NOT NORMALLLLL!!!!!
Tomorrow is the BIG NIGHT!!! I would be shaking in my boots but I am not wearing boots!
The Rambam says that people who are mostly righteous [i.e. have more mitzvos] and mostly sinful [i.e. have more aveiros] are judged on Rosh Hashana [it is not a question of quantity but quality. Some deeds are worth more than others]. More good deeds - he is written in the book of life. Otherwise - I don't want to say. ["Life" might well refer to life in the next world]. It is the people who were 50-50 on Rosh Hashana, the "Beinonis" "Mediocres" , who are judged on Yom Kippur. If they did Teshuva during the ten days of Teshuva then they are inscribed in the "Good Book" and if not then they are inscribed in the ..... not so good book.
Everybody and their Uncle Marvin and Aunt Beila asks - Why does one have to do Teshuva? Just do ONE MORE MITZVA and then he will be in the category of the Tzadik and be inscribed in the "Good Book"?
The answer is based on an article from Forbes.com. Bear with me.....:
More than anything, creating great companies, exercising transformative leadership, really doing just about anything worthwhile, is about going somewhere, and leading people to go with you. Going somewhere, though, means someone decided where to go. If you want to be that entrepreneurial leader, your first task is deciding where you want to be going, and (especially) why.
Actually this Lewis Carroll quote, pithy as it is, appears nowhere in Alice’s Adventures. The passage from Chapter 6 reads:
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?
“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat.
"I don’t much care where—“ said Alice.
“Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the Cat.
“--so long as I get SOMEWHERE,” Alice added as an explanation.
“Oh, you’re sure to do that,” said the Cat, “if you only walk long enough.”
So many of us walk and walk and walk, but find we’re never getting anywhere. All along we wanted to be SOMEWHERE, but we never thought enough about where that should be. Where do you want to go? What do you want to achieve? Do you think about significance, or is the act of achieving a goal in itself? Who do you want to become? Who do you want to be tomorrow? What can you do to get there?
Success can mean a million different things. In politics, on Wall Street, success = results – expectations: “Under promise, over deliver.” It’s easy to succeed if you set expectations low enough.
Some people think starting on an exciting idea will be all fun and fulfillment—the experience itself is success. That seldom works out either. Most successful entrepreneurs will tell you that you can’t imagine how hard it was. It doesn’t take long to tire of long hours, stressed families, and no life. Maybe it’s better to be lucky than smart, but this kind of luck without paying the dues doesn’t come to many. For the rest, there’s only the hard road.
Some people think it’s worth it all, because there will be the money. But money is only information, a number; it’s only a means to an end. What’s the end? Security? Lots of toys? Sometimes it’s only the bragging rights that we’re really somebody, but somehow that seldom works out. Most successful innovators and leaders are motivated more by doing something worthwhile than quick, easy money.
For many leaders and entrepreneurs we know success means helping people, making life better for someone. These are the content ones. They may be stressed and overworked, but they know where they’re going, and why. They started out deciding to do something that has some kind of tangible meaning and significance.
How often do people start out without ever pausing to think about where they want to end up—and then they’re confused or worse, disappointed and disillusioned because they realize what they’ve found isn’t what they were looking for. “You can’t get second things by putting them first. You can only get second things by putting first things first.” In order to get what you really want, you need to know what that is! Money, lifestyle, bragging rights are only second things. They can get you a first thing, what’s meaningful for you, but they’re seldom the first thing itself.
What’s the real goal for you? Do you know? Often people think their goals are obvious… that is until someone asks them to actually describe them, actually paint a clear picture. Then it can quickly get muddled, because they’d really been thinking about second things and thinking they were first...
You only have so much time in life. What do you really want to say you’ve done with it? Being entrepreneurial can get you somewhere, if you know where you want to go. The rest? Well, you have to learn that along the way.
Wow!! You can only reach your goals if you know what you want and where you are going.
Said the Rosh Yeshiva ztz"l: On Yom Kippur, the judgment is NOT on whether you have more mitzvos or more aveiros. If that were the case then a Beinoni could do one mitzva during the 10 days of Teshuva and that would suffice. The judgment is - What is your essence? Your מהות!! The only way to change one's essence is by doing Teshuva. THAT is why the Rambam says that the only way to get a positive judgment on YK is by doing Teshuva.
Our task on YK is to see ourselves as "Beinonis" and change our essence. We are now, from here on in HOLY PEOPLE. Our goal is to bring our Light to the world, to give more, to love more, to be מתקן עולם במלכות ש-די. To help bring the whole world to Hashem!!! A different life!!!!
THAT will insure us life in the eternal world and quite possibly life in this world as well!!!!
An incredible day to all!!!!
