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Vayishlach-We're Not Just Spinning Our Wheels
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Sometimes we can feel like we are just spinning our wheels and not getting anywhere in life. Well the struggle is real and we're going to talk about how to deal with it.
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the living higher series I'm sorry that
I missed the past couple of weeks but
we're back now we're ready to go brother
we're going to we're be back with a
sharite and this week's topic is we're
not just spinning our Wheels we're not
just spinning our Wheels this we's paraa
is par we have one of the seminal
moments in our nation's history we have
the moment where we become the B Isel
where we're called Isel what happened
the
Tells returned alone returned alone to
pick up to collect the small DRS that
were left behind he encounters the Mal
the angel of asov who tries to overcome
yob he's not able to and they
fight they wrestle one with the other
until the morning comes and when morning
comes and the mouth sees that he cannot
overcome yabu he says release me it's my
turn to sing the Shir it's my turn to
sing the praise
to and he asked asked him what's his
name he said my name doesn't matter he
say yob what's your name says and he
says no from now on you're going be
called is why are you going to be called
is because you struggled that the reason
why we're called this is so important to
realize is because of this struggle
because of this epic struggle that Yu
had with the Mal that the Mal couldn't
overcome that our whole
name
says
is
is that the of Y the of Judaism is this
fact this idea that we're called y that
we're called y because why because of
the struggle with the Mal this is so
important to realize so often we look at
things that did we win the a Zahara or
did we lose to the asahara but when
we're locked in that arm wrestle when
we're struggling when we push him off we
don't think about that but Ben the
reason why we called is because of this
struggle but it's so much more there's
so much more going on in these Suk now
we have to take a look what's going on
behind this Su so
the and yov remained alone what does it
mean that he was alone the
to tells us
that means that y felt on his level
disconnected
from he felt so
alone tells us that what do it
mean that when do we have our biggest
struggles with when do we feel that
we're so alone so
disconnected that we're fighting thear
on our own that's when our we have in
our life when our life is dark and we
have to realize that there's going to
be there's going to be a morning that's
going to come we have to hold on until
that morning comes but it's so much more
than
that Rashi
says is a lan of aak which means dust
has the Shish has the root word aak dust
in there what's the significance of dust
Rashi tells us that when yov and the Mal
were struggling when they were wrestling
one with another they were kicking up
dust in their struggle dust was getting
kicked up from their feet while they
were struggling what's the significance
of the Dust getting kicked up from their
from their feet so the that's and this
is in the Z kades as well tells
us that this dust that got kicked up
from their feet went up to the Kia coved
this was holy dust this was dust being
kicked up from somebody struggling with
his Yara where does that dust go that
dust go straight to
the this is something that's so
important that we have to realize in our
lives sometimes we could feel alone we
feel disconnected from we feel like
we're by
ourselves sometimes you could have a
person that's surrounded by people he's
in a crowd yet he feels so alone he
feels such darkness in his life
and he's struggling with his y Sahara
and he ultimately he might fall he might
lose that battle with his Sahara and he
looks at himself see I knew I couldn't
do it that is the wrong way to think
about it we're not just spinning our
Wheels we're not just here not doing
anything even if it feels like right now
we're not accomplishing these moments of
struggle these moments where we push off
the anahara we say not right now even if
ultimately we fall but right now we hold
on we push off we struggle withar that
dust that we're kicking up when we're
spinning our wheels that dust that is
excuse me that is flying up in the air
is going straight to
the in his in K he calls this struggle
these moments of struggle calls them
moments of nitas that we forget about
them especially when it resulted at the
end of the day when we fell when we
didn't beat our Yahara
when ultimately we gave in Tara we don't
think about those moments of struggle
but he says those are moments of nitus
that one day one day in the when we go
upstairs we're going to look back at all
those moments where we held off theara
or even if we didn't succeed in holding
off theara but where we struggled with
Yar we were locked in that arm wrestle
trying those are moments of nitus those
are moments of forever that could never
be taken away from us those are moments
when we become your strong when we
become when we earn our name the B those
are moments that we're struggling trying
to hold on
fighting this is the struggle of life
this is what life is all about the in
the first par it says that a person has
to
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know what are we doing over here and
then says that the truth is that a
person is placed in the midst of a
raging War our life were placed in the
midst of a raging
warba is medic he
says tells us that a person has to
know what is his what is his what is his
obligation in his world not what is my
in the world but in his world says that
each person has to realize that we are
an we are a whole whole entire world
every single one of us that we're placed
in this battle and we have to figure out
what we have to do in our
world you see when we're fighting when
we're in the struggle especially if
ultimately we fall we don't look at us
as if as if we're an entire world we
don't look at us as if we're an IL we
don't look at ourselves like that we
look at ourselves like failures but
that's not true and this is the lesson
as says
is being called is earning our name is
is why is because of the struggle and
realizing that if even if ultimately we
fall but when we struggle with our Yar
when we push off our Yar when we're
fighting with our Yara they're spinning
our we feel like we're spinning our
Wheels but that dust that's getting
kicked up is dust that is going to the
kak it is Holy dust these are moments of
n these struggles these moments of
struggle will last forever let's try to
live a little higher and let's realize
that it's not just about whether we win
or lose of course ultimately we want to
win and if we lose one battle we have to
focus on the big war that's going on but
we have to look at ourselves and we're
in il and our struggle our struggle
those moments of struggle those are
moments that are going to last forever
those are moments when we're becoming
the