It's All In The Head - Rosh Hashana Prayers Explained

So here we are again this uh trying to understand the very very holy words of the of mus of shah we definitely don't don't have enough time to discover and understand all the words of all the we're taking certain parts from parts from from hopefully next week and to try and at least some of the get some connection understanding feeling and hopefully have a better ro and sh it's extremely important to have the covenant. Yeah, that's why don't eat nuts so you don't have any your throat is not going to you know go the wrong way. You don't have to clear your throat the whole time. Just shows you how much of concentration and attention to small details exists in the of because it's a day of judgment the day of us coronating Hashem. We are now towards the end of the braha ofot the the first one of the musaf. We started already the beginning of the bra and I'm not going to repeat it cuz we are already in the middle. I would start with the words. Let's start with these words. We are now dinging to Hashem after we spoken about the we spoke about the totality of Hashem being me over the entire world in every possible way. That was the grand picture. Now in the page the middle of the upper text of the Yeah. that we're now standing in front in front of Hashem asking Hashem that each and every creature should know should have of Hashem and this is divided to three separate every should know that you are that you made it work that you're its creator Every that's another word for creature he should understand that you who created him anybody that has within him should say the God of Israel is king. What are these three levels? What's the difference between and what's the difference between and yeah what are we supposed to think when we say these words? So although it's debatable here freeder explains is when you say also in modern Hebrew yada means or in yeshivish language yah means a piece of information you know that I don't know that you can't break Shabbat you know that argues with roa it's a piece piece of information that is simple to you, something you knew from time immemorial, something you learned recently. It's just regular knowledge. It's information that is simple to you. Now, who has that level of yad? The lower creatures called pul means means action. Those who are active in this world, meaning human beings, human beings should just know that Hashem is Malik. We just should be aware. Every creature in the world, every person in the world should know, every acting human being should know that Hashem is melik. That's the lowest level. That's low, but it's quite big. Everyone should know is now we're getting higher. And soon we're going to get to a real surprise at the end of that process. The is deeper than is a piece of information is understanding to understand deeper what it means that Hashem is me. This applies to it's very debatable amongst different orim. One way to explain are those who are in if you're aware of the four worlds. Yeah. is the world of the Malim, the angels. We are doubling so to speak that the Malim should have a higher level of understanding and should really understand what Hashem is. It's interesting cuz we tend to think of Malim as static but apparently even Malim have their level too. Whatever that means, I don't know. But Malim, they say they're also affected by human beings somehow. Malim too should have a deeper and better understanding of who you are. Okay. But you may ask why do I care about the about the the angels? First of all, I care about the getting from the from the angels. But here comes the third stage and it's connecting everything. The third stage is the here interesting it says everybody that has a soul within him should say. Now up until now we spoke about knowing then we got deeper into understanding now we're saying about saying and when you think of it when you want to give a shure a lecture or any kind of information you want to pass down to someone you have a plan you have an idea you have a dream so first of all you have some kind of knowledge then you understand it better but when do you know you really understand it when you're able to verbalize it if the idea is not very clear in your mind, you can't really verbalize it. Ideas are lofty but also a bit fuzzy. When you're talking about saying, when you say something, it means it's very very clear to you. If he says something in the ultimate good way, that means it's so clear in my mind, I can verbalize it and actually make it very central and very solid. Now who are those who have the knowledge of Hashem in a up to a level that is so clear that they can actually verbalize it? These are someone this is someone these are someone ones so to speak that are above the malim. Who is above the well? You know who they are? It's us again. What does that mean? Jewish people we know that our nish is connected where where is the source of our nish high high up in we have five parts to our nish the highest part of the nish is connected to kadoshu himself bingo if we are with our and if we are in touch with our if we're aware of our nish and therefore we are in close connection to BU we are even higher than the malim. So let's review again is anybody in the street London Paris New York Tokyo any person Jewish or non-Jewish even non-Jewish people every person there was that is acting is in the world he should know that Hashem is king it should be very clear to him the malim they're above that they have a much better understanding but you know who's above the malim above the are those which are any being that has real but it's connected from all the way to we will be able to say to really know it so well that we say it and we know what we're saying we're declare it loud and clear and those who are connected to are higher than because for a Jew nowadays to actually break the to be you have to be more than an angel angels don't Angels don't walk down the street when you have uh forbidden uh yeah all kinds of things you're not supposed to look at. Angels don't have the toon. Angels don't have parents as the famous goes. So when we are connecting to Hashem especially in Shah and we d we all want to recognize that and that's the ultimate truth that everyone should reach. Hashem interesting. It doesn't say it doesn't say why cuz it's not enough for all the it's not enough for the or the malim or anybody to just know in God we trust. So nice. In God we trust. It's nice if people would really believe in in God we trust, but we're looking for something much deeper. Everybody should know that the way that a kadosh actualizes his mal his kingdom his ruling is through who do who who actually perform Torah and keep Torah in mitzvot that is everybody should know not some general idea about God who created the world each and every person in every world in this world and upper world everybody should understand that the only way of hashem to show his mal is through us who actually use everything to make him mel. Every time we make a we make him. Every time we take something physical we make him. And this is what everybody should realize. And we continue again the totality. His is something that controls everything. What's mashallah? What's the difference between and there are two differences? So if I would say it in English, I would say is you know kingship, kingdom, reign and mesh is to govern. But what does that mean? So the famous says is when you like the king and you want the king is when you don't like the king. is more like a kind of dictatorship. Sounds like I don't want to get political, but there's another explanation that I saw a while ago in the We say it every day. I didn't plan to say it now, but it's so sweet and we say it three times a day, so we better know what we're saying. Your is something general that spreads over all different worlds. Is more particular is the way that the governs in a more particular way in a more in more focused way and that changes from a generation to generation is a general fact that the king is king. Shalah is the way that the governs over his you know over over his subjects in a way that is he directs and he guides each and everyone and that's why the way Hashem guides and practically specifically rules the world that changes from one generation to the other. Now we understand All mash hashem's malut will actually reign in such a way that each and every person will get his right you know dosage so to speak each one will be individually guided by hashem and this is what we want this is what we wish for the malut should be focused and minimized to each person and each event and each country and each thing in a separate way and this is the end of that. But now we continue to the next piece, the next stanza. And that is something we say every every and some of it every Shabbat and yet I would like to go into these words because they have special meaning on Rosh Shah. Yeah. It's not this is not exclusive for Rosh Shah but in Rosh Shah it takes special meaning and so says Freedelland there as well. We're now dabbing. Now we're asking this is the last paragraph in this we're now saying every gives us a different aspect of every every is like adorning our is adding more to different parts of our and if the more mitzvah what we do the correct way the more we have like you need to be imbued with more mitzvah and more and we ask Hashem for that and now it's shah so we're asking Hashem Hashem we are listening to yeah we want the toadh us we don't want the mitzvah to be something exterior that we just do and we tick the box we want the mitzvah of we want the mitzvah of the mitzvah of everything we do in we want these mitzvah thought to be part of us and part of our spiritual makeup to madh us. Here comes Oh, here comes the real deal. Oh, this has at least three meanings. I don't know if you noticed, but most of the time I try not to say more than one one shot per sentence. I used to go to Shirim about fai. I didn't like it that you give it like three four explanations to each line cuz in tran you you don't want to think too much you want to like feel and have a flow not just to think of three four different ideas I want to have just one flow here I would take an exception here not I would make an exception and I do want to explain more than one because it's just I just can't miss it what does it mean 10 first of all the source for that as far as I know is says, "Yeah, and I wrote down the source here. It says we say it three times a day. At the end of every when we take back the three steps back, what do we say? once is built. What does it mean? Which most of the sh is based on his words. Each Jew has his own. Each Jew has his own part of Torah. Sometimes you feel excited by by you have to write your own safer. You have your own tora that is yours. Some people are attracted to kabala to mysticism. Of course, everybody has to learn because it's the main part of Torah is as Rashi says before us. We learned in inbet but at the end of the day each person has his own unique part in Torah and you have to dive into Hashem to find your part in Torah. You may be searching one way and really your Torah is somewhere else. You need guidance cuz sometimes the wants to direct you to the other direction but you have to find where is my soul which part of Torah is my soul connected to? Many times people are not successful in learning and then they find a different venue in Torah, different part of Torah which they love and they get so much into it. So we have to dive in hard and we're talking here. We're talking about Shah. It's not just about now. We want the entire year to be immersed in Torah and find our part in Torah. That's one shot. The uh the Schlakad says something fascinating like wow. He says says what does in a different way I think it's in the says what does Hashem do all day he created the world and he's supervising and he's doing everything in the world yet there's something else that he does and that is to learn Torah Hashem learns Torah yeah he sits and learns yeah Hashem whatever that means I don't know Hashem learns Torah he loves Torah and he learns it all the And the more you learn Torah, the more godlike you are yourself. And it says there says he's actually quoting that people say in this world. Yeah. In other words, this is talking about there this and that. Hashem quotes the different and says, "Yeah, this is what this am says." In other words, Hashem gave the Torah to us. Now we are the ones who learn Torah. And when you learn Torah and you say something that's really sweet and really good himself quotes you in Sham. Can you imagine? You say you say and it's quoted in by no other than himself. It's insane. And that says this is what we for your Torah. We want our Torah to be so super duper good that you literally means your Torah. You Hashem, you learn Torah. You sit and learn the whole day on we want our Torah to be we want a part in the Torah that you learn. In other words, we want our Torah to be correct to say real. We want our Torah to be pure. We want our Torah to be good. We don't want to just you know sit and and you know learn to in a passive way in in uncaring way. We want to learn to in such a way that the Torah will be so truthful that we'll reach will be quoted by and we're dvening this in Shah that the entire year we want our Torah to be on that high level. This is very early important source. Yes. Yeah. Now we continue. This is my own but I said it to many many people and uh it was accepted by people greater than me. Everybody today fights against technology and against technology and against pituit and against the iPhones and I'm not getting involved over here and I think it's really bad what's going on you know unfiltered internet it's really bad but yet didn't start today gets a lot of from uh from all over but I heard this actually in one of the one of the one of the rallies one of the lectures they had against the internet or how to deal with internet issues And the person spoke very nicely and he said something very true. Before you speak against this and against that, you have to realize what is that you do want in life. People turn to bad sources and start uh developing bad addictions even because they're not involved in something good. And actually I saw this in the goisha source as well. Even in goa psychology which I don't like to quote at all, they realize it too. You start doing nonsense and being involved in bed when you don't have something really good that fills your life, right? You can't tell your children. Like if you don't have food at home, the only food you have at home is uh crisps and Coca-Cola and uh nice cakes with white sugar and white flour and uh dextrose and and that's the only thing that that you have at home. So of course that's what your kids are going to eat. What do you complain? So they're going to die. I don't know. They're going to be sick. Yeah. You have to give your children healthy food and then tell them don't drink coke and don't eat cakes and I'm giving you nice food that's tasty and healthy. We're asking Hashem and we have to cry over this in Rosh with real tears. Satisfy us with what? With your good things. We don't want to be satisfied with the bad. We don't want to be satisfied with things that are unhealthy for us. We don't want to be satisfied by yet. We want to be sub. We want to be able to eat the Torah. We want to be able to be excited and go crazy over mitzvot. Make us satisfied. Make us full and feel fulfilled and good about ourselves within your what is good in your eyes. Hashem, this is what should make us happy and healthy and satisfied. And once we are once we've been already and we are good servants of Hashem, then we ask you make us happy, make us rejoice in your Yeshua, in your redemption, in your salvation. Because once we're filled with the we can expect Hashem to help us as well. We want our heart to be pure. Yeah. in a truthful way meaning this is the day of sh is the first day you know when sh is called sh not or I don't know something like that means head last time I checked you want to translate sh to English don't call it new year's eve call it the head of the year literally if you want to make a literal translation you know the old Google translate used to make the funny kind of mistakes right today it's a bit better if you put Sh it probably tell you the head of the ear. Now that's not stupid. It's true because just like your head, the head is not just the top of your body. The head as we know the brains is where that's the part that controls everything in your body. The whole system, the whole uh the the computer chip of the entire function of the body is up here. Yeah. It's not just a location. Rash is like the microcosm of the entire year. Whatever happens in Roshash says Ravul quoting people before him. Anything that happens in Roshash is affecting your entire year because it's like the seed that you that you plant in the ground is the seed of the whole tree called the entire year. That's why we don't sleep as much as we can. We don't want to sleep here. We don't get angry. We don't want an angry year. Whatever. I remember in my own life actually I don't start making confessions. This one year something happened to me in rash shad certain behavior something that happened in rash shad to me and I reacted a certain way nothing bad it was and and it affected my entire year only years later I realized that rash shad there was a certain mida that kind of happened and the entire year was like that unbelievable and I didn't connect it till years later yeah I'm from my own life I'm not I'm saying st from my own what happens to me and I'm a very very regular guy so that's the idea so that's why rosh now say, "Purify our heart now so we can serve you the entire year." It's true. We say this every Shabbat. I know it's not a contradiction. Every Shabbat to purify again and again and again. But rash shah anything that happens in rash shah being satisfied being happy looking for Yeshua asking for pure for purity all these things are the same as Shabbat but 100 million times more because this day is more of an effective day more than any other day of the year I was once in the of Pinosal and he said something a bit uh strong he said the only day in the year is rash that's the only day in the year the other years. The other day is like development of that one day. It's all like you know kind of working. It's all copying or it's all results. Things will grow as a second result of that one day of year. And let's continue. And now we now declare I will make it a bit short now because I want to get to the next but we'll say in short you are real you are true your words are met and exist forever. In other words you are emit. What does it mean when we say we know Hashem is Hashem? We know it all the time. People who dash normally are not atheists. They know that Hashem exists. Yeah. I mean, maybe somebody just did cha yesterday. Good. But yeah, what does it mean? So the word has many different levels. The total truth in the world is hem. Which means the only thing that really exists in the world in an independent way is Hashem. The only way that the only real real thing is everything else that exists is a derivative of hem. This is and this is what we are now declaring and realizing you Hashem are the only thing that actually exists. Other things are just you know mystifying you. Somebody who scares you, somebody who's against you, somebody who maybe even love you. All these things are derivatives of Hashem. There are like the puppets in the puppet show. But the only real thing is a puppeteer up there. The puppets are not real. The children think they are at a very young age. But it's just a show. It's a show run by someone. But the only thing that runs the the world and the only that runs the show is the only thing which is and your whatever you say is true and it exists forever in an independent way. And I'd like to quote one line. Um yeah. Okay. We'll continue then we finish off clearly. Yeah. What's the way to finish the How do we usually end up right here? We don't we ignore Is Wow. We ignore ourselves. Did you realize that we don't say we change very stark change a very strong change very acute we don't say is also depends in why do we usually say you know gave us the holiness the sanctity because we're so holy we create the meaning didn't decide when is the new moon the new month and this is how you have the yumtov in the olden days the way it's supposed to be over here it's a different story we ignore ourselves meaning we first of all before we talk about ourselves we say we put oursel as ourselves as some something secondary we don't say straight away first of all you are the king and you are the business Today on Osh Shah you don't you hardly ask for anything personal the more personal you get you're running into hot water over here it's not good to ask for personal things on Shah there's tash there's here and there yes I know about it but any or any normal good open about sh over 90% would tell you sh is about me being you I'm taking my ego and me and my needs and me Me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me I have to take gazillion step backwards and I only sanctify and I only carnate Hashem because if you start talking about yourself will also look at yourself and your ego and your it's not good when the king is here you have to show him I'm your loyal servant and I am so low and I'm so behind and I'm so submissive you are it so even first you're the king and then as a result of that you sanctify us and so this is the end of uh we'll start yeah we still have some time to start the second of in general before we go into the actual words of we are in page beautiful ideas over here from But before we begin, I just want to again clarify something very practical. Let's get practical over here. Something that is is not easy at all, but something that we have to practice before says you have to do the following. What does not mean? What does mean Hashem remembers us? As we said the other time, Hashem remembers everything all the time. Hashem doesn't need uh your Google calendar for your next dental appointment. That's us. Yeah, but what's remembers all the time? Hashem remembers means that he remembers. He brings the memory into life, which means Hashem remembers everything in a way that's dormant because he's not judging us. So he remembers and all all of Hashem's memory is being accumulated in the database up there, so to speak. Now comes Roshana. Oops. Now we click on the on the icon and boom. Now what? We have all the information coming up. A lot of good things as well and something's not so good and some things in improvement. The zel means he remembers it in a more active way. He puts the memory into action. What's the trick to win the din? Here's a trick. You know how Hashem will remember you? Many many things you do that Hashem can see in a good way or in a bad way, right? You went to Davin. You d more or less and you also spaced out. You spoke a little bit but he didn't speak in the times when it's really awesome. He spoke in when he when you're not so bad to speak although it's really not good. So every m you do Hashem can look at it many different ways. And we want Hashem to remember us to define our and we said before also means eternity. Hashem, we want Hashem to inscribe us in the safer of to define us in our action asim with what? If we remember Hashem in a good way. The more you remember Hashem and you see Hashem so to speak in a positive way, the more you care about what Hashem has to say throughout the year and especially before Shana at least get ready now quickly and put Hashem's will before your own will before your yet. You put Hashem first. You remember Hashem all the time. What does Hashem say right now? Am I supposed to say that piece of maybe gossip, maybe not? Yes or no. What does Hashem have to say? You don't know? Ask the rabbi. Yeah, I'm about to do some activity with my wife, with my kids. What does Hashem have to say about going to that place? Yeah. What's Hashem's opinion on the matter? You know, he has a say. He should be the only one that has a say, nobody else. So the more you remember Hashem throughout the year, the more Hashem will remember you in a positive way. It's a very mutual relationship. That's the concept of especially in Shah. We kind of delete anything else and we only remember Hashem and what he wants and getting ready for Sh is part of that story. Now we're beginning to learn the we'll do a little bit now and most of it will be next time. So before uh before we continue, I'll just give it and then later on we say and then it's not all in one go. I skipped a little bit but there are three titles here is the past since time immemorial. You remember everything from the very distant past from the very beginning of creation and before remember what we said about the word means action. People moving around like crazies in Manhattan. People have deal learning Torah in Bish and in Lakewood. Yeah, that's yeah, the action was going on in the in the present. That's and the third thing is is the future. Even the future is known and revealed in front of you. And this is a very very important concept of which we're going to learn next time. And that is when Hashem remembers on Shah we have a very I would say minimi very narrowminded about what Hashem remembers on Shah what did the kindergarten teacher tell us or our teacher later on in life what's rash Hashem opens the book and it's scary and he looks at all your mim everything you do and everything you thought and everything you were inspired and then he writes you down you know that's true but The picture is much much much bigger. Rosha Shana is another push another another spurt of energy that comes into a new year. And that here is a link in a chain. Every sha what's shah it's kind of different sha but also sha is repeating. Hashem is repeating and gives another you know he he presses the pedal again giving energy to a new year but that year is different to the one before cuz every year is a link in a chain between briata and mashiach. So when Hashem remembers everything in rash shah is actually remembering your little tiniest thought and tiny action which is part of the Jewish nation part of of the world of taffin. Yeah. P VV and that is part of a bigger picture. That is one diamond in the crown, one link in the chain of the entire humanity of the entire eternal history. And all that Hashem remembers, he takes into account and he builds that puzzle of what this coming year, the tin, the coming year. What kind of year do we want to be in that big puzzle and that big story called humankind history? That's and that's why in we talk about past, present and future cuz Hashem takes all that into account in his infinite calculation and all your mim and us as a city as a nation as our our gender our identity our anything. Yeah. He takes all that into account and this is how we builds our plan for the next year. like a good planner. Every good planner doesn't just look at one point. It looks at the big picture, at the holistic picture. That's what Hashem does. And this is what we're praying for in the Okay. Again, uh not enough time for so much information. So next week we meet again for preash and I want to remind you that the mituva we have beautiful 3 days of ongoing shim all day long with lunches and nice food also to really really maximize the potential of thank you all for coming and when we have a very very good year and be remembered by thank