Friday, October 11, 2019

Seems Like The Right Time To Express This Gratitude

I am grateful to the Nesivos Shalom/ Rav Sholom Noach Berezovsky. I have no words I can think of other than to use some of his words that I've taken in.

1 The world was created for 6 days, and then Shabbos brought the merit to regenerate it for 6 more. This happened the first week of creation and every week since.

2 The medrash does not say that the unevenly numbered seventh day that seemed to have no partner would be partnered with Klal Yisrael, nor with An Yisrael, but with Knesset Yisrael. What connects us to Shabbos is our connecting to each other.

3 You need Shabbos to do teshuva and you need teshuva to keep Shabbos.

4 When we feel we don't have faith we have to have faith in our having faith, like how we believe the sun is there even when it's covered by clouds.

5 We wish for Mashiach and the Beit HaMikdash, just like we need to do teshuvah because we can't accept that if this world is created and run by G-d that it is supposed to be the way it is now.

6 Closeness to G-d is good, distance from G-d is bad. That's the one rule.

7 A prince left his father's palace and joined a gang of robbers. Time went on as it always does and he returned to his father and to following his father's ways. But the king couldn't trust his son, he feared that his son would return to his band of thieves. And the son did return to the robbers. But he rehabilitated them and transformed them into servants of the king. Now the king was relieved and happy. On Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur we rejoin our Father, but how can he trust us? He trusts us after on Sukkot we elevate the physical things that can brought us down and that we separated from and we make them part of how we serve G-d so He (and we) need not fear that we will again be be taken down by them.

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