Cincinnati Chabad House Farbrengen #1- 3 criteria for Farbrengen - 92524-RC Dalfin

[Music] it's wonderful to be here again in Cincinnati I was here about a month and a half ago or so I was invited to research at the American Jewish archives right up the road on Clifton you know by H the Hebrew un College I'm a a writer historian an ethnographer a counselor a teacher a rabbi but most importantly I'm like I'm like one of you a regular person adifa bran which means a gathering A celebratory Gathering a festive Gathering a fun Gathering but fun in in a Jewish way not just fun partying and and and and fun with the meaning with purpose to do that takes time takes patience takes participation from everyone here so the the rating of this FBR depends not on me on you you can either be a spectator and it'll be called a spectator for bringing or you can be a participant and then it really will be a much better fabr so the three the three different elements to I bring in let's let's review and and get it down one is to to listen the second thing is to sing together and the the third thing is to say if you're able to say on a little alcohol great if not and anything else but the point is to toast to life to a Jewish life to a spiritual life to a meaningful life and as the rabbi said because we have this this shell this husk this cover up this facade where on a normal day we don't like anyone coming inside us it's very private bring in is the time to let loose to open yourself up and it doesn't mean to allow someone God forbid to abuse you or hurt you or insult you that's not the energy but it's to come to a point where you you're you're looking at honesty you're looking at sincerity you're you're willing to share at at times it might feel very vulnerable but if you're coming from the perspective of being sincere and honest and open and and really connected it's not vulnerability it's healthy self assessment healthy healthy selfesteem in the best way so that's what of H bring in generally is okay so what I'm going to do first is I'm going to say going to mix it a little together you make a blessing everyone please answer and we'll sing a song to begin and then go for there now even if you don't know the words come along clap along make believe pretend okay I'm going to sing the song that I taught you a month and a half ago which I'm sure you all remember those that were here hey Johnny Johnny Johnny what are you doing in the market you don't buy you don't sell all you do is yell again hey Johnny Johnny Johnny what are you doing in the market you don't buy you don't sell all you do y that's the end of the first part now goes the second part [Music] again now we go back to the first part but we're going to say it in Ukrainian hey it's a in Hebrew first sorry hey [Music] again [Music] again Ukrainian [Music] again so what's what does the song mean who is this Johnny the Ukrainian words are the translation of the English Johnny Johny what are you doing in the market you don't buy you don't sell all you do is yell we all have impulses Cravings right yes and at times they're very unhealthy they're not great they get us into trouble we call this the Johnny within us the Troublemaker Johnny what do you what are you going to a market for what do you do in a market you're supposed to buy and sell right but when you don't buy you don't sell what are you going to the market for you're making yourself and everyone else yell meaning you're making everyone crazy for no reason at all this is what we're saying and especially now Rabbi asked me to talk a little bit before the high holidays which is next week Ripper this is the time of the year when we look into ourselves and the looking into ourselves is about our relationship with God and our relationship with man both they go together you know some people say well I'm a good person at heart that's great now make yourself a good person a better person with God you can't separate the two you know cultures have tried cultures have tried separating the two and what has what has happened it led to destruction I don't want to go into that but this is historically proven so we need to look at ourselves and say we're a week before rosashana a week from tonight my friends is rosashana you know R is about it's not just eating apples and honey what what and it's not just about going to a synagogue of this or that kind no no it's about coronating God as the king the one word that we use most on in the service is H King it's about making god king let us say and sing another song and then we'll talk a little more