Rabbi Shmuel Reichman - Sukkos: Peering Through the Surface

so we're going to share some incredibly deep ideas regarding circus but i want to start off with a powerful story that i just heard that had a huge impact on me and the story is a true story of a man who went over to his rabbi at was a wedding and he went over to his old rabbi it was a third grade ravi and he said ravi do you remember me and the rebbe said of course i remember you how you doing and he said i'm doing great so there have you asked his old tom and he said so what are you doing these days what are you up to the by this time the boy is a you know he's an adult and he says i'm actually a rappy i'm a teacher so his old rabbi says what inspired you to do that and this man turns to his his old crappy and says you did you you inspired me and he said how did i inspire you he said i'm sure you remember but i'll tell you the story story when i was in third grade and i came from a very poor background poor family and i didn't have any money and one day another boy in the class came to class with a fancy watch and i wanted it i didn't have anything like that so i stole it i stole his watch and of course a couple minutes later he had left it on the desk and i had taken it when he went to get something he came back and the watch was going he went over to you went over to the rabby and he said revvy someone stole my watch so you lined us all up and you told us to turn around towards the wall to close our eyes and one by one you started to check our pockets and the watch was in my pocket so you were getting closer to me and i was thinking my life's about to be over my life is about to be over you're about to pull out the watch everyone's going to know that i'm a ghana and i'm going to be branded as a ghana for my whole life and everyone's going to think of me as a ghanaf and that's it my life's over it's getting closer and i was like counting down the seconds until everything was going to explode and lo and behold you came to me obviously you found the watch my pocket and you told everyone to turn around you went over to the boy who owned the watch he gave him back his watch and that was it and i was like how in the world why in the world what in the world what just happened you didn't tell the boy who had his watch told who stole the watch he didn't make a scene in front of the whole class and no one knew that i stole the watch and i was thinking okay no no one knows but at least you're gonna bring it up to me like you're gonna like give me that look but you never gave me luck you never gave me a look and not only that date but the entire year you never once came over and acknowledged it told me about it talked about it you just you moved on and not only did you save me from the embarrassment of having the person know that i stole his watch not only did you make a scene from the class that everyone in the class would have known that i was a ghana but you didn't even make a scene with me it didn't even make it uncomfortable between me and you and as i grew up i was that always stuck with me and i was thinking about how much of an impact you had on me because i i was able to really move past it i was able to get past the fact that i made a mistake and i learned from it and i obviously have never done it again but i was thinking the impact you had in me i want to have that impact on other people so i said i'm going to be a happy i'm going to be a teacher and i'm going to have an impact on people and this man is talking to his rappy and the rebbe doesn't seem to have like a look of like wow on his face he he so he turns to japan he says grabby don't you remember this and the rabbi says to be very honest with you i i don't so he says how can you not remember this this is like a big scene how can you not remember it so the rabbi said to be honest with you the reason i don't remember it is because i was closing my eyes too wow like when i heard that i was like that's a story the rebbe was closing his eyes why because he didn't want to look negatively at the boy either he didn't want to have that negative perception either i was thinking on the one hand this is so powerful in terms of perception how we see ourselves how we see with people how we see torah mitzvahs how we see hashem it's the lens through which we see things but then i was thinking that we're about to give a shirt on sokus we're going to delve into so many different powerful topics when it comes to circus and rabbi and simplest torah i was thinking about one of these fascinating questions we can ask which is do you have to close your eyes to think about perceive and experience the spiritual you have to close your eyes because that's that's the default that you think because you close your eyes you're out of cumzits and you're you're transcending this world and one of the things we talk about we talk about this powerful theme about seeing the physical through the seeing the spiritual through the physical opening your eyes and seeing the spiritual so i want to delve into some deep themes when it comes to circus and i want to kind of introduce this this idea that i just shared with you as maybe like a a paradigm to which we can approach this okay let's try to try a little deeper into circus only because stuck is such a complicated hug not only because of its time and coming right after young kipper which is a time of transcendence from allah and we're angels and then we come back we're literally engaging in the physical world full throttle and another really interesting aspect of circus is the fact that it's so many different hakeem we have sakas then we have uh shauna rabba and schmidt sarah since depending if you're in hotline same day inaudible but what what are these different stages of success and what is the real essence of sukkos what is sukkas about because the acre the main element of the sukkah is this also the the german sukkah always refers to the sukkah in the context of the base i make this comparing contrasting to the base and make this what's the connection between the silk and the base i make dish and we're not going to delve so much into the arab i mean but the arby's also you have a really interesting have so many different analogies when they talk about darba meenum and the lula of the louvre is one entity or is it three different entities with the lulav the dasman the revolvers and the estrogen and the is the asterisk separate you put it together and it's you know just one unit and it's so many fascinating questions to think about when we think about the relationship between the argument themselves the ibrahim and the sukkah and what the essence of the sukkah is adirs harai leaving our sturdy home and really recognizing that the sturdiness and everything all of our our sustenance and our ability to thrive in this world stems from akashbaraku it's a time of hashikaka and yet we also have the guests that we invite into our sukkah and we're going to try to delve into at least one of the guests what's this idea of so let's open it up because if we were going to give 15 shirim then we can delve into each of these topics separately but i want to kind of build a a framework a picture through which we can delve into a lot of different aspects of circus and perhaps in the future we'll delve deeper into specific topics have a whole sheer on one specific question but i want to i want to delve into the the rag more generally and obviously we're going to go very deep but because we're going to go more generally we're going to build a bunch of deep seeds deep concepts and hopefully tie them together so let's start with with the question of the sook itself the essence the icker the main component of asuka is and the besides for being the roof it has to be somewhat transparent it has you have to be able to see the stars at night it has a lot of sunlight in if you learn the if you learn through the gemaras there's a lot of questions in terms of the transparencies you know how much sunlight was a problem it's not a problem but why does this need to be transparent that's what's one question and also you can think of it as one of the most perplexing connections between the sukkah and sarah sarimenu rashi picks up on the fact that sarah's other name was iska which has the same root as so this sorry menu somehow has some fundamental connection to sukkos so so yiska what's this idea of esco why is it so connected to and actually talked about how this teaches us the paradigm the most important concept of what true beauty is so you don't really think of success having to do with beauty and sorry menu what's what's going on here what's the connection between beauty and sorry menu and there's a fascinating matrix the major says that when a person's body is in this world is not complete it's not complete when will it be complete it will be complete when there's amazing so there's goes into this in a very deep way it says that our goof our physical body is not able to contain the full essence of ourselves so we are no longer able to harish harishan his goof was able to fully reflect his nisham fully encompasses so for example your intellect your mind is limited because it's a limited body you can't think about the infinite because you're in a finite body you can contemplate the infinite but you can actually contain it so another aspect is that your body is actually limited for example hazal talked about how we've mentioned this many times and when you originally looked at you saw his neshama himself when you look at me when i look at you i only see your face i don't see your thoughts i don't see your inner consciousness i don't see yourself i'll see your spiritual essence i just see your face when you look at that narration you originally saw him his soul himself his shama his ani his eye his inner self and the muscle that we've given him many times in the past is a light bulb when you look at a light bulb you see light you look very closely you see just the outer surface of the bulb that's what derivation used to look like and after he ascends he fell the physical world fell we become we became much more physical and we can no longer see the spiritual root just like when you look at the world you can't see hashem the spiritual root of the physical world when you look at someone's face you don't see their spiritual root their inner consciousness is their inner world but in addition to that there's a limitation to how much of our true selves we can access because our body is so limited so the mind says that when it comes to the times it's amazing our body will be finally uplifted back to its original state other marishan and we will be compared to sarah sorry amina so once again there's a strange comparison between on the one hand and sarah on the other hand beauty in the other hand our true ideal state of nephesh let's say arnesham and guff we won't get into the complexity different aspects of the right now but there's shaman and sorry menu as this ideal so the question is what is the connection between all these different things what's the idea here so here's the the framing idea that we're going to delve into and it's going to obviously have a big impact when we talk about shaun rabba and the uniqueness of vasana rabbi and simpastora but let's start with soccer so i'll start with the main idea of transparency why because success is about getting outside of the normal rhythm the teva the normal rhythm of our lives and it's learning to see past the surface transparency when you are able to see past what appears on the surface and the analogy i like to give is at night you look through a window and the lights out in your room and you just see a reflection of yourself if you can get past that if you really focus closely all of a sudden that window turns into a window it's no longer a mirror you can see past the surface everything that lies outside when you see only the physical surface of reality you're living in a realm of ego of a limitation of or you know the kabbalistic concept is simpson but you're living in a very limited reality you're living in a world that's very unidimensional very physical finite and corporeal when you learn to see the world through a spiritual lens when you learn to think conceptually philosophically intellectually spiritually and not just intellectually distinct from motion but first step is intellectually learning to see the world perceive it with your mind and then integrate that into how you live your life which then gets fed through the emotions and ultimately how you live your life through action that's the full component of nephesh your physical aspect of yourself rock the emotional nisham of the intellectual you synthesize those together and you as an inner consciousness are able to fully infuse a conceptual ethereal spiritual intellectual with all the aspects of how you live your life that's the essence of what circus is about it's learning to see the world through a spiritual lens and that's that's transparency learning to look at a surface and say i can see through that surface into a whole dimension of high reality you learn to look up at the sky and perceive and conceive of and ponder the wonders of akash barracuda's world and really the rambam says that one of the most amazing ways to build yuri is to go out and just contemplate and perceive the wonders of reality to become finite and infinite at the same time to all of a sudden look at the nice guy become so small but then surge into the infinite once you realize that you're part of that and you can connect to that and that you have a cosmic infinite role to play in the world so circus is really all about this idea of connecting to the infinite through the finite connecting past the surface but through the surface and that's the idea of the nosham and the guff when you look at someone you all you see their physical body but you can use their body their physical expressions their actions their facial expressions their body language the words they say the actions they do to perceive what's going on in science so i can't see your thoughts i can feel your emotions i can't conceive of what it's like to actually be you but i can through all of your outer expressions tap into and connect to what's behind that surface to what's actually a route to the actual you that's what we do with with akash barracuda we can't see hakka but through the physical world through torah through mitzvos through three through te fila through everything that happens in the physical world we can trace it all back to the actual we can connect to the root we can connect to algorithm so it's learning to use the medium as a medium not as a wall not as an ends the ceiling the turns into something transparent that you can connect to something deeper so doesn't perform miracles anymore we don't have nivua doesn't openly reveal himself but through the hidden past you know permanent chronicle transitioned into a time of nister a time of teva finding the miraculous the niece in the flows within the nisthari and the niece and the historian as their amban famously says in partial bow we begin to be able to perceive the infinite through the finite perceive the miraculous through the natural the infinite and the ethereal through the physical and corporeal we start to begin to become infinite beings living within a finite world we don't have to escape our finitude we can use it and infuse the infinite within the finite by connecting to the infinite through the finite so that's not meant to be too poetic you should still be able to really understand what i'm saying but it's a beautiful beautiful concept to be living in a higher plane of reality while still within this plane of reality is mind-blowingly incredible that's what abraham taught us he taught us that you know mitzvah of maharaja talks about the lesson we don't escape the physical technique that shines soft as connection we use physical mitzvos wearing scissors reading mats shaking we use physical mentals to connect to the infinite that's a mind-blowing concept you know buddhism says you have to negate everything finite all physical reality and just transcend will itself just connect to something completely beyond we say no and then other religions also say if they reject physical aspect reject uh you know marriage and and the other corporeal physical elements of life in order to be spiritual we say exactly the opposite first you have your own kipper we are angels but then you come down to the physical world and you use the physical world to connect the infinite and it's a profound idea where is the focus is the focus on the infinite we're just using the physical ethical infinite the focus on bringing the infinite into the finite is the focus somehow living in that meeting point where we're somehow between the two in both of them and beyond both of them within one of them it's a mind-bending exercise to think about where the focus should be but the focus should be within both and yet beyond both and then also being able to transition between the two and that's a very interesting marriage between the physical and the spiritual which we'll hopefully talk a little more about but another paradigm besides for justin the shum and the goof the physical and the spiritual of you yourself and besides for just the paradigm of root and the quest manifest within the physical world two examples we just gave another example is ideas and wisdom and words so for example when you learn when you listen to share when you listen to this year when you listen to pastor when you're engaging in talmud torah the main point is not to be making just the midst of talmud torah and to go through the motions the main point is to break down the words you're hearing the words you're reading the words you're listening to and to get to the essence the icker the idea itself that's why who spoke the world into creation the idea of creating the physical world through speech is that the idea of the create the world with right one of the the gear says i'll use is beratious sakai create the world be racist racist also refers to wisdom the physical world is something fine i threw the find that you can trace it back to its root with the conceptual spiritual root which is ideas wisdom and torah torah thought that's the idea when you hear a torah share you don't want to just listen to words you want to break down the words and get back to the absolute idea you use the surface the words to get back to idea words are always a finite expression of something infinite that's why the word for word is a davar which is a thing a word is just a thing whether it's a box because what is a was a word with a speech words are taking ideas infinite ideas within your head it's cutting it up into something fine i'm putting it in a tave in a box a word and davar it's just that thing so when you speak you're really taking the infinite bringing down into the finance so the maharaja says why moshe couldn't speak he had a speech impediment like he had list he speech implanted because he couldn't take the infinite into the fighting he couldn't bridge the infinite and the finite and that's why the morale says that in safer development once barclay gave moshe the torah showed that you can take the infinite and put in defining words moshe was miraculously now able to speak as well they died moshe gained the power of speech as well after that so this is the powerful idea behind the infinite fine of the spiritual physical that the physical is a surface a transparent surface it looks like it's not transparent but when you learn to see the physical world through a spiritual lens you learn to view the physical as something transparent and that's the idea of beauty the idea of beauty physical beauty and every other form of beauty is the limited surface is there to reveal something infinitely more and so physical beauty is not just having a parallel goof when your body is symmetrical and you look physically great because a lot of physically beautiful people are ugly when they open their mouth it's almost haunting how ugly people can be and a lot of people who don't have symmetrical faces or the most beautiful physical form are absolutely beautiful i was just talking to someone about this when i was saying how we kind of have fluffed this idea over when we talk about inner beauty when we say physical beauty we're talking about something absolutely extraordinary physical beauty is real right but inner beauty is having that true oneness balance and harmony and true paralleled symmetrical awesomeness with your emotional self with your intellectual self with your consciousness your meditative inner consciousness it's having the same concept of true beauty with those things and then manifesting it through your physical body so emotional stability and beauty truly mastering your emotions being able to use your emotions truly mastering your intellect being able to then manifest that through how you speak manifest in your higher consciousness higher awareness being self-aware truly self-aware and then manifesting through how you act and live your life that's inner beauty it's not the fluffy concept of oh be a nice good person and that's inner beauty that's that's why people don't appreciate when you downplay physical beauty for inner beauty because people don't understand what you mean by inner beauty but you know pretty we're not talking about just be a nice good person we're talking about truly developing yourself truly creating something extraordinary within and then manifesting that outside through through your physical goof through your physical body so physical beauty is a fascinating question is it ideal isn't that ideal so admiration obviously had this ideal goof this ideal physical goof that reflected the spiritual self but now now just one second i'm gonna get something to drink as always i make a bracha before this year no left behavior to make you think any makeup so authenticity had this original beautiful guff and once he said the physical body no longer fully reflected his spiritual inner self but sarah imeinu was one person who did and that's the idea behind iska so yiska means transparent it means to see through it means to see through to be able to perceive what's inside through the outside and that's transparent sorry we know beautiful the midstream lusted after her and the midstream were not interested in spiritual beauty inner beauty they were interested in in physical exterior beauty but besides for having physical beauty sorry menu was able to fully fully express everything within on the outside which is a profound idea behind a very famous and perplexing rashi surashi quoting madras says that avraham never noticed how beautiful sorrow was until they were going down to mitzrayim so like really like what does that mean but the idea is so profound because until they went down to mitsrayam avraham saw sarah as a full being he didn't like isolate her physical beauty as a different aspect of herself he saw her her full self which the ichre the essence the true focus was everything that sar really was the physical was great but it was just a surface that revealed something infinitely deeper but when they were going down to msram and avram had to think about what the mitzram will say he suddenly realized that just as a physical being also sorry was immensely beautiful and the idea is that when you're truly truly living on that spiritual plane people don't see your physical body they see who you are they see your inner world your values what you think about what you speak about what you actually have chosen to become with your life and physical exercise taking care of physical body that's that's essential it's important it's fundamental but the whole purpose is for what's actually it or what's actually important in life which is you who are you what are you doing with your life what are you becoming what are you expressing when you talk when you think when you act when you like how do you live your life and that's the the real powerful idea behind sniffs this is not meant to hide you the ideal isn't to wear a garbage bag on your head and to be invisible the ideal is to hide the exterior to the extent that people are able to focus on who you actually are not just be captured by an outer expression of yourself people will judge you right away when all you do is focus on your exterior people will think that you are an exterior i think you are a physical person but when your focus is under on being modest so that people are able to focus on you then they start to actually perceive you that's also one of the powerful spiritual ideas of covering your hair the hair is is is a very deep topic we're not going to delve into now for those of you who just want like a little kernel of a powerful kind of ip why when a woman gets married she covers her hair hair is very sensual and the reason why is because hair grows in areas that reflect potency for outer expression of potential so whenever there's a place on your physical body that has very potent potential for outer expression you grow hair there and while you grow here there where we can give a whole shear on that it's a powerful powerful topic uh we're not going to right now seir comes from the word shah which is a gate which basically we're not it's it's ace of we're not going to get into into this idea right now because a sub was very um physical the idea of hair is something finite something a finite expression of the infinite so for example you grow hair in your head because the place of your mohs of your of your thoughts which is where you basically speak out into the world words so your head has a lot of hair because that's how you express your thoughts into the world under your armpits you have here because that's how you extend down the world through action your ava your private parts where you procreate has a lot of hair because that's where you expand and extend yourself into the world to create an extension of yourself through through having children so some people have feet um that have hair on their arms and on their legs and we're not going to go into that's why you also you have more hair in places where there's a more potent expression of inward infinity inward potential out into the physical world so when a woman gets married she covers her hair because her hair is a very sensual aspect of her outwards expression which should be kept between her and her husband so the idea of tsunua is not an idea of hiding you and pretending like a someone like you're not important or like we shouldn't focus on you should this disappear is the opposite it's allowing you to actually express who you truly are as opposed to being seen for just something on the surface and i'd like to suggest that this is also the idea behind that matrix that when turkeys occurs we're going to be like sarah because when three semester occurs the ideal is for the physical bite to fully reflect the inner self the inner trauma for not only like conceptually that you should say what you think but also your your actual physical body should look a luminescent transcendence and nowadays it doesn't and talks about this in great length as we mentioned but in time is once again going to fully reflect the soul and that's the idea of sarah because sarah is that paradigm for a goof that does fully reflect the soul and that's why by times because we will look like soy manu so the idea to close off this first section of this year the idea of sukis is really honing in and tapping into this concept of perceiving that which is deeper through the surface and just think about it when you think about any mitzvah you're doing there's always a deeper level deeper layer tefila there are deeper levels of covenant concentration learning torah there are always deeper levels of understanding self-awareness or deeper levels of understanding yourself thinking about and contemplating connecting hashem they're always deeper levels every aspect of life has an infinite spectrum of how much you can tap into how much you can access and sukkas is where we say okay we just had an amazing yamana rhyme it's a new year let's take the next step let's go a level deeper let's extend even further let's see past the service in a way that we never did before let's go deeper and i'm going to challenge you to really push yourself because when you learn a new deep idea when you are get tooled armed with powerful kinds of powerful ideas it allows you to perceive everything that connects to that idea in a deeper way and then you start to realize how infinitely valuable ideas are how infinitely valuable torah concepts are you start to build a treasure chest a filing cabinet a system and you start to reorganize your inner world so that you learn to see with deeper eyes and let's take the next step so now we have this concept of circus and we have six days of sukkahs and then we get to the seventh day hoshanah and whenever you hear numbers in torah you should always go back to the powerful spiritual concepts of numbers the maharal talks about the power of numbers in many many different ways and you should always think about the concept of six seven we've talked about this many many times that the physical world is comprised of sevens why sevens because the physical world is seven what's seven so there's seven days in the week there are seven still colors in the spectrum of light seven goes to the musical scale what shove that the physical world is built off of seven teva is seven and why because we live in a three-dimensional world so in order to understand this you have to think of it as the physical world and the spiritual the spirituals always ate limalament once again why so it works like this we live in a three-dimensional world which really means six sides why because the three-dimensional world is right left forward backward up and down so that three really turns into six but you have a six sided cube a three dimensional cube it could just be three you know six sides long on the floor the fact that they're connected is the seventh the seventh is always that which connects the pieces together and the eighth is the malamantava so you have a physical body but there's a soul you can have a physical entity but that which is spiritual and transcendent ethereal that which is infinite that which transcends the pieces that's so we've talked about many different examples of this we're not going to focus too much on but keep that in the back of your mind we'll come back to it so let's think about hashem robert vii so we're coming to now this concept of the seventh which is that which connects the six pieces together and also that which connects the sixth to the eighth right shabbos is mean alma shabas is the seventh day it's also the middle of the week that's why i can make abdullah until tuesday night because also the center of the week it's that seventh that which is sandwiches both sides of the week but also is at the center and the idea of shambas is a taste of ulama but you stop all creative activity you know and you connect to that which is transcendent so it's the seventh which connects you to the eighth so now we're talking about hoshan rabbo shanab is the seventh day of sukkos now it was hoshan rabbit part of such as a different it's the the the famous question is for saras is a separate right some people don't sit in the sukkah entrepreneurs there's a whole discussion in gemara whether shmianceris is the eighth day of sukkos or a completely separate it's really just its own day it's kind of like the idea of lumalum to have the eighth which is separate from the seven it stems from the seven it's only because of the seven but it's separate from the seven like think about that simplest torah is also the eighth but it's the ninth and three we're not gonna there's a lot to talk about here but let's focus on oshana's right now hoshanah abba is the seventh day now the seventh day of sukkos is a very very interesting day first of all the speech of shannon why what does definitely have to do we can give a holster all the other pieces but right now we're going to focus on hoshanah rama so why is david connected to hoshanah and also why is this on sukkas well why is sushana rabban sukkas we didn't understand what how channel rabbit is but whatever it is why is it why isn't sukka's just you don't have like different types of days of hanukkah and there's no different types of days of pesach on success we have these different days what is hashem there's this idea in ghazal that the gemara din actually only finalizes anarchian so you have rosh hashanah that's the yomadin but it's only gemara hasimah and yom kippur but even that is really only finalized i know shana rabba why what is hoshan rabbah in relation to the marijuana why is the gemara dinar rabba what's going on here and there are also some really strange things we do in hashanah but if you've been to davening on shannon but you realize that is like a combination of like all the different filos during the year and all different games fellas and the different the different tunes different socks you basically have so much combined into one fila it's like kind of like highlight reel of the whole year's fila and then we on the floor very strange to feel what's going on there's so much to think about what is the deeper ideas here when it comes to oshana rabba so the best starting place is to think about david once again because of the the type of sheer this is we can't give a full shoe in every aspect of this year and this would require horseshoe to really understand his life his story what he represents the different aspects and themes of the teshuva anova um the fact that he was rejected at a young age and that no one thought he would be anything and he became so extraordinary music is so connected to helen you know playing the harp so the the basic concept that we're going to focus on with the definite milk represents malchus the kingship stems from david and also the kingship of mashiach the ultimate concept of redemption of kingship stems we need to think about but let's begin like this what is malhus is a spiritual concept it's one of the ten medos ten spheros it's the last it's the seventh of the lower it's the tenth overall but it's the seventh of the lower medius which if you don't know what that means that's okay that's once again not even a sheer that's a whole series but the concept of malchus the concept of kingship needs to be understood because you can think of leadership and kingship as serving the king right if you think about medieval kings medieval kings what was the purpose of their kingship it was selfish the focus was you give honor to the king you respect the king you fear the king you love the king but the essence of being a king is selfish i want my constituents i want the people to serve me i want all the noblemen i want everyone to serve me so the idea of being a king is really being a self-serving monarch a self-serving leader and then you have democracy democracy is the opposite it's that the entire purpose of rulership of leadership is to serve the people so people got sick and tired of corrupt kings who were selfish and crazy and basically sent everyone out to war and to their death just to expand their domain and to basically serve their own egos so people rebelled and they ultimately built a democracy where the people vote for leaders but what is a leader now and this isn't to not democracy it's just a question of what democracy is democracy is where the leader is no greater than the people and to be honest the leader is actually nothing because all the leader is is someone who tells the people what the people want to hear so that they will get voted in which is why you have so much corruption in politics because you don't really know what anyone actually thinks or believes because they need to be voted into power so they need you to like them they need you to vote for them and you're going to vote for what you want so they need to tell you what you want so that you'll vote for them now are we going to revolutionize politics based on the fact that there's a problem with the democracy absolutely not but democracy might be better than kingship at least a selfish king but there's still problems with democracy but what's a true malch what's mahrus what's the jewish cause of malchus and why do we still believe that the ideal is malchus there's no question that machos can be corrupt but the ideal concept of mahrus is someone who has no ego and no selfish motives is completely transparent and wants one thing and one thing only to be a medium and a conduit to connect the people to connect client israel to hashem so as opposed to being selfish where the purpose is to serve the king as opposed to being nothing where the purpose is to serve the people the purpose of a true milk the purpose of david's malchus to connect clay israel to their ultimate source to the makur to their makkum to akashbaaho to the true malach so the idea is that a melech is nothing other than a powerful medium an inspiring medium a awesome inspiring medium that helps inspire the claw inspired claudia srell to connect to akashboro now this requires number one negating your ego number two being a tremendous number three recognizing that negating your ego is not becoming nothing but it's becoming everything because the goal in life is not to become like an ego list nothing addresses all i want to do is serve a coach no because who's serving a large america what are you if you're nothing the goal is to become extraordinary to become your ultimate self but to have no ego involved to recognize number one all of your co-hosts come from number two the entire purpose of becoming extraordinary becoming your ultimate self getting an extraordinary personality developing yourself developing skills and talents and learning and crafting and creating yourself really discovering yourself becoming your ultimate self the purpose that it is to devote it then to something even higher than yourself the ultimate self the ultimate source of all self so the idea here is not becoming nothing is becoming everything of it was an extraordinary individual one the greatest of all time but he devoted everything he was to his source i mean just read to helen and you just basically hear david saying i you know we'll get to this stuff it says i am feeling just like pouring out his heart and soul to a college bible so this is also the idea of true beauty the idea is basically embracing your higher self reflecting college and having your inner self we talked about your body reflecting your soul what about your soul reflecting higher soul right so your inner self reflecting your higher true ultimate suffocation which is the root of all self and then talks about as the self now the idea here is that david hamelach was this ultimate melech this ultimate conduit of revelation into the world and this is the power of david malcolm we want you to think about it started out literally what's the aid of negative ego number one's recognizing that your life comes from hashem we we all feel that we have a right to happiness we have a right to you know something and why isn't my life going the right way well first of all do we have a right to life you have no right to life you have no you didn't deserve to be born you didn't do anything to be born your your life is a gift or the fact that we're here is a gift kashmir who gave us life and we recognize that every day we are given this extraordinary gift called life comes with a gift where life also a responsibility of living our ultimate purpose living our ultimate life we're here for a reason and our job is to discover that reason and live with that passion and purpose but definitely took that to a whole new level because definitely literally has no independent source of life what am i referring to a famous famous midrish that david mel was supposed to die very very early actually after only a couple hours after his birth he's supposed to die and adam harishan saw this and decided to give david mel 70 years of life 70 years of life why 70. so first of all that's why admiration instead of living for a thousand live for 930 years seven years of his life went through the milk so we're not going to get into all the details because it's a very complicated fascinating topic which requires a lot of discussion when it comes to mathematics and numbers but to put it very simply what's the number seventy it's comprised of seven and ten seven times ten ten is the largest complete isolated number right one two three four five six seven nine ten now you just repeat one again is eleven two again is twelve three against thirteen you just keep on going back ten is the complete set that's why there's ten essays on the luchos that's why there's ten midos that's why you'll have so many fundamental um concepts that are split into the concept of 10 because 10 is a full set what's 7 once again 7 represents this idea of the physical this idea of something complete within the physical world so we have 7 lower medium 7 lower spheres that's why the idea of 7 is something sevilla means full complete we'll talk about later have shmona is shaming shemin is fat something explains beyond but svea something full is seven right so seven is full shining expands beyond the full right but seven is this physical full reality so is the seventh david is the seventh literally is the seventh why is that the seventh so first of all the fact that seven is fee is complete and ten is the full the the the smallest it's basically the it's a complete number it's the largest of from one to ten is the complete number so seven times ten is complete fullness so david lived 70 years he lived a completely full life which is a powerful powerful concept to begin with and that's why literally david is seven so david lived to this seven seventieth year seventy years of his life he is the seventh ushpezin and hashanarabha which we'll get into he was destined to be with batsheva bachcha literally means ba sheva the daughter of seven right and i mean if your mind is made blown right now like i don't know what will blow your mind because this is incredible it's like david is seven and to take it a step further david says ani david says that i i am davning i am prayer and tfillah is always hit palau hitbellow is in hitbal which is the seventh form of you know you have different forms of hebrew words so feel it can only be said in the seventh form of hitbal which because you say hitbala to davin which we talked about in the past davening is not doing something to sparkle it's doing something to yourself it's changing yourself it's changing what you want it's changing who you are it's becoming higher it's becoming a higher version of yourself so david is the seventh what's the seventh seventh is that which number one connects all the pieces of the physical world together the six sides of the three-dimensional world connects all the pieces together and connects it to the infinite but also is that medium that connects the infinite to the finite connects that to the physical world connects the college barclay to chloe's role it is the conduit is the medium is the meeting point between the physical and the infinite between the spiritual and the physical between us so david remember first of all what's this idea is this powerful yet david defines himself as feeling says that i am to feel it what does that mean first of all it's he's not saying that i am david like i'm i'm in the middle of dhammi he's saying that he is feeling he is a buddhist harassment he is pure will higher will why because made himself nothing other than a pure conduit for reflecting first of all absorbing akash baruch's russian but then giving that you know teaching that expressing that toll of claudius real and then helping connect clay israel back to al-qaeda so the idea is that david was a channel he was a channel for something higher than himself obviously he was tremendously unique he was he was you know a musician he was a shepherd he was many many things but he negated his ego and he became a conduit a channel a vessel for something infinitely greater than himself and that's the principle of mahrus and that's what hoshanah is so seventh so once again the seventh is what it connects the six days of circus to the eighth which we'll get to she answers torah it is also the seventh it's the conduit which connects the transcendent to the finite it is the negation of ego it's the day of mahrez where we basically say like i just want to be better i just want to purify my will i want you know a serious sound like here so no i want to make what i want what you want i want to uplift what i want i want to become a true version of myself and become the best version of myself i want to live in a higher level i want to think greater thoughts i want to want greater wants i want to have greater emotional realities i want to live a higher physical life i want so much more i want what you want it's negating our egos it's becoming an individual mela over ourselves that's why the villenegon says the ideal is to become means where your thoughts control your emotions but then control how you act to live top down right control your thoughts start thinking great thoughts learn torah learn how you're supposed to perceive the world then you feel that in your life and then kaved which is the literal means like the heaviest that's your you know kind of your liver it's like where you express yourself into the physical world with your blood but also is kavod which is how you you're covered honor once people look at you people give honor to someone when they look at them they see that person reflects something greater that person is extraordinary he's great she's amazing she's great she's exceptional why because they look and they see something true they see a reflection of akash birko in you and that's how you express yourself in the physical world right no one will see anyone's thoughts they'll see how they express themselves in the physical world that's where honor is given honor is not about the deep intimate connection between hashem it's about living a life of truth which is where you that's why the mission says if you want owner you won't get honor because if you want under you have ego and then no one will see anything really true and powerful about you it's when you don't want honor when you only want us to live a life of truth and you live that life and people see something extraordinary in you and they want to be like you and they want to live a life of truth which is why when you don't care about honor when all you care about is just living a great true awesome empowering life of devotees hashem that's the type of people that people respect and want to be like honor is a tool it's a tool to inspire empower and impact remember that it's important so the idea is that hashana rabbah is negating our ego hashana rabbit is where we become that conduit and that's why the idea is is very connected to circuits because surface is all about this idea of negative ego and that's really the idea of i mean we'll come back to in a couple minutes of the fila of oshana alba but that's the idea of why circus in general is so connected to this idea of a house right we have sukkas it's connected to this idea of a house why well first of all what is a house think about that what's a home a home is a space but why do we connect circus to the space to this house right we have first of all circus is connected to the basement ship we learned the gemara so many sugars throughout the entire misaka are focused on connecting the halakhas of sukkah to the base we'll give you tons of examples but the idea is that the surprise well what's the idea there also circus is a dress array a temporary dwelling place it's a house we leave our sturdy homes and we recognize that the sturdy security we have in life comes from college barracuda we'll be secure in our you know secure homes we'll also be securing dear sarah in a very temporary dwelling place called the sukkah sukkah home also a base ashoeva that's you know this place of celebration it's there's a gear so also there's a base house of importance everything about circus is about this base this bias what's the idea of a bias why why are we tapping into the concept of a house so a house is a malcolm it's a space but what is the concept of a malcolm it's the exact idea we've been talking about it's the concept of icker and tafal what's the purpose of the space of a makkam it's for what resides within it the icker so for example the nishaman gup for the aker is the neshama the guf is the space it's the house it's the bias for the neshama you go into a sukkah what's the icker the icker is you you're in the shema when you're sitting in the sook your family is thinking the sukkah the icker is the torah is the thoughts is the essence it's you and the sukkah is the toughest it's the bias it's the space in which you exist we've given sherman this is a very deep topic we can't go so much into it right now but the base that make this is the meeting point between uh manifest within the physical world it's a space it's a it's the space where karish baruch who comes into the world through the kosher dashing which is on top of the avengers which is where a college borough who creates emanates the world into existence it's the meeting point between the internet and finding between asana it's where we connect to the infinite but it's a space it's a space and you need to make a space within yourself for akash michigan is famous for making this phrase famous uh and the idea is in my heart i'm going to make a mishkan you have to create space within yourself there's a famous mahogany whether or not the mishkan was ideal was there always going to be a mishkan or were able to live without a mishkan according to one opinion we didn't need a mishkan because the ideal was for us to be walking a walking base i make this a walking mission why because what's the idea of a base of macdosh a space for the infinite to reside within a space for to come into this world and reside within and we we need to make that space within ourselves regardless of whether or not there's an external base i make dash where according to ramban that was always the ideal according to others it was just uh kind of the response once with the ego that we needed to build the mishkan it wasn't the ideal but without getting into the house we really need to give a whole stream like that's a fascinating whole because there's so many interesting nuances and details about that math locus but the idea is that we need to create spaces for something to exist within that's why who created a malcolm for us to exist there is other they're going to talk about creating malcolm was creating a malcolm before akash parker created the world there was only a quarterback question who created a vacuum a space for us to exist within we need to create a space for our to come into our lives the truth is that there's also there's already a space there's always a space but we need to create it for us to experience it that's why this facade says that everyone was being told was the only one who made space and it was tapped into the frequency that he was able to hear it we just need to channel we need to learn to see past the surface see past the surface to learn how to channel and connect through this physical meaning through his physical world tap into a higher dimension higher reality the purpose of the vessel acronym to fill right we have an orange what's the purpose of the peel appeals to protect the orange but it's also to allow it to sustain it but it ultimately also reveals it once you pull it away what's the what's the idea when it comes to your your guff your your vessel versus so on the one hand your guf contains the other hand your guf also allows you and shamba allows you to express yourself into the physical world but it also allows you to then connect to something higher to a color sparkle you exist so now you can connect to koshbar it's really like you are because you're in your body you can expand outwards into the physical world speaking doing mitzvos physical expressions into the world but then you can go deeper within connect the higher aspects of yourself and also go to the ultimate route of self to so it's like thinking in all directions thinking on all planes it's a very it's not this like very simple idea it's that there's many different levels and aspects and focuses but it's all within this concept of viking tougher and that's the idea of your body being a bias for your neshama that the body allows for you to do so many things but it also allows you to go deeper within and tap into higher spiritual aspects of yourself and that's what the baseline make dash as a bias and the suck of the bias and if you want to think about it this way sukh is a bias for us but also allows what allows to dwell with us that's what sukkah says it's after really after ma and torah on yom kippur after yom narayan and after the entire experience we are now so to speak dwelling with hakkas has the birth of clients we receive them on torah we then sinned we had to get forgiveness that was done on yom kippur moshe brought on the second lucas and you kept right now we dwell with akash bro living this life with the harasha shrina in this world that's the whether it's where it represents akash bro and protection and sovereignty living dwelling with us or sukkas mamash which also represents us living in the midbar after ma'am torah living a life of torah that's the same principle and idea of living with akash in the sukkah in this world in this physical bias the whole world is our bias and that's the also the difference between and so because mohammed's anonymous miraculous but even when the miraculous stops we don't have miracles anymore we don't have nivea no more prophecy isn't openly revealing himself but circus mamash still represents living with akaresh baruch who after montoya that's the idea of living with akash broker after yom kippur which is the second mountain gave the luhos to moshe the second time and there's also this idea of of all of clay israel coming together this idea that anyone in classroom can say anyone sucka that has to be lachem for the armament but for the sukkah it's the it's like the base i make this all clay shell comes together for the shelter golem all of christ will come together and that's the idea of a second that's why all of clients rules are biased where all of kleischer was a bias of us as a cloud as a seaboard connecting to kashmir but also a garage borough who residing with chrysler and within client israel on sukkahs that's part of the idea of simchas by sasha eva of the true semra is that oneness of individual combining into the clowns of the seabourn and that seaborg combining into something even greater and connecting to our ultimate route hakash which we've we've talked about many times that chuva is returning to your true self your higher self and to your clothing self collides from to the ultimate self also different layers and levels of self layers and levels of teshuva and hoshan rabbah is this idea shanaraba's idea of emptiness of ego of becoming something so infinitely greater than a small individual self because as an individual you can be great but only as great as you but once you can expand beyond yourself you can become infinitely more than yourself that's the idea of tough connecting to akash who you become something infinitely great in yourself you become a partner and a partner with like and that's the idea so what do we do on hashanah but number one we use a ravos aurevas it's a famous midges talks about to the asteroid it smells good and it tastes good different things some smell some taste therefore has no taste no smell it's completely egoless now it doesn't mean that the arava is the best it just represents this concept i mean it's not bad to have good taste and good smell that's real you know there's one lesson that even refers to the eva as rashan we're not going to go into the different complexities of the midrash but the idea of having no ego of having nothing of its own no smell no taste is the idea that we're representing and we're trying to tap into about which is really david this idea of of transparency of reflecting being a conduit a channel for something infinitely greater than ourselves and this arava which is tapping into something beyond itself because it's nothing of itself it recognizes that its true self comes from something higher that's the idea of why because once we've finalized our true will once we recognize that our true root stems from something infinitely higher than ourselves that's when the final seal the final gemara din occurs it's if you want to think about like this it's like there are stages and levels there's alol there's a then there's the final stage of yom kippur final stage of the gemara hashima of really tapping into our true self our true ozone of becoming our true ultimate selves living that life of truth in this world that's hashanah abba and that's the idea that when we become a channel for al qaeda's willingness world we want that because that's when we're really tapped into our best self our true self and that's why in a certain level the gomardian isn't fully complete until hoshan or abba which is when we really come in back you know yom kippur is transcending this world circus is coming into this world and oshana rabbits in this world but still so to speak living within a higher plane of reality channeling tapping into something higher and channeling the infinite into the finite that's what the kamar khasim has done and that's why hoshana rabbit is a deity if you want to take it a step deeper the arava is shaped like lips if you look at the rava they are over shaped like lips because they are rather shoshana rabbah it's a day of trilla it's a day of saliva uplifting our red restaurant becoming our true selves and that's why we have a super trella because what's mahrus malchus is connecting all the pieces together remember six or all the pieces of seven is connecting all the pieces together and connecting it to the eighth connecting into the infinite marcos is connecting all the pieces together and channeling it and expressing it as oneness and that's why the hoshanah rabbit's fila is connecting all the different types of fields together it's one literally like a hybrid fila where we take all the other aspects all the other type of fields from the year and we combine them into one fila and we use that to connect to guys back home that's also the opinion there of us is we're negating our egos we're knocking our egos out we're saying i just want to be my true self i want to be my highest i want to be my best self and that's that's awesome like that idea is so incredible and so far what we've developed is circus is the idea of connecting something infinite through the finite surface hoshan rob is becoming that channel negating our ego learning how to be infinite while still within the finite wanting so much to be our best cells but our best unique selves that fully embraces our uniqueness in our individuality but devotes it towards something completely beyond ourselves true avoidance of truthfilla john is the seventh and then we have eighth a lot of people don't eat the sucker why because shamini and serious is the eighth it's that which results from the previous seven days that's why according to many opinions in the gemara smith series is a separate it's not just part of circus it emanates from circus it's lamala it's above success wants one more day with us that's what murray talks about it's this day beyond that's why many people don't eat and suck because beyond the sukkah we take it back into our regular life taking all of what success gave us we bring it back into our life it's this higher plain higher level of reality but there's a bunch of questions when it comes to well really for the sake of this that we're going to close up with this last part of this year we're going to focus on shiny and terrace and simcha story which for the sake of this production will combine is one day and now it's just rules one day really it's fundamentally one day and hosar is a splinter too but this idea of of simcha's torah being a very interesting day number one we finished the cycle of torah we finished and we really obsessed really requires a lot of discussion we're not going to focus on now but because it gets kind of swept under the rug because we're focusing on subhastara no one really talks about it's an incredible parsha so many important ideas but in addition to the fact that we finished the torah cycle there's a lot of dancing and circling around we do have kapha's all of sukkahs we do a lot of akavas in simkas torah there's a lot of singing and dancing and really the torah itself was referred to us on kasu we referred to kiss referred to as a song what's this idea what's the idea of a song why do we refer to taurus a song as a matter of fact the rambam says that if we didn't have torah we'd learn the depths of of spiritual truth we'd connect hashem through music through song so what's the idea here so there are lots of circles in torah thought we have the akafos right but i also circled around urico seven times simple story we have seven hakafu's when it comes to weddings we sing in circles and really all simple as we sing and dance in circles there's this idea that the gemaran tightness staff love it aleph and bay says that sadiq and alhabar are going to be circling around akash baruch with crowns on their head pointing to and that's going to you know what this is the zhivashrina lots of strange circles we really have a circular concept of time we circle around in time so what's this idea of a circle so to be very honest with you this requires a very very full shear like at least an hour probably two or three hours but for the sake of time we're going to keep it very short and we'll you know we've actually we've talked about this a little bit in the past you can probably find some stream we've given on the past but for the sake of for the sake of brevity we're going to really focus on just the concept where a circle is in spiritual thought a circle represents spiritual death why because the circle has no beginning it has no end it has no change it is just sameness there's no growth there's no newness there's no development it's unidimensional it's just something self-contained and yet we have lots of circles that we could just mention so what's the idea the idea is like this a circle can become something much more on one condition you learn to view the circle as something which actually climbs into a spiral why so in general we think of time as something straight right you go you have past present future we've mentioned this idea is the most one of the most powerful ideas you can ever hear it's how to view time now when you view time as a straight line you basically have the past present and future but the real castle that's not how time works the circle every year has a yearly cycle of shefa based on the based on the difference him so we have this man of pesach of shiva's mouth different monument those might have the themes of the time that you can tap into and those are fundamental themes now why why do we know this so we know this because rashi brings down the midrash that besides fear this is being you know because i'll talk about this plenty of times but one of those famous examples is rashi says that avraham was baking matzos when the malachan came and lot was baking matzos and that same as besak so what do you mean cs was trying to occur for another couple hundred years what are we talking about so the idea is like this pesach didn't occur you see something trying to occur because you know it's time to leave that's right i mean we don't celebrate pesach because it's it's because of vts mid-triumph the reason why at smithsonian occurred was because it was avraham was tapping into that it wasn't tapping into it as misrami he was tapping into the concept of pesach that always did exist always will exist we don't celebrate cs mitzrayim on pesach we celebrate pisa and we tap into it through yates which is the ultimate paradigm of pesach as in we have to think of time as being innate there are fundamental themes within time torah was given on s not because historically something happened at this time and therefore we're commemorating that theme in time these are the themes of time but there's a problem which is so we're just repeating every single year throughout all of history we're just repeating themes and that's why we have this idea of spiraling through time that every single year we come back to that same historical point in the circle but on a new and elevated level so every single year we are elevating the circle of time spiraling through time every year has its unique purpose every year has its unique chefa but more importantly every day every moment every second and we are constantly elevating we turn the circle into a spiral and that's always the idea of circles circles represent spiritual death spirals represent spiritual life and you can imagine a life where you do the same thing every single day that's a circle wake up eat breakfast go to work come back home eat dinner go to sleep repeat that's a circular life spiraling through life is always always elevating even if you're doing the same thing you die in the same store every single day the same words but different component different concentration same marriage new meaning and experiences new connection the same foods but enjoying the taste of the new way bring in newness says no two fields should ever be the same bring newness into the old that's why we count our first mitzvah was was the months why why was that the first midsole because also has the same word as new the idea of birkhaa khodesh making a blessing in the new month is the idea of tapping into the kinds of newness the moon waxes and wings that's why we count as man based on the the moon not the sun because the sun doesn't change the moon waxes and winds the rest of the world they count by the sun that's why it's called shana year it says shane sleeping old but it's a newness we're tapping into newness we're turning the circles into spirals we're spiraling through time and that's actually a deep idea the deep idea is that we connect the circular to the spiral right we we turn the circles into spirals when we think of a song a song is really just two low verses and two i versus two lovers two eye verses but the beauty of the song is you're spiraling through that zemer that's why a sheer actually also it's yesha but shira also means a circle because the song goes straight but also is circling around it's the same too low versus too high versus there's a bridge but it's too too low too high and every single time you go back to the low verse it's on a new level of energy because of what you built with the high verse you're spiraling every single time you go through it you're developing a higher and higher level so the hakaphos every time we circle we're going in never another rung every day if success we're going one rung higher simchas torah seven hakapo so we go lima minatava to the eighth every single circle is building another level another rung the siddhi kim circling around the college every single time gaining new insights new connections connecting to hashem on deeper level hashem is the center and we are circling spiraling to new heights and new levels of the connection and the idea of of music as well of seven notes what's the eighth note the eighth note is the same as the first note right one through seven or seven notes the next the eighth note is the first note and the next rung up it's a brilliant idea it's all we do in life is we spiral that's what the eighth islam allah is the next level up but it's actually really coming down to that first one on the next level that's why think about yom kippur and sukis yum kippur is is transcending right where we don't eat we don't engage in the physical world circus as we engage in the physical worlds man we shake we engage in the physical world but why we're coming back down into the physical no we're going from you know one rung to the next rung up we're now in the physical world on a higher level than we were last year it's always spiraling through life we are always spiraling and that's the idea powerful idea behind connecting the circles to the spirals behind connecting the old to the new the the vilnigon actually brings an amazing example he says that we actually turn the non-jewish shanna into a hodash how because there's this amazing idea that halacha actually embraces the concept of the 365-day year not the 354 355. 355 day a year is a full lunar year and hashanah is 365. right so what's the idea the idea is that there's a 10 day difference but halacha years should be the lunar year 355 and yet acknowledges there are many times where i can give you a couple examples you can look out for yourself in makko stuff bunch of examples where halakhah embraces the concept of a solar year the 365 in the year so the vulnerable says how because we bridge the the solar and lunar year how do we do that through the assaisment right because our lunar year ends on our channel but there's ten extra days from after when the so when the lunar year ends those extra 10 days that starts to make shuffle that bridges the gap there's a lot more about that that's a very very deep concept we're not going to go into right now but the idea is that we are always spiraling through time we are always becoming the ultimate versions of ourselves within this physical world we're learning to see the world in a deeper way and that's the idea of a song a song it's all the pieces coming together and yet we're also circling it's the same two low stages of the song too high the chorus go back to the logo back to the high but we're spiraling through life in that song and we have to learn how to play your instrument we have to learn how to find our role to play and the way to find your role become your ultimate self is to also recognize that as you find your ultimate self it's not about you it's about becoming something bigger than yourself negating your eagle your ego hashana rabbah and that's really the the connection the six uh sukkah learning the pure passive service transparency seemingly infinite through the finite and then the seventh connecting that find to something infinitely deeper it's learning how to peer past the surface through negating your ego that's the key tool to seeing a deeper reality is recognizing there's something so much greater than you and you're part of that and by negating your ego you become something infinitely greater than you thought you were but only when you recognized that you were not the center of the universe you were part of it but the center the ultimate route we have to ultimately connect ourselves back to the ultimate barracuda who created this world for us and we've talked about this many times we are supposed to be great we're supposed to be extraordinary we're supposed to be god-like beings we're supposed to actualize our godlike potential but only through the lens and the mechanism of recognizing that we can't have any ego involved it's not about us it's about something so much greater than us and we're part of that and when you are able to then through the seventh connect all the pieces together and then connect to lama manteva the eighth you're able to really spiral through life and that's the idea of simcha's torah of just and you know embracing this journey embracing the spiraling learning how to connect to the infinite through the finite learning how to spiral through this life and the biggest anyone can give you is for you to learn how to play your instrument learn how to find your individuality your uniqueness but devote that uniqueness to something greater than yourself so this circus as we sit in the sook and we peer past the surface through this we do a kaphos and as we shake the dalit minim which is bringing all the aspects of reality together into one bundle into one bundle and we it's so it's really you know it's where we're in the bassamintas this is our base and we're connecting to the infinite through the finite and ah but we're not getting our ego we're you know knocking the rebels on the floor and we're dominating as they feel of of really connecting to malchus and malcolm space david and the ultimate concept of being a conduit a channel for something infinitely beyond ourselves connect all these ideas together so that we come to simha's torah and we just dance with the torah and we are bisimra with the torah we recognize that this is just one rung on the spiral we're about to do an even higher level because what happens the moment we finish the reading of the torah start from gracious we start the next rung of the spiral every single kriya satora is that you know we're basically going through that same circular process of one torah every single year but we're spiraling every time you learn an ideal learning on a deeper level every time this time when we go through curiosity this year you want to do it on a deeper level this year think about one how you can actually engage in new acts of growth but number two think about the things you're already doing how you can take it the next level how you can take it another layer deeper how you can take it one step further because that's our life we are spiraling through life so i hope you have an incredible circus i hope that you're able to really deepen how you engage in and perceive all the different aspects of this hug this incredible hug and may we continue to spiral through life together