Getting Rid of Chametz, Inside and Out (Pesach)

In this episode we get into Pesach and the mitzvah of bedikas chametz, the days long search for chamtz in our homes. We put so much effort into searing every corner and crack of our house to make sure there isn't even a crumb of chametz on Pesach. In terms of our internal avodah, why is this so important to do? Why are we required to be so much more thorough when it comes to searching for chametz than almost any other mitzvah? And why do we need to go so far as to burn it afterwards? We'll get into all of that and much more in this episode!  

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Hello everyone. This is Rabbi Robbie Chernoff and you are listening to the Hasidist for Life podcast, the podcast where we learn a deep Hasidic insight every single week and explore how it can lead us to a more meaningful, vibrant, and spiritually uplifted life. In this episode, we are getting into Pesach and the Mitzvah of Bad Mates, the days long search for mates that we are in right now. We put so much effort into searching every kraken corner of our house to make sure there isn't even a speck of mates on Pesa. But in terms of our internal A hashem, why is this so important? Why do we have to be so much more thorough with this mitzvah than almost any other mitzvah? And why do we need to go so far as to burn the hams afterward? We'll get into all that and much more in this week's episode. If you wanna follow along in sa, you can open up the SI to Paige Re and the piece on PE entitled, or simply go to the show notes for a link to A PDF. But feel free to just sit back, listen, and enjoy the ride. Most people do. This week's episode is generously sponsored by Dr. Noah and Shady Lindenberg in the Fuma for Hillel Naan. Esha, thank you so much to the Lindenberg for sponsoring this week's episode. Your sponsorships are what make this podcast happen. If you would like to sponsor an episode of the podcast, please email rabbi chernoff@gmail.com or see the show notes for more details. Alright, with that, let's jump into the Cevo Shalom on Pesach. We are, we are on page of the additional volumes, which has the moad in it on PE that we search in all of the cracks and crevices for hamit. he says, The mishna tells us that on the night of the 14th, we search for hams by the light of the candle. this unique concept of searching in every crack and crevice for every little bit of hamit. It's like the bring down mates that the concept of s and leaven it's hinting to. Its teaching us about the negative side inside of us, this aspect of hamit and leaven that exists within us. Tap of the next column, and that's what the mitzvah of searching for the hams and burning the hams. And nullifying the hams. That's what it's really about. right? He's saying so beautifully is that when we think of searching ham, so at this stage of the year, all of us are probably already gearing up. We're already starting to search our houses. Today was a full on a of Pesa cleaning day. We're already two weeks out. We're only two weeks out. We should have started weeks ago before Purim, right? So we're all getting into the zone of starting to search every single crack and crevices of the house to see if there's hums. And what he's saying is, is that yes, we absolutely should be doing that on a literal level. And there's a requirement to make sure that there's no hums in your house. But everything that we do on a practical, literal level always has an internal aspect to it. And the internal aspect to bad mates. The search for mates, the burning of the ADEs. The bittel of the ADEs, it's so deep. If we're searching so intently around the house, for every little piece of mates, this is the time of the year. We're supposed to be searching our own internal world, every single aspect inside of ourselves, every crack, every crevice. For any little bit of mates that's inside of us, every little bit of rah that's inside of me, I'm searching for with the same intensity. If you're somebody who, when you do your search for mates and your cleaning of the house, air of Pesach, you make it spring cleaning because there is no corner that's not going to be sprayed with Windex and wiped down with 500 paper towels How could you do that and not check your insides the same way every corner of your insides, you're not leaving one speck of dust, every crevice inside of you, you're not leaving unchecked. There isn't even a little bit no aspect, no speck of rah that's left inside of me. It's brought down, I saw it in the Heritage Ha by Al. He says very beautifully. that the difference between ham and Matza is only three numbers, meaning the gria of mates and the gria of Matza are only three numbers apart. What are those three numbers? He says Mates is three more than Matza. Because each one of those numbers is reflective of the three worst character traits that a person can have. Ava KaVo, they bring a person outta this world says Vos. So we're looking for, it's the, the jealousy that allowed to sit in me and fester in me to look at the other person and say, why does that person have it and not me? Why does this person have such a fancy house? And I don't. Why does this person able to have help clean the whole house? And I don't. Why does that person get to go away for a$20,000 PE off vacation and just, you know, sell their mates and leave their house? And I gotta sit here scrubbing Keya jealousy. Why them? It not me? Why am I not me? That's the jealousy that's inside of me. Tiva, the desire that I have inside of me for all kinds of physical things that I want, that I'm looking for, that I just, my, my Itza horror stirs in me that tiva and covered the desire for honor. Why is this person so special? Why does this person get so much covered? Why is this person not such an amazing salary and I don't have as much money? Why? I don't understand why. Why does this person get to be president of this rule? Why is this person leading that committee? Why? It's not fair. It's not right. And those are the three things, the worst medo that just bubble and fester. And if you will, rise inside of us, they boil our blood and they raise up my sense of self, my sense of ego. They puff out my ego. I deserve to have whatever I want. I deserve to have what she has. I deserve to have the position that he has. And they rise and rise and rise with me over the course of the year and pe and I clean out all of that. I clean it all out. But I don't just take it out. It's not enough to take my bag of jealousy and burn it, my container of honor, and throw it into the fire. I have to search in every crack and crevice, every little part of myself, the internal bads, that level of intensity to create the person that I wanna be, to create the person who's truly free. OU is such a strange thing on a certain level. You think about it. What does man mean? OU means a time of our freedom. Why? Because we were slaves in Egypt and then comes along PE who comes down and takes us out, and we're finally free. That's it. We made it. We're free. And then you think about it for like five or 10 seconds and you realize, no, we're not. The second that we leave Egypt, the second that we go out of me trying Akj. Bko begins to give us mitzvahs for 50 days. He marches us towards Matan Torah, and then he gives us 613 mitzvahs with millions of details that encompass every aspect of our life to serve him. In every second of our life. We just gave up one form of servitude for another form of servitude. So why are we kidding ourselves and calling us, man? How do we understand that? So one answer is very powerfully. OU means that who comes and he takes us out of the forced servitude of Egypt. He takes us out and he says, I give you the biggest gift of all. You are always going to serve something. You can serve Egypt, you can serve yourself, you can serve your physical desires, but you're always gonna serve something. But I'm giving you the biggest gift of all. I'm giving you the freedom to choose who you serve. That's manino. It's not freedom like we imagine it, it's not freedom of the sense of I go to work for, hundreds of days a year so I can get a few weeks off to go sit on the beach and do nothing. that's not a meaningful life to work and work and work in order to do nothing. Why do you wanna do nothing? If you're given the option to do anything, why would you wanna do nothing? That's not how we're designed and that's why people go crazy. Give'em a few days off and let'em sit on a beach for a while. They're gonna go into crazy if they're not doing anything. You have to be involved in something.'cause we were designed, we were built in order to work. We were born to work. We're always going to serve something. My rebi once said in a very strong way, and I think it's a powerful thing to reflect on. He said there was one time he was on M, this is long before this war started. He means m uh, maybe decades ago at this point. And he's always a thinker. His whole life, he was always a thinker and He always enjoys deep conversations. And he was sitting in a jeep on the side of a road doing some sort of smmi, and he was there with a Jew, a non-religious Jew. And the two of them were arguing this very question, who's truly free? Who's truly free? And so he said, I'm truly free. I can serve wherever I wanna serve. And the non-religious Jew said, no, I'm free. I could do whatever I want. And his words, not mine, He said as they were having that argument, A woman who was not dressed as a proper bossy RA should be dressed, passed by the Jeep while they were having this argument. He says his words that as she passed from one side of the Jeep to the other, the guy he was talking to like a dog on a leash, his head was pulled from one side all the way around to the other side, and as he turned back to face him, he looked at his friend and he said, really? Now tell me which one of us is truly free. It's very powerful idea, which one of us is truly free. You say you're free, but you're a slave to your desires. You have no control. You exert, no free will. You serve your base desires you serve. In this case you're tava, but you're not free. A Kish bur who didn't say you're free to do whatever you want, that's a meaningless existence. He said, you were forced into meaningless labor in Egypt and you couldn't choose who you served. I'm taking you out now. You get to choose, you're gonna serve someone, you're gonna serve something. Who do you choose to serve? And. Is the time of year. This time, these few weeks, if you listen to this and it's only a few days. These few days, if you listen, it's only a few hours, turn this off and get moving, right? if this is the time of year where we're going and we look inside, in what ways am I a slave to my base desires? in what ways am I a slave to the rah, to the negativity, to the yate hara that's inside of me, and to search in every corner, leave no stone unturned to get rid of that rah. You don't go out into a garden and trim the weeds. You wanna go and find them and pull them out of the root. You have any Quin inside of yourself, you find, where is that kinna? Where is that jealousy coming from? And this time of year you go and you find exactly where it's peeking through the walls of your inner world. And you pull it out the roots, the desire for covert is coming through a little crack in your ceiling. You figure out why it's coming out there, and you pull it out from the roots. You have ego, and really that's what it comes down to. You have ego that's coming through. You destroy it at the source, you find it, you bag it, you put it in a paper bag and you throw it into the fire on a of pe and you say, I want nothing more to do with you. I choose to be free. I choose to be free, which means I choose to not serve myself, and I choose to serve. A is this deep inner search to get rid of every bit of rah the same way with the same intensity. You clean your house, you clean yourself. That's what he's bringing out here. Let's see how he takes it further. Two lines in on the second column. And as such, when we're talking about hams, there's different levels of hams. there's certain types of mates which you can plainly see and are known to a person. When you go into the cabinet and you find your raw oats, You find your raw oats there for you to make your, you know, your overnight oats and your peanut butter balls, obviously, right? So you go and you find those. So those are gonna have to go into the fire. You can obviously see that it's cums. You go and you find the breadcrumbs, you know it's cums. You go and you find the croutons, you know, it's ADEs. There's s, it's obvious to the I. And there's s that isn't as easily known s There's S that can be within something else. There can be hammit that's just giving taste to something else. There can just be something with a mahu of hammit inside, where if you didn't look at the ingredients, you wouldn't even know there's hidden hammit. Raam, he says. These are also all parallel to different levels of rah inside of a person, top of the next page. And there's, there's rah that can be totally hidden from a person's sight. That there are certain types of rah inside of a person that I can go my whole life without even knowing that this rah is inside of me. There can be certain things that, I'm so used to being a part of me that I'm so used to being part of my personality construct, the way that I live, the way that I interact. I've gotten so used to it, so comfortable with it that I just take it for granted that it's a part of myself. and it, infiltrates every aspect of my personality, and so I just let it pass. So one time I got angry and I yelled at my friend. so I know that that's an aspect of Rod that I wanna remove, that I have anger that can flare up from time to time, and I have to remove it. But, you know, listen, I have a M Home and shul guy comes up every once in a while and sits there, he knows it's my spot. Come on, come on. What's wrong with you? It's just, it's not right. Like in all honesty, it's just not right. You know what I'm saying? And if I'm about to get into line you know, I got things to do, I have things to take care of, and I'm about to get into line at the store, and then somebody just like, scoots in and they got in front of me like, well, what's wrong with you? And these are all things, the other person's a hundred percent wrong. Or maybe. Maybe I have a little bit of Ava inside of me, a little bit of ego, a little bit of desire. For honor, I have a ko, so on the one hand I do, I have a ku. On the other hand, why do I care so much to sit in the seat that's next to the seat that I always sit in? According to Laha, it's still considered my ko. If it's within D Ramos, the guy got there first. He showed up on time. I came late. If I would've come a little bit earlier, I would've had no problem getting my seats. He just wants to dive into a Q bar. Maybe he's not paying attention. Maybe it's a little bit of covered, a little bit of gva, but it's palu. It's within something else. It's not tam. It's not as clear, and I can go my whole life and be totally self-righteous that I was right in these situations and not even be aware that within myself are these issues that surface a little bit here and a little bit there, and a little bit here and a little bit there that I don't even know. I have a problem. Unless I really search and dig and desperately want to remove any rabbits inside, and that's what he says here. He says that it could be that a person was never tested in such a thing, but the root of that rise inside of them. It could be that they're so used to a thing, they don't even notice it. But we have to go and dig'cause we care because I wanna cervical, I wanna be cleansed inside the same way. I don't want there to even be a speck of hums in my house. I don't want there to be an aspect, a speck of raw side of myself. So you say, I've never had an issue with this before. Great. Still search. or if you already have kids, you know this. There is no area of your house. You could be a hundred percent sure that there's no hamit there. 100% sure. Your kids, 100% have found a way to get there while eating Cheerios and left a cheerio behind in that spot. 100% every time. My wife, just told me that, she heard a story that somebody, evidently, a particular rev that they had seriously checked their whole house for Hummings and they'd set the whole table up already for the Seder and started to get hot. So, so they turned on the air conditioner, air of Tiff and out of the air conditioner, spit tons of Cheerios right onto the table that they'd already set for the Seder. We would think to check the air conditioning unit. The answer is, if you have kids, you gotta check everywhere. You always have to stick everywhere. Inside of every single one of us as a little kid is a child inside of every single one of us. That little kid when it gets out, likes to do things that it shouldn't do. It likes to spread s where it shouldn't be spread. We all think that in certain areas and certain ways and certain aspects, we're just not shy to certain AVEs. We're not connected to certain ways of sinning, but there's a little kid inside of us and he likes to mess around. He likes to bend the rules. She likes to sneak in here or sneak in there, or mess around here, or mess around there. And ma, you can be 100% certain that he or she will leave some Cheerios behind inside of us. There's a little bit of gava even we don't think we have it. And if you don't think you have gva, you definitely have gva. There's a little bit of jealousy inside of us, even if we think we don't have it. There's a little bit of desire for Coved inside of us, even if we think we don't have it. there's definitely desire inside of us. Even if we think we've beaten it in certain ways, it's all there. And to search for it, he says, that could be so dangerous. So dangerous that I don't even look for that humate because I assume it's not there.'cause I haven't felt it manifest.'cause I haven't experienced it. But it's still inside of me and I have to check for that too. the VO now explains what we just talked about. This quote that we just quoted from Del, from the PRI arts, wrote the fo that aside from the actual Avera that we do in our actions, rahana, there's the rah, there's the root of inside of me, the root that's just infested with worms and decomposing wrote before that even if I never did an Avera in this way, it's still inside of me. It's still a part of me. And it's still in there. It's still a part of me. I still have to remove it. That's what it means, that we have to burn the hams. Like the says, many times in Dev, you have to burn out the rah from inside of yourself. Remove it entirely. Don't just remove the overt manifestations. Don't just remove the things that show themselves on a daily basis. Get to the roots and destroy the roots and burn them down to the last. Drop the, based on the words of the. A Sha Wow is very, very powerful and very frightening. He says that you could have at IC who never sinned. They never actually manifested a sin in a certain way at all, ever. And they go up to a Q bur after 120, and even though they're not going to get punished because they didn't do anything wrong, they never did nave, but it could be that for that Sadik, the whole reason he was put in the world that SKUs, the whole reason she was put in Ola Maza. Was to come down here and to fix something inside of themselves, deep inside of themselves. Haba, who planted a rotten root inside of them. And the whole reason they came to this world was to uproot that thing. It could be that I have a Tiva, I have a, I have a Tiva inside of me to do a terrible avira, and it burns inside of me and my whole life, I never act on it. And I get scar for keeping them low tossing, and I get scar for not giving in, but ak who's gonna turn to me after 120 and say, I appreciate the fact that you kept my mitzvahs and that you never did the thing, but for 120 years, you were on that world. Why didn't you actually work on yourself? That's what I wanted from you. I made you strong. I knew you wouldn't sin. I knew you would overcome it. I wanted you to remove it. I wanted you to do the internal work to remove that root, not just to not express it in the world. I put you here to remove that root, to become a person who is tove, to become a person who is of sem, not just who does Avo sem, not just to does tov, to turn yourself into a reflection of godliness. That's the goal. Merab often says to learn in Yeshiva in the old city, I got to be by Rev, Nevin Sota, the chief, a old city who would learn the base matters every day. And Rabi would say, he says, you look at Rev, Nevin Sota, it's not correct to look at Rev Neol and say that he has Nava. That's incorrect. He doesn't have Nava. He says, if you've ever truly met Rev Neol, if you've even looked at him you will see he doesn't have Nava. He is another. He's living, breathing another. He's living, breathing, humility. He doesn't express it. He doesn't do it. He doesn't believe in it. He's purified himself to the extent that he is living, breathing, humility. It's an incredible thing to see. One of the most frightening moments of Shana Olive. So it's Yeshiva in the old city. So the old city, everything is very fu. The physicality is very tight. It's very limited because the spirituality is so explosive. It always goes like that. But it's very, very close and tight in the old city. And so the stairwells It's like shoulder width every stairwell. Like that's as wide this is gonna go. So you dread the day when you accidentally are spaced out and not paying attention, and you walk up to the stairwell at the same moment that Rev Nevin saw gets to the stairwell and you guys were in a game of chicken. Who's gonna give in first? Like, no, no, no. Av s you like, you don't know any Hebrews anyway. You're like, hello, av, no, I need, you're just like I, I'm not going. And you look at his face and he says, no, you have to go. You go first. you realize that you're never gonna win because you're acting with humility and he is humility, and you lost the second that you got there. At the same time, I've never seen anybody not end up going first, and I've done it myself. You can't win. There's no way you lost the minute you got there. That's a person who goes and doesn't just say, I have no problem with humility. I'm removing any issues of ego, even if it doesn't express itself. That's the goal. I don't mimic being an, I don't mimic being a ba madrea somebody who's tremendous in their mi. I uproot any rah, any negative MI that's inside of me and fully purify myself and I burn it. Bureau Hamms, I burn it. I don't want anything to do with it. I don't wanna see it. I don't wanna know from it. That's what we're trying to get to. And he says again that a person that sat it can live in this world their whole life and never do the thing. But they go out to abo, he says, great, we're never gonna do the thing. But did you remove it? That's what I wanted from you. That's what I wanted from you. I wanted you to remove it, even though you never expressed it. The zen. about that. It says that you have to do sfa, you have to burn the. If we're talking about refraining from doing a negative action, it's enough for him to say, I'm never gonna do it again. I take upon myself that I'm no longer gonna do that action. Aah. Taking that upon myself, that's sufficient. Rah. But to uproot the core of Rah that's deep inside of me, that's embedded within me, for which I was put in this world to remove bfa. The only way is to burn it. Cabal is not enough. Taking it upon myself is not enough. I need to ish go in and burn it out. She's a tro. I need to burn it completely inside of myself. next paragraph. or, and this is the meaning of on the night of the 14th, we go and we check for the Hammit the night of a of pe. Dare to eat as we see in from one of the greatest capitalists ever lived, vi. Says, what does it mean on the night of the 14th? He says, the night of the 14th it's hinting to the time when a person is about to go into their 14th year. Right. Currently, we're in the 21st century, meaning the moment we hit the year 2000, we were in the 21st century. So what is the 14th year the moment when a man turns 13 years old, they're in their 14th year. The minute when a woman turns 12 years old, they're in their 13th year. He's saying, when a person becomes a barer bat mitzvah or Rabba starts talking in the masculine, but it means both of the ma and the feminine. When a person becomes 13, when a person enters their 13th year, or when a woman enters into her 12th year shauni, that's when a person becomes a full Jew. That's when need to search for hams. That the second that a person becomes a Jew, a person needs to check inside. If there's any rah inside the. That whenever a person doesn't uproot it, remove it from within themselves. They can't be a full Jew. They can't be a complete Jew. If is ku. If Aku is completely good and I want a Q Burko to completely be with me, for me to connect them, to be dein, I need to remove all Rah. If I wanna be a full J, I need to remove every aspect of rah. When a person says the in the morning, you didn't make me a non-Jew during that person needs to look inwards and check themselves to make sure that there's nothing non-Jewish within me. And that, when the first we were taken to who's chosen? People meaning ud. When was our Bar Mitzvah? When was our bat mitzvah? People who are committed to cva, k Bur, and Torah mitzvah in all internal levels of em. When we became the Jewish people, when did we become the Jewish people? And we left Ra, we became the Jewish people. We became Jews So what did we have to do? A of Pesach. What? Did do a Of becoming a Jew. We become a Jew every single year on Pesach. We have a ra. We become the Jewish people again. What do we need to do? A of Pesach so we can truly come out and be Jews. On the night of the 14th, as we enter into the 13th year as we enter into being into a reality of a Jew, we have to search for the hamit ha to look for any negativity inside and to burn it up so I can be a Jew of the next column. Whether it's revealed hams, active Avera, things that I know that I'm doing that are overt, that I'm doing, and also the aspects of rah that are inside of me that don't manifest, that are not as overt. the rotten infested roots of rah that are inside of me and are deep within those crevices that we have to search and seek after them. And so we can come to as a full Jew. It's not a simple thing. A of pe again, we said it before, but to think about how much time and effort and energy and sweat we put into searching every aspect of our homes. We're looking in every corner, we're turning everything upside down. Went to my rabbi's house one year a few days before Pesa. And he had turned the fridge backwards, and I saw him sitting there with a toothpick, scraping the gunk out of the inside of the fridge from the back, like where the motor is or whatever it is back there. But he is sitting there with a toothpick, you know, picking away at the back. There're getting it out. And you wonder like, whatcha are doing? Why aren't you checking under the couch? Why aren't you sweep on? And you, you understand? He's saying, no, no. How could I leave something unturned? How could I leave something unchecked? And he's doing that because he's doing the same thing inside. He's giving an outward expression. In the physical world to the internal process that he is absolutely living every single year of working to cleanse himself of, I don't even know what I've known him for decades at this point. I don't know an ounce of raw inside of him, but he hears this Torah. He understands this Torah, which is even if it doesn't express itself, and even if you don't think it's there and if you don't know it's there, you have to check every corner and every crevice you have to remove even the rod that doesn't manifest itself, even the rod that doesn't need to be there. you could be who never sins. But if there's any of that inside, I have to burn out the roots. I have to take that toothpick and scrape Every little bit of humid that's there, that may not be halachically what's required of me in the back of my fridge. This is not tossing. Please don't not help your parents or not help your husbands or your wives, in searching for s onto the couch.'cause you're busy using a tooth behind the fridge now. Yes, you need to go and search and all the overt places and follow the, explicit word of the halak. But why are we doing Naah? We're doing it because it's a of Pesach, and I wanna remove the rah, the kina, the tva, the kavod, all of those negative Charact traits. Ultimately behind all of those, the ego, the Ava, to remove it completely, to burn it out, even if it doesn't manifest. Because I'm about to become a Jew, I'm about to become reborn as a Jew. And what makes me a Jew is that I can overcome my nature. I can overcome my inclinations. I can overcome my negativity. It might be that I was born with certain negative character traits, overt or secrets, and that's just the way it was. Those are the stars that I was born under. What am I gonna do? Who says no? He brings AV to the first Jew who's correlated with Pesach. He takes him out and he says, look at the stars. The stars say you can't have a child. That's your nature. That's the biology. That's the reality. Those are the facts on the ground. You're beyond the stars. You're beyond your ma. You're beyond whatever inclinations you think that you were born with. Yes, that might be true. You were born in that way, but you're a Jew. And a Jew can go beyond. A Jew is beyond any Muslim. We're coming up to Seder night. I think it's for Nikah. Tatsu says this. He says, it's the craziest thing. Seder Knight. What happens on Seder night? What does S sader mean? It means order, and we only Jews would've the chutzpah to come and sit down on a night that we call the night of order. Spend all night nonstop talking about KU doesn't pay attention to any of the natural order and overturns it all for us. There's no order. So why are we calling it Seder night? Call it Eva, the Night Beyond Nature. What is Seder night? He says, no, that's exactly the point. At the moment of our birth, we define the fact that we are our Seder, our nature, our order is beyond nature. Our status quo is the supernatural. Our normal state of being is to be beyond. That's who and what we are on the moment of our birth. That's what we're saying. We're connected to the infinite and anything is possible and everything is possible. Na ka Burko expects us to defy those limitations to defy nature. The same way he's going to break nature for 10 plagues and overturn nature at the yasu. We're expected to go inside. How can a person change the way they're built? It's just who I am. No, I'm a Jew and I could be anything. If I set my mind and my heart and my avo to it, I can transform myself and become anything. How do I do that? I reach inside and I do my mates. I remove all the rah, all the negativity, all the negative mi, and I transform myself into a complete E should be Z, to be able to take advantage of this time of the year, this time of the year, of mates, of searching the house, of cleaning the house. And every time, again, one more beat of sweat comes down our face. Every time we feel pain in our back or in our arms from the scrubbing and the bending over and the doing this and the doing that to ask myself. I'm doing it right. I'm living the hal, but I'm also cleaning out my internal world so that way I can be free, I can truly experience Manino, be free of all of the things inside that are pulling me away from AK Boku and focus on him and connect to him and serve him because I choose of my own free will to serve him. Thank. Thank you so much for tuning into this week's episode. If you enjoyed the episode, please rate the podcast and hit the follow button and join us every Wednesday for a new episode. Once again, thank you so much to this week's sponsor, and a reminder that you too can sponsor an episode of the podcast email Rabbi chernoff@gmail.com for more info or to share any thoughts, comments, or feedback on this week's episode. See you in the next one.