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Living With Emunah (Part 143): Smooth Sailing
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good morning Boker Tov welcome back to
our living with a munis series our
Wednesday morning support group where we
come together to work out our munna
muscles and to reinforce that knowledge
that we all have intuitively
instinctively and unfortunately
sometimes we need to be reminded of that
there is a God above that he created the
world to continue to interact with us
and loves us he's with us he accompanies
us he is orchestrating and curating our
lives we turned to him and we turned to
him with a sense of gratitude
particularly today talk about
momentarily I want to thank our emunah
sponsors for the series for the year dr.
Xavi and Bella Morgan memory of our
desire by dr. browning Gavin barks
you've been revena son who was a model
of a muna both in the way he lived and
why he left this world I also want to
thank our friends are generous amazing
community leaders mike and st lupin who
are sponsoring bicular morning and in
memory of ramana how Lavy
thank you so much for your generosity
today and today is your Matt's moat and
wood than whether you said holla with
abraca without abraca but all of us are
it care illegal for the gift of the
modern color of Israel if Yakov Emden
writes in consider a couple hundred
years ago already that the miracles he's
from his life the miracles that the
Jewish people have experienced posts
you'd see us much time after the ten
plagues the splitting of the sea are no
less great than the miracles of when we
left Egypt and if that was true for of
Yaakov Emden writing in Germany a couple
hundred years ago it's certainly true
for us today and in and if you don't
think having Jewish control over the
width and breadth of Israel having
control over a united eternal capital of
the Jewish people you wish a line near
ha'qodesh if you don't think it's a
miracle I would challenge you to just
consider from if the United Nations has
a declare a state of Israel today would
day if the nations of the world had to
support a founding of a Jewish state and
Jewish sovereignty and a Jewish army
today would they so that little bit in
time and the circumstances that came
together that enables to be able to have
that wonderful country promoting more
Torah learning than any time in our
history the State of Israel and it's
dollars are the biggest supporter of
Torah study
than anyone at any time in our history
so today is a day that we pause in
whatever way you want and whatever hash
code dictates to pause and just say
thank you with Halloween or dr. college
ball ooh thank you that I'm living I'm
pleased God soon I will be able to plane
whenever want to visit my homeland but
even if I'm not ready to move there yet
I'm thinking about it and challenged by
it each and every day not if but when my
destiny will be intertwined with my
brothers and sisters in our homeland so
are living with a muna shear today
begins with the Emunah and be taco with
the recognition of Hashem guiding hand
in the circumstances behind and the
circumstances that continued to guide
and support the miracle of our modern
Israel that is with all pandemic Ida
thriving in ways that model for the
entire world transforming the world in
extraordinary ways and for that Romana
Shalom we are incredibly grateful to you
today and everyday modem anarkali luck
thank you
we're continuing our study of rough
Schwartz of Itamar schwartz bill Holly
Michigan Avner his essay died but
Hanukkah no you or be talk on where we
have been developing this notion of what
is be Tejon just like a lady entered the
city betta a sense of confidence a sense
of surety a sense of absolute knowledge
you see where does a lack of be tough
will come from anxiety worry fear doubt
uncertainty what will be what will
happen with my health what will happen
with my finances what will happen with
this virus what will happen with the
world when we have such a sense of doubt
and uncertainty and that vacuum that
space that's not filled with a knowledge
or confidence gets filled instead with
negative things and negative thoughts
and negative emotions pessimism
depression despondency anxiety and the
arrogance how do we clear out that space
of all that negativity and all that
negative thinking by filling it instead
with pita home and how do you fill it
with baton
because it's a wish list it's wishful
thinking no filling it would be tough
saying I know that there's a college but
there's no Almighty he credible created
me I know he maintains a personal
intimate relationship with me not only
with the whole world globally not only
with the Jewish people national
collectively but me little left from
Goldberg individually he knows
everything from the quality of my sleep
to what I eat to whether things work out
or I'll have the right words and the
right ideas to speak smoothly to whether
the technology will come together to
every detail of my life of your life of
our lives he knows and when a person
lives life with the confidence then not
only does God know about my life but he
has my back he is guiding my life he's
orchestrating my life yes I have free
will yes I take initiative yes I am
responsible accountable for the choices
I make but after I put forth my best
effort and even part of how much my
effort comes from Hashem itself but
after I put forth my best effort I let
go and I let God the rest is up to the
Ramona solemn and the mentality of betta
is a mentality that says it is what it
is I'm going through life I got a text
message this morning from someone about
an investment that I'm involved in in a
modest way and the challenges so
undergoing because of the pandemic and
he's feeling terrible about it and I
said to him it's not you it's the Ramona
Shalom
not happy not grateful not in a position
that that these things don't matter but
when this is something where somebody
didn't do something dishonest it's not
that they could have predicted this was
going to come but they didn't take the
proper precautions this is something
that caught the world by surprise it's
the hand of Hashem he gives he takes
away and hopefully he gives him again
and so you have to look at and say this
is what was meant to be I'm Rosh Hashana
it was already to determine whether this
would be in my pocket or not and so if
somebody steals from you someone
violates your trust if somebody acts
with negligence if somebody doesn't take
the proper precautions then they should
be accountable but if they did all of
those things and it's not on them it's
simply the circumstance of the world
that we live in then you live with a
sense of better I'm confident that's the
way it's meant to be this is what is
supposed to happen and therefore there's
no resentment and there's no anger and
there's no worry and there's no fear
because like similarly the end to the
city city we too can enter our lives to
a place of better and then he developed
the notion of the internals of the
external self the external self battles
from the moment we wake up in the
morning and the internal self which is
connected to Hashem Hashem is the only
person play
thing entity who has no history who has
nothing opposing him there is no force
against a college boy who he doesn't
have to battle there is no tension
there's nothing that needs to be
overcome for a shame everything just is
he is the epitome of discipline of
control he is in charge everything
simply responds and reacts the way he
wants the way he determines so when we
look at the world wearing our external
sense of self glasses all we see is our
that food I want to eat it but it's bad
for me
oh the exercise I'm supposed to do it
but I don't feel like it oh the gas if I
so badly want to share it but I'm not
supposed to oh the images I want to look
at but I'm not supposed to oh how am I
gonna make money and pay my bills or how
am I gonna overcome the challenge with
my spouse with my children all we see
all around us is kind of like battle
tension confrontation but if we put on
our tell'em elokim glasses if we put on
our be tough on bet doc glasses if we
attach ourselves to our inner self to
wash em and we connect to the one who
has nothing opposing him then the whole
world we see is this is the way it's
meant to be
I have no Envy no arrogance no worry no
fear no anxiety no anger I simply see a
world operating the way it's meant to be
does that not mean I have things I have
to overcome I have to overcome them I
have things I have to get done
I have challenges I have to confront but
I do so not from a position of fear or
worry or uncertainty I do it from a
position of I'm going into this and it's
fixed you step into the boxing ring and
the match is fixed then you still have
to you just have to fight I don't know
if this is a good metaphor when I was a
kid I was they called WWE the wrestling
so the wrestling I hate to burst
anyone's bubble if you're watching or
listening just spoiler alert but
wrestling is fake they're actors they're
acting in the ring it's all
predetermined so they start to get in
the ring and they're still wrestling and
they're still jumping off the ropes and
they're still driving the other person
into the ground but it's all
predetermined it's all acting and going
in they already know the outcome so we
have to go through the motions and we
have to do the act in our lives but we
know that the outcome has been
predetermined and it's always in our
favor whether we see it whether we feel
it whether it's pleasurable whether it's
painful is always in our favor surgery
is also painful but it's in your favor
that's why you're undergoing it it's why
this
I was doing it it's because it's what
you need so even the painful experiences
we have they are in our favor because
it's what we need in that moment and
therefore we should be grateful for it
so let's continue
Ladue c'mon we're up to the word lid
Dogma I sent out the sheets last week I
forgot to do it this week but you're all
a bunch of good listeners they'll listen
and I'll try to read slowly and and
translate so little math desert Schwartz
LaDuke mom-ish atresia shudder here - in
that start Clem says Ben Azuga was at
Summa atma a racially Catholic him
robbing somebody needs a a young
man a young woman and not so young man
that's a young woman who's seeking
companionship and camaraderie who's
looking to find their other half maybe a
better half they're looking for a
of this is a particularly difficult time
this pandemic social distancing is very
hard for people who are trying to pursue
their dream of finding another zoom
technology is fun for these classes and
you can have meetings there's only so
many games you can play over technology
people who are desperate to be together
there are my active in robbing when
reports wrote this he wasn't thinking
about the challenge of social distancing
the inability to go on a proper date to
be face-to-face to be able to have an
energy of being in the same room
together I mean about the other Mac from
the other challenges of a off it's
very hard how are you on people's radar
are they remembering to set you up the
small talk you have to go through you
got to get dressed up you got to go out
there's hope and then it fails there's
rejection there are so many challenges
to the world of the off key lawyer
- buddy okhla hear me I buffer I'm a
team la ilaha ilallah dokuro him shut up
see Allah who are hain Roy oh my
team she has no idea exactly what paper
again I don't know if there were resumes
when he wrote this was fairly recently
that he wrote this but on paper it looks
like a book good boy on paper looks like
a perfect match of a girl but who knows
the reality because I'm paper you could
write anything and the references only
see the best of who a person is who
knows what it's like to live with them
who knows what's beneath the surface who
knows what they'll be like as a spouse
are appeared the gonna show em to me
xuxa near La MaMa SH Matheny ah Julio
Shula you'd sir my credential act was a
of well I Anya pneumococcus p.m.
least I drew and even when you find
somebody who seems like they are a
proper match how do you know that
they're going to agree to go out how
you know that the relatives who are
going to undergo a CIA investigation who
are going to interrogate the rabbi your
rabbi about you how do you know that
they're not gonna blow it say the wrong
thing undermined the possibility of it
working out or maybe the financial
matters won't won't work or should they
be real so Allah is galih me shushing
all about us a kick-ass risky move for
something like oh and there's always
outside variables and always an side
influences and there are people with
alternative motivations and agendas who
might insert themselves and sabotage the
success for some reason la hiney
mightylongway GAO's be talking about
Mario Longoria whole show he's a
mindless automaton Shaco he said they're
called sarutobi Oh sir well Hank I share
but like a fire
doctor my muscles iboga are gonna so
because there are so many things to
worry about there are so many things
outside a person's control the young
woman the young man says I'm working on
perfecting myself I'm trying to be the
best person I can be positioned myself
to be able to be worthy of the best
shooter that I can get but there are so
many factors and variables outside that
person's control so all they have left
is to submit themselves to the hands of
a Shemin to say almighty I'm in your
hands
find me the proper match matchmaker
matchmaker make me a match Kurdish boy
who's the great matchmaker in the sky
and to say however you guide me in this
process even the dates that don't work
out are part of the journey of learning
about myself and about life and however
you guard me at this option bazooka
Yahoo kebab Qibla Miko hobby talk on
zero and then she finds a match and she
gets married
Mazel Tov so she thinks you know why I
earned the merit of getting married
because I had to be tough home I put my
trust too much on Michelle you'll find
me someone Hashem you'll help her work
out you know Mozilla Rock her parish
Allah be tough on but I mean between his
cough has an average buckaroos a kill
American English Magnus Rizzo bgo
character shall be talking about olam
it's not that she got married in the
merit of betta home it's there to be
tough on itself the marriage is the pay
rose it is the result of it's the fruit
of the labor of her life of B Tahoe
meaning you can't deny a college bar
whose presence in your life is role in
your life and then you need something a
a job a house show unbiased not
custom your children and Oh
my checklist of things I need to do in
order to get what I want is to display
Batak home I'm trying to avoid an
epidemic a pandemic so how do I avoid
contracting this virus I need to
socially distance I need to wear a mask
and gloves lightly done need to I need
to oh and also I need to have be Tahoe
so let me put that on my list of things
I need to do if you wait to have be
tough on in that way it's enough it gets
counterfeit it's better than not having
it on but that's not it'll be tougher we
talked a long proceeds when we all need
it
as their Schwarz it is training
ourselves to look at life it is a
perspective it's an attitudes of
philosophy it's an approach it's a
lifestyle be tough Owen is not a
character trait in the moment be tough
when there's not a choice in the moment
though it is those things to be tough on
is a lifestyle I'm living my life as if
God is with me in the room he is
watching his support wording he's
guiding or I'm living my life as if he's
not and then when I invite him in the
room he makes an appearance or I make an
appearance in his room when I have to
appeal to him for something true be
tough on sensitive Schwartz is not God
makes an appearance or I make an
appearance near him true be tough on is
a lifestyle it's a choice he is always
there he's always there it's the choice
that he's been developing it's the
choice between do I live life where I
have conflict confrontation battling so
when I battle I stop and I need to check
be tough on God off my list
excuse me or or do I live a lifestyle in
which I've attached myself to God so
that I'm living a life with no his like
this there's no opposition there is not
some red light delayed flight way
doctor's office job challenges
relationship challenges health
challenges there's no such thing as that
position because this is all the way
it's meant to me it's often and he
suffers beasts suffer and he gets pride
and joy in me when I have pride and joy
beyond my choices and behavior
internship ah to him so it's not that
you will the up and oh I didn't
really make room for God I didn't feel
him in the room but now it's time for
if I'm and I need his help I see
some opposition I see some punch let me
just check him off the list
Jack be taught called the shadow punch
but the resume it check or shot my
picture back uh and also I forgot I'm
supposed to say these to hell and we're
big I was a visit the codes many days in
a row beat our phone check it doesn't
work that way that's fake it's
counterfeit you're using that it be
tough on means that long before you
began your updating you said you
know I attach myself to the one who has
no opposition and therefore I'm about to
undergo a process I'm not worried about
not afraid of it I'll do what I need to
do within it but he's guiding it like
he's guiding everything else in my life
already
his moaning Ben dig - Efes let me give
you another quartz columnar - of oculus
climb Sheamus now and consider maybe
equip our NASA everybody knows that you
have bills to pay
be tough on doesn't sit on the couch
trust God
it's gonna be money left at my front
door the man's gonna fall from heaven I
don't care how many schlissel cause you
bake this year the man doesn't just fall
from heaven the curse of the punishment
for other mosaic autocar laughing you
gotta get up off the couch and you gotta
go to work we all have to go to work
again not ranking on the salawa person
who made it for me was delish and it's a
reminder that just like the challah la
commissioner Mon falls from having our
Panozzo falls from heaven but we gotta
go get up off the couch and open the
door and collect it so pernessa I can't
sit back passively and wait for it to
have I have to do my part well on stage
welcome home does with them but there
are two paths that stand before a person
have a choice - let's say slovak
establish lasting is pronounced on me
the package borrow who she asked me no
tariffs or other pip want us to go out
with effort to earn your partner so the
others to trust hashem the focaccia
allah me maybe in snare drum alone okay
leo solution
masculine o Ravana show me guillemots
cashier circle awards or / NASA yes
ma'am cats a spaniel Danbury does for
him Athena she's an orphan while the
Carla but I'll be talking as I him both
humbuckers worker she asked Anna
pronounced awesome behind it's gonna be
coach more for Tommy Bahama's am and I'm
called circle misty to come says her
shoe it's the following you can either
work hard to earn a living or you could
work to earn your living but instead
redirect working hard I'm working hard
on your Vita phone that thing earn is
what Hashem has for you me too cousin
herb Zalman hello friend L say
Rapha who up the way a few weeks ago
from this coronavirus extraordinary
sonic tomahawk I'm an amazing person
it's a newer modest and humble really
really an exceptional person and I did
his funeral and his people it was said
about him he was an accountant he really
learned all the time but to earn a
pernessa for him 12 children is six
married children many of whom are still
in learning he was a brilliant brilliant
self-taught accountant but here's what
he did and it's story I'm about to tell
you if I didn't know it myself firsthand
I wouldn't believe it because they don't
make people like this but he was a
throwback to previous generations he was
a throwback to the stories they tell
about great people he would work every
day until he had enough money for that
day and he stopped working to go start
learning and I know this because one of
his sons told that Bellavia that a
client of his court called the son and
said I can't believe it I missed your
father today
I missed that opportunity where he had
enough money for the day so he's not
taking my call he pushed me off until
tomorrow because he went to go for today
there are people who say you know what I
don't need to get rich and richer I
don't wanna live with fear and worry I
worked for today until I have enough for
today because I shall provide the Mun
he'll provide the parnassia for tomorrow
unless you think these are apocryphal
worries or fake stories or stories gone
by of people in the past there are
people like that like my cousin's
husband and salmon health and Dell the
kernel of Rafah still today who know
they have to earn a par Nessa and
putting their initiative and who do
their establish their work but when they
have enough money to live when they have
what they need for that day they stop
and then they pursue other righteous
meaningful religious spiritual I want me
define that the volunteer for I said for
infra domine whatever that means for him
of course it meant learning in which he
excelled and succeeded and published for
him and was really so greatly admired so
when it comes to our Parnassus Ezra
shorts you're gonna work hard one way or
another you can either be working
extraordinarily hard at work stay at
work till ten eleven twelve o'clock at
night you could be working and pouring
yourself over working into work or you
could be putting in what you needed for
work and taking that same energy and
putting that work into your beat Tahoe
that your other work is enough to yield
what Coach Marco is gonna provide you
see if I Shannon wants you to make a
million dollars a year you're probably
not gonna do that working 15 minutes a
day it's not reasonable that's not a
reasonable expectation often we're not a
lot of relying a miracle do you think
you're gonna work 15 minutes a day and
become a millionaire unlikely Tim
Ferriss and all let's not and even he
was the 4-hour workweek it's not gonna
happen
you got to work what is a reasonable
normative amount of time and then you
couldn't hope and ask and for what you
want on the other hand if God wants you
to be a millionaire don't you think it'd
be a millionaire by working 8 hours a
day do you really need to work 18 hours
a day so when you over work when you put
in too much initiative it's a lack of
faith in Hashem when you put into little
initiative it's also a lack of faith in
Hashem because it's a counterfeit fake
version of fake faith in Hashem we have
to strike that balance we have to find
that happy medium between the his
timeless the initiative and the Emunah
that we talk of the trust that a sham
will provide but again this point is I
can be overworking so I put in my 8
hours my 10 hours whatever the job
demands me whatever is reasonable and
normal in my industry to be able to do
and provide for you know I put in that
reasonable amount of time
I can either to continue to work that
over time which is exhausting Enterprise
me of my my space and my exercise and my
family or I can call it quits in that
time and put the extra effort in the B
tone into working on mice to know that a
sham will provide can provide give to me
what I need and can give me what I need
if I work within that reasonable time
and see sake Tony said I shall be
tougher MacLeish Baraka GMT code sir
who's there she is I mean it's
pronounced ah debaser
I'm sorry love and canes orders at some
meter on a lot partner so she yeah he
told us at Bataan
again the same idea of the it's
not that I want to up well the
shadow can build the resume check check
check
happy tell me pernessa go to work effort
check check tell be Tahoe check check
check check check
now the pita phone is the prerequisite
the meter on is what comes before the
the par NASA that comes is the pay rose
it's the fruit of the initiative of the
effort of the faith that I've expressed
Batak on Kassadin but whenever Meshuggah
vada yogya so again to summarize what is
betta home it means that we have
confidence or we have surety
when we know that a kosher bar who is in
charge as I Omega B taco machine
officially mature epidemic ABARES the
comics chambers like this it means that
the core of Who I am and the daily
living of my lifestyle is connected to
the one the cohosh a motion is like this
it's really a choice that we have we
wake up every day do you want your day
to be defined by battling by tension by
conflict you want your day to find by
having to confront an Ursa or do you
want your day to be smooth sailing from
wake up in the morning it's all the
perspective do you put a smile face do
you have an attitude of gratitude do you
begin with positivity do you stems hand
it's all up to us do we want to at the
end of the day look back in the day and
say I'm exhausted I battled from when I
woke up in the morning to just get out
of bed with is a battle what I'm gonna
wear to get dressed to have to
homeschool my kids to deal with this to
deal with that or do you wake up and say
my day by definition will be smooth
smooth sailing you could get a horrible
diagnosis smooth sailing you can have
horrible news about your part Nessa
smooth sailing you got kids swinging
from the ceiling fans homeschooling
everyone on their own device so what
smooth sailing there's nothing in my
life right now that some would say like
what are you talking about
the answer is it's up to you if you live
your external self if all you see is
conflict then you are riddled with
battling you'll be exhausted not by the
end of the day you'll be exhausted
twenty minutes into the day but if you
wake up connect it to your internal
stuff to your tell'em elokim to your
core to the best part of who you are and
you attach yourself to the almighty to
the king of kings the master of the
universe for whom it's all clearly
choreographed sure a little organized
and whatever is going to happen the day
you'll roll those punches you got a text
about your invest way it's meant to be
he gives he takes I'll give again and
you know what it all comes from him and
so it's meant to be you're dealing with
whatever challenge or conflict doesn't
mean that sometimes people won't test
your patience you won't have to go for a
walk you want us to take a deep breath
of course all those things will happen
but you come back to that core you come
back to that source you come back to the
shoulders to our to our inside root that
we are connected to the one car wash a
motion is like this so the one who has
nothing opposing him Caracas air Shalem
is Magda maintenance the beginner her
burrito
now this notion that there's one who has
nothing opposing him doesn't exist in
the natural order in the natural world
everything in the natural order and
everything in the natural world every
Force has an equal and opposite force
against it Kamiya marquez album Edra sh
sh Akashi no way to coach welcome in
Malacca and liberal Adam oh hi you son
sure
Sonny Grover you shake at a row when God
consulted with the Angels we talked
about that in the past class this week
aza L aza and and loser L the Angels
that said were unworthy and shouldn't be
created and then told God told you so
when we made a mistake so God threw them
down here and says the issue but
solemnity put them in our minds so here
he invokes this Madras then when God
proposed creating the world
these angels opposed and they said
create the world fallible finite
pathetic man some said good idea but
most stood opposed they said my energy
kisses Quran who Shalom Omar leave
Russia cool o mark locus you're gonna
create man so that I'll divide into
Democrats and Republicans into her aid
them in C onnum into Orthodox and
concert you're gonna create man so all
they do is fight Yankees and Red Sox
you're gonna create man just so that's a
noble fight but just so that they start
fighting with one another that's what
you're gonna create man for just have a
world filled with my locusts come and
see us Automation ideas Mike locust and
homos man's gonna wake up this movie
there's there's my locusts life is all
about battling and challenging fighting
for your ideals fighting for your rights
fighting to repair the world fighting
against your alter ego it's a world
filled with fighting a car Hakka chain
rule of course not this with bori olam
the Futurecast random attack will burry
olam a bad Sam it's time to Solaria
Shana restroom is like this so the ones
who advocated for creating man said yes
but we're gonna insert and still within
man a piece of God Selam aleykum man is
gonna be fashioned from God himself so
true man's instinct true man will have
this alter ego he'll have to battle and
fight true man will have to fight for
his ideals and ideas but you know within
man man I'm talking generic man with the
in man is you God and you are a force in
a being for which there is no opposition
so as long as they attach themselves to
you they can enter a place with no
opposition
peace and with harmony and with love you
know there are people who fight for
their for their ideas and ideals and
their values they fight with passion and
yet they live with peace and harmony
with the with those around them an
extraordinary and extraordinary ways and
extraordinary ways we all know people
people like that so the fact that you
stand up for what you believe in doesn't
mean that your life will be riddled with
with my focus you can have both at some
serial financially there's more miss
another caution let's knock this and so
simply attaching ourselves to our
metaxas ourselves to a world to a
perspective to a vision without battling
mammalian mahisha pronounced austega day
so no cash to others can echo he saw
your timid time limits around lockers
bottom to be tough on Chile's own let me
again when called a fellow fee hELCO
harakiri fi snagged this at times the
matzah merits minbar Zhen hua Mancha a
flaw was ever made by sure Cocula how
you be tough on and this says her
Schwartz is exactly and this is the time
that we're living in severe summer
between penstock and she Lewis we just
left me trying we left me time we left
Egypt and Egypt now needs to leave us so
what does it mean to leave Egypt also in
our passion our very most
Kumasi art Smith's I'm we're not
supposed to emulate her imitate the way
of myths Ryan what was the way of
mitzrayim so power of thought I'm a
Delia I'm in control it's really all up
to me power would go down to the Nile
every morning to relieve himself because
he didn't want his people to know that
in fact he was human he put his pants on
they wear pants and it's right him he
put his pants on one leg at a time that
he also had to relieve himself like
everybody else he thought he was better
he thought he was greater superior he
took credit he wanted to worship himself
he wanted others to worship Him and that
was the men money and that was the
philosophy of Egypt each person in their
home each person leading their liberal
Empire that they are the deity they are
the god they are the ones who are
singularly and exclusively responsible
they get all the credit they're in
charge that was a philosophy of
mitzrayim the whole notion
contrasting Egypt was irrigated how by
the Nile Israel's irrigated how by the
rain
Egypt is a place where you say God I
don't need a god I don't need his reign
in order to be able to to sustain myself
have an aisle and the Nile irrigates my
field
and that's why they worshiped denial
they worshiped at denial by the Nile and
they worship the Nile itself that now
was their source of irrigation Israel as
a place we don't have a natural source
of irrigation it relies on the rain the
rain plays prominent role within the
well being in the sustenance of the Land
of Israel why because when you rely on
the rain who are you gonna turn to who
will you rely on the reed boenish alone
you know the Torah tells us in three
places that once we left each they're
forbidden further going back and it's
codified in Alaka it's an interesting
question then how throughout Jewish
history were there those who did live in
Egypt the Rambam lived in Egypt there
are vows lived in Egypt RAV ovadia yosef
lived in egypt how are you allowed to
live in Egypt do we once gave all
showers a girl in Russia about that
topic but we all shared of the the the
philosophy section what we shared was
that perhaps the prohibition of going
back to the Egypt is not just
geographically going back to Egypt the
prohibition of going back to Egypt is
going back to the mentality and the
philosophy and the attitude of Egypt and
what is that then I don't need God I've
got the Nile I've got the Nasdaq I've
got the Dow I've got the stock market
I've got my real estate portfolio none
of what you are doing very well these
days so you don't have any of those
things so but you might say to yourself
I've got my brain my ingenuity my
innovation my entrepreneurship I have a
Nile I worship myself and I worship with
these other tools and I don't need God
so God says don't go back to you I took
you out of Egypt I took you out of that
mentality so what happened we got out of
the mentality he took us out of Egypt
and we need to take Egypt out of
ourselves now and he took us to the
desert and how were we provided for what
did we eat in that desert what did we
eat so we know the man fell and here's
the amazing thing
when you open the front door what was
there was meant for you there was the
amount that was there for you how did
God know what if he lived in a home with
12 children what if he lived as one
children what if you had an empty nest
what if you newlyweds what if you were
single
the Mun that came what was right for you
and when something falls from heaven
miraculously you don't doubt it and you
don't challenge it you don't wonder
about it it's obvious and clear to you
that this is what's meant for you and
that's the mentality that we're meant to
have that we put in our initiative and
we take our effort and then whatever we
have and whatever descends from heaven
is there it's what meant for us it's
what's right for us
why is it what's right for me but my
neighbor has so much more why is this
what's right for me but this isn't
enough I need more
that's our effort that's our challenge
each one in their own way and I don't
mean to minimize those who have real
challenges in this area it's not easy if
it feels like it's not enough and you
don't know when you're next when you're
next portion is going to fall and yet
that is our that is our challenge that
when a person attaches themselves to the
one with whom there is no opposition
there's no force against then you
realize whether it's the for the
pernessa or the shell and bias or a
pandemic I need to take my initiative I
need to do what I need to do and then
whatever else results whatever else
happens it is by design it is what's
meant my dearest friends who wouldn't
want this lifestyle why wouldn't you
want the results that it creates I
literally don't get it I don't
understand the Atheist the agnostic I'm
not saying that there aren't challenges
and theological questions and we just
came off your my show I am Ozzy Cologne
and we're even right now this pandemic
bad things happening to good people my
dear cousin who I told you about
of course I'm bothered by these
questions but at the end of the day we
can become paralyzed and stifled
debilitated by the questions or we can
look at God's guiding hand and the
breath in our life we can choose to see
him everywhere choose to see him
everywhere I give me one example maybe
we'll start with this next week I was
gonna get into it but we're out of time
you want to talk about seeing God
everywhere how about the fact that God
designed a human body that is a chemical
factory that right now bio bio
biotechnology and pharmaceutical company
are you struggling to invent a drug to
fight covert 19 and the best option we
have right now is being produced where
what's the chemical factory what's the
manufacturing plant what's the
biotechnology company that so far is
producing the best medicine it's called
the human body it's called the plasma of
the people who had it the very same
people who when they lay in a hospital
bed or when they were at home were
struggling to catch their breath said
why me where is God how could this
happen
I'm fighting this opposing force are now
saying thank God I went through that
because it has put my body in a position
that it's producing medicine that is
saving lives the plasma donations being
given by the people themselves
previously went through this horrible
illness that's the broth of Asiata again
we'll start this next time uma FLE
lassos God you designed a chemical
factory that could compete and surpass
almost any other that we know it's
called the human body it has a
manufacturing part it has a waste
disposal part it has all kinds of parts
at all so now we've learned as a
medicine producing part of the human
body if you're looking for God he's
everywhere let's choose to look and to
find him let's choose to be filled on
this young Matt's mood with the
gratitude for his role and presence in
our life for the difference that he
makes and for everything that we have
and please God we can shut down that
part of our chemical plant called the
body not need that medicine it's the
only good health for those all around us
wishing you a wonderful wonderful day
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you there have a fantastic day