Your Own Tefillin

[music] I know [singing] you're worried tonight. [music] I won't find my way. [singing] >> Tired [singing and music] of lying to myself just to get [singing] through. >> [music] >> My head says I should never let [music and singing] and then my heartbeat will soon lead to my death. [music] I'm starting [singing] a question if God's trying [music] to teach me a lesson. [singing] I'm starting to wonder [music] if my true colors change since [singing] I left. Yeah, [music] I used to shine bright like gold. Now I'm [singing] all [music] indigo. My colors are darker [singing] and gold. [music] I think it's time that I went home. And [music and singing] I don't understand why I always feel dead and alone. [music] I used to shine bright [singing] like gold. [music] Now I'm all indigo [music] and I turn your eyes [singing] [music] in the clouds when [music] I don't feel close to the sun. And the [music] wife is away [singing] from my face. And the tears fall out. [music] So I turn my words all into faith. Hope it's me [singing] that they say I'm starting [singing] a question. God's trying [music] to teach me a lesson. [singing] I'm starting to wonder if the true colors [music and singing] change since I left. I used this shine by like gold. [singing] Now I'm [music] all in gold. My colors are darker and gold. [singing] [music] I think it's time that I went home. [music] And I don't understand why I always feel dead [singing and music] and alone. I run like gold. [singing] [music] Now I'm all indigo. Now I'm [singing] all indigo. >> [applause] >> Before we start a ram, can we do you don't know how good it is? Can >> we also do more? >> Can we do that? >> We don't know how good >> that is. >> Yes, it happens. my voice. >> I'm los you bring uh the drum and play for the >> cover usually. That's my [music] [singing] [music] Oh, [music] [music and singing] sometimes [singing] it may seem, but you [music] don't know how close you are [singing] in your words and in [music] your heart to be who you really are. [singing] [music] >> [music] [music] >> You don't know God. You don't know how good it is for you and for me. [music] You don't know [singing] God. You don't know how good it is [music] for you and for me. [singing] Oh [music] my go [music and singing] [music] give [music] And I can't wait. [music] You don't know God. You don't know how good it is for you [music] and for me. You don't know God. You don't know how good it is for [music] you and for me. >> [music] [singing] >> If only you would know how [music and singing] good it is. If only you know how good it is. If only you would know how good it is. [music] If only you know how good it is. If only you know how good it is. You know how good it is. [music] >> [music] >> Oh yeah. [music] Dal [music] down. What kind of love it is? [music and singing] [singing] >> That was gorgeous. [applause] Almost ready for the Rambamas. Let's have Gabe and Ari come up and right there. I think I'll >> say Yehuda. Should we [music] unleash Yehuda or not yet? >> After. [music] >> I like this song. places [music] [music] [singing] [music] even [singing] is [music] [singing] [music] is my sales. [music] [singing] [music and singing] Heat. Heat. [singing] [music] [music] Love [music] even myself. [music] [singing] [music] >> [music] >> I love you. [music] I love you. [music] >> [singing] >> guide [music] us [singing] [music] [singing] >> [music] >> I [music] love my [singing] [music] love. >> The last song [music] will bring us right home. But I said the last song before, but this like this could be the legit >> is let my people go. Does Gabe know that one? Asal knows it. >> Yeah. >> As knows the rap. As knows the rap. >> Does he? >> Yeah. >> I just spoke to yesterday. >> I can read it. Read it. [music] >> I spoke to I spoke to yesterday. >> He has a beautiful Russian shot. It just came out. >> Gabe knows that one, too. >> Hey, A-Rod. [music] I think it's a tough one. [music] >> I don't know the song. Well, [music] >> is the rap one not on on Apple Music? >> It's on Apple. [music] >> Where is it? >> Under a [music] picture on Spotify. That's why [music] it's the closest I ever came to singing on a song. [music] [music] >> [music] >> It's an instrument everywhere. >> [music] [music] [singing] [music] >> Don't leave me. >> [music and singing] [music and singing] >> Sh [music] my people. Let my people go. [music] Let my people go. Let my people go. [singing] But [music] your life [music] is in love. [singing] Let my [music] people go. [singing] Let my people go. Let my [music] people go. Let our people go. I'm feeling [music and singing] [music] sh [music] My people go. Let my people [music] go. Let my people go. [singing] Let [music] my people go. [music] Raise your hand. [music] Let my people [music and singing] go. Let my people go. [music] Let my [singing] people go. Let [music] my people go. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. [cheering] Wow. Wow. No. >> Show me. That was good. Thank you, Lizzy. Thank you, Schl. Thank you. We're not done. We're not done yet. But I want to share David Shaya pullover chairs. >> The Rambam. >> Thank you, N. I'm happy you're here. Thank you, N. The Rambam invar says the following words, but I wanna I want to hear it fresh. This is one thing you can't you can't hear this in an old way or you're not hearing it at all. >> So you'll see why I'm saying that. Listen fresh says the Rasher even though the blowing of the onash is means God commanded it and if so we listen decreed and we follow the mitzvah as Gabe told us we have so says Even though it's a decree from nonetheless there's a re there's an echoes there's a hint in iter contains a it speaks to us and it's telling us something there's a hint hashem is saying something to us meaning to Say just so cool that the Rambam hears in that sound that kia that blows from the shifer meaning to say what it's telling us there's a it's talking to us the speaks and what it says sleepers sleepers arouse arouseu arouse arouse machinas Sleepers from your slumber. Sleepers awake from your sleep. Seek out your actions and return invor. So the ch the shaifer has a remesuru arouse arouse wake up wake up. Now to somebody who who who's not hearing fresh could hear voices of shape up get better you know there's a much deeper the shyer calls to the yid and says to the yid that we're capable of living awake. We're capable of being excited. We're capable of new. We're capable of fresh. We're capable of finding deep space inside of us. The shaver by its nature is a sound of freshness of newness. It's the opposite of cynicism of hardened person. I know already. I have already. I know who I am already. The shifer calls to a yid that there's so much more to you. There's so much more. Not it's there's more to the word itself is the same lion as shir means to the itself calls to aid that we could access more were shy to bigger things and we could tap in more you're bigger you could be new you could be fresh you could do I I happen to appreciate a lot and one aspect the rebbit taught is the holiness of a y doing a mitzvah. The greatness and bigness of a y doing a mitzvah. We get a certain cynicism and staleness. The sabad move out of town. Yehuda there are thousands of what they're trying is that did a mitzvah. If you ask for how many yen were you mar the year doesn't look at it that way did a mitzvah there's the opposite of a cynicism you know how big it is that you does a mitzvah aid gave charity once gave a dollar to charity the rebaught a guy will move his family his wife and children you know how hard it is to live in South Carolina you know how hard it is to live in in in in I don't know South Vietnam wherever they where Hawaii Why? Whoever they'll move cuz a Yid gave charity once. It's a big thing. Aid is to big big stuff. This of the freshness and newness that was shak to big things. One of the main stuck in a person is not realizing the bigness of an action, the greatness of an action. I want one stage of yeshiva that I think every person needs every single person to we have a sense sometimes that a person a person let's say davins or puts on film oh he's getting there he's not getting there when he puts on film we view it oh you're putting on wow okay okay he's starting whoa I see a process yeah you'd put on film yet you're putting on filling is from one end you did a mitzvah it's Crazy is crazy. I want to tell you a mis from Cutler just to describe mitzvah. When we hear the is a wakeup call to newness is to know we're sh to big things put on fill and it's like a big thing. Aid could do something that's massive that's important. It's important because the sky only brings it out. I'll tell you I want to share a mice of the var just to bring something out that we could like wake up a bit a better consciousness the waking up of rashana I think it's almost a mistake Ari people talk a lot about changing and there's such a thing is to is is there there's an aspect chuva for sure is part there's also an awakening to the bigness makes not he's change He's tapping in and he's tapped in. He did the se we really could a yid came and listened to the shaer. It's crazy. Shem said to listen to the shaer. It's like the biggest thing in the world. A yid went and he heard the shaer. There's a tremendous there's a tremendous madrega and did a mitzvah. It's huge. It's a big thing. And part of the is an awakening. We fall asleep into that of what we are, of what we're shy to, what we're connecting to is not only an awakening, fix up, change, get better. It's tapping into the bigness of things to be more aligned to value to what's to things that are important. Reverend Cutler was was escaping from Russia from from countries was running out of a country. I wish I had more details of what country he's running from. I don't know. But at some point it cost a lot of money. Eleazar he had to hire somebody to get over a a border. He had to hire like a smuggling a smuggling group that would smuggle him over the border. And it's like dangerous life-threatening. He wasn't allowed to run over a certain border. They don't do trials. They catch him. They they shoot. And Raaran hired smugglers to smuggle him over a border. When he runs over the border, he remembers that he forgot his filling back in the previous country. Rearesh risked his life twice to go back into the country and get out again. He risked his life. He didn't want to lose his fillain. And Rearon got smuggled back over the country. got his fillin and then he was putting on fillin. Revan Cutler was putting on fillin early early in the morning before the smugglers a second time brought him over the border and the house who was they paid some farmer to house him right by the border and the guy started crying and said I remember my za wearing those. It turned out the guy was a yid. So Ravarin lent the yid is fillin and for the first time in his life this farmer who was right by the border who was hosting Raarin before he smuggled over the border. The yid put on fillain for the first time in his life. Many many years later was the rashisha in Lakewood and this yid came to in a dream and said in shmayim they're allowing me to come to you to thank you. You have no idea the You have no idea the I put on once in my life. I wasn't the I wasn't the body that never put on fillin. You can't fathom the scar I got from that one time. And in Shayim they gave me to thank you that I was able to put on fill in one time. Part of the waking up of the shyer is being more conscious to the bigness of actions to the importance of things that things count. It's to move away from cynicism. A lot of the cynicism will I ever change is I need a fix and do new thing. No, you need to make a bra once. And it's not a cute thing. I think before anybody learns change and I think there's a bigness to one we need to learn you put the guy put on film today mish you know that guy you saw now he's different he put on film today the isuru is a waking up to a sleeper I love I love the song let my people go there's a trapment of people a mitzim of sorts >> that people believe nothing we do counts nothing matters letters will I ever and there's a arousal of rash of that's an awakening that to big things but fromem is a big deal and I'm loyal and to a mitzvah I like guys knowing there's a who says when you do a mitzvah you should pray a person's prayers are answered. I've I've said this in yeshiv a lot of times you bench one time not you're getting there bench once Hashem said after benches you start saying you give out your a person's are are listened to the is the opposite of staleness is the opposite of cynicism. The is that mitzvah that in the blast of the in means relevance. The shifer screams to a yid relevant. You're relevant. You're important. Your function your to the eternal ones. Your actions matter a lot. One time a person's is a big deal. something. It's it's an awakening of a deep point that our lives matter, that a ra matters. That is the that's the it's it's literally the opposite of cynicism, the opposite of staleness, the opposite of oldness. That's the you're capable of living a life more conscious, more awake, more present, more things matter. People who lose people lose sight of the truth and and and they don't know their this is this is the sound this is the sound of the shifer and the awakening of the always always in the yeshiva it's important to me well before we start thinking about the person becoming and a guy sits down one of the bakram here described to me that he learned with he learned once and he learned tyra well before we start saying I kava how many times is the person learned tyra once and it's valuable it's precious it counts it's significance a person's actions are significant The tea of the shifer the hashem speaks about the significance of people's actions. I asked I asked Akasha the basic question of Rashashana. The basic question of Rashashana is there two things happening that seem so no shist each other. We're hashem we coronate Hashem and we're judged. What's going on? Am I coronating Hashem or am I being judged? They're two different things going on but it's one and the same. The coronating Hashem is that I coronate Hashem. We coronate Hashem. We are asked to blow the to listen to the speaks that my life of loyalty is significance that's what is our actions matter our actions matter he learned was Isa and theid was kind was kind to another person the rebel lived like with this like heightened consciousness to the value of a yid And he sent armies of to all different places. He sent armies of who go out there. I'm not like promote. I'm talking the message of the Reb. It happens to be by they blow for everywhere. It so makes sense that he sends out his to blow the which says to aid you're significant. You're part of Malashim. The same way went out and goes out and blows. It's a big suglim everywhere to blow for yen. It was the same thing that the Bardich was busy doing during the brought thousands over his life. brought thousands of yid to because that's what he was trying to say that aid is significant has a tremendous space in a yid's actions matter and are significant and are important is the very lush of the word make your actions beautiful understand their significance understand they're important I want to expl express something that we're we don't get to learn tremendous amounts about suka about the mitzvah of suka but one of the mitzvah is we're going to shake uh we're going to shake an esrig and there's a specific inion by the eser of beauty there's a specific a paid hudder a beautiful fruit to take a and claw specifically by that mitzvah has a tremendous emphasis on hider mitzvah so I want to talk for a minute about hid their mitzvah, beautifying a mitzvah, doing a mitzvah nicely in a shifen, in a beautiful way. When CL Israel experienced Hashem for the most clear time in our life, we didn't say, we said, >> it's my God. Zi. When we saw Hashem, we saw that we were relevant to the service of Hashem. My God. We didn't see Hashem. We saw my God. Personal connection. He wants me. I want him. It's my God. The response was mitzvah. Do mitzvah beautifully. Your own performance your own way. One of my favorite activities and I'm going to miss it a lot. I hashem have two children at his throat. I have I have one son married. One of my favorite activities of the year was always around. Now I go with my kids to buy an SRI. A little of an Esrig. I happen to always like it. I always get to see Rabzi hangs out at the Astric dealer a lot. What? >> Hi. >> It's always good to see him. We don't have Rabd this year. >> I know. We always go to the same Rabbi. >> It's my backyard. Now I got to go. Shalom Stein's father for many many years sold the love and they moved to my so I would always go with my kids I feel it's my own like her I can't go with my sons and the store closes down like that's like a like sense but of course >> so funny I feel the same way that the world was created for [laughter] >> the world's created fori but the but um but lisa every year I would go with my kids in tell me go to pick the dal of minim but I always wanted my children to choose one that's beautiful for them I don't want to choose I want their own flavor and each one as their own t what's beautiful to them h mitzvah is your own beauties in the eyes of the beholder and hur mitzvah to me represents this topic you are mitzvah you are m you are learning sed you're at you I love watching guys independently come to the bash throughout the day and put on their filling. Put on their own. Put on your own fill. Don't borrow filling. Okay. Your own filling, your own pair. If you're stuck, you borrow the best. Every person has his own fill in with his own time, with his own thoughts, with his own story. Even with his own time to put on his fill. Put on your filling at your time. Don't hide anywhere. >> Please don't hide. Come to the vase medish altars. You look beautiful in Mendy. It's good to see you, [applause] Mendy. Yeah. But the crawls to the but each is and it wakes up the yid from the sleepiness of his actions not counting from the sleepiness of of sensing like who am I? What do I bring to to to living with more with more awareness his mitzvah matter. I like watching it happens to be I like watching and put fill in on guys. People always clarify there was recently there was some like public thing a yid was doing a bad thing and went and asked them to put on should such aid wear filling hashem wants of every and there's a beauty that the out there that are going out they're asking aid come your mitzvah matters your matters if we can honestly bring that out of each other that your avoid matters and is significant that encounter message. I think what the was busy during awakening and then bringing them to to allowing them to hear the message of that they have a space in the shim. So they come to shul with the together. So that was the that was the that that's what I think why specifically the was out there during and he was bringing people in specifically to the sent out there to blow for they go to goes everywhere and blowif to this message we all have our forms of bringing this message to each other that we have a space there's a space for us in keshim we're necessary in this thing that is the message the deep deep message of so that's what I hear the this is in that the Ram was able to hear certainly it's but there's a rem in this it's rather remarkable this year we won't be blowing the shy for the first day it's ironic we're studying it we'll have kifer on Sunday vz is hashem on shabas kes We won't have the rather remarkably abundance we won't have the but the second day we'll have the will have that that it's the the words in the the words in the time of renewal the time of newness alles are newness this is the newest of the newness. This is rash is the newness where a person's aroused that that that his actions matter that he counts that he's significant that his m count that's the inion of zakinus the malus and you link all three things is that which we blow which announces hashem is the melik and arouses the person to zist his actions count he's part of mala so it connects All the three of the day with the that arouses the I'm part of their is action matters. Hashem weighs my actions and cares about my actions. My actions matter a lot. That's the bringing together these three topics of the day. Malus and chifers the three topics that are going to come. very >> I want to express that we're going to have to in the yeshiva that two kazanim are both like the two people who lead the who lead the you'll get to meet to have to is a tremendous bentora a really special person I love his connection to the kazin is not just somebody you put up there with a nice voice it's somebody who helps be the shifer arouse the to our value to the value of our jakobl bladder Jakob bladder who learned in the yeshiva tremendous special person he's going to be a kazin and we're really blessed to have two special kazanim I'm excited that we'll get to davin together and enjoy together and be part of the together we'll have that are both of them coming that's my understanding are both coming >> that's what I heard also Are we going to have Rabbi Ras here for us? >> Yeah. >> What? >> Will be here. >> Beautiful. Risone also as well. >> Who's here? Who's here? >> Mo Edstone's family's come. >> What? >> Yeah, I think Schlommo. >> He's taking the testament. >> He's taking the Elsa. >> Oh, so >> thank you, Reb. >> Is that true? It's nice. >> But he's going with is going to be here yet? >> Pray to God. >> What do you say? >> That's a word I pray. >> What' you say? >> Shabu said he's come will be here. >> I'll introduce you. I will introduce you. >> Is it hard to talk about like >> Hi. >> Talk about what? >> Like how year like >> say say tremendous like >> no questions. Speak it out. But >> as he talked to us,