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0:01 i want to welcome everyone to this week's installment of our virtual drasha and i want to begin by thanking the sponsors of this joshua to thank the fine ringo and ram families all for dedicating the shikurim this week in this 0:18 a wonderfully special and beautiful young girl in our kihilo who had some significant surgery this week but baruch hashem is recovering and recuperating well and she is in our filos and we hope emiration to see her bright and beautiful smile 0:31 very soon we have the incredible privilege this week to read parish's akef and like in much of homicide this is moshe rabinu's speech with claude israel kind of unloading everything that's accumulated in his heart over the last 40 years giving 0:46 rebuke when necessary but also giving love hajiracha proper guidance for the future and so in paraguay who says something amazing he says israel and now jewish people what is it that god asks of you to revere to fear god to 1:09 walk in all of his ways so to love him and to serve this product with all of your heart and all of your soul so you know when you read this passage it sounds like mohave was giving claudius for like 1:23 the deal of the century what does god ask of you god asks so little of you right he gives remember we know what god gives us god gives us everything everything there is nothing that i have in this world independent 1:36 of hashem the heart that beats in my chest is because of the kaddish parahu the eyes that see because of akaddish pakha i have the food i have in the refrigerator the money in my pocket the health i have that's 1:47 all i could do so moshe waiter comes along and it's almost like he says listen claudius bro who gives you everything i have the best deal of the century god gives you everything and what's the only thing he asks in 1:58 return the only thing the actor you saw what does god ask of you and then you read the rest of the passage you have to fear him you have to revere him you have to love him you have to serve him 2:11 you have to walk in his ways you have to go ahead and serve him with all of your heart and all of you so listen to all of his misses okay that's a pretty tall order so washington who asks of 2:24 you is to listen to the turn its entirety to do all of the mitzvahs the love fear reveres so on and so forth which is no small order essentially emotion and again there is no question that in the abstract i 2:37 understand what mosher athenu is saying when you compare what god gives to us versus what he asks of us there is no question that we get much more than what we are expected to give that being said it's a tall 2:52 order and yet moshe rabbenu seems to minimize it he seems to make it sound like it's not such a big deal what god is asking him meanwhile mosha bin was asking us for fidelity and allegiance to the ideas to the 3:07 ideals to the tenants to the mitzvahs of torah which is a lifetime pursuit most of us spend 120 years trying to do with moshe and asks us in one simple passage and the truth is the majority of time i'm not 3:19 even successful right sometimes i'm successful me personally i'm not anyone else sometimes i'm successful but i'm saying at least 70 of the time i'm not successful and i try it's not because of a lack of effort it's because well maybe 3:35 it's because of a lack of effort but at the end of the day i try and yet emotionally it makes it sound like such a small thing and in fact the gemara asked this question the gemara says moshe mira is 3:50 it such a is it such a small thing to revere god to love god to listen to his torah following his ways so the mirror gives a strange answer the gimmar says in lagabe motion muscles with trusty yeah for most 4:02 of it it's a small thing that's very nice but motion is not talking to himself at least hopefully he's not talking to himself most shepherding is talking to cloud israel so if you're talking to clyde so who you know are 4:12 people not like you so why do you make this sound like so easy so insignificant so minimal when in fact you know you know that it really is a huge ask it really is a huge ask so what's the shot 4:26 so the method should give many different explanations but i want to share with you some of the incredible read by rabin ahmad of breslau and rabbit says something really amazing is you have to put the kama right this is this is 4:47 the hormone we saw this in a different chair of regime everything depends on where you put the camo so right now means something amazing because sometimes the only thing you have to focus on in your service of akaddish baruch means 5:17 now the presence of allah sometimes don't think about the future just think about right now think about the present do not think about tomorrow do nothing you know they say the famous adage don't stop thinking about tomorrow i'm not sure 5:41 i think there might be a gemara if you get that joke then you should be learning more gemara and ultimately but sometimes because i'll say no stop thinking about tomorrow stop thinking about tomorrow follow yahushua or ultimately him from one 5:55 hour to the next yo rabbi nachman says something easy because you don't know what's gonna happen today you know what's gonna happen today so don't spend so much time thinking about tomorrow don't even spend so much time thinking about next 6:09 hour just think about now just think about now what can i do to maximize my present what can i do ultimately again to make the most of my moments now it says that's the tai chi in the past you see 6:29 we read it often it's normally read as a question yes what does god ask of you question mark and then that's the question what does god ask you then the answer is pretty much everything rabbi nachman says that's not how 6:43 you read the passage it's do you know what god asks of you do you know god what god wants of you one word the atta all god asks of you is one word now the present the present hakusho doesn't ask 7:16 you for anything other than to maximize your present doesn't ask you to guarantee tomorrow for one simple reason you can't guarantee tomorrow i have no idea what life is gonna be what i'm gonna be where i'm gonna be tomorrow no 7:31 idea oh okay two hours from now to be honest i don't know what's gonna happen two hours from now i don't know i'm trying to make plans for today and i can't figure out is it gonna rain is it not 7:41 gonna rain indoors outdoors i can't control anything about my future the only thing i have control over is the atta right now right now what do i want to do right now who do i want to be right now do 7:57 i want to grow don't want to regret regress up down that's all that's the only thing i control is the right now so says because they're reading it the wrong way they read the atta is a question and now claudia 8:21 what does hashem ask of you emotion goes to the whole litany of things everything do you know what hashem asks of you the only thing is it's not even it's a statement it is only your present that is what hashem 8:37 asks of you only the atta all you need to do in life to be successful in the eyes of the rival shalom is to maximize your present moments is to know that in the current moment you are living your life to 8:50 the fullest you're actualizing your potential you're doing what needs to be done and you're living life how it needs to be lived you see us that we spend so much time focusing on the future and there are some people who 9:06 become so preoccupied with the future and all the different possibilities about what could happen that you end up in a state of analysis paralysis you know if you go ahead and you think through any particular thing too much you know 9:21 should i cross the street well the truth is if you do your wrist benefit analysis right so again it could be it could be beneficial very beneficially at the other side but i could get hit by a car but there's 9:32 no car somebody could come careening around the corner solomon and my life could that happen absolutely it could happen well if it's a question between losing my life or getting to the other side of the street of course i want to 9:43 keep my life right or anything you think about should i get in my car to drive from destination a to destination be well in destination b i could accomplish a lot yeah but do you have you seen the rates of 9:54 accidents vehicular hummus everything else it's dangerous even if i'm a good driver right what does every single parent tell their kid when they start driving you might be the best friend i'm not worried about you i'm not worried about you i 10:03 worry about everyone else that's true every parent knows that's a lie i'm worried about my kid i'm worried about because i've seen them drive so i'm exceptionally worried about them but i don't want to shake their confidence hopefully my kids 10:13 don't watch this i don't want to shake their confidence so i'll tell them it's about everybody else but it's about them so if you go in you measure everything measure everything the logical the logical conclusion is in action analysis paralysis 10:28 so do you have to plan for the future of course you have to plan for the future but there's something more important than planning for the future and that's maximizing and living your presence plan ahead absolutely put the money away for 10:39 a time you know there are some people who they live their entire lives or lifting things had this statement that there are 401k people who are 401k people everything is about everything is about retirement and not retirement but one second 10:56 how do you know you're going to live to see retirement and they're willing to even sacrifice everything about their presence just to be able to have some amount of money nestled away for the future so i i hate my job 11:06 i hate my career my daily life okay but you know what the good news is when i'm 65 i'm gonna have plenty of money to relax and retire on so that presupposes a number of things the presuppose is that i 11:17 guess financial markets remain as they will which we all are living through times where that's clearly not the case but perhaps more importantly is that you're going to live to see that and without being morbid how do you have any 11:28 idea what your future holds so so many times we sacrifice our present for the sake of some unguaranteed future do you have to plan for the future of course it's reckless and irresponsible not to think about the future but you 11:43 can't go ahead and plan your future at the expense of your present don't give up don't give up the now because of some future you think you're planning because a million and one things can happen between now and 65. 12:00 a million and one things can happen between now and tomorrow a million and one things could happen between now and an hour from now yes plan for your future but the good news is that's not what i sparrow who was 12:13 looking at this brother is not looking at what you're going to do in the future this brother who just wants to know one thing just show me you're maximizing your presence you know motivator goes on and he says yes you 12:27 have to listen to the mistakes you have to love god to fear god to revere god to serve that sure all important but who knows that in those areas they're going to be peaks and valleys so what's the most important 12:36 thing in the eyes of the ribanus one word one word it's the mantra of yiddish now maximize your presence presence live your life to its fullest actualize your potential now don't wait don't plan for the future i should say don't 12:56 plan for the future at the expense of your present don't get yourself all invested in trying to figure out what's going to happen what's going to be how it's going to unfold at the expense of the beautiful moment that's in 13:07 front of you now tells us that who wants us to succeed more than anything that is why he does not hold us accountable for what's going to happen in an hour or in a day from now the only thing our 13:19 beloved father asks of us is the only thing i ask you hashem says is maximize your presence maximize your now to plan for our future to create the proper for course forward in our lives for our careers for our finances 13:43 for our families for our spirituality but more important than any future advanced planning may we be zoham here to summon up the courage to live the atta lives lives in which we appreciate the great gift of the present lives in 13:58 which we appreciate the great power of the present lives in which we find the ability to maximize the moment which is currently in front of us wishing everyone a good arab shabbos and a beautiful and restful shabbos kodesh
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