KLM: Kavannos For an Amazing Shavous Experience with Rabbi Asher Baruch Wegbreit

your Museum [Music] okay welcome everybody to uh alcavana limits us here on uh Traverse so we're doing something a little bit different uh this evening you've probably seen the flyer which says uh cavana conversation so we're piloting something a little bit different to that we will have some q a with the rabbi regarding Shabbos so uh I want to welcome our regulars who are attending love and those who are watching the recording those from ubernet and just a very brief intro on uh Rabbi weigbak for those of you who haven't had the privilege to hear him speak before don't know about him about wig Brat's been teaching Torah in eurusha line for around 20 years and was in Yeshiva Surah and um he set up the cavana Le misus foundation around four years ago which really deals with or teaches and inspires Jews who are already doing Mitzvahs how to infuse those Mitzvahs with more meaning and more depth and um there's a hollowed resource on the website cavanalamitzwers.com which you should check out and uh you know also you can email any questions throughout my webbrite gmail.com so um tonight we're going to hear from Rabbi workbrite about some of the cavanas to do with Shabbat so um Rabbi if you want to turn on your microphone and your camera will make a start thank you parrots let me ask you a question is having kavana for Mitzvahs easy or difficult let's explain for the newcomers meaning before you do a mitzvah to take a few seconds and have in mind that the reason you're doing what you're doing is because Hashem commanded you because to do a Mitzvah okay so we can say it's easy in the sense that it's just a few seconds thought but we can say it's difficult because it's not easy to wedge something new into your Consciousness that's not easy at all for example right now we're all learning Torah and it's not our habit oftentimes to stop and say oh I turned on this the class right now or I'm watching a class on YouTube let me have in mind to fulfill the Mitzvah of learning Torah as Hashem commands easy or difficult the obvious answer is both and but I want to say a special reason why it's difficult okay as I said you know everyone's busy we've discussed this everyone's rushed so to wedge something new into your Consciousness is indeed not easy but I want to say a very deep reason why not I think there's a spiritual reason because Mitzvahs can turn into just activities that you're accustomed to doing and the biggest loss with that is you forget that misses are meant to forge a relationship with the one you're doing them for with with Hashem to bond with Hashem that's the purpose so that's why it's not going to be easy because Hashem wants you to have complete Free Will spiritually and decide am I going to connect or not so easy few seconds difficult yes you have to show us and you really want the relationship that's my setup now for us to discuss shibuos so Rabbi and yoshirim um we always hear about Miss was that we weren't even aware of at least I speak for myself so what uh what surprises have you got us uh tonight about uh shavors very good parents very good so I do have a couple minutes up my sleeve or things that you might not be aware to have cabona for et cetera I have some things up the sleeve however let's start with mitzvah's that everyone is aware of about shabuos okay let's lay them down and then I'll reveal the surprises okay and I know most of the listeners know that it's a Yom toad that means that you are prohibited from doing Malacca work uh labor that that is um not involved with Oklahoma fish with eating needs okay so that means that just like on Shabbos you wouldn't dare think of flicking on and off the light right you wouldn't get in your car you wouldn't turn on your device Etc you wouldn't think of that the same thing with the onto you won't think of it and you won't do it but what we want to make sure is that you have kavana that I'm not flicking on the light merely because I know this or I'm used to not doing that on YouTube but because Shin you commanded me in other words connect relation wedge that in there okay so there's the the prohibition of Malacca that one I think most people know another thing is another classic is um if you study the laws of yonto or Regal has a Mitzvah called this which means the eating drinking and being Merry and wearing nice clothes is a Mitzvah of rejoicing in the hog okay those are two Classics of yomtop of course there's darwining etc etc all right so and by the way when you break it down like any experience but especially experience filled with spiritual out in kadusha there's a lot more Mitzvahs okay now if you're interested in a full list so you can fully activate on yongtok um we're putting out a poster next week and like an infogram and just contact me by WhatsApp or email but now let's go to the surprise Mitzvahs okay so the first one is that shavuos is for you what does that mean in other words all the pleasurable activities on this yomtope like eating and drinking and having a nice glass of wine or a delicious food or challah all of those things they are visible but there's a commandment a Mitzvah that says a series and the other ones but we're focused on chavoos is a time to stop and spend time with Hashem and it says for you it meaning you and me as opposed to Shin now let me broaden that the gemara uh imsakim brings this the the Shabbos it says and and by other Yom tamim it says which is talking about stopping and having a day of intimacy and pleasure with Hashem okay but then it says like I said so the way they explain it is there's different uh views one view is you could in in some holidays you could spend the entire hug for a Shen Shabbos is foreign I apologize okay there are holidays that are you can you have your choice you can either have portion and have for you or all for a shin we're all for you that that's one of the views in the gemara but Gomorrah makes something clear okay first of all shavuas for Hashem means the davening the learning Torah you hear any of the of Otis Ascend that we do is a Mitzi called a series but the gemara says there are a few other ones and I don't want to go into the whole thing right now but shavuos must also be for us shurus is for you that's a absolute deal breaker okay so well look we're gonna eat and drink and we're going to visit but on on shabbu's it is imperative that you eat drink and be merry and the question is why okay because as uh parrots mentioned the goal here is to be more conscious and connected and relating to Shin but also to get more meaning out of what we're doing so it when we understand why is for us to Lewis is for you you'll get a lot of meaning okay the reason it explains Rashi that you must eat and drink you can't spend the whole day learning and enroll wouldn't that be great I mean after all the Torah was given why not to spend a day dedicated to learning tashem have a little a little water and Excel if you open the can before Chavez why not do that before schools so the answer is that this is the day we were given 613 root Commandments which branch into thousand others we were given a humongous yoke called the Yoke of Torah was we have an opportunity to show Hashem how we relate to all of this obligation the big yoke of Torah so when we eat drink and celebrate we're saying Hashem I look at the Torah as such a gift it's not a burden God forbid it's a gift and that's why you see I'm so happy today I'm thrilled on having wine of it I'm celebrating that I was given all this obligation because it says you know a person is a greater person I've never ending chances to bond and come and Elevate myself because when you're commanded it's a greater act no one likes to be told what to do no one right so when we are told what to do by Shan and say Shen thank you I know you'll love us and it's for us we're giving Hashem we're we're sending a powerful message that's the that's the meaning of shavuas is for you and me and us while Israel okay so that's up my sleeve the the important thing is now that I told you that remember you need to try to wedge that into your Consciousness and also don't forget that when you're dominating and learning not only are you doing the mixes of dominating and learning and another thing on that long poster is called microcodish which is a special Mitzvah as well that one you'll see on the poster I'm not going to focus on that one but when you're dodging and learning don't forget that Hashem I'm shavuas is for you also hashemous is for Hashem so have that in mind while you're learning learning all night domining waking up for Korea satara being conscious that's question so those are two important new midterms if you will new Mitzvahs they're mentioned but we're drawing uh important light to them okay so that's the first one parrots I have one more up my sleeve uh okay oh yeah I think I have one more up my sleeve let me just uh let me share that okay yes yes Rabbi Michael Hollow there's a bunch there are a bunch of misses and if you if um we're gonna talk about that at the end of this year but what I want to mention also is is the following idea that in a certain sense I I hope your new comprehension will make it fresh and new to you um you know what actually parents didn't you have a question about that um yeah so you remember you asked me this go ahead yeah I think I think this is what you were gonna uh speak we have a lot of um you know tourism droches about Shabbos being this this time for Kabbalah Satora specifically and the Omer building up towards that so maybe you can tell us a little bit about more about the source of that idea okay right Kabbalah satara so I'm sure you've heard lots of um Musser talks or you know inspiring things that we're we're counting the Omer we're building our our Mido so we'll be ready to macabo the Torah on very famous so for years I thought oh that's you know it's inspiring in this net but I didn't know really what does that mean first of all one thing to think about and I don't want to focus on but just I want to mention it is we're supposed to um relate to the Torah as being given to us when today right we're always supposed to hear the the the boss cold coming out of Sinai it's supposed to be a daily thing so what does exactly mean that where macabo the Torah on Shabbos and what's the significance of it okay it's big it's a Gamora your xiaomi the gamaria show me actually says this this isn't like from um some drush or some later Authority mentioning something it's in the gamar itself and the gamaria shami observes something very interesting when it's talking about the earring the the goats uh that are brought in honor of the moadim and all the holidays they're they're serum and and they're called sire hatas their sin offerings because not only rosh hodesh and Yom Kippur are times that we get a capara but every every um yonto Borrego there's Siri hatas which gives us a capara okay but if you look carefully like the gomaria shami did if you look carefully in the Torah so every single other yonto it says mentions the hatas but in Shibu as it says you'll bring and they're the exact same serum but it doesn't mention sin why not so I'm quoting the gamaria xiaomi for you it says if you macabo the Torah on Shabbos I will consider it as if you never sinned do you hear that is that is that not a promise sound familiar sound like Yom Kippur Yom Kippur is one of the happiest days of the year because our sins are forgiven and guess what bizarre says the tikoni Zara says that is happier why because you know the the chuba on Yom Kippur is really coming from Fear of the final verdict whereas shabuos it's by macabo the Torah it's a joy as we said shibuous is for us we have to show that we know that right so when you macabo the Torah anew anchovus Queen slate that's big right it's not just like abort it's a big deal so obviously what you're going to want to know is how do you makeable Torah and when do we makeable the Torah on so I saw in the house in a mowing he pointed out that it it appears that the icker time for everyone to macabo the Torah anchovius is in the morning Korea satura when they're saying when they're reciting the whole uh experience of giving the Torah and the Ten Commandments right that's when you should you should declare in your heart and in your mind Hashem first of all there's the Mitzvah this is on the infogram of remembering the mom at harsinai that's one thing but what I want to talk about is that the Kabbalah right so you should have in mind the Shem I'm a Kabul the Torah again or now right now why would it lead to such a profound um thing that's even happier than Yom Kippur and cleaning the Slate so just quickly it means you really accept the Torah knowing what it entails okay brings When Rachel uh decided to accept the Torah it says he couldn't he was he was a like a robber originally he's strong man he couldn't get out of the water he was so weak why did the Torah make him so weak was it's a mystical thing that it weakens you so he explains that it's more than that it's not just a mystical idea the Torah saps your strength when you take seriously the responsibility to do schneid microwave to learn uh to fulfill all the Mitzvahs the study parts of the Torah that are harder for you there's if the more seriously you take it the more sincere your acceptance is you hear this and if you're if you say look you know I dropped the ball in reviewing uh gamara I I or a woman I I dropped the ball I don't always study the laws that pertain to my Mitzvahs or etc etc or the part everybody knows where maybe their commitment wasn't upheld fully so that's what you have to do when you hear it before you before you get there before we get to the Korea Saturn on Shabu this morning you have to think ahead of time think before sugar centers where do I need to strengthen my commitment because commitment is expressed in action so I just want to make it that it's not just like a magic formula that we say I accept the tauren we're Clean Slate okay also if you know you have sins you should do true beforehand and then you have a clean slate okay all right Paris does does that make it clear yeah it does thank you thank you um so just one one uh final point for me which is just I guess we can end this one or go to a very practical note so we heard a lot about these Mitzvahs um so what suggestions do you have how can we how can we hold on to this when the time of uh Chevrolets next week okay um that's a that's a question that shows you care and and I know the people at least that are online here uh most of them that if you carry wanna know I as I always say I don't want this these classes to um just be entertaining a TV show as we as we joke but I want you to wedge them into your Consciousness and as I opened with it's not easy to remember right it's not easy to integrate so I want to discuss uh I had a thank God opened my mind to something that I've asked a lot of people and I haven't gotten an answer for is if you look in the uh uh um sidorim of swardon and also the new spard a lot of times you'll see hear the falling phrase [Music] all right so if you translate that Hine behold I'm here we'll discuss that in a second um but then I'm muhan and mizuman so most people um find including me found it hard what's the difference between being muhan and mizuman they both seem to be a word I'm prepared like behold Hashem I'm prepared to do your will okay so what's the difference between being muhan and mizuman now we have the language of uh mizuman right with zimmun right we have a zimun and we have um if you get an invitation to a wedding it's a has Mana Okay so there's the language of time is there okay now muhan is clearly a word for Preparation let's let's think about uh the laws of Shabbos if someone does preparation for mozi Shabbos that's called it's preparation before the event comes so I found that in English so I would like to translate it like this and this can be very helpful parrots and to all of you how to uh um succeed on Shabbos okay and literally transform your life now and your eternity so muhan means prepared mizuman means ready now what's the difference between being prepared versus ready okay so the the answer is that muhan preparation is something you need to do beforehand right so there's prepared ready is you're at the starting blocks you hear the gun and you're ready to go you're focused so in KLM in Covina misses terms you need to do two things you need to prepare the information you need ahead of time before shaboos comes in okay and right that's the first thing so like I said I mentioned this infogram you have to start uh when we put it out you have to review it you have to be prepared for the Mitzvah opportunities that are going to come and then when they come you have to be zoom on you have to be ready right you have to be focused and ready your notes you have to be present in the presence of Hashem and the midst of opportunity and and we're and in this infogram we break it you know before show us there are these Mitzvahs the night the day Etc okay so so what I would suggest is that you recognize if I want to be fabulously bonded to a college for who on the incredible uh hog of schwaros I need to be prepared so prepare before and be aware of the misses that are going to prevent present themselves and then be mizuman be alert and focused and pause before you act and insert the Cabana now um I asked uh parrots that Dr Setzer uh did I asked him he sent me his standard we talked last last time we met we talked about spirosa Omer and I mentioned there's actually five Mitzvahs there's there's the counting the sphera and there's three remember I mentioned a lot of Mitzvahs so I you know I got a lot of feedback they said wow that's something but you know how do you make sure you're prepared and ready so can parents can you show us what Dr Setzer sent okay yeah let's see all right is that's Dr setzer's uh standard in uh I think the maharsha show right so you see he has our spirit Omer poster yeah if you have excellent there we go spirus uh Omer five misses in 25 seconds the misfit to count the Omer days in uh weeks and and then uh three mixes of remembering okay and then finally the midst of the vacas which involves anytime we're thinking uh about Hashem so that's a suggestion when you get this in Korea and by the way those who are listening on YouTube ever um my my email is Rabbi webbrite gmail.com you can contact that way or if you're on the WhatsApp group and we'll make sure you get one of these but this is a great way to do it okay so there's much more to speak about but let's just um close by uh reminding ourselves you're not just eating you're not just rejoicing you're conveying at your feelings to Hashem if you do this consciously just keep in mind when I eat on Shabbos when I drink when I celebrate on shoes when I sing right I want him to see wow he really loves having the Torah she really loves having the tarek that's it's so romantic Shabbos is for us so we can show him how we feel about receiving the turret that's a biggie and of course that mind she was is for Hashem when you're doing those uh activities right so don't forget that and I really encourage you to do some preparation by doing some Hesh bonan effus some spiritual reflection How can I strengthen my commitment to the Torah and then do whatever you can to be awake after staying up all night okay I think that covers it yes thank you you're very welcome all right if anyone has any questions now uh feel free hello um uh so I I wonder if I'm getting something wrong because you know I find that in a number of the major moadeem opportunities to connect and you know appointed times they seem to be set up in a way where we're we're physically exhausted uh you know I mean just let's go we can go through like okay start with pesach you spent days cleaning you know they're usually a mad rush before but because cremates then you know you're up early and then you're preparing for the Seder and you get to the Seder and and you know and then you're up and you have four cups of wine and then you got to go to shul the next morning and then you know right uh before you know Rosh Hashanah you're up super early and then you're not supposed to sleep on Rosh Hashanah right now here right all right and then so and then the second you know and and then Shibu was you know you're supposed to be at the peak of your of your Consciousness and intentionality and you've been up all night right and uh uh sometimes filled with caffeine and you're dropping from the caffeine and cheesecake and all that stuff right um and I'm not even talking about not yet okay I'm not even I'm not even talking about you know the long summer fast days we'll leave that for another time but but but but but but but you know and yet so so it's it seems to be set up in a way like you know like you're you're physically exhausted right and and let's just talk about shavuas so um the only thing I can think of the only turrets I have to that is that um I think about some of the most satisfying movements in let's say you know a professional life and things like that right we're you've you've not just invested yourself completely but just sort of you've thrown yourself into something you almost burn yourself to the ground in terms of your investment into the into the Endeavor and then if you achieve your goal or at least feel like you fulfilled your mission even though you're exhausted you gave yourself to it you know you know you found yours you know you're there you're really present and maybe that's how why the system is designed and our our sages designed it this way to demand our effort to demand our personal sacrifice if you will but certainly personal input but it is something that I just wonder you know obviously if you prepare and you're super organized you have time for sleep you have time for everything you know but you know I'm not one of those people and so I find myself physically challenged on these great yamtoven and I just wonder if I'm getting something wrong all right fantastic uh question fantastic answer I think that is I mean um mysterious nephish uh involves you know that's a word for sacrifice you know the more you sacrifice it I'll just tell you a couple Rabbit Green uh stories but one I remember hearing from zahavi Green he pointed out that you know let's say someone's a young lawyer and they have no reputation and they're working hours and hours to make and they they're so personal I was but the their salary is not like it won't blow you away but he gives basically it hurts him almost to spend the money on a a a um let's say a ring for his wife okay it really hurts now then he lands uh major cases and intends to become a major donor of KLM and that at that time he can actually give his wife a car or something like you know the hope the Hope Diamond or something whatever it's called so most of the time that that um gift that came from sacrifice is the most touching so it really shows our love for Hashem and and so that which I feel was what you were heading is heading for and as Rabbi green that was Rabbi Rabbi shim and green said he used to tell us when Ella would start says I want you to learn so hard and and delve so deep and go so far that you if you will you just fall into hashem's Loving Hands on Yom Kippur you collapse into if you will Hashem has no you know by but you collapse into his hands right so now and now it's so nothing's coincidence uh 15 minutes before this year started I you know I look at I I look at a lot of um videos that are helped to help they Intel people improve their productivity and you know develop personal development obviously because that's what we want to do with Torah so I just heard about before burner Theory okay anyone heard the four burners Theory so if you imagine an old-time oven and it has four places like Akira if you were before if four burners and if you were to um evidently if you turn turn every burner up at the same time uh the the strength of any one of those burners is low okay and it works proportionally basically if you shut off all three other free then you have a real one of them's really burning so the the author of this said there's we have okay I have to say this carefully this will be both um you have work family right this is and this was from a non-jewish perspective work family um work Family Health work family health and there was a fourth burner um friends friends okay so they said look you know everybody would love everyone fantasizes to be out distinguished in their work the ultimate family man or woman have great friends and spend time with them and uh be healthy so they said wake up you can't do that that's putting four burners on low burn right so if you want to excel at one of these uh it really Excel then it has to be one burner or one burner with a little bit you know so I'm not going to tell anybody you know how to work this out but you get the point so I I would say like this um just adding it that in the Moa deem in these times they're not all the time they're sometimes right so I think you're supposed to turn that burner up the the Hashem the forest Shen burner yeah and really really that and that means maybe less time with friends you know et cetera look we take off of work you know Haman was um denigrating the Jews he said they're always having a holiday when are they working you know right so we we turn down the work burner we should turn on the friend burner you see I'm not saying you turn down the family burner okay but you hear yeah sometimes you have to turn that burner up and it's it's a point times one more okay let me throw one more uh of your uh uh tired or whatever opportunities in the burner we'll finish with this okay I mean with your question is the Vilma going well here's one that you didn't mention okay does anyone know the the most incredible time of spiritual opportunity on Purim when is the peak of your chance to head to Vegas to Hashem and you know it says uh you know um ask and Hashem will give to you right yeah okay when is it when the out of your mind in the suda repentance says in your you know you're lucky or not vomiting you know and that's the time what's going on here is this a conspiracy yes says the Quran the bigger the time the bigger the Yates are hard so it is not a coincidence that you know even well do you think that the HR only works with um uh like uh we call it going to to the red light district that's the only place he pins it he'll he'll work with the the holy men hug the stay up all night you know Michael what's it called that thing that rhc says very quickly you know yeah right so he's saying it's like EO Hashem says he hopes very righteous yeah I know he's very righteous but what if I test him on the Sutton the satin says this and what if I test let's see right so I'd like to say that you know the Yates and horror is it he's he's a law he's showing up at shibules at the appointed times and he it's going to be difficult also because of him and therefore you have to be cunning right you have to it's heroic to rest sometimes it's monish heroic you know be a hero and sleep before sugarloafs but also if you're tired you just whatever you do just slap your face to it cold water ice water I don't know what I don't know if we could do ice work you hear so I would say there's a holy shame saying show me you love me turn up the burner and he's also the it's our same okay let's see Mr big shot you love Hashem Mrs Big Shot you love Hashem let's see you do it when you're tired okay that would be my suggestion beautiful thank you so much WoW okay great thank you okay very good all right everybody um be on the lookout or like I said or text me if you um or email me if you'd like that infogrand so you'll be uh [Music] oh