108: Give us Life (Yamim Noraim Tefillos Pt. 3)

hi this is david dolowski and welcome to the roberto lavsky show whether you wish listening with our friends over at or anytime whoever you listen or watch your podcast we're so happy to have you along for the experience and uh i'm going to give a sponsorship and a victim mosha and malka bas moshe freed and it's shalom on behalf of our entire mishpochah one of the few things we are all willing to listen to thank you from avigdon mindy free from staten island thank you so much and uh what can i tell you thank you so much for listening to the show and i'm glad that people enjoy it and get something out of it and speaking of getting money out of it this is part three i'm a little behind schedule i'm sorry um uh how do i dive in by myself on rosh hashanah and uh you know i started this series only because you know a woman wrote me and said that she was concerned that there wasn't going to be an ezra's notion now here in arizona they're talking about a general lockdown of the whole country so uh this is becoming a little more halacha for a lot of people so uh not the uh not the russian kipper we would have asked for so um so let's try to let's try to uh keep our focus okay so uh we've given a little bit of an introduction um i want to focus now on something that we add in on rosh hashanah and and throughout the um throughout the serious mature of course and those are the four additions that we add in right to each one of the davenings starting with rosh hashanah the first one is in the first bracha now these additions are in the first three brachas in the last three brackets so that's where you usually find them the first one is in the first uh bracha voice foreign remember us for life king who wants life and write us in the book of life for your sake god of life that is the first one the second one is in the second prophetic who is like you father of mercy remember your creations for a life out of mercy the next one is not one of the four editions it's the only one that is it stops you from being able to go on and that is of course instead of the usual bracha and if you forget that you gotta get stage one straight over again so that's not one of the four editions the next two are at the at the very end right the last progress uh the aokulam is write us in for life good life all of your people keep your breasts and then at the end of sims shalom just before the end in the book of life bracha peace panasotova a good for uh good life and peace there's then two uh different versions of how you can end it hashem shalom like we usually say okay so let's deal with these first and then i want to go back to the melaka kadosh which as i mentioned is the most important one and as i also mentioned the uh amida and russian kippur is different in the fact that that bracha is actually changed normally we keep the first three bronchus and the last three brachas the same whether it's shabbos whether it's weekday whether it's yountif but here we change the third rock so we're going to talk about that just in a moment but let's look at these four editions because so the first one is remember us for life the second one is your creations the third one is binay brisker and the final one is remember amherbase israel so i heard an idea many years ago um that there is a progression taking place remember for life who's that everything everything is granted life by a kurdish borough people animals fish uh is a force that allows the world to exist and it's a it's a life force that courses through everything in the bria and that's all being decided now i heard michael shapiro explained it this way once and i may have mentioned it in an earlier podcast that i remember you uh you get a budget for the year and that's it at the end of the year the bank account closes down and you have to open a new bank account put in more money but you don't roll it over from the last year that's it this is fiscal 2020 and that's it so the way a merchant shipper explains it is how could historical deposits a certain amount of life in your account and every day it ticks down tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick and when you reach air freshener it's going it's good the only question is how much life is going to put in now for this coming year yeah give us life the most the most fundamental thing that i can possibly ask for is life this guy's share says the most important word in that entire little edition is the word for you there's no reason for anybody to be in this world that they're going against hashem hashem keeps you in this world only because obviously you're going to be serving a greater purpose you hear people talk sometimes you know probably have left the rubber of my shop montesio to tell such a wonderful story he says he was on a plane in new york flying back to uh cleveland he was living in tales and there was somebody on the plane and the plane was a little delayed he had a few drinks and he was talking to his friends and he says you know i live in cleveland i flew to new york my son's a successful dinner my son's a successful doctor and he took me to the very fancy restaurant manhattan i don't remember the name but a very fancy restaurant and i thought my son's doing so well he's paying i'm ordering the biggest steak enormous thing no mistake they bring him and he sits down he starts eating the steak he's never had a steak like this in his life and he's like i can't finish it and he says you know what i'm gonna finish i'm gonna finish this thing and he goes with my serious pushing and pushing and pushing until he finally finishes the whole steak the whole thing is enormous thing well the owner of the restaurant and the maitre d and the waiter all come over to him and he's they say to him you're only the fourth person in the history of this restaurant to finish that steak other people have ordered it but nobody's gonna be able to finish it yeah only three people before you you were the fourth person in history to finish that steak you see that plaque over there the names of the other three people are on that plaque and we're gonna add your name to the and we're giving you a certificate and he's telling this story over to the people on the plane and tears are in his eyes and he says you know i don't know if i've ever accomplished anything in this world but i know that my name is going to be up on that plaque and if i die tomorrow at least i know my life had meaning and mary left says oh my gosh maybe this guy you know his feeling will be handsome the plane will crash should i ring because he's fulfilled everything in this world so tell him there's a bigger steak there's more steak to eat but the idea is you want life i may have told this story beforehand but you know coach morocco has a keen sense of humor and you can see it in a show more than most places i've brought different examples of it over the years but because where was such a delightful sense of humor yeah so um uh it used to be that he used to change the clock before jim kimber uh when yaya lapid uh got into power one of his anti-religious moves was to change uh daylight savings time until the end of october beginning november like everybody else but of course the people religious people wanted it changed before yum kipra they said because otherwise the faster end an hour later so the secular knesset people said it's 25 hours in any event but there is a make he says i can tell you haven't fasted on you gibra well you would know that that last hour is the longest hour of your life but they used to change it and i thought it's so unbelievable [Laughter] foreign we want to live god we want to live give us life please please give us life and then goes poof coach broco says here turn back the clock you just got an extra hour of life and what does everybody say oh good i can sleep later you don't need life to sleep you know you can you can be dead and sleep yeah someone's talking to a group of teenagers so what's the greatest pleasure in the world they said sleeping i said no if you have a day off because of course i sleep the whole day i said you have a vacation what do you mean summer vacation i was off from school i slept for two months straight so i said well i bet you can't wait until you're dead you'll sleep forever so one kid said no i'll never have the pleasure of waking up and going back to bed otherwise he doesn't mind dying every few years open up the box everything's still here okay close by go back to sleep you know you want life for what to sleep stay up and watch another uh you know uh video about cats little kids saying silly things what do you want extra life for yeah an extra hour of life the vulnerability on his deathbed was holding his senses and he says mitzvah misfits in this world they're so cheap in the world to come you can't do them anymore we're asking for life that's the first one the first ones we're asking for life and we're asking for life in india what's the second one remember your creations who's that human beings all the nations of the world every human being has its element with him every human being has the potential to be able to contribute to the glory of the world and of high quran they have a voice they have words everybody everybody can offer up their words to hakuras now we're not just asking for life we're asking for life in mercy a merciful life more than just life itself which by the way is a tremendous gift life itself mentioned this a number of times already yeah how could a person ever thank their parents for the fact that they gave them life wouldn't be a lie people say well i didn't ask to be born no problem you put a butt in your head right now well i mean come on the fact that you don't kill yourself means that you recognize that life is an unbelievable gift what a glorious glorious thing and uh we we thank coach brocco just for life itself but for a life that comes from mercy for every human being that's something that's even greater what's the third one not just life a good life good life listen the dust cannon brings down a ghazal it's brought down in a number of places the three advisors that paro had was israel billam and eof israel said to pyro be good to the jews philam said be bad to the jews enslave them oppress them and eve said nothing and so because i'll continue israel who said be good to the jews was rewarded he became i would call yourself i am a special role father-in-law of most remaining film who said to be bad to the jews was killed by the sword an eo who said nothing had the terrible sufferings of job all of the sufferings so yes what would you prefer would you prefer to have all the sufferings of joke illness poverty watch your children die all the terrible things took place or a nice clean death better is a life of the worst suffering than death and he says and that's what david says in the he gave me all kinds of suffering but i'm still alive still here with his life there's hope victor frankel when he's describing the experiences he had in the holocaust this book man in search of meaning he says people who had a purpose who understood that they were in life for a reason they were able to survive the terrible terrible ordeals and those who didn't have meaning it was too much for them it broke them so life itself is a is a profit uh the last podcast we talked about the different tunes and someone wrote it and said i remember yeah my uh my father was a cousin when he did the enemy he would walk in from the back of shul and he would start the enemy and he would take a few steps forward and he'd continue and he'd continue until he reached the front he says it was even more powerful that it was coming from a holocaust survivor a person goes through that gehenna and all he wants to do is say that please accept might feel like this rosh hashanah young kipper wow so any life is a bracha and we have to thank it conspiracy for life itself but now we're asking for lachaim trevin a little bit more than that an interesting term rene bris you know there is a certain hierarchy in the non-jewish world [Music] the rambam says the famous rambam that everybody quotes that a kurdish borough who wanted to prepare the world for mashiach which i understand when the second base of magnus was destroyed we were the only people who believed in this everybody else worshipped the bodhisattva when i say everybody i mean the roman empire i mean the parthian empire i mean the the the german germanic people i mean the celtics uh in uh in england i mean the africans and the native americans and the asians there was nobody who believed in the concepts of monotheism and the fact that hakusho gave the torah on her sinai and that there's a purpose to this world and that mashiach is going to come and save the world so says the rambam set up a couple of franchises he called them christianity and islam to prepare the non-jewish world for these ideas so today there are billions of people in the world who believe there's one god he gave the torah to the jews on mount sinai eventually he's going to bring the mashiach they all believe these concepts so there are those who learn but april means everybody who accepts the concept of one god that's one of the myths you have to accept that there's one god and put aside uh idolatry so you notice that the the people with the first we say give life to everything just life and then we say life with mercy to itsurum to people and then we say give a good life to benedict the people who recognize you and then the end we get to the jewish people and we say all of this is coming out of the original thing because of everything that you give me i can use in this world it says to it sadiq his money is as precious to him as his body why because he understands that both of them were given to him by coach baruch to do something with in this world that's why we have a body that's why we're in this world that's why we have money that's why we have everything i had this course of working years ago with mikhail flam zanzal and uh he used to he had a car back in the old days in itself when it wasn't as common and he would drive down the street and he would stop at every bus stop and say does anyone need a ride until his car was full and he said to me once i can't think of a bigger boosha then uh then to uh drive down this the street with an empty car i have a brother adalia and he was building his house uh in muncie so he had this large lyrium valley everybody put in the sound system they put all kinds of different things and he made it available as a gamak for anybody who had to do a sim card you know it's more simple they could use his house and he built it originally for that purpose i uh i've had this course a number of times for speaking to the uming group in lawrence larry martin and the whole basement of our house is set up as just a giant room for sure it's uh everything that i'm given and so i say le mancha give me all the good things so that i have the ability to be able to go and and serve you properly and that's what all these things are saying and so i have a build up the world should exist life yeah everything because comes rosh hashanah all beginnings bring din tell us why is that because before i do something i have to decide whether or not i want to do it first i have to decide should i do this or not is this worthwhile doing i told the story a bunch of times but i i always loved to tell it i was in a shabbaton the father says to me a very successful chavato and i said really why he says well we have a lot of students and they're all having a great time i said is that the purpose of the shabbaton and he says to me i don't know what should be the purpose of a shepherd tone and i said show this afternoon is the wrong time to ask that question before you decide to make the shabbaton ask yourself what your purpose is here's a little piece of trivial history for you something that of course i specialize in there were these alka seltzer commercial commercials i think they were in the 70s they won all kinds of awards they became catchphrases they became um t-shirts the phrases entered into popular culture for alka-seltzer i can't believe i ate the whole thing you ate it ralph i can't believe i ate the whole thing hey i can't believe take it out okay he's filming commercial mamma mia that's the spicy meatball and he keeps doing it until he's like he's like dying you out i went into a restaurant the waiter says i say to the waiter what is it he says try it you'll like it i said well what is it he says try it you like it but what is it there i tried it thought i was gonna die took two alka sauces these were great commercials only problem was they didn't sell alka seltzer people loved them people enjoyed watching them they became catchphrases they just didn't sell alka seltzer there is one of the most annoying jingles that has ever been made and everyone acknowledges that it's annoying one eight seven seven cars for kids k k-a-r-s cars for kids one aide seven seven cars for kids right you know why it's great because you remember it i'm not trying to write a song for you to sing in a casual i want to drill something into your brain so you remember that phone number so if you ever have a car that you want to donate you'll give it the cars for kids yeah which by the way is ura anyway i spoke for them once it's unbelievable and then that's how they fund a carrot program it's unbelievable yeah brilliant but but the whole hop is the jingle so what's the purpose when you're making a commercial what's the purpose to sell my product but if i don't sell my product then who cares whether or not it was a good commercial it's like the the old expression the operation was a success but the patient died yeah so how are we defining success that becomes the question so the first one is life and that's for everything in the world the world should exist all of it the entire brilla to be for kurdish borough as i mentioned last time right the parakshira tells us that that the the everything in the world sings the songs and then there's people which is the purpose of the world as rashi says after why were the animals destroyed in the marble and he brings two answers and one answer is if there's no people who needs the world everything is here only for people and the third one is people who recognize that kurdish baruch which is obviously the purpose of all people right and the final one is denasia because that's our role in this world and we need the resources to make it possible that's where ace of attacked us right the mallet hits you in your leg he hit he hit yakov in the leg why because that's the support in modern hebrew when they say you go bankrupt it's push on regal your leg went out and that's why asap comes and says come with me to her say here and i'll support you this is this so we say give us the resources to be able to do what has to be done let's provide a jewish education for every child who wants one even if they can't afford tuitions and even if they can and it's breaking families financially wouldn't it be great if we could just give everybody a jewish education wouldn't it be great if we could have uh you know uh inspirational uh uh speakers traveling the world bringing the message of torah to people in a funny entertaining and yet inspiring and meaningful way uh wouldn't it be great if we could you know uh provide for everybody for all the things that they need so that they can be free just to serve a kurdish that's the final thing we're asking for asking for life we're asking for a life of rahman and we're asking for a life of good and the final thing is the whole list those are the additions and the only one i did not deal with is of course the one that is the most important and that is and that we will do next time and uh that's it for now so if you want to find out more about the show you can go to ruby 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