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hey ladies
um in the beginning of
Exodus
shot we are in total we're in Exile
okay we also see from Adam harishon and
Hava The Descent from the original home
in
Ganan kicked out
exiled okay this is not a depressing
story because at the end of the chapter
really works out good okay so um while
we were in Egypt in the in the
unconsciousness of mits
there was no stability and there was no
home and one of the things that we all
want in our lives is to find a
home now you could take that to be a
physical
home you could take it to be the beta M
Dash you could take it to be the bit
knesset you could take it to be like you
know when you grow up you want to get
married or whatever you know just what
you're building on the inside everybody
is looking for a safe space so here we
have a situation from the beginning of
the Torah with Adam and Eve that they're
exiled there ends off your you know
whatever and actually the entire Human
Experience is born out of that
experience okay so um when Adam and Eve
were in the garden there was no shame
and there was no
fear that wasn't happening then
now look at Noah Noah built a house when
there was no
home I want you to see the progression
and maybe even the progression in your
life okay here's an exiled situation now
Noah is he built a house when there was
no home the secret of that was that he
learned to create a home there it was a
temporary home a home away from home
okay so um and the T the ark that
provided a space of calm and even for
our lives that when we go through very
difficult times all the stormy things in
our lives that that we also need to find
a space where we have come where we can
be
grounded but we can feel like we're safe
even though the battle is Raging on the
outside coming from every direction but
we see this um situation here that in
the midst of chaos he was able ble to
create a a space for himself and and
others okay so our lives really reflect
this
now we go
to leaving the place you thought was
home you know you were we were stuck
there I'm even talking about Amel we
were stuck there or you could take it
for your soul sometimes we feel stuck
right and you're going to leave a place
you're going to be uprooted to get
unstuck because you're going somewhere
all right being uprooted going towards a
home he did not
know um where he was
going and uh so he he he he had to
create a space to build by being in the
present moment this is one of the one of
the solutions when you're in a
situation is in that safe space is to be
present do you know what it means
anybody has an idea what it means to be
present any other
thoughts do we have tools that we can
use to become present in our lives
sitting in the garden sitting in
Garden what was
that H body dudes like type of
meditation
contemplation very good very good also
so these are these are
tools sometimes we may even need to talk
to a friend or somebody who has walked
through um the things we've walked
through and that can facilitate uh
direction to bring us in the moment but
uh um it's like really like accepting
that right now maybe I don't have things
together and even that is being present
and that takes a lot of
Courage it takes a lot of courage to say
um I to accept well I have this going on
in my
life because we would rather
just duck for
cover put it under the rug
but there's a big freedom in that space
and it takes a lot of
Courage okay so we're at um uh
Le so I brought in that uh we build this
this space of calm this place one of the
ways is being present in the moment and
using the
momentum that pushed me forward and
yearning for
home because something something caused
me to shift
something took me out of my comfort zone
and we all know what that's like and
there's this yearning for home all of us
have it it comes in a different way you
may be you may not sometimes consciously
think of it but like you go through
something and you there's like you ever
feel that you want to move
on all of us have it inside of us you
know hasem has put uh um eternity Olam
the whole world is put it in our heart
there's something of us that just
doesn't sit unless we we go forward and
sometimes it's like two steps backwards
three steps forward but there's a
general momentum that Hashem is trying
to bring us to the space that we were
before we came down our souls asked for
this challenge we came from a very whole
space that's what we have in yut in
Judaism um and uh our souls chose to
come down here to make repairs in our
lives and uh because we knew and Hashem
knew that we were totally able to go
through and to come through on the other
side our souls aspir so the thing that's
the most trying thing for you in your
life right now is a gift from Hashem
whether it's your health whether it's
your wealth whether it's your Visa we
all know what that's like I sat on your
side of the story that wasn't in this
program 18 years ago so I fully well
understood understand this I mean we all
have the challenges that are there but
um I can say and look the thing in the
face and say yeah I have a challenge
right now how are you doing barem yes
bashem but you don't have to tell
everybody your St maybe you have
somebody you say but I'm going through
this and this is a little challenging
for me right now you know some
authenticity and being vulnerable and
being uh real vulner vulnerability is is
power okay so
um okay so in
schot we are beginning to find a home at
the end of this paracha
finally and again I wrote that home is
where I feel safe I I do not need to
question um where things are right I can
take my shoes off it's a place of
familiarity um Kel shakai you know that
name of
Hashem enough
The God Who is uh enough that that's
your home space that's where you came
from and that that is really the journey
that we're all on and adding some
Consciousness to it will um give us a
sense of purpose that what we're going
through is not uh accident you know when
you see your imperfections you could be
very hard on yourself some of us and uh
and uh okay so um to find that place I'm
okay but I'm not
okay do you see I'm okay but I see this
thing in my life and then I I silence
myself I'm just giving an example I'm
just saying I I silence myself I become
present and I realize that actually this
thing that I don't like in myself or
this thing that's happening on the
ground that I don't like or this
relationship that I don't like or this
whatever I don't like it's like it's
there
and I'm okay to say that to myself that
I yeah I'm okay I can find that I'm okay
in there and it's a
work and and and sometimes we we go
around the Wilderness till we get there
because when things are not going so
well you know continuously it could be
very
discouraging you know like you feel sick
or something is going on with you and
you don't know what to do with it okay
so I have that but that's not the only
thing I have
I have other things we have other things
going on for us or I have this
imperfection but that's not all of you
that's not all of me okay so I have
other I have strengths also so I also
have weaknesses and welcome to the to
humanity and this is the World At Large
okay so there's a place to be kind to
yourself um we're not we're not perfect
and it's really okay it's really okay
okay
what was
that elak
Kakak it's actually elai because we try
not we try not to
yes you're trying to not pronounce right
but you know for teaching purposes it's
okay you know but I'm just saying that I
said that yeah okay
um okay so I wrote again even though I
said it we all need that space because
we came from there from the womb we came
from the womb from Hashem from that
Oneness um everyone has a desire to
return to the beta
mikdash the place where the place where
I'm
okay everybody has that desire um and
the bet mikash in my mind and the BET
Dash in my soul mind/ soul uh every body
has that desire there's something there
that we want to we want to erect this
thing inside of us that is safe right
you could see the Torah doesn't really
mess you could see microcosms
macrocosms you talk about building a
house or whatever it is house is
physical you got the besset you got the
beta mikash you got your life as we said
it's the whole everything is all
connected
um
okay so in in building the B mikash
we're looking for Manuka for rest we
want a place to
rest okay I can yearn I can yearn for
home and it will it will come it's going
to come on any level you want to say
personal or
otherwise um it will come their benefits
of Yearning their benefits of wandering
of not knowing also we don't have to
know
everything really I mean we really don't
have to know the the destination the
journey is plenty and this is what
Hashem is going to address us through um
in this in this uh chapter at the in the
in this book at the end um the mishan is
in
between
Exile and arrival at the B mikdash bet
mikdash the mishkan was erected it was a
portable thing was portable that's why I
said that we're okay but we're not okay
it wasn't easy for us when we were out
there we had to transport stuff mosha
mosha raenu had the whole idea of what
how things were going to be done and
rightly so but it wasn't a a piece of a
you know like an easy thing we were not
we were still not home we were not home
so
um chimote teaches us
how to be okay with Exile and G Exile
and
Redemption from the beginning of the
book to the
end uh we're still not there yet we are
learning to be okay we're not okay the
process is being it's called being okay
when I'm not
okay if I wait to be okay I will not be
okay it is about learning to be okay
when I'm not okay
right
um the process described by Rashi on in
on schot
4038 um okay so in the beginning of uh
schot Exodus
1:9 Israel is addressed as Ben Israel
the children of
Israel here now I'm going to read this
verse it says verse 37 if the cloud did
not rise up they would not Journey no
when the cloud was raised up from upon
the mishkan the children of children of
Israel would Journey on all their
Journeys if the cloud did not rise up
they would not Journey until the day it
rose up for the cloud of Hashem would be
on the mishan by day and fire would be
on it at night before the eyes of all
the
house of Israel in all their Journeys so
we're not
using we're not using Ben Israel right
we're not now saying the house of Israel
we were Ben Israel they were losing
their place in the
beginning we were in
Exile all of a sudden we're a
unit House of Israel that's pretty big
now he also Rashi also brings out that
the the word it says here
um the encampment when they would camp
with the cloud over them the encampment
is the rest place right the encampment
is a
journey the encampment the rest is a
journey they needed to have rest stops
because then they'd pick ups again and
go on like us pick up yourself and go
but it's like he
says we're not home yet home rest
encampment is is a
journey I need to be okay because things
do shift it's one long
journey I find my rest and I do not do
not need to know the
destination I connect to Hashem through
mitzvot right we are not in Israel yet
right here and we're not at the final
beta mikdash yet
but the whole idea is that he brings out
here that it's the word he uses here for
the cloud of Hashem would be on the
mishan by day and fire would be on it at
night before the eyes of all the house
of Israel in all their
Journeys so can what does it look like
when we look at our lives like uh um
okay so here is an encampment for us a
rest stop and it's like
we think that's it right but then there
is moving on in all their
Journeys and Hashem Rashi brings out
he's he was present in the journey
because it says it was it was The Cloud
of
Hashem The Cloud of
Hashem was upon us that means Hashem was
walking through uh with us on the
journey and the
journeys so it's not about here's a
destination it's about the Derek the way
you're going that's the
journey we have no no idea how many more
Journeys we're going to
have but it's like we we go there and
it's if you could picture yourself in
the framework of the book of schot you
could see it what it was like in the
beginning with m with the Exile and how
now there's a temporary home it's still
not the home we haven't reached there
yet we're in that like we're in that
situation we we want to go home we want
to go home and we're not there and then
you this is the journey this is the
Journey of of all our lives it really
really is and um it's really okay um I
don't want to say it's okay to not be
okay but you can you can be okay when
you feel not okay um so this was the
essence
of the sheer I listened to that I was
very inspired by I did prepare some
other things but I also wanted to give
you a chance to interact share your
thoughts your experience around this
because I'm I'm I don't know I'm pretty
sure all of us are the same in this way
that we have things um you know that we
have learned or we are questions we need
to ask or identification with yeah I can
relate to that um or methods of how does
one get there or whatever I can't claim
to be an ace on anything but um I know
for for a few years now I I I feel more
aware of how to manage myself when
things are not
okay and and part of that is accepting
how I feel about it and and and
embracing it and that's where the
courage uh comes um
and you know if you catch yourself they
say in a funk or in an off mood or or
something is not going well I mean if
you develop in your in your lifestyle a
way to check in with yourself like I
would say to myself what's going on for
you you know there was a time when I
didn't want to see anything but it's
like all of a sudden now there's a
current pulling all of us at the pace
and the direction that we all need for
our lives no one being better than the
other and so um it's very helpful for me
personally when I actually ask check in
with myself myself and say uh what's
going on for you now and what are you
feeling um you know whether it's I'm
discouraged or uh you know upset about
something or even happy about something
yes you know like that and uh um we have
to be true to who we are because therein
lies the the ability to go forward and
to be really who we
are and because when the challenge comes
it's in your face and you worry about it
and it's okay to say yes I to myself I
am worried on it now how how can I
actually um step back one of the things
I brought it to this class before I
don't know if all of you were here one
of the things that's also very helpful
is to become an
observer of what you're going
through the minute you become an
observer of what you're experiencing you
put some distance between you and the
thing so here is the issue and I'm here
and I'm noticing uh what's going on for
me there the minute I start to notice
what I as an
observer um that thing it it loses its
power the full
power that's true that's true yeah and
and and that may be your higher self
just standing up and say oh I noticed
that you know and I know another tool I
I learned Once Upon a Time he said
sometimes I I would pretend I haven't
done it for a while like I take a chair
and I'll put myself across there and I
just look at that chair I said what's
going on for you no you think I'm like
nuts but it really it it really
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works yes out of
body and sometimes you need to offer
yourself uh
self-compassion anybody knows what
self-compassion is your self
what Amy what's I see her nodding her
head having love and
kindness and patience and
understanding and acceptance as much as
possible and really when I make a
mistake and because of what I learned in
childhood and I immediately get mad at
myself and what I've been trying to do
in my life is to say
that's okay then you're really trying
and it's
good yeah I love what you said about
accepting not doing okay I think that's
really powerful like it's one of those
things that sometimes I don't know if
the words like capture because I think
there's a lot of depth into what you
said in what you said I also had a
question for you about I'm Cloud this
right now I'm really confused about this
because when
said M like does that mean like all all
of them like who who exactly is that
referring to like what you mean the
house of Israel oh yeah it's the house
of Israel it's speaking about the whole
house of Israel that could be a
technical question that you could
probably save for my husband okay it's a
very good question but it could open up
a lot of stuff so I want to keep a
little bit more focused but I I think
it's a very good question but Ain will
be able to answer that in a in more in
depth she we know Amy and there we know
her for a while now so so in the
beginning on when I was on my way to
Israel it was taking so long for me to
get the planed and to go almost years
were going fast and I was always so
frustrated and I like a please when ago
and this RAR Man actually gave me advice
he said to me your feet are your home
and then when I come to realize that you
will always be home so when I heard that
I was like okay but I love to get to
Israel
is the truth of that because I was still
searching for him but yeah and I'm like
I need to find that in my feet
myself yes uh self-compassion also looks
like um uh sometimes you could even just
give your heart a
pet a little a little I'm not turning
this into a psychology class but I want
to tell you I see the whole integration
of the Torah which is psychology 101 for
me wow Hashem says to love your neighbor
as yourself how if if I don't love
myself how am I going to love you that's
Psychology 101 right but that's not what
it's about but it's really like there's
a whole integration of everything and uh
there's Freedom there and courage there
and love there and a space there and um
to be able to tap into it is our
privilege and it's actually is inside of
all of us already we're just becoming
more aware and conscious you know as we
go through and it's very often it's the
hard things the hard things that come
into your life that push you into a
space Hashem is raising a a people who
can stand children people who can stand
and know who they
are know who you are like you're made in
the image of Hashem and that's not a
light thing that's a big
space and uh um and we came from that
space and we asked to come down here in
the Ted in the different things we're in
because our souls knew like I said that
we were going to make the repairs here
and so you know that's what we believe
and so it it does take a little bit out
of the this takes some of the sting out
that we're really going somewhere and
this is pictured in in the parha with
the whole uh bit about the journeys and
um and it was still it was like a
Journeys it's but it's one long journey
with
Journeys and there is a place there to
rest and Hashem is with us in that cloud
those Clouds Of Glory the cavod you know
the cavod is like you know when you
stand up and give respect to us you know
a you know a a rabbi or an elderly or
whatever kavod is like you recognize it
means like weight the weight of the
other
person the weight of Hashem the who he
is was over us when we were in that
space and um it's very very
rich so um I still have a few minutes
unless you have comments or questions I
can go ahead I have
Association when a child is
born uh out of the wom comes out also
and the form OFA is like a tree with
many many
ramifications so she said we are we
wanted to
come to the word and we are connected to
this
placent to to the whole
thing yeah it speaks to me so much
because they say it's very important
even
to um to keep the plac not away uh but
we are all born
Hospital
I
I I'm
speechless I never quite heard of that
before
no no it's
okay okay a comment
okay one of my favorite words
uhuh crucial to our to any kind of
moving forward yes life and
then um we many times we go to the same
lesson just because we did not
integrate the what we learned exactly
you know we want to have the experience
we want to understand and then we
understand and then you kind of left it
behind or you just disip and I guess
because we
don't have that awareness that we what
to do with it
now I have it I understand what do I do
how do I inter right yeah
so very integration is a happening all
on its own you get a piece here you get
a piece here you get a piece here and
there um and all of a sudden it just
gels inside of your essence the essence
of who you are it just gels and comes
together you go like oh all right I
understand that you know I I I I could
see that um so it's uh it's it's a
growing thing too right but there's also
that I believe there's also that um
awareness part where where
you also that you touched upon many
times tonight is the acceptance um the
acceptance of those parts of us that we
would rather get get rid of you know
that's also integration I integrate I'm
not cutting this part of me I'm
integrating and I'm try to do my best to
work on it exactly but we do the
opposite we we want to C and get rich
and become somebody else yes yes so
that's integration for me as well right
right so integration is an umbrella term
that I really love very good so I I'll
say one thing there's a motive therapy
called ifs internal family systems and
that's what their they they one of their
um ideas is that it's like we have
different parts so when you when I can
tell my inner critic is showing up I
notice inner critic is showing up and it
it puts some the observing part really
helps a lot so and I can ask myself what
am I needing right now when I'm going
through a difficult time what is it that
I need when I'm really discouraged when
I'm if I'm tired I need to sleep what
what is the body asking for and you know
or if you get like a headache and you
know it's because of tension and you ask
yourself like all right what's going on
for me these kind of things actually
help us to move through and navigate our
way through our
situations yeah so it can be connected
to this what just said to the to the
name I think it's
slightly like
they they wanted to count and see they
wanted to count yes they wanted to so on
yourself you also do that yeah
accountings like we yes this is what
that's really what it is
yeah right okay so um I was going to uh
say something but maybe I won't read it
because I know you have another teacher
uh soon time really flies isn't it
6:30 so I I'll give you a little thing
now um we we have uh in the half Torah
about schlomo mik and the building um of
the betam
mikdash and uh this is the half Torah
for this week and the whole idea that he
did all the things he had to do right
and then it's just something one you
know Glory of Hashem fills every everywh
but we also see in the par P that uh
Moshe completed the work he completed it
right um his wisdom was very very
important in this um in this whole thing
Hashem gave him the
wisdom and uh so we see something
happens when we complete the work the
word used for complete by Moshe rabenu
is is uh and I shared this before but
it's worth bringing up I mean I shared
it in one of the classes I taught here
about the word
uh
remember um
okay
okay share ASA so this is talking about
Shabbat right this is talking about
Shabbat but the word that is used about
Moshe when he he did all the stuff got
got the whole act together everything
was ready to go is the same word and I
brought it up and I purposely am
bringing it up again because I think you
know we're right before Shabbat it's
something very special um I want to give
meaning to uh we say okay one can fully
um have rest and make a proper Shabbat
when he or she feels
yakal he has completed all of the work
that needs to be
done in this sense the sages teach that
the moment Shabbat begins one is to
consider it as though there is nothing
that remains unfinished or
incomplete that one is not merely
pausing from work that will need to be
continued next week but rather all
worldly concerns and burdens have seized
and one is completely at peace this is
consumate rest and this is the level of
bliss and freedom that we are intended
to achieve every Shabbat but how is this
attitude
possible how is one expected to
experience such complete rest when the
stressors and responsibilities of the
work week do not truly vanish simply
because the seventh day arrives this is
precise what the torah's wording is
teaching us as you mentioned before the
word
call means not only complete but also
all all true completion is a state of
being unified with all and everything to
complete something is not only to finish
it but furthermore to make it
whole understood this way the verse
above would be rendered and God made
whole the seventh day his work that he
did in other words he completed the
cycle throughout the first six days he
moved outward so to speak creating
multiplicity and darkness but on the
seventh day he closed the circle moving
back to the essence and reun
reunifying everything that had seemed
separate and diverse this is a
consummation that Shabbat brings now
this is very very nice I'll share this
part with you called like we sayal
complete as we noted in chapters in the
chapters before is also the root of the
word Kon means Annihilation as well as
clo
expiry which is commonly used in hdic uh
philosophy to refer to kot nefes the
expiry of the Soul it is similar to the
root
kala bride and we explain the
correlation of Bride and expiry to be an
expression of the Union of Souls that
occur at both marriage and at
death so you have kot kot anes which is
your the soul of somebody past expired
but you also have um the word uh kala
the
bride getting with the bride that that
it's like husband and a wife get married
and they Inspire into each
other you know and
and they become like
one it's like Union of Souls Union of
Souls when a man and woman marry their
souls not only complete one another
but they expire into one another I don't
know what that me expire expire
means goes you go into each other you're
like together you you whatever it's B
merg thank you that's good right you
merge with with each other and uh
ceasing to be
isolated Hashem said it to us in beet
for this is the reason a man leaves and
he Cleaves and you know what that word
for for cleave is Deus you know the word
Deus is really cleaving to Hashem the BM
TOS you know in in um in they love to
use this a lot this word
deas it's like it's a beautiful
word it is but I believe it is in in the
in the Torah I don't know if it's
Aramaic but
I theas I said theas but it's pronounced
deut also but you know how that
goes okay you you know how we do the St
thing yes all
right lost for a moment okay so
similarly when one dies the soul leaves
the confines of the body and
reunites with all the other Souls that
had also seemed to have temporarily
separated and distinct and become
distinct on Shabbat this is our
Consciousness our soul returns to its
source and reunites with
everything therefore in the service that
we recite to welcome Shabbat we recite
not only the verse
cited and God completed on the seventh
day but the center point and highlight
of the service is a singing of the Le
DOI prayer the beginning and refrain of
which is come my beloved to meet the
bride that greet the face of
Shabbat is that when you get extra song
from Shabbat right right so here we see
that Shabbat is referred to as the kala
the
bride Our intention As we sing this
Mystic prayer is not only that we are
welcoming the Shabbat as if it is our
most beloved friend and partner but
furthermore that we are expiring kala in
reunion with all of
existence we are are ceasing to be an
individual and we are returning to the
reality that we are one with everything
I mean there's a whole there's a big
teaching there with Shabbat you know
that is like it's it's why did Hashem
give it to us okay so we rest but
they're very deep um meanings for what
it is and and Judaism tries to tell us
through different ways different Avenues
but it's at the end of the day it's all
one everything is true what you hear yes
it's a time of rest it's time of oning
but it's also a Time Of Consciousness
and contemplation and to know that
already you're entering what Hashem has
said that Hashem has already blessed it
and he's already Sanctified it so you're
we're going to get in the program of
what is already it already is it's like
the Eternal is it has always been and it
will always be so we're just raising the
levels the level of our Consciousness
when we go to Davin in the Sho it's like
we D in with cavano in J we want to D in
with cavana we just don't want to do it
just to pass the conversion
test it's like we want to we want to
even if we can't maximize and get
everything through it's like the little
that I bring okay so at least I made it
to shma and I can concentrate on shma
and at least I can get through the um
the or you know at least I can know
which where are we reading in the the
Paras I'm not lost and so I take my
Hebrew English or Hebrew whatever
wherever we are at and so everybody so
they're reading in Hebrew so I'm reading
in
English and okay so in the ding I don't
know Hebrew so all right so I glance
over at the English and then as as I
keep going regularly and if they sing
especially and that you get the nigon
name you actually can move in the
language much quicker because you get to
know the sound you know but you're the
tune and you mean the nigan so it's all
about being
and having cavana um when we are in SHO
attendance um of course sometimes we're
tired we've worked and all that but um
I'm just saying that uh cavana your
intention is
everything if you get up in the morning
and you intend um to be the best you can
do or to do some mits for today mits but
to connect you to a shaman to connect
with the Oneness of who he is if you
start your day that way um and maybe
sometimes things don't go well in the
day but you already took a step in the
right direction to develop your
awareness that it's not just routine and
business as usual or not just class as
usual but hasem is trying to furnace not
furnace to furnish us with something
that we need that I need in a given day
through many many sources whether it's
not even people could be the bird
outside
you know or the lizard that I get
freaked out about thank God they don't
come to my apartment or you whatever it
is it's like everything is one
already and and like I brought before
that we came from one a space of
one it's not a joke it's not just is one
but we are one also with him and the
journey as we go along is to develop and
grow in him where we experience more and
more of this Oneness and uh um so anyway
um let me just see if I have one more
thing to
say so at this moment just as God has
completed his work at the end of the six
days so too I have completed my work and
I'm now able to fully rest um as a
matter of fact I am not only able to
rest in this way but I'm commanded to do
so the Mitzvah to rest on Shabbat is not
only a directive to seize all work on a
deeper level it is an obligation to
relinquish all our tension and material
concerns and to experience the Shalom
the peace and the completeness that the
unity of Shabbat brings as we've
discussed before Mitzvah is not only a
commandment as derived from the root Sav
command but its connection deriving from
the root Sava which is a bond the reason
why we do a bond the reason reason why
we do
mitzvot it's it's a b it's it's a
bond so can you imagine what would
happen if you put intention to your
Mitzvah I remember I converted now
um 18 years well 18 years ago I remember
when um I didn't know what I was doing
in the beginning but when I would see
people doing lighting candles said why
do we have to do that why do we have to
do that but why do we have to do this
and it's okay and sometimes you go
forward and you do the things you go on
and all of a sudden you understand you
know yes it is brought down that's what
we do um but the connection be became so
deep very quickly that when you know you
you have intention I'm lighting candles
not stum but this is the way I bring in
Shabbat and and what does it mean for me
to bring in Shabbat
that I I don't um I'm not doing any work
um that's forbidden and uh I'm hopefully
ushering the space for entering into
what Hashem is already
given he's already given it and you
don't have to put yourself under
pressure but I'm so down and out on
Shabbat and
I so you tellem this is hard for me
right now I need some help here or you
read that to H him he's not going to
he's not going to judge you because
you're off mood on a Shabbat he's dka
your father you know Bim your Bim of
hasem he wants to come to where you are
and give you that comfort and he's also
giving you that Shabbat so it's not
something to be uh um judging yourself
and when you're if you find yourself
judging yourself harshly just recognize
that that's the inner
critic showing up to reinforce you and
that that's a voice that can be silenced
so you know you're aware that oh okay
I'm uh you know I'm judg I'm criticizing
myself uh oh I'm not I I want to make
another turn here I'm going to turn to T
or I'm going to turn to something um and
go there because I want to hear what
Hashem has to say about me and he knows
that we we we we we need his
help we all need his help and you know
there's a in uh in uh um toim David
amalik says Hashem is with me through
all my
helpers Hashem is with you through your
adoptive family for conversion through
your friends through your
teachers through anybody that helps you
hasem Hashem is showing you just like
the the the cloud over there it's like a
it was over them but it was The Cloud of
Hashem was over them hashem's over us
here and that can't change because he
can't uh he says he's not he's not a man
he cannot he cannot lie that's what the
Book of Numbers says he can't uh he
can't lie about who he is so um let's
see
uh while it may be unreasonable to
command someone to relinquish all his or
her worries and to thereby experience
the feeling that everything is complete
when one fully connects to God in his
absolute Oneness through the bond the
Mitzvah that the Mitzvah creates then
his or her worries will vaporize and she
or he will experience the true rest that
is available to us um even every seven
days you
know so
uh okay I think I think probably I
should uh hold unless anybody has a
comment or a question because I think
your teacher might be coming
Penny
Hashem yes I like his works very
much he he's an anonimous writer but he
quotes a lot of the Lua vbi and I like
his work very much so yeah any comments
or thank you so much you're welcome
thank you you're welcome you're welcome
and uh thanks for joining us and I hope
this was refreshing for you and
encouraging it was very refreshing I
love it I can relate to all what you
said and please come back yes yes yes
thank you very much thank you very much
I wish you a shabbat shalom also hasem
should bless all of us with a wonderful
peaceful Shabbat and good rest and maybe
be comforted with all the challenges
that we have and maybe and maybe hold
space for the things that are
uncomfortable yes and um how do we say
how do we start it it's
being okay when we're not okay can okay
yes thank you it's
very shalom
shalom shabbat shalom what's your your
name
again Vina Vina Vina
okay the
begin I think they recorded
it YouTube by
Joseph he didn't give it a name did but
it was something I think he put out
today oh he
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