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Tu b'Shvat: Pleasure Yourself w Holiness
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so no one can argue about this in fact
they just came back for sure
and in dominion where there's usually
you know they they dive in the even
before the nates
and uh so usually the bidding there for
special days for the alias goes high
you know and today went for six dollars
it's they always start at five and a guy
said six because he buys always the
alias if no one else is bidding
and i turned around to somebody said you
guys don't celebrate this rosh hashanah
i don't understand for every other day
you you every other day you guys bit it
up and this day you just
let it go anyway but it is a special day
a very special day and again
how do i know it's a special day when i
was growing up it was just about not
saying
like everyone else around here you don't
say
you have a fruit and you go on but the
rabbit
started to fabring onto bishwat
in the 1970s and
he really made a a big deal about it
what do i mean
he explained the content of the day
and he said even sometimes he said so
it's another another point i wanted a
side point just for a moment
that ebba took a lot of these days that
we have on the calendar that
claudius row made no issue for the last
hundreds of years to beshrat
to be of and and other such days
even though everyone knows that it's
brought in the gomorrah or the mission
or here or there
but no one made a big deal about it no
one really spoke about it
it's only recent that hasidic rebels
have started make started to make kind
of
more of a a big deal about these days
some have the seders some do they have
tissue
you know what i'm saying but if if if
if my heart serves me right i would say
they all did it once the laboratory
redmond the early 70s
started you know making a big deal about
all these days
which is fine which is fine because
you know the fact is that yiddish kite
went to the right post holocaust more
and more and more
and in the 70s with the with the yeshiva
you know with the the yeshivas the bali
truvia shivers for the
late 60s the diaspora yeshiva
and the hadar torah and then then
and the isha turin or samayak in the 70s
you know
going to the 80s so it became
and then the regular yeshivas all became
you know populated
and and strengthened so many more
students one so
the jewish world found itself in a
culture where
more and more religion more and more
holidays is appreciated
you know when when i was growing up you
know in the 60s and 70s
you know we didn't hear about these
things everything was you know our
parents were working very hard they all
survived and just came to the country
and then they would you know just
happy to be happy to have shabbos
for my father if he could you know
be a shabbos and and not fall asleep at
the table and sing the gun
and and be with his family that was the
biggest gift that's all he needed
you know and he told us so because he
worked so hard during the week
to make a living for the family so
but that changed over the years and
today it's
it's very different and in a way
i just had my grandkids here i just told
you
you know and i and i i look at them and
i hear them i see them and
and i think about how i grew up and how
they're growing up and it's
night and day it's night and day
and they're not growing and and the
growing up my son is a very fine
you know father and husted and jew and
all that
but it's it's just a different culture
it's a very different culture
the world is really differently it's
it's 50 60 years later from 1970 you
know
and a lot of changes
and uh we're feeling it we're feeling it
now you know so we're already on
on the older side you know with our
grayish white beards and
you know what i'm saying we're already
but but but so so so
what what is our responsibility as
grandparents
our responsibilities to to provide and
make
way and and do things that
the next hundred years with mashiach or
god forbid without mushy lucia
there'll be a a strong yiddish kite
a strong british kite and not to decide
our yiddish guy based on a few in may or
showroom or a few in borough park or if
you chicago and a few in los
angeles all of you this kite what can we
do
and and this is it's being done more and
more
i'll give you an example i got a call
from someone yesterday from staten
island
someone who i met at ut's kisla fabrain
and i led a staten island one of the
evenings
never met him before and find out that
he's a chaplain
in the army and there are times he he
was stationed overseas and now you know
now he's
doing his work from here grew up in a
literature kind of home
semi went to some literature yeshivas
started to gravitate to
this
and called me to ask about this tape
that i released from
as alma schechter and different things
him was asking me
then he tells me you should know i
listen to your
urim on my way from staten island i
drive my kids into brooklyn to yeshiva
i follow and i'm up to date with your
classes
of the morning that i'm giving now i
can't be there in person because i'm on
the road
but i follow them no
that's what i did just yesterday you
know just just the passing you know
who who would imagine because i put them
up on youtube you know and sometimes i
say
who's watching them on youtube you know
they're 45 minutes they're long people
that don't have their patience
you know our share we're you know we're
saying it's we're learning interactive
it's it's
yeah yeah my shoe do you stream them
live on youtube
no on facebook you stream them live on
facebook
yeah right now we're on facebook but
only you see me you don't see you guys
right but we do hear you whatever you
know whatever says
it's heard yeah yeah yeah
yeah yeah and and people from time to
time participate and they make with
up for thumbs and they make comments you
know
hashem but the point i'm saying is that
it's a whole different type of uh
of world we live in so going back to
rosh hashanah so the rebber
the rapper saw this i mean this is again
look at a a rebel who was in a way
old-fashioned you know i'm saying
he came from a game from a state who
came from nicolai he lived through the
first world war the second world war
didn't have children
uh on and on as we discussed and he has
the vision to
just to do things which now we see
the fruit and the positivity and and how
everyone's emulating him and barack
hashem
[Music]
there's a famous talk of the rabbi i'm
not going to go into it now if you care
to you can find it probably online or in
the same
in
and he explains that we find a
commonality
between beisham and basil throughout
shas and if you were to analyze
all the different uh disagreements
between the sean and still you'll see
the same thread
throughout and what is that whether
we we deal with the issue we relate to
the issue based on potential
or whether which is called in hebrew
or do we go
after the kayak or do we go after
rapport the actuality bashar my wholes
you follow
the kayak right so what does bashamus
say how many
how many do you um and basilo says
bepoyo and basil says so but it still
the potential for the actual budding of
the
uh of the trees but it doesn't happen
until 15 days later
so basilo says that's when it's really
rosh hashanah illamas
because we follow the pile the shaman
says no we follow the kayak and it
starts
and then restricted uh yanis are you
familiar with that
you recall that secret yeah right
so it's a very good secret to learn
because it goes through
several different you know hanukkah do
we light eight
eight candles the first night and then
seven
or do we do one and and and and and then
go down
to and go up to eight and and such
things
but going back to the cuda going back to
this idea
so what are we celebrating today the
illinois
ilonies are fruit fruit represents
bosi legani lignuni we just come from
basiligani
a place of delight in other words the
celebration of tu bashrat
is not just about that part of tata that
is what we call
grain wheat bread
necessity existence
but tu bashrat celebrates and is the
rosh hashanah for
pleasure for delight
what is pleasure in the light in the
world of torah
the inner aspect of terror when you
start tasting the inner aspect of torah
it's a different torah and going um
since i'm still on this you know uh
video with zalman so
he tells over the story that in 1938
he came to uh marseille or
somewhere around there and it was hamish
oscar
that's the way the the pola the polo see
them hungarians they don't say to
beshvat they say
so it's the 15th hamisha sir and
and they had a substitute their their
teacher
couldn't be there that day he said i'll
send you a substitute
a person walks in the substitute and the
substitute is someone that zalman had
seen
in before in the basement learning with
a moroccan
and he didn't know his name and he knew
nothing about it that he came and sat
down
with him didn't speak to anybody else
and picked himself up and left
so zalman and his friends you know
coined him the moroccan if
if he's learning with a moroccan he must
be moroccan too
this was in the mind of these young 14
15 year old boys
13 year old boys anyway 14. anyway so
um then the same moroccan
moroccan walks in on two bashvat
into the into the classroom
oh he walks in with his gray hat
and his gray suit and he says and you
this is the ambassador
what are you learning
so they say messages attracted super
saiyan gomorrah
so right away and the moroccan happened
to be the rebel later who became the
rebel
and then he said he said
a virgin marries on the fourth day
two thousand years of the days of
mashiach
and he says
is the the four thousand year
the each day of the week corresponds to
one 000 years six days of the week
and you got two two and two see so
what's wednesday
wednesday is the fourth of the so when
it says
a virgin marries on the fourth day of
the week this means
in the fourth millennium
so right away it was almost says that
his head was spinning
he never heard someone give such an
interpretation
on a mishna you know what i'm saying
that's not the literal meaning
and it really you know made an
impression on a 14 year old
then he says but meshiach didn't come
yet
so we go into the fifth yes hillel
the rabbit said that yeah or who said
he's okay yeah zalman's repeating what
the rebels said
so we go into we go into the we go into
the fifth thousandth
year which is the the the thursday
which is already the first year of this
of the last millennia of the last 2000
years
new so he should come on during that
time
he's still not here
so we go to friday and friday is the 6
000 year
and then gazal tell us he has to come by
this and this time
and then the rabbit says to the students
but it's late
it's late on friday afternoon
and mashiach is still not here
that's what he said i don't know if he
finished that there but
salma doesn't say more and he and
you know he walked away
with the the this man
has a global vision a global vision that
this is not just
about creation not just about the giving
of the potato
not just about mashiach's time it's
about
bottom line where are you
so i say that
because this was all on the 15th of
of 1938 how many years ago it is from
today figure it out
40 to 60 71 73 years ago
right 73 years ago on this day
says this is what the rebels said in
marseille
and a little steeple
you think about that it's awesome it's a
now on one hand you could say well no
what's the awesome issue you're still
not here we're still on ghosts
we know that that we know
we don't really want to tell us that
it's it's obvious but the positive side
of it is that there is a
a wholesomeness to this madness
there is a structure to
the abrister's plan
the rabbit didn't say this that time but
as i'm
talking to you teaching you i'm thinking
about it
what's the connection between that
teaching of the gomorrah in supers that
the rebel elaborated on 73 years ago on
this day
and the day
possible and and right
does everything that happens to a yid
has a purpose the fact
the fact that avi got up and went to
croc about and got this for him it came
back it's not just
there's a purpose it doesn't just it's
just not it's not just because he needed
to save us he had to go to talk about
no no he had his drama had to be in
for a few hours so
some things we understand some things we
don't understand so what's the
connections about just talking out loud
now
out loud talking out loud is that the
whole idea of mashiach
is that a person should also experience
godliness and holiness in his delights
and his pleasures
in his trees and his fruits
because if you only experience
your godliness and your tater in your
wheat
in your grain there's a part of you that
is dry
and boring and not interested and it
means that that part of you
is not united with hashem and akashbar
who wants
that every aspect of man include
including his trees
and his fruits and his pleasures and his
delights
should be animated with godliness that's
the lesson that's the overall lesson
from two bishops celebrating the trees
the fruits
and not just the grain this this nakuda
that ever said
many times on the fabregas on this day
but i'm putting the two together
the the story of 1938 and the fact that
it happened on tuesday
and the message of tuberculot i'm
putting them together as a possibility
so when you learn see this
and you take a taste of what's called in
the holy zoya
ilana the ghaya the tree of life
a tree is here to stay that's what i
told you yesterday
a bird soars on high but it can be blown
away and it could die
but a tree you can count on today
tomorrow and a hundred years from now
when i was in poland last december and i
drove towards my mother's birth
city and my grandmother's place town
village on the way i had the driver stop
in you know in these forests that they
you know and and unfortunately in many
of those fires the nazis
killed many jews but i i
wanted to actually walk the ground for
two for five minutes
he stopped on the side of the road and i
was able to walk up the little hill and
step
my foot put my foot on the soil of a
forest
of a forest and you look at these
forests you see trees
trees are and they're all next to each
other
you know why some you know why trees are
next to each other
because they don't let each other each
other fall down
when you're together you don't fall down
when you're far away from each other you
fall down
see this is that is the limit of
of claudia's role that helps yeden stay
together and not fall down
in the toughest times and the best times
when you stay together
and that's what the message of a tuba
swat is
and when we talk about tuba shrap we
talk about the shiva mini
seven kinds and they have a video that's
on col and other
websites and going around which is worth
looking at it's a short video
this must have been in the 80s in 85 86
one of the years the rivers were
bringing
and they have a whole platter of fruit
next to him
and after in between the talks
you see him pull take off one one grape
but he's not satisfied and he starts
he's looking at the
at the platter and
he says to rabbi eunuch one of his aides
is there a fake attainable
and and the aid comes running over all
you know flabbergasted like
i don't know do i vote this that fits
here
you know they ordered from the store
and the red look at his face the rap is
so serious
he says to aina like i i need to
i want to tell you is there a thing that
here
and and that's the end of the video and
i'm thinking about it what is the little
barbecue that i've been trying to show
you know what what is going on over here
we know the shiva meaning
thanks right honey
when it says erev it's called vag
what are we talking about what kind of
trash you know
not watch from a b flash from
no right thanks
right so
that's what i meant dates today in the
dates
so whoever makes a big deal about it
now yes hello
i can't hear you you're mute
to ayna's biggs and to to mariam are
days
right tomorrow
but b be it as as it may i'm just
pointing it out i don't know the
explanation i'm not
i mean we could be very simple about it
you know he wants more of the shiva mini
the nakuda is the shiva mini the seven
kinds
are not just fruits but they represent
and there's many swarms that have many
ideas for
him about the shiva minim
and it brings to mind another thing
that's simple but
needs when we recite the
after brought
you know we should again pay attention
to the way the rabbit says the brock
na first of all he would always open a
sitter
he wouldn't say it by heart i say it and
most people say it by heart
whatever wouldn't do that he would say
it from a sitter and he would say it
word for word
and you could see that he's making an
after bracha
and i'm saying the simple simple
the simple lesson for us is to be
methazic
our saying of brachus
you know and and to say articulate every
word and to think about the meaning of
the words
then you're actually giving thanks to
our ship
so that's something that every one of us
at whatever age can can do and should do
another another nakuda of this um
is that the um
the rain the rain the season of the rain
has
officially stopped although it still
might be raining by you i don't know
whatever but according to
bishne anger mother and it's like the
end of rain
so what is the what is the avoider of
rain
and when did we begin rain on miniatures
right and um
and then we had of course the uh zion
hazren
rain represents
says in hasidis the
approach to hashem le milo
from below to above right because the
rain comes from the clouds right and
in other words it's our activity that
of coming closer to hashem that
activates hashem in a way that he
reciprocates
but it begins with us that's the
avodah of rain
what is the avoider of tao
do do is lay me outside it never stops
it comes every morning a little more a
little less
uh sometimes you feel it more sometimes
you feel less depending on the weather
conditions
but it represents the avoidance from
above to below
meaning hashem gives uh
without asking and without uh
service he just gives what's the
difference between the avoided mother
and and tao spiritually
what is the quality of the connection
so when you get something for free yes
you've gotten it but there's the quality
is lacking because you didn't earn it
what's the the virtue of earning
something is it's not
you won't have as much as if you got
from
you know got it as a gift but it's
earned
so now from tuba schwab till pesach
is pretty much two months right two
months two
others uh listen the next two months
is in a way like a period
because real because right we stopped
saying tao
we start saying tao when pesach
right right
so so the
vote of tal is pesa
but here we say he was still in the in
the winter going into the spring and
and and uh we're still saying the same
paddle mottle but nevertheless we say
that as far as the trees are concerned
this is rosh hashanah the trees because
the rain has stopped somehow i mean the
the sea
this is brought in in his forum this is
not i'm not making that up
so i'm asking like what what is
what should be our perspective are we in
tao
or are we a matar and possibly
we're still in mutter but
now we have kind of
the the the towel within the mutter
in other words now we're going to
emphasize taking this
mutter rain that we got
until now and making of it
using it to the point where
we're able to access
a greater broker then
what our aveda cost our avoider our
activity our work
earns us a certain amount but
once we've done our work the work
talks for itself and the work
displays itself to hashem and then
hashem
says oh i see you've worked
you know what this analogous to uh
jonasson what we learned just now in
kuntusamayan a few weeks ago and was
repeated yesterday in the gitzer
that how much will you get on rosh
hashanah remember you get
in your storage house in malcolm silas
and it's sealed and you'll keep her
in the spiritual realm the rebbe says it
depends what you did the year before and
you remember he spoke about sliches
a series remember all that but before
that it's is
and so there's avoid of the year before
and he gave the marshall he brought from
the bercentiv
the muscle is that how much will i loan
you this year to do business
depending on what you did the year
before with my money
and paying it back and all that
so if i see that i gave you a loan and
you took the initiative
to take the loan and make out of it
business and stand on your own feet
i'm willing to give you more of a loan
this upcoming year
and maybe that's the idea that now the
next two months it's
is where we bring to hashem the avoider
of
mutter that we worked hard from rush
from
uh smith from that period until now
in in the avodah of rain meaning of of
of generating the connection with hashem
and now that goes to hashem
and hashem says okay i want to assess
that
and infuse you within your avoider the
next two months
something that is greater than yourself
now what does that practically mean like
moshe always says what it will asks
what does that practic me give me a
practical example
it means that what you're going to that
what we're going to do in the next two
months
has the potential of being blessed in a
way
far beyond what we do
so whether it's in business whether it's
a learning type or whether it's in
symphysis whatever it is
the the exertion the the result
of the exertion will be far greater than
the exertion
so if you make an investment hashem will
bless that investment that the next two
months
it'll quadruple face in a way that you
never dreamt
why because you you earned it you earned
you earned a certain amount
you worked hard you did the avoid of
mutter of rain
now the rain triggers that hashem
says okay this guy is a great guy this
this guy someone who works on himself
and
he's made a difference so i want to
really bless him
i want to really gift him
and that's i'm interesting if my if my
thinking is correct
it's something that just came to me but
if my thinking is correct
it's a great opportunity between now
because i've never heard anyone do you
ever hear
anyone speaking about this two months
from two bishfa to
to to pesach hello do you ever come
across that no
that's that's a new idea for me yeah
it's certainly it's
sloshing foreign right
right but but i i'm connecting it to
but no this is a that's a new idea yeah
i i frat
tell you the truth i haven't seen it in
a safer not that i looked much for it
this
this uh period but i'm just thinking
about how
how it has to do with the whole evade of
mutter and tao
and it comes out it's a two-month period
that we we have now to
in a way benefit so it's it's it's a
great opportunity now it's a great
opportunity to
be focused on this and to take it in
take it in in other words sometimes when
hashem gives you the bracha
we squander it we don't realize and it's
a waste like i told you that purim
1958 fabrian when the rebels you know
wanted he said it's an opportunity for a
wealth and
raise your hands and very few hasidim
raised their hands because they were
embarrassed
to act to show that they want money and
the rebbe said
afterwards you're a bunch of foolish
kasit
calling them
you're a stupid husset
here was a time when you could have
gotten
a bracha for ashirus which we all need
and could use for
tadaka and community and because one
second you understand because
of your hasitish kite you didn't want to
raise your hand
rebecca said that yes you're innocent
no no i know who the people are they
were not rich already
it's not true yeah and he wasn't he was
rich already in 1958
no no i'm not saying he was a pauper but
he was he was
he didn't have uh at least 5 000
apartments
in real estate in brooklyn manhattan
sorry he didn't have that then
no they were maybe doing business in but
um and any anyway even if even if it's
true
that their wealth went up over the years
again
you know take it or leave it you know no
one can prove this to you just did
the fact is there ever said those words
at the bringing that that you can hear
on
on the tapes there's nothing to deny
what's the
code that
when there is an auspicious time on the
calendar and in your life
don't waste it because that that's the
time to
make the sale
make the investment make the connection
that's the day
that's the time and you know hasidim
don't like talking like that because
it's like
so but the rabbit said it why because we
need panaso
and we need wealth and we want to build
more you the sky the more yeshivas and
more
families and all that so you know you're
such a
sad dick you give away your money to a
mystery you know
if you're so holy but don't not accept
the bracha especially today so i i want
to conclude that
on this day of uh rajasthan ali is
that we should continue learning siddhis
and enjoy our learning and toxic and
be immersed in our learning and to talk
it over with other people
and and and you know share share the
beautiful
message of of having delight and
pleasure
in something outside and greater than
food and sleep and
and and and money and all that but
something that's real
real exciting and and and real important
to the growth of a yid
anyway trevor have a great shabbos and a
great arrest of two bishop and a great
rosh hashanah we'll see everyone sunday
i'm gonna tell you i didn't get a chance
i'll i'll send you tonight at tomorrow
blinder
uh what mimer i think it's gonna be
volume two i'm gonna look in volume two
okay
so please that my muram will caught him
the previous rubber
uh volume two i will find a mime right
i'd like to see a mimer that's relevant
to purim
so that we start learning yeah yes abby
that that volume
yes shalom bye
all right jeff sharp is bye bye