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0:00 So why was this Rosh Hashanah specifically set at this time, that everyone does teshuvah in it and draws close to Hashem, and what is there in this time more than anything else? So the Ran wrote on page 3 of the pages of the Rif, and likewise on page 16, about Rosh Hashanah, that specifically at this time the Holy One, blessed be He, found this time to judge all creatures, all of them, because it is a time in which one can arouse the most mercy.
0:31 Because Adam the first man was born and his time came on Rosh Hashanah, and the Holy One, blessed be He, forgave him his sin. As Rabbi Shimon says in the Zohar, Parshas Emor, page 101, side a, says the Holy One, blessed be He, "I forgave," and the Holy One, blessed be He, forgave, forgave for all generations the sin of Adam, and everyone will acknowledge to you that "I forgave you your sin," So for this I forgave you for all generations, Rosh Hashanah will be set at this time in Tishrei - when the world was created, according to Rabbi Eliezer.
1:04 And then it will truly be understood that on Rosh Hashanah there is rectification of the sin of Adam, and there is also rectification for Cain and Abel. In the Zohar Chadash, Bereishis, page 25, side a, Rabbi Shimon says that there was forgiveness as a rectification of Adam's sin, so it was a rectification for Cain and Abel. Cain and Abel brought the offering. They brought the offering at this time, which was Rosh Hashanah. This is what Rabbi Shimon reveals to us. That Cain and Abel were on Rosh Hashanah and Adam was on Rosh Hashanah and the Patriarchs were born on Rosh Hashanah, and it turns out that Rosh Hashanah has within it the power to renew and begin everything from the beginning, and this is what we explained earlier about the dispute of Rabbeinu Tam and the Rosh,
1:43 that Rabbeinu Tam speaks of what was, and the Rosh speaks of what will be, and between Adam and the holy Patriarchs, all that was is Adam, this is like the opinion of Rabbeinu Tam, to annul the first vow of Adam, which was from the command about the prohibition of eating. And what will be in the future, and to cancel all the generations to come, this corresponds to Joseph the righteous, who came out of the house of prisoners. So therefore we say that Joseph the righteous came out of the house of prisoners on the day of Rosh Hashanah, he came out.
2:10 And on Rosh Hashanah he came out, this hints at a new beginning, that we can come out of all the troubles, all of them.
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