Do You Really Pray? Elul

age eight to the my mirror is this is a mimer that the previous rabbit said tuesday night before rosh hashanah this is during the hi the time of the holocaust so you need to look at this mimer with that that that being the background because the previous leather no no this was in america the previous labor came to america in march of 1940 so this is like a year and a half later and the holocaust was well on the way and the rebbe took it very personally he suffered from it you know it didn't help his ill health as he had anyway and nevertheless he said hasidis and he wrote hasidis and he had a magazine a newspaper called akri of akdusha i told you about this in the past where he the whole purpose was to strengthen the faith the ammuna of of eden because many hidden were just dropping out and they couldn't understand how a loving hashem can allow such a thing to happen and in fact i'm writing now about the bhagavad-gita and its relationship with khabad and it brings to mind the another a background that people don't talk about it because we're 60 70 years later right but the the bubba rebel lost his first wife and children only one son survived naftali who replaced him when he passed away in 2000 and he was a a decimated man a decimated person very very hurt you know and shabbos i was walking the street and someone saw my two clips my tributes to rabbi stein's house so he he approached me to discuss it with me and talk about it so i would i told them that i'm now working on writing about puzzles so he said you know if you want to know about the bubba forever after the holocaust or in the holocaust and that period that a certain person who lives in borough park was like 93 or 94 and he knows everybody from from the past including rebels and he said you know he didn't want to say much he said you know it wasn't easy for these rappers as well it wasn't easy they they were challenged it was uh we shouldn't know of it hasta hoyoloy so the rabbit the previous rabbit was one of very few rabbonim and saddikem who were in america during the 40s who europeans including hungarians galatians and polish who look they who who were froome might have been struggling in certain areas you know and they looked at the rabbit to feed the kid as an address to give them solace and give them hope and give them answers you know one of the one of the uh very beautiful expressions that i heard over the years from various people not just laboratories was that the previous rabbit was like a father he was like a a a concerned loving father who feels the pain of of the person of the people a because he went through that pain although it wasn't really i mean it was he also wasn't the holocaust in the very beginning and the bombs were flying and he had many miracles he could have been killed easily but even and even before that his experiences with stalinium russia we all know the hardships so it wasn't like a rebber who came to america let's say the kapishna sireda you've heard of the word you've heard of that red or the piana rather or yana rebbe they came to america before the holocaust so barak hashem they didn't experience the holocaust so a petitioner a husset a yid when he would speak with them they they couldn't communicate the same uh mercy because they didn't go through the experience not that they didn't want to but it's just part of nature that if you didn't feel the pain you don't know what the pain means okay that's that's just a fact of life and it's not a a a negative against a person it's just a fact the previous rabbit it's very interesting think about it he had both he felt the pain for sure in russia and even in the holocaust those two three months that the bombs are flying on warsaw and their stories upon stories and details upon details it's it was real it wasn't you know oh he just got out in the beginning no he didn't get out in the beginning you know the all of warsaw was was was ultimately that was later after he left but in the beginning i i was on the street i was on those streets where the bombs flew and i saw the new big buildings and i said the address doesn't seem to corresponds they told me because the older actors the the bombs leveled the the the buildings and now you have new ones or the great synagogue of of of warsaw you could look at it today guess what it's not a synagogue it's a big either hotel or a big beautiful building like a times square building that was the exact spot where the the the nazis you mocked your mom bombed that whole thing leveled it to the ground so the rabbit went through this the previous rapper so then when i saw a kluisenberg closet a little shady came to see that i've been to talk his heart out that ever felt spain and they and that's why they came to him even though they weren't labavich i'm saying so what i'm saying is besides that he was exotic and he wore a big uh you know um sputtering and and and put them in a in a comfort zone that they understood and and liked and felt good about it was his fatherly human feelings of what he went through that they felt that he can relate to us and this is why the satmar this is one reason i'm you know i'm not saying it's the only the rav the big sadder the sacrament who turned you know hungarian judaism upside down by bringing the shrine on the becca into the streets of williamsburg right in the in the late 40s and 50s and and took people who were beardless and got them to wear beards i mean on and on and on and today they have their empire and the baba rehasid them you know both of them the bubble arab and the sac marov went to see the previous reboot 46 48 in those years so when we learn a mimer when we're about to embark on learning this my mid here and it's from the third night of sleepers which by the way another point you should know the third layer the third night of sliches is considered a special slichest day i don't know right now i don't know i never was able to really verify why but in the khabar tradition and it's the third night that's why you will find not every year but many years there's a maya mahasiddhis that the samadhira bayam said shlishi the third night before so this is such a mimer in the year 1941 um when when the holocaust was you know already happening so it's in this background that we we start the mimer so it puts up hopefully it'll it put things in perspective yes yes i don't know if i i don't know if i told you this i don't know if i told maybe i did but um my grandfather all of a sudden my both my grandparents were holocaust survivors my grandfather never spoke about the war and he never left the house he lived in williamsburg and he was the god by austria of austria from so he was in williamsburg and there was the one time that he went away for shabbos was my cousin his grandson's bris was on chavez in borough park so it's the only time ever that he left because it was a shabbos burst and he came and after the shalom zohar he told my uncle my uncle lives on parkville till today between parkville and lawrence he says to him he goes um i want to go for ash but sir they said okay so it's about 11 o'clock at night 11 30 at night on friday night my uncle goes to spaziring and and and my grandfather keeps walking and my office where are you going he says don't worry i know where i'm going he walks to the bottom of the shule on 43rd is that 42 48th 48th 48th he walks the barbershop and they're in the middle of the tish the friday night dish you know singing's mirrors whatever so my grandfather walks into the room and my grandfather was clean-shaven he was clean-shaven but he wore a garter because he whatever he was now we didn't know any of this nothing we had no idea because he never talked about the work as soon as my my grandfather all shalom walks into the dish the rapper and the rebels brother the buffalo rapper's brother both get up give a clap under on the table and scream out my grandfather's name kaiser so they come and and embraces my grandfather and you know and he tells my grandfather come sit at my table he wanted to sit with him the brother and my grandmother so like everybody's like looking who's this guy clean shaven you know no no strymol no anything so like so he says to everybody after the was over he said he says i know everybody wants to know who this guy this is this guy was my best friend and a fader we learned together in bubble in baba we learned together we were harusa and we learned in the same uh theater nobody i didn't know the story my uncle told me this story crazy story yeah yeah well you know they they it was so painful they couldn't they couldn't talk about it let's continue okay so we start now libby you all know that we started to say with david hashem [Music] paksha funai search my face espaneko hashem your face hashem i will search it comes [Music] of the milk says my heart is speaking on your behalf hashem to fulfill a mission that you want of me and what is the mission is and i listen to hashem's request to hashem's mission hashem and what how do i listen your face hashem i will search my heart comes to me low marcain saying so so such and such which is search for god this is the end of the rashi that sort of for your mission what does that mean what what's rashi hinting at what is he what is he like what is he adding you know rashi is not made just to add extra words so that we can fill a page if rashi says certain words that means something was either not understood that through his wording it will become clearer it will become it will be answered or something that need that needs clarity rashi is words to give us clarity so that ever says what is that you understand i didn't say hello to you i say hello and welcome youngest and i hope you had a nice few weeks did you not get did you not get the the the you're on the list you did not get the mimer from osha i can't hear you do you ha do you have the do you have the safer with you safer how am i marina look at jonas and look look hello volume three do you have this or not attended tim right now okay moisture is sending it to you now so the rabbit's question is what's the language page eight page eight in volume three okay you have it okay next time tell us you know in the beginning i don't want you to miss any i'm sorry i came i came late i'm sorry okay it's all right you're here and you're it's special and we need you let's go also the first question is what does it mean that hashem has some kind of mission of davada melech and and the mission is search for me god what does that mean although yahser hippoly his next question is and even more wondrous more on this misunderstood not understood in your place in your place god boy lie liby my heart comes to me yoni my heart comes to me as your in your place loma cain to say so and so which means search for god what does that mean what does it mean that the heart is kind of replacing you hashem what does that mean those are his preliminary questions so that every now to answer the questions he first introduces the whole idea of bakasha and this is relevant to us what does it mean to search what does it mean to request i have a bakasha let's see the inaudible there are two interpretations the first is request and pleading trina are pleadings she had filo which is expressed primarily through prayer through davenink he said it is a great arousal when you dove in and you get into your davenink whether you say it verbally whether you say it in your heart whether you close your eyes whether you cry whether you laugh the objective is hashem i need help in this area please help me that's trilla 101 it's not calculus and advanced physics it's basic dominic that's why he says but he said it is good with a great arousal not you just say words and you're a cold fish you have to get into it it's the they're about to close the electric on your apartment and you won't have electric so then you know god please help me find some money to pay the bill it's really real it's not you know oh it's a nice a nice idea that's what real darkening is now you see now if you think about it do we really do we really plead to hashem that's number one about the kosher concept is fila bisouros gedolo number two washing the idea of bakasha is to search right what do we do we search for hummus you bend your back you go on the floor you turn upside down your schwitz to find any drop of muhammad air of pesach so bakasha means search find the atsuma was great bother with great effort so this is another meaning that the word bak kosher implies because the english word yoni of request doesn't imply this the either of these two things moshe right to me request is kind of you know i requested of you it would be nice if you would do it for me so the implication is it's not passionate it's not powerful but there ever says in the in the hebrew in the in the muslim indica in the ideas of tata bakasha actually implies not just a um a a request that is passive but rather a very passionate request to the to the likes of a push searching you don't stop for a moment till you find the answer you don't stop for a moment till you find the comments so the and the rabbit now says [Music] and the rabbit says this too we find when we die it should be this one without them is the service of the heart but not only unison avoid the sheba lev but the rabbi adds the words beto in the heart there is the service of the heart moshe and there is the service of the heart in the heart and he says in yiddish so in hearts means in the heart the seat of trilla is in the heart and the manner and content of trela is with the heart so both both the location of tv is heart and the content of trilo is heart so you understand that's what he means with uh avoiders and yet really expressed itself very nicely in hearts meet them hearts and how he explains the whole union avoided the trilo the whole concept of davening he listened it's to plea to hashem [Music] to be successful i should succeed in serving him so to search and to find havana tevo a good understanding by sogali kiss in understanding godliness now this is very important you ask the average jew on the street what is fila about they say prayer of the heart but about what about what i need comes along habakkuk says you have it wrong the whole availability is look what it says i'm working hard to understand god that's not the average person's answer but what feel is about as a result of understanding hashem i'm in union with hashem and when i'm in union with hashem naturally health and paranosa and everything else is necessary to [Music] continue my relationship with god by the way the rebels says this side this explanation in his talk when he spoke once about his mother's name rabbits and khan whose yard said his wolf and this is printed already in the kute sikhis and the rabbit had a you know the story with hannah that ailee and navi thought that she was a shikora a shikker a drunk a drunk a drunkard right and because she was she came to the to the base of mikdash and she was daving like she was drunk she seemed to be intoxicated from her swaying and words and movements and everything else at least that's that's the way the story goes and of course she was dominating to have a child and she ultimately had shmula navi so the rebound everyone spoke about the the idea of tafila and he said seemingly if we're you know trilla we've learned many times is a ladder it's the tsar says the edge the end of the ladders stands on earth and the head of the ladder reaches goes into the heaven so you have uh you have berkshire um and then you have schminescer amida the zodiac says the whole isaiah says it's climbing the ladder gradually you begin at the bottom and you go up so so so when you reach up when you reach monastery it's silent why is it silent because you cannot talk anymore why can't you talk not because not only because it says talking in the sense of talking out loud because i'm speechless speech contradicts the mode of amidah speech out loud that is silent it's the it's the void of silence symbolized by saying the words in the undertone asks that ev if that's the case how is it that we're asking for chuva refuga parnassa gaoula things that are very real things that are not metaphysical so you would think that when you're on the left when you're up there in athelas when you're in amida there is no place to ask for things that i need this was the question they're ever asked once you should learn the secrets of a very important secret and the rebel answer is basically what i told you earlier that ebba says that the asking for those things is coming as a result of our overall bonding to hashem by understanding hashem and when you come to that overall unity and bonding you understand that hashem wants you to be healthy healthy he needs you to be healthy he needs you to have parnosa he needs you to be happy he needs you to do truva he needs you to seek ula because without that we crumble now you could be a narciss and amida and if those needs are not fulfilled you're going to fall so inch monastery through our saying the brachus and making the requests those become fulfilled but not because i need parnasso because hashem says i need panaso hashem wants me imagine if hashem said i don't want you to have problems i don't need you to have panosa you will not have parnosa i don't care what you do it ain't going to work and the same is true cost of showing for for health and other things but the hamster wants us to be healthy and wealthy and happy and and and gazunt so the thing what you have to understand is says hasidis that the ultimate idea of this is is godliness clear to you like the meatballs and spaghetti your wife's going to serve you at supper tonight is it as clear to you as its son outside in betsy michelle that's what we mean jonas godly concepts godliness should be so clear so understood that it becomes who you are continuing inside le japes williams to search and to find methods of rectification beholding your nerve in all of one's matters bilivus regarding the garments of the soul of the nephesh the maksha of thoughts and speech in action when you have good understanding of hashem and it resonates i like the word resonates the lymph node means it resonates mostly within you then you find methods to correct the situations that need correction and that's what ll is all about right so there is there is the correction of issues this month that we we can go about it in a very legalistic way in a very unhappy way it's like i have to you know file the papers that have been sitting in my desk for six months i don't want to do it what a what a boring job but i have to do it because if i don't do it i won't find my documents the next time i need it that's not happiness that's being compelled forced to do it the avoider of tikkun that we need to do during ello should be done with a happiness i look forward to ello i always say i love the montevello because we know that the melaka is basada so we know someone is looking for us to help us and he's there as a regular fellow he's not wearing his royal garments he's wearing his regular clothing and he has his golf stick with him and he's walking around in a field and he says come on let's let's let's enjoy let's kiss let's you know tell me what's what's what what you need how can i help you with that attitude and i don't mean a callous frivolous attitude i mean a serious attitude but based on have undertale of who god is what what is hashem and what does hashem want then my my willingness to find and deal with the problems is an opportunity taking stock is an opportunity for more growth not taking stock is to just know what you goofed up on last year and ask god for forgiveness and go into the new year with forgiveness yeah that's that's one way of doing it but it's a risky way because the tendencies of the yetzer hura and the nepheshabamas are so strong that after much focus on those my shortcomings i say forget it forget it forget it i i can't deal with it you know if god if you want to give me a good year give it to me anyway i don't have any patience you're demanding too much of me but if your attitude is i i i want to understand you are strong better and if i understand you better i'm going to appreciate you better and i'm going to enjoy doing what you want of me better then it's it's it's a work of love i i use that go back to that simple example right what is that you take out those the garbage for your wife it stinks it's smelly you don't necessarily have heart palpitations of love for your wife while you're carrying out schmutz of garbage but you know that this is a the right thing to do because you're a mensch and number two you know that this is ultimately also part of the real love which is through doing cleaning up your act and cleaning up the situation but if you don't have that relationship you're not taking out the garbage and even if you are you say yeah i have to do this for her you know what i'm saying what did you do for me that type of thinking so the same as they that's why see this says i spend so much time on making the focus of your davening creating the unity the actus hashem because when and and this is a lifelong work it doesn't happen overnight it doesn't happen two years it's every because every year every day why because the world around us does not support it the world around us says nature hedonism materialism hashem is the last thing i want to think about so that's why we have to work during davening avoid the satwila to re once again knock into our heads who the hamster is enlightened how it's novado and when we do that then we dabble with an other we dabble with a real love so now we understand that box through fornite search doesn't doesn't mean just request search for god search for my face yes it's work but it's gonna pay off and that's what will continue tomorrow any questions have a great day everybody we'll see everyone tomorrow bye bye