Hoshana Rabbah: One to One with Hashem - Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair

[Music] Destler in his classic work countries ahead pamphlet on kindness identifies the two routes motivations of the human personality as the desire to give and the desire to take the car tomatillo from the Kohana tina and he says that all human actions stems from one of those two impulses the root of all human personality at any point a person is either giving or taking he says everything good in the world stems from the desire the power to give and everything bad in the world wars everything everything everything that's bad comes from the desire to take there's an interesting Madras but Rob Destler brings in another part in his country song circus and describes his followers it's a liquid from the iacoboni lama owner Oh seems suka off a yarmulke pouring why do we make a Sukkah after Yom Kippur mamalakat atella shikaka atta boy Deborah Shana the Osho cottage birth of a team but the shame sits in Deen judgment after Rosh Hashanah our cowboy along on all the dwellers of the world Oh Bianca Purim who hoist an acid in and Yom Kippur as we know he seals that dim shimmer yatza dine on powerful Israel the goddess maybe it is the fate of the Jewish people their din is to go out to goddess Miley they came Oh sim sucker and because of this we make a sucker for Golan we bought a him and we exile I self they exile themselves from their houses to Asuka record as well kumara LAN na Shem considers it equates it ke Lu gollu Labov oh it's as though we went into exile very strange idea that we step out of our houses a few feeds and we go into a sucker that's we fulfilled goddess how does that actually work how do we fulfill the decree of godless by leaving our houses and going into Asuka another thing that he points out we know we have a another Mitzvah ants on circus called the arbor minim the four species what does one got to do with the other so much so that there's a an idea an Indian to take the lulav Aeneas Rob's the arbor mean him in the sucker to do both mitzvahs together what's the connection between the two modesta says that both of the mixes of suckers are ready to produce pathos why do the Jewish people go into exile the Jewish people are in exile since the second destruction the simple tent Second Temple for something called CMAs Hinnom baseless hatred now baseless hatred if you think about it is a contradiction in terms because if something doesn't do anything to you why should you hate them and if you hate them it must be for a good reason if somebody shoots you you have a very good reason to hate them so how can you have something called baseless hatred and Rob Destler identifies baseless hatred sinners Hingham from this car from the car as we spoke about before the car Anna Teela the desire to take the desire to take which is the root of sinners Keenan sinner schism works like this if you weren't in this world I'd be driving your car I'd be married to your wife you're driving my car you're married to my wife you're breathing my air a person looks at the world and when he sees himself as the center of all creation and everything is created for him this desire to take manifests itself as a complete miss judgment of the human condition you're completely wrong this car exists only for your friends if it wasn't your friend's car the car would never have come off the assembly line in Japan or Detroit or wherever it was it wouldn't exist what is for me is for me and what is for you is for you and nobody can touch what set aside for his cover by a hairsbreadth sinners kinam makes that mistake and that's why it's for naught it's for naught it's baseless because it's a misunderstanding of the briam misunderstanding of reality now there's no punishment in Judaism which is not a corrective or Ornish is to fixed a situation is to fix something it's a bit of medicine but it's a medicine golus comes to fix that mistaken concepts sinners kinam baseless hatred and how does it do it when a person is forced into godless by definition he has much much less now something psychologically that when a person has less it's very interesting he's much more prepared to share it this is something which we saw I didn't see myself personally but then those of you who remember heard read about the Second World War we'll know that when the Germans you Maximo bombed London there was something called the Blitz spirit basically the Blitz was the the love offers attempt to eradicate the civilian centers of English population and what happened was they caused extensive damage but the feeling was that people came together when people go into kalus when the Jewish people go into goddess when you strip yourself of your worldly possessions the nature of person is that II he may have less but he's prepared to share it when we go into the sukkah and as much as it's Kane to Dora we have to make our circuses much like our homes as possible but as much as we may try we reduce we go into a hut were vulnerable the elements are above us we feel at the mercy of a cottage of Oahu and because this process takes us that natural naturally brings us to a unity an actus a sense of brotherhood and it strips away brews from us the clare and the teyla the power to take the sinners kinam which was the cause of gods and therefore the punishment of goddess is important fact the corrective for that flaw in the human personality what's this got to do with a loon of æneas ring there's a famously Al Kut rimoni which I'm sure you must have heard of but let's just go through it again the Alpha Chi mony says that the four species correspond to four kinds of Jews there's the etrog Jew the lulav Jew the Hadassah Jew and the Arafah Jew the Arab Jew just like the etrog has a pleasant smell and it tastes good you can eat it that's a Jew who has taste meaning Torah and a pleasant aroma that means mass in toven good deeds good actions it does Cassie a good person there's another Jew the lulav Jew the lulav Jew has the lulav comes to the palm tree he has dates he has tamari tastes good but the smell the aroma the palm tree has no aroma there's the hadass the Hadas got a beautiful of the Myrtle a beautiful smell but it has no fruit and right down there on the bottom floor as it were is the Arava the Arava Jew who has neither taste nor smell neither mitzvahs neither my sinto of him he doesn't do mitzvahs he doesn't have Torah Radha and doesn't have my santo of him he's not like the love the least has Thoreau even though he has he's lacking in his Meissen totem he's not like the hadass that has a beautiful aroma who does good actions even though he's lucky in his Torah he has nothing the Midrash says we should bind all these together and by binding all these together we create a unity in classroom trial Israel is only 12 Israel is a cloud is a unit when it binds together all of its elements from the top to the bottom it's for this reason that on Yom Kippur in the colony Drey service if you remember we asked permission to Darvin with the herbarium not people who sin habitual sinners a very Oni why do we have to ask permission to have them as part of our gathering because on Yom Kippur that holiest day of the year when the high priest the kulluk owner god--all would go into the cottage Colossians the inner sanctuary of the basin mikdash with the Qataris which was the center of the Yom Kippur service that qataris amongst one of its ingredients had something called hellburner a foul-smelling ingredient without that foul-smelling ingredients the Qataris was not complete the avada would not work there would be no Kippur for Claire Israel no atonement and so similarly on Yom Kippur anion Kippur where that sorry no because of our many sins we don't have a base of McNish anymore but we have a Cola drink and we'd oven that every element of Claudius around should be there because without them we can't have a Khepera so we see the same message just like as the sucker puts paid removes sinners Hinnom binds us together become we become a unity so similarly when we have the arbor minim the four species they bind each other that the binding of them together creates a unity and clannish love two methods to achieve unity that sort of Destler says in brief in his essay this is still a question though this may be understand we can understand now the process of suckers doesn't understand to us based on what we said the minik minik Adam an ancient tradition an ancient min hug that on the day of hoshanah Rabbah the seventh day we take that lowly willow that lowly a robber and we make it the centerpiece of our avodah the centerpiece of our darvany they would in the times of the new vm goes back to the vm they would take the Arava big huge robbers and they would walk seven times around them is bare why why they are over if you want to exhibit if you want to take one member of the the four species and make a big fuss about it which one would you take you take the answer why do we have an S for today why don't we take the S we can walk around them is bear seven times of that so we have to understand exactly what is so special about the Aurora's each of the days of circuses we know their edition a different bush visa a spiritual force one of the avos Abram Yitzhak Yaakov Moshe Aaron comes and visits in some spiritual way the suka the visa of hoshanah Rabbah the sealing not sealing me as you see the document SEM the sealing of the whole of suckers Oceania robber is sealed by dama dama la dama de mela said of himself that I need to feel on I am prayer not that just daba Damona prayed of Rama vino paid prayed it took a benefit all of the others pray marshal remainder for sure prayed daba daba said about himself I am prayer my essence is tefillin his prayer what does this mean thought that I'm Allen had no life swaram tell us the doubler mela his entire life was a gift from other marishi other Mauritian the first man was supposed to live for a thousand years he actually lived with 930 years because he took 70 of his years and he gave them to david tobot entire life was a gift was something that he had no right to Dada male was prayer his whole essence was prayer he came from prayer his existence only depend with completely prayer nothing else and the four species also represent four organs of the body which are all connected to prayer the heart is called a vada shovel EV what is the filler the gamora says a boda shovel of the work of the heart when the person governs his eyes are supposed to be cast down in humility the eyes as we know I represent by the hadass the leaves of the lomotil are shaped like the eye the shchedrin the spine of a person which is the lulav when we bow to Hashem that's also part of Prayer mo demon ah Flula Borg ah Tom and the thing that is connected in the middle so to speak the thing that links the eyes on the heart together in the middle there other lips the lips in the sense of the essence of Prayer Hashem Safa site of talk the minim represent prayer da budem Allah says himself Anissa feelin the essence of Tefila when one Davos to Hashem I personally supposed to remove all thoughts of the world from his mind and he approaches a Shem as though just like the wooden Mallard was the essence of prayer a nice fella I have nothing I don't exist all I have is my yearning just like the willow the willow that thirsts for water the willow grows by a stream a thirst for water it has nothing of its own what gives it its importance is its first its desire the arava jus has nothing what makes him significant what some not what makes him essential is that he has something which is beyond all limit which is chuka his stoke a good desire rots on we're on a very low level in our generation the rabbi's cuz I'll teach talk is about it refers to the mashita the footsteps of the Messiah just before Messiah so to speak the whole commercial aim of the Jewish people the whole body of the Jewish we'll start with the head the our voice and works down to where we are now right in in the heel in the foot in the leg the foot the lowest part of the human body of the so to speak the human frame that is the Jewish people we have nothing we're so removed from everything the process of you read isidoro is the descent of the generations has left us without anything at all key marks except one thing which is so important the designer I remember many years ago I came to us Amer talking about 30 years ago now and it's quite difficult for me I was 37 before over the Gemara and after a couple of years here if you were actually less I got very depressed I felt you know this is not gonna be able to do this it's just too difficult and I remember of Mendel vine by mr. shivers 8 suddenly Bravo standing out here right outside here I remembered to this day and I said to him look you know I think I should go back I really I don't see it happening and he said to me Yaakov are sure sprinters are for the record books life is a marathon if a person has a chucker everybody who walks through the through these doors I'm sure understands as a moment way says this is just too difficult but if a person keeps going even on this the lowest rung of history the lowest level even for that for us who started off very late in our lives who didn't have the advantage of a top class Jewish education when we were young but if there's a choker if there's a desire person will achieve what he's capable of achieving I'm not gonna say you're gonna become rebbi akiva Hagar but you can achieve what you can achieve and that's really all a sham wants from us and now that why the willow is taken out the willow represents that design there's a medicines of the cottage borough who took Moshe Rabbeinu and he showed him the storehouses huge vast treasure houses of scar of reward for those who deserved it those who did tremendous lima datura learnt shafts backwards and forwards those who built huge institutions of torah learning of care said those who built shoals those who and all of the reward he was shown where she robbed a nun then he came to this vast storehouse and he said to a Cornish broker who is this for Anna Shen said this is for those who have nothing the Arava has nothing except one thing the desire the burning his Stoke accout to get somewhere to connect I understand the arrival when he's brought into contact with the rest of the minim understands how lowly he is and yet it's that contact that vision as we've all had to see what it could be like that the burning desire which is without end that something which goes on and on and on now if we can apply something wrong Tesla says in a slightly different context where a deathless says as we were talking about at the beginning of the coif donatina and the coif and athena the power of the Tila of taking he says the coiler Matilda the power of the desire to take is like unlike any other desire because it's really not about the thing that you want at all it's this it's the process of taking itself I'll give you an example each one of you can substitute your own pet mishegoss as they say in Yiddish let's say for the example that you you're into watches okay so you've decided and you can just about afford it that there's this beautiful I don't know Rolex we'll come back to Rolex is later on a beautiful Rolex that they say to yourself you know something if only I had this Rolex and you just walk you know this feeling like you've become obsessed with this particular physical objects like I'll put an iPhone or or a car or whatever it is some physical objects men usually like cars or watches so this is particular watch this Rolex you think about and you know this thing takes over your head it takes out of your mind that the TV and you know you're just walk around thinking about it all day long it's in the face we got thousand ik borrow at all our Rolex and it pops into your mind you just you know it says it's what they call in Hebrew a Juke an incense that just won't let go and so what happens you go out and you buy the Rolex and it wasn't quite what you thought it was gonna it's very nice and you're very happy with it but it didn't actually as they say hit the spot it didn't hit the spot because two weeks down the pike or two months down the pike it's like I was the tire iron what happened to that desirable beautiful feeling of wanting to possess as Rob Destler that is exactly the desire the power of taking it doesn't it's nothing about the object itself it is the desire to take what I don't have and make it part of what I have to remove what's outside my perimeter and bring it inside the perimeter the process of doing that is what the person wants so therefore once I've done that once I've got it it loses that delectable sweetness and just becomes another rusting trophy on my mantelpiece now if we can apply that slightly differently to road the way Rob Destler understood it that feeling of never being satisfied and we read it actually in coelus yesterday in shul how I've Casas Louis percocet the one who loves money will not be satisfied with money says Rashi however mitzvahs lowitz Lewis bar mitzvahs the one who loved mitzvahs the one who loves Torah will also never be satisfied the nature of a person when he wants rook Gnaeus that desire is endless that desire to be close to Hashem if a person plugs into it just grows and grows and grows and that's the coif of the Arava the person who realizes I don't have anything but what I have is this burning desire to be close to a shame a shame please and it's with that that on hoshanah Rabbah which the me forum explained is the seal within the seal there's a seal on Yom Kippur but there's another seal another sealing you'll see tomorrow in the darling we use various different parts of the melodies the new gunam of the yama Narayan ba rule Kitaj and it's chills you know you you feel the same those tunes evoke the sense of did the sense of finality the sense of a year being sealed them put away the message is being sent out as it says the Pisgah tava the good note the good Petach that we all davon for that all depends on a need to fill up that all depends on a person understanding a sham I have nothing no squishing no real schooling all I really have is my yearning like the arava who yearns for water I have my yearning to be close to you the person is his roots on the person is his desire what a person wants is who he is if you really want to know who a person is look at what he wants you can't always get what you want so what a person has really doesn't describe will not really full fill in not picture that person accurately but what a person's real desire is what he really wants is who he is in this way we can understand a deeper understanding of the idea of a mitzvah many people say you know why does Hashem command me to do all these things what is he needed for of course he doesn't need anything why do I have to do this why am I commanded to do this so if we're correct in saying that the rods on the desire reflects the internality of a human being that what a person wants really represents who he is with regard to the outside the outer expression of the inner essence if that's what the real the rod son is the will then we can understand perfectly well the importance of mitzvahs because quite simply the mitzvahs are what Hashem wants and by doing what a Shem wants that allows me to connect to something which is ultimately impossible in a normal human understanding which is to connect to something which is infinite and totally beyond anything that I can understand how do I do that how do i connect to an infinite being being a finite limited the answer is what I do what I Shem wants because what a Shem wants caviar is who he is quote-unquote e that allows me to connect tuition when I do the rots in Hashem when I connect my rod son my desire to ashens Robson I connect myself to Russian the word rod son in Hebrew the letters of ruts on are the same as another word in Hebrew see no see no means a pipeline when I connect my rod son to Hashem I literally make a pipeline which a Shem flows down to me the hush horse that we all hope for of the year of broth on that Slocombe of closeness thing everything depends how Carlo fell after a Hajj everything falls depending to the desire what a person wants is really buoys and so we have to be very careful we have to focus and that's really what to fill it is to fill it is I have nothing what I have is my desired courage broker to be close to you and with that I need to fill up with that a person can really do something very special on hoshanah Rabbah there was a story about rove Ruderman say could suddenly raw for the Russia Shiva of Baltimore apparently he had in his room when he was a boxer who's in Shiva the pictures of the Godot l'm of europe i don't know exactly what he had up there but probably had the altar from sloboda the alpha mccallum he had three or four pictures and then he had a frame exactly the same same frame as the other pictures but inside that frame he had a mirror and under the mirror it said why not you and he went on to become a rudiment my son-in-law told me a story about a younger man a kollel of rape who lives very very simpson very much in a limited fashion financially and he did not buy himself anything all year so he could walk afford a 700 shekel etrog its aspiring when you hear there was a lady a Rebbetzin who lived over the road here her name was Rebbetzin tights and we were very friendly they could sell nakeds LaRocca we were very friendly with this used to come and spend Chavez Witness and over 90 years old she was used to walk with my wife to the shear that represent Ashish gives over here on the Shabbos afternoon for ladies it took her 45 minutes and we live 10 minutes but most from this from the shul and she will walk up there she would sit down and rest and get up and walk again everything depends on our desire everything depends on our to Philip when we become like that willow we say I shall not have nothing whatever I have whatever I have is nothing because what can I give you what can I possibly give you all I can give you is my desires my cuca and that's that's really what a sham really wants from us and that's why everything depends on these last few hours of this process were been going up and up and up up through the Amon aroma through circus dwelling together with a sham at the end of the day a Shem is looking and saying what is it that you really want what is it do you really want my wife told me a story actually she heard it from Emerson Tarshish by the young boy lo Elena darling who had the well-known disease you know Mottola young boy ten years old and they were gonna give him chemotherapy mo therapy and his parents explained to him that he would lose his hair his help me fall out and he listened then he took it very well and he went to bed that night in the middle of the night he was banging on his parents door screaming his head off screaming give me his head no he said I I cannot I can't lose my hair and they six plaintiff said yes but you know that's you have to accept I cannot lose my hair because if I lose my hair I'll lose my pairs and I won't look like a Jew I cannot it can't be I can't lose my hair apparently what happened was all of his hair fell out except his pants the heart the eyes the mouth the spine the arbor minim are all connected to prayer to tefillin and to fill it is based on the fact that like other Mauritian I have nothing of my own I have nothing of my own nothing is mine no specifically well close with this this the festival of circuses can negate our Anna Cohen are a Cohen if you go down the list of meters that we say in the morning the shuttle la Hashem had a dual our Guevara etc etc Padula greatness has said Avram a venom Guevara it's a Covino is Din to Ferris Yaakov etc etc when you get down to our Anna Coren the meter of our and a Cohen is the meter of hold-hold means a couple of things I want to just focus on one of them hold is a meter by which we can understand something which seems on the surface very very unfair it says that the regime in this world get paid back for their mitzvahs of my son Tobin how is that fair how is it fair that a Russia an evil person however evil he is gets paid back in the currency of this world discuss our teachers ska Mitzvah Bahai alma lekha a reward for mitzvot does not exist in this world it's a different currency the currency of this world and the currency of the world to come the reward of this world and the lord of the world to come are just that you can't change them there's no money changer that can do that for you there is a completely different system of value how is it that then Russia gets paid back in this world face misses amazing Tobin faceoff Shanee says in the Torah by midburn for your AHA Mishima Hema this is talking about men who were contaminated by a human corpse and because of their contamination there too miss Mase they couldn't bring the pacer offering on that day and they approached Moshe and Aaron and they said to him we are Ohana Shem ah hey ma these people said in they love Moshe quote enough loot to maim the nefesh other we are spiritually I'm impure Tommy as a result of a contact with a dead body Lama nagura why should we be solution of made bad diminished English translation is novelty he craves Haqq truth in order that we are not able to bring as Kirov and Hashem the offering of ashamed Amado at its appointed time besought B'nai Israel omits the Jewish people B'nai Israel very strange sentence why Lama Negara what why can't why can't we bring this Corp and will you just tell this way come bring the call because you're taught me what kind of question and answer is that what kind of question is it we they state with Tom mainland air fish Adam we're impure we had contact with a cadaver why can't we bring the corpus he just think answer the question yourself until you realize that the question is really not a question the question is an exclamation it cannot be that we can't bring the Corbin Pesa Lama negara it's impossible it's unthinkable the korban Pesach is not just an ordinary core band it's a carbon which initiates the whole Jewish people into a voter session llama negara it can't be it cannot be that we can't bring this compressor and as a result of that a college boy was so to speak puts into the Torah a new mitzvah of Pesach Shanee where they can actually bring this off the sufferings the core group essa was best Akshay me a he - a new insertion into the turn how could that be through the meter of hold the meter of the regime a college boy who will be mode that same motion mode n will admit to any true desire the meter of Howard says that a Hashem will look into the heart of a person and he'll give him what he really wants and with this we can understand how it is that the regime could be paid in all of my cell and it's not unfair let's go back to our Rolex somebody goes into a shop and in this shop he wants to buy watch he says to the watch keeper I want a good watch please so it brings up this time X he says this time X is a great watch stuff but this news this time max you little it lasts longer than you so he says ok thank you and this he's picking it up he sees that there's dangling behind the counter this gold thing which has the letters ro le X on it and he says what's that someone look at that desert forget about yeah so that's let me have a look at him he says as well is it looks at it he says well it's it's not a real Rolex it's just got ro le X written on it but it's so pretty it's so nice it's this is what I want I want this you really want it you can have it that's the myth neither of hold you really want it you can have it a cottage bar cool what does a Russia really want there's a Russia want to sit in the shear of Mercia Rubino does he want to discuss with the choice talk to rebbi akiva a ger no he wants all of us there you want it you can have it the rod Sun is the sea no the will is the pipeline through which a Shem will give us through the meter of hold a Shem will be moder to any true Tina what's deepest in our heart you'll get now a person has to guard very carefully therefore his rod son erodes on the phone a home more fond of should be ashamed will but when we dove in tomorrow morning that we should totally remove ourselves from this world we should realize that we have absolutely nothing except what is at the heart of every Jew that pinta lead that yearns like the willow as the willow thirst for water to be close to Hashem so our yearnings should push aside all the dross all the fake Rolexes of this world and focus on our desire to the only thing that really matters which is to be close to our garage both [Music] [Applause]