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Hashem told them,
"Listen, you are praying to me. You're
crying to me, but you're still holding
on to the idols of the
past. You still have all the sins of the
past. You still haven't
changed. You're saying, "Oh, Hashem, I
love you. I love you. I put a keep on. I
put on." But you're still not really
committed to Hashem. You're still
holding on to the idolatrous
beliefs. Hashem says, "You want
salvation? Move forward. Move forward.
Do something about it. Show me you
believe." So when Aminadav went into the
ocean, sacrificed his
life, he was the pillar. He was the
example. He was the leader that the
Mashiach comes from
actually. And after he went, several
others followed
him and the ocean was split into 12, one
for each
tribe. Here we
see
that is one of the things that people
like to talk about, but amuna requires a
person to change their actions.
First and foremost, all of this stimuli
that we have around us, whether it be
news or people chitchatting or all of
this fortunetelling types of things, you
have to abandon it like it's a plague
cuz it's going to hurt your amuna.
Second of all, if there are bad things
happening in our
life, review what you're
doing. What can you do
better? Everyone can pick at least a few
things they could do better. Look at the
Torah. Look at what you're doing. Are
you doing everything in this dua? No.
Okay. So, pick something. Change it. You
did it. It didn't work. Do something
else. Maybe Hashem wants something else.
Don't just cry to Hashem. Why? Why? Why?
You have to do something about
it. Prayer is sometimes not
enough. Sometimes we didn't pray enough.
Sometimes the prayer itself is not
enough. And sometimes we didn't pray
enough. We prayed once. We think that
one prayer and uh you know everything
changes.
Sometimes we didn't pray enough. But the
point is that prayer by itself does not
work. It requires action. We have to
change things. There are many people
that come to me and say, "Oh, listen.
Can you pray for my dad? Can you pray
for my son? Can you pray for this one?
Can you pray for that one?" Yeah, sure.
I can pray for them. But if they don't
change and do chuva, my prayer is not
going to work by
itself. The prayer has to be connected
to an action to chuva.
It has to be connected to show give
Hashem a reason. Why? Because
technically Hashem does not change his
mind. Doesn't change his mind. So how
does prayer actually
work? Prayer works
where when you pray really pray that
prayer is actually supposed to change
you as a human being. You are now
praying to Hashem. You're saying I'm
sorry Hashem. You're saying, "Hashem, I
promise you I'm going to do
better." Not, "Hashem, please, please
give me, give me, give me, give me."
He's not an ATM
machine. You have to say, "Hashem, I'm
sorry for what I
did. Everything that you did to me, you
are right." That's why it says in
our all of the bad stuff you brought
upon us, you're right.
You're But I promise you, I'm going to
change. A promise is not enough. I'mma
take action. From now on, I'm going to
at least one sh a week. From now on, I'm
going go to two shim a week. From now
on, I'm going to pray on time every day.
From now on, I'm going to keep Shabbat.
From now on, I'm going to become modest.
From now on, I'm going to do this, this,
and that. That prayer, you have to bring
it to
life. So now, Hashem doesn't change his
mind. But how come he's going to answer
you now? Because now that you've changed
your
actions, now that you change your
actions, you are no longer the same
person. So, Hashem says, "Wait a minute.
Hold on a second. Gabriel
Mafel, what's going on over here? This
guy is sick. Why is he sick? Hashem,
there was a decree on him." No, no, no,
no. The decree of sickness was on
somebody else. This guy's a sadic. Look,
he's keeping Shabbat. He said his wife's
going to be mad from now on. He's he's
committing to learning to a different
person after this. Hashem that was 20
minutes ago he was he goes no the prayer
he promised he did a bunch of things is
a different person take off make him
make him
healthy gave him a new job do something
find him a shuk or
something he's a different person he's
not the same guy why committed committed
his prayer became something that's
actually tangible not just
words that's what was saying
toenu
is you have to move
forward. Speak to Israel and move
forward. Journey forward. Do something.
Don't just scream to me. Do something
about it. Everybody has something to do.
As a rabbi, I must emphasize that this
mitzvah is mandatory for every Jew as it
ensures all members of Israel can
properly celebrate the holiday with
dignity and joy.
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