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When we think about Yiras Shomayim, we see that naturally it is very much connected to what we would call Kiyum Torah u’Mitzvos; what we have to do, what we are obligated to do. But the problem of our involvement with the world is that it’s not really Mugdar, it’s not really defined through mitzvos. So there’s no clear measurement of whether we are okay or not. It all depends on your self-evaluation. So the big question is, how can we approach our life with Yiras Shomayim?

Now be careful. I don’t want to approach the bein hazmanim with learning and trying to keep it up with Yiras Shomayim. Because you will for sure have things which you will be obligated to do which are not learning. Iit depends what you are, but when you will be in any function in the world, whether as someone who works with other people, is it working in a team, is it working by yourself, or whatever he does, but he is involved in the world with other people. Then these things have no clear geder in Halochha. How do you have to give a shiur, how you have to say a shmoues, what you have to say to a person who has problems, there’s no clear geder in Halochha. So how do you do it with Yiras Shomayim?

You can’t say I do it with Yiras Shomayim because I’m a Koveh Itim LaTorah. You have to do the thing itself with Yiras Shomayim. A doctor, for example, has to have a big Yiras Shomayim in order to deal with every patient in the right way, or when writing prescriptions, all these involvements. It is like this in any professional involvement.

To be a Mashgiach is also a professional involvement, and between us, being a Rosh Yeshiva is also a professional involvement, so when you are a professional involved in something, so then there’s no clear geder of what you have to do, but even so you have to have Yiras Shomayim in that area.

So it’s a very weird approach by us in the bein hazmanim, where we think having Yiras Shomayim means to be Koveh Itim LaTorah. I think that’s a very awkward approach. We have to find how to apply Yiras Shomayim to the involvement in the world itself. Why is that specifically needed? Of course it’s needed because I have to have Yiras Shomayim always, but there is a deeper reason too, and this is being involved with the world.

Being involved with the world is very much being involved with other people, and it’s mainly a question of your middos, it’s because there are no clear mitzvos there, but for sure there are middos, whether savlonus or chesed or whatever it is, there are middos there.

To our amazement, when we let the world go the way it is, what will surface are bad middos, as it is most of the time. Let’s say you work in a team, and you don’t work on yourself, then tacharus and kineh and kovod and all these ‘nice’ middos will surface. It’s a big question, why do only bad middos surface?

The person is 50-50. And perhaps our recognition of good middos is not so broad, we don’t know what good middos are. But when you look around and you see what is surfacing when you dealing with your world naturally are bad middos - kineh or chanufeh, for example. There are very few people, who through their involvement in the world, will naturally be the biggest ba’alei chesed. They have to work on themselves, it doesn’t come naturally. Naturally you’ll be a very big mushchas, you’ll be a very big mekaneh. That’s natural. When you look around the world, you’ll see it.

Why is that? What is the key which will make that good middos surfacing? So I hold the key is Yiras Shomayim. That’s what Avrohom Avinu told the people there when he came and said, רק אין יראת אלוקים במקום הזה והרגוני, because when they saw Soroh Imeinu, what was surfacing was bad middos. Not aveirus specificaly, rather bad middos; Tayves noshim and other bad middos were surfacing. Yiras Elokim doesn’t mean that they were very committed to the Shulchan Oruch. There’s no Shulchan Oruch there. But he said, the thing which makes that the wrong middos are coming up, that’s a lack of Yiras Shomayim.