Parsha Perspectives (Ha'azinu, 5784) - Don't Neglect Amen!

okay good morning Boker Tov and gamartov to everyone hope you're having a good year so far welcome to the First Parish year of the New Year Parsha azino Shabbos shuva we read a Parsha we have a Parsha Shear parshur is generously sponsored our series by Becky and other cats and family a member of David Grossman the initial was dubbed by menacha Manish we remain as always very very grateful to the cat's family for their generosity this morning Shear in particular sponsored by my parents prashaba Murray Goldberg in memory of my aunt Baki Lazar estrom small on the occasion of her Europe site it's particularly gratifying for me this year to dedicate a yeshir in her memory memory of my aunt monkey as a couple months ago I had a granddaughter born whose name is malka Mali named after Maya malki and I hope she'll have her quality she was a wonderful woman she was a strong woman and a courageous woman and a bright woman an accomplished woman an educated woman and she was an educator she inspired others and a lot of educational capacities throughout her life and raised a beautiful family and has sorely missed my aunt Maki and lastly sponsored anonymously and loving memory of Robertson Leona mandelbaum Italia Vega her wit and humor are sorely missed it's her third year at sight and their food thank you to all of our generous sponsors Parsha zazino appears in the article Stone Hamish towards the end as you would imagine page Eleven Hundred One Thousand and One Hundred hazino is a song the end of last week's Parsha at the end of the last Parsha we read I should we read of the obligation the 613 Mitzvah to write a Torah to write the Shira write this song shirazos could be understood in multiple ways so because last week introduces this week's passion some understood it to mean hashira hazos is this song the song of hazino we of course interpret it to mean the whole Torah and the obligation of each individual to write a saferator how do we fulfill that do we fulfill that in our time do we fulfill it by buying's Farm do we fulfill it by buying a letter do we fulfill it by actually authorizing the writing of a safer Torah is the song that Moshe spoke about and we saw last time I don't remember if we got to it or not but by salvation describes why is Torah referred to as a song Because Torah is not dry Torah is not just academic or conceptual told us the song of life we see sing dance to it and we create Symphony and harmony with it and around it and Torah is the song of life for us you're being so sung for us did I lose the internet I'm done foreign okay are we back I don't know if anybody's watching tell us if you can hear us write in the comments so we know about that listen heavens and I will speak with imray figures writes on these words listen oh heavens it's a funny and it's peculiar saying if you have a speech to give if you have something you want to say so say it why do you have to introduce it so fanciful so bombastically Heavens pay attention Earth give heed so son of Matrix says the following why did motion vote Kevin and Earth to witness the Covenant he had made with the Jewish people Rashi cites the mejush which explains that the heaven asked the Jewish people have you ever seen the sun rising in the west and setting in the East have you ever planted wheat and reaped corn right that's what Rashi says Heaven and Earth are serving here as Witnesses I'm a human being I'm flesh and blood and tomorrow tomorrow I'll be gone imyami is we know that you need Witnesses Heaven and Earth are the two witnesses who pay attention and what do they say the measures tells us they have interns to the people and says did you ever see nature uncooperative it's uncooperative on a hurricane forms it's uncooperative when it rains and we don't want it to but uncooperative mean unresponsive or disobedient to the will of Hashem you could look in the calendar open up my zimanum it's one of the most remarkable things about our monthly Sunrise minion at the beach whatever it says on my zmanam you ever open up the calendar and it says sunrises at this time and pumped you looked over the ocean and exactly at that moment that it says Sunrise to the second to the millisecond the top of the bowl of the sun will make its way above the Horizon it's extraordinary it's absolutely extraordinary it's never late it's not early it's not late doesn't have excuses it doesn't procrastinate we say in kirish levano after we sanctify the new moon that nature never abandons its Mission its role its job whatever God says whatever time the sun is supposed to rise no excuses arises whatever time it's supposed to set no excuses that is exactly when it exactly when it sets nature abides strictly by the laws that were implanted in it by following the laws of physics chemistry and biology the world follows hashem's law no one dares violate the Dynamics of the cosmos as represented by the Heaven and Earth his primordial will create it and regulates all of creation both organic and organic matter intelligent beings as well as the Beast nature behaves in accordance with regulated patterns a behavior which attests to his absolute sovereignty nature doesn't have a mind of its own a will of its own a want of its own nature doesn't have free will nature is pre-programmed and whatever the reborn this is a time that we're coronating we're celebrating the coronation we're celebrating sovereignty and his power over the world and it's demonstrated through nature and through Nature's obedience there is no nature outside of God the ramban says so yet as far as the moral laws concerned Hashem sovereignty is not universally accepted man tries to devise his own moral code and decide on his own what is good and evil the vision of the mafia section of Rosh Hashanah expresses our belief that man will ultimately accept his moral law in the same way we now acknowledge the natural law the whole institution of malheas are wish and our hope right they've only gone and others explaining Michelle is a dictator and we say by Hashem we long for the time when the world will universally accept nashem not as emotion not as a dictator but as a melach below um a king is elected a king is inaugurated a king is celebrated a king is desired and accepted emotional a dictator dictates a dictator simply demands so he's in charge he's in control whether we recognize whether we accept it or not but we dive in and we hope and we long for the day that he'll not just be emotional addicted that he and his name will be one he and his name will be one so right now we understand that you can't you can't negotiate with gravity gravity is a force of Nature and you can't fight it gravity is fixed you can't debate it and you can't make the sun rise later or said earlier you can't control time these are all parts of nature chemistry biology physics we can't control it more morality we think is subjective morality we think changes there's different cultures there's different mores some people think biology is also subjective and you can change it and you can redefine it and it's negotiable and it's what you want and how you feel but until now throughout history we understood that science including biology is objective it's factual it's absolute it's non-negotiable while morality we think is relative reality we think is relative maybe the biggest demonstration of that was in the early 20th century when in Germany they elected the Nazi party and Hitler came to power and through democracy and through a vote a genocide was passed it was a relative morality they thought morality is relative and and murder and genocide they thought it's hard for us to even understand how anyone could have subscribed to are sometimes legitimate and they're warranted because when morality is relative when morality is subjective when morality is negotiable and debatable then you can result in a in a genocide in a Nazi Germany in a holocaust that's an extreme but that's what happens we recognize now and we dive in along for the time that the world will recognize that just as nature is non-negotiable just as nature is absolute just as nature is objective so too morality is no different than nature it's absolute and it's binding is the authority of it and what he tells us is what is upon us what is incumbent upon us so all this is implicit in the rev's interpretation here of hazino why is he invoking the heavens on the earth let Heaven and Earth representatives of nature Testify the Justice nature is immutable it's non-negotiable it's binding just as nature is absolute and it's not controlled by us so so too morality so to the Covenant of the Jewish people with Hashem so too our role and Mission in this world is something which is binding and which is and which is absolute the amaros tahoros we've been quoting passed away very recently he says the following he quotes the more and I am we're not usually accustomed to this but do you know how are the partios divided how do we decide what to read and where to put the break where's the break between parshyas where's the break between Richard and Cheney and shlishi and Ravi where did that come from how do we have that it's a fascinating discussion in fact in Aries Israel there was a triennial reading of the Torah and the division of 53 partios is found in very early sources how do you divide it weekly how would you divide it to finish it every every three years and the debate of the frequency how the Alias are divided is it equal why are some Alias short others are very long who made that decision when was that decision made it's a fascinating study for another time but when it comes to our Parsha it's particularly relevant because the maharashtrana tells us that there's an acronym for the division of Parsha sazino the sources of misaka so from Roshana quotes it in the rambam the Raman quotes it in two places it's codified by the tour and later by the they quoted and they say the following they used to read Persia in the base every Shabbos every shabbas we read it once a year but its theme is so significant and important they would read in the basement and they would there's the debate the tour quotes as if they read the whole house others suggest that they would divide hazino into six and then of a six-week cycle of reading one-sixth of it each week until you completed it every six weeks and what's the acronym are the letters that begin which delineate where to break up the six parts of and the Rama writes vadafka Shabbos we have a tradition where maybe it's debatable we're to break up the other partios hazino hazina we have a tradition of where to where to break it up and you can't deviate from this tradition the tradition is when can you not deviate and shamvis Monday and Thursday everyone's in such a rush you could take that first Ali and divide it in three it's the rest of the times that you read after you know that you have divided based on salvatric disagreed often quotes the practicer of Salvation that's the minigun arsule instituted before my time following this customer of salivation that even during the week even Monday and Thursday we divide hazino by hasivlach not taking the first Aliyah and dividing it into into three there's actually a disagreement the acronym because there's multiple of begin with those letters so which one which one it is and these were the Shira that the levim sang on Shabbos and then we say it at the end of and we what was the Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday and so on so in the morning at the Allah they would say Miss marcelia mashabas and musaf they would say either the whole hazinu or one-sixth of hazinu and they would say either or the Shira of the air from parshas and as I said there's a debate that they say all of azino or one sixth of azino but theom of Shabbos that musaf was from pashasino the rambam how did they choose how to break up the alias everyone who reads from the Torah starts and ends with something positive each Aliyah was broken up so that you begin and you end it's like constructive criticism you know they teach parenting or employees when you're giving the review it's a sandwich you start with something you're amazing you're great this is a good about you do that well however I have to share with you and by the way overall things are great you do well everything is wonderful you're supposed to make a nice constructive criticism sandwich you start with something positive you end with something positive and you slip in that feedback somewhere in the middle that is the uh that is the ancient wisdom on it so the rambam says that's the tradition when it comes to Korea Torah too that every Alia starts with something positive and ends with something positive but here it's different about yourself and so on and he divides it all up and one does the rambam why do we uh break it up in this way and he says it's organized in this way in order to arouse in order to elicit a return to chuva The Ramones juxtaposed in the division here and that it's different than all other readings than all other readings and that's understands it as well the acronym what is the acronym means Glory splendor is yours to you so ziv is used throughout safer Daniel a special glory of the human face and that's this return restore your glory restern and return your Purity go back to who you were meant to be the word chuva that we translate as repentance I don't know what repentance means we've adopted words and translations from other peoples and religions we need to translate those words we don't know what they mean the word chuva doesn't mean repentance I don't know repentance is it means return come back come back to who you were meant to be come back to the pure pintolete come back come back to we spoke about in Rosh Hashanah Rosh Hashanah is not a day of judgment Rosh Hashanah is a day of remembering we remember Hashem and Hashem wants us to remember our potential our capacity who we could be that our best moments are our most real moments that's who we are and that's who we are and that's who we are meant to be and that's what we are meant to be so back to the morning I am the morning says this foreign we're in the process of working on ourselves we're doing a hard reset a hard reboot our system as a virus sometimes with the virus you could just close the program and open the program sometimes you have to turn off your phone or your laptop and start it again and sometimes you call Apple and they said you're gonna have to do a hard reset ah but did you back everything up you're gonna lose everything it's a risk you have to take but if you want it to work again you got to do a hard reset so this is the time of year we're doing that hard reset chuva chuva is reset size [Music] this song is a trip and a journey through Jewish history we're remembering we're recounting where we've been and how we got there and what went well and what we need to work on this is the formula this is the recipe this is the manual for chuva and it begins with Coalition now you might say maybe it's too late I'm so contaminated I'm so corrupted I'm so soiled that I'm so addicted it's too late there's no resetting there's no reboot the virus has penetrated so deeply it's destroyed sometimes you bring in that laptop you bring in that phone you bring in that iPad and they say even the hard reset is not going to put your Humpty Dumpty back together again it's gone so sorry you're gonna have to buy a new one so convenient for us so sorry for you but you're gonna have to buy a new one so a person might feel what if I'm like that laptop that phone that iPad I'm just it's so abused so old so used has such a bad virus you can't even do a hard reboot a hard reset it's over person should never think that way why because every person is at Salon location every one of us is the Divine countenance every one of us shines in Purity every one of us has a piece of God inside us if you made mistakes if you missed opportunities so if you have a virus of course you've got to get software to get rid of the virus you've got to restart you got to reboot what we're trying to do hazinu shabashuva between Roshan and Kippur what are we trying to do put the glory back on your face put the Purity put the belief in the confidence know that Hashem doesn't just believe in you Hashem doesn't just love you Hashem needs you we are needed by him we're needed we need to know that we're needed we're not here randomly we're not here by chance we're not here for no reason if we woke up this morning we are needed put that Purity put that light shine in other people's life restore and reboot and reset get back to where you were going and where we're meant to be it's never too late to become who are meant to be and that's it says when you ask for spirituality you could be sort of non-nuanced it could be demanding it could be more aggressive Hashem help me work on my midos help me diving with sincerity help me learn Torah and be transformed then you could be a little bit more aggressive when you ask for goshness help me earn a living help me have my health help me have a nice house and a nice car then you need different you have to beg and you have to plead and that's Heaven represents Heavenly things when you're asking for when you're diving for when you're demanding Heavenly things Heavenly aspiration then Lusha dibor is you can speak strongly you can speak aggressively fee when you're asking for Arceus when you're asking for gashmias for physical things then you need Amira imrefi Amira's raka Amira soft gentle pleading begging a beautiful when it comes to my spiritual aspirations adabera speak strongly confidently aggressively demandingly to Hashem but when it comes to hararez when it comes to the things down here the physical things imrafi imray gently and plead and beg and ask kindly because you're not necessarily really really worthy of it and that's the shadow says Israel so if you start by asking for Spiritual things it expresses itself here in the physical world I've said this many times recently we're asking Rosh Hashanah We Begin Associates are going to start closing it's almost Yom Kipper the gates are going to close what's the strongest most persuasive most compelling argument we can make to Hashem give me and the people I love good health give us good livelihood resources give us the things that we need Serenity peace of mind give us talents and blessings and skills what's the most compelling persuasive argument we could make is Hashem don't do it for me do it because if I'm your loyal Soldier if I'm going to live in service to you then you got to give me an expense account you got to give me the tools the strength the energy the talents to fulfill the mission you can't send me out to do something but not give me the expense account you can't send me out but not give me the energy or the resources to do it and then here on Earth says then I will be able to pursue that mission then I'll be able to make it happen he quotes here also I posted this in the WhatsApp group for our incredible new Cola Booker but he also says the revart he says this is a a beautiful thing to learn always learn before you Daven learn before you Daven based on this a custom ERS there's all kinds of barriers and blockages we're offering these filos but it's buffering it's not getting upstairs how do you clear out the highway to make sure that artillos can Ascend as as quickly as possible learning Torah learning Torah is what clears out the highway and that's yeah and then first clear out the highway and then you must see that philos can Ascend on high so spirituality we have to be devoted to the spiritual to the shamayim before we're focused on the before we're focused on the on the Arts haziv is the joining of the month of Elo to the month of Yetis there's a lot of uh ideas about ziv also its significance in terms of uh in terms of the months of the year how you categorize the months of the year there's a beautiful insight that uh I think it's of cook has also about of This Acronym the six parts the six sukim are a framework and a recipe for chuva listen zahoa remember the archive right up to the high places of Earth and then vayar then God saw then God will see you if only they would be wise and no kiesa lift my hand to the heaven if you look at the hazino again in this open of hazino the reason we read is because it is the formula for sure foreign ascribe greatness to our god when I call out the name of Hashem ascribe greatness to our god the te pharisu ziel and appears in the Vermont as well as according when he gets up to at the end of the amida we offer our own modem we offer our own modem why do we offer our modem one of my favorite barbanelles barbano says why because what is modim gratitude you can't Outsource gratitude you can't tell someone say thank you for me if you're sincere in your gratitude you have to offer yourself so even though it comes to the rest of the repetition of the amida we rely on the board to represent us modim you can Outsource gratitude if you are genuine in your feeling of gratitude you don't send someone else to express it you have to express it yourself so the end of the modern ends with a clumsy expression We Begin we are grateful to you and how do we enrollment for the fact that we're grateful to you we're grateful to you for the fact that we're grateful to you it's not clumsy at all it's actually very beautiful it means among the things that we're grateful for is that we're grateful how many people are living their lives and all they see is what's missing they're filled with such bitterness and resentment and anger and frustration and they're unable to see the blessings in their lives they're incapable of feeling gratitude for what they have Hashem we're so grateful for the fact that we're in a place that we can feel gratitude we're grateful for being grateful Islam foreign how was that wasn't bad that's what he says that's what's going on over here that which we can call out hashem's name I'm so grateful I'm grateful that I'm grateful I'm grateful that I have a relationship with you I'm grateful that I see you I'm grateful that I lean on you I'm grateful that I rely on you I'm grateful that I have the confidence to know that everything's from you I'm grateful that I'm grateful and that's the shot in the Posse When I Call out hashem's name is when I call out to you when I call your name ascribe greatness to God in other words one of the greatnesses I scribe is that I call out to you so grateful that I don't live life thinking I'm in charge I'm in control I'm not competing with you but I'm so grateful God similar to modem Fairgrounds we describe Hashem is the rock the original Prudential Hashem is the rockaby te The Rock perfect in his work all of his paths are Justice a god of faith without iniquity righteous and Pharisee he has a moon what does the word mean calamuna who does he have faith in we have faith in God he's a god of Faith so simple understanding kalamuna is that God's faith means he's Dependable he's reliable faithful means you're faithful that your word is your bond you do what you say you're going to do you're reliable you're Dependable God is a faithful reliable God you can lean on him you can rely on him he shows up he has your back he's but I would humbly suggest that maybe it can also mean or alternatively we've said this many times go all the way back 500 sitter Snippets to modani how do we end mode Ani what are the last two words of modani unlike the way we were taught to sing it as kids you restored my soul to me with loving kindness graciously comma last two words rabba your faith is great that's how we start our day God your faith is great we have faith in him in whom does he have faith what's the answer in US you woke up this morning he has faith in you he's renewed your contract he has faith in us as important as it is to wake up every morning saying thank you to Hashem as important as it is to wake up every day expressing our faith in him is as important as affirming that we know he has faith in us that he believes in us that he wants us that he needs us that's why we're here by the way this is all throughout our davening all throughout our davening right now what do we say is you value life you cherish life you believe in life so I'm calling you out if that's what you believe then give me more lives and how can you do that how can you ensure that because so write me in the Book of Life and then we end very peculiarly and therefore what's our last argument and by the way if I'm unworthy and you're not ready to do it for me do it for you avina Market we're saying every day now multiple times a day and what do we say I say I say lemon over and over again God if you're not ready to answer me for me do it for you do it for you god is perfect omnipotent infinite he doesn't need anything right right however he chooses for us to understand him as needing us it's true he's infinite he's perfect he has no needs but he expresses himself he manifests himself to us in a way that he needs because he wants us to feel and to know that we are needed that we are needed to not be so concerned only with our needs to be concerned with being needed Le Manja we're doing it for you Hashem how can I walk around make a killer Hashem how can I repair and redeem this world which needs repair and Redemption as much as ever how can I do that if you don't extend my life if you don't give me resources if people around me God forbid are sick or struggling and I have to focus on them I can't do the work for you so Hashem even if I'm unworthy I say that's what we're saying over and over again it's all for you I'm here for you that's why that's why we're doing it that's what it's really all that's what it's really all about so you're a God of faith I have faith in you and in whom do you have faith you have faith in me and how do I know you have faith in me because I woke up today I'm here I'm alive I'm breathing my heart is beating so that means there's work to be done it's work yet to be done Hashem is not done with us yet there's work yet to be done figuring it out is the harder part but maybe that's the shot means you're a God of Faith you're a God of faith not only reliable dependable but God of faith that you continue to have faith in me the Mega Joseph of Joseph focuses on the words The Rock perfect in his work created everything in the world except for one thing you know what he did not create deceit lies falsehoods um bothered it sounds like he created everything in the world including stubbornness jealousy arrogance he created everything including some bad midos the only thing that Hashem says I didn't create is man-made is Shakir to see lies false so you're saying Hashem did create those other bad Midas what does that mean God is a rock the rock of Truth is his signature signs on alone membership his signature is truth that's how he signs his name that's who he is he's a sewer he's a rock he's truth unbendable unshakable and flexible doesn't negotiate with the truth Shakir that's man-made but what the other bad medals and qualities do come from God how do you understand that one does the Mega Joseph and the answer is the following listen to what he says qualities are external garments that we wear them when it comes to those other behaviors they're not the essence of who we are they're how we express ourselves in the world sometimes we express ourselves with anger or rage or jealousy or Envy or arrogance or impatient impatience or stubbornness they're not they don't speak to our essence there's simply the the lavush they're the Wardrobe the Garment of how we're expressing ourselves in this world but Ms being truthful and honest and having Integrity that speaks to the atsum that is the core identity of Who We Are where do you see this says the mega Joseph when it comes to the other midos we say we say it in the positive we say in the negative about gaiva it's about gaiva an arrogant person is a bow a master of or married to gaiva to arrogance so you could be married you could be married to arrogance but you don't call somebody a Baal Ms what do you call them ES in Adam yashar why because when it comes to the qualities of Ms and yashras when it comes to truth and integrity and being upright and straight that's not a lavish it's not a garment or a wardrobe you wear it's not simply how we manifest or expressed in this world it is to the essence of who we are so when it's a wardrobe a garment you're wearing then you're a bow right now you're married they say this word about about a bar Investments for boy and girl why they call the bar mitzvah and Abbas Mitzvah bar means but or bus however you want to pronounce it don't judge anyone for the way they pronounce it it doesn't mean anything about them by our six daughters Mitzvah on the invitation we said you know we're just going to put it in the Hebrew Bay is tough you read it however you want to pronounce it don't assume things about us just because of the way that we printed it finally figured that out by the sixth one so why why is the bar mitzvah boy and the equivalent in a girl why are they called the child of a mitzvah why so famously they say because when it comes to stucco when it comes when you're doing it you're married to it so you're known by the hasid you do because you perform you're philanthropic you give stucco you're known by the stalker that you give you're married to it you know just like you could be married you could also get divorced and if you stop doing it you're no longer married you no longer earned the title you're no longer a Bach has that are about stalker you got divorced from that behavior that you once did but when it comes to Torah when it comes to mitzvos you can't ever get divorced a child I know this you can emancipate but the Torah doesn't view that you could ever emancipate a child is a child is a child for life so therefore we're trying to communicate to this child you're not a battle Mitzvah you're not a baltorah it's not just for this bar mitzvah we made you a logo and an Insignia and a party and Fanfare and we're throwing candies at your head you're married to the Torah for the weekend and then you'll go back to your life you're a you're a bar mess for your son and it's part of who you are forever so simile says the mega Joseph you're a baltiva because hopefully you'll get divorced from taiva you're a balavera hopefully you'll get a divorce from the others that you're doing you're a balcas and hopefully you'll stay married happily married forever that about stuck you'll be happily married forever to stucca but all those are external manifestations descriptions garmin's wardrobe but your essence your integrity your honesty we call you an ish Ms and Adam yashar because that speaks to the that speaks to the core the essence of who you are if you take the aleph away from Ms what do you have left mace aleph if you take away the singularity if you take away the aloof the Hashem the the godliness the Integrity if you take the olive you know what you have left you're dead without honesty and integrity you're dead you're dead if your word doesn't mean you're Bond if it doesn't mean anything there's somebody else so all the other Midas are not predetermined they can be harnessed for good or for bad we Channel them we direct them that's why they're called midos that's why they're in a measure but Ms Ms is essential Ms is core Ms is fundamental yaakov is an ishtam Titan Ms liyakov because that's part of fundamental who we are and where do we get all this from we get it all from the reborn himself the burnished he is The Rock and The Rock The Rock the major says means he is a rock of Truth and just like the rock doesn't break is impenetrable Hashem is a rock of Truth what else how else can we understand the word hatsuer there are in the first 52 partios the word sur appears how many times three here in Precious as you know five at sewer over and over and over again a rock we don't find Hashem being referred to we always find a rock yaakov slept on a rock yaakov made a misbeck out of rocks he made a covenant with the rock Hashem is not described as a rock a rock is not a metaphor for Hashem until now what does that mean that Hashem is a metaphor for a rock and why now has a beautiful interpretation says the following so the first interpretation of of Iraq is like Prudential Prudential get it what why is the bank called The Rock it's reliable it will always be around it's strong it's dependables the Bedrock the Bedrock is the foundation of the earth so it says I'm about to remind you about this Covenant this relationship that we have our obligation our duty and responsibility our mission to be of service to him why who is he what do you owe him the answer is he's the yasod Olam he's the he's the sewer he is The Rock he is the Bedrock of this world and of life that's who he is a rock he's the Bedrock he's the foundation of this whole world Hashem the same time he's tamimpa Allah so you'd think he'd swore with arrogance the wrestler The Rock Act of the rock why the rock is so builty so Buffy so huge he's so arrogant he's so egotistically so Hashem he's the real Rock he's the real Rock but Allah he's tamim but he's humble he's Taman at the same time says so all of that is interpretation number one means like Prudential means the rock reliable dependable the Bedrock of this Earth and that's why Moshe invokes him to start this speech number two continues and he says a second interpretation then he says he quotes uh oh sorry sorry uh a tourism is oh sorry the second interpretation when you hear the name Moshe and you hear the word Rock what comes to mind Moshe hit the rock he hit the rock so Moshe lived for and dreamed of what going into artistro yes 515 times and was rejected he was answered but the answer was no he wouldn't go in and despite that what does Hashem call him what is a rock because Moshe is demonstrating and modeling for the people that even when Hashem sometimes says no he's still your rock Moshe is invoking I failed with The Rock but Hashem is the rock it's a play on words I came up short with The Rock when I hit the rock instead of speaking to it because of that Hashem said no even when Hashem sometimes says no he's still our Rock he's still wow what a Musser and he's demonstrating he's modeling that muscle he got to know for his dream for what he desperately wanted and he was still able to surrender to Hashem as The Rock even after he got to know a third interpretation the third interpretation is that the word sewer sounds like Soros what is what is the uh the root of the word says is created us he created the world he created the world ain't Sur kelocaino and the gamara learns Ain sayarcano don't read it in circle God is a Creator God is the artist Surah Allah created man so says that same root means both to create and means Rock why because in describing the uh the Torah in describing our relationship with Hashem we remember with this reflection Hashem created this whole world and he is the sustainer he is the rock of this whole world and it's no more um demanding to ask us to surrender to him as our Rock than to realize that he is the creator he's the great artist he's the great creator of this world and he is the rock that continues to hold up this world paraglama base Turn the Page many of these were skipping we've spoken about in previous years with beautiful beautiful insights not my own we quoted from others that are worth reviewing and listening to paraglama days he discovered him in a desert land in Desolation in a howling Wilderness he encircled them he granted him discernment he preserved them like the pupil of his eye Hashem is talking about the Jewish people we discovered Hashem where in the desert wandering in the desert after we came out of mitraim in Desolation in a howling Wilderness and then Hashem encircled us with what sukkah protected us from the elements granted us discernment preserved us like the pupil of the of the eye and here again the imro the amoros tahoras the amaras Taurus the Rach mishrafka has beautiful interpretations number one the uh but we have to know that sometimes we feel like we're spiritually dehydrated we're spiritually in a desert and we're spiritually dehydrated we can't find Hashem anywhere we're empty we're in a place of snakes and scorpions dangers and threats that Loom that's around us we feel unworthy we feel worthless we feel distanced we feel far from Hashem we're spiritually dehydrated we need to know yamsa mid bar we can even find Hashem in that circumstance and from that place even in a desert solovich has a very similar language as well in describing he says man search for God expresses himself intellectual activity when the Seeker reaches the boundary of reality they become alarmed and Retreat when they confront eternity with its terrifying spaces they both attract and repel here Hashem reveals himself above nature from Beyond the world down by time person has to know that even when they reach the boundary and they feel like they're far away and they're gone who can be found that's what he says here also foreign [Music] if you feel like you're in a mid bar you feel you know my family we're in a bad place right now we're far we're uninspired we're in a deep descent we're spiritually depressed we're spiritually hydrated we're in a bad place you know what the antidote is you know what the answer is if you're in a mid bar become a midday bear learn Torah speak if you talk about Hashem you'll believe in Hashem talk about him thank him protest object him talk about him tries to hold us back yes surrounds us protects us because Barack who has our back and ensures that we're going to be okay paraglamic based prosecuted Olive Kennesaw yeah you're continuing with this beautiful song is magnificent poetry of hazinu kinesh is he was like an eagle arousing its nest hovering over its young spreading its wings and taking them carrying them on opinions so I got a new say for just this week just came out my friends are by Aaron Gold Charter Torah United he has a Hagar United if you've ever learned to sagada his Agata has every paragraph in the hagada award from the Rover of cook and Karbach now he has Torah United every Parsha he has Torah from the Hasidic Masters yes from from all I want to thank everybody Simon Posner who is one of the editors who was kind enough to give me a copy of this beautiful newspaper so he has here on the section under on and under hashem's wing so he has again it's two volumes two volumes this is the end of obviously safer divorce he says the following if you read it carefully you'll find messages that resonate for Our Generation embedded eons ago in the multi-valent fabric of the poem focus on a single evocative and Vivid line to see what has been read by some of our greatest exegetes he was like an ego rousing its nest hovering over its young spreading its wing carrying them on its opinion Russia lays out the foundation what does Rashi say on this what does Rashi saying ear it's compassion Raza whenever we talk about Hashem and ego what's different of the eagle than other birds the ego carries on its wings the ego flies the highest so the eagle absorbs the arrows in order to protect the young so Russia here again says when the ego comes to move them from place to place it doesn't clutch them with the talons like other birds do with the legs underneath the ego lets us ride on its wings so therefore we're protected it absorbs the arrows according to rash the image of the ego protecting its young represents hashem's protection and loving relationship with his people says Hashem was taking a bullet for his people at the sea in more ways than one in the Heavenly Court a dangerous confrontation was occurring a Prosecuting Angel confronted the Ramones claimed no difference between the Jewish people and the Egyptians both these and those are Idol worshipers what's the difference we were in the Memphis we were in the lowest level we were idolaters so we were no different Ayla we were the same said the prosecuting angel so Hashem himself stepped in to protect his charge from The Burbs of the accuser perhaps the Jewish people were guilty and did not deserve to be saved but Hashem loves his children all the same the image of the Glorious Eagle taking an arrow for its young symbolizes Hashem as our Eternal Guardian even when we are Unworthy of his care and devotion so now you understand we read this Jamba shuva we read this between Russian and Kipper even in the based in shamales you may din even as we're approaching Yom Kippur and the prosecuting Angel is trying to make the case for our demise he protects us like the eagle many of the practices recite a prayer before wrapping the talents which incorporates this exact pasok from this Parsha though the midst of Jesus may my soul Spirit breath and prayer be safe from the outside forces May the talus spread its kind of its Corners over them and save them as the ego arouses at Nest hovering over its young in that feeling that you say when you put on your Talus is this from our Parsha the word for the corners of the talus is the same word for wings or pinions making the connection to the imagery of our pasak as we wrap our body in the talus we imagine ourselves being screened by the wings of the shrina the divine presence which protects us from the spiritual forces of evil so when a man puts on his towels in the morning he does atifa and he wraps it and he throws it over his shoulder don't in one motion wrap it unwrap you're supposed to stay that way hold that position with raptor natalus the amount of time it takes to walk six feet it's a very short amount of time but basically take a breath take a pause take a moment and say this say Hashem I feel you spreading your wings over me right now I feel you're giving me a hug right now I feel like you're protecting me in a cocoon right now whatever forces whatever I'm gonna face whatever is going to be in my day whatever I have to confront whatever I have to overcome we put on that Talus we're wrapping ourselves in a hug of Hashem kennethav the wings of this Eagle just like protects its young is protecting us images are on the eye of the behold they're Oblivion interpreted the avian metaphor a different way Hashem is still represented by the mother ego but we should not Overlook the fact that Jews are young Eagles themselves what is special about the eagle according to Jewish lore it's soaring capabilities aside holds the key plus I can tell him says your youth is renewed kanesher like the eagle rash there explained that the ego molts completely every year its name being derived from the annual shedding why is it called the national an ego because the show means to shed the ego sheds its feathers and regrows them every year I have no idea if that's still true if it's true but that's our tradition so it must be true the Eagles shed something and regrows it every year Hashem is instilled in the Jewish similar quality one can always start over no matter how bad it gets the Jewish people we possess the spiritual resolve to recommit and rededicate even after repeated failures the same way the mother ego gently awakens or young so God arouses Us in this Divine gift to press on in the wake of spiritual defeat so just like the eagle can shed and re replenish we too can shed and then replenish and soar once again it's a beautiful beautiful image of the judicious lady adopted yet another interpretation so we had Rashi and then we had we had Rashi the position slavery here's a fourth of adopted yet another between yaakov and the eagle the mystical literature the passion to serve Hashem within every Jew ultimately stems from our forefather yaakov who passed it down to us even today with the passing of Millennia we continue to be the beneficiaries of spiritual gifts that he bequeathed to us we are binay Israel the children of Israel our ancestor is present in our life over hovering over us in our spiritual strivings as rash in order the image of the protective Eagle already appeared in Precious ISRO is this line in hazina recall in the seminal event yet while we were in the trying before the 10th and final plague says Hashem says I'll carry you on the wings of eagles and I'll bring you close to me so is there a connection between hazino the eagle and hashem's promise that's why we were yet in the Triumph I'll carry you out on the wings of an eagle so it's the amanatory teacher argued that the two Eagle metaphors are not identical illness where the people are born Aloft on the Eagle's Wings as Hashem shelters his vulnerable Nation the Wilderness in azino Young Eagles are raised up by beating wings as Hashem teaches his children to fly she quotes the philosopher Martin buber the Great Eagle spreads it swings over the nestlings he takes up one of them a shy or weary one and bears it upon his minions until it can dare the flight itself and follow in his mountainous gyrations the first metaphor describes the relationship between Hashem and the people in its infancy second serves to capture the maturing relationship as the people are about to enter the land Hashem is Prodigy is Young inhibited child to take flight for himself so it's the same image but really expressing very different from needing to be rescued and taken care of to giving us wings to fly ladies now we're talking when you send your child to the year in Israel when you send your child off out of the nest hopefully you've given them wings that they can fly so in Israel Hashem says you'll ride on my wings I'll take care of you now in Hawaii was saying I've given you wings now you can fly so the one image of the eagle so many beautiful interpretations from Rashi to the gareba to related that's very very beautiful insights wonderful safer Tori United thank you again for the gift and the Beautiful Torah that is in a paraglama base yeah got a lot more some things don't change New Year same lousy Parsha teacher puzzle get tested where's the best thing I'm looking for not that one he will say I'll hide my face from them and see what their ends will be they are a generation that is upside down someone wrote a safer already 10 years ago about transgender and halacha was called reference to this public and Russia daughter it's upside down generation children whose upbringing is not in them what does that mean so if salvation has a comment on it so which says the following there are no there is no faithfulness in them a moon right we said we in contrast getting rebuked now from Moshe Lo a moon bum while God is there's no faithfulness in them one of the allergies recited there is an enigmatic phrase they did not desire to respond to amen Jewish people's failure to answer amen is one of the reasons of the qurban why would this be an accusation that would warrant the destruction okay you're supposed to answer I mean is omitting our Mains so bad it's a capital crime somebody asked me to repeat Now by Aaron goldscheider Torah United remember Aaron Gold Charlotte Terry Unitus I don't get any royalties I don't get a piece of the action it's well worth it I got a free Saturday safer but it's it's well worth it for your total learning it's beautiful so wonders the rav in that keynote we say we were punished the Quran came because we didn't answer on Main the idea that Jewish people refuse to answer our main finds expression in the medus medrus says do not read the Posse it should be read low on Main bum there was no Amen in them they didn't wish to respond to Maine to the prophets when the prophets were blessing them we didn't answer our main the Kina indicates they deliberately refused to answer or may not they simply failed it's not that we were so busy reading Rabbi sax as partial sheep you didn't hear hazardous and didn't answer I mean it means that they intentionally protested by not answering on Main this act of refusal demonstrates that they refuse to accept the basic principles of our faith and to surrender to Hashem recitation of a main constitutes a declaration that words are true they lack the quality of in effect by refusing to answer our main they were guilty of the transgression of Zara if you don't say Amen you don't say ditto a main emuna I agree I have faith I believe then it's an expression of heresy a idolatry in general people should recognize concludes there of the importance of on Main during the repetition of the amida recites down to Ramen there's an element of implication that one is not fully in agreement with the words of the board in fact according to the rambam the brachas are not ascribed to the seabor during unless they answer a meme you need to have nine people answering a main Lo a moon Moshe is giving Musser that you're in shul or you know I I try to impress this upon my children and I try to be good with it myself I'm not always great someone's having a cup of water you're sitting down eating dinner you're having lunch don't Mumble it don't swallow the bracha Fester then you're going to swallow the food loud give people a chance to answer a main Gibson one of the sweetest videos you'll ever see in your life I'll try to remember to post it on the partial WhatsApp group if you're not part of it be part of the partial WhatsApp group that's how you know when we're on when we're off get bonus material you get the partial right up and you'll get this video Bully nether you can find that at Rabbi goldberg.org WhatsApp you ever see the video of rickheim kanesky and Robinson kanyevsky every morning they would start out each reciting for the other to answer on Main it's like the sweetest video you ever saw in your life the great reprime and his rabbits and standing by ashtender and she is and he's answering our main to them it's the sweetest thing between a couple it's beautiful low a moon bum low a main bum we have to be more careful with our main our main is ditto amane emuna Hashem we have to be people of emuna we have to be faithful and worthy and we have to be reliable and dependable and we have to explain Express and affirm our belief and our trust wishing everyone a gamer has should be a good fiddle we'll pick it up again after sukis Mirza Shema tomorrow we have 10 minutes of meeting Mrs but for partial class we'll pick it up until next time stay happy stay healthy and stay holy [Music]