We stand on the threshold of the New Year, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, our Yamim Noraim, that brings us the key that unlocks the Homeland of the Soul. We require nothing else than the heart’s devoutness to transport us to the gates of the majestic Homeland. Our supplications and prayers release the latch and we enter into the Divine Presence. Here we stand not only face to face with our creator, but also face to face with ourselves. All masquerades fall away. “Thou rememberest every deed, nought is hidden from thee.”
We shall wave goodbye to the past and joyfully and with courage turn to face the future. Each year we hope and pray that this coming year will be different, bringing peace, happiness, success and healing to a world crying for salvation and miracles. However, hoping is not enough. We must come to realize that it depends on the initiative of each and every one of us.
A story is told of the Baal Shem Tov, leader of the Chassidic movement in the 18th Century; One day he was walking with his disciples. Suddenly, the saintly Baal Shem stopped to watch, with wonder, an acrobat who was skillfully walking on a tight rope stretched across a pond. The disciples gently chided their master for wasting his time on such a frivolous matter. But the Baal Shem turned and said, “My children, I was contemplating, as I watched the tight rope walker, how thoroughly he had to train his feet before he could perform this difficult feat. If men could train their souls as this man trained his feet, what spiritual chasms they could cross in safety.”
May this coming New Year bring life and happiness, peace and prosperity, salvation and joy, to all of us and our loved ones.
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