Ha'azinu: Soaring the Heavens In Search of the Gates of Teshuva

Okay, good evening everyone. Welcome. We have an amazing topic. Uh rarely can we have a shar on parasu. This is a shar parasu and I'm going to ask everyone to turn to the end of safer. [snorts] And at the end of safer you will find not in the kish that you have but in the mccrosh it actually gives you the number of sukim and safer. How many are in safer? It says the sum tally of sukim and svarim 955kim the sim is there 955 sukim and safer. What is the significance of 955 sukim in safer dev? We're all familiar with the statement of the garum revi chuva is great. It reaches all the way to the throne of glory. So I want to share with you a very simple question. I never saw anyone ask this question. Maybe because the answer is so obvious. But I want to present this question to you. Chuva is great that it reaches the throne of glory. Why does it need to reach the throne of glory? Do we say file is great that it reaches the throne of glory? I don't think so. Does it say Tory is great that it reaches the throne of glory? I don't think so. I'm I'm assuming it gets where it needs to go. Maybe Hashem comes down. Maybe the angels take it up. I don't know exactly the process but kazal do not teach that prayer is great that it reaches the throne of glory and tyra study is great that reaches the throne of glory or sedaka is great or is great or shilain is great nothing else do kazal emphasize reaches the throne of glory so why does chuva need to reach the throne of glory how many heavens are there we know there are seven heavens And in sadikim it brings thatu went up upstairs. He found groups of malar and Moshabenu read to them the creation of the first day and the malim praise the tora. So apparently in the first heaven the toyra reaches the first heaven. Then Mosha goes up to the second heaven and he finds groups of angels and they read the second day of creation and they praise the Jewish people in the Torah and the third heavens. He found more angels and they praised Jerusalem in the fourth heaven. They read the fourth day of creation and they praised Messiah. In the fifth heaven, guess who they found? More angels. And what did they praise? They didn't. Trick question. They booed gehenn. They're like, "Boo gem, boo." You know, thumbs down for gem. Then the sixth heaven, more angels, and they read the sixth day of creation. And they praised went up all the way upstairs and they read the seventh day of creation and they praised what? So chuva reaches all the way to the throne of glory. Why does it have to go all the way up? It doesn't say that about Tory. It doesn't say that about Msiah. It doesn't say that about Ganed. Only Chuva. You ready? This is the observation of the century. I wish it was mine. Until this day, I I missed it. And I'll tell you the truth. I have not seen anyone who makes this observation. My brother Aaron David Gladstein. This is his observation. Paraline. Okay, you ready? This is literally the best observation in the hamish. I'm still I still can't believe that he got me on that one. Okay, you know, but this is his. I got to give him credit. You ready? This week's para How many clauses in that? Two. Okay. So, it starts on the right side and it ends on the left side because there are even number of phrases. How many closes? Four. So again, it starts on the right, it ends on the left because they're even number. Okay. Two. Four. It's always starting on the right side, ending on the left side, which is very good because it's a song. So, the song you want to keep on going back to the beginning. So, every single clause of the song has either two phrases or four phrases. Okay? Everything is four or two until the song goes to the left side. The song goes to the left side. Take a look in yalid. Look what happens in Five phrases. Guess what happens to the song? It starts on the left side. I cannot believe. Did you ever see anybody who makes that observation? All of a sudden, in the middle of the song, it goes to the left side. You found Yeah. You know some books. You see any any books, any Jewish books, it talk about that the song switches to the left side. You believe what's going on over here? You see? Yeah. Saying how you've lained Hazu. Hazu. Yeah. You could probably l in your sleep. Yeah. What happened in the middle of the song? It goes to left side. Guess what happens from this point and on? The whole song is on the left side. how many phrases in that four. So it's going to be even. So to retain it, it's going to remain on the left side two on the left side. You by the way you could you could look even in the stone all the gimmel it all start on the right side and then all of a sudden from Oh, lame test switches you back to the right side. You know what lame test is? That has five phrases. So, it kicks you back to the right side. It's out of control. This is the most unbelievable observation. And nobody talks about this. That's impossible. You see what's going on? The first 14kim begin on the right side because they all have even number of clauses. has five phrases. So it kicks you back, kicks you to the left side. All the subsequent until lame also have even number of phrases. So it retains you on the left side until llamas has odd number and kicks you back to the right side. So we need to figure out what happened in that it threw everything off and what happened in that it brought everything back into order. And the answer is even better than the question, right? The question is out of control. We had some good stuff over Yam. Yeah, we had some good mas. We're going to have another one. Another M. But we're not even up to it yet. Okay. Your Mim that this is by far the best question you heard at least today. Yeah, fine. If you give me that, I'm happy. But like in in like 10 days, maybe this year. Okay. this year. Tough shin. Okay. Thank you. This is a song of our appreciation and praise for our when life is good then we're on a good track until the following happens. Until you know when things throw us off when life becomes very good. The problem is when things become very good. You know what very good means? Like if you want to drive a car, good. You want to drive a good car, good, but once it gets fully loaded, it will throw you off. What's until now? It's talking about all of the bounty Hashem gives you. butter, lamb chops, fatty milk, steaks, ribs, danishes, of wine. All of a sudden, God gives you tremendous bounty and he and you're thrown off track. What happens in the next pockish? Israel became fat and they rebelled. You hear what's going on over here? The answer is so simple. When Hashem gives us braha, things are wonderful. But when the braha becomes excessive, we have a hard time handling it. And you know when the song turns to the left side you see the extra excessive bounty makes us become corpulent and we rebel and that's how the song turns from the right side to the left side. Yeah. That's how the song turns from the right. It's excessive. There aren't four stanzas anymore. Now they're five stanzas. Five stanzas kicks it to the left side. And now we're in big trouble. Now we're immersed in the physicality of this world. So now Hashem has no choice. He has to provoke our enemy. And we serve idols and we provoke Hashem and Hashem hides his face and Hashem sends fire and famine and the sword and Hashem almost destroys us and the enemy is pursuing us and it's bad news and there's revenge and Hashem is judging us and punishing us. So what turns everything around? What happens in lamatess when we realize it's all him? Now look in lamatess. Lamas is an amazing puk. Now who by the way the name of God comes from this it says four times here we say the four an of Okay. So somehow lame turns things back. Question. What are we doing in lame that it turns the song from the left side back to the right? What process would you say we must be doing in Pakess that it's going to turn things from the wrong side of history to the right side? Chuva. Chuva. No. Got to be chuva. Where do you see anything about chuva in pak lament? So I would say very simply everybody knows on the p in bacius says a vuva now means chuva. The word now means chuva. The met says now means chuva. So after becoming so immersed in gashmas we return now the explains the reason why chuva is called now is because everybody knows what they need to do. The problem is people push it off. Chuva is not a chuva is just about doing what you know you need to do doing it now. So l is chuva. Oh chua we come back on the right track. It was worth it to cut for your soul to come down from the kayak to be able to observe how the song of switches from the left side and then switches back to the right side. Even if let's say you were in yeshiva today in the morning I'm saying and you came here to hear the shir I'm not it was kadai it was kadai tell revelki don't say from who tell him show what happened over here your dalid it go it goes from uh so everything's on the right side after it goes to the left and then after lamus goes back to the right now now that we got warmed up over in the Shira in Shirazu. I want to share with you an amazing tradition we have both from the mass and the vnag why there 955im in safer kazal tell us before mosh rau passed away he says almighty I have one request I want to make from you please open up all the gateways of heaven and I want to see there's nobody but you said open up the doors. I want you to open up the heavens and I want you to show me that upstairs. It's only you. There's no no partners. You remember the kaga? When Alicia when Alicia Benuya went upstairs, what threw him off? >> Mat he saw there was an angel up there writing and he said, "What's going on?" What? There two there two there there's an assistant assistant upstairs. So wanted to see clearly that there's no assistance. So he asked God to open up for him all the heavens says the says the says the mala. How many heavens are there? 955. What's going on in them? They're very busy. They're very busy. Except for the final 55. The final 55 is just God alone. Rabenu said, "I need to see the final 55. I because the first 900 there are angels there. There's mat there. I don't want anyone to get thrown off." Mabenu said, "I need to see all 955 levels of heaven. I need to see it's just you." The first 900 levels of heaven, there are a lot of angels. The top 55 is just God. The rem is to God alone is the heavens and the tallest heavens says of says how did open up the heavens each of the opened up another another level of the heavens. So when said the first of Is that what it says? Yeah. It opened up the first level. Then he said second level third level. And he was saying after opening up one level after another. But in the first 900 levels, the thing is there are a lot of angels there. He gets to puk 91. What's the 911st puk in the You ready for this? Hold on to your socks. Pas in haz look at the PK now. Who? It's I. It's me. There's nobody with me. I take life. I bring life. Nobody could save you from me. When said the 911st of he saw what Alishuya couldn't see. He saw it's only God. The 911st Pak in Dvarim corresponds to the 9001st level of heaven. that in that level of heaven is only the by the way the pin suggests what's the significance of 55 levels of heaven only to God every letter has a alf is tess they come together and they make a y bay gets together with giml gets together with zalid gets together with vav has no who's he going to marry Yud Yud marries marries pay lid marries me marries. Who does nun marry? The he and the nun they're all by themselves. That's why it says about we're all by oursel. We're all by ourselves like the he and the nun. So therefore the top 55 H is uh is only Hashem. By the way I think the Benesai says what >> is one is one. >> Oh very good. Excellent. Excellent. By the way I think the says because the end also has no why. See if we can figure this one out. Because the kof marries the final sadi. Kuf is 100. Give him give him a a cigar. Kof um is 100. Um final sadi is 900. Ra is 200. Final pay is 800. Shin is 300. And then I think the final non basic I'm sorry the final [snorts] which is 500 has no so it's okay that's an aside point. So as hashem my final request is I want you to tear open the heavens and I want to see there's nobody there in the shayim besides you the 911st is ani who this is the amazing revelation of the adds one thing you know why there 955 levels of heaven where does this come from that there 955 levels of heaven What's the numerical value of hashim? Hey is five. Shin is 300. Me is 40. Yod is 10. Final me is 600. 955. Hashayim is 955. It's not like an arbitrary number. Hm. The master and the vag had a had a convention. And they got together and they said, "Let's say that there 955 levels of heaven. Can I get safer dev?" No, no, no. The reason they're 955 is the word hashim equals 955. You know that in gamatria the final letters al also have value. So the the tough is 400. The final is 500. The final mem is 600. The final nun is 700. The final pay is 800. The final sadi is 900. And alf is also lf a,000. So you have the small olive is one and the big olive of is a thousand. Okay. So here's where I'm going to add one little small idea wanted to get to the 911st level of where only God is with the which corresponds to that. We said what is at? Why does the Shira turn back from the left side to the right side? Chuva, [snorts] we asked why does Chuva need to reach all the way to that means it's very interesting. Tyra doesn't need to reach the doesn't need to reach the but 901 which is which is chuva needs to get all the way to the you know why question you ever hear this question the usi asks they asked wisdom what should be the fate of a sinner remember what wisdom said wisdom said he kill He should be pursued with evil. They asked prophecy, "What should be the fate of the sinner?" Prophecy said, "Uh, he should die." I have a great idea. Prophecy have a great idea. Kill him. They asked the Tory, "What should be the fate of the sinner?" The Torah says, "He should bring a carbon." Question, why didn't anybody have the following idea? You know what the fate of the sinner should be? He should repent. The answer is because nobody would give such a ridiculous idea. Because nobody could understand how you could do something wrong and then just repent. What do you mean repent? What is repent supposed to do, man? You know, the guy's being tried for a capital offense. And the judge says, "So what do you say ai? I did it. I did it exactly. I did it intentionally. I didn't do it unintention. I knew exactly was wrong. I did it anyway. But I feel so bad." Oh, the judge says, "Good boy. Nice boy. Nice yingala. Okay, don't do it again. Don't do it again." There's no such thing as chuva. Chuva doesn't work in this world. The Torah doesn't advise Chuva. Naveim don't advise. Wisdom doesn't advise. Only God himself could advise Chuva. Do you remember the USI? The issami says that Manasha was circled. The enemies captured him. They put him in a pot and they were cooking him. Manasha soup. It's very tasty. And what happened? Manasha said, "I think maybe my father once told me a puk that if you do chuva, Hashem listens. So God, I don't believe in you, but in case you're there on the side, you're there, I may be doing chuva. God said, "What?" He dropped everything and uh and the angels said, "Are you kidding me?" They started squaltching the chuva. They started covering over the chuva. They started pleading with Hashem, "Don't accept the cha." So what did the do? The dug special tunnels under the to bypass the protest of the malim. What do you see from here? Chuva better reach the cover because if it doesn't reach the cover, it ain't going to work because nobody allows it through. The angels don't allow it through. The angels don't think it should work. The angels fight against it. The angels uh prosecute it and the angels will turn it down. Only needs to create a certain realm in the heavens that no one has access to. The angels don't even know what's going on there. When the chuva goes up, the angels are not there because if they would be there, they wouldn't let it through. I'll end with one. There's a remember what talks about that it's the beginning of remember as you know this is the this is the old testament over here. We like to do things in Hebrew. So what's going on in it? It means if you want to do chuva, do chuva. Why? Since when did we become tali? We slipped in Aramaic words for chuva. Say why does it say it in Aramaic? Says chuva. We cannot write in Hebrew. If we write it in Hebrew, the angels would go on strike and they would protest. They would not allow it. So we need to hide chuva in the Tanakh. And therefore it's written in Aramaic the angels don't allow chuva. So we started off with the question why does chuva need to reach the does tora reach the I would argue no it doesn't. It doesn't need to. The angels bring it up from wherever they are. Does prayer reach the no. There is no source prayer. The angels ask them to but they'll do it on their own. does. No, the angels when they see a dod, they're only too happy to bring it upstairs. But if chuva would not reach the it wouldn't work. And therefore, Hashem created the top 55 levels of heaven reserved. We're suggesting for the realm of chuva like sadikim says when went all the way up he praised tshuva that these 55 levels of heaven start this shabas per lakess the amazing pal see now now now is chuva in chuva in the top 55 levels of heaven those are reserved for the chuva of the Jewish people gda Shamagas.