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0:00 dear friends in just a few days from now we will visit America and Russian is not an island unto itself is a gateway it's an opening into 10 days in which we have the opportunity to do chuva to repent to 0:18 reflect to introspect to think about what did and didn't happen over the past year but just as important to contemplate what we want out of the year ahead and I think when we come to Rosh Hashanah we come to Australia 0:32 we often find ourselves fundamentally overwhelmed overall for many of us the notion of chuva for many of us the notion of just giving an accounting of last year how did I spend my time what I what did I do what 0:45 didn't I do is overwhelming the notion of chuva some of us apologizing is an incredibly difficult thing and that's the someone who's right in front of me that's for a wrong that I know for sure I committed apologizing to them 1:00 apologize and really trying to sort the things out often feels incredibly overwhelming which is why so often in life whether we recognize it or not we kind of check out of yamim Narayan in other words when I say check out 1:17 I'm not sleeping in I'm going to go to school I'm going to go through the behaviors I'm going to do exactly what it is that I have to do but there's a piece of me that keeps the profundity of the 1:28 experience a little bit at Bay because I'm overwhelmed and the truth is rightfully so the process of chuva is overwhelming and Rosh Hashanah isn't even about right Rosh Hashanah is ultimately again about accepting the will of our College Park who 1:43 has my will making the will of God the rats on Hashem my will that's what it is a king and there's no children really inherently involved in that that's why again there's no sleep there's no Hashem right even avinu we 1:58 only make one reference otherwise itself it's overwhelming yeah I mean where do I begin what do I do what should I work on there are so many things I have to stop doing so many things I have to start doing 2:16 and when I just kind of sit down to think about all of it it's overwhelming and most of us when we get overwhelmed generally tend to shut down and do nothing I said dear friends I think for many of us 2:29 you know Rosh Hashanah comes with shashanah goes the service comes and goes and although we we dive in with sincerity and we have the most the purest of intentions we don't really get Movement we don't really get any traction and 2:45 it's not because we don't care it's often because we're overwhelmed so allow me a few minutes to address this Dynamic of being overwhelmed with you I mean no rhyme there is a beautiful Madras in town of the Belio the Manchester 2:59 calls a story of elio hanavi writes one time I was traveling from one place to another and I found the guy I ran into a guy this guy was the ignorant ignorant he didn't know anything he didn't know he knew 3:21 nothing it was totally ignorant of Yiddish kite the guy my son what are you going to say to God on the day of judgment now they passed us the day of judgment whichever Navi refers to over here is death is 3:44 death when you leave this world but the truth is for our purpose is we could apply this just to Rosh Hashanah says the ignorant fisherman what of the ignorant guy will get the fisherman in this moment ignorant guy what are 3:55 you going to say to akadashi barahu when you have to give judgment for your life you didn't learn you didn't engage in any Dynamic spiritual activity what are you going to say to which the guy says he says so the 4:13 guy says don't worry about me I got it all figured out I have my whole excuse I know exactly what I'm gonna say here's here's what I'm going to say don't blame me you didn't give me intellect you didn't give 4:33 me intellect you didn't give me the ability to learn you didn't give me intellect so if you didn't give me intellect what do you want for me what do you want from me and the guy's all proud of himself right 4:42 there you are nobody telling him know what are you gonna say before College 120 the guy says don't sweat it I gotta cover it out I got it I got it covered and I got it covered I'm gonna tell him 4:53 you didn't give me knowledge you didn't give me wisdom Benin sorry this is the guy tell me what do you do for a living he says I'm a Hunter I'm a Hunter and a fisherman Celia Navi proceeds to tell the 5:10 guy tell me who taught you how to make traps right who taught you how to trap animals on land who taught you how to create fishing nets who taught you all of this stuff to be able to Be an Effective 5:23 Hunter and effective fisherman so the man responds ready that act of this particle gave me knowledge for that College Park who gave me knowledge for to make Nets to make traps that I know how to do to which ilyanavi says 5:41 um the same if you think who gave you knowledge to make Nets and to make traps to throw them into the sea to figure out where to place them he says do you tell me do you think I call this 6:06 who gave you knowledge for Nets who gave you knowledge for traps didn't give you knowledge for Torah didn't give you the ability to comprehend Torah didn't give you the ability to go ahead and do chuva Elena Navi says if you 6:22 know how to make Nets and traps then at the end of the day you know how to learn you know how to engage in Dynamic spiritual activity you know how to do Triva the story ends the story ends the man 6:41 started crying The Confident fisherman the conference Hunter had all figured out started crying why because he realized that Ilion Navi was right that the truth is if you know how to make Nets and you know how to make traps and 6:56 you know how to go to work and you know how to do your job and you know how to throw a baseball and you know how to go ahead and pursue whatever other activities you go out and you do in 7:07 life if you know how to do those things then you know how to do chuvo then you know how to engage in Dynamic spiritual activity the difference the profundity of this mission was teaching this man is see this man this 7:20 simple Jewel simple Jewel he just thought spirituality Torah that's an acquired skill set I don't have that skill set and therefore I cannot perform those tasks to which academic who says to the man you're wrong becoming a hunter is an 7:38 acquired skill set making Nets making traps those required skill sets learning how to do chuva you don't have to learn it learning Tower you don't have to learn it that skill set is innate see we often forget that everything we 7:56 need in order to be spiritually successful is contained within I was created with it I have the tools to explore Torah again we all have different levels of intellectual capacity but we all are born in with the innate ability to 8:14 connect to Torah in some way I am born with the innate ability to forge a religion I came from was carved that was chiseled out from the keys I have an innate ability to forge a relationship with Hashem and I 8:32 have the innate ability to do Shiva the tools are there dear friends everything else in life every other skill set to learn to learn to ride a bike you have to learn to ride a bike you're not born with na 8:45 skill set you have to develop that skill set to go ahead and do your profession whatever you are a doctor or a lawyer an accountant a chef whatever you might be you have to learn those skill sets but when it 8:57 comes to spirituality when it comes to Total relationship with Torah our relationship with that because the ability to do chuva you do not have to acquire anything because anything and everything you need to be successful in all those spiritual Endeavors 9:12 already resides within you we get so overwhelmed by yamim because you're trying to figure out what do I need what do I need what do I have to learn in order to do chuva what do I have to do in 9:25 order to reforgeous Meanwhile has don't do anything the first step in is open your heart is look inside of yourself is open the master and just lose yourself in the words just lose yourself in Fila you know on Shabbos night 9:52 when we says in that moment all you need to do is just silence everything else around you and just open your heart open your heart foreign I am ready to connect ribono shal Olam I am ready to reinvigorate the relationship 10:23 I I strayed maybe I've gone a little bit off the beaten path or maybe really things are just off the rails totally okay we'll get back on but just know whatever you need to get your life back on the rails 10:34 whatever you need to reignite your relationship with whatever you need in order to become a balchuva it's in you it's in you you just have to give yourself the space find it you ever wonder why davening on is so long 10:55 yeah we all wonder that I wonder that that's just like during oh my gosh I would have had so much more kavana had I known that it was so much shorter I would have do you know why it's so long 11:06 do you know I believe what Hassan wants you to do because I want your mind to wander they want you to think about life no one pays attention to every single woman maybe I'm just projecting I don't think everyone pays 11:19 attention to everyone who has their own shots but that's part of the goal the goal is just to recede into yourself to open your heart and to look Inward and to say what tools do I have to reconnect what tools 11:31 do I have to self-inspire what tools do I have to become about Jova if you want to become a fisherman you need to learn that skill set you want to become a hunter you need to learn that skill set you 11:43 want to become a balchuva you don't have to learn anything because anything and everything you need is already inside of you so dear friends I wish all of us a beautiful uplifting young Tiff but most importantly a young div where 11:58 we give ourselves the space to look inward find that you see we're so often so scared to look inside ourselves because we're scared or we're going to find this is broken and that's broken and this is in a state of 12:11 disrepair and there's this side there and there's this and yeah yeah there's a lot of clutter inside of my self before you sift through all of the Clutter you're gonna find the Beautiful neshama you're going to find beautiful Holiness you're 12:26 going to find this spark underneath and it's inside of you each of us just waiting to be uncovered just waiting to be discovered here's the incredible thing if you could just find that piece of you inside of you if you 12:44 could just find the courage to connect with the tools you have inside they'll guide you the rest of the way see the great secret of yamim noram is yachi don't have to make a whole comprehensive plan because if you just 12:57 have the right kind of Rosh Hashanah and find your inner kid Usha find your inner tools find your inner balchuva find your relationship those tools those innate tools they'll guide you the rest of the way they're like your Lantern along 13:15 a dark Road they will help you find the needed destination but you have to let them out you have to find them and you have to let them out to have some moments of real and beautiful and special introspection let's 13:36 not be afraid to look inside of ourselves yeah you're going to find broken stuff you're going to find damaged stuff but beyond all of that I'm gonna find so much Beauty when I find that beauty that's my Lantern along the 13:47 dark Road of life that's my Lantern of assertive that's the beacon I'm gonna follow is going to teach me exactly where I need to go what I need to do in this house of finding the beautiful spiritual tools that each 13:57 of us possessed inside and this of dusting of mine is shama and allowing its light to fill my life we together with our families and communities and you're filled with puzzle with bracha with simcha and how about the best wishing 14:25 everyone a good yamdiv a good Shabbos
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