Agudah/FJCC - Rabbi Ezra Rodkin

Shalom aleichem, my dear friends. I have been asked to speak about something that is so beyond important, [music] and I would like to share my thoughts. We know, as Jews, we have the Chovos Halevavos, which teaches us about one of the aspects, bitachon. We have bitachon, we trust in Hashem. However, even within all of that trust, the Chovos Halevavos teaches us that there is something called hishtadlus. We need to do what is incumbent upon us. Of course, it's totally all in Hashem, but we need to do ours. Rebboise, our hishtadlus is to go ahead and do what we can do. And that will show the Ribbono shel Olam that it matters to us. It matters what will [music] happen to acheinu bnei Yisrael. It matters what will happen in this crazy world that we live in, and we can do our part. Ultimately, the Ribbono shel Olam will do his, but we need to do ours. May Hashem grant [music] that we should be zocheh to tremendous siyata dishmaya in each and every person that is mekuyam in the tzibur of the Moshav's itself, [music] of course, will be benched, will be blessed with tremendous bracha and hatzlacha and nachas and simcha. Thank you.