Gateway to Tefilla - Introduction to Shemone Esrei: The Akeida of Joining Geulah To Tefilla

Okay friends, uh this week we're we're inesh so we're reverting back we're turning back to our sedar on gateway to uh this shar we've been doing for many many years and uh many people have uh have sent that it's really upgrade and enhanced their so we're now up to um we're now up to uh Esray. So this year will be an introduction to Shina. So now we're holding in and it's really a wonderful time to uh begin our intro to this series is annually dedicated by Rabb Salah Rose of Los Angeles and his family his brother Benitzki should be a me for his whole family Here we go. This comes from the safer of Schwab who has a a stunning presentation as an introduction to we already mentioned many times the it's codified in that we need to be without any interruption and kazal emphasized the importance of this with many different statements. says who is a Benabah someone who when say it doesn't mean in the world to come everyone's going to have Hashem doesn't minimize any mitzvah and whoever does it is uh inherits why would call only someone who is careful in being Mahaba. Um you have to explain that when say that if you're a Ben that doing this mitzvah acquires for the soul here in this world a semblance of Benaba must mean that right here in this earthly world you already experience uh some semblance and she of so what exactly is so special about being that of all things and all mitzvah it's this that allows us to experience [snorts] the Gar even tells us about Bruna who is a great man and he rejoiced doing mitzvah one time he was so and he couldn't stop smiling the whole day he was so happy. He couldn't wipe the smile off his face. From here we see being is not just saying it, not just uttering the words. Everyone does that. Also, why was he so happy? By the way, the says there are three. There are three things in this world that are immediate. Take off. Right after you lean your hands on a behem um right after you wash your hands you're supposed to make and which by the way we're not really so careful about think about it on your shabas table you after you wash you make hami right away you know the ra says you shouldn't delay more the amount of time that it takes to walk 22 Am it's really not a lot of time but until the the whole gang washes you know anyway but ideally there should be uh no time between and the and also take off says anyone who juxtaposes the satan is not on them the whole day question everyone is gul so what exact actly is so special. What do mean that you get all these spiritual benefits by being says someone who's not you know who he's similar to? He's like the friend of the king who knocks on the king's door. The king comes out of his door to see what the person wants and the person is not there anymore. Imagine you knock on the king's door. You knock on the king's door. You better have prepared what you want to ask and you better ask it. You knock on the king's door and 2 minutes later the king comes out and you're not there. So the king goes away. So what we see from here by saying the of it's like knocking on the door of the king and when you're not you're not utilizing that wondrous opportunity to enter the palace and it's like you're distancing yourself from Hashem. So it's like Hashem also goes away from you says he would interpret that the reason why you need to be is because in the gula we're thanking praising Hashem that he redeemed us from and that when Msiah comes he's going to redeem us again. Now the concept of goyel and gula in the Torah we find by that if you have an ancestral plot of land and you have to sell it because you're poor your relative comes and redeems it or if an i is sold to a then his relative redeems him he accepts help and assistance from someone who's concerned for his welfare and the pik says if the man doesn't have a redeemer, a brother, a relative. So too, Hashem redeemed us. Wait a second. Redeem means he came close to us in unparalleled closeness. You understand what a redeemer is? Every time the Torah speaks about the concept of redemption, it's the your brother, your uncle, your cousin. Redemption means when someone close to you comes and bails you out. That's what redeemer is. So when Hashem redeemed us, he revealed to us unparalleled closeness. When the took us out of he showed us, I'm your I'm your relative. I'm your ko. I'm your doi. So we saw that Hashem is intimately involved in our welfare not it's me your your beloved your father your husband so that's why bye said not I created heaven and earth nobody saw the creation of heaven and earth nobody saw how Hashem did it nobody Nobody could imagine such a thing that would have diminished in our accepting the omim. So Hashem said, "No, it's me, your redeemer, your uncle, your husband, your father who took you out of mim. I'm giving you the Torah." Gula, you understand the concept of guula is the greatest expression of closeness that Hashem could express to us. Gua is Hashem's expression of corva. Okay? So when we say goal is we're saying Hashem drew as close as possible to us. He acted as our redeemer. Now that's from Hashem's vantage point. From our vantage point, what's our way of coming close to him? It's when we bring a carbon. Nothing in our repertoire of Hashem brings us closer to Hashem like a carbon. The word carbon comes from the word corva. When we were making oursel a carbon like the would bring the blood of the from the aar through the am into the whenever we say we're bringing our nephesh our dam into the therefore before we d we take three steps forward and when we say hashem What we're saying is I am being of myself as a carbon. I'm giving my reality. It's like who put himself on the when we dab in we're saying Hashem we're drawing close to you. We're being mac of oursel as a carbon. That's why we put our feet together when we dab in like they're like the That's why we put our hands together like they're tied together. They're they're kasher without movement. How did Musha Feinstein den? No shuckling, no swaying, perfectly still like the aa during we bind our feet, we bind our hands, we're being mac of ourselves as a carbon on the is what it means and it's brought in the notes of the it's also that there's And Mik the great Sar stands in his mak carbon. What is he mak? The souls of sadikim. So friends when hashem redeemed us from he showed us unparalleled closeness. We need to respond in kind by when we say the we're arousing tremendous closeness from it's like we're knocking on his door. Hashem is coming out to us in such closeness. So we need to respond to Hashem. I'm myself as a carbon to you. If you do that, if when Hashem is stirred to express great closeness to us, we declare I am offering my whole reality as a carbon to you, we're a Benamah. This Satan will not accuse us of anything the whole day. Rav Bruno was a great man. He was able to successfully dab with this intention. And when he was to feel the intimate closeness of Hashem drawing close to him when he said the of Israel Hashem's are goyel goyel means not just he helped us he helped us as a relative. So that stirred in him an inner h happiness and joy that he was now able to offer himself in complete sacrifice to Hashem says with this we can understand the garra in it says by that even though he was a great sadic he stuck a sword in the entrance of the bish she said anyone who doesn't learn Tory will be pierced with the sword. Meaning is worthy to be pierced by the sword. And during that time they checked from the south from from north from dawn until Beva and they didn't find one a kyus from gass till antiparis. They didn't find even a kid, a woman, a child who didn't know to and they were able to defeat Sanv because of the oil of that was always burning in the Bas and Bid. Nevertheless, Yesh said you're a dead man. Says I'm the biggest marb to in the history of the Jewish people. Yes said cuz you didn't want to get married said what do you want from my life I saw I'm going to have children are not proper I children like manasha so yes said what business do you have to investigate the secrets of hashem do what you need to do get married so the says turned his face to the wall and he daved and he said hashemi what'si I was that's the that's what did he what about the fact that he ensured that all of were and all the um minutia of and all he could come up with is why he should be saved is because he was and why and what does he So some want to say that he was being criticized for therefore he says no you're indicting me that I violated I did what's I violated that to but at least I fulfilled is but says what the deeper meaning is that since the secret of being is that after you declare how close Hashem came to us by redeeming us and showing us he's his kar we respond in kind by tying our feet together tying our hands together and standing like a carbon before Hashem question when Yitzk went to Did he had what? Had he been married? No. Had he had children? No. Nevertheless, he gave himself as an So we see that offering yourself as a carbon is more desirous before Hashem even than getting married and having children. Who do we see that from? From because at the time of the he wasn't married. He hadn't had children and yet he was accepted as the tamima. So we see offering yourself as a carbon is even more acceptable to Hashem than fulfilling the mitzvah of marriage and children. Therefore, says maybe I didn't get married. But if you're telling me cuz I was not I was I offered myself as a carbon and even greater than getting married and having children is offering yourself as a carbon. So this gives us a perspective of what is where you're where you bind your feet together you bind your hands together and as Hashem came to redeem us as an expression of his corva to us we respond in kind immediately we're when we declare redeemed us We bind ourselves in to Hashem and that we see from was his way of being saved even uh before he was veriva which he learned from. Okay friends have a beautiful Shabas and uh you could join us Bos Hashem Monday morning at 11:45 for a perk. Have a great >> recording stopped.