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A collection of classes to prepare us for the new year -Rosh Hashanah. Rav Shlomo takes on a journey to connect deeper with the avodah of Rosh Hashanah through various texts from Rav Kook, the Aish Kodesh, Rav Tzadok HaKohen, Rebbe Nachman, and more.
Good morning everybody, boker tov. Good morning, and welcome to my mom, eizeh zechut. What a zechut, this is lo muvan me'alav. This is our last shiur for Tashpad, for 5784, chodesh Elul.
We're sponsored by the Silver family לעילוי נשמת בתיה פייגא בת ישראל, in memory of also by we're dedicating learning memory to of Sarah bat Avraham Chaim, and by the Weiszells for the refuah sheleimah of Atel Sarah bat Chana, Yaakov Shlomo ben Beila, and for a shidduch hagun for Esther bat Rachel. The week is sponsored by the Almans, לזכר נשמת רב שמואל אליהו בן רב רפאל, and for the refuah of Melech Shaul ben Tz'arna, also by the Gontownik family in memory of Jerry's mother, Ari's grandmother, on the occasion of her 20th yahrzeit today, right? kaf-chet, today. 20th, תהא נשמתה צרורה בצרור החיים. And we continue to learn le'ilui nishmat Rav Weinberger's mother, Perl bat Rav Yaakov Moshe.
I had a cheshek to do something very short, very simple, because I I'm noticing the deeper you get into into Rosh Hashanah, the more this this Yom Tov, this day, is is so deep and hidden that it's every time you think you chapt what it's about, you you realize, no, you got to go this way, then you got to go this way. So, yesterday I was looking over stuff like, Hashem Yitbarach, what what's where where how should we go into this today? So, baruch Hashem, found something that I I I really wanted to do, but I have to give a little bit of hakdamah for this. So, last week, a big tzaddik passed away at a very young age of 61, and it's a tzaddik that, at a very crucial time in life, I was very close to, and that's the ביאלא רבי, זכותו יגן עלינו. It's very shocking to the system.
The Rebbe, who was this Biala Rebbe, was in Givat Shaul. And for those of you that were learning with us the women's shiurim on from from the Biala Rebbe from Lugano, from Switzerland, that's his uncle, that was his uncle. His brother was the Rebbe in Bnei Brak and in Yerushalayim, and then he had a bunch of he has a bunch of sons, there's still a Biala Rebbe in Bnei Brak, should have a long life, and then we and then the Biala Rebbe from Givat Shaul. I thought I changed it.
I'm going to try it again. I'm sorry. Better? Okay. This Rebbe would come to Los Angeles when I was remember he would stay by the Rav Chanina Rabinovitz.
And it was at a time in life where we're very young. I think I must have been 19 or 20, he was and he was like fine, we were learning all these Rebbe stories, and and then a Rebbe shows up to LA, and it was a real chasidishe Rebbe. He was very young. He was maybe 35, but his hanhagot, everything about him was like a rebbe.
And I was privileged to meshamesh him a little bit and to be his translator quite often for people that would come in, but I spent a lot of seudot with him, a lot of late nights with him. And then when I moved back here, I would go to him for shabbat, and I would go and spend time in his in his beit midrash. And it was very, very special. It was a very special time.
I remember that my code of letting him know that I came to see him would be I would I would knock on the door and then I would start whistling or or I would or I would do or I would just sing the beginning, because he loved this nigun. It was a very special, special period in life, very, very night it was very, very special. The Biala, his last name, Rabinovitz, comes all the way from the Yid HaKadosh of Peshischa. They're direct descendants from a rich, rich dynasty.
And the rebbe, over the last 10, 15 years, suffered tremendously: lost his wife, lost a daughter in a tragic bus accident that took place on Highway 1, if you remember, and rachmanut, last year his son, Moshe, who I remember as a little kid, who was married, he just didn't wake up, and he buried his son. He he he went through crazy tzarot. And the last time I tried to see him was one of the shivahs and he was sleeping, I didn't want to bother. So, I haven't I didn't see him in many years.
But I was thinking about him a lot. obviously since hearing that he he had gotten ill he had gotten sick very fast and he passed away in in Manhattan, he was in New York at the time and he came here and and they brought him to be buried last week here in Yerushalayim on Har HaZeitim. So a lot of memories are popping up, and one of the memories was that he had given me He they had just put out a sefer of his abba back then back in the day, the Orchot David, and I remember that this rebbe he wrote like the most beautiful hakdashah for me inside, and I've been with the sefer I I pull it out over the years, but I have this cheshek to go into the ימים נוראים לעילוי נשמתו to learn a piece from the sefer that he gave me of torot about his father and what his father and what the line in Bialer, how they approach this awesome time that we're in right now. So all the words we're saying today should be le'ilui nishmato.
But it's actually based on a The learning we're going to do is based on like a a a hard story for me that's taken me like 25 years to finally crack the code. You know when a tzadik says something to you and it doesn't and you don't understand it, it's very easy to get insulted. I don't know if you've ever gotten insulted by a tzadik. It's a it's a big zechut.
One shabbat, before I had a car, I must have been 22, and I tramped from Efrat, I was learning here in yeshiva, to Givat Shaul for shabbat, parashat Bo. How do I remember it was parashat Bo? 'Cause I went to the rebbe for shabbat parashat Bo, and I took a friend of mine, and the rebbe asked everyone to say a vort at the shabbat table, at the tish. And my friend, who was a little bit well, let's just say he was uh He was like a self-dispensary before there were dispensaries, if you anyone knows what I'm talking about. So, he came to He came to the he came to the tish, mamash like he didn't wait for besamim for motzaei shabbat.
He was already, right? So, the rebbe asked everyone to say a vort, like, "Oh, don't ask him, don't ask him to say Torah. I don't know what he's going to say. I'm so embarrassed." So the rabbi said, "nu?" So the guy says, "beParashat Bo He remembered a vort he when he was like eight.
בפרשת בא יש שלוש מכות, כי בא בגימטריא שלוש.
Which is true, that there are seven of the 10 makot are in Parashat Vaera, and then there's three, right? I'm like, oh my god, are you kidding? This is a chasidishe rebbe, like And the rabbi, "או, געוואלדיג, געוואלדיג, געוואלדיג, געוואלדיג, געוואלדיג, געוואלדיג, געוואלדיג." Like they would always say that. And he made him feel so special. So nice, but earlier in that That's how I remember it was Parashat Bo. But earlier, when I got to shul, when I got there, I must have I didn't realize that my my my shoes must have gotten real shmutsik from the from the tramping in the dirt.
And my Shabbat shoes were covered in uh in dirt. And I hadn't seen the rabbi in in a while. It was my first time, I think, spending Shabbat there, after spending a lot of time with him in LA. And um the rabbi came up to me, and and he said, "שלמה, זה צחצוח נעליים לכבוד שבת? mah?" And I was so I was so, I'm saying like mamash, I'm modeh, I was so hurt.
I wanted to say like I wanted to say, "If you're a, you know, like chutzpah, like from chutzpah, if you're a real rabbi, you you'd know that I I I traveled here alone. I don't, you know, I I took tramps to get here, and my my I didn't notice my shoes must have gotten dirty." And um I didn't say anything, but it was it bothered me. And I'm sharing this with you for a reason, because I believe very much that the words of tzadikim are we never know when we need to hear them. The tzachtzach ne'alayim means to shine your shoes, to clean your shoes, right? lichvod Shabbat.
And here we are Erev Rosh Hashanah that comes out on Shabbat right after he died, and I'm thinking to myself, "Am I shining my ne'alayim? Where I'm Am I locked in? Am I, you know, ne'alayim from the lashon of being locked in. Am I shining the place that I'm choosing to lock myself in לכבוד שבת, שבת ראש השנה?" And I would just say like when you don't understand something a tzadik tells you, I'm telling you from from from personal, you know, from keli rishon, is that hold on to the words, you never know when when you need them, exactly because what I want us to feel is that we are really We're We're choosing to really really shine the place that we're choosing to enter in, into this שבת, שבת ראש השנה, תשפ״ד, that should come on to everyone letovah ulevrakhah. And obviously the tefilah that that we have even before going into yom tov is Hashem, what should I be davening about? What should be my prayers? What should I focus on? So a lot of people say, you know, on Rosh Hashanah, what do you daven for? malchut Hashem. It's a very big word.
malchut Hashem. So let's try to understand today what really we'll lean bizchut of the rabbi, of the Biala Rebbe, what really is the tefilah that should be in the heart of hearts throughout Rosh Hashanah, which is called Yoma Arichta, one long day, 48 hours, which is really like one day. And we're going to see here something beautiful from the rebbe's father that I believe will bring in shamayim a lot of nachat, be'ezrat Hashem. So here we could pass these pages around, and I'll show you exactly on the page where to look at.
This is from the Sefer Orchot David from the ביאלא רבי, זכותו יגן עלינו. If you could pass those pages around. Something very simple today, be'emet. I guess I have all these zikhronot, I have all these memories before we go in here, I'll tell you one more memory I just remembered right now.
I was once with him for Shavuot in Los Angeles, and at the tish, when we started singing nigunim, he did he did something I never saw before. He had a towel that ke'ilu was for his shvitz, right? ke'ilu that he needed it for for this to clear his face. But I sat right next to him, and I saw that every time he pretended to use it to cover his face, he was saying yichudim. He was saying some very deep kabbalistic unifications that were going on behind the towel, and then pretended he was covering, and every time we got to the height of a really high nigun, he did it again.
It was just like to be around this stuff at my young age, it really had a a very strong impression on me. Okay. So, you see on דף ס״ד, התפילה לכבוד שמים on the right column on the on the bottom of the right column, do you see? Yeah? chevrah, you're with me? hatefilah lichvod shamayim? Okay. So, this is what his father said: בראש השנה, כל יהודי מחויב להתפלל רק על כבוד שמים.
Okay, he gave us an instruction over here. What should be the davenen? It should be only for one thing. The davenen on Rosh Hashanah should just be for the kavod of Hashem, kavod shamayim. And we allude to this quite often.
I mean there's we say it quite clearly in the דאווענען, ובכן תן כבוד השם לעמך. We link us to this thing of that there should be kavod shamayim. But if I asked each and every one of you, what does kavod shamayim mean? I don't know, I think everyone would have their own interpretation of what that means. And we don't have time right now to go around in a circle and everyone should answer.
But kavod shamayim is a very you know, that's our personal illustration, like our our dimyon of what does that look like? What's a world of kavod shamayim? Is there do you feel like there is kavod shamayim in the world? And not just here in Efrat, and not just here in Eretz Yisrael, but in the whole world. melokh al Efrat? No, מלוך על כל העולם כולו בכבודך. The way you reign throughout the whole world is by means of your kavod, of your honor being clear in the whole world.
מלוך על כל העולם כולו בכבודך.
So the rebbe's and we're going to figure out soon, he's going to give us a hint as to how do we relate to that on a personal level. Because it's very intimidating. Very intimidating for a poshute yid who walks into shul. He says, okay, the Biala Rebbe taught that you have to daven for one thing and one thing only, kavod shamayim.
And you're sitting there like, I don't know what that means, but okay. And then you get a little bit lost through what the penimiyut of Rosh Hashanah is all about. Especially since obviously, if it's such an if it's such an awesome moment of the beginning of everything, you're going to want to have personal things in your tefilot, and that doesn't make you a bad person, either. How do we link the two? How does it make sense?
ואפילו יהודי פשוט גם כן זאת תהיה תפילתו ומגמתו.
And even a pashut, you know, like us, simple yidn, that should be that should be really our magamah, our purpose, and our kavanah with the davenen on Rosh Hashanah. kavod shamayim. davenen for kavod shamayim.
כי איתא בזהר הקדוש שמי שמתפלל רק בעבורו ועל צרכיו הגשמיים, if you go into Rosh Hashanah and you have that list of your personal needs, your materialistic personal needs, I would say even maybe even my own spiritual needs, but it's about me, so the Zohar says if that's how you go into ראש השנה, הרי הוא דומה לכלבים הזועקים הב הב.
So you're likened to a dog. "Ruff ruff," right? hav hav means give, give. Right? Give, give.
הב לן חיי, הב לן מזוני.
Give me life, give me money.
כי האדם לא נברא בעולם אלא לעשות רצונו יתברך. I was created in this world to do, to do Hashem's will. That's why I was created in this world.
And Rosh Hashanah we say זה היום תחילת מעשיך, שהוא יום בריאת האדם. Remember, the world was created a few days ago, right, on kaf-heh. Rosh Hashanah is the day that man, Adam and Chavah were created. It's the day I come into the world again, and it's זה היום תחילת מעשיך, the beginning day of your actions, Hashem, u-tachlit beriyato, the purpose of why you created everything in the world, לא היתה בעבור דברים גשמיים.
It can't be, Hashem, that everything that what you created in the world is for materialistic purposes.
וממילא, אם מתפללים בעבור כבוד שמי- kavod malchut shamayim, so it must be that if you davenen for kavod malchut shamayim, that God's kingdom shall be reigning in the world, he says so beautifully, אז אדרבא, הקדוש ברוך הוא יתן לנו שפע, ברכה והצלחה, למלאות כל משאלותינו לטובה. Then Hashem will give us an abundance of blessings and success, that all of our the desires of our hearts will be filled for good. And then he says over here a very important line: כי כלום חסר מבית המלך.
There's nothing lacking in the house of the king. If there was one pasuk I would say write put on a piece of paper and put it in your machzor, it would be כלום חסר בבית המלך. And I wanted to talk about this. What does it mean that there's nothing lacking in the house of the king? What do you think that means? Who has an idea? Who has a thought?
כלום חסר בבית המלך.
Hashem can do anything. Hashem can do anything. Okay, what else? Hashem doesn't need anything. Hashem doesn't need anything.
Yeah. Like that even when my life is exactly the way Hashem wants right now, like I might think I need more money and I might think I need this, but like this is exactly like everything is perfect like Hashem wants. Everything that I need to be a ben or bat melech exists right now in front of me. kolum chaser.
That's gevald. That's very chazak. What else? By the way Alex, that's that's one of the hardest things for a person to really feel in this world. That's one of the hardest things in the world, because somehow when we speak about spiritual growth and development, we we don't know how to we don't know how to make that shtim with that line, you know, shtim with also growth.
It's like, oh, I have to grow, I have to do better, I have to do teshuvah, especially you say the word teshuvah, and then how does that shtim with that? Well, it really shtim's by saying everything that you need in order to do to grow and to do teshuvah, you already have. Everything you need in order to do what you want to do. That a lot of people are, you know, live in a world of well I want other things, too. You know? I don't just want things that get me to do those things, I want a bunch of things, right? I want and I I've never you know, rarely have I met people that really said, I'm good, I don't need any more money.
Rarely do you meet people like that. People that are poor, people that are rich, everyone. Or hatzlachah's in careers, or we're we're driven, we're we're this creature, we're driven, we're we're driven for The she'eilah is what are we driven for? So when we say the words כלום חסר בבית המלך, there's a lot of different interpretations for that. There's nothing lacking in the house of the king.
So I this everything you said is k'muvan, bless you, very meduyak, very accurate. Bless you.
כלום חסר בבית המלך can also mean as follows: I have to make sure that the beit the beit of the melech, A, I have access to it, and B, that it's guarded, and C, that people know about it. If it's if כלום חסר בבית המלך, if nothing is lacking in the house of the king, the question is what shayachut do I have to beit hamelech? Well, For 30 days already we've been saying, אחת שאלתי מאת ה׳ אותה אבקש שבתי בבית ה׳, ה׳ give me the zechut to be able to actually sit in this beit hamelech.
I I want to have shayachut to this. So, there's one thing of just saying, "There's nothing lacking in the house of the king," as a proclamation. But then the question is, and do you really mean what you said for 30 days, and that that's where you want to hang out? Like that's where you want your headquarters to be? In the place where nothing is lacking? So, what are we basically saying over here? On Rosh Hashanah, when I'm saying what the rebbe the Biala Rebbe is saying, every Jew has to daven about one thing and one thing only, kavod shamayim. That doesn't just mean that the that the kavod of Hashem should be revealed in the world, it means and that I should have some kind of a shayachut to it.
I should have some kind of a relevance to it. It should be shayach to my life. It should be shayach to me. Now obviously, most of us grew up in modern America, in an era where our parents really, you know, did more than the best that they could, some better, some worse.
Even the ba'alei teshuvah that are in the room, parents did whatever they they knew, you know, whatever they knew. But we grew up with a lot of, you know, with the idealism that כבוד שמים, בית ה׳, that's by the chasidim, or, you know, that's not by, we're well, that that's, they know what that's about. I have to tell you, I spent a lot of time amongst a lot of chasidim over the summer in upstate New York, and they're waiting for the gilui of Eretz Yisrael, of what, I'm telling you, I'm telling you, I believe in this with all my heart and soul. They don't realize this, but they are waiting for the revelation of גילוי כבוד מלכות ה׳ that comes out of the headquarters of beit Hashem, that comes out of Eretz Yisrael.
So, where where is beit hamelech? Where's the headquarters of beit hamelech? What's the gematria of Rosh Hashanah? beit hamikdash. Rosh Hashanah is gematria beit hamikdash. So when we're really, really, really be'emet davenen, whether we want to admit it or not, and the davenen is filled like this, is that we are davenen for the beit hamikdash on ראש השנה, כלום חסר בבית המלך. Where's beit hamelech? What is beit hamelech on the most like literal term? What's beit hamelech? beit hamikdash.
beit hamikdash. We have to understand that when the beit hamikdash will stand again, kevod shamayim will be revealed everywhere in the world. The kavod of Hashem will be the most revealed thing, it'll be the most tangible thing, clearer to us than the fact that there's water in here, in this cup. The בית המקדש על מכונו, standing where it should be, will be the kevod shamayim that fills all air, it fills all kiyum, all the whole existence.
So when we start the new year, ראש השנה, גימטריא בית המקדש, if you pay close attention to the tefilah, it's all about geulah, it's all about beit hamikdash, it's all about the redemption. All the davenen.
מלוך על כל העולם כולו בכבודך, you think that's possible with in a world without beit hamikdash? mah pitom.
ויאתיו כל עובדיך ויברכו שם כבודך ויתנו לך כתר מלוכה, in a world without the beit hamikdash? It doesn't exist.
It doesn't exist. So our belief is that when the beit hamelech will be standing kmo shetzarich, it'll be revealed to all שכלום חסר בבית המלך. There won't be a sense of lacking. There won't be a sense of chesaron, of things that are missing.
We won't feel like we're missing anything in our lives, and yet we'll still be driven, which is only in a redemptive state of mind can you live like that. In our world, you're driven when something's lacking, on any level. In a redemptive state of being, you're still driven, but not because something's lacking. It's just cuz, remember the, I don't know, talking about 80s culture, "I just..." Oh, my god, I'm so proud of myself, I forgot the song I was about to sing.
Uh-huh. Now I remembered, and now I'm not actually not gonna not not gonna say it. No. You want to know other things, you know.
hala'ah. hala'ah. But now the question is like this. Let's be even more real, as much as Hashem enables us to be.
Can you imagine really going to Rosh Hashanah with No personal tefilot. Come on. Even though you're not supposed to davenen for ourselves. Even though you're not supposed to davenen for yourselves.
be'emet, can anyone here really say belev shalem, I learned the Torah from the Biala Rebbe, the only thing I'm supposed to be davening for is כבוד שמים, בית המקדש, and you know what? This year, I'm not gonna mention anybody else, any of my needs, my children's names, and it doesn't make let's be real, it's not, I mean, maybe you know people that are like that. I don't know anyone that's like that besides maybe the real, huge, big tzadikim maybe. You know, I don't know, but it doesn't make sense to me either because even they get kvitlech. They get You know what a kvitl is, right? It's a I send I send every single year, for years, to my rebbe a kvitl that I have someone I do it in handwriting, and then I take a picture of it, or I email it, or however it was, and someone goes to my rebbe every year, a minute before Rosh Hashanah starts, with a kvitl of not not not bakashot, but, you know, my name, my parents' names, my siblings, and my children, kamuvan.
And since we have the kehillah, the shul, vekhulei, and he's standing there with that piece of paper under his machzor, all of davening, and that's individualized, right? But all chasidim are like that. kvitlech. Who could say that they're not going to daven any individual prayers on Rosh Hashanah, meaning bakashot pratiyot, right? I'm not just saying about individual people, but even specific bakashot. You're not going to throw one in there during like an Avinu Malkeinu? But wait a second, that's even stranger.
In Avinu Malkeinu, it's filled over there with personal bakashot. So which one is it? Personal bakashot means personal requests. Which one is it? Is it kavod shamayim, or is it also personal requests? Which one is it? So open your hearts. This is, thank God, there's this next piece here.
nish'al rabbeinu, the Biala Rebbe was asked, האם יש להתפלל על פרנסה? Are you supposed to be davening for parnasah? I just wanna We're not in Rosh Hashanah yet, so it's no machloket. I want to bless everyone with a vort that I heard from Rabbi Schipl. He said, "parnasah is for goyim, ashirut is for yidden." I want us all to be filthy rich this year, be'ezrat Hashem. amen.
Okay, I'm wondering if mugzam, right? Loaded. I want you all to call me by Kislev and say, "Shlomo, I don't even know what to do with all the with all the ma'aser that I, you know, chumash with the 20% I have to give." All of us. Why not?
כלום חסר בבית המלך?
כלום חסר בבית המלך? You know, Chanan always tells me a line, it's so meduyak, where he says, "אני לא חוסם את השפע." I'm not I'm not blocking the abundance. That that's my thing, I'm not blocking abundance, abundance of good, of riches, whatever.
I'm not blocking it.
כלום חסר בבית המלך? So the rabbi was asked So my So if he's supposed to be davening for kavod shamayim, so he's supposed to be davening for parnasah. demichad gisa, on the one hand, ita beseferim hakdoshim, we just learned, לא להתפלל על זה, that we shouldn't be davening for those things. Why?
כמו שכתוב בזהר הקדוש, like we just learned from the זהר, דהמתפלל על מזונו, that when you're davening for your mazonot, for your needs, הרי הוא ככלבים דצווחים הב הב.
You're like the barking dogs. hav in Aramaic means give, right? That's why there's a say a lot of chupot, love, ahavah, the root is hav, right? I want to give. That's what love is. But here is being give me, give me, that's what it that that's the reference over here.
So on the one hand, the Zohar says I'm sound like a dog when I'm asking for my own things. ume'idach gisa, but on the other hand, כתבו בספרים הקדושים שצריך האדם להתפלל על מזונו. The the sefarim say, no no no, someone you do have to daven for your own needs. na'anah rabbeinu, so the Biala said like this, ואמר כי העיקר ביום קדוש זה הוא להתפלל רק על כבוד שמים ורוב תפילתו תהיה על זה.
He says really, the ikar again like we learned before, the ikar really has to be מלוך על כל העולם כולו בכבודך, מלכות of Hashem. I just want to say, not a tangent, but this is very important. You know why we learn learn so much torah here about geulah, and, you know, yemot hamashiach, and all those things, is that we actually have an illustration in our mind of what we're davening for. And that geulah and mashiach is not an abstract theme, concept, like it is unfortunately for most people.
I I know last year it was hard for some of the chevrah, why why are we learning all these, you know, let's learn about, you know, I don't know, things that are more shayach to now. I don't know what's more shayach to now than that. I just don't know. Unless everyone's cool with the way things are going.
Yeah, kids are fine, everything's clear. It's fine for them to live in a world with sirens and, you know. So, so the rabbi says again, the ikar is to be מרבה בכבוד שמים, דאוונינג over kavod shamayim, and the majority of the davening really should be on this. But he lets us in over here, and he helps us understand ourselves, our human nature that is davening for personal requests.
אולם, במקומות שמזכירים במפורש בתפילה על פרנסה, but there are places in the machzor that specifically speak about money, about parnasah. Like we have this in besefer chayim, what's how does it go there?
בספר חיים ברכה ושלום ופרנסה טובה. Does it get clearer than that?
בספר חיים ברכה ושלום ופרנסה טובה. Oh, wait a second, I don't want to sound like a dog.
But wait a second, but it shows up in the machzor.
בספר חיים ברכה ושלום פרנסה טובה. And also in Avinu Malkeinu we have it, a few times.
כתבנו בספר פרנסה וכלכלה.
Those are that seems to contradict what the Zohar says. So the rabbi says, when you say those things, make sure your kavanot are in a really good place.
יכוון בהם שיזכה לפרנסה, וגם בקשה זו תהיה רק בעבור כבוד שמים. How do you do that? Wonderous.
How do how do you do that? What did the rabbi say over here? When you're davening for parnasah, daven with a lot of kavanah, but daven that the parnasah should be for kavod shamayim. So what does that mean, Ribbono shel Olam? It's not that with every shekel you'll send my way this year that I'm going to give it to tzedakah and give it away. No, I could be very, very rich. But with every amount of riches that I have, the hakarah of that it comes from You, and what the money is used for, and the awareness with which I use the money, should be a kavod shamayim awareness.
A kavod shamayim awareness. It's funny, over the summer, I guess when you're in the States, so your algorithm changes according to location, probably. So there was a psak, I saw, we should all have these tzarot, there was a psak, mamash, I saw a video of this, that a rav somewhere in the State in New York said he thinks that it's a chiyuv for talmidei chachamim to only buy Teslas that are self-driven. You know, those self They don't have it here.
In America, it's a big thing. Because they can't justify, if you can be self-driven, you can't justify the bitul zman of of No, I'm saying like I'm not this is not Purim. It wasn't the AI either, mamash, it was this. You know, me neither.
I don't Okay, I'll explain.
כלום חסר בבית המלך? Okay, there's a big thing now in America, that they they haven't authorized it here, but there's that the self-driven cars, right? Like it really is like this. Like my brother told me one of his musician friends after a gig, was so exhausted, he basically puts in his address, and he, you know, was hanging out behind sitting in his He wasn't driving, and he woke up in his driveway after the gig. It's real.
I I saw it. Yeah. I could I would never be able to do it, personally. Never, I would never.
I don't know. I think in Eretz Yisrael it would never work. It would never work here. It would never work here.
100%. Right. Right. Mindy, you're so melamed zechut, it's unbelievable.
You're so melamed zechut. It's beautiful. It's beautiful. at the back of the wagon.
But to back but to get to the to to what this is all about as you're saying, be'emet, of course you have to daven for parnasah. But why do you want to have what you have? So, a yid has to check in with himself erev Rosh Hashanah, saying, "Why do I want to have what I have? Or why do I want to have what I want to have? Sorry. What I don't have yet. Yet.
Why why why? leshem mah? Why do I want it, right? What This is even whatever, this goes back to tangents we've had in the past. Why do I want to make aliyah? Cuz it's the right thing or it's cuz it's kavod shamayim? Cuz it's the Zionist call of the 21st century or because actually my presence in the in the in the land of my dreams, of my father's mother's dreams, is marbeh kavod shamayim in the world? And is my being here am I am I really bringing out kevod shamayim in the world, or not?" So, that's what he's saying is the ikar kavanah when you're davening for these personal things of like parnasah. Like Hashem, yeah yeah, shlach, you know, kotvenu, write me in that book of parnasah u'chalcalah because when I have yishuv hadaat, because I'll have all the money I need for anything I need, and more, do you know with what head I'm gonna learn? Do you know with what kind of kap I'm gonna davven? Do you know how many people I'm gonna help? Do you know how much I'll be able to be more patient with my kid? mamash kevod sh That's kevod shamayim. And if I'm really asking for parnasah like that, that's the highest way to davven for parnasah.
That I will be able to hopefully have more Homes where there's problems with parnasah, shalom bayit is always problematic, kimat always. It makes sense, cuz when you're on shpilkes all the time and you're wondering, "How am I gonna" You're trying to cover up and take care of things. It's normal it's it's human nature for that to be the problem, 100%. So, אבינו מלכנו כתבנו בספר פרנסה וכלכלה, it's not not not like a dog.
That's not the dog davening. It's really the prayers of ba'avur kevod shimcha, for the kavod of Your Name. One time I was sitting with someone struggling with horrible shalom bayit problems. Started crying.
The person said, "I don't mevin.
השם יודע איזה שחקן יש לו. I don't get it. Hashem knows what kind of what kind of player he has on his team.
God knows what I'm like when I have peace in the home. I don't get it. God knows what I'm like. God knows how much I represent Him in such a beautiful, honorable way." So, if that's how we're asking the gateway for for these things on on rosh hashanah, that really falls under the category of kevod shamayim, the Biala Rebbe is saying.
Look, and he actually really says this. Like now, יכוון בהם שיזכה לפרנסה, וגם בקשה זאת תהיה רק בעבור כבוד שמים, שיוכל ללמוד ולהתפלל, that I can actually davven and learn, ולחנך הילדים מתוך הרחבת הדעת, and that I can mechanech my children from a place of harchavat hadaat. That really means calm. That's what harchavat hadaat means.
Doesn't mean wiser, harchavah, that my daat is wider. It means really entering a state of calm.
ולא לטובת עצמו כלל. And but you have to remember, it's not so it's not so I can get the self-driven Tesla, meaning velo letovat Well, I don't know now, cuz according to that rav, it is that actually falls under kevod shamayim.
I don't know, I don't want to get into this stuff, stam I'm embarrassed I even said it. But ולא לטובת עצמו כלל, like davening for those things, for the extra bucks, or for anything that has to do with tovot gashmiyot in the world of parnasah, can you davven for a lot of money and that it really isn't about you? Yes, you davn for kavod shamayim. That there should be kavod shamayim from my bank account. Can you believe that? Yes.
It's not the way we're our minds are trained, but it really is because on the other hand, Chazal tell us, מרבה נכסים, מרבה דאגה, that the more neches you have, nechassim is properties, the more worries you have. No one told you you have to become a real estate tycoon with the money you're getting. That's what nechassim means. nechassim of "I got that house there, I got that house there, I got that house there." We're not saying have to buy a bunch of properties with this money, unless you're really cool with buying all these properties to open up little shtibls and Chabad houses all over the world, maybe then that...
and there are people like that. But for us pshute yidn that are just trying to get by, and we know it could always be a little bit easier, you know, a little bit easier. merubah amcha, it's, how does it go? merubah, what's the lashon? tzorchei amcha merubim, the needs of your nation, your people, they're a lot, there's a lot of them. So this, for me, I don't know, this helps me get my head on for Rosh Hashanah big time, because to be able to just walk into shul and say, "I am only dav(en)ing this year for kavod shamayim," it kind of puts me in a very uncomfortable place when I come to certain places in the in the dav(en)ing.
But it comes to a comf- an uncomfortable place in my in my honest state of awareness of where I'm at in life, and I have needs. I do, I have needs. But Hashem, please, please may may I be zocheh, may I merit to be able to ask for the most gashmi things in the world ba'avur kevod shimcha. That should be the tefilah before Rosh Hashanah.
We still have a few minutes. Not to get anyone too... I'm shocked, honestly, I'm shocked anyone came this morning, I'm really... There's so much to do and bunch of cooking and I can't believe anyone even came, it just shows like Hashem, we're really chalshing to not just get through the chag, we want the chag to get through us.
We really want the, huh? You said don't miss it. Still? Wow. Yeah, everyone's like that with me, I say something and it just, it just happens. So I want to bless you all with a proper hachanah to go into the dav(en)ing, and to also realize that many of you are mothers, little children, whatever you khap is precious.
Whatever you khap is precious, be'emet. In our family, like just to share, it's very emotional for me, yamim nora'im, I I wrote this last night to the shul that the there's a reason why the Torah uses the word teru'ah, right, teru'ah is is the only name of Rosh Hashanah, right? Yom Teru'ah. Adina, are you connecting? teru'ah. Because it's a lashon of re'ut, says the Lubliner, the Chozeh MiLublin, the lashon of re'im ahuvim, of friendships, that's how the Lubliner taytshes it.
My family, my mother could attest to this, became best friends with a family we never met during the yamim nora'im because of chesed, because of someone that kept on noticing that my father kept on turning his head to see if my mother came to shul. This is going back, I think, 40, 2 years ago, '84. '85? '84. Yeah, '84.
My father kept on turning his head in the shul in Los Angeles, and some guy noticed that the chazan was seemed bothered. And he found out that this person found out that my that what was bothering my father is that my mother didn't didn't didn't come to shul. So, we lived about a mile from the shul, walking, and this Yid walked to our house, and the the truth is is that the, right, the the babysitter did not show up. And he watched over my I was probably in I was probably still at home also, I was 4.
I was in shul? I was 4 years old. Oh Beverly, oh sorry sorry, Beverly Glen. Sorry, we weren't living there yet. He went to the place my family was staying so that my mother could could could daven in be in shul a little bit.
We didn't know these people. They're our they are my they're like family. We've we've become every simchah, everything, they're they're they're the closest to us, soul people, you know. It's a time of real re'im ahuvim, of friendships.
But I'm telling you, if you're able to help someone kap a few minutes of davening, just a mamash, you never know what that what would that what that would produce. You know, we we don't realize these things. That's kevod shamayim as well. That's also kevod shamayim.
It's not just a nice story. That's kevod shamayim. When God had in mind when He created humanity, human beings, you don't think that was part of the dream? It's a fulfillment of of God's vision of why I'm bringing more than just one person in the world, that there should be multi- more than one person, you know? So whatever you could kap, however you could help someone, kap, whatever it is, like this is, everything should feel like it falls under kevod shamayim, and we should be gebentsht, we should be blessed to be written בספרן של צדיקים, בעזרת השם, אנחנו וכל עמך בית ישראל. yashar koach everyone.