Simchas Torah - Breaking Down Walls | Rabbi Chaim Mintz

[Music] so everybody i hope that you're all enjoying a wonderful joyous holiday sook is the time of our happiness time of our joy and now we're getting ready for the ultimate of all the holidays till now the day of the rejoicing with the time we take the turtle in our hands and we dance around with it an important idea to think about mumbai dancing with the torah a whole circus till now every day the torah was in the middle those people go to shul they know they take out the torah in the morning prayer stand by the beam in the middle and we all walk around it with a little of a nest week every day walking around with it this seventh day we walk around seven times around the toilet the tire is away from us it's in the middle and we're walking around sometimes territory's with us we're holding it in our hands because torah is holy and we want to connect with torah we have to be holy but as physical human beings we have ultimate types of character traits that have to be fixed up stinginess uh laziness uh different voice of being very conceited or aloof from other we have different types of characteristics that we have to fix up in order to make ourselves holy to be worthy of being connected to the torah the studying torah to keeping tyrant holding the torah and by walking around the turrets like when the jews came into the land of israel they wanted to knock down the wall of eureka the first city they came to they walked around that city for seven times blue chauffeur and the walls came tumbling down that by walking around they were able to get the kedusha of israel the first city showing that was the example of the whole holy land they had in order to get the holy land they have to make themselves holy break down the walls between us and the holiness and that's what we do a whole seven days when we walk around there's like a wall between us and the turtle those are our um uh physical uh character traits that we have to perfect make ourselves not stingy but benevolent not lazy but fastidious and and uh and uh not uh conceited but uh humble so all the word days of such that's who we're trying to accomplish and by the time we come to simply start itself hopefully we broke down broke down all those walls separating us from the target now we take the turn in our hands ourselves we're able to connect with it and dance with it and that's really what the great simcraft is because since we've worked on ourselves all these days from el was shunned kippur and through sukkos and now we finally came to the perfection of leading a a jewish terror life of being good people and taking care of our bad character mates and perfecting them now we are worthy of taking the tire directly without any interruption without anything uh between us to dance with deterred directly and that's really the big happiness of the torah so let's all try to be worthy of that do our best to perfect ourselves but take that total dance with it we have really something to dance about to be really happy about have a wonderful joyous holiday everybody and we hope they'll reach these high levels of connection to hashem