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Rabbi Moshe Haber Path of the Just-Beautifying Mitzvot: The Finest for Serving Hashem 10.29.25 · Rabbi Moshe Haber - Daily Mussar/Weekly Perasha

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  All right, so he's emphasizing his point of a need to beautify
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  him. It's far.
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  And don't diminish it by saying I sure doesn't care in this
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  area. It's fundamental performance,
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  almost expensive, what's called a beautiful, elaborate way.
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  Now Ulam, you know a rabbi Tell us that you should be opposite,
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  you should be pro, in other words, pro beautification of
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  mitzvah ramu, for example, beyond Maya when it comes to
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  water. She did gallu Schlage.
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  And the person has water that was left overnight, which we
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  know. In the old days it was a concern
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  and I might have a snake venom inside and they wanted to know,
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  can I use it for a Corbin? Let me do do me.
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  Let me put it into a sifter. And the sifter was on our weed
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  out all that venom. I'll use the water.
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  I'll clean out the water. I use it.
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  It says don't use such word. It's not pure enough.
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  It's not perfect enough. Even once purified, it's still
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  not originally perfect enough to be utilized for a service.
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  My me Tom. And what's the reason person
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  might come to drink it? OK, the gwa MI kamat the gwa MI
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  kamat. So a point of it is the water
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  that really a person is allowed to drink because he got rid of
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  any of the venom. Still it's telling us now I
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  couldn't have a Hashem vafilohahi asurim al gwa Misha
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  Eno de la cavorca is not proff. I'm more obesafi the call me if
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  harna did a ham only use the chosen ones.
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  The best tennis Chile AV element.
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  Same idea when you serve a cordobano when you're serving a
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  shame when you're pouring water whatever and are you using wine
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  Always use the finest stuff. Now there's another reason why
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  this is fundamental size for as we said yesterday, cavosia mayi.
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  Another major component is for ourselves.
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  What did you do when I put an emphasis on getting the finest
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  water in this example for service of Hashem, finer than
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  the water I would drink? What it does very clearly is
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  creates and defines our priorities and it makes our mind
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  without us noticing it, have very clear direction on what we
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  think is valuable, What we think requires money.
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  Because if you think about it, spending extra money on a
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  mitzvah, if you don't have the right mindset, like extra money,
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  it's wasting. I have to get something done.
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  I get the job done cheaper while I spend more.
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  I don't gain more. In your mind, I don't gain more.
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  It doesn't do any more than mitzvah is done regardless.
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  So if a person is able to shift their head to say I spend on its
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  Fort or I choose the best from its thought, what they're saying
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  is is that I evaluate the best example because the mind is
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  Shabbat food example where there's a topic in the Gemara
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  and the person saying I have a steak, should I have that
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  Wednesday night should have a Shabbat.
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  It's a nice club roast. Save it for Shabbat.
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  All right, NASA, better stuff. Save a Shabbat, you have a nice
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  dessert. That's how I'm going to deliver
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  or use on Shabbat. That is based on the and the guy
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  gives 2 opinions. Bitch, am I or Shabbat himself?
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  Actually, he used to from the beginning of the week, anything
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  he got you to push up with Shabbat, anything was good and
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  then he would find something better.
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  He would eat the first item during the week and then say the
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  next item for Shabbat. Oh, Shabbat said all week long.
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  It's an extreme version, but the overall idea is it.
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  A person says Shabbat is where I put that's.
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  What berries a night is dairy night.
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  That's the news. Exactly.
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  Or, you know, out to eat night. But yeah, the reason, one of the
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  reasons is exactly a person says Shabbat is coming.
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  Shabbat is where we have a good time.
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  She bats when we sit around and that automatically builds up
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  Shabbat. Whether it be the fact that you
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  schmooze more on Shabbat, you know, you have better dessert on
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  Shabbat. Yeah, better food.
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  You have more time, whatever works to build up that time and
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  in contrast diminishes the other times.
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  That just highlights how beautiful Shabbat is.
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  And that's an important thing, whether it be your clothing,
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  your food, the setting, the dining room table.
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  You know, you don't need dining room table every week.
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  Tonight you do. So on Shabbat, you don't have
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  that tablecloth. You do on Tibbat the flowers,
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  like you said, the food, all these things build up.
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  We don't realize that it's painting a larger, more exciting
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  picture and a lot of these things are not even when our
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  minds related to a mitzvah, but they are because by doing this
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  you build up the mitzvah itself and you hey, you say that's what
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  I put my emphasis. You should buy a meal is much
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  more costly than you eat a meal should be all that is good
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  right? All that beautifies and mitzvah
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  and builds up Aquamitzano. That's picture 66 tying they
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  have, for example. What's the story brought from
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  the finest animals brought from the weak?
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  Cheap grains, garbage, any grains.
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  That's the greatest example. It's a great example.
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  Well, ma Allah Baham, what does it say about the outcome by your
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  should be Shah Hashem? Hashem answered and received.
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  Havel's prayer was offering and not kayant.
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  By the way, who came up with the idea of serving Hashem?
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  It seems like kayant came first. He came first, but he came
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  cheaper, less heart, less interest.
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  He will do more but still choose the words.
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  I think he will. Dong who right and I heard an
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  explanation literally means he also brought the Qurban, but I
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  mean by bringing the good stuff he was giving out himself, which
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  means he was showing Gam, who also himself my own interest and
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  our appreciation. And that is the idea we have to
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  have when we do with what all these things is supposed to
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  reflect our own interests, our excitement, our building it up,
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  our pentas and all My, that's where the fun happens.
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  So you have a blend of maybe a little shalala schma with the
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  schma. Why do you like the holidays?
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  I like the holidays. Like the hotties?
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  If the family. Had the family, good food, good
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  food. Keep going that.
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  Was family with. Good.
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  So those items are not really that I've been, but they're not
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  really really they're not the mitzvah.
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  They you know, they play into the mitzvah and they actually
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  build up them. So I have to do right, but
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  they're not the actual the trial doesn't say in Mish Baha.
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  All right, doesn't say that it says havesu dot It's but so you
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  have you have a shaloh. That was certainly a sense, a
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  personal gratification, a personal good time, along with
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  the performance of minissar hands of blending.
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  It's a beautiful thing. Same way when people ask, you
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  know it's. A Basavi and doesn't say mish
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  Baha. Yeah, exactly.
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  I give you exactly a point. I'll give you another example a
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  Hanukkah right now it is Hanukkah because of side
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  reasons. Honestly he can't big a holiday
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  and he used to have God gifts. Do you give a gift?
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  You know he used to give gigs every night.
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  OK, they started this thing he gives every night now we.
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  Have a little olean, you must use the extra, she came late.
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  And my word. Classically by.
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  Its best. Candy and the toys and
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  everything, but very good. So now people give gifts every
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  night. You've heard us did all these
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  things. You could AI kind of yelled
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  where it came from. There's definitely exactly
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  there's definitely a definitely an argument that Hanukkah Yelk
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  came from nowhere real Hanukkah already.
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  And definitely I believe that Hanukkah gifts came from a
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  different holiday. Not so good.
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  And there are gifts definitely influenced, right?
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  And it gets built up and played up.
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  I'm into a big deal. And there's a pressure decently
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  every night and one night goes out.
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  Anything you kids could ask? My kids ask why nothing tonight,
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  right. Oh.
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  Boy, we got. Done come on where did this come
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  from answers it came for a weak place doesn't matter.
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  It's an opportunity build up. I'm it's A and totally you know,
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  once you get to this to the to the demanding and requirement at
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  spoiled world, you start to scale down, which is what we
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  started to do. But technique is being the
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  overall idea of being cited out of its fan is actually something
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  that's great. Even though it's home and it's
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  source came from a wee place all the Hanukkah party 20 years ago.
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  I don't think I had a Hanukkah party.
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  Did you? Chances are, if you don't have
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  it yet, you're going to have it soon.
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  You ever had a get together 20 years ago Did you?
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  20 years. Ago you.
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  Were young? Yeah, sure. 20 years ago when I
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  get Steven. OK, there was definitely a time
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  to do those thing and not because of a lack of religion.
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  That's because of we're a lack of a source and honesty.
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  And then it became, you know, the the the drama who mentions
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  it all together pretty much says there's no in Yan.
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  That was Suda Hanukkah. Maybe if you make it to a Suda
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  mitzvah, which is you make a sioom there or.
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  And there's a lot of selling Jelly doughnuts.
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  And then there's a sign, John. Always.
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  You ever go to Sesame? You can't walk into Jerusett,
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  I'm telling you. It's crazy during the whole
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  month. If you live in Europe, the.
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  The Donuts are like this. Yeah, and the price is like
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  this. Have you ever spent time in
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  Israel during that month before? The entire month before right
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  now already right now was not even a month before the is it?
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  No, not yet. The the the bakeries are booming
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  and they're selling every kind of filling there is.
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  Carmel, Custer Deli, all these things and it's all Hanukkah
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  related. Hanukkah Donuts.
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  It's a Minnesota. Where do you come from?
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  The oil making food with oil because the miracle happened
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  with oil. That's a pretty far off
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  connection. Did the miracle happen when we.
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  Were in miracles oil related. We know that you got to go with
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  you win a. Military victory.
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  No, the miracle. We have.
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  The most we celebrate through the oil and now reflects the
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  victory as well. We got beside with the oil and
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  I'll be out otherwise. So there you go.
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  So oil related, you therefore go over to the doughnut far off and
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  now you go over to a month before.
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  If you ever saw a stretch that's a stretch a month before being
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  busy with doughnuts because of the fact that doughnuts are
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  fried with oil and oil was a miracle of the mineral, The
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  answer is it's part of the build up of the process.
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  It makes it exciting. It makes it fun.
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  It's a big deal. And what's wrong?
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  There's a lot of hype in the world that's not Jewish related.
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  You might as well have mitzvah related hype.
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  And according to this concept, it builds it up.
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  And the kids say, I love the holidays.
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  And when they grow up and they build their own families, they
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  make the holidays the big deal in the home.
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  And it doesn't matter. Yeah, mitzvah, not mitzvah.
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  It just matters. Big deal.
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  Tell what, Hashem? The right track focuses on the
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  right things, and that therefore takes away actually from being
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  busy with the wrong things. You need to replace the hype of
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  the world with the hype of Tudor, Avin Swart, a fundamental
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  concept and a very important one.
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  And it's something that's very necessary today because
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  specifically the world is a hype that, you know, everything's
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  hype, you know, not to go off track, but you know, I thought
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  about this election. It's also craziness.
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  And you think about it, we have craziness every couple of years
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  for sure. I'm sure it's pretty much every
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  year you have a week or so where you're just so extreme.
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  And if you're full of extremism, you might as well have some
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  positive ones. And you definitely might as well
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  have some positive and turn turn into Hashem.
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  So it may not be so founded in sources.
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  You might have, you know, I when I grew up, when in my mind said
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  always was show me the source, show me the source, show me the
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  source. And I don't like things that are
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  sketchy. I don't like people come up with
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  him and I game. Personally, I'm always a source
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  guy. I got off my father.
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  But the reality is it's not so bad.
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  It's better than the other option and actually it builds up
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  a mitzvah. That's how you stop with this.