DovBer Pinson
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Sep 14, 2026
speaker_0HOST
And then there's a later idea, and I was trying to find where I read this.
speaker_0HOST
I think it was in one of DovBer Pinson's books.
speaker_0HOST
But he says that the-- there's actually a fifth level, and I don't wanna misquote him, but I think it came from him.
speaker_0HOST
Maybe I saw it somewhere else.
DanHOST
He became fruitful in the land of his affliction.
DanHOST
And Rabbi Pinson develops the Ephraim fruitfulness as one of the central qualities of Tishrei.
DanHOST
The point is not merely that we can succeed despite difficulty.
DanHOST
There's something deeper happening here.
DanHOST
Tishrei's letter is Lamed, the letter associated with learning.
DanHOST
So we recover the energy, learn from what happened, and give that energy a new direction.
DanHOST
Rabbi Pinson develops Lamed not only as the letter of learning, but also of upward movement, It rises above the other letters of the Hebrew alphabet.
DanHOST
So perhaps the movement from Yud to Lamed gives us an image of the transition from Elul to Tishrei.
Gedale FensterHOST
So, very excited.
Gedale FensterHOST
But today's class, we're going to do a book on Rabbi Pinson's on Rosh Hashanah.
Gedale FensterHOST
And he talks about something very beautiful.
Gedale FensterHOST
You know, we speak about the importance of saying a blessing, but then believing in the blessing, right? A lot of times we say the blessings, we're manifesting something, or we're, you know, it's in the spiritual world, but it needs to be brought down into the physical world.