Shavuos: Connecting to the King and Receiving His Torah

In this episode we are learning about Shavuos! What is so special about this holy day? What more is happening beneath the surface than us simply receiving the Torah? How do we link into this chag and get the most out of it? We'll get into all that and more in this week's episode!

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Hello everyone. This is Rabbi Robbie Chernoff, and you are listening to the Hasidist for Life podcast, the podcast where we learn a deep hasidic insight every single week and explore how it can lead us to a more meaningful, vibrant, and spiritually uplifted life. In this episode, we're learning about VUIs. What's so special about this day? What more is happening beneath the surface than us simply receiving the Torah? How do we get the most out of this? Ha? We'll get into all that and more in this week's episode. If you wanna follow along inside, you can open up the VO bet to paid Shin Laed, and the first piece on VUIs entitled Isuo. Or simply go to the show notes for a link to a PDF. But feel free to just sit back, listen, and enjoy the ride. Sadly, there is no sponsor for this week's episode. I can't stress enough that your sponsorships are what make this podcast happen. If you would like to sponsor an upcoming episode of the podcast, please email rabbi chernoff@gmail.com or see the show notes for more details. Thank you in advance for your support. Alright, with that, let's jump into the Devo Shalom on Shivu. We are in vu. We are on the first piece on Vu, in in the additional volumes on page shin in the says. This far, tell us that just like the Torah is eternal Torah, so too is the receiving of the Torahs cabal Torah Eternal. What does that mean? Torah? Every single year there's a brand new fresh Kabbalah Satra. And that that we say in and we call it. It doesn't mean that a established some sort of commemoration for the fact that on this day, way back when we received the Torah, we don't have these commemoration days in Torah, in Judaism, in that way. Every single year it isman, matan. The Torah is being given to us right now on vu. Although your wrote she Cabal Torah and the light of Kabbalah Satra comes down. What he's saying here is very deep. What he's saying here is, is that we often relate to Ka Torahs. We relate to VUIs as the day on which we received the Torah. Back in the day, we're celebrating that Matan Torah happened. On this day, we're celebrating that A Q Boko gave the Torah to Monu on this day, but that's not what it is. It's also true, But every single year after that. The light of Matan Torah comes out fresh. The light of Matan Torah comes out new, and what he's saying here is so deep. The Torah itself comes back down every single year, not that has, there's a new Torah that's coming out every single year, but a new aspect of my relationship to the Torah, a new aspect of the Torah as I receive it based on me. Who I am in my life, how I've worked on myself, how I've worked myself specifically during sphere, oer, and over the entire year. Who am I that's now become this clea, this vessel that can receive the Torah, a brand new Torah for me? And every single one of us is coming out on VUIs, right? We're spending 49 days perfecting ourselves. What does it mean that we're perfecting ourselves over these four, nine days of Sira? Er? I'm forging myself into a vessel. I'm fixing up parts of myself that may have been broken over the course of the year, or may have always been broken. And by making those tik, by making those fixings to the vessel of who I am. When that light of the Torah comes out anew, there's a whole new way I'm able to receive the Torah, bring it into my life. The KA Torah that's happening on Vu is the Ka Torah for my entire year. Last year on VUIs, I received the light of Torah that I, as I was then for that year as it was gonna be. That's the Torah that I received that was going to unfold over the course of the entire year, and I'm showing up to Ka sat Torah. I'm showing up to VUIs this year. And when I get there, I'm a totally different person. And so a whole new reality, a whole new light of Torah for me as I am in this year with everything that the year is going to bring and everything that I'm bringing to the year, it's coming to me in a fresh way. It's the kish of Torah. It's the kish of Ka Torah in my life in a real way. My whole Torah is different For the entire year, we being Bel, our entire year's worth of Torah and potential on this night. That's what we're walking into. It defines our Torah for the entire year. let's go back inside. So he says. Even though when Israel left me trying, according to the mag, they got the Torah on the seventh day of Sivan. It doesn't matter for us. It's the sixth of si rah. He's saying so deeply that. According to the Magen Abraham, the date of Matan Torah, when the Torah was actually given was Zion Sivan. So how could it be that we have VUIs on the sixth of Sivan? Because the answer is because we're not commemorating a day, we're having a experience in real time. So if on VE Sivan, that's when the explosion of Torahs coming out. The commemoration isn't the important part. It's the Cab Torah of right now it's the Cab Torah of this day. It's the cab Torah, as he says here, was bringing out a light of Torah, an aspect of Torah that we may not have experienced before based on this generation that we're in this year, that we're in, specifically me as I am right now, who personalizes Mat Torah, the giving over the Torah every year and aligns it to every one of us and our generation and what we need. You think of over the course of centuries, the Du Torah that have come out, the Nacho himself talks about in his introduction to the beginning of the safer and voracious. How he's bringing out a new aspect of Torah, not a Torah that there never was before. K. A new aspect of the Torah, based on what this generation needs, the Torah is infinite. The Torah comes from an infinite source. It comes from the infinite source of a K, and it's infinite and it speaks to every generation. So how do we see what's in it? So brings out the light of the Torah that always had inside of it. Something would say to us, to me, in my time, in my generation. He brings that out. Now he brings that out. I'm receiving it at and as the says on the would speak and God would respond with a voice. Very beautiful. He says, what is the rah that Mo would speak? And God responded with a voice. He says, what should it say, Mo that Mo spoke past tense and God responded with a voice. He says, no, it says Mo future tense. What's one layer of that that Mosha? Benu is speaking every single year. Ka Torah, a new cab. God's telling us Na Torah, that every single year brand new KU through Moo is gonna speak to us in a brand new way. And we're gonna hear it if we open our eyes, if we open our ears, if we open our hearts, if we open ourselves up, we hear the of Torah. We hear this new aspect, this new facet of Torah that's beautifully coming out, that who's giving us as a gift, an aspect of Torah that always existed, but I never knew. Because it's the aspect that's meant to talk to me in this generation, in this year, in this door right now, and that's coming out to me at Matan Torah. next paragraph, and just like what's coming down on this day of VUIs is the light of the essence of Matan Torah. Rah. All the revelations that took place at Cabala Torah way back when. They're also coming out now. They're also coming out this year, every year on Vu. The sound and the light show. The thunder and the lightning, all the things that came down to KA that we experienced there at Sina are coming out every single year. They're all eternal. As we know that when the BA would learn with. Every time the the father of has, every single time he would sit to learn with this edin. Before he would start to speak, all the edin would stop and they'd hear the thunder and they'd see the lightning. Or maybe they'd see the thunder and hear the lightning, right? They'd experienced Kato, they were bouncing Maca, the tour from the Bato, the whole new Torah of Sida, and they would feel Matan Torah. The room would shake Thunder Lightning. They were mam there in a new way. the says that the OT should go out and see with the crown that his mother gave him on the day of his wedding. What's the day of the wedding says s. Mat Torah is the day of the wedding. Between us, also says the day of the wedding. Between us every single year, this is all happening always, every year at vu. I know I say this all the time, but I think it's so important to reframe that so many of us have this image of Matan Torah that's been given to us in childhood. That's true. It comes from Al, but it's only one side of Al that Ashlui holds the mountain over our heads and he threatens our lives. Take the Torah. I'm gonna kill you. Not even so clear exactly what's happening there, that he held the mountain over us. Ha. Does it mean that he held the mountain over rust? He would drop it on us. Was it somehow maybe curved, like a bowl There's also the Al's beautiful shot even in that direction, which is what does it mean that God held the tour over our heads? It's not meant to be some scary threat. What Q Burko was showing to us, whether he did it literally or metaphorically, or both, he was indicating to us that I'm holding the tour over your head and you have to accept it. Why? Because it's showing you that if you don't accept it and the mountain falls in your head, you die. It's not about threatening you. I'm telling you that the only way that you truly have life in this world is if you have Torah. Without Torah, there's no life for you. In this world, it's not. A threat says the morale. It's a revelation of a truth, and that truth is without the Torah, you have no life. That's what he was trying to show us, even on a level of holding'em out to no overhead. But let's say we even move to other, the yo never gets emphasized. It's the day of the wedding. On PE we go, we connect to ku. There's sources that indicate, and we've said this in other shiam on the other chat in the Hammish Chad and the seh mo that the day of. Was like the engagement between us and then we go through the engagement period over the course of the rest of sphere O make sure we have a short engagement as it always should be. And then we come to Matan Torah. And Matan Torah is the wedding. The dating and engagement is all of the lead up to Matan Torah. But Matan Torah is the day of the wedding. And Akash bur who goes and he takes the mountain and he adorns it with the most beautiful flower arrangement that there ever was in the history of the world, the most beautiful hoppa that there ever was in the history of the world. And he takes the mountain with all the flowers. This a gorgeous haah. And he holds it over our heads as we're about to enter into a marriage with him. And he hands us just like the Hassan He takes the Katuba, the Torah and gives it to us. What is the Katuba? The Katuba is the document that binds the husband and the wife together and defines the parameters of their relationship and the obligations of their relationship and the beauty of their union. What's the Torah? It's the document that binds us to a Q Bku forever and defines the parameter of our relationship and explains to us the beautiful love that comes out when we commit ourselves to each other properly into Aakash. Bural. I wanna marry you. this is what we're entering into in VUIs. The mountains being held over our head and that day of the wedding. The same excitement if you've experienced already when you dance down to your hipa, when you walk down to your hipa. And you're under there with your husband, with your wife. That explosive moment of connectivity and excitement and fulfillment every single year if we're able to open our eyes and see it and open our hearts and feel it. That's what we're feeling at Matan Torah. We're standing there on VUIs Knight. Happens to be that I'm Ada condition at a wedding today. So I, there's a chat with me and the Hasan and the ka. So we were going back and forth last night about some last details, and I think it was the Ka, who wrote any last things that we should know before we Go into Tomorrow. And my immediate answer was, yes, try to get a good night's sleep. It's gonna be a long day tomorrow. The last thing you need to know is try to get a good night's sleep. And you have to emphasize that. Why do you need to emphasize that? Because, and I've experienced myself personally, and I'm sure many pe many of you have who are married. How do you sleep the night before the wedding? You, all you can do is think about it. It's this day you've been waiting for and waiting for, and it's gonna be, it's tomorrow. How do you sleep? Now? You have to sleep in order to be able to be functioning at the wedding. It's very important sleep on the night before the wedding. Um, but you have to say it out loud. Why? Because who can sleep? So what happens? Shivu comes every year. How can you sleep? I'm about to get married to a Q Bku. Of course, nobody sleeps on Shivu night. Everybody's staying up. How can you go to sleep? I'm about to get married to a Q Bku. I'm about to receive the katuba. I'm about to be bound to a kaku again like I am every single year. Hashem bound him for eternity with his truth. The only truth, the objective truth, ultimate truth. The MS of a K in his store. Were gonna bind us together. How can I sleep? We stay up all night learning and learning and studying the Torah, learning him, connecting to him, binding ourselves to him, and receiving the light of Torah that we're gonna have the entire year at this beautiful HIPA that's happening, not that happened, this Huah that's happening every single year on vu. That's the mentality to come in with. There's a lot of reasons brought down about why we have flower arrangements and shuls on shivu and all these things. One of them is, it's APA is to ingrain in ourselves. We're about to get married to a qbo. So he goes on and he says, we're around five, six lines from the bottom of the first column. When it comes to the day of the wedding, there's also an aspect of the fact that the king, he gives everybody anything they want. When the king gets married, the treasuries are open, the doors of the palaces are open. Anything you want, you come to the king. I'm gonna give you, I'm getting married today, whatever you want. I'm gonna give you that. On the day of his wedding, the king always gives endless gift. A poor person. Poor person who's got very small aspirations, very small understanding of possibility. He's lived his whole life. He's poor, he doesn't have anything. All he is is constantly searching for the next piece of bread. A little pr I here or there. He doesn't know. And this ani, the doors of the palaces are open. This guy's struggling for bed every day. So he pushes and he elbows ish, like a good Jew in an re trying to get onto, if ever tried to get to the bus, to bees, right? If you don't use both elbows, getting your son to bees, you're not getting on the bus. So he's had lots of practice for years, right? And he is going and he's elbowing his way through to get to the king. This is his moment. this, this poor person. he elbows when he gets to the king and he can finally turn the thinking and say, please, I just want some bread to live. And so what happens? This poor person comes and stands before the king and says, all I want is some bread to live the next column. So hanu and everybody's standing there burst out into laughter. They're laughing at the guy, why are you crazy? Have you lost your mind? You are poor, you have nothing, and you fought your way into the king on the one day that he's gonna actually let you stand in his presence. And what do you ask for? You ask for bread. That's what you ask for. You could have asked for tremendous wealth and to never be a poor person again, and you asked for bread for a day. Are you crazy? And again, you understand that a person who's obsessively thinking about his next day of bread, okay, yeah. He's in such a small space in his mind, that's all I can ask for. But he missed all the points. He could have been rich for his entire life. He could have ate an elegance for his entire life. He could have gotten a house and had food delivered to his door, to his personal chef to make for him for every single day for the rest of his life. And he asked for a loaf of bread. What's the NIM Show? On this auspicious day that's coming up for us the day of the wedding. So, and even when we talked about it, we focused on the fact that we are getting married to him, but he is also getting married to us. It's the day of whose wedding the king is getting married, and if the king is getting married, then all of the treasuries are open. All of the gates are open. Therefore we need to expand our minds and realize just how much you can daven for just how big it goes. There was many people talk about, speaking of weddings, that when you are at the wedding, when you're under the. That all the shamai is open and you momish have to da in for everything. When you're under your, you've been under your, you may have experienced this, that when you're under yo, you go and you da in for everything. So at the very least, hopefully you get in the head space, you're ding for shamba, you're da for parsa, you're ding for Nia, you're ding for. children. You're ding for a bias of shalom. You're ding for all these things for your house. And if you expand your mind even further, again, the idea that you recognize you before the king, you're ding for cla. So you're ding people who are sick, You're ding for shiku, for people, you're ding for people who are have torus go even bigger. I forget who said this, maybe it was, and Michelle, I think he said, you are under. The king's open all the gates. Why are you ing for gula diving for everything under the hoppa. There was a guy, my rabbi told me this once and he said that he was talking to him. He said, so what did you daven for at your wedding? And the guy said to him, I dunno who the guy is. The guy said to him, I froze. I froze under my cuppa. I couldn't think of anything. So I said, I just said Ash, like 10 times. And my rabbi said, he smiled at him and he looked at me and says, all he said under is cuppa was ing. He had an opportunity to top everything but that. That's the ani Who's asking for the loaf of bread? If we don't prepare, if we don't open up our minds, yeah, you're gonna send to the cuppa ne and you're gonna say Re and that's it. You're gonna show up to shivu. Threatening gonna say, I got a sparkle, can teach me a pus. And I go A sparkle going a pu. I wanted to give you spar this year. I wanted to give you citrate Torah. I wanted to give you an ability to learn of that you never thought you could conquer. To make multiple, to do omi, to finish all Ana, to go in, learn all the ish to open up a safer of of the schlock cutters, whatever you wanna do to read Z. You. The whole gates are open and you ask for a pu, you get under your cup and you say astray. We're coming to Shivu to come and ask. He's quoting here from the davening of the, what do we need to Davin for? Here are the words, and it's in the sit. We just don't pay attention to it. What do we say has means? Load us up, not give us a little bit. No. Think big. It's VUIs. It's the wedding. The king's getting married whose gates are open? The Nu load us up, load us up on VUIs at with the, what's the, the Is Torah. Load us up on Torah. The vu. How does the K describe the corban of Vu? You're gonna bring a brand new em. Why? Because it's all about, it's all about something new. Vu is bringing out newness, so we bring a minha, a brand new Min,'cause we're getting a brand new aspect of Torah in our lives. A min, he says even deeper than that. I should, I should let him speak first. He says. I'm bringing a corban of his conscious of newness of renewal. That's the miha of bu that ma, I should be a whole new person. That's what I'm ing for Whoever I was, I learned so much this year. Em, I learned so much this year. I could say to myself all about, say to ourself, em, everything that I learned, but how much more could I learn? I wanna be a whole new person who can learn two times as much, five times as much can open up. Those farm I never dreamed of can make those I never dreamed of can complete this farm that I never dreamed of. It's a, the gates are open, the rah, and let's say my previous voice wasn't so tremendous. Last, say last year I had an off year, or last year was even the year before my Shana Olive, or last year. maybe the way it fell out, I was in finals and I was totally stressed out and I wasn't able to focus or something was crazy, was going on in my life and I tried to stay up and I sat there for five minutes and then I, you know, I napped on the table for six hours until chakras, like, whatever. I had a bad ous last year. It can happen. It doesn't matter why, because this year is brand new. This year's all new. It's a newness of renewal. It's a brand new that this year should be on the level of the day of the wedding. The Torah was commanded to us through Mosha, an inheritance for the congregation of Yaakov. So says the g re don't call it an inheritance. It's a ora. It's binding us. it's a Be patrol though. It's a connection. It's a union of marriage. Between me and him, it's the kaba. The, when we receive the tour, I need to spend the level of a marriage. That's how much, how excited we are. it's beautiful to focus on making sure that you have the most expensive and fancy and perfect cheesecake for shivu, and that you've got all of your fancy coffees lined up and that you've got all of your. I, we got some Brits here. Your essential teeth lined up also with the caffeine that you've got. Your crumpets also, if you need them, that's fine. And I respect that, right? You've got everything. You make sure you've got all of that going right? In certain places, you have like sushi, you have barbecues. It's like it's all about the food, which is also true. Meaning why do we go to weddings? Most us go to weddings because we wanna go for themore, and I hear that there's an element of truth to that as well. But Why do we go to the wedding? We go to the wedding to and when you go to your own wedding. So it's actually interesting. I didn't think about it this way, but it's actually true. You know who the only two people are who really don't get to eat at the wedding? They don't eat. They're fasting until the, during the first course they're taking pictures. Then they come out and there's a singing and the dancing they have to pose while they're doing hamotzi for like 20 minutes. Then there's the second round of dancing. You push a don't eat at your wedding. Fun fact, if you're not married yet, don't expect to enjoy the food. You don't eat ba at your wedding. Ah. So decide perhaps in a different way of thinking about it, who do you wanna be? The ous? Are you attending HaBO, who's wedding to Israel and therefore hanging out at the smog the entire time? Or do you don't even remember the Schor? You don't even remember the meal. Why? Because you were the Huan. You were the column. That's how we should come into VUIs. Be prepared not to eat. It's okay. You can have the cheesecake have the coffee, of course, but, but that's not the point. If you macala, the last thing you're thinking about is the food. You're thinking about the greatness of the day. That's where it's at. That's where you're at. And to get into that zone to come in, ready to learn. Excited to learn. Focused on learning, focused on being maca, the light of the Torah. Binding myself to Aakash who threw the Torah itself. next paragraph. Another aspect of what comes outta Ka is like the Mera says that at the time of rah raised were raised up to the level of mal like angels. Kim says, said, you were like, God, you were Chen. You were like, God, you were lofty To that extent. And like children on high, were you like all descriptions of us being like Ma says. I just, I read the entire Gamara that's being quoted that he's gonna comment on. What does the Gamara tell us? Why Gamara tells us. The Gamara says that when we came to Matan Torah, we're standing there and speaking to us. We heard God speak to us. It was such an overwhelming spiritual experience that every single time a Kaku said a word, an the an slammed into us, purified us, elevated us to Achim, that our soul flew out of our lowly physical body and was shredding up the Shama and the Alkin freaked out. I'm embellishing a little bit on the gamar, but it's embellishing in the way that's baes. But the Mafar talk about these things that, that our soul goes up to a theum start freaking out because if all of goes up to Shaim. There's no klaw show in the world. There's no klaw show in the world, and the world ceases to exist. We're the reason why the world keeps going. So the malkin would cease to exist if we cease to exist. So the malkin jumped down and they grab our souls, and they shove our souls back into our bodies. Like, whoa, that was crazy. That was wild. What happens, GoPro says, after Anki Hashem, whole thing happens again. Social side of our bodies go up to their mind. Then locking'em down, push it back in. El the entirety of the first two deros. That's why after the first two deros, we turned to Mosha and we're like, listen, Mosha, this was Valdi. This was wonderful. It was very nice. Thank you for the experience. It was nice to see what must look like when my, my soul leaves my body to get to see my body for a bird's eye view. Very nice. Experiencing death was so interesting. Can we, can you just get the other eight and bring'em down and we'll take your word for it. Like, we, we died every time Hans Burko spoke again. We died in the sense that our hamma was so purified that it elevated itself to Akj Burko, but we died. It was a crazy experience. And so the machi came down and put the souls back into the bodies. So what's he gonna comment on here? said, what did he respond when he said that? The, I don't understand. We heard the words, those words purified our bodies, let alone our souls. I don't understand. Since the rubbing, how could the maim have dared come close to our bodies at Matan Torah when they were so purified by being in the presence of the Torah and the words of. And that's just talking about our bodies. That's the level of purification and loftiness that we experience on the day of Matan Torah. And he then came back and said, without getting into the nuances of the words here, he's saying that. The entire world, like we said before, continues to exist and survive only because OL exists. And so on a play, on the word he's saying that the Malaki brought our souls back because in order for them, like we said before, to continue to exist, they needed us to be and to continue to draw forth the shefa, the Beso from Akko and keep the world going. so they pushed our souls back into our bodies to keep us here so they could continue to exist. What we can learn from this question and this answer of the next page, just to understand the tremendously lofty level that we were. Rah, it says that it should have been the end of days. At that moment, had we lived up to Rahs, had we not also then fell into, but had we experienced RAH and lived up to Rah, we could have moved on to we right there we were on such a lofty level. Next paragraph. All of the seven heavens opened up and all of the depths opened up and everyone saw a, there's nothing other than a Q that everything that is, it's a, it's just an illusion in the of things deep down in the, of things that we'll see in clarity in the world to come. It's all oneness. It's all. You have been shown in order to know that Hashem is God and there's nobody else but him. There's nothing else but him. And since every single year, the revelation of the Torah comes out again, fresh and new. We receive the Torah, the light of the Torah comes out fresh and new on vu. On if we train ourselves, we work on ourselves. If we come in prepared, we can open up our eyes and we can see one night a year. We can see the seven heavens open up and we can experience the oneness of a K. That oneness that we see when the seven heavens open up and we experience him, and we hear him, and we look at his Torah, which is a reflection of his infinite reality, which is impossibly him, revealing himself to us, his oneness to us somehow in that infinite reality of Torah. This is the greatest thing by a Jew. It says in when he passed away, Amar, he said. When Mo is gonna die, he turns to, and this is a deathbed request of moo. Let's take some mo. He says that I'm about to die. I have one last request of you before I die. I am begging you. Please open up all of the gates, open up all of the depths, open up and show the whole world that there's nothing but you. On all of the, we asked for one thing, just for the seven heavens to open up just to see the one. As the very famous story of the, that there was one time where the upper world shook with his. Until he screamed has, please just reveal yourself to us now and night like you revealed yourself to our forefathers on aina. Went on and said mad and he kept diving further until he turned up and he said, ah, I see the living God I'm seeing. And at that moment he had these most tremendous visions of truth and clarity from a Q that we can't even comprehend. The goal is to see the what of why are we learning Torah. Rah, very nice. But what are we learning? What's the goal? What's it about? What does the give it to us for? It's a wild Gamara. Gamara, it says, what's the first word of the S? The first word is an, and it's very strange because in general the Torah never wastes a word or even a letter. And for the Torah to say in the first word of the ros, an extra letter is crazy. What's the extra letter? It says, just say so. It's a short gamar and the short ones you gotta watch out for. Those are the ones that pack the biggest punch, say in very few words. You have to spend your whole life opening it up says is, is an acronym for. I, myself or my soul, I myself. Did I write and give? If the gamar didn't say it, it would be fear to say the Gamar says, I myself, did I write somehow impossibly into the Torah and give it to you? Clara, what are we really learning Torah for? We're studying God. We're learning God. We're intimately getting to bro, what's impossible for us to know the infinite. So bro says, great. It's impossible for you to know me so I'm can do anything that are impossible. I'm going to impossibly put myself, so to speak, whatever it means. I don't understand. I'm gonna put myself into the Torah so you can get to know me, so you can learn me, so you can connect to me. The seven heavens open up and we see a Q burko and what more could we want in life? Can you imagine if we just saw Q Burko for an instance, our whole lives would change. How could you ever sin again? How could you ever do anything but v Hashem again? How could you not just commit yourself to the creator who gives you life with that? Just have that. We know it. We know it in our minds. We know it in our hearts, but to know it in our bones, to see it, just let it movin was begging. Everybody's begging. Just let us see it for a second.'cause then our whole world would change. How could we ever not connect to you? We, our whole life would be all you learning, you getting close to you, connecting to you to see you for a minute. So on VUIs, we're ing for that clarity. But neba, if you are a me, maybe some of you that we don't get to the level where on VUIs night you turn up and you see the seven heavens open up and you see the reality. There's nothing but a Q. So what do we have? We have his tour. We have his tour where he reveals himself to us. And if you dig and dig and dig. Says to turn it and turn it because everything is in it. You turn it to when you look, you see the oneness of ajo come out. You see the light of the oneness of ajo come out. And so whether we're seeing the seven heavens open up, or whether we're opening up the Torah and we're seeing the oneness of Ajo through the Torah, we're seeing God's oneness. And when you see God's oneness, you see that he is everything. He gives everything life. He loves us. He cares about us, he wants to connect to us, and all we have to do is love him, connect back to him through the ways that he gives to us in his very Torah. With that clarity, how could you not be learning Torah your whole year living Toro, your whole year serving K your whole year? It's all coming out from that clarity of VUIs, of mat Kato, the to itself. We'll stop here. VUIs is such a tremendous day. It's such a tremendous day. And like every holiday, like we said before, there's the distractions. There's the cheesecake and the coffee and the barbecues and the sushi and the friends and and shul hopping and this. Yeah, there's always distractions and the distractions are always gauss. The VUIs. Let's put the Gaius aside. Let's clear our minds. Let's take the last week that we have now in front of us. Whenever you're listening to this, whether it's a week or a few days, or maybe it's just a few hours, you an Irish VUIs, doesn't matter. However much time you have clear that space in your mind and in your heart. Harness everything you've accomplished over sphere, asa Oma, to make yourself into a vessel, the new vessel you've made out of yourself over CSA Omer. And if you haven't done anything yet and you only have a few hours left, fine for the next few hours, sit down, be the potter, be the blacksmith. Whatever it is, forge your vessel. Vessel of iron, vessel of gold vessel of pottery, whatever it is inside of you. Imagine yourself, visualize it, but do the work and clear the space inside of yourself to receive the Torah, and then walk into VUIs, walk into the Y of Thea. You are walking in and realize that I'm clearing space, that I'm walking into shul and I'm walking them into the base measures for all night learning. And or if I'm not all gonna be there all night for however much learning I'm gonna go there for, I'm going in to learn. And to be Maca, the Torah. That the Torah is that katuba that's binding us to wa Kko. I'm watching the seven Heavens open up. I'm binding myself to wa kko, I'm ning my heart up because since the king is getting married, all the gates are open and I can ask for anything in Torah that I want, anything in life that I want, but anything in Torah that I want can ask for this night. I'm redefining my whole relationship to Torah on this day to walk in and do that. Even on a level, don't just grab a safer off the shelf and say, okay, I'll run a little bit. Or I have a test coming up. Whether it's in, if you're NYU or in tour or whatever you have a, bina in college or whatever it is, I'm gonna study for the test. Forget the test for a second. You have something that you know, you were supposed. Forget what you're supposed to learn for a second. Sit in front of this farm and say, ak, what safer am I gonna open up? And I gonna learn in a whole different way. It's gonna be the safer of this year. It's gonna have, see if that helps Define this year. An aspect of Torah that I never thought I could learn, that I wanna learn that all I wanna do is connect to you, to va, to give me a clarity of Torah. And I never thought, don't just pick a book off the shelf. Don't just go to a shul and then. And I say this respectfully, and if that's your way to connect, then good for you. Don't necessarily just hop from sheer to sheer to sheer to sheer and the schedule that the shul put out for you. If you're not connected with the topic of the sheer, it's okay. You can open up a safer. Ah, but how can I open up a safer? I don't. It's VUIs. Shivu is everything. Yes you can. It's cabal Torah. There's nothing you can't do. And it's in to and tell the to. If there's a shear that doesn't speak to you, don't go to the shear. Go to the base. Me rush. Open up a safe here. Don't learn the thing that somebody told you to learn. Open up the Torah that's in your heart and bring in a whole new Torah into yourself and open up a whole new cabal to of yourself that you never could have imagined. Whether it's through some of those Reem, whether it's through a safe, see the seven Evans open up, receive the katuba. Bind yourself to a ask your husband who is the king for everything you ever wanted to connect to him and to hear from him and to relate to him and the tour that you want from him. Then it will transform our year in our Alma Torah, our, our connection to, to allow us to fly in Torah, to learn Torah in a way that's totally new. And through that elevate everything that we do in everything that we are for the coming year by all of us. 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