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A collection of relevant halachos regarding Yom Kippur from AskTheRav.com & Halacha2Go.com. By Horav Yosef Yeshaya Braun, Mara D’asra and member of the Crown Heights Beis Din
The Great Shofar is an icon that is associated in our minds as the opening moment of the long-awaited Redemption. It is usually envisioned as a long shofar blast which we will all hear that will tell us the time has come to return home.
Emphasizes pnimiyus (seriousness, sincerity, and inwardness) while simultaneously encouraging publicity, ads, billboards, etc.
“The theme of the year” is a concept invented by modern society. The idea that a certain year is dedicated to a certain value can be viewed as running contrary to the Torah’s approach in which whatever is important is important always. Yet, everything a Jew observes must teach him a lesson in serving Hashem.
The seat of luxury was where he sat. He swam laps in pools of pleasure, indulged in tantalizing feasts of pure extravagance. After all he was the prince and nothing he ever wanted was denied. Spoiled rotten, he was King Adonius’s only son and heir to the throne.
“A Tzaddik needs to do Teshuva?! – That’s ludicrous! Why would a Tzaddik need to do Teshuva if he never ever does or even thinks of anything wrong?”
Two Jews who still did not observe Torah and mitzvos met one another at the entrance to the local grocery store.
There was a G-d fearing, rich man whose sons all went on the proper path. One day in the summer, he assembled his sons and said to them, “My dear sons, since you are adults, I invite you to go off on your own way. Travel wherever you like, learn Torah, and look for a good wife. I will give you a sum of money to cover the expenses of the journey.
לו. קטעים משיחות ש”פ ראה, א’ דר”ח אלול תנש”א (1) 36. Elul 1, 5751 − August 10, 1991 (1)
An answer from the Rebbe to a Pan from before Rosh Hashana regarding publicizing words of inspiration for Yiras Shamayim by influential people:
Mundane or not, each moment contains everything within it, eternity, and it is a gift of devotion to G-d, like the joyous presentation of first fruits in the Holy Temple. This is romantic idealism to the extreme.
A collection of relevant halachos regarding Selichos in connection to the month of Elul, from AskTheRav.com & Halacha2Go.com.
September 26, 2019