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everybody. Welcome back to the big mash.
Welcome home to Torah. We're continuing
our Sunday nights is on Tila. So we just
had Rabbi Flex beautiful on
and this is the series on Tila. What we
decided was in Elo to discuss the
prayers for the high holidays for the
yim
and the truth is this is really good
hashkafa based on freelander's book
called
and we'll be discussing the words of the
for rash yam kipper but this is hashkafa
this is Jewish wisdom
and Jewish insight and we'll begin with
this first idea
on page 15
sorry
that what is not just suggested I mean
we really have to understand that when
we pray we should have this feeling that
we're not really fit to even pray to
approaches
and of course we do so what is that all
out if if the suggestion is that we
should have this harasha this feeling or
even a perception that we're not really
worthy of making these requests or even
approaching Hashem to to dav what's that
all about so if you notice in the actual
davening of of rashashan and yamipur in
the first in the first brahakados
there is a Um,
there's three paragraphs.
give you an idea what I'm talking about.
So the first right within the
it says we're asking
we're asking that Hashem should instill
fear on all his
and trepidation on all that he has
created.
The second
that Hashem should grant honor to your
people. And the third
and that is that Hashem should recognize
that the that the righteous should see
and be glad and the upright will rejoice
and so on and so on. So why are there
three?
We're going to touch on that. But what
about this idea in general? So he
mentions
we saw that added in to this to
a very unique or special uh addition for
the high holidays, the the days of a and
we these paragraphs begin with the word.
Now the explains that the reason
the reason that added these three
paragraphs or specifically the word
is going to give an in of us insight
into this idea that we're not really
worthy of even approaching Hashem but we
do. So we're going to find out why.
and alo
elikat
queen Esther right in chapter 4 of
megilith Esther verse 16 she actually
say says these words right I will appear
before the king
though it is against the law right she's
going and pleading on behalf of Israel
she wasn't called she went right at the
risk of her own life um this is very
interesting. And how does her statement
begin?
So, believe it or not, when we say,
we're having this just like she
approached God when it was not really
proper to do. Well, here we're talking
about approaching the king
and since the time many times it says
king in uh the migill, it's not always
referring to kingasha. sometimes
it's referring to
um so this is the idea that we should
have just like she did
uh not feel that it was appropriate
nevertheless she did it okay so we're
going to get into why we have the right
to do it just like she to save amra she
did it
comes to hint to the idea
amra just like Esther had said
that she was going to go before the king
which was against the law which was
forbidden to do so to speak and yet of
course she did it
since the king had not called her. She
felt it was inappropriate. She knew it
was inappropriate. Nevertheless, she had
to do it.
Nevertheless, we have to we um we need
to
we need to go before the king of kings
in order to praise him and to pray
before him.
What's a a feeling? We feel
that we should have this
feeling that we're also approaching
Hashem as if we're not worthy. That's
the point. We're not worthy
because we should have this feeling that
we're not we're not really prepared or
efficiently prepared and it's
it's not proper to stand before Hashem.
However, what's mean? However,
just like
Esther said that she's going before the
king,
even though it wasn't proper, but why
did she go
commanded her, right? In fact, if you
keep in mind, he said, "If you don't go,
someone else is going to go. Don't
worry, we're going to be saved." Right?
If you don't step up to the plate, don't
worry. Someone else will. But she
decided, okay, she's going to take that
risk.
So too, we're going to come and pray
before he
because
we really do know this is God's will and
he actually commanded us to do so.
That's the only reason. Not because
we're worthy, not even because we're
prepared. Just like Esther.
And even though we're not really fit,
I would say drum roll. Drum roll please
on the next five six words.
Aotus satila.
This is a great principle, a super uh
paradigm example or a principle in our
service, in our um in our work, in our
in our vod in our worship is through.
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I think this is what he's talking about.
This is the principle. This is a great
principle that a person should be he's
able to be brazen emboldened
right in with courage and and like
daring just like Esther went before the
king. That's how a man should go to
speak before Hashem
especially if you're humble right enough
to know we're really not fit. So that
takes a lot of guts to stand before
keshu
and one should feel that because this is
what you know that god wants
and similarly it's written in the in the
safer
in the
he writes over there
sorry
Basically, I didn't come out of
ignorance. I'm standing before you, but
I'm not ignorant of the fact that I'm
not worthy, that I don't have the value
to stand before you. Meaning to say,
I'm not coming and praying before you
because I think that I am so important
and I'm fit to pray before you but
rather
the reason I'm coming to pray before you
because you're the one that commanded me
to pray. That's why I'm coming.
and I'm only coming to do your will.
That is a huge difference than ah I I
don't know I'm so great I can ask you
for anything right there is this right
revolineberg ma you know look you're the
son of god and god just wants to give
you so you have the right to to ask it's
true we do have to ask but maybe we're
not fitting we're not we don't it's not
earned it's it's it's
an unearned reward in other words
unearned gift in parasan.
This is one of the biggest lessons that
Moses was asking to come into the land
uh without any string strings attached.
We do learn that we should ask for
things unearned because if I would stand
in front of the mastering universe and
say you owe me,
what is going on here? Hashem doesn't
owe you anything, right? He has given
you everything from the day you were
conceived. You were in a warm
environment. You come out and you had
food. Everything's been taken care of.
The love and the Hashem has given you.
Right? Even Jacob says, "Uh, I am so
small in compared to your so we
shouldn't feel it coming to us." Right?
We should ask for an unearned reward,
something like a bonus, uh something
over and beyond what we are um that we
than we than we deserve. That's really
how we should approach Hashem. We don't
really deserve what we're asking for.
Okay. So now he begins the next
paragraph.
We're asking that Hashem should instill
instill fear of view into the Bria. So
we're going to talk about different
worlds. Listen to this paragraph. He's
quoting the uh the rebar yakar as well
as the avuraham.
And they say that that word
bain is the same gamashri as inbet which
is 72. Uh when we were in Rabbi Flax's
suka a few weeks back I brought a chart.
I don't have it in front of me but
basically the 72let name of God or let's
say there's
72 threeletter words of God. How does it
work? So in chapter
of Exodus
verses 19 20 and 21
it's the only three verses that are rats
consecutive that have 72 letters and
they work it out when you read we read
right to left. So you take the first
letter of verse 19 when you're reading
right to left. Then you go to the second
verse which is verse 20 and you read
from left to right. So you take the
first letter of 19, the last letter of
20 and then go back to the first letter
of 21. That's the first name of the
72let name 72 threeletter names of God.
And then you have in consecutive order
that's the that's the special 72
three-letter names of God which is by
the splitting of the sea and
unbelievable verses. You should you
should read them become familiar with
them.
So if is the gamach of bet 72
which he says
alashet
this hints to the idea of the 72
threeletter names of god as rashi
mentions over thereimos
as I just mentioned that 72let name it
really has 72 threeletter names of god
Each word is a com combination of three
letters.
The very fact that we mentioned there
are three times three paragraphs. This
72*
three
according to the yitz.
Okay.
By the way, when you take 72 and times
it by three, you also get the gamatri of
ya which is 216 same as three times as
well as gura which is the same 216.
Okay, as we are going on the next
paragraph describes the difference
between
and ama I mean to us we would simply
translate both of them maybe fear and
dread but there has to be a difference
and we're looking at the words
we're asking Hashem to instill fear upon
all that you have made as well as a your
dread
on all that you've created. So in the
different worlds you have um
but we're not going to talk about that.
You have um Bria Yira and um and Masa
and
so we're going to get into that a little
bit. Okay. And this is the words he
uses.
Rashi in parish
15:E1 16 the verse over there says
okay so alim is is really the definition
of a
which is fear or dread so that God
should place fear or dread we'll decide
which one ama that's what it is on those
who are on those things that are far
away and
and another type of fear or dread on
those that are close. So which one is a
higher level? Which one is more intense?
So we're going to see that to those that
are closer that's going to be a more
intense fear and those that are far is
going to be a less intense fear. So
amasa might be less because that's to
the whereas is to the so that might be
more intense. We're gonna see a mlo some
say one way some say the other. Okay. So
what does it say here?
The word as if to say the word is
like either more intense, more defined,
right? It's more intense than
because those that are close, they're
well aware of what they're afraid of.
Israel.
So those that are close they certainly
know they know yotare they know much
more than those that are far why there
is the
in front of the Jewish people for the
Jewish people whereas amma which is
we're going to say that's less intense
am
it's more obscure it's less intense
and has it's more general especially
when they don't know specifically from
what there is to be afraid of
right.
So what does it come out according to
this paragraph that is yer is more
intense than amma that's this paragraph
mim
and birui right so we asked that
that should go on ma hashem's
handiwork and amma should go on that
which he created what's the difference
in these worlds there's worlds of
and there's worlds of Berea and that's
what he's going to get into a little
bit. So
now this is going according to the
vagon. We're going to see uh a different
opinion shortly
that
aa the world of aa which is the world
we're in is much more perfect. It's much
more complicated but it's much more
perfect than the world of Bria. Why?
According to the grow the vagon inahu
he he describes
there are three um degrees or levels of
creation bria that what is bria we're
going to call creation
that's the raw material that is the
original substance
as an example
B8
a raw piece of wood has no form. I mean
the artist may be able to see what it is
that he's going to carve it into even
before he does. I've heard this from
artisans. You're a little bit of an
artist
with rock and sculptures. Maybe they do
with yarn as well and what they're going
to do, you know, with the clothing. they
can see it already towards the end.
So we mentioned the bri is the
it's the creation which means the
original substance the raw material and
as an example bulle sura like the uh the
raw piece of wood this unshaped wood
as we had mentioned earlier about how
the creator the sculptor the right can
see something within the rock or within
the wood of what they want it to be and
what it what it should look like at the
end. What about
that's already formation? That's giving
some shape to the material.
So when you make a table out of the wood
that's already you formed it. Okay? And
that is
you're giving some shape to the
material.
Okay, we did that. What about a is the
making it's the finishing touches. It's
it's
the final stage and that's that's the
human being. We're the final stage and
we'll see the the Mahim are in the bria
state. So according to the vagon and
we're talking about if you want to know
we're talking more like the physical the
physical substance you could see that
the human beings are on a much higher
level we are the
final stage
if you're talking about a table it's
when you painted it or you you smoothed
it out.
So this is where you um you polished it
and you put in the finishing touches of
the product. So according to the vagon
you have a as being on the highest level
or most complicated or most perfect
level. Um, okay. And we were only
discussing Bria and
then he says, "Therefore we say
that Hashem should
instill fear.
It should be more intense. It should be
placed upon this intense fear should be
placed upon his handiwork.
It's more perfect.
It's more complete. Whereas
where we said your dread that's that's
less intense fear
on all that you've created that's the
word of bria
that is less perfect. Now he's now quote
quoting the audra who claims it's
everything works in the opposite
direction. Okay. Soim
in the complete opposite direction and
he's going to take it from a spiritual
perspective
which we described as being less
intense. He says that's
that's going to be even greater in in in
strength than
than simple.
Why
we described as the world of Berea
creation
that this is on a much higher level than
what we described earlier of why
that if you go in the order of creation
of the different worlds. The most
important one is Milala. It starts above
and goes down. Starts with right above
say but
and then you have at the end
the ram also discusses it in this way.
Therefore, what do we know about the
brewim, the creation or creatures?
That's talking about the malim. That's
talking about the angels. Who are the
angels? The sare.
This is describing the the spiritual
representatives of the nations.
They are above.
That's where we're asking that Hashem
should place upon them fear.
Okay?
Which he which is even greater and more
intense than simple fear.
And regarding humans, they're in the
world of they are the mim.
And we're asking Hashem to place also
on all the human beings. Now this next
paragraph is quite coalistic and meaning
it gives over certain fundamentals.
This is unbelievable what he's about to
say that the level of the angels is
entirely dependent on what?
On us.
If we raise ourselves,
we are raising them. Okay? If we're not
on the level, they're not on the level.
They're somehow reacting to the human
conditional
according to the words of the Ramalu.
You know what we're asking?
So alham
we're actually asking that God place his
fear on the angels which are in the
level of Bria.
Now you have to understand
we're assuming and rightfully so that
the angels totally get they're well
aware of the supreme loftiness of
Hashem.
Of course they have uh fear and dread of
God.
Then why are we asking? What is the
space or place for us to come and ask
Hashem to place his dread upon these
angelic creatures that should have the
ultimate recognition of Hashem's
superal uh loftiness and highness?
So
freelander explains
shalanu.
Understand this that the level of
loftiness of the angels is entirely
dependent on our service of God.
Just like it says in
that the angels do not sing. They don't
sing and praise Hashem above until we
the Jewish people praise Hashem down
here in the lower spheres. Isn't that
interesting?
Now, we do say here's a good question.
We say in the
right, we're saying that
um let us sanctify your name in the
world just as they are sanctifying God's
name in the in the higher worlds in the
heavens.
So, are we mimicking them?
No, the only part we're mimick mimicking
them is how. But they're only doing it
because we do it.
The answer is the intent here is just
the form of how we say kadusha.
How we say kadusha
that we're learning from the
Just as they sanctify, we're
sanctifying. How they do it?
But the very fact that the angels are
only able to sing after we sing. We are
the highest level of
creation
and aa from actual um beings that God
made with the highest level
and
therefore when we have fear proper
healthy fear of God
this will then elevate
the angels to their proper level in amma
in terms of fearing Hashem properly.
Okay. Now the last three lines
as we're asking that Hashem grant fear
your fear God should be granted to these
things
that would be called
that's that's to the lowest level
and all your handiwork what is the
lowest level of creation humans
we are in the world of the world of
action.
Now through that
your fear will be on the on the angels
because Madria
Shabarasa
that the malim in the world of Bria are
only as a result of what we do down here
are being raised to a much higher level
of awe and fear. Now, we're going to
stop here and we'll continue next week
with the prayers, the insights of the
prayers for the yoy. And with that, I
wish everybody a great week,
a great winter and
we'll see you next week.
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