Rosh Chodesh: The Power of Jewish Women - Rebbetzin Avigial Gersht

[Music] like Evelina said Rose Cottage is unique to women because we didn't give the jewelry to the Golden Calf but what's interesting is what does the moon look like on Rosh Hodesh what would you assume it looks like this is a new moon we are celebrating the moon hmm absolutely is that we did it's not there right it's barely there right I would expect and only once I like learnt this to actually pay attention and actually look up at the moon on record and I like that is so funny the moon on Rosh Hodesh does not look like this what we would expect a full beautiful circle it looks like this like Evelina sit like it seems you can see like you can barely see it the new moon why is this when we're celebrating the moon so same reason we celebrate when a baby's born I want to have written this week and circumcisions like there's a whole party sort of a cute little teepee thing right you do thinking if a girl is born you have a kid ish right where I won't comes and gives blessings in Y we do when the child is born why are you at the end of their lives we've accomplished a lot right they kept their mom up for an entire week straight but like what are we celebrating the new beginning Thank You Nikita a new beginning a fresh start and we're celebrating the Internet we were raised in a society that is so result oriented and focused that this seems to be all that matters Who am I orbit or scheme he's a great rabbi psychologist and addiction counselor who's written over 70 books he was once he met this man in shul and as you said would like to come to us for a meal for Shabbat and the man said sir I'm not religious but I could do this bad thing and so as a living sure the trustee said you know there's actually the note a roof here era is the string they make around the city limits were able to carry and not bring something from shoot from private domain to public domain and so right Ross you said you know actually there's no there's no a roof here she'll have to leave your wallet and stuff and show and then but okay and he left it then as they're walking home of a tort suit ransom and said so so who are you know the guy reached in his pocket plus his business card and you have this moment of shocking realization of how much he identified was his business card Who am I I'm the initial behind my name I am the school that I went to right I am the you know honors role or not I am my family's last name I am a bank account status and we're living in a time where total result-oriented not a Jewish concept we're celebrating the moon the fact that the moon is the potential for the moon we celebrate the birth of a child the potential of the child we saw why we making weddings 60% of people end up divorce let's like make it celebration if they make like 10 year mark or even two year mark right we're solving the potential of this couple we're celebrating the isness we'll finish with this last idea so on during the time when the Jews left the desert and they just witness all these miracles and they just witnessed the sea splitting and they're eating bread falling from heaven they're drinking water out of a rock they are about to hear God speak they heard got to be sorry and then Moses goes up and he doesn't come down they miscalculated by one day and they stuck collecting jewelry to make a golden calf and I'm going to get to the woman that we would say odd come my until here like stop why not give me he said come on give us a jewelry and the woman said no Moshe is coming back most is coming back and they said he's not here a left I flew the oven heaven you see with God the fire of the cloud he's out there and them so we're not giving the jewelry and in that merit says club well we have Rosh Hodesh why Rosh Hodesh because that is a foundation of a woman when the moon is waning when we can barely see it when is this tiny tiny little sliver and life doesn't really make sense right now and things are really hard and I can actually barely see the light at night Zoomer thing but it's still there we're celebrating the moon can barely see it we're saying god I have a Luna I believe in you even though I can't see the light I knew they'd like Hansen is there even though she's not coming back right now I know he's going to Rachel Frankel she's the mother of the Neftali Frankel who was one of the three boys who was tragically kidnapped and murdered three years ago here in Andhra and on and almost here it was an incredibly emotional 12 days and Indra and basically just glued to our screens of where are these three boys and we didn't know where they were and there was a gathering at the Kotel I'll never forget Rachel Frankel the mother she just went around she was giving physics she was strength many people and she went around telling people like we're going to find my sound we're going to find his voice she stood up at the coast of thousands of people there was a gathering of KLM when we still don't know where they were and she said I want you all to know that regardless of what I hear that my son regardless of what the police tell me happened to my child don't think one of your prayers went to waste not one tear went to waste that powerful Sarah Lippman her the this girl her father this was when all the attacks that happened last year her father and her brother and if you remember this also were killed the week before her wedding they were murdered the week before her wedding she got up again we're speaking at the Quahog woman the power of women wives what is unique to women special you can see the moon she got a vlog what I mean her she's sitting Shiva she literally sitting the seven-date father and brother were just murdered brutally right and she got up on TV and I never just seeing her face she looked like she's sitting Shiva for her brother and her father and she stood there with her cat and with her groom and she said we're having the wedding and the entire army straw was invited the entire Jewish nation is invited was p.m. Vanina hyoma right across into this central bus station people flew in from across the world there were over 10,000 people at her wedding there was out the picture of her brother and her father that the table with a candle it was outside because they couldn't even hold all the people inside she didn't do it because she wanted to celebrate I don't care I want to marry this guy she did it cuz me I'm highest well she said cuz that's the cult of a Jewish woman she's because me not having my wedding is showing the air view one and she says all mourn afterwards the greater good of the Jewish nation is what's more important right now than me having my own personal exile my own personal morning and they had to win over 10,000 people there that's what was celebrating Rosh Hodesh we're celebrating I can't see it doesn't make sense on my guitar and want to have a tantrum but God I know you're there so God willing next class will continue with I always had the grand plans of how much we'll get through you though like eight pages and then we get through maybe to discovery in it I cut out so much book our next class will continue a source coded [Music] you