Rabbi Dr. David Gottlieb - The Experience of Rosh Hashanah

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it can go through the experience of Rosh Hashanah how it feels it's not consistent there isn't a single tenor to the experience of Rosh Hashanah you start an evening with a prayer service which is not very long hour and it's clearly serious but people aren't generally good mood and after sober they wish each other a good year give a smiling and happy home and you have a festive meal with good food good drink company song or the Torah there's a relaxed happy atmosphere come to shul next morning first of all it's a marathon and go on for six hours and the prayers have much more serious some of them quite serious talk about possible futures all of which are equally happy positive optimistic blowing the shofar which you can tell from the attitude of the congregation is a very serious business anything to Musa was a very long prayer and its global in scope from the creation to the end of the world if a dynamics a particular what's going to happen in the coming year the petition of the reader goes through some poetry which is really quite detailed and explicit about the dangers of the coming year and people are in a very serious to search sent apprehensive worried panics moved so i crying prayers are over people work out smiles on their faces which each other good here it's another feast good food good drink songs very happy presentation then the first day there's a ceremony in visible sight of some body of water if you have one in your vicinity otherwise people do it dirty intermediary days before your Kippur but there's a symbolic a symbolic sloughing off of the transgressions of the past year it doesn't have a consistent tenor it varies between reacts happiness on the one hand and worried fearful anticipation of possible disasters on

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1. 0:17it can go through the experience of Rosh Hashanah how it feels it's not consistent there…
2. 5:45changed the prayers instead of saying oh holy God say the holy king Tamela Hakadosh but…
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5. 21:17outcome and that's what the Midrash is talking to that first thought that is to say…
6. 27:02the bath dresses holiday finest for the day of judgment that's not a person who's afraid…
7. 32:19source for this you can look at the way of gaba lose out to part two…
8. 37:39subject and the Talmud refers to it as it does often refers the Kabbalistic themes with…
9. 42:51in terms of strict justice very many of them aren't going to make it they aren't…
10. 47:56who memorized the entire written scriptures would be affected by the style of the written scriptures…

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