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anyways all the masks came off and
Hashem revealed that not only has been
completely in control of the entire
natural world but he changes and
manipulates the very heart of pharaoh
right and I really believe that if we
have the presence of mind to read all of
this with the prayerful intention
that we not only um you know understand
it but that we participate in this
Revelation then we'll be able to really
shatter the idols that we have in our
own Hearts because if we said every
character in the Torah is on some level
in some Dimension within us we all have
a little Ishmael Ishmael in our hearts
we all have a little Esau inside of us
we all have some Pharaoh in our hearts
too I know that I do and when it comes
down to it the spiritual Egyptian within
us believes that everything is generated
here in this world in this Dimension and
that if we have have something if we
have anything we we deserve it right
because we earned it because we made it
happen for ourselves that's the real
world the way the real world works the
spiritual Egyptian believes that
ultimately we're in control and on some
level we are Gods right if we're in
control of things so this of course begs
the question and I want to sort of bring
it together at this if everything is
ultimately Hashem
then what is in our control
well the sages of Israel uh share a
teaching I've shared it with you before
in the past because it's made its way
into my you know my emergency truth kit
that I turn to in like moments of
confusion so this made the cuts right
and those words are jacobiade
that everything is in the hands of
Heaven other than one thing
one thing
some people Define that as fear of God
but quite literally means you're up to
see Hashem the only thing truly that we
have in our hands that we have any true
control over is one thing whether we see
Hashem experience him as the moving
force of Our Lives or not meaning that
all outcomes everything that happens is
in hashem's hands we have no control the
only thing we can control is our
experience of the journey our
Consciousness our awareness and I
remember a beautiful example shared by
RAV Irish
which is translated as um The Garden of
face or actually I think he just leaves
into that right Garden of emuna and uh
anyways he said that there are two bus
passengers sitting on a bus I think it
was from Jerusalem to Haifa I forget the
details that he used anyways one
passenger is worried sick constantly
looking at his uh his ways his GPS
looking out the window is the driver
going the right way is he driving
carefully is he completely lost and the
other passenger is looking out the
window and enjoying the view right
trusting the driver fully without a
worry in his heart and the first
passenger arrives at the destination a
frazzled bundle of nerves
and the other passenger arrives calm and
collected and Serene and really
invigorated from the whole experience
they both arrive at their intended
destination the destination that's right
for them the question is what kind of
ride they had and so
so I think it's up to us to decide who
we want to be on the journey through
this world do we see Hashem in
everything or nothing that's the
question because deep in our hearts we
know that either everything is a miracle
or nothing is a miracle there's really
nothing in between and so I want to
bless
uh bless all of us that we're able to
internalize the truth of hashem's
deepest name right yurd and hey and hey
the tetragrammaton we can internalize
that into our hearts this name that
teaches us that Hashem is both fully
Transcendence
and also fully imminent at the same time
May these portions really uh help Purge
us of the idols and the Illusions in our
own Hearts so we can cleave to Hashem
into his goodness every day of Our Lives
