Our Main Focus during the Month of Elul - Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

[Music] not only is it key to begin preparing early in L all but we have to know how do we prepare what is the most important thing we could do to ensure a good judgment on Rosh Hashanah you know people are gonna start to see signs chuhwa Fela Saddam what is the most important thing we could do to prepare ourselves for Russia Shana rush call - hello we begin to say 'la David Hashem or Eva you see by David God is my light god is my salvation if you notice there is one letter of the Hebrew alphabet that does not appear in ladoga Nakamura vichy the letter Gitmo there is no gimel and let them finish everything she why not Dobin Hamas says the following I had shall T may attach am one thing I ask of God o taw of Akash that is which I seek shifty bait I shall call you my honey to sit in the house of the Lord my entire life even though our sages teach us we do not recognize and we do not appreciate the value of Mitzvahed and therefore we need to be careful in every single Mitzvah small and large nevertheless the Casal have revealed to us there is a certain foot that far surpasses any other mitzvah that this mitzvah is so overwhelming so powerful it is a nuclear energy of spiritual power that actually one moment of this Mitzvah is equal to all 613 mitzvot together and that is Talmud Torah learning Torah to the point where the Vilna Gaon says one word of the study of Torah is equal to all 613 mitzvot how long does it take to learn one word of Torah split second of its time says in one minute of Torah you could learn 200 words one word of Torah is the equivalent of seats it fill-in tadaka ha Cain marker any mid so you could imagine one word of tour is equal to that and therefore as the month of that laws is coming and is here and we're preparing for the o'madden and we want to realize we want to focus what should our emphasis be in preparation for Russia Shana Tova Dominic says ah hot show LT may eat a sham there's one thing I ask of God I can't get distracted in this month I can't lose focus of what my primary responsibility is this month a fat salty shifty Pahlavi touch them too soon in the house of the Lord and study the Torah that is always the Jews primary focus and certainly in preparation for Rosh Hashanah therefore David hemella left out the following letter from Madhavi - camera vision gimel gimel the Gemara and Shabbat says stands for a get mall we came all down there as I said custard is a tremendous mitzvah in fact it might even be the second most important bits from the Torah the gomorian Shabbat says that they Darsh in the olive days I'll live bet gimel dalet i loved-ed Aleph bina learned Torah gimel dalet Kamal Tallinn dukkha said the carpets time says we see from here that the two most important mitts vote in the Torah are learning Tehran doing huh said you know how many times in Shas the gomorrah says if you learn torah and you do have said you'll get this you get that you get this reward that reward all the spiritual benefits that are available in this world come through the dynamic duo of learning torah with cassette if a person in general says now i just study tour I don't do cassette makhmur says color unerringly Allah Torah a few tour I know someone says I just study Torah and that's it has nothing it doesn't even have to run so you might think in the month of Elul so we'll focus on two things Aleph faced a lefty nah get more down and get more down there no sister ramela we don't make that mistake the month of L oh we do all them it's vote but what should the focus be what should the emphasis be aha ciao teammate awesome one thing I ask of God Oh trav acacia that's what I seek shifty be very posh am call you may hi guy what about GMO what about give me little custom it's wonderful and we do it we try to do as much as we can during owl but that's still not the focus the focus is one thing a hotshot teammate and therefore all of us who have come tonight to prepare for the o'madden to prepare for the great day of judgment we've done it in the right way through the proper salute through the proper emphasis and that is through the study of Torah so May are coming together tonight for Lima Torah be a great foodd for all of us for a very successful judgment and may we have tremendous blessing this year Bravo alpha pernessa revoir the whole the whole - America - Marco [Music] you [Applause]