Recalculating Route | Rabbi Uren Reich

My dear Vayimaen friends, The Gemara in Makkos teaches us something very profound. When, חלילה, a person is a רוצח בשוגג and he's running to the עיר מקלט, and there's a fork in the road and he doesn't know where to go, the pasuk says, You have to give directions, so that the רוצח בשוגג should know which way to go. And the Gemara says on that the pasuk, HaKadosh Baruch Hu is so generous and so fair, even sinners, HaKadosh Baruch Hu teaches the right direction. And the Gemara says, We all get directions in life and we have to follow the directions. Very often, HaKadosh Baruch Hu gives us ideas and those are directions, and maybe it's a Vayimaen video, whatever it may be, על כן יורה בדרך. Rabosai, the Chofetz Chaim said that we can always learn from the technology that’s around us Meshalim. He learned from the telegraph and the telephone. Let us learn from the directions that we get from the Waze machine. The Waze tells you which way to go. What's amazing about the Waze is that if you ignore and you decide not to listen to the Waze, the Waze doesn't get angry, it doesn't shut down. It recalibrates and it speaks to you again. Sometimes it tells you to go back, but most time it adjusts according to the new circumstances and it tells you to go a different way. And if you ignore that, then once again it recalibrates. It seems to have infinite patience, never gives up, and always gives you a direction according to the situation you're in. What a Chizuk that is for all of us. HaKadosh Baruch Hu has given us direction, Chizuk and עידוד, many, many times. And sometimes we feel Ribono shel Olam must have given up on me. So many times, I ignored the good advice He gave me. But no, Rabosai, HaKadosh Baruch Hu continues with His great compassion and mercy, to give us the direction that we need. And if we, אם ירצה השם, say to Hashem Yisborach, What was, was. But I'm now going to follow your direction, and veer away from those things that take me on the wrong path, eventually, B’ezras Hashem, we will hear the great בת קול, You have reached your destination. אמן, כן יהי רצון.