Most important “medical mail” I will ever send you!! Our life depends on this.

  • This short message I want to send you before Yom Kippur.
    I think this is the most important “medical mail” I will ever send you!! [and I may repeat it these days]
    All of us know probably that these  days [ especially  these seven to ten days from Rosh Ha Shana to Y.K -are very special for praying and the pasuk from Yeshayahu is brought in this connection :
    “Seek Hashem when he can be found, call Him when he is near”. Quoting her from the book of rabbi Elozor Barclay and rabbi Yitzchok Jaeger : Guidelines – three hundred of the most commonly asked questions about the yomim noraim]:  
    The Rambam writes that “an individual’s prayer during this period has the same power as that said in a congregation and is accepted immediately”.
    It is logic then that one should not leave one day or even a few hours “unused” these days to speak/pray to God and asking for “favours” [or whatever word fits here] and regretting the sins/failures during the years past year [s] and full heartily regret what was done not right.
    The Ariazal writes that every day of this week one should try to correct what was done wrong during the year on that same day [trying to remember if that is possible] and this may correct a lot-b”h.
    Stick a reminder to your cell phone or so, maybe ?
    Rambam: Hilchot teshuva
    Halacha 6 Rambam Mishne tora [teshuva]
    . אע”פ שהתשובה והצעקה יפה לעולם בעשרה הימים שבין ראש השנה ויום הכפורים היא יפה ביותר ומתקבלת היאמיד שנאמר דרשו ה’ בהמצאו במה דברים אמורים ביחיד אבל צבור כל זמן שעושים תשובה וצועקין בלב שלם הם נענין שנאמר כה’ אלהינו בכל קראנו אליו: 

    Even though repentance and calling out [to God] are desirable at all times, during the ten days between Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur, they are even more desirable and will be accepted immediately as [Isaiah 55:6] states: “Seek God when He is to be found.”

    When does the above apply? To an individual. However, in regard to a community, whenever they repent and cry out wholeheartedly, they are answered immediately as [Deuteronomy 4:7] states: “[What nation is so great that they have God close to them,] as God, our Lord, is whenever we call Him
    If one thinks really seriously  about this extreme strong statement from the Rambam, then nobody will leave these hours we still have left before Yom ha-Kippurim “unused” by not praying to the Creator for whatever we long for  [for the good of his family / friends / Am Israel we l’olam kulo].
    May I wish you all a healthy year , blessed ,peaceful year.