#532: Amida: Al Ha'Tzadikim (Part 1)

s is generously sponsored by the Saka family and sponsored as well by and a foran we are beginning the next the that acknowledges five categories of righteous Pious people what exactly is the difference or distinction between them it's important to know say this every day three times a day are we going up or are we going down ascending or descending in the order of the righteousness and virtue we'll discuss that what is the difference between them what order are we going in why do we need to invoke all of them why these five categories not more and not less but let's begin with the introduction why is this bra here and why now so the Tes it's positioned right here writes the two based on based on a that the rule is that after the wicked are cut down then the righteous rise so after the wicked are destroyed we just spoke about all those Slanders all those who are critical all those who distort the truth all those who call names or those who call for the end of the Jewish people we have so many to think about these days in we had a golden age a reprieve of a few decades where you had to stretch a little bit to think about who to think about inim but over these last months over these last few weeks and days you look around America too we know who the Lash are including even even Jews among them so after theim after the evil and wicked people who have terrible nefarious plans for the Jewish people after they are cut down after they are stopped then there's room for the righteous to Blossom to flourish the includ included they because the joses rising for the sa for the person who's an elder and it's ju toose with the convert so the G said righteous converts are included in these categories of people who we rely on their Merit it's in their Merit that wonderful that good and that blessed things happen so is between and once Justice is restored we can eliminate the wicked and then once you eliminate the wicked after then the righteous can Thrive then the righteous can flourish now this is unusual this is the one in the middle section of the BHA where we're not really doing for something specific for ourselves nor are we really doing for something Collective that we're part of until we were daving for personal individual we wanted we wanted to have knowledge we wanted Hashem to fight our fights we wanted to have good health we want to have overflowing abundance of parasa each of those first Bros of the Bak the middle section of the amida were specific individual personal requests for ourselves then we pivoted and we start asking for National Collective people requests we want Justice and we want to get rid of those who oppose us and then we're going to want y to be built in fullness and we want messia to come Allah sadik where does it exactly fit in why are we invoking the welfare the well-being of the tadim of these five categories of people where does this exactly fit in in every generation at every time we live our lives and our lives are only filled with safety security and in the Merit of the righteous when there are righteous righteous men and women righteous converts righteous people it's in their Merit we are relying on them we're leaning on them we're depending on them when we're waiting for and longing for G right now for this mat of this aov to end of course we are looking to and we're leaning on the righteous of the generation we need them we need them in all their strength we need them in all their Glory we need them with all their power we need them with all their virtue and all of their righteousness and that is all the BR all the that comes in this world is in their Merit so says that's why we are daving for them it's not an exception it's not that we had personal individual needs and there are collective Collective hopes and aspirations and where did the sadik sikim are part of the collective hopes and aspirations and they're also part of our individual needs if we're in a community we want individual attach yourself to sikim attach yourself to righteous people and ride their coils we spoken about in the Amun the notion of of using the amuna of the righteous as a hot spot person is somewhere and they have poor connection it's a tremendous form of today people treat it like neb what was me is there a god I have slow Wi-Fi I have slow connection it's a real suffering a tinest debor somebody has to enter if they uh don't have a connection so what do you do you say your carrier has a poor connection where you are but you find somebody who's on a different carrier a different service and they've got five bars they've got good service so what do you say to them what do you beg them for do me a favor turn your phone into a hot spot I don't have a connection ction but I can connect through you I can connect through youim we're in a generation some struggle they're busy buffering all the time there's a very low speed connection struggling to feel to feel to feel the G of it's buffering it's buffering it's having trouble connecting it keeps getting stuck it keeps spinning so you find someone with a great connection you say do me a favor would you be my hot spot can I connect through you so a person who wants individual you want D whatever we need find it sad and turn them into a hot spot so it's not extraneous and it's not an exception to the rule this BR is critical as wres if we want all if we want in our lives individually communally collectively then we have to think about focus on and aspire to be counted among these five categories of people we'll pick up next time as we have with each of the bras what's the historical precedent each of these bras an authored it based on a historical story or historical precedent we went through andov we went through Theos what historical precedent is Alik and based on we'll start with next time