The Secret of Selichos: Hashem Davens With Us | Erev Rosh Hashanah 2026

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

Always at midnight I get a little clumsy. First of all, Reb Dovid, Pesach, Ezra, Rami, Shkoach. Thank you. Um we wish you a ksiva v'chasima tova. And a good tzvoch to everybody. Um I have a few things I want to say, but I'm going to say it in Reb Yankel has a son sweet See? He's uh in Lebanon right now uh fighting for us. He should have yeshuos together. Mitoch kol chiyalei Yisrael. Everyone should um have miraculous hatzlacha. And we should all have uh miraculous hatzlacha in uh our own um issues in life and our own things that we may have gone through this past year and the mir shoshem this coming year should go smooth, [clears throat] that should be um [clears throat] that should be um yeah, really miraculous because the world is uh as I said this morning, is a little bit broken. And uh mir shoshem with our tfilos here tonight and with klal Yisrael together, I think um we can make a difference. And that's the main thing that we need to say. We can make a difference. We're not just here, but we can make a difference in the uh shamayim. W- um slichos, just want to talk a little bit about Slichos itself. little bit about Slichos itself. There's um I think one of the most uh fascinating parts of the Chumash is the part in Ki Sisa where right after the uh Egel Hazahav. And Moshe goes up to Har Sinai. Right after he broke the Luchos the day after. Rashi calls this Yemei Hakas. This is Yemei Hakas. The first days were

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1. 0:00Always at midnight I get a little clumsy. First of all, Reb Dovid, Pesach, Ezra, Rami,…
2. 3:03to do what he wants to do. There are not many cases in the Chumash and…
3. 5:38is that we became dependent on an intermediary called Moshe Rabbeinu. Moshe Rabbeinu is not there.…
4. 8:11reporting it to you. But I'm not going to be the central figure any longer. And…
5. 10:43al ta'alenu mizeh. I don't want any monarch him here. I want you. And I want…
6. 13:18Hashem comes down in a cloud. The Gabara says that what does it mean that Hashem…
7. 15:50I saw something um which I found remarkable. This is a safer of Rav Moshe Shapiro.…
8. 18:26D'vechol hat'fillos, because usually at davening l'mispallel im El Elokei Yisrael. We daven to Hashem. V'eilu…
9. 20:59It's before it's in the pasuk. It's in the pasuk that right here Hashem is davening…
10. 23:35just does not get good results in history. So, we're asking Hashem. Hashem is davening together…

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