Slichos, in preparation of Rosh Hashana by Rabbi Dr Aaron Adler

this coming M Shabbat is the opening of the season of for ashkanazi Minh we mentioned already the week before that have already begun right after for the entire period until yum the big advantage of theim is that every single day it's the identical the same poetry relatively easy to understand M much Melody associated with it and then people sing [Music] it and it goes on and kid little kids they know it and such poetry um which is really beauti F ashaz make life very very difficult because as usual because each day the Poetry is different and one harder than the next to understand to decipher you have to be an expert in medieval Hebrew you have to know tanak cold you have to know midashim very well to see how the uh poets were working with the all this material uh to bring out a particular message and therefore because most people don't have a clue of what they're saying they're saying it very fast and the idea of slot is to finish saying slot and get the fastest about up there to do understood that it would be important for us to understand poetry took time to explain both theot and the for the for the season that we should have a an understanding some poems are easier to understand than the others uh those that are marked in the booklets pison where the Kazan is going to say stanza by stanza and there's a type of refrain those are usually the easiest ones to understand so at least people should focus on that I remember many many years ago I picked up um the the Rabbi Abraham Rosenfeld a s with English translation with some annotation and obviously makes a little easier if but you have to look at the poems before get the because if you're going to do it when you get the you're going to miss all that's for sure um so what is this shabas kick off that ashm do the truth of the matter is is mentioned by the r if you look at source number a source number where did I write it I'm sure I have it here it's not number one did I not put it on this page and I didn't put it on this page one second oh yeah I have it Source number two Source number two where at the very very end where Ram talks about that in the we should be upgrading our Mitzvah and we spoke about this already last week so the Rah says at the very end [Music] translated and the general custom is that we get up uh in at nighttime but it's the very end of the night time we call for 10 days successive days of the and we have and that are designed as we'll explain what the difference between and all about till the break of dawn so if you just take a look at the calendar today at the clock today we're talking about 5 5:30 in the morning today the break of dawn is um is a shortly after maybe 5:30 and um I think you can put on talson filling today at about 22 or a quarter to 6 and N which is the sunrise about 6:30 this morning so the Rah was talking about getting up earlier than usual like uh he was thinking about maybe an hour earlier if you look at the sarad shs in the neighbor neighhood this if they post their's time for this month it's at about4 to 5 to 5:00 that's when people come to sh and um and then they D so the ra has 10 days of which include two days of rashash it includes shabas shua it's it's amazing that nobody does that today nobody nobody has on rash I mean rashing is long enough but there is no we do not say so you have the 10 days marked by the ram the ramam was Ai and he does not know of the custom of saying for 40 days from beginning of el until y he is not in that range um that came into the Sardi custom through a different uh angle and uh became very popular and became uh adopted by the spard ritual of having this 40-day period of but of all things the ashm actually picked up on the 10 days of SL with one catch from the 13th century onwards there was a group called theid ashas not to be confused with the bov's modern kasic movement of 300 years ago ashas they were part of the Bal toot era in the in Germany and France and some of them had many many many strict opinions on customs in so many different areas I mean I'll just throw out one or two that some of us think are o glad maybe from sini but but they're from the As and one is that um if if a if a man gets married so he shouldn't marry a woman who has the same name as his mother you may have heard of this right and if that happens sometimes either they bust up the sh or they add a name to the kala so right her name was Rael but now she's ra Mal something like that that's bypass road and get out of it all it was was that rabuda kid gave instructions as a will to his own family not to do it but that then snowballed into a custom amongst many many many people of course if theyan has the same name as the father Lord that was never part of the will and only in the days of rlma gansy the author of The in Hungary about 250 years ago he flipped it and said yeah yeah yeah and if the katan's name is like the father-in-law it also should be but that was never really really accepted except by a few and uh and most people are not terribly concerned about that but there there are other ideas of uh the the influence of the perhaps most popular is the mus to put a parenthesis around Pasha and say it only in a leap year where where it says they were busy counting words in doing and attaching significance and when they said was 12 13 13 what do you do with 13 so if we put parenthesis around the last one so then it becomes 12 and that makes sense because the months are divided into 12 and seven out of 19 years the year has 13 months so for the leap year where if you go back to the early manuscripts of davening way before the they said every month because it was part of the trio of we say this why are there three words to indicate atonement because three different levels of sin this a and PES each one is the different level of of uh of of transgressing before God and that's air in itself but each one carries with it an appropriate antidote so it's there's and so each one carries with it an appropriate antidote so that's and that's the way it was in in RAV because is a mini y it's really the Yer and the proof is how does the begin it's a it's a season of atonement and and and the idea was if it's a minium so maybe we should fast except that ones you're not allowed to fast so the custom was to move the fast ofes as a toes and that's why eres in the calendar is is list as Yip Min and some people do this very day still say by of kipur so so this is just an impact of the of theid ashas and it made it it made it and then afterwards people start giving all kinds of explanations why you need more kapara in a in a leap year some are funnier than the others so but we know what happened we know exactly what happened they simply put princesses around the last one that was that so the um we talk about the the not only said for 10 days but fasted for 10 days fast now of course they ate at night time but they fasted fora but the problem is that four out of the 10 days you're not allowed to fast two days Russ shabat and AR you the fast so in all these that's 40% of the so what do they do they move back to before yipa the makeup of four days of with fasting so that's how the idea of saying by became 4 days before rashash Shana now four days Rashana this year works out perfectly because Rashana comes out on Thursday so it is Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday we talk about the M shabas that's already to Sunday so Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday you have the four days but then from a completely different Source comes the idea that we should begin sayat but you have to have at least four days so this year you get your four days in because rash sh is on Thursday but when rash is on Shabbat and you still want to start on Shabad you're GNA have two extra days of you'll have Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday and if rashash comes out on Monday then you're GNA have more you're G have M of shabas which is Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday and Sunday and that can happen and you can even have rashash on a Monday it says L Ro R cannot come out on Sunday Wednesday and Friday the first day that is the first day of R cannot come out on the Sunday Wednesday and Friday why not because you know remember we say yeah if if you think up front you know what you need the end game something you have at the end you know if you calculated it earlier that that'll be good we don't want Yuma to come out neither on Friday nor on Sunday because that would be 48 Hours of no possibility of cooking a yam you're allowed to cook so yam can be next to a Shabbat but yam which is like Shabbat you don't want backtack yum kipa with Shabbat on either side so if you don't want yum kipa to fall out on Friday or Sunday make sure rashash doesn't come out on Thursday or Friday or Wednesday Wednesday or Friday Wednesday or Friday so that's the Wednesday and Friday the D and the B but what about Alf why can't rashash come out on Sunday I'm talking about the first day rash Al Tish because if that happens then hos Raba comes out on Shabbat and we don't want that either because with regard to sukot if it comes out on shabat and you don't take the L but still tomorrow and the day after because we take the L for seven days but is one day of taking the arot and the same reg restriction would kick in ifab would Shabbat we wouldn't take it and then we'd be missing the Mitzvah of taking the AR sh and therefore we programmed the calendar as such that rashash shouldn't come out on Sunday so that Raba should never come out on Shabbat those are the pragmatic reasons accepted by 99.9% of the greats of the Middle Ages the of course who's going to who's going to be the spoiler the RAB right he's always the spoiler and um if not for the fact that the rambam's a spoiler we wouldn't have hundreds of books that have been written in the last 800 years about the rambam the rambam writes that from from the days of creation as an astronomical truth the first of Tish cannot fall out on Sunday Wednesday or Friday and the one who really argues I mean vehemently is his older contemporary RAB Abraham B David dered from South France and he says U he says look you know he went to school you know what do I know I never went right said I never went to school you know so he's a scientist you know he's big shot he's a scientist astronomer he can make that comment but I just know Mish and according to the Mish Raba can come out on Shabbat because there are discussions about scenarios of Shabbat so if it couldn't happen astronomically why in the world would any of the even talk about it so he challenges the raham on that and then there was a younger Sparty contemporary of the by the name of R mayor ABF and he's known by his initials he wrote a book y on that people won't budge without it when studying and there you have the Su of in the first chapter so he mentions this rabam and he challenges him as well and he says on this the ra writes that the the can't come out on Sunday Wednesday and th and Friday he says don't call it Mish that's the name of the book that the ra calls it but the one who changes T that is a really a sharp a stinging attack on the r but all right the r you know as they say he said what he said so now you have um the the idea that that we have it least four days of before in ashkanazi ritual perhaps more because we always want to start on M Shabbat let's try to get a handle on what this Shabbat is all about and the title is which is the title of the hison the central song of this coming M Shabbat now many people have made a big to-do about the first while many men or women may not attend the whole week but M Shabbat it became big now M Shabbat used to be a midnight thing the raham doesn't talk about a midnight thing it was the cabalist who threw in the idea that the should start on midnight not only on M shabat but every night that the is being said and that has to do with the moment of midnight as being a type of change of the way aadh relates to each and every one of us during the night time from Sundown which is a time that maybe a it's not the best time of a paying attention to how what's called a a time that it's an appropriate time but from onwards is tuned in so you have this concept called is calist got up at midnight and they cried and they wailed about the destruction of the mikdash that was an idea of so and and and it actually ha goes back to where it says that he had an alarm clock it's the beginning of it says used to wake up at exactly when his harp uh was started playing almost on automatic because a wind that blew in and and at midnight changed Direction and he woke up and he began singing toh and that is the why he wrote my my carp has awakened but he's talking about himself he my my honor my glory speaking about himself wake up wake up my harp has has now awakened us I am going to awaken the morning which means I'm wide awake as the night comes to an end and he starts singing right there's a famous song it's that that's the the says so already gives us this little inkling that midnight is a great time to start singing to and turning to all of the is not just song but it's also bakas it's also request so you you have U you have you have all this idea of so the one of the cabalists he already introduces that should be on midnight what ashm did traditionally was they kept theas to a pre shakas throughout the season except for Mo Shabbat Shabbat they said all right at least once the opening number of the of the season will begin at and that became very very known I remember growing up in New York was who said at 10: p.m. or 10:30 p.m. the conservative show the reform sh didn't buy with at all but the conservative had you know at a convenient time and everybody would poke fun of them they don't they don't understand this that until slowly but surely in the modern Orthodox World it crept in and and and the reason was because people didn't come to show in summertime at a quarter to 1 in the morning it was hard and more people would be able to show up at at a at a more convenient time 10 to 10:30 was already questioned about this and he gives begrudgingly a green light to the early SL he doesn't like it but he says look um the idea that there's no eight Raton at nighttime that doesn't have Hal basis it's a cabalistic idea fine but it doesn't have AIC basis and therefore you can't prohibit it because the cabalist thought you should start from and and therefore he says it may not be the most traditional thing in the world to do but if the local rap think that this is going to help bring more attendance for people to sayas so it's it's worth it's a it's a worthy Endeavor so you see that rashin is struggling between the you know he doesn't want to get into the slippery slope business but he but he thinks that all right it passes and I'm sure Raa didn't realize how popular ultimately it's going to catch on in the various shes of modern othodox settings which you have here in ER today here in ER well it caught on at least 20 30 years after it was in America that's go we're a little slow We until till we bring it over till it came on Al the idea of early but I still remember in B par before there was early I say again at the conservative show there was conservative there was a conservative Temple Emanuel where kitki was the but his older brother moitz inth of Park and it started at 12:30 RAB gave a for half an hour and then M kitki started at 1:00 and he went till 4 a.m. and the show was packed 1700 people um to listen to MH kitki so the question was was it a daving or was it a grand cantoral concert that is the general the r once said I like Kus very very much but not in said this you know and a record and a kind remember records there was a thing called records I have to tell kids what records are you know phonograph yeah so so I have and those of you been with me to Poland so M kiski was Ain in Wasau in the tat in which was part of the waso ghetto was blown up in May 1943 after the waso ghetto was put down after 3 weeks of the uprising and um in 1937 MOS kitki uh live in in in daving was recorded um was several years ago my wife gave me a a disc as a birthday present with one condition that I can only play it when she's not home because you see kazas either love it or M don't love it but there's no in between nobody's neutral on this one you either really like it or you really don't like it bad okay so I'm a big fan of shom bay so I don't play it at home but um the the one piece that was really important on this was a piece from we say after we say there's this little piece there and it said on the jacket of the the cover of the disc it said that after the kitki never sang this piece at a concert he never recorded it again and when he D he never said it he put parenthesis around it why because after the Shah he couldn't bring himself to say we are more guilty than other nations he just couldn't do it he didn't think it was right so you might think well what kind of you know it's part of the where is he to come and put parenthesis around this section you want to know something my rating for M zitz went up after I saw that because the gar tells us we know that the Tells that we say right that's what we say in the introduction of so one of the tanim heard a colleague go on and on with more superlatives about a and he looked at him just was said are you finished you threw you got it all in I mean the point is you can never get it all in so why do we say said it it's in so said it we have a license to use it and then theor says that y took off gibor and Daniel took off no because they saw the they saw the destruction right in their face and they could not relate toosh as the gibor or as the no the awesome it just didn't make sense with reality and then came when we rebuilt the second mdash and they restored it and that's why we say but what do you der from that if you think there's something in the s that you cannot possibly be honest with between you and God don't say it that's what the gar is really teaching us and that's what happened with mki he couldn't say it we are more guilty than any other Nation after the Sham it doesn't make sense I'll tell you a little anecdote I'm not going to even get close to describing who I'm talking about because I want to protect the privacy but there was a situation when I was Ring raot of a person who went through a per a a a tragedy in the family of this of the nature that there was room to be angry with a there was room and the person did not want to go to sh kipa wanted to boycott the whole daving didn't want to see God and believe me it was a scenario that you may not justify it Lea can understand it you can understand where that person was coming from and I asked the person if you want to sit down before your with the and a pencil is let's go through all the and put parenthesis around any phrase that you thought was problematic for you and this person was willing to do that exercise and we went through the from kid until n and it was filled up with a lot of prentices this I can't say this I can't say okay I said look on my on my responsibility come to SCH or if not come to SCH at least at home say what you don't have in parenthesis even though it may not even make sense you know you're cutting sentence in half and so on whatever you don't have prenis that's what you'll say Kosh will put it together somehow I took a page out of schom who was in Russia once and met a Jew who said he doesn't how a d he just knows he just learned the Olive and SCH said just say the alet and put the letters together as words and words together as and that was a cabalistic idea by the way SCH didn't make it up it was a capitalistic idea and I took a page out of SCH I said you know what let's see if this works and that's what she that's what that person did a year later we sat down with the same exercise and the person still put parenthesis around but there were a lot less parenthesis and the year later we did it again and there was still some parentheses but much fewer by the fourth year the person was ready to go back to shore with a full Ma I told this toin once I said this was a creative trick but it was not a trick it was therapy and it was therapy based upon and Daniel who felt that they could somehow abbreviate what could be said about because they didn't think they could do it and apparently there was a little spark of that in moitz as well and he was willing to skip it because he just couldn't sayam R line told me that was very creative I don't know if he thought he was good or not good but he just told me it was creative and I told him it worked and if it works you you can't do this with everybody but you have to really size up the person and be careful how you do something like that but yes it can work so let's take a look at source number one in Source number one it says tells us on the that where is being taught by that in time of spiritual trouble here is the formula it's called the 13 attribute if this wouldn't have been written we'd never have the goal to say what's what's behind this what's behind this it's as if draped himself with AAL like a like a parenthetically this is the reason that Ain wears a Talis at at night even though nighttime is not a time for because it's based on that a draped himself with a and thein on night is playing the role of believe it we have a few times that the plays the role of and one of the famous ones is during who gives the of not God is the source of but he said that the should go through the that's why thein feeds the words to the co each word it's not because the's not going to know what to say I mean my gosh after the's up there for 50 years he knows the him by heart so why are we doing it we're doing it so that thein shouldn't think for a split second that he is giving the bra he's only transferring the and the comes from a he's being FedEd by the who's playing the role of a and here too the wears AAL playing the role of a and he shows the order which means that is a prayer is a and sins they should whip out this formula of prayer and Prof and say it as well and I will forgive them and then it says Hashem Hashem why is it twice God's name this is before God sins and I am the same God after God sins what does that mean that we can cause a scenario of atonement of forgiveness as if the sin never ever happened nothing's changed in our relationship between ourselves and but let's qualify F said the following and we say this in this if your sons are going to sin if your sins are going to be red like like sh Shani is the red that we have in the Mish it's a red red you so if your sins are like red because red is is blood blood is bad it's a bad color Kel I'll I'll whiten it like snow and if it's going to be like a worm the color also of blood from the worm I'll change it to the white wool so the question is why does yesi have a double expression of whiteness Kel snow and sammer is also white the case the answer is there are different levels of chuva Rah tells us in the second chapter of the laws of chuva there is and complete CH and incomplete chv so what's complete chuva complete chuva is tested chuva a person did a sin regretted it and now is thrust into the identical situation with the identical abil ability to do the AA again but does not do it because of the truva means it passed the test but then is a person who didn't a era and regrets and pledges never to do it again it's all fine the whole process of the truva is fine except the person was never encountered that scenario again in his lifetime to see if you'd pass the test again let's see how you going to do next time around so that's called so ra says it's okay it's good but it's we call sug bet it's second fiddle the best Chua is a chuva where a person was in the situation again let me just give an example so in the 1930s during the Depression years and believe me I'm not accusing anybody here because it happened to people in most probably some of our families sitting right here people came from Europe and they were sh and they came to the American Shores it became almost impossible to make a living without working on Shabbat this is true I hear the yes I hear we know this happened no small number of those people when they got to retirement age became sh shabas again they became sh shabas for a variety of reasons some being that they sent their kids to day schools and it became a little bit of a conflict at home that kid is being taught about Shabbat and at home they're not keeping Shabbat or at retirement age the wife wanted the husband to do something in life so she sent them too every day and chabas is three hours out of the house so that's wonderful so the person by default becomes a sham shabas not going to work anyway so now it just became an upgrade and so on is that called chuva the answer is yes but it's not the same it's a person's no longer in the scenario the situation what caused the e the ofat earlier in the game in his life maybe 40 years earlier so that's the difference between what is what the color of white there are different levels of white there's Sparkling White and there's offwhite in Fabric in textile you can get offwhite SE wool would be the off-white against the shell which is pure white and if you don't realize that by life's experience there's a mish in of leprosy and it talks about which Tora SPS about actually three levels of leprosy but Tora says no no no means it's an appendix so there's an appendage to and appendage to bah so what's baher b means clear is like sh and is like so the mishna actually tells us that there are different grades of leprosy in terms of the whiteness that the coin has to examine the person who's been Afflicted with Leprosy so one is like Snow White that's baharit absolutely clear and the other is uh is is is off-white and so on just yesterday I had to change two lead bulbs and fixtures in the in in the in the kitchen so today they give you the choice when the guy the electrian is putting it in you want it this level this level or this right you get a white that you blinding white two lights two lights and then there's like yellow they call it yellow and then something in between so so I thought you know the in between would be good because I'm a Ramba man you know the you take the in between well guess what it was too light but all right but this is what the what what the ra is talking about and that's why talks about kelle and K because there are different levels of whiteness but nevertheless so the difference is leaves a stain a a CH that's it's not total chuva there's something about the original AA that's still there once upon a time there were a thing called blackboards in school I know my K the kids don't know what I'm talking about just like they don't know what records are but you remember a board eraser remember chalk and eraser so if you wrote something on the board and you erased it so the word is not there any longer but you know that somebody wrote something before for because you have the smudge mark from the from the chalk that's still on the board only after you wash it down then if the janitor the night and then wash down the boards it becomes clean the next morning that's what happens to one's record if it's chur it's only like T like wool it leaves a mark and that's what the garah tells us that Chua can take these donot the the the deliberate aot and make them into shot sh is is inadvertent AA it's an AA but it's inadvertently done and if it's inadvertently done we have a case we can get by aadh it's what's called guilty with explanation we can explain ourselves to and beg that for forgiveness we'll try not to do it again we'll be more careful next time but there's also a category of what does that mean that means the a that was done after all said and done K checks it off as a Mitzvah a Mitzvah where's the Mitzvah here I can understand that the zadon the maed the deliberate is now looked at by a as if it's inadvertent it's it's to lower and we say this right after is willing to do make this deal with us and consider all of us even if we did deliberately will view us on as a lower degree as shog but what does it mean that a will create a scenario that they become merits where's the Merit here the answer is in in the type of whitening like shell like like snow what happens is and here's a real interesting idea that the r one said what do we mean when we say chuva we mean return to God that's what we mean right that's in the itself you don't need you know htics it's we're going to read it this shabat the said what you're doing is returning to the scene of the crime he said in natural law you can't turn the clock back I know we do that when we go to winter time we turn it back by now but that's just a shtick but you can't turn the clock back to the scene of the crime you did it you did it but that's not true the mitzah of chuva allows you spiritually to turn the clock back to the scene of the crime and correct it and correct it the fact that you regret that you did it the fact that you you pledge you won't do it again but you'll do it differently you'll do it correctly will now replace the a with a with a Mitzvah in that place it's unbelievable that is unbelievable of what can happen in the trua process it's going back to the scene of the crime we say this on Shabbat why onat because on Shabbat of creation adamar Rishon on the sixth day of creation already sinned the gamar tells us that sixth day of creation was jam packed with action if I would make a movie in Hollywood I would call it the sixth day wow what happened on the sixth day Adam was created Not only was created was created not only that but they were introduced to each other and they made it and they already had children that was fast and um and they and yeah I this I did already I'll do the second one yeah so before I'll try to remember before I forget to announce this one the um and and it says that and they sinned and they sinned already and and and they were thrown out of Ganan action-packed day and you can have a whole sheer just on trying to explain what that means that all this happens in on the sixth day but let's just put that on the side now it's m Shabbat and kazal say that Adon already came up with M Shabbat understanding that Shabbat is a day of putting it back together with because what does say to the day that you violate my command and the command was not to eat from that fruit of that tree the and you did eat from it so you should have been you should have been end of the life right then and there the day and now it's the next day and guess what he's still alive and kicking and breathing there must be something special about this what does do with well it's Shas got to take him out for a date right so there's no bowling alley there's no uh no ice skating and the kenyon's closed and so on he sits down with them and he teaches them how to take two P two stones and rub them together and bring out a spark and make fire and he teaches them how to use fire constructively and he teaches them this is why we will ultimately take a n hav to recreate that first lesson of who were taught by that fire is a medium of Destruction but it's a medium of construction and you can build a beautiful world you can make light you can make fire you can warm the place you can do so many different things with fire use it well you're on your way now and he gives them the tool to do this this becomes the symbol of that aosh has now restored his presence with ad and what can be a better time to turn toh you look at the source number five where in the underline it says the Shabbat somehow prevented Adam from going down completely and on Shabbat there is a big big big SK a very very very big thing that maybe it will be mo Shabbat that Eli is going to make his arrival so much so there's a belief that El is going to make his arrival we sing right after Eli songs right then and there right then and there Eli so what is the G talking about in another place in so something interesting that Mia promised never to come on Shabbat why because if Messiah comes on Shabbat you know when is going to come on Friday okay how does it say and the worst thing in the world is Eli will show up on Friday because we're in the middle of preparing for Shabbat who's got time for El Navi on Friday it's going to wreck the chant and wreck the cougle and everything this sounds crazy but the gor says this that we have an assurance that mhia will never come on Shabbat and there because so that Eli shouldn't show up on Friday God forbid imagine so when is the first opportunity Shabbat Shabbat and we exit Shabbat like exiting Shabbat we come to you first first means this is the first night of and it's from where you are sitting pay attention tune in in our language tune in for what what should he tune into who said at the opening of it's a very long it's so up the block in the great synagogue the and the choir they you spend a lot of time it take him 10 minutes to finish that sentence but so if you look on the page Source number six the says T there's a BRI R in the name OFA what are the chapters of TM that are said in bet sung in bet mikdash by the what we say every morning so this morning was Wednesday right on Sunday what does it mean God is the boss the owner of everything here so much so the tells us that there seems to be a contradiction between this God owns the world and the that we say in which is the Earth was given to mankind well let's make let's get it right who's the babos who's the owner of the earth human beings or God the mar says well they both right one is before you say abaha and one is after you say abaha before you say the food it belongs to God after you say it belongs to you so is the right so it belongs to God but after you acknowledge that says now it's yours go right ahead and E it and therefore the says if you don't make a which is requesting permission from to partake in the pleasures of his created world you're a thief you're a gav but not just a gav it's called is theft from Hees from BET mikdash stealing from bet mikdash it's called Ma so the per the role of the braah before we enjoy anything of this world is beseeching requests from God to take part in the pleasures of this world and God says go right ahead just acknowledge that's Sunday's experience the created world and we come to in this season we come on the day of we recognize everything is his we belong to you God everything everything and therefore we're not here to have a uh a suggestion of who to turn to we know there's an exclusive address to whom to turn to you're the only one and we are here onat and what do we say in the first stanza we say I I'll translate this we ask to tap into something about the AA the fact that Abraham ainu was willing to do the most irrational act and that was to take his son and Slaughter him on the on the on the altar it went against the grain of everything that aru understood everything he preached everything he encouraged don't do this this is Pagan this is murder you're not God's not interested in this and then aadh comes and tells him and what does AB say he I'm ready to do it I'm ready to do it which means he's sacrificing his own logic his own Common Sense everything about him he's sacrificing not just his own son everything he's willing to put on the line and of course did this as a test to see how far of rin's faith in God would go and it went to the maximum I believe and I've said this in various connections for when the [Music] begins H that H is the collective H that he's saying on behalf of all of the congregation of everybody we must be ready to say h if you're not ready to say you're not in is not there for us and we tap into the right away in the first and we will do it again in various poems of until and including y we will read about the AA on the second day rashash we will on both days rashash in the second special of talk about Thea that will be the focus of the so much so that there's actually a discussion of how to organize the mus of Rashana because there's this issue of 10 bra 10 nine bra and 10 agent things on the agenda and without getting into the details we do it like RAB AKA we combined the malot with the K the sanctity of the day we have a double-edged ending but there was an opinion that the the sanctity of the day is to be grafted on the to teach us that part of the sanctity of the day of rashash is the ARA what does that mean the so we end the by saying we mention that that God should remember on this day on this calendar day the first of Tish the ARA we're taking some overdraft as if to say from the merits of arino says that's not the word the word hay means hay means today it means the next Thursday which will be the first of Tish of T we ask to take note of all of our moments of self sacrifice and there are many many and some as we talk are being asked to go up to the araa and not everybody comes down not everybody comes down from the araa and we know that we know that and they're all different types of modes of m nees sometimes it takes out time and effort sometimes it's Financial sometimes it's this sometimes it's that and whatever it is we're saying and we're asking take note of all of our self-sacrifice that we put into loving you following you and so on yes we've done a we know all that and he doesn't forget a darn thing everything is there you cannot deny it at all but with all that should use as the great Merit where we stand and we stand with tremendous amount of mes and it from the days of until today it will stand as a should listen to all of our and we should D for our private needs and for our national needs and there are many and for the health of everybody and for the prosperity of everybody and for the Shalom of everybody in the house in the country in the world we should have the it we will meet again in two weeks time in on Wednesday morning [Music]