Gateway To Tefilla - Introduction to Pesukei D'Zimra : The Mystical "Pruning"

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yeshtabah that's how we refer to this imra that may not be correct the zimra may only refer to ashrae or to a few halalukas that is technically what suke de zimra is but we'll use it as a generic term and what we're going to try to learn today is what is the purpose of tsukeda zimra a b why is it called suke de zimra what is the word zimra mean we would understand that zimra means song verses of song suke de zimra why not uh the shira you know we say [Laughter] so it's not just zimra it's also shira but we don't call it suke the shiro we call it suke de zimra so now let's start with taisus thai swiss and musa we should not pray out of a lightheaded conversation and joking around me don't you know your people um avada nobody talks in shul i mean after especially after coven 19 barak hashem there's nobody who talks in seoul and there's nobody who brings cell phones into a base of knesset hashem but there are still people who joke around before davening and the moment davening starts they're ready and they're all at attention but that's not really proper when you come into shul you don't schmooze until the davening starts you're supposed to go into davening in the proper frame of mind so therefore we don't dive in from khalas rush and schleich only from coivid rush seriously what's an example of appropriate way to go into davening therefore the minute is to say suke de simra the ashrae by the way look at the lashing of taisus therefore the minute goes to say absuka zimmer and ashrae so clearly ashrae is not really part of sukita zimra proper now i refer you to the first rashi in brachaise doesn't the first rashi in bracha say that the kriya shama that we say in shul is too early so why do we say krishama at night rashi says to go into shmoina esraimit dive torah so apparently that's in the night time but what about during the morning because there are you're saying shema at the right time so there's an idea that suke de simra is torah so that's one idea absolute zimmer you're not supposed to go into davanaying from talking about nonsense so we go into davaning on after having said absolute torah however there is another dimension absolute zimmer which may not be as well known which is uh quite important in the menorahs hammer the reason why zumiroys and shirem are called miz moiram you know what miss mairum are tools of pruning liz zamer milosha and loy sismar the kharmacha lei sismar kalayam olafizam just like someone who prunes a vineyard yachts caused my rice he cuts off all the vines the aniak masha royala right devon he leaves over what is fitting for for for a grape juice that we say before the twila yasiru via removes and cuts down all the stumbling blocks it will be listened to uratsuya and will be found favor with lefnay hashem before the almighty so we we see there's an idea that in order to have successful tv there are things that get in the way what are they stumbling blocks sin and there we have to prune away the the thorns and the bad grapes so to say in order for the good fruit to come up to this imra versus that prune the function of the zimmer is it's a way of weeding away it's a way of clearing out the admixtures and the mikshoilum and the away noise in fact the mate moisha ravmosha mas talmud muvak of the marshall he writes something very interesting he says and now i will explain to you why psuka desire is called sukrazim tilt to me your ear and listen you should know kim in the adler from the earth until the heavens ain't so there's no place that's clear you know that from here from the earth until the heavens there's no area that's clear ella coyle malay gedudim the airspace is full of soldiers and multitudes of interferers some of them are pure and balika said and some are tame and damaging and accusing and they're all flying in the air in other words there's no clear airspace the aerospace is full of soldiers and interferers and contaminated entities but some of them are kind and some of them are gracious the aim is some of them are at war some are good some are bad some are for life some are for death and about this reality and phenomenon in other words it's a good thing we can't see what's going on in the airspace but if we would see what's going on in the airspace we would see the airspace is very um tumultuous the airspace is there's a lot going on there and that's why we say the shear of pagain the shear of pagon is perak sadi alif of tehillim we say kihuyatsukami pakhyakush god will save you from the tramps that are laid laying in snare the avrasa in his opinion he will shield you do not be afraid from the fear of the evening from plague in the darkness he will command an angel all of these camps between heaven and earth are analogous to someone going into a malcom sakana imagine if you decided to take a leisurely stroll through the city of nablus basically uh you might want to send your will back to your home before you go on such a stroll it might not be such a friendly stroll unless you're going with idf escort this is not a good idea if you learned one thing today is don't take leisurely strolls through the city of shechem otherwise you will probably be joining the son of yaakov avinu yosef where he's buried over there but otherwise that's not a good place to be so if you want to know what is it like to send up a package to shamayim that's like sending up a package through enemy territory so when you have to send of tefila has to pass through all these uh legions of of soldiers so if you have as so the enemy will not attack your fila but if you don't have azahus there are many pagoyas that could attack on the way therefore for this very dangerous road to clear away the path of tfila because all of those kitas are like a cloud that are ma'aque the tv from going up and about this the pasuk says i cover up with the cloud from tefilo passing through and when david amell came and he was masaki in this mirois when a person says suke de zimra in the morning it removes and it it with causes to withdraw all the interference and all the mashri sim and it's called zamiro is from a lotion of pruning the curry's hazel zalembe rice the pruners will cut down with their pruning instruments and this is what david amell said zamiro is meaning all those places that i was afraid of on the road and i had pachad from the zamirois that i said cut them off and caused them to run away and about this says kim okay so here we have this idea that suke de zimmer are not just verses of praise but they are pruning instruments that cut away you're about to send away a tefila atfilo is like the targum says a sword a bow you're sending an arrow up to the heavens so to speak you're sending a package up to the shamayim but they're all kinds of sharpshooters and interferers who are going to impede the flow of your package so you need to shoot them down before you send up your schmonastery how do you do that tsuke de zimra therefore a person has to be careful not to speak between these mirrors until after she's right and the mekhavin in your mark and then if you speak in between your cavano will be this battle in other words somebody who talks during the zimmer he is not able to remove these mashrisem and then all the legions come back the choice all the soldiers will return for you to wage war with and be ma'aq of your tv and this is what it says in you xiaomi listen to this this is brilliant do you remember this you shall me someone who talks between yeshtab and it's in avira and he has to return from the battlefield literally it means if he's fighting to defend the jewish people he will not have the requisite merit to defend us and he has to return from the battlefield but says the mate moshe there's a deeper deeper meaning the battlefield refers to the battle of sending up your tv through the heavens sending up three of the heavens is a great battle because you have to overcome all the makatra again so if you the way you do that is sukit the zimra but if you don't treat zimmer properly and you talk by absolute zimmer you're going to have to cause your tafila to retreat from the battlefield ratsuloimer they've already scattered you're going to have to revert if you're going to talk they come back in other words the way um explains it all of those soldiers who are trying to attack your tafila that you cause to scatter by saying pseudozimra they will return to the battlefield to you know shoot down your tafila from continuing now we have a similar version of this and the safer shari oira was written by one of the great early makeover it's one of the classic basic most basic works of kabbalah but we're just going to read the first chapter which is based on the principle that the concept of tehillim and psuke de zimra is in order to blow away in order to destroy the mekatrogym of art fila he begins his sephara the foundation of guard your feet when you go to the house of the lord by the way this means that if you have to take care of your bodily functions you should make sure to do that before you go to tafila but this pasik is saying that a person has to check themselves and be careful and they want to dive in and to see not just that their body is clean but they have to make sure there are no makatra gim no instigators that are interfering with your tila and you need to remove the stones on the path and to remove all stumbling blocks this is a parable to a person who goes to the courtyard of the king to imagine you go to the king you want the king to accede to your request so you have to be careful that on the road you have to make sure there's nobody who's going to going to interfere with your meeting with the king also you also have to be very concerned there are many gateways in the house of the king one within the other within the other you have to recognize who are the gatekeepers who guards the door you want to make sure if you have a meeting with the king that you're on good terms with the gatekeeper otherwise the king may ascend to your request but you may never get there if the secretary or the gatekeeper doesn't like you and it's not going to let you in you have to make sure if you have any enemies there you better make up with them and aside from that it is worthwhile to know and to contemplate the clothing you're wearing are these the type of clothing that is appropriate to wear before the king like it says more than that you have to check yourself are you fitting to speak before the king and the sarim is anyone going to challenge your request or let's say you have to wait for an hour there are you going to be able to tolerate that is a great principle that god so you'll say come on that's the way a palace works down here but who says it works that way upstairs well says the shari tell us the heavenly palace is parallel and similar to the earthly palace and if in amalgas of adam you have to be careful in all the above mentioned things you have to make sure you have the good graces of the palace guards and the secretaries otherwise you're not going to get in and you have to make sure no one's going to instigate you on the way certainly if you're going to enter before the melham you have to think you have to know that men from the earth until the heavens there is no empty space it's full of great great multitudes of mazikim makatrigim and gedudem and this is basically he says the same thing as the mate maisha but the reason why one should imagine and picture that in order to send the tefila up we have to overcome all of these enemies so to speak is because god's palace is exactly should be viewed as exactly like an earthly palace and just like to get into an earthly palace there is protocol and there are other individuals that have to be bypassed and you have to go through in order to get to the king god wants us to relate to him in a very real way so he says think that your entrance before me is like entering a earthly palace and therefore we have to start off the day with suke the zimmer by cutting down all the makatra again and ma'aqvim and matridim in order to get our tv to be answered properly now um we're going to be learning thila according to ashkenaz uh the reason we're going to do that is that's that and uh for those of you who are ashkenazic jews that is the nusa that your family davened until about 250 years ago furthermore no such fard is not nosfart there's no saks far that's far the dhaban but there is no such thing really as no sward for ashkenazim no saks fart is no ashkenaz with a few minor changes that were made by the baal shem tov and his talmidim more likely the students of hashem based on the arizal but in fundamentally the nusasvar that ashkenaz based on the arizona and however we are going to point out a few um tenets and fundamental principles of nosospared that could be incorporated by both nozzles namely we know that nusofarad starts off with hoydu and we once explained that uh haidu ends with a reference to various alumais that are relevant to the location in davening that one is up to according to the system of kabbalah but we're going to learn now why would suki de zimra begin with hoi do uh according to nosoksfar and what is the function of haidu even in us so the xiaomi zebra if you saw yaakov elgazi he writes that what is the my law of someone who says imra because not him we could see the myla from that which successfully writes the name of the safe hasidim that anyone who says sukit is imra aloud in a sweet voice and even if he doesn't know the sukim and he says it mistakenly in a corrupt way he doesn't pronounce the words correctly he says haidu even though there's no word in the hebrew language how you do actually there is hoidou is india or haidu is turkey right so basically they asked me if i'm going to give a share in honor of thanksgiving yes that's why we're talking about hoidou haidu is turkey the word haidu means turkey the word is haidu haidu is thanks so every morning you could ask god i could either give you a turkey and i could mispronounce the word or i could give you thanks god prefers your thanks more than a turkey doesn't really he's not a big turkey not so into turkey so first of all the first thing you need to know is you cannot say the word hoidu because it's just wrong you're mispronouncing the first word of that the word is haidu haidu means thanksgiving why but does god love your tv even if you mispronounce every word yeah he loves it anyway and it's miscabel and hashem rejoices over it obviously hashem rejoices much more if you actually say the words correctly but there is an idea that the diglois that even when you're mistaken the ivan still loves it now it is known from all the suffering muscle that they are full of all kinds of good words about somebody who says with extra kabana in fact greater is the for saying itself meaning the power of excuse me the power of tsuki zuma is greater than shamanism itself because this miros are hidden and they are the excuse me does mirrors offer us protection and what do they do this is what we said a number of times from the iran for the narasimha with kulasama they cut down all types of accusations against arthrilla the lashing of mirrors is a lotion of to be miss zamer and especially you need to strengthen yourself with all your ability it's a very beautiful song it is especially powerful in cutting down all the thorns and nettles and thistles so maybe this gives us some insight into why nusselt's fired begins to zimra with haidu because since the whole objective of such desires to shoot down the thorns and the thistles and so forth and the tv which is most effective in accomplishing that is so perhaps that's why they begin with srila's haidu but that being the case in the siddhar filas khanna of rabbin malamed he interprets that what are these mikatrigem and what are these thorns and nettles and thistles that we need to cut down so until now we learned these are angels these are angels of accusation and kitsch rug but ruvin malamed interprets it very simply what is the whole function of tfila to recognize that everything we have is not because of our own efforts it's only because of hashem's good grace we don't have money because of our in our ingenuity we have money because god gave us a gift we don't have family because it's something that we built we have family because it's something god gifted us and fila the purpose of tefila is complete acknowledgement in the total graciousness and beneficence of akalish barco what is it that we need to uproot then before tfila we need to uproot the notion of it we need to cut away we need to cut away those thoughts and those attitudes imra says that filo was niskanen in a way that we could strengthen ourself in recognizing god's unity and god's control and therefore khazal begin our till the desire to uproot to be mesmer all of the re all of those ideas and notions and attitudes that say this is our world we're in control we're successful because of our own efforts kasuke desimra we need to cut down those types of attitudes and perspectives how many minutes does it take in your shul to say absuka to zimra don't answer that question says fast you say it slowly says the mission of your dalek you don't want to skip one word vlog you don't want to swallow one word you should say each word as if you're counting money when you're counting money you do it one at a time especially when you're counting a hundred dollar bills because you don't want to miss one when you say the words of suke de simra if you're going to a shul that they say starts 7 30 and barco is 7 and you get there 7 32 and you're filling around by 7 35 then you cannot even say one quarter of suke the zimmer properly the truth is the only fighting chance you have to say the zimra properly is if you're already in talus and fill in before they start brachas if you start the suki zimra before they do then you got a fighting chance over here now what are you allowed to do during sukhita zimra sukhanak says when you're dominating you're not allowed to hold to fill in you're now to hold swarm you can't hold a plate you can't hold anything because you're going to be focused somewhat on what you're holding that you don't drop it and it's going to disturb your kavanah says the mission brewer the same way you're not allowed to hold something during shemina s ray you cannot hold something during tsuki de zimra in other words during sukita zimra you cannot do anything that will divert your attention so you're saying rabbi does that mean i can't look at my phone during sukhita zimra no i never said that i said you can't bring your phone into the shule that's what i said but there's no specific issue of not looking at phone during singers that doesn't belong in those show in the first place but during zimmer you can't even hold a parachute sheet not you can't read a parasite you can't read of course you can't you have to dive in but you can't even hold something that you might be focused might fall from you so this is a little bit of a reality check for me personally and hopefully it will enhance our uh focus on sukita zimra that the misha brewer says we should say it slowly as if we're counting money and the purpose of it is to really as to says uh go into smart me and also to cut down all the makatrigim whether it's malware whether it's accusers whether it's improper perspectives and attitudes and bezos hashem uh next time we will begin with the first part of tsuki de zimra and again we'll try to accommodate both nusrays whatever you darwin will try to offer insight into that messiah and that tradition and uh the bounce comes to makable all of our tv lives barack obama [Music] you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com