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[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] for the show everybody the month of mercy the month of wakamim the month of juva the month we've been all been waiting for so we can finally do chuba so elul of course is a known to be the month that is auspicious time to do chuva and since we are going to start a chuva boot camp that we're going to focus on how to do chuva because really all our life we need to do chuva our sages explained and attracted a vote all your days of your life you should be focused on shiva for two reasons many for many reasons but for two main reasons the first one is because we sit also every day says it's not such a thing that there's going to be even a sadiq that lives in this world and won't sin so who are we so much more so if it's a dick since then we are for sure going to sin besides that our sages explain in the talmud that there are three sins that no person is saved from them every day and one of them is the genre unless you live on a deserted island or you don't speak and one of them is that you don't learn torah while you could and there are many sins that we do on a daily basis so the first reason we have to all our life do chuba is because every day we sin i mean we're going to learn in depth the concept of juva to see how great this mechanism is that hashem gave us he gave us the option of sinning because one can complain if hashem doesn't want us to sin why did he let us sin well hashem wants you to choose good but he also gave us a mechanism that we can do chuva first of all we have to do chivan on a daily basis because we sin on a daily basis but another reason why we have to do chobano daily base is because some of the sins that we did are so horrible that i don't know if one day of chuva is sufficient i might have to do chuva all my life for one sin that i did 20 30 years ago because i don't know how deep the damage went how deep it penetrated into the soul and into the spiritual garments of my soul that i might have to do atiku in my own life chuba my whole life then of course comes also the option that i might have to do chuva my whole life for a sin that i did in a previous life and now it's been giving me the option to come back to this world to rectify something i did in a previous life that i lived a thousand years ago 5 000 years ago 300 years ago i don't know so therefore our sages come and explain all your life should be in chuva which means that i have to do chuva on a daily basis so hashem gave us exit points of course the main exit point the main day for juventus yom kippur which is 40 days from tonight and then of course we have once a month that is as mankapara we just sprayed the trilat musaf and the main part of that fila is who says the time of atonement is called which means that we have now 48 hours when less than 48 we're already into rosh chodesh but we have in general 48 hours of oshkosh to really get my act together and then of course once a week on air of shabbat and every night at the kriya la mita these are the exit points i call them exit points where you need to focus for one minute two minutes ten minutes to rectify to first of all reflect on the actions that you did and then to start working on them doing chivan doing a rectification now we explained yesterday that elul is a very auspicious time to do chuva because ramos rabbin went up to the mountain on roshford and came down on yom kippur and concluding 40 days of prayer and that was concluded with the decision of hashem that told moshe i have forgiven uh to the nation because of your prayers and your words and that's it and moshe rabino comes down on yom kippur and this is decided to be the day of atonement for a generation teaching us that the entire month of elul is the time that the canon is willing to lean forward and listen to what i have to say and to remove all these partitions that normally will filter my words of prayer so the kalonji was very accessible as we explained yesterday i don't know what i don't want to repeat but the kalonj book was very easy access to right now not like how it would be in the uh all 11 months of the year so which means that on we have an extra bonus that we can come closer to hashem now what did moshe rabino do in the mountain for 40 days this was already his third time it's not that it was not familiar there it was this third time up in the mountain so of course moshe roberto was looking in the mountain for the code the spiritual code to open the safe of mercy that hashem should have mercy on us and forgive our sins so he tried here and he tried there and he tried here and he tried there until he figured out the code now when you uh something very sad that happens in our generation that's going to be eliminated very soon when mashiach comes that everything that we have is secured with a code can you imagine a world that you don't have to hide anything and nobody will go into your bank account because they're just honest now if you don't lock something it will be hacked within seconds so your email is has a password every account you have online has a password your bank account everything has passwords just imagine a world that everybody respects each other and they don't go into each other's business and you don't have to worry about being hacked just imagine when mashiach comes we're not going to have passwords so everything is secured with the password so also hashem has a few passwords to some of his vaults and in many cases he's not so interested in us knowing those passwords so one of the most important vaults is the vault of mercy of course that sometimes we do things that hashem should have mercy on us that only hashem is able to wash the the dirt and the damage and the junk that we accumulated so mojo robeno found a very mysterious code to open the vault of mercy and this code is a 13 digit or 13 word code and it's called the 13 attributes of mercy you'd give words i shouldn't say 13 digits because really there's a lot of digits in there because every word has a lot of digits in there so we'll call it the right words to say 13 words or 13 attributes of mercy if you know how to activate that code then you open the i call it by the way don't don't look for a source for that i call it the vault of mercy because we want to open that vault and then shift an abundance of mercy will be bestowed on us and then you can get your sins washed off now there are a few sins that we're going to have a problem with that unfortunately many of them have a problem with as hashem says listen first of all between you and another person that has nothing to do with me so i'm giving you now 40 days to go and apologize to the rest of the world because has nothing to do with me when you have an issue with me you come to me but when you have issue with this person i'm not even connected here so first of all most important we have 40 days now to go and make amends with other people before i come to pray in front of hashem we know it's pretty obvious that hashem says on yom kippur will forgive you for the sins you did in front of me sins that you did in front of other people or towards other people if they didn't forgive you then don't come to yom kippur and pray for me so we have 40 days now to come and apologize to other people or how i behaved how i talked what i did if i stole give it back appease the person and so forth and we're not going to talk about it right now first of all you should know it from previous years but we have the whole month to learn about how to do chuva and a big part of my chihuahua is to approach the people that i did wrong to them in many different ways that we're going to learn throughout the month but just know that you have 40 days if you need to to start hype ventilating because you need to approach a few people and apologize to them then but it has to be done debts have to be paid promises have to be made vows have to be fulfilled or go and be an old we have a very busy month by the way unless you did pretty well throughout the year and you're not going to have much what to do this year which that's what we're hoping for if you do chew on a daily base you don't have to do much this month nevertheless going back to the center of attention is that since between me and another person what is called who says i have nothing to do here i'm not even interfering your problem in other words but since between ben adam lamakom between me and the kadosh bro i have to deal with hashem so for most of the sins hashem is going to say i'll forgive you prove to me that you are sincere and that you are for real that you are authentic i will forgive you for many things i would say even for most of the things but there's a few things that hashem even that is hard for hashem to forgive us and one of them of course is when i just secrete the name of hashem i monk hashem if i make fun of hashem if i really call hashem if i betray hashem one way or another then not to hustle don't blow the wind out of your sails but for hello hashem there's no chuva in this world one has to die in order to reach atonement for hashem your skin you can still do chuva it doesn't mean it was a tone a person will have to suffer death in order for that to be atoned and then if you're lucky you'll come back again that's what happened really in matantora at the time of the giving of the torah they all died the word means i a very high level of uh godly revelation and in the word they all died their soul jumped out of their body they all had all had a near-death experience and then they came back why because they needed to be a rich atonement for the hashem that they did so before mashiach is going to come we're also going to need to go through some type of uh cleansing process but most of the sins hashem will forgive us so we're going to focus on the ones that hashem will forgive us but we have to open the vault of mercy and we have to activate this uh code so the entire month of elul we say each one has their customs but we say hold the entire month and the main thing that we repeat over and over and over in this is the you give me the 13 attributes of mercy we're going to start learning in depth now through the book tomer by rabino to a lot more about the 13 attributes of mercy and many other classes that we're going to have but what we need to take to consideration is something very important this is the month of elul elon is an acronym of many different uh special verses there's a lot of hidden messages in the word elul we thought we learned that many in all the previous years and today is definitely not the time to elaborate on that and to remind you but there's only one a very special hint in the word elul that we need to take from that and apply the word elul is written alif lamid alif the numerical value of it is one lamin the numerical value is 30. valve is the numerical value of a value of six and another limit is another thirty sixty-seven in total there is ways to calculate the material that you did the gematria that i just did right now the value of each letter but then i come to a digit of 67. another way of calculating the gematra is taking these two digits or if i had three is putting them together so if i take the numerical value of 67 which is elul but i will take 6 and 7 together it's 13. so elul has the key really to open the vault of the 13 attributes of mercy now why is that so important for me to know because without that activated there's not going to be any atonements there's not going to be any forgiveness there's not going to be anything these attributes have to be activated which comes to teach me the basics of any type of chuva process is that if i do not arouse attention of the kalosh boroho nothing is going to happen we read it's a two-way process here we have to wake up to in order to wake up hashem there is a concept and now is not the time to elaborate on that that is called it the awakening from below and awakening from above sometimes there's the awakening from above precedes it a person is in a very deep state of exile hashem does an awakening from above and suddenly the person gets some inspiration and he wakes up okay this is one way one direction means an awakening means from above diltata means from below sometimes it's the other way around that i make an awakening i shake something down here and it awakens something from above which means that i have to initiate something the awakening is me shaking myself which eventually will shake the heavens and then i'm awakening a response from the kadosh boho so during the month of elul i have to initiate some type of a movement and by that i'm awakening these attributes of mercy on me but i have to remember that nothing will move if there's no assistance from above i explained to you already many times the story i'll repeat it quickly for the ones who don't remember uh that once the bauschendorf in one of his travels he used to travel with his daughter everywhere that he went and he once asked his uh close disciples the the the students it was mutaish about they did abdullah and they were mentioning as we do in abdullah that we asking hashem to open us all these gates we're asking all these gates to be open to ask his students what do you think is the most important gate that needs to be opened so the first student very proudly raised his hand and said no question here is the shahrim the gates of parnassa of livelihood okay says it's a very important gate but why do you think it's the most important so he says tell me the the disciple answers well no parnassa with no money you can't do nothing says yes yeah it's very important livelihood is very important but it's not the most important gate and then they went through one they say a student till the other the second one said the gates of the chuva says also very important but it's not the right one the other one says the gate of kappa of atonement the gate of of healing they went through many gates and the bashantav says you are all they're all giving me good answers they're very important gates but that's the most important gate what is the most important gate finally the daughter of the balchemtrov raised her hand and she says can i give my opinion and of course she said the gates of sayata deshmaya the gates of the assistance the heavenly assistance and the baal shem says you're right my dear daughter that is the most important gate because without sayata deshmaya without assistance from above you cannot do nothing in this world as a person doesn't even move his finger in the world below unless it's being announced or he gets a spiritual approval from the world above which means that without the assistance from above i am worthless that's why many have the customs that they write a letter they will write on the top basad bisayata deshmaya that's an acronym by the way a lot of people don't know what they're writing in english they write bh with hashem's assistance but in hebrew you write bait sam dalit with the hell from above so i have to understand before i'm going into the journey of chuva because most people they're arrogant and they think they can handle the chuva then i have bad news for you you can't you can maybe repent for some of your things but for serious things if hashem doesn't open the gates of chuva you are in big trouble it's not going to work because we're full of ego and arrogance and if you think you can handle something don't be so sure you need to pray for mercy for the so he should say okay i will allow you to do chuba because if shalom the gates of chuva are closed then go home and pack your bags and i don't know what there's no nothing else to do so we have to approach this entire month not only the month of the lord per se but also the month of the 40 days of chuvada we're going to do to understand that if the kalosh baku does not accept me even starting i don't want to say don't waste your time because you still there's never lost of hope you knock on the door till they open but we have to approach this entire month by understanding and realizing that doshbacho first has to say okay i'm here to listen now what do you have to say if we don't get that you're gonna have to knock on the door so hard that i don't know if anybody will open it if your knocks are gonna be heard or what's gonna be the the answer so the first step of juva is if you have to humble yourself that with all your sins you're begging the kingdom please let me say something like a uh individual uh defendant that goes to court then in a normal court the court will turn at some point to the defendant what do you have to say for yourself so the kadosh boho is doing it the first thing first let me hear what you have to say then i'll let you defend yourself so before we're going to start defending ourselves for the next 40 days then we have to have uh an awakening from above from below to awaken some reaction from above then we can start activating even these thirteen attributes of mercy the kadosh bhu should have been even give us the time of day to just lean forward and say okay you have my attention now what do you have to say so we have to remember three important things that chuva is dependent on the mercy of hashem the chiva is dependent on my opposite of being arrogant and full of ego that i have to understand that i'm i have to come down to hashem with a broken heart juva is not gonna work if i come like this well listen uh you know uh it's not gonna work and of course the most important thing is that i need to arouse the mercy of the kanoshima so the shiva can start being activated then of course thou start doing chuva so the month of elul is hidden the hint in the word elul like i explained before the the numerical value of 67 put the 6 and the 7 together gives you 13. in the month of elul the 13 attributes of mercy you don't have to work so hard to activate these 13 attributes they're activated by default but now hashem is telling you in other words you have my attention now what do you have to say i will conclude by explaining that most people in previous years they sit in this pep talk on rosh hall then somehow illume elul zooms fast and in cafeter in two days they didn't do anything where were you for 28 days huh don't let this month zoom by as it is the time is flying not normally fast it's almost unfathomable how the time i it was just shabbat and now it's shabbat tomorrow again it's not normal how the time is going fast do not let these next 30 days run through your hands because the rule is going to go like that and before we know it we're going to be sitting here dressed in white and hitting and dipping apple and honey and seeing wow that month went so fast so it's all good news because the time is going faster before mashiach comes i'm already telling you take the whole day today today's la medaille in la medav was still really not kicked in into the month of elul take the time today to really prepare for the next month we're going to have a class later on where i'm going to do we'll do some type of a spreadsheet and a spreadsheet would be the right a term but some type of a roadmap what do i need to do the next month how to approach the month because the month is going to go like that and then of course we are focusing on 40 days but let's focus now on 30 days to reach to rosh hashanah because really the last 10 days is exactly like we did in the last 40 day journey will be divided in ten ten ten ten three three tens in the month of elul and then the last ten days is already in tishrei that's already a higher level of archuva so i'm already telling you and i'm including myself in it by the way it's not that i'm coming in from above and preaching the the the month of elul always goes fast before you know it it's already the end of the month so today is the time to sit and say okay i have an opportunity here i have an unbelievable opportunity to jump on i cannot miss these 30 days because this might be the last rosh hashanah that we have the opportunity to pray i don't know if we'll get to praying in the minion already people are asking me are you going to have services for rosh hashanah i don't know what's going to happen i mean we're going to have an underground minion anyway one word too much of course we're going to pray this year with a minion unless khasi shalom iran decides to uh surprise us but i don't think that's not too far away but nevertheless this might be our last rosh hashanah that we have to move and shake the the universe so take it seriously sit today do a preparation for your chuva by acknowledging i have a whole month of to do now for 40 days but let's concentrate on a month i need hashem's attention i cannot miss this 40 days i cannot miss the opportunity and to get into the mind frame that i know i've been saying that many times this might be our last chance but hashem is so nice and so kind he's giving us always another chance another chance another chance but i'm not taking a chance that this is going to be another chance so we have to look at it that this is the last chance to really get our act together do chuva once and for all serious shiva and bazaar hashem this by default will bless us with a good uh year or coming year and uh that the year should be successful full of health happiness to have peace in our soul and most important thing that it should be a year of redemption that we can hasten the redemption and be an active member in the the bringing the redemption closer and most important that hashem should have enough mercy to forgive for all the wrongdoings and the bad things that we did and uh to really get uh atonement let's convince the kalos behold that we're really sincere that we are authentic it's not just a show that it's real chuba and most important thing to carry now for this journey is to understand is that the chuva comes from the qadosh or not for me i just have to do my action and hope that the kadosh who will forgive that's why the month of elul is hinted with your gimmick which we're going to explain them in depth how to activate them how to to to mimic the kadosh bahu so i can carry this mercy on me not only for the amount of it all but for the rest for the rest of the year and bazaar hashem we should finally see the descending of hashem into this world with mercy for the stove everybody [Music] you