#584: Amida: Shema Koleinu (Part 13)

s respons by the Saka family and by a foran it's great to be back together and to continue where we last left off and that was the of the last of the middle section of bakha we've gone through the language of very bold very very Brazen we turn to Theon and essentially we demand listen to our voices not only our words when we can't articulate or produce words listen to our voice the desperation listen to the authentic sincere voice that we are that we are producing we left off you listen to our and the difference is you listen to the template the script the formula and the that's not that's not not which is fixed and rigid but which is fluid which we are additionally inserting that which originates with us don't turn us away empty-handed and we shared the Insight that hem even if the particular thing I'm asking for it's not in my best interest to say yes but don't turn me away empty-handed at least through the experience of asking through this audience through this conversation let me feel connected let me feel closer sometimes the conversation is not just about the question but it's about it's about the relationship I remember rabic mentor of mine telling me that sometimes you a person calls with a question you could have someone else call them back and give them the answer the question you could send them a text there are efficient more efficient or productive ways to get back to someone but you fail to realize that sometimes someone calls with the question they're happy to have a question because it's a pretext to make a connection it's not just about sometimes they just want to know they in Trader Joe's this obscure good or no good they just want the answer so they can finish shopping get out of there sometimes a person has a question it's not only about the question the question is the pretext to create a relationship it's not just the questions not just what we're asking what we need the BHA but don't turn us away empty-handed let us minimally feel connected to youron and then we come to a break because here essentially the sitter screams out to us insert here what you want to where does this come fromes if you want to expand if you want to add from the theme of the in that someone is sick and needs a speedy recovery boom somebody needs greater parasa you have a business negotiation a business deal you have to write a you have to write an article you don't know what to say boom the theme of that says no problem you're not stuck you don't have to stay only with the text on authored put it in your own words insert and that's not a concession that's not something that we're tolerating that's actually something admirable it's the highest level of Hashem doesn't want us to just deliver someone else's words though those words of course are precious those words are holy those words are the perfect platform but he wants us to build on them to expand on them to make it personal and relevant and individual if someone is sick ask for them to have says you have an idea that doesn't fit neatly into the theme of another is your before you conclude think about add insert I'm not touching this with a 10-ft pull the election you think has consequences in whatever Direction you think it has so there's no BR unclear maybe Das you hope people have Das you hope somehow we can heal whatever it is that's going on individually communally collectively nationally a person inserts it says the in now it's very interesting I we continue to expand on this in coming nights but writes the same you know sometimes a person has something they need and they chronically need it they habitually need need it so now they've essentially altered the before they have their own text that hasem help me learn wellem help my marriage hasem up my child has up whatever it is they're inserting becomes almost fixed and now they're adding it into such that they're so used to it says don't do that a person should not should not at or add to the words of an those words are s are sacred sacren don't add to them so yes author or include our own individual needs but not in such a way that they become a pattern not in such a way that we look like we have fixed F we've expanded so much so that I saw brought down in the name of the stier the stier said then the if you have a list of sick individuals you're ding for divide them in three say say say don't say the whole list every because then it just looks like now you've tried to add on to said theer so on the one hand gives us license it's open we'll talk about in coming nights do you say V if you look in the typical sitter in there a paragraph you could add if you did something you feel terribly ashamed about or guilty about this for but whatever we're adding to on the one hand we're encouraged to add to individualize to make it personal to make it our own to make it relevant to make it authentic to make but on the other hand to not create K of our don't take whatever that individual need and say it in such a rigid fixed habit to a way that essentially now you just expanded what appears in the sitter we'll continue with this in the coming