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Rosh Hashanah Concepts and Inspiration by Dr. Rubie Minkowitz · The Frum Health Club Podcast

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_00: Chavez Rush Hashanah.
• 0:02
  SPEAKER_00: What is the deal with the apple and honey?
• 0:05
  SPEAKER_00: A date or a grape is sweeter than an apple, and they come from the Shivasamidam, the seven species that the holy land is blessed with.
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_00: So why don't we use those things?
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_00: And can we use sugar?
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_00: It's cheaper than honey, or are we trying to be healthy?
• 0:25
  SPEAKER_00: So yes, we need the apple and honey specifically, because in Kabbalah we have the term Tapuchin Kadishin, which means the field of sacred apples, and that refers to the kingdom of Hashem, the coronation.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_00: And honey, the Vash, has the numerical value of 306, which equals of Harachaman, and that means merciful father.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_00: And the judgment of Rosh Hashanah is like from a father showing love to his children.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_00: Apple and honey come together like coronation and judgment.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_00: Rosh Hashanah is a paradox.
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  SPEAKER_00: We pray for prosperity, both physical and spiritual, and we coronate God.
• 1:13
  SPEAKER_00: Seems that on one hand, we ask Hashem for our needs, and yet when we coronate a king, that means we are prepared to serve Hashem and forgo our own needs.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_00: What is going on?
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_00: So what does coronation mean?
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  SPEAKER_00: In essence, Hashem wants a connection to each one of us to maximize our potential.
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_00: And on the day Adam was created, Hava and Him disobeyed Hashem.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_00: And God then called out to them with the term of Ayaka, where are you?
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_00: Meaning, what are you doing on this world?
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_00: What is your purpose?
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_00: And Avram finally answered that on Rosh Hashanah with the call of Hinini, here I am to serve you, to recognize that Hashem is Melech al-Kalaretz, the creator and the ruler of the world, and I will connect myself to Hashem.
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_00: And whatever I do, it will be Bachal de Racha Dayu, the recognition that I am doing it for Hashem.
• 2:20
  SPEAKER_00: And even exercise that is all for God.
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_00: That is a coronation.
• 2:26
  SPEAKER_00: And by acknowledging that we connect to a much higher level, and that will allow us to fulfill our potential.
• 2:33
  SPEAKER_00: And even more so, getting everything we need.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that is the answer.
• 2:39
  SPEAKER_00: And one of the special prayers on Rosh Hashanah is Hayem Haraselam, means loosely, today is the day of creation.
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_00: The word hara actually means pregnant, and that term is used for the new year to say that it is pregnant with full potential.
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_00: And in Mirsa Hashem, with God's help, we can get there with connecting Hashem to everything, a coronation.
• 3:05
  SPEAKER_00: And this year is a leap year, and in Hebrew it's called Shonamu Uberis, a pregnant year, further underscoring the potential it carries.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_00: And judgment.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bottom line, judge people favorably, and Hashem will do the same.
• 3:21
  SPEAKER_00: And even more so, we say, Avinu Mahakinu means our Father, show us your love, and we should be answered like Kana in the Hafter, who is Daviding for a child, and she was blessed with a baby, and then gave him to Hashem.
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_00: And that child became Shmuel Hanavi.
• 3:41
  SPEAKER_00: And the way she prayed is the model of how we pray, Shmaina Esra.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_00: And Hashem urges us to do to Shubah, saying in Shirashiram, the Song of Songs, make a small opening like the head of a needle, and I will open for you an opening through which caravans can enter.
• 4:00
  SPEAKER_00: We just have to begin the process, and Hashem will maximize it for us.
• 4:05
  SPEAKER_00: And that can explain the Shaifer, a narrow opening and a wide one.
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_00: It represents a small opening that a person makes and the reciprocal broad opening of Hashem.
• 4:17
  SPEAKER_00: The message of the Shefer is just blow into the small opening, and Hashem will open up his large gates for you.
• 4:25
  SPEAKER_00: And to conclude, with another reason why we eat honey specifically, is because it comes from bees that can cause pain with a bee sting, telling us that the pain of the past will become the sweetness of the future.
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_00: And may it be that the pain that Ami Sral has had be transformed into sweet blessings, and may we merit to hear the Shafra Goddle of Mashiach blow on Shabbas like it used to blow in the Bashamigdash with the Gula Hashlema.
• 4:57
  SPEAKER_00: Amen, Gushabis, Kusiva Vihasima Teva, Shonatavu Masuka.