Top Ten Rosh Hashana 5783 List

Top Ten Rosh Hashana 5783 List

Prep:

Simcha
Short Haircut
Leave Beard and Peyos
Donate Meals To the Needy

Shofar:

Simcha
Quiet Confession
Bend Over
Emerging Angels
בשופר של איל
First Set-Modern Day Idolatry
Second Set-Promiscuity Of All Kinds
Third Set-Bloodshed Of All Kinds
Fourth Set-Loshon Hora

Davening:

Simcha
Count Your 100 Brochos
100 Blasts Too
Hair Off Ears
Daven For Others’ Finances
Focus on Middle Brochos of Torah and Kohanim
Moshiach Now

First Meal:

Simcha
Red, Yellow, and Green Apples Dipped in Honey
Look Routinely At the Big Five

Learning:

Simcha
Tehillim 47
Likutei Moharan 60

Calling All Shofars!

Calling All Shofars!

If you have a shofar, or can borrow one, please video yourself bluzzing.
Then, send it to us asap.

Thanks

Take The Stand

Take The Stand

Rashi says, women can’t testify.
Rashbi says, like all mitzvos requiring standing.

Explain

Shabbos Shalom

Teshuva For What?

Teshuva For What?

Can a person fulfill the mitzva of teshuva without doing an aveira first?

Shabbos Shalom

Common Misconception

Common Misconception

Hashem doesn’t hate evil people.
Just their actions.

Prove this wrong.

Shabbos Shalom

Cry Mama Cry

Cry Mama Cry

Moshe Rabenu davens 515 times to enter Eretz Yisroel.
For the sake of Tisha B’Av, Hashem tells him to stop.
Moshe stops davening.

Hashem tells Rochel to stop crying.
Reason unclear.
Does she stop crying?

Shabbos Shalom!

Look What Hit The Doors Of Yerushalayim This Morning

Look What Hit The Doors Of Yerushalayim This Morning!

Happy Birthday Aharon HaKohen

Happy Birthday Aharon HaKohen

Not long ago, Jews would chant “Halleluya” 123 times during Hallel.
Chazal say this corresponds to the 123 years of Aharon’s life.
The Rambam brings this l’halacha.

Why is Aharon given this Hallel distinction more than any other tzaddik?

Shabbos Shalom!

Watch two of the world’s greatest tzaddikim enjoying each other’s company

Watch two of the world’s greatest tzaddikim enjoying each other’s company.

Rav Itche Mayer shlita here tells Rav Dov Kook shlita that the Baal Shem Tov said we don’t need fasting(“taaneisim”) and self mortification(“sigufim”) any more.
Rav Kook’s response seems to be very entertaining, but isn’t clear…

If you hear a goy bless a Jew, you say “Amen”

If you hear a goy bless a Jew, you say “Amen”.

Bilaam intended to curse.
Blessings came out instead.
Later, they reverted back to curses.

Had you heard the initial blessing, would you say “Amen”?

Shabbos Blessings