Elul: Teshuva - Personal Resurrection & the Resurrection of the Dead {Norfolk Virginia Shabbos}

You're good. You're good. Okay. Good. Thank you again. It's really been a great pleasure to uh join your very special community. It's a beautiful shul not just the edifice. The edifice is also really beautiful but the kahila benetra ben aliyah led by Eisenberg continued. A brief thought for the upcoming and next Sunday ready we begin the so I just want to bring your attention to one particular phrase in the ding of Shana we Okay. [Music] Right. But this line, there's no one like you. It's a it's an unusual expression. What's it doing there? Why in middle of do we inject There's nobody like you. You could inject that anywhere. You could insert that anywhere. You could put that into you could put that into you could put that into any. Everybody knows there's nobody like God. It's an expression that could fit into any why. You know the Ramos says you should try to talk about mats shabas. Saturday night you're supposed to talk about because he doesn't come Friday. He doesn't come shabas. So therefore his first opportunity to come is Shabas. So you're supposed to talk about him how many times it's brought in some nine times others say 30 times. Says 130 times. In fact some of the has appeared with Elon's name mentioned 130 times. There's a school to mention alo many many times it's a school for remembering to a school for and learning and uh it's brought the rama says you should talk about so let's mention Elio in the context of this malaba mala first I want to thank Bloom for his very gracious hospitality I'm speaking like backward you know I started with the main body then I went to now I'm thanking my host thank you very much for wonderful hospitality. Your home should always be full of and good health. >> Thank you uh Sloan for hosting us today beautiful also. So it's very interesting you know Elioi has two roles say he's going to usher in the era of he's also going to usher in the era of chuva the thing is can only do one job at a time but he'll be able to do two jobs he'll usher in the resurrection of the dead and he'll usher in the chuva so how how is he able to pull that off how could Elio do both of these jobs. Another question is that you know there's a discussion in the medish when did happen that's a pretty important event especially on rashash it's like the seinal event in context of rash um we mentioned nice we lane about the rashash we do And by the way, the main reason for tash drama says from the is to commemorate you know that the reason we do the reason we do tash is to remember the admiru came up to water he we do tashik to commemorate a we blow the of an to commemorate the aa the says the reason for capor is to commemorate the aeda because the aisle was in lie of yitzk in fact you know most people probably use the head of a fish I assume in north Virginia but it's what >> mermaid >> what >> money >> money actually to the five towns the original custom of the shar has arrived the head of a ram >> you know the shukar says you should use the head of a ram in says to use every year I have a friend he brings to my house the head of a ram it's a big head you know it's a big head then you can really say the the fish it just doesn't engender the same uh one day you'll be also to have dips like in the five towns and also the head of a ramp but we do a lot of things we do a lot of things that uh to commemorate the aa the aa is the central event that is commemorated on rashashana. So you would have thought okay why is the so important to rash it probably happened on rashash shana right no it didn't you know that it didn't happen on rashana the rabel says it happened on kipper there's another mish that says it happened in nissan well if it didn't happen on rashash shana why is it such a seinal event on rashashana why is so important to rashashana so let's study for a moment the expression Because you have to know that every word of is not poetic words. These are not just literary devices. Every word of is comes from. So where do we find the words? We don't really find these words in the Tanakh. But we know whenever use it, they use it in a very specific context. Kazal use the words in connection always. We say who is like you master. So we see that the expression who is like you is specific to the resurrection of the dead. Also there's nobody that evaluates like you. There's no one besides you. So now we explain So, we just hit a very important point that the expression there's no one like God is referring to a specific ability and talent that Hashem has that he could resurrect the dead. Even though there are many abilities that Hashem has that are unparalleled and unsurpassed, nevertheless, more than any other ability and capability of the one that is impossible to replicate is the resurrection of the dead. So it must be then if we're saying in the context of that there's no one like God, it must have something to do with the resurrection of the dead. So it says Ramos Shapi that this is the key to understanding not only the but what's happening on Rash in general. You see the Marsha tells us on the bra the says if you haven't seen your friend in 30 days you make the if you haven't seen your friend in 12 months what do you make says Marsha why do you make the guy didn't die and come back to life says Marsha yes he did because if you haven't seen your friend in 12 months then he passed through a rashash shana if he passed through a rashash shana he experienced the miracle of resurrection. In other words, what we're discovering is what happens on rash is a bit different than we tend to think we'll illustrate with the following. Okay, he says you know the person is judged every day. So a person judge every day what are we getting so worked up on rashashana you know people come to rash and they sway and they cry and they you know they get all go get all into the this is everyday occurrence every day we're being judged so says no there's a big difference between the judgment of rash and the daily judgment you see the daily judgment goes like this daily judgment says okay yesterday you had good health yesterday you had a car yesterday you had a home Yes, sir. Yet a family. Should we allow you to retain your presumptive status as muck on all of the above? In other words, you're the muk. You have it. It's yours. And the onus, the burden of proof is on God to change the the regular presumptive status. Comes the yumptive of rash and we stand before. In other words, we we don't have a presumptive status on anything. Past performance has no bearing on future outcome. The fact that we were alive. It's not that we're alive. Hashem, continue it. You see, we tend to like to stand before Hashem. Hashem, listen. I had life this year. I had health. I had a good business. I had a good career. Do me a favor. Continue to stay out of my business. Continue to butt out. No, no, no. When you stand before Hashem and Rashana, you stand before Hashem with nothing, with no life, with no health, with no family, with no home. And the onus and the burden of proof is on you to renegotiate the lease. In other words, what is happening on Rashashana is nothing short of the greatest miracle of all. Do you understand what's taking place in Rashashana? of all the miracles that take place the entire year. I once saw a chuba and shout, excuse me, he says the the garra asks, should you say halal and rash? Should you not say halash? He asks, what do you mean should you say halal? How could you say hal? No miracle takes place in rash. Don't you need a miracle to say hal? Why was why would the gumar even have a havamina to say hal in rash? It's not like Pesak where a miracle takes place and he answers no the greatest miracle of all takes place onashana and that is the miracle of the resurrection of the dead which really puts into sharp focus and really highlights very dramatically how we're standing in front of a rash we're not standing before him with everything in our back pocket please keep it up the onus is on us the bur of proof is on us for Hashem to so to speak access the greatest miracle in his repertoire the miracle of the resurrection of the dead. That's why if you haven't seen someone in 12 months you make the braem now and therefore we say in the context of that's a very specific reference that's a reference to the resurrection of the dead. So I saw in a safe from in Qarn Hills his name is uh he brings a beautiful based on this Shapiro of the centrality of Rashashana. It has nothing to do with the date of its anniversary because as we mentioned according to many it didn't even happen on this day. Why do we mention If you look in perkazar, if you look in they go through the history of right and they say you know when was mra composed when hashem saved from orazd he yanked him out of the fire declared to hashem Abraham. And when was composed? The med says the says it says when lifted up his knife to contrary to what they what they told you in yeshiva that immediately the angel cried out don't touch him. That's you know the sanitized version of the story. But what actually happened is expired. Now, by the way, cababalistically in about six different places talks about the soul transformation that happened to yak when his soul departed. If you notice, every time is referred to before a vash, he's a son of S. After a told us Abraham Abraham brings that before the had an from the realm of female and therefore he couldn't have children and therefore he didn't get married. After the aada, his soul departed and then he had no nothing short of resurrection. And when got off the he said according to um the and he made the following and what came back was a male soul. Now Abram said, "Okay, got to get married. Okay, I'm not getting into the ramifications of the this don't don't even bring it up, okay? I'm not discussing it. This is a mystical process that's beyond the scope of any contemporary phenomenon. Okay? But it's interesting to think about speaks about it no less than at least six times throughout the beginning of this phenomenon that happened to but whatever happened to him according to the med he experienced so on rashash on the day that we're hoping for nothing short of what are we doubting for in rash what are we praying for that hashem should keep us alive. No, that Hashem should literally resurrect us. So we need to access the source of the resurrection of the dead. In other words, what brought the down to the world? Which which great act of who brought the power of down to the world? Brought the process and the phenomenon of of down to the world. So onash this is not the anniversary of what happened. It's what we're trying what we're asking Hashem to do for us. We're asking to we're not saying Hashem you know I have everything in my back pocket keep it that way. We're literally asking him to recreate us you know exhil from nothing. So we're trying to say you've done this before you know we've we've had this before. We're trying to invoke the because the was what through what we were the that's why the is so central to rash and interestingly says that the process of chuva is nothing short of chuva is literally the resurrection of the dead. You know, the dead the the wicked are they're called dead when they're alive. So then what is res what is repentance? Right? If somebody who is a Russia is called a mess, then that means the process of chuva must be nothing short of the process of in fact says that in what should you think about chuva? He says in the that theurva should be in the because they're synonymous. The process of is needed for the process of chuva. Chuva is a form of chuva renders someone the transformation of chuva transforms someone from a mess to a so therefore shabis only has one job to do it's the same job these are not two different tasks fundamentally the task of and the task of chuva are synonymous and these words is referring to Hashem's great ability of next Shabas begin there are different minimum of when begins in pro in province we shine and bring down some start mat shabas in proven they would always begin They they didn't dapka do it on mat shabas. They would begin why it's the beginning of creation. In other words, also supporting the idea that the process of chuva is recreating oneself is starting a fresh starting a new. And this all really highlights the idea that we stand before Not just without and not only without but really without a feeling of entitlement and without a feeling of certain lack of security. You know the the the most important feeling to have in front of Hashem, right? Any year that one feels impoverished, impoverished in his own mim and his own unworthiness, also impoverished in terms of not feeling entitled or possessing anything. And we stand before Hashem asking him not to continue to give us everything he's given us, but really to bless us a new with a year of life and a year of all the blessings that we've had until now. So in the of gathering together shabis and mentioning we should have a boost in our in our process of chuba and we should all be z to nothing short of and I hope to see you all sooner than a year from now and all of you with a year of good health and brios and kadusha and I get That's all folks. And bathroom.