Welcome to daily בטחון. We're now continuing to discuss the concept of recognizing God in creation, recognizing all the good that he does for us. And now that we said, as explained yesterday, טוב השם לכל, God is good to everybody, not just most people, everybody, we have to figure out why is it that we're not all jumping and dancing in appreciation for all this goodness. And the חובות הלבבות is going to give us three reasons. Reason number one is, we're so busy in this world and the pleasures of this world and our desire is driving us to get to the next thing. And we're looking at what we don't have: the house that we don't have, the car that we don't have, the clothing that we don't have, and so on. That constantly looking for what we want next causes us to ignore looking at what we have now, because our hearts are dependent and are being dragged after that awesome force of looking forward to the next thing. And whatever they have, they want the next level, and they're searching for the next one. And therefore, what they have becomes small in their eyes. What they have is less than they should get. And the greatest of gifts become inconsequential. Means you get a gift saying, "Oh yeah, you only gave me a Rolex watch, you know. I wanted a Patek Philippe, not enough." Always going on to the next one. The point he says, that people think that every goodness that they see by their friend is as if it's missing from them. And whatever they have is no good. And they don't appreciate the goodness. So he started off by saying the driving force is desire. But he ends off with the פסוק in תהילים, רשע, the wicked one, כגבה אפו, due to his arrogance, בל ידרש, he's not searching. אין אלהים כל מזמותיו, God's not on his mind. So what's driving him is both the desire and the arrogance. I want so much and I deserve so much. You deserve that, all the great things that you've done, you deserve that. So these bad character traits don't allow us to see the goodness that we have.And that's why we know that people that come from humble beginnings quite often appreciate the most basic things, appreciation of being an American citizen. I heard that once a man who was, came to this country, and he's in his 80s and 90s, and he appreciates that he's an American citizen. I don't even think about that. If you came from communist Russia or you came from some difficult third-world country and you're waiting years to get your green card, you appreciate what it means to be an American citizen. Who appreciates that? And there are endless goodness's that don't mean anything to us.The key is to be able to look at what you have. And that's a lost art. There's a beautiful גמרא in נדרים 50a. We all know the story. רבי עקיבא marries the daughter of כלבא שבוע, one of the wealthiest men. And he was not in favor of the שידוך, and he disowned the couple. And they were living in a hut, sleeping on the floor with no pillows, no mattress, sleeping on the straw. And every morning when רבי עקיבא's wife would get up, she'd have straw in her hair and he'd pluck the straw out and promise her, "One day I'm going to get you a beautiful tiara called a ירושלים של זהב." One day, there's a knock on the door and אליהו הנביא comes looking like a human being. And he says, "Can I have some straw? My wife just gave birth and I have nothing, she's on a mud floor." And רבי עקיבא tells his wife, "You see, we have straw. He doesn't have straw." At that point, she said, "Go out to ישיבה," and the rest is history. My רב would ask a strong question. He says, "I don't understand. אליהו הנביא comes from the heavens and he should come with a pot of gold. You come to רבי עקיבא, not only don't you give him a pot of gold, you take away the straw that he has? What's going on here?" And he said that אליהו הנביא gave רבי עקיבא the greatest gift, which is the proper outlook, which is, "Hey, look, we have straw and they don't have straw." And that's worth all the money in the world. world. That מוסר lesson is more valuable than all the money in the world. And that's what he gave him. And that's the key to happiness. And that's what gave רבי עקיבא and his wife the ability to reach what they reached.