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0:00 it'll grow the necessary the the grain, both barley and wheat of of the right quality. 0:06 I will say, "What's the most high skill?" 0:08 The most high skill is that if you want to grow something beautiful in life, you have to prepare the field. 0:15 You can't just roll into it. 0:18 This is one of the most important things in the realm of spiritual development. 0:22 Successful spirituality requires preparation. 0:26 Requires preparation. You have to prepare the field. 0:28 And if you don't prepare the field, if you think you just going to walk in there and just drop a couple of seeds in and tada, I have omer and I have I I I have omer worthy barley and I 0:36 have sh'alech and worthy worthy wheat. 0:39 It doesn't work that way. 0:40 You know this is goes back to brochos. 0:42 Everything goes back to brochos. 0:43 What does brochos say? 0:45 Chassidim Rishonim Chassidim Rishonim how you show and show akas called the matzila. 0:50 The original pious ones would literally again show and meditate, cogitate, prepare themselves for an hour before davening or some amount of time for davening. 0:58 Now, what does that mean? 0:59 Chassidim Rishonim teaching us, you want a meaningful prayer experience, it requires preparation. 1:05 It's anything in life requires preparation. 1:08 This is why again I will say in general, like even when it comes to that, all of us know this. 1:13 There's a big difference between coming on time for davening, 5 minutes early for davening, or 25 minutes late for davening. 1:22 Davening right on time is fine. 1:25 Late, inexcusable. Unless there's a mitzvas mitzvah on the way. 1:29 Right right right right right right late right right why? 1:32 Why? You wouldn't be late for a business meeting. 1:33 You wouldn't be late for your flight. 1:34 Right? So why why why am I going to be late for davening? 1:37 Right? But that ability to come a couple of minutes early and get myself like settled. 1:43 I don't need an hour early. 1:44 5 minutes. Get get myself settled. 1:47 Get my head right. 1:50 Just the ability to take a take a deep breath so like I'm not running in, it makes all the difference in the world. 1:56 If you want to create beautiful and sustained spiritual results, you got to plow the field before you plant anything. 2:05 I will say this is the piece in Again, I want to point out this is a little something that we miss cuz today what's beautiful about the dar that we live in, right? 2:14 Every generation wants something different. 2:17 What does our generation want? 2:18 What does our generation want? 2:20 I don't know there's a lot of generations represented here. 2:22 Right? But what is our collective generation What what do we want? 2:25 It's interesting. Today when you look at what people want is they want inspiration. 2:30 People do want inspiration. 2:32 But here's what's fascinating about this. 2:34 We want inspiration without preparation. 2:38 That's what we want. 2:39 Inspiration without preparation. That's why I will say we love like like the the shorts, right? 2:44 And and and the the little messages. 2:46 If if I could tell you like like how often the most common feedback I get, which is fascinating, is "Rabbi, great shiur, great this. 2:55 Needs to be a little shorter. 2:56 Needs to be a little shorter." 2:57 I'm like, "No, you need to be a little bit more mature and work on your attention span. 3:02 I'm fine." It could be a little shorter. 3:04 I would agree. Okay. 3:05 We want inspiration without preparation. 3:08 I want to get the high, but I don't want to have to prepare. 3:11 I want I want I want to get I want to get it now. 3:13 And it doesn't work that way. 3:14 That that's why again if you look at like the most popular things, the most popular things are like these short consolidated clips, which are fine. 3:21 What do they do for you in the long run? 3:23 What do they do for the long run? 3:24 Zero. Zero. It's easy come, easy go. 3:27 Right? It comes in, you get a little burst, doesn't change you. 3:31 It doesn't impact you. 3:32 It doesn't do anything. 3:33 Why? Because inspiration always requires preparation. 3:36 Now again, it's still good because any amount of inspiration is good. 3:40 And any amount of aliya is good. 3:41 And yeah, you know what we'll say? 3:43 Even if this inspiration comes and go, comes and goes, when you have it for those few moments, it's yours and that's beautiful. 3:48 Who loves it? Anything we do to to uplift ourselves is fantastic. 3:53 But you want to talk about creating real results in life, real results, inspiration, real inspiration requires preparation. 4:00 You want to grow something meaningful in your heart and in your soul, your number one first step is plow the field. 4:07 But what are you planting? 4:08 Nothing. Nothing. Prepare the soil. 4:13 Because if you don't prepare the soil, you can't play you can't plant you can't grow anything in it down the road. 4:19 That's the Mishnah. Your number one first step, plow the soil. 4:23 Don't drop any seeds in. 4:25 But if you prepare your soil, you get yourself ready, preparation, then I mean it true and lasting sustained inspiration.
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