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0:00 dear friends in just a few days from now we will be to begin the and rash is not an island onto itself rash is not an entity onto is a gateway it's an opening into into 10 days in which we 0:15 have the opportunity to do cha to repent to reflect to introspect to think about what did and didn't happen over the past year but just as important to contemplate what we want out of the year ahead and I think when 0:29 we come to rash and we come to we often find ourselves fundamentally overwhelmed overwhelmed for many of us the notion of CHA for many of us the notion of just giving an accounting of last year how did I spend my 0:44 time what I what did I do what didn't I do is overwhelming the notion of CHA some of us apologizing is an incredibly difficult thing and that's to someone who's right in front of me that's for a wrong that I 0:58 know for sure I committed apologizing to the apologizing to and really trying to sort things out often feels incredibly overwhelming which is why so often in life whether we recognize it or not we kind of check out of Y other 1:16 words when I say check out I'm not sleeping in I'm going to go to sho I'm going to go through the behaviors I'm going to do exactly what it is that I have to do but there's a piece of me 1:26 that keeps the profundity of the experience a little bit at Bay because I'm overwhelmed and the truth is rightfully so the process of CHA is overwhelming rash isn't even about right rash is ultimately again about accepting the will of as 1:43 my will making the will of God the my world that's what it means to be that's what it means to anoint as a king and there's no cha really inherently involved in that that's why again there's no there's no right 1:57 even we only make one reference to otherwise rash is really but even rash itself it's overwhelming where where do I begin what do I do what should I work on there are so many things I have to stop doing so 2:13 many things I have to start doing and when I just kind of sit down to think about all of it it's overwhelming and most of us when we get overwhelmed generally tend to shut down and do nothing that's so dear 2:28 friends I think for many of us you know rash comes rash goes comes and goes and although we we dve in with sincerity and we have the most the purest of intentions we don't really get Movement we don't really get 2:43 any traction and it's not because we don't care it's often because we're overwhelmed so allow me a few minutes to address this Dynamic of being overwhelmed with Y there is a beautiful medish in t of Theo the medish rec calls 2:59 a story of writes as follow Tells a Story one time I was traveling from one place to another and I found a guy I ran into a guy this guy was the ignorant she ignorant he didn't know anything he didn't 3:19 know he didn't know knew nothing he was totally ignorant of he says I said to this ignorant guy says to the guy my son what are you going to say to God on the day of judgment now the day of 3:39 judgment to which refers to over here is death is death when you leave this world but the truth is for our purposes we could apply this just to R says to the ignorant fisherman what or ignorant guy we'll get to 3:52 the fisherman in just a moment ignoring guy what are you gon to say to when you have to give judgment for your life you didn't learn you didn't engage in any Dynamic spiritual activity what are you going to say to 4:05 which the guy says to he says amlo listen to this so the guy says don't worry about me I got it all figured out I have my whole excuse I know exactly what I'm going to say here's here's what I'm 4:23 going to say to don't blame me you didn't give me intellect you didn't give me intellect you didn't give me the ability to learn you didn't give me the ability to learn Mish you didn't give me intellect so if you 4:38 didn't give me intellect what do you want from me what do you want from me and the guy's all proud of himself right the telling him no what are you going to say before what he say 120 the guy says 4:48 don't sweat it I got it covered out I got I got it covered I got it covered I'm gonna tell him you didn't give me knowledge you didn't give me wisdom says sorry says the guy tell me what do you 5:02 do for a living He says I'm a Hunter I'm a Hunter and a fisherman proceeds to tell the guy tell me who taught you how to make traps right who taught you how to trap animals on land who taught you 5:18 how to create fishing nets who taught you all of this stuff to be able to Be an Effective Hunter and effective fisherman so the man responds re that who gave me knowledge for that who gave me knowledge for to make 5:36 Nets to make traps that I know how to do to which says the same if you think gave you knowledge to make Nets and to make traps to throw them into the sea to figure out where to place them or 5:59 so so says do you tell me do you think who gave you knowledge for Nets who gave you knowledge for traps didn't give you knowledge for Torah didn't give you the ability to comprehend Torah didn't give you the ability to 6:18 go ahead and do chva says if you know how to make Nets and traps then at the end of the day you know how to learn you know how to to engage in Dynamic spiritual activity you know how to do 6:33 cha the story ends the story ends mad the man started crying The Confident fisherman The Confident Hunter at all figured out started crying why because he realized that iavi was right that the truth is if you know how to make 6:53 Nets and you know how to make traps and you know how to go to work and you know how to do your job and you know how to throw a baseball and you know how to go ahead and pursue whatever 7:05 other activities you go ahead and you do in life if you know how to do those things then you know how to do cha then you know how to engage in Dynamic spiritual activity and dear friends the profundity of this 7:17 mishna is what Eli was teaching this man you see this man this simple Jew simple Jew he just thought spirituality Torah chuva that's an acquired skill set I don't have that skill set and therefore I cannot perform those tasks to 7:34 which says to the man you're wrong becoming a hunter is an acquired skill set making Nets making traps those are acquired skill sets learning how to do chuva you don't have to learn it learning toor you don't have to learn 7:48 it that skill set is innate you see we often forget that everything we need in order to be spiritually successful is contained within I was created with it I have the tools to explore Torah again we all have different levels 8:09 of intellectual capacity but we all are born in with the innate ability to connect to Torah in some way I am born with the innate ability to forge a relationship with I came from sh my was carved that was chiseled 8:24 out from the I have an innate ability to for relationship with Hashem and I have the innate ability to do cha the tools are there dear friends everything else in life every other skill set to learn to learn to ride 8:42 a bike you have to learn to ride a bike you're not born with nna skill set you have to develop that skill set to go ahead and do your profession whatever you are a doctor a lawyer an accountant a chef 8:52 whatever you might be you have to learn those skill sets but when it comes to spirituality when it comes to toah relationship with Torah relationship with the ability to do Chua you do not have to acquire anything because anything and 9:08 everything you need to be successful in all those spiritual Endeavors already resides within you we get so overwhelmed by because we're trying to figure out what do I need what do I need what do I have to learn in order 9:22 to do CH what do I have to do in order to reforge relation with meanwhile know the secret of is Secret of is don't do anything the first step in is open your heart is look inside of yourself is open 9:44 the m and just lose yourself in the words just lose yourself in you know on shab this night when we say will Usher into the of shabas not just any rash in that moment all you need to do is just 10:06 silence everything else around you and just open your heart open your heart and sayon Sh I am ready to connecton I am ready to reinvigorate the relationship I I've strayed maybe I've gone a little bit off the beaten path or 10:27 maybe really things are just off the rails totally okay we'll get back on but just know whatever you need to get your life back on the rails whatever you need to reignite your relationship with AES whatever you need in order 10:40 to become a b it's in you it's in you you just have to give yourself the space to find it you ever wonder why daving on is so long yeah we all wonder that all wonder that as just like during 10:59 most feel like oh my gosh I would have had so much more K had I known that it was so much shorter I would have do you know why it's so long do you know I believe what want you to 11:08 do want your mind to wander they want you to think about life no one pays attention to every single one maybe I'm just projecting I don't think everyone pays attention to everyone Kar but that's part of the goal the goal 11:23 is just to recede into yourself to open your heart and to look Inward and to say what tools do I have to reconnect what tools do I have to self- inspire what tools do I have to become a b cha 11:37 if you want to become a fisherman you need to learn that skill set you want to become a hunter you need to learn that skill set you want to become a b cha you don't have to learn anything because anything 11:48 and everything you need is already inside of you so dear friends I wish all of us a beautiful uplifting yum but most importantly a yiv where we give our ourselves the space to look inward find the you see we're so 12:05 often so scared to look inside ourselves because we're scared what we're going to find this is broken and that's broken and this is in a state of disrepair and there's this out there and there's this and yeah yeah there's a 12:14 lot of clutter inside of myself s but when you sift through all of the Clutter you're going to find the beautiful you're going to find beautiful Holiness you're going to find the spark a and it's inside of you each of 12:34 us just waiting to be uncovered just waiting to be discovered here's the incredible thing if you could just find that piece of you inside of you if you could just find the courage to connect with the tools you have inside 12:48 they'll guide you the rest of the way see the great secret of Y is you actually don't have to make a whole comprehensive plan cuz if you just have the right kind of rash and find your inner K find your 13:02 inner tools find your inner B find your relationship with those tools those innate tools they'll guide you the rest of the way they're like your Lantern along a dark Road they will help you find the needed destination but you have 13:21 to let them out you have to find them and you have to let them out sh to have some moments of real and beautiful and special introspection let's not be afraid to look inside of ourselves yeah you're going to find 13:39 broken stuff you're going to find damaged stuff but beyond all of that I'm going to find so much Beauty when I find that beauty that's my Lantern along the dark Road of life that's my Lantern of that's the beacon I'm 13:51 going to follow it's going to teach me exactly where I need to go what I need to do in this of finding the beautiful spiritual tools that each of us possessed inside in the of dusting off my and allowing its 14:02 light to fill my life we together with our families and Community a year filled withle with with and the best of all theia the which we should see actualize here wishing everyone a good a good and h
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