TheYeshiva.net - Torah Or Vayeira: Does G-d Really Care About What I Do

hello this week is pasha's vallera and we're doing a my mid in thailand there is a bit of a challenge however there are exactly two memories one is more mystical than the next these are truly classic kabbalah works as it were and we chose to do the second of the two-minute bottom which is arguably a little bit easier but neither the two my mother montara at least on the surface speak to the heart they clearly speak to the more intellectual philosophical side so our challenge becomes to make a more mystical and philosophical moment comprehensible relevant and even inspiring was one of the greatest of the talmudim of the holy balshemptev much is known about him there are many stories he was a unique personality a new kind of rebbe with in a way his own kind of qasidas one of his greatest disciples was a jew whose last name was babad you'll forgive me i don't remember his first name and this disciple of the pence carter had an incredibly difficult life and he struggled with many things material things of all different types health sustenance family and so forth and he agonized he was a big hasid was a great talmud and he was probably a very spiritual person and perhaps even a elevated person but he struggled so much with his personal life that it dragged him down as it would anybody and on one particular occasion he sat and wallowed in his own suffrage and his own challenges and for a f for a flash for a split second the idea crossed his mind does god know what i'm going through the moment that thought entered into his awareness he understood that he had stepped over a line so to speak and he decided if he could think such a thought is god aware what's going on in my life i need a visit to my rebel i need to recharge so he got into his wagon and he drove to cut it he traveled into the hote that means the courtyard where the pinchas carrets lived he drove his horse and wagon around the front of the courtyard with the intent of going around to the back where there was a stable in the place for wagons and so forth and as he drives by the front window of his home the window opens and perhaps closer pokes his head out looks at him and screams if i know you think god doesn't so this disciple of the pirates karate said got his answer he didn't even stop he drove around the courtyard went straight back home has it ever told him i know what's going on i appreciate your suffrage god certainly does let us see if the mind that we're about to learn can add depth to the story beyond simply rabbi feeling his hasid and having an extra sense to know what is thinking you