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What type of rest do we yearn for on Shabbat? How do we frame our mindset during the week to prepare for Shabbat and how can we transform our Shabbat experience? Using the teachings of Rabbi Yaakov Meir Shechter, a leading Breslov Rabbi, in his sefer Yom Machmadim, we build tools towards enhancing our ability to connect to the day of rest.
Alright, let's sing a ניגון we're gonna sing on יום כיפור night.De da da da ma ai. De da da da da ya da. De da da da ai. De da da da ya da.
De da da da ai. A da da da da ya. Ay ya ma ma ya ma. Ay ya ma ma.
De dai dai dai ai. Da da dai dai da. Ai da da ma ai. A da dai dai ya da.
Ai dai dai dai ai. A da da da da ya. Ay ya ya ma ya ya. Ay ya ya ya.
De ai dai dai dai dai dai, ai dai dai dai dai. Ay ya da dai dai da. De da da da da, oy dai dai dai, ai ya da dai ai ya. De re dai dai dai dai, dai dai dai ya da.
Dai dai dai, ai ya dai dai da. De re na da da na na. Ay dai lai lai la. De re na na na na na na.
Ay ay ay oy ya. De re na da na ma ya ma. Ay dai lai dai la. De re na na da da ma ya, ma ya.
De re na na dai ma ya ya. Ay ay ay ya. De re na dai lai lai lai lai lai lai la. Ay ay oy oy oy ya.
De re na na ma ma ya ma, ai dai lai lai la. De re na na da da ma ya ma ya ya. De dai ai ai dai dai dai, ai dai dai dai dai. Ay ya da dai dai da.
De da da da, oy dai dai dai, ai ya da dai ai ya. De dai dai dai dai, dai dai dai ya. Ay ai ya dai dai da. De da da da ma, ma ma ma ma, ai da dai dai dai da.
De re dai dai dai, dai dai dai ya da, dai ya ya dai dai da. Oi, na na da ma, ma ma ma ma. Ai dai dai dai la. De na da da ma ya ma, ai ay ya.
De dai dai dai dai dai, ai dai dai dai dai, ai ya da dai dai da. De da da da ma, oy dai dai dai, ai ya da dai ai ya. De dai dai dai dai dai, dai dai dai ya, ai ya ya dai dai da. De na na na ma ma ma ma, ai ai ai ai ya.
De na na dai dai dai dai dai dai dai. Ay ai ai ai ya. De re na na na ma ya ma, ai dai lai dai la. De re na na da da ma ya ma ya ya.
De ai ai ai ai dai dai dai, ai dai dai dai dai, ai ya da dai dai da. De da da da ma, oy dai dai dai, ai ya da dai ai ya. De dai dai dai dai, dai dai dai ya, ai ya ya dai dai da.וְנָעִים עַל פָּנָיו, נָעִים עַל פָּנָיו, שִׁירָה חֲדָשָׁה.
וְנָעִים עַל פָּנָיו, נָעִים עַל פָּנָיו, שִׁירָה חֲדָשָׁה.
איי, וְנָעִים עַל פָּנָיו, וְנָעִים עַל פָּנָיו, שִׁירָה חֲדָשָׁה.
ונאמר לפניו מלך בונה, ונאמר לפניו מלך בונה, שירה חדשה.
ונאמר לפניו מלך חנון, ונאמר לפניו מלך חנון, שירה חדשה.
ונאמר לפניו מלך חנון, ונאמר לפניו מלך בונה, ונאמר לפניו מלך חנון, שירה חדשה.
חיים שאל ממנו, נתת לו, ארך ימים עולם ועד.Okay.
ונאמר לפניו שירה חדשה, it's a new year, a new year of learning. This פרשה says, ואתה כתבו לכם את השירה הזאת. So learning is like, learning is a שירה.
Learning תורה is a שירה. It should be a שירה חדשה. There should be a some, some kind of a new צליל, a new light, a new התעוררות, a new awakening in our learning, even if sometimes we learn stuff that concepts of are things that we've seen in the past. Everything should just feel חדש.
Everything should feel new.
רבינו הקדוש, a נחל נובע מקור חכמה says it's, it's אסור, you know, you can't, אסור להזדקן. You can't get old. Obviously that means it just, obviously everyone should get old.
Every day we're getting older but that תמימות towards, when it comes to learning, should just be חדש. It should be, you should get younger and younger with learning.So we're learning, we're learning לעילוי נשמת בת שבע פערל בת ישראל, לעילוי נשמת לוי בן יוסף, and this week we're learning in memory of רבי דוד בן חמו. May his נשמה have an עלייה and may he rest in peace. Amen.
Also, thank you so much. Also just some, we have some, I want us all to wish a big happy birthday. Yossi's birthday was yesterday. Happy birthday.
And Arieh's birthday is tomorrow. So, a lot, a lot of birthdays going on over here.
לחיים טובים תכתבו. Did I miss, I'm sure there are more birthdays, I just don't know everybody's birthdays, but anyone else have a birthday this week? Want to get a shout out?
יהודה חנוך מרדכי.
יהודה, not yet. He's, it was the the J birthday was yesterday. The, the אמעטיקע birthday is, is, is soon. Anyone, okay, you'll, you'll… אדם הראשון.
חביבינו, ברוך אתה ה' אלקינו מלך העולם שהכל נהיה בדברו.
אמן. I have some pages here for those that need, please open up to דף ש"ה.
ש"ה.This is something that we've spoken about and stressed many, many times.
It'll be an amazing thing going into שבת שובה, going into the first שבת of the year. This would be something that for those that haven't made the קבלה yet, they would take this on. This piece is also very much שייך to נעילה, to תפילת נעילה.
שלוש סעודות is the נעילה of every שבת.
שלוש סעודות is something that, that when we've spoken about a lot. I told you that growing up, I'm sure many of us in the circles we grew up in, שלוש סעודות was completely optional. It's a completely optional זאך. It was not, Friday night, you know, Friday night, שבת, you know, שבת's day, שבת's day.
שלוש סעודות just seemed to be optional. And שלוש סעודות has secrets within it that we need to incorporate into our lives for many, many different reasons but the most… most important one is that that's called the עת רצון. If you notice, we only say ואני תפילתי לך ה' עת רצון when we open up the ארון קודש on מנחה time.
עת רצון.
And everything right now we're talking about is עת רצון. It's a time, a time of רצון. A time that there's access to something where we have to figure out what that access is. What is that ענין בכלל?
עת רצון.So based on a teaching that is going to bring from the בני יששכר that's going to then tie us into a bunch of other things, I think it, I'm not saying that you should, you know, part of תשובה, הרמב"ם says, is קבלה על הבא.
So, you know, you haven't had the first שבת yet, so it'd be a wonderful thing those that aren't yet מקפיד to really take on שלוש סעודות but to to take it on not because someone told you to, to take it on after learning about what's beneath שלוש סעודות. What's the פנימיות of שלוש סעודות?And how about those that are מקפיד? What what's your עצה like the next step?Even deeper, stronger, מה זה?
שיהיה שירה חדשה. That it should feel like whatever was now was just, like the Dodgers in off-season in Albuquerque. That was like, you know, it was like a, what do you call that? Before like the Major Leagues? Spring training, right.
Right, spring training. And then and that's how we keep on going.So the שלוש סעודות is doing long שבת's them, and then the שבת's, שלוש סעודות doing...Okay, so it's true. There's שלוש סעודות of winter and there's שלוש סעודות of summer. It's true.
There's also שלוש סעודות of having little kids and שלוש סעודות of having older kids. It's true. It's all true. But it's always שלוש סעודות, no matter how you look at it, right? Okay, let's go inside.
וכל השם, עת רצון.
עת רצון.
רבונו של עולם, we should be able to take advantage of this עת רצון.
נוראות מצינו בכתבי הקודש על תוקף קדושת הזמן של עידן רבה דרבין.
we find throughout the ספרים. So much holy work has been put into the learning. The קדושה of the זמן that's called רבה דרבין.
יהא רעוא קדמך, יהא רצון מלפניך.
רעוא means רצון.
רבה דרבין, the will of all wills.
וכלשון הזוהר הקודש רבה דרבין אשתכח.
וכל דינין מסתכפן ומשתכח רעותא וחדו בכולא.
רבה דרבין, when that time comes up, all the דינין is מסכפן. What do you think that means? The דינין.מסתכפן?Skipped over?It's it's like forced over. It's like it's like subdued. Yeah.
ומשתכח רעותא. What's found? What I really want, what השם really wants of me.
ומשתכח רעותא וחדו בכולא. And there's there's there's an inner שמחה and there's some kind of deep deep rejoicing in everybody.
נמצא רצון הרצונות.
וכל הדינים, when the will of will is illuminated, וכל הדינים נכבים ונמצא רצון ושמחה בכל.
ועד היכן הדברים מגיעים? How far to what extent is this ענין שייך? How far does it reach?
יש להעיר מה שכתב הרב הקדוש הבני יששכר, זכותו יגן עלינו. Someone asked last week about every month has a certain letter, every month has a certain תיקון of a מידה, every month has a שבט, every month has a certain limb that's represented by it.
Obviously when it comes to אדר, we go אפרים ומנשה with other א', other ב'. This is all תורה that the בני יששכר brought down for us in his ספר בני יששכר. The בני יששכר, רבי צבי אלימלך of דינוב, has a lot of ספרים, other אגרא דכלה, אגרא דפרקא, דפרקא, there's one more that I used to, דרך פקודיך. He has a lot of ספרים.
The בני יששכר is the one that goes through each month. So he writes, and he also has a lot of מאמרים on שבת over there. So what does it say over there in מאמרי שבתות, מאמר ח'?
שהנה ביאר הרב הקדוש, רב מנחם מענדל מרימינוב, זכותו יגן עלינו. You know one of the reasons I love our Friday morning שיעורים is because we we just quote so many רבי'ס.
I love how we just jump from רבי to רבי, רב to רב. So the the דינובער, the בני יששכר is quoting the רימינובער. And he says like this, why is it called עת רצון?
הטעם שזמן זה הוא עת רצון. Why is שלוש סעודות עת רצון? If I if I if I would ask you, if you had to choose what you think would be the עת רצון of שבת, what would you think?קבלת שבת, Friday night, maybe yeah.שזמן זה הוא עת רצון.
Why? So he says this is a very, very, very important and famous תורה of his.
כי התחלת הבריאה היתה באור ליום ראשון. When did the world begin to be created? What's אור ליום ראשון?
מוצאי שבת.
מוצאי שבת.
שהרי קודם ויהי ערב, היה אחר כך ויהי בוקר. because first came ויהי ערב, what was ויהי ערב? It wasn't Sunday morning. It was Saturday night. Ah, but there wasn't any זמן then.
Well it was. Saturday night is the beginning of the בריאה.
שמזמן שקדם לו עלה הרצון לברוא את העולם. In the moments preceding the...
first initial stages of the creation of the world. What came before השם, כביכול? The רצון.
רצון. To what? To create the world.
על כן, בכל שבוע ושבוע מתעורר שוב הרצון העליון כמו בהתחלת הבריאה. Therefore, every single week this עלה ברצונו לברוא את העולם, that השם wanted to create the world, resurfaces. When? Right before he starts to recreate the world. When is that? Dusk.
שלש סעודות.
על פי זה כתב הבני יששכר. So according to this, the בני יששכר writes, שהעולם נברא יש מאין. The world was created ex nihilo.
שאין לך ניסים גדולים יותר מזה. There's nothing greater than when something is created out of nothing. What's greater than that? That's the great, that's the greatest like מעל הטבע there is.
יש מאין, something from nothing.
ומאחר שבכל שבת מתעורר באותו הזמן הרצון הקדום. So therefore, on שלש סעודות, this gets awakened every single שבת, at that moment of שלש סעודות. There, so, what's in the air right before שבת ends? The energy of יש מאין. Meaning, מעל הטבע לגמרי.
That's already in the air at שלש סעודות. So therefore the בני יששכר writes, therefore, יכולים ישראל גם כן להתפלל על ניסים שלא כטבע. At that moment of רעוא דרעוין of שלש סעודות, there's an opening there of דאווענען for miracles that are above and beyond nature.
אף שבשאר הזמנים קשה לפעול שינוי דרך הטבע.
Other times it's not really the ענין, but at שלש סעודות, at those moments, it's דוקא מעל הטבע energy. It's יש מאין. Go to footnote א on the page that you have in front of you.
הגאון רבי חצקל לווינשטיין, ר' חצקל לווינשטיין, the famous, famous ר' חצקל writes, הוכיח על מעלת התפילה בעת רצון.
He brought this strong, he brought this נקודה stronger. This is an amazing thing. He learns it from בלעם, מהנאמר גבי בלעם הרשע. It says about בלעם הרשע, ויודע דעת עליון.
The גמרא in ברכות speaks about this, the beginning of the גמרא in ברכות, first few בלאַט, I forget which דף it is. That בלעם had this God knowledge. What did he know? He had דעת עליון.
בלעם, בלעם הרשע, what was his דעת עליון?
וביאורו, ah, here it is, ברכות ז.
מלמד שהיה יודע לכוון אותה שעה שהקדוש ברוך הוא כועס בה.
ימח שמו. He knew exactly the moment that the רבונו של עולם, כביכול, gets angry.
והקשו בתוספות, הלא מבואר שם בגמרא, שמשך הזמן בו נמשך זעמו של הקדוש ברוך הוא הוא רגע.
So the גמרא there continued, תוספות says, wait, I don't understand something. How long was, how long כביכול does God's wrath appear in a day?
רגע. רגע.
כי רגע באפו.
What's רגע? A moment.
ומה היה ביד בלעם לומר בזמן קצר כזה? What could בלעם get out of his mouth?
כלם. תירצו, שהיה בידו לומר כלם. What's this word?
כלם.
Wipe them out. That's three letters, כלם. Like, like finish them off.
כלם.
ויכלו, right? Finish.
כלם. ומשום הכי ריחם הקדוש ברוך הוא על עמו.
השם knew that בלעם knew, obviously, and if that רגע appears to בלעם and he'll say the word כלם, אין מה לעשות.
God, for whatever reasons we can never understand, enabled בלעם to have that דעת and that כח of a קללה that it would work. So what did God do?
משום הכי האריך הקדוש ברוך הוא על עמו ולא זעם באותם ימים. So what didn't God do in those days? He just didn't get angry. The days of בלעם's access, השם יתברך didn't get angry.
וכדאמר להו הנביא לישראל, מיכה says, עמי, זכר נא מה יעץ בלק מלך מואב.
למען דעת צדקות השם. Remember בלעם. Remember what השם did in order to know the צדקות of השם.
But the טייטש here is not so much about realizing how much השם was מרחם on you. If a רשע like that has the כח in a זמן of רצון to say a word that could curse all of us, so what are we supposed to learn from that?
קל וחומר.
אמרו בגמרא, אמר להם הקדוש ברוך הוא לישראל, דעו, כמה צדקות עשיתי עמכם שלא כעסתי בימי בלעם הרשע. Know how much צדק I did with you, that I didn't get angry in the time of בלעם הרשע, שאילמלא כעסתי, לא נשתייר.
משונאם של ישראל שריד ופליט. If I would have gotten angry even for a second those days, there wouldn't be anybody and תורה שבעל פה wouldn't exist. There wouldn't be anybody to talk to. why? There wouldn't have been a thing called אידישקייט.
למדנו, שאילו היה אותו רשע מוציא תיבה אחת מפיו בעת זעם. There's a thing called עת זעם, a time of זעם. Had בלעם opened his mouth, put out one word during a זמן that's called עת זעם, היה בידו להחריב את כל ישראל טף ונשים ברגע אחד, he would have wiped all of us out.
ועל הדברים קל וחומר במידה טובה שהיא מרובה.
On the flip side, ועל אחת כמה וכמה בעת רצון.
יכול כל איש יהודי לפעול דברים נשגבים אפילו על ידי תפילה קצרה שהיא יוצאת ממעמקי הלב. If that's the, if that's true on the dark side, then on the light side, בזמן של שלש סעודות, if there's a crack of the heart that's opens, there's one ניגון, there's one תהילים that someone says, something, one moment, that flips the, that that that flips the whole thing over, what do we know what it could be פועל in the world? If one word of a רשע could wipe out a whole nation, one word of a פשוט איד with a צובראכענע הארץ, who knows what he could do? And therefore this is just another ענין of us taking advantage of this זמן that's called עת רצון. Now look at ב' because ב' is referring to the concept that שלש סעודות is a time of דאווענען for things that are למעלה מן הטבע.
And I know there are a lot of חברה, not just in this room, but all over the place, that seriously need a יש מאין type of energy, like a בריאה חדשה לגמרי type of energy, and they need to דאווענען, they need something to take place that is למעלה מן הטבע. There are also people sitting in this room that are experiencing things, לטובה, that are למעלה מן הטבע as well. So we know these things exist. On שבת we're not supposed to be דאווענען for ourselves personally, so how would you apply that if it's a personal need? Let's see, first let's read the story and then let's see if there's a, if if that, it could be the question will still be there, but it's a very and it is a good question.
Even if, so if you say for רוחניות, then this footnote's going to even be even harder. You'll see.
פעם ישב החפץ חיים בסעודה שלישית בעידן רעווא דרעווין. Can you imagine being at the חפץ חיים'ס שלש סעודות? Just the fact that yeah, just read words, Oh, one time the חפץ חיים was sitting by שלש סעודות.
Imagine what the חפץ חיים looked like on שלש סעודות. Crazy, right?
חפץ חיים is sitting שלש סעודות and he opens up and he סיפר על יהודי בימים מקדם. He tells a story about a ידעלע. Now, I found out later what, you'll see how we found out.
This is a ידעלע probably during the years of 1750 or 1740 this story took place.
שנכנס לבית המדרש ביום השבת אחר חצות היום. Comes into שול after חצות, שבת'ס day.
והתחיל באמירת תהילים בדמעות שליש ובשפכות הנפש.
And he starts pouring out his heart, crying, saying תהילים.
באותה שעה ישב בבית המדרש אחד מהמתפללים שנמסר לבו מהמחזה שראה בעיניו, איך שהלך ושפך דמעות כמים. So there was a ידעלע also in the שול. Now that's very strange.
Usually אידן are not, at least here, I don't know, maybe you guys are running to שול after lunch to say תהילים. I don't think I ever did that yet. It's the new year, who knows what could be. But but this ידעלע came in and started pouring out his heart and crying, crying his heart out.
And there was another ידעלע in the בית מדרש sitting there learning or whatever he was doing. And he got so מתפעל, מתפעל from it that he started דאווענען and crying as well. Okay.
במוצאי שבת קודש ניגש אליו השני ושאל אותו.
So the guy that was sitting in the בית מדרש goes to the guy that walked in crying, he said, לבכיה מה זו עושה, what what what are your tears about?
כי לפי רוב הבכי והדמע נראה כי בצרה גדולה הנך נמצא. It seems you're in, you're in a very difficult place.
אבקש שתגלה לי מצפוני ליבך. Pour out your heart to me.
אולי יהיה בידי לעזרך, maybe I could help you.
פתח היהודי את סגור ליבו ואמר. So he tells him like this. It's a very emotional story.
בת לי בביתי היושבת וממתנת עד בוש לזיווגה. I have a daughter in my house and she's been waiting and waiting for a שידוך.
אך אך מאחר שאין לה פרוטה מצויה בכיסי, but I'm very poor.
ואין בידי להתחייב על נדונייתה.
I can't be, I can't obligate, I can't take on the נדוניה.
והנה במשך כל ימות השבוע הנה אני טרוד על המחיה ועל הכלכלה. I have to work day and night.
ואינני רואה אותה לנגד עיני and my daughter is not, I don't see her.
So I don't see here, out of sight, out of mind, כביכול.
אך בהגיע שבת קודש, but Shabbos comes, I don't work, and what happens to me?
פוגש אני בביתי, and I see my daughter, נופל לבי בקרבי על הצרה הגדולה. I I lose it. I get so depressed.
I get so sad when I see my daughter, my my older single daughter, sitting there waiting day after day, Shabbos after Shabbos, to have her own Shabbos table. And I only notice it on Shabbos. I block my mind during the week because I know I just have to work and work and work, but on Shabbos, ייד'לע's not working, so this is what's in front of me.
לכן מיד אחר סעודת השבת נוהג אנוכי לבוא בשער בית המדרש.
So what do I do? Every week, again, right after the סעודה on Shabbos day, I come to shul, I come to the בית מדרש, לשפוך לב כמים לאלוקים שיחיש לנו ישועה בקרוב. I pour out my heart to Hashem that he shall bring for us a salvation. So to answer Dove's question, and Yeshua's הערה, to answer your question, yeah, he didn't follow protocol. He wasn't like davenning for himself, he's davenning for his daughter.
But it's still a צורך פרטי. Not his own.
צורך בנה. Huh?
צורך בנה.
Of course there's a person...
הידור מצווה, תרים, אולי לשדך בנה. Yeah? That seems like a gray area. Gray area, but I'm saying there's no הלכה that says, it means this is stuff we took on, when a יאד'לע sees his daughter single, and he goes and he cries over her on Shabbos afternoon, that's what he should have to say מחילה for on יום כיפור.
Yeah, for sure. But it's not like he was there davenning that he should become rich. No, no, נכון. And therefore it could be a little bit gray.
But he's davenning for plural, שיחיש לנו ישועה. You're allowed to daven for עם ישראל. Now, that's a that's you're just, no, no, it's good what you're saying, but that's not what he's saying. But isn't the reason why we don't daven for for for personal things is because it will be מטריד you on Shabbos and it'll take you out of...
Yeah, yeah. But the person's already טרוד, so he's already... Exactly.
נכון.
נכון. On Shabbos, we're supposed to go into the into the world of כל מלאכתך עשויה. We learned that many times, right?
כל מלאכתך עשויה, everything's taken care of. But when you're a human being and you you're you're an אבא and you see your daughter, I'd bless us all to have the privilege of marrying off our children to their זיווגים הגונים, ממש on the right time, and it shouldn't be that they have, you know, it shouldn't be a situation like this.
And that's what you see in front of you, then it snaps you out of כל מלאכתך עשויה, אין מה לעשות. And and to a certain extent, we'd rather be people like that than, you know, than oblivious. Now to go to Yeshua's statement, is it רוחני? I think it's the most רוחני thing in the world. Most רוחני thing in the world.
So, נאנה השני ואמר, so the guy that hears this story says, wow, אף אני יש לי בביתי בן עלם חמודות וירא שמים. You're not going to believe it. I got a I got a בויטשיק at home full of יראת שמים, also.
ואף אני איני מצליח להביאו לברית השידוכין.
I haven't been able to find him a שידוך yet. Why?
היות והפרוטה כלה מכיסי. I don't I have, I got no געלט either.
על כן הייתי מיעץ שנשתדך בינינו.
How about my daughter and your, my son and your daughter?
ואכן השידוך יצא מן הכוח אל הפועל, that שידוך came to be.
ומאותו זיווג נולדו ארבעה אחים גדולי עולם. Four giants in Torah were born. Two of them are very known, שניים ידועים מהם, הלא הם הגאון הקדוש בעל קצות החושן.
The קצות, this is the Heller family, the famous Heller family. And his brother, הגאון הקדוש בעל קונטרס הספקות, זכר צדיק קדוש לברכה לחיי עולם הבא. And that's why I was able to figure out just because of the this is like, you know, mid 18th century, a bit more towards the northern part of the 18th century, that's when this story took place.
והיה מוסיף החפץ חיים.
So the חפץ חיים would add when he would tell the story, כי לפי הנוהג באותם ימים הרי לא היה שייך בדרך הטבע שזיווג זה יגיע לידי גמר בכי טוב.
על פי הטבע, these two were not gonna, eh, get married, and definitely not find each other.
אלא זאת עמדה להם תפילה מעומקא דליבא, ובפרט בזמן נעלֶה זה. From חצות on, basically from the time that you can דאווענען מנחה, right?
זמן רצון, זמן של מנחה גדולה.
From then on, that's when the air has this עלה ברצונו לברוא את העולם, this יש מאין energy, this מעל הטבע energy. So therefore, many of us have a lot of things that could, like, על פי טבע, look, face it.
על פי טבע, is there a way out of? of the mess that עם ישראל is in right now?
על פי טבע? No. So therefore, שלוש סעודות has got to be שלוש סעודות.
And and all other ענינים in our lives that that באמת על פי טבע, it brings us to יאוש, it brings to despair. But שלוש סעודות is ואני תפלתי לך ה' עת רצון. You had a רצון to create the world יש מאין around now? So all the things of יש מאין in our in my life right now, this is the time אשפוך לפניו שיחי. This is the time to pour it out.It's it's it's a it's it's an amazing, amazing ענין.
It's an amazing ענין. You know, I want to stop here. There's a lot more we could do, but I just want to stop here to give us that nugget, to go into שבת, the first, this is like, if we want to take למעשה something, the first שבת of the year. There are a lot of different things that we could do.
There's a lot of different תורות and ווארטס we could say. And it's even though it's one of the shortest פרשיות, is it the shortest one? Yeah, I think it's the shortest פרשה, right? You have two מצוות in the פרשה though, even though it's the shortest פרשה. Last שבת didn't have any מצוות. There's two מצוות in פרשת וילך.
It's משה רבינו's last day of in the world. There's there's a lot in it. It's a very, very, very sweet, sweet, deep, deep פרשה. There's so much, there's there's so many different ענינים that'll be, and you have to pay attention, שבת שובה, that you say all the inserts, right? When the חזן on Friday night has to make sure, you have to say המלך הקדוש שאין כמוהו, המניח לעמו, right? In מגן אבות.
There's a lot of things we could feel like, okay, now I have to pay attention to this, pay attention to this. But if we I think that if you could start off the year with saying שלוש סעודות is going to be on. Even if it's not the way I grew up, even if it's not the way that my מנהג in my home, יש על מי לסמוך that there's an ענין of a קבלה on שלוש סעודות, right? It's not like, that's not יש מאין. That's על פי דרך הטבע.
We have an ענין, you know, of of סעודה שלישית, of שלוש סעודות.And of course, it's difficult when you have little kids running around. Of course, of course, meaning, make it work for you the best that it could work for you. Just make sure that it lasts. Make sure that it's a קבלה that then lasts throughout the whole year because then the next שלוש סעודות is one of the most mysterious שבתות of the world, that you're between יום כיפור and סוכות.
It's a very mysterious שבת. Because only on סוכות you start to do חשבון עונות, right?
ולקחתם לכם ביום הראשון, ראשון לחשבון עונות. It's like only on סוכות does the tally again begin for am I a good boy or a bad boy this this year, right? So, if you already know, like, I'm I'm setting my I'm setting myself straight towards the rest of the year. Yes, my family will be like, oh, dad's having a midlife crisis, whatever it is, let that be what your children experience as a midlife crisis.
Yes.It just came up last שבת, so when רצון was over, we were doing סעודה שלישית and tapping into to all this, and in general we we do try to. But, like I was I was getting nervous and he saw, I'm like, he's like, what, you're getting nervous over the 7:16? Like, to run to מעריב? And I'm like, yeah, like, like we're going to have to wrap up the show, you know? And he's and and he he essentially, what I got from him was, no, continue סעודה שלישית. This is more important than דאווענען מעריב with the מנין. I'm not saying there isn't a way to make that work, but just like that, it was a practical thing.
It was impossible for us to make it work. And I know this ענין comes up like for some of us as well. In this zone, this holy time, it may be שייך to to to stay with it, even at the expense of of running to make make make מעריב. Is that the פסק?Hold on.
Two things. One, you set yourself up for something. You have to make sure you come to tomorrow's שבת שובה דרשה. Because there's an ענין that's קשור very much, very much, to what you just said based on a fascinating גמרא that we're going to see, one line in it.
There's only one line of גמרא in the שעור. That's אלף. That's a and it's a very a very important point. I'll say right before יום כיפור, and we'll explain that tomorrow בעזרת ה'.
Two, I'm I don't say I'm guilty. I'm saying I've been holding like that for many, many years. And there's been an attempt, and hopefully this year maybe we could do it.
יוסף אהרן was pushing this last two years to do רבינו תם מעריב on מוצאי שבת, especially in the winter.
Especially in the winter. It's it's it's crazy. So thank God, at least here we already put מנחה earlier by half an hour.
מנחה is now 5:30, so it helps a little bit.
But I've learned what you just said many years ago, and it's not בדווקא to try to get a פטור out of of davening מעריב, which is going to be part of what we're going to be learning tomorrow. It's exactly that this ענין.
רבא דרבנן is not something that you're, it's that's not what's going on. But the the most ideal way would be is that a bunch of חבר'ה are holding the same ענין, and they're saying none of us want to, none of us are three star יידן.
Right? None of us are going on a date, checking our watch to see if there's enough time passed to be יוצא the date. So none of us are three star ידעלעך, hopefully. None of us. So there should be I I hope, like I'm I'm, you know, I'm going to try to push it again this year when it gets when it starts to get earlier and earlier because it's really, it really is an ענין.
I mean for a long time there were enough חבר'ה that would come out for שלוש סעודות and we stepped we we kept it long and we just davened in my garden, שלוש סעודות. It's funny, a few weeks ago someone came to my house, um, asking and I was we were in the like the peak of שלוש סעודות. It was embarrassing because he he was visiting and he just he he checked, he he came over to ask me what time is מעריב. And I'm sitting there בנה היכלא דכסיפין, right? I was like, it's now.
So he looked at me, he was like, I'm like, go, go, right?Um, it's true. It just shows how delicate that זמן really is, and that that's the truth. It's a very delicate זמן, very, very delicate זמן that we have to be aware that like רב סעדי'ה who is very sensitive, very, very sensitive to so many things that are more sense delicate in יידישקייט. These are עניינים that we, you can't if you're feeling like this, the whole שלוש סעודות going like this every two seconds, יש שם בעיה.
Now, if you know, I would just say like this, to at least sound a little פרומ, if you sound, if you know לכתחילה that's what's going to be, you better make sure you daven earlier, מנחה. And then where you start and you start your סעודה earlier, meaning if it's going to be that you לכתחילה know you're going in, you're washing ממש בשקיעה, right? Then you're setting yourself up, right? So you have to be a חכם. A חכם עיניו בראשו, you have to you have to you have to be you have to know where you're at, באמת לאמיתו. So it's a it's a very important thing.
So חבר'ה, I want to give us a ברכה. If I could just add, my son, a כהן, right? So my son when he was growing up, had always this problem and he'd never get to ברכת כהנים on time, in דאווענען. He was דאווענען. And I kept telling him, there's a simple, start דאווענען before the ציבור, you'll get there at the same time.
No, there has to be a better answer. He asked he asked רב חיים קנייבסקי. Yeah. And he says, I'm going to take you to my רב in the, in the רב נבנצל.
Yeah. And he listens to him and he says, you have to start דאווענען earlier. What you said now, it's just what we do in our house. Go to the early 1:30 מנין, and you could start שלוש סעודות, and then you don't have to be worrying, I only have 10 minutes for.
Or, right, it's either early, or try to get a חבר'ה that are there. Unfortunately, that's much harder. No, but but I don't think it's as hard by us and I and by one of our like יוסף, I give him he begged me last year. He begged me, I just didn't want to I didn't want it to become a thing that we're going to have to run around and beg people Friday, make sure like and then it becomes like a טירחא.
Like the whole thing becomes a טירחא, but I think it can it will only happen when we learn deeper into שלוש סעודות and there'll be a רצון by people to really take it on in a way like this and that way it'll be much stronger. So I give us a ברכה to go into this שבת תשובה with a new new excitement toward שלוש סעודות, and take advantage of this זמן called רבא דרבנן. Now why is it so important to learn this now, שבת תשובה? Because obviously the רבא דרבנן כפול 800 מיליון is coming up. And that's the רבא דרבנן of the שבת of all שבתות which is תפילת נעילה.
And therefore I believe באמונה שלמה that we got up, we we entered into certain gates this year of very serious and strong and passionate תפילה, a מקום of תפילה, a vision of who we could be. We each got a little vision of who we could be the way we stood before השם on א' תשרי, ב' תשרי, continuing בעזרת השם, ג' תשרי, today is ד' תשרי. Uh, believe in that vision, חבר'ה. That is the real us.
The rest of the year, it's not really the real us. How we showed up and how we entered the gates is actually the real us. That really is us. That's the vision.
So believe in that vision. and בעזרת השם we'll go further בשמחה ובטוב לבב. A good שבת, good שבת, שבת.