Parshas Ha'azinu Shabbos Shuva & Yom Kippur Whole Healing & Revitalizing, Rabbi Yaakov Winner - 5787

How are you? I hope everyone is I hope everyone is healthy, strong and happy physically and spiritually. It's of today we're going to speak a thought for the week and for as usual we'll start with charity. Charity brings redemption. Now we say a prayer. This is one of the that we say in thank you for reviving the dead. So the explains in that when we say that Hashem revives the dead, it's not talking about a that's happening when Msiah comes where there's going to be the resurrection of the dead, but it's talking about something that happens every day just like all the other and was saying something that Hashem does that is happening actually. So what does it mean? So we're going to speak today about chuva and we're going to connect it to a p in this week's para and that's the connection between the para you have to live with the par and which is coming next week and that is as follows It says realize now that is I who humbles and I who elevates and there is no divine power like me. I cause a person to die and I keep him alive. I strike a person and heal him and no one can save those who rebel against me from my hand. So one level of interpretation of this which we're not going to get into now which is a very profound Jewish theological concept is that there's no such a thing as there's no such a thing as two powers. There's no thing as two domains. There's only one God. He's the source of everything that happens in the world. Even that which is seemingly not good, but which is really good. And that's the point of the that there's only like Rashi says and we translate into the words there's one God and he is the source for everything and that's one meaning of the P. But we are going to talk about a different point of this verse and that is how it's connected to Chuva. The theme of these days the 10 days How is it connected to chuva? Because there's two things that it says in this. The idea of death and resurrection and also being sick and healing. I strike a person and heal him. I injure a person or I wound a person and I heal him. And to realize the depth and the profoundity of of this verse, we really will lie in the word which according to the word which means a injure is also connected to the word, a separation, a barrier, a split, a division. And there on and there in lies the whole concept and the secret of what we're going to talk about today. But first let's go to the PK and show how it's connected to and that the gim says on the words that it's talking about the same person. You might think that what the the is telling us is like the Mishnet says that I am the one who has the key to life and death in my hand, God. I cause the person to pass away and I bring people birth into the world. So there's a that says no that this is one of the verses from where we learn and what is the learn. You might think that this verse is telling us that he brings death to one person and he brings life to another person just like the following words in the verse is talking about one person that I brought him that he shouldn't be healthy and that I healed him just like when we talk about the means that I caused the person to be unwell and that I healed him. So to the concept of death and being re resurrected life is talking about one person and says and this is the response where we learn out from the toy the concept of resurrection of the dead when mashia will come. Okay. Now how do we know that it's connected to? So the brings based on another says the wicked people even whilst they're physically alive are considered dead because it's not a real life. When a human is living like a cow, all he's doing is eating and sleeping and drinking. That's not a life. That's not the true life. So the wicked person who's pursuing only pleasures of the flesh and very materialistic hedenistic life, that's not a life. It's considered like he's dead because his true being, his true spirit is not being revealed. And that's what the says when we say we have we just think about how brings the idea of when a person who was doing the wrong thing and he's considered like he's not alive but gave us the ability to resurrect ourselves through of wow as we'll explain excuse me I apolog apologize profusely. So that's how we see that is talking about what okay now concerning the says in greatest cha that it brings healing to the world. So what's going on over here? What's the connection between resurrection of the dead? What's the connection to healing? And what's the connection to the beginning of the Pi? And the answer to all the above is in the word and that is as follows. Listen up my friends. There's only one existence and that is the essence of Hashem. And the essence of Hashem is the ultimate existence and the ultimate truth and the ultimate good. And the way it's really meant to be is that this will be revealed in creation itself will be manifest and revealed that there's only one reality. that there's no more divisions. There's no more cover-ups. There's no more concealment. There's no more lies. There's no more division. Who live? Who? What's going to happen when that's going to be revealed? Mashia comes. We're going to live eternally. There'll be no more sickness. There'll be no more disease. There'll be no more death. So, let's start at the very beginning. There was totally Gileo. There was revealed godliness. There was only one reality in a revealed way. In order to create the world to give us to make physical, you had to make itsum. There was a concealment. Hashem was able to become invisible to a certain extent. Then the worlds were created. We were put into a physical world. And that's the whole purpose. The whole mission is to peel away the layer, the veil, the facade, the lie, and to uncover the real truth. That's our mission. That's how we become a partner with Hashem. Hashem desired that the Jew should reveal the true oneness, the true existence, the true truth, the ultimate truth that there's nothing else except for God. And physical reality is not a cover up but actually a revelation and a witness to godliness. So let's start with what does it mean a healthy person and death and illness go together talks about how when the created a body the whole idea of a healthy person is it's an amazing thing we have a body which is just flesh and this consciousness intellect and this life like we spoke many times it's not that you have a body and in the body there's a battery and you feel how you need this battery and the battery has to be re be charged like a phone that has a battery. No, there's a sack of potatoes. There's flesh like the who made he took earth and he formed a vessel. He shaped the body and in the body he put a soul in it became alive and you don't feel like there's two things. Now what happens? What does it mean that you're alive? You're alive means that the body surrender to the soul. There's a seamless transference. There's a seamless um path. There's a seamless like there's nothing blocking the energy and the vitality of the soul as it goes into the body. What happens if you're unwell? If you feel your left eyeball, that means there's something wrong. If you feel your kidneys, sorry. Yes. Also, if you feel your appendix, that means there's something wrong. What does it mean that it's something wrong? A healthy appendix is completely transparent and being a vehicle, an instrument for the soul. If you feel your appendix, that means that the appendix is asserting its own independence, a sense of separateness, and that means you're unwell. That's why you're feeling your appendix. Something is could be terribly wrong. So in other words, what's the definition of a healthy person? The physical and the spiritual became one. THAT'S WHAT IT SAYS. IT'S SO AMAZING that the was able to cause a fusion between the physical and the spiritual became one. When Msiah comes, then we're going to see finally through our work of the complete unification. And that's why we're going to live eternally. him because the body will become completely one with the spiritual. The physical is not less than the spiritual. The spiritual is not higher than the physical. They're exactly the same. That's going to happen when Mashia comes. That's what we're accomplishing now throughout mitz. So now we understand how the whole p is amazing. It's bringing out this point that there's only one reality. There's only one existence. physical, spiritual, spiritual, physical. And where in lies the beginning of division from the word makati? The word maki is what is the source of where all weaknesses, infirmity, flaws, deficiencies come from. Because there was a barrier, division. The physical and the spiritual didn't become one. There was a split. When Msiah comes ultimately that split will be melded we'll be healed. Okay. Now let's talk about what does it mean in actuality in aem. So first of all that means that the person should realize what is true existence is your godly soul your spirituality. The more you'll focus on the spirituality on on on quality so to speak instead of quantity, the more you'll be healthier. The more you'll work on causing the spiritual to be more evident and infusing and saturating the physical, the healthier you'll become. Now, let's go first to Chuva. Why is chuva in a certain sense the idea of a resurrection? So according to and really this is also according to when a person does cha I don't want to elaborate now it's connected to being a Jew that's the way it is a non-Jew does not have this power of chuva because chuva means really doing something which transcends time transcends the past you could rewrite the past and to a certain extent it's Almost like you become a new person. Even though the truth is true, it means you're returning to your true true true essence. But on the other hand, if you looked at it externally and superficially, even a person that you can never imagine that it make an about face turn around completely. No matter where you may roam, you can always come back home. Somebody you could think is the furthest furthest furthest away. The last last person that you think would have a complete transformation with the power of which you could say of a person of free choice that he's able to do something which is like a spiritual death but he also gave you the ability to revive yourself completely to do something completely unpredictable. Surprise yourself. Get in touch with the infinity that's in you, the godly spark, your never shall kiss, your pint, and you'll be able to change completely to what was your previously perceived personality. So that's in other words, what does it mean a resurrection? A resurrection means something that is totally totally unexpected and you think it does not compute. I know this person. He was a wild party animal. Then he became a buru for whatever reason. Let's just imagine. And all of a sudden he became introspective and he became contemplative and he became I can't believe it. He's a different person. I'm not saying you have to become a different person in that way. But I just want to bring out an example. The idea that being be doing chuva is like a resurrection. It means a doo a leap. a leap, exponential, something that you would not believe. And the answer is how is it possible that a person could take such a leap and make an exponential? Because that's what it means. Hashem gave us this ability that aid could transcend his nature, can trend his past, can transcend his habits and can become completely true to his real true identity. the infinity spot which is in it that's and the same thing once we get rid of the division then you become healed but the best way to do it and the highest level of chuva the higher level of chuva is similar to the idea and this what it means the real chuva which is connected to shabas chuva and the chuva which is connected to yipper which is higher than a regular chuva And sometimes it's referred to as chuvi law, the higher level of chuva. And that's the analogy we gave many times. We spoke about it many different ways of similar to what the bash came along and how he revived. And that's what it says about the that the entire generation at that time was in a state of comeos his and he came along Israel is the name of the Jewish nation the name of every Jew his essential name is Israel and by whispering bringing Hashem brought the spirit of Israel into the world and he revived the entire generation. But how did he do that? So one analogy we gave many times is because he came to the simple person Barl Schmearel who whatever his name was it was a simple Jew he was a farmer TV the milkman the water carrier and he told him you're not a porper you're a prince and that changed everything why because when a person looks at himself and he looks at his problems how many problems problems. Do I have 34 problems and the mess got bigger every single day? I have holes in my ceiling. I have holes in my walls. The pipes have bursted, there's a leak from the roof, you name it. If a person starts looking at his problems and he's stuck in a situation where he feels he'll never be able to break out of it. Came along the and the told him, "Forget about the details. You don't understand. You're not a You're a prince. And loves you more like like an only child that was would given to them when they were already aged. All of a sudden, once the person heard that, it was a revival. It was a rejuvenation. It was a renaissance. It was he has a new identity. He didn't start from his problems. He saw a solution. And what was the solution? He was uplifted. And that feeling of being uplifted gave him a sense of elevation, of royalty, of empowerment that you cannot imagine because he's not a porpa anymore. He's a prince. Once he looked at him as a prince all of a sudden it wasn't that he had 34 problems he first of all he's a prince and the sky is not the limit on what can accomplish is not unimaginable I am royalty I'm a son of the king and the king has powers so the 34 problems so first of all it was it was an existential identity transformation which cannot be described how made a difference and then all of a sudden the 34 problems didn't seem ins insurmountable and impossible odds. But on the contrary, the 34 problems turned into to nine problems and the nine problems seem to be like trivialities or minor in light of who I am. You know who I am. So that's law, higher level of chuv. We're not getting stuck into sins. We're not getting stuck into negativity. We're going to be positive. And we're all of a sudden infused with nuclear power, nuclear energy that changes everything. It's it's power of a different source. It's power of a different level, next level, something which is out of this world. So now this is what the idea of chuva of is about. This is what the idea of chuva of of Shabas chuva is about. And this is the idea of our mission is to try to get rid of the division, the split, the divide of the spiritual and the physical and the physical and the spiritual and work on that all the more. And then we become healthy and then we become alive because the physical becomes alive. but living a seamless life, a unified life, a whole life. I just want to finish with the story which I want to just make a disclaimer that this story is not to me to we should go easy on oursel but the story is to to understand that maybe every person by stressing the positive similar to ver of your prince not a porper and that's what really changes everything it's the same thing we have to also look that you might look at yourself and say you know I got to be honest you know everyone speaks about being optimist or pessimist but one guy argues he's a realist I don't want to get into that now but what you have to realize is that every single small thing you do is really not small it's big even though we're sitting now we're talking about on the one hand once you tap into your infinity your pintid the sky's is not the limit it. Go big or go home. Make big plans, make big projects. You could change in ways that you cannot imagine. But at the same time, there's another side of the coin which says don't discount small change also because you have no idea what kind of what kind of pleasure Hashem has even from a small change that you'll make which really also comes from a deep place in yourself that you can make any change. And from the small change will come bigger changes and bigger changes and you'll surprise yourself in that way too. So the famous story of the alterba it's called the rusty penny and that was that the alterba once came to a city and he approached the rabbis of the city the committee of the city and he said he's here to raise money like in the olden days many times rebas and rabbis had to travel to raise funds and he was on a campaign to raise funds to redeem piguin Jews that were being held prisoner for ransom and he went to a city where there was a famous famous miser obviously since he's a reb so he had this mission he had he saw that he had to go to this place to accomplish what he was meant what he would what he will accomplish as we'll see from the story so he came to the city and he came to the rabbis and he says I need your help I'm going to go to this miser who's known as a miser I need two respected raim to come with me. Renowned raim rabbis from the city should come with me to go to this miser and ask him to help me in my raising funds to redeem the prisoners. But he told the rabbis I need you to come with me but not to say a word. let me do the talking. Anyways, they come to the misery what he was famous for. They came to his house and they knocked on his door. Alba walked in and Alba said, "I'm here to raise funds to redeem prisoners and I need your help." And this miser was famous to give a single rusty copper coin like a rusty penny whatever the coin the lowest coin of that time was. So he did the usual thing. He says I hear you. It's terrible. It's terrible that people have to still suffer. Suffering should end. and he he brought a velvet bag and he took out of that velvet bag the rusty copper coin and he gave it to anyways smiled shook his hand warmly and thanked him profusely very nice beautiful I want you to be blessed and you should have many blessings anyways and they walked out the door as they're walking out the front entrance the courtyard and they were holding by the front gate. All of a sudden, they hear the front door opening from behind them and the miser is calling out to them, "Wait, wait. I want to speak to you. Please come back." They came back and this time he asked, "So, how much money do you need to be able to redeem to save these prisoners?" So said 5,000 rubble. The miser said you know what I decided to give you a,000 rubble. He gave him a,000 rubble and once again shook his handb thanked him profusely and gave him blessings and more blessings. Anyways, oh I forgot to say when they worked out walked out the first time the other two rabbis told I can't believe it. should have taken that rustic coin and throwed it back at him. Disgusting. But the Alb didn't say anything. And again, as they walked down, he called them back. This guy, the miser. Anyways, this time when they walked out of the house looked at, "Wow, miracle mish miracle." Okay. Told him again, don't say a word. Let's just go forward. And again, they were almost told by the gate. And they hear again the door opening from behind them and it's the rich guy and he says, "Rabbi, please come back. I'd like to speak to you, please." And he says, "So, you know what? I decided I want to give you the full amount." And he gave them 5,000 rubble. And then they walked out and the two rabbis looked at Alb and said, "Wow, wow, we can't understand it." And Albbe told them, "The truth is the man wasn't a miser cuz no Jew is a miser." Every person till now who used to come to his house and ask him for help and he gave them that rusty coin, they threw it back at him. So he never had his selfless true pintily triggered, stimulated. What we had to do was to make him feel good. We had to make him feel good. We had to validate that part of him that was the generous part. It was a small ember. It was a small spark. We had to reignite it to make it a full flame. So by us there was a division like between his true self that is the selflessness that only a Jew has the generosity the only a Jew has was covered up. There was a division. There was only a small flicker of it. And our job was to uncover the full flame of his full generosity, his full selflessness. And how do we do it? We did it through positivity, by validating him, by making him feel good. You know, like they say, a taste of success. And this is very true also about ourselves. Even though we have to always demand ourselves more, I'm mainly talking to you, my friends. You have to realize you don't understand. You don't understand when you wish good shab good yonte for this smile and you make him feel good. You don't understand when you hear that is going through you say please give that person a good year. You don't understand when you say you don't understand etc etc etc. So even though it might be a rusty penny but the truth is do not discount any good thing and you should just try to increase as good is good is best. So should help that every single one of us will tap into the infinity of goodness and kindness that's in every single one of us. And that merit every single one of us will have on the highest highest level in every single area of your life without exception. A whole life a life of whole healing and whole revitalization. posting from the good chabis.