Living With Emunah (Part 282) - Your World

good morning Booker told welcome back to living with the moon to all want to thank our generous I want to share sponsors Dr zavian dollar Morgan we sponsor the immunos series in memory of Rabbi Dr Brian gabbard in memory of Bella's mother Dr Ellen shanzer we are always grateful to them for their generosity and their sponsorship this morning this morning share the summon this year is also sponsored by Karen Ben Friedman in memory of Cara's amazing mother Helen Cohen on her fifth yard site whom we miss tremendously it was a beacon of amuna had an ongoing very real palpable relationship with Hashem and uh we miss her terribly thank you thank you for that there are more copies if anyone would like to follow what we're going to learn inside we're going to learn for learn from the news say for today it's called avradadasha it is a safer from the Guerra Russia Shiva of shawl altar very excited that if shall alter the Russia is going to be coming to Boca in November which really is an outstanding an incredible opportunity and privilege and Merit for our community I had the privilege of meeting with him this summer in Israel at a extraordinary conversation you can actually watch it online there's the English subtitles to it if you want to hear his wisdom and the answers he gave to the questions that I asked so he's and a very special person we're very excited to be able to host them so we're going to learn a piece in his safer momentarily but first as always in amuna email hi Rabbi Goldberg I know you're super busy during this time of year I want to share the I'm going to share it's giving me the fuel to keep on growing I grew up traditional on Long Island but didn't keep Shabbos I had a living example in my home my omo was a hidden child of the show of what it meant to be a mensch and why it was important to carry on yiddishkite while at University I had the opportunity to reunite with three Holocaust Survivors who had not seen each other in over 70 years it led even closer to your district and from kind I knew that I couldn't have family survivors and reunited them without the hand of Hashem all those events occurred after my grandmother passed away and were inspired by a box of old photos that she left me while I was socially religious at University I like to say that my friend guy was with a big emphasis on the m not so much on the Orthodox part after Brandeis happened to stumble upon the Manhattan Jewish experience and I don't want to give away too many details I don't have permission from the author to read her name but I do want to give credit to my good friend or by Mark Wilds and MJ the Manhattan Jewish experience the family played a tremendous role in my journey I've been Sharma Castro's for the last 10 years even went to Seminary since I had a later start than ffbs from from births I got married later in life which whatever age she put and defined as later in life and my wedding was postponed due to the pandemic about seven years ago Joe was referred me to the ammunition for so many years I divined for a husband and Baruch Hashem I'm married I'm gonna sure gave me the hope that I would get married unfortunately now my husband and I have had some fertility struggles um like most Educational Employees at the time I've been super busy and stressed I left my class at such and such School a few minutes early yesterday make a doctor appointment in the city first Google Maps said I was going to be 30 minutes and it quickly turned into an hour and a half yet another reason not to live in New York there was nothing that I could that that was not in the email that was just that was my commentary there was nothing that I could do I was in standstill traffic and I was going to miss an important appointment I thought about calling my twin sister my mother I could hear you in my head call Hashem he wants to hear from me talk to Hashem right all the people that we want to call not that calling any of those people would have removed the traffic traffic would still be there but we want to call someone because at least misery likes company so the company that we call or the people we're most comfortable with so we call different people of different instincts who they call a spouse a child a sibling a friend but misery likes company so when that flight is delayed or canceled when we run into that trafficker we get that bad news or we're frustrated by whatever behavior of the other person so we call so she says she could hear me in her head saying I ask myself I have nothing to say I haven't held up my bargain I don't learn enough I used to Diamond three times a day now I only dabbing once or twice a day teaching all day preparing groups and I don't have time I'm exhausted isn't actually I'm busy right now it's probably his busy season too he's getting ready to open the book does he really want to hear from me I love how real and relatable this email is right it's real in all services I thought to myself Hashem is so distant doesn't Hashem know that my grandfather or religious man Diamond every day to have religious grandchildren after surviving doesn't he know that I want nothing more than a child to carry on my grandfather's name tell them Hashem know that I yearn to be closer to him despite all these thoughts in my head I remember what my day used to say Hashem gives you two ears and one mouth for a reason in order to learn you have to listen I thought of my Oma's words let your Cappy rest I couldn't rest I was stuck in traffic I must enough the courage to turn off the radio because he talks to the almighty with Taylor Swift in the background that's what it says putting all jokes aside I own up the car should say four words please Hashem help me that's it that was the whole conversation with Usher please Hashem help me within two minutes the receptionist of the doctor's office called and asked where I was I explained to other situation I was coming from the such and such and I was in standstill traffic she heard the urgency in my voice and said don't worry let me see what I can do she called back and said I moved some people around I got you an 8 AM appointment on the other side of the city tomorrow it was a small miracle our fertility struggles are not over and now you know why I'm reading this email because I don't love the emails I love the emails that have the great ending they're great they're what movies are made of they're wonderful the Hollywood ending but the powerful and I think the truly inspiring emails are the ones that say I don't know how this turns out yet I don't know how it ends it's not a star a storybook Hollywood ending but still I'm sticking with Hashem our fertility struggles are not over I still have a procedure on early such morning and if it goes well we'll finally have implant a healthy embryo after yantiff the point of this email Isn't to provide you with a happy ending or more reading material during this busy time it's remind you that the administrator is like a seed you plant the seed you remind your listeners even when the weeds flourish and it seems like no hope Hashem is the creator we have a duty attend and keep the land but Hashem decides when the flowers bloom he does everything in the right season and in the right time Shannon told us okay amazing so please keep sending the emails because they're just inspiring the people who it's so easy to sit here on Wednesday mornings I get to just look in the camera speaking to the microphone except the coffee teach other people's Torah read other people's ear it's easy to be in your car and stuck for traffic and you know it took you a while to get married you're diving so hard now you want children desperately and you're stuck in traffic and you're gonna miss the appointment that's going to help you get and you talk to Hashem and you say I don't know how it ends but he'll make you know you plant the seed and he'll make it blossom in the right time in the right place it's unbelievably incredibly inspiring and I thank the author of this email and all the emails and I hope that you keep coming I don't know if I told you somebody sent me an email offering to work on publishing a book of the emails and I'm going to shiram together ideas with them emails in the right time in the right season that person planted a seed but who knows if we'll ever Sprout and germinate so this is the wonderful safer of the hilaga Guerra Russia altar again mark your calendars sometime in November when he's coming but again we're going to say it next week on Yom Kippur we sing We Express the phrase I just hear singing it in my head every time I read that pasok maybe I'll post the video in our WhatsApp group so that you can listen to it at some point later today and as you count down to Yom Kippur translate the words means rule rule al-anco all halam of the world culo all with your glory any of those words Superfluous any of those words redundant repetitive rule over the whole world all of it with your glory well over the whole world means all of it all of it means the whole world because of all of us so the holy lavush writesh rather the holy Bush asks it's redone it's redundant if you're malach if you're ruling over the whole world then you're ruling over culo but why do you have to say it and what do you what do you add by saying the song wouldn't work out but other than for the song Why does that have to say has an interesting answer he says we have a principle in Allah the principle is sometimes we apply rubo kikulo if you have most of it it's like you have everything rubo if you have most kikulo rubo is kikulo when do you apply that principle when do not apply that principle rubo kikulo the cup is mostly filled with Europe as a filled to the top rubikulo we don't say if you have eight seven ah it's a minion it's close enough rubo why not there was a period when I was in high school I stayed late for Mission I don't remember why but I get a ride home with the principal and then he would ask questions like this in the car and then I said Mom can't you pick me up I really have to get the ride home with the principal like I want to talk about the sports scores and uh not Taylor Swift but you know other singers I didn't want to deal with those kinds of questions but it was a good question I'm glad that I had the ride if he's listening I'm grateful for that special time and I'm glad that he challenged me with that question if you say Robo kakula why don't we say that when it comes to a minion why don't we say when is the fast over onion Kipper I don't know 750 something when you get to four or five o'clock rubikulo made it to most of it it's like all of it so when do we apply that principle when do we not apply that principle in halacha it's a good question but we do apply it so you might have thought rubo kakulo so when you say when you say maybe you don't really mean all of it you mean Rove so therefore we say that culo doesn't mean most it means all of it that's the answer that the Taz gives operations and here just through this little insight you get a glimpse into his great mind and get excited for his visit says now let me tell you another answer another interpretation you know why it says because Kula means the whole world but of one world can mean multiple worlds and what are the multiple worlds was Dominion he has Providence he has sovereignty he is the king of the Monarch over all of the universe all the worlds all the galaxies maybe he followed the Congressional hearing about UFOs and aliens Hashem is in charge of them too they existed they not exist we believe that is the room and yiddishkai to believe that first of all the answer is yes Torah does talk about worlds and beings before man maybe after man it's possible potentially to believe I don't know I don't know it doesn't really matter at least not right now they're not knocking on my door I don't know so is that what it means why do we say cold twice because there are multiple worlds what world is it the Russia even talking about so Showalter talking about Mars and Pluto and Earth and the aliens and the UFOs maybe but you know what he says no Kola Adam Katan because every human being is a world unto themselves each of us are our own Universe each of us is our own Galaxy each of us are an entire world we're an entire world do you know what happens this time of year we tend to be willing to coronate God as the king and all of the world and all of the worlds outside of our world God you're the king at the UN right now on the sidelines from the main Podium you're moving Nations you run the world God you decide if it'll rain what drought what nature what weather what crops will grow you run the world God the aliens the UFOs well man go to spit you run the world but how I react when I'm stuck in traffic my world how I receive it if somebody's harmed me or hurt me or injured me how I navigate the frustrations the disappointments when I'm jealous or envious my world yeah not so much you're not the king of that world I'm the king of that world taking credit for success and achievement and breakthrough and prosperity yeah no God stick with your worlds that's my world we tend to be willing to coronate God as the Monarch and the king and the Sovereign of all these other worlds around us but when we think about our world our perspective our view our vision our interaction our experience our world then we leave God out right when the rubber meets the road when it's time to put it what happens Rosh Hashanah we stand the chauffeur is the trumpet I think we spoke about it last week the Carnation ceremony of Hashem were blowing the trumpets and malojaka we're singing You're the king you're the king you're the king and then I seriously made true for this week between us we're still growing envious and jealous and arrogant and anxious and I thought God's the king I thought God's the king I thought he's in charge I thought you were ready to surrender I thought you're ready to submit I thought you never have me so jealous because we're happy with what we have we're never anxious or worried because he's in charge he's in control we let go and let God we're never arrogant because it's not about us he's in charge he's in control so where's the manifestation or expression where is the Fulfillment of all the davening all the chauffeur blong all the dipping the apples and Nani all the holiday that Hashem is the king and you lose it all if in that moment that you fly off the handle because your kid left a toy your husband shrieved up the pot or didn't come home when he said he's gonna come home where he got stuck in the traffic or you missed the appointment or you what happened to God's the king where'd it go where'd it go so Showalter it's a brilliant insight the multiple worlds don't just be the king and the Dominion and The Sovereign over the worlds out there it's Hashem this is my statement my affirmation my Proclamation you are the king of my world of everything that's going to happen in my world of my experiences of my lot in life of all that will happen you're the king you're by my side you're holding me up you're my support you're my best friend my you're my confidante I may protest I may object I may grow frustrated with you which is also an expression of deep and profound and Muna we've shared many many times but I realize and I recognize it's all from you it's how I interpret it's how I experience everything that happens in my world because there isn't just the world there's also my world my world I've shared with you before but I'll repeat just by the based on this insight I learned this from the seventh grade girl when I was in the staff in Camp marasha in 1902. no what year 1999 might as well have been 1902. 1999 so I posed a question I learned perky Elvis with those young ladies and throughout percivals you know Australia and three things the world stands three things remove a person from the world can a type of a covered if you're filled with envy and you're filled with uh taiva lost and covered arrogance honor then it removes you from the world so we went through multiple interpretations about what does it mean the world what does that mean what do you mean Earth spins on its axis the greatest physicists can't find the three legs holding up the Earth it's spinning on its axis so what do you mean the world stands on those three things what do you mean three things remove a person from the world we know arrogant people and we know envious people and we know lustful people and gravity still keeps them him on Earth it's not mostly they act in those ways they don't like float off wouldn't that be amazing that'd be so cool right it'd be so cool all of a sudden somebody would follow their lust or be filled with arrogance or honor or they would be envious and all of a sudden like they'd have to hold on gravity wasn't working they'd float off and it's disappear from the world they're gone sayonara to be ground so what does that mean but it doesn't work that way so what does that mean so I learned that Summer with the many interpretations some say it means I think rabena Yona writes it means it removes you from the world or it is the legs the world stands on it means it means the purpose of the world why did God create the world the foundation of the world the purpose of the world the engine of the world learning and living Torah about the serving Hashem noticing and caring about the people around you that's the reason for the world and if you don't live those three principles you violated the very purpose of creation there's no reason for you to be here you're not really here in this world because you're not living the reason for this world and if you follow your your lust and the pursuit of honor and envy then again it removes you from this world you violated the purpose of this world that's how the rabbinium understood but a seventh grade girl said to me you know maybe it means every person is a world unto themselves every person is their own world every person comes from their own background their own family their own personality their own struggles their own assets their own strengths their own blessings but also their own challenges everybody's made up of their own psyche their own chemical makeup their own physical features everybody has strength everybody has weaknesses every human being no two people are duplicated everybody's different everybody's different and everyone is a world down to themselves and maybe said the seventh grade girl who I regret I don't remember her name she deserves to be quoted she said maybe when the mishnah throughout perkiavas refers to the world it's talking about each person and it means that you want a meaningful purpose for life the world rests on Torah Abode if you want a day in which you had an equilibrium and a balance in which you were healthy mentally spiritually physically then that day has to be made up of three ingredients Torah avoda and gamila any day that has no Torah you didn't learn you didn't engage you didn't have pride in the values of Torah then your day was incomplete you're out of kilter you're off balance any day there wasn't a vote that you weren't talking to God you weren't in a conversation with Hashem you weren't avodha you weren't in service of God it's incomplete your world is out of kilter and then he did it doesn't have said you didn't do something kind something nice something caring about someone else your day your world is incomplete the world rests on three things it means your world no matter what else is going on in your world no matter how many meals you got to cook up for yontef no matter how much laundry you have to get done no matter how much work there is to do no matter how much there is on your list it must include those three ingredients because any day that didn't include your world didn't spin it was off-kilter beautiful inside right similarly she said that in order to have health you can't have kind of type uncover what does it means are the menola means God created you you're a world unto yourself you're filled with potential and capability and you're filled with power you're okay you're a piece of the almighty you're a shining bright light in this world you're here for a reason there's work to do and if instead you're so confused and you're comparing and you're competing with someone else you're envious you're jealous that just removed you from your work stick with your world you have your world who am I what are my strengths what are my weaknesses what are my assets what are my liabilities why am I here what am I meant to do and you're so busy looking in your neighbor's driveway and you're so busy looking through your neighbor's window and you're so busy looking at what your neighbor's wearing and you're so busy looking at your neighbor's past and children you you absolutely forfeited your world you abandoned your world you left your world get back in your world get back in your world that's where we belong it removes you from the world envy and similarly covered honor you're so busy it's worrying about being an influencer you're so busy worrying about how many friends and followers you're so busy wanting to go viral you're so busy wanting to have honor and be given the credit for whatever the work was it removes you from your work just stay in your world do what you're meant to do and taiva lust you you leave your world of what's healthy for you and you follow you indulge your lust you act compulsively it removes you from your world I'm sharing all of this just to tell you this shot that this young girl said that the world hola means each of us are our own world that's what the ramachal begins several hundred years ago says you want to live a meaningful purpose for life you want to live a happy and a healthy life it's not about how much money you have in the bank granted it's good to have money in the bank it helps you remove some worries it helps you pay the bills there's nothing wrong with having money in the bank there's nothing wrong with working hard and having a lot of money in the bank but if you think that money is the secret to happiness you know nothing including no very few very rich people because there's no correlation if it were so simple everyone Rich you knew would be incredibly happy everyone poor you knew would be incredibly unhappy and paradoxically it's often the opposite that the wealthiest people you know seem to be the most unhappy most Hollow the most empty inside and you can find people who have nothing and they they feel like they have everything they're so happy and fulfilled it's not so simple it's not so simple you want a meaningful life a purposeful life a happy life a balanced stable life then the answer is ask yourself we're not going to prolong this because I've spoken about this so many times because this inspires and touches me deeply every single day don't ask what are my rights what are my entitlements what do I get asked what's my duty what's my obligation what's my responsibility what can I give what can I do who can I be how can I redeem and repair and change the world you want a meaningful life don't ask what can the world give me ask what can I give the world what can I do what can I do this is not just our Torah and it's not just altruistic like we're striving to be heroes who want to give instead of receive it's actually now research has caught up to what the Torah always knew this is the basis of Mental Health don't believe me look online later you can Google it and you will find that among the most successful treatments for depression is volunteering in addition to sometimes eating medication and immunotherapy is voluntary you say volunteer I don't want to volunteer I want to go to Lord and Taylor I want to go to Nordstrom's I want to go shop away my problems I feel depressed I want to go on on the Amazon I want to go on a visit to the Amazon and I want to buy up the amazon that's how I'm going to get rid of my depression I'm going to buy my way out of the depression the packages and the packages and the packages are going to come and then I'll be happy and maybe you will for a moment when you open the package but you know what comes after the package it doesn't come to the front door it comes in the mailbox it's called the bill and when the bill comes for the packages then at least maybe your father makes him unhappy in some cases I think we have a dedicated Amazon delivery person for our house no it's possible a dedicated Amazon delivery person just for the Goldberg home it's possible it's possible sometimes you can't get to the front door you have to start moving you need to bring in like I'm just telling you that in my world in my world I I sometimes need to be equipment to Bridges just to access the front door not you it's not you our children but anyway exaggerating a little bit a little a little bit rabbinic license rabbinic license so it's not the more packages you get the happier you get Google this and you'll see that a peer person is feeling depressed go volunteer go volunteer there's nothing that feels better in the world I wish I could send you the pictures maybe I'll post them in the group and the people who aren't here really won't know what went on today but I have pictures on there of Rosh Hashanah this Army of kids came you showed up we seated 16 1800 people on this campus on Russia and if you included BRS West and Rabbi Brody's 400 people for outreach almost 2 500 people BRS you showed up and there was a chart and you had a seat and your name was typed on a sticker on it and there was page and there were much of them that were put out and there was a million things that the paragraphs was white and all that stuff how did you think all that happened poof you showed up and that's your job there's no criticism right we have the luxury of just showing up there was an army of kids who came who spent their era of Rosh Hashanah in some cases with their father so beautifully labeling chairs and and straightening and steaming the the parochas and putting out the mark zorim and ensuring the it's beautiful I took pictures it's beautiful and you know what they got for it Pizza they got pizza but okay that was all they didn't they didn't there's no pizza there was no like where how much are we paid how much per hour you know I'll take it in Bitcoin there was no negotiation there was no negotiation of how much they got paid I promise you those kids went into Russia they were on fire felt so good others were playing you know the game box or whatever that things go those were playing video games others were having triple caramel latte start whatever all those were sleeping in and they were here the Army for Jeffrey turning over this campus it's unbelievable unbelievable for those kids they won they want out on their because when you give when you do so that says you want to live a meaningful life we only did one line so far in the Russian sheep we got to get back to this but you want to live a meaningful life a purposeful life ask yourself now what can I get from this world but why am I here it's a new year it's a brand new year so however my dear friends what are you going to give the world this year how will the world be better because you're in it this year your friends your family your community your profession your hobby I'm not telling you in what way that's nothing wrong with that but I'm not I'm not asking you to leave your comfort zone to do something you don't like doing hey take one for the team that's just ask yourself what's my mission why am I here what difference am I meant to make how will this be my year that when I come next year this time I will look back and say this year I made a difference I got out of my own comfort zone I got out of my own skin and I made a difference to other people there was a committee there was a project there was an effort there was there were people I checked in and I hosted I took care of there was a problem I became the solution there was someone I showed up for I was fully more present in the lives of those who need me the answer will be different for everyone that's the hard work given the schmooz is the easy part looking in the mirror and deciding given who I am in my world because everyone's their own world so that's how the ramachal ends that sentence that charge that opening to merciles what's the next word the hola Mo translate the word so some translations have the Mish translation they say they translate challenges us what's Our obligation our duty our responsibility in the world but that's not what the ramkah writes he doesn't say in the world what does he say in in his or her world write that do we live on different planets do we do we do we have residences on different planets yes why would he say everyone in their own world the answer is because everyone is their own world now you can't live in your own world in a way that you're oblivious to other people our worlds intersect and our worlds overlap and sometimes our worlds collide our worlds have to be interconnected you can't live in your own there in their own world how come they didn't show up how come they don't care how nah they're in their own world that's a bad being in your own world we don't mean that being in your own world so you're oblivious of everyone and everything around you that we do not mean we mean you're in your own world because don't compete don't compare don't measure yourself each of us is our own world we come from our own place we have our own background we have our own socioeconomic status we have our own gifts and talents we have our own weaknesses and challenges we are each our own world and that's where Charlotte is answering here why does it say twice why is it repetitive and redundant says you know why because it's easy to coronate God the king of all the worlds out there it's also easy to Incarnate God as the king of other people's worlds oh no no they're suffering because God feels they need to this oh no no they have that because you think that's their achievement they're so smart they're lucky God let them hit the what Lottery believe me they're not so smart they don't deserve it they didn't achieve it it's so easy to Incarnate God the king of everyone else's world by yenum it's easy to make God the king of other people how about our world our world our life our lifestyle our daily lives akola Olam culo to make God the king of all of us because every person is a miniature world the king of all the universes and all the galaxies and all the world and all the planets but he says everyone else has a king what does it mean to have a king what does a king have subjects if the king doesn't have subjects I have bad news for that King they're not a king right if I put on a crown and sit in my room and declare myself King but I can't even control who's ordering from it I'm just joking if I sit and put a crown on my head and declare myself King but nobody is willing to be my subject you're not a king then a king what makes a king having subjects so we want to coronate God the king of other subjects you should be a subject you're a subject you should be a subject of the king you're a subject of the king me I'm free nobody rules over me but the real mission of Rosh Hashanah says whenever you're listening to this because one thing we've learned from these emails Spotify chooses when you listen to what not me or you that's one thing we've learned from these emails so I know someone's gonna be listening to subhanukkah and turn it off because they say what does this have to do with me this is true for the whole year round that we dedicate all of our organs and all of our limbs we surrender as subjects of Hashem Hashem I take my initiative I take pride in my achievements but in the end of the day it's all you everything's you so I don't panic and I don't get anxious I don't get too worried and I don't take too much pride and I don't swallow with arrogance and I'm not envious and I'm not jealous because Hashem it's all you you're the king declaring of the king people mistakenly think that you know amuna I don't want to give up my autonomy I don't want to give up my My Success my pride I don't want to give up I don't want to declare him the king It's My Life they don't realize that declaring in King is the best thing in the world you could do for your life you want peace you want Serenity you want happiness you want joy declare him the king the moment we don't just declare him the king but the moment that we live as his subjects is the day your life gets so much better the day that you can get stuck in traffic I think you're going to miss such a critical appointment and yeah it's the king's plan it's no problem he's in charge says made up of three major sections first we coordinate god king and then the Chronos God remembers everything then shofros the chauffeur why do we start with with malhras we start with first we accept Miss King we can't understand anything in the world we can't position ourselves properly vis-a-vis in the world if we don't start with he's the king of action is it's an entirely new understanding of this sentence and for now on whether you're singing it with or you're saying it in the davening or you're listening to the song any time of the year now you know Hashem I'm ready to call you the king not just of everyone else's world not just on all the galaxies and UFOs and and ET and extraterrestrials I'm ready to make you the king over my whole world not part of my world because it doesn't work to be the king over part of the world you're not a king if the person is not entirely your subject you're not a king if they say I'll be your subject regarding this but I'm maintaining my Independence regarding that so they're not a subject and you're not a king to be the king and you a subject you have to subject yourself surrender yourself entirely means Hashem I am ready to make you the king over every part of my life over everything over everything you're responsible for the success I have and you have a reason there is a purpose for the challenges I struggle it's all from you everything that's happening everything that's happening the other way of understanding this why do we repeat it why do we say it twice the other way to understand it is because there are two levels of the Moon and put it differently the zamuna and there's there's I know there's a God conceptually in theory academically I know there's a God there's a First Source there's a Creator there's a God I believe I believe belief in God is at an all-time low in America but even that Paul that asked the average American do you believe in God all they meant was do you think there's a higher power somewhere something something bigger than us yes does that impact your life does that translate into your life do you have a relationship do you talk to him do you surrender them I don't know what you're even talking about you just asked me is there a God and yeah somewhere in a book somewhere there's some proof some evidence there's some higher power there's something yes that's amuna amuna is like a main we spoke around the partial yesterday from the Parsha Amin amen amuna means yes I affirm ditto I believe yes I acknowledge there is a first cause a higher power there's a God but who says that God has anything to do with me did this building we're sitting and have an architect the building tomorrow night that please God please everyone come if you're in favor and excited about our campus expansion if you're not feel free to find another activity no come and ask all of your all of your legitimate questions that you have we welcome all of the legitimate and constructive questions that people have but we're expanding our campus very very excited about it's going to be a game changer more people will learn and live at Muna please God on our on our state-of-the-art amazing campus so the people who will live in 50 and 100 because we're building it for future Generations not for today so they will not have met the building Committee in the building chair they will not have met the donors maybe they will not have met the architect and the Builder the contractor will they know that all those people existed yes because if you're in a building this order came to order materials took on the form of a building there must have been an architect there was a designer there was a builder right so it's pretty foolish to look around this world if I told you this book that you're reading the ink on the page nobody wrote this book there is no Guerra shashiva to show although I made it up it's a figment of my imagination you know where this page came from you won't believe it I knocked over a bottle of ink and there was a blank page and poof why would that's absurd and why would we categorically automatically reject that possibility every one of us there's not a human being alive who would even entertain the possibility that I knocked over a bottle of ink and that's how these words came on the page Why because the likelihood of that is not small it's impossible it didn't happen when order comes to disorder when when Inc takes the form of words and sentences and ideas there was someone behind it so if that's true for ink on the page it's not true for the human body it's not true for the world we live in there's a Creator there's a creator but until now you don't know the Gary roshishiva you just have his words on a page just because you can acknowledge that there's an author that there's an architect that there's a sculptor that there's an artist just because you acknowledge they exist doesn't mean that you know them that they know you that you have a relationship that they're invested in your life so that's not emuna that's the next level which is not just I believe they exist but I also know that he knows everything happening in my life I have a relationship we talk to each other we listen to each other we care about each other's needs there's a relationship that's the next level and that's what the gear rashiva says next maybe why is it repetitive redundant because they're one stages God you're the king I surrender to you that you exist at a distance from the heavens you're operating the world from all the way up there you're far away you don't write like the initial thought the author of his email wrote in her initial thought right Hashem is busy right now it's his busy season it's got to open the books and write people in it and sign them and seal them he's so distant this is actually her language I didn't even do that on purpose that the email fits exactly with what we're learning today in all seriousness she writes I thought to myself Hashem is so distant that's what we think let's look at the garage shiva's language we think I'm willing to make them but he's not really providential he's not really in charge or controlling all the details um so the reason we say it twice is don't just be the king from out there from up there from a distance so busy you don't have time for me you're the king be the king I have a relationship with you're the king who knows me and loves me and is involved and invested in me you're the king who has an intimate connection to me that's what we're declaring that's what we're believing that's what we're leaning into and most of all that is what we are that's what we are living so that's our mission that's our goal that's our mandate are we on next week between Yom Kippur and silk is next Wednesday morning show off hands anyone here anyone coming if we meet next week okay so we have a meeting next to just joking we are meeting next week regular time until then your homework is don't just declare him the king for others don't just declare him the king of the galaxies to claim our king of our world recognize for each our own world that in our own world what that's part of that's our thought I said that's what we're supposed to be thinking about mindful of contemplative about is why am I here God what are we asking God please renew my contract for another year we're getting the answer back Monday night Nila the gates are going to close the books are going to be signed and we're going to get the answer I don't know if we get the answer the answer will be determined and what's the argument what's the question Hashem renew my contract renew my contract for another year so he's going to ask why why should I renew your contract what do you bring to to my world how do you bring your world to my world what do you offer what do you do how do you transform how do you repair how do you redeem how do you why that's what we're supposed to be thinking about all of our work and anticipation of Yom Kippur is formulating our argument this is why renew my contract and provide me the resources I need because here's what you're going to see you're not going to believe here's what's coming it's going to be unbelievable if you renew my contract and give me the resources to be able to do it Hashem wait till you see what comes next for me you're not going to believe what I have in store it can't be I don't know I never thought about it you know what I'm gonna do for you I'm going to watch as many Netflix series as I can in the shortest amount of time possible that's my mission for this year it can't be who would renew such a contract enjoy life appropriately but but who's going to renew such a contract if you say Hashem I have an idea it's a problem I want to solve there's a campaign there's a project there's a committee there are people who need me I'm going to take on certain practices in my life I'm going to transform wait till you see what comes next renew my contract I promise you Hashem it'll be worth it I'm going to give you the biggest return on your investment invest in me again invest in me another year I'm going to give you your biggest Roi yet just invest in me another year most people don't think that way they don't come to Yom Kippur that way they just come to him Kipper they haven't thought about anything they're just grepsing and burping from stuff in their face before coming to Dre that's the big prep before Yom Kippur but the real preparation before Yom Kippur is to ask ourselves what okay I got 25 hours to make this argument I got 25 hours I'm appearing before the bench before the judge what's my argument renew my contract give me the resources because here's what I'm going to do fill in the blank how do you answer that question what's he gonna say what's the Fulfillment what's that promise that's your homework next week we'll have our answer be between circus Hashem our contracts will be renewed we can sit in a sukkah friends and family and we sing and we eat and we drink and we enjoy because we got our new contract for a new year and we're going to get paid well with great resources to be able to empower us to do what we and then Sook us ends it's time to get to work to make good on that promise and the pledge of who we are why we're here and what we're going to do so all of us should be signed and sealed all of us should have our contract renewed all this should be given an abundance of resources to fulfill the mission that is our world and to be able to say with a full heart until next time stay happy stay healthy and stay healthy