Learning How To Succeed

So I want to try to get a little bit practical on what we've been working on, and I'm gonna make a presentation a little bit like this, okay? Uh, and hopefully we'll have a few minutes to learn a piece of Rabbi Ruchom today.

Okay? So we know that there's a very famous Chazal.

It says a person is required by law to say, "Matay yagi'u ma'asai l'maase avotai, Avraham, Yitzhak v'Yaakov." Okay? That's a requirement.

It's a Medrash, Tana D'Bei Eliyahu, other places.

Where a person has to say, he has to have a sha'efa, as they call it.

He has to have a goal.

He has to have an aspiration to be like the Avot.

At first glance, this Chazal is very difficult for us to understand because as-- if you try as hard as you want, you're not gonna be Avraham, Yitzhak v'Yaakov.

There's only three of us, and there'll never be four.

So you're just not gonna get to that space if you tried.

Number two is sha'efas could only be within your range of understanding.

For example, it says, "Mishe yesh lo monet," if a person has a hundred dollars, "roitz mimasah." He wants two hundred.

If he has two hundred, he wants four hundred, right? Now, why don't you just say, "Mishe yesh lo monet," roitz a billion dollars? Why only, only two hundred? So you see that to have a true rotsin and a true sha'efa can only be double of what you have because you have a concept of it.

You have a concept.

You have a business.

It's running.

It's making X amount of dollars.

You have a vision by which you can expand your business, but you can't think in a mahalak of doing business to make billions of dollars if you're only making a hundred thousand dollars.

So you have to grow accordingly, step by step.

So your rotsin to expand and to move out of your space to another spot has to be within the range of your understanding and your hasagos and your abilities in order for it to be a real sha'efa.

So you can't tell a guy like me and you that we should have sha'efas to be like the Avos if we can't even understand what the Avos were truly comprehended, and you can't want something that you can't truly comprehend.

So what does it mean that we're required to say, "Yagi'u ma-- matay yagi'u ma'asai lamaase avotai"? So the Alter says is medayek.

It says-- It should say-- A person should say, "Matay yagi'u l'maase Avos?" Why does he have to say, "Matay yagi'u ma'asai l'maase Avos?" That means it's a haggadah in your ma'ase, where you're holding.

Your ma'ase could be chal on them a shame ma'ase Avos.

Hagam, it's not the madriga of Avos.