Elul Challenge - Rabbi Ariel Mizrahi

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My friends, I want to share with you today as we head into the fall as the weather, the climate starting to shift, it starts getting colder, the shifting of seasons. And I want to talk about an idea from Rabbi Bernstein in his book of Teshu that he has uh as we head into the Yam into the high holidays, the awesome days. And he has over here an essay, a very beautiful, powerful essay. We know the Ashkanazim, the Moroccans, We know the Ashkanazim, the Moroccans, others, they have a custom in the month of Aul to blow the chauffar. Okay? So at the the end of every day, they blow the chauffar. The Moroccans, they do it during the Okay. Uh some people wake up for Okay. Uh I would trade it for for uh for is a little bit easier, you know, than having to wake up an hour early, but it's still okay. Beautiful. Nothing wrong. And the idea of blowing a chauffear seems idea of blowing a chauffear seems interesting. Why exactly are we blowing a chauffar? What is the goal of blowing a chauffar for an entire month? If you ask anyone, it would seem seem meaning from the Torah, when are we supposed to blow chauffar? One day a year shah. It seems like we're blowing a chauffar in order to practice I guess to prepare which is very interesting because we never we don't prepare other mitzvot you know we're not shaking a lulav for 30 days practicing for sukkot no one's

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1. 0:00My friends, I want to share with you today as we head into the fall as…
2. 3:04went up on the final 40 days, the Jewish people blew a chauffar. On the first…
3. 6:12I just want to put in my calendar. Moshe could have avoided the biggest sin in…
4. 9:18So, they counted that day, upcoming day as day one. Moshe actually it's interesting because they…
5. 12:24brighter each mitzvah each we have more kavana we understand more we have more wisdom we…
6. 15:29metabolism slows down. So physically as we get older we're getting weaker but uh that's not…
7. 18:36and he was a 17-year-old boy and he has two dreams and the dreams did not…
8. 21:42there was no brothers. There was sun, moon, and 11 stars. The brothers were the stars.…
9. 24:44the future. That's how you define success. The wheat, we're not jealous of that. The second…
10. 27:50to meeting to meeting as if the most important thing. as if I have to. I'm…

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