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Good morning and welcome back to Living with Emuna, our weekly support group, our weekly series to remind ourselves that we don't have to go at it alone, that we don't live in a world that is random or chance, but there is a Creator, there is an Almighty who orchestrates, who choreographs, who puts it all together and to whom we are so grateful and so appreciative and we turn and Daven regularly. I want to thank our Emuna sponsors for the year, our friends Dr. Zavi and Bella Morgan in memory of Rabbi Dr. Brian Galbut and in memory of Bella's mother Dr. Ellen Schantzer. Thank you so much for your generous sponsorship. Also, today's Shiur sponsored by Avi and Bracha Weberman in commemoration of the fourth Yahrzeit of Rabbi Rishel, הרב יוסף פנחס בן מרדכי. So much thank you to the Webermans. Rabbi Rishel was a wonderful beloved member of our community who was in Chinuch, shaped so many minds and really inspired so many generations and we miss him, his Neshama should have an Aliyah. And also by Colin Stein, Helia Stravsky, Ruth Sedrowitz and families to mark the Shloshim of their beloved wife and mother Feiga Bas Moshe and of course Ava Stein was a very special woman also filled with Emuna and faith, lived it each and every day even through her hardship, her Neshama should have an Aliyah as well. Thank you for your sponsorship. Before we dive back into Bayam Darecha, Rav Itamar Morgenstern and the notion of Dveikus, how we can cling and attach ourselves to Hashem, I want to take a detour to look at a beautiful Sfas Emes, a beautiful Sfas Emes. And of course we dedicate our learning to our brothers and sisters in Israel, many of whom spent the night in bomb shelters as 600-700 rockets rained down, so evil, so unjust, so wicked, so nefarious, the world needs to stand up, needs to confront Hamas, we Daven for their safety, their security and for peace and for calm. So Rav Avraham Schorr quotes from the Sfas Emes a very, very beautiful idea and he writes the following, as we are preparing, we're marching, we're counting down to Matan Torah, we're going to stand together at the base of the mountain united to receive that Torah again, the greatest moment of revelation of all time when Hashem showed his face and revealed himself in an unprecedented and unparalleled way. וזהו יסוד האמונה שיהודי להאמין בכח הימים טובים ועל ידי זה יכול ליהנות מאותם האורות. I'm reading Rav Avraham Schorr. We have to believe in these holidays, we believe in their energy in our calendar, we believe in their significance and we can draw from, benefit from, be enriched by their light. כמו שכתוב בספר שפת אמת וצריכין להאמין כי באלו הימים נתגלה כל האורות והניסים שעשה לנו השי"ת בזמן חירותנו. We're not just commemorating something of the past, we're not just reliving something historical, we're not marking it nostalgically, we're not looking back on something, but rather we're living it in the present. That historical event revealed that embedded on the calendar, embedded on those dates on those days is that energy. Pesach is about freedom and liberty and emancipation. Sefiras HaOmer is about that march, that count toward self-improvement, towards growth, self-perfection. Shavuos, we're going to be at the mountain. We're not commemorating, we are not recreating, we're not as if receiving the Torah, we are receiving the Torah ומתן תורתנו ובזה יכול להיוושע כמו שכתוב האמונה היא תיקון חושין תשועת השם ישועה על ידי האמונה באלו המועדים שנתן השי"ת. מכלל שאמרו חז"ל המבזה המועדות כעובד עבודה זרה, as it says אלהי מסכה לא תעשה לך את חג המצות תשמור. A person is Mivazeh the Moados. If you dismiss or if you demean or if you somehow dilute or distort the holidays, if you don't tap into them, you're not invested in them, you're not transformed by them, if we don't understand them, if to us it's just about the recipes and the cooking, it's just about the days taking off from work and the taking away from our vacation days, if it's about finding the Machzor and taking it off the shelf, if that's all the holidays mean to us, we're Mivazeh the holidays, then we have demeaned and we have insulted the holiday, it's as if we've worshipped an idol. We're doing some other religion. If you don't understand and you don't identify and you don't tap into the energy unique to each holiday, then you're worshipping some other religion. It's not Yahadus, it's not Torah, it's not Judaism, it's not the Gishmak to be a Yid of understanding each and every holiday. אם כן המאמין במועדות מדבק בהקדוש ברוך הוא בלי מסך מבדיל. So a person who believes in the holidays, there's no barrier, there's no mask, that person is fully invested in, is marinated in, that person is fully immersed in that holiday, in what it's about, in tapping into it, in living it, in experiencing it in real time, not commemorative, not nostalgic, not historical, but rather in real time. כמו כן צריכין להאמין, says Rav Avraham Schorr, similarly we need to believe כההכנה שבני ישראל עשו בימים אלו לפני קבלת התורה מראש חודש סיון שביום הזה באו מדבר סיני. The preparation the Jewish people did before receiving the Torah from Rosh Chodesh Sivan that on this day they arrived in Sinai. נשאר הכח בימים אלו לדורות. That power has remained for generations. the excitement before you start a new job, that excitement for Matan Torah, it's not reliving the excitement, it's getting excited right now because we're going to actually receive the Torah. Sfas Emes says this is the part I wanted to share with you, דלהכין כתיב ביום הזה באו מדבר סיני. The Pasuk says Bayom Hazeh, on this day they came Midbar Sinai. It doesn't say Bayom Hahu, it doesn't say on that day they came to the Midbar to receive the Torah. It says Bayom Hazeh, on this day כי היום עדיין קיים because this day is still going. This day, the freshness, the newness. והוא בבחינת הזה שיכול להראות באצבע על היום, we can point our calendar, Outlook, Google, whatever calendar you use, Hayom, not historically, not in the past, not once upon a time, but right now. שבכלל האדם לבוא מרפידים למדבר סיני, we can take that journey, the journey the Jewish people took so many years ago, we can follow in their footsteps and we can take that journey. ובשפת אמת הקדוש, and the words of the Sfas Emes are, כן הכנה קודם החג מתקיים בכל שנה. The preparation, the anticipation, the excitement for the holiday for Shavuos, for Kabbalas HaTorah, it wasn't once upon a time, it's each and every year. As it says Bayom Hazeh Ba'u, on this day they came. כמו שהיום עומד לפניו יתברך שמו בשמים, like the day is standing before God in Shamayim, וצריכים להאמין כי בבוא יום ראש חודש סיון יש לאדם הכוחות להפסיק מהרפידים כל הרפיון שלו ולהתחדש. Refidim was a place of Rifyon. It was a place where we were soft. It was a place where we were doubtful, we had uncertainty. It was a place where we were casual. We can go from Refidim from Rifyon U'le'hischadesh, a newness, a fresh start. Bayom Hazeh, today. So my dear friends, today is Rosh Chodesh Sivan. It's the new month. החודש הזה החדש הזה לכם, newness, freshness, a new opportunity. Start again. The dream of who you are, who you want to become, the type of Davening, type of learning, type of Chessed, type of mother, father, husband, wife, type of son or daughter, type of person we want to be, the type of Ben Torah, Bas Torah, the type of experience of receiving the Torah. Will we extend our antenna? Will we return to Har Sinai? Will we hear the קול גדול ולא יסף, the message that Hashem, the signal that he sent out so many years ago, that if we extend our antenna we can still pick up that broadcast. Will we extend our antenna? Will we tap into that Wi-Fi? Will we hear his voice still broadcasting, still resonating, still reverberating in our ears? The choice is up to us, but now is the time. You can't stumble into Shavuos and be ready to receive the Torah. You can't trip or fall in. You got to get ready. There's a Hachana, Shloshes Yemei Hagbala. They're the three days of getting ready. And there is Rosh Chodesh Sivan, there is Rosh Chodesh, the new Rosh Chodesh right now. And there's the Yom Hameyuchas, the day in between that's just significance is that it's in between. It has Yichus between Rosh Chodesh and the Shloshes Yemei Hagbala, the three days of preparation, the Yom Hameyuchas, the Yichus it has. So these days are days of getting ready. They're days of preparation, they're days of mindfulness, they're days of thoughtfulness, they're days of immersing ourselves, they're days of counting down, they're days of looking forward and they're days of getting ready. Back to Be'yam Derech Acharon by Rabbi Ephraim Morgenstern and on the Perek Daled הדרכה לעורר הלב לדבקות. This is some of the methodology, these are some of the ways and the paths that we can open up our heart, arouse our heart, awaken our heart in order to cling to Hashem, to feel his presence, to know he's there in those moments that we need him, to never be filled with doubt, but to recognize that everything's from Hashem, that everything is from Hashem. Rabbi Moskowitz and I last week went to New York, New Jersey for one day to pay a Shiva call, a tragic Shiva call of Donny Morris Alav Hashalom, whose grandparents are members of our Shul and we know his extended family. And we flew in that morning, we were coming back that afternoon. It's my Emunah story for the week. And we took an Uber back to the airport. It was a long day, we were tired, we were talking. We actually happen to like each other very much, Rabbi Moskowitz. He's still passing the road test, and I hope I am for him. And we told the Uber driver which terminal, JetBlue, and we got to the airport and he pulled over and we got out and we walked into the terminal and we were already running late for the flight. But we didn't think we had nothing to check, we didn't even have overhead baggage. So we could be the last people, no worries. We were late for the flight and we were in the wrong terminal. Neither of us had paid attention, felt like fools. We got off at the wrong terminal and now we had to run through the airport. Now we had to scramble. So we had to make it to the AirTrain, make it to two more stops to the next terminal, get off, make it through security, and that was a whole thing. We had to go through security twice. What we forgot the whole time, we're Mechazek one another, we're strengthening one another with the principles of living with Emunah. It's up to Hashem. For whatever reason we were meant to get off at the wrong terminal. We should take responsibility, we should learn from it, next time not do it again. Anyway, bottom line is we made it. Last people on board, one person behind us, but essentially the last people on board as the gate door was closing and Baruch Hashem we made it back and all was well, thank you Hashem. Now the story would have been a greater example of emuna if we didn't make it and I still told you that was the will of Hashem. It was meant to be that we not make it. It was meant to be that we had to scramble, fly later, sleep over, whatever the case may be. But it's also an emuna story when it works out and for that thank you Hashem we are so grateful. So last week we left off on the כח הניגונים לעורר דבקות, the power of song, the power of melody, the power of music to stir the soul, to open up the heart, to feel, to emote, to be able to be present, to disconnect from this world and to elevate and transcend and to lift our neshama up. And he writes that as we talked about finding that playlist and many of you contacted Yocheved to get her, she's Klal Yisrael's DJ I told you and to get her playlist I hope you're enjoying it. So to get that playlist that moving that meaningful the playlist that stirs the soul. ולכן ראוי לכל עובד השם שיהיו לו כמה ניגונים ברורים. We should have set aside what are the niggunim what are the tunes what are the songs that we know that are tried true and tested and בכל פעם שירצה להיכנס לדבקות every time you want to enter a world of clinging to Hashem, יוכל לעורר את הלב על ידי ניגון. We can arouse, we can awaken the heart, just put on that song and it'll move you to tears. וגם בזמן התפילה ולימוד התורה we said during davening and during learning use a niggun, use a niggun while you're learning, use a niggun for the davening that you're doing כי כח הניגון הוא עצום. The power of the tune, of a melody is enormous. Power is tremendous. וזו עצה ידועה אלא שצריכין להתרגל להשתמש בה בכל עת. It's well-known the power of song, power of melody, power of music, but we forget and we need to remind ourselves. So that was all number one. Number two. Tzarich ladaas, number two is כח החזרה לעורר דבקות. Chazara, chazara, noch amol chazara. צריך לדעת אז גודל כח החזרה. A person, a Jew needs to know the power, the strength of review שעל ידי אפשר להגיע לאור הדבקות that when we review and review and review again we're able to get to a place of light of clinging to Hashem. כי החזרה היא כלי להיכנס אל הפנימיות because chazara, review, is a vessel, review is a vehicle to be able to get into the world of pnimiyus, to get into the depth, to get into the light. When you learn something or you read something the very first time you're processing it. It's the first time you're experiencing it. But once you've gone through it and you're going through it now a second time, a third time, a fourth time, you'll find nuance. You'll be able to really marinate in it. You'll be able to really be mindful. You'll be able to really meditate in it. You'll see things in it you didn't see the first time. It'll move you, it'll catch you in ways it didn't the first time. So chazara, when you see it the first time it's your first impression. But when you review and you review over again you make a kinyan, you acquire the thing you're learning, the thing you're reading or the part of davening that you're doing. You know when people have said to me, you know davening we say the same words over and over and over again, davening gets pretty repetitive, davening is over and over again, why can't we mix it up? Why don't we mix up the davening? And I say you know sometimes there are people who listen to the same song over and again and they read the same book and there are people who watch, if kosher appropriate, the same movie over and over again and they get a geshmak to hear the same joke over and over again. They hear the story over and over again and they say they love it because you know where it's going and you know where it's headed and you know the punchline or you know the ending of the story or you know the ending of the book of the movie, you know the ending of the song, you know the rhythm and the cadence of the song and so it moves you. Sometimes when you do chazara, when you know what to expect and it enables and helps you be able to anticipate it and get ready for it, it makes it more enjoyable. It makes it more of an experience. והיינו בין בלימוד התורה שצריך לחזור הרבה על לימודו whether it's through the learning of Torah that a person has to review ולשוב ולומר את אותם המילים to say the words over and over again ולשוב להתבונן בכל סברה and to take a moment and think. You know when we read we usually just try to turn pages. Turn pages, turn pages, turn pages and finish and finish and make a siyum and a siyum and a siyum. But how about going back? How about stopping and thinking you know, huh, I just read that, I just learned that, I just listened to that. How does that make me think about it differently now than I thought about it before? How does it move me? How am I changed by it? What will I now do differently? Do we process and do we have a plan and do we execute on what we've learned? Do we absorb it? Do we process it? Or are we in super speed boom boom boom next book, next article, next shiur, next chavrusa, next daf? Are we just moving in overtime? וכן ללמוד את אותה הסוגיא שוב ושוב ובזה יזכה להרגיש את הדבקות. You know there are people who they've read their favorite book over and over again and every time they'll tell you they saw something new and in learning Torah they've been through Shas several times, they always see something new. And in davening there's another pasuk, there's another phrase, there's another clause that jumps out because you're a different you today than you were yesterday and than you'll be tomorrow. And each day given who we are and what we're going through and what's on our mind different things and different thoughts and we'll filter it and we'll process it through different prisms, we'll understand it in different ways. Uveze יזכה להרגיש את הדבקות. So if you want to attach yourself and cling yourself to the light of Torah, you want to attach yourself to the ideas, the messages, the value, you want to have a breakthrough to connect and to cling to Hashem, to think and to be different afterwards, then you need to do chazara. We need to do chazara. We need to review, we need to go over again. You know before this shiur we have the ten minutes of mussar we're going through Mesillas Yesharim and in the Mesillas Yesharim the Ramchal in his introduction says something which no author has ever written or would ever write, says that says don't buy my book if you're only going to read it once. If you're only going to read it once don't buy my book. Buy my book if you're going to read it over and over and over again. Because the messages that are in my book says the Ramchal they're obvious and they're well known. You know them already. How to behave, how to be virtuous, how to be noble. You know it. Problem is we forget it. The more obvious something is and often the more important something is, the more we neglect it, the more we forget it, the more we take it for granted. So you gotta review, you gotta read, you gotta review. You know somebody who's using the 12-step program in order to overcome an addiction has to go to meetings. If you don't you know the meeting, you know exactly what's going to be said, you know the formula of the meeting, why do you have to keep going to meetings? To review, it's to review, to keep these things, these ideas, gotta keep coming back to them, review, review, review. So whatever in life, the most important things in life, they need review. יזכה להרגיש את הדבקות וכן לחזור על שמות הקדושים עוד ועוד ובפרט בניגון. We spoke about trying to think about and meditate on the different names of God and what those names of God represent and signal and signify, what they symbolize, the different energies of of Hashem, of Hashem. The footnote he writes בכל חלק מהתורה שאדם חוזר בו הרבה חזרות הוא זוכה להידבק באופן אחר. Different parts of Torah the more you review them you will merit and you will breakthrough in different ways. כי כשחוזר על תנ"ך זוכה לדביקות של קבלת עול מלכות שמיים. When you review Tanach you merit clinging to Hashem. It's a very interesting endorsement. When you learn Tanach, this beautiful program Tanach Yomi, one perek a day and you can complete Tanach every year and a half, you can complete Tanach, I don't remember exactly how long it is, but on a fairly short regular basis. So the value of Tanach is not just being familiar with our history. You read Tanach not just to know the names, the places, the dates of our history, who were the prophets and who were the and who were the judges and who were the kings and who were the it's not just to know our history and the destruction of the Batei Mikdash, the Megillahs, it's not just to know our history. When you read Tanach says Rav Itche Mayer זוכה לדביקות של קבלת עול מלכות שמיים. When you realize history repeats itself, when you see the hand of Hashem unfolding in history, when you study Tanach and you understand our characters role models, paradigms, imperfect and fallible and in that way maybe even more role models and paradigms for us, but you see the hand of Hashem. כשחוזר על משניות זוכה לדביקות אהבה ויראה. And when you review Mishnayos זוכה לדביקות אהבה ויראה. Mishna, neshama are comprised of the same letters. A person who attaches themselves to the oral Torah, oral tradition, a person who attaches themselves and reviews Mishna over and over again learns to cling to God through love and through awe. You come to know God through his laws, his blueprint for his world. כשחוזר על גמרא זוכה לביטול היש ולכוח של יגיעה בעבודת השם יתברך. When you review the Gemara over and over again זוכה לביטול היש. Then a person merits to get to a place where they've nullified the sense of I, the id, the ego, bitul hayesh. And the strength of of toil in the service of Hashem Yisbarach. So you go from Asiya, Yetzira, and Briya, very deep, very mystical concepts. But back to the world of chazara. וכן בעבודה של הדיבור עם השם יתברך. The same is true when it comes to the world of conversing, dialoging with Hashem Yisbarach. שגם בזה יש את עבודת חזרה. You gotta review. You gotta review and review והיינו אם מרגיש שאין לו מה לדבר. Person gets stuck and you say I have nothing to talk to Hashem about. I have nothing. Awkward silence with God. All is good. I don't know who that person is who doesn't have something to be grateful for, ask for, to think about, but to get to a point where a person gets stuck יחזור על אותם דיבורים שכבר אמר להשם יתברך. So remember that car ride where you were pouring out your heart to God. Remember that Neilah, remember the Kumzitz, remember the Farbrengen, remember the Mussaf, you remember that davening, you remember that moment. What was the conversation? How did you unburden yourself? What did it feel like? In what way did you connect? עוד פעם ועוד פעם עד שיזכה שתפתח לו הפנימיות ויתגלה לו דיבורים חדשים. You'll find when you review old conversations, when you revisit those conversations with God, those experiences with God, it will inspire new conversations. Who doesn't have what to talk to Hashem about? Who doesn't have there's so much going on in our lives, there's so much to be grateful for, so much to appreciate the little things, the essential things, the things we've neglected and taken for granted. And who doesn't have what to ask for? Life has become so unpredictable, so unpredictable. It's just it's unbelievable, it's hard to believe. It's hard to believe. Our brothers and sisters in Israel, my daughter is in Israel for the year, who would have thought when she went for a year in Israel? Covid, with all its lockdowns and all its challenges, Meron, that traumatic experience, that devastating experience. catastrophic losses, running into bomb shelter in a stranger's home on Yom Yerushalayim in the middle of town, sirens go off. Who'd ever, who knows what tomorrow brings? So to daven that we and our children are safe, are secure, are healthy, are well, to daven for achdus that we just get along, to daven that it doesn't take enemies and rockets, it doesn't take catastrophes and death for us to feel empathy and connection and unity with one another, that we should be capable of feeling that only in a place of goodness, we should feel that out of a place of simcha. Who, who is not waiting for the other shoe to drop in their life about bad news, God forbid a diagnosis or some other challenge, calamity, surprise? So much to daven for, so much to talk to Hashem about. It's not just the, the siddur, but it's the words we fill in in between. It's opening up our heart. And if we're stuck, if we're stifled, if we're struggling to find those words to start that conversation, then think about the last time you spoke. Think about the last amazing conversation, think about the last time that you were moved so deeply and use that memory to try to trigger, to try to jog something, a new conversation now. וזו עצה מיוחדת כי באמת יש אנשים שמרגישים רחוקים מדבקות. This is a very important advice, says Rav Itche Meir, because there are people who feel that they're very, very far away from dveikus. ולא כי אין להם רצון לזה, not because they don't have a desire, אלא כי צריך לזה הרגשה פנימית. You need an inner desire. ועם הנשמה מכוסה קשה להרגיש. You know, our neshamah, as much as there is to daven for, all of those pressures and anxieties and worries, all the to-do list and responsibilities and obligations, it puts a layer, a klipa, it puts a shell, a covering on our neshamah. And sometimes we forget we have a neshamah. Sometimes we can't find it and we struggle to nourish it and we're looking for it. ועם הנשמה מכוסה קשה להרגיש. And when the neshamah is covered, last week we spoke about the light being covered by the dark cloud, sometimes the neshamah is covered by the baggage that we carry. Some people have baggage, they hate rabbis, they hate authority. Maybe there's a rabbi or rebbetzin, a teacher who failed them and therefore they carry that forward and they, they bear that baggage against God and against all of Judaism now. So it's important to peel back the layers, to uncover the neshamah, to let it breathe, to open it, to nourish it, to know it's there. Ve-ha-eitzah la-zeh, and the suggestion for this, לחזור הרבה על המילים שלומד ועל הבקשות שמבקש מהשם יתברך, to review a lot on the words that we learn and the requests that we offer. Shuv ve-shuv, כי על כוונות והרגשות בתפילה עד שברחמיו יתברך תפתח לו הרגשה פנימית, and to review the feelings, to review the emotions, to review the connections, to review the moments until Hashem in His kindness will open up that inner feeling, that inner drive for us so that we want more and more and more of it. We'll do one more: limud sefarim ha-malhivim. The other thing that increases or promotes or arouses a sense of dveikus is to learn the type of literature which is going to make you do that. טוב ללמוד את הספרים הקדושים המלהיבים את הלב לדבוק בו יתברך. Learn whatever area of learning, תלמוד תורה כנגד כולם, learning is such a primary, central part of Judaism, so critically important, but also learning specifically the type of Torah literature which will inspire us to cling to and connect with and feel His presence and feel His love and feel His support. כמו ספר הזהר הקדוש, sefer sefarim ha-kedoshim, שאר ספרים הקדושים שמאירים את הדרך. I would add to that biographies. Biographies of great people. You cannot read the biography of Mrs. Machlis, Henny Machlis, without being transformed. I don't think you can. I don't think you could read Rebbetzin Machlis's biography, her emunah, her profound faith, her unparalleled chesed, who she was. I don't think you could read it without being transformed. The biographies of people with great faith, biographies of Holocaust survivors, biographies of great rabbis and rebbetzins, of great people, of what they did and who they were and how they persevered and their tenacity and resiliency and how they lived with, with profound faith. When your faith is shaken, when your faith is wobbly, when you're struggling to feel connected to see Hashem, when there's the dark cloud or there's the layer over the neshamah, read a biography. Attach yourself to an extraordinary person who's lived with faith through terribly hard times. צריך להשתדל ללמוד עם פנימיות, and when you learn it, don't just read it superficially. Don't let it fall on your face while you're reading on Shabbos and you pass out in the middle of it and you read the same page over and over again and you don't remember what words you're even up to, but read it with an open heart and an open neshamah, absorb it and imbibe it, be-lev ve-hargashah. ככל שמעמיקים לחפור בעומקי הלב, the more that you dig with the, in the depths of the heart, כך זוכה למעיינות מים חיים. The deeper you dig, the greater the wellsprings will erupt. So deep inside of us is a neshamah. It's hungry. Deep inside of us is a neshamah. It's yearning. It's yearning to come close to Hashem. It wants to be nourished. It wants to be nourished with beautiful music and heartwarming melodies. It wants to be nourished with nostalgia. גם טוב לעסוק בסיפורי צדיקים כדי שיתלהב לבו ללכת בעקבותיהם לדבקה בו יתברך בכל כחו. Because we think nobody really lived that way and we're not capable of living that way, so we have to remember and remind ourselves that there were people and there are people and we are capable of it. Read biographies. Biographies are game-changing. When Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar, who taught the most popular class in Harvard's history on happiness, when he spoke in our shul, an Israeli professor, and he spoke about a traditional Jew and he spoke about, he spoke about the self-help genre of which he studies happiness and he's written, but he says if you want to be happy don't read self-help books, guides to happiness. If you want happiness, read biographies. If you want to build resilience, which leads to happiness, read biographies. Read biographies. There are extraordinary biographies. I'll next time please God bli neder share a list of some of the biographies that have impacted me. There are biographies of great people and they open our mind to the possibilities within us and they become the precedent that we can stand on their shoulders or we can walk in their footsteps, we can follow in their way, we can believe that we too are capable of it. It opens up our mind, it opens up our heart, but we have to be in a position, we have to be in a place where it's going to touch us and touch us very deeply. We're going to leave it here for today, wishing everyone a good yom tov, a beautiful Matan Torah, Kabbalas HaTorah, we should truly receive the Torah, not ke'ilu, not nostalgically, not historically, not as if, but to truly be receiving the Torah anew, fresh, bayom hazeh, in these days of preparation, a good chodesh, a new beginning, a fresh start, that we should truly be preparing to transform ourselves in order to receive Hashem's holy signal. Join us tonight behind the bima at 9:00 PM. Until next time, stay happy, stay healthy.
