Rosh Hashanah: The Power of Judgement (Ep. 201)

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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.

Tzivia Bas Rochel Perel. Uh that's of course their daughter and uh she actually started joining the sheer room together with her father and the sheer so it's like really exciting now. I'm almost we're part of the family again, yeah? And they write, "Thank you for your amazing sheer room and honest approach to real life challenges and battles, we have gained much chizuk and inspiration. Thank you so much. You and your family have always been part of our family and uh you know, mitz Hashem in this zechus of being marbitz Torah in Klal Yisrael, you should be zocheh you and your family not just to refuah shleimah but to all bracha v'hatzlacha and good things of the ksiva v'chasima tovah. And I started with the niggun and I'll tell you why I started with the niggun. Um I told this story, I'm sure, at least once, but uh I was teaching tefillah. And uh um there were no classrooms at the time I was to the holy yeshiva, so we were doing it in the shul. And the shul had a very high ceiling and very good acoustics. I was explaining that there are certain niggunim on Rosh Hashanah that we do. And uh I started with that niggun. The niggun that we do by Maariv. And everybody joined in. And I couldn't finish the class. I was shaking. It suddenly It suddenly transported me

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1. 1:33Tzivia Bas Rochel Perel. Uh that's of course their daughter and uh she actually started joining…
2. 4:40So, whatever I do is fine. Whatever I do is fine. And I never grow, I…
3. 8:13I said, "Well, well, good for you." But to me, history is fascinating cuz it's all…
4. 11:46Is this the best I could be doing right now? Uh I've spoken in different places…
5. 15:19how to read?' He says, 'Yes, very much. And after his whole day of work, the…
6. 18:54Din to the Kisei Rachamim. We Hakadosh Baruch Hu moves from judgment to mercy. We don't…
7. 22:00"You don't have any degrees or anything?" I said, "I have a BA in psychology from…
8. 25:36think of like an Aladdin's lamp. You know where the genie comes out. And they would…
9. 29:08then to learn with people if you're on the level. And he said what happened in…
10. 32:51But the whole reason that we're able to get through Rosh Hashanah without blowing shofar is…

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