Parsha Perspectives for Today (Ki Savo, 5782) - Fresh and New

good morning Booker too welcome back to partial perspectives for today as always a big thank you to our Parsha series sponsors Becky nadikatza family in memory of Becky's Father David Gross only initialize we remain very grateful to the cat's family this morning sheer is also sponsored by Iranian Paul luster in honor of their dear cousins Lori and Harold Landa our beloved members my dear friends thank you so much the law stickers to the cats is thank you to our sponsors if you'd like to sponsor aparsha Shear you can go on brsonline.org sponsor you can sponsor the partial perspective write-up which uh thank God is now being disseminated all over people are enjoying some of the debrator they're not my own what I share have the privilege of sharing with you you can sponsor that as well we are learning parashas kisavo because the privilege page 1068 1068 in the earth scroll Stone Hamish and parishes and it will be saying it will be when you enter the land that Hashem gives you as an inheritance as yerushafter when you conquer the land when you inhabit the land when you dwell in the land you take from the first fruit the place that God chooses to dwell we've shared many times and we've seen in many partios that the Torah interestingly curiously does not delineate where that place is leaves it intentionally and by Design mysterious where are the coordinates what do you put into ways how do you get to that place Torah does not tell us where the basement is very enigmatically mysteriously simply says the place God has chosen to dwell now go find it now go find it we've shared many times salivich and others a Jew has to have a finely calibrated spiritual Compass we have to be Seekers and Searchers we have to be on a mission and Drawn to find it it's not spoon fed it's not handed over takes work we recently discussed it's called avodis Hashem for a reason it takes avoda so you got to go look and you got to go search you got to go seek it's not hand it over to us in those days the basket you tell the coin you declare I've come to the land that Hashem swore to our forefathers to give us and taka has given it to us and I'm a farmer here and I've been successful agriculturally in growing product on the land and I've brought it to offer it to you the coin takes the basket from the farmer the Nicholas name is it before the altered and then you shall call out and say while I'm here let's start from the very beginning let's go back in time let's review history and tried to destroy my father you're familiar with this took him from the Haggadah from pesach that's why some of you just broke out in hivesreima we went down to Egypt we lived there we were few in number by issue and then we multiplied and then we became a great Nations called that we cried out Hashem you heard our cries you took us at what does any of this have to do with the fruit what does any of the sets with the farm what does anything have to do with vikuram what does that do in the basement yeah that's ancient history I got it it's good when you get to the Seder talk about what happened I got it why right now Farmers here to say this is my first fruit this is the first and I'm giving it to you Hashem I'm not keeping it I'm not holding on even though it represents my total my effort my blood my sweat my tears it is for you because everything really comes from you perfect exercise in gratitude what does that have to do with all of this ancient history so I want to share several insights on this several insights let's start with an Insight from remote Shapiro is the Russia chief of Biryani and he says the fowl look at Russian you come the farmer ties a little string around that first fruit a little fig watches it grow when it ripens plucks it takes it puts it in a basket with great Pomp and Circumstance brings it to you shalim where he delivers it and the Anisa you answer the amarta and you Proclaim this declaration says Rashi what is the essence what is the theme what's at the core of the Declaration the proclamation the farmer says is foreign I'm not ungrateful I'm not ungrateful I'm here to let you know I'm not ungrateful not ungrateful okay so we're going to see in a moment that's different than saying I'm grateful why do we say I'm not ungrateful why not say I'm here to Express gratitude but let's start so the mushroom says the following the Torah foreign we introduce the section of showing gratitude to Hashem with the words when you come to the land that God gives you as an inheritance and then again and then again that God promised Allah says if you look in this small section if you count how many times in this little few the Torah repeats over and over that God gave you that God gave you that you gave us that God gave us that you gave us that you took us out yeah we got it here's the fruit I got it why are we repeating that over and over again because we confront every day of Our Lives we confront the fact that God is hidden from us and we have to search and seek and find Him and acknowledge Him and recognize him and appreciate him and talk to him but the much more comfortable we're much more inclined the more natural attitude or approach is to feel what whatever I have is my hard work whatever I have is the result of my effort of my labor of my toil this fruit broke my back stood the sun plowed I planted I harvested where were God what has got to do with it God gave me the land God took you out of Egypt God gave you the strength God gave you the posture God gave you the coordination and the muscles so over and over and over and this is emotional Shapiro because it's so difficult and complicated because it is so natural to not see him and to give credit to ourselves the Torah in the very section that communicates the source of the obligation of Makara satov specifically repeats over and over and over again God gives God gives God gives God gave God took God provided God help God sustained what do you think you knew that that land is the right place to farm when you purchase that land who put that thought in your mind who gave the weather and the elements to support its growth who gave you the wherewithal the physical capacity and competency to work the land who made it successful and kept away the infestation a billion parts to the success of that little fig the little date the little fruit that little fruit you say it's me it's not you it's him and that's why the total repeats over and over cockroaches says says Shapiro the reason we have an obligation every day to respite to recite a hundred brojos it's codified and it's brought down in several places a Jew has to say a hundred Brothers a day in the living with a monashir we made a hundred baraka's party you may remember we put out different food groups and require different brochos and we got a little party of 100 brachos left out one sponsor also a complete bench or Shana Rifka having surgery right now so so Speedy complete painless successful surgery sorry we omitted at the beginning but all of our divretora should be this Christa Merit the grandson of one of our members we should hear very very good news should be a successful surgery so 100 times a day the challenge is so great almost insurmountable it's so easy to forget him to not see him to not credit him it's so easy to swell with arrogance to take pride and think it's us the rabbis came along and they said a hun not ten times not five times not 20 times a hundred times a day stop what you're doing and remember Tim that cup of coffee someone discovered the coffee bean somebody planted it someone harvested it someone packed it someone shipped it someone grounded someone packed it into little Keurig someone overcharged for it someone I know the coffee snaps I'm gonna get emails now Keurig espresso all the coffee snaps will now tell me it's real coffee what's fake coffee you make a shahako every hunt you come out of the bathroom you see thunder lightning a hundred times a day three feelers a day 19 bracos each they contribute towards but additionally an obligation of a hundred bracos a day why to overcome the inertia to overcome the instinct to overcome the challenge of not seeing him so a hundred times a day we remind ourselves oh yeah I forgot for a minute I thought that I control my breathing and my heartbeat and my health and my livelihood and the outcome of a surgery for a minute I thought it was the surgeon because we paid top dollar and found the biggest and went across the and I thought it was us so I make 100 brackets to keep interrupting to keep reminding and that's what the Torah is doing here God gave you God gave you God gives you God took you out God sustains you because we keep needing to be reminded that's how pathetic we are really that's how easy it is to slip into that forgetfulness and to not remember so we have to be reminded over and over again and that's why we begin he says karate Christmas says you have to remember not only good days but the bad days we tend to only focus on the good days we forget what it was like I tore my achilles several years ago I had to have surgery it took six months of rehab and I was on a knee scooter and I couldn't carry a cup of coffee across a room and I wasn't supposed to be able to drive but I learned to drive with my left foot but all kinds of other I can admit that now because nothing ever happened that was safe everything was good but you know what happened I remember I promised and I swore I'll never make the brother the same the cavana I'm gonna have every day that I could take a step that I could walk that I could put on my pants that I could carry a cup of coffee that I could run you know what happens totally forgot what that was like so I totally went back to forgetting to have cavana the same is true with all of us God forbid a person at a gastrointestinal disease or a bladder disease a person was catheterized God forbid I'll never make it actually out to the same way again the gift of eliminating successfully in a healthy way now what happens we fall back into that trap of just feeling entitled entitled to walk entitled to eliminate entitled to eat and digest entitled to see until it's taken away so the rambam says remember hold on to when you didn't have it so when you do you'll never feel entitled and you'll never feel take it for granted and boy can you appreciate the little things by taking steps without it hurting getting up out of a chair going to the bathroom eating food seeing clearly and easily and countless other examples but here he also explains this question that I began with and I don't want to spend all of our time on this first plastic even though there is so much to share and to say but why do we go back to the beginning of History I'm here to deliver the first fruit the little fig the little date a little string around it God I worked I swear got a toiled I baked in the Sun and I'm here to deliver it to you not take it home and eat it myself because God it really all belongs to you I got it and I'm grateful for it and now can I go back to life can I go back to work why do I have to make this declaration around me of it um let's go back to the beginning of the history of the world first God created the world in six days what just hand over the first fruit and he says the most magnificent explanation and interpretation and what a message about akara satov you know what the message is I was recently at an office my mahutan son got married Mazel Tov to Andrew and to the mclinton's family my Pro does something exceptional at every single to see the hours we shared together are now again at the next of some people might say it's unusual or why do it or it's a tirucha but every single talks all about the grandparents and the great grandparents and it reminds everyone sitting there how we got here the people my parents our family we do that too many do you say okay they're gone they're gone for many years we're focusing on the Next Generation the friends are roasting them we're saying nice things about them but why are we going back in time about people who are no longer here and the answer is you think you're so privileged to celebrate this simra do you know what they went through what they came through to get here do you understand what it took sacrifices that were made prices that were paid do you understand so the farmer the hakara satov in any given moment is not only for that moment it's for everything that led to that moment so not only grateful for that Milestone we're grateful for what it took to get to that Milestone because if one little thing were off one little thing one one of those ancestors didn't survive one didn't persevere one didn't decide to try for another child one didn't pay for the Jewish Education one didn't do what it took to not work on Shabbos one didn't would we be here would we be living this richly Jewish life so those Milestones the Torah is telling us big Purim is a milestone where you stop and you say you're in there to throw you just grew a fruit do you know what it took you know what it took I'm blessed to have two siblings to live in Israel and and when their children have an event at their school it's very significant but often my parents spend half the time in Israel we'll see and we'll post on our family WhatsApp you're not just at a Hamish party when you attend the gun in Israel where the hummus is given out you're at a Jewish history party after 2 000 years of Exile that there are Jewish children getting accommish and mode or anywhere else in Israel that's not just that moment that hummus that's being given that is everything it took from the Inception of our people we were taken out of mitraim through two thousand years of travails and trials and persecution to the beginning of the Redemption of the return to our land to the ability to have a Hamish party in Israel and that's what the Torah is telling us he says that the farmer's not focused only on that fruit now it wouldn't be very practical or functional if every time we said Thank you right so you know you say to somebody thank you for dinner but let's go back to the beginning I'm so grateful when I met you 40 years ago in our friendship like it's not so practical every email where you write thank you right somebody sends you an article I thought you'd enjoy thank you I want to thank whoever invented the internet and the technology and the email system it's not so practical I'm not suggesting this is the level of thank you with each thank you but Milestones moments to pause and to say wow what it took to be here to get here that won't be lost on me so there's a big powerful message unless and with ingratitude gratitude within gratitude there's the gratitude for the moment there's the gratitude for that particular experience or success or Triumph or object but there's also the bigger context the broader picture gratitude which is to always live with that attitude of gratitude for life to always be lived through the prism and the backdrop of wow the bigger picture of what it took to be here and to get here and to get here we had hello father behind the bema several weeks months ago and he shared his brother Arya become demo was murdered and we talked about the rise of anti-Semitism and Terror in Israel and this is somebody who lost his brother to Terror but said with that I think he quoted his father it's never been safer in the world to be a Jew so yeah we narrow in and yeah we focus and yeah we fight but we also have akara satov context we don't just live in that moment the dangers the challenges the issues of which there are and they seem to be growing but with whatever challenges are in Israel or elsewhere it's never been safer if you think about Jewish history and the mass persecution and the systematic attempts of extermination it's never been safer belie to be a Jew anywhere in the world so we have to live with Jews live with broad picture big vision not narrow moments that's what's going on in this opening that's what's going on in this opening process a couple other quick ideas to move on today says that when the farmer says this he has to say it because to say it out loud you can't whisper can't mutter can't just move his lips and think in his heart but cool ram he's got to Proclaim it loudly why why so it says the following is when you're in a crisis when you're in a crisis a moment of urgency an emergency you call out you cry out to God with everything you've got with all of your strength and all your Calculus and all of your voice and all of your authenticity the old there's no atheists and a foxhole so in a moment of urgency a crisis or an emergency you cry out big tillum gatherings heartfelt filos flowing tears koram and when everything's going smoothly and well successful on plan then you forget is that what Ninja so that's why specifically the Torah here says thank you should be as loud as I need you thank you should be the proclamation the Declaration should be as compelling as loud as in everyone's face as urgent as the emergency moment as the emergency moment the ramban says says the purpose of not only come together to cry out for crisis it's a place to come together and to cry out to share wow thank you for all that's going right thank you for all that's going well to a tribute to him to say Thank you so the whole beginning of our Parsha is a master class in gratitude and an attitude of gratitude and how to say thank you for everything that's gone well and for everything for everything that we have for everything that we have to be grateful to be grateful that sort of nachman also says I skipped sorry I skipped one of them is you say to the coin so why do we need to repeat the Anisa the amarta you answer you respond and you say what do we gain by repeating that he's speaking moreover and so on sort of says so one is I'm grateful here's what I'm grateful for grateful I'm alive grateful I was able to travel here grateful for my form I'm grateful for this first fruit I'm grateful you took me out of Egypt and Grandma you bought us into this land but you know what I'm really grateful for this is what he says is the reason for the second I'm grateful you know what I'm really grateful for I'm grateful that I'm grateful I'm grateful that I live with a sense of gratitude so many people see the glass half empty so many people see what's missing now what's there so many people live feeling entitled and bitter I'm grateful that I'm grateful and this is what we say in Dominic a little previous sitter snippet is bothered why it's not the product because there's the shots that we answer we answer kadusha but every brachry repeats it because there's the shots we're good to go why modem famous I love to quote it I'll quote it again instead of Snippets devudram says you know why you can't Outsource gratitude every other mind says I'm grateful we don't say yeah say thank you for me too we have to say thank you can answer us gratitude what's the end of modern this is what Rosado says what's the end of um and it ends wow I am so grateful that I'm grateful because to live a life without gratitude it's a little life feeling entitled or hypocritical or bitter or deserving the miserable life the capacity to identify what we're grateful for and to feel grateful what a bracha so among the things I'm grateful for is feeling grateful you would repeat this line this text the script that I got took us out of Egypt wanted to destroy our father yaakov previous parashim we delved into who's the Arabian love them where do you see in the Torah that love and tried to destroy yaakov we've talked about in the past I'm tempted but I'm not going there self-control not going there you could listen to the Past who's the Arabian and where do we see tried to destroy our forefather and there's a double benefit to learning that you'll understand for the Seder so it's worth listening and looking into it but we're not going there so an aramin tried to destroy my father but God you took us out of each of the new birth to the land and you made me build this first fruit customer be nothing's a great students what does represent what's it all about so one element we just spoke about is bikurim is the master class of gratitude gratitude to avoid being ungrateful how to be grateful gratitude is not just honed in it's a big picture be grateful that we're grateful all about gratitude but I've not been understood a little bit differently and he said you know what Bitcoin is really all about do newness freshness his Consciousness what do you bring what is the means the medium through which we express the gratitude we don't take some ancient artifact we don't find something old and aged the fine wine what do we specifically bring first fruit what do first represents says the name of his teacher of nachman is Nunes freshness fresh start new beginning in any relationship in life you need to introduce freshness newness curiosity inquisitiveness creativity Joy passion romance energy anything and everything can get old total understood that intimacy pleasure the most basic core animal carnal pleasure can get old and routine and stale the Torah says is an institution called need the Tara samashpacha by requiring a separation that creates a longing his conscious newness freshness that's true in every area of life and every relationship of life and that's what is reminding us the farmer every year says I'm bringing my first fruit new season new start I happen to not care about football not because I'm so religious I don't care about sports I wish that were the reason I follow God's team the Yankees in baseball but I don't care about football football just started so the first week of football is fantastic to see like even the Jet fans have hope even the dolphin fans believe this could be their season it's a new it's a spring spring training this is our year we've got this the new school year all those parents who think I love homework I love carpool I love let me post for the world to see a picture of my kid on the first day of school it's going to be my year this is our team's year says my children's year freshness so the farmer takes his first fruit and says Ah this is my year First beginning freshness It's A Renewed belief in myself renewed belief in us and our relationship it's renewed longing and desire and drive and creativity and joy the Shameless we have all kinds of impediments that say yeah we have anxiety we have water we have fear we have a voice of self-sabotage not going to work out never happened give up walk away why bother don't try comes along because fruit and says there's a fresh start it's a new beginning there's always a new opportunity what's the way to escape what's the way to avoid these fears these anxieties that we remind ourselves of hashem's goodness and kindness you know what he got me this far very late last night I was just talking to and trying to help and support someone through a very very difficult circumstance and I said to them you know you've been through very hard things in your life when you say I can't do it I don't have what it takes I'll never get through it I can't you can you know you can because you've proven you can you've had difficult circumstances you've had very difficult challenges and you've overcome them and you've showed the strength to persevere through them you have it in you you can do it again and says that's what the farmer is reminding himself of what gives us the capacity and the strength and the faith and the optimism to believe his conscious new try fresh start you know why let's review Jewish history let's talk about all the people that tried to knock us down and knock us out let's talk about all the experience that set us back and here we are we got up each and every time we broke through we climbed up over around under or we ran through that wall and here we are in this land with this farm with this first fruit let's do it again we got this we got this we have that strength it's in our DNA it's in our history it's in our own personal narrative in our own lives we've got this that's why the farmer stands there and he says I'm here to try again Cohen I was here last year I told you what a great year it would be I blew it I went back to my farm I watched the wrong things I said the wrong things I listened to the wrong things I blew it I didn't give away 10 of my farm the way I was but I do I blew it I blew it so why should I believe this it will be any different I limped here this year to give you my first fruit so Taurus says you know what you should declare the coin talk all about yaakov and how he escaped Lavan and how he planted within you and within me within us the DNA to persevered to endure the tenacity the resolve the resilience we've got this his righteous try again take it from the top new beginning we can write the next chapter of our book of Our Lives we've got this and that's why we specifically read what we read Because reviewing that history gives us the strength to believe that we can start again he goes on we'll end here because there's so much more to see it's such a beautiful beautiful message so two messages different is it an exercise in hakara satov or his new beginning fresh start with the faith and the endurance that we learn from those who came before and what it took to get to where we are today still in this context and bring it to you the beginning of my first fruit that you gave me I'm living here and I am bowing down now I have brought foreign gives this long introduction the whole history and so on why Birches Amazon we do that as well why and so again this is a lesson the Atta now the word vyata means and now means everything I said until now was not critical or crucial to what I'm about to do now now the real bikurum begins so why was everything said beforehand that's what we saw either broad gratitude for everything that got us here or to strengthen and support and Empower me I believe that his conscious we could take it from the top how does he conclude the farmer be grateful be happy with all the good that God has given you and your home you the lady be happy or put differently by the great poet Don't Worry Be Happy says what does that mean Ella Torah ain't Tov alatora what's the good what's the tof the little fig a little fruit what's the tof ain't tablet if Jews would really understand and appreciate and taste the sweetness and the beauty and the deliciousness of torahim um they would go crazy chasing it and pursuing it and they would say ah money material things possessions eh it's nice enjoy them have them use them but what's my real life how is it really defined what's my real Drive what's my real passion what's my real identity what's my real goal Torah ain't says whatever Tov is in the world you could find in Torah immerse yourself in Torah and by this I think the college means both Total Learning taste Total Learning the sweetness The Joy the beauty you're tapping into eternity some Netflix series some book you read some experienced trip you took nice lovely enjoy assuming they're kosher and appropriate and okay but they're this worldly there are their Pleasures that are genuine pleasure but they're this world pleasures and then there are Pleasures where you're touching eternity where you're tapping into eternity like a grandchild's hummus play in Israel You're tapping into eternity but you're tapping into eternity there are moments and Pleasures told to study seeing a continuity of Torah to Future Generations the Tish we have the unity tissue we had actors on Friday night that was a little piece of a slice of olamhaba in this world you're tapping into eternity into immortality so how could anything be sweeter or more pleasurable more delicious more joyous more real more authentic more lasting than that which I quote often from many of these ideas and these people I quote will really collected I have to give credit to this wonderful safely so here he says tore itself is sweet and delicious without boundaries every other pleasure in the world is nothing is gurnish compared to it to be involved in it immersed in it engaged in it oh there's nothing better so why does the tour have to tell us a person avoids because you know what not the Torah is competing with torah's competing with the pleasures of this world the joys of this world silliness and superficiality of this world so Torah promises us if only you toil and make the effort if only you take the first step it's a promise Hashem is saying taste it try it Hashem my Barbie's favorite pasta taste it and you'll see how good it is how delicious it is how amazing it is it's the greatest but Hashem we just started new Yeshiva and Boca Shiva South Florida the new buffer 13 Buck Room and six Colo an amazing it's incredible Yeshiva not for now another time the day I was I was there I'm coming up the stairs and and the cold toe of the sounds that come through the door and down the stairs it's like wow it's got anything it's gone Aiden any a room full of young people who are spending the overwhelming bulk of their day pouring over an ancient text because it has Timeless teachings and it is a taste of immortality and of Eternity ah it's unbelievable it's the greatest and Sweetest Sounds that there are it's an incredible incredible Goosebumps Goosebumps promising try it taste it is foreign why is it called video What does the farmer say when he takes his tides and delivers them I have a confession to make and what's the confession don't try this at home with your spouse I have a confession to make My Confession is that I'm perfect that I've done nothing wrong that I've done everything right that's the farmer's confession video confession and what's the confession I haven't violated I didn't forget I didn't violate I've done everything that's my confession I'm sorry I have to confess don't try it at home I have a confession why in the world is that called confession listen the previous years we discussed it we discussed it there but now in this context God and the Jewish people are intertwined inextricably we are inseparable so Moshe turns to the people and he says don't think you have an identity outside of your relationship with God it is part of Who You Are It Is What Makes You tick hayoma said today God is commanding you as Hashem you have distinguished Hashem today to be a God for you you have distinguished God today to be your Godly Kim to walk in his path to emulate him to imitate him to observe his laws and to listen to his voice so I'm one of the lucky few I gotta hold on utzer plus Satora not easy to get and oh there's such great stuff on this one I told you this fascinating safe route collects the most fascinating topics so many I want to share with you in here but we can't we don't have time but he has some great ones because an illusion to how important it is to learn mishnah okay is there an illusion to the importance of learning mishnah Durham in this pasok is an allusion to the sixth sidri mishnah Leos is Hashem is those six phrases there you go didn't see that coming he quotes here and because of this balaturam because this is how do we declare and Proclaim that Hashem is our God today mishna Mission and shama are made of the same letters a commitment not only to the written Torah but the oral Torah a commitment to our masora how do we declare Hashem is my God by immersing ourselves in that total learning by reading his diary by listening to him davening is us talking to God Total Learning is God talking to us so how do we say God I want to hear what you have to say you're in my life by listening how do I listen by learning Torah God I declare you're my God today how in this position in two ways or an illusion and because of that this is the interesting part that he dug up unbelievable stuff in here because of that press bird would make a Sim ones every year 40 days every year in 40 days unbelievable now 18 proc in the day mashallah he didn't do it the rest of the year into the rest of the year anyway as I thought a very interesting a little interesting tidbit he has another great thing here because the next person not the next person to tell us a story when we cross into erity Israel the blessings and the curses are Grissom or we're going to get into all that in a moment but when we cross in because write all the words of the Torah Tafe write it carefully right on these stones so it's very very interesting we shared this previously also what was written on these Stones so here he goes through many many opinions Moshe write the Torah on Stones when you enter the land I think it was I forgot where I first saw it the stones at the entrance when you cross the Jordan put stones there that have the Torah on the way into Israel who said these stones on the way into Israel serve for erit Israel what a mezuzah does for a house the same way there's a mezuzah when you come into a house but these stones for anyone who comes in Terrorist Israel in other words when you land in mangorian airport anyone who comes in citizen or visitor Jew or non-jew dignitary politician he kissed the mezuzah because that says everything about the home there should be stones on the entrance into Eris Israel on the way in so what was written on these stones the ramban says from British into Israel the Ebenezer says the mission of Torah others says what was written but he also has how big were these stones big small their size their placement how many stones but then it gets into a great topic which we don't have time for when Moshe wrote whatever he wrote on Stones however big they were did he put the nikudos did he put the dots where do the nikudos come from how do you know the proper pronunciation without the nikudos it's villain we just have the letters without the vowels without the vowels you don't know the proper pronunciation I was once at a Chabad minion for a shop is very far away there wasn't about code race so they took out I'd never seen this before they took out they opened the Torah and they put on top of it translucent you know you know the old days that like you put on a thing to project back in the old days so they put that on the Torah so you read it through the plastic you saw the Torah text but it put the vowels for each column so each column you put the plastic and then the back go anyone could be a buck balcore for dummies what's the halach about doing that I don't know I didn't look into it I don't want to know I don't know it was interesting so you need the vowels in order to re-ask any bar mitzvah boy about the importance of the vowels ask any Apartments of a boy or his father or the parents or the department of teacher the trauma of the year of preparing about the vows so where do they come from where do we have them from what's the authoritative owls and were they on these stones the flow has been in the Kudos were they given from Sinai he has unbelievable makotas pages and pages of incredible sources where do they come from when do we get them just if you're if you're the type of person you're like a nerd or geek like me that excites you these types of things he's got great stuff in here but anyway clearly most of you are not so we're gonna go on right welcome back to another Mega Joseph the mega Joseph and the words right of the stones and Barry tape Rashi says Ah right on the stones he didn't get into this in here maybe he does it's so many pages I didn't read at all Rashi says berative means write it on the stones the Torah when you come into Israel you'll see it explain it clearly what does that mean explain it clearly sancino art scroll co-run what does Barry Tafe mean explain it clearly did I leave anyone out I don't want to get an email what does Barry tape mean says Rashi Shivam lusham wow these have to be big Stones I'm not sure how much was written there and whether it included the dots and the Kudos the vowels but you also needed to put in 70 languages why why so many languages why so many languages because what happens when the Ambassador from Uruguay comes ambassador from France the Ambassador from China thank you how will they know how to understand the Torah this is on the entrance into erity Israel this is of the country and the people everyone needs to be able to read it says that when God spoke when we receive the Ten Commandments they came out they were communicated if you look in La have they love the lives of the U.N you see all the people sitting there with their earphones it came out in 70 languages I don't understand why was the total offered to everyone total was offered to everyone what did all the other nations say thanks but no thanks we're gonna we're gonna we turn it down take a rain check not interested thanks to the offer we're gonna pass so if we have a tradition that every nation was offered and they took a pass why does it have to be in 70 languages why 70 languages so the mega Josephine offers a very interesting insight and he says you see from here evidence and he quotes many many sources he quotes many sources Jager Marshall you see again this tradition that we've had we shared many times that converts who convert tuition pay base in 2022 he did a conversion last week conversion meeting tomorrow converts who join us today their soul was destined to convert since our Sinai so you know what maybe they've been living all these years in between in China or in South Africa or South where they speak English I don't speak Hebrew or in France or Spain or whatever else for Holy converts who also needed access so you're right nations of the world who turned it down to decline they don't deserve it in translation but for the converts who would ultimately convert they do I want to give a different answer my answer why would I shouldn't put it in 70 languages if they were undeserving who says the 70 languages are for 70 Nations maybe the 70 languages are stable minion this expired minion Ashkenazi minion foreign ER gare who says so maybe the Hashem says the the Torah is not one size fits all it's not uniform and you don't have to conform as many languages it speaks to us in and the Torah speaks to us differently in in 2022 than it did in In 1902 and then it did in in 1002. there's different languages and different times different cultures and for some Torres communicated over social media and Technology Bashir hussam and for others the Torah should never they would never listen to the Torah communicated in that on that platform or through that messaging so maybe the Shivam Lush or the 70 languages are not for other nations but maybe within our own Nation we need to find the different languages that the Torah speaks to us in is that not the greatness of great individuals through the Millennia the refers found a language that he could talk to enlightened Jews that Torah would be timeless and relevant to them but that was different what was happening in Germany than what was happening in Lithuania that was happening in each needed to find the language to communicate Torah for their time the Torah is timeless and immutable but the language and the messaging the platform through which we communicated for that we should be open-minded to that tests speak to the Jewish people and they says listen up be attentive and listen today you became a man today you became a people today it's a start ushma this one I'll leave to you as a question what do you mean ask case means listen here then what does has case mean s you're all struggling because it means listen Art School struggled how did it Translate the attentive and listen if you're listening aren't you attentive the attentive and listen if you're attentive aren't you listening okay if you're listening you may not be attentive but if you're attentive are you listening what is house case mean different than Shema the Volvo explains very beautifully sure but we'll come back to it another time let's go to paragraph now we get into the curses a ruler curses are aval Jews were split the tribes into levim in the middle making proclamations everybody answered a main let's take a look at some of these curses foreign who does not uphold this Torah and everybody answered amen what does that mean what does that mean I understand cursed on a person who perverts Justice and doesn't stand up for the orphan the Widow and the convert I understand cursed is the person who is promiscuous and violates moral boundaries cursed is the person who lies with an animal cursed is the person who steals or bribes I got all that what does that mean person is the person who does not uplift the Torah what does that mean the usami and Sota says why do you have to uphold the Torah does it fall is the Torah falling that you have to catch it is the one who doesn't catch who doesn't lift he doesn't hold saysion foreign what does that mean the cousin drops the Torah or walking it back cursed it is who doesn't sing some of you have cursed and who doesn't sing some of you are cursing if he's not singing is that what he means what does the urushami means foreign to make sure it's safe and secure it's a position that I can't fall curse it is casual and careless with a safer Torah correctly so that everybody could see the writing of the Torah as it says we have to show it to everybody on the right and on the left and you turn around nobody gets hogba correct shakter has a little known article my great uncle Allah Missy Norman was the editor of a journal called the Jewish journal the Journal of Jewish liturgy in prayer it's put out by the Bell School of Music it's not well known but it's worthwhile to read and the few articles might have shakter in there I think you can find on why he's wyutora.org on their website I think they have the old journals and he has an article on non-well known this is not the title of it I'm butchering it but but not well known halach of Priya Satora and in there one of them is the proper way to do hogba you turn a little bit One Direction then you make a full turn the other way how many columns to be open with the seam most people are too busy competing with Arnold Schwarzenegger to prove how strong they are some of these people need to be tested for steroids the hogwas they're doing how many columns they're showing Rob by the way risking it all for us our lunch and dinner but there's a proper way to do hogba so ramban says what's the aura to the curse of the Hazen to do hogba the right way and to make sure that everybody sees why is that important how many letters are in the Torah we have a tradition six hundred thousand it's not actual but there's six hundred thousand that's a tradition how many Jews six hundred thousand left Egypt there's a letter in the total for every one of us and there's an idea there's no Source in the whole there's no source to use your pinky no Source not sure where that came from one person maybe didn't have a finger used their pinky and then everybody I don't know what this I don't know was in a cast I don't know what the story is there's no source for you there's an article in the hakira journal from Flatbush there's no source for using your pinky the shulkarnak records you point with your forefinger you point with your forefinger you find the letter that begins your name and you say there's a place for me in the Torah I'm in the Torah my letters and Torah my name is natora me and the Torah so the ramban says but you should look he says at the at the incredible idea here from the Yu xiaomi and from the and from the uh ramban the difference there was an incident he writes about this is again from outside now he dug up all the stuff about falling torahs and what happens and how you respond and how you react and and hogba and uh do you do hogba before or after before they read the Torah zoza Torah then they put it down then they read it so Saga before after they lift it then they put it on the Bima and roll up there and cover it there they don't sit down with it open how where does it come from what are the different Traditions I don't get a penny by the way not foreign but it's just fantastic stuff tells a story wait the behind tells the story that happened once in this community what happened is the uh the garbage insurance came Friday night to school to take a nap to rest to watch the best measures from the Supreme tour that nothing happened they didn't have locks and alarms and security volunteer professionals but he didn't see anybody there and he didn't want to sleep there alone even go buy him have phobias so he left and he thought he locked up in the morning they came back um were unraveled rolled lying all over the floor there were a gun of him they came in the night and they opened the secret Torah and they threw them on the ground and I said what do we do to correct this appears again the idea that you fast for the total Falls there is no Source in all shots you see from this person that our curses the one who didn't uphold the Torah whoever was responsible for the Torah and it fell that's who has to fast there is no source and shots that everybody fasts and even the cost of the vest is not everybody it is the person who was responsible the God by the shamish the rabbi security Chief whoever was responsible however there is an illusion that the sins of the city cause the Torah to be embarrassed so if something happened to a Torah of a Torah fell everybody should the community should get together and introspect and maybe take upon themselves a fast so there is an illusion from nakamar and Tinus but really that obligation to fast there is no Source if anything only the khazan has to serve as fast not everybody else and then he goes on how should the Torah is an is a neither allowed to see a safer Torah there's a misnomer somehow the Torah shouldn't pass can women kiss the Torah if a woman is in a state of neither can she touch the Torah see the Torah fascinating sources the answer is yes she can how should the Torah be placed in the arm is the Torah standing upright is the Torah put lying down there's a Torah on poles is the Torah like this faradam in a case all these things that maybe you were curious maybe you didn't even know that you should be curious he collects incredible sources amazing amazing sources amazing sources on amazing sources on it I'll tell you one more shot like a velcro at a time one more shot on this ramban or Russia welcome is it relates to Robert Brody's having an event tonight through his Outreach Center bringing together kavrusas from every segment and every um denomination across this community the Torah should bind and unite us an enormous partner in Torah and that's this other band means if you have the ability to uphold Torah and you don't I mentioned this recently somebody Bagels you somebody lets you know they're Jewish but they don't know much about being Jewish and you don't take advantage to invite them for a Shabbos meal offer to learn with them to inspire them if you're not supporting Jewish Education and Jewish Outreach you are cursed you might have said I'm neutral I'm not an Outreach professional I'm not an Outreach volunteer I don't have time I don't have an interest I'm not good at it so it's true somebody mentioned to me or asked me or hinted to me but it's not for me so we might have said you know you don't get the Outreach person of the year award but you also didn't do anything wrong I would have said you're in neutral your power of you don't come after the owner you're not a you know you're not honored at the show dinner but you also didn't do anything wrong it comes along the Torrance is now utter you're cursed you could have inspired a fellow Jew you could have inspired a Jew and you didn't you're not 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