continue in the same fashion:

This is the deep Yiras Shomayim, which is referred to when it says:
בַעֲבוּר תִּהְיֶה יִרְאָתוֹ עַל פְּנֵיכֶם לְבִלְתִּי תֶחֱטָאוּ - זו הבושה.
What does it mean? Busheh means that you are lacking. You are small. I am misbayesh because I feel small. So the basic point in Yiras Shomayim is that you are small, that you are lacking, it’s not your thing. I stand in front of something which is bigger. And that can be the other person, that can be the world, that can be the reality around me, that can be the Borei Olam. It’s something which is bigger than me. That’s the basic approach in Yiras Shomayim.

But what do we do? We think the mutzlach’dig approach in the world is that you are in charge. everything is under your control. That’s what the goyim want to make us believe. You see now that the goyishe way in working, in doing things, is a way without Yiras Shomayim.

Have you ever asked yourself once why Obama wanted to be President of the United States, this crazy thing. Does someone want to be President of the United States?

I asked a bocher who came to me, whether he wanted to be President of the United States, he said yes. And I told him, Rak Ein Yiras Eloikim BaMakom Hazeh, how can you say yes when you understand that it’s above you? And this is really above you. The reason is because you want to be in charge. Don’t try to lie and say that you want to serve the people. That’s what you say on the Inauguration, where you make the nicest speech in your career and from there it only goes downhill.

In reality though, you want to be in charge. You think that’s a gavaldige thing. The whole United States is your backyard. And even more, United States together with a good piece of Europe and then Iraq too and then the Middle East. Everything is your backyard, gavaldige gashmakige zach.

Rak Ein Yiras Eloikim BaMakom Hazeh VeHareguni. You are a killer. You are a dangerous person. Because it’s not your backyard. Because why would you want to be in charge of such a thing? Someone once told me: the sechel tells me no, but the middos tell me yes. He was honest. But why should it be like this?

Because you have enjoyment that this whole thing should be your own decision. You see the whole world, the whole Goyisheh world is built on one thing. No Yireh. That’s the thing which they are built on. No Yireh. That’s what they are built on. There is no awe. There is no Hargosh of aboveness in the reality.

Now I don’t know if you noticed, but I am purposely not speaking about seeing the Borei Olam in the reality, the way we spoke last time. That comes in afterwards. When you approach the world like this, then you will see the Borei Olam too, for sure.

What I’m talking about is a more basic approach to the world. It is not because you search for Borei Olam. First you have to understand It is not my thing. Then you can see the Borei Olam too. But if you think it’s only your thing, then you only see your tayves. The way we had in Tayves A’chille.

On purpose I don’t say it has to be the Borei Olam, the rotzen Hashem. Of course that is the end point. Perhaps I will tell you something, nut for this you have to be mature. You have to take your ears, connect them to your brain, and take your brain, connect to yourself. But otherwise it doesn’t go that way.

Because R’ Avrohom Eliyahu Kaplan, who was the greatest talmid of Slobodka which R’ Yitzchak Hutner said the whole world are before him are like a קוף בפני אדם, wrote in a sefer called Be’ikvos HaYireh, that the Jewish haragosheh is not so much emphasizing and speaking always about the Borei Olam. Because כבוד אלוקים הסתר דבר.

Of course he is there and the end point we want that. But you don’t always speak about that. That’s not Shogur al Pino. The Borei Olam is everywhere. But you find it B’tsonua. You find it inside. The openness to that is that you understand the world is above you. The world is something which is above.

And if you go like this to your bein hazmanim, then it will be filled with Yiras Shomayim. You’ll see that you approach your life itself with Yiras Shomayim. And good middos will come up. deep insights will come up. Avoideh is coming up. All the positive things surface.

And you see, bein hazmanim was great. And then you will begin to understand why these very big tzadikim went to summer retreats. R’ Yeruchem was at one till after the beginning of Elul. And you don’t know why they went for summer retreats; Don’t you have to learn all the time?!

No, you have to be always involved in Avoidas Hashem, and you must recognize that the world is also a place for Yiras Shomayim. And Yiras Shomayim is not only when you are learning and focusing on that. This Yeshivas bein hazmanim is not the only place of Yiras Shomayim. No. If you approach it like this, then you are really wrong. Because then the bein hamzanim is still a pirtza; it’s better to stay in Yeshivah, why have bein hazmanim at all?