Parsha Perspectives for Today (Netzavim, 5782) - In Your Heart and Mouth

good morning Booker told welcome back to Parsha perspectives for today this week we have the privilege of learning and reading parashas in the Soven as we are in the final stages of Hamish of Torah of completing our cycle we read specifically when we do kisova last week really before Rosh Hashanah end the year and its curses begin a new year and its blessings we don't bring the energy of one year into the other each year has its own energy but this year for whatever reason we read parshusim on the kasp of Russia I want to thank our generous sponsors serious sponsors for the year back United cats and family loving memory of Becky's Father David Grossman is also this morning is a sponsor our beloved member Carolyn jarroshaw is having surgery as we speak as we are learning so our learning is foreign in commemoration of the yard side of her mother Rose marquets raise the volume and Shalom his father Andrew marquets Benjamin Ben moshiyakov and by Erica and Perry Galler in memory of her father Benjamin thank you to all of our generous sponsors we deeply appreciate faces the Jewish people and he says to them you are all standing here when hayom today we have a strong tradition that that word hayom is a reference to which day Rosh Hashanah you are standing here today on Rosh Hashanah and what is the way to persevere how do we Triumph how is it that we are sealed and signed for a good year when we are united when we are together when we are a community when we are a people when we are loyal we just read enough Torah we're at the beginning of that was the end of the last of Torah and the rabbits tell us to read it when you're part of a Nation part of a people when you feel connected to a shared history and a shared Destiny when it's not everybody for themselves but we subscribe to the Transcendent core value of community of peoplehood when Amir then if we're judged if we're looked at as individuals we're each on our own Hashem says bring me him his file bring me her file let's see how well they're doing but when we are when we are devoted and committed when we are loyal fiercely loyal to community to people putting aside or submitting our own individual needs or Independence subscribing to this higher value then in his eyes we blend together we complement one another and that is the theme here at the beginning we are standing when we stand cool together we're talking everybody head to the tribes Elders officers as well as the convertible there is no socioeconomic divide there is no class system we don't care what someone gives or what kind of car they drive or what home they live in everybody from the wood Chopper to the person who draws who carries the water everybody is represented everybody is combined everybody is together everybody is United everybody is United We Are All One in that in that moment the measure says when is it attempts of him when are we firm and when are we strong and when are we triumphant when are we need Hashem you could punctuate but the karma not attended you're all gathered here to death today together before God but when are you standing for firmly when are you standing strong Hashem when United together a collective conscience supporting and caring for one another in front of Hashem when we are together and this is another theme of our pasture Mutual responsibility communal and Collective responsibility that we don't leave people alone or isolated or on their own but we care deeply and passionately about one another and we realize that our Destinies and Our Fate is intertwined we'll see the possible a little bit later based skip ahead for a moment okay says that the hidden things belong to Hashem top of page 1090s but that which is revealed through us and our children for our children forever to carry out all the words of this Torah this is a very significant by the way so significant that it's wonderful safer I've been telling you about the outsideora this great collection of fascinating diverse really interesting ideas quotes a tradition I'd never heard of this before that among the sukum that people the congregation stands for is this is this to stand for this basic he quotes from Tov who's the author of the cast ashamed of not about shemtov different castes gagan was born in your shalim and uh and then he went to live in England he was the AV Basden of the sardim of England and the Russia of all Moshe so he writes London Amsterdam the minute in London and Amsterdam was had that with the community would stand for the following readings number one is Ten Commandments number two the 13 attributes that we are invoking now as part of number three this is a significant Posse so what does it mean if it's so important that some communities we don't but some communities England and Amsterdam had the tradition to stand and we should understand what does it mean what are the hidden things and what are the revealed things the hidden understood that's for us and our children so what are the hidden and what are the revealed it's suggests the hidden things are for Hashem means the tame a mitzvos why do we do what we do what's the deeper meaning what's its purpose what is Hashem ordain it the purpose the meaning of the why we can posit we can offer suggestions we can conjecture we can study but in the end of the day we have to concede that Torah and mitzvos while we see the richness we see how it empowers we can study we can suggest all kinds of beautiful reasons and they give a time they give a taste to what we do but at the end of the day we have to submit and surrender we have to concede Hashem the why it's up to him when he says jump our response is how high Hashem says this is what I'd like you to do we say we'd like to understand we are in whether we do or don't but we'd like to understand but ultimately while we can't definitely know the top man mitzvos haniglos that which is revealed about mitso's namely the do's and don'ts the how to the that's incumbent on us and our children as describing our relationship to mitzvos when it comes to mitzvos the revealed part of mitros the how and the what that's up to us and that's revealed the why ultimately we could search we could seek it's up to him let go Russia describes this person is not focusing on our relationship to Hashem into his Mitzvahs but rather this hidden and the revealed is talking about our interpersonal relationships with one another word the hidden are the hidden mistakes hidden mistakes but the conceals and Discretions of a fellow Jew they belong to God what people do privately what people do in their own heart or mind what people do in their own private life they don't know about and I can't be responsible for however the neglos that which is revealed that which is obvious that which is observable that which we can intervene and intercede and Inspire that that's on us why what's the principle that drives that why can't I say everything you do public and private not getting involved I'm not touching it it's not for me you're you I'm me nothing to do with me why can't we say that because of all of us we are guarantors one with the other on the Torah bring fantastic martial you're in a boat with someone else and they drill a hole under their seat you don't say as you watch them with the drill puncture the hole in the bottom of the boat you don't say that's your seat I have my seat you paid for your seat I paid for my seat you could do what you want under your seat I'm in my seat as long as I stay in my armrests as long as I stay in my seat my seat's my seat yours it's foolish it's foolish if you're drilling a hole into your seat we're all going down because we're on the ship together we're on this boat together we're all journeying through this trip together the same is true on the Jewish journey through life and Destiny when a person drills a hole under their own boat in their own life and we have the ability in a sensitive way in a inspired way in a humble way to try to intervene to uplift we spoke about last week or Russia Kirsten is a person who doesn't uplift uphold the Torah you're exposed to your revealed you're in the presence of someone that you could Inspire and you look the other way and you ignored they're bageling you they reached out They begged you tell me about Rabbi Brody's explanatory service invite me for a Shabbos meal connect me to my pintolete to something Jewish in me and you say I'm too tired I'm running late I don't have time I don't feel like it the Torah doesn't say you're neutral those Turtles say your power of your Switzerland Torah says your cursed aror you could have you know why because you're in the boat together we're all in this boat together when Jews around us are assimilating an intermarine we don't say my family we're all good so far first of all no one should ever ever take anything for granted in their own family their own progeny their own grandchildren great-grandchildren God forbid God forbid many know this pain that no one should ever take anything for granted but let's say somebody inhara their children their grandchildren great grandchildren so far so good everyone's married to a Jew you say so assimilation is not my problem into marriage not my problem I'm good to go look at my line we're all good everyone's observing everyone's in the basement everyone's Pious we're all good to go how could someone say that we're in this boat and there are hundreds of thousands millions of Jews not intentionally but holes are being drilled under their seat in our boat what you're doing privately what someone's doing in their own home in their own private life in their own heart how could I be accountable how can I be accountable for what you do that I don't know but haniglos what I know what I see what I can Inspire what I can improve about myself and hopefully in others that's we and our children are accountable we and our children are accountable if we see the data and we see the statistics if we see a world that is chaotic and confused if we see a community that needs inspiration and we sit it out you can't say well I don't talk I'm sure I'm quiet in my chair in my seat we have to create a culture respectfully not judgmentally but that creates a culture that says there's too much at stake it's too much we're dominating for people we care about deeply I can't talking around us talk outside and we love you and there's nothing wrong and take a break but we we are responsible for the culture that we create haniglos that which is revealed and that which we can intervene that is on us that is our shared responsibility when our Salvation would reflect on this he pointed out this is not a theoretical construct this is a central basic fact of Jewish history in terms of our relationship to other nations of the world our neighbors have always condemned us for the crimes of a few if a Jew is in the headlines if a Jew stands out if a Juiced on something wrong we are all held accountable we're all held accountable unjustly but generalizations of all Jews because the actions of a few they condemn us because the crimes of a few our neighbors don't allow a Jew to be judged on his or her own Merit alone they regularly point out to the behavior of the individual as a means to indict the entire community no other people No Other Nation no other race nor the ethnicity is held to that standard judged in that manner nobody makes the generalization of any other people race ethnicity because of the outliers because the headlines of the few the Jew steals or is arrested for corruption were all condemned conclusions are drawn about old Jews not just by non-jews by the way fellow Jews too who do that about different segments within the Jewish community in Orthodox yamaka wearing Jew lands on the front page for some reason it's all Orthodox Jews our neighbors understand the concept of Arvis they hold us accountable the concept of ours they say I don't care if it's an outlier if it could come from the community the community needs to reflect and introspect and take responsibility know why because the hidden nobody could hold anyone else accountable for what they don't see and what they don't know but neglos that which we do know we are responsible for one another what are we strong and when are we firm and when do we persevere and when will we succeed on the Yoma dinwen when we are united when we are a community and when we are together all aware before Hashem that's why we're going to Daven Sunday night for two days and for ten days let us feel we are one let us be one bundle one group one Collective conscience let us care about one another let us recognize and see the people with the holes under their seat and plug them up because we're all on this journey together the ship will go down if there's a hole under anyone's seat we are all in this together ramosha share the great uh president of aguda a good he pointed out safety elements with the words we say in davening every day all of translate or love Souls but it doesn't say Souls means all of the soul that doesn't make much sense call All Of Thee sounds like multiple nishama is one soul so he pointed out if we're all United as one Soul if we have one heart one goal or one dream if we feel the pain of one another and we celebrate the joy of the other if we show up to cry to support to check in to provide if we're able to dance and sing and celebrate the cynicals of one another then we will eventually attract all Jews to join in and praise Hashem it's when call when we are one nishama tahalaka then we could praise Hashem then we could praise that ship I always give this example because it's so relatable for us and hopefully a metaphor for us to to draw from but you know if your children get together to do something for your anniversary but a child is absent because they don't get along with the siblings so they won't participate in that party they're making for the parents so your your joy is tempered it's nice appreciative of the children who are there but you couldn't figure it out together you couldn't all be together you couldn't be United to celebrate our Milestone or our anniversary so your joy is tempered the celebration is is diminished was the same way Cole when are we to halaka when do we praise Hashem we're disparate divided separate competing Souls when we are united this is this is what we're here for this is what we're working on these days leading up to rosh hashama certainly we are increasing and improving and elevating our being Adam lamakum or davening and our learning and our piety and our righteousness everything between us and God but one of the best ways to get through to him is by caring about his other children community and people a nation as values that transcend our own individual needs for Independence core values Community people Nation requires inconvenience and discomfort requires sometimes having to make concessions but we want to be a good do we want to be called or not are we call Israel or not Shem or not one last connection to the Parsha will say we describe the Covenant with Hashem applies both to the people who are standing here this day and those who are not here and those who are not here in the Torah that means that this is a corporate binding Covenant contract this is not a personal contract because if it was why can't we say hey God I wasn't there I'm not bound by whatever deal my great great grandparents caught with you the promise they made to you about a certain life and lifestyle I never would have agreed to it I'm not ready to give up my Saturdays I want to be able to eat certain foods I wouldn't have signed up or signed in for that for that deal so I'm not bound by that so why are we Bound by that it's a question many young people implicitly or explicitly ask consciously or subconsciously it's essentially their challenges says who why I didn't sign up for this I didn't join this Covenant This Promise this deal why I'm out I'm out all this focus on the royalty of England some of the drama surrounding it there are those who opted out they had to wear apparently a different uh I don't know uniform whatever different Mile Bush but uh they opted out so can you opt out can you say yeah just because I'm born in this line um I'm opting out I didn't sign up for it so that's it's you can't opt out you can't live in America but opt out of its rules because the founding fathers created a covenant called the Constitution and we're Bound by it and we're citizens of this country metaphor I understand isn't perfect you could still move you can't move out of Judaism but it's a corporate corporate contract Covenant which transcends Generations but the other way you can understand this is we are responsible for the people who are here come Monday Tuesday there'll be enormous amounts of Jews piling into shuls around the world to hear the chauffeur and to celebrate rosh hashama but for every Jew who will be in shul there are multiples of Jews are anenupo Iman Ohio they will not be standing there with us do we care what are we willing to do does it matter do we see the empty chairs metaphorically in our shoes and what are we willing to do about it because there is a spiritual Holocaust taking place all around us that is making a disappearance of the Jewish people at a faster clip that Hitler ever could have dreamed of ever could have dreamed of statistically so do we care about the internet or not do we care about them or or not so maybe that's why in England and in Amsterdam they would stand up to read this pasok because this is a really important location is the deeper reason that's for Hashem but Amigos revealed what's on us what we could intervene what we could intercedevanenu stand up and look around and think about the difference that we could make that is our awesome responsibility let's go back part of death foreign individual Jew has a personal Covenant with the Almighty now you'll say that's that's remarkable can you imagine the king meets with every citizen not just the dignitaries the rich the influential but the king meets with the simple the poor the everyone our King we all pass before him the king of kings has time and space for all of us My article this week I'm writing that you know the coronation of King Charles won't take place for several months till the period of morning is over but we're all invited and none of us I stand corrected correct me if I'm wrong I don't think any of us are invited to King Charles's coronation but we're all invited to the Carnation of the king of kings on Monday and Tuesday it's going to be a beautiful trumpet Play It's called the chauffeur you're addressed to our finest and we're going to be mamlik Hashem we're going to recite it's a coronation of the king of kings it's greater Pomp and Circumstance and ceremony and ritual and richer tradition all the things that surround royalty which so attract the attention and focus of so many we have we don't have to look elsewhere we have ourselves we have ourselves and Hashem is going to invite us to enter that brist that Covenant with each and every one of us we're all invited and we all have a role to play and we're all there for for a deep reason so I believe Hassman points out that specifically in the context of Hashem making a personal individual Covenant with each person says the Torah delineate every age every gender every socioeconomic class coach workers with everybody with everybody there is no hierarchy in his eyes you know how we've dwelt in the land of Egypt we pass through the midst of the Nations and when we passed through those other nations on our way to the promised land we saw their Abominations their detestable Idols aids for Evan made of wooden Stone kessavistahaba srimayam of silver and gold that were with them and now Moshe warns them you came out of Egypt and you passed through these lands of pagans and idolaters you were exposed to True corruption and moral Decay you lived in a place that no longer maintained basic morality and ethics basic definitions basic principles of God and maybe so maybe somebody has lost their way I just saw a rabbi advertising a big meal on Yom Kippur afternoon on behalf of Palestinians and I don't even know what when we live in a far land in foreign values and we worship at the altar of other isms we could absolutely abandon our own faith and and be worshiping some other religion altogether maybe among you is a root flourishing with gall and wormwood which is the torah's way of saying maybe you're rotten in its core maybe there's rot within you which can spread and it's contagious like mold his moral Decay happens to be that the acronym for sure and pay and race spells chauffeur how do you what's the alarm that awakens you that arouses you that moves you to not yourself be the source of the mold and the Decay The Rot listen to the chauffeur showed us it awakens us so by living in and passing through these other places we can so easily be exposed to so easily be exposed to and in danger of in danger of adopting some of these values which are so far into ours becoming corrupt ourselves Rashi says you know you left Egypt because you know you left Egypt you traveled through those lands I have to make you swear to be careful and really it's very perplexing why say the opposite because you left that land you should know you left Egypt you saw the other side you were exposed to the paganism the idolatry you stood in our Cena and received the Torah I understand why others will need to take an oath why others need to swear to uphold the you you lived it saw it does anyone who doesn't need it should be you so why specifically here of the mirror he says even this generation the door Daya this enlightened and elevated generation among whom we said that the lowly shift has saw on the sea greater than the prophet yes in the deserts even they needed a renewed Covenant and an oath and swearing and a promise you know why because no matter how firmly you think you believe no matter how much money was spent on going to Yeshiva or seminary is the most alarms because when you pass through and when you live among foreign and corrupting forces you need to Double Down doesn't matter you got a Jewish Education it doesn't matter how inspiring Your Role Models your parents and grandparents it doesn't matter how firmly rooted you think you are in Yiddish kite the dangers are so great and Grave the winds the hurricane forces can so make a person lose their way lose their Compass their Direction when you've passed through an amono Moab when you've been exposed to shikuts no matter how repulsive and abominable they seem to be you can so easily adapt and so easily adopt and look what's happened in this great Melting Pot this blessed country of which we should be so grateful to be able to live on the one hand with the religious free that he gives us safety we could use more of but safety gives us but on the other hand the danger of it welcoming us with open arms and the isms and ideas and values which increasingly should be so foreign to us and are seeping right in right into the Torah Community children and schools and confusion and Corruption so says I have to make you swear what do you mean this is the group where hasinai this is the group who saw Miracles ten plagues and a splitting in the sea if there was anyone who didn't have to swear there was anyone enough to take an oath it was this generation why them because they pass through Ahmed when you live among the foreign host when you live among foreign values it is so pernicious it is so dangerous and threatening you have to double down and take an oath you have to take an oath and this slow maybe not so slow this slippery slope no matter your education no matter who your parents and Grandparents were no matter how steeped you think you were in Yiddish kite how dangerous and vulnerable it is is in the public itself where do you see that what does that mean disgusting repulsive abominable second time what does it look like Evan it's Stone and it's wood it's an idol it's no longer repulsive and disgusting and abominable now it's Stone and wood and by the third time the Torah references it the third time you see it it's valuable it's beautiful I want some what started out as repulsive and abominable foreign and corrupt quickly turns into stone and and wood innocuous benign and then can quickly become gold and silver I want some I wanted to it's valuable it's real that's the danger it says itself is telling us just how that slippery slope works if we don't double down by taking a promise and an oath about the Covenant that each of us need to uphold that each of us need to keep very timely we have here the source of the midst of chuva paraglamed pasok the page 1090. it will be when these things are upon you the Brach and the call of the blessing and the curse that I'm giving you the Hashem place it where in your heart put them in your heart among all the nations that Hashem will disperse you among the shaft and when you are living there dispersed when you see that and when you have when you have lost your way the Shafta and Hashem returned to God and listen to his voice everything I'm telling you mushroom system listen not if but when you will lose your way life has ups and downs life has feelings of closeness and distance we're learning about that now and living with amuna on Wednesday mornings we're learning about we're learning all about Godless and Katniss highs and lows of yiddishkai sometimes feeling deeply connected and plugged in and other times lost and distanced and I don't know what's going on I don't feel connected at all how do you how do you find Hashem and inspiration even when you feel disconnected and distanced so mushroom doesn't say if but when I don't think anyone's religious life is linear uphill our religious lives are we hope like the stock market it Trends up but it's ups and downs and hopefully Trends up but know that there will be ups and downs ravageur gives the martial I mentioned this living with a Muna Kew Everman first quoted it on the one and one he says you know if you go for EKG you had a heart incident that Salah comes and they quickly put on the EKG if the line is flat what does that mean you're dead if the line goes up and down you're alive so in our lives when it goes up and down it means you're alive when you stop having ups and downs highs and lows in your marriage and your parenting in your career among your hobbies in your relationship with Hashem if there's not fluctuating if it stop having ups and downs if you're Flatline bad news you're spiritually dead so the highs and lows the ups and downs are the evidence that we're spiritually alive that were spiritually struggling it's a good thing it's okay it's okay and that's what my sharabina says it's okay not if but when you're going to stray listen to his voice come back home says suckerman I mentioned to you as a privilege of meaning took a group of teenagers to meet him one of the last living students is no longer living in his life he says the Shafta the shamata you return to Hashem the shamata and listened to his voice so why in that order and why the redundancy so says [Music] he says you know how you can understand this like two people if you're all the way in the back of the room and I'm here in the front of the room if we're far away from one another can you hear me well no you say what what'd you say it again I say come over here not my children of course but sometimes one can have children who scream at you from their room or across the house they try to tell you they say if you want to talk to me come here do you have something to say I want to hear it come close I can't have this conversation through seven doors four walls music playing and you're in another I can't do that if you want me to hear you if it matters Come Close scissors The Closer You Are the better you hear and that's what the Torah is telling us Hashem says I've got a lot to say not for me for you I got a lot I got the manual the instruction book for your life I've got the secret code in the formula how to lead the most meaningful purposeful happy pleasurable Hashem life but you're not going to hear me if you're far away if you're far away you can't hear so the shaft come here this and listen to my voice to give you the opposite metaphor you call your children come close I've got great news and they all from there and say what is it and you say come here I want to tell you just tell me I'm in bed what is it is I come here I signed I've got great news but you got to come close you got to come close if you want to hear the great news I have to tell you we bought this we're going there this thing's happening Guess who's coming to visit I have great news but you have to come closer do you want to hear it Hashem says I have such great news for you I have great news for how to live the most meaningful beautiful happy pleasurable life but the shaft come close the shamata because and then you can hear him we hear better the closer we get so you can't be far away from Hashem but say still you know Todd's online comfortably in my bed Hashem I don't feel like doing your way I don't feel like coming close but tell me tell me anyway give me the good news anyway if we want to hear the good news if we want the message we have to make the effort the Shafta to come close the shaft you and Olive are going to spend a little time on this paragraph bottom of page 1090. it's not just a great album freed song this Mitzvah we've spoken about in the past three or four or five explanations I'm going to give you five more today because there's no shortage of insights on this amazing that i'm giving you today it is not hidden from you it's not far away it's not in the heavens it's not so far away it's in the heavens you have to say who's the one who's going to build the rocket ship to go get it for us it's not on the other side of the sea that someone needs to build a boat a ship to go get it where is it tempted to break out little it's on cats but I won't but it's in your mouth and in your heart to do it great beautiful phenomenal averan freed Eton cats amazing songs really the most amazing songs this amazing songs beautiful right what does it mean what is this thing that is not in the heavens it's not on the other side of the city it's in my mouth and my heart I don't taste it I don't feel it what is it where is it what is it hamitzvahzos could we have anything more enigmatic or ambiguous than this Mitzvah mitzvahzos this Mitzvah which Mitzvah what Mitzvah are we talking about here what Mitzvah are we talking about foreign so some time it says this is all Torah the big macro because we're shown them all of Torah tayak mitzvos don't think it's beyond you it's not available to you it's doable everybody it's not in the heavens Hashem did not create and give us a system and framework and it he didn't legislate and regulate a lifestyle that we're incapable of living he didn't do something that's beyond us that's impossible for us he didn't do it for him he did it for us and it is doable it is doable it's not in the heavens not on the other side of the sea it's in your mouth it's in your heart get going start doing we got it that's how knock one understands this there are people who say I don't know it I'm not holding in it I didn't get that education I don't have that background it's beyond me I can't delve into it I'm denied access to it but they're wrong it's not true first of all we're living in a time in a generation where it's more untrue than ever no matter what language you speak you can find entree into Torah it's translated into countless languages it used to be that well I can only learn this hour and there's no class being given then but now we have something called and maybe this is the whole reason it exists because otherwise we could do better without it but maybe the whole internet is just because you could learn Torah any hour 24 6. 20 you understand the extraordinary time in which we live if you lived in a village in Eastern Europe a hundred years ago you didn't have access to a great Torah teacher you didn't have a great nugget or rebbe or Mora in town they only gave a talk when you had to milk the cows or you were doing laundry down by the river so you had no access to Total Learning to our knowledge to our inspiration and that was the way it was for 2000 years for most of the history since we received the Torah and now we have no excuse because now people have a little device in their pocket in their ear the 24 6. you could listen to hundreds of thousands of total lectures in any language on any Topic at every level by incredible people it's there for the taking Go Get It Go Get It so it's not a closed book for many for a long time it was if you didn't understand how to make and you didn't have a great Webby you didn't have the privilege which is a privilege of a Jewish Education then it was a closed book Amara but it is no longer a closed book we both have translation and we have teachers and whether it's dafyami or others is incredible what we have it's an open book for all who come and want to read it want to grab onto it I want access to it are willing to put in the effort to make through it is are intimidating they seem impossible and difficult it's beyond me I can't do it too many details too much minutia too many requirements but the reality is and the truth is it's all doable from nothing writes he says Let me Give an example since this is a difficult mitzvah I happen to be allowed to talk about this because I wear titties I'm a member of the club I wear titties since this is an amazing mitzvah you get a Mitzvah every moment you're wearing that scissors so you put them on in the morning you take them off at night and every moment you're wearing them you're getting a Mitzvah is it difficult can be if you're not used to it hot uncomfortable itchy gotta learn how to tuck it in and how to tuck it can be expensive particularly if you're wearing trailers but on the other hand is it a difficult mitzvah it's hard to say it's difficult you're putting on a garment that you don't even notice is there after you start wearing it and you're getting a mitzvah for every moment that you wear it so much so that it creates a question some ask why do I have to do any other Mitzvah all day I'm mostly the Mitzvah I'm doing the midst of wearing senses I'm occupied with a Mitzvah which normally makes me exempt from doing other mitzos so this answer is it's a great question the very fact that the question is asked is evidence for how meaningful and significant doing that that's what all day is so how could one not do it ask yourself there is no end to its rewards what do you have to do spend a few bucks on a pair of cities and put them on imagine if you got amitsa every day for putting on your socks imagine every day you moved Heaven and Earth Cosmic implications you carved special reward in heaven because you put on socks and you're wearing by the way this is a hard thing for some people today too it's the style for a lot of guys no socks to protect pants for them too to wear socks would be a pigment but imagine you got admits for wearing socks shouldn't be hard put on film in the morning say Shema how long does it take even if you don't come to minion even if you don't say Old Dominion how hard is it considered the contrast about this is the hardest Mitzvah to do among the taryag and the framework of mitzvos the hardest answer to do is easier than the easiest work we have to do to earn a living it's a lot harder to go to work every day 8 9 10 12 hours a day even if you're like me and you never worked a day in your life because you love what you do it's hard work it's hard work and the hardest Mitzvah is easier than the easiest work we can do and yet and yet people gladly volunteer to go to work and do so excessively and by mean excessively they have enough to provide their family after six or eight hours of work but they continue to work another two or three or four hours because they want to make a killing the nicer car more money in the bank because they want more and more so when you're hungry when you have drive when you want it you're willing to work and that's the attitude we're meant to have for Toro Mitzvahs that's what ramnachman says it's not in the heavens on the other side of the sea but it's easy relative to the other things that we do the efforts we exert it's easy we just have to have the will the difference is that we have the will and the drive when it comes to the other things do we have it when it comes to Torah and Mitzvahs if we do it's not hard it's really not hard if we do waking up early I know people who love golf who will wake up at absurd and obscene hours to get to a golf course to get in that early round but if you say get up early for davening their people wake up very early for business meetings and opportunities and negotiations and networking and introductions because that's going to yield big returns big money even if they have enough they're excited to do it but did we wake up that early for that it's all doable and it's not harder than anything else that we're doing we're capable and competent it's not in the heavens not the other side of the sea it is available and accessible we can do it the question is does it have our will are we interested in it are we willing to do it are we willing to do it I lost my place there it is where is Torah found Taurus found ation foreign you know why it's not far the Torah promises us here and says not hard and it's not far because you know where it is it's in your heart and it's in your mouth you say well I'm moving my mouth and no torah's coming out so how can you tell me Torah is in my mouth chewing I don't taste it speaking I don't hear it how could you say where is it how could you say where is it from says you know where it is everyone's got a little indent on their upper lip where'd it come from where the tradition the angel gave us a little little patch on the way out causing us to forget all that we had learned because in the womb foreign in the womb we learned kala tarakula all of Torah and on our way out were caused to forget in the womb we learned to are we the greatest Rabbi in the world we're learning about the malach which is why which is why when yaakov is kicking to get out when he walks through the basement question is why he's got the greatest Remy ever he's learning with an angel why is he kicking to get out so they say you know why you could have the greatest Remy in the world but if your khavarusa is Asaf you gotta switch yesivas it's time to get out I logically According to some by the way this is why you're not allowed to get induced Primitives get induced unless there's a medical necessity you can't get induced for convenience chubas right you can't get a bear motion the Troopers bear motion as a trooper you can't get induced the pregnant woman can't be induced I like that birthday it's the same as my birthday I like this with that you can't get induced for convenience why because the totora induced labor because the baby is learning in the womb of the malach and you're going to stop the learning spit the Torah also because it's considered life-threatening to be in labor so when you go into it naturally or medical necessity then you can but to do it for convenience you can't so in any case the gamara says we learn karate and then we cause to forget what do we learn Ed women also learn color tarakula what do we learn how do we learn but the biggest question is why do we forget if we're going to be caused to forget why Bala teaching us to begin with talk about an exercise in futility talk about a waste of time for the angel does this Angel not have a better assignment if Hashem is going to cause us to forget why teach it to us to begin with salvation many others say because this is the entire idea of the pintallyid why does a Jew with no background laborator was very opposed to saying a Jew has no background so I take it back if you heard someone say a Jew you'd meet someone and ask them and they'd say I don't have a Jewish background it's a you don't descend from Yakov your great-grandmothers aren't sober of garaco every Jew has a background every Jew is a background you might not have had a Jewish Education every Jew has a background so I take it back I take it back but why is it a Jew with no Jewish Education an assimilated Jew in the middle of yahapitzville feels a Jewish pole a Jewish conscience a Jewish connection a Jewish magnetism where does that come from what is that said the rough because embedded inside us there's a blueprint of Torah which has been tattooed on our heart true we are caused to forget it in our Consciousness but in our subconsciousness we still have a Jewish Soul we still have a Jewish Spark when we ignite it when we light it in others or ourselves Torah is not something brand new Torah is familiar we're relearning something we already know we're reconnecting with something that's already been imprinted on our heart we already have an established connection with it that we are re-establishing it's not new to begin with so that says it's in your mouth it's in your heart yes you have to go learn it again yes you have to learn it Anew yes there are some who have to make up for time to catch up in their knowledge it's not brand new it should be and is familiar to us because we've been there before we've been there before we've learned it before even before we were cause two to forget not since we think of the mirror says the following the ramban tells us what Mitzvah is this we said until now we said it means an observant lifestyle it's inside you because there's a pinto lead said it's not hard for you it's easier than the easiest work that we do to earn a living If we're honest with ourselves it's easier than what we do to earn the living it's not Beyond us putting on since it's not hard just do it and so many other emits us but the ramban is a different interpretation is not talking about generally but it's talking about specifically which Mitzvah the Mitzvah of chuva where do you see the midst of trouble what leads the ramban to conclude how mitzvahzos is talking about chuva because what do you do in your heart with your lips repent to restore return chuva I understand how you do that in your heart genuine sincere change happens in the heart what happens with the lips what does it mean in your mouth that's the Mitzvah of an indispensable part of chuva is video confession admission that's that's done with the the mouth that's done with the mouth how did we get from the original thought I can't do this it's beyond me it's beyond my grasp it's in the Heavens to not in your mouth it's in your hard car it's very close to you we skipped a huge chasm we didn't go from it's not in the heavens but you got to drive a little way it's not in the heavens but you got to rent a helicopter it's not in the heavens but you're gonna have to really stretch far to get it we went from it's not in the heavens too it's right in front of you it's right there how do we go from one extreme to the other Margarita he used to say sorry says we all understand we're here for a purpose and a reason we're here for a mission there are expectations of us and we are accountable for what we get wrong so how is it that we mess up so royally how is it that we come up so short how is it that we fail on such a large scale often the answer is because that has unbelievable powers so tragic how many tragic people among us and ourselves who have such potential but have so little willpower so little discipline who absolutely sabotage aspects of lives because we can't get it together because that's the force and the power of the eight Sahara to so distract this attempt to so corrupt our way of thinking so what's the answer what's the antidote how do we overcome that urge that instinct how do we live the best emotional physical spiritual lives how do we make the right choices how do we show the right judgment how do we stay on the right path how do we overcome that there is only one antidote Hashem says I created so I I created the virus didn't come out of Wuhan China the yitzahara I created the viruses came out of my lab but I also created the the antidote to it I created the tablet and what is it Torah not for now why is it called the tablet is a spice Hazard didn't say I created the Atara I created the antidote so I created the Atara I created the spice spice what does the spice have to do with everything not for now but an important question so what is the only antidote to this virus well the creator of the virus told us he created it and he also said this is the antidote what is the antidote Torah studying Torah learning to our living Torah inspired Torah visual cilante explained Taurus is our campus Torah is our navigating tool Torah is our ways or Google Maps whichever you prefer to use but we have a destination we want to get to there are all kinds of roadblocks and detours and construction and police and traffic and Torah is ways Torah is Google Maps so the difference between lobasha Miami and such a huge Chasm such a huge extremes from it's not in heaven so it's right in front of you is Torah makes it right in front of you it's like saying I don't know how to get from here to New Jersey that's a bad example because just get on I-95 and you're there I don't know how to get from here to wherever filled with twists and turns I'm gonna get there so the answer is you know why it's still very far away there's a lot of twists and turns but here I just downloaded ways for you now it's called I just made it easy I gave you ways without ways there's still a lot of people who don't have ways I don't know why they would deprive themselves of this Incredible Gift Hashem gave us to know from a satellite perspective where the traffic and so on is but whatever reason people do so someone says I've got to drive six hour drive let's say someone says I'm driving to Cleveland I'm driving to Memphis I'm driving to Detroit and I have no idea how to start going there I don't know which highways which turns how you go which Bridges you have to cross so it's by shamayan like daunting task how do I go I have no clue I'm going to try to figure this out and navigate on my own I'm gonna get so lost I'm gonna Veer so far from the path I can't do it then someone says I don't know here's Waze here's Google Maps I put in the coordinates just follow the directions it's not a problem it tells you exactly what time you're going to arrive tells you what to avoid tells you how to get there say wow a Dover mode you just made it incredibly close so Hashem gives us his Torah and that which otherwise would be so far away so inaccessible so filled with twists and turns so easy to fall off the path just became it just says he became so close all matters all it means is we have to engage Torah if or when we engage Torah it is so close it's so available it is so so right there so right there also had an interpretation on this so it's time torah's telling us that Torah and mitzvos are where we normally think Torah emitts us regulate they legislate what my actions my behavior what can they not tell me to do my thoughts my thoughts that's me it's my domain what to do with my hands and feet where to go how to live that the Torah could tell me what to eat and so on and so forth but what to think that's the Torah comes and says so our heart our emotions our thoughts they also they also matter back to fantastic safer thank you Mindy he's always my best farm from Mendy oh it's Applause he says we don't have time for almost anything in this I don't have time for I'm just giving him a commas again I don't get any royalty on the safer do you you should we don't get any royalty that's our that's our new in the future let's let's get some royalties on these so lobasha Miami he quotes he has a great essay pages on how could you say Taurus he goes on countless examples of great rabbis who say you know where I came to this conclusion a dream an angel a Heavenly voice the rivals the private says has been in our base Madras and have told us this Allah didn't really mean there was some Heavenly voice in his placement there wasn't some ghosts in Heavenly voice derived man this is a holy place so we divinely were inspired to come to the conclusion but you see the riveness commentary in the rambam is referencing he's invoking we have countless greats who invoke khalom they came to halach a conclusion because of dreams that they had the tasarua who wasn't sure how to spell Akiva and I get how do you spell Akiva it's important if you ever invited to sign a tsuba and your name is Akiva how do you spell Akiva I incof your base that's easy what's the last letter of the name Akiva is it a hey or an olive so he quotes the horizontal what did he do yes the dreamer the dream how do you write it how do you write it and he answered him the last letter of every word there is Akiva with a a so it was revealed to him in a dream to the urzarua or is it so again he's invoking a dream the basio safe the great of Joseph Carl the author of the Shogun would come in a dream and reveal to him and there are many many other more examples he invokes here a case of rubikiviosis Schlesinger the Leva Ivory who resolved the case of an aguna because of a dream through a dream and many other Torah Mississippi and yet this is again this is a perfect example of the kind of really fun stuff that is in this amazing safe I'll give you one last example with the end even though as usual we didn't get through anything foreign amazing this is dedicated to King Charles Hashem says the heart of the king is in the hand of Hashem manipulates him however he wants the Mao Bama says initially pogumento it's true you and I mere lowly citizens we lowly citizens we have free will this possible free will we all have free will you know it doesn't have free will locain umish Kings only Jewish Kings them albums comment non-jewish kings that initially specifically speaking about non-jewish Kings so until now King Charles till last week when was she Nifty already two weeks ago I don't remember they waited a long time for the levia whenever she passed away he became king immediately even though the coronation's not till later so until now for 70 years he was a citizen he had free will every day woke up he chose his breakfast he chose what to wear he chose with him to hang out every day he woke up he had his own free will King Charles Prince Charles the moment his mother died and he became Kings the album says he no longer has free will Kings don't have free will they are mere Pawns in the hand of Hashem maybe the same is true with elected officials who also act like kings and other and other governments they lost their free will the moment that they took a position of power until they get another fun UTSA Plaza Torah I owe you were a Moshe I want to wish everyone excited we want to meet next week I'll be available Tuesday Morning none of us will be available we'll be in Rosh Hashanah so on our own but wishing everyone tomorrow morning 10 minutes of meeting Mr sharam living with their moon tomorrow night going behind the Bima with judge Dan Butler an extraordinary person who can give us some Clues how to do well when you come before a judge tomorrow night judge Dan Butler and until next time until next year the last partial share of the year until next year stay happy stay healthy and stay holy