Living With Emunah (Part 325) - He Arranges our Footsteps and Adventure

good morning good morning Boer to welcome back to living with amuna so wonderful to see good friends visitors guests thank you for joining always amazing to be together I want to thank our amuni sponsors drors Ai and Bella Morgan and mem of Rabbi Dr Brian galet the privilege of meeting Bella's sister the other night at a wedding thank very grateful to the Morgan Family and a memory of Dr Ellen schanzer this morning is also sponsored by Ronda shal in honor of penny Perman and Carol wall with tremendous appreciation for their friendship they are great friends and worthy of honor and by Moshe and K wolfin memory of their good friend peras who lost a short battle cancer and Nama should have and Aliyah also I want to dedicate this morning Shear to a member of our community who was a past president who worked tirelessly for our community and we will miss terribly Jerry ketki mosim and I want to um dedicate share in his memory but also tell you a story was meeting with his family the other day after he passed away and his son Shimon shared the most incredible story with me and he said it again yesterday at the Leva Shimon and it really Bears repeating almost as our opening email we'll share a few emails we'll get back into the text of that we had started studying together so um Jerry unfortunately very quickly uh took very ill and had a rapid rapid Decline and on Sunday morning Noam and Shimon gig were home they got a call they should come to the hospital it was before noran shiman so they went to the hospital and they were by their father's bedside at some point when it seemed that there were a couple moments of stability they went to the chabas room the beaker room at boa Regional Hospital to be able to Davin so they went to go DAV and Gigi said could you bring back a sitter because I forgot a sitter at home so bring back a sitter I want to be able to dve into they went to the shabas room the B room and while Shimon was daving he thought to himself his father had slipped out of Consciousness I didn't get a br from my father he's so sick he's declining I don't know if he'll come out of this I was desperate I didn't get a br that last conversation to be blessed by my father he grabs a sitter in the the shabas room at the hospital and returns to returns to his father's hospital room at that point the decline was so rapid the doctor said it was imminent he used the sitter in order to say V with his father the last moment the last uh the last conversation to ask forgiveness from from the people around us the V that we say with someone on their death bed and he finished saying the vi heartfelt emotional painfully closed the sitter and his nephew our beloved atan ketki that we all know looked at the sitter and he said to his uncle Shimon did did you look inside the sitter the opening inside of the sitter so Shimon opened the sitter he said yeah it says return to the beaker room don't take it from the sitter so what yeah I'll bring it back it's fine we'll put it back he goes no no look at the other side and this is the other side the sticker on the other side of the sitter they randomly hadn't D so they randomly went to the beaker room and randomly grabb the sitter to randomly bring back to randomly be able to say V and the inside of the sitter says donated to be of South Palm Beach County by Gigi and Jerry kinety in honor of our children and grandchildren so Shimon said I got the braa from my father I got the braa had orchestrated and organized that we'd grab a sitter with a label my father dedicated in honor of us and our children they said V from that sitter for their father and that was the braa he got that last braa from his father so again we do this every week I'm shocked you all keep coming back but I I'm grateful I'd be sitting here anyway because I need it but I'm so grateful you all keep coming back we say the same thing every week you could live life and you could say what a coincidence what a coinky dink what a chance random wow what are the odds that's it well the odds are decent I mean Gigi and Jerry live here they were friendly with Stan Smith and they donated okay there OD yeah I don't know how to calculate the odds but what are the odds obviously they're better than my winning the Mega Millions last night which I did not not for me for this campus I want to get back to work and not have to so but any nobody won so I didn't lose I didn't lose last night we just didn't win but anyway the odds are better than that you get odd it's random it's chance it's a coincidence there's no random in chance is winking he's nodding he's hugging they felt Hashem gave them a hug they're at the deathbed of their father their husband but when they saw that sticker in the sitter that Hashem had brought them to that room grab that sitter bring it back check inside there are no coincidences everything is for a reason everything is for a reason is Jer is a very special person we wish a lot of love and to his family masat and I were in New York on Sunday in and out quick for a wedding and when we landed we went to to go to get something to eat and where we were going to take an Uber to the wedding and it should have been a place that it's easy to get an Uber from very prominent location in New Jersey and I ordered on the Uber app I think four or five Ubers in a row said they were coming and then canceled and here I'm looking at the clock and watch and thinking we got to get to this wedding that's the whole reason we're here and now we're going to be running late and I can't believe it and we're standing there in the parking lot wasn't freezing cold but it's cold colder than here and and what do we do keep hitting Uber and nothing's coming RAB M you trying your Uber R I'll trying my Uber RP all of a sudden a guy comes up to us not Jewish and he says you need a ride now you get that in the airport and elsewhere and usually you turn that down but I was feeling pretty desperate and he says you need a ride I specialize in driving Jewish people okay it's a little bit of a flag I don't know where you drive them and drop them off and what you do with them there anyway so he wants to show me so he puts that takes his phone puts in contact he puts in Jew and all these names come up that he saved Abraham Jew Mishi Jew sprin Jew he saves them all the Jew all these people I drive I said what does that mean he said I live in pic and I drive all the Jewish people whenever they need to go said you know what we got to go somewhere I said you don't you're not going to kidnap us and kill us right he said know and that was good enough for me so we got in the car and I knew we were in good shape why cuz he said don't worry I got a playlist for you and he plays you sh REO he's got a playlist non-jewish guy's got a playlist of Jewish music he's talking to us all about pic and the schools and the shoes and he's uh anyway he was a great driver got his name got his number hashem's so Uber I got listed under Jew in his phone so Uber kept canceling because we had to go with the Jewish driver we had to go with this guy hopefully we made a KES hasem no coincidences no chance everything is from Hashem a couple quick emails and we'll get back again it's the filter it's the glasses it's the way to live life you could get all panicky where's the Uber no one's coming they keep canceling we got to go we're going to be late or you could say okay we're not stuck we're not L this is where we're meant to be we weren't irresponsible checked ways right before lunch how long should it take to get there we were responsible checked way the Uber everything we did our initiative we were responsible so okay we'll get there when Hashem decides it's the time for us to get there and he did decide and he always has a plan he always has a plan reab Gober I'm in my 30s and single and watching my younger brother get married recently brought me so much joy I know all too well it shouldn't be taken for granted and yet it has also come along with some pain as it draws a spotlight on what I wish I had last week before listening to your Shear the meaningful people podcast po popped up on Spotify so I decided to listen they were interviewing Amy Baron who runs the organization I was supposed to have a baby her interview at some point asked what she would want to say to her audience who's struggling and isn't where they want to be yet she paused and pointed out how that word yet is so powerful and holds so much hope and she appreciates him adding it in the interview went on and then I continued to listen to the Amun and as I went along with my shabas cooking you shared emails you always do and a few were from people who are also struggling to find their partner or with fertility challenges at some point you mentioned these stories are powerful because they don't all end with a positive outcome these stories are from people who have auna even though they don't have that happy ending yet was it a coincidence twice in a row you both happen to take pause and Linger on the word yet I could choose to see it as nothing more than a coincidence instead my mindset has shifted largely thanks to the shear and I saw it as a little wink from Hashem what were the chances this week I happened to listen to both on Spotify backtack one after another what were the chances you both decided to take a second and linger on that word yet I felt like hasem put those words in your mouth just for me it was like Hashem sending a nod my way saying hang in there have auna I have a plan for you it's just not your time yet it was exactly the words I needed to hear thank you for the shear help me open my ears notice these nods feel that hm is with me even if I'm not where I want to be yet I sent that email to Amy Baron as well because it was directed to her too I don't know why hasem puts these words but obviously they mean something to people and they give us the physic to hold on to hang on we're not lost we're not stuck we are where we're meant to be we're not where we want to be yet it's not over and we're not done dear Gober hope all is well thank you for the Tor theun y y y blah blah blah my husband returned to miluim two weeks ago for the second time which has been a true test of amuna we think we have amuna tests because the Uber didn't come it's garnished husbands in reserved Duty for the second time for the second time personally it's easy to feel deep connection of Faith to when life has the normal complications this has been a real test for me I'm home with our two and our four-year-old trying to maintain routine joy laughter and honesty they both know that AB is in Israel helping the am last night was particularly challenging for me I had an internal pit of fear had a hard time being present and patient with my children I did not share with my kids how I was feeling nor why I was scared I brought them up for bedtime and while I was getting my two-year-old into pajamas my four-year-old started singing the I started crying in our house we try to implement the idea of talking to Hashem both in daving as well as personal prayers but my children are two and four how much could they actually internalize they internalize I thanked my four-year-old for reminding me to speak to Hashem my husband still has another few weeks until barem comes home I'm utilizing this time T myuna thanks for the she which has helped strengthen the Yuna when I'm feeling Amali weak that's a new word Amali Amali weak these are our heroes these are our heroes my friend who I guess heard me talk about and has an ice bath in his backyard that he loves when soldiers he said soldiers who come back use it all the time so yesterday morning I woke up he sent me a little video and he said straight back from Lebanon and it was a soldier in his ice bath and I just wrote back I wrote back Heroes On Ice is Disney On Ice there are heroes on Ice I want every day don't you can only see his neck up it's not Nvidia just but it's here he is in the ice bath the soldier right back from Lebanon all of our soldiers today are back from Lebanon please God it should last and stick and stay forever a peace and a quiet just Heroes on Ice I want a daily video of a hero on Ice combining some of my favorite things idea of Heroes and Ice bats but anyway so these are our heroes this woman not only the people inim their wives and children this four-year-old singing the a child in Israel today that's their bedtime song The for their father for their father his second Tour of Duty dear Gober thank you for the lifechanging amuna blah blah blah every week it's like Hashem is giving the exact words I need to hear regarding being in the right place even if it doesn't feel like it I recently graduated for certificate job and it's taking longer than I expected to find a new job I feel stuck at my current job which is work that I don't especially enjoy and the schedule is difficult but I keep trying to remind myself there's a reason I'm still here in the minute hasm wants me to have a different job I'll show me the way there a few years ago when we moved from here to there we intended to rent a house for the first year to make sure the new community was the right choice for us the only house available was a great house that had been on the market for six months but the owners couldn't find a buyer they agreed to let us rent for a year in the hopes they would find the buyer after the year was up we bought the house 10 months later and everyone was happy the woman who owned the house later told me she found it very difficult to understand why they couldn't sell the house all those months it's a great house and a great block and they were asking a fair price once she met our family and saw that it worked out really well she realized Hashem was taking care of our family all those months of waiting had a purpose and she was happy it worked out the way it did sometimes we get to see the purpose of our waiting and sometimes we don't trying to keep that in mind whether I can understand or not my waiting as a purpose it's hashem's imense love and kindness that keep me where I am because for now this is where I meant to be last one and this is a little bit of a difficult one and I want to use it to launch into the Torah for this week this was a difficult one it's a difficult one from a young man good morning go as well I had a question for the r and his support group and would love some advice help or that's you by the way over the last six months I've taken part in a few TM WhatsApp chats this is a new again Tech technology is a double-edged sword technology can distract and Destroy technology can be terrible te technology is a gift and a blessing that can be leveraged for incredible things and one of the ways that technology is leveraged for incredible things are the tah hilum WhatsApp groups we're around the clock people here in Israel time changes people just pick up they say the next number or a few they're saying someone picks up from there and when there's a sick person to hilum can be said around the clock nonstop on these WhatsApp groups it's incredible so this letter writer writes over the last six months I've taken part in a few tum WhatsApp groups without exaggeration tell him I've been finished hundreds of times on these chats unfortunately none of the liveed to see the support and love they received my rashash Shiva my 11th grade rebi who is also the r of my sh for my entire life my grandfather and just this week my close friend's father and and now I've joined another tum cycle he names the person the soldier to be quite honest it's very hard for me to believe the next chat will work I still do what I can and I do it anyway but it's hard after seeing the hundreds of Cycles didn't save these incredible people I know people say this to be nice but we're talking about Giants of people who looked at who people looked at as a North star any advice will help thank you again for yada yada y y he wrote and he signed his name I think we all feel this way at times we're pouring our hearts 14 months hostages aren't home where are all these tum going what's the point of all this Fila why are we doing how many people in our own lives did we DAV did we storm the Gates of Heaven how many people did we cry countless tears did we protest did we beg did we gravel and the answer was no and no and no and this young man in six months got a lot of nose rashash Shiva his rebi his R his grandfather his friend's father all these groups he's saying tell him all these free moments all these Subway rides all these downtime and it all adds up to no no no so you say why am I gonna ask again what is the point and why bother it's a powerful powerful question these other emails are like oh I want to share that one oh that's a good one oh that inspires me oh that's so beautiful that person had that great attitude and I got this email and it was like a punch from the stomach not only because he's describing how he feels because he was putting into words how often many of us feel so I want to just share briefly because you could really elaborate for a long time there were more emails I got this week we're going to share them in the future keep sending emails if I don't read it that week don't think it's not worth sending they all mean something to me and to everyone else so please keep sending tells us anybody who that's a place for their daving the god of a will help them I want a person who has a says the g a person who has a set place where they DAV that person who's imitated and emulated a by having a set place to DAV when that person dies OM they say wow what a humble person what a Pious person this person was a student ofu wow that's that's a lot for Simply Having a set place for DAV what does it mean to have a a means a set place it means that our life shouldn't be random or chance or all over the place person should have a set place where they DAV set place where are we talking about most of Theon most of the commentators in the say the means in don't sometimes sit here and then your friend is there and then the other one want to talk to is up there and then the seat was over here you have a set place now it happens to be our sh doesn't have aav in the sense you're not entitled to throw anyone out of your seat means anywhere within wherever you like to sit draw a circle six feet around it and you're still in your Mak I mean it's a general area that's my area said on the left side you said on that right side that's my area someone's sitting in your seat certainly when you get there late don't throw them out then you're not a student ofu you're student of other people and we don't say such nice things about you so it's important to have a general area where we sit it's not halfhazard it's not scattered you have some consistency to us but not to the extent that you're throwing someone out of a seat most understand it's talking about in sh R says no it's not talking about in sh R says where is it important to have a Mak is the Mak you made your way to sh the whole sh is a place designated and dedic at to ding where do you need a makaba listen carefully in your house in your house don't sometimes DAV in the living room sometimes in the den sometimes in the kitchen sometimes while you're bringing the dishes to the sink sometimes while you're picking up the toys in the playroom sometimes you need a m is the whole Mak is a dedicated space a person should designate a space if you have it beautiful if you don't go home today order online one of those Mis signs East and find that spot and say this is my spot this is the spot that when I go to here I leave my phone behind I leave everything that distracts me behind and that's where I go for a few minutes of Peace Serenity a few deep breaths and to lose myself in conversation with Hashem a you can have one indoors you can have one in your backyard or on your porch you can have a few have a ra says you don't need it in sh is the Mak where do you need it in your house says and I have to tell you it's transform it's transformative instead of being halfhazard and scared and Scattered and where should I go and I'm going to do other things in multitask which means you weren't really ding because if you weren't giving Hashem your attention you weren't really in a conversation where's that spot where's my stender where's my chair where's my couch where's my seat where's my corner where's my spot when I go there that's where I go to if you have a chapel in you it's a chapel most people where's my spot where do I go to be able to to was talking about in I will tell you just as a aside I happen to believe it's critically important a person needs to have consistency why why is the gar saying this is important why can't it be every day it depends how I feel where I want to be what the moment grabs no no because a person needs to have a certain habit a certain pattern certain consistency I recommend I recommend you know if a girl's on a date a young ladyes on a date she says to the young man she's with where do you DAV what's your schedule like every day if he says I've got this great minion Factory in my community and there're are Minion from 6:00 am. to 1 p.m. shakas every 15 minutes and they're beautiful and they're wonderful we're incorporating a lot from them into our Sho you may have walked by our slushing machine coffee machine water machine our cinnamon buns and soon to be crockpot with a hot soup for a cold day we're trying to incorporate a lot we've added manum they're beautiful when you're a certain age and stage of life but when you're a young man let's say you're in Yeshiva it shouldn't be the answer shouldn't be it depends when I wake up if the answer is it depends when I wake up you're not a go-getter you know a person has this is when I wake up I wake up like a lion I roar to greet the day what do I want to accomplish what do I want to achieve and it doesn't mean you're at the 5: am or 6 AM minion it could be you roar at seven or 8 am but yeah this is my minion this is my seat this is my Gabby this is my sitter this and then I go for that and then I do that and that's where I show up I'm at my desk at work or I'm at my table with my this is my life if a guy says it depends when I wake up depends every day is different depends what I did how late I was up the night before where I was what I was doing how late I wake up to me no judgment that's a flag that's a flag I wouldn't want my children I want them to be with people this is my men this where I wake up this is where I go this is my schedule this is my I'm not talking about you have a certain day a bad day you had a wedding you had a flight that was delayed you had a what I'm not talking about exceptions to the rules but there's a rule I feel better I got that out of my system now back to our regular schedule program now back to my point why am I telling you this why am I telling you this what does this have to do with ainu and this makes you great you have a set place in schul or at home and so when you die we give you a eulogy you are a student a disciple of aam a on of a wow how humble incredibly modest how Pious what a special person because you had a set seat and Shool because you made a little corner at home that's what it means so I saw an incredible incredible interpretation you know what it means where do we learn where does the gamar learn the idea that you should have a set place to Davin from a when did aam return to the same place to Davin after what after what did he Davin for S tells am I going to conceal and hide from a everything I'm going to I can't a is my man in the world where no one sees me talks to me Believes In Me aam's my man and he's paying it forward he's passing it on to his children I can't hide anything from it I've got to tell him so he tells AB I'm destroying sidom and what does Aram do he says well you're God you're infinite you're omnipotent you're perfect and I'm not I guess if that's your plan what do I have to say no you know what abam does he says no you're not Over My Dead Body if there's 10 right 50 righteous people 45 40 30 20 2010 you can't do that I'm protesting I'm protesting if there are good people you can't do bad things to good people I'm protesting God don't do it God says okay I'll take that into account I hear and register your protest but in the end of the day I'm God you're not I'm doing it anyway and a says Okay I accept that I I gave it my best shot from here we learn we've said many times in this year from here we learn a gave us the license the invitation to protest God this is the source someone's sick someone's waiting to get married someone's waiting to have a child soldiers are fighting on a Battlefront hostages are being held we say Hashem I protest how could you do this where are you it's wrong I disagree I'm protesting but like aam sometimes when the answer is no we have to accept a no aam hears no aam hears no now if you're aam you just entered a negotiation you're sweating you're schvitzing you battled it out with 50 45 40 30 20 you negotiated you fought any righteous people you can't do it please you protest you fight you leave it all on the field and you got a big fat no and you watch Stone go up and smoke are you aam you ever GNA DAV again you got to know what was the point of the protest what was that you wasted your energy your emotion what was the point what does aam do K he goes back and he consistently goes back and he has a place and it doesn't just mean physically geographically the coordinates he went back to the place he davened he went back with all of his heart and all of his soul with all of his yearning all of his longing all of his faith all of his belief all of his hope and he kept going back again and again and again and again and that's what it means to have a so doesn't just mean physically geographically the shender the seat the share the spot the place doesn't just mean to return to that physical place it means to return to that enthusiasm that passion that energy to never let it wear out to never let it dissipate but to keep coming back again and again and again and again were a us for sto or waste absolutely not I think it's so for others say what happened where did they go those prayers for the people of stone God gave them a no where did they go they were banked they're banked and we don't know when Hashem makes a withdrawal and so to the one who wrote this email all those tum chats all six months those TM were not for not and they were not a waste they were not a waste they didn't go down the drain they weren't in the garbage just because they didn't get the answer that you and we wanted doesn't mean that they were a waste we don't know which Soldier was saved because of those toah hilum which hostage will come home because of those toah hilum which will get healed because of theum which person will have a baby because of those tum we don't always get to connect the dots we can't draw the line we can't see exactly the withdrawal and the deposit but we make deposit deposit deposit deposit and somewhere else someone on the other side is making withdrawal after withdrawal withdrawal and we can't always see the correlation between the two never stop making those deposits we say in throughout the month of in ends means hope hope put your hope in hem be strong have courage in your heart and a rabbi deduced from that says have courage have strength and when he says no come again ask again don't stop pounding the pavement don't stop protesting don't stop asking don't stop don't ever stop so it can feel like after six months can feel like a whole lot of nose a whole lot of nose you remember what Mrs Waxman EST Waxman taught all of us when her son Soldier nakon was taken captive held hostage the Israeli Commandos in a heroic effort went to go try to save him but they were too late wa was killed but when he was first kidnapped it was a Friday that naksh's parents went on Israeli TV and asked all of Israel millions of people especially those who had never done it before to light candles that Friday night in his Merit that he come home everyone light candles and offer a prayer he'd be rescued he'd be returned that he come home the commanders went in for that operation he was murdered he was killed he never came home and the waxman's went back on TV afraid in their own shiver not lost in their own grief but connected still with CLA Isel they went back on TV and they had a message for all those who prayed don't think that Hashem didn't hear he heard every prayer sometimes the answer is no anyone else who says that in that moment at that time after what they went through they taught us still now all these years later or decades at this point later sometimes the answer is no but those prayers were not wasted were not squandered they were deposited they were banked and we don't know when we our children or grandchildren or Amel will need to make a big withdrawal and we need that account to be as full as possible as full as possible can even picture it Hashem has some repository where these WhatsApp groups he's collecting all of the every time someone posts the next number they said the next paragraph every time when you stay after a Shear that we give and we go through all the little booklets hasem has this repository and there's a file of all the little booklets and a file of the WhatsApp groups and a file of the people no one knows about they were driving in their car or doing the laundry mumbling at talking to ashem and this deposits deposits deposits and there's this big file cabinet this big repository and he's collecting it all and then he looks down at a moment at a crisis someone in trouble and he says I'll make a withdrawal that person who made the deposit will never know no but only because the bank account is full am I able to make the withdrawal so it's painful to lose so many loved ones to DAV so hard and to get so many NOS but they weren't wasted they weren't squandered and don't stop asking we need to keep asking so it's gotten us through 2000 years of Exile of gas so it's going to bring the Gula it's who we are and what we're about it's the recognition it's not wasted it's not squandered it's always from him we're on page Z this new ready to start the new the saer was released now given all that's going on I hope he and naria and the others at North will be safe hope those heroic communities can go home 880,000 people displaced unbelievable the debt of gratitude am owes those 880,000 people not in their homes not in their schools not at their work not work in their fields and their Vineyards if they go back to to those Vineyards we got to just B we're going to take one for the team and not stop drinking wine because we're zionists so we're going to drink a lot of wines make a lot of to they being able to go home but we have to we have to find a way to not be fatigued from helping and caring and thanking we're in the second paragraph Jew has to know that everything that happens and everything that passes over a person all their life everything that happens is like an axe in the hand of the of the chopper nothing is random and nothing is Chance the Ubers keep cancelling that's what's supposed to happen right now the red light the traffic the delayed flight that report that answer that job the door closed and another door opened no chance to All By Design this is who and where and when and why everything that happened is supposed to happen never get phased never get frazzled never get bent out of shape I'll tell you my first instinct was I got to report all these Uber drivers who's saying yes then cancelling then I'm going to be late I got to get to a wedding don't they know who I am what's the matter what's going on over here I'm going to report them I got to ruin their rating they should lose the No No will take care of them whatever their calculation whatever their moment if the Uber's cancered it's because you weren't meant to get in that car and who knows what you were spared who knows what could have happened who knows what kind of reckless driver who knows what was wrong with their car the flat tire they were gonna get making you really late who knows who knows but don't look at your app and go crazy don't look at your and want to crawl into it and strangle all these Uber drivers to keep canceling look at your app and say calmly okay I guess not that one either and I guess not that one either Hashem what's the plan here you always got a plan what's the plan the plan is I'm sending you the non-jew from pic I'm sending you the non-jew from pic who's got a long list of Jews in his phone hopefully for the right reasons everything is for a reason even the straw the grass the leaves that are blowing from one place to the other those leaves that keep falling in your pool the leaves no matter how many time you has the landscaper to blow them out of your backyard and they keep falling that's where they're meant to be that's why they keep coming back not only for us and Uber drivers leaves leaves and wind it's all from Hashem it's all for the one who Tans the hides the leather skin hanging where it is and how the recipe turns out and what works out and what was left at the supermarket and did they run out of the it's all from Hashem so you never lose your cool that's why the great people that you know calm they're calm they're calm I have the privilege to know and to meet with great great people my last trip a couple weeks ago toel I met withman I met with Thea I me you meet with great people they're carrying the world on their shoulders the world's problems the people who are meeting with them what they're doing for their responsibilities and when you meet with them there is no one and nothing else in the world but you it's amazing and then you meet the person who's doing nothing contributing nothing in charge of nothing responsible for nothing and they're so busy and frazzled and they can't take it and they're so upside down and they're so angry and they're so resentful and they're so bitter and you meet with these great people The Whole World's on their shoulder all there is in the world is you and they're calm and they're cool and they're whatever it is whatever it's gonna be why you ever meet with r glio r glio the great calist he's unbel he's smile he's practically jumping on the table singing and dancing he suffers all kinds of illness chronic pain challenges he's suffered loss and he's dancing on the table with a smile across his face and in energy he's twice your age you can't keep up with great people have in common we spoke about it last week notas is initiative from the language of is it's all equal to me did everyone order the book I get no commission mosha I'm just promoting your book but it's all the same to me the name of his book it's all the same to me there's very few books that Rasha Weiss and deac shoa are on the back of the book recommending I say there's very few books it's the only book in the world that Deepak shopra and R Asha Weiss both have a testimonial on the back of the book his name is mosha G he spoke here last year you could also watch the interview I had with him online and the name of the book is it's all the same to me it's about equinity come come come when you don't believe in Hashem or when you only believe in him academically intellectually conceptually meaning you're observant you go to sh you learn the da you like the candles you keep the chabas but you've never ever once had a conversation with him you've never ever once felt he's involved in your life you've never ever once submitted to him or protested to him you could be fully observant and not believe in God let me rephrase that you could be fully fully observant and practicing and believe in God but have no relationship with God and then you're going to get scattered and frazzled your Highs are very high your lows are very low orav it's all the same to me equinity it's equal it's from Hashem I don't know I'm on an adventure Uber's cancelled how am I getting to the wedding Hashem how's this going to work out how's that going to turn out what's the outcome of this going to be I'm waiting for this job I'm waiting for the sh they're not here yet yet capital y capital e capital T exclamation point yet because it's all from you Hashem it's all equal to me great people that's how they live their life let's see how this is going to turn out everything everything we said last week this is the kavana the intent the person has to have when you make this one of the 15 we say every morning God thank you for opening my eyes thank you that this works that works the other thing works God you prepare the footsteps of man I don't know where my feet are going to take me today I don't know I don't know where am I going to get called to go I'm going to be on a walk who am I going to run into what problem or solution is going to present itself to me that I never anticipated I was going to see today you prepare my footsteps so the simple understanding we said last week is means thank you hasem that my feet work I woke up and nothing was swollen or broken or infected and it all works I don't need a hip replacement a knee replacement this replace the other repl the parts aren't breaking down thank you Hashem get to a certain age in a stage and you have much more kavana for those Bros this didn't break down that still works this is is still okay that checked out it's not a small thing it's not a small thing when do you begin to appreciate it when it no longer works when the warranty wears off that's when you begin to say the bra with kavana if you want the warrant warranty to last longer say it with kavana while it still works don't take it for granted Hashem thank you thank you thank you I got it all working so that's what I thought it meant I'm grateful for you Hashem when I when I tore my achilles and I had surgery and I was on that terrible KNE scooter for that time I couldn't get across a room while carryings for him I couldn't get across a room and also hold my own cup of coffee I couldn't be independent on my own and I realize if you can walk and be independent and get from point A to point B and carry something and not spill it on yourself you're ahead of the game you won the lottery forget the Mega Millions I'm not forgetting I'd still like to win for the sh it's not for me it's for the sh it's for the sh but if you woke up this morning eyes are working you successfully went to the bathroom your feet on the ground your the everything's working in order you won the lottery isn't it amazing what are the odds that you won the lottery yesterday also and you also won the lottery two days ago and three days ago and four days ago you won the lottery wow it's all working that's what we understood but gave us this additional understanding that meansem I'm prepared for where ever you take my footsteps today where are we going on this adventure called life where is the next Journey what's the next step what door are you opening or closing where are you leading me to I told you last week how I go for meetings going for a walk I'm still doing it as often as I can I went for a walk with someone and we ran into someone in crisis and Hashem put us in that place in that moment at that time that's where we were meant to be where will you be walking today in Publix the gym the supermarket work in your home outside your house on the circle where will we be walking at that moment in that time in that place and that thing happen it's all the cavana for that is that whever I go whatever happens and whatever I encounter and whatever is the next step on my journey it's all from you Hashem it's all from you all the more so now we are in the days of this is it he's coming he's coming you can begin to see he's coming the Miracles that are around us Miracles you know the miracle that happened last night we don't even know the Miracles I don't even want to quote him because he didn't qualify for my list I wrote maybe the strongest article I've ever written in my life this week where I talk about when I say the BR I have in mind Bernie Sanders Peter Bart the Carta J Street and I wrote in the article and I mean it the Jews who collaborated with the Nazis had at least the argument they were doing so to save their lives but Jews today who collaborate with our enemies by calling for embargos against Israel to not be able to defend the lives of Jews around the world don't have that excuse they're evil that their plan should be unsuccessful unsuccessful Thomas Freeman didn't make my list came close but he didn't make my list he had an article yesterday two days ago second half the article is horrific as is usual case but the first Tas he makes the point he says because Israel doesn't flaunt and they don't flex what they do that's what they that's their style but do you know what Israel pulled off in Iran he writes is no less than the Six Day War he writes how far it set back the nuclear program how it eliminated their missile defense how it took out certain missiles all sort all literally and figuratively under the radar he writes was no less than the Six Day War and do you know that last night hours before this ceasefire went into effect Israel said okay if it's being forced upon us the ceasefire you may have seen that in two minutes there were 200 places in Beirut that went ki do you know what they blew up in tunnels underneath in the Beirut in this city where the missile manufacturing that Hezbollah didn't know that Israel knew but Israel said okay if we're going into timeout and we're taking taking a break we're just going to do a little something on our way and in 2 minutes 120 seconds they blew up 200 locations the missile manufactur it was a miracle it's a miracle that they knew it they had the coordinates they pulled it off without anything happening to them on the way into the SE these are Miracles these are Miracles that are happening so anyone here who says you know if I lived in the times of tanak and I saw Miracles I'd believe in God if I lived and God spoke to I believe in God wake up wake up the pager episode was a miracle that movies are made of movie scripts would be rejected because nobody would believe them and we're living through them and there are Miracles and does it break our heart the soldier from modin my sister and his family know who was injured since October 7th was the longest standing in the hospital and succumbed to his wombs and you sit you wonder like this letter writer we've been daving for 420 something days for him for what for what was his family put through this hell for what to succumb to his wounds in the end to not have this wake up for what for what and every loss and every loss breaks and devastates our heart but don't let them obscure our sight from seeing the Miracles the there are Mir Miracles Miracles I'll end with this I spoke last shabas God blessed he gave him everything what's everything that Ezra says he gave him longevity oer wealth B children and grandchildren cover he gave him honor a name gave him everything right it's a very funny PK God gave AB everything what's the next p AB says oh there's something I'm missing I don't have a wife from a I have a but he's not married I don't have grandchildren I so which is it if he gave him everything he's not missing if he's missing something you need give him everything what does it mean all the say the same answer cook writes a Nora very beautifully what does it mean b Cole B Cole doesn't mean everything a checklist I got the car the house the this the that no it's not a checklist to be blessed by Cole is to have a panoramic view of the world to see not only that little narrow view to not only feel this pain this ache this C this is what's missing this is what I need this is what I want but to have a panoramic view of the world wow this world is beautiful the universe is in harmony God is running an incredible world and even with my pain even with my suffering or struggle even with what's missing in it with this panoramic view it's magnificent magnificent view it's an incredible incredible World a lived so it meant that even in that moment that wasn't married with what was missing he saw panoramically everything wow what a you wow what a you how did the end of the para go last week God gives us he gives his call to what does do with the call he gives it to yov says it says and yov it says Co when Yakov and asov spoiler alert coming up in a couple weeks when they reunite asov says I've got a whole lot and what does yob say yes Co no no I got my father and my grandfather's coal whatever I have whatever is missing but my attitude my perspective My Philosophy my approach to life is p i see the big picture I see the big picture I live in the big picture not just that little what's missing that little what's missing and what are we ding for the end of Bening just like you blessed give us that blessing of a CO give us a panoramic view so join me in that panoramic view yes every Soldier every loss of life is unbearably painful we're not blind to it it breaks our heart but we also have the panoramic view there are Miracles Miracles Miracles another one last last night what they did in Beirut on the way out a miracle that's what says these are the journeys of the Jewish people we're running we're going we're doing because say of David in the end of times when Gul is coming we got run and go the movement is so much faster running going doing Hashem is moving us around moving the parts around because it's all unfolding at the end of the show at the end of the play all of a sudden the scenes get faster and there's more active and they're more dramatic because we're at the end we're at the end and the scenes are unfolding faster the stage is changing quicker because we're at the end of we should be we should be blessed we should see that panoramic view which should have no narrowed in loss only the big picture should be a day of keep banking those need it please stay to add more to the bank account of it'll take just a few minutes