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said, "Rabbi, you know what? I have a
question for you." He's like, "Tell me,
tell me how we can make Shv relevant for
2025." And this is a guy he's not
wearing yamakov. He's not shabas. He
puts on the phone sometimes, but he's
basically not religious. And he put me
on the spot and I had to explain to him
howimu
how nasma from thousands of years ago to
make it relevant to make it soluble to
make it appealing to him and to his
other friend who's a little more a
little more from him but also not
and the truth is you know they say in
gumar they say when when you shiva they
say oh it's a bat shakasha which usually
means that it's a bomb kasha means it's
the best kasha because it it attacks the
core. It attacks the the basis of
everything. It attacks the fundamental
and and when it's such a ABC elementary
kasha, we get caught up with raid and
lumbus. But when it's an ABCasha and you
have to really address that, that's when
we're most startled when we're we really
have to be on guard and make sure we
have the proper answer. So when I was on
the phone today and I was asked this
question and these guys are not wearing
yamakas and they're like how do we make
sure it's relevant for us
I had to ask Hashem for a quick prayer
for the for something that will be
impactful for them and after I said to
them I think that it's it's it's I think
it really captures the essence and this
is what I told them
as we know all the kadesh writes in uh
many places.
He writes that
the energy that was present that was
available at the time of whatever y it
was
that that that that energy that light
that
replays itself.
It happens all over again and it's it's
present in the world. Now this is hard
for us to understand because we're
eating mics and and potato chips. like
is this this energy this kadusha is but
in a way we can understand that there's
a kadusha that there's that there's
there's there's something that permeates
the entire world on a level and when it
comes to when we said
when the came to that level
they came to this level this secret
level that the said how did he know this
this this this secretion of
we can all tap back into that
how do we do that?
What's the key? What's the how do we say
we're going to do and we're going to
listen without understanding without
hearing the laws. We're just going to
jump right in.
So the answer is baby steps. The answer
is taking something small. And I'm going
to tell you something personal which is
what I told them.
There was a certain limood I used to do
for a long time and recently like
different transitions and life and
whatever we moved recently blah blah
blah. So it kind of dwindled. It kind of
fizzled out and we can all
identify. We can all understand what
this means. We had things that we used
to do then we stopped and we go up and
we go down. So for me personally it was
this certain limu that I really enjoyed.
It was stimulating was every day was
regimented
and last week I had to go to this
meeting in Pennsylvania
and I was a half hour early and I was
listening to I think it was from Rabbi
Fry Waxman
and he was talking about the Helikite of
Shivus. If you ever heard him, he has a
very roaring, powerful, overpowering,
like uplifting, real inspiring voice.
And he was talking about Kadusha and how
the Eden came back and Kim and it's
Gavaldic and we tap into this and it's
real.
And I got to this parking lot in
Pennsylvania
and I made a to myself like right now I
have an opportunity
myava. Okay. So like for the past few
months I let up on that sed on that lim
and but right now I have an I have a
half hour
and I don't know what's going to be
tomorrow. I don't know if I'm gonna have
the time for tomorrow but right now I
have the time. Right now I have the
opportunity to take a baby step. And
just being honest I said you know what I
can be busy for the next half hour with
other things. I can even say say
something but I had a real lim in Gumar
that I wanted to do and I said you know
what right here in front of this meeting
in Pennsylvania. I said now is the time
to be mazak. Now is the time where
hashem is here and sh is coming and
theis of kadusha of whatever happened.
We don't have to know we don't have to
understand but we know it was true. We
know we said nasma
and we have that opportunity now and
tomorrow and after shabus. But the
greatest preparation
is looking around looking at ourselves
looking in the mirror and saying we're
the amar. We were chosen thousands of
years ago and again we're going to come
again on Shu this year and we're going
to learn all night and we're going to
show that we really care. But it's not
just about sh night.
It's about our lifestyle. It's about
ourselves as
it's about our commitment to
and with small baby steps we can make
those things happen. Whether it's a
seder, whether it's a
a few lines ago, whatever it is, we can
all find pockets in our day where it's
possible to take something small and
that's how we can say that Shiva 2025
does mean Something.
