Rosh Hashana 5767
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ROSH HASHANA 5767 YERUSHALAYIM IH’K
EVRACH MIMCHA AYLECHA (Piyut by R Shlomo Ibn Gavirol) – I flee from You, right into You.
This saying expresses a wonderful understanding of the Yamim Noraim and our attitude towards them.
Rav Shimshon Pinkus, a Rav who worked for years in Kiruv here in Eretz Yisrael has a sweet teaching. He says that as we all know, the severity of the judgment on Yom Hadin is tempered by Teshuva. But there is another way to emerge victorious from judgment. That is to throw yourself at the feet of the judge, the Feet of The Judge, and plead for mercy.
Mercy means that we are accessing a Midah that is above judgment. Mercy is not a ‘freebee’. It is not asking Hashem to just make things as if I never erred. It is accessing a fundamental attribute of Rachamim which Hashem hardwired into creation and put at our service.
Rachamim is a program that is sitting on your PC, waiting to be opened. It has already been downloaded into your hard drive, it has a shortcut sitting on your desktop and it really wants to be opened. It will never give you a virus- just the opposite- it will remove all your (a) viroses!!
One way to run this Rachamim program is to ‘run’ into Hashem’s waiting and outstretched ‘Arms’. Read more
