Parsha Perspectives For Today (Nitzavim-Vayelech, 5783) - Standing Together

good morning Booker told welcome back to partial perspectives for today as always we are grateful to our series sponsor Becky now the cats and family in memory of their father and grandfather David Gross only illness big thank you to our dear friends the cats there's also this morning she is sponsored anonymously with heartfelt gratitude to BRS for the inspiration education that we in popular Russia's teachings have initially enriched this person's knowledge and contributed to their spiritual growth we're very grateful to them for their generous sponsorship a few housekeeping notes and then we'll jump into a double Parsha you don't give me double the time just because it's a double Parsha it's really not right it should be two hours when it's a double Parsha but we'll do what we can if you have skipping notes next week There's No Parsha Shear because next Shabbos we don't read irregular passion like Shabbos is Rosh Hashanah so therefore next Tuesday there's no Parsha Shear but to make up for it tonight 8pm We are continuing our series on mastering our Meadows so now I'll speak about anger management 8 PM in the social actual it's also streamed online you can find it on the YouTube channel also tomorrow night we are honored to host Robinson tourski for an elohim's men and women Thursday night we meet again at the beach late at night 8 30 p.m in Boca that's late at night for a little learning about his photos and then spreading out across the beach to have private conversations with Hashem That's Thursday night yesterday was the Mitzvah Market it's an entire week of incredible opportunities Parish just himself on page 1086 in the art scroll Stone Hamish this week we're reading it Sovereign status it doesn't none of it matters you could be a convert you could be a newcomer could be a wood Chopper a water carrier you could be retired from the hedge fund manage management that you did because for you to pass into the Covenant of Hashem in appreciation that Hashem your God seals with you today we're all equally Bound by Torah we're all equally accountable to Torah we're all equally United by Torah Torah mitzvoskite is the great equalizer the other things are external they're window dressing but in our panemius in our core in who we are all of those distinctions and differences they all fall away we're equally bound we're equally United we're equally together in our relationship with Torah and that's the Bristol Hashem you are his people we are his people we serve him we represent him we are as ambassadors and agents and Advocates here on Earth and is our trustworthy faithful God just as he promised again and by the way Moshe turns to those who are gathered and he says not just you who are physically here today not just you who can sign on the dotted line contractually but yes those who are here and those are destined to be here those who are present and those who will yet come this isn't a contract where if you weren't alive or present you shouldn't be bound by it this is a constitution where all who will be born into it are bound by it this is a covenant it is a constitution it is not a contract not as the answer to a young person who says what do I have to give Toro Menses why do I have to give up all that good food and give up my Saturdays why do I have to live this life and marry only Jewish I didn't take this on I didn't agree to it I didn't sign in a dotted line why am I Bound by it and the answer is it may not be a contract but it is is a covenant it is a constitution it is who we are it is what we are about it's what it means to be part of this people so there's someone should talk about we're all standing here the names itself of all of safer department is itself a message we've spoken about that in the past standing and going we don't stand we go we are a person has to be on the Move we'll talk more about that but why are we standing here the mattress tells us a reassurance after last week's after the harsh rebuke and the dire warning if we're disobedient to Hashem what will happen the Torah then says but don't worry Moshe says relax I know you're frightful I know you're fearful you're filled with anxiety what if you're unworthy you'll be wiped out what if the tohara will be visited upon you relax don't worry you got this even after that even after I screamed and yelled and rattled you on the wall shook you came back the next Shabbos it was kiddish it's probably kiddish Club you're all here it's all good it's all good what is Moshe trying to undo what is he doing the whole purpose of the tokah was to motivate was to inspire was to incentivize and now he just undoes that by saying ah don't worry you're here you survived it's all good others they say Moshe was saying you know individually you're in trouble that's the toh if you live life as an individual you're on your own when you unite as a community as a people as a nation when you're able to supplement and complement your shortcomings with other people's strengths and you your strength will complement their shortcoming when we appear before Hashem United a community loving faithful loyal then we can survive we can Triumph even the harshness of the tokah of the rebuke it is a strategy that is invoked over and over and over again they all say one of the emphasis of this time of year when a person might recoil into their own Merit worthiness try to organize their own argument to Hashem coming before Hashem but instead the answer is not to turn inward it's turn outward be a person who the community is indispensable is to be a person who's indispensable to the community don't find fault in the other find what's right don't nitpick and criticize compliment don't walk away and turn away and pretend you don't see reach out and care and invite and ensure no one's alone it's when we are in Italian that's when we can overcome of last week's passion but the amaras taharosa just passed away a couple of weeks ago he quotes Israel who is The Ataris Israel was a grandson of limura named person might say you know those Holy Rollers they come before God they work all ELO they shackle they Daven they learn they attend all the chuva lectures they read they sign up they get the WhatsApp alerts they're listening they're learning they're growing and then they come and they dive into the bottom of their heart who am I it's been a goodness I'm a nothing I'm a nobody are you kidding I'm not going to be so hypocritical and duplicitous that I struggle with my struggles and I battle my battles and I'm really empty and I'm really and then I'm going to come hello I know how far I am from Hashem is some lowly distance Iceberg like me I'm gonna pretend to come before Hashem I'm gonna shuck on a dab and I'm gonna cry I'm gonna cry out some I know save the email I know I read quickly I got a lot to say it's a double Parsha listen on half speed I'm doing the best I can so you'll say only the people who are worthy who are lofty who are exalted they can come and they can cry out and they can dabble Havana me I'm pathetic I'm lowly I'm disobedient I can't get my act together I fail I'll shame I fail myself I fail my family I can't fulfill one promise I made from one Rosh Hashanah since I'm alive so what I'm going to go through the motions this next year I'm gonna just do it all over again this hello this is I'm just going to pretend this year is going to be different don't think that way never give up on yourself never see yourself as that reject as that outlier as an icewearf realize everyone no matter where they are and where they're holding it's not too late to become who you're meant to be this is you're standing here today whoever you are whatever you're holding you could step forward and you can open up your heart you could feel his love you could begin again you could believe in yourself even if you spoke in the lobby on your way into shul for konidre no problem so what don't give up on yourself start again decide now I'm still a piece of God in Me still my father and it's never too late to call home it's never too late to come home it's never late to come into the arms of your parents through royalist Bible and that's what this mean that we're going to get to momentarily okay we're going to talk about what mitzvah says this Mitzvah don't worry seems so hard seems impossible seems inaccessible seems difficult in the heavens it's not on the other side of the city it's right there it's close it's right under your nose where is the buffet in your mouth in your heart Mitzvah is the word what does it mean the word mitzvah so we translate the word mitsu always as a command first of all that's not a very loving metaphor that doesn't reflect a lot of affection and intimacy and love and communication and connection commend commend you imagine the wife I command you take out the garbage I command you make dinner I command you pay the bills I command you that's the relationship with Hashem 613 Commandments on the one end yes Hashem says jump we say how high he's the all don't wear the evidence the master we're the slave that's one image but he's also the father and we're the child he's also the spouse and we are the loving other spouse and the word savvsa comes from the word siboy comes from the word safsa command is the wrong translation or it's only one level of a translation the word Mitzvah also means sav-sa his kashras it means a connection it means do you want to feel connected to me do you want me to feel connected to you would you please take out the garbage would you like me to feel connected would you mind making dinner do you want to feel connected this is a need I have this would help me enrich my life there are 613 connection points connection opportunities opportunities to offer a bid a gesture to connect with their bonuses 613 seems overwhelming seems impossible seems unrealistic but it's not when you're in love there's nothing you won't do for the other person kumara says two people in love if they're in love they can sleep on the side of a sword if they're not in love the biggest bed in the world is not big enough to hold them is nothing no problem I got it could do it anything it'll create a connection an affection amenities Shem loves us and he believes in us we go even father he needs us and if we know that then it's not too far it's not too impossible it's for every single one of us and he goes on and on schmooze he has a long essay against a schmooz on this that that's what this partial is really all about do not erase yourself don't marginalize yourself don't dismiss yourself and don't excuse yourself no matter where you are no matter where you're holding in life no matter who you are no matter what you think you're capable of Yiddish kaitor amidst us for every one of us this room and there's space there's meaning there's purpose and Hashem needs each and every one of us no matter who no matter how we're born no matter what we're born into he needs and it's lonely flacy if we understand the Mitzvah is not a command a Mitzvah is an invitation it's an opportunity a Mitzvah is a connection then the 613 the low rakoka they're not far away they're right there they told us the amoros tahoras quotes that told us that told us was the talmud with the bashem who collected his teachings and spread them is advice is a strategy and a methodology how to appear before Hashem and Russia Israel as you mentioned earlier it's all about this is the time of year don't recoil don't retreat into me my destiny my judgment you know if if God forbid a person is preparing for a big trial they're appearing before the judge their life lays in the balance and somebody says could you have me for dinner Friday night are you out of your mind I'm hunkered down with my team we've got lawyers putting together our arguments I'm earning all my merits leave me alone I can't do coffee I can't have you for dinner I can't write you a check are you out of your mind I'm so busy this is the opposite preparing for trial lawyers I'm sorry I don't have time for you an argument for myself sorry I don't have time for it what am I so busy with I have to cook meals for others I have to check in on others I have to go visit and take care of and support and uplift others I have to feel artists I have to love the people I don't like I have to compliment the people I've been obsessed with criticizing so sorry I don't have time to prepare for my trial that's the best preparation for this trial that's why and that's what the mission says in office the mission and the second paragraph says don't be a Russia parisha it's a new types it's a new definition of the mishnah I'll tell you Russia with my Africa doesn't mean don't be a Russian in your own eyes it means don't be a Russia because you know it's wickedness you know what would be Wicked if all you cared about was yourself that's wickedness Alti Russia don't retreat into yourself don't only care about yourself don't prepare with your team for yourself care about others because you're going to stand and appear before the judge hayom what's the answer what's the strategy we're all in it together we're a whole Community we're too big to fail we're too big to fail individuals a little Neighborhood Bank done we've seen that this year a bank a little individual Neighborhood Bank could go under but too big to fail so I'm part of we're too big to fail we're eight Manana where a thousand families we're super interconnected with one another were intertwined our love our loyalty we're too big to fail that's our argument Hashem too big to fail and that's the winning argument when you stand on judgment which is Rosh Hashanah have an attitude of that is the strategy Israel don't be a part don't be divided don't break away be United the community the answer to Triumph before Hashem is community the closer the more connected you are to community the more giving it selfless you are in community the more you care and you see and you complement others in community the better shape you're in when Nitza Vim when you'll stand before Hashem and ayom is Rosh Hashanah okay that is the opening moving right along next page warning against idolatry don't serve and worship idols of course loyal remain loyal to Hashem page 10 90 1090 top of the page but the revealed are for us and for our children for us to fulfill for us to perform for us to live by they are for us now we spoke about this I don't remember last year two years ago three years ago we spoke about this public in the past and we gave many many explanations and I'm tempted because they're also great to repeat them every year but we can't do that I might as well just press play so you could listen to the past and this throws the hidden or frashem they revealed are for us and for our children so much to say but I want to just tell you one new shot and that is remember of salivation perspectives we try to offer perspectives from the Rahman we've been bringing a lot of hasidos sort of salavechik sort of by sat from all over from all over sort of salivation says the following the hidden things belong to Hashem but the real things apply to us and to our children forever a special Covenant was made in order to affect the mutual arrivals of all Jews for one another continuing along the theme this Covenant received its expression and the blessings and curses on hargris we are all mutually responsible for one another we are all each other's guarantors we don't live isolated we don't live apart we don't live alone we are in it together brings a marshall we all know it it sounds childish and yet it's so childish that we adults still haven't figured it out you're on a boat together and a person takes out a drill starts to drill a hole under their seat say what are you doing what is going to come in it says mind your business I paid for this seat this is my seat what happens in the seat is my business get out of my way you say are you out of your mind you drill a hole into your seat you might have paid for that seat but the whole boat's going down and that's the attitude that we have to all have in our lives in the way that we care about one another and the way that we support one another but also in recognizing the accountability and responsibility we have on our actions for others there is a trickle-down effect it impacts others for good and for bad we are guarantor as one of the other now the other night I was at a sea of Donny app and I'm going to see him on and he got up and he said you know what inspired mycium on transformation that two years ago I was at the CM of Moshe Winograd on shafts got up and he said you know what inspired me I see him on Shas that ravion 11 the Russian South Florida he makes us see him every year on shots bably and you Rochelle me and you know what inspired you only 11 review everyone out there see him gets up and talks about what inspired they see him and I was just listening and I was just connecting the dots and saying wow whoever made that first see him do they even know they'll get upstairs and Hashem will say shots was finished a billion times because you say I I tried to learn as much as I can I didn't hit a billion they say yeah but you know how many see him and the trickle-down effect when you do something someone watched you dabbing with cabana inside cavana someone saw you be kind and gracious and reach out and be friendly and they were too but the opposite's also true you spoke lashinara and that gave license and permission to the other to gossip and slander you were negative and hypocritical and they joined too you ate the wrong thing they ate the wrong thing you looked at the wrong thing and so on shared suffering Finds Its expression and the awareness of shared responsibility and liability says her salavechik during the Rebellion motion Adam pleaded with Hashem not to punish Allah Hashem agreed and punished only the congregation of korach but after entry into aretz Israel we were held responsible for the sin of our fellow if it is in our power to rebuke him to protest his behavior and induce him to repent a collective responsibility devolves upon the entire Jewish people it's not an excuse to say it's not my business we don't have the luxury of looking the other way we are not entitled to sit on the sidelines if we see something we have to say something if we can get involved in influence and make a difference we have to make a difference the Allah has declared that all Jews are guarantors for one another consequently one has already fulfilled the particular Mythic and still perform the midst of a Jew who has not yet performed it and thereby enable the latter to discharge his obligation one is not himself exempt as long as his fellow Jew is not performed salvation is referencing the gamara elsewhere says somebody's fulfilled the Mitzvah can still fulfill it for another so it's going to come we only hear the chauffeur once this year you know why because one of the days of Rosh Hashanah Shabbos so we only hear the Rosh Hashanah the show for once this year I blow chauffeur before we blow chauffeur we make brochus let's say then I go to my neighbor's house I wasn't able to come to schulen I upload the chauffeur for them they hadn't heard show for yet now it's preferable they make the broccoli themselves let's say they can't can I make the bracha for them I I fulfilled the Mitzvah already isn't that a broccoli aren't I taking hashem's name in vain how can I make the Brock if I already fulfilled the mitzvah by the time I get home on a shop this morning I've made Kiddush five or six times not because I'm a kiddish Hopper goer there are those people too the difference between them and me is I also dab in Shakura said Mustafa and herd laning but why because after I spoke here I made Kiddush then I made the kids and then I made the killers of the next kid so I come home and let's say let's say I had a child who had to be woken for lunch and they hadn't heard kittis yet can I make Kiddush for them it's good to be young can I make Kiddush for them what's the answer yes why I already made Kiddush five times how can I make kiddos for someone else I already fulfilled the Mitzvah so the gamara you fulfilled the Mitzvah no problem you could still be moti someone else Rashi says how does that works because we're guarantor is one for the other still how does that answer the question if I fulfilled the midst how could I be mostly someone else what's the answer as long as there's a yet as long as there's a Jew who's not fulfilled their Mitzvah I have not completely fulfilled mine yes I heard kiddish yes I blue chauffeur yes I heard megilla yes I but if there's a Jew who didn't fulfill their Mitzvah I have not completely fulfilled mine enough so that I can still make a bracha that I can repeat the bracha again that's Arvis that's Arvis that's what it means shared responsibility that's what it means shared responsibilities not merely a theoretical construct censor of salavechik it is also a central fact in the history of the Jewish people in its respect to its relationship to the nations of the world our neighbors have always condemned all of us for the sins of one of us a Jew lands on the front page of the paper and the nations of the world say all Jews are X Y and Z all Jews behave a b and c they've held us accountable one for the other the identification of our actions of an individual with the people at large is a fundamental feature of our history our enemies will not allow the individual to remain isolated in his own private separate sphere they regularly point to the behavior of the individual as a means to indict the entire Community such censure applies only to Jews and not to other nations you don't find in African-American a Hispanic and Asian you don't find somebody else on the cover of the paper and you say all X Y and Z you don't say a Christian a Muslim date in this way all are that way the Jew alone has that bears that responsibility the Commandment of the sanctification of the Divine name the prohibition against desecration can be explained in light of this principle of shared responsibility the actions of the individual are charged at the account of the community any sin this much of the name of the Jewish people in the world the individual must therefore answer not only to his own personal conscience but also to the collective conscience of the people we are responsible one to another you make a Hashem someone sent me a newspaper yesterday someone sent me an article yesterday right about a Orthodox Jewish Hasidic Jew who went to the bank and took out five thousand dollars and went home and counted it and had six thousand so what did he do he went back to the bank and he said I got a thousand too much and the bank said who are you what are you what are you made of where do you come from isn't it amazing people call me sometimes with such a Shyla I ordered on Amazon they sent me two I only paid for one I ordered this they sent me the more expensive better Edition do I have to return do I have to so it's a complicated Allah question because this is a big question it's possible it's permissible to keep it but I always encourage I say call and call and say hi I received the order I got two I only paid for one and as a Torah observant Orthodox Jew my religion tells me the moral thing is to call and to say should I send it back don't just say should I send it back identify yourself use the opportunity to advance the Jewish people the Jewish cause all religion teaches that God wants me to call you and ask you if I have to send it back if I should send it back use it to make a Hashem because when you do that and then an article is positive in the paper everyone says choose a pretty honest that's amazing I want a piece of that and if the article says something else I say Jews are all terrible not as the concept of arrivas says it comes from our Parish bottom of that page well we alluded to a moment ago my friend Abram freed composed a beautiful song from these words this commandment I command you today it's not hidden from you and it's not too distant this is what we saw the amarasara said it's not a command it's an opportunity it's an invitation it's a connection this mitzvah what mitzvah this Mitzvah which mitzvah Torah doesn't say Torah doesn't tell us this Mitzvah whichever one it is that I'm not telling you explicitly but in Mitzvah you should know it's not Beyond you it's not impossible it's not too in the heavens it's not the other side of the sea that you could say how am I going to cross the sea to do it another great friend these are all people have been behind the Beamer you can watch these interviews and learn from them they're great songs from freedaton cats so it's in your mouth and it's in your heart to be able to do this Mitzvah which Mitzvah this Mitzvah which mitzvah foreign to get it but good news you don't need a ladder you could be afraid of heights that's right down near North next to you it's right under your nose and what is it says written in order you know what the Mitzvah is Torah all of Torah learning Torah living Torah Torah Torah that's the that's the Mitzvah in fact say you won't be able to learn Torah if you are too distracted doesn't just mean the heavens what does it mean who thinks they're so high those who are arrogant can mean if you're high can't learn Torah if you're high live Torah if you're high and you can't learn Torah and live Torah if you're too high on yourself if you're too arrogant if you're a sailor if you're a merchant if you travel if you're obsessed and consumed by business you can't learn you can't live Torah but the gemara is learning what's the mitzvahzos those is what's the proof it's toe it's repentance repair return where is this Mitzvah found it's not in the heavens not on the other side of the sea not too far away where is it before in your mouth and in your and in your heart what mix was in your mouth and in your heart true repentance it's in your heart because you will to return how is it in your mouth around my passkins an indispensable part of chuva is you have to confess you have to admit you have to articulate what you did wrong so the acronym ask how could the Unbound on this foreign itself the parsh itself leaves an ambiguous it's mysterious it never spells out what is this Torah so who is to come off saying it's shuva good so listen to this answer it's a beautiful savior quotes from the Native and others the koisenberg similarly a little bonus sitter snippet for you we're already up to the eighth broadcast but going back a couple of the broccoli I want to redeem myself to what come on people you say this broker three times a day Hashem why do I say return me to your Torah that works if where I went wrong is Torah I never learned Torah I distorted Torah I uh perverted Torah as movato Torah so now I understand bring me back to your Torah but what if where I went wrong was not with Torah why is the automatic what does chuba have to do with Torah learn Torah and then do chuva what a Torah and Shiva have to do with one another says the following listen to these words Torah has the ability to repair to purify to purge you cannot do it without Torah why not why is Torah critical to chuva because how do you do a self-reflection how do you do an evaluation what is the mirror you hold up to yourself to know where you went wrong if you don't have the absolute truth of Torah torah's the mirror towards the barometer so is the metric Torah is the measure of knowing we weren't wrong and how do you know what to do to repair what to fix what to improve how to go right if you don't have the formula the blueprint for creation if you don't have the instruction manual to get it right and Torah is the answer so truth is not just some theoretical spiritual lofty I want to be better I want to improve uh you know Kumbaya humanistic Torah the formula Torah the ratsan Hashem the diary of the almighty of the Divine Torah tells us is the is the compass to help us navigate where we went wrong and how we can go right so says explains which is that Torah or the rambamine this foreign what's the answer what does that mean one in the same Torah and two of our one and the same you can't do chuva without the compass of Torah and every contact with Torah should cause you to do chuva every parasha class every day every every time you learn Torah it should cause you to say I want to be better I can be better and now understand this better I'm now empowered and enriched to be better Torah is chuba chuva is Torah there's Al Baza they are one and the same and that's why the Navy oshaya says learning Torah is the way to do and that's why I suggests is beautiful that's why we say every day right now but we foreign and in there we say business I'm not worried if I face enemies struggles battles no matter what I face no matter what adversity I confront I'm not worried why because Bezos in this I Rely what is the Bezos Torah Bezos with all the variables with all the things that change with all the culture and pop culture with all the mores of it with everything that changes in the world the thing that's a constant what I can rely on what I can immerse myself in what protects me is Torah so the rambana this foreign are not disagreeing with the Rashi they all agree what is those what is this Mitzvah that's not in the heavens it's not the other side of the sea it's not so far away it is accessible what is that Mitzvah it is the Mitzvah of Torah it is something fascinating I mentioned the gemara in aravind on hey darshans you won't learn to relive Torah you won't excel in Torah if lotimates it can't be found among the sailors and the merchants you're always traveling and flying in business you're always pursuing and chasing the next deal you're not going to succeed in Torah so there was a great gone he was the great great great grandfather of Rabbi masquotes Adam what did he do for a living he was a big rough they got based in big Russia big Diane [Music] no what was he he was a big businessman he was a big businessman and he never wanted to earn a living he wanted never wanted to take an income from Torah he earned his livelihood from the business that he did and he wrote them and he wrote it all over the mission we quoted all over and we passed him all the time so I how could revolve from Danza consider himself a post sake how can he consider himself worthy of Having learned Torah to teach Torah to pass in Torah to author Torah he was a traveling businessman a merchant I thought the gemara darshan's Loma Everly yam they can't succeed in Torah if you're going to be in business so you know who answers it em himself in his introduction here's what he writes listen up business people alive he says I know what you're all going to say I'm publishing this safer and the critics the haters they're all going to say this businessman this person who earned the living traveling for 15 years Frankfurt Leipzig is when did he learn Torah whenever he's writing who did he plagiarize and if he's writing does it have any Authority who is he to write this to author this my brother when I traveled long distances it was not pursuing wealth God forbida do not call the almighty himself can testify raccoon isi I was just trying to earn a living I wasn't chasing wealth I just wanted to get by the urushi foreign that there was a a pandemic and epidemic that was coming and he fell asleep on his safer and his mother came and woke him and she said you should know this epidemic is coming need to leave the city he revealed that everyone was saved he never benefited from Torah I lost him he had 10 children he supported all his children by earning a living and he nevertheless always was teaching inspiring through Torah about success so that's my masora my great zaida my great Zeta went around speaking and preaching and teaching and inspiring and he never took a penny for it he earned the living and he supported his 10 children his family with it and that's my masora basis I don't chase money I don't pursue money I don't count money I earn enough to take care of my family I don't want to take money for Torah but I've earned it and I've will testify it's never impacted or influenced or distorted or compromised my ability to learn and my ability to publish this safer enjoy so it's all based on our passage don't get too occupied and preoccupied with your occupation testifies even though I earned a living it was not I never got confused between earning a living and living never get confused between earning a living and living he says I never got confused and therefore the safer is worth publishing and the safer is worth learning foreign look see observe I've placed before you today the life and the good and the death and the evil yeah that which I've command you to follow on hashem's ways in his footsteps Hashem will bless you but if you'll get distracted if you'll turn away I promise you today you will be destroyed you will be eliminated they have an earth testified life and death are placed before you a blessing and curse [Music] choose life Moshe says I'm telling you I promise you I'm giving you two choices the two lives you could live I'm begging you I'm pleading with you choose life choose life you got a lot to say on this choose life I get criticized if everybody said like nobody said they're all like they're all holy they're all holding says the girl somewhere sorry bear with me oh how time brings the name of the group knocked down an introduction to liquite why does it say you the individual c foreign but you need to know that everyone around you is not doing it if everyone around you is abandoned it if everyone around you is violating the Torah Ray still look you the individual Hashem is entering this Covenant with you he still has expectations of you he still needs you he still loves you so says the gra that's why it's in the singular so every singular individual realizes it's for each and every one of us foreign it's not that they each present themselves equally before me and I can stay in neutral and from the position of neutral I can choose life or I can choose death now what does the plastic mean it means death is the default I need to choose life if I want to be offsetting death if you're not going up you're going down where do you see that in the world Glasgow didn't bring this muscle but others do everything in the world is a muscle all of goshness is all of every truth in the physical world is a Glimpse an Insight is a muscle for a truth in the metaphysical world so you'll say why can't I just hold this cup foreign I want to hold this cup over here what should happen when I Let Go should stay where it is we'll go higher won't go lower won't go sideways won't go the other way I'm not going to show you because it's still filled with water but if I let go should stay where it is instead what happens a little something cold gravity Ah that's not so logical why should the default be that it falls no one cares about your logic your logic is not what's true what's true is the principle of gravity and just like physically everything is going down and you need to exert effort to fight gravity to lift it so so too in this world rookie is spiritually everything is being brought down or being tempted and seduced and distracted we're being compromised and corrupted and contaminated everything's being brought down unless we're fighting to lift it to give it meaning to give it purpose and to give it hype and that's why nickel it doesn't mean they present equally whichever one you want and if not you could stay in neutral mothers is the default death is the default unless you are choosing life Cesar of Moshe writes for Moshe Feinstein therefore the posix says over and over again we keep talking about today I got it today not yesterday not tomorrow I got it why do we keep repeating today because every day you gotta fight gravity you can't say I fought Gravity yesterday today I want to live gravity free there is no gravity free unless you go to outer space you don't have we don't have the right we don't have the chance we don't have the opportunity you can't say I'm tired I fought spiritual Gravity yesterday so today I'm just going to be in neutral there is no gravity free in spirituality so therefore if you're not the default is your choosing Mavis and a person has to be careful says we're getting the hang of that foreign if you ever feel tempted distracted seduced to indulge some Instinct that's not good for you you want to eat unhealthy food you want to look at what's going to corrupt your soul you want to speak slander gossip of others so what are you supposed to do isaatov to defeat the eight Sahara was able to overtake the Atara good but what happens if not wasn't enough Torah if it worked good if not rich ma that worked fantastic if not contemplate your mommy said day of death there's a girl that says that's the shot in the pasta we say every morning there are many thoughts on the heart of a person sakum deciding whether to tell you over my joke about this but every time I have I take my life into my own hands I hope my sons-in-law are not listening the baby's crying in the middle of the night and the father and the mother are debating who has to wake up who wants to take care who has to give the Bible us to change the diaper Hashem says she should wake up no that's not the shot in the possible you don't have to send me the emails he should get up he should do everything 100 fine but says the Gras we have a lot of Viet Sahara it's the age of the atsr there's Billboards and cookies and pop-ups and there's an Angela's Mighty and strong Fierce ferocious more than it's ever been it's a Horrors Misa Dragon Torah if that doesn't work and that doesn't work contemplate the day of death contemplate our mortality contemplate that little we're here on Earth and we never know and can predict what the day will bring back up on the office so I understand if the third answer so skip right to it right if that's the most effective if that's the nuclear option go right to it why do you have to first go through it's a Tove Torah Christian I'll just go right to it and the answer is because foreign it's very sad contemplate mortality think about the day of death that's so sad that's so down who wants that so we only do it if there's no alternative it's the nuclear option only if we've exhausted every other one and that's the shot in the pasak is there are things I'm giving you the tools how to fight the Atara this is but if that doesn't work that if that doesn't work then there is yamamisa as the final alternative as the last resort but only as the only as the last resort possible choose free will revolver writes on these words then we've got to save a few minutes gotta do something from purchase by your left foreign the most Elementary aspect of Free Will is people have the ability to choose to save themselves from Death in this world and the next and throughout the generations listen to this Insight by by uh Reverb he writes and he writes it as well in His image he writes he says throughout the generations there have been all kinds of heresy and I shouldn't even just I should save this because it's not a throwaway at the end of a parsh this year so I'm going to say it but I'm going to repeat it and when I repeat it know that I know I said it and now that we agree to that here it goes so revolver writes throughout the generations there have been all kinds of heresy heresy and God heresy in the Jewish people heresy and our chosen this heresy and truth there's all kinds of heresies but you know when we're living through we're living through a new heresy and is the heresy that denies free will it's a clearer that says that people don't have choices don't blame them it's their upbringing it's their genetics it's the way the mother treated them it's the way the father spoke to him come lie on the couch tell me everything nothing's your fault you're not accountable you're not responsible there's no merit-based system to get in anywhere there's no merit-based system or wipe out debt there's no merit-based system we want to arrest you if you're shoplift because it's not your fault it's the neighborhood you grew up in it's the parents that you had it's your genetics that you were born with and all of that takes away your free will so how can we hold you accountable if you have no free will says Revolt but all of this is Akira he didn't even see any of it what I just described he passed away already a long time ago he didn't see the learning shoplifters run around and eliminating Merit base to get into college all everything that we're living through today he didn't see and yet in his time he wrote about you have to it takes Faith to believe there's such a thing called hate faith in the whole institution of sin like why is anyone Ever Accountable why is anyone ever accountable you know someone shared with me I shouldn't say I should save this for an article for another someone just shared with me someone did something that that hurt them and they called them out on it and the person said basically as a way of excuses I'm doing the best I can and the person said to me said this is just the new thing that can offset everything from now on forever like you know you murdered my loved one I'm doing the best I can you stole my money you hit my car you took my job I'm doing the best and that's like to get out of jail free card I'm doing the best I can if you knew my upbringing if you knew what I face if you know what I that doesn't we should I spend a lot of time talking about sympathy empathy Compassion Care love support all of that we have to offer all that provide all that but at the end of the day there is no world there are no relationships there are no people if there's no free will Free Will of the building block of Life natural Volva says this the whole process it's all about you can't believe in Yom Kippur if you don't believe in we are responsible for our actions we can be accountable for our actions they mean something they mean something it's not a get out of jail free I'm doing the best that I can it's not gonna get out it deserves a lot more but that is the Insight of Reverb okay I had more I wanted to tell you but let's just get over to purchase let's say something I have to say something available went and he said all these things to the Jewish people throwback took the Great Road says so the question is where'd he go emotion was off where was he off too where was the destination what did he plug into Waze or Google Maps whatever your choice where did he go Viola where'd he go so the target medicine says he went where'd he go Le mishkan based ulfana he went to the basement he went to the owl base majors and he shared all this from there he went to the basement and shared all this from there expands on this says we're not sure where he went one opinion the others um he went to say goodbye it was the end of his life it was the end of his ears he went on a goodbye tour Viola he went he went 40 days says 40 days before a person dies the nashama already begins to exit it already begins to be extracted it already begins to ascend but already began to exit it already began to ascend it already began to go the clyaka is a different shot I wanted to get into this we don't have time how do you read this Moshe says to them I'm 120 years 120 today I can't continue to come and gosh Hashem said I'm not going in so is this all one sentence does it all go together is it broken into separate parts come back to the druk maybe another year Moshe says three things in this process he says 120 I can't come and go anymore and hashem's not letting me into the yard date so Rashi says one of them is an explanation for the other when he said I can't go over the yard then I'm not going into Israel the reason I can no longer go is not because I'm weak but Hashem is not giving me permission to go in my going and coming is over because I'm allowed to go in forced retirement so I'm done other commentators learn the last two were really two separate statements and besides the fact that he was physically weak let's say Hashem also didn't allow him in I'm old I'm retired I can't go and come anymore and also I'm not allowed to go in so are these all one sentence cause and effect are they separate svarna explains all three the words Vanessa Moshe was telling them not to be said about my death because bateva a person dies nobody's Immortal no one lives forever I'm 120 and it's natural I'm going to die and says this far now what do you see from here what does the maximum one can live 120 then in other words Moshe is saying even if I had continued to live I would not be able to continue as your leader and finally and Hashem said to me I can't cross the yard Dane and even if I could continue to be a leader Hashem said I can't enter the yarding so it's clear from this for now the three statements are independent but why did Moshe have to introduce them by saying I'm 120. so people say to each other some people write a letter so-and-so we wish another happy birthday should live to 120. it sounds even better in the Yiddish we say and that's the old joke what do you say to somebody on their 120th birthday have a good day have a nice day where did such a thing come from where did it come from until 120 So based on the Toronto it could be you learn it from here Moshe was hinting this is the max rev Weinfeld shlita says he has another source at the end of precious braces their mysterious sukum a urban area so there are non-rabbinic sources that suggest Hashem but a cap on human life a person can't live past 120 but it's difficult to understand because there are people who did left past 120 notably such as who lived past 120 Russia explains the pasok that 120 it's complicated but Russia explains the possibly the marble is going to come in 120 years but according to this explanation it's referring to putting a cap on human life so how do you understand that people live past 120 are they really human is there a piece of them that is beyond human so what does it mean the bracha 220 are we saying they shouldn't have passed 120 we're out of time but anyway remind felt there's a whole essay on this I wanted to get into where did he go person's never done the last day of his life could be on the last day of your life but you got to be moving the angel stands still the human being is going perhaps moshe's greatest act of being Rabino our teacher is he was never done he was never finished he was always on the move but we saw cilanter once walked by a tailor who's working deep into the night and he said you know what time it is but he's still working and he said as long as the flame of the candle flickers this work to be done to learn from there as long as the candle flickers does work to be done as long as one is alive there's work to be done there's work to be done and then we have the end of the past the 613th Commandment write a say for Torah but how is writing a safer Torah given to us right doesn't say for Torah what is the Torah called a why is the Torah called the song I had such beautiful ideas you'll have to come next year have a fantastic day don't forget it's like Tuesday night Tuesday night we have the anger management eight o'clock tomorrow night tomorrow morning you got 10 minutes of meeting live with the Muna and tomorrow night we have Robinson uh tourski we also have uh tomorrow night behind the beam out with David fishoff anyone doesn't know David fischoff you're gonna find it a fantastic fantastic conversation stay happy stay healthy and stay healthy have a great day