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[00:00:00] Hey, thank you so much. I'm just going to change my. If I knew how.
[00:00:05] Just change it so I can see everybody. Okay, fantastic.
[00:00:08] So thank you so much, Andrea. It is always a pleasure to join you and to kick off this series. It's a real zachos. I am very excited. Andrea never lets us get away easy with learning. She always gives us like topics that are really deep and rich and so if I wanted to do something fluffy, it's not possible. She gives you a topic that you really have to learn and research. So I think we all have to thank Andrea for really giving us an opportunity to expand our understanding of Yiddishkeit and what Akash expects from us. So over the last few years, we've learned about the koach of each month in many different ways and what we can do to tap into that koach.
[00:00:46] So what. But what we're going to be doing is that each day of creation also added a different dimension to the spiritual and physical universe that was not there before with culmination of Shabbos, which has its own aspect that was added to creation.
[00:01:01] So each month everybody's going to focus on what is that dimension that got added to our votes? Hashem that we can understand through the exploring of the Torah Shva and Torah V.
[00:01:13] And there's a lot to say about Yom Revee. So buckle up. I hope that we can really, by the time you walk away, you'll understand what does this, the creations of this day, what does it teach me?
[00:01:27] And how can I apply that to Cheshvun in particular and also to Rosh Chodesh as well? So if I asked you, my daughter came home last week with her first parsha test because she is in fourth grade and so her first question was, what was created on each day of creation? So if I said what was created on Yom R VI on the fourth day, does anybody know?
[00:01:49] You can say it muted and I can see it's a three minute sun, moon and stars. Right? That was what was created.
[00:01:56] So I want to ask you, but you could put it in the chat if you want.
[00:02:00] What do you think? Don't look. No cheating. Looking at the source sheets, what do you think is the purpose of the creation of the sun, moon and stars? If you were to say, what would it be? Anybody know?
[00:02:13] That's. If anybody responds in the chat, what would you say would be the main purpose of the sun, moon and stars?
[00:02:23] Any ideas? Okay, so I don't see anybody. Time. Excellent. Very good. Give the world lights. Okay. They're Oro So that would be seem to be light. Right? So two people light and then Mrs. Schachter, you said time.
[00:02:38] So when we look at the creation, I want to if we could pull up the changing this I asked Andrea to yom valaila. Okay, thank you, Shoshana. So let's see, what did the sukim actually tell us?
[00:02:58] So Hashem says, let there be luminaries in the heaven.
[00:03:05] So the first distinction that's made is that they are supposed to divide between day and and night. Now I want to remind us that there was already a division between day and night that was created on the first day.
[00:03:19] The hashem, if you it we're going to see later, it says the hashem karl or yom day and night were already there. So what does it mean?
[00:03:32] And then it says vahayu function two is function three, which means signs moadim appointed times, liamim days ushanim years.
[00:03:45] They should be as luminaries in the sky to shine on the earth. Vaychein and it was so. So the fifth function, or actually the sixth function, is that it should provide light.
[00:03:58] It tells us division. Then it tells us four aspects of division, that there should be signs. Then we're going to explain what that is.
[00:04:10] So hashem makes these two great luminaries. We're not going to delve into this possibly there's so, so much richness that we could have gone into. But I'll encourage you to learn this.
[00:04:23] The great one, which is the sun is going to rule during the daytime.
[00:04:29] The smaller one, the moon is going to roll at night. Vasakochavim and also the stars, Vayteno sam berakia and hashem put them in the sky. And now we're going to say what actually happens. Notice the difference in the order Hashemyim Lahore la aretz number one. They shine on the earth, they rule in the night and the day, and they separate between night and dark. So what we see is that the order that Hashem sets them, it now reverses it because the event, what happens when hashem creates the world is that the first thing when the sun is there, all of a sudden the sun takes over the job of lighting up the world. And then when it is ruling day and night, automatically it divides. The fact that there's a sun that defines day and night and then finally it divides between light and dark. So these are, we're seeing that the creation of the sun, moon and stars and is a little bit more complex than just providing light setting time. It's A very extensive list.
[00:05:33] So the focus of the fourth day is much broader than light.
[00:05:37] So if we look at the difference between what was created, as I said, there was a light that was created that was divided between day and night. And what we need to understand is what happened on day four, when. What is the difference between what happened on day one, that there was light and then it became day and night and day four, when we needed to have these luminaries in the sky. Why all these jobs? And why is it important for us to know this information?
[00:06:06] Hashem created the world, and we will never be able to understand the creation of the world. The creation of the world is beyond our comprehension. And so anything that's mentioned in the sukim are only there for us to be able to understand it, apply it to our life, and come away with some way that we have to change based on what is said. So let's begin with understanding what was created on day four. So if we could go to Source one.
[00:06:33] Okay, beautiful. Thank you. So Rashi says, yehima Oros, let there be lights, let there be luminaries.
[00:06:42] When was this created?
[00:06:46] Everything these sun and moon, were created on the first day. Every creation, according to Rashi, was created on the first day.
[00:07:00] On the fourth day, Hashem said, hang them in the sky, Bechem called the Shemaim B'. Aretz. This is Rashi's position. Since we're learning the seven days of creation, we should know that. Rashi says everything was made. It was like as if, like, you know, you got a big Lego set, you get all the little pieces all there. And then every day you build, you know, open up. Day one, you put those together. Day two, put it together. Day four, you put the sun and the moon in the right place. And by day seven is Shabbos. So that's according to Rashi. These were already existing, but Hashem did it on day four.
[00:07:33] In contrast, the Ramban says that there was this light that's shown from the Shemayim. But then on day four, the deliverer of that light was made into a physical entity. So Hashem took the light and he created a physical entity to hold that light. And he made sun, moon, and stars to sort of mask where that light was coming from.
[00:08:00] So the light was there, but why was it needed?
[00:08:05] The Rambatan says in source 4 that the sun, if you can go down to source 4, so there was these physical beings that were sort of put in the sky that collected the lights and then shown it onto the world. It was like A. It was a refraction of. Of the light. So it wasn't the actual original light, but the light came down to the world through these physical beings.
[00:08:39] What's going on? Why do we need to have a physical manifestation of light? Why can't we just keep the light the way it was on the first day? Why do we need to change the light?
[00:08:50] So I think that this is. We can. We can shut down the source. Oh, actually, keep it up. Okay, First Source 5.
[00:08:58] Why do we have to have this light?
[00:09:00] So just to explain it before we get inside. So there's this concept where something called the or Haganos Hakadah sparrow created a light which encapsulated all spirituality, all goodness, a reflection of Him. And the darkness was the opposite of that. And that light was pure. And that light is eternal. And that light is the gift that we can. That we get when we do Mitzvos.
[00:09:25] However, in this world, they're going to be Rishaim. So Hashem said the Rishaim are not able. Should not enjoy that pristine light.
[00:09:35] Rather what Hashem is going to do. And this is reading from line four, he says, so Hashem made these two lights and he hid the original light, the Lama Gonzu. So why did he hakad Hash Baruch hu? Why did he hide it?
[00:10:03] These non Jews who deny Torah are going to make Hashem angry.
[00:10:13] These Rashaim should not use this light.
[00:10:19] They need to use the light of the sun and the moon.
[00:10:24] The sun and the moon define time. The sun and the moon create time. The definition of time is that it has a beginning, middle and end. So the reshu' im need to have something that has a beginning, middle and end. And that is the light of the fourth day, the light of the first day.
[00:10:48] This light, which is the spiritual light, it's going to last forever.
[00:10:57] So in Olam Haba, there's a special light that is reserved for the Tzadikim.
[00:11:04] So we need to understand. So there's a light. What we're seeing is that there's two things going on on Yom R Vi. Both are existing at the same time. There is the light of the. Of the. There's the light of the. Of Hakkadish, Baruch Hu, the Or Haganahs. And then there's the or of the Kamah, there's the or of the Tzadikim, and there's the Ur of the Rishaim. Both are existing. But a person who's a Tzadik may see the Khama but really he cares about the or Haganahs. The Russia can only see the or Hama. And we're going to see this theme from repeated over and over. Hakada Shbaraku is creating a split screen in the world. There is those who see Hashem and then there's those who see only the sun.
[00:11:47] And so this is what makes this day so special. So let's continue.
[00:11:51] So we're going to see that we're going to get to even make this question even more. Not a question, but this awareness of how there's a split screen screen. We're going to bring additional proofs for this idea.
[00:12:07] So let's look at the list of what the moors were created for. On day one we only had light, but on day four there was a light was the last thing that was mentioned. So what were the functions of these creations?
[00:12:19] So a big part of what the Maoros do is that they create stability.
[00:12:23] So if we look at the measures in Source 6, it says the Lama al Yatsiris ham oros lok sev puravu. Why when it comes to saying about the sun and the moon and the stars, does it not say let there be a multi. Let there be. You know, they should multiply.
[00:12:46] We don't see two suns being created. We don't see two moons being created. The stars that exist at the beginning of creation is what exists right now.
[00:13:01] The stars and the moon and the sun represent stability. It does not change what was is what is. If I go to the moon right now, it is as Hakadosh Baruch Hu created it. The sun may be new gases, but the sun is the same sun that Hakadish Baruch Hu created on the first day of creation. In fact, every 20 something years we go and we stand outside and we have big parties and Rabbi Heber go wherever the sun is supposed to be in order that when this is how, why do we say? Because it's the only thing in the universe that doesn't change.
[00:13:37] So my son on we were debating, I remember that 20 years ago Sukkah fell out Tuesday, Wednesday. And I was like, okay, in another 20 years Sukkos is falling out Tuesday, Wednesday. My kid, my son didn't believe me because my. One of my. His older brother had been born on the Sunday following Tuesday, Wednesday Yandev. So I said, oh, this Sunday is your birthday. And I said, you know, how do you know? Well, because 20 years ago my son's like, oh. So he takes out a book. We have this book at home. The Jewish calendar in the old days, before the Internet, you would get a book that would have the last 500 years. These are all the dates of the Yom Tovim. And then for the next 500 years, these are the dates of the Yom Tovam. The only reason that we can have these books was. Or you can go on and find out when you're, you know, when the bar Mitzvah is going to be in the year 2095 is because the sun and the moon do not change. The sun is stable. The moon is stable.
[00:14:32] And this is the reality of all the creations of the world.
[00:14:37] So the vayar elokim eskolasher asavi hine tov Hashem saw everything he said was good. Liosim om dim tamim vosokim. The world as it was is how it should be.
[00:14:52] Hashem made it a certain way and sort of said in shaloyshtanu midairah khulu olam. Hashem made a direction for the universe, for nature. This is how it's supposed to be.
[00:15:01] So that is something that started on this day that nothing changed. On day three, we're getting things moving around day four, the sun rises, the sun sets, stability comes to the universe.
[00:15:15] So let's look at what the other functions are. So I don't. So source 8.
[00:15:20] We're not going to read this inside.
[00:15:23] He's the Rimban says the following. He tells us that the osos are the eclipses.
[00:15:30] The. And so they have a very practical purpose. When there's a change, it's an oath. An eclipse is a bad omen for the other nations. And you see eclipses forever and ever.
[00:15:41] The appointed times, the Moadin. There are seasons. Right now we're entering the fall season.
[00:15:46] Soon will be the winter season with snow. If you live up north, it's going to be a lot of snow and hopefully we're not going to get so much snow. And then comes the spring and the summer and this goes on year to year. Those are the moadin.
[00:15:58] The yamim are days where the world turns around. Right? Revolution. And then there's based on the sun's rotation. Sorry, I'm sorry to anybody who.
[00:16:09] And then comes the years, which is the revolutions and the months. And this is one of the days that we have. This is the functions of the sun. So just based on the.
[00:16:20] The sun is there to define nature.
[00:16:23] Rashi.
[00:16:27] Okay. And so those are the functions of the sun. And he also says in source 10, which we're not going to Read inside, he says, what does it mean that the sun rules in the day and the. The moon rules at night.
[00:16:41] The sun brings heat. It brings right. Our plants grow because of the. Not just the light, but also there's heat. It dries up. The sun has a function in terms of weather.
[00:16:52] And the moon creates.
[00:16:55] Deals with everything having to do with liquid. All the waves and all the tides are tied to the moon. So the sun is going to. Rules, so to speak, over the dry elements of the world, whereas the moon rules over the wet elements of world. And what about light? So let's look at this. I want to. I want to. I want you to see this inside. Source 9, Vahayulim Oros. So the Ramban is telling us everything is really nature. And Source nine, what about the sun?
[00:17:26] They should be as luminaries od zos another function.
[00:17:32] They're there. Hashem needs to put them in the sky. Why?
[00:17:39] They should also be used that it lights up the world. So Rashi says the light isn't something. The light is a purpose. But it's almost like an afterthought in the course of what we're learning here.
[00:17:52] So what is going on?
[00:17:54] So if we look@source11, I'd like to start showing how there's this split screen going on. If we look at source 11, we could think, look at the Ramban. Everything's practical. There's nature.
[00:18:06] We're in a groove. Let's look@source11 says the sun is going to be an OS. What's the OS that we have?
[00:18:14] That's Shabbos.
[00:18:16] They're going to be set times. What are these set times? Those are the holidays, Liamim. There are days. What are those days? The Rosh Chodesh, the Shanim, New Year's. We define the years. There's Kiddos, Hashanim, There's Rosh Hashanah. There's Rosh Hashanah, Li'. Ilanos.
[00:18:33] So there seems to be another story going on under the pshat. There's this other story. There's a spiritual world that the sun and the moon define that you need to be able to look for it if it's there.
[00:18:46] So Shabbos is called an OS on the seventh day of every week, reminded that Hashem created the world.
[00:18:52] The new months are defined by Besden, which tells us when those holidays are. The years are not set according to a fixed schedule, but rather they add month in order to make sure that the Yam Tobin fall out at a specific time.
[00:19:07] And they change the Kali Cyrul changes the years, changes the days, and changes the months rather than being controlled by it.
[00:19:17] And so if I look at source number 12 on the next page, we're going to see how there's this tension between these two things going on. He says they're for signs. So Rashi brings the opinion of the Rumban and then he also brings the opinion of the Medrash and he fills it in a little bit.
[00:19:38] When there are eclipses, it's a bad sign for the world.
[00:19:46] Don't be afraid of eclipses if you're doing the will of Hakadash Baruch Hu. If you're living under Hashem, you don't need to worry about the Pranus.
[00:20:08] B' Ni Yisrael are commanded, they're going to have these, that they're going to set the holidays and. And they're responsible to set the birth of the new moon.
[00:20:16] So what Rashi is saying here is that there are two things going on at the same time. Just as we learned that there was two different lights. There was a light for the Rishatim and a light for the Tzadikim. The sun and the Moon have two different ways to view them. There's, on the one hand, there are months and years and rotations and revolutions, but there's also. And that's outside of the control of any mankind. And man is subject to the eclipses are a bad sign for the nations of the world. But on the other hand, Klausro controls the sun and the moon and the stars.
[00:20:56] So this is what Rev Hirsch tells us.
[00:20:59] He says, and we're going to read this outside that the Maoros are there, a symbol that we have a relationship with Hashem and that we elevate the world.
[00:21:11] When we keep the Moadim, we feel Hashem Shechina and we remember Hashem saved us from Mitzrayim. There are miracles that there's a change in the world and we can elevate this world and change it. We accept upon ourselves the Torah because we know that we are in some ways partners to Hashem. But also we remember that this is connected to the sun and the moon and the stars, which reminds us that Hashem is the creator of this world and the Oros are the way through which we sanctify the world by becoming his partner.
[00:21:42] The sun and the moon and the stars have a job to teach mankind and to teach Klau Yisrael that. That that Hashem is here. He has created the world and we need to look for him there so what are, what happens on this?
[00:22:00] If we think about it, Hashem put the sun and the moon in the sky, right? And it creates nature. Nature doesn't change. It's like clock. It is clockwork. That's the definition of clockwork. It's the sun. It's right where it's going, it's going, it's going.
[00:22:14] What happens when this happens?
[00:22:17] So what happens is that if there's the potential for poor choices, this is the hiding of Hashem within nature.
[00:22:28] And so because of this there is a negative aspect to Yom R VII that doesn't exist. On the other days. The word is written without above so that it can be read as Yom Meiros. The word meira means a curse from Hashem.
[00:22:49] So the medrash in Pisgah Zutrasi says in source 14 are written without the vavish that Hashem that they are when they are hit, at the time when Hashem wants to strike, the nations don't learn from the nations of the world because these nations will be cut off. So in source 14 what it's telling us is that there is something where Hashem is going to punish. There's punishment coming to this world. That there's a. There's something about Maoros that are causing a punishment because the nations are now.
[00:23:39] Hashem is hidden. So there's, there's, there's.
[00:23:42] What is created is that the nations, the world are now subject to this time bound system which we call mazel. There's. Mazel. There's, there's, there's. Which is the astrological signs that, that run the rest of the world.
[00:23:59] For the Jewish people, things are also not so good.
[00:24:03] It says Yehima or Rashi explains it's. Why is it written?
[00:24:11] It's a cursed day. Le Pol Oscar Betinokos the day of Wednesday is a day which is connected to a specific disease which happens in the throat where children die as a result.
[00:24:25] And this is where we learn.
[00:24:30] So on the Yom Revi people would fast because on this day the children would die. So what's the connection between Maoros and a disease that hits children?
[00:24:45] So the kleoker and source 16 explains a fantastic idea. He says the sun creates time.
[00:24:52] Everything in time is going to have a downside. When you have time, time means you're no longer connected. Takash Bar what's root everything that is time bound.
[00:25:03] You know, it's, it's the, the, the. What's it called when somebody says okay, Baruch Shem we have the opportunity to get older, because the alternative is worse, but getting older, you know, my joints, my knees, my head, we break down as we get older.
[00:25:21] That's the nature of the world. So everything tied to time is going to break down.
[00:25:27] So he says anything tied to time has connected to it some level of pain. And that's why we say when it says in the Torah by he be me. And it was in the days of it's sar. It's problematic because when there's something connected to time, we know there's going to be a problem.
[00:25:53] And so these days, the fact that there's a day, that this day is the day of when time was created, all troubles are going to come from this day. So it is a Yom meira, it is a cursed day, because now we're living in a world of the maoros, we're living in a world of time.
[00:26:15] And so he says the, the, the. The kar, he says, it says five times the word more. And the first parasha rishona, it says 5 times 4.
[00:26:29] So in our parasha in on yomravi, it says 5 times. And in the first day it says or 5 times.
[00:26:37] What's the difference?
[00:26:39] The or when it says or, or, or those are the hamish.
[00:26:44] If we choose to list live according to the hamish Torah, we are zocha to live under, or we don't have vai bime. But if we are living according to the moros, if we are living under nature, under time, under the regulations, without divine, without spiritual, then we're bound to meira to things that the curses of nature will befall us. And that's why it's a Yom meoros. If we live according to maoros, that's where the problems come in.
[00:27:19] So we see this distinction this time, this difference between looking at our light as a source of spirituality versus light as being the definition of nature. Throughout history, if we look at koheles, he tells us this very clearly. What is a standard way of looking at this world? Mashahaya hushaya, that what was will always be omasha NASA hushayasa. That which was done will always be done.
[00:27:53] There is nothing new under the sun.
[00:27:57] This is the way the world was set up under the sun.
[00:28:01] Everything is the same day after day. There is nothing new. And this was the mistake that the idol that the people of the world fell into in our parshios, embraces noach and lechacha. The Rambam tells us, and this is a very important Rambam. So I'm going to Read it together. Just because I think this is one of these fundamental Rambams that we should all know. We all know it, but I think it's important to learn it and see it inside. Vime Enosh ta' ubene Adam taas gaddal. So in the times of Enosh, which is the third generation after Adam, there was a tremendous mistake that people made.
[00:28:43] And there came out this advice from Enosh and all the wise people of the generation.
[00:28:50] This was their mistake. Amru. So what did they say?
[00:28:58] So Kadish Baruch Hu created the stars, and he created all the celestial bodies to run the world. Unasana and Marom, the Chalaklim kavod. So Hashem put them up high and they're very honored.
[00:29:13] So these are the ones who serve before Hakadish Baruch Hu Ruyim heim le Shabcham. We should praise them. Ulafa' aram ulachaloka unkavod. We should give Kavod to the sun, moon and stars. As representatives of Hashem. We should not serve Hakadosh Baruch Hu directly. Rather, we need to give it to his messengers, who he represents, who we see in this physical world.
[00:29:39] Hashem wants us to honor those he honors and just and Soak Hashem wants to honor those who stand before him. And this is the COVID of the king. Kevan Sha' Allah Davar zeh alivam his chilu livnos la kochavim hechalos lahakuvlahim karba nos ulasham ulafaram at bidvaram. So he starts to praise. They started to build places and monuments and started to give carbonos lishtachavos to bow down to them.
[00:30:13] They had a corrupt opinion, but this is how they decided to serve Hashem.
[00:30:20] This is where the start of idolatry started. The Kachayu omrim of Deha hayotim ikra. And that's what they did, that those who knew this, this is what was the essence of it.
[00:30:36] They didn't say that there was no God aside from the star.
[00:30:41] So this was the mistake of the nations. The nations saw the sun, the moon and the stars, and they started to confuse the proper service. They started to channel their energies into the sun, moon, stars, rather than into Akadosh Brachel. We're not going to read. Serves 19.
[00:30:58] But the Rambam continues and said then the people came and how did they get all these different avdiyas Zara? They had people who were very creative and they said, okay, I think we should serve God in this way. And this is actually what you're supposed to be doing. And they came up with books on how to serve. You know, they needed to have a. What's it called? They were like the influencers of the time, where they like, join my regiment and get young. Right? So they had. Instead of telling us to take collagen, they told us to, like, you know, serve the idols in this way.
[00:31:26] So then what happens? Right? So the whole world is fascinated and fixated on the sun, the moon and the stars and how to serve them and have protocols and have books, and they're all serving these people.
[00:31:37] And the world is getting worse and worse. And this continues from Adam and Noach, and only Noah is there. And this continues after Noah for generations and generations until we come to a story that we all learned when we were three years old.
[00:31:54] And you can all vary. I'm going to read the lyrics.
[00:31:58] When Abram was a small boy of three he looked at the stars in the sea he thought the Creator was in the sky the sun or the moon so high but after each one in its time just set he knew there was someone greater yet then he understood and was filled with love.
[00:32:19] He knew Hashem was above. So we thought that this was just a kindergarten song.
[00:32:25] But what this. This is why I think whoever wrote the. The 613 Torah Avenue was tremendously learned. What they're pointing out is what did Avramavinu. This is the entire story of Avramavinu. Avramavinu looked at the sun and he said, there is a sun. It rules the world. I will serve it. But then at the end of the day, the sun went down. He said, so I'll serve the moon. And then the moon went down. And then he, rather than anyone else around him, not his parents, not the leaders, not Nimrod. He was living in a society. And he said, there must be something more. There must be something above the sun. Yes, there's nothing new under the sun. But what's above the sun?
[00:33:12] Above the sun, the. There is a Hakkada shvarachu. So let's look at source 20.
[00:33:18] So this is what Vayadza. I'm just going to the end.
[00:33:24] He realized there must be only one God. If you go to the top of the page, he's running this. The. The constellations. He's running the whole. The celestial bodies. Huber Hakal. He must have created everything.
[00:33:41] The aim. Bakalhanim tsa Elakah khatimineu. There's no other God there's no one else to serve.
[00:33:48] He realized everything is mistaken.
[00:33:56] He realized they kept on serving nature. They kept on focusing on nature and they forgot the God who created it. They were so focused, they didn't remember what happened to Lamal Shemesh. So what Hakad? What? What happens? Hakadish Bar says, avram, because you saw me, you're no longer going to be Abraham. You are now going to be Abraham. And he made a bris with him at the Br Spain ham where he now says, I am now elevating you from the rest of the nations. And your children are going to be like the stars of the heaven. You are now no longer going to be one of the creations. You are going to be parallel to the creation. You are going to be a power that is parallel to the sun, the moon and the stars. Because you saw that I created you. And this is what it says in Source 21 from the PASAQ Vayote Osakatza Kadish Baruch says, I'm taking you outside. Come outside with me. Let's leave the tent. Vayomer Habeit Mahashmaima. Look at the sky and count the stars.
[00:35:07] Look at the stars. Can you count these stars? You can't count these stars. If you could count the stars, this is the way your children are going to be. Your children are going to now be not under the sun, not under the stars. They're now going to be like the stars.
[00:35:22] So let's look at how Rashti explains this Pasa, because I think this idea really shows us, is going to show our path through to make sure that we get the message of yom Ravi v' yot sei hachotsa. So the pshat is that Avram is in his tent, he's having an avuah. And Hashem says, I can't show you the stars because you don't have a skylight. So let's walk outside. Okay? That's the first explanation. What does the Medrash says? Sei mitz tagninos shocha. Go outside of your astrological signs, right? Everybody has their astrology. They're born on board a Libra Virgo. Whatever. All those months you can go, go into your newspaper and they have what your horoscope is the day. Get away from these horoscopes that you see in your astrological signs.
[00:36:09] In your astrological signs it says you can't have a child. Avraham Einloben Avram. When you're Avraham, you're not going to have a Son. But now you're changed. You're Avraham Yehilo Ben. You're going to have a son. Sari Lo Salade Saratoga. Sorry is not going to have a child.
[00:36:23] That name is not right. Sorry will have a child.
[00:36:28] So your mazel changes.
[00:36:31] So there's another explanation.
[00:36:36] Hakadosh Baruch Hu raised Avraham above all the entire world. And he took him on top of the stars. And that's why he said, look down at these stars. So Avraham Avinu and by definition his children are taken out of this system of the stars and the moon and nature, because he saw that Hakad Shipp Baruch Hu was peeking out through them.
[00:37:01] And so the Lechach Tov explains in source 23 that the B' Nai Yisroel similarly are not bound by this system. Which is why we get. We're going to keep seeing this phrase that.
[00:37:18] That the nations of the world don't afraid of us, of the signs of the heaven, of the eclipses, of the. Of the constellations of astronomy. This is only for the nations of the world. Kfar Abraham Hosiyosivmi Midazu Avraham took us out, was taken out from this characteristic. How do we get away from this? How do we stay the children of Avram, Yitzhak and Yaakov? Look at line I think it is 6. Hatfila v' hatshuva vahat staka m' vatlin gezeros ra'. Us. If we daven, if we connect Hatash Baruch Hu and say Hashem, I realize you're the master of the world. Please give to me. If we do teshuvah and say, I am trying to connect my soul up to your soul and rid myself of the eight Zahara and Tzedakah. I recognize that my property is not mine, that you have given me to bestow to others and to do Mitzvos. If we live in a world defined by Chuva, Tfila and Staka, if we live in a world defined by spirituality and growth. And what does Akadosh Baruch Hu want from me? We don't have Gezeros Raos. There is no Yom e Rose. It is only a Yom Rose. We are tied in to that or Haganas, because we are the children of Avraham Avinu who saw who was above the sun and and the moon and the stars.
[00:38:35] So Rav hirsh in source 24, we're going to do this outside Hashem, he explains this Time. And he says, Hashem takes Abramavin out of the world and tells him to look at the sky.
[00:38:49] He says, everything in this world, everything on this earth. If you look at a cow, that cow, Bessie the cow had a great, great, great, great grandmother who was created. But Bessie the cow was not created.
[00:39:01] But the constellations are straight for Hashem.
[00:39:04] We as Claudias were not going to be like the rest of nature. We will be a new creation, just like Yeshme Ayin. We are not under the reign of nature anymore. Hakadah Shbaruch Hu is giving Ko Yazzaracha. So will be your children.
[00:39:18] Your children are going to be the creation of Hashem directly. They're not going to have a natural reason. We exist. Nobody can understand. If you remember the Mark Twain. I'm sure you've all heard the Mark Twain poem that how do we exist? How do we live from one generation to the other generation?
[00:39:35] We don't exist through nature because we are above nature. We no longer exist in nature because of our ability to see beyond the stars.
[00:39:47] And so this change that we had with Avamavinu is finalized and concretized and sort of brings this potential into the actual. With our first mitzvah, which was given to the Jewish people, which is very appropriate for tonight, which is. If we could look@source25.
[00:40:07] Thank you. I know you're. I know that you're. You're. You're. Andrew, you're. You're amazing. Thank you so much. Hazem Roshin. This month, this new moon, right? It's a moon. The moon that was created on the. On the first. On the fourth day.
[00:40:23] This moon is going to be the story start of your month.
[00:40:28] It is the first of all the months of the year. Moshe Rabbeinu was pointing the Hakodesh Hazed that moment. It looks like that you are defining the months from now on. B' Nai Yisrael, you are now a partner with Akodesh Baruch Hu, you, the children of Avraham Avinu, who saw that there was more than the sun and the moon. You now are controlling the moon. You now are setting the times when this should happen.
[00:40:52] And so the Svas Emma explains what is so important about the mitzvah.
[00:40:56] He tells us that if we were living in the world of voracious, in the world of nature, and where might makes right. And he doesn't say these words, but in Darwinism, survival of the fittest, we would never have gotten out of Mitzrayim. Right? How is it Possible that a nation that was enslaved for 210 years could get out of Mitzrayim. We were weak if we look, how could the Hashmona fight against the.
[00:41:25] Against, against. I know it's not Hanukkah yet. We still have a while, but it's coming up. You should start to think about your Hanukkah presence.
[00:41:31] Just as you know, this is the time, but we would never have gotten out if we were living in a world that was bound by the stars and the moon and the sun.
[00:41:41] Rather, Hashem says, okay, we're changing the system. You're now setting Rosh Chodesh.
[00:41:47] Every Rosh Chodesh is going to have a power, if you hear the word Chodesh, of chiddush, of newness, of creating something new.
[00:41:57] Every Rosh Hashanah and Rosh Chodesh has within it a power to create something new.
[00:42:03] And he says, this ability to create something new is embedded in nature, but it's also hidden by nature.
[00:42:17] That's why there can never be something new under the sun, because it hides this power of newness.
[00:42:36] Hashem said, I'm giving you a month where you can have salvation that's not connected to nature.
[00:42:41] You now have the potential to bring something that's been the potential that's always been there, that if the nations looked beyond Teva, they could have seen, but they didn't have that power to. You now have the ability to do this every single month, to see God and bring newness and vitality into your service.
[00:42:59] And so B' Nai Yisrael could now bring kedusha. They can now bring spirituality. They can now bring that or haganos down into this world. They could take from this other world and they could bring it into this world through the power of defining Rosh Chodesh. They have the power to change. They have the power to come something new. And Rosh Hirsch adds a very similar idea. He says, this had to happen before we started our journey through history.
[00:43:28] Hashem showed us the moon at its start and said, the moon is your example.
[00:43:34] Keep this moon in mind every month. It starts off really small when you make it, when you. When you win your Mahadesh, when you say this is the new month, and then it renews itself and it grows. Sometimes it gets weaker, sometimes it's stronger, but it's constantly working on itself to come back to its heights. It's constantly changing. There's might be. There are good times and bad times, but there's this constant change and effort that goes in that we can see the. The in the moon.
[00:44:06] And so Rehearse says, this is what we need to do. We need to see that Hashem is behind the mask. We don't look at the sun, which is so bright, it's so glaring and it hides like other sparrow. We need to be like the moon that renews and changes and grows and keep that growth within ourselves.
[00:44:24] So this is what the pirket or Yazer tells us is something that I think it encapsulates this idea of where are we holding right now in history? Rabbi ON Hasan Omar Baloksuv in Kochadish Tafas Hashemesh, isn't it written in koelas? There's nothing new under the sun. Amrulo. So they said to him, hatzadikim mishatsim v' chol masehem. The tzadikim, they do new things, things always with their deeds.
[00:44:57] Reshaim are never going to do anything new. They're not going to change. They're going to stay who they are. This is the Resha'. Im. So yes, we have a choice. That split screen. We can choose Tzadikim, the Chiddish, the seeing of Akadosh, Baruch hu rosh chodesh.
[00:45:13] The mission of the Jew. To be able to be a light unto the nations, to change, change, to grow. Right? We see every single new thing in this world now we understand where it's coming from. This every ism in this world has come from a Jewish neshama. Because we are the ones in this world who are tasked to move this world forward. We're never going to be satisfied, right? Two Jews, three opinions. Because we're always looking for. How can I find the truth? How can I do better? How can I get closer? That's our job. And that's what we're not. We're not. We're not okay with just being okay.
[00:45:50] This reminds me of my pediatrician. So he asked me, so is your son. I probably told you this before he asked me, is your son.
[00:45:59] So when you say your son is below average, average or above average, this is my first. And I go, definitely above average. He goes, you must be a Jewish mother. I've never yet had a Jewish mother who ever said her child was average. I was like, yes, that is true, right? We always are seeing more, more, more. That's who we are. Because that's what we are. That's what our mission is. And that was given to us. So what is this lesson of Yom Revee? How do we Apply it to our lives first.
[00:46:28] So if we can look@source 29, because I think this source is. We have to keep it as like a bumper sticker on our just anywhere. So the source 29 says Su Marom e nichem.
[00:46:45] Lift up your eyes to the heavens.
[00:46:50] Notice, pay attention. See who created these Hamotzi b'mispartzvaam lechoulam b' shem Yikra that he brought out in number all of the hosts. And each of these stars he called with a name with tremendous strength.
[00:47:08] No man could do this. Right. What do we need to do? So the first thing, and this is something that we've learned before together in our tilak, when we had. We're learning tefillah together.
[00:47:17] How do we come to Avataka Baruch Hu? We look at creation. We look at the miracle of the sun, the moon, the stars, and we see who has created these. This was what the mission of Amavinu was.
[00:47:32] We don't need to be tachas Hashemesh. We need to look up and aspire and to see who created these. And this is what Rabbeinu Bachai tells us. He says that we can look at the stars as Jews and see the greatness of Hakodesh Baruch Hu to see if the sun. Right. If you look, if you.
[00:47:52] We all learn this in science. But if the sun was a hundred miles, you know, that was. Was moved a little bit further, closer to the Earth or a little bit farther for the Earth. The Earth would not exist. It is in the exact place it needs to be in order for the earth to sustain creation. And this is what Hakad Shbrochu does. We have to pay attention.
[00:48:15] Look at the, look at the, look at the sun, look at the moon. And don't just take it at its face value, but rather see its greatness. See the creation. But then he mentions. But then remember that twice in history Hashem took the sun and he stood it still. Shemesh begivon Dom. We mentioned that there the miracle that the sun still in the times of Yeshua and that in Shofan that there was also that the stars stood still, that the Hashem controlled nature once. Or that twice in history there was the. The changing of the days because Akash Baruch was above it. So we don't just have to look at nature, we also look at miracles to remember that Akash Baruch has created the world.
[00:49:04] And so I'm going and this is what rehearsed. So to go back to our original idea, all these functions of the sun. And we're going to be doing it's source 31. We're going to be doing it outside.
[00:49:17] All these functions of the sun were there because they're providing us so much more than light.
[00:49:23] The words osos and moed are in the Torah Refresh says are religious connotations.
[00:49:33] Os means shabbos, it means bris, right? That's why we always have two OSOs and that's why women and fill in is an os.
[00:49:42] So osis always has this religious connotation. But here in creation it has a secular non religious meaning. If you look at it on the surface, moed is an important appointed time. It could mean an appointed time that it sets seasons. But it also is the word we use for Yamim Tobin where we reflect a time where we're supposed to meet Hakadash Baruch Hurt, reflect about him, learn about Hakadosh Baruch Hu and think how he has led us through history.
[00:50:14] The stars and constellations are also supposed to be oso of Sim. They can be signs that Hakash Baruch Hu created the world. They can be signs that Hashem is constantly intervening in our life.
[00:50:29] They are telling us praise Hashem. They are screaming out to us, there is Achadish Baruch Hurt.
[00:50:36] And this is why those words are on the one hand, os is has is a religious connotation because we're supposed to look at the world and see Hashem's hand in all of it.
[00:50:49] And so this is what the second.
[00:50:51] So we're supposed to think about it. And when we come to a Moed, we should reflect not only on that holiday, not only on that Yomtif, but on the fact that Akash Baruch hurry created the world and has brought us to this time and that he is in control of nature. I'd like to end with a beautiful practical idea which is from the SFAS emes in source 32.
[00:51:13] So the Medrash in the Medrash Tanhuma it tells us the following idea and it says that Moshe Beinu Shebes Hamigdash as of the Harev, that the Beis Hamigdash was in the future going to be destroyed.
[00:51:33] So because Bikurim were going to be no longer being offered meaning after the Beis Hamikdash is destroyed, nobody could bring up the Bakurim. So he made three tefilos.
[00:51:45] So this is a strange thing. Why did he bring make tefilos Kinegad the Bikurim? So we have to remember that the Bikurim were something that were that when it says bishtil ratio, the medrash says that the world was created for bikurim. What was so special about bikurim? So bikurim was where the sun.
[00:52:05] We grew fruit. And this is for Shavuos. You can remember for Shavuos also we grew fruit. The first fruit come out. And we said all of this was coming from Akadosh Baruch Hu. And we say this paragraph called Arami Ovid Avi. And we say Arami wanted to destroy my father is SaaS Emma tells us he says, Arami Ovid Avi. Why did. Why did loved one want to destroy my father? Because he was married to this idea that we were Tachas Hashemesh. The Jewish people are not more special than anyone else. We're all committed to nature and we're all under the.
[00:52:42] There's the strong and there's the weak. And so he wanted this idea to be. To be most. That this was the idea that should take. That should take hold in the world.
[00:52:54] And so.
[00:52:58] So. And he says that this is who every single day renews creation.
[00:53:16] So the fact that Akash Baruch Hu renews creation and is involved in creation every day is cloaked as teva as nature. And nature hides this point from us until we say there's nothing new under the sun.
[00:53:34] You can't see. You're blinded by the sun. You can't see Hashem's hands.
[00:53:43] B' Nai Yisrael have the ability to be the ones who arouse and accept this newness. And so Kadish Baruch hu said, every year when you're bringing your Bakurim, I want you to announce to the world that all this natural production of fruit is coming because of me. And the svasna says the section before the Mitzvah Bikurim is the story of Amalek. Because Amalek's job was there is no God. There ain't. Chadush Tachas hashemesh. We read a Ram y aviravi because they were saying, and we bring the bagurim and we lift it up and we say, hashem, you did miracles. You took us out of mitzrayim. You brought us here, and there is a God in this world.
[00:54:30] So what happens? We're now going to go into Gullus. We don't have the ability to connect to Ta' Hakadosh Baruch Hu through Bakurim and to recognize that everything I do in nature is connected to Hashem. So he made us three tefilos and those Tefilos.
[00:54:47] I'm not sure if it's the three teflos of Shachwar's minchla Mariv or. I believe it is. And this I didn't have a chance to look up is that we have birchas Krishma that we say in the morning.
[00:55:00] And we also say.
[00:55:02] We talk about the Yazias Mitzrayim, and we also have the birches Kriya Shemat night, where we say hakkada shvarachu, you created the sun, moon and stars. Yotzeh or uvari choshev ose shalom uvariesachol. We say every single morning before we accept Hashem's dominion on us in Shema, we say, hashem, you have created this world.
[00:55:29] He's in Vanessa and Varin is.
[00:55:34] We say these tefilos and we acknowledge before we say Kriya Shema, we say, hashem, I'm davening to you. Why am I davening to you? Because you're in charge of nature. You create nature. You don't. Your. Your hand is always on the. On the pedal. You're never just letting the world run as it is.
[00:55:52] So vizet. And so we are given this chance every single day when we daven to renew, to become a partner with Hakadosh Baruch Hu and to become the children of Avraham, Yitzchok and Yaakov and take that mantle of Avraham who looked above nature and saw the sun and say, hakash Baruch Hu, I'm doing it. I recognize that you control nature.
[00:56:14] And so the svas emes concludes that before we do a mitzvah, we always say, asher kedishana vi mitzosa vitzivanu, that we are not here to just get into a rut and just do things, because that's the way things are done. But rather we are going to put passion into our lives, into every mitzvah we have. And so if we take all these ideas, we take the idea that we're working above the Shemesh, we're looking at this world as a way to connect Hakash Baruch Hu or bring down this orahaganos. We're now about to enter the month of Chodesh Cheshvan. It's Maracheshvan. There are no mo' adim that are screaming out to us, Hashem has done miracles for your nation and brought you out of Mitzrayim. That is what Chodesh Nisun is about. That's what Chodesh Tishrei is about. Chodesh Cheshvan does not have a miracle in it because it's every day the sun rises, the sun sets, we go to work. We had five day work weeks. How do we deal with this? We deal with this by remembering our tefilos, by remembering our brachos. Before we do a mitzvah, we take challah and we say, asher ki deshanu ben mezosab. We are taking hakadish, baruch hud or and bringing it into our creation. We are living above the sun. We are bringing the stars to the world. Thank you.
[00:57:28] Okay, any questions?
[00:57:30] Thank you so much. Shiva.
[00:57:33] I didn't look at the chat. Let me look at the chat if there's anything new. Okay? Any. Any questions?
[00:57:39] Okay, beautiful. Thank you very much.
[00:57:44] Okay. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, beautiful. Thank you. Thank you. Good to see you.
[00:57:51] So good as usual. Okay, thanks.
[00:57:54] Thank you so much. And hopefully we'll see people tomorrow in person for our two Monday classes. Nothing like a person in person. Fantastic. Have a good night, everybody.
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