#542: Amida: Al Ha'Tzadikim (Part 11)

s Sage generously sponsored by the Saka family and is sponsored as well by for we are in the we listed the many people that we are ding for the we invoke the how much we rely on we are inspired by those whove transformed their lives we don't undersell ourselves we spoke about the we have to believe in ourselves Al we are worthy of what we're up to is we ask that he should give of a good and positive reward to all those who believe in his name truthfully we asked a series of questions first of all MIT we don't get reward in this world and we're not like slaves to serve Hashem in order to get rewards we serve Hashem not to get a reward and all of a sudden we're ding every day three times a day and asking s to is there a reward that's not to and why are we worthy of a reward and why are we believing in his name should we be believing in him we asked all of these series of questions and we explain based onki and others that we're referring here not to any Mitzvah ofer we're referring to something that's a prerequisite to all mention where you begin counting the whether is even a how can you talk about something being a Mitzvah if you don't believe in the you have to believe that there's a hasem that there's a God there's a Creator he has expect ations and demands of us and now we can begin to investigate and list what does he want from us but if I don't even believe he's really exists if I don't believe I'm accountable to him then what does it even mean so is not an independent Mitzvah per se it's not like the others it is the prerequisite is the foundation and therefore though Mitzvah we aren't rewarded for in this world maybe a life of B we are and the reward for the life of the s that we're asking for is not like in we just had the here it's not it's not that we're asking for physical mundane things the is the the reward for a life of is the life of the reward for living with is the confidence and the clarity and the strength to be able to endure whatever life throws our way that's the S that's the good reward the s is to of it the the reward for is to is to see that everything that happens in life is for the good without this is bad this is miserable this is terrible the universe is so unfair to me this is so Random this is such chance this is so but a person who's person who lives who has a then the is to thear is the Tove of knowing that all that Hashem does it may be painful may be unbearably pain painful but it is by definition because it comes from Hashem it is by definition it is to why is it formulated that we're supposed to have shouldn't our our faith be in him what does it mean that our faith is in his name the explains that means that we believe in the truthfulness of hashem's name rash the beginning of hasem says to Moshe aemm introduces himself I'm hem and rash says there in the spot that hem is trusted to give a fine reward to those who fulfill his will the understands that means those who believe in the manifestation of hm's name those who want to fulfill hashem's will why do we call it hashem's name if you think about it it's not only here in this bra we do so also whenever we talk about making a kidish Hashem or a Torah says tells us interestingly by the way only invoking two options points out there is no third option there's no middle ground there's no power of there's no neutral there's nothing that you do that I'm just doing it know you might ask why does everything have to be either a can't something just be I'm eating I'm driving I'm going I'm talking I'm doing I'm sleeping it just is why does that have to be either a everything falls into either and the answer says is yes there's no middle ground everything and the way we do it and what we bring to what we do and the impression we leave and how we do it will either Elevate the brand and Advance the brand or it harms and it hurts the brands those are the only two options so how do we refer to it make a kidish Hashem and make sure protect be careful class has a school trip don't stick your head out the school bus and make faces at the cars in the road no spit balls at the Museum because we don't want you to make a why do we call Item means to sanctify God's name or to to make a vacuum and emptiness a hole where hashem's name could be why do we refer to it to hashem's name should sanctify Hashem and not desecrate Hashem and the answer is the same in both we can't speak about Hashem we don't know Hashem Hashem is in omnipotent Hashem is the creator the source of all existence Hashem is beyond our comprehension so we can't talk about sanctify Hashem is not malleable Hashem doesn't change it's one of the that hem is not doesn't change so I'm not sanctifying him or desecrating him all we have and know about Hashem is how he manifests how he expresses how he appears the access he gives us to him in this world and that is captured in the word shame his name it's through his name that we know him through his name that we have contact and that we have access and exposure to him it's his name that we could sanctify and it's his name that we could desecrate of course he himself we can't and that's why the what we're having is in what we know of him and how he manifests and how he's himself for us to have a relationship with him that's where our goes why choose to invoke and not why not why not that will pick up with next time