Rabbi Joey Soffer Shiurim
Shaare Teshuva-15
Ok, we'll get to it. Today is September 24th. We are on page Ayan Gimmel. We stopped at the letter "Gimmel" over there. The title on this paragraph is, "Shilmada tatoke kot" "Yafin lee ball le hetiv de darachab." When he learns the proper right rebukes, he'll be able to strain his heart to work the right path by it. Ashe ye ge hah hah, dan be trot asheh. When a person is learning Torah, be karebe de virean ne vieim ba ketou vim. And he starts reading, he's reading tannas, he reads the name "Vie hah vin" "Vie hah hah mous sareim vie eh ashehara tve hah hah onshim." And he understands the moussada was being given by the nevieim and the warnings and the punishments that were laid out in the psukiim. So first of all, step one, you have to understand what you're reading. Because reading is the only thing we're saying, so that's not going to help you. So don't be afraid to look in English and read in English when you're opening up, especially the haftarah. Nobody knows what's going on over there. Nobody. Very few people understand the haftarah. So read in English, but it's not as sure to read in English. It's better if you don't know what you're reading so than what you're wasting your time. Maybe read in English, 100%. Now they talk about it. So because in those haftarah, that in those, there's beautiful blessings, there's beautiful warnings for us, there's all kinds of messages that we don't even listen because everyone's talking. But it definitely pays to, yeah, guys, there's a million books over there in the box. Okay, yeah, it helps you. It's going to put you on the right path. You know what I'm looking at? I'm looking at the guy who's making himself small, the guy who has no ego, right? He wants to do the right thing. (speaking in foreign language) He started crying, so everybody's close. (speaking in foreign language) You listen to the reader Torah, you can know what they're saying. You do what you want. They used to listen to cry. You still think, you know, I don't know when it stopped, but they used to be that the Torah was, that's something called the (speaking in foreign language) translator. At least to read, (speaking in foreign language) and the person standing next to him were translating to the cop. They didn't understand the Hebrew. They used to translate to Aramaic when they spoke Aramaic. And that somehow along the way, we just stopped it, I guess, when it became more prevalent to understand the language, which nowadays, I don't know that that's true anymore. I think a lot of people don't understand what's reading what's reading this ever Torah. Now we have it in the book, right? In those days, no, there was no books. There was no books. No, but there was no books. He's right, but that's a Encino. The Encino Fumaju, right? You remember the, okay. So the, that's the Hebrew English, the blue book. Yes, the Encino Fumaju, the blue, the blue, that's the Encino Fumaju. That's the Encino Fumaju. Yes, yes, yes. So, so, you know, that mean that's when that's when they stop and that's just new because the point is enough to just listen to words that you don't understand. The point is to hear the words of the Torah and internalize them. So, if you don't understand it, read the parashan English too. Okay. So he says I'm not going to translate that, just keep learning, right? Okay. Next. Okay. Next. (speaking in Hebrew) He says this follows. (speaking in Hebrew) Someone really wants to, you know, fear God. (speaking in Hebrew) He'd be crumbling in his, in his cavity of his chest. (speaking in Hebrew) Everything you do, everything you say, everything you think, everything, everything is recorded, and that point in time, (speaking in Hebrew) Everything that's been going on, whether it's good or the opposite. (speaking in Hebrew) And the sign, the final judgment, (speaking in Hebrew) He has a court date. He's going to go to the front of the judge. (speaking in Hebrew) He's going to be scared. He's going to find ways. (speaking in Hebrew) He wants to find a way to try to get out of this, right? Make sure that he's found not guilty. (speaking in Hebrew) He's definitely going to stop whatever it was that got him into trouble to begin with. (speaking in Hebrew) He's not going to burst through the fields and run through the vineyards. It's an idiom. He says (speaking in Hebrew) You know your sins. You know what you did. You know where you broke through the fences. You know where you were. (speaking in Hebrew) He's not going to try to run away. Like the deer runs away from danger. He's going to try to run. That's a regular case. (speaking in Hebrew) Why people running out, right, going to work early in the morning till late at night of these days, before you're my dean. (speaking in Hebrew) People are not paying attention to the calendar. They don't know where you're standing. You don't know what you're doing. If your schedule is exactly the same, it is now. Then it was a month ago. Something's wrong. You have a judgment coming up. You have a court date coming up. Don't you want to try to add merits to that schedule? Try to find a few minutes here, a few minutes there. I say, "Hey Ashram, look, at least I'm trying," right? You don't show up on Roshanah when you're doing the same thing you've been doing for the last 30 days that you've been doing all 11 months. (speaking in Hebrew) On the day that they come to judge, right? Therefore, (speaking in Hebrew) Right? It's worthy for anyone who's fearful (speaking in Hebrew) Try to limit the little bit of a few minutes less in the office and a little more time in June. A little bit. (speaking in Hebrew) Try to learn a little extra Torah. (speaking in Hebrew) Or at least pay some attention to your own spiritual accounting, a few minutes. (speaking in Hebrew) Get up early. (speaking in Hebrew) At least show an effort. You know that you realize what's going to happen on Roshanah. (speaking in Hebrew) Right? Maybe praise out. (speaking in Hebrew) (speaking in Hebrew) This is the time that Ashram says, (speaking in Hebrew) Go. Everything comes. Let's go. Send them up. During the year, we have a malach that takes out (speaking in Hebrew) time of Elul. Ashram comes down himself. (speaking in Hebrew) Yeah. (speaking in Hebrew) I don't know that he's doing that. I'm not sure. It says over here. Yeah, it's the paragraph before. (speaking in Hebrew) I don't know. I'm not sure either. Let's see. Let's see. (speaking in Hebrew) Okay, fine. It could be right. It could be (speaking in Hebrew) It could be. (speaking in Hebrew) Okay. It could be (speaking in Hebrew) Very well could be. Good. Okay. So he says (speaking in Hebrew) But you know what? I'll retract for a second. Think about this. (speaking in Hebrew) Right? The judgment was already made on Roshanah. And you're waiting for it to be signed. So you have to sort of change the judgment already, right? If I wait till I say (speaking in Hebrew) to start to add all these things that I want to do, I have to sort of twist my judgment around, not let it get signed. (speaking in Hebrew) No. Roshanah is judgment day and they sign the judgment on Kipur. So the final signature goes on the typed judgment on Kipur. But they wrote the judgment on Roshanah. (speaking in Hebrew) They say they do. They say it from a week in Roshanah. (speaking in Hebrew) They do Shabbat Shikabu. Whatever the day of Roshanah is, from the beginning of the week, that's when they start Silikhon. But, you know, if I can preempt the writing of my judgment by adding merits before, I have a much better chance to get a good judgment. And I have to worry so much about getting it signed or getting it overturned before it gets signed. Right? As I mentioned, Roshanah. (speaking in Hebrew) Yeah. Judgment day, Roshanah. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Why don't I appeal? I want to go in with a good one for the beginning. I finish. So, and merits there before you even get there. Otherwise, I submit to Shiwah, they wrote my judgment already. Now, I got to put, oh, maybe change that line or edit this line. No, no, take out that word, put in this word, you know. No, no, no, no. Right? It's good. We're good with it. Okay. Fine. But, yeah, I think he just told Roshanah to Shiwah, but it makes more sense. You have to start with him in the Mother Nalu. Yeah. (speaking in Hebrew) Seek out God when you can find him. (speaking in Hebrew) On Yom Kippur itself from the Torah to make the Shiwah. Says what? You have to purify yourself from all your sins in front of God. Okay. (speaking in Hebrew) Yom Kippur can cause on its own kaparah, but when there's a whole discussion, the guy who sins on Yom Kippur. So, is that it's even a sin? Because the day itself is mikapar. So, it's like you're sitting in the mikapar and you're tall. Yom Kippur is the mikapar. So, the guy doesn't sin on Kippur. Does it even become? It's a sin. It's not a sin. When does the sin? So, give him, how does it work as a whole conversation in the Qur'a. So, he's saying, Yom Kippur is only mikapar in Shiwah. It's not that you can just sit. I'm going to be a bad boy. I'm going to wait for Yom Kippur to come. And then on Yom Kippur, I'm going to sit 25 hours on my chin. Shoot, I'm not going to move. I'm going to pray, I'm going to pray, I'm going to pray. I didn't change anything. Zero. Boy, I did without my chin. Do you get kaparah? No, no, no. I'm sure for you, it's all my sins. You're doing it. Says what? Yom Kippur is mikapar with the Shiwah. You got to make the Shiwah. Then, Yom Kippur, make the man clean you. No problem. We have an obligation to make the Shiwah. We have an obligation to make the Shiwah. We have an obligation to make the Shiwah. We have an obligation to make the Shiwah. So, the Tahara comes on people. But you have to be ready first, right? You have to first take off the Tum'ah that's on you by making the Shiwah. Then, Yom Kippur, you want to mikapar? Okay. You should always get ready to prepare, right? That you should mik, Shiwah, on every day. No one knows what the last day of his life is. Nobody knows. You should prepare, think about it. You're going to take it away from me. So, why? You gave it to me to hold up. I'm going to give it back to you when it's all dirty. You got your friends. Can I borrow your cards? Beautiful. We have a hadid, nice, nice, you know, no, the Nupu Vets, beaut, right? Come on, no problem, come on my card, no problem. I give him the card. He goes out of the day, brings it back. I come in the morning, I look outside. Shiwah, don't bang the air, bang the air. He's doing it. He's getting like, I gave you a beautiful card. He gave you a gorgeous. You give back to me like this. Hashem gave you an Ishamah, perfect, pure, gorgeous. You're going to send it back to him, all banged up, and you got to fix it up, right? So, smoke, right? Well, it takes the body shot for us. Pull it up, polish it, start. It puts it back in the driver field. There you go. Shiwah wants to finish on my back. Tahon, the way you gave it. You know when that's going to be? You know when they say, oh, sorry, it leases up, bring the card back. When? Nobody knows. I don't know what it is. So, you got to be ready every day. Now, when you go to the bathroom, you're going to have to be ready for your daily night. You have to be ready for your daily night. Start for two seconds. Think about what did I do wrong today? What did I do right today? Think about it for a minute. One minute. When you start thinking about that, believe me, you'll see. A little by little, you start to tweak things along the way. I think I spoke about this, two weeks ago, I mentioned this. Anyway, it says over there, the man says, the man says, the man, the baby tells the students, you know what boys? Everybody should make the shoe, one day before you die. So, at least you die when you pull your away. You want to have a good time, have a good time, no problem. But then, before you die, make the shoe back. So, what are they telling back? The kid's the student telling them, what are you talking about right now? How do I know what day I'm going to die? I don't know what day I'm going to die. So, he says, I'm out of here. You're right. I'm going to die, I'm going to die, I'm going to die, I'm going to die. Maybe tomorrow is the last day. The name is called Yama. It comes out that every day, you make the shoe back. They're all married. They're all married, they're all married, they're all married, they're all married. They're all married, they're all married, they're all married, they're all married, they're all married. So, you should have always your clothing, you should always be clean, you should always be white, you should always be oil-anointed, meaning you should have. Look nice, perfume, look well, dressed well, right? Love in a big adine, white clothing is a Michelle, right? It's an example on the cute and neffish bitchuba. Let's talk about your nishama. It should be pure. The shaman, what's the oil? It's the same, the same, the same, the same, the same, the same, the same, the same, the same. The oil over there is a comparison, right? To good deeds, to good names, to good reputation. So, you should always, always make sure your nishama is pure, and people are speaking good about you. So, that's "bena damla maqom," "nishama shibit pure." People are speaking "shim tog," that's "bena damla havero." You should always have yourself right in the right way. People talk about you, the way the man says, right? You want to know how somebody's going to be judged? Go see what people are saying about him. The people are talking good about him, that's what the saying in your mind. If people are saying that, that's what the saying in your mind is. "Masha'li ystoshil malach, shaitamit kashete vatasim bapuh" "Malach" is a sailor, because in those days, right? Someone goes out on a sea journey, first was very dangerous, and who knows when they were turning. There's no text messaging, and send even no Western Union telephone, nothing. Guys go, what's going on? I don't know, who knows? Is he going to get there? I don't know, he's going back, I don't know, right? So, the sailor's wife now, every day, gets dressed up, putting on her makeup, right? "Bala'o ver' al-O'er ha'ot y amim" and her husband's now, on the sea, she doesn't know. "Tomarnala'a, ashi'in'ot, the neighbors tell her, "Hala'o ba'alaq, halaq, 'baddeqamir ha'op." Your husband is gone, you don't know where he's coming back. Why are you getting so dressed up every single day? She's walking around the marketplace, fully dressed, looking beautiful, right here. "The al-Maz'e, la shav'it yapi" Why are you wasting your time? You're wasting your time, right? You keep, you keep, you keeping Sephora in business. For what, wait till he comes there, put the makeup on, right? "A'amr'ala ha'am," she's not, "Bala'i m'alaqu" "Ula'y'a pech ruach'yam" "The calme ha'ra'y'avo" My husband is a sailor, very well could be, that there's going to be a very strong wind, and it's going to return the ship very quickly. I don't know when he's coming. "The emsa'ani, hinimikushat," when he shows up, "I want him to see that I'm ready, I'm waiting for him." "V'e'esh al-Adan l'Sha'ib" and "I've showed you an ambush I live," right? So it's a mashal, basically, right? We don't know when that ship is going to be called in to see, in the port, and when it is, we're going to be ready. "V'e'esh al-Adan l'Sha'ib" and "I've shown you," "person should take into account the yocha'an'an v'Sha'ib" "You should be happy, you should be peaceful." You know that day is coming, there is no such, there is not a person that has lived on this earth that did not have that day of judgment at the end. It doesn't exist, there's no such thing, right? So, you know it's coming, how could you not pay attention to the fact of what are you going to say when you get there? What are you going to say? What are you going to say? How much mercy are you going to call out for at that time? That's what you should think about, how you should ask for mercy while you're still alive. "V'e'esh al-Adan, v'e'esh al-Adan." "V'e'esh al-Adan, v'e'esh al-Adan."
Shaare Teshuva-15 by Rabbi Joey Soffer