What Is God Thinking on Rosh Hashana?

What’s said in this shiur

The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Chaim Mintz’s own words— taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

in our prayers those who say the 18 the third blessing which talks about God's holiness Ates you were holy and your name is Holy Holy ones will always praise you bless are you God we end off all the time a whole year the almighty who was holy but starting rash for this 10 days holy but starting rash for this 10 days left we will say the holy king you have to mention God is a king during these 10 days that he is judging Us close to us encouraging us loving us and scaring us and doing everything he can to nudj us and to push us into doing what what we're supposed to be doing to the extent that if we fail to change to the extent that if we fail to change that KES those words from Al Almighty the holy Almighty to the holy king we have to say the over again we must mention Mel God is a king during these 10 days king of ho year but especially he's bringing out his special powers of kingship during the these 10 days the night of rash first night which will be next to Sunday night after the prayer when we greet our each other Friday night we say to each other we bless everybody one another you should be written into a book of goodness and should be sealed in the book of goodness to a man to a woman that's the's way of reading of have a different they say I think that's how they n sh first two nights it's customary to eat different types of foods which have a certain significance

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1. 0:03in our prayers those who say the 18 the third blessing which talks about God's holiness…
2. 6:20everybody wants to make sure that we hear the Schauer that's a mitz in the Torah…
3. 12:37rashish that's quite a question let's delve into the beautiful prayers that we say rash and…
4. 18:52rewarded even though he didn't do anything this year he was not alive but what he…
5. 25:03now we'll look around the room and walk outside and you'll ask somebody what did you…
6. 31:19is and who he stole from who he did the favor to did kindness to that's…
7. 37:28future and he saw he looked will this MIT will this Egyptian have any descendants that…
8. 43:39places and countries in the world that they're dying from diseases from from lack of food…
9. 49:50calculation judging every person got judg as every person Every Act that he does everything has…
10. 56:02you charge a $100 penalty to a poor man he's going to feel much more than…

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