We are nearing Rosh HaShanah when the decree for each person will be written: Who shall live and who shall die … who shall suffer and who shall live in tranquility…. Everyone is looking for ways to merit a good decree.
It’s true that when the shofar is sounded on Rosh HaShanah the Holy One blessed is He goes from His Throne of Strict Justice to His Throne of Mercy but we need to be worthy to merit His mercy. (L’Avdecha B’Emes — Rav Dov Yaffe)
People are going about wishing each other a good new year and the advertisements are featuring apples and honey. Everything’s so busy and festive that we don’t notice the whole world has gone silent stricken with a tremendous fear — a fear that’s in the very air. In our preoccupation with the festivities we forget that the date of the Great Trial the trial for our life is nearing.
I don’t forget. I’m thinking of my oldest of all the difficulties she had this year and all that I hope will work out in the coming year. Then I think of my second — she also needs so much help from Heaven.
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