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today we are very fortunate to have a
very very guest very important guest
with us Rabbi denil gladin from the
states
um some of you would know some of you
might not know but most of the teachers
here at B if you heard our myself my Reb
my son Rabbi Ley we all use from time to
time Rabbi gl's div so it's a good time
to
say um Glon is here as a guest of remon
Gary Gary and his team um and uh barem
we uh it's come at a good time we know
that last since the beginning of El I
mean the whole the whole year but since
beginning of we've
intensified our Li learning program in
preparation for the new year so it's
really beautiful to have that extra
physic to have such an important guest
and such an interesting guest to be able
to share dor with us um Rabbi gladin is
a renowned speaker he speaks all over
the world he is a Rob of sh in the five
towns and uh he has for him he has books
he has a few left he sold most of them
today already but there's a few left if
you want afterwards you could please
speak to him and
um I don't need to introduce him anymore
because you'll see from his T how
interesting they are and how deep they
are so I'm not going to waste any more
time and and thank you welcome ra
[Applause]
GL good evening everyone thank you so
much for hosting me thank you rev gari
for the warm introduction
it's an honor to be here actually you're
going to see the Divine Providence that
I I'm going to speak about this topic
because I understand that RAV garari is
a descendant of the maharal of Prague
the gorar so I would like to share with
you tonight an approach that is Advanced
by one of the leading Experts of
the entire world view of the marala prag
of the last generation of mha Shapiro
who is a Renown expert in the writings
of the maral of Prague so thank you for
hosting me and every subject has its
proper address I want to thank my dear
friend R Gary Shapiro and uh letin and
their families for bringing me to
Australia we're now in the month of L
which is the month of preparation for
the Yum Haden for the great day of
rashash for the new year I want to draw
your attention to one particular phrase
that we say in the the mus of rash you
know it's very interesting the medish
tells us that when we think about all
the great spiritual gifts that God
bestowed to the Jewish people we have
very few left today I'm talking about
the
powerful spiritual gifts that the that
the ram has given to us we don't have a
temple anymore we don't have the high
priest the high priest used to wear a
special garment the and in it was a slip
that had the special name of God the
ineffable name of God on it we don't
have any of these goodies anymore the
medish says we have no Prophet we have
no we have no high priest we have no
Temple all we have left today in 2024
says the
medish is the prayer of rashash
yum meaning the medish is grouping the
power of our prayers on
rasher with some of the gifts spiritual
gifts of antiquity and in our mind we
should view that we may not have a
prophet we may not have a high priest
but we've got something left from the
good old days of when we were really
connected to Hashem and that is the
prayer of yum Kipper actually I want to
bring to your attention of rer the
number of words in the mus of prayer on
rashash 1,8 820 words what's the
significant of that number of words it's
the precise number of times God's name
appears in the five books of Moses in
the so every word of this is jam-packed
with tremendous spiritual energy and
just reciting these words brings us as
individuals and the Jewish people great
blessing and therefore we are entitled
to examine every phrase that appears in
the prayer of rash sh and ask ourselves
what is this phrase doing there so I'd
like to draw your attention to the of we
know that on R in the mus which is the
primary of the day we have three main
blessings three main bras we have
Mal proclaiming proclaiming the
sovereignty of God Z proclaiming God
remembers all of our deeds and all the
Deeds of mankind
andar commemorating the Shar of the
giving of
actually just by way of
introduction one of
theim ALB one of the medieval Spanish
rishonim points out that there are three
main principles in Judaism I'm sure
we're familiar yet that the rambam
boiled down the 613 now this year is
brought to you by The remon Advisory the
remon has
seeds you ever count it when you have a
a few hours spare time count the seeds
in the remon the seeds in the remon
correspond to the number of Mitzvah in
63 mitz but the r boil down 13 core
principles well the
sa disagrees with the ram he says there
are not 13 principles there are three
principles and by believing with
conviction these three principles that
will be the greatest source of blessing
to a Jew and for the Jewish people and
the three primary principles of Judaism
are number one MOS hasem the reality of
the existence of the Creator number
twoh that everything in this world is
orchestrated with Divine Providence even
if let's say a rabbi comes from Brooklyn
and he travels 22 hours to Australia and
he left on a Monday and he got here on a
Wednesday
and he never had a problem with his
teeth in his life and as soon as he got
here he had to go to the dentist because
his tooth was cracked that's Divine
Providence that no dentist I had to see
the dentist today in Australia that
wasn't an accident that wasn't a
coincidence that was divinely
orchestrated and also I want to tell you
that a new blessing should be enacted
for Advil okay I don't know you know we
have shahak we have m nice we
have Advil is a good thing friends
okay
and So Divine Providence everything in
this world is divinely orchestrated
nothing big nothing small the gar even
tells us you know the gar says if you
went 30 days and nothing bad happened to
you you got to be careful it's not a
good thing cuz maybe God is giving you
your reward in this world and that's why
you're not having any difficulties in
this world because he's saving all
punishment for the next world but thear
says don't worry because even if you put
your hand in your pocket to pull out
okay bear with my coin denominations to
pull out a quarter and instead you
pulled out a nickel that's also
considered aurin a tribulation in this
world that don't worry you you didn't go
30 days off the hook sc- free you had
some kind of difficulty in this world so
we believe
everything in this world is divinely
orchestrated and the third principle of
faith says
is the divine origin of the T that every
word of our tah was divinely given on
Sinai in the year
2448 in the
year is the year the Torah was given or
God's love for the Jewish people the
word means God's love for the Jewish
people so we have three principles of
Faith the reality of God divine
Providence the divine origin of the Tyra
if you look at the prayer of rashash we
have three main blessings Mal Mal
articulates the reality of God's
existence articulates Divine Providence
that everything that we do everything
that anyone has ever done God remembers
God Rewards or punishes and
finally is articulating the great
principle of the divine origin of the
Tyra these three principles were
Incorporated in the prayer of Rashana
because when our life is on the line
when we're being
judged our sages have given us
the shorthand version of what we need to
do to make sure we have a successful
year and that is most importantly to
integrate and articulate these three
great principles so I want to direct
your attention to the bra of for a
minute okay we say
this is a so I'm going to give you the
traditional ashkenazic no it's
not I don't know this faric melody so
I'm going to give you what you in
here but we have a similar tune Poss
yeah tell me if it's a same okay we
say yeah sound
familiar and then we say the words
there's no one like
you yeah basically right so he
say God you hear the sound of
the you're attentive to
oura there's no one like you in this
phrase there's one segment that seems to
be completely Superfluous
unneeded again we say you hear the sound
of theer okay we know God listens to our
Scher
Blasta he's attentive to our cha but why
would we say the
words there's no one like you that's
true there's no one like God but why did
we stick these words into the bra of
we're talking about God's ability to
hear the sound of the Shar so why at
this juncture specifically at this
interval do we say God there's no one
like you we could have said that phrase
anywhere in the whole ding you could
stick in the words there's no one like
you any page in the Sid take the Sid you
give me the page and I will stick in the
words you could
why do we choose
the to say the
words so on a simple
level there's an interesting element of
that I would like to bring to your
attention we in New York I love I always
have so I like to say over from and the
how what's going on here in in Sydney
you have some good Spar them here all
right power to you
okay so the theard have a tough
month they got a tough
month it's not worth
it to eat rice rice doesn't do anything
for
me yeah starts saying
they have a whole month of the extra
prayers comes the you know how the works
the gives you the that is adopted by the
and then the tells us what are relevant
to so the says that
we we increase our supplication
from sayama no we don't do that we blow
Shar huh just say we don't do that what
what doeser have to do with we're
talking about here so
say don't say why would ra say oh we
don't do that but we blow as if has
something to do
with the implication is that Sher is not
merely a wakeup call but it's a form of
a
prayer the have extra beginning but
don't have extra but instead we have a
different form of prayer what form of
prayer do we have we have the sound of
the SH now this is a very interesting
idea if you look in the gar rash the gar
brings a a dispute various opinions as
to the shape of theer one opinion is the
Sher should be straight one opinion is
the Sher should be bent says the gamar
what are these various opinions
dependent on what kind of position you
should be in prayer is it better in
prayer to be standing erect Standing
Tall and straight with a straight
attitude or is it better to be so to
speak bent over when you're when you're
praying there is a dispute what is the
proper position to be in in praying
depending on what position you should be
when you pray that is the position your
Scher should
be what does the Scher have to do with
prayer apparently the Scher is not just
an instrument to wake us up the Scher is
is an instrument of prayer what kind of
instrument is
that you see there's an
idea that there's so many things that
we're going to be praying for on Rashana
on the high
holidays we have so many
needs we need life we need health we
need peace we need to get along with
difficult people we need to need to get
along with difficult family members the
difficult people may be the family
members we need to have parasa why does
everyone laugh when I say that right we
need
parasa we need peace for Israel we need
peace for all of uh CLA
Israel there are Myriad of requests that
we have just in health each part of our
body needs special special protection
for a person to wake up in the morning
and not being in excruciating pain
billions of things have to go right
who could possibly articulate all the
needs that we have so God gives us a
special instrument it's the Sha the
shaar is the unarticulated Cry of the
Jew calling out to Hashem Hashem you're
our father you know everything we need
we can't even articulate everything we
need to ask you for but you're able to
discern in the sound of the Shar that in
that sound that emanates from the heart
you hear everything we're calling out to
you so we say God who is like you even a
mother when she hears her baby cry she's
usually able to discern what the baby
needs but could she really discern every
possible thing the baby is calling out
for but God is able to discern in the
sound of the shaer everything we're
praying for this may be on some level
the meaning of the words the
God there's nobody like you you could
hear in the sound of the everything
we're asking you but we would like to
explore
today an
amazing
explanation for why we add these words
to
the there's nobody like
you I want to bring to your attention
another interesting
point do we say Hal on Rashana
no the gar asks why
not why don't we say Hal rash we say Hal
on Kana we say Halal on PES we say Hal
on Su rash is a holiday why don't we say
Halal says he can't say Hal the book of
The Living The Book of the Dead are open
it's not appropriate to say
Hal but the great Aon Mas what what is
what is the gamar asking we should say
Hal rashash don't you only say Hal when
there is a
miracle we sing Hal for a miracle that
God brought to the Jewish people on
pesak God took us out of Egypt on khah
God allowed us the O God allowed the oil
to burn for eight days we'll only say
Hollow when there's a A great miracle
and there's a great nice no Miracle
happens on Rashana why was the gar even
asking that we should say Hal to begin
with there's no
miracle and here's The
Clincher if
somebody's was
summoned to a federal court case and
their life was on the
line and they didn't know what their
fate would
be would they spend a lot of time
dressing in their finest and groom ing
themselves
and making sure they look their best
probably not they would be so anxiety
ridden that the furthest thing from
their mind would be whether they're
wearing their best suit or their best
outfit and if they're perfectly
groomed yet the tour writes the tour is
one of the early rishonim one of Theon
who codified halaka the son of the rush
he writes that the custom of the Jewish
people on Rashana is we wear our
finest and we Rejoice at our meals why
because we are confident that God will
make a miracle for us on rashash
Shana a miracle for us what Miracle will
God bring for us in rashishana rashash
is a day of Miracles maybe the Tor
should say we're confident that God will
give us a good year but why does the
say we are confident that God will make
a miracle for us on
rashash dear friends the secret to
understanding what takes place on
rashash lies in three words that we say
in
the there's nobody like
you because the words of have a very
specific connotation
does anybody remember another instance
in the prayers when we use the
words we
say who is like you master of strengths
in the
second who is like
you and what ability of God do we
reference me
may God
Almighty who causes death and brings
back to
life when we say to God there's no one
like you we're referring to a very
specific miracle in God's
repertoire you know which Miracle we're
referring
to the resurrection of the Dead here's
another
example and I'm back to the ashkenazic
tunes for the
with the rabbi's
permission does that tune F sound
familiar
there's nobody like
you so we see that when we use the words
there's no one like you we're talking
about a specific ability that God has in
his repertoire now God has many things
up a sleeve he has many miracles let me
give you an
example so when a baby's
born the child in utero but before the
baby's born doesn't
breathe the baby doesn't breathe the
oxygen of the mother the mother takes an
oxygen and the oxygen of the mother goes
straight to the baby's blood through the
um um um umbilical cord
now usually when a person is already
born the blood goes to
the right atrium to the right ventricle
it's pumped
to the
lungs the lungs take in oxygen it then
goes to the left atrium and to the left
ventricle where it's pumped throughout
the body so before it goes from the
right right side to the left side it has
to go to the lungs to be
oxygenated but in a child in
utero the child's not breathing so it
doesn't have to go from the right atrium
to the right
ventricle to the lungs to the left
atrium so guess what it does in a baby's
heart before the baby's born there's a
hole in the heart and the blood goes
straight from the right
atrium to the left
atrium it doesn't have to go to the
right ventricle there's a hole in the
baby's heart does anybody know for how
long could the baby live once it's born
with a hole in its
heart us cannot live for a
moment so what happens the cardiac team
comes in when the baby's born and does
open heart surgery on the baby
no God created a miracle when the baby's
born the baby starts crying immediately
it creates pressure in the chest cavity
and the whole seals shut no cardiologist
needed no insurance needed no procedure
needed nothing it happens by itself it's
a great miracle scientists cannot
explain how this happens it's a miracle
it's an open Miracle every time a baby
is born it is an open Miracle but that
is not the greatest miracle in hashem's
repertoire you know what the greatest
miracle in God's repertoire the miracle
of resurrection of the Dead the gar
tells us the
story of a group of young boys and girls
who were taken off to Rome and there
were going to be
violated
and the girls asked you know if if these
uh captors violate us then we're sullied
they asked if we jump
overboard and we die in the water and
our molecules are scattered to the Seven
Seas well God resurrect
us and the response was yes Amar Hashem
God says the day will come when even if
your body decomposes and the molecules
are scattered to the four the Far
Corners of the world while the day will
come that God will
reconstitute your molecules and
Resurrect The Dead the greatest miracle
that only God could perform is the
miracle of resurrection of the Dead this
is a miracle that deserves the
expression there's no one like you
you so why do we use this expression on
rashash isn't it odd that rash we choose
to use the
words there's no one like you is there a
form of resurrection of the dead that's
happening on rashash
Shana and the answer
is that we've come now to a new
understanding we have a misconception
about what happens on rashash you know
what we think rashash is coming and get
your Apple ready get your honey ready
it's the day of judgment maybe get of
course get many remon a lot of
remones I'm not sure if the remon
advisory provides remon for rashash
although now they may consider adding
that to their many
services and we say look it's a day of
judgment so we say look God
this past year I was alive I had family
I had health I had
livelihood so just continue to butt out
of my business and everything will be
great or continue just to give me
everything you've given me extend the
lease extend my life extend my health
extend my livelihood and everything will
be great that's how we sometimes View
rashash
when in fact that is not what happens
what happens on
rash let me explain by citing a very
important Hal this is a that is somewhat
obsolete for a very interesting reason
does anybody
know what do you do if you see your
friend who you haven't seen in 30
days did you know there's a Braha that
you
say if you meet a friend you haven't
seen him in 30 days
do we do that today not really why
because it's not that Innovative that
you saw a friend after 30 days because
there's all kinds of forms of
communication you could have called him
you could have texted him you could have
emailed him you could have whatsapped
him and if anything would have happened
to him you would have found out about it
there's another by the way there is one
instance that we do make a the M says
that if somebody has a baby
girl when the baby's born you make a why
you haven't seen her for 30 days
actually you've never met her before
so if you have a baby girl if you have a
baby boy you make the a baby girl the
doesn't say what to make the says you
make a because you haven't seen her in
30 days but what about if you see
somebody that you haven't seen in 12
months you meet someone you haven't seen
them in 12 months what do you make when
you see somebody after 12
months that that we also don't make
nowadays cuz it's not like this person
uh it's a surprise that they're alive if
they would weren't be alive you would
have heard about
it why do you make the of if you haven't
seen someone in 12 months
the Mish quotes
Mar that if 12 months have passed then
your friend has traversed through a
rashash
Shana and if your friend has traversed
through a Rashana he has been brought
back to
life what do you mean he has been
brought back to life he hasn't been
brought back to
life he's he was fine and he's still
fine but he wasn't brought back to
life so from here we discover a
revolutionary understanding of what
actually takes place in
rashash says ra Shapiro one of the great
Jewish thinkers and experts in the
thought of the mar of the last
century a judgment on rashash lasts for
one year it's a onee
lease on rashash God gives us a year of
Life a year of health a year of
well-being a year of
livelihood and on the last day of the
year the lease comes to an end life has
ended livelihood has ended family has
ended and we are not asking God to
extend our life we are asking God to
perform the greatest miracle in his
repertoire we're asking God to access
what he is known for only something he
could do but something we're confident
he will do not to extend the lease but
to literally resurrect and revivify us
and give us life and give us well-being
and give us family not extend what was
but to bestow upon us once
again you know there's an opinion
in from
man is judged
daily you ever hear that opinion man is
judged daily say say if man is Judge
daily then what are we getting so worked
up about on rashash rashash you know
even the guy who maybe he's not taking
his prayer so seriously on rashash you
know he person davins on a higher level
with much more urgency if a person is
judged every single day then what is
significant about rashishana
this is the question
ofel and he explains as
follows he says yes a person is judged
daily but there's a very big difference
between the daily judgment and the
annual Judgment of
Rashana you see the daily judgment when
I'm judged today this is how the
Judgment
works okay I was alive
yesterday I had Health yesterday I had
livelihood
yesterday I am the m means I am the
presumptive owner of everything I have
and for anything to change God has to
have a good reason to change it I am the
I the status quo is that all the
benefits in my life are mine and if
anything's going to change God has to
have a good reason to change it will we
utilize the
principle what is the
principle that if I come over to you I
say hey you owe me 100 bucks say get
lost if you can't prove that I owe you
100 bucks then uh go fly a kite the
burden of the onus of proof the burden
of proof is on the M the one who's
trying to extract you see when comes to
the Daily judgment we have a certain
presumptive ownership of all the
benefits of
life and if it's going to change so to
speak there has to be good reason for it
to
change but when it comes to
Rashana all bets are off there's no
presumptive status because the lease has
ended Life as we know it is given in
chunks of years the benefits of Life are
given in chunks of years
and we stand before God in Rashana we're
not asking him you know what could you
extend the lease this is not extension
this is a much different process this is
the process of the greatest miracle in
God's Arsenal what happens on rash is
the great miracle
of resurrection of the
dead but it's a miracle that we are
confident that God will do so we put on
our
finest and we Rejoice because we're
confident that God Will Make A great
miracle for us and that Miracle is the
miracle of the resurrection of the dead
and that's the miracle that the gamar
says really would warrant a
Hal if not for the fact that if the book
and the of the living The Book of the
Dead are open it wouldn't be appropriate
to say it's not appropriate to say the
Hal
if I were to ask
you what event what historic event is
invoked on Rashana more than anything
else I mean this event we we milk it for
everything it's
got very
good there is practically nothing we do
on r that is not to invoke the Merit of
Thea so first of all the says why do we
blow the horn of uh RAM ah to remember
the great deed ofu that he was willing
to offer as a
carbon and we even
say we sayem remember the for your
children and what's the Torah reading
for the second day of
rashash and we have this
we go to a body of water and we say t so
many people think T it's such a good
invention I could sin the whole year and
then I dump it out onto the fish and the
fish take all my
sins actually there's when I was a rabbi
in Queens you know Queens in New
York there was a park there Flushing
Meadow Corona
Park and some people do Tash rashash
I don't have time it's a very long day I
usually end up
going closer
TOA so one year I took it to the end I'm
doing t on the final Daya and I come to
the park and all the fish in the in the
lake I'm talking about thousands of fish
they're all
dead I'm saying oh boy I came too late
everyone they already killed the
fish Tash has nothing to do with
throwing sins to fish actually it has
nothing to do with throwing sins you're
not throwing your sins you wish it could
be so easy that you could throw away
your sins it has nothing to do with that
at all really so why do we do Tash ah so
you might be interested to know says we
do to
remember because when Abraham went to
the AA the Satan created a stream to
interfere with him going to the a so we
go to the river to remember
a here's another trick that I'm sorry to
have to burst your bubble also doesn't
work people they say you know what I'm
going to send the whole year and then
I'm going to take all my sins and put it
on a chicken and then I'm going to go
right you wish you could put all your
sins on a
chicken what is that called Karas
do you know
that the Mii says really kaparos is not
done with a chicken it's done with a ram
now you try going like that to a
ram so what's kapar what is karus so now
what I can't put my sins on a on a fish
and I can't put it on a
chicken the Mii writes the purpose of
kapar is to
reenact where the ram was put on the
altar in L
of the AAS is the centerpiece of rashash
and the
high
why H that might be a good question to
ask why is this event which is the
centerpiece of all the prayers and all
the Customs why is this so important say
oh probably because it happened on
rashishana
right did it happen on
rashash did the AA happen on
rashash Thea says yes it happened on
rashash but actually
Yi and other say it took place on Yumer
could somebody tell me if it took place
on yum Kipper then we should blow the
horn of aam on Yumer and we should do
Yumer and
kapar and
Kipper and you know there's a medish
that says it happened in the month of
Nissan so according to all these sources
that it didn't happen on rashash why is
the centerpiece of
rash
ah so I'm here to burst another bubble
because when you were in a day school or
in Yeshiva and they told you the story
of the AA with rashi's interpretation so
this is what they told you they said
that God told Abraham bring up Yak so
Abraham brought up yak and he was about
to slaughter him and the angel said no
I'll don't touch him okay AB says okay
and Y you know dusted himself off he
untied the the Rope he got off Yak went
maybe to ganen or to wherever he
went and ab found the RAM and the story
ended happily ever after the only thing
is that's not quite what happened
because at the time you were too young
to hear the real story it would have
been too traumatic you may not have come
back the next
day because if you look in per kids
Abazar if you look in the
sh and other midrashic
sources when Abraham ainu put the knife
on he
died he died
there's even a source that he was turned
to
Ash whereupon God showered him with the
DU of
resurrection and he came back to life
and he composed the following blessing
in
fact writes that is really historic
record of great events that happened in
the history of the Jewish people so when
abin was saved from the fire in orm he
composed the
blessing and when was safe from the he
composed The
Blessing andov composed the BL the
blessing and so on and so forth and when
the brothers were United uned with in
Egypt they composed The
Blessing so I saw in the of Rabbi mosw
an acquaintance of mine who lives in
Queens that the reason
why a is such a central part of rashash
is not because it happened on rashash
but because the theme of the day of what
is taking place on rashash is not an
extension of life but rather the very
resurrection of Life what is the first
instance of Resurrection in the Tyra
what is the source of Resurrection at
Tyra the language of the med is when y
was brought back to life he said oh so
there is resurrection in the T and he
composed The
Blessing so what we need to access on
rash is nothing short of the miracle of
the resurrection of the dead and
therefore the Center piece of Rashana is
the very source of Resurrection in the
Tyra but friends there's another
element of the aspect of Resurrection
when it comes to the of
rashash because during these 40 days of
L our main
responsibility is chuva is
repentance you know the
writes that the 40 days
from is analogous to what we
call did you ever hear this expression
the 40 days of the formation of the
embryo that even though it takes N9
months for a child to develop in his
mother's
embryo but according to
kazal from conception until 40 days
there is a complete development and on
that part there's only growth but in 40
days all of the organs of the baby
develop even the gender is determined by
day
40 the 40 days
from is analogous to what we call the 40
days of the formation of an
embryo in other words there's an idea
that during these 40 days we are
literally recreating
ourselves you know this gift that God
gives us the gift of chuva
what is that analogous to what is the
process of
chuba what does the gamar say about the
wicked in this world the gamar tells us
the wicked in this world are considered
as if they
are
dead the wicked are considered as if
actually the says something very
powerful the gamar says why are the
wicked considered like they're dead
because they wake up in the morning and
they see the
Sun and they don't say thank you Hashem
for the
Sun so if the wicked are considered dead
then the process that transforms someone
from being Wicked to being righteous
what would you say that process is
analogous to
the resurrection of the de you see if
one who is considered unworthy in the
eyes of Hashem is considered like a
mess then the transformation from
being Wicked to righteous is analogous
to the resurrection of the dead so Chua
is nothing short
of you ever hear the rule an angel
cannot do more than one
job really so how will Elijah how will
usher in
ER and bring about the repentance of the
Jewish
people you know ELO has two big jobs to
take care of he's going to usher in the
era of repentance and he's going to
usher in the era of resurrection of the
Dead hey he can't do two jobs Elijah how
can you do two two jobs so said n these
are not two jobs it's one job
resurrection of the dead and repentance
is the same procedure it's the same
mechanism it's the
transformation it's literally bringing
back to
life who would you say in the
Tanakh is the prophet of repentance
which prophet symbolizes the call for
repent repentance we this is the this is
the book we read in the closing moments
on the holiest day of the
year
y yon yon is the prophet of
repentance interesting you know who else
yonah is yonah is the son of the AL that
El that sustained El
yahu that died and came back to
life isn't it
interesting that the prophet of
Resurrection
is the prophet of
repentance is that a coincidence no
because for yon to teach the Jewish
people and to teach the world that you
could
repent and you could transform yourself
from a mess to a so they're going to
look at him and say nah you can't how
could I how could I Repent I'm so down
in the dumps I'm so I'm in such a rut I
have so many bad
habits nah it's farf Fallen as they say
in yides it's I'm a lost cause very
often we go into the season of yam and
we say you know there's certain things
in our life it's just a lost cause I'm
never going to change that I'm never
going to improve in that area I'm never
going to elevate myself in this area
when it comes to that I'm
dead yonas says you're not dead look at
me I literally came back to life I am
the individual who ELO brought back to
life I could teach Jewish people that
repentance is
possible it's one job it's one
mechanism and therefore in
the the 120 sages who composed the
prayer on Rashana they injected three
powerful
words God there's no one like you
there's no one like you which means God
will resurrect us on Rashana and more he
gives us the opportunity to resurrect
ourselves because the process of chuva
is nothing short than the greatest
miracle that God could perform but he
gives us to be able to perform ourselves
that any small step you know there's a
you familiar with the gar the gar
saysa is great it reaches all the way to
the throne of
Glory the word Chua has a numerical
value of
713 if you take the word kakav th Throne
of glory and you use the following
special system of
gatria okay I'm going to introduce you
to it do you remember it says that MOS
translated the
T hat
very well Rashi says he Dave 70
languages say hey Rashi how did you get
70 from the words or very well one of
the classic commentaries on Rashi is the
mrai mrai says if you take the word
haave and you use the following
procedure are you ready for this fasten
your seat bels haave hey test vas
hey
hey hey
test it's a system
like that's where they took it from but
it's sourced in the
re not
what you add it up 70 that's how rash
know it's 70 so thei says we're going to
do that to
add it all up 713 it
equals one of the
great
teaches in the word the entirety of
the why do you think
chuva is latent in only in this
system cuz friends cha is going to get
you to
the but it's only going to take you
there if you go one step at a time first
you take the CU then you take the CU
then you take the AL no one is going to
become a perfect sadic overnight or even
in one season of the
Y but
the correct system of chuva is one small
step at a time every year we try to take
upon ourselves a small cabala small
changes even not an entire Mitzvah it's
even worthwhile every year to say this
year I'm going to do this Mitzvah on
Sunday
better Monday I'll get to next
year this year I'm going to learn more
on Sunday I'm going to learn more on
chabas I'm going to DAV better on a
specific
one step at a time but ultimately cha
will lead us all the way to
the all of this is latent in three short
words in
our it's the greatest miracle in
hashem's repertoire it's a miracle God
bestows upon the Jewish people with the
great gift of
chuva and we are confident that hasem
will give us the Heavenly assistance and
the great blessing this year of
for us individually for our families and
for all of Cl I thank you very much for
your kind attention and I wish all of
you a happy healthy prosperous year full
of
the thank you very
much also want to give a big to Gary and
his team for
bringing and I wish you
and to everyone here and only we should
be to the Propet all the Broast the new
year is going to bring and we're now
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