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Rosh Hashanah: Turning Life's Gifts into Blessings

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Charlie Harary

A message about the significance of Rosh Hashanah and turning life's gifts into blessings.

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Rosh Hashanah is an incredible day it is a day that is maybe the most important of the entire year is the judgment it's the day where your whole year your whole life is being determined the books are open your life hangs in the balance that the court and of Heaven is looking down and judging you would think it'd be a very very serious day for the attorneys that are listening you especially the litigators you know what it's like to prep a client for trial like the night before trial I mean you gotta calm those nerves it's a big day standing before a judge a jury it's a big deal and if you think a human judge was a big deal how about a Divine judge so you'd think that the rabbis who are our lawyers would be prepping us the night before we stand before God before the chauffeur before the prayers like go home eat a little something quick spend all night in prayer you think what do we do right away when we get home it's definitely prayer what are we doing at home right away it's amazing you get home you may kiddish and then you take out these Foods it's an amazing thing between whatever the custom is where by the spider we have like 10 foods leak and gourd and dates and pomegranates and apples and honey and a head of a sheep and your

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  1. 0:00Rosh Hashanah is an incredible day it is a day that is maybe the most important…
  2. 0:31prep a client for trial like the night before trial I mean you gotta calm those…
  3. 1:02night in prayer you think what do we do right away when we get home it's…
  4. 2:02you pick up leak and gourd and you pick up black eyed lentil and you pick…
  5. 2:33having puns on the different foods like we pull them out everyone goes around and says…
  6. 3:36part of your year is really in what you do with what God gives you when…
  7. 4:06down at the first meal of the year you didn't even go to pray at the…
  8. 4:36let's take this pomegranate and use it as a trigger that we should have merits like…
  9. 5:36I stub my toe I mean the people trying to hurt us have be stubbed someone…
  10. 6:06hopefulness of your perspective the idea of the C minor of Kruger is teaching us is…

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