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0:00 it'll grow the necessary the the grain, both barley and wheat of of the right quality. I will say, "What's the most high skill?" The most high skill is that if you want to grow something beautiful in life, you have to prepare the field. You can't just roll into it. This is one of the most important things in the realm of spiritual development. Successful 0:23 spirituality requires preparation. Requires preparation. You have to prepare the field. And if you don't prepare the field, if you think you just going to walk in there and just drop a couple of seeds in and tada, I have omer and I have I I I have omer worthy barley and I have sh'alech and worthy worthy wheat. It doesn't work that way. You know this is goes back to brochos. 0:42 Everything goes back to brochos. What does brochos say? Chassidim Rishonim Chassidim Rishonim how you show and show akas called the matzila. The original pious ones would literally again show and meditate, cogitate, prepare themselves for an hour before davening or some amount of time for davening. 0:58 Now, what does that mean? Chassidim Rishonim teaching us, you want a meaningful prayer experience, it requires preparation. It's anything in life requires preparation. This is why again I will say in general, like even when it comes to that, all of us know this. 1:13 There's a big difference between coming on time for davening, 5 minutes early for davening, or 25 minutes late for davening. Davening right on time is fine. Late, inexcusable. Unless there's a mitzvas mitzvah on the way. Right right right right right right late right right why? 1:32 Why? You wouldn't be late for a business meeting. You wouldn't be late for your flight. Right? So why why why am I going to be late for davening? Right? But that ability to come a couple of minutes early and get myself like settled. I don't need an hour early. 5 minutes. Get get myself settled. Get my head right. 1:50 Just the ability to take a take a deep breath so like I'm not running in, it makes all the difference in the world. If you want to create beautiful and sustained spiritual results, you got to plow the field before you plant anything. I will say this is the piece in Again, I want to point out this is a little something that we miss cuz today what's beautiful about the dar that we 2:14 live in, right? Every generation wants something different. What does our generation want? What does our generation want? I don't know there's a lot of generations represented here. Right? But what is our collective generation What what do we want? It's interesting. Today when you look at what people want is they want inspiration. 2:30 People do want inspiration. But here's what's fascinating about this. We want inspiration without preparation. That's what we want. Inspiration without preparation. That's why I will say we love like like the the shorts, right? And and and the the little messages. If if I could tell you like like how often the most common feedback I get, which is fascinating, is 2:52 "Rabbi, great shiur, great this. Needs to be a little shorter. Needs to be a little shorter." I'm like, "No, you need to be a little bit more mature and work on your attention span. I'm fine." It could be a little shorter. I would agree. Okay. We want inspiration without preparation. 3:08 I want to get the high, but I don't want to have to prepare. I want I want I want to get I want to get it now. And it doesn't work that way. That that's why again if you look at like the most popular things, the most popular things are like these short consolidated clips, which are fine. What do they do for you in the long run? What do they do for the long run? Zero. Zero. It's easy come, easy go. Right? It comes in, you get a little burst, doesn't change you. It doesn't impact you. It doesn't do 3:32 anything. Why? Because inspiration always requires preparation. Now again, it's still good because any amount of inspiration is good. And any amount of aliya is good. And yeah, you know what we'll say? Even if this inspiration comes and go, comes and goes, when you have it for those few moments, it's yours and that's beautiful. Who loves it? Anything we do to to uplift ourselves is fantastic. But you want to talk about creating real results in 3:55 life, real results, inspiration, real inspiration requires preparation. You want to grow something meaningful in your heart and in your soul, your number one first step is plow the field. But what are you planting? Nothing. Nothing. Prepare the soil. Because if you don't prepare the soil, you can't play you can't plant you can't grow 4:18 anything in it down the road. That's the Mishnah. Your number one first step, plow the soil. Don't drop any seeds in. But if you prepare your soil, you get yourself ready, preparation, then I mean it true and lasting sustained inspiration.
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