Why Is Rosh Hashanah Davening So Long?

Hi, it's David Alowski. This is our new question and answer shorts format so that we make up the backlog of all the listener questions that have come in. And this question was submitted by Sarah. A B CDE E F G H I J K L M O P Q R S T U V. Pick one. I cannot for the life of me figure out why she left out WXYZ. She only offered me the choices between A and V. Anyway, why is Davening on Rashana so long? Can't we crown Hashem as our king quickly and without Kazonus? Well, I'll answer the last part first. Yes, you don't need Kazonus. There was a time when people found Kazonus very meaningful, enjoyable. My father used to sing in the choir with the great Khazanim. He would play Kazanis records for us. He thought it was great. I heard a theory years ago that since Jews weren't allowed to be in the opera, they developed their own form of opera and but there are people who definitely enjoy it. I don't. I grew up in a sh with a kazin. We only went rashana and yum kipper. And he'd be up there going [screaming] and I would be chewing on my own arm trying to cut it off from the pain. It was It doesn't speak to me. Some people it does. I think it's great. I know people to this day learn kazonas. Yeah. And they enjoy it. I don't. So I look for a dvening where there's a sib with a pleasant voice and a lot of singing. And yet the davining is long. Uh to be fair if you would like to convert to becoming aarti theirs is much shorter. They have a much shorter. They don't have a lot of the putum that we have. Yeah. And not only that and they blow the tequer they blow it during the saying they suddenly pull out the chauffeer and start blowing the tequas so you get it over with even faster. Yeah. So um why does it take so long? There's two answers to that question. uh one is that people tend to take a very long time for the x-rays on rashana because as we know and so therefore is very important and they put a lot into it. I have gone to minanim where they have 40 minutes for people to say their answer. Um I take longer to say the amidas during rashashana. I don't spend that much time but it is long. I grant you that. Um there are a lot of putim. Why? Because since we call this day amra this is such a powerful day we treat the concept of den very lightly. If you've ever watched them uh coronate the king of England, takes a nice long time. There's a lot involved over there. There's a lot of pomp and ceremony. We're making God the king of the world. Yeah, it takes a little time. But more than that, you know, there are people who leave out all of the harammons at the end of benching. They say, "You don't have to say it." That's true. But the end of benching is an apicious time when you have the opportunity to ask for things and you're blowing that opportunity is deciding everything that's going to happen to you this coming year. So yeah, we throw in some extra where we praise God for his greatness and for what he does. You know, we compare ourselves to the angels. We could all these different beautiful put between me and you. If you don't like them, leave them out. That's why I say you can go to the spartum. They they leave out a lot of those. Yeah. But uh a lot of them uh I enjoy very much. I get a from them. Yeah. I find it very uplifting. I do. I enjoy it. I would be upset if they left it out. Yeah. Um I love it. I get I get tremendous from it. So, uh you want to get over with quickly. Okay. I'm guessing from the fact that your name is Sarah that uh you are of the female persuasion in which case you have to hear. You don't have to dab in. So you say, why does the davenin take so long? Doesn't have to, you know, dab in whatever you want at home. Go and get the teakas and and you don't even have to go to sh for that. Sometimes they have women to kas someplace and you don't have to participate. But uh being now almost 67 years old, I can tell you that over the years I've come to enjoy the rashim kipra daing more and more. Yes. When you're a kid and you don't know what's going on and you don't understand it, it's very boring. That's why I always tell people before kipper sit down with your moxer. Go through it. Make sure you know what's happening, when it's happening, how it's happening. You know, look up things that you know it's happening so you walk in there prepared. You know, don't just open up the book and like look around and say, "What are they doing now?" You know, there's there's a very simple seder to aim kipper and the more that you invest in it, the more you will get out of it. But by all means, if it bothers you and you don't want to do it, don't. This is David Olowski and just reminding you we need sponsors. You can go to my website revolowski.com and sponsor a episode or a para in five or these new question and answer segments. Thank you very much. So this is devolki.