Haazinu-Succos - Song of Joy

you're listening to the weekly paraa podcast recorded with hashem's never ending assistance in 5776 2015 this week's paraa is para SAU in last week's paraa we spoke about Yong Kipper we spoke about the song what is the idea of the song I'd like to expand and talk more about the song and I'd like to talk about the song because that's this week's par paru is the song itself but I like to talk about it in the context of the leadup between yum Kipper to sukus leading up into sukus the idea of the song last week we spoke about the song in so far as it's a song of repentance it's a song of chuva returning it's a song of recognition of of what we've done wrong and a recognition of the fact that we have an opportunity for atonement That hasm Forgives us of our sins and the joy that follows that is what I'd like to speak about this week and it's the joy we go from yum Kipper into sukus and suus is called the holiday of Joy it's a time of intense joing we have we have a time of rejoicing with the Torah we have Torah also occurs during suus this Joy all of this Joy I believe is contained in the song of Hau so we go from the joy of of Love Of hashem's Love of hm's forgiveness to the joy of being inside of the Suka the joy of being surrounded by the the the wings of the divine presence and and the song that we sing is the same song but it it takes takes a different tone it takes on a different tone I'd like to share with you a piece from and the concept that he shares is important and deep and I would like to take it a step further as as we'll see soon the the para starts off listen oh heavens and I will speak and the Earth will hear the words of my mouth says like this the song ofu is a witness is going to go through some of theim some of the different concepts that we see in the song ofu and explain them the Torah says that it will not be forgotten from the mouth of your children says that even in the darkest darkest darkest depths the darkness within the darkness as we saw in last week's par the verse tells us God says he's going to hide his face he doesn't just say he's to hide he says he's going to hide he's going to hide as we spoke about previously the song becomes the witness what's the idea says the general principle of this song is is to remind to to make known to us all that hasem did for us God is going to do amazing things for us in the future and everything is going to end as he wishes to return us to the land of Israel to give it back to us you have to really understand is writing here over 200 years ago so or about 200 years ago it was before the Jewish people had backed the land of Israel so getting back to the land of Israel is part of God's plan for the coming of Messiah the Messiah so hasm is going to return the land of is with all of the Holiness and all of the Splendor all the different colors it's referring to spiritual colors that shine there like it starts off and speaks about the fact that the fact that God gives the the inheritance of Nations to the Jewish people God places the boundaries of of all of the Nations the is according to the numbers of the people of Israel the the of God is his Nation Etc this is a reference to the land of Israel this entire story this entire elucidation that the Torah gives us goes on and on about this song this awesome song all that has happened in all that will happen to the people of Israel in all of the times that will pass that they will pass through the song finishes off and tells us that in the end the land the land will be atoned there will be an atonement through the land for the nation of the Jewish people God in the end will desire his nation and his land there's a unifying aspect of them these two ideas the land and the people are combined are are [Music] unified all this will be completed by God through theik through the righteous ones this a very interesting concept it's something which I struggle with which I've mentioned in the past the idea of the sikim of the righteous individuals and and here he's speaking about rabman who had written who was the the basis the foundation of all that Ras wrote was based on what rabman wrote and the the sadik has a very special power and and I would like to say we'll get to it but I'd like to speak about it in in contrast to or in parallel to the concept of a song and the power of a song but let's look at what says before we speak about that he says like this the actions of the righteous their words and their actions are full of secrets they have incredible power you can't see you can't see it on the surface they all included in the aspect of M Moes Moses spoke about the fact as we said that there's going to be darknesses hiddenness within hiddenness until it's very difficult to find the truth the real truth the depth of the truth nevertheless the righteous individuals those who have the aspect of Moses will do their job they'll make it known to make it available in the world in other words a sadic the power of a sadic is that he has the ability to bring down a very high and Powerful uh gilu a revelation of God and he brings it into the world such that it can be accessible you know told these stories and re Nas made it more accessible to us as we read the words ofas we get ideas of spiritual ideas but it starts with the tadic the righteous one here it's RAB but it's true about all sad all righteous individuals they bring it down they bring down the essence of that Gile of that Revelation and then we have the ability to access it like it says over there God says see now that I I am he that I'm the one who causes people to Die the one who gives life no one can be saved from me meaning everything is in my power this is what it means when it starts off the song and it says listen to me oh heavens and I will speak listen carefully to this this is important know that my words are not simple you should know that it's very very deep is telling us that listen carefully to what I'm about to say listen very carefully because there are incredible secrets that are hidden Within these words I'm bringing down the word of God I'm bringing down Revelations until I call the heavens shus right so I'm call words m is saying listen oh heavens he's saying I am here standing in the heavens and I'm saying words that are accessible to the Mal that are accessible to the angels and here I am I'm bringing it down to the world and the purpose of this is in order that the those who are on the earth should hear what I'm saying all of those who come into the land that are coming to this world they need to listen understand carefully the words of my mouth the rain the the Torah is like rain it's like the rain that comes down and it's like the de that trickles down Moses is telling us m is telling us that my words are not as simple as they seem they're not straightforward they're like rain they're like douche it seems to be just something very simple straightforward it's just water it's just moisture but the truth is that water is not as simple as it seems the truth is water has incredible power rain has incredible power it has the power to cause growth to cause grass to grow to cause plants to grow innumerable different items to [Music] grow it refers to this later in the song it speaks about the the different things that grow similarly says Moses is saying similarly my words the words of Torah that I'm revealing now are as powerful even though they seem to be very simple they're very deep and they're full of secrets and they have the power to strengthen every individual to cause him to grow until God is is rejoicing and playing with each and every individual with Incredible Splendor and awesome games it's very interesting so rnas is telling us that MOS is saying that just like the rain has the ability to it comes down from the heavens and it comes from God it looks very simple but it has the ability to cause all of the different things to grow so to the Torah has the ability if I learn the Torah there's something in there for each and every individual and the power of the Torah is to cause the human being to have a true relationship with hem that God will rejoice with that person that the person will have an experience of ecstatic spiritual Revelation that's what's possible to gain through the Torah and I was thinking about this idea you know in terms of the power of song Because here we have the Torah being compared to a song we have the the Torah itself here is singing this song singing this song of Revelation and it's a simple simple thing you think about a song song and and the song could be so simple you know you have a few notes to put it together even the words themselves can be extremely simple be a simple rhyme and you put together the words and you and it comes out a song and what the the power of the song and the power here that I believe that this is saying rnas is telling us that the sadic brings down from a very high place from the heavens M Moses is speaking from the heavens and he's bringing down the spiritual Revelation which seems so simple but it it contains within it so many different aspects and so many different colors and and frequencies and ways of accessing spirituality the song also a a true song a true spiritual song has the ability it seems very simple and it can be brought down into the world and it can and it can have the power to move people to to bring people into a relationship with Hashem it seems so simple and yet it's so beautiful and deep That's The Power of a song you know i' I I believe I've shared in the past and spoken about the different songs you know for example I have a song called yes which is about it's a hope Anthem it's a song which I I sold to Benny fredman he sang it and and the song The the words also I wrote together with Miriam Israeli and and the song you know people have told me personally I've told Benny I've told Miriam you know all of us all of we who had been involved with bringing the song into the world we hear we hear these stories about people who they were in very challenging situations and this song had the power to help them believe that there's hope and and it it applied in so it applies in so the simple two words of there is hope applies in so many different situations and I see that as as parallel to what rasan is speaking about the the song the Torah itself is like an otherworldly spiritual entity which enters into our world and allows us access to something very high here on this world like the like the Torah says here oh heavens this and the Earth will hear it will be heard upon the Earth that's the power of the Tyra and that's the power of a song the song is this ability to bring us to something which is transcendent yes s like that there is hope well how do I know that there is hope well just because I heard a song now I feel like there is hope or is it something that I already know that's inside of me the answer is yes it's something which I know inside of me but I don't feel it but when I hear the song I feel it when I resonate with the Torah with Spirit spiritual principles when I resonate with the the what MOS the Moses is Moses is trying to reveal to us what what is trying to share with us I can find something here that's so powerful for me that I can be transported into that place we spoke last week about chuva of that song and and and accessing a very deep and high place and what I I I'd like to speak about it in terms of we're moving now into sukus and we're moving into a time of joy we mentioned that we have a we have a a a rejoicing with the pouring out of the water that was one of the mitzah one of The Commandments which was performed in the temple they would pour water onto the M onto the altar in the temple and as they would do that so tus and Su speaks about the fact and we find numerous M the words of our sages which mention that as they would pour this water water the Jewish people who were there in the temple would experience KES they would experience an ecstatic uh experience of God they would have they would have prophecy they would know the future they would they would have all kinds of experiences there they would know hashem's will for them unbelievable thing when would it happen it would happen there in the temple what would accompany that what was theim the rejoicing that they had as a result of the spiritual revelation of accessing this incredibly high place of experien ing this song experiencing the song at its Essence the the result of that the way it manifested in this world in the temple was that they would have dancing and singing and music and and the the expression of this ecstatic experience of godliness was music was song was dancing was movement and it's an amazing thing it's a beautiful thing but the song of henu as we said last week it sounds a little bit challenging it's it's rebuke but at the same time there's a song which says here we are not just getting forgiveness which of course is beyond time but here we are in this world we are we are down in this world and we are singing we're bringing the joy into the world we are dancing we're bringing that movement into the world when it rains it pours the the the rain comes down you know T yes the de it just appears but the rain there's movement and and there's growing that occurs and it's a result of accessing the spiritual Force the spiritual power which comes from above which is revealed by the sadik which is revealed bya it's revealed here in song that's why sukus is a time of where we're now moving into this time of rejoicing with God of rejoicing not just standing still not just standing in the in the in our places of worship in our synagogues in our shs m not just standing there but we start to move with the T we start to dance enjoy we go around the beima we walk around with our we we go around seven times Ina we're moving there's movement here it's going from the song which is a static song to a song of joy to a song of movement and that's the song of Hau it starts yes it starts in the heavens and it starts without movement but it moves into movement it starts to move and and that's how we experience it in this world we experience the song with joy with laughter with movement with this extra joy that happens as a result of experiencing the atonement as a result of experiencing God's unconditional love for us and as a result of that we now move into a place of movement of love it's like for example it's it's a good parallel to a man and a woman who are about about to get married they're engaged everything is static but they get to the marriage they get to that that that wedding and they stand there under the she goes around him seven times and then they come out they're married and everyone dances and there's movement and there's joy intense Joy it's like we've gone from the engagement stage which started with rashash perhaps even from the beginning of el and we come into the stage of movement of Love of ecstatic joy and song I want want to bless you and I ask you to please bless me back that Hashem should help us to experience not only the song of atonement not only the song of unconditional love in that static state but we should move from that song should help us to experience the ecstatic state of song has should help us to to have joy as we sit with our families around the table at in in our suas as we hold that Lula and Es as we hold we we get to do all these exciting Commandments as we hold the Torah and dance around with the Torah as we do all these things hm should fill us with the joy of of the recognition of the different frequencies the different shades of light that we are experiencing that we get to experience in our service of hasem should help us deepen our relationship with him should help us deepen our relationship with all of those around us as we share this ecstasy thank you so much for listening have a wonderful chabus 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