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0:01 i want to take this opportunity to welcome everyone to this week's virtual rush i'd like to begin by thanking our sponsors to thank ed and faith wolf and family for dedicating the joshua memory of beloved father grandfather and great-grandfather cyrus 0:13 wolfe solomon hirsch to thank our russia sponsors jerry and abby applebaum in memory of their aunt lillian dubin brynville leia bas aaron sandy hoffman in memory of her beloved husband ronald hoffman reuven emanuel and her dear mother mindel radmin braina 0:30 mina basbarak and howie and rachel wiesenfeld in honor of maishi abramson's 40th birthday they continue to learn and grow for many years in good health we thank all of our sponsors all of our dedicated mishpachos for their generosity we have 0:45 the incredible privilege this week to read the double partios of nitsavim and vayilach and it's a privilege every shabbos is a privilege every parasha is a privilege double parsha is even more incredible and of course this is also the last 0:57 shabbos of the year the last shabbos next shop is rosh hashanah the last shabbos of tough shin pay 5780 and the last shabbos is so profound because as the swarm as hasidic literature writes one has the ability to go ahead 1:11 and redeem an entire year through one day one could redeem an entire year of shabasos that maybe were not maximized to their full extent of their meaning that they were not fully utilized if one goes in and uses the last 1:24 shabbos of the year in the right way one is able to uplift all of the other shabbassos along with it and so when we read the parasha when we look for messages in this week we're looking not just for an 1:35 understanding in the parasha but we're looking for a way to uplift our shabbos top lift this last shabbos top lift this last week of the year and in doing so lift up the last shabbos lift up all the previous shabazos 1:47 and if we could lift up the week to come then hashem we could redeem all of the years of this all of the days of this past year as well so i want to draw your attention to the opening pasta 1:57 parshas the torah says this is in paraklam israel moshe went and he spoke the following words to the jewish people and what did he say thy um he said to them i am 120 years old today i can no longer 2:19 really come and go said to me i'm not going to cross the jordan and the commentaries all ask the same question deposit says moshe moshe went there's only one problem the torah dosha does not tell us where did moshe go 2:36 to if you're going to say right goes from here he goes to there it's leaves kenan he goes so whenever we have allah a lot of walking of going we're told the point of our origin report told the destination here 2:51 jesus went but it doesn't tell us where he's going in the event ezra says something amazing where did he go he went to every single tribe he went to every single tribe in reality says he went to every single family 3:10 and he conveyed to them the following message today is my last day on this earth i am going to die i'm saying goodbye to you but don't be afraid i know you might think with my departure most of it's departure 3:22 maybe cloud israel is vulnerable maybe things are going to happen maybe things are going to fall apart no at the end of the day i've always been only the messenger of god and the rebound is never going to leave your 3:34 side furthermore yoshua my trusted disciple is now going to take the reigns of leadership and he is going to shepherd you into this next chapter of your national existence says the evidence was something amazing most went to every single shavette 3:53 every single family to calm them to assure them to stole their fears don't be afraid i'm leaving i've come to say goodbye i've come to say i love you and i've come to say goodbye but don't be afraid don't be 4:07 afraid that ebola is with you yeshua is with you and my memory my inspiration my teachings will always be with you as well but the great the great sadiq santika konin of lublin asks a very simple question he said how 4:23 did moshe rabbenu know it was his last day right again so we see from the parish i can no longer go in and go out today is my last day he goes to the swat and he comforts them how did 4:35 he know how did he know we never find the communication right here that says god says to moshe moshe this is your last day so how did mosh rabbinu know that this was his last day on the earth how did 4:46 he know that he had to say his goodbyes today and the subject says something absolutely amazing southern christian i want to quote you he says he says something amazing he says that moshe rabbin will lift his life always going from 5:08 madriga to madriga from level to level but you know what sothik conveys to us as follows went from from madriga to madrid from level to level that moshira benu and this is going to sound a little bit strange was no 5:21 different than the rest of us okay you say that's crazy of course of course muslim was different than the rest of us of course he spoke to god palm upon him face to face like none of us could ever imagine 5:30 he spent 40 days without word without water more angelic than man hockey sees like the rest of us he's like the rest of us because he experienced the dynamic of the human condition the dynamic of the human condition is that 5:43 life is a series of peaks and valleys there are moments of success and there are moments of failure there are moments when i move forward and there are moments when i take 15 steps back there are moments of accomplishment and 5:55 then there are moments when i fall down there are moments when just i can't do anything there are moments that i could search forward and the world is mine and accomplishment is mine and there are moments that i'm paralyzed to 6:06 the point of inactivity had that same dynamic he was always and he kept going up down up down in fact something points out do you ever wonder to yourself the ribando shalom spends so much time and torah spent so much 6:27 time speaking about moshe abbey new sin night this sin we all everyone knows the sin of he hit iraq instead of speaking to the iraq and how many are theirs did moshe commit over the course of his lifetime right hit 6:40 iraq one of era okay maybe maybe rashid understands in schmos that he maligned he spoke negatively about cloud he saw maybe a little bit of lashinar about claudius but even that that's not explicit that that's that that's that's luna from 6:52 rashi and a little bit of the drash only explicit is that he hit iraq instead of speaking to the rock you ever wonder to yourself why does the torah spend so much time focusing on that mistake leave the man alone 7:06 he was the most selfless dedicated leader of claudia's while he gave up everything he gave up his marriage he gave up his kids he gave up all the trappings of a normal life so the man made one mistake you can't 7:15 let it go you have to talk about it not once not twice three times possibly even fourth why one mistake sadiq explains do you understand why the torah kedosha is teaching us that mosha binu's mistake it's not to go ahead 7:28 and rub it in his face it's not to say ah look at moshe it's to teach us that moshe knows a human being because without that mistake moshirabenu is not a role model without that mistake i can't relate to moshe 7:42 rabbenu a human being who never made a mistake in his life i i have no shaikhs to such a person like that so the torah tells us about moshe raleigh's mistake and the torah tells us how severe emotion made his 7:53 mistake was and the torah tells us that most shaminus suffered repercussions and ramifications for his mistake why to teach us that everyone makes mistakes everyone makes mistakes you know the ramban comments in bereishis something amazing tramban says that sorry menu 8:11 sorry imenu invited avram to take hagar as a wife okay and then it didn't work out well didn't work out well the third fact discusses that sarah mistreated hagar kicked hagar out of the home again not once but twice right 8:25 first one before hager was pregnant then after hagar gave birth to ishmael they she expelled her so the ramban says something is indraman says because of sorry menu's mistreatment of hagar there is animosity between the children of ishmael the children 8:38 of hagar and the children of sarin avram to this very day the animation that exists between the offspring of ishmael islam and the children of avraham and sarah the jews is because of that animosity between sir because of the mistreatment 8:53 of sarah hagar why does i have to say that why why does durability have to say that leave it alone leave it alone sorry because when we're pointing when we are told about the shortcomings and mistakes of great people it's 9:07 not to diminish them it's not to make them less it's not to relegate them to a status of lesser importance just the opposite what it does is it says you know what even a sorry i mean it makes a mistake but 9:20 she rebounded she came back she dusted herself off she got back up most shirabenu moshe made a mistake but what did he do you know what is motion to do right now right after he hits the rack what's the immediate 9:29 next section in torah the immediate next section is he leads the jewish army out to war against seahorn he doesn't just cuddle up in a ball in the corner and cry okay the damage is done i can't reverse that even 9:42 though he lobbies and lobbies and lobbies he moves forward the torah tells us about the greatness about the mistakes of moshe rabbenu not to diminish his prestige but just the opposite to amplify it moshra bin was a man who went 9:57 mi madrega le madrega from level to level a growth-oriented person but a growth oriented person who at times also suffered setbacks also suffered pitfalls also suffered failures but yet he was able to rebound he was able to come back besides 10:16 something amazing moshe abenu says the cloud israel he says he say he says i'm 120 years old today i can no longer go out and come back in and that satak understands something so profound in these words the sudden christ 10:37 i want to read to he says this is in priet sadiq he says hainu shalom and this is a bit esoteric most shaman who said so i says you know i feel like i'm on a level of holiness now that 11:07 i can't fail too big emotion it was too big to fail i i feel like i can't whatever this means that somehow he felt that his rookiness his spirituality was locked in to the point that spiritual regression was impossible it's 11:23 just not going to happen now maybe this is due to the dynamic that when a person as a person gets closer to death the soul becomes stronger as the body becomes weaker the soul becomes stronger the morale says life is 11:35 filled with the struggle between body and soul one is always trying to assert superiority and dominance over the other and the struggle goes on from the moment that we're born but interestingly enough as we get old and we become more 11:47 ill and more frail the body is diminished the influence of the soul is more pronounced so whatever's happening over here the message that moshe and gives the cloud israel is i can no longer go out which means for whatever there 12:04 is emotion when you send the ability to sin maybe because moshabin was already in that transition period leaving this world going to the next world the ability to sin is no longer with me the ability to make mistakes let's say 12:17 means to go out to go out from the mechitas to go out from the partitions to go out from within the framework of barracuda i can't sin i can't sin who can imagine things like i can't sin it's the last 12:28 day of my life i think i'm closer to allah than i am to allah i can't sin well if i can't sin lo uh says i can't grow if there's no possibility for sin there's no possibility for growth if there's 12:48 no possibility to go out to leave then there's no real possibility to come back in a more dramatic fashion he says i no longer have the ability to fall from my level i no longer have the ability to go ahead 13:04 and come off my spiritual pedestal and therefore as a result as a result and if i don't have the ability to fail if i don't have the ability to fall then i don't have the ability to grow either and that's 13:24 it goes on and he says something so beautiful he says kimo shin amar he calls the puzzle from mishlai he says kishava yi paul sadiq says for the righteous man falls down seven times and gets back up he's quotes over 13:40 here birida sorak aliyah vizio ultimately again why does this get back up the title gets back up only because he falls down the failure is the prerequisite to success the sin is the prerequisite to chiva the falling on my face 14:01 is the prerequisite to getting back up and starting to walk and run again without the nephila without the falling down there is no chemo there is no getting up he says i can't sin for whatever the reason i can't fail 14:28 for whatever the reason i cannot abdicate to my elevated spiritual standing well if i'm locked into this heightened level of spirituality there's no ability to fall there's no ability to fail there's no ability to sin there's also no opportunity for 14:42 growth and if there's no more opportunity for growth moshe abbeyno says i recognize that this is my last day on this earth he didn't need god to tell him once he understood in his soul that he can't fail he can't 14:58 fall he can't leave therefore he can't accomplish he can't grow he can't come back in once i can't grow i know my life is over and i think in this profound statement teaches us two dramatic life lessons lesson number one 15:18 is that life equals growth life equals growth a life without growth is the equivalent of death a life without growth may be a physiological life maybe a biological life my my pulse may still be there my brain activity may still 15:36 be there but a life without growth says moshe ameno is effectively already being in olam hubba because when in shama when person leaves this world they go to heb there's no growth you get to go ahead and bask in whatever 15:48 spiritual accomplishments you have accrued over the course of your 120 years but there's no growth there's no one thing although you wake up he decided you know what today i'm going to make it a great day in oldham haba you 15:59 got what you got whatever you did in this world that's what you have for all eternity where there is life there is growth and where there is no growth that is no longer life but absadok also teaches us another incredible 16:11 you sowed you see sometimes when we make mistakes we make mistakes we look at the fact that our mistakes preclude our achievement of greatness i would be great if only i didn't make these mistakes i could be so wonderful so 16:29 pious so spiritually luminescent if i didn't experience this failure i didn't fall over here i didn't hit this dead end or make this bad decision and the sudden teaches us it's exactly the opposite sin creates the greatest opportunity when i 16:46 mess up when i mess up not encouraging it but when i mess up and i make a mistake and i fail and i fall and i'm down i now what says i left i left the reservation i left that code 16:59 i left the framework of goodness and holiness and spirituality now there's a golden opportunity and that's the golden opportunity to remake myself that's the golden opportunity to come back and to come back even stronger because what says is that when 17:14 we sin we learn a lot about ourselves when we make mistakes it's when we understand our weaknesses and when we understand our weaknesses i understand my insecurities because a lot of times we have weaknesses because we're insecure about things a lot 17:28 of times we sin in order to mask or in order order to medicate things that are broken deficient or ill inside of me and so when i make those dramatic life mistakes and the more dramatic the mistake the greater the 17:44 insight you have into yourself when i make those mistakes there is a golden opportunity to learn about myself and as i learn about myself i have the ability to remake myself to recreate my identity to rebuild lovo to come back 18:00 in they come to get back up and when i come back in and when i get back up i could come back even stronger armed with the knowledge of what makes me tick of what makes me fail of what makes 18:15 me succeed and what makes me fall down armed with the knowledge of my insecurities and deficiencies and if i'm willing to face them i'm willing to be honest about them there is no telling what i could accomplish we often look 18:30 at sin at the as the end of the road when i sin oh i hit a dead end that's it i hit a dead end there's nowhere else to go and upset that tells us just the opposite when you sin 18:45 that's the beginning that's not the end of the journey now you're right about to start the journey now you gotta bri i got a brutal insight i got a brutal inside look as to what i am who i am and 18:58 where i've gone wrong now comes the journey of rebuilding now comes the journey of getting back up now comes the journey of going back in dear friends as we approach the the yamim narayan and we get ready for a beautiful 19:12 season of introspection and a beautiful season of prayer and thought fillah and shira and his uterus and awakening it's an opportunity for us to introspect and to look at the mistakes we've made and where we've gone wrong in life and 19:31 so many times we're scared to do it because i'm scared to face my demons and i'm scared to face what's broken because i don't like to be reminded of it it's not always pretty and it's not always easy to look 19:41 at but really deep down what i'm really scared of is that if i acknowledge my sins and i acknowledge my decision and i acknowledge what's broken i'm going to have a sense of yeosh i'm just going to give up i'm 19:52 just going to give up on myself because look how broken i am look how soiled and tarnished my identity is what could i possibly do with myself and comes along mostly i've been what does moshe lament isn't this incredible mushrooming 20:05 the laments this is going to sound crazy it says i lament the fact that i can't sin lots i can't sin and i can't believe i can't sin moshe what are you crazy you can't sin so what that's great no 20:20 because if i can't sin then oh so love oh then i can't come back in either if i can't sin i can't rebuild if i can't sin i can't come back in if i can't sin i can't make myself any 20:39 greater so as we find the courage to introspect and as we find the courage of luchuva let us not become downtrodden or crest fallen over the mistakes that we have made let us find the car to do true introspection truly 20:54 look into ourselves identify all that that which is broken but not then let out a cracked but they say okay now i know how i left now i know how i fell now it's time level now i know what i 21:09 have to do i know the work i have ahead of me i know the journey i have to take and i'm ready to do it no now you're ready to do it i'm excited to do it because now i'm going 21:20 to have the golden opportunity to not only reconstruct myself i'm not interested in reconstructing myself i would like to construct a better version of myself and now that i fell and now that i fold excuse me now that i failed 21:33 now that i fell and now that i left now i truly have all the information i need to construct something great mosher abeinu knew that his life had come to an end when he could no longer sin and then repair 21:46 we know that our life is just beginning because i know i can sin hashem i can do it quite well and as long as i know that i could sin i also know that i have the ability level to come 21:59 back in to get back up and to construct something beautiful wishing everyone a good an heir of shabbos a beautiful shabbos kodesh for this last shabbis of the year may we take these words of moshe abby no fill our hearts 22:13 and our souls with them allow them to illuminate our shabbos hashem this last week of tough shin pain in doing so may begin the journey to a beautiful 5781 atop shin pay aleph filled filled with muzzle filled with growth filled 22:29 with a beautiful journey ultimately again to our promised land moshabin was never able to enter into his promised land to enter into our personal our national promised land halabani's remaining days of this year but if not this year and here's 22:46 hashem in the coming year abba ali nolitova wishing everyone a wonderful shabbos
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