Zera Shimshon Rosh Hashana

 

Chasam Sofer Minhagim for Rosh Hashana

by EMAILIM BATORAH

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הנהגות ופסקי חתם סופר 

 for ראש השנה

1) The  חיוב of טהרה במקוה before YomTov (ר"ה ט"ז ע"ב) is 

 only for ערב שלש רגלים and not ערב ר"ה.

2) He made התרת נדרים on  ערב יו"כ and not on ערב ר"ה.

 3) He insisted the חזן say   נקדש, - נעריצך at the end  of the Piyut  דרי מעלה עם דרי  מטה  

 (Most מחזורים start with ככתוב​). To  be מקיים the מצוה דאורייתא  of  ונקדשתי the Chazzan needs to invite (נקדש) the ציבור to  be 

מקדש השם. 

4) For תשליך all he said was 3x the Pasuk מי אל כמוך

and  no  other תפילות

5) He was מקפיד   not to eat nuts only on Rosh Hashana

​ ​(not on the rest of  עשרת ימי תשובה)

SHAVE OFF YOUR BEARD ON ער"ה

 ​ The טור (O.Ch. 581) quotes the מדרש .

"The מנהג of the world is that when a person has a court case, he dresses in black, wraps himself in black, and grows his beard, etc.The בני ישראל are different. They dress in white; they wrap themselves in white and shave their beards. ומגלחין זקנם*

 גילוח = shaving not trimming

The words "באהבה וברצון" are added

to the שמונה עשרה and at קידוש when Yom Tov falls on Shabbos.

The מטה משה writes "Yomim Tovim were given on הר סיני.

and were originally accepted forcefully כפה עליהם הר כגיגית. 

Shabbos was given in מרה (before מתן תורה) and was

accepted באהבה וברצון with love & favor.

That is the reason why we add באהבה וברצון on Shabbos.

Charedi critics keep asking the New Charedie Party "where are your endorsements from the Gedolim?" Here is your answer!!

 

YOU’RE ASKING THE WRONG QUESTION

Since Hatzibbur HaCharedi entered the Israeli political arena, one question has come up again and again — where are your endorsements from senior Rabbonim? Where are the Gedolim?

It is a fair question, and it deserves a proper answer rather than a defensive one. To be clear, the party does have rabbinic endorsements, rabbinic leadership, and a Va’ad Rabbanim involved in every policy they adopt. Some have given their approval quietly, for reasons I will come to; others have been public.

But the assumption buried inside the question also deserves to be taken seriously. Charedi Judaism is built around deference to Torah authority, and we do not treat Da’as Torah as a decorative slogan to be wheeled out whenever it is convenient.

But there is also a second Torah concept, no less fundamental, which has a curious habit of going missing from these conversations at precisely the moment it becomes inconvenient. That concept is achrayut — responsibility.

Which is why, if we are going to be totally honest, the question is being asked in the wrong order. People have been trained to ask about the endorsement first, and everything else afterwards, if at all.

Mamzarani, the Temple Mount & the Hilltop Heroes

 

Charedie Violence is winning! Moshiach doesn't want to come, he has no one waiting for him!

 

 I drove through the tiny alleyways scanning my windshield for cracks as stones, garbage, and curses were hurled at my car. It was Shabbat afternoon and I was navigating through the maze-like streets of an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood surrounded by an enraged mob. Ironically I wasn’t afraid for my own safety. I was afraid for theirs.

The mob was made up of children. Teeny children.Their tiny bodies formed a human blockade in the street as they screamed, “Shabbos!” They threw rocks and assorted garbage while shaking their tiny fists in indignation.

Six minutes earlier, I had been resting at home when the call came in: Woman giving birth. Seven minutes away.

Leftist Media Completely Fabricated a Story about Netanyahu having a Conversation with a UAE Leader in an Effort to Topple BiBi

 

Former Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, speaking at the MEAD Conference in Washington, addressed a question about the alleged conversation between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the President of the United Arab Emirates before October 7:

“Did such a conversation take place? No.

Had there been a conversation, I would have been part of it, because one of the tasks assigned to me was expanding the Abraham Accords and strengthening the partnership with the United Arab Emirates.

So in all the conversations between the prime minister and Mohammed bin Zayed, the UAE leader, I was either privy to the details or on the line during the conversation itself. This conversation did not take place.

And it’s not even a question of the content of the conversation; I don’t think there was a conversation at all. And that content certainly wasn’t discussed.

So I don’t know where they got this story from. I think the Emiratis have been clear that it didn’t happen. We’ve been clear that it didn’t happen. So it’s essentially a fabrication. Just a made-up story.”

How much $$$$$ Will Gafni receive from the Zionists who he fought all the years he served

 Knesset member Moshe Gafni, who was removed from the Degel HaTorah list for the Knesset, is expected to receive a budget pension of 70% of his salary as a Knesset member. According to the current salary, the pension is estimated at about NIS 36,500 per month, about NIS 438,000 a year.

n addition, Gafni is expected to receive a one-time adjustment grant of NIS 312,000 from the Knesset

Uproar within Charedim at Rav Dov Landau's throwing Away Gafni and Maklev "like dogs"

 

Rabbi Rafael Wolf, who was a close associate, confidant, and right‑hand man of Maran Rabbi Elazar Menachem Man Shach zt”l — and a partner in the historic moments surrounding the founding of Degel HaTorah — delivered sharp criticism over the ousting of veteran Knesset members Moshe Gafni and Uri Maklev.

In an interview with Natan Mashi and Avi Gadolovitz on the program “One in the Afternoon” on Kol Barama, Rabbi Wolf said he is “shocked” by the move, especially by the attempt to justify it as a need to “refresh” the ranks.

“Can you explain to me why they were dismissed?

What does ‘refreshing’ mean?

Where is there a new mitzvah in the Torah about refreshing?” he wondered.

“Do roshei yeshiva send people out in order to refresh the yeshiva?

Do rabbis send people out to refresh the rabbinate? This is a new mitzvah. Such a thing never existed in Judaism at all.”

Political Context Behind Rabbi Rafael Wolf’s Criticism

1. Degel HaTorah’s Internal Shake‑Up

Degel HaTorah — the Lithuanian faction within the United Torah Judaism (UTJ) alliance — recently removed two of its most senior and long‑serving MKs: Moshe Gafni and Uri Maklev. Both have been central figures for decades:Gafni chaired the Knesset Finance Committee for many years. Maklev was a key parliamentary operator and coalition negotiator. Their removal represents a major generational and strategic shift inside the party.

 2. Why This Is Causing Turmoil

In the Lithuanian Charedi world, political leadership is traditionally stable and guided by senior rabbinic authorities. Sudden changes — especially involving veteran figures — are rare and often interpreted as signs of deeper ideological or leadership struggles.

Rabbi Wolf’s comments reflect: Shock at the break from tradition, Suspicion toward the justification of “refreshing the ranks”, and concern that the move lacks precedent in Torah‑guided leadership norms

His rhetorical question — “Where is there a mitzvah of refreshing?” — expresses the belief that political decisions should be rooted in continuity and rabbinic guidance, not managerial language.

 3. The Broader Power Struggle

The shake‑up appears connected to: Internal rabbinic disagreements within the Lithuanian leadership Younger political figures seeking influence, Pressure to modernize party structures and finally Tensions between Degel HaTorah and Agudas Yisrael (its Hasidic partner in UTJ)

These dynamics have been building for years, especially as:The older generation of gedolim has passed on, New rabbinic authorities are asserting different priorities and Younger activists want more representation

 4. Why Gafni and Maklev’s Removal Is Symbolic

Their ousting signals:A shift away from the old guard, A possible redefinition of Degel HaTorah’s identity,A struggle over who speaks for the Lithuanian community, and A move that could reshape UTJ’s future coalition behavior

For many in the Charedi world, this is not just political — it’s a question of continuity of Torah leadership, which is why Rabbi Wolf frames it in religious terms.

 5. What Happens Next

Without predicting outcomes: Degel HaTorah may be entering a new era of leadership, UTJ’s internal balance could shift, The party’s negotiating style in future coalitions may change, Veteran voters may feel unsettled, while younger voters may welcome change

רב רפאל וולף, מי שהיה מקורבו, נאמנו ויד ימינו של מרן הגרא"מ שך זצ"ל ושותף לרגעים ההיסטוריים של הקמת דגל התורה, מותח ביקורת חריפה על הטלטלה במפלגה ועל הדחתם של חברי הכנסת הוותיקים משה גפני ואורי מקלב.

בריאיון לנתן משי ואבי גדלוביץ' בתוכנית "אחת בצהריים" ב"קול ברמה", אמר הרב וולף כי הוא "המום" מהמהלך, ובעיקר מהניסיון להסביר אותו בצורך ב"רענון" השורות.

"אתה יכול להסביר לי למה הדיחו אותם? מה זה רענון? איפה יש מצווה חדשה בתורה של רענון?", תהה. "ראשי ישיבות שולחים אותם כדי לרענן את הישיבה? רבנים שולחים אותם כדי לרענן את הרבנות? זו מצווה חדשה. לא היה בכלל ביהדות כזה דבר".

Lone juror’s holdout in the Lindsay Clancy trial is a true act of courage

 

DIN: We live in a very sick society, people and even Jewish frum people defending Lindsay Clancey. Helllowwwwww she planned and executed her innocent children. Does anyone know the name of her children. One can justify every single murderer with this perverted logic that it was her medications, it could very well be, but at the end of the day, she murdered her children, why couldn't see just have killed herself and let her children live? She needs to be held accountable. 

by Miranda Devine NYP

He couldn’t get over the fact that Clancy viciously killed her children.”

Those are the words of one of the insufferably condescending female jurors from the Lindsay Clancy mistrial who have gone public with their disdain for the lone male juror who refused to go along with their not guilty verdict.

Good for him.

The children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, have been the forgotten victims in this case.

The Massachusetts nurse does not dispute that she strangled her children one by one on Jan. 24, 2023, with exercise bands around their necks after she sent her husband, Patrick, out on an errand.

Patrick returned to his kids dead and his wife bleeding on the snow-covered yard after she cut her wrists and throat and leaped out a bedroom window 12 feet above the ground, rendering herself paralyzed from the waist down. Rather than accepting blame, Lindsay, 36, pleaded not guilty, claiming she could not tell right from wrong at the time because she was suffering from postpartum psychosis, even though evidence for that was thin.

What Israel's response to Britain should have been

 

The retaliatory actions taken by the Israeli government against Great Britain in the wake of the latter’s anti settlement measure are simply not enough.

For example, both the British Embassy in Tel Aviv and the British Consulate in Jerusalem should have been closed. Indeed, I would go further and condition the reopening of the British Embassy only if it’s relocated to Jerusalem AND $6 billion restitution is paid for the British Government’s closure of entry to its Palestine Mandate to Jews fleeing Nazi extermination.

Moreover, I think it would have been right and proper for the Israeli Government to take this opportunity to announce that henceforth ALL embassies must either be relocated to Jerusalem or be closed until such action is taken.

Why a Gaza sand berm and concrete barrier will not defeat Hamas

Of course, why all the other signatories of Foreign Secretary Miliband’s antisemitic initiative weren’t also sanctioned by having their consulates in Jerusalem closed is totally beyond me.

And a further diplomatic retaliatory measure was needed: namely, ALL foreign diplomatic offices in Ramallah should also have been ordered permanently closed.

Recognizing American sovereignty over Greenland and supporting Argentina’s claim to the Malvinas Islands should also have been adopted.

But perhaps the greatest lost opportunity is the Israeli government’s cowardly refusal to officially declare the death of the Oslo Agreement. I ask, how much more Jewish blood has to be spilled before the genocidal P.A. regime in Ramallah is closed down?

And when will an Israeli Government that finally summon the courage to announce the application of our G-d given sovereignty over Judaea and Samaria? I mean, exactly who are we waiting to negotiate this with? Ed Milliband?

What Israel’s response to this whole sordid matter reflects, more than anything else, is our political establishment’s unwillingness to think and act decisively on foreign policy issues.

And until our administration adopts such a mindset, no matter who stands at its head, we will continue to calmly wipe the world’s spit off our faces while pretending it’s just rain.

by Jonathan Pollard