Episode Details

Rabbi Jacobson will discuss the following topics:
 What should our focus be during this last week before Rosh Hashana?  
 
25 Elul 

• What is the significance and personal application of this day?  
• How can we say that the world was created on the 25th of Elul when time itself was a creation and there was no time before creation? 

• What is unique about this year beginning on Shabbos? 
• And it being the longest possible year? 
• Has anyone come up with a good acronym for Tov Shin Pei Zayin? 
• Do you have anything to say about the fact that we have 213 years left until the end of the sixth millennium? 

• Should we be afraid of Judgment Day? 
• What can I do about the heaviness and guilt I feel every Rosh Hashana? 
• Is everything I do for myself and not for G-d a sin? 
• Why should I bother going to shul on Rosh Hashana? 
• Especially considering that my prayers are not being answered? 
• What is the source in Torah that on Rosh Hashana we coronate Hashem as King? 
• If the creation of the universe and G-d's coronation as King is dependent on us, how did that come to be at the outset of creation before there was an “us”? 
• Since “malchus has nothing of its own” do we say that our relationship with G-d is completely dependent on us? 
• What is the difference between the renewal of existence on Rosh Hashana and its renewal every moment? 
• How could G-d consult the angels about creation when the angels themselves were created? 
• Are there any differences between how the 13 attributes of mercy manifest in Elul and how they manifest in the ten days between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur? 
• What is the connection between Atem Netzavim HaYom and Rosh Hashana? 
• Why was the shofar sounded in the Beis Ha’Mikdash on Shabbos? 
• Since Shabbos accomplishes the same thing the shofar accomplishes, why do we need to sound the shofar on the second day of Rosh Hashana? 

• What is the sequence of the holidays following Rosh Hashana? 
• What is yechida and how do we access it on Yom Kippur? 
• What is the significance of the joy of Sukkos following the Days of Awe? 

• Why do they have to remain hidden? 

5787 Rosh Hashana Yom Kippur and Sukkos 36 Tzaddikim (follow-up)