Part 10: Believe in Hashem and Believe in Your Ability to Renew and Refresh

good morning Boer to okay it's good to have you hope everyone is staying warm on this uh chili frigid bokeh morning okay so our weekly dose of amuna and cup of coffee enjoy some coffee keep you warm and I'm very excited about today's learning each week we've been kind of drawing from a different place all consistent with the theme of amuna but we're not learning one safe for straight we're drawing from different places this is from a new set of swarm that I bought when I was in Israel um previously um it's written by a r named Rim Cohen raim Cohen is known by his nickname thean anyone know what Kalan means from the word kalav is milk aan is a Milkman he's the Milkman he lives in Gat he's a very interesting individual I could show you a picture of him he is a uh he's a clean shaven no beard no pis wears a cap blue shirt older man he works in a factory and he was this Anonymous individual who was discovered that in fact he has been a great calist since the age of 8 years old that he has studied cabala with great authorities he's an outstanding Tam he gives sh and uh he's a remarkable individual so once he was kind of revealed and discovered here this is a picture of uh Cohen thean the Milkman whose work we're about to study Callan the mil so anyway once he was he was revealed to be this great cabalist revealed to be this great cabalist and this great so it was pursued for him to teach Torah and he's been teaching and he's been teaching so they now they've been capturing and Publishing uh his left and right and he has a set of on para on Torah and this comes from that set ofum and this is the middle of an essay I just want to take one section of the essay and study it and study it together so here he's talking about the in this week's this week's para we spoke about it a little bit yesterday at the par class in this week's para the story line The Narrative is somewhat abruptly interrupted we're in the middle of the plagues is creating these miraculous intervention in the world suspending the rules of nature revealing himself himself when Moshe first approaches par par says me mosha says hi I'm here I represent God and I'm his agent and I'm here to tell you you're doing it all wrong let the people go and P's reaction is okay nice to meet you m who's this God who is this that you represent I've never met him I never heard of him I don't know anything about him and all of the Moos all of the plagues are God's introduction one might say rude introduction introduction to par to the MIT and by extension to all of us that who shows the world that not only is he the Creator but he's an ongoing relationship with the world he didn't build the world and move on but he continues to interact interact with it every single day so we have eight plagues it's about to be the 10th plague and it's interrupted Moshe says the very first Mitzvah of the Torah it's the first Mitzvah so much so that the opening Rashi of all of is why didn't the Torah begin from here why do you have all sa Braes why do you have the story until now should have begun at the first Mitzvah and the first Mitzvah we have is sanctify the new moon control time sanctify so it's a kind of a bizarre thing you have a slave Nation they've been persecuted and oppressed murdered you've had the Holocaust go on a genocide go on for 210 years they're finally about to go free they're about to be liberated and God says look before you go I want to give you a commandment look up and check out the moon when you see the new moon you testify that will establish the calendar Jewish funeral homes will give out this calendar for Millennia to come but you will establish that Jewish calendar so when yum Kipper for example Falls the 10th of Tire the holiest day of the year when yum Kipper Falls is not a function of when God decides yum Kipper is but rather it's a function of when man decides when we testify to the new moon and we establish that calendar that we control time which is why we make the when it comes to every shabas we say in the mades that God you sanctify shabas what's the we say on mades that God you Sanctified Israel and Israel sanctifies time so shabas whether you like it or not whether you can delay it or not every you can't delay it every Friday you know I count six days the seventh day is shabas nothing you could do about it that is inherent in nature that's part of the natural order that was established by Theon God set that in motion and it can't change but time in terms of the Jewish calendar that's something that could be manipulated by our rabbis by even if you intentionally manipulate time right I'm I'm I'm exaggerating a little bit but the says even if say you know for p to fall out that day wouldn't be so convenient so we're not going to sanctify the new moon so that it'll fall the next day then that's when the new moon is then that's when the calendar is it's an incredible incredible thing why was this given here why now so I mentioned yesterday in the and I've elaborated on in the past that um expands on the the says you have a slave Nation what distinguishes a slave Nation from Free People their ability to control time time the slave has no control over the time whatever the Mas tells them to do do this now go here do this don't do this be here the slave has no control over their time the definition of freedom is our capacity to be the Arbiters and to be in control of our own time and that's why D now A Slave Nation are told you're about to become free and the gift the blessing of freedom is your time is your own and that's a precious commodity decide how you're going to use it I'm probably going to write my weekly message about this but I'll give you the the preview is you know we have the Powerball tonight so I don't I don't know if I don't know if you heard I don't know if you heard but the record Power Ball is tonight I want you to know class will be on next week even after I win the power bow tonight but um 1.5 billion or something 1.5 billion yeah I I'll I'll send I'll send Limousin to pick you all up so um but 1.5 billion so I'll tell you what's even more precious than than money even more an even more precious commodity than money is time you see you could work harder and make more money but there's nothing you can do to get more time we all have the same 24 hours in the day same 168 hours in the week there's nothing you can do you can work harder and harder nothing you can do to get more time time is the most precious commodity even more than money which is why we should be so careful with it so that's why the rebon through mosha tells the Jewish people you're about to become free the difference between being slaves and free is your ability to control time so that's this Mitzvah and we are likened to the Moon not the sun we'll see right now says says the Milkman the great cabalist thean you see where I put the star towards the bottom of the page if you're listening online these sore sheets hopefully are there as well the central here this is the Mitzvah God interrupts the plagues and he says the new moon is yours it is the first of the months of the year you control time we function not based on the Sun not based on the lunar calendar not based on but the solar calendar what is this Mitzvah that we have the great says you know what the mitzah ofes is it's the capacity for renewal it's the capacity for Fresh Start it's the capacity for a new beginning don't give up and don't feel fatalistic and don't feel that your life is determined and you don't have control of it and don't feel that you are that person or your lifestyle is that way or you can't change your reality says don't read it read it the capacity for renewal for Fresh Start is yours the sun doesn't change it doesn't mean the sun doesn't go up and down that's exactly what the sun does it goes up and it goes down but it means the sun doesn't start as a sliver and grow into a full ball of the sun the sun is a constant it's always the same in fact the days of the year are called the a year is called a sh because means to repeat because the year is just the repetition of the sun coming up and down and up and down and the year repeats itself over and over again hael it's a pattern with no change that's what the sun [Music] is a generation comes and a generation goes and the Earth always stands the sun is that constant people come and people go and the world changes and you have elections and new things happen but you know what the constant is the constant is the sun the sun is a constant it's a um a pattern a rhythm a a repeating cycle a repeating cycle the sun represents nature so while the sun is all about consistency and cycle and a pattern and a constant the Moon is all about renewal a year which is represented by the the Sun the solar year the sun is all about the same repetition the month thees is all about the it's all about the capacity for a fresh start so so understand what that means it's an Incredible Gift given to the Jewish people the Jewish people are sitting in Egypt and for 210 years like the sun over and over they've repeatedly suffered this persecution this oppression they've given up hope they are incapable of hearing about a brighter future last week's para that Moshe comes and gives them a message of Salvation and the people don't hear it they can't hear it they're so so suffocating by this vicious cycle of persecution they can't dream they've lost their capacity and their ability to dream so here they're about to go out they've seen nine of the plagues and God says you know what I've given you a gift that you control time I want you to know you my blessed Jewish people the rest of the world will operate under the sun the solar calendar you will operate under the moon the lunar lunar calendar because while they are like the sun they are just products of the natural order you are going to be under the moon and just as the Moon is a sliver and grows large the moon waxes and wains so to you you my beloved people right now you're a sliver right now you've been persecuted but you're going to grow large and you're going to radiate and you're going to reflect the brightness and the light of the sun we have the gift of so there Cycles there changes and what Hashem was telling them and telling us is every time that you feel fatalistic every time like you feel you can't change your life can't change every time you feel it is what it is and this is your lot in life and things will never be different look up at the Moon look up at the moon and know you are a moon people we are a lunar people and that just as it evolves and it changes and it hases we have and with each moon with each new month we have the ability to say I'm going to determine my life I'm going to break out of that pattern not you know if you can't tell time you can tell time by the Sun a sun dial but you can't tell days you have no idea what day of the month it is is but in the middle of the Holocaust or in the middle of the Crusades or in the middle of whenever even if you're denied the ability to control your calendar you're that slave when you look up at the Moon you know is it the beginning of the month the middle of the month what time of the month is it you know cuz you could look up and you see that moon when do we celebrate rashes we just had it two days ago we celebrate rashes not when the moon is full R KES which is the holiday of the Moon you look up at the sky it's not when the moon is full when you look up on our barely can see the moon cuz the whole idea of rashes is anticipating the capacity for change anticipating growth that even though it's a sliver right now I have full faith and confidence that it's going to grow large it's not a coincidence the tour quotes that each of the holidays were given to the different uh in the Merit of different matriarchs and Patriarchs so the sh are given for yov and the the months are given for different people so so says the tour that is given for women and the Merit of women is the gift of women it's codified in tell you secret that your husbands if they know haven't told you or probably don't know but on this quoted by the code of Jewish law women should not work on rashes why since rashes is the woman's holiday women should not work now what does that mean you can't do M you can't turn on the light or right no it means that you don't do laundry and you don't make dinner one at least one day a month you shouldn't be making dinner quoted by the women should not work on the women are off why do so many things we don't keep this today yeah I remember Ari Bernstein used to take Andre out for dinner every or he would buy or he would buy takeout the he had wases he bought takeout his wife didn't work on didn't make dinner on let me tell you why so why women marit R KES why do women marit R KES because in the depths of suffering in when men lived by the sun men lived by the here and now they said you know what we're being killed this is never going to change like the sun it's just a repeating pattern so how can we bring children into this world it was who convinced Who convinced and it was what quality did the women in Egypt have they were they they said you know what we may be a sliver now but we're going to be redeemed and we're going to grow large once again and we're going to be an unbelievable people and by looking in the those mirrors and beautifying themselves and they became the the base of the Kor of the of the Basin and so on we've talked about this before so in that Merit of being able to not live in the here and now but live with anticipation they lived with the women of Egypt lived withes yeah right now it stinks right now it's terrible right now we're suffering but there's going to beish we're optimistic there going to be a new beginning and a fresh start we're going to grow great once again and they preserve they maintain the continuity of the Jewish people without whom we wouldn't be here so that quality of being able to be Ro anad of being the eternal optimist of not living in the here and now but having a certain sense of vision and anticipation for what is yet to come that is a feminine quality and women exhibited that in MIT and therefore it's not a coincidence or random that women were rewarded with the holiday of roses that notion of the Moon aside from the idea of the monthly cycle and Cycles andish it's something inherent in the biology of women certainly more than men but aside from that there's the idea of women of a Time Consciousness they're counting time they anticipate change that's what I'm saying Mikvah and a monthly cycle and a Time Consciousness andish renewal and a fresh beginning coming out of the Mikvah Purity a fresh start all of this goes together it's not our topic for today but it's all it all goes together which creates a a feminine quality over a masculine one R is a woman's holiday and you should hold your husbands or the people in your life accountable for this statement in the that women should not work on should not work on are you teaching men class Thursday night I don't know what you're talking about I'm sorry you're breaking up on me the were two lines from the bottom the key the deep deep idea of I love that sentence which is probably why I underlined it the key the key deep point of rashes is every month when we celebrate R what are you celebrating what are you singing how about what are you saying about what is I know I get what those are what is the holiday ofes about so what says is the essence of the holiday of is is it's my ability for Renewal that I can break free from the boundaries and the self-imposed limitations and the self osed fatalistic attitude that uh you know this is the health this is my lifestyle this is my financial condition this is my lack of Shalom bias this is my this we have the capacity to break free from those self-imposed boundaries and to bees to have renewal to Define our own lives and where do we get this from we get this from himself you know we're told about Torah that it should be every day in our lives like it's new if you look throughout the word that's used most often SE is the word today today you should live life as if the Torah was given today as if you've experienced the makos and today you wake up in the morning you do the same thing you did yesterday maybe go you go to work so says says the the milkman he says rashes reminds us that the Jewish way is not to be in this endless pattern I wake up I go to work I do my I pay the bills I watch TV I fall asleep I wake up I go to work I I I go to sleep I much of the world is caught up in this endless pattern this momentum is carrying them forward they're in this days as they're just getting through life trying to pay the bills and make it to the end of the day and they're just living the same day 365 times right the word sh they're justos they're just repeating the same day 365 times as a Jew we're not supposed to repeat the same day not even twice for us every day is new there's it's fresh there's a new opportunity there's hope there's optimism it's going to be a better day A Brighter Day we're going to do better today we're going to live more today we're going to be more alive himself creat that within creation every day we say this in it's God is with his goodness with his kindness every day he's he renews every day as if it's creation what does that mean that sense we say it every day that with his goodness every day God recreates the soat says the says the bat the word of sits in heaven so is it that hasem created the world set it in motion and now it's on autopilot says the balat no God didn't create a world and now nature it's on autopilot is moving forward for the world to exist God has to will it at every moment to continue to exist there is a perpetual and constant relationship between the almighty and his world and the moment he would stop willing the world to exist the world would cease to exist so it's not like us you know I don't know you created something you made a painting you made it once you put the effort into make it and now you hang it on the wall and it's on the wall and it will Outlast you and it will outlive you and you might sell it to someone or you might have nothing to do with it you made the painting once and it's sitting there that's not the way God creates the world it's not that God created the world and now he put it on the wall sitting there and he moved on but says the balatan for Hashem for the world to continue to exist hasem has to keep painting it he paints it a new over and over again he actually gives the following example of balat I don't know if quotes it here but I know the balatan gives it there says the balat you know if I ask you to close your eyes and imagine I want you to imagine a red sports car come on close your eyes and imagine a red sports car I imagine so is that red sports car does that exist yes it exists in your imagination there is an image in your imagination of a red sports car as long as you continue to imagine it you're picturing it in your mind's eye if you continue to imagine it you see it you see the shape and the curves and you see the the door handle and you see the windshield and the wiper and you see the headlights you see the license plate as long as you're continuing to imagine and will that red car it's there now open your eyes and now let's get back to our learning and now let's talk about something utterly different is the image of the red sports car still there it's gone it's only there as long as you continue to imagine it so says the balatan the world to God is like the imagination to us we are God's imagination so to say as long as God maintains the image in his imagination of us we're here if he were to be distracted not that God could get distracted if he were to be distracted or if he were to stop imagining us we would cease to exist so what that means is that every moment of our existence God is renewing renewing renewing renewing you know it's like refreshing your browser refreshing refreshing refreshing Times of Israel you want to see the news people are looking at the stock market incessantly it press refresh refresh refresh refresh they keep renewing the screen renewing the screen renewing the screen if you want to if we are still here he is renewing our existence at every moment so just by being alive there's in our life there is renewal there's a fresh start there's a new beginning yes don't we say in the morning and is no T he keeps giving the Torah that he gave the but it's not that he gave it he continues to give it we continue to receive it yes but isn't it also because he gave us he created us with potential but it's our response and our and everything that we do that actuates that potential so that's also he's there monitoring to see if it happens absolutely exactly he didn't set the world in motion and then disengage from us he set the world in motion he's renewing and now we have through our through our free will we have to realize our potential of who we are to become right the Outlook of the Jewish people has to be this so I have to realize that if this cup is sitting here right now it doesn't mean in another moment it will be here if it's sitting here now and now and now and now it's because God wills it to continue to exist and to be before me at every at every moment maybe it will disappear that which remains here is not a given should not be a given why am I able to speak to you right now why are we sitting here right now because I'm alive I'm animated but I could disappear in a moment now again this is outside a realm of possibility we don't operate in a world where cups disappear or people disappear all right so we've gotten used to the idea that what's before us remains before us but if we understand the bat's notion that it's not true that we only exist at the mercy of God and he Wills us we only exist because he continues to will our existence then we would also recognize that we could disappear at any moment like it's like a screen something being projected on a screen and if the projector stops then it ceases to be there so we are the projection on the screen of the world if something's projected on the screen does it mean it's always going to continue if the electricity goes out everything stops in an instant and every moment think about that you're watching a screen right the men who are going to go to man up tomorrow night 8:00 they need to sign up anyone is going to so they're watching on a screen they're watching a film so the the scene or the the image from a moment ago is different now is different now is different the screen is is rolling it's a different image it's changing it's changing it's changing it's not it's a new image New Image new image New Image that's being on the screen so it's not the same image with layers built it's a new image a new image a new image and if the electricity were to go out it were to cease and our life is exactly that way the world is new it's refreshed refreshed refreshed refreshed and if God didn't will it it would disappear in our world there is a a there is a flow of life from God it life all the time the great wonder is the great wonder is that God created a world where this there's continuity there's connection if each moment was isolated then the world would seem very disjointed the miracle the Wonder the the incredible thing about this world the Pella is that God created a world where the the moments flow one into the other and they look like there's continuity Wills to recreate the world each moment a new and therefore appears that every moment is built on the moment that came before we're so accustomed and used to this so therefore it seems to us that everything is natural right so we don't realize that in the uh in the half hour that we've been having this class that's been a half hour every 30 minutes of 60 seconds per minute God refreshing the world every minute because we live in a world where this is natural to us so we don't even appreciate it we don't even recognize it we don't even identify it we we sit there and we think it's all natural but really what's happening and this is what we're saying in our is Shem and his kindness every day is recreating mous so it's not that he created the world miraculously 5,776 years ago and now we're on autopilot it's that the same creation he did almost 6,000 years ago he's doing that level of creation over and over and over and over and over again Z and that's the idea that God wants us to appreciate that if he's refreshing and renewing the world at every moment that means implicit and inherent in our lives is the capacity for our renewal we can Define ourselves differently at any moment we can make different choices at any moment we can fashion and mold a different life and lifestyle and different relationships at every moment never be fatalistic never think that it is the way it is and it's never going to change never be like the sun that thinks that your life is just the repetition over and over and over again of the same thing to be a Jew is to hold out hope to be a Jew is to be under the lunar calendar to be a Jew is to believe that there's a new opportunity at every moment a fresh start that you can in fact start dieting or start exercising or start getting along or start getting a new job or start finding your sh or start having the children or start every new possibility is inherent intrinsic in time if God is renewing the world at every moment that means that he's also renewing our potential and possibility to have a new reality and a new result and this was what was revealed in our and the the flood all of this in saus is a function of the natural order the Sun so what the what what the is coming to teach is that the world is not as it appears the world appears to just be a continuous contiguous flow but the world is not as it appears which word he not what does that mean Sparks I think it means Sparks I'm not positive the the main novel idea that came to tell the world was that the world is not as it seems that the world is renewing at every moment and this is the test of our here we get to do you live life with the understanding and with the recognition and with the mindfulness that God runs the world that he's found in the world that all that happens is his will so whatever is happening in the world will all look to you to be brand new a leaf fell a natural issue happened politically something shifted the world is what you got that parking spot whatever it is in your life if you see Hashem in the world if you see hasem in the world then you will realize that there's constant renewal happening it's not as if it's new it's literally new it is a new world every day a ha and there's no pattern there's no cycle there's no repetition it's not every day repeating itself it's that every day is brand new brings life to every moment so if you realize that hem is refreshing and renewing the world at every moment then you realize that every moment is brand new and it's pregnant with opportunity for renewal the capacity to renew the world comes from so it's only because we left Egypt it's by abandoning the paganism and idolatry and Superstition and narish of uh of Egypt only when you abandon all that stupidity and you Embrace Hashem can you have the opportunity fores right if you are bound by the rules of horoscopes and Superstition and idolatry and paganism so your life just repeats itself over and over and over again but when you break out of that and you realize there's a Reon and that Reon created the world and he interacts with the world and he loves you and he's guiding your life and he's guiding your life for the good and that in your moment and in the entire world every moment is brand new then you realize that you have the opportunity for we say in that the Jewish people too will renew just like the moon we to have the opportunity for and it's upon this that the ran teaches we don't appreciate this we are now the third day of the month ofat is not a Jewish name the months that we use for the names are Babylonian they're not Jewish what are the Jewish months names for the months it is very it lacks creativity not exactly not exactly the most creative uh Innovative names the first month the second month the third month the fourth month the names we're used to are are um Babylonian in origin so wonders why don't we have names for months where we had no creativity why the first month second month they are nicknamed the first month the second month and the third month going on so why is it that we call it the first the second the third because they're all connected to something if you gave it a name it would look like you have 12 equal months and they don't begin anywhere there's just 12 months but by giving them a number the first month the second month the third month well it all connects it back to the first which is the first month Nissan is the first month so by always knowing what number month you're in which is the Jewish name of the month you will be always identifying with leaving Egypt with it's kind of like the parallel of shabas what's the Jewish name of today today's Wednesday Wednesday is not a Jewish name what's the Jewish name today of what today the fourth day again it lacks creativity oh what time you want to have lunch on day four like you make lunch you want to have lunch on the fourth day yeah which fourth day you know like that's the name of the day you wouldn't say Wednesday right if we were living as Jews you'd say oh in Israel they say that in Hebrew they'd say that oh what time is the like think about it for them it's inra like Y is the name of the day but if you think about what you're saying is you want to have on day four you want have long want me for coffee on day two like it sounds funny but why do we count the days because it's all revolving around shabas shabas is the epicenter of Our Lives it's either the first day after shabas the first day counting down towards chabas the ran actually says that you fulfill a notion of Kes when you call it by that name so if you say today's the third day today's the fourth day oh it's the fourth day so we said this morning CU you know the way the week works is it it Peaks shabas is on top so when you come off shabas you still have Sunday Monday Tuesday are part of the previous shabas Wednesday Thursday Friday are anticipation of the coming shabas which is why we say at the end of the on Wednesday we're beginning Kabal shabas already on Wednesday so you can makeala till Tuesday Sunday Monday Tuesday is part of the previous shabas Thursday Wednesday Thursday Friday is already anticipating the coming chabas but all of those numbers revolve around shabas so what's true for the days of the week is also true for the months of the year that the months have numbers and the numbers help us establish our lives around the flow of leaving Egypt so the Jewish people we live if you can pass this back we live in an existence that defines itself or orients Itself by before leaving Egypt and after leaving Egypt n so the month we left that's the key that was when we had the Miracles that gave us freedom so until then we were slaves until then we didn't control time and then until then I mentioned yesterday in the par class Sal beautiful Insite the carbon p is the only carbon that has a notion of a you eat the carbon p as a family and you know what happens the Torah itself tells us this week's para so that one lamb is too big you can't eat the whole animal so you're going to have to knock on the neighbor's door you want to join our kabur do you want to connect and we'll eat the P together turn the Hurricanes we all I told that yesterday the so see great minds think Alik so the the um the carbon PES creates a sense of community so why now Community why the carbon PES no schl no other carbon has that so said the r when you're a slave you're never part of community when you're a slave it's every man for himself every woman for herself the slave is just trying to survive get through the day that what made a person emancipated liberated freed from slavery what defines you as being free is your capacity to share to connect to be part of community the slave doesn't share the slave never has extra the slave doesn't knock on the neighbor's door and say would you like some of my barbecue only the free person can so Nissan which is the month of our attaining freedom Nissan which is the month of our controlling time as opposed to being controlled it's the month of our having the capacity to give and to connect and to create Community that's the source of life so we dream and we Orient our entire lives around that first month the second month the third month not like the nonews why did we then give names why do we then say when we B and we didn't say you know whatever the name of the number is we called it why do we call by the Babylonian name so it says the because we wanted to remember the second Redemption so we use the names of the months of because we were redeemed from G's B and we wanted to remember so the first time we oriented ourselves using the numbers the names of the months based on being redeemed from Egypt and then we shifted to reorient ourselves to use the names of the months based on leaving so you have an Esther both you have we use both we use both so that we continue to remember each time we're redeemed we count based on that Redemption which gave us the essence of our lives so what he's saying and what I wanted to share with you what I found very powerful is this is this incredible idea you know you start to feel I could just I'll tell you myself um time management you you feel like you just don't control your life every day there's pressures and obligations and things pulling you and and things um competing for your time that you just don't control your life so I say every night I go to sleep I'm disappointed that I didn't get done what I wanted to get done that day never in the last 15 years have I gone to sleep saying was a great day got done everything I had planned got done we'll pick it up tomorrow ever it's just always frustrating and disappointing so at some point you could say I'm just repeating this over and over and over again I give up but that's what rash is to be a Jew is never to give up and to say it's not true I have the ability to take control of my own time I have the ability to take control of my own life right as you lie in bed you're like I can't believe I ate the way I ate today and I snacked on this 2 minutes ago at 12:00 at night I swar was going to be different every day is exactly the same even though each day I swear it's going to be different I'm just repeating my same life over and over again so what's the point of it all so you know what if you operate under the shees if you live by the Sun so that's an attitude you can have that every day is the same you're just repeating the same life over and over again what's the point but we're Jews we don't live that way we operate under the L lunar calendar we look up at the moon and we remember that's not true God is renewing the world every single moment and I have the opportunity to tap into that renewal and to renew my life as well too I can make whatever change I want because if I believe that the Reon Shalom is running the world if he had the ability to take the Jews out of Egypt he could take me out of my eating pattern or my time management pattern or my anger pattern or my impatience pattern or my jealousy pattern or my whatever pattern I am imprisoned and enslaved by whatever addiction or lifestyle that I am a slave and servitude towards just like Theon freed the Jewish people and he said look up at the moon change is possible Sun represents a lack of change you're not bound by the sun look up at that Moon and see that change is possible and a brighter future is part of your reality and there's there's an opportunity for Renewal all the time and says Theon believe in me cling to me hold on to me stick to me and you can make whatever change you want to change I can pull you out of that thing that you're enslaved by I can pull you out of that habit that that habit that pattern that Psych that lifestyle stick with me and is possibil so that's why before the 10th Mak you say it's random God gives the first Mitzvah here of all places just wait a few more minutes God they're going to be in the desert they'll be free they'll be on their way you're about to be at heri tell to them at Hari why of all times right now they're still in Egypt before the 10th plague of all times God says to them now hey check out the new moon you're going to control time so what God was saying is it's not just you're going to control time it's a technicality that you're in charge of the calendar what he was saying is hey I'm about to take you out and I want you to never ever forget and pass this on to your children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren that the way that you were able to escape that which you're enslaved to now and create a fresh beginning and a new start you will always have that capacity you will always have that possibility whatever you're enslaved to you will have the ability to change your life and to start again that to believe in Hashem is to believe in the Moon is to believe that we are bound and subjects of the Moon to believe that we always have the ability to change and to never give up on it have a wonderful wonderful week