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Go for broke: Jump in, 7th day Pesach, split sea, surfing, swimming, relaxation in focus- RC Dalfin

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So, this is uh behind me the Mediterranean Sea. I'm here in Tel Aviv. And what's the big deal about this? Just a nice ocean view, a nice breeze, swimming abilities, surfing. What is the ocean about? It's about the Yumpt. The festival's coming up Friday night, Friday of Shabas, which is Pes, the seventh day of Pak of Passover. And there's a beautiful tradition to go to the ocean if you can and split the sea because our ancestors on the seventh day of Pesak, they did the splitting of the sea. Although it's not this sea, this ocean, but that's fine. It's live water. Now, some have the tradition where they do this at the dawn time, try, you know, some do it after midnight, some do it before, and some even do it in their sh where they pour some water on the floor and they cross over like the Jews did with the Yamsu, with the sea of reeds. And what's the lesson? What is the splitting of the sea? What is it? What does it teach us? So just let's get make it short. We have ideas and we have ideas that are frozen. We have ideas that are boxed in nature. Water flows, right? Water flows. Can water stand still? No. Look at Niagara Falls. The falls are coming down. Water flows. God make made a miracle when the Egyptians were pursuing to kill the Jewish people in Egypt on our way out of Egypt. It's the festival of of Passover Pesa. And the Jews went through and the waters froze and stood in their place. As soon as the Jews went through, the Egyptians who were chasing them followed them trying to kill them. And the water went back to its natural tendency and it rounded them. particularly citizm explains this nature nature nature has its limitations and by the laws of nature water doesn't stand frozen and I don't mean frozen when it freezes cuz when a normal sense water flows God says I'm going to do something that's supernatural so the miracle is the supernatural over the natural. That's the the the the you're going to sing the idea in short the idea of this miracle mahva over tea in in the Hebrew tab language transcendence of nature dominating over nature. We need to walk away from this holiday because this holiday is the precursor of the next six months, five, six months till the holidays etc. The message here is la over tea from tish till now it's the chuva it's uh the the the it's generated by the heart by the person person has to refine himself the aa now is to receive the blessings that's why we bench towel right we we we ask for due not rain we stop asking for Tal do comes from heaven to earth. The idea is there is flow coming forth. Shea holy shea. Are you a vessel for it? And the answer is you will be if you accept the transcendence of God's power over nature. So therefore, in your own life, if until now you said, "I can't do this. I can't get up in the morning early to study Torah. I'm tired and I go to sleep late." Naturally, if you go to sleep late, you're going to get up late or late early. If you accept the la mva, the sup transcendence over nature, even if you go to sleep late, you'll get up in the morning. And the proof is if you know there's a big check waiting for you or a big treasure or a big business deal waiting for you at 4:5 in the morning, boy will you be there, right? So, so we create our own buffer zone. We create our own reality is shatter that convention. Shatter that mindset. Go beyond it. Jump into the water. Immerse yourself with the waters of Torah, with the waters ofidus, with the waters of goodness and guidance etc. That's one point. The other point is the idea of the self-sacrifice. Nadav, one of the leaders of the tribes of Judah, he jumps into the water before everyone else. There's water. If you jump in, you're going to drown. He says, "God tells me to go. I'm going." He told us to leaving Egypt. We should we we're leaving Egypt. Go. He goes and the water of course becomes dry land. Yasha and he and everyone behind him are saved. But he was the trailblazer. The message here is, my friends, you need to be a trailblazer, not to accept what everyone else says. If you believe something's right according to the Torah, if you believe you need to stand up, stand up. You're going to get a lot of darts and bullets and criticism. Absolutely. But if it's the right thing, you say it. And if you say it long enough and hard enough and you really and really are authentic, it'll make an impact and people will respect you. They'll gain you'll gain your respect by people jumped in. Trust me, he had antagonists. They told him he was crazy. They told him he was committing suicide. On and on and on. But he didn't care. He knew this is what God said. He took the charge. He took the lead. The trailblazer, the pioneer. My friends, we have five months of pioneer work, of trailblazing work. Any go over the top in there's a saying you don't try this way, that way, and if you don't succeed, you jump. To begin with, you jump open. Let us make these resolutions and we do it one more point. We do it with self-sacrifice. Just like Nakshin, he jumped in with self-sacrifice. So if you expect to have the answers before, you ain't getting them. You need to experience it by jumping in. Jump into Torah. jump into jump into a to to to a group of people that are on the right path on a healthy path both in character and personality to be a mench and simultaneous to be aided simultaneously to be a Jew to be connected and for those that want to beic to be aid those that want to be to be God bless you all and a of yam still. And remember, going to the ocean and going to the beach and going surfing are nice commodities, nice pleasure, but that's not what this ocean is all about. It's for us to split the sea Friday night. Have a great shalom.