Reflections on the Daily "Hayom Yom"
Sep 15, 2026 · 5 min · 2 segments
Study the daily entries of "Hayom Yom," a book of short daily insights which was compiled by the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, in 1942.
So in our shul this year, it was...
And you know, people have been fasting for 24 hours, and we're just reaching that climactic moment when we're going to blow the shofar, and the whole...
It reaches a crescendo, and we're going to end the holiday on a high, but then...
I'm noticing, I'm hearing that the children outside are becoming a problem, right? The kids programming at the shul is long over because it's later on at the end of the day.
And the kids that have come with their parents are outside, unsupervised, making noise, being disruptive to each other, being disruptive to us inside the shul.
So there's a problem.
What am I going to do? So through a flash of inspiration, I said, you know what, here's what we're gonna do.
I called the kids in, had them stand at the front of the shul, and then in front of the entire congregation, I started asking the kids for ideas.
What should we be praying for now? Or if you could bless all of us here in the synagogue, what would you bless us with? And one by one, the children started giving the most offering the most unbelievable prayers, giving the most wonderful blessings.
I can't even do justice to them.
There's something about the prayer of a child, the blessing of a child that is profound, beautiful.
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So in our shul this year, it was...
And you know, people have been fasting for 24 hours, and we're just reaching that climactic moment when we're going to blow the shofar, and the whole...
It reaches a crescendo, and we're going to end the holiday on a high, but then...
I'm noticing, I'm hearing that the children outside are becoming a problem, right? The kids programming at the shul is long over because it's later on at the end of the day.
And the kids that have come with their parents are outside, unsupervised, making noise, being disruptive to each other, being disruptive to us inside the shul.
So there's a problem.
What am I going to do? So through a flash of inspiration, I said, you know what, here's what we're gonna do.
I called the kids in, had them stand at the front of the shul, and then in front of the entire congregation, I started asking the kids for ideas.
What should we be praying for now? Or if you could bless all of us here in the synagogue, what would you bless us with? And one by one, the children started giving the most offering the most unbelievable prayers, giving the most wonderful blessings.
I can't even do justice to them.
There's something about the prayer of a child, the blessing of a child that is profound, beautiful.
