Rosh Hashanah: Hearing God's Voice in the Sound of the Shofar

In this episode, we are learning the Nesivos Shalom on Rosh Hashanah and the essence of the shofar!

If you want to follow along inside, it is in Nesivos Shalom Chelek Bet, on page kuf chaf heh (125). You can find a pdf of the piece here.

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Hello everyone. This is Rabbi Robbie Chernoff and you are listening to the Hasids for Life Podcast. The podcast. We learn a deep Hasidic insight every single week and explore how it can lead us to a more meaningful, vibrant, and spiritually uplifted life. In this week's episode, we'll be learning in Vo Shalom on Rosh Hashanah and the nature of the shofar. If you would like to follow along inside, you can go to the show notes for a link to A PDF, but feel free to just sit back, listen, and enjoy the ride. This week's episode is generously sponsored by. Lee Eloy, Nishma, Harry and Jeannie Hack and Rabbi Rag and Gittel Rosenswag. Thank you so much Tola for sponsoring this week's episode. If you would like to sponsor an episode of the podcast, please email Rabbi char off@gmail.com or see the show notes for more details. Alright, with that, let's jump into the Cevo Shalom on Rosh Hashanah and Shofar. We are in the de. We are in of the additional volumes. In the section on Rosh Hashanah page. Tia, we're talking about the shofar. Devo quotes, the BHA for the shofar who sanct us with his mitzvah. And he commands us to hear the call the voice of the shofar. It's interesting this concept that in the Bracha it says that the mitzvah is to hear the sound of the shofar as opposed to Koa to blow the shofar, which would've made sense also because the suk about shofar into Hillam says. You should blast the shofar on that month says, and the tour also the Russian and the tour. The reason for that is, and that's why it's codified this way in the bha, is because it's not depending on the blowing of the shofar. You don't fulfill the mitzvah. By blowing the shofar, the fulfillment of the mitzvah comes through hearing the shofar. The Mitzvah is to hear it. We see this manifest in the halak reality that without getting into the nuances here, that's not our discussion. That let's say somebody were to blow shofar inside of a pit and he would only hear, he's blowing it. He would only hear the echoes of the shofar and not the shofar itself. He wouldn't even be sze.'cause he's hearing echoes. Not the shofar I, but he blew it. It doesn't matter. The missile is not to blow the shofar. The missile is to hear the shofar and so much so that you have to hear the sound of the shofar. Even if you're its echoes, you're not sze. That's just bringing down the fact that when we sing in the Bracha, Cher is shout himself. It seems certainly from the halachic level that the emphasis is, you have to hear it. And yet says the, the says, you should blow the shofar on this month. What that teaches us is, is that yes, halachically, the issue is to hear it. However, the Puig is telling us there's a whole other level of shofar, which is to blow it. And so what we're gonna do in this pieing Em, is he's going to dig into both sides of this. What's the deep a voda of shofar of hearing the sound of the shofar and on the whole nother level, what's the deep voda of shofar, of blowing the shofar? What are these two sides of the experience of shofar and how do we engage in it, Voda, in terms of a, in both of these sides? So he says, next paragraph. How do we understand this in terms of our. So the explains that we can understand what it means to hear the shofar. This concept of needing to hear the sound of the shofar from that which it says in the, the first, the says that there was a call out to Moshe and Hashem spoke to him. So it's very interesting if you read the s and the the itself have to deal with this. In the opening of the S, it says va, there was a call to Tomo, but it doesn't say who called out Tomo. Why doesn't it say that? Called him? Says so beautifully. Every single cry in the whole world that Mo heard every time, no matter what Moo heard, every time he heard someone talk to him, every time anything happened to him. He heard Hashem speaking to him through that person. He heard Hashem speaking to him through that thing, calling out to him to get close to him. Everything that happens to a Jew, everything that happens to a person, it's all a call from to get close to him. Whether it's things that happen to us that are joyous, which is a, who calling out to us to connect him from a place of joy. The re ne. And so too ne the negative things that happen to us, the challenging things that happened to us since I got bur calling out to us to get close to him through the challenge. Everything is coming from AK and we learn this Mo, let's unpack this for a second. Go back to that puzzle. It's such a beautiful, gorgeous read of the puzzle. There's a call out to Mo and the second half the is telling us what Mo Mosha heard. Mosha heard a call. The call wasn't specified. What is Mosha here like the bear. No matter who's talking to him, no matter what happens to him, what is Mosha here? Mosha here is the KA talking to him. That's what a way to live life. That's how life is supposed to be lived. That in every interaction that we have, we recognize that everything in the world is happening. The Han, everything in the world is happening through our Q bur, who's guiding hand. And so everything that happens to us, every word that's spoken to us, every occurrence that takes place in our lives, it's all coming from Akash. Bur can't tell you how many times I've sat with Tommy Demon, Tommy do talking things out. So many people feel in their lives. Rabbi, I'm, I'm, I'm ding to a k every day I'm ding and I'm ding, I'm ding and I'm talking to him. But it's so hard to dive into him because he never talks back to me. How do you, how do you dive into a God? How do you talk to a God who doesn't talk back to you? And, and I cry inside when somebody asks me that. And I understand it needs to go through a process of understanding the Seder, but like, it's, it's so painful, it's so sad to me. The answer is no. You don't understand. You are talking to God. Dominic Chakras once a day, chakra twice a day, chakra three a day. You're talking to a Kish Barko two to three times a day. He's talking to you all day long. You just don't hear him. You're just not listening. It's like back in the day when you had one of those radios and if you wanted to listen to a station, you would have to change. To change the dial in order to line up with the station you wanted to listen to. KU is talking to us, he's broadcasting to us all day, every day. The question is, am I dialing into that station? Am I dialing in to hear him? Am I doing the internal work to hear his voice in everything that someone says to me to feel his hand in everything that happens to me, because that's the Ms. That's the ms. The MS is that is what's happening. Am I attuned to it? That's what it means to have the perspective of emotions. Anytime anybody spoke, emotion who's talking to me? Another amazing instance of this that that always speaks to me when I come back to it in my mind. When we learn this piece, many of these pieces, I like to come to cold, but this piece I learn with whoever will learn it with me every year. I love this piece on the shofar, and this is one of the times where this concept from TaNaK comes up. when David is running away from his son, abm. He's running away from him. He's at his lowest. He was king. He was dethroned by his son. His son is out to kill him. He's running away. He's running for his life with a few people and he comes to a place called Baim. And when he gets there, Shi Benra who al identifies one of the heads of the Sun Hadron shi benra, runs out to greet him the head of the Sun Henderson comes out and it says in the, he goes, and he's throwing rocks at David Alek. He's cursing out David, the head is said, cursing out David Alek and he's cursing him out and the head of DOT's army, and this is strict translation of the pus. The head of DOT's army turns to David Malkin says he's cursing the king. Let me kill this dead dog. That's who he responds because he understands the do. Mel's the king. Is gonna turn around. He believes in David Alek. He knows that David is gonna be the king and David Alek gives the most amazing, amazing response. it says right here in MBE ion. turns around to the head of his army and he says to him and says, what is it to us? Here are the words of David. If he's cursing me out, it means that who said to him, go curse out. So who can question him Now to clarify, when David Amalek is reinstated as king. At the end of his life, he turns to Shlomo Amalek and tells Shlomo Amalek that one of his first jobs as king is to execute Shira for cursing him out. To be clear, it's ushered to curse the king and it's under penalty of death. But here the perspective of D. David Alah knows that he's getting, he's on the, he's on the run for his life because of what happened with Batsheva, even if it wasn't an official sin, okay? But something went wrong and was punishing him, and he understands if the head of the is coming and cursing him out, regardless of whether or not as a king, he has the obligation to execute justice against him at some later point. KU is sending a shalia to tell him I'm cursing you out, that you did something wrong. And to hear the musser of being cursed out. And that's the only thing he's plugged into. Not his honor, not anger, not vengeance, not ego, nothing. If something has happened to me, it's KU speaking to me. That's what made, he's hearing also and everything. If he's cursing me out, Hashem Ammar, and he's able to hear it. Even in the worst of times, even the most painful of times. He's hearing a Q who talked to him. He's living his whole life with a Q. That's how we're supposed to live. In the image of Mo. The image of David. We're supposed to be hearing a Q in every single moment of our lives. A friend comes over and gives me a compliment. I hear a Kara talking to me. A friend comes over to me and says something not nice to me. I hear a kish barko talking to me. I overhear AKA conversation that I wasn't even meant over here. I happened to be walking by a Kish Barcos talking to me. I learn a particular pu, a k Bur who's talking to me. I miss a bus, a Kadish bureau's talking to me. I trip and that was his whole point, right? Coming back to ek, right? Meaning if Shira is able to get to him a, who could have done a million things to stop that, Shira has a full reality of. I wanna curse Deek great. So he wants to go curse Deek. Adele could make him sick, could have him trip and fall and hurt his leg. He could break his arm, his wife could get sick. The earth could open up, there could be an earthquake. There's a million reasons why even though he wants to express the free will to go to Cima B could stop him from doing that.'cause a Bal guides the world and if a Bal gets him there and lets that happen, aka Sparkle is making it happen. If I wanted to make that bus and I missed that bus, a Burle is gonna make it happen. Ka Sparkle wants you there. It's a kabale talking to you. Do you hear a kabale talking to you? And it's hearing it? It's hearing it in every bit of life. The question, how can I talk to God if God ever talks back to me? How can we only talk to God three times a day when he is talking to us 24 hours a day? We have to attune hours selves to hear him, and it changes your life. It changed my life. I don't hear him every second. I don't hear him in every minute. I don't hear him in every word. I don't, but I'm working on it. I'm working on hearing those moments. I was sitting last night, I was to go to Aton Katz, had a concert live in Jerusalem four, so I went to the concert last night. And I get very particular about things as my personality. So the day that the tickets went live, I immediately clicked.'cause I wanted to get the seat that I wanted. I knew exactly where I wanted to sit. How close are far away from the dancing in the aisles? How close are far away from the stage. I knew exactly where I wanted to sit. I was going by myself. I wanted to enjoy it and to be, I wanted to be where I wanted to be. So I go and sit down and there was a whole group of guys, Shana Bet guy sitting next to me from Yeshiva and there was some confusion and so one of the guys got up, I had my sick with my seat number on it. It was very clear where I was sitting. Five minutes later, the guy comes back to me, he says, listen, I'll be honest with you, there was a mix up with the tickets and they double booked the seat. And you're right, the seat is yours. But all my friends are sitting here and my seat's four rows back over the next aisle. In the ne in the next section he says, you have no obligation to move, but would you mind switching with me? I said to him, first of all, I know I have no obligation to move. I had to my seat. But that being said, I sat there, said, gimme a second. I said, lemme just go over there and walk over there for a second. So I just need a more minute to clear my head. And I walked over and I sat down and I'm looking at the stage and I'm thinking about the messages that I've heard from Etan Katz over the years of my life, having been following him around from concert to concert about caring about other people, about him singing the words of Tanach, especially words for sure, for David, about caring for other people, loving your other Jews, talking about it in his concerts. And I looked at him and I said. I understand where you're coming from and I want you to know that I believe, from what I've heard from aan, that AAN would say to switch seats and for you to sit with your ra. And so from him, I wanna pass that along to you, that it's from AAN, that I want you to sit with your ra, but to in that moment, to hear what, what were the odds? I'm one seat in 3000 seats that it would get mixed at. What were the odds to hear a kbo who talking to you? Say, what is a K Sparkle saying to me in this moment? He's saying, yeah, you're, you're OCD about your seats. Chill out a little bit and care about other people and what they care about and what matters to them. And then it turned out that I ended up sitting next to two guys who I was in China Olive with 20 years ago. And I reconnected with them. And then I turned around to, behind me was a guy from my bees. So instead of taking the bus back, he drove me back like kilo. All of this happened. Why? Because I was opening up and willing to hear our kashko talking instead of hearing my own voice saying, but I wanna sit here to just hear our Q saying, and this is you say like, come on Robbie. This is a small little story. It's a small little thing. Yeah. Can you hear our Q in the smallest things? Can we open up our ears? In those moments where we wanted to say no, it's some guy being annoying. No, it's talking to me. And it's that, it's an example, but every moment of life when somebody talk, do I hear VA love? It changes your life because it's the way life is really meant to be lived.'cause you're living with God in every moment.'cause you're hearing what he's saying to you in every moment. And that's what we're striving for. That was one moment of success in the lifetime of failures. Great. But the goal is, is to constantly be in that space, and that's what he's emphasizing here. So he says. And about that. It says in the, it says, return to a and hear his voice coming up in a few parva. He says, the the first step of referred Jew is so beautifully the sha. You wanna do Chuva this time of the year. What's the first step of, I'll tell you since it says Mo, hear his voice. Listen for his voice. For a Judah, listen to the voice of Kash who's speaking to him every second of every day. That's the beginning of Tuva. To hear that who's with you and talking to you, he's already in that conversation. Just respond to it, hear it, and respond to it from a FEWS ago. It says in the beginning of par, I'm putting before you today. The Broca that you should hear the midst of ku, but he just starts the past there. He says no. What's the main broca? The biggest that A can have is to hear s voice coming out from Marina every single day, which is calling out to us and arousing the hearts of, he says even more deeply the is s voice. And on the flip side, nu the biggest kla there is, is to not hear a QBO who's voice right back to those people. Come talk to me. They're in such pain and such sadness. I, I'm davening. And I'm davening. I'm talking to em and I'm talking to em and I don't hear'em back. The feeling of isolation and loneliness and confusion and Suffolk and am all the, the unimaginable pain of loneliness that I'm talking to, this infinite of God. I don't even know if he's there. I don't hear him talk back to me. The biggest cah is the kla of thinking that a Q who's not talking back to me is the kla of not hearing God speak back. And the biggest BHA there is is hearing the voice of a q bku, hearing it in everything, in every word that comes my way. In everything that comes my way. Hearing the word of. And this concept is part of the foundations of a, it's included in the. It says in the Suk to follow a kaku, to fear him, to do his mitzvahs, to hear his voice and to serve him and to cling to him. Those who ask about this, what does it mean in when it says, and also listen to his voice. It says to love him and to fear him and do his Voss. So obviously you're doing what he says. The answer is no. It doesn't mean when it says hear his voice to do what he says it means. In addition to loving him and fearing him, is to hear him. To hear him speaking to us, the concept of hearing his voice. It's totally unique to a Jew, aside from all of the overt in the Torah to hear God's voice. Which is always talking to us. Everything that we hear, everything that happens to us nationally, personally, in the global scale, on the personal scale, calling out to us. And this has gone over again and again and again and all these quoting in the Torah because this is the essence of bra to hear KU talking to us, to Momish here. When I taught this piece last year, this came to me in a deep way last year, and I'm still unpacking this and I'm still trying to grow. We're always trying to grow, hopefully. I'd given over this piece for so many years, and it struck me that there's a difference between hearing and listening. That there are times when we can hear, we can even hear someone's voice, but we don't monish listen. We don't listen. We hear what we want to hear. If it fits with our narrative, we accept it. If it fits with our view of life, we accept it. If it doesn't make us feel uncomfortable, we accept it. If it doesn't line up with us, or it does make us feel uncomfortable, or it does force us to grow, or it is hurtful to us, we ignore it or we hear it differently, we, we funnel it, we translate it the way we want to hear it. I believe this so deeply that this is what he's saying underneath the words as well, that it's not just to hear. To hear the words of Haku, it itself is an voda to hear ha speaking to us in everything. But it's to Momish. Listen to Momish, listen to hear what Haku is actually saying to us. So many times we're in a deep and committed relationship with someone. They're desperately trying to share things with us. To express who they are and what they are and what they want us to know about them and what they want us to know about how do they feel about us. And we're so involved in our egotistical perspective that we hear, and it washes over us, but we don't listen that we have to listen even when it hurts and even when it's uncomfortable. I think a part of why. So many people don't hear Hashem in their lives is because if they were to hear it and truly listen, it would be hard for them to accept what a qro who's saying to them. But we need to be open to be honest with what a qro who's saying to us. And Momish, hear it, Amish, hear it. It goes in the most deepest relationships of our lives. There's nothing more deep than a relationship with a spouse Dko. Over the last year or two years I've been working on this Voda, the person who I love most in the world, not just to hear her when she speaks to me, but to listen to what she's trying to say to me. So often, again, we hear what we want to hear and we try to respond and that causes friction or lack of understanding or feelings of hurt or feelings of distance. But I heard you, this is what you said, and you can repeat the words, but were you really listening? We mho far the mitzvahs to hear. Are you really hearing. Over the last couple of years I've been really trying to work and indeed and app and even on earth things from the past, things that she's been saying to me that I heard, but I didn't listen and I'm, I'm listening for the first time. Now as I have discuss, I am on track to finish TaNaK for the second time on, on, uh, sim. I've been saying to Hillen my whole life in Suki de Ra and in, in Till after Davening, and we all say these So him here, there, wherever they're shoved in, there's always till everywhere. You sit and you learn to heal him, and you try to sit there and you imagine sitting next to David, he's saying these words, you stop hearing, you stop hearing it, and you start listening to a David who's pouring his heart and tears in my eyes, his heart and his soul out his momish pouring his heart in his out to a kish. You sit there and the gives us that, he gave it to, to David Alek. These, they were written down. They're part of ish. Learn it and we can say the words that he said thousands of years ago and we could be sitting there with him. I'm sitting here in eel with him next to him and e I'm sitting at the Kota Learning app, Peric and I'm sitting there. We, David Amalek sat, and I'm not hearing the words of Tehillim. I'm listening to David and then I'm, I'm crying as I say his words with him. I'm empathizing with him. I'm connecting with him on an emotional level, and I'm connecting with a QB on an emotional level. It's not just hearing. Part of why we don't even hear is because we're not listening, and part of why when we hear it doesn't make sense is because we're not open to what's being said. We have to open up our hearts to really listen, to listen to what a Q Bjo is saying to us. He cares about us so much. He loves us so much. He's trying to talk to us all day long and we're so lost in our own inner worlds and our own egos, that we just don't listen. And if we open up, we can hear and we can listen for real. And it changes our whole life.'cause I'm living with the MS of what's actually happening. I'm not living in my own bubble. I'm living in the MS of the world, in the MS of truth, in the MS of a kbo whose words in Ishish, I'm living in the Vahe. And that's coming out through the shofar. Next paragraph. It's coming out in the shofar. He says, in the bottom of the first column, shofar. This is what the shofar is all about. This is the whole concept of the, it's the voice of a kaku that's calling to us on Osh Hashanah to every single Jew to come back to our roots, to come back to our source. Top of the next column, Ram says, even though we, why do we build the cha far? Because the says so. That's why we build the cha Far. Great. He says, wake up, you sleepers. Wake up from your sleep. Search your deeds. Do chuva. The shofar is a kade sparkle crying out to us once a year. It's an amazing thing all year long when my friend talks to me, he's to Kade sparkle talking to me through him, and I have to hear and I have to listen. When this thing happens to me, it's happening because I ka sparkle organiz that I have to hear and listen. But I have to do the a vda of real first hearing and then listening once gives us a gift. It's the gift called shofar. We don't have to work. We don't have to dig. We don't have to refocus. We don't have to find the proper cover. We show up to who says I'm gonna be? It's Rosh Hashanah. It's the roach. It's the beginning. We dive into our rashana because the whole year stems from Hashanah. The way that everything that we are comes from our Roche. Should guide everything that we are and everything that we do. It all comes from the Roche and stems from it and emanates from it. The whole year emanates from as Hashanah saying on this first day of the year. No, this whole year is one big conversation between me and you, and I want you to hear me and just to make sure that you know that that's what this whole year is about. There's no, I'm not gonna hide it in something else. Take out a shofar, blow the shofar on Rosh Hashanah and hear me, just hear me crying out to you, and know that the same way that I'm giving you is this. It's a freebie beyond Rosh Hashanah. You literally hear me cry out to you through the shofar. I'm calling to you overtly. Clearly. Everybody's silent, nobody's talking. This clear, beautiful sound of the chauffeur blasting strong. I'm talking to you. It's the beginning of the conversation that's going to unfold between us all year. If only you'll hear. If only you'll listen. Wake up. We're momish to walking dead. We're walking around and living life and we don't see, and we don't hear what's going on around us. We're missing life. Life is passing us by. We spend our whole life wishing a kind of sparkle would just do some big miracle, reveal himself to us and make everything clear. He's like, I don't need to. I'm talking to you all the time. You're so busy talking to your rabbi and to your friend about how frustrated you're, you don't see God, that you don't see me standing right next to you. Part of the conversation. I'm right here. Just like I was in Rosh Hashanah. And Rosh Hashanah is the gift of hearing it, of the chauffeur blasting for us to open up our ears and truly listen and say, oh, kind of sparkles talking to me. And the content of this conversation is going to unfold every second of the coming year. Wake up. We are sleepwalking through life. It's time to wake up and the chauffeur is the call to wake up. It's the overt voice of a Kahu calling out to us to connect to him the hin. This is a totally unique calling out one time a year. Hashem, this voice of a KU that comes out of the Shofar calling out to us Jews. Wake up from your sleep. Hey, wake up from your slumber. Because you can still do of rima, but when our life passes by like a dream, when our life passes by is sleep. Har, when we die, when it's over, we can't undo having slept walk through life. The only thing we can do is to fix it in the present. We need to now wake up. We need to live life awake. This is of the day of Rosh Hashanah, and this is the Mitzvah to listen, to hear, and to listen to the sound of the shofar la to hear the voice of a k. That calls out to a Jew with the voice of the shofar. So it comes in here. His words here're. So beautiful. So it comes into not just our ears, his words, that it comes into the ears of our heart, that we're not just hearing, that we're listening with our heart. This is also hinted to in the past where it says that Ava, they heard the voice of a qba walking in during the day. Know that, know that this is Rosh Hashanah. Meaning when did hear the voice of God walking through the garden on Rosh hashanah. De was Rosh Hashanah. And what's the voice? It's the voice of the shofar. It's the voice of the shofar. They ran when they heard the voice of God. This is right after they sinned, when they heard the voice of God walking in the garden. They ran and they hit. Sha'cause we don't pay attention and we hide. We run from the voice that asks us to turn our lives around to do better, to wake up, to live for real, to give up the studio, to give up the stupidity and the ego and the ridiculousness and all of the things to give up the sin and the tiva to give it up. We run from it. It's not what we wanna hear. We run and we hide. And who then turns to Adam and says, where are you? When turns and says, A, where are you? We're not in, we're not in kindergarten anymore. God's like looking through the garden and pushing away the leaves and the Jesus going, Al, where are you? I can't find he's God. Whatcha you talking about? It's God, it's other Ian Whatcha talking about? That question is the most painful question. And then if it's the question that's the first that's asked post sin and we live in a posts sin world, then it is the question that we are asked consistently every day of our lives. Who goes into the garden? He goes into Gaiden and he looks at Adam Ma after the sin and he says, aah, where are you? I created you this amazing person with so much capacity. Where are you? Where's the I created. Where's this being that's just bursting with potential to connect to me and with a, where is that person? I know where you are, but where's my Adam ha? With the far every single year to every single one of us sitting there in two of their eyes closed, hopefully our eyes closed when the silvers going off. Kavana focusing in hearing Iberg saying aka, where are you? Where are you? My sweet Jew? You've been in this world. 18, 19, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90 years. Where are you? I know who you could be. I know the relationship we could be having. Where are you? Where's the person I created? Where's my beloved? A diva do Lee. Where's the beloved? Where's this person who I wanna spend their whole life with? Where are you? The cry of the chauffeur says, I am here. I'm waiting for you. I want to, I wanna connect you, I wanna talk to you. The chauffeur is a kaku crying out to us to hear, to listen. It's not easy. Relationships are hard because relationships, demand of us to give ourselves up to give up of our ego. To give up of our involvement with all the things that we want to do and that we're obsessed with, and that we're desire after, and that we wanna do for ourselves and to truly open, like we talked about last week in, in, in the Sheron, to open ourselves up to the other. It's an incredibly demanding thing. It's the most rewarding thing in the world, but it's incredibly demanding. And who says, hear my voice, listen to my voice. Listen to the love and the care, and the compassion and the desperation. I just want to connect with you this year. That's the first thing the king says to us in the day of his coronation. He screams out, yeah, I'm your king, but I wanna be your king. I want to connect to you. I wanna get to know you. I want to be with you. I want time alone with you. I wanna, I wanna help you become you. I want you to get close to me. To hear that, to Momish, hear that in the Shofar. Incredible thing. Incredible. Incredible. Volta. And he says here, jumping ahead to the very end. Of this last paragraph on the page, he says, and this is the idea of, of hearing the, to momish, hear the cry of that. He cries out to us about this every single day. We're about to walk into a brand new year. We're about to walk into 57 86. We're about to close out the conversation, the dialogue, the intimate conversation that's been going on for the entirety of the year. And listen, there are sometimes we didn't hear. There were some times we heard and we didn't listen, and there were some times we didn't hear it all. There were some times we heard and we fought against it in your em. There were also times we heard and we rejoiced and we connected, and we clung together, and we sang and we danced beautiful, beautiful times over the last year in 2 7 85, but there's a lot of baggage from 7 85. Also, the things that we fought against, things we didn't hear, the things we didn't listen to. And as we come to the end of this year, it's time to sit down and have a genuine and honest and open conversation with the Q Bku and put those issues behind us. And to walk in, to walk into Rosh Hashanah 57 86 to prepare. And maybe I never thought of this before. Maybe that's one of the reasons why we have the Minh hug, that all of Ell, we blow the Shofar and Shul Minh. Can you imagine if you were thrown into your first conversation with your spouse and they shared the deepest stuff of their soul with you, and like you wouldn't even know what to do with it? So maybe it's a big gift from AK Barko that for 30 days we get to sit and a Kade Bjo is acclimating us to the sound of the chauffeur. I'm giving us the opportunity to first Oh, okay. Oh, the chauffeur. Every day. I'm open to hearing it. Now I'm trying to listen to it. Now I'm listening to what he's saying. Maybe it's a gift from AK in that way that the gives us in order to start to acclimate ourselves and prepare ourselves for these days. But dka, and this is part of the halaka. We DKA don't blow the shofar. The day before has Hashanah to distinguish between the Taks that are a Minh hug for the month of El and the Taks Raisa of Rosh Hashanah. The Taks of the Minh that we brought about, perhaps the Taks that we bring about to train ourselves to listen. The couple's therapy that we're doing right now in the month of El, we're in the couples therapy section Great. Of the year where we're trying to work to listen to the shofar. We take a day where we break because come Rosh Hashanah, that's so far blast. That's the beginning of the conversation that's going to unfold the whole year, and I wanna work on myself and in this time of year, work on myself really deeply to be able to come into Rosh Hashanah, ready, prepared, that when that so far goes off, that I stand there. I stand there before Medina on the day of the coronation of the king. And I cleansed myself in Ello and I cleansed myself on the dear PR Hashanah of all of myself. And I open up my ears. I open up like he says, the ears of my heart, and I let the beautiful, sweet sound of a Kara Boku, his cry of the shofar. I let it fill me and start and open. Honest, real challenging, but beautiful and amazing and wonderful and loving conversation that's going to unfold over the entirety of this year to be focused and not let my thoughts, distract me to hear and let the sound inside and to listen to what he's truly saying. Wake up. Wake up. Who are you? Where are you? Where have you been? I want you back. We're so worried about Arch. Can I get back to No. Hear my voice my so far saying I want you back. Just hear and respond, hear and respond to me. We should all be zha to prepare over this month of Elmo if we go to shul with the training wheels of the shofar of the Minh hug. If we don't go to shul to prepare into our eternal w regardless. To walk into Hashanah with the big Mitzvah of the day as the mitzvah says, as the AKA says shofar, to hear the sound of the shofar, to let it penetrate our hearts. Begin that conversation and open up a dialogue, a loving dialogue of hearing him, of listening to him in every moment of every second of my life for the coming year. To know. He's talking to me, he's with me. He's caring about me, he's guiding me, he's talking to me. And to be able to hear that conversation Amir Sem unfold and bring about loving closeness over the coming year. 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