Rabbi Joey Soffer Shiurim
Shaare Teshuva-13
(speaks in foreign language) Says another way to think about making tissue. Here we go. (speaks in foreign language) The person starts to age a little bit. Starts to get a little bit more intellectual. (speaks in foreign language) He starts to also get his body gets weaker. We all hit that number, you know, and then your body all of a sudden shuts off, slows down, aches and pains, you know. Okay, the (speaks in foreign language) It starts to, you know, (speaks in foreign language) a little bit. (speaks in foreign language) And remember, you're getting closer to the end. (speaks in foreign language) You know, when you're young and vibrant, you don't think about it, but as you get a little older, okay, you know, you're mid-pointing, mid-life, you know, you're getting a little more, but now you're past mid, you know. (speaks in foreign language) If you don't make tissue bar by the time you're old already, (speaks in foreign language) If you got to that age already, you didn't make tissue bar yet, really, Hashem was waiting for you, waiting for you, waiting for you. (speaks in foreign language) The anger gets more and more. (speaks in foreign language) There are three that Hashem can't stand. (speaks in foreign language) There's a (speaks in foreign language) Okay, someone who's (speaks in foreign language) and he's (speaks in foreign language) and he's denying Hashem, he's (speaks in foreign language) and he's still fooling around. (speaks in foreign language) (speaks in foreign language) (speaks in foreign language) The strength is gone already, and they don't understand they're getting all that, he's still on the wrong path. (speaks in foreign language) It's wondrous, (speaks in foreign language) I was at midlife, (speaks in foreign language) You see, that the number is just decreasing, the number of days of your life is decreasing from the second you're born. Every day they get less. So it works, right? And you're watching now, you got to put a midpoint, and you're watching these ideas gone by. (speaks in foreign language) You start to see, right, that the building is starting to gravel, but one day it's gonna be gone. (speaks in foreign language) (speaks in foreign language) Starts to see, right, he's playing with the metaphor of the grass dying and drying out, and you see that that's what's happening as a person's body ages, (speaks in foreign language) but he looks at the mirror, he doesn't see it. He thinks he's 18, he looks at the mirror, he thinks he's an 18 year old, he's not 18 anymore. Look at the mirror, (speaks in foreign language) (speaks in foreign language) He's on the road to the end, I don't know where he's even going, he doesn't look. I love when I saw him on the line, so non-stop journey to the end, (speaks in foreign language) (speaks in foreign language) (speaks in foreign language) Many people, unfortunately, they don't get to the tissue that they're supposed to make, (speaks in foreign language) 'Cause they think they're perfect. You can't make tissue while you think you're perfect, right? (speaks in foreign language) (speaks in foreign language) They don't think about a wonder or even bother with trying to fix things that they've done wrong with the whole life (speaks in foreign language) (speaks in foreign language) Look at the mirror, perfect, it's good, good guy. Perfect, beautiful, nice to people. My wife, I take care of her, take care of my kids, I'm a good guy, good guy, (speaks in foreign language) (speaks in foreign language) Unfortunately, why? 'Cause again, if you're not making tissue while the things that you've done, you know, so it gets worse and worse and worse. (speaks in foreign language) This person needs to be placed on our voids. There's nobody in this world that is a dig that did not make sense. Nobody, zero, zero people, zero. (speaks in foreign language) (speaks in foreign language) They think they're not doing sense, right? (speaks in foreign language) They forgot what they did in there, you know, without making the tissue out, they just forgot about it. (speaks in foreign language) It's like a sick guy, you know, he has pain. At some point in time, you just get used to the pain. You forget that it's there because you got used to it already. (speaks in foreign language) It doesn't think anymore about how to get healed, right? 'Cause that's sick anymore, what do you mean that's sick? (speaks in foreign language) I don't feel it anymore, I don't feel it anymore. (speaks in foreign language) (speaks in foreign language) It keeps getting worse and worse. (speaks in foreign language) (speaks in foreign language) He can't be healed anymore now. (speaks in foreign language) Sometimes it's just a lack of knowledge. They don't understand what to do or how to make the tissue out. (speaks in foreign language) They never ask, they never ask, they never want to show on the bass to a rabbi. (speaks in foreign language) They don't really want. 'Cause having a good time to enjoy themselves feels good. I mean, I'm having a nice good life, I don't have to have. Okay, one day the credit card bill's gonna come to me. You have to pay what the bill says. That's the bottom line, right? So it's very nice not to carry a balance when you're going forward 'cause there's interest on the balance, right? So if you pay off every month, you like tissue, right? You clean the credit card bill, finish. You get there, zero balance, fuck down, here's the gates. We open for you, there you go, fuck down. Oh no, you want to go through there? There's the bill. You got to pay for this first. (speaks in foreign language) (speaks in foreign language) They don't know, so they don't go, it's the rabbi, they don't talk to the student. (speaks in foreign language) (speaks in foreign language) Don't love this kafir, let him give him some rebuke, let him come to the rabbi, figure out what he's doing wrong. (speaks in foreign language) So people that are (speaks in foreign language) (speaks in foreign language) People that are straight, they're honest. (speaks in foreign language) Right, in their mind, there's like a lion roaring all the time. (speaks in foreign language) They're feeling bad, they're whaling about the sin that they make in (speaks in foreign language) Like the ocean, like the roar of the ocean. (speaks in foreign language) They feel terrible about the fact that they were lacking in their service (speaks in foreign language) (speaks in foreign language) (speaks in foreign language) Many people do this, this one is a big set, not being complete and doing things that you're supposed to do when you're in your (speaks in foreign language) incomplete, we all have that problem. Everybody who just putting checkbox, I want to show check, I pretty check. (speaks in foreign language) You're putting checkbox on your list, that's a problem. 'Cause you say no, that's your guilt, that's doing it. I'm doing it 'cause you want to, you're not doing it 'cause it's supposed to, no, no. I don't feel guilty, I'm gonna do it. I'm just gonna do it 'cause, okay, but where's the relationship? If it's about guilt, I'm not saying better than I have to go. I'm just saying, if that's where you're stuck, I'm a good guy, I go, I pray three times, I make you tell you that, so we're gonna get in my zone, I did, I did, I did, I did, I did, I did, I did. I'm a good guy, I'm a good guy, I need to shoot by. But you're doing it, why? Check off the guilt box, is that what it's for? Well, you're really trying to make a connection. You're really trying to... So he says, where am I? I lost my place 'cause I start going on thing. Okay, wait a minute. Okay, so he says, (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) That I shame will let some time slide. (speaking in foreign language) The two, those two big ones? Okay, there's many generations through Amisale, that they were very lax in those mid-spot, and they did what they did, but when it came to (speaking in foreign language) that was like, that one, that one, that one, that one. Sorry, that one's gonna pay for you. (speaking in foreign language) That's something that I think everybody in the whole world has on their list of things that they, right? (speaking in foreign language) That all they care about is feeling good. I wanna fill my belly, I wanna enjoy myself, right? (speaking in foreign language) You want me to worry about God? Oh, no way, I'm out. Keep me out of that one. (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) Once in a while, they pay a little attention. (speaking in foreign language) They're never really setting aside time to learn. (speaking in foreign language) They lost the calculation of what much time they lost already. (speaking in foreign language) There's many, many excuses we could come up. (speaking in foreign language) How far down on the list of how level they're on, such a low level, they don't even realize where they are. (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) 60 years is what we call a person as a king. (speaking in foreign language) At 70, you have this additional age, we call it intellect. (speaking in foreign language) They become more benign, they have more intellect. And you got to age or seva 70. (speaking in foreign language) And if a guy got to 80 already, he's a gibor. (speaking in foreign language) That's the guy already getting ready to rest. (speaking in foreign language) Guys already 100, it's like he's not even here anymore. What does that mean? (speaking in foreign language) You remember talking about it 2000 years ago. Today, a guy that's 80, he's running around (speaking in foreign language) different bogey, all right? (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) What they intent was, it's part of trying to motivate a person to make tissue back. (speaking in foreign language) At age 60, we don't call it by old. Nowadays at age 60, don't call it old. They're calling them zakim in those days. But then in those days, 60 was getting close to the end. People didn't live that long, all right? So they call them old, why are you an old man? Better make tissue back, all right? (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) If you didn't make tissue back to that point, they start calling them zakim, maybe they'll wake up here, you know, all of a sudden, you're walking by and sure. People are standing up for you, you know? (laughing) (speaking in foreign language) All right, no, no, no, no, no, you're on the way to the grave, baby, you know, better make tissue back. Okay, (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) It's time to start, to stop giving the enjoyment to your body and start to give a little bit of the enjoyment to your nishamah. (speaking in foreign language) Now you got to 70, (speaking in foreign language) Start to realize that, you know, there's a lot of things in this world that we think are important that are really not. (speaking in foreign language) He's got only a few years coming up left. (speaking in foreign language) We spend more time, right? Thinking about fear of Hashem, (speaking in foreign language) Think about things that he needs to do that (speaking in foreign language) to correct his word. It's 70, imagine, it's very hard to do. But okay, start to think about, you know, fixing some of your character traits. (speaking in foreign language) Try to increase, time to learn, time to do (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) What does that mean, (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) Pour out your anger, pour out your speech. (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) When you get to age 90, you're ready, you should be just cleanly, all day, basically, staying in. All right, sit over there and learn and pray, and then this you're not gonna work anymore, you're 90 years old, right? What do you do all day long? Don't learn, go read daily and go speak about Hashem's beauty and Hashem's greatness. (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) Don't get lazy now, right? Where today you start to say, "Get older, I can't go anymore, I'm old man, "I can't go to school, I can't go to class." Oh, I don't want to listen to that, Rabbi, I don't listen to that. (speaking in foreign language) Says, "Plant your seeds in the morning, "villa ararev in the evening, alta nahi aadiecha, "don't stop, kie reo dea, eze ich shar haze, "oze, you don't know which seed is gonna grow." (speaking in foreign language) If you get both, even better. Well, that's the macheau. Says, "Him shield, ya meha, ya meha, ya doot, "the ashakhrupa bokeh", when you're young, right? That's when, that's what Stupa Suq is talking about early in your life, bokeh in the morning, meaning you're young, the emesic na, the elder time of your life, and if that's the night, Hazera, the seeds, derich ma shal, libanin, the tambi diem, its children, its students, kimosha amruzal nasa, y shabi al dutto, y shabi shabi ziknutto, person who was married when he was young, had children and everything, lalen, who's wife passed away or whatever happened now. No, don't stay alone, you gotta get married again, even if you're older. Hey, me, tambi diem, be al dutto, he had students when he was younger, ya me, tambi diem, be ziknutto, take new students when you get older. Why? (speaking in foreign language) You don't know which ones are going to be greater, which students will be better. (speaking in foreign language) 24,000 students, all died, right, in between Pesach and Shabuot, and they didn't get dejected, he started all over again, with only five students, and those five students, all the Torah that we have, all the Gimana, everything we have, K from those five students, everything. The other 24,000, what they had? (speaking in foreign language) Let's tell you, when you're older, don't give up, it'll be Akiba who is already at the time. (speaking in foreign language) 80. (speaking in foreign language) When he started all over. 80. (speaking in foreign language) Okay, (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) They're both good, if they're both good, I'll leave you better, right? (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) The light is sweet. (speaking in foreign language) It's good for your eyes to look at the sun. It's a very hard pursuit to understand. The light is sweet, I could get, but it's good for your eyes to look at the sun. I don't know, you look at the sun one second, and you go somewhere else, (speaking in foreign language) anymore, you blind, right? (speaking in foreign language) Peru, she says, what does it mean? (speaking in foreign language) Again, he's talking about getting older and he's comparing it to night. (speaking in foreign language) Person who gets older, apparently, this taste buds change a little bit. You can't taste as much. (speaking in foreign language) Right? (speaking in foreign language) Over there, it talks about it, as you say. (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) He says, I'm 80 years old today, right? And you think I know what I'm tasting anymore, what I'm drinking, (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) Okay, fine. So he says, (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) All right, the body can enjoy is the light of the sun. (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) A person who's depressed, it affects the way that he behaves in it. Especially regarding, it's been sport and Torah. The guy's the press guy. He's like, what am I gonna bother going to do this? Well, I shouldn't be giving me headaches anyway. I gotta cut the problem. Leave the pressure. I gotta want to leave this bedroom. It's stuck in bed. You don't get up. He's all depressed. So for sure, it's affecting his abudah, (speaking in foreign language) So the light is sweet. Light all of a sudden could also mean what? Now he's just feeling good inside. When you get up here, you feel good. You're much more active. Your body's ready to go. You're willing to do things. You're willing to try things. You're willing to fix things. I have energy. The light of the sun, when it's a sunny day, we all feel great. All right, beautiful sunny day. Heard the chirping. We're in a good mood. And come out, cloudy, drizzly in the dark. (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) Like the light that you have now will keep you going for what's coming up. (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) It's been a little long life. (speaking in foreign language) What you call it, (speaking in foreign language) Remember the darker days they used to have. (speaking in foreign language) Now you remember, okay, now those days are gone. Now you can forget about them now. They're heavy, they're gone. You can focus on the good. (speaking in foreign language) The person gets very old. (speaking in foreign language) Don't get to, you know these guys, some of these older guys are like, (speaking in foreign language) They complain all day. (speaking in foreign language) You get yourself depressed. You get yourself in a bad mood. Just by complaining to yourself, right? Everything becomes a problem. Everything becomes an issue, right? (speaking in foreign language) You should be happy about the age that you got to. (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) You don't want to get yourself depressed 'cause then you start to see it, it's a problem. You don't want to lose everyone, anyone second from Abu Dada Shem. (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) I want to be, I want to be, one day, one day, one day is good. Any single day in this world is better, in this world you can still have a chance. You get to Olamabad, there's no more chance to finish. You can't even do it anymore. Whatever credit to a crude, that's what you got. At least over here, you have a chance. Don't give up those days, get depressed, do nothing. Sit around and complain all day long. Get up. (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) If you get depressed, there's no way you can do anything. (speaking in foreign language) Guys, forget about it, it's all cloudy and dark and the, (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) Get stronger with age. (speaking in foreign language) Put on their deltings, right, stronger and double their strength. (speaking in foreign language) As they age, they get stronger. Your brain is a muscle, by the way, right? The more you exercise it, the more it works. The less you exercise it, the less it works. The guy was learning his whole life. He's got a lot of knowledge up there in his brain and he keeps learning me, able to learn more. The Torah is like building blocks. When you have a foundation, you can get to the next level. And then you have that level you can get to the next level. But if you don't have the foundation, you can't go to level three. There's no way to get there, you can't jump that. You have to have the basics as you grow. So someone who's learning his whole life is building this unbelievable tower goes up to level to the next level. And next level, as he gets to his age, his aging, he's able to increase and learn things he never stops. (speaking in foreign language) As they get seva age, you know when they have more bina, (speaking in foreign language) He's dancing, he's happy. (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) What? (speaking in foreign language) Chitulim means a planting, planted. So the Chitulim is Chitulim, the palm tree, it sprouts. Where are they planted? (speaking in foreign language) So you plant that sapling when you are young, it's a baby tree, right? (speaking in foreign language) It can sprout like the palm tree, but every year the palm tree, right? The way that it works, you look at them, what happens is all those branches at the top, the branch is only a tap, right? It dries out, it dies, and it turns to wood, and then it grows another one for next year. And that goes, see, that's where you see all those rings on the palm tree, right? Because the branches die out dry, and the next year the no one comes, the no one comes. So when you say, (speaking in foreign language) Every year he's growing, getting higher, getting higher, he's getting higher, he's getting higher, he's getting knowledge, (speaking in foreign language) he can go up to the height, the tall seeders, he can grow like the seeders in Lebanon. There's redwood, everything in the picture, there's redwood in the Washington state, California. These trees are something like, (speaking in foreign language) You stay next to the tree, you look like this. The tree is out on the sides of the building, and I have to call each of my wilds. So that's the stuff you can get to those kind of heights. He says (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) Right, planted in the house of Shamn, that's the little kids, (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) Right, there's a (speaking in foreign language) that we say Friday and Saturday nights. (speaking in foreign language) Our children are like the planted ones, (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) They grow as they turn into, (speaking in foreign language) Right, their children before, they plant it and they keep growing (speaking in foreign language) but (speaking in foreign language) Why? (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) And there is one aspect where we're not like the trees, 'cause trees eventually dry out and die, and they don't grow anymore. That's not true why they said (speaking in foreign language) They know no matter what age they get to, they keep getting stronger and better and better, right? (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) Again, pass through from T. (speaking in foreign language) Right, and even when I get to the age of Zacaine, which we said with 60, (speaking in foreign language) We said 70, (speaking in foreign language) God's not gonna abandon me. (speaking in foreign language) The door, I'm gonna say, right? (speaking in foreign language) Then next, (speaking in foreign language) We'll finish with this one, right? Time is three minutes, we'll finish it, yeah. (speaking in foreign language) When you listen to the rabbi, I was giving you rebuke, right? I was giving over some usar to make you get your back on the right path. (speaking in foreign language) Let it penetrate, just be words. Let it penetrate inside and think about how you're gonna do something that's gonna be better than you were last year. (speaking in foreign language) Right, (speaking in foreign language) Don't let anything, just let grab it all. (speaking in foreign language) That guy can turn the light on in the darkness in one second. (speaking in foreign language) Once he listens, and he lets penetrate (speaking in foreign language) And he's gonna make the shoe bar, and it's just a (speaking in foreign language) Like I talked about, (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) And except for what he got, what he heard, (speaking in foreign language) He's willing to do what he's been told. (speaking in foreign language) He's grabbed, he just grabbed onto the door. He just plugged himself into the juice power. (speaking in foreign language) You know, all of a sudden you plug in the thing, it works now. It was dead before. (speaking in foreign language) You plug yourself in, boom. You're on. (speaking in foreign language) All it took was a thought. To accept what I heard, and to do, that's all it takes. Now, that's putting the plug in. (speaking in foreign language) How fast, how easy it is, just to put yourself back on the right path. (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) I quote this last week. The pasu talked about, right? (speaking in foreign language) All right? (speaking in foreign language) Pasu says, (speaking in foreign language) On the beginning, (speaking in foreign language) It's the first day of Nisan. And what he's talking about first day of Nisan? Go do, get the animal on the 10th of Nisan. I want you to get the animal tied to the bed. You're gonna do (speaking in foreign language) The whole thing of exactly what you have to do, how to eat it, how to slaughter it, how to cook it, all the rules. When were they giving the rules? (speaking in foreign language) Says the pasu get to end, (speaking in foreign language) They when they did it, (speaking in foreign language) It's not the time to do it. It's the 14th of Nisan, (speaking in foreign language) But the pasu said they did it. (speaking in foreign language) The minute they accepted, okay, we're going to do this. (speaking in foreign language) You get the credit as if they actually did it right away. The pasu said they did it right away. So the idea was what? No, if you're ready to accept this (speaking in foreign language) So I should finish here, (speaking in foreign language) We'll continue here on Monday, (speaking in foreign language) Amen, (speaking in foreign language)