Rabbi Ilan Meirov: Hoshana Rabbah 2020 Marathon

you know ladies and gentlemen it's so hard to believe that we've gone through pesach and shavuot and the whole summer and now rosh hashanah and yom kippur sukkot and now we're reaching hoshanah by the seventh day of sukkot we've gone through all this time period with the coronavirus alive in the wild hashem rahim affecting so many families around the world just look at ellis side the land of israel where as we speak unfortunately they're going through a serious lockdown over there so many people being affected every single day people passing away in large numbers every day and now here we are in new york certain parts of new york are also going through a semi lockdown over the next few days and the truth is i myself unfortunately had to go through this i miss rosh hashanah i miss yom kippur i miss my son's bar mitzvah it's not a joke we definitely have to take this matter very seriously everyone listen to your to your doctors to your rabbanim to know exactly what's a must what's a nice thing to do but we gotta take this matter seriously what i want to talk about tonight is a few lessons and maybe a few practical lessons we can learn from what's happening around the world first of all we all know that all of us need kappa we need atonement hashem human beings we make mistakes and we need capac and there's many forms of atonement that we could have that we have to work for you know my conduct with my fellow man maybe i offended you i hurt your feelings god forbid stole from you so obviously i have to approach you and i have to try to make shalom and ask for forgiveness there's atonement that i need between me and hashem the things i may have done it's what i was in particular about i've wrote for those actions and tell us something very interesting we also need atonement for different sins we do on different days of the week you know maybe sunday we're a little relaxed with our observance monday we're struggling with this tuesday with that wednesday thursday friday shabbat you know every day of the week has its own struggles so we have between rosh hashanah and yom kippur we have every day of the week to work on and by doing to survive those specific days it's quote unquote somewhat of an atonement for all the mistakes we did in those days throughout the year and mercedes tell us something even more interesting we have yom kippur yom kippur people stayed up in shul all day long mamas from the morning seven eight nine a.m whenever time your minion starts all the way till the end of the fast 7 30 8 p.m so you were in shul the whole day and that was a capara an atonement for your day sins the average you do throughout the day now what about your knight sins people do have all the night what's going to be the atonement for that so our sages tell us that's what we're doing tonight by staying up all night and by a learning is getting atonement for any sins he may have done at nighttime so anyone that's hashem up and watching this you have an opportunity to do teshuva on this very important night hoshanah it's the 51st day hoshanah noon alef is 51. it's the 51st day from we all know that the month of elul we started but everyone's doing makes a difference and we had days of repentance of tishova of trying to improve hoshanah is day number 51. and there's many kabbalistic uh sources about the power of this day the day of really doing to shrivap as our judgment is being given over to the to the angels to go and put it into action so we have a chance to change whatever may have been written not good sealed not good for us tonight is an opportunity to do this and because i'm changing the turbine for the good i want to show you a very powerful message sukkot we know sukkot we're commemorating the ananea kavod when the jews were in the desert after we left egypt miraculously miracles upon miracles which our great great grandparents witnessed with their own eyes they experienced it and from generation to generation we commemorate it by eating matsan by sitting in the sukkah we do all these different rituals to remember the miracles that our forefathers experienced these are real this really happened this is real stuff it's not some stories these are things that millions of jews experienced so sukkot what are we commemorating that when we were in the desert could you imagine the heat the home how hot it is over there could you imagine all the different types of you know snakes scorpions who knows a wad that could come and attack it's not a simple situation so hashem protected us god protected us with ananya kavod with these special clouds that we're on top of us to our right to our left in front and back protecting us from the elements giving us tremendous protection from anything that can harm us but our sages tell us something very interesting not only was it there these clouds of glory weren't only there to protect us they were like our gps system i myself i can't drive without a gps i cannot get from a location a to location b without a gps oh hashem it's a great invention amisa had their own gps while they were in the desert when the clouds would lower itself it tells us stop when the clouds went up and started moving it tells us go it directed us throughout the time while we were in the desert we're talking about hundreds of thousands of adults millions of people have included all the children that were all protected by the clouds and directed by the clouds but i want to share with you a ramban that's very interesting he says something very fascinating says that that these clouds sometimes were quote unquote uncomfortable what do we mean by that you know whenever you go on a vacation sometimes you you know you need a rest you need to have a little stop everyone needs to have a little pit stop with the family right just to relax to go relieve yourself to buy some drinks whatever maybe while you're driving on the road i mean while they were in the desert there were times they really had to stop the people felt a little you know tired restless they wanted to stop but the clouds told them keep going just keep going there were other times when we wanted to go yeah everyone was jumping around let's go let's go we're tired of just sitting around and the clouds the past century he said what's going on in here why why did god do this to us why would he tell us to go when we wanted to stop and stop when we wanted to go what was the lesson behind it obviously hashem is not being cruel to us there's obviously a test there was something he was trying to teach us of here what's the lesson over here listen to what that's what tells us he says that hashem was teaching a misread the life is full of challenges you're not always going to be comfortable but even when it's not comfortable you just got to do what you have to do you got to follow the orders so if you want to go and we're telling you to stop you got to stop if you want to stop and we say go you got to go in order for a person to really persevere in this world a lot of lies in this world because i realize it's not always going to be comfortable and even when it's a little tough we got to still observe our mitzvoth we got to still do what we have to do we gotta continue with the torah we gotta continue with the crescent it's tough yeah but we gotta continue we can't stop this is the lesson i know all of us are angry yeah we're not happy with these new restrictions in different parts of new york everyone reacts in their own ways i'm not a fan of people doing things against the lochte shalom and acting violently or doing anything like that obviously no one's a fan of that no one's gonna support such things and people have to keep themselves under control we have to realize there's there's something shem is teaching us over here i'm not professing to know what hashem is teaching us but maybe it's a time for us to once again stop and pause and think for a moment while the shoes were open over the past few weeks over the past few months bob hashem did we really give it the proper kavod the proper respect now if you guys have called me out brahma we have to go protest we have to do this we have that let's go to the streets it was very interesting almost every single person that called me up i had a simple question for him i said khabib i know you sadik you want to go protest but i've been watching you i've been telling you over the past few weeks put the phone away in school what are you protesting and the other guy not particular about coming to minion the third guy i'm particular about this you guys want to protest one just to make noise is it really bothering you yes people are really bothered we can't deny that we have to look deep down in our hearts and we give the schools a proper respect while it was opened did we really give it the proper cover did we stop talking in the particular set do we stop making uh divrechol speaking things we shouldn't be speaking about oh but this is the time for us to pause and think we could scream all we want oh hashem we have delay they'll decide what should be done they're going to guide us but at the end of the day we have to look deep down in our hearts did we give the proper kavod and respect to our schools i definitely have room for improvement i took it for granted yeah we're back in school hashem we have to really look deep down and see what we could do furthermore do we get rid of this are we working on eradicating the basis hatred hashem i see some things that people say about certain communities within israel belittling them talking negatively about them i need some of them are so-called rabbis or leaders this is a stop it this baseless hatred that's going between different communities and different kihilot this is what hashem wants i'm israel has to be united yes i have a miniature and you have a different mean hug and you dress up like this and he dresses up like that okay hashem accept them for who they are but give the proper kavod as long as the people have the boundaries following the torah let's show more respect for each other more love for each other hashem i see so much israel it's unbelievable but i still see amongst us people that we have to work in this as well sukkot is a very powerful a very powerful holiday very powerful it's a time where we could just leave our homes and sit under the sukkah we are being protected and hugged by hashem we're holding the forming name which represent different segments of israel people that are above hashem people unfortunately not so much people will learn people like this this is a time for us to get more involved and outreach bring people closer to each other let's work at getting closer to each other let's work hard is to love each other unconditionally we could disagree but to love islam the thing what we have to work on what i have to work on what many of us have to work on it's not a shame let's hope and pray that every single one of us should be given up we should be written sealed transferred in the book of christ everywhere in the world and we should be able to go back to our yeshiva to our schools to learn without having all these distant learnings to really connect in a very deep fashion with hameen and ultimately to see the to see the ultimate redemption with the coming of the queen with the building amen