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This Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com my boy. Anyway, everybody a good so nice to have you out. Uh we have a a treat in Rabbi Gladstein as a visitor to Sydney sponsored and motivated by uh Gary and Leor Remon and uh facilitated almost completely single-handedly by Lindy. Uh so big to everybody for making it happen and please God it'll be a you know so-called pilot trip for many opportunities in the future. We'd love to hear your Torah and you should be blessed to go in the writing of the spreading our would be a tremendous and you should know it's amazing that so many people have uh heard your Torah without you meeting any of them. But uh I remember many years ago many years ago uh reading a uh an opening comment in the introduction to and he writes there in the introduction about a a concept of Torah where people he he expressed the concept of the need to write swarim and uh he mentioned he quoted a Gmorrah about this and uh he applied the gammorra to himself that um in in this day and age a person has to write swore him because it's part of the mitzvah of being mamm and that's the way you do it and of course in our modern day and age this is a the Torah anytime has of unbelievable spreading Torah on a daily basis and so to be part of it is is really an amazing uh amazing merit so without further ado please come and address us sh everybody and once again thank you for coming. >> Okay, thank you Rabbi Blackman for the very warm introduction. Um, let me just begin by um sharing with you that it's been really a great privilege to be able to meet your R, Rabbi Blackman. Uh we had a wonderful breakfast together and I was just totally blown away. I knew Rabbi Blackman was a great but uh to the caliber of we don't even have an America like this and uh it's really really a special that you all have to have such a towering uh individual in your midst. someone who I would say is like a mut someone who has such breadth and depth of Torah knowledge and yet at the same time he's able to deal with so many different individuals on their particular level. So I tell you you're very very fortunate to have the RV and the rebbit and we see the next generation following in in the of their wonderful parents. So the whole family Hashem should bless them with good health with gazint with nas and maybe may they elevate the whole community. >> We want to thank also the stein family and um as well as and Gary and and Evan for arranging uh this event. Thank you for uh especially to uh Lindy who I know it took we were we were in conversation every single day for a very very long time to make sure this all fell into place. So all the various that they should always have this to participate in good health. So uh incredibly this coming Shabas paras is I believe Shabasim el can you imagine such a thing we just finished with tishab but this coming shabas we're going to be preparing ourselves for the month of el they said you know salant would faint when he would hear the sayeshlo and I get nervous not because I get nervous thinking about Rabbi Solanter hearing that you know I get nervous what if Rabi Solanter is in the show what would happen to him so I want to share with you a few questions and present an idea that I hope will be very uplifting for the upcoming yam as we know we're now in and the darim they say a stands for lol is coming so you know we have even though the last thing in our mind is rashana but we're in the month in preparation of and has many many illusions in the or is there many different and it's actually something uh to investigate maybe you could the could research this subject why is it that has more ramm than any other month we don't have so many ramm for other months but that's a separate subject But probably the most wellknown reme for the month of isi and this is even cited in the Mishnaba like the mishaba could have quoted many many to the month of and the mishab cites the and I was bothered by the following question since when do we refer to god as god has many many names eloim So why don't we say well there is no such P. But why is it that the month of El is specifically associated with God as do my beloved. This is not typically how we refer to God. In fact in the how many times is God referred to as doi? Zero. Maybe in hashir a few times God is referred to as my beloved. But why specifically in reference to the month of El do we refer to God as doi? Another question. I'm assuming that in your sham you sing the same tune for voy as they do in my sh. I'm assuming this is you know pretty much widespread. How do they do the vidi? Yeah. Good. Like we pick the most happy upbeat tune like we stole and we robbed and we spoke lush and hara like uh you know maybe we should pick a somber tune like a sad a mournful tune where we're we're we're listing the sins that we committed. Why are we singing them as if we're listing off our portfolio and our you know the stocks that we own? Why do we use that tune? And actually this is a question addressed by the Israel in why do we sing the Voy with such a happy tune. Let's present another question. The Garra tells us probably that we're all familiar with which means that where stand even the completely righteous do not stand. In other words, as if to indicate that a baluva is on a higher majrea than a sadar. Why would that be? Here you have a kid. He grew up in the house of sadikim. For breakfast since the time he's 5 years old, he's been hearing haram. He he knows sh by the time he's 15. By the time he's 21, he knows. And another kid at at the age of 30, he starts learning the alf. And you're telling me the baluva is on a higher level than a saddic. In what way possibly can a balchuva can someone who repents and becomes observant later in life be on a higher level in the eyes of hashem than someone who's at in what way is the baouva on a higher level? Another interesting thing to think about in the we say our father our king remember us for merit. Now that's a strange request. What do you mean remember us for merit? God should say if you want me to remember you for merit so then do some mitzvah. What do you want from my life? You want merit? Do them. The one thing that's not in God's domain is Everything is the hand of God except for the fear of God. What do you mean remember? You could ask God remember us for health. Remember us for wealth. Remember us for parasa. But not what kind of request is it? Remember us for we want to do them. So I like to say there's a principle and this principle is found in the gumar in limited capacity but the uh extends it that is the gamarra tells us that certain parios need to be read at certain intervals of the year for instance we need to read the before we need to read the before and the gumar uses the following principle we want the year to come to an end together with it with its curses. So we we strategically read about the to as the year is coming to an end sh is considered a new beginning the garra says and rash shana is a new beginning fine so from this garra we see a principle that there's certain parios that need to be read at certain times of the year but the expands this principle that we are authorized to sort of delve into if certain pars are are read at other times of the year then we're entitled to say well What does paras which is always the opening par of have to do with or if we're going to read about parasyak in the aftermath of sukus well what does nyak have to do with coming out of the suka this is a a general principle that the parishas that we read during the course of the year are connected and intertwined to that particular time of the year so let's try to investigate we know that we always read paras as the first week of what what exactly is contained in paras that is relevant to the process of chuva. Okay. Now, I'm going to tell you and at first it's not going to be a comfortable kadesh and sometimes people don't like it and it's not politically correct and it's it's it's really not a liberal idea but it's true and that idea is God gave us a great gift and that gift is the gift of chuva. So, one would expect once God gave us the gift this is a gift that is available to all of mankind. After all, if someone sins, they should have the ability to confess, regret, accept upon themselves never to do it again, stop doing it, and God will forgive as if the person never committed the sin. And amazingly, the medish seems to say that this gift was not given to all of mankind. You know, it's interesting in the real world or in the legal system. Imagine if somebody is accused of a crime and convicted of a crime and he goes in front of the judge, judged, you're right. I stole the money and I feel really bad about it and I've committed never to do it again. So the judge says, "You bet you're never going to do it again cuz you're going to be behind bars for 10 years." No, but but I confessed and I I was misar and I left the sin and I'll never do it again and I signed it up. Too bad. Well, what what of what relevance is repentance in the real world? But God gave us a gift that really is not applicable anywhere else in life that we could confess, stop sinning, and wipe our slate clean. So, one would expect this is a gift that's available to all of mankind. And yet, the matter is Tanuma. Now, you have these source sheets. If you don't want to use them, don't even look at it. They don't exist. Don't get scared by them. But if you do want to look at it in number four, the parazu says on the which literally means that God will countenance you. God will show you favoritism. And there's another verse that says him, God will not countenance you. He will not show you favoritism. So the Medish wants to know will God countenance a Jew or or will he not? And the medish says it depends. If you do chuva, God will shine his face on you. And if you don't do chuva, God will not countenance you. Says the medish, I would think every human being has the capacity to do chuva. Therefore, it says to you to you only a Jew could do chuva. A gentile does not have the gift of chuva. So I know what you're thinking. What do you Gentiles can't do chuva. We know we read on Yum Kipper the story of Yona and Ninve and he was sent to tell them to do chuva and didn't they do chuva and the answer is no goim cannot do chuva but what happened in inve didn't didn't um Yonas say 140 day in 40 days ninve will be overturned and it wasn't overturned because they did chuva so by the way first look in the malbum The malam says that it was overturned is gumatri 80 plus 40 and 120 years later ninve was destroyed but they did chuva n cannot do chuva they could defer punishment but they can't wipe their slate clean and this is not only the simple interpretation of the medish but the bloim one of the classic works of chuva writes explicitly that chuva primarily was given to the Jew the rami pano one of the great Italian mikubim writes Chuva was only given to the Jewish people. The ka likewise says chuva is only a gift to claim and that's how the benasar quotes other sources and this seems to be the normative view if we could say such a thing even though it's unexpected and one may say well the ram does not qualify most state emphatically a gentile does not have the capacity to do cha and the question is why not does the procedure work does the mechanism work? Does the gift work or doesn't it work? If it's a gift, everyone should be able to access it. And if it if it's not a gift, then we shouldn't have the opportunity to do it. And the writes in many many many and the Saskar quotes it in a number of places that we have to understand the mechanism of chuva. In other words, with what procedure does the almighty forgive our sins? How does chuva work? I did the a so how does God just overlook it? And the ka says very simply that there's a difference between the relationship that a Jew has with and the relationship a gentile has with you know you you hear often you're listening to the radio you hear after all we're all the children of the Lord. It's a bunch of rubbish. It's not true. It's not true. We're not all the children of the Lord. God is the father of the Jewish people. He's not the father of all mankind. Man is beloved because man was created in the image of God. Every single human being was created in the image of God. But only the Jewish people are considered the children of the you are the children of God. Just the Jewish people are the children of God. God is our father. He's not the father of the Gentiles. Therefore says there's a principle in the kaduc father who overlooks his insult. The insult is overlooked. If if a child insults the father the father has the capacity and the ability to say no problem. A child could ask the father tati daddy aba do you mind if I sit in your seat? Do and a father could be somebody insult a father has a capacity to overlook insult. However, a mel a king a king is not able to overlook insult. A king is not authorized to overlook insult. If somebody insults the king, the king has one recourse and that is he's a king will punish. The king cannot overlook his honor. So the explains the reason why chuva was given only to the Jewish people is because only the Jewish people could God forgive their sin as he is our father. And father overlooks his insult but the nations of the world God is their king and therefore God does not is not allowed is not authorized not able to overlook his insult okay so that means the mechanism of chuva the procedure of chuva the mechanics of chuva is through the principle of and therefore to me it's always uh very heartwarming that the opening para that we read in is where we annunciate the the principle and the backbone of chuva and that is you are the children of the lord that gives us the understanding of how chuva operates but now let's advance another principle because yuma discusses a contradiction the gumar yuma cites two statements of rishlakish once one time rishlakish got up in shul and rishlakish said chuva's great chua's is powerful. Chuva is wonderful because chuva could take an intentional sin and can downgrade it to unintentional. Could take what is called amazed and downgrade it to and the Gmorra sites where the sin starts off with and is downgraded to. So Rishlakish is saying that chuva downgrades a sin. And then the garumar asked, but one time Rishlak said even further that chuva is great because chuva could take an a and can transform it and overturn it and create a mitzvah out of the a like the says. So we have a contradiction. Does cha downgrade or does chuva transform? And the garra says a great principle. There are two kinds of chuva. There's chuva out of love and there's chuva out of fear. That if you do chuva out of fear, chuva out of fear is like a quasi chuva. When you're do when you're repenting out of fear, you're saying if I would have known that I would get punished then maybe I wouldn't have done it. So that means you're only regretting it based on the repercussions that downgrades the sin from amaze it from intentional to unintentional. But if a person does cha out of love that is so powerful it completely uproots the sin and it transforms it into a mitzvah. And this process of chuva as we're going to see is a great opening of hope as we enter the season of chuva because I want to share with you a tremendous kadesh. This is advanced by the is advanced by is advanced by the there's a frightening I'm almost scared to say it over but the truth is the truth you have to be aware of it the garra says there are four categories of sin theap it's a famous gamarra the garra says and each type of sin has a different level of chuva that is necessary so the garra starts off at the most innocuous level of sin is failure to observe a mitzvah. So for example, we're required to eat in the suka if somebody eats out of the suka. We're required to put on fillin daily if somebody does not put on fillin. If if we fail to fulfill uh here's a good one. You know the kesha which is a mitzvah in the Torah for men it has to be said at a specific time. So sometimes you know in America at least shabus morning we have 9:00 doning but sometimes that's past the of so the person has to be cognizant okay when is the proper time to say kesha today to say it by the right time so let's say a person overslept so they blew a mitzvah say so thear says there's an easy way to recover from that if you do chuva chuva immediately erases the sin you don't need yum kipper you don't need travailes you I don't need anything else. But then frighteningly the garra says, "And what if a person violated a lav in the Tyra, a prohibition, somebody spoke lash, somebody wore shness, somebody violated one of the 365 lavvenar says a scary thing that even if you repent, the aa is still looming and not until yum kipper comes is the aa erased." which raon says is one of the reasons why we have a suda of yum kipper. It's like whoa shoo yum kipper has come. Thank god I I've been able to reach this state to erase all those sins that require not only chuva but yum kiper as well. But then the garumar says something that's that's very uh frightening. The garra says there are sins that chuva alone is not going to do the job and even yum kipper will not erase the sin. There's certain lavim that carry with it serious penalties says the garra those kind of sins chuva alone is not going to do the job yum kipper even yum kipper doesn't do the job for that the garra says you need travails difficulties so truva plus yum kipper plusim that takes care of it you know that's like gulp You know, I fasted the whole day. I still need more. And then the Garra goes even further. There is one specific sin. Chuva doesn't cut it. Yum Kipper is not enough. Even is not enough. Until you leave the world, there is no atonement. One of the say this is like a can't sleep at night because of this. And the says there's a great ray of hope. There's a great opening of tikvah and and the and say are wonderful that this whole scary frightening gam is talking about the lower level of chuva. When you do chuva out of fear see you see when you do chuva out of fear the chuva only downgrades the sin but there's still residual remainder of the sin. So now you need other ingredients. you need a yum kipper sometimes more than that. That's because the chuva when a person does chuva out of fear it's an incomplete chuva but when a person does chuva out of love not only is a downgraded not only does it disappear it's completely eradicated and transformed into a mitzvah for that kind of chuva even for the worst sin even fore even for a chuva wipes it clean transfers it for a mitzvah and then you don't even need yipper and you don't even need And you don't even need misa the chuva alone has the capacity to forgive any sin. In other words, this whole process of forap is only for the lower level of chuva. But the higher level of chuva what we call chuva out of love where the a is transformed into a mitzvah. In fact, I once saw in the showam that if somebody does chuva out of love and then they remember, oh my when I was younger I ate a piece of ham. The a is actually transformed into the eating of the carbon pes. Can you imagine? So here he has you have a nice sadical of a kid. He's been eating badat kosher food his whole life. But the poor kid never ate a carbon pesak. And you have some other guy. He never kept kosher. And then when he learned about it, he changed his ways and he repented out of love. The guy ate for years carbon pes breakfast, lunch and dinner. Can you imagine? He locked out. He hit the jackpot. His chuva. Imagine he's been eating carbon pes his whole life. I saw in a safeair which is a liquid safare he quotes one of the mafarim who says when we pray our father our king remember us for merit. What we're doing for is Hashem grant us the heavenly assistance to upgrade our mode of chuva from chuva out of fear to chuva out of love and by doing so we will be adding so many merits so many mitzvah to our repertoire because now all of our aos will be transformed into mitzvah that's what we mean the incredible I just had the privilege to be at the ke of rabar in pos in Poland on the border of Poland and Germany Kger was one of the all-time great awim father-in-law and he has a beautiful garash the gumar discusses the fact that on rashash we blow the twice we blow what is called we blow at a time before the sha when technically we're allowed to be sitting and then we we blow during the sha or during the khazar sash when we're standing and the gumar says why do we need to blow twice I mean all the to we really only need to blow one set why do we have to blow two sets and the garra says in order to confound the satan to confuse the satan so the rishim struggle to explain what in what way are we confusing the the satan so says we're confusing the satan because he thinks the first blasts are the blast of rashashana and the second blasts are the blast of msiach and And the Sultan thinks Mashiah is coming and the Satan thinks he's out of a job. But Rashi says no. Rashi says we're confusing the Satan cuz he sees that we're blowing twice. He sees how much love we have for mitzvah. And the Sultan gets all bewildered and and confused and he runs away. He stops instigating. And asks because the Sultan sees that we love Mits. stops instigating. If anything, if he sees how much we love mitzvah, that should cause him to double his efforts and to instigate more and to prosecute more and to try to uncover more dirt on us. After all, his job is to read the lists of sins. So, if he sees that we love mitzv, he should redouble his efforts and and try to look for more dirt, says. Now, when the satan sees how much we love mitzvah, you know what he's afraid? He's afraid we've reached the level of chuva out of love. And if we've reached a level of out of love, then every sin that he reads through, Hashem is going to transform into a mitzvah. So Sultan says, "You know what? I'm better off just getting out of here because every sin is going to work against me." Okay, God, they didn't do any sins this year and I'm out of here. I have God says, "Where's your book?" "No, no, nothing in the book. My book is empty this year." Because Satan is afraid when he sees how much we love doing mitzvah, maybe we did chuv out of love and therefore suggests that to Pharisees when we clap a knew but knew oh boy are we happy because when we're singing the vidoy we're hoping we're engendering within ourselves the feeling that you know what let's repent to God out of love and if we repent out of love all of our sins are we're going cash in on them. Our of the says will be transformed into and maybe any geneva we did will be transformed into and all the aos we did will be elevated into mitzvah. So we thank Hashem we're joyful. We say oh shamashem we did all these terrible sins this year. We have all because now they will all come to our merit and will be recorded in the book of says [Applause] the baluva has a tremendous advantage over the sadic. that sadic only has 248 positive commandments in his repertoire. But there's so many more mitzvah that the baouva could acrue because he did all kinds of ace in their lifetime that can now be transformed into mitzvo that the sadic gum would never have been able to do in his wildest dreams. And let's not get into details but all the aos that a person may have done through chuva can actually be transformed into a whole array a whole variety of new mitzvah. And therefore in a certain sense says the about chuva is the capacity to have a portfolio the likes of which the governor could only dream of. But the dumn mag would explain as he so beautifully would with a wonderful mash. He'd say like this. It's number 23. So there was a shiddok right. It was just tuba and there was a beautiful shak made between the poorest guy in the city and the daughter of the gir the daughter of the wealthy man. And uh so the father of the of this uh this wealth this wealthy father turns to the groom and the groom's father and says look we know the situation over here. Situation is I'm wealthy you guys don't have any money. So here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to pay for the wedding and in New York there's a rule called flops. You ever hear that right? you know, the the groom pays for the flowers, the liquor, the orchestra, the photographer, and the s the shaitan. Okay? And um that's the rule. And the kala pays for the meal. The guy says, "No, don't worry. I'm paying for everything. The only thing you need to pay for is just buy your son a suit." Really, that's the only thing? He says, "But you know, I can't really afford. I'm going to buy my kind of suit." He says, "Just go to a you don't you don't have to go to Manhattan to buy the suit. You could go to your your local Yeshiva suit store or wherever you going to get your your uh your um you know your discount variety suit. Just get your son a suit. Fine." So it comes the day of the wedding and the kala is all bed and the is going to be like the the biggest show in town and the is coming to his wedding in a avah suit a suit and he's riding to the wedding in the wagon and the horses are running and it starts to rain and the horse trips and the goes flying out of his carriage and he falls into the mud and his suit is dirty, his suit is ripped, he's all disheveled and he walks into the to an hour before and the future follow takes one look at him and he says, "Pal, you need a new suit. I'm going to buy you a suit. But when I buy you a suit, I'm going to buy you my kind of suit. I'm going to buy you a real suit. I'm going to go into the city. You're getting a customtailored suit," says a mag. When a when we do a mitzvah, what does our mitzvah look like? It's a discount variety mitzvah. Even a great sadic. How how great could his mitzvah be already? When do we do the mitzvah following every minutia, every detail of the is the mitzvah done with all the avas with all the hashem with all the deacos? No. Our mitzvah are limited by our by human shortcoming. Any mitzvah that we may do is always limited in its capacity. But what if we did na and then we do chuva out of love and now God is going to give us a mitzvah says you know what kind of mitzvah God is going to give us he's not going to give us our kind of mitzvah he's going to give us his kind of mitzvah when God gives you and grants you a mitzvah in replacement for the a one may have done because you did chu out of love that mitzvah is going to be the most grandiose mitzvah in your entire repertoire. So meaning there is no greater merit that we may have in our repertoire than an a that we may have done that was transformed into a mitzvah. And therefore as the month of el comes it's very important to say you know what this year I'm not going to settle for mediocre chuva for pedestrian chuva. This year I'm going to do premium chuva cuz when I do premium chuva when I do chuva out of love I don't even need yum kipper and I don't even need any travailes and I'm able to take all my sins and not cleanse them. I'm able to sing because they're being transformed into the most beautiful mitzvah. And therefore the says so beautifully that when the month of El comes and we embark on our voyage of chuva we don't say we want to remind ourselves what kind of chuva are we embarking on chuva out of love we're returning to our to our beloved the reason why the is referred to as doi in reference to the month of is to inspire ire us not to settle for regular ordinary chuva but to aim for the sky, aim for the stars and try to accomplish chuva out of love. So you'll say love love is a very high level. If you look in the last chapter in is love of god that's only for very very big sadikim. Am I on the level to love? The truth is it's a basic commandment in the Tyra and we have to fulfill it every single day. We say you have to love. In fact, writes the same way we try not to eat before because we first want to fulfill our responsibility to Hashem before we eat. Writes you shouldn't go home from shul in the morning until you could check off that you fulfilled today the mitzvah of love Hashem. So you say how do I come to love Hashem? There's a a beautiful observation of of said we're in dining do we enunciate the principle that there's a mitzvah to love in shama it's very hard it's a very hard mitzvah where hashem is saying you have to love me it's hard to love somebody because they tell you you must love me you can't be compelled to love some but we know in relationships the way things work is that there's a reciprocal feeling when you feel somebody loves you, you'll naturally love them. Right before we say the words, what other words do we say? We enunciate the principle that God has selected us with love. And once we've enunciated loves us, then it's only natural. We will we will reciprocate says to be able to fulfill the mitzvah. I had the merit to uh go to hear for a number of years from Victor Miller and he always used to say that even though it's a mitzvah in the Torah it's such an overlooked mitzvah it's such an overlooked concept the mitzvah to love. So he would suggest and he would advise every single day when nobody's listening, you just call out, I love you, Hashem, but don't let anybody hear cuz you'll be institutionalized. But as he would say, uh, and if you're embarrassed to make that proclamation, say, they don't have this anymore. He would say, go into a telephone booth, lock the door, take out the phone, and make a long distance phone call. So, I say that's why they have cell phones today, cuz there no more tele. You could do it wherever you are. You could be everyone's talking on the phone anyway. Just make sure you don't bump into the guy or you could send a text message. But the says if there's not enough time to fulfill this mitzvah in the morning when you say the words don't go home from shak until you say you know what I put on fillin today I said shama today and I was I fulfilled the mitzvah of and if we're able to tap in a little bit to this feeling which says is not something we have to acquire it's already programmed Med in our heart. Every Jew has built into their heart natural love for like the says he's your father. You just have to tap into it, access it, draw it forth. And if a person is able to feel just a little bit of a and use that as motivation of chuva, they will transform a person's entire personality and repertoire for for and for his on the so many years ago my grandfather should live and be well. He's he's now moving on to his second century. He was a practicing rabbi in the states in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for about 70 years. And one of the main jobs of Rabon in America is to preside over Hakas Mata. That's like the big job of the rabbi. Now the truth is you don't need a rabbi for that. What does a rabbi have to do? He like pulls off the veil and recites random chapters of but you need a rabbi for not. Anyway, this big burly western Pennsylvania man calls up my grandfather. Rabbi, I need someone to come down. We're doing a a graveside ceremony. And my grandfather wasn't well at the time. So, he asked my father to do it. My father was not a practicing rabbi, but how come it's not? It's not, you know, he was he knew what to do. So, this 6'5 Western Pennian man came to my my grandparents house to pick up my father and he took him on his um on a in his pickup truck and he said, "Rabbi, I'm going to show you in the graveyard. You should know we're all there. We're all there in the graveyard." My father didn't quite know what he meant, that we're all there. And they come to the graveyard and this big guy says, "Rabbi, we're all here. My uncle's here. My aunts here, my brother, my sister, my cousin, my first wife, my third wife, my fifth wife, my son, my daughter, and the guy's like showing off graves like he'd be showing off a bottle cap collection. No emotion. And then he came to the grave of his father and mother and this big gruff rough guy breaks down crying for his father and mother that passed away 50 years before the love for a parent. You can make the case that the strongest love that we have is the love we have for our parents. Even though say no the love we have for our children, the love we have for our spouse in a way the strongest love in a person's heart is the love they have to their father and mother and the reason is it's the very first love implanted in the human heart. You see when you're born the first love and the only love you have is the love for your parents in a way it's the deepest love is our father. This is something that's accessible to us. This is something we could feel genuinely if we're able to focus. A member of Miller would say most people when they say the volcano they say they say like this no the main part of the is to enunciate the concept that God is our real father. He's our real you see rebel would explain can you imagine see we love our father and our father loves us so much but he can't give us everything because he doesn't have everything at his disposal he's limited in his resources a king has everything at his disposal he has unlimited resources but he might not want to give it to us can you imagine if our father was our king that means he wants and he has That's the whole just we're shooting for premium chuva. We're shooting for the highest level of chuva. And we are confident that if we return to theam, he will return to us in kind. That if we repent and we put our best foot forward, he will respond in kind. So there's a little boy. He's playing down by the shore. is playing by the the beach and all the rest of his friends are much further up and they call to him, "Yo, come join us. Why are you playing right near the water? Why are you so close to the the Come play with us. We're playing with the ball all the way up." Says, "No, I have to I have to stand right here." And they said, "What are you doing with that flag?" Said, "I'm waving the flag." So, who you waving the flag at? I'm waving the flag. There's gonna be this big ship that passes by in the middle of the sea and I'm gonna wave the flag at the captain. And they say, "Are you crazy? First of all, the captain won't even notice you. And even if he does, he'll ignore you." "No," the boy says. The cap I'm going to wave the flag at the captain, and the captain's going to see, and the captain is going to wave his flag back at me. And they said, "What? Why are you so confident that the captain will notice you and wave back? And the boy says, "That's because the captain of the ship is my father and he's looking out for me. And when I wave my flag, he's going to wave back at me." And we too are confident. We know that if we put our best foot forward and try a little bit to do chuva, then the is waiting. He's looking out. He can't wait until we wave that flag at him and then he will respond in kindi. And I believe that in preparation for the month of El, we have a month that preps us for this great month of Ell. And that is the month of Av, we focus that God is our father. And when we inculcate and integrate that into our minds and we feel that then we're ready for the month of Lol. We're ready for not regular chuva. We're ready for chuva. May the rebum give us all assistance and that this year we should merit to do chuva. And let me be the first to wish you all to a happy healthy year for all of us, for all of our families and for all of Thank you so much for hosting meat. Thank you. 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