#523: Amida: V'Lamalshinim (Part 5)

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daved one way for a long time courageously recruited to change it what is the critical ingredient critical component the person who's going to make that change they have to be like what did shut have pure Intent no ulterior motive no influence by outside isms no other ideologies no other influences was called a not because of his height or his stature he was called because of his Purity his innocence how unaffected he was by his own impulse he was humble he was modest and he was pure he had no ulterior motive whatsoever you see from here says the core the critical ingredient When A change is going to be made so today we don't have I think there's a kite community in Israel somewhere still doing some things I didn't Google it I don't know about ituki Community I haven't heard of any maybe somewhere out there so why are we still saying it was a radical change it was an enormous addendum addition to the amida so why are we still saying it it's not my question it was a question of he wonders and he says because while the original impetus the original groups that threatened to corrupt us might not be here that STM died out after a number of years but we continue to be threatened we continue to be compromised we continue to be damaged by other forces and ideologies that successfully enter even our M Torah Community with those ideas whether it was Catholicism whether it was the Enlightenment whether it's Messianic Judaism and Jews for Jesus whether it's other denominations that while we love every Jew of course we love every Jew and particularly now since October 7th we are focused on our love for every Jew and what we have in common but ideologies and movements that threaten that compromise that misrepresent that distort of course that's something that we want to not be affected by so for that's why we continue to say this even even today and we'll speak about some of the other kavas that one can have when saying this when saying this some other significant kavanas that one can have but points out also that that notion of being a cuton you see is something admirable he was distinguished he was singular he was the only one who could author it so even though I've heard him speak at a Mitzvah what do we say at the bris we say about that child our hope our Dream our aspiration for that child who's right now A minor we hope that they'll grow to become a gal we're not talking about again their height their size we're talking about their maturity we're talking about their impact and their influence Sal famously said the Torah calls the Sun the the Moon is thean the sun is the great luminary and the Moon is the small the minor constellation Lumin where did they get their name because the Sun what it means to be a GLE is to be an original source of light the moon simply reflects the light of others the moon does not produce its own light so Z this kid this child who's just a reflection of his parents z may he grow and emerge to be a GLE to be his own source of creativity his own source of goodness his own source of light so when do we see the Fulfillment of Mitzvah Mitzvah Boy comes of age and goes from being minor to Major was a musical note the kid but he goes from being a Kon to a g majority of years is that how they call it an adult there's no minor the opposite of minor should be a major it is the age of majority but is the age of majority being a major you go from a minor to the age of majority but that's not consistent and it's also not important right now so you go from being you go from being a to a God but says you see from that our real wish for the boy is the cuton should be a GLE but as a GLE should stay a cuton be innocent be pure be unbias don't have other motivations because sh his greatness he remained a cotton shuton had the admiration of his peers he was singular to re Gamel who recruited him to write so as much as we're proud as much as we hope as much as we support and help a become a God the child become an adult but often an adult what happens to the adult they become cynical and sarcastic and suspicious and hardened by the world and by life so we say to the adult don't be in such a the child don't be in such a rush to be an adult take the responsibilities like an adult but remain a child at heart Remain the innocence and the Purity just like so we saw from one who we could still be having today of but we'll see from and others other people other kavas other intents that we can have for this