The Paradox of Rosh HaShana - Awe and Joy Rabbi Breitowitz Nitzavim

[Music] hi everybody and you know there's an old tradition that's brought down in the name of the mokuba loom that the last week of the year has a very great significance because every day can rectify anything you did wrong on that day of the week so for example the last Tuesday is miss Akane all over the Tuesdays because I'm Coco and therefore each day of the week as we're entering the last week of the year quite literally we could make a fishpond a nephesh spiritual or topic as to know what did we do on Tuesdays or Wednesdays or Thursdays or Shabbat etc and ultimately we rectify everything I remember I didn't you see where this was very much emphasized this is the last my room of the Wednesday but that's my role in the Thursday he tried to be entertaining in many many ways now we spoke at a number of times and it's a fairly obvious point that this whole season has two opposite moods in it there is indeed an undercurrent and maybe to our to our detriment we don't feel it so much but there is a real undercurrent of fear and trepidation they used to saying with the way me and Yiddish that even the fish tremble in the waters during the month of ever even the fish are frightened they might touch in the notion that in a few days God is going to be decided who lives and who dies and as a result the person thinks constantly of the idea with chuva roots female instructor my very natural are disabled that God has given us ways to invoke his mercy and to repentance through prayer from stucco let me tell you a very famous boards of unknown origin but quite quite brilliant if you look in the sitter the marks are and you see the phrase chuva Sri Lanka my veer in that's wrong I do say that so above each of those words is a small word printed without the vowels so above Cuba it is written so fasting above tequila it is written coal voice and above the bathtub it is written my mom no money and there's no leak adult and we don't say those words we just say to God's people stuck up so what's the point of translating it into another Hebrew word or a Hebrew idiom I'm after all you didn't get you don't know they have two or three let's die god you're not gonna know what coal so mom owners either what is the point of the transmutation or the paraphrasing of these three phrases so there's a famous explanation that point out that we want to make these three words have the same Demetria shubao if you translate it to solvent fast sadhi mam mam is 136 sadaqa that's appeal on coal the word coal close Bobby is 136 and sadaqa if you make it my mom is 136 well what's so great about that what is the significance of transforming these three words into 136 because 136 times 3 is 408 okay what is important about 408 so it says in parshat after remotes when the Kohen Gadol goes into the - iam to infect Cappadonna for an Israel so the totally describes the process as result you know bow are known a lot open our role and shall enter result with this though simple meaning is it's referring to be in said ceremony but the kamati result is 408 and therefore what is being aromas here is that what really brings atonement to the Jewish people it's not some magical hocus-pocus but it is the shoebox pilau it's caca when if you re translated to so cold mama is 408 and that is the Zoet yo I grown a lot Kurdish and that's why the anonymous person who did this we have no idea who made this notation that we don't know he's kind of an unknown hero in the mock learn but the person who made that little know it was actually we think was actually thinking of this thought that that is how you get to para people sometimes have a form of magical thinking in fact in the book of here Bo yo-yo actually describes the door of the core but as people who thought that we can live whatever we can do whatever we want we have the beta McDuck that's God's home God is going to protect us and they looked at the beta McDonough's kind of a license from God to do whatever you want to do because we have God with us that's a very big big mistake that's what I call that's what we would call magical thinking the notion that you have this thing a school out of red string or whatever it ever be and this will somehow protect me no matter I live my life that's not the way Judaism is Judaism is a religion of commitment it's a religion of striving it's a religion of subjugation to the good after tomorrow and therefore the base of Macduff only when the kena is in our product in our soul and when it's not in our hearts in our soul the beta McDuck becomes a building that anybody can destroy God simply vacated and the same thing is true for Yom Kippur and all the rituals and the breast-beating and the prayers but if there is not the real common are to turn to a sham with trubotsky loves doctor then everything becomes just empty empty ritual empty ritual doesn't really help no there's a famous musharraf of the donor market about the blowing of the shofar now we say the blowing of the shofar also according to the Kabbalah the blowing of the shofar it changes the attribute of justice to the attribute of mercy like the blowing of the shofar is Maha Peck me that again to me that's a welcoming what is the source of that idea so the sower says it's based of the pus look into him this is relative in the psalm that we recite before chauffer blowing Allah hello Kim basura Hashem the cold show for it hello Kim is the name of Hashem that's me dad's had in Hashem you came up carry the shame on the progress is the name of Hashem that's recommend so Allah a little kimba true when you start blowing the shofar he's a low carry sitting in judgment Hashem the coal shop where by the time you finish it he's not wishing so chauffeur is my happiness there's always that it reverses the meat - I did - the Venus around but the donor market gave a very interesting mushroom trip here people further nuclear Magan just to give a little background to be sure that everyone knows who he was his name was Jeff Yaakov Krantz and you know in America at least let's maybe less so an arat estrella but in America the main thing the rabbi does is give sermons and Russia but in Europe a Reb of a community did not do grudges at all a rap only spoke twice a year Shabbat Shuba the Shabbat the direction and pepper and Shabbat took a doll of course sometimes the treasurer was quite long maybe to make up for not speaking the whole year the dresser might be several hours but that is even an explanation and we managed a joke but it's said in the name of record it makes great amazing thing that why is Shibata a doll called shabbat akuto the big service so the seventh name of raki she had my wreath in velvet Rashad's that the dress shorts are so worn that the Shabbat seems to be especially a want of applicator this is actually quoted as they seen the Russian also had a bit of a of a sense of humor in that way but if the Rob's job was not to give dress codes there was a whole profession in Europe of itinerant magazine preachers who would go from place to place and they would give treasures and it was form of combining learning and Mooser with entertainment of stories and parables and in the length now some big cities actually had permanent positions in other words dozing my give of the city and that was his job but for many small cities they couldn't afford a market that was unwritten a resident so they'd be travelling people that would go from place to place so one of the thing from me the most famous travelling money and although he did have a permanent appointment as well was the module of dubna called the donor market there was a lack of Krebs and some mighty them were not told me to they were just clever preachers but the doubler market was a Thomas Holcomb of great stature as evidenced by the fact that he was very close to the bill Macatee was a very good friend of his own town and the mill Montgomery didn't go out much Norma gong stayed home and learned but the Vilna Gaon we used to ask them to go Maggie to come to him and give him private lizard give him private now that's a very daunting assignment I mean imagine if you were given the job okay you are to go to the Vilna Gaon and criticize and point out his fault there was a very very scary thing and everybody didn't want to do it but going on said I need to hear muster to I need to be corrected I need to understand what I need to rectify and finally the supermarket gave him luster that said you know you're such a savage incentive Thomas ha ha because you're never involved in the then we'll see you know how big it static you're going to be in the real gun don't forget that seriously any segment yeah you're right they need to also get involve indeed those on the gun was involved in many many things in Goma and elsewhere as well but governor Maggie used to teach by Marshall buying parable and this is the parable that he gave about the kiosk over powerful that he gave I'm adapting a little bit but essentially this parable was there was a very rich man and the rich man was very hospitable and he used to invite the poor people of the town all people to his house were very fancy dinner in the meal and there was a poor man that noticed that whenever it was time for a new course the rich man picked up a bell and he ran the Bell and also disturbance appearance with platters of food and drink and he was noting this bevel seems to have a magical property that when you ring the bell everything happens so the rich man had another minute that at the end of the meal he was allowing you to pick a little souvenir from his home and take it home no like a Copic image drop or a Becker so one of the poor people said to him I want that Bell that you were just a belt that was very cheap you can get together for a cup in no I want them to know so he gives him the belt so the Richard so the poor guy comes home and he says to his wedding her make a party we're inviting the hotel she says are you crazy we don't even have written the house what do you be specially did don't worry about it just invite everybody so the wife clearly doesn't know what's going on but he trusts her husband so they borrowed chairs and they borrow tables there's nothing there is absolutely nothing in the house people are showing up the woman is crazy with anxiety the husband is calm as a cucumber don't worry about everything will be fine finally everybody's sitting down to an empty table empty house and he picks up the bell and he rings and the ring is eveni rings and he rings it and nothing happens and no one comes and against her embarrassed for him and they finally leave one after another they know here and the wife is totally humiliated and she says to her husband are you are you crazy what was all this about I'll take care of it goes to the rich guy and he says you are a cheater why did you switch bells on how to tell that you used but the short answer is of course that the Bell is not a magical thing that brings food water when you invest the resources and the time and the effort enough to build your business or whatever it is to have the food in the kitchen then the Bell is the last touch that brings out everything that you've worked on but without the work and without the prep without the preparation without the hahaha it just makes noise so the doctor market says the shofar is like that belt if a person works on themselves Chewbacca and I really try to be a better person and I think about how I could improve my catcher to a shaman my abacus Tyrell when we go to hell then the sound of the shofar brings it to fruition it brings it from the inside of me to the outside and that's what the ZOA means when it says it is my hot-pepper it changes the danger welcoming it's kind of the final step that brings out the cries of your heart but if you come to show for blowing without any type of work and investment any type of oksana the Joker Margot said you're just ringing the bell just ringing the bell bells not gonna do anything right so we have to be very very careful not to look at things in a superficial way very very powerful but you know at the same time of the fear and trepidation there is a great great joy in where each other a great showing number one is a youngster we're supposed to rejoice and indeed this is in the Tanakh itself do you remember this is a part of the mass that a lot of people never get to look very very interesting credit for that this is the book of Nahum eeeh the books of Ezra and that come here which involves understanding is one book really we split it into two is the great great story very very relevant to our modern tsukuba of Shabbat CEO of the Jewish people returning to the Land of Israel after the 70 years of the Babylonian exile unfortunately similar to today only a minority of Jews did return although for temple here we're actually approaching a little bit of possible majority but most of the Jews remains in foots Lawrence but the Jews that returned were under the leadership initially of Zerubbabel and later of Ezra and and heavier etc and it is recorded that the first Rukhsana there's still no snow based on meekness yet there's no base to make the gin it hasn't been building they started building it and if you recall it was stopped because of accusations that we made for 18 years they were not able to build the base and macduff but they're having their first rector shana after the 70 years of exile and you have to imagine what Erica saw was like that it was not like now I mean you couldn't get that in very you know in the store or Skippy peanut butter the land was desolate it was desolate you know in a way that we can't even imagine today somewhat similar I do remember and I remember reading once really it's quite amazing I was reading once Golda Meir's autobiography but she was discussing and she was in the water she came from Kiev to Milwaukee and she was a schoolteacher in Milwaukee and she came to Israel in 19 9 20 s and she describes what life was like and he puts in the 1920s you know you're sleeping on the mud and the mosquitoes are all there I mean it's it's really amazing the miss Yvette never even of the secular zionists in building up the land it was mama amazing just totally amazing but in Esther in the heaviest time it was even even worse and they have their first Russia China and the people are crying and sobbing because they feel so inadequate they feel that you know God destroyed the temple we were exiled yes we came back but we came back to ruin and desolation and even when we thought I mean imagine we thought we could build a temple and it got taken away from us even when we're back in there in Israel so psychologically they're very devastating and they have an acute awareness of their sins and of their flaws but what does it what do is raise our happiness a to them do not cry do not be sad eat rich food enjoy this thing and the PASOK says she said but Hashem he use him now this is an interesting puzzle because it can be translated in two different ways the advantage is joy the joy of Hashem is your strength two translations one is the joy you have been serving Hashem will give you strength you will get strength when you look at about that same as in joy you don't look at the detriment and the burden look at it as a joy and a privilege and the joy you have in serving us you will give you strength that is translation number one translation number two is what Hashem means the joy Hashem has in you is a source of your strength because what the shed the way in Hebrew world works yes advantage am can mean the joy you have in God or the joy of God in you that's also Muslim which means in the season of kuba we don't only focus on how far short we are of where we should be we focus on the intrinsic goodness of our soul and the fact that I shall love that beckons us to come and he cares for us and Shuba therefore does not come from an awareness of how bad I am it actually comes from an awareness about good idea now that doesn't mean I live with the illusion that I'm perfect it doesn't mean I lived with the belief that I have nothing to correct we have a lot to correct but it's precisely because of the goodness that is within us that were capable of correctly no person will become better unless they believe they are fundamentally dirty the person does not believe he is fundamentally good he will be unable to change because he will be paralyzed by a sense of despondency failure really given up the idea tried to give up hope and the life and therefore Shiva is a simultaneous exercise in a great awareness of what I need to change in my life coupled with the great awareness of the goodness and potential that exists within my personality and therefore my Shoshanna itself is both a day of happiness a day in which we recognize there are new opportunities new potentialities as well as a day of introspection and feelings about that again this is exemplified you know that's why there's kind of a schizophrenic quality about each other it's a part of the object really to get your hands around now your Kippur in some ways is easier because I'm Kippur you have one central thing you're in show all then you know you're not involved in the physical but you're suddenly going back and forth you have very intense governing and then you go home and you're Leo it's like you're moving back and forth between two worlds I personally find it a really almost the most difficult young tough to to navigate simply because what am I supposed to feel I'm ready but this when I should call it schizophrenic that's not respectful but this skitzer oh you're doing this gets a Brennan quality you actually see in probably the most famous of the PU tomb of the younger of Orion and the most famous is of course found in Tokyo it's okay if you want to be technical I can give you a whole view of the technicalities of exactly quite quite interesting but maybe for another for another time you Tim were written not just for you know we tempt or me say them them in no run but in fact the PU Tim were written for virtually every sub act of the year although you could barely find them we have in the city we still have to youtube for the for partially open cetera but like you know even a regular shop aspiration is part to snow out there are PU Tim and I have to imagine in one place that used to be said somewhere they tend to have fallen out and even if you Tim and younger no run we don't say a lot of them you know that's what people have these sighs of relief you know oh good you just skip down room page 332 three-sixty unless you're reacting if you're a yekke so if the mock sir is from page 1 to page 1000 you're going to say page 1 to page 1000 what would that whatever it would be but technically the last piece before I can do shot is actually given a liturgical neck it is called a see look because you're leaving the putamen you're going to enter kedusha so technically the son that token is AC book it's always introducing AC work is always introduced by the same sentence overhang lacrosse I'll let kids Usha now if you look in chakra stirs also receiveth but we skip it we'd be most of us don't say there is that that last prayer after we'll assign the class I'll let you - odd tokido job there's something called the ceiling but the one she loved that we do say is the sea look of the Sun it's okay now the sonnet tell calf has a very famous legend attached to it the legend is probably not true but every every mock floor has this legend and the legend has a very venerable source there is a legend about the authorship of the sonnet Elka that is quoted by the oranges are ruined the orange florida district of vienna was one of the great great you don't even shown him in the Middle Ages and he records that the author of Masonic toe cap was a rabbi otherwise unknown to us which is where I it's peculiar why we he's not mentioned anywhere else grab the arm dolly of magenta mas and Ramadan was very friendly with the local archbishop and the local Archbishop told him why would you convert to Christianity you know you do a lot here and the violin wanted to get the guy off his back so he finally said well in three days we can talk about it immediately Morano had tremendous tremendous regret how could he possibly have said imply that he would consider converting so he didn't show up three days later and as a result there was awful punishments the archbishop ordered Co you see how close to Friendship but the archbishop boarded his hands to be cut off and its legs to become and robot Mountain was actually happy that the body that tried to deny the Toa getting mutilated and as he was dying and it was where she shot him he asked to be carried to the show last words and right before the condition he ordered this prayer in the stomach okay that wasn't written down with just a prayer coming from him and then upon the conclusion of the prayer he died and some versions of the story but there we go I'm not being his body was carried up the shoreline but of course nobody knew I mean nobody could you know memorize the prayer so it says three days later ruff I don't know an appeared in a dream to revolution embark ornaments was also a famous bike that he taught him in Santa tell Kevin as well showing back one of us wrote it down and that now again to the quite an amazing story historians say probably it's not true because the Sun in Tokyo is actually much earlier let me talk if it is several hundred years earlier than this story is said to take place but the point I want to bring out is the Sun that took up itself in Catholic encapsulate these two moons of Rosh Hashanah of young and overrun generally it first creates an atmosphere of fear trepidation almost terror this god takes out the books of life in them and the angels in heaven are shaking who will survive the scrutiny of my channel and every human being passes before that who will live who will die me but each so who will have his allotted time Bigelow Bautista who will be taken before me Barack lead them against a coup and again these natural disasters unfortunately we're very familiar with their recently who will die in the earthquake in the fly who will have what realizes that something very very serious has happened but then there's a movement towards hope no matter what allowed to be less about them my beer in Israel has never and then we say Adam who is man man comes from the dirt and then we'll go back to the dirt and man is like a broken Reed and like a worthless piece of earthenware and like a dream but then right after it even in the another cousin that it's very to the you know if you have a good mouth feel about it it's very nice for about he would have a good voice any night I'm in favor of that you know it's nice to have a a good voice but if you have a good voice but you're not sensitive to the meaning of its Felix its kind of a bus so if you say oh I'm going to sing this on the toe caps you simon and garfunkel lower or to a Beatles tunes or something you know you're missing the boat so in in the Kazan us our enemies fancies was not necessarily there's actually an ship the first part of the summer took it the song in a minor key somber and serious and emotionally powerful and then it switches to major ain't kids a John only jaunty happy thinking it's still the time at opieop people I realize it's not a new competition which says that you god you love us and you put your name upon it and you've given us the ability to come back to you and now we will sanctify your name in kanesha say god that's right but my just is the most famous one today they're understood with budgets is there the standard in cattle is no sucker that is used by by most concerning a schematic columns we're going to get never different different no sir so what is we doing here trepidation and even fear coupled with hope and ultimately joy how do you have vote that's a good question but that is Rosh Hashanah the day of trepidation the day of joy even so far as that double aspect now there's a my focus be on resale and the crowd what should the dominant emotion be their children they are Rizal sent chauffeur has many symbolisms but the original focuses on the shofar as the summons to the heavenly Court is about to judge this is how I must describe to the show where I talk I show for boy here the are below yet rather like a battle cry when you hear a chauffeur in the city shall not be afraid their resources the TX show for says the judge is coming into the courtroom just like a jury in the trial when the jury comes in there's a bell that they ring like the show for it time to be judged and therefore their resolve says the dominant emotion of shofar they might I did the Oh Madonn said no no no the show father are the carbonation sound of proclaiming hashem as king and he has a different person if the i reason looks at the public in on us he taught our show farmer/year the arm oh yeah do the Roma girl that's another person into him but hot so throat the cold shofar with trumpets and with show for we shall joyfully shout or sing in front of Hashem our King the coronation and indeed indeed if you look at the verses you fell to my focus the car both are right at the same time if you look at the verses that the cosmic we recite them also we recite before shelter blowing like these are verses that the first letters spell carafes a time good but the stuff done so I won didn't we say me my mates are karate club calling out to God from the narrow place of desperation I'm not the answer me please fear the person who's trapped and yet we also say such a nosy of you both a shallow God I rejoice over your words as if I found a great treasure those like the liturgy itself ok that you're combining both ideas that combination and trepidation are the two things combination is giant Shuba itself is joy in fact some say that the Kia sound is the sound of joy and the truest in the sound of crying so there is crying and sobbing but it has to be bracketed by jury okay so we're just under the day is a confusing time there's very very serious work but it is joyous really for two distinct reasons I think I've been mixing them but to be sure that you'll understand these two there are two ideas of the simpler one is the symptom of proclaiming Hashem as our team it is the recombination of Hashem as he creates the world for a new year the second aspect of sokrat is the capacity of Trueba that we have like that there's a separate aspect of silicon that we are not frozen what we can become we're not limited by what we were what I am today does not limit where I can become tomorrow what I can be today is not limited by what I was yesterday every day is new every moment and here is a fascinating issue and when I go over a translation of a word and how different simple translations can change a whole meaning you know when we blow the chauffeuring whistle right so after we blow the shofar after each part of the moosa' so we have a little little to be left that says how y'all are asked Obama a young young mid finish pot calling too in company meant about them in company name of William built about him in a new culture we all know the standard translation of hi-yah karate ola in every month or is today is the birthday of the world because the world was created when stuff now what do we mean created actually snot the world d'marie show was created by Shoshana which means Rosh Hashana was the sixth day of creation so Hashem actually began creating the world the 25th of ever but whatever it is man is the tackler Sabri of so we call that this is the birthday of the world and God is going to judge us and God to judge us as beloved children or God to judge us as servants that's albedo volcano and if God judges us as children that we hope that God will have the mercy of a parent I'm a child if he judges us like I've got there then we still hope that he will be a compassionate king and a compassionate master but be it as it may the translation of horizon every monster is birthday of the world now you have an immediate problem there her wrath from here on yon actually does not mean giving birth it means conceiving conception they were young as pregnancy right so quite literally a young Iraq alone could actually be translated not this is the day the world was born which is a past event but this is the that the world is consumed in other words it is a future statement it's not a damn mission shut up it's like a new pregnancy this is the impregnation it is the conception of a new world and actually it fits quite logically because it played young my wrath of love is translated today is the birthday of the world it's not so clear why the next sentence automatically bows and how today the day that God will judge us way I mean you can explain it but it's not so intuitively obvious just because God created the world 5777 ago why we have to judge us today if you understand this is a conception of a new reality so Hashem has to decide what type of reality that's going to be so I have to look at the track records I have to look at what part have you played in the pre-existing world should I incorporate you in this new conception should you be part of the DNA or should not correspond to engage in gene splicing so to speak to kind of remove the defective genes or modify them in one way or the other but that's a really it's a very very simple retranslation on y'all my wrath alone this is the conception and that's a source a great symptom in fact the Seamus role one of the great Christian writers actually says that the show for is they come the truest self she bought him true he says is a combination of laughing and crying now I don't know if you've ever had this experience but sometimes where the person is you know there's an expression you laugh until you cry and sometimes a little kid you can do this sometimes do you have a way if you're skillful manipulator of your children so sometimes you can convert you can convert the crying until 11:00 you know they're they're crying over something they they hurt their knee or something and you know you start talking with them a little bit trying though they'll start laughing etc although what I like is sometimes the kid will give you ten seconds like you know it's like this conscious decision to cry like you know the kid wants to cry but you do something and the child focuses on you from out of ten seconds to see this is interesting that go back to the credit this is conscious decision to do it but anyway I'm the shameless world science that the truest sound the shwarma truant is a combination of a laugh and a crack because that's exactly what's going on here you know even at a simple human level person has a new job a new relationship a new marriage thanks on one hand there's there's always a little scary how am I gonna handle even if the old situation isn't so good well they say sometimes you know I'd rather be with that that I'm familiar with it let's face new challenges so the newness of things is very exciting it's also scary therefore the show for sound is picking up on that ambiguity in our feelings which is the whole permeates all of Russia Shannon kind of that those those double those double levels okay so as they say yeah it's a very very rich young person in that way because it really plays on all of the different emotional resources you didn't go to the sense of touch but I never the sense of joy the sense of anxiety about what the future will bring but also the kind of the excitement that a new year is a new conception of reality not just the same thing going on the world is Rican seen every year I know our that's that's a very very significant significant thing now we know that the parsha that is always read the shadows before Rosh Hashanah the last shoppers of the year is always pressure shot me so then some years we read a double cartridge so then Laila other years my gala will be between Yom Kippur but something is always the one that is going to be read the Shabbos before when she shut up and I need them a foursome say there's even a reference to this because the pressure begins mantra Boehner was speaking the last day of his life already a tab needs of mi-young the Cole family you are all standing the so important say there's a remnant that this is Russia shredder and by the way I want to backtrack a little bit I might want to like that and another little point in the sonic token even in the part of the Sonic tokens that is creating the terror of the fear there's something very comforting everyone in the world passes before God like sheep passed before the shepherd now although that's kind of in the scary part of Masonic token but think about what a comforting myself that is I mean how does a shepherd you know the shepherd is looking at me she can take care of them to nurture them thank so we think that even though God is judging him God is judging us the way the shepherd is respecting issue by the way there was a book written around fifty years ago by a Christian Arab here in Israel and he felt that Jews didn't understand the 23rd psalm the 23rd psalm is of course this mother Gitmo Hashem growing God is my shepherd I shall not want so you said you know let me choose our urban people they don't know what Shepherds do so they don't understand what it means a Shem Roly so as a shepherd I'll be the Christian Shephard he wanted to explain what a shepherd actually does and in that way we understand what it means how Shem is my shepherd and he talked about that that sheep are very very timid they they don't have good eyesight they don't see and they really don't see that's why they follow because they literally don't see very well and because they grow these big thick coats if they fall down they lose their balance they you cannot I don't know how they just in the wild but they cannot pick themselves out and if they get water love there is very very deep trouble so she have a sense that they're very skittish they're very anxious they're very nervous on my goats those are confident animals sheep are very frightening and he says the shepherd of the director tell us this by mushrooming and he has to pick them up he has to know if they fall over he has to straighten them up yes to carry them through the water and if they walk through the water they're gonna get water longer they will be able to move and if you understand the tenderness of a shepherd on his flat you would end up in another who is familiar nothing about himself was a shepherd what it means Hashem is my shepherd so it's interesting that even in business i'ma talk if the judgment part there is this information of love and concern but be it as it may attend meet civilian Co hem you are all standing before I shall that is a remnant to the young again of Rosh Hashanah yeah if you look at purchased me severe motor Ivania was basically saying all of you are here demand the woman the child the convert but then at the end of the list he has a strange extreme everybody's here Meiko day they suffer from the color of the wood I'm showing me until the drawer of the water now the odds seems to be an extreme from A to Z but this is like from A to B I mean the cultivates him in the show of a million were slave classes they were the give moment they were Canaanites etc and they were made slaves like somebody once said about a famous actress that she has the emotional range of A to B not too good so what is the extreme manner how did they swim and show them I they're the same group everybody's here from one servant to the other servant so with the tsipras casitas they say a beautiful thought this touches upon things we've been talking about the last that we know a human being is compared to a tree you are dumb eight of them in fact we are described as an upside-down tree an earthly tree as its roots in earth and it goes up to heaven we have our roots in Shanaya and we come into this earth the human being is a tree and cultivate simon 'show living money are two different ways we do children coach they ate them yes I look at myself and identified toxicity in my personality and I try to obliterate I take an X and I took it up and that's a Chuba that is based on destroying the negativities in your and thereby turning to a channel this is actually the Mita of the great subbing the great subject is so spiritually strong that they can look their faults in the eye and simply say I'm going to eradicate it and that doesn't destroy them and they still keep on going and serving at them but for many many people we don't have the strength to be cultivate because if we focus too much on our faults instead of doing something about it we get overwhelmed with despondency or you know hopelessness helplessness and we feel we really can't change certainly so there's an alternative method of chula which is not so much focusing on but to look within and find the deep good waters of your soul now what is difference to water in Michelin it describes a wines person Miami Mouton asa blade it's the edge - who knows the Atlanta what does that mean wise counsel is like deep water within the personality of a person and a wise person would go within and draw out the wise waters that was the cheeba of show of a monument in which you identified within you that is good and he drove but therefore host the gates of Sholay my him are the two ideas of Cuba encapsulated in the idea sword me rock confront the bad or si tell them again paradoxically is interesting it's sad that could be doctor doesn't have a lot of bed excited can look at the back and it's not gonna overwhelming most of us we kind of don't look at it and there's the sauce Emma's right they start without the way we fight darkness is not by attacking darkness we fight darkness by lightening candles' we're not gonna be able to do anything better but I build up light and build up goodness and the darkness kind of takes care of by yourself but I mean yeah buddy don't concede us that would be always be Jericho that might be the difference to stereotype and be relatively simplistic that would be the difference between a Mooser approach and mushroom would say look at your flaws and attacked them relentlessly and see this would say don't focus on the negatives look at the positives build up the positives the negatives will sort themselves out in the course of the light that you work with oh my god I mean it's simplistic returns there are schools of clumsiness but they're actually very very interesting you know what the most popular can't just against remote the most popular Hasidic sacred today we're gonna do which world that not to see the money is good to see the show everyone my mother already and everybody everybody loves to see the shaman it's quite quite beautiful and extraordinary as far but I see now everything gets attacked they see now that some calcium are saying the receiver Shalom should not be taken as the standard exposition of Crusaders because the deceiver Shalom is too much based on mustard which is that which might be why it resonates in the non cocina Kashima world as in the senior show does emphasize this idea below hitting the rail et cetera and therefore they say it is actually not about jumped up spiciness it is kind of a carnival so of mostly rights of every American but baby this admit this is mikoto misaka children are now to focus on another aspect the March itself the very first words of the parsha needs so dim you are standing what is the connotation of stanity so Rashi says register that Moshe is giving them a comfort not just about the time and you have to imagine what it means to enter Erica so about emotional Ivania how psychologically traumatizing that is what are we gonna do and they just turned 98 curses more so than the Tokra trade but you don't written stuff up describes the helicopter so Rashi says the Jewish people would devastate how can we possibly survive a relationship with God where these things can happen if we make mistakes without Dorothy and Moshe Romania was giving them assurance and nahama listen you guys you did plenty of bad things already and look at the fact that you're still around that Hashem loves you and the Shem wants you and I shouldn't share it is your relationship to the meats of them has the connotation you're standing strong you're here don't be afraid i shadow wants you to succeed he's not setting you up to fail yeah we can better the challenge by myself but a sham is really important so that's one connotation if everdry she said you're still standing up today there is another connotation that standing also implies standing still rather than leaving it be standing enough sitting but it also means standing and not walking not moving and this is an interesting idea that sometimes we think of children as changing as movement we what we think of it as the dynamism of going from here to there but in quite the fact sometimes children actually means standing still and integrating what the type of coherent brain but let me give you a very simple example I remember years ago I mean of course you were living I was not even living there when we had the spate of suicide bombs and buses and people were very afraid and it was a very very difficult difficult time even more but certainly all the Jews in America in the whole world were very very concerned for what was happening in Eretz Israel and people wanted to have that straight to fear us an extra to heal them an extra assemblies to do various things but when somebody suggested we say more to Helen so a cynical thought occurs many ladies was not nice media he's cynical in that way I didn't say but you know why does a shammy need more things that we do without covenant we already do enough things without the letters would it not be better instead of talking about doing more to take the things we already do and do them with more depth and with more concentration to say Elena with kevanna when we go out to the bathroom I'm sure your sir sometimes the idea of movement is almost an excuse the real difficulty because I can kind of convince myself that I'm growing spiritually because yesterday I did ten things and today I do eleven when the real work is not so much going from 10 to 11 taking the time and delving into it I mean it's so interesting you know when I mean I disassociated mislead angry but often you have a bad habit in there in Israel that when things happen different people like to say it's because of this I favor that a famous again I guess associated I don't think we have the right to do these things but somebody will say oh that bus overturned because the girls were not dressed me up or that's actually that's happened because they didn't show that again I don't agree with it at all but one thing I want to say it again maybe I'm being cynical it shouldn't be is the Avera that's chosen is always the unveiling that the person making the activation is not the idea that's always in a very that somebody else is doing because you see how comforting that is meaning I'm doing my part if only they would do their product life would be great but you see that's kind of an excuse that kind of says nothing I gotta do except point out what's wrong with you that's my job what does that do that deflects looking into myself therefore Schumer is sometimes a process not of moving or not an external movement but it's a process of standing still about maturity status so it's so prevalent macdui another famous my Mikasa the Maquis ship Aoi Touma all of them tsadikim gomorian NE nevere : my mouth so the standard understanding is that the level of about treatment is much higher than the level of the righteous person are never sent does about romantic conquer is in Sahara and he reaches a higher level but that's a simple one but the barbeque everything and that's replacing that level as another level is that about Ruben has to learn to stand still because about Shuba instinctively wants to do more do one do what you want to do learn but in doing more me sometimes crash they're trying to do too much at one time so about rubra has to learn to be Oh mate step inside the gum or keeps moving because he's already firmly established I said the bottom Shabaab Ichiro with about you with standstill that side of cover can't stand you have to keep going right so that's why did you think a night that Chula is about standing so be the name as we enter the last week of the year once again everything they can be a specialty clinic for that week most each others were going to begin sweet health this year we have the smallest number of states because so the clothes have to be a minimum of four days why are sleeping with minimum of four days so whatever shoshone is later in the week so we started we always started Saturday night and it has to be a minimum of a fourth we don't have four days we have to start a whole week before but in concept to four days it's very very beautiful because when you bring a core bus to the base of maintenance the Corbin must be inspected for four consecutive days to be sure there's no blemish in the corner i'm lashonna we are bringing ourselves of a Corbin to attend so we undergo four days of examination the most important part of silicosis is of course the 13 result of recommend they are the most important there are only and they're so significant that you can only say them with Dominion if you're saying solis work privately you can say slave a private if you have to but you don't say that you've given me Delta rocket is there only an elevated and the Martin Rosh Hashana describes how Hashem talked to Moshe these attributes after this a toy a go after the sin of the golden calf and it even describes a Shem put on a talus again we don't really know what all this means I shall put on the towers like a cousin and he said to Moshe a banker when your children said but Yasu look fun I can figure out that and they do before me disorder I will forgive them now the standard translation is they recite the again but the great book covers much of cordovero said if you look at the language of Kemal it doesn't say he shame young ruler funny to say that doesn't say when they say the order it says he/she yeah so when they do the order meaning the color of the yacumo means also recommend is not in the recitation is in the emulation we emulate in our behaviors to others these needs order welcoming that brings eyeshadows welcome into the world one of the most beloved of Sparta that many many people do learn during this time it's a little couple of things having Kabbalah and it's been translated in English as well is the safer home read devoted moshe cordovero and the first chapter of the summer devoted he tries to show how each of the you'd given me total welcome them can be translated in our behaviors and to our behaviors we elicit now for this purposes of the first step that the other chapters also are very important but the correlation of the eudaimonia to rahman to my behavior this is the first bearing so he's actually really common many people learned at least the first part of Tomer Devorah and against a very with anyone who reads - safer at least for a while gets transformed I didn't know things were up but it does elevate you in a very very tangible way so which you want to also be next week so but anyway in the show so it's a message that will finish off with this [Music]