A Broader Vision - Rabbi Doniel Staum

a few days ago i was suffering from a stiff neck anytime i turned in either direction was extremely painful and i basically had to keep my head straight but the problem is when you're walking more especially when you're driving you need to be able to see on all sides to see what's on the side of you and sometimes to turn around and see what's behind you and it got me thinking that it's a little bit of the struggle that we have sometimes the jewish people have sometimes when a person has a stiff neck they can't look to the sides they can't look behind them they only see in front of them claudia's thrill is called after the ego says your stiff neck you're sitting in front of you you're seeing things it's too difficult for you you can't do it you can't conquer everything you can't go on without mosh rabbino the khalifa look to the sides look behind you we just came out of it's trying look what's on all sides of us the miracles that are happening no you're an anxiour if you only see directly ahead of you you're not seeing the bigger perspective you're not seeing what's going on around you and that's part of the struggle of jewish history i remember a wine of that many people think the jewish history began in 1948 they're not realizing that jewish history is two thousand years four thousand years five thousand years of richness of development of growth overcoming challenges the road is long and difficult but if you can only see straight and the odds are too difficult there's too much it's too daunting it's too overwhelming but you have to be able to look to all sides to see the panorama the whole perspective and perhaps that's part of the nahum of tisha buff we spend the whole morning recounting all the painful events and the keynotes that are overwhelmingly difficult to even read about and then we get up at hazos [Music] and perhaps the hammer is that after we read all the events that happened we realized but we're still here we look to the sides we overcome that amakshay or to see the broader perspective and see that there's more going on than just what we see in front of us and that's the nahumah that gives us the comfort to realize that kali throws in eternal people and perhaps that's the reason why the shabbos before tishma was called shabbos of course directly referring to the vision of the painful words that he says but it's also the hazon its division the vision of being able to see the broader picture to sing the entire landscape not just individual details each one of them the trot is so painful when you look backwards and see the whole panorama you see the eternity of claudius me