The Power of the Shofar - Rabbi Shalom Rosner

I walked in upstairs for the last minute of the shear there might be a drop of overlap I don't I didn't hear the shear but uh if two people say it maybe it uh maybe there's a a nugget of Truth Aro the PK says in OS this is not on your sheet when the lion roars who is not in awe who is not scared AR sha and there are those that say that AR stands for El rashash yurri and the mush is given you know imagine you're walking down the street and you turn the corner and all of a sudden there's a liing there like whoa you start running away you try to get a selfie as you're running because if you don't get a selfie it didn't happen but but but it's very scary and yet if you go to ramakan and you go to the safari the first place I want to go to is to see the Lions because that's a quality Zoo if it has Lions what's the difference if the lion over there and I'm over here if there's a heick between me and the lion there's a moat there's a gate that that's not scary the Lion's over there and I'm over here that's not so intense that's not so scary so that's fine but if there's no heick between me and the lion if it's just me and the lion and there's no break that's pretty intense that's the true meaning of the word awesome feeling in the true English sense of the word of the in the English language arog our job over these weeks is to break down any fences to break down any walls between us and the lion between us and El rashash yur El's almost gone only have a few hours left to El but we have Haba we have rashash some say thata but we have to make sure that we break down these fences so for the next few moments let's talk about one of the every Mitzvah is every Mitzvah is beloved one of the Mitzvah that we're going to do very soon and that of course is the Mitzvah of chauffeur and it seems like through from kazal that there's something unique about the Mitzvah of chauffeur there are other Mitzvah that we do and there are Mitzvah we eat matah and we shake aula we sit in Suka but chauffeur somehow has some other magical power right the gamar says in rashash in Source number one chauffer reminds we're not going to read everything inside because of the hour but the gar also says at the end of a halak discussion in Source number two I just gave you the last line the gamar talks about the types of chauffers one is allowed to use any kosher animal any kosher animal's horn you could use the best is a a ram because of a but you can't use a cow can't use a bull can't use the Horn of a bull why it reminds of the golden calf theel and the gamar which I didn't give you before this line says but wait a minute what the Coen godo wears gold doesn't that remind Hashem of the golden CF the says no no no the standard is only in The KES kadash in the holy of holies that's where you got to be very careful you can't remind Hashem that's why the coin God when he goes into the kadash only white clothing only the linen Nothing Gold so says Okay so the co the standard is only in The KES kadash so what chauffer I'm not in the Kesh kashim I'm in when I blow schauffer I'm in when I blow chauffeur I'm all over the world when I blow chauffeur so why should I have the same standard says the gamar because when you blow chauffeur it brings you into The KES kadash when you blow chauffer says the G you're inside it takes you in matah doesn't take us into the Kesh kadash no other mitzvah do say such a such a magical idea what how does it get us into the Kash moreover theim tell us in balos you have it there in Source number three and elsewhere in tanak that chauffeur is also found in another context and that's sh at a time of War we blow chauffeur is that just to scare the enemy right make loud noise doesn't sound that way from the p tell us when there's war in your land for tonight we're not going to distinguish between trumpets and chauffers you're GNA blow that somehow will bring your memory up to God and then you'll be safe from your enemies doesn't sound like we're doing this to scare the enemy somehow we blow chauffer and that reminds Hem of something and then what is about chauffeur another question and again a little bit I heard in that last minute upstairs but this is just the the basis for the rest of our our words we blow chauffeur in the middle of shon asay in the middle of the amida you're not allowed to do anything in the middle of the amida in the middle of davening right the post even discuss about are you allowed to hold a sitter you allow to hold anything okay you're the sitter you need it for doing but but but really you're not supposed not supposed to do anything you can't wink you can't you can't look and we're and we're not only allowed but we're mandated to blow chauffeur in the middle of daving in the middle of Schon how are we allowed to do that why is that appropriate we don't do any Mitzvah in the middle of shon in the middle of the Amita and one more question which again is the beginning of the answer we say on rashash Shana in just a few hours from now we say in mus that Hashem is Source [Music] five Hashem what's Maven he understand Hashem understands our chauffeur what's there to understand about chauffeur he doesn't understand our Suka he sees us sitting in a Suka he sees us doing all the Mitzvah he sees us eating matah he understands our chauffeur he hears our chauffeur what does it mean M so it seems clear manyon explicate this that there's an element to chauffeur that's different that's added it's not just theah Mitzvah like other Mitzvah like we do throughout the year but chauffeur has an element of prayer it's a prayer without words but it's a prayer nonetheless and that's why it's MO appropriate to do it in the middle of the Amita we dive in with words and we dive in without words and Hashem understands our chauffeur M the gar tells us in rash Source number six what's the best what's the ideal shape of a chauffeur sometimes you have those big twirly ones like big sometimes you have like the more like straight and just curved at the end what's the best shape says the garas but the yod the basis of both opinions in this bakus is the same fascinating what's the best posture to pray right is the best posture is the best way to pray is like bent over like this is B to bend in front of hem if it's best to bend then the best shape of the chauffeur is to be bent and the other opinion says no it's B to Davin straight up don't move they say R cook stood there like didn't move no shuckling no just stood there so which is better so whichever way is better to Davin that's the shape of the as we say in Hebrew meser what does the shape of the chauffeur have to do with my position in daving when I DAV I Davin the shape of the chauffeur is the tool that I used to fulfill the Mitzvah but if chauffeur is itself a form of prayer a form of Fila then it makes a lot of sense that the shape of the chauffeur parallels and reflects my position when I doen and there are other rias to this as well go to Source number nine the rambam's L top of the second page the Rah tells us Top Line MIT there's a Biblical Mitzvah Mitzvah to cry out and blow trumpets whenever happens right a Mitzvah we don't dream about doing all Mitzvah right we don't dream about ever doing the Mitzvah of returning stolen items we don't dream about KH we don't dream about AOS those are mitzvos a Mitzvah means that hasm tells us what to do in every situation in life that's what a Mitzvah means so this is a Mitzvah that we never would dream or want to do but it's a Mitzvah whenever there a s out there we have to turn to but look at the raash say it's a Mitzvah from the Torah to cry out and to blow on every SAR is there a comma in that phrase or is there no comma meaning you could read it it's a I say to cry out comma and to blow trumpets or maybe there's no comma it's amidst a say to cry out and blow blow trumpets and the crying out is also going on the SOS because that's also a form of crying and maybe to close this point how does the chauffer bring us into the Kesh kadash no other Mitzvah does that well let's remember what's the definition of prayer salv has a comment some of you might be familiar with it based on a rambam that there are two types of kavana there are two types of intent one types of int one type of intent is knowing what the words mean we live in a generation where any language you want you could have a sitter you could have a moar knowing what the words mean that's one type of intent one type of kavana and that you should at least have for the first of but there's another type of intent that you need to have the whole doing and the ramam says if you don't have this intent then you didn't doav and that is to recognize that I'm talking to God to recognize that when I take those three steps forward I am now in the private Office of the CEO of the universe and now I'm talking and it's just me and him that's the definition if I don't know I'm doing that I what am I I'm just involved in something else you have to know that you even if I don't know exactly what every word means I have to know the action the activity I'm involved in so that's the definition of private meeting with AES so if chauffeur is prayer and prayer is private meeting with aades than we understand the gar that chaur brings us into The KES kadash because chauffeur itself is a form OFA and if that's Whata does then that's what chauffeur does as well but our question for tonight is okay chauffeur is a form ofila there are other proofs which we didn't go into is a without words why do we need to without words we have plenty of with wordss the MOX is plenty long know hopefully we're at an an age where you know we're patient and we don't think it's too long but we all remember a couple of decades ago you know looking at the page numbers can't believe mus of ends on 362 right if you use an art scroll it hases it it's barem double every time you turn but but but we have so many words what do we need a f without words for it's enough to F with words five ideas what's the message of f without words what's the message message number one and this was alluded to I heard upstairs the Sham mm and Source number 11 I didn't give you the whole piece sham M and others notes that we know rashash is day six of creation yesterday was day one rashash was day six it was the day that man was created Man was created on rashash rashash is the day that blew into us our that happened on rash he blew into US suggest the shame ismu maybe chauffeur is kind of an ackowledgement and recognition were blowing back we recognize our uniqueness that you gave us and from the depths of our Nish from our kishkas from all the way inside we blow up we blow the sound back and says the Sham in Source 11 comes from the deepest part of our soul buil it's not covered with the physical right when we say words we're using our lips and our tongue and our teeth so we're using physical bodies but the S if we just make a sound ah not using anything it's just from here it's from a deeper part of our soul and says the Sham ismu sounds because they're not clothed in words could get even higher in shamay could get even farther up the World Without Words the world with just sounds going all the way up from where KES blew it into us we blow back he says and that's why a show a FAL without words is so powerful on rashash Shana and we know how many times this year did we like the chauffeur just call out to aadesh baru Without Words a a groan a cry we've done that this year but that's the chauffeur sometimes there are no words but there's a sound and that's the power that we could do we can't explain we can't verbalize our emotions but we could call out to Hashem with sound number one number two second idea second idea the tour quotes since in the beginning of rashash in Source number 12 three reasons why we blow chauffeur and El so we're going to use one of those reasons for our purposes so the third reason the tour quotes why do we Blan to confuse sat to confuse the Satan after all we blow for a month he thinks it's rashash and it's not then we stop blowing so he falls for it and and so many different exactly what that means I brought a couple of there's an article about anybody wants afterwards we but let me give you one that's not in the safer an idea one of the greats from just over a hundred years ago has an amazing he says we find in kazal that Angels learn Angels want to learn Torah and the gar shab is why you giving the Torah to tohu we want the Torah it's not fair so we find that Angels learn we also find that Angels Sing right we quote Angels every day when we say will Angels Sing Angels learn Angels don't pray we never find in kazal says the M that an angel Davin the root of daving is beseeching Basha 13 we never find an angel doin why why can't Angels doin so maybe we have to appreciate Ros albo's words say forar one of the greats of the rishonim who asks there's a question about Fila that has bothered many and since a proper answer wasn't given it has led them astray and that is says people doubt the efficacy of because they don't understand how does how does f work if I'm supposed to get it then why do I have to doin for it and if I'm not supposed to get it the what F changes hashem's mind Hashem is is perfect Hashem is unchanging it's one of the right so how does f work if I'm supposed to get it then I I shouldn't have to Domin for it and if I'm not supposed to get it what I changed I said the magic words so explain this safe fa Karma as we no no NOA does not change God fer change as man we're supposed to be different people after we doen than before we doed right before doing I was Rosner a that was one package from shamay after daving I'm Rosner B it's a different package in shamayim for me because every couple of hours I get on low battery I have to recharge to remember you know who's in charge of rafu and parosa what's the destiny of the Jewish people what what's the center of my life every couple of hours because f is supposed to change us somebody once came toor and said rabie I need a Yeshua well tell me a schoola just give me a good schoola no how many fasts how many how many how many people do I pay to say Co the tail them at the ca for 40 days wonderful but there's says I don't pasin schoolis I don't know any of that stuff I'll tell you what I do when I need Yeshua I try to say my bras with kavana try to say my bras with cavana imagine the types of people we would be if we said five bras with kavana out of a 100 imagine how we would be changed people because Fila changes the petitioner Angels can't change angels are static angels are created exactly the way they we will be they will be for eternity so Angels it's not for them to Daven davening is a uniquely human tool or even a Human Weapon it's something in our Arsenal that Angels don't have and maybe we confuse and confound the and all of his buddies and all the Angels by focusing on a tool that they can't do and they don't have and that's the chauffeur we do in with words we do with with all types of doing because that's what we need to do and we know sometimes that's all we need to do especially those of us that were mostly in the ORF when I put uh when I put a couple of sons in cars and they drove away hearing on the that my son-in-law was also on the way and having three boys in Aza for four to five months the only tool that my wife and I had was our sitter was our connection to aades in prayer with words feel without words number two number three third idea third and fourth idea both from rev salvic third idea based on the in Source 15 says the there was someone who went to he was daving and what happened he gets and he starts daving okay awesome stupendous amazing tremendous and 15 more adjectives amazing beautiful waits till he's finished right interesting every detail of the gamarra is there to teach us something he waited why he wait till he was finished if he was upset why didn't he go over to him right away he don't want to embarrass him he waited till he was finished went over to him afterwards and said what what did you just do but you finished now you got it now you perfectly described Hashem you got it you described him those 15 adjectives captured his Essence perfect it's impossible you can never finish you can never finish the only reason that we use those adjectives is because M said those adjectives in that's it and told us to say those adjectives but you're gonna add more it's like a king that has a Palace full of gold coin says the gamar and you say wow you got beautiful silver coins there it's it's abucha says the gamarra says rev salvic we can never finish praising we can never finish asking we can never finish thanking we can never finish said it's interesting right before we leave sh we say a prayer it's incumbent upon me to praise you isn't that funny a it's incumbent by me to praise you bye and then we leave alen should be the first and then you says the r no we davened and then we're GNA leave well we're finished now we can leave now there's nothing more to ask for or to thank or to pray nothing we're done no really we should spend our entire life in sh but we're human and what what do you want from us we have to live our lives before we leave sh we acknowledge that we can never finish and that's what allows us the r called this the M for leaving sh right you see that's why we don't say it all all day y Kipper there's no Al because we're in sh all day right he said that's why maybe the the end of it's as if we're starting again it's like it can never finish can never finish on rash we're not taking any chances on rash we say plenty of words but then you know what we do we blow chauffeur as if to say to Hashem dot dot dot you finish for us please because we can never finish and it's Rashana we want to be complete we want to be focused and get everything included and therefore Sayes salvic we blow the chauffeur as if to say Hashem please you finish for us we'll go to number four there's a little more like stories and stuff but I know it's late fourth message of the chauffeur without words also from rev salvic the r says this is in 17 and 18 you know we do in and we use words but do we always know that what we ding for is the best thing for us we could Ding and ding I need this job when I don't get this job my life is incomplete I need this job I need this apartment I need this I need this to happen and if it doesn't happen forget it we don't know we think we know but we don't know what's best for us every day we say hasem accept our but only if it's good for us with compassion if it's not good for us feel free to ignore you know you get the emails like that if you have already answered feel free to IGN Hashem please feel free to ignore if it's not good for us because we don't always know exactly what the best thing for us is right in 17 where it's underlined malakes we don't know salvic said unbelievable he says you don't know how hard I doed when I was in Berlin that I would not have to go to America I so don't didn't want to go to the bet tray for Medina but barash he didn't listen to my words because he knew what was best for me so we don't always know and rashash we don't take any chances we blow we doin and we dve in and we use a lot of words but then we blow chauffer as if to say please fill in the blank please you you know what's good so fill in not dot dot dot that's number three right you finish but fill in the blank Zone you know how long this should take you know exactly what needs to happen we have no idea we ding that our leaders have the proper wisdom but Hashem you're the ultimate you could do it you can do it there's nothing beyond that cish we could finish everything and he knows what's best so we DAV and we DAV and we DAV but then we blow the chauffeur as if to say it's not set right quote the the the says don't make your F so set and rigid be a little flexible number four so what do we have so far let's review number one why do we have a without words number one the sh ISM because it's just sounds we acknowledge hasm blew into us today so we blow back and sometimes sounds could get even farther and higher in shamay because it's not covered in in words that were made by the teeth and the tongue in the lips number one number two it's a unique human tool that we use and we want to emphasize on this day something that's unique to us animals can't do it Angels can't do it only humans number three we can never finish praising thanking asking so dot dot dot that's the chauffeur number four we don't always know exactly what the best thing for us is we hope we do we doin with words but then we say Hashem please fill in the blank five Fifth and final idea when we Davin we all use our own sitter our own marar and imagine you know everybody in sh and we have these lines each has their own line that's connecting to Hashem through our words chauffer is one sound chauffer unites us the chauffer binds us together and we all go up together in that one sounds and when the Jewish people are united there's nothing that we can't accomplish there's no power that could overpower us Yi says the days of aav they won Wars even though they were over theara because they were United and they were connected and only am we should not forget and know what so many percentage right don't read the news don't look at the media because all they're into is perod but there's so much akas underneath there's so much connection only am Isel has 300,000 Israelis coming back in the first month upping the population by 3% because Thailand could wait I need to be here I need to connect to my brethren right my nextd door neighbor who I share a wall with right he's a full-time pharmacist he's made his life crazy the past year twice a week running barbecu for hundreds of soldiers twice a week leaving at 3 o'clock in the afternoon getting back at 2 o'clock in the morning the meat and the grills and the and the people and the Manpower twice a week and he has a bunch of kids because this is what I need to do this is AMR so many stories tell you one little int less intense Story the summer I was in Camp and my sister called me like se you have to hear this story I'm like what she says I was in Yan by my father's my father was nifter over the summer so at um she was at the apartment that she was leaving and she's like you know I was throwing some stuff out you know these huge big green dumpsters and she threw a bunch of stuff in the dumpster and by mistake in her hand was also her car keys and she threw it into this humongous dumpster you know with the cats walking out on top right there like okay it's it's it's in the black hole right so okay she had her son pick her up and she drove back home the next morning she say you know what can't hurt she called the department of sanitation here in yelam she says you know I lost my keys in the car so I don't know if it was me I would have said lady tough luck you know you next time be more careful so what does he say which where which and remote okay call this guy here's his cell phone he's in charge of that area give away a private cell phone number first of all that's pretty amazing anyway so my sister called this guy and uh he said oh which which dumpster was it which which address oh is that one he's like I'm not promising anything you know what call me back in a couple of hours before my sister calls back she starts getting these videos you know there are these whatsapps like only good news so these videos were they will put on there anyway so they get these videos the street strewn with garbage this garbage all over the street they turned over the dumpster and you see these guys sweeping around with with the brooms they found her keys they found her keys the guy calls up and says I found your keys she's like oh my gosh when are you open tell when can I come he's like wait a minute where do you live my sister says he's like I'm gonna be in modan later you know what maybe we'll just meet there true story my sister when Amy are united there's nothing more powerful and that's what the chauffeur does because doing we each say our own words but a chauffeur is one sound and it binds us and connects us like nothing else and just to close we know the gamar talks about there are different we're not sure exactly what sound we're supposed to hear what does a trua mean in the Torah Yoma doesn't mean what we call sharim does it mean what we call tra doesn't mean Shara we do all of them just to be safe but we know there's a m we have a m that whatever the sound is beforehand there's a straight sound and after words there's a straight sound because before all the bumps and all the cries and all the groans and the ups and the Downs of the sh Tru which life is things started out yashar there was a but Hashem promised and always promises there's going to be a straight sound after all the Shar ands there's going to be a because in Jewish history Whenever there was Darkness it was was always followed by tremendous light right after mdash rasi wrote the mishna soon after the Crusades even during was the greatest development of tal the days of the rishonim 1492 after the Inquisition Jew was were thrown out of so many countries that's when Torah started to flourish in spat and yusim and just three years after the shaah the state of Israel was born because after Darkness there's always light Hashem promises there's always and maybe this year will'll just have a little extra kavana during those because R says whenever there's after that the footsteps of mashia can be heard it's we blow it we believe in it we D in that it should happen this should be a year of n of gula and yeshu for all of am Israel [Music]