Living With Emunah (Part 306) - Truth and Lies

okay good morning and goodes sorry we're a couple of minutes late I don't think we ever have been before but it is roses so we were delayed with the gas ramban the new series on the ramban's letter to his son great to be back together again living with amuna want to thank our generous series sponsors Dr zavi and Bella Morgan we remain incredibly grateful to them for their generosity sponsoring the series living with amuna in memory of Dr Brian gab in memory of Bella's mother Dr Ellen shanzer this morning she is also sponsored by EST Mur Ruby gram grandfather of Anda and Bitz survived the Shah was thank you so much for your generosity and by Brew pool a member of our wonderful learning her father Ben Abraham she lost recently very special nshama should have an alyah as well an example of living with thema and BR should have a lot of a lot of strength and a lot of comfort and as well in loving memory of Ain of her third year type by her husband Colin by her children Ruth Haley and Jonathan of course also was a member of our community and of our sh and we miss her modest and quiet but incredible example of amuna and of growth in and herah as well so thank you to all of our generous generous sponsors okay I mentioned over PES everyone was too busy to have auna so they didn't write any letters just joking they had a lot of p is the the we don't even just talk about we don't only have props about we actually ingest we eat the mat is called the the bread of amuna I say we ingest amuna we struggle to digest that amuna some still have yet to digest that amuna but we ingest that amuna on on P so it is theun so everyone had a lot of Amun they worked on am on P but they didn't have time to write about and share their Amun but now P's over so sh we got an influx of amuna emails and I'm happy to share some of them with you because you make the shear it's not me we learned the Torah of someone else and I read the emails of someone else and I just get the privilege of sitting up here and it's an incredible incredible thing I'll share with you it's a lot of excitement it's it's also kind of cool it's not a flex it's because it's our Collective shear and I'm reading your letters but my daughters flew back to Israel yesterday two days ago and on their flight on La you can now listen to living with amuna as one of the options you're listen with amuna is there so wow I don't know it's your Shear it's your Shear it's your letters but there are people who are 35,000 feet in the sky and they're able to tap into your letters so when you send the letter no you're not just hitting our audience down here on the ground but you're hitting the people who are in the sky any of whom probably their head is back their eyes are closed and they're drooling but at least in theory they're listening to living with auna you know while they uh while the row in front of them is banging their knees anyway so here are some amuna emails and exciting stories for this morning then we'll dive back into what we've been learning from MOS Shapiro I hope you got a chance I posted on our WhatsApp group a little biography about him about who he was I think it's really important when we learn someone's Torah to not only see their words but to know where they come from they come from a real person who had a real life and who had real experiences and that's why I shared it with you if you're not on the WhatsApp group you should join we put a lot of bonus material and and followup and and other ideas there as well as well as we put the video I told you about the terror event on a PES or the gun Jam the miracle of the gun jamming we don't know how many times the gun jammed we know how many times it went off and we don't understand it and we object and we protest and we say hashm we love you we accept you but we don't we don't accept we know how many times it went off but we don't know how many times are jammed and that's why only those who tried and it didn't work can praise Hashem better than we put that video there as well okay here's a email dear Gober as you said last week no one had time to email you about their amuna stories amidst the preparations of PES now it's over I want to share my amuna story I knew it was a rabbi Goldberg amuna story as it was happening is there a better compliment in the world afterwards my son-in-law shared that as the story was unfolding who he too kept thinking it would make a great amuna email and all the trappings of the trademark amuna emails in Airport flight delays thinking we should be on a different flight and realizing oh yes Hashem is in charge all our children are in Israel my eldest daughter her husband and son and my second daughter live there and my son is there for the year no one wanted to come home for PES so we happily book tickets to join them for the they were raised well to begin with we were cutting it close leaving Sunday afternoon arriving early Monday early morning of a of pesak I had a stomach ache to begin with about the flight but kept on reminding myself have a Muna it will all work out Hashem will put us where we need to be as did everyone Mo shabas April 13th we were glued to the news listening to the miraculous events took place the night hasm protected Israel from 300 ballistic missiles Jones and Rockets from Iran we were so relieved and filled with gratitude that everyone was all right but nervous about what would ensue in the following days I spent the next two days debating with my husband whether or not to try and change our flights he was happy to leave them but I was concerned and found my CAU between hisas and amuna and those are those moments I find actually and the author is completely correct it's those moments where you're not sure what to do how many times have you been in an airport your flight is delayed and you say you know I checked there's another flight out of LaGuardia another flight here in the same airport it's the one going to Palm Beach and you say I don't know is my initiative is my effort is Hashem want me to do put that other flight on my radar go take it go switch to it go change it or is Hashem saying hey just get out of the way I got a plan don't change anything sit tight this is where you're meant to be and it's those place that's that conflict I don't know I don't know am I supposed to take the sh do I take this job do I reject this job do I make this deal we can believe in both I know I need to take initiative I know I need to make effort I know that's what makes the world run that's what the last days of pesak were all about the seventh and eth day Camu the splitting of the sea are when Hashem say hey close the tum close the sitter stop talking to me stop being a passive spectator waiting for me and start walking start walking stop talking close the sitter close the tum and get to the doctor close the sitter close to the hill and get to work if you want a paress if you want a livelihood so we know we need initiative that is part of our philosophy I like to say I like to put it we pray with our lips and we also pray with our hands and feet we pray with our lips from the sitter and the but we show hasem and we pray we demonstrate our faith through the initiative with our hands and feet we have to also take actions we have to take initiative so it's that place that intersection that tension that conflict between amuna andas between initiative and Faith that's where it gets complicated that's where there is no heavenly voice whispering to us here's what you're meant to do here's what you're meant to do take this action or sit this one out and sit still that's where we have to figure it out on our own to the best of our ability and that's what the author of this email is writing she was trying to do do I move the flight earlier do I sit tight where I am in that conflict what do we what do we do we've spoken about this a lot in and shared some Torah about how to approach it we decided to try and fly out earlier and my husband booked us on on emad's air to Athens and then L to Israel we were to leave Wednesday night but Wednesday afternoon the flight to Athens was pushed till Thursday morning which was all right because we could still make the connecting flight to Israel we woke up early Thursday morning to head to the airport however we had an email waiting for us the flight was delayed again we would no longer make the connecting flight we canceled the tickets at 6:00 am only to get an email at 6:30 but the flight was back on which is exactly what makes you doubt every time you take initiative what are you doing just get out of the way he's got a plan at that point my husband was heading to work and with the canceled tickets we clearly were not getting on that plane it was not meant to be we learned later on in the day that there was a once in a century flooding in Dubai and all flights were grounded we had not canceled our Sunday afternoon tickets so we had one more chance to make it in time for PES but if found most interesting about the experience was how leading up to our attempted earlier flight I was a ball of anxiety not being able to think about anything else other than the flights but then right after as we understood that we were not making it to Israel before chabas as we had hoped a cal came over me and all the anxiety and worry I had carried since Saturday night was completely gone replaced with a strong sense of amuna and understanding that hem is so clearly in charge and I did not need to worry at all he would put us where we were needed to be this is an Amun story with a happy ending our flight on Sunday got us to Israel early Monday morning we enjoyed a beautiful pesak with our children I am not convinced we were right in trying to get out earlier than originally planned instead of having auna that we were on the right flight for us it certainly was a reminder that hm is in charge and when we surrender to him and have an amuna that it will all work out it is supposed to be we can let go of the anxiety that comes and thinking we have control thank you for all you do to strengthen cler with admiration so and so and such and such so again another example this one had a good ending they don't all do but all we get here every every Wednesday morning we get together for me to repeat the same exact thing it is shocking that you actually show up to hear we just repeat the same thing every week which is which is that life is so much better when we live with amuna just it'll be the way it's meant to be this is the this is the way it works out someone got sick we made it it was delayed it didn't it's just it'll work it's the way it's meant to be surrender let go and let God lean in submit and accept and there's just a calm that washes over you a calm that washes over you I remember when I had menitis years ago and uh was hospitalized for over a week and I got out and I had this enormous headache that wouldn't go away which was menitis the menes of the brain they're on fire terribly painful some of you lived here then maybe you remember it was when I first became the rabbi anyway it's a whole other story so I couldn't find relief and I for a while I was taking oxycotton I'm not I'm not embarrassed I'm not proud it was the only thing and a very high dose of it and I wanted to and did wean myself off of it I tried everything ultimately acupuncture yoga I don't know whether they made me feel better or it was just time to feel better or whether it was a placebo I have nothing against them they're wonderful I did them for a while and they worked but when I was on ox cotton for that for that time I remember every pill I took and I understand you can understand why it's addictive why it needs to be so highly regulated why it's abused because every time I took the pill I'd be unbearable P I remember back to when I was in the hospital I was attached to a pain pump that you could just click it it had deloted and I remember I would just click click click click and set off this alarm till the nurse came because it just because you have this unbearable pain and you take that that what's it called the narcotic and all of a sudden it's like warm calm relief just washed over you that's the way I experienced it people have different experiences when I would take it it would go from this pain and agitation and aggravation and angst unbearable Relentless to all of a sudden this just like o it's calm like we just wash over you and you can and then it would wear off you understand the cycle and the addiction and the danger of it because it would wear off and then you just want that again and then you need more to get it again because your body is acclimating to it and it's a very very dangerous and only and obviously needs to be in the appropriate setting and so on why am I why am I giving that example because you can experience and receive a similar sensation through am and I'm not exaggerating when you feel my heartbeat my pulse my sweat gland my nervousness my anxiousness and what will be you take those deep breaths n nishima you restore your soul with deep breathing which which is a Jewish concept meditation and deep breathing and restoring the soul the breath Soul the same word and you you could feel say Hashem you're in charge you're in control I'm submitting to you there's a plan this is for a reason this is not random this is not chance I'm not a victim there is a reason there will be another side there will be a tomorrow I can get through this I will put one foot in front of the other one day I will learn in this world or the next why it happened you will give the strength I can lean on you and you can get me through this and that's like the pain pump that's like the deloted pump I think the nurse eventually came in and took it out of my hand said you can't have this anymore so but but that is the we have an amuna pump and don't overuse it and don't abuse it and don't become desensitized to it it is good to become addicted to but we have an amuna pump you know when you're going through the day and when we're going through life and again don't don't abuse it not everything needs the amuna narcotic sometimes it could use amuna Tylenol doesn't need the amuna narcotic sometimes it could use the [Music] amuna I don't know herbal medicine you don't you don't always need the highest level pain pump amuna but we've got it we've got access to it got access you don't need a prescription for it you know what the prescription is you're you're you were born you have a connection to God you a piece of God inside you you've got going endless prescription refills you got a refill of the amuna prescription endless refill endless how annoying it is when you kind call a you go into the pharmacy it turns out your refill expired you got to get a hold of your doctor please call the pharmacy re amuna endless refills endless refills unregulated no no alarm or shut off to the pump whenever you need it lean in whenever you need it pump it through taking a few deep breaths closing your eyes disconnecting going for a walk having that conversation talking to him talking to yourself grounding centering and saying and you will be the same sensation of that warmth of that flow of that letting go of that oh okay yeah wow that feels different that feels different I'll tell you I can't tell you how often during daving because that's when I will when I'm distracted in my daving and and I want to try to reenter you know we make this mistake of thinking because many of us have been daving since for kids little kids and it's sort of like you press go and you're Off to the Races and once you start you can't slow down or stop and if it was a good doing it was a good doing and if it wasn't a good daving too bad there's always the next daving but like once the momentum's carrying you you're just off and we don't realize that you know you're allowed to stop the Middle look here stop and say one second this is not this is not good it's not going anywhere I'm not really here one second I'm going to take a deep breath I'm going to ground myself self Center myself and I'm going to continue from here just pause just a pregnant pause just pause pause and stop and the best way to pause was with deep breath you know what I find often that when I'm taking that deep breath it's like my shoulders are over my ears you're just like you're wound up especially shakas the beginning of the day there's so much ahead there's so much worry and angst and what will be and I got to take care of and that meeting and that thing and I didn't prepare and I got to get there and I've got to so you're you're not really focused on what you're saying you're not really in a conversation or spending time with him and you're so round up that you can feel the tension that your shoulders are up over your ears and over your head you know what you do during that and all a sudden you just let go you relax every muscle and you lower your shoulders and good now let's go I'm in I'm ready let's go you got to do this you can't live life when you're wound up I I just saw a read somewhere Ben Hogan one of the great golfers the sweetest golf swing of all time any golfers here you know what his greatest golf advice which is immortal they say is simply the tightness with which you grip the club forget your swing plane forget impact forget velocity how tight are you gripping the club we tend to think that the tighter you grip it the holder you're the tighter you're holding it the better you're going to swing it it's the opposite it's a terrible mistake it's a mistake should be gripping at like a third of the of tightness the looser the looser you are the farther it's going to go the better you're going to swing ask a drummer my wife is a drummer anytime she's not here it's I I have a license to talk about her I gave myself that license she's watching my sick grandchildren it's not her fault she gets a pass today excused absence but she's not here so I could talk about so she's a drummer not recently but she knows how to drum she's a drummer she'll tell you ask any any drummers here when do you if you hold the sticks tight forget about it you can't play it it's the looser the looser that you're holding them the better that you're going to play every instrument every sport in all of life the tighter your grip the more you're holding on the worse you're going to perform and the more that you let go and the looser you're gripping more you take the deep breath and you let go then you're gonna fly then you're gonna soar then you're GNA play the best music it's gonna play the best music so what's true in music and sports it's true in life loose grip let go relax the shoulders deep breaths take the spiritual amuna oxyen the pain pump that we all have the amuna pp that we all have Limitless refills as often as you need it take it it's there for us and again so many of our examples you know I guess it's bad that we're being stereotyped our amuna stories are all about flights and airports you think that we live uh traveling but they're every day and they're everywhere and they're all of life and just let go and life becomes so much so much better okay we have more stories but maybe we have to share okay one more quick one and then we'll get back to learning shom hope you had a beautiful P I want to say thank you blah blah blah blah y y I want to share a story just happened to me on air of chabas this morning before taking my daughter to gun I took her with me to buy some groceries for shabas I took some cash with me and put it in a little Ziploc bag we got to the shop easily no simple feed on a Friday morning and we walked back to the car I put the groceries in the trunk and put the cash in the roof of the car while I buckle my daughter into her car seat I slowly pulled out of my parking spot and made my way to take her to gun all pretty routine I still had another errand to run and when I got there I suddenly remembered the bag of cash I left on the roof of the car I knew without looking that it was certainly no longer there sure enough my heart sank when I realized I had indeed lost it knowing the wonderful community in which I live I immediately posted in a few WhatsApp groups that I had lost this money would anyone please keep an eye out for it I got an immediate response from one of a very kind woman who said she lives right there and would go out and look for it m this very generous woman walked all over the shopping center with her baby in the carrier just looking for my Mone but unfortunately with no success Another Kind neighbor offered to go to the grocery store to see if anyone had turned into the main register unfortunately no success there either just as an aside wow like these two people stopped what they were doing went to the place is right beautiful not because by the way these were soldiers on the front line we Rose to the occasion of the war it's just an everyday person who made an everyday mistake and Jewish people are amazing well all this was going on I was reminded of a recent where you spoke about one of the many differences between non the Jewish people the nations of the world were trying to take credit for things that they did the Jewish people benefit from even when it wasn't their intention that a Jew even if he did that was what we learned from the p and that a Jew even if he did or did not do an action that was not with the intention of helping another Hashem gives them thear for the mitvah you gave the example of a Jew if he loses a sum of money he says I'm not happy I lost my money but if it goes to help a poor person I could walk away happy knowing it was used for a Mitzvah how aoo an example I tried to flex my muscles and internalize this message thing I I really did not want to lose this money but perhaps a poor person found it was able to use it to buy food for shabas I was feeling a little bit sulky but tried to see it as a kapara and even get get the Merit of the unintended Mitzvah so I returned home took out my ingredients to start cooking before getting started I went into Spotify and found your most recent Shear from two days ago as always I draw strength from the shear and by the end of the 45 minutes I felt much better about having lost the money I went back to my phone to start a different shear and was about five minutes in when I got a phone call a woman who had gone shopping found my money I quickly thanked her gave the simum to ensure it was mine and not someone else's when I asked her how she got my number and even got to me she said I had left a receipt in the bag that had my phone number on it as a side mention that the receipt that she found was one I kept meaning to throw away but by hash I never got around to it I thanked her over and over and told her someone would come pick it up for her shortly I hung up the phone immediately burst into tears just saying thank you Hashem I see you I know you are with me as I'm in the middle of writing this email my husband has confirmed he now has the cash in hand thank you reab Goldberg y y blah blah blah wishing a beautiful shabas another great email another one that has a very nice happy ending has nothing to do with an airplane or an airport I don't know if they'll put this one on Al or not but another wonderful but again it just gets you through instead of panicking and I lost and how will I replace and how will we have money to spend hopefully a poor person found it this was all part of hashem's master plan we'll see if it will work out and after the fact the receipt and I love that line that she had at the end because this is a something I'm trying to work on and I think we can all work on is in those moments to not all go oh I guess I got the parking spot oh bar I got the cash back oh bar the thing worked out but to say Hashem I feel you smiling down at me smile back look up and offer him a smile I feel you winking at me I feel you smiling at me I feel the hug that you're giving me and I just want to sit in one moment in that Embrace I could use a hug and I feel the hug this is not a coincidence this isn't random or chance something worked out that I didn't think would you're giving me a hug and I'm reciprocating I'm not only experiencing I'm taking the hug not trying to struggle hugged one of my kids recently she pulling away I said where you going said I didn't say it's okay to hug me right now I don't want to hug said I don't care I'm your father and I want to hug you right now I don't know that's right or wrong but Hashem gives us the hug don't wiggle away if he's giving you a hug don't wiggle away your father's giving you a hug lean in take it take it we never know and you have father and he's giving you a hug take it there'll be a day that you'll wish you could get one more hug there'll be a day that you'd give anything to get one more hug so if your father's hugging I don't care what you're in the middle of statusing texting your friend whatever you live shopping ordering something online whatever you're doing you could stop if your father's giv you a hug believe me there'll be a day you wish one more lean into the hug Hashem gives you a hug lean in I don't care what you're in the middle of Hashem you giv me a hug something worked out thank you I'm oh delicious I'm experiencing the hug and I'm hugging you back okay we are on page we began last week this piece of you want to learn more about him again that article is in the WhatsApp group msun we always see these terms this expression go together why is it because says ra Shapiro we mistranslate amuna is not the knowledge that there is a creator that there's a originator that God created and runs the universe that's not amuna that's emis God didn't doesn't need you to believe in him to exist he exists believe in him don't believe in him see him don't see him trust in him don't trust in him surrender to him don't surrender to him lovely he doesn't need you to do those things to exist that's the MS the MS the EMS is he exists know tonight on the behind the beima we had an incredible over an hour interview with an outstanding young man shabas kenam who's on the front line at Harvard suing Harvard fighting Harvard protesting at Harvard an amazing young man fascinating young man in a million and one different ways and and one of the things he pointed out is that you know on Harvard's logo its emblem it has the Latin word which I don't know but that mean Veritas which means truth means truth and he said it's a it's a cesspool of sheer the place right now is just a cesspool of lies and exactly its logo and its motto is what's missing which is which is truth and and I wish we had had this conversation and I wish I Latin before the shabas because that's what we spoke about that godas Exile is this world and cess of lies and that's what we're living in an a world of Lies look what happened this week look what happened this week Hamas pulled this incredible stunt in many ways brilliant we should learn from our enemies brilliant what did they do so we don't even have necessarily we hope that's wrong and we doubt from the bottom of our hearts enough live hostages they're not interested in meeting these demands of the Israelis it's a brilliant move we don't want to be viewed as the ones who rejected a deal we'll announce we accept the deal which deal the one we negotiated with ourselves but you know what happened the whole world fell for it the media headlines all announc Biden's a genius behind closed doors he succeeded he negotiated Inc Hamas agrees Hamas accepts nobody did the due diligence nobody did their homework nobody examined was this in fact the incredibly generous Maybe overly generous deal that Israel offered it's it's it's not believable it's not believable mainstream supposedly media Outlets supposedly trustworthy media Outlets State Department by the way was part of advancing that Kamas accepted the deal without even acknowledging it wasn't the deal all to try to position that Kamas were the ones willing to it's lot we're living in a world of lies lies the the the people the authority the outlets that were meant to be the trustworthy ambassadors of Truth are the biggest purveyors of Lies that's gas that's the Exile and how how do we navigate such a world how do we bring Redemption and Gula only by clinging to the truth that was the shabas it just ended a few minutes ago it was it was that long so we spoke all about how to navigate so that's EMS EMS EMS is that there's a Hashem and this is his world and he gave us principles and he gave us prescription and an instruction manual and a blueprint and that's why he took us out of MIT to live it to demonstrate it to model it for the world to bring this Redemption to repair this world that's the EMS that we have to cling to that's the truth the EMS the truth that we have to cling to we have to represent and that we have to model that we have to influence and that we have to Proclaim and project everywhere that's EMS that's not amuna that's not Amun so what is amuna if Amun is not that there's a Hashem he created the world and he runs the world then what is amuna Amun he said is the word and then we deviated last week to speak all about marriage and bias what's AAS NE is trustworthy reliable dependable will show up that's NE is this person trustworthy in business is this person a trustworthy candidate for marriage for references miserable B are they trustworthy research that's amuna so amuna is amuna is what do I do with the MS that's what began to build is what do I do with the MS the MS is there's a hasem he doesn't need you to exist now what what's your relationship to that mems what's your relationship to it do you live with that awareness that knowledge that mindfulness that Consciousness does it kick in in the moments do you turn to the MS uh oh flight delayed flight canceled will it work out waiting for a lab return waiting for a lab report I got a magnificent email this week I got a beautiful email it was one line it was half a sentence it was a person who wrote amuna email last year and she shared about a struggle a loss of child and an issue with genetics that they discovered simultaneous if you remember to another child having to go to the hospital maybe you remember this email she wrote me this week to say maslov on the birth of her healthy baby I love the followup atun email after the loss and that's a happy ending a year later which will take whatever amount of time it takes was it was a that she sent that to me I'll tell you pet peeve in the Rabin it people share their problems left and right they rarely follow up with when something good happens or it works out it does you know every during we have a special and we invite people from all over the world and and sadly we have a list of hundreds of names of people who are waiting and struggling and desperately wanting to have children and call when there are an our we have the Guinness World Record largest Talis B the hundreds of children who come under it and we sing AAL together but how many don't want to be in sh that day how many is that day the most unbearably painful day how much does it ache that there's not a child under that tal so we take that moment and we offer a special we read a special and we collect the names from all over from all over you know it's the most beautiful thing when nine months later a year later when we get an email that says I gave in a name and I just want let you know a healthy baby was born not not because of our because of all and because of a lot of because of a lot of reason just it's nice to get that follow up nice to get that so I give us all a br we should all follow up with one another to not only experience and share and comfort and strengthen each other through challenging times but to share the good news mem to be able to share wonderful news wonderful updates wonderful news wonderful healing and wonderful strengths and wonderful Simas with one another as well so that that's the amuna Amun is what do you do with that EMS Amun is what do you do with that EMS in those difficult times and in those difficult moments and before you could send an email and before you know that there's going to be good news Hashem is he's reliable he's trustworthy that's what amuna is do you turn to the trustworthy Source do you lean on what's sturdy and safe and predictable and that you can count on and we ended last week with amuna is the feminine is Ms is cognitive cerebral int ual it's in the masculine but amuna putting that into practice living it breathing it experiencing it that's in the feminine because women again we're generalizing in stereotyping and we each need to work on it but just which has it more innately intuitively in the feminine because women more intuitive to practicing the faith to putting the MS into practice men might Intuit it more the MS but actually manifesting experiencing it practicing it might be more feminine quality so we're on the bottom of page we have to understand the root of the issue Ms this truth the truth that there's a God as a Creator this is his world that we are here to serve him we serve at his pleasure that we have to surrender we take our initiative but ultimately he's in charge he's the senior partner with all that we do we have to analyze and understand and unpack and experience what that means but in the place where you see the distinction between truth and lies in that spot in that place where it's clear as day where it's obvious what's true and what is a lie there is the ability to grasp the the correct knowledge of Truth our mission our Challenge and it's true when it comes to hashem's existence and it's true so much you read an article that smoking is bad for your health okay so if you're not a smoker big deal that's the Ms and the amuna the putting into practice is easy because you never struggled with it but let's say you're a chain smoker you're an addict and now you read the medical uh analysis and it's clear as day the research that it's going to kill you good do you stop smoking the MS is what appears there in that research in the data the amuna is are youon to take the Ms and put it into practice maybe I'll take one a little bit more relatable you read the article about eating all those carbs about eating all the fried food about overeating the calories you read the article about the impact of of the diet soda of soda versus water you read I'm ruining your day you read the article about the Cape Cod potato chips you read it's been a long time since we invoked the cape C potato you read the article about what you shouldn't okay good so you read it and you go I accept it that's the MS undeniable the EMS I'll give you another one you read the article that correlates how much time you spend on your technology and mental health challenges and illness which is now not debatable undeniable the amount of time and the addiction particularly social media but technology as a whole it used to be schools shs were afraid to bring these things up because looks from you can't talk about these things you're a fanatic but now it has nothing to do with religion or religious fanaticism it has to do with responsible parenting and responsible healthy living and healthy hygiene mental health hygiene if you want to be mentally healthy then we have to disconnect a little bit disconnect a little bit I'll share this with you not to flex but hopefully it can Inspire I was inspired told you when your's not here I could talk about her she often motivates me challenges me and encourages me to uh get rid of some things on my phone so during with my family before I made the with the candle and the feather and the spoon I took out my phone and I said I'm GNA do some beer on my phone and deleted some apps deleted some apps that I found I was wasting time and seeing things and didn't me to be on and they were theys in my life and I pledged through SP because sometimes it's hard to say I'm G to do something forever but through for the period of I'm deleting hopefully it will continue beyond and I know my girl school Hadar did a similar thing with a challenge on a reward program if you delete certain things for a period of time it's it's a wonderful thing I couldn't I didn't even know it it's not like I knew and then I had to go bribe my children they told me and they did it and they said you know I won't be able can I borrow your phone because I can't use this thing now because I deleted it and that kind of a thing it's a beautiful thing and I and I share it not to flex me and my children but to challenge and to invite to join it's not too late to get rid of some of theet you're allow to have kets now but the metaphysical kets get rid of it do beer do some beer on it that's what is really all about not just looking for the physical but looking look for the 10 pieces on your phone that you could delete and the next morning go and throw them into the into the fire burn and Destroy them and how can we make up you want to do one of the most eye opening challenging things in the world nobody ever wants to do it open up the screen report on your phone because you can't you can't be in denial when your phone tells you the data of how much time you spend and what you spend on what you you can't be in denial anymore nobody wants to if it pops up you ex out quickly it's not accurate not me someone elide my phone it's not true I was watching living with auna that's what I was watching so much there on YouTube but but that's this is that time SP we're climbing we're climbing we're climbing we're climbing we're climbing we're climbing we're going to get to the base of that mountain together on sh we're going to receive that Torah we're trying to be the best version of ourselves on that day when we stand there arm in arm you so it's it's a time of work now is the time to work it's a time to work one of the ways we work is by is by deleting is by getting rid is by working on it is by working on it so that's the amuna the MS is I'm a rabbi I've given a hundred Dres about a bad technology is for your mental health that's Ms I knew the MS I've given Jes about the MS I've written articles about the MS I've read articles about the MS that's all Ms the yamuna is good now what you delete anything from your phone did you put say CS boundaries are you spending less time on it good you read now you know the MS Good Wonderful the am is are you are you trustworthy and reliable and faithful to take that Ms and put it into practice so it's true in every area of our life from smoking to health and wellness physically to mental health to everything the MS is the knowledge the Amun is the practice of that knowledge this is outside of the EMS whether you practice it or not won't impact the EMS the food is bad for you whether you choose to stop eating it or not and the technology will be bad for you choose to stop using it or limit how you use it or not the lives in the world of intellectually whether it's true or not true we turn the the MS is lives in the world of analysis is it true or not true right or wrong it doesn't care about what you do the MS doesn't care about your feelings the facts don't care about your feelings raos Shapiro different Shapiro ra Shapiro the facts the MS doesn't care about your feelings the does did you put it into practice or not but the MS won't be impacted because that Ms is immutable it's absolute it's true it's not compromised or perverted or distorted by whether you live it or not it remains pure pristine it Remains the EMS in order for the EMS the EMS lives in an ivy Tower the EMS is protected the EMS is pure and pristine the EMS is behind the glass so so how does the EMS connect to you the answer is amuna amuna takes the MS from behind the glass amuna takes the EMS from out of the Ivory Tower amuna takes the EMS from being protected and being practiced put into life is a covenant it is a contract it is a promise with the MS I hear by pledge and promise I give you the MS I give you myself both said that it will be a a peg it will be a foundation that won't move so first study and learn the MS what's the MS not everybody knows the MS some people are lost is there a god is there no God is there a God but he's not involved in my life how much is he involved in my life is he involved only in the big things in my life or only little things in my life there's a lot of Ms to learn we spent 300 some year there's a lot of Ms to learn there's the MS there's the MS why did you create the world there a lot of questions there's a lot of Ms to analyze and explore and ask but that's all just establishing the EMS then the question becomes what do you do with that mems do you have a Contracting Covenant a pledge and a promise will you put into practice that Ms that's called amuna that's called amuna to come to the MS every week to come to the amuna sh every week that's EMS to then put it into practice the rest of the week that's amuna that's amuna so we're going to stop here wish everybody a day filled with Ms the should be a day of wonderful and great things for and