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The losses are real and the pain is intense, but nothing that is ultimately bad can happen on Shemini Atzeres
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Believe that your tefillos matter, that they count — and that these tefillos play a role in bringing yeshuas Yisrael
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We feel both the trust and the pain simultaneously, and that’s what Hallel is all about
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Succos is the zeman simchaseinu, the Days of Joy. The contrast seems abrupt and jarring — why the sudden shift in mood?
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Put differently, true mesirus nefesh is not self-reduction; it is self-expansion, an opportunity to push oneself beyond the limits one assumes for oneself.
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How can we translate the energy and arousal of the Yamim Noraim into long-lasting change?