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• What is Rosh Hashanah? **The head of the Year** 23And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: לֵּאמֹר. אֶל-מֹשֶׁה יְהוָה, וַיְדֵבֵּרכג תְּרוָעָה, שֵַׁבָּתו ן--זִכְרו ן לָכֶם יִהְיֶה לַחֹדׁש, ֵבְּאֶחָד הַשְֵּׁבִיָעִי ֵבַּחֹדׁש לֵאמֹר: ֵאל, יִשְׂר אֶל-ֵבְּנֵי דֵּבֵּרכד מִקרא-קדׁש. 24Speak unto the children of Israel, saying: In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall be a solemn rest unto you, a memorial proclaimed with the blast of horns, a holy convocation. כהכָּל-מְֶלאכֶתָעֲֵֹבדה,לאַתָעֲשו ;ְוהִקַרְֵבתֶּםאִשֶּׁה,לַיהוָה.}ס{ 25Ye shall do no manner of servile work; and ye shall bring an offering made by fire unto the LORD. {S} אוֵַבֹחדׁשַהְּׁשִֵביִָעיְֵּבֶאחָדַלחֹדׁש,מִקרא-קדׁשִיהְיֶהָלֶכם--ָּכל-ְמֶלאכֶתֲָעֵֹבדה,לאתֲַָעשו:יוםתְּרוָעָה, לָכֶם. יִהְיֶה .1And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have a holy convocation: ye shall do no manner of servile work; it is a day of blowing the horn unto you. • Yom Teruah –is not Yom HaDin. Why Yom HaDin הַשִּׁשִּׁי. יום וַיְהִי-ֵבֹקר, וַיְהִי-ָעֶרֵב מְאֹד ; וְהִנֵּה-טוֵב ָעָשָׂה, אֶת-כָּל-אֲשֶׁר אֱלהִים וַיַּראלא .31And God saw every thing that He had made, and, behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. ** {P} //Rashi// ** ָעליהם שיקֵבלו מנת ָעל ָעמהם שהתנה לומר ֵבראשית, מָעשה ֵבגמר ֵבששי ה' הוסיף הששי: יום ששי הוא הששי, יום ָעד וָעומדים תלוים כולם הששי יום אחר דֵבר תורה. חומשי חמשהישראל תורה: למת ן המוכ ןֵבסיו ן • The extra 'ה' • Sidenote –the story of Acher: ** Chagiga 15a-b ** (a) Acher entered the Pardes and cut down the plantlings (i.e. he became corrupt. .1About him the verse says, "Do not let your mouth cause your flesh to sin" (Koheles .)5:5 .2What happened to him: .3He saw the angel "Mttrn" who received permission to sit and write the the merits of Yisrael.  .4Acher said, "We have a tradition that there is no sitting, competition, no backside, and not tiredness (among the heavenly beings) --perhaps there are two powers!" .5They took out "Mttrn" and lashed him with 60pulses of fire and said to him, "You should have stood up when you saw him (an earthly being)!"  .6They gave him permission to erase the merits of Acher (because of his blasphemy). .7A Bas Kol issued forth saying, "'Repent, o' wayward children' (Yirmiyahu )3:22 --except for Acher!" .8When he heard this, Acher said, "Since I have been pushed out from the next world, I might as well go and get pleasure from this world!" .9He went onto an evil path. (i) He found a harlot and propositioned her. (ii) She said, "But are you not Elisha ben Avuyah!?" (iii) He went and uprooted a radish from its row on Shabbos and gave it to her. (iv) She said, "You are someone else ('Acher')." (b) Acher asked R. Meir, his Talmid, to explain several verses, and Acher rejected his explanations, saying that his teacher, R. Akiva, expounded them differently. .1R. Meir urged Acher to do Teshuvah, in accordance with one of the explanations of the verses that Acher told him. 2. Acher responded, "I have already heard from behind the heavenly curtain that my repentance will not be accepted." (c) It once happened that Acher was riding a horse on Shabbos, and R. Meir was following on foot behind him in order to learn Torah from him. 1. Acher said to R. Meir, "Stop here, for I have measured the footsteps of my horse, and until here is the Techum of Shabbos." 2. R. Meir said, "You, too, should return!" 3. Acher replied, "I have already told you that I have already heard from behind the heavenly curtain that my repentance will not be accepted." 4. R. Meir grabbed him and took him to the Beis Midrash. 5. Acher told a child to tell him what verse he was learning at the moment. 6. The child told him a verse that discusses the permanent stain of sin upon the sinner. 7. R. Meir took Acher to a total of 13 Batei Midrash, and in each one a child told Acher a verse discussing the irrevokable effect of sin. (i) The last child told him the verse, "G-d says to the wicked (Resha'im), 'Why do you discuss my laws!?'" (Tehilim 50:16). (ii) That child stuttered, and it sounded like he said, "G-d says to *Elisha*, 'Why do you discuss my laws!?'" (iii) Some say that Acher had a knife and he butchered the child and sent his body parts to the 13 synagogues. (iv) Other say that he merely said, "If I had a knife, I would butcher him." (d) When Acher died, they said they he cannot be punished, because he learned Torah, but he also cannot go to Olam ha'Ba, because he sinned. 1. R. Meir said it is best that he be punished and then go to Olam ha'Ba. 2. He added, "When I die, I will bring up smoke from his grave!" 3. When R. Meir died, smoke arose from Acher's grave. 4. R. Yochanan said that it is not proper to cause one's teacher to be punished. 4. When R. Yochanan died, he caused the smoke to stop rising from Acher's grave and he brought Acher to Olam ha'Ba. (i) In the eulogy said for R. Yochanan, it was said that "not even the guard of the gate (of Gehinom) could stand in his way!"
 * Rosh HaShanah **
 * // Vayikra :2324-25 //**
 * // Bamidbar :291-6 //**
 * // Bereisit 1:31 //**
 * 1THE STORY OF ACHER **
 * 15b---15b **
 * // Rabbi Margrett b”h //****// Who is being judged //**
 * // Netivot Shalom //**

• **//What should we be doing on Rosh Hashanah?//** Think about the new year and how we can improve as people and as Jews. We prepare for Judgement day- Yom kippur that is ahead.