Powerful message to enter the new year and carry with you all year round

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

Coming back to your question, should I sleep on Shana? It depends on you. You might say that sleeping on Shana is not a taboo. Sitting with friends and playing cards is not forbidden. Yes, of course, this is not a ban. But do you want to sleep? Do you want to walk down the street and see what a beautiful view it is? Or do you want to take advantage of this special time right now? Once a year you have a time that you can take advantage of. What do I take advantage of. What do I want to do? Do I want to sleep now, or do I want to read Tegilim for another half hour? No. No. First of all, cards. It's not good to play them. There is a lot of tuma ( impurity) in the cards. I mean cards, do you mean poker or cards like who? Uno. No, not poker. If it's not cards, real cards, poker , gin, all that kind of stuff, don't , gin, all that kind of stuff, don't do it, it's not good. Children's games are normal. Yes, it's better not to. Again, it's the same thing . What am I...I have 24 hours of super holiness right now. Do I want to carve out an hour, half an hour, do I want to carve out half an hour to study? What do I want to play? This is not an isur (ban), but you have to look at the game itself. For example, my children have a card game, but this game is

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2. 4:09She has to get permission, the thing is, even if everyone has to fast, if so,…
3. 8:12this last week, take advantage of Elul. One week, you have seven more days to do…
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6. 20:23nothing, and everything that is dirty, worthless and inconspicuous - that's where the greatest is. And…
7. 24:35particular rabbi, it sounds ridiculous. It broke my heart. I was like, "What?" I thought this…
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9. 32:43homework. So if you do your homework, you learn. One of my sons comes home, doesn't…
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