Why do we say Kiddush Levana?

[Music] welcome back to the channel my name is jimmy rosen you are watching kosherville get it in it get it today we'll be doing a continuation of last video kitty shavonna stereotypes and if you haven't watched that go watch it right now it's the police from second grade no way oh my gosh gerald slow down you're going way too fast gloria what did i tell you excuse me the rebels do [Music] handkerchief that's the end of my portion for this video i'm going to hand it over to rabbi ikeba balsam to wrap this up i know how this works you're about to skip this part of the video i know exactly how it works you already did the fun part and now is the educational part the part that you actually go to oil before yeah so you skip it i know but hold on one second before you skip i have a question for you do you have any idea what you're doing when you look up at the moon or are you just doing together with the rest of the billions of people on planet earth they have no idea why they're doing things they're just doing i mean do you even know what you're doing are you praying at the moon for the moon to the moon with the moon what's with the moon why not the sun and you are thinking of skipping the rest of this video no you will not skip the rest of this video should i tell you why because today we're going to make a revolution a revolution where people actually know what they're doing when they say krish levana yes today marks the day when human beings stop acting like robots and start acting like human beings which actually know what they're doing and the good part is it's only going to take a few minutes and you're going to learn a beautiful shot what's behind kiddishlavana okay let's go before we get started with our answer i want to debunk a major misconception many people think that kirish levana comes from the concept of kirish in the olden days witnesses would come to basin and tell him we saw the new moon and basin would declare it a new month but i got news for you buster kirish levana has absolutely nothing to do with kirisha besides maybe for a couple hints to it which i could tell you a different time so why do we say krishnavana that's a good question you're excited to hear let's do it i'm about to simplify for you the entire concept of kiddush levana for you in such a simple easy to digest way you're gonna remember for the rest of your life from now on whenever you think of the book of kirish levana what i want you to think of is going to the top of the grand canyon looking at the most beautiful and gorgeous creations of hashem losing your breath and out of true on inspiration seeing the bracha of isa in recognition that hashem creates the most beautiful and amazing creations that's the brachav kirishlavana it's a practical which instituted for us to realize hashem through his most beautiful and powerful celestial upper bodies and if you don't know what the word celestial bodies means by now i'll show you what it is it's all of this crazy gorgeousness play the clip i said play the clip sorry [Music] see we don't need drugs after all you know one of the ways that jews realize that there's akash barclay that created everything is through seeing the beauty and power of nature when we look up at the sky and see the most beautiful upper bodies that are so powerful and so vast our heart skips a beat and we realize that there's somebody above us that runs this whole thing the bronco wasn't just instituted on the moon the broncos institute on all of the upper celestial bodies including the sun the stars the planets the moon was just chosen to represent all those upper celestial bodies and obviously the next question coming is why the moon maybe we should make abraham upon seeing the sun don't he deserve some praise the answer to this question is that the moon is the closest celestial body to planet earth also it is the most apparent of all the celestial bodies because its disappearance and reappears its waxing awaiting really caused us to pay attention to it the kahama want to institute the brock on something that grabs our attention hey there friends do you have an unquenchable thirst for attention yeah i do too wow aren't you happy you just got gold now you know what the entire world of gideon is all about and not knowing what you're saying you're going to actually have kevana and think to yourself oh my gosh look how beautiful mysterious and amazing are those upper celestial bodies hashem created them all i want to give praise and thanks to hashem for them that's what you're doing when you say kirish levana nice but i'm not done yet there's a second reason why we say girish lebanon and that is that the entire essence of claudius earl is similar to the moon just as the moon fades away and looks like it's never going to come back but at the end it always comes back better than ever before so to clay so sometimes we fall and stumble and do a virus and sin but at the end we always come back victorious we do chuva mend our ways figure things out and come back better than ever before [Music] to summarize there are two concepts in kirish levana number one is the appreciation for hashem's beautiful creations and number two is the concept of renewal and victory for claudistra hey you want to see something cool if you look in the text of the actual brach itself you will see these exact two concepts in the beginning and at the end of the bracha the first half talks about the appreciation of hashem's tremendous power that we see through all of the celestial bodies means all of the celestial bodies not just the moon which is the first aspect we talked about and the second half of the bracha says that the same way the moon renews itself so do we which was the second aspect that we talked about so that's the concept of kirish levana appreciation and renewal now it's time for us to go through the nine quick fun facts on kiddush levano hold on tight because we is going to be moving super fast today zippity zapping zipping fast [Music] [Applause] [Music] this one is set three days after the new moon appears smarter than most casinos seven days after new moon appears the latest one can say it is halfway through the month or 14 days and three quarters to be precise cool past that though you missed out but you could still say the brock off without hashem's name until the night of the 16th past that you gotta get your act together the best time to take his chavanna is on a muncie shabbos with a minion however if not possible don't worry you can still be yota on a weekday without a minion one should refrain from saying killer savannah on a shabbos for yonko however if that's the last time to say it it's okay although you should only say the brava nothing else is that one is not supposed to stare at the moon actually this is because in the olden days the moon used to be a form of worship and are scared that if you stay at the moon you might come to go full out what's fallout this is full up is that watch for kids levana yeah i always like to wear something special for kiddish savannah it's a big mitzvah it's that yoga mat for cutis levana oh the moon is looking quite beautiful tonight is it not dandy some say that this you're not supposed to stare at the moon applies to kiddush lavana also and therefore one should only glance at the moon quickly then face away from the moon and read the rest of the bracket from a sitter however others say that no since you're doing a mitzvah there's no fear that you may come to worship the moon and therefore you're allowed to look at the moon throughout the entire duration of the bracha this is the same reason why you'll see some people facing towards the moon and some people facing towards the east the people that are facing east hold that you're not supposed to face towards the moon because that would look like you're worshiping the people that face towards the moon hold that there's no problem because you're doing a mitzvah i'm doing a mitzvah we have some and we have some as long as everyone gets along one must be careful if the moon is not covered with clouds as you must be able to see and benefit from its radiance there are wispy thin clouds covering the moon it's technically okay as long as you can clearly see the form of the moon and see its radiance the gemaran sanhedrin says that one who says kirish levant is comparable to greeting the face of the shrine of hashem himself rabbenu young has a beautiful shot in this and he says that the main part of kirish levana is as we said before to recognize that it is hashem who creates the entire universe it is this added awareness that makes it comparable to greeting the face of the shechina nice since we said krishna is similar to greeting the presence of hashem one is supposed to go outside to say kirishvana like one who goes outside to greet the king therefore krishna is not supposed to be set indoors in a building under an overhang you are supposed to go outside to greet the king this excludes of course someone who is sick or has no other choice who has no other choice hmm like who has no other choice maybe like this guy yo what are you doing what do you want from me i have no other choice oh okay some of the custom to dance after kids slovak because the new moon is a symbol of the eventual return and the victory of the jewish people you will also notice that we add extra tephilos that talk about the eventual renewal and victory of the jewish people for example devon malachi israel one of the reasons we say shalom alaikum to one another during keslabana is because way back then when hashem made the moon smaller than its original state and made it more dependent on the sun the moon didn't get jealous of the sun and made peace with the sun so too when we staged them with one another we're wishing peace amongst us and that we should all get along together last but not least i have a question for you do you get overwhelmed from saying the whole kid is slovanna cause i know i do well guess what i have great news for you today all you have to do is look at the moon and say the bracha the pasuka meant that were added into kirisavana are great to say but are not required whoa well there it is the entire concept of kirishivana in a nutshell aren't you glad that you didn't skip this part of the video um wouldn't it be a scary thought if you did skip this part of the video and uh i'm just talking to myself gosh yo listen yo subscribe oh you'll thank me later [Music] you