Overview of the hemshech.The history of blowing Shofar on Rosh Hashanah Shabbos.How could you stop?Answer: Shabbos accomplishes the same thing, so there’s no Divine Protection (as there is when Pesach falls on Shabbos).

Shofar is a Mitzvah on three levels: 1) one of the 248 specific Mitzvos (compared to individual limbs), 2) A general Mitzvah (I like to call them ‘Super-Mitzvos’) like the organs the body cannot live without, the brain, the spinal cord etc., 3) The revealing of the place Yidden and Hashem are one.All this is...

Shofar is Teshuva; which reveals the inner heart, Outer heart comes from the mindInner heart comes from the Neshama, and is aroused by suffering, or by sins (the desire to do Teshuva).The first sound of the Shofar, Tekia, audible cry of the inner heart.The middle Teruah is the inaudible cry of the inner heart.The last...

04. Yom Tov Shel Rosh Hashana Samech Vov; Third Round, Class Four.The opposite of Teshuva is Reusa DiLiba (will of the heart).Both share the property called התעוררות פנימי meaning an arousal from the Soul beyond the mind.But Teshuva is due to sin, and Reusa DiLiba is due to achieving a perfection and transcending that perfection.The...

05. Yom Tov Shel Rosh Hashana Samech Vov; Third Round, Class Five.Review after Yom Tov (break). Tools are incredibly helpful, but in the highest and fineness levels they fail and man must resort to his deepest oh human sensitivities. This is how we understand both Teshuva and Reusa DiLiba.The tool fails and the Soul comes...

06. Yom Tov Shel Rosh Hashana Samech Vov; Third Round, Class Six.Page 2.Teshuva is like hysteria; Reusa DiLiba is like an educated guesser. Noise and Quiescence.

07. Yom Tov Shel Rosh Hashana Samech Vov; Third Round, Class Seven.Page 2. Teshuva is normally a loud cry (as opposed to Reusa DiLiba) but there’s the quiet Teshuva; where he cannot even scream.This is שברים תרועה.

08. Yom Tov Shel Rosh Hashana Samech Vov; Third Round, Class Eight.Page 2-3. Continuing on the theme, that Shofar is Teshuva, the Rebbe Rashab links it to the RaMbaM ,who says as much (Shofar is ‘also’ Teshuva;) (We told the story of the Melamed who cried by Shofar and what Rav Yashe Ber Solovaichic said...

09. Yom Tov Shel Rosh Hashana Samech Vov; Third Round, Class Nine.How the RaMbaM’s words on the connection between Shofar and Teshuva include all three ideas of מלכיות זכרונות ושופרות continued. זכרונות- being remembered on a level that is 1) individual and 2) unforgettable; how that would work on High, and what we need to...

10. Yom Tov Shel Rosh Hashana Samech Vov; Third Round, Class Ten.Page 3.The third paragraph in the (new edition) Samach Vov, was explained to represent the highest idea of Shofar: Atzmus. Explanation, the difference between a King (who is accepted by choice) and a dictator (who imposes his will on the people).Hashem wants to be...

11. Yom Tov Shel Rosh Hashana Samech Vov; Third Round, Class Eleven.Page 3.Shofar, making Him King, is the highest idea of Shofar: the Atzmi, where we are ONE with Him and from that level we crown Him as King.And all this is stopped (when Rosh Hashana is Shabbos) in case someone will carry, Why??!!

12. Yom Tov Shel Rosh Hashana Samech Vov; Third Round, Class Twelve.Page 3.End of Shofar discussion, we don’t blow Shofar when Rosh Hashana falls on Shabbos, and then Hashem doesn’t protect (סייעתא דשמייא) from accidentally carrying on Shabbos.[As opposed to Pesach when we (do need and therefore) make a Seder even when it is Shabbos;...