Living With Emunah (Part 207): First Beracha of the Day

okay good morning boker tov welcome back to our living with emunah so grateful that you are here and i'm happy we decided to uh have shear even if at a different hour next week for those in person and watching live we are back to 8 45 a.m same place both offline and online but back to 845 want to thank our generous sponsors for the uh living with emunah sheer series for the year doctors avian bella morgan who uh very appropriately sponsored in memory of rabbi dr brian gabbat bartsway whose grandson was just named in the other room baroczvi so it's a really a very special special morning to have a sheer in his memory as there is a new berthsville galbit walking around and uh if he is a fraction of who his grandfather was he will transform the world and better everyone who knows him so while we give him a big bracha he should be zoha to go up to torah and massim tovin they also sponsored a memory of bella's mother ellen shanzer who was a personification of ammuna and we're of course deeply grateful to them okay we are continuing what we began last week this new safer with the teachings of oba called different teachings of his you have in front of you the source sheets you see there's an advantage not only do you get a hot cup of dunkin donuts coffee and a bottle of water with a brand what does it say brs keeping you spiritually hydrated nice and a granola bar but you also get these source sheets in front of you so we made it through o's gimmel last week we pick up with dallad what we began with last week revolver was telling us someone an educator had written him a letter and the educator wanted to know how do i solve this issue that when the teacher walks out of the room the children stop davening the children are only davening out of a sense of fear when they're being supervised and as soon as the motor the rebbe the teacher walks out of the room the kids close the sitter they close their mouths they stop davening and revolba's answer which is so powerful not only vis-a-vis children but also very very powerful in terms of uh introspection and self-awareness with ourselves is that the issue is not the davening the dominating is a symptom the issue is not the words of course we need to work on understanding them comprehending them translating them but the issue's not the davening the issue is the person on the other end of the line nobody's going to talk into a telephone if they don't believe anyone's on the other end nobody you remember when you used to talk on a telephone today you prefer text you do everything we can now we have voice notes voice notes are one of the great inventions basically how can i get what i want across to you without actually having to talk to you i could just record a i could just record a voice note but we used to talk on the telephone so when we spoke on the telephone when we heard either breathing or preferably someone speaking on the other end we knew that we were not banging our head against the wall we weren't wasting our time there was someone listening to what we had to say but imagine that we picked up the telephone and we heard nothing you just had to have confidence and faith there's someone there on the other end they won't respond they won't acknowledge they won't grunt they won't breathe they won't make a sound nobody answered the phone and said hold on i'm putting you on speaker i'm here and they can hear you nothing imagine you pick up a phone and dial and you're told to just speak how many days in a row could you do that how many times a day could you do that without believing there's anyone on the other end so we're telling children pick up a telephone call the sitter and speak by the way do it in a language that you don't understand and do it for a length of time which you don't sit to concentrate for anything that doesn't involve a keyboard and a screen and do it three times a day and do it every day and is it a wonder it is a shock that not only do children struggle but we struggle we struggle so revolba's point was that the problem with daviding is not the sitter or the words of the comprehension the problem with davening is do we really believe there's someone on the other end is there someone who's listening are we in a relationship can we confide and unburden ourselves can we can we let hashem in and make ourselves vulnerable in ways maybe we don't with anyone else on the planet can we humble ourselves to ask for help can we express our gratitude do we really believe there's someone on the on the other end uh moshe weinberger hashem we just locked in a date january we'll be coming to boca for another incredible evening with music and uh big fabregan a big latish so he tells the story often we've repeated it in his name i think he said he once got it from one of his daughters from a reader's digest in case you wonder where rabbis get their material does reader's digest still put out does that still come out so that was before the internet once they have google reader's digest you don't need but before google that was a rabbi's you know go-to the reader's digest so there's the story i've told it a million times you'll excuse me if you've heard it but the great poetry contest and all these brilliant poets and uh people who read poetry dramatically enter the contest and the big day arrives in the last minute a man comes and he says i want to enter it's too late but they pity him so let him in and what will you be reading and he says psalm 23 tell him someone else already in the contest is reading it but you know what they pity him he's an older man there's no chance he's going to win fine you can you can participate and each of them stand up there and on the podium in front of the microphone and dramatically recite the poem of their choice moving the audience and trying to appeal to the judges for victory and finally the last entry this older man comes in and he begins psalm 23 mismo david the lord is my shepherd i shall not lack and he very beautifully and powerfully and personally recites psalm 23 the judges convene they confer and they come back and of course it was the winner this older man and all the other contestants can't understand it they had practiced they had rehearsed some of it was original poetry someone else read the exact same paragraph they read psalm 23. so they came to the man they said how did you pull that off i don't understand and his answer listen to this because this is the core of it all and this is what revolt was saying the man turned to him and he said you read a poem about a shepherd i know the shepherd i have a relationship with the shepherd i feel the shepherd in my life every day i'm one of his sheep when you read a poem about a shepherd you're reading about an abstract conceptual distance you're reading a theoretical poem about a theoretical shepherd when i read it i'm a sheep reading a poem about my shepherd and that's the issue that's at the core is the amuna and the betachon the davening will flow the behavior the barajos the life but we don't spend enough time our educational system with no criticism to anyone who's in it or running it they're doing an extraordinary job but the whole system doesn't allow for the room to discuss and to emphasize these things and we also have another cyclical problem which is that our educators myself included didn't grow up learning and hearing it so we're not necessarily in the position to communicate it or feel inadequate or unworthy or incapable in doing it but every conversation every hamas class should be a lesson of emunah what from this story how does it connect us to hashem every story of tanakh where was hashem in that story i was in her life every daf of gemara this is hashem's world why does he envision that that should be the halacha when my oc scores your ox and this is the liability because that's hashem's blueprint for his world and for creation every single class at every single school should end with and this is the lesson for our relationship with hashem to reinforce and to come back and to instill and our teachers are doing a wonderful job they're doing the best that they can this isn't the system as it stands now we have to compliment it in our own homes to talk about in every way we can in every experience we have how grateful how blessed point that isn't amazing we got that parking spot isn't it amazing the flight left on time and landed early and there was no traffic and made it to the end of the bris and i can't believe it all happened i just came back earlier this morning i can't believe that it all happened what a miracle to pause and to say thank you and to do it in front of our children so they know and they see and that's what we said thought of a great idea said we need to revamp the educational system so he created a curriculum curriculum is made up of a hundred parts a day a hundred pieces of homework a day now i'm not a fan i wasn't then and i'm not now of homework let's do a lot of learning in school and play after school but david malek sends us home with a hundred pieces of homework a day those hundred pieces of homework are called maya brachus in his time he did it to stop a pandemic there was a plague it was wiping out the jewish people and he said you know what maybe the lesson should come through loud and clear maybe we are distanced from one another because we've been distanced from hashem maybe we have to be quarantining or separating or living under the under the cloud of concern of what will be and what won't be and i just saw a headline for marriage israel today that the uh i don't know who a czar or guru who anyone is anymore because we don't know what that even means anymore but whoever the expert is in israel said the delta variant is over in israel there should be a six-month reprieve until the next variant so like enjoy the next six months plan your trip now and then we'll have to go through this all over again and who knows for how long and how many years so david and malik lived through the spanish flu was seven years i remember when when this pandemic first began and i read that spanish flu was seven years i left i think out loud and said but it's 20 21 what do we need seven hours maybe seven days seven days we'll figure this out maybe at most until they can invent seven months but now it's not so funny anymore the spanish flu is seven years in any case david alex's reaction to what was happening was not just simply to get lost in the data and the debate about the policies because unfortunately and tragically that's what's consuming our conversations and what's not part of most conversations certainly not at a national level is the religious component of it what are messages what are lessons we can learn and and i'm not a believer in correlating when bad things happen it's because this is what we do wrong i don't believe in that not only do i not believe in that and not only do i not believe it's true i believe you are infringing on hashem's territory last week we read about the people who tried to build a tower up to the heavens they wanted to compete with hashem in his space and shamayim well when you try to decide why things happen in this world why bad things happen to good people you're playing god god is the only one who knows that there are incredibly extraordinary wonderful people who suffer really really terribly and to suggest that any of us mere finite mortal human beings know why that is is not only insulting to the people but i think it's insulting and it's an affront hashem so i'm not suggesting we try to directly correlate what i am suggesting is that we convene to say but what are we going to learn from it what are we going to change because of it what are we going to do about it how will we be different because of it how we'd be different because of it so david amal said a hundred pieces of homework called maya brock's behold hundred times a day make a bracha so before david there weren't these hundred brachas a day or there wasn't an obligation a responsibility to count these hundred broncos a day by the way there is an app my friend jimmy saka sent me after last week's i'm going to share a link there is an app online to count your hundred broncos a day already so max specter who uh please god we should dance at his wedding you don't need the paper clips and the index cards there is a an app online so a hundred barakas every every single day 100 check-ins every single day 100 times that we are busy with the gemara and the navi and the hamish that were busy with buying things and accumulating things and living and making a living a hundred times during the day we interrupt to stop and say we need an anchor we need to be rooted we need to be mindful we need to remember that we're not here alone we're not navigating this world on our own we're not responsible for it on our own but we defer we turn to we surrender we submit to hashem that brings us up to dalit 100 a day it's not easy now it's easier than it sounds because again 19 19 and 19. if you dive in chakras and marv every day you are well on your way 56 broncos right there so you're more than halfway there just by daphne and uh a couple cups of coffee a couple visits to the place the coffee sends you you make enough brackets during the day 100 wrotes says a hundred brochures is daunting a hundred braces is intimidating 100 brachas may not even seem really realistic so i'll tell you what 10 brachas a day 10 10 ashiyatsa shahakal a benching in alameda aboriginal fascists choose 10 brachas a day south florida in the summer you could throw a few in for lightning and for thunder every single day multiple times a day you make your mayor brachas choose 10 times during the day that you know what my first cup of coffee in the morning let's all collectively are living with ammunition let's all take upon ourselves that our first cup of coffee in the morning first cup of coffee in the morning which i've not had yet for the record i was on the 6am flight and i could never ever accept coffee on the airplane you could google it yourself when you find out where that water is coming from and the article that i read the proof that they had was when you see the flight attendants and they're the ones on the plane who have access to all the coffee of the plane and they always walk on the plane with their starbucks or dunkin donuts you'll never see them drink a cup of coffee on the plane and neither should you don't drink a cup of coffee on plane so i have not yet had my cup but that first cup of coffee i don't know what nathan says nathan brings it out yeah there's no don't don't touch that coffee yeah we've got a asia's pilot here so andrea says don't don't touch the don't touch the coffee on the plane so i haven't had mine yet but maybe we could take upon ourselves i know not everybody drinks coffee call it you god bless you if you make it through the day unbelievable um but for those who do the first cup of coffee and if you don't drink coffee your first cup of water orange juice grapefruit juice whatever you uh whatever protein shake whatever does it for you when you start your day your first drink of the day let's all accept upon ourselves that that shahako we are going to be mindful now by the way you don't have to put it in google or calendar or outlook we're not talking about a 15 minute or a 10 minute or a one minute commitment we're talking about three seconds how much of a commitment are we talking about the hardest part is just remembering to do it that's going to be the hardest part we should make up mugs that have a reminder so that the first cup of coffee in the morning will be a mug that has a reminder don't forget to concentrate for the shahaka on this cup of coffee could remind me to make up those monks but the behind the breast low goes on now anyone would like to sponsor those mugs the sponsorships available we'll put your logo on it too so let's accept upon ourselves forget a hundred bucks a day we have to make the hundred brachas but let's just accept upon ourselves that first bracha the first shahaka we're going to make charcoal that everything yebidvara it's all from you hashem not only what we're enjoying the ambiance of it as we spoke about last year the coffee bean grew in a field and somebody harvested it and someone packaged it and somebody shipped it and somebody ground it and somebody made it into whatever snobbery that you like it the nespresso or the the kurig or the starbucks v i think it's called or whatever form that you take it so but that's shahakal that shahaka goes on all of that all those people and all that effort and all of that miracle of of it being there and the clearly emotional relationship we have with it so we can't do a hundred bucks a day maybe not even ten breakfast a day let's one bracha day really be present everything flows from you hashem is not just the god of the universe but eloquenu my god hashem you're in my life i feel your presence i woke up this morning i feel your love eloquenu mella you are the king of the whole world and which is hidden you are the king of the world i see and the world which is hidden underneath that world that everything yeah it came to be with your word everything in the world is because you will it it all exists only because you will it so to actually concentrate think about and be mindful for that is a moment of time and a person who blesses god and who coronates god and recognizes god you're the king of kings the fact that i didn't spill this cup on myself the fact that it worked out and i made the cup and the machine didn't break down the fact that it has that impact on me everything about this incredible cup of coffee when i think about it you are the i'm coronating you god you are the king of king ki kache so now what i've done when i make that bracha that first shahaka in the morning i've turned the mundane cup of coffee in whatever state of my eyelids being open or closed whatever state of dress i'm in or yet not having gotten dressed that day whatever where i am whatever that first cup of coffee but i've turned that cup of coffee from a secular profane mundane cup of coffee into kochi shamayim it's like a holy carbon i'm in the basement with a sacrifice i took a cup of coffee and i made it the holiest thing there is because i just chose to be mindful in the moment i drank it with intention i was present but okay is born in a zoo and it's with that contemplativeness it's with that thoughtfulness it's with that presence that i'm sipping that cup of coffee so the cup of coffee first of all i'm not mindlessly drinking it while i'm flipping through the paper or taking in the news or having a conversation oblivious to the blessing of the cup of coffee i'm present for the blessing of it i'm not consumed by it because there are other things that we have to do during the day but i also am aware of the bracha of the gift of it and i transformed it from a base animal human experience into a godly holy and spiritual experience who taught him also when you drink the cup of coffee you're not just drinking coffee you know what you were imbibing you were drinking a piece of god you're bringing a piece of god we spoke about this earlier in elohim when we did our 45-minute class on the jewish approach to eating the hashaffa of eating food and many makoros that we saw there many many beautiful insights and sources but they talked about we studied ravichameyer has a whole chapter and that's eating and he says you know we know that human beings need to eat to live you shouldn't live to eat we need to eat in order to live people who have don't eat have an eating disorder that's considered a disorder it's dysfunctional it's unhealthy we sabotage our own health we need to eat in order to be able to in order to be able to live which means that within food is the life source within food is that which gives us life without it we will die with it we live so in it is is life in it is life which means that when we eat it or we eat the proper food in the proper time in the proper quantities then we are engaging hashem it's where hashem can be found hashem is the source of all life and the food is what gives us life that hashem is expressing or manifesting himself in food he's manifesting himself in that food so when we pause and we make that bracha mindfully again we're talking millisecond maybe less than a second to make a shahakal okay three seconds if you're really having kavanagh you're making contact with the divine you're turning it from a cup of coffee into a holy sacrifice a holy object in we are both with our intention with our mind but also we're also with our senses that cup of coffee i know i'm very much romanticizing a cup of coffee right now which tells you how badly i need a cup of coffee but also but also because it's true about that cup of coffee and it's true about the foods that we eat again in moderation the right amounts the right time and the right so on and so forth but we are engaging not only our our mind when we mindfully introduce it with a bracha when we're present and what we're doing and eating but we are engaging our senses it's a sensory experience a good cup of coffee has an aroma taking in that aroma it's worth a bracha just on the aroma of a good cup of coffee and it has a taste your taste buds are engaged and it's a hot cup of coffee so there's it's warming up your kishkas it's making you feel comfortable it's a comfort food if you're having iced coffee you're drinking a milkshake you're not really having a cup of coffee i'm talking about a proper cup of coffee which is a hot cup of coffee i get insulted every time what are they called barrister what are they called barista the barista asked me when i said i'll take uh because i refuse to use those other names i say i'll take a medium coffee please she says hot or cold he says it's not a cold i said i said coffee it's hot stom coffee's hot an iced coffee is a milkshake so anyway i had a cup of coffee so it's not only engaging your mind and it's a mindful experience but your senses your sense of smell and your sense of taste and your sense of touch you're holding that hot cup you're not holding it too hot will burn you but you want to feel a little bit of the warmth to come through there's a whole experience and in that experience is the ribonus it's contact with the divine it is a holy experience so if you start your day by finding hashem in the cup of coffee you know what's going to happen you're going to find him everywhere in that day he'll even be in the carpool line he's going to be at the red light he's going to be at work in the gym at the supermarket he's going to be in those conversations and those relationships he's going to guide and navigate the difficult dilemmas decisions that need to be made you're going to find hashem everywhere if you find him when you begin your day whoa the great testimony that hashem gave of moshe banu the greatest endorsement of all time hashem says about moshe rabbenu hashem says about moshe the behold base in all of my house this is the source that we wish they should build a bias doesn't use that expression anywhere in tanakh where do we get that expression to build a bias netaman we should be the progeny we should be the offspring the spiritual offspring of mushroom who was behold basic he was trustworthy in all of hashem's house what does that mean like he didn't mess with the kasras he didn't steal the silverware he didn't steal the wi-fi connection code what does that mean that moshe albania was trustworthy but kobasi so the word netaman the mufashim explained means he was reliable he came through he wasn't uh you know uh depended on the mood he was in meant he was reliable you could trust him you can lean on him um is the grandson of rashi the rashbom is the grandson of rashi so the rashbom in his commentary on torah basin naman writes you know what makes moshe abbay nuneman he lives with order and with purpose every hour of the day is established you know to be trustworthy and reliable is that something is built to code it's built with order it's built in a way that will last it's trustworthy our generation tragically appreciates that right now i don't know about you but i don't know that we get into tall buildings the way that we used to ever again after surfside you get into that elevator you get into that tall building and you're putting a lot of faith into the engineers and the architects and the inspectors and the hope that everything is neman i hope that this elevator i hope this building i hope that it's all naman i just sent some of you into a panic i'm sorry just going to never think about that never mind to enjoy the elevators and tall buildings and i didn't say that so the rashbom says what does it mean that moshe albeinus that just like the parts of the house are reliable the foundation is strong it's reliable it's dependable it's to code so too that was moshe bainu yes if you have a peg which is firmly rooted then it's not going to fall down zoya moon is so we should be founded the anchor that holds us in place should be our relationship with hashem so the world around us is distracting the world around us is anxiety ridden the world around us is confusing the world around us is high pressured and it's difficult to navigate our way through this world the wind is blowing us in so many different directions how do you steer the ship when the wind is trying to knock us off course in so many different ways the values that are coming through through pop culture and through what was supposedly once high culture regular culture the definitions that we once took for granted about this world and the people in it and the relationships that we have the world is upside down how do we navigate it we need an anchor we need an anchor we need something that no matter what we're encountering engaging no matter what we watched or read no matter what conversation we had that every day we come back to it and it anchors us it anchors i said hold us steady basin moshe was that anchor he was ne'eman and that is the mission of ammuna and a hundred brachas we say a day the domini that we do a day the conversations that we have with god every day not in the sinner not the american greetings card but we scribble what we underline what we fill in in between we spoke about last week those are the anchor whatever's happening in our world we come back and that anchors us and it reminds us i don't have to panic i'm not in charge i'm not in control i just do the best i can and after that it's up to him after that it's up to him if he meant me to make this flight if he meant me to make this business deal if he meant me to get this thing then i would have last night i was at a wedding in lakewood came over to introduce himself to me very interesting guy he's a sofa in lakewood so i asked him he's been and he's been living there for 20 years he's been doing it for 20 years a wonderful person and i said you have a lot of competition i don't know if you know what's going on in lakewood today but it's exploded it's unbelievable what's going on so he said yeah i created the competition i said what does that mean so he said that you know there were people coming out of the years of learning years of cola not everybody could be a rebbe not everybody's cut out for this and he saw the growing need for sapphires he didn't feel he was capable of it so he hired someone so from from brooklyn who came to lakewood to train a whole cadre of sophrim so he said i trained my competition i trained the people who would compete with me so i told them i said you know that's that's unbelievable that's an amazing fulfillment of the inside of the house that we learned together when i say we i don't know how many of you were here because this goes back several years ago early on in the yamuna shir so we learned that has a sephirah muna bitarchon which is named based on one essay in it i think it's four or five essays which are not most of them are not about but the main the central essays about i'm going to be talking so the safer is known that way it's now been translated into english you can get the english of it it's really worthwhile to study and the resonation there says the following he says you know if you really have a moon ambi taco not only do you never feel threatened by competition you're willing to help the competition because you realize that the source of your parnassa is hashem and he has enough to go around there's enough for everybody he can make you a millionaire you a millionaire are you a millionaire are you a billionaire and you're a millionaire you're a billionaire there's enough so he he writes he describes he says let's say you have a certain business and a competitor moves across the street now in halacha we have something called has guidelines and guidance and parameters what's considered fair competition what's unfair competition both in terms of where you set up shop and in terms of the marketing that you do and the pricing structure that you offer there are that guide what is fair competition but let's assume it fulfills the the criteria for fair competition so someone opens up shop they hang their shingle across the street the exact same business the same store that you have you can either try to drive them in the ground you tell the distributors if you sell to him also then i'm not buying to anymore and i'm going to drop my prices at the very beginning so he never gets any traction or gets started you can have a ruthless competitiveness to be able to eliminate that competition because you're threatened by him says if you do that i don't care how much you shuckle in shul i don't care how many tahilam you say pittamaktoras from a cloth how many red strings are tied around your whole family and the tree in front of your house i don't care about any of that if you are ruthlessly competitive to drive a fellow jew out of business then you have noah moon and you could say barak hashem as much as you want you don't have any real faith because if you had real faith you'd go across the street and you'd say how can i help you do you need the number of the distributor you need the number of my graphic designer you need the number of how i mark it because i want you to succeed i can succeed we can both succeed i wrote an article a couple years ago in brooklyn there was a fish store kosher fish store that i think i had a fire burned to the ground and a competitor around the corner said come open up shop in my shop we'll both run fish store within a fish store we'll compete in the same store until your shop is back up and running again he won a award by a councilman in in brooklyn for doing that and i wrote an article i quoted this causation i said it's unbelievable that is exactly the fulfillment of this you can open your store within my store because i'm not only not threatened by your store i'm ready to help you with your store because he has enough for all of us it's really if if you're competing with me in a way that i no longer make what i used to make it's not because you competed with me it's because he determined i wasn't supposed to make what i used to make if he wanted me to make that and more i would have so the real test the real metric the wheel barometer of ramuna where what you can call the ammuna rubber meets the road is in real life and who doesn't have a moon in the shul plenty of people but who doesn't have a moon in the shore in the shul the sitters open you're dominating you're in front of the arab kodash you're hearing phenomenal drushas hopefully from rabbi moskowitz and others so you have a muna in the shul but it's easy to shuckle and dive in and the towers over your head and the lipstick marks all over our sudurum we kiss the sitter at every port half of our sedum after eleno and jabba's morning have a lipstick mark right right in the city so in the shul in the shul it's easy to do all that but what happens when you leave the shul what happens when the things aren't working out the way you want do we get distracted and confused and caught up in that thought that it's really all about us and other people and they could impact my life even if hashem doesn't want or do we have that anchor and that's how we got into this that anchor that holds us steady that anchor that brings us back to neutral to where we need to be that reminds us who's in charge and who's in control and what it's really all about so i said to the sofa last night i said to him you trained your competition that that's the hazarish that's you have such a moon and what an honor to meet you give me a bracha give me a bracha he spoke yesterday hashem said i gave avram the ability to he made every jew a rebbe every jews are every one of us were empowered by hashem hashem used to have the exclusive rights and giving broncos then he gave it to avraham and through avraham he gave it to every one of us we can all give broncos i said give me a bracha that's an incredible story what a great story that'd be a great story what he said to me was the reason he came over since you asked the reason he came over he said it's nice to meet you you and i share a same rebbe i said okay who's that so he said ramosa weinberger he said you know all day i sit and i write safras but i have shiron playing in the background and i discovered i stumbled under moshe weinberger and i listened to shiram although he's unbelievable hashem he will be coming here in january very excited that we're going to be having him for another incredible evening of music and inspiration and torah we're looking forward to that so that is a fulfillment so all throughout the day whether it's what we perceive as competition or people who hurt us or don't fall in line the way we want or the traffic or the missed flight or the business deal that fell through we have what we're meant to have and if we don't have it it wasn't meant for us and what we need to do in order to remember that is have a very strong and powerful anchor that while the wind is blowing us around all through the day we come back to the anchor the anchor could be to hilum the anchor could be ardavaning the anchor could be the amuna learning group or the many amuno resources that are out there there are beautiful um what's that english book i don't think it's called is it called living with emunah it's up to like buying three or four you could have an entry for every day read it every day you need an anchor that comes back and that reminds us we need to tie not a red ribbon not a red string around our wrist we need to tie a string around our finger to remember oh yeah there's a hashem by the way that that's what in mind is just when you forget it so you're in the middle of a fight with someone and you think they're the one who hurt you or they're the one who stole the business from you and then you have to make a shahakal on your water or diet peach snapple or your coffee and you make that barracuda charcoal yup oh that's you know what never mind i forgot he's in charge i can still be disappointed in the way you behaved i could still be upset that i think that you wronged me but in terms of my parnassa it comes from him never mind forget it forget it that hundred brothers a day are the hundred reminders the hundred strings around our finger that remind us so says revolver we'll end with this today time flies when you're having a munna hamish so a person who habituates themselves even a little bit not a hundred times a day not even 10 times a day that opening bracha i'm testing you all next week we're coming back 8 45 next week and i'm going to ask you how you did on the opening bracha what's next week the next week we're on next week we're back on 8 45. so i'm testing you all how did you do on that opening bracha of the day whatever your drink of choice i may judge you if i learn some of your drinks of choice but whatever your drink of choice that opening bracha that chahaco just intense mindfulness for that opening i suspect if you experience that opening bracha you're likely to want to make more broncos during the day like it so just the opening of the day the opening pitch of the day will set our day on the right path says if we can habituate ourselves a little bit shiloh israel brought we're trying to find hashem we're trying to taste hashem we're trying to imbibe hashem we're trying to make contact with the divine so when the when there's a little wind on our cheek that's hashem that's hashem petting the side of our cheek and when we take in a beautiful a beautiful smell that's hashem who has distributed that beautiful fragrance in the world and we hear the rustling of the trees that's hashem who's playing his playlist for us and when we encounter the natural world we'll find hashem in everything in every part of our life in our world if we just get our day started that right way hamistra gets us with the brachas that we make it transforms the act of eating from food into being hashem these are holy holy sacred consecrated things it's not a mundane or a profane act it is a very holy holy act so enjoy your cup of coffee after the living with the moon everyone's invited stay socialized meat there are several new people who've just moved in i'm going to embarrass you if you just moved in over the last year raise your hand right now good if you did not raise your hand right now don't leave go over to someone who did raise their hand right now introduce yourself and welcome them in fact we're studying the safer of revolva revolver's grandson just moved to our community it's evolved and his wife esther will be doing a event on sunday night you can sign up for it tell you raise your hand our new director member engagement and we're doing an amazing event if you'd like to sign up and register find out more you can speak to her right after the sheer which is basically now and they're going to be raffles she's doing a chapped competition she has uh cooking influencer cooking with tantrums she is a well-known chef and so that's on sunday night sign up for that 8 o'clock sunday night but first tomorrow tonight tonight we're going behind the bema tonight with avraham freed the great singer avraham freed you don't want to miss behind the bema tonight at nine o'clock so until next time stay happy stay healthy and stay holy