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everybody welcome
crazy very strange thing you know thank
you of course my very beautiful very
holy
wife looking after
me my
son he's famous picture everybody knows
him from his picture he's a little bit
different now now he's now he's a
man you pour me a shot nice have another
another man in the house as well or the
sucker
pleas the uh the the sucker is they say
it's like a like the wings of the 15 I
want everyone everyone should be blessed
to be able to feel feel that hug from
the colage B to feel this holy holy
moment together with with music
elevators feel the simp rabbi say that
anyone who hasn't enjoyed hasn't
experienced the simpa of a straw sucer
party never
enjoyed so welcome everybody please
hug just don't feed the dogs anything
please
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and and just enjoy three times
that's
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good you know for uh for a holiday where
everyone just sits outside singing all
day there's not so many sukus songs you
know it's only a few but there's many
many songs to sing that are very
connected but let's just start with the
the one and
only actually
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yeah
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for for
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look
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la
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mer
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la la la la la la la la
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la la la la
la
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love
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so we uh you know the the two the two
songs that we
have is from the benching of
course it's from the Bening it
says
sorry thank
you that should establish or should
raise up build the uh the Suka of David
that is that is
falling that's that's that's like
tipping which is interesting way of
phrasing it so the gamar of course
famously says that any generation that
doesn't bring the bet mdash is as if
they destroyed it right if we're not we
haven't got our act together we uh We've
destroyed it but but what Suk is really
is is coming to to teach us in many many
ways is is really it's what how how we
how do we build this Suka how do we
build the mikdash how do we bring mhia
how how are we supposed to do that
especially in a a crazy time like we're
feeling this year and and uh you know it
feels in some ways farther than maybe
it's ever felt maybe maybe closer in
other
ways and uh sitting under this
Suka I I just spent a month and a half
in Africa uh living in in suas
actually straw straw huts and uh but but
sitting under this Su and and I was
looking at this you know uh especially
right outside a a beautiful home like
Johnny's home it it it's the the is
teaching us that every little piece of
straw counts you know how do we build a
Suka it's made up of thousands of little
straws and branches and twigs and and
bamboo and and all of these things and
and we're supposed to you know we we
could have been commanded to you know
sit outside in a hut but but a solid
roof you know like okay we'll still be
in auka so but there's something that
that you have to see that this this roof
is not solid you have to see that it's
made of of thousands of little
pieces and every year we get to come
into a sua for for a week right after
yum
Kipper and we're kind of collecting all
the little
straws in our life we have seven days to
sit to gather the
straw you know it it uh there's a lot of
straw we can be gathering a lot of
pieces of twigs and and there's so many
things that we can do and that we're
doing and and uh B and all of our little
Twigs that we throw
on or should bring the
Mia and stand left and kind
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of fall
through thank
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you squee squeeze in we have the space
you can say
where did you say which
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one from Hollow they were sing la la la
la la la la la la la la
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la
la la
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la
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isall
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the
I
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the
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the my
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love love
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la la la
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la
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there's a
story one time it was right after Yer he
walks into B Med and he says guys I want
to hear all your
sins nobody
understood is a guy that even when he
sees a guy early in the
morning oiling his wagon daving he says
oh Hashem look at this guy even when
he's o even when he's oiling his wagon
he's doing to you he only sees positive
how is it is looking for sins doesn't
make any sense so he says there's a gar
that that nobody
understands M says in the medish that
why is is called it
says on the first day you should shake
the little of an atog so the says it
means the first day for counting sins
so what does that mean means that after
you keep all of our sins are forgiven
then we have four days that we're too
busy with building the Suka and getting
we don't have a chance of sin finally
the first day of Suka Who start sinning
but it's a very hard what does that mean
says this is the the definition ofk is
the first day to count sin so says this
is
theat there's a gar that talks about
that there AAR that brings up a
contradiction what happens when a person
does sha what happened to all these D
all the intentional sins so one One
Source says that they turn into
unintentional sins the other source says
that they turn into to to positive to to
to
Mitzvah so thear says what's what's what
what is it is
it so thear says depends what kind of ch
ch CH out of all the turn to from
intentional to
unintentional CH out of love the
negative turns into positive this the
sins turn into positive to there's a lot
of about it in chapter 7 in t how when a
person does ch ch out of thirst for God
so then all the negative becomes his
motivation and his and his um his drive
to be more enthusiastic about MIT so all
the negative turns into positive so this
is what the says the when it comes to we
all do CH but it's ch it's days of a we
have year of hem so we do Chua after
Yumer then we change modes then we turn
into CH from from from from Love from
thirst the word according to is from the
word which
means desire SOA means desire and thirst
for God
only time in the year that we put water
and we celebrate with water is Su it
says in the gar that when you drink
water you don't make a unless you're
thirsty because it's not enjoyable but
if you're thirsty you if you're thirsty
you enjoy water so Suk is a time that we
have thirst and love for God that we
enjoy the Simplicity of Torah Simplicity
of Mitzvah because of The Thirst so
there's a different level of ch ch so
says this is what the the is saying the
first day that we count in is the first
day of su because all the sins are not
really sins that turn into positive into
mitv so now that we
have now we counting the sins because
they all become significant they all
turn into merits so
um that we're in the in the Suka of joh
of Y I think they're a good example
of of the approach of AA is important
but to make sure that it doesn't last
with we just we're not satisfied just
with to have a to have
so for this uh
beautiful atmosphere and musicians
musicians Benji
and for bringing the
into should all have a
real old to turn to merits and we should
be able to see right now amen amen thank
you so as we b goodbye to one welcome
another thank you for for coming
entertaining
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God
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God of
go God God
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there is a
uh ah first of
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all
ah ah
what does it mean to
be we're going to be learn a lot about
this tonight
together what does it mean what does it
really mean to
be can you hear what is what does it
mean to be
yeah Johnny thank you Johnny thank you
so much thank you so much it's so
wonderful to be here
I'm I'm blanking your wife's name again
Elish thank you
Elisha yes
amazing we need to learn
about what is
Sim and uh I'm drinking a glass of water
this is uh this is pass the good stuff
I'll drink some that too but
I'll in the b m
every single day they poured wine on the
and only this one week of the year they
poured water this one week of the year
now usually the association with wine is
with Simka and water is just like to
hydrate water is uh not right right and
yet right the corbon
tamid right the corbon tamid had Y in it
had in
it as an of
being but what's the specialness of
particularly the specialness
of drying this water of drawing of
drawing this water from from from from
what's it called from
the what can this teach us about what
SIM is
so one REM is is that Sim is Sim to
put which is your infinite light of your
particular Soul into hey into its its
malus into
its expression with thought and speech
and action putting that infiniteness of
who you really are
and living it and living it then
you're
and during the year the modality
is wine pouring wine every single day
and the M the in Suka says they would
pour it that it would go glug glug it
would go down like gmak it would go down
the water that would go down the hole in
the M like a Big Gulp and actually Raa
the Moira learned from that how to drink
his Kish Cup in every Co to drink a big
gup not just a little dainty sip you
know we have to be a little less English
for right for you have to enjoy I know
Johnny has trouble with this one but
it's that's not your issue
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but learned from the the way they would
glug the wine down to drink a nice big
gulp and uh
and yet that's the Sim of every single
day in the B they're pouring wine suus
and
particularly
the they would pour water for just seven
days a
year unique and special what is this Sim
of the
water we said Sim if we understand Sim
to be a Remis to what SIM is and its
name
Sim put the into the hay take that
infiniteness that's in you and don't be
afraid the world is waiting for you we
need you we need you we need you and to
live it to really live
it please help us and there's one aspect
where the is already there the's already
there you just need a little wine to
like you know Grease the axles as they
say right little wine just uh you know
that it should come through the is
already there though that's all year
round we're drawing out water means
we're drawing out the very infiniteness
of our own being
new degrees of who we really are of life
itself like the we read on
shabas will come out from
Y what is
this is it what's going to spout forth
from is that delicious
hydration right the the mean the biggest
what what ruins is
yish
and I hate to say it but we're all a
little bit yish
we need to get hydrated right you know
past we need we need to get we need to
get hydrated Mish badly so badly we need
to draw out M new levels that were never
here before that's
the the ra calls
it and like a extravagant a
extraordinary a a a uh how you say you s
in English uh and Beyond Advantage
what's that above and beyond what's that
ADV advant Advantage addition like
something that is over the top Over the
Top
Sim over the top more than necessary
extra like more like too much like
whoo it's because it's a real woe it's
one thing wine when the's already there
thanks to sukus all year round we need
some wine to bring it out more and more
to enhance it to to live to live
that's the every all day
every but suus is special and and the
nights these nights are so precious that
we can we can draw out we can draw out
Waters of our very being new water new
water that Mish from the depths of our
soul
right the fuz says in Mish somebody can
help me
out how a
right there we have people come to me
sometimes I'm a I'm a in my day job I'm
a rabbi night I'm saxophone player and
uh
people can't tell with you can't tell
that that uh that and they asking a and
and the one of the most asking for
advice of how to
be in a certain way they're they're
coming and they're saying like who am I
in a certain way and it's the deepest
it's the greatest to be able to talk
that out with someone and I also go to
my rabbis and say do the same thing and
uh and the greatest thing is when you
help the person just draw out the water
that it's my it's in it's already there
it's already there it's in your heart
everything you need is there it just
needs to be drawn out it just needs to
be drawn out there's
and every year of Our Lives the Tua that
we did allows us now it's so sad that
the rest of the world that the yiden
don't know about sukus that all they
know is like chest pounding they don't
know that after that after that you Dro
you you all that chest pounding broke
through and there's Living Waters of
huge Sim Over the Top Sim of wowow
that's who I am this is who I could be
this is what I this is what I could
dream of
right I just want to say in the in
recognition of the the mat that we're in
and solidarity with with all our holy
soldiers and all the people in need
of should have complete a complete
Victory and and and
Mish Mish tonight
isem and I just want to say that across
the street from me where I live in bees
there they put up
the you know from
the they translated into English and
they made a glorious typo glorious
glorious typo you heard this before they
they made a glorious typo they said
every generation they rise up to Dory
us
oh oh gal
that's what they're trying to do Mish
that's what the terrorists are trying to
do they're trying to Dory us they're
trying to make us Frozen in the
headlights and like there was no past
and there is no future there's only
fear shom it may be a difficult part in
the story but there's a story there is a
story and we are in this story we're
getting an education we got an education
this past
year of what AM have gone through for
centuries and we only knew it in the
history
books is this is this a for me over here
is giv where's the where's the where's
the yeah yeah yeah I think it's mine you
can have it what's that I think it's
mine you can have he's thank you thank
you thank you so so
so the Suka is giving us strength to get
back into the story to get back into the
story
the
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we didn't do that
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CH I don't care this what you
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want yeah
he
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so uh
okay and uh it made me think what I was
what I was talking about before you know
what I was saying before about you know
we're sitting under under the for those
that walked in sitting under the and
part of what the is teaching us the is
is a thousand little pieces of straw a
thousand twigs and leaves and branches
and you know but all everything by
themselves doesn't matter it's all the
you know it's all the the little pieces
of straw the straw that breaks the the
Satan's back I
guess and uh and connecting it to it
leish what you were saying about uh the
this s putting the the into the hay so I
was thinking what does it mean to put
the into the ha what does it mean to put
this the the INF the infinite the
infinite into the hay which is the
Manifest right the Manifest of this
world the last hay of hashem's name this
this world of action of of
physicality and when we what what what I
was say what I was thinking was when we
when we put our infinite into the finite
what it means is that we're fulfilling
our purpose it means that we're taking
everything that we are and we're
channeling channeling it in channeling
sorry
it into into a manifested
form and going back to this this over
here you know there's a big question we
have 613 Mitzvah right that's a lot of
mitv and we're supposed to do them all
but the says you know it's actually
impossible and he not just a lot of
people say it's impossible to do all 63
Mitzvah you have to be a man you have to
be a woman you have to be a Coen Ley a
gar uh a rich person a king a popper a
farmer a business person a merchant you
know it's impossible to do in one life
so the B says yeah of course you you
can't do it all in one life but if if
you're connecting yourself to everybody
else then it's as if you've if we're all
doing it together and we're relying on
each other then we're then we're able to
do it and and so how do we know you know
there's a lot of mitv how do we know
which one we're supposed to be here to
do so that's a very big
question you can either there's two ways
to to start approaching it is is then we
might have two things one is something
that we're really just naturally
connected to and and we feel like it's
it's our mission in the world and and
the other thing is something that we
have a real real hard time with that's
so fixing something and bring something
into the world but whatever whatever
that is that's our piece of
straw that is our piece of straw the
thear says it all of the Jewish people
should be sitting in under one Su and we
really are sitting under one Su and
maybe what is what do that mean we're
all putting our little piece of straw on
the and and through that the Sim the
into the hay and uh and that brings a
lot of Joy when we feel like we're doing
what we're supposed to be doing in life
that's you know there's there's 10 10
words for joy and joy that's that's deep
inside that's unmovable is is
Sim it's connected to us feeling like
we're fulfilling our purpose like we're
doing what we're supposed to be doing in
the
world so give us a br that we do all
that amen and uh we feel a lot of joy
and Sim and our little pieces of
straw amen
that's kind of what you were saying yeah
totally that's who it's being you being
you yeah yeah yeah
C
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take your hand but my hand
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bring it up bring it up it's too low
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my fingers are stir in
the oh those
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yes but this a
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second so good to see everybody oh my
gosh
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we're learning it's an Exquisite time of
sim we're drying forth
water the water of our very life M new
whole chunks new
whole
quenches of who we
are become available dka after Ker
and these these
nights and the dings the
shakas which is which is connected to
the Corb and Tomi to that morning
offering where they pour the water was
by Shak that that
happen of very you can M grow it's
formative it's formative you're bringing
a new letter into your life new degrees
of of the letter so you can Sim
into the Hy so you can bring the
infiniteness of who you are into your
life into your thought speech and action
new degrees of it then all year long be
pouring wine to enhance enhance enhance
but this these special seven days this
is there new degrees are becoming
available to
us through the
S so two
things we throw up these little Shacks
they barely they barely D they have to
be able to stand for 8 days they don't
have to last for so long they're little
little little nothings and we sit in
them especially in the stra and we rock
and roll we have such a Sim we have such
Sim this should give us
strength because we're all you remember
Bambi is this is that a good reference
for this KRA Bambi Bambi was a little
dear she was born he excuse me he oh
it's been too long
Bambi Bambi could barely walk right
barely walk at the beginning had to
learn how to walk the thing is we have
such We Touch such high places on
rasher such depths of who we are and
then at least I speak for myself when it
comes afterwards and we try to manifest
if it feels like it's like barely it's
a very
threadbear very
lacking like Bambi walking and falling
and barely able to do
anything but this is what the Suka this
is the of the
Suka it's the Suka represents our first
steps this little try to make a new
space in our life for Hashem this little
try that barely
stands but we sit in here and we have
such this is the we're giving each other
for a whole year of trying again of
trying again and trying again and
valuing because every time you try
something new that's how it
is telling
us mango and M it's mango
we could fill this up with water
please is teaching
us
means that you need to use your body to
start to
begin and he actually says this
incredible
thing he says you need to sometimes
contort your body in funny ways in order
to get yourself to break your habits
need to sometimes you your body is a
vessel to begin new things a soul and
Shay is static only in this world do we
learn how to actually grow that's the
the benefit of being in this wild and
crazy especially in the last few years
world but we our bodies and our even our
groans and our size the funny animal
noises that we make
the contortions of your body that you
need to
Dos these
are what do we do tonight we all dressed
up fancy we went to sh and we
listened we listened to this animal
noise of
the
because it's really
true it is hard it's hard it is hard to
begin really really hard and it's hard
to maintain it and and and and says a
great way to help you with that is to
givea to givea opens it up for you and
particularly that's like one shek more
than you wanted to a little bit more a
little bit more to widen to widen the p
and and create
the is very strong on this that it can
that can help us
so the Sim that we're
celebrating in the
Suka is also a big for our Tiny Little
Beginnings which are represented by
this I say well I can't create a Kev of
how I want to be I want to be a better
father I want to be in a good mood when
I come home at the end of the day and it
and it's not kevi only sometimes only
arai only sometimes I'm able to maintain
it so I so I so I so I say ah forget it
but then I'm going to remember Johnny
Suka and all the smiling faces and and
the Lord the Lord get me hydrated song
that we just sang and the and the and
the right that's the wat
of right and this is this
is all of us in a little tiny Shack
that's representing all the little
Shacks that we're going to startem
and we're going to appreciate these
bodies which s our bodies are
also our body is
a soul is here for however
long but but in the meantime right can
contort you can groan you can sigh and
you can open things up you can give with
this body you can do and and and
really make vessels in that
hay for the to go in the and even in
tiny tiny ways like like Benji was
saying the tiny little pieces of this
each piece comes together to
create Mish a for the and it really does
matter our children our friends they
will remember our
spouses our our
siblings will remember every little
thing we did
Mish every little thing the good Mish
The Good the good it it Mish brings it
brings it brings so
much so that's that's another teaching
about
Sim is it be we might already in the
back of our minds be thinking
okay I want to go to this place of sim
bring out the Waters of these
formative new levels of self that come
out the SIM of of suus that's it's
available dka these seven
days
and okay but where's it really going to
be how am I going to really make it
happen Okay but we're all inside the
Suka being the tiny little efforts that
we're going to make which will which
will eventually grow which will
eventually be more and more and and we
will be able to grow into it and we will
be able to really bring the into
the should we do a new cowb song we just
came out with tonight of course we're
celebrating so many things we're
celebrating
simp celebrating the Holiness of the Su
we celebrating dwelling here with us we
celebrating the decapitating of Kamas
with as well as many many many other
commanders leaders em they just keep
chopping them down one after the other
CH down CH them down so so grateful to
everyone everyone putting themselves out
there on the front line putting
themselves at risk to protect us we sat
here in our in our bubble of you sh or
whatever we're dwelling we're being
feeling safe we're protected and that's
all thanks to the Kim that putting
themselves out there keeping us safe
we're very very blessed tonight as well
to have our holy brother
schlomo who's flown in parachuted in
especially we been dropped in direct
into our sucker direct from Aza and
really well slight
exaggeration coming
direct three times a day you know
Shalom and we take three steps back
right concept
also PE most times you see even like
right now it's it's a little stuffy you
know suers us get you know events you
tend to get stuffy so this concept of
going three steps back it's connected to
say shalom is like this the reason
there's Wars and there's Strife in the
world is everybody
wants to enlarge their space everybody
wants to like fight for his honor for
his space they're trying to take a
little piece more than their own space a
little bit of the neighbor space but if
people take three steps back from each
other and make that space for each other
it will make peace in the world and
that's our message to the world you know
you have to make space for the N right
make room for all of make room for all
of and the nations of the world you know
uh some people just got to get a little
smack a heart smack to wake up and is
giving us the tools to do that but it
really it's the war is not just for the
sake of War we're fighting here is a war
peace even though it doesn't feel like
that right now and it's very bloody and
very painful you have to understand
soldiers in the field we have a clear
understanding that this we fill it in
our bones we're not here to fight
another war in 10 years from now we are
here to fight the war of all wars
however far we have to go so that we can
have peace and shalom in the world and
hem should have peace in the world name
is
not inviting you all to make peace
amongst yourselves take those three
steps back figuratively and and
physically when you need to with your
neighbor with your friends with your
family uh because the the world follows
what the Jews do even on the
subconscious level so every action we
take in Inon inia in affects the whole
world so uh peace
peace
Alum any any stories stories
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Jesus to see how going on
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Sor I didn't
respond I don't think we're doing
anything I was M God what's this it's a
recording device everything we say is uh
going on the a straight to the
Mage can I get some of that one I just
uh I have uh so many things I had only
one free night I just need to chill out
like I feel you always on your job is
like to always be on even in I I hope
you got like some rest you did you got
some just i i d all day long I hope no
one was like perpetually like pestering
you there
know like hogging the LA you know Hing
the
LA the whole day what the whole
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day so you think we should
do remember
remember simple
you
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brother for
Hall hallah
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May are
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sounds
great not really
realy until we hear some holy words from
my holy brother Ley
Greenberg we're very very blessed to
have living here with us in CRA who's
really elevated in entire
Community
elev I got pee what I go go go here
oh wow look around everybody we have
Jews from every single part of the world
here look at this guy from New York
Straight From New
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York you
know the dream is alive all you got to
do is just look around the room you know
a lot of Miracles are happening but
really the greatest Miracle of all is
the survival of the Jewish people RAB
Yeshua the rabbi of rabi AKA was
talking to Titus Rufus and Titus Rufus
was uh
polit a Roman
politician and he said to him prais be
the sheep that survived the
wolves and RAB Yeshua instantly said
praise be the Shepherd that protects the
sheep from the
wolves and here we are after thousands
of
years you know it's like I'm I'm I'm I'm
felling and crying at the same time you
know so we talked about about uh
leich the rabbi from kabad was here
before and he talked about Le bitv about
this wagon dude who was like praying
while oiling the wheel but there's
another story about
a a simpleton who who dropped his Fillin
on the floor and he picks it up and he
kisses it and leak says Hashem this
simple Jew drops his filling on the
floor and P picks it up right away and
kisses it Hashem where you filling and
you dropped us for 2,000 years why don't
you pick us up after 2,000 years pick us
up already and give us a kiss and take
us home and this is it the prophecies
are all Happening Now doesn't take a
genius if you're a Jew to understand
that everything in the Torah is
happening right now so stick around you
know stick around you know we don't have
to be a clueless Jew so
you know if you look we're in we're in
the we're talking about the today so the
letter Sam is number
60 K is 20 Andi is 20 which is exactly
the same you know uh when we blow the
chauffeur we do 60 toas 20 to sharim and
toas so we had where does all the energy
from rashash Ander go goes up right here
we're crowning the king we've crowned
the king we're literally sitting on top
of the head of the king and all the
energy is here in this and all the
energy is the nas that Hashem gets from
his children I don't know exactly with
this where this is from you can correct
me the rabbi but it says that God's
first thought was the nas that he would
get from his children and it says it was
in his own Suka Hashem has his Suka so
we're where're the we're hashem's and
there's a lot to be grateful for so many
beautiful holy yidden here and if I
leave you with one
message is that every little thing
you're doing don't take it for granted
every little thing everybody here has
their mission is precious you know we're
we're in a famine we're in a spiritual
famine and in a famine every single
crumb is
precious everything you're doing right
now you know because we're so far
removed from Sinai the test is so much
more difficult so the Suka is really the
time where we realize how precious we
are we're taking Jews from every part of
the world and we bring them in this
these leaves and this estrog this funky
far out exotic fruit you know and it's
like every part of our body the eyes the
heart the spine the the lips you know
especially the lips you know we have to
be so careful with the
lips so I bless everybody
here that they should realize how
precious they are if you leave here
tonight don't don't leave here tonight
without realizing how precious you are
because this is the nas that hashem's
getting right now he's getting so much
from us so I just want to give a
big for you know you leading this
beautiful musical Thing what's what's a
Suka without music you know and with
Torah and Rish and uh my brother
Daniel's here and so many holy Jews and
a big Yash to Johnny and his wife
elev for uh opening their home and just
really just you know come in and welcome
in mamish aam's tent so we're going to
do a little
song
little and um I'm going to ask everybody
to just kind of participate a little bit
this is a participation song so the
words
of so we raise our hands to the sky
because we're getting all the energy
from
the is we bring it to the heart is the
the frequency that we're bringing down
the energy and is is to bring it into
the world it's 444 is 441 plus the
three
so you know and then we sing
so everybody if you get a chance just to
meditate and the Su a little bit let's
bring all the shefa down you know we
talked about the water
theim so Miram was the symbolic of the
well right what's so well that the water
goes
down right and you got to bring all the
energy up right so the the pssi the is
Kesh and his mother's
yite third to last Torah in is in is
kodesh he
says why did Moshe hit the rock because
there was nobody to bring the energy
from below above cuz Miriam had passed
away so Moshe purposely hit the rock to
go down to the people so he could
Elevate them so the water represents the
energy the music that Miriam brought at
the
yamu so let's Elevate let's go let's go
back to that moment of
yam where everybody's just we seeing
Hashem saving us right before our very
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eyes oh
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oh
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be must
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be original Source this energy come from
for yeah first
time the first time Suka is mentioned in
the Torah is when yob after leaving asov
goes to a place
calledo and he rest his animals and
shelters them he calls itk thank you
thank you Danielle that is great that is
beautiful however there's actually an
earlier source of where he comes from
it's rhetorical but whatever
whatever actually comes from where from
Ab abah when he sat under the tree and
the three MIM come to visit him this
when he was sat there under the
the the the wooden branches that were
over him this reveal this brought down
the shepher into the world this brought
down the the mazal the ability for us to
celebrate the Mitzvah the of
Suk it's such a holy time going back all
the way back to abrao and of course it's
a time for a when we bringing together
the four species bringing together all
the different yiden in the world all the
different yiden together in our holy Su
and it's a time of course for bras for
we it's a time of celebrating and and
and praying for
rain all the different the four species
all different species that needs lots
and lots of water and it's a time we
really soot doing Shas we're doing Hal
we're doing all these the bras with
the and really it's just a fancy rain
dance at the end of the day we really
we're we're praying for for rain which
represents panasa for abas for gmir as
well as Ras and we hope that patm all of
us should be blessed in this year that
everything should grow and should be
should be expounded upon and we should
all be blessed as much as possible in
our own ways online
so we only hope for only only good
things be happening to have more and
more increased success again in the
battle against our enemies and just to
see revealed in front of us all the the
the prophets the all the everything
that's been revealed to us from the N to
be revealed in front of us and to see us
and to have Clarity to understand the
prophecies that are given to us and to
have to understand understand what's
Happening Here Right Now that we are
living in we are seeing it in front of
us we should have Clarity to see that um
with that I invite our other our holy
guest byby Aaron Pon who would also like
to share a few words with
us okay so I want to share something
that uh I learned this shabas
morning little kabora small kabora
before
chakis with Rabbi Aaron Gold shider
who's a I'll say he's a little bit of an
expert on Ru Cook's teachings and then I
want to expand a little bit upon it and
I'll try to make it as short as possible
so Rook
said look why do we have simp at this
time of the festival
season you
have three times simpas mentioned and
simpas mentioned by suus we have of
course the leaving of Egypt p
and then of course we have the giving of
the Torah which we call man
toru and the season we're in now
andus and it's mentioned three times as
I mentioned already by
sukus so Ru cook mentions that well
first of all you ever open up a medicine
cabinet a medicine box and sometimes
there's a long sheet you have to open it
up has many folds but has a bunch of uh
what do they call side
effects I'm just quoting riff cook he
says that R and
yipper even with all the positive stuff
that it's giving us in the and the TK
these are his words not mine there's
some negative side effects that only
suus can or
mlim so I'll use his words
first something like it's heavy I'm not
going to use the word depressing but
like heavy there's a lot of
introspection and someone God God forbid
could come to yush some some sort
of um let's say negative feelings about
what he's going through because you're
doing a lot
of and it can take a toll in the end of
the
day this period of time is coming as
like a victory it's coming as a tun as a
MIM we D
need now for many reasons as many of you
spoke about what happens after rash in
yum
kip but I want to add some my own words
and uh RAB go actually like what I said
and when you think about the 10 days of
tra well first of all El but the the
climax of the 40 days the 10 days of
trouva
there's a certain part that we have a
real connection with hem on an
individual
level that all year round our prayers
are really helped through coming through
aor but during the 10 days of chuva
Hashem is so close to us your your
cavanas your prayers can really break
through the barriers on on an individual
level and we're doing a lot of Al we're
doing a lot of
introspection we're really like survival
mode we're hoping for for survival for a
good outcome for
ourselves so what I mentioned is perhaps
during those 10 days from
R we're a little bit more focused on
self and then we come to to suus and not
only do the four the AR me represent all
the types of Jews that are coming
together and we're praying that one day
we should all be sitting under the same
suet together but I even thought just
recently as I was thinking of what I'm
going to say
when we wanted to leave Egypt we Moses
you know asked that we should all go and
Pharaoh has played a little bit of game
maybe just you maybe you know just you
and your cows we felt you cannot do a
VOD to hasem without the wife and kids
without the whole Mish without the whole
family and he wasn't going to take
anything less than that so I think that
you know when it comes to sukus reminds
us of the claw of of course the family
is you know begins with the family
anything outside of yourself starts with
the family and multiplies so batem we
should really feel the simp ofus which
Hashem has brought Upon Us in a big way
a big
tun we should all learn the lesson and
this simp as Torah we're going to dance
like we never danced before
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