LIVE Tu Be'shvat seder!! With Rabbi Alon Anava!

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And you all have to understand I'm leaving tomorrow night on our on my tour. It's busy here like a mad house and [snorts] all we wanted to do is the sedar of Tishbat that that you can all have some type of an idea about the sedar of Tishvat and have it and celebrate it where you are. So thank you. Thank you. Please, if in the first few minutes if you can just let me know that you hear me well [snorts] because I'm getting all sorts of popups on my screen. Just wanted to make sure that uh everything works well. See, now I lost any comments. Now we hear you. Okay, perfect. So, we're going to wait a few more minutes till everybody jumps on board. But uh for me it's already and less than 24 hours. I'm on my way to the airport and starting my tour in the United States. Starting in Los Angeles Tuesday and Wednesday are lectures both in Los Angeles and in Enino. And uh then I'm flying out to Denver. Shabbat. I'm going to be in Denver. and mo Shabbat powerful lecture in Aurora. Sunday morning another lecture in Aurora and Sunday evening a big event in Denver. H of course all the topics are on the website. You don't have to now ask where and what and how. Just go to atsmood.org/our. The link is in the description of the live and you find all the information about the tour. From there I am continuing to South Florida. First lecture is Boca Raton. Second lecture is in southwest west ranches. And third lecture is in Aventura. All amazing topics. And from there flying out through New York, Shabaton in New York. And then a series of lectures. Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. Sundays in Long Island, five towns. Wednesday, Monday is Brooklyn. Tuesday is Rosh Shadar. Very, very, very big event in Queens. And that is a special one. And on Wednesday, last event of the tour and that I will actually address this event shortly in the live, but that event I think is this summarizing the entire event and you just need to look at the topic and understand what we're going to have there. And I highly recommend that you go to atmood.org/our. The link is under the video where you can see all the information about the tour. And uh and if you in one of these cities then uh I recommend to you to show up. If you're not, share it. Maybe you have friends, families, somebody from those cities and uh they will benefit from that. So, I think we have already a few people on the line and we can start and uh as [clears throat] I said for me it's already tishbad here in Israel and we have a few uh user a few people here from Israel. I saw before a few comments so in Israel it's already tishbad and needless to say east from here Australia and so forth. And unfortunately, Tubishmat is one of the most underestimated, most ignored holiday on the Jewish calendar. And I hope tonight I can shed some light and explain the depth of Tishbat and what can be achieved and how powerful this day is. Uh there are four heads of the years and is the shaote the head of the year for the trees. Now what did that what does that mean? That's what we're going to talk about tonight. But something very magical, something very powerful happens in the land of Israel tonight. And the land of Israel gets rejuvenated today. And everything around agriculture in Israel is a mitzvah because you have to follow the jubilee year and you have to follow and laws of mass and don't forget that all our forefathers were farmers and very soon we are all going to be farmers. So everything around the land of Israel is connected to a mitzvah. And tonight you're going to be around the mitzvah of Israel because we're going to be uh tasting from the seven species. When I mentioned the lecture on Wednesday, February 18 in New York, I'm going to talk about a lot of important topics, but one of them is about uh the land of Israel, the importance of the land of Israel and everything around it. And how is that got to do with you? But you have to understand that when something works physical, it also works in the same way in the spiritual level. So if we know based on our holy Torah that onishbat the land of Israel gets rejuvenated, then needless to say that in a spiritual level there is some type of rejuvenation to the whether it's the nation of Israel or whether it's the land of Israel. We're going to discuss that as we go. But today it's a new beginning. We are changing now a path a a a completely new beginning. We're putting the winter behind and spiritually we are going to now hop in steps of 15 and there's significance to the 15 but from today really it goes back to that's when the journey starts and I've explained on that in a previous class. ones starts the journey of rejuvenation and growth is when the shea the power the energy the life of everything that has to do with nature and I'll elaborate how it's got to do with us comes down to the world and now 15 days from today is the next step of the light coming down 15 days after that is the purim another step of the light coming down 15 days After that is Nissan more [clears throat] light is coming down and after that is the 15th day of Nissan. Sorry I think I said before 15th day. 15th day after purim isan and then 15 days later is pes steps of 15 of growth and I am already giving you a spoiler that hopefully if you follow all the lectures in the tour it will prepare you to a very spe special journey that we're going to start when I come back from the tour from Purim to Pesak so I'm giving you just a spoiler pay attention I'm going to address it a lot while I'm at the tour but when I'm returning. We're starting a very special journey from Purim and Pesak. And this year I'm going to do it more public and we're going to do something very special. So stay tuned back to Tishvat and the land of Israel. On Tishvat the land of Israel gets rejuvenated. So the entire agriculture aspect of that is getting its life force its its energy. I'm going to address the fact that the Torah compares the the man to a tree as the man is the tree of the field and how is that affecting us but before we start I want to give a few pointers about the sed because tonight you're doing it with me for you most people online is today it's not even tonight and by the way uh one option is doing the sed in the evening uh for me it's already very late at night that's just goes to show you how busy it is before I'm leaving. But best to do it in the evening of Sunday. And if you can't, you can do it Monday during the day. And by the way, today I'm going to do the like middlesize sed. I'm just going to go through it some explanations and then I'm going to leave you to do your own sed on my website. If you go to atmood.org/tishvat and the link is underneath this video, you will find two options of the tubishvat. The long version and the short version. There are different approaches. the different ways if you have time. I'm going to do today summary in between based on the teachings of the Benishai the rabbi behind me that's the path of that I go by so theish that I do is based on his teaching and his teachings is based on the great great from and it's not going to be the long one but is going to be very insightful the reason why I'm so particular about talking giving you this preparation because I mentioned Rabbi Rabbi a few hundred years ago here inat used to do used to conduct a sedishvat in the same level of sed and uh with a set table four cups of wine reading everything not the reading the hagada but to the same extent explaining that on pesa When you conduct the you can reach to a place of freedom where you can break free from your limitations that's the concept of pes but onishvat when you conduct the tishvat the right way then the same way that on pes you can reach to a place of freedom breaking from limitations on tishvat you can do the exact same effect effect with rejuvenation with starting something new and I'll address that later and I talked about it in the promo but today is a very apicious day to set some time for prayers to do chuva to repent for whatever you think is blocking you and to h start a new beginning. It can be a business, can be investment, can be marriage, can be looking for another half, can be anything that is new. Today has a very strong power to shift everything and uh bring you to this rejuvenation and uh and uh and receiving the power of growth. [clears throat] One uh quick thing before we start, well, a few quick things before we start. Darizel says something very interesting and for the ones of you who follow me we're learning from his writings the gate of incarnations and he's talking a lot about incarnations and the the traveling of the souls in many different ways and he explains there to make a long story short that there are souls in trees going through some type of a tikun a rectification and there are many ways how we can assist them explains that onishvat when we're conducting the said we actually by saying the blessings on the fruit whether is a soul in there in that particular fruit or tree or not it doesn't matter but we assist these souls that need that elevation. So just another thing to kind of take to consideration because maybe uh some of our loved ones are not in a good spiritual place and maybe by us saying the blessing on the fruit the right way with the right intention then maybe we are assisting either a soul that I know or maybe a soul that I don't know but it doesn't matter if I know them or not. If I can assist, why not? The Zar says that today is a day of tikun. And why? Because today there's a concept that is called sweetening of the judgments. So all it takes from you to do uh some actions of repentance, chuva, prayer, charity, changing your thought, I'm going to do this, I'm going to do that, taking on yourself some good decisions. And uh today will give you the push to actually do it and to be able to reach to a tikun. And why? Because the power of the day of sweetening the judgments. And another thing that the zor elaborates on that many of the times we bring on ourselves all sorts of blockages. I sin. I I talk gossip. I say lash. I look to the wrong direction. I steal. I I slander. Whatever it is. and I will cause some type of a blockage in the channel where the life force the kayud comes down and that's done by my sin. That's why I always say that my sin is basically what punishes me. It's not a action. It's a it's a it's a reaction to my action. So the sorry the explains how today one can reach to a place of removing these blockages. So you focusing with yourself on things that you know kind of bother you and stop you from your spiritual growth and today you can kind of kick it out of the out of the ring. Uh one more thing I want to quote these from who mentions the verse the like the man is the man is like the tree of the field. So he says something very interesting. He says, "Today we're going to eat from dried fruit." And many times our nama is like a dried fruit. Fruit is like, you know, crumbled and dry and weak. You no hope, no energy, nothing works out, you know, you're like, so the lublin says by by eating the dried fruit, we bring life force to our and rejuvenate it. And uh he promises if you do it the right way you you rejuvenate your soul. You start a brand new beginning. And last but not least before we start and then conclude uh today is a very powerful day like I said for rectification for chuva but for prayers for gula and I'm just summarizing not bringing you all every little detail. Prayers for parnasa. Today the gates of parnasa can be opened in a large sheffa today can bestow on you. And last but not least is finding your other half which two bishvat is known to have the ability to bring two souls together. Therefore I'm going tonight I'm going to be in madam praying and tomorrow I'm going to be in. uh underneath the video there's links you can submit names and uh for me to pray on your behalf and uh all that great stuff. So without further ado, before we start, I quickly want to just remind everybody if you can wash your hands. We're not going to wash for bread in this session. But since we're going to be saying a lot of blessings and you might have touched your hair, shoes, and all sorts of places, then wash your hands. No blessing, no nothing. Just uh for cleansiness. And I'm just the way what I'm going to do is I'm just going to grab what I need to eat, say the blessing, read the verses, explain in a few words, and uh and then we're going to continue. Might be some interruptions, might be some noises. My family is all here starving, waiting to eat. They're all like eating their fingers already. Uh some of them are already crashed. Uh but uh we'll start. We'll see how it goes. If I have time and you write some stuff, I'll try to look, maybe answer some questions. But without further ado, let's begin. So, we're going to start by saying the blessing of meote. By the way, we're going to say the blessings on different categories. Misonote, which is wheat and barley, and then wine. And after that it but from the seven species and after that which will be uh any fruit and after that just to conclude explanations and then the last blessing uh many have the custom to wash for bread in many of the years that's what I do u but I like saying the blessing in particular that's what the benes teaches to say the blessing and if you wash for bread then You covered everything. So what one can do is say the blessing and then after that say the after blessing after wash for bread and have a festive meal and celebrate it the right way. So let's begin. Uh who wants to pass me down some of that yummy mezonote so we can start saying bot. Okay, we're waiting for the volunteers to pass down the mezzonut. In the meantime, by the way, if you're in Israel and you're just following me, that's great. If you're in America or whatever, uh if you can just follow, take notes, by the way, on my website atmood.org tubishvat. You'll find both options of the short sed and the long sed. Just if you don't mind, just pass me this. You don't have to >> [snorts] >> That's it. Wasn't that hard, right? >> Okay. So, like I said, we're going to start with bimonaut. My wife made an amazing cake. I think it's my wife and daughter, right? >> Oh, only the daughter or only wife and daughter? Wife and daughter. Okay. I'm going to share with you uh the cake was a little bit eaten, but I'll share with you the nice cake, [laughter] whatever's left of it. Nice strawberries and chocolate cake. And of course, each one can eat whatever misonote. You can eat cereal, crackers, uh anything that you can say the blessing on me on. We decided to have a cake so we can have a sweet new uh year for the so I cut a piece and I recite the Can you put this down? Please put it close cuz I'm going to have boron on the strawberry. I just noticed I'm going to be eating in front of you now the whole night. That's why I didn't do it for years. having everybody watching and me eating. Let me read the verses. I will translate as I read. [clears throat] And by the way, if you are following, I'm reading from the book of chapter verse six and on. You should guard the mitzvot of God your God and to walk his in his path and to fear him. Master of the universe, God your God is taking you, bringing you to the good land where there's rivers flowing and wellsp springs coming from from the mountains, a land of wheat and barley, uh uh grape and fig, remon vite, pomegranates and olive shem oil and honey. A land that you're going to have such an abundance that abundance you're going to have any everything. Nothing is going to miss there. the land that gives you any mineral and and precious metals and you should eat and you should be full and you should bless God your God. The famous verse that is our only indication in the Torah for prayers for Birkaton. That's the only prayer from the Torah. All the rest is from the sages. And why should we do that? For the great land that Hashem gave you. We don't really realize what it means, the land of Israel. If people would realize what the land of Israel means, they wouldn't even leave it for one second. The only reason why I'm leaving the land of Israel, by the way, is for you. I'm not I don't I'm not looking for anything in America. But when we really understand the importance of the land of Israel and what it means, then any person that would would not leave Israel for a second. And that's why you see how the entire world is after Israel because something is very very powerful here. Let's continue. Be very very careful not to forget your God that you will reject his Torah and his and his laws and all the rules that I'm commanding you today. A pro warning from the Torah. Don't go away from Hashem. [snorts] that you should not get to a place that you should eat and grow fat and big and build big properties and sounds like a little bit like Americans big properties sitting there everything is good and looks luscious and big you have a lot of candles and a lot of gold I don't know if you noticed the gold went down today so but nevertheless It tells you you're going to have a lot of gold and everything you have will have an abundance and and your heart will harden and you'll forget the fact that God your God took you out of the land of Egypt from being a slave that Hashem took you through the desert, fed you, guarded you, and not Not only that gave you the man and not only that it continues by saying is bringing you into places of challenges. Why? To test you first of all to put you under some type of stress and then to test you and then why? So at the end after you pass the test hopefully he's going to reward you for that you should not say that it's me my might my strength that did that always remember the the master of the universe the master of the universe is the one who's giving you power for the fact that he's standing standing firm with his covenant that he told our forefathers today. So we learned from the beginning the importance of the land of Israel of the blessings of Birkaton when I mentioned that today is a very auspicious day for parnas. I can tell you already that if you need there are a few keys that you need to make sure but I'm not going to elaborate on that mo Shabbat next Shabbat February 7 I'm going to give a lecture in in Aurora Colorado about everything about parasa money everything just listen to that I'm not going to elaborate on that right now but I can just give you a hint that you need to make sure that you saying you want minimum is to say every Okay, let's continue. It says uh something here very very interesting. [snorts] [clears throat] From wheat you make bread which is the main source of food of the man. The numerical value of the word of wheat is 22. Why? Corresponding to the 22 letters of the Torah. The 22 letters of the Torah is the food of the soul. The bread is the food of the body and the 22 letters of the Torah when learning the Torah that feeds your soul. So you need both from directions. You need the spiritual and the physical. Next step, we are going to have some wine. And boy, do I have surprises to you. I'm coming to America with new bottles of wine. I'm sure you remember uh the the four cup wines that I brought from Israel a few times under fire too. But this trip I'm actually coming with more with more wine. So stay tuned and we're just going to be pouring here. Now in many forms of doing the sed of tishvat some have the custom of actually drinking the four cups of wine there's a sed how to do it and of course I always recommend to stay on your path safari but most people don't really follow the tubishvad I highly recommend that you follow the type somewhere in the middle if You made a mistake, don't worry about it. It's not the end of the day if you made the wrong blessing or did something wrong. It's mainly the point of sitting down on Tishvat. It's a festive day to get you off YouTube. Well, you're now on YouTube. Sorry. To get you off Instagram, to get you off Tik Tok, to get you off all the junk that you're on, to focus for half an hour a little bit on kadusha. See what to do. And hopefully you do it yourself. And I can guarantee to you you do the you'll see great blessing in your life with no doubt and a huge change. We're going to say the blessing on the wine. >> Amen. [snorts] >> Want some? >> I know not you. Okay. few verses that we read after the wine. It says that wine will make the heart of a human happy. Well, that we know. We know that. That's no, you don't have to be a genius for that. Especially if you drink the another wine that makes you extremely happy. But the verse that I'm reading from is from the book of Tim uh chapter 104 verse 15 for Tishbat and the direct translation if we need to go to the direct translation. This time I brought I came here prepared since I never did the pes like that. But uh let me see what the translations say. Even though I'm always very very unhappy with the translation, but let's see what it says just so I can explain it the best way. In the meantime, if you can give me some thumbs up that you can hear me and I'm not talking to myself, that can also be very helpful. [cough and clears throat] Okay, if you can give me some some thumbs up, that would be I only got four thumbs up for one person. So, [clears throat] okay. So, the translation of the verse and wine which cheers man's heart to make the face shine from oil and bread which sustains man's heart. Now let's see what uh [clears throat] our sages explain why does the wine called and also is called because it brings a cry to the world. It's another word of wine in Hebrew. If you try to go against it, you become very very poor. Says, it says, it's written without a V, but you read it with a VV. He explains if you go what's called head-tohead and you're going against what Hashem is putting on your path. And in Hebrew, we call it head-to-head. Hashem is pushing you there and you going there. He says the reason why we call it the ro if you have the merit then you merit to become r means ahead advance and if not become rash and where rash means poverty and very little saying in other words hashem is putting road stop like on your road on your path where you need to go don't don't try to go against it don't don't try to fight it just follow what hashem is telling you and you'll see you'll be you you'll be fine. That's where humility has to come in. Next it says the son of Rabbi says in the name of how where do we learn that we don't say po poetry and singing but on wine which means we take wine and we need to say psalms around the he's quoting a verse and saying uh yeah but it says that uh that wine is supposed to bring some type of joy. So and he's quoting a verse this verse is from the book of Judges verse chapter 9 verse 13 and [clears throat] excuse me so it says he's asking there if wine is what h makes people happy so what does God make people happy with? That's why we learn that we say psalms of praises to Hashem on wine. It's explaining now that after we said the blessing of the wine, we're going to take a fruit from the tree, but from the seven species, which means that we can take either olive or fig or a date. Later on, we're going to do batm the the pomegranates. If you don't have it all, it's also okay. But the first one that we want to take is the zite is the olive. And when we say on it, do we have an olive here? Oh, right next to me. We're going to say borri on the olive being from the seven species. But right after that, we going to eat also from the date and fig and everything. But we're not going to say any braha. If you can, I highly recommend, excuse me, that if you do the sed, the fruits, the vegetables, everything that you have, especially the wine should be from the land of Israel and especially the seven species. If you're in the land of Israel, you don't have a problem. But if you're somewhere in the world, not only that you should buy kosher um olives or kosher wine, try to make it that you buying the wine, the co the the olives, everything from the land of Israel. And we quote, "A land of milk and honey. A land that their its fruits are so luscious. They're lush like milk and sweet like honey." It says in the He says at one time he came to and found a cluster of grapes laying on the table and it looked like a calf of three years old. huge for a cluster of of grapes. Sorry went to he saw a goat lying neck under the the tree of the figs and and milk coming out from the goat and milk is and and honey is coming down from the fig and they mix into each other. Wow. That's the land of Israel. After we eat from the from the olive, we say we're quoting here our sages saying that the olive is a fresh and beautiful and it's its oil shines the world and the same way that beta migdash shines its light for all around the world and he quotes how all the nations follow the master of the universe. Therefore, our sages and our forefathers and our great teachers are also called compared to an olive. Why? because they're shining their world with their amuna and with their Torah. Beautiful. The same way, how beautiful. The same way that the olive, the oil of the olive is used in the holy temple to shine the world. So our great sages and our great teachers, they shine the world with their Torah and with their amuna. And therefore, they are also called like a fresh olive. Beautiful. Now, we're going to eat from the date, and we're not going to say Abraa. I highly recommend that you always check all your fruit, all your vegetables for bugs, and any other living creatures. Uh, again, we're not going to say the blessing. And if you can get dried fruit from Israel, even better. Okay, let's continue. It says the son of Abba says in the name of he's quoting part of a verse from [clears throat] sorry not so easy to teach and eat. So he quotes a verse from uh sorry uh the book of Mish chapter 27 verse 18 and uh sorry and he says how come the words of Torah how come the words of Torah are compared to a fig why Beautiful. But I I don't know why I jumped to the fig. See, that's the problem here. Sorry, we're back on the We're back on the date. Sorry. See, I made a mistake here. So, I went a little bit ahead. is the sadic will blossom like a like a date tree if it's quoting the word tamar date why is it also saying is a tree and if you're saying a tree why should you If I would call it only date, then you would say the same way that a date tree doesn't change its trunk maybe doesn't change his trunk. If I would say tree and not specifically date a tree is not necessarily is a general name maybe it's a tree that doesn't make fruit how can you say maybe a sadic doesn't do fruit therefore we say both the tamar and the just to recap what he was saying that how can we compare the sadic to a date it says the the sadic will grow and grow and grow like a day tree. You ever saw day tree? It goes meters and meters and meters. So if you go in the path of righteousness, you're going to grow and grow and grow and as they say they try the sky is the limit. The question is why is it quoted only as a date sorry as a date and a tree and not just a date or just a tree. So it's saying the same way that a tree a general tree maybe is not making fruit. So why would I call the sadic that way? He's not going to make fruit. You're not going to make any progress spiritual growth in growth in this world. And if you say it's only a date, then the tree the trunk of the date tree doesn't doesn't change. So maybe what the sadic doesn't change. I can't do chuva. Therefore, it says we'll call it both and tamar. And that what you want to take from that is that when you are going in the path of righteousness, then you're going to grow and grow and grow and reach levels that there's no end. And if you are not only going in the path of a date rather just a regular tree that doesn't bear fruit, then you you grow there. Sorry. You just stand there with no growth, >> no fruit, no achievements, nothing. Life is just standing in the same place. Now, let's eat some figs. Do we have figs here? We have right. Okay. Pass me some figs. Okay. And I apologize for you seeing me eating like this. I can tell you everything is delicious. I can't wait to eat everything once we got off the live. Okay, after we eat the fig, let's go back to what we said before. Said in the name of that they're quoting [clears throat] saying, "Why are words of Torah compared to a fig?" And he answers, "The same way that the fig tree, the at any time of the year, you will find figs. All year round, there's going to be fruit on the tree." The same thing with words of Torah. anytime you're going to turn to the Torah, you're going to find something good there. So the same way that the figs are year round, the Torah is available at all times. Brilliant and beautiful. What do you take from that besides eating the yummy figs? is that at every moment your mind has to be channeled on the Torah one way or another. Whether it's through learning prayer, doing mitzvot, doing good things, your mind constantly has to be around the Torah. But more than that, one needs to take from that and one needs to learn as much as Torah possible. Now, we're going to go to the pomegranates. Can you bring me the pomegranates? And since every time you go sit back there, just bring me the pomegranates and bring me right after that also the walnuts. And if you don't mind like a spoon or something. No, no. The ones at the end. And bring me also a spoon. Matim. Okay. So now we're going to eat some of the pomegranates. And if you notice up till now, we ate olive from the seven species. Then we ate from uh the date. Then we ate from fig. Now we're going to eat from the uh pomegranate. And again, I'm just reminding you, no blessings. And uh we're just eating and uh reciting the the the verses till my uh wonderful assistant will bring me uh okay. So not really the seasoning for pomegranates, but let's see what goes. M very good for no season. That's pretty good. One of my favorite sages, the Rabbi says, "The sinners of Israel, the light of hell cannot control them." So much more so that the light of doesn't have control of the altar made of gold. Why you what's what's why are you mentioning the the the altar made out of gold? And it says that it's um the weight of a few a few gold bullions. It was working for a few years and the light of the fire doesn't didn't control it. And it says that the the sinners of Israel are full of with commandments like a pomegranate so many seeds. He's quoting where he's reading it from said which means the side of the of the hell rather the ones who are empty even the ones who are empty from there they're still full of mitzvot even so so much more so to make this a long h long explanation short that he's passing positive judgment and that's what we need to learn from that he's saying you know what even the sinners of Israel they're still full of mitzvot any direction that you look at a person and you can point a finger and say oh he's sitting if you look very well you'll see that that person is doing a lot of other mitzvot maybe better than you in many other places therefore one should always look at another person and judge him favorably and not whatever looks on the outside is exactly how it is. Now we're going to go to eat uh how do you call these? Pecans. >> Walnuts. What? >> Walnuts. >> Walnuts. Okay. >> Yeah. Yeah. I used to eat them when I was young and I used to crack them with my hands. I know some people have like the crackers. All you need to do is put two of them together and you know, you crack it open and and uh and you open it. So, we're going to eat a piece of the walnut. I did it pretty good. It's still whole. Okay. So, we have this. I'm going to eat it. I'm so hungry. Okay. Why do we eat? Why do we eat from the walnuts? It says that in many places our sages compare the nation of Israel to walnuts. Why? Because when you look at a walnut tree, you don't see much going on there. It looks like a very simple tree. And uh and not only that, when you uh bruise the tree, so to say, inside of it, you found a lot of more food just by the the the the walnut. That's what it says. That's the the concept of the nation of Israel. They're modest and humble in their action and their sages, their students, their the Torah learners are humble and they don't show off. You sometimes see a person looks a simple person, but if you start talking to that person, you suddenly see there's wisdom here that you can't imagine. It's just these people don't go and brag. First of all, you're looking at a looks like there's nothing in it. Looks like a piece of, you know, it doesn't look like there's food. If you like, let's say, new here and you see this, this doesn't look like really like food. Same thing. Sometimes a person from the outside doesn't look so great, but in the inside there's great food. Very interesting. It says here the same way that uh uh you know many things can happen on the walnuts and not affect what's inside. It says the same thing on the nation of Israel. They can be around other situations, other nations living in exile, but it doesn't affect the inside. At least what we're hoping. Let's continue. I don't have anrog, but some people have the custom of eating anrog. We're just going to eat instead of anrogue, we're going to need an apple. And again, no blessings. And if you're already asking if you want to dip it in honey, you can. Not the don't have to. Now we're almost done. We made a blessing on the perote on the on the tree we had from the seven species had now from the apple and now we're going to have a fruit that is adama from the ground which of course no of the spec seven species but just to say another blessing I'm going to have uh strawberry [clears throat] for that we are going to say a blessing because it's It doesn't have to be necessarily a strawberry. It can be anything. Anything that you can say at the m. And uh last but not least, we're going to say shahak on something. Can be a piece of chocolate or a cookie or water. Let's see what we have here. Uh, do we have anything shiakle here? What is that over there? What is that? No. No. The next to it. Nothing. So, you know, just bring you know, bring bring me a cup of water. I'll say shak on a cup of water. Here, take this cup. Thank you. Now, of course, once uh we're done the eating, you can recite the after blessings for everything. And at the end, one wants to recite And many have other customs from here. Some wash their hands for bread and go to the festive meal. There are many other and one can read for that if you can visit on my website at smut.orgishvat orgishvat and you're going to see that you have two versions of the sedishvat. The short one and the long one. The short one is kind of shorter than this and uh but it's powerful and good. The longer one has a lot more material, a lot more reading. That's more when you have time. It might take an hour especially if you read everything much more in depth. I wanted to cover the basics to do the all the blessings and uh and to mainly show you very briefly how it's done. But from here I'm going to go to get off the live. I want to continue eating. We're going to continue eating our festive meal. I think you had enough of me chewing. But u was important to me a for you to see and to share. But I definitely want to take the opportunity to give over some very important announcements. We're not done. I'm just catching your attention. So, as I mentioned uh before, maybe you weren't on the line. Tomorrow, I'm leaving and Israel and I'm going to be landing in Los Angeles on Tuesday and starting my US tour in uh Los Angeles, Denver, Miami, and New York. You can go to my website atmood.org/ org/our. The link is under the video. You'll find all the schedule, all the location. When you go to that page, all you need to do is click not on the location, rather click on the name of the lecture. It takes you to a page where you see the the flyer, all the information, address, a video about the lecture, and if you can, if you're already there, if you can download the the flyer and share the video with people that you know, maybe they live in the city. But, uh, if you can help with that, that would be amazing, the spreading of the word. Go to the website atmood.org/tour, download the the flyers. If you know somebody, Los Angeles, Detroit, Denver, Miami, and New York to be exact. I have first lecture in Los Angeles, second lecture is in Enino. Then I'm going to be Shabbat in Denver. Mo Shabbat in Aurora, Sunday morning in Aurora, Sunday night in Denver. And then Tuesday night, this is already February 10th in Boca Raton, Florida. Then after that on Wednesday, February 11 in Southwest Ranches and February 12 in Aventura. All that in South Florida. Then I'm flying to New York Shabbaton in uh New York. And Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, February 15, 16, 17, and 18. Four lectures in a row in New York. Uh first one Sunday is Long Island. Second one is Brooklyn. Third one is uh an amazing amazing event. Roshes. It's going to be in Queens and we're starting with a buffet of food and there's going to be some music and not a big party, just some music and then an amazing amazing lecture. I highly recommend that you go and check out we made video promos for all the lectures so you can see what's waiting and of course all the lectures are going to be broadcast and you can log in and see it and the lecture ones is going to be you you got to if you if you're in New York come and if you can log in it's going to be and I'm not going to spill the beans just go to the org/our and see what's the lecture about and what's the event about. And then Wednesday, February 18, the the finale, the last event of the tour, big event in Queens, New York. I'm going to be talking about everything that's going on right now and mainly in the United States. uh addressing a lot of issues, anti-semitism, security, economy, and of course, how is that to do with each and every one of you in the land of Israel? Should one do aliyah? And many other things. I'm just this is just like the tip of the ice, but it's going to be a very important and powerful event. I don't recommend for you to miss it. Doesn't matter where you live. If even if you can't come in person, then uh log in to watch the live. And for that event, you need to RSVP because the hall the has limited space if you want to show up. And for the live that you're going to have to follow the information, I recommend that if all this is interesting you to follow my posts on WhatsApp and all the social media where we're going to advertise everything. If you are interested in coming to one of the lectures or sharing it, that's the biggest help you can do is sharing sharing all the flyers, all the videos, go to the website, download it and share it. And uh the lecture the schedule is there and uh it's going to be amazing. The topics are amazing. I prepared unbelievable classes. I highly highly recommend for you to attend and you you you and of course coming with some great surprises to from Israel. So I hope to see you there very soon. And a few other quick announcements. I said before in the beginning, but I'll just repeat it. Tonight for me already is and powerful powerful day for for almost everything. So once I'm done eating and finishing the sedar I'm going to be going to reciting some prayers there and early in the morning tomorrow on tishvat I'm going to be going to the grave of to say special prayers for that day for parnas for for everything. So if you want to submit names for prayers underneath this video you'll find a link to atmood.orgishvat /tubishvat. All the information is on that page on the tubishvat page. The sedishvat all the prayers. There's a lot of prayers that one needs to say. They're very short. You don't have to be alarmed. But I highly recommend that you recite all of these prayers. Go to that page atmud.orgishvat. All the information you need is there. Videos about tubishvat. Uh all the information about the prayers links. You click it. you can uh download the PDFs and uh just use how comfortable we made it. And of course, if you want to submit names for prayers both to me and Amuka, you have the whole night and tomorrow. And now for the cream of the crop for the last announcement and for the most exciting announcement. I have taught many times that tishvat is a very aspicious time for single people to pray for uh finding their other half. And if you follow me well enough uh you know that I've spoken many times on a match making service uh or platform I spoke about it many times. As usual when I come to do good things the stops it. He's coming and putting whatever obstacle he can to make it not work. So, I'm extremely excited and happy to announce that finally after a very very long time, we're ready to launch our matchmaking platform. I'm not going to elaborate on that now, but you can definitely go to atmood.org tubishvat. H scroll down a little bit, you'll see a yellow banner talking. First of all, watch the video there. Then there's a yellow banner. Click for more information will take you to the page where there's a video explaining everything and what the stages you need to do. And uh we're now at launching stages. So at this point you I don't want to say too much better to go and see the video. But uh uh it's going to take time till we fill the database. You have to follow the video and all the explanations. But uh since Tishvat is a day that you can set a path for a new beginning, now is a perfect time to to do that is to you go after this live is off. I'm going to be done in a few minutes. And you sit with yourself and you recap what I said, reread some verses, explained. It's all nice. It's spiritual. It's great. I mean, I'm not taking from its greatness, but really is after the or after the live, you sit with yourself and you you you repent. You make yourself realize and understand that you're standing in a turning point today. You can continue going on the same path that you've been going the last week, month, or year. Or you can change your path and you say, you know what, this is where I'm taking uh a little turn. And how am I doing that with changing this this and this actions that I I don't like and I don't think they're good for me. So I can go in depth for hours now explaining about Tishbat. I'm going to simplify by saying that our sages explain that energetically the land of Israel is getting rejuvenated tonight and tomorrow which that means that it's affecting the entire world. And from the teachings that we know if something is happening in the world below it's happening in the world above signifying there's a rejuvenation in the spiritual land of Israel. What I take from that in a short explanation that this is a very aspicious time that you all you need to do is how what would be the right way not to I was about to say just to tap in but all you need to do is focus. You need to channel yourself on the energy of the day with uh doing the sedishvat with praying with reciting the prayers that I'm saying with repenting with taking the importance of the day and telling you know what I'm going to ride on the wave. Today is a wave that you can just ride on it and the change that one needs to do is see the faults that you believe stop you. Whether it's hard for you to wake up in the morning, whether you're judgmental towards another person, whether it's harder for hard for you to not raise your voice or lose your temper, we all have a lot a lot of faults. You just need to focus on the faults that you believe and you understand that stop you, that pull you back. And today with just a few prayers and the right intention what would take you normally a lot of effort is just so to say taking it taking you with it just with not a lot of effort it's a very aspicious time to tonight sit or tomorrow make yourself a list you know how I work you make lists I always write on the left side the things that I'm not happy about and I feel it stops me from my spiritual growth and it can be severe sins. It can be little things and I gave you some examples that I gossip, I am judgmental, I'm late to appointments, I can't wake up in the morning, I can't control my mouth, whatever it is, you write all the bad things that you feel are stopping you. And on the left part column, you write all the good things and the good things that mainly that you would want to do, but somehow those bad things are stopping you from doing it. That's it. and you just connect it on saying okay if I stop this maybe it will affect me to start that and we read in the beginning I didn't get too much into explanation but the first paragraph that we read if you remember when I said when I was quoting the book of the uh chapter 8 verse six and on that how you should remember your god and go in his path and remember that if not go to the book of and and read it and and that paragraph is should be your like every day I need to read it. So maybe you need to mark it down on one of your uh notes. Book of the chapter uh 8 verse uh six and on it goes on for like seven eight verses but it's basically where the blessing is. The blessing is that if you if you go in the path of Hashem and you fear him and respect him and honor him, then he will bring you to a place of an abundance, a place of of uh quietness, roga. How would you say roga? Like a place of serenity, right? Serenity, >> peace, >> peace. Ah, a place of peace and needless to say, abundance and everything that you need, you're going to have. Just just read the verse. Do yourself a favor and read that part. It's not a verse. It's about 10 verses. But read it and to understand how it says in the end that Hashem is taking you on different paths to torture you, right? To give you all sorts of problems, to test you. Just read that. I don't need to elaborate on that. That should be your like, okay, that's what's going on right now in my life. And as long as I'm channelneled to Hashem, then things are going to go good. And when I'm not channeled to Hashem, then the road becomes bumpy. How do you channel to Hashem? With Torah and mitzvot and repentance. And today is the day that you can do that jump. For many people, it's just a lot of theory, but it's not practical. I'm preparing myself. If you need to to get get a practical advice or or how what I do is that tonight I I pray and I learn. I'm going to go to the mikvah before I go to and go and pray and after that to to amah and in my mind I'm already set what I want to work on. What are the things that I want to remove? I'm praying from the bottom of my heart for Hashem to help me control them and to be able to remove them from my path because I know that these little obstacles will get me to a much more successful path. And that's what I have in mind. And just by the fact that I'm humbling and giving humbling myself in front of Hashem and giving him all the control and pointing out admitting this is a fault, this is a fault, this is a fault, I don't like that, but I want to change that. You'll see that Hashem gives you all the power to do that. And then you char starting a new path. And from here, I'll elaborate on that in future classes. From here, 15 days toeshad, 15 days to purim, 15 days to Nissan, 15 days to to pes and you can go from one step to another step from spiritual freedom to spiritual growth growth to just an abundance in your life in all aspects of your life. So, I want to thank you for your patience and I want to thank my wife for preparing all this delicious fruit here and for my kids for staying up and for everything that everybody who made it possible. You can't even imagine how my system here is busy now and hectic and I'm going finishing now. I'm going to eat and run to Meon the to my winery get everything ready. But please check out the page of atmot.org/tour about the tour. Amazing lectures, amazing topics. Please help us spread the word, share all the flyers. Go and check the Atsmut Connect the matching service platform and see if it fits you and uh and share that too. And stay tuned because starting from 3 days from now, a lot of live lectures. Every lecture batm the tour is going to be live and if not then recorded and you still have hours before I'm going to you can still submit names and just follow all the links follow all the instructions do the right thing may hashem bless you that this two bishvat should bring to you an abundance of physical blessing and spiritual blessing that you should receive true clarity of your path you need to walk on that everything that your heart desire desires and all your hard work should come to fruition and bring and bear positive fruit. The ones of you who need parnas, may Hashem bless you with an abundance in parasa. The ones who need health and should heal you and keep you strong. Anyone who needs to find their other half. Hem should place you under and you should meet your basher very soon. Anyone who needs kids, Hashem should bless you with an abundance of kids, healthy kids, with true love to Hashem and really everything that your heart desires, everything that you need in order to serve Hashem in the best way possible. I want to bless you that Hashem should open his shea today and bless you with everything that you need. And I'm going to bless me and you and the entire world that the coming of Msiah should be right away. It should be with kindness, with mercy, we with no headaches, with no problems and we should march into the redemption in a very positive way. Shem should keep you all safe and guarded wherever you are. Thank you for your support. Share this video. Share everything that I said. That's the power is sharing and sharing and that's mainly how you grab a huge mitzvah is just sharing all the material cuz you never know who's the one who will see what you shared and by that it comes to a lecture and change their life. So again thank you for your attention. Thank you for your time and patience. I hope I'm going to see you wherever you are. Please share this video again and uh if there's any questions you can contact us via WhatsApp or my my email. My team will have a lot of overload of messages but we'll try to do whatever we can. Stay safe wherever you are. Do the right thing. Take advantage of this powerful day. I can't even stress how powerful Tishvat is. Do what you need to do in Baze. Hashem should bless you in the best best way possible. I'm going to take a few seconds to see if anybody wants to write a comment or a question real quick and wish Laya to thank you Latv to you too and my pleasure. Thank you. If any has anyone has a quick question real quick I think I have another like minute or two and then I'm going to move on. All right. Okay. I see not much of questions. Just thank you. Thank you Hashem. Thank you Hashem. Yeah. Thank you, Hashem. So, thank you all. Have a good night. Share the video and I'll see you if not in the live in the live lectures on the live session. Meat. Now, I'm going to save for a few seconds just to read some uh comments. Thank you. Thank you. My pleasure. See you soon. I hope the word the names is going too fast. I can't see. But shalom. Thank you. Pleasure. Thank you all for the comments and the likes and the shares. And by the way, share the video, like the video, subscribe. All these things help for the algorithm and make the video more uh advertised and that way we can reach much much much more people. So always your shares, your comments, your likes are very very very important and you're participating in the mitzvah of sharing the Torahem. So again, any questions? I see there's some questions here. It's going way too fast and it's very small. If you have any questions, you can always email it to my uh team at adminood.org or via WhatsApp. The number is advertised everywhere. You can send messages. We try to get to all the questions. Thank you so much. I appreciate the blessings and the wishes and thank you Hashem and I'll see you very soon. Yeah. The dating site is for non-Jews also. Yeah. For no. No. Yeah. I explain on the page everything. We're now in like beginning stages. We need to now first uh uh fill up the database but on the page that we advertise all the information is there but yeah we also have a section for noides that we can do for righteous gentiles no doubt uh the for information about all the lectures I see a question about the Los Angeles the the the easiest way is go to atmoo.org or the link is under this video and you'll just see all the schedule of all the lectures and to find more information you click on the lecture on the on the on the text it opens another page with everything the hour the address the the the topic everything but for somebody who uh answered and the question went flying by Los Angeles on Tuesday is at 6:30 starting early and I believe the Wednesday one is 7:30. All the information is on.org. Why not Texas this time? We came to Texas last year. It was great, but uh you know, not so easy. I wish I could come everywhere. Anyways, I wish for you all the best. And thank you again for all the wishes. Uh all the links are under under the video. There are two links that you'll find under the video. one to the page of the tour and one to the page of tubishvat and on the page of tubishvat all information you need to know is available just need to read it carefully it's very clear you just need to follow it thank you all wish you well and hopefully I'll see you very soon in the