What is bothering you? -Rabbi Avi Schneider

I want to share with you the following story that happened a few days ago a very very close friend of mine is uh he rides with the equilateral working on helping the people of Jewish the Jewish people in their distro and he had a recent call and he shows up it's uh basically someone there's concern might be a stroke a stroke victim and they show up and they uh he's not feeling so well he's a little disoriented and they go through a series of testing they take a blood pressure um they uh they try to see his vitals obviously pulse and speak to him and the question they usually ask at the very end is is anything bothering you um anything bothering you and uh this man about 80 years old says yeah something's bothering me they quickly run okay everyone gathers around this is a very important information to get if he's able to communicate with volume they could go a long way towards telling the uh the doctors or the hospital you know what he's feeling so he looks they all come in close and he says the Yates are Horrors bothering me wow I'm so excited what a unbelievable story this is you know this we have departures we're doing right now with with yaakov and meeting with the Ace of and this uh this concept is ideally it's a Horrors bothering me it's a very important concept you know yaakov is doing battle with his socialism because I'll tell us with the Ace of spiritual counterpart in other words the eight Sahara and during the battle as uh as the morning is is coming upon them and uh the source related asks for release battles over he has not won it's a stalemate he wants to go to which uh yaakov and the starfish have exchanged names yaakov who says his name is Jacob and this the angel renames him to Israel and when yaakov asks his Angel you know what's your name the angel seems to refuse to tell him [Music] why you ask me my name to which yaakov lets him go that's how the story ends in the textbooks present an unbelievable idea the reason why yaakov wanted to know the angel's name in the first place because if the angel represented the spiritual counterpart to asaph and a name is the essence the sworner brings down when Adam would name every of the all the animals in the beginning of creation he was trying to understand their Essence the name is in essence what's the essence of the age Zahara and the angel doesn't tell him but says requires who Levitz the angel did tell him I know it's a weird name we don't name our kids to set uh you know when they're born but the name according to 11. this of the angel of eight Zahara the spiritual counterpart of Asa for Russia was why do you ask in my name why do you want to know and I just do it because it feels good it makes sense just you know it doesn't have to make sense to even do it because you want to that's why take a second you ask the name that point in time the gig is up the muscle brings down the measures brings down muscle the hits are is really like a uh like a crippled man it's got no legs he can't run after you and he you're walking by him and he says give you all your money you're like oh okay what do you want I'll give you anything you want if you would take a second be like what one second who are you what are you why would I do that the game is over the entire is just a bother to us it's just a bother what's bothering you the itself is bothering you when you realize I'm not the eight Sahara it's it's part of me it's inside of me but it's causing me to stress I want to work on it I want to Focus my time on being a better person then you're able to thrive and to grow we don't Define ourselves why it's ever realize it's part of you know part of maybe of a nature we have but one that is fightable one that we see yakovino struggle with and is able to to come to an agreement with of now I get to know you better I understand what you are better now I'm prepared more to challenge you and that when you challenge me and that's this lesson of this elderly man as he's 80 years old already been through a lot of his life and he's going through a physical struggle and he's able to point his finger and say hey it's a house would truly really bothers me which would be so if we should narr it to be aware of what the true struggles we have in life are and to know that no matter what's going on around us we have the ability and the recipe for success look in the mirror and say why would I do this this is what's best for me so we head towards Hanukkah on a time period when the light will shine upon all Jews which would be zoka to see the True Light in the world be able to connect to that in the highest level [Music]