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Podcast: The Great Sources with Rabbi Shnayor Burton
Episode: S1, E36 The Day of Judgment
Description: What exactly is determined on this awesome day?
A deep reading of the sources shows that the judgment of Rosh Hashanah isn’t, essentially, about what will happen to man; it is about man himself.
On the very first Rosh Hashanah Hashem saw everything that He created, and it was all very good in His eyes. The creation was all goodness, but man introduced evil and became evil himself. On every subsequent Rosh Hashanah Hashem again reviews each individual man, looking at him and seeing if he is good or evil.
Every new ye...