PART A

Okay. First of all relax.Relax.In life we have a lot of expectations. Expectations in Hebrew means, ציפיות, expectations. Today I want to speak to you guys about expectations. Expectations or [FOREIGN]. We have a lot of expectations. There're very few expectations that we're allowed* to have.

And those expectations are what HKB"H allows us to expect. I will later say a personal story. Personal! I will say a story that's personal. Personal. I will say a personal story that I have about expectations. In the end of the video. It's very funny.

PART B (00:53)

You know, generally in life. Generally! Generally in English means [FOREIGN] In life, you have to live a responsible life. You have to live [FOREIGN]. You have to be [FOREIGN]. You have to live a responsible life. There is Torah, there are Mitzvot. These are all our responsibilities. HKB"H gave us his Torah. HKB"H expects us to follow his Torah. He expects and he demands that we follow his Torah.

And these Mitzvot and Avodat Hamidot, all of these things are our responsibilities. Now, just because we have responsibilities, that doesn't mean that we therefore can have expectations. Human beings are not entitled to have expectation. Everything is in the hands of G"d, literally.

Hand of God! You guys get what's going on over here right? Hands of G"d. Okay, but does Hashem really have hands? No, it's a Mashal( parable). But I can tell you this: if he did have a hand…

Part C (2:36)

Now, let's describe what you're allowed to expect in life. What you are allowed to expect in life. What is to expect in life, is whatever HKB"H promises you. So you could look around in the Torah, you could fish in the Torah to find promises that HKB"H gives us. . So for example, one of the things that HKB"H guarantees us is a reward for doing Mitzvot. You're allowed to expect marriage. Now, who said marriage is paradise? No, marriage is paradise. I know. It's also hell on earth but it's also paradise on earth. Well, it doesn't matter right now. When you go to Olam Habba when you go to the next world you could expect . You could expect reward, you could expect , you could expect paradise. Because HKB"H promises that if you do Mitzvot you will get these rewards.

Lets focus, I want you all to focus. The other thing you're allowed to expects is let's say if you are an Avrech or if you're a Yeshiva boy and you are learning Torah, right, so you are allowed to expect that HKB"H will help you out in Parnassah right? So you have to doyour responsibilities, [FOREIGN].

But you 're also allowed to expect that HKB"H will help you out. That's one of the promises that HKB"H gave to Shevet Levy, and he extended it, as says the Rambam,to anybody who chosesעול תורה, the yoke of Torah and Mitzvot. Then we also can expect HKB"H to give give us special privileges in פרנסה.

All right. Privileges means [FOREIGN]. So we could expect privileges in פרנסה a certain special [סייעתא דשמיא] that comes from HKB"H. If we sit and learn Torah. How do you say פרנסהin English? Livelihood, income.

Part D- (5:00)

Jews, when they meet each other, what they do is, they start asking very very personal questions . All right, personal questions like, how do you make your livelihood? How do you [FOREIGN] instead of saying livelihood you could say, how much do you make ...? Hey, how much do you make? So you guys, like "Shalom, how are you? What's your name"? "My name is Moshe Cohen". It's just a common name okay.

"Oh, Cohen, Cohen". So you know then this is a classic Jewish conversation like "Are you related to the Cohens" and then the guy says " Are you related to the Cohens from Yerushalayim?" " Look, there are a lot of Cohen". "What about like Ya'akov Cohen?"" Look, I told you, there are a lot of Cohen especially Ya'akov Cohen. Many, not one, not two, not three, not four, there are at least four Yaakov Cohen just in תחנה מרכזית.

PART E-C(6:15)

Let's remember what we spoke about. We spoke about having expectation in life and we understand that we're not allowed* to expect things in life. We just have to be responsible to follow HKB"H, Torah and Mitzvot and of course Ben Adam L'Chavero - a man to his fellow man, it's also important*. And the only things that we're allowed to expect is what HKB"H promises us.

That means if we do Torah and Mitzvot, then we could expect good תוצאות in עולם הזה and in עולם הבא.Baruch Hashem that we have the best; we have HKBH.Everything is in the hands of G"d. It was a pleasure speaking to you guys, thank you for watching this video, we appreciate your company. This is Machon Gate, Givat Shaul, have a nice day.