Parsha Perspectives (Vayikra)

good morning everyone thank you so much for joining us remotely as we continue to come together and be unified through our distance our commitment to keep that distance in order to keep all of us particularly the most vulnerable among us healthy but it is great to see so many of you across different venues to be able to study the parsha together as we do every week I know for me in a week where we don't have this class the posture is entirely different for me so I appreciate you being here and allowing me to prepare and to share some insights together with you I want to thank our sponsors this morning David Chen carp Allen memory of William carpels of Moshe Ben Yaakov Mildred Carper mahkumat Mordechai America pal Fred America Levy and Kara Wald the commemoration of the Year sight of her friend Marion bas Eliyahu Hanavi also a special thank you to our dear friends Becky Nadia cats who sponsored this whole year partial Series in memory of Becky's father David Grossman / monogamish thank you so much for your for your generosity okay we begin our passion with not only our Pasha but really beginning the third book of the Torah safer vayikra and with it what feels like an enormous transition from the sections that have been narrative and story the book of braces which tells us about the founding and the birth the development of the first family to the book of schmoes which tells us about the birth of a nation of a people that go through the struggles the adolescence of a people the rebellious lists of a young people and emerge at the end of the book of schmoes as now a bonafide people operating in the desert in the mid bar with the Michigan and so on and it brings us up to the third book The Book of Isaiah and many of us has taken many of us when we get to the book of my Ikra we let out a certain groan or a sigh this is the book that's filled with esoteric teachings that are antiquated unrelatable to us and accessible to us they reference the common and the sacrifices and the car Bonus and the Michigan and it seems so irrelevant to the time in which we are living but as we try to do every year and we're trying to do again beginning today the book of a hypocrite is filled with countless timeless messages for every single one of us and we long for the day these car bombers will be returned and we will be able to once again be in a day stomach - offering them and tapping into their deeper meaning enriching and elevating our lives but until then certainly the great symbolism of them carries us very very far so to begin with the opening words of the part itself which are unusual it could spend five hours just literally on the opening passage itself tempted to but we will well you growl motion by devotion they love me I'm only more of those who have the article stung so much more on page 544 by a cry emotion it's an unusual thing normally the Torah formulates in first telling us who is calling whom God is calling Moshe God is speaking to one of his prophets and yet here in a very unusual departure the Torah doesn't position that God is speaking to whom first it tells us via cry first we have generically somebody a pronoun called out and we have the subject we have to move and comes before who is the one who's calling via cross someone called el moshe - moshe and the only then is god's name mentioned after motion by the better show me love mail memo a blend more God called him from the Oh Elmo aid saying what's going on here in this passage in this word Vayikra the truth is the aisle of fear we speaking about every year the abala torrents out as many others do if you look at your hummus if we had the privilege I mean long to return soon to have the privilege during Hajj but it's deceived the lifting of the Torah and the words within you'd see that the viagra the word viagra is written with an olive zerah a small olive why is small the bottom tells us because Moshe a Boehner really wanted a Shem to print it to publish the book and save ie car like it does with vilem really God wanted it to appear as if this was happenstance chance oh sure was no big deal Moshe was no one special God happened upon him God says nice try Moshe I love the humility but I want perpetuity the world to know that you are the anthem of iam you are the most distinguished of all prophets of all time so I won't print it without the Aleph but I'll tell you what Masha I'll make a compromise will do a small Vera Vera the small olive - which of course everyone has cell Ambala TuneIn that the word viagra appeared much earlier with Moshe several times for the slant when God first recruits Moshe to be the leader of the Jewish people it says he called them the word viagra why isn't the olive they're small and our sea Knight says God called with Viagra why isn't the our small bear why is it only here now at the beginning of this fourth book of our why is only now here in the context of car bonus of sacrifices does the hour prepare small are we told of this negotiation and the compromise that's reached between Hashem and Moshe and many explain explain that the notion of the smaller of the hours era is kintyre ly consistent with what the theme of occurs all about the acres about car bombers it's about sacrifices the willingness to bring sacrifices the willingness to be of service comes from a sense of humility within us a person is arrogant and thinks to all that a person who thinks they arrived a person that feels entitled and special is such a person will not be a service to others is a person who will not be willing to sacrifice or compromise for or towards a relationship with others the prerequisite to ability to connect them this way is it willing is a sense of humility is being humble and that's why specifically here the tradition which is brought back already down by the rishonim that goes back a long time that we begin to teach them with the book of ayah which is not really accustomed in our time you can imagine a lot of children or drew bell the book of acre is not exactly the most scintillating it's not exactly the most the most gripping and so we don't generally today but back even underneath sometimes in still many hadarom today they begin teaching klemish or partial to children with the book of a Agoura hinted to with the olives here are the small office of allusion to small children why I think answer is very simple because we need to understand in life whether it's relationships with parents with the spouse with an ultimately relationship with our Creator they are predicated on our willingness to make sacrifices and we're sitting back waiting with a sentiment that everyone has to serve us meet our needs make us happy we're not going to have meaningful relationships we're going to see the kind of Statistics we see today about how many marriages fail but if we go in with a willingness to be mostly nefesh to make sacrifices to give and we understand that the prerequisite to healthy relationships is the ability the capacity the willingness to give and to sacrifice and the same is true within Judaism of the yadus it's true as we sing it's a shock to being in its Mac we love Shabbos we love young to even in a year like this we might pay stuff we love everything about being a Jew it's getting smack to be yet you know what at the same time that remains challenging to being it right now it's very difficult how are you gonna make peace how will you afford the matzah and the wine how will we get it done that's the olives the era the small olive communicates to children and communicates to the children in us the immature voice in Auslan says I want everything to be easy I want it all to be convenient and comfortable I want it all to be pleasant no viagra with a small Aleph we have to be humble and we have to be willing to do the avodah to make sacrifices we have to be willing to compromise we have to be willing to give but let's look at Russia together if you have a Hamish and I hope you do says rashes but hold it bro so look all i'm Miroslav Klose we didn't cut McCrea when it comes to all the other cases like the bear got speaks or a mere up first preceded by creature calling why because this language of viagra the language of Hashem calling is lush sahiba it is a language of affection it's a language of love Russian shaman off the charts best option bow this is the language that angels communicate to one another mieka they call in her Chanel my records every American emotions were familiar from our kedusha Nakara to call to one another of on the VA almost omen a chameleon blush in high rider to machinima vaya con ello Kim L bilham when it comes to delimit uses the word Viney car chance happenstance randomness that's a lush love Toma the attitude the mentality the voice in us that says there is no meaning and purpose and order in the universe everything is the result of chance and randomness that voice that attitude that influence brings impurity alright it's just happenstance it's just chance we dismissed that we overcome that influence it's an influence of a mullah commercial Micra of kerry but rather we see viagra we see the notion of Hashem calling us all around like realm of Shiraz she continues her call home a from Aquila asana before you stole off from him he was calling out but you know only Moshe had his antenna extended motions the one who heard your laugh laugh sacrifice to Korea time a blonde barmaid down there the deeper I secrete of a little how suffers one of these have circles that Rashi is talking about if you look inside a commissioner arts girl maintains it preserves it you looking finest a frittata you'll find her our costume awesome Sukkos you'll find it it's a break in the text sometimes there's a break or whitespace in the text and the text continues on the same line and sometimes there's a break in the text and the text doesn't continue until the next line what is the difference ooh close n and Stu most sofas I'll tell us that these breaks represent and reflect motion of English stopping to be able to contemplate to think to absorb what Hashem had just told him what a shame had just told him so one might think says Rashi that this rushing of Kriya that a Shem called motion even before the breaks know that it wasn't before the brakes themselves ooh ma how you are suckers Michelle shows leading radical emotionless Devonian being a partial appacha been inland Union comma formula had you at hello made min ahead Joe if Moshe a venom needed that white space if Moshe revena needed what we call margin in order to sit and think and absorb and contemplate then all the more says Rashi do we revolt but expands upon this the great much effort on boba and he says especially true in our time and that's one of the lessons of this challenging crisis in which we find ourselves which also is presenting simultaneously this opportunity you see we imbibe we absorb so much information terabytes of information in record speeds we have at our fingertips technology that enables us to google and search and access endless information there is noise constantly being broadcast in our ears and to our eyes and filling up the space in our head but you know what we need to call since to Moses revolver if moshe rabbeinu who had the greatest teacher of all time the almighty himself if moshe rabbeinu who was receiving the message directly from the messenger he needed the space that I could borrow who provided it and moshe said that's incredible I need to think about that give me a moment to absorb that to reflect on it to be mindful of it then all the more so we need to build margin into our lives that's the white space of the Torah we weren't just given a tour that was filled with ink and the Torah specifically does not fill from one margin to the other if you speak to a publisher will tell you you know would be much more economical and be much more efficient to print books where the ink goes from the edge of the page to the other edge of the page on the top all the way to the bottom and you cut out any spacing between the lines books could be much shorter and therefore would cost much less to publish they'd still charge the same price to buy why don't they do that because they understand that the ratio of white space to ink of white to black is critical on the page so that your mind has the ability to absorb and to think and to shut down the break between what you're reading so actually the same is true for us sometimes we need to shut down disconnect think we need to provide them Sukkot since Dumas y-wis boning been passed on a passion we have partial loss of our lives there are conversations and there are interactions there are events and there are moments and there are experiences and we need lesbo name bank partial a partial sometimes between those conversations between those moments between those experiences we need to disconnect stop reading creates the margin create some space in our lives in order to be able to think in order to be able to breathe in order to be able to observe absorb in order to be able to be transformed says rev Oldman if it was true promotion with the Torah motion I'll convey him all the more so it's true for us with a critical lesson and therefore as much as for many who have children our home they're being schooled right now in technology for many working at home were reliant on technology for many trying to stay sane at home we are relying on technology and the technology provides a beautiful ability right now it's giving us this ability to be together learning Torah to rich ourselves but it also clogs the brain and the mind and sometimes we have to remember like Moshe to kreepsula since too much Liz moaning being partial a partial to disconnect go for a walk sit on the couch and close your eyes spend a few moments and mindful meditation disconnect to be able to absorb and therefore permanently connect to that which we are to that which we are learning I want to share with you a beautiful insight on these opening words of iiquor el Moshe and the distinction between the word Vayikra and de Bourgh and and as as Rashi eludes the different types of speaking Emira de Bourgh and crea and I want to draw your attention to a comment of knob on the Havana was refined Cohn passed away this year school a hug in our lane oh so the shaman should have an Aliyah Caban was a fascinating personality he was steeped he was a great tall macaque I'm Nicola and Lister and both the hidden and the reveal Cobra but he himself was hidden cabanas a milkman he was clean-shaven and wore blue shirts or a cap and he went to work every day with a milk factory and he was a simple milkman until it was discovered just what a genius he was and just how and just how well versed he was most in the revealed and the hidden torah and at that point they published his farm of which there are many so this is a safer Tala like I am and here he says the following yeah do us also say for me you could I mean let me show not I'm sorry you don't have the text in front of you but I allow me to share it in his word because I think they're very poignant you know that the opening word of a safer tells us don't let me cure by mist on Cisco safe Akula it tells us a theme the essence what the safer is really all about but Malin took an Irish mu Camille away her room is a call most of the initial statement viagra so in these opening words and this opening sense which really only represents a fraction of our partially Lama safer it's worth our spending so much time because this opening sentence and this opening word viagra captures the essence of everything the book is about then I said the house the ocean was born in my opinions that and so we'll try with the help of God to understand we you could buy me love my liquor bottle has the era with the word Vayikra and the small off either well bonnet is very verbose everything he says axes there are pages and pages and pages they're worth reading it's precious every every word obviously we don't have time to study you know but I want to just give you some of the flavor of what he shares racialist co first of all or the furniture and you could look Allahabad and steal us a safer to this precious Niagara we have to begin to see the beginning of the book because short shorts in Romania craft so how does the book begin micro motion Hashem Cosmo doesn't say a sham but Josh says Valley cry and motion is called and God speaks of the Omo and he tells them other geography came when a person sacrifices me came from themselves can an Aramis is over Shalom is correct we see here the awakening we see here the arousal we see here what it means to welcome somebody towards the conversation with Hashem other than geography can i mr. Sami washing his bar with thirsty fresh M we you are confined to our homes we who are trying to understand and interpret current events we who are trying to be able to withstand them this crisis some English in a spark with C flash M's love and his support to feel his presence to make sense of it all but Salome really was Carla done with moving smart buffaloes we want to be close to him we want to attach ourselves to with all of our strength karma chalice canvas we want to bring a carbon at the root of that word carbon is car ov the goal see many people think I remember a few years ago somebody who feels enlightened wrote a whole article about why he thinks that that sacrifices he prays that they will not be restored because they are archaic and cruel to animals in the like it's entirely against armor swords it gets everything we believe we believe the opposite sacrifices are not barbaric they're not archaic they don't tap into the worst of humanity the spirituality and the symbolism of the sacrifice is the highest we take the animal representing the animal in us and we sacrifice it to state that we're going to suppress the animal in us and express our godliness the best of us the best version of ourselves refers rights every aspect of the sacrifices we don't have time now but a flower sacrifice and the burning of the fats and the sprinkling of the blood and each element of the sacrifices is symbolic of another element of our lives the statement were making to God the statement were making to ourselves that were going to submit and we're going to suppress and we're going to rifice the animal in us so that what's left is the godly disciplined soul that's reaching for something higher that is the best version of ourselves the root of the word carbon is Kurobe we want to draw close to God and the best way to draw close to God is to be like God God doesn't have an animal instinct an animal impulse God doesn't give in to a temptation God is the ultimate of dignity and discipline and when we sacrifice the animal in us and we emulate him well we are the godly best version of ourselves is the way we truck closest him so the car bonus represent that that yearning that desire that burning longing leaves Carlo of Corbin Caro kinda toda pisacas as Conan as perish alone so listen what the hell man writes many passions in machinima critical emotion Micra our passion begins with God calling Moshe a Creed but Cassius is Carlos what is Korea here he says the fundamental difference between Korea and deboard Korea is the calling a Korea Boccaccio skyress Kassadin company show whom the vanish men will avail of when you call your child your spouse a friend from the other room when you call out to them even the language the verne active of the way do we describe it as calling out to somebody what does it mean what does it sound like I'm calling out I want to be close could you come draw near to me when they lecture good vertical Karl emotional of a cage metal ask our aid this represents God's calling moshe sang i want to be close to you draw close to me please come here please draw near please come be shown a ballet that their emissaries the pool is a deeper maya dagger means speaking it refers to the act of speaking my young man myself is the token Amadou burn my yoga is the content of what is being spoken my Ikrimah sacrifice will SM ice carvers vanish night Ashley vana Cremeans the bond the connection the desire to be together that's viagra so my jaw there is the act of speaking so a speech pathologist could talk about Veda better what does it mean the the voice box and the tongue and the larynx and how the act of speaking and my younger is what's being spoken but viagra is the common couldn't draw close I want to be connected the fee for whom I receive a promotion fee but that's where Ashley means as the car man then I Eckhart is a language of Reba I'm affection of love she came to my creative moves I have a good arm especially inspired it is loved by you Chris come come I want posts I want to feel close so ninja she trying to flee my crushes garbage Romans ones her movement of me the other key active me can claim as gamma because justice chemists before we were freaky before we offer the sacrifice before we offer me chem ourselves which we'll talk more about in a moment before we were super Kate I couldn't but who puts out the call Kurdish Marco says Vayikra you can hear him calling he wants us to be close to him oh my god doggone is Mila Zuba smes I show up simple I noticed a car bonus this is a Cosworth was crude but oka crea premise there is a deep inner calling cream soccer coach Brotherhood this calling of God reflects his boundless love his friendship his connection to connect since Israel to each and every one of our missions in particular cold OD no fake the voice of my shell is knocking on her door Eliahu seem like I see em I see some I see the sheer sheer my mama the Hashem is makkng their friends and every one of our lives Hashem is calling out to us Viagra it's not just a night down there he speaks to us through a short knife and the halacha and the Torah dialing is our speaking to God learning Torah is God speaking to us that's the value down there and you know Levi Omer the viola is the content of the message it's what he's telling us but the viagra the viagra are the things that are going on in our lives the things that are happening and for bad that makes sense and we're still trying to understand the vehicle a sham calling out to us when we extend our attend Anna the cold indeed for when we answer the door from his knock he is they're trying to grow close to us and the Caban points us to a comment of the after ever Makuta torah who is the one scribes this notion meaning defend America our motivation increases urahara marshmallow Marsha Keaney Shahid is the you call ours lover this is how you enter the or Maui the word into the house of a Shem the way to access him the way to feel intimately in his presence a rendezvous with him is my Achra to hear his call you see if if your antenna is not extended and a young person wants me right now has no idea what an intimate is but there used to be on the car you know the antenna would go up at the fancy cars the antenna would go up when you turn the radio on and off when you turn the radio would come down if you wanted to get reception on your TV you have to hold the antenna in just the right place there used to be an antenna today your phone has an antenna but you don't see it you don't even know about it so young people have no clue what I'm talking about the in kind of needing to be extended but the author ever says that the prerequisite to entering an intimate rendezvous with Hashem to be in the same space as God to feel his presence to be uplifted transformed and changed by simply being with him to have a confidence and a knowledge that he's intimately involved in our lives the prerequisite to that is to hear his call if you're just going through motions if you're simply performing mitzvahs through rote if you're simply discharging obligations with a check but there's no for warmth there's no passion there's no romance there's no relationship you're not listening to God talking to you each and every day through the miracles he's doing every day then you're not really involved in a relationship there's no sense of and by the Ikra it's not even it's not real I wish I'd the wrestler they need to learn with you the many many pages of this piece but I wanted to share with you to give you a flavor of what this book is all about says the carb on its tenth of a of a value extend looking and listening and hearing them to Jenna she'll talk to us all around I've shared many times in many contexts that only starting to practice because I had learned with one of my daughters this past summer a letter of remotion of Yaakov who said that if you want to draw close to a Kurdish part we'll start a daily journal of hushka practice the little things in your life were used by Shem the things that didn't need to work out but I've worked out in coincidences really are behind so we started a family with that I practice my nuclear family me my wife and my children and I encourage our children we try every day every few days someone leaves a voice note or writes out something that happened in their life which was a Chicago practice unbelievable to hear the call of the viagra what is such caca practice if not hearing the call of Viagra go through life and live it in high definition not black and white go through life and look for the hand of Hashem extend that in Tennessee you hear him I want to share with you an insight from her drug would be strongly a drug is it a rest receiver today great time Hoffman artist row his father was Oscar great Robin you shall I the draft mother Holle in really strong layer drug has set on how much from each Tommy and then he rewrites the following as I said I pointed out before Vayikra Moshe first we have to whom the speech is directed even before who the speaker is first vinaigrette emotion before invited a Russian a loved one Russian sets Louisville mixes it's a very peculiar language Lahore I am a senior select oh my crush a mimosa by the very law it should have said God commotion he said Deborah Shinigami Zechariah the first thing you do is you are identifying who the speakers then you can identify the subject who the listener is it doesn't make sense to refer to the listener before you even identify who the speaker is listen to her of jerk says enira Navarre besakih catcher comes more Lucario Moshe the NFL Corey I love both and Kaguya Borachio and commercial heuchera in love the answer is because when a charged particle cost that to us it's not always so revealed or so clear who the speaker is if you want to see this chance to randomness the coincidence if you want to see it as the act of of other human beings you can mistakenly confuse it and you can converse a mistakenly misidentify it Moshe I beta I moved on the car by a car Shula creosote Haven Massimo : la la la' aftershave in Korea boyish a nice bar then mom she's got terrible before / chalet laughs you see it doesn't say that this speaker is before the listener because it's telling us that most of positioned himself to be a listener of always listening for the Hashem and then when our Shama saw that moshe understood it was him speaking now he was prepared to speak we should make the mistake of thinking that it's random coincidences the string of events it's other people but we have to extend that and we have to live our lives with that sense of Viagra looking for and listening to that call keeping a journal of the hash caja practice of the many ways in which our shame speaks to us in our lives in a daily and on a regular basis here - again or expand to other examples of this that's what happened in this snap Moshe everyone else walked by Moshe robbed a know heard the call why God spoke louder or emotion walked by them when others walked by now Moshe Santana was extended is our antenna extended do we see and identify and express our gratitude for the viagra for that intimate connection not only the vine a bear and the value of Emir but the viagra I think that this is something that we need to continue to educate particularly to the young people in our lives but educate ourselves to that the core of a meaningful vibrant active passionate romantic Judaism in relationship with our share is not only to focus on the Madaba and the my Omer not only on the how much did you learn and did you learn and how much did you miss a friend did you complete the learning and not only the content did you observe and do you understand did you memorize and do you know both of which are very very important but also that sense of Viagra that a shame is talking to us when we learn Torah he's talking to us when we live life he's talking to us when we experience the things in our life Hashem is talking to us as well now there's an amazing measure shear there's an amazing measures on this part of Maya and these opening words and the measures tells us to follow him the message says by the camera micro motion light direction but some of the words of the man Josh McCown Amruta maja from shame bodasse innovate left top of the hay menu it's an incredible measure the very perplexing Midrash the measure says we see from here that any time of holcomb any righteous scholar shane bodasse who lags dass we have to define momentarily and we've spoken about this before but i want to share with you two new definitions today what is this das atomic uh from a scholar a reaches righteous person but who lacks das nove left over hey man it doesn't just say you know they really need to work on themselves improve themselves learn more or grow more it says a type of horrible asthma die a putrid corpse an availa a rotting corpse is better than them how do you know this Ted Omaha she can't say Ahmad my Moshe avakov mama named Liam show T show me Messiah under NASA Khamenei cinemates Ryan the neuroscience off' we learn it from motion listen list moshe the alvin of ian moshe was incredibly brilliant motion is the highest level of prophesy motions the credited with taking the jewish people out of egypt and through moshe countless miracles occurred and yet all of our army went on top of the mountain received the torah and he built the mission and yet loan if myslef live of limb archie Carlo she'll never have a liquor emotionally dapper Moshe didn't walk to the Oromo Aidid didn't enter the Mishkan until he was first called he didn't go in without permission so you see that a tomahawk from who has no das is is worse than a good rotting corpse from where from the fact that Moshe Rabbeinu had the das to know don't enter until you're invited in what in the world is going on here so the simple understanding of it is that Moshe is a role model what's your role model of we know that there are carrots cut mother Torah you could be a great scholar and a great time of Hoffman but if you have no derech Eretz if you enter places before you're invited in if you breach confidentiality if you don't knock before you enter if you share what we shouldn't be sharing with others if you breach their reference then what's the value of your Torah there are ferrets is cut monitory and here according to this first understanding we're going to share for in the first understanding das can be defined or interpreted as derech Eretz basic common courtesy good manners etiquette decency not before you enter wait to be invited in before you come Moshe did an atomic level doesn't novella Tova a manual the problem with that is why why is an available human truth our characters cut motor and by the way where we learned that from because their hair it's perceived at order by 26 generations the measures tells us other was commanded there are haratz long before we got the Torah because Merkel had expectations of how we treat one another and how we behave and the matters that we exhibit long before he gave us the Torah so mastering there are ferrets really is a prelude to the Torah itself but I want to show you a second definition maybe a deeper meaning to the use of the measures of use of the word us instead of derech Eretz and maybe what it means is the following you can have an intellectual knowledge you can have an information that sits in your brain it's cognitive a processing knowledge but one needs that information to filter down the three types of knowledge the three terms that we use the origin of balaam aperture movement the after ever put together hoffman and das we hadn't seifish most but follow the Tala was endowed with Kozma bina and das which is why he is the architect of the mission Hoffman is information knowledge of an area or a discipline bina is the capacity Lahav in being this and been that to analyze and to dig deeper within the information das is menikoff Martina Hoffman is the information you could memorize it Nina Isla have there been this or this why do we say have Dhamma in a taco name because Havdalah the ability to be honing das is Lavigne bein this a bayonet so Hoffman's information and bina is the capacity to analyze the information to process it what is das das is when we take the information from the abstract and we show you the capacity to analyze it and now we know how to execute it we can absorb information in a way that transforms us that impacts us that changes us that we live with it and maybe that's what motion are Boehner that's what the matrix is telling us that motion Sarah ferret's was not simply an exercise in anacott it is the result of a sentence of das Hoffman's to know what to do and be nice to know why didn't do it and das is to be committed to do it so a comic or some but that's a great time of Cockrum into the genius who has a photographic memory atomic harem with a credible capacity for recall who could everything in the world but doesn't know how in their lives novela tava Jimeno there were within a putrid rotting corpse because the purpose of all that information the purpose of all that Torah is to transform us instead to notice is for us to bring it out into the world we live in the information age and the information age is a wonderful time to live but I can't just stay information it has to be processed and brought down to a place of to a place of reality that's explanation to number-3 revolta says das revolver writes viscometer and Pasha the das is qivana it's the capacity from mindfulness it's the capacity to be present - in Davin Aang is qivana to concentrate pitamaha Fawaz no - Tom - was aloof and distracted tomahawk from can't be mindful and present Tom McLoughlin was always elsewhere Nevaeh - Vanina so to have that says revolver is the capacity for qivana it's the capacity for mindfulness in diverting it reflects itself as qivana it's the capacity for deep work with dots in conversation eunuch ation with the people around us particularly the people that we love the ability not distract did not to be looking all over not to be fragmented but to be mindful to be present the expression says aroma that we use a person who lives in the moment a person who's present in every activity they're doing is living with a sense of yishuv had - Aisha hadass is a calmness and a serenity and a confidence and the capacity to be engaged fully in whatever it is that one is doing so definition definition number three of - what does it mean Cole tomahawk function in bodasse you could be a time of harm you could have all this information and knowledge but if you don't have peace of mind you don't have serenity you don't have mindful be fully engaged and present in the conversations in the darling in what you're doing novella Tova a menu definition number three number four rather comes from Roderick right we had the first one is Derek Harris and the second one is Kaufman being in das and the third one is das is qivana and the fourth one is back - Rudra your drug says the following what does it mean - he quotes the home address nitu wonders why this peculiar phrasing sorry beeramid do - your delta Makaha moreover why are we saying it specifically in the context of Tom - to take hwadam Kulish chamber - every person who doesn't however we defined us hugged us why supposed to be a Tom Kha huh so therefore he says the following come off and start loving - Nicholas what rabbinic ownership categories were quite a CAD in motion knowing until he was called didn't he know the whole essence of building the Michigan was to have access to a Sherman was to give a sense ashley Michelle Cain to make God our neighbor to draw him down dear attacked Onan so why didn't must she'd go in that was the tactless that was the purpose that was the goal of why building this to Michigan so wasn't he just go in but near a moment was there the heck the machine will know after the motion of a living billow Marussia here he distinguishes between Moshe and bilham so the motion to karmic reality board you know it's a big long to carry the tomah with Moshe first me if Korea God calls him Anna I speak with Bill Oh God speaks in and he says why she decree edition you come walking out a little Creole across a deep work reason God calls you is so that you can prepare for what's going to be spoken to so that you can for your mind so that you can carve space so that you can calm your nerves so that you can be present in where you're at so when you have Korea before deboard it is the preparation phase Ain conducive believe Ahana there is no holiness without preparation there is no only the one who is works to be able to prepare for Shabbos will be able to eat on Chavez who's Torah for Chavez has what to eat in Chavez so therefore this is Roderick you know what it means Cole tomahawk on Shan bodasse novella toe by manual at Alma Cajon who doesn't work to have the peace of mind who doesn't prepare for those holy moments who tries to just engage them on the fly as random and chance and happenstance like bilham such as Thomas Hoffman availa Tova a menu it means they'll also show tomahawk Shana there are micro pandas demean elimination asthma before Massa Tove macabre ha chef are roughly should vom me menu miss Edna mommy ma sure they know she Hinton lick recessional trumotion could have just entered the mission now is that possibly rolling of the mushroom he could have just walked in he understood that's why it's there and yet he pause he pause for a moment to get ready he paused from to prepare because he understood how to be fully engaged and fully transformed by the holy moments of our lives you can't rush into them when we will be able to please God soon return to shul and we'll be back on a schedule that we need to come on time if you don't come a few minutes early and frame your mind and clear your mind and create the margin we spoke about then you won't fully be able to have that experience instead of out of zalman are ba that when he would climb the steps to his I manifested before he'd walk in he would first you know clean off and straighten out and make sure that he looked well why because he said he was going in to see his wife you know those moments the precious moments even in places that we should feel the most relaxed or casual but if they are the holiest moments and opportunities of our lives then there is no condition without Hana so the Kriya before the D bore God called to Moshe and he stood outside he waited to be called it why because the trauma Karim understands that if you want to engage you want to encounter you want to experience holiness you need to prepare you need to be ready you need to clear that space and that margin you need that mindset there are many given the advice and I try to incorporate it myself when we say that I mean that when you take those three steps Lauren for that shamone that's right take a deep breath I personally have a mental image of taking my hands and clearing out all the space my whole head which is filled with all the things I have to do in people I have to get back to all in Irish tight all the sounds and sights and the head or head which is which is filled with all the things that are competing for space there you need to have a mental image of clearing it out of carving in a direct line that space the Curia before the deep border of getting ready before we enter of taking a deep breath Hashem society photography aut Lusaka of taking that deep breath and being ready to be able to be transformed I want to give you the fifth and final explanation and then we're ready departure class beyond the first plastic I want to give you the fifth and final explanation and it's based on an insight of religious themes that sound but look 15 has an article which the title is if there is no das how can we have leadership and the context of the local teens article is the notion of das Torah and this too I think is very timely for our time in which we've seen different forms of leadership and different degrees of leadership to respond to what's happening around us and how that leadership is informed and how that leadership is OUTFRONT and how that leadership is is protecting so it's a long essay which I won't be able to you could find that if you google online if there is no dot how can we have leadership of iron literacy translated by Joseph faith and it's well worth reading the entire essay but the essay is the discussion on the concept of das Torah do we believe in that Torah do we have categories of religious leaders in Judaism do we have Tommy day haha men who are endowed with some sort of divine inspiration so that they are infallible in their message and their leadership in their guidance in what they tell us do we turn to them for - Torah tell me should I buy the south should I take this job should I check my childhood school should I marry this woman tell me should I shut down my show how should I react and behave to the challenge of our time do we believe in that era that is the topic or theme of this essay but in this essay he says the following he says one of the most difficult questions in this field relates to encompasses the topic of my discreet if there is no das how come you have das Torah and he says to illustrate this our related story years ago I traveled to Bnei Brak to consult my Rebbe and teacher and it's got good news that's out in his morning when his wife passed away when I went to see him says revoir I found him sitting alone we had a private conversation this was conducted in a very open and honest fashion from one heart to another reporter told me that one of those I mean if economy came to consult and tried to convince him to explain how his wife's passing was positive and as much as she was now in the world of truth the world with positive and other such nonsense and indeed it's not uncommon to hear such things when one goes to consult a mourner especially when the deceased passed away while being involved in a mitzvah or is fallen in battle and kiddush Hashem it is superfluous to state that saying such things is totally unsuitable remember that when her funder told me this Rachel lift enstein he raised his voice and he applied the following severe words of the medicine via Karami Kol tomahawk I'm ashamed but I asked the Delatour by a man who time a hakama lack das is worse than a putrid carcass refrigerated and his thunderous voice did you hear this any town would calm relaxed us consider this we're not discussing an ignoramus to wags das but rather atomic haha Rossum was filled his belly with towel and there's Richard who's an expert in the social deceive us but if he lacks das which can direct and guide them so that I'll act with understanding towards others and interact with them in a similar fashion he's worse than a putrid animal carcass had I not heard these incisive comments with my own ears from Iranian teacher I would be fearful of voicing such sentiments of my own accord centered with his Dean so without getting too involved my question about between dance wisdom and understanding in this context will suffice for us to note the one can certainly conclude from his minashi teaching the Dallas is not bestowed from on high as a free gift which is passed automatically into man's hands even if he is supreme time of Holcomb - is not necessarily a company knowledge an analytical skill is not necessarily bound up with them like fire is with hemp fibers we've learned from her partner's comments that there's a certain level of das that is vital for a time Holcomb to possess and when I which is wisdom is severely impaired and so even if we adopt the approach which requires of bangy Dolan and be logical to assume at this obligation of only to a tomahawk farm as bass and not a time McLaughlin was full of knowledge like a pomegranate but lacks das top boom according to the measures is worse than a carcass when we approach this carcass who according to her is better than the time I welcome to ask for advice on medical matters can a time I come from the legs - be relied upon don't let the words of the Torah genius lacking human and emotional sensitivity who possesses no psychological insight and I encourage you to read the rest of his essay I think also as I said very timely it means called tomahawk from shaking bodasse the fifth and final definition will offer this morning what das means is das is common sense das is common sense you could no call Atari cool about Pat but if you don't and to medical advice experts if you don't listen to socio-political experts if you're not listening to the guidance if you lack common sense about how to respond and guide people then you're a tomahawk I'm Shane bodasse it doesn't say anyone who doesn't ask it specifically says tomahawk I'm Shane bodasse which will put more understood to mean you can be a tomahawk on and lagged us so if you like - you have no - Toder now there are many tell me determine both the telethon and have extraordinary amount of - and perhaps they are a sources for us but before someone turns or listens for the guidance of the time do they just know a lot have the foundation of common sense and that's because if not Haila Tova hey men you base moving right along impressions of iiquor and safer vodka plastic days developing stronger my clunky other yeah can wecan carbon my shell but I behave I'm in a marker minute sound like us carbon can stick to the Jewish people the era what is the content he's supposed to tell them all the key accurately McKenna carbon Russian minima hey my man Ibaka man I don't agree with him when a person is offering a sacrifice to God they offer it from the cattle from their flock they offer this sacrifice which word is entirely superfluous in this puzzle it could have read Adam keep accurate carbonyl Russian when a personal offers a sacrifice why does it say other key a curative mechanic carbon when you offer from yourself a sacrifice so here I share with you the inside of the option the option of emotional shock says the word weekend teaches us something critically important car share other market of carbon Russians are from this Court Kirara after she has a boat cosa Bay my McRib assassination when you bring the carbon it's not some external superficial gesture we don't just write the check to God here's the carbon here's the darling I mumbled here's the obligation of discharging it's not superficial it's not external we're not simply trying to unload it it's gotta be macadam it kinda means it's us it's from within us was genuine and it's real and it comes from inside us McCann it's authentic it is us says the abstract a person should realize that the truth is we belong on that altar we do wrong being sacrificed and slaughtered we are unworthy we have violated us as well other than key a charisma CEM it has to come from inside us it has to be genuine and real and has to be animated inspired has to be passionate and filled with romance as we've been trying to communicate what vehicles will be all about to hear a Shems voice and that call we don't live a life that is simply on the surface too superficial it has to be something which is much deeper and this is reflected in the puzzler says the OEB straw the after of Joshua Heschel he says the following the only dethrone incredible safer reconnects every parsha to the midst of Elvis's role of loving our fellow Jew so here he says the following a person can't fulfill an offer sacrifices one of two ways just like you can dive in or doom it to us in one of two ways just like you could relate to your spouse or your friends or your neighbors our co-workers or children in one of two ways it could be real and genuine it could come from the depths of your being or it can be external and superficial you could just be mailing it in so when it's adam key adam key actor of McCann when the person is offering really themselves I'm here you know sometimes somebody's having a conversation with their spouse and they say III know that you could repeat the words I just said but I don't feel you're really here you're not giving me yourself you're not giving me your full attention you're not confiding in me you're not revealing yourself for giving me access to who you are I don't feel that you're giving me the hole or the real you so Adam key actor of MU Canon when a person gives the real them to a Shem then heart by my shell then it's a real carbon it's genuine to God but if it's only in a behavior I'm in a buck arm in its own if all they're doing are the motions on the surface if it's an external act of bringing from the animal then tocqueville S corp on hand is just making you feel better then it's just a gesture on the outside to make you feel like you've discharged the obligation so says the Augie saw the after all - Rachel that in the plastic itself is this mission and mandate and the description of the result when it's all done geography can what it really comes from us was genuine and real carbon mushipan then it's for God that we're connected it results in Karl Rove and feeling close to him Nina Parker Minuteman my minutes own if it's only on the surfaces it's an external act of the animal the best caramel creme is just for you it makes you feel better about yourself it just makes you feel a certain way the market of Mezrich up shop I'm sorry on the next buses before we get to the south sulfur except chauffeur says this your school Benjamin surfer writes about another unbelieving apostle the pasta just other key active me Ken Carter why doesn't it say ich piece of metal chrome aluminum or other geography - leash lumber after Ogden car the variation triskele after yeah concurrently hot girl oh it's actually autumn carburation cheese collect oh ho Kamakura yes yeah let's go back to our fish my school locked up the girls are f1 when I come out with a lot of memory so the exam servers bother and it quits which is bothered why does it take a donkey active it should say do you more consistent with how it appears elsewhere in the Torah each key actor of McKim if person why does it say Adam specifically so the measure says to tell us to remind us to invoke us other Mauritian what I thought the Mauritian of the deal near allocation Act in the first master a row so he says here's what it means yes maybe minute ballet chuhwa there's two ways one can repent or seek to draw close to God one is toke Mady Cara next time you're really good inside you're a genuine good person but you've made mistakes so the person has to atone for and repair the mistakes that they've made and then you have a second person is become rotten on the outside well here it's telling us is a donkey awkward and not each to remember that this we should invoke our sense of atoms why was Adam called Adam he's named Adam cos Mina Adama we come from the grant were born with this capacity for growth we growth oriented as opposed to the Adam of the Mahima is ba ma what you see is what you get yeah it's complete the day it's arrived in autumn is Adama we are always growing we're striving we're reaching we're improving so if you want to draw closer you want to be an other you want to be growing ki acrid we can carbon then you have to genuinely offer Ashima carbon from within ourselves next toss the pasta get mo Imola carbon omen of our cars our first amendment yak reason they will pass upon my decree muscle Arizona the flashing if one's offering is a carbon a lot in elevation offering then you bring it from the cattle of an unblemished male and you bring it at the opening of the tent of the of the meeting here's the my administration says of don't bear the maggot of message Imola carbon oh if you want to be oh if you want to be going up this is consistent with what we just said looks nice so far why it says Aden if you want to be an Ola if you want to be striving and reaching and growing and improving Corbin oh you have to be willing to sacrifice no pain no gain you have to be willing to it's true in the world of exercise and diet it's true in the world of work ethic it's true in the world of of relationships every area of your life no pain no gain the food side of Agra according to the effort and according to the sacrifices we're willing to make according to the pain we're willing to endure will be the results that we're able to achieve Imola if you want to go up if you want to it then you want to grow then car but no you have to be willing to sacrifice yeah going to sacrifice and like let's skip ahead Perry base now face puss look you know a person's going through the different types of sacrifices that we have and among them is the carbon minify lamella is the flower sack we have many many many members many different types of flower offerings or sacrifices that are referenced in China and past like Gitmo tells us something that goes with him the whole carbon mill cost of the mela to mark the low /p smell of Bristol Academy Amon cassava or carbonic attackers murmur your salt you shall salt your every meal off from salt don't just continue distorted mirror of your God company from upon your meal offer and every offering to show you offers so this is the origin of our custom of having salt on our table our table is like a Shogun is like a busy day off when we eat people mistakenly associate this just for Shabbos when do you have to dip the cow in the soul to put paola that's a lot of chalice not sure it's a lot every time that you have bread we have with salt this is a big discussion in halakhah today our recipe for bread includes spices see these are salt so maybe today you don't need to maybe we still do but all this is connected to the idea of the brits my luck this covenant of the salt which the prosecutors is referencing what is the role or significance of salt we spoke about salt back in safer braces when did we speak about salt and britches well we talked about the wife of a bloke who turned around and turned into a pillar of salt so preservative its captures where you are and the way you are so here we have this covenant of salt the salt appears on our table this idea of the of the salt we've spoken about in the past last year or two years ago in quoted an amazing me I shall are an amazing issue Pitzer about assault but I want to tell you another insight here from you saw of shark of the char cover who says the following salt what's the significant assault with sacrifices and why is it that you're not allowed to offer a carbon mecha this flower offering with that salt and why do we have salt on our table what is the image and symbolism what a salt remind us up by the way this is brought in a locker to even Oh Russia China time or the period through through circus there are those who put salt on the collar even when they continue to use honey but even those who don't use salt when they're using honey still have a true custom of leaving them on the table because we have an idea of a bris Mal'akh the symbol is significant to the salt its presence even when we are not still using it on earth so listen what the char cover says he says salt isn't ingredient there is no value on its own whatsoever there is no healthy normal person who eats salt alone I've never seen someone person puts a handful of salt in their hand and licks it or eats it we would look at the person's eye scans we would look at the person as being peculiar it's never eaten a the whole value of salt salt only achieves a value wet when it's mixed together with other ingredients when the salt contributes as an ingredient among others that's when this gains value the salt is then the salt has no purpose then the salt contributes nothing so said the tiler could be thorough check of the same is true with an individual when you see that salt which is connected with a carbon we see that salt on our table the sword should remind us that if we think that we have value on our own if we live with a sense of a nuclei if we have an inflated sense of arrogance then we have no value our value is in the contribution we make to others our value is in being more of a mob Rios and our being interconnected and are contributing paths and caring about others if through this crisis each of us has retreated only into our own homes then what are we and who are we but if we're within our own homes were calling base tightening and we're offering to shop for those who can't go out and we're more aware helping the others then in fact we are worthy that's the Bruce mela the covenant with God is to recognize and realize that on our own were unworthy we gain our worthiness in connection and the role that we play and we show that we care about others hurt that possibly we're flying right along skip ahead to Perry Palin Parekh down the posse base again we're going through this list of litany of the different sacrifices we had the bola and the minica and then we have a cousin slummin and we have a Corbin craft us here in the context of the carbon campus parathyroid posse base the bunnies show mr. Carver kranthi Sarcoptes has brought when a person violates something by accident so you bring a carbon copy system offering the barrel beneath surely more nefesh be second tundish you're gonna become a source of shame I share a little Senna be on something I'll cross my aina tell the Jewish people to follow if a person will make a mistake unintentionally from among the commandment to rush em they can't be done and you commit one of them if you violate a lot then you have to bring do it by accident you have to bring a car bone happens what word is unusual here in this puzzle what word seems like it doesn't belong the word nephesh nefesh ki secreto why doesn't the posix simply say speak to the Jewish people and tell them he sat at table in the Chicago when you make a mistake when you violate my word by accident why specifically is introduced with the word nephesh nephesh a soul when it makes a mistake why is the word soul being invoked here so I bring your attention to the Rambam and writes aarambam not Manolis therefore some are shallow beneficially I should guess history net because where does contemplative miss where does mindfulness take place what happened why did you violate if you think about it for a moment why are we accountable at all for our accident person wants to bring your karma crap this has to spend a lot of money a lot of energy a lot of time in order to get the animal and bring the animal to the basic there's true you ash lime and offer it that's a tremendous inconvenience and it's a tremendous expense why do they have to do that what did they do wrong we already conceded we acknowledge that the whole thing was an accident if folks have accident why do they have to go to this extent says there I'm bad because you know they're kind of different kinds of accidents we remember back to when we were children or we find ourselves now as parents still saying this there are access that could have been avoided there are accidents which were voidable and there are accidents which reflect negligible the lacquer only work attention who are more mindful if we were more careful the accident could pull it all together where does mindfulness take places that I'm man in the nefesh it takes place in the soul the Tama car bonus on nefesh agus they should call a homeless you need to deny banana train bar this lack of Iraqi or Miko hate blue laser you're tipsy I'm joking love all the fun of my Hainan SH I should get a stack of car wash a disk of a car well ok my that's not well they're gone can history that says something so important to understand says that I'm ban if when you violated something by accident you weren't accountable people would be very flippant and negligent and how they bathed and they would still feel entitled and they'd still feel the right to draw close to God so therefore we are held accountable even for the things that we do by accident why because this is our bond and this is fundamental and axiomatic to our faith to our relationship possession and to this entire safer viagra to the whole Torah because when we do something wrong on even by accident it leaves a blemish it leaves an imprint on our soul our neshama our nefesh has changed personally use the word nephesh not neshama because maybe it shows that that negligence of mindlessness was the result of our animal soul man are you our godly soul nephesh animals have a nephesh humans have not only an effigy of a neshama you know there are four types of of creation so you have you have that which is you have that which is inanimate and then you have the plant world and then you have the animal world and now the human world so the animal world has a nefesh only the human being has a neshama what is the pus of use the term nefesh not neshama to tell us that that negligence and mindlessness was the result of our using our nefesh not our neshama but what happens is when we do something wrong even by mistake and by accident and leaves a blemish on our nefesh anand sharma on our soul and therefore we need to be accountable we need to cleanse we need to purify and restore our soul as we say be the nominee and what kind of shaman tom brady the soul you gave me is clean and is pure anything the things I did by accident even if I'm not directly accountable but I nevertheless need to take the steps in order from purified I need the steps me or improve I need to take the steps in order to so we have to understand that it's not just our body it's not just when we intend to do things when we do them by accident we're trying to preserve and maintain the purity and the cleanliness of our our soul I had a few more things I want to share with you beautiful cuts occur beautiful first so much more on this and each and every para but we are at a time thank you so much for joining me and whatever medium that you are look forward to continuing to learn together you can join one of our whatsapp groups where we're sending toad update Lee by going to have a 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