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Rabbi Moshe Haber The Meaning of Shabout 5.21.26 · Rabbi Moshe Haber - Daily Mussar/Weekly Perasha

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  So there are two and a game I want to talk about that are she
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  won't relate. It's really three questions to
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  ask. 1 is that every holiday has item.
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  Sukkot has a lot many Throg, ESOC has the sedes and matzah,
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  and the other holidays have the things as well.
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  I shouldn't ask the so far. No Kippur is the Tifila itself.
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  We're in no entire bed with the service.
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  Shabout doesn't really have anything.
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  Yes, it has the Qurban. That's the whole idea of the
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  Omid and that you're counting down to a sacrifice that was
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  born in the bed of Midas. But the outside of that, it
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  doesn't really have any mitzvah item.
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  It represents the holiday. It has customs like staying up
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  all night. It's customs like having dairy
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  or having flowers around the house and on the shore, but it
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  doesn't have an item. That's question #1 let's answer
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  that and there are two more. The other two questions are what
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  is with those other two customs? What's the idea of milk became a
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  significant thing, cheesecake, dairy, etcetera on this holiday?
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  And thirdly, what is this in Yan of flowers and trees on this
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  holiday as well. So first, the fact that there's
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  no item. So the rabbi say like this, the
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  reason Shabout does not have an item to represent the holiday
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  because on the holiday of Matanzura, which is Shabwat, the
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  item is you. You as a Jew are the person that
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  was born anew on this day. You became a Jew.
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  Matt on to that is when you went from a nation of the children of
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  Hamid Sakunyang Kovias to become a Jew with a purpose and a plan
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  and a future and meaning and everything came about on this
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  day. So you don't need a love to
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  shake or matsati or anything else.
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  You yourself are celebrating you and because of that, what we do
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  is do more of us. We eat a lot, we enjoy
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  ourselves. That's Allah and we learn a lot
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  and we spend time at Jewel. That's also bringing out the
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  full you and the new spiritual version of a Jew postmatan to
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  that. That is really the idea and the
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  theme and the feeling that the president was to have a shall
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  vote. You should have a good sense of
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  pride of what you're holding, thrilled that you're in this
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  position, appreciative that God blessed us to be in this room.
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  That is the you compare yourself to the rest of the world.
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  If you want any more confirmation to this concept and
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  say look what I look like, look what they look like, look what
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  I'm working on look what they're working on.
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  Look at my children, look at their children on and on and you
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  have the floor appreciation right.
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  Like I mentioned that you're my morning.
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  The classic Ammara of yourself says on this day I have the
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  greatest delicacies because of love how you're mop now for this
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  day, call me or set me up Ashoka.
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  How many, O sefs? I'm like any other Joe in the
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  marketplace. If not for this day, I would be
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  like anybody else. Instead, I became rabbi
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  yourself. I became a rabbi from the
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  Gemara. I have a whole world of Torah
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  and of life and of meaning. And that's the overall theme.
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  So number one, we don't have an item on chavoot because we are
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  the item. That's number one.
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  And we're celebrating who we are and we will hold #2 What about
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  the fact the custom that we do have, which is the flowers?
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  All we have flowers. The kids come home with plants
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  and flowers. Really, plants and flowers are
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  two different things. But why do we have it?
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  So the overall theme is #1 I'd said it, we were judged on the
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  fruits of the tree. OK, number one.
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  Number two, and there's more important, is that Hardesty
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  night, there's a starting point. Matanzo da was a reset to the
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  world. What does it mean reset to the
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  world? God made it that by Hardesty
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  Night everything was perfect, literally perfect.
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  How perfect was it? The deaf were able to hear, the
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  blind were able to see. Those were were disabled, were
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  able to walk. There's no tissue, there's no
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  imperfection at all. And harassena, it was the basuk,
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  says Harut. The the the hot were carved and
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  we read the words Harut which means we were free of any
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  issues. It was impossible at that time
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  for a Jewish person. Any person was by our sandwich
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  was an entire Jewish nation, which by the way was all of our
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  souls were all they're all perfect in both the spiritual
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  and physical sense. There was 0 blemish and that
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  included temperature was perfect.
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  The environment was perfect. The ground is perfect.
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  So even the ground, which is a mountain in a desert, which is
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  completely bare and could not grow anything, was able to
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  sprout beautiful flowers. And that was a sense and a
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  display of perfection. In the same sense, it also
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  sprouted a great smell. It also had the most powerful
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  sound of Hasheda Matanzarov, the most amazing sight.
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  Every sense was perfect. There's none area in existence
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  that didn't exist then in the photo's form, people,
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  temperature, ground, sight, smell everything.
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  So because of that, we bring in the the, the flowers to bring
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  out that by heart scene night, there were flowers, not just
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  flowers. It grew to perfection.
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  And that's also a theme. What does that show that's
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  materializing the behind the scenes of matanzo, which means
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  behind the scenes of Torah's purpose.
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  We know that when we whenever we delve into it, we feel that then
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  we go back to life and we deal with life's in a certain sense,
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  imperfections. You got to deal with this one
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  and that wonderful Angel challenge and health challenge
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  and all these different things. But behind the scenes of Tuda is
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  still perfect. So it's like by harassing about
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  Matan Tuda, the beauty and the profession of Tuda push through
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  and we're celebrating that on on this day that we know that
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  underlying underwater, but yet on the ground we have
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  perfection. Yes, at times it doesn't fully
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  display itself, but we know it's really there and we're living
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  with that beauty. We sense that unshaveled in the
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  same sense as the idea of dairy. Why we have Kalabda many reasons
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  we said I'm sure that morning by the Kedush.
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  One reason is because my army sale came back from my town to
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  DA. They had to keep kosher now and
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  it was very difficult to kosher your pots much more confident
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  comes to me when it comes to dairy.
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  It's much easier to keep kosher dairy than it is me.
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  So they went straight to dairy. Another reason is for you 40
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  days. Thank you.
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  Just thinking about you of there were of 40 days Durantia, the
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  word halal it's 4830 and 2 is 40.
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  I say for us Scalabi, we feel good about ourselves. 4040 days,
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  40 days of matanzo. All right, my children is
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  upstairs and 40 days. There are other reasons as well,
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  but the reason that we're going to stick with is the idea that
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  we are brand. I'll tell you two more 1 is that
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  we are brand new children. A child drinks milk.
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  We too, by matata to our grand new best children and the tadaas
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  compared to zabat and khalab. Honey, right, Right.
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  Honey, I'm sorry. That's khalab and dwash.
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  Dwash is honey and khalab is milk.
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  Those last two on the same field, which means there's a
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  beauty and a freshness and a special element to tada we want
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  to appreciate. So we have khalab to represent
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  that. But the deeper the theme is that
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  we're witnessing and crossing into a road of perfection.
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  We're causing into a fresh time of a perfect world.
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  And what we're representing is that we know deep down does to
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  our world is perfect. We know that whenever you I'll
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  give you an example whenever you say if you do to it all you're
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  going to have miracles right in the you're going to have
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  miracles. What is that theme?
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  Why is it that we're going to have miracles if we keep answer
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  is if you learn to that especially the theme is is that
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  we're moving into the perfect world that God created.
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  The deeper ideas is God created a perfect world and he created a
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  perfect compass to that world and the system is if you follow
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  that perfect compass, you step into the perfect world.
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  If one deviates from that perfect compass, compass and
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  they deal with a less perfect version of the world, that is a
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  system. That's how it goes in a deep
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  form. So our idea on Shavuot is to
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  say, I want to represent and to reflect that beauty.
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  I'm going to do so in three ways.
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  Number one, I celebrate myself, Myself in the perfect form.
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  A Jew by Matanzora was a perfect Jew myself in the perfect form.
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  So I don't have matzah and etzorog and things like that.
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  I have myself acting the right way on Shavuot.
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  That's myself in the perfect form.
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  Me with the tada, I celebrate that and therefore I don't delve
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  into other things. I don't focus on other things.
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  I use myself as the item in the midst of if I could dance, I
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  would dance for myself, so to speak.
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  Secondly, I have the flowers. Again, the world was perfect.
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  The world was perfect, we said, in all those different ways and
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  the way people were able to see and hear smell and see and, and,
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  and like we said, see all those different forms.
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  And because of that, we have, we try to have a perfect sight,
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  which is the beauty of the flowers coming out.
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  We have flowers and three, the milk to represent the idea.
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  Now, should you have honey? I could see that now those who
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  add honey to the picture as well.
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  But the theme is again on Chavort by Matanzo.
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  We were babies, brand new babies.
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  We were like we said, we had the beauty of the fact that's a
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  fresh start in every sort of way.
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  And because of that we want to represent that without Mary and
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  our idea. So we have to be here a lot of
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  different ways now more customs and concepts to play into this.
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  But the overall theme is 1 idea shall what should be in our
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  minds but we set and therefore reflection of the perfect world
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  that a Jew lives with. Life doesn't always feel
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  perfect, but deep down there is deep down the structure that we
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  have is a perfect compass than a perfect world.
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  Now what about the fact that I can say for my life doesn't feel
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  perfect. I had this challenge.
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  That challenge once you have to our life, which we all have the
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  imperfections that we sense are part of the to our life's tests,
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  which means if you take a non Jew, someone without to our and
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  you give me his tests. He has financial challenges, he
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  has health challenges, he has relationship challenges, which
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  we all have. So that person, those challenges
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  don't play into his perfect world for us, however, even our
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  challenges play into our perfect world.
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  How so? Because if I have to make money
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  and I'm struggling financially, that's also part of my Torah
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  perfect world. That's building my muna of my
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  perfect world. If I have to deal with someone I
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  don't get along with right, that's also part of my Torah
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  perfect world because I have to fight the ET al ah, and fight
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  for Shalom in the Torah angles of my perfect world.
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  That fits right in. If I have to deal with, then it
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  also a health challenge also part 'cause that's the Usuni.
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  That's a challenges and struggle and muna, et cetera.
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  In that Torah perfect world. It turns out that once you have
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  Torah, you have the perfect world and things are going good
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  and you have the perfect world. When you have to deal with the
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  little issues that you have to face.
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  There is no degree in your life of imperfection that's only
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  built when you have this access, Axel, and you have this compass
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  of the Torah life. And that all happened with my
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  time, Toda. The difference without Torah in
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  existence and with Torah in existence, the difference
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  between the world being empty, hollow, every challenge being a
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  useless headache, every difficulty being nothing, every
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  beauty being also purposeless to the world that we have today,
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  which is one that underlying everything's perfect.
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  The world in itself is perfect for us, and even the challenges
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  play into that perfection and there really is no area that has
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  an issue. Just to prove out that point,
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  Ralphie is set up as a rabbi who's always the one that we
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  quote. He's set up Nah, for this day.
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  I'd be like Angel in the marketplace.
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  So I'm going to celebrate. He's the representative.
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  You know what kind of challenge he has.
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  Rabbie is famous being the rabbi and the gemal went blind and
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  he's famous for being the rabbi who when he went blind, even
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  though he was a humongous teacher and he was the source of
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  much trap for everyone when he went blind around the same time,
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  he if we got all this trap and the Gemara tells us countless
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  examples where he would be sitting and listening and say
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  that doesn't make sense, that law doesn't make sense.
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  And they would tell him doesn't make sense, retorteth us, that
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  doesn't make sense. You're the one who talked to us,
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  and he had to be retaught the entire Torah.
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  That's not an easy life. That's not a perfect life at
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  all, but that is a person. He's the one who celebrated.
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  Why? I don't know the timeline, but I
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  believe you celebrated after the fact.
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  Why? Because the life of a Jew is a
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  perfect life with the perfection, with the beauty, and
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  even with the challenges. And all of this can be reflected
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  and appreciate to that on his heart, right?
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  You speak about perfection and Shalom and Sherlock.
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  Shalom complete. Also if everyone got healed.
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  Yes. What's our cover?
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  Not supposed to. Be.
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  Same idea you want. To know if we can get the same
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  healing. If I don't, we do something like
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  we're supposed to. To bring out the same healing,
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  to marry the same? I'm not sure.
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  I don't know. During the during the I said
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  that we. I don't know.
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  We have in mind for the I. Don't know what the cost of
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  making me it will be. Doesn't make sense.
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  Aren't sure what the world is. Reset will make sense.
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  None of this.