Tefilla: Journey of a Lifetime - At Midrasha Panama

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com good morning it's an honor and a pleasure for me to introduce my good friend Rael glin to be a wonderful Sher he he writes a lot of books in Hebrew in English and now he translating to Spanish if you know someone that is interested in in helping the C it's uh it's good I travel the rabbi he makes a lot of trips to mer very a lot of places and he came to Panama for my wedding last night and he went to give some sh so here is [Music] you know I have the feeling that what he said in English is not what he said in Spanish okay first let me give you this this map here I think I have more okay good afternoon everyone it's a real honor to be here this afternoon I would like to share with you today a perspective of which will revolutionize your understanding of the in other words before today when you come to a prey when you come to DAV okay so excuse me if I use ashkenazic words okay bear with me yeah Davin you know okay we say okay shakar what is shakar it's a 100 pages so let me get let me go through it let me make sure I cover all 100 pages and what am I doing I don't know I'm praying for what I need I'm I need you know I need my kids to behave I need that they should fall asleep when they put them to sleep I need them to do their homework they should grow up good people I need some parasa I need good health I guess that's what I'm doing in shakar I mean what else am I what else am I praying for I would like to present to you today a fundamental understanding of that will revolutionize how we approach the daving in a completely new way many are not aware of this and the way I came to this is I encountered a very interesting you know what's the first thing you do when you get up in the morning but so many people say the first thing do I check my phone no no don't look at your phone don't look at your phone the first thing you do but you have to wash your hands why do you have to in in ashaz we call itas that you heard neas what is that what is what is you see when you go to sleep at night the goes up to Shay when the goes up to Shay so now it creates a vacuum of kadus in other words the soul is has left the body now you're just the body a body without a soul is attracting all the forces of impurity all the forces of impurity now come onto the body in the morning when the comes back into the body the banishes chases away the forces of T and now the t is only on your hands okay now it's very important before you wash you don't want to touch your eyes because your hands have t even with your eyes cloes even on top of your eyes you shouldn't touch even your ears you shouldn't touch you don't touch your mouth you don't even touch food you're not supposed to touch food before you wash this is a basic okay but did you know if you look in the there's a that we say in the morning even women say this why do you say you're eating bread people don't like to eat bread during the week especially ladies Shalom to eat bread during the week even Shabbat you know why do you say you ever wonder I'm not eating bread in the morning is that the same as as soon as I get up no did you know that separate aside from washing your hands right when you get up before you wash your hands again and you say it's like that's foggy you know I do I do that do I not do that did I learn that in school did I not learn that there are two Washings you do in the morning one as soon as you get up and one right before the why am I washing my hands before the soim right that when the kohanim would go into the BET mikdash what's the first thing they would do in the morning they would wash their hands from the kiar they would wash their hands and their feet so we as we're about to offer the it's like we're going into mikdash so we wash our hands so let's think about that for a moment really as I'm about to pray it's like I'm going into bet mikdash why is it like I'm going into the mikdash now I want to fast forward for a moment did you ever hear the that when you pray when you stand you're supposed to Face which country we fac M yeah and pan what where do they face east east east Northeast just east east okay East we Face ER is but the says not only do we face is we also face right I'm sure you learned that you face so I have a question for you and I think this is a very misunderstood so now I'm facing Israel and now we say okay you're facing Israel now also face yush so what I was standing like this and now I recalibrate 00000000 1 degree and now I'm facing Yim also I'm already facing Israel I'm thousands of miles away what more do I need to do M explains the doesn't mean you face he means you imagine yourself standing in yush and then says further face is the holy of holies so wait a second I'm facing is I'm facing now I also have have to face this small area KES the Temple Mount how exact do I need to be standing how is that even possible so Mish says no it doesn't mean to face KES it means you imagine yourself as if you're standing in the now that's not a well-known when you stand the right that's how you say the you're supposed to imagine yourself standing in in thees so first thing we have to ask ourselves is I always have to remind myself am I doing that you know I always sort of learned it means to face but that's not really what it means it means to before I take my three steps back I say I'm now heading into to thees okay so now I started to think this is very interesting that means in the beginning of the I wash like a who's about to enter the mikdash and at the end of the I'm imagine imagining myself standing in thees so could it be that it's not just the beginning and the end but really the whole is a journey through the BET mikdash and friends I discovered that rakov emden and others R shim Schwab develop a whole approach how each part of corresponds to a different location in the BET mikdash and if you realize and know where you're standing in the mdash by each part of the it's exhilarating because not just I'm reading words it's a what we call a journey of a lifetime you're literally walking through the BET mikdash every single day so let's start with the beginning you all have a map of the uh mikdash it starts with the asatm okay you see that eat theat NM or I'll give when we're done I'll give everybody a special card you could scan it and hear the indepth version of the Shure okay so today you're just going to get the cliff notes the uh generalities and then you could scan this and you could get the cliff note addition in theat corresponds to the beginning of the many people in the beginning of the they like to say that's you see the when people would come into the mikdash they would often come in very early in the morning and what would they do early in the morning they would say they would say they would sort of prepare themselves to be able to further enter the bet mikdash now look carefully when you go up the E when you go into ezat n until you get to sh nikar you ever hear of sha nikar the ncnar gate you would go up how many steps to get to Shahar nikar count let's see it's not so easy to count but if 15 Steps okay 15 Steps okay you see shikar is the is the door right before Ezra is okay you don't have the same app you do just one is uh facing one way and one is H okay you ready take two this way everyone take a card pass it down I think we have two it's the same thing it's just one is from uh you have to flip it around it's the same app okay we'll use the card okay on the left hand side okay how many steps do you go up to till you get to the shikar 15 Steps does anybody know how many do we say every morning 15 the 15 blessings that you make in the morning Elevate you up the 15 Steps fromat Nim into isik okay then you're ready you entered an area called is now this is very interesting question can a gentile go into bet mikdash he's allowed in up to Isel up to the Isel a gentile could go okay is if you look on the big map right okay you know um is is a very interesting area is at that point in time a gentile is not allowed in he has to stay outside so if you're going to the bet mikdash with a gentile he at this point he stands outside and the is could go in what part of does this correspond to you know the before we say we talk about how fortunate the Jewish people are and then we say what are we saying basically we're saying we're fortunate the Gentiles they can't go in any further but we're the chosen people and we say the sh because if the Gentiles realize that we're being selected and we're Elite and they can't go in it's a little bit dangerous so we say Come What May we're willing to give up our life we say sh is and we go wi and the rest of the world stays behind that's the area of now next part of next part of corresponds to M okay now let me ask you what part of the do you think corresponds to the what do we do on the we bring so let me think what part of the corresponds to carbot it corresponds to the the carbot the recitation of the carot you know I'm going tell you a little secret you know that ladies could also say carbot not only that even though most ladies don't have time for it if you have time in prayer and you want to say carote it's a good idea to say par is one paragraph it talks about the bringing of thean that even it's recommended if women have time they could say that that corresponds to why cuz we bring the on the so it's not just we're saying the when we say it's like we're going to the and we're encountering the M now if you look on your map you now walk up 12 steps to theam do you see theam this is theam on your big man this is theam it's very wide in the front and there are 12 steps leading up to that everybody sees that you see theam or on your little map you see theam is you see these steps where it says rabish om okay there are 12 steps of theam and then there's a platform a total of 13 steps you know what that corresponds to did you ever see in the before with 13 procedures the Torah is expounded that corresponds to the 13 steps leading up from the until you get to theam okay now if you look in theam theam has a big entrance and a big exit and theam corresponds to what's it has a big entrance you know what the entrances anybody know how many are in 13 the exit is how many Praises are in also 13 okay so the the entrance is the exit is now if you would go into theam imagine we could go into theam so we're entering as we're saying we're entering theam as we're exiting theam we're we we're finishing in the there were chains hanging down from the ceiling the young kohanim would climb up these chains and on the ceiling was the crown of the crown of zra is like chains you know why is like chains chains each part of is linked to the next part you see if you study carefully we think it's like 30 pages of say God you're amazing you're great you're f f you're fantastic and we don't understand the difference between one praise and another praise cuz we didn't really study the Nuance of difference between one expression and another but if you understand P zimra properly we'll see how each part of the one is linked to the next so it's like a chain so the entrance of the is the are the chains the exit is and now we're up to a really holy place we're up to a place called the or The KES how many do you see the you got that okay now this is very important does anybody know their mishan layout in the mishan layout you have three main Kim in the mishan what were they what the table the table shulhan North in the South and you know I had I never did this I always wanted to do this okay now I could cross it off my to-do list making using a what is called dry marker Mar okay there you go so this is a these are the 13 steps yeah okay now this is theam this is the entrance this is the exit this is this is now over here you have Shan the table over here in the South what's this see you like my drawing and here you have the incense altar okay you know the Shan is in the north the Min is in the South you know in New in America where do Jews love to go Miami all Jews love to go to Miami what's in Miami there's nothing there it's just hot but Jews love to go to Miami and they even love to go to Panama Mo in New York everyone Panama Miami is here and Panama is here they think Panama is GH telling you in New York all they talk about is Panama and in Panama all they talk about is New York okay so the gar says the man is in the South therefore if you want to become smart always go to the South what does that mean it means when you if you want money when you face M face a little to the north if you want wisdom you face a little to the South what's better wisdom or money in the middle of was wisd wisdom you know why cuz if you have money and you don't have wisdom you're going to waste the money but if you have wisdom you'll get money also right so the says is the man which represents the wisdom of the Torah is in the South and the Shan which is the sustenance is in the north did you ever realize there are three main parts of bishma you start you see in this world there are two ways of recognizing Hashem you know there are two ways to see Hashem in this world you could see Hashem by studying nature you study the rise of the sun the sun you know how much energy comes out of the Sun every second more energy comes out of the Sun in one second than all the electricity ever produced in planet Earth from the moment the world was created until today it's it's mindboggling the the wisdom of one cell of the eye of the human body you know I'll tell you something you know a baby how does a baby Breathe In Utero a baby in his in a mother's womb how does a baby breathe the baby is not inhaling right the blood of the mother which is oxygenated goes into into the baby so you know in a child in the child's the blood goes in a human being the blood goes into the right Atria it then goes into the right ventricle the right ventricle pumps the blood to the lungs the lungs oxygenate the blood the blood then goes to the left Atria to the left ventricle and on to the rest of the body but in a baby a baby's blood is not oxygenated from its lungs so when it goes to the right the right ventricle it doesn't have to pump it to the the lungs so you know in a baby there's a hole in the heart and the blood passes from one side of the heart to the other side of the heart cuz it doesn't need to go to the lungs does anybody know how long could a person survive once they're born with a hole in their heart they can't survive at all so how does a baby survive the moment the baby is born it cries the crying creates pressure in the heart that pressure seals the heart shut without any surgical procedure if this if this doesn't work the baby needs heart surgery and God perfect surgeon he creates this pressure by the baby crying and the baby doesn't have to have surgery you don't need insurance God himself performs this procedure like that it's a miracle it's an unbelievable miracle so one way to recognize Hashem in this world is by studying nature so the which represents the physical world is the there's an even greater way to recognize in this world even greater than studying nature is studying the Torah you know when you study the torat you come to see Hashem in this world even more than when you study nature the is the is a blessing over the Tora so here it is you're entering the when we say that corresponds to the when we say that's what you say I say I say but I know my crowd is the of the is different than what do we offer to God animals what do we offer to God in incense incense is something what part of a human of of of a human gets benefit from the the I'm going to tell you something very important one of the most important cavote that we have when we say as we say Hashem if we were ever put to the ultimate test if our lives were ever threatened we would give up our life Al Kem we would give up our soul for you God that is the kavana that we have when we say that corresponds to now there's still one more part of before we get to the that's the does anybody know what this part is this is a curtain what is it called very good we wanton a free vacuum cleaner no and this ises and what part of the do you thinkes corresponds to so it's not just when you start the and you wash you're washing your hands from a and when you get up to you're the but how did I jump from the to the K the answer is is every single paragraph of the corresponds to another detail of bet mikash and now we understand how important it is every chapter and every paragraph and every word it's actually a journey from the outside of the BET mikdash until you reach the climax of The where you're standing in the keshad you're not just facing the keshad you're standing in the K say wait a second I'm a any over here even a can't go into Kad even can't go into even can't go into can only go into once a year on so how is it that we're going in every single day three times the answer is what does God tell the Jewish people before he gives us the Torah We're a nation of kohanim physically we may not be a I'm is uh women can't go into the but that's on a physical level on a spiritual level every single Jew every single day is going into when you're standing you should think I am a I am standing in the holy of holies it's only me and the almighty and the creator of the universe we're not just facing K we're actually in the K so here's the executive summary okay when let's see see my good chart is not going to be in here okay is the beginning of the it's it's all the introductory prayers the third the 15 Steps are the 15 each you're saying you're going up another step then you enter the E the is carbot steps you enter the you exit that represents the physical Universe the that represents the you're standing in thees you could take this card you could keep it in your sidor even to have a little bit of an awareness that I'm not just saying words the selected me to be able to enter the holiest spot on Earth every single day there are no restrictions and in that sense we're all kados we're allim and every chapter of the every word of the is so important because it gives us access to another holy dimension of the bet mikdash so thank you very much for uh your kind attention I'm going to go back to New York and I'm going to share with them that I was to be in G here in Panama what could be better learning Tor in right thank you very much all your should sure obviously ideally it's to pray the whole Shahar the whole some of us I mean you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com