Oorah's Torah Spot Live at the Staten Island JCC - 9/24/2012 - Yom Kippur Class

it's my privilege to introduce requirements who will share thank you robert middlemen for your very kind words and i'm going to personally welcome everybody tonight very special days the jewish calendar is 10 days a time when every jewish person can connect to his creator in a way not possible the whole year the prophet tells us search for hashem when he's found and the rabbi says when did he see power this is always found he's always here he's found easier to connect with him these are the 10 days starting with after yom kippur those are the days hashem is found and if we do the right thing say the right things think the right things we can connect with him the word we cannot connect any other time to it i wanted to discuss tonight the subject of chuba chuva usually is translated repentance i don't know that means exactly the root of the word but i don't think it really covers the word the real translation of means returning when a person sins he's going away from god when he does true voice coming back to god again coming back coming home it's a very very special day yom kippur and we start off he kept us alive he kept us well and it's a wonderful day even though it's difficult fasting doing the things we have to learn for but these results are so tremendous and so special that it's a day like no other day and therefore we thank him for keeping us alive to witness this wonderful day so we have with us tonight we'll ask them to start us off with singing this wonderful prayer of shahiano that we always talk about sing about and get us into the mood of what we're trying to accomplish tonight oh my is thank you so the title of tonight's schmoozing talk is teshuva by the way of course i don't see anybody here in either category so they're not too wicked maybe some people are very great i'm sure but discussing it will be able to come to some conclusion ideas what shubha is and what god wants from us and how to go about things on these wonderful holy special days first of all discuss is one too wicked to do i'm going to say over now some words from the book of kings i don't know how many was said the book of kings it's a big one and it discusses like its name the kings of the jewish people the time of the first holy temple some of them were shattering him some were righteous some of them were not righteous one of those kings was the name of number one are glossary sheikh manasseh grand christian the nature of the son of describe now don't confuse this menasha with menache the son of joseph he probably was named after him two different people banasha many years before this menace that we're talking about tonight well well over a thousand years before this banasha was very different from that that nasa was a great sadiq righteous person bismuth was not the son of kesley yahoo his father was a great subject let's go to the kingdom that was a great length to describe his greatness before but we see that in our times today you can have some great people but the children are not great there are some people not so great which will argue right something that we can't control everybody has their own free will to do what he wants but this banasha was terrible and the navi the prophet who wrote malachi describes what he did in brief description i'm pointing out kings chapter 20 passage 21. i'll look up afterwards to take a look at himself he did the bad things in the eyes of god like the abominable actions of all the nations around he built a bomb his father got rid of all the altars built for the idols he built it back again for idle worship he stood up altars for the bow you know but the valley father heard about that one of the famous island worships that they had in those days about it was the tree that people used to serve bowed down to all the heavenly bodies he believed in them he even built altars to idols in the holy temple you can imagine that he went to the holy temple built altars to bring sacrifices to four gods and god's temple of god's holy temple he built altars to all of the heavenly bodies he even took his son and burned him in fire for the sake of idle worship i'm quoting now from words of the prophet book of kings these are all types of magic with the torah forbids goes on on there very terrible right how bad can you get imagine going into god's holy temple you're doing such a biblical act that he did so god said he has to be punished that's he acts in such a terrible way not befitting for jewish kings not fitting for energy especially for a king he's the charge and had a jewish people so he brought the king of ashur assyria syrian king with an army started war with the jewish people and menachem was captured and they took him into a secret to our shore and they put them in a big vessel like a pot he fit into a big one couldn't get out of it and the little fire underneath this vessel that they put him into it was getting hot those times he used to torture people twist them to death they grabbed the jewish king prize that they loved to have to torture and the fire was cons wrapped around that vessel that he was in it was getting hot and started praying to whom to every idol that he knew about i lived that place i know that place saved me saved me saved me didn't help naturally and finally things are really getting bad he remembered that's father the great christian the king his kion the greek zodiac the righteous man taught him a passage in the torah in the fifth book of moses the safe and devouring deuteronomy and it says over there the number three on our glossary sheets god says to the jewish people when things will be oppressed times will be pressing to you and all these bad punishments will happen to you when you will be in exile it's the aspera god warn the jewish people we have to live like jewish people are supposed to live otherwise god punishes and when that happens repent and return to hashem chapter return then hashem will have mercy on you it will save you so this passage popped into his head of menashe his father taught him this the jewish jewish god forget about all the other idols and all the foreign gods when things will go bad for you and you'll do with hashem i'll have to listen i'll save you so that was his last possibility to survive so he said okay let me try give it a shot so he started to do chuba and we're told that all the angels in heaven went and blocked all the openings in the sky for this prayers not to enter into the heavenly chamber of hashem so to speak the openings where our prayers go through and they said no this man is not worthy of god to listen to his prayers into his juvenile block all possibilities we will not allow spirits to come to the sky into the heavens what are all these blockages what are these doors those windows that we're talking about the different reasons why a person does truffa sometimes a person does chew about because the reason that nashville doesn't do juvenile because things are bad things are difficult too painful suffering so a person starts well some people do chew uh from fear of hashem from the fear of maybe getting punished some people do treatment because of the fear about the awe of god all of a sudden they realize my creator who he is the master of the world the creator of everything that we see around us how can i go against them i'm youtuber some of them because they love us they come to realize hashem's greatness and how many favors and good things it does for us so therefore the truth these are all different windows the different people might different reasons why the truth was about locking the angels blocked all of them we don't care what he's going to do it true but this way that way he's not worthy of tuba we're not going to allow it to happen it's too wicked right number two hamburg put into the holy temple an idol let him be killed and god went ahead he dug out and opened up god carved out a window underneath his throne of glory god says in his own blood those are terms of you terminology he doesn't sit he doesn't have a chair but for our understanding of things we use terminology that we understand that happens down on earth he went ahead and he carved out a window for the chuva of menasha to be able to penetrate and come up and the angel said to god why are you doing this the man is such a wicked person he's not worthy of accepting his juba hashem said no if i don't accept this that means for generations afterwards that means a person very wicked cannot do true and that's not what i want i don't care how wicked he is i don't care how bad he is i don't care what terrible abominable accident actions that he took a personal i'll accept it no matter what and he did he opened up that window accepted the chuba of menasha even though it wasn't saying wonderful true but it was only because of pain because of attack it wasn't because he loved god a fear of god who cares god says he's doing chuba he wants to do the right thing he wants to get on the right path to start living the way jew should live from now on and he saved it he took him away from that terrible predicament that he was in so the answer to our question is a person too wicked to do but no no matter how big a person might be sometimes some people in their own eyes feel they're very wicked and think i should do sugar it's too late too old how many people are here before you say at my stage of life i hope my children make your grandchildren to be okay but for me i'm too old for that no such thing we're told in the fountain of the gomorrah even a person who was quick in his whole life he did terrible things and on his deathbed he thought schumer i'm sorry for things i did in my whole life i wish i'd never did it before if any chance i'd never do it again he's called the tonic even if it was the last minute they took it by himself he's afraid he meet his creator now he did you that's the strength of truth it breaks all boundaries the engines can't stop it even the angels can't stop true because god himself takes over he pushes aside all of this advisers telling him don't he says yes i want to bring out this point by saying over something that we say words of prayer in your kippur your brotherhood the most inspiring part of the prayer of shalom and afterwards there's some words which might be overlooked but in such words of greatness of splendor of glory for the jewish people of so uplifting so special it has to be brought out for us to hear and internalize and live with we are discussing here in this prayer the position of a man and compared to god some comparison huh we start talking about who is man man this elder may offer man was created from earth if you remember the creation of adam and eve god took earth from the ground and created all the topics what's the person's future in the ground person dies who buries the ground who's man what is men starts from afar ends with our food with earth is compared to harris and ishbour to earth they were part of me that broke that smashes into pieces what's the song from the end of a person tell are you very like a shadow which goes by what is a person the other color like a cloud that dissipates kubrick is like the wind that blows by he dies descending right toward us you're a king of all kings you are strong years that you live god lives forever he always was always will be so what kind of compassion compared man to god no comparison man is like nothing god is everything and then we go on to say listen then we're going to say three words and it changes the whole thing upside down something unbelievable happens and we say these words realization that we come to realize our name you called with your name what's the name of the jewish people israel you say israel in english israel the hebrew word israel kale the letters allah incorporated in the name of the jewish people israel god put his name into our name that means that we're all one he connected us together with the eternal band he put his name into the jewish name yes that means all of a sudden everything's different that means we're together that means whatever god has we have we're not anymore to tell our men with like disappearing dust we are eternal we are alive we are strong whatever god has we have we have a bond with that with god eternally and he gives us over whatever he has he gives to us he gave us his torah a mount sinai the torah is the wisdom of god himself is inseparable from god like my mother says god and his knowledge your old one the torah is god himself it's god's knowledge his wisdom he gave it to the jewish people the torah which a great gift he gave to us another nation in the world was able to get the torah mount sinai's people got the term mount sinai he wants us to have what he has he loves to choose people to the extent that whatever he has he gave to us and the other hand also whatever happens to us happens to him if the jewish people go to the goddess and to go into into exile out of the land god goes together with them he doesn't leave us he's with us together it's a bond together the israel his name is part of us we're part of him he's part of us and we have tsar if we are suffering god's suffers with us whatever that means but we have the psuchem that say god suffers with the jewish people as a nation and every person a young every individual person who suffers pain god is suffering together with that individual that's how god has connected with his love for us his concern for us and therefore no matter how bad a jewish person could be he will always accept the shuffle of a jewish person because the love god has for the jewish people is so strong it goes beyond all boundaries beyond the angel's understanding don't just say don't let them do children but god's connection to jewish people is above the understanding of the of the about angels they are the different plateau of understanding they can't understand chuva from such a wicked person because angels don't have that bond that we have to god even angels don't have that bound to god like we are jewish people is compared to a smashed earthenwood blessing but you the king strong alive and eternal number eight and therefore the answer to the question isn't a person too wicked to do juba the answer is no the first thing to do the worst of the worst the most terrible actions but to have ava and the love and the connection that god has for the jewish people will allow him to come back and to be a target again and to be a righteous person that's as far as one side of the court that we're talking about the question whether a person is too wicked how about the other side is this person too great there's no children the greatest man that go to the uh part yes who is behind this whole gathering she tirelessly went ahead and planned things cooperating with us got us going and we thank you very much for this wonderful gathering tonight and the tribute our late mother lays durham left the world and this would be a sausage well this song that the our artists tell me about to sing very uh emotional type of song i'm very appropriate for your kipper because went dear to the holy son who kept him once a year the high priest was allowed to go to the holy voters in the holy cow and god appeared to him and asked him to give him a broken and he told him these words are about to sing which boiled down to god should have mercy and kindness to jewish people and mercy should cover all aspects of jewish life and the very prophet kipper that he asked god to do for us like our prayers and keep her the same thing god should be kind to us and have mercy over us and that's the prayers that he said inside the holy holy spirit that's what they're about to sing about on the first page third song it starts off in a very slow serious heads up is nasty city i is yes i is foreign is oh foreign is now before i continue talk about the other side of the void poetist who made a special quote in the army of kibber and some of these familiar folks posed send them over and tell us about it before and we call on shifty to come up and give us that extra spark the type of uh feeling we're trying to create tonight one of the kippers one of clinging to hashem to words to music and through poetry and everything helps to get used to that level of understanding and feeling so not any further ado but should we come up here holiest most awesome day of the year a time when god is so very near this day an exceptional gift granted from above every moment of it filled with his love on this world we are all human and can make a mistake with his great compassion god forgives us back in shape presenting this wonderful day an opportunity to repent god is anxious for us to befriend him once again and return to his tent forgiveness of sins between us and our fellow man is essential before our repentance to god can reach its full potential we fast on young kipper a demanding task its infinite value supports our efforts achieving between repentance is a three-step song beginning vidoy admitting what we have done wrong followed by regretting how we have gone astray completely with kabbalah a firm resolution to change ourselves today we eat excessive dinner before yom kippur comes in delighting in the upcoming event when god will forgives our sins elated with the great opportunity this day does bring to become intimate once again with our father and king we dress in white as angels tonight from our inner core eminence a divine light removed from our daily physical existence focused on restoring our bonds with god eliminating any existence beginning our prayers with the serpent sound of carl diedre continuing until the last prayer meela hours away we stand all day praying and pleading putting in our world hoping that god will forgive paying heed to we sound the sofa in one long blast happy and confident that god with his kindness so best has given a good judgment sealing us in the book of life for a year of goodness to all the voice of sadness or strife god is so pleased and we are too to be together with him as the father and child we once knew he wants us near him after being awake for so long god gives us a holiday to keep the relationship strong circus our most joyous exalting day follows young pepper in an ecstatic display celebrating the great achievements of forgiveness that god bestowed returning impurity to our father's beloved cherish a goal beautiful whole book in the tesco a long book he like other prophets encouraged of destruction of the holy temple the first temple he witnessed it he went along with the jewish people into babylonia to exile with them and he was pushing them crowding them encouraging them demanding them from them and guess what they're great people and they felt they cannot do juve how could a person do truth let's add slavery we have a number 10. there are two problems involved where the person sits number eleven one is madre hashem a person person's going against the commanders of hashem hashem is our creator he tells us what to do how to act and we don't listen to him that's not being very nice to him it's like a child and a parent who a child refuses to listen to his parents will what they want him to do so they can ask forgiveness please forgive me i didn't act nicely i went against your witches but what happens if the parent tells a child don't operate the electric saw because it's dangerous you can cut off your hand with it you're not old enough but you're not experiencing enough to use that electric saw and the child does not listen and the child goes and uses the sword cuts off his hand they come back to the parent i'm sorry forgive me it's the prayers i forgive you but you have no hands the biggest forgiveness cannot bring back the pain the hand of a person when a person sins there are two problems involved that we're saying here it's going against the command of hashem going against his will but when a person sins his souls the shama becomes blemished well show a person's soul becomes blemished to understand that to give a deeper meaning of that they are in the torah 613 commandments mitzvahs of the targets two passes vote don't let's hope all together 613 the person's body and person's neshama also have 613 parts to them physically first that's 600 parts it's a thing that's when babies being developed it's been proven then brought out the 613 parts to a person's body and the shaman our soul also has 613 parts to it 36 13 of a person to shaman and body correspond to the 613 laws of the torah every law of the torah corresponds to a certain part of a person and what we're supposed to do in this world is to fulfill every mitzvah of the torah which will give a light and a life the uplifting to every part of our body the 633 parts of the body will be sanctified and purified by doing every one of those not in the torah every time we do mitzvah it shines on one of our a voron one of the parts of our body and our soul and uplifts it lifts it up higher purifies and sanctifies that particular part of our body and our soul through that we'll be able to come to the world to come to be able to enjoy the ziva the radiance of god's goodness the more that we prepare our soul the more we're able to enjoy being closer to god in this world and the world to come but if we abuse those mitzvahs of the torah and we don't fulfill them that has a negative effect on either one of our limbs our bodies or our veins or arteries whatever that they correspond to and it brings a darkness to it it brings a and you breathe minimizes its power and its effect so how does that take place what happens with that god says okay i forgive you you did something wrong you spoke blessed horror slandered somebody spoke better against somebody i forgive you but how does that take away the blemish of the person so it's like cut off the same thing it's not only a question of forgiving what you did the wrong thing over but something happened sometimes to you to the shaman the shaman was blemished and that is what was bothering these great people in the time of jessica they said how could we do chuba it's too late once we did something wrong maybe god will forgive us but what's going to happen to the blemish of understanding and that is the power of yom kippur number 15 it says in the torah the holy torah this day will open i'll forgive you the tire has him to purify you to cleanse you the power of him keeper is not only that god will forgive us if we ask him for forgiveness but it purifies ada shaman if we do chuba and the shepherd becomes clean again the blemishes are disappeared we're able to connect to god again like he wants us to connect because when those blemishes are on on the summer we can't connect to him like we should because those are like blockages between us and god when we sin because we connect to god from the shaman not to our bodies so when the shaman for our soul that's how we connect to god if the shelter is not clean it's not clear it's not holy it's not pure that this connection is minimized cannot connect the full amount that god wants us to do that we want to connect and that's when your kipper comes with some such a wonderful happy outstanding special day that has the power not only for god to forgive us but his power to cleanse us make us pure again making the shaman like we say every morning but what do we do to it do we keep it pure or do we make it blemished with our evil acts evil words or evil thoughts that we might have a man's person is a person we're open to sin we have a lot of temptations but god realizes that and gives us this wonderful day kippur to one day of the year to bring us back and make that the summer to hire to be pure like it was that's a problem for great people who realize what sin is sin to them is terrible to the extent that they felt it's impossible to to fix it up but it's not true there's a mistake to me kressel told him great partner told him no even the blemishes of the summer will disappear that's god's power he can put people's hands back together again we can't in this world the hand comes off it's off but god can put a hand back he can make himself pure again thank you for the blemishes from the shampoo so the answer to the question is anybody too wicked to the tuber the answer is no is anybody too great to do tuba realizes what a sin is and he feels is too much no god accepts truth from everybody he cleanses the market from our sins but we have to do what we have to do to do something and what is chuba because she depends on the problem just before the three steps of tumor the minimum there's a great book that was written over a thousand years ago where a friend of your nuts called one of the outstanding books about trooper a book written about character but the gates of and he gets over there 20 steps of trouble imagine that 20 steps or two until two but there are three basic steps first he wants to go into it in a very pious way then what the three steps but the minimum of the trooper is a person who has to feel bad for what he did what a person did imagine god told us not to do something he did something wrong got told to do something we didn't do it how could that go against my creator feel bad about it how come how can i go against my intellect tells me to do the right thing and then don't do the right thing how can i do what god wants me to do doesn't make any sense feel better about it first of all our heart is what causes us to have the desires to lead us motivate us to do the wrong thing the desires of different things to be lazy to be arrogant to be stingy that's what causes our sins because our character traits take over for us we give up hit the heart don't let your heart overpower you you say to ourselves i have to be in charge of my heart marx will be in charge of me so that's the second step we do it and say god i sinned i feel bad about it and i take upon myself to rectify it to do the right thing in the future because this is something the basics of chuba of your kippur for a person to have these three steps rather feel bad for our just like to end off my mother says the whole section of truth fascinating i hope someday you'll be able to study eye opening for chapter seven robin says the following how special is the greatness of the shoot and i show yesterday this individual who sinned was separated was pulled apart from the god of the jews of jewish people because it says in scripture those scriptures of the sake of your sins separate us god's prophet tells us the name of god a person sins they separate us within us and god we're not together with him sorry cleaning up even when a person prays if he's a sinful person it's hard for his prayers to be accepted but now until after him kipper with the tuba the whole story is different he took away the separation he took away the barriers and today you are again connected together with god like it's supposed to be like used to be now if you pray you got so anxious and happy to listen to your prayers and to answer your prayers the way you want all right this is what we have to look forward to that it's a wonderful day special day the day that we when we finish and say the ila with the chauffeur sounds it's a new relationship with god we're so close to him again the abba the love and the feeling for each other god to us and us to him is refreshed it's renewed it's a whole new chapter in our life then of course we have to try to keep up what we accepted and kipling to keep up this year we're going to be better this year we're going to do something more something special something else that is the main part of the kipper when you finish many people walk out from kipper and it's the same prisons as usual come back to next time kipper the same way they were last year two years ago three years ago four years ago it's like a person going to first grade and you go second year back in the first grade third year back with them by the time you're 15 years old in the first break that's something i'm going to keep it by some people we don't change with the same people who work here 10 years ago 15 years ago we have to grow up we have to change something different take upon us on something really something different to show to god that really we're trying to grow better people something the most smallest thing but someone's going to keep every person according to their level of religion and judaism we're not saying a person should jump into something they're far from but something that's close to them every person from the most unaffiliated to the most pious can take upon themselves something more a little bit something to do those pious person who does everything you're supposed to do you can think of something more also we have more fear of god more love of god think about it more the most unaffiliated person maybe you should do some kind of mitzvah some kind of thing maybe you should think about making culture once a week it doesn't get kosher at all try it out people he tells you in the house not out of the house maybe start keeping it out of the house also a person who keeps culture maybe you should shabbos to keep friday night child or something about challenges a little bit more because it gives friday night something more a little bit more sheltered we're growing we can't toast it to god this wonderful third that he gave us corresponding to our 613 parts of our of his son he wants to grow he wants to shine then the most important oh the most important of all is studying the holy total you want to look for a mitzvah that's very special to study toner that is the most important medicine in the whole time through that we come to understand god we understand to love god understand what it's all about most people to our great dismay don't know judaism law is all about some people they started maybe when their children in hebrew school there by mitzvah like i always said somebody i come to ask a person would you like to study how's my mission they don't realize this torah they don't realize how deep he is how wonderful it is they think so that's the truth that's that's big that's being jewish you're totally ignorant of the terrorist study of tower law turned knowledge ignorance of of of maimonides the great books my management all the great thinkers all the great writers and jewish people had wouldn't any other nation in the world totally avoid of any knowledge about what it is they can't help but they not to blame they were not never taught the president of jewish schools but now they should take advantage there's so many ways to study tara today online just so many different ways and we at ura offer our services through the tourist spot number one thanks for playing randerman every tuesday night we have a nice crowd a lot of people are here tonight from the third spot they come every week they have a nice time good food there also by the way very weird okay well thanks to our wonderful dedicated people that we have everything that's one way we have over the almost two thousand pound mates over the country once a week they study with the tournament over the phone any type of thing they like any subject matter study toward god's holy torah he gave us such a great gift he gave us how can we ignore it we have to come to god's heavenly throne sometime after we leave the worldly i said you study my torah i gave it to jewish people such a great gift did you study it can you study at all you have an opportunity certified beg everybody that's here take advantage of all the opportunities today more than ever so many opportunities of study terms but it has to be steady not once in a while and i guarantee you like those thousands of people even tara makes abura i'd like to hear sometimes overly there's remarks that people have what they come up with they're so happy and so so so appreciative that they started studying talking about they never realized what it's all about i started with doctors and lawyers i opened up a town where i'm studying with that oh that's what target is and i realized what it was since a kid i never witnessed i never learned it before so great it's so wonderful but we don't have people realizing what it's all about therefore i beg all of you to take the opportunity study toru if you studied already study a little bit more something in honor of the great kingdom that's going to be upon us tomorrow night to show god we want to grow you want to go higher connection to him i loved him that we appreciate the fact he created us as jewish people what a jewish people what makes us to be jewish people it's not bagels and nox it's torah that's what makes it to jewish people some people don't realize what it's all about the jewish people are jewish because they have the token nothing else the thing that kept us going all these thousands of years that were not in our land all of the nations of the world have disappeared they're thrown after land they're not here anymore what kept us going what's the secret of jewish people for two thousand years were out of their land there were still jewish people and still alive and well torah studying the torah the jewish people gave themselves everything they had keep studying that's where the temperatures go everybody should want to be part of that i feel this is different this is what our oxygen are a lifeblood study of the torah so i wish everybody to have a very inspiring uplifting of gibber we hope with best we can to show god that we're trying we're not perfect we're blood and flesh we have all kinds of challenges and all kinds of problems but we have to show them that we're trying we're doing something else and now i'll just give over the uh to the audience any questions you'd like to ask any comments uh you spoke this evening about the person who in the last moments of life can do chew up now what about the other side of the coin does that person get the same amount of reward as somebody who's been sonic all their life no we're not saying that we won't be the same but he'll save him from pain and give him a seat in the world to come be part of that is a very special person definitely is considered the last one of his life put your kids in for the same unless god realizes that he was the same challenge that the righteousness of life and he had the same maybe he wasn't able to maybe even realize all of a sudden he hit him so there's some god conjunctive generally speaking the more person serves god the more and higher positions will be in the world to come but the person who lasts a minute will not have to suffer first of all it's pretty impassable within russia's it's impossible it's very not frequent the first true the last of his life he didn't do anything until then yes feel good most people say somebody embarrassed that they have their kids not even figuring out this but i think you can do this had a pain do i see anybody else's hand up some comments or questions don't be shy head is engaged to foreign any other okay i got engaged anybody wants to join termites which should they speak he's taking the tournament's names down their future happiness um hello soldiers um together never will is once again everyday is together