Street Farbrengen Episode # 140: A Dead Ram's Horn that Runs The Universe Makes no Sense!!

Sep 15, 2026 · 51 min · 10 segments

Are Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur and the days in between about becoming worthy? Isn't this what "better through regret" means? In this post-Rosh Hashanah farbrengen, Reuven and Zacharia wrestle with a radical idea: creation itself doesn't have a reason. Blowing the shofar, which changes everything, makes no sense — it is a *gezeiras hakasuv,* a decree*.* Don't explain it, understand it, or find meaning in it — simply accept the no rhyme or reason. Why? This begins our relationship with Hashem. As such if there's no reason for creation, value and worth have no place. From the first day of Rosh Hashanah on Shabbos, when the shofar isn't blown, to the second day when we do blow it, the conversation explores **emunah** - faith and belief, **oneg -** pleasure, anxiety, Chassidus, and the difference between improving yourself and trying to prove yourself. What would happen if we stopped using Torah, achievement — even spirituality — to establish our value? Learning Chassidus to become "more frum" ( religious) is actually a subtle scam you're running on yourself. Creation has no reason. G-d doesn't fit the logic. So why are you still trying to ***"earn by learn"*** - to claim your value? This is "87" - Paz — the year of pure gold — and what it actually means to stop negotiating for your own worth. A year of "pure gold" — not because of what we accomplish, but because our worth was never ours to manufacture, but to accept.

Speakers: Reuven FlamerHostZacharia LipitzHost

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