Sukkot & Simchat Torah: The Joy of Living with Hakadoh Baruch Hu

In this episode, we are learning the Nesivos Shalom on Sukkot and Simchat Torah!

If you want to follow along inside, it is in Nesivos Shalom Chelek Bet, on page kuf peh tet (189). You can find a pdf of the piece here.

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Hello everyone. This is Rabbi Robbie Chernoff, and you are listening to the Hasids 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 week's episode, we'll be learning the Nativo Man and Simcast Torah. If you'd like to follow along inside, you can go to the show notes for a link to A PDF, but feel free to just sit back, listen, and enjoy the ride. This week's episode is anonymously sponsored for your Fu Shama, for Sara Basol. And Shalom for all of Clare, thank you so much to this week's generous sponsor. Please note that we'll actually be on a break for a couple of weeks in Amir Em Return for par. With that in mind, we're actually looking for sponsors for the new year. if you would be willing to support this podcast and sponsor an episode, it would mean so much to me and truly keep this podcast going. Please email Rabbi chernoff@gmail.com and let me know an episode you would like to sponsor. you so much in advance for your support. Alright. With that, let's jump into the Devo Shalom on and Sim Torah. We are in the Devo Shalom on ku. We are in the second of the additional volumes bet. The first piece on on page UF and the first subsection of that ko. That is an aspect of the day of the joy of the heart. Let's see what that means. The says that three times a year you shall see every one of the, of each one has a unique, a unique aspect to it. Ham that lights up a Jew in this aspect. This is the thing which it lights up in this Jew where that light will sustain them for the entire year till the next time we come back around to that. And that's the essence of the, and we have to understand that KO specifically is the time of our joy established in art where it says, gave us with love, meaning we say he gave us meaning just as essential as the idea or the essence of freedom is to pe. PE is all about freedom on every level. The true essence and the true meaning of freedom. We leave ra, but it's not just that we leave a land. The essence of what it means to truly be free is encapsulated by PE and comes out in pe. That light comes out on PE and we feel the reality of freedom for the entire year from pe. This and VUIs is the time that we get the Torah and the whole light of the Torah for the new year for us comes out at VUIs and sustains us for the year vis. so too is therefore is mate, which is really strange when you think about it, right? When you reflect on that, we feel inherently that the idea of freedom is linked to Pesa. We were slaves in Egypt and then we became free. We didn't have the Torah before Matan Torah, and we had it after Matan Torah. You wonder, the, an ola got so locked into the main essence of the by Pesa and by Vu you almost feel like they fell asleep at the wheel. When it came to Suki. There were so many options for tro. There were so many things that Al could have linked into when getting into what Suga is about. It seems almost lazy to call it. We say All. All. So why is it that they settled on, I mean, the obvious answer is, is that no, it turns out that just as essential and inherent as freedom is to pe and just as essential as Matan Torah is to VUIs somehow the yian, the idea, the reality of s of true joy. Is the essence of what Suku is really about. And the question is, why? What does that mean? And that's what he is asking here. We have to understand why is specifically KO the time of our joy? Why is that the essence of the ha? And as we already hinted too, but he's saying here explicitly, the idea of having simha on the holidays is true of all the holidays we named. So why are we singling out specifically KO to be the time of Arjo? Next paragraph. In particular, we have to understand the intensity of the simha when it comes to the ni. All throughout the year, there were libations that were poured on the mi and those ni, those libations were always of wine. And there was this tremendously sim that was only brought on ku. There was this libation that was only brought on ku. That was the ni. We poured water on the mi and in fact, even to today, right? We have a concept of sim Beva, Simva, and some of us may have them in our local communities. They come to Ral and especially in y there's crazy wild, amazing, just full sim beta EVAs that we go to. They're full of simko. We know we are going to have a party in a ska. It's gonna be wild and crazy and beautiful and full of singing in the gun and, and, and, and Vegas. And like, you know that when you go to these things. It's called sim, the sim of the drawing forth. Drawing forth what? On the simplest level, they, they would draw forth the water to do the ni that's the source of this sim. So there's a tremendous sim and there's tremendous sim specifically linked to this idea of the ni of this pouring of the water on that would happen only on, it was unique to would say, and this is again where these come from, that a person who never saw a simva, the joy of these, of these celebrations of the ni in the be a person who's never seen it, has never truly seen simha in their entire life. This is somehow the epitome of Simha. Why was it called? AMI says not because they were drawing forth water. That's not the reason why they were called the simva. They weren't drawing from below. They were drawing from above. They were drawing down KO at the Eva. It was this like incredible superal experience of joy. Vi and it's talks about who came for one, who came for to the be, and he was there for one of these and he just because he was able to get into this, says on this topic, even though there's a mitzvah on every single hag to be, to be with joy when it comes to, there was even a bigger than any other of them, ragone. So what does this mean? I think now the N's gonna come to explain. Great. So we see that there's this clear, this intensity of sims, not just again, like we were kidding around before that the Ola just picked the simplest, lowest hanging fruit. No, they were digging into the essence of the kag and we're seeing that through the ni mayim and through the sim, the Eva and through the Russian of the Rambam. Clearly everybody understood there was this deep RA associated with Suki that makes it in its essence, what is that about? So what does this mean? Not that there's an additional mitzvah to also be happy. The reality of is it's a reality of sim doesn't have sim is sim. As he explains there also, that was, I assume this is the ram he's talking about, that the ram I think goes on there and keep saying no. And even after they would go and they would bring the corban, they would bring the afternoon sacrifice and then they would go in all into the night. They would go and have a sim through the entire night. They would use all the instruments and get all into it. It was a huge, huge party in the, in the positive sense of the word. It was ma party. Mva, there's a mitzvah to get into the sim and not everybody could get into the sim. The, I think we're still in the Ram ba. Not everybody was able to get into the sim. It wasn't for everybody. It's top of the next column, Ella. It was the Ole of the Israel vo. In the heads of the Yeshivas, the greatest of the people. These were the ones who were monish singing and dancing and truly getting into it. It was, it was reserved for the people who are most linked in, who could most plug in. They were the ones who would really get into it. They were the ones who were part of this. Tremendous. Again, that's, that's the end of the lesson of the ram bomb. There was, and this time of that was beyond all Theos. That was beyond all the Voda. Ah, and here's what he's, it was all building up to the question that we've been hidden to the entire time. We need to understand there were tremendously lofty times throughout the year. Um, why was the Eva, why was beyond the, that was even more so than any of these other times. So it's much to the point where even preparing for it was so big to prepare for the sim, prepare for the simva. We also have to understand, and he also wants to explain, he wants to understand why is it that this whole concept, if the, if this water libation that was only brought on ku, it was such a big simha, if it's so central and so important, why is it only hinted to in the Torah and never said explicitly? It's hinted to in the, and said at the beginning of ma, but it's never said explicitly. If it's such a big thing, why is it only hinted to in the Torah and not said explicitly? Next paragraph. So we can understand this idea at the end of Tan It a from which says, it mentions the day of the wedding and the day of the joy of his heart says the Ga. What is, what's the day of the wedding Rah? The day of the wedding is Matra. Kku takes the mountain and holds it over. Our heads like the most tremendous and beautiful hupa in the history of the world. And there under the hupa of Hasina, we get the Torah, which is the Kaba, which binds us to a forever and ever the day of the wedding. That's Mat. So then what's the day of the sim? The joy of his heart. That's the day of the building of the Be. The reality of the, is the reality of the joy of the heart. What this means is desperately wants, he wants to have a place to dwell even here in the lower world, here in the physical world, ra, and that's a revelation of the deep love between a and this aspect of like after the wedding, meaning there's a progression here. There's y nato, there's the day of the wedding, which is VUIs, which is Matan Torah, and that leads to yli, the joy of the heart, which is the how does one lead to the other? Because where does the wedding go to? The wedding doesn't stop at the wedding. Lum, the marriage is the end of maybe the tireless process for the engaged couple. They can finally exhale and, get a little bit of relief, right? But it's just the beginning. It's the beginning of a lifetime of marriage. And we go from the wedding and from the Hoopa, which is this mini structure and reality, which everybody gets to be, see and be a part of. And then there is the coming into the home of the building, the home together. And that's forever. That's the work for the rest of the lifetime is building the home together. And so we go from. To me seems to be the meaning of a Q Bojo in the engagement to a Q Bhu. It. We can discuss that another time. That seems to be, to be the case. and sources and Al indicate that, like it says that making vu making, um, couples is as difficult as fu as the beginning of Masaka. Sota seems to be that there's a coupling aspect, there's an engagement aspect to, um, and which is all of which is all of Pesa. And then we come and we finally get married in the second holiday. We get married to OQ at Vu. And then what's, what's then, then we go and we have the coming into the house that's already beyond, that's the next stage. That's the last stage, the most lofty stage of the process, not the excitement and the butterflies of first meeting and the dating and the engagement, not the intensity of the wedding, but the lifelong commitment and the development of love that happens in the context of building and generating a home together. That's where the true aava really comes out. That's where the Aava develops. That's the famous that it says that when he met Raha, he took Raha into his tent and then Vaha, and then he loved her. The Aava only came afterward. In Judaism, we understand what happens before marriage is some sense of excitement or longing or butterflies or whatever it is, but that's not love. Love only begins within the context of the commitment of building a home together within the context of the commitment of building a life together in that home. And we move from Pesach to VUIs and then we come to Suku and I'm, I'm dunno exactly who he's gonna take it and we'll see how he takes it inside in a second. But that's what KU is. That is Suku. Suas is we go and I have this house that I've lived in my entire life. However many years I've lived here, my stuff is here and I have my routines, and I have my shtick and I have my hangups about this. And this has to be a certain way. And I, and I'm stubborn about that, all of these things. And I go to who says, no, no, no, we just got married. It's time to leave your house behind. And we go and we build a mini home. Because when you first get married, you have no money. And your first apartment is always, you know, it's, if you're lucky, it looks like a suka. And you come out to this brand new home that you make this home of CAA that's brand new, fresh. It's none of my routines, my stuff, my space, the way I like to do things. There's no preconceived notions. And I walk fresh and clean out of the joy of the, into the bias. The bias. Ra, I walk into the bias with. I walk into that ska. That's what the ska is about. It's the simha of the aava of coming together and uniting. It's not the explosive excitement of the marriage, which is very public. The marriage is very public. It's a very intimate moment, I, I was zha to be at the wedding of a very, very treasured alumni. This is in the last few years, let's say. He, and he was trying to get married for a while, And, uh, for him, it was a long time in his mind. And I remember that Hoppa is seared in my mind, watching. He, he goes into the hopa and then he, then eventually she walks from the second that she walked down the island, walked to the hipa. At the hipa, the two of them locked eyes. I dunno if they have any idea that there were brahas made wine drunk. I don't if they have anything or anything. They were just eyes locked for the, the entire time there. I didn't know that they knew there was an audience in attendance at their wedding, you know, and it's, and that was the first time I liked to that intensity like that, that, and you know, they, just to watch this couple who had so much wanted to get married so long and got to that moment, I've never seen two people have that intimacy of locking eyes like that in the public forum with the music and the craziness of the hoppa and just be totally locked into one, one another. And the point is that it's very public. I can tell you about that because I saw it. That's public, which means that by definition, it's not truly intimate. The intimacy comes after the wedding when the Hassan and the Kala are able to go to that home and have the. Privacy and the intimacy and the aloneness to develop that relationship in a way nobody else has access to. Nobody enters, nobody sees. That's the suah, that's the joy of the suah. We turn around to our house and, and, and I, and I'm looking around this room that I'm sitting in, right? I've got my desk and I have my farm exactly where I want them. And my, my cup is on my coaster, so I don't get any, any spots on my desk. And I have all my stuff on the side that I need over here, and everything in my drawers, I've got, I know where everything is in this room. Leave it behind you. Go out to a bunch of wooden walls and that every once in a while drops a piece of leaf or a piece of, you know, bamboo onto your table. And sometimes there's a little bit of wind and sometimes there's a little bit of, it doesn't matter. But, but what do I do? I'm not used to this environment. Of course, you're not, you shouldn't be. I'm building my home fresh with the QIII encourage all of you at some time over ku, enjoy KU with your family and your friends, and have guests, and it's amazing. At some point, sit in the suka by yourself when nobody's there, and be alone with a q. Be alone with a Kash in the suah in an all new environment that you haven't been in in a whole year. Remember we said that the, the light of the HA in that way gives you the light you need in that way for the entire year. It's been a year since you've last been in the suah. Go in the Suah with that mentality that you are entering into a bubble of kadu, the kadu of the bias bi. If you wanna Q bku and, and clear your mind of all your thoughts and recognize that it's a totally new environment and there's no preconceived notions and there's no preset routines, you're creating a whole new reality, a whole new life, a whole new routine and life together with ha q Bku as part of your life with Ha q Bku as part of your routine. You and he are one. You're building. You're starting this new life together. In this new year. You're starting this new life together. You're coming into that. That's a microcosm of the grand scale that he's bringing up here. That was the base for all of cla y Israel as a cloud. We came and built the base. That was our bias, Israel. That was our bias with the Q. That's why there were levels of intimacy when it came to the ba. Also, there were layers and layers and layers to the base mik, and certain people could get to a certain point and certain people go to a certain point, and then you got to the kashian. And the kko in is referred to as the, it's the bedroom. It's the most private, most inner, most intimate chamber of the be of that home, and that's why only the holiest person on the holiest day goes to that of holiest of places. Kipper, only the coin. Gale is a space of intimacy. You don't have multiple people in there. At one time, only the coin GLE enters only when he is totally pure and cleans of his thoughts and committed to a Kadish bar and focusing on him. And he goes into this delicate this's, intimate this special space. The base ofta is the bias of Kaur. When we have the base of Mik, we have she bias with the Q, we have sim, the Q of building the love in that home I don't know if he's going into this, we'll actually go back to the text in a second. But, We just finished Rosh Hashanah Ki they're called the ya. No, there's a reality of Norah of ra. There are days of awe, there are days of fear. There're shaking during these days. Anybody who hears the shofar, that's what we read in the previous pieces. You are the shofar and you shakes says The Ramban judgment is coming. And there's a level of the fact that yo Nato, the day of the wedding, there's an aspect of wedding two matan. There's also an aspect of wedding two, uh, Yom Kipper as well of Yom nato. That's all of the fear and the trembling of either uniting or reuniting with the qbo of doing chuva, reconnecting, dealing with the sins of the past, letting everything go, getting a fresh start. But that's from a place of yra. The movement. It's, so it's, I find that there's often people don't get as much clarity on KU as they have on Ian Kipper because we have all of Ello to prepare for Rosh Hashanah and Hashanah kind of includes UV kipper. And then by the time we listen to all the Shiri on Ell, Rosh Hashanah as kipper, then you've gotta like get the live in that tro build, the suah family's coming. It's like suddenly, like there's no time to, it's like learn Torah. Like there's so much deep Torah here. We're not done yet. It's not the time to sit back and relax in the suah. It's time to enter into the suah beha to move from the days of awe and year and fear. And to transition out of that to the end of the process is the Simha and the aha above no longer having that Yara. We've been cleansed the Q sparkles committing to us and we've committed to him. We're cleansed of our sins and we go into the Soah with Joy and with Simha to connect with him now out of love, not out fear to holiday of love and connectivity. That's where the simha comes from. That's the essence of that Simha. Lets open that up a little bit. We're four lines into the second paragraph, and the second column, like we read before, all wants is to have a place to dwell down here. He wants to live here in the physical world, a place to live here, A place to dwell here. This was a revelation of the love between, again, this is the bringing into the house. That's usually on high. It's coming down into this world. Why to connect with us, that he can bring us into his home, that we can connect and bond with him and be with one with him and enjoy the a the that comes along with that when we're brought into that home. As it says at the beginning of the piece, three times a year everyone goes and sees the face of Hashem, goes and sees to visit him, to be close to him in the, and in the inner most chambers of the referred to as this place that's enclosed with Aha. That's the place of the tremendous outpouring of the love of AK Israel. Everything, everything in the ash was, was hinting to this reality of love that's coming out that's existing between. You have the two. You have the two tablets that are sitting there, and the Torah that are there in the ko, which is what binds us. It's that tuba, that statement of commitment and faithfulness and unity between us that binds us together is in the ko. And on top of that, A there are the uv. The uv, which were these two angelic figures, which miraculously, when Israel would go against the will, they would look away from each other. When Israel would do em, they would look at each other. They would gaze lovingly into each other's eyes, gaze, nothing else to look at. I'm focused on you. I'm giving to you. I'm dedicating my life to you. And the lum, they were bound up one another. They were hugging each other. That's the ava that's coming out of the ash. That's the, the center of the intensity of the intimacy between a, and there's another shot that, uh, that when it says that it's Ava, It means UF is like, is another meaning of the word. Uf is like a fiery cole. It's like a fiery call of Ava in when he has the tremendous vision from where we learned. Kado Kosh from that, in the one of the Malkin's hands, there was this burning coal of fire, which is called a rat. It's the same. There's this fire that's coming out. Another way of understanding that is that it was the enclosure of Ava, but also it was this bursting forth of this fire of love between us and a KU that's coming outta the aka. Top of the next page was also called this innermost chamber. The Hidden Chamber, Again, this is bringing out the love and since it was this outpouring of love and this again, intensity of intimacy, therefore it had a be hidden, hidden away. It's the innermost chamber. You don't want the outer things getting connected to it. The more precious something is, the more beloved something is, the more hidden it is, I remember I once saw, a link to an article that was, um, from wedding photographers, what they know about the couple from being a wedding photographer. And I'm like, that's actually sounds fascinating. Like these are people who spend their whole life basically standing behind a camera and seeing couples on their wedding day. And it's what they know about couples just from what they can learn from taking their pictures on their wedding day. And I was shocked. Secular photographers, no Yiddish kite, no K Doha, no nothing going on here. One of them said, whenever I see a couple that's overly physically intimate, when I'm taking pictures in a way that's uncomfortable, he said almost every single time it ends in divorce. Which is wild. It's totally wild. And what's the idea there? If the couple is totally outward in their sense of intimacy, then that means that their love isn't truly love, that their intimacy isn't truly intimate. If they're sharing it with the world, then the internal world of their relationship isn't truly intact. And the second that they move from the public sphere of dating to the private sphere of having to actually build a home together privately and honestly, and reveal themselves to each other for real, for the first time, the whole thing falls apart. The idea, what he's saying here is is that again, that when, when you have this internal chamber, it has to be intimate, and it has to be private. And the fact that it's intimate and private, that's what shows how deep the love is. The more you care about something, the more you take care of it. The more you guard it, the more you treasure it, the more careful with who you share it with. Even think about yourself, the things that you know about yourself that are the most private, the most intimate, the most personal. Those are the things that you keep in your inner most chamber, that you guard, that you don't share with everyone. You only share with those who you love. And ultimately, the deepest statements of yourself. There are certain things you will only share with the one who you love the most with your spouse. And that's all coming out in the Kode Shaka Dhi. It's the innermost chamber. It's the secret. It's the secret chamber. We can even say that at the dedication of the first, in the times of the dedication of the first base, 14 day, 14 days, the, and the way that the timeline works out there, it gives the dates, is that if they celebrated in 14 days, they ended up having these days of simha and joy and, and feasting. It went over Yom Kipper. They ate and drank in Simha Kipper when the base went up on that first year. Only on the first year. On that first year because the love that was pouring out was beyond. There's no eno, there's no difficulty, there's no challenge. There's no, you know, restraining myself physically. There was an outpouring of love when the base of mesh goes up. 'cause it's a, it's a house of love. It's a house of revelation, of the love in Kaa, to be clear, right? A house of true love of etic, love of du love. And because it was done through the wisdom of Shlomo, it was built through the wisdom of Moham, through the wisdom of David, and with the KAA of David Shlomo and with the KAA of coming along and finally being able to go and build base, and the choice to have that sla and that, that, again, it's not, it's not a party. Let's call a celebration to distinguish it from what we have in our minds is what a party is. It is the celebration of depth of SLA for 14 days, they knew it was fine. Sparkle said, yeah, yeah, yeah. Keep going, keep going. Why not stopping the sim now? Keep going, keep going, keep going. You can't stop. It was beyond all things because it was the, it was the establishing of the connection between a Ka and Claud sa in this world. 'cause love can cover up anything. Love can cover up anything. When you're dating, somebody dating, sorry to break this, some of you, some of you already know this, some of you're still going through it. Dating is one horrifyingly, protracted interview process. And at any time the person sitting across the table cannot get the job right. That's basically what's going on for long. You date that person and until, not until you get the ring on the finger, until you get to the, and that it's, it's everything's up in the air. only at the hook. And then as things change, and at any time the person can fail the interview and you walk away. But once you get married and you bring that person into your home and you go into their home, you build that home together, you build that suah. that you built, that, that shelter of, of, of una and closeness and oneness, that ko together then and only then the love comes out. And then anything you find that afterward. The love covers it up. The love covers it up. The love covers it up. The love can allow you to move past it. The love can allow you to work through it. and not to bury things and not to overlook them and not to, not to push them down. And ignore them, but can allow you to get through anything together because the love then starts pouring forth. You ate on Yom Kippers as a K, but you ate on Yom Kipper because you were celebrating us coming together. Why wouldn't talk about I though? Well diem kipper next year. Don't worry about it. Yo Kipper, well diem kipper next year. Don't worry about it. As a burg, that's what it is. The Ava that covers up everything. The ms, though, the MS covers up everything because it's a real Ava again, not if you're ki don't eat right. We're talking about deciding this on behalf of, with the K who's a seal of approval when the me goes up. Right. We're talking about a unique time. Right. that's one time in all of history we've had such a thing. but that's where they were at. And that's why the day of the going up the is called the day of the sim of his heart. It's the of the heart. It's an eem sim. It's a symbol coming from the la it's Aish coming from the LA says, wow. It says in the Zora it says that that shi was about that time, that it was about the going up of the base Mik. That's what SHI is talking about. That's the depth of the love and the intensity of the love within a Kash and Israel that's producing shi because it's all about this loving relationship between K and Israel because the whole essence of the be is this means through which we bind together. Ha, great. So what does that have to do with me? We've been already relating it to us, but how is he gonna relay that to us? So he goes on and he says, next paragraph. And so this is what and is all about after the, in the days of awe, the days of Europe, like we just talked about through these days of Rosh, where we raised ourselves up and purified ourselves. M the mitzva again, I, I'm sorry, I beat into the punch. I've learned this piece before. That Q who says, come into my home, come with me. Be intimate with you. Now come in. We're past all of the, the dating, we're past all the trials. We're past all the judgments. We're past all the fear and the uncertainty we're bound together we're one. Come into my homes to the Q, let the Ava pour out. It's an aspect of the, look at your, and see, it's an aspect of the, it's a mini in your own backyard for seven days, a mini in your backyard. The says that there's a reality of KAA that comes onto the suah. As Ri puts it, you're entering a bubble of Kaa. Think about that. Reflect on that. At some point in Sukus, when you go into the suah, you're living in a bubble of Kaa, a reality of Kaa. there's a lot to say on this. Not for here, not for now. So much of Sukus is all about the, about Ola hava. It's all relating to the world to come. The time of the gathering. In the end of the year, the end of the cycle, everything is finishing up in the agriculturally in the world. Everything's entering into the dying and moving on phase. Moving onto a laha ba ko. It's the reading of the Maggi. That's an old wise Shlomo looking back on his life and then thinking about what's really meaningful in life as he begins, as he moves into the end of his life. We read about Gogan Mago, the end of Days. It's all future focused. It's all focused on Ola Haba. Ola Haba is a reality of only Kaha and so on. Suki, we get to enter into Ham Haba for a minute. We get to walk into a suah, a bubble of Kaha, and get to be in that reality of Oma Haba. No physical things. No physical stuff. Just four walls. A little bit of bamboo to make sure that I look up and remember that it's just me and a Q. That's it. That's it. Ska is a place of Kadu. Spend a few moments over SKU again with other people. I would say by yourself. One night, go out into the, by yourself, close your eyes, and just get in the zone and realize you're living with a Kash Bar in a bubble of Kaa. it'll change your life. Or at the very least, change your year after all these exhausting days of awe to sit there and then enjoy being with a Kash Bar. It's everything you've worked, or for all of elo and Rosh Hashanah, chuva, KIPP's, everything he worked for you now live brings the I longed for his shade and I sat in it. That's the, I longed for God's shade. I longed to sit under a kbo whose wings and be with him, and I finally was able to sit there and be there with him. This is gonna be our last learning together. I think probably until after um, sim we'll probably start again with Probably Par. So just 'cause he said it here, just to understand the process that he's saying, to embrace that reality of the, is everything that we said. And he's saying that even more, even beyond that, which is a whole separate piece. I'm sure he has pieces in here on it. What comes after kus? We think of it as part of ku, but it's also its own reality. On the one hand is. It's the eighth day to the seven days of ska. So it comes from them. It stems from them, it's linked to them, but the gamar itself struggles with it. It's also at ct, it's its own reality. And part of what we're doing in the ska is acclimating ourselves to this reality of being alone with a Kash Bhu being in this reality of living with a Kash bur who of being intimate with the brohu of being alone. And, and, and the intensity of being close to the Q broho one-on-one and the love and the that comes out of that. There's one step beyond that, and that's er 'cause on sch. There's no more suka, there's no more l love, there's no more tro. All of the mitzvahs, the training rules that we need to go away. Everything, all the physical goes away. And then the full expression of Ola Haba and the Simba comes out of, and we take the safer Torah out of the a kodesh and we put it in the middle of the circle, reminiscent of Ani describes the end of days. It's vision of the end of. Where our Kade Boku himself will stand in the middle of the circle and all the Sadiq will sing and dance around Kash Boku. At the end of days, we take the safer Torah out of the our own. We, it's like the insanity of it. We're so used to it because we don't question the things we've been doing since we've been kids. The craziness of it, the intensity of what we do when we take out the safe Torah. You only take out the Safer Torah on Monday, on Thursday and on Shabbas. And when you take it out, be very careful. Pick which favorite you're gonna take out because if you take out the wrong one and it's the one that's in the wrong place, you can't put it back and switch it. Once you've picked that one, you have to go with it. And we take it out and we put it on the, on the Bema. We put it on the Bema. You take off the cover to read. The second the reading's over, the cover goes back on. Even for the brothels, we don't leave it exposed. You only have uncovered it's special, it's treasured, so it always stays hidden, intimate, internal 'cause Anything that's meaningful in life is intimate and internal. That's everything we've been saying. Everything that brings Simha and Joy and Ava and intensity of love is internal. We're careful with covered up. And then we have this day of the year where we go and it's like, alright, open up the arm Kish, take out all the Sifri Torah and start singing and dancing with them and pass 'em around to everybody. It's like crazy. We're so desensitized, but it's insanity. It's the insanity of Ola Haba. We live in a bubble of condition to train ourselves live with a Kaddish bur when Ola ha za over Suki. And the last, last, last stage is that one last day where we even let the suka drop away and Ltro drop away and everything drop away. And we just sing and dance and truly let loose for a whole day. With the representation of the close thing we have to AK Bku, so to speak, Gamar, to indicate that, that a Kara Bku puts himself in the Torah, whatever that means. We have these representation, so to speak, of AK Bku through the Torah. We put that Torah in the center, and we sing and dance around a ka boku. There's no lu love. There's no etro. There's no sah. There's just the intensity of just being with a ka boku forever and ever. But where does that come from? How can I possibly enjoy and understand and relate to and connect to the reality of Sim Torah and the singing and the dancing? How can that be meaningful to me? Why don't I, I mean, why shouldn't I just be like bored and worn out after three or four minutes or even 30 seconds if you build up the intensity of that love with a Q Bhu and living with him and being close to him in the suka in that home? Over the course of Suku, then you can even let all that fall away and truly just, just shoot up into orbit, shoot up into, shoot up into Shamma. Should Oma Haba that's what s really bad. I wouldn't have gotten into that now, but he, he mentioned that here. That's even like that last step that goes even beyond even beyond's rah, but it's all relating, it's still Sini, it's building off of everything that we've worked to accomplish over kus, which is coming into the home building that love and connecting with him in a way of ka doa that allows us to truly experience ku. In fact, one of the reasons, and maybe I'm wrong and maybe I'm projecting, but from what I've seen, one of the reasons I think why so many people have trouble connecting to Sim Clara and why ne there's also a lot of negative associations of people drinking on sim Clara. There's no head that're drinking on sim. I, I think a lot of that comes from the fact that like, people are so just. Inundated with, with, with people training them in Rosh Hashanah and kipper and shi kipper and the intensity of rhan kipper, and they're just like exhausted. And then Suka becomes this sort of release, just exhale and chill in the suah. And then God knows what the heck story is. And there's this lost beauty of, of what everything. It's So Judaism isn't Rosh Hashan kipper, it's Rosh Hashanah t kipper as a means to get to ku. The reason we go through all of the judgment and all of may be mahu and all of the crying and all the is so we can reconnect with him, reconnect with him in Simha and joy, and then let that all fall away and just be with him for eternity and alba. But we're so ex, we as CLA Israel tend to be so exhausted by the time that we just, we never bother to get into it. And it hurts me every year that we miss it. We miss it as CLA Israel. So some parts of Lysol, we miss it. Hopefully us together in our learning what we're doing. Even just now, this one small piece on KU and sim Tora should transform when we think about it, that we're continuing that journey where kids don't let the fatigue set in. You can be exhausted at partial gracious. You can be exhausted on, on, on Israel of Sim Torah. Then you can exhale. Then you can then, then you can gather together all of the clothing that you schitz through for the last eight days in Dahan and Clara. Then, then you can do the wash and you can clean up the house. You can come back and do the, oh yeah, fine. Great. Exhale after. Don't exhale after. Yo kipper. Don't exhale. If yo kipper, again, I know I'm projecting here at this point, but like one of the things that also that makes you the most crazy, the Fila of the year, that makes me the most crazy of all the telas of the entire year. There's one, it's IV Moe Yom Kipper. We're in shul for 25 hours, crying our eyes out that we care. We want to connect to you. And then we get Ka and we say, we screech it with all of our parts and souls. And AK says, I forgive you. And we blow the shofar. And then mar there's like 15 seconds long and you're like, You were pure. You were pure. And we just blew the first feel of the year, the first pure feel we have. Don't exhale yet. Don't let go yet. At least use those of you who are listening. I guess you're listening after you, after Kipper. Those on the Zoom are getting this before you, young kipper, you're listening, on the podcast you're getting after Kipper, but next year for you, Kipper, that rif, Sit in it, sit. You're moving from Europe to Ava at that moment. I know I could stop and quickly and go now and eat. The year has passed and I love you and I'm not ready to leave you yet. That's that first Marv, and that continues into those days in between and that continues into kus and, and build the intensity to leave the year behind. Build the Ava, build the love and the sim of that love Simko. We don't talk so much about sim and Rosh has Yom Kipper. They're scary days. We're moving into the simha of that love. Don't let exhale. Now get into it. Now. It's like exhaling after the wedding and saying to your spouse, that was awesome. Cool wedding. I need round a week. I'll see you later. Can you imagine a young married couple breaking apart for cheva brothels? That's what Suki is breaking apart for. Cheva brothels, because it was exhausting. The engagement and the wedding were too exhausting. It's insanity. This is Cheva brothels. This is the first seven days in the house together. This is the foundation of the love for the entire year that we're building up. Even more. So building it up further and further into, this is what it's about. This is what it's about. let's see if we can finish up the paragraph. Even do one more. And that's what it means. That is the time of our joy that are in a place of joy, because there's this revelation of the love, this lofty love, which is coming out finally on where the king is bringing us into his innermost chambers, bringing the to his house, the re, and this is not like the sim, the other rega. This is not like it's there's, but the sim is not like the sim. It's a reality of sim. It is sim. This is the essence of of him, bringing us into his home and being alone with, we'll do one more paragraph there. That's what the is all about that we started off talking about as well de because water is always hinting to the media of love. Fear is like fire. It burns Love flows like water. Love flows, it flows like water. Of course on, we don't take red, red is negative of Dean Red is negative of judgment. we don't just have seven days. We pour water on the. There's an outpouring of love that's coming out onto, that's coming out for, and that's, oh, that's so beautiful. Ah, he says, and that's why, because what is is a revelation of the love of a Q for, but if it's love, it's intimate. And if it's intimate, it's secret and private. And if it's love and it's intimate and secret and private. So that's why since the NI is this intimate secret, private love ku, that's why KU says, doesn't state it explicitly in the Torah. He only hints to it 'cause he don't wanna reveal it openly in the Torah. It hints to the ni maim. So we know what exists. So Al can bring it out, but it's not going to put it out explicitly because it's a revelation of the love. And love is private. Love is internal in that way. And so it only hints the NI and doesn't say it explicitly. 'cause it's this innermost love of the, this love between two lovers who are coming together in marriage, in committing to each other, in faithfulness and building a life together that comes out in the deepest of chambers ban and therefore was one of the most holy of offerings that was brought on the base of Mik. Because then was, it was a physical representation of the outpouring of love of that was coming out at this time of year on Ko top of the next column vi. And that's why there's such a sim that a person who didn't see the sim, the sim, never saw true sim in their life. Because this Corban brought out, it showed, it revealed, it unleashed the true love and more so than any of the other Corban. It was on a whole, whole different level. We stop. There is, almost upon us, already upon us, depending on when you're listening to this, if it's beforehand, it's time to prepare. As you build the ska, build it with Simha. Your mom is, you're building your Shauna Una house. You're building your new bias with the Kash. You're building a house for you and a Kara Bojo to live in. You're building a mini, a mini, a mini bubble of Kha. If you're listening to this an and you're already in it. You're already in the ha. Take a few minutes. Go. Sit, sit and just be with the kaku in this holy, intimate place and connect with him with the joy and the, and the love. If you have true EVAs near you, go and sing and dance and let loose in a sim in a way that's osh. You're, you're not partying, you're celebrating, You're not having fun. It's true inner joy as, uh, Dr. Kovi once put it, that the difference between fun and joy, fun and simha is how you feel when you wake up the next morning. If you had fun, you wake up the next morning and you regret everything that you did. That was fun. The, the night before, if you wake up the next morning and you look back and you smile at what happened the night before, that's, that's. You wake up in the suka and you didn't realize where you were and you turn around and you realize it's KU and you're off and you're sitting em. Jews were so crazy, K bro, this crazy tour to do these crazy things where you wake up and you're hut outside your house and the first thing you do when you open your brides is you see the above you reminding you that you just slept in the sah and a kashko was next to you in a way that you don't feel or see or experience in that same intensity the rest of the year. And you smile, you went to a sim the night before. You wake up and you smile. You smile as you go to grab your lu love and your etro and your sitter. and you go to DA into a q burko and the ya behind us, the days of awe and the days of fear are behind us. Let's get into the, to be able to experience that at least for a few moments this year in our ko, to touch what it means to be in an intimate, close, private, personal, loving relationship with the K to let that. Just propel us into, Mia when all that is left behind and we're just with a qbo, with him standing in the center of the circle. And to take that reality and that light that he gives us in this special hag called ko, this special hag that mons let the light of that unity and oneness and closest to connectivity, stay with us, em for the entire year. Everybody. Thank you so much for tuning into this week's episode. If you enjoyed the episode, please rate the podcast and hit the follow button and join us every week for a new episode. 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