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Rabbi Moshe Haber- Perashat Re'eh Seeing Beyond Good and Evil: Choosing Abundance 8.22.25 · Rabbi Moshe Haber - Daily Mussar/Weekly Perasha

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  Opening to Sukima al Prasia Moshebenu as he's done so far
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  few times in Sebet the Barim says lesson to be a sail and he
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  says simple seeming lessons and it's open like this which means
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  you should see that I am placing in front of you today blessings
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  and the opposite curses and then he says blessings.
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  I shared this move with him. It's what I shame I will get him
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  simple as the guys. How does a person get blessings
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  if they follow and listen to ashamed's what I shall know
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  which I commend you today. The color and how does a person
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  get the opposite the opposite if they don't listen to God
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  mitzvahed and they veer off the track.
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  They look at the and then he goes on to talk about what the
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  curses are etcetera. The whole thing is set up but he
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  opens up with the most simple concept out there.
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  There is blessing and there's curse, which really means
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  there's good and bad. It's good and evil if you choose
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  the right one. If you do miss what you got
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  blessing to the opposite 1 you got the opposite.
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  The question is very simple. What is Moshe Abaro's lesson?
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  You're telling me that as a Jewish people we don't know that
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  our job is to choose good. We don't know the whole essence
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  of a Jew is to do the right thing.
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  We have mitzvot automatically. You have to do good.
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  You have a Torah, you have guidance, you have you have a
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  requirement to follow Torah and mitzvot.
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  What is he telling you by telling you there's bad and
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  there's good. Who better get this?
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  Even there's curse and his blessing.
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  Choose one, you get a good. What is the time?
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  I think there's a lot in this first basuk that is not really
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  said opening #1 He doesn't use the words kudambe, he uses the
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  words blessing and curse. He chooses words for a reason.
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  I believe the concept is understood from a few points.
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  Every part is pursukingly broken up.
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  Firstly, the word means see. Normally when gave lessons he
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  always spoke about listening. Listen to the tura.
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  Ek vashti ish. My own was always listen to the
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  tura. Follow the words of Toronto here
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  uses the word terminology C Let's see.
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  Here's the concept. A lot of times there's the idea.
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  A lot of times a person we know simply the difference in right
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  and wrong. We know we have to choose right
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  over wrong, good over bad. We know that C means as follows.
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  C means I want you to look a little bit past what's right in
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  front of you. Why don't you look a little
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  deeper into your decision that you're making or the choices
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  that you make, life that you're living with Shabana saying I
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  want you to see past that, see past the basic look further
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  because you have to make a decision when you're choosing
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  whatever you're doing in life between Baraka and Kerala.
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  I don't say good and evil because Baraka and Kerala means
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  much deeper than just choose good over bear.
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  It means see blessing over curse.
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  What does that mean? Let me give you a deeper
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  concept. Every sort of punishment, slash,
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  curse in the Torah, he's always shrinking, minimizing,
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  diminishing. Well, then when the God talks
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  about cursor talks about person, let's say not having health,
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  that's shrinking his years of life, not having children,
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  shrinking his future, not having panasa.
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  Also same idea, less of him, less existence, less fruit, less
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  blessing. So curse basically is less
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  shrinking blessing Bracha is we always talk about overflowing
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  abundance, right when we talk about how the the the bread and
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  the bathing dash is big. The table of the of the of
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  Shuhana beta midash overflow with Baja.
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  We always say your home should be overflowing with blessing,
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  but aha is overflowing. But Sheridan is telling the
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  Jewish people, I think this concept the earth, whenever you
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  make a decision, I want you to look look a little deeper.
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  Don't just listen and just go with the obvious.
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  Look past and see, is this life choice that I'm making a
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  Killala? Is it something that's shrinking
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  me? Or is it something that's going
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  to make me overflow? Is something that's minimizing
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  me or something that's going to expand?
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  Which means every single decision you make, every act
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  that you do, you need to think about, look a little further and
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  say, will this expand my existence or will it shrink?
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  For example, if I have a comment to make and strong, that's going
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  to shrink because that's going to break my relationships.
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  If I say, if I hold my tongue, I don't say anything that's going
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  to lead to because that's going to expand my existence.
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  I'm going to have a Shalom. I'm going to have a relationship
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  that's expanding right? If I have a choice to make,
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  should I say go to pray or not go to pray?
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  If I don't pray, right, So I'm just remaining myself, I'm not
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  going to. I'm not creating a connection to
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  Hashem. If I do pray, this is because
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  it'll lead to going to Shu, talking to Hashem, leading to a
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  clearer mind, having a relationship with God, bringing
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  in more good into your life. So basically bracha means
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  everything you make. Think about all the ripple
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  effects that are come from what you're doing, and will there be
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  an abundance and an expansion of yourself and of your family and
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  of your mind based on what you're doing.
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  So I'm going to share. Everybody uses the words of the
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  air, which means you have to see and look past the obvious.
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  Of course, every single one of us, every day of our life, will
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  always choose good over evil. None of us in a million years
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  are ever choosing something bad. We may have temptation for a
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  moment or a reaction for a moment, but when it comes to
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  choice, we're always going to try to choose good.
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  We have to look past that. You have to look and say, I
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  wanted to air. I want to see.
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  I want to decide what's blessing, what's something
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  that's going to expand myself, whether it be my the words I
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  say, the words I don't say, the decisions I make, the life
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  choices I make. Now, how do you know?
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  How do you know what's really fully?
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  So we're giving you this point, but on top of this one more
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  detail, I'm sure you're going to use this interesting word, the
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  word that uses anoki. Anoki means I, right?
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  See, like we explained, look and see if there's going to be
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  better half of what you're doing.
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  Understand this abundance. I know he, I know he's a very
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  important word. I know he based on man.
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  I know he refers to three explanations.
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  In order to fully understand if you're doing something that's
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  blessed or the opposite, look at the three anarchies.
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  Who are the three anarchies #1 Hashem, Hashem.
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  Whenever you're making decisions, say would God like
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  this or not like this, we've been discussing over the last
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  week in the breakfast class. We've been discussing you're
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  doing things like small doing things for the right reason,
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  right? And we're talking about the fact
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  that people can do good things, seemingly good things, getting
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  involved in institutions, acts of has said all right, doing
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  good things. But if they do over their own
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  motive, it may not be a good thing, right?
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  That's we've been discussing. So now you have to ask yourself,
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  how do I figure out how would God like what I'm doing?
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  I'm fighting to get to a head of an organization.
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  Do you think Hashem likes that? I know I'm trying to lead Torah,
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  but I'm fighting in the process. The Hashem wants that.
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  All right. I'm doing this at all hours of
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  the day, but I'm not spending any time with my family.
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  Does Hashem like that? You have to always say so.
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  Anarchy have to see. And this blessing is look at the
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  anarchy, look at the hashem #1 #2 Musharraf says so.
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  Look at anarchy. Look in my life.
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  Musharraf has at the end of his life and he says you wanted to
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  know if you're making decisions that are blessing decisions or
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  the opposite. Look and follow my life.
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  In other words, follow the people who came before you
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  follow the leaders, right? Well, Sharon Banner was talking
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  to a young Jewish people. These are all people who did not
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  commit the Heta Eggo. They weren't around by he's all
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  young people, right? So he's telling them you want to
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  know what's considered an act of blessing or the opposite.
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  Look at the people that came before you.
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  Look at your parents. Look at your grandparents.
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  Look at your rabbis. Look at the community history.
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  The best lesson in life is follow the community history and
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  follow where things go. Look at that.
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  Understand which moves were cola and which moves were which
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  moves, which seem to be smart moves, strong moves, whatever
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  they were. But they ended up shrinking the
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  person, shrinking the organization, shrinking the
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  family, not adding good to your life.
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  And which decisions, if he were made, expanded the person, made
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  him into a better person. Look at the people.
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  You know, you go back to high school, like the high school
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  class. And I was thinking about this
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  all the time. And some people went sideways.
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  Other people went the right way. And look which ones, what moves
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  do they make and what better ha moves.
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  That's how you should think. I know he is number one.
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  Look at Hashem. Hashem would want #2 look at the
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  leaders. And the third is look at
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  yourself, which means you want to figure out what's right or
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  wrong. You can't just go away good and
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  bad. It's not that simple.
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  Hey, look into the future a little deeper.
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  Look at your own history, which means your own lifetime so far.
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  What did you do that led to more?
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  I want you to do that led to less.
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  What you do that led to more Shalom led to Shalom in your
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  mind. Shalom, when you buy it, led to
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  bracha, led to expansion of yourself, led to good in your
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  family. Look at those things, figure out
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  what those things are and do more of those either #1 anoki of
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  Hashem, Hashem would want. And by the way, it surprises
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  you, even though you know the difference in good and evil, if
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  you add Hashem to the picture, a lot of times things that we
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  thought were good was we want to.
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  Hashem doesn't like that. There's no way Hashem wants me
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  to get up there. I start yelling and screaming
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  about something. There's no way Hashem wants me
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  to, you know, do something that seems good, but it'll hurt my
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  family. Oh, Sham wants that.
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  And look and see what Sham wants.
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  I'm on #2 look at the people who came before you.
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  I know here you look at what should have been and look at his
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  whole history. And then you could, you could
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  see how to think in life. You can realize what's been a ha
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  instead of seeing, you know, the reality is when you, when it
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  comes to eyesight, maybe most of all, there's two types of sight
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  is demion, right? This imagination, this sketch as
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  fooling ourselves as seeing fake things.
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  And then there is reality and it's two different worlds more
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  than anything else. Advertising is mainly in the
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  eyesight, right? The movies, Broadway, that's all
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  fake. Obviously they know it's fake.
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  All cinemas, all fake. That's all that comes to the
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  eyes. The eyes have the ability.
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  The simple eye is the most fooled thing of all.
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  You have used to see, but see, see deeper, see Hashem, see what
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  should have been, see your own history, and then see with the
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  eyes of your mind. It's a whole different eyes, and
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  then you can see. But our life, we have to always
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  think everything we do. Don't just rely on good, good
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  over there. I think about this all time.
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  There's nobody here. There's nobody in the community
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  and probably nobody in America who really chooses evil, even
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  those who are planning on voting.
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  But even those I listened, I always thought about this when
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  this guy, this current guy running for mayor, right when he
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  started running, when I started hearing his quotes that this
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  guy's ridiculous. I was Mark.
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  Even the people, a lot who are voting fans.
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  Even the people who believe in him, who have believed in one
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  crazy politician, ideas every person, person by person, you
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  listen to their logic. It sounds like a logic that is
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  choosing in their mind good. I want more affordability, I
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  want more openness. I want more this.
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  I want more. Like they always use the tone of
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  good, even though we know by now and that's definitely not good.
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  How does that work? That's because they're seeing
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  simply the simple equation of good over evil.
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  And as a Jew, you have to see an equation of Braha over Kerala.
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  Braha means when it comes to that, what are these things
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  going to lead to that this guy is saying we all know what they
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  lead to. If they're reality, they all
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  lead to raising prices and destruction and difficult for
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  our children in law and all these challenges because it's
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  not really, it seemed like good over evil, but it's actually not
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  bracha. It's Kerala, our sight, it's the
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  surface, I guess. Exactly, I would say as a look
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  beyond as simple we're singing in front of us, have to look
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  deeper and the air and see more than anything else, see the
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  anuhi, see the right thoughts. She'd see these different ideas,
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  see Hashem, see our leaders and see our own history and develop
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  a real eyesight to be able to see what's praha and what's not
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  Praha. Yes, Every decision, by the way,
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  is a difficult decision. Every choice of our direction of
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  life. You know the past suits of the
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  words the ER no, he No 10 live in Hai Yom.
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  No 10 and Hai Yom are two words that mean today constant.
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  It's not a one time thing. It's not just you know, you made
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  decisions and that's it. You hear a speeches about making
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  decisions. It sounds like OK, the beginning
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  of the year I make a decision where is I'm going to school?
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  OK, can't put my kids in. Where do I live?
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  Maybe which who do I go to? A couple of decisions.
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  Decisions is not a one time thing.
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  It's a constant frame of mind. Got to constantly think and
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  develop. I think in every situation, in
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  every conversation, in every place that you're in, I have to
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  be constantly seeing beyond the basics, seeing beyond the
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  obvious. I'm being able to develop a
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  world where I'm thinking with anohi mindset.
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  I'm thinking beyond the obvious and I'm just thinking about good
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  and evil. I think about I think about
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  having things. Everything that I do leads to
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  more, and everything that I do leads to a better life of myself
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  and for my family and for my children.
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  All right. And everything will leave is
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  other sham to Baha instead of the opposite.
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  We'll stop with this.