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Hello! We are coming,
to another Yom kippur,
starting the year
5774,
the tenth day of the civil year which we alredy started.
We have our minds set
to the importance of
reconnect,
to God
and reassess
our condition
before Him.
The Parshat
that corresponds
the feast of
Yom kippur,
which this year
coincides with Shabbat,
is
in Chapter 16 ,
in the book of Leviticus
and reports ,
about the ritual sacrifice
that was offered in the tabernacle
and later in the Temple,
in other words , both in the Mishkan and in theBeit hamikdash,
and should
atone
the sins of
the nation of Israel
and this
ritual
included
the sacrifice
of one
between two billy-goat
which were selected
to
participate
in this
liturgical and
sacrificial act.
The moral sense that
it tries to bring us,
and what is written in the chapter 16,
says that there is no difference between us ,
any of us,
can be chosen
to be judge
favorably or
unfavorably
by the court of heaven.
Which of us are more apt than the other?!
which of us is more holy, less sinful
than our fellow?!
If we launched sorts
on
each other,
who among us
would be
spared?!
The biggest lesson
that the act of
the ancient ritual of
Yom kippur tries to bring us,
is that
all of us need on this Yom kippur,
introduce ourselves
before the Almighty One with our prayers,
with our
devotion,
with our true insight,
understanding
that whatever will be His judgment to us,
His judgment
will always be fair.
Each of us
must come close to G-d,
to be
or not to be accepted,
it starts back there
in Genesis chapter 4 when
two brothers,
sons of Adam,
Cain
and Abel,
take their first offerings to G-d.
God,
behold the offering of Abel ,
while despising
and ignoring
the offering of Cain.
Cain,
said the text,
his countenance fell,
and was
bored
for not having answered your offer,
Why my offer was not answered?
Was because was cheaper?
Maybe because it not or
do not spill blood, it was of vegetable?
Why my offer was not accepted?
God answerd Cain saying:
If you do well,
is certain that you will be accepted,
but if you do not do well,
sin lieth at your door,
but it is up to you control it,
and your desire will be against you,
In other words,
along with the sacrifices,
along
with our devotion,
along
with ours faith
or our liturgical act,
with our prayers,
God expects of us,
that these sacrifices
are accompanied,
of a true identity of a right person
so
that none of us
get worried in
rely on their own deeds,
or their own supposed merits,
to be accepted by God.
we must offer to God
our best,
without expecting
nothing in return,
we should do good to all people,
without expecting anything in return,
we give our best to the world,
and life,
without expecting any reward,
so that in the end,
all I have done,
will be
compared with the character I carry within me
and that is what will really count.
In the Haftarah,
reading that accompanies the reading of the Torah,
this shabbat,
so important,
we have the written of the prophet Isaiah,
chapter 57 to chapter 58 verses 14 both
and there,
God exhorts severely our people,
of that generation,
not to be so worry with fasting only,
or afflict their soul,
but rather
were concerned,
to restore
the relationship with their neighbor,
and He asked:
You tell me
why we fasted,
and then He answered it:
You
come to me,
with fasting,
with prayers,
in sackcloth and ashes on your heads,
trying to show a sense of humility,
but you
fast,
for your own quarrels and feuds,
brawls ,
quarrels,
and disagreements,
demands that we bring to each other,
unfeasible
the acceptance
of our devotion to God.
God,
will not hear our prayers ,
on that Yom kippur,
God will not forgive us,
at this
new time, at this new cycle where we are entering,
without first trying to recover
our level
of relationship
with our brothers.
I want to finish
my
pronouncement today,
with a text,
that is
in book of psalms,
chapter
130,
psalm 130,
verse 3 and 4 say that:
If you, Lord,
kept a record of sins,
Lord, who of us
could stand?
But with you,
there is forgiveness, so that we can,
with reverence, serve You.
If God took into account
each mistakes
that I make, each mistakes that all of us make,
none of us
would be left.
Psalm 103
gives us also,
another idea
about the justice
and the divine mercy,
at verse eighth says:
The Lord
is gracious
and merciful,
slow to anger,
rather benign,
do not rebukes
perpetually,
neither preserves,
forever,
His anger,
and does not treat us
according to our sins,
nor repay us,
according to
our
iniquities.
Think about it,
on this Yom kippur,
disregard,
offenses,
affronts,
disregard
any
kind of attitude
that has been made against you,
on the other hand,
chase forgiveness,
look for the people whom you have offended,
and apologize to them,
because if you
are not forgiven by his brother,
and if this is your fault,
for you have not tried,
God will not hear your prayers,
if you
do not
forgive,
those who offended you,
God also
does not forgive you,
and this was what the Mashiach Yeshua taught us
in his prayer saying:
Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive,
what(whom) we have
offended.
Shabbat Shalom,
Chag Sameach,
and a
Happy year of
5774.