Our thoughts are on all kinds of levels. Let’s say that (sadly enough) every

few months I have to go to the barber. I am only thinking of it when I have

to go. It’s outside, outside of my thoughts. Now let’s say that every day I

have to put on tefilin. So this thought is already closer to me, it is more

regular in my head.

Then there is a kind of a thought, which I am always thinking about even if I

am not actually thinking. When you eat something wrong it's not so bad, so

you vomit it out. You might get a little bit sick, but you don’t lose your mind

over it. When you live in the wrong place it can absolutely drive you out of

your mind, because the connection of the house to your soul is the deepest, deepest, deepest connection.

For instance, when you are walking into somebody’s house you are

literally walking into somebody’s soul, unless they have no soul, which is

also possible. They might have a soul, but gevalt are they are keeping it in

the bank, not in their house. There are people like this. There are also

people who have their soul in the business, not in the house. When you

walk into their house it’s like a cemetery, and you don’t know why. It's

beautiful, it’s clean, but there’s no soul there. But I want to share with you

something, I want to talk to you about it tonight, but just right now I am

beginning to think of it.

Basically we are all living in two worlds. On a certain level we are living in a

world where I have to do what everybody else is doing. Everybody goes to

sleep, I go to sleep; everybody wakes up, hopefully I will wake up.

Everybody makes a few rubles, I try to make a few rubles. But then there is

something else, the deepest, deepest depths of me –where it's just “I",

nobody else in the world.

And you see, the deepest secret of life is to know exactly when I have to

do what everybody else is doing, and when I have to be just “I”.

On a general level the difference is between the street and the house.

On the street I am like everybody else. The house is the one place just “I".

When you love somebody very much you want to go to their house. When

two people love each other they build a house, what does it mean?

The more you love somebody the more my special “I” hooks up to your

special “I”, so we can build a house.

So this passage says there is one thing I am asking of G-d and I am

asking it all the time. Please G-d, let my house be the house of G-d. This

has millions of meanings but the question is where am I most G-d like,

where am I most infinite? So you would say that you are infinite in that part

of you which is like everybody else, right? No. That part of me which is like

everybody else? The most G-d like part of me is that part which is just “I".

I’ll tell you something very deep.

When you love somebody on a finite level, a little bit; that means you

haven’t yet hit that deepest depths of them, which is just them. So you feel

they’re finite; sure, you only touched their finite part. When you love

somebody on an infinite level that means that G-d blessed you and gave

you the privilege to taste that part of them which is just them; just them.

So I say please G-d, let my house be the house of G-d. You know friends,

again bare with me; I have seen a lot of people; especially young people.

The moment they come into their parent’s home gevalt do they shrink…

they become so small. I have seen husbands coming home to their wives

and they shrink; or wives coming home to their husbands and they shrink.

Do you know what that means? It’s not the house of G-d. I cannot be

infinite in this place; I’m a slave in this place.

You know friends, as far as I am concerned I think the world is growing up

in the most unbelievable way.

There was a time when people could live not in the house of G- d. There

was a time when if I had a roof over my head; I eat and I sleep and nobody

bothers me; and that was enough for me. Today the world really wants to

be infinite in their houses and if I fear the place I live in and fear the person

I am living with, I cannot be infinite.

So this is the passage, such a holy passage. Before Rosh Hashonna,

before the new year, we are singing it twice a day: this one thing I am

asking of you G-d, because otherwise I can’t live in this world.

I can cut my wings off and still be on the street. There has to be one place

where I can fly. There has to be somewhere, a little place in this world. My

house'ele. Let it be G-d’s house.

Anyway, let’s sing it very strong once again and please join me. Give me

harmony

Achas Sha'alti Me'eis Hashem Osa Avakesh

Shivti Beveis Hashem Kol Yemei Chayay