Rosh Hashana - Day of Hashem's Mercy

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with Ari goldwag recorded with hm's never ending assistance in Isel 5783 2023 and this is the last para podcast of 5783 and we don't have a para this week because it's rashash so I'd like to share with you some thoughts that are related to the rash to the medish that speaks on the on the seventh month on the first day of the month which is rash it's a inra in Leviticus 23: 24 the medes tells us a lot of deep ideas there's so much here there really is a lot I'm not going to be able to get into everything but I'd like to share with you two things that when we combine them and bring them together we'll see an amazing idea an amazing thought that will transform how we think about rashash how we understand the schaur what is the idea of the chauffeur that we blow on rashash its purpose is to awaken us to bring us back to a relationship with Hashem to make Hashem our King but let's see how the Mish phrases it because it's really beautiful and it's really deep we're going to start off just talking about rash the day itself why is why is this day chosen the first day of TI the first day of the seventh month right the beginning of the year on the Jewish calendar really is Nissan I have to tell you a secret we have that's the beginning of the Jewish year this is the the first of the of the months is Nissan when we became a nation when we came out of Egypt and yet we all know that the year switches from it's going to be 5783 it's going to switch to 5784 it switches now why is it that when it comes to den when it comes to judgment why is this the day why is this the significant day that we say this is the beginning of the year this is when we take stock of all that happened in the last 12 months this is when we think about starting over why is it that this is the time so the Mish tells us something very important very deep and and the reason it's so important is because we need to look at it from the perspective of Hashem of God God loves us and God wants the best for us and so when he chose this day to be the day of judgment to be the day when I would instead of judgment I would say the Day of Reckoning the day of looking at ourselves and calculating how have we done how can we do better the Day of Reckoning is this day why says the the PK says into in Psalms 119:89 forever Hashem your word stands in the heavens what is this what is the idea here says the what day was the World created so we think if you would ask you know the average person when was the World created rash rash we this is the day of creation this is the day when the world came into being but the measure says that's not true and this is somewhat well known the word was actually created on which was a few days ago already the world was created on the 25th day of el 5 days six days five days precisely before rashash comes R and he and he says based on what says based on this statement that the 25th day of the of el the the month immediately preceding Tish the month immediately preceding the month when we have rashash which is what we say when we get into theas and we get into the blowing of the Sher so part of the text that we read is this is the day which is the beginning of your work which brings us back to the first day it's a law for the people of Israel what's going on is it the 25th that the world is created or is it the the day of rashash and the answer is as we'll see rashishana was the day of man's creation the sixth day of creation which was the day that man was created the first day of creation was K 25 26 27 28 29 the sixth day of creation is the first day of Tish and that's when man was was created that's the was the importance of this day why is it become a day of judgment then because this is the day that man was created we're going to see like we say on and as we say as well on this day it's a day when Hashem decides Ukraine and Russia are going to have War other countries are going to have peace where there's going to be famine where there's going to be plenty that's that's a general thing about the entire world but every individual is also going to be remembered and the Reckoning is going to be made whether they will live or heav forbid they will pass on from this world so what happened so the mes here brings what happened on rashash the mesia brings that there was a sequence when it came to the creation of man on the sixth day on Man was created and Adam and Eve were created what was the sequence the first hour of the day of rashash God had the initial thought that he wanted to create them in the second hour God got advice as it were or really explained to the angels of heaven that this is what he's doing in the third hour gathered the dust over the next few hours hem took the dust he made it into a form and once there was the human form once there was a human form so God blew the soul of life into him the eighth hour brought him into the Garden of Eden in the ninth hour he was commanded that you may eat from all of the Trees of this of this Garden but not from the Tree of of of knowledge of good and bad in the 10th hour Adam and Eve sinned they ate from this this tree of knowledge in the 11th hour right the 11th hour he was judged and in the 12th hour the decree came down now what was the decree so we all know that it was decreed that he would die that he would have to leave the garden but the Mish doesn't say that the M says he came out he came he went out free he wasn't killed that day hasm had compassion upon himm said you know I said you would die that day but we're not going to go by a regular human day we're going to go by a Divine day a Divine day is a thousand years for God a thousand years is like a day so therefore you won't you won't die today by human standards you'll die today by Divine standards you have another 930 years to live so Hashem had Rus on him Hashem had mercy upon him he came out with a good judgment so God says to to Adam to Adam and Eve the first human beings this is a sign for your children just like on this day you stood in front of me you were judged and you came out zaka you came out meritorious I judged you favorably you know I shouldn't have but I judged you favorably I gave you another chance I gave you 930 years to to make it right to do chuva to repent so too in the future this is a day of Grace this is a day when Hashem says you don't deserve it really you defied me but I'm going to have compassion on you going to have compassion on you it's going to be okay I'm going to give you a second chance so I want this to be the day of judgment for your children I want I want them to know that when they come into judgment this isn't the kind of Judgment of a of a tough hateful spiteful judge who hates the defendant this is the judge Hashem the god the one who's our father one who is the king but the one who is our father and he wants to judge us favorably and that's why he chose this St one is is it when do this happen on the first on the seventh month on the first day of the month so I want to understand this is a question that bothered me and and I realized from the second mag which you're going to read what I believe is the answer to this question and my question is you know this is a day you know it's it's a day when ASM had compassion on other but is also a day that Hashem showed judgment to him he was caught he was caught red-handed he had the uh he had the fruit in his hand there was a bite in it two bites in fact his wife took one and he took one this was the day that he sinned is that the right day to to to talk about to talk about judgment do I want to be judged on the day that I sinned you know yum Kipper is very different if you think about it y ker a day we had sinned 120 day 20 days prior with the golden calf we Sinn on the 17th of goes up I'm sorry 80 days prior we receive the 120 days prior but 80 days prior to yipper we sinned went up 40 days went up another 40 days and procured our our atonement our forgiveness Andra is a special day of atonement which we know it's y of kapara but before this m we may not have known that rashash is also a day of kapar but it's a day of of of the day of the sin so what's the understanding or what is the idea here or the depth hasem wants us to be judged on that DayM wants us to give a reckoning on that day what's the understanding of it what's the deeper understanding of it so let's turn now as I said at the beginning we're going to talk about the Scher we blow the schaer we blow the Rams Horn and it awakens us us it's meant to awaken us to chuva to repent to come back to return to the kov that sound it's like we're standing in front of God's holy Throne it's to remind us to have fear to have awe to rededicate ourselves to Our Father in Heaven Our Father our King ofu M says beautiful thing an amazing [Music] thing in explaining the concept of rash he brought the which we say on rash blow on the month the chauffer in Psalm 81 ver4 how do we know that we blow the schaer on TI the p is referring to the fact that we blow the chauffeur on rash but it's not so clear but blow on the month so there's lots of months the other months are not months says when the moon is covered the word means covered in the other months when we talk about the holidays we don't blow the chauffeur on the other months because it says blow the Schauer on the month when the the Moon is covered when is the moon covered the Moon is covered ones on the first day of the month the Moon is not visible or it's only visible a very slight sliver small sliver so that's the day rashash is the only holiday that we have on the first day of the month on the only Torah holiday right Kana is also it passes through R KES the only Torah holiday that we have which is on the first day of the month is rash and that's the day that we blow theer so M says something which is a little bit difficult to understand Nan is also a month which is [Music] covered not even sure exactly what this means but for some reason M would like to say that we should have we should have uh we should have it in Nissan perhaps we should blow theer we should blow this Ram's Horn has its own should blow on says the which month do we have a one day that the that on the first day of the month the the Moon is covered the Moon is not visible and it's a one day the only time that we have a one day which is on the first day of the month is only is only in TI it's only [Music] rash so okay we need to understand what this means exactly what is idea that Nissan is covered what is idea it almost sounds like covered doesn't necessarily even have to mean the the the Moon maybe we'll explain that continues and says in this month it's a time of renewal we need to renew our actions our Deeds we need to we need to get a new injection of inspiration of idealism what is a the word the root of the word which means a Ram's Horn the word the root of the word is make your actions good make them [Music] beautiful God says to the people of Israel somehow the Scher serves to make us more beautiful to make us better God says us like this if you make your actions better if you make yourselves more beautiful in front of me I will be to you like the schaer what does it mean sh says I'm going to be like a chauffer to you what does that mean just like with a chauffer what do you do what is a Sher on one side it's very small on the other side it's very wide right that's the purpose of theer it's to to expand the sound to make the sound you make a small sound you make a small sound but the Schauer expands that sound and makes it loud right you you put the sound to one side but it comes out on the other side comes out expanded on the other side I want to say hasem says just like the Scher where you're really talking on one side you're making a sound on the on one side but the sound comes out on a different side it gets it gets expanded and and moved over so too Hashem says I am going to do that exact thing for you I'm going even though I start off on on the throne of judgment even though I start off looking at you with a judging eye I'm going to to move I'm going to switch and sit down on the on the seat of compassion I'm going to transform the Divine attribute of Justice to the Divine attribute of Mercy what is the m saying what is the m saying what what is this idea what is the idea that because I blow the schaer it moves Hashem from one Throne to a different Throne what's going on here so now let's take a moment and think about a schifer right the way that we make the sound of a schifer is that we purse our lips we we hold our lips together and with and we push through the pressure of our lips which are pushed together we push through air and as you push through air the lips vibrate against each other and into the schifer and then the sound comes through and it's expanded right the says and we read it before before we blow the this is the secret of the chauffer folks listen up listen good from the from the thin place I call out to hasem from the pressured place from the from the tight location from the place of Oppression difficulty I call out to you when you answer me you answer me with space you answer me with open with an massive opening you answer me with a massive opening now rashash rashash Shana is the day when the moon is small it's the thinnest that it can be on the beginning of the month the new moon why is rash why is it a day of judgment why is it a day of judgment when it's when the moon is so thin to understand this we need to know that the moon represents the Jewish people the moon Hashem is the light of the Sun as it were and we the Jewish people are the light of the Moon Moon we reflect hashem's light into this world the moon represents the Jewish people the concept of the moon is given to the Jewish people and when the moon is the smallest it means that we have diminished ourselves the most it means that we are we are in a space that we're not shining so much we're in a space that we're not shouting so much it's not a coincidence that sukus and PES and PM are all in the middle of the month they're at the point in in the month when the when the moon is shining the brightest because we also are reflecting God's light the most in the middle of the month by performing The Commandments of Suka of lulav es of carbon P of mat we're we admit we admit that we we haven't done so well in reflecting God's light it's the only that's in that moment in that day when which which expresses that we haven't fulfilled God's will to the maximum as we should [Music] have and if we did maybe we kind of pushed it through we kind of pushed it through to make the sound of God's will we kind of pushed it through like that sound now how does Hashem look at that how does Hashem look at that we didn't we didn't really uh do the greatest job we didn't really do the greatest job the say there's two ways to understand it it could mean do better but it can also mean make what you did look better Hashem says look I'm going to make what you did look better you didn't do it such you didn't do the greatest Mitzvah he didn't the way that you filled the Commandment you you prayed you kind of spaced out the whole time when you learned maybe you did it cuz you wanted people around you to think you're great okay we didn't do things as sh for the sake of heaven we didn't do it as much as we would have liked to we we sinned we did wrong Hashem says I know you did wrong I know even the things you did right wasn't so perfect but I want to tell you something if you blow the schaer you can take the thing that you did which wasn't so perfect which wasn't so great which made a little sound made that little sound but we can amplify it and say look I'm going to focus on how great it was really I'm going to not look at the bad parts of it Hashem says I'm going to get off my my going to move off of the Judgment part of looking at the negative parts and I'm going to move on to the I'm going to move on to the to the throne of mercy of compassion and look at the good [Music] stuff yeah it was the day that Adam arish sinned yes it was the day that he was kicked out of the garden but it was the day that Hashem brought into play the most amazing gift which ever existed it's called R it's called compassion you deserve to die today Hashem says but I'm not going to I'm not even going to look at your sin I'm going to say look I'm going to give you another chance to make it right to fix the problems that you created I'm going to give you a thousand years I'm going to change I'm going to reinterpret what I said I said you're going to die today not today today we're going to it's going to be a thousand years a day a day of mine we're going to reinterpret what happened the schifer is about asking Hashem to reinterpret as sounds like very you know it sounds like very weak cuz it's like well I didn't really do so good but but this is how Hashem does things Hashem chose this day because this was the day that he reinterpreted what happened and how to how can we how can we move forward with our lives and we've done so much wrong how can adish move forward when the only mitzah that he had to keep the one thing which was just don't eat from that tree everything else can E from how do we move forward now that the one thing that he had to do he didn't do there's only one way to move forward give him give him another chance let him do chuva reinterpret soem says look that's what I did then you can invoke you can awaken my desire to reinterpret to have ra to have compassion all you need to do is blow the shifer because the schaer the schaer takes the little pressured forced forced sound and amplifies that good that's what a is it makes it beautiful and I will add it gives us the opportunity it gives us through his ra through his compassion we now have a chance to change it doesn't mean we ignore all the wrong that we've done it doesn't mean that marish didn't realize that he sinned but he said look let's take an honest look at ourselves and let's try to be better Hashem says I'm going to look I'm going to look at you in a good light now you look at yourselves in a good light and make that much bigger make the light that you have make it stronger don't just come into rash with all of your sins make yourself a list of all of your good things that you did this year and make them stronger make more make more of those good deeds make them more beautiful amplify your good deeds and I was thinking how from the first of the month until the 15th of the month of Tish on the first of the month the difference between t and Nissan is on the first of the month we are already thinking about our relationship with hasem and how it's Li limited and and not as great as we want but by the 15th already we've expanded it's like the month itself is a shaer it starts small blowing a shifer trying to do hashem's will noticing the good trying to expand it and by the 15th of the month by by the time we get to sukus we're already we're already all into our relationship with hm we're sitting in the Su we're surrounded it's it's expanded why because we know that hem gave us another chance we know that Hashem looked at our good side we know that Hashem focused on his R his compassion it's not a coincidence that it's the same day that Adam sinned it's the same day that he was forgiven and that's the day that Hashem wants us to to think about these things because we need to recognize that we need to look at that that good we need to just like Hashem shows us that he is compassionate on us we need to be compassionate on ourselves and expand our light I want to bless you I ask you to bless me Hashem should help us that we should be able to indeed take this to heart we should be able to recognize that despite the fact that we did things maybe sh not for the right reasons but we did the good and take that light and expand that light should help us to do so should help us to have a a wonderful new year full of service of hasem full of hashem's light thank you so much for listening have a wonderful shamas and a wonderful rashash this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www.wag.com or search on iTunes Ari goldwag