The True Aspiration Of Life

1:35maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe Haba'alei Mussar hem menasim lehoda lano mashehu kan. Nashim, Rabotai, Hashem lo yagia mi-bechin lebechin, be-absolute lo. Be'emet, zeh nachon, im ata mevin et hamashma'ut. Hashem amar lanu, hineh ha-Torah, vehineh aseret ha-dibrot, vehineh hamashma'ut vehatorah sheba'al peh, hamashma'ut vehamasganiot, vehamasgan gadol.

2:38You said yes. You said I do. Good. Now let me tell you how to fulfill it. In one sentence. You want to fulfill the Torah? You want to be somebody that goes to Gan Eden? You want to be my favorite son? You want to be my favorite daughter? You want to be something special? Good. Be an eved. You should aspire to be an eved Hashem. Not to aspire to be a stockbroker, or a president, or a mayor, or a football player, or a rapper. No. Your aspiration should be one thing. Man or woman? Jew or Gentile? You want to do what I say? You want all this whole thing? You like all that? Good. Eved Hashem. Ibad ashma. Ibad ein lo bechirah.

3:59Asham, asham, asham, asham, asham, asham, asham, asham, asham, asham, asham, asham, asham, asham, asham, asham, asham, asham, asham, asham, asham, asham, asham, asham, asham, asham, asham, asham, asham, asham, asham, asham. I don't want what my neighbor wants where she says I should wear a long wig, but you want kisui rosh with a shorter mitpachat. So I want what you want, Hashem. I don't want to go to the disco and have all these drinks in Tiberias with all the chilonim over there and the mayor of Tiberias, yimach shemo ve-zichro, who opened Tiberias for chilul Shabbat be-farhesya, now for the entire city, as a tourist town. I don't want to go there. It looks like fun for them. But I know it's not. Why? It's not what you want. Ze lo mah she'atem rotzim, ani rotzeh lihyot eved Hashem. Ani rotzeh lalekhet le'veit knesset b'Shabbat. Ani rotzeh lalekhet b'Torah im yadayim nefshot b'Shabbat. Ani rotzeh lihyot yadayim nefshot b'Shabbat. Zeh mah she'atem rotzim. Ve'eved lo omer, 'ah, aval, ah, aval.' Lo, ein 'ah, aval.' Zeh mah she'atem rotzim, Hashem. Ani yireh pe'ulah lehagid et zeh. Tagid li. Ani yireh pe'ulah lehagid et zeh, aval tagid li, be'emet, zeh kol mah she'atem osim. Ani rak, ani rak choshev et halechem, ani choshev et halechem. Mah hu halechem? Asu mah she'atem rotzim.

5:22That's an eved. If you had an eved in your house, you're one of these rich people that has an eved in your house, you have a servant in your house, they like to call them different names, like a chauffeur or cleaning people. They're all avadim, by the way, it doesn't make a difference. There's no shame. All of us are avadim; you work for somebody. But the reality is that if somebody works for you, and their job is to be your in-house servant, in-house maid, you know, live-in maid, and so on. And you, Mr. Businessman, you wake up at 3 o'clock in the morning, and you have an unusual desire. You want a latte with three sugars. If you tell the avid, you tell the live-in maid over there, "Listen, latte." Tari shogeres, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein.

6:49Your boss might say, "Listen, we need you to finish the reports no later than Thursday afternoon." But imagine if you don't even show up on Thursday. They call you and ask, "Hey, what are you doing?" and you respond, "Ah, I'm on the beach, boss. What's going on? How are you doing?" The report is important, they remind you, and being on the beach is indeed another story. But where is the report? If you casually reply, "Nah, I didn't get a chance to do it," your boss might be quite confused. "What do you mean you didn't get a chance to do it?" you may say, "I was on the beach the whole week, actually. I was surfing." Now, realistically, do you think you're still going to have a job on Friday? Lo, lama? Ein lecha avor orech, ein lecha avor orech. Ein lecha avor, avor orech im ein lecha avor orech. Ein lecha avor, avor orech im ein lecha avor orech. Ein lecha avor orech. Ein lecha avor orech. Ein lecha avor orech. Ein lecha avor orech. Ein lecha avor orech. Ein lecha avor orech. Ein lecha avor orech. Ein lecha avor orech. Ein lecha avor orech. Ein lecha avor orech. Ein lecha avor orech. Ein lecha avor orech. Ein lecha avor orech. Ein lecha avor orech. Ein lecha avor orech. Shevi tebikem eved Hashem. What do you want? You cannot do this overnight, even if you have a desire to do it. You can't do it overnight. But if you train yourself, day and night, by acquiring these 48 kinyanei haTorah, 48 prerogatives of the Torah, you will become eved Hashem.

8:16If you stop saying your opinion and just look for Hashem's opinion, you will become an eved Hashem. If you go to the sages, you go to chachamim, and you tell them what's Hashem's opinion, instead of deciding what you think it should be, you go and verify that what you think it should be is actually agreed upon by His best servants. Eved Hashem, aval im atem chachamim, Eved Hashem, Eved Hashem, Eved Hashem, Eved Hashem, Eved Hashem, Eved Hashem, Eved Hashem, Eved Hashem, Eved Hashem, Eved Hashem, Eved Hashem, Eved Hashem... Different people have big egos and decide they can make the rules. Instead of looking into the books, and looking at what the Chachamim say, what Avdei Hashem said, what the actual servants of Hashem, what they actually said. What does the Alaka say? What does the Shulchan Aruch say? What does the Rambam say? What does Rashi say? What do the Gedolei Hador say? What do they say? We, because of them, move much closer to a proper path in serving Hashem.

9:42And until we become one, we have to rely on one. Even after we rely on one, we realize we have to rely on them even more. Everybody has to have a rabbi, even the gedolim. But if you don't have a rabbi, you decide that you're the commentator, you're the posek, you're the everything. In the end, you're nothing.