Parsha Perspectives for Today (Ki Savo, 5783) - Count Your Blessings

okay good afternoon welcome back to partial perspectives for today first of all thank you all for your flexibility was traveling for a Sim club for simchas so I'm grateful that we're able to learn together this afternoon I want to thank as always our generous sponsors of the series for the year Becky Navi cats and family in memory of David Grossman the Nationals we also have the privilege this afternoon of David Grossman the corner of his son Rabbi Seth gross my dear friend who's here live in person able to come this afternoon always great to see you and uh welcome and uh honor that you are here for this year today she is also sponsored by Aaron and Aviva Pressman in honor of the wedding of his daughter tonight in mistake New Jersey Mazel Tov Chevron also today is the yard site of the mother of all yeshivas Jenny Miller Fagan pasabas or biscerol if you read the incredible article magazine I think it was last year uncovered about this incredible philanthropist this woman the mother of all Yeshiva so you're outside 55th yard site is today and our learning shibilities as well so after a break a well-deserved and earned break I might add it's good to be bad I mean for you for you not for me I was ready to go but for you it's great to be back and to learn parshowski Sabo together the article Stone slimmage page 1068-1068 are packed there's so much to get into so many lessons to extract and draw so many perspectives for today we'll see as far as we can get but the parishion begins when you enter the land that Hashem has given you to inherit and to settlements when you settle the land work the Land There is no publics there is no Winn-Dixie there's no Kosher Market there's no Aroma there is no Amazon to order and deliver to your doorstep you'd have to farm an Agricultural Society when you come and you settle and you conquer the land you set up an Agricultural Society in the midst of that we're given upon entering the land in the midst of bikuram that first fruit after investing in toiling and working after watering and nourishing and harvesting that first fruit tie a ribbon around it you identify it you set it aside it's brought to your saline with Incredible Pomp and Circumstance and there's a party there's an offering to Hashem that become that first fruit is given to him where turn never tells us it's kind of curious we've discussed this in the past Tor only identifies throughout the Torah to Enigma it's a mystery this holy sacred place this capital of spirituality the place of divine dwelling is a mystery it's an enigma it's never given to us the coordinates the address exactly where to go we're meant to be movaction you have to search and you have to yearn and you have to follow your spiritual antenna and intuition and you have to go search and you have to go find it's only identified as as the place that God has chosen where it's up to you go figure out go begin that process go uncover and what do you bring you bring there the bikurim that first fruit you bring it to the coin of the time and you say you got it I know I'm reading quickly I'm always admonished slow down but we've got a lot to say so if you're here in person you don't have the luxury if you're listening later you can make it half speed quarter speed listen whatever speed you want if you're in person you can't slow me down sorry so bring it to the coin in that time and tell him I've come to the land that God promised the coin receives this basket this first fruit and he puts it before them is and now there's a micro bikurum now there's a ritual of recitation now there's something that said what is it now we review Jewish history we're all familiar with this passage not only from our partial kisava where do you know it and where do you recite it and there everyone comes with their fancy gamatris and devitorah and so we know it well my forefather was an hour and hours an hour me and who wanted to destroy my forefathers I went down to Mid time and I lived there is there that we proliferated promo get there we became a great nation from the Midstream wanted they treated us very partially poorly very harshly they wanted to eliminate they wanted to exterminate us so they give us great work but vanitaka lashem we cried out to God and Hashem heard our cries and he took us out with an outstretched hand and he brought us to this place and he's promised us this land a land flung with milk and honey and now and now we finally get to the punch line first I have to give all of history why it's a process a ritual the farmer not only when they first entered the land but continued to apply the farmer brings their first fruit the decuram the racist the very beginning they do it again Pomp and Circumstance and a whole ceremony and the ceremony you got to review all of history first I was born first God created the world in six days and then eventually got to me and that just say thank you for the little fruit shine good Nook I gotta go home there's a farm to tent there's a lot more to get done why do you have to review all of history we'll talk about it but finally we get to that punchline what's the punch line racism I'm giving you the first fruit that Hashem gave me why what's going on over here be happy with all the good that God gave you you your house the lady so I want to share with you this morning this afternoon several different Torah from wonderful satisforum that I've been drawing from over the last several months but particularly poignant because the author the one who was said over these because this theorem passed away recently a very very special very holy Jew who lived in Borough Park the rachman Reba who was originally from yushalayim who grew up in yerushalayim and came to lead the branch of that here in New York he was the son-in-law of the previous cleria by brother-in-law describe and a very holy Sadiq very understated very modest a very simple court that comes from Chernobyl and the set a song called amoros tahoras and then he collects magnificent and his own original ideas so I want to in his memory share with you some of the Beautiful torahs from amaras tahoras and he says the following take from the first of all the fruit of the ground this Mitzvah bikorm is not only teaching us a law that's applicable and relevant to the farmer but really it's a lesson for a life for all of us and that is one has to put an extra effort extra mindfulness extra intention when it comes to the racist the beginning the start as yes if when you start something a new organization a new effort a new sheer a new project a new goal a newsman a new year a new grade of school whatever is the beginning the first if you do it with intention of kadushant tahara you have a mindfulness and an intention a presence for it to be sacred and holy for it to do it in the right way you're not simply beginning mindlessly not just getting started because that's what it says on the calendar you're not just opening day and you didn't even pay attention but you start out with kadushan Tower then everything follows the beginning everything that follows will be worthy will Merit see that's why rosh hashan is so meaningful so significant because everything follows the beginning it's called Rosh Hashanah the head of the year because everything follows the head the head dictates to the rest of the body what to do it's the brain it's the head that determines that to the body how to follow and everything about our year follows the beginning follows the head of the year it's the heads that's why this is so significant we start off the month on the right foot we make Abdullah and we start off the weak on the right foot and Rosh Hashanah we start off the year on the right foot every day chakras grounds us it gives us a sense of a sense of intention of purpose of what is my day Isaiah I date everything starts from the beginning so how does a Jew wake up in the morning what word grammatically it'd be more proper to say Ani model I am grateful but you can't start your day the first word out of your mouth the first thought can't be I Ani even though grammatically it's more correct instead what do we do we invert it and we start our day with what's the first word what's the first thought what's the first intention how do we begin my day attitude of gratitude mode grateful am I racist copri everything follows the racist everything follows the beginning and then the body follows the head what comes after follows how you began everything starts from the topic and that's why most of them Israel is in each month you give us the Russia you gave us the rush shame yes how do we make it a worthy time a virtuous time a meritorious time how do we make it a time in which we achieve and accomplish our goals our mission our purpose how is it because you gave us new beginning fresh start you gave us the concept of Rosh you gave us the head you gave us the beginning you gave us the start and if we we can realize it and fulfill it make the most of it if we can be present for it then everything that follows and that's why the Torah tells us not only with the Mitzvah bikurim not only for the farmer but for every one of us addition is if you want to extract what is that it says racist what is the Posse it should say you take from the racist the beginning of what's the word coal of all the fruit of the land should say racist the beginning of priyadama the fruit of the land what is the word coal add why is the word call there so it says what does the word called as kolha told us if you start if you start if you begin take for yourself the racist be present at the beginning get off to a good start have the right intent and when you begin and then call prehadama all the peros everything that follows everything that emerges everything that comes from it will follow in suit and what a message not only for the farmer and for because for every one of us so many children down here in Florida we already started school I know up north not yet till after Labor Day some schools Yeshiva started or Bender gave the kiss to every child already today on the opening day everything if you start and your Russia Shiva gives you a kiss and you're Cappy the first day of school you're going to feel love and affection throughout that year if the parents send off with a brook and with love if you drop off the first carpool and you welcome on the first day after school and you get the first homework started with love with affection with patients with support if in Yeshiva if in seminary if getting ready ELO Rosh Hashanah everything follows the beginning so you can't just say ah what's the difference begin middle end I'll catch up I'll do later everything follows the beginning everything follows the racist so take advantage take advantage of the racist because you know what follows only Co prehadama all the Payless that will come out of it follow the way that we begin and follow that start and that's the Posse a wise person Ina borosho simple understanding of the past base yudality is a wise person looks to the Future spoiler alert our shabasha this year is so far I have the title the title is your future self how do we live in the present with a relationship already with our future self this is the whole mission our Rabbi said don't just live in the here and now don't just be in the present don't indulge your appetite because of what you crave right now you want to be you want to be wise your eye should be in your head see to the Future identify the future have a relationship with your future self but says the Rahman says you know what it means then you know where your eye is on berosho the rosh the beginning look at all the beginnings take it look at all the rosh the New Year the new school the newsman the new week the new month the new there's all these new opportunities a new day it's a new day our Munich we produce little notebooks you can get one next week at the Mitzvah market I'll have them available for sale it says turn the page to living with them Muna it says uh what is it even saying Turn the Page New Page figure out what it says it's the idea that when you live with that money you realize every day is a new day Moda Ani Turn the Page Turn the Page our lives are filled with New Beginnings a new opportunity and everything will follow if only we can invest and be present fully in that new so take advantage of the racist and then you'll get you'll be able to enjoy cold prehab look at the Rocha of everything look at the Roshe of everything and everything will follow so one of the things the farmer says in the microwave is we became a great nation what does the word gadol mean Translate great big great large quantity or quality what is the word gado we Jews became a people in Egypt the Zohar emphasizes sham you didn't see that coming of Salvage according only there in Egypt could the Jews become a great people had they not been born in Egypt they would not have been transformed into a gadol the Jewish people became great in crisis sometimes it's hard to achieve greatness when your life is delivered to you in comfort and convenience and simplicity and prosperity you know where we realize our potential do you know how we grow to become who we're meant to be often when overcoming adversity when we have to express tenacity and resilience when we have to dig deep and we have to discover the power and the strength that we didn't even necessarily know that we had so the ramban says the purpose of a Nissan avram was tested no less than 10 times the word Nace means a test it also means a flag in essay we're not up to yet consider Snippets we ask him to gather us from the four corners and wave Nace doesn't mean they are a test it means a flag because where we're tested we can Panther plant a flag that's where a growth spurt occurs that's where we discover who we're meant to be and this through that test the ramban uses the language that's where we go from potential into reality the Jewish people become great in crisis kneses to spend many years in slavery in order to attain Nation not in greatness and had to see and experience evil tyranny ruthlessness for one cannot hate Satan unless one knows him well and has dealt with him to hear stories about Satan is not enough direct experience and involvement are indispensable Joseph are the chief executioner in order to acquaint him with human cruelty had yaakov remained in Canaan his children and future Generations would not have developed extra sensitivity Visa awareness and honesty we would not have hated cruelty and ruthlessness with passion and Zeal had we not been in Egypt have we not felt the pain caused by the whip we would not have understood the Divine Law of not oppressing the stranger or the law of loving one's neighbor had we not spent years in horror we could not have grown and developed into a great nation in pain and despair we have gained greatness and nationhood as the Posse and sure and Sheriff says as a Rose Among the Thorns so is my beloved among the daughters Jews became their a nation because they were distinct we stood at a separate entity in Egypt the gone point out the term is derived from me accountants a form goya's rooted in the idea of individuality the exclusiveness of the face when one stands out in the crowd when a people is different it is appropriate to speak of a goyan individuality be it a single person or a group of people the god that says and there they became great what is the god what is the learn what happened there we were mitsuyanim we were distinguished there like mitsuyan I didn't get a lot when I was a kid a big question you got Mitzi on your test you probably did mitsuyan excellent excellent the Israelites stood out as a distinct group and this distinctness made them a guy a nation in light of the above we can understand the saying because of four things because of this Merit of four things the Jewish people merited to be redeemed from its time we didn't change our names language we didn't most there we didn't inform on anyone and there was no one among them who was licentious it was a medrus but they were distinct individualistic community so the rub understands what does it mean by gadol gadol does not mean great in number we've never been great in number in fact four-fifths of us stayed behind in mitzrayim we did not emerge great number we are not great in number today throughout history the navua the prophecy that we would always remain few has come true we were not great in number quantitatively but we're great qualitatively and I don't need to review with you the disproportionate contributions Jews have made Nobel Prize winner science technology medicine in the world gadol our greatness does not come from our number quantity it comes from quality and what led to what brought about that quality overcoming adversity so while we look back and wish much of it didn't happen and certainly we don't long for or want it to happen again it's in reflecting on the adversity on the mitzrayim the Kura barzel it was in that furnace of mitzrayim what happens when you stick a medal an element into the fiery furnace the glass it's what hardens it so it shapes it it's what molds it so it allows it to take shape and to serve its ultimate purpose and that's where we took shape we serve our ultimate purpose that is the meaning of the goiguddle that the farmer references in the micro bikurim and then of course we invoke at the Seder at the Seder table one of the things the farmer says the next possible what did we do after we suffered down there in Egypt we suffered terribly so what did we do as a result we cried out we called out to God the god of our forefathers we didn't really know him personally we are a tradition that our forefathers had a God and so we cried out to him and we begged him for relief and he heard our cries and he saw our suffering he saw the LA casenu the incredible pressure we were under says thank you to my friend Robin for sharing this with me this public teacher says it's an illusion that a person has to cry out to Hashem every day that he spare us from the corrupting influence the contamining contaminating impact of the yet Sahara that's what it means he put us in that circumstance of testing us of challenging us that we'll need to dig deep and find strength and resilience to overcome he created it but he's also the solution and the answer to it and when we tell him and we cry out to him help unburden us help give us relief help give us the tools to navigate this pressure and this oppression and this temptation is a different interpretation back to the the rough when attack of Hashem the animal is exposed to pain so is the slave when the slave meets with pain he reacts like an animal uttering a sharp shrill sound but the hell of the Beast like the shriek of the slave lasts but a moment in the Darkness and the hush of the night in the Split Second all is silent again the slave is hopeless and helpless and screams because instinctively when a person hurts themselves or experiences pain they scream but the slave feels invisible and inconsequential and nobody cares and they don't matter and no one will intervene and nobody is to the rescue so the slave like the animal has no consciousness that anyone is going to come and rescue them there is no aftermath to the pain sensation of the animal the slave there follows no complaint no requests no protest no question of why and what the slave does not know suffering lacking as he does the very existential need awareness which generates suffering Moshe by defending the helpless Jew restored sensitivity to the dull slaves suddenly they realize that all that pain anguish humiliation and cruelty is evil this realization brought in its wake not only sharp pain but a sense of suffering and with suffering comes protest and cry and that's what it means the dead science of non-existence was gone the voice of human existence was now heard it is in the second stage which The Awakening of the need awareness that svila makes its entry this level of prayer is not yet Fila but a human cry there's not yet a clear understanding of what one is crying for is a primordial prayer The Voice restored the world the word still lacking even before we have a vocabulary even before we can articulate the baby who's hungry or needs a diaper changed the baby and the newborn in the middle of the night just cries out doesn't have the Consciousness the maturity or the cognitive development doesn't have the vocabulary can articulate what it needs but just knows there's pain there's suffering there's struggle and cries and that's what the Jewish people were given only when we came to believe we were worthy or there was a solution or there was one someone hearing our cries when it's Hashem we cried out to to Hashem then this microbikura will end this section the farmer of is the farmer should be happy with all the good the same be happy with all the good that God has given you know foreign in that way so for example what's the goal of cities is just a matter what do you mean you're wearing a four cornered garment you got to put Texas on the corners it's one of the tariagara the Torah itself tells us the energy or the goal so to say of the midst of Titus namely below when you look at those strings they help keep us grounded they're an anchor to avoid following the distraction of our heart in our eyes it's filling what's the purpose of the energy of villain when one wears villain the Torah Hashem should be what fills our mouth and all mitzvahs school so what is the goal purpose the end game of the Mitzvah bikurim how should one feel transformed what do they walk away working on what is the avoda of the Mitzvah of bikurima for the farmer to feel I'm satisfied with what I have I'm satisfied with what's been given me I don't compete I don't compare I don't try to match up I have drive I have ambition But ultimately what I harvest what my Harvest yields this food's first fruit whatever it is I'm grateful foreign if you have many fields you bring the first fruit of each field if you have one field you bring the first fruit of that field so picture it says two farmers are standing next to each other in the basement each have arrived with their first fruit the wealthy landowner as many first fruit or has a enormous first fruit and the simple landowner only has one portion has one measly little small struggling pathetic first food and they both recite the same nikra bikurim and the Torah tells both of them each of you can and should be happy with all the good that Hashem has given you don't be jealous don't be envious don't compete don't comparez not only in the physical material world do we have to be happy with what we have but in the spiritual world too so the other person damages practices more humility exhibits greater patience gives more stalker has greater sit and study Torah don't be jealous don't be envious and don't compare don't compete don't try to measure yourself against them is the principle is the notion does not only apply to gashmirs but applies a drive have ambition want to be as good and as great as you can but don't compare yourself to others in that way in that way and the first number then continues a person gets a gift from the king in addition to the fact that you got a gift from the king not only do you have the gift itself what'd you walk away with check Rolex a meal a gift certificate whatever the gift itself is what else did you get yes that you can tell everyone you got a gift from the King that expression of affection that generosity the graciousness the gift from the king is itself a gift says that the Pharaoh this is be happy with what you have a lot or a level you know why when you realize where does it come from who granted who gave it to you the king of kings it's from Hashem the king handed you something you know where I got this it's from Hashem I it's small it's pathetic it's from the King what are you talking about this is what the king gave me that's why the Apostle says how can you be happy with all the good because that good was given to you from the King it all comes from it all comes from him quotes as well in the back in the next section says in two places invokes this obligation of simcha right now we'll get to it why will we be visited by the cruel and harsh and graphically violent why are we accountable because so you see that there is an obligation there's no Simmons that says you have to be happy and you have to smile but you know what else there's not a synonym that says that you have to breathe but you have to breathe to be alive and you have to be happy to be alive is the source of life and Hashem says if you're not happy and you're not living and you're not grateful for what you have you always have an eye to what you want and what you wish and what you don't have if your happiness is determined by what's missing you'll never be happy because there's always more you could have but if your happiness is determined by what you have you can always be happy because you always have something so the Torah says smile be happy be mindful be present happiness is not an emotion it is a decision make the decision to be happy you didn't make that decision to live a life of Happiness you're held accountable be happy now what is the source of that simcha says you know I should be happy we are gifted and granted the incredible privilege and opportunity to learn Torah we're living in a time I've said this many times recently you'll excuse me if I say it again we are living in the most prosperous convenient and comfortable time in history and we are living in the most unhappy depressed anxious time in history our life is more comfortable more convenient than ever before we're living in the most prosperous ever and people are more unhappy than they've ever been and relationships are dissolving and falling apart marriages and family and parenting and personal happiness personal self-esteem and sense of security Mental Health where's ever we've been given this gift called Torah the rest of the world is trying to figure it out and make sense of this prosperity and technology and AI how you integrated how do you navigate how do you live in this world and we were given the blueprint we were given the manual we're given the instructions it's called Torah open up and learn it every single day the samata you know why you should be happy because everyone else is trying to make sense of it and figure it out here here's the instruction manual here's the blueprint here it is read it go to work that doesn't mean if you learn Torah you don't have challenges people learn Torah also are diagnosed with illness and struggle with loneliness and have infertility and all kinds of other problems but we're given the strength and the faith and the resilience to learn how to navigate ainto Vela Torah so where does our simcha come from and listen to the words if a yet of a Jew would taste and feel the sweetness and the beauty of Torah you'd be going crazy running after you couldn't get enough of it you give up all of the all of the wealth from the world for it because Torah includes it in all the good all the pleasure all the sweetness in the world is in Torah this is is talking about that's the source of our simcha is alluded to what is the Hato of natov hey is how much five the five books if you realize that it is our blueprint it's our instruction manual it is the sweetness of the Torah that we live and learn then you'll find the simcha that we all yearn for and that we all crave okay moving on from nicarbikum and the farmer we got a lot more to cover Turn the Page 1070. next we move over the farmer then comes and the farmer says a very unusual confession spoken about this previous years you can listen to previous years I'll just set up the question you've got to go there to find the answer farmer stands up and he says a very peculiar confession I do not recommend you try it at home when you get home do not tell your spouse I have a confession to make your spouse is going to say excuse me say sit down this is important please give me your attention put your phone down I have a really big confession to make and your spouse is going to turn white the confession oh what do you have to say and what's the confession you have to make I have a confession My Confession is I'm perfect I've done everything right I've done nothing wrong I have to confess I have no choice I have to confess I'm perfect I'm perfect I didn't violate anything I didn't forget anything I took out the garbage I remembered our anniversary I pay attention I know your love language I give give the bath I put the kids to bed I I'm sorry I must confess I'm perfect we call that a lot of things confession is not one of them confession is when you admit something you did wrong confession is not a statement of how perfect you are in everything you did right so why do we call that a confession why do we call that the mission already calls that video my submission it's the confession of Miser it's a very important question because the answer gives a new definition to the word vidoy which is very instructive to what we're going to be doing starting very soon stardom have already begun we're going to join them soon with slichos in all the video we're going to say over this time of year why is that called vide when there's no actual admission as part of that confession that's what the farmer does then we move on the claiso and Hashem are inseparable this relationship that we have this connection that we have and that's where we pick up this day Hashem commands you to perform these decrees and these statutes the shamarta vasis observe and do them perform them with all of your heart and with all of your soul today on this day Hashem commands you and back to the amaros tahoros back to the ameristars what does it means [Music] today this is a very funny Mitzvah because this Mitzvah is telling us what that depend on the land what's the problem we haven't yet entered the land how can we be bound by how could be accountable for Mitzvahs that we don't even have the option of yet performing it's impossible we're not yet in the land how could we be accountable for Mitchells that we can't yet fulfill listen to this chat mean Safeguard and do that how can I Safeguard and do them I'm not yet in the land because you don't understand what the word shamarta means the word shamarta means who said that what's that plastic referring to the avivar yaakov and Yosef Shamar means to yearn for to long for to await to count down says what does it mean what does it mean how do you fulfill Hashem commands you I'm not yet in the land I can't yet do it how could I be commanded the answer is even when you can't yet fulfill a Mitzvah the shamarta do you long do you await do you look forward what's the relationship what's the attitude we have towards Torah and mitzvos Hashem told you today to be an AM segulla what does it means doesn't mean to be a nation of people in red bundles doesn't mean to be a nation of people who follows silly superstitions and absurd schoolas andori the path of the amorites idolatry am segula means to be a treasured people who observe Torah and mitsos Hashem said be and Amish says this is the purpose the essence the goal of creation Hashem Hashem told you today each and every day be my arms be my treasured people let the rest of the world follow Superstition and narish kite and horoscopes but you are to have a relationship with me Torah and mitos are our mandate the rest of the world is trying to figure it out you have the manual the blueprint the instructions be a model so the world how to relate the time and food and pleasure and relationships how to relate to prayer and faith and resilience Hashem told us that day and he tells us it continues to reverberate each and every day that that is our mission that is our purpose to be and I'm sigula which brings us to the toh why do we read the toh we're in the month of Allah we're rapidly approaching Rosh Hashanah says that the first time at the end of the year teaches us even when you can't bring carbonas when we read them when we say them it's as if we offer them so similarly with the toh niggsa because if we really are deserving to suffer one of these let us fulfill receiving it and suffering it by reading it just reading it let us not have to experience it is if by reading it we can fulfill it's as if we experienced it we can get it out of the way let's get it out of the way that appears in our passion so in that we have blessings and curses and then we have the tokaka itself and one of the aurors Turn the Page to page 1074 the list of the arrows the things were cursed cursed is the person the man who makes a Graven or molten image and Abomination to Hashem a person's handiwork and then place it in secret and the entire people hear this and the answer on Main the answer on Main so let's start with points out look at the list of order you have it there on page 1074. see the list there's two unusual things about the use of the word horror here this Arrow versus the other ones anyone see what they are anyone know what they are let's go look emo aramasik vote is how does this one begin why do we invoke is this is the only one that says cursed is the person who does this all the other ones we say cursed this Behavior this is cursed the person who performs the behavior why is this one unusual that says cursed the person you got to pay attention to the text when you read the Torah every vowel every letter every word every truck every Crown is teaching us something so you got to pick up on these subtleties only appears in this or not the rest so before we get to the rub the um I think the last one for today what you think yes depicts connotes significance prominence says cursed is the person who worships an idol how do you worship an idol not only by finding a stone not only by bowing down to the Sun and the Moon Not only buying down to a little little Idol what is included in idolatry auror I'm the man the word ish connotes arrogance when a person has an inflated ego when a person swells with arrogance when a person feels they're the man when a person behaves ish I'm the man or ish that's why this is the only one that invokes ish because what is the yes doesn't just mean literally worships an idol idolatry it means arrogance is a form of idolatry a person who tries to compete with Hashem person who practices or carries themselves with arrogance such an individual is as if they are worshiping an idol but there's a second difference and distinction between this horror and the others the first was the use of the second is the posix says you make an idol and where do you worship it the some and you place it where brother if you worship an idol in public that's okay Torah only curses the person who worships the idol in private if you do it in public that's good you're good to go the other areas the other behaviors for which you receive a curse are also prohibited both in public and private so why is this one alone described as in private so solovichik why the tourist thing about the specific sin is the one that were mentioned that our grieza evolved the Ebenezer writes The Common Thread between these curses is they involve sins that one does in private to underscore this characteristic the Torah repeatedly uses the word in this section thus the Torah stretches the unacceptability of the Geneva's Das of hypocrisy in regard to the law to pretend to behave according to the law in public but to violate it in private you know it's abominable to Hashem you know it's repulsive to Hashem duplicity hypocrisy you Shuckle and you present yourself religious and you practice yourself like you're righteous and you hold yourself out like you're religiously Superior and in private you're corrupt in private you're Hollow in private you're egotistical immoral but in private it's swine and other detestable things they're subjected to the curse him they shall be consumed together the Ramba Memorial is the source prohibiting hypocrisy in additional prohibition extends beyond the sins that are being committed in addition to what you did wrong not only are we accountable for the mistake but if we're doing it in a way that's hypocritical if we're duplicitous if we try to present ourselves to others as if we're righteous but we think that when no one's looking privately that's when we cut Corners that's when we're dishonest intellectually that's where we look at or say or do the wrong thing that's where in business we're unethical when we think no one sees and no one notices that hypocrisy that is an Abomination to Hashem he is especially exceedingly pulsed by such hypocrisy and duplicity and that's why the Torah here in this section of our repeats no over and over but in private one of the list of order is Kirsten is the person who does not uplift the Torah Allah and everybody answers amen what does that mean cursed is the person who does not uplift up uplift the Torah so the gemara the hazam understand is talking about the one who does hagba who lifts the Torah you know people like the speaking Parts everyone wants to get nalia nalia and Aliyah one of the top complaints of Rabbi gets in a shul rabbi do you know how long it's been since I got nalia I only come to shul during ah yeah hide in the back and I face the other direction and I wait for somebody to beg me to get an Aliyah but do you know how long it's been since I got an Aaliyah I think I referenced it recently rivlin used to point out no one ever complains they didn't get nalia on a Tuesday Wednesday or Friday you know why because no one else got an Alia either you're not so upset you didn't get nalia because you get to say every morning with nobody watching you could say Berk has Torah then too why are people upset they didn't get an Aliyah not because I didn't get nalia because Janam got it and they know exactly by the way he also got one on November 12th and October 13th he knows exactly I know exactly when they got every Aaliyah I know the last time I got nalia I can't believe I never gotten Aaliyah I don't get nalia the Aliyah has the speaking part it's got the michibera still in some shoes they do that it's got the yaw mode it's got all the speaking Parts but gazelle said that's not you want to get a keyboard you know what the biggest covet is not in Aaliyah hogba and galilah the Gola can I get coulomb that's actually opposite all the Alias don't combine for the biggest you hold open three columns you turn so the people on the right can see then the people on the left can see and then the people in front of you the people behind nobody knows how to do hog but correctly there's an obscure article you can find it online there was a journal my great uncle Macy Norman Oliver was the editor of the Journal of Jewish music and liturgy not well known to his great Chagrin the the Journal of Jewish music and liturgy I think they have all the copies on why utorrah.org they have all the volumes the Journal of Jewish music and literature he was the founding head of the Bell School of Jewish music at Yu Promenade from a family of hazanam they clearly skipped me and my generation my great uncle but anyway there was an article by Maori varabir of shakter I think the title of the article is something like obscure halachas of kriya Satora and in there he describes the proper way to do hogba which is really this so from no one gets it right first he turns to the people on your eye can see then the people on the left then you all the way around and then you sit down three columns open on the seam that is the Mitzvah so that Lamar they can all call out those are the two sukum that are combined when the hogba is being done according to the misaka sofram and the ramban says that's what this is talking about hogba being done correctly when do you do hogba it's between they lift the Torah they turn around they show the place it's going to be read from then you set it down and now you're ready to begin Korea Satora ashkenaz and we only do it at the end we do it at the the end there's a minute to also do it at the beginning where does that come from and how do you do it lifts it turns around then you put it back on the Beamer and roll it and do it versus sitting down with it all of these different machlocus pointing your finger doesn't have a major source somebody brought to me some sources but the when it records as you bow during the Torah you bow and you look for the you're lame your name whatever your name is you should find that letter in the safer Torah that's brought down by the mission and by and by others so that's the interpretation of those second interpretation it means Asha yakim who is the person of the Torah you each and every one of us how when you're online at Costco and the person Bagels you and they say when is Rosh Hashanah this year isn't it Russia isn't it Russia soon because they want you to know they're Jewish and they're waiting for you to say I gotta introduce you to Rabbi Brody do you have a place yet for the high holidays we have a beginner service would you like to come for a meal and if you just ignore their oythe or they're mentioning they know it's almost Rosh Hashanah and you ignore it you are subject to this curse you had the opportunity to uplift and to promote and to support and to spread Torah and you ignored it and you ignored it and you bowed your head you pretend not to notice you are subject to this curse to this you're going to pay you're going to pay UTSA plus a Torah on this we don't have time because I want to get in one or two more ideas but he asks how is the Torah meant to sit in the our own we know everyone code is universally how did the terrorist sit they don't sit they're upright why can't you stack the Torah why can't you lie the Torah down so he has a whole discussion how do we know how is the Torah meant to be placed how do we know very interesting you could see it inside then we move over if you will hear if you listen if you follow obashem's Torah Hashem will hand you over go yeah and all these blessings will be visited upon you and overtake you okay because you hear and you heal and you pay attention to Hashem you'll notice we have the word both when it comes to the brachas the blessings overtake you and we also have this word when it comes to the clolos they will overtake you but there's a difference is spelled what is the difference when it comes spelled without a verb when it comes to the clawless the curse the is spelled with a love why the difference of drug quotes says rebbe Chau who answers based on the following how is the word Amor and spelled all of ma'am it's Molly it includes the love and more Canon often is spelled without the vov why does it include the vava with their rash she says you know why when you're given the bracha slow savor it take your time you know Friday night you give the children you're starving kiddish you run you fly through no you're giving these bracos Hashem take your time each child the special Brock I think of their needs tell them how proud you were of them the week before Malay and more with above we stretch it out go slowly we add the letter above take your time savor it so what do you see from here that when something is written with the vov it means messiness slow an absence of all the beings quick hurry go that's why when it comes to these why we want the brachas to overtake you quickly speedily when it comes to the Kalos let it take time delay push it off let it take some time until it until it happens gives a another explanation he says the following with the brachis it says are our reward in this world because we know there is no reward in this world ancient there's no commensurate no appropriate reward in this world because mitzvos are Eternal they are Immortal so there's no reward that could properly match them the only reward Hashem can give us is the opportunity to do more mitzvos Mitzvah the reward for a Mitzvah is I have more energy and more time and more focus and more good health and more resources to go do more mitsos to go fulfill my mission war in the world the Mela now we understand because when you will hear then the brothers will come close so when it comes to brachos Hashem gives us why so that we can do mits you know why Hashem is empowering us he's positioning us this is also one of the ways by the way sir what rights do we have and what position are we to demand good health and wealth and skills and talents the answer is if you want all of that for yourself to advance your own personal needs and pleasure then taka who are you to ask for it we're not deserving but if we say Hashem I can't be your agent and your Ambassador I can't fulfill my schlichus my mission for you if I don't have the resources I need if I don't have the health and the energy and the strength I need so that's why when it comes to the brochos Hashem give us the brachos and with the brachas we're in a position then to go run and to fulfill as opposed to the claws which only come as a reaction if we do the wrong thing they come after the they come after the fact the greatest or why do I need the broadcast to overtake me if the brojos I should be happy even without them overtaking me what does it mean the broker should overtake me simple understanding by the way simple understanding he says here is foreign they should just overtake me I shouldn't have to go in the Peloton to be in good shape I shouldn't have to go work hard to have a lot of money they should overtake me even without the effort that's the foreign and a person struggles to feel this is for my best we go through a hard time the door that closes in our life we go through a hard time there's a door that closes and we think Hashem doesn't love me why do I have to suffer why go through this difficulty the girl said no we didn't even go out on a date or it should have fell apart I applied for the job I made it through three layers of interviews ultimately I didn't get it and it feels like this is a claw it's a curse is even when it didn't feel like a bracha let the brachas overtake me let me see everything in my life that I was meant to wait an hour and 40 minutes on the line at Budget Rental Car two days ago that that was somehow a bracha felt like a Whole World of Color I can tell you but everything we go through that was a minor minor inconsequential insignificant Nothing Gonna felt like a claw but whatever we go through in life whatever we go through in life even when it feels difficult or painful let us acquire let us see let us have Clarity let it overtake us how there was a bracha in that in the delay in the canceled flight in the long line in the door that closed in or for a job let it overtake us even the bracha that is inside that is inside that difficult and challenging moment last shot I'll tell you in it is from I think it's from who says you know what means how many brachas do we have in our life that we don't even notice you woke up this morning your feet are working your ears your eyes your faculties move from here and you have a car you're able to eat you're able to digest you're able to eliminate wake up Let it overtake us let us be aware and cognizant let us list and be mindful of the brothers that we have there are so many brachas that we have this Saga The Raven is massive in the rambam let us take note let us register let us offer let us have an insight into the many brachas that we already have we see the Brokers that we want how about stop for a moment and Savor the brahas that we have how about be grateful for what's already there so we didn't get to the Hashem we didn't get a promise we're accountable that we didn't serve Hashem but so much we didn't get to so basically this year will be no different than last year and every year but anyway thank you all for coming thank you for the time next week we're back at our regular schedule time 9 30 on Tuesday Morning Hashem until next time stay happy stay healthy and stay holy have a great day