Elul: Starting Anew - Rebbetzin Avigial Gersht

[Music] last class we spoke about which month ello right ello okay what do we know about the month of ello without looking at your nose what did we say about ll ll is an acronym for I Neela Josie video Dooley which means I am to my beloved my beloved to me there are no holidays in l.o but I was an entire month of preparation for what all the High Holidays right God put into the system an entire month of preparation for the high holiday we said the astrological sign for the month of ello is a vassula as a virgin why why would that be the month where we're confessing our sins to sound very Christian right where we are basically just doing spending the entire time doing chula and say I'm sorry for this and I'm sorry for then it wanna be better why is this the month to be a virgin right and who members what we said the color of pink is we said there's a halacha where a men and women cannot be together after a woman cheats remember speaking about this whoever was here yes okay right so there's a halacha MacArthur for woman cheats on her husband there is author for them to be together afterwards and what were we saying in regards to ll this being the sign for the month of ll remember Sofia yes exactly right where we're even though that is the halacha in general during elbow time in every year and today God willing we're going to speak about Rose Cottage will see the same thing for a low debt which is every year we have that ability to go back to that newness to that freshness that doesn't matter what you did that last week last year or or yesterday you have the ability to be a new person it's the story of this king he has little circle of friends right and and one day he has these three friends and something you some wild stock comes over then and they they're disgusting you know you know God need of the guys I the king he you have so much money he has so much stuff maybe I always just still a little bit from him and they're disgusting headed to it shall we get here so much woman and it could devise a plan and they and they still some of his gold someone finds my aunt about it and he tells the king you know your friend stole from you and you know if someone's feel from the kinkiest have a whole you know public court case and and the whole town thumbs and it couldn't ignore it so he's but he really really loves these friends so he sent a letter to each of his friend saying I know what you did I forgive you and I love you when you have the court case just throw the stuff out just throw it out I don't want to see I don't want you to be imprisoned ok I forgive you and he said it's all three friends the day of the court court case arrived and once gathered what can happen the canyon is closest friends and they go to the first guy and the empty his pockets they search out his house we can't find anything and they go to the second guy and they searched his pockets and did you steal I don't talking about and they go to the task dan find anything and they go to the third guy and the search his pockets means like gold overflown they go to his house and and all the money's there and the king said what are you doing and he said well I I know I know you sent use a lot I didn't want to live you and I really did steal so how can I hide it from you and the king said you fool right and you embarrassed me in front of everyone i know that you stole I know what you did I'm telling you that I forgive you i'm telling you that i had passed it right and he said then you look straight to prison that's not a time too often show me all the gold showing all the silver and we tend to feel like it's not a really neat i cant pretend like all the sudden I'm this little angel all Sun and starting a new but could have Sparrow who is telling us every single L everywhere Shoshanna every Yom Kippur I know what you did throw it in the river we literally go you've heard of Tasha look before like Tasha flames whoosh low right to send we literally throw you know it's very cute i want its accustomed to go to the river whether it's fish or a stream of water and you just throw Brett you through a bread a nice day of prayer and we're literally saying then emptying out everything that's not amusing but I have the ability to start again to start new again we gave the story last class and then we'll start with questions because I'm just rambling on and as the court case also of the guy with the lawyer who's asking all the silly questions that has watched you remember that's not the question that has lost the finally says like well the person who you're accusing my you know my client the person who you're choosing that he killed you know he's going to walk through the door two o'clock and they're waiting and waiting and then he she obviously didn't show up and he says well at all the jury was looking right all the jury was looking at the door it's not beyond a reasonable doubt and and you know my clients free to go and someone stood up and said well everyone was looking there I was looking at your client he don't look at the door right and if we don't believe that I have the ability to change if you know you can read every good book in here every good year in the world I don't believe it then it's not going to work and we standing with this I'll finish signing up ello pazza can you say yahoo right one of the writings it says God's going to show something to bicker over and something to liver hokum something to those who are close and something to those who are far and Rashi asks who are the croven but quiroz means to bring clothes right for the korova mentor the ricoh command what did we say who are they [Music] yeah yes exactly effexor set to crow them those who are close are the ones who grew up not religious and they have slowly become religious and they were hoping those who are far the people who grew up religious right does it mean if you grew up religious you don't have the ability to become close but his point what Rafi is getting at is that oftentimes if we grow up religious then we speak so we basically stay stagnant that way we don't move from it why cuz they grew up this way and it's only I do shabbos already and I do Koecher already and I'm used to this stuff right but if you grow up a secular and you make death to come closer you are a Kuro and that's what ll is really about it's really a time to just develop and deepen our relationship with Hashem and we went around and I said I asked what does that mean for everyone and people two different things because just like every marriage is unique right every marriage is unique you ask you know a table full of people should a couple go to bed angry with each other right and how people will say never right after the golden rule as well say it though you know you should convey Therese cuz sometimes like two o'clock in the morning and you're just arguing like you're both exhausted sleep on it you'll probably feel better and forget about what you're arguing then the morning yes maybe no it depends on the relationship so the same thing with God it's a relationship the amount is about developing the relationship whatever works for you do that for yourself with the sigma l forever but we have to go on and any comments or thoughts about ello what we discussed [Music] you