Digging Deeper - Rabbi Daniel Glanz

foreign how Hashem is great and then later on until him it says everything Hashem made in heaven and earth what's the connection between these two statements remin says that they're really talking about two different levels of connection with Hashem one is an objective statement Hashem created the heavens and earth that's something that's objective anyone recognizes that we can see Hashem in an objective way look at all the things Hashem created a person can look at the world and see neflo's habari the beauty of hashem's creations and they can describe the greatness of Hashem and they can connect to him in that way and that is certainly one level of connection that we can all have by looking at the unbelievable neflo sabore the wonders of Hashem and see how great Hashem is and want to serve him from that says there's a higher level Hashem for I know what is trying to give over and he says is that there's a higher level of connection to Hashem that goes beyond words that goes beyond objective descriptions and that's a personal relationship the personal connection that we have to our the feelings that a person has and he says similar to the idea of husband and wife that just like a deep relationship that a person has with his wife with his children with his parents with a close friend it's very difficult to describe we can use words like love and appreciation and things like that but they really fall short to what real what that relationship really is about because a true deep relationship is not describable and it varies sometimes we feel connected sometimes less connected sometimes more connected a person's relationship with Hashem is supposed to go beyond that Hashem created the world but a person needs to also understand there's another dimension of personal connection to our on the one hand when we Dive In davening has words and we read words out of the sitter but if that's the extent of our relationship with Hashem then it's really missing something it's really the personal feelings that we have towards akareshbarahu it gives meaning behind those words and rabi nachman says that a person has to Foster that relationship it has to work on that and therefore a person needs to take out time from their day to sit out in the wilderness and to think and to contemplate all the unbelievable things that Hashem does for him and talk to Hashem about improving and connecting and feeling Hashem more in his life and talking to Hashem about everything that's going on in a person's life and in such a way a person's able not only to just know that Hashem exists and do what he has to be done but actually spends time and actually works on that personal relationship now a person can do that in all sorts of times the person could do that instrument where he takes time to himself and shmakolanu or at the end of a lokai it's sore and just takes the time to talk to Hashem but really the best opportunity is to try to take times whether it's before a person goes to sleep or a person walks out into the forest or a person just takes time in his day to really set aside time to make time for our karishbaraku in such a way a person can rise above just the level of uh that everything that focusing on Justin flows have already the amazing things Hashem does for the world but instead actually spends time to build that personal relationship with Hashem and that propels a person to be able to really develop a deep connection with and and really look to that relationship as something that gives a person that gives a person strength in the same way that he builds his relationship in all other areas of his life [Music]