Rabbi Yaakov Rahimi | 48 Hours Before Yom Kippur | CHAZAQ

[Music] good evening everyone thank you for joining us for this very special she before young Kipper 48 hours before young Kipper and we what better we could be do then here coming out for for joining us from join us tonight and um want to thank um the the sh for part Round of Applause to [Music] coordinate the event being dedicated um um so over tonight everyone of course after this year should enoy some refreshments and please make love in in memory of ra I thank the family for dedicating the event thank you so much for your partnership round Applause please um and um want to mention about um of course the the the the work ofak as we know organize different events and programs different communities to give inspiration there's an event right now um in Queens and then in like 2 three hours from now there's an event um um in Brooklyn Tomorrow there's two events there's an event going on right now weing GOI in Far tell so much inspiration throughout the year especially during 10 days of repentance and of course you know kazak is on the Forefront of of after school Sunday school programs for public school um public school students in this building right here every single Sunday we have one of our Sunday programs partnered together with the sh and we have um um teaching them literally shaping their lives when they're so young we had that different locations d himself has been part of um kazak's um after school programs for public school students teenagers and literally changing their lives and kak is actually having a special raffle right now the 360 raffle and everyone's encourag participate um before they leave they they purchase their raffle ticket com up to $10,000 so there's only 360 tickets being sold and that's a great opportunity [Music] obviously and it's a great opportunity to take advantage of and um it's our great great our great honor upon has spoken so many times for his think his middle name might beak and please rise [Music] okay thank you everyone for coming it's a big Z to be here big honor to be here especially for the kazak organization kazak is a middle name Tor time is my last name depends on the day um I'm actually very happy to see that so many Yim are showing up in such a busy time before sometimes will maybe underestimate be as it say in Hebrew the importance and the of trying to do better and serving hasem T person okay big deal so you listen to you came but you doing this every year does it really make a difference are you really growing so to answer that question to Define what T is what is repenting repenting is not changing overnight that's not going to happen within a Daya is showing that you care that's what TVA is what is repenting repenting is showing that hasem at least I'm trying to do T what's my proof to that brings down that during the days of a person should be careful that even if even if he's lenient even if he's Mel the whole year to have something called pum what's pum pakum is bread that's baked by a nonu it's 100% kosher there's no pig fat or anything the oils everything is kosher it's all you says even if somebody is lenient the whole year to eat it which he's allowed to when it comes to which is now a person should be extra extra careful to have only is bread baked by a Jew say the commentary as a very obvious question how you doing Ean thank you for coming say a very obvious question who are we faking who are we fooling we know rather after Yip when is Yip over Sunday night Monday back to the parties who are we fooling why does a say a person should be careful for 10 days stay away from extra extra extra extra be extra kosher even though the bread is really kosher but because there's room to be more stringent to be more during the 10 days stay away from it even though you know right after you're going right back at it who are we lying to Judaism is real T is real the last thing a person want to do in life is to be a fake because you know who he's fooling he's fooling himself and that person is going to pay the price so why does a say a person should try his best for 10 days to stay away from such bread if he knows he's going right back at it the answer to this question it's so it's so fundamental and if a person lives by this and is True to this you will grow and I will grow to get closer and closer to has say sometimes and listen very carefully because it could come out bad then I can get in trouble sometimes it's important to fake something because by you faking it it shows that you care enough to fake about it you hear that sometimes something is important enough to you that you care enough to even fake about it and I'll give you an example there was a father in the community who never went to sh Shabbat morning for many years he did not go to sh whatever his reason is between him and hasem now his son is getting older and older and older the son used to be a baby so he doesn't really understand that his father doesn't go to school but the son is getting older and older and older he's already 7even years old 8 years old he comes back from school and he sees his dad his ABA is not going to school so the father asked should I start going to Shool now Shabbat morning because my son is getting older or is it better not to lie to myself cuz I haven't gotten all these years if I was real bad I should have went all along now I should start going because my son is getting older who am I lying to it's not good to lie to yourself like that you have to be true to yourself you have to be honest to yourself so what's better so we told him it is better for you now to start going to sh even though you did not go to sh until now you know why because showing your son that even though I'm going to Sho for you not for me if it was for me I would have went all these years even though I'm going to Sho only for you it's important enough for me to go to Sho to fake it just for you you know what that gives the son the message that it's important enough to my father to at least make believe he cares it's not the best level of Father should go to Sho all the time but at least he cares enough to make believe he cares says the doing the 10 days of T which is right now a person should take something upon themselves to get closer to Hashem ah you know right after Yip a person every person knows themselves everybody's a different level but there are certain things they know right after Yip I'm going right back at it so what's the point of making believe before that I'm trying to be a sadik the answer is never give up never give up on the Making Believe of doing T because you know Whata Isa is trying to do T that's T trying to do your best even though you might fall right afterwards but at least I care about it enough to actually show my face and try to do T giving up on that giving up and even trying that's exactly what the wants the wants a person to think don't even try give it up be abandon it it doesn't work once a person gives into that mindset of the it might seem like a small mindset but it's an extremely dangerous mindset once a person gives into that one thing leads to the next who knows where that person's going end up being in a couple years from now so a person's job doing a is to try and their best to get close to Hashem even if it's making believe making believe is also very important and I'll give you a masad for that when a baby is crying right now my baby cries a lot we call him D Yehuda a lot we actually put him by the play group and we were so happy it was a whole ceremony he was going to play group he took pictures we bought him donuts and this and that I was so happy my wife calls me back hysterical that the babysitter called her up come pick up he son he doesn't stop crying and since then he's like traumatized every time he we take him away from my wife he starts screaming so I don't know what happened in that play group whatever but Bas basically yud D doesn't stop crying how do you put him to sleep you shake the bed the crib you move him around you sing I sing him his rely song I if you guys know Hebrew songs but you sung the typical songs that I grew up with with my parents and he falls asleep you shake him and you shake him comes I have to wake up my brothers teenagers 18 year old 17 year olds I have to wake them up get out of bed get out of bed doesn't get up I'm tired I'm tired what do I do take the blanket off water water shake the bed I start shaking the bed he gets up and I thought to myself what's going on we have a of here contradiction my baby when I shake him he falls off my old my brother who's 18 years old when I shake him in his bed he doesn't fall asleep what does he do he wakes so why does he fall asleep when I shake him why does he wake up when they Shake him the answer is a baby when you shake him falls asleep an adult person who has an adult when you shake them up they wake up say comes the days before we heard the and this year by the way deserve a m this year is the first year I did the I was very nervous we did a good job so please Round of Applause for that my first year thank you a person hears the every single day oh look who's here how you doing good to see you every day we say every single day for 45 minutes you more 45 minutes is thank you Hashem 45 minutes and a person still doesn't wake up Hashem is shaking the world shaking shaking Shake wake up wake up and a person can still be sleeping CH what's CH call me when it's kanah if a person is an adult if a person has when hem shakes up the world he wakes up he doesn't fall asleep a person who comes to lectures a person who tries to do better that's a person that's woken up that's a person that actually takes action when Hashem says I'm shaking up the world take action a person who tries to do T is a person that's up who's not a baby that actually fell asleep when Hashem is trying to shake up the world so what is tsha T is trying our best to get closer and closer to now I'm going to have a trivia over here who could tell me we know all the AV all the sins if a person does hasem forgives them but there's auk in the Torah that we just read that says there's one specific thing that if a person lives by and acts by Hashem doesn't forgive that person one specific thing that you cannot do for is a very very bad Sin but a person could if he works very hard with and and then what is one that a person says don't forgive that guy scary stuff the which one who no no close close whoever gets it gets a free uh what should we give a free pie of pizza what he guys like G on the house actually had G by the way I'm just saying embarass embarrassing somebody very close but you can still do if you go over to that person and by the way y does not erase the of between a person and a person you have to go over to the person ask very close close Mur murder murder close but even murder sounds pretty bad but even murder PR even murder make someone else go off the right so that's what he was saying who was saying that yeah if a person makes other people sin it's one of the worst of possible but he can still if he does if he's the person all said very close but still CH in fact we're going to do Chua today giving out the book what oh thank you what's your first name that's a nice name the answer is this it's a when a person listens says the all the all the curses of and he tells himself in his heart Shalom Le peace is with me oh all the curses of the Tor all theom should never happened to any person only on but all the curses of the Tor nah is not talking to me I'm fine I'm fine I'm going to continue in my path Shalom peace is with me everything is good I'm not even going to try and such a person says Hashem hasem will not forgive that person will not isn't that scary that's a terrifying a person who goes through life reading the Torah going through holidays but tells himself says God himself tells himself I'll be fine there's lecture tonight oh come on again you going to make me crazy look what happened October 7th what does that have to do with Hashem it's the IDF look what happened with okay it's because Biden is trying to win I don't politics politics people are brushing things off brushing things off don't worry I'll be fine all the things that hasem is trying to shake up the world with has nothing to do with me it's called news it's called politics or it's called holidays but what does it have to do with my heart to actually change and grow ah not for me Shalom a person who says that person has to be very careful even if they're not ready to grow but knowing the reality that they really want to grow and they're trying to grow and they care about cha that itself is already not this a person who tries to do who cares enough to do the does not apply to them that's not Shalom that's actually no no I'm going to give it a try I'm aware of what when Hashem says something he means business I'm aware the tah is real I'm aware that when Hashem shakes up the world like we just had and we're having right now it's a time to wake up and look into our sh and see what else can I do to get closer and closer to Hashem I can't ignore the news that's going on and say shalom that's the last thing that a person should do person has to care or at least fake it to actually care about it I remember one time as a kid in Israel in El and remind me to go what I go actually prepared things over here so Nathan I'm putting you in charge to make sure I read what I prepared okay but last when I was a kid in we grew up in a town if any Israelis here Ramon anybody recognize that City Raton it's a city in Tel Aviv so my grandparents lived on the eighth floor sa Andra lived on the eighth floor we used to play downstairs it was a blast good times so we had one guy in the neighborhood that wasn't all there he was known and we saw him it was already dark outside we saw him on his knees searching for something badesha on the grass he was searching for something so we went over to him as kids and we asked him we want to help you what are you looking for so he says I'm missing the keys of my car so we asked them okay where was the last time you saw the keys or use them in my kitchen upstairs in the apartment building okay did you look in the kitchen no not yet first I'm going to look here then I'll go to the kitchen but he wasn't all there but why is it funny to all of us cuz if somebody's missing something inside their apartment they don't go search for it outside first first you look inside if a person is looking and the whole world is looking by the way for s for happiness if a person is looking for a sense of accomplishment purpose the first place you look especially now on yakim first place you look is inside don't search for it on the outside I going to feel good about myself let's double down on vacations Florida is not enough let's go to other place I don't feel good about myself my car is not cool enough I have to get even a cooler car better Wheels better lights louder music the restaurants that I went to are not good enough let's go to you have to pay $800 for a steak a person shouldn't double down to look for happiness on the outside you look at for you look at the feel accomplished start getting real about yourself am I really getting close to Hashem look inside your love your heart am I really trying to get close to Hashem do I really understand what it means to serve a we have such a and every time I think about it I can pull my hair out why do we have the why do we have the marit to serve Hashem why does he care so much it's an unbelievable Z Merit that we have hasem the whole world out there but he cares about our mitv that we do and he's waiting for our prayers he's waiting for us to do he loves us so much why does he care so much he's God he can do whatever he wants why do we have the the Merit to serve him and he's waiting for us to serve him every day he gives us life and Hashem can do whatever he wants and we have that Merit every single day to serve him say before you eat and after you eat pray every single dayat so many things to do Hashem why do you love us so much and no matter what shot you tell me according to cabala according to this it's not going to satisfy me because Hashem is Hashem he can do whatever he wants the fact that he wants us to serve him is the greatest compliment he can ever give a human being and hasem chose us the Jewish people to serve him know there's a famous question remember to go back who's the referee last thing there's a famous question that that ask one of the rebas he asks why does theem keep the world open when a person has a business I just had a friend that unfortunately closed down his store cuz he wasn't making money he had a coffee shop that wasn't doing well nobody keeps a store open for nobody's going to Ste spend money for a person if he opens up shop he's looking to make money if he sees he's not making money if he sees that he's spending more than he's gaining I think it's called avator invatory one of those words correct me if I'm wrong right inventory avator no Americans here okay so basically a person closed to the store down if he see he's not making money ask that why does theem keep the world open every single day as we speak tonight Shalom right now if hasem wants never mind part C what else can I create but hashm doesn't do that he keeps the world as we speak he's keeping the world open but why Hashem why most of the world is not listening to you and even the ones who are listening to you are such a small amount and even that small amount that's listening to you the whole world is the whole world is chasing them trying to kill them trying to annoy them trying to stop them from learning toah so why do you keep the business open why does hasm keep the world open it's not working out must speak maybe different ideas that's what asks and he says a beautiful answer and it's very very fundamental he says the only reason why you have such a question in the first place is because a person thinks that Hashem judges based on quantity and not quality that Hashem judges the world based on but hem doesn't judge based on quality uh quantity Hashem judges everything based on the the quality of the that are coming in in that world see even though most of the world is not listening to because of the small amount of Jews that are listening to which is us even though the whole world is telling us not to listen to Hashem and even those who follow Hashem are made fun of looked down upon chased and the still serving Hashem even though we have smaller amount of mitv but the value to Hashem is so much it overrides all the sins of the world so it's worth it for Hashem to keep the world open you hear this this is a tremendous thought every Mitzvah that we do and every time we learn Tora even though we're much smaller than the rest of the world the value that each one of us has is so much that it's worth it for Hashem to keep the whole world open the inventory is greater that me what are coming in they're coming in from who from us us because the value to Hashem is worth so much that it keeps the world open just just because of people like us so every time you do a just today I had a person who came over and he said Rabbi I'm not in the mood of saying I'm not in the mood give me a little boost of why you think now I told him he wasn't just a student he was one of the teachers in the school so I told him don't think about yourself the reason why you have to say is because the students of the next generation are watching you why should you rob them away from the enjoyment and the beauty of saying because you're not in the mood don't think about yourself take yourself out look at the bigger picture of the whole Judaism the whole world Judaism is waiting for you to do the right thing the next generation is on your shoulders every time we do a mitvah every time we learn Tora of course we're gaining but the bigger picture is the world is gaining y y Jews the Next Generation the more we learn the more we do the better the next generation is going to be person has to look at the whole picture so even though we have less numbers but the the value is so great in our generation in fact at least let me see one thing I prepared here I want to quote you now when the says something we listen it's a very serious safer and I couldn't believe he said this Mas this Parable he says in our generation this is going back a few hundred years ago he said in our generation every small Mitzvah person does holds up the he's holding up the sh in English I have no clue but he holds up the spirit of the K of the Holiness of hem right now we don't have the so the is in is an exile it's all over the world and it's not in Jerusalem and that's why there's so much s that's there so much pain in the world all because we don't have the is not in so when one person does a in galute and Exile he's holding up the fort he's holding up the and what's the M he gives listen to his words it's a parable to King he got kicked out from his Palace and he's walking in Exile in the forest can you imagine a king walking in the forest all alone a person who will greet the king while he's alone and Exile in the forest and all he gave him was one piece of nerdy bread with a cup of water it is so valuable to the eyes of the king as if as if he gave him chicken as if he gave him b as if he's in his Palace which means when the king is in galute when the king kicks out from the palace and he's in the forest and you have one guy who has a little hot in his house poor guy all he has his little fire maybe a mattress but he sees the king is in the forest all alone he goes over to him and he says King all I have is bread I'm sorry that's all I have left over bread here's a little water what do you give him not even a dollar's worth but the king appreciates that water and bread so much it's as if he's sitting in his Palace and they served in front of him chickens and meats and steaks and drinks says and our generation the reward is great when the owner of the world when hasem right now was in G quote unquote which means right now we're in Exile in America we're in galut the generation around us is telling us not to serve asem they're telling us to run after they're telling us to run after desires whoever thinks of just serving Hashem all day don't think about yourself don't be selfish think about hem think about Tah who even has that mindset it's such a far-fetched mindset to the go of the world especially in America all they think about is themselves and then we come and we say no no no the last person you think about is yourself first you think about God Torah Israel soldiers your brothers your sisters your family poor people people the last person you think about is yourself the opposite of the whole mindset of the world says a person in this generation who does MIT even though the times are hard and even though it's minute it's a little bit it's like a piece of bread and water but because the m is in G because right now we don't have the bet mikash because the times are hard you're holding up to sh you're holding up to K you're holding up to you're hold up Judaism it's as if you gave AEM a whole set of sh you finished sh it's as if you're in our generation a person does even one time you know say the writes even one time if a person controls himself not to speak know what the G says I said this many times that's that person is about to speak L and he controls himself and doesn't speak even one time he writes we can't even be M we can't even fathom the reward and light that person will get that even even angels in sh don't comprehend how much and and blessing that person brought to the world from one time of control yourself not to speak one time I met a boy in Lakewood he came over to me and he said that he took upon himself not to speak of sh and he counted on his notebook over a 100 times already where he control himself not to speak he was with a group of friends he left a group of friends another person was about to he said and he started marking it down in a notebook now suest everyone should do that that's what he did and I told him you know what it means to control yourself 100 times not to speak 100 times according to the you're billionaire billionaire so he went to the one of the Newman learns all day in fact he has a he's such a big we Newman he has a second seder on Fridays what's second seder usually in Yesa you learn from 9:30 till 1:45 then second seder is afternoon learning you learn from 3:45 till 7:20 or 6:45 but on Friday when a person is married who has time to learn on afternoons bar Newman his wife pushes him he has a second sor learning even on Fridays sits and learns sits and learns in fact I have a story with him how' I get to this last story about him just to show you how much we have in our generation people that are really learning toah I one time wanted to invite him to come speak in an event in Lin so I went over to him after Min m is 145 I went after M and told we're having an event for can you come speak after and he said give me 5 minutes because he has a 5 minute learning cater after just 5 minutes of learning after okay I go outside the BET mid and I'm I'm starving because lunch is after M I'm starving I'm standing there waiting and waiting and waiting waited five minutes I go in there and he's sitting learning with his shender where he's sitting learning with his shender he has massive glasses over at G so I'm standing there waiting for him to you know pick up your eyes and look at me I'm here he said 5 minutes I'm standing and standing and standing I didn't get an all courter was actually very big Z to be next to him I'm standing and standing he's not picking up his face he's learning and he's learning learning you know sometimes I remember as a kid shom if a person is the middle of watching a movie and you're that guy that disturbs everyone what does everyone do he's so focus in his learning he's so lucky you know how lucky a person is that he developed a love for toah like that he's the happiest man on Earth I wish I was like that give me a billion dollars I don't want it to be like him I'll take it in a second he sits and he learns and he learns and he learns and he learns then me I'm a little bit of aan so what did I do I put my hands on the stender like this I want like this to make sure he sees me I'm getting hungry and over there they close the kitchen you don't come on time forget about it okay then he sees me he goes like this with his glasses and he goes you are I looked at him five minutes ago I came to you and by the way I ate at him Shabbat morning many times he knows exactly who I am so he goes you are and then it took him like almost 30 seconds 10 minute I was like remember Riva I came five minutes ago my name is yov I asked you about the event if you want to come he's like oh right right right right right right right right right right right yes I can come I can come when I left I thought to myself look what I just witnessed you talk about a human being that's alive right here on Lake where you can go see him you know what his vacation is his vacation is changing his seats from the BET mid that's his Ben man he learns inside the whole year what's Ben his him go learn outside enjoy the good air and he still learns that's vacation for him happiest man alive happiest man alive as a person who develops a real love for toah I came to 5 minutes before he already forgot why so into his learning so into his learning 5 minutes later he already forgot the conversation he had five minutes ago cuz it's so not important what's important to that you're learning how' I get to this oh so we went over to him thank you so we went over to him and we told him that this boy took upon himself not to speak of and he already reached the number 100 so when he heard that story it was in he started not like I wouldn't say the word shaking but you saw he started getting like excited excited and he said a 100 times 100 times not to speak and then he quoted this G that even one time I'm not speaking you're BR to the world and you did it a 100 times then he's like I want to tell you something since me and my wife got married says the since me and my wife got married he's already an old man he's in the 70s we learn together every single day you hear this the doesn't have time for anything by the way how does he fix his glasses famous story his wife takes for him how does he get new shoes she goes for him she does everything for him he learns and he learns and he learns and he learns but he made sure that he learns with his wife every single since he got married that's how important is to stay away from I want to share with you a story if you haven't heard it yet it's worth listening to and if you already heard the story cuz it went around the lot it's worth cuz we always hear about miracle Nim right Jordan we always how you doing we always here about Nim did I see Michael here also where is he hi Michael how you doing good to see you we always hear about Nim we always hear about miracles and the generations in the past but when you start hearing Miracles that are happening as we speak as we speak open Miracles especially after October 7th so many opening SE I'll share with you one there's a famous Rabbi in l Mish today this morning I spoke to him again his name is listen to an open Miracle a very important story before the importance of forgiving one another The Importance of Being to be one another some people says the they're so careful with which is important but when it comes to when it comes to how they treat other people they I actually brought it hold up remember me to go back to the story says the G like this even though judges a person and he's extra nice to him however a person who has an ego and he doesn't have [Music] good Hashem doesn't go easy on him at all judges him based on his actions 100% accurately no being Mr Nice Guy for a guy who's not a Mr Nice Guy says a then he goes on he writes like this something even scarier a person who was cruel to all the humans does not leave a person who was cruel to Hashem but he was good to other people he leaves G