Two Approaches to Living Life | Pele Yoetz | Hachzek Day 56
Hevra, how are you? Day 56 Peleyoites. Let's jump right in. It's a goodie today. Chaim, life. Here we go. Alright, say asmo. If you want to live, you gotta kill yourself. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Everybody, calm down. What what does that mean? Ka chamurabus say nozah. It's chazal. Our sages teach us this. What does this mean? Let's explain. There are two aspects to this. A person should not conduct himself in a way where he becomes overly pampered and accustomed to these pleasures. And he eats excessively and dresses in the most fanciest things. Because let's say a person finds himself in a bind and he doesn't have access to those things that he always accustoms himself to. That his life is no longer a life. He's essentially dead. It's going to lead to him being dishonest, because doing something, something that he's accustomed to do, Hergal creates tevah, and that creates chovo it. It's not just something I want, but these things become necessities at that point. That's a danger. A person will end up acting immorally for the sake of a loaf of bread. Not so somebody who kills himself. Um islam each al-shum dovr. What does it mean to kill oneself? Pelioitz is offering two ideas. The first one is this kill oneself in the idea that somebody who's dead, he doesn't care about stuff so much. A person should make himself dead to the extent that he's not so finicky, he's not so picky, he's not so particular, he's not so needy. He's not so finicky in these things. If he has more, if he has less, he kind of should make himself that he doesn't really care. That's what it means to be dead in that aspect. Then that person who makes himself dead, he's truly alive. It's good for a person, this is something that Paleoites has actually taught us before. That even if a person has wealth, then still, he has access to all these things. Al Yarkalus Bana Bigdolos Uvita Nugos Bineadam. He shouldn't accustom in his home, he shouldn't make it that his children are always accustomed to having these luxuries. Because then again, they too will become dependent on those things, and then their life will not be a true life. Who knows? Maybe at one point they'll lose access to that wealth. And then what? And Torah tells us a child who is so used to these things, Gamki Yaskin Lo Yasmino, even when he gets older, he won't be able to break free from that. It's literally a bondage, a servitude of so shamelastemus abruis. He's gonna come to uh needing to steal shamulfich, tells us when there's a wayward child like this, Yamas Hazakai, better for him to die while still innocent, Val Yamuschai rather than um he should die when he is held responsible. So many people who have accustomed themselves to grandeur and greatness and luxuries and all these things in the world, soif shiyatsular, it ends up leading them to a good place of no good. And their end is bad. Even if they don't end up doing a bad um evil per se, they're not going to rob a bank, they're not accomplished, you know, they're not doing a heist. I'll call punim chay tsar yekhya. Their life is still not really a life. They're living in anguish and pain and sorrow. A person rather should live his life where he's satisfied with anything that comes his way. He will be satiated with bread, and it will be good for him. Vishpeir Shakher says Palayites, there's another aspect of killing oneself to truly be alive. So we said one, one idea of killing oneself is not to be finicky, not to care so much, to make oneself dead in that regard. The second aspect of being dead is like this. Of uh a life of eternity, a life of the next world. Yamis Atmaza, he'll give up on certain things in this world, Alatera, Al-Wuda, is Al Derech Shapersh. Like it says, Adum kiyamus baol, a person will kill himself in the tent. It's a reference to a Torah study, to working hard, uksiv kialech, because you for your sake, we are killed every single day. Think of it like snake skin, where you're becoming more alive by leaving that that previous me behind. And every day I'm growing in my yadis, I'm growing my levels of Ruchni, I'm coming closer and closer to Hashem, and therefore the old me is quote unquote dead. And so, therefore, these are two aspects of um a person is maimus atmo, but it really is the recipe to life of true chias and chim. We should all be Zohid to tap into that, and we'll continue tomorrow um with this topic of Chaim. I hope that you have an amazing rest of your day.
