Decode The Secret Of The Jewish New Year - Jeremy Gimpel: The Land of Israel Fellowship

what I want to do is I want to go through the Torah portions of the week from last week all the way until the end of the Torah portion and it sort of brings us through rosha sh and to really say it just the names and the themes of the Torah portions are the guidance that we need to do everything that tahila spoke about last week we learned and what we're going to see now is that one of the Torah portions lead us to the next and what I want to do is that if we follow the Torah portions in just the most basic simple terms but we internalize we take what we know in our mind and we bring it all the way down to our hearts it really has the chance to guide our life into the new year and so the first Torah portion that we always read leading up to R it's always these Torah portions is or you shall go out to War and what that's teaching us is that like you need to have an orientation when you come into this world some people come into this world and this is happening right now in Europe and they want to sit on the beaches of Italy and they want to drive the BMW in Germany and they want to just enjoy life and it's like hello that's not the purpose of life we have come into this world as Warriors we've come into a war our spirit has come come into this world and our soul is right now in a battle and we have to win and when you realize that we're here to work hard that we're here to be a blessing that we're here to fight against the evil inclination and let good overcome evil that's a totally different orientation because if my whole life I'm just striving to have a martini by the pool and my whole life is a struggle then I'm like wait a minute I don't even like this whole life thing because my expectation is up here and like reality is down here and what that Torah portion is teaching us is that our soul coming into the world reality is life is a struggle and it's meant to be a struggle you have to enjoy the hard work you have to enjoy working hard in developing who we are and growing into who Hashem created us to be that's the whole purpose we are at War why are we at War the very next Torah portion where you shall come into the L why are we struggling why are we kinding to go through these obstacles because there's a promise for us called The Promised L for you shall come into the land now some people think no I just want to go into the land no no no to come into the promise you have got to go through the war and as we come into the land what happens in this weeks T portion there's blessings there's curses and there's a whole world once you're in the land you're not enough to make alah you have to keep making alah and that's really what the work inside the land of of Israel is all about and then what happens once you've gone to war and you've come into the land then you can actually be n you can stand calm that's what next week's para is called parat and you are all standing for God and that standing before God after our war and entering into the promise and dealing with making Aliyah inside the land it's like living within the dream and then creating the dream that we're living then you can discover who you are when you really stand before our creator and the standing before God that is always the LA paraa we read before Ros sh and when you stand before God that's the Judgment it's not a judgment necessarily of like you've been good and you've been bad it's just the truth it's just who you are you're standing before the truth and you need to understand that every person in life brings out something inside you theila I really believe she brings out the best inside but it's a very specific element my father he brings out something wonderful inside me Ari he brings out a whole other side inside you when you stand before someone else whatever that friend is it brings out something that only they can bring out and that's why when someone passes away it's so sad because it's almost as if that part inside you went with them because it won't ever be able to come out anymore on Rosa Shana you're standing before the ultimate truth you're standing before the creator of the universe your Creator and there's no where to hide there's nowhere to run it's just standing before the truth and standing before the truth your truth is able to come out that's what Rosas sh is all about it's actually tapping in to the truth of your life because some people are very honest very few people are honest with themselves they delude themselves I delude myself all the time and I need tahila and I need Ari and I need our fellowship to come and sort of like knock me into place that's what Roshes sh is all about to stand before the truth of your life and then the next Torah portion is a and with that you walk into the rest of your year and as you're walking into the new year you have goals you have aspirations you have mon interest that are the ones that you want to keep with you the verses from the Torah that are the most inspiring the writings of the sages you're able to find everything that you want for this year you've set it all upright like we've done in the past fellowships then you can start to walk but when you're walking in the year what's the next stage you shall listen now listen is a unique word in Hebrew because there is a listen there it's like here oh Israel the Lord is God the Lord is one it's like you can hear the Chau that's sh is alike listening to your mp3 player the classical music you have to like really lzy you have to give ear you have to tune in you really need to listen and so as you are walking into your year after the truth of your life the way that you need to walk is with an open ear listening to God's word listening to the guidance that's inside you saying is that really what you want to do are you going to regret doing that or to the positive that's where you need to go that's what you need to do listen you must walk while you listen and if you do that do you know how the Torah ends do you know how your year will be blessed exactly this that's the last Torah portion before we start the Book of Genesis all over over again and this is the blessing so if you can actually just internalize the themes of the last Torah portions of the year that first we're here to grow we're here to work we're here to become better we're here as soldiers in the army of the king hey this is Jeremy gimpel if you enjoyed that clip and you're interested in joining our Global Community the land of Israel Fellowship you can find more information at the landof israel.com