Living With Emunah (Part 303) - A Jew is Never Stuck

good morning Boer good morning Boer it should be a good morning we should hear good news our hostages should be returned home the soldiers should be with their families we should hear good things in hasem want to thank we have a long list of sponsors very generous and very appreciative very special as always our series is sponsored by Dr zavi and Bella Morgan and memory ofab Dr Brian gabin in memory of B's mother dren shanzer and we remain very very grateful to the Morgans for their generosity and sponsorship this morning she is also sponsored by my beloved in-laws Dr Robert and JY Brookston in commemoration of the year at site of my's father my wife's grandfather is who was an incredible person of amuna together with his wife a Survivor who built a beautiful family through his one son who was a and a person of amuna and a person who was beloved and a person who was humble and very very special we're proud and honored that son carries his name and bringing back all the hostages and by Laura Marg of her mother Mara Jacobs a complete speedy recovery heart surgery this morning please God good news to the and in memory of ab ab Ben mosheim Abby burko a big loss for Miami Beach for Florida for am this week a very very special person Richie mof's father who have and Aliyah also a person of tremendous amuna tremendous amuna at the uh at the end of his life he had such amuna he was scheduled to go to Israel and October 7th came and most others cancelled their trips uh but he didn't he didn't he went anyway they weren't able to go for health reasons so after sukus they scheduled to go everyone was looking to get out on October 7th but they looked to get in and when people begged them not to go he said my parents didn't survive the Holocaust for us to not be able to go to Israel for their y site so he was a person of a lot of amuna and okay so we didn't mean to cancel the Amun last week I promise you I promise you I very much would have preferred to be with you than where I was but I will tell you that Thea munir was worth it because Thea got me through what I need to get through last Wednesday which bar was nothing absolutely nothing garnished in the B scheme of things but what proved to be a very uh frustrating day we went in for the flying last week we met with Incredible people was tremendous putting together the video was really amazing stayed for a beautiful Sim the fluk wedding was wonderful mazl maslov supposed to come back 10:30 on Wednesday morning got on the plane at 10:00 got off the plane got back on the plane finally got off the plane at 5:30 then made our way from LaGuardia to JFK got on the plane that was definitely leaving on time with great excitement till three hours later it hadn't by the end of the day had sat on three planes for a total of eight or nine hours and had achieved getting absolutely nowhere got nowhere I got from the I got from the Guardia to JFK so but I got no nowhere closer to Florida I have gotten into Israel in the same amount of time anyway why am I telling you this not so that you pity me don't have pity it was not a big deal whatsoever but I will tell you that you're sitting on a plane and they're making announcements and they're telling you things and you're hopeful and it's the Amun here you just keep in fact the the JetBlue flight attendant couldn't believe I was with two others who had who had come in for the flying and stayed for the wedding and we were just so calm cool and she couldn't believe it I felt we made a real kidish hasem with our not to miss yamakas that's why we wear it not to cover our bald head but so that we can make a kashem and um and just roll with the punches others were getting frustrated and angry and how dare you and how could you and why are you and the weather and what is and what will be and we're just like where we are where we're meant to be one of the messages that we heard on the on the flying and uh and they were powerful I'm going to share many of them as we go forward one of them was R Ginsburg Ginsburg is R very close with r masu whose daughter was in Memphis in the hospital when when the mosz were living in Memphis he from London um but open and Broad and loving and and United and incredible person we met with him his daughter Hindi passed away a couple of months ago and she kept the diary she was a teenager she was 17 or 18 years old when she passed away but she kept this incredible amuna diary thanking Hashem for everything as she went through this journey which they're going to publish because it's extraordinary he shared some of it with us but he talked to us about how a Jew is never stuck you are where you're meant to be told the story of some Reb who a person had said I'm so sorry I couldn't be there I'm stuck wherever I am and the Reb answered back a Jew is never stuck it was it was he told the story of there was a there was a a the reiton were were meeting somewhere not in Crown Heights I think they were in London and U and you know apparently the way he told the story many of these families kayara are very large and these husbands are sort of lost without their rebbit and these kids are are a little bit raising themselves and on their own and they're desperate for the wives to come home and it ended and they got to the airport and because of weather delays they they couldn't get back and they called 770 as one is apparently want to do and they spoke to the the Reb gab the Reb shamish and said you know we're stuck in London please give a br to our husbands and our children they should be okay another day we're not back we can't get back and the Reb th off of Groner who it was said back to them a Jew is never stuck if you're still in London it's because that's where you're meant to be get to work and they decided there were more things that they could do and the community and connection and and that was the message a Jew is never stuck you are where you're meant to be you are your meant to be that's what he talked about Ginsburg being in Memphis and the other communities and hospitals and places in life he's quoted another incredible idea of the balat that he shared with us I'm telling you auna stories and weaving in Torah even before we get back to our learning that connect to it he said the balat says theb says that the worst sin there is is atus sadness sadness despondency despair depression not the clinical type that's not a person's fault of course and that needs significant real treatment but meaning a general sadness is is a sin it's a grave sin it's an egregious sin and why says the balat is choosing to be S because it's a choice why is that a sin why is it the worst sin so balat says when you do other sins you know you've done something wrong you know I hate the word sin but when you make a mistake when you come up short when you miss an opportunity you know you've done something wrong you know you've done something wrong you looked at the wrong thing you said the wrong thing you ate the wrong thing you dressed the wrong way you reacted the wrong way you have regret you have remorse you have a healthy shame you know you did the wrong thing and you can work on it but when a person gets sad they say I shouldn't be sad I'm sitting in a hospital or the child I'm waiting for a a biopsy report I'm disappointed about this job or the sh that didn't come through yet another month and I'm not pregnant when somebody hurt me or insulted me when a person's sad they always have a reason and they feel Justified so if you don't ever feel shame for the mistake of the shortcoming you'll never improve on it so the bat said because that sadness you'll always associate you'll always excuse you'll always explain you'll always feel Justified you'll never improve you'll never fix and that's why it's the worst it's the worst but it's a sin tell us that Hashem can only dwell out of Happiness nobody wants to be around misery and Hashem also doesn't want to be around misery so if you're negative and you're complaining and you're fbis and you're miserable and you're sad and you're despondent and you're a victim and you're a martyr and it's always well was me none of your friends want to be around you none of your family want to be around you and you know who else Hashem has no interest in being around you that doesn't mean that you shouldn't have friends and family who going through a difficult time are there for you we're not talking about again the extreme or the crisis moments of course a person going through a difficult time deserves to be able to unburden themselves and to share and to grieve and to lean into that sadness not talking about during shivba nobody wants to be around you you're so sad suck it up we're not talking about that talking about generally person's sad because their Wi-Fi is slow s person is sad because they're uh I don't know they self clean OV and doesn't work exactly the way it's supposed to right we're talking about that's kind of a person is sad because they NE had to sit on three planes for nine hours and now they feel like the greatest victim and Martyr the world owes them uh subject of a hate crime uh you know of all time nobody wants to be around and including only can dwell from to walk around said he went honor of Ginsburg this a person who just lost his daughter you think he's not broken and said think it isn't of his moments and cries of course he does but he described to us how he chooses to be happy because he stops himself at every moment and he says he described actually one very powerful moment his daughter was undergoing a treatment and it was like they were supposed to get home for shabas and last minute she had to stay in the H he was just like at the end at the end he felt so broken and ready to give up and he stopped and he said to himself if I'm sad if I despair if I'm broken in this moment will that make her better will that make this moment better will that make this more bearable it'll make it worse and if I'm happy will that hurt will that harm or will it help will it make us be able to get through this so why wouldn't I choose to be happy if you stop and ask ourselves in any given situation the worst and that is the worst situation to the most inconsequential neck knowledgeable who cares that you're sitting on a plane don't have a screaming baby with you you're not missing a Simka you're not lacking important medications The World Won't Come to an end because you're Jewish you stocked up on snacks at the airport so you're okay you're going to survive should tell you great someone else who was stuck in an airport that day it was a terrible terrible weather delay said that there was a yid who walked around terminal and he said I'm putting in an Uber Eats order and he went up to anyone who looked like a like a Jew keeps kosher and by the end he put in an order for 50 people was like a caterer of Uber Eats but he could have just said I'm going to Uber Eats for myself it's not a moment instead he said anyone who looks Jewish and hungry those are synonyms I'm gonna I'm gonna put in an Uber Eats order and if they could use food I'm gonna order and for 50 wow it's amazing it's an amazing thing it's an amazing thing so it won't make any situation ever bad ever better sadness but Sim will smile and be happy and be along on this adventure and figure out where we finally got off the plane it was after midnight and the hotel at the airport had no rooms I checked no hotel at airport and and my sister-in-law was sleeping her daughter was awake so I found the place to stay but you know you just say Hashem this is an adventure I can't wait to see what happens next and then they couldn't schedule to get home on Friday and then I thought I'm gonna miss the Rebo weekend wow I'm gonna miss ybo eating at my house okay that's your plan but then a travel agent got me on then je what whatever barem I almost kissed the ground when we landed in Florida I didn't I didn't because there's still only one place in the world you kiss the ground when you land only one only one it's less you know you don't climb downstairs anymore it's not as like Dr whatever anyway you could get Corona if you kiss the whatever but it's you know all kinds of other things it was unbelievable it was unbelievable and there's so much more to share I'll tell you one other im a story from this so we went on the Fly and we left early Monday morning and I work hard to organ Oran the fly and it's two days 23 guys we meet boom boom boom boom from rash Rabbi Community leaders asan we go we meet we're inspired it's all organized it's all curated to the minute and this year we get two people fly earlier they could pick up the Vans they could pick up us we could drive we're good to go all everything's amazing we take off on time on the way there we take off on time we land early we get off the plane I sent a message if you pack luggage that you need to check you're on your own you're not coming with us no luggage we all get off we're ready to go rental car place is a problem there's a delay with the Vans we're sitting there at baggage claan JFK we're all ready to go everyone because they had strict instructions had gone to the bathroom we're ready to go like ready to go and we're at the car rental there I'm sitting Hashem why what are we come on we we're going to be inspired we're going to our first meeting yusi zakutinsky thank you hmm we're going to be inspired come on Hashem what's going on all of a sudden a guy with a baseball cap walks up and he says Shalom so Morty Goldenberg says Shalom and the guy says my name is Enrique and I'm at West Point I'm a student I'm joining the American Army at West Point I see you're all a group of Jewish guys yeah he said I never had a bar mitzvah so Morty says he never had a bar mitzvah and he channels his in kabad takes out his says to the guy you're going to have one right now and he puts thill on Enrique at baggage claim in JFK and we sing and we dance and we make a circle around them and everybody's watching and we realize why the Vans were delayed because Enrique needed a bar mitzvah and he's going on Birthright to Israel for the first time and back to West Point he's gonna serve and Morty got his number and maybe they're gonna learn and Enrique had a bar mitzvah because the car rental place because the car on place was was delayed was amazing and there are 100 more stories like that on this trip on every trip on every day and every moment of Our Lives if we look and we watch and we live with our eyes open Hashem is incredible and he's carefully planning everything and sometimes you find out right away sometimes you have your Enrique moments where you find that right away sometimes and other times you know I'm still don't have the answer why we were delayed I'm sure there's a good reason but there's always a reason there's always a reason there's always a reason so organizes things I'll read you a couple emails quickly and then we'll get back into our back into our learning dear thank you for the blah blah blah blah I've contemplated right to you a few occasions I felt this recent encounter was too important not to share my wife and I have been on in a certain Community for the past three years we were fortunate enough to lead a mission of teens to Israel immediately after pum our trip was extremely meaningful and inspiring from meeting with the vacu and going down south to speaking with Hadas Len Stern it was of course filled with many amuna moments as you well know from your trips one of our first stops was the new rehab facility in Sheba Hospital a friend of mine had set us up to meet with two injured soldiers Moshe and Yakov we heard Mosa's incredible and miraculous story which had our group on the verge of tears he thanked us for our bravery and we waited for Yakov to meet us our schedule was jam-packed so after 10 minutes with no sign of him coming we were about to leave yov showed up and shared his story with us yov a husband and a father had been called to miluim on October 7th to fill in as a commander he joined a unit that was already badly depleted from the first few hours of the attack and was asked to Rally troops whom he had never met to fight alongside him he succeeded in fought together with the group for a few months until he was severely injured over Kaneka he shared with us in his humble way that he was critically shot and although he was in extreme pain and bleeding out he made sure not to scream to keep the morale of his soldiers high can you imagine he was shot and bleeding out and had the mindset and the wherewithal to think let me not scream because that will harm the rest of the morale of the soldiers who are still fighting he was airlifted out while paramedics and doctors work miraculously to keep him alive he's currently a long road of Rehabilitation and we Davin that he's able to regain his former strength after returning home from the trip I decided to share mosha and yakov's stories the amuna and bravery with our teen minion after sharing the story one of the boys who just happened to be there that week asked if I knew yakov's last name I did not offand but the boy filled it in for me it was his cousin suddenly it clicked for both of us over Kaneka we had received a message from the community asking us to Davin for the cousin of this boy who had been severely injured in Gaza we all did but we never heard any followup or thought we never would hear more yet there we were speaking to the person we daved for in rehab hearing his story with without even knowing that we have been dominating for him during those critical hours we never know the power of our but in that moment hashm was giving our community a tap on the shoulder letting us know that he was and always is listening I love to tap on the shoulder sometimes Hashem Taps us on the shoulder sometimes Hashem Winks those are those moment the Hashem winking moments Enrique is a Hashem winking moment turns out the person that you met is the person you had been ding it's hasem a winking moment he Winks sometimes he winks most when he knows you're wondering if he's there so he reaches out Shalom Enrique Shalom and Hashem says I'm here I'm here don't doubt don't disappear don't give up don't despair here I am I'm right here I'm right here I'm right here I so many emails uh okay one more shalomov my name is and so and I live in such and such and I have to give the ROV here goes the story I managed tenants in a certain city five to six months ago a tenant tells me he's not paying rent because I owe him money for work he performed in our building I asked my only employee and he said he worked got paid and now he's just extorting us as a basic Blue State it got dragged until yesterday finally the big court case I prepared I spoke to my lawyers for hours evidence up the wazo that he was extorting me and also playing games about rent on my way I get a message from a Gabi he asked me how I'm doing I explained in my broken Hebrew that I'm on my way to a six-month court case and I'm a bit nervous I kept saying it's so sad I have to fight my truth against lies and we give legit criminals a tongue to speak in court I said I'm white I'm Jewish I'm a landlord I've lost this case even before it starts the Gabby responds bash shame the r that the greater said always remember we've learned this before we learned the section in together there's a special schoa that when a yid feels their backs against the wall you say a m there is no one and nothing else but you and a famous story about the brisar was on a train the Nazis they walked right by him he was saying to himself at the time a m keep thinking it look at their faces and see the words it's all AEM I smiled and I said I can try before court was mediation the tenant refused to work it out only wanted more free rent and more cash I even offered cash but out in 5 days he refused I just knew I needed to rid myself of this person I sat in between mediation and the judge calling us in annoyed and nervous it was a black judge a liberal State Jewish landlord with titas dangling but I thought when better than now is to take out a safeer an amuna I go to Spotify and I search the word amuna and here comes the confession I've heard so much about the RV that's me my father-in-law in case you didn't know my father-in-law my brother-in-law listen to the r oh but I haven't ever gotten into it I clicked out of the 300 plus shum Shear number 197 from 2021 I listen and in the middle the r says one thing to always remember Ain M I was about to cry because I knew I had already won not the case per se but I had won my tkid in the past six months to realize that Hashem is in charge Hashem runs the world and what's this pit in my stomach doing there if I have Hashem behind me why am I resisting Hashem however one wants to see this coincidence more guys modern Orthodox guys one thing to see it's something Ain NOA the judge posined in my favor he gave the tenant 10 days to move out and I owe him nothing and we thank the judge my lawyer turns to me stops me and says Hashem must really love you the judge has never not given three months free rent you got 10 days Yash for being a into a new Stark heite and push the rub says you're welcome okay so again beautiful emails I I love the email though before the punchline I knew I won not the case per se however the case would turn out this case turned out well R Ginsburg it did not turn out well his daughter Hindi and we'll share when we have these letters that this diary these things that she wrote It's unbelievable but and even though his case had turned out well but he says I've won because for six months hasem invited me to have a closer relationship with him to talk to him to lean on him to see him to rely on him to depend on him to see him as the solution to see him as the solution which is what he invites us to do regularly and always we're expanding our line still get these cups now by the way you could stop and buy from Lee we'll send you a sleeve you can buy caffeinate with cavana someone else sent me maybe I'll put the picture in the amuna WhatsApp group if you're not part of the WhatsApp group we're going to start posting the night before to let people know whether we're meeting or not um but um somebody made a whole coffee station in their home based on caffeinate with cavana and every time you go for the coffee to remember the braa make it with kavana so the other night at the iso concert if I sound obsessed it's only because I am so it was an amazing weekend it was just incredible I'm still on a on a high someone asked me this morning have you recovered I said no and I don't want to it was it was just amazing so in the middle of the concert every concert he has a bottle of water and he makes a big br it's not so impressive in the sh when the thousands of people say amain but if you go to a Rebo concert in Israel where that crowd as people Noke tattoos piercing the whole tapestry of and they all scream out and that moment the Kem of making that so publicly it's amazing it's amazing so so uh Someone caught an incredible Donnie and are got a fantastic picture with the lighting behind them while he's drinking from the water bottle and the blue is coming through the bottle it's an amazing picture so I wrote on it I I took the picture and I put underneath it right like with which he did so someone else gave me the idea in between I wrote the word Shak the way you spell Shak everything comes about with his word with hashem's word but the other sh with a K Co with a K means a voice his voice comes from his voice comes from Hashem right fine I sent him I sent him the picture so I post that picture D was picture with the Shak and the Shak which Alana aimer who designed these Alana uh landow thank you Alana landow who designed these cups the CAF with cavana ADD quench with cavana re now we have a new line quench with kavana so I put it on I put this picture up on my status on whatsa the picture sha and the quench with so Shalom text me love that picture and then he says he says I like to say to people that ask me where my voice comes from shalom he who made schul also made the Cole his voice so we got to make another another cut Shalom he made but again read it with a K and he made his voice and he made his voice so anyway we'll put all this in the amuna WhatsApp so you can see the pictures and the so that's our new line you got this you're gonna love our new sport edition quench with kavana our concert Edition quench with kavana unbelievable okay we're not retiring off of it I could promise you that okay so we started last time the who uh Persian Gulf War gives the this and we started with it's been a few weeks so you don't remember that's the nice why he's saying I don't remember we learned the gar that in the future Hashem is going to hold the Torah and he's going to say anyone who occupied himself with should come and get a reward because the whole purpose of the world the creation of the world the world and everything in it is for the Torah and the Romans will come and they'll say everything we did we did for the Jewish people will Cal out and say you clowns your frauds and then the Persians are going to come and say everything we built everything we did we did for the Torah for the Jews you frauds your clowns absolutely not then hasem says the that you started I made them as it says the asked all these questions and we and the asked all these questions number one what's theat that these non-jewish nations say we did it for the Jews and Hashem calls them out and what does it mean Hashem doesn't say why do they say we started Wars and we did it for the Jewish people and why doesn't Hashem say you didn't start the wars he says I started the wars and because I'm an the biggest BR Jewish people can wish and want for one another is the BR of Shalom the BR of peace and why would hasem be described as an as everything hasm does is for good so why would he want to be so all of that leads to what we're up to these questions we elaborated much more on the questions and so on and so on we say we say about chisam actually let's finish this because this what we're up to I think do the fourth question what did it mean when hem answered them the Romans and the Persians I make what do you mean you started Wars for the Jew first of all who started a war for the Jewish people you started Wars against the Jewish people and what do you mean and ASM says no I start wars because I'm hasem does good only good for us everything hasem does is for the good sometimes we see it and understand it other times we struggle for it but is everything hem does is for our best everything Hashem does is for our good so if all that's the case why would hasm describe himself as how which name does hem use forem not Elohim Elohim is the name of judgment Justice hasem is the name of mercy so if it's should be the judge the judge of strict Justice is a man of war why is it hasem compassion is the man of war in the name of compassion he's starting and igniting Wars against the Jews when it comes to the splitting of the sea which we'll be marking and celebrating a few weeks from now rabis tell us to we're g to speak about this the last days of P please God by then they'll have sinar's head on a plate please God by then sinir will be hanging like hon with his 10 Sons so are we supposed to be overjoyed or are we supposed to say good we're happy he's out of the way but you know we only say half how the rest of PES and at the Seder we take the wine out of the cup why why because because even though the sea closed in on the Egyptians and drowned them but hm says they're still my creation so they're drowning and you're singing be happy you're free move on but don't Rejoice so is that a message for us we heard yesterday another Commander ofas was taken out by a targeted strike and the rest of them should be taken out as well too so do we say good work move on or do we make a do we celebrate do we sponsor a Kish for the end when Sinar will go down well sin war will go down you know when I went on these many trips to Israel so far please God we'll keep going so people bring all kinds of things and they make barbecues I buy cigars and give them out soldiers love cigars and their cigarettes kill you but cigars not as if you're celebrating something so each time I'd hand it several of the soldiers would say I'm holding on to it till we get sin War I'll smoke it when we have Victory it'll be a victory cigar so doesn't want the wicked to fall wishes instead they would return and yet where is that description ofm come from Da comes from aash the song that we sing to celebrate the drowning of the Egyptians where we're not supposed to celebrate is where it says being guarded secure from the enemy why does it sayem why does it sayem says I started the wars I protect you I don't start wars but I finish him not that Hashem starts Wars say hem says others start wars I finish them I protect you from them I take care of my children my people could silence the enemy so what's going on over here this that hem answers the Romans he answers the Persians why would they be so audacious to suggest everything they do they do for the Jews Hashem calls them out Hashem says only those who live this Torah come get reward because the whole world is here to promote to repair to redeem to mold and shape according to the of Torah and why is hm correcting and saying and besides you don't start wars I start wars so much that hasm has described as so said in order to answer we have to begin introduce with something that the said maybe we did get up to this the who's the gave this speech around his how could they say and suggest how could they advance and put forth something so absurd so ridiculous understand it's the equivalent of Kamas spokesperson going on The View because that's probably where they would invite him and saying just want to say October 7th we did for the Jews we doing for them we did it for them by the way I wouldn't put that past to say it and I wouldn't put it past the wonderful hostesses of the view to say we already knew that we agree with you but it's absurd anyone with a normal head on their shoulders would say something so Preposterous something so Brazen something so absurd and all the more so in the world to tr where is this this is not the view the view is in I'll give you a little preview of the shabas it's only a little preview because I only know a little bit about what I'm going to say but but so far I have this I don't know about you I feel more than ever in my lifetime we are living in an we're just living in a world of Lies how could it be that Senator Elizabeth Warren says she has evidence Israel's doing a genocide genocide the people who are the greatest victims of genocide in history who invented the word genocide who are going above and beyond more than any army in the history of the world to protect civilians far more than America has ever done in any of its Wars and a sitting Senator can so brazenly and freely use the word J it's an and many other examples we're living in an absolute Maser Maser is Gus and you know what Gula Redemption is the world of Ms and our mission our mandate and our answer and if we want to bring in Gula is to rededicate ourselves to Ms and this says since in the Seder we'll talk about the shab at the SED we'll talk about how do we get down to Egypt to begin with we read the story of who's the arami the araman Lan and who's telling us he tried to trick me Yakov because yov had to navigate an Lan's home Lan's environment was this capital of lies and Jakob is in isem so the whole seder I want to suggest is giving us the tools how do you go from gas to G how do you navigate a world of Lies by clinging to Ms to truth Torah Hashem is Ms Torah is Ms so here you have theem it's not on The View that's an so absolute sorry I'm ranking on them I don't think I sit and watch them by the way but you see clips from them it's an so but where are the Nations where are the Romans and the Persians saying we did it all for the Jews they're not saying it on the on the set of the view they're saying it to the B they're saying it to how could you say something that's such a lie in front of God Almighty so the's question was how could the be so Brazen to lie so openly and how could they lie where they're lying to who they're lying namely hasem and he answers says the following it somebody lost a dollar and a poor person finds that dollar and goes and and uh provides for himself with it so the person who lost it gets a you didn't lose the Dollar on purpose that is what the what say rather rash quotes it you lost a dollar and a poor person found it the poor person bought a lottery ticket with it and won and provided for himself you get reward as if you've sustained a poor person ah you didn't do an intention you wish you still had the dollar you tried to hold on to it you lost it we have a tradition that a son a daughter a child can redeem or earn Merit for a parent a child who's righteous can help Elevate the soul of the parent who was wicked where do we learn that from on even though the parent educated the child negatively and certainly didn't intend positively like didn't get the tradition from his father there a god aam at a very young age looked up and said no doesn't make sense these Stones these Idols I don't buy it doesn't make sense there's a creator that the first cause we come from somewhere I CED on his own that was the audacious argument of these nations they said we're like the person who lost a dollar someone else found it and did something meritorious with it and I get reward if I lost it so you're right we built and bath houses and we started Wars of course we didn't do it for them we did it for ourselves but they benefited in the ends the Jewish people built isas and and girl schools and mikas and a and casis and communities in the end they crossed those bridges to do and in the end they did great things so even though that wasn't Our intention you see now now it makes sense that even in the MS they we're making this argument because it's from the that we have this tradition that even if the person did the right thing for the wrong reason or had the right result despite the wrong reason they get reward so they said where's our reward we get a part of this Torah because look at all the good that came out of it even these wars Jewish people daved hard because of these wars Jewish people evolved because of these wars could you imagine theah Hitler's upstairs saying there's only a state of Israel because I started a holocaust so could you imagine the UN today voting to to give a state of Israel anyone who doesn't think the modern state of Israel is a miracle just has to open their eyes would the UN vote for a state of Israel today it's a miracle and it came in the shadows is it directly correlated there was a big debate discussion salich and and Ruda certainly the do you correlate the Holocaust with the modern state of Israel we've given sham on that in the past they all wrote on this question is there a correlation and a connection maybe it's a negative correlation that's the Reb's conclusion maybe it's a positive correlation and maybe there's no correlation those are the three possibilities so could you imagine but this is the equivalent of the nais saying yeah we were trying to destroy the Jews but it turned out well instead they got the sympathy of world and they got the state of Israel out of it so now we understand the argument at least because they're saying even you Jews you AEM you have this tradition that when a good result comes out of a bad motivation the person still gets a reward so where's our reward we built the bath houses we built the theaters we built the Coliseum we built the bridges we built the economy and the stock market we didn't do it for the Jews but the Jews benefited so where's our reward answers fools I the Lord Almighty I can see into Hearts I know what's going on inside you I know that everything you did you did for yourselves and even the Jews benefited that whole tradition that if you got a positive result even though there wasn't the right reason there is a reward that is a rule for Jews but not for you because a Jew their heart is always in the right place so that's true when they later found out that they dropped the $100 bill but a poor person found it and was able to buy dinner with it you know what the Jew says Shin good I'm happy I don't mind I'm not bitter I'm not resentful I'm not upset I'm not disappointed I'm happy good but when you did all those other things you didn't when you found out in the end the Jews benefited you weren't happy you were miserable because the whole thing you wanted was to destroy the Jews like the gamar says which used to be a pearl in the mouth of the B who's the B the previous G's father we have a tradition not all non-jews of course think this way we have righteous Jews the gamar says we spoke about this on the flying with Risman the gar says that a non-jew who learns Torah is like a CO serving in the B mikdash it's a gamar a non who learns Torah and strives for righteousness has the status of the high priest the Co G in the Mish in the B mikash there are righteous Jew righteous non-jews and righteous Gentiles and Yem has a whole Lane of them and filled with them 100% but this is not a critique of the non-jewish world in a bias way my understanding of it the way I choose to understand it is that a world without Torah leaves people who are centered on themselves Torah empowers and enables and drives us to have a different perspective and a different picture and a different sense of purpose and a different Mission and without it that's what we're seeing now we're not living in a world of that a person is living in the world that they're designing based on their own their own Instinct their own intuition based on their own right new definitions New Attitudes new approaches new philosophies new ideals if a Jew says I'm giving you know why I don't care about I don't care if everyone has food to eat for p I'm not giving because I don't care if the sh expands so it can continue to be the center of standing up for Israel and Torah learning and and activity you know why I'm doing it I like my name and lights you know why I'm doing it because I want my children to have the Merit of it you know why I'm doing it because I me to deal with God if I give staka you'll heal this illness that's why I'm doing it so you know such a person is aad they're doing the right thing for the wrong reason and you know what we call them as long as the check clears as long as the wire passes as long as the cash is deposited because that person even if the condition that they made that the daughter finds a that the son has a baby that someone's healed from illness even if that condition is not met they still don't regret giving the money because their heart's always in the right place heart's always in the right place because KES who was the King of Persia who gave the Jews permission to build the and he did so on a certain condition there if they do the right thing for the wrong reason they don't get called this title why because if their condition is not met they're filled with regret and remorse they want their money back for so we'll pick up with this next time because it deserves to be explained more I'll just I'll tell you this because we'll explain it more next time where we're going with this where the p is going with this but I leave you with this question which has been very much on my mind I was raised my parents raised me with an enormous aversion to using the word go and go to think in such a negative way even though through the last 2,000 years Jews have been persecuted and oppressed and had to live with you know they say it's not paranoia if it's true so the last 2,000 years proved that it's not paranoia if it's true how we were treated by our host Nations who expelled us and exterminated us and tried to destroy us and then for 75 years we said no no no don't look at them that way they're not and since October 7th and since this enormous rise of anti-Semitism I wonder weather the attitude that says be a little bit suspicious that it's not paranoia if it's true that there is an underbelly and there is a thinking and there is a ground swell and there is a movement and there is a world when we see the streets of America lined with protests and we see members elected officials people in positions of power we feel see Academia and institutions of Higher Learning and this enormous spread of anti-Semitism maybe we should be reverting back to educating our children with a little level of Suspicion maybe we're ignorant fools If instead we're saying no no no that was true it's not true anymore we're wrong so this aversion and Allergy that I was raised with to that attitude maybe maybe that attitude was right all along and maybe now on the other hand we shouldn't then be suspicious of our next door neighbor and our mailman and our and our coworker and our friend at the gym because go the non who learns Torah is like how do we strike that balance that there are righteous and non- righteous I'd leave that to you as a question and something to think about I think it's a big question we'll come back to explain this more I got to go arrange the S but it's wonderful to be back together again please stay to say for tum Mrs caner class tomorrow 9:00 am don't miss Mrs caners on tomorrow 9: a.m.