Rosh Hashanah: Personal Resurrection and the Resurrection of the Dead

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com thank you so much rabbi stein uh it's just to be in your place and uh want to be mavari the rav they should have continued seattle ishmael and uh this makham torah and the yeshiva and in all of his endeavors should continue to be shamed shamayim to be married and uh as as i i have heard the name of the rav in uh many circles and uh he has many admirers wherever his torah reaches and we wish there of continued success in seattle in all of his endeavors um tonight's shir is being dedicated in the memory of not only a good friend of many of the members of this show but actually a cousin of mine dr brian galbert rabarach ben bruven who despite my own observance i'm told that if there are 10 people in the world who were like brian then the world would be a very special place aside from being a very renowned cardiologist he was an individual who would wake every morning before the crack of duan and he was davok to the torah like like a god of israel and we're confident that hazal tell us actually the way writes that at the end of the davening on the umna realm we say i am seven times seven expressions where do these seven expressions come from so writes the seven haiyoms are kaneget viatem hadvakem bashem that we hope on this day of rosh hashanah we hope to be mesdabig telekim khayim and by clinging to him we are confident that will give us the year of so we are also confident that brian who spent his whole life davok to the torah and as the rav mentioned when one is the torah one is davik to the shrine and so to speak it obviates in a way the need for chuva in fact if i could mention there's an astounding siddha writes in the morning says they're four levels of kapara iguana says if somebody violates an assay and you do chuva then you get automatic kappa you don't even need yom kippur and the kumar says that if a person violates allah so then uh chuvas toilet and then yom kippur is so the truth is you only need yom kippur for lavin but yom kippur doesn't help for everything because the gemara continues that if somebody violates the karis khas for shalom then shiva's tailor and yom kippur is toilet and person needs other ingredients to wipe away the average person would perhaps need yesuram the gemara sauce and then hashem chuva can wipe it away yum kippur can't wipe it away even you sure him says lava fella that if somebody is oisek the torah the shema you don't need shiva you don't need yum kippur you don't need surim you don't need misa torah alone is for the hamuras and the menesoshka writes even though we don't understand where did the dog get this from it's against suggest writes since this way the best thing again this indicates this concept that torah in a way if a person learns torah properly it obviates the need for teshuva i want to share with you a very incisive question this question comes from a rare safeway the name of the seifer is emek yehoshua of revisa kharif revised as follows the gemara says in rosh hashanah adapted the gemara brings the opinion of ravioli that a person is judged every single day so fractured if we're judged every single day what are we getting so worked up about on rosh hashanah so we come to shul and we're swaying and we're shuckling and we're we're crying we're not crying we're making believe we're crying but we get it we get into it we take it very seriously what are we getting so worked up about on rosh hashanah adam every month again donorstick we imagine somebody's judging us every day the rebalance is judging us so why are we so serious on rosh hashanah what's the difference between rosh hashanah and the daily judgment according to shita sabiyasi of adam nida so i want to examine a phrase in rosh hashanah we're very familiar with it but when we focus on it we'll notice that it seems to be out of place we say you hear the sound of the shafar you're attentive to the trua viendo malach and there's no one like you no kidding no kidding why do we have to inject that expression there's no one like you we know that already the truth is it's like it's like a random thought you could stick the words in any given thila that we say throughout the day foreign we know that already especially in light of the fact there's a halachic principle that that right before the conclusion of abraham we need to end off with the subject of the kasima so that the idea mentioned right before the hasima will will flow seamlessly into the hasimah so what does the indomalach got to do with shimayakov what's viendo malach doing there so we could say simply that there's a concept that is really introduced by the basal levy and the brisker up speaks about it and is developed by rip sullivan that there's a concept that takes shoe is not just a maison mitzvah it's not just an act of a mitzvah like shaking a lullaby where we lift up the lulav and we shake it and we're making a mitzvah but actually the blowing of the shaffer is an effect for a prayer a type of tv and there are many interesting uh supports to this concept most notably rosh hashanah where the gemara says the gemara says you cannot use the shaffer of a cow of a power because the gemara says when you blow that chauffeur you don't want to remind the rebound some of the keto egal in kate just like the kind god that would not wear big days of when he did the avoid on yom kippur and the gemara asks wait a second the kangaroo didn't wear big days of he only didn't wear big days of left neither left him but the avoid the shabbats he wore the big days of so we're exactly blowing the shauffer you're taking the bow together you're stuffing him in the arena dash you know open up the doors stuff the baltic and close the doors particularly is not blowing the shoifer and the left nivel of them he's blowing it about the bema i know the bhima is like the mosaic tourists of the chuban cypher but it ain't the snivel of them so if there's only concern of in category when the coin goto is left left nimble when he's doing the big day when he's doing the avoiding he's allowed to wear big days of so why can't the mouth takea below the horn of a cow so gemara uses a very unusual expression says since you blow the shaipha to remember to remember therefore it's like you're blowing it left nivel of them but what does that mean what does that mean since you blow the schaefer to remember it's as if you're blowing it left nivel of them so the way i like to say it over is that there's an interesting halacha in which i think it's very overlooked we all know the shogunate says that when you dive in shema esray you need to be meshavin kinneged eretz israel so if you ask most people you stop a thousand people on the street what does the mean when he says you should be negative say you you need to face arat's israel and you need to face the qaeda shakodashim so please tell me if you're standing in america and you're facing aras israel aren't you automatically facing the colors how how do you face arat's israel and not face the kardashians so the mission of burra says that's not what the shaykh means contrary to what everybody in the world thinks that the shaitanic is saying there is no halal and shocking to face the qaeda production it doesn't exist never said that based you need to have in mind when you dive in that you're standing in the kaidesh hakadoshan when you take the three steps back and then you take three steps forward you need to imagine yourself that you're virtually standing in the holy of holies so when i saw that i was like you know maybe i'll be making one time in my life i finally understood that means look this is what was saying it's not a hidden it's not it's allah you need to imagine yourself standing with nivel of them therefore since shayfar is not just a maison mitzvah but it's a prayer it's it's fila and the way you pray is you imagine yourself standing in the kashaka dasham therefore the laws of shaifer are governed as if you're standing with naive elephant and therefore you cannot use the shaykh of a power you need to use the shaifar of an ayah because in kategar and assassinate here's a good one anybody know where are he in which semen there's a good way to remember this i once went to a shir of rabitsuki yosef in queens i used to be rabbi in queens so he gave a shirt first fired them first of all it wouldn't be nice if before let's say you spoke you know they had hazonim and monogamy so they had robusto giosef you know they say speaking at nine o'clock nine o'clock you have khazonim you have bali nagunim ten o'clock after all the khazanam finished you know they're opening acts when abandoned speak by the start of them they're opening at anyway rabiotsuki yosef said he posed the following question that nobody knew the answer to he said does anybody know where in your day dog i don't know i was learning for smith i didn't remember he said what nobody knows he says sim and pay gimmel rashidevo it's gefilte fish he says that's what the gemara says that you have to make simone to help you remember with where things are he went through a whole list of tsumonomi had had lucas he had ten different shimano so my semen is tough it's a tough time of the year and kofpayab you need a lot of coffee right so that's how you remember it but the mahabharata says in semi-tough listen to this porn there's a minogue to get up early to say from until young pepper that's the mahabhara so far them have to wake up for a month and they wake up early to say sleekos every day listen to the rama um we don't do this what do we do we blow shay fur in the morning and during rosh kardashian it's very interesting rama rama's going on the mahabharata says fardham says for a month so all the rama should say we don't do that why does ramah have the need to say but we blow the shofar as if one thing has to do with the other there's nothing to do with it the ramos should just say we don't say sleekhorse unfinished as if dramaa is saying that our blowing of the shofar takes the place of saying how does belonging the shepherd take the place of slifis so we see this you say it again that shaipha is not just a maison mitzvah it's not not just a custom it's a form of a prayer it's a tsa'aka so the question is what is the shaykh for saying what is the tifia of the shaifa and perhaps there's an idea that because marooba and sarcasm because we have so many needs and there's so many things we need to ask for and we can't even begin to articulate what we need we need paranasana we need nakas we need gazant we need health we need we can't even for this one for that one for this relative for that friend for this kehillah we have so many things we want to ask for so the ibanesham gives us a great gift he gives us the shofar the shaifer is so to speak the unarticulated cry of the heart where we can't even summon up the verbiage to express everything that we need so what we do is we just cry as the basale v says we bypass the channels of the vocal cords we bypass the mouth and the palate and we just cry out and the revolution then has to decipher and uncover all of the needs that are being articulated and this unarticulated cry who could do such a thing how does robunsham have the ability to detect in the sound of the shaifar all of these myriads of requests that we're making so that's what we say you hear the sound of the shafter um there's no one like you you could do this only you ribasham are able to hear that raw cry and decipher in it what every jew is asking for what every jew wants what every jew needs even if we ourselves are not cognizant of what our needs are sometimes you stand in chemistry and roshana we can't even begin to articulate all the things that we need but the rebellion so to speak probes the inner recesses of the heart and he is able to detect in the sound of the shafar all the myriad requests we are asking for and we don't even know that we need to ask for but there is a deeper dimension in these words the indoi malach why did khazal why did the ancient arab formulate that in middle of the conclusion of shaifaris we stick in we inject these words vien doi melacha let's take a look at the tour if you take a look at number seven the tour and also in tough coffee ale if the tour also employs a very interesting expression the tour is describing our procedure on air fresh hashanah the tour says that one would expect that rosh hashanah we should be gripped with terror and fear if somebody was put on trial for a capital offense and their life was on the line it's unlikely they would have the wherewithal to groom themselves to dress well to breathe to present themselves in an elegant way and yet the tour says our custom is on rosh hashanah we bathe we take a haircut says the tour i'll pee the meadows who is like cloud israel who knows the procedures of their god says the tour minha shalom adam she's like um someone who has a court case with don black clothing would wrap themselves in black clothing megados the cani would grow their hair eno fish they don't know what the outcome will be able you throw a non cane we're not like that lifeshim levonim we eat we drink we rejoice listen to the torah lefishayoiden we are confident that god will perform a miracle aside from the fact that it would seem the last emotion that we would exhibit on rosh hashanah is confidence after all the gemara says that one of the things that is completely remote and hidden from a person is so how could the torah say we're confident but we're going to focus on one word of the torah the torah says we are confident we are convinced the evolution will make a miracle what miracle what's the torah talking about a miracle there's no miracle on rosh hashanah the miracle happens on pesach and sukis you know miracles on rosh hashanah the torah should say we're confident god will give us a good judgment we're confident in the verdict we're confident in the outcome but what in the world does the torah mean yas elohim what miracle there are no miracles that are taking place on rosh hashanah let's come back to the words as we mentioned you could technically say the indomalach anywhere in davening but the indus has a very specific connotation every single time the indomalach appears it refers to one particular ability of the banished slalom now the emotion has many great abilities so i was just i was just reading that a child in utero a baby in utero so it doesn't breathe on its own it doesn't get oxygen through its lungs it gets oxygen through the umbilical cord so in the baby the question is does the heart need to pump the blood to the lungs after all its lungs are not functioning so it doesn't in a baby in utero the blood goes to the right ventricle and then it doesn't pump it up to the lungs it goes from one the side of the heart to the other side of the heart how does it get there there's actually a hole in the baby's heart where the blood passes through one side to the other the question is so what happens when the baby is born because how long could a person exist with a hole in their heart the answer is a so how does the baby survive oh very simply the moment the baby is born it takes a breath it cries it creates a pressure cavity in the heart and the heart is sealed shut now if the heart doesn't seal shut the baby has to have a surgery which is sakonas and the fascias but the revenue says no problem just cry a little bit the heart seals on its own it's amazing every time a child is born that's what happens we don't apply that miracle and say in that's pretty good ribansham but we don't call that india ain't doing only refers to one particular miracle of the ribanus shalom there are two times in davaning that we apply the words refers specifically to the ability to be mason to resurrect to revivify the dead the gemaran gittin says a person could have drowned his atoms his molecules could have been spread through the corners of the universe says i will collect and reconstitute every atom and cell and molecule and recreate the person that's the miracle where else do we use this expression so we've identified that the two places in davaning where um is specifically in the connotation of and therefore there's a beautiful safe here say for us yashya written by a good friend of mine maisha schwartz who is a prominent attorney and khashoggi in kugarman hills he quotes ravisha shapiro the remission shapiro says that if hazal utilized the expression vien de malach in the bracha of shaifaris they are clearly referring to this specific ability of the rival islam to be mahaya mason and now the question is why are we referring to the miracle of triassim and mindren in the end of the broadcast and the answer is we have a fundamental misunderstanding what takes on what takes place on rosh hashanah we think we come to the rebound tough test it was a good year i was alive i was well i made a living i had a family we bunched them keep it that way or maybe stay out stay out of my business and let's leave things though just the way they've always been please don't meddle in my affairs this year don't shake the boat because i got what i got i know what's in my account right now i know the the situation in my family i know my health situation in buddhism just stay out of my business and things will be great in tough shane pay because i'm the muksak there's a status quo i have a presumptive status that whatever i need i have so just leave it that way please but says no that's not how it works in rosh hashanah writes and seminary number eight if you see your friend after 30 days you make a shakianu okay we don't do that anymore because there's so many modes of communication that we assume that if anything would have happened to your friend you probably would have heard about it within milliseconds within you know nanoseconds you would find out what happened to your friend but continues says what if you haven't seen somebody in 12 months says you make the following blessed are you god you revive the dead so bishop wants to know why do you make a brahman after not having seen somebody for 12 months so mr brewer quotes the martial and the martial says very simply because if you haven't seen someone in 12 months they've passed through a rosh hashanah and rosh hashanah the shot is not that you were alive and al rashid were asking god please continue the status quo you stand before the rebounding time on rosh hashanah like a mess like an ani like uh somebody with no mishpache and no family ani evil amish and we don't serve you banished them continue what i have reboiner shalilam give me life be me maysim this year ribanjam give me family give me friends give me parnassa i'm an anime i'm not a high and continue the status quo i have nothing would say with great emotion what he heard his rebbe the grenade say over the first night of sriharis the granada would say over say the passage in the like a poor man we knock on your door what does that mean like a poor man we knock on your door we don't knock on your door you punish them look right now my portfolio is just fine the stocks were good this year business was good this year stay out and tough shin pay just leave it that way we come before the revolution with not a penny with not a source of income with not a source of livelihood without a source of life and we literally beg the evangelion not to continue the status quo to grant to grant everything we are comfortable with but we shouldn't be comfortable with so what's taking place on rosh hashanah is not a continuation but is a virtual tahias hamasim in shul when we're standing in seoul and rosh hashanah we're asking to resurrect us because we stand before him as a mess the lease is over remission shapiro quotes that i read that the ubuntu never grants more than one year at a time another bunch of time decided you know 30 years ago 40 years ago 50 years you're going to live 70 80 90 years so one every year it's a one year lease every year it's a one year lease on your job on your family on your well-being on your livelihood on your mishpacha on your life there's a miracle that takes place on rosh hashanah and the miracle is the miracle of triassem um you could do it you're the only one who could do it yes every day they run from judges us when we munch them judged me today i was able to say the wrong shall look ribonsham i have a job i have a family i have health just keep it that way the onus is on you to extract me who's the muksuk on everything i have you could apply the rule i might see me royal of haraya but on rosh hashanah the ibanisham is not the mozi the we're the mighty to prove we should get another here we become the mighty maybe we're the marikama but we're not the most the laws of presumptive status change on rosh hashanah today on test for elo to zayanello where the moksak on rosh hashanah but we ask you something we're confident or evangelion will perform a miracle for us that's the unique status of the dinner of rosh hashanah all bets are off you know the interesting thing what is the main theme of rosh hashanah what is this that we invoke more than any others what is the event that we drum up time after time after time the gemara says on the second day you read about the al-qaeda the gemara says that you blow the shaytar of an ayala to remember we talk about why do we do the rama quotes the marill we go to taslich to remember for no other reason when abraham avinu went to do the akedah khazal say the satan came in the guise of a river and tried to stop avraham aveeno until he cried out the purpose of tasha according to ramos citing the mahril and the bureau quotes this as well is to invoke this host of i'll tell you amazing the whole thing what in the world are you doing oh i'm giving the chicken my average that's what i'm doing where does that come from since when could you give chicken your average i'm giving the chicken i'm being magnet to the chicken my average which kenyan are you using how exactly what's the transfer so listen to this meri meiri says yeah the original custom was not chicken it was not money it was not fish the miri says was a ram obviously that's not a very convenient custom you know there's enough trouble with all those boxes of chickens imagine if there were boxes of rams and uh coney island avenue miri says we used to use a ram why to commemorate akedas because admiral vino when when ibrahimovic said don't shuffle hashem told abraham okay here's the ayah i'm going to show you the aisle and every act that ahmadina wanted to do to yitzhak rashid brings he said he did it to the aisle and he says this should be in lu of yitzhak so abram avinu performed the first qataris kalpatis in other words he did tell the isle what he wanted to do to yitzchak so we do that to re to invoke that's what the miri says that kaphara says shania laroche follows so everything is all about why are we so busy with akira rosh hashanah oh because it happened on rosh hashanah right yeah really very interesting where does it say that it happened on roshana yeah there's a sikda that says it happened in rosh hashanah there are many midrashim that say it happened on yom kippur so how come we're not busy with akira kanyam kitsukeeper the medishiraba doesn't say it happened on roshana and meredith doesn't say it happened on yom kippur the medishiraba says it happened pesach you know anybody who does tash who blows a sheifer on pesach why are we so busy with the al-qaeda on rosh hashanah if it didn't happen on rosh hashanah what does akida have to do with rosh hashanah so the safer aziosher brings really a novel and an exhilarating uh explanation for the connection between la kedah and rosh hashanah and that's very simply contrary to what uh perhaps you were taught in yeshiva that what happened at the akedah was that abrahavino took the knife and he was about to shake the itzhak and yitzhak said nothing yitzhak said okay go for it and hashem said don't do it so avraham retracted and yitzhak walked away happily ever after who says that account nobody that's not what happened by the account the most midrashim yitzhak died the shiboli haleka brings down if you look at number 12 shibala haleka brings that the 18 brachas of shema yesterday are actually a historical account of world history where when abraham avinu was saved mayor kazdim the malachi ashores cried out baruch hashem abraham ashes were scattered on haramaria and i called this brother who took the do of him and he brought him back to life this is what david refers to when he says kital kharma in hayard al-harad sion says when the knife reached yitzhak parkhave yatsa nishmasai by the way i definitely don't want to get into this subject right now but there are five arachima kadashas who get into this concept that before the akedah what is it called ben lasara and after the al-qaeda it's yitzhak bin abraham why before the akedah is yitzhak attributed to sarah and after the akita yitzchak is attributed to avraham because says the uh archaic had a switch of gender of his nashamah and that's he wasn't able to have children before the akedah and then parkhunchmasoy and he had a new neshama duracam writes about this about five times in the end of the beginning of sarah so this is a well established idea yet what's the first example of triassim in the homes what's the shoiresh of the kayak of treyasame what do we hope for on rosh hashanah we hope for the miracle of umidi malach and what brought that miracle into oil what program is a possibility for this world so on the day that what we are hoping for from ibanezham is that he literally resurrect us and revivify us we say we banish them we know you could do it the shoy rash of this great miracle that we hope for today is that kedasi itzhak we don't only mention it because it happened not everybody agrees it happened on rosh hashanah it's not only a great zuchus it is the central theme of the day where we stand before the ribanus rosh hashanah and we say you could do it you did it we're confident you're going to do it to us there's the kafka i'm the rip schneider cutler would say over every year in preparation for rosh hashanah if you look at number 16 the cafe in the second to last line the kafkaim draws an analogy between the 40 days from rashford until yom kippur to the arboretum the same way even though the baby develops over nine months but the primary formation takes place in the first 40 days the organs develop the gender is determined in the first 40 days there's a connection between that concept and the 40 days between rish kardashian and yom kippur what's the connection what's the meaning of this analogy surrogation continues this theme that we're mentioning that the matters tells us the aku shimani tells us if you look at number eighteen virabon on amrin um that not only says the madrid we stand before god and rosh hashanah without a muksuk without a claim without a presumptive status on our lives on our families on our livelihood but even spiritually speaking we know there's a concept rishon the cry mason the wicked even when they're alive they're considered as if they're dead so we too say before the ribanus islam we are not even alive spiritually we stand before you like a mess spiritually and we ask you please revitalize us revivify us resurrect us it's very interesting we'll be honest in ibishits in his commentary to shema esri he says in what bracha should you be to ask for seattle to be able to do tuva the very beginning of the safer when you say the brach that's when you should be asked to resurrect you to revitalize you to revivify you even in a spiritual sense the kavanagh of chuva chuva the ability to do chuva is nothing less than the greatest miracle in the world you know the ushami tells us that they asked what should be the verdict of somebody who doesn't have era and they asked the torah and the torah said i don't know if someone doesn't have beer let them bring a carbon and they asked the reborn of shalilam and the ibanez said du chuva that means chuva is not even an itza or an opportunity that navi or even the torah could give chuva comes from the highest place only the ribner some it's like one of those keys that only the ribbon islam has access to chuva and triassem says it's no wonder that there's a man by the name of elio navi and el yo navi will usher in two eras in history elio will usher in the era of chuva and elio will usher in the arab in is literally a resurrection of the neshama chuva is the revivification of the neshama when do we start sliches there are three or four shitas and we shine them the torah brings down a daya that you start reshading the torah brings down an opinion that you start the sunday before rosh hashanah unless rosh hashanah comes out less than four days before sunday the growth says no i don't i don't agree with these these these pay russian the gra quotes the custom of barcelona the grand quotes the run then in barcelona they began to say slich because it's the first day of creation okay so because we banished them created the world in rafael now i have to lose 40 minutes of sleep so i'm crazy why do i need to get up early on because ubuntu created the world then what is the creation of the world gotta do with my silicas but apparently what we're learning is that the 40 days of chuva are literally corresponding to the 40 days of yitsiris havelad we're recreating ourselves we're resurrecting ourselves and the time that we start is elo the first day of creation and the gra even says that our custom to start on sunday is not in contra distinction with the menage it's only that since rafaela could come out on different days of the week we prefer always to start on the sunday closest to cafe so it's not that we don't start slick or something we do we just choose the first day of creation which was sunday so who's the navi of chuva who's the prophet of chuva we read about him anyam kipper he's the one who could tell even the gentiles tuchuva who is he so the album identifies he's the son of the woman who sustained eliahu he's the boy who died and he's the boy who eliyahu brought back to life interesting the navi of chuva is the navi who experienced him firsthand he's the one who could tell the world that shiva works because if he didn't experience him it would be impossible for him to say that shiva works because here he's going to talk to amithram he's going to talk to the umass they're going to say we're mason we're like we're dead our actions are as if we're dead we're so dirty we're so sullied we're so bogged down it is impossible to ever resurrect our souls so yana says it happened to me physically so you could do only yoina could bring the message of chuva to the world the safer rose points out it is yoina who experienced firsthand he is able to bring the world the message of chuva so there are many dimensions of mesen that take place on rosh hashanah we stand before the banish psalm we don't feel like we're not on our lives not on our livelihoods not on our health not on anything we have we are physically like mason we are emotionally like mason we are spiritually like mason but at the same time we're very confident we know that we trust in the rebounding silence that there's nobody else who could do this nobody else who could revivify us physically and nobody else who could help us recover the purity of our soul there's a place up in the shamayim where the navy don't understand if we could say even the torah cannot give us this advice it doesn't say anywhere in the torah really to do chuva chuva is it even a mitzvah the ramaam seems to apply true is not even a mitzvah that reason writes that if you look through the niveam when the navi talks about shiva often the navy will substitute the hebrew word for aramaic the navi will sometimes use the word asylu the ramas because the banners is trying to hide the ability to do chuva even from the malacca because nobody understands it it's a key that only the ibanesha maintains it's the key of tri-sim but it's a key that we're confident that the evolution will give us give us access to and when we blow that shuffle and when we remember the very first trisam them in history we're not just invoking this great huss we're invoking the miracle that was brought down to the world on that fateful day that the abundant could take a person out of any predicament a predicament of physical death emotional death spiritual death and the abundance could sprinkle on us the do of a sim and give us a year of a year of livelihood a year of nachas and this is a miracle that we're confident in and we say very joyously um there's no one like you you could resurrect us physically and in all elements and may the ibanezham answer the coil of the shaifar and answer all of our treehouse all of us and all of our families and and 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