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Rabbi Moshe Haber Path of the Just -Purity vs. Holiness 6.8.26 · Rabbi Moshe Haber - Daily Mussar/Weekly Perasha

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  A shot I think we'll buy five O 8 about and that is we're
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  talking about this extremely elevated traits cold to get a
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  shot which means holiness elevation and the idea of the
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  theme is that a person is trying to separate themselves as much
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  as they can from being connected to this world.
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  It's similar to the idea pretty sure to be to hold yourself back
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  from certain things. But here the goal is you want to
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  avoid dependency. You want to avoid being
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  dependent on anything that's related to this world and
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  reality. Anything out of your control.
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  You want to be avoided dependent on certain foods, certain
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  drinks, certain comfortable positions in life, certain
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  certain temperatures. You don't want to be dependent.
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  And I the theme is when a person tries to separate themselves,
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  tries to elevate themselves, they make themselves more Angel
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  and less human more, you know, more of an elevated person and
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  less than a mundane individual. And that's what he tells you.
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  He says that this is not a trait that a person can attain on
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  their own. This is something that you try
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  to do your part and God lifts you up and elevates you.
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  Vienna Haisha mid Qadesh, when someone becomes elevated like
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  this, afilo masava kashmeen, even his physical acts, we're
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  not trying to separate you from food and drink and sleep,
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  etcetera. We're trying to elevate those.
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  And what happens is those items themselves.
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  Hazrim liott in yaneka du shama mash.
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  You see my neck? We remember it.
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  Ahilat ko tashim, she has mom, it's Fatah said for example,
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  someone eats a korban, that is a mitzvah.
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  In other words, you can become holy and eating as well.
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  Let's go to five O 9. As you mentioned this elevated
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  topic, a Thai fish about the whole of Kadosh.
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  There's a difference between these are two great trades with
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  this difference between being a pure person and holy person.
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  How to order a pure person Masava.
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  The actions that he does that are materialistic physical
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  actions. He only does what's necessary.
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  What's more animate when someone is a pure person different than
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  elevated person, he only does what he has to do.
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  The literally only the most minimal amounts.
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  You want to become purified. You try to avoid anything
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  besides for the necessary that doesn't make you whole.
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  Someone wants to become holy. Look up.
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  I mean, I'm sure Metalek had been a Microsoft.
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  I'm a team BA BA bolo a Vietto here in a shot.
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  Look either who is Metaleka fashion.
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  But there's a difference between pure and holy.
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  Let's play it out. A pure person is someone who
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  tries to separate themselves at all 'cause I'm anything that's
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  related to this world. A holy person is someone who
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  does live on this earth and he is involved in this world.
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  He ends up, however, translating and transforming all the mundane
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  things that he does to an elevated state.
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  And a holy person basically gets to a point that he will have
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  breakfast, lunch, and dinner. He'll eat, he'll sleep, he'll
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  drink, he'll enjoy it. But he'll get to a point,
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  because his focus is so clear, that he's going to translate
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  everything he does, physical as they may be, into a purified,
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  into an elevated state. I'll give you an example.
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  You're about to go to the summer, all right?
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  You're about to go to deal. We're all going to deal here,
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  all right? Do you you going?
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  You going by the half weekends? You going?
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll do that. OK.
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  Yeah, I'm not. No, I'm not this yet.
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  I'm not. I didn't take anything.
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  I didn't take anything yet. OK?
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  So take it personally. Did care.
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  Take it personally did. All right.
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  Do they get involved in the weather?
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  Do they didn't get involved in the Shabbats?
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  Do they get involved in all the different materialistic leisures
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  that exist there in the summertime?
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  Wherever they go, they do. And you say to yourself, but
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  you're supposed to be a holy person.
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  You're supposed to be an elevated person.
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  Well, the tired person would say, in my approach to become a
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  more purified person, I'm going to avoid indulging at all, and
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  therefore I'm going to avoid going all to her.
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  A elevated person would say, I'm going, but I want to at least
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  make sure that I translate everything that I do into a more
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  holy outcome and more of a beautiful outcome.
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  And you say to yourself or. If you're taking the train to
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  the city, I'll go learn a class on the way.
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  Right, so that's a Catholic person.
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  Exactly. You're taking away a pure
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  person, a purified person, the whole person.
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  His goal is to limit. An elevated person, his goal is
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  to transform. These are two different things.
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  Lemon means I withhold, I hold back.
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  It's a great level, but it may not be as great a level as
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  transforming. Transforming has the power to
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  make every single element of your life, regardless of how
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  much you limit things, every single element of your life
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  elevated, better connected to our shem to make this world like
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  the next World. That's an elevated person.
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  So my example when it comes to Cohen for the summer is that
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  you're going to enjoy a certain things, but you're going to
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  transform those things into holier, more elevated things.
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  And this is something that a person can apply to every aspect
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  of his life. Can he attain on his own?
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  No, but in the back of your mind, this should be what's
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  happening every single time You had a nice situation, you're
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  around the pool and get by the beach, you're taking a walk in
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  the summertime. Whatever, maybe whatever you're
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  involved in, it does not the only be deal.
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  Whatever it is that you are doing that is enjoyable, in the
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  back of your mind you're saying to yourself, let it be
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  enjoyable, but let it also be elevated.
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  Let me translate this thing into something that is a more
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  elevated state. Now you say to yourself, what's
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  more elevated about taking a walk?
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  What could be more elevated about enjoying the pool?
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  It's a pool is something they take a splash and you enjoy
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  yourself. How is it more elevated?
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  The overall theme is you say to yourself, I'm doing it for
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  Hashem, a sake, and although that seems like a sketch, 'cause
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  you're jumping into the pool, where's Hashem involved in the
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  pool? He's saying yourself, I am doing
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  it because I want to have the leisure.
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  I want to have some degree of enjoyment, but overall I want to
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  serve as shem. And it'll translate, it'll
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  transform. And that's what he's telling
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  you. It's not easy to do.
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  It's definitely not easy for you and I to develop that outcome.
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  We need God to help us as an outcome, but it is in the back
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  of our mind. In the back of our mind we are
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  trying to transform everything we do.
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  You sit by a Shabbat meal. You're not just sitting down to
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  enjoy the specific foods. He's sitting down to elevate
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  your relationship to Hashem. Where does the food have to do
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  with that? It can come out.
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  If you play this in the back of your mind, it will come out.
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  And the main way it will come out is if that situation and
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  that leisure didn't literally exist, would you be upset?
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  Will you be mad? Will you be unsettled or you be
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  the same? If you're the same, it means
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  your ultimate goal is elevation. If something doesn't go right,
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  like I always give the example of the hotel or the restaurant,
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  etcetera, then that's an example.
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  That's a proof that I'm not in the business of elevating.
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  I'm in the business of indulging.
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  It's a big difference here. Indulging slim doesn't go right.
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  You're upset elevating. You want to have a good time
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  overall for the sake of enjoying yourself, for the sake of
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  serving Hashem. But if things don't go right,
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  you're not upset. That proves I really you're in
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  the business of elevate, right? Hear that point?
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  It sounds like that. It makes it sound like people
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  who want to become Tahore are not misleaded but misled.
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  But they're they think they're doing it.
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  They think they're becoming holy, but they're maybe not
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  going on the exact. That yes, true, true.
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  Someone whose focus is Toda purity, which means his focus is
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  to hold back and to not enjoy the world because of the fact
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  that I want to be a pure person. Is there a pathway toward
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  elevation there? Is there a pathway toward
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  greatness? There is, but it's more of the
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  withholding type. It's not the using type.
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  Someone is pure path is keeping shock, and all these words are
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  elevated words, but someone's path is giving shock.
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  Whatever that person is taking the world that's given to him,
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  enjoying the world that's given to him, and utilizing it for the
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  sake of servant. And that's more of a full path.
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  And purity is Purity's path is through withholding.
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  Elevation's Kedusha's path is through directing all the
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  enjoyment that we have in this world toward a person.
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  Withholding is holding back. It ain't the same.
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  You said Nazir before. Perfect.
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  You cannot drink. Wine at all or do you have
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  kedush and things like this? Perfect example and Nazir is the
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  person who withholds. His goal is to become a better
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  person and a Kadosh person is the person who indulges.
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  But there are good ways. The difference is this second
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  guy is enjoying the world. He is going on vacation if he
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  has to. He is taking a nice walk.
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  But his overall back of his mind is saying, I want my life to be
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  transformed in elevated state. And the problem is that most
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  people sketch themselves and say I want to indulge, but I owe
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  it's all for Hashem. You're fooling, right?
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  The state comes out a little bit more, you know, a little bit
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  more well done than you expected.
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  You're furious. Where's he?
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  Where's the for Hashem there? Obviously he's not fashion.
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  So in the back of your mind you need to be really self and say
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  my overall goal is to be outdated.
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  He gives examples. He says the all votes were
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  considered the Makoma Mikdash. He says because they held the
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  shahina to their actions. All we're going to see you give
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  a gift to a Tamir Khan. It's like you brought bequirium
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  because you're feeding a great man and you're playing into this
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  kedusha. It's all part of this team and
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  we're not going to go to the entire paragraph inside because
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  this is all, I think, elevation, but I wanted to be in the back
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  of you. Let's go to 512 for a minute.
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  It's in the place of serving in. It's not about the fact that the
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  rabbi getting food is like the rabbi is, you know, his
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  indulgement indulging is is is like he'd robber she indulge.
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  No, she my little girl. Now to feed them stuff them.
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  It's based on the same theme. They are like the better.
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  So if you feed a rabbi or if you give food to a holy person, you
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  play into the theme of playing into elevation.
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  That's the point. If someone serves them any sort
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  of service, it helps. A great man is playing into this
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  team that I am elevating my actions.
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  And again, your overall theme in life in general is to look at
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  every part of your day, every part, and to say, is there a
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  degree of elevation in that part?
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  In my own eating, my own drinking, my own work, my own
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  conversations? Is there elevation there?
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  And they could be or they could not be.
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  And it's up to you. That's what he's telling you.
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  He knew E Louis V Eterno La Devada, who says the holy
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  Otashmisha Sadiq, if someone serves as Sadiq, they are
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  playing right into this team. They're alleviating the action,
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  right? That brings all these examples.
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  For example, class example, excuse me, the stones of Yaqua
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  Vino, right? The stones of Yaqua's dream,
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  what happened? Akova comes to a spot, he wants
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  to take a nap. He tries to grab his stone to
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  the daughter says 12 Stones were fighting, so to speak, because
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  they want to all be the one way I call places his head.
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  What is the concept of those stones?
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  They wanted to be utilized for the service of a great man.
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  I want us to realize it's not just that you and I are trying
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  to play into the elevation by serving other people who are
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  great or by using our actions for the sake of something
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  important, which is his theme. It goes further than that.
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  God created the world for the sake of this, which means that
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  Shem made the world for everything in the world to be
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  utilized for giving me the purpose of elevation.
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  Our job is just to follow the directions of the world itself.
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  Which means if I eat and have in mind when I'm eating that this
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  food should make me healthier. I love so I can start by Shem or
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  if I eat and I don't mind eating this food should make me happy
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  because you be a better mood. When I go learn my learning
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  should be better. It sounds all sketch, but it's a
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  reality. If I have this in mind in the
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  back of my mind or if I give charity, if I help someone, if I
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  do something that's good to another person, all the frame of
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  mind that I want my actions, my deeds, my money, my gifts all to
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  be utilized. So the greater God world, one
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  needs to realize you're not just doing something that's nice, you
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  are following the mission of the world itself, which means the
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  world was created for this, and everything in the world was
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  given to the world for this point.
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  Literally, for us to take everything in the world and
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  translate it toward more elevation, more service, more
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  connection to Hashem, more purpose, more meaning, more
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  direction. Everything in the world is
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  supposed to be geared toward the direction.
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  That's the theme and all I'm doing when I take the buyer out
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  of that steak instead of just enjoying a steak and saying to
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  myself, let this steak make me a happier person.
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  Make it bring Shalom buyer between me and my wife.
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  Make it make me more ready to go learn whatever the example is.
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  And by the way, you can reach very far on this topic.
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  You can be a very far Reacher by saying I want this drive home to
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  make me calmer so that when I get into my house I can be more
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  normal for my wife. That's a far reach, but it
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  works. You can do whatever you want as
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  long as you gear the entire world of yours toward elevation,
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  which means toward service of a shame.
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  And you will not be able to find one part of your life that
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  cannot be geared to an elevation.
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  That's the theme. That's overall theme.
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  So the beginning of this learning starts with words that
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  seem elevated. Kedusha up against tawa.
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  We're talking about very special people here.
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  No, they were a regular guy taking a regular life and
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  utilizing it, gearing it toward greatness.
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  Yeah, like I said, there's not one part of your life that
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  cannot be seen and guided toward the Yan of kidusha.
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  All right, so let's consider living tuda.
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  Basically, this is living life of tuda and gearing everything
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  toward tuda. 100 percent 5:15 and then we'll close.
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  No, I'm not Zebia. Tell me.
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  It's only possible. It guards on your mind you're
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  being an Angel while you're still in this world.
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  A person on his own is unable to attain these heights.
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  All he can do is be motivated by the to as much effort as he can
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  and God will help him Bazaar she called me.
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  I'm so Bo call him my daughter. And it's also only doable only
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  if he climbed the ranks to reach his point all the way from being
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  a person who's overly aware, a person who's overly careful, a
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  person who's humble, a person who's a Hassid, all the sieges
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  that we had. And then he's able to turn his
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  entire life toward elevation and service of Hashem, Bazot Yavo de
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  la Kodesh. Only through this will he really
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  be able to translate life itself to elevation VS the Sheree
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  Emeriti. If he didn't climb the steps of
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  this ladder. He's like a stranger to this
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  topic. No stranger can talk, try great
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  things. You have to be a person who's
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  within the ranks of the Suiyao, within the borders of
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  disabilities. OK, So we have to climb the
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  levels that we climb, and then we need to try and make an
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  attempt to attain this level right here.
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  And what is the overall attempt? Very simple.
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  Try to turn every single part of your life toward the surface of
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  our shin. And you know what?
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  It's all there anyway. And you're doing all those parts
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  anyway, and you're enjoying this world anyhow.
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  All you're being asked to do is to leave something in the back
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  of your mind and say I want this to be used for Hashem.
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  It's easier said than done, but it can be there.
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  What's the beauty of this topic? If you get there then it grabs
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  you and it this topic itself makes you better, which means
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  Hashem jumps in and helps you alone.
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  What happens and it's the greatest state you want to be
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  in. And that is what happens is
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  every part of your life has a beauty in it.
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  There's no part that includes my mundane way of thinking as a
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  driving force, which means frustrations go away, anger goes
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  away, arrogance goes away. Being often being busy with
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  yourself goes away. Being very insulted goes away.
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  All these things go away, right? Being unhappy if something
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  doesn't work out materialistically goes away.
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  If you go to a vacation, the bed is not right, you're fine.
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  The food is not perfect. You're you're not so happy, but
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  you're OK. The pool, you didn't get the
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  lawn chair, whatever it is, and you get that chair, you're still
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  good, right? All these things go away 1 by 1
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  because you've moved into a world that everything is for a
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  purpose as not for me. And that's what God is going to
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  do, of course, which is to grab on to our efforts and to make
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  them whole, to make them complete.
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  That's the idea.