Part 127: Wake Up Like a Lion

okay good morning Boer want to thank our generous sponsors for the series of living with Mauna for the year Dr zavi and Bella Morgan in memory of Rabbi Dr Brian galet Ben ruen nasan also our class this morning is sponsored in particular by Dr Jack andan Mermelstein in memory of an's Father Paul ER P Ben in commemoration of his year at site through our learning and our growth and work onun as I see um our crowd is growing we welcome everyone it's wonderful and fantastic and great to have you the seats up here if you can't hear feel free to move forward uh but I want to remind everyone we have started again our friends of BRS campaign that if you are not a member of BRS but you are benefiting enjoying participating in the many classes and programs we offer please do your part there's lights on there's air conditioning my salar is paid and you even got a free cup of coffee and none of that happens on its own join friends of BRS for a relatively nominal amount and do your part it's greatly appreciated okay back to Amun we are learning that a righteous person lives through amuna that if we don't have amuna if we think it's all up to us if we think we're on our own if we think we are responsible for our destiny and our lives if we think that we can have pride in our success then we are really dead even while we are alive and if we live with a sense of Amun a faith we have an acute awareness of hem a mindfulness of Consciousness we see them in our lives then we're truly alive V told us person people are made up of four elements Earth fire wind and water and when we are having a character trait amida which is out of whack which is imbalanced really it's a reflection of a virus in the system with one of those elements it is expressing itself like a rash on one part of the body if you put cream and heal the rash you haven't necessarily healed the virus the rash will just come out in another part so we've been trying to get to the virus and not just treat the rash and we're up to the fourth yod we went through fire and we went through wind and we went through water we're up to offer Earth and Earth we said inside us if there's an imbalance if there's a disfunction if there's a a virus when it comes to the quality of the element of Earth within us it expresses itself in laziness indolence in sadness in depression and pessimism and in Hope lessness person who's living life saying what's the point it's not going to get better it can't get better it never does get better so a person walks around fabis and miserable and looking down everything is negative and toxic and pessimistic and complaints and they have not the reason why everything can work out but the reason it won't work out and not they seeing everything that's right but they see everything that's wrong that is a rash that really is reflective of a virus a corruption on the Mida on this yod on this Foundation this quality the element of Afar within within a person so we've been talking about that the way to heal all of these viruses amuna amuna amuna is the great therapy it doesn't take the place of therapy a person needs therapy I endorse and support therapy it doesn't take the place of chemical medication a person who needs the help of uh of pharmaceuticals then it's important if it's prescribed and diagnosed it doesn't take the place I always give that disclaimer I think rabbis or any uh educator or speakers who talk about amuna as if it's this Elixir that can solve problems and you don't need to go to a doctor you don't need to take medicine you need to get therapy is grossly grossly irresponsible just like if a person has diabetes amuna is not going to balance their sugars and if a person has a heart problem amuna is not going to unclog their artery so too if a person has an emotional psychological mental struggle amuna is not going to heal it it certainly will contribute to the healing but it will not on its own heal we have to act responsibly and take care of it but I'm talking about someone with not non an undiagnosed challenge just the threshold or level that we all have of anxiety and fear and worry and arrogance and anger and impatience and all these things in those areas there amuna is the most incredible solution it is the most incredible therapy the more Consciousness and mindfulness and presence and awareness the more we feel asm's love his support the more we look for his guidance the more we turn to him for help the more appreciative and grateful what we have are and the attitude of gratitude that we wake up with and carry throughout our day the more humbled the more centered the more anchored we will be the more patient the more kind the more the less arrogant the less impatient and so on we're on page P the middle of the page there's an additional Point says RI and that is that this quality of zus that zus is not just the antidote or the opposite of laziness but rather it has a virtue or a merit on its own you know what because we have this nice crowd maybe you'll hear me better okay all right everybody relax I get it okay so say the following zus which really um complement we do the 10 minutes of meeting right before this class every Wednesday it's on Facebook live or you could listen to it on uh several websites and we're learning miss this morning we wrapped up the ninth chapter which is the chapter Thank You for Your sponsorship of zus of alacrity and Zeal and enthusiasm and dynamism and passion you could wake up in the morning and a can't believe it's another day you hit you hit 17 snooze buttons and you protest having to to wake up with everything that you've got until you can't delay it any longer and you NE fall out of your bed and slowly and lethargically make your way to start your day and that attitude and that speed and movement to get your day started does not promise for a most successful and uh accomplished day or you could jump out of bed like a lion to greet the day which is the first the code of Jewish law starts with not how to keep kosher how to keep chabas and L not honesty in business L jump out of bed like a lion jump out of bed like a lion to greet the day now I have to tell you if you had eight nine hours of sleep so that's an easy Al to keep sometimes I happen to have slept for 3 hours last night it's a lot harder when that alarm goes off so I am that person I have like a whole system of clocks alarms set up and a whole system fine hisari some days it's a little bit harder to jump out of bed so zus that Mida that quality which you could listen to the last several of the 10-minute talks about zus this notion of living with alacrity it doesn't mean recklessly it doesn't mean irresponsibly it doesn't mean fearlessly because if you wake up and you grip it and rip it in life and you just go charge your day but you've not thought strategically and you don't have a level of mindfulness and cautiousness and awareness then you're going to fall right off a cliff then going to fall and fail right on your face you've got to wake up with that dynamism and passion and Zeal and alacrity and energy but with a plan a wellth thought at well-crafted plan and the reminded us you have to do it also with an acute awareness of identifying the obstacles the impediments The Temptations the distractions that likely will knock you off course or try so that you have a plan how you're going to navigate around them what's going to happen when you hit that wall how are you going to run over it or around it or if necessary run through it what's going to happen when that voice of self- sabotage kicks in and says don't bother give up so zus has to before zus comes zus first you have caution and mindfulness and strategic thinking and being present in all you do and once we've created a habit to be present in everything we do to be thoughtful in every speech action and behavior then now zus now you can unleash that Zeal and that enthusiasm so back to our study back to Rus the notion of having passion and Zeal and energy this is not just the opposite of laziness it's not just well I can either move slowly or I can move quickly and the Torah is endorsing moving quickly instead of slowly this is not a function of the speed in which you're traveling zus is not about going quickly there are people who have a walker there are people who are in a wheelchair there are people who shuffle along who live with extraordinary zus his resus is not about how fast you get from point A to point B his Reus is about the mentality and the attitude and the way you greet the day your level of productivity and efficiency your excitement and your passion for what you're doing it's not a function of the speed which you move so it's not the opposite of laziness it's not the opposite of moving slowly it's about crafting and cultivating within us a certain sense of drive a sense of ambition a sense of excitement a sense of pursuit now he's quoting the is the quality it's a of of completion of wholeness of being full because the nature of a person is to try to not have it in other words inera kicks in the default of the person there's very rare people who jump out of bed who are so excited to start the day I have seven kids six of whom are impossible to wake and one and I always tell her every day the best to go to sleep and she's the best to you knock on her door and you say t it's time to wake up she's already out of bed getting dressed literally before you finish saying her name she jumps that's very rare in our case one out of seven whatever the numbers are if you include the parents one out of nine it's very rare start to include a son-in-law a grandchild it's one out of just you know odds go even further down it's very very rare the nature of a person the default in the person is the inertia kicks in when you're sitting on the couch you don't want to get up from it when you're sleeping in bed you don't want to wake up when you're still you don't want to be an object at rest will remain at rest isn't that one of the laws of thermodynamics or physics so we are objects at rest the default is to be at rest until we can get ourselves going the default is to be at rest until there's a motor there's an engine that kicks in inside us with inspiration and with vigor and again is according to RAM and he says whatever it takes to get yourself going whatever is necessary to get that energy level up to kick in to get started you will be rewarded manyfold the benefit the profit the fruit of whatever it took is well worth it the return is exponentially greater than when you gave up in the process a little more sleep you could have had but the joy and the satis action and the pride and the reward of what you did when you were able to get up and go so yeah the default our nature is to remain at rest and to be still but if we can find that drive inside ourselves how many people all the productivity gurus talk about but how many of us succeed in really waking up with an agenda for that day I don't mean a to-do list and I don't mean that your email inbox you let other people fashion your to-do list I mean wake up and say okay here's my here are my goals for the day here's how I will Define a successful day today and they have actual action items they could be professional action items about meetings or about profit or about a new campaign or about returning emails or phone calls they could be personal action items about spending time with people you care about they could be spiritual action items about I'm really going to get lost in prayer or hod this I'm going to meditate and reflect today I'm going to come up with a gratitude Journal today it could be exercise or health or Wellness goals but to wake up in the morning already with a clear agenda in fact the productivity gurus will tell you that if you wake up in the morning to do it you're already too late you can't go to sleep the night before without knowing what you want to accomplish the next day and there are all kinds of planners bless you and there's all kinds of um apps and there's all kinds of uh platforms to help us track it and maintain it and plan it most of them are actually just a distraction from doing it the oldfashioned pen and paper the oldfashioned pad I walk around with these little cards in my pocket and I'm constantly writing things on them usually during daving which is when I have my best thoughts and I'll interrupt avening to write it down on a piece of paper because our heads are made for having ideas not storing them and if you're trying to store a million ideas there's no room left to be having more ideas and you'll never be present with whoever whomever you're supposed to be present in that moment so whether it's by your night table having the pen and paper or whether it's in the shower having a waterproof pen and paper or whether it is during davening not being not opening a sitter if you don't have a little pen and paper for when that thought will pop into your head because those are the times you have your best thoughts notice why by the way do you have your best thoughts then when you're trying to fall asleep when you're in the shower when you're daving why do you have your best thoughts then why because you cleared your mind because you're disconnected from technology you know why because you're experiencing something called you're alone and the only time that you have breakthrough is when you're alone it's this week's paraa I don't want to Bor it because I'm already on like the third detour so I have to find my way back to the highway but I don't want to belabor it but this week's paraa is Yakov goes back to retrieve the small DRS and he interacts with the S as but we understand to be his own alter ego and he wrestles Yakov wrestles with the angel the whole night and Yakov triumphs he perseveres he walks away but he limps away he's injured from the experience but he greets the dawn of a new day and he says give me a blessing and I believe what the text is telling us is that yakob says I've wrestled but what's the blessing I could take out from that experience of wrestle how have I grown that experience through that struggle every struggle has a lesson every struggle is a growth point and a growth opportunity sometimes we focus on the struggle and I wouldn't blame anyone for doing it but we wallow in the struggle and it's pain and it's grief and it's disappointment and it's and its um denial but if we don't wallow in the struggle and instead like Yakov we ask we say give me a blessing the dawn of the new day the sun has risen again give me a blessing is how we can we take that struggle and how can we extract the blessing the springboard for growth that comes from it so what enabled Yakov to wrestle the whole night yov he didn't have his cell phone with him yov left his he left his smartphone he was very religious he probably didn't have a smartphone he had a flip phone but he left his filtered phone back at the camp and then he went to go retrieve these things and he was literally lado and we are so uncomfortable I don't want to believe this now I'm actually speaking in La this weekend about this subject but about mindfulness and and meaning and the ability to be alone growth only happens breakthrough only happens when we're alone when you're falling asleep all you have are your thoughts you're alone people aren't even alone anymore when they walk into an elevator those 30 seconds they have to at a red light you got to check your phone we have this inability this allergy to being alone and therefore we're stifled in our own growth and our own breakthrough in our own thought process and our own dreams and aspirations butas yob that struggle and Bre bre through only happen when we are alone so when you're in the shower and when you're falling asleep or when you're doing you are alone you're not there's no noise there's no technology there's no other people so it's not a coincidence that that's exactly when we have all of our best thoughts that's when our creativity kicks in creativity doesn't kick in when there's noise creativity doesn't kick in when there's feedback and tension and static and activity and Chaos creativity kicks in when there is aloneness so get me back to the highway people so right that's it so if we have the presence and the mindfulness um to live with jus that's it the night before when we go to sleep to come up with our agenda for the next day what will my best day look like tomorrow how will I Define it how for me to go to sleep tomorrow night feeling proud of the day I had feeling accomplished feeling that I live the best version of me what does it have to include what would it include the best day my best day personally professionally spiritually emotionally what would it include and now how am I going to do it how do I make it happen most of us are just living life just momentum is carrying us we don't we have motion sickness not even momentum instead of being able to identify what does my death day look like how do I plan for for it how do I anticipate the things that will challenge me from accomplishing it what's my strategy to nav Navigate those things which are going to try to cause me to fail and how can I achieve that so ra is noting this and he's wondering why do I need to be told or promised that if I can live life with aity and Zeal in this world if I can get out of being stuck if I can get get myself into motion instead of being still that I will be rewarded in the world to come world to come world to come there's no free will there's no choice there's no ality you don't move quickly you don't move slowly you don't move in the world to come Jus so says R in order to understand this answer we have to develop further this quality this character trait called aity and zeal when we talk about living with Zeal and ality it's not just that it is a strategy to achieve other things it's not just a means towards an end it's an end unto itself it is a value and a virtue that's worth achieving in its own right this is in contrast I'll give you an example the author of Calum says in a beautiful essay that Raa has actually in alore about Sedar living with organization and Order and Y is here listen carefully feel this will speak to you living with enormous punctuality and Order and organization is is a is a very Jewish quality it's a it's a Mida which is a Torah Mida it's a mid which is a Torah Mida so the question though is is an obsession with order and organization and punctuality is that a means or is that an ends is that a value in its own right or is it only a value in as much as it helps you accomplish other values so the author of C gives the following great musall he he says pearl necklace you have a beautiful pearl necklace the Magnificent Pearl strung together and a beautiful pearl necklace the least valuable part of a pearl necklace is the string the string is negligible value costs nothing it has no value at all no resale value the string is nothing and yet it's the most important part of the necklace because if you don't have the string if the string snaps you don't have pearls or a pearl necklace and it's an amazing mush which helps us appreciate and understand that living with order and punctuality is not in its own right the value or virtue it's not a goal in itself it's negligible its value what's its value that without it you can't accomplish anything else so you want to manage your time you want to manage your money you want discipline in life and discipline equals Freedom then you need to manage you need the Pearl you need the necklace if you want the pearls which are Financial Freedom and free time and relationships and presence of mind and if we want all the pearls of life then the string even though it is worthless relative but it's so important and I would say here we're saying the exact opposite it's not that zus it's not that living with elocity and Zeal and drive and passion and dynamism are just the necklace the string they are one of the pearls Living With Jesus is one of the pearls it is one of the values that we have about the carbon P we're told it has to be eaten with aity we're told that the almighty himself he took us out of Egypt he redeemed us he emancipated us he liberated us with speed with alacrity with energy why because K was overcoming his inclination for laziness the almighty God there's some benefit if he does things faster of course not there's nothing that stands in God's way God doesn't need to overcome procrastination or indolence that's the default of we are we are um not in motion until we're in motion we are still until we're in motion that's our default God's default is to be in motion he's always in motion because he's always doing and achieving and building and creating and supervising and interacting and loving and caring and supporting he's always in motion so in other words zus living life with this quality is in itself emulating God it's imitating God it's expressing the godliness in us so when someone says or when your own Alter Ego says to you why should I get up off the couch I'm really enjoying I'm up to season 70,000 uh episode 20,000 and I'm about to make a c c aass is nothing compared to my uh my watching skills and how much I've binged and why should I get up off the couch why why it's all well and good I have enough money to pay the bills and nobody around me feels neglected and why should I get up off the couch why should I jump out of bed why should I be not lazy and a che accomplish and the answer is because you have a Godly Soul inside you and it is entirely unrealized and unfulfilled not only you're stealing from God for the talents and gifts and the opportunities he given you and you're stealing from him from failing to take advantage of them to be at motion should be our default except for when we have to be still we have to not be at motion when we sleep we're not in motion when we sit and eat and even then you can eat in a way where you're at Motion in a productive way so it's expressing the godliness in us living withus is not because God is struggling with laziness so he's working on zus no God's default is zus because it is godliness being a zaris living with enthusiasm and energy and drive and passion is godliness and we show that godl is in US it's not just that you know why you should live with Jesus because you'll get more things done because you'll be able to count more productivity because you'll get more things done that's not the reason to do it in that way we don't do it in that way because we'll get more things done we do it in that way because doing that in that way is the way we're meant to be it is the best version of us when we were redeemed God said you know what your Redemption is what will we redeemed from slavery servitude a slave and a a slave has no um ability to control their own time they have no ability to set their own agenda they have no ability to make their own priorities they have no idea no ability to pursue their own Drive the whole notion of being enslaved is having to answer to someone else having a master who controls your time and controls your priorities and even manages and controls your energy redeemed us and in the way he redeemed us he said I'm redeeming you and you know what Redemption looks like you now control your own time that's why the foro writes we were given the first Mitzvah first Mitzvah in the Torah when we left Egypt the very first Mitzvah we got was why because the biggest difference between a slave and a free person is the ability to control your own time so when you're late all the time and when you your time is controlled and manipulated by others you are in fact not a free person but when you can manage your time with order and discipline when you can regulate your own time and your on time and you practice punctuality that's godliness that's Freedom that's Freedom you will lose out on the Bounty that's waiting for us we're losing out on the Fulfillment the satisfaction we're losing out on realizing the best version of ourselves you may get a lot done so you'll say you know if I live with zus I can hit a 10 out of 10 without zus I get to an eight an Eight's a whole lot better than a seven a six a five so and it's not bad so what do I need the zus for so you're right if zus were only about measuring how much you get done then maybe you can get a lot done without zus and you think you don't need to live with it but Z's energy alacrity are not just about how much you get done they're about the way with which you did it the way with which you did it it's not just about the result it's about the process and the process includes godliness emulating and imitating God the med says the actions of the righteous are done quickly again not quickly you could be a walker and be a righteous person you could have a wheelchair and be a righteous person you could shuffle your feet slowly and be a righteous person but it means means with an attitude that's what learn when it says Safeguard keep thez a rabis learn don't read it they read Safeguard and keep the mat the only difference between and mat is the ingredients are exactly the same the only difference is time and so say you know if your friend ask you to do something and you get to it but it took you to get to it you turn that Mitzvah into if your spouse asks you to be responsive or to do something and you got to it but in your time then you turn that act of love into and if Hashem says I want you to jump out of bed and we got big plans together I got big plans for you today we have a lot to accomplish and you're the only one on my Earth who could do it there's billions of people but every one of us is unique and distinct and each one of us has a mission to achieve here on Earth so get out of bed we got stuff to do we got big plans today we have mission to accomplish and you say uh I'll get to it snooze snooze snooze and even when you get to it later but you've turned your relationship with hem into so if we want our actions and behaviors to be cloaked in godliness if we want them to be not just mundane acts but we want them to be actual spiritually endowed acts it's all about the attitude that we bring to them so if you get to it and if you move slowly to do it and if you do it reluctantly and hesitantly then yeah you got it done you can put a check in the column that you got it done but when you do it with a ofus with aity and Zeal and with enthusiasm and with passion then you've injected it with spirituality you've injected it with you've injected it with a sense of Holiness every Mitzvah is an opportunity and an invitation to make contact with the Divine every Mitzvah is an opportunity to experience something much bigger than ourselves every Mitzvah is an opportunity to make contact with the divine it's all the attitude we bring to the way we do it when we stop in the middle when we get lazy when we take a break when we're distracted Hashem says hello you're in the middle talking to someone and then you see they're on their phone so you just check out you check out you hang up or you walk away so says Hi We were in the middle of a moment we're having a moment together a deep what a DMC my kids call DMC we were in the middle of a DM DMC you know what DMC is a deep meaningful conversation AB I need to have a DMC with you a DMC there's a whole new dictionary that's come out you want to learn the lingo you have to learn the word Flex you have to learn T4 and you have to learn a DMC it's a whole glossery not for now so but if you want to see him really call with your children or grandchildren just just use the word even out of context say Flex or call your grandchild and say look it's been a long time since we've had a DMC you that's the biggest Kaneka present you could give him this year just tell them you want to have a DMC with them so the almighty says we're in the middle of a DMC we're in the middle of a deep meaningful conversation and you just took that call and you're answering that text and you're distracted you know what you checked out I'm out of here so you know what happens now when you restart the conversation you have to take it from back from the beginning yeah you have to start from the top you've lost the flow and the momentum that existed in the conversation now we understand why for the is a ofus you want to be a shing person a complete person a whole person on the path to Perfection person then you need to acquire and grow and try to master this quality you also understand why we're talking about in the context of amuna you want to feel God in your life it's the attitude that you bring to what you do it's not just a checklist of getting done what we need to do but it's how we do it and it's the attitude we bring to what we do because having the right attitude towards what we do will make us feel that we had contact with the Divine that we touch something so much bigger than ourselves it makes us feel on fire and accomplished it makes us feel Worthy and consequential it makes us feel that we make a difference and that we matter it makes us nourish and and feed and expand theim inside us so we have a gof in and we're good at taking care of our goof but the way to give a to the things that the Goof is doing is the attitude we bring towards it to do it withus so now we know why helps us the more that we feel I'm in the presence of God he's in my life I'm in the middle of a real relationship relationships are time and intimacy and affection and communication and all the building blocks of every other relationship in our life apply to our relationship with Hashem they are the foundation and building blocks you think you're going to have a positive relationship with Hashem when you don't invest time with him what kind of relationship are you going to have if you don't ever have date night with Hashem if you don't communicate and confide in him if you're not listening when he's talking to you if he's not if you're not listening when he's talking to you the r calls that it's an act of Cruelty K is talking to us all the time question is are we listening my brother-in-law Joseph hin said at my Shas a few years ago the following shot he said a beautiful insight into the rambam the ram says the reason that we fast on Jewish fast days is in order to elevate ourselves from the physical trappings of the world to focus on what's important and what's important that a person should not go through life saying that the world and life is mikra mikra mikra means happen stance it's chance that I am just the product of Randomness chance and happen stance says if you walk with me car means chance then I'll walk with you barer then I'll walk with you with chance and happen stance meaning I won't watch over you and I won't protect you and you will be exposed to and you will be vulnerable to the elements so then the ram quotes this and he says on a fast day this is what we should think about the Raam says because if you bring that attitude to God that everything that he does and every way he interacts with us it's just mikra it's just chance says the ra says cruelty cruelty what kind of Act of Cruelty maybe it's wrong maybe it's lacking Merit maybe it's but why is it cruel so he suggested the the following if someone's calling you and you hear them but you choose to ignore them it's cruel you ever have that someone's in the house you're calling one of your children somebody you're calling their name and you know they hear you they're an earshot they can hear you oh yeah but they're so distracted by what they're doing or they're simply ignoring you and for the person who's on the other end for the victim of the being ignored it feels literally like an act of Cruelty so that's what the rambam is saying God is talking to us every day in our lives every day in the things that happen we talked about our Hask Journal which is still very much alive a WhatsApp group I hope everyone else has started Hashem is talking to us each and every day but are we listening in those little moments that feel like chance or Randomness or coincidence so I'm flying later this week and two days ago I was looking for something in my briefcase and I couldn't find it and I had no time but it caused me to dig deep on the bottom of my briefcase to look for the thing that I couldn't find so frustrated and annoyed I was looking for and you know what I found at the bottom of my briefcase a really sharp knife because a few weeks ago I had gone somewhere and I grabbed an apple and a sharp knife because where I went I wanted to cut myself an apple and I forgot the knife in my briefcase and I had not lost the thing that I was looking for that caused me to search the bottom of my briefcase I would have been a TSA tomorrow having to answer some questions about why I had a really sharp knife in the briefcase I put through the X-ray machine so you could in that moment either still be annoyed that you had to look for the item or not annoyed you looked for the item but you say HH what a coincidence I found the knife or you could stop and say I hear you Hashem I hear you loud and clear coming through loud and clear I hear you and you're coming through loud and clear that's living with amuna when you're living with amuna when the amamas are strong when we have that sense of mindfulness then we're living life every day looking by the way one of the byproducts of having a has WhatsApp group with your family or whoever else you want I'll join you but the byproduct of it is it causes you every day to look for something that you could put on your group yes so you're living life in high definition not only is it not in black and white it's not even in color you're living in high definition because your whole day is looking for those moments Hashem I have a very listening ear I'm listening carefully and when you'll speak to me I'm going to hear it loud and clear when you'll speak to me it's going to come through and I'm going to hear it loud and clear so the more we live with amuna the more that we are listening for him to come through loud and clear it will impact the way we live our lives amuna is the antidote to laziness and procrastination and indolence because without God why go quickly as long as I can accomplish the results I want who cares the speed with which I moved but if I'm living with Hashem if he's present in my life if I understand I crave his attention and I crave his time and I understand that the way to make contact with him and to feel him in my life is the attitude I bring to what I do it will absolutely change the way of what I do last night there was a beautiful concert T Academy put on here in town one of the great singers Joey Nukem whose mom is here this morning so I told him after the uh concert he recently released a a great song the B nigan which is not his it's a holy holy tune the B of nigan but he put words to it when you fall down get back up very beautiful very stirring very uplifting so I told him I wanted him to know that I'm have a friend who had a bad day who had been tracking every day on one of the Habit apps a positive behavior that he had been tracking from many months positive and he fell off the wagon the commitment that he had made to track that positive behavior he was set back and he had to turn back the the clock and the counter to zero and he was feeling a little bit down about it but that very day is when Joey's new song came out and the video and he saw it and it turned him around it lifted him up when you fall down you get back up so that story in itself is amazing so I told to Joey last night so he said to me now I know why the release was delayed he said was frustrated I wanted to get it out and I didn't understand hashem's plan when is it going to come out but Hashem had to have it come out the day it needed to come out for the right person that needed to come out so that's living with amuna is you say you know when I'm frustrated why isn't it coming out when I'm frustrated why isn't the thing I'm waiting for happening you could wallow in the frustration and use the frustration as a copout from your relationship with hem or you could say k I'm listening I'm listening very carefully and I can't wait to find out why this is taking longer than I want it to take maybe we'll hear it In Our Lifetime maybe we won't but I know one thing if we're not listening we won't ever hear it at all you have to be listening you have to be listening the more we feel and live with him there'll be no barrier there'll be no break from him you want to make contact with the Divine you want to feel connected and close to Hashem you want to express and reinforce and promote and project the godliness in you then bring an attitude of alacrity and Zeal and enthusiasm in everything we do have a great week