Hoshana Raba - We're all willows

Hi, this is David Alowski. Welcome to the Ravi Alowski show and we're continuing our series of short ideas during this busy busy time. Now we are peppering our yant with different ideas. So we're going to be coming up now to Hosana. This is of course Sunday night Oana. Harsha is the final yoma. Unless you're then it's but for everybody else it's apparently. And that's why even though we say [Music] it's written and it's sealed and then the people say have a or have a good where' that come from the kadesh says that the final is and that is the for the And everybody is covered in by Hosana Rabba. It's a very important day and people are no of course to stay up all night and learn. Um some people uh it is one of our three KLA holidays when you have Yuda people eat on Yam Kipper on Hosaba and on Purim and uh we spoke about this in the past why do why do people uh why do people eat on these holidays? So some people say because this is the time that you bang on. You bang on your chest and you bang with Hmon make noise by Hmon and on Hasha you bang the the aras on the ground. It's banging. There's a different answer I think and that is that of course Purim is the holiday where everything was nister. It was an ace nister. Everything was hidden and on yum kipper we want to reveal what's inside of us and it's hidden away and same thing on when it comes to that yadin and so uh what's hidden what's the neglos is all the things about us that that we don't even realize how good we can be and what's potential for it so is an important day uh for us to be able to take ourselves into. Now we say hosa no right no mammach is 51 because you have 30 days of el and then the 21st day of tish is hosa right the 22nd is 22 well this is the 21st so it's 51 days the end of it no and uh as you You know, every day we march around the beimma in the middle and we say uh right the hosanas we go around every day one time and on we go around seven times and then we put away the the dollar and we take up a bundle of just a you know there are four types of Jews. There are Jews who have learning but no mitzvah. There are those who have mitzvah and no learning. There are those who have both sadikim. There are those who have nothing. The esri represents the Jews who have learning and mitzvah. The hadasim and the uh lulov represent those who have learning and no uh no mitzvah. Mitzvah and no learning. And the willow the arubba it has no smell. It has no taste. It represents the Jews who have nothing. And on we all come together until at the very end. And then we put away everything and we say we're all willows. We're all so pushet. We're all so simple. And judge us because we're part of kai Israel. Judge us that we're part of the Jewish people. We're not I'm I'm putting aside all the differences between us and all of our shortcomings. And I take the den and I bang it on the ground to bring the den down with the den. No more judgment. And we say to we bang it. We clap and chase it away. And it's an amazing thing when you uh when you see people who have never been to Sha Oshana and uh they suddenly see everybody's whopping willows. Yeah. On the ground. Apologies to Harry Potter. They're all doing they're doing their whopping willow. You know there's we go in after that into say but if you listen if you're in a big sh it sounds like a thunderstorm you can hear the sound of the rain and we're saying now give us rain give us life give us water give us all of the wonderful wonderful that there is to come and this hosana whatever we did not accomplish so will be that day that will finally finish with the den with the den and hopefully go in with a good year. I have to tell you couple years ago we finished with we went into terrace and it didn't end well. We didn't do a very good job of banging down the denm this year the only sound we will hear will be the sound of and will come. Everyone should have a good yontiff. Hi Rabbi, just wanted to wish you a gamakova and I wish the whole Rabbi show a wonderful year ahead and we really wanted to thank you so much Raoski for all you're doing for us every week producing these wonderful shows which are really really inspiring and I gain a lot out of it. All the best.