Last Years Verdict | Rosh Hashana 5785 (2024)

I want to quote to you a somewhat scary gar which is relevant for us this year it says in any year that you don't blow the chaar in the beginning it could be a very dangerous year the in says could bring bad days for that year why because we didn't take care of the Satan that year of course the power of the chur is there to discipline the Satan and to put him in his place and if we don't do it then it could be a dangerous year unfortunately the another seem to learn this includes and this is the scary part even a year where we didn't blow the chaar because we had absolutely no choice made it Shabbat that if rash is on Shabbat we don't blow the chaar and that can be inclusive of that year of being a very bad year tus seems to disagree with that it brings from the bah that it means me if you didn't blow the chaar carelessly for some reason you just pushed it off however the rich don't seem to be to don't seem to agree necessarily with that point and of course the first question that needs to be asked is how could it be if I didn't do something what we call bonus by accident it was not my fault made me not blow the chaar it's assour for me to blow the chaar how can it be that that would be a bad k for that year says the that there's two parts of every mitzvah that we've mentioned in the sh and that is there's the part of the Mitzvah which of course had theah when we do it there's a that has to do with being Mitzvah of course there's a part that you're being mzv and you're doing what hasem told you to do but there's something a little bit more than that and that's the Rua part of it it's not just like a king who makes rules in this country and and it's also like a doctor who goes ahead and gives you a remedy he gives you a medicine to do what you need to be doing it has both aspects to it in the chaar it's takes care of the Satan for us in a very naturalistic Type of Way automatic now if the king or the president or the police or the judge tells me that you better not cheat on your taxes you better watch out that you don't bother your neighbor or you make sure not to go kill someone if I could somehow find myself hiding in a tunnel somewhere deep in the recesses down together with sinir if I'm able to do something like that maybe I can get away from the law maybe I could hide away from the public outside and maybe I can get away as they say with doing something wrong or if they don't catch me I might be able to get away with it but when a doctor tells you to take the medicine you could stick your head in the sound like an ostrich Doge and think that no one sees you but it doesn't help because in the end of the day the Rabid cancer is spreading in the person's body there's nowhere to run there's nowhere to hide a person can't run away from it when when there's a sickness happening and the doctor's telling you he's telling you for your own good because it's what we call a mits it's a fact of life and therefore if a person doesn't get doesn't take care of it it's a problem and that's the of the chaar the chaar works almost like a medicinal type of Remedy it's able to block off the Yahara it's the kip parel it's the Iron Dome that when missiles are flying because of something going on then it's able to protect us but when the kipad barzel when the Iron Dome is not working there's a electrical outage it's out in the blink it doesn't matter why it's not working we did nothing wrong the batteries are in place everything's in set in place everything's fine but for some reason it's not kicking off it's still not going to protect you in the end of the day the missiles are going to land we're protected is protecting us on a daily basis but the behind it is that without the chaar in the end of the day it's a fact it's not a punishment that with out the blowing of the shaar it's not going to be so simple why am I mentioning this and hold on to your hats last year for those who paid attention to the calendar dates r on Shabbat the first day of R of last year fill on Shabbat that's when it happened I don't have to tell you in 2020 hindsight what I am discussing uh year that was surrounded with a crazy amount of casualties unbeknown to this country since the onset of this country it is not we have not seen this since the in Isel to have so many casualties we had over 2,000 casualties there was an absolute bloodbath that happened on on October 7th the painful despair of the families and the distress that people had to go through not to mention all the injured that happened and the people who lost limbs and other types of injuries and just trauma itself is a lifelong battle that a person has to deal with when we think about it and we imagine about everything that happens and we look back Goosebumps comes across a person's body needles in his heart it's a crazy amount of suffering that we went through this year that happened as a result of I'm not saying why but it didn't happen and from here we see an important when we look back to see what could be was the problem what could be happen and again we never tried to say why or what no none of us in this generation for sure has any capabilities of saying the word about it but at least we could know the intake of the chauffeur of what we can learn from the chauffeur from this year in order to make a preventative and a big change for the year of that it shouldn't happen and that is that the in says that thear according to the sheet of the T is allowed to be straight we pass like that says it has to be it has to be bent has to be kneed over because it's the idea of humbling ourselves in front of the idea of thear is to teach us a fact of life to make us realize that we don't know better when we thought we knew better we really don't know better what we thought is going to be a solution when we thought things are tame when we thought things we know exactly what's going to happen next we suddenly realize that may maybe we really are making a mistake maybe I was being relying on my own never again I hate those two words when they say never again when we say never again so then says I'll say again you're not allowed to decide for what will be we can go ahead and say we'll try our best to do uh the right things we'll try to do RM and hopefully that'll be our protector but that's not what's going to get us but that's but saying words like that is not going to is not going to be the point that helps it only helps when we realize the power of thear is to give us a re recless to the point that we miss because you know ever have a child that comes to you and he asks you for something that he really wants to go to his friend he wants to sleep over and you say no I'm sorry and he asks again and you say no I'm sorry not tonight honey and he says again I want to do it and you say no until out of absolute and utter desperation he lets out an an extreme plea of ah oh please Mommy come on and he just goes and screams and cries just like a chaar you know the power feel as the says comes with words it comes with articulation it comes with the tongue it comes with the lips it comes with your vocal cords it has a certain articulation and as a result of that it's limited because it's limited to the power of words that's what f is about even though it's powerful but still the of is nowhere close to the power of the chaar because it's just utter Scream It's a plea help it's a plea bargain for help it's a screaming to a in absolute desperation and asking is please can you bring it back to the way it was before that's the power of thear and that really is what we're doing when we're calling out the power of the chaar an utter bat why is the kid screaming like that he goes I don't know I can't convince you I can't do I give up just please just it's no words no no no specifications just an utter scream in desperation that maybe maybe maybe you'll say yes maybe you'll let it go and that's really what we're doing with the chauffeur and that's really a change of Gears this year from last year because the idea that we're trying to see is we've seen this year there is nothing else to do we are in absolutely the hands of AES at least after October 7th everyone was saying it clear as day people were screaming it from here till tomorrow that we saw what they call a mistake a and all these funny words that they say we saw that was giving us a message that only the can help us he's the only one that can pull us out of any mess and he's the only one that will keep us in status quo and that's the message of what the chauffer is coming to tell us I'm going to finish with a very interesting phenomenon because as we all know the shaar is parallel to the of course we know with the ram of a why is a so similar to thear because says in the that he was actually killed in the Holocaust in Fort n that he himself asks why what was the big n what was the big test of came to and told him to son he says what are you talking about we've had over thousands of thousands of generation of years and many tens of generations of people that have been we've been willing to kill ourselves and willing to die for the sake of what was this the biggest of all tests of the we're talking about the man of and he says an incredible V he says an incredible promised to as tell us he told you should know not only in this world the next World you're going to have some massive o you're going to be on the top of the ladder you're going to be swimming what every person dreams to have and immediately after that says to I'm being your name I'm publicizing your name to everyone I want every the Kish that I'm giving out right now I want it to be go and and stated forever and ever I want to C to be born for me I want a continuation for Generations it's going to die out with me there is no I have no children in other words of was stating more important than my is my having a continuation having that child to be able to continue this Legacy more important than my own personal greatness in I'm willing to Forfeit it but have that child was much more important says everybody else when they were they had in mind we're going to s be sitting pretty up in they didn't do it obviously we did as always but at least you know you could relax to know you're going to a good place was giving up all having a child is more important to him than his own by sacrificing his own of course told him so I'm still going to do it but in the end of the day it's almost as if you're one person's and the actually sacrifices meaning because he gives up his life because hm wants him to do it but as a result of that he won't end up having he won't even end up having the that's really sh there's no greater sh than that doing it absolutely absolutely with no reward intended that's incredible and that's what did he was willing to sacrifice his son because did it even though all his Works will absolutely go to NE everland it will be nullified dissipate it will absolutely become it will wither they will not be able to continue his whole project and work of life and not just a idea that he he was because he's still this it to still his all his energies there but because that's what he knows is the right thing to do but if hasem said it I'm going to do it because of was that is an incredible idea of a and that's why connected to thear the idea behind thear the idea behind the K is to sometimes just let things go to completely be to let my own personal indignations my understandings what I feel this is what they should be doing I think the prime minister's making a mistake the president make a mistake they should be this should be handled like this that should be handled like this taking your own personal Dot and just giving it up to to know I know you know what you're doing this sh writes in the beginning on his is called more than it's an of my own personal opinion now of course we believe in having your own individuality and having ideas and free choice that's our whole religion is based on free choice that's fine but sometimes we have to start realizing that even in the difficult times that we are surrounded by you know less if I would tell you this year if what right now standing now if I would tell tell you last R everything that happened this year I would tell you that about a massive Slaughter that will occur one day I will tell you about the wars that the this country is fighting on five fronts that's right for five countries literally that are attacking us and every the amount of anti-Semitism rabid anti-Semitism we were surrounded by this here even after all the chase all the people that are chasing us left and right if I would tell you about the massive and crazy intensive Miracles that have occurred during this whole entire year the the fate of survival of this country and the incredible fight to be able to keep its own Survival in this cute little tiny country I don't think you would believe me I think you would just say Rabbi maybe you should start writing some books maybe you should start writing some fiction books or maybe you know to be a rabbi you have to start making up some good stories you know good rabbis like to put up some good stories in order to keep the shum going live and here we are the next year and it all became true and you know what that tells me that tells me that yes sometimes a you have to give up on your own way of thinking that yes I don't know what's going to happen I don't know why it's happening and I don't always know exactly when or in what direction it's going to take place but one thing I know is that a k barkle is behind me and that is the power of the shalom