Rosh Hashanah: Not putting any limits on where we could reach
Rosh Hashanah is the head of the year; and the beginning of the year. One of our first prayers on Rosh Hashanah is that we should be connected to the head and not the tail. Of course, the deepest question in the world is: who is your head? And what is your beginning?
Imagine I will tell you; begin your life all over. Where do you begin? Would you change your religion? Would you change your wife or husband? Which habit would you change? And which stupidity would you not let ruin your life? Or what is the most important thing to you? For what would you give your head? Who is your Rebbe? Which page of the Torah is a page of your life? Which Chassidish book is the one which gives you life?
To be in exile is maybe to know that evil is real bad. But what is lacking is not knowing how good “good” is. Or maybe, in other words, I don’t like the darkness, but don’t make the light too strong.
On Rosh Hashanah, I connect myself to the head of all heads, to the beginning of all beginnings, to the highest headquarters in Heaven, to the Holy Temple above, to Yerushalyim above, to my own soul. Rosh Hashanah is one day when I don’t put any limits on where I could reach.
A lot of people when they pray, the most unimportant part of them is praying — their head is somewhere else. On Rosh Hashanah every word we utter; every prayer every wish is reaching the highest place in Heaven, the highest place in our hearts.
Have the best year, the loftiest year and let us all be privileged that through us people will connected to the highest place.
Love, and blessings, Shlomo
New York, Elul 5753
Reprinted from Cong Kehilath Jacob News
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