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Okay, good evening everyone.
Welcome to our final shar of toughenhem
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Today was the art side of the
make sure you get the safeua
from the
mystery in the majesty.
It's a good book.
read it, learn it, not during khazar
sashhats, but if you have other time you
could learn it. If you learn it during
khazar sashhats, it doesn't count
anyway. But that just, you know, I
thought I might mention that. Uh the
next safer coming out is the safer of
the Benla Ashri. The Benla Ashri, it's
imminently coming out. I could show you
a picture of the cover. Spectacular
cover. Leather cover. Not real leather,
but leather. Fake leather is also
leather. It's just fake leather. No,
it's it's demoy r they call it in
Hebrew. De I think it's called demo r.
Anyway, it's really nice. Okay. Um we
have a very interesting topic.
>> Pleather. Yeah, we have a very
interesting topic tonight. Um
of
the tells us in
A person should accustom themselves to
eat fenugreek,
carcy,
leaks,
silka,
beets, tamry, dates, ka, gourds.
When you eat the fenugreek, you should
say,
"May my merit increase." Interesting in
the name of Hashem is not mentioned.
Ki leaks.
Hashem should cut down eda.
Sila is beats.
Hashem should remove.
The enemy should vanish.
Our
The decree of our judgment should be
torn apart
and our marriage should be read before
you. The rama adds some to eat a apple
dipped in honey and they say
shana msuka
and that's the min as you know that the
most famous song in Judaism is
halakically incorrect. We sing dip the
apple in the honey make a loud and
clear. You're now to make a braha. It's
user to make a braha. You have to make a
brah on the is from the so if you have a
pomegranate on your table and an apple
you have to make the braha on the
pomegranate despite the fact that
someone convince your kindergarten kid
who unknowingly how are they supposed to
know any better that their teacher is
misrepresenting the mosaic law that was
given on hari. How is he supposed to
know? But you should know better. You do
not make the braha on the apple. You
make the braha on the remon. The remon
is from the shivas.
By the way, I'm mellowing as I get older
because someone's going to send me an
email that they saw some great person
make it on the apple. And in the past, I
said, well, tell him I'm going I'm just
going to respond. I'm sure he's a great
person. And so I'm I'm starting to mel
but I'm telling you that that's wrong.
He was doing the wrong thing. ically you
have to make the braha on the apple.
Okay.
>> Oh, you see? Very good. Okay.
>> So, you don't have a
>> If you don't have a rem,
>> can you make it on the date?
>> Yeah. Yeah, you can make it on that.
Now, talking about dates, talking about
dates, you also should not make the
braha on the dates, nor should you eat
them because they they have bugs in
them. So, you say, but what do you mean
there's a hure on them? You know, on
them means that there's no in the date,
but it doesn't mean it was checked. Now,
unless you're professionally trained to
check for dates, unless you went through
for date training sessions, how in the
world are you supposed to eat it? Don't
say, "Yeah, I know what it looks like."
How do you know what it looks like? What
do you do for a living?
Anybody want to offer whatever you do?
You sell what? Okay.
>> What?
>> Not date.
>> Yeah. You're not a date. You're you're
not a professional bug checker. If
that's if you're an exterminator and
part of your job is you professionally
exterminate date bugs, then yeah, go go
for it.
>> What?
>> Three days check.
>> Oh, in Coul they check it for you. So if
you if they check it for you, but don't
be fooled that because there's a on it
then there are no bugs in it. Anyway,
but we'll see what to do. And this is
not what the topic of today's sh is.
Okay. And then in okay the the the
continues that some eat and they say
and
the minhog is to eat fatty meat
and all kinds of sweet food. Now
why are we eating these fatty sweet
foods on rash? We'll see. Maybe we'll
get to that. Then the says
you should eat the head of a ram
and say we want to be like the head and
not the tail.
Then the says there are those who are
not to eat. Some people are careful not
to eat nuts because ego is gamatri
and there are those who are even mak not
to sin on rashash because is gamatri you
know about that minhug that's also min
that there are some people they're makb
not to do a on rash because has a
numerical value of by the way what's the
reason why what's wrong with
right we don't eat nuts the the rama
says Because they're
they they cause a lot of flem to
develop. Yeah. And so what so what what
are we afraid of? You're going to all of
a sudden start being coughing
expectating of the dabing. The mate says
you might cough during khazar's hash
and you're not going to be hearing a
word or two or you might cough during
so it's about not making not disturbing
people or disturbing yourself by having
to cough. So before mus everyone should
clear their throats. If you have to
sneeze, if you have to blow your nose,
whatever loud noises you need to make by
clearing out your ear, nose and throat,
do that before the services begin. Okay?
Then the Rama says the minute is to go
to the river and to say the
in other words, what is you just say
one?
So they say what are all those pages and
pages and pages and pages that's the of
the that's not fundamentally it's a
beautiful I'm very into that there's
nothing like that long but it's not tash
is saying that what do you mean what
happened to the bread that's another
thing you're not allowed to do you
cannot throw bread into the water on
rash because just like is
and is throwing bread into water Any is
also a gamach because you can't feed
animals on Yam.
This is supposed to be a serious share
before the come on. So yeah, you're now
to feed animals on Yamiff. Somebody even
sent me a message today. How do you do
tashik? He said I said you can't feed
fish on yumpt. So how are you supposed
to do tash? First of all, I made no god
gave moh.
I'm just a I'm just a reporter over
here. I didn't make up this alak that's
in the Mishna. And throwing bread to
fish has nothing to do with tash. What
does that have to do with tash?
>> How does that start?
>> What min throwing bread?
>> Everybody does it.
>> Who? What? Who's everybody? I never saw
anybody do it.
>> 99% do it.
>> What on rashana?
>> First of all, on rash.
>> It's the same people who are making the
brah on the apple. Those guys who are
making the brah on the apple, they're
throwing the bread in the water on rash
shana. No, if you want to throw bread,
you could you could throw bread even now
randomly. You could go to the park after
the sh and throw bread into the water.
The fish are probably hungry, I'm
assuming. Now, where I I don't know.
It's not It's not broken. And on you
simply are not allowed to do it. During
the week, you could do it. Yeah, lots of
luck taking your kids to tash if you
don't have bread with them, you know,
but it's not part of the it's a min but
not on rash. You can't do but and
nothing we said so far has anything to
do with this year but okay here we go we
want to talk about what exactly is this
inion of first of all it sounds very
superstitious since when do we use
symbolism to determine what our future
has in store for us now you're telling
me that my year is dependent on fruits
most people don't even know what fruits
are anymore you know you know what a
fruit is when was the last time you went
to the store and bought a fruit
It's been a long time. Been a very long
time. And now our whole year is
dependent on fruits.
Okay. So all kidding aside, let's
analyze two different gumaras. One in
gamar inus and one in the gario where
the garra uses slightly different
terminology to discuss. This is not just
a custom because it's the gar. The gar
says
now that we said
are of reality
a person should be accustomed to eat
shat in the beginning of the year a ruby
fenugreek ki leak silka beats tamrian
dates similsa what do you mean similsa
what do you call somebody that's headed
to do a certain mitzvah and then on the
corner they see a black hat and they
said no no no this is a bad time I'm
gonna I'm gonna go a different time what
do you call that they're a diver it's to
do that you're not to change your course
cuz you see a black hat or somebody says
should I go should I not go
I see the way the sun is shining it
looks like a good yeah I think I go yeah
we we don't live that way we're not
superstitious people
so all of a sudden it comes to rashana
And we're eating these symbolic fruits
as this this has something to do with
the outcome of our year. But what's also
interesting is the in also with a
slightly different word
says
you should see in the beginning of the
year
a rubia
fenugreek ki alik silka ab tamry and
adape. So the garus says eat it. Hurry
says see it. So what do you got to do?
Should you eat it or should you see it?
So the kafim says there's a big
between eating and seeing
most people applied the gum in
to things instead of the garra in right.
Imagine if you went to places you went
to a kdesh and instead of you were
imagine if you went to a kdesh. So what
are you doing at the kdesh? I'm looking.
I'm looking. You'd be much better off.
Mo you'd in general in life, you'd be
much better off looking at food rather
than eating them. You know the famous
holy advice when it comes to about
donuts.
But why does the garus say?
Why does the say to eat it? And the
gumar hurah says to look at it. So the
kafim says if somebody is not able to
eat it or because they're worried about
it's good enough to look at it. You
don't have to eat it. So let's say you
say what am I going to do? I'm not going
to have dates. I don't have time for
professional training. Somebody already
in the back. He already left this year.
He already went out for his 3-day
intense date training to be able to eat
the dates. But what if you don't have
time to do that? It's okay. You could
look at a date.
Or the says if you don't have one of the
and you want to say the signs anyway
without eating and without looking at
it. In other words, what's the reason
you allow to say the sign even if you
don't eat it cuz the truth is you don't
even have to see it cuz you're not
seeing a bra. It's just
it's
normally when you say in the morning
when you say um
you start eating things in the middle of
the usually when you say you don't at
the end of
you pop something in your mouth. Most do
not are not accompanied by food are not
accompanied by food. Okay. Is there an
Indian of making a night?
>> No,
>> that's the second.
>> There's no on making a shaky. You don't
have to make shako. The first night only
a second.
There's in kdosh you make a shaky that
God allowed you to live until rash. The
woman makes it on st to make on a new
fruit. No,
>> only the second night.
Okay. So now what's interesting is the
klesenberb points out that the garra
just says either to eat or to look at.
The garra doesn't say anything about
yats. The bio brings it from the morai
and the morai says it would be dependent
on the two geras. What I'm going to try
to bring out tonight is that there are a
number of slight differences
between the two different geras in the
garra. Do you need to eat it or is it
good enough to see it? Because whether
you say the or not should be dependent
on whether you eat it or you look at it.
You see, if you if all you need to do is
look at it, why do you have to say
the act of looking at symbolic fruits is
a meaningful act. You don't usually at a
yumptive table
all of a sudden draw your attention to
symbolic things. So if if you're just
looking maybe you don't need to say but
if you're eating it then it's a meal.
What else do you do at a meal? Then
you're going to have to say otherwise
what exactly what is unusual? What is
different about what you're doing orba
says that the truth is all of these
fruit foods could be interpreted for
good and could be interpreted for bad.
Think about it. So you have this uh
rubia. Rubia is fenugreek. It means a
lot. Okay. A lot of what?
Oh,
a lot of mitzvah. I don't know. Maybe it
means a lot of bugs in your house. How
where in the word which means a lot.
Does it indicate or ki means to cut off?
That's good. Who says it's referring to
enemies being cut off? Maybe it's it has
a meaning that good things should be cut
off. All of the various do not
inherently mean good or bad. So
therefore, it's necessary to say to
interpret the symbolism of the fruit for
the way you want it. Otherwise, it's
it's so to speak, it's an open-ended
symbol.
I forgot to put on the sheet, but I have
it on on my sheet from the s of
Rabakden.
of then says you could eat anything. If
it's bad, we'll say it's against the
enemy. If it's good, it should be a good
simmon.
>> Doesn't have to be something about
eating fruits that cannot eat sweetness.
>> H So the so the the says there's no
question that you should try to eat good
and sweet fruits.
However,
and therefore all the fruit foods we eat
need to be sweet so that they
objectively portend to good things. But
just in case the wording of the food
indicates something bad. We say the
simmon it's like a dream. A dream
doesn't mean anything inherently. It
depends how you interpret it. So also
the fenugreek or the beets or the leaks
even though they're sweet but since the
wording of it could be interpreted both
ways the words of
they all go after the mouth. Okay. So
still we have to understand what exactly
are these what are we trying to do? If
we need to daven for more mitzvah, if we
need to dav in for our enemies to be cut
off. By the way, the the
various things that we dav in for, it's
interesting what what the main focus of
our
there are more than anything else about
the subject of Hashem cutting down our
enemies.
More than any other topic, the sim are
focused on Hashem
removing our enemies from us. And uh in
our times we understand what that means.
The mlugger in his footnotes on in
he says the purpose of the
is not to d we're not in now all of a
sudden we come home we were just in sh
for an hour so now we're home now now
we're ding more what no there's no mukum
to be dvening in the middle of eating
but the reason why we eat these fruits
is to show our and our muna that we have
faith and we of trust that Bezos Hashem
will have opportunities for mitzvah this
year that it will be a sweet year that
Hashem will cut down our enemies and by
eating these fruits it shows our amuna
and our that the outcome will be good
and sweet for us as we know one of the
reasons we take a haircut before
Rashashana and we wear our finest is to
indicate a certain confidence that
Hashem will be on us. Therefore, as Sha
Mcclugger says that on rash sh a person
should be
and you should constantly say on rash
and if you say that it will become
and therefore in rash after you should
say
this should be a common refrain on rash.
The reason for the sim is to indicate
our trust that it's going to be a good
year
>> both nights.
>> There was an unauthorized question
>> stopped.
>> There was an unauthorized question that
I don't want to talk about, but I'm
going to tell you that it's not not that
I don't want to talk about it. It's a
separate subject. How many times should
you do the simum?
Now, I could I could pose a question now
and ask people what they do, but I'm not
going to get a straight answer. I know
already. So, I'm not But
I'm gonna get like very
very confed.
So, how often do you do this iman? Just
the first night, both nights, or all
four meals?
See, I knew I wasn't going to. So,
>> so
the benesai says
the lash of the garel
means frequent. Frequent is at least
three times. All four meals or all four
meals. The mate Ephraim says
both nights
in the perushim on the mate it says but
leminog is only to do it the first
night. I assume you guys only do it the
first night. However, Rebel Yash after
looking into it further he did it both
nights.
Okay.
In any event that will be a topic a
different time. Uh if what the rationale
of doing the sim the second night if
there is okay the miri
says something very interesting. The
miri says that these this practice of
putting out these symbolic fruits on
rashashana looks a little uh shady.
these symbolic fruits. We're Jews. We're
not we're not superstitious. Now we're
eating special foods and we're encanting
on the foods looks a little suspicious.
So therefore because it looks a little
bit like divination
to say certain that are us to do
says the
the purpose of these
is a person to do to realize realize
that our fate is being sealed. We need
to dive in that Hashem gives us the
merit to do mitzvo that Hashem cuts off
our enemies and that we're safe and
secure and that Hashem gives us the
opportunity
to be mafi that Hashem uh gives us a
sweet year. It's it's us to do chuva.
The says something very similar. The
says that
when you put these fruits foods on the
table, it reminds you to be mispal. You
see, yes, we dab in the whole night in
and we said many different that Hashem
should give us life and Hashem should
give us a sweet year. But these graphic
displays, these items remind a person.
They're like visual reminders to be a
person to be. And the
after you and you eat it, it sort of to
speak strengthens the it's interesting.
The says that by dvening and eating it
it it gives a a certain boost to the
says
the is the is the
is not you know this is not like some
kind of uh now let's have family time
discussing the different fruits and how
much it cost in the various stores and
where where where you got ripped off
more than the other price. No, no, this
is not we're not discussing the price.
We don't care where you bought it. And
all you need to do the focus is on being
mispalos to for those various
also says that
it's
which is what the said
now most of these
I saw in a safer
a beautiful safer on the yamn Haram by
Rabbi Mosha Schwar who is a Marb's Tyra
in Qarn Hills and a friend of mine and
he brings down from Rabbi Var Nebal who
also says that the purpose of these
various sim is to be to do chuva and to
be misspel but kazal strategically
orchestrated that these uh and this
hisus for chuba should be while we're
eating Because you know the whole day
rash shana you're in the shul and the
shul what could you possibly you know
you can't sin in a shul it's impossible
to sin in a shul right first of all you
don't have a phone on you and you would
never talk so what could you possibly
you know you're safe until you come home
and you start eating so that's where it
gets dangerous so at the at the suda to
remind us that we need to keep the
seriousness of the day so They were
making various felis for fornas and for
for what we need for the upcoming year
to serve hashem on in yanil to preserve
the giluba even at the suda. So so far
we explored a number of reasons for
these symbolic foods. The Mlugger says
the purpose of them is it's a display of
that the outcome of the year will be
good. Their says it's to do chuva. The
matim says that the purpose of it and
the says it's to be to do chuva to be to
be to
friends. I'm going to share with you now
my favorite approach.
This is the approach I saw this years
ago in the
and I was looking today to try to find
in the in the old print of the it
doesn't appear. In the newer prints they
bring down that wrote this in
parenthesis. It's a very uh stirring, a
very mystical and spiritual and the
actually I saw quot in the sasher that
the moral of prag and thea also says the
same explanation and it's based on the
mystical teaching of the ram in paras
the mar says about the raan he was
that to him alone it was revealed all
the secrets and uh of KMA and Tyra.
The Ramban says a great principle.
All the decrees from above for them to
come to fruition.
It e more easily concretizes and
materializes if an action is done
because the moral has a question. It
seems like what we're doing on
rashashana is divination. We're saying
are we going to have a sweet year or a
sour year? Let's take an apple and dip
it in honey
and now you're going to have a sweet
year because you ate an apple with
honey. What what's what's the meaning of
that? So the moral says actually this is
not divination. You know the story where
Hashem told Yeria Hanovi, I want you to
prophecy of the downfall of Bavl and
then you're going to take a book and
you're going to tie it to a stone and
you're going to throw it into the
Euphrates River and you're going to say,
"So shall Babylon sink."
What's uh Yermia doing? Is he divining
by throwing a stone into the river? or
Alicia was supposed to shoot an arrow
and then say this is an arrow of
salvation to Hashem, an arrow of
salvation against Aram. What is Alicia
doing? The maral explains based on the
Ramban. You ready for this?
When the decrees that certain things
should happen, that decree is a somewhat
of a nebulous
unconratized
word of God. But for it to come to
fruition, for it to come down through
all the various
bria and come down to the world of for
it to materialize, for it to come to
fruition, it will more readily come to
fruition if an act is done. If an act is
done, it brings it to reality. So when
yes, God decreed Babylon should sink.
But the way that decree will crystallize
is when Yeria takes a stone and throws
it into the river and says, "So shall
Babylon sink." And when Alicia shoots an
arrow and says, "This is an arrow of
salvation," Hashem already decreed we
should be saved. But when Alicia shoots
that arrow, the physical act of shooting
the arrow brings that decree to
fruition. Therefore, when Hashem wanted
to give Abraham au and to give it to to
the Jewish people, so he told Abraham,
you walk through the land and your
physical walking through the land will
bring to reality that the land will
belong to the Jewish people. By the way,
the Ramban explains that's the concept
of mass a sim labanim that the actions
of the forefathers
create a reality of what will happen in
the future. It was going to happen to us
anyway. Of course, we would go down to
Mitzim. But when Abraham goes down to
Mitzim, that created the reality that
the Jewish people would go down to
Mitsim.
So says Maral,
God decreed that you should have a sweet
year. But right now it's a very nebulous
decree. Now for Hashem to decree that
you had to earn it. You had to deserve
it. But still for you to put in your
back pocket, you bite into that that
apple after you dipped into honey
without making a blessing.
And that will bring to reality that
you're going to have a sweet year.
You're saying if I don't eat the apple,
I won't have a sweet year.
No guarantees. No guarantees. It makes
it more. It brings it to reality. You're
saying if I don't eat a beat, then the
enemies won't necessarily be cut off.
Yes, that's what we're saying. It brings
it to reality. It create. In other
words, God could make a decree, but
there are things could that could get in
the way. There are things that could
interfere. The things that could be
hurdles. There are things that could be
impeded. And doing an act is like the
prophet doing an act to bring prophecy
to reality.
The says very succinctly
that it's the beginning of the year.
Therefore, we're not to make a sim to
eat things that are roy and the reason
is look in the
that all the decrees on high
once it happens down below it can't
change
says that I am positive that's why we
eat the sim because once we eat the sim
then yes god has decreed a lot of things
for us but we want to make sure it
doesn't change so we basically do the
acts of the simmon to bring it to
fruition
by the way. So then
do you need to eat it or is it good
enough to look at it?
the moral in
a different different
he writes
that regarding this he says the
following words
these five foods
it's a good sim
you will attach yourself to them by
eating
There's no more connection to something
than eating it
will be for good. That's why in when it
talks about
marital connection it refers to it as
eating because there's no greater
than.
So the maral and this is suggested in
the say for is you see
is it good enough to look at it or
should you eat it if the purpose is just
to daven
maybe it's good enough to look at it if
the purpose is to show
then maybe it's good enough to look at
at
By the way, if it's even though the says
that by eating it, it creates a deeper
but according to the moral's explanation
that in order to bring the decree to
reality, you need an act. We understand
why the gar says eating it because
eating it perhaps is a more intent act
than looking at it. So you say, does
that mean I should spend time learning
how to check dates to be able to eat a
date? So now the question is, should you
spend an hour learning how to check a
date to eat the date to have a more
concrete act or is it good enough to
look at it? I'm going to get to that.
I'm going to come to that. I'm going to
answer that very enigmatic dilemma that
many of you have. Okay. But we
understand now why there would be an
advantage to eating the fruits.
Okay. I was always familiar with this
approach to the sim. But I never really
thought about why would that be? Why
would an act be necessary to bring the
decree of Hashem to fruition? Can't
Hashem make a decree and it concretize
and materialize without me having to
spend like $73 a pound on something that
if I would have in my backyard I could
just pluck it off the tree. What what
what is the concept that by doing an act
it brings the decree of Hashem to
fruition? So I saw in this newspaper on
rashash shana called vimim.
This is one of four volumes that just
came out on rashash from the great
vanu.
He brings from
mame
a very beautiful idea. What is this idea
of the Ramban that the decrees of
in order for them to concretize or
materialize you need to do an act?
So he said
>> like
when he jumped into the before the to
make an act and then the decree came
they had to start it somehow.
>> Mhm. So
okay good let's develop that.
He he says that in order for a person to
be to the
and to the of Hashem, you have to be the
gazer. In other words, if you want to
receive braha, you need to be m the
braha. How are you mabel the braha? You
have to have faith. You have to believe
that the braha will come. You have to
have amuna. Then Hashem will be mative
to you.
How do you show you have amuna? When you
do something, you're demonstrating your
your absolute faith in
that shows your amuna is strong. When
Abraham Ainu walked the length and the
breadth of the land, it showed his faith
in God's promise that Hashem's going to
give him Israel. So that demonstration
of faith made Abrau
a eligible
uh receptacle to the
it's not some kind of superstitious
practice. Yes. When I throw the stone
into the river just like the stone sinks
sinks. No. When Hashem told Yermia B
will sink Yer says that's right. I know
he's going to sink. Look at this. I know
that bubble will sink like this stone
sunk in the river. Oh, Hashem says you
have amuna in what I told you. Now
you're eligible to be an agent to
receive that. It is a demonstration of
amuna. So to me this approach is
combining
with the moral
says the purpose of the sim is to show
your amuna and your the says the purpose
of the sim is by doing a symbolic act.
It brings the decree to fruition and
concretization. But really the two go
together
by showing amuna in Hashem's.
That is how do you show amuna? Through
an act of faith in Hashem's
that shows your amuna and that shows
your deep amuna. And now you're eligible
for that decree to come to fruition.
So therefore, when you eat a sweet apple
on
shat
without making a braha,
what you're saying is I have faith that
Hashem's going to give me a sweet year.
That act of faith, you're not just
thinking it. You're not just saying,
"Yeah, yeah, probably Hashem's going to
give me a sweet year." Your your faith
is expressing itself in action. So now
your expression of faith in action is
renders you eligible to receive the bra
of says mame something very beautiful.
He says, "You know, the Isaunamis,
she he was to she was told by the uh
Na'vi, okay, here's the deal. You don't
have any money. You're going to take
you're going to take one jug of oil and
just get as many jugs as you can and you
just keep on pouring." And she she got
like a 100 jugs. She poured into the
first, she poured into the second, she
poured into the third, she poured into
the fourth, pour into the fifth. And she
didn't stop. When did it stop?
When did it stop?
>> She ran out of
>> When she ran out of Caleb. Well, it was
magic. That Why did it stop then?
Because she didn't need it anymore. No,
cuz obviously her faith was only so
much. Why didn't she go after she
gathered 100 kalem? Why didn't she go to
another neighbor's house and get 130 km?
You know, she said, you know, I might be
wasting my time getting 130 km. So her
faith in other words she was elig
eligible to how much braha she was
eligible to the amount of braha she had
faith that hashem would grant her as
soon as her faith ran short because she
didn't gather more kaimm she didn't
receive more braha
so really what we presented are four
approaches to understanding the simanim
four approaches to understanding the
simanim Number one says it's an
expression of our
says it's to be us to do chuva
says it's to arouse us to be mpalo for
these things the
say that in order for the decrees of
heaven to come to concretization and
fruition we have to do an act so by
doing the act it brings it to reality
and then mameid combined two of them
that why does an act bring it to
fruition? Because the act is a a
demonstration of our amuna and when we
demonstrate our amuna in that makes us
eligible to be mabel the hashem. We
pointed out that depending on what the
purpose of the simum is that might
depend is it good enough to look at it
or is it better to eat it according to
the maral that it the act brings it to
reality eating is preferred and the
moral himself says that the says also by
davening and then eating it eating it is
like you know it seals the deal
sometimes I see not not in any not I'm
just saying let's say I would see a guy
come into like
now I don't know how it's physically
possible for the human internals to
house let's say 64 ounces of a beverage
I'm not sure where they're putting it
where it's going but
why people are taking sips in middle of
suka de zimra in middle of dining you
can't do that it's not not for ding but
there I know their kavana is like the
schla because when you d and then you
eat it solidifies
No, that's only a rush by the not like a
random shakas. That doesn't apply to
that. Do don't don't be sipping in the
middle of dabbing.
In any event, uh these are four
approaches. I just want to share with
you uh a very beautiful
says what are these? It's like we're
asking for things.
Why don't we just Why do we have to
allude to them? Why do we have to allude
to a sweet new year? Just like the apple
is sweet, Hashem, give me a sweet year.
He says that you know in rash we don't
really
ask for our physical needs. The things
that we ask for explicitly at least in
the main body of areas
all the other physical things we ask are
so to speak
like Hashem give me health so I could
serve you. give me money so I could
serve you. So since the whole process of
asking for our physical needs is done so
to speak in a roundabout way, Hashem, we
ask explicitly for our spiritual needs.
We ask for our physical needs.
So therefore, we we choose during the
suda to have uh to ask
for for these needs.
The whole idea of a
a
festive meal on rash shana like where
does that even come in? Why do we have a
festive meal? It's a day of judgment.
Usually when people's lives are on the
line, they don't have such a big
appetite. It seems a little bit out of
place to uh have these festive meals. So
actually
in the safer div
he brings from
the binamy
that the whole festive meal in rash it's
like it's like to it's like to confuse
the satan here the satan he's busy
instigating the whole day he's busy
prosecuting and we need to we need to
confuse him a little bit. So when he
sees us engaging in a festive meal, it
gets he's very confused by that
practice.
Actually in the safer yaf of the son of
he says the festive meal
is also it's a simmon the fatty foods
the festive meal is a sim that we hope
hashem showers us this year with great
shea actually if you look in the safer
magim of uh the mag who taught the bio
on this week's parasitim
the malik who appeared to the told the
not to eat meat on
it says
no that means oil and milk
that's what the angel told the even
though we just saw what we saw in the
rama that
the min to eat fatty meat. So what was
the what was the angel telling the
says something
really uh mind-boggling
said it must be this Malik who taught
the B was the Malik created from the B's
learning the problem is it's a bufferish
Mishna and Giml on Rashashana is one of
the four biggest sheing days of the year
to be able to eat meat free so here the
Mishna said you're supposed to eat meat
on Rashashana So what is the angel
telling the not to eat fatty meat
says? It must be for some reason the
baso momentarily forgot that Mishna or
he had a slight weakening in his review
or his analysis and therefore that
Mishna did not illuminate for him
through the mag
but for the b on his level
you don't eat meat on rash shana but for
the rest of us we do eat meat on
rashashana but let me tell you one more
simmon because we're going to end off
what's better to learn to be uh
officially trained to search for bugs
and dates or just to look at the date.
So let me tell you about one more simmon
because I started off telling you about
the safer benri the benlash said if you
say overra
he's going to pray for you in this world
and the next I guess that's a good thing
right that's a good thing he writes on
rashashana
that just like it's good to eat carrots
and it's good to eat
pomegranates and it's good to eat apples
it's also good to in Tyra and if you
could be mad something in Tyra on rash
then that's also a very good uh sim
because there's no greater than
innovating in Tyra and if you do that
it's a sim you'll be tovah
the whole year so yes it's a very great
thing to actually eat all the but I'm
not sure if it uh would if you have the
opportunity to go to an extra shir or to
learn an extra
with all of these great
Amen. Oh, what's going on?
>> Recording stop.
>> I'd love to
address the suck confusion and like on a
real level
>> at some point. You got me go.