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Hoshana Rabbah: Occupied by Simcha - Rabbi David Kaplan
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[Music]
good boy if somebody said to me you know
we should really start on time this
isn't a wedding it's not a Jewish
wedding the truth that matters it's not
accurate news events that occurred
because it says for though the portion
say commentaries explain that Pesach is
when I could work will chose the
relationship between God and the Jewish
people as metaphorically the
relationship between a husband and a
wife and pays off is the time that the
Jewish people were chosen as the bride
left after I buy meat bar he says follow
me into the desert and Jewish people are
actually in the category of a a bride of
sorts and then she voice is the
commentaries find out you know the
mountain was dangled over over the head
of the people that Joyce represents the
hope book when the fussing and the cow
get married they have a club afterwards
purser get engaged riches base up then
they go to the Popovich's which is a
choice and then suckish represents the
home that they entered together the
bride and groom into the home together
so we're really in the marriage right
now this is a marriage so we had to
start late we have no choice I just to
fulfill the characters you know was this
is all pre-planned we have hope you
believe that the it's a it was all part
of the part part of the Divine Plan
because this ultimately is Circus is the
marriage between I could as Werfel
metaphorically I put his vocal who
chooses glycerol as the bride so the one
of the themes they were going to speak
about tonight I there was a young boy
this just happened fresh off the press
here in Israel in one of the
neighborhoods here in Israel the little
boy was being raised by a single parent
single mother boy was struggling a
little bit with his Yiddish bike and
eventually he's straight now about 14
years old he's in a shovel and I'm from
Chicago I see Shiva as opposed to the
rest of the world that says he's Shiva
but the rest of the world was jealous
about Chicago and look
we drink pop in yeshiva in Yeshua and
the roof so the the this little boy was
struggling in Shiva and his mother then
it straightened out he started doing
better when his mother noticed a few
weeks before Rosh Hashanah the boy
brought weights into the house he
started he started lifting weights at
pumping iron in the house and Moses it
than why are you doing that so he said
because he read in a book in a safer
sorry written a safer that there's a a
school up a school is what we would call
for lack of a better translate spiritual
auspiciously good luck charm for lack of
a better word and he read there's a
school on Rosh Hashanah to you know they
sell the aleeah's in the shoals they saw
the alleles they saw the various honors
on the show there's a certain school of
to buy the hackable which is when you
pick up the safer Torah so he wanted to
buy the privilege of doing the hack been
the shoal Singh who was lifting weights
strengthened himself in order to be able
to do high before dear old boy so the
night before I showed up he calls the
local rub the rub of the show and he
says that the rub that he wants to he
wants to go into the Sheol the night
before Sonny wants to practice doing
hack but to see if he get leverage on
you know it's a it's not so easy to
rough says okay she takes him into the
show and the little boy goes and he
tries to he does the hog book and the
rough says Tim look you know you're
gonna watch you do it a couple that your
hands are shaking
and tomorrow you're gonna be in front of
the entire shoulder that's a what we
call ink so that Subura you've got the
nervousness because of the crowd of the
show that's there with you I think you
ought to let it go for a couple years I
don't think you're ready for this you
know yeah I don't think you should buy
it this year get little boys
disappointed says okay the next day they
go to show Rosh Hashanah and they're
selling the honors so they get to the I
know for hagwa so the rugs in the self
bought me a nerf aragua then he called
the boy up and he said come here you're
gonna do it in the show he said after it
wasn't a boys capable doing
agua but why should he have to spend
money on it boy once the privilege of
doing hag would let the boy do -
beautiful story so you know there is a
lesson the message for us which is one
of the message of the circus you know
that circus is called
the of the arrow so kisses always
corresponds to our on a coin Aaron was
the one that says I'll say that when the
Jewish people they had three precious
gifts in the desert they had the mana
which fell from the merit of Moshe
Rabbeinu
they had the water the well of Miriam
which is obviously called the well of
Miriam because it was in the merit of
Miriah and they had the Ananya cover
they had the clouds of glory and the
clouds of glory which is what we do su
Castilla took this as a commemoration of
those clouds of glory that the Jewish
people had in the desert
those clouds of glory were there in the
merit of our own accord and since they
were there in the merit of our on a coin
when we do Circus Circus is called the
hag of our own it is the hag that is
committed that is associated more with
them with more than anyone else is
associated with our own a coin know
what's interesting about our honor coin
is our honor coin had a younger brother
his younger brother was called Moshe
Rabbeinu and our quarters were local
comes to vote Robina at a certain point
when mojo beta was in media and he was
out in the desert he goes to the burning
bush and he says you're going to be the
leader of the jewish people once you're
Elena tries to back out of the
responsibility and out of the caner of
the composition of being the leader of
the Jewish people what was his main
concern most Roberta's main concerns an
older brother and his older brother is
going to be very her it's gonna be it's
very very difficult one of the most
difficult things in life is to watch
somebody else's success when something
good happens to somebody it's very
difficult for us to give a person you
know rock monoliths lon somebody goes
through a difficult situation somebody
suffers a loss or somebody as a
difficult situation to comfort a mourner
we're willing to give them morning our
entire heart we empathize with him
totally and part of the reason is
because we don't want any of what that
person has we're willing to give him all
of ourselves and he'll keep what he has
when it comes to success it's very
difficult for a person not to be jealous
of somebody else success I once had a
family member who called me up to share
the good news that he won $1,800 in some
sort of drawing he shared the news he
didn't share the money right now the the
best right now I was really I was just
oh so happy for him
right I would have been happier had the
phone call been in the opposite
direction if I would have called him and
I would have shared the good news with
him and I also wouldn't shared the money
with him it's very difficult when if
somebody's successful in any way in life
it's very difficult we're happy for
Delia we want to be happy for the other
person but there's always a sense
there's always a feeling like you know
yeah but you know I also want to be
happy so it could be any situation in
life though motion of man is concerned
he's got an older brother a motivator is
now going to be the one who's receiving
all the honorees the leader of Jewish
people and keep in mind that our on a
coin during the years that most
Charbonneau was absent so in all those
years the Moshe Ben was in stro who led
the Jewish people in Egypt the leader of
the Jewish people they still had they
had the gun at door in Egypt at the time
the leader was our own Aaron was the
leader of the people during all those
years until God came contacted mantra
man at the Golden Buddha said you're the
one who's gonna take him out
so Moshe Rabbeinu was nervous what I
can't I have might might my brother
Aaron I I'm gonna have the position and
he's older and he's gonna be jealous and
I caught his role who says so most
remaining the POSIX says you have
nothing to worry about because iron is
gonna come out to greet you in the
desert v raha this summer Billy Bo he's
gonna seal and he's gonna rejoice in his
heart Aaron's gonna be happy for you not
90 percent the upbeat not ninety nine
percent a hundred percent happy for you
in your position and as a result of our
Nicoya being happy for moshe rabbeinu
rejoicing in moshe of in a success but a
hundred percent full heart so Ireland
then merits the kosha the chest flight
that the coin got a war that goes over
the heart he becomes the coin got all
why because we rejoice for much for a
minute I want to point out something
here which is a which is something that
is often a misconception
the assumption is you know we see Aaron
Ocoee and everybody likes our honor
what's that he was the peacemaker be
made peace between husband husband and
wife and EBT people our was the oh hey
Sean Road eh ah yes yeah just a
wonderful person and everybody likes our
and so there's almost a feeling you know
yeah he was just born good and every
family there's always one who's like the
good to neshama right in the family he's
it's just he's always one of the kids is
always helping out the other kids he's
that selfish like so there's a sense
that only he's just he's just born good
it can't be that he was just born good
I'm sure he was good but it can't be was
just born good because when God gives a
reward her reward is always proportional
to the effort made in achieving whatever
it is that person needs to earn the
ruler as it burns a reward so if Aaron
was happy for Moshe Rabbeinu and he gets
the potion remember there's a man named
Cora Cora had everything Cora was loaded
the richest Jew in history you know that
Carla the richest true in history she's
probably happy most of the time and Cora
was had the honor he was a he was
thought he carried the Aron Kodesh he
had honor and he had wealth there's one
thing he wanted he wanted to be the coin
got all he wanted to wear that chest
plate he gave up his life in this world
and an eternity for the sake of wearing
that chest plate he gave everything up
for the sake of wearing that kosha see
it tells you that the potion is a big
honor if our own was given that as a
reward that means that I don't had to
work on himself in order to get his
heart in that position how do you get to
that level he had a work to be happy for
the other person you know as well as I
do it's difficult it's difficult to
rejoice in somebody else's success
what's the secret
so the Torah says varaha this Psalm I
believe oh the secret is seeing the
other person most of the time like we
don't even see the other person one of
the most lame excuses that people use in
life sometimes people say you know oh
you know I'm really bad with names I'm
really bad with names ever use that
excuse a oh you don't remember somebody
I'm really a real I'm really bad with if
you're not bad with things I guarantee
you're not better things the other fight
would tell you that somebody would walk
in right now in his name
you a name in his name hampered he
happens to be a guy who is running a
multi-million dollar company and he's
looking for a partner at no investment
and I tell you that his name is kept
Lewinsky I guarantee you you're gonna
remember that name but I guarantee you
first time you know why because you were
interested in hearing the name Oh what
was the name
yeah yeah I see and I'm not even making
the offering you remember the name it's
not even reality remember it you know
why because it was important so
sometimes a person something you're
introduced to somebody and we're so
concerned about ourselves
the recent you didn't hear there because
you never even heard the name to begin
with all you hear is hi this is kind
this is all about that's all I heard
the law I'm thinking about is but if I
tell you that this is somebody who
there's something in it for you
oh sudden everybody oh oh well there
everybody I never remembers their pain
why the Rafah the sonically bow the
secret life is to see the other person
to rejoice for the other person means of
recognition is that all about me I'm not
the only person on the planet there are
other people they have concerns when an
hour on a coin sees the other person the
wrath of Islamic Balibo he sees a moshe
rabbeinu
you have to see the other person so
rabbi who could do that with a kid that
means there everybody like hey he's also
a person he needs something Baraka the
rabbi sees the boy he sees what the boy
needs there was a there's a rough in
Eretz Israel named about from being a
coughs key now this is his unbelievable
story well broken Akatsuki was Rajesh
Shiva that shebeen is Shiva here in
Eretz he shows one-legged Dolan and they
learn 24 hours a day
he had a Caruso on Friday night after
the meal every Friday night he had a
study session with one of the Colo
fellows at his new Shiva so one Friday
night this Colo guy comes walking up to
rev go to puff skis home and Epson
mindedly he forgot that it was Shabbos
and he walks up to the door and he rings
the doorbell on Shabbos he rings the
doorbell and he waits it's a terribly
embarrassing he's waiting and nothing
happens he starts knocking and he knocks
knocks
- ten minutes from get a Huff's keys
where he is pajamas blurry-eyed comes
over to the door he looks at the guy
says yeah oh boy I was so tired after
the meal tonight I forgot we had a Haru
so I put on my jacket
I heard you knocking the knock he woke
me up so you know okay just got me
changed you will sit Donald will learn
so he went to changing sat down they had
their learning session after rev Kenneth
husky was mr. his family member said
that's not what happened he never forgot
a Teresa he never went to sleep and
forgot that he had a learning session on
Friday night rev Kenneth husky heard the
bell ring and he knew that if he would
open the door when that bell ring that
this Cole old man would be so
embarrassed if the russia shiva saw that
he knew this I created Shabbos so we're
gonna huff ski as soon as he heard the
bell ring he got into his pajamas got
into bed and he waited for the knocking
and he came back and he said them was
the knocking that will Gramp though you
shouldn't feel like that's we're awful
you see the other person how is he going
to feel if I go over and I answer that
door they have in I don't know if any of
you ever been to hosta in Israel one of
the one of the difficulties that a hosta
is that when you leave a wedding in
Israel then you have families leave
weddings transportation here is then a
lot of people don't have cars and you
gotta you got a wedding and you have a
husband and wife six kids and now you
got to get home now what are you gonna
go you ruined your whole night waiting
for the transportation getting you
getting on public transportation unless
you're a person who enjoys you know the
crush of a of an egghead bus just some
people who enjoy that sort of thing the
you know some people bungee jump so
people enjoy I get bugs it's you know
the teachers own but most people don't
so this family walks out of the goodness
wedding hall here in Israel and father
mother six kids and it's like okay you
know you're not gonna walk over to the
bus and there's a guy with a van and he
says them where you guys headed they
said we're going through the remote
neighborhood he says all I'm going in
that direction so they get into the van
with the guy any guy drives them and he
steps up where do you live they dropped
I'm passing by your house he dropped
something off right in front of his
house and then they see as they're
getting out that he's starting to turn
the van
move in a different direction because
not in the remote direction so the
father runs over to the windows is one
second you told us you're going in this
direction he says yeah I did I went in
this direction this is the day he said
where are you going so they'll go back
to the wedding hall he says so why did
you take a selfie says listen you know I
know that people come to these weddings
and their whole night could be ruined
because of transportation so I decided
to do a cassette every evening I go and
I parked by the wedding hall when
families come out I tried them as to
where they're going they asked me if I'm
going in that direction the answer is
yeah I did to all I was going to that
dragon see here we are I went that
direction so it because why because I
understand what they're going through
veer off of us off a little bit to focus
a little bit to see the other people
there was a man in Bnei Brak his wife
was completely disabled and he was
wheeling her in a wheelchair listen to
his story he was wheeling her in a
wheeling wheelchair and been summer in
Bnei Brak and a guy drives by also in a
van he says come on get in I'll give you
a ride I'll being I could fit the
wheelchair in he says no no no no I'm
gonna wheel her is where you're going
since we're going certain dinner plates
probably take 15-20 minutes to get their
bike they get there by foot he says come
on out yeah happy and I'll give you a
ride he says oh no I'm gonna we're good
so why why don't you want the ride
this is I'll tell you when he said the
guy said about his wife that when she
first real learned heard that she has
this debilitating progressively
debilitating disease the one thing she
was worried about more than anything
else was that her family members would
be ashamed to see be seen with her in
public once she's disabled and the man
said listen we don't want her to feel
that we ever shaved of seeing her anyway
that were ashamed of being seen with her
therefore I would rather wheel her in
public so she should feel and since that
we are not ashamed at all therefore I'm
going to decline the ride that's the
idea of the Rafah the summit believe oh
that a person is capable of seeing
somebody else now circus I told you is
the kaga of era so the reason it's
called the cog of our own among other
reasons we said about the clouds of
glory now if you pay attention to the
halacha of circus when you build a
circuit
theoretically you could build a circuit
with three walls it's kosher with three
walls most of us build four walls but
circus could be built this looks good
with three walls when in the course of
the year each one of us is enclosed in
our home four walls in our home each
person is involved in his own business
he first evolved in himself focusing on
himself circus comes along symbolically
what we're doing is were opening up that
fourth plank
we're opening up their fourth direction
which means I am able to look out of my
suka and see the other person and the
other person opens his suka and he's
able to see me symbolically meaning
they're off of a summit Balibo circus is
the time where we look out and see other
people and one of the reasons you know
Ireland was the Ovation the peacemaker
one of the things that creates let's
call it a certain amount of friction or
tension is class economic class
difference people of different economic
classes people who are in certain
different stratas tend to gravitate
towards each other I still am waiting
for that meeting with Warren Buffett it
hasn't happened yet he hangs around with
other people right you know he got keep
he keeps trying to make an appointment I
don't have time for her that's all so
the at the end of the day that what are
the class differences is to do it based
on economics and since it has to do with
economics is up it causes tension we all
leave our homes which are permanent
structures you go out we're all the same
boat now no matter what your walls are
made of you've got a floozy side
covering so that if it rains the rich
people get wet too in this hooker they
also gotta go scampering in with their
with their mattresses in their soup
which has gotten diluted because of the
raindrops a person pool goes out to the
circle we're all the same boat here
because it's the of Alan it's Shalom
with Russell a new suit Castellaneta the
sukkah of peace Shalom
we're all the same economically right
now the same way we look out of it so
I'll tell you show you a beautiful
thought what comes
one of the Hasidic masters I made a
brothel before there was a the clouds of
glory where do clouds come from very
you've studied in high school right
where the clouds come from you know
they've got the vapour that rises and it
condenses and it creates clouds I think
that's what the teacher said I don't
remember something like that as long as
it sounds good
so I'm Zack listen I had a teacher in
high school tell you sir I had a teacher
in high school who we he didn't like us
and we didn't like him he was an
ex-marine a brute a crude course
ex-marine and he didn't care for his job
and he didn't care for the people that
he had to be involved with his job which
was us as sophomores in English class in
high school and he had two very annoying
habits and I have it number one is he
would lecture us and he'd point his
glasses at us that is he lectured it's
very humiliating like pointing their
glasses at you the other problem he had
this habit that periodically he would
repeat the last word of a sentence
sentence because he felt that it made
him look sophisticated sophisticated so
in a story which I couldn't make up if I
wanted to I got a pretty good
imagination I could not make this up I
wanted to he was once handing back our
test papers he said those gentlemen the
trouble with your papers there was too
much repetition repetition he actually
said that of course I was sitting in the
front row bit my lip off try not to
laugh and if that was what I learned in
English class that year I learned it
very important most or less than that
you way to talk about doing Hazara and
your studying they you have to repeat
what you learn over and over that's the
one thing that I learned English class
so I remember learning something about
clouds and condensation and probably
photosynthesis crawls into it somehow
I've never understood that
so clouds come from vapour which rises
up so one of the Pacific master says you
know what are the clouds do for the
Jewish people the clouds of glory in the
time of the desert whether they do they
protected the Jewish people that
protected them from the spears and the
arrows that the Egyptians are shooting
our own the clouds are there in the
merit of our own now listen to this
where does the vapor come from that
creates those clouds when Jews are
concerned about each other when you see
each other when Jews are at peace with
each other when there's Shalom among
Jews the way we speak to each other is
different than when we're competing with
each other
then when we're only concerned for
ourselves the vapor that comes out of
the mouths of Jews who are concerned for
each other
that's the vapor that rises up and
creates the clouds of glory symbolically
meaning that if we want protection
Andrea and gentlemen we live in a world
today where you know as well as I do
that the world today is so volatile the
world today is anywhere it's a it's a
it's a powder keg everywhere you look
there's fighting left there's fighting
east there's everywhere you look the
world looks like it's about to explode
it's so so vulnerable
everywhere you look we need protection
we need protection what's the protection
for the Jewish people the protection is
the way we behave that's the only
protect that becomes our clouds of glory
by the letter by alpide Arafat ever by
natural law by natural law we're in
trouble
by natural law we're surrounded by 60 or
80 million enemies and it's only a
miracle that they despise each other
more than they despise us otherwise we'd
be in big trouble the quarters were who
protects us if we are behaving the way
we have to behave we have we merit those
clouds of glory number one number two
the gumar relates the following story
let me tell you amazing story why you
know the Guerra talks about a man named
Eleazar bender daya Eleazar bender daya
was a man who was involved in he was
knee-deep in immorality and one time
this allows her bender daya something
happened as soon he was close to an act
of immorality something happened and
al-ahzar bender daya took a moose or
less it he took it to heart and he turns
to the
mountains and the valleys and he turns
to the cat to the to the heavens and the
earth he says help me out and the
mountains respond in the valleys respond
in the Seas respond of the
constellations respond we can't help you
and Allah surrendered I says a mad of
are totally ellaby it is dependent on me
alone and I was ur bender daya puts his
head between his knees and he cries
until his neshama leaves him and a
heavenly voice comes out and says red
bell la serda vender Diane Mizzou
manelick I a whole Ummah bah he has
immediate entrance into the world to
come do not pass go do not collect 200
strikeouts 'va in a moment you have
another man by the way there was a
student in this is Shiva years ago
student Lucy Shiva who told me came from
he came from a what we call a religious
background and he left the path of
Judaism and he was hanging out in a bar
one night and there was his life
basically he was hanging around the bars
and clubs there isn't some sort of Club
and at a certain point he just said to
himself you know this is really stupid
and he decided the next day too fast he
put on tefillin for the first time in
years the next day came to this new chef
it became from that came came to the
Shiva here today he's involved in Jewish
outreach in one moment a person could
turn his entire life around so then you
find the Gemara says there's a man named
affair delecia Ben avoid who's one of
the 10 million
he's the Rebbe of Rabbi Meir the great
Rebbe mayor in the gabbar he has a rebel
Isha pandava and what do we call him
he's called in the gomorrah's refer to
his half hair the other one because I
hair went off the path why did I forego
off the path
why didn't he also do chuva the same way
Eleazar bender daya did and the answer
is it's an attitude difference because I
fear the Gomorrah says when his father
at his bris wanted to devote him to tour
he wanted his son to enter the world of
Torah it was with ulterior motivation
and his mother was once in a situation
where she was pregnant and she had a
craving for a certain food and it was
life-threatening so she ate in that
kosher food and then affected his
neshama in a certain way you know that
really means you know there really means
Africa's got everybody to blame it was
my father's fault it was my mother's
fault
when other Mauritian and of course
Brooklyn says why'd you do it so what
does other Mauritian says it was the
woman the wife he blames the wife okay I
don't say it wasn't wife's fault but he
blamed her instead of taking
responsibility for himself he blames her
what's the difference we do them in a
loser bender diet that loves her brother
and I says a mad lover tall a yellow B
it's all about me I have to take
responsibility we love blaming other
people
whatever our shortcomings are in life we
always love to point the finger and find
somebody else who we could point the
finger at a nut over tall Oh yellow B
you know review dunno C's reaction was
he heard the heavenly voice reviewed on
us he heard the heavenly voice that went
out and called the laaser bender daya
who is involved in a life of immorality
and the heavenly voice says rabbi Elazar
bender daya has immediate entrance toll
Ababa
Sarah villas are you Dennis he started
crying he says not only he became about
juba yesh Kony Allah moba Shah Abbas in
one moment he acquires eternity and not
only that he's got Smith - he's called
Rebbe
he's called Rebbe look what he could
achieve in one moment or ever you look
at your review not seek was crying so
everybody asks you know what was he
crying about are we should be happy she
was accepted in the GaN Eden and he's
about to but he's called Rebbe what's he
accepted of what's he crying about no
he's crying about he's crying because of
if you could acquire your world eternity
in one moment so what about all those
moments that are squandered what about
all the moments that a person squanders
we have all these opportunities
instantly so on the taste of the
gentlemen you know what happens right
now do you know what we are all of us in
this basement - and only all of us
although all flies show do you know what
we're our status is right now what did
we just finish I don't mean Shabbos I
don't mean how much food is finished
right what did we just finish right
elbow russia shana yom kippur do we
believe in it do we believe in it so
we're all bali to us that we're all
fresh bow Chua's we're cleaners lights
are white clean and that we go into a
circus what what's the connection what
are we doing miss su kiss after being
freshly scrubbed we came out new we're
clean clean is clean as a whistle and
now we go into the circus you know what
we're doing circus did you notice the
common denominator you're in a Sukkah
with ska and then we pick up those four
species which cost us for far more than
anyone in the world could possibly
understand why we'd be paying that
amount of money for fruit which we can't
even eat was the last time you ate a
lulav right when's the last time you
tried eating a nest robe and we pay all
that money in hadass him whoever heard
of a myrtle branch right you know myrtle
was a woman's name and every I don't
even know if I ever met a woman named
Myrtle right and now there's a myrtle
branch I only know it's a name and you
got our robos and he got the fourth and
you pay all that money for it try
explaining it to somebody out there oh
how much was that a stroke oh she was
only $80 for this piece of fruit that's
a cheap one right and then I got home
and found a little black dot so the
whole thing doesn't count
all right go explain that to somebody
out there what are we doing it for and
then we're in a Sukkah
you know why all of these things have
one requirement in order to be able to
make use of them you know that
requirement is they have to be things
that have grown in nature they were all
living you know the message is for us
surround ourselves in a Sukkah with
growth pick up a little of it and etrog
that was growing
the reminder to us we're all Bally tubas
what is this process of doing with Yom
Kippur week lost right a lot of clapping
clap clap clop and if guy next to you
need some help you clop on him do a
little bit you know they're good can
only help a clop clop clop and we became
about tubas what was the commitment that
we made the commitment wasn't just oh
please forgive me I chef I'll be good
for know it'll be good for it with me
we'll be good from now on whoever now
means I am committing myself to grow
that's the only thing God wants from us
make a commitment of growth so we go
from Russia Sharna to a Yom Kippur into
a Sukkah so that we have a reminder that
we're supposed to grow you know I tell
you store in Chicago there's somebody
here who I met tonight is also merited
to be from Chicago and I'm convinced
that anyone who's not is jealous the
probably most people of America I even
convinced it everybody in the world
wants to be American and all Americans
want to be Chicagoans this is just a
theory that I have it comes straight
from Sinai the Sun Chicago there is a
there's a wedding caught there's a
building project called Winston towers
some of you have some of you have heard
of Winston Tower this is a heavily
almost a hundred percent populated by
Jews few years back there's a Jewish man
for a man who decided to build a Sukkah
so he goes in the parking lot he starts
to set to build the sukkah in the
parking lot and a lady comes out Jewish
lady of course comes out and she says oh
no no no no that we left back in Europe
you're not bringing in these these these
old-fashioned buddy calls you're not
gonna bring these customs into America
now you're not building a Sukkah in the
parking lot and she immediately calls
the the city authorities now unlike the
story that many of you have heard about
a man who was once told to take his
hooker down a man was also the neighbors
complained and this van said okay he
told the judge I just need eight days to
today then the judge said okay this is
unlike that start which many of you have
heard this was the man puts the suck-up
and lady calls the city the city Chicago
the city comes over and says sorry buddy
you can't build this you can't build a
structure a hut in the public parking
lot guy says ok so he goes to a truck
rental agency and he rents a flatbed
truck and he parks this flatbed truck
right in the parking lot which is
perfectly legal and I'm the flatbed
truck he then built a Sukkah right right
opposite her window I think right and he
builds a sucker right in this flatbed
right right now that's perfectly legal
do anything you want on a flatbed truck
right he builds it right there
right what's bothering you what's
bothering this lady really what's her
objection to somebody building a Sukkah
in her parking lot I think that there
are two ideas here idea number one is
always that anytime in Orthodox Jew
practices as Judaism the person who's
not as committed its conscience is
bothering him an interesting phenomenon
when I was in high school almost every
knives in here Shiva high school so we
had secular studies in the afternoon
almost every non-jewish teacher to a man
almost every one of them when he came to
teach us he put a yarmulke on his head
and almost every Jewish teacher did not
the secular Jewish teachers about you
know why that is because the Nazi isn't
threatened by it the magic companies
this big deal there why don't we put on
it put on a kick cap I'll put on a cap
take it off it means nothing to me
the secular Jew comes in and says listen
yeah you're not gonna tell me how to be
a Jew he's very threatened by this he's
got to make a point
and his point is I'm not gonna wear this
thing interesting this lady can dine out
but not that that sucker is her
conscience but I think there's something
much deeper you see a Sukkah is what we
call a build Binion RI a temporary
structure and the seven days of circus
you know the seven days of pacer the
commentaries say correspond to the seven
decades of the average life type you
ever hear that there's seven decades the
average lifetime we say Plus hook you
may still say nuba and Shivam Shawano
within seven years the in big lorros
Schmo named shot and if we really go
along go to 80
statistically they've found that women
outlive men by a little bit why that is
we're not sure but women go to about 77
men go to about 73 they've also found
that married men live longer than single
men but that married men are more
willing to give up their lives the the
so so they're they're statistically the
seven days of circus it's a billion RI
circus is a circus is a temporary
structure I think that's what she's
bothered by you see because we all know
that this world is temporary but if
you're living for this world it becomes
a very annoying reminder it's something
that bothers a person a person is living
for this world so seeing a temporary
structure is a reminder that it's all
temporary everything they're looking for
is temporary whereas the person who's
not living who's using this world
because he understands that this world
is a means of establishing a station for
eternity for his neshama then a person
doesn't see that circuit is something
that into the contrary the sucker is the
reminder that a person is meant to grow
we see the souq is something very
optimistic it's something that helps us
to actualize the commitment which we've
made on a russia shana in a Yom Kippur
which of just elapsed so we go into
their temporary structure and their
temporary structures a reminder for us
we live in a funny world I don't mean
funny ha-ha but it is a funny world so
for you have a world where the values
have deteriorated the values around us
ie
I can't even say the values have
deteriorated because there are no values
and I'll check that on the west coast
you're not allowed to use straws right
straws are a threat to the to the to the
to the what do you call to the to the
ecology there it's the biggest problem
they have on the west coast is straws
you see on the west coast see no the
fact that there are drugs and they're
all sorts of people that cannot be
identified exactly what gender they are
that's not a
problems but straws plastic straws now
not now we're in trouble you know we're
in trouble and on the East Coast they
have a law that you know they want to
limit the amount of soda by that you put
in a bottle this size of the soda
bottles because that's the biggest issue
that they have the fact that there's
rampant crime has you know this minor
stuff but a soda bottle pop you know a
sugary drink you know and look out and
if you could you imagine if you if you
combine the two my goodness you put a
straw in a soda bottle I mean you could
probably probably probably bill bring me
a capital capital punishment for that
because that's the biggest problem there
yeah this is the world we look at so
olam hustle crazy it's an upside-down
world instead of dealing with the issues
and then authority comes along it
charges as a listen this whole thing
doesn't make sense I have a purpose I
have a goal what's my goal I have one
goal in life my goal is to grow that's
what Circus does for us circus comes
along and circus as a reminder so
there's a possible and the posix says in
parsha Seita a cove the ahta east row
and now jewish people what is a sham ask
for us only to fear god the ahta east
row and the measure says that this word
that a toe is a reminder to do Chua its
reminder to do jewel we have to repent
the word Virata and now jewish people
you have to fear god that's a reminder
to the chilla so i saw one of the
comedies rudenko like elinsky he says it
doesn't say anything in the puss ik
about doing shiva the puss success and
now jewish me what I asked that you
should fear God and walk in God's Lake
doesn't say a word about repentance
that's a word about doing children they
are to Israel and now Jewish people
what's that got to do how does the
Midrash derive from here a reminder to
the chuva no the answer is the answer is
the ahta now right now right now the
commitment that we've made in an L in a
rush Hashanah in a Yom Kippur and we go
into asuka's and we're singing and we're
dancing and we're celebrating you
Serkis what are we celebrating we're
celebrating their commitment we're
celebrating that viata and now not to
put it off to later and not to wait for
a later opportunity the ahta
all of those things that we've committed
ourselves to a neurosurgeon on am Kippur
the ahta right now we're fresh we're
clean for Bali Chile's every one of us
and therefore Virata we take the
initiative now we grab the reminder of
the circus take the forest species take
the sky one word with this I conclude at
a Rebbe here in the you Shiva tour
Samantha great great town the puffle
that was once leafing through his
notebook I was a student at the time I
was leafing he had a loose-leaf notebook
many of you have never even seen a
loose-leaf notebook right back in the
old days those of us who are were from
the prehistoric age rece a loose-leaf
notebook we have something called a pen
there's actually a telephone that was
attached to a wall could you believe it
and so he had a loose-leaf notebook and
in this loose-leaf notebook I was
looking through it commentaries I'm one
of the great one of the greatest
characters are baekje vaguer and I will
sit leafing through and in the back of
his notebook he had a picture of a
California redwood a Sequoia tree
somebody had taken a picture lying on
their back with an angle pointing
upwards and I said to him what's this
doing in your notebook it expect to see
tonight girls notebook picture of a tree
and it's a picture of this 300-foot tree
from the ground upwards and I looked I
said what's this doing in your what in
your notebook he said to me it's a
reminder I have to always grow
that's what circus is about four species
Scott the ahta and now we grow yeah
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