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Opinion Is Yom Kippur meant to make us sad? In this question lies his great secret Israel today

2022-09-30T11:42:44.250Z


Sages say that on Yom Kippur the daughters of Jerusalem go out and get sick in the vineyards • Isn't this a day when we are supposed to be in sorrow? • But on this day we enter the innermost and most intimate rooms, the Holy of Holies


I have a good time. " Jerusalem goes out and sick in the vineyards."

The question arises: Is Yom Kippur a suitable day to dance on?

A good day for dating?

Is this not a day when we should be in awe?

Isn't fasting supposed to make us sad and make us feel remorse?

But it is precisely this mishna that allows us to understand the meaning of Yom Kippur, the right atmosphere that should be there.

Yom Kippur is a day when God brings us closer to Him, brings us into the innermost and most intimate rooms, the Holy of Holies. There is no day in which there is a greater closeness, a greater love than Yom Kippur.

In the past, the High Priest would enter the Holy of Holies four times, and represent the soul of each and every one of Israel who was given closeness and great love.

On this day, God forgives and forgives us for our transgressions, cleanses us of all the filth and dirt that stuck to us during the year, so that we can enter Him. The confessions on Yom Kippur are our purification and sanctification in order to draw closer, to enter inside.

Individual prayer in a synagogue, photo: Miriam Tzachi/Archive

As the Gemara says in Tractate Ta'anit: "Because of Dayat Biya (in which there is) forgiveness and forgiveness, the day on which the last tablets were given."

That is to say, it is the day when God cleanses us, wants us anew. Like a bride standing before her canopy, so we are purified and sanctified in order to reach the innermost room.

There are those who ask about the second tablets of the covenant, which are apparently of lesser status than the first tablets.

Just as bringing the bride back to the groom's room after leaving there, defiled and dirty is much less.

Furthermore, there is a halacha that states that a woman who has divorced and was with another man must not be returned.

So how can God bring us back to Him after we fornicated after other Gods? After we have not been faithful to Him all year?

Precisely these questions take us deep into Yom Kippur.

Basically it turns out that deep down, in our souls, we never left.

There is an inner point that is not defiled, and this point is the heart of our life, it is the main thing.

On Yom Kippur we enter this inner place, this inner Holy of Holies, and discover that it was never defiled, that all the sins were only external, but inside we all belong to God.

On this day, God helps us to clean up all the external flaws that have stuck to us, because He wants us, because He loves us. How moving it is to say the words of love again and again - "You chose us from all the peoples, you loved us and desired us and lifted us up above all tongues and sanctified us with your commandments and our kinship Our king is at your service and your great and holy name has been called upon us."

God called us by his great name, like a man transfers his family name to his bride out of a desire to be together, to be one.

Fast to connect

We neither eat nor drink, because we want to reach this inner place, the place where we are connected and love. The fasting is not to make us sad, but to reach the deep spiritual place where we will connect, similar to the custom that the bride and groom fast on their wedding day.

We fast, to prepare for connection and connection with God. This is a fast of love, this is a fast of connection, after the high priest entered the Holy of Holies, there was great joy. 

Forgiveness for Yom Kippur, photo: Oren Ben Hakon/Archive

And so throughout the day, we get closer and closer until we reach the closing prayer.

Some interpret that in the closing prayer, God locks the gates of the prayers, and what goes in goes in and what doesn't doesn't, and we stay outside.

In my humble opinion, in the lock, the Almighty lets us in and locks the door to be with us in intimacy and closeness. Like the special moment after the wedding, when the bride and groom are escorted to the special room and after the joy with all the guests. There are moments when only the bride and groom are happy in their union, so as to say the door closes And God and Israel unite.

As Rabbi Haralaf writes: "The secret of the signature in the lock, which opens the upper gates and whoever puts himself inside these gates, he stays all year in the status of these raised gates, and whoever did not win them, when the time for locking comes, the gates are closed and whoever is outside, remains outside all year." .

May we have the privilege of feeling God's love for us, and thereby feel the love for Him, be cleansed of all external barriers, reach our Holy of Holies, the depths of our depths, and cling to God with great love.

The writer is head of the kollel at the Har Bracha yeshiva

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Source: israelhayom

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