KLM: (Part #4) Maximizing Elul and Rosh HaShana thru Yiras Hashem with Rabbi Asher Baruch Wegbreit

your Museum [Music] okay good evening welcome everybody Welcome to the KLM listeners and our friends from Ebony and we're going to kick off in a minute with the third and final year uh in our ELO series entitled The Jewel of Iris shamayam and Rosh Hashanah uh which is fast approaching um and uh next week as red Hashem will will have another share so it's going to be uh the fast of Tom godalia but um the uh KLM series will continue so it'll be the evening of the fast and uh the recording will be out as usual um we'll also be sending out uh well I was going to say we we have a PDF pack of Fantastic Tools for Cabanas for Rosh Hashanah and if anybody's interested in that please uh message myself or Rabbi workbrite and we'll get that sent to you either do it on the off the WhatsApp group or wherever gmail.com um so yep I think let's make a start Rabbi if you want to turn on the camera can get going okay okay hi parrots and everyone welcome welcome to the listeners in yubinay and the other people who are joining on recording Urus Hashem imagine the followings imagine you see online a course and the course is considered very I don't know what's the word uh hot viral it's fantastic course it's by a published ivy league psychologist and what is it about the name of the course is cultivating a longevity mindset I kind of I made that up actually I'm thinking maybe I should do something with that no ready so the course is called cultivating a longevity mindset and what that means is that really um if you if you adopt this mindset you will extend your life okay now that's obviously popular amongst all human beings for the most part okay so ready let's say you put you you sign up for the course in this is what I'm about to tell you is the essence of the course of how to cultivate a longevity mindset it says like this first of all you need to worry you need to worry you need to worry about the future also worry about the past you need to feel fear okay you have to be afraid and anxious about the past and about the future so how how much of a a uh how many attendees will show up for such a course yeah it sounds it sounds ridiculous it's laughable except for the fact that that's Divine truth it says initially this is such an important haggama to uh to the um involvement in your system we must internalize this it says in michly Parachute 1027. it says yuris Hashem Yamin yurisha Shin extends your life now we don't mean like see we use the word years Hashem it's like a nice description of he really cares about his uh you know Torah and his relationship it's not we're talking about fear we're talking about the emotion of fear and that's why the Vilma going find it finds this very difficult to understand how could Mella claim that fear fear of Hashem will extend your life says the gra and this is quite remarkable because the Graw I recall was in the late 1700s right and uh the bill McGowan had not studied neuroscience and uh the new science of psychoneuro pharmacology he didn't study that either he I don't think he was studying about the relationship between mind and body on health none of those things but you know what the grass says the cross says he says like this fear Terror worry God he says it shortens your life and the life that you have will be miserable he says I am Shalom so the villain that Goins is what what's what is talking about so by the way our tendency to avoid fear is a healthy one and worrying anxiety and you hear all the people all the uh positive psychology people you know banish worry banish anxiety banished Etc okay so yes that kind you should banish but don't make a mistake it slo-mo milk says the girl is saying you're a shamayan ain't okay it's not like this it works on a different plane when you fear hen as a Mitzvah it's a it extends your life it's a longevity plan and a longevity mindset and think about this why would Hashem one of those Shea schmitz's to meteos one of the six constant 24 7 that wants you to be feeling fearing 24 7 is one of those constant Mitzvahs to flourish him okay and I know we'll talk about Roma moves Etc but it also means Urus owners fear of punishment of Retribution you hear this why would a shim command it if it's gonna just be off okay and we're hearing from Shoma Mela it's a life and extender a quality of life enhancer we must so because here's the thing we but the Yates Sahara the yazahar is so smart right he causes you to misapply the concept you know fear anxiety it's unhealthy I stay away from it period don't listen to that okay you know regarding this lately I realize you know what I think we're suffering from I think many of us have an identity crisis we identify with the inner Talk of the eight Sahara and think that's us that's an identity crisis so don't don't fall prey here okay this will be the theme of this year don't be afraid to be afraid of Shem okay that's the introduction now the timing of this we did uh three share them on opposition and now we're going irritation so first of all before I discuss the timing the Czar says something that's I hope gonna get you to make a strong commitment to review these classes and integrate them you know what the vote Czar says the Zora says that um the Mitzvah when you have urisa Shen and avas Hashem when you study Tara do Mitzvahs it's it serves like wings they carry the missus to the highest part of the heavens okay you hear this they are the launching pad Ava in Europe every it's making it very clear every missile should have Ava in Europe every one of them okay so you hear this that's they're like wings that carry your Torah and your mitzes to the shemaim okay with that in mind again but based on the principle midst of goreras Mitzvah let's have in mind the midst of right now we're learning okay learning Torah the Ava to give you and be era meaning to say that we know Hashem is present watching and evaluating how much we are focused on this year okay now the timing the timing of share number four being right before Rosh Hashanah could not be better according to the paleoates the pelotate says something you know there's so many things at stake on Rosh Hashanah right livelihood health wealth Family Friends Community World lots of lots going on it's a Rosh Hashanah right for judging mankind now guess what says to tell you awaits it's also ready for this it's a Rosh Hashanah for your shamayan here let's go to what he says about sukkas first this is his principle the paleoid says that for example the uh on on sukkas we all know the Mitzvah is simcha so he says that sukis is a Rosh Hashanah of simcha meaning if you conduct yourself properly meaning you work on attaining Simca on sukis you'll be able to elicit and experience simcha during the year same thing with rosh hashan regarding your shamayan to the degree that we cultivate and experience yurichamayan Europe on Rosh Hashanah we are basically uh determining how much hiroshimaim will have a predisposition towards story during the year sound fantastic right let's work on it okay so tonight I'm going to give you uh uh relatively speaking a lot of information about yurichamayan and then I'm going to give us a little like tour through Rosh Hashanah like an overview and like parrots said we're uh we're preparing the toolkit a collection of PDFs that can really cover all the bases on Russia if you're interested let us know okay so let's get started with uh what we'll call the path to your system and we're going to see that the path to Urus Hashem is very similar to the path to opposition and and let's just take a look again at opposition get a quick review of that and we'll see how similar it is and I'll explain why it's similar okay okay this is not what I want yet help me Hashem oh yeah this is what I want okay we see the screen well yeah yeah that's yeah great okay great you know I used to think I'm a very bad singer and could be it's definitely still true but you know I was listening to recording I try to Revere review them to to improve and also as my my wife of course gonna tell me I couldn't sing but yeah it's not as bad as I thought okay so ready this is the process we said for opposition to no no no ocean is to love love lavish and very much and then serve serve servation from love okay that's the process according to the rambam in the mishna Torah okay and we said that this is just chock full of mixes but we've organized them so the first thing you and and the process I think flows nicely thoughts feelings action right so first you have to reflect on a cottageborough who and says the rom-bomb to the degree you reflect to that degree you will feel love it's a momish uh direct causal relationship okay so I mentioned the the three constant misses here and the suggestion I made to you is to take any verse in pursuit of zimra and just think about it a little bit some let something speak to you and remember I'm knowing Hashem to end up loving Hashem because in kriya shma that's when you're supposed to say uh enter Ava into your heart okay so we said when you when you cultivate the knowledge you end up feeling love and the love can go to such a degree especially when you know how much you you can trust the shin and you're in his hands and he's on your side etc etc then you can even if look at look below you can even love Hashem when he measures out difficulties um you can even love Hashem and have a trusting um non-uh critical view of your the treatment you're receiving that's how far I can go okay next we say so now you thought you feel now you want to do you want to please the one you love right so we said the first thing is the motivation of all your missus as now should be Hashem I'm learning Torah right now I'm preparing for Rosh Hashanah because I love you I love it that's my agenda here that's my only agenda that's one and then we have other things we have going out pushing yourself financially pushing yourself physically um using your yatesahara all your physicality you're channeling it to a Shen out of love and we take care of all these things are actions of Love okay so that ROM bomb in the mishna Torah doesn't just say he says Kate's in other words how do you cultivate love and fear okay Yura now he's pretty much focused on Euros or Romulus which will be part of this year but now let's see the this that how it's the same system but we're gonna have to do some different work to achieve the goals here we go there it is to no no no Hashem is to fear fear fear Hashem and then sir sir Hashem with fear okay that's the model simple okay and this collapses eight eight Torah Commandments to actually all right so first of all what you need to know about Hashem is a bit different than what we focused on in terms of cultivating Ava okay so I I hit two key points because as most people know there are two ex there's really three but I'm gonna say there's two primary expressions of fear number one is fear of hashem's punishment or retribution punishment it is called your ownish but the point is it's not like uh coming from God forbid an angry place it's it's coming from a desire to rectify as purify us Etc okay if we don't do chuba so do you have fear of Retribution right that's one feeling to that of oh okay and then you have fear of Urus Aromas so in terms of knowledge this is what we need okay to cultivate your ownish uh right uh fear of punishment we have to reflect that means that again we if we use our Yates or talk we we if we stop and reflect we usually draw forth very important things we have to reflect yes the den b h Dion okay there's judgment and there's a judge we're being judged uh you obviously can understand why this is relevant to speak about right now now how do you cultivate that knowledge all right so I want to give you um I want to give you a a primary way to do it that that I think is quite effective uh and by the way if we discuss when if and when we discuss anything that has to do with fear of consequences or exaltedness again right now let's add right let's add kavana for the Mitzvah of urisa okay we're working on it I want to have the um physics of misogorous Mitzvah let's do it now as well okay so they tack that onto your Torah learning mitza okay there is a judge there is a giant where do we find this I think the easiest place to work on this um is to study the fourth chapter of Messiah susharin which is about acquiring the Heroes all right acquiring the trade of watchfulness he what he does he does the work for us because if you study the tanah it is filled with even the greatest people experiencing consequences for their behavior Hashem is opening things up and showing us what the reality is in the Torah now the wrong call God blesses nashama the rampal collects it for us and and and also speaks about it and develops it and who doesn't uh love and connect to messiah's charm so that's reckon written recommendation number one to cultivate on the left side fear of Retribution let me I I of course I read a little of this before this year so I'll just give you an example of a point you know avra mavino say I understood something much better now is uh and that is this it says that Hashem judges the highest level people right are avos and the great people by by the hutasara by like a thread these very particular with them and Robert Greene mentioned that you know these are your best employees you know you would think you'd cut them slack let me just bring that point out a little more okay you know avram vinu do you think there is someone that Hashem loved more than him okay maybe we have a couple competitors it declares Hashem declares I love avraham I love him so much right now yet at the when he said you know how are the Jews going to get in there into Israel when when he made mistakes and yaakovino and yitza when they made mistakes it would think you know you would think that hashem's a love for them uh his love for them would make him judge their case more leniently leniently and he didn't okay and I if I can just share something um in in our Yeshiva and the Shiva was in birkasatara you know we um unfortunately we we had older gentlemen part of the Shiva but they weren't so old and a few of them passed away and everybody who was who's in the issue they were really good people and they were working hard and trying to do their hashems well as best they can that's scary okay so just let's just take a moment right now to cultivate a little bit of jurisdiction okay and just think about the fact think of let's say unfortunately through Corona I'm sure many of you have um known someone who's really good person and they didn't uh they they left the world early okay that's that's one way okay just take a moment uh to think about and have that in mind the Mitzvah and don't be afraid to be afraid of Hashem this is so healthy for you you and your nishima okay just take a moment foreign you can think about the what the Torah what the Torah is speaking about okay let me give you another easier suggestion than reading the csis charm although I highly recommend that the other suggestion is yeah this is you're doing it this is the uh one of the Calum themes you're doing it anyhow so every day in pasuki the Zimmer you you say um the Shiro show yam where the destruction of the Midstream right the Hashem punishes people for bad behavior is is outlined so while you're reciting that you could have a mind in midst of your sashem and just you know try to feel it a little bit try to take seriously with describing okay we got over the harder part you're astonished let's go to the next side um at the top yeah if you want to cultivate Urus Aroma mousse so it's reflect one of the the rambam says on the astounding creation right just a little reflection on the Beauty and the stunning awesomeness this pick what what speaks to you and okay and that will cultivate you'll be knowing things of an Hashem that'll cause you to be in awe of a shame and okay and along those lines as I mentioned pasuki de simmer is is like describing and cataloging just the most marvelous things hashem's Providence with the people he loves uh hashem's characteristics the the creation right so you can again you're doing it anyhow uh all right and so let's let's take a moment okay we're just practicing and this is you have to understand you know I mentioned this last time it isn't it most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a short amount of time however that doesn't apply at all to KLM to the midst of to meant to mixes of the heart it doesn't apply we cannot overestimate the seconds you know a few seconds ago we thought about yours ownish I promise you I feel confident I promise you you will not be able to Fathom what you did for yourself okay let's do the same now so take a moment and just thinking think of something amazing about life about the world about something that happened you know this this think of something amazing right that's what I want to say oh yeah let's just do that okay just to have in mind the midst of yours Hashem in the getter of euros and let's take a second and and and practice and fulfill this mitzvah foreign when I went into that state I thought of one of my favorite uh statements uh I heard that um someone said you know you bump into a person that you didn't expect to see at X place right it happens a lot so what do people say small world and so this statement is so much better and so much true he says it's not a small world it's just very well run you hear that that's your you can attain a Romance by reflecting on that aspect okay all right so that's uh where we just went from thought to feelings and now let's discuss the Mitzvahs of serving Hashem of the Europe the first one I mentioned at the onset just realized every Miss of that has that is motivated by love and and Europe and reverence for Hashem that has wings to the shamayo okay so first thing serving Hashem is okay and by the way just you know you know I mentioned to you in the past about opposition that it's 9x it's nine times mentioned in the Torah and therefore get the kadusha of nine times nine I couldn't believe this I heard raviosi misrahi say he found the safer that that says you know how many times Euros Hashem 18 times and I followed up with him I emailed him and he said he says it's by he mentioned the name of the Rob he says he's very much you can rely on him so Urus Hashem is times 18. so have that in mind all right so with that uh we have the first aspect of serving it so if you fear fear fear shame you'll want to act in accordance with that fear the feeling will lead to the following behaviors and actions okay on the left side and the bottom Behavior speech and posture we will see this is I'm going to recommend this highly for Rosh Hashanah okay so if uh if you're in the presence of someone who's very you're not gonna be like blabbing and speaking loud so so if you lower your voice if you speak more softly right you know you're a little nervous in front of this person you speak more softly that's in midst of yours Hashem derisa times 18. if you lower your posture you're not walking like this you know if you look or tilt your head I mean the Torah is not requiring you to have bad posture I'm not promoting that but like tilting your head I find that when I um starch Mona esri in particular if I um like tilt my head just a little it makes me feel more aware that I'm in the presence of Hashem okay and that's in the midst of yours Hashem right so you tilt your head a little bit and your posture and you're you're walking as if you're in front of a fearsome or awesome being being okay so that's the that's behavior and posture all righty next fear Hashem incl the other expression of fear besides um fear prophet of punishment and being in awe of Hashem in the middle let's say is reverence right intense respect and reverence so that's part of it this is another fantastic place because it's the halafah to work on yours Hashem when you say whenever you make a bracha or you say Krishna and um with hashem's name so there if you have in mind a donor call that's sufficient except maybe in krishma in the first prophet but let's just focus when you make up Rafa and you [Music] in your mind that is reverence for Hashem times 18 years Hashem derisa okay that's reverence okay next is since the pasig says s Hashem right it's there's an S and Rebecca famously said s includes the rabbis so having reverence for rabbis is also a Mitzvah of yours Hashem so one of the famous things that Madrid Puma says when you say Good Shabbos Rabbi uh you greet them you speak to them um that when you do that that that's an act of reverence certainly I think um a great way to explain a great way to express reverence is probably you know donation to KLM I couldn't resist sorry um the uh let's go to the so you hear reverence and also doing mixes with reverence with care and reverence and treating mythical objects that way you see the middle category it's beautiful so especially on Rosh Hashanah be very careful when you say hashem's a name and and and also be very respectful to the rabbis okay finally is exalting a shin all right I mentioned here prayer in Rosh Hashanah so what we're going to do right now I've just given you an outline it is 10 o'clock we kept our time for the years to Sham Park if you want to stay on for Rosh Hashanah we're going to take a tour of Rosh Hashanah in particular connected to what we're doing uh and so let's do that let me uh move to a Rosh Hashanah slides okay I'm going back on slides yes thank you hashems exactly what I wanted all right this will actually be a I think a nice review of what we just discussed if you look here this is Mrs uricen in uh connected to Rosh Hashanah so we have urisa Onish fearing the consequence the consequences of the Judgment we're going to do an exercise on that that's critical to do now okay then Urus Aroma moose is the tephila particularly the tequila of Musa okay then we said if you look at the next one it says keeping your head that uh slightly down and walking that way and also speaking in a lower tone of voice than normal that's all great conduct because don't forget it's a Russian for you're a shamayan so if you're working on this and you're having kavana for this and your deeping is boy oh boy please God you'll have a tremendous year okay uh with all the bravas but you'll also have a tremendous year of year Mayan what could be better okay so that's one example and I just want to show you a little bit more and then we'll be done um but that's the that's like a key link this is a Year's Aroma moose oh am I off screen am I off the screen share yeah okay give me one second then okay let me go back I'm just giving you a preview of what in the toolkit uh that we're going to put out I just want to give you a quick preview of this so we discussed this last year CPR which is that different times of Rosh Hashanah call for different mindsets and emotions and so we have for example during the evening meal and the meals you're supposed to exude confidence right during chakras when but you know from when we get up in the morning whatever go on to hot sauce that most of the Jews are being judged either some say the chauffeur blowing or some say sometime in that period so that's a time for Papa that's a time to not be afraid of fearing Hashem meaning those unpleasant unquote motions okay then we moved to musaf and in musaf you have the the the okay the chauffeur changes if you will I I'm not saying this okay and okay and of course the main kavana for chauffeur is chauffeur and listening to it okay however some say we're you're being judged when that show is blowing in the morning so it's certainly how uh behooves us to to feel uh to my heart hair machuva to have thoughts of chuva and fear Etc now but the villain the Goins position is I don't know people who saw the Queen's funeral and all the Pomp and uh and and Grandeur there so guess what the girl says you should be very filled with joy over the coronation of a cottageboro the King of Kings the king of Queen Elizabeth II right so there so I I suggest I suggest that you certainly there's a joy in the in the chauffeur blowing we see in the musaf one so use that for coronation that that's what I I try to do in essence I I'm a little more afraid in the morning and a little more Carnation in the afternoon and also the Glorious prayer is just those loose up prayers are gems of yours Aroma moose have it in mind okay all right I'm going to show you one more thing uh let me one more thing and then we'll uh just wrap up this I'm not gonna go through the whole thing but uh the simonim can be uh a sweet tasty ritual okay left at that or we can reap the moment there's so much more to harvest there's so many beautiful misses as you see just observing A Min hog and doing it not by Road or two Mitzvahs okay and then the Broncos on the fruits we have a moon is a shim if you're careful with the name or remember your gems kindnesses and then the heroes zone is a tefila we're crying out in times of trouble because a whole world is being drugged judge it's kind of heavy times you're supposed to retruva Etc okay so I just wanted to remind you you the uh that the Simon is a place to really capitalize on okay one final piece of work and then uh we'll open it up to the discussion um The Following the confidence so you know there is somebody who's a very effective um teacher uh and he's helped I don't I don't even want to allude to it because I don't want anyone to figure it out he's very well respected this and that and he's doing very great things but he he gave over a vort that bits a hone like confidence and Trust in Hashem alone will guarantee you a good judgment and I said you know I sent him a message I I'm not sure that's the whole story in other words the way they explain it is the confidence in hashem's Mercy has to be preceded by the fear of Hashem worrying about Rosh Hashanah and and and trying to do children but primarily worrying and fearing in other words as the rompom says we're like we're fleeing from Hashem because we're so scared to Hashem okay now but so you have to flee first you have to feel generate trepidation over what's going to happen on Monday night okay Monday all right so so let's again as a you know I want to do the mission now because Miss agoros Mitzvah and I also who knows what's gonna happen for me and you please God we should take time and prepare as Romano Jonas says if you had a and I remember last year uh Cheryl mentioned if you had a serious court case you would be spending time on it you would be carving out time so we're we're supposed to fear and prepare okay let's do it right now okay what I want to do right now is let's take a moment let's have in mind the Mitzvah of yuris Hashem the Mitzvah of worrying about the consequences of hashem's judgment which were banana says is one of the 20 principles that purify your soul okay so have those misses in mind and I want you to take a minute whatever we'll figure out how much I want you to think about all the Calamity and difficulty that happened this year you know you you your friends your family your community the world okay I think there's the loss of great people oh unbelievable we lost sort of hayam and Roshan Cohen in this uh unbelievable okay anyhow let's take some time to worry about last this coming year based on last year okay and not knowing what's going to happen all right have in mind the midst of jurisdiction okay that's uh please God this should be an offering to Hashem it should be our our communal offering and I want to uh just uh wish everybody uh right this a sweet year uh a beautiful year with sweet things that last in our permit and we should um get ever so close to uh Kadesh borahu and ever so close to the people that he puts in our lives and we should treat them the way the Torah tells us to treat them okay momish everybody should have a beautiful year oh man thank you everybody um I'm going to jump in with a question before shoulders yeah you know how you did it yeah yeah he must be closing a deal or something yeah yeah yeah no actually I apologize to him he was waiting in the waiting when I didn't see him so anyway he's going to catch some of the recording but I was going to ask that there's obviously a big difference between the work that we're doing now and the day itself in terms of our cavana and I'm sure this is something you're going to distribute in the in the tools that are coming out but but I'm always I always struggle to frame in my mind like the day itself um you know that we're not really so much into personal requests you know it's a day of malchus and and that so not to put you on the spot but maybe if you could just uh you know if I was going to grab onto one or two things on the day because there's so much going on in the governing and that's what would you say would be good to grab onto that would frame our cavanas correctly for the day um let me first uh let me first discuss what you said about Quest okay I I I understand uh um hold by the following idea parrots it's very important it's it's based on cilantro and and that I see most people say this okay let's first discuss requests you know that uh you're right is the famous Zohar and in theory we shouldn't be focused on ourselves we should be focused on the King right uh how many people are focusing on this cells when they were dealing with Queen Elizabeth okay so the the thing is says with Salon term uh they had they were capable of being filled with awe and fearing trembling and just focusing on that if we ignore the fact that Rosh Hashanah is determining our lives and our friends and family's life if we kind of just oh it's okay I'll just focus on the thing that's a lack of yours Hashem sentencer of cilantro okay so what I would what I one thing I would suggest is have a part of the day when you know at some point or even in the yellow kindness or but but um have in mind the Mitzvah you hear this of yours Hashem that that you're begging Hashem um the more you beg or you um for the welfare of everybody that uh you're taking the then seriously so that that's what they prescribed for us and I think it's fantastic okay now now that I think there's a beautiful in terms of like you know focus on the day first of all follow the map of CPR carefully okay focus though in those different times there's a time for confidence there's a time for pahad and there's a time for Roma moose okay so I would say direct yourself that way that's that's one overall thing the the other thing to tell you is something uh just amazing from the ROM Paul caduceus right that famous so when you first say it it's it's easy to just think wow what a glorious thing we're asking the entire world to cleave to Shem and a good it's an amazing prayer but you say it I think uh nine times you say it so many times I don't care so I would find that my team popular number one you know my number seven is not the same as my number one so then I found that what the ROM call says the ROM call says that prayer caduceus [Music] every time you recite it and of course the more kavana the more focusing and engagement you're bringing the shinsmokers more into the world every single time so we only have nine times do you hear this to bring down the mahu shamayan okay all right I think if I say anymore it'll definitely be a Reload okay very good okay thank you thank you sir he's having a problem yeah yeah I'll get into I'll tell him to email these questions right right because if any uh any other questions otherwise we'll uh uh get to work uh all right so it um I just again what my parents said uh let us know um contact Paris or shifra uh Levine who's working with us at KLM she's an administrator on the WhatsApp or myself if you would like the uh Rosh Hashanah package okay thank you everybody [Music]