Hoshana Rabbah: It’s Good to be Jewish - Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair

[Music] by the time you get to my age people fall into two categories there are those who exercise and there are those people who are waiting for their doctors to tell them to exercise I go swimming in a pool in the bay i cough now outside the outside the pool in the vehicles there's a basin sink with tillers diamond cutter well when I said this in the Tillis if I'm cut about every six weeks somebody goes out by is one of these little grubby white affairs and it stays there for about two days and vanishes so another six no six weeks go past somebody goes but I'd buys another white looked elicited I am this time they stick it through with a piece of string two days later it's gone six weeks go by somebody else goes on by it's another didn't see dying this time they tie it down with steel cables and two days later it's gone so about two months ago I turned up at the swimming pool and I noticed somebody had gone out and bought this beautiful metal like green owed there Neil you know Nile water colored pale green metal until you see one of these beautiful curved handles on it and I looked at this thing I thought this isn't gonna last two days this is gonna last about two minutes so two days later who's there two weeks later who's there and proposed they say clean her two months later it's still there and I looked at this what's what's going on here so I thought that it's basically a rush Ian passes a curve the beginning process Akers it says boy they keep Tishman as mr. amiss podium ella was smart on a system assumption a seminar care from the home it's a bris versa casa - a nice bar I will say ho that it says for ya a kept ish moon if you will listen to the miss bottom those mitzvahs what a cave there is a strange word a cave really means it's a he'll means if oh yeah if you listen but it's not the most common words or as she comments while you're a Kurdish moon in her mitzvos her colors show them - by a cave of Tish moon if you the myths was the simple the light mitzvahs that a person is prone to - but a cave of trampled with his heel those who will listen to etcetra etcetra a college girl who will fulfill his promises and I thought myself you know it's more ejeta what we were learning last year in good-morrow a white cut the white plastic cap three four or five shekels I'll take that I'll be more a hair time I can rationalize that but something as beautiful as this beautiful thing I'm not gonna take that that's Ganesha that's what I thought my friend EDD gets of dollar I told this to him story to him and he had a very different shot and I'll come back to that in a second there's a very well known y'all cook she mone actually no I think I'll tell you what he said he said I don't agree with you I didn't accept and he told me another story apparently there was a a town where they had this wall in the mentally in the town square which was constantly being filled up with graffiti so they put a sign there no graffiti allowed on this wall what happened was people who put graffiti and graffiti over the sign so they couldn't even bigger sign no graffiti allowed on this wall even more graffiti graffiti banned on pain of X amount of dollars fine even more graffiti so one bright spark had an idea and rather put up with these signs against graffiti they got this artist to come in to make this beautiful mural on this empty wall and the graffiti stopped and he said to me you know why people didn't steal that the Talisa died because when somebody sees something which elevates him see something that says you know something this is a beautiful world what do you want to spoil it for look how beautiful this Nutella sea lion is when your mitts raw men when you raise a person up he becomes a different person when I see a beautiful war with a painting and I think wow work about it so nice that I don't want to put graffiti all over that I see the world in a different way I thought was a beautiful show I said we're saying before there's a well-known y'all could show me that we talk about at this time of year the our kitchen only describes four times some types of jus correspond to the four minimum there's the s frog Jew the Jew like the s frog the s frog has a beautiful smell beautiful taste taste stands for mitzvahs smell represents mass into him there's a Jew who smells good and he tastes good because he has Taurani has my son Toby that's the estrogen there's a little of June the lunar of the palm the palm tree doesn't have any kind of aroma but the date the fruits was delicious so that's a Jew who has taste he has Torah but he has there my sin told him his Raya is lacking there's a Jew the Hadassah Hadar smells beautiful to some him as a Jew who has marcin toven he helps everybody he's on committees but his Torah is lacking and there's the origin the origin the rava the willow the lowly willow it's neither taste nor smell and it says that we should bind them all together and I love a hoppy Micaela these are macapá on these they so to speak each one each section of the Jewish community covers the deficiency in in the others and us together we become the aluminum invincible the weapons with which we go out to war against the a secular world we cover each other there's a beautiful idea they speak about in connection with belong belong what's of the curse the Jewish people and the ended up blessing us and the blessing that's most remembered Marc tofu or levy are called how goodly are your tents Jacob Michigan Oh Sofia Israel your dwelling places Israel and from for Shem explain but what did bilham see he saw that sneer sometimes room he saw the modesty and the privacy of the Jewish people but when they constructed their tents in their houses the PATA him the openings were not Zika neg it's air they were staggered so you nobody could see into each other's house there's an idea that suggested that the d'etat him can be understood on a different level a petal is a pet off that bilham could have cursed the Jewish people cuz for Felina by pointing on the deficiency that we had a pet at the head but the Jewish people that Batak in were not Zahra connect it's there they never lined up so the pillar was him it was impossible for him to serve as weak log a curse into the heart of the Jewish people because this one's deficiency was covered by this one smiler this one's character elevation and vice versa so that's one understanding of the permanent how each one of the Jewish people are able so to speak to to cover the deficient of the other which of course makes sense until you get to the point where we have hoshanah Rabbah where we take the least of those minim and they make a big fossil mr. bird explains where does this come from he says Robert this is take a fresh salad mr. Brue you dollars not to my robber be on sale as a Tillamook douche we take her over on this day as a membranous of the mikdash she Latinas are over how young a local emotion be seen I that they would take on each day under rather pain highest summits fossa mitzvah was performed in the following way the Corleone mischievously Yamaha maybe in Braavos they used to bring in aromas from the outside zouk famous on a car named the car and in part of the avodah was to stand them up I'd see the amis bear from the size and sides of the MS bear boiler on but not till I saw miss Shan and they take them from there and they've waived them well our kilo Ticknor Allah Tala call Shiva come Oh Baloo love and of course nowadays that we have no base amygdala say no Robin so we have a memorandum embrance of this but we don't do it like the Louisville and the S or the arbor minim on all seven days because the little of eastleigh iike minute hora the love is something which is spoken about openly interesting yourself and therefore because it's Turkish like South the member of the rememory of it our performance of the myths for now is all on seven on seven days because as we saw in the in it says in the Ghulam the young mission who minute area after Gavilan even outside the base of my gosh there was the midst of the ERISA for the aluminum so therefore I've Dean and mosaic anemic gosh we make that second the mikdash which was seven days because the a charisma material that's but the Arava delays logic a minute IRA big fooling there is no specific mitzvah to take the rava in the Gulen it was only done in the mid in the dying shad are now bid laws economic - yummy hearts we did for Monday we why do we do it recovery should be lower offer yo Samia now can we do it on the seventh day commercial meekness higher campaign Yasser could do sharper young said there was a greater kedusha on that day Sharia how you McKeithen shove upon min and that's the hawk office that will do tomorrow the Sun Tzu said give me some English higher campaign yes I could do should be amazi sorry how you McKeithen shut upon him Beyonce so that's the macaw for what we're about to do tomorrow think if the arava it's day but of course when we come back to the Alka Shivani it really doesn't make a lot of sense because the Arava is the least I mean we certainly don't have an S word day we don't have a little day what is the understanding there must be a deeper understanding here why does that the lowly Arafah gets its own day Ruth dobut cron glass say to suddenly Bravo it's a mush gear of næss for Baltimore he speaks about the Mitzvah you have the replica mocha pathetic dish but only set for judging people righteously and he has a problem we have a mitzvah to be gamla cashless to judge people the Custis what is this Mitzvah clearly it's a not a mitzvah of DeBoer to go out and tell people you know I saw so-and-so walk you into a non kosher restaurant but of course it must have been to use the bathroom or something like that because clearly you're not allowed to speak it could be loshon Hara could even be revealeth what does it mean that you've done the cuffs loose it's not something you're actually going to to say you can't speak it out so it comes out the whole light understanding of Dhamma customers is something which is going on internally mentally when we see somebody doing someone which is questionable we have a mitzvah to judge them as though they were doing something which was not awesome so he has a very strong question what are we supposed to do we're supposed to fool fool ourselves we're supposed to lie to ourselves here clearly we see something which the overwhelming probability is that this person is doing something not b'seder what are we supposed to do we supposed to fool ourselves we're supposed to lie to ourselves that's the mitzvot are really his words Automation is bone Suzu you have to think about this myth sir shall have Adonis lack of evidence caused the fire Akasha it's a problem FEMA if pass in you don't know son mark shovel the coughs coos he's saying it something else what is the matter what I think our caller myths was the pathetic dish / semicircle who govern sugar macabre what difference does it make hang on to this point is going to come back to it what difference does it make what I think about some other person Tillis up here as I said to actually speak out Zehra Ferran Palacios that's obviously also from the heart hora because of motion hora and the person would be owed very be transgressing the sin of low sale a rocker do not be a tail bear to tell stories about people even if they're not damaging scum gossip is also its Achilles Araki all the word receivers comes to the world of rock and rock ELISA a traveling salesman somebody takes products from here and he sells them over there but somebody who takes stories from over here and he puts them over there even if they're not damaging so rutila's would say that you're not allowed to actually repeat it so if the so in cane what what is the matter on the one man for sure I'm not allowed to say anything on the other hand my hips it'd like me so what lack is there what difference does he make what I think nobody knows about it so Lamar why is the torah' mark Pete on this did on the Custis and he also then says the second point that I said but I'm it's read the pathetic dish grows on me circles the midst of judging your nation favorably mark I Evis Laden is Atlantic the Catskills a field of oil friendship son ask was Mahatma hood I have a mitzvah to be done some of the Catskills even if it's extremely unlikely what I'm trying to the scenario that I'm trying to project in order to to save the reputation of this topic bicycle a lotion a person's intellect is common sense by email I says to him not doing the cough cough what am i doing turning my brain I'm doing cartwheels in my mind trying Keats underscore su my mush hit book Mina Sako the dawn becomes first part of this is absolutely the opposite of common sense in k8f Sharla Lord in the Catskills how could a person be done the Cape's miss McCloud hello your day about swish ain't no MS I know this is not true the Mitzvah cetera gila Cobell from the hoxsey Katsidis cos absolute negative cycle of the midst of the Torah is to take something which is almost totally improper impossible in Canaan insertion who Kumari omarama as Utz votes like a person's I said is fooling himself Michelle is Boroff wrote sir she had long sacrum Yasha the person is supposed to have intelligence common sense say fellas straight mind in the Sun I got P cook a her Seco and to conduct himself according to the laws of common sense why dilution commanders the spotless regale Lhari had smaller doom had von Hippel why don't we commanded to do something which is the absolute opposite of a useless of straightness like a Mexico and to distort the mind the intelligence this is a beautiful answer venir the cachet means berth nos and lon Harbor mitzvahs cheb a nada Mahavira just as a Shen gave us many mitzvahs shiitake listen Lin Toya the harsh wishfully banal me destroyed us many of the mitzvahs are the to inculcate to root deep down in our hearts me the stove us good character traits such as Kecak kindness rahman mercy hemlock compassion kameena marvel of our brios love of God's creations for call a lonely flower be shamed air thought later they come under one category a person many of the misses the Torah are there to give a person a good heart so cane naasson on a chorus girl from mitzvah ark assertion also gave her this one mitzvah obviously if he'd the vermin are one special unique Mitzvah Arthur Shia barroom a mile on the tart Lisa Lynn Toya and its whole purpose is to direct will a harshly specific Lane no professor drew from him cam Lavaca Nina its whole purpose is to implant witness cassette rock Amina and that is for all halo McClure boshane air God say filtered that is fatal to a jewel the distance between the heart and the mind of a Jew has to be zero the missiles of the Torah are not that I'm seeing something over here which is highly doubtful to me so I'm gonna lie to myself no I have to see with my heart they have to see with my heart I have to make it that these mitzvahs mean that my first port of call my point of departure is done the Custis it's not something I have to arrive at by a twisting of my brain it's that my emotion should be so set up in such a way that my first reaction to seeing at Sonic something which is questionable it's not questioned at all for sure this is something which is we say that I don't understand it but the Torah has been mastery in me a savior of Hesed Shia sacral sacral services were after me a sacral who appreciate sorry a sacral of our show fate the sacral judges the dying shadonna McCrea called da ba ba se Kabuto I have a safe out of my mind thinks the good if you think about it if we examine most of our thoughts most of the time and really this is the biggest subject our tendency is to done Don Rodolfo we we tend to look at other people suspiciously that's what this myth is all about that our first a knee-jerk if you like emotional reaction should be this is some this is this is I don't understand that but this is good not that I'm suspecting that's not what the Mitzvah the Mitzvah is that I root inside myself this love this has said it's not an easy thing because the nature of the person is to be suspicious of other people and make sure the person is to see other people is less than himself we don't like people to be as good as ourselves let alone better better that's human nature you know I always thought that the reason why America was successful in Russia Russia I mean the Soviet Union failed was because they worked on two principles of jealousy and one is a positive jealousy if I can call it positive a positive kena and there's a negative cleaner the negative Keener goes like this ha ha comrade you're driving around town in a nice big limousine I'm gonna make sure next week you're not driving even a bicycle I'm gonna bring you down and America what do they say yeah ok guy you got a nice station wagon there next week I'm gonna be driving around in the Cadillac more one attitude is a lot more than you and the other one is you're not gonna have even what I've got the nature of a person is to see other people as less than themselves because why it can't be that I'm the center of the universe and so our natural instinct is to see people in a negative light and we have to that's the way we think this myth sir is work very hard on the customers that's not the mystery the Mitzvah is to inculcate in ourselves and it's a very difficult thing to inculcate in ourselves a broadness of heart a lot of people to see that people actually do good things for the people you know at least as good as me and maybe if I can get that far you know maybe some people are better than me not an easy thing to do how does one do this well the first thing is to start noticing and writing down I'm sure you know if you think about it you've saw in the last 20 years most of your at least 20 years old here the last 20 years you must have seen seen hundreds and hundreds of nice things that people did if I asked you to mention five of them you'd have to start scratching your head and thinking maybe that's an exaggeration maybe right maybe 50 if I asked you think of things that you saw people doing that you thought want to say that we could we could carry on a lot all night of that we remember things that people all these people don't remember good things so you have to start remembering good things that's the first step to inculcating is feeling in your heart so you know for example I give you a very simple example you see there's the somebody driving down the street street and he screeches to a halt and he jumps out of the car why because there's a little toy car that some child is left in the middle of the street and he gets out the car puts it on the side of the street and drives off it's not rescuing somebody from up somebody from a burning building but it's a nice thing write it down and then for example you see somebody governing really nicely in chakras you know by governing myself flailing around I mean you see somebody's talking to the rabbi literally you cease talking to God I saw this nice thing I saw this nice thing eventually what happens as he starts to realize that you know people are actually quite nice people are as nice as me and the ultimate step is people are better than me that's this Mitzvah Donnelly cuffs loose means that I have to inculcate in myself a Satan of Yahshua's of acid to operate from inside myself my natural feelings that I'm the king of the world and everybody else is struggling to reach my ankles the other end of the spectrum I found something fascinating in the nakute in Marana this is this dark etheric lagoon as colorada McCaskill's same subject for our feeling me to who Russia gamma he's going out the way the clunkers thought that even its he said even a Rasha Comet sorry the her pace limps oh boy a sir my octave you have to look even in a totally evil person for something which is good chef ELISA Hamad a Marussia that in that little that could then he's not a Russian he's not an evil person valya Daisy through this remote Savoy ma at Tove finding this small good thing the dawn Orsola cuffs close and Dunning in the customers early days a mala I say bear Ennis by doing this you know what to do to somebody you elevate them different asset of the chromeless same kasha and spoken what difference does it make if I'm done the cuffs course what difference does that make to the world well dobrik Rondo says it makes me a different person he's saying it makes y'know the other guy a better person I'll do they my lat I said the MS the catalyst the York ilaha Shiva Petula by you looking at somebody favorably there is some kind of mystical power which influences this person that brings him higher up he's not gonna steal that Mattila sea lion cub he's in become a better person the Zaire but heinous and he brings a posse containing but all the mouth art that a nourish our it's a possibly means that talking about the day in the days of the world whether be nourishing for old Martin a little bit in a little bit of time a nourish our there won't be any Russian anymore he's learning in a different way that I read in my art if you find that little bit of goodness in him for a no-show he'll stop being a Russia find that little mokuba his bone anta al McCrory overhanging his Fernanda assessing the project look into that on the corner on the place of that vicious that's possibly other guess and it's not gonna be anymore hi Lucia caustic Marcia Laguna Sakura Costco's deposit lu-don in the customers for FLP shot Arroyo who shall wash Adama even though he's a Russian gamma 4pk never lets sorry Atala hop a syllabic a sh limbs of Amato shichong a Natasha and that's what it means they just said odd my heart the pain Russia through that in that little bits that the CUDA he you will raise him up she saw it at all of occasion boy or a death Toshi a slower Burdine you have to look there's no person who does not have something some the kuda of good and when you see that the kuda of good you change it should sonic shuttle of acacia old my heart of a little bit of good she H bar by and it's still remaining in him sheesh I'm in a rush of that the kuda there's no richest letters there evil they're not placing him Chiappa be sure will rush even though he sera she's a Russia eighth of Shasha ain't I knocked over time it's not possible that he's completely evil there's no Jew in the world who is completely evil - Allah aza is a mitzvah he's done some kind of Mitzvah or double-talk may yet be honor for something good in his life even the Arava who's devoid of Torah mitzvahs dozen that khuda and that's what's it that Makuta is the new kuda of his helic mcconnell among the godly soul that spark of kedusha that spark of of holiness that's in every gym that's what's so beautiful that's what's so desirable that's what's worth celebrating today on hoshanah Rabbah we take the Arava which is devoid of mitzvahs devoid of torah less than the kuda of kedusha there's something there and by elevating it we turn it's a shame we bring him to do children it goes further he are four pieces Russia a fair shot as we said this it's impossible there's no good there must be a good sparkling dish at annoyed sir boy Oh dad Toshi shaman or Russia Todd Don Orsillo kaskus that's what it means Don the Custis you are like a judge over this person you have the ability to judge him and race it and is there tomales of the MSE Raisin in truth McAfee over the cuffs was a chief usher share your shoes Petula I need they said by you looking at this person and seeing something good in him that sparks in him here hurry children and that's what it means was there when it says for Oldham heart there ain't Russia it's a healing validation might super her Russia or eight Matt Tony still found something good there Shoshana ain't no Russian partners oh he's not a Russian I leave a sir and his phone on top look now closely into it I'm a cowboy to his place where he named them I know it is burn every scholar aloud McCoy mo oh my Greek also look at where he was fain a notion he's not there anymore he's not in his first place he's moved up through your judging in the dance goes down because schools that's maybe what the whole of the votive today is about now vain the faint saw a shot on him so gum the Axman he's a Jewish so hard on this hog Leo's the sinful Tommy I think that's was a person when he looks at himself he goes through a Rosh Hashanah he goes through Yom Kippur and you know in spite of all the work we do you can still feel about yourself did I really do it how many of us really did especially as a couple of days you know they say that it's not by coincidence that as soon as we finished opening Yom Kippur the first thing we say is for Who I am you have power over my room we're very very fallible very very weak and it can lead a person to age what am i doing he says so many beautiful he says know that a person should look inside himself he should don't himself the counselors in each one of this there's a helical cam in the mouth a godly point a point of kedusha and that's what we're striving for to recognize that the caterer has a limit so he bought gum that's what you say you do a sorry for other loser muroids we said for our fee location issue shaquiesha my skill is talking about some person looks at himself and he sees but he has no real good if he's honest with himself how much selfishness is in a person how much self-centeredness how much even the good things that he does are compromised with side issues agendas as we call for right Sahaba over a la pila Alexander yet ahora wants to bring a person down and say hey what are you here a joke for pique no solo the problem is that person is forbidden to fall into these thoughts right sorry from the face Lindt sir but that's my Aiza motto each one of us is supposed to look even though we're the Arafah G we're in a generation of her origins were in the heel of the commercial aimer of Adam the heel of history Equus of the mushiya the heel the least worthy part of the human body the lease is it part of the human body because thick a needle in the heel you're not gonna feel it and here is an interesting thing the most ticklish part of a person is the foot and that's the generation we're in we feel nothing in a in a sense of receivers but we laugh at everything and we have canned laughter for everything everything is funny everything's a joke and it's easy to get depressed who are we where are we no the son of you to be ugly the son of the US visa in me and I have to find this point there's a point of kedusha rahkshi title to look at himself this point for our shellfish novelist little is like a kitchen it's gonna slack over Adubato hooroar Shogun Kane Malo could seem so him he sees him leaving these good things as we said a full of blemishes hi mr. rorish a gamma Mitzvah Dava should be kaduche as our colossus who campaign Malo panniers agendas mark Shaw a Soros external thoughts a per going in concert a F shallow year poor ISA a mitzvah ABBA Shari kedusha Hazen not Tov it has to be there's some point of goodness and that's what we have to look for yeah and that's what brings us out and to realize and look for that because that's what brings us out on this day this final day of the ceiling it's easy to get into a state of of Yosh Yosh she'll only does the oh she's not logical issues where you lose your does the Arava has nothing the Ramban us at the beginning of passes left lefur but Avram Avena so to speak Springs on to the scene of world Jewish history without any prior announcement the Torah doesn't mention his Milo's the Torah doesn't mention his abode as a shell their falafel leave and I gonna make you into a great nation why why doesn't the Torah spell out for us why it was that the College of all who chose up from the Vino from all mankind the hebron the abraham abraham was the world was created for Avraham a sort of person like a drowned a litter the Shania orit's be Heba Rama Avraham the morale answers the run man's question and says that if the Torah had stated prior to Abraham's appearance his maila's his reasons for his choice then one might think that the reason of his choice depended on those milers and the choice of the people depended on those excellences and if cus Furcal even the Jewish people would sink to a point where they no longer exhibited those excellent character traits of our rama v no then the choice would be revoked it would be a novice at a clear vltava a love which depends on something and as we know in all kinds of love once the reason of the love has been taken away if it's a love that on a specific reason if the reasons taken away the love collapses and so a Kurdish boy who showed us that he loved Avril Lavigne ooh the Edson because because because he was because of because zero distance between cause and effect you know it's like I remember as a kid there was this shoe shop used to go in the front and the door of the shoe shop and it had two mirrors and you know you could stick your foot out and see like mirrors and write hundreds of thousands of feet going in every other direction reflecting mirrors there's no distance between cause and effect that's true love the reason is because because because because there is no because there's no cause and there's no effect the zero distance me cause and effect that's real love that's the love the Jewish people have that cutters programs for the Jewish people a chorus part which showed Moshe Rabbeinu a store house full of scar huge storehouse a marshal Dennis Setzer Karishma who is this for and a Shem second thesis for the people who have no schooling these are fully Arava Jews the point of the kuda when we really get down to it and we understand and maybe that's what he's talking about over here when really has to understand who we are the COTS Caravela said that a vigil understood what it meant to be a pendulum harbor what it meant to be a son of a Shem he chucked the rods on the streets and started doing it again a goose at scale across like that he'd be so happy we're surrounded by things which bring us down Bailon feelings of shortcomings by the cloud depression the statistics with depressions like something like two and every 10 children in America and school children have depression and we're not talking about you like a bad hair day I'm talking about in a serious medication it's something which be sexist low self-esteem I don't have time to now we have to understand that Hashem loves us he created us he wants us to succeed and even if we seem to be messing up in every area there's a point inside me that point of kedusha which is my contact with Hashem which is the Hellenic a mallomar which is completely pure which is worthy I'll end with a story friend of mine call this some Cabos came in cobblers power of names they were on a bus and the child needed to relieve himself the bus driver wouldn't stop so they get to them off the bus and Bnei Brak whoever it was and they're rushing on the street they're looking from somewhere to use the bathroom and they come across this bar pub so my friends about to drag him in there and use the bathroom he's bursting and he looks up at this place he's never seen the place this is what is this place he says is a bit mosaic it's a pop and he explained what it was he said I can't go in here I'm Kadosh Kadosh both who should bless us that each one of us should reach down in the darling tomorrow morning and find that kesha that we have with a college bar who which cannot be sullied by any kind of depression any kind of negativity and we should take that clear the kayak of the Arab regime the choir that even though we know we're bereft of almost everything but we have the most important thing in the world we're a nun cottage we should look at ourselves we should look at other people we should realize the power of our ability to Don the khuskhus to change our interior mental working that we see people who but people are as least as good as us if not better and with that generosity of spirit that should replace the negativity and the selfishness which comes to his second nature and with that effort to change ourselves a little bit and look at ourselves in the whole world and to don the world at the Hustlas so college waffle will be done us our families can all time Israel for you a brothel health slaughter a physician [Music] [Applause]