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Rabbi Moshe Haber Path of the Just -Personal Character: The Only Track to Spiritual Greatness 6.10.26 · Rabbi Moshe Haber - Daily Mussar/Weekly Perasha

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  Close out there tomorrow, there's a really good time.
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  Uh huh. Exactly.
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  Orion's the next day, birthday is full.
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  Somehow he explains on page 520 something incredible, which is
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  that by person climbing these latest ladder of life by chapter
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  26, getting all the way up to the medal of Kadusha, which is
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  level where one elevates every aspect of his life and turns
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  every part of his life on something special and something
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  that needs a lot of help about Shemi explains.
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  But a point in time you get to that point, you're very close.
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  The whole pick up this whole Messiah.
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  Shani began with the bright a statement and a rabbi named be
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  my husband. Maybe my husband.
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  He was telling you the different stages of life that a person
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  needs to climb in order to reach what level.
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  In order to reach Kirushas, then Ruach Hakodesh and then the
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  ability to do what he says. I believe he says inside the key
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  is to tahiyata metin. That means a person, a human
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  being, a flesh and blood. If one climbs a ladder properly,
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  someone climbs ladder of life can reach heights far beyond
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  human levels. Laura Kodesh is the type of
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  thing they used to go to a rabbi.
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  You go to a rabbi, you're asking a question, assuming as the
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  answer, even if it doesn't even know your topic.
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  That's your ha kodesh, raw kodesh.
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  Just saying it's way bigger than this world and he's telling you
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  I'm not focusing on he says I mean I'm not focusing on the
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  level of the kodesh. But once you know that if they
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  climb the ladder of life, which means somehow if you work on
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  your caravan, some of you work in your character and you work
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  on your focus, and you work on your direction, and you work on
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  your development. And you work on your mood.
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  And you work on your mood observers, and you work on your
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  spirituality and you work on not getting angry, somehow all this
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  development turns you into a person that can reach you with
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  that in of itself needs explaining.
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  How does personal character and personal development have
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  anything to do with? Here's the theme.
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  The theme of this entire book really by its close book, is, is
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  that a person, his job in life, Your job in life, My job in life
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  is to work on ourselves. That's the number one task #1
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  task is to work on my character, to work on myself.
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  And as I develop and develop and develop by working on ourselves,
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  I get holier and holier and I become more of an Angel and you
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  become more of an Angel and more spiritually refined and
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  therefore more connected to God and therefore God's way and
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  God's spirit and God's connection comes on you more the
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  more you work on yourself. That is the idea of this entire
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  book. So you come to the end of the
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  book and he's telling you about, oh Hakodesh, the spiritual
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  powers that a person can have. And he says I've waved in my
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  personal character and myself work play into this grade level.
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  The answer is exactly that. When a person works in
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  themselves, they are becoming more Angel like.
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  The entire job in this world is to work on yourself.
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  And somehow not getting angry at that comet or somehow being
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  humble minded, somehow being more focused in life, that makes
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  you more of a spiritual person and it gives you a question.
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  It's important to note that our job on this earth is one job.
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  Work on myself has a lot of different branches, but work on
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  myself, develop myself and work on it.
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  And if that's the case, I will reach the finish line when I do
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  so. I'll become a spiritual giant
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  when I do so. Let's do this together inside
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  Mishaam, Yale and Malaga Vayote. And through this self work
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  you'll reach the highest of levels.
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  That is, as they call it, English.
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  But if we give an English translation, it's a spiritual
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  spirit, your mind, your way of thinking.
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  You won't think like other people.
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  You'll be better than that. Your connection will be so
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  strong, able to reach level. Car will give you the keys, will
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  give you the keys to the power of the Klatima team.
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  And no one does this. Understood Belial and Avi and
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  Elisha and Avi, they were able to do this.
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  How? Not because they sat in the room
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  and thought about Hashem all day long.
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  No, it's because they connected to Hashem through personal
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  development. They were able to reach the
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  levels and the heights. This is a proof of your great
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  connection to Hashem because God is so great and God gives life
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  to every person. It says Hashem has three keys.
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  One of the keys God has, he doesn't give to regular people,
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  is the keys to bring back the dead, but he does give it to
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  those who are extra, extra great.
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  And if a person connects to Hashem enough, they get godly
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  powers, and godly powers are gobbling back to death.
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  We can breathe. It's a wild, wild level, as he's
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  telling you, is one of the greatest degrees of Hashem, the
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  ability to bring back to death. And This is why you have in the
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  Gemara stories where rabbis brought back to death, and you
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  have Naveen stories where naveedas.
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  Are we trying to attain that level?
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  No, it's not even in the book. It's not love of the work to
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  reach. No, it's not.
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  But we're understanding, huh? He's out of it, but we're
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  understanding. We're understanding this.
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  Spiritual heights and character heights are not separated at
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  all. In fact, character heights,
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  personal developments are the only pathway to great.
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  If you have someone who's officially a spiritual giant,
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  but he's obnoxious, he's not a spiritual giant.
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  It's a mistake. And if you have someone who's a
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  character giant, then you should know if he's really, really
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  working on himself and he's in line with our spiritual beliefs,
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  that person becomes automatically a spiritual giant.
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  That's how it works. The only job you have in your
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  life, the only means to climb the ladder of life, is to work
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  on yourself. There is no other way.
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  So you have a guy who gets off and insulted, who can be very
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  arrogant, but he claims to be a spiritual giant.
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  He's not. That's what he's telling you.
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  And you have a person who seems like a simple person.
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  He's obviously in line with the halacha.
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  He's obviously follows Altura. He seems simple.
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  Doesn't seem like the biggest deal in any area, but this
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  person, wow, he'll never get upset.
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  He'll never get angry, never get insulted, never not a nice word,
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  never a lush Mahara, never any arrogance.
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  He's so refined. Unbelievable.
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  That person is a spiritual giant.
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  That's what we're telling you over here.
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  And that person is right before the finish line.
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  Now, when no one's ever going to reach this finish line, the
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  modern day to be able to have the power of chat and the team,
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  but they're super duper close. And that is, and a person can
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  develop the great heights of greatness through the means of
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  personal development. That's he's telling you, who am
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  I Shamus saying he's telling you there are No 2 tracks in life.
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  This is the most important point.
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  And I've noticed this over time, and you'll see this over all the
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  time yourself once you put on these glasses, there are No 2
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  tracks to greatness. There's one track, personal
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  development is the only track toward greatness.
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  Now you can have people who are spending a lot of time in the
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  spiritual end, but they're also great personally.
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  You got people they're spending a lot of time on the character,
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  but also online spiritually. And that's when you have these
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  stories of of you know, the classic story with someone came
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  to a Hassidis Sherevi and said, who do I get up at a car from?
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  And the Ralph, I said, go to that village and find that guy.
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  And you've heard those stories before.
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  The humble guy. Exactly who is the guy?
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  The humble guy, the happy attack, the person who's happy
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  with his love, the person who love and who has a certain
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  challenge and he's good with it. Those are the people.
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  Why? Because those are the personal
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  developing people. And that's the guy we want to
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  be. The person who's working on
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  himself to the point and his character is so refined, it's
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  unbelievable to tell you. Is that a work of it?
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  You see the average person, it's not easy.
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  It's a lot. Man is born to work.
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  Your job is to work. And the reality is the hardest
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  area to work is on your character.
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  You could work in business, you could work in helping other
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  people, but working on your character is the hardest area.
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  And because it's the hardest area, it's also the greatest
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  source of development. That means if I'm a person who
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  can be very nice other people, I'd be very generous.
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  I could learn a lot of Twitter. I can develop, you know, be
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  there for other people, but for some reason I have an Achilles
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  heel so incessantly to me in that area, it hurts me.
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  It insults me. I walk into the room, no one
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  gives me any cupboards. It bothers me.
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  If that's me, then that's my spot and that's how I'm getting.
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  I'm not getting no, not for me, for other people, maybe us, but
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  for me, if I have a personal floor, that's my pathway to how
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  do I handle that? You know, not for that lack of
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  respect, that anger issue, that area of law of talking to Shora,
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  whatever is my Achilles heel, that's my key to greatness.
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  That's what he's telling you. So one has to realize your key
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  to development are your are your force.
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  Literally what you grew up with, what bothered you all your whole
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  life, those things. That's your pathway to greenness
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  and that's your pathway to the top of the finish line.
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  And only someone who's aware of this book's concept, only
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  someone is aware of the fact that you will not get anywhere
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  in life without personal work and personal development.
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  Without saying to yourself, am I the same guy?
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  Do I get bothered to the same stuff?
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  Do I want to look like so and so?
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  By the way, no offense to other people.
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  You should do this. You see someone who's off, Tell
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  yourself, tell your wife, I don't want to look like them.
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  I don't want to be that way. I don't want to be 50 and
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  looking like that person, I'll be 70.
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  Looking like that person, I'll be 80 like that person.
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  It's an embarrassment in my eyes.
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  If that's how you believe. And if you drill that into your
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  system, you will look differently and you will be able
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  to develop in a way that other people cannot recognize.
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  The fact that in this world, minus the focus and personal
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  development, one is prone to think he's a Sadiq and to be
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  really the opposite of a Sadiq. That's the reality.
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  Without personal work, one can think that they're everything
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  and they're really nothing. I'm telling you this from
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  experience. I'm looking at some people from
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  focusing on this concept and realizing this.
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  This could happen to myself as well, and that is if you do not
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  work on the area that's your greatest challenge, you will not
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  develop at all. That's what he's telling you in
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  this book, and that's how somehow Ruach ha Kodesh is a
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  token that you can get after you reach the top board of Mario.
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  What's the token Ruach ha Kodesh?
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  How does it get you there? The answer is personal
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  development is your purpose in this world.
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  Therefore, reaching that finish line only goes to that trap.
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  So you have a choice. You can sit in a cable all day
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  and learns are right, and then you can come out of that cave
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  and yell at people and FYI, go back into The Cave because you
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  did nothing. Or you can function as part of
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  society. You could try as hard if you
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  want to function as part of society, right?
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  And see other people, greet other people.
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  Be nice to the simple people, Recognize it'd be OK when
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  someone insults you. A drought.
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  You can try to avoid that Sharda, you can try to be
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  humble. You cannot demand so much.
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  You cannot get so often insulted.
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  You can be a person who has kedushal, which is somebody who
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  is OK with things not being perfect, not so dependent on
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  this world. And he said to yourself, that's
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  a big deal. I'm a regular guy.
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  I'm just being a simple guy, not demanding a lot.
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  You've reached the levels of greatness.
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  And when you talk about great rabbis and you talk about great
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  people, you talk about the Torah shore, but you talk about In
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  Sync with their Torah. Was this.
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  I'll give you an example. I went in Israel little two
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  weeks ago. I went to one of the people I
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  went to visit was Mukubal. His name is Abubiryal Shmueli.
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  OK, today is one of the biggest Mukubalim.
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  I'll tell you full honesty. The first time I went to this
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  rabbi, I was disappointed. I'd be disappointed.
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  He was so smiley and so jolly. He's like a little bit of a full
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  face, nice big beard. And he's a happy person.
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  And I said to myself, listen, I think of a mukubal of old.
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  You think of a mukubal the person has saintly, they're
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  quiet, they're serious. They have, you know, that their
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  thing. I can't imagine this rabbi is
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  the biggest mukubal. Yeah.
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  But they tell you that that's all he would go to this rabbi,
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  right? For, for, for blessings for the
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  conversations in Kabbalah because of his greatness.
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  And this Rabbi is the Rabbi, the Shiva of the, the Shiva
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  Abdirashashash, which is the one of the main source of Kabbalah.
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  So he's got to be but I don't see it.
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  Then I went back to him this time obviously wasn't question
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  his greatness. I just didn't see that, that
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  that image or you used to see him and I'm back then this time
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  and and I went to him. I went to 11:30 in the morning.
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  I told you in the Friday night speech who was online to see
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  him. Well, you have one guy with the
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  the Hasidic garve. You have another guy holding the
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  other guy wearing his helmet was of his two sisters of his of his
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  scooter was on the windowsill. Regular guy.
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  You have another guy with the shaved head.
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  They told me he works in in the shook.
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  Another guy looks like something else.
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  Another person when they keep us sugar.
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  All different types, right? And then there's me.
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  I know where you look at me as on the back of the line.
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  All right, Regular guy. Exactly.
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  All right, exactly, all different types.
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  You have two guys in the corner eating, you know, seeds and
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  spitting out the seeds right smoking the E leak regular look,
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  it's really look since Yama is that with the most regular
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  simple Saradi shook whatever the Bukhari shook Thai people and
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  he's talking to each one and he's he he's going why, why, why
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  every person's issue and every person wakes up to him and he's
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  sitting there 11:30 in the morning very nice.
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  He's been up since 2:00 in the morning at 2:00 in the morning,
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  he went to the court till he does it every morning.
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  All right, I'm two to three about comes back at 3:00.
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  He starts learning that's giving a shoot.
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  He stays there till Nets. He then learns then praise Nets
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  for the mignon stays in the same seat and greets people from then
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  till 11:30 every single day of his life.
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  It's not something he never leaves.
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  He never leaves Israel. I remember when I first went to
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  him, we asked him. He never even got to America.
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  He says llama, America comes to me.
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  Why do I need to go to America? He never leaves Israel ever.
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  If you give him money, he doesn't want money.
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  I saw someone give him someone pull out.
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  I think it was like 200 shake or so, something, some sort of
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  number. But then he says ain't kissif
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  ain't kissif pull. Don't give me money, OK?
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  He doesn't collect money. He gets money, but he doesn't
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  collect money. And he's just sitting there
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  doing the same thing in the same tone, with the same smile,
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  having not eaten breakfast yet, just sitting there every single
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  day of his life. And to me, I was so encouraged
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  when I saw that site because that is this.
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  That is real greatness and that is a person who's really on the
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  top of the level of character, greeting people smiling, people
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  crying for someone who came with this, with the one son because
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  they had a fallen son in the army, the whole thing.
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  And it was real, it was genuine. Every person's got a different
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  answer. I had a question that gave me my
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  answer. Every single thing was its own
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  item. That to me was perfect, 'cause
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  that's In Sync. That's 2 worlds.
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  You think to yourself, no, that's in Makubao and there's a
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  character guy. No, no, they are Todava.
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  They're the same person. In fact, he's more of them,
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  Akuba. Now.
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  Now that I realize the man of character, I realize more of
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  Akuba because that is the essence of greatness.
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  There are No 2 tracks. The greatness is only one.
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  And that one track is a person working on themselves.
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  Will they link themselves to Kedusha and Taura and Torah?
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  Yeah, sure. Do they need to focus on Torah?
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  They do, but they need to recognize my ladder of greatness
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  is I climb with personal character.
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  Personal character. As you develop personal
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  character, you make yourself more available to learn to the
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  you make yourself more humble to hear from other people to the
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  you make yourself less connected to this world and therefore may
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  able to connect to Hashem. Sure, you make yourself more of
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  a kadosh person, but not through means of ignoring character
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  rather than through means of embracing character.
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  That is the theme of this concept of this bright, and that
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  is why it ended a bright. I can actually say that one
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  through personal work or reach the heights of Ruach Ha Kodesh,
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  which is something that the greatest rabbis have and the
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  powers of the Ultimate Team. We don't focus on that, but we
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  believe that that a person who reaches at heights can do great
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  things not because he's living in a cave, rather because he's
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  living on Main Street, but he's living life the right way.
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  That's the idea. Then what's up with this?