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0:01 in just a few days from now we'll be privileged to begin the until sukis the yomtov that is so filled with incredible joy and filled with incredible simchasms as the torah calls it when we take the entirety of our lives 0:14 out of the home what we call the diras keva the established home and move it into the diras array the temporary dwelling of the sukkah but the gimbal actually records a fascinating dispute about what it is that we are trying 0:27 to remember or recreate or celebrate on this yomtiv you see the pasta says that who tells us i want you to sit in the sukkah for seven days kiba sugos how shafty israel because i housed the jewish people in sukkos 0:43 when i took them out of egypt but the gemara records a fascinating dispute rabbi akiba says sukhos mamesh that literally again for 40 years in the desert we lived in huts after all again remember before the sin of the spies 0:56 we were supposed to go into the land of israel pretty quickly but there was still going to be a journey a journey across the desert as such we needed temporary structures such as huts huts we could not direct permanent structures 1:08 obviously the goal was just to be in the desert for a short amount of time and even after the sun of the spies god said that he condemned us to a 40-year nomadic existence now the reality is as rashi points 1:19 out in devarim we actually didn't travel all that much during the 40 years in the desert but nevertheless there was still an inability to erect permanent structures and as such we were housed in huts over the course of 40 years 1:30 so the akiva says that we remember the fact that our ancestors three and a half million people survived in the desert in huts the only way for that to happen of course is through the miraculous intervention and guardianship of the 1:44 ribanus so therefore we go into a hut for seven days to remember the huts of our ancestors rabbi eli ezra disagrees it says no no the sukkos the huts that are being referred to over here in the past are not 1:57 actual hearts but rather anonymity they were clouds of glory that throughout our 40 years sojourn in the desert god covered us he wrapped us he encapsulated us in his clouds of glory those clouds provided shelter those clouds provided protection those 2:16 classic mars even provided the laundering of the of the jewish people's garments it provided us with everything we need so therefore it says we go into the sukha we go into our heart to remember the ananya cover to remember the 2:27 clouds of glory that shielded us protected us and nurtured us during the 40-year soldier in the desert fascinating dispute but no matter which opinion you side with there's still one fundamental question which is why now why do we choose to 2:41 celebrate the um sukis now in the month of tishrei after all again if we are celebrating the fact that god housed us in sukkos when we left egypt would it not make more sense to celebrate this yomtava sukkis right after 2:54 pesach after all again we left egypt in nisan after we left egypt we got into the desert of course we get to shivers but even in between pesach and we're living in the desert well according to abi aqib that means 3:06 we're living in hats according to abi ali azar we are surrounded by the divine clouds why not celebrate the yomtov of sukkos then to which the gemara says something very interesting a very simple answer because we want the yomtava sukis 3:22 to be a clear demonstration of uh mitzvah being performed for the sake of akhadeshwarahu and the problem is that if we celebrate the umtab sukkis in nissan when it's nice and warm outside it's spring beginning of the summer so we're 3:35 going to go out into the sukkah and it doesn't look like you're performing a mitzvah but rather it just looks like at the end of the day i'm sitting outside and i want a little bit of shade so i put a 3:43 little bit of there a couple of walls but it's very it's very comfortable outdoor living there's no indication that i'm doing this for the sake of performing at sivuy a commandment of akhadi parahusa therefore when te karere sparrow who said 3:55 to observe circus in tishrei tishrei is the beginning of the rainy season in eric israel and even now celebrate so it's the beginning of winter there's only one reason why you're going out into the circle in the beginning of the rainy 4:05 season and that's ultimately to go ahead and fulfill the mitzvah and the dictate of akadeshwarahu that's the answer given by the tour and others but it always intrigued me that answer works very well if you understand that the mitzvah of 4:19 sukkah like rabbi akiva is to remember the hots if that's the point to remember the huts you want to sit in your hut at a time where it's clear that you're sitting in a hut not for your own personal enjoyment 4:32 but that you're sitting in the hut for the sake of a mitzvah but if the essence of sukis is to remember the anania cove to remember the clouds of glory so let me do it in eastern what does it matter 4:42 right the goal is to remember not really the hut the hut is not the essence the hut is the vehicle the hut is the vehicle but according to rabbi ali azra i'm really supposed to remember the clouds of akkadachi para 4:53 to begin with this is not really a recreation of what was the sukkah is a vehicle through which i could remember the cloud cover the divine cloud cover during our 40-year soldier in the desert and if that's the case then 5:07 why not do it in the sun why not do it when it acts when the miracle actually began why wait until tishrei and the basham that gives such a beautiful insight the bashantav says to appreciate the role of sukis the 5:19 power of sukh is the message of sulkis you have to look at the timeline you see when we left egypt in that first year of course pesach we left schwarz we received the torah moshrabinu goes up goes up on ancievious 5:35 right he goes up on in in the middle of the month of sivan in the beginning of mother's day above seven he goes up to go ahead and receive the torah he comes back down 40 days later on the 17th of 5:46 tamus and we know what happens he comes down he finds that the jewish people have broken the tablets excuse me joshua built the golden calf as a result moshraibin was so upset so upset at the people so upset on behalf 5:58 of god he throws down and smashes the tablets that event then sparks a whole a whole cascade of other events most rabbing then wants to god wants to destroy the jewish people moshe lobbies on their behalf ultimately again moshe was 6:13 able to secure divine forgiveness god tells moshe come back up go ahead and get another set of tablets and this entire process ends when on the 10th of tishrei on the 10th of touche motion comes back down with the second 6:27 set of tablets the 10th of tishrei yum kipper yom kippur so therefore again so therefore this is why yom kippur is considered to be a day of the khapara why is yom kippur considered to be a day of forgiveness and 6:39 atonement because an emotional window comes down with the second set of tablets those tablets were a physical manifestation of divine forgiveness those tablets really showed that the ribbon of shalom was once again giving us the torah and willing to enter 6:53 into a relationship but then what happens afterwards bursar comes out on the 10th mazel tov second set of tablets yom kippur forgiveness on the 11th of tishrei an announcement is made regarding the construction and fabrication of the mishkan vasuli miktash 7:08 vishakhanti bisocham good news who is going to live within our midst emotion is choosing so it's not just forgiveness he's coming back into our lives he's going to reside in the midst of our camp that happened on the 11th of 7:20 tishrei on the 12th and 13th of tishrei fundraising the entire fundraising project is done in two days so on the 14th of tishrei on the 14th of tishrei ultimately again what happens they call out you don't have to bring anything 7:36 else you have enough gold they have enough silver no need to bring anything else besides there's a detail in this narrative that people forget on the 17th of tammuz when moshirabinu came down and broke the tablet something else happened when 7:50 there was that terrible relationship trespass when the jewish ego built a golden calf the annane coved dissipated the clouds left us the clouds left us you see those clouds we're a manifestation of god's presence in our midst those clouds were 8:07 a manifestation of god's love for us and when we broke the trust when we ruptured the relationship when we betrayed the ribonucleolum with a golden calf krishna who left the clouds left and says the basham tabakadesh when did they come 8:24 back they came back on the 15th of tishrei they came back so again mo shabina comes down on the 10th yom kippur with the luhos on day 11 is the announcement about the mishkan 12 and 13 fundraising for the mishkan 8:40 14th announcement nothing is needed anymore and on the 15th the clouds returned the clouds returned and dear friends what does it mean that the clouds returned the clouds returning was the tangible display that indeed the ribonucleolum was back in our 9:01 life and welcoming us back into his this is why we celebrate the yomtov of sukkis on the 15th of tishrei while it is true if you did it in nissan that's true it might look like you're just having a nice 9:15 time outside working on your tan you're sitting outside but that works well if it's huts but if it's about the covet about clouds of glory why dafuqa tishrei because it was on the yomtava sukkus that the clouds that left on 9:29 the 17th of tamus as a result of sin as a result of misdeed as a result of personalistic and national failure came back on the 15th of tishrei and now we understand the power of success see the yanktov sukis is 9:45 part of the yami norah because in rosh hashanah we are judged and on yom kippur we are forgiven and we are cleansed but my dear friends i want to tell you something we say that we're forgiven and cleansed but do 9:59 we really believe it do i really believe that kadusparahu has forgiven me do i really believe that now it's a new slate the tabla rasa blank slate new chapter new book new narrative news story new year do i really believe 10:16 that or do i just say you know makes an amazing observation this is writes that on my river of not saying keeper right so we we just had this we finished an ila we cry out shema israel shambhala kim we 10:29 blow the show for the shawna baby you shine such a feeling of of of ecstasy spiritual ecstasy an incredible feeling of revelation and then what happens we dive in my river david myers and what do we say marith forgive us 10:44 hashem for we have sinned what what did i do what could i possibly have done remember i just finished in the illa there's not even enough time to sin and even if there was enough time i'm so tired i don't 10:58 even have enough to be honest with him and i've got to speak like lush and harlow normally a good juicy piece of gossip is always wonderful everybody loves that ah i'm exhausted i'm depleted to be honest i want to dive 11:09 in meredith i want to go home i want to have a beautiful sudo with my mushpaka and then i want to move on with you build my sukkah what could i possibly have done between the end of end of nila 11:20 and my revenue i'm saying forgive me my father for i have sinned what sin and this emma says something amazing he says it's for the sin of not believing that you are truly forgiven that's an aveda also not believing that 11:37 you've been cleansed not believing that you've been forgiven not believing that you have a fresh start that's also an avedah forgive me because maybe i don't really believe that i'm actually forgivable because sometimes we go through life and we just 11:55 look at ourselves as damaged goods it's damaged because i want to tell you just on a personal level the morning after the morning after yom kippur tuesday when i'm dabbing chakras you know in shema kolinu in shema there's an insert 12:13 please hashem i've sinned and i've sinned and i've done so and so you put insert your sins here and i began to insert my awareness my bears my restroom last year and stop one second one second barak hashem i haven't 12:29 committed those avarice again since last night since sam keeper was over so what what why why why am i asking for forgiveness again for them right now i didn't do anything and i realized because deep down as much as i 12:42 believe or as much as i think i believe or i talk about or i give sure them about new beginnings maybe i don't really believe it maybe i don't really believe it i i like it it's very appealing it's very 12:56 beautiful it's certainly fascinating to give a shirt about to give a joshua to give a talk about but here i found myself reflexively doing shiva for the same average from last year but but it's a new year to new slate 13:11 because so many of us walk around just looking at ourselves as damaged goods as broken and even though again my mind tells me new beginning new year clean this lathe i did shiva nami i'm still the same broken person and 13:32 here lies the beauty of the yomtava success because suki says the author when the aniha covet come back the annan covet come back they are restored because forgiveness is really possible and starting again is really possible you know the same 13:51 semester says something so beautiful he says asuka the minimum share the minimum size of asuka you need two walls and then a little bit of the third wall as fast says if you could imagine this imagine the image he says 14:05 you have like one wall right one wall two wall a second wall and then a third wall there only has to be a little bit so what does that look like that's an embrace the i'm back i'm back in your 14:22 life and i want to reconnect and i want to rehabilitate the relationship because you have a new start you haven't started the same way thousands of years ago on the 15th of tishrei the clouds which left on the 17th of 14:36 tamos then came back on the 15th of tishrei every single year i have my rosh hashanah serious my own keeper but is worried do you really believe that i forgave you do you really believe that all is forgiven do you 14:54 really believe that you have a new start that you have a blank slate and a sparrow who's worried that we don't actually believe it that we don't actually believe it and that's why we see slack will do every year in 15:04 the 15th of tishrei says here's what i want you to do i want you to leave your house and i want you to enter into my embrace that's the sukkah it's the one two little bit of what's the embrace of 15:17 akadesparacho i want you to leave what you know and comment i want to hug you and i want to hold you and i just want to whisper into your ear new beginning new year it's a new you and i'm back 15:31 to be here with you this year like the tsar calls the sukkah that sailor the menu the protective shade of akadesh baruch and you know when i think about that image i think the semes is hug the two walls and 15:46 a little bit the embrace you know when a parent embraces their child they hover over the child you bend your head over the child so my my my my face is shielding my child that's that's all so ultimately the sukkah is 16:00 the ribano cradling me is holding me next to him because akash parocho is not convinced that i really believe that i've been forgiven he's not convinced that i really believe that i have a new start he's not convinced that i 16:17 really believe that i could have a fresh start a fresh beginning this year because i'm still saying stockholm and i'm still saying and it's morning after yom kippur who says i'm here to tell you new beginning new start new year 16:41 make of yourself what you want to make of yourself make of your life what do you want to make of it and i'm here with you along this journey i mean i'm back you're right sometimes in life we do things 16:53 that push god away and sometimes in life we push god away sometimes in life we just remove ourselves from god and sometimes as a result of our actions maybe who moves a little bit back from us become sukis the aniha 17:06 covered the clouds of glory came back thousands of years ago and come back to each of us each and every year the ribonucleolum comes back to my sukkah to be with me in the beginning days of this year to whisper 17:21 in my ear new start new beginning but you have to believe it i believe in the khabarov who says that's why i'm here with you i believe it that's why i told you to leave your house and walk into my 17:33 embrace feel my embrace feel my love and what do we do on the nights of what do we do on the nights of suki what's going on over here why because there is nothing more exciting in life nothing more exciting 17:54 in life than a jew with a new beginning nothing more exciting in this world than this universe to see than a yid with ab tabla rasa with a blank slate and everyone comes to see it everyone come see it you 18:07 know it's the same you sowed you know this time of hugging bring down why is everyone brought why does everyone drawn to a shalom sock everybody loves babies why does everybody love babies they don't do anything right they don't contribute 18:18 to anything so why does everybody love babies because when you see a baby what you see is unimaginable potential purity purity a little sadik a little sadekas with a life with a narrative that has yet to be written they could 18:32 be anything and everything each of us is that gay beyonce and so what happens abram comes to my tent and nietzsche and everyone comes because they want to see me because i am a jew with a brand new unwritten future 18:52 i am a jew who has been purged and cleansed of every last vestige of negativity i am a jew who has left the constructs of the past to enter into the embrace of akadeshparahu it's just me and god and everyone 19:09 everyone wants a front row seat to see what is going to unfold over the coming year this is the power of sukis and this is dafka why we celebrate this youngtive in tishrei not in nissan but in tishrei because sukkis 19:28 is part of the so if rosh hashanah is the day of judgment and yom kippur is the day of forgiveness and purity is the day of reconnection sukis is the day is the yomtiv when i go back out into the 19:43 embrace of my god where i leave behind what i know venture into an unknown future because i don't know what it's going to be but all i know is that i am clean i am pure i am purged and i 19:57 am ready to reconnect with my god he is ready to reconnect with me and together we are going to work on a beautiful plan for a magnificent future this is the power of success this is the power of this yomtiv 20:10 as part of the continuum of norm so while it's true we don't want to make the um island because it's going to look like you're just sitting out to work on your tan to enjoy the warm weather we don't want 20:20 them but not to be clear that it's a missile but it's something so much more profound the yum tube of sukis couldn't be anywhere else other than tishrei because sukis is the umph above reconnection of falling into the embrace of your 20:34 father of really believing that you are not damaged goods but that you can start again you have a blank slate and the greatest proof to that is that the aniha covered came back on the 15th of this right the clouds 20:50 came back that was the greatest proof isn't it amazing the greatest proof of god's forgiveness wasn't the second set of tablets the greatest proof wasn't the the collection for the mishkan the greatest proof of god's forgiveness was the fact that 21:02 he blanketed us again with his presence that's the essence of sukis this is my dear friends you know a lot of us come out of yom kippur and we do a lot of lip service i don't mean i don't mean this 21:14 in january and we do a lot of lip service that we talk about new beginnings we say we have a new beginning blank slate but we still clapped on because i don't really believe that i'm forgiven when we enter into 21:28 the sukkah friday night i would urge you before you walk in close your eyes for a moment and say i am ready to enter into your embrace i believe that i have been forgiven i believe that i have been cleansed 21:48 i believe that this is a new me and the proof to that is yuri bono shalom are waiting for me inside of that sukkah and when i walk into that sukkah i walk into your embrace i walk into your love 22:06 i walk into your acceptance when i walk into that sukkah the avas and and everyone else is going to be watching because they want to see they're excited for me they're rooting for me they're cheering for me you're here god's 22:20 here new year new opportunities we can't wait to see what you're going to accomplish the um sukis gives us the love and the confidence to do something great may we find the courage and the strength to do so i wish 22:36 everyone a beautiful young to love success and a beautiful shabbos to feel that embrace of the sukkah to feel the reconnection of akadeshwarahu to really feel forgiven in the umpire of sukis hashem in the days ahead a good shabbos and 22:54 a good yandere
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