Where Are You Running? - R. Don Jarashow - TorahAnytime.com

on the when I was coming here. So about an two hours before I was leaving my office, I bumped into a person not a relative and he was sitting in the next door office to me along with his son who I interact with I see him on a daily basis but he had his father there and I needed to print something. I have I need to print this. I was in my office. So I quickly I was holding you saw I was holding this this stand and my phone and myim and everything. I look like a mess and I was running out cuz I had to get here. I was in a rush and I like barged into the room cuz I'm friends with him and like then I saw [music] this. I saw his father was there older man. No this is the way we do business. Slow walk nicely speak nicely just barge in. But I didn't know he was there and he understood that. He saw the look on my face. He saw the discomfort exuding. I just felt like, "Oh no, I'm so sorry. I like almost turned around and I just need to print something out." Which wasn't a big deal. And you know what he told me? You know what sensitivity means? You know what? Which is something we're about to celebrate on. When he saw us about to just close the door and run away, he said, "Hey, where are you going? We're all family." Besides the lesson of hearing, he went into my mind what I was thinking, my experience to make me feel better, to make me feel comfortable. I think we can apply the same message. This is exactly where we all are as we go into Purim. Often we can feel unwelcome. We can feel distance. We can feel if it's a if it's just not acting conducting ourselves properly the way we should be as Jews that automatically creates distance as we call it that's something automatic is the time where we knock on Hashem's office when we're all looking for we're all looking to plug back in to go back and accept a new and we're hesitant and we feel maybe we should run. We should find the back door. We feel that maybe Hashem is displeased with the way we're acting, with the way we talk, with what we see, with what we listen to, who we associate ourselves with. And we're at the [music] door right now. And Hashem says, "Where are you running? We are family.