Rosh Hashana - The Satan Knows What You Did But He Doesn’t Know You.

The Satan has heard the shofar for thousands of years. Why should hearing it once more leave him confused?In this shiur, delivered at Mevaseret Mishmar, Rav Burg explains that the shofar is not a code he has failed to crack. It is the private language between Hashem and Klal Yisrael—a language that can be heard from the outside but understood only from within the relationship. A prosecutor may know everything we have done and still not know who we are.Through the tekios demeyushav and tekios deme’umad, the kol pnimi of a shofar inside a shofar, and Hashem’s response to Yishmael—ba’asher hu sham—this shiur explores what the shofar reveals about the deepest place within a Jew. We are not asking Hashem to ignore what we have done. We are asking Him to hear the whole truth: beneath the failures is a child still calling to his Father, a soul that never stopped wanting to come home. And the rachamim that allows us to be heard that way becomes the way we are meant to hear others.