Parsha Perspectives (Yisro, 5782) - A Line Out the Tent

good morning booker tove welcome back to parsha perspectives for today before we begin and before we even thank our sponsors just a reminder incredible program that we have tonight in fact we're expecting such a wonderful crowd you might want to just stay in your seat from now until then make sure that you reserve your fantastic seat ramosha weinberger shlita the rub of ish kodesh and wudmir a really transformational leader powerful speaker incredibly inspiring individual live music inspiration it's going to be a tish the lights dim candles going to be an incredible incredible night tonight you do not want to miss so wherever you live and wherever you drove from for this year you'll want to drive back for tonight it's at 7 30 p.m right here in the rand sanctuary there are flyers on your chairs you can feel free to take one not too late to join our host committee it's a private reception beforehand with revoineberger if you want to be in a small private reception with him but hopefully he'll join us tonight at 7 30. i promise you you won't be sorry you came you will walk away inspired uplifted enriched you will walk away as the young people say it'll be fire you'll be on fire i'm one of the young people by the way so you do not want to miss it that is tonight okay i want to thank our generous sponsors the partial cheer for the year becky and i'll be cats and family in memory of becky's father david grossman legal initiative this morning sheer is also sponsored by harry goldman commemoration of her beloved husbands here at site hilton goldman hillel the gershwin is the shambhashanav and aliyah we are making our way and we are turning a corner on safer shemos we have made our way out of egypt egyptians have pursued us we faced the sea hashem did a miracle as he does for so many of us when it feels like there's an obstacle there's an impediment blocking our path when it feels like there's no way forward when it feels like we're stuck and how are we going to take our next step sometimes we have to find the combination of both faith the ammunition combined with combined with initiatives start walking start moving start going and hashem makes things open up he opens up the sea and he opens up those things blocking our lives and we're able to walk through and yistro heard he heard about these incredible miracles and the partial begins page 394 in the arts israel tuned in was he watching cnn or fox news did he get the new york times the wall street journal we don't know but we do know that he heard the news of what happened and not only did he read that news and then just turn the page continue with his danish take the next sip of his coffee mashmore he listened and he heard in an altogether different way of hearing and listening i've spoken about this countless times in the past so we will not revisit it now but the notion that isro is the paradigm isro is the role model isro teaches us how to listen not passive listening not a listening that stephen covey says most people do where the listening is just the break they take in between talking but a listening which is an active listening a desire to hear to absorb to be changed to be transformed a listening where you turn off your output and you turn up your input so there's no static there's not a conflict or tension between the two itself tells us so why is rashi asking the question was not what we all hear all kinds of things all the time what kind of listening did he do a listening that led to action we all listen we hear we become aware we're knowledgeable we're familiar with countless pieces of information with data points we hear stories and you know what they do for us garnished often nothing nothing we heard it we moved on maybe it got us choked up for a moment maybe we even forwarded it to our family but then what it died in the email that was it did it make us stop and think did it make us stop and change did we go and inquire did we go and sign up did we go and join the cause did we go and be part of a movement yisro is exceptional he's not the only one who heard shamu amin gazun the entire world heard what happened it was broadcast everywhere god 10 miracles split a sea we survived the attack of amalek there were no shortage of news stories that the jewish people were the front line up everyone heard the whole world knew but you know what they did they turned the page of the paper they turned the channel they went to the next they clicked on the next story yesterday says whoa one second something's going on here i gotta check this out i've gotta see for myself i want to be part of this and that's our first insight comes from the mega yosef yes he heard about the splitting of the sea and he heard about the war with amalek these were exceptional experiences the splitting of the city and surviving the vicious attack of amalek are they the most exceptional are they the most extraordinary they're certainly not the only ones what else happened ten plagues god intervened ten times to suspended the rules of nature ten times moshe his loyal servant predicted it ten times god came through israel wasn't moved by that israel's not impressed he doesn't get up he doesn't schedule his flight until the splitting of the sea and what is it about muhammad shamrock so says it seems based on what ghazal tell us is the splitting of the sea was heard around the world we don't find the esr marco's work but we find the splitting of the sea now we find we say in our azyasha every day we say so if the whole world heard you know who else heard you know who was among the world amalek and what did malek do now you're a malik you're an enemy of the jewish people they're not even born yet it's really extraordinary they have an enemy think about it the jewish people have not yet even gotten out of bed in the morning and they had an enemy 210 years they're enslaved in egypt 210 years they're subjugated they're in servitude they're persecuted they're pressed they're murdered and they've been liberated for about half a second and there's already a nation that wants to wipe them out what what'd they do what did they do what aggravated what created what incited this first anti-semitism what did they do wrong it's very telling about anti-semitism the world's oldest hatred that it has no basis that has no rational explanation it has no excuse because the jewish people had done nothing to offend the world they had done nothing to even yet be the moral conscience of the world and yet before their or at the same time as the very birth of the people amalek's already out to get them so if you're a mulligan you're out to get them you say to yourself huh there's jewish people i don't like them i don't want them around but is this the moment to attack you just heard that there was a miracle god split a sea that doesn't happen every day the sea was split into dry land in between the jews walk across and then the sea collapses and drowns the egyptians amalek heard that news they read that headline and you know what they said to themselves let's attack hurry i'm always showing the other decorations they were not moved in iota they were not moved in iota from the miracles that were done to the jewish people so therefore you know what they said to them israel said to himself [Music] israel if a malik if what it means to be a non-jew if what it means to be a spectator an observer to this story is that you're willing to ignore the message of history you're willing to ignore and neglect the lesson that's in your face i don't want to be part of that i want to go be part of the other team i want to go be part of the jewish people because you think about it what is it i've shared previously this is one of my own personal insights i have very few mostly i'm just good at repackaging and sharing with you but vayishma yesterday he didn't hear that the jewish people defeated him you know why he didn't hear that why didn't he hear that why didn't he hear that we defeated amalek because if you paid attention to last week's parasha we didn't defeat amalek we survived the malik the end of last week's parachute yeshua gathers the men and moshe is watching and he raises his arms and we survived their attack we didn't win we won the battle but we were not victorious or triumphant in a war so that's why it doesn't say that yes so heard that we defeated amali because we hadn't defeated our malik which makes the question all the more compelling so what's so exciting or impressive about it that made him come why would he arrive did you hear about the big thai in the soccer game the hockey game football game jewish people tied i'm all like whoo that's my team where can i get some swag why is easter showing up because we survived the attack of amalek we didn't even beat them so i humbly submit and suggest you is the most wicked nation on earth they are the epitome of evil when evil identifies and is threatened by and seeks to eliminate something you know it's special you know it's holy and i would argue with a certain sense of pride that that's true about the jewish people that the world is irrationally obsessed with us disproportionately focused on us is not in fact a badge of shame it's a veg of honor we wish they would change their attention we wish they would look to something new the very fact of the presence of the jewish people in israel or around the world means something to people when it should mean nothing look at how small we are how insignificant we are how negligible we are statistically and yet we draw such attention to the world the same reason israel looked up and he said ha malik's obsessed with this people amalek's the epitome of evil and evil is threatened by this people this nascent people i don't yet know who they are but i know that if amalek is so threatened by them i want to check them out i want to be part of that i want to know more about what's going on over there so israel picks up and he doesn't just have that thought he makes a change he makes a change there was a groundswell of aliyah after the six day war and other significant times in history there are moments where you read the writing on the wall you read history and the headlines and you can't sit still and you're not the same person and that's israel we listen to israel i've shared in the past that's why i think that even according to the opinions that israel really arrives after matan torah hashem places the arrival of israel in our parasha before matan torah why because listening is a prerequisite to receiving the torah being an active listener learning and listening like isro following that quality is a prerequisite it's a critical prerequisite to accurately and authentically being able to receive the torah moving on his grandchildren he didn't call him that yet he hadn't converted but his grandsons gershom and ellie essary why is kershawn in gershom because i was a garrett i was a stranger in a strange land why is the other eliezer because god came to my aid and he saved me from the sword of power saved me from the sword of power so a name is not just a symbol or a signal a name is in a description the name is a description it represents what is so significant or what is descriptive that moshe wants to memorialize that i was a sojourner i was a stranger in a strange land um the second amelia means hashem was my vertini he was my help god saved me that wasn't the house of power power wanted to kill me wanted to destroy me he wanted to annihilate he wanted to assassinate me and hashem saved me and i'm gonna name one of my children hashem save me eliezer god saved me survived the car crash survived the diagnosis survived hosting a pro-israel night survived whatever it is once survived you name your child god save me i want to forever remember akara satov god save me that makes sense so name the first child god saved me chronology chronologically it happened first why do you name the first child you know did you hear about the time i got stuck in france it was on a flight but i got diagnosed corona and i had to quarantine so i named my kid i got stuck in france i was a stranger in a strange land what a strange way to name a kid and why would you name your first child that kind says the following year elohim when moshe first arrives at israel's house is israel the man we meet in our parsha yes or now is the righteous convert israel now is the active listener yisro now is the role model who hears the messages of history when moshe first arrives you know who israel is the professor of comparative religion when moshe first arrives isro is the idolater who has experimented falls in love with the well and he's going home to his father-in-law israel but he's worried legitimately so he doesn't want to assimilate he doesn't want to become compromised or corrupt so what does he do is i mean imagine at the bris the schwere is right there and you say i know we're living in your house right now but let me be clear and i can't be more clear than by naming my first son that we're just stopping by so my first son's name your first grandchild is we're only here temporarily that's his name we're strangers we're stopping by we're outsiders that's his name that's what i've said and the first opportunity i have to get out of here i'm out for the coming and i want to go back to my place so in order to remain mindful in order to remain very focused he names his son i'm just a stranger and this is the legacy of avraham avinu is it not garvitar and this is the mission statement of a jew particularly in gallus although the jews in israel are in gullus go into so many restaurants or the mall listen to the music playing and you are in gullis the lyrics the language is even worse because many don't even know what it means if your english is your first language you shudder sometimes and you hear the music that's being played you could have godless even geographically when you're in israel certainly when we are outside of it and the message and the misum statement the motto and the bumper sticker of a jew is i'm a resident and a stranger simultaneously i participate in i contribute to and i take out the best of where i live but i'm still a stranger i'm an outsider i'm connected to and part of but i'm altogether together apart from and totally different simultaneously that tension which seems to be opposites and contradictory that's the challenge of being a jew is to not make them contradict i'm here i'm present i participate but we on the other hand there's a lot we don't have in common our definitions our values our orientations our attitudes there's so much that's different so as moshe is in mid-year he's in this foreign land this far and home and he's in the home of the king he's the he's the priest of midian israel he is the king of comparative religion moshe says well my first son's name is i'm just stopping by i'm a stranger we have a lot in common thank you for the hospitality but i'm not here to stay and as much as we have in common we have more that separates us and that leaves us different and so yes there was time for hakara satov eliezer god i'm so grateful you saved my life but what was the point of saving my life if i'm going to assimilate and lose who i am so even before i say thank you the first name is not eliezer the first name is gershom even before we get to it they say emotionally moshe goes out to greet him and he kissed him we've spoken about this in the past too we won't speak about it now who's he and who's him he kissed him intentionally the possible said big us and uses pronouns emotionally we have specific nouns now moshe goes to greet his father-in-law and he bows vayishak low and he kisses him who bowed who kissed whom i just wanted to be able to use the word whom shalom they inquire one to the other how their their well-being and they go inside so is loving having his father-in-law there and he says let me tell you everything going on let me tell you what's happening let me fill you in you're never going to believe let me tell you about all the travails all the challenges all the problems everything that happened on the way and you're never going to believe it you're never going to believe it now why is he telling him about kola why is he telling him about all the travails and all the problems and all the challenges what should he be telling him about it's most rabbenu it's mr positive smile focus on the good there were miracles you just walked away from miracles miracles israel's closed down you miraculously were able to get in there were 100 miracles that took place even the fact that you sat in a tin can that flew through the air and you're able to get to israel in a few hours and when you land you say you're not going to believe the zapdik person sitting next to me and they ran out of diet coke on the plane and my seat didn't recline as far as i wanted it to go kolatslao sasha matsusambadera and the person who picked up the airport says are you out of your mind nobody can come to israel right now the country's cut closed down you somehow snuck in and you were on a box that was flying through the air and you're able to just land and go to israel and all you're focused on was that the meal was uh wasn't so great that's what you're thinking about the person next to you took the arm rest for the whole flight this should be instead of a safety card there should be an etiquette card who gets the armrest there are certain rules about who gets the armrest they're unwritten but they should be written and i think the flight attendants that we know how to buckle a seat belt instead stand in the aisle and tell us the rules of the arm rest all right i got that out of my system so you landed in israel moshe albano should be telling israel shiver you're not going to believe it you're not going to believe what we went through i know you read about it but let me tell you what you read was a fraction of what we experienced let me tell you there were 10 miracles damn toy day i came in and then we got to the sea we thought we were safe and it turned out the egyptians were right behind us and we thought it was all over you're not going to believe it the sea split instead what does mosha tell them you're not going to believe it so we're out they chased us early i almost lost my mind and people were fighting skye nacho and finally he jumped it tells them about all the pro they wouldn't leave the sea they were collecting all the gold and silver i had to schlep them away and they're already a complaining incardial people they want the water all the problems moshe is our role model it's torah's moshe if it's taurus moshe and moshe is our role model what happened to the positivity bias what happened to the focus on positivity what's the cola close let me tell you about all the problems this is a robin romanesh goal my son-in-law's rav rewindfeld i've become a very big fan of his and he says the following which i think is push-up shot i think this is the chat russian says motion tells me about everything happening crazy lim shock as libo le carvalho torah his goal was to try to draw him closer to torah drawing closer to torah but if you took him earlier in impossible she says about yes that why did yeshua come to begin with he was willing to go to a barren desolate place because he was so moved and driven to here and to be transformed by torah so israel already made this great move so why did moshe have to be moshe fislibo so what do they have in the whole conversation to begin with israel is about to criticize moshe not criticize in-laws don't criticize he's about to offer constructive criticism i'm an in-law now so i'm on the in-law team he's about to offer constructive criticism to moshe that you don't have enough time for people the tent the line outside the tent is more than a cove testing site so if he doesn't have enough time why is marshall wasting his time telling israel what he already knows so many questions says rav weinfeld moshe wasn't telling him the glory of christianity he was telling about the tsaros you know why look at the rambam parachute when a person comes to be magaya we had conversion meetings last week every month on the head of manila the basement of conversion here in south florida for our community and last week incredible wonderful candidates considering that life-changing transformation and we always reiterate to them and while they're in the mikvah before they dunk and come up a jew we say do you know that right now you don't have a target on your back but when you come out of this mikvah and you're a jew it means that a gunman can sneak into your shule and hold you hostage because of his anti-semitic demands make no mistake fbi finally corrected themselves we tell the candidate you need to know you need to know that right now you're free and clear the moment you become a jew there's a target on your back writes the rambam why have you come to convert them do you not know that we're persecuted and oppressed that there's anti-semitism in mahmoud and if the person says yeah i know i'm not under a rock i know about anti-semitism i read the adl report i followed what happened last week in texas i know but you know what amy could die i'm not even worthy still to join them i desperately want yes i'm all in macabre oh so miyad we accept such a person immediately don't join the jewish people because you think you know you'll become a successful lawyer or stockbroker accountant don't join the jewish people because you think you're going to land a rich jewish husband or a beautiful jewish woman don't join the jewish people because of our fine cuisine don't join the jewish people for any external reason because you need to know that with all those rights and privileges that with the filter fish and challenge comes anti-semitism so only sign up if you're prepared to bear the burden of anti-semitism the person says i know and i'm in nonetheless the kabbalah cesar of weinfeld do you know where we learn this from moshe rabbenu yisro shows up and he says i'm ready to join where's the closest mikvah dunk me i'm ready i'm all in and moshe says whoa whoa dad shiver let me tell you not all fun and games you understand we thought we were out they chased us they still wanted to take us down and so he's telling him about that soros moshe is telling all the travail the tribulations because if you're coming to be magaya then you need to know russ says firstly what needs to do is identify with the people and not with the success you can't be a fair weather fan and join the jewish people you can't just latch on to when it's all well and good you have to know uh you have to know all the suffering and all the challenges you have to know everything else that led up to it and it would be part of it and want to be in nonetheless says now i know god is greater than all other gods all the deities all the idols from the very manner in which the egyptians had conspired against them what does that mean now i know what do you mean now you know only once moshe finishes speaking now he knows he knew before and moshe finished speaking how do we know that rashi says i thought i knew god i thought i read the headlines i thought i was moved to join the jewish people but that was nothing now now i really know what do you mean you studied comparative religion you heard the jewish story and you were moved by it to come did moshe tell you anything new what did moshe add a few details a few personal first hand experiences but there's nothing new that came out of it learns from here this is quoted in our safer we've been making our way through that after a person has havana s when you have a moment in your life you're present at the birth of a child you hear great news something seemingly coincidental works out so in your favor something you were so worried about and had such anxiety over turned out to be nothing when you witnessed magnificent sunrise or sunset when something extraordinary or transformational happens and that moment you feel undeniably with no doubt whatsoever with no uncertainty there is a hashem and he's involved in my life and he loves me you know when you're going to feel that tonight at 7 30. i'm not exaggerating i don't over promise and under deliver i don't i don't you don't hear me make these promises often but the dim light and the music we're going to play and you're going to close your eyes and you're going to feel your neshama moved and weinberger has a way to speak right to the neshama right to the meshamah and in that moment and in those moments that you're singing and your eyes are closed and there is no time and there is no space and there is no to-do list all there is is to dream about who we could be all there is to feel the loving embrace of hashem all there is is to lean in to the sense that there's order and purpose to this world and this universe in those moments we feel a connection we feel alive so it says that tells her of in those moments that you feel alive it's not that you know my amunah was a five and now i cranked it up a notch i got it up to an eight in that moment it's not that i added on or expanded it's that it's replaced find and replace you don't know if you have to write a weekly article you are a good friend of the find and replace feature in microsoft word but find and replace what i thought was amuna was nothing find and replace what i just experienced has transformed me so i'm not adding on to what i had before it is an altogether it's new experience of what i had before this is true in another area of life love sometimes with the spouse sometimes with a child something happens that moment there aren't words that capture how connected and how much love you feel and in that moment you don't say i used to love you i feel more love for you you say this is a categorically new love i i feel something categorically different elohim israel doesn't say i thought i knew him but i know i'm better i believe in him more now now in this moment this is a categorically different and new connection and feeling that i had before atta it's a very very beautiful insight an important insight for us to think about to look for those moments and experiences and when we are processing them when we are processing those moments and experiences to realize that what i'm feeling right now is not just adding on to what i had before but i'm a new person and this is a new relationship and that's a new emotion we're going to see this theme repeated in a moment with the notion of with the notion of haiyom i went to a see in mashaas last night a member of our shul russian winner made his simasha's two years ago he decided that he was going to finish chas it's actually an extraordinary story two years ago he watched rayon 11 who's here right now running our winter colo and it's the new rosh shiva of the shiva south florida starting in elul but the young 11 makes a siama shasta every year every year he finishes the whole shot he learns seven and a half plot a day and he finishes shots every year i grew up with him in teaneck he's a couple years younger than me and fresh and he's finishing shots every year i told him last night to see him i said in woodmere the rabbis make us come to book of the bella bottom do so moshe went around minnesota's last night he watched rabbi levin's see him two years ago and he said you know what i think i could try that number eleven spoke last night and he said that every year after his part of the reason the main reason he does it is try to motivate inspire others he said every year he gets countless phone calls so people want to know how do you do it how do you organize it where do you start when do you find the time help me he said he's gotten countless phone calls countless years only one person has ever gotten to the finish line and it was last night motion went again so moshe want to grab last night i'm embarrassing him publicly and for that it's too bad but i hope he forgives me he's a very humble person there are thirty-six massacres in shas last night was his 36th birthday and when he spoke at asean ashas he went through every masect and turned it into its villa he took bracha he went through every massacre and used it as at fila hashem help me this way help us feel closer that way thank you for this that way i sat there so moved i'm still i i texted him i'm still processing that the love note that you wrote to hashem and the romantic description of a relationship with torah that we were zucker you let a few of us listen in on why am i telling you this whole story ah dati i sat there feeling i'm witnessing something and i'm listening to something and i'm feeling something right now i'm experiencing something so it's not oh this is more this is a better scene than i ever went to no this is this is an altogether new experience atta right now it's something altogether new and it's important for us to think about that as we process it base let's try to pick it up a little bit try to get a few more ideas i converted i want to have a barbecue i want to have a po i don't know if he served chinese barbecue oh lose vacant he had a barbecue and he invites aaron kozak naggy sterol all the elders left now look him before god to come eat before god to come eat before god says from here you learn that if you eat a meal with the talmud it's like you are deriving benefit pleasure directly from the almighty what you said in a meal with a tallah it's as if you're sitting with hashem himself i understand you're sitting in the basement of the tamil i understand you're sitting in the shear of the tamar but you're sitting breaking bread with the tamar an enemy if you enjoy from the suda what does that mean and israel is inviting moshe through all this they have time for and the torah so i think last year previously we quoted salvation on this just to remind you what he said previously we quoted he served the food one of expect one would have expected yesterday to be the one to serve the guests no that was a different insight here it is before god how strange the phrase would have sounded to the greeks of old thinking before rather with god was a truism in late greek philosophy among the story who considered the finite human intellect an infinitesimal component of the infinite divine logos and regarded thinking as a reflex of the divine noetic gesture again i remind you that the rav learned english when he got to america whenever man engages in cognition he submerges in god because only through him his acquisition of knowledge possible to come close to god to unite with him through such unrefined carnal activity as eating would simply evoke ridicule to the greeks the idea that you could find god in the pastrami on rye to the idea that you find god in the potato kuggle that you could find god in the delicious gefilte fish would be an insult would be the subject of ridicule but our religious conscience felt differently one who eats with god in his presence how by sacrificial action which converts the food of men to the bread of hashem judaism develops a new institution the sudha it is neither an ordinary meal nor a feast it is more than that it is the crucible in which the bread of man is transposed into the bread of hashem expressing the fellowship between hashem and man and the participation of hashem in all human pursuits and activities the realization of the idea of soothing can occur only when a man eats differently from animal when he displays uniqueness with regard to the physiological processes which are required to satisfy the demands of his body from this positive derives the maxim that whoever enjoys a meal with a scholar surely it is as if he enjoyed the radiance the word is derived from a phrase that appears in regard to the nazir who is prohibited from partaking of the great-based products mishra's another bread soaked in wine just as bread absorbs wine the divine presence permeates the meal through the participation of the talmud in other words for us religion is not only in the shul or the base madrid for us religion is not asceticism for us religion is not transcendence for us religion is not a vow of abstinence or celibacy or a fast for us connection to hashem is found where in the pastrami and rye it's found in the filterfish the chant and the kegel for us you find hashem by transforming and elevating the physical of the mundane into the spiritual the rav is the brisker is writing but if you've been to a tish this is the idea of the shirayam of the sadiq and that sadiq eats from the food and that sadik is able to have that consciousness and that mindfulness and endow that food with that holiness and that sanctity and that saddek's act of eating is together different than us we still struggle with the animal instinct and impulse so you could say the cup of shot was quite dish blackman and cambrian used to say you know the kid would flip out he was in kby for 20 minutes and he was already now in shadows the khabib kaidish and would say are you sure it's not becoming your boy maybe you should say the covered mind boy it's for my stomach you're sure it's the common showers kodash that you're if not for shabbos you wouldn't be diving headfirst into the kishka you're sure it's becoming shabbos kurdish so we still struggle covered our boy it's still a little bit for our stomach for ourselves but that saddik is kula kamachabis kodesh sondik is able to get to that level of their eating is all about hashem so their food now is transformed it's different so the shiraim if you can eat and absorb some of the holiness and the way they transform that fruits special now i personally enjoyed the slaughter martian you shall aim it's the one tish i've ever been to but the sheraim they put on a plate with a fork most it's a lot more hamish than that super spreader before i ever even heard the word super spreader so but the shirayam is to more than that the act of eating is transformed and that's what again a very different source than or the rav shmuel birnbaum was the resistive of the mirrors that's all he says what is the pleasure you derive from a meal with the talmud what's the pleasure the shtickle terror they say they say advartor at the table that's the hana pastor it's the fact that sadiq is eating their eating is not mundane profane it's not secular their eating is a religious activity their eating is bringing hashem down into that eating and that's our mission our job is to sanctify the profane hashem in all that we do and he writes here the burn banner that's the idea of filling meniscus is i'm very focused i'm present in my eating of the matzah the level of mindfulness you have when you eat the matzah is the mindfulness we should have with every bite that we eat all the time of what we're doing and that it was a way to connect to hashem and hashem can be found in it was here a few weeks ago the tish friday night i noticed something interesting there's a big indian in bali musser i noticed that when he ate the soup he had a hot bowl of soup that was put in front of him when he ate the soup most people when they eat soup what do they do it's a piping hot bowl of soup it's not hot enough send it back it's the masoda from my father if you don't burn your tongue in the soup it wasn't hot enough that's our family in the silver so the soup is piping hot so what do most people do when they slurp their soup you lean over and you eat your soup but if you look at the tzadikem they never ever bow down or lean in or come closer to the food the food comes closer to them so i noticed that the cava sat up straight and he took each spoon of soup and his hand underneath it and he brought it up to his mouth the food the food's here to serve us we're not here to serve it we eat to live we don't live to eat and when you lean in and you bat it's a minor little it's a little gesture it's a little pasture does god really care if you lean in the soup yeah he doesn't care because he cares about the soup he cares because he cares about us and we condition ourselves and we impact ourselves and we consciously subconsciously express our attitude towards food in the way that we eat the way that we eat so not for now we're gonna share last year about the jewish philosophy of eating we're still trying to put it into practice but the jewish philosophy of eating and which of mine is a whole chapter we drew from and he holds that is specifically the place of kedusa but why because we need to eat in order to live a person can't fast several days in a row you'll die you need to be nourished in order to live which means that within the food of the nutrients for life itself who gives us life hashem where can we find hashem in this world manifest in a physical sense in the food we eat so every bite we take we're not just eating food we are imbibing and absorbing hashem we are swallowing god we are aiding to the that is a level of consciousness that's a level of mindfulness during eating which is all together different so that's anatomy it's not that gives the vulbenza we quote almost every week rivo's grandson moved to our community and he told me from a young boy he grew up in his grandfather's home shabbos mills jante miles and he said his grandfather rarely said it's vitora at the shabbos table they sang smiros he told stories he told jokes he wanted his family to be happy and smile he shared divreit his whole life was torah but not necessarily the shabbos table and that reminds me of this not necessarily the torah it's not the vendor said here this past shabbos don't force your kids to stay at the table don't think the table is a classroom with the curriculum where you're going to say over your sheer quality that's not what the shabbos table is about let's keep going um you down [Music] and he says what is this you're sitting by yourself and there's a line at the door from the morning until the evening what's going on over here what's going on over here all this time sir sullivan says from morning until evening says the rub the jews in the desert constituted a classless society when i first read that when he says classless society he doesn't mean that they were classless in their behavior he means it wasn't divided by class all their physical needs were satisfied equally there were a few civil cases in other words nobody's beamer bumped into somebody else's honda accord everybody drove the same donkey everybody ate the same food the man that fell everybody had the same water that came from the air nobody had you know 150 bottle of wine and the other person was drinking the uh cough syrup everybody had the same people have been in slavery for hundreds of years river humiliated tortured their wives decided their children snatched their arms brutally murdered suddenly they're liberated suddenly they find themselves free independent many did not know how to live in freedom night nightmares pursued them memories played havoc with them each knock on the door at night reminded them of the blood chilling scenes of a few years ago inmates of the extermination camps have related that for years afterward they could not sleep at night any noise any knock on the door would frighten them the people were dislocated mentally displaced physically confused frightened what a great phrase dislocated mentally have a dislocated limb you could be dislocated mentally what a great phrase they didn't need a judge they needed somebody to lead to teach them particularly somebody to confide in they clung to moshe they wanted to be in his company it's an inside of the rub amazing now this is rob is wondering there's a line out the door moshe's not sticking q-tips up their nose so they could travel why is there a line out the door what are they waiting for there's no civil disputes nobody owns anything everybody's on equal footing everyone's of equal class their lifestyle doesn't lend itself to conflict so why is there a line out the door so says thereof because do you know what these people had been through they clung to motion they wanted to be in his company's mere presence was inspiring his ways were assuring and coming his words of wisdom enlightened them drove away the ghosts of the past his words of comfort and souls placated their pent up emotions healed their schism and fused them with hope and faith why did the people stand for a motion before moshe then i bought arab certainly not due to his official capacity certainly not because moshe assumed the role of oriental ruler and chief justice inquired that people stand in his presence they stood about him because they loved him they were fascinated by him they could not be separated from him the standing was not of a ceremonial nature it was a spontaneous natural almost instinctual nature you know this reminds me of the story of the kleisenberger the dp camp right after the war on the first friday night there's a knock on the tent the entrance of where the kleisenberg was staying after liberation the first friday night in the dp camp and there was a child the child came to the klutzenberger and said could you give me a bracha the closing booger himself had lost all of his children his wife i think 13 children in the war said to this child but i'm not your father so the child looked up at him and the child said but i don't i don't have a father my father and my mother they were killed they were murdered you're the closest thing i have to a father can you give me a bracha so the claisenberger who himself was recovering was downtrodden his despondent was putting his life back together who didn't understand or appreciate in that moment that he was the father to this child put his hands on this child's head and that friday night he benched him he gave the child the bracha the child took leave and a few minutes later there was another knock on his door and there was another child and he said my father and my mother were killed could you give me a bracha the kleisenberger gave him a bracha a few minutes later there was another dock and when he opened the door there was a line of children as far as the eye could see they didn't come to the cloisonne burger and he booked out of ceremonially or because he had some official position they didn't do it for his honor he wasn't the ruler of the chief justice they didn't go to resolve disputes that they were having in the db dp camp they came because of what he represented who he was and the comfort and solace that he offered and the strength and the support that they needed boker on rf the way the rav took this pasuk which we normally read as two people having a fight a dispute i lent you a hundred dollars i didn't you didn't lend me a hundred dollars the rough the rap helps us get into the narrative and into the mindset of where these people had come from and what they wanted and what they longed for and why they were there amazing amazing insight by omaha racing against the clock on this day they arrived in the midbar they arrived in the wilderness what do you mean they arrived in the wilderness on this day you just told us the day what other day did they arrive in the wilderness why does it say on this day it should say by omaha on that day not this day it should have said on that day. so rashford says why does it say on this day to teach us that we should see the torah new as if we just received it now they've arrived at hasina we're about to have this most seminal amount of seminal moment of all human history the greatest moment of revelation of all history and we should tap into and read and experience this story not as an ancient part of history not as part of the past by yom hazel today today ravi rookham climbed up and he brought the torah down otherwise it belonged only in the heavens had no business being here on earth and when he did it wasn't one time only but it's an experience that we have day in and day out always over and over brand new and that's the meaning that sofa says first words we teach a young child when they can speak torah siva it is a inheritance but the word morocha doesn't mean inheritance what's the word for inheritance yerusha so why does the posix say mo russia it doesn't say the word yerusha because you shouldn't think it's coming you don't deserve it you're not entitled to it it's not automatically being transferred to your bank account it's not a yerusha it's a mo rasha the difference between a yerusha and a murasha is a yerusha whatever it says in the world gets executed you get the money you don't have to make an effort what do you sign your name what do you have to do you have to give a routing number to wire it what do you have to do yerush is coming to you but a morocha you have to earn a murasha you have to work for a murasha you have to put in your effort your toil said torah is not a yerusha it's a morosha murasha and that's why hayom hazeh we have to arrive at harsinai when not you we have to work for it we have to earn it now the rub is different for it by the way the rough said you know the differences between a murashan and usha it's a beautiful insight i think i've told it to you before i'm reminded of it when you see the ad for a watch that i'm going to mispronounce the name petite what's the what's it called patek phillip philippe i can't even say the name i'm not worthy of having such a watch not that any of you were getting it from me anyway but what is their tagline what do they say you never really own it you just hold it for the next generation it's a brilliant ad whoever did their marketing you never really own it you're just holding it for the next generation a yarusha you inherit you won the lottery you you inherit from your family go spend it go buy a plane and a yacht and fly through that money and you owe nothing to the generations to come a yerusha you're entitled to spend the way you want a mo russia you're not entitled to dip into whatsoever amorisha is lahavdil you could wear that watch but you're just holding it for the next generation torah you're not allowed to use it torah we are safeguarding so that we can pass it to the next generation sulfur says no psalm supper says murasha means you've got to work for it yerusha is coming to you worthy or not effort or not moshe you've got to work for you've got to be worthy that's why it says kafka is a different insight it says the cutscenes rashes says you know what day rashi says rosh chodesh lawyers they arrived in the third month on the first day and he says i want you to remember that every year this day this day rosh hoda she received the torah frank the qatar but they didn't get the torah when did we get the torah which day of the month of sivan seven to seven six seven seven that's even where the discussion is ella so why does the why does moshe say by rosh chodesh listen to this katsuka allah and the learning of torah need to be new but the preparation the anticipation for torah needs to be new what happened on rosh chodesh was not receiving the torah that doesn't happen to the seventh what happened the preparation for torah so not only does our learning of torah need to be with the excitement and the enthusiasm as if it's new but even our preparation needs to be with that enthusiasm as well fast forward perique you test possibly time for a couple more quick i will carry you on the wings of the eagles the advice and i will bring you to me we spoke last year beautiful what this means what the symbolism is but rashi tells us why what do you mean god carries us on the wing of the eagle rashford says kanesha anderson goes lava because the eagle in particular carries the little uh birds little chickies on its wing shikosharov was no sold their young and their claws underneath them but the ego says stand on my wing above me so that way they're protected so the ego carries on top of the wing because it soars the highest of all the birds and is protected from everything else below so hashem says i'll carry you on top of the wing not below the wing so you will not be struck by any arrow that's being shot from down below from down below it says says the grace to do sharim what are the and the blistrose that the mitzvah were zorkim hashem says i'll carry you on the wings of eagles you will be immune protected you will be above where the arrows can be slung at you what are the arrows that the egyptians can sling at you so they had tinus we know that the mithrim turned to god and they said halal of their voters were idolaters their idolaters so those were the arrows that the egyptians were slinging that absorbed and nevertheless showed up to protect the jewish people and we could learn something incredible for generations from here allah don't think you know i'm not worthy to learn torah because i've made mistakes i've had shortcomings i'm inadequate i'm unworthy i've failed and i have so many failures so i'm not worthy to start the torah all that matters is right now says climb aboard climb on top of my wing i but someone's going to say yesterday you were the late i'm going to shoot an arrow at you and say yes i knew you were the no good bum as far if i saw you coming out of mcdonald's yesterday you were the guy in the back of the show talking the entire davening in the middle of kardashian paducah yesterday you were the one repeating lashinari yesterday with a since you want to never get stuck on and who are you now to think you're sitting and learning torah hashem says climb on top of my wing i'll protect you from those arrows that's exactly what the mitzvah were flinging at us and god said climb aboard i got your back i will protect you i will protect you described here contest now that's what that's exactly what the huda sharon was saying one day he says climb on top of my wing because all that matters is atta in shamu don't worry what they're going to fling at you about yesterday they're going to come at you i remember you from high school and boy do i have some stories about you from high school i know now you think you're the rabbi of a big shul in florida i could tell you some stories from high school so they're flinging arrows hashem says climb on top of the wing i will protect you when when viata in shamawat don't worry about high school and don't worry about yesterday and don't even worry about it earlier this morning all that matters in the only dimension we live in is the atta right now in shemotism hear my voice right now listen to my messages right now and be a schoola from all the other nations what does it mean to be a schooler from all other nations this is the makkah torah saying average you should wear a red bengal no definitely not says if you wear a red string it's midah mori that is a form of the idolatry and superstition we left behind in egypt the red benthal such silly narashkai's superstition that is the that's what we left behind in egypt it says if you wear a red string it's idolatry that's not schoola torres says recently school be a schooler for me i know what it is read partial someone last week partial put a key in your khala beg 40 khalas he simply schooled be a schooler is that what the torah is telling us go find google all the schools and keep them all is that what the torah's telling us i met with somebody recently is going through a very hard time potentially hard time waiting for a challenging situation they said just tell me what to do i'll bake all the challahs in the world started listing off all these schools i said maybe just dabbing with kavanaugh maybe just make an effort to speak less la shannara not that the person speaks lashing or a lot maybe taka we have 613 suggestions we don't need to find new ones or more i usually sculla we have 613 school us none of them include a red string 613 school is that we have that's whatever salvation writes i'm in the school of nicola amin he says the word school means singular separate distinguished different and then he brings a lot of evidence we don't have time i want to end with one more thing but if you look through tanakh you see the word sculla means different distinguished elevated above when hashem says he doesn't mean be the nation that follows the most silly superstitions he says it means be distinguished with your mitzvos be distinguished with your medos be distinguished in who you are and how you behave 613 denim we have that guides us and that makes demands of us and that's who we are that's who we are supposed to be okay i can see it i guess we'll stop here i had so many more site 7 30 you don't want to miss it this is the harsinai this is bayo mazza this is atasha mobikoli tonight 7 30 come early grab your seat it's going to be an incredible evening thank you again 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