Torah Ohr Pre Selichos Event - Rosh Hashanah: All Bets Are Off

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com thank you for hosting me this evening PRI we ashaz we take it easy when it comes to we haven't even got going yet we still have another week till we wake up but already started from like the language of the tour then went up to and gave the second opportunity to gain Raton and to gain favor and to gain kapar so I'd like to speak this evening and be ourselves be myself about the proper attitude we should have as the Y approach as rashash is approaching the proper attitude we should have dur the recitation of in the in the we know there are three main we say and ends I believe that as and have pretty much the same we might not have the same tune so you'll have to bear with my as tune but I believe the words are the same we say you hear the sound of thear you're attentive to the tra there's nobody like you blessed are you God you hear the sound of the tra of the Jewish people with Mercy now there's one line here there's one phrase here that seems out of place we sayem you hear the sound of thear you're attentive to the there's no one like you okay it's true nobody like God but it's random what doesn't belong here you could stick any I don't know you want to say you can't just throw random words into the this is a prayer about the acceptance of hasem Hashem listens to the Shar so we should say you listen to thear your MAA why inject the words now there's a problem over here because there's a that you need which means just opposed to the conclusion of the bra the subject matter has to be what the conclusion of the is so if the concludes then how could you even next to so here's a simple answer simple answer is understanding what the purpose of the shaer is what's the function of the shaar why does God give us the sh isn't the you have a here rash okay you know it's big it's a big it's a big book right there are a lot of it's you're you're in SCH a good part of the day what time do you start rashash morning here next 730 7:30 and then you when do you finish 130 1:30 so you guys hour it's a it's a big service yeah a lot of pages and you're daving you're daving you're crying you're being you're being Mel what do you need a Scher for all of a sudden you need an instrument what's the purpose of the Cher so basically the brisar explains and this is a classic brisk toyra this is brought by the B and the brisar of that we have a we have a problem and that is on rashash there's so many things we need to pray for we need to pray for our health we need to pray for our livelihood we need to pray for our children we need to pray for our families we have so many requests we have so many things that we need we have so much on our mind can we even articulate cogently and coherently all the things that we need to pray for it's impossible it would be impossible to Art articulate everything we're for there's so much Weighing on our heart there's so much we need that the did us a favor he said you know what there's no way you could possibly express everything you want to pray for so what we're going to do is we're going to bypass the mouth we're going to go straight from the heart to me you're going to blow straight out of your soul and all of your requests and all everything Weighing on your heart you're just going to blow straight out to the shamayim as as almost says as if we cannot possibly articulate everything we we need to pray for so we just cry it out through the Shar now who could possibly detect and decipher what the Cry of the Scher is could any human being hear AER and say okay Ru needs shim needs good health Ley needs something else but only God Almighty could detect could determine could decipher the unarticulated raw Cry of the Scher and he knows what every member of the Jewish people needs so we say God who's like you you're but there's nobody like you who could hear in theer the personal request of every member of the Jewish people but there's something much deeper over here because one secret you need to know is that when the a formulate they didn't just take literary style and come up with nice words and beautiful words and poetic words firstly we have to know every single word of comes from tanak is rooted in tanak and every word has a very specific connotation and the words are referring to a very specific ability of God there are two other instances in daving where we use the Expression For example in in the second we say who is like you master of strength who is comparable to you in what context do we use the phrase who's comparable to God we say the god who could cause death and bring to life so is specifically referring to God's ability to resurrect to resuscitate to revivify whatever word you want to use is specifically referring to God's ability to bring the dead back to life where else do we have and the explains nobody is evaluated like you in this world there's nobody but you there's nobody comparable to God when it comes to the resurrection of the Dead which means as follows of all the myriads of Miracles that God performs with us daily the greatest miracle in God's repertoire is the miracle of Resurrection but understand what that means you know there's so many miracles that Hashem does for us on a regular basis I'll give you an example you have a baby in utero you have a child in utero how does a child breathe are its lungs taking in oxygen oxy no absolutely not it gets oxygen from the um umbilical cord so that means when the left Atria takes in the blood does it have to send it to the left ventricle to pump it out so that it then goes to the right Atria and then to the right ventricle and then off to the body no the only reason why in in a mature individual the blood goes from the left side and then is pumped to the lungs is to oxygenate the blood but in a baby we don't need to oxygenate the lung the the blood because the blood is already oxygenated from the mother so you know what God does in a child in utero God has made a little hole in the baby's heart so that the blood goes straight from the left Atria to the right Atria unbelievable doesn't have to go to the left ventricle and then be pumped to the B to be oxygenated now if a an adult a child had a hole in their heart how long could a person exist we couldn't exist even for a moment so then what happens here you have this little child every baby in utero has a hole in their heart so what does God do the moment the baby born borns the the moment the baby's born it cries the moment it cries it creates pressure in its chest that pressure seals up the heart every single time no doctors are needed no surgery is needed if you needed a doctor they would charge $50,000 to your insurance policy but the says no we're going to make it easy the baby's going to come out the baby's going to cry it's going to seal up by itself always happens if it didn't happen e by the way you know stands for the month of we are able to stand before God but even this great miracle it's pretty good not bad but it's not the greatest miracle in God's repertoire there are comparisons to that the greatest miracle in the repertoire of is tells us that there were children who were being taken on a ship back to Rome to be violated in Rome and instead of being violated they said let's jump off the ship and one child said to the other will God be able to retrieve us from the bottom of the ocean and bring us back to life after who knows what sharks will eat us will be ripped apart limb by limb and the gar tells us that the miracle of is God will retrieve every single molecule of a person that decomposed and broke down Hashem will retrieve every mole molecule every cell every atom and reconstitute it and bring it back together as the navi says the day will come God will knock on our Graves and say no get up already it's time get up that's the greatest miracle in the repertoire of God so why in the world on rashash Shana in the context of God listening to the sound of the do we reference the miracle of we say what's this doing here what's theer got to do with the resurrection of the Dead let me tell you the T anybody know where in which Sim say huh how am I supposed to know I don't do I don't memorize those things so I tell you a little secret I once had the privilege to hear AA fromit yeah you know who he is okay I figured you have about 500 of his farm over there okay so posed the following question anybody here know in we are in Yura I don't know I learned for Yara but I don't remember he said come on your and then he went on to say there are many many ways of remembering for example says Sim isri then he said there's a famous of about lighting candles Friday night so after that I thought of a few good ones first of all the weekend yeah and this is the best T Al tough it's a tough time of the year right and how do you stay up Ka pay off you need a lot of coffee so okay there you go so it's in Simmon t p Al so the tour writes like this in Sim P Al the Torah says who is like the Jewish people we know how God operates if somebody had a court case and there were it was it wasn't a traffic ticket it was a capital crime capital offense and their life was on the line would they spend a few hours you know grooming themselves and taking a shower and making sure everything looked right they would not have the wherewithal and the peace of mind to groom and to be hygienic they may not have showered for a long time they would be so overwhelmed with the fright and the fear of the impending Den they would just show up dis sheveled and and looking the way they do but we don't do that on rashash on rashash the Tor writes we wear our best we wear white we take a haircut we trim our nails we trim our mustache we look well we keep oursel well groomed why because we know we are confident God Will Make A Miracle for us on rashash huh we are confident that God will make a miracle for us in Rashana what Miracle does God do for us in rashash there no Miracles taking place in in fact in the the asks that we should say Hal on rash remember the's answer what's the's answer says well the book of the living and the dead are open how could you say Hal asked what do you mean we should say Hal and rashash we only say Hal for a miracle what Miracle takes place on rashash let me share with you a that will open up to us a new dimension of understanding this is I believe it's obsolete it doesn't apply anymore particularly I see everyone in the show is very careful not to have a phone out in the B now this is a very important Hana somebody says when you come to Grey neck you could give M because people are so I'm going to take advantage of it Al I'm not a rabbi over here I could say whatever I want so what's GNA happen not going to invite me back by the time they'll forget about what I said by the next time here's here's the deal what is is to serve God with all your heart listen carefully the gamar says what is prayer prayer is serving God with all your heart which means that if you're not serving Hashem with all your heart that's not half a prayer it's not prayer so if let's say in middle of prayer you check out your phone oh I just got a message National Weather Service a flash flood warning is in effect in this area until this is a dangerous and life-threatening situ oh right so if in middle of prayer you're looking at your phone so it's not that I'm praying distracted it is not prayer that is not so the first first thing you need to do you have to decide do I want to pray to God today if the answer is yes if you would like to pray to the Lord this evening or any other time the first thing you have to do is turn your phone off if your phone is on it's not that I prayed but I was a little distracted by the way same thing with li liod you know the story R was learning for 12 years he started off and he he said hey anyone could bring me a rabbi I'll bite off his head like a donkey Rika was a nice guy but he was an nice don't like rabbis that's the way it is and he went to he learned for 12 years and his wife was a good lady she gave up her husband for 12 years and he comes back and he overhears his wife telling somebody you know my husband went to learn for 12 years and the guy says you're out of your mind you're muga what's wrong with you why would you let your h hband leave for 12 years and she said if he would listen to me he would go back for another 12 years and sure enough that's what he did and Ritz asks schitz asks what did RAB why didn't RAB AKA go over to his wife and say honey that's so nice of you thank you so much for letting me learn for 12 years how was PTA last night how is how's our kid learning in Yesa how was the bar mitzvah you made last week without me how how was Passover 3 weeks ago what does rabas say to his wife after 12 years not one word he did not go and say hello to his wife why so famously says because if he would have stopped and gone for a moment and said to his wife how you doing thank you so much I'll see you in another 12 then he would have learned 12 years and then another 12 years but by not interrupting he was able to learn a consecutive 24 years and 12 + 12 is not the same as 24 consecutive years so now if 12 + 12 does not equal 24 then one minute looking at your phone and then another 5 minutes and then 3 minutes later also it doesn't add up for learning to be successful it has to be uninterrupted and as much as possible this is a very important but let me tell you an important that cell phones has changed and that is if you go 30 days without seeing your friend what do you make we don't do that anymore cuz if you don't see your friend for thir day you know they're around right you know if they wouldn't be around you would have gotten an amber alert within moments that you know what happened to your friend and what would the be if 12 months has passed and you didn't see your friend you make huh why do you make because of 12 months gone by says the mar then definitely rashash has passed and if rashash has passed then your friend has experienced and the appropriate blessing to make after 12 months after is from this Mar we see a revolutionary perspective to rashash Shana many of us think we're going to stand before God and rashash we're going say God in you gave us life you gave us Health you gave us money do me a favor God just keep it that way butt out of my business for another year so that everything could continue the way it's been we think on rashash we're what we call M on everything we have we're alive we have a nice house we have a car we have a family we have a wife we have a husband we have children we have everything we need and we say God Almighty just keep it that way just keep the things the way they've been we are M we have everything in our back pocket just keep it that way but say when we stand before God and rashash we stand before him ktim without any life we stand before him as if we're not alive we stand before him as if we have no money in our pockets we stand before him with as if we have no family and we ask God not to extend the lease not to continue things the way they've been we ask God give us life again give us a family again give us money again because we stand before without anything used to say over that he remembered being in the the night of Again by Ash we start you know a few days before rashash the big night is opening night is Saturday night before rashash and who is the rash the thean and TR got up to the podium and before he asked the following question in we say God we don't stand before you with good deeds with good actions with we stand before you impoverished like anim what does it mean we stand before God like anim R and explained as follows simply it means that God we don't have any good deeds in our repertoire we don't have any we don't have any when we stand before you on rash explained as follows what we stand before don't think you have anything in your pocket don't think any of the benefits and the blessings that you've had in the past will definitely continue don't even think you have them in your back pocket and you could ask AES continue them when rashash comes last year's lease is over last year with all of its benefits with all of its toote with everything God has given us it's over it's it's a one-year lease and we don't ask God to extend the lease we ask him to give us another lease on life we don't say Hashem we're alive continue it we have money continue it I have X number of dollars in the bank account just leave it that way we come before God and rashash with a balance of zero in the account and we ask Hashem for all the blessings in life bestow on us once again the Aral reveals that it's not that on Rashana God says okay this person's going to live 80 years 90 years 100 years 70 years it's one year at a time it's one Shana at a time and that's how we stand before listen to this question the brings an opinion a person is judged every single day you imagine such a thing imagine every day is rash asks if a person is judged every single day why do we get so worked up on rashash come to rashash people are swaying crying tearing banging you ever go to Yeshiva on rashash people are banging slamming they're hitting their heads against the wall screaming the roof is shaking if if the foundations of your are the same after Rashana that wasn't Rashana what are you getting so worked up on what's what's going every day say there's a very big difference between the daily judgment and the annual judgment you see today God is judging us but today's judgment is very different than the annual judgment the way today's judgment works is that God said okay yesterday you were alive yesterday you were married yesterday you had children yesterday you had money in your account and you had a job the onus is on God to come up with a good reason to change it you're the and God is comes rash all bets are off we stand before God K it's not that we're alive and we ask God to keep it that way we stand before God without anything whatsoever on we say God give us life resurrect us resuscitate us give us parasa give us the ability to breathe to see to hear to have family give us again but we are confident that God will perform this miracle for us you know what the miracle of rashash is it's the miracle of it's the miracle of Resurrection it's the miracle of revocation on rashash God doesn't give us life he doesn't extend our life he resurrects us from the dead he gives us money May that is the Mir that is why the gar asks we we should say Hal rash we asked what Miracle takes place on Rashana that you you should say Hal it's the greatest Miracle of the year you know what the miracle is on P God took us out of Egypt pretty good on he gave us the Tor not bad on he protected us with an which day of the year does the greatest Miracle happen R you know the Z says when God blew the soul into Adam he blew it like the Bal TOA one of the messages of the chofar isas I says the chauffeur looks like the nose I guess depending how long the nose is and depending how long the chauffeur is the chauffeur reminds us that on this day God breathes the Nish back into us it's the miracle of if the year has gone by you haven't seen your friend what do you make this would explain something incredible which narrative in the Kash do we mention throughout rashash again and again and again on the second day of rashash we read about why do we blow the chauffer of an aisle to remind us of you know the you do yeah so you go to the river what in the world are you doing at the river by the way you know important when you go to the river on rash what do you not throw in the river bread you know that's you cannot feed animal on Y what are you doing why do we do T what's T all about the Mish brings from The Who quotes from The M the of is to remind us of when was going to slaughter y he encountered a river the Satan had dressed up like a river and ab had didn't know what to do so he went into the river he went higher and higher and higher into the river until the water reached his nose and he said so we do to remember you do kaparot kaparot is to remind us you have yeah sure what do you do you say what kind of the head of what so most people get a fish but that's not what it says in you get the head of a ram why why do we remember Thea anybody know anybody want to take a guess why do we remember Thea Rashana what is what is that K that have to do with rashash oh cuz it happened on rashash No it didn't why it didn't happen rash there's one the says it happened rash but y said it happened on yur says it happened on Yip said it happened on P so according to the sheet that happened on P what in the world are we making a whole everything we do on rash is about what did have to do with rash ah so this sad is saying according to what we're learning we understand understand the essential and Central miracle and principle of Rashana is when was the first time in history God resurrected the dead so contrary to what they taught you in Yesa or in Day School when Abraham brought Isaac to to slaughter him the M said hey Abraham what are you doing cut that out and ab oh I'm sorry he said he said in yish never mind as well as says Abraham Put The Knife On's neck and according to according to sh he turned into Ash that was scattered all over hararia and all of a sudden God called down from Shay and hasem brought back to life and made the following by the way the first was composed byah when he was saved from orm the second was composed by when he was resurrected at the AA now we understand what the AA has to do with rashash the AA is the central theme of rashash where God takes us who literally we have no claim to life we stand before as if we're made him and we don't ask God to reive us life we ask him to resurrect us to bring us back to life and we know any act that God God does is rooted in the Tor and therefore it's important what is the with which God resurrects us on Rashana it's the AA Thea is the source of our life on so we blow and we do Kar with to remember and we do to remember and we we Lan we read about the Torah portion the AKA is the source of life and Rashana but there's another very important connection between and anybody here no anyim how many jobs could an angel do one job no multitasking for Angels what is he he's a Mal what's he going to do he's going to do two jobs he's going to bring the world to he's going to bring the world to how could he do two things how can you do two things if you look in r i's commentary to the sidor says where in should you be to do says no when you get to the of you should be to do what does have to do with the medish tells us that rash we stand before as if we're dead in our actions listen carefully the medish tells us thear tells us that a Rasha a wicked person is considered dead in their actions but listen to why the medish says that a Rasha wakes up in the morning and he sees the Sun and he doesn't thank for the son so you know what the definition of life is the definition of life is thanking we say God what benefit would there be if I die could the dirt thank you we say the dead can thank Hashem really no kidding the dead can't do a lot of things the dead can't play ping pong either the dead can't go bowling the dead can't go golfing the dead can't put Onin why do we no the definition of life is thanking the living will thank hasem the med says the the living the matter says rash we stand before God not only with no kazaka and life not only with no kazaka and all the blessings of life we standing before as if we're dead in our actions we say to we're in such Darkness we're in such a rut not only do we not have anything in our Kaka our actions are so lacking it's as if we're not alive does anybody know which Nai which prophet is the prophet OFA y y yon is also the only person recorded in tanak who is brought back to life who's that when eloh came to the house of the ISA the Al and the child died and eloh came Ando brought this child back to life who is this child Yon only someone who personally experienced only such a person Could Teach the World about the power of Chua because sometimes we come before Hashem and we feel we're in such a rut we have so many bad habits we're in such Darkness we've become accustomed to so many things perhaps we're embarrassed of and we think how could we ever change how could we ever pull out of it how could we ever overcome it you know who tells us that we're able to do says God could perform the great miracle of the miracle of he's the one who could help us to it's the same Miracle the miracle of is the same Miracle the miracle of and therefore on rash in the we say God you hear the sound of the chaar and we know that we're in a very desperate situation we know that we don't stand before you m on life M on anything we stand before you K but we know you are capable and able and will perform the great miracle of you're going to resuscitate us this year there's an amazing says the 40 days fromes those 40 days correspond to the 40 days of we know and even scientifically that even though a child develops over the course of nine months the first 40 days of its development are the most critical all the organs all the limbs are formed to some extent in the first 40 days the gender is determined by day 40 the Nish comes in by day 40 in other words by day 40 the child is an entire entity and now it just has to grow the 40 days ofes from are the 40 days of we have to understand that during this time of the year every year annually is recreating us now interestingly there are three customs of startes some the tourah brings only say but the custom that the endorses and the r endorses and this is the custom of Barcelona that they begin what's is the first day of creation indicating that this process of the year this time of the year we're recreating ourselves it's 40 days where every day is critical every moment is critical during the 40 days ofad if let's say there would be any interference even for a moment for an hour for a half a day that would spell the difference for the entire rest of the career of this child to realize the 40 most important days of the year are from every day is precious every hour is precious Hashem is recreating us this is the greatest miracle in the repertoire of AES greater than birth greater than Sunrise greater than hearing is the miracle that transpires every rashash yes were judged every single day but every day we tell God look God yesterday I had a house I had a job I had a family I was alive I'm the M it's I'm the presumptive owner you God you're trying to take it away from me you better come up you better have a good claim against me to take away any of my benefits comes rash life is now in the hand of and your family are is in the hands ofes and your job is in the hands ofes and your money is in his hands he's the you're we have to come we have to argue our case we have to fight for our case we have to somehow come up with a reason for God to resurrect us on rashash but the Torah writes we're not afraid we're confident that he's going to perform this miracle for us so we wear our best we wear white and we're confident that God will pull out from his sleeve so to speak the greatest miracle in his repertoire the miracle of there's no No One Like Him Rashana is the most miraculous day of the Jewish calendar and as we prepare for this great day already coming together it's difficult weather it's threatening weather so all who came out tonight to pray the looks down from sh and he's going to see it as a great for you for your families for for all of every single one of you and all of your and all of with a year of good health protection from our enemies from our children thank you you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by 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