KLM Taking Full Advantage of the Auspicios Time of Elul with Rabbi Asher Baruch Wegbreit

[Music] i love ello i find its energy magical and let me tell you my history with ello i used to live in a neighborhood in yerushalayim called byfagon and on that street i used to call by fagon god's country and now we could debate where what you would call god's country but i called it god's country i'll give you an example on my street it was a little street with apartments and this and that there were four yeshivas on one street so when el would come i would i would schlep my kids they usually like the quick davening but i schlepped them to hear the rosh yeshivas and the mashiach speak about ello okay or should i say scream about ello one of them of mordechai is rocky right so this is what he would do and my kids remembered for the rest of their life okay and this was exactly he would go like this that he was like a human chauffeur you're here it was a show hala vine when we hear the chauffeur blow you could hear that oh okay so that was that was one experience then i went to another one to a yeshiva called koltor a very famous yeshiva and the mashiach thereof yitzhak rodianski he also he didn't yell like he also sort of spoke very strongly and he said like this is a milsahi what does that mean acerozone a a favorable time this is from a gemara it's a milsa it's a thing it's a real thing it's a milsahi and he was saying that ello is a acerozone and just hearing that changed my l just to hear it's an acerot zone right and i started to think into and look into what is an ace rat's own really what is an ace rot zone so then when is there an example of a throne a spot zone when you open every shabbos right when you open up well really it's on shani and kamishi kriya satoru when they open up the ark you start saying brishmei de mariama right which is a passage from the tsar which translates blesses the name of the master of the world and why are you saying that right i was told that in the movie raiders of the lost ark they actually recited that very quickly but why are you saying breach made to mariama because it's an ace rat song but if you don't know that it is an acerot zone and you don't really know what it is you go blue right until the sacred torah arrives right and then on shabbos right what do they do they even saw our own right so i like kind of teasing about how sometimes we do the uh the liturgy like musical parrots you know we mean well you know the heart's there but we're like even sore own me oh my motion everyone is singing like this but they're not really thinking about the words 99999 what is it saying when you when the the safer torah right when they had the arena kodish in the desert it was like a if you will a war machine the enemies would scatter so when you open up and you're saying vehicle you want to stop the missiles in in from hezbollah and those things it's an acerat zone you're praying to hashem may our enemies scatter you hear so that's just one example of an ace rod zone hat so slyla isn't it why why do people do tikkun hatsos it's an incr it's an ace rod zone it's a favorable time it's a special time okay now let's come to ello okay in ello you have the following the the history rashi explains is moshe spent 120 days with hashem on sinai right the first 40 getting the original torah and then there was the haita eagle and he 40 days he's begging to save the jewish people and when is it that his prayers are accepted by hashem saying uh well the he basically turned things around on rosh chodesh el the ultimate turnaround was on yom kippur okay but he had already said hashem says i forgive them come up to me again so mosher of banu took the 40 days of from elo right rosh chodesh el yesterday until yom kippur and he turned it all into an ace zone we're not talking about when you open the torah for a few seconds aceratzone tikkun hutsos aceratzon the entire hodish 24 7 is an ace plus 10 days is an ace rat zone it's a favorable time you hear this it's it's as if imagine this and if you could imagine this your your shamayam and your connection would be amazing imagine the ark is open and the torah is being out for the entire month that's what it is that's l now you understand why he's going right and it's a mil it's a real thing okay so now we have to understand what do you do with that how do you take advantage of the acerat zone of evil okay and that brings us to the two main mitzvahs of el okay the special mint hogging that are now halachas and mitzvahs is what do we do there's the what i call the elol shofar right not the show for rosh hashanah the l will shofar and then you also have te helen khof saiyan right ladavid right and they come right back to back right those two mitzvahs are the way in my humble opinion to take incredible advantage of the acerot zone okay we have the the following that uh rev bradowitz um also part of the wonderful yibanet where breitlifts gave me the exhaust source it's in the tikune zohar okay what um what brings your mitzvahs to the shamayim two things urus hashem fear of hashem and ava's hashem when you do your mitzvahs with that they ascend to the shaman to the heavens okay so look at this brilliance of hazal below the elo chauffeur and recite tillam khafsan the hello chauffeur yuris hashem we will discuss exactly how te you're here so what you can do in this ace ride zone you can send everything up to the shamayim by re and and in other words if you know if you have the right kavanah if you i would suggest to bring the um bring it up to heaven you need i would suggest using klm okay let's fly klm stands for cavanaugh mitzvos right so with kln for the ava and the euro uret the ace rod zone will be unbelievable okay so that it's like a look at this way you're going to be doing this for 40 days right you're going to hear the well okay the chauffeur be 30 days 29 days right and you're going to recite that to hillam for 50 40 said we have yom kippur all the way through up until shemini at ceres you're saying the same to him so either this can become a very mc god forbid a very mechanical experience or you could be inculcating uras hashem and avas hashem with every day more okay that's what we're going to try to do now okay and in order to do this i want to show you what to do when the chauffeur blows that'll be our first step okay as we just mentioned the chauffeur mitzvah of el the el chauffeur is a way for us to ingrain yours hashem but let me first discuss him something important people are tend to be afraid of being afraid of hashem and afraid of his punishment in other words people are not comfortable with the ursus working on urus hashem punishment things like that it makes them uncomfortable and they tend to avoid it i understand that but it's a it's a based on a misconception okay it's really they're making a mistake and i'll tell you why because it says in michele in paraquad pasikhov zion it says uras hashem tosiph yamin fear of hashem will extend your days so the vilna gohan says wait a minute i don't understand this he says he said this back in the 1700s what an insight into psychosomatic illness he says fear and worry and anxiety shorten your life he recognize it it first of all it makes you miserable and it shortens your life so how could say you're a hashem is tosafyamin so he says it's basically like a spiritual miracle that hashem does the emotions that are destructive when you're afraid of uh what's going to happen at work and with this person and when you have fear divorced of hashem it's harmful but when you have fear of hashem it actually lengthens your life it's an ex life extension plan so don't be afraid of being afraid of hashem okay and worrying we're going to talk about worrying too ruben yonah says that worrying purifies your heart it's a great emotion but it all has to be towards hashem so that's my introduction to the chauffeur the mitzes of the chauffeur and what i want you to know is i came up with a acronym so that you can implement this uh on a daily basis remember the four mitzvahs involved with the l chauffeur okay let's take a look here's my human pointer okay when the l chauffeur blows okay have in mind the following mitzvahs okay you see this b-l-o-w below beyera uracin okay so the first point is as we discussed that fear of hashem is a healthy thing to do and the rambam explains there's a famous passage in the navy the prophets say when the chauffeur blows how can you not tremble oh right when you realize when you just think rosh hashanah is coming when you hear that chauffeur let it trigger yours hashem and as we said if you really want to send this up have in mind the mitzvah of yours hashem the shame it's a okay so have in mind yours hashem the purpose of the chauffeur is to awaken us and and to have to fulfill that mitzvah and then what's the l the shame mitzvah okay as i mentioned i'll just give you a minute what's the difference what's the difference between doing a mitzvah with kavanagh beforehand or without so one thing is like this is i was thinking of an ecg right i spoke with a doctor right now if god forbid a person's heart stop beating so they if they they want to obviously resuscitate the person bring them back to life so what happens is they're uh the the ecg you'll see like this right it's just steady and then if there's a little bit of a heartbeat then they can boom shoot it up right so when you put in before the chauffeur blows you just have in mind i have in mind the mitzvah of listening to the l chauffeur and i have in mind the mitzvah reciting until i'm 20 times you shoot your mitzvah up the quality goes up like that you you bring a heartbeat to your missus okay so again be biera with your with fear of a shen that's the first mitzvah le shane mitzvah to listen to ella shofar and reciting to helen that's the second thing um by the way this poster if you'll if you send me an email i'll get you copy because what we've learned at klm is if you stick these things in your sitter it's a you'll make sure you do this and it's a it's a game changer okay so that's the first two what's the o stand for here we come to chuva right the the the goal of the chauffeur and the fear is to say is to wake us up to improve ourselves in evil that's the amazing thing it's not just a 40-day uh program to develop yuris hashem and ava's hashem but it's to repair a relationship with hashem right so you you should also think about see let's go back to the mid bar okay and the acerot zone when moshe you know when moshe was changing things around see the the amazing thing is is what does that ace rotom do even if you're if you will in the doghouse if you've done if you haven't acted well you know it flips things around when you make an improvement effort now it's an absolute game changer now here's the thing is we don't always again this is another thing that's an irrational fear we don't like to look at our shortcomings okay but again when you're with your divine parent who loves you so much and just wants to have the best relationship with you and you'd have the best relationship with others guess what if it's safe and it's healthy and it's so good to focus on your shortcomings okay now the thing is this we know we have a yate sahara and we may it's hard to even think we do you know especially for religious i pray i learn torah i give charity i observe shabbos i i didn't make any golden calves you know i'm fine i'm fine but really really i'll just give you there's a review game the zikr and sadiq kardos lebron so he helped us with this he says let's just take um here's a way to realize you're a little bit in a dog house and we need to improve our relationship with hashem let's say you know does the torah let me get angry you know just to lose again no right so he says let's say you got angry just twice a day okay that's 700 times in a year okay or let's say of the 100 brachas you're supposed to recite with kavanagh right and you're not supposed to throw them out of your mouth let's say you threw out let's say out 102 maybe two percent we i'm chuckling you know we know it might be more so do the math you hear so what i encourage you to do when the chauffeur is blowing own your shortcomings this thing for a minute you know uh i'm really glad to have these 40 days to kind of prove hashem with you yeah you're here so just that that do that that it's called here horchuva even though you don't do the whole process it's beautiful a wicked person can get married by having thoughts of chuba a little even thoughts and yearning statueba amazing okay and the the last one which again if i am giving you the introduction fear of hashem lengthens your life okay worry about worrying about your uh rosh hashanah lengthens your life what's w worry about the judgment of rosh hashanah okay that this worrying about the consequences of our not repairing relationship rabbino yonah explains in charity true but it's one of the 20 steps that helps you purify your heart you hear it's such a beautiful result that comes from that kind of worry so don't be afraid to worry it's life enhancing it's purifying okay so just to review you're assessing that's the mitzvah of the hello chauffeur have in mind the myths of listening to that chauffeur and reciting the tahilam oh own your shortcomings work on your relationship with it use the trigger of the chauffeur to remind yourself hashem i want to improve you know that little bit is already something beautiful and you keep nurturing it during the time and finally worry about the judgment of rosh hashanah you realize that everything that you know a lot of blessings probably happen to everybody and that's all i wish on everybody however there's been a lot of difficulties needless to say this year right for us our family our communities claudia israel right so this worrying gets us in the right frame of mind and you know what's beautiful is by by getting listen this is this i'm going to finish this part with the and then we'll go to the talent but even gabrielle right a famous python wrote a slichos listen to this slicha it's so profound and beautiful and it reflects this chauffeur to tehelem khapzai into ladavi he says like this from you to you i flee in other words i flee from you because i'm afraid because i know that all the things that are challenging that happen it come from you hashem right because you want me to grow and change but it's scary and i'm fleeing from you that's yours hashem that's life enhancing but i flee to you right meaning that's ava you know i cling to you that's what tehran zion's going to be about okay as we said there's a profound slicha that says from you hashem and to you i flee i flee from you out of fear but then i flee to you because you're my source of love i tell you it thank god uh neither i i just saw this you know when you have grandchildren you know everybody should right time when you have grandchildren it's really nice because you can just absorb them and let the parents work on them and you get to see a lot of things so i saw my uh granddaughter uh a week or two ago she you know she falls down and you know it was nothing big but she she's like this and then she hugs her emo this is what that's called the vegas right the the devacus is what we're really seeking is we don't want to be close to hashem that's not enough okay hashem doesn't have physical proximity but if you uh give us a joke in which neighborhood does hashem live in but no you don't want to just be close to a shed you want to cleave to hashem you want to cling to him you want to be in an embrace in a spiritual sense you hear that so that is what tehillim khaf zion 20 the allah david hashem ori it's all about says the mobbins all about the vegas clinging to hashem so let's take a look all right so the chauffeur was blow okay this to hilum is close okay this will bring you close all right so as we said you know the mobile explains how come david in the in the to him it says hashem you're my light you're my salvation who who should i be afraid of if if if the enemies are coming after me they're gonna fall if an army encroaches on me an entire army i'm not afraid how can he come on how could he not be afraid the album says is he knows that he has nothing to be afraid of because he he he has the vapors he clings to hashem he knows that if your desire what does it mean to cleave or cling to hashem the the gemara says he's a consuming fire he's in oklahoma no but when your thoughts in your heart are your your soul is where your thoughts and your ruach your neshama your ruach when their thoughts in your hearts are directed towards hashem that's clinging to him and david and melis knew that that devacus that cleaving he doesn't have anything to be afraid of okay so that's c cleaving to hashem the vacus so that's the first when you recite remember i don't want you just knowing about this i want you to have this in mind when you recite it it it'll be such a profound leveling up if you have in mind these misses before you do them so have in mind the myths of the vecos cleaving to hashem when you recite this to him it's so beautiful okay and then of course there's ava like we said that you are on a 40-day program to develop just a beautiful depth of love version and so realize this hilum and i don't want to uh sell it does not let me just say it this way a talent is a love letter but it's a divinely inspired love letter b written by the one who was the greatest lover of hashem okay so it's filled with avas hashem you know the the safer quran says when you love someone what do you do you sing to them right you sing to them so that's what he says a shearer of azam hashem he says it in there i singing to you i love you i appreciate you all your protection all you do for me right so let the feelings of love fill up while you recite this to him which is celebrating his the protection we have and we all know the incredible protection we're not the metallic but hashem protects us so much that's just one basis to work on love of hashem every time you recite it to him o or okay hebrew the word or means light right so we say hashem or e the the midrash says that's an allusion to rosh hashanah right or light is right but now we have to ask a question how is rosh hashanah light i mean it's a very heavy day it's a day of judgment right but the answer is is what is darkness and what is light in a spiritual sense so first let's talk about shabbos the beautiful thing rabbi miller points out rather victor miller is that you know the gemara says that you should look in the candles when you make kiddush right why because it says that during the week you you suffer a level of blindness right and by looking in the shabbos light it corrects the corrects this subtle type of reduction in eyesight okay so he explains it like this you know being busy all the time and running around and getting caught up into we're we're not seeing the point of life which is connecting to god we often get so caught up if a person follows what's going on it looks like other people are running the show right so we're in a certain darkness but when you just look at those shabbos candles around you did my sabrasus hashem runs the world it corrects your spiritual eyesight russia shanna is light according to that rosh hashanah we talk about how the fact is that every everything the inanimate objects the plant everything is really seeking to connect to hashem we're talking about hashem's majestic rule in providence we're focusing we're putting everything aside and we're really filling ourselves with light it's such an in forgive me that it's an enlightening hug it's so enlightening because we're concentrating on hashem's roma moves his awesome majesty and that's also a tight um another mitzvah of yours hashem in the chauffeur we have fear of consequences worrying about consequences fear of fear classic fear that's one level but the there's a higher level and that's what light is rush roma moose reflecting on shem's majesty so i just tell you when you're reciting this to illum and it says worry rosh hashanah think of the beautiful prayers of rosh hashanah when you say that word right and think of the majesty hashem and you now have another mitzvah called yirasaromamus okay this is applies to all mitzvahs serving hashem okay as we know the arizona said that all his depth of secrets came from him having tremendous joy so i'm saying if you're reciting a la divine love letter written by david malek tuition right and you're and you're celebrating the the kind of intimate uh relationship why not do that with joy okay so just feel joy while you recite it and then you get the midst of serving hashem finally e is this is where we started the entire haudish is an ace ratson right that means that hashem is translates beloved right i'm for my beloved my brothers to realize that hashem is close right now and to and to to seek to recognize you're in his presence and you're in a time that he's like opening a divine flow right it's an ace rock song right there's so much love and fear and there's so many things you can do to improve and develop yourself and also just um now's the time to ask when it's an eighth route zone that's why we do breach made to mario you we when it's a nation ask hashem he's your divine parent he loves you and he only wants to do good for you so take advantage of hello [Music] here