Insights into the Machzor - Finding your true self and your vision - Focus and make better Parnasa

um as part of our uh continuing uh series from the sharpest no hell group um we've asked rabbi dolphin to speak to us this evening straight from borough park on the holy day of rosh hashanah which is quickly approaching so rabbi dalman it's all yours thank you thank you yaakov and everyone else yashikaya for the opportunity so i want to begin with um a story that happened over a hundred years ago and a little tiny uh town called haslavic haslavic was the town in which rabbi salavaichik the russia shiva former rashiva of yeshiva university his father was the love there and and he would always repeat the following that uh the town was really mostly a hasidic town most of the jews that lived there were khasid and lubavitch has the rabbis over the years were lit fisher lit fox and the reason for that was because this is the tradition that he shared that when the altar the bellatonia was running running away from napoleon um he made his way towards slavic which is near you know near teave in that area and um they gave him uh they they gave him a place to stay and they saved his life and because the the the people in haslavich did that they they said that from here on we're going to the altar set his hasidim you should you should have a little rabbi as the rabbi of your hasidic shoe i mean it's hard to to to to imagine that today but uh frankly about 50 years ago there were young israel shules which were lit fish and they and they had uh chabad rabbanim rabbis and and others and this is the way it was so what happened here was on rosh hashanah i mean myself records this himself both in writing and and and on tapes the the um the rabbi moshe salivation rabbi salvatic's father gets up to the bhima it's now the high time we're going to blow the schaefer and everyone knows that the schaefer is the peak moment of rosh hashanah and he calls up the banto in other words he was not the balto kea he was the rabbi the rav and he went to the bhima and he calls up alabama hossett who who was the the uh the baltokai the one blowing the chauffeur and as the the gets to the bema he breaks out weeping and he can't begin to blow the chauffeur rabbi salvation moshe turns to the chabad and he says why are you crying now would you cry if now was sukkas and it was time to take your lululeve and your s-rogue and to make the bracha would you also cry please make the bracha and start blowing the chauffeur the story ends right there and the question thereof is rabbi yosef bear salvation the great genius and russia shiva and rav asked this why did my father have such a stern response to a jew who feels so moved and so in in in awe of hashem of god that he can't begin to blow the chauffeur before he goes through an emotional experience that's one question the other question that i ask is would a chabad rav have said that to about okay who who happens to be a habadnik would he have said the same thing and i argue that he wouldn't and this is a segway to tonight's class and to the overall a group here that's involved with the with with with chabad and and and the ohio i'm gonna share with you insights some of which are halachic some which are talmudic but primarily i'm going to use a more kabbalistic and hasidic approach because the halachic and traditional approach you have your rabban name your rabbis you know and it's it's it's searchable on the internet you don't really need me for that i'm sure you have your own sources so let us let us begin with page 20. i want to go to page 20 in the moxer and this is a prayer that we that we're saying currently twice a day during chakras and during min and minh which is called david hashem o riverishi to david god you are my light and my salvation may be from who do i have to fear i have no interfere because you are my light and my salvation this is chapter 27 in the hillen and there's a background you know when we say when when a psalm is inserted into up into the prayer book into the sidor there's a reason for it it's not because they had nothing better to do than to insert it because frankly since it's part of psalms of till him why put it into the sitter when it's time to say to him recite psalms and we find throughout the prayer book both throughout the week and and and the prayer book of shabbos and yamcha we see continuous insertions of psalms and you have to ask yourself why and and and that's what i want to talk about for a moment here why is psalm 27 which becomes known as the psalm of elu so before we get to rosh hashanah we are in fight the shell is 14 days left two weeks left right pretty much and um it's it's it's it's the countdown it's the countdown we're at the goal line okay we're getting to the goal line and what prayer could we identify as the unique prayer of heidi's elu is la david hashem psalm 27 of course there's also the blowing of the show for each morning but that's not a psalm that's not a prayer so what is the history of this psalm well basically the commentaries tell us the following king david david was a a warrior he was a king that fought wars and that's why you know hashem says i'm sorry you will not build the temple the basa amigdas the holy temple because and the quotas damn you spilled too much blood yes for the sake of god but nevertheless your hands were full of blood and the baits the holy temple is a place of shalom peace jerusha completion wholesomeness and shalom and peacefulness for the basal mikdash to be built that needs someone who is associated with shalom and who is that your son hamelech also the word associated with the word show in peace but you david you're not the one that's going to build the temple nevertheless nevertheless you were someone who fought wars for god and had a lot of inner struggles and outer struggles and just for a moment you know when we look in when we look in in psalms and you read the psalms the healing and you see how david was a chaste man a pursued man you know your heart goes out for him what did he do already that he that he that he deserved that his son and king saul shalom i mean it's it's unbelievable from all sides and therefore chapter 18 of psalm imptahilim is all about him asking hashem to save him from king's soul and on and on and on represents the part of the jew of the person who needs to deal with struggles with issues with pain with battle and this song is part of that overall message and what is the message the message is like this and why do we say it during ello this month we all know is the famous acronym aleph lamin was an acronym for i am to my beloved and my beloved is to me a verse in song of songs right it's explained in many swarm including beginning with the altar but that anila dividedly represents the activity that is initiated begins with man going towards god and yes the king comes into the field so god really you know goes first into the field and then dalton ebba says in the mimer if you read it carefully we need to do something get off our couch and get into the field you know you can have hashem in the field you can have god in the field but if you remain um stagnant and uninterested god in the field god here god that makes no difference so dalton says that hashem is in the field and hashem wants you to come into the field and when you come into the field he's dressed like a fields man you're dressed in your in your in your golf clothing in your sweatpants you're not dressed up like yakub said to with his tie now it's not a time for ties now is not a time for these formalities now we are whoever we are that's who we are you know we can relate to each other in in a real comfortable way if if we're if we're you know regular guys you know if you have to get all dressed up and and and spiffed up and you know so this person feels a little uncomfortable that person so ever is a time when we're in the field we're regular guys but remember you're in the field with a king and the king is there to help you what is the issues that you need help with the battles the struggles the urges every one of us in a different way has an issue every one of us has something that we that we could have to contend with every one of us has you know uh arguments in various ways and some are inner and some are outer that's why the one who recommended that we say this psalm is a jew by the name of rabbin yemen banished kohen and it was published he published it first in 1706 okay as part of the prayer service for a thousand years from when the sinner began from the ancient nest abdullah till 1706 they didn't say or we don't know about this prayer being part of the text during elo the first one to record it is this rabbi in a safer called um it's called the sh shemtov katan now that's very interesting just parenthetically the name shento we have a name of god in khabad right the name shanta was what does it mean good name pierkie evos ethics of the father says the kesar shentov and a crown of a good name al-kunan is greater than all the other crowns question etc the other crowns so shinto was a general name for someone who stood out in his in his um sincerity and his commitment and his pious piety etc so this individual i guess they gave him a name in addition to his regular name uh shem tovan and then they named the save hashem tovakat in 1706. so he's the first one to record this uh this prayer as part of the service so i mean historically it's important to know that that we don't see a record of it for a thousand years not that we have a lot of uh documents uh for the for those thousand years but nevertheless uh we don't see it first recorded and then it becomes recorded and all communities from ashkenaz to svard to hasidim everyone says the question is do you say it after midha before after my rev during minha there's many different customs you should know when it's actually said but everyone says it so everyone's on the same page and that is that that is a time to deal with the with with struggles just like king david david melech fought battles on behalf of hashem so that's a general introduction to the to the chapter that we're saying now he writes there uh the rabbi rabbi cohn he writes an amazing thing that and he says there that the state of holiness and purity and focus that given given to this chapter will bring salvation will bring light will bring a cleansing to the person with a person works out that issue that is that is problematic and difficult this is what he says another thing that he writes there is we know and the altar ever brings us in this that the thirteen attributes of mercy known as the ugimo midas are present during the during the month of elul and i want to point out that you know every day evan every day we say in in the in the section of prayers after the amidah we say by abraham hashem we we say the the 13 attributes so what that's the daily 13 attributes then we have the 13 attributes of lo and then we have the 13 attributes of yom kippur i'm not going to go into an explanation the three the different aspects of the 13 attributes but just to make you aware that there's daily 13 attributes there's lo13 attributes and there's young kipper 13 attributes what is the concept of the 13 attributes during ello they are a a an aid and they it's it's it's creating the playing field to be ripe to to do chuva to return to god to be successful in working out your issues so it happens to be if you look into the chapter here you will see that the name of hashem the name of god is mentioned 13 times in this chapter so the fact that it's mentioned 13 times corresponds to the 13 attributes of mercy that there that god puts into the world during the month of ellen i thought that was an interesting tidbit so um please know that about the the chapter that has 13 attributes now some of the lines in the chapter here that i always found the fascinating is the following i want you to look at um the the second or third line i'll read it first in hebrew he says hashem one there's one thing that i ask of you god is to see his sweetness or the vodka be calling to visit his chamber the devil hashem ori also is alludes to the holidays of rosh hashanah yom kippur and sukis the midrash says ohri light the third letter on page 20 the third sorry the third word ori refers to rosh hashanah light yeshi salvation the fourth word on the first line refers to young kipper and later we have the word sukkah in in in one of the verses which i'll point out soon we have sukkah so it looks to all the three holidays but nevertheless david is asking to sit in the house of hashem why does he want to sit in the house of hashem i mean you're a warrior you you're you're you're you can accomplish sitting in the house of hashem you know when i went out on schliches right mental foot of us my great uncle arab yo khan who passed away recently by mashpea i asked them both what's my job and they both told me both were from russia but different mindsets and different experiences your job is one thing to put on filling with jews and knock mezuzas in the door and learn with people and make food for them and say look i am that's your job you're learning and giving shiorim or preparing like i prepared here many hours you know you'll get back to it and i always said to myself at 60 maybe i'll happen to be 60 now so maybe my dream came true or i have more time to prepare for you now and it's you know everyone has their avoided their service at any at that particular time of their life but my question is david you're king david what do you mean you want to sit in the house of hashem too bad you know what happened when yaakov wanted