Part 30: Putting Faith into Practice

okay good morning ladies we are ready to begin is a coffee is the Sheets if anyone didn't get she as always we dedicate our learning in the memory of Aliyah and want to remind everyone tonight we're beginning a new series called the best version of yourself using some of the great self-help books of our time seven habits highly effective people and essentialism and others combined with Tora lessons how we can be the best version of ourselves that's tonight and tomorrow night we're starting a new series fra con's suggestion see we listen now them called music unplugged where we listen to three songs that are very popular that we sing we know the lyrics but we have no idea what they mean where they come from or what they're about so hopefully can give a greater meaning all the classes will be online afterwards we are continuing the Shalom we're on Page in his section called Y and the son has been veloping when it comes to amuna there are two parallel paths I don't know if they're parallel in the sense that they're equal because that's part of his thesis but there are two paths towards amuna there is the analytical evaluating examining the evidence weighing the proof attitude prove it to me and when I see it I'll know it and there's the other which is the you take that leap of faith you live life you see the song being sung by the universe around you by the natural world and by the miracles of Jewish history and you don't need to examine and evaluate and analyze but you realize as much as you know anything else you know the truth that there is Aon that he's involved in our lives that he loves us that we love him and so on this past shabas we had an amazing speaker Ari sasher who is the head of the team that developed and invented the Iron Dome it works for Raphael and aside from being amazingly entertaining and Brilliant and in it was a great speech and I don't want to um reash his whole speech I I reviewed it again yesterday in the par class I was just so moved by it um but yesterday I mentioned in the paraa class what he had said in the morning about the Yakov is the Dual personality of the Jewish people and when we show each side but in the afternoon class he gave on the Iron Dome he made such another important both of the talks he gave all three of the talks were counterintuitive from what you'd expect from this rocket scientist in the morning you thought this rocket scientist who invented the IR Dome would get up and say with great pride we have Iron Dome we can take care of ourselves take that enemies the Jewish people are brilliant and we can innovate and discover instead he said it's kind of pathetic that we have the Iron Dome what a reflection of being a Yakov who are so defensive still we allow people to shoot rockets at us and we just build an iron Dome and then in the afternoon he gave the following great point you may remember you may have seen it many got the email going around during the last war in Gaza of the story of the rockets that were shot they were headed towards the Israeli Tower in Tel Aviv they shot Iron Dome at it Iron Dome missed and with 4 seconds to go was about to hit aeli could have wiped out thousands of people a gust of wind blew it into the sea and that story went around and everyone took it a truth and as a scientist a rocket scientist an engineer he proved why that story could not possibly be correct based on what the speed of wind would have had to have been it would have blown the entire city of Tel Aviv into the sea not just the rocket and his point he made was great why do people want to believe that story is true because they want to see the hand of Hashem why do we forward those emails to one another and post those stories on Facebook why do we live for the small miracles in the world because we want the big Miracles really we yearn for and wish we lived in the time not of the persecution of Egypt the servitude of Egypt but we wish we lived in a time where the sky opened up a called our name and we saw his guiding hand and we wish we saw the Miracles of 10 plagues and the splitting of a sea and so on and so forth so we get a story like that on email and we don't go to Snopes and we don't check if it's true cuz we don't want to know if it's true we just want to believe it so that we can feel you know what this confirms and affirms everything I already know there's a Reon there are Miracles ha atheist take that so but said AR so I think brilliantly he says you're looking in the wrong place don't make up stories that aren't true in an attempt to see Miracles he said you want to see a miracle don't make up a story about the wind if you want to see a miracle look at the Iron Dome and he described the complexity and the unlikeliness of being able to invent and being able to accurately execute an Iron Dome and they in fact were told that around the world when they looked for the funding from the United States and from others they were told never happened you can't create a system which can anticipate the trajectory and speed of a makeshift amateur rocket and meet it midair and explode it in a way that doesn't hurt the people on the ground it's impossible and yet and yet with Ingenuity but with the miraculous divine intervention the help of hem they did it and his point was that there are pesak Miracles and there Pur Miracles and we look in life for the pesak Miracles but those aren't going to happen again for the reason we talked about last time K doesn't show his hand as he once did because now is a world of Free Will and to preserve Free Will K needs to remain hidden the more revealed he would be the less free will we would have the less purpose there would be to life for our Our Lives to have meaning we have to make choices to make choices there have to be opportunities or real alternatives for there to be real Alternatives it has to be compelling to say he's not there if it was only compelling to say he is there if all you did was email Miracle stories all day and it was very obvious in a pesak kind of way that hasem is here we wouldn't really have free will not to be obedient and submissive and not to be in the relationship with him the way he expects so to have free will which is what gives the meaning the relationship meaning he has to be hidden we have to make that choice to find him to choose to be with him to make that effort to show that initiative that's a prerequisite that's critically important to make it a uh to make it a reality wh That's all right that's my the last week's class so oh this morning sure so um therefore he has to be hidden in order for free will to be preserved the more revealed he would be the less Free Will so we yearn for the pesak Miracles but they're not happening but he says there's Pur Miracles all around us I know it's only Kaneka but there's Pur Miracles all around us and he went through and I don't want to rehash the whole thing he spoke about The Six Day War as being a peram miracle but he talked about Iron Dome and his point I thought was so brilliant and again this is a rocket scientist rationalist who's talking about the Yad Hashem you'd think he'd be up there saying you know God had nothing to do with it my seven years in techon had to do with it my team of Engineers had to do with it we came up with you know where is God he's allowing Rockets to be shot at us there is no God we the scientist came up with Iron Dome thank God for us but he didn't say that he said we invented iron Dome we never could have done it the of being you know we invented it but the fact that it actually works you know and the missing and and the parts of it that work he talked about one incident about a rocket that came through and killed three Israelis who had gone out to their messet to see the Iron Dome hit the missile in the sky but the missile came through the Iron Dome didn't work and why didn't it work because the Iron Dome battery in layman's terms he says went offline for 5 seconds it lost internet for 5 seconds and in those 5 Seconds it had the inability to track the trajectory and to send the missile and to do what it needed to do and therefore it missed and the rocket came and killed three people and the lesson he got from that was first of all the not only how horrible it was the loss of those three lives but the miracle it is each time it does work that it's not oh we're so brilliant and scientific in our engineering and how incredible it is it's all the variables that have to come together for the miracle to work so the point he was making the point I'm reiterating is we need to stop looking for miracles in the wrong places we need to stop believing in and stop communicating you I could tell you as a rabbi I hate sharing those stories of the Miracles because I think if you base your amuna on them you're in trouble because you wonder where are those miracles for me and for every recipient of a miracle there was a person on the other end of that Miracle who suffered so somebody sends a story out I was supposed to take this flight and I was going to be on this plane and then I I got stuck in traffic and I missed the flight and wow and then the flight ended up going down and it's a miracle I'm here Hashem loves me should that person feel Hashem loves them and there was to save them absolutely they should feel it they should make a sud every year 100% they should serve Flik 100% they should feel 100% they should feel it 100% but as a rabbi or any of us to get up and say it let me ask you a question what about the person who because that seat emptied up who had been on standby now got on the plane yeah what about their family what kind of meal are they hosting every year they're hosting a urite meal every year not a suda not a meal of Thanksgiving so it's somewhat kind of insensitive and I think it's counterproductive to suggest that we can base our amuna that we can found our amuna on these stories and that was his point stop looking at these stories many or most of which are fabricated or are distorted or are exaggerated stop looking for the PES Miracles and start seeing the pur Miracles that are all around us and to a certain degree that's what theb is talking about about that just see the Miracles stop analyzing well IR don't it's because of this and this and this and this and you add that all up and that's why it works and was no God in that equation he says no I invented it I'm telling you God is in that equation it absolutely is a miracle okay we're on the top left hand column page me gimmel someone a comment yes what about the hurricane this summer with the wind blew off and it saved this area from the devastation so again I think that we in South Florida Palm Beach County Boone should be indebted to the almighty there chair is here there chair a chair if you want we should be indebted to the Reon that he sent a gust of wind that nuded Matthew just a little bit to the right that was one time our community didn't care that something was going to the right so nud nudge that hurricane a little bit to the right but again Hench I say the same thing if we get up and we preach Hashem is here Miracles there's a God the hurricane missed us well what about the people north of us that the hurricane hit the damage that was done and the lives that were lost it's insensitive so God is here for us and God is also the one who doesn't care about them so we just have to be very cautious and careful how we use amuna stories and how much of our amuna we base on those stories our amuna should not be as a result of that it should be the way that already depicted it top column top left hand column page everyone have a copy anyone need it's all right the trees died already you might as well not feel as guilty not that I feel so guilty and therefore says the that's why the r begin that the foundation of Foundations is to know there is a first cause that the ra does not begin to define the mitzvah the ra is not talking here about well there's something called has to be this big and it has to be this green and it has to look like this and has to be that size and it should look like this and feel like this and be that color so how come when the r introduces Amun he doesn't say okay this a Mitzvah and here's how it expresses itself you have to talk about hm like this and see AEM here and feel this with hem he doesn't start to define the Mitzvah the way he does when he goes through these other categories of Mitzvah why here instead he says you so how you the foundation of all of life because it kind of limits it when you start getting into the parameters of it you overshadow and you diminish the overarching theme which is just that you have to just feel Hashem in your life you you s if you start to you know if you start to toine okay so you tell your spouse let's talk about my love for you my love can be characterized as when you take the garbage out I feel a lot of love when you do this I feel a little love and the love is on Mondays and Thursdays the most cuz that's when the garbage there on Tuesdays and Wednesdays the love is a little bit less love you say like you're taking away what are you doing if you start to sit down and and Define this love and make the love and here are the boundaries and here's how you okay if you love me I've come up with a spreadsheet about how you could show me the love know so what have you done to the concept of love you SE it how you s those how about we just talk about that the foundation of our relationship is love now that's the foundation of relationship it should mean that you're prepared to give and sacrifice that you care about me I care about you we meet in the middle we make compromises that's the result but the foundation has to First be established the ground floor has to be built which is that our relationship is defined by love so unlike with L the ra does not begin the discussion of by saying here the boundaries here's exactly how you fulfill it here's how it's done he starts out that you that the am that is presence in your life is so foundational it so defines you that it's a idea it's a knowledge so when he talks about it as a foundation and overarching theme of our lives and AIS of our existence he talks about it in the form of Y Le to know because it is the foundation of the relationship to know like the foundation of my relationship with is to know I'm a married man it's not that I'm married I'm both when I go on a business trip I'm not married I'm married in the house I'm not married at work marriage is like this it's just it is a foundation that defines it's part of my very identity is to carry with me a knowledge that I'm a married man and being a married man has certain consequences and expectations and parameters and boundaries but I don't have to Define them to know at their core I walk around with a knowledge as part of my identity that I'm a married man well in my marriage with Theon later in ra will talk about how does this Express itself what are it boundaries what are its expectations and there he uses the term amuna because what it requires is that kind of leap of faith but when he's talking about it as walking around with a knowledge which is your identity it's a membership that you have I am part of the god Club I have a relationship I'm in a marriage with the that's L not I believe I'm in love not I believe I'm married I'm married it's the idea I know it and I carry it with me and it defines me I know there's aibon shal I know he created me I know he's intimately involved in my daily life I know he loves me and I love him I know there expectations of me that's knowledge now what does that relationship of which I have knowledge mean that's where I need to have amuna but it begins with the knowledge of the relationship it's almost as if what he's describing is that for the r you know if you this again I I'm I keep coming back to this metaphor and I don't mean to do it insensitively to those who aren't married but I think it is to a certain degree the highest level metaphor for our relationship with Hashem that's in the the Miss says in Cale that that we have many different metaphors for our relationship with God on the one hand we identify with him as a king and the and a um father no what are we a king and a and a and a what do what do you what do you if you're serve the king what are you the king and a servant subject Master a king and a subject thank you a master and a slave a parent and a child we have all these different paradigms of a relationship with Hashem and a husband and a wife and two lovers which is the highest Paradigm in fact cabala understands the mystics understand that God created each and every one of those relationships only so that we can identify in a different way different aspects of our relationship with Hashem so why did God a priori create a world which has a marriage marriage it has a master and slave it has a king and subject it has friendship it has parent and child we take that for granted because we don't know any other world but why did God design a world that has those relationships and they understand so that those relationship can be means through which we connect to Hashem I know what it means to have friendship is my friend I know what it means to have a parent I know what it means to be a parent K is my parent I know what it means to be a slave I'm a rabbi I know what it means to be a slave to have a master K is my master I'm a slave each of these is a paradigm to relate to hasem so in this world of metaphors in the schoras Borg of Alternatives of options to relate to Hashem which is the ideal which is the highest so that's Whata is quoted he says that um says that all the metaphors Are Holy but shim it's the holy of holies shim is the holy of holies and that's a whole separate topic because you know it's a difficult book are you supposed to understand it only allegorically does the simple meaning of the text have meaning also it's a source of somewhat controversy Rashi and there a big discussion about we've given shiram on it it's a very explicit book Shir sh somebody was critical recently to me that they can't bring the weekly or weekly bolted into their house because we had for a few weeks that page about that conference call on intimacy how could that work word intimacy and my children don't know what that is and I can't bring the weekly and you know I'm not critic Everyone's entitled to their standards I was just curious whether they have a tanak in their house because because and I don't I'm not making fun I'm not mocking to a certain degree I admire I I really do admire that yearning to create a pure environment and to protect children in a world in which they are assaulted with images and ideas that they shouldn't be or that they are way too prematurely so I admire the person's attempt I really really do I'm not mocking it in any way my point is only to say that if that is a concern how do you bring in the with the story of Yehuda andar how do you bring the that every time it says someone was and how do you bring in you know I always Marvel at this thank God our kids don't understand the word of what they're reading so they could sit and Sh here but my Israeli nieces and nephews who understand these words they are I'm talking graphic body part I'm talking intimate graphic detailed description Shir so they'll get to Rashi and they'll get to the allegory that the kiss is between Hashem and us and that the sh represent the whatever but if you know what these words mean it's a very very very explicit book and yet kazal included it they canonized it in the Canon it's part of the 24 books of tanak Anda says it is the greatest the highest metaphor to identify in relationship with a with him as a spouse and a spouse requires that 247 seven consistent unconditional identity that I'm a married person I have an unconditional loyal a fierce loyalty and a love do we do we sometimes struggle does our love wax and Wayne do we have ups and downs do we feel closeness and distance absolutely that's part of every marriage and that's the story of shiram story of shiram is the do and Raya yearning to be together but they can't coordinate their efforts they just can't get on the same page this one's looking for the other one they're hidden behind the wall this one's ready the other one not knocking on the door anymore and that's the whole story of sh is that our relationships have ups and downs and that's okay but fundamentally and at their core we're in a relationship fundamentally in our core we're in a relationship and and to neglect that you're in that relationship to ignore the other person is cruel I'll tell you Torah I've shared before that my brother-in-law said at my of a few years ago so um the rambam says that a person who approaches the world they see that everything that happens is is chance and circumstances happenstances coincidence they don't see hashem's Divine hand they don't see the peram they don't see the Iron Dome they don't see the Six Day War they don't see the Ari sasher approach to life and they just explain everything away no this is science no this was a fluke no this was a coincidence no this was chance that this was this the ra uses the language that to be that way is Aus it's cruel and the commentary is one Aus it's a lot of things it might be ignorant it might be foolish why is it cruel where's the cruelty in the fact that you're missing the boat so my brother-in-law suggested I think very beautifully that the reason it's cruel is the following someone's trying to talk to you and you ignore them it's not just that okay you ignored them you weren't nice it's it's cruel you know you're calling someone across the room you're tring to speak to your child you're trying to ask someone to do something and they're just you're trying to talk to them and they're totally and utterly ignoring you that is the epitome of Cruelty it's cruel so he suggested what the r I'm saying is through our lives Hashem is talking to us through what happens that unfolds in our lives it's Hashem communicating with us and when you ignore him and you say it's chance it's happen stance it's nature it's history it's life and you don't stop and say oh it's Hashem the Iron Dome it's Hashem Six Day War it was Hashem I finding the parking spot it's AEM this delicious cup of coffee it's Hashem when Hashem is talking to us and we're busy ignoring him it's just cruel that's cruelty so when someone is standing in front of you and you look right through them and right past them and you render them invisible that's cruel the first level of amuna is to acknowledge Hashem is in the room stop looking past him stop pretending he's invisible stop cutting him out of the equation stop ignoring him and neglecting him when he's calling you your name whether you're ready to give him a hug whether you're ready to embrace whether you're ready to feel close is a separate story but minimally saved your se but minimally stop ignoring him minimally don't be cruel to him that is a function of Cruelty second next paragraph you see how little we do at a time so we'll be going through this for the next 10 years the r asked on the r why are you counting it as a Mitzvah is the foundation of existence don't minimize it by categorizing it as a Mitzvah like you do and and lighting candles if you don't shake lul I'm talking to a group of women who are exempt from LV so if you don't I let's think of another mitzah you're obligated in you're obligated in candles which we're going to talk about next shab so women are obligated to like Kan so you don't like kanaka candles you're still a Jew you could still be a good Jew you could still be a phenomenal Jew you got checks in every other box you're neglected you don't like kanak candles but the ran says if you didn't have amuna you deny God in your life he's not he's not part of the equation of your life you're ignoring him you've rendered him invisible you're looking right past him then it's not that okay but you get checked next to everything else and you're a good Jew it's that you get checked next to nothing your whole file is corrupt so why the ra count it as a mitvah so says this if you believe in the great Shepherd it's as if you have great amuna so I don't understand he's saying if you're having amuna that it's not as if you have amuna you have auna and if you don't have why do we say it's as if you have a you don't have a so what is this statement of says the son of unbelievable thing it's an unbelievable thing until now he's been endorsing the idea that you know intuitively in your kishkas in your gut you know there's a God stop overanalyzing stop going crazy stop evaluating stop going to seminars and reading books just listen to your gut listen to your kishkas that tells you there's a rebon in the world but now he introduces the following that when you listen to your gut and you simply know Theon that's not the Mitzvah of it's correct it's accurate it's what we should strive to instill in our children but it's not the Mitzvah of amuna you know what the Mitzvah of amuna is it's the work and the Toil and the effort you have to to put in to actualizing that amuna in your daily life so when you you know such and I can't tell you how often I have these conversations with people we talked about this when we learned the a number of months ago you know how often you talk to somebody who they'll tell you and that's when you're talking to them in the sh and then you become aware of them in business and they are ruthless and cutthroat they lack MOS they're worried and anxious about competitors they say hey tough guy what happened Holy Roller what happened to all that talk when I saw you the what happened where did he go where did he go so that's what the the the is saying the Mitzvah is not that I wake you in the middle of the night and say is there a god I told you the statistics are amazing today that the majority of Americans still believe there's a God sh how many of them are changing their lives because they believe there's a God the fact that they believe that there's a creator of the universe and a god what does that mean in a practical sense for Value systems priorities choices Lifestyles how you do it SOB is divided between the two at the core the the knowledge we carry is in our kishkas it's in our soul we should be woken in the middle of the night and know without having to think about and analyze and come up we should not there's a of course I have a pair I have a mother I have a father and I have a father of course there's a God 100% now you're stuck in traffic now the deal didn't go the way it was supposed to deal now your child left something in the middle of the floor you stubbed your toe now the person didn't show up at the meeting or didn't get done what they were supposed to get done they promised you they were going to do in a timely fashion now you have to go to the doctor you have an ailment you get a test you're waiting to hear the result now and we can come up with a million in one circumstances that every one of us face to test our Amun on a daily hourly minutely secondly basis so it's nice that if you woke in the middle of the night you know half asleep your eyes are closed you train yourself to say all those things but now you got to put it into practice now you're tested says the that's am that's the Mitzvah Amun you're not y the Mitzvah you don't get a big check next to the Box just because you know in your kishka there's AEM you get to check in the box when you go to work and you say I'm not going to fight with my competitor cuz determines my livelihood I'm working as hard as I can and if Hashem feels this is the max that I'm going to make then whether I have a competitor or not I'm not going to make more and if Hashem feels I can make twice this I can have all the competitors in the world I'm going to make twice this I'm going to work as hard as I can I'm going to take my initiative I'm going to do my all but I'm not going to be ruthless I'm not going to cut down my competitor because that's to deny hm's role in my life that's where the amuna test comes in and that's what meant the person who toils and struggles and exerts himself every day to take the leap to see The Trusted Shepherd in their life that Hashem is the trusted Shepherd in their life it's as if they believe wholeheartedly without a doubt in Hashem and he asked what do you mean either you believe in Hashem and then you don't need as if or if you don't believe in Hashem why do we say it's as if you do and he's saying there is an in between there's the knowledge that we have there is a God and then there's the proof is in the pudding there is the real world where that is tested on a regular basis even if you're not succeeding in every test even if you're not perfect in your amuna even if it goes up and down and is a struggle but the fact that you're in the struggle you're engaged in the battle you're toiling to live life to to work on building that muscle that's the Mitzvah that's as if you believe so this is what he says now you understand why the r counted as a mitah let's go back the r isz and the ra counts as one of those com ra and he says don't count as a Mitzvah don't relegate it like any other that there's a box and a check and you know you got to do it KHAK candle shabas C candles lul for don't don't just make it another box it is it is everything if you don't have auna the rest of it is nothing so don't just make it another box which which diminishes it that was the Ran's question on the r and now the theb is answering for the ram why can the rambam make it a Mitzvah because for the ram there's two amas there's the amuna in the kishkas and that's what the ra talks about that there's a mitzvah to know there's a first cause there's a God there's a Creator to know it in our kishkas doesn't take thought doesn't take analysis and it doesn't have parameters and boundaries of How It's fulfilled that we know in our kishkas then there's another aspect to the Mitzvah which is what he talks about when he says that it's one of the T mitz that's where he talks about nice that you know it in your kishkas what about in your daily life are you succeeding each time you're challenged with aun that's where there's a mitzah and according to this when a Jew works on themselves and when they say when they say I believe I'm choosing to believe they are fulfilling the Mitzvah of says tells us something very daunting when after 120 we will expire from this world and meet our maker and come upstairs Hashem will ask us a series of questions and the question he'll ask is one of the questions is the first question is did you deal with your business dealings honestly the classic way it's understood is Nuna did you were you occupied did you engage in your business dealings Beuna with honesty so the this simple the simple meaning is did you deal with business in an honest way but is according to this tradition that you interpret it differently not that you deal with your business dealings with amuna but did you treat amuna with the same drive and aspiration you did your business dealings did you the same attitude the same energy the same measurement the same goal setting the same Pursuit the same drive that you brought to your business did you bring that to am did you bring that to working on your similarly the same way that you try to increase your inventory that you try to build your assets they trying to fatten your your livestock one should work on amuna the same way they do and I was just having I have a I have a Monday morning learning Group which is a group of businessmen and uh we study we're doing orik now we went through the previously and we also have discussions about business so the conversation this past week was about goal setting and you know in business terms it's the end of the year for us it's the middle of the year as Jews but in the secular it's the end of the year and this is the time of year that people do a review they do go setting for the next year and there's incredible statistics about how many people abandon those goals and don't set them down and don't work on them and all kinds of things involved in in goal setting and so we were talking about what are the metrics and measurements how can you set goals and how do you achieve them is it just revenue is it profit margin is it growing your business the bottom line is it employees is it you know what what does it but what he's saying here is how many people at the end of the year L sit down and create goals and measurements and metrics for their amuna where am I in my amuna where am I in my daving where am I in my living with where am I in my my and how can I set goals and how can I set measurements and what's my plan of how I'm going to achieve it and what I'm going to get it done this year and can they write it down amazing research recently shows that if you write down your goals you have a 42% greater likelihood of achieving them you can have all the goals in the world and you talk about it and you tell everybody and you think about it but if you write it down literally the act of writing it down certainly then if you post it and place it is that you'll see it it confronts you it's in your face you have a 42% greater likelihood of achieving it if you write it down so how many people write down goals of Amun the am that you feel naturally you don't get any credit for that that's not a fulfillment of the mitzvah the Yun that's in your kishkas that's how Hashem designed you he designed you knowing that you have a mother and father does a child wake up and say had a teenage years you know I'd like to investigate I'd like you to provide me with a blood sample because I'm not really convinced you're my mother my father it's possible I just I just came to be from spontaneous generation how do I know that I didn't just come into existence I'd like to do some research please provide me some DNA samples where's your comb I got to take some hair follicles because and then my children would be in big trouble if I had to provide hair samples but where where's uh because I'm not really sure you're my parents no the child knows intuitively you're my parents you're my parents we intuitively from birth no we have a father in Heaven and don't blow that so that intuition that you have a father in Heaven you don't get credit for that that's not a Mitzvah that's not a big Merit on your part the Mitzvah of amuna comes in when you take that intuitive knowledge and you put it into practice when you tap into that reservoir of feeling that there's AEM and it encourage enables you empowers you throughout the day even somebody who's born Mah and it happens somebody who's born with a brist they're born circumcised they have no forkin it happens we had a child in the born circumcised no foreskin there Still Remains aah that you have to draw a tiny drop of blood so the OA that covers the heart even if you're born without that covering on the heart I'm sorry the Ora that covers the the bris even if you're born without it you still need a toughest D bris similarly the oil that covers the heart even if you have this intuition about you're confident that is there one still needs to express that Amun it's another he says they lost because it was cut off from their mouths what does that mean it means we usually think first you have to be convinced of amuna in your heart and then you'll practice amuna with your mouth you'll talk about AEM and you'll feel Hashem and Hashem will enable you to get through the day says but it works about the opposite the more you connect with the sense that Hashem is in your life you talk about him during the day you rely on him you lean on him you turn to him the stronger that intutive amuna will be and the the more that you fail to express that amuna in your daily life that amuna dries up and it and it dies and it disappears from within you that we say in I have why because I talk about you because I tell my children thank thank Hashem before you eat that thank Hashem that we have on Yesa week we're going to Disney an amazing hasm gave us the BR to be able to do it thank hasem not for me I don't thank hm for that but thank hasem that whatever it is the the more you talk about hem the more you'll feel hashem's presence is amuna in our lives we should all be blessed to flex that amuna muscle and to not only know intuitively that there's a hem but to remember to tap into it to give us courage and strength throughout our day have a wonderful week amen thank you