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The incredible myso.
The Baltic [music] air of the Hebrew
sentence. Think about sentence.
One of the first Hasidim to introduce
[music] the idea of Hasidism to the
world. The Hebrew sentence.
And it was on Rosh Hashanah.
And the Bal [music] Shem, of course,
very carefully
picked out who he thought would be a
fitting and befitting [music]
proper candidate for being his Baltic
air. To not only represent the entire
seaboard,
but to be Bal Shem's representative the
Baltic air
for himself.
Bal Shem [music]
told for call me uncle, uncle Baltic
air.
Told one in advance for Rosh [music]
Hashanah, you are appointed. I want you
to be the Baltic air
on Rosh Hashanah. With tremendous
trepidation, yeah, with
>> [music]
>> just realizing what a close it was, he
obviously accepted
this tremendous aveda, this tremendous
opportunity.
And as it was getting closer to Rosh
Hashanah,
Reb Yankel the Baltic air,
he decided that he's going to take out a
paper, he's going to take out a make a
list
of all the cabanas
that is
meant
to have in mind
when he's blowing the shofar. [music]
You can just You can blow the shofar and
of course, just out to get shofar and
blowing that's the mitzvah, but there's
cabanas of Rosh Hashanah and there's
other things out the zoya, out the
cabala. And the uncle wanted to make
sure as he was representing the entire
kehilla, but especially he had this a
crisis of representing the Bal Shem
himself,
>> [music]
>> he wanted to make sure he's not going to
botch it up. So, he thought that if he
had it organized in a neat piece of
paper and a clear list, that will enable
him to stay focused [music]
and
deliver the Yeshua's and all the
salvation [music]
and the hatsalah
with that comes along with the
tekios.
Comes Rosh Hashanah morning and my uncle
is standing along with the Bashem
[music] by the Bima.
My uncle is in front and his heart is
pounding
>> [music]
>> and his eyes are puffy and red from all
the tears and the trepidation. He's so
afraid he's representing and all that
feeling of oim venoira literally awe.
It's ever most present.
And he has his little paper
next to his shofar
on his sitter on his machzor
and right next to him is just imagine
[music] the image
try to depict in your mind the
Bashem Tov standing on Rosh Hashanah and
the the the intensity the the awe the
image of din is literally
tangible in that you could touch it in
the air so strong.
And he's shackling [music]
and he's waiting for the makri the
Bashem himself who is going to call out
the tekios. The makri judges
>> [music]
>> and gives the halachic ruling on every
tekiah on every blast if it's good or
not. They're standing together. They're
about to commence the tekiah.
And finally the Bashem
gives the signal to the makri to my
uncle okay start.
And he makes the brochos and he's
closing his eyes and he's shackling
swaying back and [music] forth and his
voice is quivering.
Boruch ato
and he goes on asher kidishanu
bemitzvoisov
and as he's finishing the brocha the
Bashem
quietly and discreetly [music] slips
away
the piece of paper the tetel
that my uncle put together.
He finishes the brocha al tekiah shofar
and the kehilla says amen.
And he has it in [music] his mouth
looking at the paper
and lo and behold the paper is lost.
Now obviously he couldn't [music] do
anything he can't make a hefsik between
the brocha and the tekiah.
And he has no brera he has no choice.
And he says okay I have to go on. I
don't have my paper. I don't have my
kavanahs, but I'm going to have to make
the best out [music] of this."
And the Bal Shem sees the discomfort
that he's displaying, but he's not
giving him the paper back.
He gets through the entire tekiahs.
And after the long avodah,
Reb Yankel goes to the Bal Shem and he
says,
"I'm so sorry. I lost my paper. It must
[music] have blown off. Maybe someone
took it."
"And I hope that I was an adequate
shliach [music] for you and for the
kehilla."
And the Bal Shem says, "I'll tell you
the truth.
Cuz I know you think it blew off. Maybe
someone took it.
But Bal Shem, I took
your paper."
Reb Yankel was startled. He was puzzled.
He was
He said, "I don't understand. [music]
Did you not know what the choyder reb?
Did you not know what the paper was?
That was all my
kavanahs. I wanted to
give a kind of mitzvah with all the
hidurim and all the proper kavanahs and
the thoughts and had everyone in mind
and I'm representing you. Why did you
take the paper away?"
And the Bal Shem looked at him.
And he said, "As important as all
[music] the kavanahs are,
the most important thing
is a b'yiras Leiv.
The most important thing is purity of
[music] the heart. And I was afraid that
if you're going to be focused on all the
kavanahs and you're going to be focused
on the esoteric concepts and the
kabbalah,
you're going to lose the most important
element, the most important aspect
[music] of the kiyos shofar,
which is your heart.
Which is yourself. Which is your
neshama.
That's why I slipped the paper away. Cuz
I wanted you I wanted your heart. I
wanted your b'yiras Leiv, your purity,
the cleanliness of your heart. That's
what I want to represent the entire
kehilla. That's what I want to represent
as my shliach. And that's why I took
away [music] your paper.
I be release, purity of heart is what
Hashem wants from us. And as we said,
sometimes it's hard to tame. But when we
attain that and we find it difficult,
[music]
we daven and Hashem should give us all
the strength and the shmana.
