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Inspiration, Halachos, & Mystical Secrets of Selichos

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Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

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Okay, good morning everyone. Welcome. Today's sheer is dedicated in honor of very special special bar mitzvah bachur Shneur Zalman Fest. Today is his bar mitzvah. What's today's date? Today is >> Yud Elul. Yasher koach, Reb Nachman. Yud Elul. Bar mitzvah of Reb Shneur Zalman Fest. His parents, Reb Aryeh Leib ben Zev Mordechai. Tizku l'gadlu l'Torah, l'chuppah, u'l'maasim tovim. You should walk him down to the chuppah together with your father. Im ha'achod ha'meshulash l'havdil bein hayei u'l'shanim. Mazel tov. Mazel tov. Okay, so we're starting to prepare for the uh Yemei Rachamim u'Yemei Selichos. I want to focus on a few pesukim uh that are said in the beginning of Selichos. We start by saying L'cha Hashem ha'tzedakah v'lanu boshes panim. The first thing we say is you're correct, Hashem. You're righteous and we're ashamed. We don't have any complaints against you. Whatever has befallen us is we're deserving of. We have no excuses to make. We have nothing to say. We have no justification. Nachbisha deracheinu. By the way, in some of the original Selichos, they spelled the word wrong. They put it as a shin, I remember. Nachbisha it's Nachbisha deracheinu. We will seek out our path. V'nachkira, we will investigate. V'nashuva eilecha, and we will repent to you. By the way, where does it say that? It's a pasuk in Eicha. But what it says over here, Nachbisha deracheinu v'nachkira v'nashuva eilecha. Nachbisha deracheinu v'nachkira v'nashuva. It doesn't say ki im k'vashut l'kavod shmo. of them. not the possuk, but that's how we say it in the slichos. Now it's very important to focus on this

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