Parsha Perspectives for Today (Toldos 5784/2023) - Relentless Prayer

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proficient expert at tying Titus even if you are a novice we need your help please stay and the tisus as well and there are flags available in the lobby put them on your car show your pride show that we're not scared stand tall as a proud Jew has told us page 124 in the art SC Stone told us these are The Offspring of yit the son of abrah and then the Torah seems to offer in a necessary repeated redundancy if Y is the son of ab then obviously and clearly AB he begat it's the only time we ever use the word begat par has told us he gave birth he begat so what is it telling us rash famously tells us rash is bothered by the rash is bothered by the double language at first it says a told us these are The Offspring The progy of the son of ab and then AB gave birth to so Rashi goes on and tells us we all know the famous story they were scoffers and cynics of the generation of every generation there are the haters and the cynics and the scoffers and the conspiracy theorists who theorized that in fact y was not the son of a but rather the son of aim that AI was with SAR when they went down to Egypt because after all s and lived together for many years and they did not succeed in procreating and having a child how didem respond what was hashem's response to these scoffers and sinic to these haters made be the spitting image of ab they looked exactly the same there was no doubt who's father was and everybody could look at and simply by looking at you would testify that's A's kid looks exactly like a spitting image of a and that's why and but there's more understandings first of all you see here the power of the Lor because rash quotes K telling us that a miracle was done it's look like the spitting image of a spitting image why would Hashem intervene intercede why would hasem do a miracle because you see how pernicious you see how dangerous you see how destructive the L hador every generation has cynics and scoffers and conspiracy theorists every generation has haters they look at those who are trying to change the world and they throw their hate at them and it's so dangerous it's so real it can be so destructive that Hashem is determined to have to answer himself he doesn't ignore one might have said ignore who cares just ignore but the answer is it can be dangerous it can be destructive so much so that Hashem feels he has the response but the we've been going through his brand new safer gives us another explanation why there Rundy he says sah might have a few things to say about the fact that a gave birth to S is no longer here that was last week's if she were still alive she might object she might have a different opinion is it accurate is it fair to describe did give birth bir to or in fact did sah give birth to now when we talk about giving birth we often think physically who went through the labor pains who had the contractions who has the stretch marks to show that they were pregnant for nine months it wasn't aam it wasn't aam so how could you say says R because the word h does not only mean biologically physically to give birth it means spiritually in the world of Rus who molded who shaped who created the value system who gave birth because it's true that Sarah gave birth physically but a partnered with Sarah in giving birth spiritually yit was not just the heir to the genetics of a and sah but also to the spiritual DNA a pass 10 tests s s we incredibly optimistic and faithful demeanor they passed that on so therefore there are those who give life in this world and there are those who train and mold and shape and inspire and Rich who give life in life in perpetuity life in anyone who teaches someone Torah it's as if you have given birth to them because the person void of Torah a person whose life is searching and yearning and looking for meaning and purpose but doesn't have the tools doesn't have the compass can't navigate what the mission is all about such a person is living in this world but they can't tap into eternity and immortality but when we arm someone with the tools of Torah when we give someone access to ACC Compass to navigate this world most meaningfully when we give someone when we give someone the capacity to earn immortality you haven't given them life in this world you given them life forever and that's why we say someone who teach us someone Torah it's as if you taught them it's as if you taught them schuger says this with thear shabas tells us that doesn't quote this the gar chabas tells us that when a person passes away and they come upstairs they're asked a series of questions did you do your business dealings Faithfully did you set aside time consistently for Torah study a series of questions and one of them isak did you occupy yourself with promulgating and filling the world with continuity the mahha already notes and wonders why doesn't say why doesn't it say did you fulfill we know it's how do you fulfill having a son and a daughter two sons we pass you need a son and a daughter in order to fulfill puru why didn't the gamar why doesn't it tell us after 120 we Ascend upstairs and the B sh will ask us no did you have children elaborates children grandchildren pru to fill the world sadly tragically if a person's children predes them they've not fulfilled puru unless they have a grandchild who survives the predeceased child because the purpose the essence of puru is to populate the world with the values of Torah so if that's the Mitzvah why doesn't it say k did you fulfill it and the answer is because it's a Mitzvah that's not in our control the shabas a few weeks ago we spoke about this what is the nature of the Mitzvah ofu the or the Kum to attempt to fulfill puru for a husband and a wife to try to have children naturally or using fertility techniques IUI IVF and so on so it's not in your hands it's not in your control a person can try but ultimately it's up to Hashem so how could we be asked did you fulfill we can only be asked did you try did you try but as a Chua and he actually holds that if one adopts a child they fulfill puru through adopting and raising that child Asaka were you involved in continuity were you involved in spreading the message and the value system of Torah not only by biologically having children but those who are in those who support Institutions and enable the education of children we're going to announce soon our annual campaign for our Jewish Education scholarship fund because as focused as we are on Israel and we should be and we should direct the majority of our giving to Israel we still need Jewish continuity and Jewish children with Jewish values we need those who are going to stand up and fight for Israel in the Next Generation so did we so this is the same thing H true was the son of ab had his DNA but also AB H it wasn't passive y didn't just emerge and become a intentionally strategically thoughtfully mindfully he molded and shaped Y into who he was into who he was and that's why we have both parts of this both parts of this P he then offers another interpretation and he says the following was how old when he had yob and as as who are these who are the cnics and scoffers is 60 when he first has yob and as so a told where were the haters until now why do they first raise this accusation why did they first level this suspicious conspiracy theory now when Y is gonna have children he's 60 years old if the theory is that Y is not in fact the son of abam the theory is that is the son of a when should that theory when should that challenge when should that cynicism have first been leveled when 60 years ago when the sent out the email ma to a and SAR huge ma saru Aram was already a father but huge MAA firsttime mother Sarah at an advanced age so there should have been a response first time it was posted online all the haters should have commented ah probably not aams probably a m s they waited 60 years they were probably gone so who are these L says listen to this fantastic by who are yob who are yak's Sons not a tri question I know it's only Monday not Tuesday people but wake up who are y's sons yakob and as yakob is righteous holy W and H righteous and and asov much less so asov is a Russia Mar so these leor who had been in the background you know how Le hador operate listen to this great Insight Le hador operate like they are offering their cynicism their skepticism their hate their trolling is presented in the guise of righteousness like they're fighting for a righteous cause so they say these oh boy just had twins one of them is a rush asov it's p for to have a grand grandson asov so you know what to defend the honor of aam we'll spread a rumor that in fact is's father because AB was aad he can't have a grandson like like asov if there's an asov it must be came from not from it was easily explainable where as came from you know where as came from his uncle because Rifka had a brother L Hari so it wouldn't be a negative blemish on ab's record that there's a grandson asov thanks but no thanks who needs the Lor's help to defend ab's honor it wasn't necessary you know the Babas K says based on this is when you get married you know we got the resumés picture no picture Nicks the pic resumes references you know what you should do says theas what are you asking so many questions about the young lady I know she a young man takes after his uncles so look into the uncle look into the uncle most boys will resemble reflect their mother's brother the uncle is he a funcle fun uncle is he an uncle what kind of an uncle is he what kind of an uncle is he so Russ where did Kaz know that from that you inherit the traits of your maternal Uncle uncles they knew that from asov ASV was influenced by his uncle lvan uncle Lan not by AR but what's amazing about this Insight of R is how accurate it is that so often the haters ofor they they don't come out and say we're s skins and we're scoffers and we're haters they say this is a righteous and Noble cause we're saying what we're saying because nobody loves a more than we do we're defending aam's honor but they lack the self-awareness to admit that in fact they are in fact they are Lor tell you another amazing Insight I want to thank uh RHA press who wrote up the two volumes he sent me the one of the great parts of the par it's been done wonders for my collection so the T who is the T T is baram sh bam was born in in Europe learned in the Mir fled to Shanghai with the miror came to America in America was part of the mirror in Brooklyn married the rashash rovit his daughter and was the rashash of the miror Brooklyn so they collected his his thoughts and ideas in the para two wonderful volumes in fact I opened it today and thought it was so generous and kind for them to send it I should find something to say and then I ran into a problem everything in it I want to say it's amazing beautiful beautiful insights and so so much to share but let me just try to give you a sampling of some of them also he asked the same question of Dr asked so unclear when did the raise this suspicion last week's para was it by the way Nows are filled with Lor so one of the actual we need reim to speak out about this a little bit it used to be an someone the's friend said nice things about him and offered him a br and said admirable things about his family now every of is a roast often inappropriately so I've been to of the parents are blushing they're hiding under the table it's embarrassing probably goes hand in hand with the amount and level of the that today it needs it needs work it's a it's a bu is not a opportunity to roast the I don't mean that you can't have good humor and good fun but it's not an opportunity to roast so was it that at's after he was introduced to Rifka that's when theor came out he was 40 was it when he had these twins he was 60 but one thing we know is it wasn't at his bris it wasn't at a Shalom Z it wasn't when they announced his birth so asked the same question as no what took the Lor so long was their keyboard broken was their interconnection down what took the so long to comment it should have said then because made a miracle that this little baby was the spitting image of his father aam should have been last in two weeks but tell never could have gotten started so why now listen to what he answers now when is born AB is a young 100 years old and Sarah is 90 when y was first born you know what they said we don't even need to be cynical there's no reason to troll or hate on this kid you know why neb on this kid neb on this kid this geriatric parents neb on this kid they can't even wake up in the morning to they wake up in the middle of the night to give him a bottle to change his diaper their aid needs to help them get out of bed they can't take care of a little kid they're going to take care of a little kid impossible so let some said this 90-year-old and this 100-year-old this kid's going to be neglected the kids's going to amount to nothing the parents are already old and over the hill you know what they were waiting for when they saw how successful aam and Sor were in raising when they saw who emerged to be now there was something to hate upon now they see a winner he landed the great Rifka the Bas his parents are Sarah and Aram Legends Legends is a winner in an incredible trajectory of success they weren't after him when he was a baby had nothing to say about him at his Mitzvah when he looked like he'd be a nothing amount to nothing they were silent when do the haters come out when they see success so therefore listen to what says a great Insight all of his insights touch on the human psyche Human Condition you can get a great here if you suffer there are haters online Who attack you people who hang posters about you people who go after you you know what that means it means you're succeeding nobody goes after you if you're invisible no goes after you if you're failing nobody knocks you down or tries to knock you down a few rungs when you're not having an impact or an influence you know when they try to knock you down you know when they try to bring you down when they see you're successful that's when they hate it's the people who are envious or jealous that's who they try to take others down it's a big wherever you are in life whatever business you're in your competitors are going after you whatever committee you're running it's a challenge it's hard to get good lay leaders I was talking to someone this morning about as and as why can't we get asanas here people who problem solve who take clol on their shoulders who solve problems it's hard you know why because when you're a public person you invite and you welcome all the hate criticism negativity it's hard it's easier to just blend in it's easier to just do your thing it's easier to be in the background and write your check you're going to be the head of the committee president of the organization you're going to volunteer to be the spokesperson you're going to try to transform the world if you're failing no one has anything to say when you're succeeding in making a big difference everyone could tell you how they could have done it better everyone competes to take credit everyone tries to knock you down a few rungs and says okay maybe they solved this crisis maybe they changed that maybe they founded this MOS but they really you know do you know about them they try to knock you down because you're mat that's what happened here what a grip shot where were the when was born they were nowhere to be found where were they they were silent because they thought would be a nobody but once is now they got a lot of hate now they've got a lot to say again the BAM fantastic Insight he has a second and he says the following another Insight we're gonna get past the first we're gonna get past the first I don't know how much further past but we're going to get past the first P why the redundancy is the son of Hol again the same idea that he mold and he shaped this is a fulfillment of why Hashem said he loved Aram do you remember when Hashem was debating this internal debate should I tell AB what I'm about to do to sto and he says yeah yeah I've got a reval I can't hold it back am I going to cover up what I'm gonna no I've got to tell him and why why does HM conclude I have to tell him why but you know why Hashem says you know why I love a not because Hashem doesn't say I love a because of how he's transforming the world how many followers in friends he has online how many listens to a sheer in his podcast how many readers to his AR Hashem says that's all lovely it's nice that's not why I cherish and love it's not what I like about a you know what I love about a it's not anything happening on the outside his children because his children he's putting in the time and the energy and the love and the focus that his children his children will follow his footsteps will grow after him that's what matters that's what counts so the reason the Torah is telling us Hol is because that is the very fulfillment of what hasm said he loves about because I know this is the Fulfillment of and tells us teach your children again this is the similar idea said about that students are like children B is a very powerful Insight he's saying if someone biologically descends from you if you give birth to a child that makes them partly your child that makes them your child in this world in this world in the here and now but if you want them to be your child in Eternity for eternity you have to teach them tot teach them values teach them to be a proud Jew teach them to stand for Jewish values you have to mold and shape ab hly that was just the result of a moment of love between a husband and wife and procreation and fertility and nine months of gestation and birth that resulted in beautiful nice it's continuity but that's not the same as having a child for ET and immortality is forever and ever and ever that is only by teaching Torah so it means we think about it in the opposite direction focused focused from the that when you have students they're like your children butam is quoting Rashi when you have children you have to make them your students when a person teaches students it's like they're his children her children but when you have children you also have to bring an attitude that they're your students they are is incumbent on parents is a Mitzvah on the father we happen to not be so good at it today so we Outsource we pay a third party the system but that's Bev that's Bev that's not the way it's meant to be we are supposed to take responsibility and we still have to complement and supplement what our children get we have to teach we beautiful learning program mother daughter learning past shabas I had the great I don't take lightly I said it to my grandson we were four generations my father me my son and grandson and four generations learning together I said to my grandson who's a little over three years old so he didn't know what I was talking about but I felt good anyway I said it I said AR do you know how few people in all of history got to sit and learn with their great grand father at a program any W the raffle this week and it wasn't fixed it's unbelievable so when you sit with your CH child and your grandchild and your great-grandchild then you are fulfilling we have to turn our students into our children but we also have to turn our children into our students into our students he says we all say in Bening why do you say my father my teacher my mother my teacher if your father's a businessman your mother's a lawyer a doctor they're not a teacher why do you refer to them as AI because a mother and a father primary responsibility is to be a teacher is to be a teacher it's the most important teacher in your life it's the teacher not with a textbook and a curriculum and tests and spitback it's the teacher who you watch and You observe and you grow up and you listen to and you see who you DAV next to and you sit at the shabas table of so our students are our children but our children also have to be our students that's what we say in say have many students what is the mishna formulated as what does the word mean establish set up many students establish what are you talking about establish say teach teach a lot of students it's not what it says a teacher and a parent's job is to mold and shape and help the student stand on their own two feet is to inspire them Inspire their self-confidence in them to see the greatness in them to understand their potential and that's what it means and that's what they say about taught his students how to think he didn't teach them how to memorize he didn't download information how to think he used all of his energy to be to mold and shape and put them on their own two feet that he got so tired he passed out so he saw two insights of two insights of the we're not done with the first p just getting started rolba has another Insight in the first P RBA says the redundancy in the P Rashi says the cynics the scoffers after all s was married for all these years no procreation came out of it and to Squatch the claims hem made y look exactly like his father chip off the old block spitting image of his father and therefore a told this these are The Offspring of Y who was clearly the son of Aram since his facial features bore testimony to the fact that Aram hold it's astounding says that although was one of the greatest people in history they were still Ador ainu is a legend ainu is a great philosopher a great Theologian he's the top of the forb 400 he's a billionaire trillionaire among the wealthiest molding and shaping the world has the admiration and reverence of the world and despite that there are Lor why so we already saw said because when you're successful that's when the haters come out try to knock you down a few rungs but R has a different Insight he says this phenomenon is WR in the very creation of the world whenever Hashem created kadha Holiness he created the potential for the opposite every generation has spiritual Giants and every generation has L hador to counteract the Holiness of these Giants everything Hashem made in this world he made the opposite corresponding with ites there's light and there's Darkness there's good and there's evil there's always the opposite corresponding that's the only way we have free will it's the only way that we have choice so one looks at the great the gor and you look at the column called the and you have to express your your free will where do you put your lot who are you and how do you want to be counted who do you follow and what are you re a fan of whom do you repost whom do you retweet the or theor why are theor because time and Memorial since creation itself Hashem created Kad created Holiness and created the opposite of it to offset it and what's the opposite of that even in the generation ofon there were to ensure spiritual equilibrium this balance is imperative in order to have if the integrity and goodness of the righteous would blatantly obvious who would choose not to follow them it has to be that you have to think about who's more G who's more fun to follow in every generation you have to make that choice who do you want to follow who's your crew who do you want to hang out with who's going to be your influence who are your influencers are your influencers the gor are your influencers the late sunor you have to choose and you have to Choose Wisely that's not coincidence or by accident it's part of the very design of the world says says R okay last certainly not least the AL who was just here last week last Monday we're still basking in the light the beauty of the inspiration if you want to watch if you go to my YouTube page you could see the whole evening the singing his there's English subtitles underneath it even if you were there but didn't fully understand it watch it again with the subtitles he's fantastic and he says the following the beautiful that he gave me a copy of brings aash brings these are the story of and now we're moving on to b or I should say the second of our we're moving super speed now hold on to your chairs is 40 years old when he married the daughter of B the sister of La he took her as a wife 40 years old how do you know he's 40 how do you know he's 40 rash brings the he was when he had his children he was 40 when he got married how do you know he was 40 Rashi brings the calculation and hiska when AB returned from the AA he found out he caught up on his Constant Contact emails he saw the message the birth of R how old was at the time 37 how old old was SAR when was born 90 and Sarah died when y came back from Thea was 37 and s s when sah died she was how old so Sarah was 127 when she died she was 100 when was born she died as a result of Thea from here you know how old Wasa 27 or sorry 37 had for her to be three years old we spoke about that last week my good friend rendi sent me this morning theel who was equally as bothered by my daughter Tamar how you could suggest the Rifka was three if you say things that don't make sense nobody will listen to you about anything else you say so we don't have to promote the things that don't seem to make sense what does it mean yes there's one medish but we saw last week there other she was 14 she was older anyway K wonders of does when does Rashi normally kick in with the math that's when I kick out but when does rashy normally kick in with the math when from the P you can't figure out or calculate what's going on so Rashi tells us if you want to get to the bottom line if you want to know the number here is the number and here's how I got there but one is the G rashash Shiva what do I need Rashi for here after all the P itself tells me Rifka was 40 when he took Rifka I've got the bottom line I got the age I got the number how to backtrack and calculate and figure it out when does Rashid give you the whole calculation when he needs to to give you the total but we have the total so why do we need the whole calculation why do we need the whole calculation says go see the the super commentary on rash the was bothered by this question since the Torah itself gives us the total why do I need the calculation go see what the mrai answers is gonna give his own answer Rashi was not giving us a calculation of years you like myish Rashi wasn't trying to give us the formula or the calculation the arithmetic about how to add up to get to that y was 40 he wasn't giving us historical math he was giving us life calculation what's the life calculation we know from it's a big theme in what our matriarchs and Patriarchs endured what they did what they went through was pretending was foretelling us what we would endure what we would go through the strength that we would need if you want to give birth to aov and yov merited to have what does that mean had but he had had Yakov but he had asov Yakov had his he was full his family was full complete sh all 12 tribes you don't arrive at a yov on your own how do you get there skip you know why Rashi was bringing this whole calculation not for the math he was reminding us AA SAR died because of the AA m nees this is not a historical calculation this was a life calculation and what was the life calculation to is telling us you now you get to a you know how you arrive there only through the of the mes of he was willing to do the AA and the m of s that she died as a result of the of the second we're still on now still on second bear with me says again it's wonderful new saer Fantastic's bothered why did the have to again tell us R was 40 when he married Rifka in case you forgot the daughter of B the sister of Lan of the arami why why do we have to repeat this so Rashi tells us to tell us her praise she's the daughter of a wicked evil person the sister of a wicked evil person and she comes from a wicked evil Community but she did not learn from their deeds wers you want to say such a gmak nice Praise of of Rifka her father was miserable her brother was miserable his community was miserable and she came out a gem a diamond despite those negative influences where should the Torah have first introduced this wonderful Praise of Rifka where would you have expected it last week's para alzar comes to the well he meets the sh he says what do you got says oh these resumes those rumes let's look through all the reses we look through all the resumes Zur last week's para says got old and hasem blessed with everything soash what is AR had a daughter the S says and that's why he got old when he had Sons he stayed Young when he had a daughter it aged him why because the credit card the Amazon account yes but why did it age him so listen what theab SRA says kav SRA says because when you have a son so sons are going to be the other side is going to support them 100% buy them the apartment so could stay young you had nothing to worry about but once you have a daughter and you got to put up the Dowry and you got to pay for the young man to learn fulltime aam aged quickly that's theur I would adapt it to this day and say when you have sons you know they're GNA have pile to the ceiling of resumes no problem they're gonna go out they're gonna find a girl it's going to be easy but once you have a daughter and you have a daughter you're gonna grow White You're Gonna Lose Your Hair you're gonna get old very quickly because once he had a daughter in now it aged him very quickly but anyway I just want to tell you that bonus from last week comes toet and comes to meet and wouldn't you have expected that's where that's where it should say RS her father's a low life her brothers a for Community a bunch of and yet she emerges to be a RKA wers why' you wait till our married Rifka and Rifka came into his tent and resembled the mother Sarah so that's when it should have told us this praise or when came back and gave the report of the that's one report What a fine girl she is why until now says now you'll see why I love this I just fell in love with the say for today his insights every one of them they're great he says because when all is going well and good and a girl a young woman is a sad everything's well and good in her life what's not to be Aus about but what happen now what happens in the beginning of our Para rifka's dreams are crushed she's desperate for children but she's Barren she's struggling she's waiting she's it's a hard time now when life is not going as you planned now when you confront hard times and hardship now we see what someone's made of so when Rifka was growing up she's the valid Victorian of her girl school she's sought after in the community she's beloved she's praised for how pretty she is and so she davens like a good girl she davens with her so it's easy to DAV like a sadas when you're getting all the praise and you have all the success and everything's flowing so smoothly and you're chosen to star in the production and everything is so perfect and then what happens what happens to the little matal who was the star of the production the valid dictorian of her class and is the most popular girl in her school and who everybody talks about and praises and wants her to be the m and the head in the in the uh working in the Youth Department and now all of a sudden and she gets married so quickly first in her class she gets married to to the and then she struggles to have children now you see what someone's made of does she still open the tum and the sitter she still have such unconditional amuna and faith in hasem it's a greater praise when the person runs into the wall and for the first time experiences failure and his dreams that are crushed and they stick with their they still D with kav and they still have tremendous that is the greater Testament to who the person is and that's why the Torah Waits until now to tell us this about Rifka would it have been true last week when elazar finds her absolutely would it have been more appropriate when reports to sure why does the Torah wait till now because now it's much more impressive about Rifka that even though she struggling and even though she ran into this wall and even though she's experiencing this failure now you see what she's really made of now you she see that she's taka a tremendous tremendous he elaborates on this point but we want to go V third so a good husband what does he do he for her because he sees that she's Barren and Hashem allowed himself to be convinced allowed himself to be intreated and his R wife Rifka conceives his wife RKA conceives back to in the the is in the wrong order what should it have been finds that Rifka is Barren struggling they're not having children 20 years they go to fertility Specialists they go to doctors they test ovulation they do all kinds of treatments so what does he then do should have said she's baren so he doav it's out of order out of order why is it in the wrong order says the reason it's in the wrong order is to tell us that the hardships were done because Hashem loves the ofik Hashem wants that relationship wants that closeness wants that connection and he says hello down there I can't get your attention when everything's smooth and everything's going well I can't get you to look up and notice me so a little road block a little stumble a little struggle so we look up and start having a conversation with him so that's why it's out of order the reason was because hasem wanted them to DAV to him that's why it is out of order that's the first shot he says then he continues Rashi here writes what does it mean V it's an unusual word for daving what is rash says he on and on over and over daved abundantly it means to elaborate to dwell in abundance in abundance that's whym responds not coincidentally with the same word vem means intreated God abundantly relentlessly D to hasem in order to appease him andem was appeased D says we learn an incredible idea or principle about daving from here what is it so you'll say on October 7th I daved I daved I'll never forget for the rest of my life coming to sh early October 7th morning for us morning and being greeted by somebody who had heard from the guard what had happened in Israel I'll never forget the pit in my stomach all of us how our heart sank when we first learned I'll never forget the number when we first heard was 50 casualties 50 we thought 50 casualties from a terror attack how could it be and then that throughout that day in the days that followed we saw that number rise and that afternoon sh atas afternoon you they had to close it off you couldn't get into this room it wasn't safe it was packed with so many people as we had a mass to Gathering that afternoon we did it again the next afternoon s t we've done it every day since so you'll ask why why isn't it reasonable if somebody says Rabbi enough with the every she you give you divide up and finish afterwards shabas we come 10 minutes early enough I went to tum October 7th and I never took it back so thatum should just carry forward I DAV once and I said Hashem let no one else die let no one else be murdered or killed let the hostages come home let the soldiers succeed shine I said it once now it sits why do I have to keep ding why do I have to repeat myself over and over and over again say of course not talking about this mat but in general when a person runs into a so you'll say I'm not answered what's it up to 42 soldiers it's too much it's 42 worlds that were ended 42 families that are forever affected enough enough no no more no more so why are we ding he's not listening he's not answering you'll say this is a gross error didn't give up got a know so what did he do over and over and over over and over and over because there's a type of appeasing hem when sometimes Hashem says one please isn't enough one ask doesn't do it I want to see CLA shall come together over and over and over again DAV and Dav and Dav like you mean it like you believe it don't stop don't slow down keep going you're seeing this incredible hisus and CLA you're seeing you know we had the tias campaign our committed to tie 2,000 pairs of tias this week we're well on our way but we still need help soldiers in the field all want tius so yeah on chabas I gave that Russia and I said all the soldiers it's part of their body armor it's part of their tactical gear they're desperate for it I knew it and I meant it but I posted a picture M shabas of the we had to open both walls it came all the way in if you weren't here you missed something special the energy in that room amazing on our family what'sapp and my niece whose husband is in Gaza said her husband she said a said it's true and she wrote in capital letters everyone every Soldier wants tius right now this is an incredible hisus people who doubted God didn't know if there was a God never D before they're daving yesterday at the local rally I wasn't I was a little worried because the kinis was going on so who's going to put Fillin on people but the designated Fillin person left behind was at the rally and there people putting on Fillin who never put on Fillin and I don't want to embarrass anyone but last night we had situs tying as well and there's a person there's a beautiful picture of all the people who filled the Sho last night I don't want to embarrass him I don't know him but there's a person who came to tit s last night who has tattoos he wasn't wearing a yamaka had a little earring and he's sitting there tying tius because the Jewish Community said there soldiers who need situs so a Jew comes whatever our stereotypes that a person without a yamaka and an earring and tattoos it's a pretty decent stereotype wouldn't be tying situs but it's a it's an incredible time of hisus for Kel so we don't DAV in once and say yeah he said no over and over and over again to tap into this categorical different kind of F that we've never said before there's an Unity around the world there a spiritual awakening around the world and included in that Spiritual Awakening has to be V this type of called those who learned before on Wednesday mornings we used to do we finished all you can find the online and in the 13 synonyms for prayer reaa zaka pil there's 13 synonyms for tilila for prayer and one of them is and it comes from here and it's this type of daving which is over and over and over because Hashem says sometimes it's a no until you ask in the kind of way that I I can't help but say yes and what's the kind of way he's waiting for after a v that's what is pointing out after he says he has a long essay here we're running out of time and we did not get past the third BK criminal of me I apologize butu also had the same thing how many times did mosha DAV 515 times yeah out of your mind said can I go into Israel hm says no please can I go into Israel no pretty please no pretty please with the cherry on top no no no how many times would would you have given up five 10 15 100 makes it up to 5115 and then hasem is about to have to say yes he says stop silent don't ask again or I have to say yes and I don't want to say yes why would he have had to say yes because there's a type of there's a type of there a type of that we come so close to hem because we are Relentless in putting our faith in him every time we do and we say this to them what are we saying we're saying Hashem our soldiers are incredible their military superiority is incredible their intelligence is incredible the American support and partnership is incredible but Hashem in the end of the day we know it's up to you we know it's up to you that's why we keep coming to ask if we had another place to go we'd go there if we got to ask someone else we'd ask someone else why are we mudering and nudging and driving you crazy because you are the only address and you know what Hashem says I love that that you know that I'm the only address that's all I want in our relationship that's so each time we keep coming back that's hasem saying you get it we follow the we follow the model of 515 times this is one of the types of that we have over and over and over Relentless Relentless pursuit of this of of Hashem we'll do one one who says on these words again the same thing okay we'll leave it here I a beautiful many RS why he bu we'll do one we'll leave it there we got to invoke one R he built a switch I got to prove to you I learned the rest of the too chapter 27 verse 25 in the art scroll page 136 he built an altar there and he called called in the name of Hashem he pitched his tent there and y's servants dwelt dug a well there says of Sal when Hashem appeared to Y hasm identified himself as the god of ab not the god of y y had not yet developed his own approach to hasem the way AB had done and Y again dug the wells of water which they had dug in the days of his father abam the pish had stopped them up after AR's death and he gave them names like the names of his father this is more than a story about Wells said the r Torah is teaching us that y only Drew water from the well that his father had dug he had not dug his own Wells he had not yet developed a unique religious Approach at this point God promised Y and multiply his seed but only for the sake of abam Y realized it was insufficient to reopen ab's Wells he had to dig his own at the moment that he built his own Altar and called the name of Hashem developing an edifice an approach of his own then Hashem was no longer merely the god of abam later when Hashem appears to yov he identifies himself as the god of yak as well as the god of ab what's the r saying when hasem first appears to Yak he identifies himself as the god of your father AB because at that point Yak had no independent relationship with hem he simply redg the wells that his father had dug and gave him the same names that his father had given he was simply a carbon copy of his father's yish kite there was no creativity no individuality he didn't Forge his own relationship and conversation with Hashem he was emulating and imitating he was simply following the footsteps of his father and therefore Hashem identified himself as the god of his father it's only now in this even only now when builds his own altar it means he builds his own relationship with Hashem he has his own conversation with Hashem he sees Hashem based on his talents and his skills and his predispositions and who he is and that's why later when Hashem reveals himself to yob he says I'm the god of your grandfather ab and the god of your father the introduction to the am is phrased and not simply said the this wording is meant to convey that andov did not merely reflect AR's world view they broadened and deepened it though based on ab's trailblazing Y and jakob's individual approaches to Hashem were distinct a beautiful Insight of the rub he's telling us it's not enough we begin the it's not enough that you're the god of our forefathers you have to be ALU yes on the one hand we imitate we emulate we walk in the footsteps of those who came before he's the god of our forefathers but he also has to be our God we have to personalize and individualize and contextualize a relationship with Hashem based on who we are what our lives look like what we need too many people are just carbon copies they're fitting into the mold they're just conforming to what's expected of them but there's no energy or passion there's no dynamism to the yish kite at first first was the carbon copy and then he matures in his spirituality to develop his own relationship with hasem and every one of us have to be like three separate Gods there's only one God there's one Hashem so why do we mention it three times because each had their own relationship each of us have to have our own relationship please stay to please stay to M it should be a day filled with B yeshu