The Paradox of Teshuva Shoftim Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz

[Music] everyone when you watch everyone a for the soap and of course everywhere Pradesh is very special the dis obviously something very special about Rosh Chodesh hello we are told that the 40 days from which photos lol through Yom Kippur I described as you may what some days of great divine grace and gave the great divine compassion what happens during the 40 days that activist HOA giao when I found finally was willing to give motive the second commandment so mojo Albania went up to her scene i i'm laura cello came down on yom kippur with the second blue box and that was a sign that a Shem has forgiven fact that I know that's why I'm Kippur the Day of Atonement because we came down with the second blue house and the whole period of those forty days are called you made what some I was very interesting and you see it more in the she world perhaps that you know in Letha was the Wendy English Reba's ello was a time of great fear and trepidation in fact is what we've got people who are oppressed maybe even today that still works because you got to be hyper conscious of the fact that I have so many sins so many things I did wrong I'm going to stand trial yet again on my life we're going to live where we're going to die we look back at the past year and we see so many tragedies that happens and then we have to think you know all of those things were decreed on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur and perhaps as far as pillows would have been better we could have averted some of those decrees and now we're going to go through the same process again but we salts Elijah writing around or speaking around 150 years ago described what lol was like when he was young and he said that the fear of devil has become diminished he said when the husband would have announced would announce us you know glasha box rosh chodesh yellow yeom showing she william harvey you could hear a whale in the women's section and many women would literally swim they would faint I was great and it wasn't because of the prospects of greed a yummy Frieda youngsters way that I could and I could sell ten men mmm and the life and the results alotta was bemoaning the fact that there's no amos again we no longer have that fear of judgment in which in any way has a motivator but you have to understand that there's a whole other side of the coin as well it is true that of course in the Mayans Russia China is the day of judgment and the month of ello is when we prepare for that awesome day of judgment and once you're not - not that there's a great undercurrent of simple fear that runs through all of these females you cannot deny that and another like that what you'd be looking at the master think about Nissan is helping the great chauffeur that is blowing in the heaven summoning everyone to judgment that even the very angels in heaven are trembling who will live who'll die who will fill out there a lot of time who will not that is indeed one side of the coin but at the same time and simultaneously with that aspect available these are you may what some days of love days of grace days of favorite days of closeness to a cottage border Chabad is a very famous muscle from the out the revenant a probably a purchase maybe ten thousand times because provide uses it constantly but a serving is a very famous muscle that ello is I'm no less muscle death that the whole year God is in his palace and you have to make an appointment and of course you can get through but there are secretaries and blockages and the light in ello is the time of year when the King goes into the field goes into the street everybody's a tenant is able to approve and therefore we have to look at these days not simply as God as it were the negative Stern merciless person or entity that wants to punish us by looking I remember when I was in the in college and then the years ago so we were to the course in English literature another's mythology of different writers so one of them was the very famous Puritan preacher Jonathan Edwards who lived in the United States and they reproduced he couldn't really read more than one of these so they reproduced one of his most famous sermons and the key would go on for an hour two hours like this he would talk about the fact that you are in the eyes of God like a repulsive disgusting little insect that he is holding over the fire that revolts you know that we cook there you know it disgusts him in every single one and there's no way you're going to be saved from being drawn into his life that was kind of the wonder of Jonathan Edwards of course it's interesting how he always said you we never said we never never included himself in that in that was doing was right though how everyone else is going to burn but we look at it the very very different life we look at even then as I share given us a chance to correct this to be better directly what we were yesterday doesn't have to be what we are today and what we are today doesn't limit what we can become tomorrow and Shuba paradoxically is predicated on two contradictory ideas which ultimately not contradictory at all or complimentary one is an abused almost hypersensitive awareness of the mistakes that I made and the fact that I need to correct a lot of things if one is knotted with one simply think I've done nothing wrong at all then we're missing the boat by definition we have to be engaged in introspection and cushman endeavors that is one side of the truth equation but the other side of the truth our equation it is precisely because of our interview and our goodness and I got eNOS and the love that God has for us that he wants us to become the people that were capable of becoming and therefore the children is not predicated unmanaged the property Shula is predicated on man's greatness because if we wouldn't be great then we wouldn't have the capacity of changing you wouldn't have the capacity of growing you would simply be limited to whatever we are and that is why the Rambam discusses free well in the context of Yoho school because without free will there would be no reason to do to them and without free well there would be no capacity to do children because I'm stuck childrenís amassed the ability to change the ability to grow but collectively as these as they wake up other side the reason why we can change is because we're not really changing we are simply uncovering and rediscovering the goodness that is already within us but that's why the word Trueba such a remarkable work where tula doesn't mean the pets would ever repent axel means it means return what are you returning to turning to God because sin distances of ourselves my college courses you are returning to the Jewish people and the mission of the Jewish people but the makuu bubbling side sugar means you are returning to the essential self which already needs within you the ballot Anya writes that loving Hashem and repairing my family are not attributes we have to learn they are not attributes we have to acquire it's not that we need to get them they are within us already they are inherent qualities of the soul and we simply have to discover them from within so again kind of little bit of a paradox the capacity to change is based on the fact that you're not really changing you're simply becoming what it is you already are we entered the world in a state of purity and holiness and to you something it sounds a little Christian but there's no reason why we can't do their duty to the ism in a state of grace and what happens is we lose our way for various ways we get distracted we get off the tracks we have various resentments arrogance whatever it might be so we lose our way loop but the losing our way is operating on a superficial level it does not penetrate it does not change that inner essence and therefore Cuba is reconnecting to what we already know and that's why I'm Elizabeth Sutton so in many many ways this whole period is a wonderful wonderful opportunity to recognize that yes we can be better than what we were because we already are better than what do you think we are and therefore Truman is simply returning to ourselves you know the safer I Phoenix right it is actually a part of God's mercy that he judges us every year because then we just have to look over the past year and that's a relatively smaller unit of time imagine if we're shuttin up typically come every ten years every 20 years and you'd have to evaluate 10 or 20 years of life that would be such a daunting task that would be overwhelming this way its small increments you know so even if we veered off the path and one way or the other okay you can still make mid-course Corrections and the blender video corrections of the world to put us back on track so it really is I needa of rapidly in fact it's interesting that you know there's actually an argument in the tomorrow when was the world created you know Ravi Eleazar said the world was created in tikrit know what that actually means is a sham began creating the world the 25th of M oh that was the only showed and therefore the six-day the creation of man was Friday because our teachers and that is the position our government our governing emphasizes fact that our young around the lung today on Rosh Hashanah is the birth of the world meaning the birth of other Malaysia but that is the opinion that says the world was created on chittering there is however another wheel the viewer grêmio schewe who actually says the world was not true in the world was created six months earlier again I'm not going to deal with you philosophical question of how do you measure time prior to a creationist died without some interesting issues about that but cos all seems to be working with the concept of what is called absolute time which physicists don't like that much but the viewer says the world was created six months earlier in Mesa which means 25th of Aadhaar Wednesday was and verchota see son was gay day six now the Rob asks the obvious question certainly revenue yahushua celebrated with the sun on iterative issue it didn't celebrate christmas done up together with paper so the question is why does God judge us on Rosh Hashanah if the world was created in its official amount like Libya we as there we understand why a sham judges our son go to China because it is the day that we were created so every year Hashem reevaluate whether we're worthy of sticking around because this is the anniversary of our creation select Libya we enter the dating of Rosh Hashanah makes a lot of sense but the rathaus patata according to romeo schewe what is the purpose of judgment on Rosh Hashanah so he didn't interesting it he says that God is working backwards from Yom Kippur meaning to say to follow Hashem wanted to choose as a time of judgment a period of year that is suffused with divine mercy and forgiveness and therefore God chose Rosh Hashanah the day of judgment because of its proximity to the day of atonement now why 10 days before it's not clear the run speculated that perhaps God began the process of forgiveness on around the ten days before Yom Kippur culminating Yom Kippur and therefore God set up the court system placements at a special time defining us so in many many ways this is a period of time this again it's very difficult for many people because going through such potent efforts is not an easy thing it's not easy for any of us and we like to avoid it we prefer not to think about it but one has to recognize that at least potentially it can be a very exhilarating an experience in which no the pan now even or even garden houses I am have the January one size it does not fit there's no spiritual significance to daniel at all but people talk about new year's resolutions and there comes from an instinct that when a new year begins there are new potentialities that come into the world we don't accept that that hath understanding where we want but that is exactly what what the Sun is about the idea of renewal the idea is cut shoot and again it's predicated not on the depravity of man but it's predicated on the greatness and the radiance of the beauty and the holiness and I think I've mentioned de story before about the famous Jewish German philosopher grams rope and cycle now grams roses right grew up as many in his generation but totally assimilated German Jew towards the last decades of the 19th century of the eighteen hundreds and in those days we don't realize it was not just the reform movement that was the problem in Germany it was a wholesale conversion of thousands of Jews to the Lutheran Church and not because they believe in Christianity was not a revivalist Jews for Jesus Movement they didn't believe in anything but the point was in order to get a job at a profession you needed to be efficient in members of the German Church I mean you know you even have to go to services you're enough to do anything just sign a piece of paper I am a Lutheran didn't even have to be baptized and you can get it to college or whatever it would be so as a result if the average Jew in Germany didn't really care about solar one way or the other so there were Sun loserman sure I can be a lawyer I could be a doctor I could be an accountant subject so Rose was right for some reason was born with a little bit more integrity than many others and the Rosen said you know I'm not going to find how he was seeking admission to a university and he said her graduate program he said he was not going to sign the paper until he experienced what Judaism ones at least one day in his life because you know he's got to reject it he was confident of that but we have to see what it is so he chooses a day at random that's there happened to be young people which he had never heard he chooses a temple as a synagogue Atlanta it happens to be the only Hassidic synagogue in Berlin the wind was not bad under Casita candlelight so he walks into this Hassidic synagogue on Yom Kippur the holiest day of the year he sees people dressed in white and he sees them moving crying particularly him there's a women are dressed in life - the men are dressed in life and he sent as a powered her that was unbelievable he thought you know he had probably been an English for example one for dividing Cogdell he'd be like a Lutheran service today you sit etc and the length could he sees raw emotion he sees passion he sees power he has no idea what is being said he has no idea what what is so special about the sale even if it was a special day because they had never heard of yom kippur but he said to himself at that point moses likely count he made a decision that he's not going to leave this religion til he finds out what it really is and the story goes that he became a pretty pretty committed Jew and never became fully observant in the holistic sense simply because unfortunately he died relatively young he had multiple sclerosis and the letting foot to know he became a bit of a learning drill bit of the scholar pipeline an accomplished scholar he and Martin Buber translated the Jewish Bible the Old Testament is called in German and although I cannot give you a first-hand account I know that the humble a great spoke very very highly of the quality translation and you became gradually more and more observant and at one point is acculturating secularized colleagues made fun of it and they said you know how are you going back to this primitive point you know we the Jews we have been liberated for the deagle ISM the ghetto walls have crumbled the gates that shut up in away from European culture are now wide open this of course was the pre Holocaust optimism and share that shattered later said how can you not join general society and then the final knife in English I bet you even wear those ridiculous black boxes to make a custom wedding so and rosensweig looked at this person and he says not yet and dennis prager points out that not yet at the very interesting entrance photography rosensweig was not wearing syllable that's true he could have said no not yet although not yet also means no it's very different than them no basically says I'm closing the door what I am today is what I'll be tomorrow not yet is the understanding that spiritual life is a journey and as the t-shirt says you know life is a journey not a destination they said fourth most t-shirt sayings are very very true that's why they will get so famous that they put on t-shirts and the line and that means we never know where we're going to come out but at a minimum was asked to be open to making interns you have to be open to pasta - how much of our life is going to be really an almost in a state of misery or at least catatonic subconsciousness we simply don't want to be open to death which is a little different go beyond their comfort level and therefore the not-yet is really what the path of children is I want to explore I want to grow I want to go beyond my comfort and not yet our the way is a great unifying thing that can unify juice no matter where Europe you are one person might say I don't we're spilling yet I don't keep Shabbos yet I'm looking at a person who keeps Travis says I haven't really conquered anger not yet or Lashon Hara not yet but I'm working it could be the gutta loved or they say well I haven't done my thousand CMO shots yet I have an idea not yet says I can look at myself in time all of us are a work in progress we're not there yet we all have aspects in which we need to grow which we need to improve we can work together we support each other the priests look for each other that's the great idea of not yet time and again the Rolleiflex remark - offhand remarks is a very very profound remark he says I'm okay again I want to point out that unfortunately sometimes a person a person might be very religious among them anyway but they're not necessarily in a growth mode Ally what they are is what they are and there's no attempt to go beyond there is the difference between religious and spiritual it's a subtle difference and one has to I have to understand it in many many ways but although we believe that Torah and mitzvot are the minimum foundation for a relationship with God but the fact that it's a minimum condition means you have to then build on destination in terms of developing within ourselves love above them and reverence pression and care of the people you know again I'm going to them I know I'm free associating a little bit but when I get different emails like sometimes want to incorporate them into my share and share them with you somebody sent me an email that they observed something on the bus they want to be met with my feelings private life it sucked and this was started about a fellow because he was sitting on a bus and this was a Mehadrin bus in which men and women are supposed to be separated no I said it was not a man but was not a 100 US that's even more important it was not imagine that and the man was sitting by himself on a bus the Fidesz that was specific to a woman came and sat down next day he started yelling at the woman demanding that she leaves the seat now it was not imagined but that even would be I don't think a logic creature so what's the point man was very meticulous you could not want to sit back to the woman I guess we have to be grateful he didn't put her because that sometimes happens there although a lot of you have that word now let me give you a story of how aroma-zone Ann Arbor handled the identical situation chromosome anova was not in Modern Orthodox rabbi he was not a talmud of every white light show on run with all of us whether a high-ranking god of the israel who was raised in the old Yishuv of usual Ida not a progressive modern person at all a woman sat down next to him and she said a moment later in a very nice way excuse me I have to get off my step and he got off the next time problem was that stopped was a quarter mile from where we had to go he walked a quarter mile now what's going on so let's see what he didn't number one he didn't ask her to leave okay Russia he didn't do that what number two why couldn't he just get up in other words we didn't want to sit next to a woman again a lot of day by the way that's not a problem but if one wants to be strict let them just get up collected then I scan out the seat I'd like to stand right that's a reasonably metric thing to do but he didn't want to do that because how does the person feel if a student they take a seat I get up because I can't like stay on being next up there were dead there you movie it they feel somehow that you're communicating although the fact the message of your organ so in his mind he says how can I allow my meticulousness the cause pain and shame to another you would be so what do I do I don't want to sit next to the woman again I think again this was a code reference this is I don't want to do it but I can't embarrassed her that's just as important if not more so I guess the only choice I got to make up an excuse that's not true and walk a quarter mile and that way I keep the ha'la'tha I think both are long as I keep living our dum la Marco as I taught and I keep the Deena dumb behind that is what I go to live the goggle is not somebody who simply moves in one direction is extremely intense way it goggles so you understand it's not hurting another human beings feel lonely for ratings Etsy makes no difference not hurting another unique is just as important if not more important cynical explore inside then whatever color you want to keep and they give it how long push this is really another application of the results a larger screen this after later don't be a subject I'm somebody else's Kuchma's very very famous favored that comes up a lot one of the exotic don't be a static at somebody else's expense the Italica dirty expect not at somebody else so this is something there was a yes for a moment the quicken made to point many years ago that he didn't like to be Chandra of judoma biographies and we have bad rupees of the double because the batteries of the dull one described people in their superhuman dimensions you know when this goggle is four years old first time you can Babylonian Talmud and by five is the Jerusalem Talmud and buy it by mitzvah in a daze fiftieth senior money dollars Celtic Leonora and you know we look at these stories and they have a certain entertainment value because eating Wow how brilliant they were out feel well in a sense they don't make any dimensions because I have to be that I'm not bad my kids are like that the Russian it's nice to know that God puts super human beings in the world that we can look up to and admire but your footer says what do you open with me doing of that he says you need to know number one that many of these great develop that we know as Kodama they also had struggles and questions and even failures from there we go and how did they recover how did they deal with the various struggles that a person has like the putt success in Michelin Sheva people subjects become decided for seven times and gets up again the biographies Owen when we talk about the ascendancy of the Sun and not being doubtful now philosophy they're going to be different issues of Russian Hara whether you allowed to say about said about people that may be negative but in terms of pedagogy in terms of what we learn we learn a lot more from the mistakes and failures of great people then perhaps we learn from their unbroken Bettis brought down in secret receivers this is why mouth of the monarchy Romney trail was given to the tribe of Judah rather than Yosef vo sape is a quite logical candidate to be Melek but yo say bad executive experience so to speak and one of the themes in Cypriot casitas is that when yo safe is confronted with temptation asia's 45 yo save just says now when you Hooda is confronted with temptation who the fail me Mela in an ideal sense but a lot of our below him didn't rule of Tibet authority but they now up in an ideal sense is a role model to which I can relate and I can learn and we sometimes we to Noah who fails but comes back more than I personally was so perfect that he never makes him sleep there is discomfort super Cristina's episode of a flawed king of the one who fails and that's in fact but there's another point about development need to know as well we need to know the sensitivity in the kindness and the goodness because that's something I can imitate this is David if I can't imitate in our knowing shots by heart by my bargain see the small kindnesses and consideration is something that I could learn and my children to learn and we can try the problem now I remember I get a project like this before that when I was very young with Moshe functioning as welcome husband collective ultrafine teeny still comes to Hartford Connecticut with two weeks a year we had a relative this was his little bit of summer vacation that were logos clearly in the summer for them which the Levesque school then but but never worked because of me for the very beginning of June he would constitute our job used to be he wanted to go to the only place in the world where nobody would ever any shadows that stupid so should I remember I was in school I was in fourth grade and I did much get anything he said it spoke a very very thick Yiddish very hard to understand you remember very much the radiant but I remember that the corporator a nine and ten year old person I remember the very shy they definitely saw a light coming from him counting was very very apparently but I was ok I used to dabble in show and then drugs go for wasn't too much of show so I was in the car with him they picked him up with babbling and then I was in the car so exactly so one time I was still sure laughter Dabney was over when I was about to go to school and also he's a Greek not English so door might open it up and one of the people who had driven the person who had driven the car on the way to show came to me and he said that we finally noticed it just began to rain and he remembered there was a little boy in the car so he asked me if I would come back and take you to school now it's no big deal to welcome to ready even now I don't mind walking in the rain and it was only like a block and a half and no one else all the people who knew me nobody raised any particular concern but I was I was going to get to school but the person who cared was the guzzle hador that has all of the issues of clothes now on his mind and he didn't want a nine-year-old one to walk one and a half blocks to school typically amazing I have to say to some degree that's spoiled to develop for me meaning to say you know if I don't see that that I definitely didn't like whether you know at the very very pinnacle of this but this is a different and far too often in the world to living these qualities are not even respected I suck Ileana Varela the state the colloidal Russell so resting with a great grade on properly three scholars Harvard ph.d but he was an extraordinarily considerate long windows person in terms of the way he treated his father was blind for many years the way he treated his wife the fact that he made time to learn his shoulders like somebody on something the stimulus and peppermint a year ago he was learning with one of the sons facility was so amazed because I'm so amazed that a rush receiver to make time to learn with his children the Rivera said I don't know what you mean make time to learn of my children my field is to learn with my children that you not move enough I make time to also have an achiever he says I don't make time to learn with my children it is my responsibility so he was an extraordinarily great bombing of besides being a brilliant mind and a great on the time so as a result a lot of the comedian they would give different stories how you know at the end of Aquino you know he would pick up the garbage with the bird in the bus along with the guy like everything he he did whatever needed to be done so people wrote in I saw this in a blog cutting people over here he says you know we don't need to hear Leave It to Beaver stories about that life you know while you've told me years old he was agree it was they were demeaning it oh he's a good husband a good father no he's war cleaver and Ozzie I know using American TV said that before Ozzie and Harriet I apologize to the people that don't know American TV older it's old American to me but you know do you see how revolting comments like that it it is disgusting actually I jumped up this way because what it's basically saying meet those tiles yeah that's nothing special to be a good husband nothing special I'm not interest to care about your kids doesn't mean anything tell me something that amazes and this is a mouse that exists in our community in which these qualities in a chef Trek a check charity these qualities are not treasured when they are what makes a person in trouble you know this is Naaman Elsa was these little Westmount today outside of the issue the world he was a violent country sputtering so most people will say oh he was the runt of this club the truth the matter is the violent coupler was originally notes of some of my visit on the note there was a great great great great cut off he was a retired this kind of extinct in it he is what really was a absolute cuddle bitola he was very close to his cost effective and it equipped to be is ready and he was one of the last of the with the mind called the moderate have a debugger try to perform his Allman was the last one Billy and mrs. Allman was there so Mazama I was reading and the life and web shaft actually married a rich as almond milk is me and I don't want to get I want to get into psychoanalysis web shot had two primary spiritual Rebbe one was a vicious almond that was his life uncle and the other was the brisk arrest and sub degree this explains web shocks kind of had a little bit of a double personality I'm the individual level like shock was extraordinarily sweet and kind and and understand on the communal level which shall help again that does the Jerkins right was wrong but the shot was very very strong and very stark and the very rejecting of accommodation with the outside in you see the world in my very very amateur of psychological and psychoanalysis in suggest that the kind gentle welcoming present repressed is there this resolving influence and very very strong you know refusal to cooperate with the brisk erosion does those relax to their b70 where shock absorbed qualities from brother Jeremy Chism was the exemplar of the soft kind can a brilliant brilliant scuttle absolutely brilliant subtle but someone who is very very kind very open sake if you look at pictures you'll see the vistas all my students some of them are in army uniform we'd be talking to tell me their moods were they the idea to Tahoe cetera as he get to tell me them among all different types he has people wearing striveth and people in the army and he was wrong so rep shocked said about his uncle I think was extracted there but someone some great said this that even if he would have been an arm Horace and he wouldn't know nothing he would have been the greatest Jew inertia lion because don't think his greatness is only because of the Torah that invents his greatness would have been extraordinary I do not know anything because of the type of person so I'm just thinking out loud you know this is what we need to convey to our children and this is what we have to aspire for as well because the genius of the great the golem is not within our capacity to necessarily oh maybe we'll have a baby we won't some people with left four people are not worth in that way but the capacity to be a given kind compassionate generous person even though it's true some people are more naturally able to do that the love is it is true not everybody can be the same of that either but at least to improve in those areas those are areas that all of us in trying to work a little during this time level and in the life and I just wanted to speak a few moments about not so much departure tonight but I want of what the hospital is now half doors all the snow suit Ibaka that every Shabbat and Hajj after we read from the Torah we have a section from the Libyan when I was very little and I first was introduced to the idea of haftorah I didn't know what Hospital event that he knows what spell so I figured it was like Taurus so I came up with a mangina really I think it's quite a brilliant explanation that well the profits are less important than the Taurus was the half totally but when I got to have Dulles I was a Saturday the track didn't work at that at that point but okay by the citrus in just a little matter of historical on our background the haftorah was actually introduced during the Antiochus errand during the Greek persecution in Eretz Israel because Jews were not allowed to read the Torah the venom actually had guards to prevent a creosote solar so as a result the half taller was instituted not to be in addition to the pillory but to be a substitute for creosote rather in fact this is why the lava is that the minimum size of our Torah with very few exceptions is twenty one civil and the basis of the twenty one system is that at shabak ff7 our wheels and the minimum size of an early extreme silken so the theoretical minimum size of the creates a pelvic with 700 M is 21 verses the hab tolerates we'll move on to negate the creates itself so in theory in theory one would have thought once we were able to read the Torah again we should need a scholar but knowing Judaism things never drop away so to speak meaning once that Sarah became part of the service intra meant is that why she says in the such a chapter where she brings a very interesting minute not actually I'm convinced myself this is a minute that did the coming state that is Shabbat Mensa they used to read a half taller from the contusion very great distance so Shabbos morning you read a passage from the Prophet Shabbos Myntra we read from the obscure sermon might be Dylan like the eoq we really have a list of what the house colors were there actually was such a minute when and why if that became extinct I have no idea but such a mineral gives actually recorded with even a special bracha that was recited on reading vixid in and Andalite the only remnant of that is the sheet of the film ago that when we read any of the mikhailo not just the Gila disturbers would you like to urge us fear in we make a brother that's the only remnant of a grande within but the person didn't make it any sense okay now normally of course we say that repertory is connected to the partial which makes perfect sense because it was a substitute for diversion but the exception the major exception is during these seven weeks the seven weeks between the ninth of hours as particular and Rosh Hashanah instead of connecting our house color to the parsha we all deal with the theme of comforts and redemption and this is why the seven halves auras are called Sheva Denis Kempton I'm amazed the seven of Ella of Nakumatt they are all taken from the same prophet the Navi Yeshayahu who is the great prophet of comfort all over the VMF words of comfort for the Shia has literally twenty chapters the last twenty chapters of the cypher are of tourists of the commander Ulla and redemption and this is the shivered in ahem so the question I want to raise with you this is the way the hoc torrents are structured is that the three weeks before the ninth of us we have three hub tolerance of Columbia's tragedy calamity right filter from your meal warning us actually I think blasphemous Kamisha yo itself ago you say oh warning us of imminent doom and destruction if we don't keep our chefs Commandments a little bit fewer then we have seven weeks of comfort more than double more than them and then we enter the register me up tipper season when the hawk toros focused on the obligation of doing Shuba become post-election so what is the pattern perennials calamity nahama comforts through live Redemption children now the problem with that pattern is the problem the tower itself gives us a different standard when the TOA talks about the words the Torah always gives you stumbling type of story that because of your sins we will be exiled we will be punished we will be dispersed people will be tailed women will be widows children will be orphaned documents and then in the midst of your supplement you will realize we will realize all of us why these things attacking and through that suffering we will do Chuba July with this direction and then Hashem will bring the redemption and Greenspan in other words the pattern as described in the Torah is suffering gives rise to children Shuba gives rise to redemption now this is the Rambam clarifies in the hwacha macabre marks but the random try to find a muse where we go in I look at you we're not going to be redeemed without true Shmuel address that was the same habit we ask I shall help us to children then we ask a shell forgive our sins when we do choose and then only then we say go el Israel you are the Redeemer in it so this is a very consistent pattern from suffering we come to children and when to burn we come to go and yet you're not told us it moves in the opposite direction instead of suffering Shuba Cola it says suffering gulags come up sugar so why is the hunger flight before - what when the hunger is not going to come until a future now you put it after well if you do it the other way you would mess up our show me a kipper I mean obviously the charitable ones over there - but you got to change the order but there might be a deeper meaning and that is it is indeed very much true that chronologically speak we gotta do sugar before we're going to be redeemed Cuba does come first but psychologically what gives a person the strength to issue the person experiences devastation in their lives this could be the national devastation of the destruction of the based on it - of golus of the Holocaust and more modern kind of terrorism this could be a person's individual devastation their own suffering their illnesses that's the reason and a person feels perhaps God doesn't carry or have some worthless perhaps I'm not worth the Oh - okay in fact this is what they said to the nothing when another yo-yo was commanded by God nah c'mon a humble I mean go and comfort my people the next week the response of God was but comercio observe Romney Hashanah Zion said what do you telling you be comforted God has abandoned me for Hashem yes hey honey God has forgotten I share mass to say any parent forget a child etcetera but this is a natural response when a person is devastated when a person is crushed when a person is abuse they're not going to respond by trying to become better they're going to feel they're a lost cause they're going to feel that just as one would feel as a parent would engage in abusive behavior to feel what's the point whatever I do is never going to be doing and therefore psychologically even though it's true there's not going to be a goal lap until there's children but you need the awareness of your readability to bring you the truth you need to have an awareness that in spite of everything Hashem loves us simcha rujm Hashem wants to be with us and was waiting prison I need to hear it over and over and over again in order to do choose so there's a distinction between the chronological sequence of how the events will actually happen versus the psychological steps that you have to go through in external chronology Juma comes before Google but in psychological awareness goula comes before - I have to believe in my inner cities and in God's world of my energy in order to ensure with the other wiser thing what's the point what's the I don't matter I never will matter a person's spirit it's crushing this really explained another thing and I will have those of you that's that's like alert immaculate and maybe laying bare elect or not the vehement maybe we we might explore that later of the year you know one of the difficulties in learning not is the VMS cloning is a very difficult so it leads the great prophecies of show yahoo yummy oh ho and yes at school especially show you because if somebody says somebody's type of key to say yo and he said i don't know how to teach it there's no story here nothing happens is meaning right do you read a book like Schmoyer like royal is another coming to true now it's a true story Shmuel is there's a lot of dramatic action like you can make a movie out of it that people ask open estimate not desire cover but i read to show y'all and i have a bunch of speeches but there's no dramatic acts very very difficult acting your meal after you have some batteries the story of the courtroom they committed actually happening but shayla's cannot know nothing happening please and then you know you ask somebody okay give me a summary of last week subtotal so you'll say okay a firm says he loves us and wants to redeem us okay great - I give me a summary of this week October ok a chef loves us and wants to Adeena give me a summary of the week after a chef loves us and wants to redeem in other words we're very hard pressed to make logical sense of the constant repetition of the same thing in different words so the reform deal was any differently the Maldon is before sons of amalgams great great attack of biblical interpretation is to say there is no such thing as synonyms that are saying the same meaning the malbim almost obsessively goes through every word that they know simcha so song Gill Rena and the mountains as well it's not the same thing maybe English will come to thing happy joyous in English they're not really different that the modern will try to show you the Duster this synonym assist and Vista minimus is because the moment takes the position there is no such thing as shame on ten years of Tim in Washoe hummock trap imagine if that means of synonyms any babes and all who said no such thing every single word in what showing our coach not not somebody's wrist abortion are kotas every single word has a different and unique meaning that's wonderful but I want to suggest another verse because who the battery is although the Moslems approach is something that's widely accepted but you know let me show you them too because ever many be shown in the oven Ezra there was a great great they were willing to live with synonyms they they use the phrase case out button yet the new limb showed up it's repeating the same idea in different words meaning they weren't bothered with the best let the ideas or people but why repeated so many times therefore if you're not giving different nuances so here's idea I want a suggestion but you know maybe repetition isn't as bad and ideas people sometimes thinking I am told that most children remember if it happened to them they remember the first time that they lost sight of their parents in a place where they weren't supposed to be side with their livers that they are in a department store and your mother Valens accordionist and give you your two seconds behind so for a very small amount of time you didn't know where your mother was apparently that is described as a relatively traumatic event in childhood cut it and I'll tell you I I do remember you remember very very on four years old liver and I remember that said oh I'm lost there forever you know such thing there is that sense because we're a yes and literally it may have been seized they have been like two seconds the words and the light and sometimes you see a kid loses sight of their parents they started hysterically bawling crying no now so what is that why does the mother do so mother takes the choice and hugs the child because I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you you're okay you're okay you're okay if you look at things from a logical analytical standpoint like a tomorrow cup you can say why do you have to say I love you seven times instead of one the kid hurting why did you say it again and why is second time a third time and a fourth time if that every time you had a different meaning that you were trying to cause I know the answer is simple the mind and the ear may hear it the first time but the heart doesn't important unless there's constant repetition can lose all Antares man something rather aggressive of three different workers interesting cafe dimensions objects that the distance between the head in the heart is the biggest distance that exists in the world so I would suggest when you shall repeat over and over again fundamentally the same I think God works yes he doesn't that he really loves me and for sure he loves and we sit around analytically asking why is that have to be repeated again and again we are reading than loving only with our mind we're not reading it without Jewish people were broken they would devastate they felt rejected because God didn't care they felt they lost him forever and I sham like the mother through the mother has to take them and tell them again and again we need to hear that all we need to hear that so the concept that repetition is superfluous and must be accounted for I think may not be a totally valid idea think repetition irrespective of these subtleties of differential levels of meaning has intrinsically a value in terms of communicating a depth of feeling and emotion and allowing that to penetrate the emotional consciousness of the person who needs to be reassured and that's why the epithet around the results that you have so much of a problem with case away meaning even showing up okay so this is a little bar of seven cocktails of comfort why although we must do children before we redeemed but we need to know we are receivable people before we can reach children that's why I mean seven weeks of McCulloh give me the strength and again this brings me back to what I said at the very beginning Cuba is not predicated on an awareness of how bad we are it's predicated that is a source of strength other ways to treatment shall help at all of us to benefit from this wonderful a month of Camela for severe became into the field the gene is accessible available and then Oliver speak at all times from all the world we selfishly [Music]