Confusing the Satan by Rabbi joel Kenigsberg

all right good afternoon thank you everybody for coming for those who don't know me my name is Rabbi Joel Kingsburg I'm the rabbi here at Bess Tennesse many of you do know me but uh welcome to everybody and it's wonderful to be here have a full bit mid here on a Wednesday morning Wednesday afternoon a week before rashash and there is no better way to prepare for rashash than by studying together I want to talk today about a uh topic which is quite ubiquitous in the in the laws of rashash Shai and it's quite straight it's quite cryptic and that topic is the idea of confusing the Satan sure everybody's heard this comes up in a number of places throughout the throughout the specifically related to we have this idea that there are different practices that we do on rashash or leading up to rashash in order to confuse the Satan who is the Satan what is the Satan why is he confused what is it that we do that confuses him I can tell you that I'm confused but we have to try and understand why he is confused and what and what that means so I want to go through because we'll see that this concept comes up again and again and each expression of it is perhaps more bizarre than the one before and hopefully by the end of the sh we will come out with four four approaches four very practical tips and insights into what we should be thinking about in rashash how we can confuse the Satan how this can help us to emerge with with a favorable judgment so just maybe by way of introduction as we start you know I've said this word and we'll see where it comes up in the sources but we say the word Satan translated in English as Satan which is probably the wrong translation but how many of you by show of hands when we say that word Satan how many of you think of a little red man with a pitchfork sitting on your shoulder okay that's that that's the image that I'm sure many of us have that image is completely wrong so get that out of your head that's not what we're talking about not the devil we'll see right if you think that it's the Devil with the Pitchfork you're sitting on your shoulder then nothing will make sense and that's why it doesn't make sense but we'll try to understand so let's go through first let's see three there are more but three of the more uh well-known places where this concept comes up and afterwards we'll we'll try and unpack it so have a look at source Number One Source number one on the source sheet this is the tour the tour in tells us about why we blow we have the to blow the throughout the month of as we've been doing for the last three weeks or so that was the day that went back up the mountain up this is when goes up now to receive the second set of we all know we all remember what happened to the first time he went up went up for 40 days came back down golden cough tablets are smashed didn't end so well so now there is a the Shar was blown the dayenu went up nobody should make a mistake nobody should get confused everybody knows when he's gone up when 40 days will end okay and that is one reason why he says the Tor really quotes from the per which is an earlier Source why we begin blowing thear ones that explains to us why we blow thear ones does not explain to us why we continue blowing the shaar throughout the month and there are other reasons that are brought but the T continues therefore he says right and we blow throughout the entire month in order to warn us that we should do chva that's reason number two and reason number three the last three words in bold is here we go Satan is starting to get confused we're blowing the throughout El to confuse the Satan I don't know yet what that means I understand awaken us to do chva I understand there is a historical commemoration confuse the Satan okay so that's number one how is he confused you're ready for this to get even stranger look at the B the is one of the commentaries on the tour the he says the Satan knows again what he knows and what he doesn't know is very strange apparently he knows that you blow the shaar so we start blowing the shaar every day for three weeks and he thinks wait a minute is today r i don't understand he doesn't have a he can't look at the calendar right he doesn't remember it's not that odd we've all been coming to shore we've all been blowing the sh fire none of us think today is rashash if I'm standing here and it's all being recorded we'd have a problem but none of us think today's rashash why does the Satan get confused we blow the shavar every day by the way we do it every year he doesn't remember what we did last year or the year before the year before okay so something very strange is going on here I don't at this point I don't understand anything don't know about you but as I said we're confused I'm confused Source number two okay so we know now that we are blowing sh throughout the month of Elo and we come to the final day of el the day before before rash so this will be next Wednesday right and on that day the day you might think you need to BL the sh the most it's the day before we want to awaken to Chad the last day of the year last day of the year have your preparation do what you need to do so we don't blow the Sha so Source number two says okay reason number one is we want that to be a heck we want to recognize again we don't want people to get confused now why are we blowing the not because we have a Mitzvah not because we have an obligation to do it like we do on R but now it's what's called it's permissible it's not obligatory so in order to mark that distinction between the we have one day we don't blow okay that's that's good enough for me about you that would be a good enough reason for me but the m is not satisfied with that he continues towards the end of the line in Source number two after the three dots he says there we go again so the Satan so he doesn't know when rash is he can't follow he doesn't know there's a day where he thinks we've been blowing every day now we don't blow the Sha what what's going on Source number two but the most famous Source perhaps and again I didn't do these in chronological order but now we go back this is in the this is the but now we go back to the and this is maybe the source of it all and this is the cracks of the matter Source number three why is it okay we're not not dealing with El now we're dealing with r why do we blow Thea on R says the what kind of a question is that obviously you blow the shaar because the Torah said blow the shaar okay and it goes a bit back and forth it doesn't actually say explicitly to blow the shaar it just says y it's a fascinating uh discussion why the G phrases it that way but in any event thear findes the question and it says on the second line not the question we mean to ask is the following again for the amongst us this is a very confusing to learn because we stand for all the but by right the before we're allowed to sit so why do we have two distinct sets of it's enough we just blow the before that's it we fulfilled the Mitzvah somebody can't come to somebody's in hospital somebody's housebound somebody's in the Army whatever reason they go they have one set of chaua blasts and that's it they fulfilled the Mitzvah why do we do it twice answers the everybody together again this Satan is's he's getting really confused that's all the by the way that's all the gamar says there is an interpretation we'll see in a moment which I think is very well known which is often quoted as the explanation of this we'll see it's not Universal all the gar says is those three words which again we still don't know what they mean now have a look at the next line of the gar by the way this is fascinating and quite frightening says any year in which we don't have the at the beginning the word there's a play on words is the sound of the of the CH but tra also means to cry he says any year in which we don't have the at the beginning of the year we have tears throughout the year by the end of why is that because the Satan was not confused I still don't know what that means but I'll just point out to you that when do we have a year that does not have its k at the beginning that's a year when rash falls out on Shabbat last year you might recall and there is actually there's a fascinating piece the who will come to later but he one of the one of the commentators he has a piece he worked out that many of the years in which calamities occurred which Terrible Things occurred for like the first time and the second time actually took place in years in which fell out on Shabbat and there was no he also says however that he finds he does a of yours in which tremendously good things took place for the Jewish people and there was also in a year in which rashash fell out on Shabbat so there's a there's there's nothing magical there's nothing El which is said in stone there is a certain potential maybe it means that there is a different opportunity there's a different avod that we have to do when we don't have the chaar but nonetheless I'll leave that for you as the food for thought that's not exactly our topic today but what we've seen here so we've seen threea three cases we've seen three things we've seen that we blow the Shar throughout the month of Elo that we stop blowing the shaar the final day of Elo and that we blow the shaar in R again and again and again and again this idea is repeated in order to so at this point we ask ourselves who is the Satan and why is he confused or what is going on let let us just look at one interpretation of this Kumar one interpretation of what it means of how he gets confused now we'll only strengthen the question and then we'll start to answer hopefully so have a look at TOS Source number three I've given you the gar underneath you have Rashi and tosot we'll come back to Rashi later but let's look at TOS because all the gar said was you blow the sh twice and that confuses him so he says the that says in the future right there will be no more death after in the end of days we're told in the end of days will come there will be that will beered in wor that is one day the will not just be the but it will be means there is no more death in the world there is no more as we'll see in a moment and whoever he is they are it's the same it refers to the same force in other words the that will come at the end of days that is the sign to the Satan there is no more death nothing else dies anymore except for you your time's up so he says says the as follows when this Satan hears the sound of the the first time he gets a bit of a shock right he gets a bit it's like you know but right now throughout the last year we're all used to hearing Sirens unfortunately and sometimes you can remember certainly in the early days or you know an ambulance drives past and you know you hear that siren outside and your heart skips a beat you think we do we have to run off to the shelters and then you realize no it's actually just an ambulance or something else or whatever it was somebody's phone okay so that's what happens to Satan when he hears the first time he's he gets a bit Tak her back but he think it's okay it's okay it's those Jews doing their mitvah again that's fine I can live with that now in bold when he hears the second set of he says uh oh says I know they only have to F they only have to do nine blast 30 blast whatever however you count he says they've already fulfilled their Mitzvah now I hear the shaar again what's the shaar the second time that must be the that must be the sign that now is the time of and my time is up and then he gets confused as we'll see in just a moment the Satan whoever he is his job is to be the accuser he's the one in the Heavenly Court as it were putting up the arguments against us so if he's worried if his life is on the line he's running for himself he's got no time he's got no py he's got no availability to come in and accuse against us so when he hears the Shar the second time that's what confuses him make sense doesn't make sense to me because again we can ask the same question right how food foolish is the Satan he can't look at the calendar he can't look in the it says in the that we're going to blow Thea before before MF and it says we're going to blow the Shar again after MF and you know what we did this last year and we did it the year before and we did it the year before go back as far as you want so we can't remember that this is what AM is does he can't remember that we blow the shaar once we blow the shaar twice we blow the shaar three times tricking we're tricking him but how how how stupid do you have to be to fall for the trick every year and let me ask you another question may there the first day of rashash what about the second day we did you want to tell me he can't remember from last year okay he can remember from yesterday come on could be a new one so what a new one is a new Satan every year that's AES that's AES okay so so so again obviously obviously something deeper is going on here obviously K are trying to tell us a message right it can't be it can't be a sh superficial shows this so to try and understand Let's us let's explore a little bit more right now who the Satan really is okay we don't know that much about him but we are told we are told a few things and first of all you see Source number four we have the the tells us these are three are very familiar Concepts very familiar terms that that refers to the Satan all of that refers to the same entity let's talk for a moment about what Satan is not okay he's not The Devil he's not the little red man with a pitchfork sitting on my shoulder or your shoulder or anybody else's shoulder that's not who he is he is not he's certainly not the Christian concept of the devil Lucifer whatever you know some angel that fell out with God and went off and made his own kingdom we don't believe in that that's impossible everything that exists certainly everything that exists in the Heavenly sphere is there to serve AEM it's there to work for nothing can go against hisim don't have free will I think this was best expressed once I heard this a number of years ago in the Olympics so there was a commercial for the Olympics and the by line went something like this it said you are my adversary but you are also my friend because without you I am a lesser man talking about how the competitors the athletes who compete against one another draw each other to achieve to achieve greater things ultimately that's what the is there does not have his own dominion right Hashem created us with free will created us with in order for us to have free will and in order for us to do right there needs to be a temptation to do wrong so the Y which is tempting us again in a moment we'll see who he is whether it's correct to talk about him but he or she whatever you want is is is there to tempt us that is that Force's way of serving Hashem in order for it to be real free will there needs to be a real Temptation he's got to do his job right no bo he does his job right as we all know so that is who so that is what we imagine that on rashash sh this this court case this heavenly court case is playing out and he is the accuser he is the one who is going against us so to speak ultimately for our benefit but going against us raising the arguments against us in the Judgment that's how judgment takes place so he's raising his argument so essentially what we can says the following when tell usan what they meant to say was this Satan being confused means that the arguments against us hold no weight the arguments are being stopped the arguments are being paed they hold no weight we've overcome them in whatever way That's what Satan means so let's try and understand how we achieve that by having two sets of chauffeur blasts okay the first interpretation is Rashi we're going to get four approaches now approach number one is Rashi and Rashi says something very simple remember I told you this whole story of the of blowing twice of whatever that's not Universal we all think the Mei says that to says that but Rashi doesn't go into that at all Rashi says you know what it means he says that he shouldn't accuse against us when he hears that the mitv are precious to us that's enough that's how we overcome the argument in other words so many times we do things because we have to because we're obligated because we want to check the boxes as they say in Hebrew but can we show that actually we do things not just to check the boxes not just to do the minimum that we have to do and then get on with it and we're exempt and get on with our lives or do we understand actually this is our lives the t means something that MIT means something that a connection that a relationship with God means something it's more important than anything else and if that's our approach so we don't just want to do the bare minimum we want to go above and beyond we don't just want to blow the show for once not just nine times not just 30 time we're going to go a hundred times asay precious to us we want to do something and it's important that it's not just something that we say but it's something that we do and rash is a day we know the Judgment we started talking yesterday between and we'll carry on today as well person is judged on only for who I am in the present moment only for what I am doing right now so the way to show that I care about the mitv right now is to do them and do them well and go and Beyond and that's what rash says right very simple rational explanation we blow the we blow the shaar extra times we believe in h we go above and beyond we do more than what is required because we want to show our love for it and that's enough and then we imagine this court case is taking place and they see the evidence they see the evidence and the Satan can say whatever he wants but if the evidence is to the contrary than we've won so that is approach number one but I think it goes far far far deeper than that as I said that is Rashi let's have a look at the second approach as we mentioned Satan we said is we said it's I said I would I would ask the question whether it's correct to talk about him because maybe it's not correct to talk about him but it's more correct to talk about us ultimately what is the Yar the is part of us it is something within is our own lower self it is our own habits and instincts and thoughts and things which drive us down and this is a constant battle we know which we're engaged in every single day of our lives and listen to describ the you see in Source number four there's a says is described as a king an old and foolish King remember we said he he gets he gets uh he gets confused very e easily gets confused very easily that's thear and maybe all these things that we started off with maybe when you know you're not going to blow the shaar one day he doesn't know what's going on you're going to blow the shaar every day he doesn't know what's going on you blow the shaire an extra time he can't remember he can't it seems it seems so silly it seems so childish it seems so primitive you think who would fall for that who would possibly fall for that and then we think to ourselves wait a minute don't we fall for that all the time all the time every single one of us and you can find the own examples you know I'll give a good way to illustrate this is uh maybe may maybe initial it's not such a problem but there are a lot of people that have difficulty getting up in the morning on time right and there's the uh everybody knows the phenomenon of s snoozing the alarm clock right so let's say you know the alarm is set for :00 and the alarm clock starts ringing and a person presses snooze and nowadays you know you can check everybody uses their phone as their alarm clocks you can decide you want snooze for five minutes for seven minutes for 10 minutes you you've got it all so you said so you said snooze for 10 minutes and what you think I just need 10 more minutes in bed 10 minutes later I'll get up I'll still be on time I'll still be the first one in Shak everything will be fine and 10 minutes later the alarm goes off again what do 95% of people do at that point it's news again you know what it's another five minute nowadays you can program the first news is 10 the second news is 5 okay I'll get up 5 minutes later and then what happens 5 minutes later you hit this news again so before you know you know an hour later an hour later you've woken up and now you're running off and now you're the last one in Shak because you're not because everybody else did the same thing but and then so what so now let me ask you the question what happens the next day what happens the next day so the next day you'll say okay look yesterday I snoozed for 10 minutes but 10 minutes actually ended up as an hour I'm not going to I'm not going to do that today okay so so what are you going to do you're going to get up straight away when the alarm goes off no the alarm goes off and you hit the snooze and you think today will be different and the same thing and again and it's day after day after day after day and you fall for the same trick does that sound familiar the Satan we he heard the yesterday he heard it the day before he heard it the day before why is it a problem maybe that's the message maybe that's the irony over here trying to tell us you know you think he's so foolish but that's you that's the Satan that that's inside and that's what gets confused so rashash sh comes along in the chaar and we blow that chaar and we say don't get confused wake up do something different that's have a look at he doesn't say it exactly in these words but he says uh but but he shares a similar idea this is the bottom of of page one this is a reality within us again as I said it's not him this is part of us it's confusing which which manages to confuse us all the time we gonna hit back and confuse him when the that we have when we hear the is so strong again here he's talking about previously we said the Satan is the one who's accusing us who's raising the argument against us here we're not talking about raising the arguments against us but we're talking about causing us to act differently which is at the end of day it's one and the same thing because what are the arguments against us are the Deeds that we've done so the at is going to lead us astray but when you hear the and that causes your Awakening that will stop him from leading us astray right and and and that's essentially what he says I'll add just one one one level to this which is and actually tell us this explicitly they say when does a person go wrong when do he get LED astray when do we sin so to speak say that person only sins when they aren't thinking you aren't thinking the bad news is most of what we do in our lives we do without thinking right there are studies that show I think it's somewhere between the last one I saw it's probably more than this but at least 40% of the actions that we take every single day are out of habit we don't think about about them right and I'm sure this happened to everybody here I remember I tell the story sometimes my daughter used to be on a gun a g so when I walk from home I walk to feter and I walk to sh started off walking the same way but at a certain point there a different path the number of times when I was meant to be walking off the gun and I find myself outside Shore or I meant to be walking to Shore and I just find myself outside the gun why because it's happened it's instant you just do you don't think about it notice by the way that all these many of these cases of how do we confuse him is we break the Habit we blow the shaar every day we don't normally do that we're changing it we're doing something different it's a new habit and you know what you're doing it for 30 days and it's getting wrote so stop the day before don't blow the sh break the Habit stop get up and notice you have a certain certain way a certain format in which the Shar needs to be blown let's break the mold let's do it again and do the extra break the Habit break the confuse him don't let us be confused so that is that that is number two that is approach number two may be saying about recognizing and it's very very humbling here but recognizing that we're not as intelligent as we thought we were maybe we're not as rational as we thought we were there's a lot of things that we do that don't make sense and we understand the Satan gets so easily just as he leads us so easily astray so let's let's use that weapon against him okay number two number three I'm going to go back now to the TOs again because the TOs that we saw the case of thei that was very very very strange right again just to just to remind ourselves we said that why is the Satan getting confused because the shaar has been blown twice the first time he knows that we're blowing the shaar of rashash the second time the second time he doesn't know and he thinks this is the this is the day of this is the time when his job is up and we ask the question okay not withstanding the explanation that I've just given but we ask the question okay well can't he remember doesn't he know what happened before so here comes who I mentioned previously one of the commentaries on the has a beautiful explanation have look at source number sixing says says like this he quotes right which is that this this is what the Satan is thinking to himself this is now the so he says many ask the following question which we all asked in this room right every year he's going to fall for it again he saw last year it wasn't the so this year he falls for and I add again maybe because the second day is raan but I had what about the second day over the first so he says say actually the Satan is more sophisticated than we gave him credit for nobody would fall for that he says he doesn't think that the shaar that we're blowing now is that no he knows this is still the of says you know what the difference is between the second and the first first was before the second why did we blow the tells us we have three unique aspects of the says the what do we have to do what's the work of R we have to appoint hasm as king we have to remember we have to Chronicle the past all the things that have happened and how do we do it by so we say we've said now we said talks about the past we've said the which talk about the future and what do we say we say the right this is what we're defening for this is what we're praying for and once we say that and then we blow the that accompanies those wow so what is that that has an impact and what is the impact he says Nar we are now in the second last line in towards the end it says I know this is still your of I get that not that stupid but when I hear when we talk about it and we D for it and then we blow the shaar as well it's a reminder that it may not be now it may not be this year but that chaar will come the chaar there will be a time we don't know when but it will certainly come in a and that's what scares him not that it's happening right here now but that at some point it's going to happen and then what happen says then I'm up then my time then I'm done that's why he gets confused that's why he gets upset in other words he recognizes something he recognizes that we put this in in analogy that his y his day of death so to speak is coming and when you realize that everything that we have is temporary and everything that we have is trans and there going to be a time time when when when when I don't have it anymore so the question is what am I doing here and what is my legacy and what's the Legacy that I've created and what's the Legacy that I still want to create in whatever time that I have left and how do I re-evaluate my priorities and how do I recalibrate and how do I reset and how do I think about what I'm really meant to be doing here and that's rashash that's exactly what rashash is about R is all about making Hashem King and part of making Hashem King is understanding how do we how do we make him King how do I make him King what is my role in this great Royal Kingdom and that's it not about anything else so therefore he says when the Satan giving us an analogy they're saying again the Satan within us forget about him forget forget about the red guy it's not about the red guy okay it's about us but the analogy that K giving us is there is an individual there is a force there is a power that hears the chaar and that chaar is a reminder of how temporary everything is and it's a reminder to re-evaluate your priorities and think again about what the legacy is that you want to live and what you want to create that is very very powerful and that's enough to silence all the to silence all the critics because at that moment you hear it and you think about it and you truly internalize it then you become a different person obviously it has to be followed up later with actions Etc that's why we have a and we have y and continues but it has to start somewhere and that's where it starts and that's rler explains this as well that's why he says that's why we have the that's why because you could say this is all good and wonderful I mean that's what the shaar is doing why doesn't it work the first time have a look at the top of we're on the back page the page that has number five at the top so the photocopy is from he says like this okay skip to the second paragraph he says y that's what what we explained before whether somebody is accusing us or you know causing us to go astray it's the same thing we're talking about weakening that ability this classic he says the first time you hear the there's a little bit of an Awakening but it's not enough to make you actually change you go back you do it again subconsciously all these and I would add therefore it's not just the first Chast and the second but it's every single day from the beginning of it all adds together and that's what does something that's it this is not just a fleeting thought but this is something that's really going to have an effect this is really going to cause a change cause a change in our Consciousness cause a change in our in in our actions and in truth I think the rambam says this exact point have a look the ramb in the third per he writes this is may be one of the most one of the most well-known passages in the whole of he says he says remember why do we blow the remember the said why do we why do we blow the because God said so that's the first thing you have to know that that's why we blow but there is a hint there something that can teach us right sleepers awake from your sleep slumberers arise from your Slumber where everybody knows the word Slumber from here search in your Deeds think about what you're doing come back in remember your creator put that sentence in bold says these are the people who forget the truth in the heav as man in the nothingness of time waste away all their days in nothingness which will not help which won't do anything I don't know exactly what the ROM was referring to when he wrote this but it's difficult to think of a more accurate description of social media cell phones what many of us spend hours and hours on a daily basis is doing this is the world that's what people say you know we have these little we have these little black boxes in our pockets and we if you ever watch you know watch people you go anywhere you go on a bus you walk in the park you were sitting at home you whatever and most people in the world certainly under a certain age but over certain age as well most people in the world spend most of their time sitting with a black box with their finger going like this and if you were to tell the Ramba that one day there are going to be many many many people people I'm not saying I'm not saying throughout your cell phones you should keep your cell phones I have a cell phone there are many good things that can be done it can be used for T can be used for communication can be used for many wonderful things right I'm not I'm not saying to boycott them but we have to use them wisely we have to use responsibly if you had told the rambam that one day there will be people who have little black boxes and they will spend most of their waking hours and then some with their finger doing this you know what I think the r would have told you I think he would have said that's that that sentence that we just read it's hard to think of a more of of a more accurate description and again it's quite humbling and it's quite frightening and you know I'm sorry I I'm coming down a little bit hard but it is so but but but but that's what he says he says and so we hear the sh we can do that you know and all the time like we said before we get caught up we have habits we have reasons things whatever it's fine but there comes a point there comes a day and if it's not going to be in rashash when is it going to be there comes the rash when we stop and we hear that chofar and that CH stops and shakes us up and W shakes us out and wakes us up and in the same way that the Satan is getting it's not that we think now is thear but thear is a reminder there will be aaar we've got a job to do here we've got something to do get up and do it figure out how decide what are our priorities what's real what do we value I think all these all these reasons you know really come together the first thing that we said with Rashi it's about valuing the mitv you're only going to Value them if you realize what's important and you realize what your priorities are okay so let me just finish off just quickly I running out of time it's getting late but let me just mention uh the fourth idea which I think is particularly Po and particularly relevant to the situation that we're currently in now and this is an idea that I heard from Jonathan saaks um and it's a beautiful idea I think he said is this have a look the last Source on the page we have the two the says why do we the once before then we blow thear again right that's what the explained why do we blow thear twice in order to which now at this point of the share hopefully we have a little bit more of an understanding what that means he says says which set of is it that confuses him is it the first set or the second set because it's actually the second set which is with the that's the main set so he says there are those who say the fact that you blow the first time is what is what causes the and there are those who say no because you did it the first time it's the second time in any event what emerges from this and the t is very clear many are very clear about this that the primary that we have are the second set is the that go with the that are part of and you know what the difference is between the before MF and the during MF is that the before M are the individual obligation as I said before if somebody is not ding in sh for whatever reason on rash sh they will hear those 30 by themselves that's the individual but mus is a communal prayer we we stand together as a community and then we blow the chaah andak said you know Satan knows how to deal with us as individuals but it's when we come together it's when we are how much have we spoken about it in the past year when we come together as one then we can achieve Things That No individual could then any accusations that there may be against us begin to fade away you know I heard the closenberg said a beautiful thing he said why is it by the Mitzvah it's the only Mitzvah where we have a m we we have a person standing there telling the person who's blowing the Shar which notes to right we don't find that by any other mitvah we could by by I don't know we could we could have why is and in truth okay it might be a little bit more difficult but the person who's blowing the shaar could stand there they could have the M open in front of them and they could follow along so said the closer rabi no because the Shar teaches us that we have to listen to one another thear is about the Mitzvah is we have to hear thear and the is when we come together and that is where the Satan has nothing to say every charge against us as individuals becomes null and void when we are a community when we are a nation when we are one people together and this is the theme of we said we want to come together I brought to you just a couple of theim from Source number seven called it united we stand right look and these are Pim we say says but he no there is no inequity no sin in yov in is is that really true there no Jewish people that have ever sinned that's not true no but when we come together when we are one people then there is no in the collective when is when is when we all together we could be one people and that is another meaning a deep meaning of Satan about coming together as one so just in just in brief summary we saw four approaches four approaches which are probably all connected but four approaches what does this mean Satan coming into coming into rash number one was Rashi who said it's all about what we do not just what we say but how much we value our mitv and value Tora and value everything that that we stand for here number two we said was that maybe the Satan represents our own lower s maybe the Satan gets so easily confused because we get so easily confused and we need to stop getting confused and we need to re-evaluate and rederm what we're here for number three was a very very similar idea to that about thinking about ultimately what is the Legacy that we want to leave behind and that is what the encourages us to think and number four finally coming together the and we should all be there's enough confusion there's enough confusion out there for for everybody we don't need anym let's send all the confusion to the all the G should go out should be a new year