Sukkos and Simchas Torah preparation - Finding G-d in the Material - Hugging the Torah

i want to talk to talk and teach a little bit about circus and simcastada because uh in yesterday's class we covered uh covered we spoke about yom kippur so the story is it's 1799. it's in lyogna or lady wherever the altered was at the time and it's the second night of sukis dalto is in the sukkah with his children his sons and he turns to the middle rebber of dover who became the subsequent chabad the bhavat rabbi the second one in the lineage of chabad and he um he turns them and he says what did you dive in this past rosh hashanah now the question itself is very telling in other words a yid has to ask themselves a question what did i dabble with rosh hashanah well you say what do you mean i dabbled into the master i dive in either an age kodesh or khabad or here or carol buffalo here or there or 770 right and i governed with eaton and i tried my best and that's the way i dabbed what do you want from me well the altar asks his son no give me some specifics what did you really dabble with what were you really thinking about rosh hashanah and the mitchell understood that his father's question wasn't just a general nicety you have to you know to lead into a conversation and make him feel comfortable but he really wanted to know what did he really dabble with and he answers his father and he says you know what i govern with it says that we say every shabbos and all erect everything that's erect before you it prostrates itself and there's a concept wrought in kabbalah that there is the highest levels of the neshama called adam kadmo primordial man without going into the kabbalistic explanation and details but let's just call it a very lofty experience of god says the mithler i meditated and reflected on this thought that even that level of godliness is subservient to god it prostrates itself to hashem the whole coma it's erect it's tall it's strong but when it comes before hashem it melts this is what he said and this is very profound right davi can you imagine you're not davening with thinking about what's what's for lunch that you're hungry or you need your cows and your sheep and your business needs to have uh you know success you're doving about these lofty levels of god now even they are subdued as observing to hashem you would think that's the best answer possible for a person like the mithura rebel when the alternate heard this he went into advacus the alpharetta many times would answer and talk with a sing song coming from advaicut advaicos isn't an emotional exciting shaking and baking experience vehicles is calm cool collective silent and totally one glued impossible to be separated because you've been absorbed by something greater than yourself and from that ecstasy state the al-taraba says the the mithridate says to his father father seeing that his father is elsewhere what with what did you talking with because he sees that the altarp is in the state of ecstasy he figures now i can hear the real secrets from my father the altar ebba and the alternative says them in a sing song i daven't with the stander what the middle and rabbit velvet was expecting the altar up but it give him some holy kabbalistic meditation that he david with and rosh hashanah and instead of that dalton ever tells the midfielder i haven't with a standard by a standard what let's go now 200 years later more than 200 years later whatever figure it out 1962. a hundred and i guess 63 years later anyway two hasidim who were sent by the rebbe as students to eretz's role to strengthen the yeshiva and other other things bring to 770 ashtender for the rebel because he needed another standard they thought he needed one and they brought him a standard who made the stender the students at beit safer in kwarkabad the vocational school that has a printing house and had woodwork and they wanted to do something special for the rebels they made the rebel tender and they asked the americans who were returning from quran to 770 for yamchev would you bring this back to the rebbe as a gift he said sure arab rosh hashanah there's a bring in they walk up to the river and they give the red but this is a present from the the people the students the at the bet safer for you they asked us to give it to you the rep accepts it and wishes them with a bracha and then he starts explaining the story that i just told you to explain what ashtender is it's a fascinating read and in fact you can hear it's on tape online you can go to khabar.org it's in yiddish but you can hear the reb actually say the words and basically he says that a standard is something that helps a person you know we get tired sometimes we want to put our hands down on the beamer or on a table understand this higher or if you have one on your table you know it's very useful i think hillel used to have a standard niche code ish if i'm if my memory serves me well anyway so the standard functions to help a person dive in to first to help a person meditate reflect but what is a standard the rabbit says a stand is a piece of wood wood comes from a tree a tree comes from the ground so the standard in its state of vegetation is incomplete when the when the tree is cut and from it you you do woodwork and you make a stent out of it and the stent is used for darkening and learning and and and helping a person be more comfortable to learn and dove and which now is no longer vegetation it's now inanimate it's wood has a purpose and a function says that this is what the altar ebba said to his son my dear son your meditation on rosh hashanah is wonderful but it's not the ultimate because you're flying up you're flying into the sky and listen the mithla arepa was a great master of hasidic teachings and meditation and kabbalah and it's great however where and what does hashem want especially on rosh hashanah and and applies to us a young kipper as well he wants the gospels the material physical standard to be spiritualized so rather than going upward he wants to go downward bring god from on high from the position of coma the hokoma from being erect from there bring hashem into the standard to the gospels to the inanimate and and and by using it for davening and learning you basically show the connection between the rooms you're sitting in the chairs you're sitting on and the items of gosh means that we have in our life and akadesbaarhu this is the way the reba explained that i'm just giving you a tip of the iceberg there's much more but this is the nakuda and i think of this as we get set for yom kippur but but as well as sukis and shimkas sukis sukis we make a sukkah or we sit in the sukkah we take the arbor meenem the rule of the yes and you know arab sukkahs you're supposed to prepare them it's better in the sukkah itself why because the sukkah represents his foot settled being settled being calm and being protected from the winds right and that's why even halal one needs to have a sturdy sucker if one builds a sukkah that's not sturdy to begin with it's a question and that's why i'm not a great fan of these uh material circus although i have eaten in them and you know what when necessary i use them i don't have a choice but if i had my choice i would not i would not use those why unless it's very sturdy because they can get blown away to the right and the left but again thousands and thousands of jewels use them and they're kosher and i i'm not i'm not cost of showing invalidating them i'm just bringing out the point that they need to be sturdy so make sure if you're using one of those suckers to make it sturdy so so the suka represents protection from winds what kind of winds the upcoming wings available where you want to learn hasidis and a patient comes and another patient a telephone it's all important and that's a priority to save a life but nevertheless those are winds winds then there are winds in our life when we're dabbing and learning and we get a phone call we found out find out about someone that but who had has an illness or or or worse it's another wind and the winds are constant there's no such a thing an end to wins before mashiach comes anyone thinks that the winds will end before mashiach comes is making a big mistake because this is the style and way of the world there's ups and downs positive and negative challenges the ila is about challenges a time an opportunity to take a challenge and transform it for hashem sukis we take that lulu venezuela and we shake it to the right left up down backwards and forwards to the sixth size to bring the godliness into each of the six sides of the world to have the energy permeate the the the size of the world so that each of the sides of the world in each position and each perspective is spiritualized with godliness and that's why we do it in the sukkah again if you don't do it in the sukkah you're lieu of an asterisk is still kosher okay don't walk away thinking that my mule of an estrogen is possible because i've made it in my house i've been doing the sukkah but it's much better at least to do it in the sukkah prepare it and then we sit in the sukkah we make a bracha we're sitting in the sukkah what a wonderful feeling to sit in the sukkah the first night of sukkas you know what i'm talking about right when you sit that first night you feel like i'm a freak i'm a free man this is this is gabaldic this is great you worked so hard to build your sukkot you're running around there of yamcha getting ready for yamchev one after rosh hashanah seriously make sure everyone kipper yom kippur four days of preparation you would be exhausted no but the first night everyone anticipates when will i have that moment to make the leisure basuka to make kiddish with my family with my friends this to invite others to the sukkah because without them the torah says you're lacking in simcha there's a master and we sing it in the circle with the family and friends it requires others because if you don't have the others it's not a full simcha full simcha is when you do for others i told you what i am showing if i brained right right right there in in beth makbit shemesh once on the altar ebba's yard site i was there and it was a whole room of hasidim and he tells them hey fellas if i wake up in the morning i think about myself i get depressed i get down because family issues this issues that issues but when i start thinking about other people i become very basement to help others makes you feel elated if you really want to feel the simcha on the hug on the yamchav invite others bring others because with others you keep your mind off the self which is the ego and the focus is on others especially others that don't pay back right you're not getting benefiting them gaining from them and nevertheless they're part of your family and part of your circle this is all part of the same idea that the al terabith told the middle edward and i darvened with the standard i darvened with the realization that gosmius is part gosmius is ultimately where god's purpose and intent is and this is this is why torah is in a way the total opposite of certain other religious you know non-jewish experiences of meditations and buddhism etc not that i'm a master these things are not and i don't want to be but um but asceticism being away from gosmius is not where it's at they tell the story where hasidim came to the rebel maratha and they said rebbe you said a mimer and in the mimer you spoke a lot about anoint novadori a knight movado right ain't like novado he does nothing besides god are they if so lay down on the table and let me give you malcus and then tell me that it's another nobody ah you're not gonna say i know you movade when i put you down the table i give you marcus what are you gonna say you're going to say boracious bara lakeem god created the world and there's a real table and there's a real bria and the purpose is to find the enemy in is to find the ana movada in the gospels and that's the whole purpose of the khadim from rosh hashanah through central strata the commonality of all whether it be the mode of seriousness of chuva ya seriously shiva from roshana thorium kippur or the kaab of simcha the notion of simcha from sukis through simcastora the message is the same which is simcha the message is the same finding in the gosmius god you know the rebel always quoted a commentator on the rambam called hagoya's maimonides where he says listen to this he says the echo had been the primary judgment of rosh hashanah is not for rookhnis it's for goshmias and the rebel was want to repeat that always and it was always interesting to us hearing it from because it's not something that you see in the swarm academician and it's not something that you really read in halakhah and and it's you know it's a it's it's a kind of an obscure commentary on the rambam and the rabbit took this and he made it into a mainstay of his view of rosh hashanah and he found support in the in in the in this commentator known as hagoy's maimonides and thinking about it what did the rabbit teach us what does he teach us that unless you find hamelech and chuva and sukis and simchastora in the gosmius you didn't really celebrate you didn't really experience you celebrated you did the technicalities tomorrow we're going to give malcolm's we're going to do capparis if you haven't done it yet and we're going to eat twice as much and all that yes but to really have the heritage the feeling that i experienced this year a a a a rosh hashanah you know you need to see it through the goshames so i would say that tishrei although it's the hot month of holidays as the measure says it's it's the abundance there's an abundance of festivals which represents right spirituality nevertheless everyone has to know that the ex the ultimate expression of that is through gushness and that's why we make a sukkah and we sit in the sukkah and we celebrate in the sukkah and we take the arbor meaning and we give people an opportunity to bench and i'm sure right there in bed shamans they are eating who maybe don't have their own and they're not going out because of covert or this or that when you hear about such a person or you seek them out go and bring them to vanessa rigg and make a brothel with them and when you're at the mall over there in that timber chemist there's a nice small big morphing of what it's called and there's probably not religious not yet religious people there didn't make a brother every day and then guess what some people don't have the women make brothers now some have a sheet in that but it's you know here in bara park we we sometimes offer the women and they're glad to make the brother even though officially some of the sheeters i think klosenberg you know the natanya klosenberg that uh their sons sons i think he was against women making a broken a little vanessa so they're probably not going to want to do it but many others will will do it anyway the nakuda is that from there we go to simcoe tayden but before i continue i'd like to give you a chance to comment or ask robert dalton's question but about about the gosmius yes how do we uh you mentioned like so the question is jim kippur your kipper though is is the one day here that we get as close to being as possible the opposite of gosh miss now it's so true what you said obviously it's true ervium kipper is one thing it's one frame of vibration which of course involves goshamnes so kipper itself is the complete uh abstention abstention absence of god of gosh yes in in every way so i'll i'll respond except the standard and what you said is the answer to moisture's point and and i'll explain it this way i don't look and i don't want to be a malach and i i don't think you want to be a malachi the motion so it's true we're saying baroque shame and out loud and we're dressed in the kittle and white but the cavanavo that is the standard in other words the the angelic state of yom kippur is a means to an end and anyone that wants to get stuck god bless them and and be an angel and be angelic and be removed you understand so yes though this one day a year calls for an approach that's angelic-like like you said malach white that's true but the kavanagh the intent is the standard the cavanaugh is it's like i rest at night so in the morning i get up i'm fresh right abstinence makes the heart grow fonder the same idea this is the same the cuda so if you remain in a state of abstinence you're a monk you're not a yet a yid procreates a yeast involved industrious but if so moshe's question is a great question why do we celebrate uh your kipper in this abstinence state and this angelic state the answer is because you need to recharge your batteries and if you don't have the right perspective you end up making getting sunk into gas mias in other words when can you experience the standard in the best way it's it's on the fence you turn on the ac when can you experience the the the um the real kedusha and ultimate purpose of the standard is when your perspective is right and that's your keeper yom kippur is the day to change the paradigm and the perspective and that needs fasting meditation reflection crying and all that but it's all it's a means to an end not an end and it's very important i'm glad you asked that because you know and and i and i understand i believe where you're coming from with your question you know what we feel in the in the community and in the in the front world and you know is like the the um the angelic the mala you know like uh you know on your kipper and that's good that's good and that's important but it's a means to an end that that's my point of what i'm saying in this year my that's why the transition from your kippers right into sukis if you can't experience god in the sukkah sitting outdoors and sitting with others and saying look i am singing you didn't have a real young kipper kippur was selfish so moshe the the malek like state of yom kippur is not a selfish state anyone that thinks you know oh i'm gonna lock myself out of the world and and i'm not talking about you know therefore i'm going to be social in the people no it's a time to dive in and and and and to say talent and they're not they talk much absolutely but the kavanaugh is so that i will transmit this experience in the sukkah to others and that's why right from the 100 sounds of the chauffeur 100. so what we begin mostly with with a hundred kailas ends up being in the sky of the sukkah through the medium of yom kippur where the cayenne garden goes the holiest person goes once a year so it's the one person once a year in the one place called the holy of holies the country coach him and what does he bring tyrus incense wow some say wow this judaism is a good practice we get a chance here to become high to practice guitarists have some kashish fool full full full the giant gobble the holiest youth representing the jewish people on the holiest day brings qataris qataris the smell goes through the nose you smell touching the shama as explained in the slurring you hear that abby smelling something is so powerful that it touches the deepest part of the person the soul so the crying god was looking to experience that on behalf of all eden so he brings cataras and smoke comes from the incense the smoke is explained in the cabona that that smoke is also connected very much with the coil of the chauffeur so the sounds of the chauffeur bring the smoke coming from the burn burning of the incense which leads to this half of the sukkah it's one continuum and what are we finished with we finished with sympathy says those that will invest energy switching dancing sinking and clapping even if you can't dance because for your heart or whatever you stand in one place i think i've told you this last year and i repeat it i've seen people stand in one place and they they keep on moving their feet and they keep on clapping they keep on smiling they keep on singing fully involved engrossed in the mitzvah of synchronization and how do we dance with a tata velvet you would think on a day like sim casper when we conclude the hotel take out the torah open up the torah and sit and learn for a few hours because that's what the tater is no we don't do that we take the toyota we hug the toyota we embrace the theater we dance with the player we carry the crater we're jubilant we're excited with a closed title with a mental and mental as a parochus around the toyota what's the idea everyone's the same if we were to open the titan learn you and i learn differently and everyone else learns differently and some have more knowledge less knowledge et cetera some can't even read the title understand the theory we would see the differences and divisions between jews we say we don't want that on simple stereo because that's not like the standard the standard hillel the standard hill is for everyone someone who doesn't know how to read and know them does not learn doesn't even know it's young can use that standard in a shoe he can understand it right yes there's a popular song that says we all need something we can lean on okay okay you've now transformed the song into a double ship of kadusha [Music] the idea being the idea being that registered yo and keeper sukis ultimately are all expressed in those dances says the rebel asha bell will hear this because this is worth free advice free advice for making lots more parnosa free advice doesn't cost anything says dancing 48 hours shimmy of serious and simple steroids to stroll to 24 hours the one day with lots of merits energy to the point where you're schvitzing is a segula for parnosa what the question is i don't really know and i don't want to get into that right now but that's what he said for me that's good enough that's good enough to to to add to the um to the portfolio you know we have portfolios of this investment and that investment we also have jewish portfolios of what can be done through the year to help us in this way in that way and although chabad is not into segulos we're not into that but if the rebel ashab said it that means he does want us to know that but going back to the simchas torah and this is something that i really want you to to try to come to an experience just like i asked before how do you feel that first night sitting in the supra and i saw some of you shake your head and have a smile on your face and say it's like gevalde it feels so therapeutic so cathartic you know it's so beautiful we have to have that same feeling in simplest terror when we dance with the terror when you hold the table when you're honored to hold the tell you what you've got to tell your i want you to try to feel the love that the terror loves you and that you love the torah you know and and and just get into that moment make sure you know where you're going so you don't end up hospital hurting yourself and hurting the torah but but to really to really think while you're dancing with a theta this traitor is our life this trainer got us through and it got us through the hardest of time the spanish inquisition and in the the the babylonian time and the the this time and the holocaust and now the you know great fallout and all kinds of issues plaguing us it's this traitor that gets us through and will get us through and david i taught you when i taught you about the david mismark that special paragraph chapter 24 in tehillim that we say the night of rosh hashanah and yom kippur after myriad and i told you the history is that when the polish team the philistines they saw that holding the torah by them is bringing them problems and plagues they said take it away give it and he went to dublin says yes yes give it back to us and he marches from your area over there from that shemesh area somewhere the valley with the push the misty marches up to yerushalayim to the base of mikdash and david says who can ascend the mountain of god because they're walking up the mountain towards the base amid the hero evolved someone whose heart is pure and as hard as you are right who's hands up here and his heart is pure so is telling us that the torah the torah needs to be in the in the islamic what does that mean for us this traitor that we dance with on chris is simplest it's our life it needs to be in the right place in our heart so when you hug it and you hold it right next to you as close to your heart that's one of the thoughts you should have i want this torah i love it so much to be in my heart of hearts this is my real love not gash mia's but again must be experienced through gospel it's like the standard right if it's not experienced in the gospels that means you really don't have the terror so here we have a terror scroll covered up with its coverage parishes and we dance with it and this is why this is the seal of all the khadim from is specifically with a minute you know that it doesn't it doesn't say anywhere in the torah at the daysha that we should dance with the terror on simcoe [Music] right it's a minute and a a minute that started hundreds of years ago many years ago thousands of years ago whatever when it started but it's a minute at the end of the day and we say that's right specifically in the minha israel and the jewish customs is where you experience the ultimate of rosh hashanah yom kippur and sukis which are all biblical [Music] so if you don't have the of the hadim simchastera the three first that are biblical are missing something and why it's only a minute so i didn't do the minute so i'm not gonna dance i'm not going to be happy some people come to shul and they're waiting for for they're waiting to get out of shoes and costume it's a long darkening and there's you know they're calling the orem and their people drinking and people dancing and it said it's a polygon it's it's it it's some people are get very very antsy i when can i finish this you know what i used to do when i was in crown heights for youngsters they have an early minion so i would dabble in the early in 10 10 30 we were finished and then i could say look i am and and talk and for brain and dance you know because i wanted to get all the hair that's a different thing you know if you don't want because if you start saying you might miss a kaddish and an army and you know but i'm not suggesting you do that that's up to you you know every individual but then they could is what do you why do you want cinco stereo and you shouldn't want simple story at the end and that everyone's told over the story of anand's meetups you know the khabar song is me you know he is that that you saw him very meditative that ever said there was a yid who after yom kippur the next morning the gaba found him still circling the bema and and singing this he couldn't disattach himself from the kedusha [Music] could you imagine you'll find someone who's dancing the whole time and it goes on and on and on into the night everyone goes home everyone says we finished the young travis and he is ecstatic and he's elsewhere hello five followed by we would have that experience once in our life once where we wouldn't know where we are because we're just in love the toyota and embraced with the data and we're we're elsewhere this is this is simplest this is a simple statement so we have our work cut out for us that's what i'm saying that you know some people say ah the hard work is rosh hashanah yom kippur you know not eating i'm blowing shafer and then fasting right success eating drinking partying simple styro the truth is i don't know but to me it's much harder to experience the real holiness and ruchnius in the gospels and that's why that's where it's at that's why it's in the standard it's easy my it's just to further develop the answer to your question it's easier to feel hashem as an angel on on on young kipper you bite you're in show pretty much all day you're under a palace you're in a it's a holy se you know serious mode you can easier get into the you know to the experience of god to have that same feeling when you're kind of eating and drinking and just partying and then being you know circus it's much harder and then we start dancing with a tater and he starts saying look i am and all that it's uh even harder now you say that's where you have to find a ship that's you have to find a sham and therefore and therefore if it gets to a point where a person loses themself or situation that's not uh holy and that needs to be you know dealt with in a way that's respectful but yet uh contained you know we've had people i'm sure you've had people drink a little too much okay but they go to the side and they do what they need to do or they go home they go to sleep you know that needs to be maintained the core of them respect of some level in a school an environment and i don't tell you but a lot of the youth take the opportunity to come into schools to drink to get alcohol it's important for garboyum and other people to to to be on top of this because um you know people have have gotten hurt and it's a serious business so you know sometimes in the fray of of of of of kedusha and holiness we we neglect and and and and others you know abuse the simcha and the alcohol and it gets to be very bad so don't forget you don't have to be a god bite but if you see that take the bottle away and and hide the bottle here in bar buck an hour surely talking about you know the babachi hasidic truly here until this year during a conference itself they didn't have the whiskey out they had the lakayam before and then they because why because they knew when you start dancing and getting very intense you start drinking at the same time there's going to be problems and we had some years so they they take all the mosquito away you can't get a drink during tomorrow the day of synchronous they la it's a little easier all i'm saying is that someone put the thought of how i want to safeguard the experience so that no one gets hurt so i just say that as a as an aside but yet it's a very important thing any uh questions or comments on this hello i just want to say beauty that was beautiful yeah really uh beautiful very uplifting i i overheard and shule the other day yes somebody said somebody say something and i had a thought that i couldn't share because i was uh involved with mike's villain but i wanted to share it and now the person said that uh so uh on rosh hashanah that uh you know we're um we're publishing our favorite uh they're using it and and uh uh uh seriously to be honest with paul vegas and uh and that uh um and at the suncoast basis shueva we go back and flip them back and we bring them back as creoles as what as what as cuyo says right okay so so somebody said uh to the the magician at that point well what about tosh lit what does what actually fit into that and he couldn't he couldn't answer but i had the thought he says of course uh we have to have cash leak in there my minute is to do uh actually dubkin today the uh the uh you get momento serrapo and great sleepovers but of course if you want if you want uh your uh available to go through a transformation they first have to go to the mikvah and they have to be tired of mayan but then they then you can bring them back uh so very good i like that word i like [Music] i'm sorry i just want to wish everybody whatever and [Music] all the best the good quebe all good things and fortunately i have to go to the restroom i'm very sorry about it available you said i'll let you go you said that you said to me this morning uh that you're you have a busy month tissue with patients what's the connection i imagine no no no no i i didn't say i i meant that the hospital has a tough month because i'm not there so oh now i understand that's the point anyway uh not about me yeah yeah okay i didn't i got it anyway hashem should be if you you should be successful and find the time and go and democracy will tell you what thank you so much for everything my pleasure and we'll be back october 6th wednesday will be the next time for this year oh