An important piece of advice that every Jew should always keep in mind

An important piece of advice that every Jew should always keep in mind by Harav Pinto

“Rabbi Pinto gives a crucial piece of advice to apply during these difficult times.” This shiur is for the benefit, refuah Shleimah and health to Rabbi Pinto and the entire Jewish People. Amen!

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An important piece of advice that every Jew should always keep in mind.

In mind especially during these days.

One needs to know that whatever one thinks, is what happens in the end.

One who thinks bad, bad things will come to him.

One who thinks good, will have good coming.

Whoever thinks all day about problems and worries, sees everything negative and all bad, in the end he will go through problems and worries, difficulties, uncomfortable situations and bad things.

But whoever thinks all day good, even when he is going through bad patches, if he keeps a positive outlook, in the end will have good things.

And that’s what said Yaakov Avinu, “The things I feared about, were what I experienced. “Whatever you always fear, is what comes to you.

A person who is always scared to get sick, in the end he will get sick.

A person who is always scared to loose all his money, in the end he will loose it.

“The things I feared about”, at the end of the day was what I had.

The mind is like a magnet, whatever one thinks is what he attracts to himself.

If you think good, you will have good.

G-d forbid, if a person thinks bad, bad things will come to him.

Therefore one needs to always be very careful with his thoughts.

And this is what we saw with Yaakov Avinu after he left the house of Lavan.

Lavan caught up to him and asked him, “Why did you leave? Why did you go? Why didn’t you ask me permission to leave? Why did you feel the need to run away like that, you took your family and ran away quickly?

Yaakov answered to Lavan, “Because I said that you would take my children and wives, and that is why I left” Yaakov Avinu is saying here that because he said and thought “Lavan will take my children and wifes” then it was probably going to happen to me. Therefore, I was forced to flee quickly.

Yaakok Avinu says, “What caused my quick escape without permission? The fact that I thought in my heart and uttered the words that ‘Lavan was going to take my wifes and children’ in the end it was going to happen.

A person who is scared all day and is always saying “This and that is going to going to happen” In the end he will see that it will. Therefore, one must always think good things. One must always think of only good things. Whenever one thinks only thinks about good things and his mindset is always positive, will see good.

We can learn a very good point from this.  It is written that whenever Yossef had his two children, one of them he named Menashe, why Menashe? Yossef said “Because HaShem ‘nashani’ from the house of my father. What does ‘nashani’ mean? Yossef said that he called  his child Menashe because HaShem helped him forget his father. This raises a very important question to Yossef Hatzaddik:  Your father is crying over you all day, your father is in pain all day over you, and here you call your child Menashe because HaShem helped you forget your father? Your father is crying!!! And you honor the fact that you forgot him by naming  your child Menashe?! How can this be?

We thought to answer this with an important principle: It is written that a dead person is forgotten from the heart of his survivors after 12 months.

After 12 months the deceased is forgotten. Why? Because he is dead, he cannot think about me anymore, and therefore, I will not think about him either. Whenever a person thinks about someone, the other also thinks about him.

If I think about him, he will think about me. If I don’t think about him, he will also not think about me. So we can apply this to Yossef Hatzaddik, he loved his father, he said “If I sit and cry over my father all day, then he will also think and cry over me. If I forget him, he will forget about me. If I don’t think about him, then he also won’t think about me. If I don’t remember my father at all, then he will forget about me and he won’t suffer from the pain. “What did Yossef do?

All day he worked on himself to forget his father and refrain from thinking about him.

Because if he forgets about his father, then his father will forget about him. If he forgets  about his father, then his father won’t remember him. Yossef worked on himself really hard to forget his father. And that is why he called his son Menashe, he prayed to HaShem through his son’s name for help to forget his father so that he will forget about him. One needs to know that whenever one think about something, that thing comes alive. As soon as you stop thinking about it, it will die. If you think about a problem, you make it live on. If you about the problem, it will forget about you. If a person has a problem, he should forget about it, take it out of his mind and not think about it at all.

Whenever a person is constantly thinking about a problem, he makes it live on.

There is another point that we can mention: It is written about Yossef when he was in jail….How many years was he supposed to be in jail? 12 years.

How many years did he really spend in jail? 2 years. What happened to Yossef? When Yossef was in jail he went over to the Chief Butler and told him to remember him, and go speak with Pharaoh so that he takes him out of jail because he was innocent. Later Yossef asked himself, “Where is my faith in HaShem? I need to place my trust in HaShem, not in people that will not help me”. It is forbidden to trust people over HaShem. Yossef felt bad for the fact that he asked the Chief Butler for help. So what did he do? He forgot completely about him. He didn’t sit and wait for the promise that the Chief Butler made to him to help him get out of jail, rather, he forgot about it completely. As a result, it is written that the Chief Butler forgot about Yossef. Why? Since Yossef forgot about him first, then the Chief Butler forgot too. Yossef stopped thinking about it, and as soon as he forgot about him, the Chief Butler forgot about Yossef too. The Chief Butler forgot about Yossef and his promise to him completely.

The same applies to every person. When you think about something, you give life to it! When you forget, the thing disappears. When a person is worried all day about a certain issue, the issue persists. Whenever a person forgets about the problem, the problem leaves him.

Therefore, we must always think with a positive outlook.  Always think about good and positive things, about important and good things, and as a result of this positive thinking, you will live a good life.

Yesterday, we asked a question here in the Yeshiva, a very important question. It is written that whoever speaks Lashon Hara (slander) about his friend, will not have a portion in the World to Come. Whoever goes around saying that such and such did xyz not have a portion in the World to Come.

But if he repents, HaShem forgives him. This raises a question: If someone says that “x” is a thief and a liar and later he repented, he said that Reuven is a liar and later he repented, but in the meantime, the gossip goes out in the street everyone is talking about  Reuven that he is a thief and liar. The initiator repented, but the whole world are talking bad about Reuven because of him.

How can we fix this? The same way… at the moment where the speaker repents for real then everyone will forget about the piece of gossip.

Sometimes, we see that someone tells us about someone that is a liar, but we soon, forget, it leaves the heart. Why? Because when the person that spoke bad repents he causes everyone  to forget his words. The power of out thought is very strong. People think that our thoughts are not worth anything.

But people need to know that our thoughts have tremendous power, our thoughts have great power. When one thinks good, good things happen to him.

People who think negative thoughts, all the time begin to see difficulties in his life and things get bad for him. This is what happens these days.

These days we are going through very difficult times, one of the hardest times for Am Israel. There has never been a period of time this hard. Barely, anyone has any trust in HaShem. Whoever has money is always worried he will loose it.

Whoever doesn’t have money is always worried about his next meal. There is tremendous confusion in the environment. One needs to be very strongminded!!! One needs to completely place his trust in HaShem very strongminded!!! And whenever one is strongminded, HaShem  will save him.

“Have hope in HaShem! Reinforce and strengthen your heart and have trust in Lord” (Psalm 27:14). Hope in HaShem, be strong, and again reinforce your Trust in HaShem. May HaShem bless us all with Divine help, and success, You are the armed forces, the righteous Ones, a group of good people from the Yeshiva that maintain the Yeshiva and therefore, may HaShem fulfill all your good  wishes,  and bless you with all the best and happiness, beracha, salvation  and all the blessings, Amen.

Posted in November 23, 2011 but yet fresh and one top priority in serve HaShem.

By Rabbi Pinto.

The President of Rabbinical Court of Morocco.

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