Inspiration, Halachos, & Mystical Secrets of Selichos

Okay, good morning everyone. Welcome. Today's shir is dedicated in honor of very and special fest. Today's his mitzvah. What's today's today is yud baritzvah zman fest. his parents. You should welcome him down to the >> together with your father. Okay, so we're starting to prepare for the uh I want to focus on a few uh that are said in the beginning of We start by saying the first thing we say is you're correct, Hashem. You're righteous and we're ashamed. We don't have any complaints against you. Whatever has befallen us is we're deserving of. We have no excuses to make. We have nothing to say. We have no justification. By the way, in some of the original they spelled the word wrong. They put it as a shin. I remember it's we will seek out our path. We will investigate and we will repent to you. By the way, where does it say that? It's a but what it says over here. It doesn't say that's not the but that's how we say it in the now it's very important to focus on this uh we will search and we will investigate and we will do chuva what's the big investigation why do you have to conduct this uh investigation just identify what you do wrong what do you mean we will search and we will investigate and we will do chuva. Why? Why do you need to search? Why do you need this big investigation? You know what you do wrong. And the answer is no, you don't. Nobody thinks they do anything wrong. Everybody thinks everybody thinks they're hunky dory. You ever hear that expression? Everybody thinks everybody thinks their dining is okay and their learning is okay and their bay is okay. Okay. The only thing is none of them are. So in order to determine in order to be able to do chuva, you need to do a full-fledged investigation. Without an investigation, you might as well skip lol because you're not going to come up with anything. That's the secret of Chuva. By the way, we once pointed out that uh every month of the year, the month of El is alluded to throughout Tanakh. There at least 40 to How many are there to Nissan? None. How many are there to none? How many ramim are there to kisslave? None. When it comes to lol, you need a raz. Now why why all these ramazim for to? Why do you have all these ramaz? And if llo is so important, the tur should just write. That's it. Why do you need ramaz to l? You ever hear the expression for for it's enough to make a So why in LOL are we reliant on the we're assuming you're the answer is for the month of L you must be a you have to investigate because if you don't have you will never do chuva therefore we're appealing to your sense of we don't tell you right out lol lol lol ories to it to indicate that in order to do chuva you need to be the then we say not with acts of kindness not with good deeds do we come before you but like poor impoverished individuals we bang on your door. What does it mean? The simple meaning is we're saying to Hashem and we should have two when we say this. First of all, we say we're coming to you. We're asking you for another year of life, another year of happiness, success, the blessings of life. We do not have any actions in our repertoire that we're deserving of any of your blessings. We're saying we're come we're empty of we're not appealing to you because we deserve it. We're we're coming to you undeserving. We have no we don't have good deeds to capitalize on. We're not coming to you with in our back pocket and saying because of these good deeds you owe us a b and c. No, we stand before you impoverished of that's the simple of however if you look in one of the he records that when he was in he heard the granat speak before one year and the granat said as follows. The granad says we come we tend to stand before Hashem. We come to Hashem during during and we say we have a house. We have a family. We have life. Please continue it. We're the we have the presumptive status. Just extend the lease. No, we have nothing. We stand before Hashem without a home, without a family, without life. And we have to ask him to give it to us in the first place. We do not feel mo on any of the benefits of life. When rashash shana comes the lease is over and we need to renegotiate. So we stand before hashem literally completely impoverished of all the blessings of life and we need to appeal for a new lease not to continue it. There's no continuation. There's no muk. In fact, there's a famous lambda shakasha. You ready for this lambda shakasha? Most people they get very worked up. Comes rash, you know, they're standing, they're swaying, they're with great emotion asking, "What's the big deal?" The gar brings in rash. We're judged every day. So what is so what's the big deal about rash shana with the honey with the pomegranates with every with the shaar there's a daily thing every day hashem judges us so what's the big deal about rash says the rest of the year yes we're judged every day but the way the judgment works is hashem says okay you're healthy you're happy you have all the benefits let me see if I should continue it you're the muk and let me see if I should continue it. When we're the it's not Hashem's not going to be so quick to change things. Comes rash all bets are off. There's no more there's no more. We start again. So therefore we say we stand before Hashem impoverished poor. By the way, I just want to uh tell you a that I saw last night. You know, in some places uh the goes rather quick. Question is what's the to the you know before every you have uh [clears throat] let's say you have You have and then you have the itself here. Let's say okay that's the but then actually that doesn't even have some of them do most of them do let's see >> in the uh let's say before you have and then you have the pot you know. So the question is what is the icker the pod or is the hakdama? And the answer is the issuk if you only have time for one I'll read to you um the writes it's the The pod is a beer on the >> So why you opening? >> We don't in the yeshiva they don't open it. But now why do they >> against the instruction >> also in the they usually don't open but but when they do they open it they open sometimes for the also if you look in the art scroll the instructions let's say they'll say to open it now that instruction is almost never followed even in the okay the is the Okay. >> Yeah. That's >> that's the >> Yeah, that's for sure. So if you don't even say the of the and you say that that's the is a request that Hashem should be the >> you know you're asking Hashem you're petitioning the accept my supplication but what's the supplication supplication is the what's was mention that's what it comes out. >> Yeah. Right. Good. Okay. So now I want to bring to your attention something very interesting. First we say we talk about the doors and then your doors we bow we bang down. Why we talk about the doors twice? You know we would call this yeah we're braiding sukim with the same phrase. But why speak about why we talk about twice? Okay, there's a safer on called was written by Rabul Bra. He's one of the Hungarian Russia Shiva. He was the rebi of Obam's father. He was Russ Abbezzen of Kashoi and Ki and Kr. >> How do you say it? Krula kaflam said in barak >> in bar park >> this is Slovakia it's not >> magandarf >> Slovakia >> yeah but for the Polish it's all the same as if it's if you're outside of Poland it's all Hungarian yeah mandorf okay um he wrote a safer we have a safer of his from um and He begins his safer with this question. Why das twice? Why Dasai twice? Okay, so you ready? Fasten your seat belts. I'm going to share with you something incredible. When ate from the and Hashem said to to the woman, what do you do? Remember what the what said? She used a word that we don't find anywhere else in the >> hanashian. Bizarre word seduced mei does not say that word anywhere else in the whole says the secret of the wordi is that hashem has two names. When from the came and he stole he stole twos. He stole the of and he stole the dal of shiny. The wordi is alf from the shame adnos and from the shakai me. He stole two dollars. Now okay now by the way it's a stra because here that is saying that the stole two dalids and yet we know from the that when made from the he began to see floaters you know the doctor says if you see floaters it's very dangerous especially the floating me the floating if you see a floating mem see contact your physician immediately the floating me what happened was it says that she took from the fruit. She took the mem from the word pio and then that me this floating mem combined with vatik vatna v with all these vuffs. What happens when mem combines with >> vavas death? The z says the freed up the meat me. So now we have two things going on behind the scenes. The stole two dollars and he also freed up a me. So which one did he do? Okay, we're going to come back to that. Another Arizal daral says the stole twos. How do you get the dollars back? How do you fix says the says in a lish fortunate is someone who listens to me to be diligent by my doors daily. That's too bad. >> You need to go every morning to the base mish for Tory and every evening. Fortunate is someone who's diligent on my doors. The letter daled >> is not spelled lamemed daled. The letter daled is delos. Look in the garra. Dalid is daled lamemed tough. If you go to the delos of the shul in the morning and you go to the delos of the shul in the evening, you restore the two dolls. You put the dalid back in olive dal. You put the dalid back in shindal. By the way, there's a yakui who has a different version. If you can't learn in the morning and the night your say by let's say a person doesn't have time to learn those twos restore the two missing dolls. So the so if you can't restore the dalids by learning in the B medish morning and night at least restore it by saying in the safer it's also quoted in the safer the mystery and the majesty I didn't even remember it was in the safer says of that's why in we talk about the two doors that's the door of the morning that's the morning or that's the of the second that's the med of the evening or theishes of that's in the but now let's come back to try to understand what did the satan do the satan take two dollids or did he take the mem? How many kinds of mems are there? >> Two. >> There's a me >> and me and me suma. An open mem and a closed mem. Usually an open mem is in middle or in the beginning of the word. A closed mem is at the end of the word. We know there are two exceptions to these. Remember in the says it's talking about when Msiah comes when Messiah comes the me will be sealed even in the middle. What do we learn from here? >> [snorts] >> sealed me represents as opposed to the says perutim. It's spelled one word perutim and the word but it's written as one word. It's pronounced it. It's written as one word and they're in middle of I'm sorry it's pronounced as one word. It's written as two words. It's written h but the word h instead of spelled hey final me it's spelled hey open me in the why cuz they're talking about the walls of which are breached. They're breached. Even though it's at the end of a word, it's spelled with an open mem. So the open mem represents gulus and the closed me represents gulah says the closed me of hamra is an that the gu will come and hashem will close the walls of so the hamra is a toe. Ready? Fasten your seat belts. The open mem represents the closed me represents learning Mishna will bring the gula. Why? Because mishns >> may with an open and it ends with shalom with a closed me. Because our avoid in this world is to take the open mem and to seal it shut to take the prim and to make it misra. That's why a blank elyra aim. Why? Because tyra takes the open me and makes it a closed me. Okay. Next step. This is that this is the from the commentary of but then he says something incredible. He said what is a closed me? Closed me is two dollads. A closed me are two dolls. The two dolls of asham ali the two dolls make the closed me. So how does the Satan steal the mems? Do you know how the satan steals the mem? The first thing the satan does is he chisels a little crack in the sealed mem because the sealed me are the two dollads. You see if we're loyal and dedicated and consistent in coming to the base medish in the morning and the evening then we take the two dolls we seal it shut. We bring the gul. The first step is the Satan weakens our resolve for Tory. Once he weakens resolve for Tory, he takes the closed mem and he opens it up. It becomes an open mem. That's the first step that the Zar says that when ate from the hadas, all of a sudden they see a floater, an open mem. Where did an open mem come from? No, that's the the moment she ate from the closed mec. Now that the mem is open, now the Sultan could come and take the two dolls. In any event, this is a part of the secret of the two doorways that we reference in. That's the delos of the base of the morning. And then the delus evening. Okay. One more one more idea. That's the these the brings. We know that in the in the vid that we say at the end of uh we say we're more guilty than any nation. Really? We're more guilty than North Koreans. What What does that mean? It says we the Jewish people are more guilty than any nation. That's what we say at the end of how are we more guilty than any nation? Right? Isn't that >> a sham? Where is it? >> Right after this. [snorts] So he asked him. So the first thing he says the um are only in on Zitzv. So they don't have a lot of a what's in a for us is mut for them. You know they don't have to wash for shaudas. They don't have you know I I was going to say they're allowed to bring phones into but I changed my mind on that. But but all the things but we're for example they're not it's also even that's one shot. Then another is and this is based on what we always say by the kinos. That's why we had the kinos out. Yeah. He brings the great great-grandfather. The nations of the world are not plugged into the world into the universe. They have no in the when they sin it doesn't destroy in the like we pointed out when tasa lived with the z in the it did not cause as um as great of universal disaster as if a Jew has an improper thought because a Jew is plugged into the system. We're plugged into all the so when we sin it's game in all the but um therefore we say we're more guilty than all the nations of the world. The nations of the world are not connected to the system. So I want to add one thing cuz the next uh line is we're more ashamed than any generation. So simply that means we're more we're definitely more guilty than uh earlier generations and therefore we have more to be ashamed of. But like we uh say over a lot that Hashem's love for the Jewish people is ever increasing. It's Hashem's love for us is ever increasing. So we're more ashamed than earlier generations when we realize when we recognize all the benefits Hashem gives us more than earlier generations when we learn we didn't have the mass in the show the gumaras are sponsored by Dr. Yes, these >> so simply the garra says there's but it for but that should minimize our embarrassment because you know we're not as great as earlier generations. We don't have the same capacity. But when we realize the great outpouring of love Hashem has to us more than earlier generations. So that therefore we're more ashamed, we're more embarrassed than earlier generations. Okay, these are just uh some thoughts on we'll uh continue in the weeks ahead.