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0:00 All right, good morning everyone. 0:02 I apologize for for my delay this morning, but it is a great to be here with all of you this morning. 0:10 And I thank Rabb Rosenbam for inviting me to be with you during always a highlight of my to come and share a few words of Torah with this >> few minutes to tell the students how you teach and how long you 0:23 come back >> and I look forward to the guilt every single year when I come here. 0:28 Thank you. Halvi halv one day. 0:30 So girls, it was a grace to be here with you this morning and I wanted to share with you. 0:34 Um there's so much to talk about and so much to share but I I'll be mata this morning cuz unfortunately I'm a little bit late but something dawned on me this year that for whatever the reason never really bothered me 0:47 before. It's always interesting right? 0:48 You can say the same feels year in and year out yet different things impact you in different ways at different times. 0:54 So if you take a look at source number two, there's a lot of interesting history about interesting enough what I want to point out to you is we say we seek to me is like one of the most beautiful because it 1:11 brings together these disparate identities of au our father representing a closeness, Malachu, our king representing a little bit of a distance, but yet with Akadesh we have both of those relationships. 1:23 He's our father and he's our king. 1:25 And we say, "Bring us back in complete to you." 1:33 What's the problem with that phrase? 1:35 What's the problem? I gave you an extra 20 minutes like to relax and everything. 1:43 What's What's the problem with the phrase? 1:44 The problem with the phrase is a gimmar. 1:46 Number three, the a beautiful that says The name of the Malik, the name of the angel who was in charge of pregnancy. 1:57 His name is a very beautiful. 2:02 The gimra says that before it's it's it's actually interesting is this does this occur when a woman is pregnant before a woman is pregnant whatever it is the malik takes the ta the little droplet that one day is going to 2:13 be a baby and brings this little drop before and asks what is this child going to become strong or weak wise or foolish rich or poor so again all the different life questions but the gimar notes But there's one question 2:35 that does not ask. 2:36 Is the child going to be a Russ or a righteous or wicked? 2:41 Why is that? Everything is in the hands of with the exception of your shim. 2:54 with the exception of your and this is a very profound gimra determines everything. 3:02 You're going to be rich, you're going to be poor, you're going to be tall, you're going to be short, you're going to be wise, you're going to be foolish. 3:07 All of those things himself decides. 3:13 Now again, do I have to put inad? 3:16 Of course I have to put in. 3:17 If a person sits and doesn't work and they think they're going to have money, they're not going to have money. 3:21 It doesn't work that way. 3:22 You know people it's interesting that a lot of times people like to focus on the story right what what did Rashbi do so Rashbi went ahead and he escaped to a cave and he learned Torah the whole day with his 3:35 son Rabbazer and supported them so people like to think oh what do you see from here what what's the lesson from that story what's the lesson >> that if you learn to will take care of you that is true if you 3:49 learn Torah will absolutely take care of you assuming that you are absolutely good with buxer and water. 3:56 If you're good with buxer and water, absolutely. 3:59 But if you need stylish clothing, nothing wrong with that. 4:02 If you need a nice house, nothing wrong with that. 4:04 If you need a late model car, nothing wrong with that either. 4:06 But if you want any of those things is not delivering that to your doorstep without and significant. 4:16 You want to be in other words, a person wants to say I don't need any gashmas in this world and all I need is simple existence and is going to take care of me. 4:25 Such a model like that exists. 4:28 But highmaintenance gashmos, high maintenance gashmos, enjoy it if you want to, but just make sure that you're willing to put in the necessary amount of in order to be able to have that. 4:40 A very important lesson. 4:42 So therefore all of these things I have to put in but at the end of the day who determines even with all of my right we see this in the world there are people who put in a lot of but still 4:52 struggle financially and then there are people who seemingly put in a little bit ofadus and yet are wildly successful how do you explain that and the answer is who runs the world I I don't know how to explain it because 5:04 determines again how much money I'm going to have at the beginning of the year just like he determines who's going to be healthy who's going to be sick All these things that determines but yet the says there is one thing 5:15 that does not get involved in the one thing that is totally hands off on and that is that is not involved in now that's not a totally true statement is involved in my and we'll discuss how that happens in just 5:37 a moment but at the end of the day the says I'll control all the other factors around you. 5:44 But the one piece that you are in charge of, the one piece you're in charge of at the end of the day is who and what you are. 5:54 And this is perhaps one of the most important and profound lessons the whole year. 6:01 Look what the quotes says. 6:07 Everything is in the hands of heaven except for shamim. 6:12 How would you translate? 6:13 How do you translate it? 6:15 Fear of heaven. Now I want to teach you something very important. 6:17 A number of lessons we're going to learn this morning can't really mean fear of heaven. 6:22 Why not? Says something so beautiful. 6:26 He says when you fear something, what's your relationship to it? 6:30 If you're fearful of something, what do you do? 6:32 >> Distance. >> Distance. Right? I'm fearful of fire. 6:34 Rightfully so. So again I I keep a distance. 6:37 So the says our whole our whole in life like David says what I want more than anything in this world is a sense of closeness to that's all I want. 6:51 Say how could it be I'm distancing myself from the really redefineses it as a reverence. 6:59 a reverence as Hashem doesn't mean fear but rather it means to rever what happens when you revere something so when you rever something it's on a pedestal right it's on a pedestal so it's not it's not on the same level 7:11 as me it's a little bit removed but at the same time I can still reach out and touch it I can still reach out to connect to it so ultimately again says everything is in the hands of heaven and what 7:24 does everything include what does everything include >> everything includes Everything everything is everything everything in this world is in the hands of with one exception and in this context means your is yours and yours alone. 7:48 what your how your life is going to turn out. 7:51 Many of those factors are in the hands of now the good news is that we believe that loves us more than than anything and therefore only wants our to only wants our good. 8:03 So that doesn't scare me that I'm not in control. 8:07 You know, one of the most important things in Yiddish kite is the ability to let go, to not be in control, which you know is is interesting because if there's one thing that people want more than anything, it is control. 8:21 Why? I don't know anyone here like a control freak. 8:24 No. All right, maybe you're too young for that. 8:26 You can't I'm a significant control freak. 8:28 A micromanager in camo. 8:30 But here's what's important to understand. 8:32 Why do people yearn for control? 8:35 Why? Where does that come from? 8:38 So Rabbi Nakman writes that every everything that we have every like every emotion that we feel stems from the so remember we are made salim we're made in the image of now what's the one thing that has what does he 8:54 have control so therefore also yearns for control that desire for control doesn't come from a bad place it comes from the holy kadashim it's Because I know deep down like the balatana says I have an and that is it is 9:15 literally again a piece of which means that there's there's literally a piece of which resides inside of me which means all of the midos of Hashem are inside of me as well has complete control over anything and there's a piece 9:32 of me there's a piece of me that yearns for control. 9:37 And that's why you see people struggle with this in their entire lives. 9:40 You know, it's fascinating to see when people are undergoing crisis. 9:43 People undergoing crisis. It's fascinating. 9:46 Hopefully, no one here knows from crisis, but if you ever undergo crisis, people crisis represents a lack of control. 9:53 Something happens in my life and I'm out of control. 9:55 And it's fascinating to see what people almost always do is that they will become obsessive about another part of life. 10:04 You see this all the time. 10:06 someone has a has a a child who's they'll become compulsive about keeping their house clean. 10:13 Why? Why? Why? Because we always have to exert control in some way. 10:18 But again, it doesn't come from a bad place. 10:21 It comes from a good place. 10:22 This is not for today. 10:23 If invites me back, you'll see that all of the things that we do, all things that we do. 10:29 You ever wonder, and I cannot personally relate to this, but perhaps some of you could relate to this. 10:35 Window shopping. Window shopping. 10:40 It makes no sense to me. 10:42 I understand if you have to shop for something, you have to get you go. 10:45 I was going to say go to a store, but nobody goes to a store anymore. 10:48 You go online, right? 10:49 But like there's like a hano that people have of like looking at stuff. 10:54 Hey, looking at stuff. 10:55 So I don't know. May I always think maybe like it's a man thing. 10:58 I just don't understand certain things in this world. 11:01 But it's interesting. Rabin Aman says people are naturally drawn to acquiring things. 11:08 Right? We are very acquisitional beings. 11:11 The says where does that come from? 11:13 That comes from the fact that then constantly yearns to acquire but then puts out a message to the g and it says to the body acquire. 11:24 How does the body interpret that? 11:25 How does the body interpret that? 11:27 The body interprets that as material acquisitions. 11:30 That's why we like to acquire things materially. 11:33 We like material acquisition so much that even if I'm not going to actively acquire something I'm just looking at potentially or dreaming about acquiring something somehow we get a hano we get some level of enjoyment from that it makes absolutely 11:46 no sense I understand if you buy something and you use it but to get enjoyment from looking but just understand all of that comes from the nishama everything we do somehow originates in the soul in the nishama but the greatest 12:02 challenge of life is that often the body the physicality of man corrupts distorts changes that the messages the message of the is trying to put through. 12:11 Okay, back to the gimar. 12:12 So the gimar says everything is in the hands of heaven except for now how do you know that where where does that come from? 12:23 Where does that concept come from? 12:34 So remember again this is the famous by says he says how would you translate and now right because remember this is with anal what does God ask of you except to fear him and then the goes on to fear him 12:57 to love him to rever so on and so forth. 13:00 So the which I did not put on the sheet says I don't understand you know makes it sound like that hashem asks so little from us because I was about to ask you does hashem ask so little from us how 13:17 do you think Judaism is a small ask or a big ask? 13:22 >> It's a huge ask. 13:24 It's huge. You know sometimes we want to sound from like you want to say no no it's not it's really it's manageable it's it's overwhelming it's overwhelming if you're not overwhelmed by your yiddish kite chances are you don't understand the enormity 13:37 of the spiritual not overwhelmed like I feel like I'm being crushed under a burden but when you think about the expectations that has of us it can be overwhelming can absolutely be overwhelming and could even be daunting so the is 13:52 bothered by this because says come on look how good you have it. 13:56 All that is asking you is what? 13:58 To fear him, to love him, to listen to his m, and to do what is good with his eyes. 14:02 Oh, that's it, right? 14:03 That's all. That's all. 14:04 He's just asking me to keep to do everything, to avoid temptation. 14:09 That's all. Right. What Mosha was saying in that one line is this very thing that most of us struggle with our entire life. 14:17 So the says, Mosha, don't you think you're minimizing things just a little bit? 14:22 So now you understand that Moshe is not minimizing it. 14:25 Mosha Abenu is saying we spend our lives trying to control things that aren't really in our control. 14:35 And Moshabinu says what are you going to do? 14:38 You're going to worry about your parnosa. 14:40 At the end of the day what what's our responsibility when it comes to parasa? 14:43 What's our responsibility? How however is defined. 14:50 Work hard. Put in your effort. 14:51 where you're you're gonna obsess about your health, right? 14:54 In other words, whether you're going to be healthy or get sick, you you don't control that. 14:57 And again, this is so many different things in the realm of and again at every different stage in life generally we become a bit petrified about something. 15:06 So in the realm of when am I going to find my bash? 15:08 How am I going to find my bash? 15:09 How am I going to know it's my bash? 15:11 And then a person gets married, having children, then a person has children having and every stage. 15:17 And what Moshu says is we spend so much time focusing and agonizing over the things we don't control. 15:27 And meanwhile says in the grand scheme of things, there's only actually one thing you control. 15:35 One thing that is now when I say you control one thing that you you and you yourself control and what is that what is that that's your that is your religious identity that is the only thing you control nothing else 15:54 absolutely nothing else and that says Mosha and Rabb actually takes us a step further he says something so beautiful he puts in a part of the beauty of ofidos is the greatidic masters they put commas in different places in the 16:12 when you play around a little with punctuation the p itself takes on like a totally different meaning says the way to read that which is the last line of number three is takes it a step further you only control your 16:33 and by the way when do Do you control your When do you control your when? 16:39 >> Right now. You cannot make any guarantees about anything in life for five minutes from now. 16:48 I don't know if I'm going to be in the world in five minutes from I sounds morose, but I I don't mean it like that. 16:53 At the end of the day, we have absolutely no control over anything beyond the present moment. 17:03 We like to make long-term plans and we should make long-term plans but at the end of the day what control do we have says the only control you have is right now there's a beautiful discusses said when am I going 17:22 to die you're gonna die on shabas said I don't want to die in shabas I don't want to die in a shabas you know because again if I die in a shabas It's the shab then all complications let me die 17:38 on Sunday says no you can't die on Sunday why not Sunday already is the time for your son's monarchy and one monarchy cannot overlap with another monarchy even a hair's breath's time says okay I'll die I'll die on Friday in 18:00 fact says that uh of Shabas if someone dies in arabas it's actually a beautiful sim to die in ar of shabas person dies in ar of shabas it represents like completion of a life the same way again on Friday represents 18:13 the culmination the completion of the week person dies in ar of shabas represents ultimately again the completion of their life so they'll die in shabas listen says to David says no says why he says David one day of your life 18:30 is worth more than the tens of thousands of carbonos that will be brought in the B mikdash that your son Schlommo will build. 18:42 And the Bashakadesh says, what do you see from that? 18:45 You see from that the power of maximizing your present. 18:50 See girls, you're young, but I have a very strong feeling that a lot of your life is probably focused on your future. 18:58 Right? After all, again, you're in school. 19:00 Barashem because you're planning for your future and everything is about your future and it is important to plan for your future. 19:08 But never plan for your future at the expense of your present for one simple reason. 19:14 Your future is a great unknown. 19:17 Your present is here right in front of you. 19:21 You know, I'll tell you a little uh I'll tell you an interesting ma shahaya. 19:26 When I was uh when I was first married, I was learning in column and I got uh I got a very good job offer, a very good job offer in uh working auditing a hedge fund, public accounting auditing a hedge 19:38 fund and it was I was a I was a kid. 19:41 I was a kid and and Bashan this was a very good job offer like felt like a once in a lifetime. 19:47 I took it. I took it and I remember being in accounting and surrounded by good people and everybody was profoundly unhappy. 19:59 Now this is not to dissuade anyone from going into accounting, right? 20:02 But profoundly unhappy. And it was so interesting to me like so I wondered to myself like why is everybody sticking around if they're just so unhappy day in and day out? 20:15 And then I I asked around a little bit and here was the kashman. 20:19 The kashman was at least in accounting the way it works is like this. 20:22 If you stick around, you enter in as a junior, you put in three years, you become a senior, then five years manager, right? 20:30 10 years partner, 15 years equity partner, and once your equity partner, right? 20:38 That's mamish. God bless. 20:40 God bless. And that moment struck me. 20:43 That's fantastic. But to sign away your present for something that may or may not occur in your future seems to be like a terrible gamble because that future may or may not come. 20:58 But your present day in and day out that's the life you're living right now. 21:04 How can you sacrifice that for something that may or may not occur somewhere down the road? 21:10 And to me that was such an eyeopening experience. 21:14 I left that job but eyeopening experience and a lot of the world lives that way. 21:19 People go through their life and they're miserable. 21:21 They don't like what they do for a living but they do it because of whatever some type of higher or they don't like certain elements of their life but they think it's okay. 21:28 I'll just suffer through it because of some future potential payout. 21:32 Now part of being an adult is you have to do things you don't like to do because they're necessary for some type of ends. 21:41 But that can't be the totality of your life. 21:43 That could be that could be a piece that could be a detail. 21:48 But you cannot give up the entirety of the beauty of the holiness of your present because of some potential future which may unfold. 21:56 Says to David, I'm not letting you leave this world one day earlier than you are supposed to because one day of your life in this world is more important to me than all of the that are going to be brought. 22:10 That's what it means to maximize your day, to maximize your present. 22:15 Do you ever wonder when we get up in the morning, right? 22:17 First thing we say, first thing we say, I thank you, Hashem. 22:24 Eternal King, right? You've given back my with compassion, with kindness. 22:33 What does that last phrase mean? 22:39 Great is your faith in me. 22:44 The first thing I do and kazal created this in a way that you say this without negaser right that's the whole point the first thing I open my eyes up in the morning and I recognize I open my eyes which 22:55 means that gave me a gift of life that gift is not given to everybody on any given day there are people who don't open their eyes so allow me to wake up what does that mean what does that mean at 23:05 the end of the day if I open my eyes today that means that has faith in me to do something great he has faith in me to do something incredible, not to shle by, not to be mediocre, not just to 23:19 check the boxes because does not give gifts to people if they're not going to maximize it. 23:27 So if I was given a gift today that some segment of humanity did not receive this morning, how much you must believe in me? 23:38 How much you must believe in me? 23:41 And that's the first thing that's before I did anything today. 23:43 I didn't even do anything today yet. 23:45 But the fact that I woke up is the greatest almost like divine. 23:48 I was going to say pat on the back, but doesn't give us a pat on the back. 23:52 It's a kiss on the headbar who says, "I love you. 23:57 You're going to be fantastic. 23:58 Go out and do something great. 24:03 Don't tell me what you're planning to do. 24:05 Don't spend your life just focusing on that future that may or may not materialize. 24:09 Yes, plan for your future, but while planning for your future, make sure to maximize your present. 24:16 That says the it's not just that Hashem only asks us to be proficient in our but Hashem asks us ultimately just to be proficient. 24:30 Now, the does not ask us for any more than we're capable of delivering. 24:38 What girls? Let me ask you, what's the most you could deliver on any given day? 24:42 What what what's the greatest expectation anyone could have on your any given day? 24:45 What's the expectation? To maximize the moment right in front of you. 24:50 No one could ask you for any more than that because you can't guarantee that. 24:56 You can't guarantee what's going to happen at uh in 10 minutes from now. 25:00 You can't guarantee what's going to happen two weeks from now. 25:02 You can't guarantee any of that. 25:04 Instead, all you could guarantee is I am ready to maximize the present moment in front of me now. 25:13 And this becomes, I believe, the secret to it's not even it's not a secret. 25:17 It's what is telling us. 25:20 Stop focusing on all the things you can't control. 25:23 Stop focusing on all the things that give us so much stress. 25:26 But no matter how much stress, no matter how much you stress over it, right? 25:30 Whatever your particular stressors are, think about, right? 25:33 Whatever you stress over most, think about does stressing more over it help you or not. 25:40 Chances are the answer is it doesn't help. 25:43 So says, "So why are you using all of your emotional, mental, and spiritual energy towards something you don't control? 25:50 Put your cohose into the things you do control. 25:53 And the only thing you really control in this world is what you're doing with your life right now. 26:01 You have to plan. 26:02 You can't absent yourself from future planning but at the end of the day you have to learn the art of maximization of the moment. 26:11 You know this is the famous is that one is supposed to take on certain certain right what are the you know so that question always is the right what's the famous question on the on these practices what's the famous question 26:32 doing. >> I'm sorry. >> You're only doing it now. 26:34 Come on. I mean, okay. 26:36 Person keeps all the time. 26:38 All right. So, fine. Anyway, you're doing it anyway. 26:39 So, you're not doing anything additional. 26:41 Let's say you don't. 26:42 Let's say you don't, right? 26:43 Plenty of plenty plenty of great people are not. 26:46 So, again, so good. 26:48 I'm going to do it for 4 days and then what? 26:50 I have absolutely no intention of doing it after. 26:53 So, I don't say we're playing games over here. 26:55 We're playing games like it's like dress up like spiritual dress up. 26:58 Look at me. I'm so frum. 26:59 And if you're going to be so from I don't know. 27:01 I think that there are probably other things that a person should start with between like cosmetic things like that. 27:05 But what's not fake? 27:08 It's just saying I know that I could affect change in my day-to-day life if I want to. 27:14 That's the message there. 27:16 Something as simple as what pretzels you eat, right? 27:19 You can go ahead and make that decision. 27:21 What milk you're going to drink. 27:23 You can make differences. 27:24 You can make changes in your day-to-day life if you want to. 27:29 That's all that we're teaching. 27:31 I want to tell you something. 27:32 Eating is right. I guarantee you that is not going to be the thing that tilts the scales in your favor in like the Bal is sitting there ate prior to the farm. 27:48 You know, now we're good to go, right? 27:49 It's not going to be that ice cream that feel that's that's not it. 27:52 It's nice. It's great. 27:53 It's it's it's a good hot pod. 27:55 Especially we live in America. 27:56 There's no reason not to be there's enough options for us. 28:01 But okay, that's you'll consult your local what you should do about that, right? 28:05 But it's not going to tilt the scale. 28:07 But what it does is it shows me that I am capable of affecting change in my life. 28:16 We spend so much time focusing on the things that we can't control that we forget to flex our personalistic muscles and affect change in the areas of life we do control. 28:30 You control your midos. 28:33 You control your temperament. 28:36 You control how you talk. 28:38 You control your relationship with you control how you interact with other people. 28:45 You control your you control all those things says not my department. 28:51 I don't deal with says now the beautiful part is whatever path you want to take in life. 29:00 Hashem's going to help you on that path. 29:01 So if you choose to exercise your personal muscle in building up your Hashem who says good I'll help you with that. 29:08 But it's not my problem. 29:09 Says your is not my problem. 29:12 God says to us everything else about your life I'm intimately involved in but your is yours and yours alone. 29:22 We control who and what we are. 29:25 And I think so much so much you know it struck me again I don't know why these things are striking me this year more. 29:32 You know whenever we make the bakashas right one of the most interesting things about the of is that normally in right where do you have bakashas where do you have petitional requests where where in the middle we never make any 29:48 petitional requests in the beginning in the in the first three the exception to that is exception that is right where we insert we insert but it's interesting right we I don't say it's now what's the why why is it and 30:09 why is it plural so again the simple idea is because in general we always have a greater possibility of our requests being granted when we embed ourselves in the collective that's always true but I think on an additional level want 30:23 us to be very careful about getting too caught up in bakashas that are totally up to aeshbar and not really within our purview life or death that's up to and has a lot of different that he brings into that up 30:45 to of course I need to ask for everything that I want and I have to put in my but it's I think it's dava not phrased in the singular because that's actually not what kazal wanted us to focus on this 30:57 time of year as crazy as that sounds life and Death is actually not the primary focus. 31:04 What's the primary focus? 31:05 What's the primary focus of this time of year? 31:10 The world is being recreated a new the world is being the world is brand new. 31:15 And what's the to recreate ourselves? 31:18 And you'll say to yourself, hopefully all of you are too young to ever say on this, but as you get older, people say, "Ah, I can't recreate myself. 31:25 I can't forget myself. 31:26 I'm too set in my ways. 31:27 I hope no one here feels that way." 31:29 But even if do feel that way. 31:31 It's not true. At the end of the day, we control who and what we are. 31:40 There's something you don't like about yourself, change it. 31:45 There's something you want to stop doing, stop it. 31:48 You know, there's a famous writes in that generally for every mida you're supposed to find the middle path. 31:56 There's one mida that Ram says that a person should totally eradicate. 31:59 What's the one negative media that no person should have kas even ga arrogance you have to have a little you have to have like a little bit says because without any ga person could become like a butam says you have to 32:13 obliterate it asksam so what happens if a person has a short temper I'm not going to ask for for a show of hands who has a short temper right some right and by the way some of us like are pre-programmed 32:25 like that we have a short fuse what do you do if you struggle with anger I'm say stop getting angry like right. 32:35 Thank you. Right. What a profound piece of advice. 32:37 Right. I have a problem with getting angry. 32:39 What's the answer? What's the answer? 32:41 Like drum roll. Stop getting angry. 32:43 Yeah. You know what I'm saying? 32:46 You control you. You control you. 32:50 It's not that your mother didn't give you enough love. 32:53 Your father didn't give you enough attention. 32:54 Your teacher never gave you snack last or whatever else it is. 32:57 Your friends aren't nice to you. 32:58 not popular. He didn't have this. 32:59 He didn't have that. 33:00 Might all be true. 33:01 Might all be true. 33:02 All of us have baggage. 33:04 We all have stuff. 33:06 And we all have parts of our lives that we wish were different. 33:10 Such is the nature of life. 33:14 And says, "I got it. 33:16 But now take control over your life. 33:18 You control you. No one else. 33:21 Not your parents, not your friends, not your teachers. 33:25 You control you. Hopefully all the people around you are positive influences and help you in your journey of growth. 33:32 But at the end of the day, you and only you are responsible for the person you become. 33:44 Change is possible. Change is probable. 33:48 But we have to go ahead and be willing to do it. 33:50 Let's come full circle in the minute that we have left. 33:53 So what does that do? 33:54 Okay. So next we'll do the rest of the source because a lot of interesting stuff here but what's what's so at the end of the day like what does that mean if at the end of the day if at the 34:13 end of the day doesn't control so how could I ask him how could I ask him to bring me back in chva how could I do that so the balatan AI says something so beautiful this I'll conclude the says that 34:31 you know sometimes you could be standing right next to someone right next to someone and what happens but yet if you're standing back to back you'll never see them I'm literally if you can imagine like I'm standing right next to 34:46 Ruv but I'm standing we're standing back to back so I don't see him he doesn't see me but literally we're right next to each other we're standing right next to each other. 34:56 The bal says that's just help me turn around a little bit to see that I'm really right next to you. 35:10 I'm really here. I'm really here. 35:14 I'm really I I have that relationship with you. 35:17 Because sometimes at the end of the day, we think that we've drifted so far from we feel like we're damaged goods. 35:23 We feel like we can't get it together. 35:25 We feel like we're not going to amount to anything because we feel so distant from but meanwhile it's true my back may be toesh as a result of many of the things that I've done throughout the year. 35:36 I may have my back to Hashem and maybe his back is even to me as a result of a variety of things that I've done but we're still right next to each other. 35:45 So all I need is I I I don't I don't need you to help me return because because that's my job. 35:55 What I need you is to help me just turn around. 35:58 Just give me the to face you and then I'll realize I'm right in your presence. 36:04 And once I realize that I'm right in your presence, that will give me the that will give me the strength to take control over the one thing I really do control, which is my spiritual identity and begin on the beautiful 36:18 journey of creating my new self. 36:21 You know it's pav perhaps is an acronym for and should be a year that can mean a lot of different things. 36:35 First of all, anyone looking for a to find and those who have found their to have children. 36:45 But you know there's another type of birth in this world that's not related to marriage and not related the most beautiful birth in this world is when we birth ourselves. 36:56 Each of us has the ability to so to speak birth a new image of ourselves. 37:00 It's a new year. 37:01 It's a new world. 37:03 And there's no telling what we could create. 37:05 Sometimes the most beautiful thing that you create is you. 37:11 You just have to have the courage to engage in the act of personalistic peria to engage in that act of birthing and creating that new you. 37:24 It's the one thing we control and it's the one thing that ackadesh asks us for. 37:28 So I take the opportunity to wish all of you should be a beautiful year a year filled with masle with with whatever it is that you're asking from give it to you should be a year filled with a year in 37:47 which all of our hostages come home a year in which all of our holy soldiers our successor showered with and our to be successful on behalf of a year in which showers the ever elusive of cloud and most of all 38:06 a year of we're so close we're so close to closer than we could ever imagine. 38:15 All we need to do is turn around a little bit recognize that the mel is right here just waiting for us to take the reigns and make the best version of ourselves. 38:25 And may the year of pirates be the year where we finally birthe the best version of ourselves. 38:33 And in that the year should birth something else. 38:36 It should be a year of birth for the gul for the third mikdash and for mashia. 38:42 Amen. >> Sorry for the delay again. 38:51 My apologies. >> Thank you. 38:53 Thank you. piece on the old signs on the end. 38:56 >> Yeah. Next year. Next year. 38:59 Thank you. Thank you again everyone.
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