A Brand New Year! - Rabbi Yamin Goldsmith

Shalom alaikum everybody one of the questions that many of the first team deal with is how come we don't bench rosh hodesh when it's Rosh Hashanah every other month of the year the gabbai gets up on the Shabbos before rosh hodesh and says this is when the molad's gonna be and then the khazan gets up and we all say special filos and we say roshkosh will be Tuesday or Tuesday Wednesday whatever it is we do that for every month of the year but we don't do that for tissue we don't bend and the question is why not many McPherson deal with this a beautiful explanation comes from the shame me schmuel rev schmuel borenstein the second Chava rebe who died in 1926. this is found in the shamishmuel and parishasavim in the year tough race 5672 1912. the shamey shmuel says that the reason why we bench rosh hodesh every other month of the year and why we do it specifically on Shabbos is because we must ensure that the kadusha of Shabbos continues to rosh grodish Shabbos and the kadusha of Shabbos must Infuse the new month it's an incredible idea which is usually the case Shabbos influences the coming week but it also influences and infuses the coming month however the gemara tells us in masakis Russia that when we Davin mustaf and Rosh Hashanah what do we say we say the words we say this day Rosh Hashanah this day is the beginning of your Creations Hashem a commemoration of the first day of Creation in other words Rosh Hashanah is a completely and entirely brand new time period in so many ways it's important for us to know that it's not necessarily connected to the Past it's entirely new it's brand new and that's why we don't announce and that's why we don't bench rochkodesh when it's Rosh Hashanah the shami shmuel says that that sends a strong message to you and to me every year it's a brand new year it's as if you're born today on Rosh Hashanah do everything you can to start fresh start new start the year with renewed energies with a pristine record don't be caught up don't be hindered in the past do chuva and move on [Music] we should all be zoka to a shanatova a brand new year foreign