Shovavim Series – Episode 4: Connection Through Prayer | Rabbi Nachum Binder

[music] [bell] We mentioned last week that the kadesh tells us that the aid of parasal what we're supposed to take out of this week's para is the aid. There are many different aspects of that we find in this week's par but I want to dwell on one particular aspect of at the beginning of the parli finally leaves mitz and then they turn back and they see behind them are the mitim in front One of them is a yams. To the sides is midbar, desolate, dangerous. And mishenu to the and theam tells him a lie. Why are you screaming to me? Why are you crying to me? And asks on this puk the obvious question. What then should a ye do at such an a? What then should have done? What does it mean? Why are you screaming to me? The medish learns the p a little bit differently. The medush tells us on this pekk a mushel of a king that was going in a forest and he sees a young girl, a young woman who's in great danger. There are robbers, bandits that are about to attack her. She's desperate and as she sees a carriage passing by, she screams from the depths of her heart, "Save me!" And of course, the king jumps, saves her, rescues her, and he brings her back to the palace. But as he after he brings her back to the palace, as time goes on, he really wants to marry her, but she's not interested. She's not showing any interest in him. And the king is waiting. I wish that she would turn to me again like she turned to me back then in the forest. And what the king does is he hires a group of bandits to one day ambush her. And [snorts] when she's in that mat and she screams out again from the depths of her heart, save me, the king comes right away and he saves her. And that's how they build their connection zish. When we were in Mitzim at the lowest point of gullis mitzim cl Israel turned to theam with a cry with zaka and theamay wanted to hear that again from us. What did theam do? He put us into this tremendous a no way out midbar. We have nowhere to turn. And we once again screamed out to the from the depths of our hearts. What the was telling was a lie. Why are you screaming to me? That's not why I did this. I did this that should scream to me and they already did. And because they already did, now it's time for the Yeshua say what's so unique about the when we feel stuck this tell us that what's unique about such a when our is with the realization that we have nowhere else to turn. We have no way out and we can only turn to theam may hashem and we realize that that closeness that that brings between the and the is not paralleled. It's not possible to achieve that closeness another way. But the points out a fascinating point tell us about this that the to the follow in the footsteps of their forefathers who also ded to the and points out if you see the of ak and yak it wasn't necessarily So what does it mean that at this point when they had nowhere else to turn and they turned to the that was the very essence of this what does it mean they're following in the footsteps of their forefathers are teaching us that the even when they weren't specifically in an a even And if they weren't specifically in a hopeless situation, they also turned to the with that realization that even if everything looks good, but may in every in life there's no one else to turn to. There's no way else we can have there's no way else anything can happen to us without the and the and every had that realization of that closeness to the with that knowledge without the I have nothing and with him I can have everything. You know sometimes whether it's and maybe yeah maybe we know that we're scheduled to go for some type of medical procedure which the doctors say is smooth and easy. Maybe we know that we're scheduled for a meeting, a business meeting, some type of deal that everything looks so good and we dive in and maybe we even think about the procedure. Maybe we even think about that business meeting. But sometimes we think to ourselves, yeah, this feels like an extra credit. It's going to happen anyway. But kazal are teaching us that's not the proper attitude. everyu every and especially when it comes to davening forim of when it comes to dvening for ourselves and our children to be we have to turn to the realization those feelings feelings that without the there is no way and only with the can we even hope for success in every aspect of life. What a tremendous lesson in what fela really is. Fel is that turning to the that dependency on the that realization that we have nowhere else to turn and we're totally dependent on him for anything and everything. And if we try to work this week on developing that through those feelings of dependency in our [snorts] whether it's whether it's or whether it's just in the middle of the day and we turn to them and say help this work out help my children have a good day in school today help claw The is waiting for those and the hashem ouris will be answered for ourselves and for Israel and will be to us. [music and bell]