EMET Talk - Rabbi Michael Fuzailov

exciting emit rabbis coming up Rabbi Michael M [Music] [Applause] filo you I'll be honest with you those Applause could have been better that was a joke it was really a joke it's a way for me to um get rid of the anxiety by making a nice joke up up in front Okay so you know actually I was sending here yesterday by the third meal and we uh we talked about again what you know the the current hostage crisis the current issues facing Israel what happened October 7th and as I'm trying to figure out what to do about this talk I realized that there's one place that we keep turning to when we have trouble for Millennia the Jewish people always turns to besides God correct how do we beseech his Mercy not drinking Rabbi no come on ladies you should be able to do this D hel thank you round of app um and and and I realized I I wondered for a very long time why why is it that we're constantly turning to the as opposed to anything else I'm sure there's many answers but if you look at theim there's basically two parts two different types of Psalms that King David and others wrote there's basically two types one is usually praising God but those are not the ones that we say when we're in trouble what's the other type the other type is is having trust in God if you look at almost any paragra the any chapter of the we read when there's a time of trouble it will always almost I mean I haven't seen anything else and I'm not exactly to experience but it will always have some sort of dialogue of King David or others speaking about trusting in God where's my help going to come from my help is coming from God any any one of those that we say is constantly re re it's supposed to reignite our trust in God and when we say theum it really really really would help if we looked first at the English if you don't understand the Hebrew if you look at the English and you see what am I about to say it'll strengthen that infinitely and anytime we're in trouble what does hasm want us to do is to dve to pray what's the other one when prayer doesn't work but prayer doesn't work well it's a very interesting thing that happened the one of the greatest miracles of that ever occurred on the Earth was exactly thank you David you must be paying attention create yamu the splitting of the sea what what happened in the splitting of the sea well the sea split how did the sea split well mosha stands there and he's praying to God save us what does hasm tell him the M says why are you screaming out to me tell the Jewish people to move forward meaning at this point you're stuck for some reason prayer is not going to get you there what do you need to do to trust in hasem that he rely on him and move forward with that trust trust showing that trust imbu that trust inside of yourself then you have a miracle and you see this again by his which I personally think is one of the greatest Miracles ever that no one's ever heard of no most people have never heard of is his he was the it was a Jewish King I can't remember how many years after they came into Israel I'd say approximately let's say 6 700 years after they came into the land of Israel s the Assyrian army the Assyrian army which which knocked out every single nation in their way and they came to Israel and guess what they did they they took apart they took hold of the 10 tribes sent them away to a place we still don't know and his next goal was Jerusalem King hisia at that point the the Kingdom of Israel was split into two and King hisia is now stuck he's a little Jerusalem which is surrounded by walls surrounded by over a million ion soldiers it was so it was such a pitiful situation that that San the the the king tells sends a message to his he says I'll give you the horses to fight you just put Riders on them let's fight he was so pitiful he's making fun of him what do King hisia do the the gamar says he doesn't pray he doesn't go out to fight he just goes down to sleep in bed and he says Hashem I'm just relying on you you got this in the Merit of his trust in Hashem an angel comes down that night it was Passover night first line of seder and wipes out the entire Assyrian army Assyria will never ever come up as a world power again it is over he was going to become mashiah at that point the gamar says thear says he didn't pray he didn't praise Hashem afterwards properly I'm not sure what that means exactly I'm sure he did more than we'd ever do and he didn't become asah but you see clearly the eventual Messianic Redemption of the Jewish people and every redemption in our lives is connected to not as much prayer but as much as relying and trusting in God and the question is really how do we how do we do that it's hard well here's the homework as assignment go home go to a Jewish bookstore or online whatever find something prefer Jewish bookstore so you can actually look through it find something on IM that actually speaks to you everyone is very different every writer every lecture go online find something that you listen to and work on it daily 10 minutes a day it will change your life I'll tell you a very funny story that happened to me my I we always have guests over students over for Shabbat y so one time we had a very we had a lot of students over for PES it was two PX ago and and my son my seven-year-old and my I forgot how he was that point I guess 10-year-old were really into playing chess and and my seven-year-old just learned chess recently and he started playing chess with one of my brightest students who was over 20 years old very smart guy he been playing chess for at least a decade and they sit down and I'm like oh this is interesting and my son decides to use his night if anyone knows place just move around his night and try to like scare my student my student was like dude come on and he just like keeps putting out his Pawns in a defensive an offensive actual strategy and my son just keeps retreating with do nothing except his night nothing else the entire time for like five moves and I'm just like oh my gosh this is horrible I can't watch this this poor kid and I I said what am I doing if I have trust in God that my 7-year-old son can beat my 20-some yearold bright student in chess it can happen and I walked around for the next 5 minutes saying to myself Barak is going to beat so and so bar is going to beat so and so bar is going to beat so and so and I kept walking and I kept saying it and I kept saying it and I kept saying it lo and behold 20 minutes later they get up shake hands I said what happened like little I want I'm like I look at my S like did you give in like did you like like you know pad you just gave them like no he won and I couldn't believe my older son couldn't believe it either so he's like and he Tau him out of my older son he told his brother he's said let's play for the first time ever he beat him and I'm like no way the next day I said okay we're sitting down to play and he ties me I couldn't beat him I was in shock so clearly having trust inm how do you do it very simply you have to feel it but even if you don't feel it keep saying it to yourself keep envisioning it have a dream of what's going to happen whether it's in your Shalom B whether it's in issues with children whatever it is and it will happen the leem who was rabash who passed away the gador his grandfather great grandfather he was named after was the Le same name as him the Le said one interesting statement says nothing stands in the way of and I have B be able to speak to another five minutes I'll just joking I'm going to finish up with this the Von the vnon was one of the greatest Happ actually I think that was the 10th Generation from him uh he says like this he says a person's main job in this world is to change his character traits and the greatest character trait to change is auna and he said if he doesn't change his character traits and he comes into the world L what in the world did do to need life for so you clearly see one of the biggest and most important things for us to do is to change our characters whether it's whatever it is but one of the most important ones that'll help you change all of them is thank you [Applause]