Gateway to Tefilla: Adon Olam - Halachik Imperitive and Introduction To Prayer

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay welcome everyone to our shire on tv um we're continuing this week we did shalom but today we're going to uh go back to a tv that actually precedes the br and today we're going to speak about the tfla adonai alam and this this series of tv is sponsored by our good friends in los angeles rabbit sala rose who is a leading disciple of the maharshal he writes that after the shaytive begins adain alum which is a very beautiful and great song and he says i found written your tv will be answered we perhaps treat adonailam as a a song that we learned when we were younger perhaps we don't even say it it's not broad and shaken you have to say it but he brings this tradition that one who is mahave now if you say without kavanaugh you're not doing anything anyway but if son is mahavin when they say it your tofilo will be listened to the satan will not instigate it against it's fila and you will have no satan and pegara you have no damage or no infraction on rosh hashanah anyam kippur and fila your oyavim will fall before you and some say even your sahara will make peace with you and shalom says when god is pleased with the ways of man even his enemies will be at peace with him it refers to those who say adonai along with so this is a good starter for tvla this is a good way to begin and if one who says it the kavanaugh there's a guarantee from the early torah giants and the gangnam that your tafila will be listened to so we have to try to understand what exactly is the function of adonai alam the siddhar seems rather large enough why do we need this additional paragraph about daniella now first of all who wrote out daniella we don't know exactly in the tikkun fila he brings some attributed to with ibn gabrial and it's very likely now in the svardic sudoram so we have adonai alum they put in another two standard stanzas believe us yeah you say that yes okay that's the last time you're going to be saying it fine and then after manuscript we add the following stanza menace yeah you say that yes and in some sidorim after the hamsa lay anybody who knows the meaning of this fila will see that these words were not composed by the composer because this is not his language and style therefore the ashkenazic sedum are correct for not accepting these lines and uh okay i don't know but um anyway that's just uh the opinion of the things but what is the importance of adonai alam what is the function of it and why do we start that fila that way okay so we know that alum is the fila that introduces chakras you know you don't say adonai alam by minha you don't say it but what we will address is why do you say it before you go to sleep okay now the concept that god is adon is a revolutionary concept it's a novel concept and this was the invention of none other than abraham when the gemara says abram said hashem my god how will i know that i will inherit the land that's the passage in lastik's parasha in the siak yitzhak which is in the the parish brought in the siddhara hagra he brings in the maghet sadek the maggit of vilna that the reason why they were mistaken to say alam in the beginning of tefila they did it with a great intention based on what it says in the sector that when the time for the shrita the talmud came so the mamuna would say go out and see if this manshrita came and the the roya would say barkai he would say the whole eastern front has lit up until we are until chevron now why do they need to know if the eastern front was lit up until chevron in order to reference the zucchus of abraham avinu because at the beginning of the avoid why why do we want to mention these of abraham in the beginning of of the morning a service similar we say whose middle is meet up abraham who is musa in chakras abraham so therefore since the abraham was mustaching chakras we like to mention this so we say furthermore we say adon because the fact that hashem is aldoing was the invention of avraham and this is abraham's thela so but what better way to start chakras than to refer to god as the way abraham referred to god furthermore we start shema esre ado shem why again because this is the invention of abraham avino like hazal saying shabbat nobody called the gosh until abraham even daniel was only answered in the merit of abraham because it says why even nani was only ants in merida so in other words is put in the sitter before chakras to reference the merit of abraham and they told this to the gurah and the grace that it was worthwhile to publish the siddhar just for this nukuda that starts off the chakras because sin chakras was composed by abraham therefore we started off with abraham's invention by the way the mesh adds that you know we we're talis and phillin right we jews we wear thousand hon when do you wear and fallen but when you eat bagels when you eat doughnuts when you stand on your head when you dive in minho and you'd have a marev when do you wear taos and filling what does god do with chakras what do thousands of chakras no connection to no since abraham was mustaching chakras and we're zorkha to thousands phone because abraham said now so therefore we we combine we fuse together but there's another meaning another dimension of we know the shakhrak tells us in seven hey when you say abraha you should have in mind the meaning of the words what about when you say hashem's name you should have in mind the way it's read that hashem is the master of everything you should have in mind in the way it's written in other words when you say god's name you have to have two things in mind the way it's read which is that he's the mass of everything and the way it's written that he's he was is and will be and when you say like him you should have in mind so here's the problem you do that friends every time you say hashem's name you have two things in mind you have many things in mind but are any of them that when you say hashem name do you follow what it says in shaykh that you think barakat hashem a doing you do that or you don't do that right when you say allah keno you have in mind you think that or you don't think that okay we have one honest person now for those who say the shame in the siddhara thila the david of avram david warman the aid shall have rama of buchach he brings that even if you do say lushen it's sufficient to say one shame a day and have in mind that all the mitzvos you do are based on that la shmecha you can make one tanai and that will be sufficient for all your mitzvahs but then he says in his sid there's something that's printed in many sudaram look at number seven in the second paragraph he says harini mikhail i have in mind now i'll call prada promise that every detail of my actions words and thoughts shall call hayoim of all day until tomorrow should be with shame in order to be makhriyami and all of claudius from now until this time tomorrow that every time i say the shame havaya written yur ke vovke that i have in mind it means he was is and will be and the way it's read that he's outdone coil and whenever i say like him it should be with the intention of that hashem is powerful and the master of ability and the master of all strength so in other words you have one kavanaugh in the morning and it will last you the whole day it is a great indian to make a stipulation whenever i say aloft my kavono is that hashem is the master of everything and whenever it's spelled i have in mind i and whenever i say like him my kavanaugh is god rules over all of the universe he is so this suggestion of david in the beginning of the day and it works for the whole day is also introduced by the afique that's not true he says i say it every time he didn't make it no you have in mind no but he says nice to make a stipulation that all day when i say these they should be with the intention of now zaman says come on how does that work by the way if mitsubishi is kavanaugh could you make uh tonight in the ming of the day any mitzvah i do today should be with kavanaugh to mikhail in the mitzvah doesn't work so why would it work for the name of hashem to have one stipulation that any time i say hashem's name it should be with the intention of doing why would that work so if someone zalman writes in the that since the that when you say hashem's name you should have in mind he's the master of everything and he was is and will be is not mentioned in the gemara therefore you could rely in our very weak generation who can't have anything in mind one general tonight to work for the whole day but if this would be a din in the gemara you couldn't for you couldn't do take this shortcut that have make one tonight and it works for the whole day and i had this in mind you know when i was preparing the show now during illinois i said you know what maybe that's allah but i think i thought that because i saw this many years ago the after of says that this is the purpose of adain islam the purpose of number nine is that basically is a statement of all the kavanaugh's or the various names of hashem so when you say adonai alam you have in mind the shame adnos is that hashem is the master of everything when we say believe racist when you say hayah the who that's what you have in mind whenever you say the shame havaya and this is in in other words this is a annunciation of the cabanas to have of all the names of hashem look tom should take them it's like that with this kavanagh you're saying the names of hashem adonai ilam is hakdama to the shame adenos beli racist god has strength and and sovereignty is that we therefore one has to have great kavanaugh when they say adam and with this and then once you say adonai alum then you're good to go for the rest of the three lives and now we understand why we have this haftakha that if someone says then his feeling will be listened to because as we know the passage says i will elevate you if you know my name so again when you say adonai ilam that's when you say valois god has strengthened the may and dominion that's him okay then we have the hco safe writes why do we say in the beginning of so he brings down this idea to remember the zuchus of abraham okay fine then he says why do we call god adon and not melech the marshal says when the vasa make their stood we refer to god as a melech but in the time of the golos the shame is not shalom and his kise is not shalim and we don't refer to him as malach so therefore we start davening in the galas adonai alam god you who today your malchus has been diminished but you are ado noilam you're when things will be done as you will then you will again be called malach so this says the atheistif is another explanation of why we start with because nowadays god's malchus is not recognized and it's diminished we say today that you reigned in the past when it was done with his will everything then we will call you melech okay but this is the main offering that i want to bring to your attention today and that is yeah and that is the ian's fila the anthilla of rabb schwab who brings first that the reason we begin the thfila with the shira adonai alam which by the way he says was established in the time of the gohanim and some attribute it to rabbi ibn gabiro he brings that uh the shahnaz tells us when you say hashem's name you should be in the shame adnos and you should be in the way it's spelled the shem havaya and therefore to the whole fila but we still have to understand why do we conclude kriya shema al-amita with in other words you want to say we say adonilam as a way of establishing what we will be having in mind and all of the shame ice that were maspale okay i understand but why do we say adain and then go to sleep okay um now why do we baklal in the shame al of dal nunyud why do we say ado and then that's losh and robin we should say adoini god there's only one god why would we use a name for god that refers to many plural possessions no it means many god it means masters is right no no but the word ado and then is plural so the rob schwab explains because somebody who has many of them is called ado nim even though he's only one we find by yosef adonai look um this is a it's an expression of sovereignty and mastership just like we say aloy kim is washing rabbit as well there's only one god but we say i like him okay but let's move on from that let's focus on that which the gemara says that from the day that created the world nobody called that kalishbach until abraham avinu came to the scene and he said adain what does this mean what exactly is avraham venus in the name adnas this is a big revelation this is a big giloi that hashem is the master of course he's the master he's the king of the world nayak didn't know this mr shah didn't know this what exactly is the khidosh of abraham avinu that he called god and they knew he's the melech and the answer says is really the key to understanding in general and and it's so vital to understand this because really this is what all of us predicated on when we say god is the melech it's a borrowed term it's borrowed from the expression of adam now a melech rules over his people and yes amelia takes pride that he's the king of the people but the king does not have a relationship with each one of his subjects there is no personal shakhas between any citizen and the king or any ruler the king is the ruler of the world and maybe he's concerned for the welfare of the people but there's no personal relationship between the king and the individual person but a master who has a vadim and each ad that has a different role and a different job and a different area and sphere and every evad has his service he has a personal relationship with his master one avad will clean the master shoes one avad will serve the master the master has a personal connection to each one of us about them the melech does not but the does and the other recognizes and knows yonko does this and beryl does this and fail does this the master needs to know and the master does know and when somebody doesn't do his job the master will say you why didn't you do the job so when we referred to the ibanisham as al of dala nunyur we are saying god you are not just the king of the world generally interested in the welfare of society and mankind when we say al of dalai nunu we're saying you are my master you know why you created me you know what i need to do you know what i need you know what i'm crying out to you for you know what my sracham are you know what my weaknesses you know what my deficiencies are the concept that abraham avinu introduced to the world is not god created the world not god is aware god has a personal relationship with each and every one of his subjects and that is the most important ingredient in prayer because to wake up in the morning and to say yeah i'm here today to praise the king of the universe okay so i'll let every i've let somebody else do that i'll stay in bed and let everybody else praise the king of the universe what's it got to do with me no we start the day adon ailam god you're not just the king of the universe you're my master you know me you know what my job is in this world you know what my role is in this world you know what my needs are in this world you know why i'm crying out to you you know what might saurus are you know might srachem abraham says with all the godless and roy mamos of over kala islam kulai he's my audience this is what we say higher abraham that you called abraham that abram called you adain now we know that any bracha that doesn't have malchus is not abraham but before we say hashem is the melech there's something that we say before we say godzilla and that is baruch what is what is brahma mean bracha means before i give you a bracha hashem i'm saying hashem before i give you a bracha for this apple i'm letting you know that you have a kesha with me you have a connection to me you knew i needed the apple and you gave me the apple then i could say you god who care about me you're the king of the whole world but the first establishment is i have to establish you have connection to me [Music] every nibra has a tafkan miukad every nibra has a different shimash that he serves the adin this is what it means and the truth is the concept that hashem is not only to mankind hashem is the audience over all of the bria even a star even an inanimate object says until then when the nations of the world when the when the um look in the galaxies and they see millions of stars millions of galaxies and the more they turn their um telescope and they see riva riba rivervice of great uh clusters of stars and they see it's endless and it's it's immeasurable cannot be counted but hashem could count them hashem knows exactly how many stars there are hashem is my name i have a question for you what there are more what are there more of grains of sand in the world or stars they're more stars could anybody count the green imagine if you have a guy what do you do for a living i count the sand so basically he's saying i'm a complete meshuggana right it's impossible how can anyone nobody can even count the sand in one in one uh acre of of a beach in anywhere in the world it's two it's too many says we banish them no but to me everything in the briya miss brother and even so i'm say my secret because ribasham has a chairs to every kaikov and every blade of grass and to every granule of soil says rib schwab i heard from rabroyer who heard from his father salman broyer who was the son-in-law of hersh that one time he met with shimon cipher in krakow and he and uh the shim and serve the son of samsara i asked him tell me something nice from your father-in-law of shantian fella hersh and he said like this that the first part of adonai alum talks about the majesty the greatness the grandeur of akhole the roy mimosa kell he was he is he's a majestic but we say the who everything we just said that he was is and will be and he rules the world you know what he is the who elie he's my god everything i just said the website of allah says everything we just praised we bunched him he's mine i'm associated with him i have a connection to him he knows who i am he knows why he created me he knows what i need he knows why i cry out to him that even though hashem is he is my specific and particular god in fact in reverse siddhar siddharth his eternity his singularity his insafiyusai his endlessness his majesty and after we establish god as eternal and has limit unlimited capacity and he's so majestic he says even though above and beyond this when i call out to him three bunch answers to me answers me minos koisi the oi mecca that even though hashem rules the world and is unlimited and is eternal he's kaley he's mine he's i could run to him i could take refuge in him and not only that and therefore is there anything more calming anything more soothing anything that puts a person more at ease than the moment before he returns his soul to his creator at night not knowing whether that soul will come back to his body we say banish them i have complete confidence you who are master of the world who are the talk of this who are you who rules the world eternally but you're my god and you know me personally and that is how we not only start the thila see there are two ideas over here number one before we begin tadavan we we enunciate our belief that kalash baruch who has a special relationship for us and therefore my fella is different than the guy sitting next to me and the guy is sitting in my left side because rybansham has a special relationship specifically with me but specifically right before we go to sleep what could be more soothing what could be more give us a greater sense of security than to recognize that the reboiner sum that we're depositing our soul by is the who kelly says number fourteen the ian fila the indian zah is the hakodama tutfila that one who davans needs to know that hashem has a specific relationship with him i was once asked says rob schwab for advice how can a person come to have twilight and rashaab said i gave him a very simple piece of advice learn what it means and realize that it really it's a hutzpah that somebody like me and you which is a piece of dirt and dust and ashes should be able to approach the melanchom you know try speaking to the mayor of your city try getting try getting through to the ceo of any company try getting through anyone who fancies themselves important you know what kind of hoops you have to jump through the you leave a message and you know they'll call you back in 17 and a half years so but nevertheless we banish wants us to call out to him because he's not the just only he's not only hayah he's not only taking abraham avinu taught the world he's the odoin he's mocker he has a yakas prati the ishii with every individual and therefore before every tifilan before every bracha and every prayer that we ever say we say baruch and we establish the personal relationship hashem has with us and therefore says reshad we say outdone you before we go to sleep to recognize and to remind ourselves of our personal relationship with kalish barco this way our sleep will have manuhesh and you'll be able to tell yourself that even though my conscience is about to stop and i don't know what's going to happen to my body i have who to rely on my hashem will be with me and therefore it is very appropriate to mention this pismine in the beginning of phila and before we go to sleep don't think you have to be a makobo don't think you have to be a baal this is a natural instinct that every jew has to have that the ibanez has a particular and personal relationship with us and with all of creation says rip schwab even if this is the only thing we ever gained from learning about tifila this would be this would be sufficient to be big there those who are in bitfilah and those who have endeavored the great subject of ian fila 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