Watch: Selichot Concert - Inspiring Musical Elul Program

[Music] welcome everybody lol is the time of year where we try to get focused little more devoted a little more concentration on what we're doing what our purpose is where we're going and certainly the concept of chuva repentance everybody knows there's a custom that on the first day of Elul for the entire month chauffeur is sounded in shul every day after the morning prayers and that chauffeur is to remind us of the ultimate act of devotion of one Jew Abraham Avram Aveeno when he brought his son gets like Isaac as a offering in at the last minute was told not to offer him he substituted for a ram and the ram's horn represents that devotion of the Jew Avram Aveeno and therefore ello we try to recapture that devotion you know there's a young man on a plane and everybody was sleeping it was nighttime as they headed towards morning this young man realized it was the first day of ll and he took a chauffeur at the end of his into prayers and he sounded the chauffeur on this quiet slumbering plane and everybody woke up with a start of course can you imagine the looks on their faces obviously not a good idea we don't recommend it but there is a message for us because the verse says who is Shana mission ask him arise o slumberers that we should try to break the routine of the year that were counseled he caught up in and get a little more focus in this month of L O so in keeping with that idea he the brute proudly presents LL messages which will be given over by some of the most prominent robonyan and speakers the world over along with slick hosts that will be accompanied by musical inspiration we hope that you are inspired and we hope [Music] honi but that's all [Music] [Applause] [Music] Yamuna ha ha visto que la canal Kadal Misaka ton be my own chanela will say said shall never shall cause they'll be hole defect papa the atom Akshay mom Tina are you Shippo - I like how you're reading shall you tell your father - shovel to meet him Iike belly to share any old man by Chevy [Music] vashari yeah yeah keep it soft god I love him you should it's a little he the whole machine - I was in art in it the hi Sandy another Neil okay an amoeba she D inane Illini I don't want to be fooled [Music] dumb she are you saw me if I cash before the Harvard Sallah beatable dead be all consoles the world uh stuff [Music] now your weekend we are inside time itself whatever my father [Music] by shitty a [Music] even so god I'm looking this leads our little bean ha ha ha sardine okay [Music] IVA shitty [Music] all to me people see [Music] the area of a yeah keep it so cold I love him you schnitz a little he the whole machine shop tell her Amit ha ha Sunday [Music] machete I mean I [Music] [Applause] [Music] towards me people I see [Music] during the month of Elul all of us try to become better we try to do tuba to repent we try to get higher higher closer to Hashem it is during these days that we say kadali mu crushing the fact of de los zetas as for people people without anything we knock on your door we knock on the door of Hashem we knock on the doors of heaven ruffridge on ask the question if we are kadali with Russia if we are humble in poor people so how is it that we're knocking on the door with force we're banging loudly usually a person doesn't have anything is very shy and embarrassed and they're knocking lightly on the door almost that you can't hear them says Robert John there is a man that's been wandering in the streets that hasn't seen a city for days he has no food he has no drink he's famished he's almost at the brink that he's going to die finally he sees in the distance that there's a house and out of the window there's coming light he sees the light and he begins to quicken his pace and he rushes to the door and he begins banging loudly and when nobody answers he bangs even louder finally the answer the door he says save me save me I need to have some food I need to have some water so too says Rev stretch run we travel we travel the roads during the year all of a sudden we realize that we need to do Chuba we need to repent we need to make ourselves better we need to reach higher and so we see that house with light we see Russia shown on Yom Kippur a little bit in the distance and all of a sudden we are having renewed hope we want to get to that light we want that we should have the light of Khepera the light of atonement the light of sleet are the light of forgiveness so we rush to the doors and we say Hashem open the door let us say in let us have Khepera let us have sleepi and that's why we bang loudly well the great baba sali rama bukit sarah said sonic live rock azusa yoga no Leno one time would make a Sudha unruhe Scottish these were very special sue dose the ones that were made on Rosh Chodesh and during that time only great tummy they have come him great people were allowed in specific people that were chosen on a list and also some people that were experiencing great challenges people that had difficulties in life someone who felt for Lauren they were also at times allowed to come in to this special Sudha the special feast well it was on this particular dish that everyone had gathered the tamina Sock'em him and also there was one person in particular who was extremely impoverished the individual had several daughters that he needed to marry often had no money his wife also was going through a health challenge Lowell a no and he was there baba sali was very upset and they closed the door baba sali you could see the anguish on his face while everybody was quiet and everybody was looking all of a sudden the door came open and it was the son-in-law of baba sali rabbi yehuda off immediately baba sali said to him who invited you who asks you to come why are you here the man was stunned baba sali that always spoke in such a loving manner the people that were there were stunned after all his son-in-law loves him why would he speak that way and again baba sali says why are you here who invited you to come what are you doing here finally his son-in-law said I'm like a son and a son is allowed to enter into his father whenever he wants baba sali said repeat those words he said again I am like the Sun and the Sun is allowed to come in to his father whatever he wants baba sali looked up to Shah by him and he said Hashem did you hear that I am like a son and a son is allowed to come to his father whenever he wants a son is allowed with that baba sali closed his eyes he went over to the wall looked towards the wall he prayed and cried for approximately 10 minutes when he was done he turned around to the assemblage he said his Pilate van NAC I prayed and I was answered this year may all of us take the month of Elul to heart may we all pray and may we all be answered [Music] Oh Ashley later on a lush Lisa Holland Lashley [Music] go [Music] before [Music] neeli [Music] me [Music] ah hello we just celebrated saccade and already it's time favorable a time for silikal a time for repentance a time for introspection but the question is what is the function of it all what is it will come right before China what are we supposed to do with a rule and I believe every person takes a look at the illusion terrible and Tana the lesson comes very clear and Shamim what was the grind the pursuit says I need little de vigo dearly I am for my beloved and my beloved is for me I'm for the alum and put elements for me she does she named the song of the great union between us and put it all on and it's very possible then in those words in those words we see exactly what it was all about because if you take the first letter of every single one of those words I'll if I need moonlight Dodi Islamic video T is 5 Li Islamic it comes out a little because if that pursue the opposite teaches us gives us great insight into what it was all about what does it mean any little diva doo dee dee what does that mean I am from what L AM is what Alam is for me you know what it means it means the patella reveals to us how we're supposed to correspond them the rabbi's right there is something called title at the time which means we ignite the relationship put it on says listen you want me to be close to you you gotta take the first step don't wait for me to inspire you don't wait for me to make miracles occur don't wait for me to make wonders you have to take that first step and when you take that first step then I reciprocate then I advance as well and that's the way we're supposed to foster our relationship were put in alarm we're supposed to take initiative we're supposed to come and we're supposed to be driven to come and advance to put a alarm that's what it was all about it's coming close to God taking that first step saying what alarm he gave me a great year he gave me so much blessing so much prosperity I'm coming towards you please reciprocate and it's very positive why don't we do that right before a sauna very possible we're supposed to take a look not only at our relationship with putting alarm but our the entire world all our relationships all our bonds all our unions that we have with our spouse the relations we have their parents without children without neighbors without partners and we're supposed to learn that if we want these relationships to advance if we want them to be fostered if we want them to be warm if we want them to be amiable then we have to understand we have to take the first step we can't wait foul spells to come in advance we can we found children to come to us we have to realize if we want a successful relationship with anybody it's us who has to take initiative and that's what we have to do before there begins to improve our relationship with our parents with our spouse with our partners with our children with a neighbor that continuously irritates you it's our job in the rule to start observing taking a look analyzing those relationships and start building them with that first step that we're gonna take [Music] ERV ki Fateh Pina heart Holyoke Alicia [Music] I need a lead Mahayana [Music] et man Lamarr she be doing [Music] for me [Music] but does the [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] we know that from Rosh Hodesh a low until Yom Kippur followed by Sukkot these are the big High Holidays the high time of the Jewish year it's a time where there's extraordinary holiness it's a time where there are great opportunities and in a certain sense it's a time when there is judgment they are called you may add in varaha mean the days of judgment and the days of mercy obviously our challenge in this period of time is to make sure that the elements of judgment are converted into AA common into mercy that God will have mercy upon us from a very early source the Abood rahama the Abood rahama goes back several hundred years ago some 500 years ago a great rabbi who paid a lot of attention to the aspect of prayer and analysis of the seed or of our prayer book the buddha ham is the source of this which is very well known ll the month of Elul Ellul is spelt alif laam and valve lammott the month of Elul says they are booed rahama and it's much quoted and your children bring kindergarten will come home with us this indication that there's something special about Ahlul because alone indicates an e for the allah favilla lead OD video D Li the first letters of that PASOK an e letter d vidoe d li spells alone the month what's the significance of this Aniela dodi means i am to my dearest friend Dodie Finn the word you did my closest if I am to my doggy then Dodie Lee very simple pisaq Anila Dottie I a Jew am relating in a special way Lee Dodie Dodie Lee now there's a very profound principle that is embedded in this concept and that is that based on the pond that pasukan many became primarily pisaq ashamed silva Hashem is like our shadow let me explain this concept davido Miller says Hashem silcone Hashem is like our shadow it means that our way of relating to Hashem our way when we conduct ourselves in a certain manner and we in dere ourselves to Hashem then his response to us is in kind he will respond to us in the way that we relate to him so if we relate to him meaning with a full heart with love with passion with a sense of closeness then Dodie Lee then he will relate back to us in the same manner Hashem is conduct with us Jews is the conduct which it is evoked by our conduct towards him that's the essential meaning of this verse Aniela Dodi when I relate to him in the manner that I relate to him he will relate to me now one of the great Hasidic masters who wrote a great safer called the Bearnaise sauce Hara the maysa how says not only is there a in the first letters in this PASOK Anila Dodie Dodie Lee means ll but if we look at the last letters in this PASOK Annie Aleph known us you'd lead OD again you'd read OD again a yurt is the last letter lead you'd so all four words in this PASOK end with the you'd says the blaze hasta there is a very profound message there also you'd is the numerical value of 10 10 times 4 is 40 what's special about the number of 40 40 are the ma hara Hamim garden from rosh chodesh l o up until after Yom Kippur in these are the greatest days these are the days of Rahman these are 40 days so there are 40 days in ll and the Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur these 40 days are the days which will determine our future for the coming year visually omim you may add in via maharaja me what's the significance of 40 40 years we know that a mikvah mikata Ravi holy waters that a person immerses himself in in order to achieve achieve purity the minimum measure of a mikvah must be 40 40 cubits it's got to be 40 cubits that's the minimum measure because these day that's the indication of 40 these 40 days are in a certain sense days which will bring us to purity will bring us from defilement to purity so therefore based on these two concepts Aniela da da da deadly ll and the last letters you'd you'd you'd you'd which is 40 these are the most significant days of the earth [Music] an ecocash a tight leash martini Danny [Music] Lori any Constitution Mariner [Music] pick on your cards this over an equal four give nothinga for you Mike we that's two [Music] don't even miss your money [Music] same us to say bass to do I got a score [Music] thankful every morning for my straight for my Guardians [Music] so we you wanna see [Music] - intercession [Music] when one since to his friend and he says something about him that he shouldn't have said he needs to do teshuva says Robert I'll make a gun effect for him that the true VAR consists of two aspects Benidorm Lancome Benidorm la Macomb he does the regular teshuva which means he needs to have her attack he needs to regret her what he did secondly he needs to regret we doing he doesn t doing on to Villa and thirdly he should accept upon himself not to do it again that is been a damn la Macomb when we dealing with anatomical wrong he needs to go to him and asks him for Manila and Sue forgiveness and he adds the following words the film had know you're dying clown music although his friend doesn't know anything that you spoke about him still so if like a lot Lomas anecdote he needs to reveal to him and tell him this is how and this is what I did that was wrong and I'm asking for forgiveness and for that or besides Al and asked the prophets for him that it doesn't work out how could you go to your friend and tell him something that will cause him an embarrassment and we'll bring him pain because he doesn't know he spoke behind his back when her first Rahim asked or besides a land to give him has come up on his famous surface for him lava soil salon said I can't it has this jalapao V here that I don't agree you're gonna go and tell your friends something that will cause him pain that's impossible a first time suggested maybe you should give that gamma and write in the house gamma that everything is correct except this Aloha says well he says a lot no impossible because people not don't read necessarily all that has gamma they just see that I gave her okay on it and there's a holla Harvey here that I disagree with and it did not give the café's famous comma because of that hahaha Ravi soil silent held that you can't reveal to your friend what you did wrong him rather that scene it would be unresolved says Novi truck silverstein that even her fat Rahim would agree that if revealing to your friend the sin would cause him to be angry at you will bring a capade I would feel bad towards you he would bring him a rocket a fight between you and him even her first name agrees you shouldn't tell him secondly love crying kosnovski says that if you will by telling him cause him to hate you and violate the issue of law it is navigable Vava you shouldn't reveal to him even according to the opinion of the prophets for him but from a shaman adds that if he causing him to be embarrassed even the cafetorium agrees that you shouldn't tell him because it says in the Torah the Lotus olive thread that's a love daylight that the Ramban brings down to in cause somebody to be embarrassed and therefore this is super over here would be also according to the facts for him and one should not tell his friend about what he did says kaha move Agha so therefore what should you do since you have so many problems over here resolving this threat this thing that you did to your friends that's the harm over yeah the solution is just tell him to forgive you if you did anything wrong and when you do it general like this you resolve that that if he forgives you it's somewhat forgiven if shaman shaman says that this doesn't completely helps because asking in such a fashion although it gets you some kind of kappa but not a complete capella but that's better than causing him an embarrassment that's better than causing him pain that's better than causing a fight between you and him and so many different things and with that at least you get somewhat of a couple'a that teaches us how much one needs to be careful not to hurt his friend and had to come to such a scenario and situation that you'll have to bounce between this McClurkin of the cafetorium in our soil salon [Music] ah gonna say Li heart [Music] go [Music] [Applause] [Music] very slow but make love eat Oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Oh [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] No day Oh it's [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] one of the things that we engage in in the course of these days that behemoth ll young meme no ROI in the days of awe is an attempt to try to focus on where we need improvement and we do that we do it successfully thank God and then we get to the pinnacle of the year where is Neela I know hipper we've been fasting it's been a month of ll Rosh Hashanah and then we're fasting that it towards the end of the day of Yom Kippur we are standing in front of an open Ark and at that point we have really reached the highest level that a Jew reaches in the air and we really are committed and devoted to avoiding past misdeeds improvement for the future however it seems that in our heart of hearts we seem to sense that we're not going to be able to maintain that level and somehow even though we promise Hashem that we're gonna be good and we're not going to speak ill of other people and we're not gonna end kosher food and everything that we promised somehow during the course of the year we tend to dip a little lower sometimes than we would have which to so what is really all about what is this process of L o land that Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur what is it all about what are we trying to accomplish here so imagine the following you know manager the guy is sitting at the Olympic competition for the high jump yeah and he's sitting there with his friend and he hears on the public announcement guy says ladies and gentlemen at the high competition we have the honor to have the current world-record holder bill Murphy is here with us today in the stands he is still the world-record holder at eight feet and the high jump so bill turns his friend Bobby says Bobby I can't believe I I set the world record I mean look at me now I can't even jump into bed how could I have possibly jumped eight feet it's about who says the bill you know what you're right right now you you can't but 20 years ago when you were focused you had a goal you had a trainer you were watching your diet everything in your life was devoted towards that one cause that one goal of trying to get over the bar as high as you at that point in your life you set the record and you raise the bar to the highest level that is to a certain extent what we're trying to do we don't have yom kippur every week because when something comes around it too often it loses the impact what we're trying to do any I'm Kippur Rosh Hashanah is that one point of the year where we try to muster up the energy to set the bar as high as we could then we could step back and look and realize you know what in the rest of the year although not permitted if I do dip I still realize how high is an individual could actually reach and then the next year because I've made that effort and I've set the bar higher the next year I come to L o and Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur and I will set the bar even higher and what happens is that in the passage of time maybe 10 years maybe 20 years maybe 50 years but ultimately what happens as a person sets that bar very high and then in the course of the year when the inevitable dip takes place although he drops the lowest point 20 years down the line will be higher than the highest point that he's reached at this stage of his life and therefore it's a process Judaism as a process L is a process life is a process it is if you will three steps forward and two steps back as long as we constantly make those three steps forwards we ourselves will look back eventually and be pleasantly surprised at the level that we reached how high we set the bar and in many case a level which we ourselves if F's earlier we would never believed we could get there but if we keep on plugging away eventually we get set that bar high as a world record [Music] another humming I ski family moving ballet effect I'm cloud Eddie slide [Music] Swati Natal [Music] the scheme a sign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] who shall [Music] the bubbly rubber once said something amazing about Ella we all know that ll stands for Anila David ideally the simple meaning is Aniela Devi I am dedicated to my friend Kavya Hashem and hopefully dirtylee that Hashem will be dedicated to me and will bring me everything that I need but the Baba rebus said that it stands for Akkad Lakatos record Leela what does that mean effortless Otto's record Lila so he said that sometimes when we stand in L o and we look back at the previous year and we think you know I really didn't davon the way I was supposed to I didn't learn as much as I should have I didn't do as much that said as I should so I really have to improve so we look back at the year might have been with maybe too much cantos and now we have to improve but then there are those people who look back at the year and they say to themselves you know I was at the Duff every day I'd done with a million three times a day I did the best that I gave the right amount of stalker so for that person what does he do he has to go higher and higher you can never remain at the status quo and so therefore whether somebody's in ethyl hot acid or an ethyl Allah that's what lol is all about and come to elevate ourselves in rosh hashanah that says she made sure William Cooper until hoshanah Rabbah many of you know that I have the Great's horse every year to go to places where Yiddish kite flourished I've taken since 200 three over a thousand people maybe it's already 2,000 people to various places whether it's Lithuania or Poland or Frankfurt Prague Vienna Morocco Spain and this past summer I went to a place that I had never gone to before and that was in the Ukraine now the Ukraine of course was the beginning that's where all the cities arriba started whether it's the baal shem tov and the market of miss rich i was surprised to learn i didn't realize that herb knock on a breslav was actually a great-grandson of the baal shem tov now when they were alive it wasn't called the Ukraine was Poland but Russia eventually annexed it and it became part of Russia and then part of Ukraine and so we traveled places but the very first day that we were there I took the people to a very very sad place many of you may know of the place and it's a place where 34000 Yeadon was shot all at one shooting and that place is called babi yar it's right outside Kyiv and I told the people as we came there their crime can have ski has said many times that any place where you died I'm kidding I said that is a mahkum collation that is a place that is appropriate mm there and so we were going to go to this gorgeous forest which we did and we came there's a big menorah that's in the center of the forest and that's the monument and the memorial to those 34,000 it happened in September 29 and 30 in the year 1941 as we said that was the largest shooting massacre and the entire war of course we lost 6 million but that so many people should be shot at one time that's where it happened I was just about getting ready to speak I had my notes I had prepared I did a lot of research about everything that happened and then all of a sudden as I'm about to walk up to where that Manoah is the way I was gonna stand and speak I noticed a stone now I didn't when I was doing research I didn't see a picture of that stone and the stone was maybe 3 feet high and 2 feet wide and there was a plastic that was engraved on that stone and that posix shook me to the core because it was the absolute perfect plastic for what we were about to witness and experience and talk about and then it occurred to me that it's the perfect pasta as we go into lol as well but the plastic that is engraved on that stone is the words vanish em says Takei and after he killed him L coiled amay Oheka soya came a lineman Adam oh what a dramatic classic to put at babi yar the Bloods of your brother are screaming out to me from the ground and I told the people that Rashi brings two explanations why does it say the Bloods he killed heavily killed one person so some say that kyon didn't know to kill someone so he stabbed him many many times and that's why I bow one of them was bleeding from so many different places that's why it says coiled - may the Bloods of heaven but then Rashi has another shot and Rashi tells us that it wasn't only heavily Lucayan killed but it was his children and his grandchildren and his great-grandchildren all the day race that would come from heaven were now gone forever and I said to the people if you make us husband that happened in 1941 if each of those 34,000 would be alive and each one had two children so then they would have 68,000 children and if those 68,000 had two children each from those it would be a hundred thirty six thousand grandchildren and today those people who are born in 1941 have already great-grandchildren and that would be two hundred and seventy two thousand Jews that would have been alive so six million is a lie it's not six million at sixty million and thirty four thousand that's how many will kill that day but really it's the daily race and I said to them when we think about that as we approach ello and Rosh Hashanah we have to remember a certain Gomorrah that everything that you do has an effect not only on you put your children and your grandchildren and your great grandchildren and the Gemara rosh hashanah lama base on base tells us see freak I am vociferous him suit him the fun of now we always think and we understand that when Hashem is making a judgment India may hoddan so there's the safer I am who's gonna go to the book of life and rock monoliths lon the safer of mothers but my fortune weren't different you know what it means the zipper amazed him those who died years ago but if they did something that is inspirational and we learned from them today so then as Shama has Analia on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur so it's not only the sifrit I am all of us are in the sifrits I am the what a Shem is gonna judge us for the next year we are considered as a freak I am the C freemason of those who passed away and so everything that you do whether you bench out loud whether you come to shul on time whether you talk during darling whether you give the actual amount of Meister that you're supposed to give your children know that and your grandchildren will follow it and the great-grandchildren will follow it and that's what we have to remember we're not living only for today that which Davis has said to kaien about the future generations of Neville it goes for us as well for every good deed that we do or has for solemn any other way surely we must deposit eons ago [Music] I'll call me Lata peeler in a least unavailable the Avanti she'll tell be done very funny behold because the Mito [Music] neshama [Music] let's go door [Music] for me [Music] for me [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] after Michelle Robin was in harson I and received the Torah head chef would he comes down and he sees that I'm a sailor singing Ratigan he takes the loo hot the tablet and he breaks them that happened on you dying better mood you time with a moose mr. blonde hood or shall be no essica - whoohoo afterwards and that he should forgive I'm soiled he goes back to house tonight he stays there for forty days he stays until Rosh Hodesh annual on Australasia you'll need to excel Oaxaca doors woohoo that's what Russia says in polish at a curve that time will surely be no the gates the rich soui is a appeasing ha kadosh woo who is able now to go and accept Lukacs niort blue Hotchner ought he receives in the end and that happened in yom kippur women on the other keeper women who says elastic is Vanessa gonna be two cats cat para in life she says best Impala shown of Rashi bow by Omni trataka dodgeball who'll Israel that's in verse for the schedule family animal shapes slowly hush neighborhood go and carved new tablets my salad mmmm mashallah been we're enhancing I in the other forty days in SoCal in Oaxaca poem which ended on young people baba Romney tragic adores Rahul Israel best simcha there was two literature twice a kadosh whoo-hoo reconciled with armed Israel the first time in to us just to receive the second report the second time is Nitra table simcha to be Maribel forum Israel for whatever they did Vimala la mouche Salaf Tee tee ta ha ha she adds and says la casa la mochila village leha baritone Shalem then on yom kippur will occur - woohoo completely appeases moshe rabbeinu and Moshe Rabbeinu reconciled akka - moo-hoo and with that they are combined again to be united and that's the reason we have Yoma Kippur women as a day of Jehovah Kabbalah a day that will receive atonement for all our sins if that Hamim explains that way that the first ritual was to receive the second report and the secondly to Yom Kippur will is to get the connection with a kadosh ball who bound again to the way it was before they sinned in material and therefore I'm soil throughout do different things in Australasia you'll throughout the month of Elul their scanners employ - a foul - fela deem start doing silly hood every day they wake up in the morning to say Slee hot thusly heart should be said as the belly or it says the chef fell cold which means with a low voice you can't just sing it out with happiness it needs to be bashful cold cold AHA Newnham with the sound of plea of Mercy the Elliot explained that needs to be letter by letter it needs to be said word for word you can't just swallow words you can swallow letters and the most important is we then live a lot volume sure mouth should pay attention to what he's saying via a mukbang go in-depth understand how they relate to you Shinae amount of pasada que nous vena cava finish over Aloha we will search our ways and we'll return to you and that's the reason as Oliver yah-ha-ha Ovadia brings down that actually hot has Li ho dose Lahore needs to be baked Ivana with the right intention benefit slowly be me to novotna said with humility will be flattered you'd given me thought well ahem and no criminal mouths before me would rob a person that reads this report quickly goes to it very quickly doesn't pay attention to it sings it's very quickly lawyer fills him with a little ever tell me in a gamelan one baby tune the words of Muhammad yeah they need to cancel and don't do it that way rather slowly and the most important thing put your heart into it [Music] me [Music] it's carve a lien on a second [Music] ah Oh [Music] the tongue [Music] to me come there [Music] who smile [Music] Oh do not tell me the beauty come [Music] do you mean do you see why come on [Music] you smile you dare [Music] bloody mean come to you till world [Music] Oh [Music] the Talmud says Ginola chuhwa Shama gas at Keisei ha kavod repentance is so potent it reaches God's throne so to speak there's a very very important message for all of us in that statement you see when Yaakov Aveeno Jacob was wrestling with the angel of Ace of the famous wrestling match so the Torah describes their wrestling as ye of goo they battled and the word ye of Akoo is related to the hebrew word a vac dust because when two people rattled with two people wrestle their feet kick up dust and the Talmud makes a very puzzling statement it says you know how high their dust went that doesn't all the way up to God's throne now we have to ask ourselves why are we interested in how high their dust was kicked up and the answer is that symbolically the idea is that the Torah does that report jacob's victory the Talmud does that say the victory went up to God's throne it says the dust of the struggle went up to God's throne that means our job is Jews is not to emerge victorious we certainly would like to emerge victorious over the evil equation but it's not our essential job our main job is to fight against it we have those battles every day we have those battles at LL we have those battles the rest of our life but as long as we engage in battle then dust so to speak reaches so high our efforts reach God's throne gaedola chuhwa show my Gaza kisaku vote if we make the effort to do Chava we may not be under present successful but our efforts reach God's throne [Music] literally to show the team because Christie McCawley be the CEO Todd Lee Clow the leash party early the sugar team because of king [Music] the shoes the tenets [Music] tissue [Music] the Shiva [Music] because [Music] she [Music] the shoe [Music] the sugar [Music] ha ha ha okay the cool besides me [Music] we'll give it to you [Music] when we think about chuhwa our minds go back to other Mauritian the very first man Adam was given one Mitzvah not to eat from the eight sadhus not to eat from the tree of knowledge but he transgressed he ate from the tree of knowledge and he was expelled from GaN Eden he changed the course of man things would no longer be the same Bizet Ossipon thought I left him by the sweat of your brow ually bread how different man was after other Mauritian but what happened autumn he went to the river gijón he mer stin the river up until his neck he stayed there in for seven weeks he went through today's him he fasted and he begged Ascham for repentance finally at the end of those weeks he said I am on a courtesy I have sinned before you and GaN Eden but now that I'm here I did shuva i repented I am sorry and I regret everything that I did Hashem please show the world that there is something called chuhwa that all the ensuing generations can say Adam ditch over I can also do children I can also repent Hashem said so lofty kid Bravo you are forgiven you are pardoned and in addition Hashem gave to him the special beggin of the coin Gothel imagine the high priest where's the bed and Adam the one who sinned indeed chuhwa where's that bed how beautiful it is it was after the second world war that there was a man who went from Eretz Israel he went back to Poland and he was looking for a remnant he was looking for memento as a tur of his father his father was well known in Warsaw and when he went there he spent a few days he could not find a trace not one memento as he was about to leave he heard that in one of the homes there was the puros there was the Ark cover for the Holy Ark and they had used it as some type of a bedspread as a cover for one of the beds that the Nazis had taken over that house he ran and ran he broke into the house and there he seized on the bed the process with his father's name on it he took the process and he hugged it and he ran to ask asylum he went to rubbish read and he asked them now that this professor has been put through such Touma such filth and uncleanliness who knows what the Nazis did with it could it ever be restored to be a professed to be the curtain in the Ark in the synagogue reverse tree said no matter what that parottas went through no matter who tried to defile it no matter what happened to it it never loses its kedusha returned that protest to its place to its proper place in the synagogue over the are encoders and so to a Jew no matter what they were through no matter how they were defiled no matter what happened to the Jew they always have their holiness at any moment that you can do chuhwa can repent and be restored to its former glory [Music] Cheryl okay I'm sorry a miracle of Yahoo shall I [Music] ok2say [Music] a big thing are you [Music] the only scruffy keyboard machine [Music] Oh God [Music] [Applause] [Music] okay [Music] vishka kept all day Madhavi machine [Music] [Applause] [Music] okay [Music] we better be available is a pursuit that says Ania Shana Willoughby air sometimes the person the unnie will be sleeping Willoughby era I'm alive stole my heart is pumping and I've still got the vitality of life but uneasy Sheila that Annie is not alive is not passionate because it's encumbered by all these undesirable elements so Ania Shan arveleï be air our challenge is to wake up the heart how does one wake up the heart the heart gets woken up as we cleanse it as we purify it and in the same vein there's another pursuit and it says it's one of the first so Kim that is brought down that is mentioned in the cedar at Villa NEC root Villa VII needful a tea lahar Hashem a trot song let's analyze that Vani I when it's the real I it's the unencumbered I it's the I which is pure that Annie which is in that state of purity Vinita Lahti if that's the way I pray when I appear before a sham in prayer it's the real and that's the real me it's the me that's been all the layers of sin and undesirables have been peeled off when Hashem sees that kind of Villa arriving for a needful a t-then Lahore sham a trots on then Hashem will view this off this is a time when I can evoke all the mercy when I can give him all the bounty of good that Hashem so much wants to give us but he wants to give us all the good in this world and in the world to come he wants to give it to the real me to the real Ani the knee which is unencumbered that is our challenge Varni when we appear before a shaman Fila let's take off all the layers let's peel of all these undesirable elements let the real me B's coming before chemin Villa that the real me become before Hashem to Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur even to support the real me we'll be able to really be some ash so again our challenge is Ania Shaina sometimes my unnie is dormant why the dormant because it's all engulfed and covered up with all sorts of undesirables let's peel them off the process of peeling them off is teshuva is getting back to coming back to our ship and it's it's a simple process let us not think it's a sophisticated process that you need all kinds of professional craftsmen to help us get back to our need it's one of the greatest gifts to mankind this gift of Shem gave of chuhwa he said if a person really repents and a person really does some self-examination and he really probes deep into the depths of his soul and he sees oh I've gone wrong there I can rectify that he does some real deep soul-searching that action is something that's the way you peel it up says there are bomb the great Maimonides who wrote a fantastic compilation of the laws of teshuva of how one approaches teshuva the hill her true valor ambam the laws of shiva and the Rambam there he puts it all down and he giving instructs us very simple it's a simple process how to get back to that real unnie who we really are that's the way we do it through the process of Chava it's something the Rambam says is so great that all true Varsha my god our kazakh board the moment a person starts indulging in this process of true VAR of cleansing himself that the real arnie will be there it is so beloved to hashem that everything we do and think and say who gets registered but this goes straight up advocacy akka board straight up to the throne of glory it is so desirable shame he so loves us when we make Chava when we have little feelings of remorse of little things of how can I improve when a person has this then it goes on a Kazakh board straight to the very very top to the very very right into the into a Shems presence and he embraces us and he says oh my child my son is trying to repent he's trying to get rid of the excesses I will help him and Hashem says anneal it or D he's coming to me with an e he really wants to be who he really was when I created him he wants to be really get back to the very source Dodie Lee I will help him I'll be with him I'll hold his hand and in this prayer in this manner he will be purified and that's the concept of True Vine that's Aniela daddy then daddy will be Lee [Music] I'm highly [Music] by no never [Music] oh yeah [Music] yah-ha [Music] [Laughter] [Music] you know through a balloon we beseech with back we ask for Allah we provide Braille Umbreon please give me a Shanah Tovah o me to God now one second what is the difference between l'shanah Tovah and I shall America why we're asking for both where as infrastructure and a good year what's the difference is there differentiation between a good year and a sweet here so I gotta tell you a story that I read from rabbis that crying he says you know there was once a Rosh Yeshiva people had to go and raise money so you went to the home of a doctor and you're not going to doctors door doctor came he brought him in and it was very gracious he gave him something to drink you give him someone to eat and then yes the rabbi rabbi how can I help you there I said listen my Shiva is suffering we're five right we're financially unstable and I need you to help us out so they're outside the doctor said okay no problem around boy I will help you on condition that you answer one question server I said sure one question how can I help you the doctor turns around and says listen think about rights tall ship at all fee lagina the greatest of doctors are going to gain now so the doc this is a wait a second why do you people I help you know how many people I make I heal you know many people I give antidotes to you know many people that are suffering and I'm able to quell to quash their pains well I show you how to gain them because I'm a good doctor so rabbi thinks for a second he says you know why because sometimes doctors have gafas and a person has gods I spit them out to tell what I said ah so that's why a good doctor go Ziggy now doctor says I'm sorry I can't accept that answer for all the good that I'm doing full of benevolence i bestow upon other people that's gonna get me a place in Cana I'm sorry rabbi I'm that satisfying the rabbit goes back and yes as soon as this listen if anybody can find a better answer please go you'll help me Shiva so student says you know what I think I've been answer he goes to the doctor he knocks the doctors door and he comes in sorry said doctor I think I have an answer why the talk sh about all phim I'm going thinking Nam doctors please by all means what's the reason the I says listen every day to make some mistakes once in a while I might lose a life and that's why you go singing up she said doctors wait a second I'm not doing that on purpose if a person loses a life and he's trying to help he's trying to assist he's gonna go to gain up for that I'm sorry I don't accept that answer so the student comes he comes his rabbi says rabbi tried I'm sorry throw it says please if anybody could come I'll come up with a great solution to this quandary to this query he'll be doing a pigments van so he hung about Holden says rabbi please let me go he goes to the doctor he knocks unlock the door and the doctor comes in he answer the door the guy comes he sits down and he says doctor I think I have an answer he says what do you mean I say you're us why do the best doctors go to gain up I have an answer she says please by all means sit down the hole comes the church the doctor says you have nothing to worry about you're not a good doctor so doctors wait a second you came to my house insult me he came and you're putting me down to my own home get out this is no you don't understand what does he mean toship I don't feel right again now what do you be the best doctors go to Gangnam I don't understand he says you know sometimes a doctor has to amputate I thought that I hurt a patient in order to save the patient so a good-hearted doctor says listen I can't do it I can't amputate I can't like I can't do surgery on such a person and what happens the patient dies that's something right that's why the doctor goes to getting on because it was good hearted but a real doctor who's gonna be benevolent I'm gonna be kind and he's really gonna be effective he comes in he saves lies he's not going thinking that you know everything we do in life Buddha Elam is good to us the government say but I thought that summer summer fit right call by now the top of e-everything what a lot of dogs is good it's wonderful but it's not always sweet first person was just a job is it good yet but he long did it it must be good a person is fighting with his wife it must be good a person has certain tragedies in his life it must be good - a lot over everything God does is good but is it sweet we are supporting alambre employees I want this year not only to be good because everything you do is good but I want it to be sweet I want to be tasty I wanted to be appetizing to be able to smile every night before I go to sleep I want to be able to smile every morning when I wake up I want to be able to smile at my spouse and my children I want to be able to smile at the yeshiva when they ask me for tuition to smile at my children's teachers because my kids are doing so well yes that's what we as put LM for we don't only want a Shanan Tovah we want to shine a TOEFL me - can we want a good year and we want it to be sweet as well [Music] till uh messy laughs be shy [Music] love me love me love me shuttle me better fish on their culture [Music] Nayla hey so uh [Music] taking them [Music] Oh bishop [Music] you thank you very much for joining us we hope that you will take messages of inspiration help yourselves 4ll with Russia Shana for Yom Kippur and we'd like to give a special thanks to our singer talvik Dean and to AVI Aaron's band thank you very much from he Deborah be sure [Music] Bashar Bashar honey [Music]