Rosh Hashanah: Alive or Dead? - Rabbi Eli Mansour

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

[Music] this condition Umrah bought now a motivator vodka Alka dose suitor Abunimah Hashim the Rambam talks about the shofar son everybody's mind obviously the shofar is the centerpiece of Rosh Hashanah and the Rambam is very clear when he tells us that there is no reason for shofar because it gives it up Melek it's just one of those things that we do because God said to do it why do you take this odd instrument why do they blow these sounds that are non musical it's a hawk it's something that Bora Alam God Almighty instructed us to do we're obedient we do it and we believe that it'll bring us a sweetening of the judgment that being said if - everybody admits it's a hawk because they're not mythic and then the next line is however there is an MS and every rabbi gives their interpretation of what the shofar represents the Rambam no different what's interesting about the Rambam is that normally he doesn't offer opinions of reasons for the mitzvoth in the yada hosaka normally he leaves that visible in the bikini but i guess her mom didn't want anybody to miss this reason cause not everybody is perplexed so not everybody reads the more rare but the other how's that guy he knew everybody's gonna read it's a local book so he said I'm not gonna squander the opportunity that they should miss the reason that I believed your father is therefore he says it in the other has a cup I'm not mistaken it's the third Pittock of of the laws what's the reason he says the shofar is a wake-up call it's an alarm clock who do you mean let him wake up from your slumber those that have veered off the straight and narrow path that have got lost in what he calls have layalam the frivolity z'

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1. 0:00[Music] this condition Umrah bought now a motivator vodka Alka dose suitor Abunimah Hashim the Rambam…
2. 3:37what it's the magic of this shofar that it wakes you up from that slumber it's…
3. 7:32chartres says he's dead in that case but the camera says no not so fast you…
4. 11:31that's the case the give - is anybody that lives according to that philosophy is it…
5. 15:21da only said the Kim get doesn't mean you can't get it it's possible to get…
6. 19:12into this tonight but once a nefesh is malnutritioned that ezel said it turns into something…
7. 22:58memorize understood that our attention span is limited so they said in the army now for…
8. 26:48means doing mitzvot when you do a mitzvah you're the victim ashamed how does this all…
9. 30:41I'm buddy Shawn well you need somebody has to play God okay somebody play God I'm…
10. 34:32in the laws of shofar tough hoof pave of it might be safe you'd bet over…

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