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0:00 welcome to this week's virtual draw so this week we have the incredible privilege Savo and in the beginning of paragraph of zai in chapter 27 moshrabino shares something fascinating with Claud Israel he says as follows it will be on the 0:18 day that you will cross the Jordan River and enter into the land who is giving you and what should you do when you enter in territory you should erect for yourselves large stones and coat them with plaster large Stones encode 0:35 them with plaster okay what should you do with these Stones the cast of you should go and write the entire Torah on the stones okay fascinating idea again on the most basic level right it's almost as if you know the 0:49 Torah is like the constitution of veritas so therefore you enter into the land you should go ahead and you should have the entire Torah written on these Stones everyone who enters in recognize is that this is a land this is 1:02 a land that the lifeblood of the land like the lifeblood of cloud Israel is the Torah itself who wants it to be the one cloudy soil enter in it's almost as if this is the contract so write the entire Torah 1:17 on these Stones go ahead and cover it with plaster this is the Everlasting Eternal statute that Eric Israel am Israel told Israel the Torah itself are all one are all one our synergistic Partners ultimately again in the advancement of our 1:36 of our national destiny what's interesting of course is at the end the posix says again because this is the end of the section so this is so the Torah says and you shall write on the stones the entire Torah but 1:56 with little barratives means a good explanation Ashi explains that actually the Torah itself was written on the stones in 70 languages okay again there's much to speak about why 70 languages not for now not for now now of course you 2:12 could look in the beginning of safer Yeshua and in the beginning of the Book of Joshua so the navi goes through great detail and talking about again the selection of the stones the putting up of the stone the installation of the 2:22 stones good but I want to share with you something beautiful notes a fascinating idea he says the Torah already told us at the beginning of the section that you should take Stones Avon guidolos take stones and write the Torah on 2:41 them yet at the end of the section right but the Torah again says write the Torah on the stones you've already told me write the Torah on the stones so why do you have to say it again and the rabbit 2:58 says something so beautiful the first time in this section the first time in paragraph in Chapter 27 notorious is write it on the stones that was referring to the actual command when you enter into Heritage right you cross over the 3:10 Jordan put up these Stones The Devil says at the end of the section is teaching us an incredibly beautiful and profound lesson and what is the lesson I want to quote you from the words he says foreign Torah could have 3:31 an impact even on stones Torah could leave its Mark Torah could be engraved torika fundamentally change even something that is solid stone that the message says right on the stone Stones it's a solid surface it's so difficult it's so hard 3:57 Torah is so powerful that Torah could even make an impact on Stone itself even Stones could be impacted by the power profundity and Holiness of Torah I think with teaching US is an incredibly profound and dramatic life lesson well they 4:19 recognize it or not often as we go through the Journey of life we become stones we become hardened we become indifferent we become jaded cynical sarcastic and often it's for good reason things have happened in life sometimes I've been hurt 4:36 and you know the natural reaction when you've become hurt is to harden yourself emotionally to harden yourself spiritually I'm not going to let anyone in I'm not gonna let anything in I'm not gonna make myself vulnerable anymore because when I 4:49 did it in the past at the end of the day a chest hurts what do I do I turn myself into heaven I turn myself into stone the problem of course we know the problem the problem of course that is 4:59 if you Stone yourself off if you become because if you become stone but it doesn't sound right if you make yourself into a stone then at the end of the day nothing gets through it's true maybe you keep some of 5:11 the hurt out but you keep so much of the beauty of life also you keep so much a beautiful relationships you keep people at a distance but I think most of all you keep very bonus at a distance because relationship 5:24 without foreign I love you more than anything and I'm willing to hand myself over to you not to be clear I'm not advocating responsibility for my life I'm not yielding the reins of my life I'm not saying God it's all 5:42 you know you're you do everything and I'll do nothing I'm gonna do my part I'm gonna put in my style I recognize at the end of the day no matter how much effort I put in my efforts will never yield 5:52 anything if you don't bless them my efforts will never create results if you don't want those results to happen I'm going to give myself over to you but I'm a stone I'm a stone so because I'm a stone again and 6:07 when you spend years as a stone you don't feel anything right when was the last time I dive into chakras on the morning and I really felt something right when was the last time in my learning right I learned like 6:23 oh I feel it like I feel my shama uplifted when was the last time I did amid Siva and I really felt that I was connecting to AKO de sparacho or perhaps more globally when was the last time I really 6:38 felt connected to my father to avinu and for many of us it's been a very long time because I'm a stone I'm walled off closed off so what do you do what are you doing it's actually now like this month 6:56 of Elo we're heading into yamim no Ram a month of anilaudible leave the whole essence of Elo is falling back in love with that who is feeling that connection of elova is not sure comes later on but before I could 7:11 do Chula for anything have to reignite the relationship reignite the passion reignite the excitement how do I do it how do I do it I I just sometimes feel so indifferent I sometimes feel so so stoned off so walled off 7:25 so what do I do because it's very simple and it sounds a little bit counter-intuitive but it's simple sometimes the only way to kind of melt the stone that has encased my heart is to immerse myself in spirituality spirituality itself 7:43 has the ability to bring down walls spirituality itself has the ability to melt away the stone you know you think to yourself I haven't felt the connection in my learning for such a long time the answer is learn more I 7:59 haven't felt the connection to my davony for such a long time the answer is davenmore the more spirituality I expose myself to and the word spirituality I allow into my life the more the stone facade comes crumbling down that is 8:16 the power of Torah the power of Torah the power of spirituality the power of relationship with Hashem is that it has the ability to engrave itself to imprint itself even on Stone but I have to make the decision to engage 8:32 you know so often in life we're waiting we're waiting I'm waiting to learn more to dive in more to do more to practice more when I feel more but sometimes in fact it's just the opposite that in order to feel 8:47 more you have to learn more davenmore do more engage more and then over time the more spirituality I have in my life the more the stone exterior comes down the more the late bus or the heart the flesh is once 9:03 again exposed and once again in life I'm able to feel alive foreign you can write on Stones you could engrave on Stones Torah could have an impact on Stone no matter how walled off we have become in life and it's 9:30 the same thing in relationships by the way right person sometimes has a marriage you know the marriage is not what it used to be my relationship with my children not what I use what it used to be so you know 9:41 everybody's looking for like some like magic pill you know what what could I take what could I do how could sometimes it's just about more engagement you're not happy with the level of Engagement or the level of passion or the 9:54 lack of passion in your marriage in your relationship with your children engage more engage more don't wait for things to become better in order to engage sometimes the very thing that makes it better is heightened engagement sometimes the very thing 10:11 that makes me feel more spiritual is heightened involvement in spirituality more learning more davening more mitzvos more reaching out to the other sometimes the height the heightened the higher the level of Engagement the more the stone mouth melts away Torah 10:33 spirituality has the ability to fundamentally cathartically and comprehensively change Who We Are as long as we're willing to take the steps to engage the stone facade which has accumulated over years could finally come crumbling down and when it does we 10:55 will find the beautiful heart a beautiful soul who is willing to engage with us more than we could ever have imagined maybe heighten our engagement in all of our relationships our human relationship May the Torah that we have in life 11:15 be inscribed on the stones that have sometimes encased our heart and soul in the remaining days of this sacred month that that stone exterior that stone Versace will come crumbling down and we should be zohra to become reacquainted with our 11:31 true selves wishing everyone a good nerve Shabbos and a beautiful Shabbos
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