The Awesome Power of Erev Rosh Hashanah

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com okay good morning rabai this is the last time we meet in ZEM gave us the health and the life to be together for this year and we hope we should be together gide for the upcoming year and for many years to come so the tells us something about tomorrow tomorrow of course is the last day of the year rash my birthday yeah ran Bish's birthday also and there's something very important and significant about um AR Rashana and that is the last day of the year and have a tradition that if somebody does Chua One Day in the year it's considered like they did Chua the whole year wow so you know even if a person was laxed the rest of the year but if we take advantage of the last day of the year will be considered as if we did CH the whole year therefore the custom is everyone fasts and they get up very early before the day and they say a lot of and they say and therefore the is telling us the custom is everyone fast and gets up really early well then the continues a person should be learning involved in mitzvas the whole day it is worthwhile to immerse in a mikah or a river one should not be earlier than an hour before and not to divert their attention from cha the whole day so is teaching us that is a very important day especially in light of the fact that if you do Chua one day of the year it's like you did Chua the whole year okay but the tour um explains what exactly is the significance of I mean if if doing Chua one day years is like doing Chua the whole year you could really do CH any day why da and the tour really hiend to us the our appreciation of the tah says the following rash for everyone to fast on rash the and they rely on meaning a to this a hint to this is it says about the you should take for yourself on the first day and the question is it's not the first day the when you take the it's the 15th day of what do you mean you should take the first day says it's the first day of the calculation of sin says the med it's a parable to a country that is obligated to pay a tax to the king and they didn't pay it so what happens the king comes with an army to collect it as the king approaches 10 par within the city the the prestigious people of the city The Honorable people the leaders of the city approach the king and they tell the king we don't have what to give to you so the King overlooks the third of the tax the king comes closer the average people come out to greet him the king overlooks the second third when the king gets closer the whole city comes out to greet him and the King overlooks everything who's the king who are the people they amount they amass the whole year the great people fast and the King overlooks a third of their sin the T days the average people fast and the King overlooks 2/3 everyone fastes and they're involved in in and they don't do therefore the first day of suus is called the first day God could calculate sin because sins by the time Kipper comes all has been forgiven and in the intermediary days before between yum and Suk there's no time to sin therefore the first opportunity to sin is the first day of said there are a lot of questions on this med number one the the B asks according to this then is equal to forgives a third and R forgives a third and that's quite a Whopper of AES to say that AR rash is just as powerful f as y especially in light of the fact that the T doesn't say a word about how could it be that one day of is equal to the entire to the entire Y where on an entire third is Forgiven well says to answer that question the first third is always easier than the second and the third third the first third is the easiest the first third of sin is the easiest to forgive okay interesting you know maybe we could explain with a very simp oversimplified mus we've been learning from the Shar Chua that there many levels of chuva and chuva is like uh a process of whitening so if you get the chillun on your shirt so the first step is get the bean off get the kishko off the next step is you take a wet shata with hot water and you try to get out the stain and then what whatever doesn't come out that's the tough part you got to put in the washing machine with bleach and detergent and maybe send it to the cleaners so RAB said the first step is always the easiest you just take it off the you just take it off your shirt so that's always the easiest uh part of it but that's what the says the first third is the easiest and therefore um AR rashash is not as great as Yumer Yumer obviously is much greater but the first third is very easy but comes a Taz and the T asks also a very incisive question and an obvious question and that is if Hashem wipes out the first third Ona shashana then it says Hashem wipes out 2/3 what do you mean on during wipes out 2/3 he only wipes out one3 what does it mean during CH it says um God overlooks 2/3 he doesn't look Overlook 2/3 he overlooks one3 because the first third he already overlooked and then what does it mean hasem overlooks everything on Yumer there's nothing left on Yumer the first third is two3 comes yum there's no point of even fasting I mean according to the Torah was call Yumer well maybe it's two3 of what was left after the first so first a third and then 2/3 of what's left so just look that's a very complex mathematical formula why would that be that means basically yum Kipper is the most insignificant of all three days of chuva but the also says that the first third is right we don't have that so maybe we don't go in with that one3 so they but the what does the medish mean the medish says on forgives overlooks 1/3 and the second one he overlooks 2/3 I thought only one3 and as we're going to see there's another major question over here and that is just how do you read the tourah the tourah says the minan asaz is for who to fast everyone fasts rash and then the Torah says like the med says that just like when the king is approaching to collect the TX first the go out to greet the king and likewise well if the says clearly the why does the Torah say that everybody fasts the med says only the fast we're going to have to address that question as well well the T says as follows when the medish says that on hasem is m a third he's not m a third he's M third what does it mean he's M third he so to speak puts it on the side says okay we'll deal with it later I'm going to give you a break I'm going to give you I hopefully you'll be able to remove that later but for now I'm going to overlook that for now temporary reprieve basically you're out on bail deferring deferring exactly the first third is deferred then comes the era rashash and you could say say the then comesa the second third is deferred maybe that would answer the B's question as well maybe 2/3 are deferred and now everything is deferred but you're going to still have to pay the price for everything comes yipper and everything is everything is completely washed away meaning what happens on yum Kipper is it's not it's not deferred it's not pushed off it's not stalled but it's not until Yer we count the first two thirds with the final third and now maybe you'll say Weller also as the Taz asked that again what was the question of the T that if hasem is M the two3 so there's nothing left on yipper so therefore the medish points out that no maybe you'll say that yeah Hashem defers the first third then Hashem defers the 2/3 maybe they're never maybe it's always a process of being deferred no therefore comes the med it says the first day of suus is um it's the first day for you meaning you should take on the first day what do you mean on the first day the first day of is the beginning of calculation meaning it's not until Yumer but once Yumer comes it's completely wiped away and there's no Reckoning until the first day of sukus so what's the purpose of the the F CU it's not is it meaningful in any way it's very meaningful first of all we would never reach the level of complete forgiveness unless we are able to defer it to some extent and it gives us an opportunity to DAV in otherwise to stand before God with that really looming over you we would never have that opportunity so just in order to be able to Davin in front of Hashem we need the to be deferred but from this Tas we see a very interesting process that a person could gain VOR without M so interestingly there's a Chua in the in T Sim where the says that based on this Taz we could explain a difficult rashi rashi tells us that mosu went up to Har another two times after the first 40 days when he went up to get the T and then he came down and he still the AAL he went up another two sets of 40 days and Rashi points out what was the difference between the first set of 40 and the last set of 40 the says in in like in the beginning 40 days and 40 nights during that ascent I waited there 40 days the second meaning the intermediary period of 40 days ended on the 29th day of because he went up that was a piece to so what did he do he did another 40 Days they ended on that hasem was appeased by with joy now listen carefully that means he came down after the first 40 days so they broke he goes up again and that that 40-day period ended on the 299th day of a which means on the 29th day of hasem was so of what significance was the final 30 days where he went up and came down on and was to them what do you mean he already was to them on why do we need two additional period periods of 40 days so it says based on this Taz we could explain that there two two levels of atonement after when we say was to them he was only as a as ay as a deferment however he did not Grant complete Kap until Yumer in other words what Yumer added was it was not only removal temporary removal out on baale but it was complete forgiveness with this we could explain another very important concept and that is us a very interesting and that is cannot do CH only a do a cannot do it says what about it good question so Mr Caro ate his weedies this morning and he he's making like it's not a big question it's a very big question why did if G can't do Chua so what's the whole Seer of Y there's something called the trasar and one of the TR sa for y and the whole book is that Y is told go tell the people to do chuva and it seems like they did chuva and they were saved he was just a FM didn't give him complete exoneration so first of all why is it that are not able to do Chua so the brings down from The Rao that the way chuva works is you need now the's relationship with the is the relationship of a so he's their King so therefore are not able to do because God cannot forgive them however our relationship with Hashem is that of Father and Son but the question is what in the world happened in nve how could they have done chuva and says they didn't they didn't they're not able to do Chua and ultimately they were not able to wipe away their a says the that the guy by their sin always looms and the decree stands against them only it was only temporarily so so you'll say what do you mean only temporarily they were about to be destroyed and then Hashem didn't destroy them it seemed like it worked so I remind you um of the Mal in if you remember y tells the people of nve well says the Mal is gatria 80 is 40 and in fact in 120 years later nve was destroyed oh could also mean a year CH can't do cha so so what did they do def deferral so you got it what 120 years is 120 years I mean you know there are probably people who live much longer who actually were it's not Chua you know their sin so they lived out their lives and the Next Generation it's temp right it's temporarily overlooking uh the wrongdoing and giving some patience to what happened okay Chua if you do chuva but it's not accepted is that you're still doing Chua if you do Chua it will be accepted automatically without reservation if you do chuva it will be accepted real Tru real Tru not if you go through the we said because says so now here's the question question is the tour starts out that the Min in ashkan is everyone fast and the M the Torah gives is when the king comes to collect the the taxes the fast so it's like the the r is not to the so this is the question of the himself look at number 10 even in the we say that fast what but that means not everybody fasts is for everyone to fast why because this is a very interesting idea when we say that um G should do something is anyone allowed to do it usually no what would it be called if an average person does something which is reserved for G it's arrogant it's it's this is not for a regular person this is for someone of a greater standing so says the concept that when something is for other people should not do it that's just a regular practice but when it comes to paining oneself and afflicting oneself and making yourself B then anybody who wants to compromise their comfort is allowed to do it it's not considered GIC to sort of compromise your own Comfort if it's a matter of let's say taking a keyo an honor or doing a practice which is extra religious so then we say no this is not for you this is only for great people however if it's a matter of anyone says is all to puts interestingly the asks on the that if this is the case this is a s in the himself that if um theor is inar that not everyone is allowed to fast only the are allowed to fast so why when it comes to rash does say everyone could fast because this is not g because this is a matter of of painting oneself but when we talk about when the is there we only allow the to fast differentiates between the two inan over there we're talking about when the so you're fasting to ask for mercy on theor who are you to request Mercy for theor what you're a big you're just an average person we don't let you fast what are you fasting for you're fasting for yourself for your own so everybody has a right to say even if I'm not a great person I'm authorized to fast to try to get out as much as many of my as I would like this question on the tour that why would the tour start off by saying and then bring a from a from a story where only the G fast this question is addressed by the in at least five different places where gives at least five different answers to this question of why would the tour begin that and then end off with we're only some of the people fast why do you have to come up with five differents he wasn't happy with the first why because five is always better than four well according to the Torah it's the whole day even today in the yeshivas they many tell me them fast half a day but the original custom doesn't say it half a day it's at least most of the day until right before the end are also Jewish people do they fast on I don't know what they do I don't know so again the question is why would the T say if in the only some of the people fast not only that says not only does everyone fast even children fast on AR rashash so here the the tour is saying and means even the and in the T only the answer number one take a look at number 12 this is the first answer in the page shin me well says in the early days we knew who the were we knew who the mediocre people were and we know who the little people were meaning in the olden days people wore name cards some people say my name is y I'm a God and then other people would wear name cards they say my name is barl I'm a regular person and then other people would wear I'm F I'm a nobody just joking they wouldn't actually wear name cards but but it was known every the social standing not the so the spiritual standing of a person was recognizable even though who could really know who's a God and who's a k but back in the day when people were more legitimate and more sincere you knew what was what but the are sometimes nobodies and the nobodies are sometimes somebodies and the average people could either be nobodies or somebodies and you know what it depends on the day today this time is a nobody tomorrow that time it depends on the hour it depends on the minute nobody knows anything about anybody therefore it's not GIC for anybody to fast because there's such confusion and lack of ability for anybody to know where anybody stands that b everyone has the right to fast I only well we don't know who they are so Hashem will decide hopefully everyone fasts then we'll end up being the G will be fasting but if we don't have everyone fasting we're going to be in trouble if only the people who we think are fast and the regular people don't that's the first answer answer number two it used to be there were a lot of good and therefore if they would fast that was a big honor to the king and he thereby would Overlook a third of the a however Bim they're very few people as a who qualify for that Char for that status status very doubtful you'll even have a minion says very doubtful you even have a minion even in the time of and therefore in order to get the king to be appeased it doesn't work anymore just to have the everyone's going to have to fast and says you could even read this into the of the we say like this so we read like this when it was then what was appropriate would be that the great people will Fast and honor you but why is it why nowadays everyone's fasting because because what could we do we don't have the same quantity of that once were okay that's answer number two answer number three says the on Page in the the whenu is told to address he tells them say these words and Rashi says not less and not more what does that mean not less and not more so says like this it doesn't mean don't add more words or subtract more words it means the level of is the highest possible level that any entity could reach even angels cannot reach that level to be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation means there's no one too low even the low even a regular person even the lowest person is always able to attain that level meaning there's no higher level and no one is too low from attaining that level therefore yes only the go out to the king so listen carefully says only the fast but someone who's not a godal should look at that godal and say why am I not a God I could have been a God no I couldn't have I was born in into this family or in this place and this time I could never have been a g no it's not true anyone could be a God could have been a g should be a God so either you fast CU you're a godal or you fast because you're not a godal why aren't you a godal that's why everyone fasts on AR rash either because the fast or because if you're not a God and you're not fasting you should be fasting that you're not a God we just say we should just say and even talk about it doesn't matter so yeah that's idea you know like they said the somebody once went to what should I do if I can't cry on Tish so s says cry that you're not able to cry so so too who should fast on on aash the big people and what about me I'm not a big person I should cry that I'm not a big person and you should fast because you're not a big I should fast cuz I'm not I didn't make it to be a big person fine next answer the Apparently this this tour uh really occupied the attention of the so says in on page Shin why does everyone fast why not only the gum question says in the Mas why does a third of the people the big people come out first 10 parts away then the average people come when the king is closer and then everyone comes when the king's in the city the mush should be when the king is coming with an army to collect the taxes everyone should come out immediately to appease the king so it doesn't have to come to the fact that the king is right by the city yeah but then if he doesn't do it you're stuck CU you have your you can't do any right you know you can't impress them anymore wellam Sur says the real answer is not a good negotiating strategy the the the answer is of course you should do that the thing is in the case of the king apparently the regular people and the small people they're dismissing the whole event and they're saying nah the king will never come it will never happen he Overlook the taxes I never pay taxes I never got caught they ignore the whole thing so therefore the first the smart people go out and and they understand that the the king is coming and then when the king get closer the average people start to sweat and when the king's standing at the door everybody's sweating it's the same thing y who's preparing themselves you know El and it's the people that have more of a a feel for the T people that have more so they're approaching the king and they're worried about what's going to happen everybody else they either wake up a they wake up AR rashash but of course it's much better if you wake up AR of Rashana uh just like in the case of the king it would have been much better if everybody came out to greet the king initially when he was far away so too of course it's better if everyone comes down in it just the reality is that most people don't feel it but therefore the custom is for everyone to go out in order to try to do things in the best possible so that is the fourth approach of the and here's the fifth approach says what does it mean that the first day of suus is means like this that if a person does Chu then basically the AA is downgraded from maed to and so on and so forth because some wants to know what's this business that a third a third a third why why this you know many stepped program well says if you do CH then we're going to have to start counting well you did CH so it's downgraded from and then if you do CH more it's downgraded more so the process is a many step process but if you do CH where it turns into mitv there's no at all because everybody is equal because all everybody's AOS are transformed into mitv say when we say the go out overlooks a third that's talking about most of the time when people do so therefore the a is downgraded and therefore there's something left and it has to be taken away more and more on but if you do and the turned into MIT we're not asking V the whole are turned into then everyone could come together and there's no difference between and and so on and the fact that everybody approaches to fast that's an indication that what we're trying to do is CH May and not CH let's end with the following why should have a suda she have a suda yeah what fast that that would reduce the level of concentration and conviction to do the Chua you're going to have we said before you have to you can't have when you're CH the whole day you're going to go stuff yourself you're going to lose okay let me share with you um one one last segment over here with SCH muger and his d explain something very interesting why thirds why a first third a second third a third third why is it broken up into thirds he says something quite amazing every a has three parts ma turns to is Forgiven and finally it's turned into well therefore when the ma it is downgraded to the is Forgiven we become and the are turned into very interesting comes andin the author of The and he says a very interesting thing he says wait a second there's one last thing over here what else is over here what else are we missing it says that what's that word the V teaches us on the that says and what's and what's says very powerful is you spoke Z you wor Shas zap you screamed at someone we're going to nail you so now I did so I'm off the hook no you're not off the hook is fine you spoke you're off the hook but instead instead of speaking you should have been learning you should have been doing mitv so is for the A and is you should have been doing a mitzvah for example says when you speak yeah because instead of speaking you should have been learning so one is a for speaking and two is a for not learning so you could get atonement for the sin but you still got off the but you didn't get off the so says the yes like this turns into disappears Yumer maybe the a itself turns into a Mitzvah but you're still missing something you know what you're missing you could have been doing a Mitzvah during that time and you can be punished for not doing a Mitzvah during that time comes and what do we do on we do when you do that gets you off the hook for not having done mitv at the time that you were doing the a what is that called you get off the hook therefore the first day of suus isine still doing no in other words all the a that you did throughout the year that you're being punished for the past one you could have been doing mitah during that time and you'll be you're accountable for that therefore the first day of sukus and throughout sukus when we do that gets us off the hook for what's to is during the time that a person was doing that they could have been doing they're liable for the here is that is a very significant day on the calendar and in some level and in some way it gets off a third what the significance of this third is this is what we learned about today we should be to take advantage of the last day of the year we should be to take advantage of and and should be all of you with a year of good health G you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com