The Significance, Power, and Guidelines of the Simanim of Rosh Hashanah {Shoneh Halachos Siman 583}

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wants to get in the is something from the government the telephone company the electric company the gas the DMV I call sh ofay the last thing you want to see is something from the government especially if it says Supreme Court actually there's a judge here in the neighborhood who came to the Shir he once sent me something you know freeti but it was addressed from the Supreme Court of the United States of America America I like you know and I open up it's from the honorable Judge I know a few judges from judges you don't want to get a letter from a judge so when does the letter actually there's a there's an idea psychologically that a basur about something finding out about something is something sometimes more traumatic than the thing itself finding out that somebody has to under go something it it's more anxiety wrd than the actual thing that you're afraid of that's just human nature you get the letter in the mail show up for the court in 30 days so in a certain sense already Begins the days of and we have to start preparing so we're starting to learn the of this year we're going to do we're going to start with maybe in the past we we're going to start with of the sud of the items that the to increase one sud on rash because the Torah writes that we're confident hasem will make a miracle with for us there's a big question on the Torah what do you mean we're confident hm will make a miracle what miracle there's no miracle that happens on rashash rashash is the day of judgment sh says the miracle that we're confident in is because the idea is when rashishana comes life is over and God doesn't extend the lease but he has to infuse us with life again one should the the there two garas in one is the end of one should frequently eat on rash a leak but the Is Not What It Is the is the name or any or what is called in any other language R every uh Community like their language I think most people eat Marin carrots that you should increase our merits so the question is what do you mean Hashem should increase our Merit it's not up to God it's up to you one thing that there's one thing God can't do he can't give you more Merit you have to give yourself Merit so some say we're ding should give us to do you do CH then our turn into mitz person should be aroused to when he says wholeheartedly you hear this here here's how you do it you say theha after you begin to eat so you make the braa you eat and then you say the why you're now to be maic between the braa and the eating so you say the braa you say you eat a piece let's say the Marin you make a braa now the thing is like this if it's a Ru if it's a leak it's a raw vegetable you're going to make a so then you make had you eat a p and then you make the but if it's Marin it's not raw it's cooked so it's part of the sud so you don't have to make a then you can make theat before you eat fundamentally you're supposed to make theat before you eat the only thing is you can't eat without a but once you make a you have to eat so if you're going to make a you make the you eat then you say the if you're not going to make the you say the then you eat so you say have a simple solution right you understand in other words what we're learning is really you should make the before you eat but you can't because you have to make a and once you make the you can't be M so I have a simple solution make a then make a and then eat why don't you do that and the answer is you can't do that why not you can't do that because because you can't pray for yourself before you bless God you understand you can't be and for yourself and then bless hem now I I want to showare something interesting one of the Lakewood he's he brings down that if you made a and then you say it's not a he which implies had it not been for the reason of HEK you should really make thein before the a why why should you really make the before the thein is going on the food so once you eat the food it's not there anymore you destroyed the Simmon you consumed the Simmon so why don't you right so so the easy solution is you make AA you eat a little piece and then you make yourin on the rest that's what the says to do that's what the Miss says to do but something that doesn't need a br you say and then you eat why do we make H muchi first we do you want to know do you make the before h no you you yeah so in other words you make KES you make H and then you make the the question is again why can't you say the and then make a so Frank says something very interesting he says that so therefore you first have to make the bra and then you could say the but once you make the you can't be therefore if you have a drink of schnaps and many people they they're their friend say it iser to say before you make a on the so you have to first make a then drink a little bit and then you can say it's your masle you had to come to hear this not to say before you make but you're not to say before you make how do you how could mpal that the guy shouldn't die from excessive alcoholic intake before you bless hem you know why you say there are many very inspiring reasons first of all because he ate from the and he he brought death to the world so you're telling this guy you're about to do something that could destroy the whole world it should be should be or another reason is that in bezin before they killed someone they gave him to drink so we say R we don't want you to die now we want you to live all these very inspiring reasons why we say but the most important thing is you need to say before you say that's what Frank says we learn out from this by okay so the bottom line is if you're making a what do you make a apple you make a but you know the you know you know how to make the BR on the Apple you know my things right dip the Apple in the honey make a this song is you're not how to make the on the Apple you have to make on the make the on the pomegranate say why you make a on the date because the date has worms in it so you'll check it fine if you're going to have the VOD train you to check dates for worms and you identify what they what it looks like or they have pre-check dates maybe could be they have pre check dates otherwise don't eat dates what about then you you're eating frozen frozen worms worms are not one of the S it's not like Hashem this year make me if somebody insults me I should be slippery like a worm that Justus confusion what they Sage put in the freezer oh right so putting it in the freezer just freezes the worm no it's no no no no and then you eat outside worms if they worms they inside the DAT you got a little bit from outside I'm not an expert I'm not a pesticide expert I just know that dates have worms call the vad the vad will tell you what to do with your dates by the way figs also could be an issue anyway also strawberries so your your go-to fruit that make will probably be the remine if you don't have a remon you can make a br on the Apple okay what else do you make a br on you're not going to make a br on the Marin because it's cooked it's a t shell you only make a on a raw vegetable what raw vegetable people eat celery I don't know if if you eat a raw vegetable during the meal then then the leak you can make a yeah if it's I don't know a raise in with the salary to say let us have a raise in our salary yeah [Music] okay by the way rubia is not a ruia is not a is not a leak Ki is a leak anyway we don't eat Ria we eat Marin then which is Silka and Tam a that's for so the is going to be and so's got to be a big one this here you know it's very interesting cuz we ask Hashem that hasem should be k should tear up our decree so I have a question why do we need to and isn't it Superfluous why do we need both and is like this we know that there's a tradition remine has 613 seeds so the by the REM is we should be to do all 63 the by thein is that okay I do this Mitzvah I want to do that Mitzvah many times so they're two separate you want to do all the Mitzvah and you want to do each Mitzvah separate times give thear is to eat a Sweet Apple in Honey the main thing is the Apple you make the on the apple and it exempts the Honey even though you're eating the Apple after to some dip the bread in the honey raise your hand if you dip the bread in the honey me too um now here's a question the mar ask the following question the mar says how you allowed to do any of these practices it's superstitious it's n it's divining what are you doing you're you're like like a witch doctor at the table and you're taking the you're taking the apple and you're dipping in Honey and that's why you going to have a good year you want to have a good year come to daving DAV learn you'll have a good year what is the Apple going to do what you're only going to have a good year for you dip an apple in Honey and the tells us that if somebody says somebody says oh there's a black head I'm not going there they're over in the T it's you can't Divine what you're prognosticating how the year is going to be based on like ritual practices how you allowed to do this if you look at thear thear says how somebody who's going on a trip and he wants to know if he's going to be successful he should light a candle in a marble house room if the candle burns he'll return he'll come back if somebody wants to know if he's going to be healthy he should fatten a chicken if the chicken gets fat he'll be healthy and in this context the gar quotes the practice of eating the S so Mar says something very important he says if you look carefully in the gar the gar doesn't say if somebody wants to know if they're going to come back from a trip they should light a candle if the candle burns they'll come back and if the candle doesn't burn they won't come back the gar doesn't say the Converse that if the candle doesn't burn they won't come back the gar only says that if the candle burns they will come back so M says a very important principle if somebody wants to know should they or should they not do something and then they say if the result is a I will and if the result is B I won't because I'm going to have a bad outcome outcome it's a la in the Tyra but the gar doesn't say if somebody wants know he'll come back then if the candle burns he'll come back thear doesn't saying if the candle doesn't burn he won't come back thear doesn't say the converse you know why says Mar everything that comes from Hashem is good God does not dish out anything that is RA all ra in the world is because of our a creates a between us and so in other words if you would put on L glasses and you wanted to know what is emanating from ranam right now from theam is emanating only good I I have this challenge it's because you spoke L and Hara so you created a havala between you and God and the God can't and the good can't reach you from God if you put on special glasses and you are able to see what is coming forth from the from the comes only good any ra is only because you've created a barrier therefore the purpose of the Sim is not to prognosticate it's to confirm that everything will be good confirmation is okay of course it's going to be good God only gives good so the purpose of the simanim is you're confirming that everything will be good you can't prog you can't predict as if maybe yes maybe no that's you could confirm that things will be good another understanding of this so that's how the understands writes something amazing in Brackets the invokes the following principle invokes the ra the ran says a very great rule you know the rule m is Hashem wants Jews to go to is so you know what he does he tells Abraham to go to is by Abraham doing an act of going to is it creates a reality that Jews will go to isra why does AB have to go to isra says ran the rule is Gaz all decrees on high when God makes the decree in heaven so the word of God now has to come down and filter through all the various and concretize in this world to ensure that the decree of Hashem comes to fruition an act has to be done to bring it to fulfillment so for example the navi says b will sink okay maybe it will maybe it won't so in Yia Hashem says y take a stone and drop it in the river so you say if B will sink it will sink if it won't sink it won't sink no when ymia drops the stone in the river it brings the decree of Heaven into fruition it makes it concretizes it it makes it materialize God decreed that PL Al is going to have a good year when you eat the Sweet Apple that decree is materialized because you did AA God decreed all the enemies of the Jewish people will have a Ura they'll have a downfall all the enemies however when we eat the leak and we eat the date by the way if you don't eat the the Simon you could also look at it and make the you don't have to eat it cuz the two in one says and one says so the say even if you don't eat it you could look at it and then you make the okay so now it's interesting the the is look back in B says R means first night and second night I believe the the by asham is just the first night unless you specifically have a minute to do it the second night like Bender specifically has a minute to do at the second night what no no either of them saying you I don't do s today why can't I do Sim now if if that's your custom if it's the custom you do the you do the same ones if it's not the custom then you don't do it I don't do it just the shaku H Shu if you don't have a do you have to make a Shak the first night r no there's no there's no make the first night do you have to make a the second night also you don't have to make a i why do we do it we don't have to do it when you make a Andes the second night it's going on rash it's only for for however in Defence to the the rush we try to get a fruit in uh one of the local supermarkets that costs per more per pound than the price of gold right now and you make a shako where what planet these fruits come from has anyone actually seen a tree that these no you'll never try no one has actually ever seen the tree that these fruits grow on if you do anyone out there you'll get 50% off the Spanish edition of the mystery and the Majesty if you could bring a send a picture of the tree I mean that Spike you may throw it into a crowed area it would be like a bomb scare know I don't know what what are those we what planet I've been to six continents so far have not seen any of the and it doesn't grow in Antarctica I can think of many of these and I don't know why do we have round kala it's not a the is the of why round you stump me I don't know maybe we'll see over here okay yeah who says this yeah I want to see that really so what are ashkanam doing at it's not in the mission okay um now is a fatty meat fatty meat I don't know you do that that I don't have fatty meat okay actually do you have to have B on R not no in other words do you have to have to have meat not chicken chicken is it's a question whether chicken is meat whether chicken is meat or not but that's because do you have a mitvah of they you have to meat and was waiting for the you eat the head of a of a sheep it's better of a ram you get a sheep or a ram it's better to get a ram you sure it's a Ram or a sheep it's better to get a ram you know that um for the Isle of if you don't have that a different kind of animal of a cow if you can't get a sheep the head of a cow or uh what other kosher animals are there giraffe bison a bison a deer or the head of a chicken we should be a head and not the tail by the way there's a beautiful idea from sh Pinkus what does it mean we should be a head and not a tail says sometimes in life like remember a first year based matters like 10 years ago we decided to do X Y and Z and now we're just still tagging along basically on what we did 10 years ago so the inspiration was 10 years ago and now we're like doing it like not even half-heartedly because oh we started it 10 years ago so we're still doing it now so very often we're a tale of ourself we're trailing ourself you know the RO no the the idea is that every year we should be the RO we should be leading ourselves whatever we accept upon ourselves should be with full conviction not just like oh I'm continuing to do something I started a long long time ago some refrain on from cooking bitter Foods B vinegary uh Foods many people are afraid to have on rash heaven forbid therefore if you eat fish as Aon they don't cook in vinegar someting not to eat nuts number one first of all they make they increase the Flem also the problem is that it's not the only thing about this G is that is not besides that it works out why because is gatria 18 and EG is gatria 177 isn't this isn't this more the IDE of solidifying the that comes down yeah more the sweet that we do but yeah this idea of the vinegar or the nuts what are we solidifying so the vinegar you don't want to have any bitterness if there would be a decree coming down and we're only we solidy yeah yeah in other words if there is a decree of bitterness by not having the vinegar you're you're like making it more Whimsical so that it doesn't come to fruition ah so how you allow to do that that's superstitious not unless any bad decrees let's say that Angels would try to instigate God cuts down so they're like they're not coming to fruition because Hashem definitively first let's say with the Kasha wants to know if the only reason you're allowed to do these is because you're allowed to confirm that everything's going to be good then why can't you have the vinegar because uh not having the vinegar is basically trying to ensure that nothing bad comes to the wi we don't have to worry nothing bad so that's n unless you say that we're confident that God abolished any possible negativity against us and by having the vinegar it bring by the way one second time out the two ideas don't go hand in hand in other words there are two separate ideas one idea is the that you're confirming everything will be good and one is the that you're bringing to concretization you're materializing all the decrees so you're materializing the good decrees and you're not materializing the bad decrees so you want to know according to the mar if the only according to the mara what happened according to the mara are you allowed to not eat the vinegar you're saying according to the how you now to eat the vinegar that's why I personally I go with the just telling you I I actually I'm not butm I'm very now the main question I get over year is there the wife wants to put a pistachio crust on the S this is the main sh I get and the question is are pistachio nuts considered ego but first let's deal with the issue that it's not so in the he says one time in the T it says missing an Al it's referring to that what does that has to do with rashash I have to get back to you on that now so that then it comes out by the way if you should be careful not to eat nuts you should also be careful not to do K in other words if you have to be careful not to eat a nut because a nut is is also so there's some people they're very careful about not having the Simon of doing now seriously you have to be careful not to have the Simmon heaven forbid the Simon I'm saying I like nuts now I have to off by you're saying because of off by one p off by one should be very careful not to get angry during these days aside from the fact that it's like idolatry but it's not a good Simon imagine you tell a guy what you're about to do it's like a yeah but it's not a good Simon it's it's like eating a walnut eating a walnut no I'm not going to get angry now your heart should be glad one last you don't eat grapes on rash you know this one you don't eat grapes I don't eat grapes on rash I barely ever eat grapes anytime but I don't eat grap you don't eat grapes why a who remembers one year we said the mystical secret of why we don't eat grapes very good give this man a drink now not a not a cigar but we learned in the gamar in that if you want to compliment someone you say offer them a drink here we have we have Poland Spring we have schabs cups give them a little drink thear yesterday where you offered a drink that right that's what I'm saying so the gr says because the ver of eating from theas was on rashash Adam ate from rashash and the gr is going the that the was a grape so we don't e grapes well it's for sure not app only only only Steve Jobs holds it an Apple so we don't need a who e no what about dat you should go dat right mean according to that you should go on a date no I mean there are four opinions so is asking there four opinions so you should not you shouldn't have a GE you shouldn't have we don't eat wheat as a wheat no you it's a different product it's a it's a and what else fig we it's not one of the no dat is not one of them the four opinions are es where we bring all four opinions okay so yesi wants us to continue it's a good custom not to sleep on rash someone who sleeps his is asleep the Min is not to sleep however sitting and doing twiddling your thumbs is like sleeping also shmooing is like sleeping so if you could sit around the table shmooing you're better off going to sleep the Haram who's the ram again can you bring think the he slept on after allowed to sleep after eating you set yourself to learn if your head is heavy sleep a little bit if it's not possible without it thank you some have a minute to finish so what you do is after the meal you try to learn chances are you try to learn after a you're going to get very tired lie down for 10 minutes for 20 minutes wake up have a coffee and it's already M time but don't go to sleep rash is not a time to sleep late so whenever the daving is try to be there then and in that's your ma will be aroused but uh it's more important not to waste time than than to uh then to sleep it's worse to waste time okay let's finish the soon while we're at it sorry on the first before you go to the river that's very hard to do cuz the is it's already after the is to do the on the first day before the if you're not going to do before the then I don't know you know the reason for you're not throwing your a to the fish you're not trying to kill fish when I was when I was Rabbi and queens we used to go to Flushing Meadow Park and it once happened in this in this park here sometimes there's not enough oxygen in the water in Flushing Meadow Park Ona when I did the there were literally thousands of dead fish and I said I came too late they already killed all the fish the people who did the Tash killed all the fish you're not throwing your AO away to people if you don't throw even one breadcrumb you've fully done the the the actually there is no to throw bread it doesn't say it anyway it is user to throw bread on rash to the fish it is an iser rash or chabas if you take your kids at a different time there's no way you're going to get away without feeding the Ducks by the way Tasha is nothing to do with feeding ducks the of is nothing do ducks why the ducks have nothing to do with this neither do the fish the indan is to remember when went to do he went up to his water in I think to they would bring him a bucket of water and he would say t it's a good idea to go to a place where they're living fish as a Simon that the should not dominate us now if it's a whole of of men and women together and it becomes a place of socialization don't do it on rashash if the first day of shabas do it the second day and if you don't do it the second day you could do it till by the way it could be right do you see anything here of about throwing bread there's no nothing is mentioned here about throwing bread you do not have to throw bread what with the inion of throwing bread Bri it's like a Simon we want to throw our AO into the depths of the sea so we do AA and that should bring it to fruition but you can't feed an animal on shabas just like onir you can't feed the birds say have a good day you've just experienced another 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