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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
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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
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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
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