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Podcast: Daily Emunah Podcast - Daily Emunah By Rabbi David Ashear
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Success
Category: Religion & Spirituality
Duration: 00:00:00
Publish Date: 2018-12-20 07:00:00
Description: Success People feel depressed because they feel like failures. They are not accomplishing the goals they set out to accomplish in life, and that causes them to have low self-esteem. We must constantly remind ourselves that the circumstances we find ourselves in are not in our control. They are set up by Hashem. Our only job is to do the will of Hashem to the best of our ability, in the circumstances that he puts us in. If we do that, it will be a great accomplishment, and that is what makes us successful. If a man had a hard day at work and lost money, he might feel down about it and be hard on himself, considering it a very bad day. But he must know that what happened at work was not really in his control. He tried, and that's all he could do. But if in that situation, he responds by saying, "It's from Hashem. It's Kapara. Hashem knows what He's doing, and I'll accept it," then he had a great day. He succeeded in accomplishing what he was supposed to in the situation that Hashem put him in. There was once a rabbi smiling in the hallway of his Yeshiva in Israel . The principal saw him and asked why he was smiling. He replied, "I just found out that my wife accidentally threw out an old suit while cleaning for Pesach. In one of its pockets, I kept all the money I have saved. The garbage men already came and took it away; there is no way of getting it back." The principal again asked, "So why are you smiling?" The rabbi said, "It's moments like these that make people great in life. I'm not going to ruin this opportunity by getting angry and blaming others. I am going to recognize that it's from Hashem and accept it with joy, continuing with my day as usual." Another rabbi once had to stay home for a few days and take care of his sick wife. He taught many students on a daily basis. One of the students came to his house during the lunch break to tell the rabbi they missed him. At that time, the rabbi was cleaning the floors and cooking dinner, and he looked very happy. The student asked his Rebbe, "How can you be so happy? You're not teaching the Torah you love to teach." The rabbi told him, "We don't always get to choose the jobs we perform; only Hashem does. If Hashem wants me to be here now and take care of my household needs, then that becomes Avodat Hashem. So I'll do it the best I can with a smile on my face." That's greatness-doing Hashem's will, in the situation He put us in. A pious man from Tsfat told me that a couple of weeks ago he went to the Mikveh on a Friday afternoon and came home excited to go to his Shul, which is located on a mountaintop, and accept Shabbat early, overlooking the holy city. When he got home from the Mikveh, his wife told him they had a sewage backup and the back part of their house was getting flooded. He quickly did what he could to stop the flood, and for the next hour, he had to clean up the mess. He said, the whole time he was thinking, "If this is the way Hashem wants me to come into Shabbat, then I'm happy doing it. I thought accepting Shabbat early was my service to Him, but now I see He had something else in mind." He finished the job, got cleaned up and went to Shul knowing that he had already missed the Minyan and would have to pray alone. But when he arrived, he saw a large group of men from out of town coming in. They said they were there on a Shabbaton and were making a late Minyan. He was so thankful to Hashem that he didn't have to miss the Minyan, and he brought in Shabbat with joy, never getting frustrated throughout the entire ordeal. These are our real accomplishments in life. We have opportunities to have those accomplishments every single day, wherever we are. Whatever circumstances we find ourselves in, were set up by Hashem. If we could serve Him from there and do what we're supposed to do, that will make us great people.
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