Rosh Hashanah: Renegotiating the Lease and the Power of the Tzibbur

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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.

v'yanchimenu would recount his early childhood memories about what the Yamim Selichot were like in a small town in a small village in Lithuania. Rav Pam would say how well before the crack of dawn the shammash would come around banging on the shutters, "Yidden kumt tzu Selichot." Says Rav Pam during those days in the small villages and the small towns in Lithuania there was nothing that could distract them from the Yamim Noraim for Yamim Tovim. Even the children felt it in the air. Even the children felt it in the air. Even their childhood games took on a more somber tone. For us, however, living in the United States of America it's very difficult for us to experience these types of feelings. Our minds and our hearts are dulled by the tumult of the world around us. We have so many responsibilities vying for our attention. We're so distracted. We're so preoccupied making it very difficult to adequately prepare ourselves and to understand the ourselves and to understand the seriousness of the days. Most importantly though it is very hard for us to comprehend what exactly is at stake during the Yamim Noraim because we feel very secure. We feel very complacent. We all keep feel complacent with our lives, with our health, with our parnassah with our success and we tend to think that the way things have been and the way things are, that's the way

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