Living With Emunah (Part 262) - Make Time For Hashem

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workout could wait I have that effect on people so I tuned into your live shear a few minutes after I joined you began speaking about a 19 year old Rabbi in the remarkable fact that he had all of his natural teeth remember we talked about that last week or Victor Miller who thanked Hashem he looked in the mirror counted his teeth and thanked Hashem every day for his teeth and the dentist attributed his having all of his teeth for that gratitude you asked how many of us knew how many teeth we have and that this Rabbi counted his teeth every day thank Hashem for them and that is why even at his age he retained his natural death then dentition new word the answer to the question is 32. why do I know that because the industry that I work in is the dental industry I have the incredible privilege and broccoli to run our family's fourth generation Dental business where we develop manufacture and distribute Innovative consumables for the oral health professionals around the world basically the things your dentist and hygienists use in your mouth I continue to learn that there are no coincidences how is it I decided to tune into the shear when I had to work and workouts to do how is it when I did the very moment you were speaking about teeth and oral health there can only be one answer and that is Hashem thank you for starting my day with a smile with that Muna and the lessons of learning and Leadership that was one great email just in time she tuned in and didn't do a workout wow that's great next one's another great one another young man the best part is I don't know the people who send me these emails but I want you to keep sending them because they're remarkable illustrations and examples of applying what we're learning every week we say the same exact thing the zashem is involved in our life nothing's a coincidence it's all by Design it's all from above it's all from him and these are illustrations of putting them to practice seeing and feeling and recording in your WhatsApp group I forgot to post last week the group that has 900 people that began as a result of our share I have to post it for those who want to join but here's another great example then we'll dive into the toe room today I had to go to the bank in the morning by breakfast I wanted to be back in Yeshiva you knew that when you say Bank in the morning buy breakfast and wanted to be back in Yeshiva that it would be Shiva for when seder started so during chakras I was thinking to myself I should leave a little early from the oven and I could get back in time for seder I went back and forth with myself but in the end I decided to stay until the end if Hashem wanted me to come back on time that's what would happen another zoo is grappling should I leave davening early so I get to the bank and make it back for seder or do I stay till the end of dominating and if Hashem wants me to be back in time for learning I'll be back in time after I finish praying and wrapping myself in the towels I quickly went to my room to gathered my things and I headed off to the buses once I was on the street with the bus picked me up I saw one of the buses I could take by and I said I won't Chase it down if I was meant to be on it I would get on there are four buses I could have taken so I wouldn't be waiting long anyway as I continued walking down the street I saw two more buses going down the street and I didn't see the fourth one coming anytime soon so I decided I would run to catch one of those buses I wasn't running out of nervousness but rather I wanted to have a faster trip so I could resume learning as soon as possible when I reached the third bus after a quick Sprint the driver wouldn't open the door and ended up leaving I did my best to not be bothered by it and I said to myself if that's what Hashem decided that's for the best if he was meant to get on the bus the bus driver would have led him so the bus driver slammed the door in his face clearly Hashem did not want him to be on that bus eight minutes later I was on the fourth bus and on my way to the bank around halfway through the trip I saw multiple ambulances and police vehicles flying up the street with lights and Sirens as we went forward in heavy traffic and commotion I saw there was a bus in the middle of the road with a completely shattered windshield and all the ambulances were surrounding him behind the bus at the shadow windshield were two other buses that were stuck all three of which were the ones I could have or would have taken not only that the people on those buses were taken off the bus and weren't LED onto my bus because we had to take a detour to continue on the bus's route I go to the bank shortly after and I got back to Yeshiva only 15 minutes late who knows how long it would have taken otherwise there are multiple points of ashikachu protests in this story if I would have loved chakras early I would have been on that first bus and God forbid might have gotten hurt second is if I made the bus that I ran after I would have been stuck and taken off the bus and what I would have been delayed much longer and moon is not knowing what the future holds but knowing who holds the future it's a great line and I don't know who he is or if he's single or how you can introduce him to your granddaughter I don't know but he's a good cop and moon is not knowing what the future holds but knowing who holds the future thank you Hashem then he writes another text to me he wrote a little while later a few days later I was flipping through my little notebook where I write ideas and questions I come up with and I saw that on zosconica on the Eighth Day Hanukkah I wrote quote I heard of Gamaliel who we're learning says on okay should write down a Kabbalah you want to work on and Hashem will give you extra seat Ishmael I believe that there will work on not leaving early from Minion he said and I totally forgot about it so here is that he didn't leave early for minion that was the Kabbalah he made and who inspired him to make it well we're learning not leaving early for Minion kept him from going on one of those 33 buses he didn't get hurt and he made it back more or less on time for his learning thank you Hashem and moon is not knowing what the future holds but knowing who holds your future I changed it he has the future but who holds your future such a beautiful beautiful thought so if you're listening watching and you've gone online to bsonline.org Global and you made your contribution now send me a text or an email with a greater Muna story we'd love to continue to share them and that's really the story of Purim today's Zion Adar seventh of Adar Hamman thought an inauspicious day on our calendar the day Moshe died that was the day he was going to exterminate the Jewish people he forgot it was also moshe's birthday you know auspicious day on our calendar new beginnings and a fresh start in the avanavia the Father the greatest of all the prophets would give us the Torah Dosha the Taurus the Timeless Torah that would Inspire and inform and Elevate and enrich our lives in such meaning in such beautiful ways so Purim is coming up next week this is and the gemara tells us the mishna tells us that one of the rules of Purim is if you read the Magilla backwards if you read it backwards why would you want to do that I don't know you read the middle of backwards so maybe that means you read the 10th paragraph of the ninth and the eighth president you read the words out of order backwards however you understand it let my Freya backwards loyatza you're not yotsay you're not Yoji if you read it backwards but it's a beautiful teaching in the South Shalom of bells says doesn't mean that you read it backwards but it means La mafrea means if you think that megillah that Purim is only a holiday that happened thousands of years ago Le mafreya you read the Magilla as if it's an ancient outdated old expired Story You've not been yo say reading the Magilla the Magilla is a modern story it is a contemporary story it is the story of your and my lives it is the story of finding Hashem even when he feels hidden it is revealing his hiddenness Hashem doesn't appear anywhere in the medulla his name and yet every time we read and we proclaim the name hamnellah that's Hashem showing his hand and similarly in our lives sometimes most often for almost all Hashem doesn't explicitly reveal himself he doesn't announce I'm here he doesn't suspend The Rules of Nature and make a miracle he doesn't explicitly appear but we have to read it into our lives we have to reveal that hiddenness Hashem dwells a Malik a Malik is the Gamache of Suffolk amaleko introduces us to doubt and uncertainty who says there's a Hashem who says that what's happening is really him maybe it's a string of coincidences maybe you happen to turn on the workout video living with the moon came instead and talking about teeth you're at a dental conference ah it's just a chance it's just random maybe you stayed in Minion you missed three buses that you would have gotten delayed you made the fourth that was your Kabbalah after all all along ah it's coincidence random chance maybe maybe not our job amalek says it's Suffolk it's doubt it's uncertainty it's unlikely it's random it's a chance but we have to destroy a Malik that's this week's Parish you have to destroy you have to eliminate you have to erase a Malik to remember the danger of a Malik the danger of living with Suffolk doubt and uncertainty with to eliminate and Purge him from our mentality and from our and from our mind what does amalek want to do he wants case Kai tried to destroy God from sitting case is Kisa his chair is thrown what's missing from the word aleph the aleph is the one and only the unique and singular Hashem the aloof the master of the universe so we replace that aleph amalek removes the Allah from case Ka and we put the olive back how do we put the olive back by giving Hashem a Dwelling Place Dar means to live we try to give him a dwelling place down here on Earth he doesn't just live on high Hashem is not Theory medical he's not abstract he's not academic he's in our lives he's one we miss a bus and catch a bus he's what comes up when we turn on YouTube he's in every aspect of our daily lives when you live with Adar Michigan when you enter a state a mindset of Adar of aloofdar of adding the alephtic back onto the kissee then Marvin now your life is filled with joy you miss buses you say can't wait to see where this adventure leads not I'm annoyed and I'm frustrated and I can't believe it how could I miss those buses so that's where I was meant to be I was meant to not be on those buses I can't wait to see why and how this turns out you live life we give him a dwelling place down here on Earth down here that's up to us he can't impose and he can't force himself we have to invite him we have to reveal him we have to be megala the nister miguelas Esther we have to reveal his hiddenness we have to write him into armagilla we have to Proclaim hamelach so we clap and we bang at Haman and we cheer inside or externally the king is all around us the king is all around us and he's waiting and looking for us to see and to acknowledge Him and to submit and surrender to him and to give him a deer in him to give him a dwelling place down here that's why we're reading the parishes last week in this week Hashem says dwell in them it should say in it why in them how does he dwell here on Earth in US Hashem reveals himself in us when we say Hashem please God thank God if God Wills when we use his name when we acknowledge Him when we defer to him when we thank him we protest him when we talk about him we're giving him a dwelling place here on Earth and was invisible and he's never mentioned and he's erased from our lives then he only lives on high we are the ones who reveal him we put the olive back in kise and we eliminate amalek who wants to introduce such a doubt because we live with certainty there's no doubt I'm certain that what happens happens for a reason and a purpose and certain life my life has meaning and order I'm certain that he has a master plan even when it's difficult and painful but it's all part of his plan it's all orchestrated from above that's what we're trying to do by living with emuna we're living with emuna and what is not a cop-out a moon is not opium of the masses the Moon is not just a drug that we use to get through the day and moon is Ms it's the truth there is a God he created the world he's intimately involved in our lives and that's the how they've put him that everything happens from him it's all from him it's all orchestrated the picture comes together sometimes like the story of Purim you get to the end of Magilla and you can read it and see how he revealed his hand how nothing was a coincidence that Mordechai overheard the plot to kill the king that Esther won and she was the prettiest woman and chosen to be ours is why all these seeming coincidences and chants were a string of events that were ordained from above the same is true with our life nothing's random or chance it's all ordained from above and that is our mission during this time and during these days back in we're learning the midst of avas Hashem and he taught us something so powerful just like if you try to say Shema you're not wearing villain it's a lie you're a fraud it's not true how could you say could you say that you have to worry feeling you're not wearing filling what else do we say in Shema you have to love Hashem and if you don't love Hashem then you're not in Earnest you're not sincerely or authentically saying Shema and we left off last time that we have to love Hashem what are we reciprocating to him his love for us that notion God loves you God loves us it is not a non-jewish concept it's not a Christian concept they stole it from us Hashem loves us Hashem loves you and he loves me and he loves all of us and that is the essence of Torah that we have avinush we have a father in Heaven and he never gives up on us then how far we are we have the partially right after this if you're here in person or watching or listening online I hope you stay at 9 30. for the pastorship I'll give you a preview says that the Cohen would wear coingada War the meal had bells on the bottom you would hear the sound when he walked in there are three places you hear that word nishma appears in the Torah hearing the Sounds here and NASA the nishma the third place nishma why those three places will get to a beautiful inside of the Gary rosh hashiva sometimes Hashem hears you when you're up close to him but Hashem hears us even when we're far away when we feel we're distant and we failed even when we have disobeyed still hears our please he hears our call if you have a child who's disappointed you if you have a child who's been disobedient to you if you have a child who's not listening but they come to you and they say I need your help now I want you I long for you I want to be connected to you would you say no because you didn't clean your room and I asked you to no because you don't call often enough so now I'm not taking your call I don't know such a parent no matter what a child does no matter how distant they are you crave you crave their connection and when they reach out and they want to connect you welcome it doesn't mean you don't have things you have to work through or reconcile important conversations that have to be had but you long for that relationship Our Father in Heaven he craves and he wants and he Longs for that relationship with us it doesn't mean that we're not accountable for decisions we've made choices that we've expressed but he wants that connection We're Never So Far Away we'll get into this more shortly in the past this year but why is that because he's not just a scary King a scary employer he's not just a scary Master in heaven he's avinush he's our father he's our father and he loves us he loves us we need to know that our children need to know that no matter how far we've Fallen no matter how distant we've become no matter how much we think we've disappointed him he never gave up on us he never gives up on us he believes in us his faith his belief in US is great he believes in US he loves us and he's waiting for us over and over again tell us Hashem loves us he loves us feel his hug feel his love you walk outside I don't know my daughter in New Jersey school is canceled today the snow is falling got many inches I don't mean to rub it in your face but you walk outside here in Boca Raton today and you feel the Rays of sun on your neck and you feel the Cool Wind I would say in your hair but not all of us are so lucky you could feel the Cool Wind and I don't know there's no better feeling but we're always in a rush or running or we're scrolling or we're looking down or our thumbs are working so we don't even notice hashan was like hi here I'm giving you a hug I'm giving you some love you feel that warmth on your neck of the sun while you feel the cool air of a cool day that's me I love you that warmth that vitamin D that's me just stop and put your phone away and look around and close your eyes and take a deep breath and restore your soul and feel my love feel my affection feel my warmth you ever need a hug you ever near someone who needs a hug a hug sometimes there's no words it's the embrace it's just the hug someone needs a hug we need a hug we need that connection that energy exchange on a day like today in South Florida he's giving you a hug so you walk by somebody your parent or your child says can I have a hug you say yeah whatever yeah you walk right by them because Mark was like hi I'm enveloping you I want to give you a hug and we're looking down and we're scrolling and we're distracted and we're not just feel that hug receive that hug give that hug reciprocate that hug because he loves us hey 75. it's known in the name of Hashem is said of love the entire feeling of love the institution of Love What is love the definition of Love is uh hours and hours of conversation in its own right but love is not an adjective love is not an emotion love is not a Feeling those all do an injustice and a disservice to the notion of love love is not an adjective love of anything is a verb you don't feel love you exhibit love you act lovingly you perform love acts of love you love you don't feel love and in fact that's the order you don't wait to feel love and then act if you act lovingly you will feel love that's why of desolar writes we love when we give not when we receive children love parents more parents rather love children more than children could ever love parents because parents give and children receive certainly at the beginning of Life so love is the result of giving not the result of receiving and love is not an adjective it's not an emotion it's not a feeling love is a verb it's an act it's something we do love is an existential connection and bond So when you say I love pizza I love Chinese food I love sushi you're describing your existential Bond your Soulful connection with the food so you like those Foods you don't love them you like them you love hopefully your spouse your children Hashem that's love that's love love is something bigger and greater so every feeling of love we just said it's not a feeling but what we call or describe as a Feeling was all designed as a metaphor for the most authentic love and that is the love of Hashem for us and our love for him I don't know how to fulfill loving Hashem oh now I have a child now I know what it means that Hashem loves me now I know I've said this before that you know I've told my children when they say I love you I say you think you love me you have no idea what love is the love I have for you that's love what you have for me is also love it's not love but when you'll have a child when you'll have a child then they'll be your everything and you take a bullet you give your life for theirs and you wake up in the middle of the night and just stare at them when they're a little baby you want to make sure they're okay when they're a little older you can't believe they're here and they're yours and when they give you nagas in that moment there's just you swell with the pride and the joy like you won the lottery bigger than anything in the world those who don't know those feelings should be blessed to have healthy children children who give them nachas we give everyone the biggest bracha give the biggest bracha but that's the greatest it's the greatest so that's real love when you have a child you know what love is you know what love is and why did Hashem create that relationship and that connection and that possibility because now we know what Hashem feels for us when we give him we give him pride and pleasure now we know his unconditional love for us as our father now we understand love because when we have children we are children so we know the perspective of the love of a child for a parent what we're meant to feel for him and those who Merit to be parents know the love of a parent to know what Hashem feels for us and said the bashem both of those aspects are dimensions both of those directions of Love are only there as metaphors for what we feel for him and he feels for us the ideas what do we have we have all the other loves Hashem love of Hashem when's the last time you thought about loving Hashem foreign talking to in person and online local and our Global did I mention the global community if you benefit and you enjoy if you like the content what you read what you watch what you listen to sure and panel discussions articles how can you go to sleep at night and not do your part and give something prsonline.org Global yes you're going to keep hearing it I'm sorry you don't like it cough it up and then you don't have to hear it anymore so whether you're in person or you're part of our Hashem cherished cherished Global Community we're scrupulous and Vigilant about mitzvos we wouldn't turn the light on or get in the car and Shabbos make a bracha before we eat okay we light the candles we're going to observe the Menses of Purim and we don't think that loving Hashem we don't think of it in that context it's one of the tariag there is a Biblical commandment a Torah Mitzvah you have to love Hashem it's as real it says binding we are accountable as accountable for that Mitzvah loving Hashem as we are for other mitzvos we have an obligation so who here has not yet thought of Michelle what's the theme what are you making how many do you have to make who are you going to give to did you make your list you thought a lot about that mix already no I'm gonna scare everybody who here has not yet thought about pesach shots are there's no shots or matzo other mats is more expensive where you can get them out so the Casco matzah it's cheaper but it tastes like cardboard where are you gonna go no offense Costco we've thought about pesach right no you thought about mitzvos we put a lot of thought in planning and spend resources on mitzos when is the last time you thought or planned strategized for the midst of loving Hashem Hashem I want to love you let me think about that what does that mean what does that look like when is the last time I did it when is the next time I can do it how would I fulfill that what is them it's going to love you when's the last time we thought about it there's a Mitzvah Hashem and if we say Shema and we don't and we don't do it then we don't mean it then we don't mean it and you know there are a few things that are worth less than hearing I love you and the person doesn't mean it you gotta mean it it's got to be real it's got to be authentic it's got to be genuine and a person has to have self-awareness self-reflection introspections wonders of gamliel we know what love is in the physical world right we know what love is if someone says we're going to your favorite restaurant for dinner we're gonna order your favorite foods your favorite wine you look forward to that because you know what it means to love food and wine we're going to your favorite place you're getting together with your eight o'clock your children you know what it means to love your grandchildren your children you know what that means too you know what that means too Jack Azar just lost his sister and then I think she was and then I was knocking on Irish just lost her she was 98 she had great great grandchildren not one but several we know what love means you're gonna spend time with children grandchildren great grandchildren great great grandchildren Hashem in our time we know what it means to love to look forward you'll hear people say she's got a new car my dad like Tesla I love it I love it can't live without it I love it I love it so we know what it means to love gosh Miss we know what it means to love material or physical things to love to love the physical things do we know what it means to love Hashem do we apply that same love and here's the test center of gamliel if you had a choice of loving one which would you take you could spend time in Basque in the light and the glory and the love and the Embrace and the intimacy of Hashem but you got to give up the Tesla you got to give up your favorite food you got to give up your favorite things your favorite people your favorite places but you could be in bask in the glory the light the embrace the love of Hashem would you say Hashem I'll get to you later first let me go out for dinner to my favorite restaurant let me spend time with my favorite people I'm gonna drive my favorite car let me wear my favorite outfit let me do my favorite things which would you trade for which that tells you what you really love is home hello every day we say when we go to sleep and when we wake up and every day we are challenging ourselves do we really love Hashem you take a bullet for your child no you jump in front of a car for your child no what about rashem what sacrifice are you willing to make for him what bullet do you take for him what compromise are you willing to make for him that's love love is compromise and sacrifice love is having milks for this dinner when you want play sugars that's love the verb love that's love love me lesson pick me up from the airport that's love don't talk about love Show Me Love that's love so what love are we willing to show Hashem I really I really want to sleep in but do I wake up to Daven I really have juicy Lush and her and gossip I want to share but Hashem wants me to be a type of person who can't gossip I really love my money and I want to keep it all for myself but I love the global BRS community and I want to support what it does I love food but I have to keep kosher that's what Hashem wants I love to eat now because I love but I have to wait between whatever the example is what do you do for love I love dressing or looking this way but the rules of modesty that I want to carry in practice and I want to present myself in a certain way do we love Hashem because Love Is A Verb love is not an emotion or a feeling love is not an adjective do we express do we show do we show that we love him now the greatest way you could show love is time you can't you can claim to love someone but you don't if you don't allocate any time to be with them if you're not focused while you're with them you don't really love them the same is true with three bonus Shalom and there we come back to Purim do we love Hashem so we make time so we give madira beta do we talk to him do we spend time in conversation with him this is are we in conversation with him are we encounter are we talking to him filling him in objecting protesting thinking asking content of the conversation is up to you and it changes every day because we are different every day every moment of every day are we in conversation with him do we take a few moments to talk to him submit surrender thank object ask do we make time for him if we don't make time for him we don't really love him so however when we say every day we have an obligation to love we pledge and promise we will love what does that love look like when is the last time we've loved how does that love compare to other things that we love like our favorite food and our favorite car and our favorite outfit and are we willing to sacrifice and compromise do we make that time do we express that love for him do we give him a Dira beta so we see that even when we miss those first three buses that wasn't by accident that was Hashem shining love on us when it works out and when it doesn't work out when it's for good and when it's for bad when it's pleasurable or when it's painful it's all from him above do we pause on a magnificent day outside where there's not a cloud in the sky this cool air and is the warmth of the Sun in the back of your neck and you say that's you take a deep breath with every breath I see and I feel you Hashem every breath in my lungs I affirm my soul is connected to its source which is you and I feel your hug I love you thank you thank you I feel and I love you and that worked out amazingly and I feel your love and I reciprocate it and I reciprocate it 9 30 continue with Parsha everyone's invited to stay and to join if you're watching online you can go to the other link and join us if you've not yet in all seriousness please go to brsonline.org Global and do your part stay happy stay healthy and stay holy