Living With Emunah (Part 315) - His Fingerprints are Everywhere

okay good morning Boer to and a very happy Tu to all appreciate everyone's flexibility as I said this summer is erratic traveling for many Simas we should always travel only for Simas that's why it's critically important to be part of our WhatsApp group get bonus material and find out the latest schedule you can join the WhatsApp group at rabf goldberg. org WhatsApp join all the WhatsApp groups of the different sharum get bonus material and find out the schedule Aruna series is generously sponsored by Dr zavi and B Morgan in memory of Dr Brian gabin in memory of Bella's mother Dr Ellen Shan this morning she is also sponsored by the Felder family in memory of shim Ben Ys a Survivor who spent his day educating Our Youth and found amuna in the darkest places we're very grateful to the family for sponsoring okay as always we'll start out with a couple of emails inspiration emails and then we'll get back into the text into what we are learning together before we get even into the email I just want to share we have uh visiting with us this week from eritel from Israel a very special Soldier um when Rabbi bro RAB gibber and I went to Israel shortly after the War Began we went to army bases we connected with the ER community inim and we had some events together there's a very holy Soldier a very special young man I don't want to say his name telling these stories without his uh not without his permission but I don't want to say his name but he's a very very special very special he on October 7th on that sinas Torah morning he's a Hummer driver in the in the power Troopers he's a reservist he has married with three beautiful children as a fourth now as a new baby and uh he he left his family to go on October 7th to drive down to karaza to begin his journey to participate in this war in this battle in this fight and was tasked in those first days and I don't want to share in graphic detail but with really unimaginable unimaginable responsibilities of collecting bodies retrieving bodies parts of bodies identifying bodies IES fighting enemies and in the five months he was in Gaza over the last 10 months continued to risk his life on missions like that and others in really extraordinary and selfless ways like so many like so many and they're now here for a couple of weeks New York and in Florida in order to reconnect with his family not it is for three young children six and younger four young children six and younger now to go five months without a father every time now he leaves the house they run after him they hold on to him when he says I'll be back soon they say you're lying you're not coming back it's horrific it's scary and as I've been saying in Israel there are soldiers who have visible physical wounds and there are countless who carry other scars that you can't see but yet are deep and painful and also need love support and recovery so I was talking Friday night we had the family over for for shabas dinner every trip I've taken to Israel over these last 10 months connected with this young Soldier and his family he's Young young means younger than I am it's 30 so young anything younger than me is Young so we've connected and bar we're we're we're close and grateful to be close so they were Friday night we were talking we're talking about and Amun living with Amun and seeing hm's hand everywhere and the incredible stories that happened to us I heard the most remarkable extraordinary story and I paid a Shiva call to Mrs to rebit and Miriam Fox heard the most incredible story we'll save it for next week or a couple weeks it's an amazing story of hus really one of one of the most amazing story I told the story at the showers table we're talking about amuna and he says this Soldier said said Rabbi I have to tell you amuna stories don't inspire me don't impress me anymore they don't touch me because when I was in Gaza for five months it was all and so everything that happens and everything I see and everything that I live and everything I put down in front of me and everyone who steps in the room and everywhere we go it's all from Hashem and he continued to list horrific tragic moments that he felt were divinely divinely designed and also incredible miraculous moments a moment they were walking into one of the houses that they were clearing bodies andaza they were about to open a door to go in and to look to see what they'd see and one of the soldiers yelled stop and on top of that door which was open just a little bit was a grenade had they opened that door the grenade would have fallen he wouldn't be here today he was driving his Hummer in Gaza through a battlefield and one of the one of the passengers yelled Tator Hit The Brak stop he slammed on the brakes and he stopped and he saw an RPG passed right in front of them at that moment it was aimed it was directed it was right at them and there were many stories he told like that of hash so he said everything is has and it's just transformed his life so on his on their way this family's way from New York down here four young kids six and a half and under not easy to travel and they had challenged with the luggage when they were checking in which made them a little delayed getting to the gate they got to the gate and the gate was still open and people were still getting on and they the gate agent said you're a minute late and closed the door in their face they missed the flight their luggage was already on he said the door is open we saw the last people getting on we're here we have young children slammed the door in their face and said you're a minute late and he said before October 7th he would have been fire upset angry disappointed frustrated he would have responded now he just said okay Hashem you don't want us to be on that plane this is not the flight that we were meant to be on we'll see when which is the next flight where we're supposed to be whole life is now seen through the glasses through the prism through a life of hash just extraordinary stories and extraordinary perspective and I share them these are real life people we're not reading about them in a book They're not a fairy tale they're not aspirational who we want to and one day should be when we meet when we see when we listen when we learn then you see these are real people Ordinary People if you're in and you walk by this family in the park or in the supermarket they're just ordinary people but they're living extraordinary lives now and always there are ordinary people living extraordinary lives and it's all an enormous inspiration and a m an obligation for all of us because it means we're capable of living those lives too we could be living in that way we could be living with that life it doesn't just mean oh when the RPG passed slammed on the brakes we're alive hash the grenade didn't fall from on top of the door it's not just the miraculous moments that have the positive happy ending to them it's also when the door gets slammed in your face and you say that door closed another will open I don't know why doors closed and why some open I am where I meant to be like we shared last week sapir who spoke here on Tish held hostage by Kamas 55 days when she transformed her thinking to feel I am where I'm meant to be this is where Hashem put me what do I do with it now not why am I here and I only have myself to blame and the mistakes I made it wouldn't have been taken but I am where I meant to be a y Jew was never stuck why am I here Rabbi Goldberg hope you're enjoying your time boy we're still catching up on the emails I was happy us this evening to deliver packages for you may not know but we started an organization called the Florida Network and every Thursday night every Thursday young children come and pack for over 40 families and others come and pick up and deliver Tom shabas boxes of food for those to be able to make shabas different than the BRS Tom shabas which is done a little differently and more discreetly but this is the classic Tom shabas packing boxes delivering boxes we're very proud we have to share more of the difference Florida network is making so this is somebody who is a delivers I was driving a very large SUV which was a rental car I got this week as our van was at the mechanic I pulled into a spot turned off my car and popped the trunk so I could load the boxes as I crossed the street I see the boys who help out started to bring my boxes and all of a sudden I see my rental car sliding sliding backwards I forgot to put it into park I was so stunned that I froze and in that moment someone happened to be standing in the parking lot saw what was happening jumped in my car and put it in park was literally three in from hitting the car behind it no one was behind the car despite it being a busy time with lots of people coming to volunteer I felt and continue to feel such gratitude to hasem that someone was in the exact right place at the right moment had the fortitude to act so quickly without hesitation that no one was hurt no damage took place I wish I could carry this feeling of gratitude all the time perhaps it's not within human nature thank you for the shear reminding us to see everything as being from Hashem even when is not so obvious wishing a good shabas okay while we're talking about cars next car thank you for shum blah blah blah blah I relate the following story occurred to me the other day I just finished class and went to the parking garage to get my car and leave I got in my car drove to the exit got my ticket to pay for the parking pass I opened my door rolled down my window got out my credit card to pay as I reached over to put my credit card into the reader the credit card fell right into the window window sill immediately I felt like no way no way dumb found that that was even possible right where the window goes down the little slit credit card right down the window so I searched all around my car and on the floor but it was so quickly confirmed my credit card was in the exact place and the exact angle needed for it to slip right into the car window without being able to be retrieved I paid with another card all the while thinking okay Hashem I don't understand why but let's see how this turns out I left and then phoned a friend who immediately burst out laughing when I said over the story My prior embarrassment immediately faded she said I could just get a new credit card it's not a big deal I then realized that this card which we all put so much value on is just a piece of plastic it can easily be replaced my car and window were working well barash and I was reminded although I don't know why hashm decided to have my card fall the exact angle in time to go straight into the window that all things considered it was harmless perhaps it was to teach me there are things that can be stressful occur throughout life it's up to us to choose how to handle situation sh have definitely helped to give many more podcasts up to a thousand 10,000 come home the IDE of solders safe again small insignificant inconsequential piece of plastic the point is living with amuna changes your life instead of stressing and fretting and getting anxious and frustrated it's a piece of plastic it's replaceable so much else is not replaceable it's all replaceable it's all replaceable puts in perspective what's important and what's not important what counts and what matters and what doesn't it is all from Hashem okay so many emails there's another fun one thank you for the weekly support group it gives me tremendous strength and optimism particularly as my family has been coping with a challenging time we are blessed in every important way but finances have always been tight this both my husband and I are Jewish Educators recently we were given a very difficult Financial challenge that coincided with our family relocating our current home will be occupied after us by a cola family that is generously supported by a wealthy benefactor when touring our house which has many doorways 16 it was determined that we will have to leave the muas for the incoming family this is not a well-known mza but even when you move you're not entitled to take your you can't leave the home without shmir fanu is moving in or muas will be taken down to paint then you're allowed to take your muas with you but if a non but if a Jewish Family is moving right in after you then you're not allowed to take your muas you could replace them with less expensive ones you can make the people who come in Pay but you're not allowed to take down your M has to do with shmir with the protect that the mza offers on a home so their house has 16 doorways it was determined that we will have to leave the misas for the incoming family the house we are moving to has no Maas meaning we'll have to bear the expense of purchasing all new Maas I had a flash of resentment why do I have to give my maizza to them can't their daddy War bucks cover their new muas and let us take hours sparing us a big expense but then I immediately Let It Go and accepting that is also part of amuna it's a powerful lesson part of amuna is that when the Jewish law dictates that we have to do something in that moment turns out the food was not Kosher you got to throw it out it turns out the price of Jewish Education is expensive the lul vrogue are expensive to live as a Jew to be observant when we are based in for conversion interviews a candidate and when they stand in the Mikvah one of the questions we ask is are you aware of how expensive it is to be an observant Jew and are you still ready to go through with this do you know what the cost of kosher food do you know what the cost of being a jewishly observant do you know what the cost of Jewish Education is do you know what it cost to live in a Jewish neighbor neighhood and when they're out of their mind and say Yes I want to do it anyway we welcome them with open arms and we love them with all of our heart and accepting that is also part of amuna it immediately felt better and the resentment was gone Hashem gave them my and Hashem will help us by for our new home Hashem is the greatest daddy warbuck and his largess is infinite Hashem is the greatest he she's resentful let their daddy wore bucks whoever supporting them in K let them buy the new mazza's wide wife to be out on both both ends because Hashem is the greatest Daddy Warbucks there is he is the greatest sponsor he is the greatest benefactor he is the most generous furthermore I reflected on how the colos benefited our community and now I get to be a part of their mission by leaving them 16 misas how fortunate am I I went on with my day unencumbered by resentment and worry unburdened by what was just joking lo and behold as I listened to this week said mun you spoke all about the expense of buying muas few weeks ago we spoke about that you remember when people put up a new home they knock down build a new house and they calculated the smart house and the rooms the pool and the backyard but they forgot to calculate how much muas remember we spoke about when they asked me Rabbi could buy a $40 a $60 $120 which one do I have to get I say let's go outside and look in your driveway let's see what kind of car you drive and based on what kind of car you drive we'll determine which mza you should get are you satisfied with the bare minimum in your furniture in your home in the car you drive in your technology in your latest phone or do you have the newer versions does it have the bells and whistles in which case you got to get that for your muza and yourin as well so I spoke about that a few weeks ago and that's the Amun she turned on right when she was having to leave her muas and was beginning to feel resentment and it turned things around turns it around it felt like a wink from the abisher that I just as I have faith in him he's proud of me thank you for the weekly support group may we hear good things for claw so it's another example of how living with amuna changes our life not just the delay at the airport or when they close the door the gate agent living with amuna not just being able to be grateful that the car somebody jumped in and put it in park and nothing happened but living with amuno also helps us live as passionate practicing Jews because we don't become resentful of of of the expense of being a Jew and the Halas of being a Jew and we're able to see Hashem in all that we do and be happy with the Privileges that we that we have uh okay one last one then we'll dive into the text I know I keep saying one last one but I find them inspiring this is the she the she they're the M she you when you send you when you send me emails you are you're giving the she I just have the privilege to be able to read it and then we'll get into hope all is well with your family I started listening to the she after I heard you speak about Brian gab's funeral is Al have not stopped listening since is Shah from the Tor sponsored in his memory his y site was on a of Tish it's hard to believe it's five years since this incredible walking role model of amuna of amuna isn't hasem amazing that was his refrain if you knew Brian no matter what I don't mean isn't Hashem amazing when he had all of his children had his Nas when he had a successful Medical Practice I don't mean isn't hasm amazing when he had a great golf shot I mean when he was diagnosed with a death sentence of AO blastoma and he made his way through those therapies and at the very end of his life and with his last breaths he still said isn't hasem amazing Hashem is so amazing you talk about he is a mus in inun few weeks ago I was listening to the you talked about the Holiness of ding at the O I was listening to this and as I was at life Crossroads O is a special place I went a few times this summer while I was in New York and I said then I'll say again now when you're in Israel you want to go to the cotel why because it's the closest we come to the intense presence of Hashem but it's also the place to go where you can find every kind of Jew and if you want to see all your siblings every kind of Jew the entire cross-section of clel you go to the kotel and where do you see that in America at the O of the Reb no matter dressed differently background ashkanazi FY religious non-religious at the O is a place to go I went we just had a granddaughter when my daughter was in labor mother was helping her I had nothing to do I went to the O took my grandson we went to the O and we dve until the phone ran it's a girl we should all have only so the all I spoke about it and that's the am this person put on that day I I have the privilege of choosing between two career paths one that I had always wanted to do that makes less money but that I think leans into the strength that hem has given me or path a or I chose path B which makes significantly more money better hours but I was not completely sold on as the work did dayto day is not what I love to do I recognize what a br it is to between these two choices but it was causing me a huge amount of stress I hope to raise my in the Jewish community in the same way I was raised but it's expensive it was hard for me to decide to choose a path when I cannot tell the future I did all the tricks everyone says sleep on it flip a coin but I was still unable to decide that's when I heard yir and decided to go DAV at the O and I hoped I would gain Clarity I went to DAV the O that Friday afternoon and also to DAV for my Zog which I always D for for my to find dis spouse and I'm still waiting patiently for and sometimes impatiently for as I walked out of the building after DAV for the hostages and soldiers a sense of calm came over me I don't know why but I felt like everything would be okay when I woke up chabas the next morning I decided to choose path a and I was happy with my decision I don't know what the future will hold and I don't know who my zeug will be but this story is a happy ending not because it ties up in a neat nice neat bow but because I'm working on my amuna every day when things happen as they always do I try to remind myself I know it's from hasem I know it's for the good thanks for helping with the amuna thank you to everyone who writes emails that inspire all of us to keep chugging along each and every week okay have a pile of more emails it's taking enormous self-control we're going to continue to learn the weeks ahead and we'll come to more the beautiful of the 13 Ram 13 principles of Faith we've been learning about Ms Ms is the abstract conceptual theoretical the axum there is Hashem there's a source there's a first cause putting it into practice amuna making it real amuna is living with regularly whyo both had the Epiphany AO had to come to the conclusion the reality the balab there is a creation there's a there's a building there's an architect there's a painting there's a painter but that balab also had to come up to him because there also had to be the close intimate personal connection relationship putting it into practice what does it mean to really be a heretic what does it mean heresy to deny God to deny God's existence to deny God's relation relationship ongoing relationship with us what is that really all about so the says the following we all know the story the day that asaas comes home from the field he was doing what he always does he hunts what did he hunt he hunted animals he hunted fur he also hunted women even if they were married to other men he hunted that which didn't belong to him he came back exhausted physically emotionally spent and that's the day that yobu purchased the B the right to the firstborn we all know therefore received the bras and the whole rest of the story but tells teaches that that day that Russia that wicked as did five AOS what were they he was intimate with a engaged young woman she murdered he denied God's existence he was a heretic he denied fundamental Faith principle of our faith that we believe there will be a resurrection and because of that he diminished demeaned ultimately sold the right to the firstborn and how do we know that he was a heretic how do we know that they all we see from theim from the text itself it sounds like he was tired and he said give me some of that red stuff give me some of that red stuff that looks good that looks good where do you see he was where do you see that he was heretic why do I need this firstborn this is not a commodity I need this is not something I need to hold on to hungry happy to Border happy to trade it in happy to sell it away L from that word could say why do I need to hold on to the first born but it says L where else do we say the word Z fast forward many years the Jewish people people will be standing on the other side of the banks of the river of the sea they will have just survived miraculously the sea split opened up a path came for them to go forward when they thought they were stuck between the Rock and the hard place the Egyptians were pursuing them behind and the Sea STS in front of them before they have nowhere to go the walls are cling closing in do you ever feel that way the walls are closing in I have nowhere to go there's no path that's open how am I going to pay this bill how am I going to recover from this illness how am I going to get out of this predicament this situation how will this war end how will the hostages come home the walls feel like they're caving in K Makes Miracles he made one last night we should have said how this morning do we begin to appreciate what happened last night it wasn't clear but now Hamas took credit and it's been confirmed there was an enormous explosion in Tel Aviv last night a truck exploded killing only its driver it was an attempted terror attack but before this truck filled with explosives could go create Mass casual uales it exploded on the terrorist who was driving the truck K is amazing Hashem is incredible and he did an unreal for cl we could have woken up this morning to horrific horrific tragedies casualties injuries funerals shivas fear Panic anxiety Terror Hashem is amazing and we just go on with our day you get the textt you read the article you turn the page you say oh that's what a coinci that's right thank God it blew up in his face it's a miracle stop pause M maybe we should have said H it's a miracle Shem Makes Miracles when it feels there's no way out so Kell stood on the other side of the sea they pointed with their finger and they said this is my and I'm gonna glorify him you read that story the truck blew up on the terrorist so the same word Z learn they conclude they extrapolate from here as was a as was a heretic he denied God's existence denied denied God's role I don't understand still where did as say it he said why do I need this firstborn status what does this identity do for me what does this membership get me that I'm the firstborn where do they see in that heresy where do they see in that what they saw was by saying what do I need this for he violated is not if I stop ask you do you believe in God you say yes I went to ish tor's Discovery seminar and I can repeat to you the Bible codes and I can tell you all the evidence for God's existence and I can quote St Thomas aquinus and I can quote rud Lei and I can quote from all over and I am happy to provide for you I've read re kelman's permission to believe I'm happy to repeat and recite all the evidence for God's existence lovely that's called Ms that doesn't need you to say it to be true God's existence God's presence God's Providence is all true whether you say it whether you believe in it or not that's Ms that's the MS K wants you to live a life not in the abstract not in theory not only while you're in sh as we go about our daily lives it's not just Ms it's Ms what's theun wow to go through life and point and say Z I just got this parking spot I ran into the person just this morning I was leaving a voice note for somebody and then as I was leaving The Voice note walking the hallway this way they were walking the hallway this way I pressed delete on The Voice voice note I said just the person I was looking for so Z in that moment thank you hashm that's a wink that's a smile it's insignificant it's inconsequential I could have left the voice note he could have responded maybe it would have gotten the same result but just what I needed in the moment I needed it z z Hashem z z someone jumped in the car and put it in park z z I went in the pizza store and they had the pies ready even though I didn't call in advance Z and Z I got good news from the laboratory Z I found it's tuba of it's tuba of do you know it's miraculous if you're married it's a miracle if you're happily Mar married it is an improbable miracle I say it half jokingly but statistically I say it entirely seriously all you have to do is look at the statistics and realize is if you're married and if you're happily married you're an anomaly you're in the minority you're a miracle you're a miracle says is the one who sets people up and it's it is as hard as the splitting of the sea explains why is it as hard as splitting the sea because you know people are very self-centered people are selfish by Nature we need to have that instinct to survive self-preservation people are independent and they're apart and they're self-centered it's the nature of the world and when two people who are separate and apart and distinct can come together and become one says the maral it is miraculous as something that was one becoming two the sea is naturally one water molecules flow down to the lowest point and they stick together and you can't take a fork and a knife and cut a bowl of water in two it doesn't work the water will keep coming back together because water is one so when when something which is one became two it was a miracle when something which is two become one it is equally a miracle says the mar it's so if when we stood on the opposite side of the water we said Z we pointed Z wow every day you wake up and your spouse is still looking at you and talking to you and tolerating you and maybe even likes you point and say this is a miracle like splitting the sea that's tuba of that's tuba of tu is disparate separate independent competing things unifying unifying all the reasons kazal gave for celebrating Tu sh yam Civil War all the ba all the reasons that were given are all about being a part and divided and coming back together and becoming one including the women putting White Dancing in the field imagine the sh initiative today that would suggest that you'd be in nobody would talk to you we're not even allowed to allow them to socialize you're going to watch people prance in a field and choose your one I'm not suggesting that we go there or do that but it's all about unification unifying becoming one and anytime that Things become one Z so last night a miracle happened in Tel Aviv Z and you woke up today you're married it's a miracle so many people are looking and searching and waiting and yearning and we D for them today should be the day they find this tuba of today should be the day they find that happiness that they're looking for you woke up you're not only married but you're happily married married you won the lottery you won the lottery and given the choice between winning a financial Lottery and a marriage happiness Lottery it is maybe harder but certainly better to win the marriage happiness Lottery and if you have it you are a lottery winner so stop complaining that you didn't win the actual monetary Lottery if you're healthy and you're married and you're happy you've won the lottery you're you think a lottery winner complains because they didn't win another Lottery you won a lottery once lightning struck you're grateful the rest of your life you're not sitting there fetching it's not fair to me I didn't win another Lottery you want a lottery you have your faculties you're healthy you're alive you're married you're happy you want a lottery that's from that's from Hashem that's a wink that's a smile that's his doing he that's Tu he's the one who did it so Ms is this hasem here's all the arguments for his existence here's all the evence EV for his existence I could recite all theim and all the L and all the is I go through my day and I point the door slammed in my face at the airport the gate agent this is a that's a that's who is everything that happens it's all from a person who knows the truth learns the truth can repeat the truth but doesn't live life doesn't live a life where the amuna is is not living with the amuna glasses seeing Hashem behind everything seeing Hashem everywhere person who doesn't see themselves surrounded by Hashem has is revealing himself in everything doesn't want to point and say that such a person has not yet arrived at living with what is the measure of of you're living with do you point and say do you have a family WhatsApp group where daily people are recording you're not going to believe it and then it worked out I hadn't studied for the test the teacher didn't show up it got every day and then and then the parking spot The Pizza Store the pizzas were ready I didn't have to wait big things little things things that worked in our favor and the thing that didn't go right but that's also Hashem that's also when it didn't go right and it didn't go well and didn't have that happy ending if you're not living that if you don't have a story to tell at the dinner table every night where you saw hashem's hand in your life if you can't point and say Z then you're not yet you've not yet arrived at and here's the here's the you ready what kazal understood from asov so you'll say asov didn't point and say say he's a kofer he's a kofer if you got the parking spot it worked out entirely right you're running late you say hasm give me all green lights this just happened to me recently I was going somewhere to speak I was running late I said give me a I promise you you're not supposed to promise I'm telling you I never saw anything like it in my life I got every Green Light I beat ways it's a game I play regularly anyway I beat Ways by like seven minutes of when I was supposed to get there on time early ready to go got every Green Light z k van and if you don't point and say I asked you for the green lights you gave me the green lights's conclusion you're like you're it's not you're a you're you could work on your no you're a kofer even if you have the MS you know the MS you know the MS there's AEM you know the MS you could tell all the evidence you live the MS you ding this morning you put on your Talis and filling you gave your Stu you learned your DFI you tress me is you're honest in business you're living the MS but if you don't live to the point that when he Reveals His Hand when he wings and he smiles you point and you say like mindboggling what an Insight what an Insight what was the evidence what's the evidence because he failed to say he had the say wow that too is Hashem that I'm the firstborn he gave it up he sold it he demeaned it he diminished it that too is a what's the translation for what's L I could care less about it because I don't live in the here and now I don't live in the present I could care less what does it do for me what does this membership in CL do for me what does being a firstborn do for me what do I need this membership for what does the status get me that membership doesn't get me into anywhere where I want to go says as what does it do for me the identity of being a Bor garnished nothing doesn't get me in anywhere if I'm a platinum member I get in the lounge I get an upgrade I get a free alcoholic beverage that does something for me that does something for for me if I have a membership to CCO I could chop in CCO they get something for me if I'm a pillar member synagogue Reserve seaing they get something from me what does get for me said you know what it gets for you originally who was supposed to serve in the B mdash not the Kohan and the that status was going to get you special leadership place a role in the bdash in the holiest place the holiest work and the holiest task and ASV says Ah not for me doesn't do anything for me not interested not interested anyone who doesn't take upon themselves and say I've been endowed with a great Holiness I'm not living in the world the same mundane profane secular way as everybody else I'm living a holy life I strive and I live not for happiness I live for Holiness Holiness and how we speak and relate Holiness and how we dress Holiness and how we interpret the world Holiness and being on a mission to repair and redeem the world I'm living here for Holiness not for happiness we don't live for Holiness and point and say I say why do I need to be a Jew why do I have to wear my yaka why do I have to be a visible Jew why do I have to make a br why do I have to show that I'm yesterday I went shopping with a son-in-law we both needed suits it happened again I got I got bagel again the person in charge of the fitting room they now have to count how many things you take in I guess stealing is so prevalent it's like a TSA you know going into the fitting room counts how many things on your way in on your way out you don't steal just going to put a suit in my pocket I don't know exactly what the thing anyway so the woman on the way in she says the suits for Shabbat I said maybe yeah thank you and on the way out she says shabbat shalom I said it's Sunday afternoon but why she she her Nish was screaming out the Pint was screaming I'm a Jew I'm a Jew I don't know what else to say to you other than shabbat shalom but I want you to know I'm a Jew my soul is screaming it's screaming that's what's happening that's what anti-Semitism the gift of anti-semitism it is waking up Jews who were fast asleep and we weren't succeeding in waking them up it's waking up a piece of ourselves that was fast asleep and that it needed to be woken up it needed to be woken up so the challenged again shabbat shalom on a Sunday on a Sunday afternoon the Jews are waking up the kadus of a yid the sanctity the Holiness of a Jew we're not living for happiness the whole world who's running for the pursuit of happiness why do you have to run after happiness you ever wonder why America why in the Declaration the Constitution what is the right that we're given the pursuit of happiness you don't have to run after something that's not running away from you it's the pursuit of happiness because it's fleeting it's elusive it's running away if you're running after happiness you're not going to catch up if you're living for Holiness you're G to find a lot of Happiness if you live for happiness you're miserable we're in the most prosperous generation of all time and the most miserable generation of all time if you're living for happiness you find misery and if you live for Holiness you're going to find a lot of Happiness says what do I need this for but we see this is my life my identity who I am and what I live for I'm not the same was true with we'll pick up with this next week the same was true with adish he too denied his role in place this is why I'm here why did I decide to go to this store not that store why did I come at this hour not earlier why did I decide to go try it on even though I could have just bought it because I needed to be Bagel by that person have a good chabas on Sunday afternoon at two o'clock that's why and you point and you get in your car and you say this moment and every moment is you Hashem everything about it Hashem your fingerprints are everywhere to live a life not just of Ms to know Hashem exists in theory to live a life of amuna Hashem your fingerprints are everywhere in my life I don't have to be a detective I don't have to you know dust for fingerprints I see them everywhere like on the mirror in your house when you have your children and grandchildren over the window you don't need to dust you don't have to be a detective the fingerprints are everywhere that's a k his fingerprints are making a mess everywhere you see them everywhere and just like if you're lucky enough to have children and grandchildren you don't mind those fingerprints because they're the biggest BR that could be's fingerprints everywhere is the biggest BR that you could find they continue to see his fingerprints everywhere and his fingerprints on bringing the hostages home sweeping Victory we should pause to say thank you to Hashem for the miracle of last night in Tel Aviv we shouldn't need such Miracles but thank him for the Miracles and here's the thing when you're thankful when someone's thankful to you doesn't it make you want to do more for them when someone doesn't even acknowledge that you've done something extraordinary for them doesn't it make you want to lose their number and forget they exist so if we want Hashem to do more of these Miracles stop and pause and say thank you say thank you how could we not should be a day filled with yes