Current Events Are an Opportunity for Growth - Charlie Harary

today was a very big day and I think maybe if we do this correctly it's going to be a day that we will never forget I don't ever remember in my life an experiential lesson as clear as this we do this all the time Corona hits and we connect it to por and then we get to pesak we're always trying to find a way to connect world events with yff with shabis with the par with the ha Tor because we're trying to find Hashem and everything we're doing I I can't even imagine the odds of Arab rashash Shana for 181 missiles maybe even more to enter into AR and for not one person to get to get killed like that's the equivalent in my opinion of the locusts like think about what it must have been like to be Mitri and see a phenomenon and nothing happens to the Jewish people you have to look clely we're on air of Russ the moment where the M himself on the world we didn't attack Iran this isn't about Iran Iran sends in double the missiles from April into the Israeli air space shuts the whole country down the K shows the world look at the missil to my people and not one if we go and say wow thank God Israel has a good Air Force to systems we're missing the entire point this is a message loud and clear and we got to hear it I mean enough is enough like it's been coming at us since last T and it's time like it's time to stop and go I got it you says that whenever you see Wars you don't doin for the end of the war you D for G because if all you're doing is ding for peace you know still suffering let would say that when you see Wars It's sadik would be telling us for Generations whenever you see something major happening in the world especially a war against kisel don't get lost this isn't about territory or land or the Jews this is about Gula gas Hashem and for Hashem to bring it on air of rashash Shana it's a phenomenon that if we pay attention we will never forget for the rest of our lives so what's the lesson let me show with you a little bit of a thought I heard this from a robin mevi and I read this in an incredible safer called you know rashan is an interesting y because it's massive it's an amazing big day but yet we don't really do much we don't mention our sins we don't spend the time saying sorry we don't spend the whole day fasting you would think on the day of judgment we'd fast yur is already the day of of forgiveness we should start today if yum Kipper is cleaning up what we didn't do in R let's do what we did on Kipper tomorrow let's fast and say I'm sorry and spend the whole day but to go to sh to dve a little extra and to come home and eat it doesn't feel right in fact if you go deeper you'll see something even more which is in the gamarra it speaks about the beginning of the world the beginning of the world according to the the M that is accepted is that the beginning of the world wasn't even in TI it was in Nissan so what are we doing we're supposed to be Rush hasana the beginning of the world but that supposed that thought that was a Nissan and we're not even saying sorry but it's then so what's going on allow me to share a perspective from the here's what he says thear speaks about what took place and as to says in the it says that created the world but it entered into God's mind to create the world says what does that mean it means that the K created something in TI you see the physical world was created in Nissan you can see every single year a reminiscent of that because the springtime is the recreation of the world fall is when the trees are dying the physical world comes alive in the spring it comes alive in Nissan as theel says you know what was created in Tish the spiritual world because at the end of the day the only thing that's real that we have in this world is spirituality K created a world but the world that he created was spiritual it's Rus and what Hashem did was he created a world that was filled with Rus with his ore with his light and that light is the pulsating energy that gives the whole world life and as he created the world it wasn't the physical wasn't created it was manifested but he manifested it it was a fake out Hashem hid himself says to pretend as if there's something called physical as if there's me and Hashem as if there's planes and missiles and food and life and all this stuff going on and Hashem he hated himself physically the physical world is Hashem hiding behind a concept called Everything is spiritual everything is hashem's a everything is Hashem but he hides himself through a physical world we grow up and we see separation everywhere this me him her this and that I have feelings desires wants Hashem doesn't want it but I do we live a life and we make him a distant Monarch in the sky I want my life he wants me to do things this is called Amazon God I want he wants he wants food and that I want health happiness I'll do what he wants and he'll do what I want but this me and there's him and the world operates in a space in which we are separate or we think we're separate from Hashem they told us that it's yum hadin so we'll play to him yum Kipper we'll put our heads down and we'll do whatever he wants whatever it takes and we go through our lives and if we're being honest there's an emptiness that we feel because as much as the world tastes good and looks good it never really satisfies us because it's fake the physical world is just the Hester of Hashem we yearn for things we grow up in a world where we're competitive with each other they tell us when we're little if you make this much money or look this way or people look at you in the room or you eat this thing you enjoy this thing off we go all of us if we're being honest yet year the Year comes and we have this feeling that it's not fully satisfying it's almost like a husband or wife that thinks the fun of their lives is outside their homes but it's not fully satisfying can't be because their life is what their is with their spouse so to speak and then something happens and we looked up to Hashem and rashash and Hashem says I want you to be mom look me what that means is I want you to realize something it's a fake what you really want is Joy what you really want is spirituality but you really want is connection to me and you know it cuz anytime you felt connected to me this year it felt categorically different anytime you did something for somebody else it felt different than when you took when you connected to me in a real way this year it felt categorically different than when you were on your own when you did the right thing it felt different whenever you separated from me it was good for the moment but it never really lasted but whenever you connected to me it felt totally different you know why because you're a soul and more than anything you want want to get your pleasure when you're connected to me because me and you are the same well we're not we're not Hashem obviously but we have AR Ray of Hashem where hashem's not just his servant and his son we're also his spouse and our life is a life of nestling between the darkness and the light separate and connected separate and connected and rashash comes and Hashem says what do you want this year it's the beginning of the spiritual year this is the beginning I'm recreating the spiritual world how much spirit ality do you want are you still faked out by the physical you want stuff or you want me and every year in rashash Shana we choose as the BAM says we choose to see if we stand up against that n which says I don't want anything but you I want to be connected to you I want to fall under the shelter of you Hashem this world is filled with missiles coming at me but if I'm in your shelter I'm good you're shaking us up telling us don't rely on anything except for me because I want you to come home I hear you what it means to me says is there's nothing but you there's no me what I want is you I want to be one with you I want to feel you in my life I want to walk through walls I want to feel connected to you I don't want to do the things you don't want me to do I want to do what you want me to do I don't want to eat the foods you don't want me to eat I don't want to see the things you don't want me to see I don't want to be looked at in a way that you don't want to be looked at I want to be yours I want to have eyes for you and I want you to have eyes for me I want you to be the king the dad the spouse of my life can I see past the fake that choice is the hardest if it's real choice we can make me or Hashem the separate the thing that I feel or the thing that I know rashash comes and Hashem says choose you me you want to be with me me and you or is it everything else in the world that you want are you in the center in the world or am I the center of the world I work for you and you're trying to get stuff or are you with me and you trust that I'm delivering to you what you need you don't want to get from anything but my hand if we're being honest that's the choice and it's a hard choice you don't need a day of saying I'm sorry you need a day to stand and say I choose you this is in Hebrew called kadha kadua means I belong to you when a woman walks down an aisle and a man looks at her he says you're mine I only advise for you you only advise for me shop is we shut the world down and it's called chabas Kesh during the bdes if you had 30 sheep in front of you and you picked one to give Hashem it's it's Hees it's Kusa Kucha means you're Sanctified for the purpose we have to make a decision do I really want the true infinite Joy do I want Hashem am I in we grow up in a world they tell us it's the stuff you get that makes you happy and a Jew stands in front of hasham rash and says n they're wrong it's my connection to you that makes me happy I make you the king over my life Hashem there's never been a time that I can think of in which it's been so clear that Hashem is shaking the world up and telling his kids it's time to look up at me I want you but you got to look at the world around you and say I'm not faked out by the people it's you and I choose you and I'm M you how do we do this tomorrow's our day it's big rash is G it's real you can't take this for granted this is not a test this isn't a fire drill this is the real thing the missile AR rashash is Hashem saying let's go and we need to make make a decision ourselves what's our year going to look like are we connecting to so how do we do it so I'll share with you one thing we got to make a decision it's called chuva I want to come home I don't know how to do it but I want to come home I want to be connected to you I don't buy it anymore it's all spiritual and you're it so how do we do it this A believe you told me listen I'll end with this picture in front of you a ladder the top of the ladder is total kadus you're one with Hashem and wherever you are that ladder if you're being honest with yourself which is what we got to do tonight the world is waiting for us to do something the Israelis have been sitting in shelters what have we been doing well we got to step up spiritually it's our turn now picture you're on that ladder and if you think to yourself what's the next level for me in kadua what that thing in the back of my mind that I didn't want to do this year that I should do like what's the thing that I should stop looking at what's the thing that I should stop wearing what's the thing that I should stop eating what's the thing that I should start doing everybody knows if you're really being honest in the world gone crazy you know there's something specific real Mitzvah or something real that we should be doing or not doing and it's the next rung up which means it's a little bit uncomfortable to do it commit to do it for the Jewish people climb the ladder of kadua tell your friend text somebody go to just.org we'll tell you how to do it every day but don't go to bed tonight and say I'm inspired it'll be great go to bed tonight and say Hashem I choose you I can't get to the top yet I'm a human being but I'm climbing the ladder I shouldn't be doing that should be doing that I should be wearing that I know I should and I'm gonna for you for the relationship and if you do that you don't go to bed without doing this one thing don't go to bed tonight without an action if you climb that ladder of kadua every day a little bit you find yourself seeing the world for what it is the domain of the greatest King in the world looking at us and wanting us to come home we should be this year to be the Kos nation that we are we're not scared of missiles we're not scared of anything because the K watches over us and together we should be to see this year the in our days