24 Hours Before Rosh Hashanah | Rabbi Shulem Landau & Rabbi Fischel Schachter

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Child makes sense. People have a lot of questions. They don't even know if they prayed good, if they didn't pray good. You know in it says that if you ask for anything personal rash then you are like a dog who keeps asking give give. That's what the zo says. So I don't get it. When should I ask Hashem? If not the day he's deciding and making the judgment on me, wouldn't it be that day that I should ask something? So I'm going to tell you tonight I'm going to reveal you a lot of secrets which in the in the cases [music] um in the cabula >> and theas they are telling us exactly what's happening to this [music] And yes, >> it's a big judgment day, >> but completely not the way we think about it. >> And in order for me to explain everything, I'm going to start from scratch. >> So if the rabbi is going to let me, can I use the rabbi as a metaphor for a few minutes? But it's not only this rabbi, it's any rabbi. So this rabbi wants to help this community. >> [music] >> He had a very big desire to help his community and he built such a big nice shoe and then he invested so much time. He got so much people to be a part of it and then he opens up the shul and he's so excited. to make a big was very exciting. And then after it go through a few months, the rabbi starts to realize that the people here are not really so excited. They're not looking too much on his side. If he calls someone, they have more important calls. They're in the middle of watching something. They don't have time to pick up the phone call. And at comes the shul very slowly very hard to get a minion and the rabbi is like starting slowly to lose the how do you call it the motivation the interest so it goes by some time the rabbi says forget about it I'm giving away my life for whom for what forget about clothing shop and of course then everybody some are involved and they start say rabbi no we need a shoulder up no one needs nothing everyone is the over here you know no one cares about the whole thing how much I'm giving away my time my effort and he wants to close down and they try to persuade him no and then of course after they convince him that they do want him they appreciate so much what he's doing [music] so the rabbi gets back his mood he opens back [clears throat] the shoe But here's the news about Hashem. Hashem created a world [singing] >> and after he finished to create such a beautiful world, >> billions and billions of galaxies and this world, I mean, such a nice world. He made a gid and all the fruits and everything. And he just asked you the magician. Listen, I'm giving you everything. I'm just asking you a favor. I want to give you a rule. This is there's one fruit. It's not good for you if you eat it. Don't eat it. Shouldn't eat that fruit. And of course, which fruit did he eat? That fruit. This is when the the first day the promised and Hashem starts to realize. Then Cion is killing Hel and it goes by another few years and the whole world becomes so observed in their in in themsel doing so many bad things up to a point where Hashem says I regret I made a world I don't I don't need that world forget about it. So, Hashem brings a mabble. After Hashem brings a mabble, then he he realizes with his people I I left Noy. He was a big sadic, [singing] his family. And Hashem says, "No, forget about it. I'm not going to do that anymore. I'm not going to destroy the world again. However, [singing] >> however, Hashem said, >> I'm going to make once a year I'm going to make sure [music] and once a year I'm going to it's one year from when I it's going to be the day when I created the person. I've created humans. And what does Hashem want is that every year when it comes Rajashuna, we should like to crown him. Why does Hashem want us to crown him? Cuz Hashem want us to put him back in the mood. put me back in the place where I was dreaming about making a wall and how I would enjoy that world because everyone is going to is going to see and going to give me the honor that Hashem created the world for and I should be able to give you all good as the reason why I created the world for. So I want you to put me back in that space to put me back in that mood to put me in an emote where I would like to be your king. Now every year Hashem is waiting for us to put him back in his position to be the king. But what happens if we don't make him for king? Then is the world being is it closed shop? No more world? No. The answer is Hashem already said that he's he made a a wow a Sharia that he's not going to to to destroy the world anymore. So Hashem is keeping the world. But here is a rule and we all know it. All men know this that when they when the wife needs something or kids need something, if this wife is not an appreciative wife, [singing] then of course he has no choice. He has to pay the bills. He has to cover the mortgage. But he's becoming very stingy. He's not going to give it with a good heart or with an excitement. Why? Because they don't make fe they don't make him feel important. They don't make him in a mode to be excited to give. >> Same to kids. If they need something from their parents, if they don't know how to make their father excited, the father is going to give them whatever they have to, but they're not going to give them an exciting way. So, Hashem likes to give everything good for everybody. So, he's asking us, can you put me in the moat that I should take on the kingship? Crowning you is an energy. Can I say that? Of course, we're going to blow the show, but I think it's an energy. [clears throat] We really want him. we want to be our king. It's not because we want anything from him. It's the energy. Of course, we're going to give the vote. We're gonna we're gonna say all the the prayers. We're going to blow the chauffeur. >> But there's something more. I mean, blowing the chauffeer is is giving the vote. It's crowning him. Okay. But it's more than that because I mean we can do it >> without participation without being a part of it. We can give out a vote and at night yeah I gave the vote but who yeah I don't know who won. Yeah. Oh no it didn't work out. Okay. I thought yeah I live in New York. My vote doesn't count. >> Or you could be a part of it. You could be fired up. It's a big difference. If you're fired up, >> then you're good. >> You're good. He's going to need you. >> If you don't care for him, I mean, you can ask him, he's going to give you, but probably >> the way you give someone who you have to give. You go for suka, he gives you $1. If you make him excited, he wives you in a million dollars, you know. So, Hashem is waiting for us every to make him excited to crown him as a king >> to put him in the mold. >> That's what he's looking for every because he wants to go back to the place where he's excited to keep the world. Not that he has to keep the world. He needs us to crown him. It's not about us. It's about him. So the real judgment is Hashem is asking everyone, >> are you here for yourself? Are you here for me? That's the real judgment. He's looking at everyone. He's scanning everyone and he's asking, "Are you from the soldiers like the soldiers of King of King David military? Are you my soldier? Are you here for me? And that's the big judgment day. How much are you here for Hashem? >> Not about you. Not at all. 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Oh [music] sh [singing] [music] [singing] [music] >> [singing] [singing] [music] [singing] [music] >> We go ship. >> [music] >> So, it happened to me uh I don't know maybe about uh 10 years ago, 15 years ago, 20 years ago. At my age, you lose track of time kind of. And I parked in front of the store and yes, I parked in front of the pump, but I didn't really mean to park in front of the pump. But was was there was um wasn't my intention to park in front of the pump, but I parked in front of the pump. Cheed out the swarm store and then I I came out and yes, there was a ticket on my on my windshield and uh I I I looked at it and I know in those days if you want to know how far back it goes, they didn't scan tickets. the uh whoever the ticket agent would manually write out the ticket. So, you're always hoping that they made a mistake because if they made a mistake, then you can get away with the ticket. So, I'm looking at it and I see that the ticket agent wrote the address address of a fence. You know, 7910 14th Avenue. Now, this was on 45th 45th Street. The way the bar park streets go, addresses on 45th is like 45501, 45502. So 7910 like no connection, no shs. So without a phone book, yes, in those days we had phone books with paper. You looked at an address. And sure enough, there is no 7910, which means I don't have to pay the ticket. And I was so happy. I mean, I said, "Okay, Hashem, I got the message. Got the message. You warned me. I won't do it again." But it it just was interesting. How did this person make that mistake? >> Were they like under the influence? I don't know. Like how do you you off by a number? Where does 7910 come in over here? So I asked a friend of mine. He said to me that on the store there was a sign. I try to visualize this. Okay. On the store there was a sign cipher. It's a swarm store. So there's a sign scribe cipher. Now take the word cipher. Okay. Take the word cipher. I'm not sure how the camera works whether you sing it backwards or forwards. But if you take the word cipher and you read it from left to right as opposed to right to left and again I'm not sure which way you're seeing it but imagine it. Try to imagine it somehow or the other. It if you don't know that it's Hebrew letters and you think it's numbers and you're going from left to right as opposed to right to left. So Sam looks like 7910. And I said to myself, you know, we look at this year and we say I'm like, "Hashem, what are you doing?" They say when he was a little boy, the little boys had a conference and each one said, "If if I would run the world, what would I do?" And this one said, "I would." One kid said, "I would bring peace to the world." Another kid said, "I would make all of the rivers flow in the opposite direction." And one kid said, "I would, you know, move all hunger." and the little I don't think he was called yet when he was younger little is he said I would leave things the way they are because I think Hashem knows what he's doing we don't know how to we could dab we should dab in you know for to remove pain from the world and hunger from the world but in terms of physically changing things leave like let the world so in case we're saying Hashem what are you doing what are you doing look at this world look at what's going on in the world look at the political situation America it's imploding look at the world look at the hate look at the anti Look at the pain. Look at the hunger. Look at the tarus. >> Look at how many people are sick of that. Hold on. Hold. We know what we're seeing. You have any clue what we're seeing? >> What do you mean? I see 7910. You know what's going to happen after 120? We come up to Shai and Hashem is going to say, "No, you're reading it in the wrong direction. It's cyer." Oh, so the kia, right? Kia then kia first kia is before we come down to this world before we come down to this world so Hashem says to us why are you coming down you know why you're coming down let me show you your life story let me tell you exactly what you're going to go through in your life look up to say okay let me show you exactly what you're going to go through in your life these are going to be your difficulties These these are going to be your challenges. Hashem will show us a what's going on in the world and b what our role is and it's going to be perfect. You're going to be situated perfect if you understand what the plan is [music] and you're part of the puzzle for the entire Bria and we want to do it. We we're excited about our role but you're going to forget. But I'm telling you subconsciously if you want to find the moon in your heart you will find it. Sham, wake up from your slumber. Says if you wake up, you have to wake up to something. You wake someone up to what? You know, someone's stuck in a underground cave. Wake them up to what? Look at the walls. Hashem is waking us up because in our hearts there is a in our hearts there's a role to play. And every moment in our in our life and there's an itinerary for every single day in our lives. [singing] But it's going to be rough. We're not going to be able to connect the dots. And then tea. The kia is after 120 we're going to come up and say hashem hashm you know what I went through in my life how could you do this to me I told you beforehand that this was the plan oh all right this was the reason you existed oh right it's not 7910 it's I know you when you come down here you start reading things in the wrong direction that's the kia tru and that's also every shabas and that's why when there's shabas there's no kab You know the famous story there's two old ladies and they're saying you know the >> so it says kia all the angels that are created through tashra kashra and so on. Yeah. Uhhuh. These are mal and angels that are created right through our kia. Huh? What exactly do these angels do all year? The other old lady said oh the baba said I don't know. So the first one said I'll tell you what they do. [singing] >> They guard the chunk. [music] They guard the chunk. Uhhuh. Did you ever wonder in a in a summer shabas, we put the chunk up at like >> 12:00? >> I don't know. Summer shabas, when do you put the ch up? Not 12:00. 6:00, 7:00. Next day you eat the same time. Winter shabas, you put it up much earlier. I mixed up I mixed it up. You see, I read things backwards. It's my dyslexia, my ADHD. In the summer Shabas, you put up the sh at 7 8:00. Winter Shabas is so much earlier yet either the either we eat the same time usually Shabas afternoon. So either at one point the sh should be burnt or it should be raw. How come it's always good? Cuz there are angels who take care of the ch and those are the malik. So the other lady says okay there are angels that take care of the ch who says near the mal the and the first baba says I want to ask you something. When shabas falls on rash do we blow shifer or not? We don't because the mal they usually carry the are busy with the oh so of course in every there's a deeper meaning is something called is something you know shabas the longer it cooks if you set it up right the better it gets shabas is like a light tower shabas shabas of our life reminds us take it easy don't get too nervous about this world okay you're not here forever and and and Hashem didn't didn't lose our numbering knows exactly where we are. He's he's focused on us. He's the one that's giving us our life. So Shabas and Shaifer work hand in hand. [singing] And when Rash falls on Shabas, so the Shaifer takes takes a bow to Shabas. Shabas, you can do it better than me. But it means we have to honor Shabas. We have to truly show Shabas that we really care for Shabas. So let me share something with you. when I >> uh was marrying off one of my daughters >> uh she was going to get married now she's married kids >> but she was going to get married um two weeks after sukus okay two weeks after sukus I didn't have a [music] red I was short I shouldn't say never have a red sentiment that's not true it's just an expression I was short 15 about $15,000 and I have an extra $15,000 no then I was short $15,000 and rash Sh there's a whole question whether you should dab him from for money or not. The zoradesh says look at the y they're not dinging for they're they're just saying have have give give give. So some say the first day we dab only for the covenant of the second day for says as we can for because our is our peace of mind that we need for we need to serve. Okay, fine. But I want to tell you, if you're not supposed to dab for Paso Shashana, I blew it. I was like dabbing for money, for money. The entire time I was going like, you know, gel means money. You don't know that gel. I was like, mahash came. We came home. I made Abdullah. I'm checking the mail and the kids are, you know, wandering around and there's a there's a letter from the bank. Oh, great. This is what I need. What happened? The check to my mortgage clo, you know, and I opened the letter. I opened the envelope and the bank says, believe it or not, there was an accounting error in your favor and we're sending you a check. I said, "What? You see how Hashem answered my fel before you even call out? Hashem answers you." I was so happy. And then one of my other kids said, "There's another letter here from the bank. That must be the check." They send it in a different envelope for security reasons. [music] And I took out the check. I still have it in my pocket. Not a good sign, right? So, the story goes back, I don't know, maybe 15 years ago, but I I I I took out I took out I'll show it to you in a second. And I said to my daughter who was the kala, I said, "Listen, it may not be the whole $15,000, but whatever it is, it's a great to me. It's a great great to me." Um, Hashem answered my feel even even before Shashani sent the check out in the mail, he got this big bang and I said, "Can you how much is the check?" So, it's not all you could tell me. Maybe it's just 10. Even it's only 5,000, but at least it's it's the physic. And my daughter said, the Ka said, "You want to know how much it is?" Yeah. Okay. It was for one penny. Here it is. The check was for one penny. You want to know why? Let me see the date of the check. I can't even dates. >> You want to know why I still have the one penny check? >> It's because when I tried to deposit it, my bank told me it cost 25 cents to deposit a penny check. So I figured, okay, listen, I have it. So somebody in my house, I'm not going to say who, some of it has been a yer I'll say that she has a little bit of a deeper understanding of things. Women have a stronger of amuna than men do. The moral says ama is lava. Women are my wife said to me like you know is all about thanking Hashem for our existence being the upon ourselves oh mushim saying hashem my life is in your hands thank you for life and hashem has a says the more you thank him the more he gives you the more you recognize but hashem has our number and the more we feel hashem's presence >> you want to ask for money so hashem says money >> you think I don't know you're marrying a You want money? Here's money. You don't believe I can send you money, I'll send you a penny. So, Shashan is about just realizing Hashem's saying, acknowledging where we are. I once had the going around with Rianca Legalinsky, Rianca Lolinsky, a famous uh maggot and uh we came to a house. He's famous stories. You have to read his biography. They went through in Siberia and then into the war. Mundy was in the varic. They built yeshivas under under with bullets flying over their heads. Just unbelievable levels of later on sent him on the most dangerous difficult missions. He always said I'm an guy. I'm not worried. He went into Arab villages to call out uh yidden that were there. You can't imagine. So here I am. I'm going around collecting money with him. Come to a real rich man's house. Ring the doorbell. I show him. It says over here when you're supposed to come. This is not the hours. He says them. And this little kid comes out and says, "My father's not home." >> So Bianca says, "Ask your father one more time if he's home or not." Kid comes back. My father says he's still not home. So he said, "Go." Okay. So Bianca sticks his head in. And he goes, "Barish beerish or whatever the person's name was." I'm not using real names. He says, "If when you're home, you're not home, what's going to be the day we'll come that you're really not going to be home?" Oh, son. Beerish shows up. Must have come through the chimney or something. 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Um they all came running out. He says, "I I could swim. I've swammed before. I just never I never swam before in my uh frack in my hand." So he says, "They took me out, you know." They said, "We're so sorry. We're so sorry." He said, "It's okay." He says, "My minute is before I speak by by go to the mikvah." They said, "When did that mic start?" He says, he said, "Tonight." He said, "That's where I wound up. That's where I'm supposed to be." And then they gave him a nice check. He said, "Why are you giving me such a check?" They said, "We feel bad. You fell into the water." He says, "Could I jump in again?" They said, "No, no, no. It's only when you falling." He said to me, this said to me, situations in life that Hashem puts you there, that's your braha. That is the greatest in the world. And coming into accept means hashem, you know where I am. You're the king. I don't have to understand it because I don't know how to read it. But one day I'm going to understand it right now. 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