High Holy Days - Episode 2: Ani - The Real Me - Rabbi Yirmiyahu Abramov

[Music] we spoke about the month of Elul let us look a little bit deeper into this LOL which we said is embodied in the worse Annie lado de ver dodi li let's have a look at this verse it's take it word by word Annie ledder d if I am to my great for lack of better word friend or the meaning to wash em then dodi li then a sham will be unto me as we said my relationship ship to with him will be reflected back to me from him to me the way I am to him so he will be to me now let's take this first word on me Annie means I but when we talk about a Jew we talk about an individual if there's a very special connotation to the word I need because Annie means the real me you see what is a human being him being he's got a buddy he's got a mind that he's got a soul the essence of the human being and the essence of a Jew is his commute his internal his spirituality his soul the soul is made up of very great spiritual concepts it's made up of a nefesh it's made up of a of a roof it's made up of a neshama these three great components of the soul this is the essence of man now when a sham created man and refers to us as a nefesh and knishmas elokim he gave in to the human being he so to speak says the PASOK via they are poor Shem after creating the physical Adam he then blew into his nostrils so to speak the neshamah what is this that he blew into man because this became the essence of man the body then came to life he blew in the neshamah the neshamah is the who we are that's the uh Neil and we learn from the zoo Kidman has I'll tell us that he blew in so to speak a part of him Salek in lockamy mal a part of a shame himself so to speak was blown into man so man's essence is comprised of a part of the neshamah his essence is comprised in the sense of something godliness he somehow connected to God it's a Haluk a locum emo we are connected to God through our souls an ongoing total connection we are connected with with a shell that is the essence of who we are when we talk about Annie it's the neshamah now it said so Kim neshama ahora we said in our prayers nuh factor BRP you blew into my into me a holy completely pure soul there was a part of a Shem so it's completely totally it's the essence and the epitome of holiness was blown into us that is man that Annie of man is this component in a shamma now this neshama is very pure and very holy it's an extension of a shame however we can corrupt the soul we can never destroy the soul all while there's life there soul we can never destroy the neshamah but the neshamah can become engulfed in undesirable elements which are called in Kabbalistic language clipart these are elements undesired when a person misbehaves himself when a person abuses his soul so this soul now becomes engulfed it becomes encircled enclosed by these negative elements when a person miss conduct himself a speech over thought or with action these are the three main functions of man his ideas his thoughts his actions and his speech this makes up the essence of man if he in any way corrupts that he is actually affecting and tarnishing his soul how does he factor in tarnish it the soul remains intact it's something godly at something part of man but the soul becomes engulfed by undesirable elements call these clip art so if we come before rush em and we're not the real me we not the real Annie he barely recognizes us that's not the sole I gave you I gave you a holy soul which is an extension of me says a sham that's not the soul that's not the real thing the real thing is the pure unadulterated soul is the soul in its ultimate manner as it was given to us that's the real thing when you've corrupted it and tarnished it and cover it up with all sorts of undesirable elements I sham barely recognize that and if we if this is the way we come to a sham we said you'll always reflect back you'll reflect back to us in a very limited minimal way our challenge in these days is the real me the me that's the real essential soul without all the negativity that I brought upon the soul if I can shake them off and get rid of them that's what the annie has to come the dirty our real essence has to come to a sham then we will feel the real connection with him he will responding guide back to us so this is what the ania's aniela dadi the real me the me the the untarnished the clean pure holy soul that was blown into me before birth this neshama torah shannas oughtta be that you gave in to me that's what's got to come to a Shem and that is the service that is the work that we have to do in these 40 days we have to be like a mikvah we have to cleanse the soul that by the time we arrived at Rosh Hashanah the day of judgment the real me will be there will arrive in the synagogue it's me and a shame will recognize ah that's the soul that's the pure soul that I blew into your nostrils that's coming forward to me now I will respond back to that soul because I'm connected to it [Music]