Erev Rosh Hashana Is For Everyone - The Searing Approach of the Chasam Sofer

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

The Chayotam teaches us in Siman Kuf Lamed Ches, I say, Erev Rosh Hashanah is the last day of the year, and Chazal have a tradition that anyone who does teshuvah one day in the year, it's like they did teshuvah for the whole year. Therefore, the minhag is everyone fasts and gets up early, very early, and they're marbit b'selichot and viduyin. The Tur in Siman Taf Kuf Peh Alef brings the minhag in Ashkenaz everyone fasts. And the Tur brings the following analogy that a king who felt that a certain medina was liable to great punishment, so the medina was trying to assuage the king and trying to console the king. And first, the great people come out to greet the king and to be menachem the king and to plead with the king. And then, a little bit later, um the important people of the city come out. And then, ultimately, everyone

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1. 0:00The Chayotam teaches us in Siman Kuf Lamed Ches, I say, Erev Rosh Hashanah is the…
2. 0:32And the Tur brings the following analogy that a king who felt that a certain medina…
3. 1:03comes out to try to placate the king. So, too, says the Tur, Erev Rosh Hashanah,…
4. 1:34the case, why does the Tur say that everyone fasts on Erev Rosh Hashanah? This is…
5. 2:04that only they could do. But what if there could have been more great people and…
6. 2:36king. And everybody else is repenting because they could have been great. They could have been…
7. 3:08And if you're not, but you could still be. You could have been. You could still…

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