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Celebrating from the Outside | Jewish Learning and Inspiration with Rabbi Yechiel Spero
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It's hard celebrating these holidays in a way that can feel less than ideal. Rabbi Spero tells the story of a man who was desperate to reach the Baal Shem Tov for Yom Kippur, and what happened when he didn't make it. For more with Rabbi Spero, watch Ingredients of Inspiration: https://www.kosher.com/shows/ingredients-of-inspiration-39
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[Music]
in just a few short days
we will be imitating sitting in the
sukkah it's supposed to be cold this
year
and i'm looking forward i love it sit
around in the sukkah
with that nice hot bowl of soup
and to look around it's very very
beautiful
why do we sit in a sukkah well we're
told because
it's a remembrance for the coven
a remembrance for the clouds of glory
the protective clouds that the almighty
provided for us when we were in the
desert and the imranus the great gareth
says a beautiful
idea where do those clouds come from and
he
suggests that when the god of the high
holy priest
goes into the quidditch kardashian the
holy of holies
he offers an incense offering
it creates a cloud of smoke and that
cloud
then goes into the atmosphere
and becomes the anane cover
you see sacrifice
leads often
to protection we think
that we're giving up a lot but in truth
we're doing a great service and it's
giving and providing for others
listen to the following story one time
there was a yid who wanted to go to the
great sadducemeter
the balchampton lived in majbooj and he
set out on his journey in his wagon but
then he got a little bit lost
he made a wrong turn and he ended up as
the sun was sitting in middle of a field
just a few short kilometers from
magebush but he had to remain there
and he cried a hole in kipper knight and
he cried
and kipper day he was so broken matsuyam
kipper he goes
to the balshempton and he's crying he
says rebecca
i wanted to be with you and i just
missed
out i had to dab it on the outside
he says why are you crying can he start
smiling he says
reverend why are you smiling i'm so
broken
he says well maybe you shouldn't be you
see
the almighty akadeshvaraku needed a
general
he needed a general someone
to protect all of those souls who for
whatever reason
it is could not make it into the shoals
maybe they are lost maybe they are
broken
maybe they're in quarantine maybe
they've been exposed
and this year not
the available you're the one that led
everyone all of those broken souls that
find themselves on the outside
you were the one that the almighty chose
to help them you see sometimes
actually quite often sacrifice
can lead to protection the unknown the
cloud inside the holy of holies
becomes the protective cloud that gives
such comfort such protection
to the entirety of the jewish people
have a wonderful and a frey-looking and
a happy
success here