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0:00 dear friends welcome to this week's virtual this week we have the incredible privileg the last sh of pay 5784 we are to read these parach where mhu gives us Timeless advice you know the same nuggets of wisdom that MOS armed 0:18 our ancestors with prepared them for entry into the same lessons that we need to learn the same lessons that we need to live as we in prepare to enter into this new year of 5785 and to me one of the 0:32 Pim that always always grabbed my attention and there's so much there's so much in these par there's theah of there's theah tells us that no matter how far you stray no matter how far you go there's always a way back 0:49 that no matter how many wrong turns in life that I make who is always right next to me and always willing to resume the relationship and so profound and so beautiful beautiful for our ancestors in our past and so incredibly 1:00 contemporarily relevant as we prepare ourselves for the the day of judgment but the at the beginning of I don't know there's something about it that has just always grabbed my attention and it's a simple chter 31 verse 31 the first 1:23 in went he went he walked and he spoke out all of these words to cloud is and of course again M then goes on to explain I'm 120 years old this is the end of my life but is going to 1:37 take care of you and the are all intrigued by one simple idea the says that M went that MOS walked but the Torah doesn't tell us where he went in other words what is that piece of information what is it 1:52 coming to convey to me what is it coming to tell me just simply tell me spoke the the what's what's the meaning of this walking what's the meaning of this journeying where is Mos going and what is he doing in 2:08 say many different things thez writes so beautifully in such a beautiful moving and yet heartbreaking scene moshu knowing that this was his last day in this world went to each and every one of the tribes to take leave of them 2:28 almost as if felt that after 40 Years of leadership he had to tell the people goodbye he had to tell the people that he loved them it wasn't enough just to give CL you know General National but M went tribe 2:45 by tribe family to family telling them I'm leaving bidding them goodbye but at the same time they shouldn't be afraid because is walking before them there's nothing to fear because even though I'm not here even though I will not be 3:05 at the helm will always be with you the Mal explains in a similar vein that M wasn't simply saying going to say goodbye and he wasn't simply going to give them that they shouldn't be afraid because was going to be 3:23 with him but rather mhu went to get a how beautiful and how overwhelming the man who went up on the mountain on and said I didn't eat I didn't drink I was up on the mountain for 40 days the first 3:41 set of 40 days the second set of 40 days first L second L the man who argued withes the man who was the agent of our Salvation so many times and yet when it came time for him to take leave 3:53 of this world what did he want more than anything what did he want he just wanted a from and so he went to every tribe he went to every family and said give me a that I should that I should 4:09 be successful in this NE next leg of my journey literally means of Separation when someone takes leave it's customary to give them a he asked for from every member of the truth is there's so much to be said in in 4:29 this idea these two ideas just by itself you know this is moso's last day in the world it's interesting to see how mosu closed out his life and because I think it's metaphorically relevant to us for how he Clos out 4:43 the year how did mosu Clos out his life so number one number one he went to give to others and Mos whose last day in this world he didn't spend focusing on himself M was last day in this world he 4:54 said okay my my aod is to be there for my people it's to be there for my Jews it's to be there for my to be there for my nation so what could I do with my last few hours in 5:03 this world and he goes to give them a and according to the second to the Mal realized that the sweetest most purest thing in this world is the from another Jew sometimes the greatest things that we could do for one 5:15 another is just wish Each Other Well to give each other so just wants a final from his fellow Jews who last time in this earth the way he closed out his life was doing for others and appreciate what you could 5:30 receive from others an incredible metaphor for how we close out the year how do we spend these last days of 5784 we have to focus on what we could do for the other what we could do for the cloud but 5:43 also appreciate profound gratitude for what we in fact receive from others each and every day but there's another approach and this other approach is by one of the most famous students of the known as the and the says something so 6:05 beautiful he says what is what does that mean what is what is that phrase in other words remember everybody's bothered by the same thing where is moshu going what is he doing and the RAB writes says the is not necessarily 6:22 descriptive of what Moshe did on his last day but rather it's descriptive about how Moshe lived his life lived his life in a constant state of a constant state of movement of Perpetual growth of always going from one stage to 6:43 another stage one moment to the next Moment One accomplishment to the next great thing he goes on he so why does the Torah seek to go ahead why does it tell us this year Why didn't it tell us at 40 6:57 years ago why here to teach us that even in literally was moments was in the last day of his life just hours away from Death that never lost his resource he never lost his alacrity he never lost his every moment 7:19 every day every step of the Journey of Life Moshe and you would think he comes to his last day okay mosha it's been enough Al it's been enough movement you've done it now again relax you're going to leave this world 7:31 in a couple of hours prepare yourself for the journey and M says yeah I am going to prepare myself for the journey you know I prepare myself becomes the almost like the Mantra the Mantra not just but for us also 7:47 the goal in life is to live a life of and insert your name here whatever your name is but to live a life of to live a life of Perpetual movement to live a life where I the thing I fear 8:04 most is stagnation the fear I the thing I fear most is being Tethered to a current mediocrity that is devoid of self-actualization always more always further always onto the next thing an incredibly profound and beautiful ins of but there's one 8:28 more piece then we'll tie all together to me and maybe maybe it's just because of the times in which we find ourselves that here now faces war on another front on the Northern front the war has already started on the 8:47 Northern front the only sh the only question is what is it going to turn into the war in the North the war in the South coming up to Y and our brothers and sisters their are still held hostage and this 9:02 has been a year of so many carbonos and so much difficulty and so much sadness and so much loss yes of course so much Beauty and so much goodness and so much Holiness so much Kusa but you know sometimes we 9:15 feel a little disoriented like I don't know where I'm going and I don't know what I'm doing and in my personal life I try to get myself going in One Direction and I don't know it doesn't seem to work out 9:31 maybe even our professional lives I try to get myself going here and as a nation sometimes we find ourselves wondering what what is going on what is going on and maybe there's this feeling of but unlik the told us y 9:46 yob y who says that means like directional movement forward maybe also means a little bit of disorientation a little bit of wandering and maybe what the Torah is also telling us is that even the had moments of moments of self-doubt 10:07 moments of wondering which direction is my life going in moments of wondering what is going to happen to my beloved Nation a feeling of being disjointed of being dislocated a feeling of just not being situated properly just I'm wandering walking 10:25 around a little bit and I'm just I just don't know I just I just don't feel settled but the incredible part is the by definition answers up the wandering of and they're all one and the same when you feel disjointed 10:43 and you feel dislocated and you're not sure what you're doing or you're not sure what's happening in your own life or sometimes you wonder about CL we know the future is bright but I'm just sometimes so nervous and so scared 10:57 about what the steps to get that beautiful future are going to be so what do you do in those moments you dust off theak of Y and you move yourself forward sometimes the way to deal with the feeling of wandering 11:15 of is to go ahead encounter that wandering of with with ultimately again forward moving trajectory if I just kind of put everything on the side and ask myself how do I move myself forward how do I move my life forward 11:33 what little small but significant unit of movement am I going to implement in my life today doesn't have to be something that anyone else is going to see doesn't have to be something anyone else is ever going to know about 11:46 but I know it but I know it what is my if I commit myself to living a life of growth where there's growth every single day in some small way than the of grow growth sometimes helps to alleviate the of 12:03 confusion the of wandering and this beautiful and incredible lesson is what M Sho teaches us on his last day if you want to rid yourself of those feelings of just wandering around life those feelings of confusion those feelings of worry 12:17 those feelings of disjointedness then ultimately live a life of live a life of forward movement live a life of growth live a life of accomplishment and so as we close out this year this last of at 5784 teaches us so 12:37 much says use these last days to do good for your people use these last days to appreciate the good that you have received from your fellow juice use these last days to validate the fact that sometimes I feel a little 12:55 bit disjointed I feel a little bit out of sorts but don't lose yourself in that instead use these last days for move forward pledge to yourself pledge to that I'm going to close out these days of 5784 with days of 13:14 I'm going to move myself forward this last shabas these last days I'm going to enter into rash a new person maybe not having accomplished all the things I said out to but that's okay but I'm going to use this last 13:26 unit of this holy year to to move my myself forward in some way and if I use the last part of 5784 in the model and framework of then I put myself in a trajectory for Al for for 5785 May 13:42 to close out a year of to begin a year of and in that Merit may we be together with all of our families our friends all of beautiful Year may our hostages be returned to us speedily may our soldiers be 13:57 successful and may we finally Merit the
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