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Rosh Hashanah: Shame - The Way to Repentance - Rabbi Dovid Goldwasser
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[Music]
is hard
to
get the feeling
that the coming
represent to all of us
we all want to do tishuva everybody
everybody in the world there isn't
anyone who does not feel I want to
become better I want to become stronger
I want to do more Mitzvah there are
certain Navi roads certain bad things I
want to stay away from there is not a
Jew in the entire world that does not
want to become better
the only thing is we have to know how do
we achieve it I said last year I want to
be better was I that much better I don't
know
I said the year before I want to be
better am I better than two years ago I
don't know I hope I didn't slip
so how is it that I motivate myself to
become better how is it that I
understand that I want to pray better I
want to dive in better I want to learn
better I want to do a better headset I
want to listen
I want to listen to the great Sunny Kim
better and follow their words how do I
do it that is what basically I believe
Rosh Hashanah is all about in Yom Kippur
it's about the motivation of myself
being able all of us individually being
able to do tissue so how do we do it how
do I make sure that this year is
different that this is the year that's
going to make the difference that I'm
going to be zohra for everything good
and I can actually become different not
the same like it is every year it's an
interesting thing
all the whole world
so he said an interesting thing
there was a man
it was going together with another
fellow and he was traveling between
towns he was on the road and it started
raining and hailing and it was cold and
they were afraid they wouldn't make it
through the night maybe it's going to be
the elements are too strong they will
perish they'll die
all of a sudden a carriage comes along
Carriage a man on the top of the
carriage with a big hood on
and underneath is a compartment where
you can stay
he pulls to the side of the road and he
says to them
would you like to come on the carriage
it's a bad night raining and pouring
are you kidding this is like a Matana
that came from Heaven Hashem just sent
us this of course we want to go in
so they go inside they open the door
they go in the carriage one sits down on
one side a little bench and the other
sits down on the other side
not bad
no rain no hail no wind they're inside
nice cozy and warm
all of a sudden
the man
Taps his leg there's something in the
middle
in the Middle where they're sitting
they look down
little bit of light comes into the
window and they see it's orange
it's a place for a mace
with an arm
a coffin
already it wasn't the same trip anymore
they were there together with the Aaron
medium sitting there
okay but still they don't have to have
the rain they don't have to have the
wind they don't have the hell it's still
dry everything is good they're sitting
there everything's going along good
all of a sudden they see that the myth
the nifttar begins moving
he moving around
he starts getting up they so ahead oh no
no no no no what's going on they're both
screaming
the wagon driver
here's something going on
and they begin to tell him shove them
fall shove go back go back down
the wagon driver says
hold on for a minute everything is okay
there was a guy just like you that
wanted to come in he was very tired he
was a Sojourner so I told him to come in
he says do you mind if I lie down he
said I'm not sure that you want to lie
down but if you want to you could so he
lied down it was nice in there yeah yeah
right
what is it
says the whole year we get a ride it's a
ride we're riding
we're riding along and we take a ride
sometimes it's a nice ride sometimes not
so nice sometimes there's a few things
in the road but we still take the ride
then all of a sudden it comes to be Rosh
Hashanah it comes to be the amazing
and all of a sudden we all have hit or
root we all have inspiration and we
begin to get excited and we understand
that it's the time we're going to say
just in a few days all of them and all
the things that we're going to read
about the day of judgment
all the things that we're going to learn
we all going under this
Hashem counts us and all the days and
all the years ahead are counted so a
person gets excited we get nervous we
get a little bit upset when they start
saying the vidoy we all get a little
upset
but then after a while the Yom the Rahim
passed
be everything be quiet everything is
going to be good once again everything
is going to be nice
says
that a person has to learn from the
entire idea of the Omni
not to lose the inspiration not to lose
the excitement to carry it with us from
the first day of elul through Rosh
Hashanah continuing on until way way
past Sukkot in the year but how do we do
it so here is a suggestion and I'd like
to read to you a rambam it's a rambam
who codifies the laws of shofar and it's
in
the first peric the miktos the beta
mikdash so you talk in the Russian
they used to blow the chauffeur one
chauffeur
us
and from either side there was two
trumpets okay
because the main Mitzvah is shofar
very interesting there it says that an
individual should have a tremendous heat
or root from hearing the shofar that
they take all of the lessons that we're
supposed to learn they Inspire
themselves they get excited they
understand what it is to do chuva they
understand what I have to bear in mind
that goes on during these days
it has the head letters the acronym of
busha busha
embarrassment shame I got to have shame
like we say in the video
I'm like a vessel filled with shame and
embarrassment that's what we say by this
so what does it mean
it means that in order for a person to
understand that maybe we have to do
teshuva we got to have a little bit of
Shame not a lot but a little bit of
embarrassment if I went and I did that
if I did something wrong and I never
felt bad about it
so I'll never come to really doing to
shiva I'll do a little tishiva because I
realize that it's the time of then and I
have to do something so I'll hit my
heart I will try I'll say the vidoy but
will I feel it not unless a person hits
the slightest bit of embarrassment and
that embarrassment is the thing that we
have to work on all of us that we walk
and Hashem watches us no matter where
we're at no matter how hidden we are
that Hashem sees us and from that I have
to understand that there are things that
I'm not proud of things that went on in
the past yes I'm not proud of I hurried
through the tillot I'm not proud of it
one day I said something to my mother
and maybe I shouldn't have said it it
was too harsh and I'm not proud of that
I'm embarrassed my mother she gave to me
birth she woke up in the middle of the
night she gave to me the bottle she
changed me she cared she went without
food to give me food
and now I went and I spoke against her
I spoke words that were not nice I got
to be embarrassed this is the way that
we have to go in this world I did
something that maybe was a Mitzvah that
I didn't put enough kavana into I have
to be a little bit embarrassed that's
the way that we have to approach it it
will approach it in that way so listen
to this any person that has
guilt or embarrassment if they have
Bouchard so it says the following any
busha that a person has over any of era
that the person is Forgiven for all of
their away wrote that means not only for
the average that I was embarrassed about
that I didn't speak to my mother nicely
and I'm embarrassed about it I'm
forgiven for that I am forgiven for all
the Ave wrote that I did
only thing that I have to do is to be
embarrassed to be a little bit shamed
I'm sorry how did I do that I always
wondered how does a person come to
embarrassment and in fact
if somebody comes in so we know in order
to touch your wine that you'll be able
to use it it has to be someone who has a
Muna it has to be someone who is Shabbat
if they touch your wine it's not
babushal you cannot use it however we
learn in your idea that if the person
would be embarrassed if they would see
an Adam kashov
and they would not be Michael Shabbat in
front of him they wouldn't do anything
wrong then you can trust it why because
they have busha they have embarrassment
they do feel for something the only
thing is they haven't worked to be
embarrassed in front of Hashem
they are afraid so if they're smoking
the cigarette
Shalom and all of a sudden they see you
walking down the street and they say
whoa they put the cigarette behind their
back and they hide it don't worry if
they touch your wine so great is the
element of busha so great is the element
of shame that they understand it
that they get Michaela for all of their
averos for all of them this is an
amazing thing
furthermore let me give one step further
so see why did You Raise Me Up to
disturb me he was upset he was already
in the other world so schwel said to
shall Why You Raised Me Up why did you
do that show said to him
oh please I didn't raise you up from the
dead for no reason I had a good reason
why because that big Tsar
the police steamer after me the past the
Felicia are getting me nervous that they
may overrun me Velo Kim and Hashem has
turned away Hashem Hashem did not answer
me did not answer me ode
I made all types of different uh paulus
to find out the answer
I had to raise you up from the other
side to know what should I do should I
go to war I shouldn't go to war I have
to ask
so there's a great question Rashi says
Why didn't it of course we know
should have asked what in order to know
whether to go to war or not or in
between him just ask should I go to war
or not and it will light up in the way
the person will know directly from
Hashem the answer is no he was not going
to get an answer because he killed out
no of Iraq
because he did something that he
shouldn't have done he was not going to
be answered so he was embarrassed to
bring it up he didn't say I went to
consult the urine between him and they
didn't answer me I got no answer
whatsoever because of his own
embarrassment that is unreal because of
that we learn in schmuel base
there it says
he is the chosen one of Hashem and in
fact it was given to him the answer back
tomorrow you are all together with me
um
you are together with me in my confine
why because he had busha because he was
afraid he was ashamed so how do you get
us how does a person get ashamed it's a
Brazen world it's a world that a person
can say anything that they want at any
time and you're allowed to get away with
anything and people will do it in the
straight like it says in the mission
everybody knows in the times ignition it
says that the young people will spit in
the face of this cane name
it says a lot of things will happen
there's no bhusha who cares who cares
what happens today I'll say whatever I
want to whomever I want
so it's interesting thing I went to uh
Miami
and there was a RAV who was in Northern
Florida and he wanted that I should come
to sayur beautiful so I flew into this
place
and there was a fellow pick me up it was
three hours until the she was started so
he says Rabbi I would like to take you
to the museum
I said you know it's okay I have what to
do I brought a few sorry
no no no it's quick I just want to show
you some amazing Museum just a little
bit I could not talk this guy out of
going to the museum no matter what he
took me to the museum and I went I went
to them sure thing it's a big big Indian
to make another Jew Happy Meal him to go
to the museum
so I took him
in the museum it's a hands-on experience
I went down and there was exhibit you go
in each exhibit the first exhibit you go
in by yourself and it's in front of a
mirror
they close the door and you stand in
front of the mirror
they open the door you go to the next
one you go around
then after about 20 minutes you come to
the end and at the end on the other side
I hear when I'm coming to the end people
are screaming with laughter people are
having the time of their lives they
cannot stop laughing they bent over
what is it
the last room that you go to
is a two-way mirror
when you look in that first room the
people went into the mirror they can see
from the other side what the people are
doing
do you know what a person does in front
of the mirror
don't let your mind go you can't imagine
people making faces they're doing all
kinds of funny things right and then the
other person is watching and everybody's
laughing and I'm standing there crying
not that I did anything in front of the
mirror but I began to think to myself
the ICS the ear that hears in all of our
massim are written down in the safer I
began to think to myself how clear it is
from that that a person never knows
busha that means that sometimes I have
to understand that I need to take some
shame and put it into my life I need to
think about it I need to worry about
what exactly am I doing and how is it
going to be perceived how embarrassed we
are we say one word we said something to
another individual and it didn't come
out right and then I say I'm so
embarrassed I could just I won't say
that word why because of busha it is so
so embarrassing to us I can't even take
it I'm I'm too nervous about the whole
thing interesting
if a person embarrasses another
individual in public so we see how great
is embarrassment if we only have a
little bit of embarrassment over
something that we have done or over the
past year that is unbelievable because
it's the key it is to a person having
complete
what else can you do immediately to get
such very few things let me give you one
more example we know that at the time
the uh Aaron was nervous to approach
was embarrassed he was nervous to go to
the Miss bear so much said Aaron
what's going on here
why are you embarrassed why are you
afraid there you're the coin you're
supposed to go to miss bayach of course
you should go la Mata Bush why are you
afraid
so the reason was everybody knows when
Aaron went so he pictured that the Miss
bear was like an eagle
he had a part in the egglessov whatever
he did he had to do it but still he had
a part when he came there he pictured it
he saw the eagle in front of him and he
recoiled he went back how can I do it's
agile I'm reminded of my former
tell him
because of that you were chosen why so
the before she tell us the reason is is
because he was embarrassed because he
saw the ego because he remembered the
old thing that he did and he was shamed
over it that is specifically why he was
the one that was chosen to be the sibur
for binay Israel that's an unbelievable
thing of a person will think about it
how an individual is able to see certain
things and be able to approach it even
if they're embarrassed now I will tell
you something an interesting thing we
should overcome that embarrassment to do
Mitzvah even if one time we were upset
even if one time we did something and we
messed up in the middle don't be
embarrassed it's a Mitzvah you go right
to it and you do it a very interesting
thing happened
someone who's in Queens a very big
singing star
very big singing star I asked and I'm
going to tell you what the what the
Sarah was they came to me from Israel
a family of about eight people to the
dining room they came to my dining room
they had a special need that they wanted
to tell me about there was a girl
who need a needs a kidney and they
brought her
they sat there and I began to talk with
them none of them religious and I began
to tell them we got to do something some
money had to be raised had to be taken
care of and so forth and I made a whole
plan how to do it with all of them with
the family and
and they said thank you very much and
they were going to call me I did not
take anyone's number
they don't call me I began to make plans
I began to do things nobody called me I
figured what it she does need it she
doesn't need it they came they don't
need it well I I was crying there I was
crying a young woman needs a kidney like
that a girl not
I didn't understand it
two months later I get a call
I would like to come to your house with
my family
I didn't hop it's the same family they
came back all of them back in the dining
room and I said but tell me uh
you were here We were supposed to start
right away what happened
we came and we saw that you had that tea
and we knew you wouldn't help us
that wouldn't help you I love anybody I
will help anybody does not matter to me
who it is
and any one will help anyone there's not
qualifications of who to help
however
we call the same person again and he
said I told you to go to go washer you
didn't go through a gold one yes we did
base that
so what does that have to do with it go
back to him and he pushed him they
should go back
I want to tell you what Akita shashem
was the girls from the beta Cove took
her back and forth for dialysis the trip
was 45 minutes because she was very
tired afterwards they got a huge car
they set up a pillow in a blanket like a
bed with a sheet in the back they
constantly took it back and forth they
brought her food they saw to her they
visited her they did everything
finally there was a kidney that was
available
we needed money
so I called somebody from Queens a big
star
he was not always from
we're not always religious and I said
would like to make a concert and I would
like you to be the person that would
sing
he told me the Rob is calling I'll do it
immediately we set up
I didn't realize the place that they had
gotten was a nightclub okay a nightclub
but wasn't a nightclub on that night
rabbit don't win don't worry it wasn't I
set up a it was a nightclub
but on that night it was only for our
use
so I go
he picked me up he came in from Queens
picked me up and this kohav the star he
goes and he asked me the address that's
on the address
we get out
he sees the building
he puts his head against the wall
I cannot go in
I said why
he told me
I used to play in this club
and it wasn't right
I'm embarrassed to go inside to this
club
I said but you have to is I cannot When
I See This Club I see everything that it
represents I told him
what we just learned
when Aaron a coin came and he saw them
is bear and he saw the ego and he said I
can't do it I can't go any further it's
impossible it reminds me of something
well should I Banu said
that's the reason why you were chosen to
go in I told him you are chosen you go
in your midter cane you will Rectify all
the the tikkun for everything that was
done in the past will be tonight
he went in and I tell you the truth if
you ever saw somebody that had to force
themselves I'm standing by the door he
had to force himself force himself to
walk in the door
he said Jose
he goes in all I can tell you that when
he sang a certain song about a Muna
everybody was moved to tears everybody
everybody
that night enough money was raised
the young woman got her kidney
the whole family made a sudato DA they
wrote about it
they called me
I told them I'm not khatsi I'm Charlene
but okay
they
went back the whole family
and every once in a while I get a
regards from them
that's busha that is when a person is
able to feel the embarrassment another
another interesting example
what happened
they did a big Avera they got one little
Mitzvah that they had to observe don't
eat from the eight Sadat one Mitzvah
everybody says if I wouldn't be Jewish
so I only have seven minutes
not a problem it would be a cinch you'll
find me some people that are able to
watch this
I'll tell you it's not so simple to find
okay so one mitzvah and unfortunately
they didn't do it so what happened so
they heard Hashem they heard Hashem
coming in the gun he was walking they
heard him approaching
they went to hide they went down high
you know Airaid they hide underneath the
table they're hiding from Hashem oh
no good Roberto said what was it
it was they had great busha they had
great embarrassment
Giselle ikar that is the main idea of
the chuva habusha
says the fact that they went and they
were embarrassed that in itself was
chuva did you ever wonder why they were
able to live did you ever wonder what
happened with them that even Cayenne did
to Shiva that's what happens when a
person is able to gain a little bit of
inspiration to be embarrassed and what
was it Hashem made for them remember
from the leaves they were able to cover
themselves because they realized that
they were without clothing so why was it
from the tree
say because the tikkun came in
rectifying the sin in being
the way to do it was by using the leaves
from that tree which would now mean that
they would have the tikkun for what they
did wrong
this is something that if a person
realizes the depth of what bushai is if
they realize the depth of all the things
that Hashem wishes us to understand
about our lives in this world then it is
on a much much different level I was a
bohran Yeshiva yeshivinis Flatbush and I
remember there used to be a guy that
would come in every day I would say his
name but I'll say his name Jaime
he used to come in as shopping bad guy
ah whatever a man from the streets older
man and there would be a
coupon it would be a push on the wall
from Ruby mayor Balinese he would come
into the middle of a Seder everybody
would be learning nicely without
learning and he would come in with some
coins all of a sudden he would start to
shake and he would start to tremble and
he would start yelling tillot and
everybody would begin laughing every day
because he was putting the money in he
Disturbed the whole seder and everybody
it was like a matinee everybody was
laughing in the afternoon because he was
putting on this whole thing he meant it
he meant it one day
there was a
a RAV that came in from nearby he came
into praying and afterwards he stayed to
learn
he saw this Jaime come in and start with
and shaking and yelling
and he saw the guys laughing
after Jaime left
he came up and he clapped
he said you know it's interesting
we're laughing at him right now
after 120 years we'll go up to shemaim
in ganedan and we'll stand between all
the great
and who knows who will be laughing at
who at that point
our life in this world is to help to
understand each of us what does it mean
what does it mean that a person should
be able to hold their head high when
somebody says
and they mean it I don't mean he
probably stole I never stole anything
the barn Adelphia I never said a word
who said anything
you think I'm a deceitful person Lots no
I'm the serious person in the world I
never tell jokes there are people I
guess like it's a a unified uh vidoy for
everybody so I have to be Midvale for
other people man myself I'm only maybe
one of the things there the other thing
said
none of it
uh
that starts with an aleph internet I
mean no not intimate whatever
God
they wrote that start with a gimbal with
a dollar with a hey I don't even want to
think about it but vaishnu we are
embarrassed when I see that I get
embarrassed when I see that I shake
because I'm ashamed I know I did
something I'm not going to say it didn't
do anything I did do it what am I going
to say I didn't do it it's a big Mitzvah
to say that we did do it you know Adam
they caught Adam right so Hashem said
Adam you wait for that you know what he
said
I'm going to eat more he says I ate and
I'm gonna eat more I did that Vera I'm
gonna do it again so you know what it's
like I don't know if they had this when
you were uh in school they used to have
a truant officer if you cut school right
you ditch school and you're in the pizza
Shopper somewhere so the officer came
and said ah young man where are you from
which school you had to say okay come
with me you got into trouble right so
what if the truth officer comes there he
sees him in a pizza shop and he says
okay uh Yosef tell me uh what are you
doing there
Sue says officer I tell you the truth
I'm cutting school right now and next
Wednesday I'm going to cut school again
how could he do such a thing it's an
impossibility but it says that
loved what he said that Hashem loved
what he said so how could it be you know
the reason because Adam knew himself he
confessed and he said I know that I
might do it again that is he is
I know that I did an aveira I know that
I did something wrong and I'm afraid
that I may repeat it that is something
that's beautiful that is something when
a person can admit that they did
something wrong we also says
we are embarrassed from every nation so
the Great
Manchester Russia
as a question what does it mean we're
worse than any Nation we're not worse
went up maybe the Nations don't like us
but we're not worse I'm Israel
who is like Claudius where is this where
is there such learning where is there
such care about the world where are
there such loyal citizens where are
there people that worry about Hashem
where are there people that worry about
Mankind and humankind and establishing
truth and Justice and everything where's
our people like Claudia Israel words are
people that are so downtrodden with all
the current situations and politically
and so forth and sanctions against eres
Israel
where is there a nation like Christo
there isn't there isn't any none could
compare but we say
so at the Manchester rashiva said is
that sometimes a person picks up things
from the outside world and from the
outside world we have to be embarrassed
I pick up a little bit over here I pick
up a little bit over there and in the
meantime I get a little bit nervous
because maybe it is worn off on me the
outside world the beauty the beauty
of Torah anytime the beauty of Torah
anytime is that it gets to every place
in the world
and it is able to offset vaishnu because
people around the world they could see
all kinds of things on the internet all
kinds of things
but what do they watch they watch urim
they watch every kind of sure on every
possible Indian on every yamta on every
Mitzvah on every possible Indiana
that's the unreal thing so we don't have
to say BHA we call them because they
save us from that it's a difficult thing
for us to know
but even in the way that a person may
know
that perhaps I could be better
if we listen to people around the world
and we take from them and we realize
what people go through certain hardships
then we feel a lot different about our
own Avada I would like to give you just
two examples just two very simple
examples
there is a person that I saw
he was learning in the bait midrash he
was learning
so I walked over to him
and he said to me could I ask you some
words that I don't understand I said
sure
could you tell me this word he has to be
a word in the mishna and I told him what
it means he said could you tell me this
word and I told him that
I came back in the same bed midrash
seven hours later
and the guy was sitting there as soon as
that case says I I don't want to bother
you rebe and he meant it I felt so bad
but could I ask you another couple
what was that worth then he writes it as
that word
I said I'm sorry
could you tell me were you here since I
came in in the afternoon
he says yes
I said you stayed here all the time is
it was it okay
this is okay you're holding up the world
I said okay the world is on your
shoulders and I thought to myself
he has a problem with translating a few
words in a mishnah and he sits for seven
hours uninterrupted
goldwasser hold on for a second it's
article did you sit seven hours
maybe you could touch the whole thing up
maybe you know the whole mission maybe
you know the whole gemara did you sit
seven hours
no
tabusha
it's
it obligates us
there's a woman that comes to me
Shabbat morning
before Dominic before tilah she said I
have a question for you
I want to know if I did something wrong
if I have to do tishuva
I said you don't have to tell me what
you did you don't you you say to Hashem
you don't have to tell me no no I have
to say it she said I know I'm not doing
something right and I'm embarrassed
about it this is a older woman older
woman
I said okay
she said before
I come in to Tila
I do the whole thing in Los Angeles I
prayed the whole thing in Hebrew when I
come in to pray together with everybody
I do it in English because I don't
understand the Hebrew
am I doing an Avera
I say to myself
who can even imagine this woman
she's actually dominating twice
sometimes you know it comes on Kippur
and you start looking through the boxer
how many pages left it
and this lady is dominating twice to
trilod
that's the whole thing
everything twice and she's asking of era
you know I took my sitter that morning I
promise you I prayed like I never prayed
before I double like I never this is
what she did this is unreal one more one
more I must tell you
how you could become embarrassed
they invited me there is an
international organization for people
that do not have the gift of hearing to
hear they invited me to be the speaker
and they came
there where many people
not
a lot of from but many that were
religious many others came from around
the world for various questions
various that they needed all types of
things they came for everybody had their
own reasons and I was to give a shayor
to everyone together with a interpreter
and all the people were supposed to come
it's a few minutes before a thousand
people walking around a few minutes
before my shower the head of the
convention says Hey excuse me a rabbi
goldwasser I said yes
she says I'm sorry to tell you
this evening we have an advocate an
advocate
from for the deaf community in
Washington
this man advocates for the needs of the
deaf he is a very important speaker and
everyone will want to hear him
unfortunately Rabbi we had no choice but
we had to schedule him the same time as
you
so please forgive us it's very important
I know because you're a big Rabbi you'll
understand right you'll understand and
you'll uh you'll be okay I said fine
they gave to me a little room they gave
the advocate a huge room in a convention
hall huge it's a hotel
magnificent
I'm there
and The Interpreter standing there
they give me a nice podium
and there were five people in the room
okay it's not the conversation you know
it's
quality not quantity I said figure good
excellent we have already I'm assuming
we could say that not a problem we don't
got but we got that
all of a sudden
a few more people came
then a few more people came then a group
came then another group they changed my
room so people didn't know where I was
the good head of the convention didn't
bother to tell him where the shayar was
then they began to find out
there were so many people that crowded
into the room I cannot tell you what
akirosh Hashem is the head of the
convention came back in
I got nervous when I saw him he said
Rabbi I was afraid what he's going to
tell me next he said uh
this little difficulty with the room it
doesn't look like it's big enough so we
want to switch it to a different room
I went to a different room
filled up from front to the back filled
filled people came to learn to not me
they came to learn Torah people from all
over the world from France and from
Italy from everywhere they came in just
to learn from Israel all over
and I'm ready to say it's beautiful
giant giant men and women it's unreal
however as I began there were two women
that were sitting in the front
and the two women are playing some kind
of a game like this
I don't mind if somebody reads a uh you
have a safe or a book I don't mind the
people knit in the middle of this year I
don't mind whatever people doesn't
matter but this kind of a thing I can't
take is it was too much
so you know you don't need to have a PhD
in Psychology when you try to ignore
something you zero in right on them
right I tried to ignore it and uh
I couldn't ignore it and I got so then I
tried to turn a little bit like this way
you know not to look at them and they're
going like this back and forth back and
forth finally I said I got a challenge
here please it's a Nissan I prayed this
morning
help me help me be my bear help me that
I should be strong
so Hashem helped me I gave this shayor
it was the most incredible thing and the
the The Interpreter kept saying please
Rabbi slow down you're talking too fast
please and the people it was Unreal
they're asking at several times they
were able to ask questions at the end
everybody was able to come up whoever
wanted to ask a question
they were able to walk up and a lot of
people ask
unbelievable questions what do they do
for uh shofar and Rosh Hashanah how they
would say the Mitzvah another person
asked me uh they're in I think they came
from France and they don't have
possibilities for him what would I
suggest that they should do to
facilitate for them another person asked
me a question that in their local
community there's a very good school for
the children that are hearing impaired
low eleno however the problem is that
there's no Judaism for them
is it worthwhile to come to move to the
United States or a different country
where there is a school and uproot to
children from this school and have to
learn a new language all kinds of things
and the people waiting in line at the
end of the line I see the two women you
know the one like this I see the two
women
so I figured oh
hey
I'm going to have what to say to these
people you know you got to say at the
right time
you got to know when to give mussar
I see them coming up everybody else is
gone
and then I see that the older woman
has her hand on the arm of the younger
girl
and she's walking and the older woman is
looking straight ahead
with her eyes closed
they come and stand in front of me
the younger girl said
revi
we came to ask you a few questions
we missed a couple of things in this
year
you see my mother
is not only death
but she is also blind
and the way that I have
of talking to her
is by
signing on her hand
we weren't able to get everything
and we have a few questions that we
would like to ask you
these people
the level of Hashem
and I at that moment looking at these
Giants anakim
I felt like I was
on the ground
I felt like how could I even stand there
to talk to such people
to talk to such people that are standing
how high they are in the world
and I answered their questions and we
went back and forth and
I
I cannot tell you they asked me I should
give to them a bracha
when they asked me for bracha
then I lost it I have to tell you the
truth I could not
hold it all together I lost my composure
the only way I could gain it back as I
said
I will give you a bracha
if first you'll give to me a bracha
they both blessed me I made them both
the girl as well
I walked out CBS
TV or whoever they are were there about
this incredible convention
yeah Rabbi Rabbi please come the head of
the please please come
could you please be interviewed
after I went through that experience
that kirush Hashem
of a mother and her daughter
who don't does not see and does not hear
the only thing I could do is held up my
hands to them and said I'm sorry
after what I just experienced
I don't have any words left
and I left
we in Cloud used to oh
we have such a
we got
unbelievable merits all of us every one
of us everyone here in the Kila
with their illustrious and everyone in
the whole class or wherever you're going
to view this South African Australian
London and Switzerland in California and
Mexico City and I don't know if there's
any heat left in Syria or Sarajevo or
Morocco or Iran or Persia or tuscanto it
doesn't matter where
foreign
let us have a little bit of busha a
little bit of Shame
and let us have a lot of Pride as we go
forward to the Roy and we should all be
blessed with
blessing and success
we should have a richest
all the children should go in the right
direction
should have everything that they want
solomonarity Israel and that's Hashem we
should hear this year the Pavements
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