The Best Road Rage Reaction! - Rabbi Eli Karmel

what would you do if you're by a four-way stop sign and it's your turn to go and somebody cuts right in front of you and you're about to slam on your horn and start yelling but then you're like wait a second I think I recognize that car from somewhere and you look and you see that it's really your father I think that most of us would very quickly switch our angry face to a smile and a wave and I think that the reason we would react so differently is because you know that your father loves you and he's not out to get you so you have a much easier time rationalizing that he was probably just distracted but when a random person Cuts you off then you always assume that he did it on purpose and he's out to get me and he doesn't respect me and my time and so you are much more likely to take it personal and get angry now think about it for a second if you believe that Hashem is in control of everything that happens then when someone cuts you off really it's your father in Heaven who loves you even more than your biological father who's cutting you off because even though of course the driver had free choice to choose to cut you off but Hashem only allows people to actualize their choices if anyways he knows that this is the best possible thing that can happen to you and so you know that even if this driver wouldn't have chosen to cut you off then Hashem still would have had a billion other ways to send you this exact amount of frustration so overall the other driver is not causing you to get any more annoyance that you would have gotten regardless and so logically when anyone Cuts you off you should be even less angry than when your father Cuts you off because not only is nobody out to get you but it wasn't even a mistake rather it's happening for a reason because really it's incredibly good for you so the next time anyone Cuts you off then instead of honking just remember it's really your father so just smile back and waave [Music]