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kesh.
I meant that.
Let me explain. In Mish
um there's a pic. I don't remember where
it is. probably the role knows Travis
Burkusarim
Akira Kiras the blessing of a yashar
elevates the city. So there's the dash
rashonim and he says like this people
say uh good evening good morning and
they're just greeting someone that's not
a yashar a yashar is
so when he says good morning he want
he's giving you a braha he's not just
greeting you and he wants the entire
morning to be great for you okay that
that so that's that's a big difference
there was one r that was this and the
yeshiva I'd say good morning Rabbi
Beller and you say amen [laughter]
most they're surprised that you said it
so I'm going to say hesish to and if you
say that sincerely it could be your
mashpia that is entire hesish is amazing
okayish to
>> huh all right well I I'm not supposed to
b that my toem will be but please God
all All right, Rabbi Travis asked me to
speak about Hanukkah. It's only Ro
Cotes. So, I'm saying to myself, "Wait a
minute. You sure, Rabbi? It's like three
weeks from now." I'm so glad he asked
because right now we have three weeks to
really um attain the growth you could
have. Also on Hana, Hanukkah is going to
be Msugal, but this is the whole hodish.
So I want to give you two avodas that
are completely relevant to Hanukkah but
they're also let's start now it'll be
amazing. Okay. So the first one is this
um in order to mine this you know with
Hanukkah especially focus on the songs
Nicku
so you can become enemy centered. right
now we are celebrating that the enemy
fell but don't become enemy centered
what do I mean uh this is uh this
happened in the 70s um there was some
Israeli not religious Israeli and he was
on a motorcycle and he's going around a
curve uh and guess what there's a hill
over there etc he goes off the he skids
his motorcycle skids off the road and he
falls falls onto a tree, right? So he
was blown away, right? So he said, "I
can't believe what happened to me, this
miracle." So someone told him, "Go to
Rev No Weinberg's the Roshiva Asia
Torah, you know, tell them what
happened." So he goes to the he goes to
Rabbi Weinberg. He tells the whole story
and it skid off the tree. He says the
the Israeli guy says to the Roshishib,
he says, "What a miracle. Wow. Hashem
saved me." And and so Rav Weinberg was
quiet for a moment. He looks at him. He
goes, "Let me ask you a question. Who do
you think threw you off the off the
cliff?" [laughter]
You hear
who threw You're thanking him. You
should. But who threw you off the cliff?
So when it comes to Hanukkah,
you know the Greeks, they were mummy,
the base of Mikdash and we weren't able
to go in there all this stuff. Who threw
us out of the base of Mikdash?
Posas Kajashu, right? So the question is
why? Many of you probably know the
reason why. Let me stress it. Uh the
Bach says that the Kohanim were mitell.
They were lax. That's a good British
word. They were lax in their avod. Okay.
Now, I have to say this always bothered
me. The bach is such a he's incredible,
but he's such an aon. You know, there's
no mur that that was the problem. That's
why Hashem threw us out of the basement.
No mccor earlier. So, the hosen moed
brings that uh it's in the end of me
suka. You know, there's the thing about
um the hooks where they placed the meat
or their kalin. It was one of them was
uh turned upside down. So, the famous
explanation you couldn't use it and it
was a rebuke. It was an embarrassing
rebuke. So, uh the famous explanation
was bila. Okay. But that's not the
thing. That would be enemy centered. The
other one was that that uh Mishar of
Kohanim they came late they would come
late so they cannot them you know in
other words coming late to chakras is
not a new problem can you believe that
so that that was the evidence the
hosanoed wants to say that they were
they were lax so what's the o opposite
of being lax
lor it's being miserious nephish right
and here's what I here Now let's go to
us. What can we do to uh work on
mamish
being makain laxity right th this is a
biggie right so this is why I'm so glad
uh rabbi tr brought me because it's
there's a war we have to fight right now
against wrote mitzada
okay so to mahazak this why you know
also I was thinking when when He asked
me, "Let's let's talk about Hanukkah."
So, I I'm being honest with you. Okay.
Well, I'll be I'll be like excited for a
little bit and go down, you know, maybe
should save all the his for the week of
Hanukkah, right? There's this thing like
you get you get off, you start off with
a bang and it goes, right? So, here's
the here's I want to explain why that
is. Um,
we see that Hashem makes it tough for
us. We have the same tail, same nusak,
same everything, right? Everything
repeats itself. So, are there any people
that speak French here?
Anybody?
>> Cuz it
>> Yeah, very good. So, there's this a
saying in f in French. I just wanted to
hear it in French, but I'm going to say
it. You guys will all know it. You'll
finish my sentence. The more things
change,
the more Oh, you don't know.
>> The more they stay the same.
>> The more they stay the same. Okay,
that's [laughter]
>> I can't say in French. The the uh
>> the the more the more things uh ch more
things change, the more they stay the
same. This is a claw
in a vod shashen.
The more things change, the more you
stay the same.
If the uh tilo was always a different
nusak and if you know Hanukkah it starts
out you're miss on rishon on the first
nare by the sixth or seventh you're not
there right so here's the thing when
situations are exciting and interesting
and so the situation's changing but
you're not growing but when the
situation remains the same and you're
working at it you change, right? I'd
rather the situation be the same and I
change than than this than the he
so here's the mitzvah to work on
same
lim etc. You're mine the mitzvah of
okay
ra and evident says every mitzvah you do
you can
because the every mitzvah are and then I
realized the hashim right they were
willing to die right so there being most
nephish being willing to die was life it
was bah bahayim you hear so I encourage
you every miss you do anyhow should have
you should have in mind
all right but Hanukkah right this month
let's really rev up so that's number one
okay but number two has to do with why
why an extra reason uh Rabbi Travis
invited me is this is not just a just a
sudis it's a pseudis the the is going to
speak about it right okay so I'm just
going to say quickly
that
>> so here we go the I want to give you uh
let's say a mahalik for hesish uh kesh
kisv and especially Hanukkah we know
hodah is huge right so uh one time I
gave a share about this I call it a
master class in gratitude okay now in a
hodah so here's three levels level one
is to feel gratitude. Okay. Now, someone
pointed out that if you didn't have a we
have a mitzvah that that makes that
meaningful. Meaning when you feel zerm,
right? You're feeling gratitude. You
actually just have to think. You don't
even have to say anything. Okay? So,
that's number one is to feel gratitude.
You know, the hakmasoyam is you'll feel
a lot better if you feel gratitude. It
affects all this neuroscychology.
>> Is there a step before recognize?
>> What's that?
>> Yes. Excellent. But I I'm uh that you
have to do that. By the way, what? Okay,
since you brought it up, what's your
name again?
>> Mosha. Moshi brought up Well, maybe
there's a step before this. Maybe this
is the Oh, okay. [laughter]
The step uh the step four is to to mock
your toe. That's emulating Hashem. But
uh just quickly number two is to express
the gratitude. Right? You say thank you.
All right. Now with that one we have we
have Modim and we have of course Alanim.
Right. The third is to reciprocate a
misa. Okay. Now what what do we see by
Hanukkah? We see the um hudlakus manure
pursum nissa. You're doing a misa to
really reciprocate. You're not just
saying thank you. You're actually
reciprocating. So I just want to say
that you know it's a plus and minus that
Rabbi Travis has so many suits to make.
You know he's been he's had his uh
challenges. But the truth of the matter
is you know this about him is he doesn't
just say thank you he reciprocates. He's
a person who reciprocates bisa and you
have a big so this is what just to recap
push yourself don't do rote and number
two go up the scale of gratitude to mock
your tove to feel corve to express it
sincerely and to reciprocate the misa
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