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Hitting The Targets In Our Lives
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welcome welcome this week's topic is
hitting the target there's a famous mush
I believe it's from the dub Magid it's
about a king who was traveling with his
Entourage through the forest when they
suddenly chance upon this clearing and
they see an amazing thing wherever they
turn they see a Target they see a
bullseye set up and right smack dab in
the center of every single Bullseye and
every single Target is an arrow sticking
out this guy did not not miss a shot
impossible angles it doesn't matter if
the target was up on a branch down to
the floor you know hidden behind
something every single Target had an
arrow coming right out of the bullseye
the king his soldiers they cannot
believe what they're seeing this is
unbelievable they've never met a
marksman like this before and the King's
like who shot all these arrows we have
to find out who it is maybe he could
train our soldiers he could train our
army you know we could use such
marksmen in our army and and they look
around a little bit and they see behind
the clearing there's a small Hut and
they go they knock on the door and the
simple peasant opens the door and the
King says tell me my good man do you
know who it was that shot all those
arrows out there in the clearing and the
guy says yeah it was me the king is
blown away this guy this guy is the
extra Marksman the king asked him tell
me what's the secret how is it possible
that every single Arrow no matter where
the target is position hits the center
of the
bullseye so the guy tells him you know
it's really quite
simple instead of painting the bullseye
and then shooting the arrow what I do is
I shoot the arrow
first and then wherever the arrow hits I
paint the Target around it and that's
the secret to how my arrows in the
center of every single Bullseye it's too
hard of the other way
way as we go through life we don't
always end up where we thought we would
sometimes we may realize that we Veer it
off
course the question is what do we do
when we come to this
realization do we paint the Target
around the arrow pretending to ourselves
and pretending to the world that this is
where we really wanted to be the whole
time short changing ourselves in the
process do we forget the higher
aspirations the dreams and goals that we
once had or are we brave enough to admit
that not only may we have missed the
bullseye but we may have missed the
target
completely we say in Ash every single
day we
say is close to those who call out in
truth in honesty what does it mean to
call
out in honesty
how many times is there something in our
life that we want to change there's a
certain aspect that we say you know we
want to do it differently we want to do
something better we want to change
whatever it is and what happens nothing
happens we don't change it it doesn't
change if we don't actually do something
to ensure that there will be change if
we don't put up together if we don't
make offense to make sure that we are
not going to fall again the same time
the same way we've always fallen if
we're not going to do something to
ensure that we're going to take that
positive step that we're saying that we
want to take can we honestly say we're
trying it takes honesty to evaluate our
lives and it takes
bravery to commit to change it takes
courage to make a change in our lives
it's not easy to look in the mirror to
take an honest look and say you know I'm
not happy with who I am I'm not happy
with what I'm doing I'm not happy with
how my life is going
it takes courage to be vulnerable but
that
vulnerability that's what allows us to
change and make the adjustments
necessary to hit the target in our
life there's a very interesting malum
in
it's the ma says that the word which
means a the word where does it come from
so he says it comes
from
sa that in saer it says there's a l by
it's talking about the soldiers of bam
these elite soldiers that the sh of that
the tribe of B had the
says every single one of these elite
soldiers from sh bin yam had the ability
to sling a rock from a slingshot and hit
a here they wouldn't miss their
mark means they would not miss their
mark this is what the word comes from
the word comes they wouldn't missed
their Mark what the ma says is that when
we do an a when we do a when we do
something wrong what did we do we missed
the Mark we missed the
target Chua means that we admit that we
missed the Target that we say we resolve
that we're going to try harder than next
time and not just paint a Target around
wherever our Arrow happened to land but
there's another Point as well KES also
means a bow a bow and arrow and the word
KES a bow and arrow also eludes
toil where do we find this in
the
in when is giving
the
says
I'm giving you one more portion from
your brothers that I took from them with
my
sword and with my bow with my bow and
arrow Rashi over there explains that
what does it mean
Bashi Rashi says with my sword that is
alluding to wisdom that I did it with
wisdom and with my bow and arrow with my
Cas Rashi says that referring toil to
T theak saying I got it through tilil
the question is what is the connection
between a bow and arrow and
Fila so the maral and G explains that
the reason AES the reason a bow and
arrow ausd is because just like a bow
and arrow you pull back the string you
let go of the arrow and the arrow flies
towards its destination when we dive in
what happens we let go of our it swords
upwards and it pierces the heaven just
like an arrow the is explaining that an
function the exact same way an arrow
shot from the bow
functions I think it's important to
realize that when we talk about creating
Targets in our life reassessing our
lives wanting to hit the target trying
to figure out and evaluate whether or
not we're happy with we're going or we
want to make change we have to
incorporate feel into this we have to
talk toes and Sayes I need your help I
need your help in this change I'm trying
to make I'm trying to do a certain
course
correction I'm scared I'm nervous it's
not who I've been until now you know
maybe you're worried what are people
going to say talk to Hashem ask him for
help DAV and Dav let's try to live a
little higher live with honesty live
with courage assessing what it is we
need to change do we need to make
changes and let's try to make the course
correct as necessary let's remember also
to speak to Hashem and to ask him to
help us have the strength to make the
changes that we need and want to make in
our
lives