Part 92: Effort is an Expression of Faith

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we're not doing it alone but real means that we're Consulting with Hashem as our Confidant our friend our family member whenever we're traveling we're not traveling alone we're traveling with him whenever we're experiencing a challenge or struggle or tension we're not experiencing it alone and asked to endure it alone but rather we're experiencing it together with him and that was uh he developed last week RI he didn't develop it last week but we studied it last week the um balance and the reason that hasem created a world that took the relationship between the equilibrium between and it takes our effort and it also takes our trust effort is tremendously satisfying and gratifying but runs the risk of thinking that we're in charge is incredibly uplifting and enriching to realize there's a Hashem creates controls our universe but it could breed a sense of passiveness and fatalism and so what we need is the blend between the two and that was the punishment to was was commensurate with the mistake of misusing Free Will where hasem said I want you to take that Free Will and find that balance the integration between these two things and if you remember just to uh conclude our summary of last week that's what Raba and Mish described so beautifully that the P said says in M that we have to believe in trust inm with all your heart but that means in our heart theoretically in the abstract know that there's Hashem go to the amuna class and belong to every amuna group and read every book on amuna and know in your heart if challenged know and believe in your heart that we're not here randomly we're not here by chance life is not just coincidence there's a God and he controls the universe there's a first cause to all that exists there is a a master plan know that in your heart but as we said last week there are many people who know it in their heart and that's where it remains in their heart so that they say but then when it comes to business they're ruthless in business when it comes to competing or when it comes to taking revenge or feeling anger or Envy or anxiety or all the areas where a lack of leads to different debilitating dysfunction dysfunctional feelings so then it remains only in the heart it never comes out and that's why the continues says so first know that there's a God in your heart and then in all your Journeys in all your travels wherever you go and whatever you do know him know him I was trying to help you last night with something on the computer or download something in iTunes it's always so frustrating technolog is unbelievable you have to stop and say Hashem help me out you're my it person help me out make this work figure it out make it work just have just have it come to be just have work so whatever task is at hand be it large and consequential be it small and inconsequential but in all your Journeys and all your tasks and all your ways know that there is a know that there is a hasem so he concluded or we concluded what we read last week was on the one hand we have a Mitzvah of an effort in parasa and we loved how called that a mitzvah you can't just be passive or think it's going to happen or God's going to provide God gave you the capacity to provide have to realize that when we make the effort it's up to him if we're successful but he is counting on us to be his partner and to to to try to bring it into the world of of action so we're on the last paragraph above the aster one of the areas that we need to take initiative and show effort in life is is doing borer borer is also on chabas Bor is one of the 39as you're not allowed to separate and sort on chabas but separating and sorting is a part of our mission all week long the good from the bad to do that in the world is easy we can read the New York Times of the Wall Street Journal Fox News CN whatever your choice read Washington Post whatever you want to read and to say I can distinguish here are the good people here are the bad people here the good events here's the bad events here's the good news here's the bad news to be able to look out at the world and try to distinguish between good and bad and use our capacity to sort and uh and and and distinguish that we can do but to do it within ourselves to do a sense of borer to extract the good and bad within ourselves that is much much harder to identify what are my good qualities and my bad qualities what's a good decision and a bad decision what are healthy thoughts and unhealthy thoughts that's much much harder so giving it back to the agricultural analogy because and the Torah was describing an Agricultural Society the punishment to Adam for making the wrong choice in the Garden of Eden was that he had to work very hard out in the out in the field so he says you know um what's it called weed taking the weeds out in the field and picking the right wheat that's much easier then when you've harvested your wheat now going to now going to work to sell it and you can't at the end so you you break your back in the field the sun is beating down you're plowing you're planting you're harvesting you're wi all the different parts of of bringing in uh produce you've harvested your field so after you broke your back and the sweat of your brow and the time and energy you gave up and the muscles and joints that ache to be able to say you know what I did all that work but really it's he made it rain and he kept away the bugs and he enabled me to find buyers and the market to have a to have a high price says that is our mission the balance between and effort initiative on the one hand and faith and trust on the other is to um go through life and to be able to distinguish to be able to sort to do B rare in our lives to be able to realize what's me and what's Hashem where's my job what's my part what's my half and what does Hashem do we in Snippets we um last week or two weeks ago we talked about if you want to grab more if you've run to this far I would I would do it you can grab a couple more chairs from there so um in we talked about the of and the what is the God created us with wisdom and what's the wisdom they're bringing more chairs don't worry what's the wisdom that hasm created us so some explain we puted in the sitter Snippets some explain that the that hem created us with is that the body has the body is a factory the body is a more complicated incredibly productive efficient Factory as great as any Factory that there is Hashem created the body as a factory that extracts the nourishment and the nutrient and the good that we need to keep and eliminates the bad that we can afford to get rid of that we don't need that we don't need anymore that's an incredible incredible gift so we acknowledge every time we come out of the bathroom of the miror said person comes out of the bathroom if you understood the miracle of what goes on between when you put the food in your mouth you chew it and you taste it and your saliva and it breaks it down you're able to swallow it you're able to absorb it it goes through the entire length of the digestive system and uh and the intestine large intestine small intestine the stomach and you're able to excrete it and you able to hold on to the nutrients and get rid of what you don't need said you'd call a family member and say I just underwent a surgery and it was successful if you understood everything that went through it you'd say I'm making a party I need to make a sud I just had a successful surgery that's how intricate and detail that entire system is so that's the the the Brilliance the wisdom of what created we are walking factories and the fact that Hashem created our body in such a way that we eat food and we extract the nutrients and the nourishment and then we eliminate what we don't need is a symbol and a model and a reminder every day that just like our body is that factory our heart and our soul are to be the factory that does that for how we interpret the world we look at the world and we too are supposed to separate and extract out the nourishment the nutrients the things that will sustain us spiritually and get rid of the rest and get rid of the rest let's continue so he now quotes the great founder father of the Muslim movement there are two types of of trust inm says how do you exhibit is expressed through not through passiveness but through action specifically by the way taking action when it's Against All Odds doing things that make no sense that's how you show that you have when you say you know what I don't know if this will be successful and I don't have confidence in its success and I'm not sure I'm capable of succcess but you know what I trust Hashem so therefore I'm going to make the effort anyway you understand so making an effort is the Fulfillment of the expression of having faith in Hashem if you sit back passively on your couch and you say I'm not feeling well but Hashem will make it better I'm not working but Hashem will fill my bank account with money and give me parasa I'm not modeling for my children but Hashem is going to give me righteous children I'm not making an effort in my relationship but everything's going to fall into play if you just sit back passively that's not trust in Hashem that's exactly the opposite you need to create a clay you have to give Hashem the means the the foundation through which he can do his thing but if you don't make the effort you're not actually showing Hashem Faith what you're doing is relying on a miracle and we don't rely on Miracles we don't rely on Miracles relying on a miracle is not having faith in Hashem it's trying to test the system and you're going to you're going to be disappointed because hasem doesn't suspend The Rules of Nature and hasem doesn't make miracles for you lowly o not you us we right so there are only a handful of times in all of human history that Hashem has suspended his Rules of Nature to intervene and intercede and do a miracle and you think you're worthy of one of them you think you're lined up and worthy for the next one so don't rely on hashem's Miracle because you're going to be disappointed instead do everything that you can do things that are a long shot people who engage in experimental treatment in medicine because even though it's a long shot if I want Hashem to be able to work his magic he has to be able to have a hook to hang his hat on I have to be able to afterwards say no no no no it wasn't hasem didn't do a miracle the experimental treatment and Hashem bashem made it work God gave the wisdom and the insight to the doctor who had this einfall who had this idea to do it so I credit Hashem with its success but I need to be able to explain it within the rules of nature if I can't explain it within the rules of nature it's a miracle and God doesn't do Miracles so I'm giving Hashem the outlet I'm giving Hashem the the path to be able to do his thing work his magic if I don't do my isas then I'm just saying do a miracle and he's not going to do a miracle but when I do my isas even when it's a long shot in whatever area whatever Arena it's a very big long shot to do it but I'm going to do it anyway I'm going to do it anyway I mentioned the Pas several weeks ago that when asov is is positioned to come out first twins are or growing in their mother's womb in rifka's womb and asov is is positioned to come out first yakob gains his name why because he grabs the heel of ASV what are you grabbing the heel he's already on his way out you can't pull him back in and you're going to circumvent him and get around and get out first it's not you know it's not like Grand Prix Raceway you're not you can't you can't pass him there's no passing on the left and the right whichever Lane so what's Yakov bothering so much so he gains a name he gains a name so I forgot who says it of Beerman of Y of M bman quotes it in his bar Torah but he says Yakov knew it was a long shot but he did it and did it pay off for Yakov fast forward several years and who ends up with the birthright who ends up as the first born in the womb in that moment it was such a long shot it looked foolish what are you wasting your time what are you wasting your energy you're going to grab a heal it's not it's impossible it's impossible but Yakov did The Impossible and when he did The Impossible by doing that hisus by showing that effort and then putting him trust in Hashem he created a means for Hashem Hashem responded and Hashem made the impossible possible and what happens fast forward ASA is hungry comes in from the field and sells the birthright to yob so did Yakov get what he sought and set out to do he did did he get it right then no the same is true with us sometimes we do our sometimes we put in that effort professionally in a relationship with our children in so many different ways and we don't see the peros we don't see the results immediately so we become disheartened we have uh we lose our morale because we say well I tried what was the point of trying it didn't even work what was the point I tried everything new with my wife with my husband with my children at work with my health with the ex I tried everything it didn't even work didn't even work it's January 2nd already I started it yesterday I tried everything new and it didn't work what's the point January 2nd there's no point there's no point so you see from the story of yob that it's not true sometimes there's a delay but it Hashem has to respond and react to our initiative and our effort and for why is that because our initiative and our effort are really a form of that's how we show Hashem splits the sea but beforehand the people are standing at the edge we're going to read about this in a few weeks and what are they doing they're ding to Hashem which is what I would have thought they were trained to do I would think Hashem would give them a big Yash incredible here's three stars on your Mitzvah chart you're daving just like I taught you to do in a moment s in a moment of need instead yells at them he says what are you doing close the sitter close the and go to the doctor get a job close the sitter close the T and start walking Hashem is ready to split the sea but he asked to you have to start walking you have to do Theus so we pray with our words and we pray with our actions we show faith in our heart and we show faith in our Deeds for the taking hisas making an effort is goofa is exactly how we express the you can't rely on a miracle God's not doing Miracles he's not doing miracles for us so if we if we show effort and we can have a hook to hang the miracle the miracle it really was a miracle Six Day War was a miracle but there was an Israeli Army and they went to fight and they had weapons and those who want to be able to explain it his nature can explain it his nature you need to give Hashem a hook to hang his miraculous hat on but right our job is after the fact to still interpret it as a miracle our job is to still see hashem's guiding hand and to give him credit and to express our gratitude to him and show our appreciation and put our tra trust and faith in him the next time that's our job but forem to be able to do his work we need to give him a so understand Hashem is all powerful Hashem is all capable he's infinite he could do anything what does he need our effort he could have made the Jewish people spared from our enemies without an army without weapons he could make a person heal without going to the doctor without trying the experimental medicine he couldn't make a miracle the SE could have split without there starting to walk and go in he could make it rain you could make business come in without networking and trying to and trying to uh seek referrals so why do we have to go through the hasm is all powerful he's all knowing he's all capable it's true we're not trying to take away from Hashem by suggesting we have to do our but we have to do what we have to do that's how he designed the world the key we mentioned this last week the example the mushel like the lottery winner who $ 1.5 billion dollar coming to him or her we don't know who has yet to turn in the ticket on the one hand they've already won sitting in a storehouse in a bank account of the lottery sitting in Lottery escrow is 1.5 billion with a B dollars billion so why isn't it just transferred to the person can sit on their couch at home and say so new why isn't in my account wire it put it there why isn't it there Eli what does the person have to do in order to access the 1.5 billion you got to bring in the ticket you got to do what you have to do so our ticket is hasem has pink talks about in the beginning of created the world if you look at the beginning of the world Hashem designed an ecosystem he created rain condensation turns into rain it falls it nourishes the ground the ground produces he created it all but he didn't set it in motion until the sixth day when man is created and Rashi there quotes why not because until there was man to appreciate it and to pray for it he didn't provide it and rinka says the same is true in our lives there is incredible BR waiting for us whether it's in money or in health or in r or gash or children there's a that's sitting up there in the storehouse it's waiting but Hashem says you need to ask I told you the other mush I'll put money on your debit card I tell my children but you got to call you got to call you got to talk to me I'm not just replenishing the money on the debit card automatically I want you to call I want you to ask I want the relationship so the money's waiting and it's ready to be transferred the blessing the BR is there in your life but you've got to call and ask the same is true with hasem there's storehouses of BR but we have to ask and Hashem designed and set up the system that way so that he' have a relationship with us just like with our children my children call either way they even without the debit card because they need other things but just joking I'm just joking because they love me and they love us and we love them and they're perfect so so we have a Rel wants that relationship so he sets up a world where there's BR waiting for us but we have to ask so we ask with our words but we also ask with our Deeds we have to do our we have to make our effort so that's that's the perspective is that is a form of effort initiative is how we express trust the ran has kind of an extreme view of of and he says real am and real on the highest highest level is that you put your entire trust in Hashem to the point that you forfeit doing any initiative and you realize initiative is a concession it's a lowly level it's in the material physical human world but hasem who's so on so all capable can do anything you literally cast all your trust and all your faith in Hashem now the ran goes so far as to say even it's a difficult ran talked about ran really say this not really say this but the ran seems to write to the point that the person with the highest level of when they get sick doesn't go to the doctor they dve into a that's so it sounds like Christian Science Scientology it sounds like those things that are not part of our faith but there ran writes or seems to write that and he doesn't say that one should try that at home that's for the highest highest level of which most none of us are capable of so don't try it at home but know that there is somewhere a category of people a person who can have such a level that relationship they're just trusting in Hashem not that they're not going to the doctor they're just trusting with Hashem I once visited someone in the hospital a young person who was having a particular medical issue and they needed to have a medical procedure in order to solve it and that they're they're a person who I admire for the level of am they have always and they're doing the way they speak the way they behave the way they act and he just he was in the hospital just delaying delay he just didn't want it he said I'm telling you has is going to solve it for me I don't need I don't need that that that solution and Tak and it resolved itself now I'm not suggesting that something should be tried at home it's irresponsible to try that at home it's irresponsible with our own bodies it's irresponsible with our children or our family members we believe you got to go to the doctor we're more type of and even if you're a raan type of person don't think that you're on that level that you should try that at home some have tried that at home and failed so so is is um laying out that there are two types of there's the is expression of there there's the where just just throw it all on now quing weting Jewish people we are we are an expression of God in this world and as an extension and expression of Hashem we don't have to trust in the natural world we don't have to engage we don't have to utilize the natural world not with our body not with our land not as a people and not as individuals this is the ran again some are so um suspicious that the ran could have even said this they suggest ran didn't really say this but the ran our version of the ran includes this the is saying that real to really see ourselves as an extension of hem means to put all your trust in Hashem and know that he's going to protect you the point you don't have to go to the doctor in the time of the prophets when you got sick you didn't go to a doctor you went to the prophet and he said tell me why I'm going through this what do I need to fix what do I need to repair what do I need to improve how do I need to react so you didn't go to the doctor you went to the prophet what place is there for a doctor or medicine in the home of somebody who entirely puts their faith and trust in hm in the last sentence the ran says what place is there for initiative in the life of a person who truly puts all their trust [Music] inem if you really can if one is really at that level of entirely putting their trust in hem what effort do you need to make this studying this topic this issue how to find the reconciliation between free will on the one hand initiative on the one hand and faith and trust in hasm on the other this Su this topic is no less complicated than the most complicated sugas in Shas the most complicated Su in so one shouldn't try to oversimplify it or think that you can simplify it it's a really really complicated topic and even within the ran don't oversimplify it now I'm not going to try I don't need to try hard at work I don't need to try hard on my MOS I don't need to try hard on my health it's all up to Hashem don't oversimplify what's a very complicated topic says RI can you merge the two ideas by doing like we are doing different circumstances like for example you have someone who there is a cure so you could go by the Salos that you should try to you know pursue that cure or if you're in a situation where there is no cure and you're really you know there's nothing you could do then you could pass by the r says that you know when stuck like you know or you're you you know you don't have to go into that dangerous area but a bus dropped you off there and you found yourself there so now just believe in Hashem and hopefully it'll help you get through this dangerous neighborhood but you don't you shouldn't get there to begin with if you could avoid you know yeah I definitely hear what you're saying so here's the good news when there's hope when there's when it comes to there's no in other words I put my mil fork in the F dishwasher so you got to call the rout you got to find out what's the and you know you want to know with brain death so you have one Po and you got ask the POS and the good news is when it comes to ashfa there's discussion about this too but when it comes to ashfa We believe We we have certain parameters of what are legitimate Alternatives within hashkafa it doesn't mean that you can invent or create or subscribe to just anything that anyone wants to believe or say we have parameters and boundaries Within hashkafa but within those parameters and boundaries one is entitled to integrate into their lives there's no system ofak so I'll give you an example do we believe in reincarnation do we believe in reincarnation we're not going to talk about this now but there's a big M do you believe in reincarnation there's Ron who line up on both sides of this and it's not the way you think they'd line up it's not that the mystics all believe in it and the rationalists don't believe in it there are rationalists who believe in it there are Mystics who don't believe in it there's a long list of ronam who talk about do we believe in gulum in reincarnation so here's the good news first of all we'll all find out it's not you know it won't really make such a big difference in your life you got to lead your best life either way but it's a ashic issue there are two sides to it whichever one resonates more with you and you feel more compelling or enables and allows you to continue to live as a religious Jew connected with Hashem you're allowed to subscribe to it so in Hasa there's not a specific yes we have a m and yes there are boundaries to what we can believe but the idea that I have to leave here today and I'm going to tell you just like we study topic so we go from the to the to the I tell you the I tell you and say this is how we P we don't do that for this you want to leave here there's moments where you're going to believe in the perspective go do it go kill it work and try and make an effort like it all depends on you and then trust as if it all depends on hem that's the and there's going to be moments like the ra now I disagree with you if it's okay to disagree with you where I disagree is is that even according to the if you find yourself in a bad neighborhood you put your trust on HM at that point meaning you you always have to do your initiative you should show your initiative to say I got to get out of this neighborhood I'm going do everything I can to be safe in this neighborhood you know we dropped off there by mistake meaning you you know you you put hles in but there's nothing I'm saying neighborhood both would agree in that moment that um at that moment you put your trust in Hashem because you have to believe I think both would agree that you have you have to believe that you tried not to end up there you ended up there it's from that's I'm saying if you ended up there by mistake but you put in all your efforts always try you know if there's a cure you find that cure and don't just say Hashem save me correct but if there is no cure then compated part for thean the raan seems to say that no you don't have to put in all your efforts that's what I'm saying so but there there's this tension even in a perspective in life because we see this you know there there is an approach of kazal if somebody's terminally ill it's very painful for a family member to have a loved one who terminally ill so if you hold out false hope or what the would call being you're just compounding your pain because in the natural order if a person is terminally ill beyond the point of treatment and healing they're going to die and that's not that that's just a reality of life every one of us is going to die we are we're all dying from the moment we're born we're dying the question is just when right it's pretty depressing but from the moment we're born we're dying and the question just is how fast or howow is that death when will it come and certainly we influence that based on the lifestyle choices that we make and and so on so do you say you know no I have such trust in Hashem that somebody's got stage 10 there's no stage 10 but stage 10 cancer and they've exhausted every treatment and it's metastasized across their entire body and their organs have shut down and they're unconscious on a respirator but I'm going to quote a even if a sharp sword is on somebody's neck you place your trust in hasem is going to make my loved one wake up so we have a strong approach in kazal and in our M that that's a really unhealthy way to live because you're going to be broken and devastated and that that you're you're asking God to do a miracle God doesn't do you think you're on the level or this loved one we want to believe our loved ones are on the miracle that God's going to do a miracle that's that's as big as the splitting of the sea or the 10 plagues in a world where we all are going to die that's just part of the natural order so there's something dysfunctional and unhealthy and debilitating and setting ourselves up for Devastation to live with that sense of being so I don't think even the ran is talking about being I don't think in the ramban would say in that circumstance that I just described an extreme circumstance that even then say butm is going to make a miracle the ramban is a realist he was a physician by the way everyone knows the ran was a physician so is the ramban he was a physician and he knew realism versus being unrealistic what he's saying is before that if you have strap you can get a strap test and take antibiotic or you could say Hashem is going to make the strep go away I'm putting all my trust and faith in in Hashem I don't think he's talking about being unrealistic and relying on a miracle he's talking about short of the miracle when it could be explained in nature do I have to utilize nature or can I ask Hashem to even within the world of nature make it make it go away so these are these are complicated when does am dictate that I say I I never give up on Hashem Anything Can Happen even in the most extreme circumstance where all odds are against and the natural order there's no way to explain why this would work out I never give up on Hashem is that admirable or is that actually delusional no at that point you're saying hasm is doing what's best for me that that would be a healthy way to do it that would be a healthy way to do it the r and famously says there are times it's permissible to D for someone to die meaning faith in Hashem doesn't mean I believe hm can make a miracle faith in hasem at this moment my is Hashem keep them comfortable Hashem don't let them be in pain Hashem let us not be in pain and transition from this and continue to find Comfort through the memories there are all kinds of other things mosha quotes this ran and says that it is permissible in certain circumstances to to transition from doing for a recovery and healing to doing for a Swift and painless transition to the world to come so yes it's accepting hashem's will whatever it is and don't dictate subscribing to to to a world of delusion becoming delusional because you're going to wake up from that delusion and have to come back to the real world where that person's not going to survive and live so don't demand being delusional they demand being realistic but within being realistic seeing hashem's hand feeling he's in the room asking him to help guide us and give us strength and make decisions with us and so on so this suya as we're just giving a few examples right now this topic is no less complicated than the most complicated topics inan and is now quoting a different ramban so so far we've contrasted the perspective or really the perspective of between say is how we Express and the who says in the greatest highest level of there is no there is no effort it's just relying on writes in the beginning of what's happening in the beginning of who is concerned that he doesn't have the merits to survive and hasm saves him Yakov and Hashem saves yob from the hands of asem saves yakob and it teaches us that Yakov didn't rely on his righteousness that he made an effort to be saved what does Yakov do the formula the three-fold formula diplomacy he sends gifts yet he's prepared for war he's got weapons and divides his camp and then most importantly he also he also do he also prays which by the way why did he pray promised protect you and take care of you I've got your back everywhere you go so what is he asking hem for help it's almost Hashem just reassured you I got your back and you say listen can I talk to you about something do you mind having my back you just ignore what has just told you so again the commentators say exactly what we talked about before Hashem had a storehouse of having his back but to access it you got to offer your so yakob is is by example showing these two parallel ways of trusting in Hashem with prayer with words but with also with actions between the diplomacy and preparing for war so who's the one who's pointing this out that Yakov doesn't rely on his righteousness and Yakov doesn't entirely lean into his faith but yob also does effort who's the very one saying that is the ranov makes an effort he takes initiative yob does it again when he does genetic engineering later when he's dividing from La he says the spot and speckled and different sheep and what you keep and what I keep and he puts the rods in the water when they see it they Brea he's doing genetic engineering why doesn't he just say Hashem will give me parasa I stay home I go to sleep hasem will provide if he wants me to get I'll get if he does if he wants love him to keep he keep again you see that y is not relying on righteousness yov is not relying on extraordinary levels of Faith he's showing effort and so on and so forth when he does the genetic engineering and sets himself up then then he has this dream where the Prophet theem speaks to him and says you can cut out the effort now I got it you've done the effort it's registered you g you took the key you open the lock I'm ready to give you the BR and yob stops with the initiative that ran was not the whole ran even when the ramban says in a home that's filled with faith there's no room for Consulting a doctor the ran himself continues only when Hashem has made a direct promise to you that he's got your back that's when it's inappropriate that's when it's almost disrespectful to show initiative why is it that the person who is faint of heart we send him home from War what do you mean let him go to war too and put talk onm and whatever happens to him is meant to be so again in all these rans what R is showing is the ran himself who talks about the extreme level that you put your entire trust and faith in Hashem is only talking about when hasm has made you the promise that he'll be with you but if you lack the confidence that you are worthy or that Hashem has made you the explicit promise then you do have to engage in so even though he's tried to set up a a uh contrast or a debate between the perspective and that of the ramban if you go through the Su of the ramban and you see the ran in these other his comments in the other areas as well you see that even the ran doesn't say that the average person should fail to make an effort and only do Faith even the ran is saying that you have to take initiative and you have to take effort so we're going to have to pick up with this for next week but the point is again this is the famous saying work and try when you do do like it all depends on you and then when you DAV DAV like it all depends on hem and that's our mission that's a balance that we strike between the two when we do initiative we shouldn't view our initiative as being either in contrast or even in competition in conflict with with for it is so you're sitting in the waiting room at the doctor if you're going to a doctor you're going to be sitting in a waiting room so if you're sitting in the waiting room the doctor you don't say you know I'll say to him before I go to the doctor I'll say tell him I come from the doctor but right now this is my establ the establ is theem please guide the doctor to come to the right conclusion the diagnosis give me the medicine get me better no the when I'm at work it's not that I where's my when I in the morning then during the day I got to go to work because I got to do the is an expression of the so that goes back to the if the is a form of the it means I bring with me everywhere is with he's got the desk next to me at work he's sitting next to me at the gym he's next to me in the kitchen while I'm preparing for shabas he's at the supermark hasem is with me everywhere because in the and the effort and initiative of my whole life and all that I'm doing Hashem is present with me all along not in conflict with B but as the expression and fulfillment of