Chodesh Elul: Teshuvah in the Wake of Pandemic.

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robin ichani terrigan a beloved educator and a voice that we uh certainly love and appreciate here at the oe women's initiative so khodesh told to each one of you and we look forward to you participating in our you may write some programming and again to support our programs please go on to ou.org women donate thank you for this phenomenal opportunity but really to be able to share torah and particularly on rosh not only as we know as ghazal teach us the holiday for women that women have preserved throughout the generations thereby even if we see during the time of tanakh during the time of the first base at mikdash and even during the time of the second base hamikdash people refrained from malacha from laundering from working was only the women really took advantage of this and the women were being very sensitive to time and to renewal the opportunities that every new month avails oneself to they're the ones who preserved not only not performing malacha but truly celebrating the rosh and therefore it really is a phenomenal opportunity to share torah and particularly this year as robertson said anna after launching this and through the ou two years ago to have this opportunity to continue to teach torah and a special masaltov and yasher kohakan for all those who were messiah mode safer yeshayahu last week as we continue now with your miyahu which perhaps is extremely appropriate for this time period also of elul the perhaps most particular reason why i feel very very privileged this rosh maybe even more than any other to be able to share torah is because this is the time as we know dating back to moshe rabenu who entreated upon hakadosh following for the 40 days from through yamakipurim again forgive these people hashem show me harini how am i going to somehow bridge this gap the rift that has been formed between you and amy israel and upon moshes and treaties khazal teach us that this is going to set a precedent for all future generations and this year then in particular gives us an opportunity for hashbrown fish and the reason i say obviously this year in particular is because how can we not undergo introspection when we're in the midst of a pandemic as the rambam tells us any time in particular any time there's some type of pandemic that strikes you you have to undergo some level of imperfection this is exactly when shuba is necessary and it doesn't always fall out on but whenever it may be that's when hazal teach us go back and examine your ways and therefore this rosh i really asked myself what is it we've heard i know we certainly have recognized you ruled the show we know that already we've seen that this little virus ghana corona the crown as it's called you're the one hashem with katsur mulucha yishai rebo has asked so yes what is it hashem that you want us to get can we get the messages already can we stop the social justice i think we need to understand the lessons that were internalized and therefore in preparation for us he said you know what let's take a step back let's go back and examine in shaytara what is trying to teach us through maggie so as we know from any time we want to study a phenomenon in tanakh we go back to where the words appear and this is very easy easily done now with the online concordances i placed the word mage in my computer my database system and in fact does appear plenty of times certainly then i realize that the terminology that i'm looking for is actually not magic is not the objective plague but when i'm israel find themselves in the midst of a pandemic in which we know we still are so in fact we find that there are three no more no less times that the word bam mageifa appears in hamilton and therefore together this we're going to examine what we're supposed to be learning from how particularly in the month of elul what type of cuba are we supposed to be performing how do we return to hashem if we don't even know what we did wrong what messages we're supposed to be internalizing well here we're going to examine them together so with your permission we're going to now take a look at these three examples in tanakh the three times when we find an ay phenomenon so as we get started with chuba in the wake up pandemic we're going to examine this together so we're going to look at this now just trying to see okay now to move them the corrodes a little here excellent let's begin with the first bamagita the very first one is actually one that shouldn't surprise us it's actually not haita egel albeit a national sin a sin of idolatry but isn't that interesting that's not where amnesty all are punished with them of course they're punished you know we find that moshe rabino was going to force those who were actually sinned inaudible to drink from the molten gold but the first time that there is a plague is with regard to the sin of the spies maraglin and let's look and examine the hate and the magista which we're going to be doing thrice over we begin by the baha'i shama moshe valero naymore after the people the spies have come back with their negative report fs despite the fact that it's a beautiful land and you can see the fruit of the land and it's too bad but still again we are like we're like grasshoppers in the eyes of all the giants there there's no way that we're going to conquer this country and hashem then responds to moshe naron admits israel nimalai shamati and how many times are they going to complain but you know what says hashem this complaint is different than any other complaint because this is a complaint about the land i promise them that part of the national destiny of the descendants of avraham yitzhak and nyakov was going you don't appreciate coming to the land and therefore only those who demonstrated not only belief but those who demonstrated a love for the lambs and encouragement for the rest of amusement to join in yeshua they're going to come but i hate to tell you this not you because it's the aretz this generation shame on those who literally and did not come when they should shame on those who despise the land and therefore says hashem you're going to have to go ahead and wonder wander in the desert for the next 40 years in other words you don't want to go into the land okay so now you're going to be with your children take a look at this and notice how hashem describes this terminology you're going to not only die in the midbar your children are going to be like animals they're going to be literally grazing in this wilderness for 40 years until you all die just like the 40 days in which you suggest in the land of verities for el so two a very famous terminology that we find also and say a foreign for every day that you were in here to israel namely 40 years old you're going to die off in this mid-bar as your children basically are going to be literally climbing the walls and i think sometimes why not people have been complaining oh no my children have to go back to school when are they going back to school already i think of these sukim i think maybe akrishbarah really is giving us a message let's take a look now we find the terminology those who were first in vandalizing literally eret israel those who were motsei dibatta aretz hashem they died in a pandemic and the parshani even asked what was this pandemic what did they die in and rashi quotes the famous mundo sheikh hazal they died with some type of pandemic of the tongue there were worms that came out from their throat and they swallowed their tongues and it must have had something to do media cannot get media with lush and hara with using their tongues in an improper manner but as we continue continuing the we wonder that maybe this magifa is actually just a prelude to the next few sukim that talk about another makifa and what is this we hear that the very next day and now the people when they hear about their punishment of 40 years they're all in a state of mourning so what did they do they think the message is as follows [Music] they recognize right away what beautiful chuba we sinned we did something wrong and now we want to make up for it so what did they do we want to now go up and enter eretis for ill but moshe tells them no no no now you can't because hashem at this point it's too late hakarsbach already said that you have to separate this punishment as a matter of fact isn't even in your midst right now below and you do not want to die in a pandemic literally in front of your enemies because you should know what pandemic is he referring to the attack you're going to die through the amalekites and the canaanites who are in the southern areas of vertice throughout they're going to come and they're going to attack you hashem below yeah they were going to come to attack no matter what because they've been anticipating your entrance from the southern border verity israel which is exactly why moshe arabino sent them raglan from the southern part of erits israel not only is the ramban says to prepare for war but also to get them excited to make them realize that they can enter the land and what do you know the raglan themselves these anashim tarim the leaders of the people they came in through the south but because you didn't have sufficients and muna now it's too late now those same southern enemies the kananim the amalekin they're going to come and they're going to attack you which is exactly as we see what happens namely the last you took him here [Music] which is supposed to lead us in our journeys in the desert does not accompany israel does not accompl accompany what we call these the ones who are going to rise up to go into the land of israel despite hashem telling them not to by it [Music] this is the continuation of the mageifa and maybe in fact it's actually the punishment of the miracle maybe the same 10 spies who were just a few hours earlier said no no no no i'm telling you you don't want to enter the lands of israel maybe they weren't they're the ones who said oh my now that the door is closed on us now we death go want to go into the land of israel now we have to pick ourselves up and go emo benue says but now it's too late you didn't get the message on time and in fact their punishment is not only that they're going to be attacked but they're going to be completely completely obliterated all those who go up the term kharma means a place wherein they're annihilated so notice then that the punishment is not just that they're going to wander around the wilderness for 40 years but rather that those who are going to try to fix their sin are ultimately going to pay the price but don't worry what's the chuba then message number one what's the chuva that we're supposed to be performing what should we do and already now i hope that everyone's internalizing perhaps some messages that akarasparahu is telling us this is the first time my father who was here and on my parents during the initial stages of corona and they noticed that they noted for the first time that even as as jews they couldn't come back to earth israel and they said i guess we just have to make aliyah and you've heard you've heard reisman speak about this that now we're again those in hotzlarets on the wrong side of the door maybe this is one message that akash prahl was giving us did you ever think that the dura terror israel would be closed as it was during the time of raglan now is the time and we're going to see this clearly message number one shuva is not just individual chubas we're going to see from the national chuba national chuva which is about obviously returning to mitzvah observance but also returning to our national identities our national identity that we hear about over and over again in the parshios that we've been reading in sayford's barim in this time period of these are the parshiot that teach us that of course we have to be scrupulous in our mitzvah observance but simultaneously we have to recognize our national identity connected to erit israel message number one mageifa number one when we don't appreciate what it means to enter the land of israel but don't worry there's chuva what chuva let's take a look the chuva the tikkun believe it or not comes in fact 40 years later and the torah tells us exactly how number one it comes unfortunately together with the loss of leadership not only the famous notorious sin of maimuriba and with the imminent passing of miriam together with moshe but also of arun we hear about aharon who dies bahr haha we hear about the loss of gedo laytora we hear about the mourning of ami israel as we see vayamat aronsham and by your rook israel to recognize that it's a new generation that sometimes we have to wait even for the passing of gedolim in order for us to get the message that they were trying to impart all along and what happens right after what do you know as am israel are now preparing for their entrance territory ill as on one hand they find that the people of edomar and allowing them to enter and soon they're going to be waging more against the emirates and in fact we can definitely imagine how the people are going to perhaps rebel once again and not want to enter the land but this time almost the exact same scenario just as the ramban tells us true chuba is when you're in the same situation but you respond differently what's the response of am israel this time it's not enough that they said katanu and now we want to make up for it rather this time the kananim again and the southern areas are very israel vaishnani it's now 38 years later and once again the canaanim say oh now the israelites are going to try once again to come and conquer the land of israel through the southern area israel and they fight against amnesty and they take prisoners rashi says it was actually a shiva canaanite it was actually just one prisoner and she was even a shiva knight nonetheless amnesty doesn't leave anyone behind and this is not going to intimidate them on the contrary this is what's going to encourage them to do something very differently than what they've done before which is passively respond which is to react to punishment instead of being proactive this time by you dary israel nederla hashem this time amnesty will accept a nether upon themselves they commit themselves and just to remind you that in the hamesh we find that a neder certainly and safe appreciate with yakubano with something very positive it's basically a way of committing ourselves to qatar even when we don't have the means to actually pay or fulfill our our obligations and our commitments but we want to show hakarush barahu that we are committed so we make a neder hashem we will do this we just need your help right now but we're going to pay on credit basically and that's why the nazir says the ramban is positive as well it's a positive nidar and this is obviously a positive measure because we're going to see that cutter spread whole distance it's only in say for devarim where then the torah says you know mozart's more be careful with what you're going to commit yourself to but take a look at this national nether all about israel if you allow us to attack the knee and then we're going to declare them hiram to you then we're going to recognize that this all came from you hakadosh parahu maybe that's our cuba now maybe we're supposed to learn from this mageifa not only not to speak negatively about eretz israel but maybe this is what we're supposed to learn that it's time to be proactive and maybe after the war of independence and the sixth day war and all of the phenomenal victories that we've had by hashem and against all chances of survival of a tiny nation amidst enemies of the middle east maybe we haven't recognized that this all comes from hakadosh and amistral say hashem if we're going to win we know that it was completely because of you israel they renamed the place when you know karma exactly as we found beforehand this is the chuba this is the tikkun hakarisparho we're going to come into artistreal but we're going to do it right this time we're going to come in of our initiative we're going to show you how enthused we are and at the same time that we recognize not only that we have the ammuna that you're going to help us win our wars but we know with full confidence that this is what you want us to do not that we have to say and then we're going to try to come when it's too late now hashem we're going to be proactive we're going to recognize that you want us to come to urity israel and we are also going to recognize that if we make it there then it's completely because of yad hashem number one shuva number one that we're supposed to learn in the wake of a pandemic number two the next time that we find the term the next pandemic is within the context as you see of korach so let's explore once again the sin but particularly the plague what happens the beginning of parashat quran we hear that there are really two simultaneous rebellions going on that share the same zeitgeist the same spirit korach together with data nabiram of uben they come to motion arun and they say rav lachem hashem you know you're holding on to too many different positions and why maduratsuna al-khal are you usurping political power religious power priestly power and you're holding literally the executive branch and the judicial branch and the political branch this isn't fair and most rabino says but don't you understand i didn't choose these positions these came from makarosh so you want to let's start with your primary argument you want to service kohanim you want to get close at karosparohu like a cohen bringing katowice so you know what try it i want to show you it wasn't about me i'm not usurping any powers rather hakarosh is the one who endowed me with this so you know what let's see maybe i gotta spar also endowed you with these religious powers take mahato take riddles together with all of his 250 men place some fire some coals place the turret and we'll see huma karospar who selects in the meantime we also hear about nada as we know and refuse to come up to what motion our own and moshe then responds to them as well don't start decrying on my position as political leader and that i can't bring you into earth israel and this is not about me it's about i am merely the intermediary i'm the vassal for god for all these miracles and i'll prove kilometer that this isn't me as a matter of fact and i'm going to to tell you that in a very strange way and if for opens up with its own pair with its own mouth and then swallows them alive then you'll know via data then you'll know that certainly this is a punishment from god that hashem is is working in tandem together with me because it's not my powers this is all from hakadosh enough as we know that's exactly what happens and it's not about me says but believe it or not this isn't the magetha that is spoken about this is the punishment or both and then by the end we hear the 250 men together with korach the matrix toret also die rather what's the chuva what's the tikkun what's the aftermath of all this well adapt israel allah bam yesterday i'll see that moshe told the 215 men in korach go and bring keturah and they died because moshe rabeinu suggested this and then he also initiated this truly remarkable punishment for datsun and naviram so in their minds hashem they claim oh my you're killing the nation of hashem and they start once again to harass moshe and aron to motion arun comes they're going to to turn to hashem and hashem says hey roman we talked about just like with korach i am going to kill them instantaneously by a plu alpena him you're going to see that there's going to be something that spreads that kills them automatically by yamamoto and what's going to happen we're going to hear that just in a matter of seconds there is a mageefa the term of magifah there is a pandemic and moshavinu knows that this pandemic is coming from hakadosh parahu to protect the honor of moshe and arun and therefore moshe says he could have saved again a few seconds and done this on his own but he understands even he be a great leader of ami israel he doesn't even have the power of the vaccine of the torrets that's something that only a kohen can bring and therefore moshe turns to our own and says show them that you are the only one who can bring keturah but you're not using katora to kill them you're using ketora to keep them alive apparently begins and we know that what happens in this mage we hear that that 14 700 are going to die that our own stands between those that are dead and those that are alive because hashem has manifested himself within the people and just like by makat we're in everyone's eyes we say we hear a similar idea namely that so many people can die in one moment because they see the revelation of hakadosh baraho protected them and as you know what's really going on within the dynamics of the story is what goes on perhaps in almost every generation with regard to leadership and up politics challenging our systems challenging authority in our systems i think we all can relate not only to the korach phenomenon but exactly what i'll tell us about this and this is [Music] not only is there internal debate not only is there going to be truly disputes amongst the people themselves as hazal elaborate upon a numerous midrashim but we see that the primary basis or the mahloket of is their lack of respect for truly godola their lack of respect for those authorities of torah the lack of respect for those who are meant to serve particular roles and we look around and we see and unfortunately and in our generation not only have we lost numerous golem but how unfortunately we don't have proper respect for those torah authorities maybe akrishbaraho is teaching us during this time i'm israel do you see any parallels maybe our generation is one that also doesn't respect the appointments of akrush that doesn't respect torah scholarship and torah and now the forms of gedo hador so much so that we know that rabbi akiva is compared to moshe now in every generation we have those that are meant to perpetuate the words of torah and therefore what does hashem do right afterwards it's not enough that arun stopped the magifa that our own showed through in his not only understanding but the commandments of moshe go and take the torah etc hashem says that's not enough now i want to show who a true godol is so take your mateo to each one of the tribal leaders has to take their staff it's not just about the riddles but the matat and it's only as we know the staff of our own that is going to that is going to blossom that is going to not only blossom but also bear almonds but teaching us that there are certain positions in every generation that are going to be continued that we have to recognize the appointments of our torah authorities that are consistent in every generation that this is part of our missouri mosque we have leadership in our time and the question is are we properly respecting them and maybe this mageifa and i mean that this magefa of corona has come so bad as we know and in every community across the world we've been looking towards our rabbinic leaders not just our doctors but also our spiritual guiders the leaders who are supposed to tell us what to do is it time to go back to schule how should we do this and obviously we have to learn how to work together but at the same time to respect to show in every kihillah that we can pay a proper respect and listen to the rabbi name even though in every generation we also know we fetch so much really why you see the rabbi again not me and the story of korach reminds us if you don't understand torah authorities if you don't respect them properly then beware because there may in fact come a mageifa that's the tikkun not only for the generation of korach but for our generation as well and now we progress to at the third time that the magista appears and that's the sin and the plague of baal paor right after billam heza as we know blessed ami israel not only three times against his will but then of his own initiative recognizing the privacy of am israel recognizing as rashi says twice over that he sees not only how one person can't look into one another's tense but every shade is divided there are clear families there are clear tribal identities every family has its own identity what happens right afterwards that's when we find that all family values are going to go down the drain bill um together with balak he understands that that's the secret of jewish survival in particular and therefore as ghazal teach us he's the one behind this or whereina the women of moab and midian come and they seduce a promiscuous form of idolatry about or which also was all about not controlling one's bodily functions all about ghana completely debasing any sense of refinement and proper culture within the camp of the israel and therefore hashem tells moshe go go and call the leaders tell them to stop this and unfortunately no one stops this until pim husband he gets up with his fear and he is going to put an end not just to what the acts of zimri and cosby who are openly engaged in this idolatry in this promiscuous form of bodhisattva and gillue arayo together finally israel and if the previous mageefa and the first magefa of them killed that entire generation of people basically and anyone age 20 above and that's 600 000 males and then the second majifa killed fourteen thousand seven hundred this mage kills twenty four thousand twenty four thousand died and this up imagine what that means there are now it's 24 000 widows in israel at least there are 24 000 plus plus plus orphans within an israel and in addition to hashem responding with a brute shalom for the zealousness of that's not enough it's not enough that there was a mageifa now go to the source of it look at the debased culture of those that are surrounding you and fight against it and what's so interesting is that we'd expect now that mosher avenue heard okay now amass the people and go out to wage war against the midianites against those that started that basically debased the culture of administration we hear something's quite fascinating immediately the ensuing pasuk tells us there is a pause within the puzzle and then the rest of the line is motion actually and then we're not going to hear about the war until paraquamidale and take foreign against the median who started off this terrible mageefah caused by the cinnabal poor and then you will die and all the the parshanim asked this question why is there a separation why does that karasvaraju command moshe to fight against them and then there's a non-sequitur or basically a few non-sequiturs there is this entire commandment that help is held in abeyance until it's actually executed until it's fulfilled and that kuni explains well maybe it's in order to prepare moshe avenue for his death okay then why tell moshe at the beginning okay go ahead and fight against the midian and perhaps if we look at what hakadoshvara who commands moshe to do before and israel are going to fight against the medyanim maybe we can appreciate proper tuba and there is a mageifa that destroys families of amnesty we know of all too many families over the past few weeks and months that have been destroyed literally destroyed because of the mageifa because of the corona pandemic in which we find ourselves and orphans left without parents without grandparents and wives without their husbands and husbands without their wives and let's take a look and see who says do you realize what just happened not only did you completely undermine the culture of kadusa of israel you engaged in a riot that we know is the antithesis of kudosham to you that ami israel have been learned have taught and have been have been learning for the past 40 years in the midbar and now now that those families are destroyed now says you're going to have to solve this you're going to have to fight against the cultures around you but before you do rebuild your own culture or in other words rebuild your own families let's take a look what's the very first mitzvah that hakarsbrajo says before they go and fight against against the midyanima hashem says okay now it's time to once again count banay israel at rosh khalid venezuela conduct a census but this time as opposed to what we find at the beginning of safer bambara when they counted according to their beta they counted according to what big clans within every tribe this time hakadosh barack who says i want you to count before yesterday don't just count clans i want every single family counted i want you to fix those broken homes i want you to build families anew and i think that this message is obvious a message that if we didn't even see the word the magifa in the torah we would understand that that's exactly what's going on today this is a gay foreign says in your homes everyone in your homes everyone go back to your home no storm in a hotel no community serving everyone in your home and not even with your extended mishpacha with your immediate each one of us redefining ourselves as a family fighting against the culture of post-modernism which is all about the breakdown of family units fighting against and all different types of you know renewed identities you know with another family says go back go back into your diet go back and count the natural and if you're not convinced then what happens also as part of this chuba and you can process afterwards and now we find that the very next story is the story of bernout the notes are introduced as follows who are these pronouns going all the way back to yosef redefining their family identity and then we hear the shame of every single bat it's not just the sons but also the daughters you just heard about five sons now you're gonna hear about five daughters and what's their argument before moshe cherubina wait a second we have basically just experienced valpar and if we don't inherit the lands of our father it's not about us but lama garage that our father's family identity is going to be lost then there isn't anyone to continue his family line and that's why says this is the perfect time as i'll tell us that they knew that this was the right time the time to restore family identity make sure that the family name and legacy is going to be preserved certainly in eritrea israel and in case you're still not convinced right before amnesty i'll go and fight against the midyanim one last mitzvah moshe rabino tells me particularly the rasheed hamatot particularly the leaders he says okay when you make another which we have already learned is wonderful and even ballet toast would explain that's why on one hand we are very cautious with our nidarim and that's why as you know coming up very soon on rosh hashanah error of rosh hashanah we're all going to recite hatharat nadarim and then again anyone kipper call nidri we're all going to annul all our nudarim but the bali toast vote says actually the nadaran are not just the nadarum for the past that perhaps we committed ourselves you know to what's happening with somebody and we didn't fulfill it perhaps we committed ourselves to lighting shabbos candles even five minutes before our 18 minutes and no we didn't necessarily do that again all of these commitments that we made elite also says they're not just commitments of the past they're also commitments of the future because staff and when we hear the nether for example of course like any new year's resolutions we want to recommit ourselves to karushparahu and therefore we're told like we saw after the magetha of raglan it's okay recommit yourself make nidarim but be very careful because if a wife makes a neder that affects her husband or a daughter makes a netter that affects her father her father can in fact annul it but only if and the milam and had the repetitive word throughout this section is this this part party is all about fathers listen to your daughters husbands listen to your wives basically you want to solve a problem of a maggita that destroys the family go back into your homes and listen to each other i don't know about you and i definitely know that i've had more conversations especially with uh my 17 year old son the past few months and i probably had the past two years i've had more conversations with my children more time with my grandchildren than i can ever remember maybe that's what is teaching us maybe this is one of the messages of chuba this alone more than any other elo do chuva for a mageeva go back to your families listen to each other make sure that you abide and re-establish yourselves re-educate yourself based on jewish values and when you do that then you're going to be re-edified to be able to finally stand against your enemies and the culture of your enemies only after this to hear that it's time to roar at a median only when we're strong families are we then as we know going to be a strong nation that can withstand the cultures that attempt to infiltrate am israel and that's why this story then continues to the very end of sacramento once you're a strong an individual family then you can also be a strong tribe again then the tribe of menasha says wait a second we don't want the marrying out into another tribe and hashem says the people of menasha are also right you also then have to build us strong communities and once you're a strong tribe then you can be a strong nation but the basis is going to be to re-establish your by it it's already now aleph ello linearity israel and starting now literally now or i'll be honest in 10 minutes from now about four feet away or dalit from my daughter there's a marit minion and we're going to have this hot to begin to say as the missionary teaches us in ashkenazi communities to begin to say david hashem to begin to say and as we say him is more hassaian this little more than any other elo when we ask hashem hashem what do we ask for shift hashem i guarantee that many of us are going to be thinking of how much we miss our bigness how much we miss our schools how much we miss the routine of having a caboose on our base matters how much we miss our share when we can get together with our friends and learn torah together how much you miss coming to the cote linda how much you long for all the more of the besan mikdash and then the thief of shalom explains he says guess what when you say that you know what you should be thinking every single day of his life is that really what you want you really want to be in the basement or even in your baking set day in and day out night and day you know you're not allowed to eat in a big nest in a so what you're not going to eat you're not going to drink loads you're not going to talk to your friends and family which you should not be doing in a big nest definitely not in the basement rather says the nisbo shalom that really what we're asking for is that our by it here's our opportunity for the greatest shiva of this mageefa transform your by it into a baitation that in every aspect in your learning and your livelihood as you raise your children this is the time to work on our meetings how we speak to our children how we listen to our children when we say maybe now for the first time in years this miss moore every single day for the next 40 plus days through shminatsaris hashem can you come into my home because i can't really get out of my home so can you come into my home can that you help me make my home that strong home of kedusha can this be a home for sri natasham and i'd like to end them with that these three messages these three matches messages of chuba we're taught that different we for so many different ideas anil dodiva dodi li recognizing shohu rama's let's feel that of course we have to work on our tspila and this is each one of the words also ending with the yuda recognizing the gematria 40 days until yom kippur says the bach that obviously we should be working on artsvilla but so too we have to be working on ish we have to recognize the same acronym you know we should recognize that this is a time even though we're socially distant to go out of our ways with acts of khasid and stakka we're also taught that this is the time that hakadosh parahou is vasaday that we ask hashem to circumcise our hearts and what do you know another acronym for elo that this should be the time where mila to leave the circumcision of our heart says the baalha to ram and the shalla add mist this is the time to do chuba to reflect upon definitely the past few months since our time to reflect in particular for how what we can respect our godola more for how we can rebuild our homes more for how we can express a greater love and anticipation and excitement to return to eret israel hello is also rasheed vote even for those unintentional even if you're all saying shania this is so redundant we've heard these messages so many times perhaps we have but this is the time to review them once more that maybe we haven't even recognized how it hasn't been foremost in our consciousness and therefore i want to end with one last and please forgive me that i had to cut and paste directly out of the hiduche harim who says you know there is another beautiful acronym for khodish elol and this is what we recite and he says look at this it says what does that mean the lo an acne he says if you read it as the lo there's a creative either hashem created us and and we didn't or hashem created us and therefore we belong to him maybe the greatest message of this elol and the only way he says says if you combine the kri vlam and alef or the opposite then the acronym for elo hello is the time to realize that we're not the ones who create and we're not the ones who cure but rather it's a karospar home below but also below it's not in our hands but rather everything is in agarosh for our whose hands and where it's so marito this is more than any other shalom we recognize how vulnerable we are and we recognize that not only through incorporating juventus but if we learn the messages of mageefa and tanach and maybe if we just work a little bit harder anna firstly our avatar israel and we work and we work a little bit harder anna our respect for gadoli torah and we work just a little bit harder on reestablishing family values embezz i wish all of you of refuga and ashana that will be truly toba in every sense of the word where we be zohar this year for [Music] hashtag that is [Music] of this i think at a time we're all really struggling for context for direction but also helping to move us forward and give us some way that we can build ourselves build our families build our communities so that we can please god journey through this and really the shifty baves hashem that we can you in tutorial it's uh you know at some level we're getting your voice like we can connect like our voices or our presence is in israel in some virtual way but we really want to be there in uh in person uh and you know please leave heaven so hard that uh that we should all find ourselves on the other side of the brackets that hashem can and will shower upon us um i uh i want to thank those who have dedicated this sphere um so this year has been dedicated in honor of fran broder uh remembers hello birthday by her family in honor of mars zimmerman by fern emperor in memory of uh her parents murdered benito florence abraham feigenbaum by in memory of her parents mordechai ben yetzhak and florence boss abraham feigenbaum by elaine j of boynton beach florida thank you thank you for joining us everybody today and thank you shani again for your most inspiring messages thank you edema okay and thank you all thank you for jumping in i just want to make sure that this uh the video with some programming um has been acknowledged it's dedicated many of uh our beloved 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