Preparing for Rosh Hashanah - Part 5 - Rabbi Reuven Lauffer

we talk about crying right we're learning that loves of Rosh Hashanah when we get around to the bid to fish and you want to use the ring she's great no why not yeah why not no there's no there's no problem with using spicy foods on Rosh Hashanah there's not there's no problem eating spicy food it's Justin as a custom to dip your color into something sweet that's all right that uh don't don't you know if you like to eat crane with your good filter fish for sure you can do that my father used to say that the film's official was invented just to have crane with it what's going to be with dampening of rosh hashanah with regards to create a Torah with regards to reading on the turrets that are going to be five a yacht and then there'll be the map that after i write it so it's interesting the way these things work which means like this that on a regular day on monday and thursday we call up three people right on rosh chodesh we call up for people on rosh hashanah we call up five people on yomtov including yom kippur we call out six people and on Shabbat we call up seven people right it's an interesting progression you may have noticed as like a little pat unfolding over there one of these complicated puttan when I progression oh you found it Wow in dini good for you fifth reason mundane three is on Monday and Thursday I want to shove up minister as well three people are called up to the Torah up in a timely shabbat four people are called up a notch chodesh five people are called up on rosh hashanah six people are caught up on your kapoor and seven people are called up on Shabbat and interestingly enough there isn't it you decided I locker it says it says that it's actually it's you know person should try to have an aliyah towards the beginning of the year rosh hashanah or on you know to what right at the beginning of the year at some point it's considered to be a you know a recommended thing to do right the chances you know whilst you in yeshiva sort of chance getting early i'll probably pretty slim i would have thought just like me Oh laughter yarn Yom Kippur is a big thing unlike me you know what okay let's have a look the the central part of dabbling on Rosh Hashanah of course it's the kia chauffeur blowing the chauffeur well have a look and see what it is that we're blowing over here the chauffeur should be made from a ram's horn and it should come from a male and it commemorates of course what was done at the arcade or what is the ik de when when Avril Medina took his son you talk and wanted to offer him up on the altar and he wasn't able to do it god told him not to do it but God sent it instead I ran and we blow the ram's horn in order to commemorate part of the Arcada interestingly enough we're taught that emits are sharing the Mushaf he should come very very soon his his entry into you shall I will be heralded with being with show with a chauffeur being blown from that original ram that was offered up by avril lavigne oh it's the corner of a ram look at us well yes or no which means like this you can't have a council right you know why you can't have a council it's solid right it's solid you know horns are made out of work calcium I imagine no what's it called keratin I'm sorry right keratin fingernails right let's just glorified fingernail yeah the it's like a hairstyle it was your hair your hair is made out of the same stuff actually interesting enough it's pretty weird all this stuff it really is but cows horns are solid other horns from other animals they've got this inside they've got cartilage that could be hollowed out and that can now be but you don't get you go through a whole process that brings it into the shape of a chauffeur and turns it into something can be blown and and you can use it you can really use it from any animals so for example if you go down to the cartel you'll see people blowing chauffeurs that are enormous so like this long twisty right they're not coming from Rams they're coming from I think ibex is oh I beg sorry how do you say that was a probe I bet big ibises irises okay whatever ABX whatever ABC's whatever the they're absolutely some of these things are absolutely beautiful there really are we take a look at them they're poor they're fantastic they compete they could be like you know this long and they're polished and they you know amongst the amongst the Yemenite communities that's what they use because they didn't have Rams where they lived they had a lot of these animals wandering around so they would use those instead it's a look at thinner it's better to use a ram's horn the ram's horn is normally a lot shorter than that it does come with all different kinds of shapes and sizes that's for sure right what have we got over here the sounds that come out of the chauffeur should be it's difficult to explain this properly but they shouldn't they should be to fulfill the mitzvot clear rich should have like a deep sound to it if it doesn't work out you know sometimes it doesn't sometimes it's very difficult to get sounds out of the chauffeur we spoke about the other week right that you know that's not there's no rhyme or reason to this what yesterday it was easy to blow and today it's difficult to blow why is that I don't know right they're very temperamental things yeah I've questioned why don't we why are we not to sleep on ocean air why are you allowed to synchronously why you know our white that's because I never explained it that's right why not supposed to sleep on Rosh Hashanah because it's Yama Dean like the same way that if you were going into a very very important core case right you wouldn't tell the judge look you're not I'm sorry have to go take a nap you know what you just just don't don't don't do anything though don't sentence me whilst I'm not around we want to utilize the day to the best of our ability and that's really where the the custom I mentioned the custom of reciting the whole of the Book of Psalms comes from on Rosh Hashanah its idea of you using your time you know correctly using your time properly I'll tell you something I'm going to go out on a limb over here but it's a choice between having a nap on Rosh Hashanah afternoon or standing outside and schmoozing with friends and perhaps you know a person speaking apps a little bit of blush and horror it would definitely be better than go take a nap for sure ray take a nap in there even according to the Ariza you can take a nap in the afternoon but you are you are very conveniently forgetting the beginning of what the Ariza was really suggesting is that the reason used to get up to dominate when he got up to dabble with the sunrise which means that that the Iker the air we thought was the opinion that the Iker judgment is taking place in the morning so once you've gone beyond the morning then at that point it's okay to take a nap because the judge is no longer sitting here so I put it according to this according according to this I think we have to I think it makes sense to make a different gesture like this if you want to sleep in the afternoon Rosh Hashanah afternoon that if you follow the if you follow the customer theories L which means getting up very early and beginning dabbling with the Sun up then I think it I think it's ok to do right if on the other hand are you going to get up at after the sunrise and you're going to daven in a minion it may not be a late minion it might be a pretty early immunity only it may start at six thirty in the morning right it may start at seven o'clock in the morning but it's not Sun it's not you're not doubling with the sunrise anymore that at that point I think it's probably better to try to avoid sleeping in the afternoon what's interesting with tall like this that if you sleep in the afternoon then your muzzle will sleep oh yeah which is of course doesn't sound so great right ya know for sure you've gotta sleep at night for sure for sure in fact it's recommended like stay up and learn no I listen you can stay up a lot as well but I would imagine laughs you've done that you'll be a no fit state to done properly the next morning so for sure it makes sense to you know to make to you know to go to sleep at night that's for sure and like I said seriously if you if you feel that you are absolutely coming out you know you just it's not you're gonna you're gonna you know if you if you stay up in the afternoon then it's going to be very bad for you afterwards you're not gonna you're not going to function at all then for sure take a little nap in the afternoon that's got to be preferable than not functioning at all right if it says that you sleep in the afternoon if you see put rosh hashanah than your muzzle sleeps with you so if you don't function on rosh hashanah i guess that means you won't function for the whole year which might explain a lot of things over here right there you go so we've got a another another week and a bit to go to be able to rectify this little problem over here ok what's going to happen is like this the person who's going to be blowing the chauffeur is going to go up to begin blowing the show for the rubbing Pete they'll probably be some announcements one of the announcements is going to be that the brass hot which are going to be recited are going to be recited for you as well like you're fulfilling your obligations through the person blowing the chauffeur what does that mean it means practically it means like this that when the person reciting the bra thought says baa rocket on Shem you should not say bahu aur volcom oh is that right which means like this that he's saying the brothel for you if you were to be reciting the bracha you wouldn't say bohol shema second me so it's a little it's a little bit of a problem because if you say bulk or all shenoy it's as if you've made an interruption inside the brackets as if he's not making that broth of you anymore the problem is that you have an obligation to hear the chauffeur on on Rosh Hashanah with the Broca's that come before it so you need that you really need to concentrate and not you know not to say it you could say I'm made right you can sell me to Brock in fact you're obligated to say I made to the bracha right because he's making the broker for you he's going to make two brokers the first broker is going to be the bracha over the chauffeur the second broker is going to be the broth of checking under the command of the yellow las manos there because why because it's a brand new litter that we have not fulfilled oh yeah are you going to say what about an ellyl where they blow the shofar in the morning every morning the baddest father do they do that by the sudden you don't blow the shelf in the morning no okay but by the Ashkenazi brothers show for everybody but it's not an obligation and it's not a bitter and therefore when we come to make the Bravo which ki chauffeur with on Rosh Hashanah we're going to set together with share Keanu okay so the brother is going to be recited and you're going to answer a main but you are not going to say beaucoup overall shomoy in Ashkenazi communities there is a custom before the bra hot are recited that everybody recite a chapter of tehillim lamb not surf bismol if they crack which is recited seven times okay Jessie you should know you you do it you do it you don't do it you don't do it usually to know what's going on right you'll hear a lot of buzzing going on it's right before the tequila chauffeur it's all very exciting right and you hear a lot of people will be reciting that's Philipp Lahm effective they've been a cut off seven times and you should if you want you should do that as well why seven times seven times it said the number seven is a natural number like the natural you know seven days of the creation of the world seven days of the week and a thing that's got a seven inside of it normally denotes something which has got a natural dimension to it the idea of Lamentations olive they caught up the idea of the the chapter of the thumbs is that even the children of Kharak were able to do to ver none of you familiar with the story of cosmic chaos caused the most incredible rift inside of the Jewish nation he was either the argument and the and the and the you know that the the schism that almost took place was almost almost irreparable and yet even coax children were able to do two were they were they were repentant to atone for what they've done which is good news for us right it means that regardless of what we've done throughout the year we are able to do to ver and we're able to wrecked it wherever were able to atone for what we've done not all things that we do our rectifiable it's a difference between rectification and atonement so for example if somebody kills somebody else however it's done whether it's manslaughter whether it's deliberate that is something which is not rectifiable you can't you can't bring the person can be brought back to life but a person can find atonement for what they done you're the difference between the two i'm desperately scrambling around over there to try to get a reaction out of somebody at this point any kind of vocal reg thank you no worries I know what Korea is that is our final cut it cut it Oh correct I thought you said car aids I've got an idea we're talking about correct interestingly enough so according to one opinion carrot is excision there are three different levels of current right let's take of a moment of just try to understand what carrot is it's a pretty it's a pretty it's a pretty terrible punishment there are three different levels the first level is that a person dies at an early age and that early age is normally before the age of 60 then it's possibly somebody who's been dying through the punishment of correct another punishment is that a person may live a long life but doesn't have children and the third punishment is that a person may live a long life have lots of children but when he gets up into the spiritual realms his soul is disconnected from any kind of spiritual dimension the first one into the person dies at an early age at a young age you don't have kids if you go when you go up so presumably that that takes care of the of the correct that the person was supposed to receive right to the first one ah the third point is absolutely terrible why is that because I hold the whole concept of going into the world to come into the spiritual realms is in order to receive the reward that you have coming to you it's true that someone who goes through the process of correct ways is soul is excised doesn't experience Ganem purgatory right but they're not experiencing everything the whole function of purgatory ultimately it's good for you right why it's rectification which means that a person's got blemishes on his souls that have to be cleansed out and the only way can be cleansed is by going through gana which was it ultimately it's a it's a good thing it really is because after ghanem the solar thing can then go into the realms what's called the alarm and a shamu the world of the songs where the rectified souls are supposed to be correct 30 60 something that are correct right yeah correct that this ultimate form of correct is a state of nothingness there's no pain there's no joy there's no nothing it's just in a state of complete and absolute disconnect which the rabbi's described as being the most terrible situation to be in love being gay no okay if you want to get if you want to get Kabbalistic over here there's one there's one other alternative we just come back as a gilgal what is a gilgul a gill girl is a reincarnated soul right which means that a soul comes back in somebody else's body and has to rectify in the next life but not that i don't mean the next life as in the world to come but in the next life that is experiencing now it needs to try to rectify the mistakes that it made the difference between getting them and and and reincarnation and gilgul that boat both of them both of them have their pluses of both of them have their minuses I'm not sure I'm really not sure that a person gets given a choice that's down to a college boy what's going to happen to his soul is it going to go through gay Anna or is it going to go into a gilgul you should know though strangely enough this may sound rather odd but Gehenna it's a it's a it's a true the hooked to be able to go together right what is a supported to merit right you know it's not that everybody goes to gain it's a merry your soul has to merit being able to be rectified and cleansed in order to be able to receive jahanum in order to be able to go up into the Ala Moana shema again it's not right sorry so ahead of itself is pretty bad yes so what you you people you people are off the hook you can get upstairs and God's gonna sell you did you keep my time you're saying oh and you'll say did you keep my and you'll say no they'll say well why should I let you you so I had to sit through out my life as classes and God's gonna say oh it was you people catch come straight in to give you corny d I think so going again paradoxically going to get Hannah however difficult however however incredibly painful it is it's a one-off experience and it takes care of everything right which means it you've got a soul that's got all kinds of blemishes ah it's a finite sentence you're there for however you're their eternal eternal damnation even though there are certain dimensions of eternal dimension date on eternal damnation thank you eternal damnation inside of Judaism the content internal damnation is really more of a Christian concept there's a very early he wanted something fascinating I'm going to tell you anyway right so you've as well say yes there's a very early authority called Roberto core abusive album reviews from Alvarado safer called safer ekrem and he writes over there a fascinating thing he says one of the differentiations between Judaism and Christianity if I say to you hell what's the first thing that crops into your mind the first thing that pops into your mind fire right if I tell you gahanna and what pops into your mind fire mostly right i mean it's fire and fire what's the difference between the two explains obvious of alba the most astonishing idea christianity believes in the concept of eternal damnation right so you go down into hell and hell has got a whole bunch of you know of cloven-hoofed people running around with trident poking you in rather tender parts of your body now if your English you'd probably look forward to this right before everybody else anybody else that's considered to be hell and according to Christian theology you're down there rather you don't repent before you die then you're in hell forever explains Rivera expensive years of elbow they have that the fire of hell is external fire it's there to make life very very uncomfortable for you but it's not there in order to burn anything out it's not there in order to help the soul reach some kind of a rectification the hell are the fire of Gehenna is internal fire explain the sages that when a person goes to Gehenna what does it mean he's met with two screens one screen has got a picture of what he was supposed to have done in this world and the other one shows the pictures of what he did in this world and he's so consumed with embarrassment that the fire it's an internal fire that burns out all of those impurities says Rob yes rather like the most astonishing idea the external fire of hell is not something which is going to elevate and cleanse it's just there to cause you discomfort whereas the internal fire of Gehenna is a fire which will cleanse you ultimately cleanse you and elevate you and allow you to move into a better place which is the Ala Moana Shabbat good thing okay but like I said you just gotta turn up over that and say that you were in hearing what about the resurrection you come back off its kind rights it's true that being reincarnated sometimes a soul can be reincarnated inside of an animal sense a conference and that is the worst kind of thing to have to experience because the animal is perfectly aware the soul is perfectly aware of what needs to be rectified when the soul comes back inside of another person so the soul is not able to know what it is although we are taught by the rabbi something very fascinating that the things that you battle the most with in your life right the difficult things of the spiritual dimensions that you battle the most with are the things that need to be rectified from previous lives over here all right so person's got a particular weakness for a particular thing right that's something it's not coming out of nowhere that thing is presumably what was the original problem to begin with in a previous carnation and now it's got to be dealt with in the inside of this one instead like to for example I imagine many of you are probably here as reincarnated souls and people that difficulty concentrating during shear right so you know good buddies at least he's doing something about it knows what's going on or what adult a dog knows what needs to be fixed yeah no animals yeah I tell you what you already know what do you have would you want to hit you won't hear an astonishing story okay you can hear it anyway right so this is a story that with it with it was recorded by somebody cooler of yourself Himes unfilled Revere some kinds on affirmed was one of the great rabbis of a hundred years ago he ended up over you shall I me was a rabbi beautiful line but before that he lived in brisk and somebody came to the most astonishing story somebody can't even told him that he had a dream from his father his father had died and his father came to him in a dream and he told him that he'd been reincarnated inside of an enormous black ball yeah and the father told the son that he has to go he told him that the Bulls be it was owned by a non-jew and he had to go this ball was out of control it was completely wild right and his father told me you have to go you have to offer him a tell him you'll buy the ball you want to buy the ball from him he'll ask for 80 I don't know what what you know like Florence whatever it wasn't I used at that time over there he asked for 80 whatever it is right but he's prepared to take 40 just offering 40 and he'll be so pleased to get rid of it he'll let you he'll let you take the ball he says once you've got the ball you have to bring it back to brisk which is a city that he lived in and you have to bring it to the local show you head to the slaughter in the ritual slaughterer slaughter the ball and give the meat out to all of thee to all of the poor people in the city do dinner Jews alright so he said that the Sun had this dream he didn't pay any attention to it then he had to dream again didn't pay any attention but a third time he went to hear sometimes on him he said to him what do I do so here's sometimes on his phone says will do exactly what your father told you to do that's what you need to do so he goes me find his form exactly where his father said it was and he goes in and there is this bull you know psycho bull in the middle of this field that bucking and going nuts anytime anyone goes near it and he goes up to the non-jewish honoree says I want to buy the book so the guy says give me 80 whatever florins whatever it is and you can have it at yours so he looks he says now this Bulls Meshuggah right I'll give you 40 so the non-jew says ok it's a deal so it gives him the 40 whatever it is and he walks into this field and all of a sudden the bull is as docile as can be and he puts a harness on it and he leads it away and like everyone's like oh this bull is bingo going nuts right and he brought it he brought it to brisk and they sorted it and they gave the meat out to the poor people in the city and and he never he never heard from his father again what what shut I don't know right I can't tell you what the father did that that meant that he had to come back in the way that he came back the only thing that's for sure is that the rectification came through the rich full slaughtering presumably the blessing made over the slaughtering and the fact of the meat was given out to the poor people that's what led to the rectification of that particular soul do we understand it we don't understand a great old vic you'll come back to the dog huh My Little Big Bopper he was there two dogs no connected are maybes maybe is that how it works I don't know possibly again it was a brother problem over here is this stuff is very very easy so tarik right it's very Kabbalistic and you're a little bit restricted like you can't go up to your dog and say okay what did you do to become so how long do you feeling like this huh just give them up spread it down haha you know what yeah give it given that given an iPad or something and just having recording sauce eat or were they hate it or whatever when they're here so see you take another pinch maybe I don't know how did we get on to this I can't remember correct kara oh can you do two before correct according to the sages yes you can't even though the third thing is excision your soul is completely detached and it's kids kind of dying early angrily and not having children and having your soul being completely disconnected having a normal life again going up there any right which was a person could live over here a lot a long healthy successful life with catering with everything right and then get upstairs and find out that there's absolutely nothing there Wow so each is yeah you know you can there's nothing you can do ya know interestingly enough can you do something again that the soul itself can't do anything but the people left behind they can which means that it's possible for the people left behind to elevate the soul and to help the soul go through the difficulties of Guyana perhaps even to shorten the amount of time it needs to be in gahanna according to what they do which means that if they you know if they answer if they make bruh hot of people aren't so our main you know that there's a custom that when a person's a year of mourning so very often if there's no other if there's no other obligation over there he'll be given master on shabbat like why is that because the haftorah has got bra thought that are recited before and afterwards all our mains that are answered tube rahat that are recited by mourners helps a soul somehow that's one of the reasons why mourners have the custom to to be initially at able to lead the Domini because when they come to repeat the Almeida has lots of caught over there everyone's answering nothing can we talk about how this all looks like without the body what is this song I don't know nothing like me I don't I don't really I don't really dabble in these I don't you know obviously I know obviously I do right but I can't tell you you're too cutie I heard it's like our body our finger we all right now have a beautiful soul well I have a well-rounded would even though it says that a person who's had correct decreed upon them can they can they undo the decree yes I can it just it's a lot of work you Coover right so it's a lot it's a lot of it's a lot of work right but it's a shared agreed on be doing I think I think the Charlie's idea is that when a person learns the dimensions of carrot you know like what they are and person knows what they've done it's interesting that correct it's not it's not for example a person not a person transgresses shabbat so they get correct doesn't work right it's not that simple bless you the person eats on Yom Kippur they know that they're not supposed to eat in a Ethan yom kippur that's considered to be a punishment of carrot right it's impossible to undo that ah that knows no but that's completely different which means like this the same way that it's a mid sir for you not to eat on Yom Kippur it's a mitzvah for somebody who's sick to eat on Yom Kippur looks like in Phoenix a lot of people drink water like wonder it getting lightheaded especially drink a little bit so so long as whatever they're doing they're doing under a binnacle supervision it's great it's fine right but in general you've got people that you've got you've got you've got people who have to eat okay they're not well they've got to take medication if they don't eat it's going to make things even worse right unfortunately there are you know lots of lots of illnesses like that well you've got your people who are circling you've got the people who can marathon fast but somewhere in the middle there the people who could fast without to any real Dutchman to their health but it's just so uncomfortable yeah that's okay nothing wrong with being uncomfortable every now and then you know that's that's a famous job maybe maybe we'll end with this ridiculous Jewish joke right about the the fellow has a heart attack and he's brought into a hospital and you know they do all that all of the stuff that needs to be dumped him and he's lying on the bed and the you know the nurse comes along as Edison you know well mr. Schwartz she says are you comfortable he says well make a living good well stuff over here at MIT I share maybe tomorrow we'll talk about the chauffeur and ocean you