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this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com [Music] thank you very much for coming thank you good evening everyone it's a great honor to be here in in Brazil it's my first opportunity to be in Brazil and what a beautiful time to be here in preparation for by is we start begin on the beginning of and it's interesting why is why do they begin we start in the aftermath of the Shabbat as if there's no other time because technically anybody know you need how many days of minimum how many days four days of because is like checking a from a Us by the of it says you should offer by it says you should make yourself we make ourselves a carban and since we are the carban we need to inspect ourselves to make sure we don't have any imperfection any M when you check a carban for a you need a minimum of four days so we need a minimum four days of and yet no matter what as we begin Saturday night why there is one of the great should I do it or Ash or whatever yeah okay I'm going to start over now no we start we start the so says like this on chabas we spend our day Eng gross in Lio tell us that every day of the week has a partner Sunday has Monday Tuesday has Wednesday Thursday has Friday shabas has no partner shabas is teamed up with Li and of course we know that one of the Great one of the great blessings one of the great bras of is it makes a person happy says in order to do a person has to be it's not possible to do unless we're so the most appropriate time to begin the is shabas people are they just spent the whole shabas in and it's the most opportune time to start the so it's become a Minh in preparation for and many shs now they have a before the what does a have to do with song Melody brings to Joy and joy is a foundation of doing chuva if a person is not if a person is down on themselves if a person feels despondent it's impossible to if you look at the calendar if you look at the calendar you'll notice we have 3 weeks of punishment during the three weeks it's calleda you have the three weeks of the of punishment then you have seven weeks of consolation you know about the you know what theic is [Music] no we have did you notice do you know when the attt to end do you know that we will continue to read theas of consolation until rash the right before is still isn't that unusual you would think we should start preparing to do cha you would think we would have Haus about repentance no until Rashana the shabas before rashash we're still getting from you know why because if we feel that we're being punished if we feel in sadness it's impossible to do CH the only way to do CH we have to enter the that's why is they begin so let's begin introducing the first tonight with a very important idea an idea about in general let's say somebody needs Tav for something they need parasa they need Rua I've been speaking a lot about this lately and it's hard to really absorb and to understand but the more I'm thinking about it the more it's really compelling to me let's think about the following fundamental question how can a person D imagine God made a Gaz this person should be in a certain situation whatever that situation is they're they're lacking they're lacking so the person stands before theam he says please send me Rua please send me parasa how could a person do that Hashem is our loving father and he understands that the best thing for the person for his goodness for his TVA for his happiness for his is for him not to have parasa is for him not to have Rua if the puts a person in a c certain situation it's because is doing it so how could a person come in DAV Hashem bring Rua bring parasa so hasem says oh you want me to do what's not good for you I know it's good for you how does it even make sense to DAV you ever wonder about that here we help me the RE knows what we need he knows what's good for us and whatever situation we find oursel in that's the best possible situation for our benefit so how does daving work this is the question of the says you can't really DAV you can't the only way to DAV in is with the following attitude listen very carefully if a person doesn't have parasa parasa if a person doesn't have Rua if a person is hurting if a person is sad as sad as the person is it hurts the re more than it hurts us when a person is the says it hurts my arm it hurts my head says what does it mean that God says it hurts my arm it hurts his head why his arm and his head what do we put on our arm and our head to fill in what does God so to speak we are on his arm and on his head God also wears what's thein of Hashem the Jewish people we're the of so when a Jew is bitar it hurts God when when we don't have panasa when we don't have good health as much as it may hurt us it hurts God more so we say to the Reish I know that for my benefit it's better without the parasa it's better without the Brios it's better without the health I know for my goodness I need to be B but it's not good for you because you're in pain it hurts you when I don't have parasa it hurts you when I don't feel good as much as I don't feel well it hurts you more so I pray to you Hashem I DAV to you Hashem not for me but i d for you for your sake says that's the only mechanism that could be effective otherwise you have no right to D not only do you have no right it can't work it's not effective it's not effective only works tell you a story I have a friend my friend Rosa Morganstern who his father father was a close toal of the kenba and the kenba had a very interesting interpretation you know we say the P literally even when I walk in the Valley of Death I'm Not Afraid why am I not afraid cuz you're with me we always say this p as a way of encouraging oursel making us feel better the kenberg Reb would say like this of even when I walk in the Valley of Death I'm not afraid because if I'm in the Valley of Death then it's good for me I know you feel it's good for me so it must be okay ra you know what's bad for me it hurts me that when I'm in the Valley of Death you have to be here with me suffering the fact that I have to suffer I'm okay with that cuz I know that you know it's for my benefit but you know what hurts me so much that you have to suffer with me one of the key principles of the [Music] is Hashem for your sake do for us not for our sake that's one of the key principles in and in in general when it comes down to it when we finish the we say four things one of the most powerful sentences in all of the ding that sometimes gets overlooked we say when it's all said and done this is the mechanism of how works and the more we could think this way when we d um all of our should be [Music] hello say [Laughter] are [Music] are they are [Music] fora [Music] for oh Shalom I said be I see I [Music] for well sh [Applause] [Music] this one hello [Music] one of the classic learned in raden by he learned by the Gran actually I learned in [Music] his wife was the granddaughter of the granat so his father was the ne of the that's why the is named after and his the reiton was the granddaughter of the granat the in comes from the Gran so in the he says he describes what it was like like the first night of when the granat got up to speak in preparation for can you imagine what the said he spoke about the [Music] we don't come before you on the with we don't say you know how much I did this year come on give me a good year I did so many good deeds we don't say you know I learned so much this year come on now it's time for you to pay up with a good year we stand before Hashem like poor men empty of any one should never view themselves as if they're worthy of but said this has another meaning as well and I'm going to introduce it with Al shakha everybody gets worked up on rashash everybody davins better on rashash than they do the whole year however you DAV you know actually The Story Goes that you know it's a slka style Yesa what slka means is beyond the scope of this Kum tonight but suffice it to say that saabka was the mother really of all the yeshivas in America and AR is the Alor of slka was the architect really of the future of toyra in the world all the great rash Yesa were students of slka R Aon Cutler rev hutner r d Liu R mayor Kash R rder many many most of the isas that sprung up in America are offshoots of slka and one year of PG daved in the slka okay just to give you a littleit bit of a picture of what daving was like in slka you know sabka they didn't sing they didn't sing you know [Music] um this is the you know our is what do they D in here what's the here s but you know the ash n you ever hear that that's how in the this is how [Music] it's pretty catchy right no tune in saaka they held the tune takes away from concentrating on the meaning of the words for us we're not on the level we can't really focus so the tune inspires us but it doesn't help concentration you understand what I'm saying usually if you hear a good nigan for kades let's say you hear a good kak you know I love it but you're thinking about oh which song is this what tape what my kids are going to say they're no tapes anymore what album is it on what right so a tune take in there was no singing vior Miller writes that when he literally the resounding voice of the whole Yesa ding together the roof the roof was like flying off of the walls and and when they got to it was like the Heavenly angels and Rit PG said when he came to slka that this is nothing regular shoemakers 10 years ago in kav DAV better than you 10 years later he talking about the so everyone DAV better on y whatever level you DAV on the rest of the year you DAV on a higher level I'm going to ask you a very question this is the question of you know there's an opinion in the of yeah a person's judged every day in fact I saw in one of the today is don't wait to 30 days before don't wait don't say I have 30 more days good no [Music] so the question is is a person's judged every single day why are we getting worked up on R why because we eat an apple and we dip it in honey that's why you're diving so good every day you're judged what what's different to rashash yeah good question says there's a big difference says you see yes indeed everyone is judged daily but today today our Hearts were working today our lungs were functioning today our liver was working our kidneys were working today we had money in our wallet today we had a family and therefore we are the presumptive status is our hearts will continue to beat our lungs will continue to inhale we'll still have money in the bank account and if anything is going to change the burden of proof rests on God to change the status quo in other words the daily judgment takes into account Kaka kazaka status quo Comes rashash the Night of Rashana all bets are off you had $10 million last year in your bank account that has no bearing if you'll have one penny in the coming year the heart was working last year that has no bearing whether it will continue to beat the next year the the liver was functioning you had a family that's great thank God but now everything has to be renegotiated from scratch there no kakas there's no presumptive status in fact there's an amazing Mar says that if you have a friend and you haven't seen them in 30 days what do you make if you have a friend you haven't seen him in a year what BR do you make m we don't make these bras anymore because with the Advent of Technology if the person wouldn't have been around you would have heard about it like somebody asked me today Raba you're in Israel I said if I was in Israel you would know about it I'm in Brazil so we don't if you see somebody after 10 years you don't make because if they would have passed away you would have heard about it but the question is why do we make the if you haven't seen somebody in a year says because if you haven't seen anyone someone in a year then they have passed through Rashana and Rashana God is not extending what was on Arab rashash life has come to an end and on rashash God is gifting us life a new don't think you're standing before God rashash God do a favor I have everything but out for the coming year just stay away that's to a certain extent we may have that attitude I have everything Hashem leave me alone no and we stand before a God says the we stand before you hasem like poor men we have no we have no we cannot count on anything we are not asking you to give us to extend our lives we're asking you to give us life again we're not asking you to give us continue to give us money we're asking you to give us again everything that we count on we have to renegotiate and ask again that's the true meaning says a grenad of this is is one of the important principles of thank you [Music] you [Music] say oh [Music] oh you so sh [Music] he oh you sh speee [Music] [Applause] J [Applause] oh [Music] let me check [Music] y yeah know know [Music] yeah all we all away my cons you I leave all [Music] know [Music] my God shall say no we are all way I say you yeah [Music] know I know good my [Music] something very interesting about the history of s if I were to ask you during the period of s which in should a person have the most cavana for I don't [Music] know what BR would one supposed to have the most cavana for so it's worthwhile to know a little bit about the history of you know we have a called y rice you ever hear of Y rice sometimes in the back of the S some sh say y rice what's the difference between and are the that were added to the so they're called originated as added to the [Music] of interesting but they got longer and it became more difficult to have kavana and to add so they were taken out of the and they were made a separate but fundamentally it's an extension of the which means that really the most important f for one to say during this month for the next 40 days if a person could only have kavana let's say for one besides a try to be is just an expansion of that let's try to explain a little bit what is what is it you know writes in for we say before we say after why think about the positioning of these a very interesting and important question you know when we say Kadesh at the end of AD ding we very rarely say we only say it three times a day after after and after the words accept our prayer our intreaty our request refers to you're not going to hear at the end of a or at the is only once at the end of a daving asks the by the way this is a little trivia question anybody know which Simon in t k Al you know how you remember that you'll never forget tough It's a tough time of the year you need to drink a lot of coffee you'll never forget it and I'm serious about this you know are says even the I once went to a she of and he asked does anybody know what SIM and are in and I was learning your day at the time I was like what I can't believe I can't remember he said what nobody remembers [Music] Sim so once that gave me license to Dar Al okay the asks why at the end of do we say to it's not a right he says was patterned after first we have the in the beginning of the that's the then we have the with that's in of the then just like and then we end off withes so the first thing we're learning is that was patterned after an entire actually there's an interesting between Felder who's on in the P Lakewood and keski is also one of the zik rash in America if somebody comes late to should they start with Ash or should they start just jump into the all the years I thought like Felder based on the that you see if someone comes late to you skip Ash in is not it's only what we call to say Kadesh it's only there so you could say Kadesh Ash of Shak you can't skip you can't skip to get to it'ser says he can't skip it it's I think he's viewing Ash as part of but if you look carefully in the the says it's the I think is more like in the beginning anyway that's just an interesting and how to view the but we see that was composed with a certain pattern certain [Music] pattern and kades now they have Ash here in Brazil in the country yeah in this sh right in this room okay good there are [Music] right there's a Min hug and actually in they on this I haven't seen this elsewhere I try to be whoever DAV for DAV all the of the day for the they do that here it's not very popular because the a is going to say basically over my dead body you're ding for the but the says the takes priority even over no why R doesn't say says whoever begins aah we tell him to finish interesting Minh so whoever is the sh whoever is for he's the for Shak for some say even the before some say the the one who DAV for the he has to D in all the of the day because he didn't start anything what did he start did anyone ever hear of that the has you ever hear of such a whoever for the he has to you have one guy ding the first part ofak you have another guy ding from you don't even say it for itself and here it is the guy who he should in there's a CH the he says no that's not the reason the reason is nobody used to like it was like the you know how the says whoever gets the ma he does everything he and he he does and he does and he makes the everything would you name it he has to do why it's like a consolation prize if NE we gave him the ma that you could give even to a so we let him do other things so too nobody used to like to D so we had to give him a treat we let him dve in everything of the day but that's not what the says the says what does this mean in the he brings from and I found that this is already found in in the you have to understand the L of and he doesn't address this question but he says the same why is before when are after shakas what is hasem we're approaching the my only I have is my I need to give a boost to my so I pray to you that you accept my today during the rest of the year we just hope God accepts during the we add a and that is during this please accept my regular says so imagine someone who comes to for and doesn't stay for the he blew it the only purpose of the except therefore the focus during the days of which means if by you saying you go through the whole thing right the whole right that means you're going to give up one word of one you skip the to say you do not say one word of at the expense of anything inak the purpose of is that hasem should aced to your we understand why the one who will now because whoever di in the began because the of was the of the gives a if you have a guest and you want to serve him big meal beforehand you want to wet his appetite you give him [Music] a so too we want Hashem to accept our during this man we give Hashem a little as a way of him accepting our which is that's why we say before because it's a way of intreating Hashem that should be during this so this gives us an understanding of the structure and the function of the that we say that [Music] me be [Music] May [Applause] spe [Music] for for [Applause] [Music] Adon [Music] Sil sure okay okay friends just uh closing thought by a show of hands who here had the privilege to ever see R kki Who whoever here visit I too on a number of occasions had the privilege to meet r kski i even once asked him a question you know I was weighing back and forth what has more value giving sh or you know what's more important so I asked him because himself was more into the I said you know and he thought for a very long time I think for a second and he said it's the same thing it's the same thing many times I went to sometimes I got in right away other times I had a wait a very long time one time I didn't get in and I was thinking what if raron La Steinman came at that time when I was waiting outside of his house what if R iron La Steinman came would he have gotten in for sure he would have gotten in what if r Shin would have come would he have gotten in he's also in imagine if afteron leyman walked in and R gar W I would have knocked down the door who's there gladstein okay what do you want just like you let RAR and Steinman in and you let R gersan in let me in also what would they have done they would have slammed the door would I even have had theah to say just like you let in the let in me nobody no I would never have said that do you realize what we do in God I'm in a bind I'm having a challenge in life but you answered you can answer me also me too [Music] what are you an American you could say that how could you have the audacity to say to God just like you answered Abraham ainu just like you answered y just like you answered CL the yamu you should answer USU was a navi was a was a and I'm not even a compared to how dear we say these words but we say it and we're allowed to say it and we're required to say it because there's no difference between abrahamu and us because Abu was and you're also hashem's son and Hashem loved Abraham infinitely and Hashem loves you infinitely abrahamu was not more of a Jew than you are he was not more of a child of Hashem than you are Hashem does not love him fundamentally more than he loves you you know in we say do you know what the word Raba means Raba doesn't mean with a great love you loved us it means with an increasing love you loved us in every generation God's love for the Jewish people is magnified gets greater becomes bigger we have every right you know one of the main problems that we have is when the alarm wakes up in the goes off in the morning we say who am I what is my worth what is my AA worth what am I that how valuable you are you are no less valuable than abrah then then then and what you could accomplish with your what you could accomplish with your AA what you could accomplish with your chuva is no less than AB you could say with a straight face who's there God says who's there it's me who are are you what do you mean who am I you answered Abu he's your son you can answer me but you have an advantage over AB cuz you have the opportunity right now to bring the G to bring mhia to bring R for cl is that's the job Hashem entrusted you with we see from the words of how much empowered us with that we could say with a straight face you answer this sadic and that sadic and this one and that one I'm no less than them I'm no less important I'm no less dear and I have the right to say you answer them please answer me as well and we hope that all of our we should all thank you so much for having me thank you very much was incredible [Music] [Applause] excellent once the rabbi thanked Morris now I could also Misha so I want to thank raor for helping make this whole week possible and all the shirim starting from the Yesa and fora and the shabas and I want to thank all the rabim especially ra Milan sh thank you very much it's been a real pleasure to develop a caser with you and call me thank you you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com