Rabbi Palacci: Hoshana Rabbah 2020 Marathon

welcome everyone we're very excited to speak tonight hashanah night very special um special night as everybody knows that you know comes rosh hashanah everybody understands we're um being written and judged for what it's going to be and during the assailant right we are like it says arje you know are you what arya means arya is like the lion what's the lion how do you spell aries [Music] that's the beginning we're starting a process after that here comes a person is being judged on his upcoming year what's going to be after that you have our yeah you have the youth and that's the yom kippur where a person is finalized the seal and now comes hoshanah ba which is the hey arye it's the hey of the aries and that is where a person his pithic his uh uh uh envelope that's supposed to be happening throughout the year is given out to the angels to enact on it and therefore is a very big um a very big indiana how we stay up all night hoshanah by night and we sit and we learn torah and we stag and we grow with it and this is a great zakut that we have it's a great zaku to speak about it as well that's just the beginning now what do we have to do what is our avodah in the whole uh sukkot samhat everything and that is [Music] there's a famous rashi and there's a famous indian that i want to bring out and that is in parashat how many curses are there in prasad 98 curses 98 curses you go you flip out you you read the curses and parashat ki taval and you say to yourself is this real is this real i could have made 98 curses like the wildest girls they can imagine and what does it say right after that it says why and the answer they bring down is because we didn't serve hashem with simcha yeah how important is you know the quebec du chien says something amazing you could have two guys you have a you know two two two kids one kid he gives his father's steaks filet mignon lamb chops all the awesomest things and it says he's not getting his scar as much as the other guy who's giving him some oatmeal what do you mean rabbi how could it be how could it be tell me you have one kid giving his father oatmeal and his skaar in chemayo is crazy amazing and you have another kid giving his father steak a la ash all day long barbecue and daddy here take a drink take this thing that and he gets less reward than the guy who was giving his father oatmeal how could that be how could that be explained to me how could that be and the answer is the way it was given there's a way where the guy who was giving the stakes to his father he'll get reward for giving him but how did he give him his father oh what is dad just just eat dad just just just eat all right i made you food i made it well done i made it the way you want it just eat that so yeah how do you think the guy you know i'm saying at the end there he'll get a reward but the guy who what made the oatmeal what happened when he came to his father his father's looking at it wow what is it and he's explaining that i made this for you with such love and such happiness that i can serve my father oh my goodness you understand that anything else that you need is it is it too hard for you should i put some extra milk inside or you need a little bit more sugar that has a spoon do you like this is this spoon good enough or you want a bigger spoon wow so even though the father is having the oatmeal but and therefore the scar the reward is much much much much greater and therefore you must understand it's the same thing you must understand that the what's the king says in isaiah under samha that a thousand times more scar you will get when you serve hashem a thousand that means you could be doing a mitzvah by the way every day of your life filing let's say or any other mitzvah that's out there every day of your life but you won't get as much as the other guy who's doing with such joy he comes imagine he comes to shore and he puts his talent oh my goodness i could do a mitzvah i can't wait i can't wait oh my goodness i can't wait to put my talent to him it's about and instead i'm trying to say it's a whole different abode of hashem it's a whole different hashem you know you let's say your person says kidush it's about to say excited you're holding the the cup i can make it i'm making a saying hashem's name i'm saying all these things is serving hashem with samha and rashi explains is rashi how many sheep do we make during sukkot 98 why 98 sheep one of them in fashim explains caneget to combat the 98 curses that we didn't serve hashem with samaha and that's the shame that we have now in the sukkot they explain like this they say that this is in the air even as hashem himself with his emotions he is so much in this holiday more than any other why because the jews are clean from sin they just came out of a yom kippur and they're totally clean from their sin and hashem says i am so happy i'm such a simcha and this is a time where it's like you're in a vault and you have seven days or whatever the time left that we have right now we have what i've done right now and that's the time where we always have to be on a constant basis right like what like they go oh my god what's the hardest mitzvah and he said sukkot he says why because it says i have to be happy right and happiness is every second of sukkot you're happy you get another mitzvah that barbanel explains that that is like a a a simcha vault where the more happy you are the more you could nurture throughout the whole year now how do you be sam if you look in the sephiroth he has a whole section over there about you want to be happy in life one of the things that you must have is trust in hashem that's for sure i took my kids out for halloween whatever and i went to this 9 11 the 9 tribute and it was closed and my kid's like that what is this what is that one of the security guard ladies she came and she said how can i help you sir and says could you tell my daughters what happened the day of 9 11. so she looks at me and she says i think that's a parent job she's not i'm okay i'll i'll i'll see just in a broad way you have to go through details and she started saying that there was a plane it got hijacked it hit it hit the building and although i got hijacked and then my daughter said that's scary listen what the security lady said to a ten-year-old girl she looked it up and she says like this don't be scared in life from anybody or anything because there's god that's in control of everything i'm telling you from a security guard a lady standing in manhattan you think to yourself what the guy is giving hizuk saying there's nothing to be afraid of there's nothing to be scared of when you know that god is holding your hand and walking with you like the oraca brings down that image says that is thinking of us all the time it's not like oh you know what every single individual to who you are i always say this from a sultan right he's a rabbi now in l.a maybe the l.a people are listening now they know who he is but i remember we were walking down and bite the gun in israel i learned in israel for many years about four years i was living in israel amazing i loved it by the way anybody who's uh thinking of doing the year of israel make sure you make sure you do that i'm telling best experience of your life okay that's first all right anyway we're walking down my began we're walking in the and we see where yehuda and as with there so mayor sultan asks him rabbi give us the best advice that you can give us and he says as follows he says you have to know in life that hashem loves you hashem loves you hashem loves you hashem loves you hashem loves you you understand if you heard this whole class and you just got this it's worth it of course everything else is worth it of course they listen to right now in this class but this is the line that you have to be living with in your brain hashem loves you hashem loves you hashem loves me hashem loves me hashem loves me and he wants the best for you he wants you to have the best life now why am i telling you that because he gave us guidelines which is the torah where he says you must follow the torah and a lot of times sometimes it might be difficult to do this or to do that or not to do this and not to do that but at the end of the day he loves us so much he says i created the world i know what's good follow the torah and you will have a happy life everybody wants happiness i remember mari masala shalom anybody know where marie madison is you know you know he is oh man he was such a great rabbi i love hashem he passed away but i remember he used to have a famous thing when when baal chuvas used to come to him getting religious getting and he would tell them if i give you two pills one pill is a rich pill i'll give you all the money in the world you'll i'll give you money forget two pills one pill you have one bill first stop for a second i'll give you all the money blank checks do whatever you want that's one thing i'll give it to you but i have a pill that you take it and you'll be happy 24 7 no matter where you are and position your life what would you choose i could give you riches honestly speaking you you're listening right now you think about it right now think about it as you speak as we're learning right now imagine someone comes over to me a wealthy guy very wealthy guy the guy has buildings upon buildings upon buildings and he could write you a check 25 million dollars you choose that or you're not getting 25 million dollars but you're getting a pill that i'm giving you that you take this pill and you'll be happy 24 7. you're not you're not having a 25 million but you'll be happy what would you choose happiness or the money think about it 25 million dollars you're like no if i get 25 million dollars you know what i'm going to do i'll buy a yacht going to island oh chill out retire i'll be on a beach but who says that's happiness who says it's going to bring you happiness there's a very famous act i don't want to mention his name but i remember at the time growing up he was a comedian and he was funny as can be i'll tell you his name jim carrey so he said he said in interview they interviewed him and jim said i wish that everybody can be rich and famous like me so they could realize that's not going to bring them happiness coming from jim carrey he said he said that he wrote a check to himself for 10 million dollars and he saw it in november uh whatever was november 19 something or 2000 whatever 1998 or something like that he signed it he was young at the time he's in three years he's making that 10 million dollars and it happens to be the the the the the day that he wrote right before he did it he got a movie that starring whatever it is he got the 10 million dollar contract and he became famous and he became a wealthy very very rich and at at his like um at this award ceremony he got up in front of thousands of thousands of thousands of people and people looking all over the world he gets up he takes the mic and he says the following i wish everybody could be rich and famous like me so they can see for themselves it doesn't bring happiness and that is sukkot that is why listen to what i'm telling you right now very carefully think about the wealthiest jew in the world right now who's the wealthiest jew that's living right now oh you know i just i don't know whoever whoever the richest guy out there is okay the guy is he's his uh doorknobs are made out of gold you know you take one one one doorknob of his gold thrown up you could tell that you could live off of her whole year you know that's how wealthy the guy is i'm just giving example and he has a crazy house crazy i'm talking about everything custom-made from italy is chandelier that took one year to actually hand make and everything that you could possibly imagine everything i'm telling you comes to court he's sitting under the same roof as every single jew out there bam every jew hashem says leave your house you know why because i want to show and prove to you this point it's not the luxuries that bring happiness no no no no no no no people out there they always think if i get this and if i get that if i get this and i forget that who was the wealthiest person that lived on this earth who who who was the wealthiest person that lived on this earth king solomon he had power he had wisdom he had money he had fame he had wealth and he writes a cephe that we read on sukkot ev it's called kohelet and what does he write on quella what does he say hey he had everything he had everything do you understand what i'm talking about everything yet everything you know whatever you could imagine he had times it by a thousand whatever you're thinking times by a thousand he had and at the end he writes at the end i saw everything i had everything i want to let everybody know heavy lovely everything in life it's like a breath of air you think oh if i have this i'll be happy but you get it and you you want the better item i understand how many times were younger oh if i had that bike and then uh and all of a sudden you're coming down thinking he has a cannondale and you have just a you know huffy oh i want a cannondale whatever but i don't you just want the dummy no the answer is and i don't i know a person i know a person a very wealthy person i see his lifestyle everything is i want the next and the next but everybody's like that only him every person oh one thing i want that one that because they're thinking in their brain they're all gonna happy and happy if i have this oh if i just just just get this i'll be so happy happiness is knowing and having trust and faith in god that where you are in your position hashem is holding your hand that is the greatest happiness that you could have in your entire life and that's why when you look at the sadiq and you see and you open up samha the ways of this and you see what he talks about he speaks about what's bitter that means happiness you'll be happy you know why because you're sitting in god's hands yeah that's the whole su court by the way sukkot is the time when hashem says i'm giving you a hug come under my confession come under my my wings even if brahim palacio i'll never forget he writes in one of those funny be careful not to have a guy in the sukkah because then the is resting on the oh be careful oh he makes all big he says [Music] today at the end of his life he had he had to take certain medication where he wasn't he wasn't clean uh always so he couldn't always put on filing so only once a week i mean now once a week one week out of out of a month he was able to be totally clean and whatever was was towards the end end of his life and he chose to pick sukkot one of the things to put what to put filing on that why this is because i could put feline in the sukkah why what's the sukkah shiva ush pizin you know what the shiva why because the shrine is there is a time where a person has to understand it's not the luxuries of life that's going to make you happy it's the comfort of you knowing that god is taking care of you that brings you the happiness aren't you happy right now city stuff you're thinking right now you know apache so right it is right you know you're 100 right by the way i know god's taking care of me so you don't have anything to fear or worry about in the future people are like oh i'm thinking what's going to be now next year i don't know what to do hello what are you worried about god is holding your hand if you know god is holding your hand so therefore there's nothing to be scared about there's nothing to be worried about there's nothing to be afraid about hashem is with you 24 7. and that's the whole lesson of sukkot go out of your whole wajaras your whole situation of of everything of all luxuries and pressures and sashimi says put all your trust in me and sit in this who got with me for seven days you know why because i'm taking care of you the whole year anyway so therefore everything that you think all this all that i'm i'm here for you and i'm taking walking for you you understand what's going on over here my dear friends you understand what's going on over here i know this legit uh first hand like many many times you know we run a shul derek in brooklyn east 13th avenue t so um i'm there you know i remember uh we were we were closing on the building and it was very high over 2 million we're paying for the just our property i was like what's gonna be how's it gonna happen and i could promise you it was already it was already in we couldn't turn back now but one thing was for sure i saw god's hand every step of the way boom boom and really everybody sees it it's not only me every single person that's listening sees it we had a guy in our show one time many years back he was the guy in my mind he had he was the complainer what i mean by complainer in his life he would always complain complain complain and it bothered me a lot bothered me like what are you complaining about you're healthy you're good you're alive like what and he complained and i'll never forget it was literally um he was very high in religion and he was like very into it at a certain peak and he was learning well and he came over to me rabbi can i speak to you i'm thinking my mind uh oh here we go again all right what's the complaint like about his life you know complain he said rabbi i know you know all my complaints that i complain because i bounce it off you but i want to tell you with all the complaining that i complained about i could promise you he tells me these words hashem helped me out in every single situation that i was in those were his words because hashem's with us that's what brings you the joy that's what brings you this ha one time the hazon ish he was sitting down and one guy came from the holocaust and says he's telling hazonish i saw this in the holocaust i don't understand this i saw this and i don't understand i don't understand what's everything come over here for a second could you explain this to us i thought and the guy starts reading the torso fort and he tells him very very hard to suffer let me read it again he starts learning it again very hard i need some more time i don't understand it he says that you don't understand the support you think you understand that hashem's ways you think and your your brain is going to understand why god made the you think that you can understand every single thing of god i understand what's with you you don't understand how you understand hashem's ways it says every mismo is doesn't know this the fool doesn't know what he doesn't know god's ways so everybody asks the question it's not only the fool nobody knows exactly why god god does things why is it only the fool he says because the fool is always trying to think oh how is it going to fit and then at the end of the day if he doesn't understand something he starts going crazy i don't understand but the wise person understands that god's ways are above him and sometimes he's not going to understand but that's okay because at the end of the day he's my father in heaven and he's watching over me 24 7. and this is really the samha that we have and that we take along with us through this in the beginning it was ibd yeah that's a very big avodah to serve hashem we must understand though the second part is a person has to live his life according to the fact where he has the zakut to serve god hashem picked you out of billions of people you must understand something stop right here right now you were chosen out of billions of people how many people are there in the world over 13 billion 14 billion people right am i right 13 14 billion people or 7 billion people 7 billion 7 billion people how many jews are there in the world how many jews how many jews about 13 million the percentage of you being born jewish is so is so almost impossible you could win you could play the mega lottery and win it 150 times in your lifetime then to have odds that you'll be born jewish the fact that you know that rule right now you should be happy that god picked you every time we go to the torah you know how we make we a a man gets an aliyah for the torah what's the baraka that he makes hashem you chose me from all the other nations you got picked out of the hat hashem says you are the chosen nation even the non-jews know that the jews are the chosen nation so you are the chosen nation you won the lotto you won the mega billion trillion zillion there shouldn't be a day in your life that you shouldn't be flying the fact that you're jewish you're born jewish and now god says keep them it's vote for your own good wow oh boy i can't wait to do my next meets well i'm going to do with such joy hashem thank you for picking me as a jewish person i'm going to do the mitzvah with such a joy and sometime they're going to vilna and when he was passing away he was holding the succeed and he was crying and he said he told him why are you crying you're going to get in he says yeah because a few pennies over here back then there was a few pennies he could buy his success billions and billions of trillions of trillions reward in ulama how is he going to leave this world not doing the mitzvot every samara there's a famous statement that uh we sing everything is right take any pleasures that you can think of in this whole entire world put in the castle from the beginning creation till the end of creation doesn't equal the one sniff of the outside waiting of the ghanaian again but learning torah is the best in zach it's better than what do you mean how could it be because over here you have that challenge all day long you have a challenge with the yetzer and hashem wants to see how much you love him by conquering