Secret tool to get closer to HaShem. (5 minutes)
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0:01Someone that has humility can get close to Hashem, very, very close to Hashem. Someone that has a lot of pride is repulsed by Hashem, meaning Hashem cannot stand that person. Someone who thinks that they are better than everybody else and wants everyone to give them special respect and treat them in a special way is essentially distancing themselves from Hashem.
1:14This is supposed to happen. Each human being runs away from it. Runs away from it. Why? Why? Because Hashem is telling us there can only be one God. So if you think you're something special, if you think that you're better than everybody else, then in essence, you think that you're the Creator. You think that you're the one making the money. It's not me giving you the money. You're making the money through your hard work. You're doing all these wonderful things; it's not me that's giving them to you. So, in essence, you think that you're somewhat of a god. You think that you're in control of your life, but I'm not in control of your life. So, if you think you're a god and I know I'm God, there can't be two gods, so we can't be in the same room. The same thing with Paul. Exactly. It was the same. Same exact thing. Every major leader in history, you know, in those nations, has had that issue. Whether it was Hitler or it was Paul, or even some of the people that are running governments today. People love pride. They like these special respects, and you've had wars started over that, both through countries and friendships. Sometimes you have...
2:20Entire families break up just because of pride. One person says, "I don't want to call him because he didn't call me last time." So they stop talking for five years because one person forgot to call the other. This is one of the most foolish things in the world, yet unfortunately, it's very common in our lives. Moshe, as great as he was, had the deepest connection with Hashem. He was the only human being to speak to Hashem while he was awake. Other people mentioned in the Torah who spoke to Him were always either sleeping or meditating; they were not awake. Moshe spoke to Him like you and I are speaking to each other, albeit without seeing Him. while he was awake. The other people that are mentioned in the Torah who spoke to Him were always either sleeping or meditating; they were not awake. Moshe was speaking to Him like you and I are speaking to each other. Now, obviously, God doesn't have a body, doesn't have a face, doesn't have any type of thing that we can look at, but when they say "speak face to face," they don't mean a physical face to face. Rather, it means he was awake, alert, and walking around or sitting, but essentially speaking to Him normally like you and I are speaking, just without seeing Him. This is one of the mistakes that some religions make, where they think that God has a physical body of some kind and that people spoke to Him in a direct, human-like manner. That's a complete misunderstanding. God does not have a body. It's actually one of the foundational principles of faith in God that He does not possess a body. He's not a human or anything remotely close to human form. Now, Moshe Rabbeinu was the only one to whom God spoke face to face in this way. Moshe was the wisest, he knew the most of Torah, and had immense knowledge. Moreover, he was wealthy and served as the leader of Israel.
3:47No human being has ever had more than he did, but yet he was the most humble. He had the most humility. Why? Because he knew who he was standing next to. He knew that God is the great creator who gave him everything, and that in a second, He could take everything away. So, a couple of weeks ago, we had a verse where the nation of Israel is complaining to Moshe Rabbeinu. Aaron and he's saying to them: What are we? We're nothing. Complain to Hashem, tell Him. So he's saying, we're nothing, we're not even something that you should even complain to. We're not even, we do not exist. We're just human beings. He's not even considering himself a human being; he just considers himself absolutely nothing. Complain to the Great One, don't complain to me. This is similar to what Avraham said. Avraham said, what am I? I'm just dust and ashes. King David, also one of the greatest human beings in history, said, "I am but a worm." So, you notice, one of the great things about the sages in the Torah, those who had the most reason to be prideful due to their deep connection with Hashem, were at the same time the most humble.
5:10And that's part of the reason why they had such a deep connection with Hashem, because Hashem says that if you have humility, I want to be close to you. I want to be part of your life. If you don't have humility, we have nothing.
