Making Rosh Hashana The Head of the Year - Brampton Beis Medrash London

We're a few days before Rashashana. Rashashana is called the head of the year. The head encompasses everything that follows. In many ways, Rashashana encompasses the entire year. There are many aspects of Rashashana that what we establish on Rashashana creates the reality of the rest of the year. There's an amazing medish. It's on the say that in our generation we were basically we're empty. We have nothing. We have no meal. We have no we have no room in the we have no we have none of the treasures of antiquity. We don't have an We don't have the We don't have the We don't have You name it. We don't have it. Whatever you could think of a spiritual gift that was ever given to the Jewish people, we don't have it anymore. It doesn't matter. So, what do we have? We have one thing. We have the of which sounds like there's this one special spiritual gift that's a relic of the ancient uh power of spirituality the Jewish people have and that is the of rashash that's the one thing we still have that's an amazing perspective of the ofasham kipper let's try to bring that out and understand There's a general question, a fundamental question about tila. How does tila work? What's the mechanism? What's how does tila operate? So here you have a guy. I don't know the economy here in London. I'm from New York, so I'm going to make up figures. Let's say you say to live in England today, you need 150,000. I don't know. Don't don't laugh at me. I I don't know the your economy. Let's say you need 100. The guy is only making £130,000 a year. So he's please I need another 20,000 a year. Are you kidding me? What do you mean? What do you God decided the ultimate decided that for your benefit, for your happiness, for your success, for your welfare is the epitome of it's better for you to have £130,000 a year. What exactly are you asking him? You asking for more? Hashem has already determined it's bad for you to have more cuz if it was good for you, it would already be in your account. So what exactly you asking him? What what exactly is I know you made an executive decision that for my benefit is better to have less. I humbly disagree with you. What is exactly? An argument with God. I know you're God, but you're wrong. What are you what are you doing only does what exactly is how does it operate? I'm sure you heard the question before. The interesting is the interesting thing is almost nobody knows the actual answer to this question that after writes in that actually you can't d and say I need money I need I need a because already determined that for your your benefit and your happiness it's better not to have it so you can't just ask for it so how do we do that what are we exactly we doing when we have it says in the way to feel the works of the reun but that doesn't mean it makes you happy and because it doesn't make you happy it hurts a little bit. It stings and when it stings you it really hurts because acutely feels your pain. So even though for your benefit it's better not to have it for Hashem's benefit it's better for you to have it. So the way works is I know for my benefit I shouldn't have it. It's okay. You don't have to do what's good for me. I want to do what's good for you. So please give me the money. Please give me the please give me the because I'm interested in your welfare because I don't want you to be in pain. That's how works. So you'll say that's how works. So why don't we say it? Why do we say why do we say why don't we say why do we ask as if it's good for us? The answer is because we already establish onash how works for the rest of the year. You see onash we don't make any personal requests. All the personal requests are later additions in history [clears throat] is by these are not essential to the essential. All we ask for is all we ask is for once we establish that we're only for your benefit and for your welfare and for your honor then the rest of the year when we say what we're saying is rash when we ask that it should be for your sake and when we say the way it works is but see [clears throat] All of the of the entire year are sitting and standing on the shoulders of the ofash without the ofash there are no the whole year is not even possible it wouldn't even be permitted rash establishes that everything we ask for throughout the entire year is for your sake and we make this very clear The nishama is yours. The body is yours. Have mercy on your thing. This is about you, Hashem. Give me a good year because my soul is yours. My body is yours. for your sake. The entire pay attention every single line of the body is yours. The soul is yours. You made it. It belongs to you. You made it. You own it. It is you. Every reference to request in place is highlighting how operates. Rashi remember Rashi. Gary of Rashi. Rashi was an orthodox rabbi. Rashi the says is the rebi and the father of the Jewish people. Rashi says, "What's one of the most common we say throughout the Hashem says, "I'll forgive you because of the way you phrased it." How did my phrase it phrased it? Why should it be a dishonor to your name? Oh, Hashem said, "Okay, fine. Fine. You're right. That good. You got me. You got me. If you're going to ask save them because they deserve it or have mercy on them." No. I've determined it's bad for them. But because of what you said that it's going to be that's how works is the head of the year without rash during the rest of the year is ineffective. Here's another important aspect of the rashi reveals. It's also in the there's a concept that a set without has no wings has nowhere to go. Can't really send to the shay. So what happens to these? What happens to maybe we could say the vast majority of our that are just annunciated words without any soul to it? Where where do they go? They're floating in the heavens. And one could be all of the of the whole year that are lame and don't have the nuclear energy to shoot up to Shay. So the of Rashashana actually could shlept along with it many many that we offer throughout the entire year. So in this sense also rash is the head of the year. It's able to not only give meaning and possibility for all future to be but it also literally has the engine power to shle up others that we've offered in the past. There's another way that rash is reflected on the says yeah question when made this why didn't he make a that you should learn on rash Why did learnash there's an interesting says do you make a rash? Anybody know? Do you make rash? >> Yes or no? >> Yes, you do. You do make a shafu on rashash. By the way, on the first night of Roshashana, do you make shy? For sure. On the second night of rash shana, do you make a shafy also? For sure. Also, we ask him yes. Do you need a new fruit on the second night? No, you don't need a new fruit on the second night. Is it better to have a fruit on the second night? It's better to have. If you don't have one, you make a anyway. We pin each day deserves a we do not pass. It's um making a it's just in deference to the rush. The rush would be to have a new fruit the second night. Therefore, many people think the fruit the second night is an and the is going on the fruit. If you have that kavana, it's a question if you say kdesh because you're being mafik in the middle of kdesh with a random. You can make random brahas in the middle of kdesh. No, >> what you have to have in mind is the is going on the yam and additionally also the fruit but not the fruit. You have in mind the we ask him you do makeash the has a do you make a rash asks why would you not make if there was ever a that you should make a you say it should be rash and yet the sad maybe rash you do not make So explains as follows P is a Y that comes on the 15th day of Nissan it's P today is not PE you know about that today is not P tomorrow isn't PE and in three and a half weeks it won't be PES either Shabuis comes at a specific time when it's shabus it's shabus when it's not shabus it's not shabus Same thing with sukas and therefore was making learn the on and not other times what's the mitzah of rashash what's the mitzvah of rash what's the main focus of rashash day of chuba so we only do chuba and rash and the rest of the year we don't do chuba what are you supposed to do the rest of the year says a day before you go. Imagine they don't have an app yet for that that sends out a notification 20 let's say 24 hours before you go. There are no beeps. What's that? What's that? Oh, it's the 24-hour before you go app that just notifies. There's no no. So they asked, "What do you mean do chuba day before you go? Nobody knows when they're going to go." He said, "Exactly. That's why you have to do cha every single day. The Mishna writes, "Before you hit the pillow at night, before you hit the sack, as they say in America, you should make a and you should do chuva for anything you might have done wrong that particular day." So you want to do chuva every day. You want to do cha before you go to sleep at night. The Gomorrah says if you see the no cuz he for sure made a before he went to sleep and he did cha so you're supposed to do cha every night the says the writes the holiest time of the day. You ready? Get a load of this. What's the holiest time of the day? No, none of that. The holiest time of the day is when you eat. The writes, the holiest time of the day is when there is no time that you're like when you eat. And therefore, before you eat, the says you should do cha. Before you eat, you should do cha. He says you should say so. Say, "So before you eat, you should do cha." Now you know there's a rule that if someone is a Russia, his sins may go to the dark side. Yeah. You ever hear this idea? If a person's a Russia before their sins, their their mitzvah might go to the dark side. You know this God tells the wicked person stop stop learning cuz when you learn it goes to the dark side. Therefore the writes before you learn you should be it's a lot of cha before you eat before you [snorts] sleep before you learn that's that's a lot of time. Some people eat like 90 times a day because they want to be. They're always eating less to be Arab. So they keep a candy in their mouth. They're eating the whole day. So they're eating before you eat, before you learn, before you sleep. You know the brings also in the ra there are four main times to do chuva. You see it's easier to do chuva so long as the time period is in front of you. Once the time period leaves it and it's put in escrow account, it's harder to access it and do cha. So before the day is over, before the ramach says while the day is still present and before it's put in a safe deposit vault in Shayim, you want to do chuva for that day. And then before shabas, before the week is put away and put in a safe deposit vault before your shabas, you could do you should do chuva. You ever hear of yipper? What's why is because before the the month is put away in an escrow in a safe deposit vault, it's easier to rectify it when you rectify it when it's present in front of you. So you want to do chuva and what's the greatest day of chuva the whole year besides rash the Torah says a third of our sins are forgiven on so that's the reason why we do before the year is put away you want to rectify the year so now not only before you eat and before you sleep and before the day is over but before the week is over before the month is over the wrote a simah. So before you learn, before you say, before you put on your palace, before you put on your thrilling, before you say, before you say Before you do a mitzvah, before you give saddaka, you want to be in the optimal spiritual state. So you're cha before you do a mitzvah. So you're only doing cha and rash. Really? Chua is only for rashash. One day a year you do cha. You do cha every single day, every single night. You're doing cha all day long throughout the day. says in Mara if would have been to learn hash you would have mistakenly thought that chuva is reserved for rashashana but chuva is not reserved for rash rashash shana is reserved to reflect on our entire year and entire life therefore the gar has it says you're not going to make aanu on rash do you make au on a random Tuesday, you make a on lunch. I reached lunch. There's nothing special about if you use rash correctly to infuse your entire life with an endless journey of coming closer literally through every and every mitzvah and every time you sleep and every time the day is over. defines as the act of coming closer to after being distant from him. So we're always coming closer and closer. There's a famous story attributed to going that [clears throat] was once seen performing a very intense type of chuba rolling in the snow and they asked him you know go what did you do wrong already? What did you do wrong? What did you do wrong? Because I didn't do anything wrong. But I'll tell you a story. One time I was invited to someone's house. They didn't quite know who I was. So I came into the house and they gave me some water and they gave me some bread. And then shortly after another guest that came down, they said, "Repsad, you're going. I can't believe I have this host to meet you. And he was going on and on and on and he was showering with such honors and honorifics that the host started having khalishious. I can't believe I only gave water I should have given him like sudas. If I only would have known your greatness, I would have treated you with so much more respect. So says, "Every day I learn more and I appreciate Hashem more and I come closer to Hashem and I recognize how insufficient my service to Hashem yesterday was. Now that I know what I know and I'm this close to Hashem, I feel that what I've done until now is so inadequate. I have to do chuva that I didn't do more." Chuva is a lifelong occupation. It's something that should infuse every day of our life throughout the day. Therefore, Rashashana serves as the head of the year. So to summarize, according to the rashashana establishes the mechanism of for all the requests that we make throughout the year. [snorts] You can't just make a request. Our requests have to be fueled by it's for your sake. I we want you to be happy. Hashem Hashem, we know that when we're happy, you're happy. So we're I'm not I am not asking for money for me to be happy. I'm asking for money because I want you to be happy. You know the writes in the there are different levels of some sadikim they refrain from eating but the highest level of which actually is very appealing is not to refrain from eating is to eat and to enjoy it and to think I'm not doing it because I enjoy it but I know Hashem when I'm happy you're so happy and I want to make you so so happy. So I'm trying to get as much happiness from the food as possible. That's the highest love. Now you can't fool them. That's why the says we're not doing it for our sake, Hashem. We're doing it for your sake. And don't think we're doing it for your sake because it's an underhand way to do it back for our sake. Don't think we're trying to fool you and trick you. We're really doing it for us, but we're saying it. We're doing the That's why we say it's not for us. It's not even for us on the rebound, it's a very high level. We're very distant from this type of thought. But even if you sprinkle in literally an iota of a thought that all of my requests onash is for Hashem to have happiness that we're happy for Hashem's honor to be magnified for Hashem's greatness to be appreciated. It will revolutionize and transform all of the tit of the whole year. It will shle up all of the tit of the whole year. And if we utilize rashana, we could infuse all of our days and all of our mitzvah and all of our all of our and everything we do throughout the year with tshoua and will uplift the entire year. I wish everyone Amen.