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Daily Chizuk #1210
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The Right Attitude on Rosh Hashana
On the night of Rosh Hashanah, a person is supposed to come home from shul and sit at his table and begin the meal by eating certain foods as a good omen for the new year. It is important to follow this procedure and say the accompanying tefilot when eating each food, but it is even more important for a person to act and think the right way on this day. Even one thought of a person feeling that he wants to become better and improve in his observance of Torah and mitzvot is more powerful than all the foods and Yehi ratzons combined. The Meiri writes that one of the purposes of eating those foods and saying the Yehi ratzons is to arouse a person to want to become better. Every thought that we have on this holy day makes a very big impact on the entire upcoming year. A person should be filled with hope and emunah. A person should look at things from the right perspective. We should remove all worry and stress and focus on Hashem’s rulership over the world and our lives individually. Every mitzvah we do on this day goes a long way.
The Chochmat Shelomo writes in his derushim to parashat Ki Tavo that, on Rosh Hashanah, a person should be happy and say the words “Whatever Hashem does is good,” with real emunah. Those words have the power to change a harsh decree into revealed good. Everything we do on Rosh Hashanah has a major impact.
A person’s attitude can change everything for the better. On one occasion on Rosh Hashanah, a young avrech came to the Slonimer Rebbe looking very scared. He cried to the Rebbe saying he couldn’t afford to buy a head. He only had enough to buy a fish tail. Now he was worried that would be a negative omen for him for a bad year. The Rabbi told him, everything goes after a person’s attitude and his tefilot. He told him to pick up the tail and say “This should be the tail-end of all of our troubles and suffering and, going forward, we should only have peace and tranquility.”
Nothing should bother us on this great and awesome day. We should utilize every moment we can for Torah, for mitzvot and for ma’asim tovim. And we should be happy and calm, trusting in the great mercy of Hashem
On the night of Rosh Hashanah, a person is supposed to come home from shul and sit at his table and begin the meal by eating certain foods as a good omen for the new year. It is important to follow this procedure and say the accompanying tefilot when eating each food, but it is even more important for a person to act and think the right way on this day. Even one thought of a person feeling that he wants to become better and improve in his observance of Torah and mitzvot is more powerful than all the foods and Yehi ratzons combined. The Meiri writes that one of the purposes of eating those foods and saying the Yehi ratzons is to arouse a person to want to become better. Every thought that we have on this holy day makes a very big impact on the entire upcoming year. A person should be filled with hope and emunah. A person should look at things from the right perspective. We should remove all worry and stress and focus on Hashem’s rulership over the world and our lives individually. Every mitzvah we do on this day goes a long way.
The Chochmat Shelomo writes in his derushim to parashat Ki Tavo that, on Rosh Hashanah, a person should be happy and say the words “Whatever Hashem does is good,” with real emunah. Those words have the power to change a harsh decree into revealed good. Everything we do on Rosh Hashanah has a major impact.
A person’s attitude can change everything for the better. On one occasion on Rosh Hashanah, a young avrech came to the Slonimer Rebbe looking very scared. He cried to the Rebbe saying he couldn’t afford to buy a head. He only had enough to buy a fish tail. Now he was worried that would be a negative omen for him for a bad year. The Rabbi told him, everything goes after a person’s attitude and his tefilot. He told him to pick up the tail and say “This should be the tail-end of all of our troubles and suffering and, going forward, we should only have peace and tranquility.”
Nothing should bother us on this great and awesome day. We should utilize every moment we can for Torah, for mitzvot and for ma’asim tovim. And we should be happy and calm, trusting in the great mercy of Hashem
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