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Do you need
money? Are you looking to get married?
Do you have a bad marriage? Looking for
a better relationship? Do you feel like
things in your life are stuck and
nothing is going anywhere? So, pay
attention to this short video. Tonight
is Shabbat, but more than that, we're
also celebrating the seventh day of
Passover. Anything that is hard for a
person like splitting the
sea for example parnasa your livelihood
finding your other half tonight all the
gates are going to open so pay good
attention. So what are these keys of
this holiday that the holiday is
offering to to open tonight? Then as we
know the nation of Israel went out of
Egypt towards Mount Si and on the way
out they reached to the ocean where they
couldn't go any further. One group said
let's just jump in the ocean and commit
suicide. We're not going back to Egypt.
Another group said no commit suicide.
No, no, no. We're going to fight the
Egyptians. Another group said we can't
fight them. We don't even have an army.
Let's just surrender and go back to
Egypt. And the fourth group said, "No,
no, let's pray to Hashem and he will do
a miracle." When this question was
presented to the leader to Mosher
Rabenu, Mosher Rabenu asked Hashem,
"What should I do?" Hashem commanded
him, "Continue going." The whole night
they didn't know what to do. The ocean
is on one side. The Egyptians are coming
from behind. And early in the morning,
one individual binav jumps into the
water and the sea splits and the nation
of Israel crosses the sea and they're
saved. And this is what we're
celebrating and commemorating tonight
and tomorrow
morning. So here's our answer. How do
you get the sea to split? You jump
like it's
called. Just jump into the water. go
straight forward into the issue and jump
into the water. The sea will split.
Here's your answer. Let's create a new
motion. Let me create a new action full
of courage and I'll jump into the water.
Sounds pretty
simple. But that's not the answer.
There's something way more deeper than
than just jumping into the water with a
little bit of
courage. You need to create a new
action. But what is the new action that
most people think? If I'm lacking
parnasai, if I'm not doing well in
business and I think that my new action
is to invest more in marketing or
advertising or to cut expenses, which
all of the above is good, but that's not
the action that is required. If I'm
looking to find my other half, what is
the next action? Go on another website,
go on another date, another dating
service. There's a lot of actions one
can do to solve their problems. But
that's not the action that is required
from us to do. A different action is
required from us to
do. not necessarily what we are familiar
with. And the courage that is required
to add to this new action is not
necessarily uh the faith that one might
say, "Oh, I need to have faith that
Hashem will make it happen." That's not
the courage that I'm talking about.
There's something much more deeper here
that you need to pay attention and to
apply into your life.
The splitting of the sea
creat was the result, not the
action. I'll give you an example. A man
wants to express his love and
appreciation to his wife and he buys her
a beautiful diamond ring. The diamond
ring represents his love. The diamond
ring represents the connection that the
man has to the woman in and his
appreciation.
We don't want to serve the diamond. We
don't want to go after the diamond.
That's not what we're serving. The
diamond is just the result of the love.
The diamond is the result of the
connection. The splitting of the sea is
the result of our connection with
God. Didn't jump into the water out of
fear or out of anxiety. That type of
jumps only causes more problems, causes
you to become more engaged in the issue
and sucked into a deeper
vortex. Jumped into the water, a jump of
faith, a jump that is connected to a
relationship. when I go through this
journey of life. But this journey is
done from a deep connection to the
creator. And this connection is
dependent on listening, on being
present, to understanding what God wants
for me, to hearing what God is talking
to me, to know really what God wants me
to do. That I'm not driven by fear. And
I don't operate from anxiety. Rather,
I'm driven and I'm operated from this
deep connection that I have to the
master of the universe. And that's what
brings the results. That's what brings
the splitting of the sea. Now, I don't
want to run after the results. That's
not what I want to focus on. I don't
want to pursue the results. I want to
focus on the relationship. I want to run
after the relationship that I have and
could have with the creator of the
world. So, what do I need to do tonight?
Friday night, we stay up all night. We
read, we learn Torah, we read a few
chapters of the book of and a few other
things. So, as usual, I've prepared a
page on my website
atmood.org/yamsuf where you can find all
the instructions of what need what you
need to do tonight, including all the
prayers that we need to recite all the
instructions and you can download it in
a PDF so you can have it printed for you
for Shabbat. Early in the morning, you
go and pray in a minan as soon as you
can pray at dawn. And at the time that
we sing Shiratayam, the splitting of the
sea, this is the highest moment of the
holiday where your kavana your
intentions has to be that Hashem should
bless you with true faith and true
through true faith and and and believe
in Hashem. After that, we recite our
prayers. Now, normally I would tell you
ask at this point for whatever you want
for yourself cuz the gates of heavens
are open. But on Shabbat, we don't pray
for ourselves. So today, what we're
going to do is you're going to pray for
somebody else. If you need parasa, then
you pray for somebody else to get the
get the parasa. If you need to meet your
other half, then pray for all the single
people. If you need help, then pray for
all the other sick people. On Shabbat,
we don't pray for ourselves. We pray for
others. The advantage the advantage of
that is that our sages
say if you pray for your other friend
for your friend then you your prayers
will be answered first. More than that
Shabbat is double the power. The Bish
says that everything that we do on
Shabbat is like a thousand times that
you did it during the week. So all these
prayers are going to be done not only on
but also on Shabbat where you get a
thousand times the power of a normal
prayer and of course a big question that
I get do women have to do it they don't
have to but my suggestion is to do it
when I asked my rabbi 20 years ago if
women need to stay up all night and read
the and pray he says what the women were
not there in the women didn't go through
the sea. Women don't need pnasa. When
somebody needs the other half, only the
men are looking for the other half. The
women don't need their other half. The
women don't need salvation. Besides,
right after going through the the
sea, ful thing. If you can't stay up all
night, then go to sleep and wake up at
2:00 in the morning or go to sleep
earlier or wake up later. But I believe
that women should participate in
everything that I said as much as
possible to the best of their abilities.
And last but not least, one of the most
important things of the equation is to
create a vessel. How do you create a
vessel? By giving charity, by helping
another person. Then you create a vessel
where you can receive the blessing. So
I've advertised in the last couple days
that we were running a pes campaign
where we're helping hundreds of families
with their pes expenses with meat, with
wine, with clothes, with
food. We were able to help hundreds and
hundreds of families. But as usual, we
gave more than what we have. So we're
still running the pes campaign. If you
want to create a good vessel to receive
the please participate in the pes
campaign, go and visit the page
on.org/pes where you'll find all the
information. We have some great
promotions and gifts. You can receive
some of my special wine from Israel.
And that is what creates the true vessel
to receive the bra. When you able to
give from yourself, then you make room
for Hashem to give you. More than that,
I'm going to be praying in a few holy
sites throughout the Shabbat and the
holiday. If you want to submit names for
me to pray for you and pray on your
behalf, use the same page at smuda.org/
org/yamsu where you find all the
instructions. You'll find a place where
you can submit names and I will pray on
your
behalf. All the donations collected from
this campaign is given to poor people.
So you are participating in another
mitzvah and needless to say greatening
your vessel to receive more and more of
Hashem's blessings. So to summarize for
you this important
message, the size of the blessing that
you need, that's the size of the
sacrifice that you need to put. Staying
up all night, that's a big sacrifice.
Reading tim for 3 4 hours, that's a big
sacrifice. And many other things that
you do in your life is a big sacrifice.
But the secret is the greater the
blessing that is required in your life,
that's the amount of sacrifice you need
to put. The more sacrifice you will put,
the greater you'll see the revealed
blessing in your life. So what you need
to do is
really work on your connection with
Hashem and deepen that connection. And
that means wherever I'm weak, then I
need to become stronger. Wherever I fail
or not, then to put as much as effort as
I can not to fail over there. Wherever I
can add, then to add. Hashem knows what
you need. Hashem knows if you need
money. Hashem knows if you need to find
your other half. He knows exactly what
you need. So don't run after the
result. Run after the connection with
Hashem. Focus on
Hashem. Shabbat shalom. And may Hashem
answer all of our prayers and bless us
with everything that we need in order to
serve him in the best way possible.
Happy Passover. Shabbat shalom and
blessings from the Holy Land.
