Tefilla: Journey of a Lifetime - Yeshiva Ruach Hatorah, Lakewood

this Tower class is brought to you by torahanytime.com is we have to have a lot of their guts and come and speak for us as you all know I I got up from Shiva not too long ago and my brother-in-law Nazi had dedicated the Shia living this with my mother and it's one thing I could say that um whenever I'd come back and say oh godson said this again to that she was always very interested and enamored by it and it's it's something that a share that we could have that could reach everyone all different walks of life and we're very exotic to have the love come all the way from Queens plan her and I can't thank him enough and I came to my brother outside Lakewood I thank you very much Nasi from bringing them also thank you okay let me put this here okay thank you so much for Shiva for the warm introduction think already I'm here more than three times I was once I had to be here on Hanukkah and zoys Hanukkah and many other occasions so it's a great supposed to be in the uh yes we wish the rashiva tremendous and I thank my good you did ravnasi for bringing me here and giving me the greatest to share with you some thoughts today today we're going to speak about an Indian and I think we could uh all admit that you know we have three amudim in this world two of them I think are doing pretty good here we are we're in the ear hattora Lakewood unbelievable you know even I live in New York but I don't you know and I live in the tri-state area but I don't live in Lakewood Lake yeah but uh Hashem in our Dar in our times we have so many Shiva so many younger lights mamish learning the amelos and the idea and and really schwitzing and learning and even balabatim the level of balabatum today tremendous throughout the world today is is unbelievable you have a gamach for everything you could possibly imagine anything you might need you need a left shoelace you go to the left shoelace and you know you can have different colors different sizes the custard and cloudy so is tremendous but I think by our own admission the Amur of Phila I think we could all admit could use some think you know especially Bene Yeshiva I remember at one time I walked in with my grandfather to uh to shul and we came early so I went to get a sitter and I went to get a safer like a good Yeshiva Baja because you know davening is learning time obviously right and my grandfather said what's the safer for so I said maybe in between uh Keller doing in Hamas Goya there might be a few moments and there's a certain yashas to it you know the is that during Phila you know how to learn you know you know during many people all of a sudden become very very big Mass medium and it's not my place to tell you what to do ask your abeamsky says if your maver said you're again then you have to do it again okay if you want to do it twice you could do it twice it's definitely it's not a problem and if you make a CM during the nine days you could be maxed to a lot of people and eating busts are at some kind of sudas That's So it's all good and I'm not not poskining I mean but that's nevsky writes based on mishnaburra I mean I think you know most Orthodox Jews follow that so but again that's not what I'm here for I think the reason why people are so looking okay it's dabbing so let me find something to learn because uh people are pretty bored during Phila that's uh so so let's give a few examples and a few illustrations so you say Miss martial and they said and then they say okay how you do I praise that Hashem so now what Miss marvelous well I did that already I already you said misma I already I already thanked Tasha ready praise no okay again I'll say mismo now what am I doing now I ready so we just figure okay we gotta get through now in the next 45 minutes 100 pages and we'll basically rattle through we have no idea what the Naf gamina is between the first Hallelujah on the second Luca and the vivarach David they're all the same they basically right now I'm not able to learn so I'm going to try to Rattle off these 100 Pages as fast as I can and in my humble opinion the reason why Fila is not that meaningful to us is because we don't know anything whatsoever nothing about it we have no clue at all not the first thing about davony and we could go 10 years 20 years 30 years 40 years 50 years and the longer we say it the more meaningless it becomes because we're just saying again something that meant nothing yesterday so the first thing I would just like to share with you is that in order to appreciate Dominic it should be learned like any other mcsoya and Tyra because a person cannot have hashivas for something that they don't know anything about so if you learn about it then it'll be harshit to see if a person doesn't learn about it then it won't be hush of to you now obviously don't take off any time from say that you could speak to your album how what when where but that's the first you study if you don't learn about it it can't have any meaning to a person so let's say I'll give you one example what in the world does Nismo say no the sheikhana says and you should say it benigna and you should stand up when you say it what exactly is so significant about Ms Melissa that you should say it out loud and you should say it benigna and you should say it how is mismo lasada different than any other part of davine oh so he says he never understood here you have a Swift and the sugar no says this is the most important part of the zimra and I don't know well you know and he said until I saw from what mismo state is and then I realized okay now I understand mismo soda basically is the hakadama to the hodavony so you start off like this foreign first thing is Hashem ah the the Big Iron and the big knowledge him what's the other Indian of Shema so this is very important that there are 248 words in Shema can I get the 248 limbs he made us now does everyone have 248 limbs the martinidarum says only Israel is 248 limbs akum has 243 foreign with fear with trembling with uh trepidation why should he get so worked up when you say Shema you have people shaking their they don't know what to do they're going out of their Calum well what are you thinking right now why are you so nervous foreign they're supposed to think they're supposed to imagine if ever put to the ultimate test would one be willing to be my son that one would give up their life Hashem so when when a person says shama they're supposed to be thinking that if ever put to the test they would be killed for hack other that's the usaid of Shema and that's also marumaso like the Sheep of his pasture willing to go so those are the three ikaram of Shema malaikum um and then willing to be to be most Innovative fine answering are the three first prophets of that's the shower with which you enter before foreign now rep Schwab writes imra and we're going to come back to this have has five parts you have to know where implicitism you're holding which by the way by the way it means you have to come to zimra and you have to come to the beginning of zimra and that means you have to have your filling on before the davening starts so you could actually say the hopesuke the zimra because you know here's another thing you could ask your but a lot of people they come to davening and they say and they say everything but when the starts so they're very good year then the only thing is they never dabbing with a minion in their entire life it's either a lot of from they're not because the definition of dying with Dominion is starting with the tsibar so you don't start tonight episode with seabor get down with the minion you're a great guy we love you you know how to learn you can learn choices and you could do tremendous classical you just didn't die with a minion yeah but I stayed I was sitting in the room where 10 Jews prayed with a with a quorum that's good for you but you didn't down with the minion definition so you have to make sure it's about timing also you gotta you gotta be here to be able to execute this video with the minion but you want to get in and I could give him a certain because you know the rubham here you give muscle you go go to a different Yeshiva here they blame it they brought in some some guy from We're from Queens you know and uh so okay so here are the five parts of psychotherism I was I was in Queens I learned in Queens only 20 years I'm still I still uh gives you a Mexican here are the far five parts of the zimra delha foreign foreign now here's the thing how you do um how you do starts like this anybody know where is Hawaii where does it come from tell him right no not yet not not in the sitter comes from there's an identical uh chapter in uh haidu that comes from uh to hilum but this comes from the reason why sfared puts it outside of the zimra because it's not really part of zebra because the hoi do until was the sheer that they sang in the basement was brought so really it's part of carbonis so the Sonos puts it before then until foreign so the first part of hodu is not really part of tsuka zimra again until loud who says he should say it out loud nobody says he should say it out loud yeah but in this siddler it puts a thing there I don't know nobody knows to put it there it's not supposed to be there he stops by VIN via altareo is the first stop the second stop is there if anyone comes up with even a bad answer to this question um the recipe will give you a hundred dollars okay so that's the first thing now we started zimra Suki the zimra the first part of Zimmer is called this is just introduction okay what the first product of the zimra by the way the silver of Jacob then there's no there's no thing over there in the old Sedum there's nothing there I I hear here's the bad answer the bad answer is since you need to pause after Ellie Lim so they made a thing there so they are okay so let's say it out loud this way everybody knows to stop there that's the best answer this is all different yummy yeah okay so the first part of Secrets what is what does it mean to make Hashem great that's not what gido means what does guido mean the plastic says tassels she braids here Guido is like this all of a sudden we say that comes from then we say metallic test test what do these tubes are going to have to do with each other the answer is there's a type of Praise where you braid together that have the same topic and you braid it together as one as one praise it's a form of Guido then we take three random sukum of rahmanas and we braid them together that's breed number two that's the second braid there's seven braids and then there's a braid of ois and then there's a braids that's the Indian of the guidocha so um over here yeah so here's a little tip if you come home a Friday air of Shabbos and you buy 12 red roses every single Friday 12 red roses 12 red roses so what in the world what kind of this is boring you know sometimes you have to get a bouquet of flowers different kinds of flowers when the diff when you put different kinds of flowers together it creates a unique bouquet same thing with praising Hashem you can't just say okay now we're going to say paragraph now we're gonna say cup mem Zion there's a certain type of because we take different succulent from different places that talk about a similar theme and you put them together so just it's kadai to be conscious and awake when you're saying these words realize there's a braid of rakham a braids a braid of nakama a braid of Yeshua a breed of it and that basically comprises okay so that's um a few things to be uh to be aware of now I want to share with you two approaches to Tila and I think if we're able to even walk away with these two approaches to Fila it will be sashem enhance and Elevate artsvilla okay I'm giving you a sheet because I like to give out sheets I like to get out papers and um the one side is color don't look at the color you're not allowed to look at the color side you're only allowed to look at the black and white side at the end we're going to look at the color side okay you're good with that don't look at it please okay so the the first approach I think is very passionate sometimes in order to connect with something in order for something to be more meaningful you have to go back mamish to the basics and the basics are three lines because if you ask most people what's the topless of Tila the tacos of FILA is I need something and I'm gonna answer me banished and he's gonna answer me that's why I'm davening I'm dying because I need something so I'm going to ask him is going to say yes the purpose of davening is bakasha and we're gonna learn that davening has absolutely nothing to do with getting what you need I need a sugar so my icker avoided please help me find the sugar in learning help me in this issue that's what almost everybody thinks that the purpose of FILA is to get from Hashem what you need and we're going to learn it's because not any of the purpose of the Avenue it's not a purpose of Dominic so the one purpose that we came in I know why I like Dominique because I it's a way of getting from someone I needed that's the one thing that we actually relate to in davening I came to burst your bubble that's not even a purpose of dominant to begin with so what so but we make so many bad cautious no no any of them has nothing to do with actually getting what we need and we're gonna see rights three lines brother it's kadai for you to know our intent are objective endowmenting you know what enochie means is only meaning nothing else is attackless number one is for the nashama to be able to yearn College so that's a very important question to ask ourselves okay I finished minkra foreign if not so we have what to uh to strive for that's purpose number one number two humility the purpose of davening is to stand in humility before the number three imraimra elevating the Creator number four my praising and thanking him number five listen carefully throwing one's pickle not I need something this is a way for me to get it no that's not a tacos of FILA we hope the Muslim will answer us but that's not the purpose of the purpose is the act of bitachen that we have him the act of saying we banished him it's not within my capacity to get what I need I put it on you and I recognize you're the only one who could help me that avoida putting my needs is the purpose of the avenue not getting from Hashem what you need but the act of putting it up on it because so then it's always worthwhile to focus on these words so at the very least at the end of the davening you could say you know what in this chakras in this minha in this marriage I was makayam the five avoido satvilla so it's probably worthwhile to try to identify so I'm not telling you to have cavana even for you could you could not have Kevin for 99 of the words just try to find five places in this Villa where you could be makaiim these five in yanem because if if you could walk away from it happening and say you know what in this and this 50-minute chakras I was mikaim the five miles Hashem you could walk away with the schmuck you could put in your back pocket you know what I could take out of this Fila the five main avoidos Hashem so you could walk away three times a day I put in my back pocket the three avoidos you could choose any place you want to make him these and Young when you say the pasoka my nishama yearns rashem okay so mark in the sitter okay and this at this at this time is when you say Hashem think okay now I'm being makayam the Indian then when I stand in Fila I am humbling myself before that I recognize I can't even open up my mouth without the assistance ma obviously most of them were thanking Hashem but be aware okay now I'm fulfilling one of the main objectives in general and that is and I think if a person would be able to identify yeah about it everybody knows and schmuck Elaine okay I'm going to ask Hashem for for what I need but why am I asking Hashem for what I need am I asking someone I need because I want to get it or am I asking Hashem for what I need as an act of bitachin that I recognize I can't help myself and I put everything on Hashem now this is a complete reality check because you stop 999 people out of a thousand you say why am I davening because I don't have a b and c and this is how I get it nah that's not the purpose of dining so that alone is now I want to share with you what to me is personally the most um beneficial approach to davening that I think are really uh upgrade our whole approach in general and let's start like this imagine a person was able to go to the the holy spot on earth imagine a person was able to go to the base time so you made a trip to today's put up a poster on the wall over there where it says emergency exit only that any bahram who learn say there is for three hours straight not not they don't look at their phone their phone is up is in the dorm then he's going to take them to the basement everybody does it and they get on on a plane the receiver Charters uh his personal Jet and he takes everybody to the base to make their so they land in the Ezra it's 3 A.M what's going on in as it's not from 3 A.M people are gathered over there people are saying to heal him people are saying people are getting ready for you know when the coin says okay we're open for business so all of a sudden the big doors of char nickname are open and the levium come down the 15 Steps and they start playing music and everyone starts walking up the steps of Charnel now who's the who's the attendant in the Yeshiva you have a janitor over here no Toshiba doesn't want to say here but imagine if there was a Tony Tony comes he cleans up Tony came along because you know he came on the trip with you and he's there in the uh in the Azara why not he's allowed to come over there but then he sees on the on the wall right next to sharnikner it says akum have to stay out so Tony's walking up to 15 Steps of Sharon iknar and all of a sudden Tony is over there he has to stand outside and all the outcome they're standing outside and they're screaming this is biased this is Prejudice and they have a whole kind of protest and they start threatening the yiddin that are coming in and we run in we run in for our life and we leave them behind and then you come to the azra Israel which is 11 amus and then there are three steps of the dukhan where the varic and then you see the massive Miss and then pass them as bayach is an area called now once you get benoism how many steps take you from the mizveyach until the ulam you have 12 steps plus plus the platform a total of 13 and you have the passage and you walk through the past it's it's a very it's wider than the and you look up at the ceiling you know what you would see if you saw uh you were in the ulam you'd see chains coming down from the ceiling the Pierce would climb up the chains and on the ceiling of the ulam there would be two crowns one for the crown of zerubavel and one the crown of mashiach and then you would open up the pesach and unbelievable on the right side in the suffering is and on the left side is and straight ahead you saw them as well so you would see the paroitas and then you would be La Familia the holiest spot on earth if only we could make that trip you know that you know the story about Joseph mashisa the Romans told them one of the Canada and he went in one time and they told him okay do it one more time and he said I can't do it they said do it one more time will elevator will promote you said I can't do it and they killed him and they tortured him and they ripped him apart and the question is he was willing to do it one time it's the one he'd do it a second time I believe the Punjab says because once he went into the base time Mig does he was changed forever he was elevated and he became a different person and even though he went in as a Russian marusha he emerged as a Sadiq and he was moisture enough we understand Bishop's rights if you would merely put your feet on the Azar that's why you can't wear shoes in the Azar you'd get a rush Hashem right through your feet into your Maya imagine if you could make the trip into the basement so here's where here's where it developed for me I'll tell you interesting thing there's another chivasarajva you wake up in the morning and what's the first thing you do you wash an egg and then you get dressed you take care of what you need to and right before davening what do you do you wash your hands again right yeah and what do you do when you wash your hands again you make a bracha you stay in the tillston until why do you make a bracha until Sudan you're eating you're eating bread before you Daven why do you make Abraham says the rajba because every morning is a new day of avoida and you have to inaugurate your new avoida sashem so how does the coin inaugurate his daily avoid this Hashem he washes his hands from the kiar so you have to inaugurate every day a year is like a koyan and he has the inaugurated by washing his hands and he makes abracana fine that's the true rajma then there's another interesting yeah says this is what I call the most misunderstood halacha in the whole says when you get up to Davin if you're standing in you should what does that mean you should face Arts Israel says foreign so I think most misinterpret this okay first I'm standing I'm facing Arts Israel yeah okay now I'm facing Your Shine now I have to face the koilers hakadoshan okay now I did it that's what people think it says what it means there's no halacha you're supposed to Face you shall I am and there's not a lot he's supposed to face when you're in Lakewood and you're facing Arts Israel you're good to go you're good to God you know what it means you should be having to shalayim says the mission of connect them imagine in your mind is it's not a khamra it's not a hidor it's not a kabbalistic practice you should imagine yourself standing in the karishakadashi so I was always wondered that's very interesting that means when you start off the morning you're washing your hands on the Kiara and when you're dabbing from an essay you're in the kite often and what about the rest of the ovening I don't know somewhere in between probably and then I saw that RAB Schwab in his Parish on the sither is miase the entire perus al-hasidhar to this approach and then I realize it really comes from a biakov emden because if you look in the Rebecca on the top of every page he tells you exactly where you are in the basement so now flip over your sheets and in a nutshell this approach to davening and this appreciation for davening really lends and gives us the following opportunity that if you start off the ovening washing your hands from the key are and Sir you're on the in reality what this means that every part of davening is connected a different part of the miktash which really means that when you're davening daily you're journeying through the base hamiktos until ultimately you reach your final destination which is so it should be self-explanatory let's let's try to go through this you have you start off diving you're in the Ezra's nation and the azizam corresponds to the on the tlcodium and all the um Preparatory uh Felice of the of the day then you say oh oh the chocolate they're 15 well what a coincidence that they're 15 steps that take you up from the Ezra's notchem to the sharing of course it's not a coincidence the hazal who formulated the TV they formulated the cedar at Villa after the Surah of the base so the 15th birthday take you up from now I'm not saying you have to say this part you'll speak to your album but at least you should be aware of what the journey is but uh the next part of davening is like we said that once you enter the sharonikna which is number 14 Tony can't go into the sharnik and all the outcome can't go into the nickname so they want to ring your neck they're trying to kill any Jew that's going in so it's mamesh sakhana so when you're going through the sharnika you're saying that's the entrance into the uh Israel now there's a little Tana devel Yahoo which is uh which is said over here and again even if you don't say it just it's kadai to be aware of it it's and we say s we talk about keyboards golios what does keyboard's goalies have to do with anything because we we just left Tony outside so basically the first 11 ammas of the Ezra's uh Israel is a kibbous Goliath of all the Israel and that gather there and that corresponds to that tunnelio then comes carbonis carbonis is obvious carbonus corresponds to the misbeach is now we're ready to almost start Suki the zimra and you look at this diagram of the basement and by the way I this diagram comes from a gamara that's published by Art scroll and I have rashus from Missouri Publications to give it to you today I asked them explicit rashus otherwise I don't want to you know to and they said how many bathroom are there I said about 50. so if you you can get some more okay anyway so the the how many steps are there taking you up from the Miss bayach until the the ulam 13 steps 12 plus the platform ready okay now you're ready to enter the ulam is so you enter the ulam through the Gateway about you exit the ulam you enter a number 54 you exit number 58 and as we mentioned what's on the ceiling and the ulam the chains and that is an icker part of understanding zimra is understanding the hemshek of one peric to the next there's a certain when you're learning tysus not just alumnus to get the hemshak of Texas is say then oh so now so there's certain storms that are very um make these observations these types of talk about this The Icarus had one pair of strings into the next that's why ashway really ends up because since we're about to start Hallelujah so they appendaged to the end of ausrae apostle that ends Hallelujah to hook in hallelujah hallelujah that's the yes to understand how one is flows into the next that's why they're chains on the ceiling in the ulam and now we enter the heisal say there are two ways to come to recognize and understand the ramam says a person could recognize that through the Bria through the physical world to study nature to study the creation to study the human body that is represented by the is the physical world that is the shulchana on the right side that is the in the north the shulchan represents the Bria the bracha of Sir of creation but of course we know the rambam says the other way to recognize the color sparkle and the preferred way to recognize the colorful is through the Torah and that is the Torah somebody would ask a good Kasha what would say the menorah was the medium with through which all Torah came down to the world so the on the right side is on the left side is the bracha of I have a rubber and then we have the Torres in the center now here's the east side what do you what are you markers that corresponding macroive the nephesh what's the avoid of Krishna avoid of is that a person accepts upon themselves that they would offer their own foreign and then there's this little flimsy separation between kriyushma and esri the brachwell that you can't be mafic at all between and you open the parojas and when you're standing you're not all of a sudden jumping into the shakadashim you've been preparing the entire Fila from the very beginning of the siddhar that when you're dabbing Esra you're not facing the qaidashim you're not standing in the direction of the Quran you are literally standing in the Kadesh hakadashem and then the end of davening is you're backing out slowly reverently from the ulam to the Asus Israel but it's very worthwhile even if you can focused by mamish every single part of domino okay where am I now where am I now where am I now there should be a general awareness that Fila is avoida it's not an exaggeration when we say Allah foreign when we sit still as an avoid though it's not an exaggeration Fila is an actual avoid though when you're dabbing you're actually doing the avoida and I don't think anybody who would go into the basement would go in while they had the Calum on the menorah on the Shogun I doubt anybody would go in the okay limb shine in I doubt anybody would bring in any devices even on vibrate into the base hamiktash at the time of Tila I mean that would be you know somebody would have to be completely out of their mind to do such a thing so it's the same thing that's why nobody in Cloudy soil ever brings in any devices even on vibrate during Fila unless there's a medical emergency and they get rashus from the rashiva and United hatsala International hatsala otherwise it's a bisayan kochem so it's the same thing with Fila but it actually if you have this settle over here it's not so complicated you could with very little effort really enhance um one's Fila and uh even if a person aren't having to every word but at the very least you know where you you are and you know what you're doing it's it's together da not only but da I made recognize where you're standing and that's at the end of essay we say very simply hero sign we say banished to enter the base we're now ready for the real thing if we're able to be misspellel in in a manner of avoido the way it was meant to be then uh to the avoida mamish in the basement Sky uh you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by toraanytime.com