The secret behind the four species - Rabbi Alon Anava

[Music] we're in the midst of a hug Sukkot where the focus besides on sitting in the sukkah kneading the sukkah is that we shake the four species and we talked a few which explained yesterday a few reasons why specifically this the four species what they resemble what they're hinting so very quickly what we said yesterday was a little bit connected to delay we mentioned that the Frog is resembling a heart and the had the seemed they resemble an eye and they are a vote they resemble lips and the lulav resembles the spinal cord the vertebrates the the spinal cord now we mentioned that they live the dog is a tycoon is a rectification for he who in shavelev of thoughts that are not so pure that are coming from the heart even though the thoughts are used by the brain but nevertheless we know that the mid-notes the attributes are in the heart and originating in the heart and we do know that when I think of things that are not so kosher it's called hue hue I believe their thoughts the contemplations of things that are not so kosher there comes from the heart so that the talk is a tikkun rectification for that the lulav sorry they they had the same that the leaves look like an eye this is a tikkun rectification to where our eyes going to the wrong places below totora liver creme well hey I know him don't take let your eyes lead you to different places and not only that I'm not allowed to look at things that are not permissible it's also a person sometimes with these I can do severe sins like lo taha mode a tenth commandment says you should not desire the wife of your fellow friend his donkey his property and so forth then this is done with their eyes sometimes you like we don't look at their neighbors donkeys you look at the neighbors a Mercedes or the visit and many other things so the I unfortunately can bring us to two very bad places so the tikkun the rectification can come and comes through the had the seemed they are about the myrtle the willow that's long and skinny resembles the lips so this is at acuña rectification for the the older the junk that's coming out of our mouth lying and the cheating and the cursing and leshawna and slandering and the lulav we said lulav it has only one live in it because you write it lammott valve loo la flama the bit and you can read it as live live is the heart that we should have one heart only for the calash paco should only have one god but nevertheless this wouldn't be explained yesterday but there's another reason this is brought by the gone celia and he explains that one of the reasons one of the many reasons why we take these four species because we know that everything in this world has a solid minister in sha mind what we call a masala so i know when you say the word masala in hebrew and you want to translate it to English it sounds like luck but this is not what we're talking about Mazal rather comes from the word in hebrew nozzle nozzle on linz all that something the drips from above to below and really to define what it means Mazel Mazel is the tools that the kailash ma who gives me to be able to function in this world to perform my mission in this world this is masala this is not like when you throw the dice and you you know you need the the seven this is not the masala we're talking about this is luck in vegas rather masala again the definition of masala is the actual tool tools that the shem gives me to perform my mission in this world but nevertheless everything has a masala in this world or to to some commentary it's called the sour that result actually calls it a sour sound means the minister so everything has a minister but the gandhi that explains that these four particular parts of the four species they don't have a masala they are completely attached to the kailash baku they get their chef ax directly from Shem the rule of the table vote and they had the same and he says where where he brings a proof to that where do we where do we see that these four species are connected directly to a sham then we have a bunch of Sookie so he says it says in the in the Midrash of Vayikra chapter 30 and he says plea it's a doll that's what it says in the panel shall we just read it yesterday that on the 14th day of Tishrei you have to take yourself on the 15th day of dishes i have to take yourself plea it's a de fruit from a citrus and it says in the Midrash this is referring to her shame what does it mean why because it says in the book of the limb hold the veja Darla's Vashta this is in Tillamook valid a hundred and four right in the beginning it says about the shame hold that Darla Vashta after that it continues by saying OTO cast Illuminati shaman Korea but it goes on the shame that he wears the hood and hold the head down what's a doll this is referring to the kadosh mohawk then he says another this is about at all the Priya tada then we have the Lula Lula visit AMA what do we say about the Kailash bajo de quatre Mille fois and this is again referring to the Kailash boho Sanok a tamale flop this is coming from T Lim it's a debate 92 and it's also referring about the Kailash bajo and he continues and it says how do we know about the vote then about had the same sorry about the Myrtle's there's a verse in the book of Zechariah that it says who or made Ben hehad the same this is in the book of Zechariah chapter a chapter Aleph was so great and it's referring to about the collage prophet says he is standing between the HUD the sim and the last and one about the other vote and it says again this is referring to Hashem as it says in tilling some effete and it says be our sole ruler go have our vote be a Schmo this is again in tell him some ahead it's fifty sixty eight verse hey and it says there the pursue key says against Allah vocab they are a vote be a Schmo you can now look at the eliminate again explains this is how we learn that all these four species there are directly getting the Shepherd from the Kadosh bajo now what is that good to do it ok I understand is directly getting a shiver from the Kadosh mohawk so it says if it would be they used on a regular way it would be like using the how do you say a sham wait for the king the stick of the king how scepter so the reason why we allow to use this this is like a scepter if you're looking and it looks like a scepter of the king now it says if it would be of a king we wouldn't be allowed to use it rather it says the kunafa who is our Father since Africa - what was our father then we allowed to use it and this is the proof this is what the golden key that says this is the proof that the a lobotomy name is a source of the Cabala of the Makela and the atonement and forgiveness so we pray on Rosh Hashanah for shame too we pray on Rosh Hashanah for shame to forgive us and to bless us then comes Yom Kippur and we we we continue praying but really the ultimate masala the ultimate Kapaa comes from the week of Sukkot that's why we know that we still have another week it's more like 10 days after young people to continue and we really wreak a view it everything gets sealed completely on national ABBA so the whole week of Sukkot this is when we can sweeten the judgment sweetened the denim you know this is the favorite proud of all people with we're gonna do that Sunday morning when everybody takes the the Myrtle's and smash them on the floor that's when you see the anger everybody's taking and all older anger out my Neverland this is to sweeten the demon sweeten the judgments so whatever was already decreed and it was brought upon us on Yom Kippur we have a whole week on Sukkot to sweeten the judgments and not only that to receive Mithila and to receive Capilla most people they think that's it ok Rosh Hashanah is over Yom Kippur was over Sukkot is just to party so Conte's I believe even even more powerful than water Shanna and young people together because that's when we can sweeten everything we can get close to the kailash bajo besides the fact that this is the week where i gather all this Sheva all this energy that should last me and will last me for the rest of the week for west of the year that's why I said that Nath Concha holiday of Sukkot there people have the biggest yet selves are not to show up because why because the answer doesn't want you to pump all this energy throughout the week so this is just one one interesting explanation and it continues and says something very very interesting that's what we want to take from us from this today why does the Torah specifically a very particular that the pliat cidade is the dog it doesn't say in the Torah that it has to be in a talk it just says blue X her down fruit coming from a citrus tree so technically can be an orange can be a grapefruit of course we know that it's a tall wide after they talk so it says like we said yesterday the talk looks like the heart low has the shape of the heart and we know that the the the heart is the main organ so to say without the heart the person cannot live and I know some who argue and say without the brain you can function but I know many people they don't have a brain and they're functioning very well so of course that's just for so break the ice a little bit but nevertheless the the heart is one of the main organs if not the main organ the heart is what pumps in life to us but nevertheless we know that the me--don't the attributes are placed in the heart and i've mentioned not once and not twice we're learning here on Shabbat oh it's a very interesting book we started learning it actually during the week with the ladies Charcot Ducie written by Robbie Fame Vittal very same book full of gems usually the teachings of all became batalla more teachings of Kabbalah this book is not so much on the side of Kabbalah rather more of the self refinement what is called tikkun Hameed notes the refinement of character and he says are in the beginning if you remember that we came to this world yes we have to perform its vote we have to learn Torah but we really came to this world to refine our characteristics to refine our takuna me dude he calls it economy though that's what the behind me tail calls it very interestingly the gone for Vilna cause it's a beretta window to break let me do it what does it really mean each and every one of us are born with a list of some characteristics and we have to refine them we get a few good ones you can be charitable you can be patient you can be carrying you can be loving and so forth and we also get a list of a few negative one we can be quick to anger judgmental impatient and so forth and many bad ones and we have to refine ourselves and really at the end of the day what the calash book was expecting from us is to work on ourselves whether I make it to the minion or not okay this is part of the etc how much do I learn how much emphasis am I put in my time it's what but really at the end of the day we are required to refine ourselves so the collage boho is going to give give me the opportunity constantly to work on myself if I have to work on on my patience and the chef is gonna give me a wife that's gonna constantly get me out of my my my my comfort zone so what so I can work on my patience and if I need to work on my anger then a chef is gonna provide to me kids that are gonna constantly get me angry or people around me whether it's a boss or fellow a congregant whatever it is so I can constantly have the the the person to help me work on myself I the easiest way to explain it that in order for me to root to develop I need some type of resistance if I'm gonna go now to a gym and I'm just gonna sit like this then nothing's really going to happen and even if I go to the gene and I'm just gonna wave my hands nothing's gonna happen it has to be resistance I need to push weight I need to pull weight same thing here I need to work on myself has to be resistance now each and every one of us has the whole lost long list of me know that I have to work on and again if I need to work on anger then the calash book was going to put all the people around me to press all the buttons that constantly I'm gonna have to control my anger so this is called a bow - I believe - I believe of course is also referring to praying because praying is the biggest part of our of our day or is our service to a shame and we after all we pray three times a day constantly our whole life is revolving around prayer even though we're praying three times a day but don't forget you say because our shuttle in the morning and then you say bill cut Amazon in the afternoon and catch my lamb eat at night and constantly praying everything we put in our mouths with their short prayer you know something doesn't go wrong right there we're separate worship so this is again a Buddha now we know it says in the Talmud that the collage boy who is interested in one thing hamana liebe dich by a Kenosha boy who is looking at the heart he doesn't get impressed by black suits and long beards and fancy hats Shem doesn't get impressed by fashion Shem is impressed by my heart I know many people that the outside looks very very nice but the inside is nothing nothing about going on there and how many people on the outside know impressing at all but the inside honest courteous loving caring and so forth what we need to take from that that the kadosh book was telling us yes you have a whole year now I've mentioned with the last couple days that this whole week we constantly turning around every day we do the whole channel we go one turn around the Bema on Sunday Saturday Sunday morning oh no Shawn our Abba 7ik affords them Jim simcha Tova 7 on Capone the day of simcha Tova another 700 fold constantly we're going around and around which I think who was it today that asked me why we're turning around it was high maybe tomorrow we'll do a nice class about the idea why the turning around constantly besides that the Talmud explains this is a form of simcha because it's a joyous time it's a holiday well explain it tomorrow but when they conquered you recall they went around every for seven times they did have comfort this is another one of the sources why we go around seven times but nevertheless I like looking at it more in a metaphorical way the rewinding rewinding the clock and the end of the week we're going to be you know rolling our sleeves that's it we're starting the year that's it the holidays over back to normal taking off this is the sukkah we're rolling our sleeves and we're back to a whole year of serving as Jim we're also gonna roll the Torah we're gonna read the end of the Torah and then roll it chick checked over a sheet and we start from the beginning we start from the beginning so the calash know who is telling us now is the time where you really get the atonement for not only for backwards is that you getting the energy the abundance the preparation for forward and I have to understand that the end of the day that the heart has to be clean the heart has to be pure and to work on my heart I have to work with my adult I have to work on the thoughts that are coming up from the heart even if I have bad thoughts they're coming from the heart so it all comes down to the heart or explain maybe later too late tomorrow if we have time why we grab the lulav and revolt and they had the seam in one hand and the talk is on a different hand so but nevertheless they talk again constantly comes to resemble the heart and this is what I need to take from that I need to know how to soften the heart less anger less judgmental not no jealousy no hate now all the things that the heart is what's holding on and if I know how to nourish that throughout the time of Sukkot for something so mundane simple just taking a little piece of a lulav and shaking it seems to us something so simple but the idea behind it but there has to be in our thought is that I'm I need to focus on the fact that I need to soften my heart because at the end of the day it's not the outside the calash mikaze is looking only at the heart constantly we have to remember and chanted in our brain AHA mana the Kailash behold leave Adebayor he cares about the hearts he doesn't like fake fake things kenosha who doesn't go to Canal Street and buy the fake Gucci's he likes the Seri the real thing the knowledge about who is looking at how pure the heart is this is what we need to take from them this is what we need to do to take that the next coming year collages one a student a collage but was not expecting me to be the next Chief Rabbi of the universe he's expecting me to be Amit a person of truth that I apply everything with truth sham kebab the whole coop the challah shirokova made collages call close to the ones that it's all the limit and them it comes from the heart that's one of the many reasons why again the the hog and why they buy the toys particular but in the table and also about the meaning is on the shrimp tomorrow we'll be able to continue a little bit more until till then at least now we have a little bit more more to think of when we're shaking the the club to take it in a more profound and deeper way to know how to soften the heart how to develop the heart to lavish a more now have that the shame the corner of the kaiser they'll have a share with all your heart so everything boils down to the hearts psychologically psycho to discern if you're talking about in Thomasville Jane a man I covet Samanta coexist over Verdi you [Music]