The Shofar’s Call: Jewish Unity & Strength for the Year Ahead - Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz

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

[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Shalom everyone. Uh we are in the final weeks of 5785. We are about to enter a new year. Toughshin pav 5786. And in that new year we hope uh for the promise of blessing of salvation. This past year and the year before and as well has been a difficult year for Kali Israel and really for the world as a whole. There have been much suffering. There has been deaths in init. We still have hostages that await their freedom. We still have who are risking their lives and dying every single day. We have political and religious controversies about the draft of bin Torah and Shalom, the impairment of Torah learning and erit at a time when we need the protection of Torah learning. So there's much confusion, there's much suffering, there's much sadness in the world and in the Jewish world. You know, when October 7 happened and there was the awful massacre that Kamas perpetrated against Jewish people, our Jewish brothers and sisters, it was of course a tragedy. It is of course a tragedy, but at least there was a silver lining that it brought us together. It brought us together with a unity, a Israel, loving each other, caring about each other. It's an unfortunate aspect of the human condition that it often takes tragedies to create that love and create that bond. But at least we had it. And for a brief time the divisions between religious and secular, the divisions between datomi, religious sanism and kedi, they kind of were minimized. They disappeared a little bit. We all realized as Benjamin Franklin remarked, we have to hang together or we will surely hang separately. But then as the war goes on and on and

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1. 0:01[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Shalom everyone. Uh we are in the final weeks of 5785.…
2. 1:03who are risking their lives and dying every single day. We have political and religious controversies…
3. 2:04to create that love and create that bond. But at least we had it. And for…
4. 3:36tragedy because tragedy has a purpose if we learn from it if we grow from it…
5. 4:39three elongated broken sounds. And then we have the trua which is da da da da…
6. 6:14the rashana chauffeur blowing and he points out that one of the functions of the katsotros…
7. 7:17for journeying a new trip? Because a trua is a bit of an ambiguous sound. It…
8. 8:20chauffeur and I believe that is legitimate homalytical license the tea and the shvorium trua because…
9. 9:55it's a well-known idea that if the temple was destroyed because of that hatred it can…
10. 10:59there is so much that we can accomplish. And if we can accomplish, we must accomplish.…

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