CHAZAQ | Rabbi Uri Lati | Final Countdown to Rosh Hashana

foreign thank you so much for coming out on the rain I don't know how long it took you to drive out here but I came from Brooklyn so it was a nice drive especially in the middle of the thunderstorm thank you so much to congregation tov to Rabbi satka to the organizers Mr avika maglily which I met a few months back to all the rest of the organizers call it had the female will open up there was a person that went to the Parrot store he went to buy a bird and he bought the parrot two weeks later he comes back he says I want to return the parrot they ask him why he says because every single day the parrot tells me you know good a lot I want to return him so the store owner says look over here we don't give money back however I have a good idea for you there's another parrot over here in my store that grew up in the Bible all you know is how to do every single day is Take This parrot put it with the first parrot his mahasir the first part bichuba he buys the second parrot two weeks later he wants to return both parrots to store on a thousand what's the problem now he says the first parrot says in the second part says so he says I don't want any of the parrots okay now that we're all in a good mood and you know today was creates us a new rejuvenates us we have a chance to turn over a new Leaf coming this Rosh Hashanah and in particular I'd like to speak about a certain topic which many people have the misconception that this topic is exclusive only for tushabe of and they don't know that it's incumbent upon every single Jew to be mehazek in this topic every single day we'll start off with the midrash with fortunate lucky is the nation that knows we'll see exactly what this Terra is Hashem and afterwards after they know what to do with this Hashem will shower them fortunate is the nation talking about the Jewish nation that knows how to persuade how to entice how to seduce their creator now seemingly if I ask you what is the sound of the shofar says what happens to it's unbelievable through merely the sound of the shofar were able to seduce persuade to stand up from the kisehadin of judgment and sit at however she asked on this midrash a guy is also able to take the shofar and make the same exact sound like the yehudi so what's so special about am Israel I guarantee you thank you so much oh thank you next next class after hours I guarantee you any Gentiles able to go to the shofar store the Jacob store pick up the shofar make the same exact sounds as a yehudi and if he knows how to blows sometimes so what's the midrash telling us over here that only am Israel knows the power of the tarua and we're able to persuade to get up from and sit on there must be something deeper than this midrash foreign says the midrash is there any way we could lower this maybe it's a little bit higher yeah can we lower it just a little bit I'm sorry yeah it's good everybody hear me yeah okay beautiful yes thank you so much what does it means sometimes it's a bright day but sometimes in the middle of the bright day you have a thunderstorm you have clouds it's dark says when it's dark in your life or Olam but Hashem will brighten your day or Olam an ambient light a great light Hashem when will that be Now understand that when the midras says a great light it's talking about the light of mashiach obviously that's a great light says when will this great light happen bismon when you all come together unified in unison one hayom if you come together unified in one piece will come continues the midrash and he says the Salvation the Redemption will only come if we are all one aguda foreign if you want the shechina in your life if you want that great light in your life when your day is dark when you have problems when you have heartaches when you have tragedies we should never know what's the remedy what do you have to do what do you have to strengthen yourself in in order to get this light from the topic I chose tonight ladies and gentlemen is the topic that I said is not only reserved for tushabe of many people think on the Shabba of I fast I go to the bitkineset I watch the hafez and that's it I look at my watch one is the fast over it's over now I can go back to hating that person no [Applause] is in every single day thing because says the only way we will Merit to see the Shah and then we can have if you look in parashat pinehas baru who tells us about Rosh Hashanah and the Torah proper it doesn't mention anywhere Rosh Hashanah it doesn't mention anywhere Yom haddin it calls Rosh Hashanah Yom terua has it should be a day of Terror stop right here don't I know that on Rosh Hashanah I can't do malacha I mean like any other right every um you can drive a car you can't use a cell phone you can't work so why is I asked in the beginning of the class what's this ladies and gentlemen there's a deeper meaning to this word now we start the class he asks if a person asks what do I have to do in order to save myself from the great day of judgment that even the malachima afraid of now us as safaradim we don't say the piute authorized a few hundred years ago over there it depicts exactly what's going on in shamaim on the day of Rosh Hashanah and he says over here over there the author that even the malachim are terrified of trembling are petrified from The Deen because Rosh Hashanah is not only yamadin for the it's [Applause] decided whether they will continue or not so he asks what do I have to do what do I have to strengthen my myself in fortify myself in what do I have to do he says you don't have to do anything so which means this passage about physical work you don't have to strengthen yourself in anything the only thing you have to have him it's unbelievable what he says over here what does the person have to do to Merit to have a good year a good judgment we're all asking the same question I have a whole laundry list coming this is I want this that and the other what do I have to do learn more what do I have to do he says you don't have to do anything what should I do is if you have camaraderie peace coming together Unity then you will have a guarantee that you will have a good year now we understand what it means fortunate is the nation that knows how to come together about I there is no Nation on the face of this planet that comes together like Israel nobody you hear about somebody in the other side of the world needs help needs money we all come together and we help him nobody is fortunate like that's what he says over here [Applause] but that's not what body wants if Hashem wanted us only to blow the shafad he would have authored in the Torah like it says but he doesn't say that in the Torah he only says which means a few days before he passes away or 37 days before he passed away could have been either a week or a few days before he passed away what does he tell them you're all joined together in front of bored you know if this is his farewell speech he should tell them learn more Torah do more what does he choose to tell them tells us anytime it says the word in the Torah Rosh Hashanah any time it says the word it's talking it's referring to Rosh Hashanah so you know what Mo should have been was telling them if you want to come and stand erect firm in front of you must all come together but then he continues and he says the water carriers are here the Wood Choppers are here the elders are here the woman the children and then he says now if you ask me if you already told me the women are here the children are here the elders the water carriers the Wood Choppers why do I have to say call Ish Israel it's obviously it's called foreign it's still early so you're not going to get any Nightmares From what I will say right now it says which means many different ways the numerical value of the of the word which means ways 903 says there are 903 different ways we should never know of dying said it says the simplest way to exit this world is through one's sleep the hardest way we should never know is strangulation askara what I bring you this gamara because if you come together all as one call Ish Israel the numerical value of code is if you want to avoid the 903 tragedies in life if you want to avoid death what's the solution how do you have a long life what do I have to do to have a long life called ish Israel everybody has to come together you avoid you get rid of them shalom he asks why do we blow the shofar and Rosh Hashanah he brings 10 different reasons one of the reasons he brings he says now a simple question what is the shofar and Rosh Hashanah have to do Shabbat right when did Hashem give us what does it have to do with Rosh Hashanah seemingly there's no connection so I have to blow according to him I have to blow the shofar and Russia to remember what happened what's the connection it makes perfect sense you know why got together by the footsteps of the mountain says they all came together in unison unified all came together in peace now it makes perfect sense you know why I have to blow the shofara to remember if you want to have a good year if you want to have a good deed a good judgment remember what happened by Shepherd you know what happened by Shepherd I tell you I read something unbelievable now Imagine This one was Muhammad harsinai what day of the week Shabbat says who sends invitations Out imagine everyone gets an invitation to their doorstep yes uh in three days you have three days to get ready to get the invitation on Wednesday what is the invitation say six o'clock sell you hot seven o'clock eight o'clock giving of the Torah imagine that they all get the invitation they're all pumped up they're all excited they all come on Shabbat who looks around and he says wait is not giving the Torah today what did we do we didn't come close to our wives we went to the McVay were purified we're ready why not give the Torah says I count only 599 999. there's one person missing Yosef decided to sleep in today it's Shabbat of course he wants to sleep extra on Shabbat he didn't wake up in time okay so Moshe what's the big deal we have 599 999 people one person is missing it says loss no if one person is missing no one's here unbelievable that's what it says to remember what happened they all came together you want to have a good judgment you want to have a good year you have to come together is is to come together every single day to see how can I benefit other people and I'm Israel how can I help other people and I'm Israel we have a question why do we have two days of Rosh Hashanah usually every holiday we have two days erisrael has one day let's see Sukkot we have the first day and the second day they have the second day already go down the line PESA whatever holiday it is only Rosh Hashanah the whole world has two days so your answer me like the Zohar says that I know but I'm going to tell you a marvelous answer right now we have two days of Rosh Hashanah because we have to strengthen ourselves in two parts of the Torah the first day is to strengthen yourself loving God second day is to strengthen yourself for loving your fellow men is not only one part consisting of two parts [Applause] it's not enough to love Hashem Only You Must Love in the same value in the same love your fellow men see how if I were at if I were to ask you what pasuk in the Torah tells me that I have to love you tell me how beautiful this is one of the six which means Abraham if I think about loving every single time you think about loving God you get a mitzvah that's the first day of Roshana the first day of Roshana is exclusive work on loving in everything I'll tell you a beautiful name is they dip the Apple in the honey we dip the Apple in you have honey on the table nothing wrong with it I'm just telling you there's different meaning according to the banished you should also dip it in she's not really we won't get into it I don't want to slight anybody's Min hageem I don't want to step on anybody's toes foreign what's the point of Dipping the Apple in davash listen to this beautiful remiss we just learned right now you have to love because take the word devash the first letter of devaj is dalid that's the last letter of the second letter of devash is bit that's the last letter of live the third letter of Devastation that's the last letter of nifish says the hatam sufed you know what you're doing when you're dipping the Apple into honey you're dipping yourself so if you're going to take the Apple in the honey the only sing the song dip the Apple we know that song the only dip it and sing the song Imagine have kavana right now I'm coming to Mexico but like I said that's the first day of Rosh Hashanah and the aim is is I'm sure you wanted him is people like himatriot the numerical value the Gematria of Yom terua is 7 37 same numerical value amen same numerical value as the first day you know what it tells us to do we have to love buddy but that's the first day like I said so what's the second day reserved foreign is to instruct me to commend me to love my friend like I love him it has to be it has to be that the same numerical value of loving is the same numerical value as loving my friend so we said what's the password if I were to ask you where in the Torah does it say I must love my friend I'm good to go I'm sleeping it's okay the purse says that's numerical value 907 the same same exact thing you know what I'm saying you love me you must love your friend Same Love but the question I want to present to you is what does it says let me love my friend why are you getting involved in the middle Hashem Hashem finds his way inside why not only is what I'm saying when you love your friend like you love yourself it's as if you love me but listen to this beautiful martial so Fred got money bring this beautiful martial there were two friends that didn't see each other for a very long time they lived in two different towns we'll call them Reuben and Shimon shiman was accused of tax fraud and the King found out about it and the King said no no tax fraud in my town we have to make a spectacle of this person take him to the center of the town and hang him on the Gallows and they put an ad in the newspaper if you want to come see a person that's that goes against the king come see him tomorrow morning by The Gallows in the center of the town and everybody comes together they want to go see tomorrow what's going on and it's located oh the newspapers magazines the best friend of Shimon that he didn't see for a very long time he gets this newspaper article to his house he says my friend is accused of money laundering of tax for it can't be I know him since childbirth since childhood it can't be he goes the next morning he runs to the center of the Town while they're putting the oven on The Gallows or Shimon part of me while they're putting shiman on the gallery he says wait wait wait it's not Shimon it's me I'm the one who cheated on my taxes the king says one second we're hanging Shimon and you're telling me that it's you that cheated on your taxes so Shimon when he sees his best friend that he didn't see for a very long time he says no don't believe him he loves me so much he wants to die instead of me it was me not him the king really doesn't know what to do this guy say him this guy's saying him the manak says what are we going to do hang both of them the minute decides for a while and he says you know what bring them both down from The Gallows bring them both down bring them I want to speak to them the king turns to the oven in shimoni says you guys are good friends they say the best friends he says I will pardon both of you I will send you both home on the requirement on the condition you make me your friend also because I never saw friends that love each other so much I want to become part of your friendship you know what says if you love your friend like you love yourself I am your friend also it's not enough it's not enough we must love our fellow friends you know the gamara says one of the questions they will ask us after 120 years we should all live and be well we all know the famous questions which means did you set a time to learn Torah were you just in business did you await the coming of mashiach but there's a question many people don't know the question is in English it means that you Crown your friend every day you know what it doesn't say now when I think of the word yes Hashem says you crowned me Crown your friend also it's not enough did you also make sure that your friend is on the same playing field as you on the same level as you did you love him the same way you loved yourself did you put a crown on his head we have a story of Elisha Navi Navi passes by Isha is married and she tells Elisha she tells them why don't you come over to our house she's married why don't you come over to our house we have upstairs in the Attic we'll make your bedroom we have a chair we have a table we have a desk stay there as long as you want no questions asked fine starts going to her house it came to be that day now I mentioned earlier that the Zara kadosh tells us anytime the word appears in the Torah it's talking about Rosh Hashanah very good so was Rosh Hashanah Elisha Navi comes to this lady and he tells her you were very hospitable to me you gave me a bed you gave me food you gave me water you gave me a desk you gave me everything you were very kind to me foreign can I speak to the King on your behalf now which king is he referring to but he's going to talk to the king he says by the way in case you didn't know I'm a prophet I'm a man of God I can speak to body and this rosh hashanahi will give you anything you want ask me you want money you want children whatever you want ask me now if he presented me with the question oh I don't know what I would ask for but he didn't he is the lady what do you think the lady answered him she tells him which means to say I don't need anything from you I live in this town everyone here in this town loves each other we have ahabat Israel we all get along we're all friends what is the lady telling Alicia you think you have the power to speak to Buddha Allah on my behalf because you are Navi I have a power stronger than you what's that power once I have ahabati said I'm sorry with all due respect I don't need you I have a power that's stronger about that you see where it extends to if a person holds everyone in the Army said as batok everyone gets along we don't have mahalokit no Strife no problems that power yeah if you have the root if you have that power enough is enough believe you me that power is enough to give you a good year and a good judgment from I'll tell you a story that happened a few years back there was a rabbi by the name of haroldandrovich he was a teacher of English in London when you grow older when he was five years old his father was deathly ill and the doctors gave up hope and there was nothing to do miraculously overnight he added and he lived for another 40 years no one understood what happened one second he was about to pass the second that's it everything was good so in the Shiva when they came to pay respects his father is his father's friend was named to be Sero dizinski he comes over to this Rabbi Italian you're probably wondering how your father merited to have another 40 years he says yes it's been plaguing me I couldn't ask my father it's not to respect to ask my father how did you have another 40 years of life but do you know the reason he says yes your father and I are both Holocaust Survivors we survived the Holocaust and after the Holocaust we were very frail skeleton bones and your father was very sick and the doctors wanted to operate on him but they were afraid to operate on him why because they might amputate something that unwillingly because his bones and we didn't know what to do and again you were a little child you don't know exactly what's going on but I'll tell you we sent a letter to all the rabbis around the world and in particular we sent a letter to the review of lavavitch the value of habad the rabbi of the love it said he wrote back in the letter if he's willing to read hathat every single day he will have now let me just tell you what is head tough tough is [Music] circles they read something called hatat which is homage every day portions of the homage every day every day and Tanya but little pieces so he writes back if he's willing to read this every day he will have it if your father gets the letter back he reads the letter and he says but I don't have any energy to read what does he want from me so we write a letter back to the rabbi of love it's saying he can't read himself what do we do now answers us back if anybody in his family can read on his behalf and we sent the letter back saying he has no family his whole family perished in the Holocaust he has the little child left what's the child going to read so the rabbi of lavavitch upon receiving the letter letter pardon me he writes back anyone in the Army said is able to read on his behalf and when we got the letter back this is telling not knowing how his father got the extra 40 years he said I took upon myself for 40 years straight every single day to read the on behalf of your father's day now you understand why your father had a 40 another 40 years extra 40 years taught us as we we were we are supposed to know we're all one we're one goof we are all one goof I can retail leave on your behalf you can read and tell them our behalf you know if I send on my behalf it's as if I could do others you lose out because whoever does them I lose out on it but it's as if I did them how does it work what's the magic formula what's the magic recipe because we're all one we're not separate people says if you're all one then you have a good year then you have a good judgment we will say Rosh Hashanah they are so kulam very soon spirited in our days tomorrow already tomorrow I mean what will happen you know the first question they asked is will he be ashkenaz will he be a safaradi will it be a temani will it be a bukhari maybe there will be a Moroccan what's the difference what's the difference if we're all awaiting the coming of mashiach who cares what he's going to be I I don't care if he's yemenite well I care if he's going to come redeem us from the galut I have to see does he eat my foods does he wear my kippa does he wear my clothes does he spray in my news what's the difference in the end of the day if we are all to come together to unite to Herald in as the king that's the point of Roshana you know why it's so important in English a father is able to forgo his honor which means I come over to my Father Allah Shalom and I say something not nice to him he's able to say I forgive you boy he's able to forgive however if you go to the king and you embarrass the king or worse you throw a cup of water on the king's face the king even if he says I forgive you it's not forgiven you know why because it's endowed by the Creator his cover is not his cover to forgive so Melech cannot forgo his honor now see how it plays out in am Israel we are to stand in front of Roshana and say please forgive me please forgive me says I'm sorry I can't forgive you so we say you're our father forgive us because you're our father what is one second I'm your father is everyone I may say your siblings is everyone else your brothers and your sisters if you accepted everybody in the Army said as part of your family just like I'm your father I'm his father I'm her father I'm their father but the moment you say he doesn't belong with me you showed no no I'm not your father so you're out both ways I can't forgive you you see what it means to all come together and we're going to end with a few things there's a secret I saw by the name of Rama time he says something fantastic in English it means God goes up at the sound of the shofar and Hashem and Hashem in the sound of the shafar now what's Elohim and what's Hashem if they both mean God then why the two extra words but God has many names one of the names of Hashem is Elohim that's Deen that strict judgment and one is that's Mercy if you want the judgment to leave your life if you want all the strict judgment all the problems all the pain and suffering to leave your life Allah you must come together and after you do that Hashem if you got rid of all the Deen in your life the only thing that's left is only Mercy like I mentioned and you know today was but it was not young when we're to say we're not talking about today was that the word was created no means the world gave birth was created on Rosh Hashanah I know that that's not the answer we're looking for more than that is Hashem shows all the generations he shows him that at 9 29 on uh what's the night Monday night uh 9 29 on a Monday night we will be sitting over here in congregation Tov learning a great light an illustrious light and Adam looks at the slide and he says what is this is going to be David but he's only going to live for three hours only So Adam could have said okay only want him to live for three hours he will only live for three hours but what does Adam do he gives 70 years from his own life to David which means on the day of Rosh Hashanah what are we to do think about another yehudi didn't think only about himself he said this why should it be only three hours here no I'll give it 70 years of my own life the day he was created that day we are to do the same thing it's not only me but I didn't come to this world only for myself was sitting in the kahal and one of the students took out a snuff box tabac you know because everybody knows enough over here okay they're making many different smells many different sense he takes out the snuff from his pocket he takes it and he sniffs it now usually I'll tell you a secret usually when people take snap from the box and they sniff it they don't really sniff it and that's it they have to make the whole sound with it ah that's how it works otherwise it's not as otherwise it's not snuff it's not tabak so he takes City sniffs it and the one sitting next to him says this is what you're doing everybody's crowning everybody is everybody's thinking about this is really what you're doing from so that the person that took the tabak was hayab Mita because his friend said he's doing in abera what did he do wrong everybody here is asking right what did he do wrong he's only taking but his friend didn't like it and there's a passuk that says which means if someone in Army said doesn't we need two witnesses to take him to bedding correct but let's say there was only one person and there's nobody that saw him except one person he's not enough right because we need two witnesses but there really is two witnesses you know why the Satan the prosecuting Angel is one witness and you that so him you're the other witness so he became Hamas you just became a second witness to testify against him so this person that saw his friend taking the tab back to Snuff became a second witness with the yes he has to Witnesses what do we do now says what do we do we have to do something if he can learn on the person that took the tabac we were another gazera the battleship of spraying the name please help me please bother Adam help me come the day of Rosh Hashanah and this person is trying to read the tephilad of Roshana trying to pray and he can't pray why because he has mashabot in his mind why do yehudim love tabak so much love so much this is what the Bible wanted he wanted to block his thoughts he says you answer the question he says maybe that when they take the tabach that are inside the tabakh maybe there are no shamot souls that are inside the snuff and therefore they take the snuff to rectify to fix the nishamo that are inside the tabakh he says beautiful he says why why oh my God I didn't realize maybe my friend last night the reason why he took the tab back is because it's inside the tabac is that uh they voided it Israel these days are days of judgment we must find favor in everyone we must see everyone in a positive light the benefit of the doubt yes we're not perfect they're not perfect we all make mistakes however if you want a good year if you want a good judgment from we are to see everybody in a good light and an end off with this there was a person that walked in to the insane asylum to the mental hospital and he wanted to know what makes a person meshuga I mean what's is there a test to fill out like how do they know who's Miss Sugar who's crazy and who's not crazy so he goes over the coordinator over there to the warden over there and he asks him can you just explain to me how do you know if a person is meshuga or not he says very simple we have a bathtub we fill the bathtub up all the way to the top with water and next to the bathtub we have pales big pills and we have cups so the person says to himself oh now I know if the person empties out the bathtub with a cup he's crazy if he empties out with a pill he's not crazy the coordinator says they're both crazy he says why he says because the smart person pulls the dream and all the water comes down we're all looking for segulot we're all looking to drain our nation we're all looking to get rid of the problems in our life don't look for the other ways I'm telling you right now if you take out the drain all the problems and the tragedies in your life will go out and what is that pulling the drain to have Shalom to work on our habat Israel to make everybody in armies and feel loved Hashem if we do that we were all married to have a shanata I think thank you so much for inviting me to the show all the organizers everyone here we should only see each other in Good Times in the coming the Republic