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Today’s daily dose of emuna is dedicated to the refuah shleimah of Emuna Chaya bat Sarah. May Hashem send her a complete healing b’riut hanefesh v’br’iut haguf among all of those in Klal Yisrael who are sick and suffering, b’karov, b’rachamim, Amen.
Throughout the year we continuously view life through fragmented lenses. We see dissolution, many causes to events and therefore struggle to attach to the Oneness of Hashem. Rosh Hashanah comes to remedy this disjointed mindset. Our entire focus on this holy day should be centered on accepting Hashem as the One All – Be All, total sovereignty over existence.
This is a difficult task. Western world media constantly bombard us with logical reasons behind world events and blame the decision-makers for pulling the strings. The Jewish standpoint is that Hashem Yitborach has many cohorts who carry out His carefully designed masterplan. They are imaginary and on Rosh Hashanah the sound of the shofar comes to wake us from our spiritual slumber and remind us Who is really in charge.
However Chazal teach us that it is not enough to intellectually know Who the Supreme Authority of existence is to achieve complete teshuva. The additional missing piece of information is that Hashem ‘hides’ His presence from the Jewish people when they forsake His will; a Jew must remember this important point to attain teshuvah shleimah.
Furthermore, this intellectual understanding and heartfelt emotion must motivate us to examine and change our ways. This is highlighted in the tefillah of Rosh Hashanah called Zichronot of Mussaf. Here we are gifted with the awareness of how our deeds impact the entire world. Our behavior affects the destiny of the smallest to biggest happenings in the lower and upper worlds.
