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Rosh Hashanah: The Book of Lives - Rabbi Jonathan Rietti speaking for CHAZAQ!
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[Music]
so we're about 24 hours from the holiest
day of the Jewish calendar and I would
like to start with a question some of
you are familiar with the question
already if we were to select one word
that comes up again and again in these
ten days these very special ten days
which word would it comes up again and
again game judgment teshuvah it's a word
that we are constantly requesting
throughout that if a lot of these ten
days kitty vowed to Kate evolve what
writing of what in the book of how do we
pronounce the word life Khayyam so
what's the correct translation for
Khayyam it's lush in your head or a beam
is it singular or plural
so what's correct translation lives
so actually what are we asking Hashem
should write us in the book of lives
there's there's no word there that says
write us in the book of life we're
referring to the reality that this world
is a Lamar shaker it's one life and then
there's a llama Emmet which is a life of
knits cute it goes on forever and ever
so we don't actually believe in one life
that's why there is no word in Russian
our qodesh for life the word high is
singular sorry the life the word high is
not singular it's it's an adjective it
means our life as Earth our venal high
adios f KY Joseph is still alive but I'm
historic I am Islas still alive so we
have no word for life because it doesn't
exist this world is is a llama checker
this world is not really real
it appears real because that's just you
and I in our minds that's how we
interpret everything we're not our
bodies we're not our money we're not our
zip code we're not our homes we're not
not our career we're not even our family
were simply our memories everything
that's happening in our lives is taking
place inside of our mind and that is
something that's not really physical
so this world is really made up of what
you and I see experience in a lifetime
and it's really what's called the sacral
and Nick now the mind that we acquire in
our lifetime is what lasts into the next
world
so actually you won't die you personally
you will never die your body dies but
you personally will never die because
you're made up of two elements there's
your body and then there's your neshama
your soul of the two the body returns to
where it comes from the earth and the
soul returns to where it comes from
which is helical Okami mouth back to
hashem and that's in Alamut alam ha ha
ahmet so when we asking a sham please
write us in the book of hyeme what do we
mean these are 10 days of teshuvah and
we're begging hashem please write us in
the book of lives
so what are we referring to what are we
actually asking our Shem for those till
awake we're really asking for shame that
right write us foci aim for lives in
both worlds and the purpose of giving me
one more year in this world is in order
that I will have more time to invest in
alamin it's key in a world that is
forever is this making sense so actually
in our prayers in art if you lot we are
asking a cottage barcoo to give me
another year here because I'm going to
be able to invest more in eternity did
you follow that's really what we're
asking for we're not asking for another
year on this planet so that my body ends
up on this world yet another year that's
not the purpose of life the purpose of
life is really for allah mohamet that's
what we really live for so based on this
it's rather interesting
bet shaman bet he'll oh they had a lot
of discussions between them Sharma in
Hill Oh themselves the two rappers only
argued five times three times actually
think it is money bombers but but the
bet shall mine Betty Lowe had a look at
many times the one one that's recorded
that lasted for two and a half years a
debate that went on for two and a half
years
what was that debate it's a gamer ah in
a ravine
Dhar feud gimel i'ma bet page 13 B and
that was excellent
well what would have been better for God
to have created man or not too great a
man nor awesome Nanshan liver Allah nor
Adam live not give Genevra
would have been better for man not to
have been created or created now what's
the obvious question about this debate
if you would if you whose opinion
matters the most mine yours
Icarus particle gods okay so just put
our opinions aside for a moment and if
we were to ask a random in your opinion
what would have been better to create a
man or not to committee man what do you
think the answer is obviously because he
created man so what are they arguing
about
do you understand the question for two
and a half years and he'll talk about
the greatest minds what was what was the
discussion so comes along and look at
him around from nothing a breslav you'll
find in 10 Yana that's the second
Halleck inter allama tests in Chapter
number 39 who says the argument was
really about alum Hasan alum her Emmet
they both agreed finally that as far as
this world is concerned would have
Shalini bruh it would have been superior
had we never been created in the first
place the likelihood of me coming out
clean in this world there are 365 don'ts
245 241 48 dues in the Torah so out of
the 365 law hacer and the 248 are say
the likelihood of me only doing the
right thing
statistically I'm probably gonna make a
lot of mistakes so it's better if I
don't come into this world make mistakes
foul up than to come into this world but
as far as hola Maya net is concerned
it's worth it to be created why it's a
tunnel and what do you get for eternity
if a person did are very up their entire
life and did one Mitzvah that's all he
did the whole the whole of a llamar zone
only one Mitzvah would it be worth it in
hola Maya met yes or no yes why
so rabbi Victor Miller a blessed memory
he explains this based on the Vilna Gaon
he quotes the vill now go and I never
saw the one that go on inside that just
remembered from rabbi victim Willis tape
that he explains the following there's a
very powerful logic here if a person is
a Russia house fashon he's done terrible
things in his lifetime so comes to Yama
Dean when his soul leaves this world the
worst possible scenario is that he'll
get 12 months in Gangnam and which is
made up of very strong powerful
detergents it's like a washing machine
and then the Shema needs some cleaning
out some dumps are pretty powerful and
very penetrating but after 12 months
it's as clean as you can get and from
then onwards after that's the worst
scenario now in all of my met for any
Mitzvahed he did theirs eternity do you
follow so the worst case scenario was 12
months Jahannam
so explains the Vilna quran very
interesting question which is worse to
miss doing a mitzvah or to do a nivara
the worst is myths is losing out on the
opportunity to do a mitzvah that is
immeasurably worse than doing a novella
why because Ana Vera there's a
consequence
usually a sham is so kind to us that
whatever you serene wherever difficulty
or suffering or hospital tragedy or
health setback or fine
setback or irritation or a slight
frustration that all counts as Caparo
that all counts as a way to remove the
debt that I have form it's for a Varrick
that I've done mitzvot the mistakes have
done in this world so that's out of
Hashem kindness if I so show him a
person's done Ave rot and did not do
Tituba so then he gets gay none for the
event these done the most he can get is
12 months you here but from Mitzvah
that's eternity it's not 12 months is
forever there's there is no equivalent
currency to pay back for the smallest
Mitzvah that's what's up cuz I'll clean
I'll say just tell us that even for one
our men Hashem has not got enough olam
has a there's not enough world there's
not enough money there's not enough gold
silver there's not enough cash flow to
pay for the value of the smallest miss
van as simple amen
that's why the camera tells us when's
the first moment a child gets Olam haba
the first time he answers our men he has
a llama baa really yeah why there's no
there's no currency to paying back for
that in this world so is his his points
are already already starting so what we
established right now is the following
as far as this world is concerned it can
really be difficult there's divorce
there's financial loss there's loss of a
loved one Children Hospital um can go in
a different direction a person could
have a health setback how special on
that one could have some really
difficult neighbors are very hard mother
father brother sister mother-in-law
father-in-law daughter-in-law son-in-law
husband wife have Russa boss co-worker
recovered everybody this world is alarm
Hani Sion it is one long test not called
Allah - you're not even though the ROM
hull actually in one place down he calls
it all I'm on his song but he does say
call in Yan a holla misere Hemnes you're
not Adam so there's the plural there but
really it's called hola - Ariane it's
not a world of tests it's one long tests
marriage and raising children and
controlling my effort for food that
there's not healthy or addictions ha
special um or poisonous thinking like
hatred and jealousy that's poison in of
the mind
it's a it's worse than cancer cancers
the body but cancer of the mind oh my
gosh that's cars anger that's cancer
that destroys a person in both worlds in
this world and the next
anger just removes us from this world we
become unhappy other people don't enjoy
us when we're angry oh this world some
will call it gay haenam a llama but a
llama met
oh that's worth that's worth investing
in the smallest investment is already
eternity so explains the Vilna Gaon this
very simple logic no matter how many
mistakes I make there is a consequence
and there's a payment as a payment plan
I can either if I'm lucky I'll pay off
in this world if i if I'm not Sokka
because I didn't do enough tissue if I
didn't clean myself up while I was still
here then I have to I have all I'm I met
to to clean up in and that includes
getting on and then it's all I'm then
it's all I'm above forever that's the
worst case scenario however teshuva had
to be created before creation wine
teshuva
makes no sense it's not logical I did
something wrong against the king of
kings and with one word catotti one word
sorry he's willing to erase my track
record against him ladies gentlemen have
you ever had a person that hurt you
upset you
and it was not easy to go to bed at
night upset with this person and to see
them on the street in this initial in in
school at work but one day that person
sincerely asked your forgiveness and
said sorry and it appeared that even
they really meant it did that one sorry
create a tremendous relief and a sense
of oh my gosh I can i I I don't have to
carry this resentment with me anymore
one person sorry can can that happen if
you ever had that experience one person
sorry and sometimes you might be going
on for weeks months or years wishing
that that person on their own without me
telling them reminding them cajoling
them that on their own spontaneously
would come to the realization that they
upset me and apologize directly how much
that would release all the hurt pain
anger and asked for forgiveness and
really mean it
so comes along a cottage baku and he's
willing to do that with one word sorry
how do we know it's just one word so I'm
speaking in I think bet Gabrielle I'm
not sure which one it is a few months
ago so I beg your forgiveness if you
heard this example but it's interesting
tetra bar takes how long how long does
test you might take one second barely a
second what's the proof where this test
should I take place in your pinky in
your elbow and your kneecap where does
it take place takes place in in your
mind it takes place in your mind it's
something that you sincerely feel
emotionally in your heart but it's
actually the the language of cause all
throughout he'll cut tissue vine Rambam
is here or her left tissue verbal a
safer her aid him when he lists all the
Mitzvah according to different parts of
the body your ears your nose they're
very few minutes but negate your nose
your eyes your mouth your hands your
legs the
right so claims the Sahara team there
are 51 Mitzvahed which art Allah we
believed and it's not referring to over
here it's referring to it over here
that's there are 51 out of 613 that
depend on what you're thinking the word
life most time means thinking so teshuva
is here were a less it's what you're
thinking in your mind do you follow
there are reasons why the word left
means both your mind and your emotions
because many people I'm not a pain I'm
not really paying attention to what I'm
thinking so if I really want to know
what I'm thinking the best thing to do
is say what am I feeling oh I feel
frustrated oh that means I'm thinking
frustration thoughts I'm angry oh that
means I'm thinking angry thoughts I'm
happy that means I'm thinking happy
thoughts
so sometimes it's easier for us to pay
attention to what we're feeling because
that tells us what we're thinking
do you follow also corresponds not
interested in me just being right up
here he doesn't want me to just be
clinically correct he wants me to get
excited about correct thinking one of
the best things we can think is how can
I improve my mind how can I change what
I'm thinking about my wife about my
husband so that I will look for more
reasons to love them to appreciate them
to be grateful to them how can I be more
appreciative of my own children who I
wasn't born in their generation and they
are struggling for whatever reasons in a
in a world that's really complicated and
very confusing and and for some
children's extremely fearful how can I
be how can I change the way I look at my
child that's cool to Shuba that means
I'm changing what I'm thinking teshuvah
is the English translation was
repentance becomes a workshop which
means to sit also means return I'm going
back to its original source what's the
original source you are a hillock Elohim
email you are really from Hashem that's
the real you you're telling me look him
so a corresponds me to see that in you
that's what he's looking for me to
change in my mind enough Jim loves it so
much when we do
Teva he is maha last Basim ha that's the
language that Rashi quotes huzzah in
Perak aftet in in in Deva room where
moisture Bane reminds us that the Salaf
decayed varaha when we were forgiven
according to my gems - according to my
famous words we were forgiven for the
worst of era one of the worst that was a
header eagle why is the cat i eagle one
of the worst are they rot why is
adultery so serious
what's wrong with the DAO tree what's
missing trust it's a break of trust a
trust that was is already a commitment
in marriage so to break that through
adult who that's very serious
so say hazael it's an expression I could
never say myself but because I'll say it
a local on how how humiliating that the
bride would Zinta Tejada Bala
right under the Hupa in front of her
about how she would go with the best man
can you imagine like something all of it
right it just took the ring and then
walked away with another man I mean what
what you're the husband and you see this
in front of your eyes everyone just saw
that in front of Adam witnesses you
married this lady and now she walks away
with another man what what is it what
are you thinking can she ever be
forgiven question ok so we have one
maybe from the ladies and all the rest
said no any any of the men what do you
say so says our cottage barcoo in she
Reshiram which deserves to be quoted
tonight limp of tinea had main iron I
loved you my one-eyed color by my my
bride of one eye so there you are at the
reception you pull up the the veil just
to make sure it's the same wife that you
proposed to
and she's exactly the same wife just one
eye missing oh now D still love her says
the chorus part who I loved you my
one-eyed color my one-eyed bride what do
you mean my one eye bright Shama Malek
is referring to Muhammad Hassan I the
Kali is remarried to Kurdish Baku we
were his bright but one of our eyes was
already on the egg l the the golden calf
and a college bar who said I still loved
you my one-eyed color Masha Bay knew
went up to her scene I for how long 40
days and 40 nights did he eat drink one
long yong-ki boy didn't sleep either
oh my gosh that's that's a long time and
right at the end which was actually the
day of Yom Kippur forty days later
Hashem said cilok t-kid varaha I have
forgiven you as you have requested and
says Rashi
salak t Besim ha i have happily forgiven
you oh my gosh adultery under the
chuppah and Ramon solemn you're saying
that you will forgive us for that really
I said yeah you do you have any idea how
much I love you you could almost do
nothing wrong which means you can do
everything wrong and if you say sorry
I'm gonna I'll take you back really and
how long's that take one second is that
really true in Holika as I mentioned
last time I'm going to mention very
briefly and it's a seminar in short on
our kin Devin essa in seminar mat head
safe lamb with Aleph so it says it's
this is halal Emma I said a gentleman is
known to be a Rajah gum or totally
wicked shabbat kashrut everything is
Gomorrah there's nothing he does right
and it's everybody knows he takes a ring
out of his pocket puts it on the finger
of a lady or gives her a perotta worth
of
a small coin and with it he says
Hariyama kadesha Blee behold you are
patrolled to me all not on condition
Shani Sadiq that I am a righteous
individual check out Rebecca Vega who
adds word gum more I am at tsadikim or
I'm totally righteous what's the halacha
makuta jet or a no mecha desert is this
a valid marriage yes or no it's a valid
marriage why you know his Russia
everyone knows not just Tom
he's Russian Camus is a totally wicked
person how can you say Mecca desert
there is a valid marriage and the answer
is sure my hero teach you verbally born
perhaps Shama perhaps there's a
possibility that in that one second
between between being and Raja come more
and now saying I'm at satakam war in
that switch of a moment when he
patrolled her he had a thought of
teshuvah scheme' he wrote issue verbally
boy he had a thought of tissue and his
mind in that one second the halacha
changes and now if they want to get
divorced
yeah you have to have a get it's a 100%
valid marriage that's very serious
what's the message what's the message
you can turn on a time how long does it
take to do teshuvah one second
has he proven has he got a new track
record of only eating kosher only
keeping Shabbat wearing Tefilin every
day lighting Shabbat candles keeping
young Tov he's got no track record but
the halacha recognizes shandler here at
issue a billy boy that's enough on the
possibility and so that counts it's 100%
valid oh so now let's figure this out
her kurdish bar who created the universe
and we're right now in day number nine
of ten days of teshuvah really any day
of the year is
whatever any hour of the day any minute
of any day of the entire year brush em
in his kindness gave us an extra forty
days between all Abell all right till
the end of Yom Kippur you want to add on
a schmee huh got sir so you have to look
at the house it is for him for that but
otherwise you've got 40 days here where
it's especially especially it rots on a
favorable time then our sham says I'm
coming out of the palace I'm available
for you I'm coming out to meet you talk
to me ask me for forgiveness how longs
it take one word catotti I'm sorry for
what well I have to know what I'm sorry
for I've abused my body I'm not I
haven't been taking care of it properly
I need to sleep as much as I need to
sleep I need to eat
best of all under eat not overeat that's
rum bum in he'll hot day odd parrot
Dollard you'll see there he says it
three times do I need to do teshuva
for being unkind with my words yes
please hmm forgive me for that too
Felicia Nara oh that's that's really
hard yeah help me with that too soshim
says all you have to say sorry can I say
sorry for all my Avera yes you can do
that too it works it counts why is it
count because this shoe bomb makes no
sense it's not rational and for that
reason I shall have to create teshuva
before he created the universe because
the universe works on laws of cause and
effect teshuva is beyond the law how is
it beyond the law a person kills someone
the guy's died is dead he's gone come
come bring him back to life till tiata
meet him so the murderer killed him and
he did it on purpose now the guy says I
want to do teshuvah you what's not gonna
bring the guy back to life what will his
teach you about help the consequences
are going to be changed because he says
I'm sorry now he wishes he never did it
which means that it turned from a nivara
a violation permeate which was done
deliberately to now I wish
never did it what does a cottage Papa do
one of his name's is Jude and hey and
vovan hey that's the name we call hashem
when we say the youth kimmel midot
Avraham Hashem Hashem we share Sam's
name twice our door and night Weiss why
you'd kpop KY coz I what I was is and
always will be I exist in all time which
means Hashem says I can take your new
cavanaugh you wish you never killed this
person and you know what I'm gonna do
I'm gonna take that new governor I'm
gonna place it on top of the old act of
murder and now it's sure gig and because
of that the consequences change now the
person doesn't get the same consequences
that's if he does teshuva mayor ah
because he's afraid of the consequences
he can change his consequences but what
happens if he does teshuva mayor hava
what happens then it's a game era in
Yuma pave over a bet and it's brought in
halacha in rum bum huva a person does
teshuvah Mira he changes every single
Avera he did from a maze it deliberately
to show ghek it changes the status once
it changes the status the consequences
are changed you follow he doesn't get
death penalty death penalties for form
Aziz now as pusher Genki we go to re
McCloud so even if there is no Muharram
o'clock and there's no bet Dean for the
death penalty but death penalty in sham
I'm still exists and now it's canceled
oh he would have gone to re me clap so
how would that work
I know maybe has to do a lot more
travelling but now it's been reduced
from a consequence of a death penalty to
gullet to running around org or not
being home too much it's also Khepera
but what happens if he does tissue bar
meet me Ava he says a pendulum I love
you
and now the reason why I wouldn't do in
a very is
I how could I do that to someone I love
and I so I'm doing teach about me Ava
what happens to the Avera now
it changes their ever not Tuesday who
yacht oh my gosh so let's say you've got
an Avera on the minus side the scale and
now it becomes as a hood to the person
it goes to the plus side of the scale so
let's say you've got a Raja who's got
let's say I don't know a - a thousand
and he does teshuva mahira it brings up
to the zero scale and now he's a very
odd to counted as show gheg but if he
doesn't matter he does tissue bar from
love Hashem takes his have a rock from
minus a thousand now it's plus a
thousand does that make sense she's not
rational only a college bar was allowed
to do that so we created something which
is beyond Tara it's beyond the laws of
nature and that's why I had to create
tissue bar before the creation tissue
that was created before how do we know
that this is really what what the world
exists for if you wonder what's going
through her Shems mind what does he
really want from us it's not that
complicated all you have to do is read
the story of the Torah look look at it
in terms of the big picture and start to
notice how there's a progression how the
story unfolds where in the words of
Robert Victor Miller Hashem switches his
mind
changes his mind what does it mean to
change his mind change his focus there's
a focus till a certain point in the
Torah and then it switches to another
focus then switches to another focus but
that each time it switches it's not just
a little switch it's completely to the
exclusion of whatever he was focused on
before do you follow until it gets to a
point where the only focus he has is on
one item and that's for the rest of the
Torah now you know that that's what's
most important to a shame do you follow
the logic the language that the the
example the rabbi Victor Miller gave was
one of an autobiography you meet
someone's biography you've read
someone's biography he wrote it himself
is his autobiography and he writes the
first two chapters about his childhood
next four chapters about his adolescence
next three chapters about his marriage
and then from chapter let's say ten I'm
not sure we're up to till chapter 24
till the end the book all he talks about
is his career so what's obvious to you
as the reader what's most important to
him everything till now was preparation
to discuss his career and not making it
right or wrong I'm just telling you that
when you read someone's book and you
realize that the initial chapters they
fall away into oblivion and if there's
any mention any reference to previous
chapters it's only in the new context
but really the focus switched from
childhood to adolescence to marriage to
career from the career on words that's
all he talks about
oh now you know that that's his main
focus success Robert Victor Miller read
hashem autobiography and you will see
what matters the most to a cottage bark
rule so in the world of science there's
a lot to discuss thanks to Hubble
telescope Sir Edward Hubble 1924 blew
the minds of astronomers because until
that point we actually thought that the
local solar system in our local galaxy
is the entire stretch of the universe
came along Edward Hubble with the Hubble
telescope today it's a veritable
satellite and discovered that there's
over 400 billion galaxies in the visible
universe and each one contains about a
hundred to three hundred billion stars
whoa that's a lot of space and little
planet Earth is a speck of a speck of a
speck it's just so small even in our own
galaxy it's tiny and all of that Hakata
Sparkle focuses on in the first pass awk
Bereshit bara elokim anti-shah maíam and
before the end of the first pass hook a
sham has already must see a start
he's already switched focus
from the entire magnitude of billions of
galaxies in the visible universe
Tuva tolerance and the next pulse up
completely ignores the universe if
there's any mention of Sun Moon and
stars in the next 30 so keep miss only
because of the context of planet Earth
so you see how shams focus switched from
the entire universe to little all planet
Earth that's all he's interested in but
that only goes for 30 more verses
because after 31 pursue keema hashem is
done with planet earth no more mention
of mountains valleys oceans landforms
vegetation trees birdies fish animals
day6 Hashem creates autumn and from this
moment onwards no interest in planet
earth animals Sun Moon stars mountings
if there's any mention of any of those
it's only in the context of the new
focused atom
do you follow and then 6 / R Kim later
six chapters later
what does Hashem do wipes out Adam the
whole mankind go on except for one
individual and his family the first man
ever to be called ish ish Sadiq and you
get the pattern the entire universe was
created for planet Earth was great for
mankind what was mankind created for who
will be my Saddiq are done below it he
ate from the tree Noah you know it's
worth saving the world for you but
you're not that something I'm looking
for why not what did you do wrong is
it's a dig Oh
Sadiq yes has seed no which is great at
ha sido oats are dig which one you have
a Russia at the bottom Ben Oni Sadiq
Rambam and mentions the ha comments well
then you got a high seed which is above
at attic and as it goes beyond the
latter floor that something does the
right thing
the Hasid goes beyond that so now it was
told I'm gonna wipe out mankind but I'm
gonna say if you build me an ark for you
and all the animals well your family and
North listens and does the right thing
he said sadly accosted know why not
because he didn't bargain it didn't ask
to punish me I'm saved save humanity
only when he came out of the ark then he
cried to Hashem so comes along a car's
bumper says I'll save the world for you
cuz your words are dicks but I wish
you'd doesn't for everyone so he blew it
five chapters later right at the end of
chapter 11 going into Chapter 12 who
enters the story of the Torah and steals
the show and from this moment onwards
there's no other focus Avraham and sorry
mean just read the Torah and and just
look at what's happening from this
moment onwards nobody else is mentioned
no civilization unless it's in the focus
of Abram and Sarah Yitzhak and Yakov
saref kuraha Linnea only because of the
Albert in my heart and then the shifty
car that's why the police team might be
an mentioned or the MIT's rim or a
mountain or a valley but otherwise
there's no interest in planet Earth
civilization only in this individual
family and they go down to mitzrayim
multiply and then mahmoud hassan i god
switches focus for the last time in a
way and that is from now on you're not
Jewish because your parents are Jewish
it's not enough you've got to be blown
from a Jewish mother it's not enough
just to have a monotheistic mother like
guiche Myles mother hug ah you smile was
not Jewish
why not his mother was a courageous
convert no no he chose not to follow the
same value system as his father a sow's
father mother were real I'm towering
tsadikim doesn't make a difference
a star's not Jewish which means not
Jewish well he didn't he didn't follow
the value system of his parents
oh so before Mount Sinai Hassan I didn't
make a difference
who your parents were you chose to be
from but from this moment onwards Hashem
says if your mother is Jewish that's it
your Nishiyama is Jewish forever and the
clock's ticking and I care about nothing
please forgive me for saying this way
Hashem is not paying attention to
anything else in the entire Bria for the
rest of Tanakh the only people who get
any focus is B'nai Israel do you follow
and throughout knock throughout knock or
than a vm of doing the same thing
begging us to do teshuva come back to
our Shem Hashem says look if you if you
do this value stay in your land if you
don't I throw you out but I want to
rehab for more than 70 years Maria Maria
who parrot cafe after him tears you'll
come back but if you still don't keep my
mitzvot in my Torah I'm throwing our
gang this time it's gonna be much longer
para cough ket cough Ted alarmed in
Pasha's Catawba and where is still in
that galoot but our Shem promises we
just read it last last couple of weeks
Birkhoff Ted and lammott that about Sal
account Sokka Cole Advani Marilla
pericolic Paso kilometer I think it is
impossible Kannan all these things we'll
have found you by the end of days but
Saleh how um saw her kolaveri ma la
barra de yamim what is inferring to you
just look at pair of dollar days I'm a
fascinating barek it's got all the
yesterday hey Munna chapter 4 part
VidCon on you're gonna go into car look
not once twice you're gonna be few in
number you will be you'll be hated by
all the nations you're gonna be spread
out throughout the whole world your land
will remain desolate but you will do
teshuvah before the end of days and you
will come back to your land and you'll
come back to me
we're living in the Extra Ordinary times
we're 24 hours before the holiest day in
the Jewish calendar and our Shem says
please come back to me and it takes one
second to say sorry
and Rambam says i have to have a muna
that teshuva really works that much say
yom kippur we should really consider
ourselves tsadikim gum or rim okay we're
gonna make some mistakes
over the next couple of weeks but we got
a new slate a completely new start I
have to have him were naturally mud that
teshuva really works because that's the
halacha it really does and that is
really the purpose of the Berea Hashem
promises that he will I will come in
there's a hood of of teshuvah Hashem
even says and this is this is quite
extraordinary it's in the same page in
Yuma
dov paper of I'm a bit where the
language of the camera is utility Juba
she said or not not a sort Lokesh car
got we covered that this far so great
and I'm Vera that's done on purpose is
considered as the show cake and then
Nasser look is who yacht but if Dom
never then these it or not which is a
nivara dump it on purpose
deliberately against Hashem is counted
as as a hood that's incredible
get a lotta shivarajkumar ahead she know
- Adam - Shiva is very great because it
will lengthen the years of a person a
person can actually add on years because
of his teshuvah
now here comes Rabbi Meir this is
mind-blowing the great Rabbi Meir Rabbi
Meir ma'am gaedola issue Varsha peaceful
yeah it a sativa Mahalaleel oh well
hello LM cooler it's possible that one
person's teshuvah will gain himself
makyla which means erase Muhammad's
erase that means it's gone there's
nothing left no no rush em there's no
impression whatsoever I show me races
the past completely but not only for
himself but column Kula really really
yeah yeah that's what I'll say trust cuz
I'll oh that's the power of one person's
tissue bar I don't know who that one
person is but I'm guessing I don't know
but I'm guessing that everything in
Hashem s point system goes according to
lift firm Sara
Audra how difficult it is for a person
to control the anger and they control it
whoa that's big how difficult is it to
control my jealousy and I let go and
don't keep those thoughts in my mind wow
that's very powerful
one person overcoming something that's
hard for them can genuinely affect the
whole world
in fact one person not doing anything
can also affect the whole destiny of
mankind the example I'm thinking of is
from lot you'll recall that when lot was
taken captive what the hood what merit
did he have that his life was saved
what did he do right in his lifetime
that his life was saved and his
daughters asknasa ork him he definitely
had that on his record was that this
hood owed that saved his life yes or no
why was he deserving to be taken out of
Saddam he didn't say anything when was
that empiric you'd bet when Avraham
Avinu went down to him it's rhyme
because of a row of a terrible famine
and asked sorry mainly to pretend she's
she's his sister and asked light
cooperate light was silent what's so big
about that was something about his
silence at that time was Yitzhak born no
was Avram Aveeno average wealth or
fabulously wealthy fabulously wealthy
who was his only heir light now all it
had to do was tell power listen you know
this beautiful Asia that you've never
seen anyone as beautiful as her no one
no one was as beautiful sorrow may know
except for hava sorry mine was
extraordinarily and light could have
said look she's really my sister and
she's married to over I'm just knock him
off and you can take my sister and who
would he who would have you inherited
all the whales about lovino how do we
know that light's Achilles heel his real
weakness was his love for money how do
we know that because he moved to Las
Vegas to Sood I'm sorry sorry sorry it's
the same too much here this time is the
same country so he moved he moved to
Sudan why because he loved money
oh how nice I saw him he was willing to
give his
waters yeah do you mind I didn't mind to
give me a daughter still mop how
that's great never heard of such a
camera I have to be fair to light by the
way light was not an idiot but forgiving
his daughters and Ralph naser oric him
didn't count why not that was part of
his education he was raised in a home of
a colossus arkham that was not difficult
that was easy
Oh easy hey you get reward but not that
much it's hard to overcome anger
jealousy to be silent when you could
have made a lot of money that's not easy
it was worthy of his life being saved
ladies gentlemen
fast forward his life and his two
daughters who was born because of his
daughters Maya who was born because of
Maya root Ruth who was born because of
Ruth Darwin and Malik who is or will be
born because of Darwin America
oh my gosh was his one moment of silence
small or mega gigantic see one moment of
teshuvah goes according to how difficult
is it for me to overcome this anger
jealousy with this child with his
mother-in-law with his brother more with
my sister and my brother whoever it is
that or even with God it fosters all my
mangu against him
elephants are agua according to the
difficulty
oh so claim huzzah one person teshuva
could be enough not to just secure him
Makela but could also bring it for the
whole world there's a lot more to be
said on this but I'm just bring out that
in God's point system it's totally
different to the way you and I see this
world this world is Allah madam Yong
it's it's a world of imagination it's
not real not only is the news mostly
fake the vast majority of what we hear
is fake most of what we see in what we
say with our own mouths it's just
interpret
Asians not accurate we almost never have
all the information to be absolutely
certain there are opinion about our
spouse or a child or ourselves or other
people is totally accurate we hardly
ever have all the information only the
banished litem knows the full picture of
where we come from and all our
difficulties think we overcame and how
hard it is so late I'm sure he had no
clue how much he was investing not only
in his own life being saved and his
daughters his wife would it was
originally saved as well but she turned
around but it was enough that he saved
his wife and two daughters and one of
his daughters became the mother of a
nation they had a righteous convert Ruth
who gave birth eventually to David a
Malik she was still alive in his
lifetime
Darwin America began the dynasty of the
Messiah so Michelle is because of lights
silence one moment of not doing anything
that's what sees it that was his mitzvah
comes along the same Gemara that was
that was what I was I wanted to share so
really the entire Bria the hot tire
creation was created for Toshiba how can
we prove that so I mentioned this last
time it very briefly when a college bar
who gave his report at the end of each
day he said it's good ki Tov but the end
of six days he said bearish em and call
us our Vahine a toddler odd is
exceedingly good he said this report at
the end of each day the sixth day said
at the end of the sixth day the twelfth
hour by that hour
Adam had already what eaten from the
tree he date from the tree in the ninth
hour in the tenth hour he was judged
sorry in the ninth hour he was
instructed not to eat from the tree the
tenth hour he ate some tree in level
tower he was judged and thought ours
throwing a grenade on now Hashem gives
his final report and Hashem says it's
it's a really good world
and you and I should be mr. men we
should be in incredulous ly like
Rapunzel um how can you say that
Adam has now set back the whole of the
Bria now we know 5588 years and almost
one week and and we're still in the
middle of tikkun ha alum or near the end
really so how can you say it's an
exceedingly good world
what's her shames answer don't look at
this world as reality it's not because I
created tissue bomb and to shebar takes
a second so even though they're gonna be
millions of Jews born through Adam
emission and mashiac still hasn't yet
come but collectively we will bring the
final gate will are and will bring the
world to its Taccone because of teshuvah
soshim says even if Adam messes up don't
worry I can I can still make it happen
that with all the mess ups all the
mistakes that Claudia saw will ever make
I can sting still bring about my get
Lola it's a promise
it has to happen and you can be certain
it will because every other promise of
sham has ever made came true already we
were thrown out land at once twice
seventy years in between
we remain few in number throughout the
whole world Jewish history
we're very few in number we're barely 13
million and it's is dwindling very
quickly with a simulation within within
15-20 years the only Jews left will be
Jews will recognizable as Jews that have
a community they belong to where
tefillin keep Shabbat kashrut it's
frightening well we're in the worst
spiritual Holocaust that we've ever had
probably in in Jewish history we're
losing our brethren extremely fast but
mid/side Chaney on the other hand Jewish
people within the Torah are coming back
Jews have been from from birth but feel
like robots and don't know why they're
from are we igniting their understanding
of why they're keeping Shabbat kashrut
the world is changing very quickly and
our children are being torn and this way
I really want to end I think the
greatest issue about that we have
to do this my personal opinion is to
understand our kids because they are
suffering terribly they can't articulate
their suffering they cannot take like
their confusion
they are extremely confused they're part
of a world that's very square scary
terrorism tons of divorce health
problems they can't even tell you how
scared they are because they're too
young they're after the kalium to
explain it our job is to be as
understanding as is possible
and part of my teacher as a parent and
as if I'm involved in education is to
appreciate their our children are part
of a system that is not necessarily
preparing them for full adulthood it's
not fully preparing them to become
independent that's what adulthood really
means God Dom is independent that's what
it really means God alone is an adult
the concept of an adult is to be
independent to prepare child to be
independent in reading acronym fluently
to make sure this child is your day
affair he couldn't really can open up a
safe on his own and learn it there's no
reason why after 10 15 20 years of a
yeshiva education there is no excuse why
a child who's now in kollel can't read a
passage from beginning to end and
accurately translate it correctly and
show you that there's words here that
don't make sense because the Torah was
written that way and has got an
analytical mind there's no reason in the
world why our system should not be
producing children who know how to read
accurately fluently and make sense out
of so Kim and in a text based system
which our system really is and it's not
a song about bashing the system as wrong
it's about focusing on understanding our
children where we've got tissue bar to
do and that is how do we help our kids
have meaning in their darling because if
they don't know what they're saying how
can I hold my kids how can I judge my
kid for for not for wanting to get out
of darling as fast as possible if he
doesn't know what he's saying than 95%
am i exaggerating
so what's he doing for an hour and now
in a quarter now and half a day between
shot Redmond Han Murray how much
toughening is he doing see
an hour and now and a quarter but what's
he really doing he's going through an
exercise in meaningful communication
with a pendulum or meaninglessness
futility Roslyn cuz tefillah according
to Casa Trust result is coming out alive
which means focus of the mind discipline
of the mind
that's what confine that means key one
means target its focus of the mindset
discipline of the mind my mind is
wandering because I don't know what I'm
saying if I don't know what I'm saying
where's my mind I'm disconnecting from a
car is powerful for an hour plus a day
for 2,000 hours before Bar Mitzvah it's
no mystery that our kids are turned off
by just one aspect which is taking up a
serious portion of their day and turning
permits for the boy saying in his mind I
have to do this three times a day 365
days a year for the rest of my life
you've gotta be kidding
as soon as I can I'm out of here
and that's just one aspect if we don't
have meaning in why they're from this is
a serious problem I have a mitzvah of
teshuvah
to number one understand that we have a
serious problem on our hands
and I can't be part of the problem I
need to be part of the solution
there are many answers to be how to be
part of that solution but it starts with
a recognition that it's not it's not
enough that we have all the beautiful
programs for the adults we we need to
make sure that our teachers get the type
of training that they need so they can
teach our children what the kids need to
learn in order to be strong in their
Jewish identity to understand she
Russian prefixes suffixes and the root
words otherwise in a text-based system a
kid is doomed if he doesn't know how to
read actually fluently doesn't have to
make sense out of the words he's doomed
in Mishnah in guemarah if he doesn't
understand what's going if he's never
learnt Arioch Mitzvah which the mission
is a parish to don't believe me go check
the first run back to Nora in which
sniper Catawbas para Calif mission Aleph
all of Mishnah is is a pay was to the
mints was except for Pirkei Avot if
children don't know terry augments vote
then you've got to explain so much
background information in every single
mission and camera why because the
mission assumes you know Terry arguments
bought the Gemara assumes you know
mission is which is commentating to
there are ways to salute to solve this
there's a book out to get it on
amazon.com it's called the from
revolution I'm slightly biased no matter
my son wrote it but it's excellent it's
called the from revolution and it covers
a lot of these concerns but I'm I'm just
plugging the following part of my
teshuva
is of course for me but I'm an adult and
if I'm a parent or I'm involved in the
education or and if I'm not directly
involved in education people ask me to
pay towards the issue but help me do
teshuva
so that the next generation have a
relationship directly with cars bahu
through tefillah there's much to be said
on on this subject I'm gonna close on
the following Michelle which I hope
brings to light everything that we
talked about tonight Joe is fourteen
years in a job he hates can you imagine
him he can't get out the paycheck is
good it's never enough but he hasn't got
a skill set for another type of job he's
frustrated the department he's in in a
very large company actually works for a
guy called Bill Gates Berg and
multi-billionaire I never got to see him
himself but he's got he's got the
manager above him he's drives him nuts
and he's been going through this for
years really frustrated comes to have
tremendous kyboot of every day he calls
his father actually calls him for about
three times a day every morning off new
name eeeek
he calls follow time but the funny thing
is he does it kind of by rote hi dad hi
son how are you
everything's good dad how's the job it's
fine dad house house at the evering home
everything's good one word sentence is
like a teenager you
I met teenager okay so like never more
than a sentence and he ritually calls in
everyday says hi dad but never really
holds a conversation never opens up
about what's going on in his life and
his father is not gonna force himself on
him but he always gives him an opening
hi son great to hear from you what a
what's news nothing much so everything's
fine dad it's not gonna pry about the
marriage how's how's your how's your
wife she's she's great and he's
suffering terribly in the marriage
softening to help me with the kids but
he just he just he's he's missing out on
whatever it is one day he's so
frustrated in his job he says you know
what I've got to quit but the the
knowledge of knowing that I'm gonna be
out on the street I'm not gonna get
severance from quitting he says I I've
got to make a decision the next 24 hours
either I quit or I'm gonna I'm gonna
make the I'm just gonna have the courage
to make an appointment with the
Secretary to to speak to Bill Gates Berg
and see if there's anything dude get me
out of this department and it goes into
the secretary and just oh hi how can I
help you said yeah my name is Joe
wherever he's a last name list yeah sure
I know okay
I was wondering if is it possible to
have an appointment with with the bus oh
sure
what time do you want to meet him it's
just like this is crazy
right at what time do I want to meet him
so he says well I'm I'm I'm on my lunch
break right now I'm going right back to
it to work but I one o'clock tomorrow
would be great
Oh perfect he'll he'll be here then a
tomorrow yeah tomorrow oh great thank
you so you know I can't believe it's
like he's gonna be Bill Gates burger
multi-billionaire head of the whole
company and he comes one o'clock in time
for his meeting and he's there just a
few minutes early took lunch break just
a few minutes early and he gets there
like three minutes to one and he sees
Bill Gates bug walking out of his office
and says oh he's like you so nervous
can't believe he's gonna he's got an
appointment with the guy and two minutes
later the secretary says okay the boss
is waiting
you can come in now see what Bill Gates
put your slip no no it's waiting inside
for you it's okay okay so he walks in it
gets the shock of his life sitting in
Bill Gates Berg seat is is his is his
father dad doing all my life I had I'm
not had the courage to speak but please
dad you can't do this me I know what
you're doing here sit down sit down dad
I know what this is no joke I'm serious
bookcase but just walked out it's coming
in back I've got an appointment call
please I beg Sun Sun sit down sit down
dad you can't do this to me knock on the
door bill gates Berg knocks on the door
and his dad says come in hi Dave that's
Joe's father's name I need to ask you
about is this good moment sure I need to
ask you about that deal that building
went into foreclosure so it's going for
78 million
I wonder what do you think I should
offer so come in at 65 okay
Bill Gates book walks out says thanks
Dave and Joe the son thing dad what's
going on you this some sort of joke
what's going on Suzanne
sit down sit down meanwhile a guy called
Soros comes in
well not my also not nice multi-billion
there also comes in for a certain advice
and Dave gives him advice one on the
spot walks out and any sick dad what's
going on listen son sit down why did you
come here I came to speak to the boss
dead so so what did you want to say I
want to say how I'm extremely unhappy in
my in my work tell me more what's what
what's you're unhappy about so starts
pouring out his heart about the manager
is just extremely abusive and all the
co-workers take you from him and no to
they can just like bully him take no
notice of him not treat him well and he
just hates his work and he he would like
to transfer to another another
department meanwhile a guy called Warren
buffered walks in and also
multi-billionaire and asked for advice
on another deal and Dave Dave give him
some white advice and and Warren walks
out saying thanks boss
and Joe his dad
they they were calling you boss what's
going on please explain she said son let
me explain I own the company all these
guys are my front men I've got a lot of
SH leaking a lot of messages that I
don't want anyone to know that it's
really me behind it the scenes
especially for you dad why me what are
you doing to me son you don't seem to
understand
everyday you call me I'm asking how
things are and I want you to share with
me because I'm able to help you and I
want to help you and I never gave up and
I was just so happy when the secretary
called me yesterday and said that you
finally plucked up the courage to speak
to the boss so here I am and I'm gonna
help you move to depart a different
Department dad you really are gonna give
me that like head of department no some
doesn't work like that it doesn't or
like that yeah as you demonstrate your
value and your determination and your
work ethic I'll help you grow in the
company but here's the rule you gonna
come to me every day four days a week
out of the five days you work four days
a week for 15 minutes and tell me every
detail of what's going on and I'll help
you I'm here to help you now you
obviously understand the new Michelle is
a goddess Papa's hokule'a ho he's after
Kiev Ballet - paliku high school um he
has lots of frontmen everything in our
life this all just camouflage and I sham
says please talk to me
don't just just don't just call in three
times a day yeah everything's good just
say the words no talk your own words
because that was the original filler and
comes along Yom Kippur
ladies gentlemen if you had to answer
the question which is the most important
moment in your entire lives
some might say well I guess maybe the
time up in the moment I was born or the
moment I was married some might argue
that a few weeks afterwards and well the
first time I had when my first child was
born were in his turn teenager and maybe
not wasn't such a good time so so when
what's the most important moment in your
life and the
is the moment you live in right now
right now is the most important there's
no other time that you and I ever live
in because the moment it's happened its
history and the future never exists till
it happens and then it's already the
present the only moment you and I ever
live in is now in this moment and Kasbah
who gave us one 24-hour period open up
talk your bench Leila it used to be
before the sitter 2,000 years ago that
Yom Kippur was one full day of just
talking to Hashem Raburn solemn please
forgive me this is what I said or did
with my wife that wasn't right help me
to be more appreciative more loving more
giving to my husband more understanding
to my child more appreciative of my
mother my father my brother helped me
become less negative about how many to
pay attention to what I'm renting space
in my mind to all my days and all my
hours so that I start paying more
attention to gratitude and gratitude
makes me more happy because unhappy
people are people with unhappy thoughts
and angry people are people with angry
thoughts help me take please measure
them help me pay more attention to my
mind cuz here her teshuva believe means
to change my mind to change my thought
process help me make that commitment I
know everyone's gonna go like this after
Yom Kippur in now up and down up and
down but help me it should be more up
and down because I really want to be a
better father to my children a better
husband to my wife better wife to my
husband more loving in my avoidance a
Shem it's in this hood in the mitzvah of
a Yom Kippur which is the most precious
moment in the Beria are close and I
truly mean it
rev Kutner offers the following question
the Kohen Gadol he's the holiest man on
planet earth enters the holiest place on
planet earth in the holiest time on
planet earth and that is on yom kippur
in the cottage hakudoshi
and he has a short temple our first
Mishnah and para que in Yuma what is he
done for
what is he dumb for oh my god she's in
CONUS Ekadashi his finger baseline
what's he gonna pray for now you look
carefully it's quite bizarre everyone
should have their own panel sir okay I
can hear that what else what else
health no one should have a miscarriage
number three dimensional um please don't
listen to the traveler after Sukkot
going home when he tells you please
don't bring down the rain because it
will make the roads muddy and you'll get
what's the worst case scenario if the
roads get muddy he'll get home and his
shoes will be muddy in the walk over
there mate and his wife will get angry
they said was a police officer who was a
was brought to court because he came to
a house where the wife had killed her
husband for walking over the wet floor
with his dirty shoes and the judge said
to him is it true that you you didn't
arrest her for 20 minutes and said yes
your honor said why not because the
floor was still wet so why is it so
ladies didn't laugh that one sorry so
why is it that the that that of all
things the Kohen Gadol is asking a cotta
Sparkle please don't listen to the
traveler on his way home that the rain
should not come down when all of sukkot
were asking him please bring the rains
don't listen to him because his feet
will get all dirty
what sort of taffy lies that what in the
most most important moment is it good
question answers are of Kutner
establishing what the camera is telling
us is the following it takes the
greatest holiest person on planet earth
in the holiest place coda to Kadosh him
the holiest moment in time neela to stop
the tefillah of one simple Jew who's
making a request that's not that big
that's the power of tefillah oh and the
greatest 8th routes on the greatest
moment of favor starts tomorrow night
for 24 hours straight every second
counts please refer to UM help me do
teshuvah you've done it already
help me to do everything I need to do
even if I can't remember everything I've
done wrong I beg of you help me to start
anew if it comes with tears great if it
doesn't don't force it but ask Hashem
please help me do tissue valve Minerva
how we do it Meera don't ever help me
have my key look in the bring of Messiah
and without me we also her to see the
column Shiva Meera may know our men
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