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tonight is in this packet there's actually three different pieces three short pieces we'll we'll get through everything in a in a timely fashion but but uh I want 24:29 to start actually with a piece from the from shaba so this is shaba 1940 shaba 1940 so the RIT over here as F I'm sorry shaba 1939 this was the first this was the beginning in the ghetto so we're not 24:45 going to do this whole piece but the reab here highlights something incredibly amazing and and Incredibly just you know say you know I've said this a number of different times Yumer Yumer is such a fascinating anomaly right why an anomaly 24:59 on one hand it's the holiest day of the year the most incredible day of the year for for so many different reasons what's the great challenge of Y ker what's the great challenge of Y ker it's the holiest day of 25:09 the year it's Hol day of the year good what P what's the challenge of ker it's fast day and therefore what I say isn't it an incredible thing that the truth is Yum Kipper is the sleepiest day of the year 25:23 right I always found something amazing because I I have a different view of these kind of things to me it's so okay you know that that we a little groggy by by you know by the Dr before Yar okay it's 25:35 midm morning what's always shocking to me a little bit is like the nodding off during col nidr right so that that that to me is always like always no matter I've been in the rabanas a very long time almost 25 25:47 years Kara and the one thing that always like not not a personal just like trying to like wrap my head around it is like literally like the the N it's it's 20 minutes into call it's 20 minutes into yipper it's 26:00 20 minutes you just had a meal so it's not hunger granted this week it's a little bit more complicated because it's shabis so we're working a whole week and we're going into yum Kipper but but this this idea that and 26:12 and it's it's the whole Yer it's fasinating the holiest day of the year and for for most people when do people usually really like wake up and get into it right no when it's right right is is is really is 26:28 really it's fascinating right when it's over seriously certain things you don't say Out Loud by the way right certain things certain things think to yourself don't say them out loud I'm G to sound like your wife now right say it 26:38 to yourself don't say it out loud I say let's it's fascinating right so what happens finally like finally like I I get into it and there's an hour left and there's an hour left and I I've of found that Yom 26:56 Kipper is this very frustrating experience that I I want to tap into it like I I want to feel it and I recognize most of us no one's going to feel it the whole day right we're human beings so we're 27:07 not eating we're not drinking we're on our feet we're in SCH the whole day so of course again I'm going to get tired and there definitely going to be times that I that I space out or that I wander but 27:16 but like big adol like in a general sense I want to feel it I I I want to I want to tap into the energy of it and I want to be able to Avail myself of the incredible Co of 27:28 this day because this day I say just understand what happens on you know the Torah says Yer has two primary components Kap which we'll call atonement or forgiveness and T Purity he says that every time I commit always brings with 27:49 it two components every brings with it ones there's always a punishment every sin has a punishment it's very important to understand right there's reward there's reward and Punishment so every single a has an a punishment it doesn't matter big a 28:01 small a a a every a has a punishment every a also causes Tuma causes a certain level of spiritual impurity what's the power of yum Kipper yum Kipper erases it all it takes it all the way kapar takes away the 28:16 on takes away the punishments T takes away the tumer is this total purging this total cleanliness that that and literally again I just have to figure out a way just to somehow like syn myself syn myself with like like you 28:34 know like when you get like like a rental car right you get a rental car and like you have to pair your phone right you have to pair your phone so what happens you know it's sitting there so what what 28:43 what happens in that very beautiful moment between man and automobile right my entire life my first of off the last guy forgot to erase his settings right um I'm listening to rap music you know for the first 20 minutes but 28:56 okay believe believe that a what minutes well then you get into it a little bit I'm just saying you know once it's on already once it's on I'm saying like I went to high school so I'm just saying you know 29:07 like uh so so like there there's that incredible moment of like of like sinking you know where like man and auto like my life like my life right is now getting onto this car so that however long I'm using it 29:21 my contacts are there my music is there everything is there and it's such an I've always like it's such an incredible metaphor because there's so many things in life that we want to sink with because once I SN with something 29:32 that then by definition like we're we're synced we're synced you know Keeper's one of those days like I just I want to sink with the day I I want to I I want to somehow just tap in I I know 29:44 I know I'm not going to be daving with cavana the entire day right let let's accept let's accept certain real I mean I shouldn't say that I'm always speaking for myself I know I know me I'm not going to be 29:54 diving with kavana the entire day I'm hoping to find moments periods hopefully larger swats than last year but I know that there are going to be moments where where my mind is wandering but what I'm trying to figure out is 30:05 just how do I sink in so that even in s Sy YNC how do I sink in so that this way again even when I'm a little bit disconnected I'm still synced you know I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm still there 30:18 and that's part of the Great challenge of this day and and so much of what we need to do is kind of put ourselves like like so many things in life if you want to be successful or anything right if 30:28 you want to be successful in the business meeting you can't play it by year like you I I I know I'm not a businessman but I would assume you have to prepare right whatever you want to be successful in in 30:39 life you're a teacher you have to prepare you're you're a lawyer you're presenting to the Earth you have to prepare you're an accountant you have that you have to prepare you can't wing it you can't wing it R is no 30:49 different if if I want to sink into yipper somehow I have to lead the groundwork ahead of time so that's the P that's is going to help us to just to help us Focus ourselves get ourselves in the right head 31:02 space get ourselves in the right direction so that I want to enter into y already tonight a little bit right with with the food and with the right I want to enter into Arab on or I want to enter into 31:15 Yer I want to I want to sink myself into this yum a little bit in the right mindset so that that way tomorrow night when those words those holy words of K nidre bring upon us a beautiful title of Holiness 31:29 I'm ready for it and more importantly I know what to do with it and how I want to maximize my day so take a look on the first page the first page is the one that says shab on it so 31:39 the says as follows he says so this was 1939 in the says as follows say this is a beautiful piece so the P that says we have a concept and over here you see quotes from the m and from the 32:01 that keeps the entire Torah that the same way that we have 630 keeps the Torah as well keeps thez obviously it's metaphorical and it's anthropomorphic but it's nevertheless a real concept that the same kind of body of law that we 32:21 have that we observe here observes so for example just give an example of this right the gim goes ahead and brings down the says that for example we we but whereas in the that we wear the par speak about the 32:37 greatness of in the of speak about the greatness of so I in the footnote over here what you're not going to do but you look at it on your own you know the brings down before you talk about sink how 32:55 how do you s oh that's what we're going to try to figure out yeah that's going to try to do you didn't miss it I didn't say it I didn't say that's we're trying to figure out to lay a framework 33:02 for how you sink for how you sink so in Number One Source in in the footnote over here in the footnote over here so it happens to be he brings down a whole gimar that discusses this concept as well all 33:20 one entity I put on puts on down here says I keep keep whatever we keep listen to this idea if that's true then we have a concept of it comes to CH how does what does CH look like by said 33:44 just so I have to understand you know I'm I'm often reticent to do ises at this because obviously this is the section ises is is a very heavy safer because everything every piece of Torah URS against the backdrop of of 34:01 just horrific barbaric events so every there's a heaviness with everything so the the the piece itself is a very heavy piece we're only we're only going to extrapolate from the first part but you come understand what the Reb is asking 34:13 over here I know when I do something wrong that I have to do CH so does so yet we say has every mitvah does all right or or how does he do CH second paragraph assuming he has a need to 34:25 I'm sorry assuming he has a need to why why would you assume you when goes ahead and literally stops from visiting the from visiting the evil that he has sent upon his people right the either either that he was going 34:50 to send or he didn't send and he didn't send or he did send and he stops so he says who say isn't that incredible when stood poised to do something to us did something hurtful or bad to us and then 35:15 he stops doing it or for that matter planned on doing something hurtful or terrible and then he didn't do it that's that's the golden CF what happens wanted to destroy and what happened he didn't what Doan say it's interesting because 35:52 we often translate the word consolation but remember again Rashi already in in the beginning of B says that's not the real or that's not the translation in this context Rashi says by by Adam by mankind after right after after mankind 36:08 went down its downward spiral so the POS says had that he created man so Rashi says what does it mean he had that he created man so rash says means a change of perspective that thought thought that it was a 36:23 good idea to create man then they had changed the perspective he said it's not good to create man that's when he brought so therefore says means was going to punish us in a terrible way for the sin of the golden 36:38 calf and then Theon changed his mind he changed whatever that means that God changes his mind he changed his mind he changed his mind that's the first step of CH is remorse so you see over here that does how does 37:00 so says either he was ready to do something terrible to us and he changed his mind so he sort of speak did did or he was doing something terrible and then he stopped doing it to us that's how say this 37:38 is profound just understand what's happening over here so first of all the advancing this concept that which by itself is is an incred is an incredible idea that does cha how does do cha one of two ways he's hurting us 37:56 and he's punishing us and stops that's one way he does chva or he's about to do something terrible and he changes his mind and he doesn't that's chva say here's the problem in both of those cases in both of those 38:11 cases while it's true that either the bad thing will no longer continue or the bad thing that was going to happen ultimately again will not come to fruition what that Chua doesn't do is it doesn't address any pre-existing difficulties that 38:26 were already there right in other words so in in this model of what is saying is is his is what we call like from here going forward but here's the problem what about the situation that already existed before the moment 38:43 so for example for example let's say was punishing us and then decides to do and as a result of divine cha he stops punishing us so beautiful so there's no punishment going forward what about the damage that's occurred up until 38:59 this point what about that so Divine CH helps from this point going forward but what about retrospective CH what what about or should say what about retrospectively what about looking back what what what about all of that damage up until 39:13 now what happens there go to this go to the left hand column where it says page test for I'm just gonna read so say according this El it's so beautiful we see this is incredible so listen to this idea please 40:05 don't just do a partial cha partial cha partial cha is remedying the situation from this point going forward but if that's all you're going to do that's an incomplete cha why because what about Theus what about what about the state 40:20 of disrepair that existed beforehand what what's what's going to happen with that to which says your CH excuse me is only going to be complete only when literally we are satiated in the morning from your kindness and we are perpetually 40:43 happy is saying is your CH is not enough if all you're doing is taking away the pain from this point going forward if you want to be a then what then there has to be some retrospective cha as well and 41:01 you have to figure out how to take away all of the suffering you have to figure out how to take away all of the pre-existing pain and return us or bring us to a state of true Tranquility I will say 41:14 this this is this is a profound theological piece as well you can understand by the way if you just understand what's happening over here just from even the historical perspective what what the p is saying Ison shal even if you 41:27 were to bring our suffering to a stop right now right now there is so much collateral damage that has already occurred that even if the suffering were to stop in this moment what about all of the breakage what about all 41:43 what what about just all the catastrophic realities up until what what what happens there so you cannot content yourself with doing cha just from now going forward by for you to be a true you have to fix the past damage 42:04 as well now that doesn't mean going back in time but you can't just return us to a state of a stoppage of aggression right a stoppage of punishment you have to go ahead and reset things so that once again as 42:16 a cloud we are back in a state of Shalom we are back in a state of goodness we are back in a state of wholeness an incredibly profound idea it is not enough to stop so to speak the from this 42:28 point going forward you have an obligation to remedy things going back as well now why is this important for us say the point that I really want to highlight from here is not as much what the but what he uses 42:49 model to establish a model of CH for us look what he writes we have to do CH in the same way right say this this to me this one paragraph CH changed my life look at the says we sometimes have 43:23 a disconnect from cha right do you think what is cha so chv I'm doing CH for a particular a right what what's what's my goal my goal is to go ahead and address a particular sin whatever choose your sin right 43:36 insert your sin here my particular sin and now what's my goal my goal is to get myself back to the point before the sin right to the point before the sin here's the problem what's the problem with getting back to 43:49 the point before the sin so let's let let's say let's say it's a Thursday right so Thursday afternoon I committed a big AA I committed a big AA said I'm going to do CH and what's my CH I want to 44:01 do for I want to get myself back to Thursday afternoon before the sin what's the problem with that what's the problem not fortified stand again right the problem with that is on Thursday afternoon before the sin obviously I wasn't in 44:14 a good spiritual Place what's the proof to that I sinned right in other words we spoken about this many times salvation about this as well that sin doesn't just like pop up right sin doesn't just Nothing in life pops up 44:28 like even like this is the season even like the popup Suka you ever see those little popup suas right it's Mish it's false advertising it's false advertising they do not just pop up they do not just pop up why cuz 44:39 nothing in life just pops up right ev Everything Everything has everything has a everything starts some way so when I commit a it's not that a occurred I say we've spoken about this so many times that one of the most 44:54 instructive things and really what you are prerequisite for ch is if I'm really going to be about CH and I really want to address AOS what I need to do is like this what's the AA let's start with one simple 45:03 AA we're not going to speak out of their right now right a simple one it's like everyday one you know one that you're good at you know that I again there are things I dabble in and things that I'm really 45:13 like hardcore you know so like so like again if I think about AA that I do someone say it's a fascinating exercise okay so think about now it's Thursday afternoon I did the AA a fasinating exercise is Trace back your 45:24 steps how did I get there and what's fascinating to see is rarely is it like oh I just walked in the room I'm like h a but rather again it's fascinating that you could trace back your steps and a lot 45:37 of times it's to relatively innocuous things but just things that weren't good for me at that moment not not things that I really should be doing I really should be involved in and then a let to B and B L 45:48 to C and C let to d and d and a lot of those a lot of those steps are not per se a right they're not they're not bad they're just not helpful and step after step after step and suddenly 46:00 suddenly I get calls the the sin is called the the pathway to sin is called there's always a pathway that leads to sin so the P says something amazing he says if I just do CH and my entire aod is 46:15 just to get back to Thursday afternoon before I sin I don't want to go back to Thursday afternoon before I sin that's not going to help me CU obviously Thursday afternoon in in the 5 minutes before I sinned obviously I 46:26 wasn't in the right spiritual head space because if I was then I wouldn't have gotten myself into this trouble to begin with so so what does cha require this is such a different way of looking at CH we get so 46:38 often focused on the behavior right I'm arrogant right I'm arrogant so I'm focusing on a that's that's that's part of the but I have to take it a step what's my goal to get back to before I was arrogant but 46:54 before I was arrogant obviously I became arrogant which means in the moment before I fell pray to arrogance there was something broken inside of me that allowed me to fail in this way so to get myself back to the moment 47:07 before the it's actually not helpful it's actually not helpful so where do I need to get myself and where I need to get myself back to he says this is incredible he says so say Where am I trying to get 47:19 back to where am I try like you understand how he compares to if all you're going to do is do punishing us so you're either going to change your mind and not punish us or you've been punishing us and you're 47:31 going to stop punishing us that's nice right so therefore nothing bad is going to happen going forward but but what about all the stuff up until now so if I'm going to go ahead and do Chua and my goal is 47:40 to get back to the state right before I sinned how does that help me how does that help me given the fact that I'm clearly compromising that moment so what is the of this is so beautiful he says therefore the 47:57 says it's simple you're not returning back to a moment before the sin you know even though shab we spoke about again returning back to the state of before the P says that's not even what you're doing you know what CH 48:11 is CH is I'm returning to I'm returning to say how beautiful is this the is not a return to me it's not a return to the state before I sinned it's not even like R cook said right or like the 48:51 mar said about a return to the state ofar before he sinned says the p is a return to because whatever state I returned to back in my previous life I was compromised and weak in some way so I don't want 49:08 to go back to that instead what I want to do is I want to go back toes because I stumbled over my sins the return is not to an earlier state of me the return is to because it's only if 49:26 I find a way to come back to that suddenly again all of those weaknesses could be bolstered and somehow all of those deficiencies could be rebuilt I say it's just a different way to look at Cha what am I returning 49:42 to and the P says the only way to fix the past is not by returning to an earlier version of yourself because the truth is if I'm honest I will say any earlier version of myself is flawed is flawed 1.0 49:59 was flawed 2.0 fixed some of the bugs but it was still flawed 3.0 again had new bugs the old ones were fixed but then the first ones came back right 7.0 was totally messed up right and then and so on 50:12 and so forth like there are multiple different versions of me and each version has some wonderful things and some real stuff that does not work so which version they want to go back to and therefore the P says no you're 50:23 not going back to you you're going back to I'm going back to because otherwise because otherwise if all I'm doing is going back to me before the sin that I'm just heading back to another flawed point in my life but 50:42 if I make my way back to then by definition I'm going back to Infinity then I'm going back I'm going back to to flawlessness then I'm going back to something perfect I will say if we think about it this is 50:56 such a tremendous way to frame for ourselves what are we trying to accomplish on Yumer right because so often Yumi is overwhelming in so many different ways both in the length of right you know what happens you know if you 51:10 make the even though it's so funny right how interesting it is that it's not like it's our first y Kipper so we know exactly how long everything is but yet cannot resist the temptation to see how many pages are left 51:21 in my riff right and then what happens so right and then but then there's good news cuz it's divided by called HEB English right it's a whole it's not 150 Pages 75 Pages oh but 75 pages right right that's right 51:34 but there some so may take that out but he sings This sings This 14 times and it's so funny I'm like hello like good the good news is no new pages right no new pages right it's the same they say 51:47 but but we get we just get so lost and instead what I just have to remind myself is what am I doing what am I doing I'm going back to Hashem that's what I'm doing say the entirety of Yer the 51:59 entirety of CH I'm not going back to myself I'm not going back to a state before the sin I'm not going back to I'm not going back to an earlier me I'm going back to AES because it's only through a 52:13 return to Hashem that some way somehow I have the ability to get this right because the truth is I'm flawed so any previous me that I'm going back to is flawed as well but if I somehow make it back to 52:29 then ultimately again that's how I find some level ofos in this world but let me say one more pleas because I know we're out of time so I'll just skip for a moment I'll just skip actually I'm not going to 52:39 skip take a look at the second page I'm just going to do it very quickly take the second page this incredible this is a little bit ahead of where we are but if you look at L B he says look 52:49 he writes ESS says it is easier to learn Torah in depth for many many many years right hours upon hours each day than it is to really serve in a meaningful and fulfilling way for One Moment by the way this 53:21 is not AES we know that we know that right we can knock out garas we can knock Tor absolutely no problem but to really serve say right is it incredible like think about it if yum Kipper if yum Kipper was 53:36 a yomi right if yum Kipper was a d yomi Marathon D yomi Marathon right imagine for a moment right it's that Marathon say how would you feel about that how would you feel let's go let's go right I mean that' 53:49 be great obviously no coffee right but buta like I I can actually like I can sink my teeth into that like especially if we're learning the right kind of garas you know like like I I can sink my teeth into 54:00 that why because they're both say it's very simple Torah Torah stimulates me on many different levels it stimulates my mind right it stimulates the heart it stimulates the it's to to is very stimulating so the P says to learn Stark 54:15 and to learn a lot and to learn like volum that's actually not complicated and most of us again uh people have a greater attention span a lesser attention span okay but most of us could figure out a way to master 54:28 this in in some way shape or form but says but to really serve one day in in a in real measure in real measure so that's he says it's very difficult it's very very difficult it is so difficult for us 54:52 to even get one good day of being a servant of I say by the way it's a very profound idea especially since we're coming up to a day where the entire day the essence is to be inever yum is all 55:04 about turning myself into a Ser he's not talkinger he's just talking about just St life just St life Torah I could do I can knock that out I could do every single yomi under the sun no problem enjoy it won't 55:17 remember a word but I could but I could right but I but I could get it all done right I could do that I could do that right but but to serve to really serve AES to be an one day 55:27 it's really difficult he says don't don't don't despair sometimes how do you know what your AV in life is it's very important to how do you know what your AV in life is whatever is most difficult for you that is 55:50 your aod you see people make the mistake they're thinking that the golden life is PL to your strengths right whatever you're good at whatever you're good at like do that no no whatever you're good at that's a gift from Hashem 56:02 whatever you're good at by the way you didn't do that whatever you're good at that's usually a god-given talent it's kind of like a photographic memory right no one gets a for having a photograph why you must have worked so 56:12 hard on that no you didn't right God gave that to you God God gave that to you right there are C so generally the stuff that you're good at in life those are skill sets that programmed you with now you 56:24 have to hone them you have to work on them but they're god-given so what's my abod my abod is to figure out the stuff that is really difficult for me and chances are you know the AR says if a person 56:35 wants to know what their aod is in life he says the thing you struggle with most is the very reason you were put on this world which I will say if you notice by the way I think I think don't 56:47 don't nod your head in agreement or disagreement we'll have to most of us don't struggle with f virus we struggle with one AA there's that one AA that I keep doing over and over and over and I have a good 57:07 stretch of we'll call it AA sobriety right and a good stretch for like I'm doing and then I relapse then I relapse and years could go by and I do and like it's this and that sometimes that one there like 57:18 manifests itself in in in a couple of different ways but it's fascinating right you don't usually meet people were like these five things are my constant daily ongoing struggle it's usually this thing is my constant ongoing life struggle that says 57:32 here's the good news the bad news is that's your life struggle the good news is that is why you are here in the world that struggle that's your avod people want to know if only I was born with a Post-It 57:44 note on my forehead to know what I'm supposed to do in this world we are born with a posted not on our forehead the thing you struggle most that's why KES put you here in this world right some people don't 57:56 know how to create normal healthy relationships their aod is to go ahead and create normal healthy relationships some people cannot control their desires their wants their lust their desires my avod in life is to re that in everybody with what 58:12 they struggle with most that is their aod says says the P so we all seem to have a central aod which is to how to become so I just want to point out to something amazing two not contradictory pieces for 58:26 the p no but contradiction the same same right so in which is written earlier in says the hardest thing in the world is to find your way back to I can learn I can learn and learn and learn and I 58:40 can do that I that it's fantastic but to have one day where i'm really connected to hm to have one day of of real connection turns so difficult so difficult and what is he saying ises what is say what is 58:57 the entire what is the entire entire is coming back to so the entire is coming back to which says is the hardest thing to do in the world stuck stuck and already six minutes over I'm going three more minutes and 59:20 then we're stopping and I held up for but I'm saying right we're going three we're stopping say so how do I reconcile this you know say you hear see no more CH I think it sits in people and causes drowsiness 59:30 there's a lot of like it's like a like a like a fog it's like a fog of fatigue over here you know what next week vegetarian CH let's see what you do then okay that's it right salad salad next week 59:47 for all of you right so now so again like so you understand like what like what a profound theological issue this is again in the entire is doesn't mean going back to an earlier version of yourself means going back to 1:00:06 which means beings learn easier than it is to be in for one day so how do I recile now last piece last piece I'm do this outside because of times I'm do inside take a look at the last page so 1:00:23 this actually a beautiful beautiful sa that I picked up in a number of years ago and the title is It's Beautiful it's just a whole bunch of right listen to this this top piece of nickelsburg nickelsburg says the following he 1:00:41 says what does it mean this is incredible he asked an interesting question he says he says what does it mean shouldn't it be what return cl to means what means what until so what's the ad say this is beautiful let 1:01:01 me tell let me tell the mus outside writes the like this he says so listen this you have a person call Ru and Ru needs to travel from point day to point B it's an incredibly hot day an incredibly hot 1:01:15 day so Ru sets out and it's a it's a decent distance between point a and point B so the re says like this ruin sets out and the Sun is beating down him sweltering altering if ruin says okay you know 1:01:28 what that's it I'm going I'm going I'm going to get from point A to point B no turning back let's go says nichel what's going to end up happening what's going to end up happening is that is going to burn 1:01:39 out somewhere in the middle of the journey right the Sun is going to be down he going to get dehydrated he's going to get sick he's goingon to this and at some point in time he's going to turn back around 1:01:47 so says the what's the better what's the better ruen starts out and instead of ruen says you know what I'm not going to point B I'm not going to city B but you know what there's a tree over there let 1:01:59 me get over there let me go over there okay and then and then I'll reassess gets to the tree right gets to the tree then you know what a little bit further in distance he sees a wall you know what 1:02:10 let me get over to the wall over there right let me see what's going on once I get there gets to the wall and slowly but surely what he does is he takes a long journey from City a to City 1:02:20 B and breaks it up into much smaller increments and suddenly again ruin is able to make it from point A to point B because he didn't try to get there in one Journey instead what he did is he broke up 1:02:35 that longer journey into smaller digestible pieces I'll go to here and again without without any pris where I'm going to get after that but let me get to here and then I get to there okay I can make it to 1:02:45 here and then after that I can make it to this and then after I can make it to this look at the last paragraph he so the RAB says like this the of course is that we want to get back 1:02:54 to we want to come back to like the said the entire of to get back to the but how do I do that how do I do it listen to this do you know whyg do you know why often we 1:03:16 don't make it back to do you know why listen do you know why because what I say to myself is okay I'm here and let's go I'm getting back to let's go let's go what's the problem I'm here and Theo 1:03:29 is all the way over there so what happens I start running sprinting and by the way like I haven't run for years right so like I'm all excited and then about 2 minutes in I'm out of breath right and then 1:03:38 again it's a little hot it's a little cold a little bit tired and this that and what ends up happening is 9.9 out of 10 times I just give up because the journey is too long so instead says the nvi 1:03:49 how do you do it OD ad means until don't try to go directly back to K in one Journey set smaller Journeys for yourself create small Journeys create individual smaller Journeys out here I'll go up until here okay then you 1:04:09 get there now I'm going to go up until here smaller individual Journeys and then the composite of those smaller individual Journeys is so how do you get back to don't try to get from yourself to hasem just at once but 1:04:27 rather again break the long journey up into smaller incremental pieces of personalistic growth create multiple personal Journeys and then at the end you'll make it to has say if you're bring this all together the is teaching us something incredible the 1:04:45 p is teaching us something incredible that our entire a of yerer is the one day Yer is the day where the day interestingly enough it's not Torah isn't fascinating right normally Torah is our entire life the is not Torah the 1:05:02 is to get back to AEM but how do I do that P it's so hard and I will say now by the way even ins the P doesn't say why it's so hard but now I understand why why is it 1:05:14 so hard because nickelsburg told me why is it so hard because it's a really long journey it's a really long journey and what happens on really long Journeys what happens what happens people generally tend to fatigue out we just fatigue 1:05:27 out and so SCH nickelsberg says okay who told you you have to take the journey at once break it up into smaller pieces and I say maybe that's maybe the is not even necessarily to get all the way back toes 1:05:46 but the Y is to figure out the series of smaller steps I need to take in order to get there how how do you know if you've had and say by the way I I want to tell you something I 1:05:58 think this is why you ever notice you ever notice that like you could have the most incredible yum Kipper and how long does it last how long does it last minutes that's sad sad I'm sorry sorry for that right I 1:06:12 was going to say usually I would give it like a day or two usually it's like when you have like the first major fight when putting up the sua right usually it's it's like you yell at someone or say something 1:06:23 not nice to someone right or do then it's like everything I worked on for the last two weeks is is out the window right and usually it's someone I'm related to also so then it's even it's even worse right so 1:06:32 that usually it it doesn't last long and I will say interesting the reason why it doesn't last for long is because you Kipper we're often going from like 0 to 60 in 3 seconds right so like I'm I'm I'm on 1:06:42 fire I'm great but then the truth is like there there's no sustainable journey in that so y Kipper's over I make Hava and like I don't even know what to do with myself I I I I I I don't know 1:06:53 like where like where where do I plug this into what what what do I do with all of this and that's what the P said you know is and I think that it starts even tonight it starts even tomorrow Kipper 1:07:05 is to create your odd plan what is your odd plan not how you getting back toes but what are the intermediary steps that I need to take to get back Toes that is a tremendous thing to think about what are 1:07:22 the intermediary step intermediate steps because that requires a significant dose of introspection and real contemplation about where I am right what do I have to do about my daving what do I have to do about my learning what do I 1:07:34 have to do about my marriage what do I have to do about my kids what do I have to do about my friends what do I have to do about my what do I have to do about like I have 1:07:41 to look at almost every what I have to do about my Tyas like I have to look at every area of my life and figure out what do I need to do what are the odd steps that I need to 1:07:49 take in all of these areas in order to get back to and that's I want to tell you I'm giving you permission to have your mind wander during daving oner even during theha right wander wander away but let it wander 1:08:05 to the right places other words let it wander to okay so like what is the journey I'm going to take like what what is it how am I getting back to AES because you know you could have a beautiful and 1:08:17 uplifting and inspiring Y and then it's over and you have no idea where to plug it in so it just Peters out and you're right back where you started just a day or two later but if I use Yumer Yer 1:08:27 and yer to make it an odd experience I mean let me get to the tree what's the tree let me get to the wall and then let me get to the mound and then let me get to the hill and 1:08:36 let me get to the waterfall let me get to the river and again slowly but truly I I have all of these odd pieces lined up the journey takes longer but number one it's sustainable number two it's realizable and number 1:08:48 three at the end of the day it's accomplishable I don't know if that's a word but accomplishable I could actually do it and this is our to get back to but not in one F not in one long initial journey 1:09:06 in multiple smaller odd Journeys if we could emerge from Yumer with this plan that is a day of resounding spiritual success for our beautiful Yer and how maybe there are some of us here that can make it back right to 1:09:26 1 123 it's possible definitely possible but if you can't now at least we have a plan we should be to walk into theer with a Clear Vision of what we want to accomplish we should over the course ofer to accomplish 1:09:43 it Seals All of Us in the in the book of life together with our families our community with all ofing us do if I could I feel strange but I could borrow the words of the and bring an end to 1:10:05 our suffering and bring an end to our difficulty and bring home our hostages and allow our soldiers to be successful and allow them to come back to their families shom and and give us a year and instead of us always 1:10:24 being on on the defense we should be to be on the offense and the same way that we have shown the world that Jews are no longer victims but we are the victors that we should be to show the world 1:10:38 what true heroism sustained heroism looks like to see a year where all the cries all the cries are cries of masl and all the tears are tears of joy and in every single home Gatherings don't take place for the Gathering 1:10:57 takes place for Shalom for for beautiful shabs that there's a wave of continued that washes over our people and most of all if we do will do will manifest itself rebuilding of the restoration of and the for
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