Rosh Hashanah: Are We Prepared? - Rabbi Benzion Shafier

lemur tells us that the melodium angel they asked a question why is it that the Jewish people do not say howl on Rosh Hashanah on Yom Kippur apparently they look down and saw the Jewish nation gathered in jewels and the question that they had is that Hallel should be part of the dominant it should be part of the Muslim why isn't it part of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur Domini and a Shem answers them F sure is it possible men left yo shave Aki saved in a king is going to sit on the throne of judgment say for a famous if free muffins desucon the fun of the books of life in the books of death that are open in front of him the ya'muru Shira and they're going to sing jubilation joy rejoicing it's inappropriate and that's a tomorrow the Milwaukee I'm had a question angels a question and a sham answer and I'd like to ask one simple question of this Gomorrah and that is as follows I am made of flesh and blood mortal we human beings get very trapped into our feelings emotions we live very much in a temporal state so if I get angry I view the whole world in a school way if I feel jealousy my world perspective changes my ability to see beyond that my self is very limited but this question was not asked by one of us and this question was asked by celestial beings Molokai showed us the highest level of angels no physicalities no blockages pure intellect pure understanding yet the question that they ask seems to be very difficult to understand of course it's inappropriate if the Jewish nation are being judged for life or death if the world itself is being determined whether it will continue or not isn't it obvious that you don't sing out joy jubilation Hollow isn't appropriate what was the Moluccas question what were they thinking what were they asking and I'd like to see if we could understand in fact what the mole offer my asking and better understand what this gamar shares with us and to do that and I'd like to share with you an understanding of the issues of Russia Misha tells us colbaugh a olam every occupant of the planet young old noble plain regular every human being stands in front of a sham for judgment and a sham meet out their faith determines what will be if you'd like to understand the extent of the judgments listen to the words in the sonnet o Keeffe which nations will go to war which will enjoy prosperity which nations will suffer famine which nations will reach new heights which technologies we brought in a marketplace which new diseases will suddenly appear which new cures will be discovered if you'd like to understand fundamentally the judgment on Rosh Hashanah all you have to imagine is a multi-tiered chessboard and a Shem as the Grandmaster arranging this porn to be in this place and this Bishop to be here a judge a show fate controlling running mankind's future but to put this into perspective I'll give you one simple observation the headlines of the New York Times are written on Rosh Hashanah but it's not just that day's headlines the entire weeks the month every headline of that coming year is written on Rosh Hashanah but it's not just the headlines it's the international section the national the local the op-ed petra page a few years ago the New York Times bragged about having two hundred and sixty five full-time reporters 40 full-time photographers because on this planet occupied by some seven billion people there are a lot of issues a lot of things going on a home issue a Bible contains about 500 thousand words a Sunday edition of the New York Times contains about 2 million words if you were to read it out loud it would take you over 20 hours why because there are a lot a lot of things going on in this world a lot a lot of things happening and if you imagine if you understand that a Shem is the judge deeming what is appropriate determining mankind's future and making every pawn put into its place in the right emotions in the right time but sometimes you have to really carefully pay attention to the words if you listen to the words in a sonnet Tokyo which really described the day and there's a very clear observation you see it's not just who will live and who will die first a Shem globally judges the world come a Yavin become a barian how many will pass and how many will be born from a global perspective from 35,000 feet Hashem determines how many will leave this earth the United States of America approximately 2.5 million people die every year approximately 600,000 of heart disease approximately 500,000 of cancer related issues first Ashim creates a large number how many are to leave this earth this year how many are to be born and then it's media O'Neill most who will fill in the slots it's you and you go into this group you and you go into this group but the entire humanity the entire globe under one and glance one vision Hashem is the master running the world we changed the language in shmona s ray from Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur we no longer say hello Hakadosh it's now a mela fuckabish and the mission Brewer explains why we refer to a Shem as a sham manifests himself in the world Hashem is boundless women this there is no ability for human being to comprehend something boundless and limitless the only way we can relate to a Shem is based on where Shem manifests himself ahem acts within the world during the course of the year it's a quelle Hakadosh the God the holy God who's hidden behind the scenes running the events of the world but behind shadows barely noticeable but from Rosh Hashanah until Yom Kippur that's not the expression we use and the receiver explains why because during these days a Shem is merriman salto Hashem demonstrates his sovereignty Bishop who become mashallah and he demonstrates that he alone runs the world the reason why we changed the language is because I shall manifest himself differently it's no longer hidden and no longer behind the scenes shams presence is much more accessible much more available you could feel assurance presence and you could recognize a Shem as the one who created the world maintains the world and keeps everything happening as it should be and the reason why you're not your position went astray if you say at Calicut it is because you missed the mark that's not how a Shem is acting normally a Shem is hidden or fresh Hashanah until Yom Kippur a sham act is differently Europe to relate to a Shem differently hence we have to use a different expression the Pella Lloyds gives the muscle he says imagine a man holds a candle and your man's holding a candle right here but my eyes are closed so I can't see the flame but I'm aware of the light and that's a shims present between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur far more accessible and far more almost tangible if you may you could feel a Shem you could relate to Shem and you can understand the world in a different way now our relationship to a Shem has two dimensions to it we are avoiding servants of a Shem but we're also bunion were also children and during the course of the year I believe that a Jew should feel a sense of outrage the audacity not only don't they recognize a Shem as the creator as the benefactor but they have the audacity to malign his holy people every time there's another claim from the UN that the Jews the Palestinians are oppressed by the Israelis and every time there's another attempt to discredit the Jewish people there should be a sense within us of utter outrage the hair on the back of your head should stand up what a hoods bellezza Shems holy nation but from Rosh Hashanah TM Kippur I believe they should be a very different sense because now we get to relate to ash and we get to feel him as the mellah as the king we get to relate to a Shem as the one who is actively involved in running the world we get to experience a Shem and being involved and at that point a Jew should say wow Baruch Hashem Hashem is finally showing himself as the mellah as the king and that comprehension should bring us to a tremendous sense of joy happiness and I believe we should wish to sing our Hollow I believe that's what the melaka mast why aren't the Jewish nation singing out praises why aren't they in sitting there with a sense of joy in their hearts they should say holla why because a Jew can experience can understand things on Rosh Hashanah that you can't understand the rest of the year you can relate to a Shem and you can relate to the world you can understand life in a vastly different way and that should bring you to an utter sense of joy happiness and you should wish to sing out Halle however in the shem answered them alone that was their question but Hashem said it may be true it could be you're right that in the global sense it's magnificent its wonderous but that sense has to be tempered you see mankind as a unit is being judged but I too am of that race and as the world's fate is being determined so too is my fate my spouse's fate my children's fate the fate of my community I am a member of this world and so the sense of jubilation of joy of getting to experience a sham relating to the world in a deeper way should be present but tempered tell them checked with an understanding that there's a gravity to the issues sudden gravity to the day but I believe what this chimera sharing with us is that both emotions should be there when you're walking to shul there should be a sense of wow what a wonder is they what I could experience what I can relate to what I could understand today that I can cannot begin to understand any other day of the year from Rosh Hashanah TM Kippur there's a heightened sense of awareness a heightened sense of understanding and if you use the days properly you could reach totally different levels of emunah Richtofen understanding of shams involvement and you should walk into shoes with joy in your heart tempered held in check with the reality that there is a lot 2004 a lot going on but both emotions should be there now with that as a background I'd like to ask you what I consider an obvious question we all get it we're all my meaning I get it sham created the world maintains the world runs the world I got it and we also understand the power of three love prayer over and over from the others through Nazim through the martyr through shown them over and over we're told ask ask ask many times a Shem will answer directly not everything that you asked for will you be granted but there's no feeling that goes to waste and we're told how many times a sham will wait for us to ask we're told over and over the power of prayer see here's a question if I get it if I understand that Hashem is the judge and I understand that my future my family is in the docks is being waved and I know the power of prayer wouldn't you imagine that my when Esther day would be hours long tears streaming down my face crying begging beseeching a Shem please and while it's true that the domineering or Shoshone is different than the dominant during the rest of the year I'm not sure that hours long tears streaming down our cheeks is exactly a description of most people run astray and the question is why not if I get it if I understand it how could I not be sitting there employing begging the seeking hour after hour so I'd like to show you what and why I believe it's difficult to DA them on Rosh Hashanah there are actually two reasons the first reason is because we live in unique times never in the course of history has there been this much opulence wealth luxuries available to the common man the average person today living in our lifestyle enjoys luxuries that kings of yesteryear could not envision or imagine and just as an illustration I live in a house in Muncie bara Hashem it's a nice house I'm by no stretch and imagination a wealthy individual but I looked at my house as compared to the first Lord Rothschild house of the 1700 international financier a world-famous individual the Bank of Europe is based on him my house is nicer my house is larger in addition to which I have indoor plumbing which he certainly didn't have I have electricity which he certainly didn't have I have air conditioning and cooling heating when you look at Kings who lived 300 years ago each and every one of us has so much more in material possessions and luxuries that there's no basis of comparison I Drive a Toyota Camry plain-vanilla it doesn't get plainer than that the King of England row in the royal coach pulled by 12 white steeds but the royal coach had wooden wheels and there were pothole filled roads and when the King of England got into the royal coach and sat down he went for seven hours or if he had to go to France to the Earl's wedding it was seven days of back-breaking travel I get into my Toyota Camry air-cushioned ride and six speakers surround sound I don't like the balance I change the treble I changed the bass I have a graphic equalizer because Toyota gives it to me but when you think about the common person today we have luxuries and wealth that kings of yesteryear couldn't imagine and that is a fantastic Bravo tremendous blessing but it comes to the cost you see it's very difficult to recognize that we are needy it's very difficult for me to stand in front of my Creator and say ashame i need because more efficient we have we have so much you like to know what I'm talking about I have a friend of mine whose father he was a Roth in New York City around the Great Depression era and his father told him that every Rosh Hodesh benching ensure every time they venture shows in shul he would hear women on the other side of the heater openly wail when they got to the part about pernessa and out sustenance women would break down openly crying raising their voices in Wales why because in those days if you got if you couldn't pay your monthly rent all of your earthly possessions were put on the sidewalk and that's where you and your kids slept that night and there was no social network no one was there to bail you out but we don't want and we don't need I don't know a person my age or younger who ever went to sleep hungry and while it is a tremendous brothah it comes to the real cost and that cost is it's difficult to see that I need and it's difficult to see how much I depend on a Shem and for that reason I believe that's the first reason why it's difficult for us to Domon honor Shoshanna but this reason I think is easily solvable and I'll give you one simple illustration to explain how we could sell this problem from a stolen truck who World War two pre-war to achieve in Europe was once approached by a balla bus it was sleepless night and this person in his community came over to him and said Russia Shiva how could I say these words in the sleepless it says kid Dolan harush him the little selfish and we bang on your door as poor impoverished men how could I say that I'm a rich industrialist I have 700 men in my employ how could I lie how could I say I'm four I'm not portal and they cannot said you're making one mistake you assume that because last Rosh Hashanah you had a decree that you're going to keep your wealth and you assume that this Rosh Hashana you're going to have the same decree but if you realize that it was an open question if you realize that that question whether you'll keep your wealth or not is a question that's being weighed measured and decided and there are no clothes up cos there are no guarantees you would understand that you are a doll and a rush you're a poor impoverished man because there are no guarantees and I believe what the Granada is sharing with us is a profound insight if you think about all of the issues of your life and you realize that every one of them is an open question and there are no guarantees from I'm young and healthy plenty of young and healthy people lose their health but listen I'm financially well taken care of I'm plenty of very successful men find their entire industry shipped over to India plenty of successful doctors and find that things change but I'm a cardiologist well my practices have to close it down if so many people come in until the HMOs come in and something he's got to sell his practice to a hospital and he's making a quarter of what he had been making I mean nursing homes come on but government US government pays mind takes care of me until he finds out that state reimbursements are cut / and suddenly it's no longer the business you want and when you realize that all of the issues of your coming year are open questions and there are no guarantees there are no hazuki's you begin to realize that we are very needy and very dependent and with that understanding able to stand in front of a sham and say the words I can't do it a sham I depend on you and I have a little mousse or exercise I'd like to share with you if you want to make your Hashanah dampening real when we get powerful open a newspaper into the obituary section now I used to have to explain to people what the obituary section is now I have to explain to people what a newspaper is you know that find the obituary section and I have a little challenge for you look at all the pictures and read a few of the paragraphs and you'll find something very strange very intelligent people and not so intelligent people very old people young people very smart people very ordinary people very successful people not so successful people told people show up people fat people skinny people all different walks of life in fact you won't find a single common denominator amongst all of them other than one the only common denominator is they all used to be alive and they are no longer alive and then you take that difficult step I - and flesh and blood I hope it's many many years from now but there will come a day when I the powerful invincible me will no longer be I will be over done with no more and when you realize that that question itself is being judged weighed measured and determined and there are no guarantees if you're 20 or 30 if you're 50 or you're 80 there's no guarantee because last year you were decreed for a year of life that this year you're going to have the same decree hopefully it will be that way but you don't know and when you begin to process through all of the needs that we have and you begin to think about all of the issues and if you're married you know that there are many many things that you have to dominate for Seattle ish might have to help with and if you have children just multiply that by 10,000 because kids especially in our day and age to raise wholesome and healthy kids is not simple at all and when you realize there are so many issues and you stand in front of your creator and you say the words a sham I cannot do it one worldwide market crash and we're all out of a job in one Mack truck it's me and I am no longer but more than that I can't control the future I don't know what's going to be and then you begin to realize that I'm extraordinarily needy I'm not invincible I'm not invulnerable quite the opposite I'm extraordinarily dependent I'm very very vulnerable and you begin to realize that I need many things and with that understanding you could dive in you could ask because you recognize that a Shem is the bow rial in the creator and the one who maintains it keeps everything going so if the first reason why it's difficult to dominance because it's hard to see how needy we are I believe that the granades understanding helps there are no guarantees and every issue is an open question but there's another reason why it's difficult for us to Domino shushanna it has nothing to do with this the second reason why it's difficult first domino Shoshanna is because the judgment on Rosh Hashanah is different than any judgment that will ever live through as human beings let me explain what I mean was the number of years ago when OD Simpson was on trial for murder and anyone who is paying attention to any part of the story understood that he murdered his wife in cold blood the Gulf's fitting of the gloves not fitting anyone who was watching understood that this man was guilty as charged however OJ Simpson was taking the u.s. judicial system on trial proving where the fame and fortune could buy his freedom he hired the dream team five of the top lawyers including Alan Dershowitz and the US justice system was being made into a mockery now the media covered every detail the media will write all over it and it was month after month of watching the circus and it just so happens to be and that the reading of the verdict was two days before Rosh Hashanah and I remember saying to myself I must be there I must witness this I've parked myself in front of a TV and I got to watch the reading of the verdict now you have to understand you know gee Simpson is sitting at the table gripping the table his entire future whether he's going to be a caged animal or was gonna be let free is going to be read to him the jury foreman stands up and she opens the envelope and she reads the words we find the defendant not guilty Wow he's faced little the joy the happiness the life that came into him that judgment in this world fact-finding deliberation judgment and then the verdict is read but when the verdict is read the judge hears it the jury hears it everyone in the courtroom hears it and the defendant tears it this coming Sunday night in session we are going to stand in front of the judgments there will be fact-finding there will be deliberation there'll be a judgement and there'll be a verdict but we don't hear the reading of the verdict whether I was decreed and for a good sweet year or not I don't know we walk out of shul English on a night we say l'shanah Tovah to conservative awesome we're supposed to be both F we're supposed to trust in a chemise mercy and we then understanding we go home that's a yump if not quite the full Yunker it's a little bit held in check but the point is we don't hear the reading of the verdict and because we don't hear the reading of the verdict it's very hard to feel it it's hard to understand that it's real it's hard to relate to it as something that's actually happened because we don't see the reading of the verdict we don't hear it it's hard to relate to it but I believe that this problem is somewhat curable the cochlea or says if you want to really work on your assertion of domine he says I'll explain to you a way to do it most people make a mistake most people come to show and say themselves oh my goodness I have so much in this coming year to focus on so many issues my family my future my work and they begin with that perspective and they asked a Shem for help in all of the areas that need me to help him father says you got it backwards don't do that don't go forward go backwards go backwards over your past year review all those strange events that happen and you happen to met this guy on a street corner he happened to make this recommendation and you got your biggest client of your life two months before that you're walking up the stairs and somehow you don't know why you're looked up in your trip and you broke your leg review those five or 10 events of your past year that you're had to admit was a Shems intervention and you said the words it's our stuff I get it it's a sham intervening in my life by the way if you pay attention it's not 5 or 10 during the course of years by 5 or 10 a day but find the 5 or 10 that are clearly noticeable to you and say to yourself I get it every one of these was decreed on the previous Rosh Hashanah every one of these 5-10 incidents was decreed happen on the previous Rosh Hashanah and then you get it the judgment is real why because it's my life those are events that happened to me I was there and now I get it this the that happened in March was decreed in the previous Rosh Hashanah and that which happened in February was the create on the previous rashanna and when you do that it becomes real and I have a little exercise that I'd like to share with you if you want to really change Rosh Hashanah Domini there's a few days between our Shoshanna take two index cards you know one index card write down a number of incidents that occurred to you this year there were clearly strange that don't make sense and you get it you understand that that's a sham write them on one index card and again if you're paying careful attention won't be one that'll be a number index cards and on the other index card to write all the issues of your coming here that you need help with all the things that you're dependent on a sham for and all the things that you aspire and wish to be and bring both cards and to show with you and hold both cards up and you look at this card and you say this and this and this it was decreed on the previous Rosh Hashanah and you get it and the Dean is real then when you come to this card everything you need this coming year suddenly you're begging beseeching imploring you're really dominating because you get it you see he we mortals don't really understand we don't really relate to it there's a story told about the stapler going about thirty years ago when he was in his 80s he was the acclaimed leader of the Jewish nation lived in many Braque and he lived in a very simple apartment and all afternoon long the apartment was jammed wall-to-wall with people people coming for Abraha people asking questions and he all day long he basically would sit there looking down a person will come by ask a question he would answer or give a brutha person after person after person one afternoon the snipers sitting there looking down the apartment is filled wall-to-wall comes in and something the stifle looks up and points Russia wicked one we can get out get out of here the man who that was pointing to turn the white as a ghost ran out the door no one understood wine a few hours later someone comes to the sniper and says where's your sugar the children the man that the sniper called Russia wicked man is not so wicked that man got into a car that car had a number of other occupants in it the car was involved in a terrible collision every other person in the car died that man alone was spared obviously he's not a wicked person it's time to say don't you understand when he walked in the door the malla some of this angel of death walked in with him the only way I could spare him a mob the place of a problem if you embarrass a person publicly because if you killed him it was the only way I could save him once upon a time there were people like the stapler who could see the mollify mothers the angel death walk in but we don't see more clueless but I'd like to share with you one observation if you da man in a shul big enough I guarantee that on this coming Rosh Hashanah there'll be many beautiful decrees a woman who couldn't find her life's partner this is the year she'll find a couple of feet a decade could not have children this year they'll have a child a man who went from job to job couldn't find anything this is a different year a banner year for him I guarantee there'll be many sweet beautiful decrees but I also guarantee that they'll many decrees that are not so sweet and people who lose their health people who lose their businesses their wealth and I also guarantee you that if you're dominant as rule large enough there'll be at least one or two x's one or two people who will not be with us next Rosh Hashanah why don't see it the shana tova because they dip the Apple in the honey and we go home and we're supposed to be happy trusting in a Shem but we don't see the reading of the verdict we don't hear it and so it's very very difficult for us to relate to it and because of that I think we are sound asleep you know I was a Rebbe in Rochester yeshiva for 12 years and the initial years especially we used to make the trip from New York City to Rochester regularly my parents home used to live in the cue garden hills so on a regular basis we'd make that trip it's about a six seven-hour drive usually we leave later in the day so the kids would sleep most of the trip I remember when my oldest daughter was two-and-a-half years of age I clearly remember strapping her into dust into this car seat in the back Lisa played his game about driving the mile drive you drive okay any case it was a February day a belt went from York City late that made for five o'clock I stuffed her in my wife got in the passenger side I began driving and a few hours later I get on to 81 North now 81 North is a trucker's Highway two lanes no shoulder to the highway and as I get on the highway sheets and sheets of snow became incoming down the visibility went to almost nothing but the problem was there was no shoulder to this road I couldn't slow down and sort of pull off the only thing I could do is I tried to slow down a little bit and as I'm slowly slowly trying to bring the speed down suddenly the car starts swerving and it makes a full rotation right on the highway over both lanes and it makes a second rotation and then it's as I'm going into the second spin I see behind me an 18-wheeler coming this way my car going this way and I said to myself there is nothing that I can do somehow our car ended up on the embankment 18-wheeler wished by I looked at my wife she was pale I had just lived through the most harrowing moment of my life and I looked back at my two and a half year old in the car seat and she was sound asleep when I look around sure Laura Shoshana a lot of people to me look like a little child sound asleep in the car seat every issue of your coming year every issue of your life is being decided weighed measured and you have this power called Fela and you could change things oh I hope it goes fast or the rabbi going on and on my wife makes something good because I'm really hungry this is his dog and sometimes I look about me and I say what is going on it takes work it's not intuitive it's not as instinctive as wish it could be but if a person prepares himself if a person gets ready then Rosh Hashana I search my druva Yom Kippur are beautiful days what the Malakand was saying was the Jewish nation should sing out joy and jubilation they should say hallo they should be dancing there should be such an overwhelming sense of joy why because you could perceive you can understand you can relate to him in a way that you can't normally have double chrome glass mosquito from there you saw used to say on Yom Kippur if we learn for the Amos Adina forum for the fear of judgement I'd be dancing in the aisles I think dancing a jig why because a person can reach a whole different plateau a whole different level of understanding of relating seeing a shame experience a sham looking at the world and understanding getting it finally and a person should walk into shul and experience tremendous joy and I believe that's why the Menachem said and we should sing hallo and what a Shem answers it's true there should be tremendous simcha tempered held in check with a sense of gravity then there are many many issues being weighed being decided but both emotion should be there tremendous joy tempered by a sense of there are a lot of things going on that are very serious and I believe of a person and those the work if firstly you come to this one cognition I may be healthy and well and I may be financially secure my children may be doing very very well right now but there is guarantee and if much like that man who came to the ground I'm a wealthy man how could I see the shaman poor there go not said to him yet true because last year you had that decree doesn't say what the decree will be this year if we understood that every issue of our lives are open questions and there are no guarantees who makes it much easier to understand how media I am makes it much easier to Naaman and if the problem is that the din isn't real I don't feel it I don't hear the reading of the verdict the answer to that is here the reading of the verdict of last Rosh Hashanah look through your year review you here and by the way pick up a Year in Review pick up Time magazine pick up any one of the year's review and look through all of those events and say to yourself I get it everyone was decreed on the previous Rosh Hashanah and suddenly the judgment is far more tangible far more real it takes work and takes preparation Rosh Hashanah especially true of Yom Kippur are supposed to be beautiful days you could accomplish during that time period but you cannot accomplish the rest of the year and a person should be looking for with anticipation with excitement let's go if your mindset is appropriate and if you didn't necessarily work and I want to close with one story I'm very fond of the story because it happened to a good friend of mine every detail of the story is exactly as I'm gonna tell it to you and I only found out how accurate it was because my friend told it to me and I began telling it over and I was in some community and some was in the audience and said that you're right that's exactly what happened cuz she was there in case there's only one detail he asked me to change his name other than his name this is what happened Hyman Goldstein was living in Kew Gardens his brother-in-law was living in Forest Hills and the agreement was gonna be that that Shabbos both families were going to be by fine Himes wife cooks and prepares all Shabbos Thursday night she's about finished cooking her sister calls up and says you know what my husband came home late from work he's tired you know what instead of what we're just we're not gonna come Java's thanks lefse sweet you're gonna stay on come on I cooked already do come don't come back and forth finally sounds like this listen I made the whole shop sorry anyway let's do this I'll pack up the food instead of everybody being by me you all go to you so that's what they agreed so if I am his wife his kids packed up the stuff packing food and went to his brother's house in the showers okay I'm in describes that when he walks into his Bella's apartment on the coffee table is a book who by fire now I don't know if you've read this book but it's a very very moving book it's a story of a young woman living in your shall I am and she's in her apartment and suddenly the apartment burst into flames and she who rushes out finds herself in the hallway untouched and when she's in the hallway she realizes that all of our children are still in the apartment she runs in grabs one kid comes in gives the second grabs the third in the end she saved all her children but she suffered burns on 85% of a body hence the name of the book ruled by fire because the Russians not just decreed who will live and who will die but the exact method and it's a beautiful story of a woman's and Munna of RB Tulln but it's also a harrowing read because you get to see what it's like to be burnt alive in case in time is a big mass meant he was in Cola then and normally on Chavez he would learn tomorrow but he describes that he picked up this book and he was mesmerised he was glued it couldn't put it down he read it cover-to-cover he didn't think much about it but Chavez afternoon men farewell walked into the Shiva and when he walked into the race Manish he noticed that everyone was looking at him time I see wood facade don't know what the antique sitter Dhawan sjf - when I say takes three steps back he looks up and again notices that everyone is looking at him look at me after domine goes over to a friend of his and says why is everybody looking at me his friend said you didn't hear I don't hear what friend said well I'm sorry to be the one to tell you this but last night your house burnt down to am a fire began the entire three-story building was consumed flame everyone there was killed I am his wife and his children were untouched because they weren't there there by the bran wall but the pivotal moment of hinds life was not that previous Thursday night conversation do come don't come my place your place on the pivotal moment in Himes existence was the previous Rosh Hashanah and Haiyan was shown read the book on the previous rashanna day was that the only was a judgment and for whatever which reason and you and your wife and your children was spared but read the details this was the judgment and this is what you were spared from folks I believe were a little bit like that child in the car seat sound asleep if we'd realized the gravity of the issues being determined and we'd be alive with prey or we'd be alive with Dominick begging Hashem imploring please but it requires waking up it requires getting Anna that robotic mode of just doing and running and running and doing and just hypnotically going through the motions to wake up that requires some thinking some understanding have to spend time alone without any static without any noise without people or devices grabbing your attention and you have to think you have to review your life every jew has a story i sincerely believe that every person in this room could get up here and tell their story of how they ended up here and every one else of us would be their mouths a gape and how do i know that to be true we live in close towards America and Muncie and I regularly try to have the guys over and in the Schaefer house nothing is free any guy who comes for a Friday night shops at the meal has to pay for the meal what's the price he's got to tell his story and while chuhwa after bell Chava has to tell his story how he became from sometimes go easy with let a guy get up to gefilte fish every once in a while maybe to the soup but beyond that and I have to share with you and the stories that come out are incredible my children sit there open I mouth a game and I can tell you we collect the stories and every one is better than the next but the reality is that every Jew has a story and when you study that biography that autobiography the one that you write at least in your own mind and you recall the events of your life and you realize how I got here how I ended up in this place now we ended up in this situation and you say I get it Hashem runs the world Hashem was putting me into position my sham was putting this one here I shall most orchestrating things and then you go back and review this past year in detail and you realize that every one of those events was decreed on the previous triphala suddenly it's real and suddenly it's vibrant you feel it you Domon and you understand the day it's supposed to be a beautiful day temporary sense of gravity it's a day that person can grow and accomplish I want to take questions thoughts observations okay good question okay good question I answer with a Marshall okay here we go it's Russia you had the question if everything is decreed on Rosh Hashanah so white wizard room to grow during the rest of the year why dive in during rest you say okay here we go it's Rosh Hashanah my talents over my head I'm chuckling wait Dominic Dominic suddenly hero voice I was sent from him I was sent to tell you that this year you'll make a million dollars heard of Bosco I heard every voice I leave shul happy as a lark I quit my day job don't even look in the stock market I heard the basketball I go about my business knowing full well that I'm going to do well this year what is going to happen to me this year I'd like to share with you even if I quit my day job and don't do anything I'm going to go hungry why because when it's decreed in heaven that you're going to make a million dollars this year that's provided you do your part your part is to earn a living you get a job to stay healthy you exercise you eat right if you want to get married you go out you find the person if a person says this that I'm already 24 and I'm sick and tired of dating game and I'm not going out anymore I'd like to show you're most likely you're not gonna get married but by shared 40 days well you're boring a Bocchetti that's very nice but sure it means a Shem decree is what's appropriate what's proper provided you do what you're supposed to do he's supposed to use the world in the way of the world if you do your part this is bechard this is decreed this is accessible this is available however if you decide that steaks this thick are really good and smoking two packs of cigarettes is a day is like a really fine thing to do when you weigh 400 pounds in you 35 don't go blaming God when you have a heart because the decree is provided you use the world as you're supposed to provided you do your part this is what's accessible this is what's available this is what's appropriate so if honor ashesh honor was decreed that I should make a lot of money this year I have to do my part in him they have to work but one of the biggest parts if not the biggest part of estados is dominating this prayer and if I decide oh it's determined already and I'm not going to Domon it's probably the equivalent I'm not going to work and all bets are off sometimes for whatever reason a sham will allow a person to succeed anyway and usually not but the point is that it's part of our established part of what we have to do in dominating and growing it is sometimes possible to change a decree during the course of the year but regardless it's part and parcel of what we're supposed to be doing and if we don't we abdicated our responsibility in them all bets are off yeah okay let me let you know the secret I don't know that many people finish with the Seaboard in fact I don't ever remember hearing the workout session I don't ever in all my years is dominating at it you know so don't worry about going longer in your own personal showing that's right you know there is a particular place at the very end of the Brava would be the equivalent of Shabbos and kind of Shabbos we we say I'm reshawna mechanic almost all but doesn't that part we have the the request for technical cannabis or Assefa and Tarly be know that part is kind of like the schmuck only knew of this yesterday but you could do it at any part after you have to any party after a malefic Kaddish before the Enders - right you could insert during mouthpiece chauffeurs so that's way to you why let me ask you a question on childish you know allowed to make requests right let's say I and my business is failing no not supposed to dominant a sham on Chavez for that although the child was sick and I suppose down Monday Tuesday the whole week long you need Amin but in sham is injunctive we don't make requests we're supposed to have this attitude and then all of our worldly needs to take care of a sham takes care of it and we don't make requests why do you make requests on a Shoshanna onion Kippur so if I must explain that if I understand that a Shem is the show finish em the judge and I understand the power of Selah I'll be a liar if I don't darlin it's a steer it's a contradiction meaning my recognition of a sham as the mellah as the king and in my recognition of the power of dominic demands that I doubt what it means in plain language is simply like this the main of voda on Rosh Hashanah is to mom Lafourche em to requisition as the melon as the king there is no more potent way to recognize a sham as the king and to recognize that Hashem determines my future it's very easy to sit back the gods the king of the world Wow in the Africa and the drives amazing Wow it's very easy to be mamillus Hashem in recognizes him as the king over the world it's very difficult to be mom latesh am over me because that means that I'm dependent that means my future and it's a very very unsettling bit unnerving and it's not so comfortable when you make these requests and you ask em what you're doing is the highest level of being mom with Hashem because you're getting it the regime is really the king Hashem is really in charge because it's my life it's real if 50 people die in China I feel bad that's nothing compared to if it's my family it's far more real in far more right here and so it really is been militiaman long and short of it is any point if their medical - to the end - right certainly when you're done all the kind of show you know the kind of saw at the end but when say you lords on after that you'd say whatever you want but don't be shine any point you have to melt colors you can insert and say well it fits the the shore necessarily or not yeah between uh between a lot of times okay it's a good problem try to find something that you could read that that's meaningful I have a great book I could recommend to you stop surviving start living if you think I'm kidding I'm not I think it's you know I wrote that book because you wouldn't write it no one else write somebody's gotta write it it's you'll see it it's a very good any muscle safer really is very very good anything that speaks to you and let you you see you could you could access concepts and understandings on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur that you can't during the rest of the year so it's a shot to waste it so every moment is precious in the sense that you could delve understand so suddenly if you could read missiles armed with things you know like you know very very useful very helpful okay that is a fine question so in Russia Shana is not there's no benching rosh chodesh for Rosh Hashanah one second there is no bench in Rosh Hodesh for Rosh Hashana fishery because because I think I know why but I'm not sure and I'm gonna say these words listen to these words is the best words to say I don't know I don't know I don't know now why are there such good words to say Gemara Rafa says teach your tongue to say the words I don't know lest you lie so let me say the words I don't know it's better I believe I dunno coz has to do with Kabbalah say this but it's good for me to say I don't know it's good for you to hear it also so I don't know next question and if you stumped me again I'll live with it I taught high school nothing fazes me twelve years I went through the ringer nothing okay anyway I thank you very much again the shmoo calm 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