Why is Yom Kippur the Happiest Day of the Year

But the thing is, we were talking so much about Rosh Hashanah before the holiday, which we observed last week, and how it was all about coronating Hashem.

And that's one of the aspects of the sound of the shofar.

Basically, the duality of the sound of the shofar, we said, was waking us up, right? And also...

the coronation of Hashem.

And the interesting thing that over that two-day period of this incredible cosmic drama of reinstating Hashem in our lives as king, we really didn't mention sin at all.

That just wasn't on the agenda.

The whole uh you know the whole structure of our prayers and our and the concept of rosh hashanah is this global uh hopefully uh unification uh under hashem's sovereignty and the hope that mankind would you know would awaken to that and now though it's different uh uh you know uh and and that's why i started to say that we're in the spiritual church time which really began in elo which really began in av you know, with the Tisha B'Av and then Tu B'Av and then Elul was this preparation field of dreams that a king is in, and then Rosh Hashanah.

And then now, We are in this state where we say, again, it's all a metaphor, that everything was written on Rosh Hashanah, but it won't be sealed until Yom Kippur, which is the final seal, as it were, of the verdict.

So that this, now these days in between, it's called the 10 days of repentance, but it's really less than that.

But the two days of Rosh Hashanah count as well.

And during these days, Jim, it's like we are just, trying to take every opportunity to really show Hashem that we want to change.

And this is interesting because there are different customs about these 10 days of repentance.

First of all, let me tell you one unbelievable thought, which is staggering in my opinion, that the Kabbalists teach that every day of these days of repentance atones as it were, meaning it presents the opportunity to rectify that day of the week of the entire year.

In other words, let's say that on a Tuesday, I was zoned out.

I forgot who Hashem is.

I misbehaved.

I was insensitive.

I sinned, as it were.

The Tuesday of the 10 days of repentance will clean all the Tuesdays of the year.

In other words, it's almost as if the whole year is encapsulated, concentrated into these days, is what I'm saying, right? So the idea is that there's so many different customs about extra stringencies during these days.

It's like people who maybe weren't so careful about certain aspects of halakha that are maybe... generally thought of as being only certain people keep those ideas.

Everybody tries during these days to be extra strict with themselves.

Now, what is that all about? Let's say that a person who normally isn't careful about a certain practice uh or we consider it to be a minor practice really kind of doubles up on it and like and like uh takes much more seriously during these days so what is that is it a type of like um it's over

compensation i think isn't it

No, but the question I want to ask is, is it sort of like we're trying to pull the wool over God's eyes? We're trying to impress him? I get it.