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Rabbi Moshe Haber Path of the Just Cultivating Reverence and Service Through Mindset 11.6.25 · Rabbi Moshe Haber - Daily Mussar/Weekly Perasha

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  371 on 371, we'll be learning about kabod Shabbat.
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  And the way to give respect to Shabbat is to prepare for it and
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  to be involved and dedicated in its preparation.
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  So the rabbi says the latest point is this.
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  Haman Ahmad was the one who carried bundles.
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  He carried bundles heavy loads for the sake of preparing for
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  Shabbat. And then he said, and I'll tell
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  you what I'm doing. He said because of a great
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  rabbi, For example, in his time, if I'm even if I see used to,
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  obviously they would visit me. You don't think I'd be willing
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  to carry bundles to prepare with their visit all the more so I
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  shouldn't be dedicated for the Cabot of Hashem, which is what
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  he saw in respecting A preparing for Shabbat from that mindset.
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  It was a very simple mindset. They use it all the time.
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  Every time you pray that you've heard, if you stand in front of
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  the King man, how would you react if you read the present,
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  however, I would be dressed. We've heard this class of mine
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  before, this idea of making that connection and making that carry
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  over and saying I'd have been a human being, how to give them
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  great respect. I prepared in great detail
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  Kozhiken for Hashem. That process that this rabbi
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  developed is actually a very effective process and they say
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  shunning for us to imagine and build our proper reference of
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  Hashem. He says like this now Davar
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  Zenimar the second of our line regarding this mindset.
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  I learn a side point, the Olam ye Adam Arun be a a person
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  should always what's the word be resourceful to develop their
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  fear of a Shin Adah to think Ole Bonnen can understand Davar
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  Mitoch Tavar to build a picture for himself to develop his high
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  level of yer ah and cavola varshen Ulhadesh and they come
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  up with new ideas Hamsawat different ways to create service
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  of Hashem in every way. Prayer you say yourself, you
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  stand in front of the king. Imagine the King of the presence
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  of the country or the most of Hashem.
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  When it comes to learning, you say is all I'm reading the word
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  of Hashem. When it comes to Shabbat, you
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  say I'm greeting the Queen, I'm greeting the Shahrina body.
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  When it comes to learning, certainly Alby is right.
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  I told you this before that I'm bombed.
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  When he writes his producing of Mishnaeot, he says the words
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  ammar hashemi parah or ammar ahmana, Ammad hashemi dahmis.
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  God said these words. It doesn't matter random line in
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  the gemarang or inline the Mishnah or pasuk, but he refers
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  to a Hashem talking, 'cause if you're learning hash word, you
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  take it much more seriously. So this is a way and a process
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  of developing and building in our minds a certain degree of
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  reverence and respect for fashion and overall you can take
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  our entire day, which is in a certain sense a very mundane
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  existence. And it turned it into this turn
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  it into many methods of how to serve God, whether.
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  Or not with the best gift that Hashem gave us was Shabbat.
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  Shabbat number. One gift.
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  For sure and a person has to treat it with direct as 100%.
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  Proper food, nice foods, you know.
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  The whole thing in the food with family around and enjoying
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  different tada praying all that. Now just to build this point.
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  Think about you a day and think about how many in a certain
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  sense mundane as makes all the other day.
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  Just wake up in the morning is getting dressed right, is having
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  a morning coffee is having your breakfast.
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  There's getting in the car or going on the train, going to
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  work is talking to people, dealing with buyers, joining the
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  customers, dealing with different things in the office,
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  all the regular processes of the day.
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  These are all very mundane things.
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  However, this is key. If a person has Erdahman's
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  mindset where he's able to enshrine, to develop reverence
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  of Hashem and to build Hashem in his mind, he can turn everything
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  I just mentioned and all the other beautiful aspects of the
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  day, including prayer and hassid and turdart, and then to the
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  weak Shabbat. And you can turn them all,
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  everything into beauty and the service of God and into
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  reverence of Hashanah. And it says.
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  In the army that first to enjoy is to be happy and.
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  So pardon this. So for example, when a person
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  gets up and he gets dressed and he's every, every part of
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  getting dressed requires a bit of we know because the shotgun
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  is about all the details of your waking up in the morning and of
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  what you're witnessing and of what you're appreciated.
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  And all of a sudden all these things become special.
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  They're from God and they're for God.
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  Now you have reference to Hashem and the fact that you're even
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  wearing clothing and the fact that you're functioning every
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  morning. I was thinking about this
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  yesterday in the morning. I think it passed through my
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  mind. I think might be hindsight, but
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  I think you're passed through my mind as I woke up in the
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  morning, yesterday morning. You were a little bit of a
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  downer, right? Especially once you hide the
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  other news and, and at the same time I said, but you know, it's
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  fine. Life is awesome.
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  Our day is awesome. We can function beautifully.
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  And that was yesterday's class, but it really it should be that
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  way every single day, regardless of the mood of the time.
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  Every single day is a sort of gift that you're going to turn
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  into service of Hashem. That's a Rahman's process,
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  whether it be dangerous and it's the cough and then it's hard to
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  pray, and then it is the work and it is interacting with
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  people and it is even the commute.
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  All these things can be turned and translated into forms of
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  ribbons of Hashem. We know or I remember
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  everything. That's all's concept I remember
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  growing up hearing all the time, like his granddaughter was my
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  teacher and I know a lot of people that are related to him,
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  part of his family and stuff like that.
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  And his concept always was look at anything, look at the apple,
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  look at the couple you know, of lemonade in front of me,
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  whatever it may be, and appreciate it.
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  All right. I'm sure I remember as a kid
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  getting nervous as a concept that sounded to me very teal
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  apple. You're telling me about the
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  different things in the apple and the seed and all that stuff.
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  My kids even have a book that is based on her and Miller, and the
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  book goes through the mechanisms of the tree that creates the
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  apple and the whole process. When I saw my kids out of that
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  book, it reminded me of when I was a kid, and this is what I
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  used to hear all the time. I remember specifically Rabbi
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  Miller would talk about the hand.
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  Do you remember hearing this by the hand?
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  I talk about the fact that everyone's hand is different and
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  your skin and the layers of skin and how when a person gets a
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  cut, it regrows so fast. And all these concepts, right?
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  All those are beautiful and all that perspective.
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  What Ravila did, what his point was he was developing an
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  appreciation for everyday life. And Reverend Ahman is taking
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  that concept and taking it further and saying I'm going to
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  take everyday life and that appreciation and launch it into
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  more service of God. That is Mehvine Davar, Mitoch
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  Davar. He's understanding a concept
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  based on the concept. So he's looking at the regular
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  life that everyone looks at and maybe complaints or just calls
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  out them every day. And he's building Yiddashamayan
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  from it, as in Nachmans do. I mean, if it's so when it came
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  to preparing for Shabbat as well.
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  And we can do this for every example.
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  You can build your Shamayan and everything you're witnessing.
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  If you're a a person who likes the news all right, and your
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  person who reads the news, you can be a simple guy that just
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  reads the news as is and swims along to have been moved to try
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  to push on you. Or you could be a person who has
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  the capability of reading the two lines.
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  Many people like this, they say, oh, that's happening because the
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  protests over there because something else happened and all
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  those people are arguing that point because of somewhat paying
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  for it. We all like to do that, like to
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  read behind the scenes. You go one further layer behind
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  the scenes and you hit a shadow and you say, oh, that's
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  happening because God's running the world.
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  And now you start to translate. Moira Chaman.
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  Many of us, I think many of you by now have you watch the news
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  for 30 years, 40 years. You have a degree of experience,
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  all right? And you know, when you're
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  reading something, it's not literally what they're telling
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  you. There's a lot more behind the
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  scenes. We all know that we don't trust
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  anything anymore because of that.
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  So now go one layer further and hit Hasha.
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  And he said to yourself, yes, Lamo, behind the scenes, it's
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  God shaking off the world or is God doing this and God doing
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  that and God waking us up for God giving us a reminder or
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  sending us a smile, whatever it may be.
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  And that is a process of maintaining the varmintock
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  Tavar, developing for yourself and understanding of what you're
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  witnessing. And therefore you're not your
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  mind. That's the goal.
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  That's what a simple guy sees what he sees and he goes, you
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  know, people who are influenced by influencers.
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  One of my favorite existences in the world sarcastically as a
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  constant called influencers. Their job is specifically to get
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  up there or get on social media and influence you.
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  And as you are a customer of these people and you watch them,
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  you know that they are influencers and you still fall
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  for their title is and one of the most famous influences in
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  the world. That means everyone knows that
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  their job is to persuade you ever persuade you.
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  Everyone knows that their job is to convince you and they still
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  have the conch to convince the sheep, so to speak, who watched
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  it. We are all people that never
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  would fight would influence her. We would never get convinced by
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  them to this we read behind it and we can see what's really
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  going on correct. And because you think we'll fall
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  for it too. I don't think so.
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  I think we're better than that and I think if you see some shop
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  28 year old who gets on there and makes something look
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  exciting, I think you can tell that his ideas are nonsense and
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  his point is nonsense. It sits in your mind though, of
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  course it is the power of advertising.
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  It's the same method that they use for all the convincing of
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  all the guy eating the the burger.
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  It looks like he's literally in got anything itself.
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  The guy right crunching slowly and his juice coming out, you
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  know, but it's the same method. It's a bilibinary perception.
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  It's near. I think we're bigger than that.
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  And I think over time, for sure, you develop a mechanism to see
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  past it. And you say, oh, I know what's
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  really happening. Someone's trying to convince us.
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  Someone's trying to sell us and trying to have a sweeping
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  movement. And then you go one further step
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  and you say, I know what's really happening.
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  Hashem is behind this all. And that is concept developing.
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  You'd art shamim so you can see the world in a simple way or you
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  can see the world in a godly way.
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  That's sort of Mahman's idea. And he used that as well for
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  service of Hashem as well and respect.
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  That's what you did. We care about.
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  That's what the words from here, the harot, the otteno, macrin,
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  godelo muteno a little. It's a method to see the
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  greatness of Hashem as Jacquin call Mahashi.
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  Yeah, any relation that we have with guard based on this method
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  will call for us to respect. If I see Hashem, Allah, and I
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  see the things as ways of Hashem and I respect him more in these
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  situations, but Keva and because Hashem is greatness in course,
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  even though we're much lower than God, because Hashem is
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  humble and great. He wants the khalek lano to give
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  us honor, lem. So lano de via de Chateau, he
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  wants to give us honor. Therefore, Mahman said I
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  therefore I should honor Hashem with the methods that Hashem
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  provides for me. So I shall honor God with the
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  Shabbat, for example. It's there.
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  I'll go to the second by the line that will stop shezo TI
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  ayira hamamiti. This is the really large shamani
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  she ayata rahmut. It's a fear of God's greatness.
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  This is his method. So he's telling you the method
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  to properly realize Hashem's greatness like this Rabbi did.
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  I realize how much Hashem is delivering for us and therefore
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  do so in return. The overall concept is and a
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  person can look at life and look at any Smith's fellow, look at
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  any situation and build it up in a major way or leave it simple
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  as is. How a special is Shabak?
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  You decide. How impressive is your to fill
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  out? It's up to you.
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  How great is to our learning. Also in your hands, how great is
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  kiwuda vahim Again up to the way you approach it.
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  Everything can be built up to a major way or left to be very
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  small. I'm not really the shame yahood
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  guy OK I don't see the shame yahood The shame yahood is the
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  power gift that they say before the habitzah shame yahood the
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  whole line. Why do we like the idea that
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  there is something called the shame yahood don't do it.
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  Maybe many of us before we pray people do of everything what
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  being all I'm on a shame my father didn't really do it.
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  The main one that people do the shame yahood for is the How did
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  the hitting down about everyone does the final one.
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  Now why is a sinecuni good concept overall besides for the
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  D Kamala concepts? Simple reason why can you say
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  that paragraph before there's an automatic mindset It's sending
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  in. I am doing something special and
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  before you walk into. Shabbat preparation.
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  It builds up in your mind and you realize the item for what
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  it's worth, it's very, very special.
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  We just don't see it that way naturally, and now we do the
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  same idea. I would reflect on Kabbalah
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  Shabbat, the song that we sing that enter into Shabbat, or the
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  song that you sing when you walk into your home, when you start
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  your meal. These are ideas, whether they're
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  so important or not, but they're important in this sense because
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  they build up Shabbat when you're on shul, as well as they
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  start them as Mort and everyone's coming together and
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  we're standing up in Sydney. There's a sense of a degree of
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  excitement and a sense of a degree of, wow, something's
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  happening that build up Shabbat in your heart and in your mind.
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  Same issue in your home. You can go to the house eating
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  the kitchen table, use plastic plates and have a steak.
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  You can do that. Or you go to your house, go to
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  the dining room at your table with well set, all right?
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  And you sit by the meal and you sing the song while going into
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  it. And you're building something up
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  in your mind and letting it be what it really is.
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  All right, this is the idea. We have a debate in our house
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  full time, my own house, just my me and my wife and the kids.
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  We don't need to have dishes. It's going to be more work
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  afterwards, right? Damn, it's not there Friday
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  night, It's New York. Do you need to have China?
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  It's plastic dishes. Do you?
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  Use plastic dishes. Yeah.
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  All right, Yeah, it's gone up. That was.
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  It's a nice one. So amazing savings.
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  Nice. What do we do with all those,
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  you know? And I look in the stores and I
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  see those expensive dishes that you have to get once.
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  Right, Look, the reality is that we do use China and we do use
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  silver and we even have guys you flat personal and I wonder
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  myself, what am I bringing out for my kids?
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  They sit by the meal. How long the kids sit by the
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  meal? Maybe 25 minutes, they sit by
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  the meal or definitely for the eating part, you're lucky.
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  It's head out and they get out and they come back, right?
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  So what are we doing? The answer is you're building
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  something up. You're making it into a big he
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  of a special, right? You're making it special.
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  And that's very necessary. You buy, we said last week, you
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  buy a special dessert, you buy a special candy, you get involved,
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  you do a degree of appreciation. And more than the preparation
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  that you're doing is the building up of the mitzvah.
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  And Nachman did it and we're all going to do the same.
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  So I'll do this.