Wash Your Own Clothes | Parshas Yisro

a guy dropped off his palace cotton his tits is at the dry cleaner he went to go pick it up they told him that'll be $65 this is $65 for one garment they said yeah well it's four dollars for the garment and sixty one dollars to get all those knots out so here's a story about doing your own laundry not bringing your clothing to the cleaners in our partial partial Caesar a pedicure tests pasta cured chapter 19 verse 10 this is talking about preparations before the giving of the Torah at Sinai the yam a national maisha Hashem said to measure lake ala um go to the people Vicky - Tamar a mocker and sanctify them today and tomorrow the hips ooh seem lightsome and they should wash their clothes okay that's one of the preparations that took place before the revelation of the Torah at Thursday night so just looking at this one aspect of the story what does it mean that my share should sanctify the people Hashem tells make sure you make sure sanctify them and that they should wash their clothes why my she should sanctify them and they should wash their clothes what's the difference between those two things and what does it mean that my she should sanctify them I know what it means they should wash their clothes well what does it mean really she should sanctify them and why they don't why is one done Malaysia and ones done by the people done by themselves and then also what's the deeper meaning of washing their clothes so I'll tell you a story that I actually just recently wrote up they give a little plug for the mache Habad newsletter where I've been writing a column for about a year and in the latest issue the SWOT issue so I I included this story here here's here that here's the column at any rate the story takes place the first Rosh Hashanah in 770 on the shoreline 770 Eastern Parkway which became Labov at world headquarters after the previous that I became to America so this was Rosh Hashanah tortion Aleph 1940 heading into the year 1941 and the story I heard from rabb-ul gordon was all goes inside who was there as a child of I believe eight years old at the time and he says the fear that could I became in the show and he was diving at his stander and when the hasn't finished the entire might have on the night going into the Shoshanna they heard after they had finished Mikasa had finished they heard the the the fennec Arab saying the words Hammar Eve a drove them which are the last words of the first paragraph of the opening blessings of Sh'ma in other words when the cousin had finished to the entire might of the Fila crabber had only just begun don't ask me how such a mistake was made how that happened but from I selected Michigan caches that's what happened that's that's that's the fact once they realized that was the situation obviously no one would dare leave no one's gonna walk out so you can't just sit there doing nothing especially on Rosh Hashanah so they handed out books of tehilim and each person took could tell them it just started saying to him and little yellow said that there were men who got through the entire safer tell him once there are men who've got through the entire safer tell him twice I guess people who say tell him really fast we're able to finish the entire scene for him twice he said he was a little kid he got I think somewhere in the 80s you know in the in the pace of capital AHA and finally after I guess a couple hours a few hours the fear they could have finally finished and after he finished Avenue he turned around and his face was drenched with tears he had been sobbing the entire time in fact the way nobody still described it is that it was so silent in the shul the entire time well every was saying kill him the only sound you could hear was the if reader could have been choking on his tears so when he turned around his face was just drenched in in tears and he looked at the Sydenham and he said a good jump to forgot your and he turned around and he left sure so after that it was quiet for a few seconds and then suddenly the first person to move jumped up and he ran and he made a beeline for the Stender the lectern podium where the freezer Kariba had been diving for hours standing over that podium crying copious tears and this constant ran over and he started he grabbed the the cloth that was on top of that of the slender and he started rubbing it on his face and the GABAA of the shul Riviera and Gordon who happens to have also been an abuse or elles father so he sees this guy rubbing this wet cloth this quantise drenched in the feeling of his tears on his face and he screams - the guy was toast Oh what are you doing so the guy looks at a Marilyn and he says the mice mayhaps ice tears cleanse it's a Kabbalistic idea that tears of Chava tears of regret cleanse the face they remove the the defilement of sin I'm here cannon shot back at him he says das is mediating it ready that's with your own tears he says don't wipe off your face with the rabbit ears what your face with your tears the moist McCobb say so you want to cleanse yourself you cry the tears I think this story is a perfect illustration of a very basic concept in Exodus Habad which goes back to the very first generation with the altar table with the Bala Tanya abdominal Eid in fact this is one of the points of contention between him and the other tsadikim the Tammy Leah maggot especially if slimmer carlynda her used to say a Toyota he used to say todrick women officer you hired that it's a dick with his a Mona you hire will enliven enlivens others that the Sadiq has such great a Mona that he can carry others on his shoulders so to speak and the alter rebbe insisted no that was not to be the relationship between a hostage and a rabbit there was Sadiq Domino say Ya Ya that Sadiq will live he himself lives by his omona and thereby he can set an example and he can be a leader but each individual has to have their own omona they cannot merely depend on the Devas connection to a sham as a substitute for their own work and and indeed where in the week just following you'd shot your shot was the historical see passing of the physical Abba in tough senior 1950 and then one year later tough senior Aleph 1951 was in the rather officially accepted the naseous and at the very first vibranium that ever made very very clear what the agreement was going to be that in the classic sense of a Habad rabbit the way the alta debe established it in the way that it was kept through the generations that see them have to do their own work that ever famously said said lacnic legs akane fagelah in bosom don't put literally don't put birds in your chest so there's different explanations what that means I heard one person even say what what a person who stuffs his shirt full of birds and thinks that he'll fly so it means don't fool yourself to think that you're gonna find some trick or some mechanism that's gonna do the work for you it's gonna be a shortcut that's gonna you know fly make you fly know if you want to get somewhere you gotta have to go with your own power on your own two feet you have to do it yourself and that's basically what the net was telling will see them that you have to do your own work so this story of aviation and garden reproaching this constant who wiped the faded gray was tears on his face to me is like the archetypical encapsulation of this idea on one hand on one hand let's think about this the solution at option Aleph this is going into 1941 we know at 1941 1941 was the final solution and in the the rabba as a rather I go I don't know what it had the experience is I don't know what they see I don't know what their their experience on a Rosh Hashanah is but we can't we can assume that a leader of Kali Sorrell is going into the game ad in the day when a Shem is judging what's going to be for the coming year and he has all of that on his shoulders and he's trying that's in hence he's standing there weeping for hours diving for hours trying to do something to change the fate to change what's going to happen or whatever it is that it sonic does in those situations and on one hand you see that's that's the Rebbe is Dominic that wasn't the regular persons Dominic that was unique to the river and at the exact same time for a hustle to come and then take those tears and wipe off his own face that was anathema that was such a such a loathsome concept that you would come and use the debe in a way to substitute for your own work so on one hand that happens the data that is race-based you earned ownership and Al the head of the Jewish people he's doing things up there he's seeing things up there that we don't see on the other hand you know what each person does their own work you wipe your face you clean yourself with your own tears do your own work it really encapsulates that idea and this is really what what what this plastic is telling us and in fact this was a Mimer of the altar ever before the out that I was imprisonment has my modem were very very very short so Ed of schwas this is the hi am iam from hey Civ and hey Steven is his air of choise I am iam of course is a safer that the the rabbit compiled with short entries for every day it is a nice high uranium that's falling apart and will use my joke again from Wednesday night somebody who's a uranium is falling apart probably means that their life isn't that means they're using their Hajime okay fine so hey seven out of show us it says that air of hash was tough hoof noon Zion and the eve of she was 55 57 which means 1797 the alte never taught the following teaching this was the whole teaching sanctify them today in tomorrow and they shall cleanse their garments right that was the verse that we do we read in a sham told Misha be Kadosh to my yo-yo ma Claire you should sanctify them today in tomorrow the heap so and they should cleanse symbolize some of their garments what does that mean this so the Altima said sanctify them today and tomorrow is from above they shall cleanse their garments one must do himself and that was his entire teaching that was the Alpha of his entire teaching I told you before his imprisonment teachings are very short and it was luckily his grandson and successor that somehow said that came and he elaborated he gave it a little flushed it out a little bit more he says like this sanctify them this was said by a Shem tamesha and the extension of my ship Yash especially Damacy like it says in Isaiah the the extension of Malaysia in every generation the moisture like figure in each generation is able to sanctify the today and the tomorrow but for this is needed and they the Jewish people shall cleanse their garments what our garments we know Antonia that your garments mean your behaviors because just like garments aren't you there they go on you but they're not you so to your behaviors aren't you who are you your you are your ideas and your feelings that's really an extra prably linked with with your personality who you are but your behaviors and that's the the good thing about behaviors is you don't have to actually be emotionally and intellectually congruent with something to force yourself to do it you can just do the right thing even when you're you can fake it til you make it even when you don't feel like it so behaviors are called garments so clean the garments the garments of thought speech in action that has to be done by each individual so what is the teaching the teaching is this that in order to prepare for Toyota there's something that we should have aina for and only may she could do it only Manisha can lift us up to a certain level a yam and Maha meaning today and tomorrow tomorrow means receiving of the third of the day that they would receive the Tara and without Moshe doing whatever Myesha does his job as it added we wouldn't be ready on the other hand at the same exact time you got to wash your own garments you have to take responsibility for your behaviors you thought your speech in your action and to refine them with your own power and your own work