May My Prayer Be Established Like Incense Before You with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] Shalom everybody welcome back to to the ER de mid where we are guests and we are so happy that we're here and we are very thankful uh for the B madash allowing us to uh partake of in fact we're here every morning but here we are Thursday nights and uh I want to just a warm welcome to everybody home to Torah I just want to mention about this particular concept that we're going to be dealing with tonight is about a and the situation we're in we all know we're in a Mil in a war and what we need in order to win this war is and that's going to be the theme for tonight we are in par that's in Exodus 30:34 why is it also very pertinent we have just acquired we're in the process of fully acquiring a sa for Torah and we're going to start a Minion for beginners where we will go slow slower than most Bim uh you know prayer groups and we're going to have classes before for anybody that wants to get up a little bit earlier and we'll have classes after with breakfast the only thing is missing is a place so we're are actively searching for a place in this area I'm going to say the German Colony uh baka katamon and batem we will find that place in the right time and everything will just work out just fine and I'm bring this up because we are doing a fundraiser for the saer Torah that we are in the process of uh fully acquiring and there'll be a link below where you can donate just even a few words a few letters right okay so it's going to be part of the theme tonight and I think you'll pick it upus and accepting of people who are new especially balet trua new at yish kite and would like a place where they could dove in not in such a rush right okay so we are in Exodus chapter 30:34 and this is a this the ideas that I'm giving over are absolutely fundamental some of them are very famous you're going to be familiar with many of the ideas I'm going to share but it's the way the clear creates this tapestry and he connects everything together in fact the word we're going to be dealing with one or two or three verses dealing with what we call the kar the actual incense now I mentioned there's a tapestry and everything's connected even the word tell us it means Kure connection okay and you'll understand so Aus which means Unity of the Jewish people and K you could use Kish in relation between man and man and in terms of between man and God so there's two concepts we're going to be dealing with and let's begin so in Exodus 30:34 we'll say it in English first then we'll read the Hebrew and the Lord said to Moses take for yourself aromatics these are the samim I would call them herbs uh but it's basically the ingredients of the incense namely The Balsam sap which is the NAT and I can't pronounce this English word that is the then you have and I'm not going to use this English word but I'll read it once galim which is the that's the word we're going to focus it comes out not the first word and it's not the last word which will be significant so and then you have aromatics of and pure frankincense that's the halana the laana is a sweet smelling uh everyone knows that it smells nice but the truth is there are actually 11 different ingredients there's a mloa some say 12 maybe even break it up into 13 but let's just use the number 11 so there are 11 but they're not listed here but we have the oral Torah it was given over to mosha Mount Si and we have 11 and it just happens to be these that are listed here they should be of equal weight so they're going to be all the same in terms of the weight the other ingredients are not necessarily of equal weight so in Hebrew and here's the list has to be ground uh very I'm sorry here it's of equal weight that's means of equal weight okay look at Rashi right away and he tells us this particular thing called is a spice of vile odor I mean it is putrid okay it is really bad smelling we're talking about the smell is bad now the Torah counted it amongst all the other ingredients of thisara of the incense in order to teach us oh my God I'd ask for a drum roll but nobody has any tables here they're all chairs drum roll come on we can do it drum roll that we should not look a scance at including po Israel Jewish transgressors with us when we assemble for fasting or prayer and I'll just add to that list any other let's say religious ceremony for that matter but basically fasting and prayer why do we fast we'll have to talk about it obviously prayer is in order to do K in order to connect with hem and the truth is the root it's reflexive it usually it actually means is based on the idea of introspection self judgment when we pray we're actually doing self judgment um anyway the the Torah instructs us that they should be counted with us remember I said in the beginning we're going to be dealing with a concept called so we're going to count these people with us we don't exclude them we don't discount them we don't discredit them we don't push them away but we include them and we'll have to discuss what does it mean so the the main TR the main um definition of a sinner of someone who's a russan is basically somebody whose sins are more than their Mitzvah and uh and it could be the other way around who's at sadic anybody that has more Mitzvah more credit to their deeds than AOS than then sin most of us hopefully are at least Bon and above right at least 50/50 who could be 50/50 number one how do you know yourself and how would you ever ever in your own life ever judge anybody else only God knows okay but that'll be the working definition for Russia obviously we could think of many people who just have bad character and we would probably want to put them in that category but uh perhaps that's not the way how God looks at it but I have a feeling that he does count that uh in part of The KES so let's start with the clear by the way I really encourage people to learn Hebrew and these sheets pretty sheets are just in Black and white for you guys but you can find down below a link to the site where you can pick up and I encourage you to read along with us now it's actually quite short so we're going to kind of run through it but then we're going to go through the explanations of the connection between theor and fasts we didn't even know that yet and we're going to go through the concepts of aus among some of the greatest rabbis that ever lived so as we are aware that this is included right it's counted amongst the rest of the ingredients um or herbs for the incense why like we saw Rashi in order to teach us L that we should connect combine in join include the Sinners of Israel with all of our public fasts now this is aor which we will actually go into dep but he begins right away the Clear Car the reason can we imagine a reason okay maybe if it's not clear what I just said this putrid smell smelling uh ingredient is mixed in with 10 other ingredients that smell good now my question is what happens we know that the incense has an unbelievable Aroma right if a woman who was pregnant ever smelled it she would never miscarriage miscarry it's an unbelievable I can't we can't even describe it because it's not in our uh vocabulary to describe how great this smell of the 11 ingredients were together but you have one that is absolutely putrid what's happening in on a molecular level is it that when it's combined there's actually a change is there like a change that's going on on the helana that now it no longer has the putrid smell or is it that the 10 are so powerful they override the putrid smell we're going to hopefully answer those question that question in many different ways but this is what we read so far that it's counted amongst the ingredients and it's teaching us something that when we have sinners in our midst we should not push them away in fact it's to our benefit for some reason to include them what exactly we're doing we're comparing the to a sinner because they have a bad smell I mean what's going on here so the clear says you know what the reason for this is now this is also kind of IC we'll have to decipher what it means that if the Sinners of Israel were not included in our fast they didn't join us there is to be concerned or worried that this you know we're we're fasting for a Mitzvah okay why are we fasting first of all we have certain days there's one day in the Torah where we fast and that's yamur a day we afflict our souls and we fast we're going to focus on yamur to a certain extent but any public fast when we have pan when bad things come to the Jewish people such as a drought or earthquakes or a war for example right bad things happen we get together and we fast what what's the point of fasting really to pray really to do chuva so he said the cleart is quoting from the gor it's gor there is to be concern that not only is it not a Mitzvah you're not fulfilling a Mitzvah Ella AA you're actually doing a sin we would be sinning if we went ahead and fasted and didn't include the rash the reason I mentioned yam kipur if you take a look real quick on uh number three on the sore sheet everybody knows what Co nidre is and what is it that we do we invite we ask we ask permission from Hashem we want these Sinners to join us on the holiest holiest day of the year where we fast so this is the on the night of the custom is that the reader says the one who's the kazin in the court of high in the Court of low meaning the Heavenly court and the Earthly court with the consent of God and with consent of the congregation we are permitted to pray together with the transgressors okay it's a it's a very uh I don't even I don't have words to describe everyone has their own experience on called Nidra but it's touching it's um uh it's it's a humble experience it's a right we're just ate a big meal meal we're dressing our finest we come to sh we know it's the holiest day it's the day that God is forgiving us and we're asking for Sinners to come and join us and uh we have to discuss exactly what that's all about but that's the that is the um in and then he says like this meaning if you don't include these sinners in our fasts in our fast so not only is it maybe not a Mitzvah but it's actually a sin and all that we're doing the fast the prayers whatever efforts we're doing on that day it would not go up to find favor with Hashem so the clear says four lines down Shu we actually find a concept like this in in gorus Al you know what a nuer is Right someone who perhaps wants to go through a life transformation okay they feel maybe they're too huy and they need to uh or maybe they find themselves addicted to a certain drug or alcohol or whatever it is and they want to go what they call cold turkey they make a vow they make a vow that they're no longer going to drink wine but a naer regular nazer it's for 30 days so it's not a lifelong Endeavor unless you have a a certain to become a shim but we're not talking about that we're talking about someone for 30 days He makes himself a nuer he's called a called a sinner now we have a concept that he actually becomes almost like a a coing gutle he's so holy he he really is trying to elevate himself and yet he has to bring a sin offering at the end of the 30 days he's called a sinner and why here atmo because he has or she has separated themselves from wine and we know that God we know one of the different questions one of the first few questions you're going to be asked when you go up to heaven is God's going to ask you did you benefit from all the beautiful things I gave you and you're going to say well I stayed away from broccoli well he's going to ask you why or you know one of those things that you know has an acquired taste maybe uh Hala I don't know somebody for some reason will say no I didn't I know no truth be told what you should at least do is taste it once I mean if you were told you know you're going to die or you have allergies already from this thing okay you're you're excused but you will be judged God will judge you for not trying that which was permissible to you in this world because he created the world for pleasure he created you as a pleasure seeking being okay so it's a sin and we can actually see there is a there if you look at look at number six it's numbers 6:1 and there's going to be a sin offering brought by the um uh on behalf by the the nazer and in Rashi elazar Kor mentions why is he considered a sinner he Afflicted himself by abstaining from wine thus he sinned against his own body just to get an insight uh what's going on here okay so let's go back into the clear and he says if we have amongst us sinners of you know Jewish Sinners we're actually fasting for their sake we're fasting on their account I think that's probably a better what does it so what does it mean it's like this we're fasting because of pan because of bad things that came into the world are you aware that bad things only come into the world because of the sinners in other words earthquakes and uh famine and whatever other other things so it came in because of them and so what were we doing what are we accomplishing if we go ahead and we fast how does that change the situation we're already righteous and we're fasting it's not a bad idea to get them included because we're fasting for them anyway and there's a concept every Jew is responsible for another now what does that really mean not only am I responsible for you to make sure you make Kish right if there's a nonreligious Jew not making Kish I suffer we're all this together when we stood at Mount Si we said we the contract that we made with God was all inclusive of every Jew right we stood at Mount Si with As and we're going to see some really mystical ideas how I said octus how we're all actually connected so there are a few verses that are I guess we'll call explanatory why it is that we're all responsible for another and that you might find um we're going to quote a few different ones but go to uh number nine in Leviticus 26:37 this is by the curses each man will stumble over his brother right you're going to be running away from the enemy you're going to be right fleeing as from The Sword but without a pursuer but in Hebrew the truth is we all stumble over each other and there are people that put themselves as stumbling blocks for us look at Rashi Down Below on number nine the midic explanation each man will stumble because of his brother meaning one person will stumble because because of someone else's sin so one person sins they're dragging us all down because all Jews are guarantors one for another um okay let's get back into the clear and the last thing he mentioned was that we're all responsible for each other and he says this actually resolves from where do we come up with this concept whole idea of combining this putrid smelling ingredient it's this um this concept is teaching us regarding the inclusion of Sinners when we do public fasts now I have to tell you he didn't answer it he says this is going to answer it this next paragraph will begin to answer why or what the connection is between this particular incense and fasting and what it has to do with Aus and what it has to do with Kure connection okay so now the cleard will begin his answer why is this included in the ingredients for particularly for the incense lei is fasting and the resulting repentance right truv the the the fast is for a reason it's not just the fast it's in order to encourage us to do TR let me go through this a little bit better what happens is our willful sin actually become merits and like counted as if we did Mitzvah that doesn't mean go out in sin and then trick God because God can't be tricked you can't do the sin in order that it should be merits you do the sin because you really desire to the sin then you did truen repented if you repent out of love then it becomes a positive it's like from the black into the red you were like like when we left Egypt we were minus 50 so we went for 50 days through the desert until we arrived right till we received the the Revelation but we weren't at zero we were plus right we traveled 49 days so we were minus 49 and then we were plus 49 and that's through hard work and effort okay so the doing of a Mitzvah obviously takes time and effort and thought cavana guess what doing a sin Zid donos a meaningful sin meaning not meaningful a uh premeditated sin took kavana and intent and action and when you do chuva from love it becomes like flipped it becomes the positive energy the exact opposite of the neg negative energy that you created now if you do chuva out of fear it's also not so bad you get wiped clean but just think about it would you after God forbid all these negative acts in your life so you get a new start that's cool I'm not against that that's like you know great so if you do truva out of fear you got a clean slate but can you imagine you know I mean we we've talked about some of your lives my life in know private imagine the things that we've done it gets actually turned around as if we did mitzvah all those times that's unbelievable so there's a there's a verse in Isaiah 40:2 you'll find this if I'm not mistaken um number 10 on the bottom of three this is Isaiah speaking about Jerusalem not not not necessarily very positive here we experienced a lot of pain speak to the heart of Jerusalem and call to her for she has become become full from her host and all the pain for her iniquity has been appeased so the Hebrew is and we have it here on the sheet the sin is actually appeased what does that mean it's as if the sin remember did Chua that the sin goes up and Hashem accepts it willingly with a it's a phrase that we're it's hard to understand but a sweet Savor you know when you you smell something good so it became a positive you can already begin to see the connection between what we call and somot becoming a sweet saver like thear this is a little bit harder to understand in Song of Songs K tells inor San hedin so basically it's talking about in a certain sense like the cheeks but uh it like you know people put on Rouge right women put on Rouge not people women they put on rou so your cheeks are you know a certain color and it could be like the remon and we have here a verse it's Song of Songs where do we find it on the sheet anybody see it call it out I hope I didn't make make make a mistake and not put it oh it's number five okay your temple is okay your lips are like the Scarlet thread and your speech is comely H the your temple is like a split pomegranate from within your cchf first of all Song of Songs is extremely difficult to read and translate exactly uh word for word we have to use Rashi and the allegory and capella Kimo rake could mean empty and so our sages explain the allegory to mean even your worthless ones which are the raikim the ones who are empty are actually full of mitzvot as a pomegranate so we've been talking about including the sinners in our fast and our prayers and it's this is a little bit hard to get your head around they're called raikim because they don't have mites but on on the other hand one second how can they not have Mitzvah you have this statement that says even the most empty ones are full so we're back to square one then why are they called empty if they're empty they're not full and if they're full they're not empty and yet they're empty so we have to explain that and we will right now Kim even your most empty ones are actually full of Mitzvah like a and I don't know if anybody here ever counted I've many times now it's not easy to uh to cut open and figure out how many they are so you to kind of peel it and do it right but basically I've always come to a roundabout number 613 uh you know when you cut it so you don't know which how many halves you have but basically consider 613 um seeds in a remote in a pomagranate so the this is difficult was kimon if they're actually empty I'm sorry if they're actually full like of Mitzvah like a pomegranate then how why are we calling them empty because these people have done chuva now I deal with a lot of B chuva what exactly is that stage where you can say someone's about TR I'm gonna say already to the point where they walk in shur and they're full swing Sinners the very fact that they walk into a on young people or they joined the public fast because of panas that are happening to Jewish people they're joining themselves to Jewish people that is like the um the initial initial stage and we we cannot even judge how valuable how valuable that is that's that's already says a lot okay that's what I want to say but he says like that because of all of their empty actions meaning their sins from those empty acts they turn and they transform into Mitzvah and they're full of Mitzvah because we already said that all those negatives are turned around into merits and then it's going to go up to hem also their sins as a sweet savior to hasem just like the Mitzvah would and the dgma is the the whole example we're giving all along is that putrid smelling uh ingredient it's actually coming up with a sweet Savor C sh like all the other ingredients from here we learn to say that it has to be it has to be talking and hinting at the idea of not just Tinus but the Tinus and the chuva the chuva that comes along with the fast so this gamor is going to bring this idea of the uh the ingredients for the incense and it's in the name of Barna said in the name of R shim he says if you don't include in yourness andus is going to be prayer okay then what first of all the translation of Po according to people who have already returned Bal Chua like I said I think just stepping in the door is you already have that label because you're fasting if you don't include them it's like not not even fasting and the example was the is has a bad smell nevertheless it's included what we didn't see was a buer a buy says from a different verse in other words he's arguing by the way when it says AB om orar ABA does anybody know that's a trigger if you learn gorah you'll know that if it says Abaya Omar it means he's arguing with the previous statement if it says um so it says Amara right said that's when he's arguing I'm sorry then I mean he's agreeing so here you see he's arguing and you want to know what he's arguing on he's not arguing on the principle he's in total agreement that if you don't have the PO Israel amongst you when you're doing a Tinus it's not counted but he he quotes a different verse he disagrees with the source that it's not from the included but it's rather from a prophet Amos 9:6 so look at number four he who built his upper stories in heaven obviously we're talking about Hashem and has founded his company on Earth in Hebrew the he actually there's the through the unification of the Jewish people the world will continue to exist and this is really heavy stuff here when we have this unity and I'm going to tell you I have been V with this Jewish World my whole life to a certain extent you know start off not religious and religious but I never saw I never saw in my entire life and I spoken to a lot of people they agree the disunity that existed and it was no um coincidence on the Yum Kor before this latest incident incidental War that's happening right now the world exists and we can only win war by the way the cart speaks about this other places we can only win Wars when we first are united and and then we will conquer if we are dis unified is that a word not unified then we stand no chance little chance okay so that is based on this and that's what a bias says a bias says this is the verse I'll just read his words you have to learn that every Tinus it's not just y that you have to include them and it's from this verse meaning when all the Jews are unified together even with the Sinners amongst us then will exist Al the foundation of the world meaning the people the Jewish people meaning that hasem is he's continuing to maintain the world on their account meaning the Jewish people's being unified now if you notice this page has two sides uh well actually it's the front of this and then the the next page I so so this just absolutely amazing I beg you I beg you to listen carefully and hang in there I actually wrote myself some notes here just uh where are they um good question I thought I did oh here they are okay on the right side where it says cuff p on the bottom you know see my finger okay the next paragraph downa you have to grind you have to grind very finely these um these ingredients by the way the way you grind them for yur is totally different than when you grind them for the whole year okay so it has to be especially ground very fine on yamur but anyway before yamur in the name of the sh he explains this theak the actual incense in what's k k is a not it means unified it means connected actually I want to use my sheet I made all my little notes um here it is so this idea is amongst the ingredients is counted the which is a Mis um a simile like the word simile actually it means symbolism a is a symbol so the symbolizes the I think you got that point already right like we're going to explain even further therefore it requires an extra special grinding theba a really fine pounding in order to be what sh it's like sh basically a a um a diminishing um of ego right A Feeling lowly and sub um subjective humility let's use humility and a real separation stamping out the physicality in order that the you know when you have a mixture if it's not really finely mixed then you're going to have Globs I'm sure you know when you're in the kitchen you see if you you don't mix up all the dry ingredients first then you throw it into the wet ingredients you're going to have Globs so you take all the dry ingredients and you really grind them small and then you mix them up so it's it's a fine mixture and what happens as a resulta it's complete Aus complete Unity and what happens on the the fast of yipper this what we do we as we mentioned in the we call everybody and you know what people come people come even the Sinners it's going to be a fine mixture people don't even know who's who right everyone's dressed up in their finest and the white okay then you need see that you see you need to have that fine um as finely as possible in order that the itself mixes in with everything else into the most inner places where it's going to go on yam kipur the holy of holies and it's going in in a fine mix like IM the whole mixture is mixed very well so it says what exactly is the relationship between fasting and the incense so we already read the gamarra and the AR explains like three lines down he explains the relationship between fasting and the incense according to a mission in Tinus that what is the main purpose of our fasting that our prayers should be heard right when you're experiencing hunger you cry out right you see it you see that's what happens so it's an Affliction of the body in order to get in touch with the spiritual part but in order to get in touch with the spiritual part there has to be kind of like a crushing to a certain extent on the body side and that's what he says that now there's a verse in Psalms 1412 so that's number 13 on the sore sheet my prayer King David says King David your great great great great Granda so my prayer should be established as guys you're seeing the connection here that the U the the prayer itself is very much like the karus should be like going up with a satisfactory response so you see that the is equated or similar enough to thear now where did we learn I think Daniel asked me before the she it says the explanation of the actual learning how do we learn from this word so the the explains and right that the word does not appear first that one putrid ingredient is not in the beginning because in the beginning you could say well maybe it's not included or it's not mixed well or at the end maybe it's not included or mixed well the very fact that it appears in the middle of the list shows you that it has to be part of this idea which he says um it has to be mixed with us the next thing is you might think for a second well we have all these let's say 30 of us we're all doing together we're all sikim what do we need them for in fact they're only going to bring us down that's what we might think and what did we say if you don't include them it's not going to go up it's not a good thing you need to include them so the writes don't think that if you're all so don't think that your fasts and your prayers are not going to be accepted because we do see and this is a famous verse in Isaiah 9: 21 truth is I think I didn't bring it down and I should have but it's something we all know for familiar with Perot or par and St hedrin um this famous verse that says that your people all of them are righteous forever they shall inherit the earth so this is one of the proofs that all Jews will go to Old right all Jews are going to now I have to give some background listen Rabbi kassen will EXP explain yes there's plan a then there's Plan B and then there's plan C plan a always means the that's the original plan and that's to do Mitzvah and you go to but God knows that we're weak we're humans and he gave us plan B Plan B is chuva thank God so he gave us option b but obviously option A is really the only option and then if we failed so then there's Plan B he knows we're we don't always do trua 100% we we're we're humans we're flesh and blood so we don't do truva 100% some of us so he gave us plan C but eventually we're going to get TOA so what's plan C suffering suffering very good we spoke about this week suffering suffering suffering whether in this world or the next World we do kind of hope that we don't have to suffer in the next World let me hold off a second so that's just a side point the clear says and he's quoting this verse everyone sik what does that mean you know Mia is not coming or God forbid the other way the Messiah is not going to come the son of David is not coming until we're all righteous or God forbid uh we we all need salvation because of uh our sin but herein now he says don't think the is like you think if there are some negative you know folks around in in our generation don't think that you have to get rid of them right because we're all waiting for we're all wanting to be a righteous congregation don't get rid of them don't get rid of them like a stone that Falls away but rather it says Deuteronomy chapter 141 which you'll see is number 14 on the sore sheet even though this verse is clearly referring to when people mourn they shouldn't over mourn and cut their skin that is the way of the non-jews but rather even it says you are the children of the Lord your God you shall neither cut yourselves nor make baldness between your eyes for the dead now in Hebrew low hit go to do means don't cut yourself don't cause yourselves to be cut off from the people don't create clicks and groups don't right you understand don't um cut yourself off don't make groups um don't make audas AOS clicks and groups that are you know the opposite ofus is where everybody is under the same umbrella have the same thoughts look it says and what happens when you make these different groups you're you end up dividing your hearts okay but if you're all unified even though you have amongst you these Sinners your prayers your fast everything will be accepted by hem and it's also brought gor this is a famous expression we all know when we bring the four um meaning together right the lulav and the esrog and the Aros and the hadasim they represent different kinds of Jews I know they also represent different parts of your body and we're not going to get into that but different types of Jews one of them the esrog has both smell and taste which represents Torah and Mitzvah and On The Other Extreme you have the Aros which has neither Torah nor mitzvos we would assume that was talking about the the Russia here he says um so you have the four species in the L you cannot fulfill your obligation of this MIT this important mitvah until they're all bound together so too by the Jewish people we will not be willingly accepted by God until we are all unified guys let's cut out the stuff that was going on before yum ker of 2023 578 well it was already 84 but you know let's cut it out man let's get rid of it we're going to change the world we're going to bring Mia when you bring it all together the four species it's just like bring the sikim and the together now we're going to get a little bit more into this idea of the relationship of combining this putrid ingredient to the concept of bringing together and joining with r so in the he explains that the is placed with the SAR placed with all the other ingredients now what would the appearance be you would think that if you add this 11th ingredient with the other 10 it's going to diminish this thing is not going to smell so nice right now smells okay and I put this future thing it's going to smell worse nevertheless we know through the prophets we know through prophecy so to speak it's basically it's confirmed it's validated the opposite is true that it is not complete it is not complete without it this is exactly in our service to God when we serve hem we want a complete service to God we want to be true of the hasem guess what they are not diminishing our service by them being around us in fact our service to God is going to increase by them around not diminish as you may have thought from the and the S he explains and I'll just read it in English he explains that the even though it has a bad smell nevertheless when it's connected with all the other ingredients together right it it actually he claims that the r maybe it's it's EI like I said it's either through the chemical reaction that it loses its negative smell or the overpowering of the other 10 but it loses its smell and then he says not only does it lose its smell it's most it actually is going to enhance and give off a better smell to those 10 had it not been included you cannot recognize the light except in darkness when I say that I've use this room as an example there's I don't know 30 different light bulbs in this room if you flick one off I don't think it would make a difference but if you had a dark room and you had just one candle or one match and you flicked it off it would make a world of a difference right so you don't see the light the light is not recognizable except within Darkness so too God commands us he wants us sorry the rabbis say any group of people that are praying and they're not including the the Sinners AO it's not even considered T going back to we're starting a beginners minion you missed that in the beginning but we're starting a beginners Mee nobody's judging anything and anybody right anybody wants to join is certainly welcome to join even women we have a partition I hope that's not offensive to anybody but that's what we're going to do it okay um so anal to um now what I there's so much here we need to get to the next page yet the zahava explains the comparison diomi the comparison of a fast of the Sinners to the that has a bad smell just like it's written per rezer oh this is an amazing story I have to tell this story rezer Ben hinis he was sitting he was went he learned by raban um Sorry by Yan Ben zakai and he was sitting and he was crying can you imagine the desperation to learn Torah I want like Rea right I want to learn Torah I remember when I went to Yeshiva and I was uh in my early 20s I knew nothing and I I felt like this I anyway he was crying and he says all I want to do is learn Torah so he asked him why are you crying he says Torah can you imagine coming crying I want to learn Torah amlo so he taught him two alas every day and rebi elezar Ben hinos he went over the lessons and he really became familiar with the lessons and everything was organized so comes the eighth day and it was a fast day apparently or he didn't eat for some reason he was not eating I don't know if you if you ever feel this way on a fast day but you really looking for the Garo you're looking for the mouthwash and you know that you're limited here you have a bad smell okay coming out of your mouth listen to how he puts it at the unbelievable right we're talking about and he's talking about a fast day having a bad smell come out of your mouth so it says low Tom Clum until R re living in until he a bad smell came out of his mouth in front of him he stood up before him and then he went ahead and he sat down he started crying again so the rebbi said to him why are you crying he said I came before you like a man who stands before someone with like great pain physical pain like uh boils all over my skin all over skin so he said my son this is his Blessing to him this is re Zak's blessing to reines he says just as you have this bad smell that's coming up before me from your mouth you know what should be the blessing should be that should be that the sweet words of Torah should Elevate from your mouth to heaven so he says if that's the case it's clear now that through a Tinus most people they have this bad smell and if you're a Russia that like adds insult to injury I don't know if you know this but depends what kind of sins but there are sins that create bad smells from your mouth because of a varus so in this is so you can see the justification the correct um analogy of the Tinus to of the to the um to this particular ingredient that has a bad smell um so let's just see and I want to kind of go to the next page now that would be C cuff pet this is just really amazing stuff basically the last thing when what happened was let me just read the last line there basically the gamor is telling you not to push off the sinners from a Tinus and it would come out great that the Tinus is actually good okay that everybody would end up having I'm sorry that even everyone who ends up having let's say a physical bad smell come out of their mouth during the Tinus is the way hasem sees your suffering it's it's with the bad smell right we all I mean I don't know if that's the worst part of our fast for some people that's the worst part of their fast you can imagine there are certain people that's just like it's can't stand it but that is an unbelievable Merit okay that was what rebbi elezar blessed was blessed by rebbi okan with Cole so if you're not doing chuva and you have this bad smell and there's nothing to fix it so then this is going to affect everyone else in a negative way we have this concept it's not so simple that we should associate with evil people they will have an effect on us there's a we don't have it today but it pertains to the walls of people who end up with SAS on their walls right the concept of leprosy is not just on skin it applies to clothing and applies to walls and houses and if you have a very let's say a a neighbor who's a yenta a yenta whatever that talks a lot of Lara God forbid what could happen is your wall would have to be uh you you lose money basically it's your loss because you just happen to have a bad neighbor so on this hand on this hand it's actually you know again the idea that maybe it's something bad and that's what the gor is telling us don't think like this when it comes to at least trying to help them in right you're doing a Tinus you're doing teila as soon as they walk into this um you know a holy atmosphere it should help change them okay so that's what uh the idea here is and how do we know that the explains from the never ever ever give up hope and I think it's talking about the Russ himself but if it's true by the Russia then it's certainly True by us when we think about them the evil person the person who needs to do truva should never ever ever give up y should never give up uh from doing chuva and the Rah the proof is this like the is it actually is negated into the other um the other ingredients for atonement that's what Theus does it acts as an atonement it's exactly what happens when they do CH and right they will be with the righteous in the Garden of Eden now this last piece if anybody wants to leave I don't want hold them this last piece is all about this is the explanation of the idea that all Jews should be connected together and I'm just tell you you got the pis the mar the Riff the the clear which we're not going to read because we already read that he brings it down the is in the back of the MAA you got the MZ which I know loves you got the you got the Yash you got the Mir you got the Beno yada you got the padic and the sh ismo I'm going to try to go actually I listed them all in my own English maybe that's what I should do just read them to you in English and what they mean so the pis he says when all Israel once they actually want to be we all do right we want to be accepted favorably before Hashem it's only going to become together just like the Angels apparently the angels are all unified there's no mock Locus just for any Christian listening there's no such thing as a fallen angel there's no such thing as a rebellious Angel doesn't exist okay uh every Angel doesn't even have free will they do and the Satan which is an angel of God is doing God's Will by testing us for our benefit okay so we can grow we're the exercise of growth of grow okay so um they're all one they're all bound as one unit and we become like Angels okay through uh through unification just like they are the mar explains that what didim actually do we theim we defend or we guard the Sinners so we're actually protecting them right the Rea he explains at the very moment of trva and I'm going to tell you when I first became religious and my best friend was trying to convince me to become religious he said when you walk up those you know uh to the 45th floor in your mother's apartment you know instead of taking the elevator the angels are singing you know when you're not driving that car and you're walking three miles you know the angels are singing and this is what's happening when the very moment of truva there's there's like something breaking forth in heaven and the clouds are moving and there's like the god of hand is coming down so to speak and what happens at the moment of chuva the Sinners actually become sikim and as we know all of Israel is responsible for each other so ultimately um this is going to to help us the Riff explains when The Sinner is near us uh maybe I should read the Riff um the Riff says it's based on very very interesting in Genesis 19:19 which I brought a copy of Rashi in English very important he explains why do we need the Sinners we actually need them within us because it's what happens is we end up looking better when they're around you know the concept in other words we're like let's say average BLS right and you get a few bad apples man we're like you know we got all the gold stars like we really look good you follow don't think it's such a foreign concept you know L was he sadic I don't think so but in Genesis 1919 he was sadic compared to the people of sedom right you can imagine so Rashi says over there I'm sorry I didn't bring bring this down on the swet but uh Rashi brings this idea right I I'll tell you the verse this is uh L saying um see now your servant has found Grace in your eyes and your kindness was great with which you did with me to save my life so um I but I cannot flee to the mountain L the evil attach itself to me and I die Rashi says when I was next to the people of sedom the Holy One blessed he saw my deeds and the Deeds of the Town people I would appear righteous and worthy of being saved but when I come next to you abam wow I'm like a wicked person right I mean you get the idea so so we need these rash not that we need them to be R we need them once they already are and their own free will we we shouldn't do without them because it's to our benefit that're around um then you have the bay The Sinner himself when he comes to your um you know presence and I don't know if anybody experienced this I imagine every B Chua probably did there's a little bit of shame that shame is part of the truva process so they come to sh and maybe they're not dressed as everyone else maybe they're not and maybe you know that's it's could be a problem maybe they want to run away but the very fact that there's a little bit of Shame it's not based on dress but it's based on the kadha the Holiness of the atmosphere that's created so that is what the uh the be in mind a sinner feels shame when in the presence of righteous people especially when you're fasting you're praying so the righteous are bestowing a benefit of creating maaka creating benefit just for them coming to you and feeling the shame which is part of the trua you're helping them okay then the moam LZ he mentions punishment only comes to the world because of Sinners right Panos only comes into the world because of them by the way even though that's the first statement that's all I said it says who gets affected first of the righteous okay so uh back in the day when there was such a scare I'm not even going to mention the name of the scare but people were getting in shots what do they call those things Jabs um anyway when when people started putting masks on and hiding um what I want to say that unfortunately we lost a lot of very holy people and I told people from the very beginning this is something very bad if we're going to lose some of the most righteous people in the beginning it's exactly what the gor says that bad things only come into the world because of evil people but who gets burnt first it's the righteous it's based on a verse where if you're not um responsible with fire you light fire but you're not responsible it says it goes out and it burns Burns um I'm sorry I don't have the Ping in front of me but basically it burns the um what are those things um thorns and eats the uh the grain but it doesn't say it says it eats the Grain and then burns the Thorns so it's the opposite order so when the panus comes to the world it first eats the grains which are the good people and then burns the Thorns the the speaks about there's a spark of Holiness in every Jew okay you heard about this maybe I should read the it's really amazing because he's quoting the Zohar you're just going to miss the Zohar right now okay so right we don't learn Zohar that often but uh he's quoting the Zohar so he says if you could bestow benefit onto these Sinners aim Eric lasaro you can't imagine the reward it's unbelievable if anybody would understand the benefit that you're giving these people that you're um that are you know you're giving them a a to their negativity you would be chasing it like someone who would be chasing after a snake something after you know to really with all your energy and he says meaning this Russia certainly this Russia is basically he's like like that spark inside it's shooting forth it is it wants to grow it's like a a a chute like it talks about in Isaiah 111 about the shot of Jessi it's this thing that wants to grow this kadus inside the Jew that wants to sprout forth but kipa but they're the negative forces that are keeping it from uh reaching its potential that's why you need to include them in the fast uh in or like someone who is um the the Sinners of Israel because through this ready what will happen MRA vus this they're they're feeling the shame or they're they're being subjugated by the sitra Akra that's the negative side but you're releasing it or it's being affected the Citra Akra the negative are being affected through the fast and so we learn from the uh the different ingredients of the of the incense that are counted right the but it's not just the hel there's another ingredient called the hel helona there's a hey in Theona and there's a in the you can almost you know make a mistake where else do we find a hay that turns into a by mat and okay so mat is what we do we on P and is that which we do not eat on PES now all year round bread is fine and it doesn't represent anything necessarily of an evil inclination but on PES thees is stagnation and the unwillingness to move right it just and it's ego and it's bloated and there's something very negative about mat the same letter with the me and the but you have a instead of a you have for mat is with ay same letters just different order so what's the difference between a and a hey it's a really fine line so we're talking about that spiritual uh Sprout that small Point called a penid that small point that can expand and change a to a or vice versa to a it's just one point and that's what he says here in the it's just that one dot in the little that changes to a so to you put a then it's that's the frankincense so too when you mix up all the different um ingredients it's a beautiful expression here what happens when you mix them nicely so then what happens to Theus it actually changes in place of a rakra bad smell it actually turns into a pleasant smell that's why you need to mix the Sinners of Israel into your Tinus in order to benefit from this thing and it's not just a small thing it's a great thing it's sorry to invite them and to include them it's something huge huge what is Big it's a big thing to include them with us and what ends up happening is y that in the end even the is producing a beautiful smell the if you want to read with us it would be helpful too he writes God forbid that there is some kind of AAR or a gazer that comes to the world right then we do a tinest we get everyone together to fasta so whoever's going to get up and speak is going to get everyone to cry and to do chuva right they're going to talk about about uh oppressive and you know the situation as it is and if there are people in the audience they're listening and they're Sinners they're they're going to join with a broken heart remember we're comparing this to the the is being transformed this is the description of the sinner becoming transformed either we're having influence on him which is you can't deny it or there's a transformation taking place and how we're going to put that into the I use your imag leave it to your imagination it's got to be one of these two ideas the whole night we're talking about the comparison of the PO is with the okay and he goes on he says every fast if you don't include those is and right you they're not joining in in order to become um you know submissive and humble through their ESS with everyone else because what happens when they do if you include them in they will I don't know if it's guarantee I don't know how much with the quality is but through that they will be awoken to do chuva truly a woke right this is really what the definition of woke is to do cha and the D by the way what's the word you know what the word means is it stands according to the daros the Russia to have it seore you need everybody don't push off those and say you can't be a part of this and um he says in the end of that little paragraph everyone be United name then God would listen it's only through the oct I hope this is clear there's got to be either an overpowering on no on the r or a transformation but in the end through the this guy would listen the Ben y That's the Ben isai he says very similar that the um like we said before that the um we need we need the r because there is a verse in coelis chapter 7 verse 20 there's nobody around that's so righteous that doesn't sin we all make mistakes but through the r being around we the average guy they don't need whatever we look like sadikin like we saw by Lo okay this is now I think the the the cream of the crop you have the priodic and he explains like this that just as they are all uh when they're all together when they're all together you have a rayak to it's not just a ray it's really good because those 10 on their own have a rayak to when you add the Kel it even has a greater smell we already spoke about that when we talk about Jews we talk about the Jewish people every Jew is a son or daughter of Abraham Isaac and Jacob right that's our great great grandpappies and mammies so Yakov included all the 70 Souls who went down to Egypt the 600,000 Souls that came up from Egypt the 15 18 million Jews however many there are today the is not only then but also now all in every generation we're all part of Y we really are the fact is we really are connected and you know what happens when we get together then we awaken a p a a a a point a very good point that's deep in our hearts not in our hearts even in the parts of the that they themselves when we were all for the last four months getting together there's an unbelievable Awakening amongst the non-religious Jews whether they're actually watching TV watching the news even know about it could be on Hawaii on some Island where there's no electricity there's something that is going to awaken them through our being together and he uses a term it's very interesting at Mino VOR in Kus when you're talking about kosher food and something gets mixed in so if there's uh let's say chicken and then there's meat you know uh or let's say something that is totally not the same men so there's more leniency of removing uh what is obviously not Kosher and when it's Min it's impossible to know what's what there's a strictor Hala and there's a NE there's Awakening so in other words it has a stronger uh iser so here but the idea is that there's a certain Awakening the we're neor so when you have Min Min so this person at the moment maybe he's a Russia but by joining with you he becomes a sadic and we're all together we're means we're all the same same type so too when we join together to Fast and the dgma the example of the and the ARA remember the Arava the willow by the for meaning when you when you bring them all together to to do a Mitzvah like fasting and prayer so it's through the connection to do the Mitzvah you're Awakening the holy root of jewishness that he has still a little bit within him and then that's going to help uh this it's going to connect it's going to help his connection H be because he's now considered like you and he says not only is he like you then there like we talked about the it's it's actually adding power how because of I'm going to read in Hebrew because you're drawing forth that goodness out of the waist okay there's like a um a buer you heard that expression buer like a cleansing process a separation even within him that's going on and the last opinion is the shame Mishu and he explains again the wordes actually the tarum explains it's Kure Kure is tying the knot it's Mish a connection a tight connection and anyone who sins they sin because of what we call the only reason they're sinning we said before because of suit but here he's saying because of darkness and the hiddenness of God so to speak a okay it says there is no person who creat creates a sin a transgression unless enters him a ruak some kind of folly and the Darkness and the hiddenness that results in a separation from that Source root until the The Source no long longer illuminates that person's soul but what happens M when they are doing chuva they're returning and they're connecting the Rope the that is that is of a great desire it's deep inside every Jew that little bit of light pushes off a lot of darkness and the clouds that are usually dark and they hide the Rara the the r the holy spirit that everyone the pure Spirit everyone has of so that's going to move those dark clouds away it's going to move them away it's going to make it easier to do CH when those dark clouds the darkness is dissipated it's going to make it easier to come close so even when we're far away or that person is far away it's it's easy I'm sorry it's possible to join up with the incense meaning remember cus means you think means like to call somebody it means to connect to connect while you're still there meaning far away meaning they still have that whatever the character traits of the but you're mixing it in but he's talking about someone who has this holy spark wants them come close they're still far away so he brings down an example so someone is sent into a a very deep pit what happens in that deep pit it's you can't get up of this deep pit you bring him that rope right when you tie up or he connects to that he's just connecting to the Rope he's not even near the surface he's not he doesn't even even see daylight but he's inside that boore and he's got a hold of that rope remember he can still get up because he's got the Rope therefore it's easy for our eyes to see why we should connect ourselves with one connection whether it's through Tinus and T to these Sinners if they want we should not stop them let them join they're joining the Jewish people even if they're standing even if they're standing very far away because of their will they want to connect in that connection with the rest of us which we think is like fabulous I me we we have like there's no value and my wife's a convert and she says if I ever accomplished anything in my life it was conversion like just to become a Jew everything was just for that so then by them connecting to the Jewish people then this pure Spirit comes over them and they are awoken awoken uh to do chuva then they have the ability to come close because without any so the very fact it's like the very beginning seeds of Chua okay so I'm going to end the end the video here I just want to mention just one more time there really are Source sheets and I encourage you because it's a lot of reading and I skim through a lot of it but I really want you to learn Hebrew and batem we learned a lot about chuva number one whether it's for ourselves for am Isel how we should look atus it's learned from the again I just want to stress this what does it mean does the 10 overpower the one we don't know but it has a greater smell if it has a greater smell not a lesser smell it sounds like the second point is probably the truth and that it chemically transforms or that metaphysically transforms and it actually enhances through the combination a greater smell of the 10 that didn't have before the helin had joined in and therefore one should not be in their be fearful in their aotus Hashem again in the right atmosphere in the right place at the right time we're not talking about going to the bars although there are certain people that maybe that's their aod to go into the discos remember the famous disco Rabbi right there are certain people that can handle certain things but at least when they come to you lay out the red carpet that's all I have to say and uh what can I say have a great chabas we'll see you next week see you on the other end and have a great life and we'll see you next [Music] weom there's some here I oh