Make Rosh Hashanah Services More Interesting | Cantorial Accompaniment

if you're watching online everybody has a Maxa maxer is a high holiday prayer book so this is the one that we're using here this is the one that's used in Chabad of the five towns actually there's probably about three or four different Max later but this predominantly the most copies are this edition of the costs maxer so uh and also I not only have the master that they use at about the five towns I have I have the khazan as well okay um so Mandy Amanda hurts my good dear friend uh has agreed to help me out here because um yeah we're gonna go through the the davening and I can't sink so rather than torture you I figure I'll have uh someone who knows how to do this okay let me make a brother here okay fine so I'll just I'll let you know when to chime in and you'll uh uh yeah okay we'll wing it all right um so let's start with a story it's always good to start with the story there was once um out of Rosh Hashanah in the basement in the shawl of reviews the holy Russian Sadiq there was a group of racism standing around and the the Russian the Russian exadek came over and he said to them I want to tell you a story which was not unusual see them tell stories so he says once there was a simple villager a Jewish man a villager and uh he lived he made his his living managing it in and that meant he lived remotely you know like imagine somebody who has uh a family business to run the Motel 6 on the side of the interstate right so he had no Jewish community and he had no shul consequently so he never died in a minion and he was simple and unlettered in the in those days uh education wasn't as accessible as it is today so if you were of that ilk often you were illiterate as well so he never dominated a minion and he couldn't read Hebrew and this is important for the setup in the story Rosh Hashanah he would go to the big city relatively speaking you know the next town over that actually had a school and he would spend yamtov there so he could have in in a minion anyways he comes in on Rosh Hashanah morning and he's davening but he doesn't really know how to dive and he just looks what everyone else is doing and he mimics and he can't really read they don't call it page numbers you know it's not a Chabad house there he's whatever he just looks what people are doing he tries to mimic them um and at one point everybody is dominating schminessa they're davening the amida the standing prayer the central prayer and um and people are crying now the people who are crying are thinking about all of the things that they're asking Hashem for all the things that they have in mind when they're asking Hashem to uh to rule over his world and to show that he is the ruler of the world and so they're they're very moved and they're and they're weeping now he doesn't understand any of this so this villager is trying to figure out in his mind why everybody started suddenly crying so he says aha I know why I know why because we're in shul for such a long time already and we're hungry and that's why they're crying okay so he figured it out well one by one they step back out of the uh they stop that part of the prayer and they they stop crying so he's looking around he's trying to figure this out now why did everyone stop crying I figured out why they started crying because we're hearing so long we didn't eat yet we're so hungry but why did they stop crying we didn't eat yet so he's trying to figure it out and he says oh you know what it is I know I noticed that in shul in the back uh the Little Kitchen uh where where the where the guests eat they had a a big pot like a what do you call a big stock pot so what's it called like big pot like on on the on the stove and there was a I noticed I mean it took a peek when I came in there there was a meat bone a big tough meat bone and the longer that meat bone simmers the mortgage schmuck the more tender and succulent and delicious the meat bone becomes so he says I just realized they were hungry yeah it's true and they were crying because they were so hungry but then they remembered that the longer the meat bone simmers then the better it's going to taste so it's actually it's okay that we're davening for so long because it's actually going to make lunch more tasty and that's why they stopped crying this is what he's figuring out in his mind but then they get to Takia Schaefer the sounding of the chauffeur and they start to say the Preparatory uh chapters of Psalms and everyone loses it they just start weeping again and he doesn't know what's happening he doesn't know that they're about to hear the Schaefer he's just seeing everybody crying and he's trying to figure out what's going on why is everybody crying so he figures out he says Ah I know what it is I figured it out okay they started crying because we're in trouble for so long and and we didn't eat yet we're hungry so they were crying out of hunger but then they remembered the longer the bone simmers the more tasty it's going to get so they stop crying but you know what as true as that is even though the bone gets tastier and tastier the longer you wait at some point you can't wait anymore and you gotta eat and that's why they started crying again that was the story that the rosenerzadiq told to his system and then he left he who returned to his uh his holy room and he left us to them standing there and they were puzzled by the story and one of the Elder Sid them turned to the others and he said what the devil has just conveyed to us is a metaphor about the exile the golus not just the geopolitical Exile of our people but the metaphysical Exile of God's presence the fact that we're in a dysfunctional State ever since the temple was destroyed in Jerusalem and our people were dispersed and the truth is we we toil trying to perfect a broken world and we've been doing this for 2000 years now and and the longer we do it actually the greater the subsequent Revelations of God which will occur during the during the Messianic era will be so similar to the Villager who sees everybody is crying because it's taking so long we've got to eat already we're crying because we're in Exile we say that the Exile is taking too long but then we stop and we say oh hold on a second but the longer we're in Exile the more that we work within the situation the more we're actually working to refine it so it's actually making it better and better where in other words when Michelle does come the the the the ensuing revelation will be that much more sweet but then just like the Villager realized everybody started crying again because you know what in theory the longer the meat bone boils the more tasty it gets but in practice come on at some point just got to eat it's the same thing with us in theory the longer we stay in Exile the longer it takes from Sheikh to come the greater it's going to be when mashiach finally does get here yeah that's in theory but in practice enough is enough already we need meshiach now okay so anyways as I said Rosh Hashanah we're going to be in trouble a long time so what can we do to try to make it a little bit more fun here's what I've come up with I came up with an idea what we're going to do is give you some highlights of some stuff to look forward to so if you're not able to follow and by the way the the the best kept secret in all of davening not just social but year round is read the English do not think that you are somehow taking the easy route to read the English trust me when I say to actually know what you're saying and actually know what the heisen is saying is uh that's what davening is that's what davening is so if you're a traditionalist and you're very very you know into the Hebrew I I get that I understand that but that's why they have the Hebrew English so you'd have you have one one page for tradition one page for actually knowing what's going on and especially the high holiday the Avenue a cousin can tell us even a lot of those words are unusual words right so yeah which is why it says should prepare and this by the way I'm charging you for training because we're gonna this is your preparation right [Music] um but yeah there's a lot of unusual uh words that we don't normally say so it's a it's an interesting Hebrew at any rate okay so some highlights basically okay open up your master to page 66. I'm not going to do the evening because the evening service is 15 minutes if you get bored during 15 minutes bring a fidget spinner you know bring something to sure to distract yourself but uh huh you like mine yeah that's for the money without a business for the money hello how do you pay for two that's right yeah okay but I'm not gonna do any of the evening stuff we're going to go straight to the morning okay so page 66 is the morning prayer so basically this is the same as any normal morning you're starting with starting in the Chabad uh sit there at least you're starting with had any macabo I hereby accept upon myself in the midst of loving my fellow Jews myself I'm not going to go into this I'm just going to move quickly briskly along nobody's usually in school at this point anyway right Robert Wallace I'm not allowed to say that [Laughter] okay you go to page 70 uh nine and there's how you do again that's the way you start every uh chakras every morning prayer of every weekday you know that we we dolphin every day right there was a guy once he was a once a year Jew didn't even come Rosh Hashanah it only came you in Kipper and um and he only came in at night you know called ninja service so one time the rabbi is like you know I'm determined I'm going to confront this guy I'm going to try to get him to come more off in the show so as the guy's leaving sure he comes over he's like Bernie you know uh I really love seeing you once a year but you know we're we're here every single day and at least you know Shabbos once a week he's like Rabbi you're a nice guy I'm not going to lie to you I can't come to Schulte it's too boring he says why is it too boring he says because every time you come it's the same thing over and over in his experience every time it was called you got it you got it okay it just wasn't that fun okay anyways let's keep moving this is all the same you can keep flipping it's all this same now you get to a point where it's different than a regular weekday but it's the same as a regular Shabbos um it's the same as a Shabbos same as the regular Shabbos all right now go to page 99 okay page page 99 now this is where you start to get serious page 99 is where we take a turn we turn off the path and we're getting serious this is not like a regular and what you'll see here shama can you pull up page nine you have patient you pulled it up okay all right so cousin Mendy could you just give us a little a little maybe from from like lead into that you know you know the latest okay but he told me by the way coming he's like you only davin's most stuff yeah because that's the real pros they save they save the real pros for most of it's like the relief pictures this is yeah okay anyways 108 years for World Series is worth a week you're talking about the Cubs he knows my team okay very good okay set the scene for us page 99 little hamella yeah yeah yeah go ahead go you take take the podium so uh I don't know labovach has some different mahogany than a lot of around the world so I grew up I've actually never dabbed in 770 Russian Keeper in my life I'm a Rarity from Crown Heights but uh my my father Dobbins in a showdown Bar Park for many years the Baba chill so I've never seen this in labovitchels but in every other show I guess around the world the cause and starts in the back of the Shoal and it's like a hole to do he starts going whatever the tune is that sounds more like Call of Duty I think but it's relatively the same Motif where it's uh and they just he does a whole tune as he's walking up in his seat actually I think he goes [Laughter] pause he gets to the arm and then he goes [Music] I mean if you have a singing show who knows it they go yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah um ah foreign all right now you said you said now you've said something different did anyone catch that normally we say is you want to use grammatical terms it's definite definite article which means the king who sits on an exalted throne but on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur you say that's the present participle the king is sitting he is currently sitting right now it's more imminent it's more urgent it's more now right so I'm gonna cut that hamella if you want to just bust it out one more time it's just just those words right there Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah I want to put in another thing all right do this type of uh layout the type setting but this one does and you can appreciate and by the way these words are in every Shabbos but uh here it's the the typeface is bolded so you can actually see it and it's laid out you see the configuration this paragraph where it's three columns one two three four words per column the fee you show them to stream them you see that right there okay so we say that every shop is in yomptu those those three columns right there but it's laid out to show to you to make it easier to see that the first letter of every third one two three every fourth word starting from you shot him is the name Yitzhak the biblical patriarch Isaac and the third letter of every third or fourth word starting from is Rifka his wife our matriarch Rifka Rebecca so you see the names of Yitzhak and Rifka encoded does everyone see that yes names the acronym for their names um encoded there in the in the davening okay and why they mentioned here there's a lot of reasons but I'll tell you one reason because many don't run away from me yet are uh the only couple mentioned explicitly in Tana as davening together entreated he dive into Hashem what does that mean it means that yet in his corner of the room in order that Rifka should be pregnant and have a baby and rivka would dive it in her corner of the room and they would both Daven at the same time so you're talking Rifka super power davening couple mentioned here there's different kabbalistic reasons as well but that should be enough to think about during the 30 seconds it takes to say these words okay fine so you know let's move on let's move on to our next just wait in the wings and I'll call you up again oh hold on I want to tell you a story okay I know I don't need the hassanas for this but it's very very interesting there's only one story that's actually written into the maxer it's there's a story here and it's right above shami did you pull it up again page 99 I don't have you I don't know if you had it on the whole time but pull it up again it's up page 99 okay so there's a story above hamelik right above where it says there's actually a story there and I'll tell you the story the story is that Aaron carliner who was it of Aaron Carlina he's one of the talmidia market the Val shemative had six D disciples his successor was one of those 60 was the Magid the magnet had 120 Disciples of those 120 disciples the first Carlin stolen was one of those disciples and his colleague the altarebo and the balatanya the first Chabad rabbit included a story about rev iron in the maxer at this place right here it's very interesting that a Maps you should have a story especially a contemporary story because the altareb is the one who included it the outre is including a story about a friend of his it's very interesting yeah so the story is that Aaron was once davening I'm not shoshana some versions of the story that he was diving in the maggots minion and the maggot actually asked him to be Hazen um and he came to this line to hamalech Joyce as we explained before the king is currently sitting right now on his throne and he collapsed he fainted so after he came to they asked him like what's up why did you why did you faint so he says I'll tell you in the Gamora and giten there's a story maybe people remember this uh this section of agato because it's one of the only permissible sections of talmud you can study on Tish above because it's about destruction it's a sad uh telling of uh the story of the destruction uh so anyways there's a an episode there where Robin zakai who was the leader of the Jewish people in Jerusalem at the time of the Roman Siege of Jerusalem he snuck out of the city the whole story how he snuck out and he gets to the encampment and he gets to vespasian's tent the station was the General who was dispatched by Rome to besiege Jerusalem and to destroy the temple and when he sees when zakai the leader of the Jewish people sees Vespasian the general the Roman general he says to him Allah with an aleph Aramaic for King malach he says greetings to you King in fact he said it to him twice and Vespasian who is the general says to Kai You Are uh uh obligated for death on two counts on one count for high treason because I'm not the Caesar I'm a general dispatched by the Caesar and you called me king and I'm not the king so that's on one count he says but on the second count is if I really am a king then why didn't you see me till now I've been here for a while The Siege had lasted for a long time how come you're just showing up all you're just rolling in all of a sudden if if you think I'm the king you just called me King why are you showing up all of a sudden should have been here a long time ago instead of iron fainted because when he came to the word hamalek you remembered that story and he was like what are we doing here we're just rolling in all of a sudden on rosh hashan and saying oh King hey hold on a second I just became king I mean King all year where you been all year so writes in the maxer and if this is a great Sadiq uh this is how he reacted how much more so should we uh take this very seriously okay Let's uh I'll tell you one more thing pull up page 100 um but just on the very next page you know what uh Mandy you want to help me out with I know that you're not a chakras cousin but you you can do the shiramales you will win okay fine all right now this this is just the next page this is like a minute later [Laughter] depends you're trying to save time or your people you want to be more musical but I want to tell you something interesting according to grammar this is from Altadena from the balotanya as well he said we translate this from the depths from the depths Hashem I'm calling out to you from the depths okay says grammatically from the depth should should be that's what should be depths mamik means to make something deep means from those who make things deep and he explains it means the people who dig deep that when you come to Rosh Hashanah and you want blessings the blessings are all there Hashem wants to bless us Hashem is blessing us but sometimes the ego gets in the way the ego the edging got out and you have to remove the obstruction didn't use that acronym but he says you have to remove the obstruction so how do you remove it you got to dig deep mock him you gotta dig deep in there and get all the get all the Schmutz off that's covering up okay fine let's let's keep going so you go to turn through 101 102 these are the blessings before Shema and then you have shman 105. this is regular stuff regular regular stuff all right and 109 is the schmannasita the the amida that you say that means personally quietly I'm not going to go through that we're just going to go past that and uh yeah so where is the the cousins repetition 115. okay so here's the thing whether you see all my posted pets yeah you like my post depends do you have poster pads in your cousin I write it you write in it okay I didn't want to write in this one so I wrote on the post to put there's a there's a story one time just reminding me of a story that um the balship went to Accra to an inn and he asked the kids the children of the bakrchma of The Innkeeper like I didn't see your father all day where's your father they said oh tati davins all day so he went over and he's like why are you diving all day it was a simple Jew he was like not a kabbalist or anything so why is it why is he taking him all day to Daven if he's thinking all the Deep kabbalistic meanings of every word you understand that but simple Jews dominating all day so the belchemist says why that why does it take you all day to David so he said because I know how to read but I don't know what any of the words mean so I'm not sure which parts of davening was supposed to say so just read the whole thing cover to cover so literally this guy every day he shakers like they've just covered a cover reading the whole sither it's about something's like okay you don't have to do that here's what we're gonna do and he made him little I don't think I don't think they had Post-it pads in Poland in the 1700s but he gave him some type like a little bookmarks he made bookmarks for him and he showed him here's where the morning prayers start and there's a little morning prayers end and this is Grace after meals and this is the afternoon prayer made him like little operation paper yeah this is good so Operation Paperclip Insider baseball paper clips in his mouth oh okay Operation Paperclip is after after the Holocaust when they got German scientists to work for NASA okay yeah to beat the Russians to beat the Communists okay we made it good okay so anyways so he gave it wasn't paper clips he didn't have paper clips they didn't have poster pads but he made them like little um bookmarks okay so then the balship left and then the guy was looking at his new Sid there with the it wasn't a new sitter but it felt like new because it had all the bookmarks and he was loving it was looking at it and all of a sudden a wind came oh and it blew all of his bookmarks and he was like devastated so this guy goes running after the bashemtiv but the belshaptive had already crossed the river and what did about something to do and he would come to a river he would take off his gartel his prayer belt and he would lay it down on the river Like A Little Canoe I guess and he would just stand on it and he would ride across the river like that you know he was very holy he would do things like that so the guy sees about shaft of just crossed the river on his guard talk so he's screaming wait wait wait so he can't catch up with about something just finished Crossing river in the sky so the guy's like oh what should I do so the guy takes out his gartel and he puts it on the river and he you know he sails across the river on his on his Garfield and he catches up and he's like yeah my papers fell out of my sitter could you fix it for me I'm just like how do you get across the river he's like what happened I saw how you go on the cartel and so I I never knew it could be done like that so I saw you do it but then I was like hey that's a good idea so I did it too about something says yeah you just did that yeah yeah he's like you know what maybe she just keep diving the way you've been down okay and anyway um so Hassan's repetition is different on day one and day two um what I want to do is shorter on one yeah shorter on one and longer on two yeah um but you don't do chakra centers okay but let's get to still dominant along with the minion oh you do dive in with the Minion Okay that's important that's good to know okay um what was the thing that they asked uh was it yesler rosenblatt while he uh he got paid more than the competition so this is all in between words I heard that he says even the quiet words that the cousin doesn't say out loud okay and anyway because he he was he was a God-fearing cause of me actually pray it was really you know sometimes I hear Hassan don't like the expression concept like the word Fila you what do you like how's it about Fila now that you say it I'm uncomfortable with both like myself that sounds a little more esteemed I'm like yeah it is it's more more classy okay designated Davina okay let's go to um page 152 okay because this is yeah this is after the schmitter so I'm gonna go after the Shakers and and I'm gonna go to a high point okay so let's say you go you get through the the shock Manassas and you get to this is a big high point and I want an excuse uh to sing a new gun and Page 152 so uh they open up the I'll run they open the ark which is very dramatic always whenever that happens and uh there's a there's a Melody it was composed by the altered by the balataniel and uh we usually sing it at this point before avina Market can you help us out no the real about that business yeah yeah hello hello foreign depends on who's in the crowd but and that's where I usually take a break that's when it's like when the duck who was uh flying in the front of the formation goes to the back you ever notice that with the Ducks and they fly in that v formation they do the ones who were in the front they go to the back and they catch the the wind the Tailwind yeah and it carries them for us so that's on our you're like our our duck yeah yeah okay um by the way I'll just share a quick vote with you that this Avida makina by the way was uh composed not by one uh what do you call a composer probably not a composer a uh author probably use the word author uh every prayer has an author the avina malkino prayer was compiled over many generations with different sages adding different lines at different times of need whenever the Jewish people needed to beseech God for mercy and ask him to behave both uh not only as a king but as a a father a loving father so just I'll point out something here there's there's something to be said about every single line here but I'm just giving you little nuggets on page 153 you see the second page of avina malkano it's on page 153 one two three four five six uh six lines down avina malkino so what what does that mean um in the English over here it says our father our King exalt the glory of Israel your people Karen can mean Glory um but it's not really the common word for Glory usually we'd say like um so I'll tell you about from uh Michelle it's also one of the talmidia Magid or tamida balchem and he says like this Karen means principle when you have let's say an investment and you have a certain amount of money that you put in the investment so there's the there's the profit or the the interest that you're making and then there's the kitten there's the the principle so he says like this this is similar to the what I told you from the original about the needing to eat already we're in Exile so long it's you know enough is enough he says like this when Hashem put us into Exile he dispersed us all over the world to perfect the world and so we're on a mission collectively to perfect the world but here's the problem that while the Jewish people are off on our mission to perfect the world and and every day that we're in Exile and we're in this situation we're making the ensuing Revelations that will come about in the Messianic era greater and greater and greater and greater it's like it's like a chunk of money that you have in and you're you're investing it and every day there's more you're accruing more and more and more profit you're making more interest everything else it's great I don't want to touch it I don't want to take out any money I want to leave it to let it accrue more and more profit but eventually come to a point it's like hold on a second hold on a second this is getting risky we got to take the principal out we gotta we gotta call it quits we gotta just cash in and be done so Michelle says like this means pull out the principle which the prince the Jewish people your your people the Jews you invested us to accrue this this Divine interest of making the world a better and better and better place every day in Exile but at some point it's too risky the Jewish people God forbid could be lost so just call it quits cash in and say you know what we did good it's enough we don't have to keep on pushing our luck okay just a little vote to think about doing a little volcano let's continue We Do the song of the day which whatever day it is or Shawna could fall on different days we do again uh chapter 27 of Psalms which we do every single day for the past month um do you have the the reading of the Torah shama do you have uh Torah reading like 164. okay so I'll just mention the toe reading very quickly obviously every shop is in yompton in other days as well we have a communal cover reading um just to cue you in on what's going on during the Torah readings so the first day we read about how Sarah our matriarch Sarah was remembered Hashem remembered her and she conceived and she gave birth to her child her only child yitzuk patriarch Isaac so we are reading that Torah portion to remind Hashem to remind himself to remember us just like you remembered Sarah remember us and then the haftura is of a similar theme it's about how the baron Khana or Hannah also was Remembered in a similar way and she conceived and she gave birth to the illustrious shmuel the prophet Samuel so that's the first day uh second day is the uh the Torah reading is the akeda The Binding of Isaac there's a strategic importance to that we tell Hashem if we have no other merits than the Merit there was accrued by our forefather Isaac um let's use that right now to be written for a good New Year and then similarly the haftarah is of a similar theme it's um the prophet speaking about hashem's affectionate uh feelings about the Jewish people and especially the way that Hashem thinks of the Jewish people as a beloved child Ephraim Ephraim is a byword for the Jewish people in this context that the Jewish people are like a delightful beloved child like a son the way that a father looks at a child so we're we're trying to evoke paternal feelings loving feelings warm feelings from Our Father who happens to also be our King but we're we're playing on the fact that he's also our father you know there was once a little boy who went to uh hey there in a little town where they only had one class and they only had one teacher one Rabbi and his his father was his teacher because that's it there were no other teachers to go to so to show that he wasn't playing favorites the father was very rough on the kid in class so one day the kids at home and he's crying and he's like uh why are you crying the father asked the kid why are you crying he says well before I answer you I want to know who am I talking to my teacher or my my father he says we're we're at home right now I'm your father he says oh good father tell my teacher to stop being such a jerk obviously the teacher and the father are one person Aveeno and malkano our father and our King it's one Hashem we're appealing to the fact that hey you know that King that King happens to also be our father I'll tell you another uh of art also from the agar dekala which is uh many people know better as the venezaska the denverov but he wrote another work called the agricala he explains over there seemingly the whole concept of repentance shouldn't work because if Hashem gives us Commandments those are serious rules he told you what to do he told you what not to do and then you want to flout his rules I'm sorry why do you want a second chance like I told you I told you what to do and it was very clear it was written very clearly uh on on the page and you just decided to do whatever you want to do why should you get a second chance and yet we know Hashem does give us a second chance and a third chance the fourth chance and infinite chances because just as Hashem is infinite his mercies are are infinite um why does that work and seemingly even the Agra dakala asks it sort of calls into question the validity of the whole Divine judicial system because it makes it seem like a joke if you could always do children you could always repent then you know the law doesn't have any teeth so how do you explain that so it sounds like this interesting this is a gemaric subas that says that that a king who wants to forego the honor do to him if I'm not a Jewish King the halacha that binds this Jewish King is he's not allowed to do it because the office demands that he cannot forego his honor but interestingly it's another gamara I wanted a different track tape it says that a father who foregoes the honor due to him and in fact this is actually even codified as a halach and the laws of aim it tells fathers and mothers don't stand on ceremony and insist the kibet of the aim the parental honor that's due to you by the fifth commandment don't do that of course you could but don't do it forego that honor and uh when you do as a parent forego that honor it is absolutely effective so the fact that Hashem is a king would imply that he can't give us a second chance but the good news is you the Jewish people are called hashem's children so he's not just malkano he's a vino volcano so as our tati he could he could forgive us can and he should forgive us okay um let's go to page 175. um I don't know can you uh but can you give us a little bit of the no there's a little bit of the minamesa oh we weren't expecting to be on camera tonight can we put you on the spot you do a little mini Mesa it only works in Russia huh so don't do it just tell us you got to be in the mode tell us don't do it just tell us how the rabbit did it just did this you know Mesa you got to use the mic you got to use laughs the key is sounding this way for in general is the Mitzvah of the day of Rosh Hashanah and um has deep significance and from a kabbalistic perspective it is what we calls where there is explain the great length of acidic thought that the Knight of Rosh Hashanah first night is when we have to rebuild our connection to Hashem and build Kingdom on this world the only Rabbi was ever at Rosh Hashanah was I had the schools to be there from 1982 through 1991. every Rosh Hashanah and it was what you call an Aveda first of all you had your spot for the case there was something called the wash machine in 770 you stood there and you literally you after YouTube you just peeled off your suit and you threw in the garbage that's basically how it worked um they never walked up to the bema his face was beat red simple people but there was obviously something happening and he the rabbit secretaries would bring along brown bags of some of the notes that were given to the rebel over the days leading up to Rosh Hashanah that had been included with him on the bema and then he would have a few of the Schaefers from previous and he would pull his Talus over his head and he would open up chapter 47 Patrick van zein of Psalm of to heal him and there was you can hear a pin drop in the room that had a capacity of the base hamiktos which means whatever as many people as they were there everyone fit in somehow and you can literally hear a pin drop and you heard every word as the devastated and led verse by verse from minamesa there were times would pause and cry the devil would pause under his Talus and those who are close enough would hear a melody the devil would sing on their Talus you can't describe those moments but I'll tell you one thing my official excuse for not going around to sound the chauffeur when I was a Yeshiva student because I didn't know how to blowship I didn't know how to do it so I didn't do it so I didn't have to so I had my spot for the case I just came running in right before but I was there already then I came here the first year and I heard this over the soundings over a great great sounding of the sofa and in my mind I could not fathom hearing Schaefer from someone who was never by the river because it came along with it it was part of it obviously there was no question there was no issue but personally I could not connect with it so I immediately after shoshana started looking and digging and finding a sofa that I can blow and it took about 12 months and I started selling the sofa because it's the only way um it was a moment that felt like a lifetime they were the rabbit did not sound long long kiss long blows of the chauffeur long sand but you saw there was something happening what that only the tadiq knows but there was obviously something happening and um all I can say is we miss those days it comes it doesn't go it doesn't go that's there [Music] foreign [Music] need my speed it's a nauseation [Music] okay roughly roughly yeah and then and then there's uh there's a prayer a quick one paragraph prayer and then there's the the okay and those those verses are the the preparation if you notice the the bold letters on each line the first letter of each line is is bold so that's craft Sutton tear up the uh the Accuser and uh yeah I'll I'll just say like this it always makes me sad when somebody who is not yet ready for the full Rosh Hashanah davening experience comes at the wrong time and here's what I want to say not everybody has the ability I'm just going to say it not everyone has the ability to sit through from the beginning till the end hopefully after you know learning some of these juicy little tidbits it'll help it'll help you to sit longer than you were or to enjoy more if you were sitting the whole time already but there are people they're only going to come for a certain amount whether it's 15 minutes half an hour an hour it always makes me sad the people especially the guy who was one of the first to come it was like he was there on time actually came at the beginning of davening and then he leaves before shifer because the one Mitzvah the one biblical commandment I'm saying from the 613 Commandments that you could only do on Rosh Hashanah is to hear shifer and uh I want to be careful how I say this because everyone should come for all of the ovening and you should come early and often as we say in Chicago but if you could only come for part of the Avenue please make sure to come for tequila Schaefer because it's a Mitzvah it's a Biblical command it's one of the 630 613 Commandments you can only do it on this day and in hearing the chauffeur you are accomplishing the entire point of Rosh Hashanah which is succinctly put to accept hashem's kingship which means I hereby accept that I want to give my life and the trajectory of my life and the point of my life and everything that I'm working for and all of my goals I want to give it all I want it to be all aligned with whatever hashem's agenda is I don't want to be an independent operator I want that everything in my life should be for him and um that's what the chauffeur accomplishes whether we understand exactly how that works or not so I really want to urge you make sure to find out and if and if they won't give you a straight answer just tell them come on Rabbi I'm only going to be there for 15 minutes please tell me the real answer what time is Takia Schaefer and then you could surprise the rabbi you could come and stay even longer you know you don't only have to stay with 15 minutes but please find out what time uh chauffeur really is going to be because that's it's just it's Paramount and look there are good-hearted people who go around and spend their entire ocean a day going from door to door and here in the five towns is quite a bit of that but and I'm sure if you make it known that you're unable to come to shul someone will take your address and they will come to you and they'll do chauffeur at your home but if you're able to make it to shul please come and make sure that you're there for that for that part of the for the davening for that part okay uh let's keep moving along here um uh okay now we're let's go to Mustafa because this is what you claim that you're not a chakras causing about Fila I'm sorry okay let's do a little move Paige pull up 178 okay 178 I call this I'm sorry when they come up here 178 I call the bathroom break but but this is yeah a very important feeling here's the thing uh this is right before we go into Muslim Muslim how long is Muslim usually how long is your musaf I'm done by 1 45. so it depends what time you start okay but most of it is longer than chakras and um there's a prayer that the hasn't says right before mosa starts so that's why I say that's like a time to uh you know take care of your needs whatever they are you know the story by the way about the shul famous story about the show there was a show that there some Crusaders came in to some shul in Eastern Europe and uh they were gonna kill the the rabbi the khazan and the the leader of the community and we call it today the show president and uh they said we'll give you one last request and it was on Rosh Hashanah I forgot to say that's the setup Rosh Hashanah so the Rabbi says last request before you kill me I want to say my Rosh Hashanah servant because we're preparing the sermon since the beginning of the summer and it's a doozy so I want to be able to say that sermon then you could kill me and then the cousin says let me sing one last time let me sing my hinene because I've been practicing I've got a beautiful beautiful rendition of hinindi that's my last request they say to the president of the show you have a last request he said yeah kill me first okay so what 170. let's give us a little taste of Hindi if you feel can you do that I mean that's that's your thing right okay foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign a lot of people skip a bunch of lines to the end I have one second Pull Up 179 . you want to go through the now look on 170 at the end there you have again they broke it up into lines and they made it easy for you because they put the first letter of each line in bold so you have your daity right which is a yod and then you have hakshiva which is hey but now she wishes which is hey and that's the four letter name hashem's ineffable name right there you want to give us yeah foreign I some people repeat that yeah yeah and you go right in the cottage gorgeous beautiful okay fine all right so then then we have more stuff excellent isn't this beautiful yeah he's the cousin you guys could all hear this all Russia you don't negotiate the contract yet okay after this okay anyways um let's move on sov uh that's your private personality now here's here's the thing I want you to understand about the the musaf during Musa there's more to kiss there are more chauffeur sounds but it's it's very simple once you understand what's happening it's punctuating different sections most of us broken up into three sections which are the three themes of the day hashem's kingship hashem's remembrance and the chauffeur itself those are the three themes so most of us broken into sections where we talk about those themes kingship remembrance and the chauffeur and then punctuating each of those sections we have some chiffer blasts um both during the silage monaster that every individual davins as well as in the repetition I'll get to that in a second but let me let me show you one of the highlights in the repetition of the of the musaf uh one of the real highlights people love this on page 200 if you pull up 200 I'll tell you the story in the background this is an Asana take it from the Santa take if it was one of those really dramatic uh high points yeah so if if you made it until it's like 1 15 by this point right okay if you made it to this point and so you're you're rewarded you're treated to this real dramatic exciting uh in a sanitike if what what what's going on here this prayer um is about 900 years old it was composed in Mainz Germany by Reb amnon of mines and the story is a very dramatic story actually he was an advisor to the the Duke the local Aristocrat and he was very favored by this uh by this nobleman and obviously this aroused jealousy people who were jealous that a Jew was held in such esteem by the Duke so the advisor to the king gave a bad idea to the Duke he said if Rabbi amnon is indeed so loyal to you then tell him to join your faith tell him to become a Christian and the Duke had never thought of that before but once it was advised to him he was like oh okay fine yeah why not so the next time he saw him he he advised it and sort of just you know ignored it uh and uh let it Let It Go hoping it would just be forgotten but the Duke kept persisting and finally he made an ultimatum and he says listen you gotta convert or you're going to be punished so Obama said okay give me three days I'll get back to you in three days call you back right he just said it off the cuff to be like you know buy some time but the second he said it he realized that's terrible because essentially what what am I doing I'm pretending even for a second that I would even entertain the notion of renouncing my faith God forbid he's like that's terrible how could I have even done that so he immediately felt remorseful and uh he spent the following three days fasting and praying and in isolation and at the end of the three days he didn't show up to the appointment are you he said I'll get back to you three days he didn't so then the the Duke sent his armed guards he sent his police to Obama's home and they had to physically grab him he wasn't coming willingly so they physically grabbed him and they dragged him to the Duke and the Duke said how dare you not come to me and whatever amnam said no no that's not the offense that I committed not how dare I not come to you how dare I even suggest for a moment even give the impression that I would betray the god of Israel and if you're if you're going to punish me my tongue that uttered such falsity should be cut out so the Duke said that's a great idea but I I say instead that the feet that did not walk to me should be cut off and for good measure your arms should be cut off as well and that's what they did they maimed him and they cut off all of his Limbs and they left him to die the next day was Rosh Hashanah and he begged to be brought to shawl and they brought his limbless body into shore on Rosh Hashanah and at this point in the Moose of prayer and they they were about to say kedusha kadosha you say three well we say it uh twice a day three times a day on a uh on a Shabbos or Australia because we have a musaf additional prayer but they were coming to the kedusha which we call also kesser uh when it's in the Moose of prayer and just before that prayer which itself is a very uh dramatic prayer he asked to be brought up to the front of the shore and he started muttering with his last breaths he started muttering a prayer and the khazan repeated word for word out loud to the congregation what nababnam was saying and it was it was these words in the sanator this so that's that's the story of how this prayer was composed and you want to give us a little the sanity yeah okay with all the drama okay this is actually the most dramatic piece in khabad because I don't sing it like the prior hasn't had so that I get a lot of flack from the women's section that I don't sing at like Shalom sang it and I I never sang it I just dominated the way my father did so here goes foreign [Music] foreign foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign please oh me basically um foreign this is the most fun part of the entire shashana ever people live for this all year long when you get to do you go you know what I'm talking about you get to say the three words but how will we know like what's the cue what's the cue to know to jump in um that word um could you give us okay let's do it let's practice okay do a medium and then we'll go it's stuck right okay let's do it okay foreign page 200 at the bottom okay so it has those three words is returning to Hashem Fila is davening prayer it's DACA that's uh we translated as Charity but it means uh doing the right thing when it comes to taking care of others needs so those three things if you look above those words there are little words that don't have vowels they don't have nakudas because you don't read those you just have them in mind do you notice the little words that are above each of those three big words so above trova it says means fast Fila above philips's coil coil means The Voice above the word utsdaka it says which means money tell you something interesting about those three words is they all have the same numerical value they're all 136 yes that's correct soy Sadiq is 90 involver six in mem is 40. so that's what 136. coil kuf is 106.6 laminate is 30. again 136 mummy ma'am is 40 and other members another 40. but we're up to 80. vov is six that's 86 plus known as 50. 136. so first of all it shows you that they're all related because they all have the same numerical value so they all have one purpose but also you know 136 is it's high in times two that's what it is ten in another year there's another 10. and members 40. so what is that that's 68 right 40 plus 10 plus 10 plus 8 68 68 times 2 is 136 and 136 is the commodity of time and coil and Mormon how do you like that okay thank you very much all right Creative Accounting okay um let's let's just do one more thing here I I I mentioned to you that the musk of prayer is pretty simply structured it's divided into three sections and each section is punctuated by chauffeur blasts fine we do those Schaefer blasts there's a prayer that said a paragraph it's the same paragraph every time it is just one word different each time because each time basically we say Hashem should accept this set of chauffeur blasts which represents the theme of and then the first time we say kingship and the second time we say remember memory and the third time we say of of Schaefer so it's the same paragraph three times but we just change one word depending on which section of the prayer we just said so which page do I have do I have a what yeah um what I have to 210 or 207 I think maybe I have no 210 okay I have a 210. um give us a little yeah give us a little 210 yeah foreign [Music] honey we may cover yes and then I let the crowd finish usually then I finish the first section the one about kingship and then you would the next one is let me do one more highlight because we got you know what there's so much of Judaism I think that um is textual and like a lot of words and you know sometimes you need a real like kinesthetic experience something like where you get to move and you get to do stuff yeah you don't like you don't get a lot of that and uh I think it's very important for us and there's very few opportunities especially on the high holidays I think it's important to like get up and do something to move around and uh I just I I think it's so important to mention this especially somebody who's watching this and like the whole purpose I came to this class or I'm watching this online is because I have a hard time sitting through all those words the words the words are so much words I'm sitting through it and I just feel like I need to get up move around so I just want to show you there's something really cool and special that we do on page 207 can you pull up 207 and it's part of the the first that first section the section of kingship where we read verses of kingship so a lot of people are aware of the Orlando prayer because we say alaino at least three times a day we say Elena after uh every prayer and it's a prayer that is attributed to Yeshua to Joshua the successor of meshire bainu who led the Jewish people into the promised land at any rate Elena is incumbent upon us the praise to praise Hashem and and it's this prayer it was always a controversial Prayer by the way throughout the ages because it directly um it directly negates the idol worship of the nations of the world and says that we are fortunate not to be like them that we rather that we worship the one God and as such it was throughout the ages it was targeted many times as a controversial prayer uh but here's the cool part of it this is just what I want to talk about uh during eleno we actually get up out of our chair and you bow down and we don't normally do this and we we pray like the old-fashioned biblical era style it's very you know it's very authentic I feel very biblical when I do this you get up and you prostrate you actually prostrate now for halachic reason you have to be careful um depending what the floral material the floor is made out of you have to put something down it could even be just like what are the handles like uh paper towels yeah yeah or if it's not what the 10th parking lot is an issue the asphalt doesn't work you have carpet okay so there he goes the carpet takes care of it but okay so uh but at any rate can we do a little a late this will be like our our climax for the evening the Elena and should I act out the prostration no I'm you know why because I'm afraid just see in short I want to tell you the secret here's why I'm not going to prosper it because in sure one of the things and this is also a lot of fun the cousin also has to prostrate he has to get down he has to bow now khazan is supposed to you gotta I'm not gonna make you do it here but you have to like illustrate when you're that when your husband you're diving you have your two feet together that's the way we do it that's the custom so he has two feet together you don't see all this action should Peak from the women's side because because this is very well they see my head disappear yeah so like he's bowing and then he's getting down on the ground and then how does he get up the people pick him up that's right so yeah what do you mean well you're rolling your eyes people pick you up okay no nobody picked you up no okay so let's do a real online okay this is one of the pieces that I have written down the notes to go up or down so let's try to wing it okay yeah yeah [Music] you know [Music] foreign foreign [Music] um I don't know why I never say the word out loud I'm gonna have a class something about spitting gorilla or not but you don't spit here okay okay I'll get ready for it oh get ready is we bow down and that's when everybody goes yeah and that's about it okay that isn't that exciting yeah okay fine I'll tell you one last thing and that is because I I notice people taking notes so I notice people taking notes and hopefully this will enrich your dominating experience and at some point during Roshana prayers you'll remember one of these things maybe a story or a joke or maybe something even more deep than that but it doesn't matter the point is hopefully it'll just make uh uh davening experience more meaningful for you but I'll just close by saying this I noticed people writing notes and what it reminded me of is the story of the student of the balsham so leading up the days leading up to Rosh Hashanah the balship I want you to be my balterque I want you to be the one who sounds the chauffeur in my shul I'm Rosh Hashanah so uh wolf said I don't know the proper uh intention to the kabbalistic intention so the Bible says well that's exactly my point I'm going to teach them to you so he studied with revolf in the days leading up to Roshana that he should have all of the the different configurations of the sphere ice that you're supposed to think of and focus on at each blast of the of the chauffeur he had it all worked out and he took notes he took a page of notes and he had that with him and he brought it to schulen Rosh Hashanah and he was looking over those notes the whole time he was ready and um as he was about to go up to the center of the shul to the platform where he was going to sound the Schaefer he reached for the notes and they were gone he couldn't find the notes couldn't exactly stop the entire congregation and say oh hold on let me go look for my notes it was it you just it was one of those moments and he got up there realizing that the papers that he was going to look at were gone and he just got up there and he cried and he did his best he winged it like sitting going to wing it you don't have your notes up and the down and the so he waned it he didn't have his notes he winged it and afterwards he was humiliated he felt humiliated came over to him after prayers after the services and he said don't know wolf thank you so much for your takeas they accomplished everything that I had hoped that they would accomplish so he said it was a failure I didn't have the notes you taught me all the intentions and I had them on the paper and I lost the paper said yeah yeah those cavanas those intentions are like keys to doors and every one of them is a different key that opens up a different door in heaven but there's a master key that opens all doors and that is the key of Tears when you went up there feeling broken-hearted that you didn't have your notes actually that was the greatest possible intention that you could have so not that anyone should God forbid have any suffering or any pain we don't need any of that but a feeling of abject humility I think is appropriate and not not in a nasty way in a way of putting you down and telling you you're rotten or awful no God forbid but in in the sense of you know what it is so clear to us that we don't run this world we're not in charge God is in charge we're not in control and we just have to walk into our prayers with that with that humility of of realizing how utterly completely entirely dependent we are Upon Our Father and how fortunately are that he's a loving father and we're putting ourselves completely in his hands okay thanks for having fun with me thank you