Living With Emunah (Part 270) - Tape it to the Steering Wheel

good morning welcome back to living with amuna thank you for your flexibility this week moving to Thursdays and traveling it should just continue but I appreciate everybody's flexibility the administrator is sponsored generously by Dr Xavian Bella Morgan a memory over by Dr Brian gabbard in memory of Bella's mother Dr Ellen chanzer we remain incredibly grateful to the Morgans for their generosity this morning sheer is also sponsored in commemoration of my bubby zeroton my grandmother zero site which was yesterday Ruth aboff some of you knew her my beloved Bubby what a huge impact on me her nishama should have an Aliyah it's also sponsor the coverage Nissan in memory of Dr Jacob M Hiller who exemplified and model had lived with so thank you to all of our generous sponsors lastly we are running out of our caffeinate with kavana Incredible cups if anyone would like to sponsor for our sheer and the shiramir so that every time someone makes a broca on their cup of coffee at the beginning of a sheer and they look at the shahako and they remember to caffeinate with cabana they do it in your honor or in the Merit of someone please speak to Lee we would welcome and appreciate your generosity okay before we dive back into tivamuna before we back get back into this beautiful learning we've been doing the beautiful Torres just to share a couple more stories because I'm convinced you don't come for the Torah or me or my good looks you come for the stories that I share so this one made the rounds last week unfortunately the circumstances were such it made the rounds only it wasn't current to last week I don't know why someone dug it up and sent it around again it goes back to July of 2014. you might have seen a picture of the cover of a newspaper uh that said the following was the July 18 2014 edition of the Jewish Telegraph and it seems like every summer every other summer our enemies around us in Israel shoot rockets at the Jewish people just last week over a thousand Rockets rained down I think this morning another rocket was shot unfortunately you know the the notion of a ceasefire is that we cease and they keep firing that's their understanding of a ceasefire certainly our brothers and sisters in Israel as we are on the eve of yomu shalayan this miraculous day are very much in our thoughts on our minds and in our philos so last week when the Rockets were raining down once again this picture made the rounds it was the cover of a newspaper from 2014 and the headline said the following their God changes the path of all rockets in midair this was a interview in Malaya dumin uh Barbara ordman who lives there her exact quotation was one of the terrorists from Gaza was reported to say when asked why they couldn't aim their Rockets more effectively quote we do aim them but their God changes their path in midair and when you think about a thousand Rockets rained down and you'll say well it's not God it's it's a scientist who invented the Iron Dome it's the rocket scientist who invented David sling who do you think gave the Ingenuity we had one of the inventors of the iron dumb spoke at our show several years ago on a Shabbos and he shared how America and the world's greatest scientists physicists told them it could never be done you'll never figure it out you take this very primitive rocket that is very hard to predict where it's going and in an instant you try to anticipate the velocity the trajectory the direction the distance and you can immediate midair and this is not a Precision rocket this is like a flimsy make it in your backyard on a YouTube video rocket and you're going to make a Blog it can't be done they said so who gave the Ingenuity to the Israeli scientists to do it and first did it with Iron Dome and now doing it with David sling and continue to increase the accuracy of it so that's Hashem that's Hashem too that's Hashem too so the theme of today is that sometimes you get Musa from the most unlikely sources and the first one is a terrorist a terrorist who says we're aiming them but their God keeps directing them and halify that we the targets of that Terror would also conclude Our God keeps redirecting them everything that happens in this world is from Hashem it's all from above and we should express our gratitude and feel his protection certainly as I said tomorrow The Six Day War however you commemorate however you Market is a religious question there's a halach question but to pause and say thank you Hashem I wasn't alive in 67. I know I don't look it but I wasn't alive in 67 but those who were tell me and remember well how many hundreds of thousands of graves were dug in Israel how much they predicted would be the end of the Jewish people how people wanted to send their children to America so a part of their family would survive there would be another genocide Israel Jewish people would be wiped out again and instead it wasn't six days within the first six hours of the war we had won it we had one it took five and a half more days for cleanup and to finish some things including taking your Shrine and making it the undivided Eternal capital of the Jewish people giving us access to our holiest sites and if a person doesn't think they have to stop and say thank you Hashem wow what a miracle what an absolute Miracle the almighty is constantly giving us Miracles got the following email we're just listening to the minister several weeks ago my wife and I decided we could use extra boost of Muna he started listening from the beginning of the series after binge listening the first six or seven we've gone back to the most recent ones of the last two weeks so first thank you when you mentioned this week's share about recognizing where your paycheck comes from you've said that several times in the last few weeks it's not ours it's from Gun Hill someone says where's your paycheck you shouldn't say bokeh it's on synagogue you say Hashem oh who does he choose to send it through oh it says on a Boca Raton Synagogue but my livelihood my partners on my paycheck it comes from Hashem so when you mention that it's not be a restaurant reminding me of the Fantastic interaction I had last week I was running a conference in Israel we were running late at the end of dinner so we asked the restaurant to pack up the dessert to take it upstairs to our conference space so we could continue the evening session while waiting at the restaurant to get the desserts I was talking with the restaurant owner and my boss was standing there with me so I introduced my boss and I said apparently Boston Hebrew is boss now just to give you background this restaurant owner did not outwardly look religious he wasn't wearing a keeper but without batting an eye he stared at me and very seriously and he said meaning Hashem I was very moved not only because I was getting Muslim from a non-religious Jew but obviously very very God-fearing and faithful restaurant owner because even after 13 years living in Israel it's these kinds of only and Israel moments that make living here so meaningful and a good reminder who's really in control of our lives and our paycheck feel free to share anonymously which I just did a very beautiful idea so Story number two of muster and amuna from an unpredictable Source now when I say unpredictable Source has many agents many ambassadors who has many Messengers and he is messaging us all the time the question is are our antennas extended are our eyes and ears open are we listening he's talking to us he's messaging us it can be from a terrorist it can be from a seemingly non-religious restaurant owner or worker who says that's not your boss that's our boss or I'll give you one more so I was flying last week to a wedding and uh I was on JetBlue and the TVs weren't working fine better for everybody's in the shama I was sitting in the TVs weren't working so the woman sitting next to me she's like pounding it hitting it thinking like if she keeps touching it it's gonna start working all of a sudden and it wasn't working and she was clearly very frustrated and the flight attendant came by and she grabbed her and she said nothing's working nothing's working the flight attendant stopped I love this flight attendants stop first of all every time you fly you're good for at least an emuna story at Russia an article that's why I fly so much every single time you're guaranteed something when I dry up and I have nothing to write or say I just book a flight to nowhere just so I'll have sunk so the woman's apparently in the TV and she says nothing's working and the JetBlue flight attendant stops and she says nothing's working the plane is working and that's the most important thing it was I was like wow we were mid-air flying in a metal box through the sky at whatever speed thirty thousand feet in the air going to not on the horse and buggy make it from Florida to New York in three months but we were going to get there in two hours and 22 minutes and the flight attendant just reminded her and me and all of us that the main thing is working the main thing is working don't say nothing's working because the peripheral thing that you never dreamed you'd have that wasn't invented until recently people used to just read a book or a magazine or close their eyes or even talk to the person next to them and then someone came up with the fact that there's TVs there's Wi-Fi Wi-Fi Whoever thought and then when the thing that we never dreamed of never deserved never felt entitled to stops working we say nothing's working this is focus I want my money back is ridiculous nothing's working and the flight attendant reminder the the main thing's working you're going to get from point A to point B the plane's working everything's okay and I just thought to myself isn't that all of us when something peripheral in our life that we'd like that's nice to have that adds Comfort but it doesn't work so well we say Hashem where are you there's no God nothing's working and he's like is your heart beating are you still breathing your lungs are okay yeah the main thing is working the main thing is working okay the Wi-Fi in your house is slow okay I don't even know what you had many red lights and you got to like you couldn't find the parking spot he's screaming up at hashemi doesn't exist he's so frustrated angry at him because something that's not perfect you have not cracked you have a little back pain a little hip a little knee a little I'm not I'm not minimizing that trust me I'm not minimizing that but is the main thing still working the main thing is still working the main thing's still working you're here you're alive you're well the main thing is still working so that was the third unlikely source for muscle and amuna a terrorist a non-religious restaurant worker and the JetBlue flight attendant and what's my point that's a good question now what's my point what's my point my point is again someone else could just hear the flight attendant say that and be annoyed mean things working but I want my TV I'm bored what am I supposed to do now right but you could listen instead my point is just listen to the messages of the world just open your eyes and ears just take it in just extend your antenna just pick up the signal just listen and he's screaming he's like hi I'm here I want a relationship talk to me and hear me talking to you and spend time with me and be grateful that the main thing is working when it's working I'm here I'm here so whether he's redirecting the Rockets out of the mouth of the terrorist and that's what we say in in Hollow what does it mean all the Gentiles all the non-jews They praise Hashem why are we focusing on them they can do them we do us so we praise Hashem we sing hello so the McPherson explain it means that we have enemies who plan all kinds of Nefarious activities who seek our demise and Hashem foils their plans we don't even know it we can't even say thank you for it three weeks ago yesterday we have any clue what the mosad is doing on a daily basis what they're averting this past Shabbos Danny Danny what's his last name limor Danny limore a Great Hero the Mossad guy the Mossad the the Resort what's it what was the name of the book the Red Sea Resort he was the one he was the most sad guy who the movies about him the book is about him unbelievable we have any idea what they avert what they do what they spoil we have no idea so only theyim the terrorists praise God because they say he's redirecting our Rockets we say we're rocking I didn't notice I'm good never hit nothing landed I was good so they're the ones who could praise God because they plan and he foils their plans and we never even know about it do we have any idea we walk down the street a branch fell behind us we have no idea how close it was how many car accidents that we were almost in that we were averted that we don't even know that we avoided but the extra red light a little bit of traffic or the two minutes that our kid made us run late leaving the house that we're so annoyed by was all part of some master plan that we don't even know that we don't even appreciate that we didn't even see that's why I just go for the ride just go along with it because it's what's meant to be it's what's meant to be it's how we live okay back inside page pay page 80 there's some more Associates up here for those who would like to follow on my uh inside we're in Tiffany this is a difficult it's incredibly challenging it is so hard to fulfill know the god of your father his son you need to know one thing one thing to be a king one thing to be a monarch one thing to be in every Hashem here's what you need to know know the god of your father know my God know him through me I'm telling you pay the third paragraph of pay should be opposite you always right as we've spoken about many times you're never ever not a mother a father if you have children that identity comes with you wherever you go they're on your mind in your thoughts wherever you are and will have till even more so Hashem front and center on my mind wherever I am he's my conscience he's my courage he's my conviction he's my confidence he's my Confidant he's every other word that starts with the letter c commercial this is the main principle um you can't operate you can't simply walk move go accomplish achieve do if he weren't by your side he's always with us yes we ended with this last week you can't act casually and you can't act indiscriminately and and without judgment as if you're on your own and no one cares and no one sees and it doesn't really matter Hashem is always there he's always there and that creates a sense of accountability that creates responsibility that hopefully elevates our behavior and our conduct because he's always there but it also creates a sense of support that you're never on your own and you never have to fill your by yourself he's always always there with you always there because when a person puts in their heart that the great king that the almighty coronation that the whole world just put their eyes on next week I'm buying the Bima we have Chief Rabbi Mervis I'll tell us what it was like to be at the at the car Nation United Kingdom and The Commonwealth so of Dallas I can't say enough times but this King the whole world has their eyes on the pump and the circumstance and you got an invitation and the King acknowledged you and the King knows you and the king and the King and King and this king is a pure no offense to anybody from England he's just a figurehead he's no power he's no nothing no contribution he's not he's he's he's he and his family are just the source of the Ultimate Reality TV series that's I I'm not knocking him I have nothing against him no prejudice against him Charles III King your honor whatever we're supposed to call him forgive me I I have nothing against you I'm happy to live in America by him and that we have our independence but I have nothing against you whatsoever I'm happy for you but I'm saying if that excites you and if you follow that you're one of the billions of people who watch that and you would be excited if he knew you were invited you or hosted you or welcomed you he's gonna the king of king of king of King of Kings the source of all kingship and all Kingdom the monarch of the world the almighty the reborn says come to my Carnation every day I'll tell you what don't come to my Carnation I'm coming to you let's hang out in your kitchen your living room in your dining room I'm with you I'm I'm in the car I'm on the plane and wherever you go but King don't don't you have like a lot of people don't you have a whole Kingdom don't you have a palace what do you mean you're with me he says don't worry I can be with everyone at the same time say how does that work it says I'm the king leave that to me I'm with every one of you he's with us everywhere says that's a tough word you know what Miss means if you contemplate if you're mindful if you think about it now those are easy words right then no one here needs a dictionary to understand them but they're hard words to put in practice they're hard words to live by we are never miss boning do we ever are we ever contemplative are we ever thoughtful do we ever just sit and exist if you'd see someone doing that you'd think weirdo could you imagine you're at Starbucks and someone's just sitting there sipping their coffee and they're not looking at a phone they're not scrolling they're not typing they're not talking and there's nothing in their ears they're just in their thinking as they sip their coffee you might Baker Act them you might think we have a crisis on our hands imagine you're on a flight the person TV is working or not doesn't turn on TV they're not reading a book They're not typing they don't close their eyes they're just sitting there they're just using that time to be to exist to think you'd say flight attendant you got to switch my seat I'm sitting next to somebody I don't know what they're capable of this person is totally deranged what is it what did you see what makes you think they deranged they're just sitting here thinking the deranged there's something wrong who sees that anymore who does that we have noise playing all the time this background noise animating Our Lives all the time we're in conversation we're listening we're doing we're so uncomfortable in our own skin and Shabbos comes and you have to walk to a sham zachar and none of your kids want to go with you and now you have to do something which is face your worst fear I have to be by myself I have to go walk 10 minutes 15 minutes by myself what am I gonna do can't read while I'm walking I can't I don't know what to talk to what am I gonna do are you just going to be just gonna think wow we have to restore that we need to bring that back that's our mental health that's our mental hygiene we have to renew that capacity to just be to just exist to just think I don't know if you know this it's okay to drive and not put anything on it's all right it's allowed you're allowed to drive somewhere and not have something playing music a podcast a sheer news a phone call you're allowed you're allowed so then the rules no one's been pulled over ever uh officer what was I doing you were driving and it was totally silent you were just thinking and we're gonna have to cite you for that because that's erratic abnormal dangerous Behavior but but we have to restore we have to bring that back Ms bonan and bizarbe but that Sadiq and then Tethered to some device their life is not about pinging ringing vibrating beeping hopping bopping the next message the next that's not that Sadiq know how to just be and whatever they're doing they're doing fully at that moment they're learning this they don't see here nothing or they're talking they're talking to someone there's nothing else in the world they're just being existing to be to just be kisham is born in a business so that's why I just I stopped at that word and got stuck on that word because that word assumes oh yeah you know you know how you set aside time to think and you think about different things should probably think about this no no one second first you have to renew the ability the capacity to think kisham is means with a sense of Serenity Tranquility with a calm the ability to sit and to be and to think and to think in an environment of calm not to think while scrambling not to think well flustered not to think while you have a long to-do list but to think with take a few deep breaths whatever I have to do I will get to this is what I meant to be doing right now there is nothing else in this world and right now I'm just here I'm just here to live with this in reality in truth is if a person is misboning to every now and then just think you know Hashem does everything he's in charge he's in control he is everything there is no one and nothing but you we have mantras we are the original Source the OG meditation is Judaism whatever expression that you want to use maybe something from davening jumps out at you and you just you start you do when I went to New York for the wedding this week I was picked up by a dear and close friend who I never met really spent time with in person until now it was kind enough to pick me up listens to a lot of our shiram and and we text and we become close in that way and he printed out from the amunisher and he has tapes on his steering wheel and he told me elsewhere and he gave me a beautiful acrylic frame of it and it sits on my desk because Hashem you are with me and on the other side of it nishmas but on a steering wheel tape to a steering wheel because Hashem you are with me every time he gets in his car usually we get in our car I'm running late I gotta go I'm so late I'm running I'm going and get in the back and did you buckle and we gotta go and where were you and why are you taking you so long and you didn't throw out your garbage from last time and that he gets in his car he looks at his steering wheel and he remembers wherever I'm going whatever I have to do whatever I'm about to listen to whatever phone call I'm about to make you are with me imagine if that was on the fridge and on the steering wheel and or mix it up Movado on the fridge on the steering wheel whatever you want Miss boning but we need to create disruptors to our day our day is just on autopilot our day is just momentum our day is just moving at light speed and we need to disrupt this oh yeah so that anxiety I'm feeling that anxiousness I'm feeling that worry I'm feeling that scrambling and rushing I'm feeling oh yeah I can't tell you my D I'll get it all done it's gonna work out however it works out is for the best a man of this ride in this adventure with you Anonymous we're in this together Hashem so we need to put signs and symbols and messages and disruptors we have that through the total it's called It's called The Brach cup of coffee the whole Torah is a platform to disrupt the routine of life and remember so every time you eat oh yeah I forgot you exist and you made me the coffee this lunch this snack it's all from you foreign and everything worked and the greatest Factory that exists the greatest plant that exists in this world is the human body that's able to absorb what it needs and able to discard what it doesn't and it happens and it happens successfully and seamlessly you say oh yeah Hashem it's not just biology it's not just nature my body this Factory it worked it processed the plant the plant processed properly I'll show you what thank you Hashem so really programmed into our day without needing to print and tape anything anywhere are the disruptors it's called Torah it's called it's called mitzvos 613 disruptions to our day that say Don't just get caught up in the routine of Life remember remember he's here remember he's in charge remember he's in control remember he's sitting right next to you remember he loves you we're going to talk about that on shavu's our theme for shavu is love love the power of love loving people loving yourself loving Hashem loving the convert loving children family members who are not on the same Derek as you love it's all about love and one of the big things is Hashem loving us does he love us is that a Christian idea a Jewish idea does he love us do we feel his love how do we feel his love his love his love is a big is a big theme so it's a good idea print out print things it's a good thing on your steering wheel on your refrigerator on your bathroom mirror print out things print out things but also take advantage of the things that are automatically every time you make a bracha every time you come out of the bathroom each time that we dive and we wake up and we say modani when we fall asleep when we say Shema each of these are disruptors to say hi I'm here remember he's in charge is in control he's everything Miss boning they're all disruptors to get us to be missponing be contemplative be thoughtful don't just be on autopilot don't be scrolling and texting and talking and listening and going stop and think stop and think stop and think and be grateful stop and think and see what is stop and think and say thank you this is amazing take it in take it in we happen to have all of our children with us right now in Hashem and Hara it's such a bracha it's also a big mess but it's a big bracha it's a bit and every time that you're frustrated and want to talk about the big mess you remind yourself how many people dabbing for such a mess how many people kill for such a mess what a bracha of a mess what a great mess it is I love the mess kids still clean up the mess it's driving me crazy but it's a mess it's a great mess I came out early shot this morning and three of my grandchildren were sitting and playing it's a little play group in my house I could have run by and I had to go out I got to get to schul and I go and make a cup of coffee I just stopped and I stared and I spent a moment I just miss Monet just like when did this happen I just got back from my year in Israel what is going on here who are they and where they come from and what is going on here and how did this happen and and and wow I won Lottery once twice three times again I say that and I say that not to flex and I say that with sensitivity to those who are dominating and please God should know that nachas and I say that only as an example of Shabbos it was a week that I probably would have been on my phone may not have even noticed I'm sitting there would have been gone and would have lost that moment so I actually saw what was happening around me but stop I'm being it's okay in life be that weirdo just stop and think it's okay stop and think and observe and contemplate and take it in and see wow it's amazing it's amazing Hashem is amazing my bubba used your type this year was sponsored for among the co-sponsors my Bobby's favorite person those are the words on her lips that was her favorite pasta she lived with this in her life taste and you will see that Hashem is good but I don't like it I don't want to eat it it looks yucky my Kindle just tasted this child just taste it you'll see it's delicious you're gonna love it you're gonna love it it looks weird in the Coconut it's sweet it's delicious you're gonna love it just taste it Hashem says just taste me just taste the life with me just taste what it is to talk to me and to hear me talking to you just taste what it is to feel me yourself leaning on me and supported by me just taste it and you will see Hashem you're gonna see it's delicious I'm just tasting you'll see it is delicious Kim is born but the taste that you have to think is to think is to experience you have to be present you have to be mindful you have to be contemplative and you'll realize how your life you want to live life in black and white you don't want to live life in color you want to love life with all his Delicacies or you want to go through life in a minimal way with Hashem all of a sudden your life becomes vibrant Living Color it's unbelievable unbelievable underneath all that which is hidden there is somebody pulling all this Rings there's an operator who's in charge nothing's random or chance it's all by Design but a person doesn't live this way will certainly get reward for their Good Deeds you made the broken didn't think about it at least he made the bracha and you did the Mitzvah but you weren't Mindful and present but you did the Mitzvah beautiful still valuable still worthwhile still do it it's not all or nothing of a butter next page today but that's not what we're striving for that's not the slimest that we're yearning for that's Shameless that completeness that wholeness we're Achievers we're High Achievers We're Never Satisfied being Underachievers we're not as satisfied being half-baked we push ourselves and our children do more study harder or get into a better get a better grade overachievers get paid more money move up in the company get a promotion we're overachievers more and more why when it comes to I'm going to be talking in religion we say what's the birming what can I get away with what's the least I have to do all of a sudden here this is where we're Underachievers by the way everything we have ambition and strive to be overachievers is only successful with him all that we want to over achieve in and with needs and relies and depends on him so in the relationship with him that's all of a sudden where we become the underachiever be an overachiever in a moon and be talking push and teach children to be overachievers talk about Hashem think Hashem turn to Hashem surrender to Hashem every Jew needs to be a chariot for Hashem we are his ambassadors we are his stewards clodaux to go out and preach and teach and scream to the world the whole world filled we have to be the flight attendant don't be the terrorist but the message of the terrorist be that waiter or the owner of the restaurant why why is it the terrorist and the restaurant owner and the flight attendant on JetBlue they're proclaiming the message of Hashem and we're not we're afraid we're reticent we're shy each of us need to be that Ambassador the king's coronation is filled with all of his ambassadors and the coronation ends and he sends them out and he says now go represent go open up the embassy go teach and preach and scream from the rooftops with patriotism and pride of who you represent and we are hashem's ambassadors go open up the Ambassador the embassy of Hashem in screen and teaching preach and scream from the rooftops I'm an ambassador of Hashem and I have patriotism and pride in my religion and I want the whole world is everywhere um Hashem fills the whole world fills our entire body this is such hard work 70 80 120 years you're not done yet you've never mastered it blessly you've never mastered it you never finished you're never done it's deep and profound and difficult two people standing next to each other in school is the exact same length they shackle the same rhythm in the same Pace they say the same words they squeeze their same eyes and yet they're two totally different Dominics because one has a conversation a relationship with the shepherd and the other is just going through the motions and saying the words which one do we want to be you want to come to know the shepherd do you want to come to know the almighty do you want to come to know the king and be his Ambassador and open up an embassy for him and represent him and teach him preach and scream about him who are we and what will our relationship look like you're going to be Underachievers in this area every other area we want a nice house and a nice car and a nice marriage and we want to look great and have the latest Styles and we want to have the latest version of the phone and we want the latest software achieve achieve achieve overachie get into the school get the best grades get the best job get the best name get the best achieve achieve achievement religion what's the least I could do it has the latest I could come how sure can I stay there so at least I could say what's the least I can this is the area where we underachieve you want to be an underachiever overachiever so replace the bumper sticker that says you know I have a legal bust with keator imadi what messaging to our children here and see what do they hear us talk about are you know about what's all over our house what do we care about the report cards care about the report cards it's important it's beautiful good grades is that what's hanging on the fridge all that matters if you got an A or all that matters is every night at dinner do we say tell me about a good grade you got or tell me a story where you felt Hashem in your life today where do you see Hashem in your life today it will change the quality of your life your happiness your Holiness it'll absolutely transform the quality of your life your calmness Your Serenity your peace your blood pressure your mental health your physical health your spiritual health your emotional health it'll change your relationships it'll change everything and once you live it it's so obvious you don't understand where it was all your life but it's hard it's hard and as easy as it is once you feel it and live it is as hard as it is to continue it we revert back so we have to remember the next day to see the sticker on our steering wheel every day we start this Anew that that effort that journey to remember all over again Figaro I forgot I forgot you there I forgot you're in charge I got all anxious I got all flustered I got all angry I got all I totally forgot but now I remember you're here you're in charge you're in control I surrender to you and please God you will bring great things should we have sheer next week it's Arab shavu as people coming next Wednesday morning Thursday Thursday night so Wednesday's plenty of time so Wednesday morning our usual time we'll see you next week until then stay happy stay healthy and stay home