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Fasting Erev Rosh Hashanah - The Chasam Sofer's Revolutionary Interpretation

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Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

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  1. 0:31we would say would be allowed to fast. Typically we don't just fast it's Memayeit in…
  2. 1:01came to collect the taxes and to wage war against the city and the Torah brings…
  3. 1:31Mechuva average people fast and on Yom Kippur everyone fasts. So the Chasam Sofer discusses in…
  4. 2:01has to fast on Rosh Hashanah, it's not really mandated halachically that anyone has to fast…
  5. 2:32people, small people, but rather Godolim may refer to our higher element. Beinonim refers to our…
  6. 3:03their heart to Hakadosh Baruchu. As we know, it is not the fasting and the sackcloth…
  7. 3:33the lowest element, the p'sum of the person, the chol kravaya shem katzav, even the lowest…

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