Living With Emunah (Part 281) - Making the Argument for Keeping Us Around

good morning poker Tov and welcome back to living with emuna Welcome to our last living with emuna Shear for the year the bad news is it's the last year for the year the good news is we'll resume the shiram next year which also is next week so that's the good news next week we are on why not our Muna series is incredibly generously sponsored by Dr Xavier Bella Morgan a memory over by Dr Brian galbot and in memory of Bella's mother Ellen shanzer very grateful to our friends the Morgans for their generosity this year is sponsored in honor of Rosh Hashanah in memory of Dr Jacob Hiller who exemplified a mouth a memory of her dear sister Sharon lifeman Katz whose yard side is the 28th of ello it's also sponsored by the Orlan family Aventura Orland in memory of their daughter Miriam esterba of ram Yitzhak whom we tragically lost a very special special young lady our learning should be to elevate her soul the nashama of Miriam Orland Miriam estebas and also I want to add our dear friend Merv Jacobs had a heart attack last night unfortunately he's in the hospital and very very dire we Davin for his well-being and uh for a foolish Layman for a miracle please have Merv please have Merv in your uh in your thoughts and in your feel us as we go forward okay I'm going to begin as we always do with a Muna email uh interestingly this is not an immune email that was directed to me but this was a post I don't know if there are any tennis fans here anybody follow tennis so anyone know who won the Women's U.S open Coco goth I asked because I'm not sure how to pronounce the last name so thank you now she did not write me an email directly a little disappointed a little disappointed um someone has to introduce her to the yamuna shear she did not email me directly but somebody said the following to me and thought it'd be perfect for the amunisher and I agree it couldn't be more perfect for our theme what we talk about what we learned and I guess this was a press conference after winning she said the following quote oh my goodness it means so much to me I feel a little bit in shock at this moment that French Open loss was a heartbreak for me I realized God puts you through tribulations and trials this makes this moment even more sweeter than I could imagine I don't pray for results I just ask I get the strength to give it my all whatever happens happens I'm so blessed in this life I'm just thankful for this moment I don't have any words for it to be honest the youngest American to win a U.S open since Serena Williams she joins blah blah blah but anyway that was her answer to press conference she lost the French Open was she miserable about it and she says looking back it was a heartbreak but God puts us through these trials because it makes the sweeter moments even sweeter than we could imagine and she said that she doesn't pray for results she asks him to give strength to give it all her will and then whatever happens is up to him whatever happens is up to him I thought that was a great someone shared this with me it was a great emuna message really aligned with everything that we talk about in this sheer both parts of what she said you know it was interesting because right after she won apparently she put her head down and certain Sports networks that try to be agnostic atheistic whatever said oh she's taking a moment and one of the commentators on the sports network say no she's praying and we don't have to apologize to say it she's a very woman of a lot of faith and she's praying with gratitude and we shouldn't live in a world where you have to be apologetic or defensive or pretend uh That Someone's Not praying when they are clearly she has a lot of faith because she saw her loss her challenge her disappointment in the context of being part of God's master plan that makes the Sweet Moments even sweeter and that she says that she when she prays for her tennis matches she doesn't play pray for the results that's up to God she prays to play her best and to have the strength to play her best and the rest is up to him whatever happens and that's a great metaphor for life and give us the strength give us to use our talents our skills our blessings to do the best that we can with them and the results are up to you they're not necessarily dabbing for the results because the results are up to him and one of the reasons not to dive in forward the results is because if we ask specifically for results those results that we want and crave and ask for may not necessarily be the best results for us they can't necessarily so we Daven for that girl for that boy we diving for that job we dive in for that house we dive in for that outcome and if we muture Hashem enough maybe he's gonna say yes but the yes wasn't really what was right for us wasn't really what was best for us and and the best thing he could do in the world to save us from ourselves we say this in ashrae we say what are we say in ashrae who's got a sitter let's just sit over here somewhere we say the um I want to get the whole pasok right oh thank you thank you I'm sorry sorry Ashkenazi I think the ashrae is the same we say in ashrae thank you for bearing with me oh I got oh sure two already start and really come at you um with Sonia said the rots on the will of those who have all those who fear Him yasashem will do but actually acronym we go all the way we omit the noon for nephila we don't recognize fall but we do include the nuns Hashem uplifts all those who have fallen so I love through tough ashrae follows the whole Hebrew alphabet in an acrostic because uh from Olive through tough Hashem is looking out for us loves us lifts us responds to us the rats on the will of those who have all those who fear me does their shavasam ishma ryoshim and the cries he hears and he saves us if he hears our cries what does he have to save us if he follows our will why does he have to hear our cries and save us he follows our will he already follows our will he already heard it he did the Raza on the will of what we wanted so why does he have to hear our cries and yoshima save us so commentators point out because he's willing to listen to what we want he sometimes has to save us from ourselves so what we ask Hashem and ashrae every day is Hashem here's the world the way I see it I'd love if this girl would agree to marry me agree to go out with me I'd love if this would happen on this timetable in this way and this place would this way I'd love this job I'd love this house I'd love this outcome I'd love to win the lottery I'd love this happen I love here's the way I see the world but you know what from your perspective from your perch from your porch where you get to see and you know everything yoshima Save Me From Myself if I'm asking for something which is not in my best interest if I'm selling myself short I'm sabotaging My Success yoshim Save Me From Myself that's what we dive in every day because Hashem I'm Gonna Fill my morning with asking you for things and if they're consistent with what you agree is the best thing for me great but if it's a conflict between what I think is the best thing for me and what you think is the best thing for me let's go with what you think is the best thing for me so save me from myself and if you close the door I know another will open and if something happens I believe it is for I believe it is for a reason which brings us to our learning for this morning we're still learning I learned my first cousin told me we have copies here so please take follow enjoy my cousin told me that my great-grandfather my great-grandfather who learned in the Yeshiva and kishinev the Russia chief of the Yeshiva my great grandfather learned in Israel gamaliel's grandfather so it turns out we've been learning together for a long time already who knew I didn't tell him that yeah next time next time I go so we're in tivoyamuna page where he's talking about Rosh Hashanah but for those who did not get the memo Rosh Hashanah is very soon 48 hours away very soon so come Rosh Hashanah this Friday night we are going to every child on the planet knows and sings we are going to dip the Apple in the honey and what will we say um Hashem please renew us for a good year and a sweet year have a happy New Year a happy Sweet New Year a sweet New Year sweetie happy New Year I wish every Jewish organization on the planet if I'm on your email list I know you wish me a good year don't feel obligated to clog the inbox with emails from every organization you know everyone getting those now flooded with those emails yes that's a message to me unsubscribe so I'm just joking they're wonderful you all do wonderful Works everyone's wishing each other a happy New Year a sweet New Year a happy and sweet New Year and wonders of gamliel he's not the first and where does this come from this isn't some preschool creative idea someone came up with will make paper mache apples and honey and dip and we'll introduce a whole new song dip the apple and honey well that wasn't didn't come from kindergarten and even though we are a people who generally are against silly superstitions Hashem took us out of mitraim he took us out of Egypt so that we would not subscribe to silly superstitions but we would exclusively follow and submit and surrender and love him not silly superstitions we don't believe that red strings and we don't believe that all kinds of other silly nonsense nourish kite is what determines our future we have we have segulas our school is Hashem says I have 613 schoolers we say no no no I don't have time for your schools because I'm too busy we're tying a red string around my wrist but Hashem says but I have 613 things which can protect you and heal you and help you and give you life meaning and purpose and Direction and gives me happiness and pleasure we said no no no those aren't so important it's I there was somebody on my way to the Coachella that promised me if I tie this red string then my children will be safe everything will be good and the tocepter which is literature says if you tie a red string and you think that that's going to ward off some evil that's you're an idolater that's a form of idolatry we don't believe in silly superstitions and nourish kite and schoolas we have 613 schoolers they're called Torah admitsos how do you reconcile what do we dip in apple and honey that's what's going to give you a sweet New Year you could be cruel unkind dishonest abusive neglectful Disobedience of hashem's Torah but you dip the Apple in the honey so that's it good New Year sweet New Year it's that easy right wrong wrong so how do you reconcile the being opposed to school as we're doing these things so it goes back to the gemara the gemara says Simona Nilsa the gemara says that on Rosh Hashanah Knight it is an exception to the rule we believe that there is a power in these symbols simana Milsa so we eat all the different uh foods that their name correlates with a theme with an idea and we hope that it will motivate and Inspire us in our ambition and our goals and our dreams and our behavior and so on so one of the things we do is dip the Apple in the honey rame is if you think about it for a moment you ask yourself mizuka sweet why can't we wish one another have a happy year I'm sorry have a have a good year have a good year why do we have to say have a good and sweet year if you said good isn't it inclusive of everything including sweet so just say the Shana Tova why do you have to say shanatova umituka um just say Shana Tova and that includes why do we add on why do we add on masuka so I want to tell you when I um I don't think I mentioned this last week when I when I had breakfast with Leo D with Rabbi Leo D my dear friend I know he listens still he should be giving every ammunisher I don't know why he listens but he still texts me and uh I'm honored and uh flattered most of them are telling me it's time to get to Israel but also referencing things in the amunisher so um I don't have his permission but I'm gonna tell the story anyway so we had breakfast and we did a little video afterwards and that was posted in our a little behind the bema but we had many conversations so he was telling me the following I don't stop me if I told you this but you tell me the following says there are three things that happen kaherifying I know when I gave him a hug and I wished him a good year and we said Michelle should come we should be reunited with the people we love that we've lost and mashiach should come so he said to me the following he said tells us there are three things that happen three things that happen like the blink of an eye like the snap of your finger they happen sort of immediately abruptly out of nowhere one of them is you find the lost object you find something lost that happens immediately it happens out of nowhere and the second is that you can suffer a tragedy a loss and the third thing is mashiach comes so he says you know the first two I know I've experienced in my life and he told me the story about when he met Lucy his wife and immediately he knew he was going to marry her one of the reasons that when a person gets married it's like they've they found the Lost object really we do believe this really we were one soul that was separated into we came down to this earth and we look for our other half and when we find them a successful marriage then it's two halves becoming a whole it's not one plus one equals two it's two halves becoming a whole Sigmar says that and for for many they lose a lost object and it takes them a long time to find it for others they lose a lost object it was my under the nose they find it immediately on the spot I was once standing at a carousel I it was a madrigana on a summer program with somebody who was older hadn't been married yet was trying to get married and we were waiting for our suitcases and he said you know dating marriage is a lot like the carousel at the airport you watch each bag come off and you think maybe that's mine maybe the next one is mine and he said sometimes one comes off and it comes and oh that's mine that's mine they take it off and you say it looks just like it should be mine but it's not mine it looks just like mine but it's not mine and you have to put it back but hopefully you wait long enough and eventually yours comes and if they lost it they deliver it eventually it gets delivered but if you wait and you're patient eventually yours comes that was the metaphor that he told me but the gamara says it's like a uh it's like a lost object because this is not the first introduction the first time you're meeting I said under I think my first daughter is Kappa why don't we make a sheikhiana many ask and many answers are given if getting married is a Mitzvah or is at least a prerequisite to the midst of having children you gotta you got a new car a new house to make a shaffiano eat a new fruit you make a shakiano a new suit a new shato you make a shakiano and you stand under a cup and you enter a new stage of marriage you know a new stage of life you don't make a shariano so many answers are given but one of the answers is because there's nothing new here already from 40 days after you were conceived the Heavenly Voice already said so and so is going to marry so and so you were two halves that were split that were simply restored you don't make a shekhiana when you find something that you previously owned and you lost and you got back so you don't make a Sheffield because this isn't the first moment of this Union this Union has long since pre-existed this Union has been meant and predetermined from above the idea of Bashir there's a lot more to say about it not for now it's a little bit of an oversimplification but the idea of Basha so it's the idea of losing a lost object and getting it back Sarah by D said to me says I know what it means to find the lost object terrifying because I saw Lucy and they knew I was going to marry her the moment I met her he says I also know what it means to suffer loss because it was honored to you all and we were in two separate cars everyone was healthy everyone was happy everything was wonderful everything was amazing and like that has life changed like that is life-changing evil Wicked terrorist an evil Wicked Palestinian terrorist shot and killed his wife and two of his daughters terrifying so he said so I know what it will mean that mashiach can come terrifying everyone out what is that machine is going to come the whole world order is going to change Redemption will occur it's going to feel like the blink of an eye what does that mean if it's not in your experience you don't know what it means but he says I know what it means because it's in my experience because I I found my lost object and then I lost my lost object both carify why am I telling you this story because he was telling me terrifying something good I found my lost object and then he said terrifying I suffered and he was about to say the tragedy the lost the sad the pain of losing Lucy but he stopped himself this was just me and him there was no camera on there was no audience there was no microphone there was no one watching there was no journalist interviewing this was just me and him and he stopped himself and he said I know what it means to find the lost object terrifying and I know what it means to have experienced and instead of saying a tragedy he said I yet unrevealed good to hear if I am he described the murder of his wife as a yet unrevealed good that's his approach that's his perspective that's his attitude it's not everybody's and there's certainly no judgment of people who experience the worst the most horrific the most painful the most unimaginable in different ways everyone experiences it their own way without comparison and without judgment but that's how he experiences it by saying to himself this is unbearably painful but all that God does is for good so this is a yet unrevealed good I don't know when I get upstairs I'll have a lot of questions he says and demand an answer of how this can be go from an unrevealed to a revealed good what could be good in it what is good about it but he described it and I just I tried to maintain my composure because he said it in passing in a conversation over breakfast and it's extraordinary that he was able to but he describes it as a yet unrevealed good says by definition every year is a good year because all that God does is for goodness everything Hashem does is for good Colossians everything God does is for good everything God does is for goodness even that which appears which we experience which is painful is good is good I've shared with you many times I heard from someone who lost his wife tragically young wrote a book about it a rub from England he said painful things happen to good people bad things don't happen to good people bad and good God is the only and ultimate judge painful and pleasurable that's our experience in this world and that's what Rabbi D was expressing it's a yet unrevealed good that's experienced right now as unbearable pain unbearable pain and that's complicated and none of us should minimize how complicated it is for the people in the unbearable pain and how hard it is to even say the words that somehow it is a yet unrevealed good but that's what we strive for that's our aim that's our goal that's where we want to get is philosophically our understanding of theodicy are living with that Moon as to get to a place where we can say even that which we experience as unbearable pain that we wish we never had that we Daven that we bear some resentment that we demand explanations that we protest and object to God for that we scream and yadem about even that which we experience is unbearable pain is a yet unrevealed good because and because bad things don't happen to good people painful things do um so now he explains that's what that's why we wish one another you know why you have to add the word sweet because every year by definition is Tova if it's the year that God gave us and that's the year that was meant to be and that's the year that was right for us but we hope and we wish and we ask and we beg and we plead that that which is good is also sweet it's going to be as good here because all that God does is good but we open and we wish and we ask that that which is good is also sweet okay Hashem show us your loving kindness I believe that all that you do is good and kind Ahmed but Hashem I'm asking you please that that which you are doing that is good also let me see and let me know how it is good don't just do good but do good in such a way that I can see and that I can know that it is good do it in both do it in both that's our hope that's our wish for this year going into next year going into Russia we are confident and we proclaim the command all that you do is good some of it's revealed good and some of it is yet unrevealed good but reveal to us the good do a good that is a revealed good do a good that is not only good because you are the objective Authority on what's good or bad but do a good that's also sweet that's why we eat sweet things in Russian and we say um that the year ahead not only be good which by definition it will be but let the good also be sweet just like we will taste the sweetness of the apple and the honeymoon let us see and feel and taste the sweetness and all the good that will be in the year ahead let us taste it so I want to tell you a parable I saw Chinese farmer gets a horse you didn't see that coming a Chinese farmer foreign [Music] Chinese farmer gets a horse which soon runs away and the neighbor says oh that's bad news and the farmer says good news bad news who can say horse comes back and brings another horse with him good news you might say so the farmer gives the second horse to the son who rides it and the Sun is thrown off the horse and badly breaks his leg so the concerned neighbor says so sorry for the bad news good news bad news who can say the farmer replies in a weaker so the emperor's men come and take every able-bodied man to fight in a war and the farmer's son is spared good news so and and it goes on and on and on and on good news or bad news who can say and it goes on and on and on and of course each we have this it's the gemara that tells us the story about the fire the key to the tent the listing the robbers this ancient Chinese proverb is coming from a story from our our gamara but that's this sort of attitude in life good news bad news who can say now people suffer categorical tragic painful unbearable loss we can say we can all say how painful we can say with empathy and sympathy and love and support we can say but again from God's perspective we can say it's painful good or bad is up to God and that's why we say Hashem that which is good don't let it only be revealed good in our life let don't only have unrevealed good in our life give revealed good but the trouble of the year that's good also be misuka will it also be a year that is that is sweet and that is aravoda over this holiday of Rosh Hashanah this is what we're working on right now these final days of elul and Rosh Hashanah says here's my mission here's your homework are you ready we are coronating the almighty as king everything if you have to reduce the amount to one to Rosh Hashanah to one word it is so I'm not a teacher I just gave away the answer it is amuno if you had to reduce Rosh Hashanah to one word samunda that's what we're doing in shul there's me and you we're in a relationship let's talk I made some mistakes in our relationship I've come up short I've disappointed I want to take ownership extreme ownership I want to take responsibility I want to communicate I want to make more time I want to repair the damage I've done I want to pledge to do things differently I want to feel your love I want to hear what you have to say of me I want to hear about your needs and I want to promise to be more attentive to them that's what Rosh Hashanah is really all about is the king of kings and we are here to coronate him that's what we are doing they tell a story it appears many places I have too small and friendly where I saw the story appears a little differently in different places but the balotanya when he was by his rebbe the magnetism is Rich the magnet of Ms rich and the Magid finishes davening on the night of Rosh Hashanah and the balotanya was still diving so they waited they waited at the meal they weren't going to start kiddish until the balotania was done davening they waited and they waited and they waited and they waited and they waited and they waited and where was he so they went back to school and they found him there's different versions again of the story um his dominant went on forever and ever and ever because he was lost on one phrase one expression that we have in our dabbing of Yaman Narayan and they thought you know maybe maybe he's is taking him forever the whole marav is taking him forever but there was one expression that was taking him forever and what was it it was Alto they say they came in and he had this gender he was dominating at and he was pounding it again at the end of different versions he was banging on the floor and throwing it against the wall and screaming at the standard Alto let every creation know that you are the Creator and afterwards when they say what took you so long and you know we were happy to wait but where were you he said I couldn't finish davening until I banged into the Stander until the stender knew that so the standard this created entity knew that there was a creator that that's the mission of Rosh Hashanah that's the Mandate of Rosh Hashanah that that's what we're working on this time of year in our own lives and the lives of our family talk about Hashem and we have faith in Hashem when we talk about him see him everywhere talk about him thank him ask him object him and protest to him but be in a relationship with him coronate him surrender to him submit to him recognize that he's everywhere and he's what it's all about and that's what this world not this life are all about that's what it's all about being Mama Hashem that chauffeur that we're going to hear only on one day this year because the first day of Shabbos we have to be the chauffeur on the first day and we listen to the show for on the second day according to the Grandville Lagoon the purpose of the chauffeur was a lot of different interpretations of the showroom but the bill mcones approach I'm giving you a kavana something to think while listening to the chauffeur you're at the coronation ceremony of God this is the inaugural ball of the almighty we've just coordinated we've elected him King once again and at the king's ball there are trumpets and the chauffeur is the trumpet at the Carnation of Hashem so don't be mournful and cry and fearful and Afraid and those are images those are one set of images you can have but the other much more hopeful positive optimistic joyous celebratory is wow I'm listening to the trumpets I I got a ticket to the ball I got a ticket to the inauguration I was invited to the inaugural ball of the king of kings and I'm listening to the trumpets play and I'm wearing my finest and I'm here celebrating but you know what that makes me realize one second if he's been reelected if he's the king of kings what does a king do he looks at his kingdom and he says what's worthy who in my cabinet should remain who am I keeping Who Am I reappointing who am I replacing who has fulfilled their purpose and who is not and right after the king's inaugural ball we the members of the Kingdom realize that the king is going to now take his new re-election and look at every member of the kingdom and say from the blade of grass to the stender to the chair and certainly to the people in his kingdom am I renewing their contract are they fulfilling their purpose in My Kingdom or is it time to let them go and that's why after Rosh Hashanah Muslim says we spend the next eight days of ourselves advancing our argument for why we still belong in his cabinet King me Keep Me In Your Kingdom keep me on the team so we coordinate God on Rosh Hashanah there's no mention we don't Club there's no vidoy Rosh Hashanah people think is the day of judgment the Torah never calls it a day of judgment Torah never calls it a day of judgment and we don't invoke sin we don't talk about it we don't use the word we don't even eat Eggos nuts because they have that's the Gamache it's my favorite katsuka of the year you know everyone knows if you don't know now you know don't make any recipes that have nuts in them for Rosh Hashanah we don't eat nuts on Rosh Hashanah it's a custom it's not Allah it's a custom we don't eat nuts on Russia why don't we eat nuts on Rosh Hashanah because the word egos which is the Hebrew word for not is the same numerical value as the word hate says you know what else is the same numerical value as hate so people says people while they're cooking their recipes for Rosh Hashanah that don't have nuts because they don't want to hate a busy gossiping and slandering and listening and watching to the wrong things and doing he says you know what else is the same numerical value is hey hey so don't just not have nuts don't just not eat Eggos okay my favorite cutskar my favorite cutscore of the year my favorite cutscope of the year so we don't even eat nuts on Rosh Hashanah we don't invoke we don't club we don't say vide so how could it be what kind of a Yama dinners it's pretty Wiki on my din so the answer is it's not really it's the coronation ceremony of the almighty where coordinating Hashem as king where out is inaugurable we're blowing the trumpet to celebrate and then that automatically that automatically triggers us to say whoa if we just re-elect it and imagine right now you've got primaries and elections and people are working on campaigns and they're trying to prove their worth they're trying to help their candidate get elected and let's say they win it's election night the ballots are all in and they win and they win and everyone agrees they won and they win and and they celebrate at least for that night they're streamers and there's music and there's trumpets and they celebrate and then they they're sworn in their candidate and this inaugural ball and everyone's wearing their finest and the confetti falls from the ceiling and then all of a sudden the staffers they look to themselves and they say what's what's with tomorrow please get a job tomorrow who on the staff that got the person reelected what's with tomorrow did they get a job did they land a position in the new Administration or are they on their own what will determine the answer to that they're worth the difference they make do they fulfill their purpose do they have a mission do they contribute that will determine whether they have a position on the staff that's the mentality that's the attitude we have we are right now working all of Elo Arab Rosh Hashanah we are on the campaign team of God we're putting lawn signs We're not gonna we're going door to door we're telling everybody you know who's the king except the king he's the king the growth of only going also says what's the difference between a Michelle and a melachi what's the difference between a mochelle and a malacha Michelle as a ruler and then Malik is the king what's the difference between the two a motion imposes himself on people they're a they're a dictator a melach is elected King Hashem can be emotional or he can be a malach he's in charge either way he can be in charge as a dictator or he could be in charge because we've elected him and the girl says that's why we long for the day when he will go from being Moshe to being Malachi from the whole world who are whether they know it or not ruled over by him dictating what happens and we long for the day that everybody will see him accept him surrender to him and he'll go from being emotional a ruler to being a malach who's elected so how will we go get to that day what's our mission and our purpose was not only about loving and inspiring Jews but teaching the seven Noah laws of the whole world Torah wasn't meant just for the Jews the Torah is a blueprint for creation Torah is not just for Jews the torah's had a repair and redeem a world that is increasingly feeling irredeemable and confused and complicated and further from hashem's vision and plan for it and that's our mission that's our job as Jews shout from the rooftops and everyone we interact with tell them and demonstrate to them that there's a malach don't just be the subject of this motion except an elect him the melach there's a king he's the king of kings he has a vision he has values he has the expectations of us don't just be a taker be a giver don't just ask about your rights and entitlements what are your duties and obligations you want a position in the cabinet you want to have be rehired as a staffer join the campaign help us elect him and coronate him king that's what we're doing that's what Ella's about that's what we're doing and then Rosh Hashanah we're going to that's it our candidate won he's the only candidate and he always wins spoiler alert spoiler alert he's the only candidate and he always wins but we're going to be at the inaugural ball we're going to be at the at the celebration there's going to be trumpets blasting and it's going to be amazing you know what happens on mozay Russia and for the next eight days to Yom Kippur when does he decide who's in the cabinet when does he hand out the job offers right after God's giving out the job offers some say you can still apply for the job to hashan-araba some say you can still sneak in and get a job tells us but really when does he give out the jobs when do the gates close on the job offers so from Mozart we are there making our case this is what I can offer this is how a hard rock gonna work this is why I'm here this is the position I have to offer that's why by the way in our diving losses says this somewhere else in here he says that's why what's the sentence that we're adding in our Domino tempted to sing it for you but well that would be a kapara for you I'm not going to do it foreign what kind of argument is that Hashem the world is unpredictable and we don't know what's going to be and we have to interrupt come to the amunisher listening to a levia of somebody in Israel a beloved member of our community never who came home her father was at her house working on her house and she found him that he was no longer among the living an extraordinarily exceptional person Ellie weberman from Miami Beach group in Miami Beach or by weberman son 67 years old he wasn't in the best of health and she came home to find her father a tragedy and he's being buried in Israel as we speak was just watching the Levi extraordinary it's just a reminder of just how short life is and how when everyone in that family woke up that morning nobody thought that's how their day would end and I'll reiterate with someone who I admire so much and love taught me any day that you end with the same head count in your home as the way the day began is a good day period whatever else is going on if your day ends with the same head count in your house that's the way the day began it is a good day period if it's fixable if everything else that's gone wrong is fixable it's a good day it's a good day if it's if it's fixable beyond beyond tragic and it makes you believe this was the end of level that happened to him was this already decided on Rosh Hashanah named Kipper in this year and there's so many questions and so many challenges to it and a person who is all he did was live for helping and loving kindness to others life is so short so we say Hashem foreign if we knew if he knew if his family knew last Rosh Hashanah how much cavana they needed to have for zachim to make it through the next Russia you know you love life don't you love life you want life don't you love a big staff don't you want a big cabinet don't you want a lot of people you like big staff you like a lot of people you like a lot of people working for you give me a job keep me around give me a job because you like having a big staff and a lot of people working for you and then we end at Lamont and by the way in the end and don't do it for me for you we make all the argument for us and as like the last I was going to call it a hell something but that wouldn't be appropriate in the last ditch effort the last ditch effort we say we give every argument Under the Sun keep us around renew our contract add us to your cabinet keep us on your staff and here's Here's the final argument don't do it for us do it for you but how is that argument what are we saying what kind of an argument is that how does it help God he's infinite he's omnipotent he's all perfect how is it how is it for him how is it for him and the answer is what we're saying to God is you need me because there is no king without a people and this world doesn't all know you and accept you and coronate you as king and you need me to help continue to go door to door and post on social media and scream from the rooftops and put on the lawn signs and and you need me you need me to get your message out you need me to get people to elect you need me to get people on your side I'm here and ready to work for you but that only helps if what you're here and ready to work for him so the whole argument is keep me around and keep my family around give us the resources we need give us the good health that we need give us the strength that we need why for us for our pleasure so that we can have more things go on more vacations those are nice and there's nothing wrong with them in the right context enjoy them but that's not why we're asking for life we're not asking for life and health in parnasa so we can get more Pleasures in this world why are we asking for it because I want to be in your cabinet I want to be on your staff so position me to be the most effective so God if you want me to be able to travel and go and penetrate and make a difference I need an expense account I can't do it if I have no expense account you want me Hospitality you want me to have your children over for meals who have nowhere else to go I need an expense account how am I supposed to host people how am I supposed to travel how am I supposed to help how are we supposed to run a pre-russ Hashanah Market that ran out of food both days four hours before the end of the time we posted because that's how many of your children needed relief and food and there are extraordinary people in this room who volunteered for hours unbelievable pouring sweat working hard lifting boxes they can testify to how many trucks came how much food kept coming how much was replenished and it wasn't nearly enough because Hashem that's how many of your children needed relief and help as prices have skyrocketed just to be able to make yantiff Hashem how can I work for you if you don't give me the expense account if you don't reimburse if you don't provide the resources so we're not asking so that we have things and go on vacations those are nice too because every worker also gets time off and you need a salary for yourself but Hashem I need also an expense account to take care of your children I need an expense account to learn to run your campaign we need ad buys we need to buy we need to promote you I need an expense account so I'm giving you the winning secret right now I'm telling you the formula and you got to mean it we've got to mean it can't be fake it can't be insincere because here's the thing about our candidate he sees right into our heart other politicians and other candidates you could pull the wool over their eyes here's the thing about our candidate that we're electing he sees right into our heart is he knows everything Hashem sees right into our heart he knows if we're sincere or not you want to make it on the staff you want to be in the cabinet you want to be part of next year's team the argument the winning argument is Hashem it's not for me that I'm asking it's not for me that I'm wanting I want good health I need good health for me and my team for me and my committee we need help and we need resources if we're going to best serve you you want our home to be a place of Hassan and Hospitality you want our lives to be stuck and giving you want us to be able to take our talents and skills and to be able to change the world we need the good health the energy the strength to be able to do it that's my argument Hashem do it for you do it for you that's what we're asking so what we're what we're longing for what we're saying what we're saying over and over from the standard of the chair it should all know God that you're the king you are the king this is it it's the coronation Rosh Hashanah is not about chuva in the classic sense of height of yomadin of judgment Rosh Hashanah where at the Carnation it's celebratory it's happy it's joyous that's why the tour says we're not wearing black and disheveled and unshaven you know you come before a physical judge and we are wearing our finest and we're happy and we're eating and we're drinking and we're we're married why because we're at a carnation we're at an inauguration I've got eight more days seven more days the jobs are given out after Nila that's when it's decided who got a job who has a place on the staff in the cabinet I've got to advance my argument I got eight days to prove myself I've got eight days to prove that I belong how will I prove it the more I live my life of service to you the more I take care of your other children the more I prove that with the resources and the health I can do great things the more they'll be renewed the more I don't really care about you it's all about me the more I have no interest in being of service to you you serve me the more that life is about me then God says out we wouldn't all fire such a person the staffer who sleeps in comes late leaves early doesn't care has an ego can't follow consensus isn't about the team of the mission we wouldn't fire such a staffer that's the argument that we make so I end by wishing everybody a Shana Tova umasuka it'll be a good year will it be revealed good or yet unrevealed good in the words of Rabbi Leo D will it be a year ahead that's only revealed good that's what we Daven you know what reveal good is the Mazel Tov section in our weekly you know what yet unrevealed good is the condolence section of the weekly we want a year of only revealed good I've only revealed good you know the schmonster is made up of so many parts we have the praise of Hashem with the bakasha and we have the end the gratitude so we want a year of of modern essays you know sometimes you feel like this is a referendo day somebody in our life who's undergoing tests who's sick who needs a refua this is running a food market so many people don't need who need who don't have any day we're dominating for livelihood there are days where the world feels so unfair and so unjust and we're being treated so poorly and it's a hashiva shift Hashem restore Justice and truth there's different from me like days can be characterized by different brokers so and then there are days that are cool on modem days wow what I mean everyone's healthy everyone's well all good things good news it's a modem day it's a modem day someone Rabbi Alan Schwartz is a rabbi in Manhattan a huge Tomah by Alan Schwartz he has a saying my friend Lisa always quotes him she asks him Rabbi what's the score today because rabbis have scores like especially on a Sunday how many weddings versus funerals versus unveilings a bar mitzvah bris unveiling a funeral a shiver house what's the score today for nothing four to two three to one one against three what's the score today what's the score today so all of us have lives that what's the score today and all of us have lives that the bracha in the essay isn't a modem day so we say it should be a Shana Tova umizuka every day should be exclusively a modem day exclusively in modem day even days or Shana Tova they're also good days because all that God does is good but we dive in and we bless one another that not only should our days be good they should be good and sweet good and sweet they shouldn't only be unrevealed good our day should be entirely filled with revealed good and revealed sweetness and only the best of everything so we'll see you next year which happens to be next week next Wednesday tonight Jacob and I are going behind the beam with Rifka ravitz if you've never heard of rifco rabbits she was the chief of staff of the 10th President of Israel a mover and Shaker in Israeli politics also happens to be the mother of 12 children it somehow balances it all she's our guest tonight I'm behind the bhima until next year stay happy stay healthy and stay holy