its gona be a bad year?

watergirl

Thu, Sep 14 2023, 11:37 am

Second day there is!

Also, my husband loves this little story: the Biala Rebbe was once asked what happens when RH is on Shabbos and there is no shofar? Where does the rachamim come from? And the Biala Rebbe said the rachamim comes from the kugel we eat!

How that works, I have no idea. But I love it!

amother

Hyacinth

Thu, Sep 14 2023, 11:38 am

amother OP wrote:

Theres no shofar this year.

Huh???
First of all, yes there is
Second day
Second of all, if shofar was more important than shabbos then we would blow it on shabbos.
It seems like you think Hashem is out to get you based on what we do on rh. I’d recommend learning to reframe your relationship with Hashem from fear to love and expansion

amother

Garnet

Thu, Sep 14 2023, 11:48 am

My son came home telling me his rebbe said everyone's going to be written in sefer shel tzadikim because hashem is not allowed to write on shabbos except if it's to save a life. So He will only be writing in the book of life.

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BH Yom Yom

Thu, Sep 14 2023, 11:51 am

amother Garnet wrote:

I LOVE this idea. AMEN!!

amother

Catmint

Thu, Sep 14 2023, 11:58 am

amother OP wrote:

Theres no shofar this year.

This is not how Rosh Hashana or shofar works. It's not as if Hashem is waiting to give us all a bad year and then he changes his mind once he hears our tekias shofar.

agreer

Thu, Sep 14 2023, 12:01 pm

R"H has been on Shabbos a lot in the past 10 years.

My Rav always gives a speech about it. IF there's no shofar on the first day of R"H, it's a bad sign, EXCEPT if the reason there's no shofar is b/c it's Shabbos. Then that's even better than blowing on the first day, because Shabbos is also a way of showing Hashem's sovereignty over the world.

I love Garnet's message. That was beautiful! Amen, kain yehi ratzon.

amother

White

Thu, Sep 14 2023, 12:05 pm

amother Garnet wrote:

This is so beautiful but you have to be very careful with how the children understand this. I don’t know how old your son is. Hopefully the children understand the concept of sefer hachayim referring to eternal life with tzaddikim and tzidkaniyos in the highest place near the Shechina. It can happen that in the coming year the child hears of a great grandparent, their own or their friend’s, who passed away. You don’t want them to question the rebbe.

Op, I don’t understand your question. Our relationship with Hashem is one of love, it’s not transactional. It’s not a relationship of I’ll do this and you’ll return the favor by doing that for me. Either way we often miss one day of shofar due to Shabbos, it happens every few years. The bottom line is we’re listening to the words of our chachamim and keeping Shabbos which is a huge zchus for all of us. Don’t worry. Rosh Hashanah is two days everywhere so we’re all going to hear shofar on Sunday.

amother

Lily

Thu, Sep 14 2023, 12:10 pm

Just heard a shiur on this.
When RH is on Shabbos, Shabbos is our witness and stands up to defend us. However, this works best when we keep Shabbos the right way, that’s when Shabbos can best advocate for us. That’s why it’s so important especially this year to work on appreciating shabbos and keeping it the right way!

amother

Garnet

Thu, Sep 14 2023, 12:24 pm

amother White wrote:

Yes, he did take it very literally and I wasn't thrilled. But at least it was a positive message and made him feel secure and happy rather than a fire and brimstone message. He did ask me how it could be that people will still die.

miami85

Thu, Sep 14 2023, 12:37 pm

I heard this idea the other night and connected to "wasn't it the same like Covid year"--and while Covid was horrible for many people, it also helped expose the levels of corruption unlike any other natural force could have.

I heard in a shiur that the purpose of Covid was to be "mamlich Hashem" and to recognize His greatness in this world. So the year of Corona R"H started on Shabbos, but a lot of good is coming out because we are better able to see that Hashem controls everything from diseases, to prices, to governments, and we have no one else to rely on but Him.

amother

Leaf

Thu, Sep 14 2023, 3:49 pm

The question is not coming from nowhere.

There is no shofar on the first day of R"H, which is when we need it most. (The second day is derabanan. Not to be taken lightly, but still not deoraisa.)

The shofar protects us.

BUT - and here's why we don't have to think it's going to be a bad year - SHABBOS protects us as well (or maybe more, but I can't be the one to say that).

כי אשמרה שבת ק-ל ישמרני

Hashem_Yaazor

Thu, Sep 14 2023, 5:43 pm

This premise is a misunderstanding of the gemara where Tosfos says it does not apply to Shabbos!

The shofar is the sound of the neshama, and we already have an extra one on Shabbos, we don't need the shofar then!

PinkFridge

Thu, Sep 14 2023, 5:57 pm

amother Garnet wrote:

And on yom tov you can write?
Here's what I recently heard, and learned previously: The reason we don't blow is because someone might just happen to carry the shofar in a reshus harabbim. Minute possibility, and yet we have such care for another yid that we don't want him to be nichshal so better that we don't blow.

What a great zechus!

And let's not forget the incredible power of Shabbos. Let's all tap into the connection. Shabbos is a day that we have every week that's a paradigm of returning to purity. Isn't it grand that RH falls on Shabbos?