Laws (Halacha) of Rosh Hashana and much more... - Rabbi Alon Anava

[Music] we're gonna talk a little bit about the laws of the Rosh Hashanah in the beginning of the week I mentioned that we still have a few more days of doing Juba we're gonna talk in the next class of things that we need to cover in our Chava process before Oceania but we still have a few more days to do chuva in those days we safely hurt if you still didn't start saying your thoughts then then you definitely want to I couldn't find by the way online anything good in English that you can actually read this report I think the only thing is really to actually buy a translated book of slick hood but I couldn't find anything online that is in English so if you do know about anything online let me know that way we can share it with more people but nevertheless we still say support Sunday morning we're gonna say a very long longer than the usual saccade it's the code of Oceania in the morning and I explained in the beginning of the week that right after that we're going to do a certain act a certain ceremony of a nullification of the vows that need the rim so I explained that already on Sunday I told you that if you have a husband he does it for you and if you don't yet have a husband that can do it for you then best to appoint somebody that should do it for you and if you want to really go out of your way you can go to Aberdeen and do that over there but I think that the morning of Oceania they'll be pretty busy to have you standing there filling out your guts so better to just find somebody you can appoint and then do they do that a lot and darling for you if they you young lady that is not married then the father also does it for the for the girl the father the man does it for their wife and for the daughter daughters and if you don't have yet a husband bizarre - a very soon you will and till then just find somebody to appoint somebody to do it for you so no big deal but you don't want to enter Russia China with any valves that you made and you didn't fulfill or better yet if you did any valves then do then fulfill them but it's very hard to remember because could very much be that 10 months ago you told somebody I will do this and this for you and you never did it and that's a well you also got to be very careful with what you promise people you can just tell people I'll do this and that for you I'll pick you up I'll take you I'll keep sounding something for you somebody not long ago it told me that they lived here in Tsfat and they had to go with take care of their brother in America so he asked me if I can store his stuff for those couple months so of course why not just let me know in advance we'll make room in the storage in there and they will take care of that and then I didn't hear from him for a while so I called him over and over tell him whenever you want tell me because I really promised you that I will store yourself now I already I unless you tell me I don't need you to store the stuff then I took on myself oh not an oath but a well because I told him I'll store your stuff for you so I had to get verbally from him telling me it's okay I have figured it out so since you don't remember all your vows then we do this notification of valves and that way you don't go into austere Sharna with any open promises if you look at the text even at the text of the of the text of the slick hood we say they're the valves that I took and I never fulfilled so this is a pretty serious thing you can't just take vows and then and then not do them it's pretty severe if you don't mind maybe write the question it's a question about the valves only the way is for the ones who didn't get to do it on Rosh Hashanah or for ladies this is the other option if ladies don't know I don't have a husband or they can't appoint somebody then then you must come to call the drain do it in Coney Drake but for Kol Nidre is for the ones that you didn't able to do Plus from Rosh Hashanah to young people you might have slipped a few more in there here and there but nevertheless call me the way is for the ones who weren't able to make it off a god and specifically for ladies thanks for reminding me because ladies who can't do that rather than the limb then they have to do it and Kol Nidre that means that they have to come to the show and they have to participate in the prayer and say it themselves the advantage of doing it on your channel is first of all you're already starting the year without have any vows more than that you understand what you're doing in what you're saying calling me today is in Aramaic and most people don't understand what they're saying and they just follow the Kazan and they may be read from the mock so but it's written in Aramaic and it's very important that when you are knowing your values you know what you're saying and not just throwing out words that that you don't really understand but nevertheless it's very good before Shoshanna to get in as much as possible a lot of people for example they buy already their talk and they love before Shoshanna so add another Mitzvah to the year so whatever you can do before Shannon start the year the right way then you definitely want to do that now on the morning of Oceania which this year will be Sunday after we do a long sleek hood after we pray shall it and so forth it's very important that you take that day for Chava so whatever phone call you still didn't do to those people that you want to apologize or ask for forgiveness or whatever it is square things out and this is the day to start calling people you want to give a lot of charity that they it's very good to walk out in the street look for their families who are poor to give the couple quarters of the SH Kaleem in the corner for the guy who's sitting there with a violin that's not really considered giving to the car I mean it is but you want to make sure that if you know a family or two that they're really need then to help them with their with food to help them with their whatever whatever they need we have a fund that we feed a lot of families I mean they it's done very quietly they don't know who's the one who's supporting that who's the one that's giving but you want on the end of a lotion Sharna to find a few needy families whether it's to give them food whether it's to help them with anything else and unfortunately there's many of them another big thing that we want to do I told you already that you want to make sure that you're going if you can to the Graveyard to go to one of the graves of the tsadikim so I also ask for them to pray for us now here Boca shame will bless people travel for days and four hours to go to all sorts of places in the world we have it around the corner I don't understand sometimes people I mean I understand they have a certain connection to a certain Sadiq but many of the delays there many of the great rabbis in Israel say I don't know we don't and they don't understand the idea why do you travel thousands of kilometers to a different country you leave your family behind you spend thousands of dollars take those thousands of dollars give it to needy families go here around the corner we have here Mort said Hakeem that you can have time to count so I personally I mean I am NOT gonna don't get into people's business somebody wants to go somewhere let them go but we're in the Holy Land is more MORE you can get more holy than here why go to a different country of there's no holiness there to see Siddiq when you go down the street here you see 200 but nevertheless I'm not judging anybody not to getting into other people's business some people they have a certain relationship with a certain Siddiq they like going over there good good for them was that was good for them but nevertheless we are lucky go down the street you have 200 graves to choose from which grave to pray at if the stairs are too hard for you there are many graves around here that you don't have to use the stairs you can go five minutes from here to knock for Michigan's oh it's a five minute walk no stairs no way queues no lines no pushing yeah what question there's so much go to Belial is the evil over there there's a lot where to go to but very good to go in a negotiation out to the Keyblade said they came to pray for to ask them to pray for us and so forth I told you that last year I always take a lot of names and I go and pray in the graves last year I went to the Makri of the a completely empty that was about an hour before hoe Shoshanna and I went to the grave it was nobody there was a completely empty it was just me and my boys and then on some bypass some gum some guy came took some pictures and he left so walk of shame now this year we don't have this issue normally if Ross Hashanah will fall on Thursday and a Friday then we have to do we hooked up chili no question this year it's after Shabbat we don't have to do it but I'm just mentioning that because the a special emotion is not going to come anytime soon and probably people who watch the video and it might fall in a different year well nevertheless this year we don't do it officially because they it's already falling after a Shabbat now many people get confused but you know in Israel we also celebrate two days ago Shoshanna it's not like a piece of Sukkot in Sherwood that you do only one day so in Israel some people are shocked today there just came just literally as and I quote an Israeli also do two days Oceania so we also do two days of Oceania and the home ara explaining why the you know Shoshanna we do it two days it's exactly the maja we're learning now in the men's classes can be found in the tracked beta where they're explaining why specifically Rosh Hashanah has also done two days and lt sale now at the time of the night of Oceana of course you want to make sure that you coming into waters and a clear you did your Chava you ask the forgiveness you helped as many people as you can you did whatever you need to do and LFO Shoshanna we pray Mincha this is the last minute of the year so if you don't pray usually make sure that at least you pray this prayer because this is literally the last prayer of 5778 so you want to make sure that you do that prayer I know Mincha sometimes it's easy it's it's hard it's coming at the at the time were you the most busy making the meal whatever it is but you do want to find the time to pray Mincha quietly with the right intention to the last prayer of the year and needless to say that it's the the prayer that takes you into water Shanna and of course before she should now we light candles and this year it's going to fall after Shabbat so you only light a candle for Shoshana it sometimes or should not falls on Shabbat then is you also including it the blessing for Shabbat this serie only light candles for Shoshana it's very good to write a candle that will burn for 48 hours or 72 hours that you have a source of fire besides that you have to light the candles again the second night so you have how to light the takecare fire from it and the blessing that you say of course each one that says is a little bit different between the Safari the Ashkenazi but the blessing that we say is led lick nail shalom azúcar horn so just I remember I mean some have the nose a little bit different but it's the blessing is more less the same of guitar shame rock in America Ram Jackie DeShannon be mitzvah Tov it's even lick nation Yamaha Zico on some say has eco on some say Zika one this is already you check with your notes of how you do it but nevertheless this is the prayer that we say and right after that you say we are know if was there of Shabbat we would also add that link near Shalom Shabbat vo mizuka one this year is not don't forget to say chef er no now it's always good to wear something new or to have some new fruits next to the candles so when you say Riano you also blessing on the on something that is new on Rosh Hashanah it's good not to put fruit specifically next to you candles because we're going to say also the blessings on the new fruit at the table so better just to wear something new and to have in mind that the shittier is also going on something new that you worry and even even if you don't wear something new and you weren't able to buy a new dress or whatever it is and you a piece of jewelry and you also don't have any fruit that you didn't eat and you can say and and to say you cannot you can still say and should say er no but nevertheless it's always good to to have something new on now during the 48 hours of Oceania this is not the time that you want to sleep not sleeping in nor taking naps now schmoozing with the friends and the bow hashem you can check your whatsapp and facebook so it's 48 hours that you want to do chumma pray for mercy and pray for Hamim and you want to increase in a lot of prayers so every free moment that you have you want to retail him and again this is not the day to sleep in and it's not the day to schmooze because this is the day that the media the attribute of judgement is very very powerful me dr. Dean is very very strong and this is the day that the whole world is being judged so we need as much as possible to increase mercy raha meme so we do that with the blowing of the shofar this is the peak the highlight of the day that the blowing of the shofar arouses the mercy from the world about my needless to say that any given moment that you can read the limb you should read it and read a lot of it and needless to say that it's always better to read tillymann Hebrew I know sometimes you want to understand what you're saying but specifically tell him it's good to read it in Hebrew because the words the power of the words are more important than you understanding tell him you don't really have to understand if you if you do want to understand then make a mixture of some English some Hebrew but you wanted making them the majority of it in Hebrew now I'm just saying it as a side note in case any of you are smokers I hope you're not but there's no problem in lighting fire from fire Rosh Hashana association is not a day to smoke so even if you are a smoker and I know a lot of people don't know they still smoke because you're allowed to light up fire from existing flame but the ostrich Allah is not a day you want to be smoking if you are a 'special all my smoker and if class special o me o fu must and go to a corner nobody needs to see you smoking now Washington is the beginning of the ten days of Chava it's called the sailordiy MH / so we do change a lot of parts in our prayers in the 10 days of Chava and the first thing that we add is that every time that we say mention the shames the name as a king then we added a hay to it harm Allah and not just Millican so the best if you can is to have needless to say on Rosh Hashanah is to pray only from Amazone why because it will already have it a in it so even when you say bill cattle Mazzone on Rosh Hashanah it will be already in it if you pray from a mock so I just remember that we adding the hay for her Melek in Schmoe nicely we will say how many douche and so that's why it's always good to pray for massey no that is a design for Shoshanna now more than that when we praying shmona so this is not only in your Shoshanna but for the rest of the praise to a young people then we add different paragraphs mikham oh ha ha ha man there's different paragraphs in the sinew oh but I don't want to now say them all mainly because each one is holding a difference in do but you have to pay attention that during the ten days of chuva starting on Rosh Hashanah till Yom Kippur there's additions for example when when we're praying Schmoe nicely at the end when we say no say Shalom me mama at the end we say we say hashalom remover mouth so these are little things that you have to pay attention to if you bring I mean on Rosh Hashanah you want to make sure that praying only for Mama's Oh cause it's all gonna be already in it but from Tuesday Wednesday till next Tuesday and you have to pay attention there's always going to be all these additions for sale at EMA Chava and this is again one thing that you definitely want to pay attention to now during the prayers on Rosh Hashanah I highly recommend that it's only done from a Mizzou and not so Macedo because a lot of the things in the CEDAW will not will not mention it I know a lot of this in doing who have the prayers of Oceania in it but you have to really know what you're doing because it's going to tell you constantly go to that page to say this blessing it's gonna kind of go backwards and forth better to spend the hundred shekels or whatever it costs to buy a good Mazzone and I know you can buy the ones that have also the English in it and you that were you saying the prayers exactly the right way now what social now in the evening the prayer is very very short it's not a long prayer and right after that we start a meal in the meal it's not a regular Yom Tov meal because we do the order a little bit different we start with Kadosh but before we start the meal we do all the same I named all the signs now this class we're not going to do that maybe tonight instead of this all class we'll do more the mystical reasons why we do every little thing why we dip the Apple in honey and not anything else why we eat the pomegranate why we have a fish head and some people have a lamb or a ram head if they can have access to it and all these things why we do that I don't know actually I don't want to don't know if we won I want to cancel this all class for that for sure if you're joining us for Sunday for the meal then explain every little act as we doing it why are we doing it so that in itself is already an intention how do you say uh incentive thank you for you to come and have the meal with us but nevertheless we do kaduche the same way of course the Nosa of the kaduche is different the prayer and the kaduche is different but right after the kadosh before we start the the meal then we start doing all this ammonium the first thing that we do is we were of course wash for bread and we dip the bread instead of salt we dip it in honey there's already different customs we're not going to get now into different customs some have the custom that through the entire month of Tishrei till after Schmidty at 7:00 they always dip the bread in honey nor in salt and the majority people do it some people don't but nevertheless we do want to make sure that the year is sweet so we tend to dip everything in there in the honey in the first night see in the first night is different from the second night the first night we first do the matzo with the bread and then we do the apple and even though we already said the behind the bread we still say another Baha on the Apple normally after you say emoti everything is included in there what you eating here we will still say Bavaria it's after the matzo and the Apple is B is we're going to dip in the honey and then here there's different no sir shame each one does a little bit different but there is some prayer that we say as we doing the see my name so I don't want to specifically read it because there's many different seem no sir him some go by the nos Oxford kanna's the no Sahab dari each one has their but we do say a heel at zone after every time we do one of the see my name so for example with the honey this is a general one that people say a lot only for nefesh a traditional notion not Obama took our so we say Bogota shame no key no melech ha'olam Borei periods we dip the Apple in the honey we read it and then we say the eurozone but nevertheless here specifically I don't want to start reading the ear that song because each one says it's a little bit different so you but you definitely want to add that after we to the Apple in the army with the movie we're gonna eat a pomegranate and the manner one of the many reasons is because the foreign pomegranate has a lot of lot of seeds they say I never tested it yeah you have a friend who tested it they say that there are 613 s I don't seeds in the pomegranate I never had the patience to actually do it because they usually do 1 2 3 4 5 I need the produce so then I lose the count at 267 and okay open a new one so I never did it but the GP says we have proof yeah so maybe we'll hire some board people to count the seeds but they do say that there are 613 seeds in the pomegranates and we want our are our mitts vote and our merits to be fruitful and to be multiplying like the seeds of the pomegranate some people I know it's not so easy but they have on the table a Rams Head so if you want to go hunting I can refer to you where but nevertheless the reason why we have the Rams head on the table is a to meant to remember the RAM of attack that was a slaughtered almost slaughtered on the altar and but you know it's not so easy to find Ramsey some people do a lamb or sheep so yeah more common people do fish it's a little bit easier and it also takes less space on the table may I might think a little bit more but they also kind of spooky having just a head on the table so so that's really a matter of opinion but nevertheless for the ones that it's hard for them to get a ram or sheep then use a fish and the ones who use the fish is also to signify that we should constantly be the head and not the tail and there's a big question and what is better to be I remember I used to they and my father always told me that when I was a kid it was like what do you rather be tail to the Lions or head to the Foxes so a fox is usually not a positive animal so he always used to tell me better to be a tail to the Lions than ahead to the Foxes so maybe some people rather be a head to the Fox but here is we want to wish that we also always should be a head should be at the top I my addiction is that we want to bless we want to get a blessing that we should always use our head and not something else when we're making decisions so most people they make decisions with different parts of their bodies such there's their heart or other things but that we should have the common sense that you should use our head right also we another reason we have the fish on the table and other people eat from it is that we should be fruitful and multiple like fish fish they they they tend to be multiple very easy and some people also eat carrot but the sweet carrots I think it's called the timid Simas I had a different name now I had a different name for it somebody told me see Mrs E dish okay so some people know some people quote I think Marin or Marin right Marvin more exactly so that's that's the word that that's also a dish right I don't know a dish I know a Bissel people ask me if I know a dish I know how to say a Bissel just a little just one word so nevertheless we also eat the carrot that's also to signify that our merits should be increasing and so forth and of course there's the heel that's on that we say after each and every one of them and then there's a lot of other things that people add I don't know where they bring it from people have their own sources doing this to eat that but nevertheless each one does their according to their their customs now we do have different customs again this is no no ha ha ha but it's a custom not to cook anything in that meal with vinegar and not to eat pickled things that are in vinegar and too salty and too sour you want everything to be sweet so you don't cook things with stuff that is bitter some people the whole dish way they don't use garlic they don't use pepper they don't use vinegar and all the the bitter tastes and the horseradish and all these things that are bitter and sour and they're and spicy and you want to keep it all sweet and tasty I know a lot of people they don't eat different types of nuts not because of the bitterness because the nuts are sometimes good but nevertheless because they excuse me they they they they cause a person to be more weaker and my sweat a little bit more and then it's affecting the person's prayers I know other people but again these are different customs not really something which one does what they what they go by we also say she piano I mean the person that will do the kaduche on Rosh Hashanah he says a shaky Arno so it's also good to have a new fruit on the table but that's is there for the kaduche now Shahar it will be a very long prayer not as long as the Rosh Hashanah as the Yom Kippur but it is a longer pair I would estimate another hour now and a half over a regular Shabbat prayer so you definitely want to make sure that this is the prayer you do miss if you need to miss any prayer in the year that's not the one you want to make sure that Shah Holly you're here on time and that you have a comfortable place to sit it's a long prayer and you want to make sure it's the first prayer of the year and not only that it's the first prayer of the year it's the prayer where we asking ashame to forgive us it's the prayer that we asking a shim to bless us is the prayer that when we do chew up I mean this is the how you start your year so yeah well it depends on the show you go for us we're starting the same time starting at 8 o'clock for me depends on the show some shows they start on a Shabbat irregularly much later so austere generally they start earlier so you're not gonna I'll tell you what's the problem with starting late in oceania is because you're not allowed to eat anything till you've heard the shofar women too so if you're going to blow the shofar at one o'clock in the afternoon you're already fasting and you can't fast on a Yom Tov so it's good to find normally previous years we prayed nets we prayed at 6:00 in the morning but now the women want to join in the kids and so just for the sake of the women we pray a little bit later and their kids need to join we want to make sure that the kids hear the show file I don't start too late if you're going to different shows but nevertheless it's a very important prayer if you need to be lazy don't be lazy on Sunday on a Monday because this is the prayer how you lay down everything for the rest of the year you you you set the tone for the entire year and concessional relates to the prayer Schokolade on Rosh Hashanah then expect to be late to a lot of prayers throughout the year and you know breakfast Sunday no breakfast you know allowed to eat to eat anything till you hear additionality Monday I gotta know I keep saying Sunday but Monday Sunday is a regular day so if you must drink then there may be just a little bit but you want to make sure that you don't eat anything or drink anything before you heard the show file excuse me listen we we can we can start negotiating now a sip of coffee maybe a quarter cup of coffee just a bite of a cake so then the the lajas says don't taste anything till you heard that caiafa if you really really really really really weak excuse me if you need really weak or you need to take some water to take a pill or something then of course nobody's gonna stand with a gun to your head but you want to make sure that you're doing it right so you can wait with the coffee three hours it's not gonna hurt anybody to practice their patience and their the power of overpowering their desires I also love coffee so I drink the coffee one in the afternoon so it's actually a very good practice to know and to learn how to put your desires under control so I for example I mentioned that many times when I became observant then before I was observant then there wasn't any rules or any type of control for anything whatever I wanted I will put my hand on it there wasn't any self control or nothing and when I became observant that had to change I told you Rennie many times when I became observant it was about putting a suit on or putting a yarmulke on only three years after I became observant I start walking with a yarmulke and sit sit in a suit it was more the internal change so the beginning there was kind of a challenge for me how how much I can control myself because 28 years I had zero self control I wanted something I would do it on the spot with no thinking if I should if it's good if it's not good it's gonna be hurting somebody I don't care I want it I take it so I had to learn how to put myself under control so it became a challenge let's see how much I can control myself and the more you know how to control yourself specifically your desires that are forbidden then the more you refine you become so up until today I still have make myself these challenges so one of the the thing that I would work on a work a lot on when I became observant is to start removing things that I really loved but I don't really need and this is a great teachings of our sages that they say kadesha that's Makabe metallica sanctify yourself with what you are permitted so you're allowed to eat but you don't have to eat 17 times a day and you're allowed to have some chocolate there's nothing wrong with having chocolate but have one piece you don't have to finish the whole bar it's not good for you it's not gonna give you any energy because I'm gonna do anything besides they make cavities and raise your sugar and you'll be all hyper and and then you then you are dicted now to the chocolate what's this so eat a little piece so you have to know how to put yourself under control but when you can get rid of things that you don't really need then you're really refining yourself to say I walk every day for in the clock in the morning in front of the bakery here I don't know if you ever woke up at four o'clock in the morning the the the smell you can faint on the sidewalk just from the smell it just comes out of the of the oven now it's very dangerous because it's on their way to the microwave and and sometimes they see people like in five o'clock in the morning like the cinnamon bun so so but I you know the natural inclination is okay what's the big deal just just one bun it's just one cinnamon bun or one hog Allah but the mind says you don't need it there's nothing there what's in this chocolate a flour and sugar it's not going to give you energy is I'm gonna do anything good to you so besides a little bit of good in your in your taste buds so you wanna know how to put yourself under control so when I became observant it was a challenge how can I control myself to not consume things that I really want but I don't really need them so and slowly slowly I was able to get rid of so many bad habits to a point that it's not only that I practising self-control I became much healthier don't have to shove into my mouth 17 cookies every minute and and everything in an exaggerated way so for example now now the only thing that I would say that I allow myself to break the rules is I love coffee a lot before before was observing out I'm not exactly I would drink 10 to 15 cups of coffee a day not because I thought that it's gonna keep me up or not or the rush because I love the coffee so today it's you know it went from 10 cups a day to 9 to 7 to 5 so now it's under control but now the trick that I do is you know you said the cup of coffee in the morning on purpose I don't have coffee till 2:00 3:00 and afternoon just to prove to the etc and to my body you're not getting what you want when you want it you're gonna get it when I give it to you so yes sometimes I want ice can wake up early in the morning I sit and learn it's the most appropriate time to have my nice warm cup of coffee and that smell that's freshly grind grain came from Italy from Lavazza and that but no relax you're gonna have it at two o'clock in the afternoon so sending here Rosh Hashanah when you wake up in the morning put yourself under control specifically I can guarantee to you that if you can control yourself Monday and Tuesday not to have anything in the morning till after you hear the show foul the rest of the year you will have an extra power to overcome your your these small desires that you don't really need and I mean a big challenge in our life and one of the greatest things that we need to work on is refining ourselves and you you know where you really refine yourself when you know to control yourself and it's not only with food it's also with your mouth how many times you want to say some comments and it's really the time to say that comment because everybody will laugh or it's gonna be you know the perfect time but it's gonna come when they count on somebody else and sometimes you're it's asking to say that and you know I'm not gonna say that so and again so we have food that's good there's many other things you know how to put yourself under control then you're really taking yourself to the next step of yourself refinement so the first day of the year where you laid down the foundation it's I told you right it's called the ostrich and I know de la cocina technically it should have been called the beginning of the year callate Hashanah but we call it a Rosh Hashanah the head of the year because everything is included in the head whatever I do in that 48 hours will take me for the rest of the year so that's two days you want to make sure that you wake up early you show up to the prayer early you pray I know it's not easy to pray especially for four hours and especially then it's you hungry you're thinking already about the yummy food that's gonna be served and so forth but think of your soul that day specifically that we're under under a magnifying glass that day you want to make sure that your prayer is sincere your thoughts are clear and so forth and needless to say that the peak peak of the prayer is the show foul so we're first we pray the beginning of the prayer is very similar to young Shabbat for Saturday certain parts we don't do because it's a regular day after that we preach philotimo nicely it's different because it's Parvati Sharna then we read the Torah after the Torah we already go to blowing the shofar if you're not going to be here that it's very important that you listen to I'm sure every show they give some announcements what to do or what not to do if you're going to be praying with us and I will announce what's happening but from the moment that you the the person who's blowing the shofar starts blowing the shofar you know not to talk to the end of Mahatma soft so and try not to it's also it's not a I mean it's not words but it's not not the right way now okay if you're showing up with little kids that's a whole different thing but you want to make sure that loss Hashanah you put the best of your best and from the moment that the barge keya the person who's blowing the shofar says the Baha shequida shuttle maybe sort of it's evenly schmuck or show foul that's it you have to take the consideration that he's you are included in his Baha this is a mitzvah to send Oh like that it's a positive Mitzvah you miss it there's no second chances here so and if I mean there's always second chances you miss it you're gonna have to find somebody who's gonna do it for you again and this is not the blowing the shofar like we did in the beginning of the class it takes two minutes you have to blow a hundred times so whatever what I did now in the beginning was how many time is four three three attempt cute times that 10 but now that's what needs to be brought blown on now so you want to make sure that you're listening to the both of the of the person who's blowing the shofar and have to have the mind to be included in it at the time of the blowing of the shofar your mind has to be totally free from any other thoughts and you want to I mean we have it easy we have a tallit I cover myself with the tallit nobody sees the tears and nobody sees the mouth mumbling this is the time we learned about it yesterday that's the time when you want to confess at the blowing of the shofar but you don't start saying god I'm sorry that quietly whispered what you have to say to ashame I lied I cheated I talked Lashon Allah was mean to that person I owe that person money whatever it is at the time of the blowing of the shofar you want to take it very very seriously needless to say that the sounds of the shofar have the power to arouse us to do Chua I mentioned that yesterday in the salt class I don't know about other people when I hear the blowing of the shofar no no Shoshanna not in the middle of the week it makes me always makes me cry the sound penetrates the soul in such a way that if you're not thinking of the meat that is going to be served after the meal and you're thinking of your your soul and your loved ones I always think of my loved ones my parents my kids my wife it's a you get attached to the moments of very powerful moments and you can do such deep chuva that you tear the heavens so it's a it's a long time can take 10-15 minutes depending on the person how he blows the shofar of course you want to choose the show whether you know that the person is going to be blowing the shofar they know what they're doing it's not just going there's there's a lot of thought behind it and there's different sounds in the shofar and you want to make sure that the person was blowing the shofar is first of all well aware of the laws what and how and the quality of the shofar doesn't matter if it's the quality is unbelievable or not this is a bonus sometimes the quality of the shofar doesn't come out so great when you blow the shofar so many times the this part becomes very width and it becomes very weight then a lot of and I know it sounds disgusting but the saliva goes in so the sound is not always perfect sometimes it's a kind of cranking there but you know I was telling telling my graduates today normally I would practice for at least a month to before Shoshana so I didn't I was now in the States for three weeks I only started practicing yesterday so for half an hour straight yesterday I was blowing the shofar my lips are all swollen sound easy people think you blow this too far from your lungs there's nothing to do with your lungs has to do with your lips and you have to build ability you have to be able to blow for so long so you want to make sure that the where are you going to be praying the person knows what he's doing has the right intention and he has to have you in your thoughts and every year that's what we're learning now in dissolve every blow there's a reason for that it's not stuff that they some composure 3,000 years ago said oh I think that sound will sound very nice after that sound so how is this is much more to it so you want to make sure why is that why a hundred specifically there's a long explanation why we do a hundred times but the the short explanation is that every blow arouses a certain attribute in the world above specifically the shofar is arousing the attribute of mercy in the world above because what happens on Rosh Hashanah where that's what we were learning in the soil class the sphere Alvina is so to say sleeping and the ski boat that are nourished from vina which is nets a hole in your soul rooted in viña are also in a state of sleeping this is called the Kabbalistic term is called silica morphine there's no Mohan there's no intellect the three me dots that are nourishing the world below which is accessibility ferret who are corresponding to a Guam it's Yakov and that's why we constantly mentioned them in our prayers then these are the MoDOT that are bestowing the energy into this world now what happens is during the time of Oceania there is no Hamim in the world there's only Deen there's only judgment in the world that's why to go out the name yama deen the judgment day and the judgment day by the way it's not only for the jews people think rosh hashanah is for the jews oestrogen eyes for the entire universe everybody gets judged jews non-jews animals creatures ange everything is being judged entire universe is being judged because if confession on the collage novel decides it doesn't want to continue the whole world disappears so we need to arouse the media of humming of where mercy and a very short version how is it done specifically with the chiffon specifically a hundred times because if you have a safe and the safe has a combination of letters or numbers if you miss one little number it's not going to open the safe so specifically we have a hundred blows you don't do it in one shot rather we do the blowing of the shofar before Philip mu south then we go into Philip mu south this is what I started saying before it's important that you know cuz we got already finished but I will have more classes and hopefully if you join us for the prayers and I will announce everything that's about to happen and how to me you need to follow but the way it's done is that the belt Kia the person who blows the shofar he says the boy hot from that point on you have to remember it's one wrong session so you don't talk and not even stuff like can you move it a little bit please let's go like and it's important that it's also the miming and try to just be focused on what's going on then then there's the blowing of the shofar right after that we start Philip mu south which is the peak the highlight of the prayer during Philip Mustafa we do it by ur quietly and then in the repetition of trial at MU south then you still don't talk and during the repetition this is the long session of the prayer that the the repetition of triode mu staff can take half an hour and in between their breaks and and there are blowing of the ship more blowing of the shofar and totaling it's totaling it to a hundred and you gotta be focused you hear the Kazan reading reading reading reading stopping and then blowing the shofar again and then a more reading so it's important that you go a little bit over the muscle that you aware what's going to happen and specifically the hundred chaos as a long explanation to that where I think what we'll do is when we have the class of all the mystical and the Kabbalistic reasons we have everything then I'll explain it more and more in depth because it's very very very interesting and needless to say just don't forget that the blowing of the shofar is the highlight of the day and you want to make sure that the show where you go to the the blowing of the shofar is gonna be done right I'm sure I mean I don't think their shows that they're not going to do it right but you don't want to go to a place when the hospital maybe will disregard the importance and you're not going to hear the show follow the right way because then they made you're gonna have to find somebody in the afternoon to blow the shofar for you so very important now one last thing because we really got a finish on the first day of Rosh Hashanah we have a custom that we do tashlik there we go to a place that has water preferably with fish and we don't throw breadcrumbs I don't know where people were bring the breadcrumb things you throw your sins so some people throw breadcrumbs I saw I don't know maybe there's some type of source to it I'm not too sure I don't know about breadcrumbs but nevertheless you go to a pond where there's fish you know it's breadcrumbs feed the fish so yeah I don't know maybe maybe it's something for the kids to get them excited but yeah but this time you want to go to a pond you do that after mija of on the first day so that will be Monday so we pray Mincha we're gonna have a minyan event I hear you you're very lucky here we have a big pond out they know that everybody comes to our pond so yeah yeah yeah because it's a live water and there's fish in there so we're gonna pray here Minka we have to do it a little bit earlier before Shakya and then we go I mean the best way to go to river if you can if you feel like walking five kilometers to the Kinneret good luck you can still make it if not then there's no river zero some places are rivers if you can go to a river then go to a live pond like what we have and better tip this fish there and there's a hole said that what we reach give me what do you throw in you throw your sins so and again this is symbolic no you just read the certain text it's symbolic don't think that that's it you went to the pond and you got rid of your sins but nevertheless there's a whole settle to read I think what are we going to do here we'll have a little class that result gives a very interesting explanation why the water why the fish what's happening what's the cover note the intentions you have to say why are you doing that use me if not then you can use a fish tank so what at one time where at one time when we were somewhere we were staying in Brooklyn one Rosh Hashana and Brooklyn there's barely even puddles forget about ponds so so what we did is we took a big tank fill it up with water and we brought a few fish before the holiday threw the fish in and that was our - Lister place needless to say those poor fish what the kids did to them there are like bodies floating fish everywhere so my nevertheless there's a mystical meaning behind it and here we're gonna do it all together we'll pray Mincha we'll give a class what the results planes and you're welcome to come and join us here if for whatever reason you missed it you can still do it a day after a few days after but you want to try to do it on Rosh Hashanah and and not to delay it and of course just to summarize the class the day after Oceania is a fast so this year Wednesday is a fast song Gedaliah it's a half a day fast I know it's half a day meaning a not 24 hours from morning tonight not half a day to 12:00 half a day meaning from sunrise to sunset so this is a important fast on that day we'll have a class explaining a little bit more about it but I do have a class online from last year explaining really why we doing it on what's the significance and so forth and next week already we'll learn all that a lot of a Syrah acidity matures and from Monday or Sunday night we start the ten days of Juba and we increase in to us so that will learn already on next week without the shame and the point to remember is that this is the most auspicious time of the year I believe more than Naoki PO Yom Kippur is just a day of atonement and Rosh Hashanah is the day that we literally first of all the most important recovery crown Hashem we make him King we appoint him king over the world that's why we say homiletic adore the holy king next it's the day that we're gonna be blessed for the rest of the year this is the day that you want to make sure you're focusing on your chuhwa focusing on prayer focusing on Torah not wasting your time or nonsense on as long and meaningless conversations and wrong sleep and bizarre the shame with our sincerity or in our prayers and ashamed bless us all with a good year of the sweet year full of happiness and success health should be a lot of weddings this year a lot of Brie thought bleats and and parties the solution should be a year of success to everybody and all your goals should be achieved your dreams should be fulfilled your challenges should be easily overcome I can tell you that you're not chef challenges because we need challenges but at least it shouldn't be so hard and even if they're hard you should very easily overcome them and everything that are really our heart desires BAM it's not big chocolate cakes and fancy cars real what our heart really desires that a chef should listen to your prayers and accept it in the best way possible and bless us all with the love and peace and na cotton with true happiness in our heart and of course the ultimate blessing of a sing mushiya with their own eyes very soul [Music]