Living With Emunah (Part 256) - Geshmak to be a Yid

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created you know why we were created this is a very very important the title alone we can spend four hours on right now title alone we can spend four hours on right now was created only to no it does not say to serve Hashem you and I were brought up maybe we were taught in school why were we created to sacrifice to serve to give up for Hashem to to be willing to endure or to be willing to suffer to be willing to compromise to be willing to sacrifice that's not what it says So based on Apostle can tell him and here this is do you know why we were created we were created to what to get high on God has a song Lord get me high get me high get me high it's a lot of Peru on it but we'll go with the Lord get me high is to get high on God who needs alcohol or drugs who knew who needs uh special uh candies or mushrooms who needs who needs any substance who needs any substance or experience you know what you can get high on Lord get me high you can get high on Hashem have you never walked out of in the e-love you've never been to a cup since if I bring him have you never had a moment of a sunrise or a sunset have you never experienced something that seemingly was a coincidence have you never had a rendezvous with the Divine where you felt literally you were high like someone said to you what what are you on why are you so what's going on right you're just on fire you're on fire feeling connected to him feeling his presence feeling his love you're on fire in conversation with him you're on fire and gratitude to him maybe the you just got incredible news pregnant the birth of a child someone you know broke through with a tremendous similar you got a job maybe did anyone win the Mega was that last night anyone win does anyone know if I won maybe you got great news you got great news maybe you have a moment you walk out there are times that you lose yourself in song You Lose Yourself it's unbelievable we have upcoming the end of January our annual of Moshe Weinberger night where we dim the lights in the shoe and we light the candles and he lights us on fire we have incredible music and we dance in place and who's not on fire that night that night you just escape this world we Ascend to go a little bit higher and we get high on God we get high on God lord get me high so although never Ella is a quote from based on Apostle do you know why we exist why we were created God did not put us in this world to sacrifice and suffer and endure and compromise and all that's true too a vote this Hashem is called avoda because the word avoda means it takes work it's not all fun and games it's not all high there are a lot of work there's no greater High than the nachas you get from a child does that mean that you're always getting knockers at every moment raising a child takes avoda sleepless nights lots of resources aggravation it takes a lot someone said to reviakov kamenetsky he asked how are you doing how was your family he said you know I'm struggling with sargid obanim what does that mean what's going on it's my kids you know homework and school and getting along with each other so if yaakov looked at him and he said that's called giddlebanem not sargido Bonham that's called gidoban we should know the difference between raising children and the challenges that can come with raising children that if it's the ordinary that's just called him that's not called sargid so but when you have a moment of is there a bigger high is there bigger High than the moment of nagas you have you get some moment note maybe you stole a moment where you watched or witnessed or saw they did something where you're like I think they get it like I think they're gonna be okay I think they're on the right track I think they know what's important to us I think we're going to be good and in that moment it's better than any drug any substance that you can use or imbibe that it's a high does that mean raising children's that takes work it takes effort to take sacrifice it takes compromise it's not why we were created Hashem created a world and he put each of us in it you know why he did it he wanted to give us the greatest joy the greatest pleasure the greatest happiness a human being was capable of getting and do you know what the greatest Happiness joy and pleasure a human being is capable of getting is a connection with him because whatever you consider the greatest pleasure Joy or happiness he's the source of it he's the creator of it he is it so when you connect directly with him you are tapping into directly it is a direct line it is an IV flow of the greatest drug called God Hashem so we're not here it's a mistake it's a mistake and the other night I was at a beautiful simcha beautiful beautiful wedding and it was filled with such energy such energy in fact I wasn't sure we would survive because of the floor of the hall was actually shaking and rocking curious whether the wedding videos came out okay because the cameraman was like you know like a 9.2 on the Richter Scale earthquake that's how labeled it was incredible but the Highlight for me of that wedding and I have to tell you many weddings I go to is at some point the band will break out with gishmak to be a year foreign when you see that dance floor when you see young people jumping up and down and dancing and the floor rocking as they're screaming at the top of their lungs it's in 2023 gimmel and you say you know with all of our challenges and all of our problems with all of our issues and all of our worries with all the kids who are uninspired and our issue making sure that everybody has a place and feels connected and comfortable with all the assimilation with all the intermarriage with all the enemies with all the anti-Semitism but when the floor is shaking with young people screaming at the top of their lungs you just how do you not get emotional it's an amazing scene it's an amazing amazing site it's an amazing site it's not premeditated nobody like huddles with the kids and like okay the band's gonna play this when they do make sure you react this way because someone's gonna take a video and put it on somebody does that it's just the instant it's just the Instinct now it's possible no judgment there was an open bar so it's possible some of the kids it's possible some of the kids would also very happy but here's the thing even the kids who had nothing to drink and the adults who didn't make one they are dancing and singing and jumping like like like the drunk like the high and they're high in God they're hiding a schmuck to be here my friends it is the world is lost the world is so lost we are living in a more prosperous time than ever and we have more depression and anxiety and unhappiness than ever we are living in a more luxurious and prosperous and comfortable and convenient time than ever and relationships are failing and people are miserable and depression and unhappiness has set in and this unbelievable correlation it should be the most prosperous the most comfortable the most safe the most secure the most longevity the longest lifespan the greatest medical breakthrough all of that should mean the greatest happiness it should be gishmach to be alive you should walk in the streets and the people should walk through Times Square and they should walk through town center and they should be singing and dancing and hopping popping and saying schmuck to be alive wow what a gift to live today instead they're walking around miserable for business and then everything's falling apart and I hate life in this world and I'm miserable and I'm depressed and I'm like what are you talking about it's the most prosperous time ever because if you're living without Hashem if you're living without Hashem if you think you're in charge and your control it's all up to you if you swell with pride that I take pride and accomplishments or I take the blame for things not working out or I'm nervous and I'm anxious and I'm worried of what will be then then you're going to walk around all miserable and nervous but if you walk around then you submit and surrender to Hashem if you feel his presence in your life you're constantly in conversation a dialogue with the Divine if you feel his hug and his Embrace and his hand on your shoulder if you can't wait for the next happening and you can't wait for the next shop it's it's miros and Tish if you can't wait to open the next safer and to learn if you can't wait to the amunisher are you going to talk about and remember oh yeah he's there and you know what it's amazing it's kishmak to be a yid it's a cup of coffee and to feel grateful for everything that went into that couple so these kids I'm calling them kids but you know they're young adults these young adults they're not just young adults the adults who can also keep up with them for now I'm proud to try to still be one of them the adults who can keep up with them nobody sat down and huddled nobody sent out the Hassan and color request you put your phone on vibrate and you jump up and down during it nobody ever made that announcement you know we welcome for the very first time and don't forget the chance a lot freaking smack tv nobody made that announcement it's just like and by the way why am I getting so excited and emotional about this because they play Mara Cohen and people get excited but they don't dance the same way and they play whatever the latest songs many of which that didn't gravity didn't pull them down yet to Florida they'll get here in about a year or two and they dance and they jump up and down but they don't dance the same way there's something about those words that the person reacts it's kishmak to be it to be in the other Friday night Ruby saw coming outski was here for Shabbos and we had a Tish on a Friday night and the house was packed and it was a lot of young people because he has an impact on young people same thing he owned that house that room and it was rocking the roof almost came off but when we got to gishmak to Billiard everybody stood up and locked arms and it was just unbelievable that's what we have to communicate that's the energy the vibe that we have to put out that's what we have to feel and the smile that is to be on our face that's what has to move us to tears that however we tell our children we tell our friends and we teach our family and we come to work and we meet in the supermarket we work out in the gym and we say why are you so happy because what do you mean I was only created Hashem because I'm high yeah hi it's 8 45 in the morning I mean don't you have some self-respect it's a little early you know it's five o'clock somewhere whatever but it's it's it's a little early and they say no no I'm high in Hashem it's never too early to get iron Hashem you gotta get high on Hashem by chakras that's why we're here that's what we're meant to be that's what we're meant to connect with that's what we're meant to connect I could go on and on and I am just on this title Hashem why why Hashem would never have noticed had he not created the world is omnipotent infinite the source of all and he doesn't need us he's outside of time it's in fact this week's Parsha when Moshe asks for his name what's his answer Moshe says what am I going to tell the people they're going to know your name there's a lot of gods here in Egypt there's a lot of deities people worship which one are you again to us that's a ridiculous question there's only one real God the rest are counterfeit he doesn't need a name he's just Hashem godster whatever you want to call him whatever you want to call them like what does he need a name what kind of a question what kind of a conversation was going on but if you put yourself in the shoes they're in Egypt a place of superstition a place of idolatry a place of paganism a place where they had multiple deities so much is like okay you know they have a menu and a smorg of gods when I say we got the real one what's your name what I tell them is your name what is Hashem answer he says I am what I am we pronounce it the same way we don't expressly pronounce hashem's name so we say Hashem instead of you Elohim instead of so it's I am what I am okay I am what I am it's not Papa he's Hashem so what does that mean what does it mean that's his name that's his name so he says I I was here before you I'll be here after you I am outside of anything you can understand that's who I am that's God God is not the son of the Moon God is not any rock or stone or sculpture God is nothing that you created or molded or fashioned he's here since before we're here he'll be here long after he is everything he's everything I'm learning with my son so he came across the mishnah the mishna says there's several things that you shouldn't think about shouldn't try to contemplate and one is the origins of the universe so Shai said why not I said okay where do you come from he said you and Mommy where do we come from softer where do they come my great-grandparents where do they come from their parents okay go all the way back where do you come from Hashem great where does he come from that's a conversation stopper and if you start to think about it and you start to worry about it and you start to feel entitled to have an answer to it you get a big migraine headache and you might get into trouble because you'll come to the wrong conclusions because we don't know the answer is not a reason to therefore conclude we're off that he doesn't exist it's that he's we are bound by time we are creatures of time we live and operate in the realm of time he's outside of it we don't understand what that means that's what he's telling Moshe unlike everything else you're talking about your more your smorg your menu of of idolatry of pagans I'm outside of that I'm Eric I existed long before this world I'll exist long after it I'm outside of time and you can't know what that means any more than you can explain to somebody's been blind their entire life with the colors of the rainbow look like you can't any more than you can explain to somebody who's never tasted coffee what coffee tastes like who never had mint chocolate chip ice cream with mint chocolate chip ice cream twice you can't explain it to them if they've never had it you can't so you can't explain to us what it means to operate or be outside of time to have existed forever because we didn't we have a beginning and every one of us is going to have an end so we don't know what it means to neither have a beginning or an end Hashem says that's me I'm outside of time so he would never have missed if he didn't create the world so why did he do it why'd he do it it's a full-time job it's a lot of people a lot of problems a lot of prayers to listen to a lot of things to take care of and to help that's not a problem for him he's outside of time so it all happens simultaneously and it takes no effort he's the infinite omnipotent one but from our perspective it is more than a full-time job so why do it take the easy way out he was good he's actually he doesn't need a world with eight billion people in it why do it why bother so the makubalum explained you know why God created the world because he wanted okay that's a problem already he's infinite he doesn't want but he wanted needed it's also a problem he doesn't need although again we have certain menu we have this conversation weekly does Hashem have needs or not they send me Chabad propaganda every week to try to bolster their opinion I'm just joking I'm calling it that but I love it the material and it does Hashem have needs can we appreciate can we understand the notion that Hashem would ever need so you know what his need was he wanted to give good he wanted to do good by the way the Hashem has that same need what we want to do good I wrote about it this week in the in the weekly My article online we want to do good we get more happiness not from receiving but from giving the gifts all the experiments countless has been reproduced countless times somebody gives out 20 and tells the group half the group spend it on yourself half the group spend it on someone else and then they measure happiness afterwards which one is a boost in happiness not the one who spend it on themselves the one who spends it on others we actually receive more happiness when we give them when we get like God we have an innate internal need to give to give to do good to be good to help others that helps enormously that helps people break out clinically in depression they're now treating people with clinical depression by encouraging volunteering volunteer give go outside yourself and do for others and it is an enormous therapy to help overcome depression give like Hashem so what Hashem create the world he wanted to give what was the greatest good he could give himself so he created us and said I invite you to have a relationship with me whatever you define and describe as pleasure steak and potatoes you're a weirdo kale whatever you think is pleasure you like music you like fine wine you like nature whatever is the source of pleasure in your life Hashem says I created it I made it I provide it I'm it I'm the source of it and the source of all pleasure source of all joy the source of all happiness and the source of all and that's why I created the world because I want you to take pleasure in a relationship with me that's the invitation that's the opportunity that's what he wants that's what he wants that's why he created us so it's a terrible terrible terrible mistake parents we sometimes make when we create a Yiddish kite which is all about suffer and sacrifice and do and serve and be willing that's all true that's part of avodha that's part of the effort of any relationship but the relationship is supposed to be gratifying and satisfying and fulfilling and good in a marriage marriage should be a source of incredible energy you should derive safety security pleasure happiness a connection and intimacy a romance it's the source of all those things you know what else it is it's an avoda it takes work do you sometimes have to compromise and sacrifice and have milks yes it's an avoda it's an avonda it takes work but why do we do it because it's worth it because it is life because it's what completes us the joy the happiness the satisfaction the pleasure of becoming complete of knowing connecting with another person of becoming whole that makes it worth it we were created to be missing um I have a lot more to say but let's go on um says a person who's a better a person who lives a life informed inspired by Torah Torah deals Torah Torah inspiration total principles total values toward a vision it's like a malach like an angel in this world because it says the Tory of action that's the possible is such a person you should request you should you should want Torah from his mouth because he's like a Malachi so the gemara learns on this is then you should be inspired to want to learn Torah from him if the Reb is not like a malach then turn away turn away don't learn Torah from him don't learn Torah from him I'll never forget when I was in Shear of Chef this year so one day there was a very public debate where one God will be Israel very publicly attacked another great Rabbi and called them some very severe names instead things about him called the masoni Hashem was a very ugly circumstance and someone in Shear asked of Shafter about it her shefter invoked this gamara he didn't want to weigh in and he didn't want to enter the phrase so to say but he simply as he often does use Torah as the prism to communicate his reaction and he quoted this Posse repeal they're not behaving like a malach then maybe learn Torah from somewhere else so the problem is a malach who could ever give sheer we make mistakes we're fallible we have shortcomings we have our own struggles we have our own weaknesses so who could ever who could ever be so confident to think there should be a rebby Amora to think they should teach a man or woman Torah who's perfect so what's a beautiful idea you know the difference between a malach and a person a malach I and Omid a malach stands and Adam a person is they move halacha why is a malach called an homemade standing and a person is because the malach is not growing the malach is created perfect from the beginning they are an extension expression they are a messenger of Hashem they have a mission they don't struggle they're not challenged they're born complete to fulfill their mission a human being is called the mahalith because life is a journey we're moving we're going I posted the one minute idea on the parisha that's why our partial begins what does it says why do we change from present tense past tense who says present tense is going on the name Elish musi Israel when we are Israel when we strive to be our highest level reach our potential one of ye Israel we're growing we're even when we're on a descent to Egypt it's present tense it's part of life it's part of the roller coaster of life we're not done yet we're not a finished product yet our book is not yet complete our next chapter is being written one word over the lowest level of ourselves then it's past tense it is what it is we're stuck so when we strive to be Israel we're in the present tense we're growing we're changing we're evolving we're constantly becoming new but when we're Yakov and we're our lower selves we're stuck in who we were so why does Arabian need to be an omaid like a malach you think your Ruby should be growing the answer is you know would grow a lot more if you didn't have to give all the Sheeran if you're ready could sit in the basement all day he'd be personally growing to be a Rob or a rebe or a mora to be a man or a woman who's teaching Torah you have to be willing to suspend your own personal growth to try to share and Inspire others you could grow a lot more if you weren't out there trying to manufacture all the inspiration for everyone else so you have to be willing to be an omaid sahira gum Leo quotes this Apostle in a different context he says a bentota is like a malach to be like a malach like a Mala Hashem you're striving you're growing you want to be close to Hashem so you wanders next paragraph How can a lonely human being How could a boss of a dumb Merit to receive the Cocos how do you receive the skills the power the energy to be like an angel kashram is amazing so the answer is when a person spends the time to have the clarity to discover the truth more than any truth in the world as much as you know anything what is the biggest truth that you would say you know in the world the fact that you're sitting in a chair the fact that your mother's your mother or that your children or your children the fact that the sun rose in the sky I don't come up with whatever you want to say there's so much I don't know there's so much I'm unsure of there's so much I have doubt about but this I know for sure you know people like to talk that way bombastically as sure as I am I'm sure that whatever right so what's the first part of that sentence what's the thing that you're most sure of whatever is the greatest Ms in your life so more than that you should be sure that there's a Hashem that there's a creator of the world that there's an a source of all existence and that he loves you that he wants a relationship with you that he's involved in your life that there's a hashtag that everything happens for a reasonable this whole world is just we're just passing through it feels like it's a long time we're lucky we hope we hope it's a long time haven't I visited members of our community yesterday who just celebrated their 73rd wedding anniversary Barack Hashem are both deep into their 90s Hashem to 120 so 73 years I was distracted because I just kept thinking that's three times as long wow that's a long time that's incredible that's a long time and they still seem to like each other it's unbelievable right they interact like newlyweds they're in love it's an amazing thing 73 years and Beyond and still talking to each other it's unbelievable it's unbelievable it's unbelievable by then if you don't like the other one says you just take the hearing aid out so it's uh the options at least you know if you live that long there's options to none of the or the other one but anyway they seem to leave the hearing aids and they seem happy so 73 years sounds like a long time 95 years sounds like a long time a member of ours a couple weeks ago I called her she turned 100 miles on the tough you know what I told her what I've told can I know how every member of our show who's turned 100 I have the same brand by mine I say happy birthday Mazel Tov such amazing news what a milestone I have good news they said what I say they say the first hundred years are the hardest it's gonna be good now the first hundred years are the hardest you're in good shape none of them left but I'm humored by it I'm humored by it so it feels like a long time this world 100 years you married 120 feels like a long time right it's nothing it's cornished it's the blink of an eye in the span of Eternity in the context of forever 100 years ago English there's nothing it's absolutely nothing it's nothing so this world is a is a world of nothing we're literally it's over you're gonna go on Yeshiva week I have a problem we go on vacation like before we pull out of the driveway I'm like what's the point it's almost over why are we even bothering or just did it strange she finds that annoying but she finds that annoying right so you're like what's the point of the vacation Yeshiva week it's going to pass in the blink of an eye it's going to be over we're gonna be right back in school and work and life what's the point this world is like it's over the vacation like it's nothing this was nothing it's a blink of an eye the real world is that world of Truth the real world is the world it's the world of Revelation it's the world where we're best in the glory of Hashem it's the world of connection to him that's the world of Truth ancient tacos the whole goal of the whole purpose the whole reason we're here in this world is to secure our position in the world to come it is to express the free will why did Hashem create this world for us to get own egg to get high on him how do we get high on him by making the right choices how do you get high on marriage how do you get high on parenting when you make the right choices that make you feel connected and close with the other that's the joy and the pleasure that comes from it when you make the wrong choices that make you feel distant and far from the other that's the punishment that comes from it so what creates the platform the opportunity to get high on marriage free will you know marriage is not the Stepford Wise It's not creating some robots we're not pre-programming people to be exactly what we want because there's no marriage what makes marriage meaningful is Free Will the choices we make the right ones wow we feel really connected we feel whole we feel in love it's magical make the wrong ones it's the opposite it's a disaster it's a catastrophe it's painful it's tension filled it's difficult needs a lot of repair and a lot of work it is free will which Gives Life Meaning and purpose and relationships and everything the same is true in our relationship with Hashem he put our soul in our body so that we would use that body to have free will we make the right choices we're connected to Hashem we make the wrong choices we're far from him and where do we reap the reward where do we get the news about how well we did where's the grade in the world to come which is the world of Eternity um so we have to meditate and contemplate and reflect on that truth over and over and over again when we think that this world the talk list of this world is the latest iPhone and the latest Tesla and the biggest house we think the topless of this world is the latest shaytal and the latest whatever we think the tacos of this world is the best seats at the concert within the tacos of this world and the biggest portfolio we think the tacos of this world is there's nothing wrong with enjoying all those things enjoy them it's beautiful Hashem created them and he wants you to enjoy them beautiful that's not the tactless that's not why we're here what's the tacos of this world to embrace our free will to make the right choices to give us great seats not at the concert but great seats in the arena of the world to come that's the tacos of this world to live a virtuous life a mission-driven life a life with a legacy we can be proud of to live a life that we make a difference to live a life that we have an impact to live a life that we and he are proud of to live a life that we're proud of the choices we made that's why we're here that's why we're here now there's nothing wrong with enjoying all the good things in life on the way it's nothing long wrong with looking good while we're making the right choices on the way nothing wrong with having a nice ride while we're making the right choices on the way but we should never confuse never ever ever confuse that with the tacos of life those are the means not the ends the ends is our position our seat in the world to come and that's a truth that we have to know more than any other truth in our life that's a truth we have to be confident of more than anything that there's a Hashem that there's consequences to our choices that we were put here a soul was put in the body because the body is the instrument and vehicle to make those choices and the combination of the truth the results of the choices we make that's the tackles of this world that's why we're here so to mindlessly live life to Coast through life without even thinking about it that's not why we're here that's that's ridiculous we're here to make choices to live mindful lives meaningful and mindful lives that's why we're here that's what it's all about meaningful and mindful lives to be present in every broccoli make to make the choice to make a bracha with mindfulness to make a choice in how we're going to speak and how we're going to listen and how we're going to react to other people to make a choice how we're going to use our time and the choice how we're going to use our resources and the choice about everything that we do everything that we do everything that we do that's why we're here meaningful mindful Jewish life and living to make those choices I spoke yesterday at a physic Mission for Women beautiful program and I mentioned a uh a study done by a great French naturalist whose works I really enjoy not true Whose study I came across and it was perfect for Russia so a great French naturalist I just you know I have to be intellectually honest and uh fabre Henry fabre which I'm mispronouncing his name but he did a study about caterpillars and he said the study he called processional caterpillars what was the study the thesis was that caterpillars they just follow whatever's in front of them caterpillars live mindless existences and they follow whatever's right in front of them so he did an experiment where he took a flower pot and around the rim of the flower party put caterpillars and in the middle of the flower party put caterpillar food not like the kale of caterpillars like like a Black and Blue Steak of caterpillars right in the middle of that flower pot and he put the caterpillars on the rim of the pot and they started to walk in a circle and this Theory would be that none of them would ever stop and realize the food they needed to live was right in the middle they would just blindly follow the caterpillar in front of them and that was exactly the result of the study don't listen if you are a member of of pita but what happened was the caterpillars just walked around and around until they collapsed and died of exhaustion and starvation because none of them realized you know I don't have to just follow the caterpillar in front of me I could just stop if I'm tired and you know if I'm hungry I don't have to die I could just pivot and the food I need is right next to me processional caterpillars and we live this processional life we're just following the people in front of us I just need the latest I just need to keep up and compare and compete with the neighbor the people around me I just have to have and live and act like and dress like and appear like and be happy and we're just processional caterpillars going around and around instead of pivoting and realizing would I need to nourish me Hashem put right next to me what I need is to not be mindless but Mindful and to be nourished by meaning and purpose to figure out what my life is all about that this world is not the end it's the means that my body I shouldn't with vanity pamper and indulge the body at the expense of the Soul I'm not a body that has a soul are you kidding I'm a soul that has a body I'm a soul that's who I am is my soul I have a body and so long as I have the body I'm going to enjoy the body just like I own clothing I'm going to take care of the clothing just because clothing doesn't Define who I am doesn't mean I'm going to leave it on the floor I'm still going to care for it because as long as I have the clothing and I need it wear it I'm going to make sure to preserve it protect it take good care of it so I have a body I take good care of it but it's not who I am who I am is the soul I am a soul that I have a body the body is the instrument of the Soul it enables me to make the choices that give my life meaning and purpose that give my relationships richness and meaning and that position me to get the best seats in the world to come before Hanukkah I don't know if you didn't go to a concert this Hanukkah there were three concerts every night of Hanukkah in South Florida so undoubtedly on text message or Whatsapp group somebody in your family said which concert are we going which seats should we should we get should we get the nosebleed should we spring on the good seats the really good seats does it really matter you can hear from up there I'm gonna hurt my neck at least you're too close with the ones that are just right you know those kinds of conversations which seats everybody wants good seats oh we're flying did you get the extra leg room did it cost to use points should we shouldn't we do we need to do we need do we need uh extra where are you sitting which section are you in which which group are you going to be called the board right everybody everybody knows everybody wants good seats well the world to come is an arena and you know who's performing the ribono shalom and all anybody wants for eternity is to sit and observe and enjoy and bask in the light and Glory of that performance where do you want your seats you want to be in the nose weights you want to be in the front row you want back seats you want to be outside and you can't get in you're just watching on the Jumbotron outside where do you want to be you can't pay for those seats can't take any of that money with you and you can't buy those seats no matter how much you have what gets you the good seats is the Legacy and the life that you live who are you and what difference do we make what choices do we make what choices do we make in our life that's what determines the seating of where we will sit in the world to come so there's a lot more to say but we're at a time so choose good seats make good choices until next Wednesday make good choices with this beautiful body that we have the instrument the vehicle for our soul don't forget you can quote me Rabbi Goldberg what do you say Muna he said everyone should get high your homework is to get high but get high on Hashem Lord get me high no Edibles no mushrooms no alcohol no drugs Lord get me high we can all get high on Hashem hold on one second tonight we're going behind the Beamer with a great composer A.B Rottenberg what's your favorite a b Rottenberg song English Hebrew half the songs you sing from hamalak to acheno to Memories unbelievable person tonight behind the bema and I told you Shabbos please come enjoy Rebecca Crone 30 you won't be sorry and Sunday afternoon you have to RSVP because we have an elegant beautiful beautiful food beautiful program to celebrate Mikvah the role of Nick for the MCV and our community men women community-wide 4 P.M please please please register for this beautiful event celebrate the people who make our Mikvah men and women's and Caleb happen without it our community couldn't have the sanctity it does 4pm please sign up and please come please stay to say to him to all who need it and until next time stay happy stay healthy stay holy and stay high