#513: Amida: Hashiva Shofteinu (Part 6)

liit series is generly sponsored by the Saka family and as well by and for on the 11th we've transitioned to our Collective and National bakha we're longing not only for our individual needs but what we want to need collectively first to come together and then the restoration of a system and a sense of justice we spoke about one of the in addition to longing for the Constitution the reconstitution of the Sedin but also each and every one of us need judgment and need policemen we need to self-regulate at the sh at all the entrances our eyes our ears all the senses with which we interact the world so that may we have the will and the way to be able to regulate ourselves with good sense of judgment we should all have in our lives we last left off what is once we defined what's the difference we between what's the difference between but after we ask for the restoration of our judges of Judgment of Sanhedrin of leadership with with vision then it'll be it'll be removed from us so we mentioned is the anxiety the worry the fear that fills the heart when a person is going through a hard time like the groan like the like the moan is the hardship itself the illness the loneliness the fear the the poverty the the war it's the will remove from us both the and but how how will he do that simply by having by restoring judges and Justice we no longer will have challenges and hardship so ra in his commentary points out he says people are mistaken in our gulas they think that if we're suffering if we're struggling if we're going through a hard time it means Hashem has forsaken us it means Hashem is ignoring us it means Hashem is withdrawing from us whatever hardship whatever challenge of whatever suffering has ensued it is because we no longer are worthy of his Providence we're simply exposed to and vulnerable to the elements and that's the the of from people who make that mistake and think that in this state of Exile without a b mikdash Hashem doesn't love us he doesn't care about us he's not watching over us that's a but when we restore andu when we'll have as we DAV leaders who have Vision who can see clearly who can understand and Inspire us to appreciate to surrender and to submit to Hashem that he has his ways when we have leaders as we saw from theim like DAV and schlomo Yim like Moshe and Aon leaders who give us the confidence and the faith that nothing that happens to us is random or chance everything Hashem does by definition is good so when we have such when we have such leaders such Visionaries such advisors we have people who can get us to see our own lives those that way then it doesn't mean the challenges and the suffering are eliminated but it means somehow we have the and the strength that despite them to find the strength that despite them to not give up on Hashem to not believe he's given up on us and therefore to not experience them with a sense of yes of course they're challenging they're filled with sadness with grief they're complicated but we askem by having such Role Models such Visionaries such individuals who can give us that confidence and that faith that they'll be able to help us appreciate that we're not victims of chance or Randomness but everything that Hashem does is for a sense it's a phrase It's been credited to many different people that pain is inevitable but suffering is a choice is when there are who can give us a sense of perspective and context who could build us up and give us hope who can have us appreciate that we're still under the loving then it can be removed it can be eliminated even though there'll be pain the pain is inevitable pain is part of what it means to be alive but pain is inevitable it doesn't have to necessarily go with suffering can remove if we can become worthy of having theim and theim who will be who will be restored the another interpretation tells us that for so long as long as we are in gas when we are limited in the mitz and the Torah that we can do because we're preoccupied hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the South and the north are fighting a war and they can't live the total life that they want that they wish that they would if they weren't so the sorus of gas the challenges of gas the resources we have to dedicate to be able to defend to be able to secure what we have to invest in gullas to survive gas comes out of and distracts from the Torah and the Mitzvah that we could be doing so we ask and in that way eliminate the of not being able to observe Torah and the way we want ideally in the fashion with the focus with the concentration with the freedom that we want because our energy our time our resources are dedicated to surviving to securing to navigating through this through this gulus so therefore we're unable to observe the way we want so going along with be able to concentrate on our ding on our learning be able to invest and take care of our Torah Community because you eliminated what has to go into security guards what has to go into safety what has to go into all the things that are the result of this gullas that we find ourselves in then we continue we askem alone should rule over us we'll pick up with this next time we say you alone as opposed to what you alone as opposed to you and others of course hasem alone why do we have to include that word we'll pick up with next