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Rabbi Moshe Haber Orchot Saddiqim: The Straightened Mind 6.29.26 · Rabbi Moshe Haber - Daily Mussar/Weekly Perasha

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Why is Dutch and will pick and choose and the way it works with
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this book is that he has the open up is like any classic book
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does the idea of Moussaar he's telling us is that a person
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should better themselves. They should make themselves do a
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better with Jew and a better connection to Hashem and that
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concept the same as Musaah Ishadi in that sense that the
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goal is to better yourself. But his unique way of doing so
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is by identifying the fact that there are many, many different
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tools and differently thought that people have in the world.
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Some people are arrogant, people are humble, some people are very
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into cavort and who are not just in cavort and some people are
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happy, some people are sad and he goes to something about love.
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Some people hate have people are nice, some people are strong and
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he goes through each one of them and basically identifies as
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we'll do over the course of time.
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Is that the shame he identifies which Medoth are flawed, which
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Medoth are solid, which you want to keep a lot of which you want
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to keep a little bit of It does the entire goes the entire
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thing. Let's open up with the
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introduction. It says how dama It says
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introduction doesn't have a page number say it.
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It does not say I wrote the book.
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I do not. I don't think we know I wrote
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the book. I was saying what?
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Page are we on we're. Going to start page, it didn't
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say number but it says how dama no.
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Page No author. Exactly.
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We're doing good so far. Right page numbers in here.
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Yeah, page in the introduction there's no page number is.
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This the only book that. There's no author.
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The only book that's so widespread without the author,
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yeah, that that we know of. I don't think anyone knows the
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author is. Yeah.
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Look, it doesn't say look in the beginning of the book.
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Which would translate to edit it in there, but then.
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Is that exactly exactly not to say what there is right of
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class? Let's see over here the way you
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decide the key. In other words, it's going to
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give you the pathways per person to become great.
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So we'll open up the demo for today.
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Sof tavarico nishma. We know the pasu at the end of
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time, everything will be heard. ETA leukemia dabez motavi
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shimurki ZE cola Adam. Did man fear God and did man
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keep God's foot? Because that is the essence of
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man, which means the wisest of all men at one point was the
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king of the entire world down here and even the king of the
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angels upstairs. He was an unbelievably
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all-encompassing, powerful person.
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And yet his pursuit that we just opened up with was, what's the
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bottom line of man? Did man keep his foot and the
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man fear God and the other order, the man fear God and the
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man keep his what? In other words, the bottom line
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of a solid Jew is how God fearing is that person?
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How much does that person live with Hashem in his mind?
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And how much does a person keep God mitzvot, the heart after
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he's served, he should I call a Mason.
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He identified the whole world. He was a man who was wise, the
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wisest man on earth, and he was the king of everything, which
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means he knew and he was in control of everything on this
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earth minus Hashem. That's it.
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When he Sako Divini and he tested everything and he brought
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out to the world many wisdoms that no one else knew.
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Hatam ko devarava Amar, the sign, the seal, the finishing
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touch to the world is sofshe ko devaru Hashem.
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The number one thing is that's it that he needs to kill the
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mishleh. He almost up with mishleh as as
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well. Yerat Hashem, the sheet, the dot
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mishleh opens up when the first Mr. Key mishleh is that Yerat
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Shamaya is the beginning of thought the Siem he shot Yerat
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Tashem. He did the last end of all we
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know of and he shot Yeratashem. He did the law, a woman who was
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praiseworthy, woman who was God fearing she should be praised.
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Now He knew everything and he can't help with this.
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Now. What is Yashamayim and why are
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we telling you it's so important and how is this going to be our
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guide to become a better person? The idea of Yashamayim is a full
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strong sense of just how much Hashem exists and just how much
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I am part of his world and how much everything that's going on
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is all God's world being orchestrated, which means man is
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inclined very Robin man's inclined to ignore God.
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We don't think that's that our way.
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We think we're very much cognizant of Hashem.
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It's not true. Naturally, man is inclined to
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not feel God's presence and everything.
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They want to live on their own. They want to function in their
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own life. They want to feel like I'm, I'm
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living my life as is. And I don't want to think at all
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times that God's presence is so strongly here because the
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essence of God's presence, what it does.
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Is that Jewish? People in general, in general,
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man is like that across the board.
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And your people, we have a reason to fight that mindset
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because we know what Hashem is. The reason man thinks that way
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and is inclined to think that way is because having Hashem's
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presence in your life, although it's very encouraging and it's
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very, you know, soothing and it's very good for you, at the
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same time, it's also very obligating.
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It gives you a lot of responsibilities.
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It makes you live life a certain way.
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And you would look at every single situation and every
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conversation and every thought and everything going on in your
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life with the presence of mind of Yashamayim.
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You will look at it in a very real way.
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And sometimes we don't want that reality.
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We don't want to deal with things with the full true
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reality of Hashem's world because we just want to enjoy.
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We want to feel good about ourselves.
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We want to feel like we're rolling, whatever it may be that
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person wants to do. And Yashamayim is a little bit
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of a wake up call. It's a steady wake up call and
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not everyone wants to deal with it all times.
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And so, so all I'm telling you, well, you know, doesn't make a
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difference. You want to deal with or not.
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This is the essence of man. The essence of man is the
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recognition of Hashem's existence in the world and my
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therefore awe of that existence. And if I have that awe and I
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have a recognition, I will be so much more of a real genuine
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person. You take my arrogance, it goes
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out the window. If I be Rajahmayim, you take my,
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my I don't know my wasting my time, it goes out the window,
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you're out Shamayam. You take my potential sinning,
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because after winning, you're Shamayam my Prince, someone else
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down, my lack of Kavanaugh, my lack of Li Mutura, my you know
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my getting angry at somebody. You name it, you add, you're out
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Shamayam to the picture, and it cleanses and normalizes and
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creates a real genuine genuineness to every single
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situation you face. Yeah, Jeremiah completely
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changes the game, right? The principal walks into the
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room, the class shapes up. You know what?
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Jeremiah comes into your head, we all shape up.
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So he's telling you, Shaman. I did my research, so to speak.
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I know the world. I'm in control of everything.
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Besides, we got it, and I know the yacht.
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Shamiah is the bottom line no matter what situation you're in,
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fear of heaven, recognition or the presence of Hashem is the
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bottom lining of a situation. That doesn't mean it doesn't
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mean every single thing you do in life is total.
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You know Hashem doesn't have to hang up the other day that you
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want to be a person. It doesn't mean everything
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you're doing is towed, is towed. Those ends.
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That's not true, but it does mean that the bottom line
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mindset in your mind all the time is to be steady mindset.
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Hashem is here, Hashem is present, Hashem is powerful,
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Hashem is great, Hashem is in control.
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That needs to be in back of your mind and it'll change the way
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you think about everything. That's his time, right?
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So with that introduction, and we'll get a little more of the
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introduction for a minute, with that introduction, you going to
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attack every single character trait and say to yourself,
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Hashem is here. Does he want me to be arrogant
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right now? God is present.
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Is he OK with me being said? Is he OK with me being Uber
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happy? Is he OK with me being Uber
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confident? Does he want me to be very
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humble? And then you'll find out that
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every single one of those truths I just mentioned that many, many
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more. It's not that simple.
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God doesn't want you to be arrogant.
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We know that. But He does want arrogant in
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certain areas. He doesn't want you to be.
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He wants you to be humble, but He doesn't want you humiliated
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to go too far. He wants you to be very happy,
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right? But he doesn't want you to be
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overly happy in a way that's going to make you ignore things.
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He wants you to be, you know, definitely not like sadness, but
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he might want at certain times a recognition of the OR the
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feeling of sad for other people who are struggling, right?
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He wants you to be a doesn't want you to be, does not want
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you to be a tough person, but at times you need to be tough for
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what's right. So all these things we'll figure
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out based on my full sense of the presence of Hashem, I will
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be able to figure out how to manage the most important thing
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a person can manage, and that is getting to you out shamaya and
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getting the right balance for you out shamaya.
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And that's the key. The key is if you recognize the
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presence of Arshan, you will straighten up everything that
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goes on in your life. You'd take yesterday was Sunday.
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You probably had many classic Sunday situations.
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Sunday situations includes the BBQ, the pool and together with
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family and be doing nothing for a few minutes sitting around and
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every single one of those, every single one of those situations
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requires a balance, requires you, not shamayim because it'll
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change that situation. Just to take the most practical
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most recent examples, it'll change the situation.
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Yeah, you got shamayim to the BBQ.
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It's a different BBQ. You had shamayim to the time in
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the pool. It's different time in the pool,
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time with the grandchildren. It's different times you can't
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children. Yeah.
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Shamayim to you're doing nothing.
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You're sitting around, you know, 11 to 1.
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You had nothing to do whatever it was yesterday.
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You got shamayim. You make sure not to do anything
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wrong, make sure maybe to read something that's that's that's
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learned, that's going to help you grow.
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And you make sure maybe to do some productive work basing out
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your mind. You shape up the way you live
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when there's a presence of Hashem here.
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You see, without the presence of Hashem becomes the presence of
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us and the presence of us and the presence of our own mind
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alone without the presence of God is an extremely destructive
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way of thinking. Man left alone, although very
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talented and gifted and great, can be very much a destructive
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force. Man, with the presence of
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Hashem, becomes the most productive existence known to
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man. That's how it goes, and that's
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why having the sense of the presence of Hashem is so
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important. You straighten us all out
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because we are literally one of the most powerful tools.
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In fact, we are the most powerful existence on earth, all
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right, Without the straining mind, with all those crazy
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people doing crazy things, with the straining mind and with the
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help of a way of thinking, we are a very productive force.
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It all depends how you shape that mind.
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It all depends on that. It's not about the tools that
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you have or don't have. It's not about whether you know
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you have more gifts to yourself or not, how much money you have
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or don't have nothing to do with that.
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It's all about how you think and how you strain your way of
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thinking. With the right way of thinking
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that many you can become the greatest thing imaginable, the
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wrong way of thinking the opposite.
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That's how it works. You know, I was driving in this
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morning and I, you know, I'm a, I'm a radio guy.
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So I'm listening to talk shows, driving in this morning to wake
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myself up at 6:00 in the morning.
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Fine. And I'm listening and I'm
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thinking about the crazies or the anti Israel.
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The Pro is all these crazy people.
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And I'm thinking to myself, I used to anti, how do these
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people get so crazy? How do these people get so
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measurable? Now there's new lady in New York
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now and not just regular crazy, just just outright, downright
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nuts, right? She went, she, she marched
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October 8th. I mean, she anti Israel October
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8th, 2023, she marked March anti Israel, right?
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How did it get so crazy? She's spent seven years in
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college, by the way, that might be a reason she seven years.
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She I don't think she hasn't masses.
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OK, fine, that's that's really work in progress.
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Fine, how's it that? But the point is, I don't think
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it's so crazy. The answer is is that you I can
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give you a few minutes and a few days without her sharing,
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without knowing people around just thinking down ideas and you
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can call how you're going to rationalize no guns.
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I could see that. No prisons.
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I could see that. That's how far she went.
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You gonna rationalize? Actually, I'm just getting so
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fuel to this fire. You can rationalize, right?
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Right. You gonna rationalize how?
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You know what? The cops, they're too
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aggressive. If you rationalize, everything
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will go down that road and you're so you know, all the rich
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has taxed. If it's not fair, they're
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wealthy as if the money just came down from heaven and they
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didn't do anything to make the money, right?
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You can rationalize all these different things and before you
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know it, you go down the road and I realize what is it in
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their world the mindset really is He decided to choose the
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world of the oppressed. And they desire to define who
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the oppressed is, right? Like to say argument, taking the
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oppressed of the minorities. OK, they decided to choose which
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minorities are the oppressed to follow.
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This is a person's way of thinking and it's not so crazy
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if you're a crazy, which means if you think down the road, you
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start to go down the road. It's us to build and build and
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build. I'm pro oppressed, which means
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all these mindsets comes from officially a person who's caring
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about the downtrodden. You got it.
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It's called some 100%. Someone who's conscious about
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those who can't, don't have a voice himself.
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The voice for the voiceless. That individual is the source of
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crazy plus crazy plus crazy times crazy plus crazy, which
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ends up becoming someone running for actual office who believes
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there should be no prisons and no guns and no police and no ice
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and no justice and no borders. You name it.
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And yet, destroy Israel. Destroy Israel because they are
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the aggressors. If you know what Mage Noon is a
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mind without God. Yes, we know there are many
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Americans in this world who have a normal mind.
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That's true. I'm not trying to say everyone's
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crazy at all, but I'm trying to say a person without God is
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prone is already smoke, right? It's already a flame.
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There's a match lit. They're just waiting for the
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trees to catch on fire. They are this close to becoming
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a massive wildfire. A person without a guard, that's
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how it works. When I get out your mind, you
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are prone to craziness. And even if a regular person who
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lives in its normal society would never go down that road, I
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understand that. But they might have a kid that
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does and they might have someone around that does.
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They might have someone that takes regular American minus God
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plus college equals wildfire. Could be point is, they're very
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close. And how are they very close?
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Because they do not have anything that's deemed a compass
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that's straining them out. Hudat shamayim, the sense of
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Hashem, the fear of Hashem makes you become an extremely
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analytical person and also a very true person, becoming more
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genuine, more real. Some of the realities, by the
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way, are uncomfortable. The reality will be some of
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these realities are not comfortable.
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If everything you have to learn in this book, if you come out by
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saying I have Elijah, so therefore everything I do is
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right. I've been doing everything right
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all the time. He's sketching yourself.
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Also, Elijah Mayim is a wake up call.
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A wake up call means, yeah, yeah, maybe 80% of the things I
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do are good. There might be 20% that I'm not.
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My work on those might be too much humility, might be too much
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arrogance. There might be too much
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happiness. There might be too much sadness.
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It's all possible. There might be too much running
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after kavod, too much running away for kavod.
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Any one of these things are possible and you will see how
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it's doable, but the key is a sense of the presence of Hashem
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in every single situation. You name it.
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And Shalamar medical close to this, he says Shalamar medical
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just want to talk. He says because these words, if
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you got a different person, somebody else, so I told you,
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you know the best thing in life is yachamayim loyu divaramaku
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balim. Their words would not have been
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as powerful as shalomos allahu Alam kiya lama Yomi.
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And people would say I know why you're telling me about
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Yachamayim because you don't know any better, because that's
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the guys 1 trick pony. It's all he knows.
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Shia Ashid Mukul Adam, the wealthiest man during his time,
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the number one. He was tippy top in every area.
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Wealthiest, smartest, most gifted at the had silver like
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stones, like rocks. He was more wisest.
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He's the wealthiest, the wisest and the most powerful.
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All right, Lord Nail Lamar, he's the guy whose words mean
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something when he says javel. Everything in this world is
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nonsense. Everything in this world,
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everything that people chase and people are busy with and people
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are proud of is always the time. The end.
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La Sok Elia, he is the guy who's been through it all and he's the
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guy who has control of it all, who has wealth above all.
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And he can tell you it's all worthless.
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And he's not sketching around. He's not being that guy who's
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very rich and says you don't know money's not a thing.
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No, no, no, you, you and I know money's a thing.
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He's being the guy who's very wealthy and being honest and
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sane. Why it really is a thing?
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No, no, I know. I know regular people to think
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but. In in the world, the real world
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is money a thing and real little money Definitely, definitely
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makes the roads go around and company is a thing.
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You have to be above that to say, you know, Jemima is above
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that. Sure, money's a thing and sure,
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wisdom's a thing and sure powers, these are all real
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things. And a person going to be above
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that. They say although those are very
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real things and I say real, I mean to say it's not only the
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thing by crazies. There are many, many very normal
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people who chase money, many very normal people who consider
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being smart the be all end all, many very normal people who love
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power that to be above that by saying if Shalamour America is
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talking and telling me you're out shamaye is number one.
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That means above the normal chasing of money, of power, of
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wisdom even is you out shamaye. That's how it goes.
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It's numero Uno, it's on top of it all, and it controls
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everything. How much you have the sense of
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the presence of Hashem is how much your life is going to be a
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straight, normal, healthy life. That's what He's telling you,
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how much your mind will think, Think clearly day-to-day out and
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you'll be thrown off. Life has the power to throw off
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us, throw us off all the time. Everything in our lives is a
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decoy, is a distraction, is meant to get us off our game, is
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meant to make us or they be being tired, being upset, being
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angry, being frustrated, being nervous, right being said, the
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classic negative mindsets, being arrogant, being a chaser, all
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these are these mindsets are all really one thing off your game,
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not the good person, not the full person.
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You're not. Shyam is straightening you out.
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It's telling you get back on the settle.
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Get back on your game. Don't let yourself be sad and
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therefore off. Don't let yourself be angry and
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therefore not in your current state, so to speak.
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Like drunk. Don't let yourself be frustrated
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and therefore unsettled. Don't let yourself be worried
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and therefore unable to enjoy the time.
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These are all indications of off your game.
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But you're not somebody in the presence of a sham and the right
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way of thinking. You'll be back on your game and
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the greatest person imaginable is not the wealthiest, not the
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smartest, not the most powerful. Ask some of the most powerful
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people in the world how happy, how gifty life is not so good.
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The greatest person imaginable, The best life to live is the
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life that's flowing, functioning and straight and normal.
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Not having these negative thoughts, not having these
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things taking off your game and the only way to get you on that
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straight path is your mind. Isn't the presence of a shame?
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Because when you put input Hashem into everything all in
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your life, it sees things in a straight way.
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It sees things in a clear way, and you know right from wrong.
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You have to know something to know right from wrong.
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You'll learn it. You know right from wrong, and
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you will avoid all the pitfalls of life.
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If his life is an unbelievably beautiful Rd. with a whole lot
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of puddles, that's life. Beautiful Rd.
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A lot of ways to fall down on that road.
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And our job is to keep ourselves steady, straight and clear
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thinking through your archima. That's the idea.