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fear
right fear yeah I'm afraid it's true I'm
afraid it isn't necessarily fear for my
own welfare on an immediate personal
level but that doesn't really matter I
think fear is fear and that fear has
been dominating my mind and my
Consciousness and I think what may be an
unhealthy way because it happens to us
all where we go too far one way too far
the other we try to moderate ourselves
we try to bring ourselves back to a
healthy medium and that's what I've been
trying to do talking to Jeremy about it
a lot because you know fear unless it's
fear of God is always unhealthy and we
actually do a lot of focusing on fear in
this fellowship at least I do because
working through fear and overcoming fear
and neutralizing fear is a big part of
my personal journey and my service of
Hashem and I think it's all of us uh are
facing that one way or the other I
definitely feel like that when I'm
reading through your prayer requests and
your prayers and and all that you're
sharing there because we've spoken about
before how the greater the fear that you
allowed to thrive within yourself the
greater fear that you nurture in your
heart the greater the chances of that
exact thing that you're afraid of
manifesting itself into your life I've
seen this again and again and again
revederman who are going to quote a lot
in this Fellowship he quotes the great
Mystic the Maharaja who brings the
example that uh many have faced at some
point in their lives he brings the
example of fear of poverty right and
here's what uh here's what he explains
he says when you're afraid of poverty
you're enabling poverty to come to you
right as it states
for the thing which I greatly feared has
come upon me this is from The Book of
Job for the thing which I greatly feared
has come upon me and that which I was
afraid of has come to me job is saying
exactly that because when you're afraid
of something that means you subjugate
yourself to this matter and then that
matter can affect you that's what the
Maharaja is saying so he goes out on to
explain it what the great Jeremy have
you heard this example before it's so
good he says you lay a wooden beam High
across a river reaching from one side of
the river to the next and you try to
walk over it you'll probably fall off
but if this plank is on the ground you
can walk on it then you won't fall off
this is because when you think about
falling the fear causes it to happen
similarly when one is afraid of becoming
poor the thoughts create an effect and
he will become poor understand this but
we don't need the you know that hint
about the Sheep to find out about
yaakov's fear we see it very clearly
right after we find out um that ASAP is
on his way to confront yaakov with 400
armed men
clearly Ready for War even a massacre we
see that Jacob is afraid right verse 8
chapter 32 by Uriah
Jacob became very frightened and it
distressed him so he divided the people
with him and the flocks cattle and
camels into two camps now the sages of
Israel shared a teaching that once I
learned it it really became a part of me
I haven't been able to read this verse
the same ever since then because it's
it's it's a different sort of reading
but it's become the shot the simple
straightforward meaning for for me the
way every time I read that verse now
because the Savior just teach that yes
yaakov did become frightened and that is
what distressed him I used to think it
was just like he was frightened and he
was distressed no he was frightened and
that is what distressed him that's the
way the verse actually reads Jacob
became very frightened and it distressed
him that he was frightened that's what
distressed him it distressed him and he
was afraid because he considered that
very lack of faith in Hashem that fear
was a lack of belief and in my
experience by the way it is it tends to
be and it would be hard not to be afraid
in that situation an army an army of
trained brutal Warriors is on his way to
attack your family with the goal of
wiping you out
like that's objectively pretty scary
