Are You Asking The Right Questions - Jeremy Gimpel: The Land of Israel Fellowship

the last message that I got was on Friday before Shabbat and it was from a good friend of mine member of our fellowship I actually learned together with him and with Ari um at shirat schomo cats and he hopped over to my house on the farm he asked to he permission she said sure come on over Jeremy will be happy to see you even though most of the time I'm just knocked out exhausted I happen to be kind of like hobbling around the house and he came to visit me and we were talking and he was kind of you know giving me words of wisdom and trying to give me strength and he says you know I just have haven't really figured out why this has happened and he immediately says Jeremy you should never ask the question why and he quotes a rabbi named Rabbi Beerman and he says there is a quote from the book of Psalms that R Beerman has brought an amazing teaching on in Psalm 115 and what does it say it says L why shall the Nations say and riderman stops the verse there there he says why when you ask the question about God why that that's just what the Godless Nations say where is their God why is this happening and the next verse I looked it up in Psalm 15 because that's where beerman's teaching is L why do the Nations say what is the Nations that's just what they say and the next verse in the same Psalm is but our God is in heaven he does whatever he pleases it's like Oh Our God is like in the heavens he's Beyond time he's beyond space he's Beyond reason you can't really ask the question why you have to just come from a place of humility and then I looked at the word in Hebrew Lama which means why and I said you know what instead of asking why we really need to ask the question to what Le it's the same letters but it's a totally different question to what end to what purpose for what reason for what purpose is this happened meaning we have to engage with reality with the fundamental ax is that everything comes from Hashem and that everything has a reason and everything is for the good those are the three pillars of living a life as a Believer and then if that's true everything comes from us and everything has a reason Le to what purpose has this happened to me and then that really orients my thoughts it's like well I'm in this situation now this is reality so Le to what end to what purpose is this happening and then sometimes I'm just overwhelmed with gratitude for the little things that usually I wouldn't even recognize but I'm just so grateful that when my kids come home they run to my bed and they come and they jump on and they hug me and they snuggle me and they're so happy to see me and I'm just so grateful for all of the little hugs in life and all of the little Winks that God has just blessed me with and I realiz realiz that gratitude is an outcome Creator and the outcome is optimism when you live a life of gratitude optimism is the outcome it's like once you're already grateful for all of the things that you do have and you're not focusing on what you don't have that leaves so much more room for us to be optimistic I'm getting stronger every day I'm getting more focused every day on Tuesday and Wednesday my foot was in so much pain the doctor actually uh prescribed me narcotics opioids and tahila and Ari were like Jeremy do not take those drugs and I'm like but it hurts me so much it's like No And so right now from uh Tuesday until Shabbat I was on a cocktail of Tylenol and Advil because that's as much as DEA would let me take but then Shabbat the pain left me and now my foot is still a little bit sensitive but that's official progress and I can see that I'm getting stronger and healing and the reason why I'm so exhausted is that my body is just spending so much energy healing itself healing the leg healing the bones healing my head healing my back healing my arm it's just in a constant process of healing and the life of gratitude is just birthing optimism my life and then with that I can really ask that question never ask Lama ask LMA you don't ask why of God God is beyond our thoughts and beyond our wisdom there are things that have happened happened as an outcome of this accident that have just changed things in ways that I never could have predicted I know that AR's Nashville talk that he gave at the Israel Summit I've gotten so much feedback because Ari quoted me in his talk now had I been one of the guest speakers I would have just been one of the other guest speakers because there was this mysterious what's happened to Jeremy what is and then I'm being quoted with a message from Israel I know that that impact was was so much stronger so I didn't personally need to give over the message the most importantly is that my message was given over in the most impactful way the change that I've experienced in relationships there's just so many and who knows what the future holds but what I can ask is limma to what end and to what purpose this is now happening to me how can I respond how can this make me more loving how can this make me better how can this make me stronger and so with that I want to bless everyone that they should always ask the right question never ask ask Lama only ask LMA don't ask why but ask to what end to what purpose because we're always going to be challenged with life sometimes it just takes a Friday afternoon ride with a horse and your whole world just sideswipes you and you flipped upside down but then when the chaos comes in the best way to reorient ourselves is to say well this is reality now I don't understand it but I trust that it's all for for the good and now how do I engage how do I make the best of this situation