(Part 155): In God We Trust

good morning good morning to all and a even on thises of we Sayes I'm just buying time while I'm still doing the technology one more second go live let's hope that's it it's AES it's a new beginning New Beginning fresh start a new opportunity to work on Arun and there is no better time for a fresh start and new beginning than the month of when we're trying to turn things around and we will hopefully from sitting on the floor in morning and grieving to getting up off that floor and to doing what we need to do in order to be able to welcome and to bring mashia I want to thank our sponsors for this morning first of all the series sponsor for this year living with amuna drors AI and Bella Morgan thank you so much for your generous sponsorship nishas in memory of our dear friend whose first year site is rapidly approaching Rabbi Dr Brian galet who is a role model to so many of us of living with amuna everything that we talk about in this class also this particular class is sponsored generously by Leo and Lucy D ofat in memory of Leo's great-grandfather of Udi and by B Smith in honor of a continued and recitation of for a good outcome for his forthcoming test we should hear good news and he should be well he should have a complete and a speedy and a whole Raa Shala okay thank you for being with us this morning we continue to learn Schwarz we're in the home stretch really finishing it up his beautiful essay know your and we've been defining and I want to believe the point and review Al together but what is all about it's trust it's trust and the last thing that we've been developing is the notion that we have all kinds of trust in every area of our life we trust when we're going to cross the street that we're not going to get run over we trust that we don't have a blind spot that we can't see we trust when we take the medicine or we pick up the takeout food that it's not poison or contaminated and it's not going to kill us we trust in the bank and we trust in our insurance and we trust in there are all kinds of areas and Arenas of trust all around us that Define our lives and they really represent a nugget they represent an internal ability to trust the problem is that we misplace that trust we place the trust in people and things we put the trust in ourselves instead of realizing that that engagement that encounter that experience with trust is really there in order to understand that we can trust in Hashem that he is the first of all that in od there is nothing and there is no one but him that everything that happens to us it's not random and it's not chance and it's not happen stance it's not accidental but it is by Design and it does come from him so we've been developing the notion that the one who lives with is not a decision for the moment is not a muscle that we work out B is a lens through which we engage and encounter the world it's a Las corre Ive surgery and so we don't see a world filled with opposition conflict battling we don't see a world that's filled with struggle we see a world that's operating in Harmony and unity and peace we see a world that is the will of Hashem we understand and we accept that all that happens is from above it's not easy it's not easy to live this level but yet this is our ambition this is our aspiration that the one who can over and over again be engaged in this conversation in this love relationship can nurture that relationship with Hashem by spending time by communicating by all the core ingredients of any healthy relationship then when the time comes when we need him we're not struggling to find him we're not looking for him we're not working out some Amun muscle we're not deciding let me live with faith it's natural it's natural as much as I know my parents are there and they love me and they'll come through for me is is to know that aash and my father is with me and loves me and will come through for me in that in that moment in that moment I have many stories to share of late in my life as I'm sure all of you in yours as our lives have been turned upside down in this uh in this area in this area but let's keep going and we we'll get the stories in that says one of the one of the classic mistakes that we all make is to think that we need to acquire the attribute or the character trait or the the capacity to live a life of we're trying to make a Kenyan we're trying to acquire it and he says this is a mistake it's not a matter of go to your next conference or convention it's not a matter of go to the next meeting it's not a matter of subscribe to the next newsletter it's not a matter of you need to acquire the character trait of to acquire in our soul why this mistaken notion thinks that I don't have an innate internal inherent sense of trust of Faith the ability to let go and let Hashem I need to acquire it really I'm born neutral I'm a blank slate I'm a tasa and I need to acquire it I have to subscribe to the WhatsApp and the newsletter and listen to the sh I have to read the books and surround myself with the people and I have to learn I have to learn the attribute I have to learn the character trait I have to acquire I have to acquire the ability but that's a mistake it's a terrible mistake the notion that you have to acquire it is it's incorrect it's inaccurate on its head a life of Faith a life of trust a life of confidence and calm that Hashem is involved is's in in our lives you can't acquire it you can't download it you can't go to the store and buy it you can't upgrade to it there's no new version of it is not something that you acquire it's something that's inside all of us from the moment that we were born just like the baby the newborn emerges from the mother's womb and already feels an affinity a connection a trust an expectation of a mother and father reach for them expects to be sustained and nourished and protected by them knows I have a mother and a father and maybe the younger we are the more um hopeful or Wishful we are but not always true that our mother and father are as if perfect and can come through for us and can fix anything and the older we grow the more that we love and admire them but we also come to realize that they too are human but as children of Hashem we have an innate sense when we are born we should have the sense I'm not from nowhere I have a mother I have a father is both at the same time he's both at the same time I have a parent who loves me who nurtures me who protects me it's not an a character trait I have to acquire it's not a skill set I have to learn it's not a degree I have to earn it's something inside me it's innate it's part of my life now on this line here in R Schwarz I want to say two things number one I saw a beautiful incident I don't remember in whose name the P says the world is filled K normally is translated to mean the world is filled with that which you own Hashem it's your world you own everything in it you own everything in it the world is K it's yours however I saw a beautiful alternative understanding the world is filled with our ability to acquire you a sunset a stream a beautiful day a conversation a hot cup of coffee a wonderful experience the world is filled with invitations and opportunities to see and to feel and to acquire a relationship with you are our eyes open is our antenna extended do we see him all around do we have a WhatsApp group and have we been leaving messages and recordings about all the times that we see him from the major times he's come through in Monumental ways to the SE L small insignificant seemingly unimportant ways that that too we attribute to so when Schwarz talks about you don't make a it's not something we acquire it's innate it's inherent it's intrinsic it's natural it's inside each and every one of us but you can make a Kenyon the world is filled with opportunities it's filled with opportunities to see and to feel and to know him that's number one number two number two I want to share with you we've learned this previously but I think it was a couple years ago great student murdered by the Nazis has an essay where he asks the following question he says some of the greatest minds of all of history struggled and grappled to be able to prove that God exists Aristotle the great philosopher and I'm not invoking his name does in the says Aristotle struggle to conclude is there evidence that's compelling that there is a God that Theon the almighty exists so you take a bar mitzvah and a b Mitzvah child a boy turns 13 a girl turns 12 and you say to them it's time for Torah and mitz put on in you have to DAV in you have to observe shabas you're going to have to fast on Tish it's time to observe Torah and mitz oh and among them is you have to have a mo of Faith you have to know and to have a relationship with a god this little pitola this little bar mitzvah kid this little teenager this little adolescent doesn't know anything in life they think they do but they're just starting out on the Journey of Life the great philosophers the most Brilliant Minds of men and women struggled to conclusively prove that there's a God and this little satala this little Pito this little kid is supposed to know conclusively observe that Mitzvah how how could they possibly be obligated so gives a fundamental answer that's so critical to understand what and are all about and it's what I believe R Schwarz is alluding to maybe not the Insight of directly but along the exact same lines says don't need to be learned you're right if you had to First sit down and investigate and analyze and research and try to understand is there a god 12 and 13 are unrealistic and unfair ages to expect someone to do it but that's not what a are and you have from the womb you emerge knowing there's someone bigger there's someone better there's more to life you know there are those who came before and just like I know that I have parents I know that I have a parent in heaven and you know what the whole mission the whole Mandate of parents is by the time that child is Bor Mitzvah don't mess it up by the time they turn 12 or 13 don't turn them cynical and sarcastic don't make them disbelievers by the time they turn 12 or 13 don't introduce them to what so many adults struggle with and have Hang-Ups about but rather continue continue to nourish and continue to reinforce within them what they've already always known that there is a God that there is a God and this had a huge impact on my own parenting style for my older kids who when they were young we didn't talk about Hashem to the degree that we do today because we felt it silly and talked to a little kid about Hashem helped us find that parking spot don't forget to make a br and thank Hashem isn't Hashem amazing look how the weather's perfect for us when we're going out today it felt silly and it felt unsophisticated and what did they really understand and what do I even understand and then we realized how much how important it is children already know that and now they talk about now they see and I've given you countless examples adium about our hash WhatsApp group and the children as young as my 7-year-old recording voice notes in it oh Hashem I saw him in this way I saw him in that way the more we talk about him the more the more he will be in our lives the more he'll be in our lives we say I have I because I speak about God I speak about s of Schwarz here is saying Trust on hasem and the common the confidence that brings that everything will be okay these aren't acquired traits you don't go to school for them you don't get a degree you can't take a online course you can't download it but rather it's innate it's internal it's intrinsic it's inside you take the layers off unpeel all the layers of life that have hardened us and disappointed us that have failed us unpeel the layers of Life of ingratitude of a lack of appreciation of a failure to recognize where he's been in our life and underneath it all and inside you you'll find that at your core is a Pinal yid screaming to have a relationship with Hashem that inside you in your Bo in your belly you want to come home to your father you want to talk to him you want to spend time with him you want to feel his guiding and loving hand you want to know that everything he's doing is for a reason and that it makes sense it's not random it's not outside of us it's inside of us stop looking for the solution elsewhere stop looking for the solution with someone else the solution is inside you listen to that voice inside yourself listen to what you've always known nourish it nurture it and let it come out reveal it and peel back those layers and know it what child at any age I've had to many circumstances counsel adults who lost their parent who had estranged relationships with their parent and it was devastating their parent might have died at 1995 120 and it was devastating when they lost their parent why why it was tragic because that child was holding out for all those years that maybe my mother or father will finally interact with me the way that I've dreamt a mother or father will maybe will reconcile maybe they'll apologize maybe there'll be a conversation that I've craved throughout my entire life and when that parent leaves this world and with them the possibility of the reconciliation they've wanted so badly where does that come from why as children can't we move on why don't we just say they're not the people I wish they were I wish I could have chosen other parents but I can't why is the person in such profound and acute pain when the parent doesn't live up to what they hop the parent would be and the answer is because inside everyone of us is a natural yearning to relate and connect with our parent to be protected and loved and complimented by our parent and when the parent doesn't function in that way it's devastating to us but even if our biological parents fail us and they're not the people we wish and hope they would be and even if they've left this world and we were never able to repair we always from the moment we're born till the day we die we always have a parent am Our Father in heaven and you don't have to be taught to want to connect with him you don't have to learn it or download it it's inside every one of us honor it listen to it nurture it uncover it and you will find this incredible sense of relief and love when you finally unburden and love and and load unload by talking to Hashem by talking to him tell him your disappointments and frustrations protest the decisions that are painful thank him for the incredible blessings that we take for granted each and every day lean on him in tough times but know that he's always there and inside you you know that there's a pent inside you a p inside each and every one of us and so the mission for the 12 and 13 year old says is not to teach them that there's a God you're right if you had to sit down the bottom about mitah class and say okay boys and Co girls today we're going to learn about the evidence for God's existence forget about it you can't get started but that's not what you have to do say all you have to do is get out of the way don't ruin it don't mess it up nurture what they already know inside them they have you their mommy and ABA and they also have an ABA in sh just teach them that they want to believe that they know that they do believe that don't take away the belief don't mess it up that same child who that same child who's willing to believe in a tooth Theory until some older sibling messes it up and ruins it says you do know it's Mom and Dad who put the money under your pillow right that same child that same child knows that there's a Hashem even if he's invisible they can't talk to him or hear him don't mess it up don't ruin it don't ruin it to the child that's still inside each and every one of us remember we spent a lot of time talking about it's only once we make a mistake that now we believe we're in a world of battle when I'm in the good eating Zone when I I would never touch the food that's bad for me ah there's nothing that's opposing me there's no force that I have to overcome because I would never touch that poison but the minute I put a few of those corn chips those potato chips in my mouth and I didn't blow up like the girl in Charlie in the Chocolate Factory I didn't drop dead at that moment I've introduced I've introduced the ability to make a mistake in my life and it didn't have lethal consequences so now next time I see those corn chips as potato chips now now I've got to struggle now I've got a battle it is the introduction of it is the introduction of making mistakes of deficiencies and shortcomings that creates a sense of needing to battle and fight through really was smooth sailing really we know there was Aon all along we introduced the P fact and the possibility of making a mistake and that created that created the obstacle and now what do I have to trust Weight Watchers what do I have to trust Atkins what do I have to trust every Diet app once I made a mistake now I misplaced my trust in things outside myself thinking that the solution and the answer is there I trust in the bank I trust in insurance I trust in my lawyer I trust in my doctor and worst of all I have a inflated sense of trust in myself I think that I've got it covered I can micromanage it I can do anything and everything that I want I can solve any situation and says of Schwarz all of these encounters with a sense of trust they're good they're good if you didn't trust your bank there'd be no credit there'd be no economy if you didn't trust your doctor there'd be no healing if you didn't try you need to trust we need to trust in every area of our life that trust is good but those trusts we have to realize pale in comparison they are only small examples of the ultimate trust and the ultimate trust is in hash not ourselves and just like I trust and I was giv this example to the extreme I'm looking for a cup I don't have one but like I we trust I can make the cup of coffee and successfully bring it to my lips and successfully drink it and all the things that need to go right for it to work that I don't even think about because I implicitly trust really I can have the same relationship with Hashem that all the things that are going right all around me in my life that I don't take them for granted but I recognize they're not my skill and management they are the you know what the most arrogant and the most distorted untruthful sense of misplaced trust I got it I can control it I can take care of it you know what this is It's intellectual um stealing intellectual property you're a thief you're stealing you're giving the credit in the wrong place you're putting the trust in yourself so what he's saying is the following you'll say I need to learn trust someone teach me to trust where's the seminar on trust the answer is you have trust inside you you trust the pharmacy you trust the doctor you trust the lawyer you trust the bank you trust the insurance most of all you trust yourself you don't have to learn trust you don't have to go to a seminar Elsewhere for trust you are living with trust in so many other areas of your life now take take that sense of trust that you already have and put it where put it in put it in Hashem this is our mission so therefore says Schwarz the effort of is not to acquire it it's not to learn it but rather it's to reveal it so there are two stages to the effort that we have to put in to learn more number one number one to be mindful of the sense of trust we already have to pause and to think about it and to feel it and to recognize it and to acknowledge it and to lean into it huh I trust I could drink this coffee I trust at the bank I trust in this Arena to realize I do trust already and then the second the harder half is to take the sense of trust I already have and to realize if I can trust these people and things in my life then I already have the ability to place my faith and my trust and to turn to Hashem Hashem is the only that has no his nagdas everything else has his nagus his nagus means tension battle have to overcome there's there's opposite Force it's a rule of physics for every force is an equal and opposite Force pushing back against us the this friction everything in life has friction with the exception of Hashem and the more I attach myself and the more I credit to Hashem I have no friction no opposition in my life take away the layers of soiled garments the garments that cover what is the pure internal sense of self that have been contaminated and blemished by their encounter an engagement with the worst forces in this world with the negative energies of this world remove those contaminated blemished soiled garments and reveal a soul that's on fire a light that's shining bright reveal the pint of theid that just wants to go home and reunite with our father that it's never too late doesn't matter how old you are to find him and the a couple years ago was it last year a couple years ago we have an older member of arul who was adopted decided she would put in the effort to find her biological mother she's got to be in her 80s this member and lo and behold she found that her biological mother was living in an assisted living facility she was still alive deep in her 90s maybe over a 100 living in in an assisted living facility right near us and the newspaper did a whole story they were United she met her mother and while her mother had Advanced dementia her mother did show signs that she remembered and acknowledged this daughter of hers and with the daughter felt she just passed away a couple weeks ago the mother but what this daughter felt after all those years after Decades of life to be reunited how a child wants to come home be reunited made whole with their parent doesn't matter where you are what stage of life it's never too late to live with a to remove those garments those layers those soiled those soiled coverings and to reveal the soul that's on fire and that is light and that just wants to connect there is a spark of God inside us that has no opposition and I want to tell you two stories and every time I tell you these two stories I hope you realize and know that I'm not trying to focus on myself or my family I'm just trying to give you examples as a way of hopefully encouragement and honestly I'm trying to confess that this is something we're working on in our lives and to invite you to partner and to do it with us so we um made the journey last week we quarantined in Florida and then we went through our quarantine mobile to quarantine in New York because mem please God two weeks from yesterday my daughter's getting married and the Govern said you have to quarantine for 14 days when you come from outside of New York so 20 20 hour track all in one big car it's never easy to drive straight with your with your children and things were moving along relatively slowly relatively uh smoothly rather we have dear dear friends amazing people who lent us a mini bus that they have that made it easy to fit our whole family and all the luggage and we're moving along it's driving smoothly everything's great 6 hours 7even hours and then the van starts to rock it's shaking wildly and while my children are in the back amused all recording themselves to their friends you know saying things they because the whole thing is shaking and I were slightly less amused worried about what's going on pulled over two gas stations I checked the tires everything seemed fine I had no idea maybe I95 in Georgia and South Carolina North Carolina needs to be paved I didn't know why the van was rocking the way it was until lo and behold I'm looking on the dashboard there's a monitor that has the PSI the air pressure in all four of the tires and the back left tire I'm looking and I see the back left tire whose air pressure is supposed to be on 70 literally right before my eyes 65 60 55 50 45 40 and I said to this tire is losing all of its air something's going to happen so she's already anyway on the phone with my future son-in-law and she says to him col when we get to New York is there a tire place we're going to need tire so when we get to New York we were in North Carolina so when we get to New York I got to pull over right now I this tire is going to blow and and as I saw it go down to 25 I pulled over to the shoulder of I95 shoulder of I95 in North Carolina and I peek outside the car and I look at the tire and at this point the tire is entirely flat now this is no ordinary Tire this is the tire of a minibus of a large van it's like a truck tire and here we are on the shoulder of I95 in North Carolina a car full of relatively young children and every car that passes us zipping by at I95 the entire car is shaking and rattling when they pass Us by so what do you do you stay calm you've been going to the living with Amun you've been giving the living with Amir you got to stay calm ain't no there's nothing but him so we turn to each other and say okay we'll see what Hashem has in store for us how is this going to work out this's going to be a plan right the worst part of you the negative voice inside you starts to panic what's going to happen it's Thursday we're only in North Carolina we're going to have to get towed find a hotel to stay at find a way to get there will we get there before shabas how will this work out what's going to be so you start to panic that side in View and the other side the good side the voice that of Schwarz is telling us the Pint that the the spark of godliness that has no opposition friction says H stay calm this is an adventure this is a ride this going to be fun let's see how this is going to turn out let's see how it's going to turn out so I call my roadside assistant who leaves me on hold for 35 minutes because due to covid we have fewer people to answer the phone and help you on the side of the road I won't say who it is which roadside assistance it is so I said to you you know call 911 because let them at least sent out somebody who's got lights on their car to make sure nobody's going to ram into us we're here on the shoulder right next to the highway the cars are zipping by we feel ourselves rattling and maybe they know a toe company maybe they'll help us we're sitting on hold I don't know how this is going to ever end and if it gets dark because it was getting close to dark it'll get only even worse so she calls 911 and they put it through the highway patrol and they dispatched someone who's going to come behind us and in the meantime we're still sitting there I'm still on hold with my roadside assistants the car is still rattling my kids are still making videos and we're still living with amuna saying this is going to be an adventure ain't no no let's figure it out and all of a sudden I look up from the dash and there I see a truck in front of me and a man getting out in the side of the truck it says some Tire Company in the back of the truck there are tires and he comes over to me and he says can I help you and I get out of the car and here is a man who I'm convinced is AOA Navi who has a truck that has an air pressure machine that if I tell you he changed the spare tire that I didn't even know this mini bus had it took him maybe 8 minutes to change it to the spare tire the spare tire was exactly the same Tire as the tire that blew and therefore he got us back on the road in literally no time and in the middle or at the end of his fixing this tire is when the when the policeman finally showed and he looked at the tire that was changed it was shredded it was ripped and he said to me he said do you know how close you were to this tire blowing and your car spinning out of control and how tragic this could have been do you begin to understand what could have happened and how lucky you are so there is a moment and there are moments in our lives where you can panic and maybe this is an easy story to tell because it ends well but all stories you got to take that deep breath the Breath of Life n Nima restore and return our soul theim the The Godly spark and lean on him and listen to him and know that he's got a plan it's a journey you're along for the ride CES of Schwarz you could live life with his nagus opposition and forces against having to battle and friction you can panic and lose your cool you could start screaming at your spouse and your children you could start woring what's going to be how will we get hotels and how will we get towed and how long will it take till they find this tire and will we get to where we need to get before shabas and how will we get food you can lose it or you can live with it you can let go and let God you can say Hashem there's a plan I don't know what it is but it's what's going to be right and we're going to be fine so we got here and it all worked out well and then on Sunday we went to get tested to make sure that we're all good as we begin the quarantine towards the wedding and we all tested negative but a member of the family wasn't feeling great and said let's go again yesterday spoke to someone who said double check make sure it wasn't a false negative and get tested with the rapid test again let's make sure so I was driving back to the clinic yesterday and on the car ride we sang ano milado we said you know what the best part of am is you don't have to root for one way or the other how the test is going to come out whichever way the test comes out is the best is what's meant to be so it's so great usually you'd worry and you'd stress is it going to be negative is it going to be positive what is the impact of it being negative how does it affect the timeline of what we need to do what does it affect the rest of us need to quarantine what's going to be what's going to happen how will it work out normally you panic when you consider the Alternatives but when you live a life of then you never need to panic this is the Cal remember how this all began remember shim Le entered the city they came with a sense of confidence because they knew that they had they knew that they had um set up the situation to Triumph to persevere to win they knew they knew that they had manipulated everything in their favor and therefore they were able to enter the city of they were able to enter with a sense of confidence and calm because they knew it would turn in their favor and when you go through life and you know and even as you face hard things and we're daving for Ari this morning and please God everything is going to be well and wonder and you wait tests and returns and what's going to happen and what will be and it's not easy it's not easy a flat tire is nothing compared to the waiting some are doing and I've told my family thank God we've been negative I've tested three times I've been negative all three times but I will tell you if nothing else it gave me a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of what people waiting for real tests are waiting what it's like to wait to hear back from that lab or from that report and to want to know something that could change the trajectory of your life the level of empathy it gives me for the people who have to sit and wait a fraction of a fraction a nothing of a nothing of what they go through when we wait particularly a rapid test you're waiting a whole 20 minutes to hear what it is should make all of us more sympathetic and empathetic more loving and more caring more understanding of people who have to wait for real tests real tests with real negative impact with real negative impact but this is the message of of R Schwarz and and we're really finishing up in the next couple of sessions we'll get through this piece and turn to our next lwood because we've been learning this for long many months together already but this is what Schwarz is telling us stop looking for the answer elsewhere stop looking for the solution how many people Rabbi if only someone would give me the inspiring speech Rabbi if only you gave me the right book If Only Life you know treated me a certain way then I'd have no the answer is not outside of you the answer is not in someone else the answer is not in some seminar some speech some book the answer is inside you just peel it back reveal it uncover it and find it and express it and nurture it the answer is inside you turn to him trust in him and in those moments take that deep breath and remember a Mado whether you want to sing it or say it whether you just want to think it a m there is no one there is nothing the the schoa that when you're going through a difficult time when you're in a circumstance and you're not sure how you'll get out Simply declare over and over again A M there is nothing but you so whichever way the test turns out ever this flat tire story turns out I I I I've never lost my Cal or cool why would I because you're the one planning the program I'm just along for the ride you the omnipotent infinite being are the ones are the one who has organized how this is meant to be it's an adventure I can't wait to find out are we going to be back on the road or we going to be sleeping in a hotel are we going to be towed or are we going to get to our destination when why how why is the test going to be positive and we have to refigure out a timeline in quarantining and and Dav of course that no one's Health fails or is the test going to be negative and we're back on track to where we were I'm not worried to either way because you're in charge you're in control you decide and I'd much rather you decide than I decide because if it's a choice between your timeline or mine if it's a choice between your results or mine and your omnip and infinite always knows what's best I defer to you I Choose You each and every time each and every time so I share these stories not for your sympathy because barash everything has turned out amazing and well and wonderful and wonderful and it should for all of you all of us as well and even when it doesn't every time you take two steps forward it's like you take a step back but each time he comes through one way or another things work out and they should continue to work out a good should be a good month of not just of but I'll end with this because it really actually fits exactly into what we're saying and thank you for bearing with me and going a little extra over this week why is it called it's the month of it's the month of of why is it called of of and the answer is because this is the month that we return to our father yes our father withdrew for a time he says you don't get along with the rest of my children I don't want to spend time with you you can't cozy up to me when you can't get along with your siblings if you don't get along with your siblings and you and I are not close we're not good until you figure it out with your siblings that's what says and therefore he has to withdraw from us in a way that feels punitive in a way that feels painful and we dive in and we long to restore and to reconnect and to reconc with him to be together again but even that is an act that is says the you know if you see an adult who's reprimanding a child you know the adult is the child's parent because that no no regular adult cares enough about the child to reprimand them the only one who cares enough who's invested enough to reprimand them is their own parent and so even though this is the month we feel reprimanded by Hashem theim of what's comforting is to know he's our father even when he's reprimanding us even when he's teaching us a lesson even when he's trying to rehabilitate us he's of that in itself is evidence that he is our father and that in itself should be a source of so peel back those layers and take off those soiled garments and reveal the Pint the spark of Kusha of Holiness inside us the sense of being able to live with and with it wishing everyone to stay happy stay healthy and stay holy have a wonderful day tonight 9:00 behind the beima with the one and only Ellie Beer the founder of United hatah who recently recovered from Corona and it was a heroic founder of an amazing movement of hatah join us tonight 9:00 wishing everyone a wonderful day