Rosh Hashanah: Don't Ignore the Cry of the Soul - Yeshiva Toras Halacha

this tour class is brought to you by torahanytime.com thank you so much I just uh I only wish my mother was here to be able to hear that um thank you for the kind introduction you're very fortunate to have Russia Shiva who's uh concerned and for every aspect of the development of the tamidium the learning and with such dedication I'm happy to see how you remember they cycle off so there's also a tremendous maggots here not only here but also in the five pounds in my neighborhood and a lot of people who are Nina from his londos I see my good friend of yermia so welcome and uh it's a very great pleasure to be here today especially for myself you know when you're dealing with people who are working all day so you're in an atmosphere not necessarily where people are focused on the proper uh emphasis for the May ello so it's a physic for me to be with Danae Tyra to understand what the young and around are and what we need to be focused on as we approach uh the yamnam let me share with you a very important question and this question cuts to the chase of understanding and appreciating these very important days I lay ahead of us if I was mapping out the calendar and I was making up scheduling the On The Run let me tell you how I was doing I would make something called a day where we go to school and we fast and we do chuva and we wipe out all of our Katan and we have a clean slate this way as they say in America will be sitting pretty when the young hadin comes when a Rosh Hashanah would come we are we're running some judges I said everybody knows that the judgment is based on one thing and one thing only the gemara says in Rosh Hashanah the Rama pascansum waves a person's misplacing our Bears if you have more mistlets in our bedrooms you'll have a good happy successful year and vice versa the gemara says a person has more avaros than Mitzvahs they will not be written and sealed and even though the Ron asks but we see there are people who have more avarice the Mitzvahs and it's not so and we see people with more misses and verus than it's not so good so patterburg says we are obligated to have a moon of shlima that in Rave cases and 90 of the time the way it operates on Rosh Hashanah is if you have more mitsu andaveros you're gonna have a good year and a few you don't have more messages than others the the order of the yamna Run seems so backward doesn't make any sense why in the world would evansham judge us ah now that I judged you based on all the ideas that you've accumulated from last year okay now we'll give you an opportunity to get them off so cruel why doesn't Ibrahim who is who only wants our benefit who's only looking for our best interest why wouldn't he first have him Kipper wipe away all the her time this way we come again we'll be sitting there with a hundred missions and we'll be missed of Vanessa out there what's the yashwas what's the in giving us and only then wiping away that virus saysberg this is a question that always bothered him and he heard it from none other then but answering this question will give us the proper perspective not only for Yam Naran but for life in general we're gonna have to condense it I don't want to be married but let's just get one thing out there if you look at this world one thing you notice right away is that there is plan and purpose in briasa in the creation of the world for example there used to be a thing many years ago I don't know if you ever heard of it there used to be something called fruits used to be people used to eat something called fruits some there some people you could still go to a supermarket and you could pick it up it's a fruit it grows on a tree this thing called an apple I don't know yet nowadays people don't really the San Miguel so much you know but they're let's say an apple so look at an Apple the Apple is beautifully it's painted red very nice but yet if you would look at that Apple before the Apple was ripe the Apple would be green it would be unattractive and inconspicuous nothing would pull you to the Apple you wouldn't notice the apple and in fact the tree is holding on tied to that apple and as soon as that I Apple ripens all of a sudden it becomes conspicuous and it becomes attractive and the tree loosens its grip on the Apple obviously whoever created that tree understands that there are people who could appreciate color who are attracted by color who will now notice the fruit and whoever made this tree did not want us to eat it before it was ripe because if we would eat an unripe apple we would get a stomach ache and now that the apple is ripe whoever programmed the tree wants us to eat it is calling us to eat it is attracting our attention and we go eat the apple that means whoever made the tree did a really good job plan and purpose and has said if you look at every aspect of Riya Salam there's tremendous an apple is red and orange is orange banana is yellow and yet all of these fruits before they're ripe they're green you don't notice it you don't take you don't pay attention to it Hashem doesn't want you to eat it because it's not healthy yet it's not right that's very interesting because oh now I get it that's why a red pepper is red because Hashem is attracting our attention so then I have a question the watermelon why doesn't it have a nice color after all when it's ripe it tastes really good you know why because the Creator understands that what's going to happen if you would be attracted to that watermelon like you are to an Apple you're gonna take the watermelon you're going to cut it open you're gonna eat a fifth of the watermelon and the rest of it is gonna go to waste because a watermelon is food for a number of people so whoever programmed the watermelon said hey wait a second I know I want to attract the attention of the eater when it comes to the apple or some of the other fruits that we mentioned but any fruit watermelon cantaloupe honeydew which has uh more than one portion I'm going to give it a bland color on the outside it engenders patience this way when you see it you won't cut it open right away you'll bring it home to your table and only then you're gonna open it up and then everybody will enjoy it together say well wait a second a potato is for one person so why didn't Hashem why didn't the maker painted a nice color dances because he doesn't want you to eat it because a potato has to be cooked if you notice every detail of creation is with tremendous plan tremendous purpose and whoever did it hit it Bullseye got it exactly right even the human being tremendous wonders in the creation of man for example what do you like to eat for supper admit it steak people like men like steak people think oh I eat a tuna steak that's exactly like it tastes exactly like a steak don't fool yourself men like meat right so imagine you have a guy he's eating he's eating a steak he's eating a lamb chop and his stomach acids which are the most powerful Assets in the world if you put stomach acid on the table it goes right through the table it will digest the table and you have a guy eating the stomach of another animal and his stomach acids are dissolving the protein of the animal's stomach and not dissolving his stomach how's that possible who programmed the stomach that the acids of the Sun that could dissolve a different stomach and not that stomach an amazing thing everybody knows the blood goes to the heart the heart pumps the blood to the lungs the lungs take in the oxygen and now that the blood has the oxygen it goes back to the heart and then the heart pumps it to the rest of the body the problem is what is a baby and his mother in their mother's womb do a baby is not able to breathe the lungs are not operational so how does the baby get oxygen the answer is it doesn't need to breathe it's the oxygen of the mother that goes into the child so now the question is so what's going to happen when the heart sends the blood to the lungs the lungs are not working guess what whoever made this baby actually made a hole in a baby's heart so that instead of the blood and the baby going to the lungs it goes from one Atrium to the next and it doesn't go to the lungs who made that hole there who knew that a baby doesn't breathe so there needs to be a hole so now the question is how long could a person survive with a hole in their heart foreign so whoever created this child made a phenomenon that the second the child comes out into this world and takes a deep breath it creates tremendous pressure in the chest of the child and the whole seals shut forever so whoever made this kid got it right do you need a cardiac unit I mean this type of surgery would take 12 hours you have to put someone out it would be sakhanas God says don't worry I figure it out a mechanism just take a breath but there seems to be one aspect of creation which is an abysmal failure and that is human personality why do I say that you know if you give a cow enough grass and a shady spot under a tree the cow will be happy and it's awesome and yet you give a human being all the money in the world all the pleasure in the world everything that he could possibly want a human being will never be happy there's this constant empty feeling constant searching yearning striving people in the East they're traveling to the West people on the west are traveling to the east everybody's looking searching missing empty all the problems of mankind all the addictions all the dependencies all the depressions all the anxieties are all rooted in this phenomenon that man is never happy you know if you would look I don't know if it's Right audience to say this to but you know you're adult you know how many addictions there are under there's a list of like tens of thousands of addictions there are thousands just for the letter A you know and alcohol aerosol can smelling they're people who are addicted to their deodorants that you could not approval their people are addicted to approval if you think of that do not become a rabbi okay there are thousandth where does it come from why whoever made man seemed to have made terrible abysmal mistake why I mean whoever made the world seem to have gotten it head on every other detail of creation and yet when it comes to creation of man there seems this it's creation gone Haywire there's so many miserable people out there why didn't God make us like a cow if Hashem would have made us like a cow then all we would need is AC a little food and we could sit in one place and we'll be happy forever and ever what happened on that sixth day of creation everything went well on day one on day two on day three on day four on day five even on day six until all done was created and what happened to the Creator take a break prematurely and sort of messed up the creation of man and this is really Yiddish Skype 101. what I'm going to tell you today is something we all know the seven most important words in my opinion Aviation of turkey allies [Music] that this world is a hallway before the world to time to the extent that a person understands that they will be successful in this world to the extent that a person thinks that this world is where it's at that we're going to live 70 80 90 years and then it's all over to that extent one's existence will be a failure meaning the more a person integrates and inculcates this concept the more successful they'll be in this world and the less aware a person is of this concept the more this world will be a disaster because if a person feels that this world is where it's at I'm gonna eat I'm gonna enjoy myself I'm gonna get pleasure I'm gonna make money I'm gonna get honored I'm gonna really live it up this world is the biggest failure of any experiment that was ever conducted and to the extent that a person feels and realizes that this is only a way to prepare for oil this world will be the greatest success you know why did God create us with this unhappiness and uneasiness and anxiousness and emptiness where does it come from let me explain something to you this is not my observation this was one of the earliest observations of Manchester observed Adam and you know what someone said about Adam that the soul will never be satisfied and shall not mouth gives the following muscle villager is caveman really rough Gruff guy he lives in some Hut in the forest and he lives in a one-room Hut and he marries the princess and he takes the princess back into his Hut and she's looking around and she's thinking to herself this does not look like the palace what in the world is going on here and he's trying to make her happy so he serves her his best version his best Delicacies he takes out his pot and he's cooking up his lentils with a few beans and he serves it to her in this grimy Bowl his best dish and she's looking at it are you kidding me I'm gonna eat that it's this and he said what is it do you need music no problem he takes out like his symbols and his metal spoon and he starts banging and she runs out so what this is terrible this is not what I bargained for what was she missing she had food she had music the answer is she's from the palace she's used to the finest Delicacies she's used to the most sophisticated music she's used to the the most beautiful tapestries and now this guy is giving her a cheap version of what real pleasure is foreign what is our most valuable commodity what is the most important thing we have our most valuable commodity is arnachama you know why it's our most valuable commodity because it's a piece of the revanish it's a piece of the Divine it comes from the palace the problem is when the nishama comes down to this world it's overqualified and then ashama is crying and it's longing and it's yearning and it's empty you know why because there is nothing in this world that gives any satisfaction to the National and the body sort of realizes that there's something wrong over here there's something so missing something so empty something so and the body understands it's the nashama crying out give me more give me more give me more and the body says no problem what is it you need a better car I'll get you the newest model you need more money you need to work more you need more honor the body doesn't recognize what the nashama is calling for the body thinks it's the porridge you need a little more garlic in the bean a little more money a little more onions and the body doesn't realize the nashama it's not the it's not the garlic that's missing everything is missing missile sushant tells us that the nishama Clum the nashama does not like this world at all the shama is disgusted by this world the nashama is give me enjoyment from the palace and there's only one thing in this world that the nashama gets satisfaction from Thailand the only thing that can make the nashama happy are those old Delicacies that remembers from the palace divine pleasure Divine Delicacies the rebanish home created us with this overqualified nashama and this is the key to life you have this overqualified soul and it's yearning and it's thirsting and it's empty and if you recognize what it's looking for then this world will be the greatest success you heals your life well productively you'll acquire Tyra you'll acquire a mid-spice you'll accomplish what you need to in this world Miss Hashem you'll have a beautiful family you'll have Vanessa you'll be able to because you'll be able to work on your Midas and that drive The Emptiness of the neshama will fuel your success in other words if a person harnesses and uses and takes that yearning of the nashama that will be the drive that fuels one's success in this world but if a person lets that drive remain unidentified not understanding what is my emptiness what is my what am I missing what am I looking for what am I yearning it could bring other disaster the Torah tells us Revolution says I give you today life and death choose life what does emotional mean I give you life and death how does rebanishum give us what he's putting on the table two different things life and death why would God serve us death the answer is very simple God just gives us one thing he's giving us a mission is an engine it wants it craves it desires what are you going to do with the nashama don't ignore the nashama everyone's in the shop is calling out everyone's in Charlotte yeah the question is what are you going to do with it says we'll be small cilantro if you make the mistake that this world is where it's at I want to live I want to be healthy I want to make money I want to be happy then the way Hashem made the mayhadin is cruel it's backward after all why would he give us a Rosh Hashanah and only then forgive our veros after the fact I mean I want to have a healthier I want to have a happier I want to make a lot of money so give me a young Kippur and then I'll walk away from a Rosh Hashanah with an incredible year but that's because we live in error we think this world is where it's at but to Revenge them understands that this world is just a hallway it's just temporary it's just a place of preparation it says the main thing is Yom Kippur the goal is Yom Kippur everything is about Yom Kippur it's all about eternity mythspice and Ave rice Yom Kippur will determine what our oil will look like the only thing is if Hashem would first give us a young Kipper wouldn't mean anything to us imagine tell a guy okay okay in your afterlife what's afterlife what are Mitzvahs what are they rights you mean I have to think about what I'm doing you have to think about what everything is all about nah I'm too busy I gotta work I gotta learn I gotta do this I gotta do that so they've done some so to speak has to slowly develop our appreciation and lead up to Yom Kippur so he first gives us a Rosh Hashanah Rosh Hashanah is very relevant to all of us everybody Rosh Hashanah resonates with everybody everybody knows what being alive is everybody knows what good health is everybody knows what money is so Hashem says do me a favor you have no connection to Yom Kippur you're not gonna have any clue what Yom Kippur is all about and we worry about what we normally think about the whole year and that is this world but once we've come to first base and we have a Rosh Hashanah and we've sort of got into the mode of thinking about ourselves and thinking about life and thinking about Tire on this voice then we're able to so to speak reach their true level and understanding that this this is all a game until we get to Yom Kippur the focus is Yom Kippur the focus is eternity the focus is the spiritual repertoire of mitsues yes if this world was all about would be completely backward but this world is not a bad Island this world is and if a person recognizes and appreciates The Emptiness of this world intrinsically they appreciate the kindness of Hashem how he set up the system for us that Rosh Hashanah is the way that we prepare for the greatest day of the year the greatest day of the year is Yom Kippur and this should be really a paradigm and a preparation for our entire lives we live in a world where this principle is never spoken about not always never spoken about everything that comes that you see that you hear in the world is telling you the opposite every billboard every sign every restaurant every phenomenon that you encounter is coming to tell you it's all about the here and the now and we have 40 days to try to work on ourselves to recognize to feel to integrate to inculcate this principle doing that the fries so I wish all of you first of all sounds tremendous uh tremendously successful year in your learning your shamayan in your studies in your work and everything you hope for and the essence Hashem Hashem should illuminate our eyes that we could appreciate this concept and essentially Mubarak all of us with the schnas you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com