Rosh Hashanah: Shofar and Rosh Hashanah on Shabbos

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

What comes down into the world on Rosh Hashanah? The Tanya teaches that each Rosh Hashanah brings a new chiyus, higher than the year before. A mashal from the Divrei Shmuel of Slonim, brought in the Nesivos Shalom, has a soldier saluting the king unclothed and earning a medal, like one who comes feeling empty-handed. When Rosh Hashanah falls on Shabbos, the Tur in the name of the Bahag says the missing shofar does not harm the year.

Key points

• The Chiddushei HaRim reads Yosef's release on Rosh Hashanah as every pintele Yid going free.
• The Avnei Nezer explains that the shofar's wake-up stirs rachmanus on the neshama, leaving the satan confused.
• The Meshech Chochma sees giving up the shofar for Hashem's honor as itself an Akeidah.

In this shiur

1. 0:00The Tanya on new chiyus each year
2. 1:11Yosef leaving prison on Rosh Hashanah
3. 2:09How the shofar confuses the satan
4. 4:11Coming with empty hands: the soldier mashal
5. 6:19Rosh Hashanah on Shabbos without shofar
6. 8:16Hashem Himself blows the shofar

Topics

• Rosh Hashanah
• Shofar
• Rachmanus
• Shabbos