Crowning Hashem: Exploring the Divine Kingship and Individual Contribution Before Rosh Hashanah

0:01 If you've ever been guilty of this egregious crime, well, I reckon you'll never do it again, to God forbid. Refer to a malbec as just a glass of red wine, or to misrepresent a cabernet sauvignon for a Pinot Noir what type of blasphemy is this? If you were ever in the presence of a sommelier, red wine canisor and enthusiast, they will kick you out on your backside and leave you with a black eye. For how can you speak such heretical comments? Can't you get your red wine straight? And, ladies and gentlemen, when it comes to our relationship with our Khodosh Baruchu, best make sure to be a canisor about it, a sommelier, a spiritual sommelier, for sometimes it can be well.

0:55 Hashem's the king, he's also a venu, he's also a canu, he's also a melech, he's also a don, he's also the one who is the omnipresent, he's a mokkaim, he's a gibor, he's a noyra. There's so many different ways that we relate to Hashem and we have to know that it's not all just a bunch of red wine. And when it comes to Rosh Hashanah, the avoda, the cardinal mentality, the ambient theme of the day is Malchus, kingship and Rabbi Lopchansky explaining an amazing idea from the Vilna Gown that you know what Malchus is about. It's something we have to know going into Rosh Hashanah. It says the Vilna Gown that Malchus, a melech, is different than a Mosheil.

1:37 A Mosheil is a forced dictatorship in which the serfs play no role, they're just servants. They can't really give anything, and if they don't, someone else will do it. But a melech is someone who is served because the people want to. And when a person is a melech, every single unit, each individual comes together to create a larger whole, a formidable entity that, if you aren't there, the greater whole is lacking. And as soon as everyone comes together and serves, boom, you have a melech. Almost the Rebnasin tells us that a melech bello am.

2:17 There isn't a king without a nation. And this is so encouraging because on Rosh Hashanah we crown Hashem king. It means that we have a part of Hashem's master plan, as if, if you don't take your spot amongst your congregants and sholed and something's lacking, as if Hashem, of course, doesn't need anything from us. Everything is in heaven, god's got it all. But when we all come together, it seems as though we have the ability to give something, to be ma'm lech Hashem. Truthfully, this is what happens in the world. Hashem created that we do. The brismila. The body is born incomplete and we come incomplete Hashem's work.

2:59 In a way, it's like we're a partner in Hashem's creation. Um alchusai bir rotzai n'kiblu aalayhem. So stand at your seat, say Hineni. Here I am to fulfill your will Dutifully to be a loyal and trusty attendant, for Hashem has given us VIP backstage passes to be a part of Hashem's ultimate plan. So crown him king. Read the psochem of ma'm alchus and feel like I can't believe. I have a seat at the table and Hashem wants me and I call biday shemaim. Everything is in heavens. I b'chutz migir Hashemayim, but I can give Hashem my year Hashemayim, and crown Hashem king over my life and my world.