Sometimes healing isn’t about feeling ready. It’s about taking one step forward anyway.

You ever walk away from something painful but feel like the fear or the trauma is still chasing you? [music] That's this week's para bishaw. The Jewish people finally leave Egypt. They're free. But before they even have a chance to breathe, they hear it. Parro's army is coming after them. They panic. They freeze. They yell at Moshe, "Why did you take us out here? Just to die?" They weren't crazy. They were scared. Because just walking away from something hard doesn't mean it stops living in your heart or in [music] your head. And let's be honest, at a mood, we see this all too often. People [music] leave abusive homes. They survive overdoses. They get themselves out of danger. But the fear, the pain, it follows them cuz that's real. That's trauma and that's normal. So what does Hashem say to them? He doesn't say calm down. He says go forward even before the sea splits. Even when it's not clear what's going to happen famously said the whole world is a narrow bridge and the most important thing is not to be afraid but we know that fear is real trauma is real so the question is can we keep walking anyway sometimes healing means moving [music] one step forward even if you're still afraid Harry everyone knows his name [music] prince royalty famous but what people didn't see was is that after [music] his time serving in Afghanistan, he came back with PTSD, anxiety, and pain he did not know how to talk about. [music] He said for years he couldn't even find the words. He didn't know how to explain what was going on inside. But when he finally did, when he finally opened up, he said it was the first step towards healing. He didn't pretend that he wasn't still afraid. He didn't say that it was easy, but he stopped hiding it. [music] And that changed everything. That's what Paras Bashallah is coming to teach us. You can leave the thing that hurt you and still feel scared. But when you move forward anyway, you take that [music] one step and trust that something is going to open. And that is where healing begins. This is turning the wheel because the road to healing isn't straight. But no [music] one should have to travel alone. Thank you very much and have a great chabas.