{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Entering Rosh Hashanah with Rav Shlomo Katz","title":"The Rosh Hashanah Secret Hidden in the Shofar's Narrow End","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2745,"description":"We spend so much of our lives trying.\nWe work on our marriages. We work on our children. We work on our parnasah, our Torah, ourselves. And because Hashem created us adam la'amal yulad—born to work—that yegiah isn't something we're supposed to escape.\nBut then comes the danger.\nWhen something finally works, it's very easy to look back at everything we did and think: I did this.\n\nIn this Rosh Hashanah shiur, Rav Shlomo Katz and the chevra of Shirat David continue an extraordinary teaching from the Tolna Rebbe about the ba'al tokeia who simply could not get a sound out of the shofar. From the building of the Mishkan and Beit Hamikdash to Moshe Rabbeinu forgetting everything he learned on Har Sinai, we discover a pattern that runs through Torah: techilah hishtadlut, sofo matanah. First comes our effort. In the end, it's a gift.\nAnd that changes how we understand the shofar itself.\nWe blow from the narrow end—min hameitzar karati Kah—and somehow an enormous sound emerges from the other side. The more we toil, the more we're able to recognize and actually taste the miracle when it comes.\nMaybe that's part of what it means to crown Hashem on Rosh Hashanah: not waiting until life pushes us into the narrowest place to realize that everything we have was a gift all along.\n----------\nFor more Shuirim and Music from Rav Shlomo Katz, visit: https://ravshlomokatz.com\nJoin Rav Shlomo Katz's WhatsApp Community: https://chat.whatsapp.com/KHKOh hPaeHx5Kb74WL9L9a?mode=ems_copy_t\n\nCHAPTERS\n00:00 Opening Announcements & Memorials\n03:20 Recap: The Miracle of the Shofar\n05:00 The Mishkan, Beit Hamikdash & Menorah\n07:15 Why Does Hashem Make Us Work?\n09:05 The Danger of Kochi V'Otzem Yadi\n12:01 Yagata U'Matzata: Effort vs. Gift\n15:03 Why Moshe Forgot the Torah\n21:35 The More You Toil, the More You Taste the Miracle\n22:45 The Paradox of Yagata U'Matzata\n26:07 Why Our Effort Still Matters\n28:40 Vihi Noam: Bringing Hashem Into Our Work\n31:36 Why We Blow Shofar From the Narrow End\n32:50 A...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/HMxOsmxw5IrEj0QtGaHwjM4wC2NnlNQEL8hMr0DtOBU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hZDc2/NTRkZWUyOTcwZmY5/OWFjOTg1OTM0NzM3/YzFhZS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}