The Rosh Hashanah Secret Hidden in the Shofar's Narrow End

D I d I la my da da. M I I I I La I la I Mama. Good morning brothers. Sponsored by the silver family by we're learning in memory of David Merman's mother who was nift over the summer aim by the visels for the name of Jacob Bam for Zivun for Esther Basra. The week is sponsored by the Gavnik family in memory of Arri's grandmother and by the almonds of Benf and for the rafu of Melik Shen cha and also we're learning this whole week uh for the nama of Raineberger's mother who passed away last week of Moshe. Okay, peras of Moshe. I also want to we're going to recap but also add on to the end over here. So this is Ku the fifth pa the fifth page of what you have. You pass these around. I'm going to do a quick recap of what we did. This beautiful beautiful mimer from the Tarba based on a very mystical mug of rum that we learned last week. Uh last week no Monday we learned on Monday. This was a wild makav that didn't it was uh pretty shocking. We saw this inside that one time there was a story that in a shul many many years ago there was a bala he comes he tries to blow the chauffeur nothing comes out says so there so he flipped over the chauffeur and he said the words into the big part of the chauffeur and anace happened and then he was able to blow We see though that it it shows up in the matosha. The story is really a little bit tiny one one more important detail. It was three different balia that tried to blow the chauffeur didn't come out after the third one couldn't blow chauffeur. Then the menland tells the hey listen flip it over to the wide part saying it. Then the miracle happened and and uh and it worked. You didn't ever have these issues, right? >> Was a good >> It's a good thing to know for the future. Yeah. >> Yeah. Yeah. I know. And now he's going to have to figure this one. Yeah. You're writing it down now. >> So anyway, what we what we discussed was that this is a very very interesting miracle. Why is the m of authority bring a miracle? What's the And we learned that when is when are we introduced to this? The moment the Mishkan is erect blesses the people. What is mishutaf between the erecting of the mishkan and the story that we have in the mug of that the mishkan also as much as we tried to put it up tries to put it up down back up down up down at the end it was a nace that it actually ended up happening that the mishkan stood with all theadus at the end it was a nace we also saw that the n happens in another place as well in the basa mikdash building the basa mikdash at the end of the It was really it was really a nice that it that it ended up being built even though we know and we have very clear detailed description in terms of the construction of the bases but we also see this by like Steve said by the minor who doesn't know how to actually make the minora hashem tells him listen take a take a brick of gold throw it into the fire and what comes out a minora and we started already beginning to understand last week that what's the point of all this? So as much as you know that word triggered me histadas but it's the truth but there's a pineas to this wordad. Hashem wants us to do we say does anyone know the end matana all the things we work on at the end of the day when they actually work it's really a matana it's really a gift it's really a miracle but there's one more piece here that must be learned in order to be mashed in the whole thing we're going to jump over the story of which which is a famous one. But go down to the bottom of Sam Gimmel. Bottom of Sam Gimmel and make sure you have the the the extra page we we printed over there. Bottom of Gimmel like this that if the end is a miracle, why don't you just start off with the miracle? If it's going to be a miracle, just start off with the miracle. We were born to work. People that are sitting on stacks, piles of cash, that have everything that they could ever dream of and more. Most people that I know like that that haven't figured out what to do with all their free time are the most people in the world. One time I was being driven to the airport by a dear friend and that that Hashem blessed the family and him with a lot of goods and and it was a lot of but there was a lot of you know a lot of chef as says and he told me this many times he says parasa is for goyen Ashus is for yen that's what he said good line I said tell it to the babatam he says no I I'm telling tell you what I tell my balatim you know just to get is for a is for so what's what's the right when we don't have if I wake up in the morning but I and I have everything I need I have everything I need on a level but I'm not activating my cohos my mo my body my passion why because man was destined he was created created in order to be active, in order to be working, to be in the work field, whatever field that is. Hopefully, it's it's a kosher field, but obviously when I start having success happens all the time. I start working. I start using my mind. I start activating all those things inside of me. I could very easily begin to think, hey, you know, these hands aren't so bad. This keppy that I have, look what it did, right? If it wasn't giving you that at that moment, that strength at that moment says the he couldn't do a thing. I want you all to think about all your and it's a good thing. Think about all your you've had in life. And I know we could attribute it to I had that teacher or I developed this muscle or whatever. If it wasn't creating the to have the strength, nothing would happen. Nothing would happen. Hashem needed wanted us that we should work so hard so that we should be worthy of the n to take place. So we know this wants us from the greatest one to the smallest one to know that it's true that I have to put in my but at the end of the day when it works it's a it's a it's it's a matana. You know, last night I had this of marrying off of this young be beautiful couple really like uh like looks like they're very special. Gary's son, one of Gary's kids, Chikman >> very like the girl is this Kadgo. She's like the Kala is a soccer star. Like she's under like the like the National Women's Soccer League, whatever it is. There was that there's so much there's so much potential and they're doing they're doing it. They're they're growing together. We were saying to them, but remember every step of the way you're to be there for each other that that comes from it's may love and that's true for anyone at any stage in marriage obviously. Now, now where where are we going with all this? This seems to be a ste to a very famous khazal that we all know. >> Alaminat. So, what does yagata mean? >> To toil. >> Toil. If you worked hard and then you found what you're looking for, you could believe in it. So what what's the steer over there? What does it seem to be? >> Well, it implies your look at meat. You believe in the blo is how we understand the word timing. But either way, the focus there is on what? >> Yagata. So there's a problem here. There's there's there's an issue that we're going to solve and we're going to go to the is going to take us to this to understand this. Look at this. are going to. Now, we have one more place we didn't mention yet where there was a lot of toiling, but at the end there was a gift and he's going to take us right to the headquarters and that's the moment Hashem stopped talking to 40 days are over. Did you hear Rebo and Zusha's new song yesterday? >> Very strong song. Did you >> It's a It's a collaboration they did over the summer and it starts off. I was thinking about this this Torah. I knew we were going to learn it today. Isai's prophetic manifestation of of lyrics is like so shy to what's going on right now in the world. And batten our learning. Take take I don't know what the name of the song is but whatever you could find the latest realist >> right there >> it's beautiful you heard it >> it's it's it's really really special whatever you listen to it after she it's very very special everyone's phone's already up finding it's okay trust me it'll be there after she too promise you >> mine was up before >> promise you know what's so funny someone texted me from Europe that was listening to our shar and said, "Wow, who's that guy?" You know, they said, "Wow, it's so amazing." You know, I'm uh they quoted your your shot on identifying how you identify as an Elo. >> What was it? >> My has identified as other my has identified as it's going. You never It's trending. Okay. forgot all that he learned on the mountain. We think he went up on him for 40 days and 40 nights. The major says because Hashem wanted it at the end to be a gift. Now what when we say when we say a mitsia when it says I found something that usually refers to something that you weren't consciously looking for right >> it's a mitia is one of the things that comes that what you end up finding is not something you were actually looking for you know anyone that goes have a lot of his travels to raen and have us all in mind. >> Many people know for me it was like this many many times just came back from shil when you go to the sadic you could have a lot of makavas of what you're you know why you're going what you're going to do what you're trying to accomplish quite often I'm sure you could identify with this in a holy way identifying with it is that you end up finding something you weren't even aware you were looking for but you knew your life dependent on it. You knew your life dependent on it. You just didn't know it until you found it by the no not true. This is true happens quite often. You go with this. This is the Indian why I'm going. I have to dive in over this. And you do dive in over these things. But quite often this happens often. You end up finding a mitsia just like the gumar says the mitsia the sh the word mitsiah like finding something has to generally do with things what else comes says and it's also true but look what he says here man's this is this could be looked at as a downer or we're going to try to flip it over as hard as you try human being is somewhat limited the only thing about human being that enables it to be to reach the heavens is that we have an says I want to give you a any of what does what does it mean that you become when you learn to that's one way of learning it but the sham brings this down I forget where quoting the is that the Torah of hem that was given is meansma it's it's it has everything in the world in it which means any you've ever come come up Earth any safer that's ever been written since the emmesis it was there in Torah and not just that Mosher Rabenu learned all of the all of that in the morning you know Ra's name of his yeshiva what's the name of of Sham's yeshiva >> no not that one he's sees it he's just trying to No this one actually He was telling he didn't mean he didn't mean this was I know him this is actually he wasn't sure it's called what's the learn the learning of is the night learning it says during the day was given over all the nights were filled with the learning of so he learned everything any you could ever have and all of that was taken from him all of that was taken from him. So look, so look what's happening here. um matana which is really the opposite of the way western culture teaches us. I grew up with a book that uh I don't know if it was around with other here. What was it called? Everyone was all parents made sure their kids and all therapists were giving it to children. Teen esteem. Anyone ever hear that book? Teen esteem. Meaning it's all like trying to like put self-confidence into kids like you could do anything in the world. You could do anything in the world. Now is that true? It's true, but only on one snai. >> Who are you? >> Huh? >> Who is you? >> Well, you could do anything in the world. >> If Hashem wants to give you a matana, that's really what it that that of it. Only this is what it means. says the meaning even receiving the Torah. You would think it's because he he learned give out at the end of the day it's Hashem Adam forgot everything and he wanted him to give it to him as a gift. Now why this my shila what would be wrong if my would have remembered everything and that's how the Torah would have would have been given over. What would what would have been wrong with that? Why did it have to be that forgot everything? Because Hashem wanted to give it to him as a gift. the danger of >> even. So some would say even maybe maybe that but maybe the way Mosher Rabenu gave over the Torah afterwards would have a sheets would have some kind of ameth a smell of of um you know guys if you really work hard you could become like me you know you know no that's not how it works you give in your all whatever your all comes to give everything and you know the more that you put in and then Hashem ends ends up doing a miracle. The more that you taste the miracle, Hashem will give you a miracle and you cannot feel anything. Just like the state of Israel, it's a total miracle. We're sitting here right now. How many of us feel it? How many of us actually feel the fact that we're sitting in occupied Judea right now, right? And and and how much do you feel? I know sanctions are coming. I know. Yes, I know. Like how much do us feel the miracle? It's alia. the more that I toil, not the more that I'm it's just the more that I'm to taste the miracle. That's it. That's the whole That's the whole game. Obviously, you see why he's going deep into this. What does this have to do with what we're learning right now? Because sometimes you try to blow the chauffeur and it doesn't work. Okay? Sometimes you we're going to tie it up in a second. So, now let's just solve this of This seems to be contradicting each other. Like we said, finding something alludes to something that comes to you without you consciously working for it or looking for it. The son says, "Three things come to you through and one of them is called but working seems no. You're looking for it. You're working for something. It seems that these are opposites. Seems the way that we're dening out that it's opposites. I want to make sure the question is clear. Yeah, >> it's clear to everybody why this is a problem. Why is it seems like a contradiction? That was convincing. >> No, because one is putting the onus on me for arriving and the other one is putting on the way we're learning it. That just happened to come to me. So basic we start with unexpected something you just find stumble upon. >> So he comes back to the someone that works hard on Torah and was to have any level of understanding of what he learned. for this is not true about biology, chemistry, history, physics, all those other things in order to cap what the curricula curriculum is what what the learning is. You have to actually learn and only based on how hard you learn and how much you understand do you have a chance of making it by the Torah. It's not like this. Sometimes you see we should all have kinasim like meaning like envious of big like last night under the head of the ko in was there right he was the got the I don't never met him before I looked at him you see like >> I I don't remember his name I'm sorry >> I think >> yeah I don't remember his name you see you're just like someone that's Torah this this is in it right so you now you look at him and you have a kat like I want to be like him yeah but what if I told you that he ended up getting the Torah that he has as a gift so what does that say about your ratsum to be like him does it change it because when we say I want to be like him means oh I want to have a cup like him I want to have a brain like him no I want to receive a matana like him is really what it means right I want to receive a matana like Now let's let's let's kind of bring this all together now because now let's go back to the chauffeur >> in essence whether it's because of your aus that you become smarter or because of your aos that you're worthy of the matona both require aus >> no >> does hashem well that's a that's an interesting thing does hashem give give make miracles for those that don't try anything >> I suppose E it could be Hashem decides >> we can't put we can't put any >> any limitations on God. I don't >> we're not doing a me which it seems to suggest as well that we are required to be doing our >> maybe maybe we'll say like this when I God can do anything. God God has done miracles for many people that haven't tried to do anything 100%. And God does miracles for those that have a lot of ya ya ya. What's the nafkamina between the two? No. What's the between the someone that's trying hard gets a miracle and someone that doesn't try so hard and gets a miracle >> meaning the that's the what's the what comes out of this >> the one that doesn't >> which means what after it happens what happens to the person >> a miracle happens to him >> you don't you don't enjoy it >> you don't you don't you don't taste it you don't it happens to you and it's just like Okay. Next. Next. Thea that leads to a mitsia and then you have hakara of first of all that's called dashem. You know I had this yi bumped into him. I had cliff. Those of you remember cliff. Cliff. Cliff was here this week and I did a session with the cola with some of the boys. Right. Remember what he was talking about the whole time? What what do you what's your kavana when you end up when the end of putting on fillain? What is da hashem? What is knowing God? Knowing God comes from yea that leads to a mitsia. Hashem can give us a lot of miracles happen to us without ya but those miracles don't lead to das hashem. That's that's what we're coming down to. >> That's the story of Moshe in the back of classroom. The whole idea is that like he didn't think it was him but then at the end he gives like no this is from the best feeling ever. Now let's let's let's circle back. Now now we could understand now the is complete. We already established the beginning of working on the Mishkan. were working hard. The end of the Mishkan standing erect. Then and only then comes and blesses the people with what? Saying what? What was trying to establish? Noam. Danny, I like your nava. Noam is one of my favorite names. Always was. Noam. It's such a beautiful, beautiful name. Does come from the same >> comes from the same is this pleasantness. The pleasantness has a song like that also, right? >> I thought you were holding them. No, sorry. Called you out right now. Sorry. that was saying what's okay. Okay. So first the the the concept is the should reside over the malas of the Mishkan through our work through our through our toiling. But even after I work so hard is saying over here it's giving a whole new parish to the basically that really describes that We through our actions through masu should bring about that's really what the means through we should bring down miracles in this world. You ever see someone try to blow chauffeur from the other end? Yeah, >> there are some chauffeur that actually it does work. It sounds different but it has to be from the narrow place right what's brought down says if you blow from the wide place you're not Read it's amazing David Mal through Poskins for us how we blow chauffear and all the rishim are saying looks it must be from the narrow place you don't blow from the wide place you blow from in the narrow place you know one year I'll tell you this is one of my favorite Russas ever was given in the early 60s in the Kabak show in New York bytakma's father he was the rav he was not at least didn't look or act like he was a German auvi heartwig kabah he has a whole he says a yid is a chauffeur why because sometimes all we got to do is find a narrow place inside of us to call out to Hashem and then we're astonished as to what comes out on the other side which is the we can't believe what comes out on the other side and when you look at a chauffeur and you look at the whole of the you you actually can't believe that what comes out of the other side ends up coming out right the is taken from saying it has to be now for us we live in a world of you blow from the narrow side, but there was a that maybe there'd be a situation that you couldn't from the wider side. There are chauffeur like this. Ah, so that's a that's the perfect uh Yeah. Ah. Theb is saying the narrow part of the chauffeur eludes to let's let's face it three years of raising your children feeling like they're safe and how hard we have to work for the last three years instilling confidence and our children that these missiles, these sirens, these animals that live here are not going to get to us day in day out. But the ability to actually instill it in your child, you think it has to do with how hard you work on it. When you merit to do the meaning that's the is like is the matana that we keep on speaking about that ends up taking place after you after you work hard only then what's the rest of the there open for me like just a tiny Yeah, just a reference those that are here and those that are for after she Moshe is so s is my brother's percussionist marlin. It's beautiful yid kabaduva. He has he he has a song with that uh that he that he recorded with my brother last year. I'm telling you it's a great chuva song. Find it online afterwards. Mosha so and cats. It's a great great that he does it in English. Now we can understand the beginning of this year. Now we can understand the RV that told the hey it's not working for you. Flip it over. Flip the side over. Go to go to the wide place of the chauffeur. And what should you say in there? Use now say that pok of the mat of the sweetness of the matana into there. Lero's clapala sh this is this it's been a month of tears this I'm trying to hold myself back over here hisana was to turn to shim and say we gathered together that you gave us in the Torah to hear the chauffeur We have tried to the best of our ability with all the proper of the Bas of the actual chauffeur of learning the of chauffeur and we all got here together to to the best of our ability to this mitzvah. It's not working. It ain't coming. It's not coming out. We're trying based on to establish your mitzvah. It's not working. That the the sound wasn't coming out of the chauffeur. And you know what? We are stuck by the pak of the narrow entrance. We're stuck at the opening of the narrow entrance and we're asking of you. That level of we've done draw down unto us a string of compassion of kindness. Please, please, Hashem, do whatu blessed am with with Mishkan that at the end he you brought your into them after all their hard work and toiling. Please, please have your come down into us so that we could fulfill the mitzvah through blowing the chauffeur that it should come out. So therefore the explains now why he waited for three ballet to that couldn't blow the sha until he gave this civu this miracle working of turning over the chauffeur and saying to it You know what they reached? You know what level of awareness they reached? The Bali tea and the >> huh >> that it's really not up to them that says about them maybe we're not worthy with all our chuva of eloo all the hard work we did. I can't bank on my hard work for this mitzvah to come out right. The baltoa goes up all the kavanas, all the tilas. No. Second baya can't bank on me. Third one also can't bank on me. Meaning until the whole realized until the whole realized that it's only a gift for it for things to happen for for real. It's only a gift then and only then. They they they recognized that they needed help from heaven. in the midst of I want you to learn the learn the rest on your own to trust me if we don't have time now but it's such a beautiful ending here as well but the bottom line is like this what's the learning like this find that can't blow the chauffeur is that what we're saying like what does this have to do with us we're banking on the fact that we are trying really hard and the will be able to blow the chauffeur So, what do I do with a piece like this? What's the tone really telling us? Don't wait until you're really forced to be in the narrow of all narrowness to realize things are a gift. Realize that what you have in your life is a gift already now. Not when you're forced to the edge of life. Not when you're pushed. Not when you have the cops crawling on on all your bank account, the legal authorities here or or anything that that scares the daylights out of you and then you realize it's a matana. The avoid of chuva is to come to that hakara before not when there's three bal that it's not coming out. That's the l of this going into rashash and saying for real means that I'm on every pr every detail of my life. You know in the what they call rash, right? Coronia. You know what that means? >> The coronation coronatia. The day of coronation. So I'm preparing to coronate the king. That means that already now would be a good time to start to realize that actually all my which is necessary because that's how Hashem was Messiah of the world and that'll enable me to taste the matana but all my no matter what I do in life the wife I have the children I have the gifts I have the money I have the I've attained the kosher the the uh the the the exercise I'm capable of doing the capable that I want to do all these things to realize already that it's only because Hashem decided to give me a gift and that's the only reason those are the richest people in the world the richest people in the world and quite often it's people that have much less in life that are mamish the richest because living with that hakara that everything a gift everything is a gift allows you to taste 100% of what you have as opposed to those that have much much more in this world but they have this hakara in 10% of their life they're dirt poor dirt poor and we want a year of ashirus like we said in the beginning parasa is for goim ashirus is for yen that was just a >> it's a cute >> he's a right But not just understand this is the treasury of Kramer has such a beautiful booklet on it. The what's it called? The treasury of unearned gifts I think it's called based on in the karan. So I want to give us a a braha of a year of real ash like like the pimius of ashirus to all of us. A year of of hakara of recognizing that that somehow through the blowing of the chauffeur what we should end up hearing and feeling is exactly what the is telling us over here. Because when you have that is right that's that's his song to song right when you realize that this shouldn't um prevent balia from trying hard coming with the consciousness of listen if the wants it to happen it'll happen because it's a matana no it's not how it works the more you toil The more the gift that comes based on your toiling is felt is felt. Its presence is felt is tasted and we should taste all the batanas hashem wants to give us that he has been giving us and will give us for many many more years to come.