Gateway To Tefilla - New Dimensions in Ozer Yisroel B'gevura and Oter Yisroel B'sifara

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay we're continuing in our series on uh fila which is dedicated by our good friend masala rose was his brother ben levi yitzchak so actually we're completing the last two of the berkeley although we may go back to the last one even though we've discussed it already we're going to discuss the gemara brochure says when a person puts on their belt lama is when you wrap yourself with your cloak auresha on your head lema baruch so these are it's very interesting even though we've already sort of uh we opened our eyes we said we got dressed we said mao bisharum we stretched out we said mata surum we stood up we said zoy kev kefufe and we put on shoes shah also lee called sarki we took a step and all of those brachas we never mentioned the word israel because gentiles open their eyes and gentiles stretch and gentiles have shoes and walk so the question is what does israel got to do with a belt and what does he struggle got to do with a uh head covering all mankind could put on a belt and a lot of people wear hats head covering none of the these items don't see don't seem to be unique to cloud israel why do these brachas refer to israel furthermore why do we need to make them at all aren't they included in malbec arum so let's begin with the tas tells us why do we mention israel all mankind equally enjoys eyesight the ability to stretch one's muscles the rooster crowing these are all universal benefits machine came to elu i guess it should say belush as opposed to these two hindi israel so that the heart does not see the erva meaning a jew must wear a separation between one's heart and one's um areva this is a mitzvah do iraisah shallow yeah it's a shyla actually whether it's dayrise or not but on the surface level it says well you're at bacha you're now at a sea in erva and we have a tradition the heart could see as amel says the libi so therefore there cannot be any there must always be a separation between the heart and the arava otherwise the heart could see the arva therefore if somebody is wearing a robe and the robe is a one long garment and there's no separation between the heart and the arava one cannot pray one cannot learn because the the heart and the arva are not separated this is a halacha by a jew and up now once we're on the subject the question is is one obligated to have to wear a belt for tfila we know that by hasidim they have accustomed to air regardless is one obligated to wear any belt by davening could i just wear suspenders or can i just walk to show on my own risk and you know come what am i in other words is someone obligated to wear a belt by davening so it's very interesting is that the way the mission bureau understands is that there is absolutely no halacha that one has to wear a garter or a belt for that matter however the mission bureau says that if one is wearing a belt during the rest of the day they have an absolute obligation to wear a belt for davening even though the heart and the arva already separated in other words most people have an undergarment that has an elastic band and that elastic band serves as the separation between the heart and the arva and one is makai aim the hapstick between the lathe and the arva but besides for that if during the rest of the day for example let's say a person wears a belt all day and then before davening they exercise so they took off their belt to put on i don't know what sweatpants i don't know whatever they're doing and now it's fila and they said oh i don't need to wear a belt they're to wear a belt because since they wear about the rest of the day they're muhly have to wear a belt for davening however if a person does not wear a belt the rest of the day as long as there's a separation between their heart and their eva that suffices again this is the the opinion of the mishabura okay now let's look in the bach this is how we're going to position it i'm putting you um below the bow okay um what about a hat excuse me so the um and the coiva whom sneos wearing a head covering is modest cover your head out of fear of the master so the concept of a hat is a sign of modesty so whether a yamaka accomplishes that it does seem that it's not referring merely to a yamaka and that there is a concept that a full head covering is a sign of modesty now um in american society it sort of fell out of vogue that people wear hats in general once john f kennedy took off his hat for his inauguration um but there is an objective standard that a hat a head covering does demonstrate modesty okay but let's talk about the the bach here i'm going to make this a little smaller no um okay let's read the bach here's what we're gonna do no how do we do like this no okay like that there we go they'll have a sagittarius why do we need to make these two brochures why aren't a belt and a head covering covered in malibu sharomim shah rama bush in other words you don't make a bracha on socks you don't make a bracha on pants you don't make a bracha on earmuffs you don't make a bracha on suspenders why do you need to make a bracha on a belt and a hat neroli says the bach the new timer because gentiles are not necessarily concerned for a belt and a hatchimal bash a jew must always have a belt that means the separation between the heart and the arabah yeah and a jew must always have a head covering one is not allowed to walk four cubits by the way does that apply um indoors as well well some say that there's a leniency indoors but we try to be mahmeer even indoors not to walk for amaze actually you know what i'm going to read through the misha brewer on that one second does one have to wear a yarmulke inside [Applause] [Music] the macabre says don't work this is in simon bays says hasidus is even less than dalaran's you should not walk begin here's the bottom line we are macbeth not to walk dalarama's uh beginner rush even indoors it's just indoors if you don't have a yarmulke a hand does something outdoors you can't cover your head with your hand you have to cover it if your yamaha blows off you would have to you know use your sleeve it is midas hacidos even to sleep in one's yamaka not to have one's head covered while they're sleeping it's not a halachic obligation but it's considered a pious behavior okay now so since jews are careful to wear a belt and to cover their heads therefore yes because these two malbuchim demonstrate the greatness and the elite status of cloud israel and therefore they're not included in the other brachas that we are mavarik on them okay let us see the gra the quran is commentary to they are relevant to the religion that we need a belt because and you now to go okay there's an amazing commentary from the banega sauce car called and he has a fantastic deok what's the first thing you take you do every day in the base hamikdash chumash you take out the garbage the ashes from yesterday i remember one time my grandfather was unsigned he was in his 90s and that was a long time ago and i asked him um zadie you know i could take out the garbage why why are you taking out the garbage he said no taking out the garbage is trumas haddashan you know you don't give it up so anyway if you that was the first avoider in the uh in the basement by the way richard falhurst writes that the significance of that is that a jew has to have the attitude that every day when you start to serve hashem you have to forget about any mitzvah you ever did any good deed you ever did you have to start fresh don't allow yesterday's accomplishments and success to slow you down today that's why they started the advaita with the sadeshin we clear out any remnant of anything we did yesterday don't allow any don't get yourself so excited well you know today i'll take it off a little because yesterday i had a really great day of davening and learning so i don't have to learn as much no you start off the morning i have nothing in my repertoire it's not it's not relevant what i've done in the past okay and then what's interesting is what does the koyen wear when he does the chuma sadashan um he wears a cloak and he wears pants what about his belt what about his hat why doesn't it say in the torah that the cayenne wears a hat and a belt when he does a chuma sardarshan the name it's nephas yeah he wore his belt and his head as well vna kosha has the benefits of why doesn't it say the hat why doesn't it say the belt or and if it doesn't want to say so don't say the pants and the cloak in other words other ya'll don't either say what he wears or don't say why would it only say the pants and the cloak and not the head and the belt says the torah is coming to elude but avoid that the very first avoider that we do the lava medulla only in these two ways is he different than any other jew that's what it means he wears his but it didn't have to say his belt and his hat because in that sense every jew is wearing a belt and a hat that's part of the jewish garb when it comes to tefila it only needed to say those two because in those two ways he's different than everybody else every jew in his personal avoidance he's wearing his belt his and his head is covered and therefore that's why we say oh is there yes royal big viral italian because it's part of the the dress of avodah of every jew okay in the pirish you and fila he brings over here that the government brokers tells us when a person wears his belt or somebody puts on his hat he makes these brachas nara ba'inai shahamayasthim kivnu bishtaya bracha s there's a secret kavanagh on this bracha besides the wearing of the breath and the wearing of the hat because according to the simple shot what is israel got to do with it like we've asked her a number of times only jews wear belts only jews cover their heads these correspond to the jewish experience in the difficulty of galas the how god has saved us from the wrath of our enemies god girded us with strength to to fight kabir with a spirit a majestic spirit the lave of leif amits and with a strong heart negan called sarri's table against all the winds of the world hasa that threatened to scatter us so while oiza before literally refers to a belt that has a secret hidden meaning that refers to the inner strength that god has given jews be in the times of the crusades pogroms inquisition holocaust god gives the jew the inner strength to to have the wherewithal to withstand the challenges of galas and oitarius safara what does that say bizarre needs sachin the crown of victory the enemies against our soul they pound us they pounce on us we can't get up but we get up and we get up proud and we get up with royalty and god gives us a crown in other words god gives us a bearing of nobility despite the fact that the nations of the world have tried to crush us like he leads us to stomp on the high places of our enemies and then the ian felix says something which i want to sort of save until next week that the brachav the excuse it was added sometime around the gaoinim and when the ashkenaz that's in the middle ages when they saw the great wrath and the kamada our strength was sapped they were misakin hanoi saying that god infuses the jew with strength so these brokers have an additional meaning as well oh yes are you so big for god gives us the inner strength to withstand the goddess and god gives us a sort of royal bearing despite the fact that the nations of the world try to suppress our mentality they want us to have a low morale the jew always has a high morale the jew always has ambition the jew always is proud and uh recognizes kalyustra of the name we could also say based on this week's parashant noob last night we spoke out the ibn ezra on this week's parashah on the crown of the nazir that it says that the word nazir comes from the lush of nazar crown because somebody who is able to overcome their taiva most people in this world are slaves to their 38 sahara you know i can't i can't learn because i have to watch a game i can't learn i have to watch the news i can't learn i have to take care of something meaningless what what's what's this i gotta eat more many people are if not everyone is a slave to the emptiness of this world but the true king is someone who's able to overcome their taiva oyter yusrab is safara god gives the jew the spiritual wherewithal to be a melech and to overcome taiwan to overcome desire and that is the true crown rabbi ramshaw has a very beautiful safer on the berkshires and he quotes to perushim of uh somewhat obscure reshainam that i want to share with you number seven from the fila the parashat feel of the benyaka i believe he's the rebbe of rashi he says oid lafaresh god girds israel with strength what is the strength he gives us faith he gives us a muna what does this mean the true strength of a jew what has given us the ability to withstand impossible situations is a muna [Music] i once heard from a survivor that they were physically not able to deal and and even want to survive the holocaust and they said that my grandfather was always telling them you can't give in you can't don't don't die don't allow yourself to die the reboundersham is with us so what do we learn from that what gives a person strength it's not the physical um ability of the person's muscles but the inner strength comes from a muna so when we say oiza you saw big vura what when a person does not have faith and a person thinks that the vicissitudes of the world are happenstance and and coincidence person collapses they can't deal with it when we recognize this is god's sent hashem is with us it's going it has a good reason we don't understand it but the ibanesham is going to bring barakah to us so this is what gives the jew strength oyster you saw the emunah and emunah is the the strength of our loins like it says and azar is gevorah like it says in tantrum the all the malachimal the kings took off the belt of their loins and the belt represents kayak which is the rem is that when yaakov vino died we all lost our strength okay another beautiful shot of shadow rabbinum one of the re-shoin him he says what does it mean you saw big what's the strength of a jew torah hashem where it says the torah is the strength of a jew shackles but gentiles don't have torah gentiles don't have the ammuna that we have and therefore it's our israel big burra we have the torah we have the ammuna okay now um sort of to conclude i want to share with you a few more things we're gonna go to page two for a moment and this is the pay rush of rob david luria on the um perique derby we're gonna go to number 11 for a minute he says a person should not become depressed or demoralized when the sahara tries to tell you you know what this mitzvah it's too hard you don't have the wherewithal you know gemara is not for you eon is not for you toro is not for you you don't have the ability god gave us the wherewithal to overcome yet sahara like it says and what is the wherewithal to overcome the sahara vahu eiser visi that is through heavenly assistance himself on us and strengthens himself on us and god helps us our israel this is what it means god girds the the israelite the jew with strength to fight against the sahara you know how many shot them we had oh yes there you saw big fura because jews have the midst of sneers to separate the heart from the arva you saw big vura god gives us emunah that's there you saw big vura god gives us the strength of torah rabbin god gives us syatha deshmaya to overcome the eid sahara rav david luria and oizar you saw big vura god gives us the emotional wherewithal to withstand the golos that was the ion tfila now let us um go back to rib schwab for a moment okay let's see number nine now the first brachaise the first 11 brochures were of all mankind god wakes us up in the morning he wakes everyone up in the morning at least most people i think everyone wakes up and whoever and whoever's sleeping now is just they went back to sleep i think they actually did wake up at some point this morning but by the way that was a joke okay okay just checking fine so the it says in number nine until here until this point all of the brachas were universal and all of a sudden now we're talking about daft claudia israel after the bracha hamilton all of a sudden we veer into khali israel because rabb shwab understood the bra as god gave mankind the ability to freely choose free choice after we talk how god prepared us the footsteps of manchester united it is clear that this element of free choice has to be used properly by the jew lufthansa of the limous to choose good and to be disgusted with evil israel therefore we now begin the broncos that are designated for the jewish people and that is namely oiza you saw the vura and the gemara and the we find that we make this bracha when we wear a belt and the purpose of the belt like we mentioned a number of times is to separate between the heart and the arva now rip schwab says such a beautiful insight what's so critical about separating the heart on the arva and he basically says the human body has two parts the top part the bottom part the top part are for the higher purposes the bottom part is for the lower purposes so for example in the human body in the top part you have the organs that that are used for the noble parts of man you have the heart you have the lungs you have the brain the lower part are for more more the the the conduct of man which an animal also shares a similar conduct so the earthly part of man whether it's digestion whether it's excretion whether it's procreation all of these things are in the now we wear the bell to show that by the jew these two areas are different human and we don't want the element of earthliness and that which we share in common with the behemoth to influence and pull down the more noble aspect of man so we separate and we said these are two different tohuman two different arenas and we don't want the lower arena to pull down the higher arena arena this is only unique to cloud israel we're commanded to have this higher element torah mitzvos that we could sort of ward off and allow the it's our type to prevail over the sahara oyster israel big vura bikvura is lahagbir the ruach over the gashem to permit to strengthen the spirit over the body and therefore says schwab an amazing thought at a bris mila you know what a bris mila is wrestling in the olden days on the eighth day that a baby was born jews would gather together to eat bagels and locks and cream cheese in your local shul and uh makes and jews would always make sure to pack it up in silver foil before the rabbi gets up to speak that's basically what happens at a bris in a nutshell right but and nowadays um the chaser elio and the gives us hours and hours extra of time every week that we don't actually have to eat bagels which are you know our life it's a life-threatening uh ordeal to actually consume and digest the bagel and besides that you have an extra hour of time because when the rabbi speaks on zoom all you could do you could put your icon on you're right daniel gladstein right right danielle glass nobody you know i could put my picture of mayor's cava mayron there and you could do whatever you want you know okay by the way not everything i say is very serious right now just i want you to know that okay so we say out of breath hashem you commanded us to save the friendship of our flesh from destruction what in the world does the word yedidos have to do with anything what is the fre why is the term friendship being invoked in reference to brasmila srikha payrosh this word yadido says rav schwab needs commentary the truth is not only is there not internal friendship within us but there's actually a mortal enemy between within us and that is the soul the spiritual soul is at war is antithetical is a polar opposite from the physicality of the body in other words as much as fire and water don't go together body and soul don't go together but bris mila which curbs physical desire and is a seal on the flesh in the place of taiva and it's subdues the desire of the guth makes a yedidos a friendship between the body and the soul otherwise the body is rampant and the body and the soul can't get along god did us such a favor because otherwise the body and soul are in such turmoil he gave us the mitzvah brismila bismillah curbs the guff and then there's a yadidos with our shayreno vahamila paellas a friendship of our of our flesh the goof which is called is now at friend is now uh in unison and friendly with the with the with the soul so that's says there are two realms there are two tahums there's the higher tohuma and the lower to come now listen to this is namaste says reb schwab the same way we have to recognize we have we also have to realize there are another two true men there's mai sechel and there's the rebinder shalaila and my sechel in no way enters the realm of the reboundish slalom i don't understand the ways of ubanisham i can't grasp the ways that we banish soylent the way i think things should be has no bearing on reality on how they should be we it's a certain hachna that my sechel is is not something which is nikhnas into the realm of the it's a certain humility the same way there's between the mayak and the which is for a head covering which is also designated for claude israel and the brock of aliza you saw also similar to this indian because we know a person is surrounded by malware like it says that we have a by the way the uh brother maraumi prague writes why is gomorrah called gemara because when you learn gomorrah gimmel gavriel on the right side ma'am on the left side race rafael aleph urea that's gemara when you learn gemara you're surrounded with malachim but whenever we're always surrounded by malachim by being makai mitsubis like the rambam says in his golden language the rambam says that the gemara says anyone who has to fill it on their head and sits on their garment and messes on their door he's muslim that he won't sin because he has many many reminders and these reminders are the um that save us from sin like it says hashem and then we have our roishanu shrinaskel the shrina which is a lotion of um in exchange is excuse me what does that word say um oh and just like we're map stick between the ah here's the here's the point just like we're mapstick between his spiritual pursuits and his lower pursuits so we also have the mcchalleck between the shrina that rests on our head and the mind in our in our and the mayakh in our head the more we recognize the differentiation and the separation between the heart and the erva so too um all the more so we have to recognize the difference between the shrina caneget the summit of the sechel of man meaning the more we recognize the advantage of the rouhani of man over the bahamian of man we have to recognize the advantage of the shrina over the human seika and he says this is what i understood from the words of rafal hirsch and the summit of glory of the jew are the filling that we put on our heads and therefore as we have over here the shukha naraka says that the minute of the rash was he would say all the brahms he would then say it's filling and honest fill in he would say oita yusua abu safarah so rub schwab brings that then in frankfurt the minute is that antis above when they put on by minha they don't say oitar you saw the safara but rather they say oh and women too even though they don't have yamaka and filling they also have the mitzvah that we learn in this week's parasha they also have their crown that they have to have their hair covered and this is the um tepherus of claudius wrong for men and for women so these are some of the meanings of the bracha you saw number one it re its reference to the neos of claudius royal that we wear a belt to separate it between the heart and the arva and as indicated by the fact that the torah does not say that kayen wears a belt when he does the chuma sadashan because every jew wears a belt in his avodah rabihuda banyakar says it refers to the strength that hashem gives us of emunah rabbinbanoyak says he refers to the strength hashem gives us of torah the even philosopher refers to the inner strength hashem gives us in this man hagolos rev david luria says gives us over the eight sahara and we should be zoeka that the should gird us with kivura crown us the sepharah the noise okay everyone wishing everybody a great travis you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com