Rosh Hashanah: Let’s fix the world!
The year passed so fast and yet so much has happened — so many tragedies, so many beautiful things, so many people left this world who can’t be replaced and so many beautiful babies were born to make the world more holy and more sweet.
On Rosh Hashanah we as Jews begin the year with the blowing of the shofar which reaches the highest place in heaven and the deepest, deepest depths of our souls. Everyone knows that there was a shofar blowing on Mt. Sinai, in the Holy Temple, and there will be great shofar blowing when the Moshiach comes.
On Rosh Hashanah when we blow shofar we experience all of this and we experience what life will be like after the Messiah has arrived when G-d is one and the whole world is one. Yet the finding of the shofar was when Abraham and Isaac were still on top of the mountain ready to give their lives for G-d. What we need the most in our generation is to find that shofar again — when a Jew and his child are both ready to give everything they have for G-d –and then the Messiach will come so fast to blow it.
Let it be you and I, your children and my children.
Let it be your shofar and my shofar that the Messiah will want to blow.
On Rosh Hashanah we don’t repent in the ordinary sense. We are not telling G-d our mistakes. What we’re doing all day and night is bringing down G-d’s oneness into the world. Our lives are so split and everything in the whole world seems to be falling apart that we begin the year with two days of living in a world of absolute deepest highest oneness there is. As long as my mother was alive whenever she blessed me on the high holidays I would also feel my father’s holy hands on my head and the hands of all my forefathers and grandfathers.
I bless you that your hands should be holy this year so that when you put them on your children’s heads they should feel the hands of Abraham and Sarah and all our forefathers. A lot of us are orphans; we need to become each other’s mother and father; so I shall wait for the holidays to be blessed by you holy brothers and sisters and to have the joy of blessing you in return.
Please remember that on the high holidays all the gates of heaven are opened wide and every Jew that comes to synagogue makes the doors open wider.
We invite you to pray with us, to become one with us and let us become one with you.
Please, please, please bring all your beautiful children.
Let’s fix the world — our lives and souls together.
Rabbi Shlomo
Moshav Meor Modiin. Erev Rosh Hashanah 5740.
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