Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz - The Shofar "Inarticulate words of the heart"

[Music] Thank You everybody again because I'm not gonna be here next week I thought I would talk a little bit about grocery Shona today even though it's not directly in the parsha of the week that is all of us know that there was a mitzvah minute hora to sound the shofar on the day of Rosh Hashanah but for shunning the Torah see one day holiday but because of kalindra chol doubts we keep it for two days even in Eretz Israel and that is unique by the way it wasn't so obvious that pressure Shona had to be two days in there to Sarah if you go back to the bow on the war a very very great region kind of a maverick reached on very independence region who lived in the in the 1200s he actually claims that the original min of avarage Israel was to keep after the court was going to keep one day of Rosh Hashanah and the two days was introduced by the by way of tells us by the French it's all them who brought that I asked for a min argue in to Eretz Israel and in fact he claims that only one day should be observed in the Land of Israel before there were many belly ptosis who came to actually listen the Rambam strongly strongly strongly argues with the Baltimore and even there's a little bit of an impervious a personal attack by saying you know his father was also independent to tried to change men hug him and you know that's not that it's not the right way to go but be this at night the kiosk show forties of course a midst with the arrives at least on the first day of Rosh Hashanah but there's a very interesting man locus between the Vilna Gaon and the IRA so what should be your dominant mood during the show for the iris all rights the chauffeur is perceived as a call as an alarm that God is about to judge you who will live and who will die it is therefore the concept as the Rambam himself says to awake the slumbering person who is sleeping it was not thinking about life to be my or air children and thus the I resell rights that the moment of takea shofar is hi rod cockeyed fear Europe and that is the the emotion the Vilna gum says exactly the opposite the moments of takea shofar is a glorious moment because it is the call of Carmen nation he looks at it not as the summons to judgments but on Rosh Hashanah which is the day of creation the anniversary of the creation of man we coronate that in fact one of the names of Rosh Hashanah and sifrit recetas is Yong hak sada the day of chlorination or Yong hak Tessa tells me is the day of enthronement and and and the like and therefore the girl McGann says the key on shofar is a time of great joy and jubilation as we proclaim God as the eternal king Rev Sullivan chick as an interesting dichotomy that he wants to draw he wants to say perhaps they're both right he will be able derailer Kim I am because we do blow the shofar in two major groups we blow the chauffeur before Moosa and we blow the chauffeur during myself after we complete in different sections of mafiosos God's kingship said Chronos God's remembrance and show for us and the various verses of chauffeur so our so basic wants to say the chauffeur before Moses is one of package and car Lada but during moseph when we're combining it with that prayers that is the element of Coronation and therefore the dominant emotion should be one of simple oh yes yeah I'm just trying to assess how are you how are you how are you identifying coke and mich but are you correlating into sadness and joy and in fact the truth the matter is if you look at tomorrow before takea shop for there are a number of sukham that we were said besides that the hilum that we say 7 times there are men our main service it's it spells out chorus autonomy about the subject so if you look at the sukkah you have this you have min ha mates are karate cough from the deep despairing places I call out to God an on the America answer me with expanse that certainly fits the high rather moot if I'm shaking I'm quaking I mean I made sir I'm desperate and yet the prospect of the first prospect spells the soft on sin where the shin is their sin sus Anokhi Alomar sucker I rejoice over your words Kym boats a shallow rough like somebody who found a great treasure so if you look at the circuit you can see the mood switching in those verses itself which indicates that's the area and the gras are both corrected or need my house comma and that each one is referring to a different aspect of chauffeur and in fact the Rambam himself much earlier it's interesting that you know as you know the Rambam himself who lived most of his life in Catholic Spain but at the end of his life towards the end of his life he was exiled from Spain because he was too successful in a public dispute ation with an apostate true about their Christianity and Judaism so the good news was he won the debate news was he discredited the church and was punished with exile and as a result the romvong did spend the last years of his life in Eretz Israel and we have a letter is it quite amazing he basically says that um I am was virtually empty of Jews there were few them not even a minion of Jews in your shall I am and in truth the only sizable Jewish settlement when the Rambam came to Eretz Israel was in a coup where from the time of the Crusades there was a 300 by Latos foes who came from France and Germany and settled in Akko the Rambam himself at Renault did start a bank Knesset in Yerushalayim and that is not the one in Katamon because it's run by which is a reason that also growth basically from bang but I'm wondering if that's from 1940 I'm not sure but but the one in the old city although it's not the same building mr. run bad but it is the in terms of the site it is the oldest continuous I believe beit knesset somebody came to she was just two Jews there yeah yeah he basically we have to get a minyan from her grown in the same for Torah and the Ramayana is a famous statement colin mchugh - yo ter show men the holier the place the more desolate and empty it was and yet the Rambam wrote his famous commentary on hamas in mainly in Eretz Israel and in fact the Ron bond was even an amateur archaeologist because there's a mark locust Rashi in toast vows what is the silver weight of the half shekel and both Rashi and ptosis who had never seen a half shekel claim had to figure it out from Talmudic texts what the weight was my focus rocky and ptosis but when the RAM bond came to Eretz Israel the Rambam purchased some half shekel coins from Arabs and he waived them very carefully and even factoring in the fact that some of the silver gets worn away he was able to establish empirically that Rashi was correct in terms of the silver weight of a half shekel so the Ramban was willing to go beyond the of technical texts and to actually look at the facts on the on the ground he writes this as an appendix to his parish a letter about the way to half shekel as he determined that Rashi Hakodesh whatever it is Rashmi grazie got it right even though Russia had never seen a half shekel a shekel coin so they're on body rights so one of the things we have from the Rambam though is very fascinating we have a sermon aid Russia that the Rambam gave on Rosh Hashanah inoculant Lee for the sake he went were there were more Jews and he actually gave in Russia and this is a famous treasure of the Rambam now in Russia Shannon now that's correct that's correct it's in the chassis remember I'm the treasurer mr. Sean it's a very important topic source this is ad Russia that is very complete he deals with history deals with Hawara he deals with philosophy deals with Kabbalah he deals with biblical interpretation of very very complete encyclopedia treasure so there are two volume a two volume set in Hebrew that is called kids theorem bang the writings of their own bansuri in volume one I believe is you'll see something called they dress really Rosh Hashanah now that's been translated in English as well so if you google a Rambin sermon or discourse on Rosh Hashanah you will get something or at least a place where - either they'll give you the dresser or they'll tell you where you could get it and and like now it's interesting as a former synagogue rabbi you know I'm naturally interested in figuring out how long did the Rambam take to give this traffic you know one of the things that rabbis always face as they talk too long whatever it is so based if this was a transcript of an oral dressing of the Rambam broke down later it would have taken at least two and a half hours to say it is a very long dress it's like 100 hundred page Russia so would you have to go well without that well that didn't help me and so either either the idea was that the Rambam revised and extended his written remarks or when the Rambam is giving you a dress you can listen you know it's not like but apparently apparently people have more patience so then then people who have have today today after 20 minutes or so yeah but this was a good two and a half dressed right now I'm bringing this in because they're on bond makes a very beautiful point which is really he develops it cab ballistically but it's a very beautiful point he says the different sounds of the chauffeur we have the takea sound which is long and straight and then we have the broken sounds either the schwa or the true upper but the common denominator I'll get into the differences of those later but the common denominator is they are broken cells so the Rambam says that the broken cells represent the pakka the fear of Madonna in that we're being judged but the takea represents the joy of connecting to God it's a strong strength unbroken sound so therefore the Romberg says the truer is made on satin and the takea is the means of rahman coming from the simcha of the heart and in Crusaders they make a very big point that the true of the broken sound has to be bracketed with a dakea before and after to indicate that your dominant emotion always has to be simcha even though there will be an element of breaking the heart in the middle so this idea of the two themes is already much earlier than the Irene the grunts already foreshadowed in how the RAM bond understands the takea and the true up there which includes when I say truly I mean the Shoreham as well see and the truest sounds which he should be rats Aleph and and the like and the takea is simple like so you see that brush Shoshana in many ways is a schizophrenic colony I don't mean that god forbid in a negative way because on one hand there is this idea of cockeyed which you cannot deny them the idea of the joyous acceptance of God as the as the as the king if you remember in the book of Nehemia which describes the shivaji own the jews only some of the Jews returning to Eretz Israel after the 70 years of the Babylonian exile only around 440 thousand people came back and it's estimated although we're not given a particular reference to what percentage of the population but most seem to assume this was only around 10% there were four million Jews only around 10% of them returned I'm sorry I'm sorry if there was a forty thousand yeah I'm sorry this would only be one percent that's only one percent so they say okay after three this okay so it's a very very small percentage nevertheless that first Russia Shannon when they got back to average as well it describes that people were sobbing people were weeping people were crying because they thought that God rejected them because after all they did come back to Eretz Israel but the land was so desolate it was so empty they didn't have independence they were under Persian rule they wanted to build a base and Mick Dodge but if you remember it was stopped in the middle so they really were devastated they thought on one hand and one hand they were given the chance to return but on the other hand God is not showing them all of the signs of redemption so they were crying and sobbing and both Ezra and Kamiya who were the two great spiritual leaders in the semia was more the political leader and Ezra was the spiritual leader as was much older they went around telling the people do not cry not worn this day is holy for God the joy you have in serving God advantage em him whose son will be your strength and you see that the money and people had a broken heart and the other end answering from you told them that Rosh Hashanah has to be a day of simpler so two two translations they're actually two translations they brought the Shem literally means the joy of Hashem and that's what the word does know the joy rhythm can be two thing the joy you have in serving God or it could mean the joy Hashem has in you the dirt has joy and not from the Jewish people and therefore you should get strength in the love and the joy Hashem has peace of in you so you can actually have two translations both of which I think give you some very good ideas one is it's the joy in my service affection that will give me strength and the other is the awareness of the joy and the love the gem has for me now based on this there's a very obvious question I don't have any good outlook on the answer for this you know Liholiho we pass him you're not allowed to fast on Rosh Hashanah even though there were people who fasted during all the assad regime a true except for Shabbos they would actually fast during the day there was such a minimum but on the days that you cannot that you cannot fast in Shabbat you cannot fast on the two days of Rosh Hashanah and you cannot fast on Erev Yom Kippur air of Yom Kippur you're obligated to eat so that's fine but the problem is the Golem recorded a tradition that some rabbis did fast and Russia I felt it was part of the trooper process that they fasted on Rosh Hashanah now the question is Cobra this contradicts explicitly the puzzle in the book of Mohammed it's a little much money going eat this is a person they were fasting Ezra says you're not allowed practice go and eat so the practice is how could the mid knock of some people contradict what is the favorite in the in the passage I don't really have a good Tara to this but that could be here right here right here what did I say I remember reading a book by Shia I'm glad it was a Yiddish novelist who was totally not religious he married a non-jewish woman he died a few years ago but he portrayed the religious life of the shtetl absolutely there was no writer who betrayed the nuances of religious life as good as he and in fact when he was a teenager he had the cleansing issues as private tutor because this was a young man yet grandma had lost his father so the mother hired the cousin in so he went with the cousin issue around five years and in fact the cousin ish is one of the characters that appears prominently in his books under a pseudonym and the presentation is always portrayed in a very very positive and glowing way that's very very very interesting to me that's the biggest proof of the cousin is his greatness when some from Thomas writes about how great the fascination was that doesn't prove anything but when a guy who's like totally Poe raycoleman smotes recognizes the greatness of the cousin ish to me that's very very eloquent testimony so in crime gratis book one of his characters was a guy who was like super much Superman that's a businessman but you know even we just look for if there was like one sheet out of a hundred that took a certain extreme camera you know he would follow it you know it's he made his wife miserable his kids miserable yes but so somebody said to him you know if you look in the fortune of the show Canara you will see that the buckles to be made so he says I don't learn how lucky to find coulis I learn how luck us to find cobras it makes it so that may have been delicious he knows that he's closer so the joy is the joy is the sense that whatever God puts in my mind I accept it with love therefore even if God forbid there's gonna be hardships it's like my okay loves me they're coming from love and I accept what God gives me as a parent's giving me something out of love so that's the simple so these are the two dimensions of shofar and these are the two dimensions of Rosh Hashanah itself the joyous day of Coronation and the day of fear and trepidation as we see in the prayer and his son a token fright everyone knows this i'ma tell keV which is recited before the kedusha of Musa it's recited two days of Russia China and on Yom Kippur so it really makes its appearance three times is perhaps the most famous - fela in the in the young member on liturgy and there's no question it portrays a certain atmosphere of fear trepidation of the angels in heaven are quaking and shaking and Hashem opening the books of who will live and who will die who will have their allotted time not have there a lot of time and it ends with the idea that what his man man was came from the dirt and will go back to the dirt and he is like a leaf that is blown in the winds and like a piece of pottery and a dream that flies away but if you follow if you're a student of gnosis meaning if you follow the way a cousin who knows what he's doing nothing you'll not that right afterwards the classroom goes into a joyous but you got your the mela tale Private Eye young and you have honored us by sanctifying your name so the truth is inside I tell kept itself moves from the trepidation to the joy of sanctifying a champagne that's why mr. it was very important to be particularly tune that it goes constant uses you know it's not just putting in karabakh and and other things like that also but you know these are traditions that go back hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years and they reflect they reflect the mood of the tila see even if a Kosmas gonna use modern new gunam but he was skillful but a true husband does is he matches the mood of a nichkhun to the words you don't just take like some nice Megan him you know stick it in to someplace in the prayer there are prayers that are trepidation their prayers that are joyous so whatever Nick and you choose has to fit the particular program that story that they write about yeah the famous story of Rahab known famous story that the or zarua one of the we shown him brings that drama known was a friend of the Bishop of maine's in Germany and the bishop said why don't you convert kept on bothering him to Ravana and wanted to get the guy off the back and say about it in three days men are abandoned said ieave a smear I gave the guide the impression that I would want to convert me and what happened once of course he refused and then his legs were cut off his arms were cut off and as he was dying he asked to come to the base Knesset and before kedusha he said to the concent he has a prayer and he recited in the Sun the token and then he died and three days later he came back in a dream to revolution but if one of us was a famous husband and taught him the prayer death was written down and that became the assignment took it this is a legend that the earth were reports it probably is not true it's probably not first of all there literally is no evidence that there ever was a person over Obama nominee the person himself there was absolutely no historical evidence of such a great rabbi living and suddenly while I think they have shown that the syamantaka is older than the day sign that goes back to Eretz Israel the Ganesa hmm it is actually much much older than the date that the order will put upon it so it's not a product of Germany it is a product of Israel itself like a whole monograph that ok so now what I want to share with you though is a few general perspectives about chauffeur that are that are very very interesting that is from ships into father's rights that the sounds of the shofar are a symbolic journey of the process of repentance that we go through because remember Rosh Hashanah is the anniversary of the creation of man and man was created by God blowing into him a divine soul either chef made cows and dogs but only man breathes in to man and is the Zohan code there says when you breathe into somebody you give somebody mouth-to-mouth resuscitation you're giving them your essence your lifeforce that's the meaning of goddesses and oh man is the image of God the godly soul so in the sense when you first blow the shofar you're replicating your imitating your calling to mind that process five thousand seven hundred and seventy nine years ago of God blowing into man life so here's what the first says that first show for sound harkens back to the very creation of man or in my own individual creation where my soul was strong and pure and unbroken and Noble the next set of sounds is the Schwerin alright broken up that's the disintegration of sing by committing sin I take this beautiful soul that I have and I break it it's like taking a glance a crystal glass and special so the first akia was the glorious potential of goodness that I had the shimmering is the disintegration of availa the trua is the sobbing of the bow shuva who wants to come back to God and what do you get after the trauma you get eight takea you have repaired the damage that you've created and not only have you repaired it but your soul after Chuba is stronger than it was before she went that's why the takea after is a little longer actually then there's a Kia before and then of course the last a Kia is t'keyah khatola because as because i'll say the place with about Juba stands it's greater than the sadiq well initially we do it then there's the first sounds that we make are two Kia shriwardhan true at the key oh yeah yeah but then apparently you want to separate out each element to emphasize it but indeed initially you do takea swaram true with the Kia three times so this is refers to a first test when I hear the sounds of the shofar I contemplate the journey of my soul and one hand I remember with nostalgia and sadness that great holy moment when the Mauritian soul came into the world and indeed when my own soul came into the world and then how I sullied it and broke it and smashed it but then through chuhwa I can restore it and I can heal it and I can become reunited maybe that's where it first says that the sounds of the shofar are symbolic of the idea of of truth now a second thought these are going to be overlapping but each one has its own distinct the nuance is the thought of her foot nur and a foot nur says now he doesn't analyze the separate sounds but he analyzes show for generally he says well in one hand chauffeured reminds us of God blowing the soul into us but really it's the opposite because I'm blowing my breath out so her foot there stands it on its face and he says shofar is a symbolic death experience what you're doing is you're turning your life back to God you'll be just like for example a person who rents a car right let's see you rent the car and it's time to return the car so even if you want to renew it you often have to bring the car back and then you renew the lease now in rashanna my lease on life is hopefully going to be renewed my life is actually over in other words because Hashem gives you life in one-year increments so your life is over and you're asking a sham for a renewal so what are you doing you're blowing your gonna show me you're saying to a Shem I'm keeping you back my life and I ask you to give me a second chance so it's a symbolic death experience all of us go through the akkada what was the arcaders just like which happened in Russia China yet Scott was willing to give up his life for us I mean our firm was willing to take that month on Rosh Hashanah we in effect are giving our lives back to him by the way you know that the Zohar says which is really a pillar the sower actually says it's cooked died at the akkada it's what was killed at the akkada and not only that it wasn't like an immediate case of racism he was gone for two years I mean it's quite amazing out for him now imagine what that meant for Apple Avram killed his son and after him had no idea that geese will come back when the malla called etc that was afterwards etc that was a TSM a sim that believe that's what the sower said that is he said oh oh them a fortune none of them a fortune well understand it that way okay so that's perspective number two that the shofar is a death experience which very vividly reminds me that my life belongs to my channel and all I'm doing is leasing it and therefore I have to use it in accordance with the terms of the lease now a third perspective is that of the specimens and here is the the problem the Mishna says in the surface Rosh Hashanah they're all animals warrants are kosher for a chauffeur all in warrants that many say even a non kosher animal would be kosher for a and so forth there is a preference to use a ram's horn because that's connected to the RAM that it's cooked that's substituted for you described but in some some groups they use the antelope horns right they use gigantic chauffeurs are not Rams they're kind of antelopes but the only animal whose horn is not kosher for a shofar is a tunnel or a bull what's wrong with the camera both regular culture at home and yet it's not culture for a show for him and the Gemara gives the following reason at least one of the reasons and that is the bull or the cow is a reminisce reminiscence of the sin of the golden calf which is an ego and I'm the day when we are beseeching a Shem for mercy with the shofar we don't want to bring to his attention the instrumentality of our sin this is the famous expression which i think is entered modern hebrew ain't category nasa sun egg or that means the prosecuting attorney cannot become the defense attorney he's too committed to prosecution now when i say we don't want to remind us some of our sin obviously i don't mean that literally i show it's aware of what we've done when they were reminding or not but there's a certain arrogance in wavering your sin in front of God and saying forgive me forgive me forgive me even though I'm parading with the thing that I committed the sin now the Gemara then draws an analogy we're in another respect we have the same principle a rain container Nasus an Agora and that is onion Kippur on Yom Kippur when the Kohen Gadol goes into the codis action heats us not where his normal uniform his normal uniform has gold in it but when he goes into the co destruction he only wears pure white linen and he does not enter the collision with gold because of the same thing gold his reminiscent of the fate of a go and aim category gnosis an acre so this swara of ain't got a kernel anger is used for - hello one is you cannot use a chauffeur of a councilman and the other is the Kohen Gadol does not enter the code of shock - IAM the Holy of Holies with golden guns by the way to this day although it's not attend many many people have a manag that they do not wear gold jewellery men and women they do not wear gold jewelry on Yom Kippur so a man will not wear they go the watch and women will not wear a gold necklace some say white gold is okay it separates only yellow gold etc now this is not a hollow but this is a minute that many many people people have now so the Gemara connected these two helices they can't blow a shofar with a cow's horn and the Kohen Gadol does not enter the code of subduction with gold from diamonds but the been the commercial is wait a second instead of these helices being consistent they are actually inconsistent why because the common goggle did wear gold on Yom Kippur when he was not in the qodesh ocean and he switched back and forth he wore white in the Kota subduction we were called outside so apparently when you're not in the Kardashian we don't care about in cattigan ass so what about chauffeur chauffeur is not blown in the color succession so there's actually a contradiction how come you're worried about ain't categor no sense an egg or bite the Kia show for even though it is not in the color succession and you're not worried on Yom Kippur where the Cohen gotta wear scold when he's not in the code acceptance again okay so the guar says from the Gemara says an amazing thought yeah the moment of takea show for it is as if we are all standing in the code and therefore the coded shakadou ship rules are those that apply at the moment of the kiai shofar you don't bring your sin and wave it so that's an amazing thing the cutter subduction was a place that only the Kohen Gadol was allowed to enter on yom kippur nobody else could enter and the Kohen Gadol could not enter the whole year but the moment of the Kea show the holiness is so great it is as if we are all standing in the cold ocean and that is why the rule of ain't got a car gnosis an Agora applies at that sacred moment which this is what you see from the Gomorrah so now this fuss ms makes this beautiful extension he says so you see when you're standing in front of the Kota subduction you don't bring to God the part of you that's sinful you don't waive your sins you don't waive your gold you don't waive your cows morning to the Emma says that's why you can't even Dom it you can't even use your words when you're in the chorus of Toshi because our words themselves are part of our sinful identities our words are often insincere they're often well they're often used in bad ways negative ways Russian how can you bring to God that which is sinful and tainted and defective so what can you bring to God that is pure and unaffected by your faith only the innermost essence of your nation that has never become contaminated and therefore that's the chauffeur going the chauffeur blowing is blowing from the kishkas blowing from the gut in other words the specimens is actually saying show for is the in articulate prayer of the heart that comes from the part of you that is uncorrupted and remains pure and because you're in the color succession you can't even pray to a Shem with words you have to pray to a show from the true essence of yourself that is uncorruptible now when you leave the color section you can go back to the world of words and verbalizations but in the moments of the kodesh of touching all you can do is cry because that comes from a deeper place then the superficialities of our verbalizations it was interesting on yom kippur when we say the outfits the litany of all of the sins so one thing that's always struck me is that's almost funny if it wouldn't be so serious is that one of the of a rose for which we need our Shems forgiveness is the Avera of v doing pal forgive me hashem for instance fear confessions at the moments at the romans were asking us you have to forgive me for my in sincerity on being um I might be insincere at that very at that very moment that's the way words are but there's always a part of us to see them come with the pencil II it but there's always a part of us that is incorruptible and it is that incorruptible essence from which all Shuba is possible because if everything would get Nicole column it wouldn't be possible to repair but repair comes from that fundamental aspect of our personality that remains wholly and untouched and unaffected so is the show for us called partnership in action we're listening to him speak he does know the spy service learns the chauffeur is a prayer coming from our innermost essence that has not been corrupted by sin it wants to connect to God because since we are in the Holy of Holies we don't use that which is insincere because that's also in Katanga NASA NASA so negger the vecna's Fossum is even even says that the structure of takea Schwalm true a takea mirrors a shmouna s ray the first akia are the first 3 Broncos which are praising God and then the varam and the true had up to 12 sounds they are the 12 middle Broncos asking us em for things and the last akia are the last three brothers expressing gratitude so it's a Morse code prayer that represents the the arts okay so that's a third perspective a fourth perspective is offered by another Ksyusha Rebbe the Seamus Seamus Wallace was the son of another greater of in the oddly nazar the suckage over IP in the shemish maalbeek was the successor suffrage of arabia i'm not sure if it continued after it i don't know if there is a second shepherd dynasty today but the shame is Schmoe is a prolific writer he wrote on all of commission will know adam vehement owe him and it's a relatively easier safer and proceedeth so for many people who are looking for an introductory safer and casitas although we although he's Margaret's long the seamus world is one of the sort of them we could recommend for a relative novices and here the Seamus wall has a very interesting poetic line not poetic license but an interpretive license and that is the following you know that the takea the true are not only sons of the chauffeur they are actually used for another musical instrument that is in partials bullosa moshe a beta was commanded to make two silver trumpets to be blown at various occasions these are called cuts oats roots and the Torah says they are to be blown every Shabbos when there's a base of mid-session I'm not today every Shabbos they are to be blown on a young'n Tobin we are to be blown in time of war and in fact in the base of it - they blew both the chauffeur and the cut sorceress the chauffeur was unique to Russia shot that had South sources for every time that's why the chauffeur had more dominance because it was unique for that day but cut saucers were blown every time now here's what the Seamus rule suggests even though the Taira does not give us the significance directly of what is t'keyah and true and shuara in the case of shofar we are given a much more direct meaning in the case of cuts otras so he wants to extrapolate from cuts oats rose what the sounds means for chauffer again I think that's a legitimate to old because the Torah is defining the meaning of these different sounds in one so here's what he says the Torah says that when Moshe Rabbeinu is gathering the camp to come together he blows a takea and when it's time to journey forth we have the truest sense now this is not by chauffeur this talking about foot soldiers but the shape of chinois wants to say the following so it could be that the takea sound is a sound of Actos and unity and coming together and the truest sound is the sound that says we are embarking putting the farm which is just a variation of true up is we are now embarking on a new journey on the road to life and he even goes further why is a true up suggestive of journeying because he says a true is a combination of a crying sound and a laughing sound you know you could cry until you laughs you can laugh until you cry because whenever a new opportunity presents itself in life there are really mixed emotions on one hand we have fear and trepidation you know is it gonna work out what's gonna happen I'm familiar with the old routines that I have minded person whatever it is a person makes Elvia the person gets married person gets a new job a new school whatever it is all the changes something there is on one hand trepidation what's gonna happen you know even the hell that I know you know sometimes less scary than the hell I don't know hmm on the other hand there's also this feeling of joy there are new opportunities new potentialities so that's true uh once again in Capo encapsulate the kind of multiple feelings that we have on Rosh Hashanah trepidation but joy you know things are new when things are new they can be different differences are sometimes less comfortable but sometimes very exhilarating open keep yourselves open to the possibility so true uh is the sound of the laughing and the crying of journeying towards a new life but you have to do it with unity and togetherness and I brought you through and that's why the takea is the sign of assembly and bringing people bringing people together so that's a very very a nice way of saying it's kind of just like motivator when Moshe I ran a blue that takea we have to come together and then when he glued the truer we have to start looming that's exactly the same mission well says that's exactly what it means on Rosh Hashanah so he's taking the symbolism of Licata throats and he is applying it to the well yeah well I mean if you have to do it alone you do it alone and then of course there is a lot of work that's private and introspective but certainly we always say I do chuva with its Ybor we work together we connect together that's why you know one of the most beautiful swaram that people often learn during this time of year it's a really a little gem of a safer is a Kabbalistic safer but it's relatively like tabula and this is the famous say for Tomer Devorah by rep moshe cordovero the worst Cottrell was the Grateful right before the era zone and the Tomer Devorah basically teaches them you could summarize the basic teaching in in one sentence and that is when you act towards others with mercy and love that is the mechanism that brings divine mercy and love into the world and therefore if you want touch him to bring mercy and love not just for you but to the whole world you must emulate a ship so his finish is we all know we're supposed to imitate God that's a mitzvah used to follow his ways the term devorah's point is it's not just man imitating God it's God imitating man and therefore that's the concept that you're Chava is by definition going to be very incomplete unless it involves connecting to others without us yes well you know of course I mean I don't want to get political we know that this is a big big big challenge that qualies well faces and maybe a narrative swell even a little bit more than other places because people here feel things very very strongly that's actually a strength but the problem is when you feel things strongly you become less and less accepting of other people who look at things differently and that could create animosity hostility cynically no and we have to find a way of not giving up on the passion but combining it with the idea of looking at people and good and favorable ways and seeing their goodness again I mean of cook what's the great I mean I don't want to say you have to go back to 70 years let's say it's a little sad that I have to give me an example of 70 years ago were there British and there were people sensitive cooked as well but you're of cooked your insect was just two weeks ago so it could die to remember that this is of course what he was so people looking for cook sometimes and say oh he must have been a very modern open Orthodox rabbi there it is like yct tech rabbi you know not at all they gone and shafts and post him and their cook was sometimes sometimes very very much marina luckily he was not you know but he was not always make them certain things he was Michael if he felt it was justified and yet side by side with him being an old European rough Bucky in chocen post him if it's unbelievable a bus travel for every type of shoe and not just every Joe is unbelievable love of humanity it's etcetera but something in which he saw the godliness in everything even in developments that were secular an anti-religious he saw a meat sauce he saw a certain divine spark that was animating it in which there was a potential so yes roof cook is controversial and yester of cook is deep and it was cook is complicated and of cook is mystical and poetic so it's hard to always pinpoint exactly what he's saying but I think fundamentally we all know the basic thing that he was saying and fundamentally we have to try to incorporate in our lives even if we don't always get the nuances and the depth of everything that he's doing you know in many many ways the fundamental truths of life are not as complicated as people make them I mean life is complicated I don't mean to suggest that problems have simplistic solutions but the fundamental values are not so complicated that you have to love people you have to care about them you have to respect them you have to see that they're good again you may you may have to fight what they're doing in different ways and oppose it but that's not a contradiction so that is why the idea of the journey of children and of life has to be in the context of traveling together let me just end with one final story there is this story comes in there are two different characters some say it's with the baal shem tov and some say took of label against elaborate teacher for what's the third generation so it was a great scene of leader but there seems to be a McLucas who the story was about I think the most authoritative version is with her play me it's like a berdychiv but okay be it as it may he had about okay uh we do show for him every year and the belt okay one year wanted to learn all of the Kabbalistic cover notes during the kia show right now this is vast vast vast every single dudes of the true up has a separate carbonyl which is deep and complicated I mean if you look at this I've either did this you know we wouldn't get past the first line and this is like hundreds of pages but this person learned studied and really worked very hard because he wanted to have all of the table notes and of course there's so much to remember so what he did was he wrote everything in outline on a single sheet of paper so it's been shocked his memory he could look at it as he's blown and he was very very happy that he accomplish this great thing what happened was as this happens to people all the time happens to me all the time you lost the paper and of course once he has committed to paper he had emptied out his mind yet it's just assumed the paper will remind me he didn't remember a thing he won't show fire he blew it as he it will go for it just to do a mitzvah and he was sobbing and weeping because he knew he was in possession of such a treasure but he did what he did he blew the show 400 times after where Shoshanna at the birdie to burn or the Baal Shem Tov called him over and said what did you do this year your chauffeur blowing was so powerful it ripped up all the evil decrees in shamayim it went all the way to the highest place there never was a show for blowing like this what did you do so the person was perplexed dude I did nothing at all I prepare a night I put in a lot of work but it left me I had no thoughts at all all I had was blowing the shofar like any any person who blows over nothing more nothing so the producer or the baal shem tov sold them huh now you have to understand the secrets of what you did in shamayim yet we're using a metaphor there are many many chambers in our Shems Palace of brothels there is the chamber of Health and the chamber of fertility and the chamber of Panozzo and the chamber of shidduchim these are chambers and their laps and through various cabbalistic prayers they become keys that unlock specific things so if you have this Ivana you bring the brother of she duty and if you have this qivana you bring the brother of fertility and if you have this qivana you bring the broth of partners but what if a person doesn't have any keys he doesn't have keys to any of the locked doors how does he get in he can take an axe assuming it's a wooden door now the difference in the max and the key is a key only opens up a particular door with an axe you could break down every time the bell shipped over the potential Bertold him all of those cabinets that you were studying they were particularly ease for particular doors and they work assuming you're on the moderator to properly invoke but you had something greater than a key you had an x and the x that opens all doors is the broken heart that turns to my shelf or something so you lost the key but you had the ax and your ax was more powerful than any particular key and this is what governor Maddox says you know one of the most beautiful to heal him that's one should read especially during this time of year is to Hillingdon base 52 and revenue Jana calls this the song of Chula this was the deliver that double hemella composed after his sin with Bathsheba back the verse left a harbor a yellow cab creates for me a pure heart and a beautiful this is about to hella be asked session give me a pure heart so in that puzzle kit says zip don't sign in the ER that chapter it says zip say elokim rua mich baba the best sacrifice you give to a chef is a broken spirit now again a broken spirit this is tricky this does not mean a depressed spirit this does not mean a despondent spirit that actually is no good bye Latonya writes there's a difference between a deadening sense of worthlessness which is not productive that distances you from agenda and kind of an active sadness in which you're yearning to become connected again in other words one is an emotion that propels you to reach out to a chef we don't live like this anymore yeah well that's that's it that's it in other words there the sadness and the becomes the motivator and want to be different as opposed to the more of a passive sadness was just said this is like I know this is it this is it this is as good as it will ever be see that's not a path the usually different orange one he calls I mean the word to use is we wouldn't necessarily identify but just in turn what he calls the deadening feeling odd sweats and the active feeling I want to change I want to be close to God he calls it Murray roads well again I mean you know we don't have to be went into the words but those happen to be the two words that he used and even if you don't like the titles he gave but he is describing two very very different types of emotions what is an emotion of deep feeling and the other is an emotion of stone coldness which you're not feeling anymore and those are very very different so the rule is para is what the ballot Anja were taught the very risks of wanting to change and wanting to become close to us so anyway wish you all may seem obviously Motoko may Hashem give all of us and all of Kali swirl the year of life and health and and much much that's less I and all that we need and most importantly that we should all be sofa did we go closer to Hashem [Music]