Rosh Hashanah: Letting Out the Cry of My Inner Shofar

In this episode, we are learning the Nesivos Shalom on Rosh Hashanah!

If you want to follow along inside, it is in Nesivos Shalom Chelek Bet, on page kuf chaf gimmel (123). 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 Hasidist for Life podcast, the podcast where 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 the Navo Shalom on Rosh Hashan. 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 anonymously sponsored for a good year for all. Thank you so much to this week's generous sponsor. Remember, your sponsorships will make this podcast happen. If you would like to sponsor an episode of the podcast, please email rabbi chernoff@gmail.com or see the show notes for more details. All right. With that, let's jump into the Navo Shalom on Rosh Hashanah. We are in the VO on Rosh Hashanah. We are in bet on the Rosh Hashanah section. On page. How fortunate are the people who to know the rah? So this first piece of this, Hamish is ra, that somehow hidden within this mysterious, beautiful, tremendous voice and cry of the shofar is the hidden connectivity between AK and Israel. Let's see what he has to say. He starts by quoting. A puzzle from teem that we sing and say a lot this time of year vO that the gates should open up and the openings of the hall should open up themselves as well. And the king of glory should come through, should come through, says. Sha re those four words in the middle of that, that we say so much this time of year as the, the king is coming to us. He says, those four words, SHA re are. If you take the first letter of each of those four words, you get shofar, you get the word s. In this Suk, it's hinting to all of the days in this time of year, all the special days, the OV in this time of year that the gates should open themselves up. That's oshana, meaning that's not just the gates, but these head gates, these opening gates, these front gates, so it's hinting to Rosh Hashanah. The gates of Rosh Hashanah has Roche. This first gate, this aspect of Roche of the head. The way that we enter into the Rahim, the way that we enter into these holy days, it's through the gate of Rosh Hashan and the doorways of the hall. They should open themselves up as well. He says is already more inner than a sha. The SHA is the outer gate. The pet is the entryway. First, you go through the gate, then you enter the entrances, you go through the gate to this big palace, and then you go through the door to the palace itself. That's already hinting to yo ki. We're already getting into a deeper level at that point. The thing. And so too, who's also going into an inner chamber, a kipper, the ish going into the most innermost of chambers, a kipper, the Al. And that's saying these, um, entrances to the grand, this grand hall. Vo and then the king of glory will come. He says that's that's already coming into the innermost chambers of the king. Come into my innermost chambers. Ra, the union, the oneness, the binding together of a qra, right as we go and we leave our homes behind and we enter into the sah and we come into a space, an intimate space we literally created from scratch. We create this intimate space for us to bind ourselves together to become one with a kadish bku, as we've entered into the deepest depth of this time of the year. V Sfar and shofar is the Roche vote of this. This, which is to Osh and the VO inside of it are hitting to shofar, the beginning of all of this process. It's all coming from the cry of the shofar. It's all coming from the voice of the shofar. Its ish opening up the gate of this entire month. This voice of the shofar lights up R Hashanah, and then afterwards it lights up Yom Kipper. We see the. when he's talking about this amazing day in the future, this grand day, it'll says, Hashem kalo, God will give his voice. What does it mean the day where God sends out his voice? That's what Hashanah, whether shofar. In front of his army. Top of the next column, elo Israel. That's. We're shaking from the sound of the Sfar in order to merit a proper good judgment on yo Kipper. He this great day that's mentioned in the past. That's so awesome. That's talking about. meaning the voice of the shofar s the upper and lower realms says that this is the way to open up the gates of this time of the year. It's all coming through the chauffeur. So what does that mean? What's thes far about? The ish al, how do we understand this? So what's the, how do we understand the greatest of the shofar? The shofar is bursting open all of these gates. It's entering us into this tremendous time of the year. It's opening us up into Rosh Hashan, Kiki, to get deeper and deeper and closing connectivity with the king. How is this all happening? Why is this all happening through the shofar? What's going on? So he says in the next paragraph, vi, we can understand this based on the following. About a king who sends his son far away, and when he sends his son away, he sends him to places where he has to go through. I pass areas where there's all kinds of enemies of the king in order to fulfill this goal, this purpose that he sent him out for. But in order for him, the king wants to make sure to guard this connection with his child, with his son, the prince who he sends him continuously letters. He's constantly sending him letters. But while the king is constantly sending these letters to keep an establishing of a connection and a relationship with his son, with his, with the prince, the enemies of the king are doing all kinds of things, trickery. They have all kinds of strategies. To go and to stop those letters from ever getting to his son from ever getting to the Prince to try and break that connection between the king and his son, the prince, and because the king knows that even though he's constantly trying to maintain this relationship while his son, the Prince is out there doing all of these things that he needs him to do, that he needs him to do. These are that he has a goal. He is out there for a reason. But since he knows that the enemies, his, his enemies are going and constantly intercepting the letters and stopping that connection and that communication, he makes sure that at the very least once a year, his son has to come back to the palace. And that they talk face-to-face, that nobody can interrupt them. There's no intermediary, there's nothing in between them that their ish talk face to face, and they talk in a way. The speech that they have, they have a special language between them, something which the enemies of the king don't even understand. They can't mess up the message, they can't reinterpret it. They can't put any lies or distrust or whatever in his head because they don't even understand what the king and the prince are talking about.'cause they talk in their own special language vi since they don't understand what's being said. Ham, there's no way for the enemies of the kington anyway, mess it up. And they're able to come and to talk to each other and say what they immediately mean and say what they really feel. And that reestablishes the strength of the connection between the two of them. He says, Kim, who so too by us, the Prince, and our king Tam, who, even though there's all kinds of things trying to mess us up and saying negative things against us, and all kinds of accusing angels up in Shamayim, top of the next page. That the, the negative forces come and try to attack us. And that there are all these things. They're putting up all of these divisions and trying to divide us between us. Hooray. Ah. One time a year, there's the voice, the cry of the Shofar Israel, which is this straight, clear, continuous cry and voice in connectivity between AK and Israel. And, but nobody else understands this voice. Nobody understands the depth of the cry of the shofar. As it says that even though we don't mention our sins on Rosh Hashanah, it's evidently brought down, I didn't know this, but it's evidently brought down that between the TIAs, you can, you can do vi and you can ask for forgiveness. Because this voice between the king and his son, the prince between us, nobody understands it, RA, and it's through this voice, through the cry of the shofar, that there's a renewal of the connectivity between and Kra. One time a year, we blow the, we cry out, the inner cry that's inside of us, the true cry that's inside of us and the negative forces can't touch that. That even if all the gates are locked, that I, I cry out and I don't hear any response. The cry of the shofar breaks down all of those divisions. It breaks down all of those barriers. This deep, beautiful, gorgeous, this tremendous bitter cry that we scream out one time a year, breaks down everything. It breaks through everything and nothing can stop it. Nothing can stop it. Last week we learned a piece about the shofar also, and last week we talked about how the BHA is the shofar. And we talked about last time the importance of hearing the cry of the shofar of hearing a Kash Bhu talked to us, the shofar, but we said at the beginning, last time. Said the Delo, and actually the next piece in the Delo on page T, that there's another side of it, which is T far. There's also the blowing of the cha form. We didn't get to that last time, but what he's hinting to here and what he's talking about here is exactly what we didn't get to last time. This is almost the second half of this two parts here, if you will. If you didn't listen to the last one, it's totally fine. Go back. Let's do it if you want, but if you didn't, it's totally fine. This is self-contained. But the idea is that there's one aspect which is to hear the shofar, and that's the, that's the Shah mitzva of it. And that's the way the brahas phrased the shofar. But what he's talking about here is the tchaa of the shofar is us blowing the shofar and what he's bringing out. And, and I'm, I'm borrowing from the language of this next piece also about, it's very much what he's saying here. What does it mean that we're blowing the shofar? If you've ever had times in your life, moments in your life. You've gone through tremendously difficult things, maybe even deeper than that. You have somebody who you love tremendously, you love deeply. Could be, you know, terms you're already married. It could be your spouse, could be your best friend, could be your parents, somebody who you love so much. In this world, there are times where we do the wrong thing. There are times. When we do that, which we shouldn't do, we, we, we hurt the people that we love. And if you've ever been in those situations where you've hurt somebody who you've loved and if, it's part of what a relationship is. Relationships come with mistakes and with pain and with deeper understanding of each other, and with having to work through those challenges. The majority of the times are good, but there's also challenge in learning each other and the pain of not understanding each other and of accidentally making mistakes. It's part of life, it's part of relationships, but there are sometimes you make really, really bad mistakes and you can say, I'm sorry, but the words, I'm sorry, don't mean anything when you hurt somebody that deeply the words, I'm sorry. Don't do anything. If you have somebody who you love, more than anything else in the world. You've hurt them in a deep, deep personal level, in a deep way that's gotten really to the, you've, you've hurt them into their soul and you look at them'cause you want to go and you wanna apologize to them. Tears in my eyes again. These, these, these pieces on the show far always impact me very much. And you look at that person you love more than anything else in the world. And before you can even get out the words, I'm sorry, you just start to cry. You cry because you know how amazing that person is. You cry because you know how much you love that person. You cry because you know how much you've hurt that person and you cry because you don't even have the words to say how much it hurts you, that you hurt them, how much it's hurting you, that there's distance between you and them. How much it hurts you that you don't understand each other, that you weren't there for them, that you couldn't be there on top of them in the way that you wanted to be, that you hurt them in a way you never meant to, and you cry. You cry. Real tears. If you've ever experienced that. I want you to internalize what he's saying here in this piece He's saying that's the cry of the shofar when you put your head on the other person and you cry because you hurt them and you miss them, and you want to fix it, and you love them. When you cry like that, if it's somebody who you really love and loves you back, a spouse, a child, a parent, a best friend. It may take a long time to repair that damage, but that person, if you loved them and hurt them and they love you, and were hurt by you, they will hug you back. There's something so much deeper than words, so much deeper than, I'm sorry, so much deeper than asking for forgiveness. There's the cry from the depths of your soul that says, I don't have, it's a cry that's beyond words that says, I just want to be close to you, and I'm so sorry. I just wanna be close to you, and I don't know how this happened. Please forgive me. Please bring me back in a way that words can't hold. I cry from the very depth of my being. And usually that other person, when they put their head on your shoulder, they cry. They cry with you. All the gates open because it's so raw and it's so real. And if he, the other person looks you in the eyes and see the tears streaming down and sees how much you care about them, they may still be hurt and there's repair to be done, but how could they not take you back? They could. The first thing they say is, it's okay. I know you didn't mean it. We'll figure this out because I love you too. That's the cry of the chauffeur. That's beyond words and that cry of the shofar can open all of the gates. Every one of us. We're a Jew, we're we have godliness living inside of us. We know our sources of KU deep down, even if we're struggling and we're not sure, and we have questions and we talk in wherever we are in life, if you get underneath all of that stuff underneath, we know. Kishkas. We know ha k, who loves us, and sometimes we struggle and we get angry and we get angry and we get flared up and we get flustered because we don't understand how could he do this? And the, it's not, how could he do this? It's how could he do this with the implied end of the sentences? Because I know he loves us, so how can he do this? It's not a kish. If he hates you, then it's easy to say that he could do that. But if you know he loves you, then that's why you're so upset. That's why you're so riled up. I know he loves me, so why is he doing this? On the flip side, I asked the question, I know I love him so much, so why am I doing this? How can I go against the kba? How could I be doing this sin? How could across the spectrum, wherever you are, it doesn't matter. How could I have missed morning, say this morning, and how is I Mto Torah? How can I have? Miss Chak was sitting there at the coffee shop at the table waiting for me, and I stood him up. He was waiting for me at Minka. I said I was gonna be there at one 20 Minka, and he was sitting at the table and I set up a ka sparkle. How could I do that? How could I have done that? What was so important, I met a person. I thought, I, how, how could I violate? Show me Kash Sparkle said that it's us or us. I said, don't touch somebody until you're married to them. And I know that. How could I, how could I hurt a sparkle? How can I turn my back on him? He created me. He loves me. I know that. And I hurt him so badly. I hurt him so deeply. And you know, all year we try to figure this stuff out and all year. We send a Q Bku WhatsApps and we send a K Bku messages and we post on Facebook or X, I don't even know understanding anymore how these things work. I never had any of these platforms and I've got 8 million ways, but we're constantly communicating with a Q Bku this way in that way. We're we're just, we're communi. We're there's, but the ci, it's all ci all of these times that I'm trying to communicate with it from a distance. I'm sending letters. He's sending me letters, but the CI isn't intercepting them. AKA burko. I love you, but Ko, I can't. You, you, you're so amazing. But Ko I tried diving into you, but there's always a But all year long this, there's, There's barriers. There's things in the way. Everyone who's here, everybody's here with me on the Zoom, everybody who's listening to this, please, I'm speaking to you from my heart. Come into shul is Rosh Hashanah, and this is what he's saying, come into shul and it's the craziest thing. Rosh Hashanah. It's the longest davening of the year. Rosh Hashanah. We come into shul and we just talk and talk and talk and talk. And chakra takes forever and Mussaf is the longest Moni possible. And we talk and we talk and we talk and we get all the words out of the way. And then once all the words are outta the way, we stop and we take out the shofar, and for a second we get real. And we would say, forget all the words. It's all just words beyond words. Just hear me cry. Cry out to you. Cry to you that says, I'm sorry for everything I've done this year because I love you so much and I don't know how I could have done it. I don't know why I did it, and I can't even explain it to you. All I can tell you with this cry that's beyond words is I can try to give a screech that tells you how much I love you and how much I miss you, and how much I care about you, and that all I want is you. You cry like that to a k. All the gates open up Ka. Who's gonna leave you out there crying? That's what he's been waiting for you the whole year. That's all he wanted to hear. We've been talking to him all year and all he wanted to do was hear the cry. All he wanted you to do was cry out to him. And once a year we're given the gift of the shofar, the gift of the shofar where we cry. Oh damn. An am mystic, truthful cry, a raw true cry from my insides. All the barriers shatter all the walls, crumble all the gates, throw themselves open via vo who runs out, and he grabs us and he hugs us and he cries back with us. We talked about last time the shofar is a Ka cry also. The cry is us crying to him and him crying back to us all in one sound. It's all one chauffeur blast. It's all one. We're just bonding to a kahu in, in Cry in Emma to cry. That's beyond words. That's what we're meant to feel on Rosh Hashanah. That's what we're meant to connect to on Rosh Hashanah, to get to that place within ourselves. We've drifted all year.'cause there were letters back and forth like in the m Endless. Letters, letters, letters, letters, back and forth, back and forth, text messages, WhatsApps, whatever you wanna call'em is man. And the is constantly intercepting and changing them and messing with them. Aka can't get involved here. You can't change the words of a cry that have no words. You can't intercept a cry that has no words. When I cry for my inner depths. Cries back, nothing. It's unstoppable and it creates the bond and the union and the connection that unfolds over the entire year. It's the cry of the shofar. It's a little bit of the cry of the shofar. And I think that's, that's what he's saying here, and that's what he said before. I mean, hear his words. read this a few lines up. He says this tremendous and bitter cry. Not bitter'cause it's bad, it's bitter because I'm feeling all the pain of the pain that I've caused this year. It's bitter because it's real, because it's a time to face the facts to face reality. It's the day of judgment. Can you imagine if we actually internalized, Russia has shown us the day of judgment. If you go and you are the slickest lawyer on the face of the planet, and you walk up on Rashana Kaku and you make the slickest arguments about why everything you did, I don't deserve to be punished for this. You don't understand that the circumstances here, temporary insanity, t circumstances give the whole thing. And the judge is like, whatcha talking about? You did the thing. Get outta here. What's wrong with you? Can you imagine if we opened up our eyes for a second instead of making the slick pitch? Look up and behind, behind that up there where the judge is sitting looking down upon us. You look up at the judge and you see, oh my God, the judge is my Abba. Can you imagine if we internalized that Nu, the judge is my Abba? And you look at your notes and you look at your ab. Instead of you take that piece of paper and you crumple it up and you throw it out, and you look at him and you cry and you say, Abba, I'm sorry I messed up Abba, the judge is gonna move Heaven and Earth, heaven and earth to make sure you're gonna be okay. It's a bitter cry of recognizing that I made mistakes, but I could admit them. I know who I sinned against. I admit it. I understand it, and I'm telling you I love you and that I don't know why I did it, and that I wanna do better and I want your help to do better. It's, it's, it's bitter, but it's real. Life is about being real. Rashana is about being real's, about being real. Shala Joaquin, there's only one time a year we really get to dig this deep and give that type of an istic cry. And that breaks everything down. Like we said, there's nothing that can stop it It's like the goes into the. And nobody's allowed in M when he goes in in order to get Q for Israel, because in that moment there's a unity between a Q and Israel. Because the coin Gale is going and representing cla. He is and he is going into the innermost chamber. It's a place of intimacy and privacy and honesty and rawness. Nobody else is there'cause there's a one-on-one relationship. And yes, it's embodied within the co gale and we put all of our trust and all of our faith and all of our hope in the coin guts represent us. And he goes into the innermost chamber. He goes into the sanctity, the way that refers to the, it's the bedroom he enters into. The bedroom stands there with a ku, two intimate lovers married together. This personal relationship, nobody else is allowed there.'cause we're about to get real. We can be really honest. There's nobody else watching and you know exactly who I am and I know exactly who you are and I'd be honest. Is honest, he's talking to a K on our behalf and so nobody else can be there. So those real genuine raw moments. Yo yo is going to reveal who he is to his brothers. There's so much pain and damage and hurt and trauma. pain he must have caused unintentionally that got his brothers to throw him into a pit, try to kill him, and then sell him down to me trying, and the trauma that he knows he's about to inflict upon them by revealing who he is, that he is still alive and that he is in charge. He knows how shocked and fearful they're gonna be In a moment like that where we have so much to talk out, you think you have problems with your siblings. They have so much to talk out. First thing he does is clear the room. It's an intimate moment if we're gonna be intimate and real and raw and honest. Everybody out. Everybody out. Because I'm about to cry since I've been hiding my tears the entire time. Every time he runs out and he cries, he runs out and he cries. But I'm about to cry in front of them. I'm about to be real. Everybody get out. Get out. It's a real minute between a real moment between me and them. Nobody's there. That when the, he's staying in a more capitalistic and beautiful terms than I could possibly say. That when there's going to be this, this unity that's coming together. The chariot. That is the yte when the 12 qbo who come together and reunite and rebound together after the rupture that was in their relationship to Fe haayaa. Meaning kilo each very quickly that, that the name Y is the name of a, it's comprised of four letters, but one of them is doubled. So instead of there being 16 permutations because one of the letters is doubled, just take my word for it. There's 12 permutations of y. And so each one of the ti carries bears. One of the permutations of the name UK Love Cake. And so when the 12 front come back together, there's now a reunification of the oneness of a Kish burle that's happening at this cataclysmic moment because underneath the stories of Kish, there's worlds and worlds of things happening that we don't see on the surface until we learn about it and get into it. there's a oneness of a qds barko that's about to occur. That is a deep and intimate thing that's about to happen. Everybody out. Everybody out who call. This is what the K Sari is. It's this one time connection between AK and Israel. Za, everybody out. Everybody out. Just me and you. Just me and ak.'cause we're about to get real. And just like according to the kaas, the blowing of the shofar, sweetens, all the judgments. So in terms of our this crying out, this screech, this primal scream from the depths of our hearts. When there's nobody there, it's just this honest, true, pure tic cry from within my heart. It sweetens all the judgments. When instead of making my my pitch to the judge, I look up and see it's my Abba, and instead I cry my eyes out and say, Abba, Abba, I don't know how I could have done this. Please help me. All the judgments get sweetened. It's against the law. Oh, you should be punished. Abba doesn't care. Abba wants to take care of me. Abba knows that I feel bad. He sees me crying and crying and crying that all I wanna do is be better and he's gonna take care of it for me. He's gonna get me out. Is it fair? Maybe not. Is it the en of a relationship between a loving father and a loving child? Yeah. You do anything for your child. You do anything for your kid. Anything you do, you move Heaven on Earth. Doesn't matter. It doesn't matter the cry that we let out before without anything else involved in that. It's just us. And we stand there on Ana in a room full of tens or dozens or hundreds of people depending on where you Davin. If you're in, uh, Uma, maybe even thousands. You stand there in a place and to recognize that we all of Kai Israel are one, and hopefully we're standing in a place where we're diving on R Hashanah way. We can trust each other and we can be honest and real with each other. You're in a place where you trust the people you're around. We're all Jews. We're all part of a K. We're all Jews. We're all part of his nation. And when the shofar goes out in my shul, in my place, wherever I am, wherever I am, I'm alone with a kajo and I can cry. I'm alone with a K Bjo and I can be real. I'm alone with a K bjo and I can cry out in a way that's a mystic. I can be real one time a year. Just be real. Be real with my mistakes. Be real with how much I love him. Be real with what I want from this year. Be real with how close I wanna get to him. Be real and ask. And ask forgiveness. Not as I'm sorry, but I just wanna be close to you. I just wanna be close to. I don't know how much more I can say than I've already said. I dunno. I feel very, very emotional from this piece. For whatever reason, I, I always feel emotional this time of year in it and emotional around the shofar. The shofar, for some reason, always stirs this reality up inside of me. I would dive in for all of us that we're all able to prepare. You mentioned this also last time, to use the TIAs that we have now. If you go to chakras in the morning. Qui, the shofar that we blast is a min hug in these days of ELL to begin to prepare ourselves. It's not easy to truly open up. It's not easy to be real. It's not easy to be honest. It's not easy to be raw, to begin to train ourselves, to be honest, to be real, to open ourselves up, to prepare ourselves over the coming weeks and days at this point, to prepare ourselves to come into shul on Rosh Hashanah. To say all the things that we need to say and all the things that we want to say, but to be able to dig deeper than that, and when the time of the shofar comes to let go, to let go and be real, and to cry, and to scream, and to screech out to a Q and to merge what we learned last time, what we learned this time. Last time we learned that a Kash Bur was crying out to us to come back to him, to the shofar. Today we learned that we're crying out to a Q Burko to get close to him. That on the one hand, the shofar is so beautiful because it's hearing God's voice. And once a year we momish give it of sound that we can hear him calling out to us. And once a year, it's so beautiful that even though it deep inside, all I wanna do is talk to him, but I don't know how, and I can't find the right words. Once a year, we take the words away and we screech out to a kaku that when we bring that together, the, the unity, the oneness that comes out of that. Is deep, deep down. What's happening on our Hashanah in the simplest way is we're beginning to talk to and he's beginning to talk back to us. We're starting a dialogue, a conversation that begins with a cry and then unfolds over the course of the year into words and conversation and the sweet, sweet words that are passed between the lips of two lovers. In the shofar, we need to see the unity of our cries with a Kash B, who's the the melding and the blending together beautifully of those two cries. To hear it and to feel it, to be raw and real and screaming out, but to feel the hug of a Kash Bhu that's coming in the shofar. Also, that the sound is emanating from me and yet at the same time, encompassing me and hugging me and holding me. To recognize that when we do that, if we do that for real, and in that cry of the shofar for real, we just tele how much we feel bad for. We've done in this here and all. It doesn't matter. All I wanna do is say, I'm sorry. I don't know what happened. I love you. I wanna be close to you. All I care about is you. All I want is you. And to hear him call back to us and to then allow that conversation unfold for the entire year. Then when we're not sending WhatsApps and text messages and whatever. Then there's the sweet conversation that's unfolding of love between me and Bo, Bo and me all year long. And it all comes. It's an expression, it's an emanation. It's an unfolding of that etic cry of the shofar. We should be zha to be able to be real with ourselves, who we are, what we are, the mistakes we've made, what's really important in my life in this world. What's truly important in all of existence to feel the distance that we may have created over the course of this year. And from that place screech out, cry to a Q Bhu to come back to us and to hear he is called to come back to him and through the shofar will unite with a Q Bhu in the depth of connectivity and love in a way that will unfold in a beautiful, amazing, sweet new year. 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