From Yomim Noraim Into Sukkos - [Archives]

We're staring all of us right now are staring spot on to Rashashana Yamipper Sukus. We have a whole set of yamim coming right on. We have a lot of history with these yam personal. All of us have our own feelings about these yamim. The younger somebody is they're remembering it as a sevenyear-old. Oh my gosh, you may is longer really long right after two days. The next day is a fastalia with our own feelings towards these days and and we have a job as we're maturing and getting more sophisticated. These days are precious. I believe most guys here, my dream for every guy here to come to a day where you actually wish there were two owls a year where you wish you had a second chance. I'm not saying you want it all year, but a guy would want a second owl. You I promise it's sh for a normal, cool, grounded individual that he wishes there was a second L or maybe three LS a year. And I want to talk about the days in front of us. We're in middle of y and we're coming already Sunday night, Monday is going to be rashishana. I want to speak about sukus. Now it's funny to talk about sukus. It's very late in the process. Sukus sukus really is profoundly connected to rashana and the simplest source sukus is a very happy y it's a y like all the regulum but specifically sukus has a massive inion of simka there's a tremendous joy we know about the simas maybe the happiest celebration that existed in the Jewish people It was a sima millions of yidden millions would converge on the bas mikdash and the gathering was just electric. It was magical. We don't think about it enough. The whole regal was nuts. The whole yam was the most exciting crazy shalom are wild is a complete party. There are millions of yiddens sitting in everybody goes there. The mitzvah said to present yourself to Hashem. Millions of yidim. We did we did something that's crazy. We left cities you know cities emptied out. There wasn't one Jew left in the city. Now the danger of that all our stuff were in the city. Any single person and Gaim knew that we leave our cities. Any single person can walk into a city. You rob a house. There was no police. We were the police. There was not a purse and our houses were full of all our we didn't bring all our stuff to shalim where you putting all your stuff. So you left your house completely empty vulnerable to bandits to robbers who knew that sukus we abandon our houses but the Jews in complete loyalty to Hashem we say okay Hashem keep us safe and we left and things weren't stone. Hashem protected our cities but that was a miracle. We would leave complete empty houses with no and with gaim knowing we do this yearly at the same time you know when we're going you could check the calendar we would all go to inlay were sleeping every square inch is taken in their barbecues daily the whole smells a delicious smell steaks daily we all have a mitzvah of an obligation you put on filling you wear you sit in a soa you eat steaks We have a mitz of of a schlam. We brought every day the bdash was popping because everybody was bringing a shig every single day. You brought one in that all went to hashem. You brought one over yantive. That was your way of presenting yourself and you brought an and then daily you brought. How much schlum you brought depended on the size of your family depended how many guests you were having, how big your party was and you made in your was just wild scene of people rejoicing. Now sus specifically there was a tremendous called the sima at this magical simka there was beautiful singing and dancing and talents all different abilities being shown. It was just magical. anybody you ever cared about was there and it was just a magical gathering. Now what is the source of this great sim sukus? What is the deal with the sim? So I want to talk about one aspect of sukus and then you'll see why I'm getting to rash. Why are we jumping to sukus? I think understanding sukus will help us engage and understand the process we're middle. If you want to know what the simasa was, you'll turn to a gumar. What were they singing? What were they singing in their circles when they were dancing and the music was playing? And they had bands the size of they had huge humongous bands, every type of instrument playing. It was just all out madness. And what were they singing? They were singing. Fortune is the person who never sinned. And somebody who does does did sin do and Hashem will forgive him. The celebration was a celebration of that Hashem forgave us that we've reconnected and rebounded to Hashem. That was the awesome explosion of that that simple chat. Where am I getting this from? Because the gamarra says the what they saying in the circles that is for is the one who doesn't sin who's loyal to hashem and the one who did sin hashem is forgiven that's what they were singing so the great joy this is how most were shin learn was the joy and the kaparus we've reconnected to hashem we've rebonded to hashem and the explosion and the great joy I think one of the clues to the great joy of sukus is the is the water libations is the say all year round you did say >> in English it's called water libations all year round on the with every saber every carbon that was brought the they do wine libations we pour pour wine on the misbay. Once a year we pour water on the misbay is sukus. It's called a massive procession was made. It was a huge deal on sukus. Now if you're a five you like weird facts has no open source in the god told me told Yeshua who passed it down to us. It's an absolute command. It's just not an open verse in the Tory. It is learned. It's learned draw of water with great joy. There's a tremendous joy associated with Yseph. It's a very vague and mysterious not even written open in the Torah. Hashem told Misha who told Yeshua who told who passed it down to us and it's very mysterious. the water libations. What in the world's going on? This mysterious water is poured in the m like what's the significance? What's the message? What's happening? Very odd. And we did it very seriously. There was like a serious procession and all the Jewish people were marching and the garra in detail describes the procession and the happening of water libations. And I think in this procession is the great secret. And I think we did we started it yesterday the discussion we spoke about the whispered we spoke about the conversation of the angels. I want to talk about this and I want this would be a tremendous engine to start our process of rashashana of chova of yam kipper. This will start the engines going. And what I want to say is like this. What's this water libation that we poured water on the and in such a seriousness you see you would watch the Jewish people draw the water carry it in a whole process with a whole system of how they approached the MBA of how they approached and everybody cheering the son and then the great joy they poured the water like what what just happened. What what went on? What was the what's going on? Soal tell us the following cryptic khazal I want to share cryptoal I want to read and then I want to talk practically kazal tell us cryptically that originally all the waters of the world were one and hashem separated the may the upper waters with the may with the lower waters he separated them the upper waters stayed with God the lower waters are separate. Do I know what this means? Not any drip more than you do. And these are mysterious ideas, but I there's a message to us that's profound and relevant. So the upper waters stay with God. You with me? You like kabala? The upper waters are with Hashem. The lower waters are with are separated from Hashem. And the lower waters complain. The lower waters said is ridiculous. We're separated from Hashem. It's unfair. So Hashem said, "You have a good complaint. So he said to the lower waters, you know what? I'm going to console you in the waters of the oceans, the lower waters, there's salt twice the lower waters are going to come to the be connected back to me. When on every you're going to put salt every needs salt we salt our bread on because the of a person the table of a person's that's on every salt so we put salt on our bread mysterious but one comfort is every carbon has salt I'll call me and the Second comfort to the lower waters. The second comfort is sukus water li the water libation once a year water is going to be poured on the m and the lower waters are like thank you so much Hashem ah and the question begs itself hello can you imagine two bakram can you imagine two bakram they like rayniki and one guy moves into rayniki's house and gets to live in rayniki's house he raised him as a benbias another bach is not fair I wants also. So I was thinking says you're saying good once a year I'll go to a you'll drive with me to the wedding um improportionate you throw me a little doggy bone the are with the say hey we're not with listen on a carbon salt will go on the carbon and water libations on them is that's once a year a carbon is a a little more often. But what's going on the with the is different is distant and like this cover. You throw me a little door. It's still not fair. If I was the May, they should have hired a better lawyer. Maybe they need Alan Dersuits or Ben Braman. They need some a better lawyer. They really got shaft once a year. That's what they settled. The lower water was cool with that. And what what's going on? Yoseph Kazal are saying deep ideas that are lifech changing. What's going on here? Upper waters lowers. Let's find some stuff out next. Next. There's a story that happened. The gar everything in the garra is profound. The garra is not a story book. It's not a history book. History is unimportant. What was was my anything in Gar and is eternally relevant. The garra says a like a very funny story. We had a bakin who was an artist who drew a picture of this story. A hysterical picture. But listen to this story that the garra in suka says. The garra says what is it? >> Is what listens to the >> they listen to the written they don't accept the oral tra. Now this is going to be very important. Every detail here is going to be relevant. So it stiki is a person who doesn't believe in the oral tyra. It's just what's written down what God wrote. That's it. Don't give me this. Hashem told Yeshua none of the oral as such. No, >> it's not in the it's oral. This is going to be very important is passed down. It's not in the written. Now in the second Bdash the >> was a political position in the first Bikdash the was an epic sadic the beginning of the second Bish the was an epic sadic late in the second Bikdash we didn't have we didn't have political autonomy we were not we didn't have the right to do what we wanted and the Roman government would appoint who was the kugle it was a bought position and as such We had a lot of interesting characters being kang and says there was a story at stiki was the kang and the nay the water libation that was such a big deal and the guy takes the water and all of watching this process and the man takes the water and instead of pouring it on the misbeak he pours it on his feet every goes the water libations that we waited every single year this process. It's very funny. Yeshivas, every yeshiva, every institution from Hogwarts to any institution has quirky events that to the yeshiva it's a big deal. I'm not I'm not make yeshiva is laabdal a goish institution. Everybody has their quirky we in in bluage we bring a ladder into the during diving for us. It's like spiritual. There's a ladder by the dancing simple. Everybody has their quirky things they do and we're singing higher and higher and higher. We have our thing. Another person's like what do they do? Every yeshiva has it but it's like religious. Every yeshiva has a certain event and the way they do it and the rashiva lifts up his hands. I know. I know. When I grew up in Nishak, we had certain things with my rebi like on also like quirky stuff he did that was very important to us. He sang a certain song. He did introduce the the the affas. But to us it was religious. Now an outsider would come would say what are they doing? It was like you don't understand. You don't is a mitzvah. We have this whole procession, this whole seriousness of them pouring water on the mah like an outsider comes like what are you like chill out the stiken who didn't believe in tabal. So the guy takes the water and all of Kly picks it up and walks and the cla's like into it. It's gripping. We're serious about it. And then the man dumps it on his feet and you hear like a massive click. And the Jewish people are insensed. They're really mad at the guy. HE DUMPED THE WATER LIATIONS ON HIS This guy dumped it on his feet. This is serious by us. So what everybody do? All of Cla took their remember sukus. So we all l of anrig. We took our esrig and people pelted him with the entire Jewish people. I have mus with my kids for years. It's an unresolved you wanted. My kids say he died. Maybe I'm just not as gory as my kids. My kids say they killed him. That the like totally killed him. Ragmood. He was stoned. My kids kill him. I keep him alive. I just maybe I don't know. I don't know that he died. They may be right. Usually like and usually what the morus teach is true. Did you guys have the guy dead or alive? I never had him dead. But the CL Israel totally stones this guy with all their you know you don't like you make sure there's hard candy and they did not throw that ra at him and they could have thrown that ra you know you like a lot you do the we have those candy nobody in the world eats what are those sunkus the only I never seen a bucker eat a sunkus candy I haven't seen one yet and we but >> you like them get get all the bags that don't get eaten You give them they're in we have closets full cuz nobody eats them. Some guy Shabas was buying sunkus for years. We put them at onex and they just stay there and we use them up only when we pelt the kuss cuz it happens to be a very soft candy. The problem is by the time we pelt they've been here for so long the sunkus they're like hard already and it does hurt but sunkus is soft candy to th. But if you like the you throw something soft. If you don't like the they get some hard tough kid. This guy they stoned with their they did not throw the rabbi at him. They threw the my kids have him dead. I'm not sure he died. This artist Yeshiva drew a picture a great picture. You see estraum totally engulf man. You don't can't see the man's under there except you see his arm like coming out of a whole pile of he I assume he learned like my kids that he's dead cuz I don't know how a guy would survive that >> I know agrees to my kids cuz by by skil it says rammoo to stone him and he dies and here it has the same lush ruger stands up for my kids they may be right if their moa taught them he died but I don't know he died. The garra says they stoned him. The bottom line is they stone the god. Now that's the end of the story. If you think in the g every word is measured doesn't want to do pours it on his feet and they pilt him with why didn't they throw that at him? They don't want to throw sad. How do you throw mitzvah? Why don't they throw their lul at him like a javelon the lul? Nobody every word of something's being said, something's going on. I would like to explain the I would like you to get clarity and I think in understanding understanding the pelting with the I think we can start our process of rashashana and to explain the whole story I want to explain as follows. We'll we'll start we'll start like this. The esug is a very unique fruit and kazal tell us about the esrog that the estrig has a quality that's unusual in the world and it says estrog is see the tyra calls it pates pates it never says in the tyra um it calls it a pates and kazal explained to us that an er has a unique quality the tree and The fruit tastes the same. Now if you go up to an estric tree and eat the tree, I don't advise to eat the tree and I you you could cl I don't know est tastes itself is an interesting question. There's a guy in the shul by us. I love this yearly he makes at the end of yont he makes for this vodka that has in it and the loves it and gets totally smashed from it. I happen to like it. I have my I I like this. I'm who against drinking all year. I agree with them. I'm very fired up about the esrig to me is one of my favorite mits in the Tyra. Every single year I go with my kids and maybe besides for kiddes, it's the best moment of the year and we go and we buy together. Now I'm very into my opinion is that beauty depends on that there's no one beauty in now there are paral parameters but I think you decide in I have a raya I have a raya from your shi like this but I think you decide what's pretty that's my opinion so I bring my kids and they each pick out a pretty one now it's very cool my if you know my kids like one want wants the biggest one in the store I get him what he likes is beautiful. Another guy wants petite and small and not so, you know, a little quieter when I get him. And another one likes it. They're all different styles what my kids like and they get their nice one, but I'm into them picking out their own. We talk about what's kusher and then they have to pick out a pretty one as they see it as one that's pretty. The bottom line is is that this guy makes like an SRI thing. He he on sing makes this SRIG drink. I can't drink it. It's It doesn't seem to It doesn't sit well with me. But I'm I I lived vicariously on this one and I'm happy the others drink it. Now, the Estri's uniqueness is that there's some part of the tree that tastes like the fruit. I don't know if it's a sap on the tree. I'm no expert on on the on the tree. There's something on the tree that tastes like the fruit and that's a unique aspect of an es. Now if Kazal tell us that Hashem really wanted that every tree in the world should be eight. Hashem really wanted that was like the plan. What Hashem wants happens. But Hashem decided this is like the ultimate plan that the tree and the fruit taste the same. And Hashem made it that the world didn't listen to him and fruits do not taste like the tree except the esrig. The esrig went according to the real plan of Hashem. Now we are learning a lot of strange ideas today. Hashem wants that you walk up to the tree and you taste the apple in the tree. You taste the orange in the tree. The world didn't listen. The trees do not taste like the fruit. Except the Esther is one of the few trees that did listen what's happening here. The tree represents the work, the struggle. The tree is not you don't get to eat a tree. You eat the fruits. The fruit represent the tlas, the goal, the delicious fruits that you pick up at the end. When we spoke about a farmer a lot with Bikurum, when a guy is sitting there laboring and slaving and working hard, I visualize my tree and fruits. Every guy loves the magical time in yeshiva, the last night. And you have 170 sincere growing people. And it's a magical night. But the magic of that night is from hard labor. I love the boring day in yeshiva when a rebi is sitting walking somewhere on the campus talking to a guy. It's not the dramatic day. The rebi talking to the bakar is the tree. The fruit is the last day the inspired guy gets up and addresses his yeshiva. That's the fruit. That's the endgame. But the tree, the work and the all the toil that goes into creating that fruit. There's the tree and the fruit. The tree represents the process, the working, the the the struggling, planting, plowing, all the work, grafting, all the work that goes into the production. And then you have the fruit at the end, the beautiful fruit at the end. And what Hashem wanted is that the process itself is precious, the great source of kesim. The process is as important as the fruit. It's true at the end as a delicious fruit. M but the process and the work and the difficulty is supposed to have the same taste as the fruit cuz the work to get there is as important as the end. The very work and struggle and difficulty and battling is delicious. Now this world it's not let it feel that way because there wouldn't be any challenge. Hashem doesn't allow it to be that way because there would be no challenge of this world. So the reality is that the tree doesn't have the taste of the fruit. There's much work and struggle and battle and fight. There's much struggle and the the tree doesn't taste like the fruit. But the esug the es lives right. The esrog announces the es announces that the whole process is important and precious. The tree tastes like the fruit. The proc you hear what I'm saying y Sometime you have two kids in a class, Yoseph. So in the world of school, you have the good boy everybody's proud of and the bad boy. In the world of reality, there's the main thing in the world is to work on oneself and struggle and overcome. That's the purpose of our existence to be shim and shay by working hard and overcoming struggle. So the sense of the good boy and the bad boy, it doesn't appreciate that what we're here to overcome. Both boys are here to work and overcome and strive and fight and and and and withstand challenges and overcome difficulties. It's the purpose of our life. The tree represents that difficult struggle and fight. The pairs represent the person standing after they've won a victory. But the struggle is so so important and precious. So the esrog the tree tastes like the fruit. The esroer announces that the struggle is precious. That's what the eser announces. Now let's so let's we'll we're going to move away from the that's what means that it's pates. The fruit and the tree taste the same. Now let's get back to for a minute. Joseph the water libations you had the upper waters and the lower waters and lower waters say were distance from Hashem and Hashem said yeah but water liation when you pour water on them the answer Yoseph is that we asked the question it's an unfair the lower waters must have had a terrible lawyer that it's it's compromised the upper waters got to be with Hashem always the lower waters were sent far apart mul and the lower waters There's great cancellation. Once a year you'll get poured on the MB. What a measly compensation. The upper waters are always with Hashem. The answer is that what Hashem was saying is that it's true the upper waters are always with me, but it's equally precious. What I want is the waters returned to me. You that are distant from me, you're sent down. Your return back is what I want. Your fight and struggle. Water libation represent that which is distance and returns. That which finds its way back. That's what water libation represent. The water is pul p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p poured on the misbeh which was distanced from Hashem purposely distance. That which was separated from on high makes its way back to the misbeh. Hashem says that's the purpose of my world. That's a consolation. It's not like a it's not like a measly. Okay. The upper waters are always with me. What I want. Hashem says it's true. There are upper waters that are always with me. What I desire is the lowers waters return to me. Making your way back. The is done after the is a source of massive joy. It represents the human being with struggles that Hashem created that Hashem set us up and the human being fights and works and overcomes and makes his way back and we celebrate with the lower waters being poured on Mb. And the visual the yidden understood this y they visualized when they saw the lower waters and the water came back and poured on the mbayak and the place erupted they saw the great satisfaction the journey our own journeys of struggle and difficulty and we've come back and we've returned to Hashem and we've been loyal and we care and we're pushing and fighting and then it erupted into a massive celebration. the the return of the lower waters back to the that's precious and is a consolation to always being with Hashem because this is what Hashem desires this avoid this job of a person striving and working and it was a great source of happiness and joy a tremendous source of joy erupted in the Jewish people tells us from Kazal that came from from the celebration of that joyous celebration the appreciation that we've returned to Hashem and we've overcome and worked through that celebration was wild and elevated the Jewish people that's this they don't believe in that's a suga for itself but says that Tyra is what's written in the traal is the involvement of a human being. Hashem told Mosa who told Yeshua and Saiim say what do you mean there God's don't tell me what the rabbis taught us what the raim taught us hashem's theim don't know the value of a human being to the a human being is full of struggle full of imperfection there's only the directly penned by hashem there is no toyra that hashem told who worked on himself it's sadic who overcame who tells the next saddic who overcame will tell the next saddic who overcame. There is no such teras only the written of Hashem. The denies is the beauty of overcoming and striving and accomplishing. What did we throw at the who didn't do who didn't celebrate the lower waters going back to the upper waters? What do we throw at him Jacob? We threw in Es creates that which the fruit and the tree tastes the same. that which says the struggle is valuable and precious. There's beauty to the struggle. When he didn't do when he didn't take the lower water and put it back to the upper water, he didn't celebrate this process and wasn't excited about it. We pelted him with our esrig. There was a message. We didn't throw the lul. We didn't throw the das and we pelted him with an esrig. We had a specific message to this fellow. Specific message the esrig. The value of the struggle, the value of working and overcoming the great that lies in it. Somehow we have to get in our bones. We have to get in our bones the beauty of these precious days. You may days that are working, are taking stock, are pushing, are overcoming, are thinking about challenges and embracing and working hard. These are precious, precious days. Days that the yidd are understanding that we have challenges, we have difficulties. They're all different impediments to our hashem designed by Hashem himself. But the yid with sincerity t is honest, takes stock and figures out and designs a plan for the year and designs a plan for his life of growing of overcoming. And these are precious days of of rash when the yid is asked to be hashem his journey his difficulty and his saying that hashem's melik is important and is a great source of kesim and then he embarks on and then he has a day of yamu hashem hashem accepts his chuva and is right and wants and desires his chva all that process is beautiful and the yid celebrates that explodes into a sukus. The celebration of that process of the yid working and overcoming and striving it explodes into a sukus. So I think understanding the water libations the lower waters return to the mak and the beauty of that and the joy of that and the and how the the world that's the kes that hashem desires the yidden pelting him with their which announces the pre the fruit and the tree taste the same the process is so important and they pelim I think knowing about that endgame of nisamayan can help us in the journey appreciating the journey and the struggle. I want to read a rai. Could you get me a Ramba mada? I want to read a ram. It's the third shelf over and the third shelf down. Exactly. Aad amada. Amada. >> Thank you so much. Thank you. More That's right. The ram and per in the seventh per of chova describes the beauty of a balchova. The excitement of a balchova, the excitement of a person who changed his status, who changed his standing. He and the Rambam at great detail describes he talks about that he's beloved and precious in front of Hashem as if he never sinned. It's precious to Hashem like he never sinned. Hashem values his process. He values his precious tremendous. He tasted overcame his I want to I want to share with you but then we got to get to I want to share with you I have that I want to that I want to say and with this we'll close this this conversation. the cash. There used to be something called chuva samishkal simka. There was something called chuba samishkal. Chuva samishkal was a system of chuva that people for certain aus would punish themselves in certain ways. They would give physical yurum to themselves and there was whole about this type of cha. The guy would fast a certain amount of days. the guy would um there was all different yurim that people would give to themselves in doing chum and there was about these about this type of chum and there was a whole system how you did the cha I don't know the system but I know it must have been harsh because somebody wrote to that they did a terrible aa they were over a terrible aa they were over assh like terrible aas and the guy became a sadic and wanted chuva so the mayo writes that I'm not into painting oneself like I'm not so into that and he tells him not to paint himself just fast like three times a week for 2 years no I don't want pains I don't want any pains then after like twice a week I don't remember the exact you can look it up it's in cham I think but he tells him things and that's like he wasn't into painting himself so I don't know what chuishkal but it must have been pretty serious and it was known how to do it and by asked us to do homework. He wanted to know why we think that it doesn't exist anymore. Where'd it go? It's like gone. You can't even find these. It's not practiced. He want to know. So I was curious. I was looking around and I somehow I don't remember how to see after the shaya I found the true massades and the true masades was asked that there was a guy who was raised was captured by and he was raised as a slave by goim and he did terrible a raised in such conditions and then he escaped and became from and he wanted to know from the chum sades he wanted to know what chuva he should do what what his what what type of he did such He wanted to know what type of pains he should give himself. And the chum sades said that for you, you were so amongst the Gim. So you're tempted tremendously by wrongdoing. You have massive temptation. You're holding out his counts as your somebody was raised separate. So does it needs? You were so raised with and with these things you were so exposed not to do these things counts as your so I felt that to a generation that's that's been exposed the s the just the fact of a person being a scabber counts forum it counts for the that's a that cleanses a person in our beautiful generation that Hashem designed it should be as exactly ly as it is. So just the fact a person's escabus a person's great strength and energy invested counts besides the beauty of the normal chv of the normal encouragement and it counts also for that purify that sometimes the body needs to purify what was that that that to me was written for so all of us should be to appre Appreciate the beauty of the process. The process of a person taking the stock and working out and being honest with different challenges and different things that he wants to work on and improve. That appreciation of the process of improvement, understanding the in the work, not just the endgame of sitting there and accomplishing, but the process of working and growing. We should appreciate and celebrate. You should know that in a month, in less than a month, in a few weeks, we're going to go wild with celebration. We're going to shake an understand that we're going to explode in a great celebration because the process is so important and precious. That should give us the ability to engage the process to engage the process and be excited by the process of doing chuva. We should all be to be counted amongst the ballet people who worked Hashem's rights. We should all be to engage in that process. Let's get to tomorrow.