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In this Shiur
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Rabbi Silber's erev Rosh Hashana message reflects on Tehillim 27 - "Hashem ori," "Hashem is my light" - which Chazal read as a reference to Rosh Hashana. He teaches that judgment is not the whole story of the day; Rosh Hashana is first an invitation to come home, to reignite a relationship with Hashem that drifts over a year spent distracted, even by things that aren't sinful. That closeness, he says, becomes the light that illuminates which paths to take and which to avoid in the year ahead.
We drift from Hashem gradually, not always through sin, but through inattentiveness and getting caught up in things that don't really matter.
Rosh Hashana offers a chance to come home before judgment even begins, back into a relationship of warmth and forgiveness.
A close relationship with Hashem works like a floodlight, illuminating right and wrong choices we'd otherwise miss in the dark.
Rediscovering that closeness on Rosh Hashana lights the path for the entire year ahead.
“We drift away from our Creator, we drift away from our Father - and Rosh Hashana offers us the beautiful opportunity to come back home.”
