"Pesichas Hazeman": The Chaburah - Appreciate Your Greatness To Coronate Hashem {Elul}

participate in this very event has to see firsthand the amazing work of the kabura the amazing work of rebi Eisenberg who's devoted and dedicated le the nephesh to the success to the well-being of every single member of the kabura it's very heartening to participate in recognizing the efforts and accomplishments of yadidi rev nisan And he should should continue to go al to the Herzog family for opening up their home for the yeshiva for the kabur should always have this and it's very meaningful to me to be here tonight for the you know the rebish interacts and is manifest to Isra to us personally in many different ways and each particular name of Hashem reflects one of the ways that was manifest to us. So on the one hand the reun's existence is intrinsic. He's what the Ramal calls mak he just exists. He's not dependent on us. He has no needs. There's nothing we could do for him. And in that capacity, we refer to as elim. But on the other hand, Hashem created a world and the world needs him and Hashem gives to us. So even though he doesn't need us, we need him. And in that capacity, But there's a third dimension that Hashem is manifest and that he interacts with us. And this is a dimension that we focus on on Rashashana, not as elikim, not as adim, but as mel. And we are accustomed to thinking the Ram says in the Hashem that what does it mean Hashem's mel? That's the elevated exalted status of of that's Hashem's power. It couldn't be further from the truth. That's not what we mean when we refer to Hashem as mel says Ram Khal. It's exactly the opposite. Hashem in his capacity as Melik is referring to Hashem's supernatural humility where Hashem wants to associate with us. Hashem wants us to think of him that he takes pride in us and he's honored by we being his subjects. Contrary to popular thinking, malus of Hashem is not Hashem's exalted nature. It's Hashem's extreme humility. But what's interesting is how we coronate Hashem. The Gomorrah says, says, [Music] "That's how you make Hashem king, by blowing a horn, maybe a trumpet." In no palace in the world do they take a horn of a ram and coronate the king. What exactly is the significance of coronating with the you see there's an entirely different element of coronating Hashem which in a certain sense is the exact opposite of Hashem's humility and it's coming from a a completely different angle altogether friends imagine if I were to tell you that I met a guy in bar and I asked him what do you do for a living cars you sell insurance. He said, "No, you didn't hear the news. I'm a mel." Really? Who are you a mel of? No, you didn't. I have an ant farm in my backyard. I'm the king of the ants. Could you be a king of ants? That's ridiculous. That's absurd. That's laughable. You can't be a king over ants. In order to be a king, there has to be a commonality between the leader and the subjects. But the leader is somewhat more exalted and elevated. You can't be a leader over ants. But friends, as laughable as it is to say that a human being is a king of ants, how could we consider our king, the dramatic difference between a human being and an ant, the almighty a man? So how could we refer to hakadeshu as our king? What commonality is there between and mankind says hutner? This is the key ingredient to understand what it means that hashem is our king because indeed we are supposed to think there is a commonality between and man. And that commonality came on the great day when hashem created man. man was just a goof. And the says instilled in our being the living soul. And as when someone blows, they blow from within themselves. And the instilled within each and every one of us what we call the the divine spark that gives us endless potential, infinite capacity, infinite ability. And in that sense, it is accurate. It is true. It is genuine to say is our mel but only if we recognize that we are only if we recognize that we are so something very interesting when we say that hashem is our king on the one hand we're bringing hashem down in his humility that he wants to associate with us and on the other hand we're elevating man to the status this that it's actually intelligent to say that man and have something in common. So how do we correlate? So we're putting our attention to humility and bring Hashem down to us. The only way to coronate Hashem is to elevate our own esteem in our own eyes. You know what's very interesting? It's Hello have something in common you know what we learned in the same yeshiva actually yeah there was a some time till you get out of the first Mishna you know but we'll explain that at a later point the month of an that means you know what you need to focus on the The word ani the beginning of l is the word ani. Do you know who you are? Do you know what your ability is? Do you know what your is in this world? Do you know how important it is to that you've dedicated yourself to the that you've dedicated yourself for that you've dedicated yourself to a higher lifestyle? That's being recognizing how dear, how beloved, how it's in preparation for rash. You think it's a coincidence that we are hashem on rashash. You know what happened historically on rashashana? Rashashana is the day that Baru gave us the nama until Rashashana. It was a shallot. It was a mo and what were we? We were not yet eligible that Hashem should be our mel comes the great day of rash and instills within us the now there's a commonality between us could be actually you wouldn't believe it my family comes from the city of Sakucha my greatgrandfather was the last rv of the city of Sakov, not the Reb, the Reb. He was a Talmud of the Sheamish. She is a son of the Abnea. She is brings from his father the AB. that you know whatifer is says is a reenactment of we're reenacting we're recalling we're tapping into we're accessing we're commemorating the event that makes us eligible that should be our mel what event is that the great blowing of in fact says, "I am the when Hashem blew our soul within us, the was the bow to in fact says the nose, the is reminiscent of the nose." I guess it depends how long it is. But it says the is reminiscent of the nose. It's a reenactment of if you want to beem, you need to elevate yourself. You have to believe in yourself. You have to recognize the infinite potential and capacity that you have. I don't know if you're into classical music. In 1957, a year before the great musical genius Arturo Tuscanini passed away, his biographer visited him to complete the biography. Now, Tuscanini was the greatest musician in the world, but he was out of his mind. He was a madman. But people tolerated him because he was a good musician. Nobody could lead the orchestra like him. He died at 89 years old, 1958. This is now 1957. The biographer calls him up. Arturo, I'm coming over Tuesday night. I want to just finish up a few things. I have a few last questions to ask you. Tuscanini said, "Get lost. I can't meet Tuesday night." Tuesday night, I have something very important. Said, "What do you mean very important?" Monday night football is Monday. What do you have Tuesday? Says, "Tuesday there's a big concert in Europe. I used to lead lead this orchestra and they're playing the symphony on shortwave radio and I need to focus completely on listening to this composition. I need to hear if the new conductor could lead the orchestra the way he should. So the biographer said, "No problem. What time does it start? Starts at 8:00. I'll come 7:45. I'll put myself in the corner. I won't make a peep." Tuscanini said, "No, you're going to you're going to be rattling around. You're going to cough. You're going to sneeze." He said, "I'm not going to make a sound." Okay. Tuscanini says, "Do me a favor. You better keep your word." So, Tuesday night comes 7:45. The biographer comes into the room. He sits there like a Evan Doy. He doesn't make a peep. 9:00 the concert is over. He turns to Tuskan. said, "That was astounding. That was masterful, wasn't it?" Tuscan says, "That was atrocious. That was a disaster. That was child's play. That was terrible." Biographers looking at him like, "What's wrong with this guy?" Tuscanini says, "There's supposed to be 120 musicians, 15 violinists. Only 14 violinists showed up." Biographer says, "Look, uh, nobody better than me knows how out of out of his mind this guy is. He He's crazy. The next day, he wants the He's having second thoughts. He decides he's going to call up the manager of the building where the symphony took place. And he's going to ask him what happened that night. So, he calls up the manager. He says, "I'm an American correspondent." And I just was wondering how did the concert go last night. And uh they said, he said, "You wouldn't believe it. There was a little mishap. 120 musicians were supposed to come. 15 violinist only 14 violinist showed up. The guy is floored. He goes to Tuscanini. He says, "Please be, but please tell me how in the world did you know that one violinist didn't show up." He said, "That's the difference between me and you. You're an amateur. You're in the audience. You don't know the difference between 15 and 14, but I'm the composer. I hear every melody. I hear every tone. I hear every beat. I hear every decel. I know how 15 violins are supposed to sound. And when I heard that dramatic difference between 15 and 14, it crashed on my ears. Something was missing. Sometimes we wake up in the morning, we think there are a lot of Jews in Bar Park. It matters what I do. It matters when I dive in. It matters how much kabona I have. It matters when I learn, how I learn, how I conduct myself. And the answer is the guy sitting next to you in Shul, the guy on 14th Avenue, the guy down the block, he may or may not realize the difference, but there's a conductor up there. You may see him or not. Actually, I just came back from Los Angeles and I did something a little daring. Instead of getting an Uber, you ever do this? I got into a Whimo. >> Okay. I got into a Wo and uh the car pulls up. I open the door, sit down, and she says to me, "This may seem a little futuristic, but don't worry. Everything is under control. Just don't touch the steering wheel. The driver has it covered. That's a big mus hos. That's a big muser husk. So to the guy down the block, it may not make a difference. To the guy next to you in shul, not everything will make a difference. But to the great conductor of the orchestra, every little his kazus makes a big difference in the world. It will make a difference to Hashem. It will make a difference to the Jewish people. And it will make a difference to your family. But if I could share with you, we are not just lone musicians playing for the conductor of the universe. We're much greater than that. You know, there's a little if I could share with you. This is one of my pet peeves if I could mention. You know, we have you got a minion. So you have a guy he comes into I'm sorry if I'm saying this at least according to the if you have a different mas you speak to your own he's the guy saying he's sayingd he's saying he's saying he's saying the carbon that is up to and the guy is still in mis so he's a nice guy he's a good guy he just didn't dab with a minion that day according to the Mishna ding with a minion means You start with it. Okay, that's the opinion of the Mishna. You'll speak to your be it as it may, what do you do if you're short on time? So the mission says you got to skip. What do you got to skip the halalucas? Let's say you don't have time to say all the halalucas a halleluah. And let's say you have just a bit more time says Mishabura based on Rashi the third halleluah and all the a bothered what in the world is special about the third halleluah actually the third halaluca is the only halaluca that we don't praise Hashem all the other ones we're praising Hashem the third halaluca we're not praising Hashem we're talking to nature we're saying heavens praise Hashem earth praise Hashem kings praise Hashem what is so significant ificant about this halaluca says of Isaac Sher the third halaluca is the centerpiece of suk de zimra because we're depicting man not as a musician but as a conductor and he's waving his baton and he turns to the sun that shoots out energy at 186,000 miles per second. The sun that shoots out 384.6 six septillions watts of energy and we say son praise God and the sun doesn't turn around and say you're talking to me who do you think you are no the sun knows who we are the son knows the world is created for you and he's taken orders for you from you and you say to the malim malim praise Hashem and the angels don't say you you just started learning what are you telling me what to do no the malim know the world is for you and he takes orders from you. And then you turn to Kings. You say, "Donald, come on. Let's go. I know you put in a full workday. Nobody in history ever work worked like that guy. That guy gets up early in the morning is working all day." But we say, "Take a break, pal." Praise the president of the United States. We turn to Kim Jong-un. Whatever he's busy with, we say Kim praise Hashem says of Isaac Sher the of all of Yahadus, you know says the pes and all avoid Hashem says the pes of all Hashem. That's what we're here tonight to understand before You need to know an you need to know who you are, what you could accomplish, how beloved you are, how dear you are, how hush you are. So, it's a great honor for me to be here this evening to pay tribute to this amazing Kabura, this amazing yeshiva, this amazing institution in Kali, Israel. You're the pride of the Jewish people. Everyone admires you. You know, I was thinking, you know, Hashem created the world with the letter H. Why? Easy to fall out. It's easy for anyone to fall out. If you're an FFB, if you're a BT, it's easy to fall out in this world. But there's this hole all the way on the top. That's the PES of Chuva. That's the That's the from admiration. You could somehow give us an ali and keep us on the straight and the narrow. My humble blessing to you. You should continue the desay, the Torah, the Shayan, the Thank you very much. Thank you.