5783/2023 Complete Yiboneh Mystical Musical Tu B'Shvat Seder

anybody [Music] everybody [Music] foreign I hope that everybody is already indulging in the light meal I before I introduce I I feel it's incumbent to thank everybody who helped put this evening together first of all kind of all praises to the Lord number two the nitini shul for allowing us to uh partake and to use the the hall the Lando land or Hall and of course Rabbi godalia for coming and preparing it's a lot of prep but I think his whole life I think uh you're in for a real treat you know if you haven't met Rabbi gurfine I I I found the word called edutainment so it's definitely education and it's definitely entertaining and of course we also have Heim David and the band thank you very much let's get a big round of applause now ready he's already been playing for half an hour uh I want to thank my wife Bina first of all the inspiration for ibane is actually beena's inspiration as the letters of you by now are the same letters of her name Bina wow and she is the one who had the 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be added the names that's right we'll add you on to the onto video um okay so I just wanted to start off just with a an idea and I don't want to take anything away from kedalia no no take take this day has more Holiness and more it's depth than many of us even think about basis obviously there are many details with the trumas and maestris and beginning of a new new year but from a more kabbalistic point of view which I I believe that gidaya will speak about um just one thing I want to add is that there is a argument in the gemara a maclocus when the world was created was it created a Nissan or was it created anybody know or tissue obviously tissue so we really have a a way of looking things you know on one side and on the other side on one hand on the other hand so we kind of had like these two calendars so we have this idea of a conception and a birth so even though toastfos explains that there's really no mock Locus between rubella Yeshua whether the world was creating tishray or a Nissan one had to do with the conception and one had to do with the birth and we know that Moshe verbenu he was uh born at six months in one day write a seventh month gestation period is a viable fetus so it's very interesting that the six months to the day you know from from basically from pay from well let's say from pesach until uh sukis or let's say from rosh hodish Nissan until Rosh Hashanah is exactly six months but if you count back how many days right before a baby is conceived even 40 days before there's already a decree so we're talking about like from the thought before the actual conception so if you count back from let's take the first of Nissan for example so even though we say the world was created on the first of Nissan or the first of tissue that's when Man was created so the world was really five days earlier so you're talking about the 25th of Adar count Back 40 days from before the 25th of the DAR and you have tubishra so on a certain level in a very kabbalistic level the the original thought like we say 40 days before a child is even conceived there's already a decree in heaven I don't want to say the rest but you know you know the rest right that who he will marry who she will marry and and so on Happy happily live live happily ever after so in a certain sense somebody asked me why I'm dressed in all white so in a certain sense this is like the conception of Yom Kippur right because if you actually think on another level what is it let's think it's through um so this would be nine months right eight months in one day um before actually let's just say Sukkot Sukkot is uh exactly you know say nine months eight months or one day from today so the month of tishray which you know Yom Kippur is a central theme right day of judgment and everything's involved also with sukkah and Rosh Hashanah everything surrounding tishray so this is a day a very special day for our prayers and our aspirations and the beginning of our thoughts for chuva for relationships for wealth for growth it's I'm sure that Rabbi will speak about it and if we think about the trees that's the whole idea here because there is no visible growth right you're not even talking about any fruits for sure let alone just the the potential of the blossoms that are about to come out and that's where we're that's what we're holding basically in the pre-reality if that's if that's such a concept it's the original concept already and we are created in the image of God and therefore we should hopefully use our own abilities to think and dream about what we want this coming year without any further ado rabbi okay um first of all hello it's very nice to see everybody especially a lot of people I haven't seen a long time and I'm I'm really uh thank you is that good yeah sure yeah thank you anyhow um first of all it's very nice to um be seen and to see and to see all of you all of those are important things and very appreciated and it's also quite amazing that so many people here recognize me because I think the last time I might have seen you I had like red hair maybe and you know a lot of people come over and they say where's your red hair and I say at this point I'm happy just to have any hair so I'm really not hung up on the color thing anymore but uh it's really it's an amazing as as ramaran said it the tuba Shabbat experience is kind of something which a pun intended is blossoming I'm sure many of us that grew up never even heard of tuba and even those that may have grown up in some sort of a strong Jewish Affiliated Community might not really have paid too much attention to Tuba shot except unless you're a minion goer then you're just really happy there was another day of not having to say takun but except for that maybe you made a shekiano on a particular fruit but that that was about where it stopped and suddenly creeps into Judaism or seems to creep into Judaism there's an idea called the tubishvat Seder now many people kind of feel like hmm is this really Torah Judaism is this just sort of a something that grafted itself onto Judaism is this really maybe our deep inner Jewish nature that we love to party so any opportunity under any excuse so okay fine yeah whatever let's do tuba shot or is it really something that is growing as tubid is all about growing and not just growing but really think about it it's kind of crazy to have a if you're already going to have a new year for trees which in itself is crazy we'll talk a lot about this later but if you're already going to have a new year for trees so why not have it when the trees are at their best you know I mean I don't know how many been here in Israel many many years but for many years in in Israel on the secular New Year you would always have Israelis out there with these little plastic hammers hitting each other and lots of you know shaving cream sprayed all over so could you imagine like walking into the forest and all the like little trees have these little Hammers and they're all celebrating the new year I mean how do trees celebrate New Year's and and why the trees have New Year's these are questions we're going to get to but if they're going to have it at least have it at the prime when the trees are filled with fruit and everything is blossoming not when like two days ago you know the winds and the rains and the upcoming potentials snow next week or maybe this week so it's kind of a funny time the trees seemingly are all dead but yet we know that in fact this lesson of the tree is a lesson for the human being that's why there's an incredible connection which we'll talk about later as well this evening between the tree of all things and the human being but the primary lesson that the tree teaches us is never give up hope that no matter how dark how miserable things may appear on the outside things are never as they appear on the inside and therefore on the outside where the world of trees and so on seems to be deteriorating and falling apart and lifeless actually inside it's the beginning of triatime it's the beginning of the resurrection of the Dead and there's a tremendous unification that happens in the end of days between the tree and man and that will save for a little bit later but I do want to start off everyone has just snagged that for one sentence everyone has hopefully one of these wonderful booklets from a tremendous organization levnoto lebanot and if you just take a minute and turn there to pay age here we go page 10. so you'll notice on page 10 at the bottom of the page there they have put together their four questions which I think is really cute because it gives a seder-like effect you know Passover for questions and this one having four questions the only thing is I must tell you I spent Hashem 99 of my days these days immersed in Gamora so when I look at this my mind immediately starts like to and I suddenly realize well what really is the difference between the first and the third question but we're not going to go into that we're just going to say it's really nice it's really good and we'll use that as a platform I couldn't resist it so you're going off into what this is all about so I want to say one more thing are we actually going into this now or it might just like this is an intro until they start to eat we ate already we ate already I blinked okay all right so forget everything I'm gonna start all over again we'll just dive in lots of fruits oh fine great great okay my bad so let's go like this I'll tell you a very interesting thing we haven't heard a concept that something which is of essence of importance always will happen in thirds or three times rather and this idea is also it's an argument the Gamora but basically we hold that three times creates what's called a kazaka which is from the language of hazak which is strong that once something like the gimmel has three legs has a tripod then something is stable and so therefore for something to be permanent in the world it comes in forms of Threes so therefore the Redemption works on levels of Threes as well we all know the primary redemption or the initial Redemption is Passover Paso was physical freedom without physical freedom without kemach and Torah therefore physical Freedom was the necessity for the nation to be able to come out and begin its elevation which you know culminates or at least on one level culminates on a Passover is the first and that's the 15th of the month of Nisan and the reason it's in the month of Nisan is because as rabaron pointed out according to rev Yeshua Yeshua from the language of redemption the world is created in the month of Miracles Nissan and in the letters of hashem's name the four letter Yunque so since in the letters of hashem's name you have four letters two of which are the same you have a hey two times in the word therefore the combination capacity is going to be 12. it'll be four times three so therefore there are 12 different ways that UK can be ordered these on the higher worlds are the levels each order of God's name is a different it's a different influence it's a different masal that creates the 12 months this is why the word which is also from the word which means novelty or Perpetual newness is equal to 12 for the 12 months times 26 which is UK of K is 312 which is the gumatri of hodish so the power of newness is only through connection to God and therefore a kurdishborough while as the physical world was probably created more along the language of tishray and tishray is the world of nature because we see boration which was a big problem when the rabbis wanted to had to translate the Torah into Greek because if you ever think about these words it sounds like God forbid there's a God called boreshit and bereshit Bora elucin this God God forbid created Elohim so therefore the mystics say that actually the very first word of the Torah is invisible because it cannot have a form in a word and that's the name of Jude kevke that's a Kurdish borrow whose name is expressed in culo hasid complete kindness and kindness knows no borders therefore it cannot be fit into the vessel of a word so the real way to read the Torah would be Hashem at the beginning of this creation Bora Elohim Hashem created a new name called Elohim which will be the numerical value of hateva the World of Nature and this world will be a world where it will call it Olam from language Alum which means it will be a world where God will be hidden and so therefore even if you look at the word tishway you'll still see a path back to God because tishre are the Hebrew letters backwards so but nonetheless they lead to yud they still bring even through the world of nature one can come back to understanding the presence of God but on the hodish of Nisan there the four letters of God's name are as God's name is written because there in the complete revelation of everything of complete godliness There Are No Boundaries nothing not even mitzrayim could hold am Israel second gaula becomes the gaula of Purim which is of course in the month prior to Passover and there we have of course on Purim we have the famous expression Ki movie kiblu the sages asked what are they being Key Blue that which were they came sorry Kimo whoa that they hit me blue so the question was what exactly was it and the majority of the sages say that it was referring to the oral Torah because there's a very strange question back at the Mount Sinai experience the Jews turned around and they say NASA nishma that's like amazing we see in a minute which I'll come back to let's just hold it over here for a second we see that hashems even said hey who told the Jews my secret password right it wasn't swordfish right it was NASA venishma okay I see there's not enough people who are really into the Marx Brothers so I'll skip those references so it's it's really massive initial okay thank you there was one good so NASA venishma is a secret and the Jews had the secret and it's wonderful so why did God have to take a mountain put it over our heads and say to us hey if you don't accept the Torah we're gonna bury you right here why would you say NASA the mission hello we just why are you threatening us a lot of opinions on that but one of them is we only said NASA vid nishma on torshibiktav on the written Torah that way could completely accept that it comes from God the oral Torah I don't know a lot of people Rabbi schmabbis mab eyes right who really knows maybe God really meant this but we really said this I mean all you have to do is open up you know I imagine somebody who walks in to learn about Judaism for the first time in their life and somebody says okay we're going to learn about Russia showing on they get all excited and they open the first mission in the Gamora Russia Shawna the first thing they see is there are four rosh hashanahs seriously how many people in the world have two rosh hashanahs and we have four rosh hashanahs and then again we go more you find out there's even more than the four I mean it's like right we have four fathers but they're really only three of them we're told you're not allowed to eat ham but our founding father is called Abraham so I mean what happens when the Jewish people where all of a sudden we can't just have like a simple Russian shot it's gonna be I don't keep that one okay that's probably what is it I got it like I don't dive in there I don't keep that one but all of a sudden you up and up to these four rosh hashanahs and in these four rosh hashanahs happens to be a Russian for the trees no less okay so therefore coming back for a minute this concept of NASA venishma as the key to receiving the written Torah we were willing to do but we weren't willing to necessarily lay our lives down which is kind of heavy for the oral Torah until Purim until the concept of God in this world as a long that we wish to make God Melech of the Hidden King of the Hidden that the malhud the rise of the power of feminine which is because as you know in the spirit there are only two feminine spherote and that is Bina and malhot and they have an interesting relationship which brings the ultimate kahula or as Rabbi Ginsburg points out that actually the three gulas also have this power of aim from being aim being mother because it begins with our own Moshe all of mem which is aim and then it goes to Esther Mordechai which is aim and then it will be eliyahu mashiach which is Aim so this power all of a sudden when we come into the darkest moment of it all on the holiday of Purim we discovered that a karish Borah who is everywhere everywhere in everything at all times that becomes toshibiktav and what we know as Jews man we talk about things like World Peace it means to say that unless there's peace everywhere in the world including Inigo Nigeria until there is peace everywhere in the world it's not called peace a lot of peace is but not World Peace not tikkun Olam so therefore we have to go and understand what is then the ultimate when we get our act together we pull together the whole world there's a very cute little story like this story was I don't know how many you are former Americans or currently Americans but most people who are American will probably admit that one of our Fortes is not geography so yeah that was confirmation thank you okay so there was a teacher an American day school or whatever and the kids were like bouncing off the walls and she needed just a few minutes of quiet R and R so she handed out to all the kids in the classroom a map of the world and she said you know what why don't you cut up the map and put it back together again she felt this was guaranteed 15-20 minutes of silence but after three minutes one kid not particularly smart comes up and hands it back to the teacher and it's perfect she's this amazing how'd you do this and he said before I cut it up I turned it over and I drew a picture of myself so when I put myself together I was able to bring the world together so when I bring together when I'm Israel brings together and comes together in a form of unity it's a key point we're going to get to in a few minutes that Unity will bring the world together where did the world fail in that unity and one of the strangest gamoras I think it's could be wrong but I think so but the gumar says when you look at the creation process one of the steps in the process of creation is God says to the trees that you should be tree bearing fruit and not just tree bearing fruit but even your bark should have the same taste as the tree now I don't know like the last time you went over a bit into an orange tree but it does not have the taste of orange but that was what God Said and by the way if you look at that where do you find in the Torah that God said create trees that have no fruit it's not written yet we have trees that don't bear fruit and we have trees whose bark do not represent or have the taste of their fruit so in some strange way these creatures called trees who seemingly have no free will whatsoever rebel against God they rebelled and yet somehow or another as our sages tell us that the consequences of the rebellion of the trees only becomes Powell it only comes into action once Adam and Eve themselves rebel against God so there's already in the very beginning of creation some deep spiritual connection between the tree and the human being the mall being points us out in a very beautiful way whereas in the first pericon to hilum it says that man should be like a tree the malbeam jumps on the word like probably the most popular word in English Today matched only by the most popular word in Hebrew right I love when I go into a store and I'm asking for something and the guy says no no it's not kilo it's real it's now it's here no nonetheless God uses the word like so what can I do so he says the man should be like a tree so the malibin says like a tree means also not like a tree so like a tree because a tree its fundamental source is the Earth and therefore its Roots Run Deep under the ground and it draws us nourishments from the source so we also should be like the tree that we should draw from our source but yet our source is a flip 180 degrees the other way we are rooted in heaven and therefore Our Roots should be in heaven because the more that we are an inverted tree with our roots in heaven the more the winds that get stronger and stronger in the current events of the world we live in will have no effect on us but if we don't have those roots God forbid when the powerful winds come we could be blown away so therefore we have to be like the treatment what else do we know about tree roots that's very interesting because if you talk to people who really know something about trees they'll tell you a fascinating thing that trees know how to literally through their Roots talk to other trees and trees have this ability to be able to communicate upcoming weather situations potential danger situations all kinds of information happens in trees well guess what long before they discovered it we have a safer called voracious rabba and in voracious rabba I think it's in the second peric I don't remember more than that right now I'm sorry but in voracious Bravo you will find that the says in clearly that the tree communicates as a community with other trees and it even communicates with the animals of the fields so you see nothing new Under the Sun but Malik meant to hint that there is something new above the Sun and that's Torah that is Perpetual so let's come back for a one minute tutorial and then we're going to lock it in on so in terms of Torah per se let's go back to nuts of initial where did NASA venishma come along well I want to tell you something if you believe in one God which is kind of fundamental to Judaism I mean maybe not like Google and Shabbos but it's certainly high up there if you really believe in one God what does that mean well that means on a simple level you don't have to be smart to get this one it means that God created catch this every human being not not every Jew there's not like one God who's like cranking out you know people in South America and then cranking out people in Asia and even like they're fighting for market share it's just one God and one God creates all human beings nobody left behind nobody doesn't matter Creed or where they bought male female everybody created through the love of God and not just created by God it wasn't like God created the Jewish people and then like had leftover spinal columns and things like that you know oh okay I'll make another nationally you know when we're like doing people weren't made as leftovers every human being is an imperative at the moment the first pixel see I spend too much time in the computer world at the moment of the very first thought of creation at that like moment I mean just think about that moment it's kind of a funny moment there was God and Only God so God is kind of like godding right because there's nothing else to do God's just kind of got him and then all of a sudden that who knows what caused it but at that moment all of a sudden God goes oh my me right because we wouldn't say oh my God right so he said oh my me and then all of a sudden ah I forgot creation and there it is so at that moment everything of creation was there including you including you including me including every human being as imperative so therefore let's hone it down a little bit let's try to figure out because a lot of times we watch too much Sports and we think that different countries are the good guys and the bad guys that's not what it's about we're all good we're all bad we all have our struggles everybody wants to live and everybody would like to live well and it can be done as long as we can remove these barriers and see the unity of life so all of a sudden God is about to present the Torah to this world of his he doesn't go to the Jews first he goes to Ishmael he goes to Asaf he offers them the Torah let me just imagine how different the world would have been okay I'll take it thanks yeah is it in Arabic I'll take it fine no problem right I mean could have been I mean he was making a real offer so what happens each one of these nations are not playing poker with God they're telling the truth they're saying you know what God I really wish I could take the Torah but I have a fundamental flaw that I have to deal with as the morale says there is no greater flaw than to think you're Flawless so they recognize their flaw they're human they see who they are they understand Ishmael says I have a problem and innate problem with this is not going to allow me to really keep the Torah properly I would love to and ASA says the same thing I got an anger management problem and I'm aware of it and I acknowledge it and I really want to become a better person but I know I can't do it through your Torah but there's yaakov yaakov can do it and so Hashem brings the Torah to the Jews and Ishmael and asaph comes with God to the Jews and they come over to yaakov and they say listen we know that we can't do this but we know we can do it together right I want to digress for a minute just to fill you in those of you that are holding and learning as they say Rashi says that vigori beginning the Torah the Torah should begin because that's topless that's what it's all about so what's all the rest of this stuff well that was the Torah of asav and Ishmael that was the struggles and what's going on even if it's reflected in our own Jewish history these are really the struggles of ace of in Ishmael that should have been partly their Torah but now is no longer our beginning but we now get the entire Torah so Ishmael and ASA come over and they say to yaakov we want to give you some something about our tour that you need to know to get your Torah and Ishmael gives nishma and asav ASA gives NASA venishma are the gifts of Ishmael and asav to am Israel to show that on a pure level we are all created by God and we together can fulfill God's world so now how does that actually work NASA nishma what does that what does that mean so there's a concept called don't freak out it's not kabbalistic it's actually in the Gomorrah and akbosh is really a simple concept of that everything which is revealed has a hidden side so if you see the power of a letter aleph on the hidden side of it is a tough if you see a bet it's a shin and so on all the way down to the middle call but call me call call and so therefore what it means is that this is the idea of wholeness that there's two sides to everything in this world so when you look then using this concept we have an idea that meet a person who begins to involve themselves in the performance of The Commandments will come to a holy place because the holy nature of The Commandments and this Holiness will allow the human being to grow from a child into a mature adult into an Angelic being that's our opportunity if we don't do that we are trees with no fruit if we only mature we are trees that have fruit but we're not completely fulfilled if we become angelic then we become the one tree that actually fulfilled the will of God and it is the S Rogue tree the Astro tree according to our sages is the only tree possibly a second opinion of a pepper tree but the escrow tree is the only one whose bark also has the taste of the Ezra and this is why the banaya Sahar points out that it's a big Mitzvah on minha tomorrow afternoon to pray for your atrog and your urban meaning because this is the connection which we're not going to go in tonight between the arba meaning sukkah and also this idea although we do know that sukkah is the holiday of the future Suki is the Holiday post mashiach so that's why it has this integral connection into tubishvat because this is the connection of completeness between man and tree so nonetheless how does this work this NASA nishma and by doing this we will hear or see or perceive God so if you look at the word Mitzvah you have four letters now the vilnigon explains that the name of God really should not be written in one line but one upon the other so that you have a unit and a hey at the top and under the unit in the hay is above and hey so the yield lines up above the above because these are the positive Commandments they begin with an idea and the only way to bring it into the world is like if the head is the yud then the body is the vov so the yuan is brought through positive action into the world the other world is a hay lined up above a hay these are the restraining Mitzvahs by not touching the hay it remains a hay even in this world don't pull loot the sea don't destroy the act the Ecology of our world don't ruin what God created as beautiful allow it to remain as it is these become the two if you will xylem and phloem like in a tree that move these energies Between Heaven and Earth so the vavanagh therefore is the expression of God in this world and the yud and the hey is expression of God in the hidden above us world is it hidden yes it's hidden it's hidden by the letters of mem is hey so the word Mitzvah actually is hashem's name so when you're taking hold of a Mitzvah and performing a Mitzvah you are actually a conduit of godliness going through you and bringing that Holiness into this world so back to schwat and then we'll hold it for here for a bit this idea therefore of shmat is the third and the reason that this one was hidden or or not known and now is starting to come to life and starting to Blossom is because its time is approaching and therefore in this idea of when we say in the Torah we say that that man is like a tree in the field think about that everybody loves to quote that verse especially this time of year but you ever stop to actually think about it it's a man is like a tree in the field therefore if the tree is in my garden I'm not like it I mean it's only because the trees in the field why does a tree have to be in a field to be like a man it seems like a ridiculous qualifier why qualify just say man's like a tree full stop why does that be means like a treat and a field what's a field oh it's the playing field it's the game field it's the place where the clock ticks I no longer say Tick Tock but it's the place where the clock ticks and while the clock ticks every time you put the ball through the rim you get two points every time you do something while you're still alive you score because this is the field and this is why yitzhab went into the field because yitzhab is ultimately associated with the concept of the total Creations Redemption because he gave his life for God and therefore this whole idea of Yitzhak means that although Yitzhak is from the side of din and darkness his name is laughter because not that he could laugh from a distance but he could laugh because he could go into death he could go into darkness he could meet them as the angel of death and realize wow you know what the mothers isn't such a bad guy after all he's just another angel he's just doing the will of God that's all he's doing and all the angels that sit on the side of din you know what why do they sit on the side of din because they're about Justice they're jealous for God they're not on our side first and this brings us to the conclusion this is why there is an argument dafka between shamai and Hillel because shama is about God first shama is about how do I serve shamayam what does heaven want when I come to Hanukkah I look at heaven heaven is filled with light I light all eight candles on the first night of Hanukkah and slowly slowly slowly as these little lights come down into the world it reaches the one individual who becomes the stand-alone little candle down here but yeah well says that's not us we're not Angels we're people I start on Earth I begin with you I begin with you I begin with me each little candle light it light it light it light it and before you know it you don't need a bonfire but you have tremendous light from each one of us finding our unique Salome waking it up and bringing it to life therefore the struggle between shama and Hillel are really not opposites because even in the Hanukkah example where you go from one to eight and eight to one or in our situation now how could it be either or it's the 15th how how could they both be right how could it be very Elohim how does that work I'll show you a magical answer from the morale watch this carefully it's got a little audio visual here now you have a line that's going like this okay it's going from here to here that's one line hold that in your mind please now you have another line it's going from here to here clearly clearly going opposite directions I'll make it simpler eight to one one to eight clearly going in opposite directions how could they both be the will of God the answer is because like on Passover when we break the matzah we don't have the full picture but our minds can apply the full picture and miss and fit in the missing parts watch the missing parts the missing parts of these two sides so watch what happens when I connect this or sorry this or this it goes in the same direction it's only because we lose sight of the connectors Between Heaven and Earth that we think that what heaven's all about is totally diametrically opposite than what Earth is all about but when we see it whole we see that actually all moves in that same direction therefore shamai from shamua is from the beginning of perception he can already see in the rashadish the power of redemption Hillel from language Halal has to actually see it revealed in order to pronounce it but they're together as one it's step one and it's step two and that's why the holiday of schwat is the one that begins to emerge and that's why schwat is also from the word staff because this is the staff of life this is when the first time in the Torah that the Torah was referred to as it's this week's Parsha Jethro yitzro because what happened when God said the first two of The Ten Commandments which were said simultaneously many of the Jewish people died and the rest of them were blown so far away that Angels had to bring them back but the Jews that died went through resurrection of the dead and then they come over to Moshe and they say whoa that was awesome but how many more are there and what I I don't know about another 600 something so they go what if we don't come back one of those 600 times is this a tree of death and Moshe says no it's a tree of life it's so much life you'll never die even if you shed your body you will never die because we will all come back in the resurrection of the Dead this is the lesson of the tree no matter what it looks like outside it is celebrating the Rejuvenation of its life to begin again and to begin again and to begin again and I bless us that this should be a Seder that opens up a lot of light in heaven and especially the light in ourselves and understanding what we are blessed with innately inside of ourselves to become on that Angelic level we have the capacity to be [Applause] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] man hey [Music] you're taking notes I wasn't making phone calls already once I didn't care about your phone oh my God real quick announcement everybody we're bringing out the wine there will be four cups of wine we start with twice what we're going to do with the cups of wine so you can pour yourselves but please don't drink at all that's all you need right now so please send me the name [Music] um I was always [Music] foreign I remember thank you my mind [Music] maybe once yeah yeah yeah yeah [Music] foreign [Applause] foreign [Applause] foreign everything [Applause] foreign [Applause] foreign [Music] right that was I did my my Groucho Marx reference no one got that I guess nobody was really into the doors so skip that off stuff anyway um we're gonna do four I'm waiting for Bert back yeah okay I can't quite do that one sorry um we're gonna be doing now four cups of wine and you have I believe these little teeny shot glasses which are actually believe it or not they're a review I want to just say there is no halachic issue of the four cups of wine so so you don't really need to worry about leaning you don't have to worry about drinking it in one gulp you know it's just kind of as this I guess is emerging but I'd like to just before we do I want to associate the first cup with the first question in the booklet um yeah thanks I think I've memorized it at this point so if you notice the first question there is is why on this specific date and this um brings their whole concept there about about two restaurant and whites on the day and so on I just want to point out that tubishvat this might sound like as they say in Spanish Aquino kite but it's really not a clinic height it's just being more medullyak more exact is not a holiday meaning to say and here it suggests as if the the sages created this holiday but that's not exactly how maybe other people would relate to that rather it's not a holiday but it's a Rosh Hashanah and Russia shall not doesn't necessarily have the din of a holiday unless a holiday aspect has been associated with it such as the classic Russia Shawna right so there it's a kambino of a holiday and a Rosh Hashanah but the idea of Russia not since we talked about the name of Hashem in its 12 aspects and how they correlate to the 12 months now we're going to take it up one more Notch and that is that hashem's name as we know has four letters and each one of these letters is what we would call an of right in Shabbat people are familiar with the idea of of and and told dot it doesn't really mean a father and it's children it's really a relationship between primary and intimate secondary now there was a secondary which it comes from and Infused in the primary but it's no longer part of the primary it's an extension of the primary and now it has its own identity if you will so that same idea each one of these letters have their own primary aspect and that's why there are four Russia Channel because each one of these Russia shall not is correlating to a different letter of hashem's name and so when we begin to understand this we begin to see something very interesting and that is when you look at the first mission in Rosh Hashanah the first mission that you would imagine would be the classic Rosh Hashanah blowing the chauffeur etc etc because that's the one that a most people know about and that's the only one that really has a halachic ramification for example which it starts with sorry the Rosh Hashanah which it starts with with the Rosh Hashanah of Nisan is a rush now there are denim of course but the concept is not one that has malacha for example one can turn on and off lights Etc and so when you come to the next one which is Rosh Hashanah uh for the Maser of the animals that they mode determining which flock they belong to according to their birth before after this particular day except for rep Shimon and rebel Lazar who hold that that's actually combined into the the dish rate one that's also has no holoca ramifications whatsoever and so the third one which is the idea of real Rosh Hashanah so that's already the one that we know and then the fourth one the last one is the one that we're commemorating today so it's not actually a hog therefore I mean we joke we might say hug some math might be more appropriate just to say Shana Tova but the truth of the matter is it really is not a hog it certainly was not created by it was created by a college boracle and therefore is transmitted through the torsion which we believe is Holy as the torsion so therefore in that idea of the of Shabbat I'm sorry I just said hawk the new year of it's the last letter of God's name because the first one the revelation of Nissan is youth and then when we come across to either let's say bahema or um the or the him if you will that behemo is the concept of a Bahama has a nephesh and a man a human being has a nephesh but a human being has more than just a nephesh but when a human being violates the will of God it's because they've lost touch with their ruach and their nashama and the only component that was left in them is their Behemoth The nephe the animal nephesh in them and that's why the human being can transfer that nephesh into an animal this is the concept the smiha that when an animal is brought as a Corban as an offering debate to mcdosh the person bringing it how to put their entire body weight on the head of the animal as if to transform transfer their animal nephesh which sinned into this animal and therefore this animal is now going to be in play place of the person who themselves should really be the one that's being sacrificed so that becomes associated with a second the letter which is the hey the Heavenly hay the Heavenly hay is equated to on Passover the Russia right the first one is the youth that Russia is the hey and that Russia the Russia Italy is rush it means noise a person who is a evil person is simply somebody who's trapped in their own confusion and their own noise that's why if you read very carefully what do you do with the Russia well you don't throw them out of your house because that's why you're sitting at your Passover table and you integrate them the best you can now many people think that you answer the Russia by knocking out his teeth I don't think so especially if you've ever learned Bubba common and all the rest that you understand you're not allowed to knock out somebody's teeth because of their opinion but if you read it very carefully what it really says is you flick the shin Shane tooth Shin Shina every time we analyze a Hebrew word the outer letters of the word are its shell and the middle letter is its Essence so for example the name Moshe its outer letters are mem hey what what are we if that's what we're all about is our outside that's nothingness but if we're on the inside letter of Moshe it's Shin which is which is the Divine Light that where we can strip off our ego and allow our image of God to shine then that becomes like moshera they know we can rise to Heaven as long as we remain authentically humble the Russia the outer letters are the word evil because it's really you know if you raise children one of the things you hopefully learn is you never tell the child that he's a bad child you tell the child that what he's done is bad but not that the child child is bad so the Russia's evil is only on the outside and if you could wake up if you could hit that little shin and make it start to shine and start to let the shrina emanate then that child that person where all children Rob Benet Israel that child will be able to free him or herself from that shell of that evil that's the Hague and then the valve is action call to action that's the Rosh Hashanah we know that's where it's all on the line that's where it all comes down to every time we say it's talking about Rosh Hashanah Israel says that's the one day that's the day to make it happen everything in the year is going to unfold from that but the last letter which is the second hey this is the Anu Yoda Le showell doesn't even know how to ask so we have to initiate so in a certain sense this is the sleeping holiday this is the holiday that's been dormant under all the darkness of the Exile and now we're back in our home and now it's our ability and our opportunity and our time to be able to awaken it so that's why it's kind of interesting that they put together these ideas of these four questions and and the sages have talked to us about these ideas of the four cups and there's a transition all of those two opinions I defer to the opinion that seems to be more popular that the progression of the wine it goes from white to Gold to Rouge and to Red so ribaran suggested because since this is a day of judgment that's what the rosh hashamas are all about and therefore red is always associated with din that's fire it's red on the other hand water is always associated with hasid and kindness so what we try to always do is we try to sweeten the Judgment not to eradicate the Judgment because judgment is a very very very vital and good thing especially if somebody rips you off you're really happy that there's judgment to maybe get your money back but even on more than that din means form and shape right and as we get a little bit younger we appreciate even more our form and shape and suddenly we realize that the parts don't necessarily work like they used to you know we tried to find the warranty but good luck with that but nonetheless there is this awareness that we can sweetened in so therefore we Elevate from the white which is the hesit and we bring the hasid into the din in order to be able to sweeten it and this is what yaakov is all about yaakov is tasting the facet of avraham combined with the dinner his father of yitzvah and creating mercy and that's what we have to be as a merciful people we have to be forgiving people we have to be a loving people but always with a sense of righteousness and din they can't be one without the other because either by itself is worthless it's only when they combine together that a true expression can come in the world the Titan and met Lia kov yaakov could be the harbor of truth because he knows how to bring that together so now we're going to go through the four cups of wine I guess I'm gonna be the guy who does the broccoli here is that what you're suggesting all right so I just want to say I have zero tolerance for alcohol so oh this is grape juice oh I'll go for it so if from this point on you start here so I'm gonna see if I can get like the translation down here to like work so um everybody what's that you'll have us well I'll have everybody who wants I'll have them in mind anyone wants to go solo that's cool too this is starting right now you're in it so oh yeah right now sorry I just want to say one little thing about the Heim Heim is a very interesting idea what is what is life what is why do our sages tell us why do RC just tell us that most the people who are living are not alive and and many many people who are dead are still alive why do RC just tell us this why RC just tell us that Holy people continue to live after they're dead and not so holy people are already dead even though they're still living I don't know if you remember this I'm probably enough people in the room who will remember this so I am going to go with this but back in the day when people used to go deep sea diving unlike today they had to wear this really funky metal suit and so on and they had a tube that went all the way up to the ship where they had oxygen right that that's that's kind of how they existed of course there were guys up there were like blowing their cigarettes into that but we'll leave that aside so there was the guys were walking around in these little things down there and meanwhile unbeknownst to them a shark flew overhead bit off the tube and now this guy's still walking all around having no idea that rapidly his oxygen supply is ending so this is what happens God forbid we have these tubes we have these roots in heaven and shamayam you know every time we do a Mitzvah we clean the spiritual cholesterol out of our soul and more and more and more light and energy can come into us and God forbid every time we ignore that we turn those two off and we say you know in fact I'll tell you quick story came back to my mind see the wines kicking in many many many years ago he had a one of his boys who's now a Russia sheep himself but that time he was only 11. and we were in his house in matastor for Shabbos and the little boy went out and he came back and he told us the following story that when he went out there were some soldiers that were there smoking cigarettes in their community on Shabbos and the little boy came over very polite Derek Harris and he said to the soldiers excuse me so you know that today perhaps you forgot that today's Shabbos and they laughed at him and they blew their cigarette smoke right on the little kid's face ah Shabbos right and then they said look at this watch and one guy took a big drag said look see I'm smoking on Shabbos I'm not being killed I'm not dead I'm still living snip right I'm still living and so the little 11 year old kid without missing a Beat he said well actually you know you're getting yourself lung cancer I mean right you're not instantly dead because God is benevolent and patient in hopes you'll do chuva but you're killing yourself smoking the cigarette and when you destroy the Shabbat you're killing yourself even if you don't see it right away because you don't see that the tube got cut so what is life so the sages had an interesting dilemma they needed to come up with a substitute for actually writing God's name because writing God's name is a very serious issue one does not want to make a mistake one doesn't God forbid want to throw out such a piece of writing with such a name Etc it says they needed to come up with something that could substitute the actual name of God without it being the name of God and so the substitution was an interesting choice they took one letter twice which isn't really fair because you have 22 letters those of you that have probably learned the Abdullah to the Zohar will know about the story of all the letters wanting to be the first letter of creation so they all these little letters are arguing hey me me and takes one letter and takes it twice it takes the letter yud and it takes another year these two letters become a substitute for the name of God why why then so the answer is because a yurd is a yid a yoon represents a Jew in this world and wherever two Jews which is a miracle as my friend over there said we never choose to get together you have multiple opinions right so therefore if two Jews can actually come together and like each other and get along with each other that's where you'll find God I'm going to digress I know it shouldn't but that's the alcohol environment that goes to one of the worst I mean best jokes I've ever heard so there's a sage there's a there's a whole Ghazal as to where did God decide to build the beta mikdash so everybody knows this I'm sure I'll do the brief fast version a little slower okay so the story is that there were these two brothers one was phenomenally Rich had no children the other one was phenomenally poor and had lots of children not quite sure how that works but that's how it works and one day they both wake up on the same night and the rich one thinks yo my brother he's so poor and he never would take any money from me I'm gonna sneak into his house and I'm gonna put in there a whole bag of quids and he'll have it he won't know where it's from but and the other brother wakes up and says you know my brother's got all that money big deal you can't take the money to the park and put it on a swing so I got all the kids they're good they're healthy there's his uncle I'm gonna take some of the kids and I'm gonna move them into his house and I'm just gonna have them there before he knows he'll wake up they'll be there and he'll be a very happy man and as the two of them in the middle of the night are heading toward each other's home they bump into each other and they immediately understand what's going on they hug and they Embrace and Hashem says that is where I want the bait to make Dash to be built that's not the joke by the way that's a serious part however we now jump cut to trying to decide where the knesset will be built so now you have the exact same situation same two brothers minor difference one the rich one wakes up and says ma what's with my brothers got all his kids I got nobody you won't miss a couple I'm gonna go over there and kidnap a few of them and the other brother says yeah my brother's got so much freaking money I can't make it to the end of the month I'm gonna sneak it and steal some of the money won't even miss it and the two of them bump into each other in the middle of the night and they start beating The Living Daylights out of each other and they said that's where we're gonna build the knesset exactly so therefore this idea of yud and yud this is what brings God into the world as is said throughout the Nivea Hashem himself says baby you should forget me that you should forget your fellow man how do we find Unity between each other well there's two other letters one letter is the letter het and the other letter is the letter mem warmth that the volume words that come out of your heart enter a person's heart when somebody's talking you from the heart you feel that they're talking to you from their heart and that warmth is how we talk to each other when we talk to each other Heart to Heart and then there's another level the same letters in the opposite direction spell the word which is the brain so therefore when we talk to each other with wisdom and we talk with my hearts with warmth and love that creates a that's what lahain is all about that What Makes Us Alive is to be able to connect with each other to bond to understand and to feel okay do we move now to the next cup yeah why not my assumption is wow this is really high my assumption is that everyone either washed or made a mizona already um the other thing would be the next one would be olives olives so there was also barley in the soup right so we had those who had the delicious soup thank you Bina was delicious [Applause] so the next thing is olives so there are olives on the uh yeah you ever taken out we can make a broccoli for Eights you should can I have one thanks okay so does everyone have an olive if they didn't if they already made a broccoli you don't have to shouldn't if you didn't make your own bracha Baruch Paris now the truth be told we do have some other eights we don't make another bracha but I do want to make a special mention on the on the S robe everyone should have something that looks like this I'll make this when I tasted it when I made it I had no intention to really benefit from it okay so the Astro looks like this and uh yeah so roof gedalia mentioned we have intention he mentioned tomorrow afternoon before Mint or after Mikka I think the more you eat the merrier but if you have intention already tonight and so if you could take and I'll make a shekhiana by the way I think anybody who probably never had it this year yet so if I can just grab a piece here it's quite sweet usually it doesn't have the most I don't know what you would say yeah the best taste it grows on you um but since we already made an eighth then we'll make the sheikhiana for anybody that wants hello the trick is corn syrup I didn't use it I couldn't find it okay what's after Aloo okay dates dates are the next thing in line enjoy foreign okay now this is how a date is eaten you cut it open you remove the seed and you check that it's not um that it's still healthy and there's nothing growing in it we don't eat bugs okay so we have in mind for the dates no broker because we already made the bracha break for AIDS okay we're gonna take a break and do the grape but we'll do the second cup okay so there should be grapes on the table yeah so the second second is right no second is white with a bit of red look at that that's white that's white yeah believe it or not I know that's white wine that's white grape juice so take the second cup which will be let's say three quarters White [Music] with uh some red [Music] I'm sure he is [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank you the best too foreign amazing music all right and then sometimes it is services foreign [Music] all right now foreign [Music] I don't know [Music] foreign [Music] oh thank you forever what a privilege to my friends truly Solomon Solomon the great Solomon Brothers Band and uh yeah Los Angeles besides and uh thank you so much joining us tonight oh yeah [Applause] thank you so much thank you thank you thank you okay so just a reminder before we finish and bench we're gonna we still have some words of Torah from roof gedalia but we want to make sure we get all the the meaning meaning in so for those who had wine that's fine grapes are here it was awesome now figs figs are very complicated in terms of checking them for bugs but they're not impossible so you open it up nice and wide and then you remember Fig Newtons ah the land of Israel truly is the Garden of Eden next is pomegranates pomegranates are on the table pomegranate guys you can eat as much as you want pomegranates are next in the booklets explains all the different spiritual insights into all the different pair up now carob is not easy what can I tell you maybe we should have gotten uh like that chocolate milk here you know what I mean the powder but anyway the carobs are here somewhere right here yeah you chew on them the Carib looks like this you can pass that back to them um it's it could taste like chocolate if you have a good imagination okay you need a good imagination right mmm you're right nothing like the land of Israel delicious if you want to take some carbs home with you please [Laughter] okay Apple there is Apple on the on the table I don't want to rush things we still have two more cups of wine or grape juice all together we did two we did two cups so after the Apple maybe before the Apple we only did two cups anyway everyone counts on their own right everyone do their own Counting so for those like me who have already drunk two cups of grape juice and we can now uh for our third which is a majority red with a little bit of white let's do that before the Apple here what happens um again the volunteers who helped set the tables some really fancy and uh original artwork here okay Bottoms Up okay before the fourth cup and before we get to the fourth cup the Apple we're just reminding everybody what is here on the table um thank you then we have the almond skedim just a quick word about this idea what does shakhead mean it means to go quick herily herodly such a word exists apparently soon very soon the first blossoms aside from the cherry blossoms that is the first blossoms that we will see will be the from the shkedia from the almond tree already Escape so this is the time this is where the first blastings will happen right here in Arches right in baka Garden of Eden right just the back of you now the last thing was the S robe but I I couldn't hold myself back from so and indulge yourself again with some cavana think about everything the river of gadalia shared with us from beginning with conception the first thoughts into reality right going forth into reality with hopefully a lot of Holiness a lot of contemplation a lot of meaning this month actually is mindfulness that's a new word it's an old word anything that's new isn't true anything that is true is it new mindfulness has always been and this is the month of mindfulness so with that in mind we're in the fourth cup yeah okay all red all red let's do it better red than dead Communists I used to say it the other way but I read the dead man I didn't quite agree with that okay so for those who are indulging in grape juice like myself or wine foreign okay this is going to be short and uh I know people are like getting a little edgy and we're sensitive to that so let's see if I can there we go um this is going to be a kind of a to the point of artura this is the takeaway Torah the rest was important and it's you know hopefully fun and interesting but this is something I think that at the end of the evening after all that we've experienced that there should be something really meaningful that has a real takeaway so I'm going to share a Devar tour from the belzarebi I'm going to just get it here on my sidor and it's um a whole insight into the song of shiramales which we are probably going to say before we bench and we have enough people here we can even say a volcano in DaVinci which is very special so everybody's probably familiar with this to hillim the psalm and from I'll start from the point where he begins to talk he says here well first I'll go through the normal translation um that we will plant with tears but we will harvest with joy hole we went crying carrying our sack of seeds moyavo Barina but when we return nose we had bundles where we left we had seeds we returned we had bundles okay so that's that's the simple understanding and the translation of that Psalm now I'll explain to you or share with you how the the belzarebi reinterprets it into a very beautiful Insight he says like this hazarin we are all planters every day is the field and what we think and what we say and what we do are the seeds that we plant in our eternity in other words really if you think about it safetora has columns so each one of our Lives is a safetorah and each morning when we wake up in the morning we are actually facing a blank column and whatever we think whatever we say whatever we do is written by our own if you will spiritual hand on that column and that column is Lynette it's forever in our intersection memory geometry you had two circles and they overlapped this is the overlap between a spiritual infinite World in a very finite physical world but the beauty of it is that in the infinite there's no friction and it's only through friction that you can maintain motion so therefore we are in a world of friction which the friction when it goes negative becomes which is war and when it goes positive the same letters become lechem which is bread the sustenance of life but both of them are that relationship of friction and the friction therefore is in the sense gives us the opportunity to create our own Infinity in what we do so he says therefore no matter what you do we are all Planters but there are two schools of thought one school is bedima and the other school is Barina one school is people who live their lives depressed they're sad they're bummed out they have become prisoners of things that happened in their past and the past has stolen their future and they live their lives walking backwards always pointing fingers at things that happen to them in their past why they are no longer able to be joyful and succeed in their future these are the criers but then they're the other people they're the school of Barina they're the school that's come to understand that everything that happened is Gonzalez all for the best it was all from Hashem no matter how difficult it was to be able to understand it what we call the fourth wall of the sukkah no matter how hard it is to have that sommech on Hashem completely nonetheless we have the amuna to believe and understand that it was all somehow just and really for our best and therefore we can turn to the Future and learning the lessons of our past free ourselves from our past and own our future and to be able to really live a life going forward of Joy but guess what both schools they will Harvest what will be the results of their Harvest well now back to the first school to walk is really emphasizing going away getting away escaping away running away finding somehow somewhere where you can be away from all the things that are bothering you in your past that kind of a mentality such a person comes with their seeds with their potential and rewards them with that that's what they are no say they put in Zara Hashem pays you for what you did finished you did the work you got your money goodbye but the other school has a completely different perspective it's also constantly moving because there's no such thing as stagnant time everything is moving but your emphasis is arrival you're coming to something new you're arriving to something new each time you kiss the mezuzah you are moving from one dimension into the next Dimension and knowing that a cottage boracle will be with you even though the unknown could be scary and frightening it's okay because you touch the mezuzah before you enter that and you know how far is there with you and so therefore a person can embrace the future they can Embrace their life they can Embrace everything a Kurdish Boku put in us to be able to take the Zera and turn it into alumosav into a tenfold or as we say a hundred fold and that's really the challenge of our Free Will of our life to be able to set our ourselves free from a world of always blaming and pointing the finger and being depressed and sad and being able to turn it God willing into a life of joy and embracing the future and going forward into life and be able to really Harvest much more than merely what we did to be able to claim all the gifts that our karish Sparkle gave us a few words just once again want to thank for one of you the night would not have been the same and I'm not just saying that I absolutely mean it and I mentioned in the beginning that Bina and I probably know you know 85 90 percent of you um you know personally you've been in our lives you've been to our events you've been you know we have a community this is a certain sense everyone has five or six communities in their life but this happens to be just one of them that you have with us that we share and I think it was an amazing evening I know we kind of went through it kind of quickly but we wanted to keep everybody engaged as much as possible in the shortest amount of time as possible I want to thank the dally once again of course my wife but I love it of course my wife and every single one of you of course my life smart man so before we bench we have a special song a well-known song an oldie but a goodie Goldie a Goldie everything [Music] thank you [Music] foreign know [Music] as soon as everybody foreign [Applause] [Music] was here in my life [Music] my friends foreign [Music] foreign [Applause] foreign [Applause] living in Jewish life is like being in a musical there's no question from 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