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Shiur and a Beer · Rabbi Benjy's Shiur

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  So she number one with a chair and a bit or bearing and shoot,
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  whatever you feel better. The the focus is on here first.
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  Then the because that sounds very good.
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  And we're going to dedicate our learning to like Robert Kearns
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  daughter's. Quite poorly at the moment.
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  So I tear up bus devorah. He's in a complicated medical
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  situation, and the learning together should bring blessings
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  for her, and she's real to come home for Shabbos.
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  And a come home, not to go back next week and just The solution
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  to the problem should be should be made also.
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  Oh, I'm Fallon, yes, Anna Wintour.
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  And God knows his Hebrew name. I don't remember where I've
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  been. Many blessings for healing.
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  She received a blessing for healing and just begin, so it's
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  that there is no current. There is no community of Jews
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  wherever you come from, who will enjoy a share on the high God.
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  That was drinking a beer for sure, not drink Tessa, homeless
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  chick, peas beans. At least half the population can
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  enjoy that but a bird a beer and I got the not so much.
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  I've been inspired recently those who follow my daily share
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  a that your wife to come to the ladyship.
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  For sure by a brass love in inspirational character Rabbi
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  Shalom. Irish is a big, big Rabbi in the
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  breast of community around the world.
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  Those of you have come across the garden of a Mana which is
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  also called the international bestseller translated to some
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  different languages. Puts forward the philosophies
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  for to do my due diligence and four truths sake, when it comes
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  to matters of philosophy in Judaism.
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  Often, other than belief in God, lots of things are debated and
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  contentious issues so that they're really two ways of
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  understanding Divine Providence, either.
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  Absolutely. Everything down to the tiniest
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  level in our lives is is Divine Providence.
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  Has under the watchful eye of Hashem and the leaf falling off
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  the tree onto your shoe was the will of Hashem, whatever that
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  means and why that would mean Another group of Scholars say no
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  that's not true. That may be true.
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  Really holy people but as plebs or me and you guys would be no
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  the general that's not for us. Maybe the big things in life but
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  not though the leaf falling off the tree or the small details.
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  That really is a big, big split by Shannon, Irish being a Scenic
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  breast, 11 seed, it follow-up is taking this first approach to
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  absolutely everything is from Hashem.
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  That's Point number one, that seminar.
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  So am on a belief in God, is that everything is Divine
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  divinely ordained, and that it's for our very best not that we
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  accept it and go. Oh, well, but it's right.
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  That that's, that's the challenge.
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  That is, that is the religious challenge in life is to live.
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  That he had see on his. I got what I just received last
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  week. A beautiful essay, which we're
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  not going to have the whole essay for that will definitely
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  under the time I have, but in masterful, understanding of the
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  Mitzvah of Morrow and even though he ask the obvious
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  question, what are we doing on seder night?
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  Eating Maura when so many other aspects of say, denied our,
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  you're free, you're royalty of you.
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  Put all your nights vessels out, you're meant to sit there like a
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  free person. Why are we blending bitterness
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  and misery on a night where were supposed to be free?
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  And that famous teaching that we all get excited about them.
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  It'll get to eat robin gum real says, those three things that
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  were meant to talk about to say, make you say meant to meditate,
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  meant to focus on what you're going to do yourself the favor,
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  you can definitely go very quickly.
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  Do you don't you get very quickly through manage time?
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  I've added my, you know, the force and all of that is
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  preamble to that. I gather, none of that is worthy
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  of deliberation. It's in a its introduction.
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  Get to the main bit to those sucking, which bizarrely
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  everyone says, that's the boring bit, which is the main bits and
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  get to up and gum reels, bit, and spend some time thinking
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  about the meaning of these three concepts by Lisa, the the laws
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  of the pesticide called Vice which many years ago, when I was
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  doing a through extended, a Catholic School to get a teacher
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  qualification, this Catholic girl, turns around says Rabbi
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  and it's called me. Father, for I corrected that
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  quite clear she goes, do you still Slaughter the Sheep?
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  So I said, no we don't Slaughter the sheep for Passover anymore,
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  and she was very relieved. Then she asked me, what do I
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  give up for Lent? I said, I'm don't we don't duel
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  and then she was very jealous. So two very interesting emotions
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  of cape on this. This young teenager tried to
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  make sense of me in the command. Any other person in the building
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  with a coupon the head with the Pope.
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  So for the bit confused, what I was doing with my head covered.
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  But if the laws of: pessah, As explained by the safe, a kind
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  of, you know, like you have to roast it while roasting rather
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  than boiling, boiling breaks down the food.
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  A separate set. Poor people boil their food
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  Ashkenazi cholent? Yeah, it's Paul food.
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  You put some meat and vegetables and liquids and you've got a
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  soup, you've got broken down for you, you make you make more food
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  out of it, roasting the liquids come out, the food shrinks you
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  can only do that if you've got enough food for the next meal,
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  you're taking the food away or not, you're not have to break
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  the bones of the carbon pessah because we not do it.
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  You're dressing like a poor person who doesn't have food.
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  You can't leave it over to the next day because of so far
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  clinic for their fridges and freezers Middle Ages.
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  If you are poor, you would leave food over because you wouldn't
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  know you get together the next day, if you're wealthy of your
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  nobility of your emancipated and you're rich, you know, you're
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  going to have food the next day. So so much of say the knights do
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  with freedom where does Amara come into it, why we bring it
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  out in and then even more, so gets even more complicated.
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  We make up rocker on it. So if you take my There are not
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  just that the lattice or the horseradish, but as a concept.
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  So my role literally the bitterness understood on a more
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  metaphorical level. We are being the broker isn't
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  Baruch Hashem him. Alikoya Lon I like real a small
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  rocky tomorrow but it's let's see. 10.
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  After you do the Commandments, we tomorrow, which taken as a
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  method on the metaphor level we are commanded to experience
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  bitterness in our lives. That is exactly how we have to
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  live our lives. So bitterness or whatever type
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  and everyone's got a different bits on the scale, depending on
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  their ability to deal with stuff.
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  Some people using that phone as the greatest catastrophe
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  father's, it's something different But really sensitive
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  the vet, Savannah turns the whole thing on its head.
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  It's not just enough that we ask the question.
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  What is bitterness got to do with night of freedom but we're
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  making a brock on something that suggests to us philosophically
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  that conquer cut that complications in life are
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  absolutely part of the journey. We're going to have through
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  life, it gets worse. When the gemara says, for
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  example, Shahi of Adama poems, obligated lovera hurrah the
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  simcha, you gotta make a blessing on that Basilica with
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  joy. Now on a personal level I don't
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  want you to go armful. Sorry for me the hardest broke I
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  ever said but I thought when my dad passed away saying I died on
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  her m/s at the Via. At this point, the shiver was
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  claimed for the ride. Was complicated enough.
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  Could you say the word the words easy to say, but said to connect
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  the words with to really feel that moment that I'm blessing.
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  God you're being a judge of Truth was complicated.
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  Then for myself, was a whole new level.
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  And I stood there and I didn't just say, I took me awhile and I
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  tried to Hope I've did Justice to the blessing, but it's a
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  complicated issue to the Viper simcha to do it but with joy
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  that's really know. We can put up with it.
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  We can we can catch up with its what God wants and gums will at
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  over and all the types of religious pithy sayings.
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  That makes you sound very religious, you can do the you be
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  the bar Hashem fellow directors, all that, that type of behavior
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  a simcha are the government halacha says I ever done.
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  It's Derek's alternative pronunciation for but I feel
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  about this far out. Hey you ever done the person's
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  obligated? Lovera Kalahari?
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  Ah, but the ash but that Schlemmer or the nefesh 8:30.
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  So you gotta have a wholesome mind.
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  You've got to be compos, mentis, can't be deranged in the moment
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  and your soul has to desire to want to say this particular
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  blessing. Just like we could answer my
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  life and I told her just like we do on the good which puts us in
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  a very complicated emotional place.
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  Now, there's a level of and Mona says of Irish, which it sounds
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  impressive, but he'll go on to say it's not.
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  So the first level I'm gonna would be I accept it.
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  It's all from God, I believe what God's doing is directed for
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  me, it's for the very best and I accept it, I really want it.
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  But now that it's here, I'm accepting it.
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  And I'm for most people that have been a home to be done.
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  I'm in the first line of Heaven, whenever I get there I'm very
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  religious. I don't curse God, I'm not mrs.
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  Job from the book of ER The subject of how warm line if you
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  ever get to audition for The Book of Job.
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  And in fact, he cross-dressing to be mrs.
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  Job forget it on many levels. But just for one, never she only
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  has one line in the whole book, you know, curve God and be done
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  with it. Now, Joe not darling, husband,
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  you curse him. God will bump you off and you
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  can forget the misery. That's not the approach that we
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  Mentor Were Meant to say, not that.
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  It's, I'm accepting it, but I wouldn't want it.
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  But that see, run around, like, I like it up my room.
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  I'm commanded to Amara's. I want my right in my life and
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  that's something. This is the meditation on my
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  room. We have to desire bitterness in
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  our life. Why I remember, it's part of a
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  philosophy that says, absolutely everything is divine.
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  If you'd reject that there for sure, you don't business in your
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  life that could be random. There's your living within a
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  philosophy that says everything is from God to the tiniest
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  detail but I should want this experience of Mariah my life
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  because ultimately it's going to bring me to the place where I
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  have to get to to fulfill my purpose in life.
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  So there's the philosophy that says everything is from God.
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  There's a philosophy that says everyone has a unique purpose
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  that only us wind as individuals can fulfill and bitterness,
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  which is part of life. Does metaphor vets, you run up?
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  There has to be more or in life running away.
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  From that means you'll never ever.
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  Fill the purpose for which you were created.
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  You're never going to achieve what you need to achieve.
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  So now you have to want to have want it to happen and brick,
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  make that as part of your life, I Assad the foundation.
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  That's how I shall. I call is whoever who I'm gonna
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  actually map is perfect Faith, which is shenmue the parameter
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  or head that colony of rain, and God loves all of us.
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  We're at set up, cover up the top bottom, and you only want
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  out goodness, as you say in the book of a car, me, ple on from
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  the mouth of the most high Lotte to her art, bad stuff, doesn't
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  Don't come ate at rebuttal a club.
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  That's a very very loaded complicated idea.
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  That you'd be proposed been literally hours.
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  Debating as concept actually said I teach us in school, it
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  was said by a Christian guy called st.
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  Augustine of Hippo, they're one of the leading.
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  Christian theologist, who also argued on this whole issue of
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  good at God and Evil, and all problem of that.
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  There is no, there is no evil, which seems ridiculous that how
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  can you stand in a strictly? After I'm one half million
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  children. So there is no, there is no
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  evil. So, it's a very complicated Take
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  that philosophy to really dig down there to really unpack and
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  it's full of sad that we're not going to do justice to it right
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  now. But within this rubric of saying
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  everything comes from God and therefore God is goodness.
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  Unquantifiable goodness. And it's all picked for us for a
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  particular purpose in life. Therefore K in Radcliff grab all
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  I'm khlo believe I haven't had a lot.
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  I'll make EF solutes, cut them some slack if you don't
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  understand this comp. Really, and really live this
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  concept, you can't go anywhere. At all in life, and therefore,
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  he says, result in Irish, that will be say the Brock on the
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  morrow. The meditation that should be in
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  our mind is not, is the horseradish going to make my
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  nostrils flare up, am I going to enjoy it and let go and we will
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  go through that in parentheses, I would.
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  I think I'm a generally quite a reasonable type of fellow when I
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  get to correct a contact my mind wanders, every year.
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  I think it might with my colleagues from school, would
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  see me right now. Okay, they could also look into
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  our stomachs and the two cups of wine.
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  Tons of matzo Mara that we get this sandwich together and bits
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  of flying in the air, went to Scott fit down in four minutes
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  whilst leaning and it's around midnight they would think with
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  but hey that's another another for another time.
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  But when you do this murderers with thinking about the meaning
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  of it, not just to connect back to Egypt and the bitterness
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  enter to recognize that the good times happened only brother the
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  bad times but in modern day say the night is about experiencing
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  Freedom by taking from the different rituals of save the
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  night and asking ourselves. How can Can this make sense to
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  me? How can I emancipate myself
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  from? You could go around the room.
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  Now, I'm one of my neighbors, think what?
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  My colleagues at work. They want a, my children were
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  all slaves. The public opinion on some level
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  and slaves, to fashion and slaves, to arm devices, and
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  slaves. Know, we can, we can easily know
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  Branch out to it to understand that.
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  So, someone who says any Laurent says, how much load shift for
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  you through. Not that don't want this path.
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  I don't want this life. That has difficulties is never
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  going to get anywhere and therefore the conclusion is But
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  we have to desire this, the big hitter.
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  Sure that novelty in his teaching is that we have to
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  desire the struggles in life and in Brave not just to accept it
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  as the will of God. Therefore it's good, but to
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  actively yearn for it as part of recognizing that without the
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  struggle, which are part of life are guaranteed 100%.
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  We're never going to be able to fulfill our particular purpose.
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  Then like that is the challenge. I'm setting all everyone here to
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  try and meditate on that and to explain member will get in there
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  with you. kids, our family ourselves even Hopefully, I'm
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  saving my the tools to deal with life, looking back in and yet I
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  see my own children whose who had questions and struggles and
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  big bang meltdowns because I think I haven't given them those
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  tools now. So say, then I will try again
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  because try again so that please God, we can try and give over
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  these. These moments were when we have
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  those inevitable. Bitter moment we are stronger in
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  ourselves. Obviously if it's too
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  overwhelming and need to get professional help, get
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  professional help for sure. But if you can, we can give
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  ourselves the tools to recognize it comes from the loving God.
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  And it's part of our journey. That's ultimately the very best
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  for us. We should desire those.
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  You can even double for it. You can ask a chef.
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  Please send me those difficult moments.
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  So I could then get on my journey and be successful
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  because nobody wants to come back again.
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  So we want to get to one to do our journey, and get to the
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  destination and check out, and that's the goal.
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  So it's always pleased, God will be successful in communicating.
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  This beautiful ideas to ourselves and to our loved ones
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  and it should be a year of redemption, which means not just
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  from Egypt Redemption. All from the, from the struggled
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  and the difficulty is an ill health.
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  But other people are facing. Should we really get to see how
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  some it's try? It more than makes Aryan?
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  All those things that keep us closed and restrained should
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  have Redemption all our lives. Amen.