It was during the month of Elul, and Rav Levi Yitzchok was searching for a baal tokei’a for Rosh Hashanah. Yidden from all over flocked to R’ Levi Yitzchok to beg for the zechus to blow shofar for him.
R’ Levi Yitzchok took aside each applicant and asked, “What are your kavanos during the teki’as hashofar?” And each individual enumerated the lofty and holy machshovos to which he would be mechaven.
R’ Levi Yitzchok then approached the simple Yid, bent over a sefer in the corner of the bais hamedrash, who just hadn’t had the courage to even come close to the group of scholars huddled around the Rav. R’ Levi Yitzchok asked, “And what about you?”
The Yid trembled in the gadol’s presence and said, “Rebbi, I am a simple Jew with four daughters to marry, and I don’t even have a penny for a dowry. When it comes time for tekias shofar I will be mechaven ‘Ribono Shel Olam, may the teki’as shofar be according to Your will, and may the Ribono Shel Olam please fulfill my will and send zivugim for my daughters.’”
“You have the proper kavanos; you will be the appropriate ba’al tokei’a for Rosh Hashanah,” Rav Levi Yitzchok exclaimed.
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Let all your deeds be for the sake of Heaven
Repent one day before your death
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Do not judge your fellowman until you have reached his place
Distance yourself from a bad neighbor
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