The Connection Between Rosh Hashana and Jewish History

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

Before I begin, I just wanted to dedicate to sheer that this sheer should be a blessing and a merit for the health and success of the families of Regina bas Yosef Reuben and Yishai ben Yisrael Benjamin Wolf ben Zvi Hirsch and Baruch ben Benjamin Wolf. They should all have tremendous because of the sheer. You know, we notice that every Jewish holiday It's an interesting question, you know, every Jewish holiday has obviously some basis in historical event. We know that, right? And then we, you know, if you go through all the Jewish holidays, Yom Tovim uh and so on and even the fast days they're all connected in some way to an event that's either in the Torah or the event that came later. And as a result of that chazal, whatever And as a result of that chazal, whatever for whatever reason decided that they want to make it a special day of us commemoration or celebration. But the only day or Yom Tov actually that seems to defy that rule uh is Rosh Hashanah. You know, I mean it's true that Rosh Hashanah was the uh birth of the world, right? The world was first created on Rosh Hashanah actually six days before which is the 25th day of Elul, we know which is the 25th day of Elul, we know that. You know? But uh the creation of the world isn't a particular Jewish event. You know? And therefore we can ask a question what is Rosh Hashanah commemorating, really? What is it all about? Like I said, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with a Jewish event. Because Adam Marishon obviously wasn't Jewish. He was a man, human being,

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1. 0:00Before I begin, I just wanted to dedicate to sheer that this sheer should be a…
2. 6:15Would you celebrate that day? Would that be a Yom Tov for you? Of course not.…
3. 12:27clearly is a tremendous merit. But when you think about it, you can ask the question,…
4. 18:35And therefore he has created us a situation called the olam haze, basically. He has created…
5. 24:46major operator, right? Then of course, once he's the major guy, we can say that the…
6. 30:56through this Hanaga. God makes them deserve it and so on without getting into all the…
7. 37:04process in terms of what your mission was. That's the way it works. And that's frightening.…
8. 43:14instant, every department of the creation, which is trillions of departments. He evaluates every atom, every…
9. 49:23what the Ribono shel Olam does is he now signs chasima. He signs the document. So,…
10. 55:35Is to stop the what? The prosecutions of the sudden. That's why you have a chauffeur…

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