Rabbi Shais Taub presents Rosh HaShanah in the Springtime — Two Beginnings of the Cycle of Time

we are celebrating not only a new month but a new year today tradition isn't the first day of the month unison is a recession oh how could how could it be Rosh Hashanah everybody's familiar with Rosh Hashanah in the autumn on the first day of the month of Tishrei that's all summer so first we should know that there are many Rosh Hashanah there's a tractate in the Talmud called attractive Rosh Hashanah and the first Mishnah of that tractate says that there are many things many dates that are called Rosh Hashanah depending on what you're talking about so context if you're talking about the Rosh Hashanah where it becomes a new year like when it became tough shinpei when it became the year 5780 so that was the first day of Tisha day that is in the the autumn usually falls in late September early October but there's another Russian there are many other options but a very important reshawna is the first day of Nisan and there it's say that states very very clearly explicitly in Torah that that is the rosh hashanah because it's actually the very first mitzvah the very first mitzvah before the jewish people even left Egypt Hashem told my Charbonneau our teacher Moses today the first day of Nisan first day of this month shall be to you the beginning of all months the beginning of all months of the year and that statement which is in parishes body is the foundation or the basis for the biblical mitzvot to establish the Jewish calendar the Jewish calendar is a mitzvah it's a mitzvah to maintain a calendar and to know the date all holiday observance is connected with dates and many other mitzvahs are dependent upon dates but beyond that it's not just mitzvahs that depend on dates but it's the general idea of sanctifying time just like when we pick up an object and we use it to do a mitzvah you know when we let's say you take a little oven and s rook and you shake them on circus and you lift them up from a mundane state to a holy state or let's say you take money and you give it to docker you give it away as charity and you uplift it from the mundane to a holy state well time is also a creation not a not an object not a physical thing that exists within space but time is something that goes hand in hand with space time and space are sort of inextricable from each other and just like we can sanctify things we can sanctify the general idea of time and that's done by having the Jewish calendar and the Mitzvah to have the Jewish calendar into sanctified time was given on this very day over 3300 years ago and ever since that time this very day is commemorated as the head of the year Rosh Hashanah Rosh Hashanah which literally means the head of the year now let's talk a little bit about why there are these two in our lives these two heads of the year what does that mean for us that's two headed cycle you know there's a story in the Gemara that to be sure Benton Anya was once debating with the wise men of Athens and they were trying to get the better of him so they asked him where's the center the world so he said here this spot they looked at him said yeah really this spot he said go get long enough ropes and you'll measure it and what he meant and they understood this full well was that if you stand on any spot on an orb a sphere like the earth so any spot can be the center so if you go get a rope that's long enough right what's the circumference of the earth I think something like 20,000 someone will google it since we're all on computers now I think something like 20,000 miles some google it and you can put it in the chat and the live chat but it's a 27,000 why am I thinking it's 27,000 20 something thousand anyways but that distance that circumference that really you could measure that from any one spot on the earth all the way back again to that spot so that's what derbyshire banana was saying you saying look when you have a circle circle doesn't have a beginning or an end so you can pick any spot as the center and you could start from there and then you'll come back to that spot well time is also a circle time is cyclical time actually exists on two axes I guess I should say three axes why x and z axes in acidic teachings the metaphor for time is the bindle trap and yiddish that means the twisty stairs spiral staircase why is time like a spiral staircase because there's a paradox about time a year is a cycle a year is called a very good thank you 24900 one miles thank you okay that's the circumference of the earth so if you measure from any spot on the earth 24,000 901 miles and just keep going in one direction you're gonna come back to that same spot okay so a year is called a shauna like rosh hashanah or l'shanah Tovah Shona is an interesting word in the holy tongue shinden hey by the way Shendu and hay is also a mnemonic it's more than a mnemonic because it's not just a cute way of remembering things there's a existential connection to this number but shin-hey in gay mafia is 355 which is the number of days in a lunar year that's why we always have a shortfall because the number of days in a solar year is three sixty four and a quarter and we always come up nine days and a quarter short each year and that's why every few years we have a leap year and we add an extra month of other but 355 is the days of the lunar year the perfect months times 12 355 is shauna Shin is 300 none is 50 and hay is 5 so that's 355 the word Shawna has an interesting etymology on one hand it's related to the word Shin Lee or to be misciagna or Shawna's which means different because time measures change that's what time it is time is about change progress development so it makes sense that the word Shana is from that word which means change at the same exact time the word Shana comes to the word Shanee which means second that second like minutes and seconds but second like first and second or like Mishnah Torah which was the name that dorama Maimonides gave to his book which means the repetition of Torah I mean the seconding the the second the doubling of the the re articulation of of Torah so it's interesting there's a paradox there on one hand the word Shana year means Chanel a change on the other hand it means Shanee repetition doubling repeating how do you resolve this paradox is very simple that the year and time itself is like a spiral staircase that on one hand you are moving and coming back to the same point but on the other hand you're doing it on a higher level each time right so I'm moving but as I move a come back to the same point and this axis on this plane but each time I come back to it I'm on a higher level on this plane right so I move and I keep coming back to the same spot but I'm on a higher level which is why by the way every single year when we come back to any young Tiff's it doesn't matter what it is whether it's paisa or any of the other holidays of the year we are not just commemorating them but we are rien seing them we're not just to be experiencing them we're reappearance singing them on a higher level we're spiraling up the energy that will be revealed this Pesach is an energy that was never revealed in any previous pace of in history it will be a completely higher level so time is a circle and if time is a circle then really you can start the circle wherever you want right because there's no beginning and no end just like any spot on the face of the earth can be considered the center of the earth any spot in time can be considered the beginning of the time cycle let's go a little bit further if and I think it's helpful to think about it in spatial terms you know like thinking of the earth why because space is a little bit more concrete than time I think space is more relatable and more tangible to us than then time time is a little bit more spiritual or abstract so let's continue to discuss this in terms of space if any spot on the face of the earth can be chosen as the center of the earth right let's not like you know we're all influenced by those those Globes where the North Pole is on the top right and if we're going south we're going down south and why why does it have to be that way and in fact the way that from a Jewish perspective the the top of the earth is this the Holy Land is the Land of Israel and we in the United States are on the bottom or in the hot seat either Atacama in the bottom hemisphere okay but in terms of holiness so it all depends on what you are using as your as your criterion to determine where that spot is that is considered the the beginning of the circle so you can determine any spot on earth as being the center of the earth okay we'll call that a pull pull of what of whatever whatever it is the whatever criterion you're using to establish that spot as the the center when you do that when you establish one spot on earth as the center bye-bye-bye automatically by by definition you're also establishing another spot as its exact opposite what we call its Antipodes Antipodes is a term that they used to use in England for the for Australia but really Antipodes can mean any spot on earth that is the exact opposite of another spot when we were kids we used to dig a tunnel in the backyard and say we're going to China truth is the Antipodes of America is not exactly China but the point is that if you dig straight through the earth and come out on the other side Antipodes anti means against pode is like a podiatrist I'll foot back to you no code means feet so Antipodes means if you're standing on the earth and your feet are pointed down toward the center of the earth the guy whose feet are pointed exactly at your feet right two guys one is standing on this spot on earth the other standing on the other spot of Earth and their feet are pointing exactly at each other that's called Antipodes or let's see if I can do the arithmetic quickly enough somebody who is exactly twelve thousand four hundred fifty and a half miles away why do I say that number because it says here twenty four thousand nine hundred one miles was the circumference of the earth so exactly halfway around the world would be twelve thousand four hundred fifty and a half by the way from New York to Singapore I don't know if it's exactly that amount but it's pretty darn close to the extent that I don't know if they fly that route anymore but when they did used to fly JFK to Singapore they would not necessarily know till right before they took off which direction would they take off Easter where they take off West why because it's literally the other side of the earth so once you're going to the other side of the earth either way is equidistant either way is the same amount so whether you fly east you fly west is the same distance and they would just choose based on the wind direction under the on that day by the way if you would find the Antipodes of Jerusalem the exact spot will be an exact opposite side of the world from Jerusalem whereas it's not on land it's somewhere in the South Pacific I have a dream one day to travel there by the way if anyone's interested in adventure travel let me know I seriously do have a aspiration to go to the Antipodes of Jerusalem actually not that we're into these things but Dante in his Inferno said the entrance to hell is at the entities of Jerusalem and any but I don't think that's true and anyway imagine if you would take a boat to the Antipodes of Jerusalem and you would get 10 Jewish men to stand on the deck of a boat and daven do you realize they could all stand in a circle back-to-back all facing outward and daven together because at that point the Antipodes of jerusalem every single direction you face is equidistant to jerusalem there's no one direction every single direction will be equidistant to Jerusalem pretty pretty nifty huh okay well let's not get sidetracked I'm only talking about space right now is a metaphor for time if time is also a circle time is also cyclical time is also round so if I pick any spot to be the head of the year or in space we call it a pole right then automatically what else happens if I pick one spot in time one spot on that cycle to be considered the beginning of the cycle automatically what else happens the opposite point becomes the other pole where understanding this or following this just like if you pick any spot on the face of the earth there's an exact opposite face of the earth so if you pick one spot in time and the cycle circle of time to be the beginning of that cycle then there's an exact opposite or or or there's a counterpoint to that exact same time if the the first day of Nisan is the beginning of the year just like God told Moses back in Egypt for the very first mitzvah that you should keep this month as the first month of all the months of the year and keep a calendar that sanctifies time it once that happened what else happens if you establish Nissen as the head of the year at the exact same time you're also establishing the exact mirror image the opposite place that place time using term place loosely but the exact opposite point in time as the other head which is tisha day the first day of Tisha day exactly six months later exactly six months later the exact opposite side of the twelve month cycle of that Shona cycle so it's like having a North Pole and a South Pole if you have one beginning of the cycle of time you have another beginning you have two beginnings that's why you have two heads of the year and there's no contradiction they're both heads of the year just their heads for different things and that's very Jewish people always make fun of the fact that though those rabbis they could never get along they're always arguing about everything right Oh depends whose opinion it's not a joke though you know they say about the couple who went to the rabbi with a shawl and bias argument arguing a couple husband and wife so I went to the rabbi husband said his side the rabbi heard here is a mouth and he says you're right wife says hold on what about my side he says okay let's hear you she says her side and the rabbi says you're right the rabbi his own wife is walking by chi over here since she says how could they both be right they can't both be right there aback says to his wife you're also right okay so we laugh and we say hey you know two jews three opinions but there's a reason for this there's a reason for this the reason is that reality is complex and Torah being the key to all of reality embraces and contains within it all of those complexities so you know paradox is not the same as contradiction you know what happens when one PhD marries another PhD you know you get a paradox pair of docs okay the paradox is net seems contradiction contradiction contradiction is unsustainable paradox is sustainable paradox is a dynamic tension between two truths which are opposites but complimentary at least that's one definition of a paradox and definitely in Judaism that is paradox and we find all truth within paradox if there's a truth in Judaism you always find it within paradox because if it would only be one thing or another or one thing and not the other then you're missing some element of the truth so we have two heads of the year because we have two truths about time which are really two truths about ourselves two opposite truths about ourselves can you can can you imagine that yeah each one of us has two opposite truths that we work with it so let's talk about those two truths the nice on truth of the tisha day truth maybe let's talk about the tissue a one first because it's the one that we're more familiar with as being the head of the year what does tissue a commemorate the first day of Tishrei Rosh Hashanah it's an anniversary of something what is the anniversary of st. Philip's myself as he caught it early game - and like we say in the domine say in the master and Rosh Hashanah this is the day the beginning of your work a remembrance of the first day first day of what creation we're remembering the fact that God created the world so today is the month of creation and creation means the beginning of the natural order now let's contrast this with Nissan Nissan is what well it's right there in the name the ascenders from the word Ness which means miracle right like it says on the dreidel nice God oh how you Shawn a great ness a great miracle happened there so Nissan is from the word Ness miracle so if Tish day is the beginning of the natural order the creation of the heavens and the earth and all the laws that govern the heavens in the earth missins the exact opposite the polar opposite it is the beginning of the miraculous order Nissen is the month of our miraculous redemption from Egypt Nielson is the month of the ten plagues coming to an end and the Jews being miraculously redeemed from their oppressors and leaving Egypt seven days later the splitting of the sea which is the archetypical miracle of all miracles and then six weeks after that after the splitting of the sea were experiencing the greatest revelation that has ever been the revelation of the Torah at Sinai so we have these two polar opposites we have the rosh hashanah initiative which commemorates the beginning of the natural order we have the Rosh Hashanah innocent which commemorates the beginning of the miraculous order another way of saying that saying the exact same thing Tish should I commemorates the creation of the world Nissen commemorates the creation of the Jewish people so you have the creation of the natural order of the creation of the miraculous order two polar opposites that synonymous with saying creation of the world the creation of the Jewish people the creation of the world means nature but the creation of the Jewish people meaning the birth of the Jewish people and in the prophecies of Ezekiel there are many poetic descriptions that metaphorically described at length how the Exodus was a birth so the genesis of the world is in tisha day the genesis of the Jewish people is innocent you also see this by the way in the work that we do during that time today the work is all from us we have to do teshuva we have to return we did something that shouldn't have been done we have to fix it so it's all about our work pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps so to speak and that's why by the way Tish today is spelled you see it in the name itself tough Shin reg tuff is the last letter of the I love base Shin is the second to last race is the third to last good is closer to the beginning of the olive base so tough Shin race is showing you from the bottom up working from the bottom off and that's that's what we do in tisha day we work on ourselves and we fix whatever needs whatever needs fixing misses the opposite Nissen is has another name actually in in the Torah it's not called Nissen and turrets called padishah of Aviv spring month somebody asks if the class is being recorded yes it is being recorded and right after the live stream it is available for replay Aviv is the exact opposite of you spelled Aleph base so of the Aleph base you know the starts with Aleph and then it goes to base so I love base hadisha obvious finish the month of I love bass so today is tough generation below to above Aviv which is Nissen is Aleph base from above to below and so if in Tishrei it's all about us fixing what needs to be fixed then what's near son it's about allowing her shrimp to do what a Shem needs to do what does that mean and how is that work I understand if I have to fix things that's work but letting a Shem do his work how does that work well if you were ever a little kid and you remember asking your mother if you could help in the kitchen you know what would she say if you want to help get out of the kitchen right it's not so simple to get out of the way I'm getting out of the way is hard work what does it mean the work of getting out of the way we tried to get out of Egypt we were in Egypt for 210 years reduce Sharna radula means descend raysh is $200 for of over six that's 210 years that we were in Egypt and escapes were attempted and no one could ever get out so being in Egypt was a situation that we could not extricate ourselves from there was no work that we could do that would change it and in the end when we finally did get out we still didn't take ourselves out we were removed literally Hashem grabbed us and pulled us out Hashem did for us what we could not do for ourselves for two hundred ten years we couldn't get out and even on that last day we still couldn't get out on our own we were removed he we were taken out so it was never about human effort that's about how he got out of it's time to the contrary when it happened when it finally happened it was so blindingly a sudden we were so unprepared for it then we didn't even have time for our dough to rise what's the idea of eating the matzah as to remember that the dough of our ancestors didn't even have time to rise Hajin ziggler l am Elif math hemlock a McCulloh particle before the king of all kings the Holy One blessed be he revealed himself to the Jewish people so you know when you work for something you're prepared for the outcome you're working toward the outcome you produce the outcome it doesn't catch you by surprise but when something happens to you then it's very possible to be completely unprepared and especially when something happens to you that you could not only you didn't do for yourself but you couldn't do for yourself getting out of Egypt was something that we could not have what if we would given what if we were given another hundred years so I got forbid but two hundred ten years what if it was three hundred ten years maybe we could have gotten out by then huh how about 410 about 510 what do we say at the seder we tell our children we tell them that Hashem took me out of Egypt and if he hadn't then we all of us you and our children would still be slaves in Egypt to Pharaoh what does that mean it means the the exile was interminable there was no end the only way that it ended is Hashem ended it so that's the difference between Tichenor innocence today is we do the work who else is gonna do it you know god helps those who help themselves and Nissen is the exact opposite you can't do the work this work isn't for you to do the only thing you can do is make room for it get out of the way and allow it to happen we don't make miracles our Shem does and our role is to be humble enough to not interfere with the process what does that mean that means there's a time for work and there's a time for surrender when I need to do teshuva like Rosh Hashanah Tishri time in the autumn in Kippur which is 10 days after Rosh Hashanah I can't ask Hashem to do that for me I have to do it well when it comes to Nissen when it comes to being extricated from situations that human effort cannot that human effort is is futile against then I have a whole different kind of work and that is to be humble and to surrender and to allow Hashem to do what he's got to do and let him pick me up and move me when he wants to pick me up and move me sometimes we cling to our Egypt because we're used to it in fact we know four fifths of the Jewish people according to some calculations more even more than that but four fifths at least of the Jewish people didn't leave Egypt they weren't available for redemption to be available for redemption means that when Hashem starts moving you let him take you don't fight it don't ask for an itinerary just go along with it and you'll find yourself in a situation far greater than you could have dreamed of and certainly greater than you could have ever produced could have ever produced on your own and the symbol of this humility of this surrender of this I'm going to use a scary word so you can send the kids out of the room egodeath the symbol of this is matzah flat matzah flat matzo instead of puffy comets flat matzah means I have no ego I have no attachment I have no opinion actually about the direction that my life needs to go in I'm surrendering and I'm allowing Hashem to direct me so ask me which work is harder I don't know pens you know something to be said for both of them tissue is hard work making has been a nefesh you know taking personal stock and and cleaning up your act and making sure that whatever you did wrong you're not gonna do again you know in contrition and feeling sorry and then going to people that you've wronged that's hard work no question that's hard work but you know what the other rosh hashanah the other side of the cycle of time is also hard work and that's let go and let God surrender not so like humility to allow Hashem to do the miracles to allow him to do whatever he's got to do and when he does it it happens so fast and so miraculously that we don't even know what hit us we don't even have time for our bread to rise so which one of those two is Jewish the tisha day paradigm or the Nissan paradigm the creation of nature or the creation of miracles creation of the world or creation of the miraculous Jewish people which one of those is Jewish what's the answer to any Jewish question is it a or is it B yes or it's see where it's all of the above right and that's why we celebrate both Rosh Hashanah us because on one hand we are part of the world we are part of nature we are in this world souls and bodies and we have to be otherwise what's the point of coming down into the world what's the point of your soul coming into a body the point was to refine this world and to make it into a dwelling place for Hashem to make this world holier than heaven and that can only happen for in the world there's a well-known story at least in Chabad it's a well-known story so many of you may have heard it but the alter rebbe the first a type of Habad the malla tania when he was arrested and he was kept in prison so during his 53 days of imprisonment he used to be interrogated as well but that was at a different building prison was on one side of the River Inn in Petersburg and the courthouse where he was being interrogated was the other side of the river so there was a ferry boat that used to take him across every day and one day it was the beginning of the month the beginning of the month of Kislev and he wanted to say Kaddish lavona the the blessing and the new moon and he asked the boat captain to stop the boat and the boat captain refused so the outer debbye did something whatever he did and you know he made that boat stop he had whatever powers and the boat stopped and the captain couldn't get it to move so he asked the out that effort to release it and out today we released the boat and then he asked the captain now stopped the boat the captain said no the after that we did whatever he did he made the boat stop again captain said please release it the altar I released it he said now make it stop captain said no he went back and forth like that three times finally the captain said you know what give me a blessing I know you're a holy man and I'll stop it for you and in fact he was smart he said put it in writing and in fact decades later generations later Sinden met the children of this boat captain this non-jewish boat captain who had framed in their house the written blessing that the outsider wrote for the boat captain to get him to stop the boat so the famous question the question that that ever asked was if the outer debba was able to stop the boat on his own miraculously then why did he keep asking the captain to do it and the answer is that's not the point of Mitzvahs it's not to just use a miracle to do the mitzvot mitzvahs are particularly specifically performed in this world souls in bodies souls in heaven note the mitzvahs souls and bodies dimensions and they have to be done within the confines of space-time within nature and therefore in order to refine the world in order to make the world into a dwelling place for sham and therefore it to use a miracle to facilitate a mitzvah would actually diminish the effect the Mitzvah has on nature because it wouldn't be taking place within nature and that's why the outfit ever kept asking the captain the captain should stop it you know you know in a regular normal natural way so we very much need Rosh Hashanah in the autumn the Rosh Hashana of Tishrei where we commemorate the creation of time and space and heavens and earth and the natural order because we need to be in this world we need to be grounded in order to have an effect on the world at the same time however there's a saying in kovash not to decide tonight that someone who's tied down cannot lift himself above right it's like trying to grab yourself by the hair and pull yourself up if we would be only of this world then we wouldn't be able to elevate it we have to both be simultaneously above the world and in the world so to be of the world we have a Rosh Hashanah in Tichenor in the autumn where we commemorate nature but in order to remain above the world to remember that we are not just natural we are supernatural that our existence as Jews is miraculous then we have to have the Rosh Hashanah of miracles Rosh Hashanah in the springtime the Rosh Hashana that reminds us that we are not of this world it's an interesting paradox but like I told you everything within Judaism is a paradox so is the Jew of this world or above this world yes both in fact somebody pointed out once with that Superman which was written by two nice Jewish boys from Cleveland someone will google and find out Schumacher was the name of one of them forget the other one but two nice Jewish boys from Cleveland they made up Superman and that Superman is full of Jewish illusions Jewish references and it's basically describing the Jewish experience who wrote it first-generation Americans their parents are the immigrants who came over from you know the old country and you know the Jew has this paradoxical identity that on one hand you like everybody else so assimilate you know if the point is to come to a country that's free and allows you to be like everyone else so be like everybody else on the other hand you're never gonna be like everybody else you're an alien so Superman he looked like a human but he was actually an alien not a green skinned three-eyed alien with antennae he was a an alien that looked like a human being like a good-looking human being but he wasn't the human being and his superpowers came from the recognition that he was not of this earth so are we in the world or we above the world yes we have the rosh hashanah in the autumn rosh hashanah in tisha day there reminds us to be in this world and to work within the world and that everything has to happen from below to above through human effort and then we have a rosh hashanah and in the springtime in the month of the exodus our miraculous exodus which reminds us that everything comes from above to below and that it's a Shems work not our work and all we have to do is get out of the way and let him it's interesting that the very beginning of the Torah the very first verse but if his bodily keen magician my visa audits in the beginning Hashem created the heavens and the earth so on that verse the very very first comment of Rashi Rashi was the foremost commentary on the Torah and Rashi says that really technically tour did not have to start from this verse what does Raschi say I'll even give people a chance to google it if you want first Rashi says really Torah did not have to start from from voracious bada from the creation of the world where could it have started from what is Rashi suggests could have started from how he defends Elohim which is the commandment Hashem gives tamesha while they even are still in Medina this is God speaking to Moses all the Jews are still in Egypt and telling them that this month shall be for you the first of all months the month of miracles shall be the beginning of the sanctification of time and being that the Torah is a book of mitzvahs so should have started with the first Mitzvah it should have started with the first day of Nissen when God gave the first commandment the commandment to sanctify time so then why indeed does Torah start from the creation of the heavens in the earth and it goes through the lives of the patriarchs and the matriarchs and then the exile in Egypt and then the redemption from Egypt and then from the building of the of the sanctuary in the desert why what's all the narrative so one answer is like we're saying before if Torah would have just started with the mitzvahs if we would have just started you know because let me let me backtrack here for a second we've been talking about time as being cyclical time is cyclical but it's also linear now how could it be both paradox time is also linear in in terms of history well in term first history is also cyclical because history repeats itself and those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it but history is also linear so in the sense of history being linear if Torah would have started narrative Lee speaking from the first commandment the commandment to sanctify time which was given right before the Jews two weeks before the Jews left Egypt the narrative Lee speaking that's you you're missing the creation does that happen before that already happened we are starting the story we call it in medias res in the middle of the action already so whatever action happened before that was happened off screen that happened before the narrative began so if you don't start it from creation you're not gonna have creation as part of the Torah on one hand there's a very strong argument to be made Torah is a buck of mitzvahs have started from the first mitzvah started from a Shem giving us mitzvahs in other words started from the first day of Nissen started from the Rosh Hashana of miracles on the other hand though if you don't start it from the creation you don't start it from in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth then you're missing the other Shoshanna the creation of nature the natural order and since the whole purpose of the miracles of godly power coming down in the world is that it should come into the world that effect on the world so there has to be a natural order in order for miracles to refine the natural order so Torah has starts from the creation and then it leads up to the beginning of the miraculous birth of the Jewish people when Hashem introduces himself to us 49 days after the Exodus cam gives us the Torah Sinai what's the first thing a Shem puts on his resume when a Shem gives us his cv it's pretty impressive Lee the heavens and the earth he doesn't mention it he says I'm Nydia shamily kak I am the Lord your God who what I should hate to see her mad it's me tonight what took you out of Egypt to miraculously removed you from a situation not remove yourselves from so although the torah begins from the creation of the natural order the heavens and the earth when the ten commandments are given to us which is the beginning of our covenant Hashem establishes himself as the one who took us about took us out of Egypt the one who does miracles which one is which which is God is God the one who created the heavens and the earth in the beginning of the Torah or is God the one who introduced himself as the one with miraculous it took us out of Egypt after he designed which which one was which one was is God will the real God please stand up and obviously the answer is they're both God and our relationship with God depends on having both in our relationship with ourselves depends on having both because they're both elements within ourselves there's our natural selves and there's no our miraculous cells and one cannot exist without the other and that the purpose of life is the harmonization of the two opposite ends of this paradox which will ultimately be what in the coming of Messiah when Messiah comes it'll all take place here in this world the infinite will be revealed within the finite the miraculous will be revealed within the net instead of our souls and live in our bodies our bodies will live forever and enliven our souls because the ultimate revelation of this is not the revelation that takes place in the spiritual realms in heaven no what's a big what's the big deal if infinity can be a vessel for infinite the ultimate revelation is when infinity is revealed in the finite and the finite when the physical can be a vessel for the infinite the melding of the two in nature and above nature simultaneously so Machir comes it's not like we'll go to some alternate realm some spiritual plane not in the contrary even the souls and the highest heavens right now souls from all the different generations who have passed on and who are basking in the glow of the of the godly presence and various different levels of paradise all of those souls what will they do and we share comes and there will be ultimately the resurrection those souls will leave the beauty of their heavenly reward and they'll make a u-turn they've been going up every year every yard site with the cottage facilitating their transition and all of a sudden they're gonna make a u-turn and they're gonna come to the fizzled because the ultimate expression of godliness will be here in the physical world that's the ultimate paradox that's the Torah shoshanna's of the autumn and the spring so I want to wish everybody a healthy happy year a Shana Tova a Masuka obsolete Happy New Year and a caution for the hump ASA that means a kosher and joyous Passover and we should all experience miracles in our day to day life we should all see that even in the seemingly pori day today there is absolute miraculous above nature revelations going on