Rabbi Daniel Glatstein - Aseres Yemei Teshuva: The Urgency of Teshuva

[Music] thank you so much for the warm introduction it's really a great pleasure to see so many friends and neighbors me accomplished well here we are it's right after Rosh Hashanah everybody is worn out everyone is tired especially after some Gedaliah to come out ash shihr' really speaks volumes about the the greatness of a Jew the greatness of Claudius royal someone wish everyone go tiara shana tova and in this course of our coming together tonight we should all be blessed with a happy healthy year for us and our families I'd be SQL static tonight sure is not for the faint-hearted tonight cheers for those who are brave to really be open to what the process of chuhwa challenges us with I want to start by observing the top sukham in mission Katara to pursue commander varam that are almost identical almost exactly the same but there is one small discrepancy one nuance of difference and this discrepancy will really open up to us what the Mitzvah and the opportunity of chuhwa challenges us with impartial Sree which is the very first partial that we read in hi - hello Pasha sura is always ready either on rosh chodesh yellow Shabbos Rosh Hodesh ello or the Shabbos right before ello so the partial begins were a on earth you know stainless ahem hi I'm Brock Lala see I've given you today blessing and curse it's that simple if you follow the Torah you observe the commandments you're dedicated to the laws you're dedicated to the the ideals of the Taira I'm going to give you blessing I'm going to give you a wonderful life I'm going to give you success I'm going to give you happiness on the other hand if you don't follow the rules if you're not committed to the ideals things will not be good here are the stakes the stakes are very simple the stakes are Bravo and Clara interestingly the Shabbos right before Rosh Hashana Parsis need seven we have almost the exact same plastic almost an identical PASOK but with one slight difference where the posix Ezra a NASA telefónica hi I'm see I have placed before you today s haha envious hot toy because her mother Sarah life and goodness death and bad now the stakes are not blessing and curse now the stakes are not happiness and failure now the stakes are not good and bad now the stakes have risen much higher it's much more dramatic difference between the right path in the wrong path now it's life and death what happened what changed the beginning of closer she'll old God says you do it right you have Branca you do it wrong you have claw okay a pretty stark contrast but it's not life and death so why empower shots needs of him have the stakes risen so high sona share with you a Gemara probably the most well known Gomorrah and all of the the statements in the shafts and the Talmud Bavli regarding the din and the judgment of Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur the Gemara tells us the mass after Rosh Hashanah number three on your sheet Samara of crispa die I'm rabbi Yochanan Lucius firmness talcum be Rosh Hashanah three books are open on Rosh Hashanah one book of the completely wicked one of the righteous and one of the be known iam the in-between the mediocre are the bane on him kaka kaka in between the gomorrah states tsadikim gomorrah miffed of infinitum in LA out there look I am the live the truly righteous are written and inscribed immediately for life roshanda moorim the completely wicked next table in Ben F Tom my out there let me say okay so far so good very simple very clear those who are righteous are inscribed immediately for life those who are wicked are inscribed immediately for me Sahasra Shalom what about the be known iam be known iam - Ian volume them the in between are suspended their judgment is pending mayor Shoshanna V on Yom Kippur Zaku noctilum lehayim if they merit they're written for life Liza who left oven Lamesa a few questions here what is a Boehner name what is someone who is in between how do we define a Boehner knee another question we could ask and there's a question the Ron asks and the rive it asks we could look around the world and yes we see many righteous people living through the year we see wicked people not living through the year but is that always the case don't we see sometimes the righteous don't make it through the year don't we see sometimes Madhu Adara rochonc silly how sometimes the wicked prosper but the Gomorrah says very emphatically without unqualified the tsadikim make it through and the rashaam don't so the round deals with this question in a rather creatively the Ron says that Sadiq is not a righteous person and a Russia is not a wicked person Sadiq is somebody who God decided will make it through the year that Sadiq is someone who's been acquitted in the judgement it could be someone who has 1,000 Ave rows and one Mitzvah and God decided for reasons that are beyond our understanding to give this person a year of life he is what is called Sadiq Vidhan he's righteous and judgment on the other hand a Russia is not necessarily a wicked person but a Russia could be a Russia bit in he may have a thousand mid slice and one Avera and God decided that he's not gonna make it through the year he is what is called a rush of the den and what's a bane Ernie a bane aeneas someone whose judgment is pending this way of learning the Gemara which is the Ron's way of understanding the Gemara would allow us to sort of make heads or tails on every situation we see after all we could never determine who is it Sadiq and who is a Russia how would we know what what's in a person's spiritual repertoire how could we know what's in someone else's heart so if we see someone who made it through the year we know God deemed this person eight Sadiq didn't and if a person did not make it through the year God deemed this person or rush of it in doesn't mean they're a good person or a bad person that's just the way the cookie crumbles but the Rambam learns the Gemara what is called Kip shoot I simply just like there's a principle in Hamish ain't McRoy you'd see me Dave shoot oh that no verse is ever removed from it's simple interpretation the Rambam interprets this Gemara simply put since the Rambam in his chulip Eric in Valhalla hug em Oh take a look at number four the Rambam says the cachet Michelle : the who you saw dambha a noise of vicious missus I just like they evaluate and weigh a person's merits and demerits at the time of Mesa below Shauna Shauna likewise in each and every year Choi : avoid noise colossal by alchemy by Elham each person's mitzvahs and affairs are evaluated annually beyond observer Shoshana mission in such saduak nappedam lehayim if you're found to be righteous you're sealed for life omission EMSA russia next on la mesa the bay noni toyline I saw a guy Mackey poem the in-between guy the middle guy we suspend his judgment until Yom Kippur now the right vid comments on the random that the fact that the ramen did not qualify the Gemara but rather he was Matic the Gemara he just copied over the words of the kymaro word for word that means the random is learning the Gemara cap shoot I simply that aid Sadiq is literally someone who has five thousand and one mid slice and five thousand of errors he's that Sadiq and ha live in a row shows someone who has five thousand and one a virus and five thousand mitzvahs now obviously it's not just quantitative it's also qualitative an ability somehow is someone who is exactly equal so you'll ask but the way the Rambam interprets the Gemara how do we make heads or tails how do we make sense out of many instances we see righteous people not make it through the year we see wicked people make it through the year so my best sir dr. Gunes I'd asked me rather Gladstein we were neighbors for many years could do me a personal favor I should speak at real it's lepetit burg at this year so you know I can't turn him down we used to play basketball together in the backyard so I will tonight speak out with its Allah Potiphar gravitsappa Thor is one of my favorite supremo sir that discusses the hawk Massimo sir of the Chuba process we know Ruby stole cilantro the founder of the Muslim movement he had three primary disciples where we saw Santa had the outer of Kelm Robson Plaza soul and with Naftali Amsterdam and rivets Wapato Berg and like a good Rebbe but we saw so anther was - of Awesome he would enumerate their praise so he would say that the outer of Kelm was a hokum he was a wise person and we've left all the Amsterdam he would say it was a huset was a saintly person and rivets Allah Petra Berg he would call a London a sharp analytic mind for learning factor bits lipet de Berg was the the chief rabbi of st. Petersburg and he also wrote the response hero Charles - Chavez priyad Sadiq pre it's luck Priya talk in fact there's a very interesting - bhanupriya truck in the first chuhwa you know the Gemara says you're walking down the street and somebody says oh you know I I'm really thirsty KY borrow $5 KY borrow $10 so you want to be a nice guy you want to hand him five dollars ten now the Gemara says that if you lend somebody money without a them you're over all of your over lift Nate you rarely see tame up Sean because you're gonna lend him the money then in a week you're gonna say pay me back he's inside of know you're talking about and you're gonna take him to bed in and he's gonna swear falsely so you you caused him to swear falsely so the Gomorra says you not a lend somebody money without Adan so what you do is if somebody needs to borrow money you should lend him the money but what you do is you get two witnesses or you get one witness you bring over your any look I'm giving Roo I'm giving shimmer in $10 or actually the carpets crime rights what you could do is you tell the guy just right he doesn't even have to sign his name just right I owe you $10 right on a little piece of paper you might so retrieve it so patrick has a finish leniency Akula that if it's a dove or more if it's a small amount of money you could lend the person the money without witnesses because you're not gonna take him to court you're not gonna you know file a lawsuit against the guy for five bucks as long as it's a small amount that we're now concerned that you're gonna take him to court you could lend him the money without witnesses in any event Rev its Allah petalburg hones in on one phrase that the Rambam uses which is different than the Gemara again going back to the Gemara for a moment the Gemara is talking about the bane Oni the Gomorrah talking about the in-between guy let's let's discuss him for a moment he has 5000 mitzvahs and 5000 of Eros and now it's Rosh Hashanah and he emerged in no-man's land so how is he going to married a happy healthy year of life so the Gemara says Zaku if he merits Hobey ho be inscribed for life and if he doesn't merit he'll be inscribed Lamesa now what does the Gemara mean if he merits what does it mean a few merits that could be interpreted to mean all you need to do is one more Mitzvah so what you could do is wake up in the morning you put on a pair of tsatsis and now you are at five thousand and one versus five thousand and you've tipped the scales or you could if it's Friday you collide the Friday night candles you like the Shabbos candles you've performed the Mitzvah the Raisa and now you've tipped the scales all you need to do is one myth so your friends got his tire bus you helped him change the tire so now you've tipped the scales the GU mower doesn't say how to be ziko it just says Zaku so that could simply be interpreted to mean just do one more Mitzvah but comes the Rambam and the Rambam writes over these words of the slightly different says the Rambam about to be noni and number four on the bottom line the hobby noni toyline I say I'm a keeper in the Boehner knee we suspend him until Yom Kippur if he does choo VAR a massage Eva Neff Dom lehayim he sealed for life VM love-nest Amla Misa and if he doesn't do chuhwa call it a day the Rambam has a rather novel interpretation of the Gemara the gomorrah says we have a Boehner knee and all you need to do is be zalta so we could have interpreted that to mean nothing more than just do one more Mitzvah put on tefillin why go run to shul learn Torah each word of Torah is a separate Mitzvah you know the Vilna Gaon has a has an incredible Kadosh why is it that if somebody's in the middle of learning they don't interrupt to perform other mitzvahs unless nobody else could do it why do we say the Talmud Torah can negate : why is Torah considered the most prized most valued mitzvah and the Vilna Gaon explains because if you help somebody out the sum total of the assistance you've given this person is one Mitzvah but when you learn Torah you go to a shear for five minutes for one minute for thirty seconds each word of Torah is considered an independent Mitzvah so you can't trade in or give up if you in one in one minute you can learn 200 words so how can you give up a different myths up for Talmud Torah it's not qualitatively or quantitatively on equal footing so run to shul learn Torah for one minute you've just added another 200 mitzvot to the let's add has a close and tilt the scales but no that is not how the Rambam interprets the Gemara the Rambam has a very narrow and specific interpretation of the Gemara the Rambam learns that if somebody emerges from russia shana as a Ben Oni as an in-between as sone who's exactly 50/50 there's only one way to tilt the scales that is to do teshuva Shoob is not the only myths in the Torah there's 613 myths in the Torah do any of them why does the Rambam specifically say to them had it just been for the Gemara we wouldn't have interpreted it that way but the Rambam sticks in this interpretation and the question we have to address is how does the random node to interpret the Gemara this line so you know when they're they used to go out to war in the olden days in biblical times the general would scream out me voyage Hyori varrock i leave of anybody here afraid anybody scared if anybody's scared you know get out of here go home so I'm gonna have to give that warning for the rest of this year this year is not for this scared it's not for the faint-hearted because what we're gonna learn is what the challenge of Tuva places upon us what our responsibility is especially this time of the air so let's discuss the following issue we know qu has a great opportunity we know it's a gift but what if somebody doesn't take advantage of that gift is it just a failed opportunity is it just a gift that you didn't make good use of so we know Rabbeinu Yona i've been a you know one of the great regina wrote the classic work on Shuba called cherry Chuba revenue Yona in the very beginning of his say fair gives the following muster the following parable the following depiction of what it's like to have the opportunity to make a change to improve oneself to do chuhwa and one decides not to capitalize so i've been Rihanna gives the following analogy revenue Jana says imagine for a moment you had a conch-shell listing a group of robber as a group of bandits and they're in prison they were caught for stealing they were caught robbing and the prison warden locked them up and he swallowed the key and a few days later he turns around and they're gone nobody's in the prison cell nobody's there except for one guy and he's just sitting there sitting there in the cell he's not moving he then and there's a hole in the floor and the warden whoops in the hook and the whole goal is you know out out the door to the highway and there used to be ten of them and now there's one guy inside what will the reaction of the of the warden be what will the reaction of this guard be so I don't know he would go over to the guy and say you know what thank you for Bill being a law abiding citizen we really appreciate your respect for the law now Adriana says no that's not the reaction of the prison warden the reaction will be the warden will say don't you realize who imprisoned you the king imprison you you know what the king could do to you you know what the youkilis of the king is you know what the ability of the king is you know what's in store for those who the king imprisons everyone else escape because they were scared of the king but you're not scared of the king that's an insult to the king now not only you liable for the original infraction but what you're saying is the fact that you would insulted the king doesn't bother you even though you have your chance to correct it and to get out of here to scram you said you're making a statement I'm not afraid of the king you've compounded the original infraction zerbino Yona when a person slips when a person makes a mistake in their observance we all make mistakes but you have the ability to correct it but if you choose not to correct it then it's like a credit card bill then the interest compounds the original chars and then their late fees and then their penalties and by the time two months three months four months you owe a lot more than you owe it in the beginning so we derived from here a very important principle that if a person has the opportunity to correct and change something and they say you know what I'm gonna wait until look it's only Russia I'll wait until you I'm kipper I'll wait until Hanukah you know the citric acid Oh say Hanukkah is the last time to do chuhwa I wait until two b'shvat I once saw in a book that tube Estrada is the last time to do chuhwa I'll wait until Nisan I hold the Nissan Navara I'll um I'll wait until shavoo issue the Torah was given I wait until tisha Bob I'll wait until next year I'll wait until tax season till all my kids get out of the house till my great-grandchildren have grandchildren the Avera compounds the infraction compounds because the moment the person deviates at the moment the person says you know what it's okay I did something wrong they're accountable not only for the original infraction but for failure to make the correct changes reversal petalburg highlights this concept I remember I learned this gamar in 11th grade and this is this is a very compelling the illustration so actually if you look in the book I wrote up this particular essay and they made me take out most of what I'm about to say because it wasn't really PC but sukumara so we're not going to be apologetic this is what the Gemara says the goomar makes an observation and it's in a way it's it's a painful observation but it's in the Talmud and this is part of the tersh about pat the gomorrah says in general gay rim live difficult lives they have very steep challenges I think Amara wants them it made my gay rim is man Azam hoon Envy Eucerin bond are lamb why do gay rim have such hard lives again the Kumar doesn't say in every situation but the Gemara does make a generality and the Gemara offers many many different interpretations but ultimately the final interpretation of the Gemara is Monisha shah who adds money carne stock has confessed kena Soga Marnie Obama's mem customer base number nine on your sheet that the reason why converts sometimes have very difficult challenges in this world is because they did not convert soon enough they should have converted sooner they had the opportunity to come talk as campeius Lina they delayed them because of that they're accountable that's the Gemara but think about that for a moment why would they be held accountable for delaying coming tacos cantina when a Garrett comes to the court and says you know what I'd like to convert I'd like to join the Jewish people so we tell them for what what do you need it for it's too hard it's too difficult you have to keep Shabbos there penalties you have to sit in Shore shun of the whole day you know and then you go home and then you do Tosh list and then the next day you fast the whole day and then right after that they make you come out to a shear and then you think Shabbos you caress the rabbi speaks the whole day on Chavez and then you fast right after that and then you sit outdoors for eight days and then after that you go to show and you read about how the whole world is are starting to slaughter so what do you need it for we scare them off we say no thanks we have frighten them and then they said no I really want it and we dissuade them and we push them away and we say it's not for you and we say you could be a righteous Gentile you could just keep so why would we punish why does it reverse I'm hold accountable garam for not converting sooner the answer is when someone has an opportunity even though he's not obligated to take it take up on the opportunity but if you feel like something is the right thing to do and ultimately you're gonna do it you need to do it as soon as possible so if that's what we say to again who has absolutely no obligation to convert hui dissuade from converting we push them away we we say it's not a good idea then a Jew who has every obligation in the world to have kept the law the first time and if they don't keep it they have every obligation to correct their behavior immediately if they delay doing so then that's a serious crime that's something that they're accountable for so failure to take advantage of the opportunity of chuva is not just a failed opportunity or a gift that you didn't make use of that's something you're accountable for if a Gare is accountable then certainly a jew is accountable but that's the rest of the year that's the rest of the year you know the Gemara tells us the mastectomy Natha is a massage the broccolis you have two people they both have a mitzvah to wear it's it's us they both wear that it's us who will be rewarded more for wearing the Citiz the one who exerted more energy to fulfill the mitzvot so you have one guy he lives in Flatbush he lives in bara Park he lives next door to the bookstore eel is next to this farm sir he could walk next door by the pier of tsatsis put it on and wear it so he wears it very nice but it wasn't really a big deal you have one guy he lives in you know kitchen see guy idaho and their notes it's is in the entire state and he has to go online and purchase a pair of tits as' and it comes to some mailbox a mile away and then he has to hike to get it and he wears it census of course he will be rewarded much more for this it's us and the person who was easy for the government office says amaura mayor we know certainly when the temple stood there were two strands of tsatsis he had the white wall in the blue wall and you had to do both you had to wear the white strings in the blue strings whether that applies today you'll speak to your local Orthodox rabbi rabbi dollar right now is my local Orthodox rabbi good friend of mine and it's honored to be in your maqam Tyra and to see you again and the show is very fortunate to have rabbi gala serving this wonderful Kayla we used to be neighbors and queens and it's really nice to see you again so you asked your rabbi about the white strings and the blue strings but let's say somebody one guy doesn't wear the white strings and one guy doesn't wear the blue strings who is more accountable what is the greater infraction not getting the white strings are not getting the blue strings not getting the lovin or not getting the tailless tomorrow mayor kasha unshunned shall lovin yo send me on she'll tell us it is a much more serious crime not to get the white jeans and the blue jeans because the white strings are not a big deal anyone could get white strings but the blue strings you have to catch the fellas on you have to squeeze out the the blue stuff and you have to dye it it's much more difficult to get a hold of blue strings and wide strings so someone who doesn't get the white strings will be punished more than Sona doesn't get the blue strings this is a principal in Scarborough - kasha I'm Shaun she'll love on Joyce ma han-shan she'll trellis from here we learn a very important idea the easier it is to do a mitzvah the more person is held accountable for not doing them it's done so I really saw cilantro teaches that comes the month of Tishri comes ho - ello comes with a hat then what should a person focus on the most important thing to focus on are those things that are easy to do because not doing them here's a much greater infraction than not doing the hard things as difficult as it is to do tuba throughout the year there is one time of the year that chuva becomes much much easier where the burnisher makes himself so available to us that if during the rest of the year we may have been laxed in doing chuhwa but during a certain time of the year God comes to us he makes it so easy for us to do chuva that there's no excuse anymore you know comes a month of LL and what is the month of lol o is an Illinois David ideally God says look look pal you take the first step and I'll reciprocate so you come close to me and I'll come close to you and comes Rosh Hashana God says you know you come to shul you do your best and I'll try to come close to you but we know the Gemara tells us that the acerra see made Shuba is a completely different ballgame circe made chuhwa it's a completely different story because in whereas a contradiction rummy reached lockers which luggage that had the following contradiction 1 + ik says cash Emily Canham behold Kirino Alif who is like God who is always available and another verse says another pus ik says dear Shu Hashem behemoths I we just read it by min-ho today seek out God when he could be found so it's a contradiction is God always available or is the only available at certain times and the Gemara answers can be Akkad con batsub or when you dive in with some minion when you're together with the congregation God is always available but when you're all by yourself God is not always available that's why it's so important to davon with a minion because I'm person daven's themself their prayer is heavenly heavily scrutinized God says do they deserve it are they having qivana are they worthy of having their treeless answered when a person that ins with a minion it's almost like a free pass the Guevarra says umbrellas hain Kabir Villa amaz god never despises the feel of the sea bar so you could have somebody his mind is in outer space his mind planet Neptune he doesn't know where he is he doesn't know if he's coming or going he doesn't know if it's a Circe made shuva or Purim or Hanukkah he just knows he while he wound himself up to get in a certain number of sways claps falling on his face and then after about 40 minutes he leaves but he Dimond with the minion it's accepted to some degree hain Kabir VII mas but an individual an individual's prayer is heavily scrutinized when it comes to an individual sometimes God is available and sometimes he's not so the Gemara asks when is God available even to an individual a loo a saruyama Mischa bein Rosh Hashana Lea McKee Purim during the 10 days of repentance God is available even to an individual when during the rest of the year God says who are you are you really having qivana what's in your heart what's your motive is this really good for you when it comes to the 10 days of repentance God comes next to you and he makes it easy for you to do chuhwa and certainly when it comes to Yom Kippur what does the haftorah we read on yom kippur vom our soil silo pannu dara ARIMA milks all need erica me salivate check contrasts the attitude of God in the days prior to the 10 days repentance to what God does on Rosh Hashanah says to me chew on Yom Kippur while in lol God says you take the first step and I will reciprocate one Rosh Hashana God says let's do this together when it comes to Yom Kippur God says move out of the way clear the path clear the road for home for me when it comes to Yom Kippur of soloveitchik explains it is began there it is on the level of coil Dodi died fake God is knocking on your door that's oh you don't have to go anywhere you don't have to come to me I came to you you don't have to seek me out I'm seeking you out all you need to do is open the door you don't have to open your door step out of the house go somewhere to find me that's the rest of the earth when it comes to Yom Kippur God beckons at your heart he says clear the path clear the road I am here coming to you it is so easy to do to von yum Kippur while the rest of the year if a person doesn't do Chuba a lot of things we don't do sometimes we don't do many mitzvahs the easiest mitzvah to do the whole year in a sense is doing teshuva on Yom Kippur the Gemara says in you ma hasatan is numerically numerically equivalent to 364 because the tsaatan works 364 days a year he's off the hook he's fired on Yom Kippur she have no evil inclination on Yom Kippur God is coming to you you're sitting there in the shoal you're not really inspired God inspires you but because it's so easy to do to volume kippur the onus on us is so heavy the responsibility is so grave because what if we don't do teshuva because when you don't do a mitzvah when it's so easy the repercussions are very serious when I share with you a frightening Gemara a powerful Gemara an ennobling Gemara but a very challenging in our number 17 the Gemara tells us about Rob's IRA Rebbe's IRA had a very interesting practice ribs IRAs practice was that if somebody insulted him or bothered him or aggravated him he would go to them on Erev Yom Kippur and he would like you know prance around them walk around them bump into them you know sit in their seat make himself available to the person so that the person says over observe our observe all right I need to ask her out you might call me now as a practice of rub Zahra the Gemara tells us a story about Rob whether that's interesting thing look it up who wrote the Zara colors so most people say we're Shimon bar Yohai ocean rock I didn't write it he dictated to a student who's the student Ravi abba-abba-abba wrote desire who's da ba ba ba ba biz Ralph when we say Rob Donohue apolog Rob was the last of the ten ohm because he's the student eruption very high and he's the first and I Rob is also called Rebbe Abba beer that in mind for the story Rob wrote desire so the Guru tells us a story Rob had an issue with a butcher the butcher insulted Rob the butcher old Rav an apology and the butcher did not come to rather nerve Yom Kippur so Rob said to himself I'll go to the butcher so Rav is walking to the butcher store to the butcher's house and he meets two of Hoonah and with Hoonah says Rob where are you going Rob said I'm going to the butcher Runa said no you're going to murder the butcher well so what does that mean what do you really mean when he told Rob you're going to murder the butcher Rob goes to the butcher the butcher lifts up his eyes and he says Rob get out of here I have nothing to do with you says the Gemara he was chopping bones a bone flew up hit him in the temple and killed the butcher as of its lipet de Burgin has safer click they are a number of questions number one why did Robin revs IRA go make themselves available to the people who insulted them to make it easier for them to ask for makyla you don't have to do that doesn't say that in Chilton our controller market says that if Reuven insults shimon rubin has to go to Schillings house that if a insults be a has to go out of his way to ask Mithila from B but there's no Holika that B has to go to a is house to make it easier for a TAS from Aquila where did rob get this from where did rob 0 get this from it's to that successive behavior I like to say you know why do we have at some Gedaliah after Rosh Hashanah because we sit in shul for two days and you sit there and you pray and you pray with your Tallis over your head and all of a sudden you're a big big Saavik but Miller says I'll cheat stock RB don't be such a big fat you want to be it's a degree it's a don't be such a big Sadiq you know what could happen if you're such a big Sadiq you can have a guy like Gedaliah where you where they told Gedaliah your small wants to kill you so you small walked into short but Gedaliah did not want to suspect that your small wanted to kill him sukhothai he gives him a big hug and your small give get a big hug and then your small stab Gedaliah why didn't get Dalia suspect that you should all want to kill him he was too big on a tactic the danger of Rosh Hashana Russian is great you could sit and show all day but it don't be such a big Saavik you also have to have a little common sense you know you could spend 48 hours in shul but you'll have to balance it with a little bit of say so that's why it's some value comes immediately after Rosh Hashanah so what's Robin RevZilla doing that's too much sit cos you're being too righteous you don't go to the person who offended you secondly isn't it beneath the dignity of Raven ribs IRA there are there are the leaders of the generation there's at tsadikim of the generation why are they going out of their way to make it easier for the people who offended them to ask for makyla where'd they get this from and what did Runa mean when Runa told Rob you're going to kill the butcher but the answer is very simple you know where they learnt this from they learnt this from God they learned this from the ribbon I saw them they were emulating the ways of their creator because if the rest of the year it is our obligation to ask God for Mithila slack Lenora V Nokia katana makalah know Malkina Keep Watch on we summon God we call God we say God we are ready to change we are ready to do chuhwa please come to us we make the initiative when it comes out Sarah seemed a True Vine Yom Kippur God comes down to us and he says Rebbe you'd I'm not waiting for you and Hashem you know like we say in lot of it look ah Oh merrily be back chiffon I God in our heart tells us seek me out the United Sun is stirring us he's awakening us he's beckoning us he's coming to us and he's making it so easy to do chuhwa but the ramifications are frightening because when it is so easy to do chuhwa think about what happened when the butcher did not take advantage of the opportunity that Rob gave him when the butcher said Rob get lost have nothing to do with you it is very reasonable to assume that had Rob not gone out of his way to make himself available to the butcher if the butcher never would have come to Rob's house and Erev Yom Tov probably nothing would have happened to the butcher it is very reasonable to assume that even if the butcher would have met Rob on the street and he would have said to rather have nothing to do with you probably he would not have suffered that fate but now that Rob went to the butcher's house and Rob made it so easy for the butcher and now the butchers not capitalizing look what happened to the butcher says vervets allah petalburg man or AHA Ryan has a lamb a mikvah how awesome is this thought for one who understands the ramifications of it because maybe the rest of the year if we have things that we need to change and improve yeah it's hard we could always push it off we'll wait to a better day a different day another time it's very hard to change but during the SRC me Chula on a Yom Kippur on an ela there are things that we all know we could improve on if we don't take advantage of that we don't want to be analogous to when Rob came to the butcher says rivets lahpet de Burgh this Gemara opened up his eyes to understand the Rambam the Rambam is talking about a Bane Ernie he's talking about an in-between person this in-between person he has 5000 Mitzvahs 5000 have arrows he's exactly equal so the question is so just do one simple mix law put a nickel in a push gun and now you've tilted the scales the answer is you could have done that before Rosh Hashanah before Rosh Hashanah you could have lit your Shabbos candles you could have baked some challah you could have done a facet you could have done a good deed you could have done anything to tilt the scales but once you exited Rosh Hashanah as a Ben Oni and now the opportunity of chuva is so so easy and we won some is coming to us and he's knocking on our door and he's beckoning our heart and it's so much easier to change at any other time and he's giving us the extra sea otter - Naiya says rabbit so petalburg the Rambam holds no matter how many missiles you do you could learn day and night for 10 days if you don't repent and you don't do chuva that infraction is so severe it will completely outweigh any mitzvot you may put on the right side of the scale and therefore the Rambam says once you're a knee and once you've exited rosh hashanah as an in-between kind of guy or a girl there's only one way to tilt the scales it's chuhwa or bust with mayor sim Club Dvinsk he pictures the scene we come yom kippur night and like every hump if we make a brothel we make a chef beyond oh thank god then he allowed us to live and to hit and he sustained us and he allowed us to reach until this very day how fortunate we are we have Yom Kippur how fortunate we are that we have a day that it's much easier to make the changes we need to but mayor simcha depicts very frightening Lee that if we don't take advantage of the day then we should not be saying the broth of saffiano because maybe we're better off not having that opportunity because what did Runa tell rev Rev Hoonah told Rav you're not going to help the butcher do Juba you're going to knock off the butcher you're going to kill the butcher because we're pune knew there was a distinct possibility that the butcher would remain stubborn and he would not take advantage of that opportunity and therefore we also have to ask ourselves yes iam Kippur is a wonderous opportunity but a wondrous opportunity we take advantage of it but if we don't take advantage of it then the words there of Hoonah told Rav we'll be ringing in our ears we're not going to save the butcher says her mayor simcha a really a remarkable interpretation in power shots where a God has given us many many mitzvahs he's already given us 600 or so much choice and god says their two paths in life and if you take the right path you'll have a good successful happy life brothel and if you don't take the correct path good things are not in store but the stakes are not so high yet because there's one Mitzvah that has not yet been introduced to the Jewish people and that is the myths of chuva and because we don't have the opportunity to do chuva the stakes are much lower because after all if you do Anna Vera what are you gonna do about it and if you do a mitzvah okay you did the Mitzvah so the stakes between right and wrong are dulled but in the beginning of powershots need 7 the plastic says kiha Mitzvah has is a char noise emits a Bahia in this Mitzvah that I command you today loin if lacy man cuts not removed from your Valerio heiko he it's not far keek are availa had of our melody it's very close the fijo the lava vocalist I sang in Paris nice of him God introduces it to us the Mitzvah of teshuva ha you could change you could repent you could correct now the stakes are much higher now it's not just blessing and curse anymore now it's not just ray or noisy noise in the faith on my own Bravo Allah now it's Reynosa telefónica I'm Sakai MBSR type they are some of us via Zara now the stakes are much higher when you have the opportunity to do chuhwa it's a glorious opportunity it's a wonderful opportunity it's a treasure it's a gift it's a maternal it's a sad but it's a tremendous challenge to do something about it end off with one idea we have a long way to go we say Goodell a Jewish amigaos at Kitty Hawk avoid tubas great it reaches up to the throne of glory so there's a fantastic amount tree after all you commercial lovers out there that you know I just saw there there were like tens of thousands of Jews in Newman for Rosh Hashanah there are also many thousands of Jews in West Hempstead for Rosh Hashanah right so one thing you could take out of Amman is you know you had to have these bumper stickers nah nah nah come on Nashua and me oh man so there is a valid system of Gomati I call it the non enactment sister of agamotto it actually comes from Rashi in the parishes that were reading now Rashi says only she wrote the Taira but I are hate Dave Robert what is Rashi say hey Dave 70 languages so the Mizrahi asks how does Rashi know that hate Dave means 70 languages so the Mizrahi says take the word hate Dave spell it like this hey hey yud hey your tests hey your test phase equal 70 that actually this system of the matcha emanates from Rashi it's a Mizrahi Rome is rocky likewise rough chamcham Miasha Poli one of their early makuu bellum he says take key say ha colloid cough-cough sama coughs ah McAuliffe coughs ah McAuliffe Hey coughs ah McAuliffe hey Huff and spell out kiss ah cover like that add it up you get to Shuba what do we learn from there that chuva is accomplished in small increments chuva is a great opportunity is a great gift is a treasure is a test out of a Shem and it's something we have to do something we have to take advantage of but we don't have to get to the key see I avoid tomorrow but we have to start the trip we have to take the first step we have to look at ourselves Lavie odium are a snap she know we all know where we need to fix and improve take one or two or three small things that are easy start there and if we're able to make those small improvements corrections to kunam then the hub italian would say to chuva is like the elevator and that is all you need to do is you press the button you step in and the rivana shall lift you the rest of the way up so mayor colors Beaulieu in this course of us coming together tonight on the third day of that Cersei mokuba today is the yard side of my grandmother blessed memory soon Abbas Rav Yehudah Labe Michele Michele now Leah in this course of coming together tonight may the revolution help us all do chuvash Lima and we should ultimately reach the key sahak about democracy matanga thank you [Music]