#547: Amida: Al Ha'Tzadikim (Part 16)

S series is J responsible by the Saka family and by foran we are on the home stretch of the ofik we last left off with the question we ask Hashem to give us goodly reward give goodly reward to those who trust in his name in truth authentically genuinely and we follow it up unabashedly and please let us be counted among them when you're looking down evaluating your world when you're dividing it into two columns those who trust you believe in you and those who don't Place us let our let our portion be with those who have who are and the result will be the result will be we'll never be ashamed or embarrassed because we're putting our faith in you so we last left off with a question namely is in charge and control of the whole world but what we do with It ultimately we have the we have the Free Will in the R's language we have the rash we make the choice of what to do with it so whether we'll live with or not that's your that's up to us not him so how can we turn to him and say place our lot let our let our portion let us be counted among those who trust in you what do you mean let us be counted just trust in him and then you be counted among those who trust in him so since when can we DAV for something that's up to us that's in our Realm that's in our column that's the work that we have to do to how can we simply ask I gave you a night to think about it anyone think about it you have to think about it because you said this BR this morning said it last night at Mar again this morning again at no what' you think when you said these words you had to come to a a conclusion so I'll share a thought with you based on based on landerer has the following idea he says that just like the the list that we began this with that we added Al we want to be included among them so how did they become how did they become that where did they earn that title that appalachi where did they sign up for that you can't buy it you don't register for it how' they get that name all that list where they get their name the answer is because they have ambition they have Drive they have spiritual aspiration they're trying to live meaningful purposeful lives lives that are filled with that are filled with these exact values that earn the title that they have perhaps means we're not asking Hashem to to supersede our free will we're not asking him to fill in the year of shim that is in fact the only thing that's up to us what are we asking we're asking let that be our ambition let that be our Drive let that be what we want to achieve and what we want to accomplish let it be on our radar it's like you come into sh and you got to choose a seat are you going to sit with the people who never talk or you going to sit with the people who struggle to find the time to DAV so when you walk into sh you've already made the decision I'm exaggerating but only slightly and of course not n sh I'm talking about others but when you walk into SCH you've essentially decided where's my who do I want to be counted among now it doesn't mean you're free will is taken away whether to speak or not you could sit among the talkers and be quiet you could sit among the quiet people and talk you still have free will but where is your seat assignment where's your where you place yourself in your lot where you're counted already predisposes you and creates a bias in a certain direction and maybe that's let us be counted with the we want to sit when we have to choose our seat that's who we want to sit with that's who we want our to be that's our aspiration that's our ambition the hard work the choice the that's still up to us but at least let that be our let that be our ambition that be our Drive let that be what we want we know that Hashem can't make the choice for us but he can put us in a position he can expose us to inspiring people can be born into an inspiring family we can have an environment that is conducive to living in a inspirational life so even though ultimately the choice is ours but we ask a little help a little help at least give us a little bit of help I'll just close with a uh fascinating we saw in the recently the real place this appears in the but it says why did we lose the because we didn't say there's a big discussion this year by the nine days will already all be living in with if not this is a conversation that happens then what does that mean how could you learn the r famous comment what does it mean they didn't make a br before they learn but there's a in likes the quote from there's an Insight what does it mean it means people have all kinds of bras they give you ever serve as a sandic we have new things that made their way into yish and one of the latest is if you've ever been a sandic it'll be a line out the door doesn't matter you're asazi doesn't matter you're not a Reb you've never got a before everyone wants a br so when someone comes to you to give a br your child comes to you it's your Hebrew birthday they say give me a br what's the what's the BR you give for your children what's the braa you have for your grandchildren what's the BR you have for a friend for a neighbor what's on that list and in what order and in what order want you to be super successful and have wealth have health shom bias where do Torah and appear on the list of the bras our hopes and aspirations our dreams for the people we give bras to means it was somewhere on the list I hope you learned Torah grow in Torah you're Torah you're a b Torah but it was after you used to say I hope you make it to Ivy League I hope you make a billion dollars I hope you drive the nicest car I hope you're the biggest influencer most popular person in the community a whole list of dreams and then somewhere Underneath It All and that's let our aspiration let our ambition let our Drive let our dreams for ourselves and our children be IM be among the and the and we have last left to finish