R' Akiva Plutchok, R' Yaniv Meirov, R' Dovid Goldwasser - Preparation & Inspiration for Rosh Hashana

[Music] so good evening everybody welcome to big hello for our pre-rosh hashanah event um we do have a couple sponsors we'd like to acknowledge uh daniel amzag and his family uh zohos and uh refused lima for his wife margarita frat and uh his in-laws um for their parents hiya uh [Music] margarite and another anonymous donor uh and he would worship great uh spiritual physical health for their family for our community and coral cholesterol so the purpose of tonight is to get everybody charged ready to go for rosh hashanah va of our new year we have three great speakers um i'd like to also thank the hazako organization for joining us will be speaking and for torah anytime she's is streamlining live live right now so if your friends in my text real quick uh they can go on twitter anytime you can catch us for the next hour and a half so it gives me a great pleasure to introduce our rabbi rave who joined the story coped it was a very interesting summer uh he who organized to have several different rabbis come in lease seven three so every child is starting to summon a rabbi and uh anonymously right like foodtip was selected and i'd like to also thank the comfort family for also being one of the sponsors and happier and of course my wife without her crusade to better all of us without doing much just being in their presence lifts us all up hashem should give them a prayer to continue to be in the house of all of us and of course our laymat and asano shai bendavaria tovia said i should say sweet short and sweet and some beef i don't know if i'll listen to either of them it's known that when the partner victorov was looking for mashiach for shivers ponovich the great yeshiva so he went to the hello gerhazanesh and he had two candidates one candidate i don't know who he was but he was obviously very great and the other candidate was radesta so the khazanesh told him that this two ways had to attract how to remove the bees from bothering you he said one way is through honey they'll all fly to the honey and one way through vinegar put vinegar around you they'll leave you alone they'll go somewhere else so the khazanesh said the nicer way is to do it through honey so he said both these mash's are very great they're equal they're great they're both equally great but [Music] is the way odessa is like honey he was able to better a person through honey through sweetness to bring him up so when you think about rosh hashanah when you think about el diamond there's definitely the scary way how to approach it it's mr alcelande used to say it's looked at it like a beer it's definitely awesome days and could be very scary days if times are kind of the rock used to say that he would like to call it wonderous days it's wonders what you could accomplish through the um i think about this sometimes that really what's most important is us he wants our heart he wants our drive our rotten to be better and there's a saying amongst the people the masjid and they say even if you don't want at least you should want to want and that alone is a big madriga at least you should want to want so i just want to emphasize the kayak the power of rotsen we know famous ghazal that when sorry menu his name was changed from sorai to sarah so how the yurt in her name was taken away and it was turned into hey these two these two gersuits in ghazal the studio one ghazal says that the yule was split in half and here for the numerically the gematria of yoda is ten half of the year was given to avraham avinu the height of ram of ram tavraham and the other the other half was given to sarai and made into sorrow the madriga of sorry was a different by dragon and sorrow was a different dragon than sarai but there's another ghazal that the other ghazal says that the youth felt lost it started complaining takadesh baruch who says are you talking that you take me away from at zadecas and now i have nowhere to go so hashem says no no no don't worry about it i have a good spot for you put the you to yeshua's name and the ghazal say that the youth was there better spot it used to be at the end of their word and now it became at the beginning of the word it started the word so you see that when someone has a wrote someone someone really wants something the drive he accomplishes he acquires great madregas the youth got a whole different madriga we know the other way that the naseem who when it came to nidhvi mishkan when came to donate the donations to the mishkan the naseem said let the rest of the call israel donate and will like what do they call it will bat clean up we'll we'll we'll [Music] we'll bat clean up so what happened they didn't expect such a successful campaign and there was nothing left for the naseem to donate and they felt weird when it came to hanukkah mishkan there they understood from their mistake and over there they were they were the first but the them lost out because they had this attitude they lost out of you in their name seemingly when someone's missing a certain ruts in a certain drive you could go great heights and you could unfortunately lose there's a tremendous marriage that i want to share with you rashi explains in the beginning of rishman virus rashi explains the tsukim over there that on the second day creation it doesn't say kitaev it doesn't say it was good every other day creation it says hashem so that it was good when it comes to the second day of creation it doesn't say it says rashi why doesn't seiki taif rashi says on the third day of creation it's going to say kitaev and the reason why in the second day creation that doesn't say is because the work of the second day wasn't completed until the third day the second day's work was that who separated the mayan and he took the bodies of water and he made the rakia and he made them the law what is he separated the waters but when he did that the world was full of water so in tula who said you covered gather and there should be land that's noticeable that happened on the third day so it wasn't finished the work so you can't say kitaev on something that's not complete so on the third day of creation it says twice that's partial shot that's rashi that's hazal there's a madrish that's brought down from the harosh i don't know where the madrid is i looked for it i don't know where the magistrates but he says the niflidhika thing the major says like this that the reason why it doesn't say kitaev on the second day is because it was the first time that there was mahleikas there was an argument it was now it wasn't really argument but there was a separation one entity was split into two so the measure says that something that was nashalik that was separated that was divided it doesn't the language doesn't belong on that it wasn't even though it was necessary but to stamp it as kitaev it's not proper to say he told because there was a division over here because hashem separated the waters the miami and the two bodies of waters that there was the upper body of water and the lower body of water there was a separation you can't say ki taif says the marriage further that is it burst out crying and it came to aqua it says it's not fear the upper waters should be so close to the ki see our covenant should be close to you and we should be down in the sea we should be on the earth it's not fair they're much closer to qaddish morocco then it's come closer to kisa says i'll take care of you he said there's a special mitzvah during the yanktiv of circus that the tamic additional to having the nisa hayan you denise and we know it's a very special mitzvah that's the concept of the simcha's bastard and it's done with great joy and who says you haven't you're going to have your spot your spot is additional to the maya mata but you're going to be used for a very special mitzvah you're going to be part of the of the turbine carbon shell that's your compensation for being split it says the mayama it's not fair it's not enough it's not enough kurdish broker says okay i'll give you another thing he says every single carbon alcohol every single carbon there's a salt component to the carbon and that's the second addition that you're getting to compensate that also you're part of okabonus that means that the mayhem held in them wanted to be closed and they were originally closed hashem divided them so they were removed from the connection to the shrine said we'll give you the connection to the shrine through the carbonus carbonus is the closest connection we have to the shrine it's a sacrifice boroku it's a direct it's it's closer than feel it's it's a very strong connection to the shrine so they had two ways how they're connecting to the shin either through the nisa mayam or through the combination what you see from this ghazal is that the water seemingly when hashem split them they possibly would have got nothing they would go they broke down crying and they broke down crying is what wanted that now they've got something and they got one compensation it could have stopped their debt but they wanted more they got a second compensation so you see the power of wanting when someone wants something when there's a russian attack that generates a tremendous chef when a person has a sincere want and a sincere desire to ishmael the youth was there to connect to yeshua the mind was there to be part of the carbonus when the maya didn't you may have wrote them come sometimes it's very hard to inspire ourselves it's hard to turn ourselves on we did it last year we do it every year it's hard it's and even if you want to want that is already very special share with you uh just a well-known story that my brother recently reminded me the story that the famous margaret bianco golinski suffered a lot he went through siberia he suffered a lot and he had some of his havarium that equally suffered a great deal and when he eventually got parety strong one of his javelin were very very broken and ryan kolinsky himself was able to pick himself up put himself back together realize and understand that he has a mission that if hashem saved him he's here for a very strong purpose and has a lot of work to do but he had a friend that just gave up on life he lost his family lost his siblings he lost everything he was alone in the world he had no energy to move forward serbian kalinski says you know what come with me we're going to go to the khazanesh the guy says what's the hazardus going to do for me because i spoke to a lot of people already what's the hazard going to do for me he says he's going to understand me the khazanish happens to have not gone through the war he's going to understand my pain and my suffering my feeling of emptiness and loneliness and yi or total giving up so they went to the khasanesh and a real broken vessel came to the khasanesh and khazanesh listened and he listened and he said let me tell you a story he said there was once a lady that saved up every nickel and every dime to mario fedora worked very hard to put together the dowry worked very hard to put together the amount of money that's necessary to set up the young couple's household and [Music] she went to the iran and leipzig to buy everything that's necessary for the household and she was handling and she was bargaining and she was figuring out what to buy and in the excitement and all the hullabaloo she misplaced her purse and when she after she negotiated on so many different items she was looking for a purse and she saw she didn't have it and she became full of panic she had anxiety she started crying and she fainted they revived her everything was gone in a minute and in a little while later it was revealed that there was a man that found the purse another jew uh we call it erlechaju a righteous jew and the lady was very excited the man found the purse but not so fast the man says listen i understand you lost your purse you lost your money but there's a whole second peric above meteor that the gemara teaches us that money has no simmon and when someone loses money the tomorrow teaches us finders keepers it's mine so you'll tell me i should have mercy on you i should have pity on you because because you're marrying of a child he says i'm also a poor man i also need it i could also do a lot of things with this who said i should have mercy on you maybe i should have mercy on my own family i don't know how do you know how do you know it's the right thing for me to give it back to you so they went to the interior inspector and he heard both sides and rabbits said the man technically would be right is when someone loses money and there's no cement on the money we say that a person is miaish right away it's also if we understand it or not is that it's the finders but there's another suggestion the gemara says that when someone loses something and they don't realize that they lost it and you found it before that they realized they lost it when they had no idea that they lost it so then you can't take it because they didn't even know that they lost it to give up hope it's true by money when someone realizes he loses it he gives up hope but here he said it's true the lady realized that she lost her money but it wasn't her money it was her husband's money it was a husband's money and he didn't have no idea that it was lost and since he had no idea today that it was lost so he wasn't miyayish it's not yours said says it's true you yid you broken yid you went through the muhammad you gave up and you gave up on life he says but your life doesn't belong to you it's life you're just here to do his work it's not your life it's a kardashian's life and he didn't give up on you he knows that you have tremendous potential he didn't give up on you you have no right it means nothing that you gave up someone much greater than you didn't give up pull yourself together get going you'll see you'll do something amazing up on us with our drive to rosh hashanah with our aspirations what we could do if we think it's not meaningful it is very meaningful it's not us to judge what is our fearless worth what is our true or what it's worth what's our little extras that we try and we work hard small changes it's not up to us to decide it's a kaddish borough and if you think it's not meaningful it's very meaningful to akadesh boroku we should inspire ourselves we should taste the honey and we should be in the maya rotssen thank you for listening i'll be honored to call up rabbi meirav this is thank you thank you i just got to get on hooked up the founder and president of the hazak organization which many people heard of um we've been collaborating for the past year with the sunday night sheers that we do and thank you for joining us tonight and along with that story in time which is going livestreaming right now [Music] testing one two three everybody hear me well okay rashid robbie pluchak mar dasa the rabbit of the show it's a big honor to be here in cal based hello a flat lens that i pronounced that right okay great it's a big honor to be together with robbie dubby go astrita to be on the same lineup with an honor special thank you to tovia for arranging and putting all this together let's give him a round of applause for all that he does for claude's girl him is the robinson and the entire family kazakh it's a big honor to see so many people come out right before rosh hashanah right before the high holy days to get inspired and marvel would die the question ladies and gentlemen is what should our mindset be when it comes to rosh hashanah should it be one of happiness of sorrow of joy of concern of worry what should our mindset be when we're going into yomadin to judgment day mario time ladies and gentlemen listen very carefully tell us the rabbis tell us that when it comes to rosh hashanah we have to go to the mikvah before rosh hashanah to be pure we have to go and get freshly laundered iron shirts we have to go we have to set up a table and we have a meal and we have oh sima we have all these symbols symbolic foods in order to have a shana to vow me to god we wish each other have a happy healthy new year what's the mindset versus soda is one of positivity one of being happy and excited why because we believe we might say who's up god almighty's up what's going to be that we're going to have an amazing sweet new year we're going to have a very good year we're going to be sealed to a book is dependent over here and what do we do we have a positive out look why because we have the power of our minds we're able to tell ourselves that we're going to be successful we're going to be mad yes we know that in rosh hashanah there's two types of people that are judged there are the righteous the the marine and then there is the evil there are shahim kareem the evil people but the banana name the people that are middle of the road right what do they do they are jajan yoma ki barim on yom kippur but our mindset is one of positivity why because it has an influence it has an effect on us that's the idea of all these symbols that we eat deep the apple and the honey you have dates and you have pomegranates why it's all symbolic why because it has an effect on us the power of having an effect marijuana ladies and gentlemen is very very powerful last week's parashat parashaki davao we would say did to us what's this whole business of amalek all the time why are we always into amalgamatic malik why why is that and the rashi over there says very simply it's because when the jewish people they were victorious they came out of egypt they were like whoa right they were the first ones to start up with us and rashi compares it to a bathtub it's hot it's burning but the first person that goes in there he gets hurt yes it's burnt but at the end of the day it makes room for the second person to go in and it's much warmer it has an effect they cause an effect for people to mess up with the jewish people and that's why we're always trying to wipe out amalek the power of affecting others of influencing others says over a beautiful hidden about how one can influence others there's a diploma we all know he would explain everything with a parable with a mashal and his rabbi was the vilnigon the god the great genius of villanov and what happened was he went over to his rebbe and he says how am i going to be successful with regards to influencing others being successful with having a positive influence on the other people and the villain of going interestingly enough gave him a muscle a parable and he told him as follows he told him take a big cup and around the big cup of smaller cups now how do you have the smaller cubs have what's in the big cup what do you have to do you have to have an overflow of water or an overflow of wine when you have so much in the bigger cup what's going to happen it's automatically going to overflow to the smaller cups same thing with us we want to influence others we want to have a positive effect on others what do we have to do we have to invest in ourselves and that's what we're doing here tonight being inspired and listening to diversity do words of inspiration in order for us to work on ourselves to become better people in order for us to have an amazing rosh hashanah and what do we have to do we have to infuse ourselves with torah so much torah that it overflows onto our families into our neighbors into our communities and to others we infuse ourselves with your mind with fear of heaven that it overflows into others we infuse ourselves with simcha with happiness with joy we have so much of it that it's going to overflow onto others and that is how we affect other people we want to change our children they're the little cups what do we have to do we have to work on ourselves first it reminds me of a famous story left he was once at a kazakh event he said this over i loved it so much it's a very powerful and popular story of a father he was reading through the newspaper and he was watching his seven-year-old son and he wanted some peace and quiet the son the seven-year-old is always coming abba i need this abba i want that dad could you give me this tati i need that and the father is like give me some peace of mind give me some freedom and he realizes in the newspaper while he's flipping through the pages there's a page of the world map and he says i'm going to rip off the page and i'm going to rip it into pieces and i'm going to tell my seven-year-old son i want you to put together the puzzle and he's thinking to himself wow baruch hashem thank god the world map for a seven-year-old child it's gonna take hours and i put it into a lot of pieces and five minutes passed by five minutes passed by abba oh i'm done no no no you can't be done he's like yeah i'm done here and the father sees my much literally the world map it's all put together and he's shocked he's amazed [Music] and the father tells the son how did you do this what did you do he's like the truth is the other side of the newspaper was an advertisement of a person it was a picture of a person so what did i do i put together the head and the hands and the feet and the body and automatically what happens on the other side the world map is put together and the rabbis tell us something very powerful we all want to change the world we want to make the world a better place we want to bring the google uh we want to do big things but where did it start it starts with ourselves and what's going to happen when we put ourselves together the human being comes together the other side is the whole world everything is going to be good everything's going to be amazing everything's going to be great it all starts with who with us we have to remember that many times you go through life and uh you we think this guy's the issue and that guy's the problem and it's my spouse and it's my neighbor and it's my teacher it's my rep it's this and that you blame the whole world at the end of the day you say the whole world is the issue but at the end of the day who's really the issue is really you this is something we'll have to work on to become better people to do more good to change the world and to make the world a better place we all want that this year but hashem should be the best year ever i have a school to merit one time to be the english voice the translator for a uh rob for marriage israel that does so much good for claudia for the jewish people his name is from zamir coin he has an evidence throughout the he's a brutal organization that they have a television station for hilo named for the not religious and barbarian they flip through the channels in israel and they see a rabbi speaking and they get inspired they have shabbat tones and they have classes and they do so much amazing things so either while he's speaking in hebrew i had a group of the english speakers and i would translate and keep in mind just for the record while you're translating the rabbi is continuing to speak so you have to think what he's saying say over what he's saying listen to what he's saying it's very difficult but long story short he stood over a famous mashal from from israel salaam to the famed founder of the messiah movement and he says over like this how do we make this year the best ever is as follows that there was an individual that used to always work he worked 24 7 365 he worked nine to five five to nine always working always hustling hustlers also and not only was he a workaholic but he was a kamtan what does that mean he was very cheap he would never spend extra money excessive money he would never go out to eat he would always make things at home why because it's much cheaper for example coffee how much does it cost to make a cup of coffee already you have some coffee you have some sugar you have some water and some milk that's it pennies but in the store they sell it for much more long story short one day he comes back from home from work and he has a huge massive headache big headache and he says today i'm spoiling myself i'm gonna go to the coffee shop and i'm gonna get a coffee from the store it's gonna be great and what happens is he goes outside of the house and he's looking for a coffee shop he's like wow he never really went out to look at the stores he sees a nail salon and a hair salon and he sees the laundromat and he sees a sushi joint he can't find a coffee shop but then he sees a big hot a big big hotel and he says you know i'm pretty sure they're going to have a coffee bar inside the hotel they got to have one of those and he walks into the hotel it's a beautiful hotel and he sees the coffee bar and he goes over to the individual behind the counter and he's crying please have a cup of coffee and they said sure and they're like that's going to be 50 and he's like what did i hear that right i asked for one cup of coffee not 50. they're like yeah one cup of coffee equals 50 dollars he's like whoa whoa forget about that i'm going back home i'm never well wait how much is the danish i want a danish over here a day to kind of a danish what for a danish and he's like i don't understand what are these prices inflation america okay this is going back a few years ago by the way but all seriousness guys he asked what's going on here what type of prices are these and they explained to him that listen it's not just a cup of coffee that you're getting it's not just the danish but it's the ambiance it's the chandeliers it's the sofas it's the serve it's the the waiters this is the high-class place he's like listen keep your high class your chandelier sofas to your subs give it to me to go how much is it they're like listen my friend same price he's like you said the reason it's so expensive is the chandelier i'm taking it to go they're like sir it is what it is he's like forget about it i'm out and he makes a u-turn and he's about to leave the hotel and lo and behold he sees a bunch of waiters on the corner drinking coffee and they have platters of coffee and eating danishes he's like i don't understand this doesn't make sense and he goes over to one of the individuals to the waiters he says could you please explain to me if you're such a wealthy guy that you're able to afford these coffees and danishes what are you a waiter for and if you're a waiter and you don't you know doesn't make sense for you to be able to afford such expensive things and listen very carefully what the waiter tells him and he tells him that listen we work for the boss and when we work for the boss we take care of his people we take care of those in the care of those that are in the hotel and when we take care of those that are in hotel we work for the boss he lets us eat and drink as much as we want whenever we want and where we serve celante explained beautifully and he says you want to have the best year ever you want this shana this year to be the best year in your life what do we have to do we have to work for the boss you have to work for the boss for barolo and frank dosberg who forgot almighty when you work for god he's going to give you everything free of charge health and happiness and goodness and friendships and whatever you want why not you work for him but what do you have to do you have to help his people you have to reach out to others you can't just be worried about myself shaolin obviously my life is good i keep shabbat my kids go to yeshiva everything is fine no we need to go reach out to our family members friends and neighbors that are not keeping to our mitzvah we have to tell them about the beauty of our amazing uh religion amazing heritage that we have we have to invite you into the red connected to the synagogue you have to knock in the doors you have to bring them over you have to invite them to sue me how amazing it is you want to have the best life in the world you want this year to be the best year ever what do we have to do is we have to reach out to others we have to bring them in we have to work for the boss we have to work for barolo and vargas who forgot almighty robert that's the way we influence others that's where the how we're going to have an amazing new year it's the power of the minds it's the mindset the minds of the it reminds me of the following story with this one there's a famous story in here technologies inertistral that there was an individual allah we should never know he had the mahala series disease and he was in the hospital and it was the miracle of the hospital he came out better than before everybody was shocked nobody believed it was unbelievable they all said that he's going to be dying and what happens is that he puts together like the menagerie custom is is a meal of thanksgiving right it's being thankful to borrow underneath he invites all of his family members his friends his neighbors and they all get together and they're all sitting over there and he invited one doctor from the hospital and who was that it was a doctor by the name of dr sergey dr sergey okay beautiful amazing he comes and when he comes in they give him so much coffee so much honor come sit over here they're friends with all the rabbis they sit in the head tables the dais and he's like okay me whatever you say okay and he sits over there and the program starts and the individual starts saying how thankful we are how thankful i am to pray along to god almighty for being here today for being able to speak for being able to be alive and they're going on and on about how the miracle happened and everybody was prepared for the worst they already had his burial spot they already had the cemetery they already had the fuel that all the details were ready for the worst and what happens is he says that they said that they're going to give a final surgery one last surgery to give him my last chance for life and they do that last surgery and he's in the recovery room and the anesthesia is calming down a little bit and he says over that while he's a little bit starting to awaken he hears the doctors and the nurses talking to the side and one after the other all the doctors and all the nurses are saying what this guy has no chance this guy has no chance this guy has no chance it's over it's done finito done no more but one doctor one doctor i overheard him saying i believe that he not only has a chance but he's going to make it out of here on the condition that he eats normally he takes his medications and vitamins at the same time and has a positive outlook if he has a positive thinking if he has a positive mind if he does that then with god's up he's going to come out and who was his doctor was none other than dr sergey sitting over here and all of a sudden the audience goes in the standing of asia dr sergey and everyone's clapping and so thankful and they're singing and dr sergey is a little bit he's sitting over there like he's like is it okay i say a few words they say behold sure of course please we're now gonna let dr sergey say a few words he's the man that gave hope to our friend over here and they're singing oh and they're all excited in israel right and what happens is that dr sergey gets up and he says i'll tell everyone the truth i remember in the recovery room we're together with the doctors we're together we're discussing and everybody was saying there's no chance and i said that whatever i said yes but the truth is we weren't referring to this individual were talking about the guy next door to him i believe that this guy had no chance also nobody believed that he has a chance true story moreover this blessing is very powerful the lesson is the quran the power of our thoughts and that's what rosh hashanah is all about we have all this we have all these symbolic fruits and vegetables that we eat right do we remove our enemies that we should be filled with meats food like a rima like a pomegranate just for the record there's a beautiful costume to eat raisins and celery together you know why right because you should have a raisin salary but whatever works if it's a mindset why not do it eat it enjoy it but let's go into rosh hashanah with a positive outlook let's go into rosh hashanah inviting others that might not have known about this beautiful killer this beautiful congregation with an amazing rabbi let others know about the amazing shirin lectures and and classes that are going around let you know about torah anytime let you know if there's a family member friend neighbor send their kids in public schools mission of no child shall be left behind no jewish child should be left behind every jewish child deserves a jewish education will do everything from a to z from beginning to end will hold their hand throughout the process to make sure they can achieve a borrower close to thirteen hundred national souls that have already been saved and we could do much more let them know if they're not interested for whatever reason it's not gonna work in the jewish day schools that we have sunday schools in close to 20 locations one in mill basin where we are over here around over here let them know about these programs in bizarre like we said before if we do so we have a positive we have a positive mind not only we can have an amazing new swedish hashem we have an amazing sweet life of the shame we should see the ma the complete redemption it's feeling our days amen [Applause] [Music] thank you rabbi here that was very inspiring thank you thank you god bless you please in all the work that they do throughout the entire world lahag del toro la dira jesus reptilian soblowski that works so tirelessly throughout the world through his different productions in order to bring suyos and in particular a refusal of hera that all should turn out well and everybody should have whatever they need for this year it's interesting you know if you're a rabbi or you're a community helper it's always a shiloh do you turn off your telephone at night after all you want to sleep well you don't be interrupted but as we know you can't turn it off who lie maybe somebody needs you maybe someone asks us your question maybe somebody needs assistance so i leave my phone on 2 30 in the morning i get a call wakes me up i pick up the phone yeah yes i'm still sleeping the guy says uh rebbe i would like to do an aveira i said how could i help you you've got to be seen late you've got to pay attention to different people you've got to pay attention to borehole to hashem what hashem wants from us is an um that listens and um that follows the dvar hashem that's all we got to do no big deal a guy was so nervous i have to tell you friday i was walking in lakewood he ran over to me on the street he said illam venus i thought he had a shayla khamura i didn't know what he's going to ask me i said ask ask he says i'm a little bit nervous i'm a little bit i said why are you nervous he says i tell you the truth it's going to be soon slijos and i don't know how to go into slijos i did a few things this year i cannot say i'm proud few things i said it doesn't matter slicha means to forgive you go into slichot hashem forgives you for whatever you did it doesn't matter whether it is something huge about the zara it doesn't matter whether it is something very small by accident i mixed up the meat fork with the milk fork wasn't hot food still an accident but hashem said it doesn't matter whether it's smaller whether it's large bizarre hashem said i will throw the water on you and you will be purified even i don't have the power to go into the mikvah even i don't have the power to do what it takes i just stand there and i say hashem i can't even do that this hashem we're going to throw the water and it's going to purify me all of us the people of this beautiful show the people of the community we have as we have a privilege we have a merit hashem doesn't say you have to go and jump through hoops you have to go in leap tall buildings hashem doesn't say you have to swim the water hashem just says be prepared be ready very interesting happen to be before we begin a young woman came to me she comes into the study and she said she says in hebrew i want to be with vader i want to confess i say you don't have to confess that's a different religion but over here it's going to like whatever you did i'm sure no no no no no she says to me rebbe uh i i came to you because i have to tell you i am a mother at risk and she began to denigrate herself she said it's okay if you're a teenager at risk that's okay but a mother at risk already has child children she should be at risk doing things that are at risk how could it be but then again rabbi said we live in an we live in a world that's turned upside down everything that was right is wrong everything that is wrong that is right good people on the bottom bad people on the top ulam foo do we think for one minute that we are living in normal times we are not absolutely not ikva it is difficult to navigate our way in the water so she says to me i'm beyond shiva beyond suga first person that ever said that to me in my life beyond sugar nobody nobody is beyond cuba there is nobody that can't repent there is nobody that could not reach out to hashem the worst in the world were able to reach out to hashem paro malach mitzrayim para shihishli melayam that threw children jewish children into the water to drown them what did he do to show up he walked out of the water went on to nineveh and became a melod and loser ben dardoi he did not leave much to the imagination of that he committed not much to the imagination he did chuva he got olam he got the next world there are lists of people cayenne the first harignaphesh did to shiva he was able to repent so i tell this young woman you tell me that you're beyond teshuva i said to her tell me where did you go to school where did you go to school i wanted to try to keep the conversation going she said well i went to basiaco ah you're a basiaco girl no i'm not a bay shaco girl i said no your bestiakogri told me when i'm not a basiaco girl believe me but you told me what one half an hour she argued with me whether she is a basiaco girl or not one half hour what a pl i said to her you're basiaco girl she said to me tell me what will be a sign from hashem that i can do teshuva i said i'll give you a very interesting sign only for you you go home and i'm going to tell you one pair to helim one psalm of the psalms of david to sing to say decide if you are accepted in your chuva is if you will cry if you won't cry then we'll have to work on something else but if you cry it'll be a simman she said okay i said is there anything else that i could do for you we talked a little bit more when she left rabbi's eye it was not like when she came in when she came in there was a certain i don't know how you would call it a zoot there was a certain arrogance and stubbornness and a certain attitude and a certain can we turn this down and there was a certain mindset however when she left it was her compartment was different aina of la mata her eyes were downward and she left out the study door into the driveway i'll be truthful with you my heart was moved when i saw the change i thought to myself gold wasser what's with you did you change do you feel different do you remember the yeshiva that you went to do you remember who was your rosh yeshiva do you remember you obey him you remember where you came from they'd be proud of you i'm not proud of you they'd be happy or not so happy i began to think she don't have to do chuba she realizes we have to do chuba we who come to the sheer who sit in the base matters we have to start to think i didn't have her telephone number i didn't know where she's from i wondered always what happened to her happened to be arab shabbos i get a card in the mail a beautiful card thank you what happened she said the first time to elim she cried pao gay mai mjor de came out of my eyes that i did not follow torah and she began to say all the steps that she made she signed it a base yaakov girl aza yofi is a kev all of us strive we're all good me there is nobody like us eden nobody in this entire world we're good people that come in at night here in order to hear the shurim of such great rabbis we are an unbelievable um so hashem says that when it comes to this type of a let me say a season of the year all of us we should realize that we have a koa a koch that we're all going to be forgiven that we're all going to have a year that will be a year like none other that we will all have all the things that we want all the things that we're asking for all the things that we ask hashem we have to ask knowing that hashem is the one that can give every single thing that we want and there is no difference whether it is teva or it is nice whether it is nature whether its miracle we have the zahu to get it ezra sulfur came to eretz israel listen for a second at the end it was during the time of bayasheni the second beita mikdash ezra sulfur came in it was terrible the mats of rouhani the spiritual situation was terrible the decline people ate what they shouldn't eat shabbat they didn't keep shabbos people hit bola intermarriage all kinds of things happen they rebelled against hashem what does ezra listen listen to a second what ezra has to say hashem the day is holy to hashem altis ablu the altifco do not mourn do not cry go and eat good food and drink something real good whatever beverage you like kikido because this day is holy to hashem the altayotsevo do not be sad do not be down because the greatness the majesty the enjoyment of hashem is your strength that's your power in simcha in happiness all of them before hashem say what kind of a business is this ezra comes in sees everyone ballet avera everybody doing sins he comes as rabbi say good yomtif i'm happy that everybody's here go have some good steak eat something whatever you like fish the best uh take good drinks whatever bartanura whatever you like the best have it uh get the best desserts uh whatever that is jubilees or eat all the best stuff why do naino so the first one is a question he sees people doing something wrong go ezra tell him hey you sinners what are you doing give them fire and brimstone give it to them over the head tell them how bad they are tell them they should be sitting on the floor like tisha b'av they should tear their garment over their available they should cry and they should be sad they should scream and wail no exactly the opposite as it tells them eat and drink and be happy why because they know that hashem can give them alev khadas a new heart a new look on life a new spirit a new excitement for shalom bias a new paranosa a new livelihood a new connection with their son or their daughter a new feeling about hashem hashem is with me i thought maybe he forgot about me he didn't forget never in all of the other things that we need in this world children should go on the derek in the proper way our health our health should be good for use everybody needs something and everybody also knows everybody knows where they went a little bit off during the year however hashem says come to me i'll change it up i'll switch it i promise you that you will be a new man and adam you'll be a new woman just believe and we do say this hashem you make a new spirit in front of me you'll change my heart you'll change me maybe last year wasn't so great maybe that was not the best year that i ever had however the year ends all of them not such great things as in the past now i begin anew now i am able to climb now i'm able to rise to greatness all i have to do is to remember one thing there is a power in elul there is a power in tishrei there is nothing in this world that can't be changed even a person was over one of the shlosh average even a person was over one of the three cardinal sins hashemis para says do teshuva you will be in the highest place du chuva you have no idea how far that you can go now it's important that we realize that one of the major ideas of doing chuva is a person that is able to realize the power of being homemade mini sayon standing the challenge we got challenges in life nicio not the challenges that we have now are not like the challenges ever before a young boy young girl can carry a telephone smartphone the whole world eight sadas the tree of knowledge tovara it's in their hand they're walking down the street they got it all maya say what could be done that a person could be all made beneath sayon you see out in the streets sho musha mayam it's a heaven yeshe what's going on in the streets you'll note that we have every single day new trials and tribulations that perhaps to the earlier generations they did not have they didn't have i'm walking over here friday night young men standing with a bottle huge bottle i never even saw they carry a beer in a bottle like this i never knew it it's like for the whole show you know the congregation and they're standing there friday night boys from the neighborhood big guys they said rebbe reby uh tell me one guy puts his hand on me i almost fell over he says remy can you make kiddush on this bottle it's friday night i'm going to show you i said well you could but you need to have the coast you you need to have that cup in order to put it in so i said but i have a different question for you guys three guys i said why don't you come friday night come come the show ah rabbit a big guy says we know you're sure there's not room in there there's nobody there you we won't get seat so we can't come i say i promise you you come on make seats you sit in my seat i promise you come you sit in my seat i looked at them i said i mean it afterwards come to my house you want sudokus whatever you want you want a little drink i'll give you a little drink i'd be happy to please it would be my greatest simcha okay we're gonna we're gonna see rabbi we're gonna see rebbe i'm a dreamer i thought maybe they're gonna come with me just because i asked didn't come but i kept watching the door because i thought oola maybe they would come if you will ask me rabbi sai how well did i dub in that night how well did i pray i would be ashamed to tell you because i was watching the door it came to be the end of dabbling i said to myself maybe you didn't say the right words maybe you should have stayed there and not gone to show friday night maybe that was the shasta kosher to talk with them maybe you should have tried not to leave without them i was feeling pretty bad elaine al-shabai's the last villa friday night the door opens and the three walk in i called him over i kissed them i know you're not supposed to kiss some basements i bring him over to my chair they stayed for orlando do we know the greatness of claudius royal the guys are drinking on the street they're smoking up and they come in for allah to praise hashem it's nothing greater it's all juva me ava cuba out of love not fear not upset not ownish not punishment not all that it's chuva melva interesting interesting you remember akhir alicia banavuya nobody alicia benavoya right remember he grew up unfortunately he went off the dara he went way off from the path he departed there are those that say why did he depart he was such a great tamil he was such a great scholar he's quoted in the gemara alisha banabuya so there are a few things the commentary say that one that was a problem he used to read all kind of different books he would be there with the gemara on the top he'd be with hamas on the top and underneath on his lap he would have see frey menus he would have apicorsus heresy apostasy sometimes he would forget he had the books on the lab when he would stand up all the books would flow over and people would see some say while his mother was expecting him she was listening to greek music music that didn't have a great effect on the unborn child some say it was at his bris when there were ham there and they were learning and there was a fire the great the fire came on their head because it was like they were learning the fire of sinai and the father wanted the child the new baby to be like that not for the learning not for the torah for the majesty for the show ulterior motives and so eventually eventually the great elisha benavuya who had accomplished so much in torah who was quoted who everybody knows he went off the zoar says he cut down nitiot he cut down the tios he cut down trees what does that mean kiyodam ates asada a man a woman is a tree of the field what did he do he went into the yeshiva and he would see a baker he'd see a boy learning and he would say excuse me uh why are you learning what are you learning right now the boy would tell him why are you learning because i want to grow up to be a big tamil and be great i can see that you will never be a tamil i can see that you're going to do some kind of a menial job you're going to be a farmer whatever it is the boy would hear this great rabbi a great personage distinguished looking he believed him he'd leave the yeshiva he'd go from boy to boy to boy you cannot do anything worse a person that sins and encourages other people to sin that's pretty bad anyhow fast forward if we had all night i would go into alicia just that inion with you alone but unfortunately we're looking at the clock what happens is alicia benavuya he had one great talmud one great student rebbe mayer reby mayer lit up lit up the entire world with his torah may ear lit up and the great rebbe mayor was learning he was in debate midrash he was in like we're learning tonight and all of a sudden what had happened unbelievable it was yom kippur the holiest day of the year shacha leos beshabas that came out on the shabbos day yom kippur holiest day of the year shabbos holiest day of the year all of a sudden rebbe mayer is learning who comes alisha benavuya riding on a horse big white horse yum kipper shabbos hayley geshabis he's on the horse tragedy of tragedies rebbe meyer begins to talk with him in learning alicia benavideo writing rebbe mayer talking to his former rebbe in learning and they're discussing and when rebbe mayer is walking he is measuring every step as it says no hashem in everything that you do on shabbos there's a tomb you can only go so far you cannot go further than that outside of the city so when they got to the edge of the home where they could not go any further rebbe mayer said to his rabbi alicia benavoya come back in other words you're going too far it was an interesting inference return you back sliding children everybody can return you cannot return terrible he says i can't rebbe mayor tried to argue with him akhir goes off into the sunset very big question rambam does say rambam does say that sometimes the person can do imgdulim a lot of a lot of sins sometimes it says that the person keep be prevented from doing teshuva sometimes it could be but we know that anybody can do teshuva anybody it doesn't matter what they did so why can't ah do chuba why is it that they said except why can't he do tuba hashem says even if you're going to do such bad aderos then it's going to be that they reach the heavens your evil your sin reached up to heaven meshum hashem says don't worry quebec from there i will take you i will bring you back unbelievable yakuchimoni says where was hashem where'd they find hashem they found hashem in gehenum they found hashem and gehenna hashem is everywhere hashem never ever ever leaves us so it was possible says the banished high the great banished high of baghdad and unbelievable terrorists it would not be good enough with all the sins that alisha benavuya did with all davares it would not be good enough for him to do chuvamiyera he could not do repentance because he was afraid i'm going to get an ownership something's going to happen poverty low eleno other things i don't even want to mention could happen i'm afraid so i'm going to hurry up and do teshuva i hurry up and i'm going to repent and then it won't happen chivameer would not be good enough to expunge the level of sin that he had committed it would have to be teshuva maya it would have to be repentance out of love why i want to repent because hashem is my merciful father hashem is hashem is the one that cares about me that brought me into this world hashem guided me every time hashem gave me the ears that i'm able to hear gave me the eyes that i'm able to sing gave me the mouth that i'm able to taste gave me the ability to walk rebecca the ability to walk to come into the shirt to leave the sheer to walk to the parking lot to walk home he says step that a person takes that's unbelievable all the things that hashem gave to us in life all the beauty that hashem gave us in life he took care of me how could i for one minute not respond in kind how could i not be good back to hashem so it comes during this time that we've got to do chuvame chuva out of our love for hashem hagon says a little bit different why does it say that the person is prevented it does not say that the doors are locked but if a person tries even the door is closed they can push it open it's not locked maybe they have to push harder maybe they have to go it all depends what a person wants to do what's the russon interesting the great baba sally started in morocco came to eretz israel so back in morocco was difficult the neighborhood was terrible the anti-semitism was at the highest peak however before he did many things he would go to the mikvah he would go to the mix of personal purity babasali one night wanted to do something nobody knows what it was something that was mystical picabala and he tells the roshaco he tells the president i want to go to the mikvah the mikva was not exactly located in the best part of town he says rabbit you can't go to miku he says i have to go you cannot go to the mikveh this is it just rebbe please i care about your life there are some times that you know sakana is a danger you can't go it keeps telling baba sally baba sally said if you don't want to go you don't have to i'll go alone you don't go i'll go he said no rebbe i won't let you go well i'm going no matter what interesting babastali went they got to the mikvah the man takes out the key he starts to try to open the key the door to the mick for the lock puts the key like this tries it puts the key trying and trying and trying it don't go baba sally said could i try game the key prabhusali put the key in the key turns it walks into the mikvah baba sally said i want you to know the reason that the key worked for me is because i wanted to go the reason the key didn't work for you is because you really didn't want to go in life a person has to know if they want if they have the haishek if they have the ratsun if they have the desire they can do anything they want everybody knows that whatever an individual's desire is hashem will help them to accomplish their desire whatever a person wants to do nothing is going to stand in the way of an iron-clad will the person that wants to be better the person that wants to improve the person that wants to do chiva the individual that wants to change this saseras he made shiva this rosh hashanah this person wants to change there is nothing in this world that can stand in the person's way bedel shodhan wrote in whichever way a person wants to go they will be led the only thing is they need to make perhaps a small little revision in their life a small addition a small kabbalah a small resolution something that they will do it's a very interesting little remiss from the great rav aaron of carlin robert kalina said what is zero ephesus ephesus zero take that same word same letters epis something ephes nothing epis something what's the difference one little nakuda one little dot one little dog ish that's all it changes the entire word we have many things that are like that unfortunately there is a word yamusu right the end there's another word same letters to wipe out all of the sin to wipe out all of the negative to wipe out all that an individual has in the way of keeping them down in rookness in spirituality what's the difference the little dot the little nikuda that little point all individual has to do is to accept upon themselves to change to become better to reach higher i have to tell you unbelievable incident about chuva i get a call and there's a people coming from eretz israel there's a young woman that needs a kidney she needs a kidney so they called me up and they said we're coming in we don't have anybody we don't have a contact we don't have anybody in the medical world we don't have anybody that can help us get things together we're poor family we were told to come to you i'm not sure it's my expertise but please come 100 they came the whole family nobody religious sit around the table though everybody the father the mother the uncle the girl herself that needed the kidney everybody uh a table full and they begin to explain to me it's terrible she needs a kidney very desperately and it was impossible so they came to america was a suggestion they don't have any money immediately i started to write things down to make a list of what would have to do what we'd have to accomplish in order to get this young woman what she needs in this world we had a meeting at the end of the meeting they said okay we'll call you back i didn't take their number the next day i wait for a call ain't called no call nobody next day no call third day no i was wondering a week goes by they didn't contact me i start to wonder what were they doing here what was this a a set up or was it true or what a week nobody finally almost two weeks later same guy calls up rebbe goldbacher yes uh could we come you know we want to talk about the whole thing the medical situation and the young woman that needs a kidney i said please come they came and sat at the table when they sat there i said please tell me you were here i was waiting on your call the very next morning why didn't you call me back they said i'm going to tell you why when we came we saw your dati we saw you religious and we know you weren't going to help us i said how could you do that how could you say i said that i mean i know i look a little bit religious but it's the truth okay could be but i was ready to help anyhow i said so why you came back now we called the same guy and he said i told you you should go to goldwasser so they came back i tell it to you very short if the kid hashem that the girls from the besiakov in the different schools did it was amazing they took her to dialysis in bay ridge and then they had to bring her all the way back to where she was staying she was very tired on the way back the girls got a car with a very big back seat they put a blanket they put a pillow they put a sheet they put a bed for her so that she could rest fridays they would take over to the family khala kugel fish a key to shachem for the family finally finally she's in line for a kidney we have to do a fundraiser they don't have money they don't have money to come even so i call up someone who i know who did chuva he used to be one of the greatest in iraq in eretz israel and i knew his name would pull a lot of the people the chevron that they were going to have a lot of people from israel i asked him a personal favor he said yes he's going to do it i told them they put out ads all over the place they were so excited how did you get him how is it possible and i said he heard about you and he's coming he came to pick me up the night of the concert came to my house i got in the jeep with him he took me to the place that we had the address he takes out his guitar he goes over to the place he put his head like this against the outside wall he starts shaking his head he says rabbi slicha forgive me i will not be able to play tonight i will not be able to do this concert i'm sorry sorry you you got to do the concert there's no aids out you've got to he says you have to respect my wishes i cannot do it he takes his guitar picks it up and begins to walk to the car i said you don't understand they already think that we say lies they are already suspicious of religious people please you cannot do this to me he gets into the car closes the door i hang on the door i did the only thing i know how to do at that point i began to cry i said to him you cannot leave you must play hashem gives you the words hashem gave me the words we are all familiar with khazal what is chuvash layma what is true complete repentance the person comes for the same nisayan they came to the same challenge they same same test and they're able to stand strong oh made benicion and walk away from it i said to him the whole reason out of all the halls in new york and there's thousands and thousands why was the address that was chosen this address it was for the nissan of you he says rebbe i don't want to remember what happened in those walls i have zikr not lotto vote i have some memories that are not good i told him this is your test hashem will help you that you will have only good zero not he said okay two conditions i'll go in two conditions once i told him that first is you will come on the stage with me while i'm doing the performance the second is that you will say to elim i told him the second i'll agree to i will say telem the first no way on earth i will be behind the curtain safe and sound if you want i will say that to helium so you can hear me he agreed with crowd that night nobody few people religious not many he's saying all of his songs all the secular songs all that he's saying for the crowd in the middle he's saying one song about emunah he's saying one song in order to get the crowd interested it was a beautiful the people started to get into it all of a sudden he said i will teach you the words he's teaching these people the words and they are singing it along it was i don't know if meshiach didn't come in that moment it's a question all of a sudden while everybody's singing the door opens everybody looks i be shocked the young woman that need the kidney comes in the doctor said she could come in just for a few minutes with an attendant people cried people were shaking people saw that what they're doing and why they're here that night is for a nephesh ah israel is for a precious precious jewish anishama tahora who came in in that moment people began to throw money people emptied their pockets whatever they had they gave people started to write out checks and nobody asked within those few minutes that she was there all the money was raised that was necessary for the entire trip the roufey kobasa romafli lassos the raw fechinum healed her she got her kidney she returned home the israeli paper wrote up the whole thing they did an excellent job but when they came to me they wrote rav goldwasser who i called the editor i said why it is during this time that we realize hashem loves us hashem loves us more than the greatest person could love us more than we love ourselves hashem's abba for us is mind-boggling before you go to sleep tonight think about it one minute hashem i entrust my spirit in your hand i am yours you will take care of me the best when you wake up in the morning hashem you love me you gave me back my summer i could do another day in the land of the living i can breathe i can see can hear can taste i can walk i can love in this hood that we just do the little things that we remember the love of hashem each and every one of us should be to an unbelievable year a a search sweet and blessed with all good health and happiness enriches in chivas layma in children that are on the derath in good shalom bias in shidduchim and everything that a person might need any yeshua or any rapport should be quick that we should all have it claus israel should be united by abba and baser we should all go together in this shul as well will be transported to eretzi so el 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