53: The Purpose of Selichos

[Music] hi this is Deborah Lasky welcome to the rabbi Orlovsky show and regular watchers listeners will remember that before Pesach we made a special Pesach program my producer decided that it would be a good idea to do this before we're showing him Kippur since this is frankly the first Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur that we're doing on the raviolo ski show because we started precious Noah and so we're going to be having two episodes a week the regular motsu Shabbos and one in midweek so if you're a subscribing you should be able to find it whether you're watching on tourney time oh whatever you watch or listen to podcasts just watch for that and what can I tell you our international appeal continues to grow because as you know I have my revitol ASCII show mug and what's nice about the Rebbe real ASCII show is that it has layers like an onion always deeper I didn't notice this until today that there's a little to see out to the shmita on my coffee cup as there should be and I got a letter from the Berlin family in Australia who made up the rubber galovski show what we used to call a button they call it they're a badge this is the official reveal lansky show button and as I'm looking at it since it's large I never noticed before the little Owen arlovski I actually earphones uh-huh how about that layer upon layer let's put her on my bed Jesus but wait on wait there you go so this is official now so you're gonna need one of these to be able to come into the studio I'm telling all my children they can't come home unless they have big any event so nice to have you all here with us and as we get ready for Russia Shana that's what hello is LL is the time when we begin preparing ourselves reishi such are not actually Shana it's the end of the year it's where our focus is on this coming year and what we hope to accomplish what we hope to do so this will be coming out the mochi shoppers perforce Lee clothes obviously we start sleepers on matzah Shabbos but we're not going to depending on where you are in your time zone you probably won't be able to get to hear it before sleet close so I want to share a sleek house message with you this multi Shabbos to start preparing you for sleepless and then in of itself is an extremely important idea one of my children will call her Mindy for purposes of the podcast I name actually is Mindy but that's what we'll call her for the podcast she came to me years ago before sleek host and she says you know I go to Sean's the host night and I say this leha's but they skip things they say things I don't really know what we're doing how we're supposed to be doing it I can relate to this I remember when I was a kid in elementary school we used to dove in in the classroom and when I was in seventh grade they moved us up to the minion we got to dive in a minion we were the seventh graders we were sitting in the front row then Kim BAE tonight and I remember at some point if this weren't a story everybody sat down and one like this actually it was shot like this and over seventh grade one cuz we'd never seen that we can do in the classroom so we all said god I'm one weakness afterwards I asked what are the older kids what are we doing just I don't know I came in here in seventh grade answer mrs. yeah there are people who every year they look at the sleeve cause I'm not sure do I say this do we not say this do we skip this what do we do what are we saying maybe we'll actually go through the sleeveless but that's not my point my the point is that my daughter said to me you know I go to the show listen cuz I know I'm saying could you go over sleeveless with me and we took appleís Lila's book and I explained what we say how we say it well we skip where everything fits in yeah what are the most important parts that you have to say what what slips by what goes by and now you have to try to to get it all done and she wrote in let's just skip this you say underlined in the pew Tim the line that you're supposed to repeat yeah and we did this every night of sleep us and of course when you're going to a semi chuva this leak was so much longer this different is a different flow to it and we would go over them every year we've been doing this for years I'll tell you the truth it helps me a lot because when you walk in with your sleeve husba that you haven't looked at in a year less than a year right because yeah I have to figure in there's a couple of weeks and you safely goes and suddenly you are opening it up for the first time do you know what you're saying do you know what you're doing now before I should shut up she said to me listen I'd say the truth I got a show in Russia Shana and I'm not really sure what they say wouldn't we say this one we say that so we both forgot Irish for the monitor now we went through the whole monitor what do you say what do you not say if you're running late what's the most important things to say where everything fits in she wrote her notes into Hamas sir we did the same thing before Yom Kippur and we've been causing over the sleepless and the moxa room now for six years and finally somebody else is my family say could I join this year because we we walk into sleepers I can't speak about everyplace in America there's usually a program salute last night they bring in a speaker they put out refreshments there's a whole little to do before they actually do this leafless it's often the first opportunity for the cousin to remind everybody why most of the Jews have assimilated over Jewish history yeah because you know the Jews in Europe the rubb spoke twice a year and shabby shuva and chef is a girdle they didn't necessarily have clothes on him came to America every for cousin rabbi speaks every week the assimilation rate went up to 60% relation I don't know but it gives the phazon a chance to start you know I've been I've been to shows where they have a choir yeah the choir comes in yeah it sets the tone things are starting with setting a tone and and slickers like who's goes in and sleek house is a process nimesh Burroughs said once he said twice on two different occasions about two different fellas everyone knows the ground brothers it's Michael agus with a trailer of his techno yeah or whether the felis was set up according to the cup oh nice the difference of course being with an admirer of is an obligation or not but according to the one that the of us established it it's Avraham made chakras and you talk made me Musa and Jakob made my earth out of it yeah and with people from all backgrounds watching I try to be as bilingual as as possible yeah I just gave a share and beit shemesh and a woman came and she says they're Metheny israeli and an amazing because i gleet of a lady that did you get that the kuda so I ran over the main point that I said in Hebrew and about five minutes and she was like wow you know why don't you do this in here oh yeah the answer is because as my son said to me the only room only reason that you've stayed under the radar could you speak English if you start speaking in Hebrew that because she has given up all around denouncing you because you are a danger to the firm community so I keep my head down you know my chief Chappelle in fact said that once he says he works very hard to stay under the radar because he doesn't need any you know newspaper articles about him Pro akan just leave me alone I would think so so we all know Avram Yitzhak Yaakov they made the 3-prime fearless and romesha said that all the Shiva Rohit's own mates Phyllis now for those who are not familiar with the expression Shiva ro8 so in the seven shepherds well we're coming up to Circus and you know when circus we have the bush Beason and every day we invite the meal seven guests they don't eat much IRA it's like Yaakov moshe aaron yo safe and of it and he said all of the shiva Rohit's own made felis i only heard him explain - he said Dovid made t confess ice and he explained what the purpose of that Fela was and he said mojo Boehner was misaki sleepless now I never heard him be Maz beer Iram I never gonna be Moz vo safe but if I had to guess I would say that our wound made in the ELA since that is the Fela that takes us into the coach of Kadosh him he's the Kohen Gadol I again I didn't hear this yeah my solution motto mellow Sameach I didn't hear this is this is what I think and part is yo sacred moseph know the name looks like yeah edition yeah okay but this he did say moshe rabbeinu made sleepless and he quoted the government bravas that said when it cutters borrow whose showed Moshe obey know how to say that you'd gimel me dice and says I cut his bar oho wrapped himself in a Tallis like Ashley up Seaborn like a person who was leading the service he wrapped himself from a talus and he said that you'd given me this see what you see from this is that it's a Fela and sleek hoses set up like a Fela how does menthol go you start with ASHRAE kotse Kaddish and Schwerner yesterday Huffman and Kaddish are lame and Elena how does sleek us go you start with ASHRAE cutsie Kaddish you do the Fela and then you end with a cutter staccato means it was set up with the with the structure of its Fela sleeveless is a particulate Fela and sits feeling that most Roberto made because Moshe Robina was the one who got the you'd given me dos the thirteen divine attributes in order to be able to save clothes oh yeah to review the story yeah Moshe went up to get the blue coat a Brit the Lucas the the Ten Commandments he came down found we built the Golden Calf he smashes them he destroys the golden calf and he says to the people you're in serious trouble coach broke was very percent I'm gonna go up now and try to get him to forgive you and he goes up for another forty days and forty nights and he comes down and he says okay that good news guys are gonna destroy you and he's not gonna live here with you in the market anymore and he took his own tent and set it up outside and called it the lmoa and he said I'll hang out here with God and if any of you need anything you know religious come over here and then go back to the mountain and the reception you know and enjoy yourself and we'll be fine and the Torah describes this scene dripping with paedos that the cloud coming to Moshe stent and Moshe walks out and all of the people watching walking down he goes into the tent for that coach go home and they say we used to have that and when he comes back they say listen this is not good enough for us we want it back the way it was whoa kid never back the way it was you guys messed up yeah as Elio and nobody says you people have sinned in the Zoma hope so good Moshe says listen I I got you guys don't talk no we want it back the way it was and so Moshe of Reno goes up for another 40 days and 40 nights get I could've borrow who to agree to give second set of Lou house and to build the Mishkan in the middle of Claudius L where all the Jewish people will be able to live with God that was these 40 days that's the 40 days from the Scottish llt of Kippur is these days of Rackham M will we get it back now if you read the story the story seems a little strange he says to Moshe you make two tablets you know tughluq lace you make bring them up and I'll write on them what I wrote on the first ones samosa brings them up he's gonna write on them and then bring him down right and then it says VI Bosch about Panov Micra and Hashem calls out to Moshe Hashem Hashem chorale from a condo and Erica Pyrrha of customers and it's a his love him that's a hug him professional fighter then okay and he tells him that you'd gimel me dose what what's that doing man yeah hallelujah British Lucius ray remember today the bris of the yugioh me does so the 13 attributes for what bris that's amazing cancer we messed up I only messed up in a big way and I Shem said I'll forgive you Oh what happens if this happens again how many times we're gonna pull this so Hashem said I'll make a new bris with you but it has to be an unbreakable bris with shuttered unbreakable bris I'm gonna make a new bris with you yeah and this bris is going to say that if you mess up again you're going to do that you're giving me dose and then I will be able to forgive you and that's why by the Moraga loom when the Jews mess up and a Shem says I'm gonna destroy the Jewish people Moshe versus the Agila me does he learned the trick you know hey Myra and he forgives them he agrees to let the morning what is sleek hose I understand sleeveless the minimum amount of days force Luke owes is four days and what to do that you have to have a three-day yontiff everything balances out in Judaism you went short sleek hos you're gonna have to the three they ended ask yourself what's what's worse extra week of sleaze has a right but it's supposed to start on multi Shabbos and it has to be a minimum of four days two different husband oat two different calculations that go into this what's the what's the two things Hashem created the world in six days rest on the seventh the seventh day he rested was Shabbos right okay Friday night Saturday so go back when did he start creating the world Saturday night he started there was nobody there it's another Saturday night and I ain't got nobody so he starts all and it creates the world I don't know if that was the song is really about it and he starts and he creates one day two days three days but then he built it up we start saying sleeve hoes with the beginning of the creation of the world and why four days because you have to check an animal for four days before you're gonna bring it as a Corbin you want to offer an animal tuck others burrow hole you have to have four days to offer it up what are the what are the four days what is he offering says the mission Rosh Hashana this is a bracelet price in Rosh Hashana that every holiday that were being judged we offer up something that's akin to what we're being judged on and circus we're being judged on water so we take water and pour it on the miss BAM we pour out water on the altar and Pesach with being judged on the grain so we bring the Corbin om air from the first of the barley on schwas were being judged on the fruits of the tree so we bring weight the first two breads of the we delivering I fruit of the tree ok the governor says it's going according to the view that the ate said that's the original tree of knowledge tree of knowledge of good and evil was in fact wheat you used to grow on a tree all right and on Rosh Hashanah listen to what it says everybody passes before I cut Asheboro ho get the name a room we all passed before Kurdish powerful like sheep like the army of David MLS like a mountain pass single file whatever it is each individual is passing the forage burro it doesn't say what we're offering up the javi mich Kenneth now that I know in my heart I'll build the Mishkan Myshkin is Bay awesome and I'll put him his bear inside of there and what do I offer up the near Tommy they're costly as a for the light I'm going to take the fire that Abraham made to offer up his son on the Walter look up honor I crave love her staff she is now she are you he'd uh and the Corbin I'm gonna offer up is my own life I could have spoken that out but I noticed that the most viewed episodes are the musical ones and so many read I'm gonna offer up myself on Rosh Hashanah we're offering up ourselves the purpose of sleek house is for us to be able to look at ourselves and say am i Roy to offer myself to a coach borrow they tell a story with Rohan and Baz Luhrmann when they were being he and his town meeting were being led off to be killed oz kiddush Hashem he said we're being brought as carbonize everyone makes sure you don't have any bad thoughts purify yourself so that we can we can be truly pure that's what we're supposed to be doing during sling hose we're supposed to be looking at ourselves that when a Kurdish burro who creates the world why does he create the world why were the animals destroyed in the fall in the flood why did the mob will destroy the animals there's a few different answers but one Rashi says is because there's no people you don't need animals the whole world was created just for people to know people is no world so when a coracle begins creating the world we begin saying sleek hose because we want to say to Kurdish burro who yes we want to give you a reason to make this world and I'm offering you myself that's what I'm offering up so I'm gonna be a carbon so I have to have at least four days to check myself to make sure that I'm Rory how was a person created says says Notaro the pop-up of he breathed into his nose a breath of life that was the sole curse burrow who breathed in and what did I take and my song yeah I took the ace of the akkada what happens at the akkada a Brahms whole life has been just for his son and Hashem says I want that son and he says okay and yets was going up the mountain with his dad and he says well I see the fire see the knife see the wood don't see any sheep and I room says son you're the Sheep was depicted as however I'm taking a little boy up the mountain yeah he was 37 years old yeah his dad was 137 probably he could have taken him if he had there yes then if he wasn't with the program he could have said sorry pop yeah I appreciate the sentiment you know he did he went along with it and understand the following we have this picture that occurs Boro who talks to prophets I want you to tell the Jewish people by going to and them and Santa Vera there's no voice oh I don't have a voice the only Navi the only prophet who ever got words were Moshe Reno everybody else got a picture and they had to figure out from the picture what I could Farrokh was trying to tell them karma Hashem thus saith the Lord with my favorite expressions yeah as opposed to being - am L Moshe God spoke to Moshe yeah to everybody else he appeared to them so now abraham has waited his whole life for the son you talk and he's taking its walk up the mountain now to kill him and yet Spock says Hashem said take me up the mountain and kill me well not in so many words well what did he say you know showed me a picture and yeah I'm supposed to kill you you sure did you know you get this wrong and you know I would hate after what you say wait a second maybe you're sure this is yeah I'm positive yes look says then I'm with you and that fire is the fire that we light inside of our heart and the carbon that we bring like yet suck was our own soul when we blow chauffeur was supposed to use a ram's horn y-you ramsoy because when he told him not to kill you tuck so he gave out Rama Ram to offer up instead that Ram came in place of Yitzhak so when we blow the shelter we remember the akkada what are we remembering about the akkada that Yitzhak was ready to give his life to coach bajo la cabaña grieve la a staff she we're ready to give up our life what happens when you lose chauffeur you take that primal prayeth that occurs about one who breathes into you and you blow it back up to shamaya and we said Hashem you gave me life it's your life if you want it back it's yours I ask for nothing I don't deserve anything whatever you gave me is a gift Hashem Hashem K Roth from the thunder America by in the after survey Hermes Hashem Hashem God who supports us before we sin and God who supports us after we sin why do I need support before I did anything wrong because you don't deserve to exist by what right do you exist there are people in America who are fighting for the lives of the unborn they're fighting against abortion and an unborn child has a right to exist he's still there he's a fetus is an embryo he has a right to exist is his life but no one has ever gone to court to a couple who refuses to have children and say I'm here representing their non-existent children who will never have a chance to live because they've decided not to have children there's no rights before you were born and when a kid says their parents I didn't ask to be born well yeah who are you gonna talk to because you don't ask to be born I was getting married someone said to me how many children do you plan to have I said well it's money's the good Lord blesses me with that's ridiculous you can't do that you have to decide I said okay how many total should I have four four is the right number I had for my brother had four four is the right number he said I have a little bit of a problem with that because I'm number five in my family and even though it could be argued that my brothers would have had a better life without me I used to like to think that I've made some small contribution to the line to the world and my brother Bruce who was born after me feels even stronger about it than I do remember donor mother who was number seven in his family show would have been a pity yeah he was never born right and no one has a right to be born when parents decide to bring children to this world this is such an unbelievable lesson has exchanged come over there's nothing like it I went to coach Bo who decides to bring us into creation an unbelievable gift it is I've been asked this question so many times said yeah but you know what if I decide that I didn't want God to create me I heard somebody say once yeah he says God owes me I don't owe him anything cuz he decided to create me so who says it's a good thing that you decide to create me I said because even in the secular world if you want to kill yourself they understand this something wrong with you we understand that existence itself is the greatest gift and a curse Bob who gave us life and on sleepless night but we begin to get ready for the omen did we were ready to say to a courage furrow who you gave me this life if you want it back it's yours like you talked did take the chauffeur and blow that breath back to Hakodesh powerful then we can walk into Rosh Hashanah so we spend the sleepless week preparing ourselves to become a Corbyn making ourselves as perfect as possible saying to a college bar local there is a reason for our creation one of the things about the sleeve us I don't know if you get this big double hokum your Mobile's move once this is all we're gonna say sleepless focus on the fact that the coach Byron was gonna burn us in hell I don't know you and all you're saying difference leaders that's nicely closing my says they would say even if my sins are as red as crimson coach Brewer was gonna make them as white as snow right coach bar whole will will make the red wool white locally no my entire room a tirade no put water on us and purify us and this idea is repeated over and over again as leaders that you can look at sleek O's as look at that turmoil you can look at sleek us as a coach bar who says there is no red wool wool is white if it's red it's because it's absorbed a dye and if you remove the dye it's white again it's something external when you talk about being in a state of Toma the fact that I'm in a state of Toma and I can go to the mikveh and I can become purified throw kaliram I am to heart is because I'm not Tommy I'm in a state of Toma I've become Tommy and if I go to the mikveh a dead mouse is Tommy you could put in the mick for video tomorrow it will always be Tommy you are not Tommy you're in a state of Toma you see a little kid goes outside and he and he's dirty and he's filthy muddy it's black look terrible you take the kid you give him a bath you wash his hair you comb it to get him in you dress him up he looks like an angel because that's what he really was he was just dirty he's not a dirty thing he's in the state of uncleanliness that's all of us sleepless is a time for us to purify ourselves to make ourselves white and pure so that we can stand before Chris Burke or mr. Shana carbon our grave lies now she now she huh yeah either and say their coach burro who everything is in your hands I want to give me life give me life if you don't don't it's up to you and that's it for this episode just like to find out more about the show go to reveal our ski comm you can find out about upcoming events I'm planning my calendar for the coming year if anybody's interested in the vent please contact me you can contact me obviously through the website you can make comments on the episode and you can sponsor an episode by clicking on the sponsor an episode button that's it I'm Deborah Orlowski and this is the rebbe Olaf ski show [Music]