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like to welcome the viewers of Yuban and
Torani time from the Rabbi Kia Shiva. We
are um presenting another share from the
Kavana Mitzvos Foundation where we're
trying to take um activities that look
like they're mundane and show the divine
power in them and also to make mitzvah
we do all the time more meaningful. So
on that note is we're going to work on
Elenu Lisha. We're going to have a
series on this which uh Ravosha said
that you know lane is something that
unfortunately you're like this with your
toillin if you're in sh or some people
are even in the car when Elena is being
said it it certainly deserves much more
respect than that and we're going to
explain why and in fact um Ronnie
pointed out the the zal is quoted as
saying that
Elena has phenomen phenomenal spiritual
effects and the mayar say let's say you
had a not the greatest shimmona esray
you could if you can repair it if you
say elena with kavana I'll tell you
another one there was a rav who uh
vicefish
who actually uh his grandfather
great-grandfather
was uh was one of the builders of mayor
and he told me about his grandfather a
great-grandfather He would go to the
culotto Maravi. This is in uh
40 something like this.
And he would recite a lenu
in tears for an hour
every day.
You hear what the how powerful Elena is?
Yeah. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. And
that's was that 60 years ago
>> on Sunday night when Ed Sullivan was on.
>> Okay. So let's to realize the purpose of
Elenu we have to go to the keshma. Okay.
So also if you're following on if you
could grab a krishma but I'll try to
make this clear. Okay. The line the
famous line shama. Okay. Most sitters
will have this the word shama. Okay, for
everybody Israel, Hashem is our God.
Hashem, Elohu, Hashem is Ead. Um, does
anyone notice that there's two letters
that are enlarged?
>> Yep.
>> Yeah. Which ones?
>> The iron and the doll.
>> The iron and the dollid are yot.
They're larger.
What does spell?
>> Aid.
>> Aid. What is an aid?
>> A witness. a witness. What's the purpose
of a witness?
He's there to tell us about something
that we didn't see it.
>> But a witness.
>> Yeah. W we did not see something and
someone comes to testify to tell us
there. That's the mat. That's the tas of
a witness. Okay. Now, let's go to Elenu.
Where do you see this? Right. Yeah. Turn
to Elenu.
Okay, tell me when you're there.
Okay, turn to the Now find Elena
page uh 280 in the in our in the article
that I'm in.
>> You got it. Motion.
>> Yep.
It's Ronnie. You have it. You all have
it?
>> Yeah.
>> Okay.
Two paragraphs in Elenu.
What's the first letter
in the whole prayer?
>> Go to the end of the first paragraph.
>> What's the What's the last letter in the
first paragraph?
>> Oh, wow.
>> Dalled. Aid. Wait. But we're not done
yet.
All right. You see that everybody? Yeah.
You got it. You got it. Right. Look.
Elenuin.
First letter. End of the paragraph.
Dalled. O. Right. Dalled. Aid. Ready.
Next. Alain.
Second paragraph.
Very last word. Eh. Dalled.
>> Okay.
using
>> we know it's wrong.
>> Okay.
>> All right. So, all right. Yeah. So,
ready everybody?
>> Let's understand this. Okay. Now, um
everything I am sharing with you is
according to the Abu Draam. Uh many
moons ago, I I wrote a safer on Alenu.
uh uh and I use the Abu Draam to explain
it. Let me tell you who the Abu Draam
is. The Abu Draam was a reish who the
Mishna Bura brings. He wrote like
seinal halas on the sitter and he also
wrote in quotes a commentary. Why do I
say in quotes? He what he does with Elen
Elen is not in the Tanakh. Okay? Meaning
if it's in the Tanakh, you have Rashi
and the uh Ibanzra and all the great
commentators.
But this prayer was not redacted in the
Tanakh. However, this prayer was written
without question by Rua Kotes. There are
two authors that Elenu is attributed to.
The first paragraph was written by
>> Yeshua.
>> Yahosua bin noon and and he he composed
this prayer when the walls of Jericho
collapsed. Okay, that's paragraph number
one. And by the way, uh I don't remember
how they do it, but Yeshua Yahosua was
really Hosa, right? Until Moshe added
his name. So um in when he wrote this I
his name Hosa is embedded in the words
of the first paragraph. I don't remember
how but he should have said Yahosua but
he was such a humble person that he he
used the name Hosa and he embedded in
that the second paragraph was written by
does anyone know according to our Msora
so
>> uh no no it was after well same time as
Yahushua ready it it's um it's the
Rocher Tavos of because this is the
second paragraph alikave.
What are the Roshi spell
aan aan aan sorry aan was one of the
nickn
Israel and and fighting in cananan. He
was the one who misappropriated
>> and they had their first casualty in I I
think it's pronounced I
>> in I they they were they were they were
just um whatever 100 zero in every war
they fought coming into Cananan except
in I 36 people died and they did or tum
lots and they found out Akan had
misappropriated.
Now Ahan was sentenced to death and but
he did chuva before he was executed and
and the garra learns from this that even
if you're executed for something that's
high of misa you can get olabah okay so
our masura is he wrote this before he
was executed the second paragraph and
there's an amazing
connection that rev neansaw Schlita
explains. Okay, now that's something,
right? Elena's got obviously got a lot
going on. So, let's first explain. Oh,
and maybe I should have had you keep
your finger by the schma. Let's deal
with this witness thing. Okay,
the first paragraph is really talking
about the uniqueness of the Jewish
people. Okay.
And we have we we see what the rest of
the world doesn't see. Ra Victor Miller
describes that you know in Yeshai I
think it talks about the hosh amim the
the darkness of the nations. But what
does that mean? He says
um since we've since the destruction of
the base of migdash all the different
problems we've had that the philosophies
of the world they they prevent you from
seeing a shem in nature and in history.
So look nature looks like Darwin right
if you will. I don't it doesn't really
Darwin didn't didn't hold up but the
point is you don't see their they they
their philosophies create a darkness
where you can't see the presence of
Hashem in nature and history huge hugely
important point but we
experienced we were in Mitzim and we saw
the Esser Makos which re which revealed
a nature and we left Mitzy which
revealed a history and We went to Hari
and we received the Torah. So we because
of all that we see things. We can
testify aid. We can testify that uh
Hashem exists. Hashem runs the world.
He's behind there. That's our job. Now
if you go back to Schma, you don't have
to really run back there, but it says
Schma Israel. Hashem Elou. Hashem's our
god. the the they ask and he's not the
god of the world. The answer is Rashi
says he's our god now because we
recognize him but in the future Hashemad
Hashem will be one recognized by all as
the king. Okay so that that all right
those are the two sections. Now if you
look at Elenu the first paragraph is us
testifying to the world which it rests
in darkness that it's Hashem behind the
scenes in nature and history and
everything. Okay. But the beautiful
thing is this. Maybe we'll tell the aan
thing now. Okay.
Aan. Why did he write alaka? Well, first
let let's think about what alan is is
focused on. Okay. The first thing is
talking about has a special relationship
with the Jews. That's what Yeshua wrote
about. But the second here, I'm just
going to read a little in English.
Therefore, we put our hope in you,
Hashem, our God, that we may soon see
your mighty splendor, that um detestable
idolatry is taken out, false gods, cut
off, etc., perfecting universe. Now,
ready the the this word then is key.
Then all humanity will call upon your
name. The earth's wicked will be turned
towards you.
>> The earth's what?
>> Wicked. The wicked people will be turned
towards you. This is talking about the
gula redemption. All the world's
inhabitants will recognize what's
happening here.
You hear this? In other words, Akan Rev
Nevinol explains created a terrible hill
of Hashem because when the Jews came in
uh to take their inherited property and
if there's no casualties and the and the
idoltors are wiped out if it's 100
that's what is it you see the glory of
Hashem in the world you see Hashem in
the world that's what was happening that
was the that's the way we're coming into
Erit Israel but when he did a sin
Aan
36 people die and now people don't see
that we're amashem so clearly they don't
see that it he caused item
he blocks some of the clarity that the
nations were going to have. So he felt
so terrible. He wrote this prayer which
is him begging Hashem let the whole
world re realize your glory. Right? He's
he's having us all pray for a covet
shaman to be restored. Right? So that's
the thing. So at the first paragraph is
perfect mirror with the first parishma.
Hashem is our God. Now we have the
responsibility to testify to the world
to explain to the world what we know
because we had miracles okay aid that's
okay but Hashem will be one right
meaning Rashi Hashem will be recognized
as the only god by everybody second
paragraph the whole world will I and
will they all testify that Hashem is one
and what you're doing in the second
paragraph is you're praying for the
redemption
There are so many mitzvah in the Elenu.
We're going to go line by line. You will
not believe how many mitzvah you can
fulfill. But right now, just realize
what Alenu and the Schma are doing the
same thing. They're testifying to the
existence and glory of Hashem and that
we hopefully will see it amongst the
goyam as well.
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