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From: Yitzchak Reuven
Sent: Wednesday, Oct 19, 2011 at 7:35 AM
Subject: THE HAPPIEST DAY OF THE YEAR!









THE HAPPIEST DAY OF THE YEAR!
Tishrei 21, 5772/October 19, 2011


Our sages long ago declared that Tu b'Av, (the 15th day of Av) and Yom Kippur are the happiest days on the Hebrew calendar. Their determination serves to give prominence to Tu b'Av, a day that otherwise might go largely unnoticed, and also helps us to refocus what otherwise might be a misconception of Yom Kippur as a day of harsh judgment, and to appreciate it for what it really is, a day of profound love and forgiveness. But what about Rosh HaShana, which precedes Yom Kippur, in which we stand directly before G-d our King and declare His sovereignty over all creation. Surely there is profound happiness in being able to reaffirm our total allegiance to HaShem and to know that He is our eternal King?


And just five days after Yom Kippur we enter our sukkot (booths) which we have made with our own hands and there for seven whole days we dwell as in a cloud of G-d's Divine glory. What could possibly be more joyful than to literally dwell in G-d's shadow and from the vantage point of our thin-walled sukkot and our thatched leafy roofs to perceive the pureness and beauty of G-d's world, the world He made for us? Surely these are the happiest days of the year?


But it is the seventh and final day of Sukkot, known as Hoshana Raba, that is unquestionably the most happy of all days on this earth! After all, if our Divine verdict was written, (by our own hand as directed by our own heart), on Rosh HaShana, and the verdict, after the intense ten day period of teshuvah - return to HaShem - was sealed on Yom Kippur, now on Hoshana Raba, according to our tradition, our verdicts are at last delivered into the realm of the unfolding reality of our new year. So we take advantage of this momentous day to dedicate ourselves to Torah study and to revisit and intensify our Yom Kippur commitments in order to assure that our verdicts are sweetened in accordance with G-d's overwhelming and abundant mercy. This, no doubt, it the happiest day of the year!


Ahhh, but tonight we celebrate the sublime holiday of Shmini Atzeret, literally the eighth (shmini) day in which we are personally invited by G-d our heavenly Father to join Him alone on this eighth day beyond the seven days of the natural, created world, beyond the confines of time and space that we occupy every other day of the year. Here on this day even the thin diaphanous walls of our sukkot that for seven days have provided only the barest of separation between ourselves and G-d, are stripped away. Nothing stands between us and HaShem as we dance arm in arm with His Torah. There are no third party commitments here and no last minute pleas or prayers. Today on Shmini Atzeret we celebrate Simchat Torah - the pure unadulterated joy of being one with G-d through our total embrace of His Torah. And on this day we conclude our yearly reading of the five books of Torah by reciting the final chapters and verses of Deuteronomy before beginning it all over again by immediately reading the opening verses of the book of Genesis describing the six days of the creation and the seventh day of Holy Shabbat. On this day of Shmini Atzeret we are no longer on the outside looking in, but we are on the inside being one with G-d. Pure and sublime happiness!


So why then did our sages determine that Yom Kippur is the happiest day of the year? In the unfolding kaleidoscopic days of the month of Tishrei, beginning with Rosh HaShana and concluding with Shmini Atzeret, can we really make such a declaration? Perhaps our sages were taking their clue from G-d Himself, Who when filling His newly created world with the limitless light of His love for His creation had to at one point declare, "Enough! There is a limit to the Divine light that My world can bear. Beyond that limit I shall not shine My light. But through the limits that I have created, My world can always draw closer to Me." In the end it's really not a contest which day is the happiest day for Israel. Each and every day of the year contains its own unique quantity and quality and potential for joy. It is our task to reach for and realize the special joy of each day that G-d has measured out and laid in store for us. Chag Sameach and Shana Tova - a Happy Holiday and a Good Year to all!


Yitzchak Reuven
The Temple Institute





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Zechariah 12:3,9:
And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people; And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.


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