No matter how mature, no matter how much value we bring to the world, there is an

inherent sense of dependency needs not being met when random murder and targeted
hatred are exhibited in the world.
The physical structure of being alive makes this inherently obvious. The brain is
designed to be triggered when threatened with self-preserving instincts and strength.
As crimes and hatred increase in their gross nature and intensity, it is not possible for
every person to experience something from our nerve center that brings us closer to that
reactive place.
That is true whether or not a person observes or is educated in Torah.
Often when people are triggered in their primal survival, there is a tendency to adopt or
align with the ones threatening, providing the person with a sense of security that often
is associated with the idea of go along to get along.
Such a strategy inherently corrupts the primal will of a person.
The primal will of every person is that we are beings created in the image of Hashems 13
attributes of mercy and He gives us free will by breathing us into a body. We are our
effort to use free will so that the intellect of Torah and Hashems Will become the source
for our emotions speech and deeds.
In order to accomplish this, we have to conquer the bodily instincts, both innate and
learned, and expel the logic and the earthiness of developing in time and space from
ruling our mind to heart connection.
We do so by arousing love in our hearts and yearning to emulate the 13 attributes of
Hashems mercy when we are experiencing swirling whirlwind tornados of emotion.
When we choose to utter the words Hashem Echad with the intention of creating positive
influence beseeching Hashem that all we want is for everything to be ok and that all we
want is Him, to reflect Him into this world, we open the doorway into time and space for
His Light to shine.
We can put in our bid for how that light should positively affect us, but in no way do we
determine one iota of where that light will shine. We have bitachon that fulfilling our
role, of pulling our makeup back and saying Hashem Echad, is sufficient for serving
Hashem. He is the only glory, the only power. But WE have free will and can really
choose our identity.
Even if something terrible happens as we saw in Har Nof, no one can take away our
investment in this type of identity. We see the life of Rabbi Akiva who dies saying
Hashem Echad as what a soul in a body can accomplish in terms of connection to
Hashems 13 attributes of mercy and serving Hashem to the last breath.

May we not need to make the ultimate sacrifices of our lives.

May we see that we can stop the downward spiraling that will bring us to have our
survival instincts running us by instead seeing NOW how love of Hashem and awe in
how He creates us in the world gives us free will to choose to say Hashem Echad and
create positive beings to displace the earthiness of our pain and suffering. And may
Hashem choose to utilize those positive beings to remove the need for all suffering and
death with the coming of Moshiach.