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Living With Emunah (Part 181): Invite Hashem to the Table
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good morning bogartov and welcome back
to
our weekly living with ammuna
essentially our support group
are gathering to remind ourselves what
should be obvious and known by now which
is
that there's a creator that there's a
god that we have a father in heaven who
loves us
that he is involved and invested in our
lives each and every day that we should
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okay we go back to our learning we are
learning richard meyer morgan shows
wonderful savior
and we're learning about vegas the
quality of clinging and sticking and
attaching ourselves
to hashem that is what we're trying to
do attach ourselves
to realize that not wandering in this
world on our own we're not trying to
make sense of it or figure it out
it's not random or chance everything is
by design
because the almighty is pulling the
strings everything there's meaning and
there's order and therefore
why worry why panic why fear
is talking to people who are scheduled
to get their second vaccine
on monday but all weekend there was some
nervousness nervousness what if i get a
cold what if i get sick
what if something happens what if they
run out and i said what's with what of
what's with all the what ifs
how is that going to change the outcome
all the concern all the fear all the
anxiety all the worry
will that influence the outcome if there
was something you could do about if
there was something you can change
it would actually impact an outcome
maybe i would
understand why you'd waste the emotional
energy
and the physical energy and compromise
your health to worry
but it doesn't change an outcome it
doesn't create or impact or influence
any reality so why waste the energy
why compromise your health why not say
hashem
if hashem wants me to get this second
vaccine
then it's going to work then there won't
be a problem with my getting it why not
recognize
please god i'll stay healthy and well
and qualify and they'll have ample
supply
and it's just one example of so many in
our lives in which we expend
so much energy and we waste so much fear
for things that never happen that never
come true and even if they do
it's the way it was meant to be it's by
design it's from hashem
it is what is right i want to share with
you you are
avid listeners i shouldn't just call it
a listener because it's not a passive
class i gain and i learn from you
each one of you that shares a story or
an impact or an immune
thought and the moon is strength that
strengthens me so i got a great email
and it says the following i want to
share with you the following and the
story my wife asked me to take an
important piece of mail downstairs to
send out for her
we live in a condo building in l.a and
have an outgoing mail salon in the mail
room
right across from that is the monthly
dues dropbox i went downstairs was on my
phone and not paying attention
i put the letter in the mail slot and
realized it got stuck i turned to push
it all the way down and realized my
mistake
i had put the letter in the dues dropbox
instead of the outgoing mail
thank god i was easily able to pull the
letter out since it was still only
halfway in
i really felt in that moment that hashem
was looking out for me
i then went into the garbage to get into
the garage rather
i went into the garage to get into my
car to go to work and pull the door it
didn't open and i realized my wife had
borrowed my key earlier in the day and i
didn't take it back
i had to go all the way back upstairs to
get it but thanks for listening to
umunashiram
i recognized that this too was the hand
of hashem for whatever reason he wanted
and needed me to go back upstairs
i didn't get angry or impatient i didn't
blame anyone or anything else
i realized it was the way it was
supposed to be and the reason i love
this story and the reason i thank the
person who sent it in it is
it has both of the forms of ashkaf it is
both of the examples of ammuna
that we teach and preach and we try to
live regularly
namely when things go right to credit
and recognize and stop and thank and
acknowledge hashem
hashem the thing could have fallen all
the way down in the wrong mail slot and
then i would have had to try to find
someone to open it up to retrieve it
i would have paid my dues with some mail
i was trying to send someone else
the mail would have never gotten to them
my dues would have never been paid and
look hashem you made the mail get stuck
and even though that would have
otherwise been annoying it was exactly
what was right it was perfect for me
getting stuck is exactly what i needed
so hashem i feel your presence thank you
but also equally there was something
annoying that happened
and we don't just see and acknowledge
and identify and thank hashem when all
goes right
we don't just thank him when it turns
out okay when we can make sense of it
but we acknowledge and we see and we
think and we identify hashem even when
i don't know why it had to work out that
way it was annoying it was frustrating
and even that too
was meant to be so someone didn't give
me back my key and i had to go all the
way back upstairs
and it took me a few more minutes and it
took me a little bit more time
so he said without the ammuna without
the effort of devecos
without the mindfulness of trying to
remember that
there's a plan there's a reason
everything that happens is for is by
design
he would have gotten frustrated would
have lost his cool his blood pressure
would have risen
his pulse would have increased his
health would have declined
he would have encountered his wife and
yelled that he didn't give me back the
key you never return the key when you
don't replace the key i had to come back
upstairs and it made me late it was so
annoying don't ever do that again
instead he took a deep breath and he
said i don't know why but for whatever
reason
hashem intended me to go back upstairs
before i left today
so i love that story another listener
sent me a story last night about
she's on our kadisha a wonderful
wonderful person and a beautiful
volunteer for ahavisha
who was supposed to do with tahara and
last minute that tahara got cancelled
because the different kadisha took on
that tahara but then she got called for
another tahara and it turned out
her friend who had told her about her
sick mother
her mother whose health was in decline
had passed away and the
tahara she was cancelled from
participating in the next tahara she was
able to do because the first one was
cancelled
was for the mother of her friend which
was so meaningful to her everything is
by design
if you just extend your antenna and if
you just pick up the signal
and you just live life looking around
you will feel and see
hashem everywhere the question is not
whether he's speaking to us and
broadcasting to us
the only question is are we picking up
his signal do we thank him
are we even frustrated but recognize
it's from him do we
attach ourselves to him do we um
do we lean on him and do we express
gratitude to him and do we even protest
or object to him when there are things
that are not happening the way we want
or the way we wish and so that is the
the impact the reason i share these
stories is not just because people tune
in to divreitora and to
shirum and russia's for the stories not
for the devetora unfortunately
but i share the stories because they are
illustrations they take the ideas
that we're learning in abstract in
theory conceptually and when people are
sharing sharing in real life
how practically it has enhanced their
lives hopefully it inspires you
and me to execute and to put it into
practice as well okay we're on page
in the wonderful safer of richmond
morgenstern in which he is elaborating
on
us and how we can acquire it how we can
grow and how we can improve in it
and how we can live it
again the goal of the aspiration of
devecos
is to constantly have an awareness of
god we spoke about last week and frankly
every week
just like i have an awareness if i'm a
parent those who want to be parents
should be blessed to have healthy
children
if you are a parent there is this
awareness either in the forefront of
your mind or in the back of your mind
but there is a regular awareness that
i'm a parent thinking about my child i'm
worried about my child i said last week
you're only as happy as your least happy
child and one of my dear friends one of
our listeners
reminded me that that's not a good thing
to say especially
if you have unhappy children because
then they feel guilty for
compromising your happiness so if
children ever hear that you're only as
happy as your least happy child
and they identify themselves as the
least happy child they'll blame
themselves for your not being happy
which maybe they should but it's not a
nice thing to do so don't ever say that
expression in front of your children
don't ever say that expression in
general they our children only make us
happy ever if you have children
and they're healthy you should be happy
no matter what challenges
they are presenting so if you're a
parent
you don't ever take a recess you don't
ever take a break
you're never suspended from your
identity as a parent the same is true in
marriage
and the same is true as in hashem if
you're practicing vegas and you're
clinging to god you're never on break
you're never on recess
you're never on vacation from that
profile from that identity
from that club even though it's not
possible that's what he's acknowledging
here eventually
that it's not possible it's not possible
to never not be thinking about god
there are activities during our day if
you are supposed to be sitting opposite
your spouse
and having a meaningful conversation and
your spouse looks at you and says
hello are you there this thing on hello
is anyone listening
and you say oh i was just in a moment of
his podes
i'm so sorry i was just meditating about
god i was thinking about
how much i love him or how involved he
is in my life or how much i want to
cling to him
so your spouse says you can pay the bill
and meet me at home because i'm out of
here you want to be on a date with god
or you want to be out to coffee with me
you got a choice so there are activities
that we do
if you're supposed to be doing an
activity that takes concentration so the
surgeon in the operating room
can imagine the nurse or the assistant
says uh doctor
you okay and the doctor says as they're
operating with the scalpel of the robot
yes it's just at this moment i feel
overwhelmed by god is the
rophe holm and the sitter snippets we're
up to the statement he's
bere refuse he is the creator of all
healing
and in the inventor and the entrepreneur
of all medical progress and discovery we
spoke about it last night
insider snippets such a beautiful
beautiful statement and description the
beret refuse he's the chris so
the doctor in the middle of surgery the
mind is wandering because he's the beret
refused
and the nurse or the assistant or the
patient will sit up on the operating
table say hey doc
would you mind thinking about god later
and concentrate on what we're doing here
so there are things that we're doing
during the day it could be surgery
could be a conversation it could be the
pilot flying the plane
don't go on autopilot and talk to god
there are things that need your
attention
nobly need your attention they they uh
deserve your attention
they're dangerous without your attention
only a truly righteous perfect person of
which there are none
could really be thinking about god 24 7
every moment
every day all of life
but it doesn't mean that we can't all
try surely we have to interrupt
there are going to be activities there
are going to be moments in our lives
where we need to in a very justified way
interrupt
our mindfulness in that moment of
concentrating most directly and focused
on
god but that doesn't mean it doesn't
mean that it's something we can't aspire
for
it doesn't mean it's kind of something
we can't be trying to ambitiously
achieve shall we
there should not be any meaningful
activity during your day in which you
have not thought about hashem this is a
theme we come back to over and over and
over again
and i'm so sorry to keep coming back to
these themes but
that's what every recovery meeting is
about and this is a
this is a meeting we are addicted to
forgetting god and we are trying to work
on that addiction about forgetting god
and if you've ever been to a recovery
meeting you know it follows the same
formula
and you recite the same statements and
that's what gives the physic that's what
gives the strength
in order to be able to make those
changes so every activity we do should
be accompanied
by a momentary mindfulness meditation
about god
and a prayer and a davening to him for
him on the way into that operating room
on the way into that
courtroom on the way into that kitchen
or the gym or the supermarket
on the way into the parent-teacher
conference on the way into whatever
activity say hashem
come with me come in the room with me be
with me assist me
or feel the pain with me let's say
there's a parent-teacher conference
are you allowed to say this i don't
wanna i don't wanna uh hurt
or be insensitive to the children who
don't have positive parent teacher
conferences but there's no such thing
today jojen says all the time when we
were kids
we would shiver the night of
parent-teacher conferences we were so
afraid for our parents to come home
afterwards
now teachers shake the night of
parent-teacher conferences the teachers
are so worried about the parents they're
going to come in and blame the teacher
everything they're doing wrong why my
student
isn't thriving and everything that could
be better so you say hashem
this is your kid too come into the room
new let's get a report from the teacher
hopefully a lot of nachas maybe some
challenges but do you pause on the way
into parent-teacher conferences and say
hashem this is your kid too come into
the room with me so is hashem invited
and involved in every conversation
activity effort that we have
before the amunishir before the brs
online global campaign
in which we have named a goal and we're
only a quarter of the way through
because unfortunately there are people
who benefit listen learn and love
and if not yet they will i'm confident
but they've not yet
expressed it to us in a tangible
meaningful way so i say hashem i've been
dominating a lot for this campaign
partially because this money would help
us teach a lot of torah and in all
honesty partially because i'm
competitive and i don't like to fail
at a project or a goal that we set so
it's been very hard for me so i dive
into hashem hashem this money is to help
spread
your message this money is to help
inspire others with your vision and
blueprint for your world
help us hashem help us you're one of the
ambassadors hashem
you need to show us the money make it
rain brsonline.org
global whatever we're doing we have to
we have to
involve him invite him invest in him and
ask him to be able to
help us achieve our our goal in whatever
it is we're doing
i'll never forget sitting with a pastor
an evangelical pastor and we were
planning an effort we were very
concerned
about something having to do with israel
and it was a work we were collaborating
on
uh meeting with an elected leader and
some other things on this
on this uh campaign and we were unsure
exactly what to do and the evangelical
leader stopped and he said rabbi
let's take a moment and pray on it let's
think about it let's pray on it and
let's ask god
to give us the wisdom and the insight to
know what to do
and i remember kind of like looking
around like excuse me let's
pray on it i dive in chakras and
manifest not for a couple hours
so right now i'm at work praying is what
i do in the morning
and then i'll come back to it at minha
but right now we're in a meeting
and we don't pray in the middle of
meetings and he taught me such an
important lesson
we should pray in the middle and before
and after
every meeting right this is an
apolitical shear so we're making no
comment on
impeachment hearings but we'll make a
comment on trump's observant murder
lawyer who lit up the internet yesterday
because
in the middle of senate where whatever
he is and he made the decision not to
wear his yamaha he normally wears a
yamaka
but he had to take a sip of water and if
you saw he put his hand over his head
and he took a sip of water
and twitter trended and lit up wondering
does trump lawyers
feel that his head is going to fall off
if he doesn't hold it while he drinks
people didn't understand why was he
holding his head while he drinks is his
head going to fall off
and the answer is you know what he was
doing even in the middle
of one of the most high profile court
cases of all time
he instinctively or hopefully mindfully
said i'm going to take a sip of water
i've got to thank
god he meant to make a bracha he had to
wear a yamaka
it was fascinating major networks all
talking about the jewish practice of
covering your head when you make a
blessing
fascinating again leave out the purpose
of the trial
leave out the politics of it but simply
the image or the conversation that's
happening
around the united states about the
notion of a yamaka or of making a
blessing
so we do pray all the time in the middle
of our day each and every time we eat
something each and every time we come
out of the bathroom
when we do a mitzvah during the day if
you take chala in your kitchen
and so on and so forth but that idea
that we were frustrated by something
and we're trying to make a decision we
said let's pray on it
and i learned something this evangelical
preacher had no hesitation
unapologetically was ready to not only
express his faith but to practice it
but to say he was practicing vegas he
gave me a lesson on vegas
you don't just talk to god at chakras in
a ghetto you talk to god when you run
into a challenge
you talk to god when you're running late
to the meeting when you're stuck in
traffic
talk to god when your wi-fi is breaking
down and you're interviewing someone
who is a candidate for prime minister of
israel you talk to god
when you're running late you're not sure
you've prepared for the sheer adequately
you talk to god when you're trying to
figure out
how to work on advocacy for israel and
you don't know the next move
so you stop and you prey on it imagine
i've told our children
let's stop in on it let's dive in on it
we don't know what to do for winter
break
we don't know what's going to happen
with this pandemic and pesach and the
ability to see our grandparents
let's stop and let's take a moment
everyone stop close your eyes and let's
ask hashem
let's dive in on it imagine the impact
of that focus
of that practice of living with faith in
that moment
that davaning is not relegated to the
sitter or darving times
but davening is as we've said many many
times the bells are inside
halawa she is following we would dove in
the whole day
not from a sin or to hillary not being
shul but we would dove in the whole day
means
that whatever activity we're doing it
would be preceded by us are asking
hashem for help
let the cougar come out let the trial
come out let the operation come out
let the dvar torah come out let whatever
it is we're working on
come out successfully
allah
just like every meal i have i have to
invite hashem to be a guest at that
table
even for a moment even the way i begin
the meal i make a bracha okay everybody
now we can talk now we can schmooze tell
me about your day
tell me about school tell me what's
happening in your life but first we
invited hashem come
pull up a seat at the table
hopefully you're having steak for dinner
you made a good shahakal stay away from
the carbs all week long so there's no
homozy but a good steak
a good shahakal you can have the most
satisfying meal with a chahaco
and a boring facials steak and grilled
onions and delicious diet peach snapple
you're full protein good way to go you
don't know you get that
diet and health tips from the living
with the moon shirt too so
you invite god to the table you make
this bracha and you say god new come
pull up a seat you're part of the family
come we're about to go around everyone's
going to talk about their day we're
going to talk about the news
we're going to talk about the stock
market or sports or the super bowl
we're going to talk about whatever we're
going to talk about come pull up a seat
come pull up a seat so at least once
during the meal you're inviting it to
pull up a seat
and that's called the bracha that's
called the bracha when we sit down at
the dinner table and my children
are already on their third bite and i
say what are you doing so what are you
talking about
i said i wanted the amane you made a
bracha i know you made a bracha of faith
you made the bracha
but you swallowed the bracha as quickly
as you swallowed the pasta i wanted to
be able to answer the amine
say it out loud imagine if the meal
would begin with people saying they
brought out loud
and abrupt is essentially an invitation
hashem you're in my life
come pull up a chair join us for dinner
by the way
we're not going to gossip or talk about
the rabbi or the principal or the
teacher
if god's sitting at the table could you
imagine if you had that sadiques or the
tadik if you at the time
of the rash shiva the rabbits sitting at
the table are you really going to then
talk about the friend or share that
juicy gossip
so it also helps if you invite god to
the table
you'll be much more discerning and
judicious than the type of things that
we
that we talk about but i'm not saying
the whole meal and victor meyer is not
saying the entire meal talk about god
that's not the meals we're going to have
the most righteous people in the world
don't have such meals
that's not realistic and it's not what's
real demanded of us it's not what's
right for us
we should connect with one another we
have to shoot the breeze on small talk
the varmi there's nothing small about
small talk
it's very important to connect with
others however at least
once during the meal we should invite
him acknowledge him we take a moment we
acknowledge our guest here at our table
his name is god he created us and he has
expectations of us
and he gives us everything that we have
and we're so happy he's joined us for
dinner
and for lunch and for breakfast and that
he lives in our home
we're so happy because he pays for the
whole home he pays for everything in the
home
so we're so happy he's here with us this
evening thank you god
now you can go on with your meal now you
can go on with dinner but kosher came
back
fella imagine every time you dive and
every time you learn something you say
god we're going to now learn something
more about your vision for your world
and we're going to try to be transformed
and changed by it
but we have to place an emphasis
i have to go slowly incrementally
carefully
climb if you walk into the gym
i think i give this example last week if
you walk into the gym for the very first
time in your life
and you say you know what what's the
heaviest weight you have i'm gonna bench
press that
so you lie on the bench press table and
you take the heaviest weight in the gym
and they load it up on all sides and you
say i got it i'm good
i'm naturally very strong and now you
try to bench press the heaviest weight
on the table you know what's going to
happen
it will crush your ribs collapse your
lungs you may not make it out of the gym
alive
and spiritually if you try to lift the
heaviest thing and you're not ready
it will collapse your spiritual lungs
you won't be able to breathe
and you may not spiritually make it out
alive do not skip steps
do not jump too quickly do not go
incrementally or strategically you have
to take your time
add on slowly make designated times of
the day and that was the homework i gave
you last week
to decide when is it in the car you're
going to think about god before you
drive into hashem let me get to my
destination let me be safe let me not
get a ticket
let everything go well when is the
moment in the kitchen before everything
you cook
when is the moment that you're going to
invite god and start adding him to your
life and your lifestyle
not all at once not all day and not
every day but
where are the slots that i'm going to
add him so that i can
incrementally more and more add and
build up the weights
and build up the weights okay next
section in
vegas we continue
and in order to succe
a person has to allow their mind to
wander a person's mind has to have the
capacity
to feel multiple feelings if you're so
fixated and you're so
zoned in and you're so in a mold that
you can only think about or feel one
thing
then you're not going to succeed because
life is a roller coaster
there are ups and downs and life changes
and feelings change
because if you stick or hold to one
thought you will not be there for a long
time
you need to be energized you need to be
alive you need to be excited
you need things that are going to
generate excitement in your relationship
with hashem
renewal new things that you're adding i
got a new sitter with a new layout of
the davening
or i have a new class that i listen to
or i have a new practice that i do
dahinu shaypam yagesh mira paami's
ponenba amuna
says richard meyer you got to mix it up
so sometimes i focus on
my sense of love of god god is my father
in heaven and i feel his love
he loves me and i love him les shabas
and shul
i spoke about we all have the enduring
image of harsina of receiving the torah
last week is partially israel that
hashem held the mountain over our head
and he threatened us except my torah and
if not i drop it on your head and you
all die
sham take fur but that's a very dramatic
image
in one minion i actually said wake any
jewish child in the middle of the night
and ask them what was arsene i like and
this little kid says
i know what it's like i said what was it
like he said he held a mountain over our
head
and it wasn't even like i set him up for
it i didn't give the kid a candy i
didn't bribe him but it was exactly it
and to me that's very sad that all
children think about religion as being
hit
over the head with it threatened by it
ultimatum
be religious have a relationship with me
otherwise you're dead
you're gone you're out but there's an
alternative medius
it's not nearly as popular and we don't
teach it as often and i'm not suggesting
we don't teach the other one too
we need to teach our children and
ourselves that there is accountability
responsibility
expectations absolutely there's no uh
this is not negotiable it's not an
optional relationship we have with god
he has expectations of us there are laws
of judaism
but there is a beautiful complimenting
measure
that says it was incredibly hot in the
desert
we came into the desert after leaving
egypt and it was unbearably unbearably
hot
history channel had an episode trying to
predict or trying to guess
uh how hot it must have been said it was
minimally 120 degrees with
intense high percentage of humidity so
you can imagine god looks down he sees
two to three million of his children
baking in the sun shivitzing and
sweltering and passing out as they're
waiting
for this great har sinai matantora
experience to begin
and so it says you know what god did he
lifted up the mountain
and he held it over their head and he
said nu come here kids
come get some shade come get some relief
come it's air conditioned
come there's some shade come find some
safety and some refuge
come find some comfort because religion
is a place that you find comfort
and refuge and safety does he have
expectations of us
absolutely but you know if you hold it
over one's head
if you beat someone over the head
threaten over the head
you're going to drive them away but if
you say come you know
when the temperature is rising in your
life and your temperatures rising out
there
temperatures rising in politics and
pandemic temperatures rising in the
threats to israel and to
jews everywhere antisemitism when
there's enough problems when the
temperature is rising from the world
out there hashem says do come open my
sitter to hillam come talk to me
come lie with me come feel my support
come to my shul or my base madrish come
to my
is not just something to beat over the
head arsenal is a place to find refuge
and comfort and peace and serenity
to find relief in a world where the
temperature is rising and threatening us
i mentioned in the russia that i had a
meeting last week
in which someone shared with me without
criticism of the school for having our
rules of distancing and masks in which
we're very vigilant
in demanding compliance obviously with
the dangers of this
of this virus but he described that for
him it's very hard to come back to shul
because
the negative associations he has when
there's such
supervision we have our our volunteer
and professional security who walk
around and make sure people's masks are
over their nose and their mouth
and he said for him the trigger such
trauma
because this individual shared with me
and gave me permission then to share
when i asked about
the drasha that when he was a child if
he was five minutes late to shula and
shabbas
his stepfather beat him and beat him so
badly
that twice on shabbos he had to go to
the hospital because of the beating he
took for being late to shul and so for
him he associates
rules supervision demands about
religion as beating his stepfather
took davaning to hashem and beat him
over the head
literally not figuratively many of us
have been the victims or beat our
children
figuratively hopefully only verbally or
emotionally about religion but it's not
the way to go
we have to lead such rich and inspired
religious lives that they want to come
under the mountain
we have to show them that it's so hot
out there why would you choose to stand
in the heat
it's so hot out there like my in-laws
who went back to new york
and then sent pictures of three feet of
snow so why would you leave here
did you see the sunrise menu we had on
friday do you know how magnificent
they're on their way back don't worry
do you see how beautiful it is why'd you
leave so we have to show our children
and all around us
why are you standing in the heat why are
you baking in the sun come
come come under this mountain called
torah come under this mountain called
the
muna come under the shade of a
relationship with hashem
there's such comfort there's such relief
it doesn't mean that it's not hot
it doesn't mean all our problems go away
but hashem wants us to
come close to him and connect with him
and cling to him and fill his wake ups
with him
because of the relief that it provides
us because of what it provides us
so sometimes it's going to be a feeling
of ava sometimes we're going to
concentrate on a feeling of ava
i love hashem and he loves me he loves
me
this has been a hard year and everyone's
doing their best and we've had to adjust
even our religious life and practices
rabbis are getting together before every
holiday and reimagining
how do you make sure that every jew
wants to hear megillic in your megillah
i don't even want to start thinking
about pesach yet pesach we didn't have
last year
pesach kind of was on hold last year
pesach people had starred them all by
themselves there was no doubt any shows
that
were shut down we've had to reimagine
religion
and so hashem loves us yes could we do
better should we aspire for more should
we push ourselves
a hundred percent but this is a year we
should know that hashem loves us
and hashem loves us he's not beating us
up with the mountain
he's holding it over our head to protect
us from the sun or like an umbrella to
protect us from the rain
he's lifted the mountain with the image
not only of threatening us
but the image also of loving us and
supporting us so sometimes the moments
are of
ava but other times the moments are
going to be of era
you can't cozy up too much you can't get
too close you can't become too casual
oh god he's my best friend so he doesn't
care if i don't do what he says oh god
he's my best friend so he doesn't mind
that i took this week off from shabbos
or kosher or
or or a tucker or a gossip he's my best
friend he doesn't care
no he's not your best friend he's god
does he love you 100
but he still got he's the omnipotent
creator of the universe
who holds us accountable there's a
process of owner's reward and punishment
and we're accountable we should be in
awe of him and also a healthy dose of
fear of eurozones
with eurocemus upon sometimes you should
just think about amuna
wow there's a creator wow that's
magnificent wow i'm not here alone
wow he created the universe so
ravitchmeyer says that
we don't lock ourselves in or fixate to
one thought or one emotion or one
connection
but it fluctuates in different feelings
on different days with different things
going on our lives
things will inform or inspire the nature
of that connection
the nature of that relationship and we
have to be able to adjust
if you're a kind of person who's such a
creature of habit you can't adjust no no
no i only have ava
no no no i only can think about god in
the paradigm of era
then you're going to struggle a person
needs to be able to adjust
and to be able to think about god in
those in those different ways
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