Favorite Memories of Rav Berg on Rosh Hashanah with Yehuda Berg

Insights into Rosh Hashanah, with Yehuda Berg. Favorite memories of the Rav on Rosh Hashanah. We were in Chicago, I think it was 2007 or 2006 and it was after Abba had the stroke. So after the stroke he blew a little of the Shofar, then I would blow some of the Shofar. And this year he was particularly aggressive, pushing me, kicking me, punching me. And at the end of all the... we finished the prayers and the Shofar I was like, soaking wet in tears. And then Michael was told the story about the Baal Shem Tov on Rosh Hashanah. The Baal Shem Tov had one of the people who prayed right next to him was the guy who blew the Shofar for him. And one Rosh Hashanah, as everytime they would study the meditations together, the Shofar, and they had a little note of all the meditations. And one time, right before it, the Baal Shem Tov stole all those notes. So he comes to blow the Shofar and he's looking for his notes and he can't find them. So he's starts crying and holds the Shofar all the whole way through, he's crying, he's crying, he's crying. And, he doesn't have his notes. At the end, the Baal Shem Tov comes to him and he says, 'So how was the Shofar?' And he says, 'You know, the truth is, I lost all my notes, I was just crying'. And he says, 'You know, I took your notes'. And he says, 'Why, why would you do that?' He says, 'Because I saw there was a big negativity coming and the regular way wasn't going to break the negativity, but maybe your crying during the Shofar would break something'. So, that's my most memorable moment of Rosh Hashanah, that happened to me, to all of us. But, things happen, things just happen. Things happen to us while we're there together as one community at Rosh Hashanah, wherever that is. Join us in Anaheim September 4-8, 2013. Register at Kabbalah.com/rh The Kabbalah Centre. Learn, Transform, Connect.