Confession - Part 1: Yom Kippur Actually Works! - Rabbi Menachem Nissel

[Music] okay first of all before I begin and I'd like to apologize that my opening story it kind of is stereotyping women it's kind of rude since I'm a rabbi and you know supposed to stereotype I'm going to make an assumption about your gender some of you will say I'm fine with that other will say 'no these rabbis it's just like the stereotype us I'm just gonna make an assumption that ladies in general love to go shopping so is that ok ok you're not like upset with me like you have a thing like shopping talks to you in a way that the male gender just could never ever understand I want you to imagine ok just before I say this i'm going to make another assumption as well and that is that not only do you like to shop but if you can chop there's something special about a shopping mall will you go into a shop who you lookin a good smile ok i just like like you're happy it's like I could have said you could be on a beach but no the word shopping we'll just talk to you right it's like an exciting thing so um there's different types of shopping malls there's like regular there's like fancy and then there's like super duper fancy you sort of like the ones that most regularly even beings cannot afford I'm just looking at you so I'm thinking that in Houston Texas there's one called the galleria so the galleria are you heard of it as wanna go dasa ok so i just know i went to the galleria the only thing that I could afford was like the starbucks everything else was like ridiculously ridiculously expensive there's no like old navy in the galleria there's not even like like like the gap or the banana republic exactly okay it starts it with french sounding names them all like a thing and everything is like really fancy shmancy and in the gallery in houston i'm just looking at you just filled with mexican ladies that flying for the day with a little army of oompa loompas you know caring or their designer bags and that's it their husbands normally work for the Mafia or sell drugs or something like that and they go in they buy what they buy and then they fly back home enough for their taco dinners I don't know what is I'm sorry I'm sorry to see there we go the bottom line is is that I want you all just to join me on this journey over which the picture in your mind the ultimate shopping experience in the ultimate fanciest most expensive most insanely beautiful shopping mall and then one day you and your mom are seeing that for breakfast and mom says you got to see this and she opens up a newspaper and there's a full-page ad and there it says one day and one day only everything shown and everything sold in this shopping mall is going to be damned ninety-five percent off the listed price look at that look at that mouths watering over here as I can st. okay so goes mom faints and then she you get her back together again and you say this is really really happening what happens next of course is that mom prepares for the day very similar to the way Napoleon would prepare for am an invasion of a European country you know I mean there's like this is the real thing this is like insane the point I'm trying to make is is that all of this is just a marshal it's just a parable I'm trying to get you into this class over here I'm trying to give you a healthy way of looking at yom kippur because guess what ladies I'm not gonna see you until after yom kippur next week I'm not gonna bare it's going to be rosh hashanah and the week after that's going to be yom kippur this time in two weeks that's it we are going to see you next year and we are going to and this is my last chance to talk about young people and I want to share with you literally an idea that saved my life and when X paint a little bit in detail why this class is so important for me but before I begin let me go over what i just said so far this parable up for shopping of the shopping mall giving ninety-five percent off is a very very accurate parable what I mean is the following thing so you're like dreaming okay I can see Morgan ovh he's picturing her dream $2,000 milano blahnik shoes that she always wanted to get so whatever is Jimmy Choo whatever it is that you're into and you know for to thousands of ninety-five percent a hundred bucks we can do that we can do that it's like incredible and mom wanted to buy her two-hundred-thousand-dollar bedroom suite and she can get it now for whatever thousand dollars i'm not sure i'm getting the math right but you get the idea right you get the general idea what I mr. zero okay the point I'm trying to make is throughout the year if you want to make realistic change if you want to do change that works it is a lot of work you have to pay full price throughout the year the something stands in front of you and drives you crazy to try and get you to do the wrong thing to make change something impossible to put those mountains in front of you so it's hard to change but one day in the year Hashem says here it is here it is I'm taking the something and I am neutralizing him the numeric value of haselton is 364 guess what there's one day in the 365 year days that he cannot function that is the day called Yom Kippur he is a wall he is not effective whatsoever Hashem says here's the deal I really really really want you kept it to be special Yom Kippur is what I call my wedding day young Hassan hace y simplest labor the day of my great rejoicing why because a Shem says my beloved is the Jewish people and the whole year this barriers between us and myself one day I'm going to set them up for success one day they can come along break down the barriers the idea of fasting Yom Kippur is to break down the physical barriers there are there between asking God it's not we're not fasting like on Tish above where sitting on the floor and we're crying about something we lost on you kipper we are fasting because we are getting rid of all our physicality we are suppressing it and we are flying high with Hashem but you can't really fly high because you know what's bringing us down is our sins it's all that negative energy inside of us I chef says here's the deal ninety-five percent off it's going to be easy one day it's just gonna go just like that just to show you how beautiful it is on Yom Kippur we're going to be seeing three phrases again and again and again and again what are they / na mahal na kappa no right slaw na mahal na kappa which means forgive please forgive please and forgive please so why are you saying it three times what's the difference between the phrases it's to show you a little bit how your Kippur works you keep it the deep cleansing of our sins so again is a parable a marshal here in Israel when you clean your floors the floors actually come with like little holes and you can actually put the dirty water into those holes Israeli living it's called sponza sponge out is part of the Israel experience so now let's just imagine the following thing imagine mom has been driving you crazy you gotta clean your room you gotta clean your room you gotta clean your room and you're seeing no you're holding out you're holding out and the dirt is like going higher and higher and higher until one day I'm gonna do it I'm going in I'm going into my room to clean it you go in you start moving in you know moving away all the layers of clothing and dirt and like rotting sandwiches and dying rodents and all kinds of things and then you know you study here oh my gosh i found my hairbrush we found the hairbrush you know and you keep on going deeper and deeper in Genesis oh my gosh there's grandma we found grandma okay finally so all these things I happiness a little step one at one it's called / no step 9 what happened in your house right I can tell it actually happened to you right now so am so sly smile lit she means to forgive if you've been having a fight with the best friend the very first thing is to reconcile is the desire to change the desire to actually I'm going to I'm going to work on cleansing that flow that's called slavna that's called level one the next one is called Mahama so what you do is you go to the local super song what are made to like local am a grocery store and you buy what they call here in Israel flow cleanser but the flow claims are there in Israel a little different from the regular ones they are actually they're sort of like a greenish yellow color and they're mixed with like nuclear waste the way it works basically is that when you pour it on anything your first thing here's like this fizzing sound as all these chemicals stop breaking in and crushing it down and the dirt is dissolving it's like the most scariest thing that's it if you go anywhere near it that's it you're going to come out looking like something like you know a spare prop from an alien movie the point I'm trying to make is that's called mahal na the word Macau comes from the word to dissolve so the first thing you do is you say I'm going to change the seconds you take the sin you break it down it's now broken down but it still exists it still exists stage number three is that you find the hole you go like that then you take a sponge is thick and you fantasize that you are i used to say tiger woods but now he's like became naughty so we don't mention this thing I don't know any other golf player but you imagine you know that your golf player and you take the sponge stick and you put all the disgusting filthy water with all the disgusting filthy dirt and it goes glug glug glug glug glug down down down then you cover it over and it's gone forever that's cold keperra no that's cool the word yom kippur him means it's gone forever and ever it's covered over it has disappeared it is gone it's now somewhere deep in the gutters it's never going to come back to your house again / na mahal na kupuna means that on Yom Kippur your video your how do you say video in English Yoram confession thank you sounds very Christian bus yeah you're bitter the Christian the Hebrew version of the confession actually works it actually works so here is my story over here on Yom Kippur you don't have to pay the full price you only have to pay five percent but that five percent is saying the video you get it you gotta say your video you got to confess and you got to bring out all that dirty laundry that's inside your soul and with that coach Barker takes it / na mahal na Capernaum gone re our senior eat that it is finished never to come back again so I just want to make an insertion at this moment now I wanna make a comment that every so often I have to scream at a seminary go because this is what she says to me I'll tell you I rebel thing you can hear this a girl comes up to me like halfway through the year and says rehearsal I need to make a confessional ok so I'm useless I close when is my child how can I help you ok and then she starts talking about her since and then I asked the following question did you or did you not do video on Yom Kippur and she goes yeah and then I say there who will wait a second you did your video that means they're gone that means those sins are in your past why are you talking to me about them she looks at me says I'm not really gone are they they're not really calm yes they are Yom Kippur actually works you keep is real it's not just like you know a religious thing like I feel good kind of stuff it actually works that people think it doesn't work they'll prove it to me so how come I still remember things you've been watching too much Lion King yeah of course you remember things you Kippur is not a guarantee that things are a raise from your memory you Kippur is not an obliviate spell it's not what it does Yom Kippur just cleanses your soul but then memories they stay you know it's beautiful about the human condition the beauty about the human condition is that we forget this time gets older a lot of the stupid things we do we forget okay see you know you think carefully you can't remember yeah Bella you can't remember the second guy you dated you know the first guy you could be you remember but after we just forget you know they become like interchangeable so the point I'm trying to make is that is human nature human nature is that we don't believe in your pepper i'm making a protest over here loud and clear yom kippur it works you gotta believe in the power of yom kippur and now the problems begin you