Living With Emunah (Part 288) - Time for Radical Change

okay good morning may be a good morning for we should hear yeshu say complicated and difficult day as we've seen Israel agree to uh this hostage release and this temporary ceasefire and while I'll just share I know that we are all can't make the people stop talking while while we are all uh tempted to express opinions and have opinions and have many questions about it I don't think our questions will influence the decision or outcome particularly those of us outside of Israel who are not necessarily entitled even to an opinion so perhaps we can Channel all of our questions frustration concerns fears into that's where we're always encourag to do is to channel it into intoa so instead of spending the energy on second guessing or doubting or wondering or challenging even though that is natural and I share it to channel that same energy and time time channel that same uh the same speech intoa that if it is proceeding whatever is proceeding should simply uh go well and go smoothly I want to thank our Minister sponsors for the year Dr zi and Bella Morgan in memory of Dr Brian G galet in memory of Bella's mother Dr Ellen shanzer also today's sh is sponsored by Carol W in honor of BRS and a gratitude for making this difficult time so meaningful and today is dedicated in memory of my grandma my grandmother my father's mother Rose Goldberg Ro Shalom d as your site is today I literally would not be here without her so I'm very uh grateful to her we think about our grandma Nama should have an Aliyah before we dive back into the text that we have been learning the words of the P during the Persian Gulf War before we continue to study his mimer that gives us strength a few uh amuna emails to catch up on first of all you remember remember I got an email from uh a young man who missed the iso concert back when we thought isaro at Madison Square Garden was a big deal remember that back when we thought that and there was a young man who missed the concert because of that Miss certain all the Y Privileges and was remember that whole story that whole email well he sent me this morning RAB go want to let you know my fiance and I just landed in Israel to start our new lives the terrorists will never win see you at BRS East with a picture of him and his fiance with a big Israeli FL up at Goran airport so a big big ma to Alec we're so happy for you proud of you and wish you a everything should be safe and smooth and secure and it was beautiful that he shared that still got to get him in touch with yeso so uh yeah one thing at a time one thing at a time a few emails to share and then we'll dive back in good morning Rabbi yesterday at the rabbi I started this one last week little teaser I left you with at the end I had to make sure you'd come back this week so a little teaser of the email yesterday at the rally he wrote last week I had the opportunity to stop by and say hi when I walked up to you and said myusa I wasn't it wasn't me trying to be cute the r is Kila is part of my everyday life even all the way in New York I made a priority to listen one living with Amir day for the past six months I've been catching catching up and it has changed my life he writes I've been in sh for almost three years now and has been the most growing and complex journey of my life for the first time ever I feel through this time I have developed what I believe to be a real and authentic relationship with Hashem being in sh will do that to you that's my that's my commentary not just begging and asking for things and turning my back on him when he doesn't give me what I think is best for me but working as hard as I could in our relationship as much as anyone I would for a person I love or care about the longest time I am told and taught to believe that Hashem can bring my Yeshua carify and that God brings salvation he brings a solution to whatever problem we are working on or worried about Hashem can bring it in an instant so I keep that belief and wake up every day and wait not so patiently and hope for that Yeshua to come today unfortunately the painful part is that because I have the knowledge and belief that hasem is there always and has the ability to bring the Yeshua when he doesn't it adds up to days and weeks of disappointment as I date and sometimes even date for a long time only to be left brokenhearted or that dark reality of going back to square one my mother is in and out of doctor's offices with her illness and has to dedicate whatever time she has to care for my two siblings with special needs it pains me that she also has to deal with my sh all this time sometimes feeling as if it is my fault I watch other younger than me get married many of whom my mother was their sh and I constantly remind myself that Hashem didn't want the right one to be read to me today I must be happy for the people who don't have to go through what I do Hashem doesn't work on my schedule sometimes amuna means being patient sometimes it means being silent sometimes it means being resilient not all of the best when the story is finished with happy ending in the moment he clearly has been listening the happy part of the story is the ongoing growth and development of my relationship with my father and Creator I'm happy and grateful to that my faith is no longer Theory because it is continuously tested I thank you your rabbitson and you're not surprising growing Kila for the inspiration always all the best and keep in touch PS is full permission to use this letter don't use my name unless it will help me find the he didn't write that I just jok but seems like a wonderful young man so if he seems wonderful I don't know details I don't know details we got if you're listening send your resume and uh please God we will we will work on it why is this an important email they're all important they're all beautiful they're all powerful because I have the privilege and honor and responsibility and pleasure of sitting in front every week and learning with you and lecturing to you and lean in and he's there we have to believe I have the most blessed life but when I share with you the privilege of sharing with you emails and so grateful to those who take the time to write them that don't say you know and it worked out amazing and because I went there and then I met the girl and we lived happily ever after with a white picket fence and all was good but I'm struggling and every day is frustrating and is filled with disappointment but I'm grateful because I'm closer to him and leaning in on him and isn't that amazing those emails give me I'm sure they give you and as we've shared before we can take his email and become our Hotpot to make a connection with Hashem even when we're struggling even when we don't feel it which leads to the next one hey Rabbi Goldberg hey hope you're doing well that tells you the person's age hope you're doing well thank you for the Amun I've been listening weekly for a couple of years now dating for over two years has been a journey from maybe we could set her up with him that'd be amazing dating for over two years has been a journey for me it brings up a lot of trauma and triggers as do being at home I find myself in many laugh or cry situations this is a this is a difficult email growing up I was ignored and felt invisible much of the time as a little girl I would often cry myself to sleep in DAV and knowing there's no one but God who cares and is with me witnessing my tears and Agony I'll tell you the more I get and read these emails the more I realize they're not outliers and they're not anomalies and there are more people if you don't feel this way and haven't struggled with this know that there are many people who do and if that makes us a little more patient and a little more kind and a little more understanding and a little bit more loving of others than it should as uh Scottish philosopher I love to quote not because I'm a student of Scottish philosophy it's the one quote I know I Claren said be kind to everyone you meet for everyone is battling something you know nothing about be kind to everyone you meet so the person cut you off on the highway or cut the line at Publix or walked by you at the kidish just assume they're going through something you know nothing about and be grateful you're not going through it and all of us could be a little more patient and a little more kind and a little more understanding and make the world a little bit more of a better place so this writer of this email is again not an anomaly not an outlier sadly there are many people who feel this way I would talk to him for hours Hashem letting him know I'm not okay telling him about my day when there was no one else who'd listen other times there were no words but endless hours of Tears we shared hearing you say that it isn't the lack of faith was validating in a very big way feeling anger and pain isn't a lack of faith but rather an expression of one we can't feel hurt or angry at being unless we truly believe he's there and is the one orchestrating our life knowing I can be real open and honest with him has brought me such comfort trusting doesn't mean believing it's all Rosy can be painful and hard sometimes and I won't deny that I also know he's with me through it all I can cry and lean on him he'll never forget me or abandon me he has and still does Hear My Cries when no one else does I've been accused called names judged criticized given the cold shoulder ignored I've always tried holding on and being there begging Hashem to hold me tight and never let go today when I to put up with the dating scene it can bring a lot of the same invisibility loneliness pain and suffering I was in the car yesterday with my sister when my mom asked me to run some errands for her on my way home I knew I had date I needed to get back for and I started getting stressed as I was tight for time unfortunately also knew I didn't have much of a choice about this boy who I didn't want to meet and about helping my mom out so I sat in the car in traffic and I kept repeating I'm exactly where I need to be exactly when I need to be there and there's nowhere better for me to be at this moment my sister laughed thinking I was trying to be funny but it helped remind me what's really true and believe it with a full heart and feel so calm as I can only try and do my best I also know angry and pain I feel when others think they run the show I remind myself they don't have control over me or my life and that they never did I don't either so I too can let go and let God he does and he has someone waiting for me he also holds my pain in tears he always did and did not forget he knows what I carry inside even when words can't describe that's the greatest Comfort I can ask for I can feel sad and alone and I can tell him that ABA you created me human with a need for human connection love and support sometimes I need someone who can talk back to me with words who can physically hold my hand and be there that's the way you created me help me accept myself in this need put good people in my life and teach me to trust last class you mentioned the term Torah I hope none of you Googled it or wasted your time on it please don't I took care of it for you remember the tourist morons who hang on the edge of a cliff and take pictures with Bears and Buffalo torons but listen to this listen to what she writes last class you mentioned the term toron and I was thinking how well that term describes times where we do things that might look moronic to the world but we know to be true a Torah Toran Torah Moran when I have to stick up for myself when I know to be true even when the world can fight me so hard we got to stick up and keep fighting I don't know how I would get through the with the great I've gained from the weekly boost ofuna it's been a Lifeline I wish I had a happy ending for my story I don't have one just yet I will one day thanks for helping me hold on stay sane in sometimes insane World thanks for the for K my experience personal National Redemption soon United Jewish family together be brought home be blessed with good health success Nas continue strength to spread light truth and to so many signed so and so wonderful okay one more and then we'll jump back into our M of the P I always feel guilty we're here to learn but I know that you really come for the emails not me so one more ra go I want to share a story with you not my own but one that I heard on the Israeli radio last week of a survivor of the Bei Massacre who returned to home a few weeks later and described what she found still standing in her community amidst the drr destruction so this is a amuna email indirectly from a survivor of the Bei Massacre one of the yesim that was that was terribly struck I thought that our words were powerful and meaningful and they deserved to be spread to the anglo-jewish community the story serves as a powerful message of the resilience of the Jewish people and Amun in dark times as well as their deep to sometimes hidden connection to the eternity of Torah he sent me a link to the 12-minute interview in Hebrew I'll put it on the amuna WhatsApp group if you're not part of it join it we put a lot of bonus material there I'll summarize the story here in the interview Rael describes her return to b a few weeks after the massacre number one she discovered her house burned to rubble and yet just feet from her house house her Suka still in perfect pristine condition remaining standing literally a kick would have knocked it down and there it was waiting for her in the interview she describes her emotion of find finding her permanent home of stones and Bricks destroyed while her Suka her protection provided from Hashem was still standing waiting for her so what a powerful image to go back to Bei her house her home the permanent structure was destroyed and the supposedly temporary shade of Hashem was still standing and B is not a place that you'd necessarily assume there'd be a Suka or that one would have that reaction or reflection with it and yet how powerful how deep wow number two many years ago Ra was fundamental in building the besset in B it was a big deal to convince the ISU to start but she describes the extent of the religious connection of the community a few weeks ago soldiers found her number listed on the door of the lock they called her asking for the key she said except the key was in my house which has been destroyed break the lock and use the Sho and Infuse it with kadha the soldiers entered and they found the Sho completely Untouched by the terrorists since then the sh of B has been constantly full with off-duty soldiers daving singing and learning at all hours number three in beautiful words of am and strength Rael describes the community's effort to write a new safer Torah and to return rebuild and most importantly bring this Torah to the sh and dance with it next year Simas Torah of T in her words you can hear the conviction resilience and promise to the Jewish nation that we will always Rise From the Ashes and continue to grow B toote grateful to aot for sharing what she heard on the radio that is incredibly incredibly powerful okay there's more we'll save them for next week back to our back to our learning so we're learn the P was the rash at the time his son was is who came here two weeks ago he then became the G but he had this mimer during the Persian Gulf War he was at this time the Russ not the the Reb and he has been validating our fears when a person is in a state of War when scuds or missiles are flying overhead it's understandable that people feel fear and panic and yet he encourages us to take it to channel it to direct it into our we have to bance the initiative that we take the effort that we exert but also with realizing that in the end of the day it is Hashem look the rocket doesn't kill Patriot it's not the rocket that kills and it's not the Patriot that saves that was in the Persian Gulf War updated to today it's not the rocket that kills and it's not the Iron Dome that saves it's Hashem it's all we see it's easy to think it's the terrorist the terrorist the terrorist and of course it is they're evil they're Wicked they need to be eliminated from the face of the Earth the other day I'm not flexing I think the first time this year I was driving shy to school and he was finishing the homework I was supposed to have done with him night before and he had to write something in a journal and he chose to write tunnels so he wrote about the Kamas hiding in the tunnels an 11y old boy writes about today so he was writing it and he wrote you know idea is going after Kamas in the tunnel and he looked up he said ABA after Kamas should I write y I don't even know where he learned that or heard that I said absolutely so we're tempted and and we need to eliminate them from the face of the Earth pause ceasefire none go back to the work of eliminating them from the face of the Earth Hashem should do the work for us for our brave soldiers and eliminate them from the face of the Earth and as much as our job our mission to not stop until they are eliminated But ultimately that we know everything that happens in this world is an extension of Hashem so where I believe we last left off we're on page two the that notion that we channel that fear that worry that anxiousness that nervousness into the direction of the one who really will determine the outcome they really determine the outcome you know I liking it person's loved one God forbid has to have a surgery so they wield the loved one into surgery give a kiss say I love you they they're Wheels into surgery you go to the family waiting room what's more effective Sitting Waiting In The Family waiting room thinking about the doctor and hope the doctor successful and the doctor and the doctor and the doctor or to open the tail them and say Hashem guide the doctor's hand Hashem oversee the doctor bring about the outcome so certainly certainly certainly we focus we support we do everything we can for our soldiers they are the of hasem but simultaneously we have to dve and put our heart into thinking about hasem that's where it all really comes from I'm on the bottom paragraph on the on page two when it comes to our own personal challenge our lives have to continue as is we have to overcome what every obstacle every day we wake up there's something that we have to navigate and we can't radically transform our life on a daily basis that's not the way that a person could live we can't sustain that that type of life however says when it comes to a collective National Calamity when it comes to a collective National time of Crisis it's different it is a time of radical transformation of coming together in AK of taking stock in ourselves and how to be better version of ourselves if we want peace for our brothers and sisters in Israel what kind of Peace do we have in our homes with our spouses with our children with friends with neighbors it's a time for radical transformation permanent transformation not rise to the occasion for however long this goes on and then revert back to the way we always were but what are we doing radically different in our time that's how we left off last week what are we going to look back for the rest of our lives and say this is when I started X I started putting on situs I started proudly wearing my yamako all the time I started making minion I started not talking I started coming on time I started covering my hair I started daving a little bit each day I started saying till them I started being more patient and giving and caring and working on my shom bias in Earnest this is when I fill in the blank you fill it in you don't owe it to me or anyone else to tell them what you filled in but you have to fill in that blank in your life when Hashem is doing something on such a large scale something so outstanding something so exceptional something so radical it deserves an equal and opposite response that is rad IAL and that is permanent and what it is do you need to work on and change something interpersonally something between you and God everyone needs to fill it in for themselves no one should or could or has the right to tell you what you need to fill in many people will offer but they're not entitled and they don't have the right and you'll have a lot of suggestions for other people in your life of what they should radically change but this isn't that time what we should all Embrace is that we should all be in Earnest working on in a significant way Transforming Our Lives there's nothing about the lives of our brothers and sisters in Israel right now that is ordinary nothing nothing that's happening in an ordinary way no one nothing you have a family member in the Army you don't have a family member in the Army you're in the Army you're not in the Army it doesn't matter there's nothing that is normal right now so how could if I hm has created a reality that nothing's normal what he's saying is stop stop I'm I'm interrupting your life and make a change nothing's normal you can't go on being normal we can't go on being normal the um My article this week I wrote about there are you know during World War I took away one of his pillows I'll tell you uh a very Holy Family during uh one of the inas their decided they weren't eating ice cream no ice cream the other night an incredible holy member of our community mentioned to me in passing not to flex or show off he said since the War Began he hasn't had a piece of chocolate he said every time I reach to indulge in a piece of chocolate he likes chocolate he said I stop myself and say soldiers are sleeping outside in the rain I could go without chocolate till this is over so you'll say to yourself it's not any chocolate gonna defeat Kamas is passing up on ice cream Really Gonna bring home hostages silly silly open it to Hill oh the schwier apparently he not getting manicures until this war is over and now we'll be bound by that pledge that's now been repeated publicly is that really going to bring hostages home is that really going to provide Safety and Security is that really going to eliminate the evil Wicked Kamas no manicures no chocolate no ice cream removing one of the pillows not sleeping in a bed the answer is first of all yes because the Merit of a Jew saying that my life can't go on as normal while brothers and sisters aren't having a normal life I don't want to get in trouble for saying this but I can only tell you what we're thinking as and it's hard to believe that what began on Sim Torah is now going to lead soon into Yeshiva week are our vacations going to be the way they were if they were in a war can someone really go to some exotic Resort far-flung expensive enjoyable vacation and lie out now kids will be off from school so you know okay you have to do something and people need to figure it out our community struggled at first were we going to cancel flag football and Zumba for the girls and you have to still do some things you have to do some things but they can't be the way they ordinary are so when we disrupt Our Lives Hashem has interrupted our lives and our respones to disrupt our lives and disrupt our routine and do so not because you can see the direct correlation between I won't eat chocolate and ice cream that hostage was freed that evil terrorist was eliminated but the Merit of saying that while my brothers and sisters there's no soldiers they're not sleeping in their beds I don't if they're having a night's sleep so how can we have the Comfort how can we have the the relaxation we have to interrupt our lives so we interrupt our lives spiritually by saying I'm making a change a radical change we will our family always forever look back and say I hope we can say the same thing about Corona about Co that during that time our family started our shabas table our daving our Aus our peace and patience for one another our we adopted this practice we didn't want that we would didn't welcome that but we look back with that and say that precipitated that led to that was the Catalyst of certain change and transformation in our life and it would be a crime a crime please God this should be over today should come and for all time we will look back and reflect and will we be able to say that's when we started X Y or Z daving saying doing going acting behaving opening our home and having guests that's when we start what will we fill in that blank we can't be the same we can't be the same gave this original MIM theik and it says says so rash on the Tells a Story a mus a parable of a man who's walking with his son on his shoulders and his son sees some shiny object and says ABA bend down reach that and grab that and give it to me he walks a little bit further and the sun says again another shiny object bend down reach down pick that up and give it to me and then a third time so what happens they run into somebody who says to that son have you seen your father so his father says you don't know where I am he throws the son off of him and the dogs come and take a bite what was this a mush for Hashem says I've been carrying you on my shoulders I split a sea I did 10 plagues I've been making Miracles I've been intervening mean in the world and I'm carrying you on my shoulders every shiny object you ask me to bend down and pick it up and give it to you and now someone comes along and says hey have you seen your father and you say who what father Hashem I don't know if he exists I've been going to this class I've been taking seminars I've been reading books I've been researching I'm considering the evidence for his existence and the one carrying on this shoulder says are you out of your mind I've been carrying you I've been schlepping you I've been crouching down and bending down and picking up for you what you want I've been making 10 plagues and splitting a sea and making Miracles and now when you're asked has anyone seen your father you say is there such proof he's my father it's debatable I don't know I'm considering it he's gonna throw you off his shoulders and say yeah you're not so sure I'm your father Good Luck Good Luck Good Luck on page three love so the father says let's see how you do facing the elements in the world without me without me carrying you on my shoulders without me protecting you so what's the answer the longer and the more that we say my father he's right here he's carrying me I'm on his shoulders he's amazing to me I thank him endlessly I have boundless and endless faith in him trust in him gratitude to him so the father says o I'll continue I have a I can carry you a little bit longer I'll carry you a little bit longer a little bit longer if you ever put your children when they're growing older and heavier and harder on your shoulders and you're dancing s t and you're ready to put them down when they say please this has been amazing I can't thank you enough I love you ABA so you say okay I could do it a couple more minutes if they say put me you know they get a little starky with you you throw them down and you say I don't know why I carried you to begin with you don't even appreciate it my back hurts now my shoulders kill and you don't even appreciate it so Hashem says I'm I'm happy to carry you on my shoulders I got it I got you but you got to thank me you got to know me you got to see me you got to recognize me you got to trust me when you deny me when you're uncertain about me when you're kuo to about me so good luck I'm not looking to hurt you I'm just gonna put you down when I put you down there's a lot of dogs out there they want to take a bite they want to take a bite so what's the answer how do we continue to get to ride on his shoulders says the P we continue to get to ride shoulders the more that we say thank you for letting me sit on your shoulders you exist I love you I'm on your shoulders and I want to scream it to the world I want everyone to see and to know in those days the Persian Gulf War and now our community did not adopt it but others have to start saying and here the says they were our father our King revers the will the want the plan of our enemies and that request reverse every missile one of my friends in this community wife is here says forget an Iron Dome why do we invent the Iron Dome we should have invented a technology that whenever the missile comes at us it it turns it around and makes it go back to exactly where it was launched from kind of iron don't blow it up in the sky don't blow up in the sky Dan says create the technology that it can figure out where it was launched from reverse it and make it go back to exactly that's exactly we understand what these words mean in this time says so brilliantly you know what we think about when we say that sentence AOC they've got such horrific nefarious plans desires wants revers their plan but says the you know what we neglect you know what we forget to concentrate on how about the opening two words a our our King before you get to the punch line do this do that help this help that here's what I think should happen before you get to the punch line free the hostages kill the terrorists protect the people let the Army go home before you get to the punch line you have to focus on the first two words because you can't get to that punch line without the help without the consent of the first two words this announcement this has to be said with the deepest most profound concentration you are my father we're not asking where's father when some say I don't know think about the emails I read this woman who felt invisible who's obviously endured a lot of pain and his things that trigger it and says all she does every time she feels neglected and invisible to others she knows she asked hasem ABA I know where you I don't have doubt I don't have uncertainty when people ask me I don't say I don't know where he is or if he is I say he's right here I'm on his shoulder you don't see him you don't see him he's carrying me he's right here what do you mean you don't see him he's carrying me he's right here ABA ABA ainu is Aba ABA whatever you call your father is what you should call Hashem ABA Daddy Dad tati pop whatever you call him is what you should call you you know why because your dad you don't say I don't know if you exist and I'd like to see some paternity test whether you really my father you don't say that you say Dad you say Dad when you're happy Dad thank you so much that was amazing for the Kaneka present or you say Dad I'm really disappointed how could you you've hurt me badly but either way you say Dad unless you're a millennial and you call him by his first name but you say Dad you should say Dad Dad so if we want to feel that don't call him Hashem don't call him some name which is what you like Reby taught you when you were a kid and you don't even know and you don't even know what that meant and you don't know who he is and you don't know the evidence for his existence forget all that drop that drop that just simply call him rabman writes hisus talk to him call him what you call your father because he is also your father he's also your father so call him whatever you call your father dad can I talk to you ABA I have something to say tati I need you I'm disappointed in you I'm protesting to you but how does he know that you really believe he's your dad because you call him the same thing that you call your dad talk to him talk to him and call him a sounds like oh that reminds me of Y that reminds me when I'm fasting iner that reminds me ofos don't say those words that has such negative connotations fasting exhausted on my feet and Sh all day thank God we're done with that we're coming onah we've got more than half a year till we're back don't remind that shouldn't be the association that we have you know what the association should be that we have a oh oh my ABA you're talking about my ABA something about my dad I love it when people talk to me about my dad tell me about my dad tell me you saw my dad your interaction with my dad something nice you have to say about my dad it's nothing better ainuu is our dad our ABA our tati so yes we concentrate we think about and we want to get to that punchline overturn the bring her all the punch lines of ainuu how about we start with the first two words ainuu no one should ever say have you seen your ABA Oh you mean my father yeah he's right here look down he's carrying me he's our father he's our King and he's the only one who can who can heal us tell you an amazing thing I saw from Rita Rita wrote beautiful essay about getting through this difficult time from a spiritual perspective maybe we'll even learn it together next but he says in there the following maybe you've been moved by the videos of soldiers singing We have no one to lean on other than in you know more powerful there are videos that are coming out we blew up the Kamas Parliament we blew up the Kamas Capital we blew blew up this building we blew up these tunnels we blew up this underground they're all good and we get a little Gish Jews we can blow things up we can defend ourselves idea it's amazing it's amazing you get a little you know wow they blew that up it's powerful those videos we the powerful the bombs were dropping are powerful you know what's even more powerful when soldiers are singing and dancing it's even more powerful more powerful it's amazing these soldiers singing and dancing these are these are the most powerful we should we should drop these videos in Gaza these are powerful bombs powerful bombs that the world sees I think it's part of what's eliciting this push back whenever there's a surge of spirituality so there's an equal response of a surge of the other forces the evil forces in the world and that's what we're seeing the powerful bomb these video bombs these video clips are bombs of Amun bombs of bombs of they're incredible they're extraordinary they're unbelievably powerful you know the song we have no one to lean on other than our father in Heaven says let's say you want to lean against the wall you want to lean against the stender you want to lean against the person sitting next to you in the airplane and close your eyes in in order to lean against something what do you have to do you have to be close to it if you want to lean against the wall but you're standing in the middle of the room you're going to fall flat on your face if you want to lean against the shender but the stender is 10 feet away You're Gonna Fall flat on your face if you want to lean against the person next to you but the seat next to you is empty you're gon to fall flat on your face if you want to lean against something what do you need to do first you need to be close to it we have no one to lean on other than Hashem if you want to lean on Hashem you have to draw close to him you can't lean on him unless you close to him because if you try to lean on him and you're not close to him you know what happens you'll fall flat on your face so the prerequisite the precursor the precondition to being able to lean on him is going to the Amun precondition to being able to lean on him is to First draw close to him if you don't draw close to him and then the crisis strikes so a crisis We're All in This crisis a collective crisis or someone's going through a personal crisis but a crisis strikes and you say well now I want to lean on him but if you're not close to him if you haven't put in the work to draw close to him and you try to lean on him you're gonna fall flat on your face so we have to draw close to him in these moments so that we can effectively lean on him let's finish up the P great days we can feel great days are coming we're seeing Miracles shl again he's talking during the pran Gulf War that they saw Rockets land in t Aviv didn't injure anyone what's amazing as in the Persian Gulf War the notion of araq coming into Israel was like unheard of it was crazy it instilled fear what's insane is that today the idea of rockets falling in Israel are just normal if you have that red alert app they're just part of everyday life okay so it's the ne the people in the south then it can hit it's a whole other level we got to a point you know my sister pointed out to me this morning that we talk about that on October 7th Kamas broke the ceasefire she said what are you talking about there never was a ceasefire every day a rocket came over into St Ro or as as there never was a ceasefire it wasn't October 7th Kamas broke the ceasefire there never was a ceasefire because all these Rockets but it's amazing when you read these words of the of the P back in the Persian Gulf War he thought wow one rocket it came over from Iraq and it didn't it didn't hit anybody didn't hit anybody that was like crazy a rocket what became should never have become normal we should remain maladjusted there is no country in the world should adjust to the idea of rockets regularly falling we should be maladjusted to the notion of a rocket ever being laun lached at innocent people so every time a rocket did not hurt somebody Hashem told us two things first of all a miracle happened but also don't rely on Miracles it's not a given we're not entitled it doesn't necessarily have to happen that way read the writing on the wall and don't don't miss out on this great moment it's a Sher this is a moment in time it's a moment in time that should jar us us that should rattle us and Shake us that should arouse us and waken us you know who it's doing that to soldiers soldiers is going on Sunday to Israel on that o rabbitson Mission please God I'm going to go back soon the next couple weeks for a couple days and when you see the soldiers and they say I need situs please I don't own but can you give meillan I want to start wearing them they they understand it so again ride their hot spot use their connection to connect if they are waking up and they're spiritually aroused and awakened and making changes in their life we all have to be we to remember is always with us we have to feel that hm is with us he's feeling this pain you think Hashem is not looking up and saying I cannot believe they're releasing prisoners for the hostages they're pausing this war you think this doesn't pause Hashem too that this is the circumstance that we're in ah so why did he make it okay I don't have answers we don't understand his ways but we need to know that he's in pain with us he's in pain with us just like he was with the when they were in when Hashem first spoke to Moshe from thees from the bush that wasn't burning what kind of a bush was it Hashem could have revealed himself to mosha and spoke from a bit of roses of violets of buila is that how you pronounced that is it n buin is there an N hasem could have revealed himself from a of buan Vila but he didn't he spoke to Moshe from a bush of thorns and thistles why Rashi says because hasem says CL Israel is in servitude in Egypt and I'm going to go on Yesa week vacation to some Resort I'm lying in a bed of thorns and thistles because we have to know says the P even though he is the solution and we wonder why he didn't have to bring this problem but we need to know that he's also in pain with us he's in pain with us just like when a parent puts the child in timeout for their best interest and the child is crying I can't believe I'm missing that party that Gathering that get together that event that sporting thing and the parent says I'm so sorry I'm sitting here crying with you I'm in pain with you that you need to be in timeout and can't go that's the right thing for you you don't understand it now you may never will but know that I'm your father your mother and I'm doing it for your good and I'm sitting here with you crying about item is sitting here with us crying about it crying about it hasem protects us even when we are not protecting ourselves and therefore we have to put our faith our trust we have to let go on that God we have to submit and surrender we have to recognize that we do everything we can to support our incredible soldiers D for them Supply them donate them love them do everything we can for them but ultimately at the same time simultaneously realize as much as we thank the surgeon and find the best surgeon and give gifts to the surgeon and thank the surgeon and and praise the surgeon we also know who is guiding the surgeon's hand Hashem Hashem is guiding the soldiers hands just like brought the Jewish people close to hemas let them at least in all their destruction let them at least do one thing constructive which is bring us closer to each other and bring us closer to hem let us like our ancestors and predecessors let let us Merit to stand and to see the salvation of Hashem and the Merit of disrupting our lives with something radically transformational not going on with business as usual because there is no one in Israel who could live their ordinary lives whe you make that choice manicures chocolate ice cream pillow you're not going to watch your favorite sh whatever you want to choose whatever you want to choose take on something and leave something else that you enjoy out and say until the people I love can return to some sense of normaly my life is disrupted and yes there is a direct connection because the Merit of that love that we demonstrate for others and the love forem we should be and it should beying we should Merit the salvation of hem today