IT'S PERSONAL!!

[Music] in this week's torah portion occurs the famous splitting of the seat after the miracle of the sea splitting we sing a joyous song to God praising him the verses of this song take up a large part of this week's Torah portion o take up space I can't play the next level of angry cows one particular verse goes like this this is my god and I will glorify Him the god of my father and I will exalt him this verse teaches an extremely profound lesson like every single verse in Tara does first we refer to God as my god then we refer to him as the God of my father because it is extremely crucial that we don't only have a relationship with God based on tradition based on what my father taught me our relationship with God is personal this is my god oh my he's mine - my god not just based on what our parents taught us we make it personal by delving deeply and intellectually into godly concepts intellectually by learning about God and your relationship with it are delving deeply into ourselves and finding that peace of God within us learning to express it and actually expressing it but yet the verse then goes on to say the God of my father because it is also crucial that our relationship with God a very personal would be backed by the fact that he is the God of my father papa our relationship with God is backed by tradition because as deeply as we can delve intellectually to understand God and our relationship with him our intellect is limited and having a backing that he is the God of my father ensures that we can't be misguided when our intellect suddenly doesn't understand anymore it's called intellectual misfortune today I know what that's like efforts do we all know time especially when I tried to understand God God God God when our intellect can't comprehend why doing this Mitzvah is the right thing my sister taught me a new word this week doppelganger sounds like the name of an extremely dangerous rabid dog but apparently that's the word for someone who looks exactly like you my friend was looking through the newly released photos of the revit and he saw this one picture which he right away sent to me and take a look you'll probably see why it's kind of blurry or I should say very blurry but this person really looks like me it's kind of scary I posted the picture in my what's up status without saying anything and people would just right away were saying wow that looks exactly like you it's pretty nuts if anybody knows who that guy is I actually want to know quite interested okay as much as I like talking about myself the reason I showed that to you was because I want to talk about their ever she's gonna be about one extra minute added on to the average time of the late partial show on a usual week in honor of judge fought the 10th of the Hebrew month of spot which is today the day on which the rebel fishel II accepted the mantle of leadership right after we cross through to see on dry land after we see the crazy miracle that God just did for us and the punishment that he brought upon the Egyptians right before we started singing that song praising God for the miracles there's a verse that says like this and they meaning the Jews believed in Hashem and in Moses his servant whoa doesn't that sound kind of extreme the tur is equating our belief in God with our belief in Moses yes the holy Zohar right but there is an extension of Moses and every generation meaning in every generation there is one individual leader of the vinay Easter all of all Jews who like Moses is our conduit for blessing and instruction from God and this isn't god forbid Harrison denying the fundamental fact that every single Jew is one with God needing no middleman or any external influence to connect him or her with God Moses is not an external influence or middleman Moses is completely transparent to the fact to the point to the point that God speaks through him we are one with God and God is one with the Moses of our generation there ever it is as important as it is to believe in God creator of heaven and earth to trust in him that you have that same sort of belief and Trust in the Moses of our generation and the Moses of our generation has said countless times that the Messiah is ready to come we just have to start living a mushy lifestyle with that attitude already with increased joy and love for your fellow miss ya now [Music]