Kedoshim: Uncovering the Arizal's Introduction To Tefila, The Daily Acceptance To Love Your Neighbor

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay good evening everyone the show is still empty the walls of the shoal are beckoning our return hashem we hope it will be very soon now so you want to just bring me one more one more battery uh tonight's shira parasha's kadooshim is in the bag parshas kadoshan we're going to speak about one of the important themes of the parsha one of the great mitzvos of the parashah and that is the mitzvah of the ahafte the pasik says in perak yotas do not take revenge do not bear a grudge for the children of your people but rather what you should do is via you should love your neighbor like yourself ani hashem so this is the mitzvah of the so we tend to think of this mitzvah as a mitzvah that when we encounter it when we meet somebody else when we uh encounter another jew when we have a circumstance where there's an interaction so we know the gemara in chabas says that the parameters of this mitzvah are that we have to treat somebody else the way we would want to be treated ultimately the gemara says this means don't do unto others what you would not want to be done to yourself so we tend to think that this is one mitzvah that is not relevant in my be do it in my quarantine because i don't have to interact with anybody i could still sit in my dad almost for weeks at a time for maybe months at a time and then this is a mitzvah that sort of is on pause for uh some time however we're about to learn and this is really the title on the top of the page that this is a mitzvah that we need to actively mention accept upon ourselves and even incorporate into our daily prayers now since this is a shiran's fila the filo series is dedicated by our good friend rabbit rose of los angeles brothers and shama chamberlain with melissa that before a person arranges his tefila in the base hacknesses from the parasha of the akidanan that risa says a person needs to accept upon oneself the mitzvah of love your friend like yourself it says that reason you need to be to love every jew like your own soul why and this will be the first rationale for this din of the arizona if you look on the top of your sheets this has been formulated into many many saduram that in the beginning of davening at some point you say harini mccabe you know what this accomplishes because you could ask a question why do i need to be makable every morning the mitsubishi do have to be makable every day not to eat milk and meat when i say shama i'm a kabul upon myself the earl hamid's face why is this special focus that one needs to have that every single day one has to be macabre upon themselves the mitzvah of the au haft result says by being macabre this mitzvah israel incorporated and encompassing all the prayers of israel the success could rise above the last of his pre and make fruits so rizal is saying that if i just pray unto myself even if i pray with a minion at the end of the day it's gladstein's fila or it's cohen's theolo or friedman stefila so it's just might feel what is my tifa's respective value however when i pray when i when i introduce my prayer with an acceptance of the mitzvah then might feel it then gets incorporated from all the thrillers of israel and then they join together and they rise up before i collect in with the power of sibor meaning it sounds like even if you dive in with the minion but if you're sort of an island unto yourself your fila has mitigated power as opposed to even if you dive in by yourself but if you accept upon yourself the mitzvah of avas israel then your tefila is considered compounded and incorporated and encompassing with all the rest of the two of us especially says ariza the if you have khavirim who learned torah together each one should view themselves as if they're one limb of one body in other words one should view knesses israel as one major entity and think of themselves as merely a limb of that m um entity and therefore says arizal if let's say one of your khawrem have it you need to join together and feel his pain empathize sympathize somebody has a hoyly someone is ill someone has a difficulty with children davin for your friend and for others by doing so you actually enhance and elevate and magnify the power of your own fila this is the recommendation of the arizal a daily recommendation so even though on a daily basis we're not makable one particular mitzvah nevertheless are both lights on on the bluetooth on the top nevertheless when it comes to the mitzvah of avas israel one is required to accept upon themselves every day and this will enhance the efficacy of one's prayer now interestingly the master's hashacal and semen member elaborates and marxist hasheco writes that when e when a jew accepts upon themselves the mitzvah of the kamehameha then all the bodies of the various yiddin gather together galvanize together together unified together and by doing so it creates an actos in the shamayim and then the tfila is more retsuya and more favorable hashem interestingly the ba'shemptov gave the following mashal number 17 the he says the balsham once gave the following masha so the balsham was dabbing together with his talmudim and then balsham was darving a particularly longshot longer than everyone else and when everyone else finished they looked to the rebbe the rebbe was still at it so they figured uh they'll step aside they'll take care of whatever they need to they'll happen schmooze everybody went on their merry way and when the rebbe finished everybody came back in and he said to them what you did you caused great period and separation because you forsook me and he gave them the following masha we all know that birds birds and yiddin they have something in common and i want to thank a very khashva video video videographer with naftali gladstein over here on the camera who is meister nephesh even though it's his free time he came to video this year but you know what is the similarity between birds and yidden you know what it is they both like to go to miami beach in the winter right we know birds migrate to the south and wherever they are in the world birds like to go to a warm climate so the one particular winter all the birds went went south and they noticed on the top of one tree there was one very colorful magnificent bird that was just standing there in the winter and uh wasn't moving did not go south for the winter so they reported to the king and the king says i got to get my hands on this bird so the king sent out all of his horses and all of his men and we're going to capture the bird and he'd get the king gathered about a thousand people and sure enough they the king said here's the advice you're going to stand next to the tree and one guy is going to stand on top of the other guy on top of the other guy on top of the other guy and the top guy is going to hop the bird so sure enough ruvain stood first and shimon went on his shoulders and lady went on his shoulders and further further a thousand people and as the top guy was about to get um you know climb up the guy in the bottom looks at his watch he says you know i had enough i think i'm going to take a coffee break and he proceeded to uh take a coffee break and the next thing they know the guy all the way on the top was uh you know head first into the mud on the bottom as so too says about when people dab in the efficacy of their tafilah is not based on their own individual merit but rather it's based on the collective merit so the more a person could join together and engender feelings of avas israel the more powerful history will become and therefore the the arizal himself writes that he recommends that before davening starts one should be makable upon oneself the mitzvah of the a half dollar and this is codified in many sudurum but what came as a somewhat of a surprise to me is that this suggestion of the arizal is codified by many many poiskim firstly we start with the mughan avram maganavram one of the greatest of the noise the magnet writes before you come into a shul you say vaniba when you enter a show you say bevesel says so what begins as a suggestion of the ari is codified by the maghin avraham so you'll say okay the magnaframe sometimes or even often quotes statements of the ariza on the cavanos but amazingly the kaya adam rabba ram dan sig in the safer kyodam he writes that one should be macabre upon oneself specifically to love each member of claudius like his own goof like the puzzle says supplies the reasoning of the ariza that is you should be kylo your tv call israel and by the way the kids also brings this down that one should be mikaye mccabel the mitzvah of abbas israel before chakras likewise the khida in the kesha goddal he says before you begin sukadesma number five you should bring upon yourself the mitzvah of the interestingly in the safer divas which the fee is some something like an encyclopedia of concepts of uh in torah written he says that the arizal warned that before its filo one should be makable upon himself the mitzvah of an amazing ramez the ariza the so if i love you and i'm supplying and you love me and you're supplying then together that adds up to yud kevke 26. this is the secret of the passage the ahab and you should love your neighbor like yourself so rouvena supplies ahava 13 and shimon supplies ahava 13 and together ani hashem that supply that there comes the rebar shalom now the dog comes along and he supplies the second rationale and reasoning of why it is important every morning before you begin davening to articulate harini makabel alai mitzvah and that is because by accepting this mitzvah this is a mitzvah your mom took the denim and it becomes rachamim so every morning the whole purpose of tzfila is to be filah is rakhami ninhu and what better way to be and to be mamtik the deenam to sweeten the harsh judgments than to be mekabel this mitzvah of avas israel says quoting the torah we always know that in the in the context of yetis mitzrayim it says it says ani hashem ani hashem ani hashem why does he keep on saying ani hashem eloy kim which is 86. the way you overcome i like him the way you want upbeat like him the way you overpower elokim is ani hashem and hashem is 87. amazing ani is 61 and hashem is 26 that's 87. the way you overcome is him is ani hashem so therefore an amazing ramez in the name of the shakhala tara we all have ta through the mitzvah of israel to your friend you know what you could do which is khaf khaf 86 you could take 86 and you know you could transform it into ani hashem 87 you could overcome me the sadden you could overcome elohim through the ahafte through the mitzvah of loving your friend you could take me the sadin 86 and you could render it 87 ani hashem the banishkai in parishes me cates also quotes and therefore if someone is in a but sarah daven for him explicitly when you dive in for others what you're doing is you're in you're transforming your tv to the tv of one person unto themself into the filo which is kyle that see barn likewise the kaphakaim in two places in seminole foreign this teaching of the ari that is an introduction to trilla one should be makable upon himself the mitzvah of the ahaftal and interestingly in the safer based fila written by revelation papa naftali you know who revelator papo is he's the author of the pella yoyats the great saver palliative his base fila he wrote beautiful tv lice he says every day one should say i'm a kabul upon myself the divinity of hashem the love of hashem the fear of hashem pray that god should tilt our hearts to love him to fear him to do his will believe shalem and then i'm going to say that i'm a kabul upon myself the mitzvah of the ahafta reach and that i love one should say i love every person in calistora like my soul and then just this is just a sort of a digression in the sheer one should be mekaim one should say i fulfill the midst of ten zuhiroys daily we're accustomed that there are uh sheikh zakhiros but the reblazer papa writes one should say that they're mikayam the tens of heroes the tens of heroes are number one remembering the exodus you'd see number two to remember shabbos now the truth is you'd see a smithsonian we remember anyway at the end of krishna shabbis we also remember anyway when we say hashem that's a remnant of shabbos the mon amalek by the way the magnum says we remember amalek in the end of avaraba when you say which we could remember when we say the care of tano malcano and that which we angered god by the ego which among by the way says we could have in mind when we say ahava at the end of avaraba and number seven remember what bila mimbolic wanted to do to us number eight the story of miriam which by the way the mughal abram says we remember when we say la haida which means hashem give us a mouth to thank him and not to speak lassen number nine to remember yerushalayim and number 10 to remember that god gives us all of our strength and we we reject the principle of the we don't say that it's our own strength and our own power that so we don't say it's my kayak okay so bottom line is thank you bottom line is this this teaching that rizal despite it being mentioned in the arizona cavanaugh which is a kabbalistic work nevertheless is codified by the poiskon and we already mentioned two rationales for it number one this way we want to be kyle art fillers in the philosophy israel and number two as mentioned it's a way to imam take the deena now listen to this this is namish there's a practical reason for this says not to be confused with ram gamli al-hakayin this i believe is nephew the author of the safer game is actually at the end of your sheets number 22. and he says you know why we're mccable upon ourselves the mitzvah because you ever go into a shul and then the diving is about to start and then you have two guys inching forward to the ammo and one guy says my great aunt's third cousin passed away yesterday ten years ago yesterday and other guys what are you talking about my uncle's second cousin's um fish's uncle passed away three days ago and they're fighting who gets to ahmad and then they're gonna people fight what no and then people fight how fast and you know davaning could be a very stressful time especially who gets the um the pace of the dhabani the the pronunciation of the divining some people get very out of shape bent out of shape from the dabbing so therefore we start off the davening with a calming um acknowledgement that before we start if you want to have any shot at making this a successful morning harini makable eli mitzvah whatever comes my way whatever annoyances whatever difficult people i encounter my first acceptance is i'm a kabbalah myself that i will love every jew like my soul and this way the davening will be successful but without this acknowledgement and acceptance you know lots of luck having a successful morning in the show says so now interestingly this teaching of that result there are a few uh very beautiful ramos into this concept remember naftali when they wanted to kill you safe and they throw him into the pit and they want to kill him so who who convinced the brothers not to kill yahseef excellent yehudah what did yahudah say ma betsah what benefit is it going to have if we kill our brother that's the kinara gesahino oh that size of rasheed vais betsah stands for boiker saharayim arav morning afternoon evening yehudah said ma betsah what purpose is there dabning shah husmen khamarev morning afternoon and night boy sarah minnerev if you're not makabe oma the mitsubishi don't even bother davening davening only has value if it's predicated and on the foundation that the result teaches us otherwise ma betsah what purpose is there in boykir tsarimara of shakasma marev and then there's another remez is the warning and the advice of the arizal to ahafti to love my neighbor then ki ishma hashem is koili hashem will listen to my voice in other words in order to have our fellows answered it is important to follow the advice of the aries out to incorporate your treatise with the two of us the rest of kali israel i love god you know why he is coily literally hashem listen to my voice the hashem will listen to my voice and even the base allevi the vios of salvation he brings down this advice of the ariza but he says it in the name of the ballet hamusa not in the names of the mekobalam that it's very important to accept the misra of the before you begin davening and that is because the base salivi says there's a difference between rebuy and keyboards many and a gathering you see if you're fighting in an army you need many you don't need a keyboards you need reba and not a keyboard a keyboard says everyone's together in one spot fighting the same area shooting at the same spot if you're fighting a war that's not going to do you any good you need to spread out scatter and everyone shooting and attacking a different vantage point to be able to break the enemy in more areas a keyboard it's a gathering in one pla space is wasted energy you need a reboot you need a proliferation of many vantage points it's the exact opposite when it comes to felis as a basal levy we don't need a reboy we need a kibos we need everyone in one location and one shul davening with one heart for one thing that's the power of claudius the power of an army is reboy spread out many the power of kaiso but filo is so so far we've supplied two three reasonings for the arizona's teaching that one should be makable the mitzvah before david number one there the reasoning of their result himself that this way you are koilo you're fila among all the tulas of kalisra and it gives extra kayak an extra power that your feel is not that feel of a yacht anymore but rather that fila of israel number two we said the reasoning of the that it is mamtik the deenan by bin mikayim ahava by being the kabbal loving your neighbor it sweetens the meda saden we said the reasoning of ram gamli or vinovich that by being macabre practically you'll have a successful morning in the shul and you'll avoid having any altercations or incidents in the shoal and here's number four that the tordes of yosef the talmud of the balshem said over in the name of his rebbe he said as follows look says the tallest yak of yosef i'm a simple jew when i dive and i say the words maybe i think about the translation that saddik over there when he says that philos he's having cavanos he has in mind what the field is accomplishing where it travels to what worlds it's effective in how could i somehow connect with his fila if when i dive in on the kabbalah myself in the midst of abbas israel i could then be coilo my filos with shloim kavanagh i could attach my tv i could appendage my tila with the filots that are powerful because they are said with the deepest and the most mystical kavanaugh's so the function of being macabre the mitzvah is to tap into those fellows that are super powerful that have extra energy so that this way not only like the iri himself said that i'm color my teals with claudia so in this way my fila is the fila of a sebor but i'm able to connect specifically with those filos that have special kabana that was reasoning number four reason number five ravionis and ibishops regardless of bishop's writes in the aristocratic that a basis when they begin to davening to davin they should have in mind their michael anyone who harm them that they're not going to deal with anybody the meet the saddem they'll go a person should remove sinnah kinna taiva covered how could you walk before hashem in dirty soiled soiled garments you're going to daven with with the media of cast on your heart with me the kinna on your heart that is why says but if you're going to go to davin and you say nah forget everybody else as soon as i'm dhabani i'm going to take this guy to bed and i'm going to hurt that guy i'm going to deal with him then god is going to examine your prayer very very carefully and he's going to say that's a thila you didn't even pronounce the words correctly your mind was diverted your mind was distracted you didn't have any avas hashem you didn't have any simcha you didn't say that with any intent at all so it's going to turn out that your tila is going to be a hate if you don't start the davening by being macabre the mitzvah of avas and you have in mind i'm going to deal with people bedin god's going to examine your tafila badin and your feeling instead of it being a merit is going to be a d marriage it's gonna be a hate says the logic of the ari is that unless you have this mitzvah in mind this mitzvah will render your tv now if you if you start off with villa i love every jew i'm willing to overlook whatever insult they send my way i'm willing to overlook any shortcomings hashem says i'm willing to overlook your shortcoming i'm willing to overlook the deficiencies of your tv and your tv has a good shot of being accepted that is number five comes the basayan in number 18 on the sheet the sixth rationale for this suggestion of the arizal that before one prays one should say articulate that he accepts upon himself the mitzvah says he says the icker hashrat the main residing of the divine presence is on someone who's humble if a person feels about himself i'm so far from hashem i'm so connected to goshmas in the physical world i don't even have upon him to pray before god who am i to stand before god and offer a prayer my value is so small i am only able to pray together with the crowd i get lost in the crowd i'm not worthy on my own there's a certain feeling of shiftless and anivas that i'm willing to i want to be absorbed among the crowd because i don't even feel i'm worthy to stand before hashem that meda of anivos is a critical element of having one's filos answered and therefore says the the logic the swara of the reason is by being makable the mitzvah of avas israel in to join up together with the rest of khloe saw and to accept to judge them favorably you're saying we banish someone i can only stand before you as a member of canesis israel but my individual merit is not worthy that demonstrates anivos and that is the foundation principle of tfila that is the side of the recommendation of the arizal and then finally the the basayin and pasha's mr next week's parasha offers us a wondrous pharah he says you know why the arizal tells us before we dive in we have to accept upon ourselves the mitzvah to love our fellow because when a jew comes to shul he's coming to a base hamikdash and when a judah in chakras he's bringing the carbon thomas and when he dies he's bringing the time to buy him and when he dives it's hectic so how could a jew come to the base hamikdash and bring carbanoids so he's a virtual cayenne well if you want to be a cayenne you have to have the meat of kahuna what's the meat of kahuna they're having um [Applause] and therefore to activate your internal state of kahuna your virtual state of kahuna you need to acquire the meda of kahuna and that is that rezal teaches us before you begin to dab in you say harini mikhabal al-atsumi mitzvah via you want to be a kayen you have to accept upon yourself the mitzvah of so we supplied seven rationales for that resale that rizal himself says number one this way your kayla your tafila with the tools of cloud you swallow and it becomes ever more effective and ever more powerful it becomes filas that's number one number two the khidas says it's mamtik the deenam it's sweden's adenim when you acquire me this is sweden's you take through you take 86 meet the sadden and you render it 87 ania number three rangam leo rabinovic so that you don't uh get into an altercation with the guy next to you or with the gabba or with the rabbi before you walk into the show say i love everybody i'm not getting into any fistfights this morning in the show i accept upon myself number four i don't know how to have the deep cavanus the mystical kavanaugh's how do i attach myself to the philosopher's says ari is uh missing it's not proper it's not wholesome no problem except israel to judge other people favorably your fila will also be judged favorably number five number six to have your tulas answered for the shrina to come down you have to have humility you have to have an evos you have to have a feeling that i'm only eligible and therefore the way we do this is you start off by being macabre the midst of your reach and finally number seven says the vasayan in parashas mr that if you want to offer a fila you've got to be a cayenne and the middah of kahuna is israel one more thought and then a story this fascemas writes in this week's parasha of yohaf to reach akiva what what rebecca was saying [Applause] [Music] excellence that cloud torah river keeper says this is a great principle in the torah then as i said no safer told us so they're too big flawless kuala lumps that's safer today but the sema says in qaddashim tafaresh nondays if ravikiva says there's a clown god all there must be a cloud caught on that's right the clown cotton is when you do a mitzvah it has to be on behalf of all your 248 limbs so the first claw is the small claw is i'm doing this mitzvah on behalf of all my limbs that's the clown cotton comes up and he says the cloud goddall is that smith the icker kim not only te fila it's to teach that the icker kedusha of claudius is only when we're all together as one unit so the main way to achieve sanctity not only in tfila in torah this is really an eighth reason to generate kedusha you have to be part of a cloud is that claude you want kadush you want sanctity you want to grow you have to be part of the cloud says there's a bigger clown not only do you need to do a mitzvah that's why many people before they do a mitzvah they say a formula bashem call israel because they want their mitsub whatever it is lulav phil and talis they want they're not just doing this mitzvah unto themselves they're doing it as a member of the sibor says venazei there's an even more important ingredient not only do you want to do a myth on behalf of all of claudia so you want to do a miss on behalf of any jew who ever lived from the beginning of other marishan all the the souls of khloe so where nichola and other marishan you want to do a mitzvah on behalf of canessa sisrel the historic the past and the future and the present the entity the coimo shalem of claw israel this is zest safer today but the bottom line is what we take out of the shear is that there is a suggestion of that rizal which is codified by maghin abram but before you start davening you say so there was a younger man there was an abre in your shalayam he just got married and it wasn't going well he was fighting with his life they were it was like cats and dogs till one day he got up he ran away and he went to tavaria and he slept in the shoal next day the rabbi comes into the shore of moshe clears the rub of tevara he says what's going on then was embarrassed to tell him the rob said you don't have a place to stay stay in my house so the average sees every morning the rabbi wakes up early and he goes to the fridge and he takes out a carton of milk and he goes and he pours milk for his wife every morning so the avreh figured you know the rabbi's wife must be sick so the next day he tells the rav look i can't stay here anymore it's a burden on your wife your wife's not well the rub says what you talking about my wife is perfectly healthy she says you know you know i don't want to intrude but i see every morning you're pouring milk for your wife why are you pouring milk for your wife he says why am i pouring milk from my wife that resell teaches us that before we start davening in the morning we need to articulate that i'm a kabul upon myself the mitzvah of but is it enough just to say the words that i'm a kabul upon myself to love my neighbor like myself is that really enough just to say the words says this rav for me it's not enough actions speak louder than words and therefore every day before i dive in i don't just say i'm a kabbalah myself i do it and we know the gemara condition says who is reacha to which the torah says you need to love your neighbor like yourself you need to show courtesy respect who more than one's wife and therefore this rav said it's not enough to be macabre israel you have to put into practice who better than your own wife this hit the avrik like a ton of bricks and he went back home to shalayam and of course his story ended happily ever after so thank you so much for listening wishing everyone says you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com