Be Confident!

9 Tishrei

I'd like to share a mashal that my wife shared with me (i think she got it from Aish, but i'm not sure).

Yom Kippur is like boarding an airplane. Nowadays, there is crazy security before we get on a plane. We stand on a single-file line, passing through intense inspections. We walk through a metal detector, passing our carry-on luggage and baggage through and even more intense x-ray machine. We're patted down, prodded, and poked before we get on the plane. We take our shoes off, and have them checked as well, praying there isn't a problem.

So too on Yom Kippur. We all pass before HKBH, single-file, and stand as He runs us through intense inspection. Our actions are examined, our words, our thoughts - everything passes through His x-ray machine. We stand there, praying that we pass through, terrified at the thought of being held up.

But you know what? At the end, everyone gets on the plane. We might have to pass through the metal detector once or twice or three times, we might have to be patted down with a metal sensor, but in the end, almost everyone gets on the plane. This is the attitude that we are supposed to have on Yom Kippur - a trepidation that we're in front of HKBH, the Ultimate Judge, but happiness and excitement that we HAVE Hashem, Who is all-forgiving and ready to accept us.

iyH all our prayers should be answered, and we should be zoche to a gmar chasima tova and a shana tova, Kein Yehi Ratzon.

(BTW, teshuva continues until Hoshana Raba! Look for more posts until the end of succos...)