Parsha Perspectives for Today (Tzav, 5783) - Keep the Fire Going

good morning and bokarto welcome back to partial perspectives for today I want to thank as always our generous Parsha series sponsors Becky and Navi cats and family in memory of David Grossman Lila nishmas David Ben menachemonish we say that every single week not only when his daughter-in-law and Grandson are here but welcome it's great to have you from Eric Cicero thank you for being here this morning she is also sponsored by Yanina and Gordon Haas in memory of Union's father Hyman lifeman who's your site is tomorrow Zion Nissan thank you so much for your generosity we have the privilege of the Shabbos Shabbos the great Shabbos of learning and reading page 568 in the Arts girl Stone command Aaron and his son saying this is the law of the Corbin Allah this is the law of the elevation offering the Corbin Ola which is entirely consumed on the altar it stays in the flame all night until the morning until it's entirely burnt until it is entirely consumed we're not going to spend time we have previously you could find it in previous year and the word Sav as more we don't find that word so often rash he tells us when we see that word Sav employed it is to remind us it is an illusion a Hint it evokes a sense of Zero's alacrity Zeal enthusiasm don't be lazy or lethargic don't sit back and procrastinate but trying to inspire the conim to embrace this mitza to go run and to do it immediately and ladoros in perpetuity give it to Generations to come why would I think the Quran would hesitate we're talking about the kohanim we have a traditional gamara regularly refers to kohanim as zurism they're people who act with alacrity so why do they need to be instructed give an extra special command light a fire under the condom why would they hesitate why would they be reluctant arashi tells us because it costs them anytime you have to spend your own money anytime you have to look in your wallet or bank account or see what it's going to cost you how much is the matzah how much is the Coachella pesacha whatever so you need you need a little bit of a of a little push so why is that what was the customer kiss over here carbonola was a carbon Seaborn Conan didn't pay for it so how did it cost them why'd they have to look in their wallet where'd that cost come from you could listen to the previous years we discussed that at length I'm going to jump right over to the clear the cliocor later and Patrick's Day and possible points back and says no less than five times five times in our pressure we have this expression in introducing a phrase this is the Torah this is the law why does it appear five times you don't have to be the clayucker to play word association here five times it says this is the Torah alluding to thank you Torah because five books of the Torah five times zostoras this is the law how is corresponds with the book of gracious I'm not going to do the work for you I'm going to deposit the kliakar's idea and give you homework what is the connection between a carbon Ola this elevation offering is entirely consumed on the Altar and the Book of gracious safer shmos is like the carbon Monica the flower offering is like a sin offering severeign so why what do each have to do with the other what's the correlation what is the deeper connection why would we say those the five correspond with the carbonos that is homework for you to uh to do on your own but a fascinating fascinating connection the beautifulness safer the emeros I'm going to get his name correct I'm going to pronounce it eventually correctly it's a tongue twister but he quotes he brings down from the ocean those stories what happens was destroyed we don't have carbonos but we seek the same closeness the root of the word carbon is we want to draw close to Hashem we don't have the same means we don't have the same mechanism we don't have a base so how do we draw close how do we achieve atonement or kapara what do we do we can still bring in hola zeros the carbonola was given not only immediately so the Jewish people who received that command could fulfill it on the spot immediately it wasn't only miyad it was also the dodos for generations to come that when we can no longer enact in Behavior we can no longer bring the carbonos when we read them we recite them when we learn them it is as if we've done them so learning Torah learning Torah we learn these torahs of the carbonas these torahs of these parshyas we learned when we learn Torah in general Ola that's how we Elevate ourselves we transcend the physical world we transcend that animal impulse and animal Instinct we transcend the here and now and we make contact with the eternity and immortality when we study when we learn Torah we open these books and these words come alive and we access the ultimate truth the blueprint of creation the manual for Meaningful living we engage the words of the Divine when we read ashram's Diary we transcend the physical the here and now it's a carbon Ola We Elevate above the here and now this teaching when do the kohanam need a little extra alacrity a little extra fire a little extra push when do they need it in a place that when there is an expense I knew who's the one who said that teaching tells us a famous mahalokus a famous debate is over there Torah only or Torah end should we sit and learn live in poverty be Indigent be supported by others rely on others but learning Torah is the best exact learning Torah is the only exact learning Torah is the very definition of life it is everything it is the only thing so there's no toe to end there's no Torah IM no torrents just Torah just Torah or or should we do Torah and paranasa Torah end in education Torah and malacha so who's the one who says only Torah no Torah end no Torah IM only Taurus it's the greatest said you know once you start getting occupied and preoccupied with earning a living if you're plowing in the plowing season and you're planting in the planting season and you're harvesting in the harvesting season and then it becomes the plowing season what's going to be you always have the next deal the next client the next customer the next business the next parnassa responsibility that is so it doesn't matter that you're going to be poverty you're going to be you're going to be living with little still told us what there is a alternative opinion and we poskin like not rep shimen reposkin what we pass in that many tried and they failed and that we have to combine Torah learning with Torah living and applying it in the world and providing for ourselves and that's what Hashem wants us to do verb shiman is the same as it says over here the Torah mate today when we have nobody is equivalent to the corbinola is by sitting and learning full-time sitting and learning full-time you know what that's going to cost you chastron kiss now if you have a father and a father-in-law a grandfather a grandfather-in-law who's supporting you while you're learning full-time it's their Quest from Kiss not yours but the truth is long time Learners full-time Learners you're giving up the possibility of pronouncing education or the income that you could be and that's the same with Shimon he says the same is the one who's telling us that because there's a custom kiss it needs a little tab it needs Lush on lotions there is this because you're going to be giving something up you're going to be moving something up okay my turn is we speak about them is had an unusual feature even though the sacrifices were not being offered and burnt and uh elevated Around the Clock nevertheless the fire uh the eternal life ensures we replicate this we have a near tummid that's burning regularly the fire can't go out the corners are Kindle the wood upon it every morning and prepare the Olympics and burn the fats of the shlum we cannot allow it to go out it must remain lit it must remain lit all the time it must remain lit all the time revolver points out something very interesting on this possum we know that the human being is compared to a fire okay we know that because when we think of a soul but we think of a person who is no longer this place person observes the yard side they light a candle khalila person said Shiva they light a seven-day candle why because the nesham is captured in a flame there are so many similarities we've shared so many times the flame flickers it always flickers up no matter which direction you hold the candle you can point the candle down but the flame always Rises up just like the nashama no matter which direction you hold the Goof the body is drawn to this world the material the physical pleasures of this world the animal pleasures of this world the base pleasures of this world but the soul always flickers up the soul always yearns the soul is always climbing it's flickering it's always trying to rise to go higher and higher just like the flame of a candle you can't grab it you can't hold it but you know it's there it's undeniable because you feel it's warmth and you benefit from its light similarly the soul of a person once it's been extracted from the body can't bottle you can't grab on it's not tangible but you could feel the warmth and you can benefit from the illumination and the light then the soul of a person is like the flame like the light of a candle and just like the fire on them is bear can never go out the fire in our lives can never go out it must burn we have to be on fire we have to remain on fire we can never ever let that fire in US be extinguished revolver points out on this possible something's very interesting he said in all of the fields of study science mathematics history think of all of the fields of study the question is what is it what is it let's define our terms let's offer a hypothesis and test it let's prove a theory what is it but the Torah doesn't answer the question what is it the Torah addresses the question what does it have to do with me the Torah is not only concerned theoretically and conceptually academically and in the abstract what is it how do we Define it the Torah and the here and now in this world and in this life the Torah says what's my relationship what does this mean for me how do I connect to it and that's so critically important in many ways that is the very definition of what Torah is what's Torah is not academic it doesn't remain in your head they say about Aristotle who once acted terribly immorally and was confronted that he was contradicting his own his own ethics and morality and he's responded he said I'm Aristotle from the neck up my brain my head philosophically from the neck up several years ago there was a professor in an Ivy League College who was a professor one of the world's experts on the issue of the philosophy of morality who engaged in absolute immoral Behavior with his students and in the University because when something remains academic and conceptual and abstract and philosophical when we say I am moral in my from the neck up it doesn't filter it's not absorbed it doesn't Inspire it doesn't inform who I am it doesn't transform who I am then what is it that's not Torah that's not Torah that's why it says Torah um when it comes to Torah there's Torah in the world means there's wisdom this tremendous wisdom but the wisdom that transforms that mold that shapes that is Torah is different so says revolba if we were to ask a scientist what is fire we'd get a detailed answer of fires properties it's gas that's about all I know about fire I've just exhausted my knowledge I don't know what's the temperature of fire and the fuel of fire the gas of Fire what else we've got some smart people actually in this room that's all that we know but the Torah on the other hand says regarding the relationship we have with fire fire is one of the dalit of the zikan we have four meta categories of Damages and fire is one of them a person has to watch over their coals watch over their fire we're responsible for the damage of fire the fire travels the damages elsewhere but if I ignite it or lit the fire started under my watch then I'm responsible I have to compensate for that damage there are Mitzvahs that are done with fire such as our partials you have to have a fire burning in this bag all the time you have to light the candles for Shabbos you have to light the Abdullah candle on mozai Shabbos next week or La basar Tuesday night we're gonna light a candle too search for the Comets the other bookend pesach begins and ends with fire it begins with fire we use the candle to search and it ends with fire we use a candle again to search for the memory and The Souls of our loved ones through yusker who are no longer here that was a little mini usage Russia For You So Fire has many Mitzvahs fire appears in many places in a ritual in our Torah and what revolve is pointing out is that the Torah doesn't say what is fire you won't find a section of narrative and Torah that says let's examine the properties of Fire Let's Define fire what we say is what is the relationship with fire where does fire come into our lives what is the symbolism of fire how can fire Inspire us to be on fire and this also holds true with Hashem the Torah doesn't tell us okay we're going to Define Hashem let's prove let's bring evidence for the existence of Hashem the Torah says what's your relationship with Hashem do you feel his presence do you talk to him do you love him do you invest in him do you surrender to him we don't simply say them we emulate them we imitate them comes from the word means an instruction we don't have a knowledge which is abstract and academic and conceptual then we close the book and we leave it on the shelf and now we go live the lives that we want Torah is what informs our life I've said this now several times this phrase and I still reserve the right to expand upon it somewhere sometime but I heard this great expression that we don't read and learn and study for information we read and learn and study for transformation that's the difference if you're learning Torah for information it's Torah it's just knowledge it's just information it's just facts it's just data by definition be studied not for information but for transformation in many ways that's what we're going to do next week and maybe I'm foolishly giving away what could be a pesach Russia so I'll stop there but the Seder night is not about transferring information the state of night is about experiencing and creating a setting for transformation and of the next morning you woke up with a lot of information it was an unsuccessful seder I don't care how thick your haggada is how many gematrias and vortlock and highfalutin lambdas and crazy questions or what time your state are finished early in the wee hours of the morning if all it did was promote information it was a failure the entire seder is a platform for transformation so revolver just happens on this plastic to offer this Insight is that we're not interested in defining fire that's not what the Torah is Torah is it's an instruction for not information but transformation and that has to inform our classroom and ask to inform the greatest classroom our children have which is our homes we're so busy today with trying to transfer information memorize facts names dates people spit it back spit it back spit it back spin it back so we have zombies who can spit back incredible amounts of information but do they feel it do they have a relationship with Hashem they could tell you all these things about Usher have they ever spoken to him have they ever heard him speaking to them also has a comment here he points out just uh factually the mission of us the fifth paragobah says that one of the Miracles associated with that rain never extinguished this fire because you'll say ashram is back to Carlos we've had so little water rain I came out last night I was at an event and it was raining and I just forgot what that was like I was like what is this what's happening oh yeah sometimes water falls from the sky we've I don't know if you know because we have indoor plumbing and we think we're we never have a problem but in Florida we have a major drought we've barely had any rain this winter and we have a major problem but it rains so you'll ask that is how can I take responsibility for making sure the fire in the altar never goes out what happens if it rains what happens if it rains so mishna tells us among the Miracles the 10 Miracles that happen daily in the base on nitash now you understand why the destruction of a basement is so destructive to us because the year the Jew who woke up with doubt or uncertainty made their way to the basement and they saw Miracles before their eyes and they said you know whatever's going on in my life whatever distance I'm feeling whatever doubt I'm having there's something bigger than me there's something that makes more sense the destruction of the based on miktash meant not only no place to bring carbonos to achieve capara it meant no place to witness and experience and feel those Miracles empirically so one of the Miracles was the rain never extinguished the fire clearly says the rub there was no roof over the altar of the Azar in the Azara for otherwise this would not have been a miracle at all was under a roof was under a roof it could not be under a roof because the smoke needed to rise upward since the Miz back was not under a roof was exposed to the elements it was a miracle that the rain never extinguished the flame that burned on it so the rough points out the very fact that it was considered a miracle that the rain never put it out means it was exposed to the elements and the fire continued to burn nonetheless seems to be a very repetitive and redundant a fire a permanent fire should remain on the altar it should never ever be extinguished we have a tradition I think I spoke about it last year Matthew Miller the wonderful great friend young man who helps me clip or did I tell her I think he put out a clip of this yesterday today that last year we mentioned the slow ready we're going to repeat it and expand upon it Otoro remember last week I complained the Halo got mahaber the incredible author of this safer Zuckerman sent me a copy it only sent me a copy he wrote the most beautiful inscription to the copy so I want to publicly express my akar satov I love the safer and many have mentioned that they purchased it you see Viagra you see how it's not just that he sent me the safer he paid the postage I can't imagine what the postage was on this safer oh it's a plus I told it's an amazing amazing safer I get no royalties I did get the Viagra volume for free writes the following matsace writes this is his language despair distance from Hashem person is feeling tempted to indulge the yet Sahara you're tempted to watch or listen to or go or say or do something you shouldn't you know what you have to say stop and repeat this Mantra this plastic over and over again gotta keep the fire lit I'm not letting it go out I'm not going off my diet I'm not missing this day of exercise I'm not breaking my streak I'm not getting angry I'm not repeating this lashinara or gossip I'm not missing a minion I'm not taking the lazy way out with Chris malamita no way no way why because this fire ain't going out there's no way I'm letting me be extinguished when I push it says who is the one who's the old man who told the ramakromotion who's the old man who told him this tradition this Mantra this meditation it was none other than but he's very modest very humble you don't want to reveal foolish ideas person with foolish thoughts person who has fantasies thoughts distractions Temptations over and over again the nearby says you'll roar like a lion you'll come roaring back I love the image because the schlach and even earlier than him we're going back to the ramakan earlier this notion this new age idea that you sit and you meditate and you have mantras there are a million apps that you could download right now that give you these meditations these mantras and you can repeat them and you can bring calm and quiet and comfort we don't need that if they're tools that help you God bless it's wonderful I don't know if anyone has yet but someone should create the Jewish meditation app where you sit and repeat you breathe these are our traditions this is our Torah what happens is when we see it happening in the secular world and the more that it's unfamiliar to us we think it's Eastern religions or we think it's some new age idea so we recoil and we say ah it's not us that is us get to mincha five minutes early and sit and say each time close your eyes and do some deep breathing and see before you this possum and repeat and picture the fire inside your neshama that's raging that's burning sometimes it's dialed down and you barely have a spark and other times it's roaring like a huge fire but sit and have that image or the fire that is on the shama and repeat the Mantra and don't dismiss it because we weren't raised with it could you imagine if before you opened your hummus imagine if in school in Yeshiva before you open the sitter and began davening they would train us to actually take some deep breaths restore our nashama with nishima call on the shama talaka nashima let's do it we're going to spend 30 seconds and take a few breaths we're gonna picture this image and we're going to repeat this phrase and now that we're grounded and centered and now that we've eliminated those distractions now let's stop it now let's learn now imagine you're looking at me like I just landed from another planet but I'm on the planet schla I'm on the planet ramak ramosha Cordova and then he quotes this we quoted last year but don't say Torah as only he does digs up from everywhere on the planet I mean he writes if a person has an immoral thought they're about to breach a boundary of promiscuity or morality stop and repeat over and over again protect me from anything there protect me from myself protect me from this urge protect me from distractions you know what this is telling me I spoke about Allah I think two championships ago I don't remember but we spoke about the notion that there is a moment between the urge and the action we make the mistake of thinking that when the urge Rises it immediately leads to the action I have a urge to snack I'm a next thing you know I'm the bottom of the bag of Cape Cod potato chips and there was never a break there was never a moment there was never a pause between and one of the methods that is highly suggested is to learn and to realize and to embrace the idea to sit on the urge now if the urge remains a minute five minutes later and you say you know what takes a legitimate appetite I'm hungry I'm craving something it's legitimate it's healthy it's warranted and it's in the right amount of time it's the right amount of volume at the right time the knee but if you sit on the urge for a moment and then you realize you know it's not legitimate it's not a craving that's legitimate this is the wrong time and it's the wrong thing I crave and I don't need it and I don't need it on my way to bed there is a pause there is a moment between the urge and the action and that's what the schla and that's what the rabbi Rebellion are telling us they're just telling it to us differently how do you find that pause because imagine every time you had this craving 12 o'clock at night I'm speaking about asking for a friend you are just craving 12 o'clock at night for the Cape Cod potato chips at the craving great at night for the Trader Joe's corn chips but he said you know before I eat them I'm going to save them five times and then you realized you know there was a moment between the craving and the being in the bottom of the bag of the chips because you said Vanessa Martin five times the Hitler got a belly mouth told you to and now at the end of saying it five times you realized is talking about the chips I don't need it I don't need it right now I don't need it at this time so that pause what what again it all comes look in our tone it's all there we have wonderful wisdoms today that give us new language modern vocabulary to communicate these ideas that are accessible to us but always draw it back goes to our Torah had it long before it's all in the Torah that's the Moshe codivera belly melach they're saying between the urge and the action say apoc find the pasok create a mantra adopt a meditation and if you adopt a meditation or a mantra you thought you were coming for the partial shirt you didn't realize it was a motivational seminar neither did I until I started speaking in between the urge and the action adopt a mantra or meditation you'll create that positive change your life you ever hear her you have an urge open Messages Marcos learn of shrika Marcos Marcos is gamatra here so he quotes all these different individuals to say something adopt something between the urge and the action and you'll find much greater self-control in your life beautiful amazing idea possum test back to the parsh this year paragraph passing tests Aaron and his sons will eat what is left of it eaten unleavened in a holy place in the courtyard on the tenth of the meeting we're talking about which carbon right now it was a very unusual way that they withdrew the flower and they threw it in the fire and what was left of it they were allowed to eat matzos in a holy Place matzah in a holy place to save her back to the emeros tahoras he caused from the helicopter because we're talking not about the ant of a pesach we're talking about a carbon Monica which was bought with many loaves most of which were matzah and the mats has to be eaten in a holy place that's the Posse says before you can eat matzah you have to enter a holy Place make sure that your home that your life that you are in a holy place before the matzah enters before you go into pesach before you eat the matzah also what does the plastic say where must it be eaten how can we eat our matzah again this is talking about the carbon America not pesach how can we eat our matzah because if we transform our home to a makam kadosh our home becomes the omoid our home and place that becomes you shalim if you look at the first all the laws of the karma and eating in the home the same laws that the carbonos had about the boundaries and you can't go out and eat it outside we're true of the home the home took on the took on the rules the laws the criteria of the Temple of the base of our home is each one of us our home becomes that place of Holiness that comes that place of Holiness posix says that uh the targam says that while we were yet in mid-sayam Hashem took us on the wings of eagles to yerushalayim what does that mean literally he transported us to yushalayim the airport wasn't on strike we were able to go he says not the target what it means is if a person if a yid comes to the Seder table with the right preparation and the right mentality no matter where you are geographically in the world that seder table you are transported to yerushalayim it is the status of yerushalayim for that meal and in that place now the Aliyah snobs don't have to all email me I know it doesn't compare it isn't yushalayan that's where we belong that's where we have to go it's not if it's when we all make Aliyah and I mean that seriously but metaphysically the mentality is that pesach night seder Knight Royal and Regal seder Knight Hashem Has Lifted us on the wings of eagles and all of us wherever we are around that state of the table that is the status of then offers a second interpretation is when you eat the matzah it turns you into a holy person into a holy place and the third interpretation is you see that the prerequisite in your mouth if your mouth is Unholy if your mouth gossips and Slanders if your mouth uses nibble pair if your mouth uses inappropriate language if your mouth is Unholy then how could you put the matzah in an Unholy place you should eat in a holy place means the holy place your mouth should be a holy place where the matzah is placed so here we have Hashem spoken to the offering of Aaron and his sons they had to offer on the day they were inaugurated what happened on the day they were inaugurated this is also in our Parsha the smearing of the oil the consecrated and Sanctified with oil which saw an article Jerusalem Post Charles he's the king now where he's becoming the king he is the king but he didn't have yet his inauguration his installation coronation thank you so they apparently they use oil the British Monarchy to coronate the king and where do you think that oil is coming from Jerusalem they bring oil from Jerusalem the Mount of Olives where do you think they got that from to coronate with oil from the holy Place Jerusalem that's where they get it from lahavdil or kohanim and arkalem of the miktas or coronated similarly with a with a oil with an oil so iron and his sons are coronated they're serving they are inaugurating and they have to bring a special offering series a tenth AFA fine flower as a continual meal offering half in the morning half in the evening it's made on a pan with oil it's fried delicious like a malachas repeatedly baked meal offering broke into pieces offering a satisfying Aroma for Hashem and the coin from his son who was anointed in his place he performs it entirely caused to go up in smoke it shall not be eaten said Moshe Feinstein is Josh Moshe says Ramos the coin god all has to bring a daily personal unique individual sacrifice called the individual sacrifice person made a mistake sometimes the carbon ashram person has to under certain circumstances bring a slum and bring in Allah we have carbonate that the community offers a communal sacrifice like the carbon tamed this is the carbon of a coin goddel the coin godo brings his own carbon daily called the Min why why every day it's enough you inaugurated you coronated you celebrated he was installed as the coin goddal so bring a special carbon to mark that occasion and to mark your position of Distinction why does it bring a carbon every day Dr Mission Josh Moshe according to go to Turkey hashers he brings a carbon every day because his unique position of Distinction is renewed each and every day it's never owned it's only borrowed whoever you think you are whatever you think you've accomplished whatever role you think you have whatever recognition you think you receive it could disappear in a moment it is alone from Hashem it is not permanent every day you wake up and you are privileged to be a leader in the Jewish people it is a gift from above and bring a carbon and say thank you thank you sometimes it's birha sagoma but you say thank you say thank you every day what a gift it is to be a leader to be the coin godo so you don't make him the coin goddal once and now that the coin godo has been coronated on his throne he is permanently in that position forever so he brought a carbon once and said thank you no shine he's done kind of brought a daily carbon to wake up and remember every day I'm not better I'm not elevated on the superior it would maintain his humility to bring that daily carbon and remember every day that I have the privilege to serve in this position is a gift from above and Iran's ability from above he could be impeached and overturned by the people or the ribonac something could arise within him that would make him ineligible so every day you wake up and you say I'm still eligible I could still do this job wow what a gift you're a public speaker you're a rough I mean do you wake up and you say my voice works so what would happen Hallelujah God forbid what would happen if a person was struck with an illness that they lost their voice how could they continue to fulfill that profession or career that they love and that's true in every area of Life the gift we're given daily never take it for granted never ever ever feel entitled never feel it's assumed it is always on loan from Hashem and that is the deeper meaning says the daily sacrifice of the coming was this isn't permanent any day you could wake up with a mum and it's all over any day they can impeach you and it's all over every day you wake up with the privilege to be the coing garden bring a carbon and say thank you thank you that's true not only for the coin godo that's true for anyone in their positions of distinctions in life days flying through the pressure now we're up to the slum which safer did that correspond with that was right I think we're up to the which is the Karbonn one of the forms of a common is a carbon Toda um the sacrifice of Thanksgiving thank you Hashem one before it was a song it was a carbon yeah thank you Hashem so Corban Todo when did you bring this carbon Toda so the measures tells us the major shrava loss and lava Kola karbonnas Battalion the carbon Toda Eno bottle in the future all carbonus will be nullified but the carbon Torah will still be offered quality all prayers will be will be nullified but the Thanksgiving prayer will still be recited brings that this is permanent gratitude gratitude is forever will never be done we're never finished it's never complete we'll never be nullified writes we say we don't have the carbon Toyota today who brought the carbon Toda there are four individuals who brought a Corbin Toda they were who were the four individuals who brought the carbon total we have an acronym for it so what's the acronym somebody who successfully crossed over the sea someone was released from prison someone who healed from an illness and someone was released from prison and the acronyms has to thank Hashem they would bring this carbon today but we invoke it we reference it every day not on Arab pesach because it wasn't what is it we recite the little perak the little Capitol Capitol cuff so the Mahaba says something very interesting he says mismo the soda should not be said it should be song um all of the prayers all of the prayers and all of the songs will be canceled but this is mismar It's a song it should be song it will never be canceled I haven't seen it imagine tomorrow morning we give a clap and chakras and sings like it's more soda good luck they'll have to bench Como and bring the carbon Toda if he survives if you try singing mismo so then sure and a regular chakras so maybe the khazan's not going to lead us in a Karbach singing of mismo the soda but each of us in an undertone a little Negan a little song wake up from his mother wow gratitude grateful to be alive lavush adds more soda writes goodness and kindness it is forever it lasts forever it goes on forever so we have these four you know who else has to bring a carbon Toda a fifth category have you successfully paid for the wedding no just joking that's also carbon today is foreign wow look at the divorce rate look at the rate of broken engagements look how many dysfunctional unhappy marriages it's a miracle Christian we'll talk about celebrate over pesach the miracle of the healthy marriage it's a miracle Supply bring a carbon Toda when you get married when you get married and he says maybe you can bring this there Josh why shimisha in the nasoi any of carbon is single person can't bring a sacrifice so he was ineligible to offer carbonos till he's married once he got married he has to retroactively bring a carbon Toda undoubtedly throughout all the single years it was one sick he once went on vacation somewhere across the desert Akinator now that he's married and eligible to bring a carbon he brings a carbon Toda on his entire life until that point on his entire life until that point the imray MS brings a different reason says maybe the remain bahaya says because what happens on their wedding day they fast on their wedding day they wear white she wears a white gown he wears a white Kittle why because it's their Yom Kippur it's a reboot or restart they're forgiven okay maybe Carmen they were like a sick person who was sealed they were a person with sins who it was erased and they're like a person who was imprisoned who was released they're out of the world of they're released from prison no more resumes no more First Dates I would say no more first phone calls but there are no such thing as first phone calls anymore no more first dates so it's like you're released from prison you got to bring a carbon Toda in other words not a fifth category has elements of all four categories it's like you're sick and you're healed like you're imprisoned like you were released like you successfully crossed this mid bar of being single and looking for your significant other you're all four categories and that's why a fifth category another category hasid them rights foreign all the cynics and suspicious people oh the rabbi's leaving BRS because he's making his own website with his own name or he's trying to monetize it for himself so I wrote an article to explain how ridiculous that was and that none of those are the reasons uh but why was I doing it this is not a safer halify one day I have a lot of books written just right now they're still all in my head so say them rights because gave you insight even just gave you the ability to organize other people's thoughts which is all I do for a career and you don't write it down and you could have oh your goza Misha Gil you're stealing from Hashem he gave you the ability to collect and to integrate and to share he gave you novel ideas he gave you a vocabulary or the gift of communicating it in a meaningful way and you don't you're stealing from him and you're stealing from others is like you offered a carbon and therefore he says anyone who publishes a safer they should bring a carbon Toyota you'd bring a carbon Toda for having a novel total thought for publishing a safer and there were the marutas is and there are many examples which we won't take the time but he brings of great gidolum who experienced Miracles and the result of the miracle of the experience was they promised and pledge to Hashem they'd publish a safer to say thank you escaped Europe in Flames he had to get on a boat that was leaving in Shabbos and he made a promise to Hashem even though in that situation of course saving your life to proceeds Shabbos he said I'm going to study and promote and teach the laws of Shabbos and he gave us the gift of and there are and he only had it was only about the whole story he writes in his introductions and there are other he quotes many examples here of great individuals who wrote svaram in response to surviving Miracles and that's their Corbin Toda their cormentoza was to write a to write a safer today we don't have the carbon Toda what do we do instead we say Ms Melissa we sing it the schnickel niggan if you're in my minion tomorrow morning you're sitting near me I want to hear you singing it there's more the soda but what do we recite today someone who meets these four criteria what do we recite if you took a flight over the ocean if you were released from prison if you successfully healed from an illness which could be life-threatening and was the fourth the desert you bench Como today we bench gomo this is eaten one day in one night foreign who was the first one to bench Como who was the first one ever to bench gomo zigmar and San agent yes remember we spoke about how could you say Israel was the first one to bless Hashem that our own no one before him that other remember the answer we gave wasn't ours I already forget who said it was the first to thank Hashem for something that happened to someone else not himself true others that thank you for things that happened to them yester was the first that heard the story about someone else and said wow what a story thank you Hashem for saving him and it was his son-in-law on top of it because of his sister calling the Renaissance right that Israel what was the bracha that Israel was the first one to say he benched komal on behalf of claw Israel foreign we have another form and that is so sometimes we have a tradition it's a sign in the school of baduka menusa a truly tested practice to be saved from catastrophes is that if anything ever goes bad or wrong in your life you should recite we make the mistake of thinking that nishmas is something that you only say shabba's morning but nishmas is a holy compendium it's a holy holy Fila nishmas it is a long yes it's a long poetic magnificent expression of gratitude the benef you're going through a whole time one of the things to do is pledge and promise to Hashem Hashem if when you get me out of this I'm going to say nishma slowly and sweetly and sing it to you and thank you for saying that should read cited in front of ten um that a person when they're going through a hard time you're waiting for that lab result to come back the pathology to come back you're waiting for the test to come back you're waiting in the job interview to hear if you got the job you're waiting make a promise if this goes well Hashem I'm gonna sit and I'm gonna sing nishmas to you nishmask apparently it's been tried and tested to say desler is a beautiful Insight Cesar of destler gratitude is a Feeling so why can't you just say to Hashem thank you why did it need a carbon why do you think an animal and sacrifice it says because if gratitude remains only a thought and a feeling it remains only speech it's incomplete if a person really feels gratitude they take action to show it when a person really is grateful they want to repay the debt they want to express the Gratitude they need to do something to capture it to display it to demonstrate it it's not enough to say it it's not enough to think it or feel it you have to do something with it you have to perform you have to express that gratitude we mentioned that the carbon Toyota was unusual for a schlemen normally you have two nights in a day hear this you have less time so then a Civ makes a famous comment we've quoted before that says something very beautiful you know why you have less time Latif says you have to have 40 loaves in one day and one night you got to get a lot of food fully consumed in a very short amount of time what are you going to do in order to do that you're going to invite other people so then it says why did that who make the rules of the carbon toad as such that they would lead you to ultimately eating it with many other people because you know what else is true about gratitude if you feel it only in your heart and you don't express it to anyone how grateful are you when you're really grateful someone did something for you tell the world you shout from the rooftops you won't believe what someone did I'm so grateful I want the whole world to know s the other modern day application demonstration of this but a person is great for Hashem you got me through this illness I shall I survived that car accident Hashem whatever you did from yashem I just want to tell the world about it so implicit in the very definition of gratitude is something you don't keep to yourself I feel it in my heart I don't have to say anything no say something say something to many people the more people you say it to the more grateful you clearly feel you want to shout it from the rooftops and that's why the design of the carbunto de dafka is to have many people it's expands on this idea and he says what else are you doing by inviting other people to take part of all that food that you need to finish so quickly you're paying it forward you're being hospitable you're being kind and generous you're sharing when you're grateful to Hashem you pay it forward immediately if after ashram does something for you you remain stingy and self-centered and an egomaniac then are you really grateful if the Gratitude doesn't transform you to want to be more generous and kind and giving and doing so expanding on the idea of the Native is the idea that you have to invite others because you are sharing immediately hashem's kindness and hashem's graciousness with us page 580. this was I was alluding to earlier the consecration of the Quran and the special oil is bring them all to the opening of the old mode we're not going to get into he has Allah do they all fit six hundred thousand men and 20 and up two to three million people they all fit so he goes into a long discussion where do we find in our tradition examples where people miraculously fit where they shouldn't have okay so I make dishes one of them this is one of them he has a big discussion but he quotes another fascinating thing here Rashi says what does that mean grab them by the collar pull him yank them put them on your shoulders lift them on a chair what is with words appoint him anoint him Elevate him says Israel Hassan the acronym last letter the tough of s the noon of our own spells the same way you sing and dance sing and dance for the appointment of Aaron so the safer basis getting at this is the source for having a party and a ceremony when you install the new rabbi you may wonder where you get that from I was installed in 2005. here I have a beautiful the community gave me a beautiful Teala hangs on my wall I look at it and recite it when I need to sometimes a beautiful beautiful Fila and we had a magnificent Jonathan Marriott was the president at the time now he's in England he uh oversaw there was no Carnation but it was a beautiful uh installation ceremony where is that we made that up that's a modern day invention by the way at the time the show called around to all these urbanic organizations what should that look like what's done how do you make it happen we didn't have a lot of help it's not done that often it's more popular today so what was that just a way of raising money for the jewel making the Goldbergs feel good excuse to eat why do you have an installation and this is the minak so just like you sing and dance The machinogens Bistro you voted in a new Rabbi a new Al based then you're stalling [Music] this is the source of an installation ceremony an installation ceremony and he goes on he quotes more sources along this idea the vendor they will end with this recently at a wedding such an inspiring person such an inspiring person says this is the thing Hashem commanded to be done Rashi says on these words skip the pasok hey Rashi says what you see me doing before you is don't think I'm doing it for my own Glory and Honor or for the glory in honor of my brother I'm doing it because Hashem said to do it when Hashem says jump I say how high from his perspective it might have been uncomfortable he understood that the people would perceive his anointing around the cynicism and the scoffing it might engender oh you know why you're having this big party pump and circumstances big installation because it's your brother but it was not about him it was about hashem's Will and nothing else the one and only Gorge of what is Right gauge of what is Right a group of baka on their way to Boston for the wedding of a friend they had arranged a minion along the way but they miscalculated the time and realized that they would stop they'd be late for the wedding unsure of how to proceed they called the Russia Shiva Revenge his brother-in-law mapstein Russia didn't hesitate how do you think he'll feel if he looks around before the khopa and his friends are not there but Russia one of the Bakr protested I have a streak since my bar mitzvah I haven't missed a minion in eight years Yiddish guy the answer is not about streaks it's about what akarish baraku wants and the right thing is to do the Mitzvah you're traveling to do and to do it correctly what does Hashem want you to do in that minute doesn't care about keeping your streak going it's not about not breaking your streak it's about what does he want you to do in that moment in any given moment what should we be doing what is this the Mitzvah that's in front of us the Mitzvah that we're doing that's what he wants us to be doing in that moment and not at not at other times that's what he wants that is the moment we're off next week because there's no passion will resume we won't we won't make it for shmini because it'll be antif on Tuesday until events Thursday night so we meet again the week after but we'll have a write-up in this Hashem of last year's partial perspective on shmini join us tomorrow night for behind the bema with Daryl strawberry interesting if you're a Met fan you won three championships with the Yankees we'll just point out only one with the Mets but he's known more with the Nets he now loves the Jewish people and Israel and uh fascinating individual tomorrow morning live with the Muna 10 minutes of meeting this Shabba Shabbos Russia if you can walk if you're local we've got a great Russia we're working on on marour why are we introducing bitterness to the Seder why would we want bitterness and pain invoked at the Seder what is the role of pain in life talk about the deshavis until then Happy stay healthy and stay holy