NEW!!! Rabbi Jay Yaacov Schwartz: Shabbos Yom Kippur: Is Hashem Saying, "This Time, It's Personal!"?

[Music] Kipper falls out on chabas it is a question as to how shabas and yum Kipper indir do we say that they are complimentary in other words that yum Kipper has its own kadha and chabas has a different level of kadha a different type of kadha well the Torah calls yam ker Shabbat shabbaton where shabbaton is used to describe various yamim which of which yum Kipper is a member pointed out in his that the Shon him of the ninth 10th and even the 11th centuries were of the opinion yamer is equal to the with with regarding the Mitzvah of you have to enjoy the nower it would seem that that holds true as well so the essence of yum Kipper really is defined as clearly they in according to the rush in the fourth par B 85b yum Kipper is categorized as a Yanti whereas shabas is of course its own kadus that is not relevant to the kishes it's not a holiday like other holidays that are declared by the bezin H based on their calculations and based on the presence of aim that would come and now that we have the fixed calendar of sh um we understand that we can identify rinic it's been determined when the when the Yim are there is a custom of course to hold two days of yam which is that that is restricted to the to those who are not in but for those of us living in Arch Israel hopefully everybody will be this year soon uh we we can pinpoint the exact determination of when the rashash Yer is supposed to be we keep two days of rashash for that reason because in the time period where the a where Witnesses would come there was a an incident that thear rash records that actually miss rash records of witnesses that carried and the she Shalom the the song that was offered by the L on the carbon of the day was a weekday one and they didn't realize till the end till afterwards that that day had been indeed rashash Shana from the Torah so we keep both days and that's a separate discussion but if we contemplate Yumer if yamer is indeed a y of what type of SIM is it and how does the presence of chabas affect it does chabas countermand theim which is a mitvah shabas has a different type of SIM we have the k shabas on a shab you have we have on shabas not Simas shabus and what's the difference so originally Sim Y is dining eating enjoying as the Rama points out is for men it's wine and Fine Food Meats etc for women it's new clothing new jewelry and for children it's all sorts of treats and prizes anything that would bring gladness to the person is a of whereas on chabas on shabas is merely a is not a personal enjoyment but rather an homage that we pay to the fact that chabas is the day that Hashem set aside is Holy by Kadesh oo Hashem makes shabas holy we make yum Kipper holy so how did these two interact the famous Mish and in rashash speaks about the incident where Leo forced R Yeshua to come to him with his stick and his money bag on the day that according to Rua was supposed to be yamer according to his calculations R forced the issue and made Rua attend when he arrived he said shalomi you're Mori because you're more knowledgeable than me but you accepted my authority as the NY the true the political and Torah leader CLA Israel and therefore you are you are like my talid as well and so this illustrates just how much yum Kipper is flexible and is molded and crafted by the hands of the bezin itself and as Raba pointed out to console RAB Yeshua he said to him that according to his understanding these are the moim that you shall call them meaning whenever the bezin headed in this case where would decide that yum is supposed to be the kadua is drawn to it and emanates from it and there is no changing that it's purely based on the human choice and the reportage of human eyes to the witnessing of the birth of Lana and so how can we understand exactly the inter action between a shabas and yam first of all there are a few changes that happen the normal ziros that we sing on shabas are not s the the birat elaborate bir Kahan that we do on Yanti are curtailed ainuu are desperate cries for help physically emotionally spiritually for the nation for the poor for the hungry for the needy are curtailed until the very end of the day why would why is that because it's not a proper expression of shabas but however we need this day so there seems to be a competition of sorts if yam Kipper wants to express our personal needs and we certainly do so by ainuu we certainly do so by by uh declaring the day ourselves it's the it's the kipur that we determine it's the aod of the Co godal in The KES kadash that we created with our own hands that Hashem dwells there and allows us to cleanse ourselves and cleans the mishan representing our world here from Tuma now let's understand all the carbonos including the SE the twin the twin SE one going into the K kadash where th is sprinkled and also on on the perus on the curtain and one that sent out laaz notice AA in the Azazel it means the Wilderness the land the cursed land are both uh part of the kapara but the one that's beim only only is mat removes the Tuma of the mishon itself that's why it's sprinkled on the most important parts The KES kashim and the outer curtain what about the Jewish people the Jewish people's kapara comes by the V that said on the head of the SE that goes out to Azazel where we travel from Station to Station 10 stations perhaps representing the sevene Cycles 70 years of the human life and after that we take all those we we take the S Lael and throw it off the cliff what does this represent what does this mean how does this work and we even do that on shabas so if on the one hand Yer wins the day in the sense that we we fast we do not eat we don't drink which doesn't mean Affliction but it does mean Liberation the moral says any means simple it's just like of matah just means flower and water doesn't mean anything more than that so we simplify ourselves according to salvic our lower parts of our souls right the nephesh and the ru our intellect and our physical experiences and Sensations and emotions and Imagination need cleansing but our upper soul is untainted remains wholly impure oner we levitate above those and we connect with the part of our soul which is holy pure Untouchable and connected to Hashem That's The Power of our yum Kipper and when we touch that place of eternal life within ourselves we are reborn Tuma is a sign of death of yush of giving up of sadness of suffering of depression we can only rise above above it and remember that we have a connection to the immortal and that we have therefore a resilience that the Jewish people have had and teach the world from time immemorial we can can touch into that part of us which is a that's what our Yumi can do so we fast and we don't drink but not because we don't want to celebrate but we're celebrating a different part of ourselves we dress in white like Angels or some say it reminds us that one day we will be separated from our bodies and have to go above and experience life and in the context of our upper soul and we really supposed to call out for for our needs in this lower World in fact the prayer of the co godal shockingly when he comes out of the holy holy of holies is not to ask for some Sublime Revelations but rather if this he doin of whether this year should be warm whether there'll be rainy year it should be a fortuitous year for the crops the people of the shaon valley should not have their homes which are made of clay melt on them and bury them it's very mundane prayer very very mundane but the sense is as we leave The KES kashim we return to our regular lives our lives are restored and therefore we need to live in this world we've revived ourselves we've become resilient and therefore we need the uh atmosphere and environment which can reflect that so why don't we call out for all of our other needs so chabas prohibits that why because shabas offers us a different perspective shabas tells us that Hashem is the master of the world we have very little to do if anything of chabas in fact the whole concept of to with chabas adding to chabas is derived from yum Kipper because yum Kipper is pliable the time is fungible it can be molded by by us by the Jewish hand by bezin shabas belongs to Hashem shabas we we we can't touch it and when we're on the level of shabas we already in the world we already in the world in which Yak shabas our needs are not as dramatic we can hope and pray for others in the well beinging but to cry out to Hashem for our mortal selves is no longer appropriate so AO change we add the portion of sim Y in which we're actually feeling the pleasure and on of yum excuse me the pleasure and the Sim yam in tandem with the on of shamas I was thinking that this that this dual reality the Yum Yum Kipper Shabbat Nexus is especially important to remember in this year a year in which it began on the holy day of sim Torah the day which Hashem says to usah stay close with me stay in my Suka with me just one more day there was a terrible terrible amalik attack now amalik doesn't attack frontally it doesn't have that kind of power but it attacks the weak it attacks the infirm it attacks those of lesser strength or faith Don is the maos it represents the the deepest part of the nefes of the Jewish people as we call as we say am the average Jew tainted sullied perhaps but precious in his soul and there in the among the vulnerable ones among those who are not strung into mitzah one who don't see the Kohan the one that don't go into K kashim the one that are not close to the to the emanations of Torah but still remain incredibly precious Jewish people that's where amalik attacks amalik has attacked not only did it rape murder kill without Mercy women children in the most unable atrocities since the Holocaust it also violated their their Holiness and their purity and defiled their their tum Elohim this was an amalik attack and amal's voices began to chorus throughout the world whether it's on the college campuses whether it was in the streets calling for from the river to the C which means the complete extermination of Claus which is particularly what a mik hopes to achieve so am mik reared its ugly head in such a way in the past year but this year is slightly different this year and what that means is that we restoring a sense of order Hashem appears Hashem reveals himself in the past several weeks a month or two we have seen the Revenge that has been Meed out to our most virulent enemies as they sat and conspired to do further and deadly damage to Isel and Isel they met their end as we say evil can disappear like smoke like the smoke of the koras that we go into The KES kadash with and it must contain an ingredient which raises smoke to remind us that an yum Kipper when it's yum Kipper for the Jewish people that has enormous power to Vanquish evil and so much more so when shabis is coupled with yum Kipper when Hashem emerges in full partnership with CLA Isel saying thank you for being my agents in this world but I also have an AA to take against my mortal enemy which so to speak which is Amal as hasem says there's two forces battling amik it's not just clel but it's also Hashem this might explain why we say that moshe's hands Miss rash says were raised heavenward then the Jews below were able to defeat amalik what does that mean that means we say Well it increased their amuna that's the simple shot but the mishna asked just because moshe's hands were raised which was no simple thing to do was that going to make the difference and I believe that the answer is what it did is it evoked the partnership and the war with Hashem to Vanquish these evildoers Our Hope and prayer in this the beginning of this miraculous year in which we see suddenly voices of Truth emerging was the president of Argentina who went to visit the gravide of the great to pray saying I want to align myself with the wishes of the tadik of the Jewish people of Hashem and his sikim and he was told yes even as a gentile you can lift your country a big one Argentina I believe and he has spoken out in the United Nations and he's behaved in such a way which takes the out and he is turning that country to a Mak that's similar the president of Albania also came to visit and Albania has this that was one of the only countries along with Morocco in which they refus to surrender their Jews to the Nazis what a great somehow Albania has some sort of maybe it was once a Jewish territory but he comes to pay homage to K and say we need the idance of your holy sadim and their wisdom in order to know how to work in our world and then of course presidential candidate Trump came as well on their on their heels as it were perhaps this is a turning point perhaps we can look at this as finally the hmut the the the Fulfillment of that um that that the world will join am Israel in acknowledging the okay that's a shabas kind of vision hasem made man but ultimately uh the moment that through the Jewish people the world turned their eyes upward as they as the Jewish people did when mosha held his hands on high that moment is the turning point for the world I hope and I pray that both in our personal lives and our community lives we see the purging of evil it's not going to take long to Vanquish them just as it didn't take very long to Vanquish some of our worst enemies who turned to smoke in just a few seconds or the helicopter that was somehow knocked out of the sky to take out the hon of Paras today his name was RI and somehow he fell from the sky like hon fell on the on the on the bed of Esther which represents the the as the emerges more and more the truth of Hashem the goodness of Hashem the goodness of Isel the the lack of confusion between to and raah that this world has the world is exceedingly confused deliberately or out of just being ignor ignoramuses or because of the and don't want to see the truth they want to keep to ver indistinguishable we're always on a moral uh parody with our worst and most despicable enemies that cannot be the truth must be said and it's starting to be said by world leaders by political leaders perhaps by political leaders that have a potential to lead America in a different direction and strengthen our current leader in Israel to also go in a direction that reflects the highest wishes and aspirations of Hashem and K Israel for am Israel and AR Israel so this year although last year I was worried about the year because we went into the year without our best defender the chauffeur this year we come in go through y Kipper armed with chabas we should have hoped that this means that Hashem is revealing himself and joining us in this battle and he'll say to us okay you've done your part CLA Israel as he did MIT and said now this is personal Hashem has said to this is personal you took a MOS did your job I'll take over from here we wait for that day the Emer of msia Nikas but also the the K of Isel the Lost Jews who are so confused who do not see away remember he killed RI from the helicopter RI means I saw Hashem saw what the evil designs were and he intervened Hashem wants clel to see too to see their connection to yish Kai to drop the ideals of the secular World which are so confounded with toar especially in the so-called universities especially in the places of politics so confused and Jews are very confused may they find the Light May Hashem call out to them through the troubles to return to Hashem to return to T mitz to return to AR Israel and we shall be rejoicing this year the Sim will come together with theab where hem demonstrates himself to be the true creator and supervisor of our will [Music] some [Music]