#599: Amida: R'tzei (Part 10)

s is generous responsible the Saka family and by for we're in the 17th finishing up we left left off with a question I gave everyone ample time to think about it I'm sure you all have very compelling answers do you even remember the question question was earlier in this very paragraph as well as in the last of we refer to the theme of this we ask let us find favor be sympathetic let us appease you in your people how do we end off the paragraph the same paragraph what happened why in the beginning of it's and here at the end it's a shift this question is brought the so address it as well any thoughts why we switch why the change I saw a suggestion that perhaps you has a dual meaning and it's related I love it when sitter Snippets and the para overlap and come together there are no coincidences becomes is in our yov wrestled and persevered spoke about in the par became distinguished we broke through we became royalty we uh we were able to overcome because we wrestled and we persevered and that for that we're forever called B is we're not bov we're B Isel we spoke in the P the contrast of yob and is unlike the tells us that once his name was changed from a to abam we are forbidden to ref referring to him again as original name Sarah you can't call Sarah she Sarah Yakov is different Yakov gets an additional name Yakov or is why because it's not a replacement of his mission a was a of Aram where he came from he was a local hit and then he took the show on the road he became a global phenomenon he became AB so he was replaced his mission as a local a from the local Aram to a he was a global influencer and phenomenon yov Yakov continues to have these two parallel identities there's yov and there's Israel yob is yob is the heel yakob is the one who's doing things and a sometimes has to employ the as the trickery using trickery yakob is the less ideal way of living Jewish people when we're living at our best in our ideal with the is were B is not just the Bob of the here and now having to use less than ideal means we is is so Isel is both jakob's name and yob is considered to be the a is a he's our founding father is butov is characterized as the the choices the chosen of all Theos from whom the 12im come A's Lage is imperfect leaves us a but he also gifted us a is gives us a yov but he also gave us a as yob has the 12 yob is complete so there who the individual and then there's the so perhaps I saw it suggested that's the the shift one time we're referring to the Jewish people and the other we're invoking this the Merit of so one time it's addressing us the Jewish people we the Jewish people and the other time the shift the change is because we're talking about we're talking about yob is an ideal state whose Merit we rely on and then the next continues we ask the word means what's the translation so let us see but we have a lot of words for C the um the of luin is not necessarily to see in the physical way it means something bigger and something more but if it were to mean to see isn't it repetitive or redundant to say with what else do you see why are we invoking the eyes let us see with our eyes your return to with kindness and with compassion is there another way that he can return so a lot of questions why is the word used rather than another word for to be to why do we invoke the eyes what else do you see with to return to and why soab says the word comes from K famous shab Tor K means more than to see with one's eye more than Vision more than in other words opic but K means prophecy it means Vision it means dream the was able to see right through a person not just the surface and the external the could see right into your soul could see what was going on around him a is a prophecy is a dream is to see something bigger to see something bigger so maybe this maybe this bra says he Tes it at the time of the there were Miracles there was closeness to Hashem it felt like prophecy let us Merit to have the experience of Hashem that's so real so tangible that it's as if we have prophecy but I'd like to suggest in closing maybe something a little different which is if we look around the world with our regular eyes so you could be helpless and hopeless you could be despondent could see this statistics anti-Semitism and a hate you see the problems and you see the challenges a a Jew has to live with we have to dream we have to prophesize we have to have Vision we have to see beyond what's right in front of us so it's an amazing three times a day every day a let me not just see what's in front of me let me see big let me have big eyes let me see big things let me dream let me have Vision let me see beyond the surface and Beyond statistics and data and Beyond what's right in front of me because if we're going to bring mhia if we're going to be Z if we're going to succeed it'll only be because we see with a sense of K