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Rabbi Moshe Haber Pirkei Abot- Civic Responsibility 5/25/2025 · Rabbi Moshe Haber - Daily Mussar/Weekly Perasha

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  I was a yes, we cannot scan the calling woman and I'm it's like
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  this with regarding the government.
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  Do we care about the government succeed?
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  Should we be interested in the government doing well or should
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  it not matter to us because everything is up to Hashem and
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  we should say OK, I have to follow the government to to
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  follow abide by their laws. But it doesn't matter to me at
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  all whether the government succeeds, whether the things
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  work out, whether you know they are run properly.
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  It doesn't make any of his immediate could be corrupt.
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  How does it matter to me at all. We have a prayer for the
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  government. We do have a prayer for the
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  government, but that might be if all you should pray for by
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  Obama. Sure.
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  Well, that might be. And I've even heard you say
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  what's his name by his, I say his name, but I might just be,
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  says, you know, a good look or maybe who knows?
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  Who knows? It's really necessary.
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  So listen to the word of this rabbit.
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  We should pray for the success and for the peace of the
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  government, which means the functionality in government, if
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  not for the fact that the country fears its president and
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  its government each it's the EU Haim.
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  Below is these words. Each person we eat each other.
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  Man would swallow each other up and they bring up a souk.
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  They come up with us as the words.
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  But the say a damn kid, the gay I am man is like fish in the
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  sea. What do you mean like fish?
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  The way it works in fish is very simple.
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  The small fish gets eaten up by the bigger fish and then that
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  one gets eaten up by the larger one.
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  And the same with the way would be the way the world would work
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  if there were no government, the world would work like look
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  around, look in these countries where they have militias that
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  control the place. Look at these countries that
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  don't have a proper government not to organize.
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  It's come, it's unbelievable and it's consumed.
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  So we're telling you this is not you need to pray for the for the
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  sake of the government and you need to hope that it works out
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  because otherwise people will not function.
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  So there's a beauty and there's an importance to the
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  significance of government. I see.
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  Secondly, in the same vein, same topic, but asserted since the
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  opposite vein, the game out tells us actually it was not
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  later on, it is. A person should not attempt to
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  become too close to head of government at the same time they
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  were telling you that you know that they were telling you that
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  it's important for the government to function.
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  Don't yourself try to become too close because it's not healthy
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  for you. It's not good for us to try to
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  become connected. But the government, I think
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  they're, they're the reason is the the opposite.
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  Because at that point you're thinking to yourself, now the
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  government and your relationship matters.
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  That's a lack of belief in our ship.
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  So although we're telling you that the government should be
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  significant, that doesn't mean you need to care about being
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  related to oh, so and so knows so and so knows who knows the
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  president, whatever the idea of having him in the Senate, having
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  a Jewish guy in the Senate, I think I would say that's the
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  salute as basically salute a representative spot with joy.
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  Yeah, I wouldn't. That basically shows a it's a
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  good thing. Yeah, why not True.
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  It's a good point. By the way, having a Jewish
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  representative in the government, is that necessary?
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  I think serious. Okay, now that's one idea.
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  What's going on with you one last week,
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  OK, that's another point or another Mishna and it will close
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  as well as the BI keep on made smoke.
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  I ask you before we what is the main trigger of people doing
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  things in appropriate role? What's the main cause of that?
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  So he says Abiqa says stroke the Kalu rush, stroke the color
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  rush, what means Lightheadedness, being silly,
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  being in a very like a, you know, party state, party mindset
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  is a source of much of an inappropriate things that you
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  have in the world because of that Marty Glean Eva, it leaves
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  a person totally doing things very inappropriately, says
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  stroke the Kalu rush. Doesn't mean you can't have a
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  good time, but it means that you got to be a little more careful
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  when you do so because it leads there right.
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  It's one point and then he says my sort it there's another point
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  and I want to end the Messiah to do this Nidharim Siaglape
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  shoots. He says in an insane point a
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  certain sense. If a person wants to avoid you
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  know, a person wants to be parish, which means he wants to
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  avoid any connection to do something wrong, he should make
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  Nidharim. What that means is first he
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  needs to guard himself literally means he accepts promises about
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  himself to avoid sin. But a really our sense of means
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  first he's got to put certain fences upon himself to avoid
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  doing something wrong, which is silliness and wildness leads to
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  problems and making fences and making it that even if he's
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  making certain barriers, saying I'm not going to go anywhere
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  near that is the opposite. That's protected.
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  Now, why is it that silliness leads inappropriate because the
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  worst thing in the world when it comes to things like that is
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  taking down barriers. The moment you're taking down
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  barriers for whatever reason is a moment bad things can happen,
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  right? Whether it be a person dealing
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  with a buyer and they need to have a warm relationship.
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  I think that a buyer or someone is having to buy a party, just
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  head care, having fun. These things that take down
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  their mindset of normal discipline and normal control
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  are usually the things that lead to people doing things.
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  Funny, if you ask someone how they started something, certain
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  addiction. Usually he came from some sort
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  of crazy day. It wasn't a regular day in the
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  office. When a guy said let me try that
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  or someone said let me get involved in that.
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  It usually was something that was a little bit off situation.
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  A party, a vacation, a crazy time, a late night out.
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  Usually those are the things that bring people down and then
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  it causes people to be that way for the rest of their life.
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  And now during a regular day, they're facing that exact same
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  challenge. During a normal, typical day,
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  they're facing a challenge which was developed during an off day,
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  during a crazy day. In fact, one of the biggest
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  triggers in similar sense to problems, along with silliness
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  and wildness, is Battila. With Battila, the sport having
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  nothing to do, Having nothing to do is another major trigger.
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  You think people always think if I only have vacation or how easy
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  I would be completely retired with nothing to do with no one
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  around, they could just sit there all day and I'll be good.
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  True, it sounds great, but the reality is, first of all,
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  yesterday we said I'm all you lied.
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  Every person's going to have some sort of headache somewhere
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  anyhow. And secondly, that's what leads
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  to temptation, leads to problems.
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  But tell aha is a source of many people's problems.
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  So again, silliness, which you know, partying and things like
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  that, which can be fun, lead to problems and better lot lead to
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  problems. It's funny because all we wish
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  in life, all we look forward to is that party, that vacation and
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  that off time. Yet the reality is those are the
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  things that are not best for us. If you look back on your life,
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  you look forward to your life, the days of regular days of work
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  are actually the most productive, most helpful, most
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  beautiful days. Those are not.
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  And then right now we're in we May 25th or May 26th and right
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  now, oh, you got 2325 and we're thinking about, oh, people are
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  June 20th that I the next 4 weeks, only three weeks only
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  count. I know I'm the same way.
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  Another count. It's 1.
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  You know, it's pretty much half the summer.
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  If we're the summertime, each day would matter.
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  But these next weeks don't count because we're looking so forward
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  to the summertime and granted, it's the weather's better,
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  things are better. I got it.
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  I understand the same thing is true.
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  However, when it comes to looking forward to the next
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  Sunday, I'm looking forward to the holiday season or to a
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  vacation day of the session, whatever it may be, it's always
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  looking forward to those vacations.
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  Those are all great, but that's not the way you make yourself.
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  That's not what you develop. All you develop is during the
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  boring ransom regular Tuesday during January, February, March,
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  April, May, regular Tuesdays are in the boring times when you sit
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  there and you work and then you go home to your family and do
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  your regular schedule. There's no Vitila, there's no
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  wasting time, there's no silliness and therefore also
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  there is no real destruction. Whereas the other times, which
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  are the good times are also the times that we have so much extra
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  work we need to put into our family to protect us from what
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  can happen by those moments. We look forward to them, we
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  enjoy them, we think about them, but those are our times or our
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  risk. The other ones, what I
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  interested in whenever no one ever discusses how exciting it
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  might be, a March, you know, Tuesday in March doesn't mean
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  that much to you. It's a boring day.
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  That's when you make yourself. That's when you develop.
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  So the mission is telling you avoid, be careful during the
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  crazy times because those are all stickers down.
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  All right, Those are two ideas. Start with this.