Parshas Yisro: Shema - Daily Reenactment of Kabbalas Hatorah {Gateway to Tefilla}

okay welcome everyone sh great to see everyone we have tremendous because today's is not just connected to the para it's literally on this week's para the para ofal uh today's our series on sponsored by our dear friend RAB R of Los Angeles family if anybody would like to participate in upcoming projects upcoming on the Q um in English on for art scroll and uh other works as well um your help is very appreciated to assist the continuous uh production Okay so we're going to begin today's with a stanza from sandic has been uh practicing thiso the whole week um I heard all the way in the five towns I heard him singing last night I can't say uh you know how he did it but um his his Tunes were reverberating all the way here and he also he was practicing one of the the songs he was practicing was y shab right and in who wrote the author the we say like this and they all came in a covenant together we will do we will listen they said together they opened up and they answered God is one blessed is he who gives strength to the weary so I was wondering what does it mean they said where when did they say is there a of in this week's par when did they say you ever wonder about that they did when next question we know that one of the rules of is you're supposed to say sh with great awe reverence trembling shaking the with fear aess with shaking V with trembling why why do you have to get so worked up when you say SH now the Mish does say and we've mentioned this many times that when you say sh one should think that if ever put to the ultimate test one would give up their life and one should even if possible imagine that they are actually giving up their life but today we're going to explore another reason why when we say sh one should say with a and fear and dread and so forth we know another interesting thing that in shama in the SA they're big letters there's a big the of sh is Big the the of is big andab in his he brings um that regarding these big letters he says regarding the big do it's very understandable why there's a big doid because you don't want to sound like to look like a r then it would read so to highlight that it's a do we make it big cuz there is a and there it's a Big R by the way by by it's a big r um the says that the of which implies many gods does not have a point on Top it's rounded um rounded means Pleasant and forgoing without any boundaries AED Edge means it's it's convenient for everyone meaning it does not Place limitations which has a sharp edge indicates that believing in the Divine means they guidelines in life there things that may not be convenient but why is there a big in Rab says maybe it comes to say to to uh to highlight otherwise if you say Shema with an alive you know may that's not a word you want to be using maybe has maybe is maybe Hashem is our God so to emphasize it's not Shema with an Al but Shema with an in we say a big in but we're going to explore another reason why there's a big there's an amazing Med the med says from where did the from where were they from mat Kad how we find we find that God did not open up for them at sin only with this matter he said to them here o Israel I amem your God so this is very interesting the words sh is God said God said you hear this God said the word here o Israel I amem your God what did the Jewish people say they said oh okay so this is a this is a uh an adom bomb in other words if I would ask you who said the word sh Is God When when he gave us the TOA which part of the toyra when he said he said and the Jewish people responded and said which is interesting because we know that one of the reasons we say quietly is because we have a dilemma said didn't say but here we see M did say okay so this is AER immediately We Now understand what [Applause] means when did they say when said they said that's why doesn't say no they didn't say they said the on the says that it's wondrous adds that before God said he said is and then all gathered together and said which by the way it's fits in very beautifully with the idea that means that the Jewish people should gather together and unite as we know at by the way the Met tanuma says re that that when stood on they all joyously accepted the Yoke of heaven where do we find that the Jewish people accepted the Yoke of Heaven the answer is we're learning that at har the Jewish people said sh is okay comes RAB and RAB now adds a dimension to sha that I was not I was not aware of he says that when you say sha we're supposed to be imagining and associating with the momentous event of Matra which we came to a very clear and Crystal recognition and realization of hashem's reality and at that point we recognize God so clearly that even things we would ordinarily here we saw so even though it says we weren't listening we were looking with our eye therefore says RAB the eye of sh is Big to indicate although it was listening it was reallying we were looking we were seeing because when you say you're reenacting and now every Jew declares his amuna based on the fact that we were all at and we all experienc the great Revelation at sin and therefore every individual says is listen up all oh Israel that my is because I am a of the Jewish people I wasn't there alone I I wasn't there with my flesh and my bones and my Senus I was there you know how I was at Hari because I am a part of the Jewish Nation I am a part of the Jewish Nation every Jew is an inexurable inextricable part of clausel and therefore as an essential part of the Jewish people sh is I as part of the Jewish people were present at that momentous occasion how because I'm a member of the Jewish people and the Jewish people were there on har that's why we say in the that someone who takes himself out of the CL he's a because oura is predicated on being part of the community of Cl is who the and they heard and they heard from one who says sh he says sh by himself but he says is I am a of and for the last few thousand years every single Jew has a commonality with those Jews who were at har and that is we all recognize that this is one of the reasons why we say Shama out loud it's sort of a declaration of am aside from the fact that our souls were on Hari the idea is that we are card carrying members of this people and this people was present at a Hari being a member of the community is what allows us to have oura in now hash normally when we say hashem's name we think about what it means the way we read it that he's the master of everything but in we're M that he's the master of everything we're also M the way it's spelled that Hashem was is and will be and that Hashem is and without him no reality is possible and this statement is response from what we heard from when Hashem said on WE responded by the way when hasem said what he was saying is I am and we say Hashem who is he's our God and we're so therefore friends when we say sh we're supposed to be reliving and reenacted where and we responded elaborates further that at the time of the recitation of sh sh you're supposed to imagine in your mind that you're among the Jewish people on har and you hear hashem's resounding Voice by the way this gives us a deeper meaning in why thei tells us that the are alluded to in sh remember we've spoken many times how when you say sha uh there is a Remis to all 10 of the and when you hear the words you're supposed to think because when you say sh you're literally reliving the experience of sin now it's very interesting we say each Jew is without any doubt and this is part of the uh the recitation this is part of the fulfillment of being and then when we were commanded to that we responded say now we understand why you're supposed to say sh because we're supposed to say sh similar to and just like when the Tyro was given are you able to hear me by the way just like when the ti was given is this better much better L loud and clear okay just like when the T was given the whole world shook the world shook um the Pu says it looked like the world was going to go back to and we heard the resounding voice of and when a person thinks about that even for a short amount of time he will be gripped with and by the way when we say there's another meaning also means that we love him and fear Him simultaneously that's why we so that's why after we say we say and then we immediately say we Phill in other words in other words sh we say with fear and we say with love but now we're uncovering a new dimension of why we say sha and that isia that is because we're reenacting commemorating reliving the experience of Sinai and this gives us the deeper meaning of the usami the brings in and it's also that the Z tells us that and brings in the name of the it's that when you say it's not to swear falsely not to CET not to steal not to murder why is there a in sh I always knew there was a I mentioned that in my S it gives me where in the is an illusion but why is it there the answer is the recitation of sh is reliving the experience of Sinai sh is was said by God God said sh we responded this is what means this is why we say this is why we have a big in because even though we heard everything but we saw it with our eye and that is why the are alluded to in sh because it's a reenactment of the uh momentous occasion of okay that's uh the share for this week I want to share with you one more thought recording stopped