[Avodah] R Asher Weiss

[Eli Turkel]

I was priveleged to hear HaGaon R. Asher Weiss speak in my hometown this
evening. He spoke more about RH then his usual chiddushim.
So short thoughts:

The tekiyot before Musaf are to arouse us to do tshuva (uru yeshenim). The
tekiyot during the Amidah are meant for G-d to remind him/us of the ram of
Yitzchak and ask for mechila.
When we say that we say both to mixup :arvev: the Satan it is not because
he forgot from last year but rather to weaken the Satan. Now that we have
became aware of our faults we have the right to ask G-d to remember the
akeidah

The most memorial kol nidre he had was not on YK. Some 4 years ago he went
with a small group to Auschwitz. They met a survivor there who told a story
that one year on YK the nazi commander demanded that the Jewish "symphony"
play music to celebrate YK. The band played the tune of Kol Nidre. The
commander liked the tune and said they should play it a second time and
then a third time. While everyone in the group cried they sang together kol
nidrei. He noted that many are very affected by kol nidrei while no one
cries at hatarat nedarim before RH.
(RYBS explains that one can remove a vow retroactively and shows that
teshuva can also work retroactively)

R. Weiss also stressed that we always say avinu malkenu. G-d is both a king
and a father but he is first a king and only second a king. So even when in
judgement he hints that blowing the shofar will help. The main point is
that even then G-d is a judge and not a prosecutor. If G-d would prosecute
we could never win



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Eli Turkel
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