Rabbinical Alliance of America's 78th Annual Pre-High Holiday Chomer LiDrush

okay welcome ladies and gentlemen to a very very special event choi milled rush together with the igor rabbanim of america and khazak and partnering organizations national council of young israel and torah anytime we have six amazing rabbanim they're going to give us some khizuk some inspiration for the month of el of that's going to be coming rosh hashanah and it's really really exciting to partner with these amazing organizations and we really really really look forward to the inspiration to the khizuk it's a big honor for kazakh to host the igor rabbanim today we had a meeting a rosh koresh ello meeting and it was really really uplifting and inspiring to see all the rabbanam coming together and uh my brother is that administration we should continue and to spread more torah and each other we're about in the operation over here at the kazakh headquarters with so much amazing work happening with regards to jewish kids in public schools and the goal of the chimp to get every single jewish child together with them a jewish education hashem over 850 kids have been transferred from public schools to each even the last three years alone but there's thousands of more and mentioned together with all the rabbanimen all the organizations we're going to work hard messaging bring every single jewish child to jewish education eventually bring the guru it's my honor to call upon the executive vice president of the eagle rebound of america to give opening remarks without further ado we're going to call upon rabbi mending miragnik we thank hazak we thank rabbi merov for partnering up and hosting the egotis bonham on rosh haidis ello this is the seventy-eighth year that the iguitara bonham has done high milled rush but the mild rush this year takes on an extra significance the famous story told about a shliyak sibor a talmud and yeshiva that had a minig that every year he would visit with his rebbe the rosh shiva to discuss the yama nirayam and he came before the rebbe and the rebbe asked him my entire atonement have you prepared already that's phyllis for yemen orion the thomas said yes the rebbe asked him a second time my entire talmuds have you prepared the the the it's phyllis for yom and narayan the talmud said yes and the rebbe asked him a third time the talmud asked but rabbi i told you i prepared it it's a mock source it's said cycle there's said text there's set no such i'm prepared for you i'm in the right so the rebbe said my entire talmud you're missing the point the bouts it's not about the set no the tunes in the moxer the anthology we have the prayer book is rosh hashanah yom kippur does not define the yids it defines who the person is the holiday does not make the person the person makes the holiday it's the meaning of the words it's what's in the words to be darshan that makes the yeed are you allowing the your your misfollower hears you darvaning to understand who he is to change last year it was the same prayer book we entered twitch and pay and we entered shin pay who would imagine a corona situation economic shutdown a situation that crippled the world will in the house arrest have we only known what was going on with coronavirus how different our prayer would be it's not the nus or the tumor familiar with it's how we interpret that in the ibrah and that's what the talmud the rabbitoh the talmud today this year was saying it applies to everybody including myself there is no human being that doesn't have human frailty it has to work on something we're going to sunday for rabbi class the khashoggi brazilian chairman who's also the emcee of today's session also about filler is how we relate to this filler we set our destiny how we how we proceed that's precisely why in the shira i heard this from rav 11 thousand cell the big grinder of level the chief rabbi of philadelphia who said maybe 80 years ago we say in the shira mimi nayu amis malay that when the children of israel left mitzrayim egypt they were had walls walls to the right and walls to the left why is the verse saying walls to the right and walls to the left you see they were surrounded by water so the jew was told you defined the world there's not the ideology to the right of the leftisms but the yiddishkai to the absurd heaven that defines who you are that's the point of rosh hashanah the point of yom kippur the point of the drashas you know conclude with the story the prophet micah mika says um okay israel says hashem the lord of hosts i am the first one i am the last one and there are no other lord's powers besides me the question comes with any year is shamayim in a shul paul highly oh from the even going to show with somebody suspect there's another power of the size according to sparrow who the lord lord bless be he so the mir is telling us we remember god in the good times and in the bad times but we forget him while other times and that's what the point of the drushes are and that was the message of the rebbe to the talmud of the sribor it's not the same familiar in the baruch with the carthage that we sing is what message do we take for ourselves to chart our course today by kazakh we witnessed something how khazak is waking waking up people giving them the ability to waken up their neshama to make a good decision and we're very honored and very happy to be here proud to be here today to support their great work which i'll put in is our solace in the fascists mama should tell us the flashes fighting a spiritual holocaust what the germans yumakshama could not do what the communist yamashima could not do assimilation can do and the battling that war and my estimation the only continuity of the yiddish kite is a proper kenneken education we're also happy to partner up with the national council of young israel the eager tarabam has a long-standing relationship with the national council up until they're moving the corporate office from west 16th through 16 west 16th street we had our corporate offices for many years i believe our base and haravagoyan shared office space next to each other together with rabbi sol eisner who the session is dedicated memory of and we appreciate that relationship we work with hazak and other important organizations rabbi blanc yehuda blank who is our director of chaplaincy and commission and external affairs is constantly working on projects to further enhance me and we're happy to work today with hazak and with the national council today's session is dedicated levi eisner served faithfully close to 40 years as as executive vice president of the egotarobanum his goal was one goal to marba maraba covet shamayim his goal was the rush to look professional how to understand the world how to apply terror principles to the world i know the session is dedicated by rebecca and feige eisner and mishpakha and family we thank you for your dedication and one word we never could thank rabbi eisner enough rabbi isaac was the rebel who told the talmud responsibility and remember what what are you doing not to sing the familiar tunes of yiddishkai not to make it mechanical but how to inspire someone to understand to wake themself up and a prayer a tiller on young kipper on russia to be a good filler has to be a prayer that makes sense in a time of good like last year prosperity by touching pay or a year and pea aleph we need the intervention from shamayim the lord's interventions god's intervention is barack's intervention the aviation's intervention to help us a filler that's humble that's timely that in a man stronger than a bear a lion but he's weaker than a fly a prayer to remind us we need to be the bear but please o lord please o hashem we don't want to be the fly getting defeated and we have to strengthen kazakh to let them do their mission to be the great lion in iraq and yiddish and shamanism saving our souls we dive in to continue this partnership we thank the national council of young israel rabbi clash will be introducing i'll say very briefly our speakers we have first the marudasara of khazakh the ravarashi arab israeli again of israeli will be addressing us we have the sho avar the emeritus chief rabbi lord jonathan sachs formerly of the united kingdom hebrew congregations become the commonwealth a good friend of the guitar abundant we have rabbi talb we're going locally haravar who besides being the rav of the young israel of hollis would hollow the jewish center the manila of tells in in in riverdale and and at the base yaakov over here in queens and a writer for the ami magazine we also have with us haravogon yakov spivak from monty the reichskyler presidium member we also have harav dr agoin um the rav of the atheism yeshiva congregation from this vast diverse of knowledge and great robotim i can guarantee to you their message is so timely that message is so important they will present to you how to bring the best out in yourself how you could inspire through all of these torah and our and our prayer is hashem but until then we'll work with hazak to make this world a better place for ali conjunctive conjunctive hey i have the great honor and the great pleasure to flourish sterling again yaakov class presidium chairman of the egypt harabanum who will serve as the master ceremonies rabbi chairman it's all yours i just want to give a again a thanks to rabbi miraginik our executive vice president to to rabbi rabbi monsishmirla our administrative director and to rabbi blanc the three of us here and rabbi hamnick i don't know where abba hamnik is but rabbi hamnick is also present with us okay and i want to give all of our varun all of them who contribute one way or another really a great yashikaya and they should all have hatslacher for the coming year i am going to differ from the other speakers today in that i am going to speak about aha as opposed to talking specifically about now the whole the whole concept of the session of our particular session the khaimer ledrush the homiletics this is a session that is has been developed for the rabbi that the rabbi who is joins in with this session it gives him it gives him material for his sermons and that's basically what we what we are doing today now i have been dealing with the past couple of years as rabbi of the synagogue rabbi of a shul my show my particular shul kahal binet matisyahu and i even as a as a columnist a halacha columnist a torah editor at the jewish press i deal with various questions that come in one of the questions that i've been dealing with especially this year regarding tisha b'av and regarding yamakipurim is the question of fasting especially in the in light of the corona virus the current corona virus covet 19 that would be pandemic that we are enduring at this point i i've been asked i mean i and i just immediately instantly when i was asked i did not have an answer but i turned to this forum and i found by an appropriately so by the ham rabbenu avadya avadya yosef zekhatzadek levroche in his shylus uchivoice where he was asked the question that i've been asked and listen to the question abram is a person who is ill and the and we have doctors we're talking about specialists doctors who are expert in their fields really expert and they tell him or her that if he slash she fasts it will actually cause great harm harm to his person and the la now what happened the khala came to the rabbi the khalil came to me khailu came to came to the hama and came and asked the following said i i heard this from the specialists and this is what they told me but i i've never i've never broken a fest i've never gone a a yamakipurim or atishaba of and not fasted and how can i possibly do it this year i don't i don't want to listen to them i trust that hashem will take care of me i am i see me these are the words so the question that he said is it mutha is it permitted for this khaile to go ahead and and basically chuck the advice the advice or the the warnings the heat and not heed the doctors and follow his own heart because he's asking me to make a decision and i'm telling you he's following his own heart that is the way i would deal with it interesting is the guardian he quotes stigma in humor the german humor of ada daf peihei goes through many different many different scenarios to find the proper possuk that tells us that nephesh is is is basically ko mitzvah shepatira where do we have it from and there are various sukim that are presented one of them by rebbi kiva numerous sukim presented but each one has something that has what we refer to as a pirchha that i can question it to the point that that particular verse that we have brought that verse will not apply but shmuel comes along and shmuel cites this passage in mice in vayikra ushma is you should keep my my statutes and my my my laws my laws my statute that you should do them and and he expounds the yamus mayhem you should not not die from them so that and and this is the way the rambam issues in parrot base and he says we are not dogmatic people we don't do things in a dogmatic matter we do things in a matter of the torah the terror which is a terrorist cayenne it's an ets it's something that we are able to basically to live with it and not something that it should cause us to die islam this is the rambam okay famous posik its ways are the pleasant ways of of of of peace and and all of its paths lead to peace okay happy cursing what about the ham says that and he refers to them as a picarson who say osu he's talking about basically that took him that you you realized there was the there was the mahlikis of the perusian were those that kept torah not only tereshabiksav but terushabha al-pere that struck him did not keep teresh about so as far as they were concerned if i just see the these simple words and i don't have the power of exegesis i cannot do do basically a a drusha to to understand what the torah is saying and just understand simple words they are happy cursing yes they follow tereshabiksav but without teresh of al-pere there is no tereshabiksav so what happens in such an instance they could end up literally literally killing someone i remember a story from many years ago when hatsala was a very new organization the concept of hatsala one point if someone was very ill taken ill immediately what was the only the only solution you called up i'm not sure if we even had a 9-1-1 you called for an ambulance and many people died therefore hat solo was created a wonderful organization and had sola now is in many communities throughout throughout america it's a phenomenal organization and the question arose on shabbos the hatsawa personnel drove to a location now they they and they were able to save the person now what do they do the vehicle is at that location what do they do there was some some i i really don't want to tell you the area but there was some that said the vehicle stays there they did what they had to do and now the vehicle stays there came out from this a great taco because i believe there was one life that was lost what happened was another call came in and guess what they were not able to answer the call because the vehicle was left at that particular place and they had walked back so afterwards it was decided that no heads forth not only will you drive the vehicle there but you will drive the vehicle back to your location your home wherever it is and be on the ready for the next call these are people the hot solar people who mamish they give over their complete lives i have to give them the utmost of credit they mamish save lives and this is exactly what the is talking about and he goes further and he says i'll bring you another passage he brings a possibility and i will also i will give you an account you will have to account for your blood i will i will have to i will i will demand from you an accounting on your blood what does that mean that also means that a person does not own himself we are not the balabatim of ourselves so he ends up and he does bring others brings he brings from the abnenaezer he brings from the evan ezra he brings from the ramban he brings from rabbi mcluga who it seems had a different view their view was possibly the opposite that a person the the doctor is only someone who is given a certain risk but he does not have the the power the power rests in the rabbani shalom not in the doctor and this is his argument this this is their argument he argues back he says that we are not supposed to to depend on an s that the rabbani shalom is going to bring forth an s a miracle to save us just the opposite we have to do ours and sometimes you know what ours is ours is that we have to follow the advice of the rav and if the doctor who is a mum said that you cannot fast then the doctor is correct and the rav will pass in accordingly he will rule accordingly that you cannot fast in this particular situation whether it was tisha b'av which is only the rabbana or even yamakipuram which is the arizer obviously you're not going to sit down and have a sooner a big souda you're going to eat progress you'll have at certain intervals you will drink you will do what exactly what what the doctors recommend you will follow them and in it will bring forth a referral to the person and the person will be able to dive in that much better even though you are violating it seems you are violating one of the anuyam it's interesting that brings another interesting a very interesting in the chuva right before there was an indian at one time that they would sell they would sell the kibood the anna to hold the safer torah for call nidre it's very interesting and and whoever had that particular keyboard he would have this huss he would have this huss to make the bracha yanu it happened once in a shul that the person who bought it unfortunately that person was wearing na'alayim he was wearing the lion shall are he was wearing leather shoes and everyone saw it and the question was he's he's violating he's violating one of the one of the the five deprivations of yamakipuram so what happens now so his solution to this which was the way we ashkenaz do he said that as he makes his everyone should in tone but within within with an undertone this is the same bracha of shahianu at the same time so they are you'd say with their own barakah they are not dependent on his broker and this way they don't embarrass him because it would have been abusha obviously he's someone who had to be taught he didn't realize so and he ends off on that one and he says and i love the ending they will each make the bracha of sharianu is should bring forth a spirit from from from above from the the his holy environs above lakh zora beethoven to return in complete chuva complete repentance then is care and we should be here we should merit together with all the base israel what is the concept in coal base israel and that is the concept that not everyone ends up in shul that is the concept of kol nidrei khalidre we say we we ask we ask the we asked in in the we ask for the permission of the yeshiva shamala we ask both we ask them for permission to davin to to pray together with the avraham who are these avraham these avraham are not the people that are in shul anyone who came to shul is not a vrayan he is a person who really is seeking to do mitzvahs avraham are those who are those who are outside who have not yet come to shul we hope one day they will come so those are the people that are called base israel we're asking them to join in with us and emir zashem with that rabbani shalom will be native the hasimah for everyone and in just like this year tough shin tough shin pay which we never in our life would have dreamt that we would have had a year like this because now we can understand what our fearless feminists are are going to ask simply the killer may the the this year come to an end with all of its curses and the year should come with all of the new year of tough shin pay aleph should come with all of its blessings and the miyetz hashem the rabbani shalom should give us a wonderful year and and [Music] a community that i have to say outlasted 70 years of soviet communism fantastic many other of the communities in the former soviet union jewish communities unfortunately did not survive and here we have one segment of russian jewry that we can say has survived what is the miracle of its survival the miracle is the rabbanim of the community who have such great dedication we are here today at the premises of kazakh a phenomenal organization that is promoting promoting actively seeking out young children if this would have happened at the turn of the not this past century turn of the century before turn of the 19th century into the 20th century it would have happened then america would look a lot different today but we have to go forward and we are very very very fortunate that today we have with us the rav harashi of the bukharian community who happens to be arav emil basin brooklyn and he is a phenomenal person a great a great he's a great speaker he has great torah and he is someone that we at the igood are very proud to have him join us today in in our mid-rush and that is moreno israeli chief rabbi of the bukharian community throughout america and canada rabbi israeli mage [Music] is foreign um [Music] um foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign is foreign is for your kind words this next speaker not only is he one of my colleagues on the presidium at the igood but we go back a long time we go back to our yeshiva days in the mir yeshiva both tell me them of the same rabbi and we we had very fond memories and fund future together and he's someone who has accomplished so much in his community in the syrian community even though he's a moroccan the syrian community has taken has taken for themselves rabbanim from the moroccan community who are tamid him of the mir yeshiva so now you see the tent this is the tent of the egodarabonan the great tent that we are i without further ado i want to introduce my hava rabbi dr hananya elbaz who is a cover of the presidium of khafre benesius of the egodarabonim presidium member of the ra igood he is rav of the arch yeshiva congregation and a talmud again as i said of the mir yeshiva and we are i am very proud to call him to give us some khaimer ledrush for this current year top shin pay aleph there is to say we welcome all our congregants our havarim that kind to participate in the torah and the is our usual every year the good arab name already over 20 years that we are holding limut torah in every rosh chodesh in the during the year and not only that and high elu we hold usually for the past over 20 years however this year i would like to thank of course our distinguished and formidable uh vice president rabbi masarajnik and his team for organizing this beautiful meshiba is asifa around practically all the rabbanim to be able to do it not to not to forget what we do usually every year so this now i begin my brush up very simply the objective of rasha is to elucidate the following questions the ten days of penitence one i would like to explain the significance of what is the david [Music] what else means explains but what does it mean and also number two the relevance of the multitude of videos to make so many videos confessions what so many and i'll explain the meaning of malchiod jihad and shothroad and four why is rosh hashanah before yom kippur and vice versa as the rationale will dictate and what is the musa scale of all these questions and our idea is to be hazak all the listeners in the every place we know that that we have to go a good seman and as a result and therefore is that we eat certain foods vegetables or else in order to break a barracad of the sema this is a very very difficult to understand indeed the bioserve shalom he was making this sadder of akhila on the era code in the foreseeable but the question is you just bless on the eric before because you are blessing on a legume that you're gonna have a good good year the magen abraham in simon also says we should not have anything that is a sharp vinegar and the mate frame on the same simon he says that a person should only eat sweet things however in the hergoth he says because a person gonna eat something good this is has to do you're gonna have good good year and because if it if something bad that for example select she's talking going to disappear so what exactly and more furthermore the hatan suffer says he eat marin marin why because we're in irish island but i tell you i have also another word in arabic which is zetter which also also are we going to have also the same idea or you could say in every language you want so that has a meaning of tough of good so what is the idea of eating and saying good or bad for every good year here i caught vegetables are we going to be because of aiding it are we going to have it he claimed ever says he cannot mix the purpose of this to show our complete faith and compliance with that he is the one that commanded in other words the immunity that we have by saying the brotherhood the the vegetable is only a simmer is a sign and also others say that in the hachameme when they tell us to make this brah there is a sword that we have trabuteno told us that one may make brahman even on a vegetable which is materialistic we are able to pick up this to a spiritual height and i say maybe this is a one of the reasons that we say it in order to confuse the satan he said the jews are eating so he he leaves us alone by this he says well they are only eating so so what's so important about that now that we establish let us try to find out what is the semen of this new year tough shin proof so i say the cement of this lethova rashete vote what we have over here is alef koff which means not pedutenu or i choose sim cats pedut arceno of course they are not in the uh order but it makes our a future and shiman pretty good borehole will will definitely bring us the pedutano the redemption in israel will be free in alice israel and every place now ladies and gentlemen let me begin to answer the question that i mentioned before before you know if you ask any congregant any jew comes to shu and ask him what is the most important bakasha to hashem during the governing of yom what the average person will answer what we are doing well of course you'll say look at having a volcano he looked at everything and most important thing the answer will be life and give us health parnassa yeshua so forth but it looks that our hazard did not think so how we see that during the this all the time we mention life of course life is the most important but according to the our meme this is not to be so why what's the proof because if a person forgets shimoni este and not said these this additions he doesn't have to repeat but if he is he did not say and instead he said then the the the idea is that he repeats it how come he repeats it i mean is it that our uh asking our givers life is not so important but hakami put the emphasis on many hakados what does that mean she's rabbi baroslotskin that we what we're doing is we are proclaiming all the time we are saying is meaning with this declaration we will be safe to all the quebecois bring us to the idea will dissociate all the other things let us delve to comprehend one gemara igmara says that what is the concept of maltriot how does malfiot manifest itself during the governing our traffic lord and the during the army mirror and tishmania our mean had to recite the capital 27 which is the david hashem hashem is my life and my salvation and the midrash explain this is referring to rosh hashanah which is uri and yom kippur which is to receive special light on rosh hashanah and a special salvation on young people what is exactly this perush of light and salvation and maybe young people we can understand is a salvation but because we meet kaparov and so on but what is uri on rosh hashanah light how light is referring to rosh hashanah and how does help us in order to understand the malkiot that even though shalom there is a deen from still is not sealed which means kabbalah which is which is to give us the idea in this particular day he gives us a special tissue now as the ramban why like is closer to us during this this days of assamese so it is definitely clear now that rosh hashanah and which is the first day of assad that that we are like is in the most appropriate where it will accept our traffic load now we have to ask the question rosh hashanah is part of the asylum so how do we do this do we have the doing we have we have we have but is nothing mentioned of as far as so how deep as a matter of fact to some it's considered like a yonto and not only that why should we have you yom kippur after shashana meanwhile before young so what is what is the meaning of that yeah but if i don't interrupt if you just move your camera just a little bit back so your say your whole picture is in there yeah perfect are we are we good now yeah we're good just continue yes in order to answer our question let us quote on another demo the grammar says that we should expect the kingship of catholics which means to say by mentioning fraud will be that kadushwar who will answer us beyond foreign first question i have on this is very simple when it comes to zika nothing which means to say that when we come to the shofar we don't need any amira any sign what does that mean so we have to understand also what is the idea in rule it the question is a simple there is twice a day for 365 days we are mentioning the the idea of kabbalah we say israel morning evening and it means that hashem is telling us especially today on rosh hashanah you should be making because we are coming close to hashem we are all illuminated but and we build a tikkshari we built a relationship strong relationship with barry holland we begin to see the light so ahead so now we understand that rosh hashanah the first day of australia is by itself a day of tesuga even though we don't mention anything the plea may be ortano closer the idea that rosh hashanah is there to bring us closer to hashem and to do that then we begin to understand the extent of what is ahead but the most important is that through the idea of uri who are able to understand the issei with this we can understand now very simple why rosh hashanah is before kippur because since the uri which is hashanah he is going to bring us to ishay because will the light that we gained on rosh hashanah we come to understand what is the salvation of israel and there is what we see what we say in the in the torah in the korbando session it says we are becoming not just bringing we are now a new person because we saw the light and there is this is the essence of rosh hashanah that the ore that you bring to hashanah may galileo bring us to understand and can do it to bring ra von ortego how to understand them and to see very very clearly what are we to do on yom kippur and to be hosed to be housed so one thing we see here now that rosh hashanah is an instrument by which we see the ori and that ori bring us to kippur and there is another interesting aspect that also brings us closer closer the magee used to go to bless someone sometimes he blessed them on but in hebrew and lashona kodesh and sometimes he was may blessing them with arabic so the kumara asked don't we know that aramaic is not understood by the malachi so what's the point of saying in aramaic answers in this army command that he makes abraham he has to sit in hebrew so the malachi will understand however by the holy one a person is sick since shechina is because there is anyway so automatically he doesn't have to mention in other words we don't need the assistance of the mullah because there so it looks like again people when we begin with the targum they are made meaning that to us we we can circumvent the idea of the malachi into our sister we don't need them we are we don't eat we don't wear shoes so from the torah and this why here hashem you're going to have the teshuva what you are in front of hashem what i mean in front of russia in other words besides the trishula that you the assistance and the health and the aid we got with the uri that we already are now seeing now we can see hashem explains what why it person makes a head if you put a very black stain on his clothing now when you meet teshuva you are trying to erase to efface the blood stain however when you cut away the bloodstream there is still a gun there you took the nail out but when you took the nail out above the tissue there is a hole left over there how you take out that hole this hole you take in order to take it out because if hashem now we have to go further in order to erase it completely and this is the pirouette the alveolar and you'd even meet those what does that mean overall pressure i mean like he pass over he takes it out completely like rabbi says him and he brings the supreme now we understand what we are saying so many times 11 times during yom kippur we say we do in our head why so many times one time should be sufficient we have to repeat again and be then you have to understand that even though you made the first but with more more to feel lord we are still cleaning the beginning after we washed still a little bit of stain stay there and then with this idea of keeping the video then we are able to clean up even more and that's what the rambam says the same what did he do better meaning god like we mentioned that ali did each time you make a video you are trying to eradicate from the shoresh from the root the stain that are there and this is what we take rules and i that we say not and float now we met and we made the test to show us so great that now we are very sureful it doesn't say talk left why because at this point you know we already came to the idea that heaven shall cause so far the voice of the shofar must speak for this this by itself is giving us the idea of being boring so we add the tapara here we don't need him we already built with the all offish of ori and the salvation of ishii we came already to the point that we don't need anything else we have already closeness to marijuana now we can see that after rosh hashanah automatically we come to another slammut we have the mitzvah of ethrogen sukkot is this is a mitra of the eighth robe the coding we are coming to srimut what's the sri man of that is we say shimano miltai rook robotic all the ideas of shlemuth are already inside the concept of the mitzvah of petrol can you believe that so what is the idea the idea that is to give us a chance right that we are being closer and understanding the concept of tesuga and by this will give us more and more now let me ask to come and to save us because we are now in a in it in a world in a very very dangerous times and we ask is to save us and to eradicate this and to that i like to read math he says the pasuk says why i am beloved by you when you listen to ko tahanu and my supplications meaning even though i'm dalla i'm so poor on the mitzvoth still is good devotionality so that's what the kumara says so the question is because we are soma dalim of mitzvot salvation on the contrary if you don't have any mitzvot there is no salvation so he brings the mara in sanhedrin says so it looks like that of course we don't we don't expect to come to mashiach on the entire world of sinners as we shallow ella we expect that with bizarre and the door that kuluazakai that everywhere we are good and the question is how can we be expecting to adorn which is hundred percent well we saw hasidim they were there and they did not have the the hood of having dorsey the ana and we're gonna gonna be jose that we're gonna have the door she calls her high all right the army fashion they say we are on uh comparing to our uh our name and sadiq but we are a on the shoulder of the dory so we are closer the trouble is [Music] in also those are the front kites oh who don't need them in ammon we could see that today in the fight between the haredi the nonharedi the midnight and the hoshi so foreign we are saying now that we are still trying to do all the mitzvot centurion meaning that even though people are laughing at us and are trying to fight us so far afiloahi we are able to perform the mitzvot like the arizona said that in his time it was 500 times difficult to be an italian so they were able to have this idea to be able to to reach wariola but we but us nothing you have to come and help me and take me out from this galoot so still we are able to ask that you should come to us on the contrary in other words because we are so long then we are we are more now that we are in this time of the desert who are surrounded by 300 million of arabs we are surrounded by all kind of anti-semitism and we see that our torah is trying to decrease however we are seeing that the mutorah is gaining momentum we have we are asking you we are trying to do the best so i said kids we are kids on anu we are doing with sonofa we are trying to be mature we are now explaining even the time of pandemics we are still learning torah the loti even we are so low so we are asking that it should bring us the magnifier out for your masterful words at this time i would just like to review a little bit of history we are here in america and i i've heard it said i've heard it said many times for many people history starts from the day they were born and ends the day they die but that's not true we base ourselves on our history our dairies all the doors that were before us all those generations the famous story of rabbiakov kaminetsky was on an airplane with his son his young son his youngest son youngest son rabbavron who i remember very well and there was a professor also on the plane and the professor couldn't control himself he goes over to rabbiakov and he says he says i see your son is doting upon you he's taking such good care of you my son doesn't do anything for me and rabiacov kaminetsky he looks at him and he said ali will explain to you why because my son understands something that your son doesn't understand or i should say your son might understand something that my son doesn't understand your son has been taught through the means of science and evolution that man comes from monkey so every generation that comes forth one after the other is greater than the generation that preceded it because we're getting that much further from the monkey but we follow the torah we follow what god says and god says that every generation that that comes forth is weaker than the generation that preceded it not as great every generation going all the way back adam harishan was the itseer kapov he was the hand-crafted person of the rabbani shalom were both literally created by the rabbani shalom he was their mother and father and so we in succeeding generations we have to develop working literally our task is to develop based upon all of those previous generations we are so proud that today we are fortunate to have with us rabbi jonathan sachs baron of old gate in the city of london who is well different reckonings he's either the 11th or the 12th chief rabbi of the united synagogue of the united kingdom and the commonwealth this is a rabbinate that goes back two centuries it's a phenomenal rabbinate and it's been developed and it goes back from great people and it continues continues today and rabbi sax is not even the current chief rabbi current chief rabbi is rabbi ephraim mervis his successor and i actually i have to say rabbi sax i watched the invocation that when you when you brought forth rabbi mervis to succeed you and with the participation i saw of the prince of wales and i it was a very beautiful event and i know that today you joining in with us and giving us beautiful words homiletic words words of jewish will add significantly to our event this evening thank you so much and i want to present her up sex it's an enormous privilege to be addressing you the members of the rabbinical alliance of america and the iguod harabanim and i want to thank you three times over number one for your incredible work with your kihilo during these really but really difficult months you have been sustaining their spirits giving them personal guidance being there for them at a time that cannot have been easy for any of you and i want to thank you for that number two thank you for arranging this meeting of mines so that together we can inspire ourselves to hopefully inspire others and thirdly simply to say how important your work is devka at this time of social distancing of face masks of goodness knows i don't know if you have the same prohibitions in the states as we have in britain but there's no communal singing yet allowed in places of worship and all of these things make matters very very difficult indeed and it is our job your job our our job to do what we can to raise people's spirits so the first dvar i would like to share with you is the importance and the difference it makes when you raise people's spirits the terror is explicit about this when the banay israel had to fight against amalek in the minibar the terror tells us that kasha yarim moshe that yadav israel when moses lifted up his hands israel prevailed the cashier do the hands at moses have this magical property that they make or break war no says the mishna the explanation is simple when moses raised his hands the people looked up to heaven and were inspired and that filled them with strength and energy to beat their most difficult opponent but when israel looked down then they became demoralized and a demoralized people is easily defeated is a wonderful story i don't know if you know but it's super and one worthy of telling your congregations at least i've found it fascinating um there was a spanish amateur archaeologist in the 19th century called marcilino de sotola who in 1875 began investigating and examining the altamira caves in spain uh he was hoping to find you know it was kind of the age when international exhibitions were showing fossils and things like that and he thought that in these ancient caves he might find something of interest in the ground and for four years he examined the floor of these caves and found nothing in 1879 four years on invited his nine-year-old daughter maria to join him on one of his sunday outings to the caves well he was busy scrambling among the rubble of the cave when his daughter said daddy why are there cows on the roof and he looked up and there on the roof were paintings of bison this was the first ever discovery of an ancient cave painting so much so that once he made it known to the world people simply refused to believe their age they thought it must be a modern fraud but the fact is here this very distinguished amateur archaeologist had been in the cave studying it for four years and yet it was his nine-year-old daughter who made the discovery of all times why because he was looking down and she was looking up sometimes you really need to look up a long time ago i used to teach philosophy and my hero indeed i lived in rooms just above it he'd be i mean the ones he used when he was alive my hero was wittgenstein somebody once asked wittgenstein what is your role your task in philosophy he replied to teach the fly the way out of the fly bottle let me explain what he means what he meant it's very easy to trap a fly in a fly bottle you have this bottle with a rather narrow top and you put something very sweet on the bottom the fly smells the sweetness flies into the bottle then when it's eaten all at once tries to get out and bangs its head against the bottle again and again and again until it flops down exhausted dead the fly never actually philosophizes that if there was a way in there must be a way out the one thing the fly fails to do is to look up so it seems to me that uh moshe rabbanu's greatness was that he lifted the spirits of the people so that they could win their first great battle that they had to fight on their own and the task of faith and this you have to explain to people is to teach us all to look up because if we look up [Music] lift your eyes up i lift my eyes to the hills faith lifts our vision and when we are lifted we can defeat any adversary that is my first bracha to you and my first device the second one has to do with uh what i personally learnt from the pandemic and i want to lead into this by way of a divadora because there is a very very extraordinary gemara in rosh hashanah bait which says the following token um wants to know why when we have blown all those columns um before the we go back and blow further co-loads of course the difference she thought among the region in how many extra colored is it 12 according to the palette so what is it 30 is it as we do it now uh rounded up to a hundred gold but the fact is the quara wants to know once you have blown those first 30 notes you have fulfilled the mitzvah so why on earth once you have fulfilled the mitzvah you go ahead and do it all over again only the first time when people are sitting and the second time when people are standing during shuts the repetition of the music replies in an answer that is more enigmatic than the question in order to confuse satan well look you know the gemara you know the shitotu of him as to what it means to confuse satan but it is nonetheless a difficult gemara is satan that easy to confuse um is it really surprised when people say or do something twice is it surprising when we say ashrae twice is it surprised when we say creation twice during chakras is it surprised when we read the portion that we read for maf dear twice i mean how on earth does this confuse satan i would suggest a very simple answer but actually a very deep answer the tequila the mushaf the flying show for the first thirty nights we are fulfilling the mitzvah as jihidim as individuals in theory every single individual is commanded to listen to the shofar and indeed could be commanded it could as heche mitzvah to blow chauffeur indeed it is only that reason that we have in this case gizera de robert that shamayavirano [Music] that we decree that you don't blow chauffeur anchovies in case somebody carries it four cubits in a public domain that would only apply to a mitzvah that it devolves on individuals when it devolves on the community we're not worried that the community will forget that there you can't carry full qubits in the public domain so here we have a mitzvah that applies to everyone and that is how we fulfill it in the first 30 notes however what happens in the tequilas de mourmat and the techias that take place during the reader's reputation of music is not a mitzvah of yahidi at all the reader's repetition of any amidah is done on behalf of the community not on behalf of individuals now there's a that says that is animation but that's a different the fundamental shita is for the sake of the community and in any case music is always but sibor that's why the mishnah says ain't philip an individual does not uh mussafe is not an obligation on individuals it's an obligation on that sibor and that is what confuses satan every single person in shul has heard chauffeur has sighed and sobbed every single person in shul has cried out to god every single person without exception and yet they come back again not to do it again but to do it again as a sibor to say rabona shalom look you have heard our cry but even if we as individuals do not merit your forgiveness forgive us as a community that is something that confuses satan because satan can mislead and tempt any one of us as individuals that cannot confront us as a community as a community we are more powerful than satan and that is why chuval betsy bour is more effective than any other kind in fact the classic example of chuva betsy bour according to ramban in his country on 7th varim is ezra and merchamia gathering the people together to renew the government at shaharma watergate in ancient jerusalem which took place as you know on rosh hashanah so that is the incredible thing that even if god doesn't forgive me he forgives us that even though i have prayed as an i i'm still going to go ahead and pray as we there's a catholic historian paul johnson wrote a book a magnificent book called the history of the jews one of the finest of its kind i've ever wrote and i wanted to know how come a catholic spends that long studying jews and judaism what led him to do it what did he learn from it so he came to our home elena and i gave him dinner one in one evening and i said paul what what did you learn about jews after all your study of them and he said well i'll tell you he said there have been two kinds of cultures in the world they've been individualistic cultures like contemporary britain and america they've been collectivist cultures like china like former soviet union he said very very few have managed both in fact nobody has managed both except jews they have managed both individual responsibility and collective responsibility they manage both the i and the we i was very moved by this because what paul johnson was doing in effect was restating in his own language what used to say anili mili if i i'm not for me who will be but kashani let's me melanie if i'm only for myself what am i and um that is the balance that we absolutely need in our lives and the balance that judaism gives us and people notice this two years ago i was doing a series with the bbc on morality one of the programs was on artificial intelligence i don't know if you this is subject you're interested in but the greatest artificial intelligence company in the world it's called deep mind sport many years ago by google but it's the famous artificial intelligence group that have you know achieved all the great breakthroughs in ai and i was interviewed for the program uh the co-founder of deepmind called mustafa suleiman mustafa when was brought up in a muslim family at the age of 13 became an atheist we had a wonderful conversation which you can hear on the web and a few days later i was surprised to receive an email from him saying yeah rabbi sex do you think you could take me to one one day i thought this is a new one for me taking a muslim atheist to show anyway i did he came to show uh he came to us for sheldon's lunch it was great cafaldi and i said mustafa what did you think i loved the spirit of community he felt the we in judaism around the same time i traveled to harvard to the john f kennedy center where i interviewed man i think is the world's greatest sociologist robert partner and we were sitting in his office again we did a conversation for an hour again it's on the web and uh he absolutely knocked me sideways because you can hear this he said and that's why i converted to judaism he said to me i was born a lutheran but lutheranism is all about i and judaism is all about us it's all about community thank you robert you're the world's expert on community and that's why you became jewish i thought that was a great story so that is what the um about the we and the eye the balance between the two the tikkun that we need through the pandemic is that for years now we've had too much eye in america and britain and all too little we and the pandemic has emphasized this and accentuated it because we can't govern with dominion we weddings have been postponed funerals uh have only a handful of people going to the minamitsa karateka you know we felt the confinement and we cried out to hashem but we found ourselves far far far too much on our own we have to bring back as soon as it's safe to do so the we back into jewish life we have to do the limb we have to do the we have as soon as it's safe to do so to reach out to the elderly the isolated the infirm the people who failed really badly cut off from others because we needed takiyas to um not just the miyusha judaism is about us as a community not just us as a discreet collection of individuals and that is the second thing bring back the we as soon as we can and then finally let me just say this of isaac that we read about on the second day the hardest episode of all in the torah as far as i'm concerned we all know the long history of interpretation of this from ghazal to the mufarashim all the way to rav soloveitchik and his dialogue with with with kyoko guard and so on i want to suggest a completely completely different explanation and again because of the pandemic and here it is under the rubric of shivin panim that there are 70 faces to terror i want to tell you a very personal story a rather painful story just this summer during the pandemic elena and i had the privilege of joy of celebrating our golden wedding anniversary which brought back memories of 50 years ago and one of those is a very pointed memory indeed we were on our honeymoon this little italian town called pasteum which has roman ruins a very nice beach and a lovely glittering sea it was the most gorgeous day imaginable and i wanted to go out into the sea because it looked so lovely and there was only one problem that my parents alain shalom never read the gemara that said you should teach your child how to swim so i couldn't swim and then i looked and i could see that actually people were 100 yards out into the sea but the water was only up to their knees so i said to elaine i'm going to battle out there and you can see i'll be out there 100 yards in the sea and the water will be only up to my knees so i did it and it was i turned around and started walking back to a lane and after about a minute i found myself out of my depth i can't swim and there was no one near and as i went down under for the fifth time i knew that was the end and i remember thinking two things number one what a way to begin our honeymoon and number two what's the italian for help well as you can probably guess somebody did see me and did rescue me otherwise i wouldn't be here and carry me pretty much unconscious to deposit me at elaine's feet i never discovered who it was someone somewhere out there is someone who saved my life but this i can tell you that after that experience every single day for 50 years i know what it is to say because for giving me back my life what you have almost lost you never ever again take for granted isaac was the first jewish child alec wanted jews to become the world's most child caring child-centered civilization he wanted us never ever to take our children for granted and so he brought it about that avraham nearly lost his child he was never going to lose him but he didn't know that he nearly lost his child and the end result was that not abraham nor any jew since took their children for granted there's um an american israeli cool you'll see kleiner levy who i don't know 10 15 years ago wrote a book called at the entrance to the garden of eden trying to find some common ground between jews christians and muslims in the middle east i have to say he didn't really find it but there is one passage there that i will never forget there is a lady nun head of a convent in israel who clearly doesn't like jews very much but who said seeing israelis with their children is a lesson to the whole world everyone should watch how they do it she actually said every jewish child has two mothers because every jewish father is as caring as every jewish mother and she's just blown away by that phenomenon and that is the continuing of the fact that we nearly lost the first jewish child we nearly lost the state of israel why did god tell abraham his children would have to go into exile and suffer it why because they nearly lost their land and therefore they never took it for granted ever again and the end result is jews remain more attached to the land despite the fact that they were separated from it for 2000 years than any people has ever been attached to a land and that is why it happens and this is what we should take from the coronavirus pandemic every one of us was in some kind of the every one of us was in some kind of danger and didn't go into the details you know this and what we risk losing we never take for granted any of us if we're honest know that we stood in risk of losing our lives rahman al-islam and therefore the lesson we take from this is never take life for granted that concept is essential to rosh hashanah and yom kippur everything we talk about and pray for is life at the end of una tana tokef we remind ourselves how fragile life is like a fleeting cloud of flying dreamer charlotte pottery life is short it's fragile and the rambam says that god gives us only one thing but it's everything god gives us life what i hope we will take away certainly what i took away from this very difficult brush with pandemic and with danger is how precious life is how holy life is how nishmat khalhai devarekh how every breath of life that we take is in some sense potentially a praise of god every single day in the coming year we should feel thanks for life wonder at life an inward sense of the beauty of life [Music] what can i say someone who i can literally in the middle of the night i could just pick up the phone and just dial if i ever have a problem and just call him up and that is my my great java and we are both khavayrim on the the nissius the presidium of the ego darabanen but we are very close in fact he has me as a lecturer at his title he has his the title of rome where he is the rosh kylo and he produces great talmidim rabonin and we're talking about none other than my great java rav jakob [Music] should give him a rafish lama yaakov david then simha he hasn't been well but barak hashem the doctors have given him a clear slate and because of that he is able to join us this evening and it is my greatest pleasure to present someone who has made he's he's phenomenal he's on the radio he's done his key roof he's done his outreach for claudia's role so many different venues and i have to i have to give a thanks that he's again joining with us this evening again please welcome i want to bid you to join us without further ado harab spivak you know after the kind of year we've had i was thinking about what would be appropriate to say at this home of the drush and many hazel came to my mind some of which i intend to use but the first thing that came to my mind strangely enough was an old saying my bubby from riga he used to say when things got bad when it was a depressing time when there was is illness for shalom as we have in our world today my bubby would come up with a statement as i yoga my nassaunam my enemies should have a year like this my enemy should have a year like this and i'm sure that many of us out there think that after the pandemic and after the economic crisis and after the rioting in the streets and all the things that have gone wrong we may not articulate it the way my bubby did but many of us are thinking on some level azalea minus on him my enemy should have a year like this year and as we come to the end of the year we have to ask ourselves what what does all these things mean why for the first time in a century do we have a pandemic it's affecting millions of people why at the same time are all the other things happening the first ghazal or the first words of the uh of our great sages in recent times the first words come from a little muddy town in poland rodden we're a very very short man with a high voice named every trail mayor kagan known to the world as the huffits hayem came up to us in his writings in 1895 and he talked about quote unquote natural disasters that he says so have we heard about all the awful awful things that are happening lately in our world come on check if i know about america medina medina like the floods that are happening in america and in germany and in every country horrible things that makes the the the listeners ears ring and then the trying says words of brilliance god forbid we should think that this is just an acroy baamun an occurrence a general occurrence an accidental occurrence it was it was nothing behind it zlayam we should never believe that and then we in our generation should not believe that the pandemic is something that happened just accidentally now they're saying it came out of the earth was it an accident or was there more to it what message do we take away and says the cup it's heim in 1895 around that time he wrote this keolaina lagasse because we have to know shot and not by accident or just uh i i i coincidentally did these things happen allah me somayamhi rather it is a warning from heaven leave nao the mashabara mankind has to do chuva repent for all the terrible things that he did because we without cuba we are very vulnerable we all we have no security at all in things like things like this it is an amazing thought we live in a world that has taken god out of out of the courts out of this public school systems because this is this is a a a a warning not only to israel but to the jewish to the new muslim nations of the world as well and this warning is we have to understand that god created a world with a teva with a with a natural order of things with a belief in god and natural relationships between human beings and when we live with the teva that can a part of a nature because the nature of the jewish people to be free the nature of the world that the israel would get torah and therefore was also part of the nature as the year that they see should split so when we go with the temper the terror goes with us but rabbi's side when we go against the teva when we go against nature then nature goes against us at this time it is not clear how this thing started whether it was in a in a laboratory in wuhan in china or but most of the scientists have lean effect it just came out naturally out of the ground it came out of the ground this covered 19 came out of the ground and and and wrecked our economy and and and did cause people not to have money rioting all the kinds of things that happened because of the fact that we we changed the nature all the things that i called his borough who wanted from us we changed this is no good this torah law is no good and this is no good and we'll do this and we'll do that and we're going to go against nature and then when you do that nature goes against you now this is a perfect time of year to do tuba how does ello is coming here perfect time to do chuva and that's what can turn things around i want to talk not only about amy israel doing super but the entire world the world had sheva mrs vinay noah the seven noah's commandments and one of them was not to kill and the most incredible thing here is this there's a pussac in bamidbar lamin that says let's talk about eric's israel but i believe it means in general that when a murder takes place the ground upon which that murder took place will not be forgiven for the blood that is spilled in it except by bringing that murderer to justice and executing them that is what has to happen and it's an old story but it keeps coming up again and again are you aware of the fact that auschwitz had 8 000 people running it and only 800 were ever prosecuted that means that 90 of the people many of them murderers on hands murderers of children and women and innocent people and elderly were never brought to justice the ground of the earth was never forgiven for the blood that was spilled in it never and the ground and what happened in nuremberg the nuremberg trials were a dog and pony show even the prosecutors admitted we have it on in film we didn't bring anywhere near the people that killed the justice nazi generals became heads of nato the heads of banks were people who ran concentration camps murderers went free we were only interested in one thing in getting what we wanted the whole world let me grab this nazi scientist let me grab this one we grew up in a world in which vernon von braun a nazi scientist was praised as the head of the american space program a man who in pina mundi and other places used jewish slave labor to build his rockets to rain down on london and kill the innocent civilian population so the land is not forgiven until you spill the blood you execute the murderers so why now all of a sudden why now if you notice the last of the nazis are dying out and there's no way to bring them to justice so the justice must be meted out on the entire world the entire world the meforshim say that the reason that shim and the lady were were supposed to destroy the city of islamists because never brought a ism to justice never brought him to justice and one of the ideas that said mr villanova is to make to make what they did they didn't do it so the whole city was high of mesa i'm not saying the world is high at least but the world is kind of a punishment for never bringing justice to these people never and the world is higher for for changing the keva of the world and the prophet saying says don't think the khalilah khalilah don't think that this is that it was the hand of of just an accidental occurrence just happened it happens stuff happens that's not what it is but we can change it because even though we can't bring those people to justice we can do massachusetts in the world and massachusetts in the world will bring people back to akrishborohu and will cause the world to heal and that's what we must have a world that heals and that's what we have to do chufa for that's what we have to stand in front of our cottageborough and ask for chuva for for uh for me and and and alkane de crota bola foneco i translated therefore we i translate we plead for him we plead for the nations of the world some of this year we feel it more than ever in the words of the cup it's kind from that little muddy town of rotten in poland more than 120 years ago come ringing down in our ears now is the time for chuva we've muffled a lot of chances but we still have one on the chuva of kurdish russia psychiatry throughout shalom all yesterday and most of all my friend khazakh thank you rav spivak for your inspiring words the next speaker i don't personally know but we have a lot in common he is a columnist i'm a columnist he's his title is rabbinic editor i'm called torah editor senior torah editor which is basically the same thing rabbinic editor he is columnist and rabbinic editor at uh ami magazine and i am the same at the jewish press very interesting i am a revenue shoe buffalo from 2000 and 2003 until 2015. presently he's rav in young israel of holliswood in queens he was manila at tulsi riverdale and currently he is a rebbe who teaches at the basiaco the queens basiaco which is known as sheva high school and it's a great school my cousin is one of the talmidos of that school she today lives in arizona so whatever you are doing rabbi taub i have to give you a great ashikayach and i am very pleased that you are joining with us this evening and you are giving us beautiful words of of khizuk for the coming year tough shin pay aleph thank you it's a tremendous covenant tremendous house to share briefly words of chris and osiris as we enter into a very peculiar very strange very odd ellsman and yemen and i have a confession to make this is by far not the first time i recorded or sought to record this video i sat in my office for two hours this afternoon and i've recorded this video over and over and over again and the reason for my repetition is that each time i record the video it's too long it's 20 minutes 25 minutes to 20 to 18 i got it down to 11 minutes there's so much to say especially this year but i know how valuable my dear chaverum your time is so i'm going to keep it as brief as possible and it's certainly true that we have to speak about our karazhan we have to speak about the fact that last year we said who knew what we were dominating for america and we survived we made it everybody in our kahila who will be with us before they david for their own life has to thank akadesh barucho that they made it through maggie for that killed millions and it's also certainly true that this year we have to mention the fact that sometime in october this past year or early november we don't know exactly when patient zero happened but some fellow in wuhan china thousands of miles away on his lunch break decides to go to a wet market and eat bat for lunch what's in anybody's business he thinks to himself that i like bath ah madness it's a strange temptation but what's it the world's business from that one lunch then the whole world was turned upside down millions died what a monster haskell for all of us that if this is true for a guy in china imagine the butterfly effect imagine the rube goldberg effect imagine the repercussions for a from yid an orthodox jew a sin an aveda of omission or commission imagine that butterfly effect there is a lot of muslim to take from these past several months but as i said i'll be brief so i just want to share instead of focusing on those two earlier items on a story several years ago a video came out it was unearthed everybody was excited it was passed around men and women and children of all ages witnessed it a video of the arriving at the a good conference the very first one it was an exciting moment came alive for all of us if you're like me you've watched the video on a loop hundreds of times and i wondered what was going through the mind of the what happened right before this video was taken what was he thinking about on the train ride from radhan and i happen to know the answer and the safer mayor aina israel it brings that when the travel right before that video from radha and he arrives at the train station he gets off and who does he have into lo and behold the holy rabbit of gareth and he says to them as you know in lush there are a number of words for time and distance so for example the word machar means tomorrow tomorrow mamash literally a tomorrow but as russian because i'll explain it could also mean a further tomorrow a more poetic tomorrow a more distant tomorrow and so too the word achar for after is sometimes spelled akharae when it's spelled it means immediately immediately following that event but when it says ah it's more distant so then emiryamus is listening to this this is what was going through the mind as he was traveling that's the case if an immediate right away back-to-back and more distant then why is it in one of the most fundamental sukim in all of safer development in my sherabenu's largely final drush at the canessa sister why does the posix say hashem you should follow after hashem him you should fear that's been spiced up to shemaru you should guard his mitzvoth [Music] it shouldn't be distant it should be close if we're following after hashem we have to be close not distant ms waited what time have to say and says to the person who feels that akadesparahu he doesn't need that this possum is written for an individual who feels that akadesh baraku is far away this passage is written for someone who lives during a this magefa is written for someone who lived during a time that akadesh bharara who threw him out of the base agnes for five months straight a person who feels so so distant from the rabbish both because of because of health but also because of the world around us and the pulsar is not just telling a command but a promise that even an ahrefs even if you feel far from hashem you got so comfortable davening alone at home hashem is still waiting for you you could still have a close relationship with him is not just true about our relationship with the rabbinicial i i find it amazing to say but this year will be 19 years since my mother passed away and i can't say anymore that i have an achar relationship with her it's an acharya my child's already back from seminary who's named after her i'm not just distant from her and we're not just distant from our parents and grandparents who have passed on merely in years my my mother who grew up in the 40s and 50s and 60s could she even relate to the taivos to the nicionos that we have today but even the acharya we could remain close to those generations of old even if we're distant from the times of major rebels because of asgard no tyros we have to reattach ourselves not even though we're distant but because we're distant i already took so much of your time and i just i want to end with the words of the satmareba so beautifully quotes the puzzle from the beginning of the year to the end of the year it says the samara it's interesting isn't it why the lack of a hay by the second shanna says the beginning of the shi it's hashem now this is going to be the year this is going to be the year that we accomplish everything we wanted to accomplish by the end of the year if we don't accomplish it if we don't fulfill all of our promises by naila we say okay this is just this is just another year let us hope that this year will be mauritius this should be the year of our de vegas our closeness to our sparkle our closeness to our kihilos and the closest she and all my guevos eva rabbi taub thank you for your kind words and as we say your words and the words of all of the other presenters this particular evening we hope that they touch the hearts of rabonim of laypeople whoever is watching this every single segment of claudius earl who is going to see this event tonight we hope that it will affect you affect your tila for the coming year and with this the rabbani shalom should grant us a tough shin pay aleph that is very very different from the tough shin pay that we have experienced thank you and i want to wish everyone and with this we close this session which as we said is eisner our executive vice president secretary clinton presented and sponsored by his ashes kyle the rabbitson feige eisner and mishpache and the family thank you so much