Don’t Take Off Your Kittel

Dover be eaten my toy. And that is So, it's Motzei Yom Kippur, which means it's erev Sukkos. Everybody knows Chazal say that the Torah says "U'lekachtem lachem b'yom ha'rishon" pri etz hadar, kapos temarim, etc. etc. That b'yom ha'rishon we have a mitzvah to take dalet minim. And the Medrash says that "U'lekachtem lachem b'yom ha'rishon" is the date on the calendar that you're supposed to take your dalet minim. Rishon of what? Right? I mean, the first day of Sukkos. Okay, tell me when Sukkos is and I'll know. On the first day of Sukkos, this is what I'm supposed to do. But that word "U'lekachtem lachem b'yom ha'rishon" has mystified commentaries for thousands of years. And everyone knows the Medrash that the Medrash says what does it mean "U'lekachtem lachem b'yom ha'rishon"? Sukkos is rishon because it's rishon l'cheshbon avonos. And the Medrash explains. The Medrash says that the reason Sukkos is rishon l'cheshbon avonos is because on Yom Kippur you get slicha u'mechila. So, he doesn't have any aveiros anymore. Now, the next days after Yom Kippur, a person is just too busy. He can't do aveiros even if he tried. Why? Because you have to make Sukkos and you have to make sure you have your kosher dalet minim, if you didn't do that during Chodesh Elul. Right? You have to make sure that you have your kosher dalet minim and you have to be busy with your Sukkah. So, you start getting so busy and you're so tired with Yom Tov THAT YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE a chance to do an aveira. ONCE SUKKOS COMES, YOU EXHALE. NOW YOU CAN breathe a little bit. Now we're ready. It's shiyach to do aveiros rishon l'cheshbon avonos. Now, obviously the Medrash is painting some utopian world where it's impossible to do an aveira from Motzei Yom Kippur through uh you know, Borchu the night of Sukkos. But on some level, a year that's locked into the avodah is takke not shiyach to do an aveira during those ensuing days. And that's why Sukkos goes down as yamim rishonim. It goes down as as Rishon Heshbon Avonos. Just a a hergesh as to maybe another reason why these next few days after Yom Kippur are days that in a perfect world a Yid wouldn't be able to do an avera, which would again explain why the first day of Sukkos is Yom Rishon, Rishon Heshbon Avonos. And it's based on a Daskein in Baalei Tosfos in Parshas Vayeigro in the beginning of Toras Kohanim. Very much in a Korban related context. So, the pasuk that the Daskein in Baalei Tosfos is commenting on is the pasuk that says "V'chol Korban Mincha b'melech timlach." Every Korban Mincha had to be salted. "Ki lo sashes melach bris Elohecha me'al minchasecha." And make sure that you never bring a Korban Mincha without salt. In fact, "Al kol Korban hatakriav melach." Not only on the Korban Mincha, but every single Korban that a Yid brought, takriv melach, it was supposed to be salted. And the Daskein in Baalei Tosfos is explaining a little bit why there had to be salt on a Korban. What we need is just one excerpt. "V'hu Yedia," says the Daskein in Baalei Tosfos. "Ki Korbanos bris l'olam kaporah v'lo l'tzorech Kodosh Boruchu." The purpose of Korbanos is for us. It's not for Kodosh Boruchu. Meaning, in as much as it feels like when a Yid brought a Korban, he's serving a Kodosh Boruchu a meal, right? Achilas Adam, Achilas Mizbei'ach. Kitzas Mizbei'ach, right? We're putting dessert even on the Mizbei'ach. There's so many shprachin that we use in Korban that sound a little bit like we're feeding a Kodosh Boruchu. But said the Baalei Tosfos that we have to understand that Korbanos are something for us, for us to be able to attain our atonement. "V'lo l'tzorech Kodosh Boruchu. She'ari ein l'fonav achilah v'shtiyah." Because a Kodosh Boruchu doesn't eat, a Kodosh Boruchu doesn't drink. The whole for us to get because when a person sins and he brought a carbon and he fear and the coin came to him as a doctor would have to perform a surgery says everything went well. Everything went well. Yeah, it was good. Really it went the way you expected. There was no piggle. No, there was no piggle. How about it small? No, there was no small. There was no moon, there was no everything went exactly the way it was supposed to go. When the WAS TOLD BY THE coin that everything was executed, he knew nothing. He knew that he didn't have an idea. And when he knew that he didn't have an idea, he came to him and he was so he felt wow, I have A NEW REASON LIFE. I'm clean now and because I'm clean, so I'm going to be a little bit more careful than I usually would be when it comes to doing I will but if the would not have a means of getting HE MUST HAVE HE WOULD CONTINUE DOING COMMERCIAL commercial commercial commercial COMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL commercial commercial commercial commercial commercial commercial commercial wiped out all your wow, all those yeah, they're all gone and the took care of all that and the took care of whatever the had to take care of. He felt like a new person. He felt clean and when a person feels clean, he doesn't want to make himself dirty. Says the most of the I'll explain it to you what a muscle. It's not the market talking. This is the talking. Marshall if God of if he has dirty clothing in the Mishkan, the market he's not going to be careful to make sure they don't get dirtier because they're dirty anyways. A person with clean clothing, but when a person has clean clothing and they're nice, he's going to be so careful to make sure that they shouldn't become dirty. This is what Hamelech said, a person should try to always picture himself as if he's wearing a brand new suit. As if his clothing are perfectly white because if you see yourself as wearing clean clothing, then you're going to be careful and you're going to try not to make them dirty. If however, when you look in the mirror, you see someone that's disheveled, you see someone whose clothing is dirty, you look at yourself and you see someone who's completely out of order and misfit, well, then what are you taking care of? And as a result, you are not going to be careful. Said the Baal HaTurim, when a Yid brought a korban, in addition to the kaparah that he got, but he walked out and he felt clean. And when a person feels clean, it affects the way he goes about his avodah moving forward. If a person gets a new car and it's raining outside, you're going to figure out a way not to walk in and to right? You're more careful, you're more sensitive to keeping it and maintaining it in the pristine state that it's in. Once it has a thousand, two thousand, three thousand miles on it, well, then you don't care so much. When a Yid brought a korban, he felt like he was clean. And when a person is clean, he's careful. On Yom Kippur, every single Yid gets selicha, every single Yid gets kaparah. When a Yid gets kaparah, he understands that if I'm clean, well, then I'm going to try to maintain that nikiyus and I'm going to try to stay in that clean and pristine way. I'm going to try to be that way as long as I could possibly be that way. Chazal tell us that those few >> That way, as long as I could possibly be that way. Kazal would tell us that those few days after Yom Kippur, it was almost hard for people to do aveiros. Kazal said it's because they were busy with our meaning, and the business of Sukkos of Peters Das Kina Bali Toys is another hergesh one, a perfect world nach Yom Kippur, where every single person feels like he has a new lease on life. He got slicham kapara. You clapped al cheit how many times for this aveira, for that aveira. Five minutes after Yom Kippur you're going to go back and you're going to do that aveira? It should be hard. It should at least come with a very, very big guilty conscious. You'd think, right? Those next few days are days where we're still lingering. We have that taste of Yom Kippur, and as a result, it's not even shaikh to turn in aveiros. Sukkos will take them in the year of Marishon. Then it's already reaching the cheshbon of aveiros. But either way, I think the message is that we all took off our white kittel tonight, but we should try to be mekayem for as long as possible what HaMelech said, and that is bechol eis yiyu bigadol dechelavana. We should try to feel like we're wearing that white kittel as long as possible, maintain this state of where yeah, it's it's shaikh to turn in aveira because because we're we have a new lease on life. We should try to tap in and if you smell your neshama, it would have that new car smell. Mamish, we all got brand new leather seats. Let's smell it. Let's take it in. Let's appreciate it. We should be mekayem bechol eis yiyu bigadol dechelavana.