Chai Elul: Inspired for Growth - Mini Farbrengen

the two great illuminaries the heiliger the holy belcentive they were both born on high ill and high yellow happens to be 12 days exactly from reshashana each day corresponds to another month we understand from this that whole idea of high yellow is to bring the highest a vitality a renewed energy into each of the months that we experienced and the each of the months that we will experience in the future so the heisman efforts that we talk about making an account in preparation of rish hashanah begins with the auspicious warm holy positive day high level so i'll share a few ideas that are made that are practical what we can do each day for high l and let me begin by telling and sharing with you a book that just came out a book that i wrote originally in 1999 called davening for rosh hashanah inspiration short sayings and ideas and meditations for rosh hashanah through the prayers of rosh hashanah my dear daughter had it redone in a new way with a new cover and a new name called inspired a rosh hashanah companion and it's been sold out already and there'll be more coming in so if you'd like to have this to inspire your year your life and hopefully your high holy days as well contact us and we could get it to you as soon as possible so again it's inspired by the behind dolphin edited by hava witkis and what is it that i share in this work and how is it relevant to you and your life the name itself is inspired you have to set the tone you have to have the paradigm that you want to be inspired that it begins there higher highest is inspiration highest is not maybe i have an ache here i have a negative thought there that's not heist that's bare bone living if you want to as we're saying either left or as the venerable chosen would say that elo is an acronym for aleph [Applause] and it doesn't only mean through the drinking of the vodka or the wine or the alcohol but rather it means inspiration of life lechayan once life and again life celebrating life inspiration is the way to celebrate life so how do you inspire yourself how do you inspire yourself in a year that we've had and still continue to have fears and issues from covet from difficulties in the economy and other issues that are have turned upside down the entire world everyone the answer is make each of the 12 days a day make a decision that i want the 18th of ello which corresponds to last roshan last month of tishrei i'm going to make it into a day how am i going to make it into a day i'm going to take a few minutes and think about what did i do last tishrei try to remember various things you experienced good things and also things that were difficult for you everything and then ask yourself how am i going to make it better and different this coming tishrei that's high l next comes you test cello the day after hail what did i do in hejven of last year what could i have done what am i going to do this year in heisman and when you set your mind to this approach to this mahalik you'll see you will remember certain things maybe a little bit but you will remember something and when you remember that thing live with it again even if it's something that's negative even if it's something that isn't great but since your intent is to change it to transform it don't be scared to encounter it don't escape it rather grab it and say stop this won't repeat itself and so we go through the 12 days with a thought out plan of looking at the past year and this is what high elo on the balchemter and the altar ever were born they gave to the world and as the fleet of when he was 13 years old in 1893 he was called by his father a few days before highello now the day before he should prepare himself tomorrow by going to the mikvah getting up very early and and and that the the that the rebel ashab said he got permission from i believe repentance his mulamid to excuse him from haider and he should come into his room and when he came into his room he said good jantiv says it's our holiday and he opened up for the first time and told him that high yellow is the day when the holy basham them and the altar were born 1893 this was not publicized during those years it was only later in the 1920s i believe that it became more public knowledge than in the 1930s and from then on it's been celebrated in various ways a celebration is a meaningful experience a celebration is a time to do our sages teach us and it's brought in in insult that during elo it's a time to re to to daven more to pray more even if it means reducing the time of your torah study so the emphasis is through trilo and this is a very practical thing take a few moments during your tfila your prayers and reflect on the day reflect on high yellow reflect on what you want high yellow to mean for you reflect on what it the potential gold mine that high hello offers to every single person when you dive in that's a great time for reflection close your eyes go under your towers just sit quietly and take a few minutes of thought from the tv we go to tadaka to increase our giving of tadaka during these 12 days very very important and then we go to chuva and from chuva we go to goula redemption because we know that through inspiration and through the and through trilo and through tsudakka and through chuva comes giula there's personal geoland's collective we need both the personal giula is to come to a place where you feel you're liberating yourself from those constraints and those limitations those issues that you have not been able throughout the year to get away from these 12 days if you can succeed in one of these 12 days to exit and vacate a bad habit an ugly character trait and to inculcate a beautiful character trait in its place and happiness and finest and humility and thinking about the other more than yourself you are a liberated person you're a ula man you really are and when each and every one of us do does these things there's collective geology comes so fellas hold together strengthen yourself and go into rajashana starting tomorrow with high yellow with the highest of varankaite a labrador kite a warmth a liveliness a togetherness and will be zaika to the giulima may you be written and inscribed for a good holy year hashanah tava masuka a sweet year and a good year and a see this a year high