Rosh Chodesh Av | Hearing Your Soul

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

Okay, shalom aleikhem. So, today is a very special day. Who knows what today is? It's Rosh Chodesh. It is Rosh Chodesh, which is a very, very special day. >> [snorts] >> But, it's Aaron HaKohen's yahrzeit. Isn't that cool? Aaron HaKohen's yahrzeit. And the yahrzeit is a very, very special day. Judaism not so into birthdays. Why not? Cuz you didn't do anything yet. I always thought on your birthday you should buy your parents presents. Why do you get presents on your birthday? You didn't do anything. But your yahrzeit, then you've manifested. You've done something. So, we are very into yahrzeits. Jews, we like we're into yahrzeits. And so, it means we have now the power of Aaron HaKohen pumping into the world big time. And what's the power of Aaron HaKohen? Ohev shalom, rodef shalom. He loves shalom. Now, everyone loves shalom, I would imagine. And there's different types of shalom. But the real shalom, the the Aaron is all about is togetherness of opposites. How about that? So, if you have an enemy and you kill them all, you killed everyone. Is there shalom now? No. That's not called shalom. That's called no war. Shalom is when you have an enemy and then you talk to each other and you understand each other and you and see your roles in the world and you get together and you each play your role and you come together. That's what shalom

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