Divrei Torah for the Growth-Oriented Jewish Teen
The Avodah between Yom Kippur & Succos
Sep 23, 2026 · 25 min · 9 segments
Recording of a Mussar Schmooze given to Baer Miriam Seminary
Divrei Torah for the Growth-Oriented Jewish Teen
Sep 23, 2026 · 25 min · 9 segments
Recording of a Mussar Schmooze given to Baer Miriam Seminary
a little bit more, I think, I don't know, a little bit more well-known, because it's a Medrash, it's a Tanchuma, it's also a Medrash Vayikur Rabbah, that the Pazuk says, You should take for yourself, on the first day, meaning the Luluv and Esrog, Dalet Minim, and the Medrash writes that, what's on the first day? Yes, it means the first day of Sukkot, obviously, but it also, the Medrash learns that it's Yom Rishon L'Cheshbon Avonos.
Because Hashem in His great mercy doesn't account necessarily for the sins that a person does between Yom Kippur and Sukkot.
Now that does not mean, Melech is very clear, it does not mean that there is no judge and there's no jury and there's no punishment.
And if you, you know, you can just go to crack and go to town and do whatever you want and go do averos and there'll be no accounting.
The Shulah of Kaddosh explains, right, that just like Hashem had mercy on us on Yom Kippur and cleaned up our sins, right, so these days also are like offshoots of Yom Kippur to atone and be mechaper for the sins of the previous year, right, in this list that we're bringing ourselves to do, right, mitzvahs of Yerushalayim, prepping for Sukkot, working to do tshuva, working to accomplish all the things we took on during the Yom HaNorayim cycle.
When a person does that, so yes, then these days have an aspect of mechila, a slicha, a forgiving, an offshoot, so to speak, of Yom Kippur, when these things happen for when we got slicha mechila kapara, for real.
And so therefore, as Ramelech says, a person should spend these days in a holy way, right? Prepping for Sukkot, getting to work on the things that you decided to improve on, right? Make yourself a checklist, right? Get to work, right? Start accomplishing, right? Hashem gave you a clean slate, free pass, new opportunity, write your destiny, write your new ledger.
And the Kubalim write that we're still in the middle of the Yom Norayim, right? We're still in the middle of the judgment and that the Gemar Din, the complete, the finished judgment actual, finished, final judgment is Hoshana Rabbah, Hoshana Rabbah being the last day of Chol Moitzukas.
Zohar writes that on Rosh Hashanah, the petakim, the letters, whatever you want to call it, the telegrams, I don't know, are written, and they're left in the storehouses of HaKadosh Baruch Hu.
If a person is Zohar to do tshuva, so then they tear up that letter and you get a new one.
If you don't do tshuva, you go on Tziom Keper, and if a person does tshuva by then, then great, we tear him up, but if he doesn't, then HaKadosh Baruch Hu says... that those letters and those telegrams should be sealed.
And if a person does tshuva that isn't complete, perhaps, right, we do a weak tshuva, so then our judgment is suspended, right, until Hoshana Rabbah.
And if a person does tshuva great, barach maral etzlan, God forbid, if not, so then the letters are sent out from Akash Baruch Hu storehouses, given over to those forces and angels, or whatever, that are appointed to fulfill out the decision, and it turns out that Yerushalayim is Yom HaDin, just like Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and even though the judgment is suspended until then, so then Shemini Yetzeres, the Arizal writes that Shemini Yetzeres, you know, the letters are given out on Rosh Hashanah, and on Shemini Yetzeres, Simchas Torah, right here in Yerushalayim, same day, that's when permission is given for all the forces, and all the shluchim, and all the messengers, and whatever, to fulfill Hashem's gzera, to fulfill the gzar din, and the decision of HaKadosh Baruch Hu.
Now, whether you are, you know, into that type of stuff or not, I can't obviously prove that to you.
a little bit more, I think, I don't know, a little bit more well-known, because it's a Medrash, it's a Tanchuma, it's also a Medrash Vayikur Rabbah, that the Pazuk says, You should take for yourself, on the first day, meaning the Luluv and Esrog, Dalet Minim, and the Medrash writes that, what's on the first day? Yes, it means the first day of Sukkot, obviously, but it also, the Medrash learns that it's Yom Rishon L'Cheshbon Avonos.
Because Hashem in His great mercy doesn't account necessarily for the sins that a person does between Yom Kippur and Sukkot.
Now that does not mean, Melech is very clear, it does not mean that there is no judge and there's no jury and there's no punishment.
And if you, you know, you can just go to crack and go to town and do whatever you want and go do averos and there'll be no accounting.
The Shulah of Kaddosh explains, right, that just like Hashem had mercy on us on Yom Kippur and cleaned up our sins, right, so these days also are like offshoots of Yom Kippur to atone and be mechaper for the sins of the previous year, right, in this list that we're bringing ourselves to do, right, mitzvahs of Yerushalayim, prepping for Sukkot, working to do tshuva, working to accomplish all the things we took on during the Yom HaNorayim cycle.
When a person does that, so yes, then these days have an aspect of mechila, a slicha, a forgiving, an offshoot, so to speak, of Yom Kippur, when these things happen for when we got slicha mechila kapara, for real.
And so therefore, as Ramelech says, a person should spend these days in a holy way, right? Prepping for Sukkot, getting to work on the things that you decided to improve on, right? Make yourself a checklist, right? Get to work, right? Start accomplishing, right? Hashem gave you a clean slate, free pass, new opportunity, write your destiny, write your new ledger.
And the Kubalim write that we're still in the middle of the Yom Norayim, right? We're still in the middle of the judgment and that the Gemar Din, the complete, the finished judgment actual, finished, final judgment is Hoshana Rabbah, Hoshana Rabbah being the last day of Chol Moitzukas.
Zohar writes that on Rosh Hashanah, the petakim, the letters, whatever you want to call it, the telegrams, I don't know, are written, and they're left in the storehouses of HaKadosh Baruch Hu.
If a person is Zohar to do tshuva, so then they tear up that letter and you get a new one.
If you don't do tshuva, you go on Tziom Keper, and if a person does tshuva by then, then great, we tear him up, but if he doesn't, then HaKadosh Baruch Hu says... that those letters and those telegrams should be sealed.
And if a person does tshuva that isn't complete, perhaps, right, we do a weak tshuva, so then our judgment is suspended, right, until Hoshana Rabbah.
And if a person does tshuva great, barach maral etzlan, God forbid, if not, so then the letters are sent out from Akash Baruch Hu storehouses, given over to those forces and angels, or whatever, that are appointed to fulfill out the decision, and it turns out that Yerushalayim is Yom HaDin, just like Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and even though the judgment is suspended until then, so then Shemini Yetzeres, the Arizal writes that Shemini Yetzeres, you know, the letters are given out on Rosh Hashanah, and on Shemini Yetzeres, Simchas Torah, right here in Yerushalayim, same day, that's when permission is given for all the forces, and all the shluchim, and all the messengers, and whatever, to fulfill Hashem's gzera, to fulfill the gzar din, and the decision of HaKadosh Baruch Hu.
Now, whether you are, you know, into that type of stuff or not, I can't obviously prove that to you.
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