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Gateway to Tefilla - 7 Ways to Use Mealtime to Yearn For Geula

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this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com progress okay everyone we mentioned some of the that are on tap and the next one after that is the Translating elucidating that's why this past Wednesday night we uh spoke about the 13 junctures in that a person could focus to be do you remember what they are the by the car the Rish whenever you say Kadesh the and then those were the 13 but the truth is those are 13 in daving but what about there are many many other times a day and I wasn't sure how to break this up last night I came up with another nine but today I'm going to break it up a little differently I want to point out something very interesting you know when is like a super concentrated time of when we're when we eat did you notice that when you eat now let's talk about that first thing you do is you anybody have any idea why you was said yeah because I just changed my transmission no you didn't you gave it into your mechanic you didn't get your hands dirty your hands stayed clean the whole time so why do we watch well let's start with when the bikash stood Kim had to wash their hands for truma once K had to wash their hands for truma so they were go there that have to wash their hands for everything once they were go have to wash their hands for everything they were go there that everyone has to wash their hands for everything but that's only when the B mdash stood but nowadays it's not relevant no we wash our hands today because maybe the bdash will be built immediately and then going have to wash their hands when they eat truma so the whole of is why the whole is a way of awaiting and hoping for the building of B mikdash fine then before you bench before you bench there's a Min hug either to say on why just ate pizza why being maybe in America you're that the pizza is not good not as good as it is in no but really I mean and that's true that's that's my opinion but why are you why are you yearning for the building of the before and then number three you say in who wrote those words who wrote those words say so we have a whole why are we awaiting and yearning for the rebuilding of in but we're not done what about in then we say we explicitly request for the rebuilding of then what else don't we say don't we say say you know we didn't ask for to come the whole the whole the whole Mar the whole first s all of a sudden you ate a salami sandwich and you want El to come what about why are we asking for that what about isn't it interesting that the and the whole process of from the to the to the Z and by the way make sure you don't have a knife on your table when you bench cuz you might take it and stab yourself I understand is there you not have a knife when you put on Fillin is there don't have a knife on the table when uh you put on filling because you might take it and plunge it into your heart don't have a knife on the TA in your Suka no it's only after you eat pizza you can't have a knife on your table it's almost like somehow when it comes to a a is supposed to engender more of a Yeshua by the way also you'll say well maybe that's only bread you know cuz bread has a lot of uh a lot of carbs in it so you know it makes us it's it's when you make an Al also so is also a great yearning for I was really wondering about this and I was searching and searching and searching maybe somebody has a good interpretation why has eating become such a important juncture to be and and I saw a line in the schah this morning that maybe will give us some insight you know CL made made a pledge if I forget I should forget my right hand my tongue should cling to my pallet what is the function of a pallet when I think of a pallet I think of a big a big shipment of but also pallet is the part of the mouth that tastes food that means the Jewish people are pledging my tongue should cling to my pallet and therefore what we're saying is that whenever we're about to use our pallet and to eat we're pledging to remember Y and instead the says that we're going to use our tongue to speak righteousness and that is a remz to where we mention by the way you know it's interesting because on shabas and we add even more references to y no you only have to wash before bread you don't um you don't have to wash before other things unless it's a fruit that is uh that is uh wet also in in y is also a mention of uh anyway it seems like that when it comes to eating we have a specific responsibility to be and to remember because we took a pledge tidb that instead of eating our tongue should cling to our pallet if we don't remember so once we're involved in a that that puts upon us an extra special oness of remembering in any event I wish everybody a beautiful shabas all the best everyone colas good chabas you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com