Hoshana Rabbah: Occupied by Simcha - Rabbi David Kaplan

[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 [Music] [Applause]