The Indescribable Rav Gav Klatzko

should know. It tells us that the same way that it was 100% applicable 3,300 years ago that they had no question that they had a certain amount of gratitude to Hashem because of this tremendous miracle that he did for them. That has to be the exact same feeling that we have now. It means that the mitzvah that we're relating to has to be something that we feel in the same intensity as adults back then because otherwise there'd be no reason for it. When we say we remember the things that Hashem did for us, we remember the miracles that he did for us. We don't remember them in the same way that you know you go to Cougar National Park and you take a uh you take pictures of what you see and you bring back an elephant head and you have all these souvenirs. What a souvenir does, what an what a what a what a picture does, a photograph does is it helps you remember that nice feeling that you had before and it makes that feeling a little bit more tangible. But that was a past and this is a present and at any point that I I want to go back to the past, I could just look at this. But but you know sometimes I feel like you it's enough of being I like I've been the rabbi which which uh for the whole summer for 3 months and I feel like I'm wanting to be a Talmet again and I I'm not ready to be totally which is really strange. It's strange for me having tame that they refer to me as their their rabbi and their ro and their confidant and u it's it's a strange position to be in like told me that uh that a person you know the key to this is knowledge and I haven't forgotten that and uh I'm not satisfied whatsoever with what I know or don't know and uh I'm working on everything I'm trying to gain more and more knowledge and do different types of research and become a and especially uh and uh keep everything into perspective. On the other hand, it's very I have a long ways to go and I'm not happy where with where I'm at. They teach us that everything that we have is based is based on hashem whether we understand it or not. On the one hand, we have our houses. We have our comfortable lives. But then we move out of our houses and we put ourselves to the mercy of the elements. We put ourselves saying that, you know, life isn't as it seems. It's not as simple as it seems. It could disappear in a flash. And here we are and we're putting all our trust in Hashem, hoping that for example on the first night of sukas, not the entire suka just blows away instead of just half of it. And this is this is what we're doing on the says do that your generation should know matter who the generation is you could say okay look you know these people when they left Egypt they went a very high level I mean they had left you know 210 years of slavery but they said were willing to follow follow you they experienced all these miracles I mean and not only have like what type of choice did they have you know you could stay in Egypt sure you know what a right get killed another option you know so but they they were on a very high level how maybe we're such a high level. Maybe we're not at the level of amuna, right, in order to experience these things. Maybe we don't trust in Hashem as much as we should. They understood where they were. They understood that, you know, they just came out through a nation of slaves. They understood that, you know, there's a lot to do in their lives, but they have the faith that they can keep it. They have the faith in themselves that they can do it. And they have the faith that Hashem is offering it to them. It means that it's something that's possible for them to keep it. the other nations that came to Hashem said, "Do you want to do it?" They said, "What's really?" They said, "This is me. I can't change." Hey, they didn't have the faith in themselves and they didn't have the faith that Hashem had in them. So, if you don't have the faith, you didn't I don't you don't have this trust in Hashem, the creator of the world, the one who had outran miracles. If you don't have that, if you don't have that much trust, so then you don't have any place. The mitzvah as much as we have understanding of them as much as some of them we understand and the other ones we don't understand. As much as maybe some of them benefit us and the other ones we don't see how they benefit us. We do them because we understand we're not sure anymore. It's impossible for words to to function now. This got real. I remember a royal shabas at his table. I remember 1820 people there who were being brought at that shabas table. Somebody walked into my office who reminded me a few minutes ago. You remember when you sent me and my wife before we became married to Rafatko and he saved us and then I I asked him what was doing in his he said hundreds hundreds or so what others don't do in a 100 hours in 100 hours this one in 28 years we have no with all of he did in 28 years. What others do not do in a 100 years. Hallelujah.