Days of Awesome - Deep Dive into Elul 5785 by Rabbi Jay Yaacov Schwartz

Heat. Heat. [Music] Welcome to Ro Kesh L 5785. A momentous month indeed. And we will begin to explore today the special unique quality of this doubly significant day. Number one that it's roesh and number two that it's roesh el. We're going to describe um what the Torah both initiar we as Jews are being in told is our task at this time and also in the context of this very very very unique time period that we're in. So let's begin. What is the significance of El of L per se? So on this Rabbi Gans points out as follows. It's a 40-day period beginning today which will come 30 days of el plus the 10va and that is a 40-day unit and they are called yeone. What does that mean? They're called rotone. So in the dark It says that the Benazar, the illustrious nephew of the great holy Rabbi Malik Millens, he had a custom that they would make weddings all month of. In other words, um if we have some restrictions that according to again it's it's something that's tied to the mysterious association between Klal and the moon which is the symbol of Roshesh the tiny appearance of the fragment of the moon signals roesh that's what the mitzvah is from the Torah the very first mitzvah given to Kal Israel as a unit not to mankind per se was there's a unique connection between this mitzvah and the entire purpose of Israel roes what is that what what is that mitzvah to ask adim to ask individuals to step forward to identify that a portion of the moon has been seen and they will bear witness to the beginnings of that and um that is known as ku shakodes or adakodesh which the garra in rashashana goes into detail uh goes detail so so you see that there's um a duality here in other words rashashana is is roshesh so there's two elements there's a roshesh element contained inside rashash shana and in fact there's a roshesh element contained within all of the because this is particularly annunciated in the Mishnos in which speak about a very interesting thing. There is another mitzvah unique to the Jewish people which is to build. All right. There's a connection to that particular mitzvah. What is it? The Jewish people when they were given the Mishkan were allowed to to contain within our living space actually the presence of Hashem, the sanctity of Hashem and his kadusha which was highly highly uh how shall I say dangerous because the kohanim had to guard the mishka and particularly the aron kodesh. If even one person so much as would touch or look even at the Aron Codesesh and its glory, the divine presence emanating from the Lucos. Right. Right. Then they their the line between mortality and immortality would cease. Their nishama would literally fly out from their body. Okay. which is similar to what happened to Dustin and not to Dustin but to another Aviehu who by trying to draw close and bring Ktor um they literally were burnt their souls were nisrafu and were drawn up to the kodesh it's dangerous to be too close to Hashem as my bubby would say we don't have to go crawling into the sky. There has to be a human boundary between the human and the divine. But roesh is a particularly uh important point in order to maintain uh us from contaminating the holy and causing damage to our both ourselves to both realms to that world and to this world. So the mitzvah is We are not allowed as regular Jews to enter the space of the of the place within the mikdash or the oh moa the actual tent in covering which has inside the manora the the the um the candle labyrin the giant ka that was lit by the kohanim the theor which is the incense altar the golden altar and the hapanim the showbreads and inside the keshkadashim the holy of holies and the staves of the aron kotes which burst forth from the curtains of the kesh kadashim. Those were the literal life force giving that hashem would give to kalisrael constantly. The shbra represent our parnosa our physical well-being. The manora represents our mental and intuitive and uh prophetic uh uh knowledge. And the misbehed our soul the part of us that's only nishima otherwise known as nish. So if you want to look at it this way the shuhan with the showbreads represented our sacred bodies. Then you have the mind and then uh or the eyes the mind which illuminates and then you have uh uh uh the more a deeper level which is the level of nishima the internal the internal organs and the kahakishima which represents our our nephesh which represents our immortal souls that's connected to our bodies. That area is the point of contact between the divine and the human and you are not allowed to desecrated with human mortality. That's why the kohanim actually and the levim to a lesser extent are the bridge between us and the divine. That's what happened at matan to where moher was able to go all the way up and he was the first going and then the kavanim and and the the levim onto a next level and then k israel cordoned off on the bottom. the animals even behind them. And there is a danger that we may bring our imperfect uh imperfection to bear on the perfect and immortal. And if there's not an interface, when those two things can work, what are we? We are an interface between the divine and the ultra physical. That's what a human being is. We have we have this inner kodashim and yet we have physical manifestations even to such a point that we have saros that we have excess that we expel from our bodies from our various orififices and it it's it's mindboggling that such a thing could coexist that's the will of hashem but roshotesh is a particular time to renew although it happens every day but after a 30-day cycle it's a complete cycle of renewal that's the symbol of the moon regenerating itself and that's the kaduca of cla kadusha of cla waxes waines and re renews it's a symbol that we are an eternal nation and nothing can destroy us so therefore we are immortal we are above mortality but we've got to be careful not to introduce tumas mess into these holy quarters we have to maintain holiness we have to maintain boundaries you know this past shabas for example we read the laws of kashras Right? You'll know that there's when it comes to the more base animals, I'm not talking about birds, and I'm not talking about grasshoppers, which have different rules, and some of them are kosher, the ones that have wings. There's kosher things with wings and a lot of non-cooser ones, but they have a a kind of a lower standard. They don't require such obvious signage. With a grasshopper, for example, if the wings cover the body, those are kosher grasshoppers. It's almost like aut of sorts similar to the angels that on high accompany hashem's aresh they cover themselves with their wings. There's a certain how shall I say about them in the animal world itself. Birds the ones that are so connected to as my bubby would say and himl literally that they can go to the sky. It depends whether they're agents whether they themselves are agents of killing other birds. If they kill other birds then they're not kosher. If they somehow just maintain themselves and they're like the doves and the turtle doves which have fidelity, they are loyal to their mates, they are um in essence a more pure sort of bird. They don't kill other birds. They're the ones that are the victims of the of the of the of uh the birds who render other birds tariff. You see that within the animal kingdom and even with the insect kingdom, there are holier sort of animals. Listen to this. So similarly, shockingly, if you think about it, what's the symbol of a kosher animal? What's in a symbol of something that represents the goal of Roshesh, which is to make sure that the holy and the immortal are not defiled, but are renewed, refreshed, and kept away from from things that are mortal, which is what? the Satan, the Sahara, the Malik, aos sins, tyos, theashiva, all the things that render us mortal and which human beings generally unfortunately display to the nth degree. You don't have to even look that far. war, oppression, greed, theft, slander, uh accusation, unbased hatred, uh a a selfishness, a addiction. What is our world all about? Escapism. That is the problem. How do we take that world the world which has uh a more of a connection to the mortal than the immortal and make it make it something divine? Well, we have to be poor. We have to have separation from things that render us our more base selves to separate from theft. We have to separate from murder. We everything that's in the caibos. We have to separate ourselves from those normal beastial human animal desires which every human is going to do unless they have a higher reason not to. It's the normal. It's what's normal. Okay. So, but we came to the world as a standard above to show that yes it can be done even within man who desires the mission. The last mission of Mako says interesting things interesting thing that man is uh was commanded not to drink dam don't drink. So the Mishna comments there and says nobody likes blood. Who likes blood right? But it's an acquired taste right normally a person is not desirous of drinking blood. The Torah prohibits us to teach us that if you withhold yourself from things that are logically detestable, okay, then how much and you're rewarded, how much more so will you be rewarded if you withdraw yourself from things that you are interested in that every human being desires and holds precious? Glorios stealing whatever monetary things that they need to render them power and strength and opportunity and and greed and and then to fulfill your fill one's desires in whichever way they want. These things are normal for the human being says the last Mishna in Maros. And if you withhold yourself for that says the Mishna last final. It's not just you're doing it for you. You've touched immortality by doing that and your generations ahead of you are going to have that is the imperative of the whole Jewish people. Why did they have why do we have aos? Because since our obos made those immortal choices and rendered us close to those that pattern of behavior it's intrinsic. Israel are supposed to be examples of of of right. Uh there areim we are among the human people supposedly we are among the more people that's our essence. If it doesn't happen it's because of a corruption but our essence is to be mortua. Our essence is to be um to have mercy. Although it could be misguided mercy like having mercy on the cruel such as there's so much mercy on on murderers, illegal truck drivers who come in and murder people in United States. And then there's a misguided Rahman is saying, "Oh, that poor driver had an accident. Oh yes, he was an incompetent truck driver that murdered on the road." No, we have to have mercy on him. Why are you having mercy on a criminal who not only endangered other people's lives? This is really what's going on in America. An illegal alien mowed down three people because he didn't know how to drive the truck. How do you get a driver's license? If you go out with a driver's license, you're a murderer. Why would you have mercy on a murderer? Is that logical? No. Because we have to be mercy. It's misguided mercy. I have to have mercy on poor Hamas. Poor children are murdered because their parents put them in the line of fire and used them as human shields. No, but you have to have mercy on them. That's misguided mercy. That's not rahmonus. That's illness. And then and that we really want to help. And when the world in its cacophony of rash wishes to destroy the reputation and and how shall I say the very essence of the goodness of the Jewish people by calling us genocidal maniacs. What are they really doing? They're really saying that there is no such thing as goodness. There is no such thing as the Jewish people. Call of do anything you want. And in fact, I recently saw an article that says that people in America, they're starting to realize that people are doing heinous acts of mass murder for no particular reason. Just because that we've unleashed within the concept of human behavior, do whatever you want. Whatever you want is good. You want to come to America and and and and steal a driver's license and become a truck driver and run people over cuz hate. That's fine. If you want to defend yourself against the world's most evil terrorists, yeah, that's that that that that's that's not something that's moral. They want to destroy the very essence of the message of Hashem that Kai Israel is here to the world to show them how to do better. And if you want to point them as evil, there is no one else to point out to you to explain to Mr. Putin why he can't have the entire world. Someone explained recently that yeah you so Trump wants to make peace with Putin. Right. Okay fine. Let me ask you a question. What does Putin want? Does he want a few more kilometers of the dumbbast? What does he really want? You want to draw a line before the mountains of the dumbbast region so that he can't go and take Kiev in his sleep? Is that going to make him happy? So somebody says people don't understand what he wants. This is a man who also had Jewish um was was thank God subject to Jewish kindness. Did you know that as a street boy he was raised when his parents were both drug addicts and criminals and he was taken in by a Jewish family that was religious that the father used to learn Gamorrah and he grew up in their house because they fed him nebak because he didn't have parents to feed him. And to this day he has great respect for Torah but that's not going to stop him. It may stop him from destroying Israel, which we hope is not his design, although he's done everything to help others do it. But he wants the entire Russian Empire, any place where a Russian boot has ever ruled. And as somebody pointed out, that included what? East Berlin. Where was Mr. Putin raised under the East German? Um, he was part of the East German government. He wants Germany. He grew up with Germany. He grew up with Berlin. He says if Berlin was half Russian and and everything else, including Hungary, including Poland, including Crimea, including Ukraine. You think he wants a little piece on the corner of Ukraine, of Eastern Ukraine? No. He wants everything because to him, the idea of the imperial Russia, I can take what I want. That's my tya. I don't care if people die. I don't care how many people are trampled under. Makes no difference to me. Li uh lie, cheat, rob, kill millions of people. It doesn't really matter. I want what I want. That's what he wants. He wants all the way to Germany and beyond. All right. might have to stop at East Germany. People don't understand. They don't understand the depth of what a human being is, what they want, and what their desires are. It's that simple. Okay? So therefore, the amrail was created to show what the potential of mankind is and our ability to connect with the immortal divine, which requires a tsimum, a backing away, which is what ours did. They were Yeshim. They showed us how to navigate the straits of our desires to do be willing to die ale to be willing to mocker of your own son because of Hashem's will to show that your is not dependent on your logic but based on the desire to serve hashemu to protect the evil by prayers and believe in the reformation like saddam to save people and try to bring them closer to hashem that is our job in this world. Our job is not to make a lot of money and only and to buy houses for all of our children with swimming pools so we can all live together in a suburb of Lakewood or Raish, that's not the point. We have a much more grand mission to the world. And if the world says to us, you don't, you're evil, you don't have this mission, they're denying and we're denying the reality, both of us. So it occurred to me if you know the signs of the kosher animals which Jews are allowed to eat and by the way it's in the dafomi. It's funny we're learning the laws of kashroot. We're learning the laws of what if a mouse falls into beer. Today's dafomi mice is what's used to describe the Christian world that they call themselves holy and they eat schwatzen. That's what the nubi called them. They eat mice and things and you know and and and and yet they want to say we're holy. But holiness requires a boundary requires places that you cannot enter as you are with everything that you wish and desire. You got to put some things down. Right? So kosher animals. Everybody make the sign of a kosher animals feet. Go ahead. Is that not the sign of a kosher animal? What else is it the sign of? >> Yes. And don't say just Star Trek but Mr. Spock who was teaching lesson. Star Trek was one of the most laab amazing shows. It was created by a Jew Gene Rodenberry to teach principles to the world of you know that's what the whole show was about. It was the battle between the harra between passions and pure logic. It was a brilliant brilliant show which was the the the showing of what their human condition in its more elevated form has to deal with choices of good and evil and all that stuff. very Jewish topics. Kosher animals are kohanim. Kosher animals are holy animals. They are priestly animals. Think about it. Which animals are brought onto the misbay? Kosher ones. The ones with split hooves. The cows and the bulls and the goats and the rams and the sheep. These are holy animals, right? Like they say, go like sheep. Help. They go like sheep to the slaughter. Sheep are not looking to be wolves and rip other animals apart. Do you ever see a a sheep? I think laavd a million havdos. They made fun of a uh I don't know which one is animals that are very, you know, meek. Even rabbits are half kosher. You know that somebody said to me, "Well, what about the half kosher animals?" Yeah, they're also I don't like to use the word levim, but they're on the path towards. Yeah, the rabbits and the and the camels and more importantly the pigs have a split hook. What do they represent? Well, who is associated with the pig? Who in the world is associated with the pig? As of our half brother, brother Esau, who known as Edomor's Christianity, they believe in the Torah. They have these concepts. They believe in Hareni. And then the the more that they believe, the more that they're supposed to love the Jewish people. Although, who knows? They seem to come out the opposite. But there's Gmorra that says in the end of days, pigs will be kosher because they're already halfway there. Camels are also very camels are representing represent the the Muslims who ride camels. They who else rides camels? The Muslims of the desert. They have chewing the cud is a is a kosher sign. What does that mean? A kosher sign. A kosher sign means I'm satiated. A camel doesn't complain. It can go so such long distances without drinking a drop of water, without eating any food. And it'll take you, you know, Abrainu rode camels. He didn't ride horses. Horses are tra horses are suspro. Their midos are very, very not kosher. Parro is ultimate in gya, ultimate in lust and tya. That's the symbol of the sus. Nothing against horses per se. In the end, horses will be holy, too. They're going to say keshmi says in the end of days, we'll put on them and they'll even the horses will be holy because everybody's going to be holy. All mankind will be holy. But did you ever hear this before? Kosher animals are kohanim. They're showing the world what it means to be not vicious. uh uh not uh territorial and violent animals. You go into a sheep herd, they're not going to tear you to pieces. If you walk into a hippopotamus's pond, they'll eat you alive in a half a second. They'll snap you in two. You wander into a lake with an alligator, you're finished. If you go into a lion's pride and you haven't by the way this is there's something about this which is also very important which is if you'll look um in the Mishna in in Babakama it says the animals that are raised and and it's like very beginning of what's avo Right. A wolf, a a bear, which is an incredibly dangerous creature. Uh a lion, bloas, which is a hyena. Yeah. Terribly vicious, dangerous animals, right? Most life-threatening. It says in the Mishna says, "If they've been raised with love and affection, they are not vicious. animals and if they do damage you consider them a tom like a kosher animal which is a dinner of a tom or the first time it the first time it damages we say oh it didn't mean it it's only half payment so unusual what do you want from the owner didn't expect this lovely little animal to do damage didn't expect the the shore to go crazy and start goring people that's going crazy because even the wildest beasts if they're raised in an atmosphere fear of love and kindness. They will not eat their owners except for certain ones like the snakes which are never reformable. Mahok is in the Mishna whether snakes are considered muad or there could be such a thing as a tom snake. Although I have seen this I have seen this cuz I like I love I I like um researching nature things and they show that people raise these lizards and even snakes and the and of course the ni says at the end of the day is that the snakes will lie uh with the children. I saw such a picture. I saw a child holding a python petting it and that the python had no interest in killing the child. What's this all about? Because it is possible to take even the most wild creature and through love the animal will respond and not look to kill its master but to give it love and support. It's possible. That's the whole hope of mankind. That's the hope of the animal kingdom too. And kesh is the key because if we can't keep renewing ourselves to the level of pre holy priesthood, a priest is not allowed to contaminate the mishkan. What's the purpose of our kodesh? And all the regalim says the isdash inevitably human beings fail. Inevitably human beings are a little bit tame. We come in contact with death. We come in contact with with things that are unholy. we come in contacts with dead mice which according to the dafyomi are a special level of tuma uh that the Torah may have specified is even worse than other things and and you know what too much sherets it's in the Torah too much sheritts it's a certain level of tum a piece of a sheritt is t a piece of a kosher animal that died is to all right in any case point is you can't bring that into the bas We have to cleanse it of these mortal sins. And what do we do? We bring carbonoses. And Hashem says, "Give me a healing. Give me a carbon so we can start over again. I know that I demand from you tremendous things. I know I demand from a level that you should become angelic. Even the creatures, I expect them to behave angelic." Marry out a little lamb. They're so sweet. A little goat. You know what I'm saying? A cow sustains you with mother's milk. These are all very nice animals. Even the kosher birds. They are examples of what the creation can and will be like in the end of days when we have a mashiach. And we have to keep renewing. And that's what is all is about. And that's why Khalis's first mitzvah is no matter how far you've fallen like in the CS mitr all the way down to the 49th level of tuma don't worry because you can reach achieve your destiny of holiness no matter how far you've come you can reboot there's never such a thing as something that's irredeemable there's no such thing as irredeemable as would say so let's understand if the if The point of rodesh and the purpose of the Jewish people is to model a holy world, right? No, we have to have simash too. So what are our simash? As I said before, okay, but in we get more information. So hold on to that. What does it say about Elo? My wife gives a beautiful share about Elo and she talks about I'll quote her here about the four roshavos of Elo. Everybody knows that Elo the name of the month of the beginning of the 40 days and as I will point out to you the 40 days represent when Mosher Abenu asked to start over again. You had the sin of the golden calf which literally destroyed the connection between Hashem and the Jewish people to such an extent that Hashem wanted to wash his hands of the Jewish people and Moshe miraculously and according to the as as Hashem willed him to do really said no the Jewish people can renew even after there's still hope and even after of the spies of rejecting land of Israel there's still hope if not for them for the next generation because we have aos There's one long unbroken chain of the Jewish people that's immortal. Not just the individual Jew, but the nation of the Jews which is completely immortal. So we have these four elodes, the ro kodesh, the full month prior to rash, which is the renewal of the year. You follow me? It's a time of complete renewal. That's the message. And what is that? What is it symbolized by? pointed out to us. Number one, I am for my beloved and my beloved is to me. Okay, vidi. That's L. What does that mean? That means we have a love relationship with God. It's not only about fear and saying, I'll get away with what I can get away with as long as Hashem doesn't kill me. Okay, that is a level of your chamay. That's pretty good. But but we Hashem doesn't want us as slaves. That's the whole theme of the I don't want you as my slaves doing the work begrudgingly with a with a grumble under your breath like teenagers can be sometimes right. I'll do it but only because you're forcing me to. It doesn't mean I want to do it. Doesn't mean I will like doing it. a safe air. As long as the reb got me here, I'm going to have to listen. But the minute the bell goes off, I'm out of here. That's one way. That's one way to be in the base. Hashem. But we want more. Doi. Notice the connection to the word Davided. Davided is the symbol of a loving relationship with Hashem. Where you talk to Hashem, where you plead with Hashem, with you argue with Hashem, and you ask Hashem for help. That's David. Individual prayer number one be like David. What is David? Use your emotions in the service of Hashem. Talk to Hashem. Tell him what's going on. Plead with him with all your problems and celebrate with him all your salvations. Whatever it might be from health problems, bunny is children's problems. Who doesn't have them? And especially now here in the land of Israel, in the world in general, who doesn't have problems? Tell me who doesn't have problems. Tell me who's not worried about their children. Tell someone who's not worried about their own mortal lives. Who's not worried about being hurt, damaged, raped, killed, hated, persecuted, all for just causes? We got beloved as a model of how to survive the dangers of life whether they're mortal dangers or spiritual dangers which are more than the mortal dangers. Second second point of it's a regarding the earl murders inadvertently we say if a person does accidental murder they didn't mean to they were chopping wood and the axe flew off on their way down or according to Rebi on their way up it depends how you learn the axe handle flaws fall flies off and kills You didn't mean to. You were just trying to build some wood, but you were trying to chop a tree down. You weren't exactly doing something that was building. You weren't building. You were being mashious. You were destroying life on some level. Okay. So, it got out of hand. And you killed somebody. You have to go to the mikla. If Hashem has put a place where you can go there and stay there and learn from whom? Learn from the Levim who live there. Learn from the kohanim who might be living there. Be part of families that are there. Rehabilitate someone who sold into slavery. It's a rehabilitation. It's not a punishment. We don't keep them in cells like animals like laavdil alligator whatever Alcatraz and and keep them there like behemos. That's not the point. The point is to rehabilitate. But that's not an easy thing to do. So the concept of ear mikl is that if you've really done things that are seemingly unerasable, you took a life. No, don't don't don't think that way. We can learn our way out of the tya even of being a destructive person. You can learn how to be a less destructive person. And the most destructive things are not axes but words. What do they say? Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words will never harm me. Really, words are more are the gateway to harming. And it's much more harmful. Words are much worse than the actual sticks and stones. Because once the words have been established, the sticks and stones are inevitable. If you say to the Jewish people that you are genocidal maniacs, then how much further are you away from taking away their lives? Now I want to say the first step of taking away somebody's life is to take away their livelihood. What what what does the world want to do? I don't want to do business with Israel. I don't want to have ballets in Israel. I don't want my I don't want Israel appearing at at at at weapons uh conferences to show their wares even though everybody wants to buy them. I want to boycott them. I I don't want um I want uh sanctions against Israel. sanctions against Israel. Sanctions mean economic boycott. Boycott is the beginning of death. If you take away a person's parnos, you're taking away their livelihood. You're murdering. It's an act of murder. If you want to get they want to get away with a little bit of murder. Did you know that there were a couple of incidences this week that were so shocking that you it it should pause us. 150 Jewish children tried to go to an amusement park in France. Did you know this? All Jewish kids, they rented the place out so it should be completely Jewish. So no Muslims would call them genocide maniacs and attack them and throw paint at them and insults at them and shout at them and beat them. And the owner or the manager of the water park wouldn't let them in. He said, "My principles don't allow you are genocidal murderers. You children, eight-year-old children in France who have nothing to do with anything and don't even know what the heck you're talking about. I can't on principle allow you into a theme park. Yeah. And the guy got arrested, but uh I don't know that if he really cares or if he thinks he's some kind of hero. Really? Don't let a Jew onto a theme park. Maybe that's not a bad thing because who says we're supposed to be in France and who says we're supposed to be hanging out in their theme parks? But still, it's painful. It's painful that we should be so lowly regarded. It wasn't the only event of that of that kind. Every concert now, every rock concert becomes a festival of hatred towards Israel. And the bands that call us genocidal are leading cheers. This is not a small thing. This didn't happen 5 years ago and 10 years ago. This is the result of Hashem's how shall I say divine will that we should enter this zone of the simas to Torah war on Seras of Kadusha. The things that are even above Rokesh like Shabas the essence of our very purity have come under attack. But you could look at it the other way around. There's, as Lahavel Shakespeare said, "Thou dost protest too much." The fact that they're protesting so much gives away their true fears. Yes, the Jews do have a moral code. Yes, the Jews are God's people. Yes, the Jews have a message to the world if they'll behave like they're supposed to, not like us, and try to s I saw that there's a I don't know, they had an interview with some congregational rabbi looked like, you know, all the very left-wing rabbis are the most sweetest of the sweet. Did you ever see them? They all look like angels with very large yarmakas, men or women. And they're the nicest, sweetest, most loving people. So we won't we'll have Judaism without the state of Israel because the state of Israel is not you know it's not something that we can really um you know the people say it's bad. So we can't do that. We can't do Israel. We can't support Israel. We have to support the victims of Israel. And that's what's going to make us good rabbis and good clergy. And then we'll be loved by our fellow uh you know Muslims and we'll do programs with them and we'll sing together and we're going to have the most spiritual Yum Kipper as long as we cut Israel out of the equation and as long as we get up on Yum Kipper and Russash Shana and urge people to make moral choices and to support the children of Gaza and make a collection for the children of Gaza and give a million dollars from the U.J JA to help these murderous children. This is what's really going on. But it's understandable because for these Jews, they don't have education. They don't have outreach. They don't have anything. So they go with what the non-Jewish world says is the proper values. The world has been indoctrinated that the hatred of Israel is the ultimate good value. It's absolutely absurd. It's the exact opposite of what's intended to be. Right? because we're supposed to be oral am. Now, we could say, let's take inventory of Israel itself and the Jewish people. Yeah. If we were united in being an oral am in the sense that we promote God's will and Torah, we'd be doing things a lot differently. We wouldn't be bending over backwards to please the Europeans and plea and and uh please the left-wing billionaires that want a a social humanistic world beerefted of a Torah. No Torah, no amados, no harseni, no mak mikdash, no no need for roesh. The roesh carbonos they're called roadashim. Notice a seer is an animal which is associated with asat murder, death, destruction. We have a we have a sea aazel we sent out on yam kiper. It's kind of the yates among the kosher animals. Sim represents a hood zora in the language of kazal. It's the it's the kosher animal that's you know got issues and but we use those animals we take them and we make them the vehicle at which we cleanse the very bas mikdash and anybody any Jew who came in tame they touch the sherets they ate something tame okay they are tame and they're impure richly impure in any which way which is a symbol of lack of immortality or mortality or death. These carbonos cleanse the whole base that make this from any of those disruptions. We start fresh completely renew our our slate is clean which is the entire purpose of rush of Russia sha kipper wipe the clay wipe the slate clean and we have ways of doing it. Vidi Chuva to Hillm. I was in Schline last night and it was said that the pathways to the hotel had never been and public transportation had never been so overwhelmed as last night. People and remember the sardom start early. Not surprisingly, the swards start early. They're so holy they get to eat kit ses. They're so holy that they even don't they're not uh they're not worried about kidnapped. They're all they're holy way up here. They ded for 30 days and 30 nights before they're all there. They were all there last night to start. So the message of which is number one. Number two, You can even come from the most grievous crimes and learn that's another one from Esther that Esther said the people should give man to his friend is a reference to to that's who we are we give sodaka is another one from the will circumcise alammed vav circumcise your heart. You have to have a heart. You have to have an uncircumcised heart. We are not people who are callous. We are not people who indiscriminately kill children. We are not people who don't have mercy. But having mercy on the cruel is having cruelty to the kind. And we know that we also sing. Hashem leashi is also lei is leodi. It's also el. Okay. So what is the mystery of Elon that Mosher Abenu made his way up to Hari and said I've got 40 days a whole new world a new beginning the our formation of a human being is 40 days we say 40 days before the 40-day formation already there's a destiny for that child of how they can positively impact the world That's what we say um at the very beginning we decide everybody has a everybody has a purpose everybody has a contribution to be made towards this goal but at the same time 40 days is the formation of the actual human body after 40 days to do an abortion in Jewish law is very problematic before 40 days is less problematic. Unlike the um the Christian position which is before the body's even formed they say it's fully formed. It's not true. Torah teaches otherwise. Although it's a famous mahlous between Rebi and um Marcus Aurelius uh about when sacred human life is kaducian. He wanted to say from the moment of incept conception and uh re Rebby said no after 40 days. But Rebi did say there's something to be said for what Marcus Aurelius said and he brought a br to him. There is there is what to say that to me but Judaism doesn't look at anything until it's formed. He said even look at the very first day. Okay, fine. But Lisa, let's see what we have. Let's see what we have in this 40-day period. Rebby emphasized the 40-day period. We got to know what we're going to do with it. We have this divine potential from day one. Argued Marcus Aurelius correctly. Yes. But once you reach 40 days, you're already in a person. You're already in this world as an entity. Even if you're inside the mother's womb to a certain extent and it becomes an isser of abortion. Although it's not misus, it's not considered murder, but it's considered an isser rea. So in summary, we're entering a 40-day period which has completely begin again a new cast aside the problems of the last two years. Understand that we have been tracfed up by the murderous acts of our tormentors. We have suffered greatly and our greatest suffering is the continuous damage we do against each other which is division failure to have a fail to have a Jewish purpose and in the lack of a Jewish purpose we adopt foreign purposes that are literally for us of odar and can lead to the most disastrous consequences which we see the rampant assimilation the rampant disassociation and even hatred the very state of Israel. You know that the Ram defines a Jew as far as every Jew has a kaik in the world to come. And isn't that what this 40-day period is about? To define our place and take our place in the as Jews who have a stake in the world to come. And every Jew who's in the land of Israel, by the way, has shown a greatness that they deserve a place in the world to come that's already concretized to some extent because a place in Israel is a place in the world to come. Did you know that? And you know, every Jew has a potential place and and has a place. A place that's given them to be lost. They can lose it. But once you're in the land of Israel, it's already like the Rebi said after the 40-day formation, you've already gotten a place. You have a house in Israel. You have an apartment that you live in in Israel or whatever it might be. You have children living in Israel. You already have concretized a portion of the world to come. Feel good about yourself. And the world is not going to let us accomplish this holy goal that easily. But they will in the end if we stay true, if we renew. Okay. And we take the chauffeur, the symbol of the holy animals. The holy animals that even our animal selves like the chauffear have what to contribute the essence of us. The toas of us. Not our intellect, not our mind, not our imagination, but just our very horns, our very inner voices, the nephesh from inside of us has holy potential. So I'll close with a story incredible story. So the baltov gathered his fa gathered his uh followers on shabasim which was yesterday right last shabas this past two days and he taught them how to dav in the spirit of adila he was like a Davidic can he was a he was a descendant of David and he was a great great ring renown for his prayer which is one of the great teachings of kasidus has surrounds around their ability and their intensity of prayer okay the creativity of prayer who insisted on personalized prayer ultimate creativity in prayer individual prayer and he started to say to people I'm going to help you repair your repeat after me and the congregation would say conversation at now this meant yabin for about 18 hours from okay so shak they were in a different space they didn't care what time it was they didn't care about anything. They were just repeating word after word asto literally cleaned up their namas and but the balto got stuck on a shis he said she lea the sus will not redeem you represents the human power and tya and assertiveness parro sheerus it's not about your desires it's not about your ego it's not about your your your yourinian desire ire to dominate the world for no logical reason just because you want to and he kept repeating it and repeating it and repeating it and one congregant named Abraham said I cannot take it anymore and he ran out of sh and he finished doing at home he says I can't I can't how many times can rebi repeat that's the 113th time I'm out of here and then after bashtov asked him why did you leave why why did you run away says Rabbi to be honest you know one time is a lot but 113 times is a little bit much you know so Rabi said to him ah you don't understand what happened tomorrow you'll understand what happened and the next morning at you comes and says I have to report a miracle this come Sunday morning what was the miracle he says I was stuck in the forest air of shabas I got lost and I was there in the dark Friday night it was already shabas my I had tied up my wagon in the in in the shed and there's nothing I could do. I couldn't get here. And worse comes to worse. I knew that in this forest is a notorious robber, Ivan. Ivan the terrible. Funny name that they chose. He's the ultimate Russian uh leader. And he said, "I knew if he finds me or catches wind of me, I'm dead. He'll take the clothing off my body. He'll take everything that I have and leave me dead." And I don't know, I didn't know what to do. But suddenly as Ivan's horse approached, I could see I I hid, but I could see the horse was wandering around confused and ended up running off in different directions until it abandoned me until abandoned chasing me. Says BMP to his student Arab, he says, "You see, when I was saying Sheckcher Hassus Lua, Ivan was trying to track down our good friend here that was on Shabba's morning and you didn't realize what was going on. But every time I said she Ian's horse went in a different direction and now our good friend made it alive and he didn't understand what I was doing. I was trying ouros were preventing us from being reaching a mortifying dangerous end was saving us from that. Archos were saving us from that. Artillos do work. They do save. The ending of the story is even more fascinating. This had a son who could not read. He had severe learning disabilities or whatever it was could not read a word and he begged the balent for that his son should be able to dab in he said bring him bring him on bring him on on yam kipper so he came in yam kipper that was like a 40 days later in other words after the 40 days that we're talking about here 40 days later the son comes to sh with his father everybody's singing they say a he says a that's all he could do he couldn't read a word but then he was so overwhelmed with a desire to pray to hashem with all heart. He took out his shepherd's flute and he started blowing notes and it was this beautiful tune. But everybody in Shu was mortified. How dare someone desecrate the holy day of Yamipper by blowing a flute. We know that it's not a prohibition from the Torah, but rabbitically until the time the B mdish will be destroyed will be res will be rebuilt from being destroyed. Then we'll have weapons aim. We'll have return of the instrumentation of the holy levim when the base of mas around. But while we're in gulus and destruction, there's no there's no music on shabas. They didn't allow it. Only the base of mdash. So what did this kid do? He violated the rabbitic ordinance against playing music. How ghastly. How horrifying. They were all with their mouths open. And the balmtov turned to him and said, "Boy, are you lucky that he did that? What do you mean?" He said, "Your felos had kitrug on them. There were complaints about you, about us collectively that weren't going to let our prayers through. They were being blocked by heavenly uh accusers. And we were doomed until this young boy blew. And it so rattled the accusers that Hashem was so interested in hearing the sincere song of this young man that all the gates were thrown open by divine command and our tilos reached the heavens and were accepted. You owe him a debt of gratitude. How can you understand this? What was the baltov saying? Had the boy come to come to the bal said can I blow my horn? He would have said no it's user. Right. Right. It's you can't but he did it anyway. And the BMT says sometimes we have to realize that pure passion for Hashem, Hashem sometimes will look over the negatives. That's Hashem's choice, not our choice. Hashem, you sometimes it saves lives. Sometimes you got to call to save a human life. And that drivers have to get out of sh and get on their radios and horns and get in an ambulance and save lives. That's what this kid was. He was the hat of all of you. Hatsah can drive on Chabas. Hatsah can toot their horns on Chabas because he's saving our lives. This is what will save our lives. In any case, the period has begun. I'm trying to talk myself into it that we're going to have that pinnacle of we're going to take we're going to we're going to start fresh. We're going to put aside the sufferings that we have all experienced. Kal Israel, the lost namos, the murdered soldiers, the starving katuim, the fighting within Kali Israel, the hatred of the nations, bitter of egal. It's been a bitter, bitter, bitter year to swallow. But at the same time, we have an understanding that what's on the other side of that is a tremendous leap that the forces of Kitug like are trying to suppress. Those feels are ready to go. We just need that little shepherd boy to blow the whistle. And if it is the suffering that we're going through that blows the whistle for us for this year, so be it. We should have heartfelt a heartfelt lol. Get to work on open our mouths, open our hearts, open our learning, open our minds, but most importantly to each other. And remember, we're going we're going from our bodies to the animals that we eat. We are here to show kaduca and kesher to hashem. And let's do it. Have a great week. Heat. Heat. [Music] Oh my