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[Music] in a few days is a very powerful day it's rosh chodesh the first day of the month of elul the first day of elul means a lot of things but one thing that it means for sure is that's 30 days away from rosh hashanah the countdown begins rosh hashanah is a very powerful and important day on the jewish calendar but not only for jews for everybody the biblical name of rosh hashanah is yomadine judgment day because that's the day that the entire world is being judged and it's actually the day that is decided if the world will continue to exist or not on judgment day on rosh hashanah the entire world is being judged by the master of the universe and with our prayers we crown god to be our god which means that that day is important to any human being not only to jews and not only to observant jews this day is detrimental to any living creature in the world jews and non-jews and every even the animals and nature vegetation everything is being judged that day that's why it's called judgment day so in the great mercy of the master of the universe he gave us an entire month to get ready if you would get now a subpoena or a judgment to appear in front of a judge for whatever uh charges that they decided to put on you then you would get ready you would get ready with a good defense defense team lawyers with building your strategy how you're gonna approach this uh situation so the same thing here the master of the universe is telling us i'm going to judge you on the first day of the month of tishrei and i'm giving you 30 days to prepare 30 days to prepare yourself for the day that you're going to be judged for everything that you did in the past year when does the 30 days start in a few days from now this year it's going to be on shabbat rush holdish elul one of the most powerful days of the year this year falls on shabbat it's two days shabbat and sunday but the 40 days preceding yom kippur that are very special auspicious and powerful 40 days they start on shabbat on so really this coming shabbat is where it all starts so i don't want to make this video long i just want to prepare you announce what is going to happen in the next month and 40 days and if you want to be included if you want to join that's of course your decision but it's my obligation to give you a heads up of what's going on so first of all in the last few years i gave dozens of lectures about the month of elul the head of the month of elul what's going on in the 30 days prior to judgement day what are the 40 days from the first day of elul all the way to yom kippur which really the first day of elul is when moshe rabino went up to the mountain the third and final time and he came down from the mountain after 40 days on yom kippu and that became the day of atonement after moshe rabbin who prayed in the heavens for 40 days so really what's going on now is a repetition of what was going on then so we have now 40 days to repent now i know i said a second ago 30 days 30 days is from rosh chodesh but rosh hashanah is judgment day 10 days later that's the day of repentance so really we have 30 days to prepare for judgment day but really we have 40 days to go through this time where hashem is very accessible our chuva our repentance is easy easily accepted the gates of juva of mercy and repentance are open this is called the month of mercy and forgiveness so what's going to happen in the next 40 days is we're going to need to really concentrate on archuva on our repentance and what i'm talking right now is for everyone jews and non-jews non-jews also have to repent for the sins that they do and they also have to follow the torah there's no difference here between a june and andrew and judgment days for the entire world so everybody needs to prepare now if you think that you're going to come to judgement day and just buy yourself a nice clean new outfit and pray for a few hours and everything will be fine then i'm sorry to tell you you have a mistake you cannot approach judgment day without a preparation you cannot reach to yom kippur without doing the proper chuva chuva means to repent it cannot be done overnight really chuva has to be done every day but if you don't do chuva every day then now in the month of elul and i explained that many times the master of the universe the king of all kings is accessible to us he so to say comes out towards us to accept our prayers to accept our accept our forgiveness and to bless us of course eventually at rosh hashanah with a great year everything is decided on rosh hashanah who's going to live who's going to die who's going to be rich who's going to be poor how much money you're going to make who's going to get married how many kids you're going to have everything is decided on rosh hashanah and not only that i explained that in other classes that how much challenges you're going to have in the next year is decided on rosh hashanah what are going to be the challenges for the next coming year is decided on rosh hashanah everything is decided so really a smart individual says huh this is a very important day in the year let me prepare the right way so i'm not going to make a long class right now it's not even considered a class i just want to a uh remind you all that is coming in a few days b to give you some instructions what needs to be done and three is to tell you what i'm going to do and of course everybody's welcome to join me and i do believe that's the best way to prepare to rosh hashanah because we need to really focus on archuva so first of all as usual we have a webpage on my website where you can go i believe it's at smooth.org forward slash elul if not just look the link will put on the video and under the video and wherever you see it there'll be a link to the page and the reason why i'm throwing you to the page because we uh compiled on that page all the videos that you need to see all the videos that i explained about elul and there's a lot of them on my website there's i don't even know in numbers there's many many videos i highly recommend that you watch all of them that you get educated and everything that you need to do for elul and i know i know many people tell me oh i saw already all your videos i saw them last year i saw them two years ago i guarantee to you with no offense and no trying to hurt anybody you don't remember half of what i said in these videos and i'll tell you a secret i don't even remember half of what i said in these videos and i watch my own videos sometimes to refresh my memory oh i forgot about that because every year i read different content different books sometimes i forget of something that i taught 10 years ago so i highly recommend that you take the time and every day you watch one or two videos it will educate you it will inspire you it will give you the right tools really what to focus on on the month of elul this is number one check so go to the webpage follow all the videos you'll you won't regret it and there's a lot of them i know it might be overwhelming in the beginning when you see you can choose which ones you want to see but all of them are important the next thing is i don't know if you remember many of our followers are new some of the followers uh are already participated in that but uh two years ago we did a chuva boot camp tcb uh no tbc we called it if you remember so we're going to do the tuba boot camp again uh every day if i remember correct in the boot camp we posted every day two three videos so we're just gonna rinse and repeat and i know many people says oh i did the the trouba bootcamp two years ago yeah but so what if you did it you still need to do chula i guarantee that you don't remember half of the content that we posted then besides the fact you know chuva is like washing your garments so it's almost like saying if i some people say oh i watched the the boot camp two years ago yeah but you still need to do it again you don't take one shower in your entire life you take a shower every day now why do you take a shower every day because you get dirty and every day you get dirty you wash yourself you wash yourself you wash your clothes so it's the exact same thing so even though if you saw that two years ago so what so you see it again so first of all i highly recommend that you sign up again to the chuva boot camp of course it's all free on the web page that i told you on the lulu you can find all the information and usually what we do is that we spread the videos the short videos we put them uh on youtube but now you'll have to go and look for them what i suggest is to register to the whatsapp group where we're gonna post every day all the information through whatsapp facebook twitter email uh if i forgot anything just look on the page and just participate so join the best is the whatsapp telegram all these applications because we're just going to throw the videos on there every day what needs to be read every day what needs to be said uh i don't want to make this video long but on the web pages all these all the instructions that you need to know and to make your life easy a lot of people tell me i need i just need to know what to do every day tell me what to do so that's what we do every day you'll get an email you get a whatsapp you get a a message today read these tiling to ray today read this today watch this video so i just to make a long story short just follow the boot camp that we did two years ago follow all the information that we're going to post but of course to kind of refresh the information what are we going to do this year and we're going to include everybody many people already have signed up because we did that in the previous years and in previous years it was kind of private so not many many people knew about it this year we're going to open the opportunity to many others uh with a limited amount of space but what we did last year and the year before is that we took the 40 days from rosh all the way to yom kippur and every day we went to a holy site here in israel and said some special prayers and whoever participated in this program uh their we you know uh their names were mentioned and the holy sites and there were special prayers for them and it was very very successful so you can find the information on the webpage like i said last time last few years it was a quietly because i didn't know how many names i can read in the graves i'm sure you uh hear our messages every couple weeks there's a special day i go to maron i go to the rizal i go to different graves and we include people to submit names so uh we can pray on their behalf what most people don't know that sometimes it takes me ten hours that i'm sitting there reading names uh you know recently i was joshua deshave i went to maron uh before that was too bad of the 15th day of i went to amuca and i went to the rizal you know but a lot of people send us names which i'm happy of course to pray for everybody but a lot of people don't realize people think i go in and out you know last time in the mooc i was there eight hours eight hours of reading names so a lot i can do once a month but every day in holy sites i can't read 5 000 names it takes hours so last few years i limited it to a very small amount this year we're going to open it publicly a little bit more that more people to can participate but once we see a certain amount of names come in then we close it because i i i can't do everyday hours of of reading the names so what i suggest is to find the information on the web page how you participate uh in the in the 40 days prayers in the kibritsa de kim and the holy sites and uh and you'll find all the information on on the webpage uh every day we go to a different holy grave some of the greys we we repeat i mean there's thousands of graves but some of the graves we repeat of course we start with the main ones we're going to try to do every day a different game on shabbat what i do is i have the names printed on a on a pay on the paper and usually shabbat i go locally i either go to nacho michigan it's next to my house i go to bra benio yada which is a 10 minute walk from my house in birya sometimes i go down to the degree i have enough graves to go on shabbat but if you want to participate go to the webpage and find all the information it's called the 40 days prayers in kivwitz at the kim and hopefully you can squeeze in a position uh before it closes i'm sorry i i can't every day that i go i pray for everybody but the ones who participate then we recite special prayers the names are being mentioned in the holy sites and it's very powerful uh what else uh i know i'm i i apologize to many people other people tell me why don't you you know a lot of rabbis they they film everything that they do and why don't you do that i don't like walking around with a phone i know a lot of rabbis that's what they do they walk in the street like that and they give you their daily inspiration that's not me i i don't walk around with the phone but i know many people telling me listen you got to film these things so i'm promising you i'm going to do my best to film the at least the visits to the holy sites and to some of the big slick that we go to in maron in in the kotel which is another thing that if you farty we start saying on monday if you're ashkenazi you're saying in the last week of elul but i don't want this video to be long i just wanted to announce and to remind you what is happening all the information is on the website like i told you and needless to say that every day i'm going to record videos like i told you before sorry i started saying to refresh the chuba boot camp then we're going gonna use the videos that we already posted last two years but every day i'll make a new a new video and i'm thinking in order to kind of make it interesting is to make that video in one of the holy sites and that will have another twist a new thing to apply in our chuva but really what i want to emphasize in this video i don't want it to be long is that we have 30 days till rosh hashanah 40 days so yom kippur this rosh hashanah is very special i know i i know i say every rosh hashanah or every rosh or every shabbat is special but i'll tell you why this rochester is special because we're finishing a year of shmita now we don't really know when is the yovel the jubilee year we just don't know we lost count so this rosh hashanah could very much be there we're going into ayoveil there's a very good chance that we're going into iowa 50 years you know what it means i avail a jubilee year so this rosh hashanah with no doubt we're finishing snachmita a sabbatical year we're starting a new cycle and we have the option that did not this might be a schnatio a 50th year so that's a very special year that we're going into and i know i pray every day for mashiach to come but if you follow me a few months ago i gave a lecture where i gave a comparison between the prophecy that is told to us in the talmud about the seven years prior to the coming of mashiach i compared it to agenda 2030 of the evil regime that is running and trying to control the world and i was kind of putting them back to back showing that we might be going into a seven year cycle of very hard six years till the coming of mashiach of course our prayers is to to have mashiach come any day but this rosh hashanah is a very powerful rosh hashanah besides the fact that i quoted many times many places that the coming of the son of david and ben david when is the son of david is going to come at the end of the seventh year so this roshana is the end of the seventh year so can you imagine if mashiach on rosh hashanah or a day later or two days later wouldn't you want to be prepared prepare them into repent wash all your sins off and get ready with your shabbat garments to the coming of machines so this rosh hashanah is a very powerful and important rosh hashanah that you do not want to miss that means that your preparation has to be accordingly so you have a few days to get yourself ready shabbat comes it's a very powerful rosh hashanah i will make another video explaining the the benefits and what needs to be done then sunday is oshkosh and right after that we start sli hot if he's farting and we're going into the journey so this video is just to hype you up prepare you i don't want you to say oh why didn't you let me know before that so i'm letting you know now you still have a few days to prepare and the preparation is emotionally and listen if you want to do a proper juva you'll need to dedicate half an hour every day for that and the half an hour will include the videos that we post and the text and the prayers that you're going to have to read and pray every day and just follow it if you have your own methods or your own teachers and rabbis go ahead do whatever you can whatever you don't have to follow us and me pray to participate you can do whatever you want you need to do juva but we organized it in a very a quick easy way to doing it and the last few years it was very successful so do yourself a favor just subscribe follow you know it doesn't it just needs your effort i'm asking you here now to donate millions of dollars and to to dedicate your entire day but i'm telling you i'm from from uh from at the depths of my heart this is a very powerful month we went through a very difficult year everybody has difficulties everybody's going through challenges financial challenges marital set challenges challenges with their kids with their jobs and it's getting crazier harder everybody's going through hardships because mashiach is coming and the only way that's going to change the situation is chuvas repent only so now we have 40 days to do proper chuva 30 days till rosh hashanah and then another initial 10 days that are called the 10 days of juva to do real proper good shiva before yom kippur and all is left for us is to pray to hashem to forgive our sins and to accept our prayers and to bless us with a wonderful happy year so now what i'm telling you to do once you're done with the video follow the link to the webpage and the first things that you need to do is don't have to watch all the videos just go through the first part of the webpage of all that it's what what what to expect and what's coming and prepare yourself whether join the whatsapp group the telegram group facebook wherever whatever is your favorite platform email whatever it is get ready because all the information is going to start flooding now we're going to send a few videos and text and posts every day if you want to participate in the 40 days keep writing prayers then secure your place very fast we're going to have to close it at some point because i can't pray eight hours every day i can only dedicate maybe an hour a day for that and just get ready that we're gonna flood now the the all of our platforms i mean facebook twitter youtube smooth.com whatsapp telegram with all this information and you want to participate it's for your own benefits it's simple instructions what you need to do i guarantee to you you'll go through this these 40 days you'll reach yom kippur ready with your chuva and that's really our goal that every individual can repent and do real chuva real good that not only that you'll be blessed with a wonderful healthy year that it will sustain forever and needless to say as more people do chuva the faster that we get redeemed so again share the video with whoever you can post it wherever you can go to the webpage i do believe it's at smooth.org forward slash elul follow the instructions get ready there's going to be now an avalanche of videos coming in i'll make them short and to the point easy to listen easy to do and let's do it all together the last few years were were amazing now it's time to do it again and most important thing we have to do it together so share it with as many people as you can take the video share it with all your friends all your love loved ones and family and let's uh let's get busy it's going to be a very very busy intense 40 days we have to do it it's only for our benefit it's not going to be that bad don't think we're going to now dedicate 12 hours a day to learning torah i wish but left for me to wish for you is shabbat shalom for the coming shabbat and bizat hashem we we're going to do and with our hard effort and prayers hashem should accept archuva and bless us all with a sweet happy new year and with the ultimate blessing that we should see with our own physical eyes the coming of mashiach very soon [Music] you