Menuchas HaNefesh: Staying Calm Under Pressure and Building Good Middos

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This Torah class is brought to you by TorahAnytime.com. Before we start the shiur, I'd like to give over two stories that I heard this morning. I think the oilam would have chizuk from it. Picked up my son this morning from traveling to Eretz Yisrael. In Eretz Yisrael, he did a little touring. One of these tour guides that take to mekomos hakdoshim. And when you get into the car, he tells him, Tai, you got to hear two stories. I got very nisragesh from the stories. I want you to hear it. So the first thing he told me was that in the group of the touring, many frayer, not everybody was frum, a group of college students who were going to tour to see Eretz Yisrael for the first time. When they came to the Arizal's mikveh, and the person, the tour guide, was explaining to them the mikveh, the Arizal, my son said that he was thinking to himself, a mikveh? Not one of them wore yarmulkes. The first talking about yarmulkes. They weren't even wearing yarmulkes, talking about the Arizal's mikveh. He said, Tai, you'll never believe it. Every single one went to the mikveh. And they were warned that it's going to be cold, and they were warned that it might come out blue. He said, It's interesting how everyone went, everyone. He said there was not one. He said, That's an interesting thing. But even more interesting story, like I said, I was thinking, the punkt I heard it today, maybe it's b'siman min hashamayim, I should say it over. He said that that group also went to the Kotel. The tour guide was a frum yid, shteitzach. He was telling them, Come to the Kotel, Makom Kadosh, Rabbeinu shel olam, Shechinah lo zaz, and he gives them the whole schmooze what the Kotel is all about. He turns to them and he says, You know, I got to know some of you. Some of you don't even have a Yiddish name. There was two or three that פשוט didn't have a Jewish name at all. So two out of the three said, You know, I think I do. They never had a bar mitzvah. I think this is my Jewish name. One of them had no clue. So the tour guide says to him, Pick a Yiddish name. Pick a name. So he said, Okay, I'll do it. I'll pick a name. They're standing by the Kotel. It's a beautiful clear day. The sun told me, I'm telling you, you can look it up in the forecast. From Eretz Yisrael, it was a clear day. And all of a sudden, start to hail by the Kosel. It was hail. Clear, mamish sunny, out of nowhere it started hailing. The boy that didn't have a Jewish name, he was nisragesh, started to become moved, and he turned around and he said, I want to tell you something. I had a zeide named Baruch. My grandfather's name was Baruch, but I didn't like the name. I don't know what they call Baruch. So I thought, you know, I'll pick the name Barad. Sounds, it's close enough. And he said, when I came to the Kosel, I said, Hashem, my new name is Barad. And it started to hail. He said that he was so moved by the hashgacha pratis, the maaseh. And he started wearing a yarmulke throughout the trip. He said, Ribbono Shel Olam, my new name is Barad. I thought I would give you over the story because my son just got off the plane. I picked him up, and he told me. I said, I'm going to repeat over these two stories. Today's shiur, today's shmooze.

I'd like to talk about a topic that Baalei Mussar talk about a lot. And of course, we'll begin with the parshas, Parshas HaShavua. Yetzias Mitzrayim was chipazon, ki b'chipazon yatzasa miMitzrayim, in haste. Why did the Ribono Shel Olam make that Klal Yisrael should leave, azei, mit azah chipazon, such a rush? So everybody knows Klal Yisrael was the mem-tes shaarei tumah. V'lo yachlu l'shamea; they couldn't wait another second, because then they'd be lost completely. Everybody knows this. But Baalei Mussar speak more about the chipazon. Baalei Mussar say that if you notice that the Korban Pesach, all the halachos revolved around the inyan that it's supposed to be b'chipazon, that they had to eat it mamash quickly, ready to leave, aleichem v'ragleichem, mamash standing at the door to go. So the inyan of chipazon is not just that we left quickly, but that the Korban Pesach, the Korban Pesach needed to be eaten also in a chipazon, quickly, ready to leave in a second's moment, in a moment's notice. So Baalei Mussar, I saw, discussed this. I saw the Reb Chatzkel, the heilige Reb Chatzkel, in Ohr Cheskel, in Emunah. There's many different sefarim; one of them is on emunah. He says that the idea of the chipazon in the Kabban Pesach was an inyan of hachonah. Korban Pesach was a ruchniyusdike avodah. It was an exercise in ruchniyus. Vos is ruchniyus? Hachonah. You got to be fully prepared. He says if a person goes on a big trip, geit in gantsn ongegreyt, prepared, an alts. Why? It's a big thing. So the night before, everything's packed and ready to go. Azu dos a minyan gedaft hoben in the avodah of the Korban Pesach. Zei lernt, Reb Chatzkel, like I said in his sefer on emunah and a few other places, Reb Chatzkel explains the inyan of chipazon of the Korban Pesach: all ready to go, prepared, ongegreyt, waiting, ready to go. Reb Chaim Friedlander, the mashgiach in Ponevezh, sefer Chaim, he has a sefer, Middos v'Avodas Hashem, chelek beis, two chalakim, speaks a lot b'arichus that the chipazon of the Korban Pesach was an inyan of zerizus. Das heißt, Chipazin translates zrizus. Hayi tafton avodas Hashem bizrizus. Famish, already prepared, ready to go. Liter, felt men gezogt mit a lebedikkeit, mit a... ready to go, ready to move. And this was the inyan of chipazin in the coming Pesach. But I saw a peledike vort from Reb Yerucham b'shem zayn rebbe, the Alter from Kelm, the heilige Alter. Reb Yerucham in Daas Tevunos, Bereishis, on the pasuk, Vayar Elokim ki tov. Menucha. Menucha is a good thing. Vayar menucha, menucha is good. Brengt from the Alter that the inyan of chipazin was in order to instill in Klal Yisrael the inyan of menucha. Gehat es, yeah? Da yid, says, ein gebentsht, frekst doch gut. Ich bin farkert. Chipazin.

So, gehabt, this is a zog from the mashgiach, Rav Kelman of Grodzenski. I saw it in the Alishur. Alishur quotes the mashgiach of Grodzenski, of Avraham Grodzenski, the mashgiach. He says there's two things: zrizus. Zrizus is in cup, aber der fist darfn zayn b'menuchah. So he said, there's a balance. You do everything with menuchah, aber the cup soll nit zayn vi men zogt farshlofen. Zrizus and cup, menuchah and the fist. Azoi flegt er zogn. Not habeisait, this is greise reid. What does it mean? So, ... good, good, chaver. But let me tell you first the Alter's vort. Let me tell you the Alter's vort. The Alter says the Chipazon was in order they should work on having menuchah in the Chipazon. Rabbeinu ... gezogt, ... b'Chipazon, yeah. Un der avodah is geven, punkt farkert, in der Chipazon, in der behalah, nit zayn mevulbal, zayn b'menuchah. The cup soll zayn a cup, everything should be with menuchah. So he says, the Chipazon is in order that they should work on menuchah, because since b'davka gein Kabbalas haTorah, and Kabbalas haTorah muz zayn b'menuchas hanefesh, vail dos is fun ... This is from the most important middos, as we soon are going to learn. So, of arbeten, of the menuchas hanefesh, hata Ribono Shel Olam gevalt. A matzav fun chipas. Because that's when you got to work on menuchas hanefesh. Az alles geit gut, if everything is going good, what's the chiddush that you have menuchas hanefesh? It's going good. Going easy. Great. When you're under stress, under lachatz, and then you have menuchas hanefesh, dos is gevaldik. Azei zogt der Alter fun Kelm, Rabbi Yerucham brengt fun zayn rebbe. Rebbe said, let's talk about menuchas hanefesh. You know, yeshivos don't always prepare us for the outside world. They don't prepare us for life with all that's good, all the rule, all the tumult, the behalah from the velt that's around us. Not always so prepared what's coming. We're somewhat protected, which is right. We're in learning, with the chavrusa, with the Gemara, good. Chas v'shalom, tumul, a chavrusa tumul. No. Wait till you get out to the real world, rabosai. ... un parnassah daygis, dos is tumult. It's not my words, rabosai. Rabbi Yerucham alein, in that same shtikel. Says that people don't know menuchas hanefesh is. They think menuchas hanefesh means everything is going good. I'm relaxed. I'm calm. I have menucha. Sagt, dos hot k'shayches nisht mit menucha. You know why? Because the minute anything comes in its way, a disturbance, is oys menucha, and it's going to come. So that's not menucha. Vos der velt meint. People think, yeah, menucha. What? That's called menucha? The minute something rattles the menuchas, oys menuchas. That's not called menucha. That's called bilbul. He's ready. He's set up for trouble. He's set up for imenucha. I saw a meiradike vort from the Novardiker, the heilige Alter from Novardik, meiradik, in his madregas ha'adam. He says there's two words that l'choira mean the same thing: menuchen, shalva. Menuchen, shalva. What's the difference? Bikesh Yaakov leishev b'shalva, niskat. Vayar menucha ki tov, gevaldig. So what's the difference between—

Shalva, mit menucha. It’s like the shalva, everything goes well. You’re relaxed, it’s going good. Das iz nisht gut. Because Yaakov leishev b’shalva, kafatz alav rogez shel Yosef. Finished. So now you’re stuck. Menucha doesn’t mean, yeah, relax, I have menucha. What does it mean, menucha? It means that nothing is going wrong. You’re in trouble because it’s going to go wrong. Das iz bikash Yaakov leishev b’shalva. Das nisht gut. Tayam menucha, darf farshteyn vos menucha iz, rabosai. And then you’ll see, menucha ki tov, menucha is good. So let’s talk, rabosai, what is menucha? And in mussar, by the baalei mussar, it was a big avodah, especially in Kelm. Kelm, menucha was the number one middah, final middos. Anybody who ever read about Kelm knows this, but I’ll take a little example from the words of the Alter from Kelm. He has in Chochmah Mussar, chelek aleph, page reish pei beis. It’s the siman of kuf nun beis, Menuchas Hanefesh, a discussion, what is menuchas hanefesh. Zogt er, vos iz menuchas hanefesh? Vos iz es? Ein pizur k’pizur hanefesh, v’ein menucha k’menuchas hanefesh. Un dos iz v’noach matzachaim b’einei Hashem. What’s noach? Why was he matza chein? Because he was noach. He had menucha. Zeis a palter fun Kelem. V'nayach. Dos alein, vos es geven a menuchah di k'mentsh. Dos alein, this alone that he was b'menuchah, matza chein b'einei Hashem. Says the Alter from Kelem, Shabbos is me'ein Olam Haba, and the whole world till Shabbos came was not finished; it wasn't shalem. Bo Shabbos, bo menuchah. Shabbos, the shleimus habriyah, menuchah is the shleimus habriyah. And he says it clearly here: Ki haSholem hu hamenuchah, v'zeh tachlis klal habriyah. Menuchah is the tachlis, here. In Kelem, dos is geven mamash, and he speaks, it's klil hama'ilos, from all the ma'alos, Kelem, menuchah. Reb Chofetz Chaim, zayn eidim, Reb Tzvi Hersh Levinson, hat gezogt, tsum Chofetz Chaim a vort. Zogt over tzu the Chofetz Chaim, Vayar menuchah ki tov, vayeit shichmo lisbol. What does that mean? Because he saw how important the inyan for menuchah, so vayeit shichmo lisbol alle problems k'dei hoben di menuchah. Vayeit shichmo lisbol, all the difficulties, in order to have the maalah of menuchah. Chofetz Chaim, dos geglikhen, he says, it's a beautiful vort, yeah. Is that the Pashipshat, the pasuk, or pshat? Vayar menuchah ki tov. And I want to tell you, I saw something interesting. I saw a letter that Reb Yerucham writes. It's in Daas Chochmah UMussar, chelek gimmel, page reish yud hei. Want to hear a letter? The person is asking, should he move to Eretz Yisrael. He has parnassah, he up Eretz Yisrael, u'teira Eretz Yisrael. You know what Reb Yerucham answers him? Besser lernen in chutz la'aretz b'menuchah, bli tirda, vi gehen in Eretz Yisrael lernen Torahs Eretz Yisrael un menuchah. Right? It's clear. It's a peledike zach. How about psak? Reb Yerucham zogt klar. Now, I would never even entertain talking ... az a ... I'm scared to talk azazah. We can't just ... cook in a beis. You can look it up yourself. Reb Yerucham brings us Daas Chochmah UMussar, a letter from Reb Yerucham. It's in there, in the Daas Chochmah UMussar. Rabosai, I want to talk.

As we said, menucha is davka in the matzav of chipazon. That's what we learn from the Alter from Kelm. Menucha is when this chipazon, ota dan, that's when is the avodah of menucha. That's why the korban Pesach, which was b'chipazon, was kedei koneh zayn the middah fun menucha. I want to tell you that there's many different parts to menuchas hanefesh in the avodah of Kelm. Some of it is above us. It's above me. I'm not holding by it. Some of the things... Ich presentlach by mir, that is... You know, I remember by the levayah of Reb Shrage Meirsha Kaminetsky, they got up and they said a maise about him, a peledike maise. That was Reb Shrage Meirsha. He was the son of Reb Avram. The levayah was in a yeshiva in Brooklyn. We all went to the levayah, and he said over a maise. Efrek zogen a shmues in yeshiva once a week. So when he came in once to say the shmues, on his way up to the podium, there was a yungerman that was standing there, and he started whispering to the yungerman something. It was a message or something, a few seconds. Reb Shrage Meirsha turned around, left the beis medrash, no shmues today. What happened? Hut men zugegangen tsu Reb Shrage Meirsha, mit dem gefregt. They asked him. I'm ... not this week, and there's no schmooze. But you came in to say—yeah, I did come in to say the schmooze. What happened? I spoke to this young man. It was a second I had to give a message, and I realized that what I'm speaking about from the amud, from the podium, I'm not 100% holding by it. I realized from the conversation, ich bin nit mushlam in gantzen in this inyan that I'm going to talk about. Arup, the schmooze is finished. No schmooze. He was going to give mussar. He was going to speak about a topic. He wasn't—he didn't feel, and it was nis'orer in the two-second conversation, whatever it was, a minute or two, whatever it was, the avodah that he's going to talk about, it's נישט הונדערט percent. I say, I'm not getting up and leaving, but I'm telling you right now, I'm not holding by what I'm talking. I'm not—a big chelek of it I'm not holding by, but a big chelek of it I'd like to work on together with you. Menuchas hanefesh, ... such a big avodah. How can we apply it lemaaseh? Let's see how we can apply it practical in today's times. So let me first begin by telling you what is menuchas hanefesh and ... I remember Reb Chaim Epstein, zicher tzaddik livrachah—I think his yahrzeit was just recent—his hesped on mashgiach, Reb Nosson, zicher tzaddik livrachah. He געדענקט, I was there. We were outside the beis medrash and we listened. He said, Kingreise zachen vegn dem mashgiach, vel ich nit zogen. I'm going to take out from the Michtav MeEliyahu how he wrote what Kelm was all about, that the dor should understand vos iz geven Kelm, what was it. Just read. I'll read for you, and you'll understand the mashgiach, where he came from, what his shoresh, where his limud came from, what he represented, what was Kelm. And he read and he read. And I remember hakol meidim. It was the most unbelievable hesped. I remember we walked away. I felt it was a world for itself, almost a world that we have no shaychus to. But yet it was important to hear that world, and to know that that world existed, and somehow to take from that and apply it in our lives. So let me tell you a little bit, Michtav MeEliyahu. Michtav MeEliyahu was avodah, was a Kelm, was a Kelm avodah. It was very much...

Akped, menuchas hanefesh was a big avodah by him, menuchas hanefesh. So I want to tell you a ma'aseh dike zach. It happened, and it's brought down in the Mabitzei Torah Musar. Already quoted in the Mabitzei Torah Musar, brings down that the Rebbe in Blume, she was niftar Friday night. She niftar Friday night. Demichtem Eliyahu went to Rav Hertzog, Rav HaRashi, ask him, I guess halacha was nogea, something. And it says over there that he was talking to Rav Hertzog. Rav Hertzog realized, something's wrong. It wasn't him, it wasn't this. So he says to him, What's the problem? He said, Gone. And he kept on talking. Rav Hertzog found out afterwards that his rebbetzin was niftar. He couldn't tell. The menuchah, the menuchah, the calmness, he couldn't tell. Just from the way he was talking, that something was wrong, wasn't the same, but nothing. And he asked the Michtav Eliyahu, Why didn't you tell me? Why didn't you tell me? And he answered, Shabbos. Shabbos is a chiyuv menuchah. So everything's b'menuchah. I want to tell you more about this. ... gebracht in the ... Torah ... vegen ... from the ... And again, I'm trying to just tell you the extreme of it. We have no shaychus to that. ... It's a velt vos farzikh alein. I want to tell you from the Alter from Navardik. It's brought down, peledik, that he was making havdalah, and there was a program shooting outside, right in the yard where the Alter was, the Alter from Navardik. The talmidim was shaking. But the Alter from Navardik was holding the kos, not a drop of wine spilled. That was the menuchas hanefesh, menuchah, not to become fazed. Do we have that koach? Maybe not. But I want to tell you, today we live, everyone's anxious. People are anxious. They go out in the real world, they're anxious to pay their bills. People are anxious. So I want to tell you another part of the avodah of menuchas hanefesh. I want to tell you a maaseh from Reb Eliyahu Lopian. Reb Eliyahu Lopian, it's brought down, the Lev Eliyahu, had a doctor's appointment for heart. Heart—he lived, he was a ... heart doctor's appointment. He left the house exactly when he was supposed to leave in order to get on time, ... exactly to get on time. Yeah. Where he's supposed to be. The problem was the bus didn't come on time. ... You hear? Was sitting by the terminal waiting, by the bus stop waiting, you hear? What did everyone else around him who also ... had appointments to get to? They kept on looking to see if the bus is coming. Is it coming? No, I see it's coming. It's not coming. It's coming. It's coming. You're wasting, wasting, wasting. See, I think I see. ... turned his head a second because someone said the bus is coming. Turned his head to see, and he quickly put his head back straight, you hear? And he said, ... Why? The bus is coming, so when it comes, it'll come. Why am I being so anxious about? See, there's a certain anxiousness. What anxious? Menuchas hanefesh, yeah. The bus is coming; it'll come.

Havee say this is an extreme, but the point of anxiousness, a person's anxious. Could you imagine the anxiousness that Klal Yisrael had, that they're leaving Mitzrayim? Chapelle. You know, what were they supposed to do? They were supposed to eat the Korban Pesach. How did they eat the Korban Pesach? Edson losish berubei. There were so many halachos. Mitatzelt a avod, a beautiful avod. The Gemara says, haroitzeh, if someone wants to become, to be nifra from his friend, al yiftor ela mitoch dvar halacha. Why? Shemitoch kach zichro. Like this he'll remember him. So pashut, the pshat is, Torah, friendship. Hei, zog mir, you remember who you chaveis played ball with? Very good, at a basketball game. You remember your chavrusa. Things that are real, you remember. ... You don't remember that. So haroitzeh, if someone wants to remember his friend, al yiftor ela mitoch dvar halacha. But the velt zogt, David ... What's the ...? You want your friend to remember you, I'll tell you how to do it. You're sitting at the bus, and the guy is—he wants that to make the bus, and you're holding him back, and you're telling him a dvar halacha, telling him a dvar halacha. He's anxious to... He has to run. ... good word, come here, good word. ... forgets. No, he'll never forget you. Someone who takes you out of your anxious, and he nudges you. ... Yeah? It says ... that's what happened in Mitzrayim, here. Could you imagine they're going to leave Mitzrayim, and they're already, Sit down. ... eat a cup of Pesach, lein the Haggadah, ... That's a tremendous avodah. On one hand, the anxiousness, and on the other hand, forget ... b'menuchah. This is a very important zach in life, rabosai: to be able to have menuchas hanefesh and not to be anxious. I'll tell you another maaseh, rabosai. Now, the truth is, I don't know if the maaseh is more ... which is out of our realm, or maybe it's something that we could take for a lesson from this maaseh. The Mikhtav Eliyahu was written by a talmid of the Mikhtav Eliyahu, of Carmel. He was the one who wrote; he was the talmid of the Mikhtav Eliyahu. He's quoted in the Mabitzei Torah Mussar a lot because he was the talmid. ... During the war years, during the war years. The michtav Eliyahu was separated from his family. I think it says that they were in Australia and he was already in England, something along those lines. Got a letter from them. So the Michtav Eliyahu, Michtav Eliyahu takes the, Reb Eliyahu Dessler takes the letter, and he holds it in his hand. He doesn't open it. Er effent es nisht, doesn't open it. After a few minutes, the Kaval looks at him. What? Why didn't you open the letter from the mishpachah? So he said, I'll open it with menuchas hanefesh. Okay. ... Ikh vil taln mer. ... Good.

Okay, kum lemerhead. I'll tell you the truth. To me, these are worlds that I heard of growing up, and therefore I don't know if I have any shayches to it. It definitely excites me to hear it. Avelt vos iz a mal geווען, and we'll try to apply it in practical terms. Okay, I want to tell you. Reb Yerucham writes something very interesting. He says, I remember in Kelm that every bochur was taught that when he puts his hat on, it's a das teirah. Aveise a das teirah. It's not bichlach; Reb Yerucham. It's Reb Yerucham inside the sefer, yeah, that when he put his hat on, he made sure it was put on perfectly, and he never touched it after that. You ever see how people sit, play with the hat? ... Reb Yerucham was giving this mussar to—who is he talking to? ... Gedolei Yisrael, chachameihem, gedolei olam. He's talking to them about hats, about chairs. Tells them when he came in, the Alter used to make sure the chair was neat and it was clean. V'cheinah, and he says ... He says that the Alter was makpid that he always looked ahead; he never looked to the right, to the left, up, down, just straight ahead. ... Vaz viln fun dach. What do they want? Avos viln. So let me tell you something. There's a meiredige shtikel Reb Yerucham, a meiredige, mamash meiredik, unbelievable piece of Reb Yerucham. And before we get this Reb Yerucham, I just want to just go back to the maaseh we just told you. How many times that when we get a bill, we're anxious. We quickly go and rip it open, rip it open, b'treystes. So am I telling you we have to be like that? I don't know. I don't know. One thing for sure, baruch Hashem, when it comes to bills, I don't do that. I have menuchas hanefesh not to open them. But I don't know if it's l'shma. Is it l'shma? Avos vil ich fun dem. Let me tell you a meiredige zach, and we're going to end on this. I just wanted to give you a taam, a geshmak, from what was that world, the world that once was, you hear? Okay. Shabbos is menucha. Menuchas ahavah, menuchas nedavah, menuchas emes, menuchas emunah. Zogt Reb Yerucham, what's all the menuchas in das chochmah musar, chelek beis, amud reish gimel, he says a peledige zach. It doesn't define the menuchah. Pashut, you think it's a type of menuchah. It's menuchas ahavah, menuchas nedavah, menuchas emes. No. The menuchah brings to ahavah. The menucha brings to emes and emunah and nedavah, menucha. When a person's b'menucha, al likutei zchusim. There's love for a neighbor. A person's b'menucha. What does he need? What's thinking? So, vos meint er? So I'm gonna tell you another shtikel Reb Yerucham, rabbeisa. Moshe Rabbeinu got angry at the pekudei hachayil in Parshas Mattos, that they kept the women alive. Parshas ge'ulei keilim was not said al yedei Moshe. Rashi brings the Chazal: Keivan sheba lichlal kaas, ba lit'os. He came to a ta'us, right? He came to the klal of kaas, which means not kaas. It should have said, human shekaas. It should have said, human shekaas, no? What's lichlal kaas? So the velt always learns lichlal means, ah, you think Moshe mamash got angry. Ah, it was in the realm of kaas, epis, epis. ... Moshe got angry. Mention meinin, as we cannot learn, and that you can learn the pchumish, that the avos and the...

And Aaron had the chesronos that you have. You have the ... Moshe, like this, and Aaron. We have no shaychus to understanding Moshe. Stam l'tzanus geredt, you know. Shein, Avraham is ... You think you could take your middos and fataytsh the others and to fataytsh Moshe? We have no shaychus to understanding Moshe Rabbeinu is. But that's what the world says: ... klal, epes, somewhere, something, epes, a klal of kas. Taka birucham megedike zachen, das teireh, megedik, from pasuk. So there's things that are before the kas that bring the kas. That's pshat, ... he came to a something which leads to kas. No? By this point of the shiur, you should know what we're talking about already, no? What was it that Moshe ... lack of menuchas hanefesh. That's the talmid chacham. No? Das is Rebbi ... right. A person who has menuchas hanefesh, he doesn't get angry. The menuchas hanefesh is the base of all good middos, ... menuchas ahavah, menuchas nedavah, menuchas emes ve'emunah, menuchas sholom v'shalvah. It brings everything. ... u'vos meint menuchah? Nit shalvah, habeisa. Everybody thinks, yeah, you're having a good day. It's very nice to smile at the other guy. You're in a good mood. You ever see, ever see what they say about, Oh, he's smiling at me. Must mean he's in a good mood, he's having a good day. It's because he had a good day, שמח. When you're having a good day. When things are not going right. In business, it's a לחץ, and you work on מנוחה. פקלט, בשעת דחיפות, when it is חיפזון. פקלט, when it's under, we gotta make a deadline, and it's a... מנוחה. שחייט מען נישט אפיענען. We don't get angry. We don't. מנוחה, מנוחה, מנוחה is the שורש ונאלץ, that the ... is given the לימוד from קלם. So take it, my friends, are you here? מנוחה. It's interesting a לשון. מנוחה, what's it called? מנוחת הנפש. You know, a person can find all different types of ways to give him מנוחה. It's not about his נפש, right? מנוחה, you're right. דברים are all relaxed. This is all good, the מנוחה. And then there's something called מנוחת הנפש, הרוחנית, מנוחה. ומדם ... זוכה זיין צו אהבה, מדות, ... על דער האבן מנוחת הנפש, מנוחת הנפש. You've just experienced another Torah class, brought to you by TorahAnytime.com.