Navigating Life's Unexpected Shifts: Drawing Wisdom from the Torah on Maintaining Integrity and Faith Amidst Change

0:02 So Mr Bossman appears, his head out of his fancy corner glass office and calls your name and says hey Brooke, please come to my office immediately. So you close your pen. You got this report due by this evening. You scurry down the corridor into this man that you really don't want to say, you don't like him at all, but his face is jolly. He says I just got a call. The company they want to give you a raise, a promotion, they want you to become the chief financial officer of the company and pack your bags. They're going to Los Angeles.

0:42 Wow, overjoyed, exuberant, this is the moment of working so hard for this. Thank you, sir. So you run out, you say goodbye to your coworkers, holding back your screaming so ecstatic. You run in the door. You tell your friends, your family, your wife, your children, everyone. But that night you're tossing and turning. Something's nagging, gnawing at your conscience. It's just the right move. What about my past life? What about my children's friends? What about the schools there? Los Angeles is far. I mean I heard they have nice, kola, lib, nice, tover, institutions and synagogues, but it's a long way from the metropolitan area.

1:26 How is it, god forbid, you're going to be able to remain focused instead, fast, about your responsibilities, to make sure that the relationship with the almighty and that of a relationship with your wife and your kids, and putting what is really first at the top of the totem pole and not letting the new investor, the new company responsibilities and all the new reports that are due take precedence. What advice can you give this fellow? Well, the Torah tells us that when we receive, as a nation, the ultimate upgrade, the promotion that we are now entering into land of Canaan, we're going to cross the Jordan River. What advice do we have? To stay focused, even though there will be distractions. There will be idolaters and gentiles and reports and investors and all of it.

2:08 How do we stand strong? Well, grab some boulders from the seabed, the seafloor of the Jordan, set up a monument park, plaster them with plaster, write the entire Torah on these huge, ginormous, magnificent stones to act as the clear mission statement of Claw Yisrael, this global declaration that was soon as we cross over the very first thing. Even before we cross, we're already osigin. We're taking stones from the floor bed to set up a company mission statement that every one of the Jewish people should know their communal obligation to the Almighty, what they represent and what their objectives are in our lives.

3:02 We begin, says the Ramchal, with the clarifying of our objectives. Yissoidachasidus, fissoyishohavoydoatimimuhushizborviyisameit, etzelaodim machobasobaolamo. Step one write a mission statement. My name is Michal make sure that I do the mitzvost, I don't speak Lush and Harrah. Sometimes I can be impetuous, so I need to work on my patience and my methodical thinking. I also think a mission statement so you can, even if you get distracted by new technology, new responsibilities. You see Monument Park, you see your company's mission statement, you remember what your LLC stands for and you find yourself right back on the path of righteousness.