KLM Giving the Most Precious Gift to The King of Kings this Rosh Hashana with Rabbi Wegbreit

[Music] welcome back to the event base hamid rush uh to klm and we are now in the third week of ello uh let's not forget we only have one more week and this is big exactly we have to wake up okay now i want to talk about rosh hashanah and let's just begin with a very great difficulty this if you think about this it really doesn't make sense okay rosh hashanah you're being judged for your life okay and we know that uh the better shape you are in spiritually the better your judgment okay so excuse me i mean because hashem ordered it this way but if i may ask why not have yom kippur first right can you imagine you have uh let's say let's give us three days of tuba before yom kippur you have yo you have days of chuba to prepare for yom kippur you're doing vedo you're part pouring your heart out to shen and you're clean and now judge me hashem judge me then you hear this it's backwards it's backwards so okay we have to understand this why is rosh hashanah come first right now here's the thing uh would it uh even if uh even if it went okay yeah so let me just tell you the beginning of the answer the beginning answer of brodiansky brings us it's a blaster is like this here's the problem if you went into rosh hashanah thinking i'm in good shape i'm clean i'm ready to be judged by the judge of the universe you will fail we have to realize that the din the judgment of hashem hashem is pure perfection and if he holds us to the standards of perfection and judgment no one not you know it says in the in the sunnah toekeff it says the angels are trembling the angels are trembling right the angels are as close to perfection as you get they're worried and trembling right so the thing is this if we were to be judged according to the strict laws of justice and we came to yom kippur we would be we would be thinking oh i'm in good shape and that would be a disaster okay it would be a terrible thing would it would it maybe it would help no it would hurt okay and the thing is this by having what we call pachad and recognition of the hashem's perfection and his justice that switches him over to to being merciful okay so that that that's the thing we have to realize rosh hashanah belongs there first because also it has to we we have to kind of shift hashem from strict justice to compassion and mercy on us right and the first thing is is to have incredible respect for what we're dealing with right now if we do that there's actually uh a surprise that on rosh hashanah you know we think about it if you were going to a court case right let's let me let's make it a scary court case right let's say you're in a foreign country i heard the story that somebody was uh i think it was an israeli person was in turkey and he took one of the the i guess the turkey uh we'll call it a lira i don't know what it is the turkey currency and it was he used it to wipe his brow and a policeman saw him he threw him into jail and he had to just beg to get out you know you don't mess around with a country that's strict right so now the thing is this think about this we're being judged by the as we just said perfect justice perfection we're being judged and we come in and we're wearing really nice clothes imagine somebody was wearing like a a white tuxedo you know they come into a court case for their capital and they're wearing a white tuxedo and they had a fancy meal that that seems totally inappropriate yet that's what we start off with we do do that on rosh hashanah right so again we have to understand why do we have that and that the meals are festive and beautiful right what's going on there so uh this is by the way i'm going to give you quite a scheme to to master this information i'm just giving you an overview first okay but the uh the truth of the matter is that if we worried about rosh hashanah and took it seriously beforehand then we can feel confident listen to the tour that hashem will make a nace and and give us a good judgment all right so if we take it seriously before then in the meals we do the some money we're supposed to exude confidence in hashem's mercy all right so what i like to do at klm is i want us to do it live okay i i don't know what's going to happen to you the next week everybody should have plenty of time to do a spiritual accounting and figure and and make a plan recognize the gravity of the day but you may not okay so right now we're gonna do that okay so let me let let's have in mind okay so we're doing first of all as always have in mind the midst of learning torah but also we are going to prepare for rosh hashanah for even for a few minutes we have to realize when it comes to spirituality it's not a numbers game if you do something with authentic feeling and emotions and kevana and you do a mitzvah it's unbelievable to hashem right so let's prepare for a few minutes okay so here's what i want you to do have in mind the mitzvah of yurus hashem right because you're taking seriously the judgment that's going to happen in uh seven days about okay eight yeah seven okay so what i want you to do maybe close your eyes and i'm gonna uh just give you a way to think about uh the gravity of the judgment all right and i also want to remind everybody that don't be afraid to be afraid of hashem okay it's a spiritual thing where you get a protection okay so i want you to think about what happened this past year okay and for the moment i want you to go to let's say your most difficult experiences maybe they were with children or a spouse or a friend or a job okay i want you to think of some just think of some of the difficult things um think of let's say the fear you might have had this year about corona if you got corona think about that think about uh people think about also the suffering and difficulties of other people what they went through this year you know people who were in icu people who hashem iraqim passed on people were being bombed in the south of israel just think of all the rough times that happened this year okay and recognize that that was decided on rosh hashanah in the 10 days of last year okay this i i want to do this too so just take a moment everybody just take a moment of silence experiences you just wish had not happened okay so i want you to think about right now to think about on rosh hashanah all those types of experiences will be decided and and in the 10 days after or the 10 days total you'll have to work very hard to prevent those things from happening and feel worried about that and also maybe think of the beautiful things that happened this year and realized they occurred from rosh hashanah this is an aspect of yours hashem too and realize that on this rosh hashanah it's going to hashem's going to decide what good happens in your life and what bracha and what breakthroughs you have it's all being decided by hashem on rosh hashanah okay so we can say we prepared at least some i can't encourage you enough to do this as much as you can especially on air rosh hashanah okay so when you enter then you can put on a wear a nice tie a beautiful dress dress beautifully and celebrate okay and now the other thing is that's amazing about rosh hashanah and this is in the confidence mode is how much it's incredible you you know uh it's hard to sustain good behavior you know for a heart a long time it's very hard but you know what hashem does in a certain sense rosh hashanah is amazing he says hang in there for two days be excellent for two days i'm giving you a year of good from that right and this hashem makes it that your every single little action is has meaning and impact on your whole year and that's the idea beside the simone okay when you make it that you know how did moshe split the river didn't who's who's put the river really yeah the the the yama soup who split hashem says to moshe take a staff and go boom right so that act it's really symbolic but that that open split the waters but guess what when the shem's pulling the pressing the levers and pulling the button your little actions boom split river can split a river that's what the simonimar you know those sim money you're supposed to actually eat things that represent sweetness sweetness will come into the world it's incredible right gazers decrees against her enemies these little it says in the uh in the gemara simana milsahi it's a milcy just like an ace razon is a milsa some money more milsim they're real things they impact and also when you you know how we do it right i have my son here is you say ahiratsong keep in mind that's not that you're davening to hashem so you're doing a misa and you're davening to hashem and the mishra brewer says when you do it you should feel pangs of chuba like to say hashem please forgive me for the bad things like if it's in your heart while you're praying and you're doing this meaningful act it's unbelievable and you're you're showing shem i know you do it all you i can this is like splitting the river and that's bitter so we had a little we do right we said chuva right you're bringing from your heart uh polo le misa and bitter hone trust in hashem you hear it there's so many beautiful little mitzvahs in that and again have kevana for the mitzvah of doing some money it's a minhog a min hug is a misunders okay so that's the first psalm okay that that's the night and then we move into the day of judgment so i want to give you a scheme right now to help you master the key emotions that we're supposed to have and let's take a look okay wouldn't it be wonderful if you could give the master of the universe the creator of the universe the king of kings on rosh hashanah you could give him a gift would that not be a good way to get if you want to if you will influence the king right you'd like to give him a gift right so this is the same problem of hobdel is father's day okay what's the problem on father's day what if your father is please go wealthy yes what are you gonna give your father what are you gonna give your abba right so if he has everything what are you gonna give him right so that problem you know um dad can i borrow some money to give you a gift you know and what would you want well son i have everything so it's such a call of a homer when it comes to the creator of the universe right so what what can we give him right so guess what you know we can give him we can give him what he really wants rachmana liba boy the merciful one notice the name of hashem he wants your heart that's what you can give hashem it's connected to yours hashem because we say the only thing hashem doesn't have is our fear of him right hashem wants our hearts now let's just get something straight you can't give your heart without your deeds okay we have to get this is so important to not misunderstand because you know it's funny there was a saying in the old days people say i'm a good jew in my heart right so the famous statement and and and i'm sure they are the a lot of people that said that really have a good heart so this one jew met this rabbi i think on an airplane and he said to him he said to the rabbi i'm a really good jew in my heart he says you have to be careful you don't get a heart attack he said what he says well you know there's 630 commandments and each one is for for a different limb and all this you're going to do it on your heart you can get a heart attack so it's not enough to just give your heart but when your actions have heart that's something you can really give what hashem loves the most about your micing is your heart is your kevana intent okay so i want to show us how and the thing is this if we do rosh hashanah in a ritualistic manner okay it's like we're doing the actions but there's no heartbeat okay so i came up with an idea for us i have cpr for rosh hashanah how we can give our heart as a gift to hashem okay here it is cpr right pulmonary resuscitation all right what's beautiful is there's just three emotions that capture the day and they go into according to parts of the day of rosh hashanah you just have to remember and cpr confidence pachad being terrified and roma moose a sense of awe and exaltation about a cottage varico okay these are the three things that capture the day and it's really beautiful because you can focus my humble opinion rosh hashanah was designed beautifully for you to implement these at different times all right so here we are see confidence which means being in awe of hashem okay when are you supposed to have confidence okay at the yomtov meals when you're saying that when dre you're putting on your yomtov clothes you're sitting in the having a festive meal you're confident in hashem's mercy all right but you have a confidence here because why because as we did earlier if you felt if you're prepared you concerned yourself by the cree that awakens his mercy you can have confidence hashem will make a miracle and give you a good judgment right so when you're at the meals confidence that's how you give your heart to them hashem i am confident that since the king of the kings is also my father and i showed you that i took you seriously as a king i can be confident that you'll be merciful so confidence at the night in the meals right when are you judged on rosh hashanah so i i believe this is pretty much commonly agreed it's on the first day of rosh hashanah sometime between nate's and the first uh tequila shofar that's the main judgment okay so when you wake up in the morning on rosh hashanah morning you should feel now you're it's happening i'm being judged right now my every action is being evaluated and during takiyah chauffeur right what is the chauffeur then it's a siren i'm being judged right so that's the time it's it's a concentrated time of pachad of fear of hashem's judgment and guess what as they say one of the ways to move hashem from his throne of judgment to mercy is being afraid okay that's showing you recognize he's the king you know i'll tell you one story i had where i i realized you know one of the things you should try not to do is get angry on rosh hashanah right or get upset right you have to accept hashem's providence right so years and years and years we always david nates in the yeshiva and i you know that was always right and uh so one time one rosh hashanah you know i went to sleep the rush on the night and you know in the it was like morning time and uh it was funny because there was a little too much light in the room you know i thought oh i go to sleep with a lighter it's after nights i slept through dates right and i'm like oh nate's okay and so i but then i went to rosh hashanah oh you know shem's in charge here let me relax and go to another place to daven you know it's like i was completely conscious that this is judgment time i shouldn't lose it i shouldn't get stressed and stuff like that the morning is for pachad right the morning is for intense recognition of hashem okay and that moves hashem to look like it look again mercy and here the chauffeur is a siren okay that first chauffeur you should be doing ideally you should be even some say you should do the v-doing in your heart okay you should do chuva have in mind the midst of chuva and most importantly the tequila chauffeur finally okay when roma moose uh then we shift emotions at mustaf in musaf we have the chauffeur turns into a trumpet a royal trumpet of coronation okay let's keep in mind that rosh hashanah is the coronation of the king of kings it's a royal exalted event and the chauffeur is a blast that's like a trumpet the there's the midriffs explains this so you he you we switch over the vilna goin says the main emotion when it's blowing is simka over the crowning of the king right so i suggest when when you when the chauffeur starts blowing the musa but also the mustaf davening the musaf daving is spectacular in his description of hashem's glory and all those songs right everyone sings there's a royal glorious feeling right so there's a mitzvah when you're doing that it's called urus aroma moose it's the highest level of fear of hashem is to be in all of hashem's exaltedness and his glory and his kingdom right so that's the that's the emotional mindset uh at musa the muslim and the mustaf and the muslif chauffeur blowing okay and i just one more thing we're going to say there's certain parts of the prayer we're going to say eight nine times and at first you're going to be filled with this is glorious and beautiful but whatever the fourth time the third you know six et cetera what do you do you you you take to heart what the rom call says the rom call says remember i mentioned that when you hit a staff moshe did the staff to the water the water split we have to realize says the ram call when we speak of hashem's glory in the prayer of tampa on rosh hashanah the glory of hashem is perceived in the world we a a greater recognition of hashem's sovereignty and glory is happening you're you're also you're kind of like infusing the world with hashem's glory isn't that incredible so realize that each time you're infusing more glory into the world it's not just oh i said this before i have an other chance to spread the glory of hashem each time okay so what can you give the king of kings the one who has everything complete there's never been a statement more accurate than saying hashem has everything you can give him your heart by having confidence in the meals and then in the evening into some money then that's that's how you give them your heart then then you have pacha you're afraid of the judgment and then you have roma most a sense of awe and exaltation that's how you give hashem a great gift and i i pray to hashem that we're all capable of just giving him the most beautiful gift of our hearts meaning in actions infused with kavanagh and heart and passion and care shanito [Music] is