Part 93: It is a Mitzvah to Try

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we also show Hashem we believe in him when we give him a clay kable we have to give him a means through which he can work his magic if we don't take initiative and we don't do something so that he can work his magic through the effort that we're doing he's not going to do a miracle to rely on Miracles is to have a sense of arrogance or uis we are not on the level that we are worthy or deserving of Miracles and we shouldn't assume or wait for a miracle to happen so if we want Hashem to intervene on our behalf we have to give him the means and the mechanism to do so so when we do isas when we do the effort Hashem can make magic happen if I buy the lottery ticket he can make me a winner but as the famous saying goes or at least went when I was a kid you got to be in it to win it so you say why do I have to be in it to win it I have such a I can win it without being in it that's not that's Mor that's foolish you can't win it if you're not in it that's not so that's Ra's attitude is you don't have to be in it to win it I'm sorry you have to be in it to win it and therefore we take initiative as a form of amuna whereas the ran we saw has a very radical approach Ran's radical approach is that if a person is sick if one is on that level you don't really have to go to the doctor one can sit on their couch at home to us that sounds like Scientology to us that sounds like Christian Science that doesn't sound like our perspective so rol if you remember last week quoted several statements of the ran where he seems to contradict himself where he talks about the importance a need for initiative so how do you reconcile that contradiction the ran Sayes ran believe in radical amuna or does he believe in initiative and the and R explained the answer is yes he believes in both when a person is on that level and on that plane which is so high and maybe even inaccessible to us if a person is so tied into and living with Hashem in every moment in every day in every breath hem is before them hem is their companion Hashem is with them everything they do they're thinking about Hashem everywhere they go every moment so then that person could live on that level but for the average person for the regular person we need initiative okay so that's we're up to the bottom paragraph page T everyone see where we are even if you don't I'm going we learn from this that even though we set it up as a paradigm that there's a contrast even though we set it up that there's two separate and seeming contradicting opinions Rak says you got to take initiative you got to go to work you got to go to the doctor you got to network you got to we have to take initiative and it looked like the ran didn't even ran agrees so when is it that you don't need when is it you don't need effort or initiative the only time you don't need effort or initiative is when there's a promise from Hashem so if you look in tanak and you look at the figures in tanak where the people who are so righteous that they feel that they've received a promise from hasem about a certain outcome those people benefiting from that promise don't need it of his contribution to the conversation is that a person has to make an effort all this began if you remember because Raa set up the question of why when we were expelled from ganeden why is the need to now the sweat of your brow and go to work and make an effort and now the the fact that on the one hand making an effort gives gratification but on the other hand it runs the risk of thinking that we are the Arbiters we're in charge on the other hand sitting back and having amuna is a beautiful display of faith in Hashem but it takes away the initiative and the effort and cultivating and refining the best version of oursel so why did Hashem kick us out and give us this notion of finding that balance because that's our mission in life it's not that it's a concession that I have to take initiative that's the Paradigm it's the way Hashem set up the world so it's not I wish I could just sit back and I'd win the lottery without buying a ticket why can't I win it without being in it I wish I just got a salary without having to work I wish I just got better without taking medicine or going to the doctor I wish I just lost weight without dieting I wish I just improved my health without exercising why can't I get the result without the effort it's not a concession we have to do the effort really ideally we wouldn't have to do the effort but it's a concession we have to do the effort it's not a concession it's the Paradigm it's the way Hashem designed the world is that we get the benefit of both and we live with the tension inherent within trying to balance both so the fact that every single day we are struggling with balancing both is the purpose is the mission the borer the the sense of selection that we're doing the Sorting that we're doing in our lives and trying to identify which moment calls for Faith and which moment calls for initiative which moment do I sit back and let go and let God as the saying goes in the in the program and in which moment do I say let go and let God what God wants me to do right now is give it my all to kill it to take initiative so that balance that tension that that challenge of finding that that is not a concession to life that is our mission in life are there any more chers no okay someone can grab in the thank you in the spartic so that's not a concession that is our very purpose it's our very mission in life I told you the story last week I'm standing at the counter in the airport or two weeks ago so when do you try to say I'm going to be such a I'm going to switch flights and figure it all out and get back even earlier and when do you say it's odd and peculiar I'm on this flight but it's for a reason and it turns out was for a reason because it got in 5 hours earlier than the flight that the switched himself to so that and that that's that's an example but we all go through that every single day and we go through that multiple times in every day arguably we go through that every hour once an hour in each day when do I take the initiative when am I trying to say it's up to me and when do I let go and let God and when do I sit back and say you know whaton I don't know why things have been designed this way but I'm going to I'm going to leave it I'm going to leave it as is stuck in traffic do I say I'm stuck in this traffic and there's a reason and go go with it and enjoy the moment and make some phone calls and listen to a sheer you say I'm such a I'm going to weave my way and take the better pattern and now it's we have ways so she answers for us and ways we trust when I was a kid you may remember I think ways is the biggest contribution to Shan bias in the longest time the minute when I was a kid was here was the average family outing when I was a kid I guess I'm grateful that certain people didn't show up to but here was the average family outing when I was a kid the big map was the driver and the designated driver had the huge map out and then you're going into Manhattan from Bergen County forac and you're debating you're taking the Lincoln Tunnel the George Washington Bridge turn on 1010 wh did you miss it on the eights on 880 did you miss it you missed it I can't believe you took the Westside highway I told you to take to whatever it always has more traffic on Sundays and every family outing included a component of a big debate who knows traffic patterns better who said which way go taking out the map when you're trying to get back to the George Washington Bridge is you weave in this way and everyone's going that way you can get back on over there and I'm telling you so ways is the biggest contribution to Shalom bias and ways we trust you put on ways nobody's entitled to an opinion she knows best and we listen to ways she reroutes you know ways I think I once I think I think I once wrote an article about this ways is a model for Hashem for also because ways reroutes you there's no judgment there's no criticism you you missed the turn I told you not to go there she just says rerouting so now we'll go another way we'll get you back on we'll get you back on the path to the destination it's a big lesson for Shel andas there's no judgment there's no criticism there's no she's not condescending she just tells you okay got to get you to the destination here's how we're going to get you back online so in every moment when are you a and you say it's my initiative I got to make it happen and when do you say relax hashem's got a plan go with the flow ride the wave Hashem will take you there so the contribution says is you got to make an effort you got to be in it to win it so is trying to Define exactly the nature of Theus between raak and the ran and he says for is for it's a mitvah it's a Mitzvah to make an effort so when you're sick and you go to the doctor it's not that if you really had a if you were a righteous person you just open your who needs a doctor you open a the has no copay and the tum has no waiting room and theum has no you just open your tum if you really were righteous you'd open your tum for the r is a Mitzvah to go to the doctor and it's a Mitzvah to get a job and it's a Mitzvah to do where for there's no Mitzvah doing just just like the lottery though you got to be in it to win it because in the in the tea in the natural order you can't win the lottery without own a ticket is there a Mitzvah to buy a ticket there Mitzvah to buy a ticket it's just that if you want a chance of winning the lottery you gota be in it to win it so for the there's a MIT to buy a ticket why because threw out of G he said I'm now throwing you in a world where I'm giving you a you have a command to shape and mold this world together with me someone asked me at the end of the para class yesterday because shockingly we ran out of time that why were the Jewish people we yesterday we spent time on the Pim they had to the lamb and they collected the blood in the Basin and they took the H the branch and they dipped it they schmeared it on the both doorpost and the lentil on top they stayed home don't go out don't hit the streets dangerous that night stay inside P skips over those houses you're good to go and of course the question everybody asks is K is omnipotent infinite all knowing perfect he doesn't know where the Jews live just look for the Honda Odyssey in the driveway you'll know exactly what he why did he have to have the blood on the doorpost there was nothing else that was defining look at everyone else has a half of a garbage can outside on garbage day the Jewish homes have 17 garbage cans and all the boxes the half a box from Costco and all the you'll know which are the Jewish homes there's nothing else that delineates the Jewish Home for the non-jewish home you have to kill an animal and shmear the blood on the doorpost so what's the answer what's the answer the blood on the doorpost parallels another Blood if you're queasy stop listening for a minute but even yesterday the mafor on what we studied yesterday on this para para's bow say the blood of the doorpost parallels another Blood the blood of dam the bris of a child on the eighth day we give a baby boy a bris and the blood of both says with blood I live by the way I'll just tell you as an aside I love to tell this you may have heard it before but what does it mean is the plural with my Bloods I live what does that mean the um the kenberg rebba Lost enormous amount of children in the Holocaust and once some one of his had the courage to ask him how did the Reb find the tenacity the resolve the resiliency to continue to build AAS and to rebuild a family and a magnificent casus at that and and in Israel in um Nat and the the hospital and it's incredible what he did where did you find the will the resiliency to do it so said so the young man thought he understood that with my we live with with blood with mysterious nees takes the blood we say right yeah it's got to give your blood to something your blood in your blood Blood Sweat and Tears give Your Blood Sweat and Tears to something means with that effort with the personal sacrifice and the self-sacrifice so he thought that's what he meant that's what we say it a from from the so the Reb corrected him and says no that's not you know what I meant when I said with the ofon re said I'm not the first one to lose children Aron what should have been the happiest day of his life celebrating the inauguration of the of the mishan opening day at the mishan and Aon is Center Stage centerpiece of the mishan should have been the happiest day of his life and very abruptly very suddenly he loses two sons toine any explanation toine comprehension so much so the Torah doesn't tell us why they died and there's a million one suggestions of why they died and whenever you have a lot a lot of suggestions about something it means it's entirely and wholly unclear so it was unclear to us it's unclear to arum his sons die very very s and how does Aon react now we don't know a silence was it a Silence of acceptance what is a Silence of being stunned was it a Silence of passiveness sometimes the silence can be um a scream sometimes a silence can be a scream elel said we have a tradition of silence and the Jewish people we just don't talk about it so the silence can sometimes be a protest we don't know the nature of his silence we know he was silent so the Reb when he said that was his Aron he said I tap into the same resiliency and strength Aon had that's what I found the strength to be able to go on but classically the more typical translation of more chairs you grab a chair from this far I'm going to go on for a while so the the the two DS the D bris and the D so why Hashem is Hashem like you know he likes graphic Gore and guts and what's with the blood what's with all the blood the Blood on the doorpost and the blood of the bris and what's with all the blood what's with all the blood so the explanation what do they have in common what are the bris and what happened to MIT have in common what they both have in common is who says I'm the Almighty I created the world I run the world and I'm happy to redeem you I love you you're my child I'm going to interfere and intervene in the world and in nature in order to save you in order to redeem you but here's the deal you've got to do your part I'm not gonna bail out entirely what are you willing to do what are you willing to put in what are you willing to sacrifice what courage and effort and initiative are you willing to take so when it came to in Egypt K says I'll take you out you slave nation of passive Spectators to your own destiny I'm willing to take you out but here's the deal you know leave the door open we'll get some air in here thank you but here's the deal I want you to take the lamb now is the Lamb what's the significance of the Lamb why did he take the lamb why not a duck duck is delicious why not a cow a nice piece of flesh is a great a why not a great piece of Flesh why why the lamb because the lamb is the deity of the Egyptians I want you to take the god of the Egyptians and tie it to a doorpost for several days and then I want you to slaughter it in front of your neighbors who've been worshiping it and then I want you to take his blood and shmear it on the doorpost just to put it in the face of your neighbors that you killed their God and when you have the courage and when you have the resolve and when you're willing to show The Bravery to do that God says I'll take you the rest of the way home then I'll take you out but if you think that you're going to hide under your bed and you think you're going to sit back on your couch in your recliner and I'm going to do all the heavy lifting and you're going to be hiding in the comfort and safety of your home if you're not going to take any initiative you're not going to show any bravery I'm not bailing you out I'm not bailing you out Hashem says I'm here for you I'll do the heavy lifting like 10 plagues of lifting and splitting a sea of lifting I'll do the big stuff just show a little effort show a little initiative I need you to have skin in the game when you have in the day and I'll take out I'll take out the rest which brings us to bris where we literally have skin in the game so at least someone in this room so skin in the game bris is the the idea of the bris the Mitzvah of bris why does say bris It's A peculiar Mitzvah surgery K says and why men not women is not for now but K says says I created you almost perfect but I need you to participate I need you to be involved to be my partner in creation I want you to help me in the completion in the last Act of of creation so with the of is and you have to do the two together once heard why do we get up when we open the door for we open the door for and we singi at this thing called the Seder I know some people I just you're starting to get hard palpitation so at the Seder we get up and we open the door why can't come down the chimney Ali can't walk through walls he can go to every house in the world simultaneously he can be at every bris at the same time but but we have to open the door he has to come through an open door he can't come down the chimney or through the crack in the window so the answer is if you're going to sing eloi and you're waiting for him to be the the harbinger of of redemption you got to get up off your chair in which you've been reclining and drinking four cups of wine get out of your chair get off your seat get off this and go open the door if you want to bring Redemption it's not just going to happen with someone bailing you out you need skin in the game so whether it was the d p and have the courage and bravery to slaughter the god of the Egyptians and then shmear that blood of that Slaughter on the doorpost and show them your Defiance or whether it is DM says be my partner that last Act of Creation or whether it is opening the door fori the common theme of all these as initiative so according toak there is a Mitzvah just like d and and these are mitzvas taking initiative is a Mitzvah by the way I think it's very much a model for how we do at least for me it serves as a model for how we do there are people in the community constantly on a regular basis who hit hard times and our heart should go out to them and and beyond anything and we step in someone can't make the rent someone can't make the cost of medicine they need no mattresses their sh children need shoes but I as a policy and maybe you've either as cruel but I see it as trying to implement what we're learning I almost never write the check from our discretionary fund it's not my personal fund I have the Incredible Gift of being the steward over a charity fund I get to act like I'm a wealthy person with my own uh charitable fund but um every penny that people donate to the fund the discretionary fund tomabas goes to help people there's no administrative fee there's no overhead there's nothing most Charities have an overhead the zero overhead so almost I'll almost never write the full amount that the person asked for so I want to know what can you contribute what are you willing to do what skin is there in the game now that person has enormous skin already in the game if they're already at the point of asking it means they've hit a place where they have a lot of skin in the game but the point is created a model for us where we don't bail out in a less extreme example than that with people who come with our children our children need something okay I'll do 90% I I'll play the role of the rebon Shalom I'll bail you out I'll do the heavy lifting I'll do the 90% what are you doing what's your skin in the game I'm not going to write your whole essay for you I'm not going to do I'll help you clean your room you know you're overwhelmed I'll help you do the I'll help you says I'll always be there I'll always show up I'll always help you what are you doing where's your skin in the game and why do we do that because we're cruel we do that because our ego says we don't have to do everything no we do that because we love the person whether it's the Community member or our children or's love for us that which she wants us to take initiative is not out of Cruelty or insensitivity it's out of his kindness It's out of his wanting the best for us and to realize the best of ourselves and therefore we have to Mitzvah so this is the dichotomy between the ra andak says for initiative is a Mitzvah not a concession it's not a terrible thing that we wish we didn't have to do initiative is a Mitzvah going to the doctor or buying a lottery ticket getting a job and going to work making the effort d p getting up out of our chair and taking initiative is a mitzvah from thean it's not a Mitzvah it's just a reality it's just a reality if you don't eat you will starve to death is eating a mitzvah for the the right Foods nourishing healthy foods is a Mitzvah eating them because that's initiative to live it's not a mitvah to eat it's just part of the way the world was created is you need to eat to live it's not a Mitzvah when we use the term Mitzvah even when you have explicit promise from hem it's not a simple thing to trust hem without taking any initiative one of the hardest things in the world is to realize that and this is really the emphasis of this whole piece we've been building up to is even when we take the initiative to not fall in the other side what do I mean by that people generally fall into two extreme camps and it's very hard to live in the middle but living in the middle is exactly the charge that rol is giving us what do I mean there are some people who are pure people passive and complacent and apathetic to their own lives Spectators to their own lives because they hide behind and cop out behind will take care I don't have to ever take responsibility I don't have to ever try hard I don't have to ever be accountable why everything's and there it's not a legit it's not authentic the is the cop out they're hiding behind on the other hand you have people who are extreme in their absolutely extreme in their even if they claim to have they are excessive in their excessive in the initiative we've shared the example many times if you work 19 20 hours a day it's a little bit excessive because if hhm wants to make you a billionaire working a measly 12 hours a day you'll be a billionaire 12 hours a day when you insist on working 18 19 20 hours a day at the expense of seeing family and learning and Minion and health then that's excessive so that person and what do they tell you say well I have to do my part and I have to take my initiative and I have to make my effort so people generally fall into the two extreme camps either they hide behind the cop out of am as an excuse for mediocrity for having no Drive having no ambition for being apathetic and complacent and Spectators to their own lives or on the other hand you have the people who are excessive in their hisas and what is calling on us to do is find that balance and for every person the balance is different and for every Circumstance the balance is different but to find that balance where we take the right amount of initiative but now not run the risk within the initiative because what happens to the guy who works the 18 19 20 hours a day what happens if he becomes a millionaire who does he think he says you know why I'm a millionaire I work you know what I sacrific to make that Millions do you know what I gave up do you know the amount of work I do do you know the Blood Sweat and Tears I put in you know why I'm a millionaire me me so the person with initiative runs the risk of arrogance and ego and thinking it's them now did they have any part in it yes yes of course they had a part in it takes hard work they put in hard work that others didn't maybe they have some intellect some some Vision that others didn't maybe they have some courage to make some moves that others were too afraid of K doesn't want us to deny that when we're successful we have a part in that success so it's a beautiful Insight of the it says later it's my strength and it's my power my strength of my hand that that brought this success the says we're not supposed to think that we are the Arbiters of our own success we have to realize if in fact I'm successful it's because guess what it's people who are as smart as me it's people who tried as hard as me is people who worked as long as me who fell flat on their face and if I succeeded when I did that it's partly because I put in my work but it's also only because Hashem enabled the success because if he would have said no and close that door it wouldn't have happen no matter how I tried no matter how smart I am on the other hand people who Hashem has invited and open the door but they didn't walk in so we're entitled to take pride in the work that we do so the says read we're not supposed to say I'm the one it's my strength that did it we're supposed to say who sings This freed who that's your fro that's your class taking songs and explain is the one who gives us the says read the very carefully it doesn't say it doesn't say he gives you success what does it say he gave you the skills and talents to have success to say I'm not talented I'm not skilled I don't work hard I'm not smart you're not humble you're an idiot the world looks at you and knows that you have great IQ or great talents great skills great blessings in your life to deny them is not a form of humility to deny them is a form of stupidity it's false it's counterfeit humility what's true humility is to say you know what I've been very blessed I've been very blessed that I have skills and talents I have great blessings in my life but you know what I know that they're borrow but never owned they're on loan they're never part of my permanent collection and they came and they can disappear in a moment they could disappear in a Flash and in a heartbeat in a heartbeat and therefore the ran says it's not that you're deny you have and you made the most with the gave you but where did that K come from where' that Co come from so I've said this many times and and I always tell a few stories which I won't tell you now of those who Hashem took away the kak they had the kak and he took it away how many performers were there who made millions of dollars their concerts on the road and they woke up one moment one day with laryngitis their voice was gone never to be recovered the way it was you have a gift and it disappears how many athletes who never rediscovered the skill that was lost Chuck nablo who was a Gold Glove winner an allar baseball player played for the twins for the Yankees second baseman who lost the ability to throw the ball from second base to first base 10-year-olds could throw in little league and he he just woke up one day he couldn't he retired from the game because he stopped being able to throw I was a scol residence at the white SCH and I I gave this draa this D San and I ended with a quote I said I closed the Dr from the greatest closer in baseball history I have a feeling I'm in the wrong room sharing this but but uh mariana rivera thank you barem Alana Bellazon impressive mariana rivera otherwise known as andone knows nickname no okay that far we can't go Mo Mara mo mo is the greatest base the greatest closer he also happens to be an incredibly religious man he retired from the game and he became a pastor what he now does is try to inspire other people with faith and religion so he had an incredible quote he was interviewed and he said he had the greatest he had the greatest cut fast ball again whatever that means he had the greatest cut fast ball in in um in baseball history every batter who who faced him somebody listening online to will appreciate this even if n batters who faced him knew exactly the pitch that was coming when you're a batter the hard part is the ball could be 99 mph or it could be a 75 mph curve ball and the difference in between you have no chance of hitting that ball with Maran Riva every batter knew exactly the pitch they were facing they knew what was coming they still couldn't hit it that's how good a pitch it was he threw a sort off cut fast ball that when you swung at it it broke bats he broke bats every game he pitched in it was incredible and his quote when he retired was that God gave him that skill and he knew that it could disappear any moment and when he looks back on his career he just thanks God that he blessed him with the skill to throw that pitch and the mullions and the gazillions of dollars that he made now mariana rivera MO is he humble what do you mean but he talked about how he's the greatest closer in baseball but he recognized humility is not saying I don't have any powers or skills or talents in my life humility saying I do and I spent the time to identify them and to work on them and to grow them and to harness them and to achieve the most with them but all along and all the while I always knew it could disappear that it was borrowed and never owned it was on loan never part of my permanent collection and that's what Hashem wants from us not to deny the good talents that we have but first of all to realize the responsibility of having them and to always know that they come 100% from him so that's theas hisas is so that's the danger of hisas danger of hisas is I practice my cut F fast B six hours a day and I work out my arm and I make it to the major leagues and I win World Series and I make it to the All-Star team and I'm a Hall of Famer there one guy who he just voted to the Hall of Fame and there's one guy who voted against Mo people saying he should lose his ballot because you can't vote against Marana Rivera how could you vote if against them you know what I'm talking about never mind so you could do all of that and then the danger is you say I'm the greatest closer in baseball history I'm the greatest speaker speaker that ever lived I'm the best doctor or surgeon or lawyer or accountant I'm the best chef I'm the best I'm the best at whatever it is that ever lived look at my success but you have to always realize who so is giving us this charge don't live in the extremes don't use am and be talk on as a cop out to not try don't settle for mediocrity and don't be apathetic to your own life and don't be a spectator to your own destiny hiding behind that refrain that's a copat that's not Jewish that's not Torah on the other hand don't be excessive in your don't be spending so many hours and trying so hard that you think that it is entirely up to you and that even if you're trying excessively and you meet success you think that really you are the sole Orbiter of that success where we are to live is somewhere in the middle where we are to live is with that perfect balance between making the effort and then realizing I've made my effort now it's up to Hashem I've made my effort and if my effort is successful it could disappear every moment every time I speak I don't mean to Shear like this but I every time I give a dress or speak before a large audience or at a large venue I have the same conversation with Reon Shalom before I give it same conversation because this Insight of the Ron plays over in my head all the time forget you know my voice box could fail you can get laryngitis but whatever speaking skills you have could disappear you could fumble over your words you could gain a stutter you could forget what you wanted to say you could lose you could lose it you could lose it as easily as it came so you have to always ask Hashem for help with it and always thank him afterwards when it went well and always remember it's borrowed but never owned whatever skill set it is whatever gift that we have and finding and walking that balance right between so that's the challenge is to remember the success is only from so on the one hand we're supposed to believe that it's entirely up to Hashem but at the same time to realize that Hashem it's entirely up to hasem and how is hasem going to pull it off by our doing our part that is the perfect person who tries hard and makes an effort but while they're trying hard and making an effort has invited Hashem into the conversation into the effort into what you're doing you're walk into a surgical procedure allow me to be the agent to help bring Health to this person you're walking into the courtroom Hashem put the right words in my mouth in order to achieve Justice you're walking you're preparing AA Hashem help me find the right words to get your message across and Inspire your children and your people and it could be as simple as Hashem you want me to have a beautiful shabas meal for my family help this potato CLE and chellin come out help this new recipe work out whatever it is what seems like the lofty to the most mundane but if we inject the Reon if we invite him into the experience and into the conversation help this journal you go smoothly help everything be on time help everything work out I'm doing Myas in every Arena I got to make the cougle I got to prepare for the trial I've got to do the surgery and be trained and focused and pay attention got to put in the work to do the drusa I've got to whatever I'm doing in life I have to do the work it's on me but I invite Theon into the experience he's going through it with me he's part of the conversation he's in the courtroom he's in the operating room he's in the kitchen he's in the in the drer you know what it means to be you know what it means to be a nation who's close to Hashem the nation who's so close to Hashem they never try and they live in complete abject poverty and they're sick and disheveled because they have such they never take initiative are they the nation that is proud of no that's not the one closest to him and the one that is so excessive in trying to kill it in the world of gmas and they never have time for Faith because they think it's entirely up to them and if they don't work 20 hours a day and they don't put in all that time and they don't ere extend themselves then they won't have success are they the amovo no the amovo if you want to be counted among the community of those who are closest and most beloved to Hashem it's those who both trust in him and take effort at the same time I that's b i that's TR how do you mix the two together how do you have initiative and Faith at the same time aren't those a contradiction to S how do you reconcile the two the answer that's exactly where A's been driving at here and we just have one last little piece left that we'll do next week but witha is driving at us that's it seems like it's a contradiction but it's not a contradiction if a person who has faith and realizes that the Fulfillment or expression of the faith is through effort if you bring Hashem into the effort they're not a contradiction you're doing your part but while you do your part you're realizing that whether your part is successful is entirely and exclusively only up to Hashem find that balance not too much faith and not too much initiative a reasonable correct amount of initiative and an initiative that is always informed and inspired by a sense of faith that for this initiative to be successful in whatever realm I'm taking this initiative but for this initiative to be successful I Rely entirely and exclusively it needs the approval of Hashem it needs him to sign off I'm the one doing the work but if he doesn't sign off it doesn't go through so my and my effort is to get to sign off and I do the work which is going to motivate so to say the re he wants to see us do the work if we're sitting back in the recliner and we say Hashem just put the money in my account just make it happen it doesn't happen he needs to see us get up off the couch open the door for when we get up and we make our effort then enables us to be able to walk through have a great day