Rosh Hashanah is "TODAY" - Sichos Mussar Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yitzchak Elchanan

thank you very much Rabbi bacon for the warm introduction I'll tell you the truth I must have been half asleep because I have no memory of that phone call it's a great honor to be here it's very interesting to me there are many you know we have why do we blow the theer must be talking to us it must be telling us something would probably be important to know what does the Scher say because if we're taking the time to stick around and listen to the Sher what is the schaer telling us is it just inspiring us I mean do you get inspired when you hear the shra do you feel that you're a different person after you hear the sh I understand in rash rash told us to blow the so what it's but why do we blow theer andant writes in his letters that the Scher of just tells us one simple message learn mus that is all the says so so it's kada to have even during the regular of to have after all that is I would like to share with you theend the tells us about the says that they should expound upon the various of each okay so comes we have a that dates back to the times of to learn about the of each respective y so the on the spot is bothered okay I understand why to learn the asks further there's has an interesting question are you supposed to make so again the ask what do you mean are you supposed to you make on every you make a on on why would you not make a even on it's why would you not make ask as I mentioned if you look in the let's say the list of on the official list in the in the you're not gonna have there's not goingon to be a sh of you don't have a chapter in chapter chapter chabas chapter lulav chapter tius so why do you have chapter Chua isn't Chu Mitzvah you don't have chapters on mitz you have chapters on Mid in you'll have a section on Chua you don't have a section on chabas you don't have a section on mitv apparently cha is not just a Mitzvah and what I would like to try to emphasize and focus on and Inspire myself and perhaps you'll find it meaningful as well is what is the role of chuva in our day to-day lives you know in the tah and tanak there's a very interesting word that is used again and again and again in reference to rashash you may have missed it you may not have noticed it at first but if you pay careful attention to when rashash is referenced in the tanak you'll notice a very interesting word let's begin in and the day came the day zash what day says doesn't say in the rash rash identifies it as rash says and the came and theim convened or we have inim that Alisha was traveling and he came to a house of the Sho name the is and the P says it was the day what day was it writes in three places says do you know what par we read every single year the shabas before Rashana even though thear says in the end of Milla that was m to before rash on the spot says we don't actually L right before rash we have a buffer between and rash every year without exception of which begins with what words you are standing today could there be more appropriate words to read right before rash or watch this there's just think about the simple meaning of these words in judgment they stand says there's no question this is a description of what day of the year that's a description of rash again rash is called if you add up the numerical value of the entire in fact was a an amazing expert in gatria he pointed out if you add up the number of words that we read on the first day of rashash and the second day of rashash add up all the words from beginning to the end 861 words exactly gatria Rashana who could have even thought of that so again we see the word is a reference to rashash there are many other examples by the the says it would be said on what day what day do we constantly invoke the great Merit of the there is no question that when tanak uses the word ha it is referring to a very specific day of the year it's referring to the yam of rashash and the question is why is rashash called Hay do you know what the word hay means let's translate the word it means today it means today why would Rashana be called today I could think of many good words rashash we could come up with a whole list of names why today obviously it's not yesterday when rashash comes it's not yesterday and it's not tomorrow so why would rashishana be called today so I'd like to share with you two very powerful ideas number one the Mitzvah of Chua when are we supposed to do chuva the gamar famous tells us it's expounding do a day before you go you know so ask okay nobody knows when they're going it's not like they have an app that will give you a notification 24 hours before they haven't come up with that one yet so what exactly does mean do chuva a day before you go so explains exactly do Chu daily because you never know so you're supposed to do chuva every day what's this concept that you're supposed to do chuva every day you know there's an idea that says that a day is a living reality a day is not just a segment of time it's a living reality every day is is a living reality when that day leaves that day doesn't come back you want to make sure if you look carefully in theas ranas ramban says search your actions morning and evening there's a concept there's an idea that you want to make sure to inject chuva into every day of your life every day should be crowned with the mid of chuva if you look in t says chuva comes from a spher of Bina you want to make sure that this concept of Bina that Chua which rectifies something from its source is injected and crowns every day of your life mission brua says before you go to sleep at night you want to think about your actions so before you hit the sack you want to do chuva by the way it's a big schoola to fall asleep if anybody has difficult time falling asleep you start thinking about Chua it works every time the M brings down before you go to sleep at night be think about your day think about what you said think about what you could have done beah before you go to sleep doesn't the tell us if you see a who didn't don't even question him the next day because by the time the night came he definitely did shua or here's an interesting one if you look and say Forma says before you eat a meal you eat breakfast you eat lunch you eat dinner before you start your meal say AO and do Chua every meal should have Chua the even asks really what do you do on chabas you're not all to say VI on chabas so the says don't say VI but think about Chua before every meal you want to make sure every segment of your life is connected to chuva so I found in the ramak that the ramach says there are four main times to do Chua in the course of the year he says this idea I don't know I found this idea very powerful he says that in our lifetime the segments of time that aosu gave us there living realities but once they're finished it might be hard to access them once they're put away in the account so once the day is over it's not as convenient and easy to go back refer back to that day and do Chua for that day so the Rak says before a day is over try to think about Chua so that you rectified the day before the day is so to speak stowed away and then another time to do CH says is AR of shabas before the week is over there's a there's a concept of time of a week before the week is stowed away you want to rectify the week before it's but way actually the says that if you look in cabal shabas there are six chapters six of cabal shabas for each peric you think okay I'm doing Chua for Sunday I'm doing Chua for Monday I'm doing Chua for Tuesday and then there's some people have a custom where does yum Katan come from what's the concept behind yum Katan the month of the month of Tish the month ofan it's about to be completed it's about to be stowed away once it's stowed away it's not as easy to access anymore before the month is put away you want to make sure you did a chuva on the month so even if you don't say it doesn't take long it's only a moment to be M Chua before the end of the month and now we understand friends the power of AR rashash you know AR rashash is considered one of the three most designated of chuva of the Year why is AR Rashana such a powerful time of chuva because before the year is put away before the year is stowed away you still have convenient access without having to maybe make a special phone call to rectify the year before the year goes out so chuva is not reserved for Rashana chuva is not reserved for yum Kipper chuva is not reserved for sh it's nightly it's by each meal it's by every day it's by every week it's by every month and then Hashem sent me an amazing you know the is one of my alltime favorites wrote a called he writes in his opening paragraph before a person does any Mitzvah or learns T they should be Mah before you put on situs before you put Onin before you open your Gara maybe before you give Saka so chuva is not only weakly it's not only daily it's not only nightly chaid Chua is something you live with Chua is something you breathe the Bim writes what's Chu it's it's a mentality of coming close to after being distant so it's not connected to rashash it's not reserved oh now it's Chua time chuva is part of our Lives chuva is Aid we need to live and breathe chuva say was to learn but what is r what is it's chuva mha did not designate chuva for because chuva is not reserved for rashash Chua is part of the air that we breathe we live cha our entire lives is one coming close to after another it should become part of our so to speak regular thinking I'm eating now I'm daving now I'm learning now I'm doing a Mitzvah now it's an opportunity once again to to come close with thoughts of CHA what is rash it's today every day every single day is rash says the mar that is the reason why have a question should you make a maybe not nothing special about rashash every day is rashash the purpose of rashash is to bring us to a recognition that we need to be taking seriously the our entire lives and this is something that I personally would like to integrate and inculcate to utilize of the Day meals MIT end of the day end of the week these are all signals they're all opportunities of to give us really not only daily but every moment of our life is today today today that's one element and one aspect of why rashishana is called today I believe there's another important idea if someone has an area that they're lacks in I don't know pick an area a guy comes Shak says I don't know what time 7:30 and he comes 7:35 and that doesn't really give enough time to say and get on your and say the whole daving and then running late you know the M says daving with a minion means starting with theor and he asked the guy you know why don't you come a little bit early would anybody ever say I don't believe in coming early I don't I don't hold you have to come early I don't hold coming early is important I don't hold ding is important nobody would say that everybody would acknowledge of course I know why Hashem created me I know I know what my purposes in this world I know I was created to do mitv and I know is the most important thing and I know I really should come on time or I should even come early nobody would disagree with that so pal why don't you do it and you know what 99% of people would say of course I'm going to do it I'm not the only thing is I'm starting tomorrow today's not really a good time to start somebody he's a goodmo about a new learning initiative whatever it may be da this da that this this Shi whatever it is whatever the program is and they're inspired would anybody say no that's not a good program I don't I don't think you should learn that nobody would say that everybody would agree it's very important but that's why I'm going to start after rashash or you know what I'm going to start coming on time after rashash and the person does but after like 4 days of a Chua you know they're back to the bad habits so say I'm going to start y Kipper now I'm going to start the first day of I'm going to start is a new beginning I'm going to start I'm always going to start but not today tomorrow when I graduate I'm going to start when I get married I'm going to start I'm going to start when I have my first kid then I'm going to really show them who I am I'm going to start when I marry off my first kid I'm always starting I'm always ready I always think it's important it's just not important now says everybody knows their obligation in this world nobody's going to deny it nobody's going to underplay it no one's going to say it's not really important it's just not a good time to start you know the writes that the main impediment in a hasem is I'm going to do it tomorrow says there was a man by the name of B Andi tells Russ Russ I know you're apprehensive of approaching Boaz and you're probably not sure is he going to marry you is he not going to marry you listen here just go to him now because he will not rest the man will not rest B is going to tell you today whether he's going to marry you yes or no he's not going to wait till tomorrow he's not going to push it off a week you know yeah it's a good idea to get married but I just want to save up some money or the holes are cheaper next month the man will tell you today yes or no says the you see from here theid if had the opportunity to do something he would dare not push it off even one day says and it's a good thing he didn't push it off because that night he married Russ and he died and had he not married her that night would never have been conceived and there wouldn't have been a says the most important mid to inculcate to be successful in a hasem is we don't need inspiration and we don't even need that much education we just need to decide to do it now now is the answer says did you notice you know the med says that when took from the the says now maybe he's going to send forth his hand says the the word now means chuva says the word now doesn't mean chuva it means now the word now means CH says from here we learn that the main ingredient in chuva it's not a matter of inspiration it's not a matter of Education it's taking what we already know to be true and acting on it and not push it off any further I know a new say there starts the or whatever you want to learn starts but you know what tomorrow is better I know all the things I'm going to start in 13 days don't wait 13 days a the main ingredient of Chua is now says unheld every single time appears in the Tyra without exception there's a word that is just opposed to the name without fail says you will not findik mentioned without the word in the that's the of course coming on time is important of course working on Midas is important of course learning B is important but it's not a good time to start now now is not a good time I need a good time I'm not in a good frame of mind I'm going to start with the New Year I'm going to start yum I'm going to start with the new I'm going to start when I graduate I'm going to start I'm going to start just not now but comes and it says if you want to know what is the key ingredient in having a successful rashash what is rashash refer to in today is the birthday of the world you want to stand tall and proud on don't say tomorrow says we see so many people how often do we see a person who knows his obligation and the person knows what he needs to do and still we don't do it not out of not fully recognizing what we need to do we say I'll eat a little I'll sleep a little something I'll do it later so to have a successful y we all have ideas we all have aspirations we all have plans we all have cab we would like to make you know when the best time to make it is that's the secret of rashash so if we could focus on these two ideas the day of rash is a day from which we glean that the and theid of CH is not reserved for the first of T it's not even reserved daily it's part of every detail of our life we're living in constant return and coming close to every meal every Mitzvah every day of our life we take rashash and we drag it and we pull it and we allow it to influence every aspect of our life and perhaps that's the reason says we don't make on and we ensure that all of our good ideas we capitalize them as soon as we're able to and in that Merit we should all be we should all stand fall and proud on the great day of rash and all of us especially who are dedicated all of you thank you very much