Minyan Replay with Rabbi Lizzi — Erev Erev Rosh

At our Virtual Morning Minyan on September 14th, Rabbi Lizzi  rang in the day before the night of the beginning of the first holiday of the Days of Awe!

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Produced by Mishkan Chicago. Music composed, produced, and performed by Kalman Strauss.

Transcript

Transcript

It is Thursday morning, September 14.

Tomorrow is Friday the 15th and tomorrow night is era of Rosh Hashanah. So it's like, yeah, it is, we're on we're on the cusp of the cusp of the new year. And I am feeling it in my body. So I want to invite everybody to sit up a little straighter. Or if you are walking or you know, whatever position you're in, find the most most optimized position of that so that you can breathe as deeply as possible.

And if you are sitting feel your sit bones

on the chair or the floor,

or just the surface there on

feel your spine as aligned as possible over your pelvis.

I'm holding my hands on my heart just to connect with my beating heart. Something I don't need to work for for it to work inside of me. Just the way it needs to for me to be alive this morning.

For which I am so grateful and I'm grateful for you being here being alive this morning. Tuning in connecting from wherever you are.

Let's take

let's take 10 This is like gonna probably take a whole minute just 10 Relaxed breaths

and count them it'll be a short a short meditation just to let you know where you are

and don't force going you know very slowly but also take it easy

feel your shoulders relaxing

feel your jaw reacts and relaxing

as you breathe

feel more space open up in your chest as you breathe

all right it's gonna be a good year

so

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So, there's a thing that happens most in most traditional synagogues on

Yom Kippur war at an ILA, which is at the end of a day of going through all these, you know, the knocking on your chest and, you know, all of the the AMI does five of them, you know, Kol Nidrei the night before and then Shaka eat and then Musa off and then minha and then the ILA. And like, in theory, you've gotten it all out, you've poured it all out, you've set it all. And then

you go into the Maariv service on en nila, which actually means it is the next day it is it is no longer young people. And in the

traditional Amida in Maariv in the evening service just like it is in the morning in the afternoon service on a weekday which it would be on the heels of young people where you say so last line with the new Katana. You know, we'll have a so they I taught like you aren't you are forgiving that you knock on your chest. By the way, we do this every day. It's not just Yom Kippur where people just don't realize that actually Jews do this every day. And, you know, the question is asked them like, wait a second, we just spent all of Yom Kippur, we're doing this excessively, we need to do it like another three times as part of the weekday on the die? And the answer is, well, like maybe between the end of the ILA and the beginning of Maariv.

You had a thought or said something like sideways out of the side of your mouth that wasn't so kind that you need to go like this for all of a sudden, you know, it's only been five minutes. But, you know, like, we all fall off the wagon sometimes. And it literally happens every, you know, like, give yourself 60 seconds, and you will have done something that you should apologize for.

Even on Yom Kippur.

And that may, that may be the case, that may be the case.

And I sort of feel like Yom Kippur war because there are so many people who show up for it. They think that sort of what Judaism is about is just going like this. And they don't realize like actually, we have this equal opposite. And it's not even equal it is it is just like a fully opposite force, which is daily multiple times daily gratitude practice, because also probably in the last 60 seconds, something has happened for which you can be grateful.

Something, you know, but like we have this intense negativity bias that like draws us to the thing that's, that's wrong or that's bad or that needs work. And so I want to I want to in

Write us this morning. You know, we do this every single time we meet, but like, what is something to put in the chat literally in the last 60 seconds? That you can that you can say thank you for

and like either either unmute and share or put in in the chat.

Roberta yay. We're happy to have you back here

for sure, yeah, seeing so many good faces on Zoom, thank you for coffee. I mean, thank you for Joey.

Oh, so nice. Another sunny day. It's like getting a little cooler here in Chicago.

Oh, Sarah, that's nice.

Suzanne, you can walk again. God bless. Right. This is just, you know, and

so I just, you know, it's just a human thing. It's just, it's just a fact of the human brain that we tend to gravitate toward and then perseverate on the things that aren't quite right. And, and man, oh, I gotta tell you in preparing for the holidays, especially trying to think about, you know, like, how to give a how to give a sermon and how to give a sermon that might be a hard sermon, you know, to give or to hear. I have I have done some, like epic puttering in my house. Do you know what I mean? Like, I have just noticed so many things that aren't quite right, like a surface that isn't totally clean, or like laundry that really needs to be done right now. And no, it doesn't. Nobody needs those pants right now. But like, we just we figure out ways to distract ourselves from the good and to, and to, you know, figure out figure out what's not quite right. And we sometimes do that as a distraction for the things we really need to do.

So this morning, we practice both with highlighting the good cause, man, do we need it? And also we'll give ourselves time for leaning in and focusing on some of the harder stuff too. Because if we don't dedicate time for it, man, will we figure out other things to do to distract ourselves?

Let's see

here we go.

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Oh, I'm just I'm loving seeing all of the gratitude in the chat My goodness.

Sing this one just to breathe a full breath in between the phrases because if there's got a lot of spaciousness in this call honey Shama every breath is a prayer every breath is gratitude to you.

Call Hi Shama. Taha laelia Helene.

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Hi, I'm Al.

Call Hi Michelle.

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I'm feeling grateful because last night

you know I've entered I've entered the phase with my kids where you know sometimes they want to snuggle and sometimes if I like go in for a kiss on the cheek, they turn their head and then they wipe it off

and

you know, a DERA was here last Thursday morning in the other room in the back

because she had a doctor appointment to you know, fix the fix the broken arm to just check on it. And she was mostly being quiet in the back. But you never know what kids are picking up when, you know they're being quiet in another room but you're talking in this room. Anyway, we sang We sang this one last week. Oh, Ziva Zim wrath. Yeah. And you know, Martin, I do this one because I know it means something to you.

And, and, and we sang it and then we moved on oop, what just have an okay with saying that we moved on. And then a full week later last night, apropos of nothing in bed, a DERA said were you seeing Oh, Z. And I just, you know, because Martin at some point in you know, life prior to this Minion built a relationship with this song. And when I knew about it, and so I sang it and then uh, you know, and then my kid is in the other room listening and then falling in love with Jewish music unbeknownst to me like I think the way she I think the way that she approaches me singing is like the equivalent of turning her face and wiping you know, wiping off a kiss but actually she's listening.

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So

so in this in this moment, in this morning, I'm sitting with gratitude for all of the invisible web of connections that draw all of us together and that hold people in love who don't even know they're being held in love, you know, by somebody else's love or somebody else's life experience that leads to a song that leads to joy.

So now we all get a little bit of that

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and for anyone who might be listening to this Minion after the fact is

not seeing the chat. So this chant Ozy my strength, the Zim wrath, yeah.

The Son of God

will be what saves me will be my salvation, that is my strength and song, and will be my salvation. But Rabbi shefa Gould, who wrote this piece, you know, talks about the balance between what we what we effort in what we like push, push, push, push, push, push forwards, and like what we allow God to lead us into, you know, what we allow the song of God to sing us into without our efforting and just being conscious of that sort of that balance inside of us at all times. Where do we need to push and where can we actually like, let go and let God song

Sending us into

wherever we need to go. less effort. More letting go.

less effort maybe more song.

And where do we need to push

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if your shoulders have gotten tense or written back up the you know sides of your shoulder blades go ahead and roll them and relax them again.

We're gonna stand as we go into vertical

facing east

standing in what feels like you know, mountain pose. Your whole body from feet balls of feet and, and heel on floor.

Knees and pelvis above. New sort of balanced aligned above my ankles and shoulders above pelvis. spine aligned head

lifted off as if a magic balloon tied to the top of my head. elongating my spine

can imagine all of that for you relaxing shoulders

bless it Are you the one who crowns us with dignity and beauty

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don't I have my voice

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have a heavy ammo use through

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close our eyes

say the Shema with full breadth and focus with each word

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I looked up and I saw what time it was and I couldn't believe it. So we're gonna go into

you know what, let's let us as we get let's let us as a healing prayer do me hello ha go ahead and put put the names of the folks who are thinking about this morning to the chat

or see their names out loud

in Shalom vanarama vinnova Sara you may know

Celia

your buddy in this Minion everyone in this Minion who shows up who needs a prayer who needs a little bit of strength this morning

including Roberta particular

now I love that you're saying each other's names in the chat here okay I'm not gonna I'm not gonna go through and say everyone's you can see

actually on your screen feel free to go through and say everybody's name who you see here

everyone who's suffering addicts alcoholics, anybody in recovery anybody who needs to know that you can get to the other side of something

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sending reflash lemma to everyone on your lists everyone in your hearts this morning

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healing of body healing a spirit

healing of friendship

healing have a sense of possibility

and yes, healing

and restoration to everybody who's experiencing

disruption and loss because of climate disasters and climate chaos in our world.

Sort of a permanent feature of our Misha Berra probably. I hope you're all okay

okay

Oh, and before we go into Padishah Tom, just a little a little point of learning on Monday, the day after second day Rashanna is caught

Some good Dahlia

This is a you know, it's one of the one of the lesser known minor fast days on the Jewish calendar.

As I'm passing this prayer for a fast day, we don't say it today. But um, after Rosh Hashanah like great afterwards China is a minor fast day meaning from sunup to sundown.

And you can choose to do it if you want, just want to know about it, so that you can choose to do it.

And, you know, it has similar history to many of our fast days and minor fast days, which is, you know, sort of connected to connected to ancient Israel and, you know, war and war and persecution and, and near escape and in any case,

yeah.

I always find it a little helpful. If I felt like I maybe eight to excess during Rosh Hashanah and need a little bit of a cleanse afterwards. before Yom Kippur war. It's like a little bit of a reset to go into having a normal week before Yom Kippur were some good dahlias. So I'm good Ali is your man.

All right, like a warm up fast. It's like a warm up fast. Exactly.

All right. After after we do Kaddish and sing ourselves out with those say Shalom.

Or, or Psalm 27.

For anybody who wants to stay on, I would. I would. I would love to talk about ideas with you. I have some very specific ideas that I want to talk about with you. So anybody who wants to stay on? I will be more than happy to have your company.

Who are we saying Kaddish for this morning?

St. cottage for my mother Muriel Kornbluth? Yes, yes.

Rabbi does Yeah.

My Aunt and Uncle Walter and Harriet Michelle

died.

My father sir yahrtzeit Yeah.

I have an English or your outside. My father died on Thursday, September 14 1972. When I was 14, wow.

You're 14

And it was the Thursday between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. So it was a bad time to die. I

jaw we gotta get coffee.

I'm sorry. And thank you for remembering him with us this morning on this day.

Brianna burden and Szalinski Of course. All right.

Yeah, he's a phenomenally Raha. May all of their memories, be blessings. Is there anybody who would like to say Kaddish this morning

I'm happy to leave. All right, Glenn. Thank you.

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One thing I ask of God, just one thing, you know what I sort of feel like, we put so many things on the list. And then next year, we come back. And it's all the same things that we had on the list that we thought we'd work on or fix or attend to. And so I just, I wonder what the what the difference would be if instead, we just thought of one thing, not not five things, that 10 things, but literally one thing and just focused on that, and then actually came back next year to assess our progress or progress. These of you that one thing?

Yeah, you know, maybe it's how we talk to a particular family member, you know, that we just can't resist being mean, or being snarky or short tempered. Maybe it is around, you know, exercise or eating habits, maybe it's around sleep habits, you know, or how we talk to ourselves self talk.

You know, I'd be curious, this is actually this is a little bit vulnerable. I know, you know, you don't have to put anything in the chat. But

if there is like one thing that you're sort of like that you want a little bit of accountability on even you know, in six months, you want somebody from this minion to write you a direct message and say, How's it going on that thing? Well, then well then feel free. Feel free to drop into the chat. Like what is something that you one thing, just one? Only one

that you want to attend to a hotshot LT man Session One thing I asked for God for help with this.

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