KLM: The Incredible Spiritual Contributions We Can Make To The Rising Lion

Heat. Heat. [Music] You see your sh and thanks for coming everybody. uh this kind of shear and the situation we're in is not a new thing. Um not was I muted? I just wanted to No, I was in. Okay. I just want to say and and also I want to welcome the listeners or viewers of Yuban and Torah anytime as well. Um, I'm going to open this class the same way I did shortly after October 7th. Um, for those you um have heard of the author Charles Dickens, Parrots lives in London. So that's a nod to London. So Dickens said uh in his novel, A Tale of Two Cities, he says it was the best of times and it was the worst of times. And that's for sure. Uh but I'm just going to reverse that slightly. For us, it's been the worst of times and I think the best of times. Let's start with October 7th. After that, the worst of times. No one needs any elaboration on that. But the best of times was the the sense of literally family connection that started to occur. Beautiful. And people just dropping their different um orientations to Judaism and this and that and helping it. It was it was beautiful. And and what was also beautiful was a desire I saw from everybody. Oh, we don't want this to go back to normal. This is great. This connection and this non uh critique of others and unification. We all wanted it. We all made extra efforts. And part of what I do is to try to speak about the profound accomplishments we make in every little prayer, every little um restraint from something negative. I I just want to bring out that that didn't go nowhere. Even if there's been a lot of tensions lately, it went so far. And we'll soon see we'll soon seem profound when we make these efforts and feel like family. You know, my uh and I knew we came back to this kind of period now with the Iran war when I have um I have a a cousin who is of a completely different orientation in torance of Judaism. Completely different. But guess what? She reached out uh she reached out how are you? We're praying for you. We care. It's we're back to being a family again. And that is profoundly good. Okay. So, I want to open with that. We we we've come back to the family mode. We know that unfortunately often comes from threats and enemies, but thank God. Thank God. What I want to do uh now is I I received a a very well expressed um description of how uh some people feel in Klaritz. Okay, we're here in Erit Israel and we're in a very different situation here. I mean uh for example I gave shear not only in October 7th but when the uh horrible logba uh tragedy where 45 namas were trampled. So my son was up there, right? But right right at that time when you're here uh the the fear is uh is very vivid, right? And I remember October 7th, my grand my granddaughter was like I think three or four years old. I remember her screaming and jumping into her Aba's arms and going down to the shelters, everything. It there's one thing to be here. That's one thing and I do want to try to mhaz. I see there are people also who are here but also where you are you know it's really scary it's really scary and people have shared with me they feel kind of powerless and they don't know what their efforts what to do how to do etc etc okay so let me read you in fact I'm going to put it on the screen um I have share screen parrots I think Let's just see. Yeah, looks like I do. Yeah. Okay, let me just share this. All right, I think this is a great place to start is to hear this important uh message I got. We go to sleep petrified of what we will wake up to. Now, this is in America. We dive in like crazy that Israel should take out our enemies. On me, here's another thing. We feel very unsafe here. Uh in this case, the person sent from the New York area, there's a mayor running. That's a huge anti-semite. Okay. At the same time, we're not making aliyah right now. Our lives, our shs, our careers are here. And we also honestly and I I have received this as a rabbi in Israel. I've seen many people saying what about our children? U is there a proper framework for education? Okay. Now that part as I mentioned we're going to do first presentation of some ideas and then questions answer. I want to save that to afterwards. I don't want to focus on it right now. Um and okay but let's f focus on the first part and before I do that let me explain a little bit about kavana mitzvah and how we approach things. Okay. Um the word kavana to most people means prayer with focus. That is indeed what's called kavana and that's the famous kavana. But my my life and thank god the lives of several others have changed by discovering the importance of another type of kavana called kavana limit mitzvos. There the word kavana does not mean focus in prayer. It means to express your intention to do what you're doing as a mitzvah of Hashem. That's what kavana means. Intention for mitzvah. Kavanaitz. My wife, God bless, uh km for short. Now, so let I'm want to explain here. We're going to do it. The other go the main goal my sheir is is I think a lot of his comes from uh doing things helping doing things and uh recognizing the incredible kashis of what we're doing. So we're going to enter into the kavana limit mitzvah zone right now. And and that means the first thing you need to do if you're new to this is he say and this is in the Messiah in his chapter on uh u acquiring tahara purity of heart. He says you should always ask yourself what am I doing or what am I about to do and before whom am I doing it? So, uh, I will ask you for right now rhetorically, what are we doing? You know what we're doing? We're learning Torah. We're doing the mitzvah of learning Torah and we're trying to maz, we're trying to um strengthen our amuna. Okay? Those are mitzvah. Okay? And so, what I'm going to tell you to do right now is this. Okay, at this point trust me and then momentarily I'll explain the value of it. Okay, so let's pause for one second and and think to ourselves. You can just in your mind or if you want to say do it by speech, you just um agree with me. Okay, Hashem, right now we are learning Torah in order to serve you to fulfill the mitzvah of learning Torah. That's that's now we learn the Torah. Now we do it. Okay. What difference does that make? What difference does it make to stop and express your intentions to Hashem? By the way, you can do it um in a mental fashion is per is fine. It's better to say it out. What difference does it make? So I think the best way to explain it is as follows or is um I don't know about your parents uh of the listeners and the parents generation but I think we all our parents had a certain modality that is shared uh the previous generation uh if you're my age you know my parents uh all of a som are gone but uh from here so the way they expressed their love was through service. They were moser nephish uh to to provide parnasa and they did everything they could for those of us who didn't grow up religious to send us to proper college and university and get they served us that was their love language was service and we you know and and their mess nephish their giving up of their of their own personal needs and interest That is awesome. Okay. But many of us probably in our generation where we've become more emotionally intelligent. Many of us would probably have loved also, you know, why I I my my dad would would travel and working. You know, one of the main reasons I'm doing this is because I love you. You know, I'm doing this. I'm not just doing this because I I'm obligated. I I I love you. So when we express our intentions behind our good behavior with Hashem, that's a love language. When you say, "Hashem, why am I doing this? Oh, so I get um some uh kavo." No, no, I'm doing this because this is what you want me to do. Raasher Weissa says he thinks that the kavana um that's a mitzvah dissa um of serving hashem with all your heart it's it's it's that your intention is to bring ru to hem okay so that's already very powerful okay so the fact that we're now consciously and intentionally doing this mitzvah that's something number two is let me go back to the Ram call. He says if you want to experience have purity of heart when you relate to Hashem the first thing is what we just said is to to ask yourself what am I doing is there a mitzvah here you will discover so many when you start asking that question so many uh but the second thing is you you you kind of remind yourself it's a little rhetorical you say who who am I doing this in front of whose presence am I Okay. And that gets to the fact that we're trying what we're trying to do is to forge our relationship with Hashem with things especially we're doing anyhow. Okay. So that's the thing we're saying expressing our intentions and we're cognizant being cognizant of Hashem's presence is is actually for dicis. It's a huge act. Okay. I I won't go into those, but I just want to point out I've asked this to many people when I've traveled and presented. I said up right now the year's gone on for 15 minutes or so. So, I said, "Have you noticed that you're breathing?" And, you know, you'll there'll always be some very uh up-to-date mindful person, they'll say, "Yes, but most of us have not been paying attention to our breathing." Okay, take a second and pay attention to your breathing. The same thing is with Hashem's presence. Hashem is present right now. Especially when we're learning Torah. Even if one person was learning Torah, there's an even if we're not learning Torah, there is a level of presence of Hashem. But when you do that when you're when you become cognizant just like of your breathing cogn then you can uh then that adds a whole other dimension. I'm the we're not having this discussion alone. Hashem is present. Okay that's my introduction just for those who just came and now let's uh try to tackle uh these questions that are uh or the this sharing of um what's going on. Okay. So, you know, people are worried and fearful. They're worried and fearful. You know, again, I just want to tell you it's a different um just sharing the perspective from Emerit Israel right now is uh there sirens. We're not new to sirens at all. Okay. But and you know to be honest you know my kids we have a we have a maresset like a porch that looks has a beautiful view thank god and my kids can actually see they even saw in the beginning of the Gazin war they could see the missiles and the oran dome and everything but uh it's now with these ballistic missiles uh missiles you know they were still whoa whoa let's go see and then when you hear the the see now there's a you probably know uh certainly if you're over here podf thank god they they've worked so hard to they're doing incredible misses of uh concern concern for our safety unbelievable but they now have this like jarring phone sound that tips you off that there may be a siren within 10 minutes you get a little prepared this that when you hear the siren you have only a certain amount of time we're our our shelter is three floors below bit been the middle Right. So the thing is this, my kids, especially when they hear that first bloom bloom, you know, they go out. But thank God, I spoke to one of my friends. I live in Harnov and one, this was on Shabas uh the la the past Shabas night where there was uh a lot of activity. So, um, my friend shared with me, uh, in the afternoon that at 1:00 a.m., one street above me, uh, about a 8 minute walk to where this happened. So, this boy was, God bless him, he was going into yeshiva at 1:00 to Davin, I mean to learn, and at 1:00 a.m. And here's this like that thing. It was it was something different. And they they b they were already heading to kind of a shelter but they bolted in and then they hear this like unbelievable smashing sound. Shrapnel destroyed a car. Do you hear this? A piece of shrapnel in horn. Okay. So you know in these kind of situations we always kind of rationalize that oh not it couldn't be us couldn't be me. So anyhow, that was over my kids gazing beforehand at the things that and and we know that thousands of thousands of people have been dislocated. People have died from these missiles. It's a whole other level of uh of trepidation and fear that people are feeling here. And then you know you over there again there's a in in hutslar it's it's very unenviable is you feel like you know there's nothing you can do and and these things. So I I relate so much to going to sleep you don't know what's going to be etc etc. So um what I always ask uh myself is what what is the um what what mitzvah is in this situation? What's the mitzvah? So you probably can guess that um the mitzvah we have um is to feel trust in Hashem. Okay. the myth of beton that is a Torah commandment to me me to be tam with Hashem is to to feel trust towards him okay um that's the antidote now it's again we talk about this you know bitone is a real like puts us on the test I I I like this example you know someone let's say um um someone is uh not yet ready for shidukim. Let let's put them make them 24 years old, man or woman. They're not yet ready for shidukim. And they hear, you know, um there's a boss call that says 40 days before, you know, Plon is with Plonit and this and that and they're they're they they're believing that, you know, Hashem knows what speces, etc., etc. So that's an Indian of a muna. But when you go out on shiden and or just by the way, if you're older, just think of your kids going on, right? So there's such a you're thrown into a situation where your emotions don't always match your amuna and beton is about uh is about actually creating an alignment with those emotions. Okay? Easier said than done, different situation. But here's what I want to do. All right, let's again I this my goal here is to actually in the moment let's do things. Okay, so I would like to ask everybody to think of uh it could be now you're less petrified. Maybe yes, maybe no. If you have children in Gaza or in Lebanon, you're probably not less petrified. Okay? If your friends do, whatever. But everybody, what I'd like to do is work on the mitzvah right now in the moment to give you kind of a um a an approach for the next time. Uh it's um it's really trying. Okay. So everybody, the first thing we want to do is again what are we doing? We're working on the fulfilling the mitzvah of tamiming the to be tam with hashem to trust in hashem even when it's a hairy situation even when it's scary. So that Hashem I I'm fulfilling this mitzvah because I want to bring you. Okay. So first declare that. Okay. Next I want you to now think of the most recent time that you were um went to sleep petrified when you're afraid uh we're concerned etc. Okay. First, let's uh um by the way um I think I read it. It says we feel very unsafe here. Oh, I don't know if I Yeah, because the mayor that's running is a huge anti-semite. Okay, so you can make it a local fear or fear for what's going on to our family in Erit, Israel. Okay, so everybody, it could really be anything, but let's focus on fear and we don't know what's going to be. Okay. So, take a a a few seconds to identify a situation. I'm presenting a shar, but I want to practice what I preach. So, I need a a second to to get into a certain um um thought. Okay. So he hoping that you have something that you can connect to and it could be a personal thing you're worried about one of your kids uh etc. All right, whatever it may be. So um you know my rabbi Rabbi Green um one time he gave such a incredible um discussion about how fear is holding us back in so many ways. and he um he got that you could hear a pin drop in the room. Everybody was just like, "Oh, wow. That's so true. So, I am so stuck by this fear." So, thank God someone blurted out a British guy. He goes, "What rabbi, what do we do about it? What do you what do you do?" So he said you need to feel Hashem's love for you. Okay. Now I want to just um put more onto that. Okay. Is you say a shem and that can be a fuzzy thing that look if if that works great. You know just here let's just do that. Just let's just take that approach for a second. Think about the fact that how much Hashem loves you. And one way I want to um help you relate with that is if you have a child or a grandchild uh or even someone who is um that you know you just adore them and and they're uh they're not even annoying, right? So it um your your your love for that child is just nothing compared to how Hashem feels about you right this moment. Okay. So here just take a moment to feel that. Okay. But I want to enhance it another step. I think that that you know one of the greatest um sarim of all time is holav's duties of the heart and I think one of the greatest things he does for us is he gives us seven reasons to feel we can trust Hashem and to feel loved by us. You know trust can also you know in our generation we said that the parents didn't always have the emotional intelligence to give us the love that uh the express love so also you know many and I know many people who've had traumatic parental relationships momish traumatic so you know when you say Hashem is a parent like a aba and you have that bad association So look uh they were human but I I I list this seven as qualities of our divine parent. Okay. So I'm going to now put this on screen. Where is it? Okay. There it is. Okay. Has it switched over to the new picture parrots? Let's just see. Can people see it says seven qualies? Can anybody tell me? No, it's uh it hasn't come up. I think just share share it again if you go to share screen. Perfect. Perfect. We'll do okay. Okay. Yeah. Oh, okay. There it is. Right. Okay. Okay. And I want to again we're we're trying to enhance um our trust in Hashem and we're and this is like a model that we can try to call up when situations are challenging especially with what's going on here. By the way, I also um want to point out that you know a a doctor friend of mine Dr. said, you know, he deals with thousands of uh patients a year. And just a couple years ago, he shared with me, he says, "I don't know a single family that's not suffering in some way." And I've heard great rabbis mention this, too, that, you know, there's just widescale suffering. And I I I also want to, someone brought up the gula. I want to uh I'll connect it to that in a minute. But I just want to say that um this is a mitzvah that we can uh do just with whatever suffering we have. Okay. So again uh we're uh we're fulfilling the mitzvah of trusting in Hashem. Okay. And we're strengthening it by integrating these points. Okay. So I'm just going to read it uh slowly. and carefully. These are seven qualities, I should really say, of our perfect parent, Hashem. He's completely compassionate and loving towards us. Remember, like I said, just think of when and some child you do upon. Hashem's m does is much more than that. Two, he actively attends to our every need. These are not my words. This is a reish of us. He's totally capable to attend to those needs. He knows what's best for us. He's t he's taking care of us from birth until old age. All matters of the trustee, that's us, are in his hands. No one can help or harm us without his consent. And perhaps most importantly of all in our generation is the next one. He is utterly kind and generous. Independent of our worthiness. Okay. So, um it's scary here, it's scary there. The remedy is to feel love and trust to Hashem. when I say it's not a total solution and I think people know the helicopter joke you you we have to make our efforts okay and that's the next thing I want to talk about is our efforts and and doining but okay this is the model but you even if you don't do this again I I I I really encourage you to I just want you to realize that a few this is what I'm trying to teach and also Rebbitson I I I have the incredible schol and honor that Rebbitson Sara Wriggler sorry I have it Wriggler is part of this and she's coming out with we she are coming out with a book soon especially for women and um but what I I I want this is what one of the key things I want you to appreciate we cannot fathom what we have accomplished already it's not fathomable. I can just tell you just give you a thing is you know the a few minutes of genuine connection to Hashem like this and expressing your intentions your your love language to Hashem what you've just done you you cannot be paid for this right we say mitzvah there's no way to compensate you for what we've just done that's how she feels about what we've just done. It's really important to recognize how powerful we are in Hashem's eyes when we connect to him. Very important. The other thing is Rabbi Kessen mentions, what is Kadusha? We we're not privy to realize what's going on in our beings right now, but our beings have been incredibly altered in the positive from everything we've just done. And this is happening all the time you're doing mitzvah. Okay, we're just not aware of it. One more point on the power of what we do. Okay. Um I I have to thank Rabbi Gladstein because he he uh he reminded me this. I just saw a video is as as a as providence would have it and God bless BB. You know, BB went down to the coel uh on the night of the of the raid and uh he prayed to Hashem. That's an extraordinary kadeshm when the prime minister of the Jewish people is at the cotel praying. And also they named this operation everyone knows the rising lion uh amalvi right I I want to there's something really striking about this uh and Rabi Gladstein reminded me it um Uncleist says that exactly what's happening with the IDF and Sahal and the IIAF that is what Uncleist says was Bum's prophecy that if you wake them up, you know, they're moral people and they tolerate a lot, but you wake them up, get ready. Okay, I I I please be uh prepare yourself. I'm going to say something a little heavy. I went to the uh Lion's Park in South Africa. A week before I went, the person who took me told me that this poor Chinese woman reporter made the mistake of lowering the window. A lion took her head off like that. Okay. So, we're seeing the experiencing pro prophecy. I called it uh nvoua, right? We have nvua in the news vua. Okay. What's taking place uh we have to realize is a profound realization of a nvua for the end of times. That's number one. That's uncleus. Uncle says, "Don't mess with them. Don't awake the lion." Okay. And thank God these heroes are being have such divine support right now. It's unbelievable. Okay? There's a little bit of encouragement. But Rashi says something else. This is a navua. This is not a metaphor. Navua is more reality than what we perceive. So Raji says that what does it mean that like a lion that gets up is like the Jewish people who get up in the morning to say keshma and to pray shakus and to go to bed and they say keshma. So Rabbi uh Glazian said say kesishma that's one thing and if you're a man say it on time but okay but that's it. But here's what the listen Ral says because come on it nice metaphor. Do you feel do you feel like let's say you do get up in the morning and you dab in and you try to dab with come in you you like um I think it's Shauna said you you pour your heart you dab in with all you've got right now because of the situation right but even if you let's say didn't dive in with that intensity do you know what the maral says why is it called a like a lion the power of a lion he says divine A mitzvah is an a divine act. What it what happens is it fuses with divine energy and it's mighty a li again. It's like a lion waking up in fury. That's the power. Bum this non-Jew. He saw the reality much better than we do. Hashem is not going to make us privy. Look that when the gula comes all the people we love the millions of Jews who are unfortunately don't know how beautiful Torah life is they too will be with us okay but right now it would be a spoiler if Hashem let you see what Bum saw for Nva but it's the truth okay you have to believe it's the truth that our mitzvah are divine might of the highest level I can't emphasize this enough and you need you know um part of my our our approach is to bring positive psychology where it's re relevant. I I'm a I have a doctorate in psychology and it's really helpful for what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to help us completely um grow in a state of mindfulness and habit change all these things. So I I'm using those things. But you realize, you know, I the the famous book Atomic Habits, he made a great point, okay, is we most people want to do what's right in the long run and not the short run. But the problem is uh the Yates pays so nicely for just going with the the moment, not doing later. So he says the only solution is you must experience something positive when you do the right thing. the long-term right thing. You have to feel connect to success or something positive. So that's why I want to stress to you and I want to review this point. What what we've done already in this year and what you've been doing, you have to realize your your Torah learning, your saddaka, your all these things have divine power. Hashem feels that he couldn't you could have the best life you could ever dream of in this world and it wouldn't be fair to you. That's how Hashem values what we're doing right now. Okay. So, I just want you to realize um you're not powerless over there or here. You're powerful. Okay, that's okay. That's the first part. And I want to say the other the next thing the next thing to deal with fear. Okay. The next is this is um Hashem blessed me with this uh prayer once that just came out of my heart and mouth. It's unbelievable. I don't I don't feel any credit for it. I just it just was it was it was too powerful for me to take credit. But listen to this, okay? And I suggest just trust me this is a good prayer. Pray it along with me. Okay. Hashem, please help me get out of myself and into others so I can get through to you. One more time. Hashem, help me get out of myself and into others so I can get through to you. So, I want to talk about um uh mindful, mindful compassion, mindful graciousness, um mindful toll, um I should say mitzvah. So, here's the thing. Um, there's a Torah commandment that's one of our raisin detras for being alive. It's the mitzvah of to walk in Hashem's ways. And to the degree we every time we fulfill this mitzvah, we become we we become more like Hashem. Okay. And our goal is to get it as far as we can to be as to be godlike if you will right so there's some primary expressions of this and uh according to the gamar one is rahum another is and the other is okay I could go on so the point is this you everybody that is praying right now and saying to hamm If you see someone else who's um fear, it one a beautiful way to deal with your own fears and worries is to to take notice of people who are experiencing that and try to have compassion for them and you know focus on their difficulties and try your best to to to be there for them. Okay. So the um and but but but let's do this here again. Okay, let's do this right now just to practice it. Okay, let's say a prayer. Uh and by the way, at some other point if people are interested, I have a whole um class about how to the the mitzvah's involved when you say to for others. But let's just do a concise thing right now. Okay. Uh let's just say a short prayer instead of tollum the short prayer and in your own words but before you say it right now um while pe anytime you pray for people or yourself in a time of um sar of suffering and difficulty and distress it's a Torah commandment okay so this is again this is my second approach The first approach feel Hashem's love work on trust. Second approach is to for us to get out of ourselves and into others. And to do that let's pray with Cavana intentionality. And so I'm just going to say the so Hashem right now we want to say a prayer in particular for um the heroes and uh that are risking their lives. um for us right now um all over. Uh that's number one. This is uh and we we're f we want to fulfill the mitzvah your mitzvah of crying out to you in times of trouble and okay. So we want to pray for them the poor remaining hostages. Okay. Okay. So now there's one thing to say a prayer and I I I'm sure that all of you are already feeling compassion for them. Okay. So but let's again let's use our love language. Hashem, you've instilled in me. Thank God you made me a a Jewish person who has a like a a wellspring of compassion inside and these people's suffering is definitely awakening it. Hashem, I'm I want to say this prayer to you feeling compassion for their suffering because you want me to emulate your compassion. This is a tremendous emulation of Shem is to to be as much as we can with people who are suffering. Okay. So let's do that intentionally right now and say that prayer to Hashem. Okay. Just make your own prayer just for you know few seconds. If you want to do this also that the theina there's a concept it's a deep concept of the sar of theina that the the divine presence is um feels the combined suffering of everyone and much more than us just like Hashem's love for us is much more than ours for our children the suffering experienced there so just you can just say you know and May you um may you relieve the suffering and bring the um redemption in the merit of for the purpose of relieving the tar of the sar of the divine presence. Okay. Um just to wrap up um there's I just want to finish one more um aspect is about the gula. Okay. Um uh the sometimes you know it's a Torah commandment to yearn for the redemption according to the smok um it's u for another time but the thing is this um uh we should feel very excited about what's taking place in the imminence of the gula and that's a mitzvah wants us to be exciting and longing but what gets in the way for many people is the feeling well what if it doesn't happen, I'm going to be, you know, just disappointed or, you know, we shouldn't get all excited. So, I spoke with um a great rabbi, Schlita Rev, Alexander Mandelbam. He wrote the book Zos Braha. He's written four pamphlets about yearning for the Messiah right now. He's a real expert. And I asked him this, you know, question that like there's a certain kind of cynical feeling like maybe I shouldn't really really get excited because what if it doesn't happen? And he gave the most beautiful metaphor. He said, um, imagine there's a train trip and like these young kids are, you know, they're so excited. It's a very long, it's going to go through several countries before he gets to the destination. So the kids are young and suddenly they hear that the train is like stopping which means the train could be arrived at the destination. You get off and so they run. Uh it's not the we're not there yet, right? And it keeps progressing. But think about this. The train keeps progressing to the destination. Okay? Now sometimes it seems really exciting. we're getting off right now and but if it's not it's closer to the destination. This is um the mitzvah of Hashem is constantly we say ago in the present tense Hashem is bringing us closer and it looks remarkably closer. So I'm saying don't be afraid to be excited and yearn and do and and again use your love language. Say to Hashem, I'm doing this. I'm yearning and exciting. I am excited, but also this what you want from me and that's why I'm doing it. Okay. I'm sorry. I I meant this to be a uh you know a powerful miss, but I got carried away. I hope it was helpful and there is some time for questions if people would like to u ask. Yeah, thanks Ra. Thank you. I mean I'll just uh make a quick comment whilst uh others might be ready to jump in with a question but just in terms of what I what what what I took from it and there a lot of beautiful ideas to review but um for Jews like us or like me in uh where we we're fearful but it's tinged with a lot of guilt in as much as that you know we're fearful for what's going on in Israel and of course in the US and here in London and you know the crazy stuff that's going around but it's not like any degree to the fear that you guys are living through. So there's a bit of guilt there in as much as that well you know the sun's shining here and you know life is is very normal in some respects but um you know so I feel guilty that that we don't have that we we want to stand side by side with you but what what do we do with that and so what I took from what you were saying I suppose is just that you know instead of being paralyzed and and using that or or trying to be you know being fearful in a way that's not productive that we can kind of redirect it as you're saying into uh looking at certain mitzvah and really, you know, trying to be side by side with you in in in in those acts rather than just like a deer in the headlights, you know. Um so so I think that was that was the one. But the other thing is really about this this fear like we can't ignore it. I just sorry interrupt. I just want to jump in first on that. I will say and I don't think I'm alone that when people from Hootzor send us messages saying how are you? We're praying for you. You okay? It really is touching and it helps. So that also besides the uh yeah the pray the prayer but letting us know like I said I was so touched that you know this cousin of mine this and people are asking so and again okay go ahead what was the second part no the second one was was just really about this point on fear because you know some some have it worse than others and some you know and like real anxiety that can be paralyzing. I think the point is or the question is is really, you know, to what degree do you try to push that away and to what degree do you um draw it in and just use it for a better purpose, you know? Right. Right. Yeah. So, what I loved about the the me text I got, if I can go back to that for a second, and I'll just read it. You I won't worry about screen. So uh the woman who sent me this said we go to sleep petrified of what we will wake up to the next words we do in like crazy that Israel should take out our so there so the thing is yes the to to channel that fear again we said it um it I think fear is sort of like um guilt okay if guilt produces chuva then it's not bad. Okay, there's that. But if guilt is getting us down and and making us ineffective, no good. Same thing with fear. If fear gets us, you know, no atheist in the foxhole. If fear brings out passionate prayer with intention, I encourage, but if it if that's that's good fear, you hear. But if fear is making us um feel like uh a lack of it being in Hashem's hands, that's where we call it the mitzvah of bet. Yeah. Thank you. Okay. Okay. All right. Um I don't know if anybody else has got any other questions or comments. Uh if you do, go for it. Um we we're not going to put this part on any sort of recording platform, I don't think. So feel free. Otherwise, we'll uh wrap it up and um you can uh find recordings of this I think the body of the year Rabbi Marat will post that on tutori anytime. Yeah. So, yeah, for sure on YouTube. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. Well, if anyone is uh interested in this uh and other things, just um you know uh what's the new word? DM us. you know, how we got to this year, you can just send us a message. All right, parrots, as always, thank you so much and thank you. Thank you. Thank you everybody for uh attending and listening. Thank you. Okay, be well, stay safe and uh good news, please. Thank you everybody. Very welcome. Thank you. Okay, call to thanks My birthday [Music] tomorrow