There Are No Limits - Parshat Emor - Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair

[Music] when I was a Youngster in the 1950s the World of Sport was shocked when on May the 6th 1954 Roger Bannister broke the 4minute mile barrier his time was 3 minutes 59.4 seconds barely less than 4 minutes but he changed the whole of distance running in a single afternoon after that in the late 50s and the 60s track records fell like ripe apples bannister's mile remains a touchstone in the history of Athletics not because banister set an unbreachable record currently the fastest mile is a good 15 seconds less than bannister's time but for Generations 4 minutes was thought of as an intrinsic physiological limit as if muscles could not be made to move any faster or lungs breathe any deeper what banister proved was that intrinsic boundaries are mythical what he broke permanently was not a limit but the idea of limits rarely are we limited by our limitations usually we're limited by the limitations we place on our limits and as true as this is in athletics it's equally true in our own lives in our life Ambitions in our relationships our relationship with our spouse with our friends with our fellow man and with Hashem with God if we would but realize that each one of us is capable of reaching not only further than we think but further than we could possibly dream we would run our own life 4minute Mile in record time [Music]