Rabbi Shachter: Hoshana Rabbah 2020 Marathon

and uh you know the story that uh someone says why is such as man well he figured out why in his house everyone is screaming yelling at each other he goes i wish i had a normal house where everyone stop complaining and to be some respect then it comes out to the supremes on the porch with 15 others so because he hears the same screaming everywhere else he goes ah so everyone's like this so that's why that's why sukkah says man that's a shot i once heard you know i was once in a bungalow colony there was a very very thin wall between the bungalows and i remember once my wife asked me to hang up a picture so i banged in a nail and my neighbor came knocking he said i have no problem with it but you mind if i hang my hat on the other side of it that's that's what he said another story of the lady that's looking down through the window and she says mrs so-and-so can i please have some of that cheesecake the lady looks up and says that's a lot of nerve that's a lot of nerve for you to look down and see what i'm what i'm baking and anyway you cannot have cheesecake you're not allowed why not because you are fly shake okay so you know the story the person that said it says to his wife i think we need a thicker wall his wife says why i think our neighbor is listening in all of a sudden they're here it's not a problem you don't need a thicker wall don't worry about it that's what they hear from uh from the other side so in a way think about this for a moment what is the sukkah so we look up we see this you have to see the stars we're closer to hashem hashem hears us it doesn't make a difference whether we're on top of a skyscraper or we're all the way down you know at the bottom of a landmine that doesn't make a difference of a coal mine which i'm hoping at the bottom of a landmine but hashem hears us the difference about sukkah is here we have to feel more that hashem hears us he knows how we feel and no one has it easy during these days you know it says be happy with your yomtif your yamchav means who you are who you are just just take all your problems take your challenges the challenges that cloud yourself is facing together do me a favor let hashem do the driving fast says don't sit in hashem's seat as the says hashem says now the snake now to sit in your father's seat don't sit in my seat just relax relax get out there and do what you can make somebody else happy try smile to someone else tell them listen let's stop worrying there's nothing we can do about it we'll act responsibly we'll do the right thing just sit back and draw draw on the simcha of the moment because the abarbanel says if you have simcha now the sim could last throughout the entire year i remember when i first got married one of my rebellions said to me you're going to get a credit card bill and you want to know about selling buyers the credit card bill comes in two parts there's the top part and the bottom part the top part says how much you owe the bottom part lists all the expenses he says you give your wife the bottom part you take the top part that's why it's made with a perforated line and that's why you're going to have shaman bias and that's our relationship with the college barclay also you know what the umptive means here's the top part here's the bottom part nobody shall i love my life is in your hands it's in your hands you gave me a mister to be happy help me to be happy [Music] besides when it's time for a person to live this world and it gives life that is rosh hashanah yom kippur matsumiyaki yeshua sprouts forward salvation sprouts forward that's a shady rabbit that's the shiny rabbit we're holding the arabics he was the stalin arab wristers missed his life gave away his life he was in there so i went back to europe to be with his question right before the war and he once told two hasidim that were schmoozing shot around the night he says and probably is very important what you're talking about you should have done a khalid right not tonight the night of hashani rabbi is special what makes it so special i'm going to read to you a very short story from the book our man in jerusalem which i think is a wonderful wonderful um maybe maybe this is a good time of the year to read it but he talks about the geffner family of nehesharam they were blessed with 18 children and they lived very comfortably in a two-room apartment eighteen children lived very comfortably in a two-room apartment it's all in the mind it's all in the heart when the head of the family passed away the levia left from the home of one of his sons who lived in kiryat sans and the levaya was completely unique you see raven mendel gaffner known as the greatest baldfield in nayashari had written in his will that if he passed away on a friday he has a special request for his family in general when a body is carrying i'm sorry in general when a body is carried out of the shul for the final time the sun stop every few feet and they say goddess sir [Music] he said like this that if his levia for whatever reason would be on a friday for whatever reasoning that god declared it that way because he's supposed to be the battlefield i guess uh lel shabbat is up there in shamayim then he i want you to sing shabbos miros instead of cabbage every time stop sing shabbos mirrors and these are real your xiaomi's then they have no problem with it you know they haven't so the entire and he was an after an air of shabbos and the entire funeral possession stopped much the same as a regular levia instead of kaddish it was a little further stopped right you know the shabbos a little further they stopped me all the way up until the body was put into the covered conditioner's van and they sung all this mirror so when the final note faded and his body was taken to his cavern harassing in the book he wrote on the six-day war general uzi narcisse quoted a line attributed to king hussein of jordan when they really upsetted him that he lost you know his part the jordanian side of your shalayam so one point he said what can i do against geffner and the power of his son because as uh his body was being taken and they were seeing this mirras i guess they reported them you know the jordanian legions were looking down and watching this and somehow he had a feeling that i can't penetrate that song you know what a shiny rob is i don't know where you're going to be doing your hashanas where you're going to be dancing could be around your own dining room table doesn't make a difference but in that song we have the power to create fortifications that are going to protect us throughout the entire year forget the world forget politics forget elections forget what's going to happen it's not in our hands hashem is the one that's driving the world our job in the next three days the zora kodesh says is from the most powerful days in the world shauna rabbish media we can do it in our own design and our own challenge our job is to create the song make someone else happy that someone else could be your wife your husband your son your daughter your sugar whoever is around you hashem takes care of the itinerary and he arranges the appointments and the time will come as hashemis yeshua on a personal level on a level for claudia's soil look around and think think spend some time dance around the table think who needs a shadow think who needs a yeshua who has a kid out there on the street diving for them sing a for them because the king of all kings one day will say was your power of song that did it job