TAKING THREE STEPS BACK BEFORE AMIDAH PRAYER

[Music] says I didn't just give you the in order for you to become a robot that fulfills mitv if I want a robot i' create a robots I wanted you to use those mitvah to become a better human being more ethical more honest more respectful more modest more humble and it all starts with how you prepare so when you speak when you think when you do everything it has to be calculated you have to think about what you're going to say before you say it and regardless of who you talk to it has to stay the same and that's what the raan says next accustom yourself to speak gently to all people why to all people because sometimes you're going to go into a community and you're going to feel unwelcome within five seconds you're a new B your Keepers a little bit bigger than a quarter or you just got it at some wedding you're just starting out you want to go to a big and everybody there is everybody there was born with a big stral on their head and they're all looking at you and you feel uncomfortable you feel uncomfortable don't feel uncomfortable they should be uncomfortable why most likely your prayer is better than the rest if they're looking at you and making you feel unwelcome most likely your prayer is better than theirs the strial doesn't make you religious if you are Rel if you're have good midot you have good character traits and you wear in a strial good for you but if they're making a new B CH uncomfortable all of the Tora is worthless why because the Tora they were supposed to learn was supposed to make them better quality people regardless of who they're dealing with so whether they're dealing with a new Bal cha a new kid that just started learning Torah a new kid that just started going to sh a new kid that just started keeping Shabbat he's new he's 20 he's 18 he's 25 he's 35 he just started he doesn't know everything he doesn't know what does it mean three steps back three steps forward right before you pray he doesn't know why you do it quite frankly most people don't know why they do it but the reality is that if you know why you do it you say wow this means a lot so the midash says how come we take three steps back before we pray so the story is that many years ago there was a King that was impressed by the life and the miracle that happened to the king of of isra he was sick was supposed to die and then miraculously was brought back to life and to show the world a miracle Hashem stopped the sun he brought back the sun the sun was going down Hashem brought reversed the Sun and everyone knew this happened and everyone knew it's because of and his righteousness so this non-jewish King was so impressed by it he wanted to send a message so he told his his uh writer his scribe write the message shalom shalom and your God Shalom hello to your people hello and to your God hello meaning peace so the Scribe says yourness you believe in their God says of course I believe in their God look what their God just did he just brought back the son in the sky how could you not believe in that God so he says them the Scribe says to the king he goes so how come you put their God last on the letter it should be the God first then the then his people not the god last if you believe in their God it should be first no he says you're 100% right go change it he goes yeah but I gave the letter already to the mailman let me go chase after him and he chased after him and he took three steps outside of the Kingdom outside of the castle and stopped the mailman took the letter back and changed it and says those three steps gave that person a reward like no other person what reward Hashem turned that person that scribe into the most powerful King that ever lived until mashia and his name was NE The Scribe the nobody became the king who destroyed the bet mikdash caus the huge Holocaust killed millions and millions of Jews but gave him that power why because he gave honor to hashem's name to put his name first to recommend to his King to put his name first on the letter so until this day when we do amid we take three steps back why to undo undo the damage that did he gave hem respect three steps we're trying to take it back don't give him it's not he didn't give you respect look what he did so in essence we're trying to undo what he did that's why we take three steps back back everything that we do in Judaism if it's authentic it has to have a source in a toah [Music]