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Rabi Moshe Haber: Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah: Connecting Worlds Through Torah 10.13.25 · Rabbi Moshe Haber - Daily Mussar/Weekly Perasha

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  I wanted to just explain what Shmini activity is about.
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  We're not Shinaraba, we have Hardy, the Hardy, the Hardy.
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  Each one's got its own title. He had Sukkot.
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  The 7th day of the court is rational about.
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  What it really is rational about, as we explained
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  yesterday, is the completion of Sukkot and Horshana.
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  The word na nuna olive Day 51, it's called day 51 since the
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  beginning of the court. So Shinaa ABBA is the completion
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  of something. So now you go into today was
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  considered a powerful day of Tavila.
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  It still is a powerful day of Tavila and it was an important
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  day of staying up of reading last night and staying up late
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  time. Let's burn the candle a little
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  too late. And that's how we ended up what
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  we ended up this morning. But it's an important day of
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  Shiaa'ba in every way. And then it goes into Shimina.
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  I'd say it. So how does it work?
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  It's basically thank you. It's basically getting closer
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  and closer to Hashem. The overall idea is you're
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  getting closer and closer, but again, not in the serious way
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  that Yom Kippur did, much more in the happy way that Sukot
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  does. What's happening is you're
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  getting closer and closer. The Passo concertion even says
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  the words have yani Mela Khazarov.
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  The king brought me into his room, which means that we're
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  bringing closer, being worked privately close to our shaman's.
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  On Sukkot, nobody talks about this, but on Sukkot, Sukkot's a
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  good holiday. What does it mean it's a good
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  holiday? That means that if you listen to
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  Torah reading during entire Sukkot, you're a lot of cows.
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  Part by this and part that we serve over the course of Sukkot
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  in the Torah reading, 70 cows, 70 cows represents in 70
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  nations, which technically speaking was a form of
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  protection. We brought those coconut and
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  vetting with ash as a foreign protection for those 17 nations.
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  So the sakort is really hard and it also protects the goeme.
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  Those animals were being served on their behalf.
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  Then comes Shminyat said it. Now Shminyat said it, which is
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  tonight is all right. We do not serve any coconut for
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  them. It's just our cobon representing
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  ourselves and that's it. So it's in today where we
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  represent the fact that we as Jews have a private relationship
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  with God, and that means we have an extra special, extra direct
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  connection to Hashem. And we noticed that and realized
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  that on Shamini at Stairs. Tonight's holiday is in a
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  certain sense the highest level of happiness.
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  And without the same, not saying it's the highest day of the
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  year, that's Yom Kippur, but it's the strongest level of
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  connection to Hashem. Bisumka, that's what it is.
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  So you have different types of connections.
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  You got on Kippur to your connection was a serious one.
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  On Kippur your connection was one with fasting, with a very
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  great amount of service on Shamina said it.
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  It's a very high level of connection to Hashem, but to
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  happiness through joy. And it took and it took, excuse
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  me entirely, 7 days of Sukkot to reach the pinnacle of happiness,
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  to get to that point of serving Hashem, Basimka.
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  So it mirrors Kapoor Shimini has said it does, but that was
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  mirroring that was in seriousness.
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  And this is service of Hashem and happiness.
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  And we know as Jews that we have the top 2 minds at all time.
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  You have you have you know which is fear and you have Ava which
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  is love. These are the top 2.
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  As Jews, we are always required to somehow have a brain that has
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  both going on fear of God and love of God.
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  And it's a very difficult thing to do both same time.
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  We have the top day of fear, which is Kippur, and you have
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  the top day of Ava. Oshiminiya said it.
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  And this explains why the rabbi's some khatura came from
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  where? Where'd some khatura come from?
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  Where'd some khatura come from? The rabbi came up with it.
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  The rabbis decided and we finished it.
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  So that used to be every three years, Now it's every year.
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  And they decided to create a day of celebration like assume for
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  some hot Torah they celebrate and they chose Shamini.
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  I said it the Rabba Aziz because they scheduled the calendar in a
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  way that we finish the Surah every year on Shamini, I said.
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  And the question is asked you guys the question different
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  ways. One way of asking the question
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  is how did the rabbas have a right to take an already
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  existing holiday and insert a different celebration?
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  Remember this Shiminiya said it. It is a separate Holland Saha
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  Torah. Shiminiya said it is the real
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  holiday. Somatara is the rabbinical
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  edition. How can the rabbis add a
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  celebration of Torah? Assume by somebody else's part.
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  It's like going to a wedding. Literally like going to a
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  wedding and making us see you by somebody else's wedding.
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  How do you have the nerve? How do you have when is this
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  time you're So we have a how where is some hahaha come into
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  this? Where is some hahaha, which is
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  celebration of the completion of Rita come into a different
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  celebration, it seems of Shimenya said it.
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  So the theme and the idea depth is that Shimenya said it in a
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  celebration of our closeness to God, a celebration Ahava and
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  Bisimha with love and with joy of that relationship with
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  Hashem. And the Rabbi said chose this
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  time because they say this is the exact time these you
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  celebrate the love of Torah. How does that sell?
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  How does that fit? He's celebrating your
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  relationship with God. Where is the Torah coming?
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  So is he very clear? Your relationship with God, your
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  love of Hashem, your connection to Hashem, His strongest
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  connection that you have to God is through your study of Torah.
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  The idea that I love God is a very lofty concept.
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  I love Hashem. What does that mean?
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  That means I jump up in the streets and say I love Hashem.
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  We love Hashem like people do out there.
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  No, when it says love Hashem, what it really means is you have
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  a literal, sort of, in a certain sense almost borderline physical
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  relationship with God. What does that mean?
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  Through the Torah's existence and through your reading,
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  learning and celebration of Torah, That is how you celebrate
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  your love of God. Otherwise, it's too lofty.
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  There's no connection. Your connection, you are about
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  Hashem, in reality is through your love of Torah.
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  What that means is like this. You sit down and you learn a
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  Mishnah. You sit down.
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  You learn a piece of Gemara. You sit down.
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  You go to a class and you connect to it.
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  The class hits you. You hear a piece of tada, it
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  goes in. You hear a class, it goes in.
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  It comes out of you. Eventually.
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  It gives you a certain degree of satisfaction and a certain
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  degree of joy. That joy that you'd feel when
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  you study tada, That joy, that special feeling elevation that
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  you feel when you hear a class. When you learn a Mishna, you
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  learn a piece of Gemara. That joy that you feel when you
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  fight a Gemara, right? You have a Kamala, you don't
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  know what it's saying, and you figure it out that that special
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  feeling that you feel when you get right, that feeling that we
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  get when we go through the Torah is a vehicle, is a manner with
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  which we connect to our Avatarshem.
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  So Smenya said the day of love of God, that's what it is.
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  It's his strongest day of love and of joy, celebrating that
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  love of God. But the manner with which we
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  connect to that love of God is Thora or Torah.
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  Otherwise, if I told you you love Hashem, people have
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  something, we love Hashem, It's a common thing.
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  And say I love Hashem, what does that mean?
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  Find me the tangible way to love Hashem, The manner with which
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  you love God, the way you display your love of God and the
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  way you connect the Hashem. So much more stronger is through
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  your understanding, your learning, your absorbing, you're
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  taking in of tura knowledge. And so Shinha Tura, which is the
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  strongest celebration of our tura learning in the shivot of
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  old, it's brought down and I saw it in the fighting not so long
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  ago. If you looked at Yom Kippur and
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  you looked at Somha Tura, one of the rabbis once said, I don't
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  know which one of these days is greater for us.
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  Is Yom Kippur more impressive to God or is Alice Somkhatura more
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  impressive to God? Somkhatura is from the rabbis.
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  Somkhatura was made-up a number of years ago.
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  It wasn't from the Torah. How could you even say that?
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  How could someone stay at Somkhatura might be on par with
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  the Yom Kippur because Somkhatura at its core is a day
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  when we celebrate our love of Hashem, not simply our love of
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  the Torah, our love of Hashem, our Shaminya said, our personal
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  connection to God. But the way we do that is
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  through rejoicing and through connecting and through learning
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  our Torah. And when we learn it and we take
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  it in, we connect to Hashem because this is our manner.
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  It's our physical. When I say physical, I mean I'd
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  say it's our this world world, way of connection to another
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  world concept. If you think about it, the
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  concept, a person loves their wife, they love their children.
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  That's a physical thing. That's makes sense as material
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  exists, right? Loving Hashem on his natural
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  level doesn't really work, doesn't really.
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  You can't grasp it. The manner with which you grasp
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  it in depth, and this is very deep, is through making a
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  connection. How do you take yourself, which
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  is worldly, to God, which is otherworldly?
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  You take the one thing that exists in the world that is both
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  otherworldly in this world. What's the one thing in this
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  world that is otherworldly and this worldly?
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  It came from Allahabad, came to La Maza.
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  The only thing in this world that has travelled, so to speak,
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  to universes is a Tudah. Tudah started there by God and
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  came here to us. Understand, Michela Beno had to
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  go up there and fight for it, fight with the angels.
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  You've heard about the fight. What was the fight?
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  The angels said Torah is supposed to be up there.
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  Torah is not meant for these worldly physical people.
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  That was the fight. And then Monsieur Bello's
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  response, Hashem says the Monsieur Bello, do you notice?
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  Give him an answer and hold on to the Kisiaka votes for
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  Hashem's protection and give him an answer.
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  And Monsieur Bello's answer was, does it say, I forget the exact
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  lines which persisting is does it?
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  It says the Tara don't do the say don't eat on kosher, for
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  example, do angels eat? It says the Tara keep Shabbat.
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  Do angels work? It says in Tara, this doesn't
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  fit for you guys. So therefore Moshera Barrow had
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  an argument and the angels had nothing to respond.
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  And Moshera Barrow was able to bring the Tara from that world,
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  from the God world down to our world.
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  But that created the connection of these two worlds.
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  So on some khatura, where Shaminya said is the real theme,
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  connecting to Hashem is the real theme.
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  The manner with which we do it is by connecting to the one item
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  that travels 2 worlds, and that one item is awatoda.
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  And this explains why when you sit and learn, you become
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  smarter. This explains why when you
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  learn, you become a finer person.
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  This explains when you learn you become loftier person.
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  When you can answer or make the right decisions after you learn.
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  How do you explain how rabbis are able to give you advice on
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  business? I'm, I'm in the rabbi business.
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  I'm not in the business world, OK?
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  I don't work. I don't run a warehouse.
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  I don't run an office. I don't do any of that stuff,
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  OK? I don't think I can handle 5
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  minutes in the warehouse. It's pretty scary for me how
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  they can handle 5 minutes in the office.
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  So if people fight, I'm not ready for this, OK.
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  Now I do believe that rabbis have the capability at certain
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  times to give advice. Or how about if someone has the
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  rabbi, should they go to the doctor or not, right?
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  At times rabbis have given very clear advice on these issues.
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  Or someone wants to figure out, they shall invite, and the rabbi
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  tells them a certain thing. The rabbi knows exactly what's
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  going on at home. He may not know.
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  He has to know something before he gives an answer.
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  He doesn't know everything that's going on.
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  So where does he get his clarity from?
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  The answer is very simple, because that rabbi connected to
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  Hashem a lot, because he learned, hopefully a lot.
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  He therefore has an otherworldly knowledge that comes from being
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  connected to God and he therefore can apply to this
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  world. If the rabbi doesn't learn, he
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  doesn't have that capability and it's not worth his advice.
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  But if he does, learn what you hope the rabbi does do and they
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  have that capability. Now the ability gives the
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  advice. And the same thing is true with
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  yourself. The way you can become a we all
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  can become a finer person is if we have Torah inside of us.
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  Because we are travelling these two worlds, we are connecting
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  otherworldly elements to a very worldly existence.
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  If you wonder how Jewish people today, can it be so fine, so
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  refined, so beautiful, when the world has gotten so crazy and
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  chaotic, OK, the answer is very simply is, oh, it's that's the
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  only answer. Which means the Torah, which is
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  something that's godly, who travels through time?
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  God does, who never changes. God doesn't change, is able to
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  create now a way, a matter that we don't change, we don't become
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  moving with the times in the wrong way.
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  We don't get damaged negatively by the influences because we
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  have the capability to be connected and linked to
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  something that's other world. So Shriniyat says is a day that
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  we celebrate our love and our connection to Hashem.
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  The manner with which we take something that's intangible, the
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  manner would you take something that's otherworldly and we make
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  it worldly, is by taking the one item that links and bridges the
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  2 worlds. And that is out with Torah.
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  And the Torah is something that we learn.
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  It makes us whole, it makes us complete.
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  It makes U.S. special. It makes us refined, It makes us
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  wiser. It gives us better ha.
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  It gives us some ha. It gives us charm.
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  It gives us mental health, it gives us beauty in our lives, it
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  gives us purpose, it gives us happiness, All that constant to
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  that. How is that all possible?
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  Because it gives us a peace of God inside of us and it bridges
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  these two worlds. And that's why it makes sense on
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  some khatura on Shimini, I said actually to to apply the
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  Holocaust some khatura because you're celebrating your
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  connection to God through the the bridge, which is your
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  connection to God. And that's our tarah, because
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  our Tarah travels these two worlds Mashem down to us.
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  Stop this.