when you come
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  to the land, it should be, we're talking, we're in the desert
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  now, we're going to the land. Why language come?
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  We got used to this language because we have Hashat, Quitavo,
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  etcetera. But notice that language when
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  you come say the Rabbis, that language is telling us that as
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  my grandfather used to say and sell our home, Israel is our
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  home. I have to see it that way.
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  So you could have all that. It's means when you're coming
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  home, you're not going to the land, you're coming to the land.
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  OK, a beautiful point. We all feel that Israel is our
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  home. That's our that's deep down in
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  our heart. We all feel it and that's
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  noticing this by soup. Fine, I shall not tell the him.
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  It's a gift from Hashem. Hashem says when I give, when
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  you come to the land and I'm going to give to you, you have
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  to rest every seven years. What's God saying by adding the
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  word and I give to you He's telling you the only way a
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  person will be able to actually let the land go every seven
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  years. One of the hardest laws there is
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  to now work your fields when you have the business opportunity.
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  You see nothing wrong with what you're doing.
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  It's a land, it makes produce and I'm told to leave it.
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  The only way you'll be able to do so is if you realize
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  listening to the hand that gave it to you, Hashem gave you the
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  land and therefore He's telling you how to use that land.
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  If a person does not notice that it came from God, they're going
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  to have a very hard time following this like this.
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  It's only because we believe that the land was given to us by
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  Hashem and we can accept the fact that Hashem is telling me
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  to leave a dormant. Now let's compare it to the word
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  Shabbat Hashem. It's considered a Shabbat.
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  What makes it similar to Shabbat?
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  It's every 7 instead of every seven days, every seven years.
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  Shabbat, it's the Hashem. Every Shabbat is considered a
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  time for God. We spend time with God, time at
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  shul, time in learning, time in the Sudaf Hashem, time with
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  Hashem. This year, Shimita was meant to
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  be a concept of time with Hashem.
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  Literally, the people who own these fields, they sit down and
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  they learn throughout this year because they're not working #1
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  #2 it's a time when a person like Shabbat recognizes Hashem's
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  involvement in his life. Because on Shabbat you're told
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  to close the store, right? And when a person used to have
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  the store open on Shabbat and then one day they closed it, I'm
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  sure that was a very difficult task, to close that store on a
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  Saturday when business was booming on Saturday, to close
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  that store, to shut down the business.
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  No matter what you say, contract, partner, you name it,
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  at the end of the day, it's difficult to process, but the
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  mindset is I believe Hashem is in control and therefore I'm
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  going to listen to Him and follow his laws.
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  Shabbat, Hashem, a Shabbat that you recognize Hashem is in
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  control. When the person had the year of
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  Hashemi Tal and he left the field dormant, what he is doing
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  is he's saying it's Shabbat for Hashem.
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  It's a year for the sake of God. If you recognize that's a year
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  that I realized that Hashem runs my life, then you able to be
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  able to absorb the message of Shimita, which the Hashem is in
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  control of my income, is in control of my life and therefore
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  I am going to listen to Him when He gives me the laws of Shimita.
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  Now this really is the hardest. Law to keep One of the hardest
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  laws to keep when it comes to income is the law of Shimita.
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  That is why many people seek for head to head.
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  That is why you Hashem almost, if I can use these words goes
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  out on a limb when it comes to this topic.
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  What does God do? God tells you, don't be worried
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  you're going to ask where Hashem plays it out.
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  Six years you work your field, six years you work your
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  vineyard, gather in the crop. And he says, on the 7th year you
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  leave it, don't plant, don't harvest, don't get involved,
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  Leave if anyone to come and take.
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  And then he says many times the basuk says and then says these
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  words, if you're going to ask, let's see what happened here.
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  The heat on Maru Cara suit dresses.
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  If you're going to ask Marlo Kalba Shana Shirita, what are we
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  going to eat during the 7th year?
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  We can't eat the fruit. We can't control the fruit, at
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  least can't control the crop and we can't sell it.
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  What are we going to eat? Handle on Mesa Villanes Sorbetu.
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  Hashem says with CVT admit khati lachem, I'm going to guide my
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  blessing toward you, Vashana Shasheed during the year earlier
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  the year prior, I'm going to place extra blessing in your
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  crop, vasada tuhata tuvalla shashanin.
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  And you have crop that will help you for the next three years.
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  Hashem is proclaiming a statement of a miracle.
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  Oh zatamataya Shana hashiminit. And then on the 8th year, are
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  you going to plant again and you're going to eat from the old
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  crop and you're going to be good till the 9th year.
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  Hashema is continuing and everything is going to be
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  blessed. In fact, for she explains that
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  our Hashema says that the 6th year crop will be blessed.
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  That means that the food that you eat from the 6th year will
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  be filling enough to hold you over.
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  Everything will be blessed in all miraculous ways.
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  You'll have enough from the 6th year for the next three years.
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  The food that you eat, the bread that you have, even if it's a
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  small amount will be blessed. And then they here when you
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  replant, everything will go well.
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  God is going on a limb, but talking about miracles here.
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  God doesn't proclaim miracles typically in the Torah outright
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  telling us statements of miracles.
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  Why? Because I sham recognize the
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  fact that this topic is very difficult and the only way and
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  the only method a person can have to succeed in this topic is
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  if he has emunah. You realize it's in the hands of
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  God and you recognize that God will provide for me Miracles.
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  We don't rely on miracles typically, but in this topic,
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  when we absorb just how difficult it is at 1st and how
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  clear, it's a message of faith. And we realize that if it's a
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  message of faith and if I live by it, I'll be blessed.
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  That's what we realize, right? That's the overall theme.
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  Good. This is the concept, this is Al
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  Pradshah as a powerful one, and every person I have this point
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  to make, which is I'm saying to you, and it's a very difficult
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  law. I'm telling you that it's a
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  miraculous law. All right, I want to bring out
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  this point. Isham brings us the theme of
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  Edmunov through this law. I think it's because of the
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  following. Here's an area that you're told
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  let go of control. You have a field, let go of it.
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  You have a store, so to speak, ago, which was Hank.
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  I think that Hashem chose this source, maybe tell you the
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  following message. You're told to let go of
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  control. That's very difficult.
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  But at the same time, how much control does a farmer really
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  have on the success of his field?
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  How much control does he really have?
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  If you think deeply, he has limited control in the 1st
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  place. You've heard about it, you've
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  seen it. They have.
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  They have to deal with the weather, they have to deal with
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  the environment, have to avoid bugs, have to deal with the
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  rain. They need to make sure that the
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  seeds are good. They need to make sure that the
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  field grows well. There's a million different
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  variables that are anyway out of their control.
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  And there's been many, many examples in history and modern
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  history when people have had farms and didn't work out.
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  It's not a guaranteed anyway. So as shaman is telling you, let
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  go of his control. What he's really telling you is
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  open up your eyes to be aware of the truth.
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  It's anyway out of your control. I'm just making it clearer for
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  you and for all of us. It's a message for our own
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  lives. And I think I'm going to speak
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  about this probably tomorrow, and that is it's a message for
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  our own lives, which is that in every area we think we're in
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  control. We don't think our lives are
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  like the field. We don't think our lives are
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  like the store. We can really control the
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  customer. We're in control of the
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  children, in control of the marriage, in control of
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  everything. And we realize over time that we
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  are in control of nothing. The only thing we're in control
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  of is our mind and we allow that mind to be consumed by these
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  thoughts of control and the person should get the message
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  from Shamita. We just let go, realize he's
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  really handling scene and when you let go, you're going to be
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  so much more blessed. So how about a shot gives us the
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  most difficult task and gives us the greatest blessing along with
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  him because really it's telling US1 very similar message.
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  Recognize and be aware of the truth.
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  Anyhow, you're not in control in the 1st place and just open up
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  the eyes to that. I mean, you do.
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  I'll guard my blessing. I'll give you, I'll give you
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  everything you need. That should be our mindset.
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  Interestingly, if you jump on a shot, Second pretty much repeats
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  this message. But I feel like you lost it when
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  you're not farmers anymore. You lost that message.
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  Right. That's part of the problem
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  today. Everything that we do in all our
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  businesses, they feel like we have a handle on that.
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  That's how it feels. And that's why tariffs frustrate
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  us so much. And that's why regulations got
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  us so crazy and China gets us so crazy.
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  And the closing down of the of the of the forts get us so
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  upset. And the shipping bills get us so
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  mad and the fact you're not working out get us so crazy.
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  All these different things, right, all bother us so much.
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  It's because we do not live in a time of farmers that we don't
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  really, we're not really aware of the element, which is that
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  there's a godly element to our picture.
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  But then we get clearer and we see everything seems like it's
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  in my hands, must be real. I need all these things to click
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  and they could easily not, right?
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  That's really should be part of our message.
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  God, it's very easy to put it into any form of your business.
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  It's all Commission that's everything is from machine.
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  Yeah, without. We're doing great, Right, Right,
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  right. But it's much more difficult to
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  notice how many people have good children.
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  And people comment that the children, are they in the back
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  of their mind to thinking to themselves, you know, I did, you
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  know, give them attention. And I was, I've ever had the
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  good balance of discipline and attention and had it worked out
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  in the back of the mind. They kind of thinking like as
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  you give me those compliments, it's a way of telling me I did a
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  good job. Very nice.
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  That's great. I know a lot of good people that
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  don't have the best children. It's not 1 + 1 = 2, absolutely
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  not. It's 1 + 1 equals God.
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  That's all. And every erson has to realize
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  that in every single area of their life, in their business,
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  with their children, in their marriage, with their health,
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  everything is really another thing saying God is in control.
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  And it's easier said than really applied, like you said, even
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  with the farmer concept. But the truth is, to your point,
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  we can really apply this to many businesses and to many parts of
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  our life. Like we mentioned those examples
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  of China, There's so many examples of life, right?
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  Someone as we can do a month ago says I was just getting things
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  under control. Towers, we found out the good
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  news, I was just getting things under control.
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  And then the oil prices roots and now I'm.
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  Nervous, I mixed up names. I mixed up names and it works.
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  I went to the wrong company. Right, That's your story
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  exactly, right. So how exactly?
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  There's nothing under control in our hands and there's everything
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  under control in his hands. And when we absorb that or calm
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  or happy when living the life, right.
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  You know that example, Rabbi Abraham Teresky once said in his
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  book, and he walks into a mental home, rented this psychotic
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  psychiatric ward or whatever, and he walks in and he sees the
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  guy and the guy's going like this.
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  You've heard the example before. I was going like this.
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  And they tell him that he asked the people who are the helpers
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  and the therapist what's going on over here?
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  They. Can understand that, huh?
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  They can't understand. They can't understand the image.
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  The guy's holding his hands up. Who's holding his hands up like
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  this, right? Like I mentioned, just if you're
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  holding something up, I tell him what's he doing since he's been
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  doing this for 50 years, 50 years.
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  That was a number. He's been here for a long time.
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  He's been doing this for so many years.
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  So what are you talking about? He says no one can convince this
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  person to let him take his hands down.
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  So right away, I think our Petroski himself goes over to
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  him and says, what are you doing, Sir?
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  Why are you leaving your hands up?
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  So I believe the man said I'm holding up the world, holding up
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  the world. So our tourist is over to him
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  when someone goes over to him and and goes right under him and
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  puts the hands behind it and does the exact same act of
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  holding up in the same way. He says, now you can let your
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  hands down. I got it right.
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  In other words, and Ritz, you think you're holding up the
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  world, all you're doing is holding up your hands and making
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  yourself sweat. And that's how we live our
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  lives. We think we're in control.
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  We think we're in control in every area, right?
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  It could be fundraising, it could be income, it could be our
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  family, it could be our children, it could be our
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  health, it could be our relationships.
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  Sure, we have to do our job, but when we hang up the cleats at
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  the end of the day, we say to ourselves, God has a complete
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  control. All I am doing is trying.
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  That's it. He's in control and I'm trying.
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  That's the deal. And if you think that way, you
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  don't lower your salute per SE, you don't lower your effort.
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  You put the same effort, but you do a calmly.
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  You put the same work, but you do with a smile and you function
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  well. That is a life we want to live.
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  It's a life that we all can live.
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  It's right here, it's in. They were literally out of our
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  fingertips. If we absorb this idea.
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  So Shmita is 1 where it's clearly out of control, but the
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  truth is every area of our lives out of control.
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  And then we say it's in his and we're good.
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  That's the I was telling you comes out after this and follow
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  my ways says and you'll be OK. Then you're going to be blessed
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  with the rain and you're blessed with the enemies and you're
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  blessed with the animals that are not going to bother you.
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  And all these things and every item that's in that list of the
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  the all things that are areas that really are out of the
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  control. The rain we can't control.
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  The wild animals you can't control.
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  And it means you can't say anything about all these
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  different examples. As I'm saying, you're going to
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  be fine. How are you going to be fine?
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  Because you realize I do what he wants.
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  I follow his way. I realize there's a control and
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  I'm fine. I'll stop this.