Parshas Vayeitzei: HARD WORK PAYS OFF (Naftali Series)

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I've heard some interesting names before, but I've never met a kid named here's my son Obstinent, or my daughter Stubborn. I've never heard those names before. Hopefully, that's exactly, though, what Ruchel named her son. I've heard some interesting names before. Hopefully that's exactly why I've heard those names before. Hopefully, I've heard some interesting names before. Hopefully that's exactly why I've heard those names before. Hopefully, ruchel was unyielding. Ruchel was stubborn. Her womb was closed and she could not al piderachateva, according to her DNA have children, but she wanted to be the mother of the Shiftei Kov, the 12 tribes. So she left no stones unturned. She was unyielding and tenacious and persistent until she was zaychataheva baby, and then she named it through bilha naftule. Naftale means stubborn, naftale means obstinent and relentless. The more you study great people, the more you understand that they have this vida. A great person told me that when Yerubiruchim gave this talk on parjus vayese, it's actually one of the top ten most important ideas Yerubiruchim ever spoke about. Ruchel imeno would not take no for an answer, and we must be more like Ruchel, for we all suffer from this. My brain says immediately that sometimes I'm soft like a cupcake. I just give up on my dreams. We must be stubborn for our dreams. The more you study great people, the more you understand that they have this vida. The job's getting done. I'm finishing the mesechta. I'm overcoming that vida. People make commitments. I'm not going to eat unhealthy anymore. You know what's going to happen then. The next thing that's going to happen is that friend that has not yet been blessed with a shiduch is going to get engaged and there's going to be a lachayim also, that you can probably have to go through a tsarist of all the food that you're going to now have to eat, or go through the Shevah brachis. Crazy things happen when you make commitments to try to do great things, but you must be unyielding. It's not always going to be fair and the Yetahara is called Arub. You must be naftule. In fact, one of the greatest names you can ever give your kid is naftule. Because we need to be more tenacious, more stubborn Not sleeping on our dreams, but in fact, being stubborn about our goals and dreams. People this far does the answer. We need to be more stubborn. We need to be more tenacious about our goals, about what we really want to accomplish, and people that aren't taking no for an answer. Imagine if you would like this very expensive Chanukah present. Mom, I want a thousand dollars for Chanukah, and mom says no, mom, but I want it. Maishirah b'enu all he wanted was to go into Herod's Israel, but Hashem said no. So what did Maishirah b'enu do? Did he roll over? Maishirah b'enu? Ve'eschanan el Hashem 515 Davenings, shema'ina esrae, straight to Hashem, over and over, 3 steps back and then 3 steps forward. Hashem s'falsai, tifduch Hashem. I want to go into Herod's Israel. That's what it means to be persistent. When's the last time that we Davened even 3 or 4 or 5 straight Shaachis menchema'ev, shaachis, menchema'ev, just for one thing, over and over and over again? When the Mishnebruh written by the Holy Chavitzchayim was in the works to be written, when the Chavitzchayim took upon himself this great undertaking to elucidate and clarify all of Eirachayim sholchanarch, his son died and the Chavitzchayim said and this is for those that know about the relationship between the Chavitzchayim and this son, it seems like this had broken him. And he said this is there to stop me from doing this great work, To stop me from writing the Mishnebruh. Afalpik'in Almanaskin. I'm still going to do it. Great people are stubborn, tenacious and unyielding in their dreams and we need to be more like them. The Chavitzchayim's son Nafthali was unyielding by the time that Rakhil Nafthule. Elukim Nifthalti imachaysi gam'ichalti vathik'ishimai Nafthali. We have said this Vard for now two days straight, and here's a third day and we're being persistent with this Vard, stubborn, calling your son Nafthali, because Rakhil was unyielding and that she was going to give birth to the Shifteikah. She wouldn't take no for an answer. When you break it down, all of our life's issues, barring any maybe serious ones, they can be solved with hard work and not taking no for an answer. For myself, I was thinking I would like to spread these messages. I want to reach a million people with my Torah talks. So what am I going to do? Well, if I broke it down, then you know what I should do. I should go print flyers and I should walk around Lakewood and put them inside every single door until everyone sees it. If a person doesn't take no for an answer, well then it will get there. Emir Teshem, if he davins hard enough, doesn't take no for an answer in his filos, so to say, that's the Mitha that we have learned from the Gadarith. When you break down the story with Tommar and Yehudah, it's almost unfathomable how it could happen. Tommar was described as someone that our father-in-law didn't even know what she looked like Because of how snea she was. Yet she sat outside on the street corners dressed like a harlot it's hard to understand Like a Zayna. She understood, says Rashi, that she was going to have holy kids and they were going to come from a holy place. And this Mitha had to be done, and this is how she found she saw fit, the right way to do it and, although it was uncomfortable, it was what needed to be done. We must be more tenacious. He would like to make a million dollars. We'll then have him wake up early in the morning and work till late at night and pull a second job and don't buy a $17 iced coffee. If we have the right determination, with the right immuno obviously, with the right to filos, obviously well then, persistence and not taking no for an answer is, in fact, the Mitha that's going to get us there.