Mr. Charlie Harary - Shavuot - A Relationship with our Father in Heaven

Now we have someone that is going to speak for someone's going to speak for us. Charlie Harary, he likes to go as Mr. Charlie Harary. I like to call him Rabbi Charlie Harary. We know we know each other very well from all of me and just from around and from the trips and he's a big inspiration. I want to tell you one story as I introduce Charlie. He doesn't know this. So right around about 2 years ago, about 2 years ago um Okay, about 2 years ago we had we're having an Olami Rabbi convention. And who is there? Charlie Harary. And he was speaking to us and he was about to come on to give us like, you know, his drasha inspire us. And all the rabbis were, you know, we're rabbis, we're going to hear another rabbi speak. When he came on, you could hear a pin drop. He wowed the crowd. He he he won us all over. From that moment on, I hold by Charlie. And I'm very excited to be inspired by his words. And please, Charlie, let the Emmet audience hear it from you what it means to be an amazing Jew. Thank you. Thank you so much, Rabbi. I really appreciate it. Um just a few words as we prepare ourselves for the greatest holiday that we have. We're about to enter into the holiday of Shavuot. The holiday of Shavuot is a holiday that we remember the greatest day ever. It's the ultimate day. It's the Super Bowl of Super Bowls. The day where God revealed himself to the world. Once. I mean, he hasn't done it since. And it was the day that he handed us the book and said, "Here. Go civilize humanity. Become the nation I'll be proud of." The reason why we're here tonight is because of that day. One of the greatest questions that I think that I've ever heard is not why did it happen? It's why did it take so long? The Jews come out of Egypt in Passover time. That was a while ago. That was 50 days ago. They leave. They walk through a sea. They come out the sea. And they're staring up at the sky and they believe in God and God poofs 10 miracles and splits the sea for them. It's the most unbelievable thing ever. It's the greatest Shabbatone in the history of Shabbatones. It's the greatest Pesach program ever. From that moment God should have taken the Jews and walked them down in one day to the mountain top. Bring them to the top and give them the book, right? What's the number one rule in business? ABC, always be closing. God's the ultimate closer. God should have closed the deal. They came out of the out of the sea. They believed in him. They're dancing. They're singing. 10 plagues and a split sea can do that to somebody. We should have had this holiday a month ago. It should have been Passover. A couple of days off just to get regroup. And then Shavuot. What took so long? Did God have to raise money for production? What what in the world? The Jews sat around the desert for 40 days. Why? So, what did the Jews do the whole time? They did one thing. They did a little bit here and there, but really one thing. Imagine if you will being a Jew during that period of time. It's late at night one night. You're sitting with your wife. And you got the three little kids sleeping in the back. And you just can't believe what happened last week and that the whole my God, the split sea. Can you believe it? It's unbelievable. They're sitting in these tents. Clouds of glory around them. They're sitting in quarantine, by the way. That's what it was. There was about a couple of miles between the Red Sea, between Yam Suf and between our Sinai. 40 days the Jews sat around. This whole period of time called Sefirat Omer is them sitting around. They sat in quarantine. They had clouds of glory, so the AC was on. They had move mana from heaven, so that was the food. And the when they their clothes never worn out, so they basically had air conditioning, food, and dry cleaning, which is like basics for Jewish survival. They sat around. It's a weekend. The wife turns to the husband and says, "Honey, we got a problem." He goes, "What's the problem?" Says, "We have no more food." "We We We carried as much as we could. I put as much as I could on my back. We're out. The kids went to bed hungry. What are we going to do? Amazon doesn't deliver. There's no place to get a job. There's nothing to do. You're sitting in a desert. Where are we getting you food?" The husband turns to the wife and says, "Don't worry. I heard that Moshiach was standing telling everybody that that that was delivering to each and every person. Come on. And in the morning, I'm going to go to my location spot, and they say that God has food for each and every one of us." And the wife turns to the husband and says, "Are you for real? Like, I love you. But you're not exactly Moshiach Rabbeinu. Like, I mean, I think you're the greatest guy in the world, but you didn't You're not Nachshon. You didn't walk into the sea first. We're just like a regular group of people in the middle of nowhere. Like, we're just we're nobodies. You think God knows my name?" And the guy probably said, "I don't know." And if I bet you that guy woke up the next morning with his kids starving. And walked to his location with his hands trembling. And he goes to the spot, he looks down, and he can't believe his eyes. He brings it back to the table, puts it down, and he looks, 1 2 3 4 5. A piece for everybody. His wife turns to him and says, "Do you think God knows our name?" The Jews did one thing during this period of time. One. Every day. The manna that got from heaven spoiled every night, which means every morning he woke up and he had to go out and feed his kids. And every morning he got into a spot and said, "Do you think God knows how many kids I have? Do you think God knows my name? Do you think God knows my situation?" Every single day during this period of time. The answer was, "You better believe he knows your name." You see, there's two types of ways you believe in God. And you need them both. The first way is by calling him a king. Kings are big. They live far away. They muscle armies. They control food supplies. They hang out all days with their officers. And they go up against other kings. So, when God showed up to a Jewish people who were slaves and went head-to-head with Pharaoh, that made sense cuz that's what kings do. They fight each other. And who does God talk to? His officers, Moses, Aaron, his crew. For many of us, that's our relationship to God. He's just the king. I want to do what he wants. I want I want him to give me what I want. He lives there, I live here. And God goes, "No. No. No, that's not going to work. You got to I am a king. That's only 1.0. That's 1.0. You're going to stand on a mountain top and get the book that's going to civilize humanity. If I'm going to reveal myself to you, you got to get to 2.0. And what's 2.0? That there's another aspect to God. He's not just the king. He's our father. mother. He knows every single one of us. And he feeds us from his hand every single day. And God says, "Here's how it's going to work. If you're going to get on my mountain top, I check, you got to the king part. 10 plagues and a split sea, I got it. You passed by the beginner's course, and it's hard stuff. A lot of people don't believe that. It's a huge madrigal, it's a huge level to even really understand God as the king, but I'm talking about getting you in up top of the mountain top. You got to get to level two. Level two is that before you call me a king, you better call me your father. Every day you walk to your spot. Every day you see that I'm feeding you. I know I know every single one of you. You had a baby, you get another piece. How did I know? Cuz I'm watching you. Your mother comes for Shabbos, I give you another piece. How do I know? Cuz I'm watching you. I'm with you. I'm taking care of you. During this period of time, the Jews understood one thing. Before he becomes your king, he needs to become your father. Avinu Malkeinu. The king is the first piece. But the real thing on top is being the father. God goes, "If you want to stand up on the mountain top with me, you got to get real. It's a real relationship. That's our challenge to develop a real relationship with God. To talk to him in English in our words. To trust that everything in that book is there for us. To realize that he runs the world and we don't. That's really the reason why it took so long, cuz we had to get this right if we're going to stand on that mountain top and be connected to him forever. That's what I meant this all about. Real relationships. Your rabbis are role models. And they're there for you all the time. They They care about you. They want a relationship with you. It's real. Shavuot is a time in which we have to get real. We stand before God on Shavuot. You turn to him and you got to give him the best gift in the world. The greatest gift you can give God is not cheesecake. The greatest gift you can give God on Shavuot is yourself. You turn to God and go, "I don't know how to do this, but help me." I want to develop a bigger relationship with you this year. I want to know you more. I want to pray to you deeper. I want to talk to you. I want to learn about you. And there's no better place than with the bunch of people who live in the world of real relationships, and that's Emek. And my blessing to you and to everybody here is that we need to be able to give the people the support that they need to do the work they're doing to continue to connect to us in a real way. And my blessing to me and you is that this holiday that's coming up, we should stand before God and be real with him. Cuz the one thing that God wants more than anything in the world is a real relationship to us. Chag sameach. Thank you for listening. Hope all is well. Good luck to Emek on this wonderful, wonderful fundraiser.