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Rosh Hashanah: The Birth of a New You with Dr. Miriam Menaker · Tehillim for the Soul with Dr. Miriam Menaker

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  But remember that in the darkness, there is light.
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  This is a concept of Hasidut, where even in the most dark place, there is a light there because every existence, in order to exist, must have a holy energy I created, this class through a discourse of the Alter Rebbe of Lubavitch, I consider that has the essence of a very profound message of Rosh Hashanah.
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  So let's start.
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  Rosh Hashanah conveys Hashem's blessing through three central themes.
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  Malchuyot, that means sovereignty, recognizing and crowning the King of Kings.
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  Shofarot, the shofars call the soul deepest unfiltered cry.
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  Zichronot are remembrance, recounting and closing the deeds of the past to open a renewed creation of the works Ex Nihilo, out of nothing.
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  And this is a very important concept.
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  The new year is like a start, like a newborn.
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  Because Rosh Hashanah is the birth of the world the Torah says,"Mark the years, and a new shofar blast.
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  This is a law for Israel, a judgment from the God of Yaakov." Unlike the other month, say the Alter Rebbe, Tishrei is called the month, only the month, because the new year is not just a renewal, but a creation ex nihilo, an entirely new beginning.
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  Rosh Hashanah is the year's central source from which space, time, and soul originate.
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  Olam is, means space.
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  Shanah is time, and Nefesh is us.
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  The, world goes around those three dimension.
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  Rosh Hashanah is the beginning that shapes all events across the dimensions of space, time, and soul for the year ahead.
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  From it, is drawn and spread to every day of the coming month Natalie, good morning, Hannah Perlow, good morning.
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  The rest of the years are called these the months of, Kislev, the months of Nisan.
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  But the only one that in a general way is mentioned is the months of Tishrei because the month- of Tishrei, has in it the energy, the general energy that will diffuse and to the rest of the months of the year The flow of a spiritual energy begins with the personal work of Teshuvah in Elul and continues through Rosh Hashanah, the 10 days of Teshuvah, and Yom Kippur.
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  The 10 days of Teshuvah is the first day is day is Rosh Hashanah, and the last day of the 10 days is Yom Kippur.
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  This vitality comes from recognizing Hashem's sovereignty over all higher and lower worlds, which were created through the concealment of the blessed God's infinite light.
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  The worlds may change, but God does not change.
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  He is the first, and nothing exists before or after Him.
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  Hashem reveals the light through our recognition of His sovereignty, because there is no king without subjects.
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  So how we,, make the creation of the world is through our recognition that Hashem is the King of Kings.
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  God conceals His light so the physical world can come into being.
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  Before creation, only He and His name existed.
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  For existence to emerge from nothing, He contracted His infinite light.
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  The Zohar calls this process Tzimtzum.
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  And let me explain in more simple world.
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  When I speak, I am taking the space and time.
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  When I allow you to speak, I allow you to take the space and time, So this is the same situation with God.
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  In order that God created the world, He needed to retreat, to conceal Himself, because His light filled all the world.
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  So in order that the physical world exist, He needed to hide Himself darkness does not affect Him.
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  He was, He is, and He will be.
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  He was, is, and remains beyond creation, both before it and after it.
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  He assume the mantle of kingship for the material world could recede physically in a chain of order, creating humanity to transform darkness into light.
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  So Hashem create what we call in Hebrew a libush, means a mantle.
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  Is what I found very sophisticated word, but it means a dress.
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  He dress himself.
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  When you dress yourself, you are hiding your body, so the same way Hashem hides through his name.
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  That's why we call Hashem.
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  He's the name.
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  Correct?
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  So creation's purpose, what is the creation purpose and why He created humanity?
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  Why He created Adam?
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  He created in order to transform any darkness from the past previous world into His light.
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  That is the mission of a human being.
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  This- was the mission of Adam, that he failed in that mission So creation purpose lies beyond human wisdom and perception.
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  For us it's impossible to understand.
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  It is rooted solely in the almighty supreme will to create through his attributes of kindness.
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  Because Hashem creates the world through kindness.
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  As it is written, a world of kindness should be built.
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  Yet, the way events unfold in the world ultimately depends on our actions.
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  We are partner with Hashem in the creation of the world, and that is our responsibility is in us.
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  In order that the world will be good and will manifest kindness and beneficence depend on us.
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  The renewal of the sending a spiritual energy, that is what happened in Rosh Hashanah, takes place the day of judgment.
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  Rosh Hashanah is called the day of judgment.
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  Hashem brings the past year's energy to a close and draws down new vitality for the year ahead.
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  Hashem is closing the chapter of the past year and opening a new page for this coming year.
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  That's why is a reborn.
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  God wants us to accept his sovereignty willingly, opening the channels for his infinite kindness to flow into us without obstruction.
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  This is the purpose of Hashem.
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  He wants, with his immense true kindness, give everything to us, but we create the obstruction, we create the blockages Teshuva is a return to his teaching and deeper understanding of his laws.
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  He wants us to do mitzvot and to learn Torah, because through the learning of the Torah the food of the soul, the food of the world, and the Torah has in it all the wisdom of HaKadosh Baruch Hu.
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  And what are the mitzvot?
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  The mitzvot are the draw down of the energies of Hashem that will transform in material,, events.
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  That are the mitzvot We experience the opening of God's hands as expressed in the verse,""recited daily in the morning prayers and in the blessing after meals."" Open, your hands and I will fulfill your desires.
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  Hashem wants to give us everything good, everything that we need, all the energies, all the different packages of energy to have good health, to have a respect, and see our children to grow and perform in the best way.
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  What can be other satisfaction than to see everything that we want for us reflected in our descendants?
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  The sages teach that should be read.
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  means the, the.
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  That alludes to the two of Hashem, Hashem's intertwined with Adni, the divine name associated with physical world.
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  And I wrote here, that the start with the and Adni ends with the.
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  That's why in the you have two when we say Adonai.
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  Correct?
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  So through our may we receive a tremendous influx of Hashem's infinite light in the coming year.
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  Amen and amen.
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  For this reason, the sages instituted reciting a blessing before each mitzvah.
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  When you say, Baruch ata Hashem Elokeinu Melech ha'olam asher kideshanu b'mitzvotav v'tzivanu, means blessed are you, Lord, our God, King of the universe, who has sanctified us with His commandments, with the mitzvot that are the commandments.
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  Through performing mitzvot, we draw down Hashem's light.
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  So that is the function of the mitzvot.
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  The blessing draws down Hashem's supreme will and wisdom, while the mitzvot serve as the channels through which His boundless kindness flows into us.
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  On Rosh Hashanah, renewed light is drawn down through three elements.
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  The shofar sounds, correct?
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  The three sounds of the shofar, the remembrance of our deeds, because we remember all the good and negative deeds that, that happened in the past, and the coronation, that means the acknowledge of Hashem, all which-- that all of these will wish a- will awaken our teshuva.
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  That is what will awake our teshuva.
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  In conclusion, Hashem's supreme kindness seeks to bestow all the goodness we need to fulfill our purpose, transforming darkness into light.
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  This transformation must be chosen willingly.- Hashem wants, I want to transform, not impose Its key, lies in each person's Teshuvah, which unites Malchut, the lower He of the Tetragrammaton, with the higher spiritual worlds represented by the letter Yud He Vav The Yud He Vav are representation of the spiritual world, but they are separated from the lower He that is the manifestation of the lower world where we live.
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  And this is the essential work of Rosh Hashanah.
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  That is the mission of Rosh Hashanah.
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  This class, I w- wrote was inspired by the Alter Rebbe discourse in the Kuntay Torah on Rosh Hashanah.
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  May his teachings help seal a year of divine providence in all our endeavors.
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  So I now I open to your discussion, and I would like to hear from Dr.
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  Yoon how you experience this class and if you have something to add or ask Yeah.
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  Um, I, I cannot believe this Rosh Hashanah this year is coming so early, and then it is, like, almost, surreal.
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  But,, I, um, about mitzvah, when you said draw down Hashem's light, this got me think, like from yesterday, attending Claus' funeral and, how much a mitzvah and his kindness, generosity affected the community, and how people talked about, and how our physical body, it gave me different appreciation of our physical body that enables to the mitzvah.
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  And how that, um, affected people in a community.
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  And, then each person who's been affected also do the same kind of kindness and, generosity to the community, which kind of made me think it's kind of drawing down the Hashem's light that alone.
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  It just, um, it, it kind of meant a little bit different, uh, to me, and I learned a deeper level of, uh, understanding about mitzvah.
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  Like, so, uh- Mm-hmm.
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  Yeah.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  That's it.
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  Yes.
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  Thank you.
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  Yes, absolutely.
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  I agree with you in every aspect.
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  So doesn't depend of the- Of the learning or a scholarship of a Jew depends more from his way to bring and to fulfill Hashem missions.
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  That is what is important.
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  There is many in history, many stories of the Baal Shem Tov in which you can feel the same message.
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  Where a simple Jew, without having learned higher levels of, of Torah and, and be a, a great sage can transform the whole world.
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  And there is a story in Yom Kippur about the Baal Shem Tov where a simple man didn't know how to read Hebrew.
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  Only he knew a few letters in Hebrew.
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  This is the only thing that he learned in his life.
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  And in his desperation in Yom Kippur, he was not able to daven, to pray.
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  But he make a final decision and he says,"I am going to use all the letters that I know in Hebrew, and I ask Hashem that he will create the words of the Tehillah." At that moment, this, this man was in another place in the country or i- or in the world.
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  And by the purity of the Baal Shem Tov, he, he stopped his davening and the people at the shul, they were amazed why the Baal Shem Tov was, uh, stop his prayer.
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  And w- and the reason was because when he heard the letters pronounced by this man, he knew that Hashem will transform and will give a good year to all the community.
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  So it's a beautiful story that express how important is, is the pure neshamah of a human being.
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  You don't need to know too much.
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  Actually, sometimes to know too much create blockages.
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  But when you do things and you love Hashem in a very deep way, at a very passion way, emotionally, that represent a higher level of acceptance from Hashem Ashira Um, let me know if you can't hear me, but I think- I can.
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  You- Oh, okay perfectly, perfectly.
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  Thank you.
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  Um, I think this time of year, um, it's just the perfect time to really look inside and try to refine your own character so that you're ready to meet Hashem in the field and see what the year has to offer.
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  And I, I think, just like a relationship with a spouse or with a friend or with a community, it takes effort.
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  And, and I think what's so great about this class is it gives you a chance to, to reflect on yourself and see what you can do in the future.
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  And I would say this class especially is probably one of the few times where I really think about myself and what I can do to try to make myself a little bit better, or to get through the day a little easier, get stronger.
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  And so I, I appreciate this.
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  I think it's a really great message.
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  Thank you, Ashira.
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  Thank you very much.
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  But remember, Ashira, that I am only a channel of Hashem.
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  If I am able to understand all these words of the Alter Rebbe that are very complicated, it's not a, a simple writing, and I am reading in Hebrew.
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  It is not depend of me.
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  Depend of God that g- is giving me the tools to understand.
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  Yeah, you're- And at same times to bring over to you.
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  Yeah, you're a great messenger.
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  I feel a lot like that simple person who just likes to go out in the wilderness and kind of absorb Hashem's greatness.
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  Mm.
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  But then, um, you bring a more conceptualized response, and it's, it's great.
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  I love absorbing it, and I just...
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  It's been very nice.
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  Thank you.
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  Thank you.
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  Hannah?
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  Boker tov, everyone.
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  Boker tov, Hannah.
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  What, uh, Ashira said.
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  Something that I forgot to say, excuse me, Hannah.
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  Sure.
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  Is that this class is in the Ilui Nishma Shel Nissim Bas Mesuda, Ben Mesuda.
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  In order to send the energy of the neshamah of our dear Clot elevating to above in the supernal world, and with, Hashem in, at His throne.
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  Amen.
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  Yes, Hannah what Ashira said really spoke to my heart., I feel the same way, and, I think the class brings ways for us to, tools to engage with Hashem.
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  And I think this is what Hashem...
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  With Hashem doesn't want us perfect beings, but He wants us engaged in becoming better and better Jews.
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  And so I, that's how I see it too.
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  Wonderful.
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  In terms of the teachings of the Alter Rebbe, thank you so much.
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  I can only imagine how the originals are complex,'cause your translation is already very deep.
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  But we, we appreciate so much.
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  I, I made notes, and I do have something, that I would like to, um, just point out maybe.
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  The, I knew, I, I've known that Hashem means the name.
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  I know that.
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  But today you brought the Alter Rebbe of blessed memory.
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  It was his birthday, by the way, Elul yes right?
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  Yes, correct.
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  19.
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  Oh, 19.
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  Yud Tet Kislev.
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  Yud Tet, yes.
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  So Hashem, the name, and the name is how He dress, Hashem dresses, d- like disguises in, in names of Hashem.
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  Is that what was said?.
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  That's what I understood.
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  Okay.
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  Yes.
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  Which is something, connected to the tzimtzum, right?
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  The, to the- Correct.
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  Correct?
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  Okay.
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  'Cause He, He retreated, and He is w- with this dress, which are the names, the 72 names, the tetragram.
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  Clarify my- Happened, but- Oh, okay.
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  Okay.
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  We went back to, to normal.
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  Okay.
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  Okay.
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  Continue.
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  Are you continuing to record now?
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  It's, yes, it says that it's recording.
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  Okay.
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  Okay, great.
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  And now we don't have the notes anymore.
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  Yeah, now it's better.
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  Oh, okay, because I have to, a- again, to share.
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  That's okay.
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  Yes.
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  The, what is missing is only the meditation.
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  Here it is.
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  Meditation, yeah.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  Okay, here.
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  Here it is.
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  Okay., You are going to see it very soon Correct?
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  Not yet, but it's coming.
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  It's coming.
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  Yes.
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  It's coming.
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  Okay, we got it.
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  Okay.
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  Okay.
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  Perfect.
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  Yeah.
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  Okay.
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  Perfect.
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  Yeah, so I think you heard everything that I was trying to confirm.
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  I think- we did, right?
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  We got to the end.
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  Yes.
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  Yes.
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  Okay.
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  Thank you so much.
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  Thank you.
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  Actually,, to comple- complete what you say, every word of the Torah is the name of HaShem.
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  All the Torah is HaShem.
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  So all the spiritual...
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  It's not the spiritual world, is...
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  HaShem doesn't want to separate himself o- from the physical world.
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  He wants to u- be united to the physical world.
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  That's what we have, because everything is one.
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  This is the idea of Echad.
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  And the Yud represent Atzilut.
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  The first Hey represent the world of Briyah, creation.
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  Then the Vav is the world of formation.
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  And the last Hey is the world of action.
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  But the action and the superior world, the world of Atzilut, Briyah, and Yetzirah are separated.
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  There is a separation.
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  HaShem wants that we create a unity, and that unity is only, uh, realize or is, is go to, uh, in, to effect only through our study of Torah, our connection to our mitzvot.
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  Because when we do that, we are transforming the world from darkness to light.
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  We are bringing the light of HaShem into our physical world.
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  Yeah?
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  So that is in a part I am reinforcing the concept Perfect.
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  Thank you.
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  Anita Hi.
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  Good morning, everybody.
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  Good morning what I was thinking is,, Hashem has the energy, and gives us the energy, and we're supposed to take that energy and, make it into action,, and to do.
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  And as they always say, Jews do.
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  And, it's interesting to me, uh, to bring this back to Claude for a minute.
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  He was such a doer.
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  He was such a doer, and his energy just exuded life into, into every space he walked into.
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  And, it was obviously wonderful for our, our community.
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  Um, and, and it's interesting how we all, we all are, are so different because in our own ways, we all do as Jews.
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  And, we do it in our own way.
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  And, um, it's not necessarily, um, it, it's n- not a judgment, but some of us we do it, we do it differently.
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  And, and, um, I think the message today is that, we want to remember that Hashem is our energy and, because Hashem is our energy, we must do So thank you for this class Very good, A- Anita.
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  Excellent.
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  You, you gave an excellent makeup of everything.
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  Thank you very much.
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  Yes, you got it.
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  You got it.
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  Thank you.
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  I don't know.
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  There's, a lot of things that I'm confused about here.
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  So one thing that you mentioned early, at the beginning of the class was, there was a statement with creating humanity to transform darkness into light.
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  Now, do you know what the reason for this was?
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  Like, it seems like Hashem could transform the darkness into light, you know, but yet we're partners in this.
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  And, um, it's, it seems like a difficult thing to do because there really is a lot of darkness, um, in the world can you elaborate on that a little bit?
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  Yes.
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  Hashem could transform the world by itself, correct?
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  And everyone will be a good boy, good girls.
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  But this is like robots.
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  We are not robots.
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  Hashem doesn't want that we will do thing automatically.
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  Mm.
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  He wants us to be the actors- Mm of h- his work.
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  That's why he created us That is the point.
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  And he's giving us all the capacity.
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  Every person has a different way, like Anita says, of perceive and understanding and work and do his mission in a very e- particular way But the point is the actions.
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  That is the point, and we are the actors of the world.
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  We are here in order to perform, and when we perform through holiness, then we bring this light down here, and we transform darkness into light.
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  But remember that in the darkness, there is light.
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  This is a concept of Hasidut, where even in the most dark place, there is a light there because every existence, in order to exist, must have a holy energy.
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  Even the worst of the worst evil person has inside a light that is holy, a light that comes from God because if not, he will not exist at all So that is our mission.
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  Our mission is to work hard, and this is the message of this Rosh Hashanah.
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  And I thought that this is the most important and higher message that I can bring to you today.
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  Not to tell you about the shofar or tell you what to eat or tell you what are the prayers.
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  All this- are in this message.
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  This is the message of Rosh Hashanah.
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  We have a treasure in our hands.
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  Hashem give us all the treasure, all the gifts is in us.
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  Now take that and work with that.
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  Each of us has a different ability, and this is the point.
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  The problem that exists in between the countries in this world and the problem of this world that we are experiencing today is because one country wants to dominate the other country, and this is wrong.
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  We are all important in this world.
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  Once has this ability, and the others has other ability.
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  We have to join our efforts.
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  That is our mission, to join our efforts without hate, without wanting to be the one that wants to be in top.
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  We don't want that.
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  Th-this is the ego.
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  We don't want the ego to conquer us, and that will create...
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  That is-- This ego is the yetzer hara, the evil inclination So that is the mission, and I th- I think that is a beautiful...
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  When I learned this mamar, I said,"I have to give it to you." Okay, so I will like- The- Yes, Nina Tovah.
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  Hold on a s- the, the other thing is you were talking about, in the morning prayers where I know the English says, uh, it's in the Ashrei, You open your hands- Yes, correct again unto a desire of every living thing.
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  So the, with that, thinking about, I think it's in Pirkei Avot where make your will His will, and His will become your will, or, something like that.
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  Yeah.
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  Is it Hashem, when our will conforms to Hashem's will, then those desires will come to fruition, um, as long as they're in accordance with His, you know, His, His will, basically?
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  Exactly.
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  This is the point.
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  It's not so difficult to understand.
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  Ok, eh, René Um, the words that I, um, that really registered today, um, were it's a closing chapter from last year and we're opening a new one.
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  Exactly.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  'Cause I don't always think about the closing.
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  I think about the opening and the teshuvah and...
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  But I don't think about the word closing.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  So I, I liked your words on that.
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  I also like that you said we create a blockage, from Hashem, and again, I don't al- I'm not always cognizant of that.
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  Um, so I appreciate those very words, um, at this moment.
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  It was perfect.
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  Yes.
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  Um, we can not live in the past We, this is the teaching that Rosh Hashanah is a reborn is very important and significant for us.
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  I am a new person.
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  So if I live with the baggages of my past, and my defects, and my mistake, and my, that will not help me at all.
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  This is what creates diseases You want to reborn.
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  Is we live only the present moment.
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  Everything is a yom, now.
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  Now is the word.
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  We say that in Shema Yisrael.
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  We say the word yom, a yom, today, in this moment.
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  So this year has all the potential, all the capacity for me to do the best of myself.
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  Only I have to be willing to do it, and this is what Emunah Tova says.
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  If I pair my desires with desires of Hashem, I am fulfilling my mission When there is a difference between me or my perspective and what the Torah is teaching me that what is the real reason of everything, then I am confused, and I am not doing what I should do.
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  And that is the creation of the blockages because we create our own blockages.
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  We create the obstruction.
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  Is like Hashem wants to pour, to flow all his goodness and his energy to us, but it's like we are creating boundaries.
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  We are c- enter obstacle, and that is what doesn't allow his light to come down to us and his energy to come down to us, and doesn't allow even at the level of healing.
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  One of the problem of a person that is sick is that he doesn't seize what is coming to him.
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  When that person, the sick person, understand and change his view and his perception and leave his disease to the side, and leave the moment, then that will create a process of healing.
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  It's very hard to express what I am saying, very hard to do, I know, but I want to send you this message.
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  We must be responsible of whatever we do.
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  It's in our hands.
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  The, is we make our destiny.
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  We are the one that in order t- e- everything that we do wrong at the level of thought, speech, and action, create a recording in the cosmos So that creation is there, and this is the creation that creates and is harmful to us.
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  But when we connect with Hashem, we remove that cloud of dark energy, and then we allow the good rain to fertilize our field So Hashem sends the rain, but what the farmer do, he needs to process, to prepare the land, the soil.
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  So when the farmer prepare the soil adequately and nourish his soil and s- and, and plant healthy seeds, so that will create a healthy crop that will grow and bring good fruits.
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  This is what we do spiritually in ourself clear?
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  Okay.
• 42:58
  So my dear Natalie I'm on overload.
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  You always are It's all, it's all good.
• 43:14
  No, I, ev- every time somebody says something I think,"Oh, that's what I wanna talk about." It's really am- I, I...
• 43:20
  This has just been a wonderful class.
• 43:23
  I hadn't thought about mitzvot in terms of, you know, I, and, with the meditations.
• 43:29
  I'm always focusing, it seems like I'm so struck by the light of Hashem.
• 43:34
  I, I, I just love...
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  I, I think of it, I, I feel, I think of it as rays and I, and I, you know, it's like I feel, when I think about the light of Hashem, I feel like the, it helps me to feel a connection., It's like the rays coming from Hashem to me.
• 43:50
  And, and so, um, I, um- I, I love, uh...
• 43:57
  So that was the first thing I latched on to.
• 44:00
  And, and then from there, you, you took off with that.
• 44:03
  I, uh, Rabbi has been talking recently about the importance, and I've thought a lot about this, the importance of letting go of the past, not worrying about the future, but doing good now.
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  Because the past is done, there's nothing we can do about it.
• 44:20
  It's, You need to learn from it, but you can't dwell on it.
• 44:24
  And what you're worried about in the future might never happen, so what a waste of time and energy.
• 44:29
  And so then, talking about that and starting the new book and, related to closing the old.
• 44:35
  This has just been...
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  and all the things that Shira said this morning, and everybody's...
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  It, it's been wonderful.
• 44:43
  Thank you, everybody.
• 44:45
  And but we can transform, not only the negative, the harmful action that we did in past, in good things, in good action.
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  And this is extraordinary transcendent.
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  If you can change the past through your present action, is, is a hope that doesn't have any limits.
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  You see that how beautiful are the words of Hashem and the words of our sages that help us in our evolution in our life.
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  This is the evolution.
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  So feel that you have in you everything.
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  Hashem wants to give you everything to us, but connect with him.
• 45:41
  Then we have here, I go back to the three dimension, the three tools of Rosh Hashanah, is the awakening of the shofar.
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  That is our voice.
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  The shofar express a voice that we cannot express with word.
• 45:59
  We need a sound that is above and beyond And this is the sounds of the shofar.
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  And the shofar has three sounds.
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  Tekiah, that is the first sound, a tuuu, that- is represented by Avraham Avinu.
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  Then has And Avraham represent h- kindness and hesed.
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  Then you have the teruah, that is tu tu tu, tu tu tu tu, tu tu tu tu tu.
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  Those are the breaking of the negativity, the breaking of the Gevurah because before the teruah, you have what they call Shevarim.
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  Shevarim is tu tu tu.
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  When you hear tu tu tu of the shofar, means that you are breaking all the Gevurot, all the judgment.
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  And then comes the teruah.
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  You are breaking this.
• 47:04
  And then at the end of the, blowing, of the shofar, you have a long tekiah, a long tu.
• 47:14
  And this is we receiving all the goodness that Hashem wants to bring to us.
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  So that is the tool, the shofar.
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  Then we remember, that is the Zichronot.
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  There is in the tefillah, pay attention about moments that we are remembering.
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  We are remembering about Avraham, Yitzhak, and Yaakov.
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  We are remembering our sages.
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  We are remembering our own ancestors, our parents, our grandparents, Everything that we went through and they went through in life And then you have, this, the last one is the teshuvah, is the moment that create in us, okay, I am connected, I am back.
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  I am And how I am back?
• 48:10
  I am back by, uh, crowning Hashem.
• 48:17
  What is crowning?
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  I am giving Hashem all the power that he deserve.- The crowning of Hashem means that I am, I'm saying that everything that exists is Hashem.
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  There is nothing beside him.
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  That is the coronation.
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  You are giving the crown to the King of Kings.
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  We are giving the malhut.
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  You are giving the sovereignty.
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  He is sovereign.
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  He is the boss of everyone.
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  That is the idea of the malchuyot.
• 48:52
  So when you understand those three tools, that is what create in us a complete transformation from us as individual, and we express, diffuse energy to the whole world Because when you have that energy that you ex- you are diffusing this energy to the community, to the people around you, because you have a positive ener- excuse me, a positive energy Okay.
• 49:34
  I love this Maamar.
• 49:36
  I love the discourse.
• 49:37
  And I said, I must make this, Maamar understandable and clear to my dear ladies of Arizona.
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  I have to do that.
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  That is my message.
• 49:55
  That is my gift to you for this Rosh Hashanah Okay.
• 50:01
  Beautiful., And Miriam, just, adding that since we are dedicating the class to our dear Nissim Ben Masuda, our Claude Amiel of blessed memory, how beautiful that it seems like, he really filled up the, his purpose.
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  Rabbi mentioned yesterday during the burial, the funeral, that, he asked Claude,"What do you think was your call from Hashem?" And Claude said, without hesitating, he said,"To make people feel like they are home." Beautiful.
• 50:41
  To make people feel like they are home.
• 50:44
  And he truly,\ accomplished that in every person that he greeted at CBT, the p- people that he didn't know, and people that were members.
• 50:57
  I mean, it's just beautiful, so just want to add that.
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  So nice to have an alignment of your actions and Hashem's plans.
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  Or Hashem.
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  Yes.
• 51:08
  So even that is sad that he is not anymore physically in this world and with us, and we cannot see his smile, of his jokes, but he left a legacy, and that legacy is what stays in us.
• 51:33
  And that is his message to us, and his co- hope for us to continue his way and be there, and united, and continue having you.
• 51:46
  You have a beautiful community.
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  It's a community of what, that we call of ahdut.
• 51:53
  Ahdut is of unity.
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  Each one loves the other.
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  There is no politics in, in your community.
• 52:04
  So that is so beautiful.
• 52:08
  This is a gift of Hashem, so- It really is it is, it is incredible what you have.
• 52:14
  Mm-hmm.
• 52:14
  Mm-hmm.
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  You have to treasure it.
• 52:16
  Every- Every day every day, every moment- Mm-hmm that we have.
• 52:22
  Wonderful.
• 52:23
  Thank you so much.
• 52:25
  Thank you, everyone.
• 52:26
  If you have any other commentary, I have time.
• 52:30
  If not, I go to the meditation that I prepare for you.
• 52:36
  Any, any words?
• 52:37
  Any, Anita, anything more to say?
• 52:39
  Yashira, Dr.
• 52:41
  Yun, Natalie, Renee?
• 52:46
  No, I just wanna say how much, I, and I think all of us, appreciate this class so much, and looking forward to more of it in the new year.
• 52:57
  So thank you.
• 52:59
  Ezrat Hashem.
• 52:59
  Thank you so much.
• 53:02
  Okay, so the meditation that I have is a very interesting meditation, is the flowing of Hashem lights into our world, and it's through three names of Hashem.
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  The first name is the name EYHE, that is alef, he, yud, he, that is the w- a name that g- gave Hashem to Moshe, uh, on the, uh, under the bush, burning bush.
• 53:44
  And then the name Adni that represent the name of the din, the judgment of this world.
• 53:53
  But the name Adni has the yud, because the yud is the name of Hashem.
• 53:58
  And then the yud he vav he is always in, in the middle is in, is the essence.
• 54:09
  So in other words, the, uh, the, uh, the...
• 54:12
  I- in order to receive something, we need a source of energy, we need a recipient, and we need a tools to pour the energy.
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  So the energy is the Yud-Heh-Vav-He.
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  The, uh, the, uh, the recipients is the name Adni.
• 54:40
  And the bottle that contains the, uh, the Yud-Heh-Vav-He is the, the, uh, is the word of EHEYE.
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  He, Yud, Eheye, a, a Yud, He.
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  So that is the meditation.
• 55:00
  So this meditation form this, Yihud, that is Yud-Alef-Alef-Heh-Dalet-He-Vav-Nun-Yud-Heh-Yud-He.
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  So we have in the, the Yud, you have here, the first letter is Yud.
• 55:21
  The sec- uh, in, in Yud-Alef-Alef.
• 55:25
  The f- second letter is Heh, in the Heh-Dalet-He.
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  The third letter is the Vav, in the Vav-Nun-Yud.
• 55:33
  And the fourth letter is the last He of Yud-Heh-Vav-He.
• 55:33
  You see that Yud-Heh-Vav-He are at the beginning.
• 55:46
  Then you have in the center the recipient.
• 55:51
  The recipient is Adni, Alef-Dalet-Nun-Yud.
• 55:57
  And then is Eheye, that is Alef-Heh-Yud-He.
• 56:03
  So that form this, this, a interwind of those three names.
• 56:16
  So we close our eyes Ah, and breathe and relax.
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  And we let go.
• 56:28
  We are here in front of Hashem, and Hashem is bringing his light, and you see his light coming down like a flow of beautiful energy.
• 56:45
  We are protected in a Magen David, and the name is, is written in a Magen David that is in front of us.
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  Yud Alef Alef He Dalet He Vav Nun Yud He Yud He.
• 57:09
  The light unites in only one light, and this light is attracted to our Magen David, penetrates our skull, enter into our brain, descend to our hearts, illuminates the heart.
• 57:29
  And from the heart, goes to every cell of our body, and descend finally to the liver, the organ that has the energy, gravitational energy.
• 57:46
  There, it stay there.
• 57:49
  But the light return to the heart, and from the heart to, to the brain, and those are the two dimension that we have, our emotion and our thought.
• 58:01
  And the light goes up and down, up and down, heart, brain, heart, brain, heart, brain, heart, brain, heart, brain, heart, brain.
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  The light is so intense that we cannot contain.
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  And in front of us, we have Three spiritual being that will testify our meditation.
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  Malach Metatron, Malach Sandalphon, and Moshiach.
• 58:29
  And we feel that union.
• 58:32
  We feel how this light is entering through us and exceeding us, and going out, and be shared with all of us.
• 58:48
  Being shared with the whole world.
• 58:53
  That the world will dispel, will remove all the hate, all of the harms, all the wars that exist today.
• 59:06
  And our leaders, the leaders of the world will understand who is Hashem, and they will recognize Hashem as the only king, the only reason to exist, and that Hashem is our shepherd.
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  Hashem is what nourishes us.
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  Hashem is inside us.
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  Every human being has a s- spark of holiness.
• 59:41
  Every creation that exists, even a blade of grass, has the same energy.
• 59:53
  Everything is there.
• 59:55
  Everyone, in different levels, that is the energy of God that bring us, that wants us, that we will make a change, but a change come, must come from us to renovate the world, to create a rebirth of the world.
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  These packages of goodness and good energy are for the whole world.
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  We only need to open our channels and receive them through good action, through good mitzvot, and through the study of the recognition of Hashem kingdoms.
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  Thank you very much.
• 1:00:49
  Thank you, Hashem, for allow me to do this mitzvah of giving you the understanding of the essence of Rosh Hashanah