Shavuah Tov!!!!!! Hope you all had a meaningful and easy fast.
Before Nehila, Rabbi Stein from the Ridniker Shul in Manhattan gave us some beautiful words of inspiration. He said that in the prayer of Nehila we don’t do any more the prayers asking forgiveness for our sins. The reason for this is that by that point in Yom Kippur we have already been forgiven for our sins, so we are sinless and there is no need for them. The problem is that most of us leave Yom Kippur still carrying a heavy weight and that is because we haven’t been able to LET GO!
I heard a beautiful story that is 100 years old from my friend Corey who said it to some prisoners that conveys the same message.
A man wanted to go and spend the holidays with his son and went to buy a train ticket, but they were very expensive and he couldn’t afford it. So he went the next day and they were even more expensive. Every day he went it became harder to buy the ticket. There was one day left for him to be able to get to his son but he just couldn’t afford it, so he asked the manager of the station if he could give him a break. He told him that everything was sold out but if there was a cancelation he would let him get on the train. The manager called him one hour before the train departed so the man ran to the station but the train was already leaving. He ran after the train but the heavy baggage wouldn’t allow him to get near. The manager screamed at him “let the bags go, let the bags go! If you want to get to your son you have to let the bags go!” Which he did and was able to jump into the train and get right in time to his son.
We have just left the sins go, but sometimes we are left with baggage:resentment,
shame, pain, anger, envy, etc… whatever the case is LET IT GO!!!
When we go through life with no heavy baggage then we can really begin a new as if nothing ever happened.
This is how we should feel today in preparation for Sukkot the Holiday of our rejoicing.
#Chag Sameach
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