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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Welcome to the Kosher
Terwa.
I'm Simon Jacob, your host forthis episode from Jerusalem.
Welcome to this week's episodeof the Kosher Terwa.
Tonight we're stepping intosomething ancient and alive.
The Slichot prayers sunglooking out towards the stone
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walls of the old city ofJerusalem from the terrace of
the Beit Yisrael synagogue inYim and Moshe, with the Solomon
Brothers band carrying the soundskyward.
You might not know this, but,depending on your custom,
slichot always falls out eitherduring or at the very end of
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harvest.
Slichot is not just a preludeto Rosh Hashanah, it's the
vineyard at midnight Think ofthe soul like a cluster of
grapes, sometimes bruised,sometimes sweet, sometimes
hidden under leaves.
The prayers we recite are thepressing, the gentle but
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insistent squeeze that draws outwhat's inside, drop by drop.
Just as grapes must be crushedto yield their wine, we too are
pressed by the words of Slichot,spilling out our hidden faults
and hopes until they fermentinto something stronger,
something worth pouring beforeGod.
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Slichot, like wine, requirestime.
Grapes don't become merlot in aday and the heart doesn't turn
contrition into joy overnight.
The midnight service is thatfirst stirring in the vat, the
beginning of transformation.
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Grapes also don't grow inisolation, they cling in
clusters.
In Slichot, our voices risetogether, harmonized and
entangled, each prayer lendingweight to the next, like a
vineyard where no grapes ripenalone.
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Wine is both joy and solemnity.
It can sanctify a weddingcanopy or it can accompany
Havdalah at the sad close ofShabbat.
Slichot is the same dualitySerious repentance set to the
music of yearning Grief of ourpast sins braided with the hope
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of future forgiveness.
If you're driving in your car,please pay attention to the road
ahead.
If you're home relaxing, pleaseopen a bottle of remarkable
kosher wine.
Sit back, relax and enjoy asRabbi Yeris, the rabbi of the
Beit Yisrael synagogue, inymanMoshe, introduces the Slichot
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service, after which you'll hearsomething rare Repentance sung
as celebration, contritionlifted into harmony.
Sit back or stand with thecongregation as the Solomon
Brothers Band turns Slichot intoa vintage worth remembering.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Shavua Tov, shavua
Tov.
It's good to see everyone here.
We should all be blessed with agood year, a safe year, a
healthy year.
It's an opportunity to thankHaKadosh Baruch Hu for the year
passing.
There's a very interestingdiscussion that the Talmud
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discusses about the shofarblowing.
We blow shofar during the monthof Elul.
The Sfardim blow shofar duringtheir Slichot and the Gemara,
describing what blowing ofshofar that we have on Rosh
Hashanah, uses an Aramaicdescription that is coined by
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the Targum Unkelos Yevava crying.
And there's a whole questionwhat the crying is when we blow
the shofar.
Some say it's like a tkiya,some say it's like a shvarim.
Three short sounds, some sayit's like a trua, the nine short
short sounds.
And why is the shofar blowingcompared to dafka crying?
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Why do we have to think aboutthe shofar blowing as a sadness
idea of tears?
Why not think of it as justturning ourselves to do tshuva
repentance?
Very interesting gemara in BabaMitzia and I think it's very
relevant to recite this gemaraas we dive into slichot,
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opposite Chomot, yerushalayim.
The Gemara says Amar Rabi,lazar, miyom, shekhnar Beit
HaMikdash, from the day that theTemple was destroyed, nin'alu,
sha'arei, tefillah, the gates ofprayers was locked and sealed.
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Prayers could not enter heaven,sh'ne'amar, because it says in
the book of Eicha Gam Ki'ezakVa'Shavea even if I cry out
Sh'atam Tefillati, my prayersare cut off.
And it seems, of course, very,very despairing to be told that
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we're living in a period of timein which the gates of tefillah
are closed, they're sealedbefore us and cannot be opened.
But then the gemara goes on,sealed before us and cannot be
opened, but then the Gemara goeson, and even though, even
though the gates of receivingour prayers was locked, the gate
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of tears was never, ever closed.
It says Hashem listened to ourprayers and listen now to our
tears.
Don't let them be silent.
There is a concept of tears, aconcept of crying that Kodesh
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Baruch Hu never closes his earsto us, whether we have the Beit
Hamibash before us or not,blowing the Shofar we describe
at the end of each of the partsof the Musaf, after the first
part of Malchiyot, after thesecond part of Malchiyot, after
the second part of Zichronot andafter the third part of Shofrot
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, all during the period of timeduring the Tefillah.
When it comes to the issue ofHodah, of thanking Kodesh Baruch
Hu, of requesting before him,and we come before him asking
him, perhaps we don't have theprayers as strong as they used
to be, but our tears from ourheart, our tears from our soul
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are able to break through andcome and reach HaKadosh Baruch
Hu.
When we say Slichot, there's avery important aspect of
preparing us before the day ofRosh Hashanah.
So many difficulties have comeupon us this past year, so many
tragedies, so many challengesthat have beset the Jewish
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people here in Eretz, yisraeland abroad, and we talk about
the idea of preparing ourselves,doing tshuva.
Maimonides in the second book,the second chapter of his book
of tshuva.
Maimonides in the second book,the second chapter of his book
of tshuva, describes what istshuva gemura.
Complete tshuva is when I havea chance, as one knows, to redo
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my actions and not followthrough and commit the sin.
Yet at the same ending of thathalacha, he says if one does not
do that and one does not dealwith the perception of sin and
the motivation of committing sinand the Yitzhar Haraf doing sin
at that time, but he waitsuntil an older age, and so forth
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, maimonides ends up saying thatit is not a tshuva me'ula and
they ask the question why?
On the one hand, the Maimanistarts off saying what is a
tshuva gemura, a complete tshuva.
And then he ends off sayingwhat is a tshuva, or it's not a
tshuva, me'ula?
You would think it would endoff saying if it was not the
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same level, it would be a tshuvalo gemura, not a complete
tshuva.
Why use different phraseology?
And those who say to teach uswhat tshuva is all about?
Tshuva, one would think, thehighest level, gemurah, 20
points.
I've done all the challenges,I've met the moment and I've
decided to change my ways, notto commit the sin.
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And if I don't reach gemurah, Ionly get 10 points, not 20
points.
But by the wording ofMaimonides we realize something
more.
When I'm not reaching the issueof gemurah, the complete type
of tshuva, it's not that I'mreaching less points, I'm not
reaching anything.
Tshuva is when I have themotivation, so to speak, to
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change my ways, when I'm at myprime and I have the decision to
make in my life whether to dothe right thing or the wrong
thing, whether to change my waysto be good to my neighbor, to
be good in my relationship withHaKadosh Baruch Hu, to learn
Torah, to keep the mitzvot, todo charity, and when I have the
choice to do it.
That is what is called ShuvahGemurah.
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If it's not, it's not evenbeginning to reach the stage of
what repentance is all about andI believe, with the words of my
manris, how it's supposed tosink into us.
Davka, to help us, to enable usto see the walls of
Yerushalayim behind us, in frontof us, as we do in Slichot, to
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enable us to see the walls ofYerushalayim behind us, in front
of us, as we've done in Slichot, and to reach out, to have an
impact not only on our atfilotbut how we feel the crying that
comes from so many the orphans,the widows this year, those who
are hurt and wounded, ourchayalim and chayalot.
And when we turn to our KodeshBaruch Hu, we ask Kodesh Baruch
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Hu with all our heart that thisyear he grant us a good year, a
year of kindness, a year ofcompassion, a year of helping.
Am Yisrael, wherever we are,that no longer will we live in
any type of threat or any typeof challenges, but rather we
remain together, unified, as onenation, shalom.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Yeah, of course, and
his hand, and his hand to him.
Hallelujah, he will rise.
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And he will rise the name ofthe Lord.
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Amen, shabbat Shalom.
Yisbarach v'yishtabach v'yisparv'yisoyma v'yisnaseh v'yis'hado
v'yisaleh v'yis'halol, shmeidekut, jo b'richu Shalom.
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And they will say Amen, shemaTefillah, thank you, shalom, and
to our night.
Let our prayer be and let ourprayers be, and let our prayers
be and let our prayers be andlet our prayers be, and let our
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prayers be Shalom oh yeah, oh,yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah yeah yeah, yeah,yeah, yeah, yeah yeah
Speaker 3 (16:42):
yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,yeah, yeah, yeah, chag HaOlech
Ha'olam Chosah, chosah, oh Yah.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Ha'olam Ha'olam,
ha'olam, ha'olam, ha'olam,
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ha'olam Shalom, and she will beour voice.
Shalom Dar metuchim Ve'yelufanim Nishpo etzichim Goal nun
esiv eis Echoy eshorimve'yanechoychim Dovaknu besoy
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avoy Suve matzim znuchimHalachnu achrey matzoy Tshavu
maduchim Shalom Chorei bufasreyach Ni chorei chim.
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Teiradu ve'etul talu Kayani.
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Meshufim Shalom, we will beburned, we will be cut and we
will be cooked, so we will besaved from the hands of the
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wicked no-transcript.
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Erech Ha'paim V'rav ChesedV'emes.
Noi Tzev.
Chesed.
Noi Lovim Noi Tzeyobim V'fofimNoi tse' yabe'im V'fesha'
V'chata'or V'nakeh.
Av'inay'nul Chata'osay'nulChaltanu.
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Slach'lanu Av'inu k'iratanuV'chal'anu K'inu k'ifashanu.
No-transcript.
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And I will say who will besaved.
We will be saved and we willhave a new life.
No-transcript.
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Shalom, shalom, shabbat Shalom.
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And there he was buried.
Shalom, have a nice day.
Shema Adonai Tzedek ChagShivari Yinut Sharmay Shorim
Umarim El Yinut Ayy Roy ShleYorim Lichlamnu V'Rashnu Shalom
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Pana le yamin vayikzom atzadPachad mismol v'ta yad atzad
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Einei chora.
Yais diyenar pekuchais Oynive'inuy mitzora.
Yais hamesuchais Shalom Asgirbe'yamid chomar loy sakhonah hey
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kolinu ki yisdoim Bishval koelha'tachanah Kimat regal uleiteh
hiyinah ¶¶, ¶¶ ¶¶.
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Choir SINGS Shabbat Shalom.
D minor.
D minor, z minor.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
D D minor.
Speaker 4 (40:27):
When I'm reading
nothing, I need you to help me.
No-transcript, because there isno one like you.
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For the Lord is the Lord andthe Son of man, and the Lord is
the Lord and the Son of man, andthe Lord is the Lord and the
Son of man.
For the Lord is the Lord andthe Son of man.
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Shalom ¶¶, shalom, shalom.
Noi tseh chesed lo alofim.
Noi tseh yobayim b'feshoV'chatoo v'nakeh.
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V'salach tolo, v'inim V'chatos,v'inim V'chatos, v'inim V'chatos
, v'inim V'chatos, v'inimV'chatos, v'inim V'chatos,
v'inim V'chatos, v'inim V'chatos.
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Choir SINGS Yisrael HaKadosh,baruch Hu.
Shalom, shalom, shabbat Shalom.
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I'm going to sing a song.
Oh, my God, shabbat Shalom, andreceive our prayers with mercy
and desire.
Speaker 5 (51:06):
Hashem come to us.
Come to us, come to us andbless us with your mercy and
your mercy and our prayers withyour mercy and your mercy.
Speaker 4 (51:18):
Our Lord, our Lord,
come to us and be pleased with
us.
No-transcript.
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Hashtar v'golo Uvizman koriv.
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I don't know.
Amen.
Shalom Chachni, yisei rachamim.
Speaker 3 (01:05:29):
Chachnisu rachamim.
Speaker 4 (01:05:54):
Chachni yisei
rachamim Shalom Haimashmiyei
tseyaka ashmiyu.
Zakasenu Lifnei shaymei tseyakaHaimachnisay dimarachnisu
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dimarisenu Lifnei melech misratzebit moich Ha'ishtadlu mehamut
Hachinau v'kosho L'fnei melechelram ve'ni yisro Hayayay
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no-transcript.
Speaker 3 (01:11:46):
v'yisobayinu,
v'yisobayinu, v'yisobayinu,
v'yisobayinu v'yisobayinu,v'yisobayinu, v'yis oh man ¶¶.
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Choir SINGS E minor CHOIR SINGSoh Be'en o'sha'na'i,
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Ay'me'o'sha'na'i.
Speaker 1 (01:14:40):
And so, as the last
echoes of Slichot fade in the
stone arches of Ibn Moshe, we'releft with the taste of
something unfinished, like abarrel, still mid-ferment, alive
with possibilities.
These prayers are not the end.
They're the first press, thefirst stirring, the first drops
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of sweetness that promises avintage worth waiting for.
Rosh Hashanah is almost here,and with it comes a chance to
pour a new glass, to begin againwith clarity and courage.
What we've heard tonight isonly the opening movement of a
much longer symphony of renewalOn the kosher terroir.
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We keep tracing the way wineand spirit intertwine, sometimes
through the vineyard, sometimesthrough the synagogue, always
through the heart.
So stay with us, come back forthe next pour and let's see
together what vintage this newyear will bring.
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This is Simon Jacob, again yourhost of today's episode of the
Kosher Terroir.
This is Simon Jacob, again yourhost of today's episode of the
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