Fasting Erev Rosh Hashanah - The Chasam Sofer's Revolutionary Interpretation

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com the tour in semen tough pay aleph brings that the minigun ashkenaz was to fast on arab rosh hashanah it's interesting even in the ezra's torah calendar it's brought that there's a custom to fast on earth hashanah until khasis and many of the yeshivas that is the custom until today and if somebody were to ask is it a proper custom to fast on air rosh hashanah until so one one we would say would be allowed to fast typically we don't just fast it's in it weakens a person and they're not able to dominate learn as well but our rosh hashanah is considered appropriate if one is able to to fast until khat sois but the the tour uses the following analogy and he brings the masala that the the mushroom would be a city says the torah an ear an ergody art city that owed great taxes to the king and the city was not paying and the king came to collect the taxes and to wage war against the city and the torah brings that first they send out representatives the leaders of the city to placate the king and the king forgoes the third and then they send out average people to placate the king until finally the king comes to the city and everyone goes out to greet and to placate the king so too says the tour on arab rosh hashanah the gadolim fast the leaders that sadikum fast cersei made sure even the average people fast and on yom kippur everyone fast so the sam suffer discusses in a number of places why the tour then concludes that everyone should fast on arav shashanaf in the mashallah and in the nimshal even as the torah explains it only the godailam are fasting but be resumed in his drasha is for rosh hashanah on page tess on the fourth column samsufer offers a very innovative shot because it's not really mandated that gadolin or anybody has to fasten rosh hashanah it's not really mandated halachically that anyone has to fast on shiva except for yom kippur so the samsuffer learns that this is all an analogy and this is something that could be meaningful for those who don't have the physical stamina to fast on air rosh hashanah and to fasten assassin shiva this could be a meaningful way of being the kiam this indian brought in the torah and that is that says when we say gadolim when we say banana when we say katanam we don't refer to great people average people small people but rather godolam may refer to our higher element the name refers to our average element and katanam refers to our lowest element so arab rosh hashanah the godolum fast meaning one needs to fast in their in their greatest component and their greatest dimension and that is the rush and the late and that is one has to fast in his head meaning to be uh to be oneself to humble oneself and in one's life by pouring out their heart to hakadoshvaraka as we know it is not the fasting and the sackcloth which is valuable but rather a tearing one's heart that's what it means once you fast in the gadolin fast the the highest element of the human being needs to do chuba then it comes the sarsonic chuba and we focus on mass and toivim and mitsvoice through our evarim the avaram our vis-a-vis the rosh and the lathe are the bananim the average element of the person and then comes yom kippur even the intestines even the benem the lowest element the prusin of the person the shame even the lowest element of a human being does chuva taco so while for those who do have stamina it is considered a noble practice to try to fast part of the day but if one is not able to do so one is not physically capable then one could fulfill the tour through this interpretation of the sofa that arab rosh hashanah one focuses on humbling one selfie for our college barracuda pouring out one's heart and fila the assassin chuva one focuses on mitsuo samantha toivin and kam's yom kippur even the guf even the intestines through chuva before you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com