The Blessing of Surrender - Ari Abramowitz: The Land of Israel Fellowship

this is a very pivotal pesak like Jeremy said I think everybody is feeling it uh even people that are very not spiritual are feeling like something is coming into fruition something is being born right now and so um so I want to talk for a second just about idolatry you know because people would look I think nowadays we tend to oversimplify idolatry and and look at idol worshippers as like silly and backwards and and primitive people but it really isn't true you know the book of Kings actually referred to Solomon's wisdom that it was even greater than that of the Egyptians who we know were like topnotch idolators they were like the idolators of idolators that's what Egypt was was a nation of idolatry and Solomon's wisdom wisdom was even greater than the Egyptians so the sages teach that the Egyptian priests and Sorcerers had a very powerful ability to control nature and to affect certain outcomes to produce certain outcomes and through whether it was astrology or other methodologies they really could control much of the world and so a good example is that you know when Moses was born for example they foresaw that the Savior for Israel would be born and so they ordered all the Jewish male babies to be cast into the Nile because of their ability to see through through astrology what was indeed the truth of what was happening and they said we can control this we can affect this we can decree that the newborn babies are thrown into the Nile that was part of their control that that control thing was their idolatry and if we look at our own lives and our and our quest to control there's a lot of that in there too at least I can speak for me there's a lot of that idolatry in there also that's why in the book of Jeremiah the nation of Israel is spoken to is spoken about with um with love and sentimentality regarding the Exodus from Egypt when they surrendered control right they trusted in Hashem they went into the desert they had no idea where their next meal was coming from they had no idea going into this empty Barren desert how they would possibly survive how they would live and they went with faith what is what is the Hashem say through the prophet he says I remember the kindness of your youth the love of your betrothal you're going after me into a land into a desert in an unsown land and so I want to to bless all of you I want to bless all of us that this Passover were able to really receive the gift of freedom of real true Freedom that we should Merit the power of not thinking or worrying about the future and being able to enjoy you know that lack of worry like truly free people that's what true freedom is to to let go to free of the need to control free of the illusion that we can control and and when we surrender that control we allow God to truly take the reign of Our Lives on a personal level on a national level on the global level you know we all know that Israel and the entire world were on the cusp of very tumultuous and stable and if we're just like honest scary times and this Passover you know may we be able to really Infuse that pure faith and trust that the Israelites had during The Exodus from Egypt and may that enter our hearts because this is a Time auspicious for that the spiritual energy is lending itself is allowing itself there's an opening for Quantum levels of growth on this front on the level of trust and faith and surrender of control so may we Merit to enjoy a Passover of that exact surrender in faith and trust and may we follow Hashem into an unsown land the land of Israel really we are in the times of redemption the land of redemption is what we're approaching right now and so I bless all of you I love all of you and may we all be celebrating next year in rebuilt Jerusalem amen