The Shofar: Our Secret Weapon

If you ask the man on the street what Rosh Hashanah is, he might tell you it's Yom Tov. There are many Yom Tovim on the Jewish calendar. Rosh Hashanah is one of those Yom Tov. He may tell you it's Rosh Chodesh. It's Aleph Tishrei. It's the first day of the month. He may tell you it's the Jewish New Year's. K'shmo K'fi, it's Rosh Hashanah. It's the first day of the year. He may tell you it's the Yom Hadin. B'Rosh Hashanah Yei'choseivun. He may tell you it's a day that was designated as a time for a person to be Mamlich Hakadosh Baruch Hu, for him to renew his vows to Hashem, them to be Mekabel Ol Malchus Shamayim, a day that's designated for Malchus. He may tell you that Rosh Hashanah is the first day of 10 days of the year that were designated to do Teshuvah. It's Yom Echad of Das Yemei Teshuvah. The truth is, all of those answers that the man on the street may, or I suppose may not, tell you would be accurate. Rosh Hashanah is Yom Tov, it's Rosh Chodesh, it's Rosh Hashanah, it's the Jewish New Year's, it's the Yom Hadin, it's a day where the Avodah is Malchus, it's also the first day of Das Yemei Teshuvah. But if you look at the way Chazal described Rosh Hashanah, if you look at the way Rosh Hashanah is depicted in Tefillah and even in Birchas Hamazon, when we say Ya'aleh V'Yavo, the words that were used was Yom Hazikaron. Rosh Hashanah is described as a day of remembrance. And the question is, what does Yom Hazikaron mean? So, I think if you ask that same man on the street, "What do you think Yom Hazikaron means?" he'd probably say that there's an idea of Atah Zocher Ma'aseh Olam U'fokeid Kol Yitzurei Kedem Lifnei Ne'elamim Kol Talumot Ein Shikcha Lifnei Chisei Kevodcha Ve'ein Nistar Mineged Einecha in a haunting tone. But, the point is it's a day where Hakadosh Baruch Hu judges everybody, and as a result, he remembers >> [snorts] >> the good, the bad, and the ugly of what every person did. Hence, it's a day of of Zicharon. It's a day where Hakadosh Baruch Hu remembers. The problem is that if that's really what Yom Hazikaron means, which again is for sure what everyone's initial reaction would be, then why would that be the term that was used by Chazal and presumably already the Anshei Knesses Hagdoloh to describe Rosh Hashanah? The idea that Hakadosh Baruch Hu remembers all the actions of a person at the Yom Hadin would seem to be a part of the Yom Hadin. And really, if you were going to go down that road in terms of defining Rosh Hashanah, you would say Yom Hadin Hashem. Again, there are other options, but you would think that that's would be more appropriate because the Yom Hadin is the klal, the Zicharon at the time of the din is really the part. It feels like Yom Hazikaron means more than just the fact that Atah Zocher Ma'aseh Olam. And if that's the case, Sod Beer, what exactly did Chazal mean when they described Rosh Hashanah as the Yom Hazikaron? And why is that the tiyar? That's the adjective that's used on top of all the other options that I think would have been plausible as it relates to depicting what the essence, what the mahus of this very, very holy day is. And I think that there's mocking to say a double hot ash. Albeit after further review, I think we're going to see it's positive. It's so positive that it could be that's why it's a double hot ash. Like the missiles of sham says in the hot double the things that are the most obvious are the things that we tend to overlook. But in order to appreciate this, we need to take a few steps back. We have to open up a hot ash and we have to trace the young people of Russia Shana literally to its source in the terrorist of example. It's interesting. The young people of Russia Shana is mentioned in two places in the Torah. It's mentioned in partials and more and it's mentioned in partials of pinchos. It's mentioned in partials of America that is the partials of the Maya them. The Torah discusses all the Maya them in one place in only one place in the Torah. >> [snorts] >> And that is in partials and more it's in paragraph it's mentioned again in partials of pinchos cuz partials of pinchos discusses all the unique carbon noise that were brought on all the special days be it shabbos be it shabbos or be at the young people of them. It's the partials of the corn on corn moose often and being that Russia Shana had a carbon moose of so it's for that reason it's mentioned there as well. If you take a look at the come in partials and more the Torah says this is paragraph of partials of by you double ash and more my show them double and a Israel and more by ash we on the seventh month could this dish rate the echo of the hot ash the first day of the month you will have shabbos it should be a day for you of shabbos sign it should be a day of rest. The young people of Israel and Torah it should be a day of Israel and Torah micro card ash and again a day where you're going to declare that everyone's coming together because of the holiness of the day call my legs of a double ash and I do any more locker they had craft them Israel ash and you're supposed to bring special carbon ash. This literally is the entire terrorist of example in terms of the way it describes Russia Shana in partials of America if you're keeping score it's three pesukim. The first pasuk, Vayedaber Hashem el Moshe lemor. Even the next two pesukim, there's very little about Rosh Hashanah. Davar el benei Yisrael lemor, b'chodesh hashvi'i b'echad lachodesh, okay, so we know the day, that's very important. Yihyeh lachem shabbaton, every yom tov is shabbaton. Mikra kodesh, every yom tov, every shabbat is mikra kodesh. Kol melachah avodah lo sa'asu, of course. V'hikravtem ishsheh lashem, every special day has its own korbanot. The only two words that are unique to Rosh Hashanah are zikaron teru'ah. So really, the way the Torah describes Rosh Hashanah here in the pesukim in Parshas Emor is as zikaron teru'ah. >> [snorts] >> If you miss up the Parshas Pinchas, the second place that the Torah mentions Rosh Hashanah, the Parshas haMusafin, there too, there are not many pesukim. Now, it's a little more than it is in Parshas Emor, and the reason is because the Torah is describing the details, the nuance of the korbanot. You have to know exactly how to bring the korban. But as it relates to the description of Rosh Hashanah, it's mikra kodesh. It's perek of tes, it's pasuk aleph. U'vachodesh hashvi'i b'echad lachodesh, mikra kodesh yihyeh lachem. Kol melachah avodah lo sa'asu, yom teru'ah yihyeh lachem. It's really one pasuk, and within that pasuk, two words that describe again what Rosh Hashanah is. B'chodesh hashvi'i b'echad lachodesh, that's the day. Mikra kodesh yihyeh lachem. Kol melachah avodah lo sa'asu, we know that already. Yom teru'ah yihyeh lachem. That you want to know what you're going to do on that day, it's going to be a day of teru'ah. And really, the next pesukim are all the specifics of the korbanot. V'asitem olah l'rei'ach nichoach lashem, par ben bakar echad, ayil echad, kvasim bnei shanah shiv'ah temimim, u'minchasan, etc. And the Torah really from there concludes in pasuk vav, just describes the the details of the korban. But as it relates to its description of the yom tov, yom teru'ah yihyeh lachem. So in Parshas Emor, it's two words. In Parshas Pinchas, it's two words. In parshas Emor, it's zikaron teruah and in parshas Pinchas, it's yom teruah. Now, first glance, is that a stira? Zikaron teruah, yom teruah. The Gemara, Bavli, Yerushalmi asks the kasha ayin soif maseches Rosh Hashanah. That's not our inyan right now. But, you see that the way the Torah described the yom tov of Rosh Hashanah is a zikaron teruah and yom teruah. Now, what yom teruah means, it feels like we know. Yom teruah means you're supposed to blow shofar. This is the makor to the mitzvah of tkias shofar. That's the one mitzvah d'oraisa that's related to the yom tov of Rosh Hashanah. It's yom teruah. You're supposed to blow a shofar. What does zikaron teruah mean? What's the title of the word zikaron teruah? So, if you take a look at Rashi in parshas Emor on that pasuk of Rosh Hashanah, on those words zikaron teruah, Rashi says zikaron p'sukei zichronos u'p'sukei shofros. Zikaron teruah means that you're supposed to mention p'sukim related to zichronos and you're supposed to mention p'sukim related to shofros. What do you see that zikaron is zichronos and teruah is shofros. So, Rashi says, you want to know what zikaron This is a makor to the idea that you're supposed to mention p'sukim of zichronos, you're supposed to mention p'sukim of shofros. And then Rashi concludes l'zecher akeidas Yitzchak she'karav al ha'mizbeach. And the idea zichronos and shofros is Hakadosh Baruch Hu is going to remember the z'chus of the akeida and that's very critical to take place on this very day. So, according to Rashi, the essence of Rosh Hashanah, the way the pasuk describes it, is zikaron teruah. It's p'sukei zichronos u'p'sukei shofros. The Ramban brings Rashi and the Ramban asks two bomba kashas on Rashi. One kasha the Ramban asks is, we know that on Rosh Hashanah there's a mitzvah to mention p'sukim of malchiyos, zichronos and shofros. Like Rashi, this pasuk is a makor to two of the three. It's a makor to zichronos and shofros. Great the he's saying good, say better. Why would the Torah only mention in describing Rosh Hashanah the obligation to recite the zachronis and the shifris and not mention the malchios? So if zichron shif truah means zachronis and shifris, l'chora, it begs the question, why did we omit malchios? But oif fregt Ramban, it's m'vor in the sugias in maseches Rosh Hashanah, that the obligation to mention psukim of zachronis and shifris and malchios that matter as well are oich chiyuv d'rabbanan. It's not a chiyuv d'oraisa. The mitzvah of kier shofar is a mitzvah d'oraisa. But malchios, zachronis, and shifris is m'rininish d'rabbanan. If zichron truah means zachronis and shifris, says the Ramban, it means it's a m'furash pasuk in the Torah. How could the Gemara call it only a mitzvah d'rabbanan? And if that's the case, says the Ramban, it's muchach, it's muchach that zichron truah must mean something else. Truth is, there's not a kasha I think that has to bother anyone as it relates to Rashi's pshet. And that is, the Torah is using these two words of zichron truah to define the essence of Rosh Hashanah. How could it be that the essence of Rosh Hashanah is psukei zachronis and psukei shifris? Not even kier shofar? It's the psukim that relate to the shifris and the zachronis. It's ein oiyer oimer al d'shain. Talk to Ramban. >> [snorts] >> Because of his two kashas, and I think b'noisef the the general hergish as it relates to shitas Rashi, says Ramban, I'm going to tell you a different from shas and what exactly zichron truah means. Says the Ramban, ah, ah, ah, zichron truah, the definition of zichron truah is k'mo yom truah yelochen. It means the same thing that the words yom truah mean in parshas Pinchas. Meaning, even though the Gemara maseches Rosh Hashanah asks this s'tira, that in parshas Emor it says zichron truah and in parshas Pinchas it says yom truah, but a pshita shall mekar says Ramban, they really mean the same exact thing. Zichron truah and yom truah are two different ways of bringing out the same point. What does it mean Yemim? She that on this day you're supposed to blow shofar. The Yemim and by us going ahead and us blowing shofar through that there's going to be a current for us with Kadish Baruch. Commission and says the Ramban there's a a McCartus. The McCartus it's later in the Torah. It's in Parshas Balak. Safe about midbar. This Ramban is in Parshas Emor. Say you Vayikra. So this is in the next safer several parshas from here where it says the oil so what's this possuk? So if you take a look in Parshas Balak there's so much going on in Parshas Balak Ki Tisa. But tucked away there's a few in the Torah that sometimes maybe get overlooked. I got this Baruch who comes to Moshe Rabbeinu this is in perek Vayedaber Moshe Rabbeinu. I say make I want you to make two silver trumpets. Make sure that they should be made of one piece of silver and it's going to serve several purposes. The main purpose or the first purpose that's mentioned in the possuk is if you can ever have to gather the Jews together or the Jews are going to have to know that it's time to be so you're going to blow the trumpets and by you doing that they're going to know what exactly they're supposed to do. I'm forwarding to possuk test. Says the possuk not just that in the event that there's going to be a war in the land because there's some enemy that's attacking. What you're supposed to do is you're supposed to pull out the trumpets and you're supposed to blow with them. Then what you're supposed to do is you're supposed to pull out the and you're supposed to blow with them. Then by you doing that you're going to be remembered with and you're going to be safe. The next possuk it's going to be on a very happy day or on a Yom Tov, on Rosh Chodesh, with the two SILVER TRUMPETS. AGAIN, PULL out the trumpets and again blow with the trumpets. I will always say come out of your situation and you should do it when you're bringing carbonas. And if you're going to do that, for all your children of Israel, you're going to have this remembrance of all your children of Israel. And you have all your children of Israel. I am a holy person. Says the Ramban. You see in this portion that the children had trumpets. Which they themselves made. I see the holy trumpets of silver. And amongst the functions of the trumpets was to somehow, through blowing the trumpets, have all your children of Israel. And sometimes they were used on very, very scary days. And sometimes they were used on very, very festive days. The holy trumpets of silver have all your children of Israel. There's a noise in the trumpets. There's such a fear that the going on right now. HOW ARE WE GOING TO WIN THIS WAR? OH, no worries. Just blow trumpets. Then it's all your children of Israel. The noise of the holy trumpets of silver. The two most powerful words maybe IN THE ENTIRE TORAH. AND THEN AGAIN, if it's going to be a happy day, all your children of Israel. All your children of Israel. Pull out those same trumpets. With the holy trumpets of silver. And do it when you're bringing carbonas. And if you're going to do that, for all your children of Israel, that too will give you this idea that there's going to be all your children of Israel. All your children of Israel. Says the Ramban. You want to know what Torah means? Torah means exactly what the blowing of the trumpets mean in chapter 10 in the book of Numbers. What it means is that by you going ahead and blowing a trumpet on this day, there'll be all your children of Israel. There's going to be all your children of Israel. All your children of Israel. There's going to be all your children of Israel. You see there's an idea through blowing an instrument that makes a lot of noise, you could be worthy to have some sort of all your children of Israel. This all your children of Israel portion of the Torah plays itself out through the in parshas Emor it's playing itself out through a different vehicle which the talking reasons through the shofar but here's the point the point is the zikaron the zikaron that's mentioned in parshas Emor is the same as the it's the same as the zikaron that's mentioned in parshas Balak it's blow it through and through the true you're going to have this zikaron that says the Ramban that why would the Torah want on this day there should be a zikaron shua I mean if there's a I understand if there's a I understand but here we're saying that the day itself should be a day the notwithstanding nothing to do with being in the mikdash dafka we haven't had a mikdash in close to 2000 years and the shofar is going strong it's because the day is a day that's this for it to be a but why what's what's the purpose of it why would this day be a unique day that now all of a sudden we want that will have this day to go ahead and to blow shofar so that there's going to be a zikaron says the Ramban I'm going to tell you why being that this month the seventh month of the year is the month of Yom Kippur so it's for that reason the boy year the front of the new year shofar it makes sense that this would be the month where there would be a a day of din and we know from that this is the way it is that this is the day that judges and then 10 days later is going to forgive but being that the day is a day of din it's for that reason we want to pull out this shofar to make sure that we're going to have this to make sure we're going to be to this so it says that that being that Rosh Hashanah is the it's a day of it's a day where remembers and judges so we want to make sure that when we're remembered we're remembered for the good so you know what we do we do what we were told to do when we find ourselves in a situation where we very MUCH WANT THIS WE PULL OUT AN INSTRUMENT that we blow now in over here it's a that's related to the again we'll get into all that but the bottom line is you want to know high level what's going on over here what's going on over here is there's a a there's a a situation where is judging WHERE IS GOING TO REMEMBER and is going to see everything what we want is we want that our remembrance should be a a remembrance to you that's the of and that's what the means when it says just explain this a master who better remembers anyways what you blow you don't blow is irrelevant at the end of the day I could just always going to remember every single thing that a person does and then judge the person based on all his what we want is this should be a to that's what we want and what's is that there's an idea of it's not just it's we want that you should pull out the we should be to what the says when it says what does it mean by the coin? should Remember what we did bad? No, he's going to remember what we did good. The idea of the that came about through the was the of the time. That's what it is that we're trying to accomplish. And being that it's a day of the current where is being bank out going to remember all the good and the bad that it is that we did. So what we're trying to do is we're trying to channel for a good and it's even a scar when you shot them. It should be that's the way that's what it is that we're trying to do. Just to be on this a drop better. You know, if you look around in the you find this idea of having this the prince of this goes back to the the Torah says that in addition to wearing the four the garden that every coin had used to wear, he had to wear four additional the garden. Amongst those four additional the garden with the the what was the purpose of the so talking about the Torah the person says the head on them the in the were engraved the names of the what's the idea? So like this when the would do the so there would BE A COULD SEE THE names of the THE HAD THE SAME THING. The person says before it would be this an idea that when there's a of that somehow brings you sure and you find it with regards to the you find it with regards to the you find it regarding the the choice and here too this is this in you find it regarding so you want to know in its essence what the is you want to know what ITS ESSENCE WHAT THE IDEA of the is that the that's something that happened you find the same idea on the happy days. We will scatter the choice to us. Why you will come with us? Today which is a Yom Hadin. Today is What we do is we pull out that trick that we have. We pull out that shofar and through the shofar we're hoping there's going to be a calling the time. The Torah told me already that this is Then you find yourself in a nice sort of PULL OUT THE CHOICE TO US. THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WE'RE DOING on Rosh Hashanah. Rosh Hashanah happens to be a shofar. not it's for ulterior reasons. The shofar reminds us But that's not what the shofar is in its essence. What the shofar is in its essence Dr. Ram really the way the Torah describes Truth is this Torah of the Ram Ban statement before which is not surprising cuz we know Ram Ban very very often goes out that Ram Ban It's also for us in the Ram Ban in his period of Torah. Ram Ban says in one what the Ram Ban says in two paragraphs. The Ram Ban washing is different to us. I you there I you there the true you're going to be remembered by the Ram Ban when it's cut The hand But that is that is the Indian. That is the Indian of of what shofar is about and that's this description that the Torah uses when it describes Rosh Hashanah. Rosh Hashanah is a day Rosh Hashanah is a day of Rosh Hashanah is a day of of Ram Shua. That was just like this. I think that I'll be a now. This is my come to say that when we refer to Rosh Hashanah as the Yom When we talk about that void of the Ram Ban which is so critical to the Yom of Rosh Hashanah We don't just mean and maybe we don't even mean at all. Not sure how far to TAKE THIS. BUT FOR SURE, WE DON'T JUST mean that the Indian of Yom Hazikaron is that Hakadosh Baruch Hu remembers everything. That's very protestic. And like why would that be the way we would define the entire Yom Tov? But I think Yom Hazikaron means it's a day where we have the ability through the shofar. But it's a day that we have the ability to have this zikaron of Hakadosh Baruch Hu. And when a Yid has a zikaron of Hakadosh Baruch Hu, he's getting what he got when the Kohan Gadol used to enter the Ohel Moed and he would do the avodah with the Urim Vetumim. He's going to get what the Yidden got blow the whether it was an Aseres There's an Indian of getting It's a day where we can come SUIT TO THIS HASKARAH, THIS INCREDIBLE IDEA OF THERE'S GOING TO be a zikaron of tov of Klal Yisrael of Hakadosh Baruch Hu. By the way, the Lashon HaKodesh free. When it says free says and this is in Parshas Beha'aloscha, That Indian of zikaron That's what makes this Yom Hazikaron. It's the Yom Hazikaron al pi darkei shalom Ramban that the day is called a zikaron teruah cuz the teruah gives US A ZIKARON THE ZIKARON OF ASERES HADIBROS CUZ THAT YOU GET WITHOUT THE TERUAH. THAT YOU'RE GETTING BANK AKU BANK AKU. THE POINT is is that there's a special zikaron. THE THE ASERES HADIBROS, that Indian the the zikaron of the Sifrei of Klal Yisrael and Yisrael al Yisrael. That Indian is something you get through the shofar. That's something that's so unique, it's so special about this day. That this is a day that we're niska'al of Hakadosh Baruch Hu. Hakadosh Baruch Hu doesn't just see us and judge us, but there's an Indian of the scoring with choice. Rochelle Spoke who sees us with an incredible iron type. It's that Indian that defines the day of Rosh Hashanah. Zikaron T'ruah, I mean it's one of the two words that the Torah used to describe Rosh Hashanah. Not such a kiddush, the would have followed the leader of the possuk and would refer to it as Yom Hazikaron. But the Indian of Yom Hazikaron and the Indian of the Malchios of the Zichronos is not just oh you remember everything. Oh, IT'S THE DAY OF ROSH HASHANAH, remembers everything. It's true, of course it's true, but it's a shidduch missing the boat. It's a shidduch and I say for the Zikaron T'ruah, take a look at the Ramban, it's furious. I'm not saying one thing on my own. It's furious, it's related very much to this Indian, these Zikaron over here. In in Parshas Balak, I was discussing this this morning with you didi with the Lipschitz and he brought me two rayas, two rayas, both fire, two rayas to this idea that Yom Hazikaron is not out of the master of the world, but Yom Hazikaron is related to this Indian that when Israel are the scoring, the scoring of Yeshua is it's related to the Zikaron again. I don't think it needs rayas because it's the furious Ramban and the Rashba and the but at the same time two more of the rayas. The first is the Gemara in Maseches Eruvin daf mem aleph. The Gemara says when I was by Rav Huna, he brought so the Rav Huna the following question. Has to be Rosh Chodesh on Rosh Hashanah. Is there an obligation to mention Rosh Chodesh on Rosh Hashanah? So for example, in Ya'aleh v'Yavo, you have to say Yom Rosh Chodesh is it? You need a special shout out for Rosh Chodesh on Rosh Hashanah. I mean, it's Rosh Chodesh and every Rosh Chodesh you give a special shout out to. So you would think on Rosh Hashanah you should do the same thing. Now what are the two times? Do you say Kivan d'Chalku b'Musafin being that there's a special Musaf for Rosh Hashanah, special Musaf for Rosh Chodesh, right? So you see they're separate. It's not to the extent they're separate. Maybe she got a special ask her as well. We do more the calling What do you say there's one that's So what does that mean? When we dive in on Rosh Hashanah, what do we say? We say And that word is the kind of So you want to know why? The carrier is the kind of because you find the Torah calls Rosh Hashanah the And by Rosh Chodesh it says the kind of So it says Rashi they want to know what the title was whether or not you have to be masculine or not because at the end of the DAY WHEN YOU SAY the kind of Really you're being masculine not only Rosh Hashanah, you're being masculine Rosh Chodesh AS WELL. AT FIRST GLANCE THIS RASHI IS NEGRI. IT'S YOU CAN'T say with a straight face. The kind of partialness of Rosh Chodesh and the kind of Rosh Hashanah is two completely different things. The kind of Rosh Hashanah is The kind of Rosh Chodesh has nothing to do with It's you're going to blow shofar when you're bringing So you're going to remember you the type. The two kinds mean two different things. The same word, but it means two different things. The kind of The one thing because really when we talk about Rosh Hashanah being the So we don't mean That's not what we mean. What we mean is it's a true that the true to a It's [laughter] the same. IT'S THE IDENTICAL as the kind THAT'S MENTIONED THE TRUE AND THE mean the identical thing. It's the that the type of Yom Hazikaron, means the value of Yom Hazikaron in the parshas Balak. The second raya that [clears throat] he brought was from the Sifri. The Sifri is on that pasuk So, I'm going to pick it up in the middle of the Sifri. Rav Nosson Omer, Rav Nosson says ain [snorts] itzrich shari k'var nemar uskatem ba'chatzotzros. It says uskatem ba'chatzotzros hare shofar. And that's a makor to the idea that on Rosh Hashanah you have to mention shofars. V'hayu l'chem l'zikaron. When it says v'hayu l'chem l'zikaron, it says zikaron. That's a makor that on Rosh Hashanah you have to mention zichronos. Ani Hashem Elokeichem. And when the pasuk concludes Ani Hashem Elokeichem, zeh malchus. This is a makor that on Rosh Hashanah you have to say malchus. The Tanna Rav Nosson extrapolated from this pasuk in parshas Balak Yisrael the chiyuv on Rosh Hashanah to say malchus, zichronos, and shofars. Uviyom simchaschem uv'moadeichem uv'rashei chodsheichem uskatem ba'chatzotzros. Al olos sachem uv'zivchei shlomeichem v'hayu l'chem l'zikaron lifnei Elokeichem. Ani Hashem Elokeichem. The pasuk is talking about when there was a Beis Hamikdash, and they didn't bring any korbanos on Yom Tov. You're supposed to blow with the chatzotzros, and by doing that v'hayu l'chem l'zikaron. But in this pasuk, said Rav Nosson, is a remez to one specific Yom Tov, the Yom Tov of Rosh Hashanah, which by the way is also Rosh Chodesh. And on that day you're supposed to mention psukim of malchus, zichronos, and shofars. And it's all in the remez in this pasuk. Uskatem ba'chatzotzros. That's a remez to shofars. V'hayu l'chem l'zikaron. That's zichronos. Ani Hashem Elokeichem. I am Hakadosh Baruch Hu, your God. That's the inyan of malchus. And choyra, at first glance, it's again sholichin manish. What does the v'hayu l'chem l'zikaron of this pasuk have to do with zichronos? Normally we understand that what's zichronos? ZICHRONOS IS THAT'S USUALLY THE WAY WE UNDERSTAND IT. >> [snorts] >> V'hayu l'chem l'zikaron is not that. THE HILCHOS ZIKORON IS THE special Zikoron. Kozman is going to throw in the score and all of the choice. That's what it means. It's a whole different meaning OF THE CURRENT. WHAT IS THE CURRENT of the terrorists is the it's because the current I said that we say in Rosh Hashanah. Even though we might have thought up until today, it's related to the IDEA OF REMEMBERS EVERYTHING. SO it's the day of the current. Could be that's true. I mean of course it's true. And it could be that's part of the beer and the Havana of what the current is. But really the current is the current is much more than that. It's this idea of Kozman is going to throw in the score and all of the choice. And this is a theme that in commerce repeats itself. The the current If there's going to be a current The there's one day where that whole day gets defined based on this. It's a day that's called the current or but it's all one in the same. The current that's what we're supposed to do. The current is a little more descriptive. It tells you what the purpose and what the and what the outcome is going to be. That day blowing you're going to be to the current. This is all the current. And could be even the current of what we mean when we talk about the Rosh Hashanah being the current and what the of the current is. You know truth is I opened up a current. And if you go through just the current portion of I think this current expresses itself very nicely. Right how does the current start? At the current of the world the current They missed It's called But we bring out the over and over and over again this idea. The idea that Hakadosh Baruch Hu doesn't forget anything and that Hakadosh Baruch Hu remembers everything. And then in middle in middle we pivot and we start mentioning the pesukim. All the pesukim where you find right 10 pesukim that relate to this idea of zichronos. If you go through all the pesukim related to zichronos, these are not pesukim that talk about how Hakadosh Baruch Hu remembers everything. I just mentioned a few. The nemer Those pesukim are not describing after maserem. So what it's talking about? It's talking about this an inyan OF INIS KOR YESHUOS. THAT'S WHAT IT'S TALKING ABOUT. HASHEM REMEMBERED NOACH BROUGHT YESHUA. My Hakadosh Baruch Hu remembered the bris that he made with Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaakov. Oh, by Yishmael nachasom. So Hakadosh Baruch Hu finally answered the prayers of the prayers of KLAL YISRAEL. HAKADOSH BARUCH HU SAYS THAT EVEN if we're going to be in a matzev, but I feel I'm going to remember the bris with Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaakov. All right, ask I'm going to remember Yisrael and everything that's going on over there. And again inis kor yeshuos. All the pesukim if you go through the pesukim it's poshut. Right. That's not a a zichrono of I remember [laughter] everything that happened from the beginning until end. It's a ZICHRONO OF YESHUA. THAT'S WHAT THE POSUK IS. IT'S A SPECIAL ZICHORON FOR KLAL YISRAEL. AVRAHAM, Yitzchak and Ephraim. Right, give every time I think of Ephraim Zohar I can humble May I recommend in the machine. The setup of the cronus is after master Island. CUZ THAT'S THE BACKDROP. THAT'S WHY WE'RE GOING to segue into the cronus. It's cuz it's the like says before in the spiritual title. >> [laughter] >> But ultimately what's the cronus? What are the of the cronus? It's not of master Island. That's not what it is. It's cronus of THEN IT'S GOT TO BE THAT'S WHAT'S GOING ON OVER HERE. THAT'S ULTIMATELY what the of the cronus is. It's called the cronus. Because it's a day where we're we're on this day through shofar to come to the school Noah. And it's a day that through shofar we could come to the precinct. It's what's going to be awesome. It's a day that we could come to even if we live in a world that sometimes feels like the car. It's a time we can come to the even though the sword is in the of the car. I'm going to remember the land and I'm going to protect protect the land. It's it's a day of the car. It's a day of the car where we can come to the of the car. I have a school so I can It's a day that through the shofar we come to the of the car where it says I'm going to have that again of the car. In yellow Kim by the car. I'll came humble May I That's what the of the car is. It's not just a haunting frightening of the car. I have to of the car. No, it's it's a of the car where we know cuz the Torah told us that by blowing shofar, today is a day of Zikaron Teruah. There was an an opportunity through the eight fight, through the choshen. There was an opportunity through the chatzotzros, BUT THERE'S ONE DAY ON THE CALENDAR, AND THAT'S WHAT ROSH HASHANAH IS. IT'S A DAY ON THE calendar where Hakadosh Baruch Hu says, "I'm going to remember you let type." IT'S A DAY THAT'S MESUGAL FOR Zikaron let type. IT SO SO HAPPENS to conveniently coincide with the Yoma Din. Not coincidentally, obviously says the Rambam. But the essence of the Yoma Zikaron is this is a day where Hakadosh Baruch Hu is going to look at us, if we do what we're supposed to do. You know what that is? It's to blow shofar. If we're going to do that, Hakadosh Baruch Hu says, "I'm going to see you let type." I think it's poshet, but at the same [snorts] time also novel. How could it be poshet and novel? Well, that's the Mesillas Yesharim's hakdamah. But I think it's poshet and novel that that's the oimek of what exactly Yoma Zikaron is. But I just want to end. You know, if you think about it, essentially what the Torah is saying [clears throat] is that the Jews have a secret weapon. We have a nuke that we literally have the code to, that if we want, we can exercise. It's I think pesukim in the Torah. Pasuk says in Parshas Balak, "V'hayah ki saviru al kol ha'aretz tzarah, v'harei'ah es ha'tzotzros." So, what are we supposed to do? "V'harei'ah es ha'tzotzros." You want to know what to do? Pull out the chatzotzros. POO, RIGHT HERE. BOOM, YOU belt out these flashing kids and shvarim and TRU'AHS AND KIDS. "V'NISKARTEM LIFNEI HASHEM ELOKEICHEM v'nosha'tem me'oyveichem." Or if it's going to be a happy day and you're going to want to have a Zikaron lifnei Hashem, NO WORRIES. PULL OUT those chatzotzros again. The Ramban and Rabbeinu Bachya and the Rashba SAYS, "OH, THAT'S WHAT THE WHOLE KIYUR SHOFAR IS. THAT'S what shofar is for the Yoma Din." There's an issur of some sort. It's also Yom Simcha and a Mo'ed and a Rosh Chodesh. It it works, right? But the point is is that pull out now. Don't do the shofar because I want you to remember but the bottom line is pull it OUT AND AGAIN BELT OUT 100 KEYS. AND IF YOU'RE GOING TO GO ahead and do that, all of a sudden there's going to be issues. How does this work? Right, we always say but not so good. To me it sounds like Susan. But right? A true that's how we pull it up. Yeah, I'm I'm just reading the reading the second. Even before Russian the just reading the second. It feels very it smells what it feels like. It feels like tells me you're going to have a secret weapon. It's going to be and the way every single year there's one day that's TO PULL OUT THAT SECRET WEAPON and by you pulling out that secret weapon all of a sudden you're going to be to the next guy you're going to be to the next guy. And at first glance it's very what is the secret weapon? Can't just be a GP it's not possible. What exactly is the secret weapon of the shofar? So just to share one we're going to end with this and that is when we we mentioned many times the in the beginning of kindness. So the is talking about if there's a shall I tell you how you stroll and you didn't find themselves in some immediate jeopardy. It's they have a I say I'll call there's a I say to to be a real. And to blow shofar with this going to be a we know the I ask him what do you mean what do you mean called you like >> You should go ahead and call out the and by you doing that you're going to be you're going to be to some sort of issue. There was here do asked. The says that if you find yourself in an what should you do? You should blow What is the say? >> [snorts] >> It's like should not matter. The picture of that there's a here of that's a person in the very but what do you see what is that the is very but what do you see in this so the said that is because the held that the idea of blowing isn't just going ahead and making some noise. It's not just about blowing into some instrument but the idea is the true of the truth is it feel? That's what it is. And it's for that reason the said that the understood essentially what the saying is is that if there's a you know you're supposed to do that then that's what you're supposed to do. Well if the is telling you you're supposed to do is well if that's the case in the is like as well. If just means some I don't need to do what have to do with anything. I would say the the must have understood that the idea of is a and it's for that reason we go ahead now is it's makes perfect sense and in addition to diving through this the you should go ahead and you SHOULD DIVE IN BY THAT'S SOMETHING YOU SHOULD DO as well. And the said that's what you find in the and we talk about is right different of how he hears the sound of the right You have to hear the sound of the has to see what being the kind of Hashem, here is the what's there to hear? It's just a noise. What's there to hear? Said the Brisker Rav, cuz when do you find such a a nose of Krias Shema? Ad Shema tefillah, right? It's a nose you have in one of the Shemoneh Esrei's is is Shema tefillah. That's something you find in the world of tefillah. The shofar, the chatzotzros was a tefillah. That's how the Rambam knew that in addition to there being a mitzvah of hari'ah, there's also a mitzvah of lizak. And that's why you find in nose of tefillah this idea of Hakadosh Baruch Hu hears the sound of the shofar. What's Hashem hearing? He's hearing the feel of the shofar. The chatzotzros, the shofar was a tefillah. But it's a very unique type of tefillah, right? It's a tefillah. What kind of tefillah is this? So I just want to tell to one Zera Kodesh. The Zera is in Parshas Shmos, it's daf Yud Tes amud Beis. Tzo'ak al ha'shofar b'mayas parshan. You find the adjectives that describes people yelling and screaming as tzo'ak, and sometimes you find shofar. Says the Zera, what's the difference between tzo'ak and shofar? Amar Rabi Yitzchak, so Rabi Yitzchak said, in the hashai al ha'tefillah, shofar means when a person is davening, but he davens very very loud. He doesn't whisper his tefillah, he screams his tefillah. How do I know that? She nemar, shimu tefillosi Hashem v'shav'asi ha'azina. You see it in the context of tefillah. Eilecha Hashem shiv'ati, shiv'ati eilecha va'tirpa'eini. So shofar says the Zera Kodesh is always in the context of tefillah. What's tzo'ak? Tzo'ak she tzo'ek v'eino omer klum. Tzo'ak is when a person yells and he doesn't say one word. Amar Rabi Yehudah, Rabi Yehudah said, hiluk. Being that shofar is when a person is saying words, albeit very loudly. And tzo'ak is when he doesn't say a word. She tzo'ek v'eino omer klum. It's for that reason gedolim would tzo'ak mikulam. It's for that reason tzo'ak is better than shofar. She tzo'ak b'lev, because the fact that a person is screaming, he's making so much noise, but he's not uttering one word. It means that it's coming from his heart. >> [laughter] >> Tiger comes from the wave. If they're going to be tight, that's when YOU HAVE PROBLEMS. SHIVA, I DON'T KNOW. I REGRET APPOINTING UH SHALOM ALEICHEM. SO, WHAT did Shmuel do? We know what he did. He died. He knew how to coil. He didn't die then. He didn't die then. The lock TO OCCUR. WHAT HE DID WAS HE MADE NOISES, these very loud noises. Misha, why did he do the soccer? Cuz he understood that soccer gets places. It gets places that feel it can't get. The person davens and HE CRIES. THE TIGER AND THEN HE STARTS making such noises. He's so overwhelmed by the soccer, he can't utter a word. He can't find the words to describe his pain and to formulate his ask that he wants from the Avesta. That means that it's a complete feeler and it's coming 100% from his life. And there's no such thing as such a tiger being returned empty-handed. half full >> The biggest feeler that a person can utter is a feeler that has no words. It's a feeler that's 100% in his life. I want to hear somebody say that if a person davens and he can come up with the words to explain his sorrow, vice versa, he's not doing so bad. Cuz when a person's really in an eight-sider and when a person's so trapped, he's so lost, there's no words he can formulate and utter that are going to describe what it is that he's feeling. That's what tsaka is. It's a tsaka is a person that he yells out to Hashem Baruchu. I don't know how to say this but I believe that's the most complete tsaka. We don't know how to say a feeler like that never comes back vacant. I think the shofar, the is the ultimate. It's the best tsaka that there is. All it is is a noise. It's all it is. It's a very, very loud noise. You make it as loud as you can possibly make it. That's the of of tsaka shofar. There's no words at all. It has no words. It doesn't say anything. But you know what it does say? It's it it speaks the tsaka with slicked off the yid. And every single yid by hearing the call and being through he's davening to Hashem Baruchu and his heart call me shall I sleep I is going up together with the call shofar. And on when a yid does that and he davens and then you have all the of tsaka that the Hashem talks about. And those are so not that sees the person and he says that's the magic weapon. That's the nuke that we have access to. That's something that the gave us and that's something that we pull out. We have a mitzvah to pull out on Rosh Hashanah. We blow shofar the shofar we're going to be Hashem Baruchu is going to see us. He's because cause mention is scoring me strong in the scoring today is a day of of the current it's a young children it's a young children the both true this is comes out of the children like the person says the current children you know isn't a day of the current for everybody it's a day of the current for the everyone has a day of the current after every Medina every ballot even the highest in the Bahamas and everything and everyone gets judged on this day and from that standpoint really the day of the is a young children for everybody but like we said the young children that meant when we put in the that's unique to us what is unique to us about the young children what's unique to us is that we have the ability to not just be now and as man of the current of who knows what's going to be but through the secret weapon that's my with the Sultan right through that secret weapon will be the minister that is the person says that you what do YOU MEAN TRUTH EVERYBODY but this young children THE THAT'S HERE CUZ WE have the secret weapon nobody else has that secret weapon we have we have and we have the young children we have the young children everyone has a young children but what's unique to us what's our young children this is something that I could this is the nuke this is the secret weapon that we have and we should be to understand a little bit better what the Indian of the you know going to say show them show them there's so many Russian and in Muslim and sometimes you can get you know lost in the bushes and you can forget what the posture posture posture sound of the shofar is. The posture sound of the shofar is it's the secret weapon of the Jewish people. When we blow shofar when we hear the sounds of the shofar, what we do is and really every person called all his time is everything was leaked to me by the things that he can articulate and the things he can articulate will be all the time and through that will all be to and a good year.