Sacrificing For Love Shabbat & Rosh Hashana

This year we have an interesting Rosh Hashanah where the first day is chol on Shabbat, which means as we all know that there's no tekiah shofar. The reason why is the Gemara says is because we're worried that you might come to carry the shofar to a talmid chacham in order to check it v'chulei v'chulei. And because of this chashash, because of this worry, we say it's better not to blow the shofar. The question is incredibly obvious. For a little maybe that it might happen, that maybe I might carry something outside and just to have an ear and hear it tell people even even don't know that there's something called carrying outside that's a problem. And because of that reason we go ahead and we get rid of the whole mitzvah of shofar, the first day of shofar is the main day of Rosh Hashanah. The first day of Rosh Hashanah is when we need the main time we're supposed to be blowing the shofar. And even more than that, you know what the Gemara says on Rosh Hashanah? The Gemara says that kol shanah she'ein toke'in b'techilatah, a shanah a year that we don't blow in the beginning is a dangerous year. We have to watch out marim lo b'seifer, it could be that the whole year you're put in a place of danger. It's not so simple. So the question's obvious, why did the rabbis do this to us? Because of a maybe that something might happen on Shabbat or on Shabbos, we're going to go ahead and get rid of an incredible mitzvah? So of course many people will tell us ones rachmana patrei, well it's not my fault I'm an ones, it's against my will. Says the Meshech Chochmah in parshas Emor an incredible thing. He says you're right, ones rachmana patrei, when you have an ones when you're doing something when you're doing something inadvertently and you didn't mean it to be your fault, so you're right, you're patur from the mitzvah. But he says the shofar is a lot bigger than that. It's a refuah, it's something there that's a healing factor. If you don't take medicine with all the onesim in the world, I can't I can't swallow the pill, I can't do it, all the things that get in the way, you're not going to get a refuah, it's not going to work. In the end of the day physically we're missing the truth of the of the of the shofar. The shofar goes me flying it goes into the inner chambers of the we needed actual in order to save us on Yom Hadin. That's what keeps us alive. That's what keeps our head over the water on Rosh Hashanah. So how are we going to manage without it being there with the even if it's an invertedly in the end of the day the medicine the surgery is not happening. How we going to get out of this? So listen to an incredible expanding on that partial summer. And that is we mentioned in the past we mentioned a few sure I'm going to go about the idea of true love. True love doesn't come from as they say patentum or techniques that I can go ahead and do this and hopefully you'll do it back for me. It comes in an exactly different direction. We know of that so it comes from me willing to give everything for the other person because I want to give to the other person. My love my affection for the other for my spouse is coming to such an extent I'm willing to give up everything for them. I'm willing to do everything for the sake of their success for the sake that they will be okay. When a person has a true relationship he's not focusing on what I'm going to get when I go ahead and give to the other person. My focus is on what I can give to them and that itself makes me happy. Is that a sacrifice? It's not even a sacrifice when a person gives to his children a woman gets up in the middle of the night to help her child. She doesn't think of it as a sacrifice. What are you waking up for your neighbor's child? When your neighbor's child wakes up in the middle of the night and you go out and knock on the door and help them out. So I'll be saying to you you're sacrificing your sleep you know. When it comes to your own child there's no sacrifice that's sorry that's a me that's a of me. I'm enjoying I'm happy I want to go ahead and help that child cuz it's it's extension of myself no less than myself. That's a true relationship. When we come to our relationship between us and we were to fill in that says in it as well again it's all a focus about about what we love and we want to be me'uchad l'Kudsha Brichu. What does Hashem wear in his tefillin? Says the Gemara in Berachot, "Mi k'amcha Yisrael echad ba'aretz." Appreciating the oneness and the greatness of Klal Yisrael. The focus on everything that I want to go ahead, how much he loves and he goes ahead and he fights for us and he loves us so much that he's willing to give everything up everything up for Kudsha Brichu. But when his focus and what's in his tefillin, "Mi k'amcha Yisrael echad ba'aretz." The affection and the love that are between us and Kudsha Brichu, between Knesset Yisrael and Kudsha Brichu, "Ani l'dodi v'dodi li." The connection and relationship is one of kilu self-sacrifice. Can't talk about Kudsha Brichu's self-sacrifice, but it means the idea of giving because I want to give with no expectations return. Just like we know Hashem gives with no expectations for anything to come back. So too we only want to give to Kudsha Brichu even if it comes sometimes at a sacrifice of ourself. When we blow the shofar, we are blowing the Akeidat Yitzchak. The Ayla shel Yitzchak, the thing that has the represents the Akeidat Yitzchak. What was so incredible Akeidat Yitzchak says Rav Ovadia Yosef. Avraham Avinu more than life itself. He was willing to sacrifice his own life for one thing, that Kudsha Brichu's shem should be shem echad ba'olam. That everybody should know about Kudsha Brichu. That the shem Hashem should be known in the whole entire world. Malchut olam umalchut Kudsha Brichu. Avraham Avinu went from all over the pinnacles of the world, gave up everything, his life, his sacrifices, family, did anything that Kudsha Brichu did only that Hashem's name should be known in the world and should continue in his lineage. Who's going to do that? One person only. His name is Yitzchak Avinu. Yitzchak and his last name is Avinu. He's the only one that's going to be able to continue this lineage. When he's sacrificed by Akeidat Yitzchak, so we say, "Yeah, many of us have sacrificed our children. Many of us have sacrificed mesiras nefesh." You don't understand. Avraham Avinu was giving up his whole Olam Haba. He was giving up his whole existence, everything that he stood for. His whole More important than his Olam Haba was the continuing of the lineage of Judaism of Hakadosh Baruch Hu and the relationship and the bringing the world privy to the knowledge Hashem Echad Echad. He knew when he would sacrifice that child that it would be all over. That idea would be gone. He was giving up his Olam Haba. Why did he do it? Cuz Hashem told him, "I love you, Hashem. You told me to do it. I'm going to do it for you. I don't know why. I don't understand, but I'm willing to do it because I love you more than life itself. I'm willing to give up all my Olam Haba, all my future because I know that Hakadosh Baruch Hu wants us, ratzon Hashem, overrides everything else. I'm not doing it because it's just a mitzvah that we all do mitzvot and we try to do it and even sometimes mesiras nefesh that we do. It's above that. He's giving up not only his Olam Hazeh, but also Olam Haba, everything that he believed in for the sake of doing what's right, for the sake of doing ratzon Hashem. That's what we remember on Rosh Hashanah. That's the middah of malchiyus. That's what malchiyus is all about, being mamlich Hakadosh Baruch Hu. That's the whole idea of the Akeidah. And you know what we do on this day also? We say, "I know it's not going to be easy. We're putting ourselves in danger. We're not blowing the shofar on the first day of Rosh Hashanah. May we blow the shofar again? It's a year that we're in peril. Chalila, we're surrounded by all the dangerous enemies that we know that's around. I don't know what's going to be this year and we're not blowing the shofar because we were told not to do that. We're worried about Shabbat. Even a small worry about Shabbat, which is ratzon Hashem, which is what we need to do in order to protect ourselves from even the smallest of the aveiros, I'm willing to do it likavod could be kavod shamayim. That's the idea. Sometimes we sacrifice ourselves, sacrifice our future, sacrifice dangers that we prefer not to do because we know that it's ratzon Hashem. That is true avah. That's the middah that we're we're we're extending on Rosh Hashanah. That's what it's all about on Rosh Hashanah. The idea of avah is going over and beyond, extending something more than just the basics, doing something that's beyond what's called beyond the call of what's required of me. Sometimes, when you go ahead and go the extra nine yards, you're expressing true love, true affection, an affinity for the person that you are with. You're willing to give up from yourself for their sake, and it doesn't hurt because you know that they're enjoying it, cuz they're happy with it. And if this is what Hakadosh Baruch Hu wants, and this is the message that Chazal are telling us, don't blow the shofar. Yes, we're putting ourselves in sakanah. We're not taking the the medicine that maybe we need to be taking. But if it's going to be mechabed shamayim, if we're going to be a little bit more careful on Shabbat, then we have accomplished the message of Rosh Hashanah. And that will be the segulah of success. That will be our lengthy life that we'll be able to extend, and that will keep us intact during this whole entire year. Bezrat Hashem, this year should be the year of success, of the geulah, that Hakadosh Baruch Hu should bring us with this sacrifice that we give up by not blowing the shofar on the first day. That will bring the heralding of Mashiach by him blowing the shofar. Bezrat Hashem, bimheira beyameinu.