Living With Emunah (Part 293) - Your Most Important Lobbying Meeting Today

okay good morning Boer to as we always say it should be a good morning mem it should be a Boer to may be a day we hear BOS yes we should hear good news and good tidings I have to tell you though you know every she I every day since October 7th I shared this with you every day since October 7th I struggle with saying good morning good shabus good day good night as if it's a statement a fact it's good it is good it's filled with good is to he does good he gives good and there is so much good within the bad around the bad as a result of the bad even the bad is good but there is so much good we should acknowledge it we should be grateful for it and we should have the ability and capacity to say it's a good morning and a good day and a good night but we've tried to transform what were ordinary mundane often really insincere greetings and to transform them into us into prayers so instead of just ritually saying to someone when you first see them in the day good morning to turn it into a prayer it should be a good morning may it be a good morning good night may it be a good night rest well sleep well we should wake up to Good News it should be a good night we can transform and Elevate even the mundane pedestrian greetings and I say ins sincere not as a judgment of us but a reality nobody really means it or pays attention or has cavana and you see someone say good morning how are you you don't really mean to how are you you could really care less imagine someone would answer that question how obnoxious it would be how am I thank you so much for asking I'd like to tell you you know my mother my father the world is unfair I work this is going you said I I didn't really mean it I didn't really mean it I was just passing you and that's what you're supposed to do so I was just saying good morning but I didn't really mean it so imagine the world we could live in if we can Elevate and transform and be fully present and be mindful and uh all of our greetings we turn them into little FAS into little prayers should be a good day make until Tuesday Wednesday today this morning at the end of the sh some of you DAV some of you haven't yet D the end of the little spoiler alert the end of the sh on Wednesday has why because Wednesday is already a of shabas the truth is you know when a shabas begins you don't want to hear this but you know when shabas begins right after says you sit down you made time to come up with the menu for next Shas time to come up with the guests for next shabas it's time to already start to work on because you know what happens at Mo it's already you finished AB three stars are out shabas is over shabas you know what it is the shabas so you're already planning it's the shabas you're already planning it's the first day it's already a shabas a shabas begins on Mo shabas after abdah but technically Hally AR shabas begins when on Wednesday shabas one could make abdalah until yesterday till Tuesday if a person for whatever reason couldn't make abdalah was exempt from abdalah our precious soldiers they're in tanks they're at Battle they're in war you've seen some of the incredible images in video of but let's say a soldier is fighting he's battling he doesn't say to the enemy time out put down the grenade the RPG I gotta make ABA can't make abah and he can't till Sunday he's fighting Monday so you have till Tuesday to make AB Wednesday we say at the end of because what are we doing Wednesday morning we're starting calabas however you want to sing it but you begin you begin kab shabas begins on Wednesday morning so anyway we say good until Tuesday shab have a good week so that too don't just make it some mundane pedestrian empty mindless greeting say it should be a good should be a good V not just now because we're in the middle of a war but for the rest of our lives let October 7th have changed us and transformed us that when we say good morning and good night and good we're not just saying some empty mindless greeting we're offer a a little prayer should be a good should be a good week should hear it should be a good week yesterday was a good day yesterday was a good day Kamas suffered two losses yesterday in Beirut we killed a commander and the president of Harvard Kamas suffered two losses yesterday two big losses so andas should suffer even more losses today and tomorrow we should eliminate them all together it should be a good it's not just good it should be a good so why am I telling you all this I got to get to our sponsors but why am I telling you all this I think it can Elevate and enrich us if we can transform our greetings our interactions into but also it doesn't happen by itself because you wish a good V doesn't mean it will be a good V because you say good day may it be a good day doesn't mean it'll be a good day what are you doing to make it a good day what are you contributing to make it a good you can't passively sit back as a spectator and wait for Hashem to bring that Redemption to repair the world to bring hostages home to change things he's waiting for us he's inviting us every day that is not yet the day that we want we long for that doesn't have the results that we're so desperately waiting for it's because we're not adequate we're not worthy we haven't done what we need to do I don't know if that's how you feel that's how I feel every headline I read every morning we wake up every night in the middle middle of the night that we check and there's another soldier who lost his life it's because our is not done our efforts our actions our our initiative our Unity it's incomplete so all of this is by way of announcing that at the end of Shir as we do every day every she please stay complete all sa the more people stay the shter it takes you take a few and we finish all safe tillum a few times in a few minutes do you know the impact that has you know how that moves the cosmos do you know how that penetrates and Pierces the heavens the you know that's our part that's our mission that's what we do so we don't just say oh may it be a good morning now I'm off to yoga may it be a good morning going to the supermarket May good morning I'm going off to work may it be a good morning I have a manicure scheduled there's enjoy all those things God bless it's beautiful it's great enjoy but may it be a good morning and I'm gonna make it a good morning because I'm saying to stay to hel I'm going to make it a good morning because I'm going to check in I'm going to text somebody in Israel going through a hard time I'm going to make it a good morning because I'm going to reach into my wallet I'm going to sponsor another meal for a family whose husband is still in miluim for the last three months I'm gonna make it a good you can't just wait spectator watch from the sidelines and hope that a good day will fall from the heavens what are you doing to make it a good day what are you contributing how are you participating what are you doing to influence it into a good day tum is one of those things and that we have a m for I'm going to get to the sponsors we're going to get to amuna we're going to get to the emails just relax just sit tight we're going to get there in one second but and I mentioned this yesterday in the to we're beginning say foros shabas say foros this is a very auspicious time of the year is when we begin Tas this year is the nvi uses this expression the first of the book of Exodus ofos the acronym of the name the first letter of each of the names of the first par the T portions of this book spell it's a time that we come back it's a time that we come close it's a time of tremendous growth spur it's a high intensity time I told you before there an exercise it was introduced a few years ago the notion of the high intensity interval training that's the workout you Skip it's the hit High HIIT T high intensity interval training what does that mean it means it's hard to maintain a high intensity all the time so you have spurts you do high intensity and then recovery high intensity and then recovery when I first saw that there's a whole I've never been there but a whole gym and a whole uh workout methodology that's based on this high intensity interval training called I think Orange Theory I wrote an article that in yish in Ras we also have high intensity interval training we have periods where we are pushing ourselves and then we have recovery we push ourselves and and then we have recovery turns out it's a y some Jewish woman who started that gym and someone showed her the article and she liked the the vort I don't know so high intensity interval so is a high intensity interval aier so we also have high interval intensity push push push we got it we can do it we can do it I'm not like the spin teacher who's you know whatever you got it and push and we own it and who do you own and kill the day you know whatever I don't know where you go to school to learn all the things to yell to motivate people to keep it going and keep up the Cadence and make it happen and I don't know how you do that for tum and for Learning and for Mid and for shom Bas and for parenting but you got it and we can do it and it's in us and kill the day and slay the day and transform your day and own the day and whatever all the all the motivational lesos and is so apply it to spirituality to we got it but embedded in these names says of says many says says says in all these you know what else it's an acronym for this is a high interval push push push this is it you were going to delete those apps from your phone don't wait do it today you're getting off show social media today do it today you were going to be a nice person patient at home you going to work really hard and make a pledge and actually keep at this time not to raise your voice not to grow impatient not to create a fight where there doesn't have to be one not to prolong it when you can not be in your in stand on ceremony whatever it is that you were going to work on whatever pledge or promise you took you're gonna DAV you're gonna add you're gonna look in the sitter not walking around You're Gonna Stand still for you're gonna drive carpool and never raise a voice no matter what's H whatever cabala you took on whatever this is it this is the high interval this is it this is the time you know what else it stands for listen carefully because then you'll stay for what does it stand for the opening words of ouros these are the names of the Jewish people not who came that are still coming we're still coming we're still going to MIT we're still in a tight and Urgent and crisis place we still have enemies who are trying to close in on us we're still that wasn't a one-time event in history it's not a a long time ago it's it is something which is ongoing and andov this is something it's our journey it is our narrative it is our ongoing story but what is the acronym the last letter of each of those words spells the word the r the first letter is a b is a is a sh means hostages you know how you get out of captivity you know how you bring hostages home to Hill to Hill the first letter of each word is Hostages the last letter of each word spells to how do you bring the hostages home how do you end this war how do we get out of arim our matar our tight place our closing in Kamas on one side his bowl on the other Iran on the other the president of Harvard out on the other MIT one two down one to go MIT left how do we how do we get it done to Hill him of course it's our precious soldiers of course it's advocacy and lobbying of course I hope you listened last week and signed up to you get your status so you know who to write letters to every minute of the day how to make that difference but behind it all what will be successful for all of it is to Hill shivya you want to end the shiv the Chevy you want to end the hostages whether literally the hostages who were still waiting to bring home it can't get old we spoke about this last week but these hostages it's not old one of the hostages who was released this young woman who was interviewed spoke about how hard it was to leave how joyful she was knowing she'd be reunited with her family but how sad it was to realize how many people she was leaving behind and knowing from her experience their ongoing and continued plight being moved from being held in a house to Going Underground into a dark do you know what it does to your eyes to your orientation to be in a dark place in a tunnel not for hours for days for weeks for months deprived of food deprived of Love deprived of the ability to communicate deprived of the ability to DAV to dream to see light to get fresh air it can't get old the plight of the hostages until everyone last one is brought home we have to keep saying that to to be able to bring home the those who are so embedded in the opening of our paraa is the formula how do we bring them home how do we bring home what the first letter of each word with the last letter of each word you bring home the shya with the please stay afterwards I want to thank ouri sponsors Dr zavi and Bella Morgan in memory of Rabbi Dr Brian gabin in memory of Bella's mother Dr Ellen shanzer this morning she is also sponsored by Len and Tanya p in honor of the birth of their daughter Lily Eve she should grow up to be imbued with faith and inspired by the living with amuna when she's growing up I'm still giv the shear wow okay so on that birth thank you for that generosity and for that and for that sponsorship so that illum it makes a difference it matters that's what we contribute contribute from your wallet we need resources we need to make a difference contribute by texting or calling contribute by going those who can but contribute by daving last week's para the end of saer Braes when yob is giving bras to his children he gives bras to yosef's children and then he says to Yosef and I am bequeathing I am gifting I am granting to you the city of how do I have the city of because I took it from the amorites I took it with my sword and with my bow so I conquered Naas is that you say I took and I'm giving it to you Yos it's for you and for your family enjoy enjoy not everyone's around sh got that memo that it belongs to us can't exactly go to cover yose safely today sometimes you can every once in a while I'm in Israel I get invited with an army escort a group of people going to Kev Yos not everybody got the memo that it's ours we are we are the original owners Yakov conquered it the Torah testifies that it was bequ it was gifted to ysf and we are the children of Yosef it's ours we are the uh we are the indigenous people of Shem belongs to us we're not occupiers and we're not colonialists we are the indigenous people of the city of Shem but how does yov say that he got it how did he take it from thei with my sword and with my bow sword and bow Yakov didn't conquer sh who conquered shim and Ley not only that Yakov doesn't judge them so favorably for it in our par last week he says you impetuous people my kind my children you risked it all you put us in danger when you went and started up with SH were you crazy it worked out well so not only did he not do it he's critical of his sons who did and now he's taking credit for it that's rich that I took so the transl translates I conquer you know how with my prayers with myos we won't take the time now last shabas record the mayin why did yov use two metaphors two allegories my sword and my bow correspond with two types of prayer just say I was responsible first first of all what was Yakov saying he was saying you might have been on the front line you put on the uniform you took the physical weapon you went in and you fought but you know why you were successful you know what brought brought the Triumph and the Victory myos my prayers anytime we do anything with our Yim it is the co Yakov which is responsible it's the combination of the two can't be one without the other Yakov knows that if yov sat back and daved let magically fall in our hands that's Lal that's not going to happen we don't D for an ace we don't D for a miracle we can and only should D for things that can happen and be explained through natural means through human initiative so yob understands it's the combination youim and Le you had to pick up your weapon and go and fight but I it was up to me myos behind it are what accomplished it it was myos that are what what did it and it's only that combination so similarly right now our soldiers are on the front line they're fighting but we have to DAV we are giving them the energy and the kak we are giving them the military Advantage the military Advantage is not only because of the technology and the drones and the equipment and the generosity of this great country we live in that we should never take for granted need to continue to work for the US support of Israel 13 14 billion dollars worth of military equipment but you know where the real military superiority comes from it's not just the Scopes and the drones it's not just the better guns and the tanks and the artillery it's Theos and means there's what's in the cter there's what's in theum there's the text the Liturgy the template that you just recite fine Gober guilted me in what could I do everybody was watching I had to stay I want my kids to have I had to stay to say the T after the what could I do he guilted me into it but you know what I mumbled it I was really thinking about my shopping list or the manicure or the mall or the beach or the walk my head was elsewhere okay so even when your head is elsewhere I care less if I guilted you into it that works for me that's the only reason your kid whatever other reason that's fine pure pressure but you could say the tum you open up the sitter and it works even if you're not focused and mindful but says the M there has to be a second type of the that comes from our heart that we author from our heart it's the ongoing conversation that we're having with hem throughout the day when you wake up in the morning you say I'm opening Times of Israel or whatever you look at Hashem please let there not be a bad headline he close the Times of Israel say hem let this be the last headline reporting another loss it's the when you get in the car KES let me get the green light let me not kill my kid on the way to carpool I don't mean because I got in an accident I mean let me not kill my kid on the way to carpool Hashem let everything go smoothly and it's the conversation we're having with hem throughout our day and that say there's no text there's no template there's no liturgy you can't download it from a website there's no app on your phone you open it up and say what's the prayer I should say to not kill my kid who was not getting into a car and making us late for carpool that has to come from your heart that has to be individualized personalized sincere that's you and that is liken not to a sword but to a bow because a bow the tighter you pull it towards you the closer it is to your heart when you release it the farther it travels the more it goes on target if we want those fos to hit the target that is Hashem if we wanted to go far to get all the way up to the Heavens to penetrate shamayim then we have to pull it tight tight tight tight tight and it's not easy the Archer pulls back that bow one summer I went to camp and I got into archery and I came home and I made my parents buy me a bow and arrow and I set up a Target in the backyard and it lasted for like five minutes and then it just took up space in the garage and for the rest of my life my parents and family made fun of me then they handed off that M to my wife and children that you know I have uh whatever I get into I get very excited but I get very into it and it may not all last until I get into the next thing so now my the M of my family got passed to Bar my amazing wife and children that they will say when I get excited about something is that your new bow and arrow that's your new bow and arrow anyway as a former Archer for about five minutes I can tell you that when you pull back the bow it's tight it's taught there's tension it's hard that's half of it if it were so easy anybody could do it takes muscle it's hard to pull it pull it pull it pull it back it's hard to Davin it's hard when you're getting in the car when you're putting in the kala when you're going to argue in the courtroom when you're negotiating the business deal when you're negotiating your your marriage or a relationship it's hard you're pulling back the bow it's hard it's tense it's taught it's hard but the tighter you pull it the closer to your heart the more sincere the more present you are the more personalized you make it when you let go the farther it will fly the more it will hit the target of where we want it to Go's Mercy that's where we want it to go so that's our mission you want to bring back the has to be with we'll get into our text but I mentioned on on chabas that last week one of the soldiers that we lost tragically if FR Jackman 21y old Soldier can you believe there's azda Yesa there's a city in the south of Israel called whose name means hashem's Mercy but it's experienced anything but Mercy because that one Yeshiva a hezer Yeshiva where B young men learn Torah and also go serve eight eight soldiers just from that one Yeshiva ate just from that one Yeshiva and one of them FR Jackman so when my sister-in-law went to go pay aiva call he mentioned that the family listens to living withun which I didn't know and of course touched me very deeply so I reached out to connect feeling a connection just by that fact and he wrote me back the following the father Sammy Jackman he wrote your sitter Snippets have been giving my wife a lot of during the war thank you was very important to Ephraim he worked on it a lot he wouldn't talk while wearing thin and listen to what he writes in Gaza he woke himself early every day so he could DAV without distractions and learn Dai could you imagine a soldier in Gaza he had every excuse in the world to not DAV at all Hashem I'll catch you another time in this circumstance in this place how I'm living they don't take their boots off to go to sleep when you're in Gaza you don't eat normally in Gaza you don't really ever close your eyes and fall into a deep sleep in Gaza enemies are lurking snipers roadside bombs ambushes but not a FR Jackman he woke up early every day in Gaza so he could DAV not just so he can DAV so he could DAV without distractions he was the embodiment of the saer VF which means with the book and the sword the whole Jewish way that we fight is with the book and the sword with Kashi The Sword and the bow which Mo means literally and figuratively also the allegory ofi with our prayers he picked up the sitter the weapon of the Jewish people and davand and then he put it down and he picked up the IDF weapon and he went and fight and paid the ultimate price with that fight when he gave his life Ali it doesn't need an Aliyah it's in the highest place these kadosh andas are in the highest place they they don't even need an Aliyah they can't go any higher than than where they are than where they are so that we don't pick up the other weapon we're not in the front line we can send the money so soldiers have what they need we can send the meal make the barbecue write the letters that they cherish and consider to be their body armor we're not picking up that weapon but every one of us have this weapon we have the weapon of tum we have the weapon ofi not only what appears in the words the template the text but it comes from our heart from our heart sincere to cry to scream to yell that's what changed things in MIM what got us out of that first Exile the first Galos we were sick and tired we didn't even use words we just screamed we just moaned and groaned and cracked and we just said it's enough get me out of here I can't take it you're the only one you are the solution I Surrender I submit you Hashem said good enough I don't need you to write a beautiful poem I don't need you to write Pros I don't need you to write a PE no problem you screamed you cried you moaned you groaned it's real it comes from your kishkas from inside you where does it groan come it comes from inside you the bre it comes from inside you the words they can come from the lips and Beyond that's surface that's superficial that can come from the lips and Beyond but the C the groan the that comes from inside us that comes from the deepest places and that's our job and that's what we're doing and that's what this is all about that's what this is all about okay let's finish this piece for Dr you have in front of you the story I have I'll tell you a quick on this morning we had this of hosting the last three days one The Greatest R of our generation an enormous he's written over 60 gives 40 sh a week in New York tremendous the son of the or G is the med he's incredible incredible person you we see had the last three days we had the of having him in our home he gave in three it wasn't three days he came Sunday evening he left he's on his way to the airport now so he was here a day and a half and I think gave 25 sheum in the day and a half throughout South Florida anyway what's as story there's a lot of as stories about that but someone text me this morning and he said just send me a text this morning here's as story what a story of Ash he writes to me he doesn't know I collect them and give them that in itself is as he told me sash Story the morning of living withun I tially DAV with the 830 minion today I had the opportunity to go earlier my wife was driving the kids to school in the Mikvah coming out I bumped into the shore what an experience so just today his wife was able to drive so he was able to go earlier than he normally goes so he was coming to the Mikvah when Ra was leaving again he didn't say coinci oh what a coincidence how random what chance said Thank You Hashem a little moment Hashem you just orchestrated you just orchestrated that perfectly thank you perfect shine that's Ash story that every our day is filled with them if you just look for them if you just look for them they're all over they're everywhere they're filled with them let's finish this piece by we've been talking about yov when our voice is the voice of yov when we are proud practicing Jews when we're doing our part can't be anti-semites can't do their thing can't do their thing and you know you get feedback I was joking not really joking yesterday that this major Kamas leader was killed and the president of Harvard for intens of purposes was fired finally resigned that's a good sign that means our isov we're daving well it's being heard it's being received we're doing our part we're coming together we're earning our merits then you get news of another Soldier then you hear about a in the mirror the wall fell down a bucker killed a young man a wall construction just fell down on somebody and then you say our Co is not coov our Co is not Yakov we need to do more so there's a barometer there's a meter every day so to say the news what you hear is a meter more Co Yakov you can't ever let up on the K Yakov but when you see the Y the day needs to be more Co Yakov they can't go together they're incompatible they can't coexist they can't overlap they don't happen at the same time if our enemies are being successful with their hands means our voice is muted because if our voice was loud and clear their hands would be incapacitated so we have a direct correlation and we see it with our eyes and this is our answer this is our mission this is our purpose he quotes that that moan that groan that cry that's our call that's our call that's our call yov we are about a little more than halfway down the second side there's no other solution there's no solution there's no like who can you pay off to end this war there's no who can we hire mercenaries to go fight this war there's no who can we elect to be a diplomat to go represent us to end this war there's no other Pon there's no other solution there's no other solution and it's only in that moment it's only when we realize that then he hears us because K the whole time that we think if only this elected leader if only this person in a position of power if only we had the money if only we had the military if only we had the connection if only we had the intelligence if only if only if only if only if only if only if if if when you live life with if the middle two letters I told you heard from rski earli this year the middle two letters in English of the word life or if in English the life is filled with if if I did this if I if I got that job if I married this person if I had the money if I had these children if I had that opportunity if I had that connection if if if in Hebrew that same word life what are the middle two letters shame hasem in Hebrew the middle of our life Central to our lives is Shem there's no if if if if there's no if we don't look at our life with if it is what it is I hope I'm not violating anything by telling you this but of sure is suffering in ter terrible terrible pain it's enormous health challenges with his back he walks with a cane slowly struggling the my NE to have come down for these three days it's extraordinary you see it every step he takes every time he gets up everything he has to do but it doesn't stop him and slow him down last night he was with a group of teenage boys after midnight in our backyard this morning he spoke to our Cola Boker that goes at 6:15 in the morning to 7: a.m. doesn't matter it doesn't slow him down but I was there yesterday his son asked him how is he feeling you know what his answer was I don't know if any of us have ever answered this before I feel the way the abish wants me to feel I feel how hasem wants me to feel not I'm in pain but that's what Hashem wants not it hurts he didn't didn't even register I'm in pain I'm not in pain healthy I'm sick I feel how Hashem wants me to feel like what a what a what a silly question or that's the definitive answer I feel how hasm wants me to feel there's no other solution there's no if there's no if this if only if if is English life Hashem hasem is the middle of our approach to life is sh hasem Central to our life focus of our life the centerpiece of our life are Y and then yud the name of Hashem the pon of Dr that's it so yes we have to work military advantage military equipment American Support diplomacy we got to work write letters right right right we got to do it all you got to do it all but how many people are busy writing letters but they skip the most important letter they're lobbying but they miss the most important lobbying appointment you know what the most important lobbying appointment you could have not your Congressman not your Senator not the president not the Ambassador not the Prime Minister not the United Nations the most important lobbying appointment you can have is the easiest LOB appointment for you to get you don't need connections you don't need protexia you don't have to fit in in a schedule and you don't have to fly anywhere the most important lobbying appointment you can have is the one with Hashem and you have access to Lobby him anywhere anytime any language K is the most important lobbying appointment when APAC used to have the policy conference at its height 1820 th000 people was amazing experience to be 20,000 people passionately caring about Israel Jews and non-jews but I always I always would take a picture and post the daving over the years many many many many more observant people were attending and the minum grew and grew and grew and grew and I'd always take a picture and post this is the most important lobbying event of any APAC policy conference is when we're standing in daving to Hashem my friend hillo fold puts a picture off of himself in his t in fillan and he says most important appointment of the day biggest lobbying of the day he talking to Hashem how many people they Mumble the davening they're cleaning the dishes and clearing the table and putting away the napsack while they're davening they didn't even open the sitter and Daven because they're running you gotta write this letter do this letter go this letter I got an appointment you know who I'm meeting with you know who I have to speak to you know what I have to Lobby you know what I'm gonna Advocate you just skipped the most important appointment what are you doing a there is no solution yes keep all the other lobbying appointments too of course but the most important one like sorry hashm I can't talk to you I got to run to the doctor sorry hashm can't talk to you I got a meeting with the lawyer about our big case hasem was looking down he's like that's lail you walked by the Oval Office and you say sorry president can't speak to you I'm meeting with the I don't want to insult him the secretary the custodian the driver the newspaper boy the president I'm sorry come again I'm the one who can help you this is the office that has the solutions you just walked right by me you made no time for me you you ended our meeting abruptly because you wanted to go meet with who so says yeah you got you gotta meet with the doctor you gotta meet with the lawyer you got to have your newspaper delivered got meet with him too don't forget to give a tip and make a kides hasem this time of year your garbage person your newspaper person your mail person it's so easy you have such an opportunity to make a kides hasem go get a Starbucks card or a mall card or an Amazon card and give a little tip the cost of Kes Hashem it's nothing for the price of a KES hasem $10 $18 then you can explain why the number 18 make another Kem $25 I be $18 whatever you want to give I don't want to like to be your mail but whatever you want to give make a Kem so you got that's also important but you're not GNA walk by the president the Oval Office for your problem to go talk to someone else who doesn't have the nuclear codes bar has every nuclear code kesu runs the whole world don't walk by his office don't don't ignore his phone call don't pass up that lobbying appointment to go run to do the other ones that's the pon that's the answer that's the answer that's what we're singing and dancing you know who's singing and dancing that not just us here 6,000 miles away go to the army bases those of you who will be with us Yesa week in Israel we're planning two Incredible Days just this morning I'm still working on it when we will sing and dance with soldiers to incredible musicians who are singing and playing we are people of Faith children of people of faith and there's no one for us to lean on other than our father in Heaven that's who we can lean on that's who we're leaning on that's who we're leaning on so that's the pon so those soldiers what do they do they turn in their guns they take off their uniform because they sang the song well if we have no one to lean on other than you guess we're not needed in our tank guess we're not needed in that F-16 guess we're not needed to fire off the artillery no a I have to do my gotta take my initiative and also we saw he says it right now if right now I'm sitting in the middle the room but I want to lean against the wall what do I have to do what do I have to do I have to walk close to the wall if I try to lean against the wall from here what's going to happen I will fall flat on my face which has happened in this room few years ago I torn my achilles I was on a knee scooter it was miserable of surgery and recovery and we had a p right in this room right in this spot and there was a mat cover on a too close to the candle lighting the mat cover caught fire and because I'm a hero I jumped up instinctively and I grabbed the mat cover to carry it over to the sink to leave it in the sink to burn out so Shila can you put it out only if it's going to spread just let it burn out there was one problem I forgot that I had surgery on my foot so I pick up the MZ cover I took one step and I fell flat on my face and held the burning mat cover it's on video somewhere I'm sure and uh for the right price we'll let you have it right donation to to Israel anyway so I have for personal experience if you're trying to lean on something but you're not near it you will fall flat on your face you got close to the wall in order lean on it says listen to this so beautiful we sing Hashem there is no one to lean on other than you Hashem says that's nice but if you want to lean on me you know what you have to do you have to come close to me because if you try to lean on me and you're far away you're going to fall flat on your face so if you want to lean on me first you have to come close to me you can't lean on me if you don't come close to me so it's a nice song it's a nice song It's a Beautiful song but do you mean it do you feel it do you live it if you really want to lean on Hashem first you got to come close because otherwise the people who try to lean on him but they're not close they're gonna fall flat on their face how do you get close so good you want to lean on him you have to be close you want to get close how do you get close cry out be part of the community who are crying out be part of those who stay to sayum be part of those who are rotating in the tum groups be part of those who attend the rally be part of those who are doing whatever effort whatever campaign whatever Mission whatever purpose who we are in a great time of danger from every direction you think it's their problem over there 6,000 miles away it's in our backyard it's right [Music] here during the Holocaust there were people who got reports and they didn't believe because it was not believable what was happening and because they didn't believe they didn't Daven and who knows what absence or failure or lack of davening what that results in and we too now we don't have that excuse we see and we know with our own eyes this is a war that's being broadcast in real time we see and we know too much things that we wish we could unsee and not know there is no excuse and that should be the Catalyst that should awaken and arouse that should call C us to scream to yell ow when you get hurt when you stub your toe in the middle of the night you scream ow how did that help that made it better no why'd you scream because it hurt you didn't stop and think oh that hurt should I scream nobody says that child gets a shot at the doctor they don't say should I scream I get a double candy you get a shot you stub your toe something hurts you yell ouch and if you're not screaming it's because it didn't HT hurt and if it doesn't hurt you have to check your Jewish DNA that is the only solution that is the way out that is the path forward to take our initiative but to combine it and couple it and complement it with K yakob let's just finish up when SAR said anyone who hears they're going to laugh at me pregnant at my age are you kidding be the laughing stock Rashi tells us from the medish she wasn't the only Barren one there were many waiting to have children and we dve in from the bottom of our hearts all those primary infertility secondary infertility there are a few things that are more painful we DAV and hasem should hear us we're crying out and calling out that Hashem should help them realize their dreams immediately and healthy and all good news but s wasn't the only akar wasn't the only Barren one there were others who were Barren with her and that day that s received her good news they were healed and got their good news and that laughter all there was all there was was laughter in the world wanted to make a miracle for and and despite their older age and the natural impossibility of becoming pregnant nevertheless she conceived what's going on over here were righteous it makes sense they were worthy he made a miracle but why with them was like a BOGO two for one deal she became pregnant so might as well make everyone else pregnant too who's waiting what was the deal why did it work out that way so reward a they're righteous everyone else not for yourself what's going on concludes because hashm wanted AB to be happy but what if AB had a little but his best friend his least best friend doesn't matter anyone in aam circle is also suffering and they're not going to conceive can aam really be happy there's a saying within parenting you're only as happy as your least happy child so that's true for people why because you care about your children more than you care about anybody else foru he was only as happy as his least happy friend he was only as happy as the least happy person he ever met that was a most people are like good luck to you I hope you're happy that has nothing to do with my happiness but my happiness I'm only as happy as my least happy child now we're living in a generation we're lucky if you have that you have parents who say you're an happppy child your problem I'm happy I'm out of here see you later it's a healthy thing to be only as happy as our least happy child that's what it means to be a parent took that a step further he was only as happy as his least happy friend I want to be happy oh that's a big ask because For A and S to be happy is not just to give A and S but a and SAR can't be happy unless their entire Community is happy so I guess I have to make everybody healthy give everybody babies let everybody get married because if I want and they think ab and S deserve to be happy they're only going to be as happy as their least happy friend their least happy neighbor so I have to make everybody happy did not sleep at night when there were Jewish soldiers in the field did not live at a time that we had a state of Israel and an IDF he was talking about he wrote a whole safer wrote a whole safer to Jews conscripted to the non-jewish army that happened regularly Jews we have an IDF we talk about our soldiers they served kosher food there's a Sho on their base they have the raban producing spiritual literature they were given a manora on khaka we're all tying titas as part of their uniform today Jewish soldiers are fighting in Jewish Army to live in such a time that our our destiny is in our hands lived in a time where the Jew who couldn't get out of it was conscripted into the the zor army or whatever foreign Nations Army and he wrote a whole saer about what you do how do you navigate what do you eat when can you Davin who can you kill what do you do what do you do and when the Jewish soldiers were in the field the didn't sleep in the six in the Y war of shainman slept on the floor he wouldn't sleep in a bed there were soldiers who are sleeping in the floor I'm gonna sleep in a bed ah we asked this already and you're sleeping on the floor that's helping win a War soldiers are getting killed and you're gonna and you're gonna sleep in a bedman said I can't I can't live with Comfort if if they're living in pain says nobody's asking you to give up your pillow nobody's asking you to give up your mattress top nobody's asking you to put sleep sleeping bag on the floor nobody's asking you to give up you don't even have to give up your chocolate you don't even have to give up your manicure you know you have to give up your heart and your time stay you want to bring the hostages home we gotta pour our heart a little bit more dig a little bit deeper a little bit deeper we can all dig a little bit deeper if a Jackman in Gaza could wake up early and dig deeper to D without distractions then we can dig deeper can we wake up a little bit early can we dive on without distractions can we do more can we scream out and cry and yell to reflect that we are in pain do we recognize that there's one Pon there's only one solution there is one answer it's do we realize that there's no one else to lean on other than him and in order to lean on him if we don't want to fall on our face we have to get close to him so how can we use this time to get as close as we can to him andem the only headlines we'll see will be sinar's head on a platter the president resigning anti-semites cowering in fear are living in safety security and freedom hostages home with their family soldiers back living their lives M we should have toos it should Tak be a good day wonderful day