Portland, Maine: Rosh Hashana 5787-2026, Chabad of Maine, R Moshe Wilansky - RC Dalfin

I'm here in Portland, Maine at the Chabad House of the head shliach, Rabbi Moishe Wilansky. You can see these beautiful two signs of Chabad Maine at the front doors. This is the lighthouse, the famous lighthouse in Portland. It's actually the design on the building. I came for Rosh Hashanah, Sarah Rosh Hashanah, and I have a message that I'd like to share with everyone. And that is that this is the year of Shabbos. Friday night Shabbos we begin tonight. That means we don't blow shofar tomorrow because Hashem, God Almighty, blesses us with the Shabbos. And the Shabbos itself brings whatever shofar brings and even more. What is Shabbos? Peace. Tranquility. Being settled. This year, in the Hebrew 5787, which is taf shin peh zayin, the acronym that came to me, and take it or leave it, my friends, tehei shnas pidyon zman. May this be the year to redeem the zman. What's What's zman? Means time. The zman golus. We're We're in the period of galut, of exile, the diaspora. We're asking God to redeem us from from that. That's on a global level. What about personally? What are we going to think about doing Rosh Hashanah in our prayers when we hear the shofar on Sunday? We have to redeem our own time. People sometimes get stuck to time. I have to do this now and do this and I can't limitations by time. The other thing is success with time. It's called hatslacha bizman. Every minute, every moment should be accounted for, not wasted. So, we're talking about the whole the personal zman, the personal time. Another acronym that I heard just that this morning from someone is the H Naz may be a year of freilach sein, pay sein. Freilach means to be happy. It's a Yiddish word for happy. Freilach you should be happy. Like the guy said freilach sein. There's this Jerusalem song that Rabbi said you should be happy. Happy shall you be. The guy said freilach sein, freilach sein, freilach sein. Anyway, right there to the right yeah, that building over there is the mikvah. Mikvah, men and women's mikvah there. Uh I used it this morning. It was wonderful. And look at the look at the forest over here. This was a forest and Rabbi Wolansky had a uh his house, a Chabad house, all with the mikvah all in one site. So, I left Borough Park, comforts of Borough Park to come here and have this experience. To be here to dive with them, to help them, to support the community. I encourage everyone to make the most meaningful moments of Rosh Hashanah. It's 48 hours. Don't waste your time talking. Don't waste your time sleeping. Say lots of Psalms. Be focused. It's not a time for gabbing and gossiping and everything else. And through this, no question, God will bless us to bring the Messiah. And we'll have true redemption in our personal life, in our global life, and we will see the base hamikdash, the holy Jewish temple in Jerusalem. Amen. May we all meet. Thank you. Shana tova u'metuka, a sweet and blessed year, a good year for everyone. Ksiva v'chasima tova, may we be written and inscribed in the book of life with only joy together with everyone else. Thank you. >> Yeshurun koach.