Siyum Succah Live From Meridian Capital Group.

welcome to everybody here live at meridian here in new york city to all those watching across the globe on the live stream welcome to the old app see you i'm on the set the sucker [Applause] my name is marsha shui director of the old platform and on behalf of the ou and his leadership mr mojbane who's here and rabbi moisha hauer i'd like to take this opportunity to thank meridian and mr ralph hurzka for hosting this scene oldaf is dedicated in memory of mayor benjayim wakneen from casablanca morocco who unfortunately passed away from kobe 19. he was very involved in the community had tremendous respect for tamim and rabbanim and was a true family man yeah the scene is dedicated by the goldberg family thank you mr josh goldberg who's here live in attendance in memory of his brother elliot who miraculously with the genetic disease lived for 47 years from what i understand that disease has a life expectancy of five five years old his parents through 250 hospitalizations took care of elliott and he always persevered and stayed positive something which is very necessary when learning day in day out would like to keep this program short and concise so i'm going to leave the speaking to the wonderful guest speakers who are here today but one quick word someone shared with me once something from our palm it's actually printed in a saver called mario zedek and the title to this article or speech is called divreit along with so i'm not going to get into what he was trying to console them that would take too much time but he started off with something very interesting we had recently in the gemara discussion between and simcha and this what to talk about exactly who sussen is it talks about the swash of what is the difference between sasha and simsa both talk about happiness joy what's the difference so he quotes them album the album was well known for differentiating between common words synonyms and he says the difference is simcha is the inner joy the haggish that a person feels in his heart and suffering is the way a person brings out that joy in an outward fashion a person sings dances makes a souda and he invites his friends to join with him he says when a person starts tafiyami he may have that inner simcha this make him say some as he embarks on the journey that his that um that a person takes upon himself to start when he starts learning and he starts the journey of assassination as he goes through massachusetts after message and he feels that joy and he completes musa then he ready he invites his friends and he makes um and enjoys the accomplishments in an outward fashion so to all those who are here and across the globe who are learning daffy me smashing would say some but we've come to assassination finishing the set the sukkah right before sukis now it's amazing how the calendar works out in these ways to finish with the sukkah right before sukkas as i mentioned before we'd like to thank meridian and mr hertzke for opening up this board room beautiful board rooms to host to see him and i'd like to call upon i'd like to call founder of elephant to deliver thank you rabbi schwed deserves so much credit what started off as a dream that we had in beginning a share online for people to participate who want to go on the trip that rabbi shui just mentioned became such an incredible reality with this all that platform where we have 50 000 people who are who bought into the app and we berkshire have thousands and thousands of people listening to the many different shurim the bafsheer and associated shirum it's really a tremendous husk that he has and that we at the ou have been able to begin this journey and we thank people such as our host tonight here at meridian mr hertzke and his entire staff for hosting us and i guess for recognizing the importance and the value of this project as we come to the end of the sector sukkah and we stand in the last couple of days of the year before rosh hashanah i was thinking is there a common theme that we could connect the mussah and rosh hashanah and maybe the pastor of the week the torah begins this week is that we always read pastors with sovereign before the new year and of course many mufashim asks why and the answer we had today at the ou a meeting of the leadership with the staff as we prepare for rosh hashanah rabbi howard who's sitting here and many of us spoke about the theme and when it comes to rosh hashanah the hayoi that we're going to stand in front of rosh hashanah nitsavim hayoim in order for us to be able to stay in the front of our koresbaruku we have to have every member of kai's role every member of klaus has to participate that's when we could be nuts of him in front of akareshwarahu and that's why the pasta concludes call ish israel all of us are really just one all of us are just one person because each one of us comes with our own talents and with our own strengths and our own weaknesses together call issues throw as one unit standing in front of our kareshbar and actually for those of you who have already peaked at the end of the massachusetts that's the last words of amasakta the last words is um it's not only good for you but it's tough it's for everybody who come in association and i once saw a beautiful verse why does it say and the answer is the one that helped somebody else do the right thing so not only is it good for him for the good things that he does but what he helps other people grow and do the right thing for every person that did something right because of what we do we therefore cause that we should get scared for that as well all of their mitzvahs and all of their torah get accredited to us as well and that is a way to enter rosh hashanah when we're looking for and we're looking for all of us to be connected the way that we get connected is by trying to help other people do the right thing we help other people learn torah and i mentioned last night that it's very interesting all of us know that there's a midst of zac haley van veryu the concept of hidu mitzvo that when one performs a mitzvah he has to perform it in the most beautiful way possible that's a rule that applies to every mitzvah in the torah but by the midst of the dalai minim the tyrus specifies pre-aids hodder what is the tire specified by this mitzvah more than any other mitzvah the concept of hidro we already know that halaco so i was thinking that we know that the dalai meenum the famous madrid says that the dalai minimum represent the four types of jews somebody who yes until we get to that rover aimed by tire of anybody massimo tyson and akaresh barku tells us to connect those dalai meanin to connect those dollar minimum together says the torah when we have all different types of jews coming together that's what i call hudder that's what i call beautiful and actually to add to that those who learned the massacre no there's a very fundamental machoist in the sect between and holds egypt that the obligation to tie the law of hadas is a medici disagree but says the gemara in more than one place that even though there are born on hold that we're not obligated to make an eagle we're not obligated to tie them together it still should be done because it's harder because it's beautiful and the question is what's so beautiful it's necessarily about tying the esr the lululeve and that doesn't and perhaps the point is because hodor that's what makes it beautiful when we're all connected when we're all connected and particularly when we're connected through learning torah and in fact i just should mention there's a fantastic some cipher some cypher says that everybody you know everybody when they go to look for nester i see yeshiva guys so we all know people spend time looking for an s-ring and they look if there's a mock and it may be a hustler and a loch is as we learned in the massachusetts only a disqualification on the first day of circus and of the first day of circus and shabbos it's not a disqualification at all but a hodder is an issue all seven days of circus it says the sam cipher so you bent and you bought this beautiful esteric you spent time and resources to get this milk beautiful estuary and now you shake it the first day and again i give an advertisement if you listen to the showroom you would have heard that luck is you have to keep the ester right next to the lulu so you did it the right way and when you come home from sure on the first day you see that yes is all spotted and where's the huddle says the cypher that is the definition of if esri got spotted because you were doing the mitzvah that is what's beautiful so somebody gets up every morning early to learn and he's tired or he comes home from work at night and instead of going home and spending time with his family he goes to a shear where he spends time listening to his year and he ends up going to sleep much later and he's tired that's hador that's beautiful that's the beauty of the daffodil me and particularly when it's a lemur that all of clay israel all of us who come from so many different walks life and from so many different communities rabbi schwein and i just spent time yesterday on the phone speaking to two jews from england who listened to the sheer every day and one friend had sent this not an appeal had sent us a donation because his other friend who's listening to our shirt he was just diagnosed with cancer and we should give and we should have in my mind for a fool shleimer and he asked that maybe to give his friend who's not well some physic we could spend a couple of minutes on the phone speaking to him which we did jew from england from edgware london doesn't know me i don't know him and more likelihood we will never meet in our entire lives but we're all connected we're all the atom that's and that's why the massachusetts em root sadhaki taif when one sadiq when one person does good it influences the entire world we all become connected through whatakaris who looks at lehman attire what he wants from us to devote at least some part of our day on a daily basis so i think that the people who are sitting here who bark shem i know many of you learned the daffy me the people who are participating online who certainly are involved in the da fiomi we appreciate that you're involved with us i think the ones that probably appreciate it the most are your families i've heard from many people who learn the daf i personally have been giving a sheer in the deaf almost 32 years already and almost every person who i ever met who learned the deaf told me that since he started learning the deaf it changed his entire family it changed the way his family dynamic is and it's certainly a change the community with his learning so barak hashem we should all have that disgust together at him that's of him we need to stand in front of akareshparaku with kosum israel of course the entire world but certainly claudius needs tremendous husson now another is that we always have to read pasha's kisawa before rosh hashanah and the pastors kiss over their 98 claws but as we also learned from the sukkah endermen we bring carbonis every day of circus and if you count all of those cabanas there are 98 cabonas by doing by learning and learning specifically and davening that we should resolve them here you may know hopefully still this year that we should be able to bring those 98 bro cabanas that are on behalf of us on behalf of all of the world on behalf of claudius charles de benoit thank you remember elephant i'd like to call upon the swell somehow weinga who is the maggot cheer feminine magazine for meridian to make the scene we'll finish the last gemara together we went to nebraska mice have been miriam basibilga the story of a girl by the name of miriam boswelga she left the path to tara and she eventually got married to an officer from the mountains from the kings amongst the greeks says evidently during baha'ishani when they came in before hanukkah the ivanam came into the summit so she started kicking with her sandal on top of the mizvah varma and she said lucas lucas you fox you fox and your funny look this means fox. how long is it going to be that you're going to be using up and stealing the money of call you israel you take our money baby when they're in a time of needy you don't help them lucas is a fox fox heats up the fox it's the carbon tamid crossing and she was also referring to the fact that he's from shaved i mean of this mishma the ring that would hold the animal in the ground couldn't open it was sealed it was stuck they had to borrow someone else because they had that busan the salesman and they sealed the window where they used to keep their knives in the base of khalifa's they couldn't keep their knife there and as a result this now explains his price explains why in the mission was this mishmar punished the shimer there are those who say says the gemara that that wasn't the issue with this mishma it wasn't because of miriam what happened was they used to come late this mishma they would normally switch mishamaras every shabbos and they came late so the group that was there before them that would normally leave on shabbos as the new group came they had to stay a little late because they came late says rashid clearly it indicated to us that it wasn't covered it wasn't beloved by them it wasn't something that they were looking forward to do right near them they benefited because like we learned earlier normally the group that would come in on shabbos they would take their helicopter they would take the bits hush of his side where the kardashian was shafted when they left they took darwin not as khashoggi but bilga this missionary was punished they always took bindara even when they came in as a result of this misa the a shimer and therefore you shape of who is the group before them always even when they left they took bits offen because the group coming after them were punished to take in the dara okay so we have two explanations why was the mishmark vilga punished that their tabas was sealed and the hotline where they kept the knife was also closed there's blame of the month like the sheep did that it's because the group came late the mishma came late we understand now how do the cancer and the cool and mr understand why the whole initial was punished they came late they were punished but if the reason why they were punished is like the first because miriam of what she did that terrible mindset bishop even if we just focus on the father who was a kind because of what his daughter does you punish him his umar abaya says yes kiddami inchi like people say yanuka the speech of a child the words that come out of a child out in the market is that what he heard either from his father or his mother and if that's what she's saying about them lucas lucas it's quite probable that that's what she heard from her parents and therefore the father should be punished says so because of what the father does of the mothers who are going to punish the entire vishmar is amarbaya yes because russia as a result of what she did we may not necessarily punish the mishmash because she's not being punished she never were but because of what she did it affects her father because shusu do yanuka once the father is affected and he's being punished oi to the russia the father and that seems to be the end of the gemara what's the gay over here but more than ends in the immortals but we also have a cloud that what's good for today like it was just spoken about is also good for the people near the south when the saudi benefits the people who are around that south it also benefit like it says at start of los angeles were many people benefiting because when the today benefits everybody benefits so simple why the government brought it down is because it's we want to end even more he says it's not extra the is bringing a reason i'm a car to ayla rashford how could he say why should we affect the russia what did they do wrong it's the russia's fault it's not their fault they [Music] so if you really want good in life you could go to be near the topic and there's a lot of good to get what are you not why you're not there why are you by the russia lmi it must be it's not important you must be you're not that because there's so much good available in life why would you not go there the kumar ends up with the wires ending with the cloud of the anoka just uh just a moment on the cloud of shusuinuka now when a child shusa denuka the the talk of a child bashuki in the market is the parent it doesn't say that the talk of the child when they take a test when they're in class when they fill out it says what they say in the market but they're not being tested the right answers when you ask a child what's right and what's wrong and you're testing him and he has to think of what's right he can tell you what he's been told by other people but be a nuke but when that child is bashook in the market and he's not being tested so then the child what does the child speak then he speaks who he is his natural his real essence comes out and what's the real essence of a child a child affected by what he hears in their home and it doesn't say what the parents preach them doesn't say what the parents are telling them to say it's what the father is and what the mother is what's the natural what's happened by the father what's happened by the mother that's what the child picks up on it's unbelievable unbelievable myself unbelievable i said that there was a i'll make it quick there was a a um a trip and air to swallow some young kids were going on a trip into school and they were going to a water park at the whole bus they pull up a bunch of buses we're going one of the buses pull up and they realize that there had been a confusion she was officially renting out the park that wasn't the case and it wasn't going to work out for them to go the rebbe told the boys we're not going to be able to go and the rebbe know the wrong he says that is going to be it's going to be terrible he braced himself you know all of a sudden one of the boys got up one of the kids got up and he said to his friends guys we have a chance for an ashreidu the reason we're not going to the park is because obviously hashem doesn't want us to go to the park it doesn't work now so we're going to serve hashem by not going we're going another time and he started singing it's a little kid not the redmi telling them the kid the kids started doing it his friends started doing their friends they got the whole bus was dancing and the bus turned around went back to these shoes right he told them we'll go another day when the remy got back he went over to he went over to the to the principal he said i have to tell you something and he told them what took place in the bus and the principal said who was that he told him the name of the plate he says you're not going to believe it because it was another boy and another bus who did it was his younger brother same thing i got to speak to the father he called it for the principal called the father that night and he told him what happened and he said to the father he said what's going on in your home you check your messages recently he says what what is it he said i don't know i don't know didn't really have an answer he says please tell me there's something unique going on what do you say to your children he said i'll tell you maybe it was one thing that happened he said a little while back my wife was out with the kids and she had a lot of shopping a lot of errands it was a very hot day kids did not want to be up so at the end of the trip when the grocery shopping she said okay we're going to buy a certain box of ices all the kids will have a nice little treat and they get to the car after schlepping and schwitzing take out the ices and they see wasn't was wasn't good wasn't a hashtag for the family so she didn't give it to them and they got home and she told her husband what happened and the husband said what he says hold on a second give me a little bit of time the husband went out and he bought a whole ton of nash and he set up the table and he made a beautiful beautiful party and he brought an ash and a lot of good stuff for the kids and he said to the kids we're going to have an ashraen party he says you had isis in the car and the reason you didn't have them is because hashem said you're not supposed to have and that's what you did that's unbelievable we're making a sudah are they saying when they had to sue them maybe that's what they saw it's coming time for rosh hashanah we blow this shaft from the shaft of the shoulder that we want to hear we hear the sound of the shafter and the sound is something that we hear it's the krav maga rosh hashanah is asking us to come back and then it's our job as parents to transmit that to our children what but they truly hear our essence you blow into a shafter it's that little sidey bones but not the big side what comes out of the other side is heard very strong but it's that deep inner essence that you blow with your breath that comes from the nishima which is is the real you you blow into the sheikh and that's what's heard by everybody we should be saying to transmit the message of hashem to our children and what more beautiful way than the cabell than just mentioned families that are involved in that in the da filming that becomes the shus of the yanuka mamish literally where's daddy rezaba where's that vacation where's daddy it becomes a normal thing in the home not because you're preaching you're not because you're telling them because that's part of the day that's what's kashif you don't tell them it's harsh if you do it every day i mean maybe they see that that's we should be saying they flip around the entire line the inuka bashuka tadikim say the talk of a child the learning the my sentiment bashuka is a sheikh is a thigh the avoid the email bra devour the myself of a child is a squish for the parent our mice and should be disclosed for our parents in this host of all the day we've heard from them it should then be as close back for them a big thank you to aldaf for spreading tariffs spreading such holy shrusa all over the world and that becomes with the avoid with the email talking about and a big big thank you to meridian mr alvertzka for for hosting tonight and for being such a strong supporter of of what the of the all dolphin is a supporter of torah and of of of the dathaomi yeah for the hadron we actually have someone here who's not just finishing this after sukkah but making the scene manchester mr mark salads [Music] is mr jeff weimer kaddish is [Music] so we want to allow people to be smacking me say some so our last speaker tonight is by moisha howard who's the executive director of the orthodox union i'm grateful for the opportunity to come here today because it made me feel a lot better this is the second time that i have the privilege to be in this room the last time it was as a base nessus i i had the privilege to be appointed to my position uh at the end of january of 2020 i had a board meeting in the evening at 11 broadway where the ou is located and uh that night i stayed over in a hotel in the area and i was guided that there's a seven o'clock chakras at meridian i got up in the morning i came looking for this building i was wandering around for somewhere between five and ten minutes until i found the building and i'm selling saying to myself how are you a farmer from baltimore what are you trying to do working in manhattan but tonight we walked over from 11 broadway about five people new yorkers and we wandered around for five or ten minutes so we found the building so it's not just it's not just me tablet addict title is a nice memory you know you would ask maybe it's okay so it's good for the table good for the neighbor the truth is that it's the it's the foundation of the mitzvot they a very fundamental myth for their iso one of the core original midfielders of the way the rama sets them up in the safer mitzvahs which is the mitzvah of ludov to attach yourself to the shrine writes about it at length in host dais i think it's paired with a pair of designs ramen writes that it's a mitzvah a person has to understand he begins and he says it is the way of a person to be drawn in his ways in his thinking after his friends after his peers behaving in the way of his society and therefore writes the rambam that it's a mitzvah for a person to choose well to live amongst good people strong people people whose values whose way of life you would want to be affected by you would want to rub to rub off on you your environment the environment that you choose to live in is critical and it's formative what's a mitzvah a core mitzvah to take advantage of this reality i saw once a beautiful beautiful idea from rev breuer the final of raja breuer wrote you know we have many names of the of of the ravana shalom many different terms we speak about them because speak especially in the season names that imply this but there's a term which we use to describe the rubanish level what's the meaning and the association of shrine and rav breuer suggested and he didn't just suggest it once as a tych but he used this as part of his vernacular that shrina is like it's which is shahi and the shechina when we speak about the shechina we speak about the rabbinislam as an active presence around whom we orient our lives was there we were living in his presence when you speak about the shrine you don't speak about an abstraction urban island up there you speak about it as something that's surrounding you that you surround that's part of your life living in hashem's presence perhaps one might say that the sukkah where we live where we live surrounded by hashem's presence appropriately appropriately would be a masek which would end with now it's well known if they say it in the name of nazer others that there are just two mitzvahs that you're making constantly just by being and what are they is israel and yeshiva right you eat you sleep you breathe you're doing it in the presence of the rabbi shlela and that's the mitzvah itself but how do we manage that beyond sitting in asuka there's a there's a fascinating taj from refined and a famous mishna the mission in their says and there's a linguistic question that we have to ask ourselves which really is addressed exactly in this context as well in the tyson and that is when you say in los angeles which one is the main and which one is the side how does it work grammatically and instinctively you would say that the second is really the icar it's good to have aleph with base base is the main thing it's good to have ketchup with your french fries yoffe tango tara in their heritage everybody knows that you're supposed to have the torah supposed to be the main thing what is the meaning of it so kind of there in purgators in the end says something fantastic he says of course tyra is the acre but what it's saying here is that even when you're not in the moments which are so called the moments of talmud even when you're engaged in their hearts even when you're engaged in your work it's beautiful to have ta'amu tara together with the work when the person is driving the plow they should be still arangitana and the taisus that they learned that morning that the tyres should still be there with them as they're engaged in their occurrence it's a fascinating touch but if you stop and you think about it it's very sobering it's very sobering for 20th and 21st century jews because you can understand how you can do that if you're driving a plow or a truck or you're pushing a paintbrush but as you know many many of us engage in areas of work where you can't be thinking about something else while you're working we're trying to complete a deal and your head is going to be on the thai system that's malpractice that's not right for your client it's not right for your boss you have to be completely thinking about what you're doing if velocinar is right in this beautiful vision of yavatamatarian therapeutics it's completely lost on us the way we've chosen the way we've chosen to plot our own careers our way of making a living so how do we deal with it and i think that what we're doing here tonight is a representative of two answers to that question first of all we're in a boardroom of a place where people come for their hearts where they study terror where there's here where there are there are gatherings for tyra fritz fela and what that that does is yes it's true i'm sure that when minha ends yamashire ends you've got to get back to work on what you're working with all of your head but you are doing it in a context in an environment which is talmud tyra and there are ferrets their heritage isn't left alone it's not a sequestered corner there's tyra here in your place of work that's a magnificent privilege that's shechina that's making sure that wherever you go you're there neighboring in the presence of the robotison and the torah that's the way of life a second answer to this second very contemporary answer to this very contemporary problem is all that is the way all that is used it's you know grabbing a minute as you're as you're traveling yeah it can't be i don't know if you could have all that playing in the background while you're working on the deal but i don't know about you you know when i have to switch it to some underground method of transportation or something like that can't make a phone call tired of looking at the next email well listen listen to a little bit of the death listen to something on the death what what aldaf has done to take the torah out of a corner the bass medrash specifically and to allow it to be our shocking our neighbor the presence that's with us all the time it's not the only tool that does it it's a tool that does it well we at the ou who have as the central mission of the organization to grow the engagement wherever it can be of jews with tyra and mitzvahs and where we know that the most potent tool in that is what's happening what's happened under the leadership of rabbi schwed to enhance and grow the presence of tyrant people's lives and call israel is breathtaking and our greatest i want to just end with a thought with perhaps further relevance for these days a few days before rosh hashanah certainly the days of shifting hashem fit for this idea of trying to be surrounded by the ubanishaw but you know the gomorrah ended with something which is surprising it said generally the shechem the neighbors of rashoi they don't do well either but the neighbors of bilgo were an exception as rabbi wine got red in the theme they were the exception they were nistakru they gained because they got whatever bulgar gave up it went to to the next missionary it got it went to others but why why if it's a rule by russia why schweine bilga an exception remember what she said mariam vaspilga miriam's village was a disaster story she was an intermarried assimilated jewish went married yovany disaster and she was angry she came into the basement and she banged them lucus lucas how long are you going to consume the money of the jewish people and not be there for them at their time of need but you know not everything about what miriam but did was terrible we had a mashiach of the jewish people his name was gidai the quran who appeared to him appeared to him he said go you know i'm coming to you and given said rabbanus last night we sat at the seder and we spoke about the miracles even for call israel where are they at until when where are they with this strength of yours that you know to stand that you know to feel pain for quality israel miranda bilga went off the reservation how many whenever you know that always appropriately dedicates every sea of ashas to the kadasha to the people who died who were killed hashem in the holocaust and every time you get together you get together at the ceiling and you think just think about what's here and what this represents and you see how people stayed in the game they stayed in the game at the same time as ah not tinus which said i'm leaving but that heartfelt feeling for khloe israel until when the jewish people have tsaras roberto you saved us before save us again there was something of the flavor of what miriam bas bilga said that her neighbors benefited from there was something awful but there was something good and aflp even though generally shreem brzee don't profit the shrine of bilga did and as we celebrate this seal and the continued seal and the continued faithfulness of cloud israel we also can stand especially as we come to rosh hashanah after a year who knows and also maybe exhibit a little bit of that passion passion which is a passion of the moon a passion that knows that the right who stood with us so much all the time we're here we're here we're here we're learning we're thriving ten thousand people every day use this app it's mind-boggling and it's besides for the thousands and thousands of others it's unbelievable that and say okay no now we have to go further may we cry out well yeah we'll hear and we may be desired thank you very much to everybody thank you again meridian to meridian for hosting we're all to approach rosh hashanah with a renewed passion for learning and we should all be there