EMETTalk - Rabbi Michael Fuzaylov - Strengthening My Emunah

Okay, please help me welcome Rabbi Fazil. [music] >> Hello everyone. Hope you had a great weekend. Um, so there's a very interesting verse I want to focus on that we say. We say in the end of that paragraph we say last night to to say that Hashem is is straight. He's righteous. There's no wrongdoing in him. Which is a very interesting way to praise God. If you're going to say, "Oh, Shem is so awesome." There's no wrongdoing in him. Like, okay, I get it. He's amazing. No wrongdoing. It [music] sounds like strange. So, let me explain to you what wrongdoing means. I'm going to give you a mash. I'll give you another parable. Imagine you have you're driving to the retreat and you're about 30 minutes away. It's a 2 hour whatever hour and a half drive, 30 minutes away. It's about 20 miles [music] and all of a sudden something goes wrong with your car and you have to pull over and you realize you can't drive and you try calling a tow truck. Nothing Thanksgiving whatever tomorrow. Okay. So you call Shai like shy we're stuck who hasn't made it here yet cuz we're all going more or less one direction one way. And Shai says [music] you know one of your friends let's say Matthew. I hope no one says Matthew. Matthew's coming on his way. Call him. Calls Matthew. Matt hey how far are you? I'm about 35 minutes away. That's amazing. It means you're 5 minutes away from me. My car broke down. There's no tow truck till tomorrow. Can you please pick us up? And Matt goes, "Um," and he's [music] like, "Matt, you're the only one still. It's 4 It's It's It's 4:00. It's 3:30 right now. Shabbat comes on 4:30. No one's going to be able to drive from the retreat to here. Pick me up. You're the only one still not here. Can you please pick me up?" And Matt says, "I I [music] don't I don't I'm not sure. You know, I'll get back to you." What do you mean I'll get back to you? I'm not sure. He calls it back to him and say, "I I don't think I can do it." What do you mean? I have something going on. I have a discussion. My wife and I are kind of in the middle of something. I don't you know, I can't really do it. Sorry. Click. You're [music] stuck. 20 m away. You have a 6-hour walk now. Now, that is Did Matthew do something wrong? Yes. Was it a sin? Not sure. But was it a wrongdoing? Yes. So, that was what it means. It's an ava. And ab means [music] when you are the only one that someone is relying on and you [music] say I'm not sure it doesn't cost you anything and you still say I don't know I'd rather not that is an ava the way I understand ava at least an avla is when someone is relying on you and you don't have to do it but it doesn't cost you to do it doesn't cost you anything to do it and you decide not to do it that's an abla and that's what what we say in mohab actually wrote this one and it says that an ava is when it's simple for you to do it but and you're the only one that can rely on but you still don't do it. That's what we say when Hashem there's no ava in him is what we're saying is there is no wrongdoing in Hashem that if you rely on Hashem for something and no one else and you say Hashem I have no one else to rely on but you even though Hashem doesn't have to do it. He'll take care of you because it would be wrong for him not to because you're the he's you're only relying on him. But that only works when you're relying on him. For example, in in our in our parable, when you're relying only on Matthew, but you know there's someone else as a second couple. So Matt can easily say, "Hey, no, you don't call the other guy." Is it wrong? Not nice, but I wouldn't say it's wrong cuz there's someone else you could do it. That really primarily applies when you say, "Hashem, I have and you mean it. I have no one else to rely on but you." [snorts] And this is really one of the concepts of of is that [music] is that you rely on Hashem and even though he doesn't have to do it, he'll do it. And in fact, we say in in we say it is better to take refuge in Hashem than to trust in man. It's like duh, man. God, what is he trying to say? The answer is that it's better to take refuge. What is refuge? Refuge means that when [music] you're when someone doesn't have to do something for you and you're like relying on them and you're taking refuge in them as opposed to you I'll say a person a very well-connected person says I got you I'll take care of this for you. It's still says it's still better to rely on Hashem even though he gave you no promise than than to rely on a very big individual who gave you a promise that he'll take care of you. It's still better to rely on Hashem even though he didn't give you a promise. Five minutes is faster than I thought. I'll just end with this ladies and gentlemen. If you want your life to change in every direction, what whatever it is, buy a children parnasa, pick up a book on the because that's going to change every potential thing in your life. And in fact, the villagan and many others say the reason Hashem gave the Torah to the pe the Jewish people is in order for them to be able to come closer to him through in fact the last prophets Havak says the entire Torah can put put on one principle amuna. Thank you. Beat that time. [applause]