Brace Yourself | Rabbi David Sutton

[Music] Eric Weiss born in 1874 and died in 1926 most people never heard of Eric Weiss but they know his stage name Harry Houdini Harry Houdini was a Hungarian Jew his father was Rabbi Sam Weiss moved to these Shores and eventually due to the challenge of the time assimilated he became world famous he was a unbelievable escape artist and could be put in all kinds of different challenging situations and come out unscathed the London Daily Newspaper created a challenge with special handcuffs he was put in milk jars filled with water to the top hung by a crane and escaped and there are daring missions one after the other where he gets out Harry Houdini seems to be unbeatable how did Harry Houdini die Harry had a certain stunt where he would ask anyone in the crowd as strong as you may be come over to me and you could punch me in the stomach and he had extremely strong stomach muscles and he was fine one of his stunts one day without properly bracing himself at a weak moment a fellow came and punched Harry in the stomach multiple times and his appendix was ruptured and he died a few days days later from infection what is the lesson to us from that story you can be the greatest of the greats and overcome all kinds of challenges but if you're not ready for something and you don't prepare yourself and you don't embrace yourself you might get into trouble and that's the same in our story we have to understand that in life we're going to get challenges going out the street today is a challenge ra VBA writes just like there's a magnetic force that the maget knows and turns from north to south because there's a magnetic force in the world there's a powerful force in the world that's pulling us to look at things we shouldn't look at and rolba said sometimes a person picks up the head and oops they see something they shouldn't look and they think it was a accident he says no there's actually a magnetic force that's pulling you towards that and that's where you have to come in with your V you have to pull back and say no to that Force but if you're not aware of it and you're not ready for that Force then you could be as miraculous as har Houdini but if you don't brace yourself and you're not ready and not prepared you might get into trouble and that's our lesson beware that we're going out into a world that's full of punches and you don't want to get punched in the stomach without being prepared [Music]