One Bolt - R. Don Jarashow - TorahAnytime.com

There was one bolt. If I look back at the story, if I look back at all the dysfunction and all the frustration look back at all the anxiety, my kids were going to wake up and we borrowed water and we like all these things and how we going to get back and all everything. This whole four hours of sleep and the kids and the my kids didn't go to school today till 12:00 and I had to go pick them. It was a whole one day of chaos around Lakewood running around running around. My car was number one on scene in Lakewood today all day. But what's the message? It all boiled down to one bolt. It was one bolt that didn't budge. I think for all of us, I think we can all agree this is a message that's often spoken about in Judaism. What's the message? We're all cars on the road. We're all people. Yes, we're all mortal human beings. At the end of the day, we're all on a mission. We're all on the path. We're all on a journey. And we're all on the way to a destination. We have different places. We have different ted. We have different missions. We have different things we have to fulfill and accomplish. But at the end of the day, the common denominator, the virtue that connects all of us, that makes us all the same, we're all equal, is that we're Hashem's chosen nation nation. We're thear and we cannot forget that even when there's one bolt that won't budge, we're done. We're toast. It works for the bad. It works for the good. We can be doing great. We could be accomplishing great things. We can be going far. We can be giving. We can be giving. We could be learning. If there's one thing as the Gmorrah tells us that we're doing that's not right, that's not the way God wants it, it's called the you're rebellious in one way that aborts the entire mission that ruins it all that disqualifies you through and through. Yes, you're going to get reward for all the good things, but if there's one bolt, if there's one thing that you're not willing to budge on, there's one thing you're not willing to work on, this is who I am. I'm not changing in yahad in our religion. Hashem says it's my way or the highway. And if we're not willing to subjugate ourselves completely and yes, it's a journey. It's a path. We have a lifetime to work on all different areas. There's so much to work on, but we have to realize there's a full package. And if we're stuck in our ways in one thing and we're saying this is it. I'm not willing to change. I'm not willing to work. That's like the bolt in the car that you want to get on your way. You want to move on, but you can't. You got to get everyone to help you. And they can't get it either. You're still stuck until you open that one bolt. Until you loosen the power of one. But that works the other way around as well. The power of one tells us as well one deed, one person, one extra push doing a kindness for another person. We can never imagine, we can never discount the power of that of that. Hashem is one and we have to remember that our actions reflect they go hand in hand that when we realize the significance of one as well that can take us that can help us soar achieve things that we never thought we able to accomplish one step at a time one day at a time one mitzvah one opportunity we have no comprehension. We have no mus as we call it of what that can do for us.