The Art of Transformation - By Rabbi YY Jacobson

[Music] good evening welcome back tonight's class is graciously dedicated by David and either Schottenstein in the loving and sacred memory of rabbi Gabrielle Naya and riff key hallsburg as well as the other kadesha massacred in Mumbai in India this evening we are going to explore an enigmatic Madras related to the holiday we are presently approaching the festival of Succoth the Madras is based on one of the sukham one of the Biblical verses in viagra in the portion of Mr in the Book of Leviticus dealing with suckas open up your sources to source number one below the video in your curriculum you have source number one let us see the passage the Torah states in parshas emmerich of gimel pass mmm 23:40 well aqaq Dubois hem bhaiya marushin creates harder coppiced moorim vana fights avez-vous ivory naka on the first day you shall take for yourself the four famous species the Dollard minim the essrig the Lula of the hardest are over the citroen the branch of the palm tree the myrtle branch and the willow who smashed them live Nash time allocation which live a sermon and rejoice in the presence of God for seven days comes the Madras the Madras raba on that verse in Paris ma mattress robbed of a ikura partial Ahmad Pisgah Zion opened up source number two the same theme is also found in Madras tan Huma it's quoted in other sources and let's see what the Madras says the Manish asks a question by um hari shine Zetas Sava of Virata Amir by yomaira shine when the Torah says you should take on the first day these four species the lulav the etrog the hardness and i robber the terror is referring to fifteen day of Tishri which is the first day of the holiday of circus the fifteenth day of the Hebrew month of Tishrei so why does the tailor call it by you are you showing the first day when it's really the fifteenth day monitor shareddi be assured the system's memorable aviom are two great sages ramona and rubio schewe in the name of rebel av explained it with the following metaphor listen to the metaphor marshal amid inertia heavy sleepers lamella Valhalla hemella leg visor there was a country in debt of lots of taxes to the king and they weren't paying it so the king felt that this was a rebellion so as the Midwestern Homer here elaborates with some more details the King calls his troops and said it's time to go attack the country and get what is ours this these people believe that they are independent they don't owe any allegiance to their monarch let us go and collect the money bateau Hazara millon yotsugi daily I'm a dinner vehicle soo within 10 million a mil is approximately a kilometer so within 10 kilometers of the actual city as the king was arriving the great dignitaries of the country came out and praised the king they demonstrated their loyalty their subservience their relationship to the king he Turla Hamlisch mid emotional ahem the King forgave them for 1/3 of the taxes which they owned him which they owed him as the midwestern home explains they told the king we don't have the reason we didn't pay was not because we didn't want to pay or we didn't feel we have to pay we simply don't have we're broke perhaps a recession was going on then as well we're broke we don't have the money so don't take it as a rebellion it's the fact that we really don't we lack the flow we lack the finances so the King forgave them a third of the debt but a commission millon within the next five kilometers within five kilometers of the country yacht so bein and Nahum a dinner vehicle so Hittle my flesh the intermediary citizens of the country came out and extolled his virtues they praised them and the King forgave them a second third of the debt Kevon Shannon Aslam Idina once he arrived into the country Atsuko benalmadena notion of a topical silver hit dilemma cut the entire country everybody men women and children all came out to greet him and praise him and the king forgave them the entire debt on my loin Malka the king told them Mazel özil minhas commercial husband what was was and now we begin a new calculation this is the metaphor that midrashic sages are presenting to us so that we can understand the verse concerning circus and the four species so the country who owns a major debt to the king to the government first the King sees them as rebels and is determined by hook or by crook to get his money from them he forgives them one third then he forgives them a second third and then he forgives them the rest of the debt and says you know what what was was let us begin fresh ah the second paragraph and source number two from the Madras cash bed of the Shoshanna d'Italia during Masson and vaca - Miroku mater lems leash Marvin a saying on the day before Ashish on the great Giants of the generation fast and God forgives the Jewish people a third of their transgressions middie Shoshanna valumarket autumn is Edom is Sun and vicunas barroso material Amish Marvin II say during the days between wishes shannon m'kay individual juice fast and God forgives the Jews a second third of their sins but yarmulke purium cool on Missoni an awesome normative vakidis Baraka a mullah homeless role model özil minhocão allah nazil husband onion keeper all of the jewish people fast men women youngsters and God forgives the Jewish people all of their sins and he tells them what was was and now let us begin a new husband a new calculation of your behavior so just as in the metaphor three groups of people approach the Cape the same is an our case error versus Shana one group between wish Hashanah and Yom Kippur a second group and finally when the King enters into the land the entire nation comes out to greet him and he forgives them for everything that's Yom Kippur and he says let us begin anew oh me you're a monkey pyramid ha ha now during the days from Yom Kippur till suckers you have 4 days call you all are so convinced was there I said mr. causseaux visible Allah they all of the Jewish people are consumed in performance of mitzvahs this is true is busy building a Sukkah this Jew is busy buying the lulav will be arm to volitional high cholesterol and inland a cottage borough who for the lava investor again lachemann schlocko - Miroku on the first day of circus the Jewish people stand with their little love him with their palm branches with their Australian with their cinched citrons to honor God for I'm her lamb and he tells them Mazel Mazel what was was mean - a selfish boner from now let us begin a new calculation LaFace a clear form Masha Mazel is all look after member mreczek therefore my share warns he cautions the Jewish people and he calls the first day of circus not the 15th day of Tishri but by ami Risha in the first day so the Madras asked it's not the first day of a month it's the 15th day of the month why does my sure we'll call it the first day as though it was the first day of the month when really it's the mid of the month it's the center of the month it's the 15th day of the month and the answer is because malicious cautioning the Jews there is a fresh start this is the first day it's not the first day in the context of the calendar or of the month it's the 15th day of the month it's not procession it's not the beginning of the year the beginning of the month but it's the first day in the context of your moral accountability that from today begins a new calculation of sins because Yom Kippur the old debt was a taunt from the days between Yom Kippur and Serkis nobody has time to sin they're busy with mitzvahs the first day of suckers the 15th day of the month now starts a new calculation of sins hence he calls it by yelling by Russia in the first day this is the Midrash a commentary on this verse concerning circus at first glance this is a very strange Midrash how do we understand this the four days before circus when you're running around to build your sucker when you're running around to buy your lulav nsarray when you're running around preparing for the holiday there is no sense the Midrash says when do we say you start sinning when is the Reese Erlich husband of Venus when the holiday comes before the yom tov when you're preparing for it now you're pure now you clean now nobody sins now when the actual yom tov begins and jews are doing the mitzvot they're not preparing for the Mitzvah they're sitting in the sukkah they're shaking the little oven estwick suddenly here now they begin to sin what happens if on the first day of circus they don't sit and there's no husband a very nice it's as though and this is what's so strange Moira banners promising them Allah cast them remember you I'm Irish and this is the first day when your sins are being calculated because you're going to send out why would we assume that on the first day of the holiday that's when every Jew or some Jews are going to begin to sin god forbid and if they're going to begin as sinning on sue cos they'll certainly begin a few days earlier and many commentators throughout the generations struggled to understand what is the true meaning and the symbolism here in this Midrash that precisely the first day of Yom Tov of Circus should be defined by my sharavino and the Taira as he reached showing the first day for what it's a fresh start a fresh start for what that there's a new calculation of sense and we will not say to push it off till after yom tov till after the holidays i want to share with you a beautiful explanation presented by the great Hasidic master rabbi lately it's luck of Barda chav he writes this in his book safer kedusha slavey on the portion of ha Xenu and in order to understand his explanation let us preface the fact that it's been seen and understood by many of the Jewish thinkers and masters that Circus is actually a continuation of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur in other words Yom Kippur and circus are not two separate experiences they're actually interconnected deeply with each other one represents the same concept on a level of awe and the other reflects the same concept but from a point of view of love and celebration as many sources explain Yom Kippur we know is the day of chuhwa of repentance of forgiveness is the day that moisture Rubino gave the Jewish people the second set of tablets it's the day Hashem told them CELAC the kid verify have atoned completely the Jews for their betrayal of the creation of for their betrayal and the creation of the golden calf and he gives him the second tablets the second Lewis after the first ones were broken and thus it becomes the great day of trova the great day of repentance Circus is the joy and a celebration commemorating and celebrating that reconciliation that renewed and invigorated and rejuvenated relationship between the Jewish people and God is one of the great celebrations of circus in fact many swaram right and many sources that the staff of the sukkah is symbolically created from the Annunaki terrace from the cloud which came up on yom kippur from the burning of the incense of the high priest and the holy of Holy's as the smoke went up symbolically that smoke hovering over the sanctuary and the temple that becomes manifested in a very physical and concrete way in the sky which hovers over our circus in fact the reason we celebrate circus the past success in parsha semer Lemonnier do they racism Kiba suka say shaft es Binet is wrong you should know that when the Jewish should remember that when I took the Jews out of Egypt I placed them in circus the Talmud in the sector suka the gomorian suka da fiel of page 11 discusses the argument he never lays a rebbi akiva what type of circus was it literally hots that the Jewish people dwelt in when they left Egypt during their journey in the desert according to Rabbi Eliezer or quantitive Akiva was Ananya covered the clouds of glory the clouds of glory which in developed the Jewish people and protected them from the Sun and from a heat wave during their long journey and voyage in the desert and it's those clouds of glory that we commemorate when we sit in our suka so our suka is metaphoric and symbolic of the clouds of glory connected also to the cloud that ascended the cloud of smoke that ascended from Aaron from the high priests burning of the instance on Yom Kippur now this concept of the connection between Yom Kippur and circus is also true in a very vivid way when you study the famous question why circus is celebrated on the 15th day of the month of Tishrei if it commemorates the journey of the Jewish people out of Egypt through the desert protected by suckers whether physical huts suka means our Hut or supernal clouds of glory a divine so to speak we should celebrate it after Passover after Pesach this is the famous question of the tour in our Hyomin Hill Hozuki why do we celebrate circus during the 15th month of the 15th day of Tishrei if it commemorates the exodus of Egypt it should be done when they left Egypt which was on the 15th day of innocent so I guess we should have we should build a suit can't eat matzah and everything else we do have this say there in a circle why is circus suddenly the 15th of Tishrei there are many answers given for this there's one famous answer given by the Vilna Gaon the villa maganda says this in his commentary tashera share into the Song of Songs chapter 1 verse 3 and he says as a fascinating explanation that we know that when the Jewish people created and erected the golden calf merely 40 days after the revelation at Sinai they created and pagan Idol which many worshiped the clouds of glory which protected them and engulfed them parted left that is the meaning the Midrash says in the Pussycat says in Paris Kisa valya mauritius arm keeper Oahu Marsha Moses saw the nation that it was exposed it was open what does it mean it was exposed it was exposed to didn't have the divine protection of the clouds of glory now when did God forgive the Jewish people for the creation of the golden calf we said a moment ago that was on Yom Kippur on the day of Yom Kippur the 10th of Tishrei God told Moses elastic advisor I have completely forgiven the Jewish people which is why M Kippur has been established in the Jewish calendar as the ultimate day of return of healing of recovery of reconciliation of peace of removing the stains the dirt the filth in our own moral psychological spiritual and emotional identity it's the day he gave them the second he gave moisture the second tablets so moisture comes down from the mountain the next morning we know the eleventh of Tishri the morning after Yom Kippur vehicle moisture moisture gathers the Jews and he instructs them as Rashi tells us in the beginning of iocai land and other places that mid Russian say the day after Yom Kippur the morning after Yom Kippur you're a Leticia Airy in the morning moisture gathered the entire nation and he instructed them to build the Mishkan to build a sanctuary of isola meekness vishanti basilicum in the words of partial stroma make from me a sanctuary and I will dwell among them to bring back so to speak the divine presence into the world after the sin of the golden calf expelled so to speak the manifestation of the divine presence of God's presence Moisture told the Jews to start contributing gold silver copper wool and other materials thirteen materials which were needed for the construction of the sanctuary to house the divine presence in the desert what happens next take a look in source number three deposit describes in parishes via column at valve gimel that the builders the architects of the Mishkan headed by a man named bits a low-grade craftsman took all of the material that the Jewish people brought source number three by ye cumin leaf nimisha s call a true master AVO by a straw they took all of the contributions with the Jewish people brought fame avol of Eden ad of Ababu curb a biker but the Jews continued to contribute in the morning in the morning so our sages tell us in the Midrash that in two mornings the Jews completed contributing all of the merchandise and materials necessary for the construction of the sanctuary and what happens afterwards the architects the designers of the Mishkan make a count and they tell my shits enough and he says make an announcement to the people to stop ringing so now let's make the calculation of ill Ngong says moisture Rubino announced on the 11th of Tishrei time to build a Myshkin the jews contribute everything during to morning so which two mornings is it the first morning is the 12th of Tishrei the second morning is the thirty of Tishrei so by this morning of the 13th of Tishrei they bring a major amounts of material and now the planners begin the architects the designers take account and they announce on the next day the 14th day of Tishrei they announce to the Jewish community enough stop it was the only time in Jewish history I believe appeal was made and then it was stopped they wanted to give more and they said no we don't need more I never heard of an institutional organization since that should tell donors stop I have enough don't give me any more but every penny was accounted for so the 13th they give the 12 they gave the 13th they give the 14th of Tishrei they announced stop now they have all the material they can begin building when do they actually kit when can they begin 14 at night 15 in the morning it is the holiday of suka s-- but they can plan the building they can start things that are permitted but now they can actually get to work and what happens the clouds of glory come back they left with this sin of the creation of the golden calf now they finally come back since they come back at the end of the 14th day the beginning of the fifteenth day of Tishri that's why we celebrate suka s-- to commemorate those clouds of glory so in summation the holiday of Sukkot is a continuation it's a continuum of the holiday the experience of yom kippur and rosh hashanah or as the ballot an adulterer deprivation a Zalman of Lee Adi discusses in Lakota Torah many times the verse in Sheridan which reads smile a Turkish Liras TV a minute to shop cainy the bride says his left arm is under my head and his right arm embraces me and he says his left arm is under my head refers to the days of Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur the days of or the days of judgment the days of Trouville his right arm embraces me this refers to the how day of circus so it's one continuation circus we celebrate the chuva the return the wholesomeness the reconciliation of rosh hashanah and especially yom kippur in fact Valtor ever takes it a step further and quotes the teachings of that reason and creates Khayyam you know how logically to have a Sukkah you need two walls and a little bit of a third wall as the Gomorrah says Ashley she's a fellow toughie you need to complete walls and I hand breadth of a third wall it has to be stationed in a particular way as dishes and Laura discusses and cement afresh lammott and he'll cook it but the point is two walls and another little part of a third wall that's the minimum requirement to have a kosher souk in which you can eat and drink and enjoy yourself during suckers so the pre eighths crime that weasel explains quota and liquidity area by the ballot by the alter rebbe it says like this take the right arm how many sections does the right arm have so you have one section as from the shoulder from the shoulder to the elbow section number one section number two is from the elbow till the fist and then you have the third little section actual palm of the hand so what is circus what is a sook of the Amina to have akkanee gods ride arm embraces us so one complete wall represented in the first section of the right arm the second wall represented in the third in the second section and the little part of a third wall hush lishus a philosophic represented in the palm so that's the embrace of love represented in the sukkah if this is the case we can describe the difference between yom kippur and circus essentially they in this way yom kippur represents true familiar chuva repentance returned with a sense of awe su cos represents true ver may Allah returning with a sense and experience of love now open up your curriculum to source number for source number 4 we learn a fascinating Gomora a piece of the Talmud tractate humid of pave over mat base page 80 s 6b says the Gemara armed Irish lock is rich Locker says source number four in your curriculum right below the video Darla chuva chuhwa is great she's diagnosed NASA lakish go guys sins which you have committed willingly are transformed into inadvertent mistakes Shanna mer-suvias rather similar cachaça hish Alta Bhavana of amazing to Vega coral emission the verse says in Isaiah the after of Shabbos sugar return Israel to God because you have stumbled on your sins a Vanessa is a sin which a person does willingly intentionally and yet the Torah calls it a stumbling it was a stumble it was a mistake it was an error because this is what Suva accomplishes what sugar does is when I do to ver it redefines my previous malicious act as though it was a mistake it was an error I didn't do it with my full consciousness I didn't do it with my full intent if I would have known what I know now I would have never done it so essentially it was a mistake that's what sugar does suck the Gemara the second paragraph a knee this is not the case I'm Irish luck is the same rich luggage once stated could I let shoe vash is doing this NASA like Oh Sofia is Chavez awesome because what does Trouville accomplish that your intentional sins are transformed into merits into virtues shameimaru Bishop rushman shall save us some wish but Otsuka I am yes yet when the wicked person returns from his negative behavior and does righteousness just justice and righteousness he will live through them in other words the very transgressions become a source of life the very average the very violations and sins are transformed into merits into Zacchaeus into virtues so the Gemara the Talmud cites your a contradiction in one place rich Locker said what does Trouville accomplish that your intentional sins become mistakes in a second place rich luggage tells us that you're in since actually become mitzvahs they are deemed as meritorious actions the Gemara answers like asha it's not a question can may a ver can Mira it depends whether you return to God with love or you return to God because of your or your sense of fear when a person does true with a sense of awe dread and this doesn't necessarily mean fear of punishment or a type of guilt we're talking about or from in the presence of of truth or in the presence of reality Oh in the presence of God that is what compels the true ver then your sins are defined as mistakes as errors you made a mistake I can forgive you for a mistake it's hard to forgive somebody for a malicious destructive act but for a mistake it's a mistake didn't realize I can forgive you it's easier to forgive but if you do truth out of love may a ver then it's not only that your negative acts are seen retrospectively as mistakes your negative acts are seen as mitzvos as good deeds as though you did a mitzvah there's a story they tell us about the holy to Bolivia to convert dickship he had a custom to extol the virtues of people he met and he would always find a positive component in people's behavior even where other people couldn't easily find a positive spin he somehow had a positive angle find the redeeming factor in every person and in every person's behavior so they tell the story that once he was walking to the synagogue on Yom Kippur the story has a few versions but the point is the same in all of them and here is one of the versions he was walking to the synagogue on Yom Kippur and he saw a famous Jewish rebel eating in public on Yom Kippur so bleh we hit suck off by ditch seized is true the Jew looks at him and says rabbi what goods can you find in what I'm doing you the great master of goodness who always knows that we'll uncover the redeeming factor what type of redeeming factor can you find in this I'm eating on Yom Kippur and I believe it's like what did chef tells I mean I'm actually very jealous of you I'm envious reminded of course you're envy is you must be hungry so no that's not why I'm jealously I'm envious for another reason the Talmud says in tractate humor which we just learned page 86 that pays off that if you do true that of love all of your sins will be transformed into mitzvahs I give out how many mitzvahs you can have with the amount of sins you commit I only think of how many mitzvahs you can have an I envy you the man who was a real cynic looks at him and says Reba come back next year Kippur and you will become even more envious of me because the amount of sins who commit throughout the year he'll have the potential of having many more mitzvahs that's one half of the story but the second half of the story is that ultimately the man did sure ultimately the man did repent the words in the approach of Reb Livia took of Barta truth actually affected him very deeply so this is the uniqueness of true VAT of love when you do to that of love what happens is every previous error and every previous misdeeds and violation and transgression and sin become now fuel which give a new vitality a new passion to the Jew who embraced the truth somebody who has failed and failed miserably when they returned when they heal when they experienced recovery their new relationship has a depth to it and a vitality to it and they gusto to it oomph which is fueled precisely from the mistakes and from the transgressions as we discussed at length in the previous Yom Kippur lecture the power of real true ver to redefine the past so that every error and every sin is seen as a springboard and as a catalyst for your relationship to God and therefore every sin becomes actually a mitzvah you know why it's seen as a mitzvah because in retrospect it brought you closer to God it helped you learn something that you could have never learned otherwise and it gave your relationship a certain integrity and depth and honesty and yearning and thirst and passion that you could have never had without those sins precisely and therefore the Talmud says rush Locker says chuva out of love a love that's fueled by the very mistakes a passion that is energized by the very failures of the person that very failure then is not a sin it's a mitzvah why isn't them it's but then it was a sin but now it becomes a mitzvah through trova why because in retrospect that brought you much closer to yourself to your soul to God you know this story the metaphor the dubler Magid who once gave it's lovely metaphor there was a king who had a beautiful diamond extremely majestic and royal glittering diamonds very expensive and a child took the diamond once and threw it on the floor and it got a scratch the King took a look his most precious diamond now had a scratch in a very visible place and I'd ruin the whole look he was extremely upset and he brought in all the connoisseurs all the experts to try to fix it but nobody can do anything it was in a very sensitive place and if they would try to play with it they would only damage the King searched and searched for an expert and then one day a simple Jew adela who dealt with diamonds arrives and he comes to the king he can fix it are you sure yes he can fix it what did he do the doubler market said the dubidouxs market was a famous Jewish preacher in Poland his name was ever Jakov Krantz he took the diamonds and he built out of it he sculptured out of it a beautiful flower and he used a scratch as the stem of the flower so now there was a gorgeous flower which came out of the diamond and it had a stem and that was the old scratch that's true ver real Java doesn't only mean I escaped from my past I flee from my experiences I run as fast as I can from what I have done real true ver is the courage and the power to look back and to take the scratches of my life and turn them into a stem a foundation for a flower comes the hail Ichabod shiver and says now we will understand the mad rush now let us go back to the Madras and source number to the long Madras I explained well the captain was chembio a militia and why is it called by I'm Irish and what did the Mathers say recent loss has been avoiding us is the first day when we begin calculating sins so the budget service says in Catoosa slavey we have to understand the matter in a new much deeper much richer way namely comes with Shoshana before we Shoshana some juice fast God forgives a third of the sins between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur God forgives a second third comes in Kippur every Jew approaches the king every Jew speaks to God men women children everybody in their own words their own language their own heart their own soul screams out of vino volcano reaches out to our Creator to almighty to our Father in heaven Smiley's relish I'm a Latino a shamisen and all of the sins are forgiven and the king says now is a new calculation so the Midrash says for four days people are busy no time to sin come su kiss oh now you begin sinning let's start a new calculation so we asked the question what everybody sits down on the sukkah they're gonna gossip you're certain they're all gonna sin comes the bad dictionary I believe it's about differences know what the mad rush means is something else rashon on Yom Kippur we do Tuva but it's true than the era primarily the truth of Yom Kippur is a Trouville which has within it the element of awe of era and therefore we're forgiven for the sins the sins are transformed into mistakes into errors even those sins which we did with full consciousness and intent and we're forgiven for our mistakes we apologized and we're forgiven and the sins are cast away suckers suka sulla CAC thomasmb americium creates harder smash them with national medication she was young so kiss is a time of celebration circus the time of joy circus is a time of tremendous love and affection and passion you mean itís a bikini the walls over the suka embrace the drew with tremendous love and they aroused within the drew a sense of love and a whole new closeness with hashem with God huh if it's true for me Havas Danish nasa-like as osseous then the sins are not cast away into mistakes and forgiven every sin becomes a mitzvah comes moisture to the Jews and says Lacock them assemble your Irish English English a German awareness now let's calculate all your sins now bring back all the sins and let us make a calculation of every single sin because every sin is redefined as a Mitzvah this is then the deeper meaning in the words of the mattress when the King tells the people and says madea's Allah saw what was was minhas and naka was born and now we begin a new calculation now we begin a calculation it doesn't mean only a calculation for the future minhas k'nuckles husband and now we begin the calculation now we begin the calculation we recalculate the sins in order to transform them and this is also the meaning and the madness we could say moisture mozilla Hambley is strong not only moisture warns the Jews Mazda Rossa comes from the word Zohar which means lights mercy illuminates the Jewish people he light creates light in their lives and what's the light he opens up a light and he says you know what circuses circus is not the fifteenth day circuses by a Mauritian it's the day when we calculate sins it's reassuring lojban are very nice it's the day when we start calculating not future since from today we go back to the old transgressions and redefine them as mistress this the Lubavitcher ever once explained is the explanation to another fascinating contrast between the first half of Tishrei and the second half of Tishrei you're all familiar with the great custom of Tashlin on Rosh Hashanah Jewish communities go out to the water whether you go individually or you go in large crowds and large communities recent years it became a popular thing even among communities who don't do many other things but Tashlin became a big thing a big tradition what is tashlik we go to the water visage Lisbon Sulis jump colca Payson we say during - look - look means to cast away to throw away to throw away into the depths of the sea all of your sins that's costly and the reasons that are given why we go to the water and why we go to the fish but this is what happens on Rosh Hashanah we go to the water and we throw away all of our sins symbolically speaking now how come circus what happens on circus everybody knows that one of the great traditions of circus was known as simcha space of Shiva the great joy of drawing the water what used to happen at the time of the base--emitter - the Jewish people would go and in the morning of Circus early in the morning the first day of circus would go to the well the Sheila while in Jerusalem and draw water who shaft am i in Bassani managed to draw water with joy and then bring the water to the base of McNish and the KOA in the hype of the priests would pour the water from a cup onto the Miz bare unto the altar it was called Nahum ayam from the water that they drew from the well they would bring it up to the mountaintop into the temple and in the morning the priests would do a special mitzvah called nice Akamai and pour from a cup of water special Goblet of water onto the altar in addition to the wine pouring as the wine libations which happened every day this was simcha Zvezda shaiva so let's understand friends on Rosh Hashanah you went to the water what did you do in the water you cast away your sins into the water so where are the sins the sins are now in the water what do you do circus circus we'd go back to the water and we take out the water what are you looking for in the water what are you looking for in the water you're looking for your sins you're looking for your mistakes you're looking for your painful moments you're looking for the very transgressions and they're very challenges which you once had to cast away in order to survive now suckers you come back to the water and you reclaim those mistakes you reclaim those sins we shine let's has been a vine noise because doing nice nasa-like is obvious each one can now become a catalyst and a springboard which only makes you a better person a more real person a deeper person in a more godly person ultimately each of them turns out to become a link in your own journey in your connection to God not a cause for alienation but a cause for a deeper connection they tell the story about one of the students of the Holy Arab MELAS of illusions deliverable emilich of illusions once went through Shoshanna to Tasha and he went to the spring of water and he performed the ceremony of Tasha and when he finished one of his loyal has sit down one of his loyal students ran into the water so is there ever looked at him and said vas to stir what are you doing what are you doing he says I'm going to pick up and collect the rebus since I would like to have some of the rebus sins if they are sins of the wrapper of the Holy EE mullah coalition's legends I would like them I would like to claim them as my so this is what he already did during Tashlin but this is the concept of circus one of the great themes of circus indicated in these three words of the Madras we shine la freshmen are vine eyes and this constitutes a tremendous lesson to each and every one of us there's no person in the world who doesn't stumble there's no person in the world who has a mate made mistakes who hasn't failed in one way or another there are very few people who can say that they have no struggles emotionally psychologically physically spiritually we make mistakes we sin we lie to ourselves relight to others we lie to God or at least some of us and circus is the great moment of the immunity obtaining of an embrace where the Jew and the human being can go back and look at the very pain and the very mistake and the very error and the very sins in your life which you thoughts genuinely have alienated you from yourself and they have but when we do Trouville with love with a custom so then what happens is we can go back go back to the water and reclaim our mistakes and reclaim our painful moments and even reclaim our sins because each and every one of them becomes a springboard and a catalyst for a rejuvenation and for a new depth and meaning in our lives have a good evening and a wonderful good Yom Tov good night [Music]