Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Final Speech of the Yirei Elokim

In his final speech, the Yirei Elokim responds to everyone else's philosophies. 

Response to Chacham: Even in your most private areas where you think no one can hear, don't say bad things about others, because G-d can always hear. You think you know better than everyone else, but you don't. G-d has the ability to know man's thoughts and to see into the most secretive and private aspects of anyone's life. You don't have the access to peoples' private lives like G-d does. You are vulnerable - you can be outsmarted by a little bird -> YOU ARE LIMITED. 
There are things you can't know, the human mind is limited. But just because you don't know something it doesn't mean that everything is Hevel. There is nothing wrong with chachma, you just have to realize that it is limited. The sun sometimes enlightens you and allows you to see, but it's not everything. 

Response to Amal: You need to put certain things aside because there will be bad times in your life. There are two things in this world that you will never know: 1. what the weather will be 2. What is going on in pregnancy. Don't wait for the perfect time, because if you wait for the perfect time, you will never do anything. Take the risk, you have to toil. There are factors of this world that you don't know but you need to try anyways. 

Response to Nehene: If you think that living life is all physical pleasure, you won't find meaning because at some point you will no longer be able to experience physical pleasure. There is nothing wrong with physical pleasure, but you need to recognize G-d. If you can recognize the above the Shemsh world, the Tachat Hashemesh world will become meaningful. 


Response to Everyone: The only thing that man can know is that man can't know everything. The secret of life is that there is a G-d and if you recognize that there is a higher power of man, then you will fins meaning in your life. If everything of your life revolves around perfection, you will be stuck and yo won't find meaning. 
If you recognize that you are human, mortal, finite, and there is a G-d out there, then you can use the Chachma, Osher, and Kavod and you can have a meaningful life

THERE IS NOT YITRON TACHAT HASHEMESH IF YOU ARE LIVING AN ONLY TACHAT HASHEMSESH WORLD. 


The Yirei Elokim gives a lot of insight in his final speech. Something that everyone can learn from him. It's hard and scary to recognize that there is something above us that has all the power in the world and can use that power at any second. What he says is like the way that Charlie Harary answered one of the questions two Shabbatot ago. The question was about shomer and why it's so important. The answer that Charlie Harary gave was that in marriage the physical pleasure and the spiritual pleasure become something so meaningful. When you are married, your two souls become one and you are so strong spiritually. He said that if you waste the physical pleasure throughout your whole life, it will feel wasted and there won't be any significance or meaning to it. If you can wait until the time that you can have the perfect mix of spiritual and physical pleasure together and something becomes meaningful. 

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