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Rabbi Moshe Haber Path of the Just: The Holiness of the Everyday: Elevating Every Action 6.23.26 · Rabbi Moshe Haber - Daily Mussar/Weekly Perasha

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  OK, acquire holy youth hasil gammour ish I should leave Soak
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  me people in the mood. It's possible to have someone to
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  be an equally pious person or the the person learns all day.
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  Come on me. Shame.
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  It's a ho Bama laha pehuta even to a person who's a Bama laha
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  pehuta, which means it's a person that is involved in some
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  menial labor. He has to work.
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  I don't know, he has to work on some sort of task, whatever
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  matter what it is actually the matter is he can even be, you
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  know, a garbage man in your mind at the end of the day and
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  nothing to do what he does at all and has to do completely
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  with how he does it. That's his point.
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  Or Steve call pilot Shimla Marneau.
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  Everything Hashem ate is for his sake, which means everything we
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  do is for can be for the sake of Hashem romed the whole in all
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  your ways, you should know him and he'll straighten your path.
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  Which means a person should apply in their life.
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  What this tells you. Telling me that a person could
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  learn all day and he can be an even even level to an individual
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  who spends his entire day doing some sort of interesting labor,
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  traveling the world for work, and being involved in menial
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  tests. It's hard to imagine one thing
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  you think of is full of kedusha, which it is purity, which is
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  elevation, and the other thing is full of physical labor.
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  Where exactly is God in that? But if you go a drop deeper, 1
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  is the same. It's not about what you do, it's
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  fully about how you do it. You really can't decide what you
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  do. Very OK, listen, the person can
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  decide to learn if they're able to afford it.
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  But at times many people can't do that.
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  Their life doesn't guide them that way.
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  They can't afford it, whatever it may be, so they can't choose
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  what they do. They rather can choose how they
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  do it, and they can choose how they think when they do it.
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  What's their approach, how they keep themselves a good character
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  or how they watch what they see and watch what they say.
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  The workforce can be, we all know a very, very well, no, a
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  lowly place. The person doesn't do it
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  properly. Some workforce is what they say,
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  what they do, what they look out, how they talk, which is a
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  mess. And on the other hand, it could
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  be a very, very elevated place, whether the fact they have a
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  class in that place or even without that, the fact that
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  they're very honest and they're careful about the honesty and
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  that way of doing things. And they treat people with
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  respect and they're nice other people.
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  And they make it Ku Shashim. And they could take that
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  workforce and lift it up to make it great.
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  And they can make it even equal to as great as the people who
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  are singing the Batman Dash all day.
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  And it's a shocking thing to think of if you're imagining
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  levels of Kedusha, but it's not shocking if you're realizing my
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  job is never to decide what to do I can't.
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  My job is right at this side, just how I do it.
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  And if I do it the right way, I'm going to do great.
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  And that's the person you should think all day long.
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  Any single situation you face can be lifted up, can be
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  elevated. And the truth of the matter is
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  if you go down to, let's say, go, go to learning, for example,
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  just take that for a second. Even learning itself, it's not
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  kedusha in the sensitive fact that every word is is hard,
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  elevated and holy. If you think about what you're
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  learning, right? Like we left this morning about
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  witnesses, about liars, about a thief, but someone who's dealing
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  and then slaughtering, there's no, you know, in the words
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  themselves. There's no kedusha to that
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  scene, right? In fact, one of the big books
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  it's interesting to bring is at the end of the Seppard is Rabbi.
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  It says seifers called never Shahrim.
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  It's written by Rabbi and his book, especially the last
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  chapter is a well known chapter in the Shiva world.
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  Because in that chapter he's going up against people who felt
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  that in order to be an elevator. He used to have something
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  called, I think it was called the bet bet Mossar or something
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  like that. And in their world, he was going
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  up against them is they felt the only way a person can be an
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  elevated person who spent the entire day in a building in A
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  room, spending the whole day working on elevation, elevating
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  yourself and your soul and and growing in character.
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  And they would not learn that much, no Gemara because they
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  didn't feel their place into elevation, right?
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  And they're out of this whole point is, is he brings proof
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  after proof after proof. Then when a certain person sits
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  down and learns about menial things.
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  So this is not talking about working real things, but
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  learning about physical things like learning about stealing and
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  learning about damaging and learning about second nidam and
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  2nd Diva more talks about inappropriate activity, all
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  these different things. We one would say there's nothing
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  holy about those words. The rabbi's point is just
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  learning Hashem is holy. In other words, in a certain
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  sense, it's this point, but it's even it's not, it's not as far
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  as this point. His point is, is that just doing
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  something that's learning to that is holy, even though you're
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  doing it and dealing with and discussing finances and business
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  and damages and immorality and marriage and divorce and all
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  those different things, it does not make a difference.
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  It's totally because you're learning Hashem Surah and we'll
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  take that concept. The logic of that concept is
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  very similar to this logic. Logic of the concept is I don't
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  care about the words that you're saying per SE.
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  It's rather what are you doing? You're learning Hashem Surah and
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  that elevates you in itself, right?
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  And here we're thinking one step forward and that means even take
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  it to physical, physical life, right?
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  So you definitely don't need to be talking Kudusa all day to be
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  holy. You can be talking to the and
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  even that you don't even need to be talking to the to be holy.
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  You can be doing life the right way and to be holy.
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  And you can see people and you've seen this throughout your
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  life who are such an elevated level and not because that they
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  plunged into the McVeigh of Kudusa, but rather because they
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  did life the right way. What that's going to lead you to
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  in reality, it will lead you to to the learning.
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  It's not like they're two different worlds, but at the
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  same time, the mindset of what you're doing is that every
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  single thing I'm doing can be done the right way in elevator.
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  And that helps you, like we said, lead you to the right
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  thing, helps you elevate everything you do, and it helps
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  you avoid the following pitfall. And that is how many people
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  think I'm holy in the holy places and I'm mundane in the
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  mundane places. That means the guy thinks when I
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  sit down on my kavuta, I'm holy. When I'm praying in shul, I'm
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  holy when I'm working in the office, Where does Hashim come
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  in? Where does holiness come in?
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  It's work. Have to make money.
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  Maybe being a shark doesn't make a difference.
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  I got to make money. Maybe your language is not the
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  best. Doesn't matter.
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  It's the words office, right? As we do in the office.
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  And hey, I'm being so honest. Doesn't make a difference.
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  And that's the person's mindset because they're not realizing
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  this theme. The theme is, is that Kirusha is
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  not plunging into holiness part of it because the shower really
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  is doing things the right way. And therefore you'll find that
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  there is not one part of your life that cannot be elevated.
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  You try to think of a part, it doesn't exist.
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  Every single part of your life can be elevated, can be holy,
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  could be on par with your learning.
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  It doesn't mean the reward for that honesty and business is
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  equal, the reward for learning. I'm not saying that, but it does
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  mean at the kedusha aspect of what you're doing can be equal.
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  Both honesty and business and the proper character in the
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  office, proper decorum, properly of speaking, can have the same
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  impact and give you the same concept of kedusha as your study
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  and as your prayer. That's the idea.
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  That's the elevation concept that we have over here, right?
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  That's the key to starting Cole PO Allah shamlum Anu.
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  Everything that God made it for his sake, which means everything
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  that came into your life from Hashem is given to you by God,
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  toward Hashem. It's for him, by him.
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  That's how you know. You know FUBU brought the street
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  for us, by us, it's for him, by him, it's for God.
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  By God, everything He gave you in your life is for Him.
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  You think of the area, you name it, is that a single spot?
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  And you'll find every single one of them is for Hashem.
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  The whole that I have, that I have in all your ways, you know
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  who you said he's going to strain your ways.
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  And like we said, the strain and maybe you can land up a little
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  deeper. The straining of your path,
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  overall straining of a person only comes when it looks fast
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  and everything when he applies God's will and everything.
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  Which means if a person only applies God's will and his
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  learning when he's praying, his character could still be shaky,
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  right? But if he applies God's will
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  into everything he does, he's going to therefore automatically
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  strain his entire path. And the best thing you want to
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  be is an overall good person, not just a good person in one
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  area. You want to be a person who's
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  overall growing and developing and doing the right thing.
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  It's only possible through this understanding.
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  OK, let's see how we close the book.
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  Hashem remember his mercy. But I come up yupka en Eno
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  butoratto. He should open up our eyes tears
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  to that which is what I was saying at the end of his book,
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  which means at the highest level of a person's personal
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  development. I'm still asking for God to open
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  up my eyes vioreno de Raja and lead us in his path.
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  Violiceno brochatov and he walk with us on His ways.
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  Venice, Que La Ted Cavolius MO. And we should merit to give
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  honor to his name. And ultimately at the tippy top
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  of greatness is to make Hashem happy.
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  That's your goal, that's your wish.
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  And that's the rabbi is saying same idea.
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  God's honor should be always and we, God should be happy with
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  his, with his creation. We are his creations.
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  We want to make Hashem happy. And the way we make Hashem happy
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  literally is by doing what He wants.
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  Same exact thing as a parent in that sense.
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  A parent wants his children to do a certain thing.
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  Now a parent may not know exact thing was best for the child.
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  They try, but they may not know. The difference is that God does
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  know. And therefore, because God
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  knows, if we are stepping in line and we are following His
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  path, we are making this endlessly happen.
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  In other words, He created me. He wants me to be the me that He
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  wants, and when I am that, that His creation had a purpose and
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  His creation developed and His creation completed.
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  That's the idea. You smack yourself by yourself.
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  And we should rejoice in our actions, benetz Yun a yilu
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  makka. We should rejoice in our Maker,
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  and we should rejoice in our King.
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  It goes both ways. Hashem rejoices with us being
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  right and we rejoice. We see Hashem is our King, which
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  means we rejoice when we're walking in His way and we're
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  walking in the right path. Amen, Amen, Amen.
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  Which is interesting when it close, Tom, he says the book is
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  finished and it's complete. Pretty session.
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  That's what he has. All right now at the end of the
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  book, after it's over, after a person has climbed to the levels
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  of greens. And if we don't get a new book,
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  we'll start it over until we get a new book.
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  Look how he does the Hatima. Look how he does the signing
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  Amarama Kabir, says the author, Hapam oded Hashem.
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  I now want to thank God Ashira Bazamera.
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  I'm going to sing and I'm going to, you know, praise him,
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  Ashiraat Hannah Azeruni to allow me to print this book.
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  I did this book for the sake of teach myself actually.
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  And along with that, I want to help others like me.
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  I want to have this who to help others like me.
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  I want to be the one to help the other people, thank goodness.
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  And I want to make Hashem happy. And this would be my solace in
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  the land. I would travel what it means
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  like this. This rabbi, his story, his life
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  story was endlessly challenging. His life story was filled with
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  issues. Most of his books were burnt,
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  most of any of his history was erased.
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  He was forced to. In fact, he was even put into
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  head. It's a crazy story of his life.
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  And this is close to the end of his life.
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  He passed a very young and close to the end of his life.
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  He wrote this book. So he's saying that first of
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  all, I wrote this book to myself.
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  All right #1 and #2 I wrote this book to help other people like
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  me. And I therefore want this to be
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  in the Hama, a consultant for all that I went through.
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  I wanted this book reflection of my life and reflection of other.
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  I want other people to have a straight life.
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  And therefore I want this book to be considered my consultant.
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  And I can't say this myself, so I don't know.
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  But the beginning of his life, he did certain things where he
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  would say that he spoke to a Magid.
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  A Magid is like a like a malach that tells you about Torah.
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  And the rabbi's had a very hard time with that.
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  So I don't know. I don't know exactly.
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  We listen. And Dave's obviously a great
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  person. Didn't mean they don't go and
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  said I would travel 500 miles to just to meet beside Shaheen.
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  Even those books seem so simple. But he obviously went through a
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  lot of life and this is his his, this is one of his main books.
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  There's a few books that survived.
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  This is one of them. After he travels and after he
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  was kicked out, all those things, this book survived.
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  So he's telling you, I want this book to be in the Hama, a
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  consultant and the land of my challenges and land of my
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  travails and all that. And they call the book the
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  means, the roads. All right, Hashem, I want Hashem
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  to give me my portion until every person has a portion, a
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  little more du la melech over that sort.
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  They have to be a de la Sia, a main.
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  Let's see the followers find words ends in a little bit of a
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  poem, right? Let's see how he does this.
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  He's very, very Howardic. He's talking about the rabbis
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  that helped him. We'll leave this out for now
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  because it's shima poetic and he talks about those people and he
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  thinks them for writing the most people today.
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  They put this in the beginning of the book.
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  He put this in the book. He thinks all the rabbis
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  involved and he thinks them all for helping to write this book,
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  helping him bring your reward out to the finish line.
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  Most of these rabbits that we don't know their names.
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  He gives you their names. We never heard of them and he is
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  thanking them for helping him. But the beauty of this closing
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  as a Yasir Rabbi who went through a lot, I see a Rabbi who
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  dealt with a lot and all he wants to do, you see if in the
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  end of his book, all he wants to do is to live life through our
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  way and more importantly to help other people stringing that
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  path. And he holds and I gave you the
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  book and I gave you the gardens, how to live life right away.
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  Fine. And the thing, his own personal
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  story in itself is a life lesson.
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  And you can see a person who have you, a betting man, so to
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  speak, you're a betting man. You look at this person,
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  majority of his career, he would have said he would have been
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  erased from history. He would have been nothing.
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  Most of his books are burnt. He was excommunicated, Forget
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  about it. And then you find out that his
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  book is a single most popular book today in life and character
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  and personal development. That's not just he's, you know,
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  eked it out and made it out. That is an opposite of complete
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  contrast to the way his life looked.
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  Whether that is a sign of Hashem giving a person, see at Taj mAh
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  because God wants us to get out, that's true.
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  Whether the sign of a person figuring out life, that's also
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  true. Maybe it's even a sign of a
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  person living the book that he wrote to perfection, which means
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  if he lives life the right way fully, it's going to work out.
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  Maybe that's a sign. I'm not sure what the sign, but
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  it's a wild story of itself. And it's definitely clear that
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  Hashem wanted his way of life to get to us because his way of
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  life is one that if a person follows a straight path and that
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  a person follows step by step the right approach to life, they
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  will go. I'll give you one example.
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  It's an example earlier on the book that's an example of his
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  path. He thinks the basuk up kind of
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  Pasha that we're going to read. The Basuk says I can you're
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  wrong or slim Bo Hezborn say the rulers literally.
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  You mean say the rulers, Let's make it come to Hezborn.
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  But the way the rabbis and Kamala say, they say, say the
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  people who are Moshell, the Itzarah people who are already
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  conquered the Itzarah, they say Bo has born the way to live
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  life. The right way is to make a
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  proper has born to look at things, to figure out what's
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  good, to figure out what's bad, what's right, what's wrong.
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  What do you want to get involved in what you don't want to get
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  involved in. Can you move on more slim.
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  So say those who had already conquered life.
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  The way to continue conquering life is the way to do it is make
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  a calculation. That's a classic example of the
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  rabbi says earlier on in the book, what's a stepping stone to
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  development? The greatness to follow my lead,
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  to follow my path to live. This book, for example, as a
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  person to develop a straight path through analyzing life and
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  saying what's good and what's bad, what I want to continue,
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  what I want to stop, what seems to be helping me, what seems to
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  be hurting me. And if you repeat yourself and
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  you repeat your mistakes, that's a problem.
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  When you make the proper hasborn, you would drop the
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  mistakes. You'll emphasize the good and
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  you'll continue to develop, which is a classic example of
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  this rabbi. So we have over here today, he's
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  closing the book. He's thinking Hashem, he's
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  praying to Hashem to be able to write the book.
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  He's telling us that every person in their own life has a
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  path that can be unbelievably great.
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  You could be literally a prank, Anevski.
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  Or how about yourselves? That's all through your own
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  life. That's how you can do it.
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  And then he's telling us, reflecting the book, that a
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  person that I'm lucky enough to write this book and I appreciate
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  the book to write this book. And we're reflecting in his life
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  and realizing just how impressive it is.
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  It is a book made and what it became.
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  And we're taking one example of his stepping stone to greatness,
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  which is 1, where a person makes a Hageborne and finds out to go
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  from there. That was, that was.