Elul Chabura - Part 5

you there we go welcome jenny okay what's going on okay hey everybody talia reyna lo rivka he's cone center square very strong appropriate lay of what he's doing with power shalom okay i guess we do this yeah might as well might as well we're here right you don't have to speak khalil you could just nod thumbs up is also good yeah i'm not saying god forbid you should anybody should any sound should come out for nothing but yeah we should go i have no idea if you're like watching something on your phone also and responding to that or watching something on a split screen i have no idea i do zoom also i sit in zoom meetings also nodding like this the whole time and i'm always doing five other things so i just assume that that's what's happening i don't think anything bad but i need to know i'm going to ask elisa okay jenny these up i'm not sure we've got a frozen screen yes okay this is part of the recording now this is going to be recorded forever and jonathan scalar is going to put this on the internet okay you ready we're up to par oh here i heard i heard some sound there was some sound there's some indication that someone's alive okay yeah okay let's do this shall we uh dallad we are talking about a harvest israel that's the name of the countries from as a means of preparing ourselves uh for rosh hashanah for young but also to kind of you know be connected to what's taking place over here during the month of el said that there's a couple different ways that uh hazal help us understand the l and the potential of l and those are represented by different roche tevos right by different acronyms we mentioned a couple already right we talked about um we'll remove the outer layer of our heart that's the inner working of of cultivating israel and having purity of heart that's what we're learning here uh anila dodie of adodi lee referring to the love between amiso and hashem and that love between amiso and hashem is um is incomplete and uh and not actualized if we're holding on to something inside let's imagine looking to a stick um bench the tape on like to tape onto a door you want to hang a sign on a door all right and um and the door is filled with dust and fill the dirt and whatever else particles and god knows whatever else it's splintering or it's rusty you take that tape and you try to stick on to it so instead of like creating the the the instead of sticking it to it instead of the two things being connected the tape gets stuck onto some splinters or some dirt on the outside some dust from the outside and the sign doesn't have any there's no strength there's no way for it to pop to stay on but to stay connected if the goal here is the veikos basham nia rizal says that all the goal of of keeping tarjak mitzvot is for is is to achieve the level of the davkaba of achieving us right total connectivity tasha that's the whole thing read matzah because it's a mitzvah matsura because of mitsuram and because of the hurry the rush out of egypt but it's also for the sake of being hashem we uh we keep shabbos because of you know the seventh day of creation etc rested but we also are keeping shabbos because we want to achieve dwecos we want to achieve connectivity and uh we keep kosher because whatever it is the mitzvah to keep kosher and because of all the different dietary laws but the goal of it all is dive kostashem i think arizona says that there are 613 mitzvahs or all are all eight so we're all different ways of advice in order to cultivate vacus to reach the level of to be kashur to be but if you put tape on a door that has dirt all over it so it's not going to stick it won't be that dracos maybe the sun will hang up for a moment but it won't it won't have a lasting kium there right it won't stick if we're looking to engage the ribonus torah mitzvos yiddish kite our lives in a heartful way like the like the navi says we want to have a heart that's faithful and connected then we have to purify our hearts from any negativity and hatred of other jews because that's like all that dust and dirt and filth and impurity that prevents the tape that prevents the dweckos from taking hold devec right device in hebrew means glue it won't stick you ever try to glue something on like to a surface that's not clean it doesn't go it doesn't stick ideas that we want are tfila we want our torah we want all of our acid we want all the mitzvos that we do and all that's duck that we give and all the kebab that we do and all these things to stick we want it to be part of a of a of a hole of a holistic integrated whole that um that ultimately draws us close to and keeps us connected to hashem and when there's something in the heart and there's that that dust or dirt on the door the doorway to the whole thing and it doesn't stick so that's what we're trying to do it the is of sina malibu to remove hatred from our hearts do you have the link anybody have i'm just curious i'm not taking a poll no judgment that this is a judgment-free zone ish as much as anything could be anybody have the sheet in front of anybody having fun i'm just curious i don't i if you don't it's fine i'm not i'm not getting paid extra if you yeah you have it good okay good i'm just curious some people specifically listen michelin perkiavos six parak six mishna talks about the different ways of acquiring torah you know that mishna you know this one hear this one for esther the 48 ways to wisdom torah of noah weinberg the founder and russian shiva of asia torah had a whole system based on these 48 ways on these 48 pathways the mission enlists them you can learn you know you can acquire torah through you know through sleep through friends through review through memorization um you know through happiness through pleasure through music all the different things that the that the missional lists there so north weinbridge that's all i had a whole system called 48 ways to wisdom members so there's different modalities of how people learn some people are more audio some people are more visual some people like to see things you know in pictures right now the jewish people are learning arabic it's chinese iriven is chinese you're saying it's chinese that's chinese i i it chinese like it's like pictures that represent lots of ideas it's chinese for me but there's thank god there's about 10 different books you can buy and stuff all over all over the internet that has like pictures of what these scenarios are to help you visualize space and the mishriyoth otherwise i'm reading the words it doesn't mean anything to me it doesn't mean anything to me like if or tells me you know on you know september 17th 18th does that work for you in the afternoon i have no idea what that means even she's like oh it's three weeks from this time i said i have no idea what that means is that before that after show it to me if i have it on a calendar i can see it visually i have a calendar i have google calendars but i also have one of these you can't see it on them on the screen here you can't see it on the screen can't see it on the screen uh i can't see it here i want to show you on the screen i'm being serious i'm being serious because you have to know that there's different types of learners there's different types of people in the world who learn things differently there we go now you see our cabinets in the background i have like three years worth of monthly calendars need to see things longitudinally i have everything like this i have booklets of these for years already for years because i can't it doesn't make sense to me unless i see it like visually i'm a very visual person that's why i make everybody nuts about having uh having the the papers in front of them the makoto's inside oh make it all right because otherwise i can't i can't pay attention i can't pay attention to something but i also respect if you don't need it or if it's easier or not because some people are more connected to schmiece how do i know because it says in the sixth paragraph of the the sixth mission and percavas the different people learn different things some people have better intuition with their hands some people are more intellectual some people more visual it's called modalities i learned at camp ask i never knew that word until my third summer in camp esque as the rabbi i also didn't know the difference between down syndrome and autism true story when i started working camp desk i had no idea i had no idea but that whatever we live and we learn and and and i was already married to over a lot of years she's a special ed teacher goes to show you what the whatever hap that anybody can get lucky with little seattle okay we are going to jump right into park dalit now that we've learned daf alif for a while in islam ishii surely tally's saying come on somebody say you can't translate it it's just like stop stop stop i think it's just just right just just all right stop just um that's just um means like regular right like just a regular just right it's just like the like the like the the the mishna the mishnais like um you know it's just a regular mission it doesn't say exactly who quotes it so then it's attributed to a specific author or if the name if the if the if the mishnah mentions means if it's just for behood it means israel that a regular yid just a year just a just just regular dude like we talked about we're compared to fish we never lose our kosher signs a jew is assumed to be akash hi does everybody know hoover everybody knows [Music] don't know whoever went surfing today that's what she did and surfboard anyways stamina believes in the sloshes three we are called part and parcel of god try to figure that out theologically you know that they're medieval philosophers medieval fallout oh everybody don't get nervous don't get nervous i'm not oh medieval philosophers discuss this whether or not the soul of a jew is eminent emanates from god or is an expression part and parcel of god in other words this has ramifications and repercussions of how we see ourselves and how we see others it seems to imply we said in the morning in davonin our god the soul that you gave us means you gave us a soul in other words a giver implies that there's separate entities i'm giving you something right it's a it's a pure soul what does it mean that god gave us a soul so that there's different understandings that mean that god gave of himself and that we are an expression of hashem so that we are part and parcel of god there's really no difference between us and the shalom did you command somebody to love god how can we be commanded to an emotion i feel what i feel you can't tell me how to feel all right how can we be commanded to love hashem so those who show them who say we that we are an expression of god that we are an extension of god or part and parcel of the revolutional means that like we we're we're connected so it's it's self-love meaning it's it's natural we're not loving another being we're not loving a cree a creator uh from afar from a distance but we're part of that we're part of that creator we're part of that but know that it's a discussion in the first paragraph discusses this discusses this the ramban discusses it and masters that drawing from the world of of premier satoru from kabbalah i have a field day with this that a jew is a felix literally that's the balatini rights literally baltani is not a shauna back just a uh pause for station identification we were just talking about this a little while ago casually in the kitchen uh over uh schnitzel making what is it that about rosh hashanah that were like why are we blowing chauffeur on rosh hashanah hey we're this is the we're we're in the we're in l this is the el preparing for you for us so here's our rosh hashanah okay i'm learning health show for because this year it's either uman or bust there's no option b i have my flight for um [Music] if the the forces of state orders and and they were prevented from joining the kibbutz and not able to go or for whatever reason not able to be there and there's an option there's no option b i'm in the ball okay i'm going to get in a order of kosher chauffeur i'm just going to wherever i am i'm doing it that's it finished no plan b no option b unless i get a cease and desist order from rabbi dr aaron glatt or the rcbc or whoever i don't know i'm staying here i'll be in my backyard i'll be blowing chauffeur for whoever wants to hear full send unless over tells me otherwise or i should say until over tells me otherwise that's right if the fire's laughing until or tells me otherwise i will be sticking to my guns because i am in charge anyways the the the whole idea of long show firms hashana what's the story why do we blow chauffeur let's open up the quick on on mute for a second let's do this let's i want to hear what you what we have to say it'll be better if everybody shares it like gives an answer and then i'll i'll one up but at the end come on let's do this play into it sorry you want to share something no no okay i could share that one okay okay that's a nice idea i hear that good also very nice thought i hear that that's traditional that's definitely that's definitely reflected oh here comes rift so wake us up wake up all right wake up from our slumber excellent beautiful because i'll say that that's true the sages say wake up from our slumber so why not a bassoon or a tuba or trombone or why not a a horn from another animal on ibex oh lisa says because of akira to awaken the merit of that great sacrifice of that incredible ammuna of that amazing uh yerusha that we have from there of our ability to sacrifice for hashem and and sacrifice for our beliefs and to give that which is most precious of that we have in the world in the service of hashem if that's what it takes to awaken which we lane on uh on rosh hashanah to remember that incredible beautiful so we go for to awaken ourselves to chuva and to awaken now the chauffeur is used in lots of different uh lots of different times right in torah there's a there's a chauffeur the uh let's go the measure says that in in creation there was a sound of the chauffeur um the sound of the heralding of meshiach from the fixing of the world is going to be through the chauffeur blast um at har sinai was the sound of the chamfer that was that that was that was blasted chauffeur rallies us to war right we have the kona and everybody gets together we will show everyone everybody goes out to war show forever karatems the chauffeur sets the land free and the jubilee chauffeur is used at like a lot of different occasions right it's like a it's a very powerful symbol of the very powerful expression was the most simple and basic instrument reminding us of that ram from akira the balatanya writes the the the alternative rights the words of the zohar explains that from based on the words of the tsar that when a jew blows chauffeur where what we're doing on the day of the day of creation rosh hashanah we ourselves are emulating that original creation when god created mankind torah tells us god gathered together some material some physical material some dirt right from the earth like we come from the earth into the earth will return gathers together some of this dust from the earth brings it together the above and god blew into our nostrils into the breath of life the soul of life so that the soul of mankind is the breath of god okay so and to us the breath of life from that moment on we are an extension of god but we are also an expression of god that called this every breath is nishamah is the soul and the soul is right the soul is the express expression of god within us right that we are alive means that hashem is breathing through us living through us in the world says the tsar man god take a deep breath and then exhale we exhale from deep within god so to speak exhaled from inside of himself imbuing us with his quality of aim self from inside of hashem the breath came out into mankind so in a certain sense on rosh hashanah the creation of the world took an inanimate object a pile of material an inanimate object and blew into it with the breath of life and that was the creation of man and that is what we're doing in takiyah chauffeur we're picking up a shofar we're replicating the act that did in creating us we're expressing that we're exhaling into the chauffeur not instruments we're blowing into it a breath of life that god imbued us with back into the world it's like this incredible cycle the breath that god blew into us we're blowing into the chauffeur and putting that sound out into the world to be hashem with our essence with our kishkis what are we exhaling our esses our soul our breath nishima from the language of nishaman and what is that in shama khalek literally literally an expression of god it's divine breath we're being hashem by saying we are you we are you every life's breath that we have is an expression of your confidence in us your faith in us and on rosh hashanah we're blowing into the chauffeur to carnate you as the king to remind ourselves to wake ourselves up and to awaken our our place in history that we have you know and we have torah et cetera et cetera et cetera and here we are right now on our way towards and we're participating in the process of creation and extending the narrative of creation at this moment that's what we do it's kia chauffeur ammo so that's what we're doing and belong chauffeur any questions on anything to clarify just i missed one year in the last like nine years that was when nachman and esther leia came into the world that night and i was there actually i was there for a little bit came on the way to the on the way to the hospital we stopped off gave the rav over his name no he had it already and said we go to the hospital and he goes like this all night literally until chakras until nights and the last 20 minutes half hour 40 minutes hour is this yes yes over and over and over i have the escrima hashem that the entire working of el and disre reading is leading up to this to recognize that all of this is an expression of hashem's love the opportunity to renew our relationship the opportunity to fix to realign to to pick ourselves up and and start again shuva all of that rosh hashanah says all of it is all to reach this this understanding this awareness this this knowledge and belief of the s over and over and over again is reminding us that everything that's taking place in our lives is in the context of our loving relationship location we're called hashem's children and there's an unconditional love but our babes hashemis if so this is the case if this is the starting point that everything here is about a loving relationship excuse me if all this is true that the breath of god and bonne martem and unconditional love and we're chip off of a divine black and cut from divine cloth and all these things keep saying it over and over and over again so how can so what do you think it does what type of reaction do you think hashem has when we have hatred in our hearts for another ju who's so beloved by the revolution right the the vasanthov says that the royal path to abu sashem is israel i mean i love you thank you hashem thank you all that business but if we if we have something in our heart against another it's right the real way to get the abus hashem and [Music] there to be a horizontal connectivity to awaken a vertical recognition it was like everything has to happen between people those things like we mixed milk and meat or those things like you know we broke shabbos or you know we had different hirohu veyra and you look at things which are inappropriate or whatever it may be those things are fixed and you'll kipper with chuba we have a system those things get straightened out but when the stuff between friends between family members so that your kipper doesn't solve that we have to work on and and clarify on our own imagine if there's such a strong love that hashem has for the jewish people so to speak is through us not just with us but acting through us and we have a fight or a hatred of another jew that's a rebellion against god it's a rebellion against three bonus shalom where do we see this in torah an episode in photo anybody want to take a stab at it says so where in navi where we are in tanas we're in toronto do we have such a thing that we see that that um hurting in jeju is like hurting god fighting against the yid is like fighting against hashem anybody no like trivia music or something in the background okay that's a good that's a good thought i hear that that's i haven't thought of that one very well might be i'm not sure i have to look that one up i don't remember but another possibility could be uh when about moshe bainu or he gets he grows up and he comes out of para's house um and uh he goes out to the jewish people he goes out to his brethren he identifies as a jew identifies with these jewish people with these slaves and um and apostolic says that uh that he identified with their suffering what did he notice that there was a ish misery there's an egyptian man there's an egyptian taskmaster russia hitting a jew and hitting one of his jewish brothers hitting a a jew one of his own emotions jewish brothers and what does moshe are going to do he looks this way he looked into the future and saw that there was no good going to come from this russia other bali muslims say he looked at himself and he saw himself in the mirror do i belong in the house of paro am i a jew i have a jewish mother but i have a egyptian milieu i'm an egyptian prince dressed in the royal garb of the of the egyptian monarchy or the egyptian paro on the other hand i know that he looked this way he looked that way he felt that he was pulled in different directions saw that i'm not a man i'm not a person i don't know where i belong and he got up a yacht he struck down the egyptian within himself and buried him that's a nice muslim take on what happened he got up and saw an egyptian hitting a jew he got up and he took care of him killed him and buried him in the sand what happens after that the story in the beginning of schmos moshe gets into trouble he has to run away because he overhears two people he tries to get involved again and they said oh are you going to kill us though he killed the uh egyptian taskmaster and then moshe has to run away to midian all right everybody familiar got the details down in the story remember okay here's the question though if moshe are being the prince of egypt literally if he's the prince of egypt and egypt was a it was a tyranny it wasn't not democracy even in democracies cops get away with murder even in democracies you have you know uh you have people who have information on on politicians and wealthy people you know whatever dying under mysterious uh circumstances not everything is so fair not everything is so clean and so positive so monsieur banu zemosha was the prince of egypt he was raised in paro's house he had all the privilege of egyptian royalty she killed somebody what happened what's the big deal there's no such thing as like uh there's police brutality there's no such thing as a as in wanting to kill somebody pyro was taking jewish children and throwing them in the nile river he was damning off the nile creating irrigation systems with jewish babies whose measure says that he would bathe in the blood of jewish infant jewish infants because it was because he had skin ailments he thought that that it would help his skin all of a sudden we're like it's such an ethical society where where moshe could have said i don't like the way the guy looked at me he said something about paro he insulted my mother i don't know he stepped on my toe he cut me off he killed what's the big deal he killed this guy you don't think this type of thing's happened all the time in in a brutish egyptian murderous society why is it that master albania has to moshe has to run away to mid young as a refugee he could it was the prince of egypt i could have said i don't like this guy i don't like the way he looked at me you already hear the question i heard an answer from yochanon's wife from miami from yeshiva in miami he said he couldn't really that it wasn't because he killed this egyptian that's not the issue people are getting killed all the time it was a violent society the violent society but it was the first time that this theological statement of moshe now identifying as a jew by saying if you hurt one jew you hurt all of us if you raise your hand against a yid then you're raising your hand against the entirety of the jewish family consider up until now para was the first one to call us an um we're in a nation we were kids abram had kids and then hitchcock had some kids and yaakov had some kids with helia and they had 70 people came down to mitsurai i mean i don't know it's not so far-fetched i don't know what kind of family structures you guys have but i don't know that's not so far fetched my in-laws had a made a a little getaway for the family i had a big family get together oh there's like 70 aura yeah how many oh of you and your brothers of us and and your brothers how many people there's a little thing how many kids they're all together how many grandkids uh my parents have 36 on my side 36 plus all of us that's 44 and then how many and then i'll be grandchild great grandchildren three four you're talking about 50 people talking about 50 people all together that's all just owner's family or his parents grandchildren how many we're talking like over 50 people easy over 50 people just in the immediate family or his parents my my in-laws the marxist or her four brothers the spouse's kids and grandkids they told me 50 people that's what it looked like imagine yaakov came down to mitzrayim it says there's 70 nephesh and precious value not crazy you know imagine that you know god willing another 10 years or so you'll be some more kids and grandkids it's not nuts we weren't we weren't a nation we were they're trying 12 tribes and they had some kids and and some and then we were in egypt and then says that we multiplied and there's more and more and more and then para identified so hold on a second something happened here that's just a loosely connected group of tribes living in goshen in like a bungalow colony in goshen this is a nation an um and then moshe actualizes that meaning before that moshe says i'm a jew i'm i'm a you're and you're striking a year so if you're striking him then it's also affecting me because we're brothers and if we're brothers that means that there's a father who's a rebel shalom it's like he said if a brother is a brother then the father is a father if the brother is not a brother then how could you say that there's a father a taking care of one another is the greatest expression that there is a father that there's a bonus shalom it's a master of the world that there's a god who is our father so what explains what moshe did was he made a statement for the first time if you mess with with one of us you mess with all of us and if you attack him you attack me and even more importantly it's like you're attacking our father the rebona shalom it's like you're raising your hand against god harming another jew is a rebellion against god that's what much for being said and then paro said okay here's a theological this is theological hold on now this is a war right now this is a threat against my rule this is a threat against my belief system you're trying to undermine the whole thing and most robin will have to run away not because he killed somebody and murder was not a problem there or there is infanticide there's a holocaust going on of infants paro wasn't so worried about the you know some package some cop on the street getting killed but most shifted the whole narrative right now how can we hate another person we can do something against another yid who's so beloved to the reborn of shalom here we are we're doing all these mitzvahs and all these tests they don't snuck us that we can break and bring after their bones the most simple and fundamental way to bring it to a parent is by taking care of their kids now you take care of somebody's children parents are very thankful to you you don't do right by some of these kids parents will never forgive us whoa whoa and a real bone to pick with us if god forbid we're not doing right by his children it's natural for a parent to love their child with a strong love parents work very hard they should be able to give provide for our children for somebody who's you know bullying our kid a teacher who's being nastied our kid uh i'm gonna hell at this that's singling out our daughter hello yeah there's a substitute teacher who once made a comment one of our kids was so nasty whatever i feel bad about it but i ended her ended her done i told her i i said i oh i i asked her give me a resume i'll help you find a job working somewhere where you're not going to to hurt jewish children it's like whatever jacob joseph herman said once uh what are we starting with a substitute teacher we went after he gave it like a five-minute muscle schools a fourth grader about a skirt like bianca because everyone said to a rebbe who was being tough on kids said if you want if you want to slaughter then go be a showtime if you want to teach torah then you come to a classroom your name excuse me commissioners anybody who has hatred on their friend again if it's not put together here in a horizontal way between us then it's not going to be good between us and hashem vertically either was rebelling against god who was looking to pick a fight with the bombshell bullying one of hashem's children in order to like start to fight with evolution it would be crazy my if it's hard to handle like an aggravation and a fight a bone to pick you know an issue with with a with a person in the world kosher kentucky so we're trying to clear out this from our hearts that our hearts can be totally totally connected with your show for this year the breath will come from inside in a way that uh that is totally pure and clean and filled with positivity and opposite style for others that way we'll be able to pave that path to have hashem as well okay it's lael shishi it's uh you know turned thursday night into eric shoppers now i don't know how we're gonna do this tomorrow news tomorrow shop shabbos what do you say we're doing this tomorrow before this problem sunday i think sunday is the day that we'll that we'll see each other again that's what i'm thinking well no that's not because of you i'm getting ready for rosh hashanah i'm getting ready for uma so on sunday we'll see each other at the same bad time same bat channel um same bad times we'll start again on sunday at uh at the same time yeah okay thank you guys for making time for this it's very beautiful this is helping me get into that into the head space of of uh of the override i have to tell you it's helping me get what helped me get into the what i did here it's helped me get into the into the into the zone and uh appreciate that we do this i appreciate that we do there's any questions on what we did today anything about mandan or no everybody understood the tsar and that's it's like 20 pages in total or in the volatility but it's cool i guess we all know i guess it's cool it was a really nice one thank you for sharing okay thank we'll you off a little ass trivia leave off a little ass trivia everybody knows who this is behind me larry larry larry larry legend that's a fact and that's a fact and that's a fact okay you should see the face of god revealed in in all the nations of the world uh and hashem shall help us with a beautiful leftiga era shabbos kodesh thank you guys very much we'll see you on there yeah good job okay we'll see you on sunday everybody chase good job