Hello fellow plumates. (That's a good one, i can't believe no one thought of that. Like "roomates" just isntead its "plumates").
Anyways, it's late (in many respects... tsssss). A lot has been going on but I'm not in a position to properly express that right now, hopefully next week i'll catch u all up on the life and times of reb yos, i know you all want to here. For now, i'll just share some words of Torah from my Rebbe Rav Rosensweig. DON"T WORRY! It's not crazy complicated or abstract (for those of you who know him). It's a little bit of reading... but it's a beautifal idea at the end. This one's for u guys!
Rav Rosensweig- the Torah commands us to blow the Shofar on 2 different occasions: every year on Rosh Hashanah and once every 50 years, on Yom Kippur of the Yovel year to. The Gemara Rosh Hashanah, in several places, connects these 2 shofar blowings.
For example, when the Gemara determines how many tekios we sound on Rosh Hashanah, it does so by calculating the different times that the Torah says “teruah”. However, one of the pesukim it quotes is the pasuk that says to blow a “teruah” on the Yovel year. What does that have to do with the tekios of Rosh Hashanah?!
Another example is that the Gemara says the brachos on both tekios the same. Meaning, we say the same thing by the tekios of R”H as we do by the tekios of the Yovel year. One opinion in the Gemara even goes so far to say that we shouldn’t say “ha’yom haras olam” (today the world was conceived) by the shofar blowing of R”H since you can’t say that by the tekios of Yovel and the 2 have to be synonymous.
The Rambam also connects the 2. In his Sefer Ha’mitzvos and Mishneh Torah, whenever he introduces one of these tekios he adds in “just like the tekios by R”H (or by Yovel, depending on which halacha he’s talking about).
Suffice it to say that there is an inherent connection between these 2 tekiyos. What does it all mean?
Rav Rosnesweig suggested a very inspiring idea. He said that Chazal are trying to convey a very fundamental message here. In the midst of the yom ha’din on R”H, when we hear the tekios of the shofar, which represent one form of crying or another, and we can’t help but think how low we might’ve sunk and how far we are from the people we should be, we should be reminded of the tekios sounded on Yovel. Those are the tekios that announce all slaves have been freed and all lands have been returned to their original owners. They are tekios that symbolize a fresh start for everyone. If you were a slave before, you’re now a free man with a new beginning. Whatever business you may have done over the past 50 years is now irrelevant b/c you get your land back and things are once again just the way they were at the beginning. This is what we should be reminded on Rosh Hashanah when we hear the shofar- it’s a new year and this time around we can make things right. That’s really what everyone hopes for on R”H, just to get another chance to prove what we could be. Perhaps this is what Chazal are hinting out when they link these 2 tekios. (He also pointed out that it works in the other direction as well- when you hear the tekios on Yovel and the master thinks to himself how bad it is that he’s losing his slave he should be reminded of the tekios on R”H which will remind him who the real Master is etc. But that’s not the message for now....)
Have a kesivah v'chasimah Tovah! I wish you all a shanah tovah u'mitzlachas and im yirtza Hashem all of our tefilos should be answered. Peace up
reb yos
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