Thanking G-d Who Gave the ROOSTER (HEART) Understanding to Distinguish Between Day and Night

Heat. [music] Heat. [singing] [music] [singing] My birthday [music and singing] [music and singing] [applause] on My name [applause] [singing] for [singing] [applause] moving NH want to dedicate this sh first of all for the protection of all ism should protect all of our and bring Yeshua's salvations in this new month we should see new beautiful things in our lives and also it was sponsored by a man named which we won't reveal. He wants to remain anonymous in honor of Yibon and uh Rabbi Poston's uh wonderful wonderful uh yeshiva that we have here. So we have special night of let's begin is we open in honor of that one hosting us which is the new month we just entered into the new month of we should see new good things in our life is uh one of the everybody knows this is a very special month You could feel it in the air. In fact, if you look in begins to reveal the let me read it for you. I'm sorry. In the 40th year, in the 11th month, in the first day of the month, Mo began began to reveal the Torah to the Jewish people in the of on the first day of the month. The 11th month is Shvas. This is the month that Mohenu began to reveal the Torah to the Jewish people. So these days, very special days, all the days that Mosha was teaching Mameish are days of the great revelation of Torah, the great revelation of the Tor of Isel because we know is very connected to Isel. It's everything is in light of the fact the Jewish people are entering to Israel. These are great days of connection to Torah and to connection to Israel anatenu is connected to the nish of shami shami. Our own on the other hand is connected to the of so it's not a coincidence as moenu teaches the Torah of whereins that this is the day that really is the new year in the agricultural cycle develop that a little bit what does that mean >> it means that uh there's a turning point in the when it comes to the laws the agricultural laws of Truma of Meer of Orla when is it the new year when is it considered you know there's many laws which are dependent on whether it's the third year or the fourth year when is the cut off point so according to how we pin it's on the 15th of that's what we will all be by stom celebrating the new year of the fruits not just the fruits of all agriculture. But according to Shai, it was on the first day of the month of and that's not a coincidence because Mosherenu began to reveal the Torah on the first day of and indeed in the end of days says all the who are we going to pos like B Shami. So maybe we're going to go back to maybe we'll make an alfish seder, you know, bring out those fruits and we'll make a party. In any case, I really heavily recommend if you do nothing else this you should get a smoothie. You should get a a fruit smoothie because according to Shami, it's a new year for the fruits. Okay? So in Shamay and Bish will be happy. >> Is there a particular flavor? >> Yes. [laughter] If you ask me, you should get the go to and ask them for something sweet and delicious and they'll they'll hook you up, you know, but a little karif also cuz B is like a sharp guy, you know. So put some in there. But anyways, on a serious note, why is it such a big Indian to get fruits in Israel? Because the benai was asked is there he was asked a serious question. There's a of his who wanted to go to Israel and he didn't know if it was to go to Israel because he wanted to go to primarily because of the fruits of Israel. He heard the taste of the fruits of it so more delicious. So he thought maybe if I waste all that time going to where he heard the fruits are more delicious. And the man says it's not to drink and eat the fruits of you right from the garra because used to eat lots and lots of fruits in Israel and all of his students would bring him fruits and he tons of fruits. Now why did he have so many fruits? Isn't it bad on your stomach to have so many fruits? Probably. But he did it because he loved Israel because describes as the seven fruits of Israel. So he was eating the fruits of to connect to who showed his love for the Jewish people and for through his fruits. So when you have a smoothie [snorts] anishvat or an olive bishvat, you don't have to have a smoothie. You could have an orange, whatever you want. You know, you do you. But it should be fruits of if possible. You know, if you buy them from Florida, it's cute, but it doesn't really, you know what I'm saying? It's not the same. Um, so, uh, so yeah, it expresses our love for child. Now if you ask me the Benji didn't say this so you know take it or leave it but I would even say is an Indian of having a having a coffee on oneshot. First of all you should have something special foresh you know some delicious food. Second of all, how is it described? What could be sweeter with with than a and a nice sweet hot coffee in the morning? So tomorrow morning, spoil yourself, you know, go to whatever, you know, of course, but whatever place you want to go to and get yourself a and then in the afternoon, get yourself a smoothie and uh celebrate is the new year, the new according to B Shamai. >> Did end up in Israel that he actually tasted the fruits? Shh, great question. I don't know. I don't know. >> Could look it up. Look it up. Did the Did the Benish ever make it here? I don't know. I don't know. The Emma says, "I don't know." You know, but we'll look it up. Anyways, one more little vort about saw is a beautiful says if you look through between there's a common thread a common denominator and the thread is that hill is always about what we see and bami is always about the potential what could be. So Bil says listen the sap rises on the 15th I see the sap rising says I know the sap doesn't actually rise but there's potential for the sap to rise invat and therefore this is actually the day that we should celebrate. So if there is ever a day to think about our potential as Jews, it's tonight. It's tomorrow. Alfish is a day to celebrate the potential of a holy Jew. >> Shi, >> that's B Shi. Tonight and tomorrow is B Shami day. Okay, one more void. We know that there's a principle in the garra that something when it's onethird is when you start seeing the fruits of the of the of of of the maturation of a matter. Take a man for example. At age 20 you start seeing the fruits. And normally a person in the olden days would die at 60 to 70. So at age 20 it's what? A third through. And that's when you start seeing the fruit of the matter. Okay. And you see this principle in many different matters in so it says B shi what is a third of the way into the year? Well the year began inashes car a third of the day of the way four months and what do we get to fish. So today is the day when we start seeing our potential coming to fruition. Okay, on the other hand comes B and they say you know when the year really begins the year doesn't begin in Rashashana and the year begins 15 days after Rashashana a day we call I'm sorry not yeah a day we call >> sukus sukus 15 days after rashana I know it seems like a year after but it's it's only 15 days after because sukis is the real beginning of the year says is all about says that year of it's about you understand says so today >> judgment of water the whole thing is connected to water >> yeah for sure and waterv is connected to sukus in many strong ways but lisa today is the day when we start having hashem yas Shayim comes down in this day. And that note one more the every month has sim. So says the dinner. What is a sim of this the bucket? The bucket is a sim. The sign for you know this. Yeah, it's a bucket. What does that mean? Because water is tyra and the bucket draws forth water. It gives a clea to contain the Torah. So this is a month when we create ourselves as vessels, mashabit ourselves, we subjugate ourselves, recreate ourselves to be vessel to receive the Torah, to receive a reconnection to Tama Torah. When we make a set time for learning Torah, we see braha in our lives. And when we don't make a set time for learning Torah, we're all over the place. So the middle of the year it's raining outside make commit ourselves to Torah mitzvah in a whole different way like would want us to do like Mosher would want us to do with your that's the without further ado we're going to now jump into hash into the of that's the we're up to today one just introductory thought. So why in the first place did decree that we have to say all these blessings thanking Hashem for all this stuff. Why couldn't we just say thanks Hashem everything is great you know save us a lot of time have your morning coffee say thanks Hashem I love you viser you know and then you know go to our or whatever it is what's with all the details why why did feel the I've been talking, you know, about the rooster and the shoes and the eyes and all this stuff like what's that all about? What's that all about? Yeah, it's a good it's a good question. Yeah. So, one answer if you remember we we mentioned this perspective that Rimchina stresses very beautifully. Pitka says that again when I say something in a general way, it doesn't hit the heart. When I say something in a specific way, it hits the heart in a much more real way. And yes, we want to hit Hashem's heart. We also want to hit our heart. So we want to dapka be specific and try to go into details about how much we appreciate the brahas that a kesh gives us. Now I guess at a certain point said okay there's got to be a cut off point because like you know if you go endlessly we'll just stay all you know every breath you could thank Hashem for another thing. So we also have to have a pardon us. So we have to learn Torah. So I guess they stopped at 15 Y plus three of 18 of the special of uh we mentioned last week. So they needed to make a cut off point. But the idea is to be mafar the more the more detailed the better. And on our by the way in our personal avoidance Hashem we should be as detailed and specific as possible when it comes to thanking Hashem. We shouldn't settle for a general, right? Today it rained. The de the bucket of came out. Yeah, it's raining. So the garbara says we have to we have to thank Hashem for every droplet of rain. every droplet of rain called tip we have to thank Hashem because it's not just good enough in a general sense every little detail. So when it comes to feeling it from my experience I don't know if you guys do this I imagine you do but when you're speaking to God in your you got to be detailed. It doesn't hit the heart if you just say thanks Hashem for you know for keeping me alive. I have to say thank you Hashem for my eyes and for for this and for this challenge and for this issue and for this event. The more detailed you know I try to go in my Friday night I talk to I go to the kotto usually I talk to and I go through my week and the more detailed I can go the more juicy it becomes. So pin this is so is taught to us by that we have to go into detail. We want to hit the juice. Second idea says also known as the Mishna Buru. You guys know it's the same guy. Yeah, same guy. Mayor Kagan holy, right? You're not allowed to get benefit from this world without a bra. I I said a braha before on the water. You can't get benefit from this world without a and if you get benefit out of this world without saying a bra it's like it's like going to the bas mikdash and benefiting from the ba mikdash you have to always before we get pleasure give it up to hashem that's the that's the cycle of life give it up to hashem recogn recognize and then you can enjoy. But first recognition teaches us but the earth was given to us. No, no, the earth wasn't given to us because it says the earth is God's. So what is it? Is it mine or is it God's? Is it like the song we're going to sing tomorrow? No. Before you say a blessing, it's God's. After you say a blessing, it's ours. We can benefit. We can enjoy. That's the assort of life. And that's why the rabbis decreed 100 brahas every day. In order to help us get 100 brahas, we have these 15 + 3 18 blessings in the morning. Starting off our day before we do anything. Remember the times we discussed they would wake up right away and say the braha before we do anything else. Thank Hashem and then you can benefit. Then you can put on your shoes and open up your eyes. But it's always that's the cycle of life. And this is all throughout Judaism, right? Tishvat, right? You can't just take your fruits. You have to first designate it for Hashem in in biblical times. Put the the red little thing on it and say this is for God and wait three years. Okay, that's all of Judaism. We don't just, you know, wake up and have our morning, you know, breakfast. No, first we dive in. We thank then we have our food, right? Even marv ideally should be the beginning of the night if possible. Just go through all of Judaism. It's all really the same idea of first give it up to Hashem and then benefit and then enjoy mamish. Right? When I I told you guys have when I say my my I have my morning coffee I say big bra you know first give it up to Hashem and then enjoy enjoy life. So that's the concept that Shabu uh explains here. Now okay that's in general. Let's jump in with the time we have remaining into this. The first thing that we want to thank for is roosters. I mean that's what it means, right? Roosters. Isn't that what you think about the first thing you're thankful in life? It's roosters. Yeah. So I'll read you the lion of the This is a weird. [laughter] You woke up. You're feeling alive. Shouldn't I thank Hashem for breath? I can. I'm alive. Sh. What? What am I talking about roosters for? What's going on here? What the heck are we thanking Hashem for roosters for? Okay, so that's really the topic of our of the rest of our year. We're going to try to give five or six different beautiful approaches to understand what is the real meaning behind. Yeah. The since he asked a question, we'll give him a chance. He says like this. He asked the second question before he even gets to an answer. He says, "Isn't the whole idea to thank Hashem for stuff that we benefit for from? What benefit do I get from the fact that there's a turkey outside doing kakadoodle doodle?" You know, like it's cute, but like why is that something I benefit from? So he says like this. His answer is the following. I'm going to try to give a couple of beautiful answers. He says we start our day with and prayer. And but these mitzvah are dependent on time. You don't know what time it is. You don't know, right? If you had no idea what time it is, you couldn't really say cuz you might be after can't say it. So therefore, really not thanking Hashem for the rooster, the fact the fact that the rooster tells us it's a day, which is to the fact that it's day and if it's day, it means I can do mitzvah. So in other words, explains, we're basically alluding to the fact that we have mitzvah which start in the day and we're thanking God for the awareness that we have to be able to do the mitzvot of Hashem which is why we're here in the universe. We're the delete. We're the bucket trying to just, you know, receive the water. Answer number one. You got it. Answer number one. There will be a test. I'm serious. Okay, at the end of the shear, everyone needs to know all five or six answers or else sounds good. Okay, let's get back. Answer number two. Uh says he says like this means heart. Where does he get that from? the I'm sorry the E and who gave the it's not talking about the rooster says it's talking about the mind because the heart means the mind in biblical speak okay and through wisdom we can dis discriminate we can know the happens between day and night. So that's really what we're thanking Hashem for the fact that we have a brain. That's and a turkey also has a little bit of a brain cuz he can figure out when it's day. He knows how to he immediately can discern when it's day. And that's why in Arabic a tarnagle is called ai. It's not a coincidence. So, it's a double language and it's a double thank you. We're thanking Hashem for the turkey, but really what we're thanking Hashem is for our brain. Our brain that knows how to distinguish between different matters. That's the first thing that we thank Hashem for, for the ability to have a brain that can distinguish. I think this is the mahalak a true approach of the I'll give you a ria. Let's see if you guys agree with me. How do we start off our shon? What's the first blessing that we request for that we ask for? >> Wisdom. >> Wisdom. Wisdom. It's the first thing we ask for. Could it be a coincidence that the first thing that we thank Hashem for is wisdom, first thing we ask for is wisdom. Yeah. I give you another. We start off our week. What's the first thing in our week that we recognize and we thank Hashem for? >> Exactly. [snorts] Separation, distinction. because that my sorry guys I'm uh fighting a little cold the the the the thing that we're essentially makes us a human being is the ability to distinguish between different decisions make this decision and that decision and so it makes a lot of sense that the first thing we thank Hashem for is the wisdom to discern and that's also the way we start off our dabing what we're doing for is to make the right decisions And that's what we thank Hashem for when we start the week. The ability to make distinctions, discernments, to make the right decisions because that is the essence of life to make the right choices. Everything else, it's up to him. Only thing we have control over is the decisions we make. And so, isn't it logical? Doesn't it make perfect sense that that's really worth thanking Hashem for? Yeah. Good. That's answer number two given by and others. Now third answer um says the ask the a great question. He says if you look at the other it's an it's a language of what God is doing for us now. Thank you, that you open my eyes. You close those who are naked. You're doing it now. Thank you, Hashem, for the present tense. Yeah. But here, we're not thanking God that he's doing it. We're thanking God that he did it in the past tense. Why is that? It's weird. She say there are some. So he says like this because we're quoting that's where we get the language of and in it says who gave the turkey or the brain depending on your interpretation wisdom. But in a few earlier he says he goes through the whole story of the creation of the world. Eio is recognizing that only Hashem was there when the world was created. And that's why we use the language of because we're not only thanking Hashem for the brain we have. We're thanking Hashem for all of creation. And included in that is a reference to our brain and to the turkey. But really, we're starting off our day thanking Hashem for everything. and thanking Hashem for the trees and thanking Hashem for the rainbows and thanking Hashem for I don't know chocolate whatever you know whatever it is we're thanking Hashem for everything which is alluded to back in the fact that we use a language of when God created the world says the guru answer number three not thanking Hashem only for wisdom or thanking Hashem for all of creation you got it. That's why we use language of past tense. Good. Fourth answer. Okay. The rebakar. Remember last week the rebakar is a rabbi of the ramban. What a beautiful parish. The rebakar says this. Listen, honestly, we're smarter than chickens, and roosters. Okay? Especially nowadays, roosters, I've seen them like, you know, roosting and cockadoodle dooding like 2:00 in the afternoon. I don't know. They're all confused. We used to have roosters in the old city. They were very confused. But in the in any case, most people, I'm saying like most like like women and like some men also were smarter than chickens. Okay? Not everybody, but but but most people. Okay. Nonetheless, the chick, the rooster has a certain wisdom. Without it, we couldn't know the difference between day and night. But that alone would not be reason to think. What does he care if he could know the difference between day and night? How does that help the rooster have to say therefore against your world? That's what we're thanking Hashem for. The fact that the turkey can distinguish helps humans and that's what we're thinking. That he created animals and these animals help us function. You understand? And I want to extend the rebar and say maybe what he's saying is we're really thanking Hashem for everything like the says because everything helps us function. All of creation in helps us become better Jews. So we're thanking Hashem for all the things in the universe which help us be holy Jews doing mitzvah. So the again you get what I'm saying? Turkey is just an example of something that helps us wake up for shak right because we're all divinates of course when the turkey wakes us up. Yeah. Okay. Anyways, but the point is so then okay that just symbolizes all of the different parts of creation even an iPhone that helps us wake up. So we're thanking Hashem for that because it part of the helping us become. Yeah, that's the fourth interpretation. I maybe that's my favorite interpretation. I think it's a good shot. Okay, my voice is on the end. So we're going to we're going to be wrapping up the last couple answer. Fifth answer. was afra. He says like this to explain like the garra says when you when the first rains come down the garra says you have to thank Hashem for every drop of rain. not rain in general, every drop of rain. So he says, we can't just thank Hashem for the We have to thank Hashem for every drop of knowledge that we have. >> Think about it. We can hear and understand each other. I can mix English and Hebrew and you can understand what I'm talking about. It's crazy. By the way, AI also knows how to do that. It's cool. I asked them questions in Hebrew. They figure it out. But they got it from us, okay? We invented AI. Just saying. And point is, especially when you see people who lo don't have this, they can't understand, they can't speak, and you recognize, you realize what a gift it is our brains that that we have the ability to to function. It's such a says That's we're thanking Hashem for the turkeykey's ability to distinguish and a human's ability to make all these brain distinctions. It's unbelievable. Unbelievable. You know, we can memorize all this information and bring it all and and and then take from the to the and analyze it and apply it. We don't necessarily take the time to think about these things or we didn't in the past but now we will tomorrow morning at we're going to think about the of being able to use our brain in so many delicious types of ways. Okay. That was answer number five. Answer number six. Maybe I'll give seven. Number six says I'm like this. This answer I also really like. How does the turkey know that it's day and that it's not night? How does he know? >> He has what we he Sorry. >> He looks at his watch. >> Looks at his iPhone. Yeah. He has what we call intuition. He has a turkey intuition. He just knows. He doesn't know where he knows it from. He just has this. He knows. I like this answer because I thought of this answer also. I think what we're thanking Hashem for is our intuition, not our our because sometimes with our we can rationalize. Oh, we twist our thumbs and we do what we want. But our intuition, our gut, we look deep into ourselves. we do is we re recognize our inner truth very often. And in the same way that the turkey has a certain intuition, we have an intuition. And maybe we're reminding ourselves every single morning, hey guys, trust your intuition. Just like the chicken, just like the rooster. Yeah. Okay. Seventh answer. was caught on posh it like says Yeshua wanted to curse a saduki he took a tarnle he took a chicken a rooster to know when it was the ace zam the angry time of god somehow the turkeys know when it's that angry time of god he the turkey knows and that's the hint of bya The Turkey knows how to distinguish between God's time of mercy and God's time of of den. So the Turkey knows how to distinguish between day and night and we should also I guess have that knowledge and ability to turn from den to rahim. Interesting answer. Okay, maybe I I we'll give one more says this beautiful safer safer. It says like this the truth is what what do we what do we mean by day and night? says y represents good and lla means darkness. So I think this kind of connects to the six Torah we were saying he knows how to distinguish between good and evil. In other words, we're reminding ourselves every day deep inside those choices that we've been talking about, those that we have to make. If we look inside our intuition, our heart, we'll know the right decisions to make. You know, Schlama would always say the biggest decisions in life, you can't just open up ash and it's going to tell you. You have to look inside yourself. And if you're honest with yourself, you'll know the true answer. It would be like I've alluded to would say that you have to talk to Hashem of sometimes to get to that inner truth. But in these braas we're reminding ourselves that we do have an inner intuition to know the difference between right and wrong. Okay. So there we go. 7.5 answers to a braha you may have never thought about. You're just in a rush to get to shakas and you know not be late. for the mikvah or you know just to get to on time to each his own but not not us. Every morning we're going to be reviewing the seven answers that we learned of and you could just really do one a day if you want that. That's one good every day. Pick a different kavan. You guys got it? You remember the shots? I told you it was be a test. Yeah. Okay. Quick answer number one. We set. Yeah. Let's go. Mitzvah >> mitzvah reminds us of the mitzvah of the day. Beautiful kilos. Answer number two. We said what is really the mish says it means both. It means the turkey but it also means the brain. Answer number three. We said >> wisdom. >> Wisdom. The brain. which alludes to okay I'm skipping to answer number six but to intuition to our inner intuition which is also answer number four of to know between the good and the evil we also said beautiful between day and night between and we said that just as the turkey helps us serve Hashem so we're thanking Hashem for all of creations help us serve and we said the that's alluded to in the pok of not because goes back to where is recognizing that Hashem has created the whole world. So we have a lot to think about to be thankful for. Oh and also says the thanking Hashem for the different elements of the brain that we have so many different parts to be thankful for for our beautiful beautiful brain. So, but beyond just of we should of course recognize as always that our bra our so deep where this is only the tip of the iceberg and there's uh so much more to think about and so much more powerful if we take the time to delve into their deeper meanings. So to everyone we should we should go higher and higher this month and our should be should be accepted by the shalom. There's no I visit vrache. Go. So now [singing] I n N thank you Hashem and thank you to Rapost and Ibana and Repost is going to share amazing Toras. after dinner. And thank you every single one of you for coming despite the rain, the cold to be eaten forem. Make time for Torah. [music] [singing] [music] You [singing] [music] see your [singing] body >> [music and singing]