Why Is Rosh Hashanah Davening So Long?

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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.

Hi, it's David Alowski. This is our new question and answer shorts format so that we make up the backlog of all the listener questions that have come in. And this question was submitted by Sarah. A B CDE E F G H I J K L M O P Q R S T U V. Pick one. I cannot for the life of me figure out why she left out WXYZ. She only offered me the choices between A and V. Anyway, why is Davening on Rashana so long? Can't we crown Hashem as our king quickly and without Kazonus? Well, I'll answer the last part first. Yes, you don't need Kazonus. There was a time when people found Kazonus very meaningful, enjoyable. My father used to sing in the choir with the great Khazanim. He would play Kazanis records for us. He thought it was great. I heard a theory years ago that since Jews weren't allowed to be in the opera, they developed their own form of opera and but there are people who definitely enjoy it. I don't. I grew up in a sh with a kazin. We only went rashana and yum kipper. And he'd be up there going [screaming] and I would be chewing on my own arm trying to cut it off from the pain. It was It doesn't speak to me. Some people it does. I think it's great. I know people to this day learn kazonas. Yeah. And they enjoy it. I don't. So I look for a dvening where there's a sib with a pleasant voice and a lot of singing. And yet the davining is long. Uh to be fair if you would like to convert to becoming aarti theirs is much shorter. They have

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1. 0:00Hi, it's David Alowski. This is our new question and answer shorts format so that we…
2. 0:31Anyway, why is Davening on Rashana so long? Can't we crown Hashem as our king quickly…
3. 1:01was great. I heard a theory years ago that since Jews weren't allowed to be in…
4. 1:39and I would be chewing on my own arm trying to cut it off from the…
5. 2:40very long time for the x-rays on rashana because as we know and so therefore is…
6. 3:12that. Um there are a lot of putim. Why? Because since we call this day amra…
7. 3:43than that, you know, there are people who leave out all of the harammons at the…
8. 4:52Yeah. I find it very uplifting. I do. I enjoy it. I would be upset if…
9. 5:28I love it. I get I get tremendous from it. So, uh you want to get…
10. 5:58have to go to sh for that. Sometimes they have women to kas someplace and you…

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